Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Liam Lawson reached out to us.....🏎️

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

On the show today: What's your unusual hidden hobby? Producer Troy is into beyblades... We called the entire city of Dunedin to let them know the won a prize! What happened on your school camp?  Megan reacts to Liam Lawson's message... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dono Ben and Megan on the hits. Welcome to the podcast where you'll hear that Liam Lawson replied back to something that we did, which is big news for that storyline. Yeah, the ongoing story arc of Megan Pappas. My reaction was no, because it's not the way I wanted him to find out about me. No. But, hey, it might be a good thing. It might be a good thing.

I don't think necessarily it's a bad thing. No one's angry if you're a fan of them. I never met anyone who's... Yeah, but when it goes to shrine reaction, you know? Like, he might talk to me, but I'm scared that when I do the interview, in the back of his mind, he's going to be like,

you're a creep. Well, I know we're doing a lot of manifesting on the station at the moment. That's why we got Megan to manifest an interview with Liam Lawson. I was just going to look at your star sign. Do you know my star sign? Yeah, I do.

Aren't you a... No, I do not. Let me just, because they don't correlate with... Are you a Libra? Virgo? Leo? I know you, you're a Scorpio. Yeah, I'm trying to...

I'm a Leo. Ben's a Virgo. I'm Virgo, yeah. I know all your school, star-sign. I know, I'm just not a star-swing person. Okay, what is Leo say? Leo, this says laughter and applause of the soundtrack of your life. Your natural inclinations will make internal editing

and self-control to appropriate socialising. Because I have said some things recently that have got me in trouble when I thought I was having a laugh. But you'll love most of those who can handle your rawness. Okay, so not everyone can handle my rawness.

Hopefully, Leanne can handle your rawness. Yeah. Hopefully. I just am waiting for that restraining water. That's what your star sign says. That's the first star sign I've ever thought, oh, that maybe is... Maybe there's something in it, yeah.

Yeah. correlates to where your life is at the moment. Yeah. So who knows if we'll get him on? Yeah. I don't think it's going to be a quick thing. I don't think you can get him on. But it's, you know, we're just doing it out there.

You know when you really, really, like, want something, and I've thought about it for a long time. Like, just, I have, I haven't met him before, but the chat was brief. I wanted, like, interview him in a professional capacity. Now I don't know what I, I don't know what I would say. Well, the professionalism has gone out of the water. Yeah. So I don't know a shrine and your candles and stuff. I don't admittedly it was our idea, but it's not going to look like that on the surface.

I just need to be like, hi. I'm sorry, it's me. Yeah. And it's definitely going to be over Zoom. It's never going to be in the same room. It's always going to be supervised. It will be definitely supervised, yeah. All right, well, you can hear more of that, and Megan's reaction to finding out that he commented on the post in the podcast.

Enjoy. Why did you send it to the Kayla? Okay, now there's a bit of a bit of ban to going on. Yeah. So we're doing the hits manifest. at the moment. As you know, if you dream it, you could win it and everyone can, you know, say what they want to manifest in their life and make things happen. Now, we made a little funny video yesterday for social media about something, and in all honesty, this is something

that you want for the show. Okay, real honesty here. I'm massive Formula One fan. I would love to talk to Liam. Liam Lawson, yeah. Liam Lawson. But all of these gags we do, because I figure he's not going to see them, because I am coming across creepy. And I literally said to you when we were doing this, I'm never going to get an interview if he sees this because I look like a creep. And I'm genuinely not. I just want to like chat to him about cars.

So the sketch was this. We walked into a dark radio studio. Megan's folded, legs crossed with candles, little candles. I'd made like a shrine. Yeah, it was a shrine. And then his picture plastered all over the wall in front of her. Some shirtless ones that she demanded be on the screen. I was about to say, I didn't do that shrine.

But there was a couple of photos. You weren't happy with the first shrine. The first shrine he was in his motor racing gear. And there was one, excuse me, there was one picture that everyone like means and it's not a great photo. So I was like, don't put that one up. This is the audio of it. Megan.

Megan. This is... What are you doing? What's going on? I'm just manifesting an interview with Liam. I know you really, it's your dream to have Liam Lawson on the show. And I mean, I'd love to say tag him below and stuff, but I feel like this is... No, honestly, if I know anything about booking guests, this is the way to get them on the show.

show and not make them feel weird about it. Maybe we'll take that the shirtless ones, eh? I'll tell you, what else is a fire hazard? This, what? Am I right? So that was yesterday. Okay, bit of banter. I look creepy.

Yeah, you do, actually. You've come across more creepy than me, so that's great. So we had no idea that that were doing it. You know, just fulfilling our social media obligations on the radio show. You put it out to the universe. That's what manifesting is all about. Yeah. I mean, I've put it out there for a long time quite hard, but that's cool.

At the same time, you didn't want him to see this particular video. No. You did demand that. Now, what's happened in the comments section? too is another just to pull the curtain back. We had a meeting the other week. They're like, hey guys, when we do social videos, can you? I'm telling people that.

What's wrong with it? I'm going to be honest. Transfer it. They're like, why don't you join the comment section, which is great. So Ben and me were listening in that meeting. Megan clearly wasn't because Ben, I noticed, you've jumped in the comments. I thought, I get the ball rolling as well. I thought it's a shame for Liam not to see this.

And he doesn't follow me or anything. So I didn't think he was going to see it. But I said, keen for an interview at Liam Lawson, question mark. Promise it won't be weird. Ha ha, ha. You know, like the little, the crying emoji. Yeah, put that out. Tag them in it.

Yeah. Then I was like, oh, I remember. I've got to jump in the comment section. So what you've missed is they said reply to people, not be the only one's commenting on your own post. Get the ball rolling. That looks sad. Then I jumped in and I said, hey, at Liam Lawson 30.

We severely broke the company's fire protocol for this video because of all the candles that were lit inside the studio. Oh, my God. And then following that, Joshua. said, Hmm, bit rough, only two comments.

Well, Josh, you'll hold right there because there is, your comment makes three and there's another one that makes four. Liam Lawson has commented on the video.

He's commented. Now, have you seen it? I haven't seen it. He's commented. He's overstated. Liam Lawson. It's not bad.

It's a bad look. Have a look at what he's put there. It's the emoji with their little sideways looking eyes. Like, you know, like,

I guess, yeah. Is that like him looking out with stalkers? Yes, absolutely. Or is it him going, oh, I'm looking at my agent to book me on that show. We'll never know. I'll put this up. Sorry, guys. I guess time will tell.

Well, yeah, because I've just Googled it. The eyes emoji, it can be look, can be watching, it can be done in shifty eyes, purvy eyes. It could be flirty, it could mean many things as well, okay? Open to interpretation. It could be suspicious about it. It's worse that it's open to interpretation because it's like, is he going, I see you, you creep. Can you tone it down?

Or is he like, I don't know, baby? Yeah, it could be odd. It could be odd. It could be suspicious. It could be flirty. It could be anything. I specifically said to you, don't tag him in. You said don't put him tag him on the post.

You didn't say anything about putting him in the comments. And we're like, oh, yeah, of course. Maybe we're just fulfilling our community's, please. Look. I was fine looking like a creep to New Zealand because I was like, he'll never see it. Now I know that he's seen it. He's got the shift of the eyes.

Who knows what they mean? We're definitely getting a restraining order through today. Manifest, manifest. We'll put it out to the universe. It could be coming through. A crazy story happened to us yesterday. I reckon this will only happen once in our lifetimes. So the universe and it sort of some sort of

pure coincidence. We were standing outside this cafe, the three of us and producer Troy. Okay, this person comes up to us. Arms spread wide. Smile on their face, air to air. Oh, you've made it. You've finally made it.

And we're thinking, made what? Because we were just sort of congregated outside this cafe by chance. Do you think they notice our puzzled looks at each other? Like, what's happening? No, well, I don't know. Because they were locked in on one person. at the time and one person at a time and I think that person would hold eye

contact while the three of us would look at each other going on what's going on. What is about? What do we make? We made what? Yeah. And it turns out that the person who owned the cafe had messaged us and said, you must come and have

a hot drink at my cafe. Yeah, check it out. You may need to come check it out. Now we get a lot of texts here at the Hits Radio Station. We try and be across all those but throughout the day they still keep arriving and I think it's somewhere we might have skimred a text or potentially missed it or whatever it is that we didn't connect the dots there and then did we yesterday no not at all but what I loved is none of us admitted that no we all we all sort of like a pantomine we all

assumed our roles and we looked at each other and we're like you're right we did make it we're here finally we're here it's so good to see you this is why we came right here we couldn't miss it for the world. This is why we got to get our message. Please don't ask us what it said, but we got it. And that's why we're all here. We ordered the cafe and then the owners like, they got the message. Look, they got the message.

We are here. Yeah, we looked like heroes. We did look like heroes. Yeah, no one had the heart to say, hey, we probably, it was just coincidence. It was just coincidence. You know, it's a, yeah. We should stand outside more places and hope that they're message that we need to go. But they couldn't have been more generous these people.

Oh, they were lovely. Yeah, it was lovely. But to be honest, we went there because we were, you know, intrigued rather than, like, got invited. We wanted to go in by our own accord, you know? Don't lie, Megan. No. We were just standing outside the cafe. Don't stop trying to make yourself feel better.

I wanted to go in. Yeah, I mean, yeah. It's not like we didn't want to go on it. It's just like we didn't know we were being invited by text as well. Sometimes life rewards you for not planning, guys. I know, you're always, you know, what is it, prepare to fail and fail? What's your saying? Plan to fail, you fail to plan.

No, you fail to plan. You plan to fail. Yeah. Sometimes, not planning. Look how it turns out, Ben. I don't have worked out well. I mean, you know, no, let's never bring it up to them. It's, you know, let's just say, hey, it's great.

Everyone we left here and everyone was happy. Make sure we don't talk about it on the radio. Yeah, exactly. Funny side up. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. Drama going on in the South Island. There's been a drama brewing in the North Island with producer Troy, who seems like for six months,

You've put this thing off eight or nine times. Yeah, giving blood. Giving blood. It started when we're at our work, Christmas drinks. Last year. And I had my donation booked for about two o'clock. Now, you need to come in. At that point, hadn't you already postponed it?

Once. I think I'd post on it once at that point. I think scheduling conflict. And so you need to come in with a clean, you know, clean blood system, right? So you couldn't have alcohol in there. And then my arm got twisted. Sure, okay. I've postponed it once, I'll postpone it again.

I'll do it next week. And then that was a week before I was going on my trip. And so I was like, oh, I don't want to be, you know, I don't know what I'll feel like after I give blood. So maybe I'll postpone until after the trip. And then that was first week back at work. I'm too much on my plate this week. I'll postpone it to a long-distance relationship with the blood service.

I just thought it would be one of those things that he just fizzles out. You know, like just cancels eventually. Well, yeah, because you didn't have to do, but you're doing a lovely thing. It's something I've always wanted to do, but I've always kind of been like, oh, I don't know. I don't know So yeah I wanted to do it

But I swear They would have seen my name Pop up every week Yeah And go on Troy again Yeah Ever to day you'll cancel A little sweepstake in the office

Is he gonna I told you Wouldn't come through By the sixth or seventh time Even you must have been going Am I going to follow through with this I mean great intention Just no action

I know I was rescheduling to like Random times Like midnight on a Wednesday It's like yeah sure Why not So yesterday So yesterday

So yesterday I had no excuse My afternoon was wide open and I just went and did it. He was looking for excuses. Yeah. Your anxiety was high. You were drinking lots of water. You're like, so how long does it take?

I was asking John how many bottles of this will be, will be eight liters? And he's like, oh, I've a few more of those. Yeah, geez, you must have been peeing like one of those fountains that doesn't stop. Eight glasses, not eight liters. So you did it and you said it was a great experience. They were so lovely. It was like those, you know, when they tell a kid to look away and they're like, is it done? Oh, it's done.

It's already been and gone. I didn't even notice it going. It was like that I got a couple of biscuits and I've signed up again. You got chalky biscuits. I got chalky biscuits. Oh, you're doing it again?

So the New Zealand Blood Service can look forward to 2029 when Troy puts it off another dozen times and eventually makes it back in. It's quite streamlined now. It's quite a fast process and you get like an app and then you get badges. It's kind of like a game. So I'm like super keen to go again

because it's like levels and it tells you how many times you've donated and do you get your next badge? and it's pretty addictive. You went with Andrew your husband. He collapsed, didn't he? Yeah, they got 70 mills and he kind of passed out. Drama clean, eh?

Yeah. Dramatic as always. And they had to flip the chair up so his legs are in the air. Oh, that's what they do when people get knocked out at the UFC. They put their legs in the air, so the blood comes back into the head. So all these people are like super chill getting their blood taken. And he's like green with his legs in the air like, John O'Ben and Megan on the hits

Lovely to have you joining us New Zealand's breakfast And don't forget every call it that makes it to air At the moment it gets a hundred bucks Don't we thanks to Maddie and PJ Who splits the half of their 10K prize money From last week's race So we'll be doing that before 7 o'clock

Now last night Had to hop on a Zoom meeting Gee too, dumb You don't do many Zooms nowadays do you It was much There was definitely that period through COVID Where every meeting was on Zoom right Then it got to a point where even Zoom was like

To its employees Come on now you've got to come into work Which is spelt the I don't know people probably still use it anyway So last night I was on the Zoom What are you going to say? For a committee that you've joined A committee yeah so

Why? I joined a committee meeting A basketball committee meeting for the school Okay for Oscar My son who plays basketball You don't scream me as like a committee guy I am not a committee guy I'm not and I was listening to the conversation

And these were people who I could tell outside of this meeting were in respected roles. You know, they're talking about structure, development pathways. And I'm sitting there like I've accidentally joined a board meeting for NASA or something. No, come on. It's an hour-long meeting. So I'm on mute for most of it. And I'm spending most of my time because you're on mute.

Just try to nod and agree and thumbs up things. You know, I'm thinking, well, that's some good input. you know where should we put this you should split this all across the whole program and I'm just nodding and agreeing with everything thinking that is contributing to the meeting yeah then Jen my wife she's watching from behind the screen at the end of the meeting there's a one of the committee members popped up and goes hey listen can we look at getting a new app you know like hey are you on hey or those team apps oh you're right yeah guys team reach and stuff right yeah do that sort of stuff yeah can we look at getting a new app there the one we're going to be on heyer or those team apps oh yeah yeah can we look at getting new app there the one we're at the moment it's a bit of a bit of a shambles and so I'm like well maybe this is where I can try that okay because I was like I went on to chat GPT on my phone and I was like best sports team apps and Jen's like don't don't just don't she's like don't this year this is out of your pay grade and then I unmuted and this is like five minutes after the app conversation was mentioned they'd moved on to another topic and I was like I've just chat GPTed it there's apparently another

great app called Snada silence deathly silence and I'm like did I unmute yeah unmuting is a scary

that's a scary situation it is a no yeah you're really gonna have something important to say that it's almost like

standing up in the meeting yeah yeah I'm gonna say something I'm gonna say here I go

it's a it's a vulnerable position to put yourself then then I just hear one of the lovely committee

members and I could tell it was done with kindness but it was also pittiness. She's like, oh that's really great, Jono. How about you go and do some research on that and come back to us? And my wife, she literally got her head in her t-shirt, going, dying for me.

And that was the end of the meeting. That was my one contribution to an hour-long meeting. Maybe you should resign from the committee, but it does some research and I'm going to be able to be. You're just sitting there in case they even need an MC or something. I'm fine. I'm fine. You don't probably need to be a committee for that. No, you're right. I got to the end of it.

I was like, do you know, I don't know what I'm actually contributing to this committee. She's like nothing. Awkward moments. No. I haven't even downloaded the ad. They're not going to give you anything to do. No.

No, so listen, some people are committee people and good on them for doing it. I'm not one of the... Funny side up. Jono Ben and Megan on the hits. Great to have you with us. Dunedin. Been voted. the best place to live in New Zealand,

ranked the best place to live in New Zealand. Wouldn't I pick that? Wouldn't I pick that? Oh, that's a great place. Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong. Love Don't either time in Dunedin and loved every minute of it. Yeah. Or not every minute.

You don't love every minute of every day, but I had a great time there. Danedan's lovely, but the students are there. That's part of the charm and something. Has there? I think so. That brings some, you know, atmosphere. I'm saying that because I've been, you know, a menace in Dunedin. Deep in Castle Street and all the streets where they were all flat.

What menacing things did you do in Dunedin in your young years? I was just like following around a boy pretty much. Were you? Yeah. Yeah. Wow, how'd that end up? Didn't go well. Didn't go well.

Did you chase him to Dunedin? Yeah, I did. And then, yeah, I don't want to do my dirty laundry on. Oh, and then there was another girl there and it was like heartbreaking. Oh, so she was, oh, when you turned up, he was with someone else. Oh, that's a wrong. See, that's why you're prejudiced this against Deneaton because of that. That's not the need of Deney's fault.

Hey, the partying is great. Right. But, yeah, no, I don't know. The airport, one thing I would say, bring the airport just a little bit closer. Oh, right? Yeah. We always make the joke that maybe when they were first designing the town, the town planner was like, this place is going to be a boomer.

We'll put it here and we'll expand all the way out and they haven't quite got that far out. But they will one day. They will one day. So why is it saying it's the best? So it's based on a number of factors, including low housing costs, job stability, and it's got strong community safety. Oh, yeah, fair. The overall livability score pushed it way ahead of other more populated cities.

Nelson, second baby. Not bad, although it's limited job opportunities. It wouldn't put it into first place. Wellington was third, was strong employment, but its affordability impacted its ranking. the Christchurch city, fourth. Tell you what, Christchurch is really. It's humming. It's humming.

It's on the way up. Christchurch in Auckland was fifth. Geez, I'd be lucky to be tense, probably. For affordability reasons. Oh, yeah, for Auckland, yeah, absolutely. That's one of the factors. So, well done, Deney. Should we call them?

Who? Who are we going to call? Who's like, Mr. Deneed? Mr. Deney? I've got an O3 number here. Okay, we'll call someone. They probably don't even They probably don't even know.

Call the 660 flat. Too late now who's dolled someone. Who's this? Who's calling? Megan's boyfriend. He didn't really stop my boyfriend anymore. He made that clear. He only hooked up with that hussey.

Hello. Have we got hold of Dunedin? Sorry? Is this Daniedon? Yeah. Oh, hey, it's John Obed and Megan from the Hits radio station. Congratulations. Okay.

You've won? You know what you've won? No The best place in New Zealand to live Dunedin Yeah Don't say for the question mark It's Dunedin

Is it the best place? That's the bad word It's a better weather A better weather Okay yeah That wasn't factored in It was the affordability of housing The job opportunities

The community spirit Sure What do you love about living in Dunedin That it's home and I know it's home. Oh, there we go. Guess what? We've just rung you out of the blue,

and I'm sorry about that, but because you're on the air, every call of this week that gets on the air gets $100, so we're going to give you $100. That sounds lovely. I'll tell you what, Dunedin could not be happier with this win.

Thank you for accepting the award on behalf of Dunedadid. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. Hold the line, we'll grab your details from you. There you go. 100 bucks for triples. DeNeed it.

John O'Bennon and Megan on the hits. Now, well, we get a Winter Olympics for in New Zealand. I'm trying to find a tie in here, a little bit of an unusual hobby. Zoe, Zoe has a hobby, doesn't she? Snowboarding. Yeah, maybe she kept their hobby hidden for a while. I'm not sure. Or maybe she was...

Not everything has to have a segue, guys. No, I try to find one. We're working our asses off over here, bro. So let's just say she had that hobby hidden for a while, Megan. And we've discovered a hidden hobby of someone who works on the show. So we want your hidden hobbies. 0800, it's 4487. Little Dark Horse Hobbies.

Now, producer Troy, we have learned so much about you over the the six months you've been on the show. And he drops a new little bombshell every week, doesn't he, Troy? How did this bombshell get dropped yesterday? Because I confessed it to Bryn and I felt shame. You need to go pick up something yesterday, right?

I need to go pick us something. Have you guys heard of Bay Blades? Yeah, no, I have, but explain it to anyone that doesn't know what it is. It's a kid's toy, I'll admit. Yeah, my son's got Bay Blades. He doesn't play with them anymore, though. He's kind of like a boys' spinning top. It's like one of those little spinning tops but it's like a

it's attached to a unit and you rip it and you attack other spinning tops with your spinning tops. So it just made spinning tops more aggressive. That's right. Yeah. If you want to see a sweet sweet little producer Troy with his Bayblade set, you can text Blade to 4487 will bounce back to the imagery so you know

what we're talking about. Yes and I had Bay Blades as a kid, loved them. There's like a TV show, isn't there? Because my son watches Bay Blades. He's four. He might have. I say. He starts school next month. Oh, he's five, yeah. And that TV show, Moses parts the Red Sea with the Bayblade.

Oh, really? Historically correct. That's what happened. I think if you look back at the Bible. Yeah, that's in the passages. And so two years ago, I found out that there's an Auckland Bayblade Society, and they have annual competitions at Royal Oak Mall. Oh, listen, I know it well.

I know it well. I love that place. I'm not going to go to hear anyone's yum because that's what you're into. And I'm sure if you took me along to that, I would get, sucked in into it. I get into it. It looks fun. You've got a Bayblade arena like an octagon in front of us right now. And all I want to do now that you put in front

of me is just play it. It looks like Eden Park. It does. It's a mini Eden Park of Bay Blades. And I won that arena by getting third in the Auckland competition. In 2024 I was the third best Bay Blader in Auckland. Well... You told us you had to go pick up your Bayblade arena

that you won. And I was like, when did you win it? And you said a couple of years ago, and that took me back. Yeah. Yeah. Have you got aspirations of playing for the blade blacks or the going to the world champs? The blade ferns. The blade ferns.

Okay. Well, you've kept this hobby hidden from us for six months at least. Can we hear, can we hear some audio? It's got a quite good sound. Here we go. So Troy rips the cord. No, you've got to say what you're supposed to say before you rip it. There's a catchphrase.

You've got to say let it rip. Okay. You've got to say it like this. Let it rip. Oh, and it spins. quite violently around the stadium. Look at it going. Okay, we're going to play some Bay Blades.

And if that's allowed by our boss. Can I ask a question? Does Neve your partner know about this? She found out about it when I brought it home last night. Oh, so it's a lot of hobby from her too. And then she was very delighted when I said, I'm taking it to work. What is your hobby? We'd love to hear from you this morning.

You keep a secret for a little while. Producer Troy, lover of Bay Blades. A child, you know, it's aimed at kids, yes, but it doesn't mean how else can't enjoy it. We've been a lot of fun actually in the studio, like fighting with these all spinetops. Yeah, we've been battling it out. We did the robot fighting. Remember we did that for a TV show,

and I really like that as well. Oh, that was good. You could build, like, robots that would attack each other. Mechanical little thing, kind of like that, like the little octagon thing as well. And I remember, my one,

the guy, these people built them for us, so I say my one. My one destroyed your one. Everyone's like, he's going to win, but unfortunately I drove in the little trap door that you're not meant to do. So all I had to do was stay in there,

but I tried if I couldn't control it. It basically lost the match. You imagine a crazy little dingy car park, like a fight club. Oh, really? That was good, yeah. You idiot, you've just, like, you've just destroyed him, and now you've just basically fallen down the trap door. I'm sorry, I don't know how to drive these things.

You're hidden hobbies. Love to get these on 0800. The Hits telephone number. Megan, we didn't know about your stilt walking that you kept hidden from us until... Yeah. Well, I didn't, like, purposefully keep it hidden. It's just, it's not something that you bust out all the time. Yeah, true.

You're not coming into work on the stelt. Mind you don't blame you for keeping it hitting because then the first thing we did was made you walk in the Santa parade you've turned it into content We'll get Michelle on Happy New Year Michelle

Happy New Year's hey Good to have you on Hey you got 100 bucks too Just for being on air Congratulations Couldn't be happier And The phone sounds a bit bad

But what's she hitting the hobby I play bowls Oh like lawn bowls Lawn bowls, yeah It's so much fun And this actually is a lot of fun I signed it a few years ago with a few mates because, you know, the alcohol is quite cheap too as well, which is part of the benefit. But it's a great activity.

Yeah, it's really cool. And the bar is definitely cheap. Can I, do you mind me asking how old you are? 36. Oh, yeah. Yeah, see, quite young, I would have thought for the Lorne Bowls demo. I mean, but it is branded as, you know, an old person sport. But it's actually, yeah.

Yeah. Are there many young people in your club? No, I would probably be the youngest. It's a good way to make yourself feel young too. Maybe I should go along to the Bowles Club. You can stick it out for another 50, 60 years as well too. So you've got it early. Yeah, exactly.

Great habit. You and they did an article on you, didn't they? But then you're on here all like, these young guys into Bowls because we all signed up. We had photos and we're like the faces, the poster child of Bowles. I think the next year we led our membership slaps. Not because we didn't enjoy it. We're just like, yeah, we've got on something else on a Friday night.

Tina, good morning to you. Hi, how are you doing well. You're hidden hobby, Tina. What is it? When I was little stamp collecting. Oh, so would this be like stamps you cut off envelopes or would they have to be new or could they be used? It would be all of them. But obviously they were going to be worth more money if they were new. Did you keep it hidden for fear of mockery or you just did it? Why was it a secret? Because none of my friends did it. So I felt a bit weird and would like, go up to Auckland and go to, there was places that used to sell stamps,

and would go through bags and bags of stamps. Jeez, you must have had some pretty valuable ones. Well, we thought we did, but they weren't. Do you know how much a standard stamp cost now? Yeah, exactly. 40 cents? $2.30. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I haven't been a stamp game for a long time.

You've got $100 bucks. You can buy some more stamps with that. Thanks so much for calling us this morning. Should we take one more really quick? Yeah, if you want to call it. I thought we're three, sorry I mean, if anyone would like to go, that'd be great, we'll go one more. I remember, do you remember Nick Chappelloo we used to where it was it, The Rock?

Yeah, yeah, Chappellelli. He got a police scanner, and we would just listen, his hobby was listening to the police scanner. God, it was captivating. It was the most... So you just hear parts of crimes? Yeah, chiropr, we got there, a friend, no way, change you come down and would all be huddled around the police scanner at work. But did you always get the ending?

No, I. That was the thing. The story was never closed because they don't go back on and go, another success guy's got him. We've got him. Yeah, how'd that one go? Yeah, true. You never get that.

You're always left wondering. That's a really good question. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. I was in the mall and I purchased a jersey for my son and it was a stock standard transaction. Went home, great. Yeah, but you're doing a lot of shopping for your kids. You had to go buy a Haley Bieber lip balm the other day.

Oh, I did too. That wasn't for the kids, bro. Oh, that was it for you. Have you looked how luscious these lips are? Are you using it? But there's no disappointing experience as a shop, and then when you get home and you realize the bloody security tag is still on the item. How did you make it out of the shop with it on?

Here's my theory. I reckon those shop alarms have now become like car alarms. No one cares about them. Because when you're in a shop, how many times do you hear that thing go off? Not even the people in the shop. No, someone's like, I just keep going. You know, you can stop and look around and they're like, yeah, just keep going. No, I don't know what the point of them is now.

So I must have set the alarm off and, yeah, no one really cared. But then you have, you had that, have you had it happen before? Yeah. And you're like, okay, what are my options here? And then I ended up getting the pliers out from the shed. And Jen, she was like, what are you doing? What do you do? It's got the, it doesn't have the ink bomb thing in it?

Yeah. Because I just could not be bothered driving 15 minutes back to the shop to get. the tag taken off. Isn't it a magnet thing? I don't know. Are they kind of universal? I don't know. Is it why I wanted to ask,

Grace, she's away today. She used to work in a shop if there's one device that removes them all or they're specifically designed to each one. Planning on doing it often. Can you buy them online? Has anyone actually taken one of those off at home, done a home job on one of those? Does the ink go all over the item or? My daughter bought it, like, when we're seeing family in the state,

she bought a backpack, as it just reminded me. She had one, and we noticed. We look, great save. Before the more, we got it back in, we got it, and take it off before we left. We'll like, we'll never be back again. And then when she got home, she realized there was another one. They put two on. I was like, who puts two on a bag?

There was one inside a little pocket area as well. So she used to carry around a bag with a little security tag on it. Oh, does it beat when she goes in and out of shops? I don't know if she took it in our shops, but I was like, yeah. And you know, when you take it back in, you always feel guilty. And, like, you're having to convince the bloody young store worker that you haven't stolen this item. Because if you had, that would take some blind confidence to

steal it and come back in and go, you guys, you're shocking. You didn't even take the bloody security tag. As like them. So I don't know if you guys do this in your relationship, but you know, a bit of a backstory. Obviously, we went, a big week last week. We're travelling around the country. We're trying to race Maddie and PJ to get one, $10,000

to give away any way we could. So it was pretty full on week. I mean, as much as I mocked you about sleeping every time we got in the car, Megan, it was a big week. It was. What's a Big week. Yeah. Did you feel more rested after that week or less rested?

Just, once I got home and got back with the kids, it caught up on me pretty quick. Another nap? Another nap. Yeah, so it was a lot going on last week and then I made it worse for myself by going away in the weekend, which is on me. It's on me, but that was a three o'clock start on Saturday and a five o'clock. And you went to six 60 on Friday night. Yeah, so I did a lot. But I'm kind of like the stage of my life.

I'm like, I don't want to say no to things. You want to miss out. You're saying, you know, I'm always going to be tired. You're at the stage of your life where you need to sleep. where you need to slow down and have a cup of tea and a lie down. I'm always going to be tired.

There's nothing I can do about it. When do you ever feel refreshed as an adult? You don't know. You don't. You never go, hey well, I feel refreshed. You don't. You don't.

See, your boss will just roll with us. That's my only message to children is, you know, we say go to bed and you fight it and you debate it. Just enjoy it. Just take it while you can. All the good things. Food, sleep, baths.

Bank it up while you can, kids. As a kid. Yeah, but my wife, of course, she was in the States, as I mentioned before, on a musical theatre trip with my daughter. So they were, like, different time zones, traveling around. They had some full-on days as well. And since she's come back, you know, the house, there's been a lot of stuff to get through. And I've been away and there's a lot of stuff to...

But now it's got into this debate about who is the most tired. Yeah. And every time I'll go, what do you do? Can you do this? Can you do that? Oh, well, I'm pretty tired from last weeks, you know, like, oh, don't talk to me about tight. You know, that's why the other person comes down. It's the tired Olympics.

No one ever wins that though Because you can't actually prove who is more tired If only there was a machine that maybe Elon Musk could invent That we both, everyone plugs into their system And you go, okay, statistically you are more tired, you win Like a battery for your fire, you're like, oh, he's running at 30%. But also like, how long can you dine out on last week? What time does she get up in the morning?

She gets up pretty early around a six-ish, you know? It's still two hours sleeping on you, baby. Yeah. That's what I always say. Well, yeah. The ongoing tired debate turned to resentment yet. Well, that's the thing, you know, and I don't like to complain about it anyway. But with your partner, it feels like one of the things you can go, oh, I'm tired.

You know, you can actually be a bit more real. You know, tired. And then they'll be like, oh, talk to me about tired. You're like, well, I want to talk to you about tired. I know. But that's the thing. Can't you just say, I'm tired and have them go, oh, I'm sorry. Like, you can both be tired and, you know, you don't have to compete.

But no, if you are tired and someone's telling you how tired they are, you're like, Don't lay your tiredness on my tiredness. Do you know I got up at such and said, oh yeah, I'm on at different times? Oh, this is all going on at the moment. You need to volley back without tired you. Maybe we do you, maybe you need something that, you know, all commentators or adjudicators or comes through, you have your point, you have your point.

Or agree that you can both be tired at the same time. Because it's still that job that no one can be bothered doing. He needs to be done. What are you doing, Megan? I now have to cook a fourth meal in my house. Now these aren't just meals for people all eating the same cuisine. These are four separate dishes. Like a restaurant.

This is why I eat the same thing every day. I cook myself a huge batch of like soup and a pressure cooker. So it's just there for me because I have to cook meals for the two kids. Pretty basic toddler food. Love it. What are we talking? It's my type of cuisine. Fish fingers.

Do you do fish fingers? My daughter likes fish fingers. Yeah, she does. The chicken nuggets. They get pizza. I try and mix it up. That little stir fry situation. You know, I do what loves vegetables, though.

Yeah, she does. Broccoli's her favourite food, which is weird. But, yeah, chicken nuggets with my son is into the beige diet. I know you are a huge foodie, but I don't care how old you are. There's no part of any human that doesn't enjoy toddler food. You go to, I'm sure you go to lots of birthday parties under five. How many of those cheos are eaten by fully grown adults? Cheerios and sauce.

You always have to do. heaps because they get smashed. So yeah, I'm making them their dinner and then my husband is like Jim Bra so he needs like enough protein in his dinners. I made a salad last night and I could tell he was looking at it like I'm going to have to have a protein shark after this

and I was like there is three types of protein in there. There is bacon, egg and chicken. What does he do? Does he meat? Is that pretty much as darned? Well, he's just going to make sure he's got enough grams of protein in each meal because he just... Why are you putting on a voice? He's a gym bro. He's got their proteins and his meal bar. Sound like Andrew.

I thought it was here on the room. Mocking voice. No, that's fine. But I'm just like everyone's got different needs. Yeah, right. And so I'm already busy with dinner time. So there's three different meals on the trot there. Now I went to the vet with my dog and he itches a lot.

He's a little guy, but he's always itchy and he's been scratching so much. He's made himself bleed. So I went to the doctor and he's already on steroids for his allergies. He's already on the max pills he can take. like, do you know what? I think a raw food diet is what he needs. And did they also go, you know what? The doctor's the wrong place to bring a dog.

You should have taken out of the best. The animal doctor. Yeah, the vet. Yeah. I have a name. But anyway. You know what I mean? So I looked up all these places and it's like quite expensive.

So I'm like, well, I could probably, could I cook it myself? And she's like, yeah, just, you know, leave out all the fancy spices and sauces and just give them a. So now you're cooking the dog a bespoke meal? Oh my goodness. And the dog appreciating it? I mean, sure, the dog's probably appreciating it. He's loving it. He's the only one that doesn't question my food.

And I'm like, you know what? I actually love cooking for him because he will scoff anything. Does the dog give a voice like Andrew? Does he do a protein shake? What's the protein? How many grams in there? It's a lot of admin for your household. It is.

So time-wise, how long is this taking you? Well, I have to do like pre- now so I'll prep the dogs one day I'll prep mine another day yeah I know I know wow gee see you day there's a lot going on now you know I just eat fish and chips keep it simple

fish fingers we're all going to just eat fish fingers I think slowly transition to that now we have some exciting news don't we for Megan oh we do uh you don't know about this yet but it involves a fifth meal Ben is going to move into your house he has his own dietary requires

John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. Rough weather hit the North Island first, then the South Island, Banks Peninsula, especially over the last 48 hours, hit by 10 times the average monthly rainfall, which is crazy, caused a lot of flooding, roads closed around the region, and also 40 kids on school camp had to stay at school camp a bit longer because of the wild weather.

Oh, that's, I bet the parents were ecstatic about that, who are on the camp, the parents and teachers. They're the real heroes on those situations, aren't they? Kids don't care. Yeah, it says here the camp is well equipped with food, water, power communications. We don't regret going on the camp, they said. Yeah, so they're all... Who said that?

The kids or the adults? No, the people that run the camp. They're kids seem fine. They're happy, yeah. So, yeah, country school, country kids, you know. They are a harder breed, the country kids, aren't they? I mean, I grew up in an urban, in the urban sprawl. And when I'd go to the country as a child, I was like,

geez, I could be a better version of a child. You know, they're driving, smoking cigarettes. Doing it all in the country. country, mate. You name it. No, who did we speak to on the race? On the trip last week. Isaac? Isaac, he lives in rural area

in Northland. His son's bloody driving. Ten years old. He's not driving on the roads. No, no. But that's quite common. I know. What are we doing? What are we doing in the cities, mate? We're all soft here. But anyway, we just want to open up the phones. 0-800, the hits. 4-4-8-7

on the text. Camp Catastrophes. You go, with the best intentions, don't you? Everyone goes there with a heart full of joy and over a week it can slowly fade. Yeah, I remember, I think it was Torteranuy, down Abel Tasman. We got flooded. There was a thunderstorm, there was rain, and all our tents got flooded out. So we had to all go into, you know, the kitchen hall area in the middle of the night, all boys and girls. So all the kids were like, yeah, yeah, we get to sleep at the same room as the boys. How old were you? I think it was like 11. Yeah, right.

And the teachers and the parents are all like, oh my God, how do we get out of here? It's flooded and we were like, Ayo! Jared's sitting right there. I can see Jared's sleeping. Sh, Jared, be sleeping. Oh my God, do you want to shoe my pillow, Jared?

Yeah, well, that's what happens. I remember the same thing at my school camp. We ended up, we didn't have the hall, though, for some reason. We ended up in like a shed with a sheep. You know, where they have, it smelled like sheep, but the sheep weren't in it at the time, but I just remember, you know, those floors. They've got little, like,

gaps between and it was like wet wool. Yeah, it was all to smell like wet wool and stuff. Did you go camping a sheep shed? Well, that wasn't the intention. Well, that's where the weatherly bad. Was there a masterton? That's, yeah, in the Wadda Upper. That's where we ended up for the night.

Yeah. What happened to you? I wasn't too stoked about it. I was like, guys, guys, is there a hilsen anywhere around? No. No, no. That's what you do, though. You're a kid.

You just got to get into it, right? Yeah, they don't care. I'm sure there's many cases of gastro, ripping, ripping through the school camps. So this is what we're. We want your cam catastrophes. 0800, the hits, 4-487. You can call us.

Don't forget every caller. Jump on here, 100 bucks, too. We went on to an adult camp, but we must have to tell you about it too. There's a nightmare. Snoring. It's the snoring that gets me. Yeah.

I might snore. You never know if you're a snorer or not, but if you're awake and everyone's gone to sleep, it's like an orchestra. It's a tough year, tough conditions to get to sleep. Camp catastrophes, too. That same adult camp, we went to, Ben. I remember another huge incident that took place

The next morning Remember? Poor guy is One of the guys climbed up on the roof To get one girl's hat He jumped back down off the roof Which wasn't that high Yeah but he shouldn't have done

He jumped off the roof He jumped off a roof It was still the roof of a cabin Like down to the grass Like you would probably climb back down But he decided in that moment Snap his leg bone poking out Oh

And it's a long way for an ambulance to come to When you're in rural areas I mean I was cooking bacon on the barbecue and I saw his leg. Get away. I'm cooking bacon here. Anyway, he's fine. I don't know if he's fine, actually. I just said that.

I'm sure he is. It's nice to say at the end of his story, he's fine, even if you don't know. Tess, morning to you. How are you? Hi, good morning. Happy New Year and Narawahia. How's life? Yes.

Great, thank you. It's a lovely day here. Oh, good on you. Now, it's never not a lovely day in Narawhia. That's what I always say. Now, when was your camping catastrophe? Oh, back in the 90s, we went on a week-long camp down near Turangi for Form 2 camp, and one of the nights you got to go out and tent.

But the tenting was a bit further south, and the first group that went out, they came back with all of their tents and all of their gear covered in ash because Mount Ruupé, who had erupted. Oh, my goodness. All over the kids! Yeah, no Mount Ruahiri erupted over your school kids

Can we go home here? No, we're sticking it out We said we're going to camp all week Oh god That is wild Yeah so the rest of us Didn't get to go Out fending

Damn To the best Yeah maybe for the best You're like I really wanted to go Wow that's incredible Well they're like Cover like head to toe and ash Oh no

It was just like a light dusting And I think the kids All came back kind of You guys can stick it out It's just a, yeah. If you can get through that, you'd probably get through anything. We're going to hook you up with $100. Every caller that gets on there gets that.

Thanks for your call. Cheers, awesome. Thanks, guys. You know you, Tess. You busted some poor fellow's nose on camp. Yeah, poor Josh Cody. They played a game at the end. Should I not have said his name?

No, no, at the end of the name. He's fine. He's fine. You lifted up three pots and you had to quickly name what was underneath each of them. And these are those big soup, you know, camp soup. Camp pots. Love them. And it was like spaghetti, bread, and the last one was Josh's head under the pot.

But you didn't know that, right? No, and so I was like, ah! Dropped the pot on the bridge of his nose and split his nose open. And I was like, well, because everyone was angry at me. I was like, well, you shouldn't have put his head under the pot. That's a good gag, though. Comedically, you know, the rule of three is gone, normal, normal, blah! Yeah.

Right. You wouldn't go like first up Josh's head. No, yeah. He did it great. Okay, shall we keep these coming through, shall we? Yeah, this will be great. Oh 800 the Hits, 4487 We're still got more

I feel like we're burning through our cash at the moment But it can be $100 for your next Your Camp Story on the Hits And you beat a volcano exploding over the kids So I'm going to attack my rat Oh wow Oh God School camp catastrophes

That's what I've opened up A lot of snoring-based ones Coming through people Who pretty much didn't sleep for an entire week Because they were placed next to a snorer But that's the joy of camping, isn't it? Yeah you can't expect to get much sleep Tell you what, those camp beds, gee, was they couldn't be more supportive.

More supportive for your back. When you're a kid, it doesn't matter. It's when you go back as like a parent-helper, you'll be like, oh. Let's go to Bailey, shall we, in Fungare. Good morning to you, Bailey. Good morning. Great to have you on. School camp catastrophe.

What happened, mate? I, well, I was on that school camp, well, no-by-s adult school camp. And that's an amazing when that guy jumped. off that roof too. That was disgusting. Oh, you were there? Yeah, I was there at a village campaign. Yeah, that's the one. That was the one.

Highlight that was of the event, wasn't the poor guy breaking. I can't think of anything else that happened. Did you see it, Bailey? Yeah, yeah. My friend, me and my friends were in the cabins, maybe like two down, and it was like just before we're about to leave. Yeah, it was like, the cap was pretty much wrapping up, and it was like, I'll just

get that down and jump off. It did not end well. Could you see bone? I saw bone. Oh. Yeah, no, yeah. It was like a full one-pound fracture. And yes, the ambulance took ages. It did take a case.

How'd you enjoy the bacon and eggs that morning, too, out of interest? Didn't they? Didn't they? I was she severely hung over. You weren't in the mood for eating. But what was your catastrophe before that? So in year six, we went on a bummer trial at night, and I fell over and broke my ankle,

and I still have the scars from that because I had to get finned. Oh, gosh. So you had a broken... It's disgusting. It's the little thing. Some kids love that. Hey, going out to the forest or the bush or whatever, and it's dark and stuff.

And other kids just freaks them out. It was jokes on them because I freaked all of the ad of them instead. Oh, well, Bailey, well, for your broken ankle, we're going to give you $100. Thanks for calling on. Amazing. I only talk 20 years later. It's paid dividends. It was worth it in the end.

And Tanya, how are you? Sam, how are you? Hey, good thanks, guys. How are you? Did you just Is your name Tanya? Oh, same, same

different Yeah, do some people call you Samia? He's like, I'll be whoever you want. He's like, if you give me 100 bucks

you can call me whatever. I'm going to give you 100 bucks but you need to tell me your best camp story. What is it? So when I was on camp when I was a bit younger, we got split into two groups for a fishing,

one in the early morning and then one in the early evening. So the early morning crew came back and they had like a, you know, one of those like old-school basins, like a filletting station with like a hose and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. So they fill it up all the fish, and then they were just chucking them in, like,

the fillets into, like, systemic containers to put in the fridge. One of those got left at the fill-living station, and then the afternoon crew went to fillet their fish and picked up that systemic container that had been there all day. Oh, just baking in the sun. and then it went in the fridge and then it got cooked oh my stomach is churning

there was some crook people how many people got fell ill there was six so it was like two adults and four kids and jeezed as they were cricked oh my god hey look I've heard

they're all good they're good they're good they're good too they're okay now but yeah no very sick at the time as you can imagine And, yeah, the old snapper fillet being baked in the sun for a... The better part of 12 hours in a tight place that's a day-up. We're going to walk out with a hundred bucks.

So thanks so much for that revolting call. They're okay in the end, they said. They're okay. Funny side up. John O'Ben and Megan on the hits.