Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Live from the farm.. Waiting for a cow to poo...

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

We get stumped by the NZ Herald quiz while out on the road. Rowena Duncan joins us to chat field days Sonny Bill Williams Joins the show ahead of his boxing match against Paul Gallen What have you left in a uber - Megan gives us her list. The biggest mess an animal has left around the house or in your home - We take calls on this. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O'Bannon, Megan's a podcast the heads It's been a lot of fun one today and one day you feel do you feel validated I feel so Validated because you brought something you shared something a radio. We talked about vulnerability Human connection some of the things that will keep radio alive and well after AI comes for our jobs Just talking about that because we had our conference recently. Those are all the buzzwords I know I just have vulnerability AI doesn't have human connection AI comes for our jobs. He's just talking about that because we had our conference recently. Those are all the buzzwords from the conference. AI doesn't have vulnerability. AI doesn't have human connection.

Yeah, but I can do a better job at most things that I do. But anyway, you shared something. It's something I do first thing in the morning and I never really think about it because I've just done it for 10 years. And I wanted to know if I was the only one. Do you know what? Turns out I am not. You pooh-poohed it straight away. You were like, that's weird. I did.

I was surprised and I thought no one, yeah, no one would do this, but it was amazing how many people came out of the woodwork or came out of the bathroom as saying that they did do that. And they hadn't shared it with other people either. Yeah. I've never told anyone that before. So you'll hear that on the podcast as well as that we set down a pretty ambitious task for producer Grace to track down Sonny Bill Williams

Do you we were talking about this and you and I have both never met him? No Well, I've never interviewed him in any capacity. I might have said hi to him briefly like but never actually I don't think I'm Yeah, huge fan of Sonny Bill never had a like a conversation with him So you've been around forever? If anyone did. Interviewed everyone. So we did a funny thing when we had the TV show, Guy Williams, we used to send him out and about to do stuff.

And one of the first things we did was send him along to a press conference that Sonny Bill was having for the All Blacks. And Guy got up and sang to him. I think Sunny Bill was leaving New Zealand rugby at the time and he got up and in those environments, you know how I like. It's so serious. So serious. Especially the rugby ones.

Yeah. And he got up and he goes, I think he was like, I'll say goodbye, even though I'm blue. And tried to get everyone to join again. No one else joined then. But Sunny Bill appreciated that at the time and it was a great bit of content. And then Sunny Bill ended up going to Japan and we were like, how funny would it be if his first press conference, Guy Williams turns up in Japan? And then I think it was E! New Zealand at the time went, okay, we'll give Guy like a grab a seat flight. And he got up in the middle of Japan and sang to

Sunny Bill again. And Sunny Bill had no idea he traveled all the way over there. And the journalists had no idea who the heck, what was going on. But then since then, I think guys kind of made the relationship a bit weird by going too far. Did he sing, I'll say goodbye? I think he might have sang it again. He should have sung, welcome back, welcome back.

Yeah, I can't remember the second song he sung, but yeah, and yeah, so it was less awkward the second time, but still one of those occasions you're like, wow, you know, those press conferences are very, very awkward if you've been one to those. I hope that doesn't tarnish our chances of getting him on the show. I don't think so.

I don't, I don't think, well, who knows, who knows? I think the fact that he's just a global superstar, that might be the drawback, I guess, Sunny Bill, trying to get him on the show, but he seems like a lovely guy and I'd love to chat to him. Yeah, we need to ask him permission if we can call our cow the Sunny Bill.

Yeah, Sunny Bull. Other texts have come through as well, just since we've been talking about names for cows. Moogan Markle. Aw, I'm thankful that no one said that about me. I keep thinking someone's gonna call me the cow. Marilyn Muro, as I've come through as well. Someone said you have more luck getting Richie McCow or Richie McCaw on the show than getting

Sonny Bill Williams. So, yeah, and maybe we will, but we'll find out. You'll find out tomorrow if you just listen to the podcast, if Sonny Bill will be okay with Sonny Bill. We'll find out then, but enjoy the podcast. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. We're broadcasting this morning from a paddock. No lights. We just keep saying when does the sun come up? Yeah. I've just yawned into the microphone. Sorry. Liam, producer Liam who's pushing the

buttons back at the studio. He's 10 past 7. so you've got an hour of sitting in complete black darkness here. Did we get here too early? Maybe, but anyway, we're here now. Thanks to One New Zealand, which amazing prize, the Field Day's on this week, and they're a big supporter of Field Day's, and we had an idea called the Cash Cow. A cow after 7 o'clock is going to be released into a paddock here at the farm. When it does its business, if it's your grid that it does its business in,

you'll win five grand and a satellite ready smartphone. I can hand-stand guarantee that no other radio show in the world will be sitting in a paddock right now waiting for a cow to defecate. No one. This is a world exclusive megan that you're a part of. And I don't know if we should be proud of that, but you are right.

We thought we'd do it smack bang in the middle of the winter with all this expensive electrical equipment underneath the tent. There was thunder and lightning a couple hours ago, but anyway we're here now, we're battling on, someone here from Ambry Farms wearing shorts, so anyway, so we can't complain. No, we can't. We've got a Dora the Explorer blanket and she comes over wearing shorts, I was like, wow, okay. Well we can guarantee one thing's going to happen before the end of the show.

A cow's going to defecate or one of us is going to get electrocuted. Those are the two options. But it's going to be a fun morning and we haven't given away all the grids yet. No, so your chance to win another grid to potentially win that money happening after seven o'clock. We spoke to Mark Vettie yesterday who's an animal trainer. Really fascinating. We wanted to know what it was like working with animals.

We thought he'd only worked with dogs, like getting dogs to fly. And drive cars and stuff. But he got cows to dance before. Have a listen. How was the cow dancing? Well, actually, it's a little bit of a cheating one sense, you know, because it was for the film, of course.

So we'd get them working their feet, swinging swinging and then we'd get them swinging the legs left to right and then the back legs and the hips and then the head and uh it was all uh been all pieced together it was pretty cool actually yeah cool yes in the teeth swing i knew i saw your face light up megan's never done that every day ben's, every day Ben's like, when are you going to get them swinging, mate? Yesterday also too, because we wanted to nickname our cow that we're going to send out after 7 o'clock.

Someone texted us through 4487 and said, what about calling it, after a great New Zealand, a sunny bull? Like Sunny Bull Williams as opposed to Sunny Bill Williams. We realized it's not a bull, but we did like the name. And producer Grace, we threw it out to you very early in the morning. Now thumbs up or thumbs down, how you going? We're like let's get Sunnybill on today. Never had him on the show before.

I cannot confirm or deny. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Here on the farm and it doesn't mean just because we're in the middle of a paddock in the dark waiting for light to come out and cows to be released that we can't do the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. So let's get to it. Okay, question number one. Who was the first member of One Direction to leave the group

in 2015? Zane. Zane. Zane Malik. Nailed it. And you need the options. Yeah. All right, team Megan, you came through. Well done. Come on, guys.

Were you a big One Direction fan? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. I'm a big Harry fan. Are you? Big Harry fan. I think everyone's a big Harry fan, right? Yeah. He had some good advice on Instagram that I saw pop up the other day. He's like, this industry runs so desperate with music to be like, you put everything, your whole life into this industry that never gives it back to you. So he's found worth away from music, he said. I was like, oh, Harry, melting hearts.

Yeah. All right, question number two. Okay, what was Neal's favorite music? I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most.

I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most. I think it was the one that I liked the most worth away from music he said. Oh Harry, melting hearts. Alright question number two. Okay what was New York City's original name?

New Liverpool, New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam, that is correct guys. We know that because that was an alpha quiz question. Well done, two out of two. Quiz queen, producer Grace, next question. How are we feeling so far? I'm feeling good. I'm feeling proud. Okay, ready?

How many? That means so much from a Gen Z, doesn't it? Yeah, it really does. But no, that could have been laced with sarcasm too. I don't know. It's not going to deal. Let's just take it. I'm taking it as pride.

Okay, question number three. How many South African white rhinos were recently relocated to Rwanda? 50, 70, 60. That is a lot I was thinking like three. Yeah they obviously very rare, nearly extinct. So you want to go the lower end in that case so 50 if you're going off your logic of there's not many of them round. Do we want to hit the lifeline? What do you think? Or do we want to generally we go hit the middle? Where's Janine? The park ranger. Is the park ranger around? Yeah well let's get here for our lifeline. How about that? We'll play a song because Janine's here at Ambury Farm. She's an animal expert. And it doesn't count as like a listener lifeline does it? Oh so

she's just part of the squad. Yeah she's part of the squad today. Oh okay. Blue hole. Technicality right? Okay we'll come back and find out the answer to how many. How many South African white rhinos were recently relocated to Rwanda? We'll get to that after Alien and Farm but as the hits break first thanks for hanging

out with us at the farm this morning at 6.22. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Coming to you from Ambry Farm where you could be winning $5,000 with our cash cow after 7 o'clock but right now the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We're up to question number 3 and it's a white rhino, also Ben's stage name for when he was performing at Hens Party. Ladies and gentlemen, the White Rhino. Never really lived up to the name though. The white part. So the question, Queen Producer Grace, is...

How many South African White Rhinos were recently relocated to Rwanda? 50, 70 or 60? Seems like a lot. Regardless of the correct answer, it's a lot. Yeah, we shouldn't be stressing about their population then if there's that many of them. Now, Janine, who's the park ranger here at Ambry Farm, welcome to the show. Oh, good morning and welcome you guys. We've interrupted Janine's breakfast. She's running a Vogel's operation. Nice.

Half-cooked too, Janine. You didn't have the patience to double pump. No, pretty impatient in the mornings for breakfast. So now, we figure that you're an animal expert. You deal with them every day? Yeah, not many rhinos. At every farm. Do you want to book the white rhino for your next party here at every farm?

I got the name because I was horny. That's why they fired me. All right, Janine, sorry, that's too early for this. Sorry, Janine. No worries. Firing up the zingers. Okay well I don't really have an idea but I like to always sort of be in the middle of things so I'm going to go for 70.

Okay we're locking in 70. Quiz Queen producer Grace is that correct? Yes it's correct. Oh I nailed it. Alright you can stick around for the next question Janine alright. Now Grace we'll hand you this mic. Talk into my face Grace. Sorry Crown Princess Amelia of the Netherlands recently broke which part of her body after falling from her horse. Arm, wrist, leg.

I see why you look to be strange there because you don't have a microphone that's why. Arm, wrist or leg? Arm, wrist, when you fell from a horse you'd probably go your wrist, maybe she landed on her. Oh the wrist is part of your arm. Again Janine you're an animal person what would you most likely break if you come off a horse? Arm, wrist or leg? Leg. Oh really? Okay. Well no I'm just being different. Okay well no we'll go with you Janine that's fine. And is it correct? Oh boom! What was it? That's a disappointing sound. It was she broke her arm. Oh well listen don't worry Janine we let ourselves down every day so it's good to have someone else do it for us. Stick around for your chance to win with the

Cash Cow that's after 7 o'clock. But next we go live to the USA where the bromance. Is it over between Trump and Elon Musk? We'll find out more with our entertainer and reporter, Nicole, next on The Hat. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Here at the farm waiting for a cow to do its business after 7 o'clock for you to win $5,000.

Can I just say if you've just landed in New Zealand and you're in an Uber or a taxi, this isn't the norm. Like you're just saying it like it's a normal thing. That does not do good things for our international reputation. Just hanging out with the sheep. Speaking about things international, it's time to go stateside. It's Nicole, she's our entertainment reporter from America. A lot going on in America, Megan.

Yeah, the riots. How what's things like over there? Yeah, it's like a mess over here. And I think that there is, you know, it makes sense for a lot of people to be very unhappy. But when it's past a peaceful protest, then you're just you're losing the point of the protest. Right. Like people stop listening. Not that they're necessarily going to listen to you when you are peacefully protesting. but it just makes, it takes away, you know, your cause a little bit when you're throwing bricks and hurt like in like causing damage everywhere.

Then it's all, then it like, people are going to turn on you. You're not going to achieve what you were there for. You know, recently, and I know we don't like to get too political on our chats, but Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the bromance seems to be over between the two of them. Yeah. Oh, the girls sleep over didn't end well. I mean, the fact that like everyone thought that that was going to like, first of all, it was terrifying when we were like these two immature caddy old men.

They can't fit in the same room. Those two egos, I don't think. No, that's why they did the officers oval. The office is oval, the walls are, you know, so maybe that helps put a couple of egos in there. Well, yes, as I say, there was so much going on, especially in your life as well. Every time I look on your social media for your radio show, you've got Avril Lavigne joining you,

one of the stars of the Wicked movie. I mean, you get some amazing guests over there. Yeah, we just have one of the Mormon housewives, which I'm obsessed. Are you watching that, Megan? Who, who? Whitney, Whitney. Oh my God, housewives, which I'm obsessed. Are you watching that, Meagan? Who? Whitney? Oh my god, Whitney?

I was dying. She also like, totally team Whitney now. Whitney's kind of like the villain. Are you? Yes. Yes. I'm, I, she, you would love her. She's such a sweetheart and like so well spoken.

And I know, and I really hated her. I really hated her, but I really loved having her. And then did you guys watch Ted Lasso? Yeah. So the guy that plays Nate. Oh, yeah. Nick Muhammad. He came in today.

So I think we're going to play him today. Yeah. So I'm going to play him today. I'm going to play him today. guy that plays Nate? Oh yeah. Nick Muhammad. He came in today so I think we're gonna play that maybe later this week but he was amazing and I almost got him to admit that we're getting a fourth season of Ted Lasso. But yeah we've been having a lot of fun people. Do you actually think there'll be a fourth season? I really thought it was the end. I do. Okay. Yeah I do. I do. There's been too many rumblings and it's too good for them not to give us at least one more.

Well, maybe Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni need to watch an episode of Ted Lasso because it feels like it's the never ending story at the moment. Now something happened this week where a lawsuit got dropped and I was like, what does that actually mean? What's going on? I don't really know what it was. It sort of felt like you sued me, so I'm going to sue you back. That's what it felt like, like a retaliatory lawsuit. Like I don't necessarily think that he had, he was like, you're rich and I'm going to

try to get money out of you. But at the same time, I also feel like throughout this, she should just be like, I feel like she should be very quiet and she's on red carpets and she's out being rude to people like, like salespeople in stores and all these rude, nasty things keep coming out about her. She's not helping herself in the calls at all. She really does look like the bad guy at the moment and Taylor's not speaking to her after what happened. So I, I don't know. I don't fully understand the lawsuit, but I mean, you can't just be like, Hey, I'm suing you for $400 million for really nothing, but he did. So they were in a movie together, Blake Lively, obviously married to Ron Reynolds. If you

haven't been catching up with it, it's been all over the internet, but it seems like there's still going to be a court case that's happening. Is that right? It's her suing him now. The case Justin against Blake has been dropped. I think it was for defamation, $400 million. The judge threw that out. And so Blake's case against Justin Baldoni is still ongoing. But I feel like we're all gone. Can you just sort it out yourselves? I don't know.

Yeah, and I never do this. I could beat a dead horse of a celebrity story all day long, but this one I'm done. I scroll right by it. I'm like, I can't. I can't keep track of everything that's going on, I don't understand it anymore. And now it's just like annoying news to me. Yeah, same.

John O'Bian and Megan. It's a podcast. The Hats. After seven o'clock, we're gonna be releasing a cow into a paddock here we are at Ambry Farm, where it does its business on a grid. You could be winning $5,000 and a satellite ready smartphone thanks to One New Zealand.

Yeah, and they've partnered up with Field Days, which has been on this week, Mr. Craig Hamilton, a massive event. So we've gone rural. It was the natural thing to do. We were waiting for a cow to defecate in a paddock full of grids and you could win $5,000. And we met you before, she's the Hilary Berry to the Highland Sheep Farmer Rowena Duncan. Welcome, rural reporter. So hard to say. Lovely to have you on Rowena. I'm not sure I like the kind of comparison there. We're waiting for a cow to jefficate. So let's fill in some time by talking to Rowena. You've nailed that. That's exactly what that means.

Are they talking about this at field days? I know there's a lot of great things going on at Field Days. Do you know if they're talking about our cow in the paddock? Well, I don't know if anyone is unprompted talking about it, but I'm talking about it to them. I'm like, so we have these three crazy workmates who thought, hey, let's go rural Field Days week. So let's find a cow and then wait for it to defecate and then talk to Ro while we're waiting for it to defecate. No, honestly, I just love how you guys are getting in behind it. And that's what we see a lot at Field Day. Wednesday is C-suite day, so you get the chairs and the CEO and the hoity-toity. Yesterday was kind of fill-in day, an announcements day.

So that's what we see, but today is fun day. And I love that you're doing the calcification on a Friday. Good on you. Yeah, we'd always dream to actually do it at field days but they're like that takes up a lot of space, a lot of admin to bring a cow in. So what's some of the highlights at field days? I saw that the Prime Minister he was trying to he was doing a competition to see what he could pull by his with his hands.

Oh that was at the Toyotas time. Yeah I didn't explain that very well, did I? No, we could maybe rephrase that if you're telling the story again to someone else. But look at the Toyota site. They kind of win the award for brightest and shiniest because they've had Richie McCaw on their site. They've had Dame Valerie Adams on their site. I saw her yesterday, Row, and she said she bit Richie McCaw in the challenge. She did. She did. The strength challenge. Absolutely did. And I'm not sure if it's because she's taller than him or because,

I don't know, she's like just an amazing physique and it felt really inappropriate to tell her she looks amazing in terms of how her body is but she just is. She's such an athlete through and through and not to say Richie's not but you know I don't think I'd want to follow him onto a rugby field at the moment. He's still fit but he's not rugby fit. The Prime Minister won the tugger. He gets a black foodburn. Kendra, what was it? Cocktax. Cocktax, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Emma Twigg, they were there yesterday. So I haven't gone because I don't want to just show myself up because I'm better at talking rather than pulling. And again, I just hesitate at that phrasing of that sentence. So I'm going to tell you something else that's really cool at Field Day. And that's the lawnmower racing.

And maybe we could put some of these athletes on a lawnmower and send them around the cart because that's happening tomorrow. It's a Le Mans start. So you've got to run around the track first, then jumping your lawnmower and off you go. You can take one shortcut through the race. You've got to be very tactical about it. The first time we've seen it here at Field Days, we usually see like the tractor pull. So that happens during the week.

Now it's going to be lawnmower racing tomorrow. so I think it's going to be a bit crazy. We go there to go don't we? Megan did it in high heels. Yeah. No surprises, I didn't do very well. Oh it's such a great event Ro, enjoy Field Days. We're sorry we're not here but we're at a paddock, we're doing the rural thing. Oh I love it, thanks for getting behind it and go the cow.

Go the cow, yes Sunny Bill Williams is his unofficial name we're trying to get a blessing from Sunny Bill after seven o'clock hopefully but... Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Here on a farm, Embry Farm this morning we're very shortly going to release a cow into the paddock marked out with grids to win someone $5,000 and a satellite ready smartphone thanks to One New Zealand. And we've got one more slot, one more position on the grid to give away and so we're doing farm yarns, the best

farm yarn wins that final position. I know you saw a cow being birthed Megan that's really traumatized you. It did. It was a lot on the senses. Been electrocuted himself on an electric fence. Do you remember we went to a farm, it was like a milking farm, and we were in the milking shed. And I ended up grabbing a cow's teeth and squirting. Of course you did. It was like a milky water pistol. Don't say I ended up like it was an accident.

And straight in the, straight in the, it was an odd see that wasn't it was all of my chin And I was trying to be the hot drinks in the morning. Yeah Let's put it straight into the coffee straight from the store. Yeah. Yeah It's a normal thing and do you think cows eat cheese and things? What do you think that we're not regularly? Maybe a French cow. I only agree. The finest Camembert. Where are they getting their cheese and crackers from? The farm yarns is what we want this morning. We've got one more spot in the grid to give away to win you $5,000. Who are we going to first? We've got Luke on the phone. Welcome to the Hits Breakfast Luke Morina. Hi, how are you?

Lovely to have you on Luke Farm yarns. Mate, what have we got? It's a carving story. Oh no. I just think you want to hear it. Oh, where? So basically I was out in the yard carving the care, keeping my hands warm at the same time.

And the sun was sort of helping me. and the care, keeping my hands warm at the same time. And the sun was sort of helping me. And now and again, you get a bit of back, the care gets a bit of back pressure if the calf's quite big. And if you got a fair bit of number twos in the care, it sort of squirts out. And I sort of pulled, gave it a good pull and it went over my sort of left shoulder or right shoulder and the boy was behind me. Oh no, the sun got covered.

And he got covered in blue. Like the what now guns machine. Yeah, yeah, what now guns machine. Can I say, I love the way you say Yeah, that's how we need to say it. Oh, yeah. We're gonna take another call right now to decide who's worthy of the $5,000 That's pretty good story Crap storm there, Lynn Hi, how are you? Good to have you Lynn? What was your farm yarn?

Went down to Stad Farm, my uncle's farm and being as usual cocky, you know, I knew it all I went down to Stad Farm, my uncle's farm and being as usual cocky, you know, I knew it all. First thing I do is put on my boots and go on the farm bike and I get straight into an electric tent. And I mean, yeah, straight in. So much shame. Yeah, I'm still the butt of that joke. And so are you fully electrocuted? No, no, of course not. I'm still here Shocking question for me Afterwards she ate cheese with a cow Sat around and had some crackers It was lovely

Okay, Jono on you One more grid to give away The number one, ironically, it's the first and the last number to give away Uh, Lin, I love you And you had a great story But I just feel because the tie-in, the connection with Luke's story and the reason, the core reason why we're here today, we're going to have to give the last grid to you, Luke. Thank you very much.

You're welcome. So you've got a chance. Thanks to One New Zealand of winning $5,000 and that satellite-ready smartphone mobile coverage like never before with One New Zealand satellite techs. Good luck next, The Cow is going to be released in the paddock and we'll hopefully have a winner at some stage before nine o'clock this morning with the cash cow here on The Hat. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hat.

Thanks to One New Zealand. We've been talking about this for a week or so. The cash cow where we put a cow in a paddock with grids and when the cow does its business, if your grid is the number it does its business in, you'll win $5,000 in a satellite-ready smartphone. Mobile coverage like never before with One New Zealand Satellite Techs. Techs from anywhere in New Zealand with a line of sight to the sky on an eligible One New Zealand plan.

We could have actually used them this morning. right now we're sitting in the middle of a paddock with an extension cord. The satellite technology could have come in very handy but the cash cow Sunny Bull Williams, not a bull, was officially released into the grid paddock just what a couple of minutes ago? Yeah and straight away, straight away, this is what happened. This is the audio. Hi, drama. Have a listen.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Ah! What did it go for us? It was number six. It just started! It's happened. Absolute scenes.

Number six. Straight away. Number six. Straight away. Oh my god. Can I get some audio? Oh my god. I was concerned about the audio. It happened way quicker than we all expected.

Literally Sunnypool just walked in. Just walked in. So that means owner of number 6 on the grid is Rebecca! Oh my god! You've won $5000 and a cell light ready smartphone!

That is so awesome! I'm so excited! is Rebecca! Oh my god! You won $5000 and a cell light ready smartphone! That is so awesome! Thank you so much! Oh wow! Did you have a feeling deep in your bowels that the cow's bowels was gonna go for six?

I did, I woke up this morning and I said to my husband Oh my gosh number six today, number six today. Let me go. Okay, okay. Smack bang in the middle of the group. I know.

Yeah. We'll have some footage up on the Hits Breakfast Instagram and Facebook for you pretty shortly. The live stream we thought was going to go for hours. It's all pretty much over done with. I don't know what we're going to do for the next hour and a half on the show, but you've won $5,000 and a smartphone. Oh, thank you so much guys. It's awesome.

We can confirm it's fresh too, because Johnna put his finger in it. Yeah, he did. And chased me around the paddock with a poo finger. I've seen him do some very questionable things at farm. He talks about squirting milk in the face. He's washed his hands with wee before out of an animal. He's done some weird stuff. Also you still haven't washed that hand. It's great. Well well done Rebecca, you've got yourself that amazing prize. Now if we need to fill an hour and a half through the content, which one of John O'Bannon or Megan are going to go first in the grid before 9 o'clock.

We've still got time to do that. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Who's having the best weekend? Alright we do it every week. Talk to Connor in the south from the Hits and Hayley in the north from the Hits in Wellington. Both have had exceptional weeks.

Connor Freshhoff running a marathon and Topol and Hayley Freshhoff winning a radio award at the New Zealand Radio Awards and now they've come crashing back to earth. Their humble beginnings, peddling community events, copying and pasting community events into a Google doc. Welcome back to the both of you. Hello, good morning. Haven't forgotten your roots, have you? Not with the spreadsheets, no. All right, well, Conor, we'll go to you first.

You're representing the South. We're only going to give you one chance this week, one event out of everything happening in the South. What's it going to be? That's all I need. That's all I need. We're going to go to the Foguangsheng Buddhist Temple in Christchurch for the International Chocolay Food Festival. This is almost every piece of

chocolate, almost every type of chocolate, almost every way of making chocolate you can think of, all at the Buddhist temple for free. Jesus, there's a lot to bloody unpack with this event. Why is it at the Buddhist temple? I have no idea. He's put aside Super Rugby City Finals? Yeah, I was just thinking the Crusaders game which is on tonight. Okay, that's great, but the chocolate wins out.

The International Chocolate Festival at the Foguang Shan Buddhist Temple. I mean, come on. That sounds great. That sounds like me. He said it was free too. Yeah, okay, well Connor, you've come out with that. But you do walk out. You have signed up to Buddhism by the time you walk out. Well, you've ignored a big event going on with the rugby.

I love chocolate. Hayley, what's going on in the North? Look, hard act-ish to follow, but we have the Southern Hem hemisphere's largest agricultural events in the form of field so massive massive event happening at mystery street mystery creek in the Waikatoa we've got uh there's digger competitions excavators where you get in and you can erase people there are people racing with lawn mowing who can cut the lawns quickest, a drone zone where you can play drones, there's so much happening. Me and Megan and me both thought with a digger you can erase people. It really sounded like you said erase. We were like what?

That's a different hemisphere festival type thing. Okay so we've got the exotic chocolate festival at the Buddhist temple and we've got field days. Where are we leading? Well, I want to put a vote in for the chocolate. Okay, well yeah, the chocolate does sound wonderful, but no, I can't go past Field Days today. I mean, we're at a farm, I feel rural. Hayley, you're taking this one out because Field Days.

Chocolate sounds incredible, but it's a big event. Fresh off a radio award win. I'm not convinced that his event is actually real. I feel like we should be fact-checking some stuff. Neither am I actually. Neither am I. I've just Googled it. I'm on their website. I can't see anything about chocolate festivals going on here. Alright, well are you...

Have you just dreamt this festival up? Thanks for hanging out with us again. You both have a great weekend. We'll catch you next week as we head into another weekend. Thanks guys. Hey next, hi drama, if you missed it earlier with our cash cow we'll fill you in on what happened next on The Hats. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We're just having to deal with a bit of a mess that the cat the cash cow created and some other missus here at the farm So we thought the biggest animal missus on our under the hats. Yeah, you can call us

Well, that's if that's our phone work. So Kelsey. Good morning to you Good morning. Lovely to have you on Kels the biggest miss the biggest animal miss Yep. Yes, yeah. So ages ago I was at a cow show back in the States and we're all waiting to go in the ring and this girl was standing behind someone's cow and she was talking to her friend and saying a lot of really mean things about my friend. And before I could say anything to like stand up for my friend or anything, the cow she was standing behind lifted its tail to do its business it wound up coughing and

when it coughed it just blew a rocket of poo all over this girl instant cow karma yeah it's cow-ma yeah cow-ma that is, that is, I could listen to you talk all day every regale, tales from your farm years. Oh that is incredible, we're going to hook you up with some Dilmati. Make sure you open up that box because you can find a golden ticket and get yourself

a trip to Sri Lanka thanks to Dilmar and Singapore Airlines. Good on ya, we as humans we make messes too, except we've just got opposable thumbs to be able to clean them up. These animals they can't. It's out of their hands. Now Kylie good morning to you. Sorry, Amanda good morning to you. Good morning. Great to have you on Amanda. Okay we've had a projectile situation just there.

What happened to you with your animal mess? We had a Labrador that found a dead possum outside. We live rural. And you know, Labradors, they gorge things. I knew the possum was dead, but I didn't have a chance to get rid of it before she found it and ate the whole thing. And while I was trying to get the kids,

I think my daughter was five at the time and my son was three. And I remember seeing her lying on the kitchen floor, like with something out of her mouth. And I thought, oh, what's that's that anyway I looked and there was this I don't know two meter long trail of cat of possum they say that Labradors will eat anything right honestly they really do it was terrible and I remember just ringing my husband and saying

I told you to move the possum and all that and you know I'm not very good with vomit like I tend to almost vomit and my daughter was almost vomiting That's a low, that's a low in life, that's a low in life We'll put you on the draw to have a trip to Sri Lanka, alright, with Dilma. Thank you. Good on ya. Thank you. Now we've got time, we'll take one more, shall we? Maria, morning to you.

Hello. Good to have you on, Maria. Biggest animal mess. We've had it done twice. I have owned cats. I've gone to work and I've had them give birth under my bed. Under your bed? Yeah, under my bed. Oh, I imagine that's a messy situation. Yeah, and they didn't do it close to the edge so I've had to move my whole room around to get to the corner where they actually gave birth. There's always a bit of a clean up, isn't there, after a birth situation? Yes, well you thought after one they wouldn't do it in the same spot, but they did.

Yeah, no, you get the dead-old wipes out on that one. What was your, was it your friend who, the apartment in New York City? Oh, so someone was telling me about that, where, yeah, there's a snake. The flatmate had a pet snake and it crawled inside her mattress inside the bottom and ended up giving birth to a whole lot of babies. Like, it had hollowed out the mattress. That is what nightmares are made of. Yeah.

And it was like a big, Yeah, it was like a boa, it was like a boa or something. It was like. How did they find out? Yeah, well, yeah. The mattress was moving. It went missing for a while. They're like, I don't know where it is.

They looked all over the apartment building and then they found it inside her mattress. She'd be sleeping there with it up inside. And giving birth in there. Yeah, not good. No. Yeah. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Sonny Bill Williams is fighting Paul Gallen. They both used to play league. It's a bit of a grudge match between the two former league stars. It's powered by Manuka Fuel and and it's gonna be in Sydney next month the fight will be live and exclusive on New Zealand pay-per-view on Sky Arena and Sky Sport now. Sonny before we get into your big fight we want to ask you a question and kind of want to get your blessing if possible.

I'll give you a good answer. Yeah yeah well someone texted in yesterday we're looking for a nickname for the cow and someone texted in Sonny Bull. Yes. Are you okay with the cow being nicknamed? Of course. I'll be called worse. Definitely by Paul Gallen, the two of you. X rugby league players, if anyone doesn't know.

Both turned to boxing and you've got a bit of a grudge thing going on between the two of you. Yeah, it's quite weird, isn't it? I think he's come out and said lately, the latest bit of rubbish I heard come out of his mouth was he's hurt my feelings, he's hurt my wife's feelings, my kids' feelings. I'm like, bro, this is the first time I actually even spoke the truth about what's been going on. What about the last 10, 15 years when you've been talking rubbish about me? You know, so kind of thinks he's better than everyone else. And I've played with some, unfortunately, I've played with guys like that before.

So I'm just, it's been quite easy. The last three years I've been Daddy Dekia. I've got five kids, thank God. I've been changing nappies at home, stay at home, help out with the wife but it's been quite easy to change the mindset because there's so much animosity there. I've always wanted to consider throughout your career you stood up for what you believed in and you did what was right and there was everyone was piling in with opinions you know everyone had opinions and would have a

crack at you. Did that ever affect you in your performance? Playing it didn't affect me but it was tough when it affected the family. Especially when I had kids that come along. For example, the last fight when I got knocked out, my kids, my two girls went to school and they come home crying the next day, you know, which was quite upsetting. But it is what, that's life. Everyone has an opinion. It's like, you know, everyone needs to go to the toilet and it's not nice what comes out of the toilet sometimes. It's just the profession that we're in. But like I said, the animosity is real between me and Paul. Sonny Bill, you're good at league, you're great at league, you're great at rugby, you're

great at boxing as well. Is there one sport that you are no good at that you're like, jeez, I am terrible? I'm not the greatest boxer, to be honest, but this fight here. I hate to tell you. You've done pretty well. I think just the way that I've played the game, I play with that Island Pacific flavour where it's all go. You know, it's physical and we don't shy away from that. And that's why I guess getting into ring comes a bit naturally to myself and other Islanders.

Yeah besides those three sports you put me anywhere else I'm as Gumby as they come my wife says. I wanted to know because you're talking about you know the Pacific styles when there's such a big grudge going on how do you stick to boxing and not get a little bit, what's a nice way of putting it? Sweeped up. Sweeped up and the emotion. Yeah, of course. I understand exactly what you're saying. It's a great question, sis.

I think for me, that's where the 20 years of experience playing rugby and rugby league at the highest level comes in. You know, you drop the ball, you throw a forward pass, you shoulder someone in the head. In the biggest game in 12 years in the Lions series, you just got to recalibrate and you got to calm down and you got to have the next task mindset. And that's what I take into the boxing ring, because if you, one of the things that you have to do in the boxing ring, when you try to do to your opponent is get them unsettled, you operate best when you're calm. For me, what I love is when I walk home,

they don't give a, I was gonna say. I'm sorry. I'm homeless. They don't give a poor gallon. They don't give a poor gallon who you are or who you think you are. So it's a great equalizer if you high in your own supply and you go home thinking you're some sort of person or some sort of this.

Nah, they don't give a damn. They just want your time. They want you to be present and they want you to be authentic. And that's what I love about being a parent. Well, Sonny Bill Williams, okay, so you do have five kids. Can you give us a pain scale? What hurts more, a proper punch to the face in the ring or a surprise slap from a toddler at 5 a? I'd say 3, 4am mate.

Well listen mate, it's lovely to talk to you Sonny, good luck for the fight and also good luck for Sonny Ball Williams. That's the nickname going on to this fight, Sonny Ball. Sonny Ball. Thanks guys. Jamie didn't get to see you but thanks so much for your time this morning. See you soon guys, take care. John O'Bannon, Megan.

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