Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW - May the fourth be with you ⭐

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

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Welcome along to the podcast. Another one for you. I know Megan today. As you'll hear her in the podcast, she's off. A lot going on with her and we're trying to make things a little bit better for her. And now we're second-guessing the idea that we land on in the podcast. So have a listen. Tell us what you think.

Yeah, I think initially it was a really good idea. And then now people are getting inside our heads going, are you just inconveniencing rather than... Fair point. Fair point. Really fair point. Yeah, I know. Just see...

Dr. Troy sent through an article saying, say New Zealand, being ranked the second most polite driving nation in the world. Now, having been very lucky in this job to go to a few countries, I would say we're not bad. I know that there's some agro out there. You see some stuff on TikTok of people attacking cars with metal poles and things. But then you go to, like we went to Sri Lanka. I don't even think they have road rules. I was trying to figure out what the road rules.

Like you can literally drive on the other side. of the road towards oncoming traffic. It all kind of works though. It does work. But terrifying when you're not from there. Whatever the rules are, everyone knows what the rules are. I just couldn't figure out what the rules were. Like at intersections, it felt like they all got once and they all kind of maneuver their way around each other and stuff.

Didn't see an accident? Yeah. No, but she's real close. Oh my gosh. I felt like it. Yeah. When you're in a van on the other side of the road, there's a bus coming towards you. You're like, please, please pull over.

It's like a game of chicken. Someone's going to have to pull over it. stage. Yeah, so, and then you would go to, you know, places like America. Oh, yeah. Just you arrive at the airport, there's just like a soundtrack of horns. Honking. Yeah, we're not the best at honking, eh?

Like, you know. You hate honking, no, I'm not a big honker of a horn. I hate, for some reason, you know, like with someone honks at you, you always feel a little bit like, even if you're in the wrong, you know, all right, mate, you know, get it. Defensive. Tell you all we're going to do this week, Ben. Yeah. What?

Can take you out in your car? I don't want to, what? And you're going to honk at something. You got a honk at someone. You got a honk at someone. My wife will lean over and honk the horn for me. She's like, on the horn. I'm like, give them a moment.

Give them one. They're probably scrolling Instagram. They're probably looking at something. Give it a cover. You do it. And then you're trying the little, like, just a polite little. Just a tap. Yeah.

Second horn. I've always said they need an aggressive horn for emergencies. And then it's just a light. Hey, mate. Scrolling Instagram lights change. That sort of thing, you know. Listen, I appreciate the scroll. We're all doing it.

You do have to actually factor in the old social media scroll at the intersection nowadays, don't you? I think it's proud upon by the police, do you? It is, yeah. Must be a good vid. Must be a good vid. Yeah, so there you go. Okay, well, enjoy the podcast. Have a wonderful day.

Oh, sorry, yeah, back to the facts, though. Study conducted. That we're polite, we're polite. Yeah, they're polite. Just behind Cyprus. Oh, yeah. That's the Greeks? Yeah, I think so, yeah.

There we go. Tourists described Kiwi drivers as relaxed, respectful, and willing to give way. You would say that. I will always let someone in, as long as I get a finger, two fingers off the steering wheel or all the hazards for a couple of seconds.

Hazards is a nice little addition. I love using those. Yeah. Someone lets you in, you put the little hazards on. Get away with anything as long as you hit the hazards afterwards. A little, like a little, shrug at the shoulders and a hand up,

like, so they can see you. Sorry, right, right. You acknowledged it? Yeah, like, and no one could, like, even if someone's wanting to rage at you, I tell you quickly de-escalates the situation, the hazards. Yeah, it does.

Okay, well, enjoy the podcast. Funny side up. John O'Benn and Megan on the hits. You know Megan today? She's dealing with a bit of life admin. More on that later. Yeah. Two weeks solo mothering it.

A lot gone on for her at the moment. There is a lot going on. But we had a fun weekend over the weekend. Went to Otothahee, Christchurch, to host an awards ceremony for Rizene, rock coat. Yeah. Room full of 250 plasterers. It was a lot of fun.

And it was the first corporate event at the brand new stadium. Christchurch's Takah One, New Zealand Stadium. And we got to have a look around during the day. A big open day. There's 30,000 people. But you wouldn't have known it. I didn't think you would know there. But obviously, that's...

Over the course of the day, it was incredible. I mean, even when you looked around, though, at this amazing stadium, you're like, there's more people here than the Blues. You know, it was just... Yeah, it was awesome. It was really cool stadium, you know, when you go. go to, it's like going to a friend's house and they've got something really cool. And you're like, oh, I really want that.

It's cool that they've got that. Everything just felt and smelt so brand new. I felt like you needed to take your shoes off. It did feel like, lady we spoke to was like, oh, when we did a reiki to look at the room, we literally had to take our shoes off. Yeah, it's incredible. Like, just can't wait for, you know, for concerts to arrive in Christchurch. And being so close to the town is awesome.

Like, you know, you know, two minutes from mecca. Do you know the funniest, the funniest thing is you, because you have the, it's obviously a huge talking point in Christchurch. at the moment. Yeah. But you have the same conversation with everyone. You're like, oh, magnificent stadium. They're like, oh, how good is it?

And then you follow on to the location in the middle of the city. They're like, I know it's so handy to everything. It is. And then you end on, it's just what the city needed. And they're like, it's, yeah. Humming, humming. A three-point conversation. I think I had that conversation about 28 times over the weekend.

So very, very cool. Also over the weekend, speaking of sports, things related. At another stadium. Yeah. The Ogle NFC had a knockout, elimination, one of the finals. They haven't quite got to the finals, but this was to get to the semi-final. So this was against Melbourne. Yeah, and so it was won all after full-time, played some extra time,

and no one could score a goal, and then they decided to have, well, it decided. They got made to have a penalty shootout. Oh, nothing would stress me out more than being a goalie in that situation, but also then the person having to kick the goals. Just the anxiety and the nerves for both those poor human beings. producer grace is a huge Auckland FC fan as you would know if you listen to the show she was along there in the port

and she sent some audio through of the well this is it this is just as Auckland FC won the penalty shootout she's running at 180 there she really is so she's not here today yeah I don't want to say the tour

I'm going to say they're connected not going to say they're connected that she's oh my grain mate come on we hear it we hear that we hear that audio So Auckland FC They play a Saturday night I think

Tell you who's not having a day off Auckland FC Have you been trading ready to go 6 o'clock Saturday They're the ones who are on the field winning the thing Exactly

So well done to the Auckland FC Not so well done To producer Grace Who's not here this morning Funny side up Jono Ben and Megan On the hits

After the programme on Friday The comedy festival started Friday Didn't it Yeah It's kicked off for May Yeah And New Zealand comedian

Tony Lyle popped It would have You would have seen him on seven days He's a very, very funny comedian and the name of a show centers around, well, it includes a car brand. Him trying to get a free car. Yeah. And this interview really took a dog leg.

Thanks for having me, guys. What a treat. Very nice. You've got the Comedy Festival coming up. Now, yours is called Crowdwork Comedy Kia Carnival. The thing is, I want to do a crowd work show. So an hour of using prompts in the crowd to mold the show and talk to them and have it all go in front of me. And while I was having the same idea, we found out that we're having a four-ne-

child, which is a lot, I'll admit that. And kind of needed to upgrade the car. And so I thought, well, I want to call it crowd work comedy. And I was originally going to call it something like crowdwork comedy carnival, just randomly, like a, you know, a nice fun party vibe where we have some crowdwork. And then I thought, well, why don't I fold in Kea Carnival? And then hopefully the good folk at Kea will see it and go, we should give that guy care carnival.

It does not like they've sponsored it without. Yeah, well, that's what I kind of wanted to imply. I thought, yeah, I thought they had, but you're still trying. I'm still trying. This is me openly saying. you know the car isn't it isn't quite up to it at the moment you know it'll fit them but they kind of have to sit in the boot

and I don't know what the laws are around putting kids in the boot these days probably the title of your show is like half show and half just life admin trying to get a vehicle that's how your whole life should be half the thing you're trying to do and half the thing that you'd like to happen

and you smush those together but then why are they going to buy the cow because you're giving away the milk for free kind of thing you know you're already giving them the sponsorship well I would never call the good folk at Kia or a cow quite frankly I think that they may be the most prestigious motor vehicle company

Tony? We're going to call Kia. Let's get them on the phone. Good morning, Gilchap Marshall. Bree speaking. How can I help you? Hello, Bree. It's John I've been and Megan from the Hits radio station. How are you this morning? Good. How are you?

We're doing really well. Listen, we've got hardworking comedian Tony Lyle with us in the studio. Okay. No, this feels like a message you might have to pass on. I don't want to put you on the spot here right now, but he's got a comedy festival show coming up and he... He's had another child. He's been a bit too proactive.

He's got four children now. Okay. And you can take it from here, Tony. Well, this is massively humiliating. I didn't know this was happening. But first of all, lovely to meet you. Essentially, we're expecting another child. We're having a fourth kid on the way

and sort of front foot that for the comedy festival this year. I named the comedy show Crowdwork Comedy Care Carnival because obviously the Care Carnival, I would say, industry leading vehicle, people mover with the vague hope of, you know, maybe sort of procuring a care carnival for myself. and, well, I've come down to do an interview with Jono, Ben and Megan, and they've awkwardly rung up you.

Basically, I'm assuming for me just to ask you, can I have one? You'd like to have one? I can pass you through to a salesperson and they can let you know. Okay, all right, we can make it official. Okay, one moment. Wait, that sounds like it involves money, though. Oh, God, this is awkward. You didn't say, can I have one for free.

Yeah, true. They were like, you can have one, but it's going to cost you X amount. And we've been disconnected too, so I don't know if that's an omen. Well, that went poorly. But anyway, nonetheless, at least I got to have an awkward conversation with the woman. I think that's the main thing. That is the main thing. Every now and again, you've just got to remind yourself you're alive by giving yourself a heap of Jeebies.

Now when you first came in, you're like, thanks for having me. Now you're like, oh, geez, I'll never come back to that show again. Oh, no, they're calling back. They're calling back. It's good to know what I'm going to. I'm so sorry about that. The call transfer failed, but I'll try again. Thank you, Bree.

No, but thank you, Bree. You don't have to do this. To be honest, we can leave a message for someone. It might be easier. No, it's okay. someone's ready and waiting. Oh, thank you, Bree. Thank you, Bree.

One moment, I'll try again. That's the service you get at Kia. Kea, wonderful service. I thought this was over. I thought it was done. It's a roller coaster, Tony. I'm so sweaty. Good morning, Amber speaking.

Amber, look, Jono men and Megan from the Hits radio station. I'm sorry for bugging you. Oh, that's so funny. Hi. I know. Tony Liles with us. He's a comedian. He's called his comedy show, Tony.

It's called crowdwork comedy Kea Carnival. He's having a fourth child. He wants a, well, he thought a Kea Carnival would be a great car to have, but he thought he put the name in it. Ultimate Family Car. See, this is it. So I was trying to put the word out there to say, what practical and responsible,

and can I just say, beautiful car that the Care Carnival is? And I thought, you know, I'd front foot it, put it in the name of the show, I talk about it in the show, and, you know, I've just, now I've been awkwardly forced to call you to sort of just put it out there and be like, have you got one lying around?

Yeah, I don't imagine you have lots lying around as such, right? No, we do, we can get him one if he'd like one. Now, this is, I don't think we've mentioned the word free. Yeah, no. I think a loner. I reckon a loner's probably. Could he borrow it for a week or two?

I'm sure we could arrange that. Oh, Tony! This is an outrage. This is the greatest day in my life. We did it. We did it. You can catch Tony Lyle was part of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Hey, all the details at comedyfestable.com.

At nz. John O'Ben and Megan, on the hits. Megan Pappas, and probably a blessing she is away, actually, on domestic-based. issues. Her husband playing Romeo and Aunt Juliet and currently smooching his way around the country.

Yeah. And he might be here for Mother's Day. Second year running. Yeah, Megan spoke about this on Friday. I think we've got some audio of this with Megan talking about it on the radio. Yeah. This year. He is going on tour for six weeks. And right at the start of when he leaves is when Mother's Day

is. Nothing's happened like there's been no pre-Mother's Day situation. He's busy, mate, he's smooching girls. Excuse me. I grew two children. Oh, look, hey, yeah, thanks to who. So, bitter, maybe some sour grapes, if you will.

So while Andrew's off romancing, Juliet, we thought, only fitting that we, as a show, do something for Megan this mother's day. Yeah, it felt like a nice thing. We're talking about it lots over the weekend. We thought about it after she'd set it, and we thought, you know, it'd be nice. to do something for Megan, you know, because Andrew is busy, he's away. And people are texting through and go, well, Andrew, you know, it's not your mother, you know, like, yeah, that was the thing.

Which is a really fair point. It is a fair point. But when the kids, as we know, when you've got young kids, they're not really in a position to do anything. So it does. It falls on the father, you know, to do something to recognise the mother. So in this instance, that's what's going to happen. So if Andrew has no time to do anything, and he's very busy, smooching and touring the country, Can't be smooching an online shopping at the same time.

Maybe us as a show should try and do something nice. And even if he does something lovely, which I'm sure he will, it would be nice to do something for Megan. That's right. Okay, so this means an urgent, itty-bitty-hitty committee meeting is taking place right now. 0-800-the-hits. Have you got any suggestions?

We posted it on the Facebook group as well. If you'd like to join the committee group, 4487. Yeah, is there something we could do as a show for Megan? You know, just a nice thing to do. She's juggling, you know, being a mum, and also working as well, which many listeners right now will be doing, and they'll know just how tough that is.

So we thought, yeah, let's do something nice. If you say nice thing to do, it's got undertones. It's got undertones, where it's going to be a slightly somewhat inconvenient thing for us to do for Megan. I forget it. I think it should be a nice thing.

Genuine? I think it'd be a genuine thing. Let's put comedy to the side for a change and let's do something nice. Comedy's taking a back seat. Yeah, let's do something nice. I don't know what that is. Like, what is something nice?

He's never done something nice. How do you do something nice? It's not really our thing. So, but let's try to make it. Has anyone ever done anything nice? Please, I wait 100 of the hits. Tell us how to do things nicely. 4-487.

The thoughts, people say the thoughts there. Well, the thoughts there. But let's go further than the thought. That's actually follow through and do something for me. I feel like we should. Do we need Andrew's permission? I feel like we're really overstepping the mark. We'll take it from here, mate.

Yeah, we can get that. We should probably talk to Romeo. Yeah, talk to Romeo. He can get his lips off another woman's lips. Just for a couple of minutes. Just to talk. to us back we're doing the heavy lifting for you well are we should we do something or maybe it's not our place uh welcome to the itty-bitty hitty committee meeting evelyn happy new year

happy new year committee member evelyn what would you like to say any suggestions absolutely um just recently our friend is looking after our dog because we're not able to and we did i did an online shop for her i went um clicked on cheeses clicked on crackers clicked on chips clicked on alcohol because she likes savory but maybe Megan likes sweet but I gave her some cookies and even an American hot dog for fun

but they were out of stock You're trying to trigger happy with the mouse when you're clicking on him Oh yeah it was so much fun It was my first time online shopping actually I thought I would hate it but I loved it It was so much fun No no this is the problem Evelyn

You're hooked now you're hooked You've had the gateway shop Oh I can click on this or we can click on that I can add this And then you feel like you're not really paying for anything because you're not handing over cash. It doesn't feel real right. That's a lovely suggestion. Maybe order some stuff online.

A wide range of cheeses. Lovely, Evelyn. Appreciate you listening. You have a wonderful day. Happy New Year committee member, Janine. Hello. Happy New Year. How are you?

Yeah, good. Thank you very much. Urgent committee meeting. What are we doing for Megan this Mother's Day? Well, I just thought, you know, and a lot of mothers out there don't get a Mother's Day is if someone, you know, get a babysitter in for a couple of hours so they can go out and have a lot. and have a coffee, see a movie, just take a couple of hours out of their day.

That's a lovely idea. That's a great idea, Janine. That's great idea. Can we put you forward as the babysitter? If you want to wait for me to get from Reparoh, that's all good. Okay, well, look at the drive time with that one. That will really start for you, but... You're suggesting you've got to follow through with it.

No, that's a genuinely lovely suggestion. Our babysitter, give us some time out. Okay. Yeah, yep. Good, well, good committee meeting. I see why we started this committee. James is text through. I said, order a cook breakfast for Megan.

Don't know how that work. Maybe someone can figure out the logistics. Thank you. What I love about this committee is people just say stuff and they're like, somebody else can sort that out in the back end. Okay, keep this coming through. I feel like we should do something for Megan. So yeah, suggestions 4487 on the 10.

John O'Ben and Megan on the hits. I don't think Shakespeare at any point wrote him the fact that Romeo Mrs. Mother's Day twice. You can try it as a teenager up against a mirror and stuff, you know. Yeah, you could hold a mirror up to it, Juliet. You're right. I don't know. It's a bit weird though if your mum walks in. He's on six-week kissing duties.

Paul Megan's alone, Mother's Day, Solo Mother. That's the role she's playing. And we need to brainstorm. The Itty-Bitty-Hitty Committee is open. The meeting is open. The first item on the agenda is what on earth do we do for Megan, this Mother's Day? Carla, happy new year. Welcome to the committee meeting.

Happy New Year. To you guys. Nice to have you on. I'm glad we're still using Happy New Year in its May. It's great. We're keeping up with that. This is honestly the most consistent thing we've ever done in our careers. Yeah, that's right.

We would have faded out, you know, week one, week two on a campaign like this a couple of years ago. Not now. We see things through to the end. Oh, yeah, we go with that. Now, what's your suggestion for doing something nice for Megan? Look, I'm a solo mum of six, and us mothers, we tend to forget ourselves. So I reckon like the full from the head to the toe, you know, facial, body massage, feet, everything would be. absolutely fantastic for Megan.

No part of her body will be left unmasaged. We're not doing, you don't want us to do that. Not us though. No, you don't do it. Get a professional to do it. I don't think we can look at each other in the eyes when she returns to work. Yeah, no, we'll leave that to the pros. That's a really lovely suggestion.

Jeez, you're doing a lot. Amazing work you're doing. Yeah, it's hard. Don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't change it for the world having my kids in my life. So I really feel for Megan because it is a hard job. Well, listen, you've phoned up with six kids. You do it, you know, 100% of the time. Yeah, I know, incredible what you're doing.

Good on you, Carla. You're a hero. I think we should try and get your full-body massage. Ben's putting his hand up. Not from us, no. Well, if you get Megan one, then I'll go, we can get a twin one. Oh, love it. Love it.

Those hands are going to be busy, Ben. No, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Nicolette, welcome. Welcome to the committee meeting. Hi. Good to have you on. What'd you suggest it for Mother's Day?

Oh, maybe if I knew being a mom is thinking what they must eat every day, food, send lots of meals, send some snacks, send some a bottle of wine and some bubble bath to relax. Oh, that's good. Yeah, some food gifts, food parcels, Nicolette. Yeah, great, great suggestion. That's a great suggestion. You guys are smoking this. The Itty-Bitty Hiddy-Hiddy-K meeting, committee meeting, is. is currently residing.

Monique, what would your suggestion be? Good morning, guys. I don't mind. I wouldn't mind looking after Bastion Ayah. But I was thinking, why don't you guys look after Bastie and Ayah? Hang on, no, you just said... You said I wouldn't mind looking after them

and then you pushed all of this onto us. I was just saying, like, if it's something nice that you guys would like to do, why don't you look after Bastia? Oh, well, I mean, we have, yeah, we've had our own kids, we've been dads, but it feels like that's it, that's a few years. I'm not, yeah, I don't think I could be responsible for another person's child. But it's nice, we're doing it for Megan.

Yeah, it's not a bad suggestion. It's something nice you could do. That's, okay, sure. Okay, here's an idea. I don't want to do it on the weekend. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. What I will do is I will do it, I will babysit during work hours.

Okay. Okay. We could bring the radio show to her house. Again, we were only there a week ago. Oh. We do radio Friday. We look after the for the kids for the morning. Megan goes off full body massage.

Send her off for a full minute. We take the kids to school and all that. We do the morning routine. She comes back. We're gone. By the 10 o'clock, we're gone. She arrives back to an empty house. And maybe some food and stuff that's, you know, ready for her.

That's a great suggestion, Monique. That's great. That sounds good. Okay, 4, 4, 8, 70. If you think we should do this. I feel like we just had a brainstorming session. That's where we've landed. Committee meeting is closed.

Is this a good idea? 4487 on the text. Dono Ben and Megan on the hits. We had a good time and crush each over the weekend. Did something at the new stadium, the Tecaha. Good stadium. Oh, incredible. It was incredible.

Well, as you just said on the news, over 30,000 people just went along for the open day. It was open up to, you know, the vendors where the food vendors were there. There was music playing around the stadium. It was great. It was awesome. Amazing stadium. We're very jealous of it.

I don't know how many times I said it's what the city needs to people. And they said it's what the city needs. That's great. Yeah, it really is good. The location is crazy. Well, because obviously after the earthquakes, a lot of people, you know, with Christchurch, rebuilding, a lot of these. Spread out.

Yeah, it goes spread out from the central city. So it's great to have something to bring everyone back in. And it was all. It was humming. It was good. I felt guilty using the lavatories. Yeah. And it was so new.

You don't want to mark anything on the wall or you're like, oh, it's just, you know, like, it's amazing. Yeah, we were hosting a thing with 250 plasterers. And the amount of times someone said to me, I'll give you $1,000 to be the first streaker on the field. I said, that's not. We can't. We can't. Let's not desecrate the new stadium just yet.

You don't want to be that. Now, actually, speaking of the event over the weekend, it was speaking to someone, and they were from Morenzville, and they said they went to school with Jacinda Ardern, you know, like the same couple of years as her at school, and ended up being something that I hadn't thought about for a long time, maybe 20 years or so.

They ended up folk dancing at school with Justinda Ardern. I remember they had made you go. Oh, you've ever had to have to go on the school hall. Yeah. There was like a folk dancing sort of every week. Wasn't it? It was a weekly folk dance. It was like, yeah.

I don't know why. Like at no stage since I left school. Ever? I haven't thought about folk dancing since primary school. I hadn't thought about it all, but I was like, yeah. They all used to make you blibbing folk dance. And you could swap partners around. And so this guy...

You swing yourself around. And you're walking in the middle. You come back out. Then you come back in and swing around. I mean, kids today would be looking like, you know, with their cool TikTok dancers, it'll be like, oh my God. I know.

I know. I know. I hope there's no video evidence of us folk dancing because, you know, it's like when you watch the black and white footage of what they had to make them do at primary school in the war. Why? Why? But yeah, but I thought this could kick off Monday and Monday today, you know, because we often talk about what mundane thing have you seen a celebrity do? Well, I guess just in turn folk dancing. Folk dancing at primary school. Folk dancing. I wonder if we could reunite those two and they could have a... I don't think a head be that... All hurt. No one would be keen to phone dance again. He's got onto plastering. She went on to prime ministering. And no one folk dance again.

Where the folk life takes you. Okay, so 800 hits to the telephone number. We want to know the most mundane thing you've seen a celebrity do. Our boss, Matt, he witnessed rock star John Toogood, front man of Shiha, legendary New Zealand band. Well, he put his clock back for the winter and then at wintertime come leaves. And our boss, our boss witnessed international rock superstar John Toogood, leaf blowing, his leaves on his driveway. Man, he probably used to trash hotel rooms.

He might still, I don't know. But now he's sort of focused on leaf blowing, which I don't get me wrong, I enjoy leaf blowing, but it does feel like you're just shifting the problem from one location to another. Yeah, it does. It does.

Yeah. So, I mean, John, too good leaf blowing. You really don't get more mundane than that, do you? So that's how it works. So we'd love to hear from you. What was the biggest celebrity you saw doing the most mundane thing? The everyday thing you're like, oh, they're doing that, just like the rest of us. Troy, producer Troy, saw John Campbell filling up his car with petrol.

Yeah. In a suit? He's never not in a suit. He goes to the beach in a suit. Yeah, I did remember I was at a raffle, a school raffle, and I saw newsreader, Simon Dello win a meat raffle. Oh, wow. Tell you what, no matter how famous you are, you cannot wipe the smile or the face off a meat pack winner, can you? Oh, that's a great one.

his unfiltered, pure happiness. And he couldn't have been happier. I'm always left wondering, too, because it's never a great time to win a meat raffle. You know, whether you're out at a pub or you're at a school fair. If you're going home, great. You need to get straight into the refrigeration, don't you? So you're juggling that for the rest of the day.

But 0800, the hits the telephone number, the most mundane thing you've seen a celebrity do. Some fantastic calls coming through. Michael, happy new year. Happy New Year. Great to have you on. Who was it? What were they doing, Mike?

Judy Dent's shopping for cheese Dame Judy Dinch Wow For her own cheese I don't know what cheese she had I actually don't know what she bought in the end But yeah we were in a country fair In the UK

Wow She's Mless there she is And she and did Was anyone talking to her Or everyone just whispering I was whispering I was whispering The whole family just whispering

She's there I actually be a double cream brie Double cream brie Judy Dinch Yeah She would be Camember bear maybe Oh Cammer bear Yeah fine

Cammon beer. Well, that's good. And so no one bothered, no one bothered Dame Judy. No, she was after her own devices, quite happy. That's kind of cool in the way, no way. Yeah, just doing her thing, you know. Just a little by a cheese thing. Wow.

I thought she'd have cheese people. I thought she'd send them here. But anyway, that's really good, Michael. Great way to start off Monday and Monday today. Tracy, good morning. Good morning, Marina. How are you? Good.

Happy new year. Who was a celebrity you saw? Oh, my goodness. I saw Sir Alec Guinness. I saw Obi-1 Canobi. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was in England, so it's another UK story. I was 19, and that's gosh, quite a few years ago now.

But I went for a walk down this country lane and saw this man in the garden, and he stood up, and it was blinking to Alec Guinness. Blinken. Blinkenobi, one blinking canobe. Did you say anything like, you're my only hope or anything like that? No, he actually said hello. And then I was just stood there like, oh, my God, what do I say? and then I just said hello

and then I was like oh I gotta leave this guy to do his gardening and peace so I just like carried on with my walk Jesus elbows deep in the pit of sporums hey totally now producer Troy

May the fourth too May the fourth what a day for it what a day to get the Star Wars call I would have been so uncool I would have been like so what did you do you think Obi-1 knew that Anakin was gonna turn to the dark

like did you know that back in 1970 I've been so annoying he would have been like I don't know bro yeah it was a gig Yeah I'm just trying to fertilise the Yeah

But Troy is the self-proclaimed show nerd So this This would have been A meeting of a lifetime for you Troy I could have died happy After that moment Wow Wow

But then Obi-Wan Kenobi Was like Not only did he punish me Now he's died on me He's been now unconscious On the path outside You have to call an ambulance Tracy

That's a great Monday Monday Thank you so much For participating Awesome No worries Have a good day You too

Keep me coming through You're 4487 on the text The big celebrities you've seen Doing mundane things Funny side up John O'Benn and Megan On the hits Over the weekend too

We as we mentioned went to Takar Stadium And Christchurch, wonderful time Great stadium Couldn't rave about it anymore And we're in a room Full of 250 plasterers Hearty working people mate Big big hands

Big fingers Big you know big sort of Sausagey fingers Not like our soft you know, soft, moisturised radio hands. And a lot of these people, we did discover, had nicknames, you know, first walked into a room and someone said, have you met sausage? You've got to go meet sausage. There was a grubby.

Yeah. There was a naughty. There was two sponge bobs. Fingers, a couple of fingers. Yeah. Great nicknames. And then we ended up shouting out them because we were hosting the awards. And, yeah.

I was like, we man. Halfway through, I was like, to the people know. No, but they all knew that they had those nicknames, although one would just be from the day before. Yeah, draught. Yeah, she'd just been from the day before. And she was unsurprisingly tall. Yeah, yeah.

She said, you know, the worst thing was, she gave it to herself. She's like, I feel like a giraffe. And everyone was like, your name's draft. Wasn't they long for a nickname to stick? Yeah. And it was really cool. It was a really fun night at Christchurch's new stadium, Takah Stadium, amazing stadium, as we said earlier this morning a couple of times.

It's incredible. It's just everything brand new. It's just well done. Close to the city. Great. Love it. So after the event, we were sort of on the balcony looking over the field. And as I mentioned, too, 100 plasterers going, go on, get your clothes off and run across the field, I'll give you $1,000.

And that took a lot of strength to, you know, be responsible. Really did. There was no one there. It could have been done. It would have been caught on some security camera. Oh, absolutely. You want to be banned from a new stadium. First person to streak and get banned from the new stadium.

You don't want that. Double banger. And he was meant to be there working, too. I know. Like at a black tie event too. And he's true. But yeah, we were meeting all these wonderful people.

And I had, I had nicknames, I guess, in my head because everyone you met had a nickname. And so you go around talking to people and I was like one guy. Whiskey Bob? There was another one. Whiskey Bob.

Yeah. I was like, oh, hi. Well, someone I met. And I replayed, you know when you replay a conversation later? You're like,

oh, I said, must have gone, hi, I'm Benhouse things. And the guy replied back, as we shook hands, just went peachy.

And like that. And I was like, oh, good to meet you, Peachy. And then you can see him kind of look at me a bit, but didn't say anything because, you know, you often don't call people out straight away. And then I get into the habit now.

I'm trying to use people's names a bit more. So I keep calling him Peachy. I was like, that's his nickname Peachy. Where do you work, peachy? Yeah, good to see your peachy. He's like, that's stop, mate. He's like, I was saying peachy to you. How are you?

Oh, is he like, why do you keep calling me? He called me out of me. Like a cute little pet name. He's like, why's this guy keep calling me Peachy? But I had gone, Ben, how are you? And he'd gone, oh, I'm peachy. But, you know, like, that's not his nickname. He's just feeling peachy.

That's one nickname that wasn't a nickname. Yeah. When you've had a day, you've had a torrent of nicknames coming out. I can see how he ended up at peachy. He's peachy. He's peachy. He's definitely peachy down. Funny side up.

John O'Bin and Megan on the hits. Yeah, that's what we're doing, compiling the ultimate playlist. in just a wide spectrum of music. Purple Rain. Prince. My daughter was listening to that yesterday in a room. It's amazing what your hair coming out. You're like, oh, man, it's like,

they're a great song. I reckon it must be one of the greatest, probably the greatest song, written. Yeah. It's really cool. What an artist. What an artist. I didn't say anything like, good song, good song, good song.

Yeah. Really good. Living on a prayer. Yeah, it's been suggesting many, many times. Living on a prayer, living to be la Lolaoka. Eminem's come through Yeah, so we're putting together a playlist on High Heart Radio You can suggest the songs that you think every kid needs to know

Before they become an adult, 4487 on the text Now producer Troy, we're just going to bring you an friend of yours Recently had a baby Yeah And you thought it would be a heartwarming present And this is a really thoughtful present What did you do? Yeah, well me and him are both

The only people on earth that use YouTube music, not Spotify I don't even know they had a music option It's its own app And we're the only two that use it and pay for it Is it basically like all the Apple music and everything? It's exactly like Spotify Except you can basically save YouTube videos Into your playlist

They should get that out there a bit more I've never heard never heard of it But YouTube are doing okay though I think Yeah that on all right So I thought because we use the same service I'll create a playlist for him To play to his son as he grows up

That will kind of give him a bit more Of a cultured musical experience Now here's where I just want to come. Like the old-fashioned mixtape. You make a mix-tape back in the day. You're like, I mean you a tape. That's it. It was the ultimate gift, was it?

Now, I just want to jump in here, Troy. Your musical tastes, they are, you know. Eclectic. You know, so intellectual craft beer drinking, bearded, plaided, plaid, plaid shirt musicians. Like, I don't know half the pit. It was the horny mountain goats or something? Just the mountain goats. Oh, just the mystic.

Sorry, did I add the horny bit in there. The handwritten emails. The porcelain chaos. name all the bandseys into them. You're like, I don't know if this is a band or just something he's saying, you know. Well, some of the top artists in this playlist, Winston's Surf shirt. Oh, it's made up. Why are you doing this to a baby?

The baby has just arrived here. Young Gun, Silver Fox. There's actually I've got a bit of Young Gunn Silver Fox. That's playlist one. That's two things that don't go together, though. Oh, nice, though. Imagine being a baby. I listen to that.

I mean, it's a great, I like this. Like Silver Fox and Young Gun. Anyway, it doesn't work. Playlist two, this is, if you click on the next one, this is Victor Fantastic Orchestra. You've chosen Actually I wanted to take But you've chosen Never heard of these people

But they sound great I feel like a big background At a cafe too You know You can be playing some of these Yeah If you're one of the other two people On YouTube music

And you want their playlist Text playlist to 4487 I'll send you a lot We're already doing our own playlist Don't be your blimmon playlist out there mate One idea at a time for you Trying to get your numbers up on your playlist We're creating our own playlist

YouTube music paying me And to promote them It's a 4487 for our playlist If you want Actually I might start a playlist too If anyone wants to get my playlist As well See whose playlist

We've got it's more We started a playlist The playlist is what Every kids should listen to If you want to put some of your weird songs on there Then we'll talk about

You want to burden the children With this Well it is quite cool It's quite nice You've chosen great songs Troy You've got great taste of music You've got great taste of music

John O'Ben and Megan On the Hits Now I just Text 4487 if this has happened to you We were talking to our boss Matt Now he went to his Grandmother's funeral I think From memory

And as grandfather Thank you producer Troy If his grandmother's still living Great to have you here Apologies for the early death announcement If she's not here Rest in base Covered your bass

is nicely there. But so after the funeral, obviously, there's a wake. Yeah. And a lot of them are at the funeral home, aren't they generally? Sometimes you go back to someone's home, but you're right. Yeah, often they'll go, yeah. And they advertise it too when you think about it. In the classifieds.

Yeah, the funeral's going to be here and we'll be, you know, join us for afterwards for, you know. Mini kishas, mini pies, mini sausage rolls, those of things. They do love an asparagus roll there, don't they? Just a wide range of finger food. Yeah. Now, the funeral director came up to our boss and said, oh apologies I got rid of those two and he's like who did you kick out of a funeral

got rid of him what does that mean in your line of work RIPA I heard you I saw there a couple are about to go I thought I'd save them the trip back but no then she went on to say oh you had a couple of funeral crashes and they're widely known

amongst the funeral community that there's a group of people that go around to wakes and turn up and look forlorn and sad and say things like, he was a good man, and then just get free food. Because, I mean, you're not really, when you think about it, got a question anyone. Well, no one's counting heads at those things. People are recounting, remarry.

And it's not usually an invite thing, right? It's not like a wedding. Yeah, it's like an open invite, come along. If you knew the person you want to pay your respects, then come along. And you don't know who they knew. Exactly. And they're dead, so they can't tell you who they knew. By the way, I don't know him, he's here with the food.

It is probably the fail-proof scam, apart from the fact that these people are obviously turning up to a few too many. Maybe they could have taken it out of the district, gone to another region. But then you've got to add petrol costs into it, you know? Just to get a free sausage roll? Yeah. Is it really worth it? Has that happened to anyone else?

I don't know, 4, 4, 8, 7. That's a really, like, yeah, didn't know that this was the thing, but when you think about it, I guess... You go to a funeral. How many people have you never seen before? Oh, yeah, and you're right. You just don't know who the person knows. Oh yeah, I knew them, but, you know, we met such and such, or we did such such.

Or he wanted to keep it hidden from you. He was an alcoholic, and we were at AA together. So, yeah, great scam. Great scam. I mean, apart from the fact, you know, the morals. Yeah, morally, it's pretty low, but apart from that, it's... Paul Ford 7, has it happened to you? Have you had funeral crashes?

John O'Ben and Megan, on the hits. Tell you what, my daughter has... Well, I had to buy something for my daughter, and it is... We worked it out. It's the most expensive item of clothing that she's ever got. And it's a school uniform. It's a jersey for a school uniform. And they are taking the...

Yeah, they are. Yeah. So you've got no other option? I know, this is the thing. Yeah, and this is what I want to have a little bit of a moan about. Every parent listening right now will know if kids go to a school with uniforms. It's something you've got to get. They've got to have the school uniforms.

And so my daughter had lost her jersey. They're pretty good. I think teenage boys can be a bit of a shambles. The amount of stuff When you come home How have you got another person's socks on At one point in the day Did this transaction take place?

Yeah You haven't even taking off shoes today It's wild Yeah But so my daughters have been pretty good I mean today they lost a pair of shoes Someone took someone else's shoes home Oh that's on the ride

Yeah I understand that happens And that ended up being a swap back But her jersey's been gone for a couple of weeks And it's getting cold And she's been like I'm cold in my way Well, you better find that jersey then. Has she gone to lost property?

Yeah, and I kept saying, you've got to go to lost property. And it's only open at certain times of the day, and she'd forget or whatever. Like, mate, remember when you're cold? You need to go to lost property because I knew it'd be expensive. I didn't know how expensive it was. I don't think I have ever handed in a piece of lost property to lost property at school, did you? Well, yeah, well, she went along, and it wasn't there. It wasn't there.

Never is. And so now she's like, can I buy a jersey friend? She went along and bought it. And I was like, yeah, I'll pay you back for this. $120, $120. $120. We're a jersey. And that's, I mean, you're talking, I mean, it's not a designer thing.

I haven't put a label on at the school label. Yeah, and I'm like, wow. And I was like, geez. I reckon this is what we do. We start off a bloody knockoff school merch and we drive around in a van outside the schools. And we're like, who wants the knock off merch? Come in the van. Good, except for the van part.

That feels a bit weird. I don't know how I should transport all the merch. Like, you can't do it in the boot of a car. You need a big back end there, Ben. And we go around and we sell discount. Half price. I mean, it's so expensive. Half-priced school uniforms.

But you've got no other option, unless we do the van thing. The van thing's a great. I reckon there's a much, it's been a huge market for it. Or you just go, you start up a website, like those shady little ones that I buy,

you know, my $14 dollar Rolex is off. You could do that. Honestly, you'd kill it. You would kill it. It's almost extortioned the prices they're running here. I know, that's what I thought.

But yeah, no other choice as a parent. We're all worried about, well, worse, and pack-safe having a, you know, a duopoly on the supermarket market. School uniforms. That's what really did.

They're having a laugh. They're definitely having a laugh as well. So if you're a parent listening right now, feel your pain. And also we'll do some market research. Four-487. Would you be interested in our mobile van knockoff merch idea? Oh, you get a truck if that'll make you feel better? Yeah, it would be nice.

I don't want to be turning up outside a school in a van. If it's the mode of transport that is becoming the hurdle in this, I'll change to a truck. We're doing something already slightly a bit off and now we turn up in a van. Funny side up Dono Ben and Megan On the hits And Tony Lyle Really funny comedian

He has got some shows During the Comedy Festival This week actually It's called crowd work comedy Keir Carnival We spoke to him earlier in the show And after Well as he was leaving

He mentioned something That he thinks Or we think he might be The only one that's doing And so we do this every now Then Am I the only one And I'm not the only one?

Yeah You think you might be unique, quirky, slightly embarrassed to open up publicly about something that you either think about or do in the comfort of your own company. Now this is something that Tony does in regards to windscreen wipers

on the road. Well, I get worried when the rain starts and it's sprinkling but it's not super hard. I get worried that people will judge me if I put my window wipers on too early. Like, pussy. Kind of, yeah. If I start,

they'd be like, look at that guy. I can't even see. just look out through the mist and so I'll let it get quiet misty you know quite rainy and then I'll go yeah this is no one's gonna judge me and I'll look around and if I see someone else I'll be oh he did it too and then I'll jump on board so you're never you're never the leader when it comes to putting on your wife's very much a follow my wife on the passenger seat she's off in the leader she'll reach right over and slat that yeah I was funny that yeah yeah yeah clean the windshield you made because I'd rather like die than look like a pussy in front of people I don't know in the motorway no one's thinking you're a pussy for putting

your wipers on I just think they are I think you're wrong and I think they are I look at people and I'm like look at this guy. If you're in a three-car nose to tell on the motorway and the police are looking at all the car nage they're like least he didn't have his wipers on. Yeah and then they'll be like nice work brother and they'll give me a firm handshake and be like yeah you didn't you didn't flam those. So it feels wildly dangerous to not put your window wipers on. He sees it as a sign of weakness you know if you are the first to lead with window wipers.

To be honest I don't put that much thought into turning on the window wipers. on the window wipers. And I feel like you're going to be passing by those people anyway. Even if someone else was like, look at him. Look at him. Yeah. He'd rather crash with pride than wipe with shame. So, 0,800 the hits.

Is Tony the only person who's ashamed to be the first motorist to flick on the window wipers? I think so. I don't think there'll be a single person that would do that. Like, I feel like you and me, producer Troy, we're all happy to do it. Like, that's what they're there for. Yeah. To get rid of the rain. And I don't feel any judgment if I are the only one.

No. It's like he's putting his window wipers on. He couldn't sit. Okay. And if there is any judgment, he said it himself, there's strangers that you don't know and you'll never see again. Yeah. Oh, it's four, four, eight, seven.

I reckon we won't get a single person that does this. Melissa, happy new year to you. Happy New Year. You do this. Very, very similar. Not because I don't want to be the first, but because the water on my windscreen annoys me. Sorry, the windscreen wipers annoy me more than the water does.

I see you hyper, you get zoned in on the, Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Also, there's... I don't need it. That sound as well, too, when there is no water as well, can be kind of... You know, like as they kind of...

Yeah, it can be annoying. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, great, great, cool, Melissa. Thank you very much. Someone's texting. This is Isaac. Sorry, I can't talk right now. I'm busy, but I definitely do the same thing with the wipers for the same reason.

And also, the speed of the wipers matters as well. You don't want it running too fast. Gidee, Kaya, welcome. Hi. You are never the first person to turn on your window wipers out on the roads. No, no, you can't be. You actually can't be. And I take you a step further with watching the car in front of me

and making sure mine aren't going faster. Oh, you're worried about the speed of the wipers too. Oh, yeah. What do you think of portrays if you're out there with frantic wipers go inside to side? Oh, I feel like you suck at driving. You look like an individual. But it's like a safety. I feel like it's fine, but hey, each of their own.

Is it the roading version of accident and you're having your cell phone light on? Your torch light on? Yeah, exactly. Okay, all right. Oh, your wipers are on, okay, there's loads of people. Jackson, are you with comedian Tony Lyle? You don't, you'll never be the first person to turn on the window wipers.

No, I was trying to leave it to the very, very last second. Like, very last second if I have to. What, so where visibility is at an all-time low? No, like, oh, yeah, I guess a little bit. But you're like, sort of put him on. sit there and I'll judge people going past and give them a bit of grief for the news on.

But at some point the tide turns, at some point you're like, okay, 99% of the people have their window wipers on now, they're now judging me for not having them going. Yeah, no, that'll be the point where I'll be like, I'll ask my time.

I'll put them on. Put them on. Oh, well, thank you so much for your calls and texts. There we go, it's the thing. Yeah, like, text. Now I'm going to get inside my head about it. Yeah.

And the speed of the wipers, too, is going to really affect me. I hadn't given it much thought until that. And now it's all, we've planted the seat. Oh, geez. John O'Ben and Megan, on the hits. After the wonderful pun that goes around on May the 4th, after May the Force be with you from Star Wars. Geez, the beginning of May, really powerful pun period in the calendar, isn't it?

Because you've got, you know, it's going to be May as well. Yeah. Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister. She had a lot to do with the May the 4th pun, apparently. That song you just play, that's in San Kay. Yeah. Yeah. Jedi's in one of the movies.

George Lucas got them in to be Jedi's, all their scenes got cut. Now, if you're wondering, who on earth is this nerd? I can tell myself. It seems to say Star Wars, they just pop up. Producer Troy,

who's quite possibly. They are fun factors, you know, in the scene actually got cut. Producer Troy, probably the world's biggest Star Wars fan, you would say? I'd be in the top 1%.

Yeah, really. Right up there as well. Now, we thought we might open up the phone lines. Oh, 800 of the hit. It's 448-7. Can you out Star Wars, Troy? Because you know some niche stuff.

I mean, that instinct one, that was just off the top of your dome. I said, do you want to Google anything before we go on air? He's like, it's all up here, mate, and he tapped the top of his cranium. Yeah, it's all there. You are a huge fan. You are just saying before, though, Margaret Thatcher, they had to, she's British Prime Minister. She got, like, she became Prime Minister on May the 4th,

and they used that as the headline, May the 4th be with you as the newspaper part, and that's where it embraces this whole May the 4th day and so she had some Star Wars. then tomorrow at Revenge of the Fifth Oh, is that the Revenge of the Sith? Yeah, I didn't know that it was in a follow-on day. I don't think it is.

You've had your one day, mate. You can't give you a second one. Get a whole week, mate. Okay, what's the three powerful Star Wars facts that would sort of set the bar of who we want to compete against you? The line, I Am Your Father, was never spoken on set. They dubbed it later to keep the secret on set. Oh, really?

The actor, Luke Skywalker, none of them knew it until they watched. the movie. Oh, really? So he just went, no. He went, he went, Obi-Wong killed your father, and then he reacted to that line, but he never said,

I am your father on the set. So Luke Skywalker was reacting to a line that wasn't even said. That's a good fact. That's a really good fact. Oh, wow. Star Wars Facts, 4487 on the text. This is interesting.

Okay, there's one, because there's a lot of movies now of Star Wars. What would be your favorite one? Like, what's the best, in your opinion? Because there's the old ones, and then there was that, you know, Obviously the new ones. They all kind of fit in this new sort of order.

I think objectively the best is Empire Strikes Back. But my favourite's the third Revenge of the Sith. Because that's the first one I saw in cinemas. Gotcha. Special place in my heart. Which one is Tim Morrison in? He is in Attack of the Clones. This is his first one.

And the third one. He always claims to be the first Maldian space. That's his big claim to fame. That's a good claim to fame too. First Moldian space. So, oh, 800 of this. Okay, why don't we do it like a game of Tate? tennis.

Troy does a Star Wars fact, then you give your Star Wars factor. We can see how long we go until they run out of Star Wars facts. Okay, 4487 on the text. If you want to join in, the fun with the Star Wars game on May the Fourth, it is the hits. Do you actually like May the Fourth? Fourth be with you? Is it a good day for you, people? It's a good reminder.

You know, why we celebrate and why we love this incredible franchise. Now, you know a lot of crazy facts about Star Wars. just another one off the top of your head a total of 12 limbs have been chopped off in all of the movies Oh wow Is on set accidents No no on screen on screen

Lightsaber limb chopping Yeah Right Was that not enough for you Samuel Jackson That was a terrible reaction to that great fan No it was good Of course they're gonna lose limbs

Yeah That's the fact that I know there's 12 Was it as purple Samuel O'Daxons Was his lightsaber purple was a different colour, wasn't it? Yes, he asked for a purple one. He said, I'll only do this movie if you give me a light saber,

a cool lightsaber colour. And he got his way because he's Samuel Jackson. Lucas said he wasn't going to do it, right? Yeah, no, he wasn't keen on the scrub. I thought it was just like, you know, kiddie nonsense. And he sold him with the purple. Yeah, there we go. Now, Anthony, it's good to have you on.

Yeah, do you remember Jama? Jama, hey, he was big fat, eh? He was big fat, eh, on Empire Strikes Back. Oh, Jabba? Jabba. Jabber the Hut. Yeah, he was a character, wasn't he? He was mean.

He was mean, he was mean. Okay, so we're going to play a game of Star Wars trivia. Now, I think this is going to be one for the books. Okay, Anthony, you take it away with your first Star Wars fact. Oh, how are we? I'm having me out. I'm trying to wake up by moose. Sorry.

It's okay. Are you waking up your partner and going, hey, good morning. Do you know any Star Wars facts? Did I was the dad of Darth Vader. How's that? Say that again? He's not saying it again, Mike. You take his fact.

It's a fact. It's not true. Jedi was the son. Son. There we go. I got, Troy, you come back with your fact. Take it away. Do you know it was 12 limbs that were lost and some?

I was. I'm sorry, that's your fact. Wedge Antilles, who's one of the pilots in the original Star Wars movie, he's one of the X-wing fighter pilots. He's the uncle of Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequels. Oh! Not a bad fact. What do you got to fling back there, Anthony?

What are you going to... He couldn't do it. The force was too strong with this one. Oh, I feel bad. You're out-nurted, I'm Troy. He was awesome. Good on him for getting involved. Funny side up.

Jono Ben and Megan on the hits.