Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan complains to the council

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

On today’s show: Jono bought a knockoff jacket for his son, but the cheap purchase has backfired... We found out Megan had a HUGE weekend, including cage dancing Megan has entered her "complaints" era and wrote a letter to the council over a traffic fine Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast, where Megan, you just dipped out of the actual radio show because you'll hear it on the podcast. You're in the middle of trying to sort out a parking or bus lane or some sort of fine.

Essential vehicle. Okay, they've shut down a whole part of the road and made it an essential vehicle thing. And so I drove through it because they had nowhere else to go. They'd closed all the bloody roads in Auckland City. She claims the council coerced her into the essential vehicle area. I was like you tricked me, I couldn't go left, I couldn't go right, I could only go that way and now you're like oh you can't drive there. Yeah I get it. The council they pull in 13 million, this is I know yours is not a bus lane lane but 13 million a year in revenue just from bus lane Fine

Because it's a hundred and fifty bucks like that's a lot for like I didn't want to be there I wouldn't have driven there unless I had to one bus lanes pooling in 12 grand a week Not a bad payday You can paint a bus lane outside your house. Just about to say. And then the account number is your account number. Uh oh. Take photos of the car. Send them letters.

You'll be like, mate, the bus lane, this is you. You get under the car, like, 100 bucks. Not 150 like the other council ones. You're coming in at 100 each time. Oh, that's reasonable. I guess, yeah, I shouldn't be driving down that weird painted road. Suburban road. But was there a bus lane there? Your mum, Ray Ray, she paints lines on the road doesn't she? She does, yellow lines. As soon as you

said painting on the road I was like don't tell my mum. She also lives in a street where buses wouldn't go but she'd probably still paint a bus lane. Oh well good luck getting off that. Thanks. Many texts of people who have got off after writing... I'm pretty sure... To whom it may concern. There was a news article yesterday about someone who was taking them to court for the same area. So maybe I'll just jump on that lawsuit.

Oh, you jump on that court case. Yeah. Civil. Well, it's a civil case. Civil case, yeah. Hey, well there you go. Good luck out there. Thanks.

Have you ever done that thing where you get so many parking tickets and you leave them all on the dashboard? Or like, sorry, you pay for a series of parking tickets and you keep them all on your dashboard. When you used to get the little printout thing. The paper things, that probably wouldn't work nowadays. That's what someone used to do when they used to work at the creative department. Yeah, same theory. You'd pay for parking outside, you'd get a little ticket to see what time it is and they'd

just have multiple ones. They'd either hide a little bit underneath so you couldn't see the date, and it just had the right time, or they just have too many. It would bamboozle the parking. Well, that was their theory. I don't think it worked. Very messy dashboard. They're like, oh, this one says 2.04, this one says, whoa.

It won't now, because the car just drives by and scans you. Yeah, it doesn't work anymore. But back in the day, that was a little loophole that may or may not have worked. Enjoy the podcast. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. I'm gonna confess something here. I love buying knockoff products online. Okay? Megan, she put me onto a website and I love it. I'm not gonna name the website for fear of incriminating me.

Yeah. Now I've purchased a few things off this particular website you know bargain basement prices for your top end brands. Yeah your $20 Rolex. Yeah that broke. The Rolex didn't last that long. I love how you took it to someone to try and get it fixed and they're like you know that this is not real. It, it was like the three kings jeweler as well, as like, oh sorry mate, this is not real. He's like, yeah, you don't look like a Rolex guy. But anyway, Oscar my son, he's grown out of his

winter jacket, so he's like, oh I need another jacket. Do you know how expensive the old puffer jackets are? Yeah. Puffer jacket industry's having a laugh. Some of them are real, really warm, that's the thing, they're lined and all sorts of. I understand, some designs gone into it being right. And so we went really warm, that's the thing, they're lined and all sorts of. I understand, some design's gone into it, being you're right.

And so we went to the mall and I was like, mate, I'm gonna take you to a better place. So came home, hopped on the dark web, went incognito on the internet, sold a few kidneys, trafficked some humans, and ended up on a website that sold knockoff puffer jackets, okay? Now I got this puffer jacket for $57. Wow! Landed landed right two days later boom it's here put it on so Oscar's wearing

it round and then all of a sudden you know about a day into it I was like it smells like a really wet dog following us around everywhere like in the car I'm like have you put on deodorant mate? Like you know how you start smelling stuff and it smelled like I hadn't dried my clothes properly. That sort of musty sort of damp smell. You know three or four days into it after being followed around by this odour I finally pinned it on the jacket. Now I don't want to throw wild accusations at the manufacturers but I think they've shaved dogs. I think they've shaved dogs.

I think they've shaved dogs. Does it say what it's got? Like is it the NA? Is it like goose down? No, no gooses were shaved in the process of this jacket. I can rest assured. Like I'm not an idiot. I understand I've bought a cheaper inferior product. But somewhere out there, there's a naked St Bernard wandering the streets and it's here, as in my son's jacket. So every time he goes out in the rain you're like, you need a shower. I don't know if I should wear it or I should walk it, I don't know. So you know, you don't always have a win in that world. That's probably a good thing.

Highs and lows. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. Good morning, it is 6.06, you're on The Hats Breakfast, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Good morning, it is 6.06. You're on The Hits breakfast. That's Beyonce. Irreplaceable.

This is all I think of when I hear this song. It was like a South African version of the song, right? In the closet. That's my stuff. Yes. If I bought it. Say, don't touch. You wouldn't mess with her.

Yeah, a lot of passion behind that one. Actually, someone else you wouldn't mess with this morning. Is you, Megan, because you've taken it on board to write a letter to the council. I have, but it... You've entered a new era. Welcome, welcome. Now, we...

Welcome to the club. Maybe since John has been like, I've done it, I've done it. Yeah, he's done it. He's done it before. We've mocked you for this, and I'm gonna mock you for it, but in some ways, I do hear your point. Now explain your situation. So I think this was in the news yesterday, this particular part of Auckland where I got a fine. Okay, Bama. Oh, sorry. Sorry, no, carry on.

So they've shut down the city to make this train thing, right? This is gonna be... And when you drive through the city, most people don't. It's too hard, roads are shut and it changes all the time. Now they've created an essential vehicle area and that's fine but they, as I drove up to an intersection, I'm driving up, the left is blocked, shut. To the left, to the left. To the left, to the left. It's blocked. Yeah. And to the right. To the left, to the left. It's blocked. OK.

It's shut. To the right. So you've got to go to the right, which Beyonce wasn't singing about. No. To the right, there's one of those aggressive signs that's like, no, right turn. So I'm like, well, where am I going to go?

There's already someone in the middle of the intersection doing a U-turn, not safe. So I was like okay I'm just gonna scoot up to this area and find a way to turn around and get out. It's the essential vehicles area but I've been trapped into going there. Do you know what mate? There's nowhere else to go. I fight for the people. If anyone will fight for a bus lane fine it be me, but I've switched off all these Details she's given us. I know they're important to you, but no one else But straight was the area I'm not supposed to go you mean funnel across into that thing, but you're 150 bucks! No, it's a ring! No, I get it, I get it. But you know what they're going to do? They're going to go,

well, all we've got is a photo of you in a bus lane, babe. The evidence is pretty clear, isn't it? They've got three photos up the top. Is that your car? It is my car. I was tricked into going there. Where did you want me to go? And it's $150. I was like, excuse me, it's climate. Do you know they put in $13 million a year. Exactly. In bus, just bus lane fines alone.

What do they call it? Revenue gathering or something. Get Wayne Brown on the line. Okay, he's not going to join us this month. Hey Wayne Brown, I know it's 9 past 6 in the morning mate, but we need to get you on the line apparently. Megan wants to get out of a bus lane ticket. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. The hats. I know it's 9 past 6 in the morning mate, but we need to get you on the line apparently. Megan wants to get out of a bus lane ticket.

Megan's in her letter writing to the council era. That's the least boring of all the Taylor Swift's eras as well, her complaining era. That's what she does after the tour, goes back to her admin. Everybody knows that in Auckland they're doing that train in the city and they have just like blocked up the city. It's been going for ages and so I was driving, I never do this, but I drove through the city I was trying to get to a different gym and I got caught in an intersection where I couldn't go to the left because it was blocked. They'd blocked it off because they were doing something. To the right it had a sign that was like, no right turn. And then ahead of me it's

a new vehicle, essential vehicle area. Oh right. So you're not supposed to go in that road. Are you an essential vehicle? No. Did you end up in the essential vehicle area? Yes, but where was I going to go? I couldn't go to the left, I couldn't go to the right. This is where they shut you down in Kaur They're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, never travel to that area of the city again. Now I hope you cc'd in hypocrisy at govt.nz because you know I can remember four weeks ago me getting hauled over the coals making a complaint to the council about some light phasing. You didn't get a $150 fine for being trapped into an area. Welcome to the club Karen.

You just were complaining about the traffic lights. Welcome to the club. You're like I don't like the way the traffic lights are changing. Karen and Kevin over here. You know who I feel sorry for? I feel sorry for Karen's with legitimate problems. It's a great friend's name, Karen. That is a legitimate problem.

Oh, my problem is that we all care about. Yeah. I'm with you, John. I got trapped. I'm like, yeah. Yeah. OK, I'm actually going to call Wayne Brown on my way home. On my way to Pilates, I'll call Wayne Brown.

You're going to call Wayne Brown? Let's call him. We'll call him now, mate. Te Kona Hira or Tāmaki Makaurau. Watch me absolutely back down. I'll see if you can go through to Wayne Brown. Please select from one of the following options for building, planning and premises licensing. Press one.

That'll do. For building inspection. Press one. That'll do. Oh, well. For building inspection. Oh, I just want a worldwide. That'll do. Your call may be recorded for verification, training, and quality purposes.

Ditto, Ditto, we're recording as well. About yourself to enable us to process your requests. Oh, God. To be honest, I didn't care too much about it when you first started talking about it, and now I'm hearing less and less the more this message goes on. Privacy policy on the Auckland Council. Tell you what, no one wants to talk to them. I know, they make it too hard. about it when you first started talking to me and now I'm hearing less and less the more this message goes on.

So you know what, no one wants you to talk to them. I know they make it too hard. Did you know that you can book building inspection documents? Visit www.austinapol.com. Write a new letter. Put me through to Wade. Write a new letter about this Megan. John O'Bannon Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. So we're just on the phone with the council trying to get Megan off her $150. Kia Ora Auckland Transport, you're speaking with EMS, how can I help? Kia Ora, EMS, it's John O'Benham, Megan here from the HITS radio station, how are ya? Hi, good thank you, how are you today? Listen, we have a very unhappy Megan Pappas, she keeps banging on about a bus lane fine she's got. It's not a bus lane fine, it's an essential vehicle area. EMS?

Okay, let's have a look here. Do you have the notice number? Listen, I'm going to make the call to take this offline. You guys can sort this out off here. You hold there Ems, hold there mate. Okay, Megan will continue to try and sort out her fine, but you wanted to know, has anyone actually got off a fine by writing in a letter? Because letters, they sometimes get results, don't they?

I think when some people think it's worth a shot, if you can go through all the admin, I'll write you a letter. It's like people who enter competitions on packets and things, like biscuit packets and stuff. I imagine there'd be very few numbers that actually do it. Please text or call back later. OK. All right. Thank you. Sorry, that was the council still,

but someone's just text in saying that they got out of a parking ticket. They provided a birth certificate. I went into active labor. Oh, Jim's as many coins into the meter as I was allowed. I took a taxi to hospital, sent messages to the husband to pick up the car on the way. He came straight from work to the hospital

and then got off it. Maybe she could pretend that she was birthing a child as well. Megan's gone out of the studio now. She's in the middle of the radio show. Surely this admin could have it. Now she's actually gone on the final. I do feel a lot of responsibility for this though because I called the council. What I didn't think about was we're going to one team member Let's eat your part of the show Now we're floundering now Can I write a complaint to the council about how we're floundering Shiva you got off a ticket from writing in a letter to whom? It may concern yes, I did what happened. Well. I was an active laborer

We're just reading out your text I was an active laborer, and I left work and I decided I'd better not drive because active labour and so I went straight to the hospital to see my husband but it was our first child so he completely panicked and just left the car there and it was there, it was there all night and he was like yeah there was a ticket so I just sent him the birth certificate and said well you know drive safe and they were like fair enough and let me off the hook. Megan's just come back in off the phone called Megan you could say you're in the labour. Oh yeah we'll go on to chat GPT and jam me up a birth certificate.

Where did you leave it with the lovely council lady? I went through all of the like palaver of confirming my details and she said this has to be done online. Oh, so we don't get a result? No. You have sent a letter in too, so now you've finally sent her a letter. Jesus, ladies. I'm like real persistent.

Nuisance. If I like really persist, maybe they'll be like, just get rid of her. Yeah, okay. Sheba, go and have a wonderful day. We appreciate you listening to the show. You too. Thank you. Bye. There we go. Some people have written, to whom it may concern. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now, of course, it was school holidays over the last couple of weeks.

The kids, well, most of the kids back, the private school kids, I think they've got another week or something, right? But most of the kids back at school, my kids at the moment, and over the school holidays, as you mentioned John, a lot of parenting is trying to keep them off devices for a lot of time. But then sometimes you're like, get on the devices. More time on the devices. Well my daughter had a friend over, Sienna had a daughter, had a friend over, she's in her teenage years now, and my wife was like, get off your device. They were on their phones doing something and my wife was like, they need to get off

their devices, go do something. So they went outside for a bit and then they came back inside about half an hour and an hour later and said, can we borrow a laptop? We want to do a PowerPoint presentation. We're not going to go and check out TikTok or anything. We're just going to go on and make a PowerPoint presentation. You mean like setting a pyramid scheme? I don't know. And my wife was like, my wife said, look to me, look, you know, like, of course, you know, TikTok or anything, we're just going to go on and make a PowerPoint presentation. You mean like setting a pyramid scheme?

I don't know. And my wife was like, my wife looked at me like, you know, like, of course, you know, it's a great idea. Looked at me like, see what happens when you take them off the devices. They come up with ideas of making... To get on a device. Yeah, it was a device, but they were using it in a, you know, she was like, this is a good way of using a device. I'm like, okay. All right. And so they went away. All right, change the device, please. Whatever you say.

They went away for half an hour, another 45 minutes, working away on their PowerPoint. I'm like, oh, at least they're doing something. They're doing something. They're having fun. And then they made us sit down. They're like, can you guys sit down? And I'm like, oh, uh-uh. Have you thought about investing in Bitcoin? And it did feel like a pyramid scheme. Didn't they set us down? And they're like, hey. And so they had a little PowerPoint, they put it on the TV as well. And they-

You know, sometimes when you go on a holiday, they're like, yeah, can we just have an hour of your time? It felt like a timeshare presentation. Like I was gonna walk out of there with a timeshare. It was. You get a free parasailing experience. Yeah, and they pitched why then, because my daughter's friend was staying the night,

why they should go to Rainbow's end the next day. And they had the whole thing about how it would create lifelong memories and it got into all of these things. Their friendship would, the bond would be stronger. How much of it was written by AI Dandle? Well, probably quite a lot of it. They had pictures and everything like that, and then it got. It's hard to say no to a PowerPoint presentation.

That's what I thought, yeah. So much effort goes into it, and all the animations, the graphics, they're designed to confuse and bamboozle. And I was like, what sort of monster am I gonna be at the end if I go no to this I'm like well there. So at the end. You are such a pushover. At the end I was like you know we had to you have tickets for Rambouzine the next day which is a great great place they've got a lot of fun but I'm like this is costing there this this they if

they were on the advice to get TikTok it wouldn't cost me 150 on tickets for two people and then plus food and all that sort of anyway they had a great time at Rainbow's end. So did you do a powerpoint presentation on why they should spend more time on devices? Well I just looked at my wife and like yeah oh alright get them off their device you say. It's a win-win for them they got to go to Rainbow's end and prove to you that they need to be on their devices at all times. Exactly, so there we go. That's where the fun begins at Rainbow's end and it ends when Ben is the swiper speed boss card. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The podcast. The Hats. Megan, you kept a bit of a secret from us. You didn't tell us you had a big night out over the weekends. Yeah, I went out at the weekend with my friend who's been with my friend since I was 11. She's here now but she refuses to talk on the radio. Just yell out hi. There we go.

She exists. I have friends. And we were like, let's go out. We didn't even go out till nine and we stayed out till like 3 a.m. That is... We did really well. Great effort, proud of you.

Great work, great work. Proud of you, 45 years old to be doing that. Excuse me. You still gotta be... Speak for yourself. She got ID, she wanted to say that, I'm gonna say it before you humble brag. Jackie, did I get ID?

Yeah, I just said you did. I didn't believe it. I'm like, we went through this, we. Jackie, did I get IDs? Yeah, I just said you did. I can't believe it. We went through this. We did this weeks ago. Who looks the youngest? You look the youngest. I know, but you keep on saying you don't get IDs. No, what are you doing?

I believe that now. I believe that now. The old duck's still got a bit of life in her. That's literally what I said to my husband. And I got hit on a couple of times. Hey Jackie, please confirm. But this isn't the most important part. We find of the story. Megan goes, I danced in a cage.

She went into a gay nightclub and danced inside the sex cage. No one said it was a sex cage. Oh yeah, I added that. Just a cage. No there was four of us. It was me and Jackie and then two guys. And one of the guys took his shirt off so he was topless the other guy was like take your jacket off I'm just wearing like a little singlet take

your jacket off and so I was like oh okay took it off and then he's holding my jacket and me and the topless guy are dancing in the cage. So where's the cage located is it sort of above the dance floor? Yeah. So you're like the entertainment are ya? Kind of. Everyone's like, everyone's in that so they're all having a fun time. Yeah.

They're having a good time. Yeah. Who's the 60 year old in the cage? I've just met Jackie and Jackie and he's like, cool. But everyone's in that state, they're all having a good time. Yeah. Those are 60 year olds in the cage. I've just made an ID, thank you. Yelling through the bars, Oi! I just got ID three times! I literally was like, don't do anything too energetic, cause you'll hurt your knee and

you can't be like, ooh, in the cage, you know? All my bad. How do you exit the cage? I imagine timing's critical when you want to exit a dance cage. There's a trap door on the floor. That's it. Oh, so you can pop through. It just disappears.

So you have to like open up the trap door and climb down. Oh, so that's quite high. Yeah. That's quite high. Wow. I went just tempting, I can see. Yeah. Why you want to go there?

Oh my god. This is very on brand for like me 20 years ago. Oh, good on ya. That's great to hear, you gotta let your hair out every now and again. Yeah the old duck does have life in it. How many minutes in the cage you reckon? Probably longer than what we thought, might have been half an hour. Half an hour?

Oh wow, best move from memory you pulled in the cage. I did a little body roll but that was when I was like not too much girl, a little tweak in your back. Are you using the handles for support? Yeah of course. For lumbar support? Freestyle in the cage. Oh that's cool. I hope they don't have video inside the nightclub. Can you remind me of when I used to go McDonald's and get locked inside Grimace? You know the playground? Oh yeah that my god. Was it Grimace? Yeah, I think it was. Or was it the hamburger?

There was a hamburger one that used to have that little circle that couldn't fit more than like two kids around it. But then there was a Grimace you'd go inside and rock too. Maybe that's where they sold all the McDonald's playgrounds to, the snorkel. You just danced inside the... Well hey, well done. Good on you for getting in the cage. Thank you. I do have a sore knee today so. That's probably why.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We were talking yesterday about apps, Jono had to hurriedly sign up for an app at the store to get discount on $7 socks. Glassens app, 50% off, although Megan likes to point out just on your first purchase. First purchase yeah. Got those socks for $3.50.

You saved that $3.50 socks for $3.50. You saved that $3.50, yeah. $3.50, but then I looked at my phone, jeez my phone is constipated with apps. There are just apps littered all through it. And I think it's because I share the cloud with the kids, you know, so they download all sorts of wild stuff. But then you're like, you get apps that you only ever use once like shop back what is shop back? Why do I need shop back? When you go shopping you earn money through it oh you tell me about it but then I haven't even signed into it it's like what country are you from? I haven't even been there. Yeah there's some helpful apps around and there's other ones you're right that you just have to sign up to once

and you know that this is new phone for a while. I do like to keep summer's memories. I don't know why. Oh my god. Once. I went to Disneyland once and you know my daughter and I would sometimes look at the app and go, oh the Peter Pan ride's 45 minutes now because it gives you the wait times. And then we're like, why are we torturing ourselves?

We're not there. But it's, you know, I just feel like I can't delete it. Yeah. You know, because you've got the app for the times and stuff. I don't have enough space to like linger on the Disneyland app. I love it. The New York subway app. Oh, there we go. Oh, the Bronx one's broken down. Yeah, you know cuz you got the app for their times and so I don't have enough space to like linger on the Disney subway app The Bronx ones broken down, okay, you know

What is the greatest app in your life we want to open this 4487 on the TXO 800 the hits For the six o'clock club 60 and you know it What do you think is the one that you use? Consistently WhatsApp I reckon change the game. What are you think is the one that you use consistently? WhatsApp I reckon changed the game. Free calling basically. Yeah WhatsApp, yeah it's a pretty good one. Yeah right, that'd be one I'd use. Megan there's one that used to be called Stowcard, now it's changed its name, where you can basically load all your carry-around cards in your wallet, all your loyalty cards, where you basically just put them into this app right? Yeah so you just you can scan them, a lot of them you can just search for them and they will

come up but yeah so you can free up your wallet and just put them all in this one app so every time I'd go to like Woolworths you know your everyday rewards card it's just in there. It's a smart idea. It's so good. Crickinfo is another one. If you're into Crickin' mate that's a Crackin' one. All the updated test scores around the cricket around the world. What are your insights on cricket? Quite large, I was looking at my apps, I was like yeah I look at that one a lot. During cricket season, that's a good one guys.

Gotta load that one now, let's get cricket both spiking. Okay I went over the app that changed your life. I thought of a good one that you have. It's like a get an excuse app. So someone's like, oh, hey, do you want to come to Grandad's barbecue? And you're like, no. And then the app's always listening. And it pings.

And it comes up with a legitimate excuse in the moment. OK. So you just look at it. I'll look at your phone. You're like, I'll check what's on that date. Line dancing. A line dancing tournament. So sorry, can't make that. I thought it'd be a rock solid app. John O'Bannon Meaghan. I'll check what's on that date. Line dancing. A line dancing tournament.

So sorry, can't make that. I thought it would be a rock solid app. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Talking about the best app that you needed to have. 4487 on the text. Jono, you were saying about an excuses app.

It would be nice to have someone's texture because you were like, oh, I can't go to this granddad's thing because I'm line dancing. And the text has come through. Love the app, the excuses app, until somebody asks for a demo of your line dancing, but then you'd have the excuse for that You know if I go to line dancing, why can't I do line dancing now? And they give you a score of pulled a hammy or so yeah, I can't I can't compete before a competition Yeah, risk of injury It would really dig you into a hole itself. You were mentioning a good one that came through on the TX4487, Gas B. Megan.

Gas B is a great app. It'll just tell you the cheapest petrol station in your area. That's also led by users. So you go there and you can confirm the price. So it's always pretty up to date. We could start Gaslight where it seems like it is. So you get there and you're like, hey, this is double the price. Yeah.

So Gaslight, you lied to me again. Which is Gaslight. Made me believe that the pitles. That'll be our one. Angela, good morning. How are you? I'm good, thank you and you? Yeah, well we're doing well, Angela.

We haven't spoken in ages. How's life? I know. Life's been good? Pretty good. Well, still working, so I've not won the lotto yet. You haven't won the lotto. Well, what's the app that we all need to have? What do you recommend? WazeMap. WazeMap. So W-A-Z-E?

Yes. Okay. And what does this do? So it gives like accurate timing that you're going to arrive at your place. And then if there's an accident or a car stops on a hot shot on the shoulder, it tells you if there's a pothole in the road. Oh, potholes. Wow. But yeah, it's pretty good.

I think you interact with other users as well. Oh, so it's like a nerdy, a Google Maps. Absolutely. And it's so accurate it's down to a T. You raised a good point too Megan before, she's like Google Apps always sends me off on a weird route. Yeah I've literally ended up in the water, well not in the water but like against the water. It's like go this way. Yeah. But sometimes it's like, no, I know better. You're not in your fatties, you feel. I always feel like a VT.

Yeah, me too. It's almost like a little challenge, isn't it? It shouldn't be like Fast and the Furious. When you shave a minute off you're like, oh. It feels good. That's good stuff. That is really good stuff. I got Waze Maps. Thank you. Okay, that's a good one.

Thank you so much, Angela. You're welcome. Have a good stuff. Okay, waste maps. Thank you. Okay, that's a good one. Thank you so much Angela. You're welcome. Have a good day. John O'Bian and Megan, the podcast, The Hats. Saying yesterday, Bessie, spreading your son, spreading vicious rumours and lies about you at daycare. We're in the why era and the telling yarns era. So when you take your kid to daycare, you're not supposed to like, if they're not feeling very well, you're not supposed to like dose them up in Pamol and then drop them off. It's a no-no. Even to like, you're like, I'll just get them

through as long as the Pamol lasts and then you go pick them up. You're not supposed to do that. Okay cool, don't drug kids. Slow that one down. So, like, my son, I don't know why but he loves to chat, he loves to tell yarns, but he got to school and he was like, oh yeah, I was sick this morning so my dad gave me some medicine. And they're like, oh, oh really? And I went to pick him up and they said, oh, he was sick today, but they said that you

gave him some medicine. Oh, you're like, bastard, you little knuck. No, no he calls medicine like his vitamin gummies and he likes them so much he'll be like I need medicine but he means he just wants like his little vitamin gummies. So you haven't been dicing him up for a month? So I'm like trying to explain this to them like floundering and they're like sure mate. So you've never done that? Sure, never done that.

Okay alright, never done that. Never. What would you say if we had your son on the line right now? He's a liar. He's just spinning yards now. I came home and the babysitter the other day was like, oh, he really wanted chocolate. Like he was kicking off after dinner, he really wanted some chocolate.

And he said that dad always gives him chocolate after dinner. I was like, no. The problem is when kids talk you're assuming there's an element of truth to it because they're just regurgitating life's experiences. Yeah and they're not very good at knowing when they should speak and when not to speak. They can't read a room. No. They're dropping you in it all the time right? It's really at the point now where you have to be careful what you say in front of them because they will literally just regurgitate it to anyone and tell them

and it might not even be accurate, they might. So when is your kid dropped you in it? That's what we'd like to know this morning. I remember Poppy, my daughter, and they go, tell you what kids, you're in a powerful position, you can say some stuff and really get adults in trouble.

And she went through a stage there, where every time I said no to her having something, she was calling that child abuse. And so she went, this is child abuse to me. I'm like, mate, we need to Google what child abuse. We need to beat what child abuse. It's like when you're in public and your kid yells help me! You're like, don't say that. Like they can set you up in the super bike. Oh yeah they do. He's following me. There's Maddie, there's Lickens too. And I'm like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not my father. Get your hands off me.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Talking about when the kids stitched you up, your son, Basti, hey. He's telling everyone at daycare that we're dosing him up on Pamel before we're dropping him off.

Where's he getting that from? The sedatives. We're saying as medicine, but it's just, you know, those vitamin gummies. They do. They stitch you up. I remember when I was planning something for my wife, it was like an anniversary, I was planning that.

The kids were quite little and for some reason I told them about the secret and I said, we can't tell mum. And they started going, who can we tell? Because that's all they wanted to do. And we had a new babysitter coming around and they're like, can we tell the babysitter? I'm like, I guess so. Yeah, babysitter's not going gonna be pretty indifferent about the news. And when she arrived she walked straight in the door, never met her before, they went

dad's got a secret about you. In front of my wife as well I was like no I don't have a secret about the babysitter. My wife's gonna be like what secret do you have about the babysitter? Oh my god I would have given anything to see Ben flowering in that moment. And I couldn't say to Amanda oh it's about our anniversary and I was everyone's looking at me like, what's the secret about the babysitter? Even the babysitter's like, what? I think this is my last day. So last time Ben dropped their babysitter home afterwards. It really dropped me in it, that's for sure.

Okay, so when the kids did drop you in it, Penny's with us on our 800 hits. What happened? Okay, so my daughter was five at the time, and she went to school on my birthday and told everyone it was my birthday, which was cool. And then it came to show day, so we went to school, had my little baby with me, and one of the mums of a boy who was not in my daughter's class came up to me and said, jeez, you look good for 56. I'm guessing you went 36. Oh, you look good for 56. I was 36. Oh, my gosh!

Lovely compliments! I've seen the bus drivers do the same thing! You'd be spreading filthy rumours that you're in your 50s! Well, at least they were blown away, you know? Yeah, they were like, wow, you're a real boss. Yeah, it's a magic potion. Mind you, you're too a child. anyone over the age of 20 looks you know. Yeah it's old right for a kid.

Yeah. Hey good on you, thank you for your call Penny, appreciate it. Thanks. Let's get Kylie on Morena, how are ya? Hi, how's it going? We're doing well Kylie. Ah the kids, they dropped you in it? Yes, absolutely dropped me in it.

What happened? Um, well I had dropped, I was going to drop our little one off at daycare. She was about three. And we walked in and there were many kids in there because it was a bit earlier. And she just announced to everyone that Dad had slept in the caravan last night. And Dad had slept in the caravan? Oh, absolutely. Because he was in trouble?

He was in trouble. She just announced that he had slept in there and walked on her merry little way. Geez you've got a lot of stuff going on there today. Sirens and everything. I know, I don't even know where they are. I think you're in the middle of a police chase right now Kylie. I know, I don't even know where they are. I think you're in the middle of a police chase right now Kylie. They're not behind you. Maybe we should let you go. Yeah well Kylie thank you for sharing that story.

Seems like the wrong time for you to share that.