Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan got wayyy to competitive and made kids upset...

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

On today’s show:  Can Jono pull of this type of outfit? We find out that Gen Z producer Grace has specific text tones for us! Funniest excuses NOT to come to work Megan got wayyy to competitive and made kids upset... We chat to the actress who played Dorothy in the Wicked movie - What was Jonathan Bailey like?  Ben's dog completely took over a photoshoot! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome along. No, Megan, right now, you'll hear her for a bit. She'll a wee cameo on today's show. She popped in, which is nice way to pop in, you know. Just check up on how the show's going and then pop back up.

This is why she doesn't take time off because you get little digs in. You know, nice a bit of her to pop in, you know. Nice a bit of her to come in, don't. It's coming to work. No, but she really needs to go home. She even sat in the corner and just thinking. her head back and she was just like, shutting her eyes in the middle of the show.

I was like, yeah, you can't make it to. Definitely go home. Yeah, one of the troops had to go home. But, you know, another thing you'll do, too, does this chalk up as one of the days on your rolling? You both are competing over who's had the most annual leave. Yeah. Does this clock, what did this clock up is?

Half day? Oh, yeah, it's definitely, yeah. She'll probably try and say, oh, it worked that day, but, yeah. She might be so. She's four and a half days off? Yeah, well, yeah, the other words, she started the year with a few days off, didn't she? Yeah, and she's had a cup.

But this one, definitely. definitely seems like take days off. Yeah, no, she deserves it. She deserves it. So,

yeah, you will hear parts of her through the podcast. She'll pop in, pop out. That's good. Good of her to do that. Yeah,

again, she'll listen to this. This is why I come back to work too early after being sick. Because last night she texts, saying, I'm feeling a lot better. I was surprised. And I'll be in tomorrow. And then memes,

people in the group chat, firing back memes. You're a hero. You're an absolute sergeant. What is it? Someone wrote. I don't know. What was the,

yeah. What did it? Producer, you sent a meme back. What was your meme? I felt you probably weren't entirely happy with the meme you sent her. What was it when Megan said she was coming back? Oh, it was just the movie poster for Super Trooper.

A Super Trooper? Yeah, you're a trooper. Yeah. I've got to thought more about that. No, that's all right. It's on the spot. But yeah, she came back too soon, too soon, you know. But that's right.

But then once you put Super Trooper, she had to come back. She did. You put pressure on her. One of them, Matt, Matt, our boss, Photoshop did the Pooper Trooper. That's right. I was trying to find what the change. Yeah, that's right. That was funny.

So that was all. So then, you know, once memes start flying around, you've got an obligation to return. You do. So, yeah, that's on the podcast today. And also, Ben, now we're going to kick things off with a pending divorce. Yeah, yeah, where things are a rocky relationship. Things are not good at home, guys. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. On the internet, you know, you get bombarded with products, don't you, on your Instagram account or whatever. And they kind of, it's a really good tactic because they slowly just chip, chip, chip away. You click on it once. Still available. They get emails from places, Tuga. We saw you look and you, look it.

Who thought about this? You know, it's still available. Sometimes they send you like, oh, we saw you're looking. He's a 10% discount and you're like, okay, I'm in. You got me. They're really just a smart place. Smart place. Do you know the past couple of days I've been sick?

I've worked so much online. Oh no. Just because I was scrolling on Instagram and I was like, I just had nothing else to do. That stuff's just going to turn it. Where are you getting delivered to? To work? I actually got a text being like, it's out for delivery.

I was like, oh my God, my house at home. You need to get a delivery here. I know, but then we got told up, well, I got told off. Too many packages were coming. Using company resources to... Personal packages. Can I send them to your house, Ben? Yeah, he's sending it in my house, that's fine.

That all smokescreeners costume packages, too. I have to hide the costumes in that camera. I'll be like, no, it's another one for Megan. It looks like an inflatable costume. Ah, Megan's really getting into it. But there was this, like the Army Super Bowl. store. Okay, and I've been there before.

I've had some great purchases from the Army surplus store. Jacket. Right. 30 bucks lasted me years. So I was like, you know what? I noticed the old camo pants are back in nowadays. Yeah, they are quite trendy. Camouflage pants.

The cargo pocket. Yeah, see, but I'm not paying crazy top dollar for those. I'm going to the Army surplus store. 39 bucks. 39 bucks. I don't know how many blood stains or, you know, enemies, blood is on. on the pants but I'll take it for 39 bucks these were British Army pants too

Oh wait What do you mean? They come from the army Well it's the army surplus store yeah Kind of wraps it all up in the name Is it like second hand? No I think they're just the ones that I don't think the second hands

Yeah maybe the British were like We're going into war Let's order all the pants and then like We're not going to war Let's sell all the pants It's like school uniform I guess for them I need pants I need two tops and a hat

That covers my face So I can't play they can't do playtime They don't have a hat Megan. Sit inside. So they might need the pants actually now, given the situation what's happening overseas. But I got the pants.

Firstly, too tight around the waist. I could have told you that just by looking at them. You want like a baggy fit? Those are like army fit. And then I put them, I squeeze what I could onto my legs. Just halfway up my thighs. And I was like, I'm too old for chemo.

I'm too old for, like, grow up, dress like an adult I need to start dressing like an adult. Not a 17 year old skateboarder. Me, I'm 44. That's right. Like pull yourself together. I'm 41 and I wear

You know what I get that sad category though, that's the thing. And camo, I looked sad. I looked sad. I always say you've got to wear the camo pants. Don't let the camo pants wear you. I know, well they were wearing me. No, I was just going to say that, no, with you wearing. No, I know, and that's the thing.

Like I'm not, and I reckon out in public, the market, people will think I'm just a war veteran who has flashbacks from now. I'm not wearing a fashion burden of it. So yeah, no one down, it was a sad, humbling day to know that camo's passed me by, so I gave them to

my son Oscar. He looks great. He's in the zone, he's in the demo. Oh. So yeah. End of the camo chaper, guys. Cammo's done. Why are you wearing your dad? Wouldn't break it today.

He's dressed like an adult. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. that. Okay, I'm feeling much better. Good. Yeah, six day old chicken soup for the soul and you had that and it wasn't so good. You came into work yesterday. You really tried your best. We had to send you home. Yeah, I kind of don't really remember a lot of what we were talking about yesterday. Really? Was it? Yeah. You were zoned in. You were...

Struggle straight. I'm glad you're feeling better. Do you think now, can I ask you? Because obviously you've had some serious side effects from this chicken soup. Did you get to the point where so much stuff had fallen out of you that you're like, am I now releasing important parts of my body? You're like, how is more stuff coming? Yes. And when your body's still trying to expel, then there's nothing to expel? Oh, well.

Yeah, well, I'm glad sometimes that feels really good. Like, I could not be more empty if I tried, cleanse. It's a good flush out. Yeah, you're going to cleanse. Will you go back to chicken soup? We'll find out. No, not in the short term. Did you eat crackers and things last night?

Yeah, I had, was on. Brett. The thing is you just want carbs. You just want, I ate like a plain bowel bun with nothing on it. Tender. It's still bit tender. Well, it's lovely to have you back, Megan. Do you know we learnt something? Can we segue into this Grace thing? Yeah, come on here, producer Grace. Now, you

left yesterday just after the 8 o'clock news, Megan. Oh, what have you learned about Grace? Grace informed us that we have special designated text tones on her phone. Did you know this? No. So, yeah, see what category. So, Johno, myself, producer Troy, boss, Matt and

Harriet and stuff, we all fall into the work category. Yeah, I'll text grace. Now this is the this is the text noise from producer grace. So it's from work, they get a noise. Okay. So this is this is what, that's what happens. You got mail. So we fall under the work category. Do I fall under that too? I actually don't know.

I want you text maids. And then if you're a fun person that Grace wants to correspond with outside of work, then you have a much more party style sort of one, which we can't obviously demonstrate because none of us unless Megan. Oh no, Megan, you got it. You're able. She's in the work category, mate.

Yeah. Wow. Are we, are we, are we, sorry? Are we, are we frolegs? Would you say friends or are we just pure colleagues? Oh, this is awkward. Yeah, well, no, because I feel like to be frolligs, you got, like, you got to hang out. You got to hang out.

You got to be freely work, but then you don't hang out. No, so I'd say, no. Are you hanging out with Grace in the weekend? No, well, it'd be weird. It would be weird. It would be weird. Yeah, I feel like a lot older than. Yeah.

Yeah. What would you do if I turn up to your flat hanging out with you and your 23-year-old boyfriend? I'd tell you to go away. Yeah, you would. It would look weird. It would be an unusual city. This is my one for my friends. For Nokia?

That sounds fun. And then for my partner, I specifically have this one. Britney, Jack. Shout out, Jack. You know, producer Troy said he received a text from Grace asking about a work-related situation. Troy was texting back. As Troy was texting back, she silenced her notification. She does that to me all the time.

Do you want to know or not? I want to know later. Like, it's something I want to think about now. I just need to get out of my man. Oh, okay. New Zealand Aerald Dalycos Gen Z is savage, man. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Huff weather right around the country.

A lot of people evacuated up north, flooding up in the northern part of New Zealand, and it's sort of moving its way around the country over the weekend. Yeah, heading to the Tasman. just going back to places that don't need no, you're right. You don't need it again. Do you want to negotiate with Mother Nature?

Just say, give them a breather, eh? It'd be nice. Give them a little breathing. Well, speaking of the rain, after the show yesterday, we learned, a manager in the office came in and was like, oh, rain reasons. And we're like, what is rain reasons? And she's like, look out into the office.

It was a wasteland, a desolate wasteland out in the office. She said, on rainy days, everyone comes up with a reason to work from home. Now, yeah, so a lot of people have legitimate reasons, particularly up north at the moment. They can't get to work. But around around the city, maybe it's used as a convenient excuse. Didn't even know this was an option in the realm of sick days.

So what she's done is she's collated the funniest reasons that people have messaged to her saying they can't come into the office on a rainy day. And she sometimes just opens up that document and reflects and smiles. There's some beauties. There was one that said, my breaks have been bad and I don't want to test them in the rain. Okay.

I mean, as a manager, you can't argue that either. It's a great excuse. Yeah, because if anything happens, you're going to feel pretty bad. Yeah. My alarm didn't go off this morning on the rain day conveniently. Yeah, maybe the rain was too loud.

You couldn't hear your alarm. But then you're awake now. So you can still come in. Yeah. Just work a bit later at the other end of the day. There was one that she said, I said, oh, I had a dream you told me I could work from home. And so I stayed at home.

And was that at 3pm? Is that not a real conversation? That's a good one. And now get in. That's in the same category of Megan when she thinks in her head she's replied to emails, but hasn't replied to emails. I do that with texts and everything. I replied to that.

You're like, have you? In my head, I have, yeah. So, yeah, we want to know your best excuse. It doesn't necessarily have to be for the run. You could be a manager and you could have people. or like bombarding you with excuses like that or maybe it's one you've used and you've gone this one works every time.

Yeah. 0,800 that hits the telephone number. You can text 24487 is a good. I was just trying to think, who have we, we just kind of have to come in for this job, don't you? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, even you battle through yesterday and you shouldn't have been here but you came on in, you know? She's got trauma of being away from the radio show. So she comes in when you really, you don't need to, you know? I like leaving my seat.

But this is the problem. We have created a bit of an environment, I think, in general, across the workforce. No one believes anyone. No. If you're having a day off. You could be having a heart transplant. Oh, yeah, old mate. I'm Gary.

A-I. A-I. Look at that photo. A-I. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Rain reasons.

Apparently that's the thing in the workplace where if it's raining, people come up with some really elaborate storylines not to work in the office. Do you know what you could just say now is I've run out of fuel That would work a treat Yeah My petrol station doesn't have any Pay days not till you know next week

Yeah Because COVID was kind of that for a little bit as well right People would kind of go Oh someone's sitting there Oh stay home Stay home Yeah Yeah

A sniffle See Ben's one of those people Who doesn't believe anyone With every day off He's like Oh yeah Yeah but then when I come in He's like

You're making me feel depressed Just looking at you. Definitely genuinely you needed the day off. I'll allow that one, Megan. But he also is still keeping your track of the days off this year as well. You're still winning. You'll lead you up. With your free Disney crews.

Oh, I don't know that. Best excuses you've either given or heard for getting out of work. Morning to you. Jeremy, happy new year. Happy New Year. We're going to have you on, buddy. Was it you giving the excuse or you heard it? I use it quite a lot.

I have to admit. You make sure everyone knows that you have children and then tell them that your daughter's sick. They can't say no to that. The kids are good. Often they are sick, but also it is a good excuse. How often are you telling everyone you've got children? We never did it as a new manager.

Oh, good I've got children. Rough night with the kids. No, they're unwell, yeah. Yeah, no one's ever going to question that. Nice one. Jeremy, we're on the draw for a trip to Austin, Texas. Okay, thanks to your New Zealand. Thank you very much.

Show that. Let's get Tina on. Hi, Hamilton. We're good, Tina. What excuse you're using all you've heard? It's one of the guys from work, so one day he rang in, say that he was going to be late because he didn't have any dry pants. He only had two pairs, and he put them on air rather than dry in the dryer. Oh, so they didn't dry. I mean, you don't want to go to work with wet pants, do you?

You're right. Yeah. Just like, how are you doing your job if you can't even sort out your pants? That is brilliant. That's a great excuse. You're in the jaw for it. I made him some out of incontinent sheets. So when he got to work, he had some incontinent sheet camps because you could use his backup.

That's great, Tina. And Riley, best excuse for getting out of work. I used to work at a tradies store, and one of the boys called him because he ripped his banjo. Oh, okay. We're not talking about the musical instrument there. imagine too. Oh! Yeah, we don't need to probably delve too deep into it.

Did he know not telling you guys that information was an option? I know. That's what I thought. In the morning. I don't know, Megan. Yeah. But there's no follow-up question. We all know.

We all know exactly. It's like, take the rest of the year off. Wow. Take it off. Yeah, that is very funny. Great. We used to work with someone who would, on the day of the anniversary of their Pets death.

Sorry, that's a... Must have broken the string on theirs. It's legit what I thought she was talking about. She would call in and go, oh, it's the anniversary of my pets. My cat got run over by a car three years ago. On the day of, though. It is sad. But is that a genuine excuse?

I don't know. Sometimes you have to think, you know, if you haven't to come up with these creative plot lines, is the job really fair? John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Look Easter's coming up It's not that far away

And it was a little Pre-Easter celebration My son Met up with one of his friends And their mum did like a little Easter egg hunt It was very cool And then she'd got these little

Do you know one year I hid the Easter eggs In the exhaust pipe of the car Couldn't find them in there And I forgot they were in there The next morning They're shooting out They don't find

in the exhaust pipe. At least they don't like suck it up. You would have been in trouble. But I went to their house and they'd got like these little ceramic eggs that you can paint. So after they'd like done the hunt, they were painting the ceramic eggs. They were all sitting around a table, parents and kids, right?

And then the kids got distracted. They went off to play. They're eating the rest of eggs. Like away from the table. So all us parents are just like sitting around the table chatting with the leftover crafts. Decrative eggs, okay. And I was like, I'm going to paint me an egg because it seems like fun. Well, this is a competition situation where best egg wins, you know, some sort of...

No, but in my mind it was. Yeah, I was going to say, you would have turned it into a competition. Sometimes these kids need to learn a lesson, don't they? Yeah. So I don't know if this is on the nose, but everyone, it was just all sitting there. So I pulled over all the crafts to me. Right. And while all the parents having adult conversation, I'm sitting there painting one of the eggs.

and there was like attachments and ears and sparkles. I was hitting it hard. This is the Sistine Chapel of Decorative Easter eggs. Yeah. To the point where I could hear the conversation going on. And in my mind, I'm like, maybe you should join in a little bit. But I was concentrating. I was dialed in.

Locked in. Or by yourself too, were you? Well, I was at the table with the parents. But not. But no, they weren't participating. He's a strange mum over there. I know. I'd pulled all the crafts over to me.

So I'd put like sparkles. this creation, this egg, clearly won. It was like epic. Not a competition. So how old were the kids? They're five years old. Surely they get some sort of... Well, like four and five.

Yeah, like surely they get some sort of competition because they're four or five. You know, surely that bumps up what they do. Why? What's only four or five? They have crafts all the time. They should be better at it. I don't do it that often. So I'd made this beautiful creation right and I'd used all the sparkles.

I'd hit it hard with the add-ons. Then the kids decide to come back to the table. and that's when they're like where's all the sparkles where's all the paint gone? We were only halfway through our works and you've used them all. I was like

oh there's no more sparkles I did use them all and they were like where's the ears and I was like well I use the last couple I'm having to explain to them did they turn on you? The kids were really upset and so then all the parents had to be like

oh it's okay I'm like oh my God I've used all the kids but you love but look how good this one This is what you could aspire to. I was like, Bastie, you can have this one. Look how amazing it is. It's all first place. First place is over here.

Who thinks it's first place? Also, you should focus. Don't leave the table until you're done. And then you move on to the next activity. Another valuable life lesson. Mommy's going to eat it. Mommy's going to use it. They're four and five years old.

You lied in an Easter egg coloring in competition. He lied about his age. I was a new world voucher. I was a kid at the time. At least I wasn't entering the egg in an actual competition. I just ticked the box What box? It was age groups

I think it was like I think at the time I was between 7 and 11 and there was an under 7 I was like that drawing looks more of an under 7 category so I'll just take the only box Did it take out the

It took it out I think I want some milky bars or something I had to get my sister to go I didn't claim my prize I'm surprised you didn't walk in with your hands up and be like arrest me I feel guilty I think many years later

we rang back the New World of Master just to apologize Yeah I don't know I won't work here It's fine. Those milky bars didn't taste good. Tasted of guilt.

John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Very shortly we're going to be chatting to the lady who played Dorothy and the Wicked movie, the movie that's just been out with Ari and the Grande. She's going to join us. That's a huge claim to fame, and we wanted to know, 4487 or 800 the hits. What's your claim to fame? Every caller that gets on the air this morning goes in the draw to go to Austin, Texas. Yeah, I guess the smaller, the better really for us, you're a small-town local legend.

maybe you ate the bakery out of pies. You know, one lunchtime. That's a lot of pies to eat an entire bakery out of pies. Maybe that was you though. That would be impressive, right? We'd take that. 0800. The telephone number, what would be your claim to fame, Megan?

I guess the time I was mentioned on Alan. I wasn't on Alan, like physically, but she talked about... Did she bully you? No. This was before. Yeah, this is before... Pre-bullying. Loss of shine a little bit, eh?

Yeah, this is Peak Ellen. Also, this was 2020, so they were also probably struggling for content. Pretty cool though. Ellen, like, yeah, the show that in America played and talked about you, right? Why?

Because I made an online shopping shoe hack where you make a little cut out of yourself. You print a picture of your full body and then you just put it up to the screen as you're looking at shoes. Oh, yeah. Champagne, you, that's on brand. Yeah. Okay, and this is you on Ellen.

Megan Poppuss printed out a mini version of herself and then holds it above each style of her shoes that she's considering on buying. I guess this way she gets a somewhat realistic preview of what they'll look like on her. Are you trolling me? Brain Twitch?

Yeah. Wow. Ellen's sounding a lot more masculine. Well, no, she was playing. They were playing a video. Oh, that was a video and so Ellen was reacting to your video. And then she said at the end, yeah, right Twitch, R-R-P Twitch. Yeah.

Yeah. Can we put that clip online? Is that all right? Yeah, I can, yeah. Why are you so tentative about putting that clip online? It's just from me in another radio station. Yeah, that's fine. We know you've got ex-boyfriends.

Yeah, so what's your claim to fame? That's a pretty good claim to fame, Megan. Yeah. And what about you, Ben? Well, for me, it's like no matter what I do, you know, like if I've got a TV show, radio show this thing as well, some videos go right on social media. Or anyone, you know, when you mentioned the Novice ad, that's the people are like, oh, you wrote the Novice answer. Yeah. Yeah, so, oh, no.

Yeah, we're going, Shosh your crack and then me at the end go, oh, novice, when you find your vision, lag. She's the Or Novos guy. That's just the dough of the details with, you know. Yeah, this is a blah blah blah, blah, you know. Get ready. Ben's coming soon. You're ready. Here we go.

When you find your vision lacking novice whispers with you're cracking. Show us your crack. Is that just? Ah, novice. Is that a chorus of you singing that? It's me. Guys, that's me. Is that a chorus of you singing that?

No, me and another guy who wrote the ad with. And I think there's three of us in there as well. I'm probably me more towards the back. I'm probably more than the shell of the group. That is, that's like iconic. But people are like, oh wow. It's a great claim to fame. Yeah, okay, so 800 hits.

What is your claim to fame? Say it. Oh, no. Oh, Novus. Yeah, it's like the catcher. Say it again. No. Can you say it again?

No. Say it one more time. Oh, Novice. Oh, my God. Oh, novis guy. That one wasn't quite as good guys. That was, yeah. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The hits We are talking about your claim to fame This morning We got Dorothy from the movie Wicked Coming up very shortly Rebecca Hi

How's it Your claim to fame Bex What was it And you caught With your bare hands Yep Yep There was three of us

And one grabbed the head And one grabbed the leg each And then we were off Carrying an emu back Why? I hope there's a reason why Yeah So that's important

Oh, that's good to know. I was like, this doesn't sound like it. It sounds like you're going to get bullied online if you put this up. But yeah, okay, that makes sense. You're doing a good thing. Yeah, so he got out looking for some girlfriends, and obviously he's running down the road, causing a bit of a nuisance and a bit of a hazard.

So we got sent out, and I had to Google how to catch an MU because it's not going to get quite a bit. Yeah. They're quite scary. They're big birds, long beak, you know, that sort of thing as well, you know? I'm imagining someone had to drive alongside it, and you were to jump onto its back. Oh, I don't know if our health and safety would be too happy if I did that.

Could you have sedated it? No, unfortunately, we don't. So I managed to catch it by hand and wrangle us and then post it on Facebook. You know, anyone lost an emu, and then that went viral, and all of a sudden, RNZ's calling me for an interview because everyone just thought it was hilarious that an emu got caught and found the owners, and the emu's name was Eric. Oh wow. That's pretty cool.

We've got a text come through from Wiley Coyote. He wants to know your tips as well. He's been struggling to catch a bird for a while. Is that video still floating about? Can we chuck it on our socials through for us to see? There wasn't a video. There was just photos of it. Old school stuff.

Love it, hey. Any wrangling. That's pretty cool. We're going to chuck you in the drawer for Austin, Texas. Thanks to year, New Zealand. Good luck. Awesome. Thank you.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's. I catch up with someone now who played the iconic role of Doren Dorothy in the Wicked movies. She's a British actress and dancer. Her name is Bethany Weaver. She joins us.

Crazy. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It was crazy. My life kind of changed overnight. So yeah, it was a bit of a whirlwind. So tell us about yourself. Yeah, it was tornado.

That's a good way to describe it. Tell us about yourself. Yeah, like obviously you're actor as well, but you're a choreographer, dancer, Pilates, right, as well? Yeah. So I'm a choreographer in London, and then I run my own fitness company called Pilates. and Dance UK. So it's kind of, I live like a double life. So I run my company in the daytime. And then when I'm doing a show, I kind of either go and do that in the evening or if I'm

traveling, I'll end up kind of usually teaching a class before a flight. And then I go and do the show and then I land and then I usually go straight back to work. I'm a little bit crazy. But I feel like it's all the process. I noticed you didn't put any sleep in that little routine. Yeah. How did you audition for Wicked? How did that come about? Oh my gosh.

I mean, it was really last minute. I was basically, I just finished up teaching at my studio. And my agent phoned me out of hours, which she never usually does. And she was like, I have this audition that's tomorrow morning. Can you go? And I was like, yeah, I have the morning off. Like, sure, why not? I was like, what's it for, by the way?

And she was like, oh, it's for Dorothy and the Wicked Movies. And I was like, wow. I was like, I'm not going to get that. But I'm just going to go along with me what happens. That's the attitude. Did you interact with the cast? Were you teaching them the bird dog and other Pilates moves off camera? You've referenced the bird dog.

Well done. Do you do Pilates? No, our cameras are called bird dogs in the studio. I don't know what the reference is to. That's a really famous, like, classical Pilates moves. Oh, wow. Yeah, the bird dog. Well done.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much. I don't scream Pilates, but I tell you what. What was it like when you first saw yourself on the big screen? I think back in 2024, when the teaser trailer was dropped at the Super Bowl, which blew my English mind for one, knowing that like Beyonce had seen my ankles and like Paisa. I was like, this is amazing.

My life is asleep. Beyonce knows your ankles. I made it If you ever run into her You've definitely got to lift your leg up and go Remember these? Remember these? So the shop that you first saw of me

Walking into the wizard's lair And you know I'm with the lion The Tin Man, the Scarecrow And Little Toto is kind of amongst us That was my first ever day On a movie set in my whole career So it's a day that I'll honestly never forget I almost want to bottle up the feeling

and, you know, either keep it for myself or sell it because it was just real. You didn't really see too much of your face as far. Did you know that was going to be part of it or, you know, going into it? Yes, I did. So I've watched the, naturally being a musical theatre kid, I've watched the musical in London. And actually, the way it's done in the West End, you don't see Dorothy's face at all. And to be honest, you don't even see her blue gingham dress. you just see her silhouette of her

throwing the water over the witch. So I stepped into the role kind of assuming that they wouldn't show my face. Is there any word of a Wizard of Oz remake? Have they shoulder tapped you for Dorothy? Yeah. And there's now the time to tell us. No exclusive.

Yeah, exactly. You're like, I'm not giving it to you guys. Well, I haven't had kind of any word or taps on the shoulders as of yet, but. hang out with, you know, Ariana and Cynthia at lunch, you're all eating the casserole. I assume they provide casserole for lunch. It's a bit heavie. You love a bit of casserole.

Yeah, we do. It is quite heavy for lunch. I was really lucky in the sense that not only day I get through the scenes with them, but what was, I really appreciated, you know, this is my entrance into film. I've not had any experience of this scale. So I got the opportunity to talk to them quite a lot actually And you know they made me feel really comfortable and really Welcomed you know they didn't make me feel

Ostracized even though you know Dorothy does a lot of damage Even without I mean she's a wonderful character and you know she's a pillar of hope and joy But my goodness that girl Yeah she causes more grief in the tornado doesn't she over there that's for sure Hey, well, thank you so much for your time and sharing some amazing stories of what must be a very surreal experience.

So, love it to meet you. And all the best, I can't wait to see what you do next. Yes, thank you. Nice to meet you guys. Have a lovely day. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. Now, this week you had to, why you had photos come out this week, didn't you, Megan?

I did, yeah. I did, yeah. Yeah, in Women's Day. She said, you know, her and Andrew, both working parents out there, and she said it's important for us to... She's rolling her eyes as Jolly's talking right now. Can I finish what I'm saying?

I honestly didn't think you guys would even see that. Well, I read the little passage that said, we wanted to show the kids what it's like to live out your dream. And, you know, you connect dots. The dream is in this studio right here with us too, Ben. I just sort of like radio in general, you know? Live out your dream. You work your way up to the top.

Live out your dream. You hear? So this is a dream scenario situation right now. I mean, in theory it was and then they say don't meet your heroes. Heroes, what I appreciated too, what the photo, and you did talk about it, how hard it was to wrangle.

You got young kids and a dog as well. And a dog. I didn't even notice the dog poking his head through your husband's crotch. He was like, he was like the least hard to wrangle. He was like a whack-a-mole sort of thing. It was. It's both his little head through. You're going, remember me, guys?

You're like, not now, mate. Not now, mate. The kids are here now. We're not. Used to be number one, Leo, right? Yeah. I know you probably, are you against leashes on kids? Yeah. Yeah, but hey, there's a time and a place, isn't there? You could have got to put some leashes on those children under their t-shirts and just held them.

Yeah, I definitely thought about it. Well, because, yeah, what, I appreciate, I had to get some photos as well. My daughters, you know, do a bit of acting, social media stuff as well. So then they grow up fast, so they need to get shots, you know, some photos as well. And I was like, oh, maybe I'll get one for me as well, for my work stuff as well. Okay, you got a glamour shot. We got some, well, I don't know if it's glamorous. Like body shots or whatever?

You got like a... Was it one of those fancy... They're more like standards. No, it's like a fancy actor headshot. Oh no, no. More sort of just nice in the background smiling. Kind of like we get at the hits as well. Did you...

Did you... Did you... Did you... A bit more fancy than you? No. Were you seductively lying down? No, seductively going on. No.

But there was ones of me, the ones of my daughters and then we got ones together because we're doing stuff together. But the dog, it was for some reason. the dog thought people around at our place this is his time to shine everyone's here main character energy from the dog and every time we'd go to sit down for a photo whatever it is or stand there dog was in there oh mate and the lady was you know a lovely lady was taking the photo she's oh get one with the dog and like great and then be like the dog doesn't know that it's time to go

away he just keep coming back and like more photos guys more attention oh yeah he looked great the photos with the dogs all look great's but did you have to pay for those photos with the dogs Well, I guess we choose the photos now and pay by the, you know, by the shot as well. And you can't like, it's not like a human where you're like, okay, we'll get some photos with you and now wait to the side. Yeah, we've got these now. Great great photos to you from the dog. Dogs back for more just thinking everything is about him, which is cute. And there's some lovely shots of the dog, but I feel like that's not really the purpose of these.

Are you going to select the dog photos? You're going to have to now. You're going to select one with the dog? Well, that's what I'm kind of, I felt kind of bad to because there's me and my daughters and the dog as well. my wife was working, you know, at the time, and she didn't need these photos for work. It's all of us together, like a family photo. That's cute. Minus my wife, though.

Maybe you can do that, like, you know, when you used to play rugby and netball, you can do the insert, the head. Absent, absent. I noticed. I know, that's where my wife was sort of looking through, the photos are great. And then she got another one. She was like, oh, this looks a bit, like the family all together. The family moved on. But she's, exactly.

It was only yesterday. You were talking about your kids moving you out of your home. Yeah. Now you're doing photos. I've got some photos. put up the wall of a bachelor bed, guys. And you don't have to digitally remove your exit.

But you're right, they are good to go. They are good to go. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's great weekend. Probably to go along to the movies. The weather, shocking, right around the country. And there's a movie right now. Ryan Gosling's new movie.

Producer Troy will bring you in here. You've seen it twice? I've seen it twice. It's really good. I had high hopes. I read the book. And, you know, a movie that's coming out from a book you like. Is it going to be as good?

Project Hail Mary is named. Project Halmerry. Ryan Gosling's in it. And it's pretty much Ryan Gosling for like two and a half hours. Yes. And he kills him to me. Oh, sorry. Does it do any boys to me in there or not?

That's always happening in my head. Yeah. Ryan Gosling. Two and a half hours of Gosling. Hell yeah, girl. Sorry, push your wrong button. This is Project Hail Mary. Please state your name.

Ryan and Grace. He spoke up from a coma. I'm several light years from my apartment And I'm not an astronaut I'm not an astronaut If you don't go, you die So what does he get sent to space, does he? At the start of the movie, he basically wakes up in a spaceship

Doesn't know ways there And he's got to try and figure it out and save the world So you've seen it once, you're going again, is that right? I've seen it twice, you've seen it twice? I have seen it twice as well It's that good, you've seen it twice? Gosling? Like paid to go to cinema.

Wow. Some people do pay to go to the movies because we go to the movies. No, I just mean like, oh, shut up. Shut up, free Disney Cruise. Oh, God, now we're in the... I just meant have they physically paid, you paid money to go twice.

Yeah. And today's economy. Yeah. It looks really good. I honestly don't know if I've ever paid to go. Pay to go twice. Don't start bickering over who gets more free stuff again. Oh my God.

Anyway, Gosley. clipping the ticket twice with YouTube. Maybe that's Hollywood's plan, because no one's going to the movie theaters. Maybe they just make one big banger that's so good that the small amount of people who go to the movies have to go multiple times. It looks, it does a really good. Today's songs, too, in there. Yeah, there is.

Like an Auckland Molda Girls' School recorded in the 90s, and just a, yep, pops up in the movie. I wonder if they find that for the soundtrack. There must be some sort of Kiwi connection on the, yeah. Yeah, look on the group. Hey, go, hey, go, check this one out. Got a bad.

Oh, they had, da, da, da, da. Oh, you got this other one. So we wanted to know this morning what's the movie you've seen multiple times. It sounds like you guys will happily see this one again and again, right? I'll watch it on streaming when it comes out. Yeah, definitely.

So you'll go third time. I'm on a third time. But when it comes on Disney, I'll watch it. Yeah, multiple times. How much more new stuff do you notice in the plot the second time round? Well, you don't. A little bit.

Yeah, I picked up on little things, but the second time through it was equally as fast, equally as good. Oh, that's good to take someone along if you really like it. You're like, you've got to watch this and that's often the time I'd go watch something again.

You're like, you bring someone along to experience it. My partner, Neve hates that because I watch her while we're watching the movie and like, it's about coming up, you'll love this bit. I saw it let me enjoy it. That on social media. It's like you wrote, directed and started it.

You watch with that intensity. You're like, did I like it? You're really bested interest. Okay, what have you seen multiple times? Oh, 800 of the hits. Rebecca's called through. Early, what movie have you seen multiple times, Rebecca? Oh, dirty dancing,

one of the all-time greats. Oh, nobody put it. It's baby in the corner. Yeah. It's a great movie. I think they're remaking it with the lady. Yeah. I heard of that.

No, no longer with us. Jennifer. Yeah. Gray. Jennifer Gray. Yeah. He's seen it multiple times. Who's in the new one?

Zach Ephron would be a good one, eh? Oh, he would be good. Yeah. I'm trying to, who sung that song? Is it a dirtier dancing, maybe it is? Filthy dancing, twirking. I had time of my life. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. That one, because we're talking about movies. you've watched multiple times. Dirty dancing has come through a lot on the text machine. So many movies people have watched time and time again. Jeez, this topic really kicking off for a six o'clock hour phone topic. Thank you so much. It's almost like you don't trust anything else to entertain you.

So you just keep going back to the same reliable thing. No, it's comfort. It's comfort. What have you watched multiple times? Devil Wears Prada. Oh, great movie, yeah. You have no style or sense of fashion. I think that depends on what you're...

No, no. That wasn't a question. second one the sequel coming out so excited about that I like the trailer you were playing it the other day and the older lady she can't remember the younger lady comes back to the office she's like who are you

she's like Emily Emily So it's going to be fun For me it was on loop for a number of years Bloody old Trent Bolt Oh no what's the name Oh Bolton Roy Bolton

Troy Bolton Troy Bolton Obviously you didn't take much attention If you watched the multiple times Yeah They did a good job of explaining what they were doing As they were singing I can't literally be sitting through a whole movie

Your attention spans not there I'm doing other stuff My head was not in the game Yeah like Treadbolt No he plays for the cricket for the black games It's a guy Movie yeah Every year for us

We always watch it elf It's kind of in comfort Going into Christmas Will Ferrell Elf Christmas movie Yeah Sorry Your car's pretty

Will Ferrell. It's just that's so Ben. Our movies are so us. It's just a comfort movie for the kids. Every Christmas we try and watch it before Christmas. How many times you're going to watch Alf over? Probably at least a dozen times. What's your favourite line from Elf?

Santa, I know him. Yeah, that's a good one. Mine's Love Actually. We watch Love Actually every year before Christmas. What's your favourite line from Love Actually? There's a lot of flags, David. You say that quite a lot. Rich morning to you, happy New Year.

Happy New Year, guys. How are we? well, mate. A movie you've watched multiple times. Has to be Shawshank Redemption, guys. In 1966, Andy Dufrein escaped from Shawshank present. I watched that with the kids

a couple months ago. It's really good that one. Andy Dufrein. What does it about that one? Rich, why do you keep going back to it? I think it's just something you've seen so many times. You just, you know, blank out and just watch it and you know what's happening. Can you quote scenes in the movie, your favorite line? Oh, it's that one when he

when he crawls through the tunnel and comes back clean on the other side. I don't remember the year's that quote. But yeah. What do you reckon you've watched that? How many times, Shawshank? Oh, four or five times. No, that's not bad.

That's not bad. I'm going to chuck you in the jaw for Austin, Texas, thanks to New Zealand. Wasa? Good morning. Happy New Year. Happy New Year! What are we doing, Warren?

What have we watched on Loop? So, on Loop at the movie theater, the longest one I watched was Lion King. It's a good movie. Yeah, senior year. Movie theater was just down the road. A whole group of people hadn't seen it. So every time they went, I went with them.

Oh, yeah. That's the way, Donna. Yeah. How many times do you really pay to see the Lion King, Warren? About seven times a week and a half. Wow. Oh, wow. Look, it's a lion.

Oh, my God. That's pretty cool. We're going to chuck you in the drawer for Austin, Texas as well. John O'Neon and Megan. How many great texts coming through? I've watched June at least 15 times over the last few years as well. Shalame. Shalomay.

Shalomay's in that one. Nacho Libra has come through. Jack Black, that's a fun one. Top Gun, dirty dancing, ghost, 51st Day. So many people have watched cool runnings on loop. That's a feel good. Yeah, a lot of the times it is just a comfort movie, right? Are you dead, man?

Yeah, Mom. I don't know how problematic that little bit of that. that little passage was there. I was Megan, by the way, if you want to cancel it on. Yeah, yeah. I was like, definitely did the accent. I was like, yeah, I'm going to talk about cool running. She should DFO do the accent.

Back to the Future's come through a lot as well, too. They're really good, those movies, are? Yeah, they're very cool. I've seen Greece 30 times, ironically, your name's Sandy Cook. Yeah, it was 30 times. 30 times. Your mum would be like that with Mama Mia.

Yeah, she loves Mama Mia. Oh, she loves Mama Mia. I hate Mama Mia. Yeah, I'm on Mom with you. Kim, do you hate Mama Mia as much as we do? I haven't seen Mama Mia. Yeah, I like it. I like it, but I wouldn't watch it 30 times.

It's probably a bit much. You, what's the movie you see multiple times, Kimbo? Happy Girl Moore. Oh, yeah. That's a good comfort movie, eh? That's so good. I've seen that a lot. Don't worry, buddy.

You're still in good shape. All you got to do is just tap it in. Just tap it in. Give her the old tap, tap, tap, tap. That is a great film. Kim. How many times are you seen Happy Girl? Gilmore. Oh, I reckon I've probably seen

it about 10 times. Yeah, it's a very good comfort movie. Are we going to put you in the draw for Austin, Texas? Brilliant, thank you. All right, Sue's with us, The Hits movie. You've seen multiple times, Sue. Oh, yeah, that's a frightening movie. I love that movie. I tried again to get the kids into it. That's odd.

There is a ball that is held almost every year in Rotarua. Yeah. And I'm trying to get all the costume designs. Oh, wow. There's a labyrinth ball held, is there? Yeah, this year it's held up in Auckland at St Matthew's City, I think it is.

Oh yeah, they have the chap on the city. You said you're trying to get all the costumes? Well, trying to get ideas for a costume. And it's so hard because it's like, you know, it's all the goth and all the... It's really hard. Like, Rotorua, they hold it at the Millennium. And every costume I've sort of gone is not quite,

but you can be your imagination to be open and it's just absolutely amazing. So you go to this labyrinth ball every year? This is my third one if I go this year. Oh my God. David Bowie running a really crotchy operation in that movie, wasn't he, with those trousers. Have you ever gone dressed as David Bowie soon?

No, but there is a guy who does the juggling, who does the balls. Oh, I remember you spun those balls around in his hand and stuff. Yeah, from the labyrinth. I think that might have been my sexual awakening. The labyrinth. The labyrinth. The labrins. Derby just playing with his balls.

I do remember that scene. Maybe it was mine too. Was that when you were spinning them with one hand? Yeah. What about you, Sue? Sue, you don't have to answer this. It's fine. Sue, thank you so much for sharing me to chucky in the jaw for Austin,

Austin, Texas as well. You've got me flustered, think of David Bowie. Yeah.