Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan Has Put A Curse On Our Boss Matt!

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Megan is in her witch era... Is Ben's daughter avoiding people because she's with him? Face the FaceTime: The boys FaceTime a radio host from Megan's phone! Our entertainment reporter explains the hidden figures who erase celebrity scandals. Dear Megan: My husband didn’t tell me he was married before. Why is Jono wetting random people's hands? Funniest reasons to be dumped! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Tuesday morning, it's good to have you with us. Do you find some days you just hold on, your bladder just holds on for dear life? Three hours I've been holding on. Same. Yeah, you kind of, you acknowledge it first thing sort of six o'clock in the morning and you forget about it and then at nine o'clock you're like, damn, I've been holding on for it. I really need to go. It is an occupational hazard of our job, especially because songs are so short now.

Like, you just don't get time. What do you think is the longest you've held on? Well, like, humanly possible, how long could you hold on for? A day? I reckon I've held on for like six hours, six, seven hours. Not good for you though, right? Nah. I can't imagine.

No. I don't think it's recommended. The radio back in the day used to be like, go in front of a fountain, drink water, and we'll see how long you... I think that's bad for you. It's bad. Is it not good, like,

because I'm always like, I've got a strong bladder, I can hold on. Is that not a good thing? Nah, I think... Oh, okay. That would be a one, but you know when you're like 80 and people go,

what's one bit of life advice you would pass on? I've got two, actually. First one would be, if someone says you want to go to the toilet, always say yes. And always take that opportunity. You never regret it. No, you're right. That's a good point. Especially if you're going somewhere too.

That's your deathbed advice. True, when you get the chance to go to the bathroom, just take it. Always go ways. It's frustrating as a parent. Nothing more frustrating than when you go out somewhere and they're like, I need to go to the bathroom. You're like, we were just home for two hours.

You could have gone. Now we've gone somewhere. I don't know where the bathrooms are. I didn't need to go then. You knew we were leaving. There's always stuff in there to get out. Even if you don't think there is, you're surprised. I'm with you on that one.

Hey, well, enjoy the podcast. Megan's going to kick things off by sharing what she does with the freezer. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, Megan, you were just talking before the show about something that you can do for revenge on someone that's... I'm in my witching era. Yeah. It involves the freezer.

So these are like small little spells. It's not even a spell. It's just something that... Do you think it would have been nice to know this before we started working with you? And it's not really a curse. It's more done to release yourself from someone who is annoying you, right?

Okay, next time we interview anyone for a job, we'll say, are you into witchcraft, yes or no? No, I'm not. I came down to you and Alphaba, and we chose you because you were less witchy but i'm absolutely not into it don't burn me at the stake but um this one thing i think is pretty cool so if someone's annoying you um and it can be like really badly or just mild uh you write their name on a piece of paper and you put it in the freezer and apparently back in the day this was somewhat of a curse.

And it's not going to harm them, but it was meant to make things inconvenient for them. This is going to take up some valuable freezer space. But, do you know what I like about this? It's obviously not going to do anything to them. But in your mind, if someone's annoying you, you can write their name down, you can put them in the freezer, and it's supposed to freeze that moment for you and get them out. So you don't waste energy in your mind worrying about them. Write down their name, chuck them in the freezer.

But then every time you go to get out the bloody frozen lamb chop for dinner, you're reminded of them. Yeah, Andrew's like, do you want sausages or do you want Matt the boss? He's not ready to be defrosted yet. Well, that's a good little bit of revenge Yeah My mum's always like If anyone wrongs my mum

She's like I hope they get hemorrhoids That's what she wishes Hemorrhoids upon people But curable ones Like little inconvenient curses I suppose like a week's worth of constipation That would be a good spell to put on someone Wouldn't it?

Yeah or like your petrol light comes on on a really busy day. Oh, yeah. That's inconvenient. Or you sat down on a chair and it made a noise once and you couldn't recreate the noise, so everyone thought you farted. It's just like inconvenient curses. I love those.

Yeah. Oh, they're good. Oh, I thought you had another one. Oh, no, no. No, I was just wrapping you up, mate. Sorry. New's coming up. Otherwise, you're going to have to write Matt's name down again

because he's going to come and go, guys, news was late at 8 o'clock. So that's why I'm wrapping you up. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Learning a lot about now having two teenage daughters, about teenage embarrassment.

Now, a lot of times on my social media, you might have seen that I do enjoy embarrassing my daughters. I do extreme things. You're the source of the embarrassment. Yeah, a lot of times it is. It is me, you know, wearing stupid costumes or saying words that I'm not cool enough to say. But it's just little things. You don't even have to go to that much trouble.

That's what I've just discovered. And you probably remember being a teenager and getting embarrassed about things that happen. You get embarrassed just having other people know that you have parents. yeah that some people created you and you're associated with a family you almost as a teenager just want to have a mysterious backstory of this weird orphaned kid who has no family attachments or ties i was in the mall on the weekend with my daughter indy and you know we're just we're like i'll grab some lunch in the food court busy busy and i'm looking for a table for two people finally found one we need to sit down and she's like oh can we not sit here please i'm like why she's like i know those people over there i'm like you know those people but they're not sitting

with us we're not gonna make a scene how far away from the oh like 10 meters away i'm like indy this is a busy food court it's like we can you know. Did she not want them to see you? No, I think just in general, you know, when you don't want to run into people, maybe from school or things like that, you know, on the weekend. I get that. Sometimes as an adult, you bump into people at the supermarket and you're like, end me now. Yeah, true.

So maybe those things don't actually stop from teenage years. You find yourself squatting and hiding in the corner of the deep freeze to get away from people. Checking at the aisle and they're like, you're down there. Yeah. Next aisle. You almost avoid collecting half the items on your shopping list so you don't have to see that person.

Why do we do that? I don't know. Because we actually hate other human beings. But a lot of the time you know them and you can just stop and be like, hi. Yeah, good day. How's it going? I don't know. But you both know that from that point forward you're going to keep bumping into each other

and over and over again. So maybe you're right. Maybe it's not teenagers. Maybe it's people in general. People just don't want to hang out with other people. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits.

People don't like answering a FaceTime call, particularly when it hasn't been organised. And so we've decided to try a new thing, Face the Faceetime well we should put it in the next census shouldn't we uh do you or do you want facetime as a continuing function on the phone or not it's a test of a relationship we find if someone's willing to reveal their face to you i just think it's a mistake when someone calls on it you know facetime's an organized thing yeah yeah you feel like i'm going to facetime you And you organise it You don't surprise FaceTime

No and so this is what We're doing at the moment Yesterday Roger from The Rock The Morning Rumble Answered the phone To Jono on a FaceTime So today Megan

We've got your actual phone Plugged in over here So the rules are Someone else gets to choose But it has to be someone That everyone knows Yeah Someone's familiar with

Who have you got there Well it's straight here I've got Be careful I've gone to B's Bree from ZM Bree Thomaso Celebrity Treasure Island Oh okay but it has to be someone that everyone knows. Someone familiar with. Who have you got there, Ben? Straight here. Speak carefully. I've gone to B. It's Brie from ZM. Brie Thomasel with Celebrity Treasure Island. Oh, okay. You know, like, lovely Brie.

I'm sure she would answer for you. If you actually scroll a bit further down beyond B, you can get to F. You can get to V. There's some other ones you can see. Oh, we'll see how Brie goes first. Okay. Okay, we'll see how we go.

All right, we'll Brie answer your call. The anxious ring, the brrrr-dum, goes through to Brie Thomasel. Oh, my God. She's going to think something's wrong. Yeah, the FaceTime's very unusual. The FaceTime's weird. It feels like an intrusion of privacy, the FaceTime.

It feels like you need to organize the FaceTime. You're like, oh, FaceTime. Yeah. Where am I? What's around me? Maybe I'll use it for the supermarket if I'm trying to show my wife something. Yeah, to your wife. I'm like, oh, yeah, look at that.

Brie Thomasale, unavailable. Oh, she shot me down. And I don't think anyone thinks any less of Brie for not answering that. No, not at all. Also, yeah, she's probably asleep or like in her pyjamas. Yeah, she's like, I don't need Megan to see me right now. How about Brodie Kane, broadcaster Brodie Kane? Will she answer a FaceTime?

She's probably also embedded. Oh, no, she's a runner. Yeah, go Brodie Kane. Brodie Kane, yeah, okay. She might be a runner. FaceTiming Brodie Kane. I feel like Brodie Kane. I'm back Brodie Kane to answer.

Come on, Brodes, I reckon. Well, if you have any more than two attempts, that puts you last place on face-to-face time. It took me two yesterday. You're like starting from the back of the grid to use a Formula One analogy. Mate, you're out, you know. I'm Liam Lawson-ing. Oh, no, don't start that. That's not a thing. I didn't say Liam. Sorry, I said

him. No, we're backing him. We're backing him, exactly. Looks like people don't want to see your face. I'm sorry, Megan. Brodie's, like, up for anything. Oh, you got her. You got Brodie. What's going on? Brodie Kane, welcome to Face the FaceTime,

where we test relationships to see how tight they are. And if people will answer random FaceTime calls. You relationships to see how tight they are and if people will answer random FaceTime calls. You've answered one for Megan. I thought, I actually thought, I thought, because I'm in Australia

and it's 5 o'clock in the morning. It's a real difference. And I was like, I was like, is she still on air? What does she want? I don't know. Is it an emergency?

How can I help? I love her. I just love her I don't know what it'll be I literally was like Brodie will answer, I know she will Hey Lucky I thought about the radio still

Because as I say, the time difference, I could have answered that Differently but A true professional Always somehow in the back of their mind knows I also thought about that too. I was like, how is she going to answer this one? Brodie, you're a hero, a Kiwi hero. We figure that FaceTime is the most inconvenient form of communication

that anyone can engage with, but you've done it. No, it's not. I'd rather that than an email. It's connection. I'll FaceTime anyone any day. Oh, really? You're a FaceTime fan. I love FaceTime. I'd rather that than an email. It's connection. I'll FaceTime anyone any day. Oh, really? You're a FaceTime fan? I love FaceTime.

I love voice notes. I love people. I love human connection. We don't have enough of it. So FaceTime me any day you want. Okay. I bloody love you. All right.

We're going to FaceTime you every morning then, okay? You open Pandora's box. Especially with the time difference. Hey, nice to see you, Brodie. There you go. See you, bro. Brodie Kane. see you, Brodie. There you go. See you, bro. Brodie Kane. See you, mate.

Coming through. How good was that? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. It's just over a month until the Puff Daddy P. Diddy trial

and it seems like there was a lot of people for many years covering up all sorts of stuff going on. And we've got Nicole with us, host of the radio show over there in New York

from Sirius FM. Are people actually, are there jobs? People are paid to cover up celebrity scandals. Yeah, like think about how Diddy probably got away with all of this for so long. Like there were people that were covering his tracks. But yeah, it's like a lot of time it falls on the publicist. And so they're kind of doing double duty. They're like fixer slash publicist.

It's their job to keep things from coming out. Everything in power, whether that's threatening like a TMZ, you know, whatever it is, or making a deal with a publication. Yeah, that's definitely for sure a job. Really? Because I heard there's a rumor that like, okay, you've got a movie star, for example, and they're caught in a precarious position. Then the fixer will go to the magazine who was going to publish the story. Don't publish this, but we'll give you four other stories. Yes, right. That's exactly a good example.

I mean, I told you, like, Scooter Braun told me, like, one of the reasons he stopped managing was because he was sick of that because he became not just their manager. He was constantly, like, putting out fires and trying to, like, keep any horrible stories from coming out and spinning things and putting things on other celebrities so his artists weren't getting in trouble. He was like, it was exhausting.

It was exhausting. Handling things. Oh, so he was managing Bieber. Ariana Grande. And Ariana Grande, right? So he was having to bloody put plasters all over the dam, was he? Yeah. I mean, he also had Demi Lovato for a second.

He had Ed Sheeran for a second. He even had Kanye for a second, which. That would have been a busy time, to be honest with you. They have a busy, busy time. And if you think about those artists,

like, if you think back over the years, there have been a good amount of things that they probably, that he probably had to quote unquote fix,

you know? Crazy. That was a, remember that lady phoned us. So this lady was a, she managed kind of Airbnbs

in Hawaii. Yeah. And Kanye was staying there and and he has had a party but he was with

Amber Rose at the time so many years ago his previous partner and you know things went on at the party

or whatever and so she was then told oh Amber Rose is on her way from the airport we've got to clean out the house so she had to go in

and clean up all sorts of wild things. She said a lot of used things she had to clean up as well that no one really asked her yet. I would imagine. She said she picked it up. It was like a wind sock. I would imagine that that room did not look very savoury. She said she got the tongs from the kitchen.

Oh, my Lord. She had to get the tongs and pick everything up and put it in the bin. Well, if you've watched that latest Diddy documentary, you feel for the hand. Oh my lord. She had to get the tongs and pick everything up and put it in the bin. Well, if you've watched that latest Diddy documentary, you feel for the handlers of him too. Similar situation.

So much baby oil. Just so much baby oil. Clean up your own stuff. Like, you know. Right? Put a tarp down. Something. We live different lives, eh?

We do. We do. I don't think I'd want to live that life where I needed someone to clean up after those type of activities. No, because then you're like, oh, they're obviously telling their mates.

They're telling their mates what I'm up to. I don't even feel good about people cleaning like a hotel room after I've been in there. It does feel a little bit weird, right? Like I almost want, sometimes I like tidy up before. They don't judge me. Do personal assistants get paid well? Certain assistants. Like, I mean, I think that there's a lot that treat them like garbage

and overwork them and underpay them. But yes, that can be something that you get paid really, really, really well for. I know Tom Brady's assistant. She's like one of my good friends. And I mean, she does just fine. And so what would she have to do for Tom? So if Tom Brady's got dry cleaning, she'll have to pick that up. She's got to get a warrant of fitness for the car.

You think about all the stuff you don't want to do in your day. That's what they're doing. Yeah, but if that means I'm going to be rich, I'm going to have access to cool people, I'm going to fly in a private jet all the time, sure. I'll leave the radio and go do that. I'll be her assistant. I remember Victoria Beckham's assistant.

She used to get anything that Victoria didn't want. So she would get designer handbags. Oh, really? And Vicky would just be like, oh, here you go. I don't want it. Vicky, Vicky, Vicky. So she comes to New Zealand, we give her, like, a rugby top, an all black top, and she'd be like, I don't really want it.

She'd give it to her personal assistant. Yeah. Okay, gotcha. And so what's the coolest thing you think your friend's been given from Tom Brady? Tickets to go somewhere. Like, he was supposed to go on a vacation to some island. I don't remember what it was.

And he ends up not being able to go. He was like, you go. And, like, she went with her boyfriend. Free holiday. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty good. But, yeah, I mean, it's a lot of material things because, of course, all these rich celebrities who can buy this stuff by themselves are the ones that are getting it for free.

It really doesn't make any sense. But, yes, and a lot of it they don't need. They already have one. So the assistants will get it for free. It really doesn't make any sense. But yes, and a lot of it they don't need or they already have one. So the assistants will get it for sure. Gee whiz, sign me up. Sign me up.

Right, let's do it. I'll cover up scandals for a free holiday. Hey, Nicole, thank you so much. Great to see you. Thank you, guys. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Welcome to Dear Megan. This is essentially free therapy with an audience, but that's the price you pay for free therapy. People listen to it. Okay, Megan, someone's slid into your DMs. Yeah, they don't always have to be relationship advice,

but they often are. And this one is, it reads, Dear Megan, I recently married the love of my life. Congratulations. Our wedding was beautiful, but a few weeks later I learned from a mutual friend that my husband had been married before. He never mentioned it,

and when I asked, he downplayed it, saying it was a short marriage from years ago that wasn't important. He says he didn't tell me because he was embarrassed and I'm the only one that matters now. I get it,

but I feel like it's a big thing to leave out. I'm not sure if it's a red flag, but I'm feeling upset and confused. If he leave out. I'm not sure if it's a red flag, but I'm feeling upset and confused. If he left this out, what else is he hiding? That's where you jump to, isn't it? Oh, tough one. Maybe he was just, maybe he's just a bit awkward or embarrassed about a failed,

the failed marriage, the previous one. And he didn't want to go, oh, I'm so bad at them. Maybe you won't marry me. You know, maybe there's parts of me that aren't marriable. I get the embarrassed part at the start, but if you're with someone and you want to marry them, you tell them everything, right? So you go on a few dates and you're like, I don't want to say that I was married. But then after that, you're like, hey, I was married.

Didn't work out. You have those chats. Or people can just slowly find stuff out about you as life goes on obviously they have i mean you don't need to delve i mean sometimes you don't need to tell everyone everything but i do feel like a marriage is quite a pivotal thing you know yeah that's quite a ticket item yeah that's one of the things that you think you would go hey just so just so you know. Yeah. I have been married once before. It does feel like something. But I don't know the reasons why he wouldn't as well, but yeah.

Has she confronted him? I think he, I don't know. I think he knows that she's not happy about it. Yeah, right. People are questioning how they even got a marriage license. But I guess that's like in my situation, Andrew was the one who had to deal with that. He dealt with the marriage licence and got that

all prepared beforehand. You're not reading that when you sign it, right? I didn't read it. I just signed it. Okay, so 0800 we're going to open the phones on this one. You can text 4487. The advice that we need to give this person.

Is it a red flag? Are there other things he's hiding? Or is that a genuine thing that you can just not talk about? Yeah. Would you keep a marriage from? Not a marriage. No. To be honest, my husband, we had a friend group.

And he kept from me that he had a relationship with one of the people in the friend group. And that annoyed me. See, relationships, I'm like, I don't need to know. No, but if they're in your friend group. Yeah, right. That's probably going to pop up at some stage. Hello, we all hang out. I probably needed to know that there was history there.

Oh, you didn't know? How many years have you been hanging out until you found that info out? Two or three. Has it changed the vibes? Same thing. We were in a group and one of the mutual friends was like, oh, are you all right with that? And I was like, what are you talking about? Oh, okay. Wait, what?

And the answer is no. Okay. Oh, 800 minutes. Is this a red flag? Do you need to know everything about the person you're marrying before you actually say, oh, I do? They're not currently still married, right? The first marriage.

No. No, the marriage has ended. It's a polygamy. I don't think you're allowed to get a I do. They're not currently still married, right? The first marriage. No, I don't. No, the marriage has ended. She's a polygamy. I don't think you're allowed to get a marriage license if you're still married. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Dear Megan, turning your personal problems into public entertainment.

Megan. Someone slid, slided, slowed. Slidded. Into your DMs with a question about their new husband. Yes, so they have recently gotten married and then after the fact has learnt that their husband has been married before. He's never mentioned it and now she's wondering if it's a red flag. Like what else is he hiding?

Why didn't he mention it? A lot of texts saying you would know that if they'd been married before because of the marriage licence. Apparently it's documented on the marriage licence. Yeah, and it comes through like, i don't know if it's changed but it comes through as a sort of like bullet points down left and right sides and one of the things says relationship status and it says either never been married before or married before so there she she could have missed that she clearly didn't read that document i can't even that

document you're showing me right now it's not a big like detailed t's and c's document you're signing that on your wedding day. I didn't even look at that. Right. There's just, like, sign, and everyone's taking photos of you. There's a lot going on. I've signed a lot of stuff in my life, and I don't think I've read any of it. Also, like, if he applied for the marriage certificate, like, he can put in his,

because I had to put in my details of my previous marriage. He could have just put in the details, right? If he's trying to keep it from her. Yeah, well, maybe he can do a lot more online now. I'm not sure, yeah. But the issue is, is it a red flag? Hiding a marriage, a previous marriage from your new partner. A lot of texts coming in on this one.

Carol, good morning. Hi. Are we talking red flags, Carol? Alarm bells ringing for you, Carol? No, I think what's in the past should stay in the past. They obviously love each other or they wouldn't have got married. So why worry about what's happened in the past? Carol, that's not a bad approach.

It's been, it's done, it's gone. It's not now. We're moving forward together. Exactly. I do hear what you're saying, and I do agree with that too, mostly what you're saying, but then at the same time,

I feel like a marriage maybe is something that you should potentially have brought up, right? He's definitely kept it a secret for whatever reason. He's chosen to withhold that information, which is a thing that is kind of red flaggy to me. I mean, I've been married before and I've had other relationships and I've never brought up that I was married once before.

Okay. But if you got married again, would you say that you were married before? No, because that was in the past. Right. Carol's all about the future. She's looking forward. But what if you cheat on your partner and you're like, it doesn't matter, it's in the past? Oh, well, I wouldn't cheat on my partner anyway.

Carol's rock solid, mate. Stupid question, mate. You can't just ignore everything in the past, is what I'm saying. I know, but then Carol's like, how much do you hang on to? Yeah. She just wants the future, don't you, Carol?

Exactly. Is your future looking bright at the moment, Carol? Yeah, I'm single and I'm staying that way. Yeah, right. Are you ready to mingle or no mingling? No mingling. No mingling. Done your mingling?

Done the mingling. I'm quite happy on my own. Oh, yeah. Good on you, Carol. Well, thanks for your call and thanks for your advice. Appreciate it. Okay. Now let's go to James.

Morning to you, James. Morning. Your thoughts on this one. There's a cause for alarm bells, red flags. Well, as a guy who's been married for 19 years, and I'm in a happy marriage. I've never had one before. But I see it from another side that maybe that marriage was horrible.

Absolutely horrible. It brings up mental health issues, and he just doesn't want to talk about it. Oh, he. It brings up mental health issues. And he just doesn't want to talk about it. Oh, he's pulled out the mental health issues. Yeah, no, that's true. Maybe he just wants to, like PTSD, just wants to leave that there. Doesn't want to tarnish the new marriage. It's a fair point, James.

So no need for concern on your part. No, because I know someone that's actually gone through a really bad marriage and got out and he's still suffering from it. So, yeah. That's the reason why I came from that point of view. I get it, but, like, if you are still suffering from it, like, that conversation would probably still need to be had with the current partner. Well, if you're really happy with that partner and that partner brings the best side of you

and you think, well, I'm happy with her, why do I need to think about what's happened in the past? Okay, there's been a lot of calls on that front. I didn't think we'd get those calls. I thought it would have been open comms all the way. So what are we saying, Megan? We need to go back with an answer in the DMs? Well, it's pretty split.

I would say that most people are saying it's in the past. Leave it. Don't worry about it. Leave it. It's five years today since New Zealand went into its first COVID lockdown. Level 4 lockdown. Do you remember this speech? After 48 hours, the time required to ensure essential services are in place, we will move to level four.

1pm press updates every day, wearing masks, isolating, panic buying toilet paper in the supermarkets. Oh yeah, that sound. Oh, that sound. Oh, jeez. What I love too is the rumours that swirled before the press conferences. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who had an inside word. Oh, we're here, we're going to be there for another seven years

or something like that. Uncle Barry heard from someone in Parliament. The old village that is New Zealand. They're hiding cases from us. I heard it was all. I was like, oh my God, there was so much of that. And then you're like, I was at the supermarket when there was a case three days earlier. You're like, oh, now you're like I was at the supermarket when there was a case three days earlier

you're like oh now you're like okay wow anyway that was five years ago great times good memories

but so tell you one positive thing out of COVID the old hand washing was really hammered home we all definitely know how to wash our hands now yeah

we were talked to like three year olds and it was do you remember there were celebrities doing tutorials on how to wash your hands? What is wrong with us?

Don't forget your thumbs. 50 years time we're going to look back and they're going to mock us. We're already mocking ourselves in five years time. But it was the old happy birthday twice wasn't it? That was there. Anyway so prolific washer of hands now. I like to wash my hands. Ben Boyce one of the greatest prolific washer of hands now. I like to wash my hands.

Ben Boyce, one of the greatest hand washers in broadcasting. Yeah, I do like to wash my hands. Were you a big hand sanny guy before COVID? Oh, a little bit and I got through.

Now I'm less and less. I'm definitely back to where I was pre-COVID. Yeah, through COVID I probably ramped it up a lot. Yeah, but now I'm like, okay, chill out a bit. You know,

I used to come in here with rubber gloves. He came with rubber gloves when he started. I don't I used to come in here with rubber gloves. He came with rubber gloves when he started. I don't know why. Why? Because of this COVID. I was going mental. You fool people.

I'm surprised by this. Anyway, it was, again, crazy, crazy times. Crazy times. But so I was washing my hands yesterday. My son's at a basketball tournament and just washing my hands in the stadium there. And I walk out and I see someone that I know. And they say, hello. My son's at a basketball tournament and just washing my hands in the stadium there. And I walk out and I see someone that I know and I say, hello. And they introduce me to a friend of theirs who I haven't met before.

And they come out with a handshake. Now, what I did do was not dry my hands thoroughly. Okay. Drop the ball on that. There was no paper. You know, there was no paper to dry your hands with in the toilet. So I had sopping wet hands. And this person's come out for a handshake and I'm like,

what are my options available here? You put your hands up and you say, sorry, I just washed my hands. My hands are wet. But hey, good to see you. That's the best one to do, I've learnt it. Would have been great to have you two there in the moment. Yeah, because otherwise when you do it, everyone's confronted by it. Well, I locked it. I locked it. And if you want to rattle

someone's day, shake their hands with sopping hands. And then you have to explain I've just washed my hands. So you've done that beforehand? Yeah, just do that just beforehand. Because now they don't have a choice to opt out of it. You're still doing that, but not having the awkward. You've

unconsensually wet their hands. And it was that one where he pulled away and he's just like looking at his hand, kind of just slightly shaking, but trying not to see me shaking the hand as well. How good a mate was this? I'd never met them before.

Oh, great. Yeah, I knew one of them. I was introduced to the new person. Oh, great. Yeah, great impressions there. But no handshaking. It's really, it can throw your middle-aged white man, can't it?

Okay. Or when someone, like, you shake their hand and then they grab it in and then they, like, do, like, a funky thing and you're just, like, along for the ride. Yeah, they do. Yeah, with the cool handshake or the straight up and down handshake. Sometimes you get... Flick it out, you're like, yep, cool. Another hangover of COVID, you've got some fist bumpers out in the market,

don't you, who just fist bump. But sometimes you end up sort of wrapping your hand around their fists. Yeah. You've gone in for a handshake, they've gone fists. That's an awkward moment, that's for sure. Okay, well, there you go. Just dry your hands properly. That's my only message.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. The funniest reason that you've broken up with someone. Because he, she obviously, when she broke up with him, she didn't tell him why Because that would hurt feelings You never want to actually hurt feelings when you break it off with someone do you

It's like you get torn Because you want to be honest but you don't Sometimes you don't You want to protect their feelings and that's why that line It's not you it's me has come along It's a great line Whoever used it the first time around Pretty much would have taken the rest of the day off.

Yeah. That is a great ad lib on the spot. They're like, you're fine. I'm just not in the right place. That's good. You're right. Yeah, because you're right. Sometimes you probably don't want to know

and other times you would want to know. But he found out through the grapevine what had happened a few months later because she'd obviously spoken to people about why she broke it off. And it was his style of communication he was a question talker so when he would be having a conversation he would kind of be asking himself questions so do i care about this yes does it affect me deeply not really

you know that's how and so he would kind of interview himself while he was having a conversation. And this, over a number of months, slowly drove her to call it quits. Did she ever mention, hey, that's annoying when you do that? Clearly not. Maybe he doesn't know he does it. No, well, he didn't at the time. Because he said he did it all the time at work and he said it felt, he appeared assertive. You know, when you're asking yourself a question and you're answering it, don't even need you

in this conversation. That's what I'm saying. You'd be like, am I answering this or you got this? Do I love you? Absolutely. Do I see a future together? Of course. You know, not even giving her a chance to say anything.

She could have gone, do I want to break up with you? Yes, I do. Yeah. So he got So he got dumped For question talking Which he doesn't do now Ever since he found that out He's become very self conscious

He's like Will I continue to do it? Probably not Yeah He doesn't even ask himself Questions in his head now Oh So that's the thing

If she just pointed it out Maybe he could have stopped Maybe they could have Had a future together Yeah I broke up with someone A long time ago Because he really enjoyed like pub like

grand public displays of not affection but like just displays of like i love you this much oh i thought you would be all about that maybe now but like maybe i just wasn't that into him so it was nice maybe to watch rom-coms And go oh they're big moments Like standing with a ghetto blaster on your head Yeah that kind of stuff And it kind of got a bit draining You're like Daniel put the speaker away I kind of felt like everyone was Instead of being like oh this is so romantic

Everyone was like laughing What was the grandest romantic gesture he pulled in public? I remember he made me this huge Like lollipop bouquet And like presented it to me in front of everyone and I was kind of like, what do I do with that? Great. I feel like he's trying to suck on those lollipops

and get diabetes, mate. That's what you do for love. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We are talking about the funniest reason that you broke up with someone, though. You can text 4487 0800 the hits, the telephone number. My friend is reminiscing many years ago.

He was dating someone and she cut it off with him. He didn't quite know why, but he was like, oh, you know, respect your decision. A few months later, he found out it's because he was a question talker. When he was in conversation, he would ask himself questions and answer the questions himself. Am I having a good day? Yeah. Do I like hanging out with the two of you in the morning? Absolutely.

And not giving her a chance to respond. I can see how that would get a little annoying. Whether it's worthy of being broken up with, I don't know. Conversation might have done it, but that's okay. I had a very passionate cousin who loved the Crusaders from Christchurch. Why were you two together? Oh no, it doesn't sound like that.

Small town New Zealand. Very passionate cousin. Yeah, sorry, passionate fan of the Crusaders and one of his girlfriends during high school was a fan of the Chiefs and he couldn't do it.

Did he break up with you? He was like, I can't do it. The Crusaders, hard in Christchurch, one-eyed Crusader fan. He's like, I can't do it.

Even the Crusaders would be like, no go, you do it. Like you shouldader band? It's like, I can't do it. Even the crusaders would be like, no, go ahead, you do it. Like, you should. You should just have a relationship. Can't do it, can't do it. Funniest reason you broke up with someone, Monique? I broke up with someone because I found out that he was in between places and he was living on a roundabout. Oh, wow.

Oh, so temporarily on a roundabout. Okay. And you're like, okay, I guess you could go back to his place when he didn't currently have a place, did he? I feel like there's more tranquil places to be. Than a roundabout. Did you go and visit the roundabout? No. So it kind of made me a bit suspicious when we were sort of always staying at my house.

So, yeah, when I found out that I wouldn't, if I was staying at his house, it would be. Noisy. Then I decided that, yeah, maybe that wasn't for me. It wasn't for you? No. I mean, a roundabout's very, you're open to the elements. You're open to the temporary places. That seems unusual.

I'm still stuck on why the roundabout was a good choice. No idea. I'm sure there were Better places But Yeah Just kind of blew my mind Okay Parking You just park on the roundabout Great off street parking

Thank you Monique I appreciate you listening To this show You're going to have A wonderful day Thank you Thank you Text in here

4487 I had to break up With someone Because he's still Living at home with mum I imagine that'd be Quite common Someone I know Has recently broken up With someone with someone because he's still living at home with mum. I imagine that'd be quite common. Someone I know has recently broken up with someone

because they're still living home with mum, but they told them they were at different life stages. Which could be kind of true in a way. It's a nice way of saying that, that you're still at home with mum. There was no real reason, and they were older, and they were just hanging out, and she just found it a little bit weird.

Is this justified reason? Just come through on the text. I was at high school. My first boyfriend broke up with him. He had a wart on his knee. Oh. It doesn't seem quite justified, does it? You can burn that off.

There's solutions to that off. Exactly. I thought you said your age. We're kids, you know. You look back, you're like, why was I? You get that real easy. Yeah. I think the older you get, you loosen your morals, don't you?

You are very choosy and picky as a teenager. And now Anonymous, welcome to the program. Hi. Great to have you on. You broke up with someone for an interesting reason. What was that? Yeah, so I was dating a girl for a couple of months, and she didn't like that I listened to K-pop.

Oh, K-pop, so Korean pop music. K-pop. Oh, K-pop. So Korean pop music. Yeah, yeah. So I liked a couple of groups like Blackpink and Twice and she just didn't like that I was that into them. Were you blasting the music in the car and around the house or anything like that? No, no. It was always in my headphones.

Oh, right. So it wasn't like it was very unusual. And so did you say, I can't be with you because I like K-pop and you don't? Well, we're kind of like already on the way out, to be honest. Right, gotcha. I was just like, you know, I want to be able to listen to the music that I like.

Oh, fair enough. Maybe this is the thing. Maybe that's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Like you're already on the outer, but then you're like, dude, don't talk to me in questions anymore. Yeah, great, great point. Yeah, probably right, Megan. It's probably the last straw in it.

So many great texts coming through here. Guys, you're going to laugh, but I got relentlessly tickled and I hated being tickled and it got to the point where I had to end it with her. So Maddie, not a fan of tickling. Last relationship with Mr. Tickle,

that's your way of saying it. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. No, you started something last week, the algorithm. Because obviously when you're on social media, they seem to like to be able to push stuff to you. This is something you might like.

You might want to follow this thing. You might want more of this video. You watch one thing of something and then more of it comes through. Then you hear something really weird and you're like, the algorithm's done me dirty here. Sometimes it really does jump to conclusions, doesn't it? You watch one video of a chicken wearing Crocs and then that's all you get for it.

Just chicken-based content for the next three weeks. It takes a while to turn the tide back, doesn't it? Have you seen chickens wearing pants? I haven't seen chickens wearing pants. Listen, I will click on it. I'm a chicken fan according to the algorithm. So we set a task

of bringing one piece of content from the algorithm, our algorithms, to share with the team. Now, last week you played something that was about peeing into the Grand Canyon,

right? Oh, yeah. This is a guy called Zach D Films who does animated reenactments. It's all true stuff. Yeah. He's thoroughly researched. He talks about, you know, facts, weird sort of facts and he does sort reenactments of it's all true stuff yeah like he's thoroughly researched

talks about you know facts weird sort of facts and he does sort of videos to it now i don't follow this guy uh but we did talk about last week and it was interesting it popped up yesterday in my algorithm now i don't know if again conspiracy theory the phones are listening or if this is just something that i you know because i didn't watch the video afterwards that we talked about but all of a sudden i got something from zach and uh it was it was about diving into you know, because I didn't watch the video afterwards that we talked about, but all of a sudden I got something from Zach, and it was about diving into, you know, like duck tails, you know, when Scrooge McDuck's diving into the money. You're like, could that be possible?

Well, he's talking about it. If you dove into a pile of coins, some people think you could swim in it, but because they're made of metal, they'd actually lock into place to form a solid surface, and they'd be too heavy to move under your weight. Now a pile of bills might look fluffy and soft, but unlike water, paper doesn't distribute force. Instead, it would all be focused on the spot that you land, and the friction between the

bills would keep them stacked in a solid mass. Well thanks ZachDFilms, not one part of me did I ever watch DuckTales and go I reckon that's a solid mass. Well, thanks, Zach D Films. Not one part of me did I ever watch DuckTales and go, I reckon that's a doable thing. I don't think anyone's thought that they can swim through coins. Maybe people have, I guess. So not possible. Even the notes, not possible.

Now, Megan, coincidentally, you mentioned something before the show. You went to the gym and you did what yesterday? I went twice. Humble brag. I went on the treadmill Yeah right And I went in the red light therapy room

Red light therapy Now it's poignant that you mention this Because I was fed a doctor Well at least he looks like a doctor He's got the hat on and a white coat and a stethoscope Screams doctor And someone's asking him He's a beauty doctor

And he wants ranking from 0 to 10 The most effective beauty treatments Have a listen red light therapy five infrared sauna zero Mouth taping zero cold plunge can collagen can no seed oil diets can

calorie counting eight intermittent fasting No seed oil diets. Ten. Calorie counting. Eight. Intermittent fasting. Eight. Dry brushing. Zero. There you go. So ten's obviously the best, right? Ten's the best, will you assume, unless they were doing a reverse scale.

Well, I don't know about that guy because I've spoken to doctors who tell me that collagen would be a zero. So I don't know. He said ten. We spoke to Dr. John. He said gummies, all vitamin gummies. Pointless. Zero, yeah. So there you go. So said 10. We spoke to Dr. John. He said gummies, all vitamin gummies. Pointless. Zero, yeah. So there you go.

So my red light therapy is a zero. It's not even a one. Just a complete waste. Lots of the studio might be doing more for you. It was a sauna, so I sweated at least. John O'Bien and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

I'd like to start our day every day with this, the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. See if we can get 10 out of 10. Quiz Queen Grace filling in for Quiz Queen Ali. Fresh off the football last night. You went along to see the football team qualify for the World Cup. Yeah, it was the first time in like 10 years since we qualified. I was like, I had to be there.

This is our third time ever. Oh, yeah. I think twice. I have two World Cups in my lifetime Yeah We had one in the 80s Didn't we 81 Yeah

And then one just not too long ago 10 years Yeah 10 years ago Yeah And then this one Incredible stuff Was it a fun atmosphere I was with all the supporters

So I had to stand the whole time though And I didn't realise My feet are a bit sore But apart from that It was really fun And they did the thing at the beginning Where they put the giant flag over everyone And I was like

Just on the outside I was like wow this is really cool Like they put a giant like material, but I was right on the edge and I was like wow Well done to the other football team and well done to quiz Queen grace for bringing another New Zealand Herald daily quiz Can we get 10 out of 10? Let's say probably not I was thinking about the fact that I've never got 10 out of 10 with you guys, and Ellie always gets the glory, so I'd really like you guys to put in just a bit more effort.

If that's okay. Thank you. Try really hard. Yeah, really hard. What are the only land mammals native to New Zealand? Okay, we can have the options. I was going to say, is there no more of a choice? Cats, rats, bats.

Not rats. Only land mammals native to New Zealand. Cats, rats, or bats. People have cats. There's probably a type of bat, eh, that we had. Because I don't think cats were here initially either, were they? Native to New Zealand. Wasn't there rats?

So rats would have been brought over on ships. By the British. They brought their venereal diseases and muskets. Maybe. You're thinking a bat then, are you? Yeah, there's probably a species of bat that's native to us. I like your logic, Pappas. Let's lock in the bat.

Are we locking in? The bat is correct. Well done. One for one. What occupation was an ankle beater? A podiatrist, a carpet maker, a child who helped drive cattle to market. The ankle beater? Because you hit the feet with the stick. Whose feet?

The child. The kettle. The child getting the kettle to the market. Is that your ankle beaters? Yes. Well done. It sounded ridiculous. Next.

When were mouldy seats first made permanent in New Zealand? 1850? 1876, 1908. What do you mean? Government? Yeah, it must be. It doesn't say that, but it must be. Would it have been around the signing of the treaty? So we've got 1850, 1876, 1908.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Should we throw this one out for our lifeline? Yeah. Okay. So if you think you know, 4487. None of those are the treaty dates.

1840 is the treaty, isn't it? So yeah. Okay. So 10 years after that was the earliest, right, of the options. Okay. So then by that logic, you could go, the British are like, okay, we'll give you a couple of seats. 10 years in, they're like, you've come and stolen all our land.

Can we have something? Yeah, you can have a couple of seats in Parliament. That feels like a 10-year period. They would have held them off, 10 years in, they're like, you've come and stolen all our land. Can we have something? There you can have a couple of seats in Parliament. That feels like a 10-year period. They would have held them off for 10 years. Okay, so maybe that's where we're heading. 4487 on the text. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. The moulding seats, when were they made permanent? There's a few options there. 1876 seems to

be the one that's coming through the most on the text. Yeah, I was trying to figure out when the Treaty was signed, so that was 1840, and I thought maybe a decade or so after that they might have introduced them to Parliament. I was reading. I mean, there might have been in there, but this was permanent, right? Yeah, their first election, they said Māori aren't allowed to vote. Why are you shocked by that?

Take the land, and by the way, you're not allowed to vote. She came and just took everything. They did that with women too. We're reflecting on bad times in New Zealand history, aren't we? There's a lot of COVID and early times. Okay, we're going to lock in 1876, Grace. That is correct. Yes, thank you to the text.

There's our lifeline. Done and dusted. Now we've just got to go off pure vibes. I'm wanting a 10 out of 10, guys. How many national anthems does New Zealand have? One, two, or three? Two. Two.

Two. Amazing. Two, right? Yeah. God Save the King or Queen, right? And the national anthem? God of Nations. And God Save the Queen, I think.

No, isn't it just the Maori version? No. What? Is it two? It's two. Yeah, we did answer. No, I don't think that's one anthem. Oh, the Maori and the...

There's just one anthem, God of Nations, and then... God Save the King. Yeah, I think that. No, I don't think that's one anthem. Oh, the Maori and the... It's one anthem, God of Nations. God Save the King. Yeah, I think that's officially one of our... Or God Save the Queen, depending on what it is. Pretty sure. So, yeah. We've locked in the answers. Yeah, either way, we've said two, right?

Yeah, it's correct. Great, good work. There we go. Some confusion over the anthem question. Yeah, there you go. New Zealand has two anthems, God Defend New Zealand and God Save the King or Queen. So it's not the Maori verse and the English verse.

That's considered one. One anthem. I hear you, baby. Oh, I understand what you're saying. See, that's what I was saying. Yeah, and then the second anthem, for some reason, is, yeah, I don't know why I knew that. It's God Save the King.

Because we're part of the Commonwealth? Oh, get us out of there. Okay. How much of New Zealand is in national parks or reserves? 20%, 10%, 30%. I'd say 30%. Yeah, we've got a lot of land. Like Fiordland and all that.

We're locking that in? Yeah. That is correct. Well done. Fiordland and all that. All the other. Okay, you guys ready for this one? In Douglas Adams' novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what is the answer to

the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? Is it love, happiness, and meaning? There is no predetermined purpose. 42. I think there's no predetermined purpose. I don't know why I'm thinking that. I've never read the book. Do you want me to say, I'll say the answers again.

Love, happiness, and meaning? Yeah. There is no predetermined purpose. 42. 42. I reckon there's no predetermined purpose. Why is 42 there? 42 is just comically funny.

42. Oh, no, wait. What are we doing? I don't know. Are we locking in 42? 42. Why would 42 be there? Well, that's correct.

Well done. We didn't listen to Johnny. 42 has far more meaning. Yeah, I guess it was a gag. I'm guessing. I don't know. It's a sporting question. For what sport is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar famous?

Okay, we'll slay, guys. That's correct. Basketball. There we are. Okay. Wait, what are we up to? Oh, we're up to eight? All right.

Here we go. This is the furthest you've gotten with me. Okay. We've run the marathon. Now we're at the finish line. A miniature sculpture of what fruit can be found atop the Wimbledon men's singles tennis trophy? Is it a kiwi fruit, a pineapple, or a strawberry? They eat strawberries.

I know that's, but I don't know if it's on the thing, but that's a big thing. They have strawberries and cream and stuff. Is that why? Wait, are you saying there's a fruit on top of the trophy? Yeah. I didn't know this, but I only know that That seems like a good guess. That's probably a guess but that's just a guess.

Strawberry? Strawberry. That is incorrect. Is it a pineapple? It's a pineapple. Oh, what? So why don't they eat pineapple then? That's a big thing. It's not always in season. I don't know. So strawberries and cream are their big thing. It's not always in season. I don't know. Yeah, so strawberries and cream are their big thing. They all sit around and eat it.

But obviously they have the trophies. I see you thinking. You're thinking, mate. Absolutely. I'm sorry, guys. That's on me. You need to take this up with the organisers of Wimbledon, Ben. I do.

Sorry, Grace. We can't do a 10 out of 10 with you. I just want a 10 out of 10, guys. Just one time. I'm sorry, mate. How you will love it? It does have a little pineapple at the top. Is it cute?

Yeah.