Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan is accused of entitlement

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

 On today’s show:  The team debates how movies and TV shows like Friends and Home Alone would completely fall apart if smartphones existed Ben accuses Megan of peak entitlement after she skips a red‑carpet queue! Jono admits he should never be left alone with free time after accidentally wiping out most of his lawn with Roundup Megan mysteriously goes missing just before the show… and is found asleep in her car Cassie Henderson joins the show to talk touring with Melanie C! How Jono finds himself awkwardly photographing feminine hygiene products in a chemist aisle... A “Dear Megan” sparks a big debate: how do you tell a workmate they smell? 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 tea. On the podcast. Yeah, here we go, another one. Another one. I see you both on your phones, just doing some administration at the moment. Have you seen the AI version of Friends, the TV show Friends in 2020s?

No. It's just got them all ignoring each other sitting on the couch and the cafe scrolling their phones. All the pivotal scenes from the show, they're just all ignoring each other on their phones. Oh, I wasn't ignoring you. I'm doing two things at once. They do those things from time to time what those shows would be like if phones were around and movies as well. Well, the Ross and Rachel's storyline could have been solved with a text.

Yeah, a lot of those things would have been, yeah, a lot harder for them to write nowadays. It is. Oh, damn, they can text. Why would we stress out about who going to the airport now? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're right. It's just like a text or, you know, a message. Hey, don't, don't catch that flight I'm in love with it.

Yeah. It's a little bit of an underwhelming. Yeah. Ending to a series, though. Yeah, Home Alone's the other one. always talk about, eh, if there was a phone in there, that would have been a lot different movie, you know? It would have. If they had a cell phone, you're right.

Oh, yeah. Oh, shit, we left Kevin home. Oh, you're there. Oh, yeah, I'm coming back. Great. I'll stay here. We'll see it. We'll see in the airport shuttle to get you. Yeah, yeah. They would have solved a lot of stuff. But that's a great movie. It would have been a lot easier to write films back in those days.

Oh, yeah. Now it's got a factor in technology. God, planting us back in that time would be so stressful. Now? Yeah. How on earth do people, like, who like contact each other. My entire childhood

I'd just landline landline and you'd phone your friends you'd be like gooday Mrs McGinnis is John there you had to talk to a parent and it was like the barrier of security between you and talking to your friend on the phone off you would or my sister would pick

up in the other room you're on the phone I can hear your breathing trying to listen to another conversation you'd try and pick it up and put your finger on the like push button things so that when you pick it up it didn't go always a hard hard act though and and

And, you know, you would, so, okay, Megan, do you want to go and play today down at the beach? She's like, yeah, okay, we'll meet you there at 10.30 and you had to stick to that word. Yeah. There was no running 15 minutes late. I know. And then you're there at 1030 and they're not there and you're just like. You had to turn around and walk 5K's home. Yeah.

Yeah, right. I do remember like biking and walking around the friend's houses knocking on the door. Are they home? No little home. And then you're off there goes. You know, like, it's an hour exercise sometimes for nothing, you know? Yeah. You couldn't just text and say, hey, you're home or whatever.

They're like, no, they've gone down to the, you know. The introduction of the telecom phone booth. That was a game changer for me. You can get the prepaid phone card you could use. It's handy. Yeah. I saw a thing the other day in Noel Leaming, so I almost bought my kids.

I like, why you buy it? But you can plug it in to your phone, your iPhone or whatever phone you're using, and it gives you like the old style. Oh, handheld phone or thing. You just plug it out and you can talk like you're worth on. I'm like, that's cool. And the kids are like, why?

Are you going to use it? Oh, that's so embarrassing. Probably once I'd use it and be like, oh, on the phone right now. And then I'd be like, no, I'm probably not going to keep plugging it in. But I was like, something about holding a phone like that, you know. Because you do that. You know, there's those things online where you're like, you ask a kid to go, do, you know, hold up your hand like a phone. And that's not what they do, you know.

They do a flat thing to their face. Of course. Yeah. Whereas we sort of do like the shaka. Yeah. I know. My kids do that flat to their face. And you're like, oh.

Yeah. You hold up a phone. You're like, well, that's, you know, putting a phone hanging up. The satisfaction of hanging up a phone was in anger. The rotary dial, do you remember that? But then the problem was, if you needed to call emergency services, one was like the last number, she'd go, one, brr-br-dr-one.

Stamped, dead. Yoss is burning. Stabbed, dead, burnt to death. End of the story. And you can't force it back. No, no. It's so fast a way to do it, was it? So, yeah, anyway, we've gone down a real rabbit hole now.

aged ourselves, that's fine. And now we'll go into the podcast, which starts with Megan, bringing great, well, yeah, well, you wrong me, Megan. John O'Bin and Megan, the podcast, the heads. I've mentioned this a couple of times, and Megan's like, what is this? You wronged? Like, Megan wronged me and my family. But, like, I can understand you, because, you know, we bully each other all the time,

and great, you know. It's great, great for fodder. Yeah, love bullying. bit of banter, but not your family. No, this happened while we... You always said never bring our families into the bully, you know. This happened while we were away too. Now, I'm going to give a bit of context and you might get what it's all about.

So a bit of a backstory of how, you know, it affected me even deeper because of this backstory because, you know, we've talked a couple times about my love for movie world. I wanted to go there as a kid, and I got to, I didn't get to go because my sister went twice, but anyway. He always says it went twice, but anyway. She always likes to get that message out. So as an adult, I went. And I went and took the family along.

And, you know, we went there and we waited along lines, you know, sometimes because it was busy. And we didn't pay for the fast pass. Megan kept going, you need to pay for the fast pass. As I looked at with disdain towards the people with fast passes, as we waited an hour, an hour and a half. Like the common people we are, like the real people. Yeah, you're a man of the people. You're right. And Megan had her fast pass, which we later found out she didn't pay for.

Yeah, she had a fast pass. Someone offers you a fast pass for free. You're not going to say, no, are you? That sense of entitlement must have stuck with her from moving people. Privilege. Yeah. Colonial privilege, I call it. Now, do you know where we go?

Because the other night we went to your husband's show. Yeah. Now, and Juliet, went along to Anne Juliet. And I'll front foot it. My daughter did some work on social media for Ann Juliet. So we got our tickets for free. But we had to go pick up the tickets. We picked up our tickets and the lady said,

hey, could you walk down the red carpet? I would love to get a photo of you guys down the red carpet. So yeah, sure, no worry. So the family around the corner and we're like, whoa, this cue is long. This is movie world long. Oh, so this is what a cue to get. Into the red carpet.

Get into the queue and get into the line. Oh, this is long. And we saw the guy, Luke, who's up the front there and he was like. Luke, who's my friend? Yeah, no, no. Luke, he's like, how's it going? Would you like to skip the line? I was like, no, man of the people.

We're at the family and the family. And I was like, this is a long queue. This is a long queue. But I'm a man of the people. There's more brand. There's people. There's people in this queue that'd be waiting for the, I can't do this. Family, all are like, come on family.

We're going to the back of the queue. So off we are the people. We are the people. We're the people. We're the people. The voices are the people. I don't know what I'm trying to say. The people are the people. We waited 15, 20 minutes. As this queue got shorter and shorter, we're about two or three away from getting up to the red carpet. That's okay. That's okay. We had time, but it's just before. And who comes tripped trotting along with the high heels and their mates? Straight in. Looks like, you want to skip the cue. Oh, Megan comes in. Skipping the cue as my family will look to go, this me. as she went ushered in front of you in front of me in front of all the people behind us.

Oh wow. Straight in, straight in photo through, sorry, sorry. Didn't look over the way otherwise you would have seen us right there. I didn't see you. You didn't even look at us. You just did this sort of back, you know, when they put the hand up, they're like, sorry, sorry, but they're like, they're not sorry. Clearly they're more important than we are.

Yeah, okay. Well, no, okay. She got a photo and off she went and off she went. Glided along the carpet. Again, I'd like to say, if someone offers you something, don't I know. Which I got offered. But I was like, well, hey. Luke was like, because, okay, time was running out.

Yep, hey, it's not my fault. And there's like a pre, like a little pre show happening. So we're like, well, those are all my mates as well on stage. You know, I know everyone in the production. I was like, I don't want to miss that. And Luke was like, come over, just quickly scooch in. That's what you said to us too, but hey. So take it.

Where's the medal you got for waiting in line? I wish I'd got one of it. Oh, you didn't get anything. You don't get anything. You know, when you look around to people in the line, you all see a show and a nice smile. You're like, what I wanted today, what I wanted to say was, see your letter, suckers.

I did that thing, and I was like, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. She hasn't got a fast pass. If I saw Ben, I would have said see your soccer. She's just got a fast pass for life. Just a better grade of human being. That's right. So Megan, Papa, here we go. I just wanted to get that out there ways.

A family looked at me? I was like, here we go. Be honest, though, were your family like, she took it? Why didn't we? We don't do that. We're the voices. The people's people. or something like that.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. The second week of the school holidays, as we've been mentioning, we had a couple of days off last week, and Jono, sounds like you... You've been busy at home? Yeah, this is why I can't really be left alone with spare time. I need to be occupied because,

look, I want to know 0800 the hits, what have you killed or destroyed around your house? Because I noticed just on the lawn, Ben, you wouldn't know this because you've ripped out your lawn and put on... I did. I tried to grow lawn a couple of times. It did not work. And then in the end I went, no, I'm going to get astro turf. My husband wants to get astro turf. I'm like, no. We haven't got much of a lawn, to be honest.

Like, it's not, yeah. You just like the smell of, you know, the lawn when you cut us in. How much, like, if you had like quite a big backyard, would you just astro turf the whole thing? I want to astroturf the berm at the front because they have to mow this little bit at the front for the council. And then there's this little other extra bit. It takes me like 10 minutes. But you can tell the difference. Maybe we'll drive past.

I feel like, oh, this guy's has a history too. It's got a putting green. A giant putting green into the backyard. That's good. I like that. A mini-putt course. But yeah, so I'm not like much of a lawn guy. I like mowing the lawns, but I don't, I'm not one of these people who you're facetiously grows their grass.

But I was like, oh, there's a few weeds. Right. A few weeds coming into play here. Yeah. So then I just saw this old thing of Roundup just sitting in the shed. And I was like, well, go on, just attack these weeds with the roundup. And then we went away for a little. a few days, came back and

did it work? Did it what? Did it what? I reckon... You made it sound like you're going around and just going from some of the weeks. She was a full blasting. It's like bloody the US

Army's coming and just boof. 60% of the lawn decimated. And I'm like, okay, maybe the grass bounces back. It'll grow back. Went to AI, chat GPT. I took a photo of it. It was like no chance, mate. You killed it and everything around. it, those roots are never coming back.

Well, the weeds are gone. Yeah, they're gone, you're right. Huge success on that front. You know you've got this big patchy sort of lawn going on. Big, yeah. It's like it's in the desert. It's great.

So I don't know. Then it says, oh, you're going to have to rake it. Give it three weeks for the weed killer to dive. Rake it. Then plant a whole new. Astro turf, baby. Astro turf.

It's the way to go. It's what I'll get you. Yeah. So 8-100 of the hits. This is what I want to know. You can text 2, 4, 4, 7, 7. what have you just completely destroyed around your household? I've got one.

My wife brings up all the time. Things happen at home, marks on the walls, things like that. We have quite a few because you've been living in the house for a while, and I get impatient with this. And one day I took it upon myself. I was sick of these marks. I just grabbed some white paint from the garage and went around the house and just did some touch-ups.

Oh, no. Yeah. The hindsight wasn't the right, was slightly not the right color. Was it like outdoor paint? slightly a bit more glossy than the rest of the stuff. Didn't blend in, should have done the thing. Now throughout the house, there's just... Bits of pieces, all white, but just the slight rock...

Shiny. Wines up my wife. It's just like, here you go, did it there, there, there, there. Around about five or six rooms around the house. So just me going around, that little bit there, a little bit there. Like you, you've gone to a bit of a frenzy. Yep, get a bit more, get a bit more. And then when it all dried, it did not dry the same.

And yeah, should have done that. Right. Oh, 800 of the hits. Painting is so much. Like, it's a real skill painting, isn't it? They know what they're doing those painting people. John O' Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads.

Johnno's weeds have gone, gone, gone as well as a lot of the grass around your house. And you know what's frustrating? Because Megan said, you know, there's lawn-friendly weed killer. Weed and feed. Which is meant to, you know, feed the grass and get out the weeds. Right. Which is, I have used previously. I don't know what.

Slip your mind. Just round up. This will round up as a powerful, powerful tool. So I got rid of the weeds and a large percentage of the lawn as well. So what have you destroyed around the house? Some great texts coming through. Oh, they're really anonymous. Doesn't it want their name to be attached to this?

What happened? Oh, hello. We've got quite nice garden, a good garden. And I know that a lot of grass is quite like being lit with a lighter and they bounce back really well. Well, in the summer We're cropping farmers And it was a nice hot day And I thought, right, I'll get the lighter

And attack these grasses that have been cut back But they were quite stumpy and all dead Anyhow, you know, they lit really well Because they were quite stumpy And dead in the base Two months later, they haven't grown back Oh, but you're set your lawn, your lawn are just grasses in the garden

Oh, I didn't know you could do that I thought that would be a huge fire hazard. Oh, you had a host, yeah. The fire service is cringing right now. Yeah, it's a host. The host was there. Just please don't do that during one of those one-hour strikes when the fire services. Monday lunchtime's a good time to do it, apparently.

Oh, jeez. That's a great call. And haven't bounced back yet. No, it's burning contention, really. You can't imagine so. It doesn't make me feel really good. Louise, how are you? Thank you, guys.

Lovely to have you on. What did you completely destroy around the house? My daughter's bedroom, actually. So we were doing a bit of a renaw and a bit of a spruce up, and I was painting a feature wall. So I was right at the top of a two-meter ladder, holding a painter tray, and the ladder could collapse. And I, yeah, went crashing down,

landed on a desk on my way down, went to broke. And I was holding a painter jewell. A tray of paint. So the entire bedroom got covered in this beautiful Karen Walker, Karki, Gray. Oh, no. Desider paint. So we're talking what?

Like curtains, walls everywhere? Yep, everything. Everything. Yeah. I think I had the foresight to put a cover sheet on the bed. But, yeah, with curtains, the walls, the wall I was painting, the floor. And our house is an old villa, so it's got beautiful old coldy timber flooring. Paint all in those cracks?

Yeah, everywhere. We had to scrubbed out with a toothbrush. Karen Walker sprayed everywhere. How were you? Because you landed on the corner of a desk. Yeah, yeah. I know I had some pretty, pretty big injuries, and I ended up in an ambush over to hospital, because I thought I'd fractured my pelvis.

Oh, geez. Still six weeks later, I've still got pretty big bruises, and yeah. Fun times. I did a good job. You did a really good job. Maybe not of the painting, but I'm hurting yourself. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Well, Megan, no Megan at the moment.

We need to launch an investigation to the whereabouts of missing Megan. producer Troy, if you could make your way in here. You were travelling on the motorway at the same time as Megan Pappas this morning, first thing? Yeah, followed her in. She's got a pretty unmistakable car, so I knew it was her and pulled into the building at the same time. And then it got to about like 5.30 and she still wasn't in.

So she was in the building, but not in the studio, right? Definitely in the building, in the car park at least. Right. Had it made it into the studio. Now, she does like a nap. So my theory is she's having a bit of a cozy morning nap. Very early morning. Aircon maybe turned up a tad too much.

Yeah. She'll join her condition. Should I call her right now and wake her up? Because the show started. She missed the news. I don't actually have a number on 40. Sorry. That's right.

We'll give her a call this morning and hopefully she'll join us and join the show. I love this though. I love this. She's added an hour nap so she'll be feeling like a million dollars. But also... Yeah, will she? How do you wake up and then go back to... It's like so soon.

Yeah. You've had a shower. You've had... Sorry, I really can't talk, and here we go. One, five, and one, zero, not one. You know, you've prepped yourself. Yeah. Primed, maybe a little bit, breakfast, a coffee?

Driven all the way, yeah. Hopefully she's going to answer. This will be confronting phone call for her if she is asleep. Come on, Megan. Come on, Megan. You can do it. Wake up, Megan. We might have to go down.

You're again? Yeah. She's not going to answer. We're going to take this live, Ben. This is rolling coverage of sleeping. What now? We're going to go down now? Yeah, it's Megan here.

No, no, we'll get in that. Okay, all right. So, listen, we'll turn this recorder on and hopefully we can... Okay, hopefully we're broadcasting, Ben. Okay, we're going down. We're going to go down in the elevator down to the garage and see if she's there. Producer Grace is filming this. We'll put this on the Hits Breakfast Socials,

walking through the pitch black office at the moment. It does seem unusual choice. that you were following her on the motorway like 40 minutes ago. I was just thinking this is going to throw her a whole day out if she's gone back to sleep. Like this early, this is just... Anyway, but maybe it's working for her.

Well, she is the show's serial napper, too. So we wouldn't put it past her. Okay, here we go. We're just in the elevator at the moment. What you might not know at home is that Megan has a luxurious building car park as well. We park 10 kilometres or anything. At least 10.20.

Mike Hosking and Megan Pappas. The only two people. Yeah. And Stephen Joyce, the head of our board, but here we go. Oh, here she is. She's sleeping in the car. Have you been snoozing? No.

You're definitely been sleasing in the car. She's... She's looking glassy-eyed. What is not? Okay, so what have you been doing for the last 45 minutes? I have been getting here. You were here. Producer Troy followed you in.

He was behind you on the motor. and then he said she's been sitting in her car for a really long time. I may have fallen in the way. There we go. Well, hopefully, I don't even know what song we're going to do right. John O'Ben and Megan for podcast.

That's. Cassie Anderson joins us in the studio now. Great to have you here. Hello, I'm back. Last time you came in here, we just was about to leave textbooks. Textbook interview. We had a good time.

It was good. And you just picked up your hot drink, a coffee. I threw it on you. Oh, boy, yeah. I think I went, like, a hug goodbye that went. It was on me. I felt bad and it went everywhere. Yeah, we're still beefing over.

We are still beefing over. I try to buy you like an apology coffee afterwards, you know, just to replace it. But yeah. You're an oat milk person for me, me? I am an oat milk. Thank God it didn't stink out the studio with milky residue. Did you give me a regular one, just like a normal milk? Just a, yeah.

Mess with your digestive system. She was in the toilet for an hour. We guys have you back. Exciting stuff for you at the moment. Yeah, crazy stuff going on at the moment. busy. Nice to be spending some time with you guys. But yeah, I'm going on tour. I'm opening for Melanie C. I think

we spoke about her last time I was here as well. You didn't tell us you're opening for her though. No. I don't think I knew at that point. It happened in like the space of a week. How did it come about? Did she call you? Yeah, just kind of like her management and I were chatting and she was like, we're looking for an opener for her Australian shows.

Are you keen? And I was like, absolutely I'm keen. So yeah. Because she was your mentor, of course, on the voice as well. And you guys have kept in touch. It's pretty cool to know that she not only likes your performance, but to bring you on tour with her. It's amazing. It's so cool.

I think it really speaks to how just down to earth she is and how supportive she is, but also, like, we got along really well. And I think it's nice to know that, like, outside of a TV show like that, you can still have, like, a friendship, which is really cool. This is nice. You don't get much of that in TV, mate, soulless industry. Now, tell me, what's the last text you sent her? Probably something private

Yeah My phone's out there but honestly it was probably something like Tor, let's go Oh yeah A bunch of like muscle emojis Yeah okay nice Can you play a game with you Have you tried that reverse singing app?

No Well if we've got a treat for you Yeah I explained it really badly last time But you just got to sing you sing one line any one line of maybe one of your songs. Probably the shorter, the better would be my tip. Okay, we'll get you to sing it into the phone,

and then it'll play it back to you in reverse. Okay. And then you've got to see if you can, like, sing the reverse of that. And then we'll flip it back around and... See how you went. See how you went. Okay. So the only problem is you just got to come over here,

because it's just plugged in, yeah. All right, let's give this a go. Okay, Cassie Anderson, reverse singing. So we're going to get your... Yeah, yeah. I'm going to get you sing one line, a small part of your song, maybe seconds to midnight. Can I just do that?

Yeah. Okay. All right, let's do it. You don't have to hold it down too. You're just tap in it. Yeah. Are you telling me how to use a phone? I was thinking that.

I was thinking that. Don't take it for it. I might look old, I know my way around the phone. Thank you very much, Cassie Anderson. Do you know they take photos nowadays as well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Calculated too.

It's crazy. Okay, here we're going to tell him to use the phone. Oh, shaker, I love that. That's so good. I'm thinking cheese of all the people to ask. You don't get tech support from them, that's for sure. Well, no, Sassy Henderson. I'm so sorry.

No, don't. Don't apologize. No, it's like mixed between millennial and mansplaining. We're never inviting Cassie Hedison back on to the show by the one. No, she's coming back all the time, that's for sure. That's so good. I'm going to sing. Okay, here we go.

Seconds to midnight. And then reverse. And then miss next. So you're going to hear. a few times, just keep playing it. Yeah, Bim Snickers. Yeah, I'm in the Snickets.

Okay. Okay, now you record yourself singing it backwards. Okay, now we'll play it back. What's you got? Seconds to Nimmite. Oh, second to Midmite.

That was pretty good. That was one of the better attempts we've had. And we'll give a 10 out of 10 for the SaaS as well. Cassie Anderson. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits I went to pick up my daughter yesterday

From her friend's place And the mother Who's got two younger boys as well She said Just big deep breaths Didn't even say anything actually She's like they are They're caged animals at the moment

Especially after being locked inside A weekend too Yeah It's been a really heavy Personal hygiene Half an hour On the program But yesterday

I had to go to the chemist For a range of items on the list But you know One of them I remembered. I had been listening and remember that the household was requiring some some feminine-based products. Right.

Okay. So I was like, okay, I'll be able to do the dutiful thing. Yeah. And I'm not across the full range of products available on the shelf. Yeah. But, geez, they come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, wings. And people have a very strong preference. Yeah, you've got inserty bits, wing bits, all sorts.

It's not something that you like to just grab all evers on special. I understand. You stick to your guns. Yeah. I felt like I was buying parts for a small aircraft or something. So not knowing exactly what was required, I started, I was like, okay, it was a pretty empty aisle. I can take photos of what I think I'd seen in a cupboard before

and fire that back to get some feedback, whether that was the correct way. And it wasn't. It wasn't the first instance. Not opting for the wings today. That's fine. But then we got awkward is there was another shopper.

And she was perusing the products and she knew what she wanted. But I was sort of behind her taking photographs of the products trying to send them back to the people in my life and I could tell she out of her peripheral was like, is this man... Why is this guy taking photos?

Yeah. She's like, this is a really niche content this guy's creating here. He's shopping for these products. I always think honesty is the best policy in that scenario. I would have just said to her, I'm firing these back to the women.

What do you go for, mate? I need to figure out what they want. I'm not trying to be a weirdo. Yeah, I could tell. She's like, why is this guy documenting my personal shopping experience? But I've still got a couple of the picks on the photo stream now. So they'll live on. Oh, you took a selfie with them.

That's weird. Like an influencer? Duck face it in a peace sign. Get your Libras. Hashtagg, John O, 25-cent discount. from the person that you were texting. Surely they just tell you what they want. The worst thing is,

is like you're waiting for correspondence. Yeah, I've taken one and then I got the feedback back, but then I was like, oh, is this the one? I see. Sending another picture back. Right. Anyway.

Did you find the right one? Did I what, mate? That I'll never forget. Buried in this brain forever. He's got on his photo stream. That's why he's not going to be. Yeah, that's right. He's got that lady in it as well, too.

John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hats Just talking about the damage That you've caused around your household It's always unintentional damage Isn't it? Ben you painted the scuffs on your walls

Inside with a whole different type of paint Yeah A sheen I thought it was close but it wasn't yet Now there's dots all over your house But your wife loves Yeah loves it loves it And Jono proved that over his little break

He shouldn't be left at home alone No You killed your whole lawn Yeah And it's not bouncing back to it's like Surely grow This is a thing. It's just like a...

Come on. Anyway. Did you go out there? Come on, mate. Yeah, you can do it. 0-800 of the hits. So what have you completely destroyed around the house, Joe? Well, it's our car bonnet actually.

The car needed a... I hadn't cleaned it for about three or four weeks. And I've been planting at, parking it underneath a really sticky tree that had sticky seeds. Oh, yeah. Anyway, decided to clean it. Just tried the normal, you know, the hit mitt. to wash them off, wasn't working.

I thought, I know I've got one of those no scouring pads in the kitchen. Or like a dish pad where you get the baked on right? Yeah, but the ones that advertise, you know, no scratches, blah, blah, blah. Using my initiative, went and grab that, I did a tiny wee bit under the wheel arch and it got the stuff off.

It was sweet. So I proceeded over the whole car bodied. She did a test patch, though. And I thought, oh my God, this is great. this really works. The next morning I pulled the, drove out to go to work and with the sun hitting the bonnet, I just, it was just a mass of

scratches. Oh, they should really stipulate. It works, doesn't scare anything apart from car bonnets. No, no. And I took the car into the panel beat, a most embarrassing moment and the guy I talked to laughed out loud and he said to his mate, hey

Dave or whoever, come and come and listen to this. Oh, you don't want that. Yeah, we're not married anymore. Oh, you're not? Was that a breaking point? It was, yeah, it was a relationship killer. Oh, was it?

Over a scratch carb on it. Yeah. Well, no, I'm exaggerating. There are deeper issues. There were deeper issues, yeah, but we'll be good. That was the straw. Oh, that is, well, that's a beauty, Joe. That is a beauty, yeah.

Using the old, the old stiloh to get the, you just told the story. Why am I recapping it? Thank you so much. Okay. Have a good one, Joe. And we've got another Joe with us on our 800 of the hits. How's it? Happy New Year.

Oh, you too. Yeah, thank you. I ride you to destroy around the house, Joe. My partner is an agricultural spraying contractor, and we added some weeds down the driveway and stuff killed, so he brought his truck home, and he went inside to have lunch, and so I decided I'd have a turn with the truck

and got a little trigger-happy with the spraying gun and killed absolutely everything like our orchards. Every week, yeah, everything. The orchard. Oh, no. An entire orchard. How big was the orchard? It's not too big, but it is like one side of our whole property.

But yeah, absolutely everything's gone. So, yeah, we don't bring the truck home anymore. No, it's probably with good reason. Oh, that is brilliant. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. T.M. Megan. Okay, so every Tuesday we bring you a dear Megan, someone slid into my DMs and asking for help with a personal situation.

We put it to you anonymously so you can pass, I guess, judgment and advice on. This one today, I have no idea how to broach. That is a tough one. I'm going to caveat this by saying it's neither of you too. You guys smell great all the time. You've never smelled like B.O. Okay. Awkward if I chose this is the way to tell you.

Yeah, I know. I don't like that. Sure. I've been secretly like you put your nose down down your top and just try and catch a whiff to see if it is you. No. It'd be a long runway if this was the way you were telling us. No. So it says, I'm going to be blunt. I have a smelly workmate.

I've worked with him for a few months now and I can't cope. The BEO is intense and it's not any sort of cultural thing. He's just a massive nerd and for some reason clearly isn't wearing deodorant or maybe not enough. What am I supposed to do? I love my job, but it's like choking me, and I really don't think I can tell him to his face. Has anyone else dealt with this?

She had to call producer Troy a massive. He is a massive, sir. He doesn't smell. It had nothing to us. It was Troy the whole time. It's neither of you two in the studio. Troy loves an Armageddon. Hey, true or false, when you go into Armageddon,

is there are... They need a link stand there, don't they? But anyway, we'll love focus on this. That's a tough one because it's personal hygiene and it says it in the name, it's personal. Yeah. Like, how do you... I know, especially as adults too.

It's a, you know, it's a conversation you'd probably feel more comfortable having around, you know, with kids or whatever, you know, as a parent or, or, you know, a school teacher or stuff, as soon as you go. I literally, I wouldn't say anything. There's no way I would broach that.

No, we had a previous workplace, someone who works there. And again, I would never say anything, but they would walk into the room, and I would have to hold your breath and try and not breathe through it like it was intense. And you go, like, this is a genuine question. I don't mean this is a digging comment in any way,

but like, how do you not know? Like, does your nose just sort of become accustomed and reset itself and go, oh, this is the new normal? Well, you know how you put, like, fragrances on? You spray it in the morning or whatever, and you can smell it, but then you don't smell it anymore. but everyone else can still smell it on you. So maybe it's like that.

You've calibrated your nostrils. And would you want to like, okay, let's say it is. Okay, for example, I would say it's me. Okay, I feel like I want to know, but it would be a hard conversation for other people to have, right? You know, because you want to know if you're like, oh my God, have I been that person and that people are talking about. Yeah, but also, so my wife's always telling me I need to be more empathetic. So if I'm thinking about this person's feelings, if they get told in whatever fashion, they're going to play, there's going to be like flashbacks of their life going.

When have I been in this situation and people haven't told me? So what are we going to know? Firstly, do they tell them? And then if they do, what are they going to do? How do you tell someone? Yeah, have you been in this situation? Some people are commenting. There's actually a few comments saying that you should leave soap or deodorant on their desk.

Just hope they get that in. Secrets. Hey, we're going to do an early secret Santa this year in the office. I got you. Don't joke because I did secrets. I was part of a secret center once where someone got given deodorant. And we were all like, oh. And was it an issue?

No, not that I knew. Oh, right. But that's a good little play. That's a good play. Secret Saturday, we're doing it. Oh, hang on. A midwinter Christmas. Yeah, half way.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Dear Megan. All right, so the Dear Megan this morning is related to a colleague at work that's a bit smelly. They don't know what to do. They've been there for a few months and they don't know how to approach it. we want to know if you've been in the situation

or if you have an idea of what they should do. Do you say nothing in suffer or do you ruin their life and have them replay every lift ride they've taken every moment that someone's stepped back from them in a conversation they're going to go, oh my gosh, this has gone on for decades. But then it's also that classic thing where if everyone's talking about you, about anything, would you want to know? Because obviously everyone in the office is talking about them.

I'd be like, at least people are talking. That's least irrelevant. Okay, so what are we going to do? What are you going to do? Because if you feel like I get what you're saying about replaying everything, but the same time you're like going forward, at least I can stop being there. Yeah, I hear it. I hear it.

The second half of your life, you can be. It's a sensitive smelling situation. Could you take it to HR? Yeah, I guess so. It's good thought. Get someone else to have the awkward conversation. Yeah, but if maybe your workplace doesn't have an HR, I don't know. Producer Grace, who's our show's HR.

Gen Z producer Grace, how would you approach this? I honestly think I've nailed it. So I'll start with Hey Deva. How's it going? See, I know Grace would tell me and I think I'd be fine with Grace telling me. Okay, so it goes, hey, diva, how's it going? I'll be like, how's the fam? Like, get into some casual chat.

And I'll say, hey. Hey, I said, I'll say, hey, if you had food in your teeth, you'd want me to tell you. And they'll be like, yeah, obviously. And I'll be like, so the food in your teeth is the way you've been smelling just recently, just recently. If I was in your position, I'd want to know. So this comes from a place of love. And then I'd say, let me know if you want to go perfume shopping. I love it.

Oh, nice. See, yeah, that's good. That's pretty good. Would you also be reading it off your phone as you were doing now? And doing both roles, too. I've got a script here. You might have to know, right? You want to know, okay.

Let's get to your calls and text, thank you, but just, guys. Chase, morning to you. Happy New Year. Good morning, happy New Year. Good day. What would you do in this situation, buddy? Oh, well, like, probably 10 years ago back when I was working in Hospital, so we had a similar situation.

And my manager, like, we all told my manager, and so one day she put him to the side and gave him a can of links, And then after that day, holy heck, he couldn't get the can of links off of him. He was, like, just showering. He was nice. He was a really nice young fella, too. And, like, say, you didn't want to bust his confidence or nothing.

But, like I say, just, I guess, didn't know. And then that way, they've got that, you know, that fair idea instead of, like, say, just been like, oh, shiz, is that me? Well, he obviously was happy to know, because he, and they loved the smell of Africa, obviously. Oh, he did. He did. Indeed. Is that an antiposrant? Or is that just covering the bio?

Because then you've got, like. I know. That was the... The B.O. Mix with the morning, I guess, and apply it straight away. It's the official odour of every teenage boys' school. B.O. and Links Africa. Yeah.

So someone... That indeed. Someone has a message on our Facebook page saying that a 17-year-old, they had to approach him because he actually had never been taught and didn't know about deodorant. So they were like, you know, you just put this on and then you don't smell bad. No one had explained deodorant to the guy. No one had explained, yeah.

Someone's text through saying some people can. Don't know it. their own body odour because of some medical reasons as well, you know, like, yeah, so it can happen. We don't actually not aware of it. Oh yeah. Yeah, because we did ask, how would you not catch a whiff of yourself as well? And your nostrils obviously equalise and go, this is, this is what we're dealing with now. Andrea, morning to you. Good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well. If you're in this situation, how would you, how would you deliver the news or not? A few things

I think you just have to be straight up but be kind about it as well sometimes it just has to be said You know You just have to mention you know maybe pull them aside and just say hey look

Your body odours are just a little bit Strong You're stanky Yeah Maybe not like that Megan It could be reasons why they're not Well that's the thing you don't know.

Could be medical-based as well. Yeah, I mean, that's a really good point, Andrew. Take one more quickly. Grant. There you are going, guys. The sensitive odour situation, how are you approaching this? I had a situation, mate. I was a supervisor of a team, and we were doing a four-day training of restraints,

which means that we were going under people's armpits. Um-pits, and this guy had real bad odour, or a person had a real bad odors. So we ended up getting a team tin of underarm. And every day before we'd go to this course, we'd go, right, let's put her on, because I don't want to smell you to everybody and we did that at work for a while but it embedded into his clothes as well so as a supervisor I just went up to him

and said mate everybody's complaining about your smell so here here's a clean uniform get rid of the other one burn it and I want you to put this under arm on under the everyday sort of thing and every time he missed I'd go up and say to mate you're starting to hum again so

like I keep on my teeth just to fall by the horns mate tell him I'd listen to Grant too. Yeah, Grant, straight up. That's good. You're saying to hump, mate. All right.

I love that, Grant. John O' Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Yeah, the Masters Golf was on yesterday, wasn't it? Rory McElroy, the Irish golfer. He had a Kiwi Poonamu in his bag. For good luck. You know, he was in the lead by a lot.

I think the biggest ever lead and almost lost it. But, yeah, in the end, he won. So maybe that was a bit of a good luck champion. Yeah. He came to New Zealand and played golf with John Key, and he gave him. And he had it in his bag last year and won and so kept it in his bag. Oh, that's nice story.

Yeah, I love a story. Now, I just want to ask you guys, and you're listening to you can text 4487 if you have one of these in your bedroom. Now, we have a random chair in our bedroom that I don't think any human body's ever sat in. But this chair's main function is to hold clothes that aren't dirty enough to be washed

but aren't clean enough to be trusted with other clean clothes. So all my pants I've worn over the week, t-shirts, jerseys. They're not ready for the washing machine. They just sit in this chair and they pile up slowly over the seven days. And then I kind of clear them hopefully on the weekend if I could be asked. Have you got this chair in your room? Don't have a chair, but we have an area that definitely holds clothes.

The clothing, yeah. We have like a little, I guess, I don't know, like a nook underneath a window thing. That, yeah, again, no one sits in. But, yeah, it becomes like a holding. Sometimes with folded washing, you get to the process of folding the washing and the lugs, and you put it on the pot. And you just use that as a little like, oh, you go to your undies and stuff from there for the week.

I didn't put a chair in our room for that exact reason, but we do have a pillow box, so that just makes us the same thing. You need something. You're right. It's either like duty clothes or clean clothes in a pile folded. Yeah. So it kind of just, you take it out of the clean clothes and then you put it on the dirty clothes.

They're in limbo. They're in limbo, undecided these clothes. I'm so glad that you do that too. Yeah. Because I always look at it and I'm like, you're an adult. You're a grown up. Like, put your clothes away. No, but it's like a temporary thing.

You get around to it. You know where it's come back to bite me? Because I always banging on to Poppy, my daughter, clean your room, keep your room clean. She comes up to our room. It's a nightmare, mate. She's like, clothes littered everywhere. She started to use that again to us as well.

And I was like, yeah, fair point. Every now and then when you actually clean it up and when you actually, like, put away your clothes, you're like, it looks nice in here. It feels good. Yeah, yeah. That only happens once every couple of weeks, though. Yeah, but it's life admin, though, we're in it.

I'm glad we're not alone. That we're not alone. The clothing chair. Shout out to that. But it's like, yeah. Oh, no, Nick. Jonas, doesn't he have a chair that he sits in? Like, yeah.

Oh, because he doesn't like doing anything in bed. In bed. So he pulls, so Priyanka, his wife, will lie in bed and watch TV or whatever. He pulls up a chair beside her and will watch the movie. He's like, I refuse to, like, Megan, you love doing lots of stuff in bed. You'll eat her like a roast dinner and all stuff. And he's like, nah, bed is just for sleeping or whatever, you know? He'll leave for sleeping.

So he's got a chair, but he will sit in the chair and like, they'll watch a TV show or whatever. That's so weird. He'll sit just the chair. He'll sit just a chair. Do you don't want to just like have a little? a cuddle? He's like, sitting in the

cack chair, man. I knew you, that's all you're braided. At least someone's using the chair. At least someone's

using the chair. Not dumping old clothes on it.