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Episode Date: February 9, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY Ben had an awkward mother-in-law mix-up... What’s David Hasselhoff really like in person? Megan's discovered a new ick about her husband... Would Jono’s antics stress you out?  The things we do for love... like standing in cow sh*t! Megan’s American Election-themed birthday party?! 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 Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday morning. Great to have you with us. A real fun one today. We're just talking about chewing yogurt as well, too, which you will hear at some stage on the podcast.

Ben's like, I don't know what you mean. No, I didn't. It's just, you don't really think about it. Yeah, you spoon it into your mouth instead of just going, hmm, and swallowing. Some people chew it like it's got substance that needs to be broken down. Right. Your big bugbear with yogurt is yogurt, isn't it?

Yeah, my mum's a yogurt. She would say yogurt. Yeah. Does she say vitamins too? No, she doesn't. No, she's very unpredictable. She has no rival reason why she sees stuff like the way she does every layer is a

surprise with Jenny I do remember my dad as far as eating goes you know with my when my stepmom was

first on the scene he would often have a bite and then he would go mmm and look at us like we need to

go oh this is lovely and so he'd often eat his food and go mmm and look around and we'd run

on the table like so we'd all go oh yeah this is lovely thank you so that was something he

did sort of keep it in his mouth and then go, mmm. Is that a good way to acknowledge the chef? Yeah, exactly. Marinate in your mouth. For us to try and go, oh, this is lovely, thank you for this. He couldn't like swallow it and then be like, oh, this is delicious, thank you. Yeah, look at us all. You don't like it when you make dinner and then your family comes out and sprays sauce all over it, do you? Sometimes.

Well, it's probably just the condiments without trying stuff. Yeah. Just putting salt on something straight away. Salt on when you haven't tried it. I'll put some salt. I seasoned it to perfection. Try a bit. Yeah, exactly.

Try it then if you want to add something to it. Yes, I agree with that. Or just try it. You might not need to put a condiment on it. Do you hit them up? Do you something to it. Yes. I agree with that. Or just try it. You might not need to put a condiment on it. Do you hit them up? Do you hit them up? Yeah, I totally do. They don't listen to me, but that's fine.

Anyway, I hope you listened to the podcast. It's coming up for you now. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I need to reflect on something that happened a few days ago when we were calling someone for the radio show. And we tried to call. Yeah, we didn't really address it too much at the time because

this was off air we went on air we were trying to record someone for the radio show so we rang a couple of times and they didn't answer and when they did answer they said oh sorry we i didn't answer i thought it was the mother-in-law now this is where i you know me try yeah we in radio we're used to laughing along and helping each other out, even when things are not funny. But I'm like, this is a mother-in-law joke. That's 90% of our show, just laughing and helping each other out. And it's a mother-in-law

you're thinking, this is a mother-in-law gag. Yeah, I did answer. It's a mother-in-law. I wouldn't answer because it's a mother-in-law. And I laughed heartily at the mother-in-law joke. Jono and I did not. We didn't. Well, I had serious undertones. Sorry I didn't answer. I thought it was a mother-in-law. I laughed heartily at the mother-in-law joke. Jono and I did not. We didn't. Well, I had serious undertone. Sorry I didn't answer. I thought it was the mother-in-law.

I laughed. You're like mother-in-law's gag. Yeah, yeah. Might be answering a phone to them. And then the person paused and went, yeah, she's not well at the moment. She's in hospital. So I'm just waiting for a call. At that point, I realized. The laughter stopped. Oh, God, I've so I'm just waiting for a call. At that point,

I realised... The laughter stopped. Oh God, I've laughed at something that wasn't a joke. No, it's very serious. And then what do you say after that? Nothing. You say, sorry, I shouldn't have laughed.

I thought you were doing a mother-in-law gag. Sorry about our rude friend. To be honest, it's a great mother-in-law gag though. Sorry, I didn't answer. I thought it was a mother-in-law. I thought it was a mother-in-law. Stop there. I mean, to be fair, mother-in-law gag though. Sorry, I didn't answer. I thought it was a mother-in-law. I thought it was a mother-in-law. Stop there.

I mean, to be fair, mother-in-laws get a hard time. It's not always the case. Jono and I didn't laugh. We didn't get the gag. Mother-in-laws are great. What are you trying to say? I think my mother-in-law's great too. Joyce and I get on great. Joyce Boyce? We get on great. It really sucked the air out of the old comedy,

didn't it, when he chucked the hospital bombshell. Yeah, there's no real coming back from that, is there? I told you I did that the other day. There was a friend who was mocking me when I was on the phone to Jennifer, my wife. He was putting on a mocking voice. And then I was like, oh, I'm sorry to hear she was a good lady. And when's the funeral?

And boy, oh, boy, that stopped the mockeries dead in the tracks. Because Jen had already hung up though. I was just talking to myself, just being an absolute monster. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. As I mentioned before, we had this amazing, amazing call that came through on Friday.

We're talking about the famous people that you've maybe run into throughout your life and this incredible call from David who ran into a david have a listen sorry i just bloody uh give me a second i set it up it was champagne intro for some reason which wasn't the work computer yeah i'm like oh he's got it yeah no i hear it is mate okay all right hey so the last 10 seconds, if you're listening, just edit that out of your head. I got it.

Okay, here we go. It was over in Australia, over in Port Douglas, and it was a hot, hot day, and me and one of the Aussie boys decided to go down to a waterhole for a swim. I saw a hemsworth. So we parked up at the top of the track there and seen this extremely flash camping bus.

Didn't really think much of it. And we just started walking down the track. And when we got down to the bottom of the track where the waterhole was, there was David Bowie sitting against the tree. And he had this beautiful woman with him. She looked like a supermodel. What? So, yeah, I just walked straight up to David Bowie

and says, oh, how's it going, Davey? You're getting away from things, are you? And I put my hand out and he shook my hand. He shook your hand? He shook my hand, which was awesome. And then I thought, this is going to be awesome. I'm going to have a good conversation with him. And then my Aussie mate

that was with me completely lost the plot and he started going oh my god, I can't believe it, David Bowie right in front of us. And when he started behaving like this Bowie just shook his head and packed his things up and

walked up to the top of the track and at the top of the track we had Mayuk parked on the top of the track with this crazy blue Heeler on the back and as David Bowie went to walk past the ute this blue Heeler just snapped out and just missed David Bowie's

head David just pulled his head back with an extreme near miss and jumped in the camper van and drove away and I laughed at the Aussie mate thinking man that would have made world headline news With an extreme near miss and jumped in the camper van and drove away. And I laughed at the Aussie mate thinking, man, that would have made world headline news if your dog actually got him. G'day, Dave.

Getting away from it, are we? Yeah, yeah. Oh, what an adventure. How amazing is that? David Bowie. Meeting some legend in a Bunnings hat and a 4X thing in the middle of nowhere. Getting away from it, are you, David? Oh, Dave.

I don't think I'd have the balls to call him Dave. Oh, that is a really, really good story. So, yeah, we want to shut this open. Who have you run into? Famous people you've bumped into. I don't think anyone can really compete with that, Dave Bowie, in the middle of the outback. I would say probably for us, and, you know,

we're very privileged in our job to meet people of that ilk from time to time, was probably Bieber. You probably couldn't have got anyone bigger at that point in time than Bieber. But we were at the time, because Bieber came onto the TV show, we were at the time on The Rock, and you couldn't get a worse artist to be associated with two hosts from The Rock. Caused quite the kerfuffle,

didn't it? From listeners? No, from management. Management The Rock. Crisis meetings. Crisis, the boss was threatening

to attack Bieber. He was going to hide in a bush and attack him. He was like, I've got to get some credibility back for The Rock radio station. For us,

it was great. I'd meet Bieber any day of the week. I remember there was a big meeting, big management meeting after the whole incident. So we met Bieber, it was great. We'd meet Beaver any day of the week. I remember there was a big meeting, big management meeting after the whole incident. So we met Beaver.

He was lovely. He was flawless. He was just like just a normal teenage kid, you know? Then there was a crisis meeting afterwards and they started debating

over what celebrities would be okay for us to have on the TV show and I think they said it was on Katy Perry because she had big boobies or something.

Oh my god Get away with that Okay Don't have to focus on her music That was the end result Right now we're talking famous people you've run into Yeah and Alan how are you? Hey pretty good thanks

We're doing well Most famous person you met there, Al? Yeah, it was Muhammad Ali. What? Yeah. Wow. Way back, I was working airport security back in the mid-1990s. Remember, you think Muhammad lit the Olympic flame at the Atlanta Olympics.

That's right, yeah, he did. Yeah, and after that, he went on a world tour and uh anyway we part of what we did with security at the airport we had to search american aircraft before they left new zealand uh to go back to the states so we went down and um somebody very excitedly said to me you never guess who's standing at the front of the plane um i guess muhammad ali and i went whoa and i looked around and there's this who's standing at the front of the plane. It goes to Muhammad Ali and I went, whoa, and I looked around and there was this huge shape there at the front of the plane, greeting people.

So we had to do after our security search, Muhammad was walking about in the transit area and he said, yeah, you can go and meet him. So she went up and said, I shook hands and went, wow, like, privileged to meet you. You know, keep up the good work kind of thing.

Well, he's retired. He was travelling around meeting people and doing a sort of, I don't know, some kind of friendship thing. Bit of a PR tour? Pressing the flesh? Yeah, that's the word, PR. Yeah, well, that's incredible. You met one of history's

iconic figures. Yes, indeed, and unfortunately I didn You met one of history's iconic figures. Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, I didn't have, back then, didn't have a cell phone or anything with me, so I never got a photo. But it's something I'll always remember, meeting the legend himself. Well, you have to store it in nature's photo stream,

your memory. Absolutely, yep. Yeah, now that would have been so far less punishing for celebrities back in those days too. Yeah, without cell phones. Just a conversation like a normal person. Maybe the odd autograph or something. Yeah. Do you have a pen?

Yeah. Love your work, mate. Have a good one. Thanks a lot. Take care. Appreciate you calling. Anna. Good morning, guys.

Good morning. Famous person you met? David Hasselhoff. Oh, wow, the Hoff. 25 years ago. Really? Whereabouts was this? This was in Auckland, and it was when he was doing the Knight Rider tour.

So he had the dark hair still, and I was working in a nightclub. You were working in a nightclub, were you? Yeah. And why did he come into the nightclub, did he? What sort of nightclub was it? I know, this sounds very nefarious. What sort of club? It was a really cool nightclub.

Yeah, it was a cool nightclub. And it was a standard nightclub, boys. Come on. Okay, all right. Stock standard nightclub. The scene is set. Okay. And David Hasselhoff walks in?

He walks in. He's sitting at this table with a few other people. So I go up. It's my table. Offer one getting their order, which I can't to this day remember what it was. But then I ask for his credit card because he's the one ordering the drinks. So he hands it over. I go and swipe it. And it's back in the good old

days when you used the paper swiper. Oh yeah, shrink, shrink. That's right. That was a very trusting system, wasn't it? Yeah. Well, when I swiped the card, I then looked at it and it was expired.

Oh really? And I had to go back to him and tell him he couldn't use it. Oh, degrading. How did the Hoff take this news? He was actually really lovely. He's like, you got me. He's like, you got me. I've been getting away with it all over the world.

Well, no, I got in a shit with his manager and he went off at me for asking for his credit card. What else would he mean to do? I know, right? I mean, he's just a person. He's obviously been writing off his famousness to not even know that it was expired. Well, I would say so. But, you know, the lovely thing was I saw a little

photo of his wife in his wallet. Wouldn't that be sweet? Jeez, you really got in deep with me. Look at this critic. Oh, thank you so much for sharing that awesome story. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. We have a passion fruit vine. But you think of any time you've eaten anything passion fruit that has the pips in it. Do you bite the pips? Do I bite the passion fruit pips? Yeah. I can't remember how I digest passion fruit, to be honest.

Passion fruit pips are tiny though, aren't they? They're very tiny. They're that small. They're biteable. Do they make a crunching noise? Do they? You just swallow it straight down. You're like, yummy, yummy.

But my husband sits there and chews the pips, and they're crunchy, and it drives me. I'm like, don't whine. You're not getting anything from the pips. They don't taste good. He's getting satisfaction. He sits there and crunches the pips, and it's really giving me the ick.

I'm like, stop it. It's like people who chew yogurt. You don't chew it. It's taking the passion out of the passion. You put it in your mouth, you're like, yum, and you swallow it down. You really have a thing with fully grown men digesting stuff. The other day, I took it up with Matt Anderson, our father of two children. He comes in here sucking

his yogurt out of a child's yogurt sucky pouch. He had a little sucky pouch. He's saying it's not the yogurt it's not for kids. It's like it's a protein yogurt. He said it was big boy yogurt. And you had an issue with the way this guy's digesting yogurt, the way your husband's crunching on passion fruit. Maybe

you're the problem here. If he wasn't chewing his yogurt,'s crunching on passion fruit. Maybe you're the problem here. If he wasn't chewing his yogurt, that would have been even worse. Maybe I am the problem. What do you mean by chewing it? Like eating it like it's... You know when you put it in your mouth and then like chewing,

like there's something to chew. Do you do that, Ben? I don't know. I'm just trying to think. Matt Anderson, our boss, is just texting Capitals just to clarify it's an adult pouch. An adult pouch of yogurt.

I'm not sure it's got a picture of Moana on it, but yeah. We can all appreciate the genius of that movie. So what would you like Andrew to do? Please stop chewing the passion fruit. Don't chew your yogurt. Stop chewing and start sucking, Andrew. That's what you need to do, my friend. John O'Bannon Megan.

The podcast. The podcast. The Hats. I think all schools are back after that very weird, staggered start to the year that all the schools have had. Everyone's back to it, eh? Yeah, back to it. 10th of Feb, finally New Zealand gets all the gears cranking. So many unread emails from New Zealand today to be like,

oh, jeez, a lot of stuff is going on. Backed up over the last two months. We wanted to know this morning what celebrities you've run into after the amazing call that we had on Friday about meeting David Bowie in the middle of the outback in Australia. Dave. Now, Miriam. Who's the famous person you've met there, Miriam?

I actually got to meet five of the six titanium guys and I actually didn't get to meet Andrew Pappas. Oh, you met the titanium. Now, Megan's husband, Andrew Pappas, wasn't a boy band titanium. You met all of titanium. But not Andrew. Yeah, I only got to meet five. What would you say if we told you we could maybe one day make that happen?

I would absolutely go bonkers. It's okay to say you'd pass, you know? You'd pass. I tell you what, Megan, you might want to

keep Miriam away from Andrew by the sounds of it. Nah, you missed the best one, Miriam. Yeah, I definitely missed

the best one because he was somewhere in the country. Well, yeah, what was he doing? Where was he? Yeah, Megan. Yeah, Megan.

Yeah, Megan. Are you saying Megan was the Yoko Ono of the group? It's not the first time I've been called that. It was the opening of Kiwi-Yo in Bayfield. Oh, the opening of Kiwi-Yo? Yeah. Sorry. You dragged him away from the opening of Kiwi-Yo in Bayfield.

Oh, Miriam, that's such a great call. We appreciate you sharing it with us. That's all right. I won't actually go bonkers. I won't actually go bonkers. I've come to terms with it now. Megan doesn't go bonkers every night either. The novelty's worn off for Megan too, Miriam.

You have a great one. Kim, welcome. How are you? I'm very well, thanks. And you? Yeah, lovely to have you on. Biggest celebrity you met from the last 25 years? Anthony Kiedis in HMV store in London.

Whoa, so Anthony Kiedis, Red Hot Chili Peppers. Where was he in? What store? He was in the Regent Street store years ago. So I'd seen his concerts the night before in Hyde Park, and I'd gone into the CDs to get some CDs. And I was standing there, and I looked to my right, and there was Anthony Kiedis.

And he went, hi. I was like, hi, and I just pretended. And then some young girls noticed him and started coming over and squealing, and they wanted his autograph. So he asked me, do you have a pen? I was like, sure, here we go. Borrowed our pen, signed a couple of autographs and some CDs for some people

and left And did you get anything signed or just your pen you just handed over your pen I lost my pen to Anthony he asked me a pen He didn't even give it back No he just walked off We will get that pen back for you

I will make it my life mission. Oh, it's okay. It's only a pen. It's probably one of those awkward things you start hanging around and you're like, oh, he's going to give me the pen back. Anthony! Anthony! Anthony! He's like, here's an autograph. No, I just want my pen.

People always do steal your pens though, don't they? A lot of the time they don't even know they're doing it. That's a very cool story, though. You're just hanging out next to Anthony Kiedis. Did you see what CDs he was looking at? He wasn't looking at the Chili's albums, was he? No, he wasn't, actually. He was actually looking at some Rod Stewart stuff.

Rod Stewart? What were you looking at at the time? I was looking at the Chili Peppers, Violent Femmes, and some Nine Inch Nails. Oh, so, yeah, good. Oh, you were a good rocker. So he clearly was looking for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He's in the R section.

Yeah, he's like, oh, just scoot down to Rod. Pretending to look at Rod. You're next door at Red Hot. Yeah, I see what he's doing. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Guy got hit by a lightning in Taupo and survived because he was wearing jandals, I reckon.

It was rubber jandals on the scaffolding. Yeah. There's no way I'd be up scaffolding in a thunderstorm. No, yeah. In rubber jandals. But anyway, saved his life. Yeah. Right, jandals.

There's a lot of parts of that that was dangerous already. Yeah. It was like, ah, sounded far away. Oh, no. What a Kiwi battler. The humble jandal saving the law. We should try and talk to him. That's a great story.

Well, over the weekend, the weather was lovely and we managed to escape. Went away for the weekend. But, you know, when you're leaving Friday, I felt like I said, pick the kids up from school and just bang, you're on, you're on. You know, and you feel like you're in one of those disaster movies where there's like a mega tsunami on the way to the city and everyone's fleeing the city you know but except for tsunami it's just a lady in a suzuki swift or something behind you but it was a race against time but packing one of the pressure points in my marriage is me doing random jobs when there's something more important at hand to be to be completed okay uh packing packing to go away that was apparently the prime right task that needed to be completed. Okay? Packing. Packing to go away.

That was apparently the prime task that needed to be completed. What do you mean apparently? Yeah, apparently. Of course it is. This is, and you know, I tie it back to another conversation we had a couple of months ago where Sunday night, seven o'clock,

I decided to completely rearrange the cupboard. I was frustrated with the cupboard. We got into an argument over who had more space in the cupboard. I'm claiming it was a 90-10 split, but anyway, Sunday night, not the time to rearrange the cupboard. We got into an argument over who had more space in the cupboard. I'm claiming it was a 90-10 split, but anyway, a Sunday night, not the time to rearrange

the cupboard. No. So, you know, we're packing to go away. The bags are packed. And Jen walks in to the bathroom. Everything from the bathroom

cupboard, I've just chucked out. It's all sitting on the floor. It's spread everything. So I've just gone in there to get my toilet bag to take away. But being whatever

personality I am, I've gone, oh, there's a lot of stuff in here I could just sort out. A lot of expired bottles of potions. Right, time to sort out, yeah. You know, boom. Great. It all comes out. Great. Yeah, great, bloody great.

Apparently not the time to do it. Not the time. No, no. You would have known that deep down it wasn't the time to do that either. She'll be like, why are you on the roof water blasting the roof? People are coming for dinner in about two minutes time. You know? Sometimes you just see stuff

that needs to be done and you have to just get it done. Don't you? I get frustrated with my wife because she always says, I'm like, yep, but not now. That's my thing. I'm like, yeah, I could do that,

but not now. That's a good thing. Yeah. It's like, yeah, because often she'll go, can you do that? And I'll be like, yep, but not now. Because that's one of those things.

Otherwise you get into those situations. Yeah. It's not the time for that.? And I'll be like, yep, but not now. Because that's one of those things. Otherwise you get into those situations. It's not the time for that. Yeah, absolutely, I'll do that, but not now. That's me. That's why I get a to-do list every day. Because I say, yep, but not now. So then I get a list. That's how you end up shaving your head in an Uber on the way to dinner.

People asking questions. I haven't shaved my head in an Uber. It's an extreme example. But I just need to control my Impulsiveness to do things John O'Bannon Megan The podcast Taylor Swift

A huge commitment that she's had to undertake One of Travis Kelsey's hobbies Yeah not only does she attend Most football games that she can Right she goes along And supports it which is great And she'll be there at the Superbowl today But he also has a podcast with his brother most football games that she can, right? She goes along. She goes along and supports him. Supportive partner, yeah. Which is great and she'll be there

at the Super Bowl today. But he also has a podcast with his brother, Jason Kelsey. I love how you call this a hobby. Didn't he just get a $100 million deal for this podcast? It's a nice little hobby.

We probably started as a little hobby. Side hobby. I think they got $100 million from Spotify or something, right? Didn't they? It's a crazy deal. So it's a little hobby.

Little hobby. It's a little podcast. Paying him more than the Super Bowl. But compared to her and the Eros tour, this is a little hobby. It's all relative, isn't it? Yeah.

Oh, he's got his little podcast. Struggling young couple. But she listens apparently to every podcast. Now, this is Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey's producer talking about the feedback that they get

and then you'll hear Travis come in and say, oh, she listens all the time have a listen she was very complimentary of the show oh she listens every week listens every week she's that's a commitment

mind you she's not doing much now she's not bloody touring around the world gallivanting around the world so she got she should give our podcast a listen

we need to boost some streaming numbers don don't we? Taylor, have you got some time on your hands, Taylor? She's probably listening to make sure he doesn't, like, divulge too much information about them. Well, that's true. Too much personal stuff. Don't say that, Travis.

Have you got to engage in your partner's hobbies, their little $100 million hobbies? I feel like I'm the punishing one in their relationship when it comes to, you know, like sports, particularly things like cricket that I'll have on, you know, does Amanda go along to cricket?

She doesn't mind going. She's now like, she actually does live live sports. She'll she's bullied herself into liking cricket. Yeah. She's really drawing a line at watching too much of it on the count. I'll be like, look,

it's games in quite close. You should watch. She's like, Oh yeah, I'll be there in a minute. It's really hard when you're like so passionate about it and they're like yeah but i know that but it's kind of now you're like it's the aces versus the northern knights yeah come on domestic cricket realize now sometimes you're into something and they're into something and it's really good to have interests that aren't

always the same yeah but sometimes you want to try and get them in on your interest and that's what we want to know now what things do you have to put up with for your partner often it's hobbies they're riding it mine's formula one like i literally will give him the driver updates i'm like carlos signs is moving to williams williams is a really crap team he's like one of the and he's like glazes over he has no interest in formula one no but he's very sweet he'll be like wow that's awesome that's awesome i hope he does it with more enthusiasm than that delivery. But it's the same. It's the same. I try and get him to watch like a race and he's like, I don't know what's happening.

Yeah. He's going round and round. They've given up really. Except for that big trade in the NBA the other day. And she was like, what do you keep muttering about? And I was trying to. So she was excited. She was like, he keeps muttering about it.

It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. When you broke it down in terms I understood. I should have given you the examples. It was like Destiny's Child traded Beyonce to TLC for Lisa Left Eye Lopez. At the height of everyone.

And they didn't know about it. No one knew about it. Still muttering about it. It doesn't make sense. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hit. Amanda has to put up with your cricket. Andrew has to put up with your Formula One obsession. Taylor Swift has to put up with Travis Kelsey's podcast. The hit. Amanda has to put up with your cricket. Andrew has to put up with your Formula One obsession. Taylor Swift has to put up with Travis Kelsey's podcast.

And the football games. Yeah, I wonder if she gives any feedback, like notes on the show. Jono's wife has to put up with Jono. Just me. Maybe you need some hobbies. Maybe my hobbies myself. Something to get you out of the house. Stop doing jobs. Kimbo, you out of the house. Stop doing jobs.

Kimbo, you're on. Welcome. Hello. Good to have you on, Kim. What hobbies are you putting up with? My husband shows cows at AMP shows. Oh, right. So he breeds them, takes them out, and then parades them around.

He does, and I'm just not that person, and I'm there in my little gumboot shoes, not my red bands, and avoiding poo and smells, and then people come up to me and ask me questions, and I just, yeah, just wing it, and he laughs because I have no idea. It's just not my scene. Well, good on you for going along, at least.

I reckon after about two or three cow shows, I'd be out. You'd be like, I've seen it. You go do your thing. Does he go on about how beautiful his girls are, his cows? Nah. See, my hobby is I've got a V8 modified Holden, and I show that I'm in a car crew.

So we're like the complete polar opposites. What you need is someone to start up a cow and car show, and you can both go along and show your wares exactly exactly yep where cows and cars combine i'll do it for you it's a bit of a gamble very niche festival but uh who knows exactly hey you're gonna have a great day kim great text here on 4487 my husband breeds and races pigeons He talks about birds all the time I try to act interested You can almost hear the dead inside

Yeah, I can imagine But you know Yvette! Oh my gosh, I didn't realise I'd get three Can you believe it? What hobbies are you having to put up with, Yvette? Oh my gosh, what hobbies? Surfing

Oh yeah And that feels like they go out for like seven hours at a time to put up with a vet? Oh my gosh, what hobbies? Surfing. Oh yeah, and that feels like they go out for like seven hours at a time. No, honestly, I can't get my head around it and I wish I had the relationship with the ocean but I don't like my partner. My partner can go out to the ocean and look at it for three hours and then decide he's going in.

It takes him two hours to put the bloody thingamajiggy on. And then, yeah, it's about a six-hour process before he gets himself into the ocean. It drives me bonkers. Oh, so six hours of just contemplating getting in there. Oh, honestly, yeah. But bless his heart, I just wish I had that passion. But yeah, it's rather irritating.

You can tell you don't have the passion when you called it the thingamajig. Yeah. It sounds like one of those things that when you start the relationship, you're like, oh, you're a surfer, that's so sexy. And then when you get into it, you're like, ugh. Oh, I know, I know. Yeah, it is quite sexy, actually. But when he's like, come out and watch me go for a surf,

I'm like, yeah, but nah. Is he one of those people, too, that you might wake up in the morning, he's gone, he's seriously gone surfing sort of thing? Because I've got friends like that. Yeah, he's probably gone, and I'm okay with that. So Saturday morning, they're like, where's he? Oh, he's left because the ocean was calling basically for a couple of hours. It's Moana. It's called Maui. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, where's he? Oh, he's left because the ocean was calling basically for a couple of hours. It's Moana.

Calling Maui. That's wonderful. Will you and Maui go and have a wonderful life together? And a good surf in Taranaki, they say too. Cool. Yeah, well, I don't know. I guess so. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Now it's back today. $50,000 you could be winning your share of. Thanks to One Roof Property, you could be winning your share of $50,000 and someone will win their whole year off paying their rent or mortgage. That'd be a lovely break to have for 12 months, wouldn't it? Well, yeah. So good.

And it is a life-changing amount of money. We are about to call the winner from last year, Shona. And she'll explain exactly how it has changed your life. Hopefully. She answers. Your call has been... Hello, Shona speaking. Shona, it's your old mates here.

Do you know who we are? Who, sorry? Your old mates. The old mates. Oh, it's we are? Who, sorry? Your old mates Your old mates Oh, it's Maddie Yeah, it's Maddie You know what? I just hopped out the shower

I was like, who the hell am I? Maddie McLean and PJ Hey Hey, guys Who are you? Who am I? No, hang on I don't have anyone for the role

It's Jono Ben-Omegan You're almost there Oh, shit, sorry It's alright I was willing to go along with it I want to be Manny McLean sorry to bug you but we're doing the hits live free again people getting their rental mortgage paid for entire 12 months we wanted to catch up with you just quickly and just say how's it been for you because you're our last winner oh look

it's it's been amazing actually like I was in a difficult position last year having been made redundant. Yeah. So, yeah, so it was just life-changing as in, you know, just kept the family finances going. Oh, that's awesome. And, you know, 50 job applications later, I finally landed a role. Yes. Awesome. She's 50.

Wow. Yeah. Literally. She's 50. Wow. Yeah. Literally 50. Literally 50. Jeez, it's tough out there. Real tough, yeah. So that was December I landed it, and I just started five weeks ago. Amazing.

Oh, awesome. And I reckon that's all thanks to the hits. It's everything. Everything good that happens in your life from now on, you thank a commercial radio station by the name of the hits. Oh, well, look, to be fair, I thought you were ringing me to see if I wanted to enter again, and I'd be like, hell yeah.

I don't know what the T's and C's are, to be honest. Probably can. Imagine if you could go back-to-back double header. Yeah, exactly. They'll be like, hmm, this is rigged, isn't it? Oh, that's awesome. I'm glad it all worked out for you finding employment and we kind of helped you sort of tie things over for a few months. Yeah, no, you certainly did.

So it was just a weight off our shoulders and, you know, and I could find a role that sort of connected with my values as well. Oh, that's good. I wish I could find one of those. Well, we couldn't have gone to a more deserved one. And there's always a great group of finalists, too, we find. And any advice to those that do actually get through to the key ceremony? Oh, just have fun.

Just be present in the moment and get to know the other finalists. We're still in touch, which is quite cool. Oh, that's awesome. Nice. Yeah, yeah. And it's is quite cool. Oh, that's awesome. Nice. Yeah, yeah. And it's just, it's quite overwhelming. Maybe go easy on the wine. Because you know, I was pretty wind up by the time I won.

I was wind up. Warmed up. Oh, I thought you said wind up. You know, I think it was only fair to shout the other finalists a couple of rounds of drinks and some food at the pub afterwards, so that was quite cool. Have a great time and don't think that you've got it in the bag because you don't want to be disappointed either. It's a lot of pressure to put on yourself if you're not that lucky person.

Well, Shona, lovely to catch up with you again. I'm glad everything has worked out on the job front. And yeah, as you say, enter the competition. Because who knows? You could be the next winner like Shona. Exactly. Go for it. Yeah, 8 o'clock today.

We'll tell you what the key song is. You can win some cash as well. All thanks to One Roof. Jonah, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. How was the weekend for you guys? All right?

Basti's birthday, didn't you? Basti's fourth birthday party. Yeah, it was good. How was it? Yeah, it was very Sonic the Hedgehog heavy. I saw a picture of yours, and as only you would, you went all out with decorations and a theme,

and you said it kind of looked like a US election party. Yeah, so I couldn't find Sonic wrapping paper, so I went for like, I was like, here's a red, like starry wrapping paper, and then I got blue ribbon and blue and red balloons. But when I put it all together, I was like, it looks like election night. Keep it up for Super Bowl today. It'll be great.

Free patriotic. And you put him in a mega hat. Very American themed. No, that's good. I'll tell you what, I had the most unusual moment in a shopping experience. Went to the mall with my daughter, Indy, and we walked into into a shop and I was like, oh, interesting song is playing. And R. Kelly, R. Kelly song was playing. No, no, no.

We don't need to play it. We don't need to play it, Jono. Jono's looking for it. We know the song. We all know the song. He's got some bangers. Yeah. And I was like, oh, maybe someone will stop it.

You know, like, cause it was the start of the song as it went in there no the whole time walking around I was like oh okay we played the whole thing

I thought that was very unusual because obviously it wasn't that one wasn't that one but yeah gonna get a toot toot

that one yeah that's all he gets just one toot now no no he's a monster of a person but I thought very unusual very unusual choice for a song to be playing but honestly the general public just start That's all he gets Just one toot now No he's a monster Of a person But I thought Very unusual

Very unusual choice For a song to be playing But honestly The general public Just don't care Or aren't aware They're like It's a great song

Yeah and it's probably Some playlist That no one's really Listening to Exactly I just went in there And went oh This is unusual

We're all very hyper Aware of this stuff Because we're in it Day to day You know If you're working At bloody Glassons You don't care If Ignitioners, you're just hocking off bloody.

Chris Brown still plays in a lot of places, a lot of radio stations. Set the world record for the biggest show in South Africa a few weeks ago. Yeah, massive, eh? Nice, okay. All can be forgiven, mate. Donald Trump's the President of the United States. That's right. Oh, Megan knows about that.

Made you a party celebrating it over the weekend. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. If you've been to the UK, you'll know that the trains work, unlike New Zealand. Sad to the local transport system.

Oh, look at the one Pukakoi is going again into Auckland and stuff now so people can actually get... It's great to have the train up and running again. Yeah, after two years, but it's good. It's good to get that going again.

But there's a distinctive thing you'll know from the UK, the Mind the Gap. Mind the Gap. Yeah, which is a little thing that's written before you get on every tube and also you hear it over the loudspeakers. Mind the Gap. That was recorded in the 1970s. Mind the Gap.

Now the guy who recorded that apparently has passed away, but his wife still goes down to the train station, doesn't get on the train or the tube just to hear his voice again. Mind the gap. Mind the gap. I mean, I'm sure there's better things she'd like him to be saying, but, you know, like this. It's a really lovely thing that she goes down and still has to listen to

as well and now I've given the lovely thing they've given her a recording of it too to take home so she doesn't have to go all the way in

to listen to it someone could it's probably on YouTube isn't it I got that on YouTube actually so you're right you could have said

do the link but that is lovely a lovely thing when you go do you think Amanda's going to listen to all your old radio shows? All the old podcasts?

Definitely not John O'Bannon Megan The podcast The hits She's Ellie Back with us to do the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz Good to have you back Hello, thank you for having me

It's good to be back It was very hard last week doing the quiz without your facials Grace did a wonderful job, Producer Grace But a couple of times we dipped out on question one or two Because we needed your facials to help us through. Cold eyes, the eyes of a serial killer. Couldn't read her. You're back.

Facials and all. Lovely to have you back. You've had a peruse through? I have. Yeah, how are you feeling? How are you vibing this morning? It's not bad. Not bad.

It's achievable, I think. On Friday, it was read, I think the New Zealand Herald had checked out. The questions were very easy. I think someone else was doing it. Like spell boat. A usual person was taking a long weekend. Yeah, exactly.

So we might be back to usual questions today. Here we go. All right, question number one. Which country was the first to legalise same-sex marriage? Was it the Netherlands, New Zealand or Denmark? I thought we pioneered that. And everyone was like, yeah, go New Zealand. But I might be wrong.

I might be wrong. The Netherlands, aren't they like pretty liberal? Should we lock in the Netherlands? Liberal? That is correct. Well done. Were we one of the first though? We were one of the first.

One from one. Well done, Megan. of the first though? We were one of the first Yeah Yeah Alright One from one Well done Megan Thank you Thanks to the facials Of Patricia Ali again Oh no That was all you guys

Question number two Which supermarket Was the first to introduce Barcodes on its products In 1974? Game changer Yeah Kroger

Marsh Supermarket Or Pack and Save? Oh my god Kroger I can't imagine Pack and Save It won't be Pack andmarket or Pack and Save? Oh, my God. Croger. I can't imagine Pack and Save. It won't be Pack and Save. Because Pack and Save wasn't around in the 70s. Oh, there you go. You're showing your age there, mate.

So tell us what it was like shopping at Croger. I was there when we used to just barter for services. Say, hello, my good sir. And dodge the dinosaurs. She'll give you one of my good horses for a pound of butter. Listen, I don't know. Kroger. I've never heard of the other two other than Pack and Save,

but I agree I probably wouldn't be Pack and Save. Are we going to guess or are we going to throw it out to the text? Because it will be a guess. It'll be a guess. There's no one listening right now that knows what supermarket was the first one to put barcodes on products. Oh, okay. Well, that's right out there.

That's making a challenge. Okay, the two options again that we think we're going for. Okay, so it's either Kroger or Marsh Supermarket. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. We like to start our day each day with that, trying to get 10 out of 10 with your help. Thanks so much to everyone that text through to help us with the last question.

We're on to question number three now. Which South Korean tech company is one of the largest in the world? Samsung. Nice. Is it Xiaomi, Samsung, or Sony? Are you going with Samsung? Yeah. That is correct.

Nice work. Love my Korean tech companies. Love it. All right, question number four. What is the state animal emblem of Queensland? Is it a koala, a kangaroo, or a platypus? I feel like it's a koala. You, like, watch state sport.

Like, you know, like sport that is segregated into sport. State of origin, it's not a koala, though, is it? I don't know. Do you know what I mean? It's a cane toad. It's a state of origin. But I feel like the Queensland rugby team have a koala on their tops, but maybe I'm wrong, but I'll lock in koala.

That is correct. See, that's what I meant. Segregated sport. Taking it back to a pardoid for some reason. All right, question number five. Which flag, oh sorry, the flag of which country Is known as the Union Jack Britain Is it the United Kingdom

United Kingdom Yeah That's correct Wowee Nice one Here we go Question number six Yeah

Okay Which Italian automaker Manufactures the Aventador Is it Maserati Ferrari Or Lamborghini Lamborghini That is correct

Yeah Nice She's got one parked In the garage Next to Hosking Is it Maserati, Ferrari or Lamborghini? Lamborghini. That is correct. Oh, well done. Well done. She's got one parked in the garage next to Hosking. I wish. All right, question number seven. In which US national park can you find the hiking trail known as Half Dome? Is it Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park or the Grand Canyon National Park? Not all of the parks.

I've heard of all the parks. Half Dome. Yeah. This is going to be a guess, isn't it? It feels like a Yosemite. It feels like Yosemite to me. All right. Why not?

All right. That is correct. Double Rainbow. Remember that guy with the double rainbow? That wasn't Yosemite, was it? What was it? It's the double rainbow. I do remember that. That was in Yosemite wasn't it It's a double rainbow I do remember that

He cried Alright Question number 8 Which film produced by Brad Pitt Won the Academy Award for Best Picture In 2014 Was it 12 Years a Slave, Moneyball Or The Big Short

Moneyball I feel like Short? Moneyball. I feel like it's Moneyball too. What do you feel Ben? Best Picture. Yeah in 2014 it was directed by Brad Pitt. Directed by Pitt? Do you say produced before? Sorry produced. Sorry. Well I know Brad Pitt's in Moneyball but I don't know if that

ever won an Academy Award. 12 Years a Slave. He might have been a producer on something like that. You just don't know who are producers do you? I know that one. I reckon 12 Years a Slave. He might have been a producer or something like that. You just don't know who are producers, do you? No, I know that one. Yeah. I read 12 Years a Slave. All right, look that in.

All right, hang on. I've just got to go back through because I've actually forgotten the answer. That's why my facials haven't been giving it away. I was talking to girls about their facials as well.

It's definitely Moneyball. Well, he was in Moneyball. He was in Moneyball. Yeah, but he's not directing it. He's producing it. Oh, no, that's what I'm saying. He might have been, yeah. You locked in 12 Years a Slave, though, right?

Yeah, I did, yeah. That is correct. Yay! Okay, I stand corrected. Moneyball's a great movie, but I don't think it ever won an Academy Award. Well done. All right, question number nine. What area did Meghan Markle study at university?

Was it theatre and international studies? How to rip a prince away from his family. Oh, shut up. Human rights and business or English literature and politics? Let's take a guess. Can we, sorry, just rattle through the. There was theatre and international studies, human rights and business or English literature and politics.

Theatre and international studies. Nah. Oh, okay. It won't be that. Okay, well. That's too. How'd she get into acting? I feel like she's, she's got like, you know, she's done something intelligent.

Apologies to the Theatre and International Studies students. Look at her, Megan. Come on. We need an answer. We need an answer. Human rights or English. Go with the English one. That is incorrect.

It was theatre. It was theatre. It was. Oh, my God. Sorry. go with the english one that is incorrect it was oh my god sorry