Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan’s Cougar Dream... 

Episode Date: November 11, 2025

On today’s show: Ben explains why he was carrying a stunt dummy at dawn Megan admits Formula 1 has taken over her personality… and shares a very unexpected dream! The office Secret Santa saga continues – who’s still holding last year’s gift hostage? We hear your WORST gifts ever (spoiler: one was literally a lemon). The Mariah Carey game goes international – we chat with a Canadian radio host about avoiding that song. Who’s most trusted to babysit kids? The office votes spark chaos. SailGP stars Blair Tuke & Leo Takahashi join us to talk 100km/h crashes and boat names. Megan claims credit for Liam Lawson’s new nickname “Minister of Defence.” Plus, we celebrate your little wins (and Ben’s vacuum warranty victory) Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee 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. Did you just spit your gum into that paper? Yeah. Welcome to the podcast. Yeah, like, I didn't spit the gum into my paper. Sorry, you said, well on the podcast.

I just didn't know where to put the gum. I was going to put it in the, so I put it as a paper and then I was going to get rid of the paper. Then I, yeah, I'm not going to get rid of the paper. That's, yeah. You're not one of those variables that, like, spits it out and saves it, like, puts it back in? Some people like to, I don't really like the idea of swallowing the gum too much, you know, but I don't think, I don't think it's true about the seven years that lives in your stomach or anything. No, but I can't shake it either.

Yeah, now and again, if it's desperate, I would, but I wouldn't, yeah, otherwise. Sometimes I do put it in my back pocket thinking, I'll forget, I'll, like, put it straight away in the bin, but I do forget, and then you sit down and it mushes, so you try not to put it. You don't wrap it in anything, you put it straight in your back pocket. Oh, like if it's desperate times, desperate times. yeah you see that is so great you see there's an example there's happened there I'm just showing

you're Megan right now that's desperate times that's sticky gum in your pocket that's like if I've got nothing else around but yeah you could freeze your jeans and pick it off maybe because normally I just I just slip it in there and I'll be like sweet as soon as I've done whatever this is now I'm going to go

straight and put in the bin and I'm not going to sit down but you forget we're going to talk about this on the show tomorrow and you're going to do it as am I the only one oh okay all right who puts gum in their freaking pocket okay all right yeah well i don't mean i don't intentionally anyway i do yeah last resort we got it but you still did it true you got i got it mate but you last you did it all right well anyway something else i did this morning uh was look like i was carrying a dead body

around town yeah john o ben and megan the podcast the heads of november it's leonado decaprio's birthday today oh happy birthday how old is he 51 apparently yeah 51 holy he still looks pretty good though i Like every movie looks great. I just remember watching him when he was in his 20s in Romeo and Juliet, basketball diaries. Oh, yeah. When he had his long parted hair. Do you have a big crush on Leo?

Yeah. Yeah. But he also looked like my brother when he was a teenager, so it was a bit weird. It's a bit weird. Oh, your brother must be hot. Not anymore. Sorry, Justin. Not anymore.

Oh, sad to Justin. There's a lot of... I was trying to give Justin a compliment. You're like, yeah. I know, and I also said, not anymore. There's a lot of things wrong with this conversation. You're from small town, New Zealand, we all understand. Hey, something I've had to do, I've had to do this before, and there's no easy way of doing this.

Now, I've talked about this. I have a lot of costumes. You may know if you've followed anything I've done over the years, whether it's TV shows or social media. I have a lot of costumes. It takes up a lot of my garage, causes a lot of friction. Yeah, it's a real pressure point in my relationship with my wife, because they take over the garage. It gets quite messy from time to time. She'd never been out to park a car in the garage.

Never happened because the costumes take over. and so I do have a lot of costumes and that means that people will reach out and go hey do you have this can I borrow a costume and most of the time the answer is yes like no matter how niche yeah I've got they've got the answer although I producer grace I let her down the other day

I didn't have a giant inflatable football so apologies are you gifting that to Ben no it's her it's her oh okay yeah she's starting her own collection you do you start one day we all started one day and that's a great way to start but I've got a dummy like a full size dummy

you know like a soft of you no it's just like a dummy it's like a yeah so you can use i've used it over the years it's been sort of like thrown out a bit of pieces is this the one that you throw on a river or something yeah it's all been sort of yeah it's all done a lot of the great stunts over the years stunt dummy yeah but my friend needed to borrow it and i don't know why you needed to borrow it but i didn't ask any questions i'm like yeah i can drop that off and i had to do that this morning and there's no way of doing this i've done this before when you take out a dummy in darkness and my car was parked out by the road. I'm carrying like what looks like a full size person, a body, putting it in the car.

Thankfully, when I put it in the car, there was no one around because it looks kind of sketchy. You didn't have it like wrapped in bags. Wrapped in bags would look even more scary, hey. I had over my shoulder, but then when I got to his place, I kind of had to, because I had to leave it on the doorstep earlier this morning. I had to carry it out of the car and the guy was like cycling past at that time. And you know, and you just, you feel like, it's a dumb.

It's a, you know, I had to, it's a dummy, but it does not look like a dummy. Did you tell him it was a dummy? Well, because I've had it happen before where someone like was about to call the cops. I know the police are going to turn up to work and be like, you were seen this morning carrying a body. Like a body, like a lifeless body and dumbing it on a doorstep. Did you also tell your mate that you were leaving it on their doorstead? Oh, thank God. They're going to get a heck of a fright.

Well, they're open the door. Yeah, there's a lifeless body as well. So this is my story. I want to get on the radio. If the cops come around today, Megan, you know what's happened as well. sure yeah there's no easy way of moving a dummy and that's it also quite heavy no it's not too heavy no to be honest it's pretty lightweight but yeah but it's yeah it's in the still man ben is so slender but he's so strong you can lift like a a dead body like it ain't no thing

definitely can't do that johnno ben and megan the podcast the hits intermission uh from what megan really doesn't want to share but i think you need to you need to share it because even your own brain is messing with you I have made Formula One my whole personality Yeah, you love Formula One And there's been a rich running joke over the years That you know, you're okay with him Because your husband's a little bit younger than you, you know

I get called a cougar Yeah Not so much anymore But when we first started There's 10 years between us And I get called I did initially get called a cougar Now a lot of the Formula One drivers

Are A, very attractive But B also quite young Unfortunately but I will admit I've had some raunchy dreams about a few a couple I just realised my husband's in the car a couple of them

and last night I may have had this is just weird because I I'm not a huge fan of Oscar Piastri the Australian driver he's alright but I don't spare him a thought most of the time

okay but in your dreamland you obviously did So last night I had a raunchy dream about him. And I don't even, he's not my, he's not my favourite. He's not my type. And in my dream. Did you tell him this in your dream? No.

In my dream, we were quite into each other if you know what I'm saying. And then we were out in public and we were trying to keep it secret because obviously he was still a big Formula One driver. Yeah, 24 years old. He's a year. Oh, is he? Yeah. So, in my dream. You're like the Leonardo DiCaprio of the, yeah.

Yeah. In my dream, this older guy came up to me and was like, people aren't very happy about your relationship. And I was like, what do you mean? And he was like, there's a lot of talk going on that you are a cougar. It's very inappropriate and you shouldn't be with Oscar Piash dream. I love this in your dream. I was like, this isn't fair.

I get to control this. Yeah, this isn't real. There's no part of this is real. No. And even in my dream, I woke up and I was like, I don't think that's how that was supposed to go. I don't think, no, sorry, you're right. It was not the ending. You broke things off with Oscar.

You're like, sorry, mate, we can't do it. No, he broke it off with me. Yeah, he was like, I think, oh, maybe, yeah. There was a lot of bad press worldwide about me cougaring Oscar Piashv. You don't do that. No, so I can't even, like, make it work in my dreams. You can't even do it with your dreams. Oh, so good.

I appreciate you sharing that with us. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. So we want to talk about worst gifts, and we've got a couple of people from the office in here. Bryn, you'll know from the night. show Matt, one of our bosses here at The Hits, the morning. They are our worst gifts. They're not the worst gifts. I don't know why to start. But you guys

have been, something has been simmering since last year's Christmas, right? Well, if... Well, not for me. Well, there's two sides to every story, aren't there, Brin? Okay, so Matt. You start, Mando. Well, let's start by saying that last year we obviously did a, you know, a secret Santa Christmas gift exchange, you know, as you do

in the office. Um, firstly, I was told by Bryn, oh, your gift hasn't arrived yet. did he already like the first row of secret sander is not to reveal right no well on the day on the day he basically everyone was doing their gifts and i was like oh i haven't got mine um you know at the end it's the awkward thing on secret santa right where someone doesn't have it so then brin swoops in and goes i have some bad news um your gift hasn't arrived and i'll get to that bit in a moment just want to start by saying i still haven't received that gift so from december last year still has it arrived brin still has it arrived oh no it's in my house oh why don't you just bring it to work well I have since decided it was a great gift and so I've kept it so you're using it yes yeah and I know that it's a niche gift that I know that Matt will like too

which has given me even more pleasure as you know and that's why I want to keep it even more because I know that he would he would love it so you're you're gleaning joy from the fact that I'm not getting to enjoy it that's right why don't you just buy him another one the same well you did give him a gift though I have given him a consolation gift so um the consolation GIF, and this is getting to the worst Gifts part on the day. So you guys, obviously this is radio people can't see, but I am

much like our good friend John O'Pryer, follically challenged. Not a lot of hair on the head. You may remember last year there was a bit of an egg shortage going on. You know, there were the different things happening at farms. So Brin got me a six pack of eggs and drew a face on each of them to look like me.

Did they have little beds? Some of them do. I put hair on some of them just to make them. Not here on the top of the egg, but hair on the facial hair. I put hair on top of some of them as well. No, because the best bit is, he goes, this is you over the years. So there was teenage egg meat with lots of hair.

Lots of hair. And then there was current egg meat, not much hair. So it's sort of working through the stages of the various stages of hair loss. Can I just add, though, we had like a $10 budget or however much it was. And I went way over because a pack of eggs back then, as you mentioned, you know, there was an egg shortage. Expensive gift. Yeah. The worst bit was, is obviously they had been coloured in by a.

vivid and I was like this is going to be toxic so I immediately threw them out oh so you didn't even use them so in terms of worse gift one I never got it two I got six toxic eggs do you actually know what the present is that he's kept no idea no I gave it to him this morning no that was off the free table he and as I had because the secret Santa uh gift registered for this year has gone around and I went I want my gift to try and clear the year he grabbed a book off the free table at work and gave Yeah, you're welcome. Okay, so 100 of the hits, 4487, this could be quite possibly the worst gift ever. Have you, I know Ben's done worst with his wife?

Yeah, I have, yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. We want to talk about the worst gifts that you've been given. Now, we talked about our boss, Matt was just in before. He's follically challenged as he said it, and he got given some eggs with his face. Drawn on it with Vivid. Yeah. Which he threw out, which we've been debating.

Weird. Wasteful. Anyway, but maybe he was disgusted with the present, so he got rid of it. But your parents have been, they've taken part in one, right? What I've discovered is that men maybe think practical gifts are a good idea. I'm guilty of that. I'm guilty of that. Because my mum loves to mow the lawns and she needed like a petrol canister.

So my dad bought her one for Christmas. It wasn't even like a fancy, like metal one. It was one of those red and yellow plastic ones. Like a Jimmy can. And he gave her that. for Christmas. It went down as you'd imagine. Almost got divorced.

Almost got petrol poured somewhere else in something, the house lit on fire or something. Yeah, I've given the fry pan, same situation. I've talked about this many times. I thought I was like paying attention to something my wife wanted, because she did want this frying pan, but I've since discovered not as a gift for

Christmas or a birthday. That's like come home and just bring it home because you heard her say it and I heard you and you need this. That's not for a special occasion. No, and I've learnt that lesson now in a big way. We've got some great texts coming through. Someone said we'd just built a house, so I had lots of planting to do,

so my partner brought me a spade. He thought he was being practical. Like men with the practical gifts, little did he know I was contemplating, burying his body with it. Well, that's the thing. Sometimes I just like a gift that I know I'm going to use, but not everyone is in the same boat, right? No, that's not good for us, women, I don't think.

Rebecca, good morning. Good morning. Was that you that received the worst gift ever? I felt like it might have been. There was three parts to it. It wasn't too bad. So the first part was like a little trivia card game, which was good. Generic.

Yeah, the next part was a cow ornament that had its air broken off. Oh, no. And then the final part, the kicker of it, a lemon. Just a lemon? For any reason why? Did any of these relate to you? No, I couldn't work it out.

I was trying to say... They weren't trying to call you like a sour cow or something. Yeah, I don't know. Is there a hidden message? Yeah, I don't know. I tried figuring it out. I happened to be away. I was like, leave on the day we had the event where the secret stances are coming out.

And I was very glad that I didn't open it in front of everybody because I don't know how I would have reacted. That person's just gone around their house It's picked up stuff There's three things You've gone, geez I've got secret Saturday Today and grabbed three things I've seen on the bench You know?

Oh my God, that's awful Yeah Oh well, hey thank you for sharing Yeah Thanks, you know me so well Life gives you lemons There's the saying Thanks Rebecca

Kim might beat you though Good morning Kim Morning guys Morning morning What was it What was the secret Santa gift that Or the gift that you got That wasn't that great

Well it wasn't me with my dad, Epic fell on his part. My mum's a terrible cook, so my dad cooks mostly in the house. He gave her an electric carving knife for Christmas one year. It's kind of cold. Let's just say,

my mom never carves the meat in the house, and he spent a couple of nights on the sofa. She wanted to carve his handle. We get violent, hey? You're like, oh, you're giving me this now. Okay, I could use that. No, fair enough. Definitely don't give a weapon to your wife, a practical weapon, no.

Lesson learned, I think, right? Yeah, absolutely. But my mother-in-law is also giving me a travel sewing kit out of a Christmas cracker one year's, my Christmas presents. Oh, from the Christmas Cracker? Oh, God. Oh, but that's, yeah. Yeah, she did that. Hey, thank you for showing that with us.

I appreciate it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Of course, we are playing our Mariah. Kerry game trying to avoid listening to Moriah Carey's all I want for Christmas for as long as possible. And it's gone international. It's gone to Canada. And joining us right now from a radio show in Canada called the Morning Hot Tub. It's radio announcer Sherry. Good morning. Oh, hi. Wow. Jeez.

Hey, that was pretty good. It was better than about 50% of the population in New Zealand. So very good. I tried my best. I got some training before. Yeah. I love it. Lovely to talk to you. Thank you so much for your time. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I love Christmas and I also love the game. So I'm so glad that you guys are doing it too, which is so cool. So how long have you been playing the Mariah game? When did you start? Okay, so we just started at the beginning of November.

So we're about 10 days in right now. So we started November 1st out the gate. So what is it like over there, you know, compared to New Zealand for Christmas? Like are people starting to go Christmas crazy, you know, festive lights every day? weird or is it just slowly starting to build? Well, I'm really nervous because, well, what happens is we have Remembrance Day on November 11th. And so usually as soon as that hits, it's like right after it's like everybody throws up Christmas and it's crazy. So we have like,

so we have Christmas parades. I don't know if you guys do the same thing there. So what after dark, all the light shut off. So I'm very nervous about that I might actually be going to wear a city and asking if they cannot play at the parade this year on the 21st of November. And then all the stores, yeah, I've already seen some to already sneak out a little bit, like dollar stores and some craft stores as well, but I just feel like as of Wednesday, it's going to be really hard to to avoid things, you know. Is anyone on your team fallen victim yet? Not yet.

We did have some of our listeners because I do a radio show here. I don't know if we explain that earlier. So we had one person that said that their friends picked them up to go to the mall this weekend and had it playing in the car, which is rude. And then I had some other woman text in that her husband was showing her on TikTok, and I told her to divorce him. That's not fair, obviously. So the husband message me very upset that I said that.

That's fine. The key to winning the game is you have to tell people so that way they don't mess with you. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. In previous years, we've had people trying to sabotage us on the radio. Listeners calling up and playing the song. So we've introduced a rule this year

where you can't purposely get someone out just because we got eliminated from the game. That's a bad inside version. That's a bad karma. They're never going to lay a lottery if they continue to do it like that. We had one listener who was who pretty much eliminated all of us.

Yeah, it was well played. She made it her mission and she did a great job. Describe Christmas in Canada for us because I've been lucky enough to go to Toronto once. I've got family over there for Christmas. And it's quite magical because you get the snow and you get the cold weather and Tim Horton's hot chocolate and things like that, you know. It's all those things that, you know, are quite nice about. We're hot.

We get hot weather here. It doesn't quite work for the meals and stuff. Santa, when he comes to Canada, he wears like a full-blown suit because it's so cold, right? I imagine Santa might have shorts. Yeah. Like I imagine he has a quick change, just like, which is fair. I'll help with that. Or he just layers down, layers up.

I feel like there's probably a lot of fairway action going on there. So it's nice because snow actually makes it, like, beautiful. So winter wonderland, everything's blanketed. I like to call it like it puts nature to sleep for a little while because that way I don't go crazy living in the minus 15, minus 30 degree windshield. But for the snow ones we've had, it's just so much more fun. People go outside on Christmas Day and, like, make snowmen and stuff. And then sometimes you see, like, the reindeer tracks in the snow, which is kind of cool.

Oh, wow. Yeah, go on, sky about it. Yeah. Rub it in. Well, it's a minus 30 quick chill, right? We get to go swimming at Christmas. Yeah, we go to the beach and things like that. It's kind of, it's weird.

And have a big roast meal and fall asleep. Yeah, yeah. And summer. It's too hot. Hey, well, lovely to meet you. And it's so awesome that we're all playing this game. We need to keep in touch. We need to let each other know when we're out of the game.

Amazing. Well, thank you for, and yeah, let me know. absolutely i hope that i hope we went but if you guys went i didn't know i love a competition all right okay all right yeah all right oh luck i'll love to meet you and we'll let's keep in touch and we'll find out if we can beat you in this game so fun and christmas middle to you why oh thank you guys johnno ben and megan the podcast the hits oh this is really uh but you know causing a lot of conversation in the studio on and off the year John O'Ben and Megan's 10 days of trust with Dilma.

Yeah, Dilma has been named New Zealand's most trusted tea brand for 10 years. And, you know, it gives back to the community and the environment, making the world a better tea. They deserve it. Yeah, and because there's no debating that they're trusted. They're trusted, Dilma. But when it comes to us, the three of us, John O'Ben and Megan, we want to know who's the most trustworthy. Our producers have gone around the office asking various questions. We haven't heard the answers from people in the office.

who they think is the most trustworthy in particular situations. So, yeah, we're going with the majority in the office and if the person we get on the line matches what people say in the office, then you win. Easy as that. You're really fired up about this. You are. Yesterday you were, it was to do with backing a car.

I don't want to go back there again, but you were. Reversing a company car into a park. And I did not win that one, even though everyone in the show makes me drive everywhere because I'm the best driver. You're too nervous. Jono's too reckless. So I'll give you that one. This one today is who is babysitting kids.

Who would you trust to babysit your kids? Now, you have got young kids as well. I do. A three and four year old. I feel like we should rule out, Jono. And he probably rule himself out at this, right? I've backed myself to babysit kids. Yeah, but you, like, what age are we talking about?

Because yours are teenagers. Like, would you still back yourself to look after little ones? Or like a baby? Like you said with Scott, who texts through at the moment, you know he went for me and he said my kids will be alive the longest so i've got a better track record i've got more than you i did text back scott i won't tell you what i said you're very upset about it okay so millie's joining us this morning morning millie morning how are you this morning i'm good i'm good now i have a judgment from you though for my text yeah i know i feel

for you megan she's like oh be chill i'll be true she's not chill she's not chill she's not chill But Megan, I'm sure, set some her niece's jacket on fire. Anyway, that's when babysitting, but that's some years ago, Megan, right? Like, 10, yeah, it was ages ago. I brought that at once. It was like eight years ago. I've had children since then. I know what I'm doing.

I put her nappy on backwards too, but I know how to do that now. You're bringing up stuff way in the past. Millie, who do you reckon? I have to say, I think Megan, you've convinced me. I think you'd be the best babysat. Okay, well, so you're going to lock it, Megan. We're going to go to the office. Have I just scared you, Millie.

Yeah, she's scaring me right now. I just feel like, let's just say Megan's the winner for all the rest of them and let's not have the arguments every day. No? What did the office say? Here we go. Who would you trust out of Jono bit of Megan to babysit your kids for an afternoon? Megan.

Johnno, because I've only got a dog. What? Johnno. Ben. Ben. Megan. I'm going to go Ben because I feel like he'd be worried and then he'd put them in, like, inflatable and they'd have so much fun.

Um, Megan. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna go Ben because he's got two daughters, same as me. What was that? What was that when they got the final vote? No, you are trolling me. Oh, well, I'd be good at babysitting. I'm so, okay.

No, this is a gag. I want it. What's not a gag, mate? Why would I not be responsible to look after the kids? I would not let you look after a baby. You'd be like, oh God, what do I do with that? Do I pick it up? I've done it before.

I've done it many times before. Like 15 years ago. done it before and I'll do it again. So there you go. Well, Millie, you chose the right person but unfortunately you got it wrong. Millie, we're going to give you a Dilmatie prize pack. I mean, the prize, uh, the $100 jackpots to $200 tomorrow.

So, uh, oh, you can be winning tomorrow, 200 bucks. Thanks for your vote, Millie. I'm scared to bring this game back. Megan, they're so gutted. Megan, you still got a lot of votes. I just think now you're trolling me. So you think it's funny. I have nothing to do with this, Megan.

I just want to say one more time, I recognize all those. voices in the office and I know who you voted. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. But something that you've been doing quite a lot recently. Well, the whole world is doing it, and it's got everywhere. It's even got to sports games, this whole six, seven thing. Have a listen to this from basketball over the weekend.

Huntley, three, yes, and the fall. And these kids are going nuts over something I know nothing about, and that's okay. They want the six, seven score on the board. It's there. because of that three. And all the kids are in the crowd doing the six seven, six seven movements. All the hands are going. The whole crowd shot.

It started with the kids and now it feels like the adults now are embracing it and killing it for the kids. And producer grace in here, smack bang in the middle of a Gen Z age bracket. Yeah. Not a fan now that we're doing it lots, right? The problem for me is I'm not around any kids, so I haven't had kids doing it. I've just had you old people doing it. And you're just, you've absolutely ruined six seven. I've been enjoying it.

Why can't old people join in? And also, who are you calling old? You, Megan. I'm loving the fact that Megan's really into it, because normally it would be me just, and I love it. The other day we had the medium, you know, went to your house, as you heard yesterday. And it was quite serious. We're talking about ghosts.

You were cried. I know. I was crying. I was very emotional as we were trying to get this little seven-year-old girl to, like, leave my house. It's very serious. It was, yeah. And then all of a sudden, this happened, this audio.

I thought she was about eight, but she's seven. She's seven. Oh, seven, okay. sixthervant oh six yeah by the girl's

generation that was a good way yeah yeah I'll be your laugh but you'll get it like it's a thing now

and it's not yeah she's not okay the spirit of God that's all it to get rid of her Petrusa Grace is God too

that was I enjoyed that Patricia Grace not so good not one bit of excitement came from me like I just

no wonder Cassie the ghost left I would I left with her I was like oh God I'm out I love

pause it because we're talking about how it was you know the age of seven to seven and then me just like I'm going for it I go actually if you see the video I'm looking at Ben waiting for him to do it I thought she's about eight but she's seven she's seven oh seven okay you're very proud of you there that day too

the problem now that you guys are doing it is the kids are going to stop doing it it's just going to be you doing it like it's just weird if it's just some old people doing it I see why you do it now I see why I do it to my daughters Yeah, it is really sad. Like you get such a reaction out of it. Especially ones that are like, that's like a year and a half ago.

I'm like, I don't care. It gets a good reaction out of them. I think I give like after two weeks, if you guys keep going for two more weeks, I'm done. All right. There will be no more talking like we will not communicate anymore. You've got two weeks. You can't last like six or seven weeks. There's no need for that, Megan.

I was good. I appreciate it. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The hit. Good morning. The Sal GP is coming back to New Zealand. Zealand in February, which is awesome. And we caught up with a couple of our Kiwi stars, Blair Chuk, and Leo Takahashi the other day when they came by the studio.

Thanks for coming in, guys. Yeah, thank you for having us. Very exciting. The ITM New Zealand sale Grand Prix coming back to New Zealand. I glad I got the sponsors in there for you guys. Oh, my God. I didn't know the G, of course it means Grand Prix. Yeah, yeah.

I didn't know that it was sale of Grand Prix. Okay, sorry, meag. Although it's a simple Google. Yeah, 100 days. It makes sense. 100 days coming back to Auckland. Pretty exciting because I managed to go. long last year. It is incredible to watch. Yeah, no, it certainly is an awesome event. And to

bring it back to Auckland, something we're really proud of and excited to do. It's kind of interesting for us. We have this hundred days to go, but we've still got one more event to go in this season. So we're kind of in two really focused on Abu Dhabi in a few weeks time. But yeah, 100 days, we'll be doing it again. So what you're saying is this interview is a giant pain the ass. You're like, let's get through the next race and then we can concentrate on 100 days ago, right? She didn't even know a GP then. God. But what is it like? Because it is incredible, because You're sitting on the Grand Scan, you're really close as a spectator, and you're watching these boats.

You guys are going so fast. Leah, what's it like out there on the boats? Because it looks like a crash could happen at any time. Yeah, I mean, especially the Alken Clause. It's very tight. There's not much room for error. But for us, it's awesome, yeah, to be racing on home waters in front of a home crowd. And the fact that we can hear the fans from the Grandstand cheering

and it's not really something we really get in sailing. So it's awesome. I remember the America's Cup when it was about 900 kilometers off the coast of all. And everyone will be like They're going out to race And you'd have to wait like half a day For them to get out there And they're like

The race would finish And then have taken another day For the comeback Yeah That's a good thing about SWGP It's so accessible for the fans And yeah I think we've put on a really good show

This year And so Yeah if we're gonna have a big grandstand More fans can come enjoy it So It's kind of like Formula 1 on boats You go like How fast are you going

Top speed? 100 clicks Wow Wow That is wild on the water But what's it like When you crash And have you crashed

Yeah different there's different types of crashing I guess is you can tip the boat over you can we would call it like it stuffing it in so when you come off the foils at high speed and then the boat really stops or you know the worst ones are obviously when the boats come together so everyone's trying not to make that happen that's obviously very bad it's dangerous but it's also costs a lot of money expensive yeah yeah and it leaves you out for that race and probably races to come so insurance I imagine you get the details the other boat just yeah yeah before you drive off just let me know where you got food party full of

insurance you're right yeah it's a nightmare um do you when you when you crash do you do that thing when you're like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa do you make that noise normally one of us will call a hold on here or something like that do you talk to the other sailors as you're like near me like just grazing past their boat what are you doing man you bloody it's actually a bit of that going on recently we have our individual comms that we talk to the boat but then Pete can talk to the rest of the rest of the team so yeah sometimes when there's like a bad umpire call or something is a bit of that going on. What's going on here?

That's dangerous. I'd love to get that feed. It's a little bit dangerous in its own regard because you can, you'll be doing your thing and then all of a sudden some French guy comes through and starts yelling to say,

I can't understand he sounds angry. Yeah, yeah. It's like, on the other side of the course yelling at the Canadians or something. And they're like, we're just out in a boot. If you're going to 100Ks now, where on earth is the,

where's the madness stop? Leo? I guess technology is always you know getting better and better so the sky's the limit and I guess yeah there is a certain amount of sky yeah yeah yeah sure the water the water who knows maybe that's next start going a lot faster to start flying well we're very excited about South GP coming back to Auckland there is a limited tickets still available for the grandstand it is amazing spectator sport just before you go I don't

have a boat I've always wanted a boat basically for the name because you can come up with a pun name for the boat so I've got some names here if I if I get a boat one day you can decide now what the name's going to be I'll rattle these out quickly naughty boy but nautical A-U-T-I B-O-U-I Okay there's that one Nottie by nature

Yeah which is like naughty by nature Sea Duction I thought was quite good as well Sea Duxion Yeah I would spell like C Shipfaced Which you know I like that one

Boy O Boy But spelled like B-U-O yeah Bowel movement Is another one as well Or Yeah Or not guilty

With a K-N-O-T So there's some options What are you gonna go for What can I lock in I was actually best man for my best mate's wedding earlier the year and he had an optimist called Norty Boy. Oh, did he? Oh, okay, Nauty Boy, okay, we'll go Norty Boy.

Can you rename your boat, bowel movement? He's so good. Yeah, there's some options for you. Not guilty of your own. I'll leave that one with you. Hey, love to see you guys. Thanks so much for coming on. I'm very excited about R Self-GP.

John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. But something that you've been doing quite a lot recently. Well, the whole world is doing it, and it's got everywhere. It's even got to sports. games this whole six seven thing have a listen to this from basketball over the weekend humbly three yes and the fall and these kids are going nuts over something i know nothing about and that's okay they want the six seven score on the board it's there because of that three and all the kids are in the crowd doing the six seven six seven all the hands are going the whole

crowd shot it started with the kids and now it feels like the adults now are embracing it and killing it for the kids and producer grace in here uh smack bang in the middle of a gen z age age bracket yeah not a fan now that we're doing it lots right the problem for me is i'm not around any kids so i haven't had kids doing it i've just had you old people doing it and you're just at you've absolutely ruined six seven i've been enjoying it old people join in and also who are you calling old i'm loving the fact that me's really into it because normally it'd be me just and i love it the other day we had the medium uh you know went to your house as you heard yesterday and it was quite serious we're talking about ghost you cried i know i was crying it

was very emotional as we were trying to get this little seven-year-old girl to like leave my house it's very serious it was yeah and then all of a sudden this happened this audio i thought she's about eight but you know she's seven she's seven oh seven okay all right six seven The couple's generation That was a good way Is she laughing at that? Yeah, I'll be your laugh But you'll get it

Like it's the thing now And she doesn't get it She's not getting Oh she's good The spirit of God That's all it took her Patusa Grace is gone too That was

I enjoyed that Producer Grace not so good Not one bit of excitement came from me Like I just No wonder Cassie the ghost laughed I left with her

I was like Oh God I'm out I love to pause it because we're talking about how it was, you know, the age of seven to seven, and then me, it's just like, I'm going for it. Actually, if you see the video, I'm looking at Ben waiting for him to do it. I thought she was about eight, but she's seven.

Stronger she's seven. Oh, seven, okay. All right. I was proud of you there that day, too. I enjoyed it. The problem now that you guys are doing it is the kids are going to stop doing it. It's just going to be you doing it. Like, it's just weird if it's just some old people doing it.

I see why you do it now. I see why I do it to my daughters? Yeah. really sounds like you get such a reaction out of it, especially ones that are like that's like a year and a half ago. I'm like, I don't care it gets a good reaction out of them. I think I give like after two weeks

if you guys keep going for two more weeks, I'm done. There will be no more talking like we will not communicate anymore. You've got two weeks. You can't last like six or seven weeks. There's no need for that, Megan. That was good. I appreciate it. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast.

The Hits. The New Zealand Cup taking place in Christchurch over the last week. It was Cup Day for the Trotting Cup at Annington Raceway yesterday. 15,000 people headed along. Look, look, a fun day. Yeah.

The weather played ball. It was rained in the morning, but it looked incredible as well. So why don't it, Kingman, taking out the big race? Australian horse. Yeah. But we won't hold it against him. No, that's right. So a big win.

Big win, well, for some people. Hopefully people got home safe and all that. There was an article I was reading because they led a lot of people in the middle of the track. Not on the track, but there was a whole section of things going on middle and there was they weren't allowed to take alcohol cross the track where you walked across um for obvious reasons in between races but then with the article they were like these ladies were had alcohol and they were like stop stop they just kept running you know that's you know i remember doing that a few years ago like but there's lots of when i was there there was you know

like parties in the middle yeah that's what yeah so they bring that back which is cool oh but you're not allowed to just cross the racetrack with the alcohol with alcohol but people are doing it running faster than the horses i know and it gets a little it got a little bit muddy and your heels to get stuck and you're trying to quickly run across in between right, yeah. They should be the trotting races that we all want to see, eh? The ladies with their chardonnay, just trotting across the track, the trots. That's what we should do next year. Yeah, so speaking of wins, you know, a lot of people would have won yesterday, but I feel like

I had, well, I'm calling it a little win, but in some ways it was a big one. It's a big one. I bought a vacuum cleaner about a year ago. Now, I knew that I'd bought it about a year ago because when it broke down, I was like, when did I buy that? It had stopped working, and I was like, pretty sure I was around. about this time last year and I called up the place that I bought it from and I was like does this have because I never kept any of the details I was like does this have a warranty

and they're like oh yeah a year warranty and I was like oh okay and I entered my details in with them when I bought it I didn't keep in the stuff and they were like yesterday I rang up it was the 11th and they were like you bought it a year ago I'm like yeah around about a year ago and the warranty ended on today the 12 one day one day you scoot it in my day You can almost feel the person on the phone go, ah, he's got it, he's got it. If that was me, because you are great with the to-do list, I procrastinate, I would have been putting off that phone call

and you're like, get it done, get it done, get it done. And you snuck in by day. If I hadn't, yeah, waited a day or two. Procrastinated. Yeah, so that was a little. Come on you, sister. It was a little win. And we thought, you know, right now we should celebrate little wins.

So, you know, it's midweek. Sometimes these are the tough days that we need to get through to the weekend. And, I mean, there is a $45 million power ball tonight. So someone's going to win big, but we want your little wins. Yeah. And I reckon that feels just as good. But, yeah, well, if I think of all the vacuum cleaners, like I can buy for $45 million.

True. Yeah. I mean, yeah, just as good. It's pretty satisfying, but maybe not 45 million satisfying. So a little win. Oh, 100 of the hits, 4487. What is your little win? Let's celebrate today.

You're having any little wins so far this week, Megan? Nah. I'm hoping for the 45 mil. Okay, all right, yeah. You don't want to use up your little wood on a vacuum cleaner when you can win $45 million. John O'Ben and Megan is a podcast. You were just reading about Taylor Swift potentially have chosen her bridesmaids.

Yeah, everyone wants to know every detail about that wedding. And no real surprises, it looks like Gigi Hadee and Selena Gomez are going to be two of her bridesmaids. Oh, okay. No, Blake lively, no. Not, not yet. Okay. It's still time?

There's still time. Yeah, she'll just turn up on the day. Yeah. Now, Mariah Carey game, we started it just over a week ago. It's a real fun game to play, and you can play it right now. You can jump on at any stage, as we keep saying, all you've got to do is try and avoid listening to Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas for as long as possible.

I'm still in the game. I am still in the game, honestly, I'm still in the game. It's an honesty policy, too. Yeah, I keep having to put social media on mute. I keep forgetting, we talk about it every day. We're like, it's still cute on mute. but then I keep forgetting and I'm just like recklessly scrolling

and I haven't been caught out yet but it seems to be the place that gets most people social media I'm also nervous too driving in the car because sometimes I will flick around and just to have a listen to hear what other stations are doing and now I'm like oh

they're not safe those other stations are not safe no that will teach you yeah that's right so I'm like 100% on the hits nothing but the hits mate yeah it's not just our show everyone is playing all of the hits

any time you won't hear Mariah so we are a safe zone. Yeah, no one knows down on the hats right now. No, yeah, yeah. But whenever it's out of the game, we will play the song. But right now we have someone who's claiming to be New Zealand's safest player. Good morning, Nicole. Yes, you are speaking to the safest player in New Zealand.

So is the same? You back yourself. Okay, I like this. So what leaks are you going to? I don't have Facebook. I don't do TikTok. Yeah. I don't watch the news anymore.

Okay. I don't do much apart from kids. And unless you guys play, I'm not out. Well, we're not going to play it, Nicole. What about... I think I'm going to win. What about, like, festive movies?

There's only one that gets replayed in our house because of our four-year-old, and that's what's his name, Kevin. Oh, Home Alone. No, I don't think it's in the Home Alone, hey? Home Alone gets thrashed. So what happens if you go to the mall and stuff like that? You go to the shops, you know, the supermarket? I live in Coadot, so I don't have malls.

Okay. What about the supermarket? If I go, when I go to supermarket, I got my music on and my ears, so I can't hear this stuff. I'm only that Nicole's ever going to get out. Oh, you could be in this. You can keep going to next Christmas, not this Christmas, the Christmas after. Definitely. And you're a mum, so you don't have time to do gaming, right?

No, I game a little bit if I've got time. Okay. And it's Modern Warfare, though. And Modern Warfare certainly doesn't play. All over Christmas. Although Popigo and Fortnite was a surprise for me. But anyway, yeah, okay. So you could be the safest player in the game.

I was sort of like, oh shoot, you know, there's a couple of jobs we're going to do for Christmas. I've got to go into Kmart. So I'm just going to have to make sure I've got air plugs in. Let's keep in touch with Nicole, because I think maybe you might be hanging around long after Christmas. You're our front runner at the moment, right? And I've also got someone really honest next to me that will let you know if I do get out, won't you? My eight-year-old. Okay, well, you let us know if you get caught out.

She says, yes. The safest player in New Zealand. Thank you for playing the game. and, yeah, keep us updated. I will. Love to hear if you're still on the game or not. 4487 on the text. Also, if you're a business

and you're a safe haven, a safe spot, we've got some signs that you can put up on your window so that people can go into your store and not get out of the game. John O'Ben and Megan, huge fan of F1, and nothing to do with how hot the drivers are just because you love the motor racing. I feel like this is one of those moments

where Ben supports me off here. And then once we turn it on the, microphones he's going to absolutely roast me. No, but you actually were talking yesterday and sometimes, I'll be honest with you, sometimes I'm really into our F1 chat and other times you get quite deep and it gets into a bit of a TED talk and I kind of zone out a little bit. And I see your eyes glaze over and in my head I'm like, stop talking about it, but I can't. But you said something really interesting yesterday and I did, I had me thinking about this.

Now you may have alerted Liam Lawson and his team to something that was going on and they've used it. Yes, I'm totally claiming this. So I saw this on the official F1 Instagram yesterday. As Liam Lawson crossed the line, they often record what they say, you know, to their team. And this was posted on the F1 page. As Liam Lawson crossed the finish line, this is what his mechanics and team had said to him. Mate, I'm so happy.

That's it. Ministry of Defense is of New Zealand, Liam Lawson. Ministry of Defence, Liam Lawson. Now, this is a nickname he got because he holds up other cars and he defends his position quite well. Now, a while ago, he did it another time. He held up a whole bunch of cars. And I saw that the Ministry of Defense Wikipedia page in New Zealand, the official page, someone had changed it to be like, Liam Lawson is the Minister of Defense.

I love the fat Wikipedia. I know. So unreliable. So I screenshot it and I sent it to his management. I often chat to his management I am that label stalker But you kind of have a connection To be fair

I'll meet them, we're friendly Yeah you know You have a connection with one of his management Yes So I sent it to her And she said Oh my God This is great

I'm sending it to him So I'm now claiming That in the garage They're all calling in the Minister of Defence And having a laugh about it Because he saw it on the Wikipedia page Because I sent it to him That's kind of a claim to fame.

That's a claim to fame. And I will not hear any other, any other explanations. I'm so happy. That's it. Ministry of Defenders of New Zealand, Liam Bloson. At the risk of name dropping as well, just reminded me, because I've obviously a big fan of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Got a love heart tattoo of Dwayne the Rock Johnson on my bum.

And also his signature afterwards. But we basically put that on the internet. Tag Dwayne the Rock Johnson when I got the love heart tattoo. had no idea that he'd seen it until we did an interview like a year later and Jono put it, this is over Zoom, John O was like, do you know what he's got on his bum? And he's like, I love heart tattoo. And Joanne Johnson's like, hang on a second, I've seen that and got out his phone and he showed us the screen.

He had a picture of your bum on his phone. Yeah, and he's like, I've sent it to and he was sitting there's to Emily Blunt. He's like, I've sent it to Emily. I was told Emily, she should get one. Emily Blunt has a picture of your bum on her phone. And I'm like, it was awesome. Then afterwards, John was like, you were like a punchline from him. You're like, look at this idiot.

And, like, you know, you're sending your friends a meme going, look at this idiot. You know, I'm that. How much of your bum was it? Was it close up or was there? It was like a shot down of my, you know, my bum and the tattoo. Wow. I'm like, yeah, Jono's like, it's actually probably more than they're making fun of you, sending it around, but at the same time.

Take it. Take it. Claim to fame, you know? Duane the Rock Johnson and Emily Blunt have your bum on their phone. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, good. Yeah, for valid reasons too, you know? Like, sometimes you don't want other people's bums on your phone.

fine. In that case, it's a valid reason.