Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan’s Gen Z Night Out

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

On today’s show:  We test the new AI “gatekeeper” phone feature Police officer shares dramatic Chatham Islands incident Jono’s Baycorp debt saga continues... Is PJ still in the Mariah game? Disney ride POVs vs blackhead removal videos Funny sayings from parents that creep into adulthood Megan’s concert adventure with Gen Zs leaves her knees aching Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Hey, welcome to the podcast on Wednesday. Yeah, we played a real fun game. We were here in a second where people leave us a message and we decide if we want to call them back or not, which is pretty much like a voicemail system.

It's not like a revolutionary game. It's a really fun game to play on the radio, though. I play with my parents every week, my dad, or I'll call them back or not. Does Kevin Boyce still leave voicemails for you? He loves it. Yeah, he will leave a good one. Yeah, he will leave a good.

Well, he'll say Kevin Boyce when he introduces himself on the Boisement. No, no, normally would say, for me, you'd say, yeah, but he'd tell me, you know, usually tell me the time, where he is, a lot of details, you know. A boicemail. Yeah. A boiss mail. That's good, but I like that. That's good. You should do that in your message, so he can leave a boy smote.

A voice mail. And I probably won't check. Yeah. How about you, Megan? Do you answer calls from your parents, the people who made you? There's a couple of people I answer calls from, probably my parents, I've been feeling like it, and my husband, and that's probably it. Yeah, right, that's it. Yeah.

Yeah, well, I mean, with your parents, and you want to block out a good, at least a good 20, don't you? When you're on the phone, your parents. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because you're just recapping us, you haven't spoken a long time. I know my mum, Annie Pryor. She's like, the only sort of real catch-ups I have is just listening to the podcast, which I know your mother Jenny does as well. Yeah, she does that.

Yeah, she will love it. You never call your mum. Oh, well, no, I do. Yeah, I talk to her down again. Give me Jenny's number. I'll call her catch up. It gets a good idea. She gets good updates on the podcast as well.

And then when you talk to them, mum's like, what do you've been doing? I'm like, not much. And then she hears about all these stories that I've exhausted on the radio. Yeah. She's like, well, I heard you did this and that. And I was like, yeah, well, you forget about that stuff that you talk about on the radio, don't you? And you're just trying to sum up your week with not much. She's like, it feels like you just want to get off the phone.

Yeah, no, it's, I do, I do like chatting with the off. probably talk three, maybe three times a week, I'd say she would call. How about you with Ray, Ray? Probably the same. I like to, because, you know, I live quite far away. It's a good half an hour drive, so I call them on the way home. Oh, that's a good idea. Got half an hour.

Yeah, that's probably a good time when you do it. What about you, Ben? I'd message probably, but I'd probably, every couple of weeks, I'd probably talk on the phone. Yeah, a lot of texts. Yeah, a lot of texts, yeah, a lot of text messages. But sometimes regularly, sometimes we'll like the last couple days to talk to my mom heaps, and then probably we'd go maybe two or three weeks and we wouldn't, but, you know. Yeah.

Where are you sitting on the pecking order of the children? I think the lowest of the pecking order. You said your sister Amelia, she was taken over to theme parks twice. Yeah, and then they've both remarried and they've had other, I've got other siblings as well. They're definitely the top of the pecking order. So I really, I'll just keep me, you know. You and your sister went to visit your mum in hospital recently

and she cried when your sister got there. Exactly. Yeah, I'd do it all the way from Auckland up there. And I was like, yeah, brought flowers from the family and everything like that. That was lovely. Your mum appreciated that, but then Amelia, who'd she'd seen, basically, I think that night before, because they lived, yeah, she was, oh, Amelia, I didn't know you were coming. Maybe you should call your mum more often.

Oh, but Amelia came in with a surprise visit. Yeah, surprise was it. Did your mum know you were turning up? Oh, I did say, yeah, coming for work. I'd come to see you before because you're in hospital. So I did. You were the element of surprise. Oh, yeah.

Also, you drove up for work, so don't pretend like it was a special visit. We were going anyway. Yeah, I did. But yeah, okay. I'm not saying it was. He would have driven up there. regardless. Yeah, I would go see you.

Yeah, for that. Very funny. Did you be listening to us a couple weeks time with mum one of the podcast? You'd be like, oh, I had all this stuff. That's fine. Love your mum. And, well, big shout out to all the mums, to Ray, Ray, to Jenny, to Annie and all the parents out there who are tuning into the podcast today. Yeah.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. I've got this last week, and some people have got this on there, new phones that when you call them up, you give them a call. And you sort of have to leave a bit of a bit of a podcast. message for them. It's like an automated AI sort of message system

that basically will let it's like a gatekeeper. It's like a receptionist. Yeah, and producer Troy's got it on his phone. We'll just demonstrate it. So the phone rings as per

then all of a sudden that's not going to do it. It's not going to do it. Why don't you answer the phone, Troy? We'll see you through there. You're looking at you. Answer the phone. Don't be rude. Hello.

Hey, Troy. It's us next to us. next door we can see you through the glass oh do my gatekeeper not stop you no the gatekeeper normally they would say what do you want to say you record a little bit of a message and then that message would get relayed to you and you'd decide hey yeah I want to talk to them or not

yeah really awkward when you say no though yeah and then it plays a bit of hold music while you wait for my response yeah yeah but I guess you probably wouldn't have answered this call because you're like well I'm right next door this is a redundant phone call no you know I'd hang up yeah I would hang up actually shocking example of the new technology

but it puts a lot of pressure on a phone call as well too I think I preferred it when you'd leave a voice message and knowing that it probably wouldn't get cleared until oh John O'clock oh he's dead now anyway you know by the time that they clear those voicemails there's a lot less pressure

at this time you're like God I've got to be succinct I've got to have a nice little hook as to why this person might want to take my call and that's what we're going to turn into a game right now 0800 of the hits so if there's anything that you'd like to talk with us about a paddle boarded a whale

You know, you could leave that message and we'll decide whether we... Well, like, you paddleboarded on a whale. On a whale? Yeah. I mean, I'd answer that call. Yeah, yeah. I accidentally joined a cult. Probably would like to talk to that person.

Yeah, look, we got a real mix last week when we did it. Some really interesting teasers to stories and some stuff that personal stuff, people just wanted to talk to us about. Hello, my name is Brick, and my name is Brick, because my mum named me prick, because the brick hit me when I was younger. Oh, jeez. I'm quite, well, do we want to, wow, that's a, I'd love to talk to Brick. Nicole. Excuse me, sir.

If this is Jono, I've been quite offended by some of the banter lately, and I'd like you to call me back to deal with the situation. Don't lie if I like that one. Rachel? Hey, guys, my name's Rachel. I drove a TikTok from the south of India all over the north of India. Two weeks, it was insane. Drives a talk across India?

That's not big. And Laura, and Lauren's phone through. Hey, um... I used to listen to Dono on The Edge, and I'm just following up about a prize that I won. And if I could... Okay, and we won't do that. A lot of admin heavy ones for me, letting down people, offending people, not sending out prizes and stuff. We actually ended up touring a Rachel who took-took from one side of India to the other.

Yeah, remarkable story. It broke down, ran under petrol, like all of it, but they still managed to do it. It was a race, wasn't it? And so that's the calibre of calls we need. right now and boy have we got a massive prize up for grabs a prize I probably won't send out to you what is it what a surprise you know what we're going to give away I look through the window there and I see our fine partners Dilma and I see a display box every box of tea on that display box will be sent to how many working the tea how many is on

their producer Troy 10 boxes of tea okay clear on them out the end of the year John O'Benon and Megan the podcast the hits now we wanted to know you a little Well, basically why you wanted to talk to us, you record a little message and we'll decide if we want to put you on the air or not. Yeah, so we've got like a bouncer at the door and we decide whether we let you in. It's a really fun way to approach difficult.

Maybe we could do that more often in life too, you know, where you don't have to deal with people. I think we're slow. So you just walk around with, like, producer Troy and they talk to him and you see. No, I can't be bothered to your parking warden, you know, that sort of stuff. Yeah, right. So we've got a message here from Chris.

Hey Chris here Been in the police 22 years Built a plethora of better work stories Some of them are pretty crazy Give us a call back if you want to hear one Okay we've got Chris Chris the cop Not bad

Linda Hi my name's Linda I'm from Ashburton And we have five generations Of family alive Under the age of 80 Wow That's pretty impressive

Five generations Five That might be a world record. Have we got another one here? Hi, this is Laura from Baycorp. I'm just calling up about a case that we've got open for John O'Priar. It's a callback, that would be great. He's got three days to do so.

It's a stitch-up message. Is it, though? It is. Well, no, it's not, because I've seen the letters that are coming to work. Yeah, I've had some issues with Baycorp over the last week, which all I have to tell you about. Okay, so we've got the choice of clearing my Baycorp debt. we've got Chris the cop or we've got Linda with their five generations

under the age of 80 what do you want to roll with Are we putting it to the people Or are we deciding? Okay, 4487 on the text Who do you want to hear from? The police have got some really spicy stories over the last couple of weeks

Yeah, probably less about that I'm sure A breakfast radio John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits About which call we need to take We've got all these messages

left on our answering service. Okay, we had Linda. Hi, my name's Linda. I'm from Ashburton. And we have five generations of family alive under the age of 18. Okay, we had Linda, we had Baycourt for me. This is Laura from Baycorp.

I'm just calling up about a case that we've got open for John O'Pont. Yeah, there we go. And also for Chris, the cop. Hey, Chris here. Been to the police 22 years. Built a plethora of better work stories. So which one do we want to go to?

The votes have been open on 4-48-0. Most people see Baycourt, to be honest. Really? Well, I mean, there's boats to the other ones, but a lot of them want to hear your Baycorp woes. Okay. We're a transparent show. I'll tell you what's been going on with Bay Corp next.

Okay, we will. But a lot of votes for Chris, the cop. All right, we're going to go, Chris. Well, there's better work stories. We'll see. How are you, Chris? Good, thanks. Let's drive me into work as we speak.

Oh, good on you. Okay, you're better work stories. from the police. But tell you what, there's been some shaky work stories from the police over the last couple of months, so I'm sure you've got better ones, sure you can beat old Mick Skimmings ones. I hope so. Let's not talk about him though.

No. What's happened? Yeah. So I think I'll talk about Chatham Islands. I worked there for two and a half years. My wife and I, we job shed the constable's role over there. And one evening, I couldn't tell you what time, but it was pretty late, maybe 10 o'clock. We got a phone call from the office.

occupants of Pitt Islands which is one of the small islands in the Chatham Islands group and it has about 30 people on there anyway they ring up and said they've had an incident car's been crashed

someone's being beaten up and there's a guy holed up in a house and someone's been injured it was pretty crazy on like you're still not quite sure what's going on and you're thinking

you know what I'm going to here, so I got myself someone with a boat to sail me over there, and suddenly my wife gets a phone call, and it's the guy who hold up in the house, and he's like, oh, my missus crashed the car, and we got into a fight, and then her brother beat me up, and I've locked myself in this guy's house, and they're all trying to kill me. Oh, my gosh. We're thinking, what is going on on this little island? How long does it take you to get there by boat?

About an hour. Oh, gosh. Yeah. So my wife stayed on the phone with this guy for an hour, basically negotiating with him and trying to figure out what had gone on. Well, I was accommodated a boat, a fishing boat, and the local doctor to go over there. Do you put a siren on the boat? Do you put a little flashing light on the siren? Has he happened across or not?

No, I just got one of the locals to yell at the window. Wee, wee, we. And so you got over there, obviously. Well, we did. So it turned out, yes. been at a party, got a bit drunk had a fight with some of the locals there Mrs said let's go before it gets worse

He jumped in the car And he was having a farnie with her crashed the car Of course all of her family heard about it And they started chasing him down Which is why he was hold up in a house Trying to stay safe And basically by the time I'd got to the islands

My wife had negotiated with this guy And got him to surrender himself to me and so when I got to the wharf he literally jumped into the boat with me and said like take me away, save me and surrendered himself to me so I was like oh okay wow then you turn the boat around

and you guys go reo roo roo wow that is and this is the good work the police do you know you hear stories like this especially more about my wife negotiating this guy to surrender I mean I just went for a boat riding John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hits About five weeks And And front foot disclaimer Serial ticketer Parking infringement offender I'll put my hand up

You like literally don't pay for parking On purpose Because you seem to think that it will balance out Yeah through tickets and the likes Does it? Not nowadays They've brought AI into the mix And that's really throwing

There's a car with cameras on top of it Which really defeats purpose. Well, they can probably get through a lot more. What do you mean it defeats the purpose? The cat and mouse game of is the ticketing officer going to get you? No, I got away with this one. That's not the purpose.

The purpose is to pay for parking and to get those who don't. Taking away jobs from good, innocent, annoying parking. Well, it's just some of the drives the car, I guess, right? Yeah. But you're right, they probably get past a lot more cars than the person more in the street too. It's a revenue gathering. It's its finest. Well, it's also making sure you pay for parks.

It's pay for parking. It's what happened. So, anyway, so I do get a few tickets sent to work. Like more than. one I've even owned in my line. Yeah, they do back up. That's actually my New Year's resolution, not to get one infringement next year.

But that's next year, not now. And so then, through the process, if you don't pay them or you ignore them, they eventually end up at Bay Corp, before they go to the courts, I believe. Or they go to the courts and end up at Bay Corp, one of the two. And the problem is,

we are in the middle of a scam tsunami, a torrent of scams coming at all of us innocent people every day. Yeah. Okay? So I'm receiving a text from Bay Corp, going, you've got this fine to palm like, good one, scammers. So I've ignored probably about the 23 texts that have come through over the last four to six weeks. And phone calls as well from unknown numbers.

And I answer the phone, it's Bay Corp here. I'm like, sure it is, buddy. Have a great day. Do you want my credit card number, do you? And they're like, yes, please to pay your fine. No, thanks. Hang up. And I did that three times.

So I feel like I'm being scanned. I think maybe the scammers have hacked into the Bay Corp data. base, that's the story of I've built in my head to make me sleep easy at night. It is difficult though to know what is a scam or what's not. In this case I'd say not as difficult, Megan? In Baycourt's defence, the physical letters that they're

sending to your workplace that have you know, like the Baycorp logo. But I didn't have one that's the thing. Lies, I saw another day. Yeah, until it turned up the other day. I didn't have one. I thought it was the scam-demic that we're in at the moment. Surely that's a defence in court

nowadays we're like judge have you seen all the scams out there what would you do judge and the judge would be like you know what you're right I wipe all of your fines from now it's not going to happen until Bay Corp we're going to have the Christmas party a couple weeks they're like to John O'Pryor another great year

have you changed your credit rating no you know that Bay Corp affects your credit rating oh it probably does it probably does it let's go through there all the time just pay it from the get you had so many opportunities it's always like a boarding call at the air like my dad, you wait until they say your name and then you get on. You just wait until you get a

Baycorp letter. Enjoy your Christmas party, Baycorp, you're right, Ben. It's on Jono. They think all the Secret Sanders are on me as well. Johno Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Mariah Carey game. It really does make you feel very fast. A Mariah game. I see she's number nine on the charts now.

Last week she was in the 30s. It really is Mariah's time to shine. The management wants us to start playing the song. They want the end of the game. So we've decided that. Friday is the day. If you get to some Friday without hearing Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas, you have won, you've clocked the game, and then we'll start playing it.

We'll thorn Mariah out and start playing her on the Hits. Now the solo announcer left at the hits is PJ from Maddie and PJ. Now we tried calling PJ just through in that Justin Bieber song, and she didn't answer. And now she must be calling back on the hotline actually. Okay, here we go. Hello? Hi, it's the Inland Revenue.

Oh, Inlet Revenue. Hello. It's Polly Harding. Oh hi we were just ringing up about the audit my audit the evasion case that we opened evasion case jono's also working for the inland revenue as well yeah oh my god I was terrific you're just repeating everything we say evasion case audit Isn't it? Isn't it? Yeah, this is too early for my little brain.

Now, PJ, you are stressing also too, because you're trying to avoid all I want for Christmas. You know, she's probably heard it a million times, but I actually haven't heard it multiple times. But you wouldn't know. As far as you're aware. Still in the game I'm still in the game Oh PJ you've done well Fridays when it ends

When the madness ends We're going to start playing it Because management They want to start playing it The problem is you're making your way To Christchurch with Maddie this afternoon We know you're doing something with the choir there You know airports

Airplanes Little shops inside the airports You're really walking into the war zone Yeah and we were a bit worried That in New Zealand Might prematurely start like Christmas tunes Upon arrival but actually someone gave us the heads up yesterday

that Air New Zealand's safe and they're still just doing Kiwi music so we should be good. Matewa, Mataiwa. Exactly. Usually your travel plans are really chaotic. How are you feeling at the moment? Honestly, we're in torrential rain.

We're going through the, it's foggy, it's torrential rain. I can just see the windmills, mum. I can see the windmills. They're going pretty hard. And hopefully we're going to make it to Christchews because I'm off back to school to try and get into the choir. Have you been practicing? I actually have.

Can you give us a little taster? Okay. Do you want the Anastasia or do you want the once in Royal David City? No one, Anastasia, absolutely. Okay. Such as she stubbed her toe Now, baby, come on Don't hate that love

You never let me feel I should have known You were under Real Come on be a man about it You're in How do we stop it? Find it out, find it out, find it down, find it

Now, there we go, PJ this afternoon, she'll be back on the radio. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Mariah Carey game. Are you in or are you out? Have you avoided listening to Moriah Carey's all I want for Christmas? Love to hear from your 4-487 on the text. Yeah, we'll talk to some of you next. We're going to celebrate because you've put a finish line in.

Well, the team, the management. I think the board, actually, it just went to board level, didn't it? They put a finish line in a Friday. Yeah. They're like, we can't hold Mariah back anymore from the hits. It's gone on too long. Stephen Joyce, he's the chairman of the board. He's like, we can't do it, we can't deprive the audience.

So if you get to Friday and you haven't heard Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas, we're going to start playing it and you've clocked the game. Well done. You've won our game. Actually, speaking of all things. This just sounds like us flipping the game, flipping the ball because we're all out. I'm like, no, I'm done. Well, PJ's still in, PJ from the afternoon. We'll try and catch up with her at some stage today.

Speaking of Christmas, a couple of years ago, I think I got into this from Christmas. You know, you're at home, you play music, you know, sometimes at Christmas, you know, Christmas music and stuff. and I'd get, I've gone into the habit of, like, putting something on YouTube. Now, YouTube, people, like, just upload so much, uh, and unique things onto YouTube, right? A lot of unnecessary filler stuff on there. Eight hours of, like, a wood, Christmas wood fire burning or something, and you'd have it on the background.

Oh, yeah, that's quite nice. And I got into that. And I was like, cool. So that became a thing. And then I've sort of adopted on Friday, Saturday nights if we're at home, whatever. You know, put some music on, whether it's a radio or whatever it is. And then you'll find something on YouTube and just have it up with the sound off playing in the background. Yeah.

It's a Christmas thing. themed of obviously but then recently and I didn't realize I was doing it until my kids started mocking me point of view theme park rides I really got into that recently oh so like on a roller coaster yeah so people have taken the brave heroes that have taken their phones all the way through all these amazing rides often Disney because for some reason I'm dizzy hard he's hard for Disney all these Disney rides and point of view of the Disney rides that all have that on the background and I get really engrossed so that's just playing on mute yeah playing on mute for hours and then you know how YouTube it just plays one after another and after another and the kids are like I don't think there's the kids were like I don't think there's anyone else in the world watching these like you are real unique guy and maybe it's trauma for you know my family as I mentioned before didn't take me to movie world on the Gold Coast you're certainly made up for in space I know and I'm like yeah and I'm like yeah maybe that is unusual especially you know because you know you find yourself sitting there and you're like oh yeah it's Peter Pan's flight oh it's big big Thunder Mountain that you know I can understand the fireplace that's relaxing yeah yeah

and stuff but like you had got a thrilling ride going on on your TV on mute I know but I can't look away I just get really and now get really into it yeah yeah it's one of those things blackhead removals for me on YouTube yeah I can't do that yeah I got really embarrassed last night because you know when you're opening your four you page and it comes up with like all these things that you mine was just full of people squeezing blackies yeah I see I can't do that in front of someone last night they're like wow we have different algorithms give me space mountain in a haunted mansion any day, P-O-V, you know? What we should do, what we should do is we can hire out two movie theatres

and the audience, the audience can come along, either to blackhead removals on the big screen, or Ben Boyce's POV of the Disney rides. I'm going to put on music and drinks as well, too. That's what you're going to do. Oh, we can have music and drinks. Yeah, we'll do that. Tweezers as well.

I'm going to yours, John. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The hits. It feels like you can resist some part. of the traits that your parents have, but then some will just creep through, right? And you'll end up at some stage doing things that your parents do. Yeah, that's all we want to open up. I had 100 of the hits four, for eight, seven, when you realize you were slowly turning into your parents.

There's things that, like, really annoy you when you're younger that they say to you, like, um, you know, I'm going to turn this car around, which is what my husband said recently, and I looked in him and I was like, oh, where you, yeah, full dad mode. Baseless threat. I will turn this car around. And it's like, we absolutely won't. We're not late. Oh, and Eva in the history is saying,

I'll turn this car around, just turn the car around. Well, most of the time the kids don't want to go anywhere, the place you're going anyway. Yeah, they're like, great, let's go home. I don't really want to go to this thing. See if we're doing a good place. No, I'm always doing Auntie Doreen's or something. There's nothing to play with there.

Yeah. But we've spoken to my mum, Ray, Ray, a few times, and she is a character. She has had, she's got a million sayings. She's got a quirky answer for everything. What's, my favourite one of hers is there's no such thing as no. No such thing is can't. Oh, no such thing is can't.

I was like, well, there is. There's a lot of situations with can't is applicable. I'd always say, I can't. She's like, there's no such thing as can't. And then I'd always ask her something and she'll say, what is it saying in the rulebook? And you're supposed to say, what rule book? And she would say, exactly. I like her.

They feel like she should be doing crimes and stuff like that. No, I was like living with Dr. Seuss or something. Oh, God. because she puts her own road cones out and paints her own lines on the road what does that say in the rule book? Well, I'm sure in the road code might say you can't do that.

Yeah, you can't do that. There are some rules, yeah. No, yeah, you're right. But there is a couple of things that are creeping into my house that I can hear her in my mind and I'm like, don't do it. Don't say it.

Because my kids, my son specifically, every day is like, Mom, what's for dinner? And in my head I can hear my mom. Did she always have a comeback? She had a quirky response because she obviously got sick of us saying it to her. Do you want me to tell you what it is? I've got Ray Ray Ray's number on Hot Doyle.

Don't ask them why. Don't ask you. No further questions, thank you. And I'm going to, why don't we call Ray Ray, and then we all just go, what's for dinner? And then see if she says. Oh yeah. Will she answer?

Well, she should be up. What's like she an early riser? Somehow she would have done seven loads of washing already. It's just her and dad. prolific at washing, is she? Absolutely prolific. I imagine Ray Ray's up and Adam probably getting more stuff.

Oh no. Please leave a message. Oh, not this morning. Oh, no. No, that's Dad's number. Okay, no. Hang up, hang up. We're not going to get it.

What's the saying? So I'd be like, what's for dinner? And she, without fail, would say, shit rolled and corny's. Because she's so sick of us asking her. And what did she give you that? Oh, no, that's never in the steves.

It was just boiled potatoes, without a doubt, boiled potatoes in some form of protein. So have you said this to your son yet? No, but I can hear it. Yeah, right, it's cut it's about to burst out of your lips. It goes the other way, too. Sometimes you look at your kids and you're like, things that really irritate you about them,

you're like, well, that's me. I do that. I've put that in them. It's my problem. That's my doing. So 800 of that. When did you realize you were becoming your parents? I know John Pryor.

Also, you start to appreciate, I think, your parents' quirks as they get older. And they get quirkier. They don't get any more sensible. No. But Dad is a relentless backer of fruit. Just loves fruit. Like, fruit's the cure to anything. You know, cancer, depression, the cost of living crisis.

Fruit. According to John Pryor. And so every morning he's like, here's a bowl of fruit, mate. Get that in you? Nothing will go wrong. Now, I find I'm doing it every morning before I leave for work. I leave bowls of fruit on the bench come home ten hours later

no one's eating them so I end up having the warm rotting fruit I'm trying to put petal fruit I can't do it John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits So we're talking about the sayings

that your parents use That you find yourself Well saying these days Don't you? Yeah every time my kids are like What's for dinner In the back of my mind I can hear my mum say

Shit Rollin' Cornies It's good response though isn't Yeah But then as a kid Nothing frustrates you more than hearing the same response to the question every night. Same when someone says how far away is dinner. I can't help but go in the kitchen.

It's just in the kitchen. That's all I do. I have to do it. I have to do it. My kids will go, how's dinner? You're like, it's just in the kitchen. So you're slowly turning into your parents and using the sayings that were beaten into you as a child.

Because you resist them, I imagine, for a number of years. But then full circle moment, isn't it? When you have kids. Yeah. Kevin Boyce has failed to plan. You plan to fail. Oh, yeah. It was another way getting, geez, I'm about taking that on board.

I'm a planner. Have you at what? He's running on. that and granted me in me, my dad. Almost too much. I know. You've been trying to schedule Santa. Yeah.

You found a plan, plan to fail. Plan to fail. I'm like, okay, go, got to plan it, plan it. Any prize always like, Michelle Obama, when they go low, you go high. The amount of times I've heard when they go low, you go high. It's just like, I don't, going lower is far more satisfying. Many occasions, Michelle Obama, just so you know. Catherine, it's good to have you on.

Good morning, guys. How are we? We're doing well. When you realize you're morphing in. your parents and saying their sayings. When the kids can't find something and I say if I go in there and find it, it's going to be trouble.

Is there ever trouble though? Do you ever bring trouble if you go out and find stuff? No, the only trouble is they win because I find it. Yeah. There's no backup to those ones, isn't there? There's really not. If I get in there, good on you. Thank you so much.

Give me strength has come through on the text. Oh, give me strength, yeah. That's when you know you've really pushed the limits as a kid, that when you get to give me strength. Taylor from Tauranga, more than to you. Good morning. How are you guys this morning? Good. Good. Well, Taylor. When you realize you were turning into your parents using their sayings? Oh, well, my dad's saying was always not enough room to swing a cat when it was not enough space. And we were recently looking at homes with a real estate agent and I found

myself saying, wow, there's not enough room to swing a cat in there. And they're like, what's you doing? I know. I can see that measurement in my head though, but it's Quite grim. Like, why are we swinging cats? Exactly. Someone had a dedicated cat swinging room. It's like, is this a hobby of yours? Come on here, there's heaps of a room, guys.

You're like, okay. Many great cats been swung in here. Thank you so much. Lindy, you're on the radio. Wow. Hey, how are you? Dream come true for Lindy. Yep, how are you?

What are you? What are you up to this morning, Lindo? I'm doing breakfast. I love at the local intermediate school. Oh, good, I guess you. That's nice. Lindy. And participating in our radio show,

charity all round this morning from Lindy. All right, mate, when you realise you were turning into your parents and using their sayings. Yeah, well, there's five of us when I was in six, and we'd all of us, obviously, asked one at a time, and the response was always fresh air fritters.

Offer dinner. What do you offer dinner? Fresh air fritters. Yep. I've heard myself say it to my kids and I've heard them say it to their kids too It's a genuine question from the kids though Yeah

You know, just go hey what's today? You can just say what it is Rather than just snap back I don't want to say what it is It's not a loaded question They'll be like I just want chicken nuggets Yeah I'm like shut your face

Hey Lindy You have a wonderful day Serving disgusting mouldy lunches to those kids Alright She would never She would never Alright good on you Thank you so much for listening

Really appreciate it Cheers I remember one to say goodbye From my mum She used to say See you in the soup And we'll have a pee together That's when she says

See in the soup And we'll have a pee together Yeah that's goodbye John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hats Great to have Lewis Capulting in the country Played last night

Played Christchurch on Sunday night And then last night as well Megan you went to Somba I did this guy 20 year old New Yorker He's come all the way over here After he's blown up on TikTok

He's got a great album out I barely know her And I went to the concert last night With my boss Did you tell him how busy you were At this time of year Yesterday you were banging on About how much stuff you had to go

And we ran a competition Are you busier than Megan A lot of people A lot of people They couldn't compete with Megan No one's busier than Megan I actually I had a lot

I still have a lot of work to do That I put aside Much to my husband's disgust yesterday and he was like are you sure you have to go to this show? I was like I do I absolutely do Hey Samba my dishwasher is not working My aircon's not happening in the car

I've chosen to be here So you went along last night I had a great time, it seemed like a great concert Matt our boss is with us right now You took Megan along as your plus one I did I had a plus one and I knew Megan was a super fan I was like should we go and you know enjoy the show? Yeah we went along

and man the crowd There was a mixed crowd There was a lot of young people there though and man they were routing Everyone knew all the words I can't even hear the dude It was a very like 1,500 people there sold out at the Auckland Town Hall

And the crowd was like louder than that. Megan is complaining this morning About something that she did last night That's affected her a body part A joint part Look I wear heels all the time But last night I didn't wear sneakers I had little like kitten heels on

So that was like sensible Yeah you always got to go unsensible footwear to a concert, don't you? But we were with a couple of friends of ours, Genzies, and at one point, he was like, everyone needs to jump, like, unless you're too cool, jump. And they were like, come up here, Megan. And I was like, well, I'm not going to say no to two cool genzies. So I ditched our boss, Mando, went up, and we were, he was a, he's a casual

swayer. He's a dad sway at the back. I was doing the perfectly in time to every song might I add, but one foot to the right one on the left. Keep it safe. The middle-aged white man's sway. That's it, man. We know our zone.

So I left Dad behind and, like, scooted up the front with these cool kids. And we were jumping. We were, like, jumping. And then today I'm like, 40-year-old may you shouldn't be jumping like that? Because my knees are so sore. I can also attest this wasn't like a casual jump. Like, Megan was going for like a high jump situation. Because I could see from my vantage point at the back.

Well, she's trying to keep up with the youth. I'm not a regular mom. I'm a cool mom. We've got more spring in their legs, don't they, the young ones? Oh, my God, yes. And, like, halfway through, I was like, I can't stop because I've started. Also, he said if you're too cool to jump, go home, you didn't want to go home. No, I don't want to.

I'm sorry to think I was, like, too cool. Did he also serve your wheelchair bound? Look, I still walked that whole sand parade at the weekend, felt okay. Today, my knees are sore. But don't tell the cool genes. No, no, that's for sure. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

We're stargazing and Teowamu. yesterday, one of the stars from it was probably the biggest show on TV for many years. The Big Bang Theory. Big Bang Theory. No, it was massive. I didn't personally watch it. But geez, it went on for many seasons, didn't it? Yeah, and Simon Helberg,

who was one of the stars. He was the ex-astronaut, Howard, in the series, engineering ex-astronaut, and you've looked at photos of him online here. The big, like, bowl haircut situation. Oh, that's amazing. Obviously it looks quite different in real life, and that's why they had sort of Google him when he was in the serve.

And I guess you wouldn't probably expect someone like that in Teowah Mood. You know, like just to pop up on a, whatever, Tuesday night. So he went to dinner in Teowmoodoo. Yeah. Did anyone find out what he's doing here, particularly there? He says he's doing some work. He's quite vague about it. But, yeah, I mean, I don't know what led him to TA.

It's a beautiful part of the New Zealand. First time in New Zealand, he's saying as well. So, yeah, enjoying it. So great to have him here. It's always cool. If someone came to New Zealand, they're like, first time here, I'd be like, you know, you need to go. Teamudu.

He might be travelling around to places. We say it's a beautiful little place in that. Let's call a petrol station in Teuu and see if they've seen Simon Helberg. So the staff were googling just to double check. Well, he went on his social media and they saw the same hat. Hello, how are you? What's your name? Denise.

Denise, how are you? It's Jono Ben and Megan from the Hits radio station. Hi, how you doing? We're doing well, mate. You're seeing the dude from the Big Bang theory around town? No, not actually. But he was in town. It's making news.

Not on our side of the town. Oh, well, you need to go to the other side of the town. It's making big news there. Go talk to them, mate. Talk of the town. Over that side, though, not your side. What's making news on your side of the town? What's that being there?

You got stars from two and a half men or anything like that? or what's happening? No, not really. This is a really, if you know Tio O'Mutu, it's a very small town, so nothing much happens, yeah. Yeah, well, then you'd think that the news would travel around the small town, not be sort of segregated into that side of the town and your side of the town. Yeah, no.

I'll probably on the other side of the town there's more action, but not on our side. Farronite restaurant, it's the talk of Fahrenheit restaurant. He went there on Sunday, so yeah. Oh, okay, Fahrenheit's actually quite nice. Yeah, it's nice. You need to venture to the other side of town. Well, lovely talking to you. You have yourself a great day.

You too, my dear. Have a wonderful one. Only on your side of town, though. We don't wish the other side of town a great day. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Time to cross to our Italian correspondents. Chia-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha.

Why do you say it like it's lightning, McQueen? I was trying to do that. Pao-paw-cha-cha-cha. Pondurno. How you doing? I'm amazing. What about you? We've spoken to you for a while. It's lovely to hear your voice. Nice to hear your voice, guys.

You know, the show's been missing a bit of Italian flair, isn't it? And it's just through, I think, schedules and booking that we haven't had you on for a couple of weeks. But Daniela, you named the top three things that have happened to you since we last spoke. Big ally. Summer is here and I'm a summer girl. Sun's out, guns out? You got the guns out in the sun? Wow, I got my muscle out. Yeah, good on you. Do you get burned in Italy?

No, no, sorry. That's the good things. Italy, you cannot get burnt. They have an ozone layer. Yeah, we're about... Yeah, we're not even put sun protection in Italy. You don't even put sunblock on? No, and the kids go with a little mini speedo.

They don't even have all this burq on them. You know, you guys put all these liars, long sleeves. Kids just go with a little speedo on the beach, not protection. Yeah, I've got the old... The old, what are they, the rash shirts, a mesh vest, yeah, you're right. Well, wait until we can bring them over to Italy. We can make it. Well, we actually make no money.

He sounds like you don't need it. Oh, that's funny. We did it go? He started an Italian rashirt shirt business. And they didn't want it. No, we don't need this. I mean, nothing sexier than a rash shirt on the beach. Ben was just reminding us before we started talking to you of a wonderful story that broke out of Italy during the week.

It was big news in Italy. I don't know if you heard about it. There was a guy whose mother sadly passed away a couple of years ago, but he was impersonating her and turning up, dressed as her to get her payments, her sort of pension. Pension. Yeah. No way.

Yeah, in Italy. Have you turned up to get her pension and said, good a... Yeah, he didn't change the voice, apparently. That was the giveaway. Oh, no way, no, I didn't hear that. That's very interesting. People try everything. I think the inspiration is everywhere sometimes.

He didn't change his voice. We got away with it for three years, yeah. Oh, no way. And I think, you know, between people losing the mind and sometimes people react on grieving in a different way. Potentially, as storing your own mother and claiming her pension is a form of grieving. I know it's one of the stages of grief.

Maybe he didn't want to let go of her, so he stored her in the freezer, you know? Anger, sadness, denial, storing of dead bodies and claiming pensions. Yeah, that's what everyone does, right? Big, big, very creativity. Big creativity I need to say, you know. Well, Daniela, it's always a pleasure, and it's always a joy. And you go and have a wonderful week out there in our harsh UV rays. You too, guys, and bye, guys.

Ciao, guys.