Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan's MIA + Matty Maclean frantically joins us!

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

On today’s show: Matty Mclean joins us for the podcast intro! PJ forgot something after a night out, but will Matty deliver them? "Her hot mess has become my hot mess" Megan’s missing after a big night — so we track her down to find out what really happened. Who looks the youngest? We let the retirement village be the judge. Why was Jono spotted at the liquor store at 9am?! Ben's honest review of "dog socks" Producer Grace takes on the wild challenge of sleeping for 72 hours straight. And Ben has an autocorrect fail that’s too good not to share. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Friday where we had last night the New Zealand Radio and Podcast Awards. How do you think that went? It was good. It was really cool. I really like, you know, it's probably like if you're listening right now and you work in an industry and you sort of get together from time to time it's kind of cool when everyone gets together there's lots of people that you know from other you know from opposition stations it's kind of cool to have everyone together and celebrate the industry the industry yeah no it was good it was good they uh did jeremy corbett hosted it he's good he was really good he had made a wonderful point last night too i thought it was really good because it's mark hosking winner i mean it's pretty much copy paste the winners from every year of the awards we just basically go along

and watch the same award ceremony every year. He won again. He does a great job, and he won Best Talk Radio. Greatest broadcaster of all time, I think, for the – Mike Hosking. Yeah, Mike – we go every year. We watch Mike Hosking get up there and tell us how great he is. Then he walks out.

Like, he doesn't even stay for the remainder. No, he's in and out and done. Up the stairs, and he's gone. Yeah, but Hosking was talking about all the people that help him make the show, and he said one of the bosses there, he was saying the lengths that he would go to to help him out was one day he likes his hot water with lemon. Slice of lemon, yeah. He says it's so great for keeping him feeling young.

And the hot tap was broken. There was no boiling water. And he said, you know what one of the bosses did? They went down to the supermarket, bought him a thermos, so he'd have hot water that day and then someone else printed out a label saying, Mike's thermos, do not use. He was like, that's the effort they go to.

Jeremy Corbett off the back of that, it was like, well, how did you put hot water in if the hot water tap was broken? Great point. That's a really good point, yeah. Which, yeah. That is, yeah. Great point.

No one had ever thought about that. I'm guessing he must have gone somewhere else. But it's a great point. The thermos wasn't really the, you know. Or was it water? Or true. Was it the water? Yeah.

Should we call Mike Hoskin? Yeah. Do you reckon Mike Hoskin would answer? Could have brought him a jug. Like, what do we get? Should we just say, well, say, what does he think about that? Where does he think the water came from? Because I don't think he would have thought too hard about it.

Yeah. What do you reckon the chances are of him answering this phone call? Is it from? It's from a number. Oh, so it comes from a number. Yeah, not private. Yeah. I'm going to give it a 15% chance he's going to answer.

Hosking? I'll give it a 7% chance he's going to answer. Okay, here we go. Lock at him. Oh, it makes me nervous Hosking engaged Do you reckon he's left his own voicemail? Do you reckon he's recorded a... He wouldn't check his messages though, would he?

No There'd be someone in a lot of socioeconomic bracket Who has to do that for him Hi, this is Mike's phone Can't take your call at the moment But leave a message, I'll get back to you See ya No point, no point He's not going'll get back to you. See ya. No point. No point. He's not going to get back to us as well.

Oh, well, there you go. We'll never get to the... Well, one day we'll get to the bottom of that, the water. He's bloody good, though, isn't he? But the wards were great. You know, it's just hard on a Thursday when you've got to come here early on the Friday. There's some people around the office today. Oof, not looking great. Yeah, like,

I've got to a stage in life I know you there as well think about consequences on those nights out particularly when you have to get here early if you didn't have to be upbeat on the radio you'd probably go let's push it out I don't mind having a big night out a younger me would have come straight from the thing

maybe one year we need to commit to do that we're all going to be in the same boat we're going to see what the show's going be like and do it once and see do it once and then we'll never be back on the radio ever again yeah that might be the case but megan speaking of which not here at all uh she did say yesterday uh that she was going to not be there and we're like whatever radio awards you're trying you know and she was like no i'm not i've got work she never said what the work was and we're like

well this is work but she you'll hear in a moment she's on a plane she sends us a message but see look here look I've got

YouTube right now hey guys shall I play her one okay so this is this is what Megan this is what Megan sent us

hey guys I'm currently on a plane so it's Megan and I can be locked. Hey guys, I'm at the airport. It's busy. True.

A lot going on here. But your performance needs to be a little bit better. Hey guys, a lot going on here. You can tell I'm at the airport because it sounds like I'm at the airport. Yeah, that was just a quick little look. I'm sure we can do better. Matty McLean's coming for the podcast. Oh, Matty McLean.

How are you feeling, mate? Yeah. Boys. Why are you here? You've got a show starting for many hours. I know. I have to drive to Taupo. Oh, you're running again.

I'm running. I'm doing a running event. Matty, you are the resident runner here at the Hits radio station. How are you feeling, mate? I've been better, but I've also been worse. It's good. So I'll go glass half full today. Good on you. I saw on social media that PJ,

she was here last night, which is great. It's great to see her, but she put some message out saying, can someone bring keys from Auckland to Palmy on a flight? I just saw that before. She'd she do? She left her keys at the hotel. Oh, my God.

In Auckland. She's flown back to Parmy. Her car is parked at the airport in Parmy. PJ is a... This is honestly... She's a hot mess, eh? She is a hot mess. I was like, this is...

Yeah, this is just my life working with PJ. Yeah. So I now have to go to the hotel, pick up the keys. Oh, you're responsible for this. Take them to the airport to try and get them on the next Air New Zealand flight. Can we call PJ? She might be in a tiz, but you could give her a go. Can she just go through a day?

Look, we're nothing. She can't. Okay, we're calling PJ right now. Hello? Oh, PJ, it's Jono, Ben and Matty. Oh, no. Right here, we're on the podcast intro right now. Hello. Oh, PJ. It's Jono, Ben and Maddie. Oh, no. Right here. We're on the podcast intro right now.

We're just hearing, well, about your tale of lost keys. Oh, guys, this is really stressful. Like, seriously, I'm just at Palmerston North Airport. I'm just about to go and talk to some staff from Air New Zealand to try and liaise. Kay's getting on from Auckland Inn, but I've literally got like an hour 15. And why does this happen to me? What are you doing? I was just saying,

have you ever gone through a day where nothing outrageous has happened to you? It's great for radio. You have the best stories. But I'm not on radio. I'm on the TV. You're still providing great stories though, aren't you? I'm having to write it down for when I return in October.

Wait, what time's the next flight, Paige? 11 a.m. Oh God, I've got to go. Matt's got to go. Matt's got to get the

keys, get them to the airport. PJ, you probably have stuff you need to do as well too, right? Well,

yeah, I've been told I've got to meet this lady called Mel, who might be able to, are you Mel? Are you, are you Mel?

Okay, I'll come to you. Okay, PJ, do that. PJ, good luck. Bye, Paige. Thanks, guys. Bye? Okay. Okay, PJ. You do that, PJ. Good luck. Bye, Paige. Thanks, guys.

Bye. Oh, Paige. And so you're saving the day. Well, her hot mess has now become my hot mess. She's not even working with you at the moment. I know. I know. No, you take him to the airport.

I've got to go. All right, you've got to go. Bye, boys. He's taken him to the airport. Oh, my goodness. Oh, good luck. Good luck. There we go. go. Alright, you've got to go. He takes him to the airport. Oh my goodness. Oh, good luck. Good luck. There we go. There's a lot going on in that podcast. A lot going on. Anyway, enjoy the podcast.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Just the two of us this morning, Jono. Last night was the New Zealand Radio and Podcast Awards. Big night for the industry. Jeremy Corbett hosted the awards ceremony. Did a wonderful job. Did night for the industry. Jeremy Corbett hosted the awards ceremony. Did a wonderful job.

Did do a wonderful job. And he had a big job ahead of him too. There was a lot of awards to plow through. There was. Yeah, he did. He did a good job of keeping the pace going. At the end of the night, the final person who went up on stage being a radio event was like,

this has gone on for two hours and 11 minutes. Yeah. Someone had been running a clock on it. Way too long. We get that helicopter signal that we get when we talk too long. Wrap it up, guys. Wrap it up. But it was a wonderful night.

I got to take my daughter along, Sienna, because she took part in one of the awards we were nominated for. She debated the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon. And Sienna's friend, she's got a friend whose dad works in the film industry, had gone to the Emmys with her dad. I'm like, it's not going to be like the Emmys. Went to the Emmys? Yeah, it's not going to be like the Emmys. Went to the Emmys? Yeah, it's not going to be like the Emmys.

Halfway through, was she like, I completely regret coming to this event? No, we had a lot of fun, actually. But the one downside for her, because I'm like, she's 15. It's cool that she gets to go along. She's like, I want to wear heels. I'm like, no, you're not wearing heels. You're 15 years old. You're not wearing heels.

And then all night, I kept standing on her dress. And she was like, wouldn't happen to you if I was wearing heels. Oh, was it dragging on the ground? Yeah. I was like, no, you're 15, you can wear your sneakers. So does she have a pair of heels? No, she doesn't own a pair of heels. Maybe you just didn't want to buy a pair of heels.

Well, that too. Also, how grown up do you want to look? Now, I've just woken up this morning to a flurry of missed calls and messages from Megan Pappas. Yeah, so what happens normally in the radio awards is all the different stations all sit together and hype up each other. And we saw you come in with your wife. It's 4.30. 4.30 in the afternoon is a really interesting time to make your way into town. Yeah, we saw you walk into the theatre.

We were sitting on the other side with all the hits. And Megan's like, there's Jono. I'll call him. And you didn't answer. And she just kept calling. I know. I've seen her. Nine missed calls.

It's safe for you and your wife next to everyone as well in the middle, awkwardly, between me and Harriet. It looked like we didn't like each other, didn't talk. And, yeah, she just, a barrage of calls. And a voicemail. She left a voicemail. Oh, did she? Oh, hello, Jono.

Ben and I are just sitting up higher, and you have sat down away from us, and the awards are about to start. So I just wanted to say that's very rude. So thank you for that live feedback. Apparently last year she was, because Megan was trying to get us all together at the after party for a photo, a team photo and she kept calling me as well.

Apparently she was watching me as I looked at my phone and saw me and put it back. So I went one step further, I actually looked at it and saw it was Megan and put it back in my pocket. I was like, it was loud it was noisy but she's not here today pocket I was like it was loud it was noisy but she's not here today she did say yesterday because we've been trying

to get the day off after the radio was late night and she was like I'm not going to be there no I will not physically be here with you tomorrow so you're on a top secret mission that you kept

this very suspicious job that you're doing I know I'm laughing but I'm telling you the truth okay so we've got we've got this audio here at six o'clock tomorrow morning when the show starts and we're all like okay we're Okay, so we've got this audio here at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning when the show starts,

and we're all like, okay, we're here. We'll play you back this audio where you're like, okay, I was here. Well, you can play it, but I won't be here to hear it. She says, yeah, work. I'm like, what's work? This is work. Yeah, and she's like, I won't be here physically. So I also don't know what that means.

So if anyone's seen Megan, text 4487. We actually don't know where she's gone. She claims she has work. Yeah, but I'm like, what is work that's not radio? At 6 o'clock in the morning. Yeah. What's clashing? It's ringing, though. Is she going to answer? No, Megan, this morning. She did say she wasn't

coming in. We didn't believe it. But if she's at work, she's got to clash. She'll be up. She'll be up doing whatever this mystery job is. Your call has been forwarded to voicemail. Forwarded. Now she's getting revenge on me. At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may hang up. God, leaving a voicemail is laborious, isn't it?

She won't check this either, will you? Are we on? Are we on? I don't know. Megan. Megan. Where are you, Megan? Where are you?

It's six o'clock in the morning. You said you weren't coming in. Well, you were right so far. You're not here. You lived up to your word. Where are you? We expect you to be here at some stage. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. So Megan came in here with a bold claim. She was like, hey, I'm always getting ID'd. And we're like, come on, mate. Pull yourself together. So we put it to the test and it really backfired. We sent her into a liquor shop.

Hi, how's it going? I'm literally here to buy alcohol. I'm literally here to buy just like a few cans of alcohol. Oh, my God. Yeah. Sorry? ID? So she got ID'd.

Yeah, she did. She got ID'd, and since since then We've been trying to Find ways to look younger Than Megan To see who looks The youngest on the show We've taken it a little personally I know

And it feels like It's not going to work out for us But Mainly for the fact That we're five or six years older Than her So we went to Somerset Retirement Village

Thank you to the wonderful team From Somerset for having us Yeah Which is great What a great set up I was like I could literally I could move in here today.

It's like a hotel set up. There's bars, there's bowls, there's all sorts. It's great. There's pool tables, you know. And if you want to make yourself feel younger, hang out with old people. A barber, there's all sorts. There's stuff going on. Anyway, it's not about us moving in because, well maybe we need to move in. We'll do that next year. But we had three of the residents

there who kind of gave up their time to sit in a room and they'd never met us before. And we each got to dress in something that we felt would make us look a little bit younger. And then they were going to judge us. We're at Somerset now. You actually look so cool. That's the coolest you've ever looked. I don't feel it.

I've got my big baggy pants on. Big beige pants. These are my son's jeans, my son's hoodie, and I've got my son's skateboard. Just don't ride this skateboard. You might break your hip or something. Cat backwards. Have you seen that meme with Steve Buscemi? Anyway, you look like that meme.

You can talk. I know. I've got, like, festival vibes on. Bright clothes, Crocs, bucket hat, glasses. Whose glasses are those? Oh, well, they were mine, but I've never been quite confident enough to wear them. Today's the day. And you've got your ducks sort of shorts and shirt combo there.

Bright yellow ducks. Like a festival vibe I've gone for. Like, give me your pals, put me in a festival. Party guy. Yeah, I'm ready to go. Megan, what are we wearing today, mate? I'm wearing jeans, some flat sneakers and a hoodie. Sambas, that's what the kids like, right?

Yeah, sambas. And Grace, our Gen Z's hoodie, which is actually like dirty and it's got tissues in the pocket. You look like you wouldn't have stopped smoking during pregnancy. And loved a whiskey. So that was us, the three of us. I looked like I was at a festival. Jo looked like it was about to hit the skate ramp at the skate park. And Megan looked like she was fresh out of my hometown of Marsden.

She did look very Marsden. And next we go in to the meeting room to be judged It was like an idol audition They were all lined up, the wonderful elderly judges It was quite intimidating in a way Even though they were lovely They were just genuinely amazing people It was intimidating to go in and go, we're going to get judged

We all assumed young people personas How did it go? Who was voted the youngest? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We're at Somerset Retirement Village now. The game was who out of the three of us could make themselves look the youngest, appear the youngest.

Yeah, we had three of the residents there. They were great. They were amazing. And so we were about to walk into the room. So here we were, waiting outside just to set the scene. We were each trying to look young, as you said. You had a cap backwards. You had a skateboard. You're looking like you're ready to just to set the scene. We were each trying to look young, as you said. You had a cap backwards. You had a skateboard.

You're looking like you're ready to go to the skate park. Nothing screams young like a cap backwards. Big baggy jeans, big baggy hoodie. I thought it would bring me down at least five to seven years. I had a bucket hat on, some glasses, matching shorts and shirt, sort of that party suit, festival vibes, you know, like bright colors, you know, what people would wear to a festival. Yeah, I don't know if anyone's familiar with that Australian DJ, Fisher.

You look like the fish. I feel like that with the bucket hat on. And Megan, you know, she had an oversized hoodie. She had baggy jeans. She had a hair in a ponytail. She had the samba shoes. She was good to go, right? Yeah.

She looked small town small town and good on her good on her the normal Megan we see right so we were waiting

outside the meeting room and producer Grace called us in young people you can start looking out you can't tell us what to do

you're not my mum okay I got nervous they've done some research on us so that's the worrying thing just get roasted all three good luck everyone okay okay so hello there how you doing thank you so much firstly for your time today my name is jono i'm very young my hobbies and

interests include vaping ram raiding and disrespecting people older than me this is jono my name is ben. I like to go to festies with my besties. That's how I spend my weekends, you know, partying all the time. Hi, my name's Megan and I like boys and fast cars.

She had her first baby in a fast car. Made it? Both. Both, both. Yeah, yeah, both. So, we'd like you to have a think and then decide on the person you think looks the youngest. Hold up a sign to either Jono, Ben or Megan.

Dragon, Ben, Megan. Megan, what? Three out of three. Yes! Judging panel's decided. That's brutal, more brutal than... Unanimous decision. Like three Simon Cowell's sitting in front of three. Yes! Judging panels decided. That's brutal. More brutal than... My unanimous decision. Like three Simon Cowell's sitting in front of us.

Just like bang, bang, bang, Megan, Megan, Megan. I mean, it was inevitable, really. We said through this whole thing it was a waste of time, but it really was. Okay, what was it about Megan that made her look so young? The fact that she's actually younger than us? Yeah. Plus, have you looked in the mirror?

Sorry, I can't remember saying we're coming out here for a roast. Yeah. Plus, have you looked in the mirror? Sorry, I can't remember saying we're coming out here for a roast. I thought Sunday was roast night out here. But anyway, that's fine. Okay. What did you think of Ben's outfit there? It's much like a pair of pyjamas I've got at home too. Next time you go shopping, you should go to Specs over speech. Oh, that was so good.

They got us good. They dressed like people Who peaked in high school You know Yeah They had their best years Were in their teenage years And they haven't really left

So that's Because I was thinking Oh it aged me down Five to seven years It was still making me Like a 37 year old Skateboarder Hey it did well

For Tony Hawk Oh yeah So well done to Megan She took that one out Jono, Ben and Megan The Podcast The Hits We went to a retirement village

Somerset Retirement Village and the game was out of the three of us Megan, Ben and myself who could make themselves appear the youngest. They had never met us before

you're actually here after 8 o'clock this morning some of the results. Okay, what was it about Megan that made her look so young? The fact that she's actually younger than us? Yeah, plus have you looked in the mirror?

Sorry, I can't remember saying we're coming out here for a roast. I thought Sunday was roast night out here. They were great, but it was almost like the comment section from the internet in real life. They're like, I don't know how to log into the comments section, so I'll just say it to your face. But yeah, as we're heading out there, you said, oh, it would be nice if we gave them some wine or something to say thank you. Yeah, to say thank you, giving up their time, yeah.

Yeah, and it was pre-11am. And I'm like, okay, all right, well, I'll go to the bottle shop. And it was a suburban liquor shop, you know, the average one. But you walk in there on a weekday morning before 11 o'clock, and you're like, this doesn't seem like a comfortable location. Yeah. Now, I'm in there, and there's another shopper in there. And I'm like, I should really explain why I'm in here.

All right. I'm after some gifts that I'm purchasing, not consuming. You feel like you probably need to explain yourself. Well, and then once I'd explained myself, I could tell the other shop in there was like, well, he's explained why he's in here. Now I need to explain why I'm here. He's like, do you have any wine I could use for cooking?

And I'm like, cooking. Okay, buddy. Cooking. But the people working there are like, I don't care. I don't care. It's your life. Do what you want to do. I'm not judging, mate.

I'm peddling alcohol in the suburbs. Don't come here for judgment. But yeah, it does seem like one of those locations. Afternoon, late afternoon, you're fine. No one's going to look at you sideways. But for some reason, when you walk in there in the morning. Yeah. Yeah, so just be careful.

Just be careful. And just say you're doing it for cooking. I was like, cooking's a pretty good one to come up with on the spot. It's weird, because we never actually gave the retirees any wine. But you said you were. Anyway. I was cooking a wonderful meal. I was like, why has he got a bottle of vodka in his hand?

What's he cooking with vodka? But anyway, there we go. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. Again, thanks to One New Zealand, we got you a chance to win $5,000, which is an amazing prize,

and a satellite-ready smartphone, a little thing we want to do called the Cashed Cow, ahead of field days, which is happening next week at Mystery Creek in Hamilton. Yeah, defecating cow, can you win you this cash? And probably I'd say a radio first. We've always said, you know, the Cache Cow, it's been a phrase, but no one's ever done it literally.

So this feels like a new frontier in radio where we've reached a new low, where we're waiting on a cow to have a bowel movement for you to win. Yeah, we're going to draw some big grids in the middle of a paddock a field somewhere and when the cow does go to the bathroom if it lands in your square you'll win five thousand dollars and a satellite ready smartphone thanks to one new zealand uh awarded aotearoa's best mobile network uh for the third year running which is pretty cool yeah you're pretty happy with those those stats i'm sure you're running would you like them to do a fourth? Hey, it's anyone's game, but hey, at this stage, they're on their way to a fourth.

That's what I say. But maybe I got some practice in for this ahead of next weekend because this morning, you know, big night at the, you know, as we talked about a couple of times, the awards we went to last night and woke up in the morning. And if I can give a little bit of a backstory, cast your mind back a few months ago, we talked about how my wife made a purchase not very expensive i think they were like under

ten dollars but she bought an item that we used once and never used again these the dog socks dog socks the dog socks with little suction pads on it for the dog i could like as soon as you mentioned those to me months ago i was like you're only ever going to use those ones yeah yeah we've got wooden floors our dogs yeah yeah he slides a little bit on the floor. It's getting up. He's getting a bit older now. And they do, when we put the socks on, four socks on the dog. Which sounds like an absolute nightmare.

A 10 or 15 minute job, I imagine. Yeah, yeah. But they worked. They worked. But it was one of those things we put on once. And then my wife's like, well, when he goes outside, we don't want the socks to get dirty. So we take the socks off. I think maybe we put them on twice.

And I was like, these are not going to. They're not going to. So I've often wondered, though, whatever happened want the socks to get dirty so we take the socks off i think maybe we put them on twice and i was like these are not gonna they're not gonna so i've often wondered though whatever happened to the socks like yellow what happened to those dog socks because you know we haven't put them on whatever this morning on my way to work walking down to the front door i was like uh-oh a dog there's a puddle of something and i was like oh the dog has vomited you know you got two options early in the morning you're the only one awake in the household you and the dog yeah and then i was like oh but i better clean it up you know because the family you know i was The dog has vomited. You know, like. You got two options early in the morning. You're the only one awake in the household. You and the dog. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, but I better clean it up, you know, because the family, you know, I was there to do the right thing, even though I didn't feel like it.

I got some more wipes and stuff and went to clean it up. And then I was like, what is that in the middle of there? Two of the dog socks. Two of the dog socks. Two of the dog socks. So I don't know where the other two are, but two, and I don't know why he's been eating them, but he obviously had a crack at eating the dog socks. he hated them that much yeah he was like i need to get rid of these so we're not using them may as well eat them yeah it's a great philosophy yeah so the two

dog socks were in there and i was like oh they're in the bin now guys they're not going back on the dog socks yeah so the other two were somewhere around the house but i'm not sure you should take a photo of it of them in the middle of everything and then just put post it as a product review if you ever wonder what's going to happen to your dog socks may I present

evidence a Jono Ben and Megan the podcast the hits we're not sure where Megan is last night was the radio and podcast

awards she's gone she said she had work or who knows mysteriously ended up on some plane this is work. But anyway, she's not here today. Producer Grace is here.

So thank you for showing up. But you'd rather be somewhere else in bed. Every day I'd rather be somewhere else. But I'm still here. It's great to have you here too. Just remember there's mics on. A Phoenix performance review. No, I'm good.

You're bored. You need your impress. But anyway, that's fine. That's fine. If you'd rather be in bed, I'm sure they can make that happen. Yeah, surely. Am I good? Can I go?

So you've now said, because you love napping, and that's great. Love it. You've now said you could pretty much sleep for 24 hours, and you might go home and see how you go. I think I could do it. I'm just going to go home. You've done 18 before, and we're like, this is ridiculous. No one could sleep that much.

Darcy. Hi. Have you out-slept, Producer Grace? What's your record? 22 hours. Whoa. 22 hours? What happened?

So my partner used to get, like, these sleeping pills because he had, like, a slip disc, and I gave him the pills to help him sleep at night. And I hadn't been sleeping, so I took one, and I fell asleep at like 7pm and then I woke up when he came back from work

which was like 4.35pm the next day. You're like, what just happened? It's like slipping into a coma. Jeez. You can't use

performance enhancing. That doesn't count. Oh, you're a purist when it comes to sleep. I'm a purist. Okay, well still, okay. A drug induced sleep. We'll do drug testing with the sleep competition too. I'm a purist. Okay, well, still, okay. A drug-induced sleep. We'll do drug testing with this sleep competition, too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's suppressive, though, Darcy. We're going to send you out some Dilmar tea. Hopefully you'll open up and get that golden ticket to win a trip to Sri Lanka. Okay, thank you. Have a cup of tea and a lie down. Just don't put a sleeping pill in the tea. All right, Ishmael, good morning.

I'm pretty good, thank you. Now, you say you've been awake for quite a long time. Yes. How many days have you been awake there, Ishmael? Two days. Two days. Is that something that would normally happen to you, or is that very unusual? It's quite regular.

Oh, some people, do you struggle to sleep? Yes. Oh, so you reckon you can out-sleep Producer Grace, who's going to go on a 24-hour sleep bender. For sure, I've slept over 24 hours before. So when you do go to sleep you sleep hard. Yeah well fair enough you haven't slept for two days.

You've slept for over 24 hours. What does that feel like? Refreshing. Yeah I bet it does. You'd be like what have I missed? It would throw you all out. It's a coma. See, I had a moment around Christmas time up north with my family.

My stepdad went to sleep in the afternoon, like Christmas. They had a big thing. He woke up at seven, and then he thought it was seven in the morning. He shamed me for having a beer. He's like, what are you having a beer for now? I was like, what? You've been asleep for the entire Christmas. It's like seven o'clock. I'm like, yeah, at night, in the morning,

they're throwing them right out. Grace, can you beat Ishmael? I think the longest I did was 18, but I only, I've never stayed up

past 24 hours. So if I stay up for two days, man, I could do anything. Okay, Ishmael, far better for me to realign your schedules,

but maybe less sleeping and then you can temper it out throughout the week. You know, you can sort of average it out during the week. You get used to it. You get used to it. So you'll go sleep for 24 hours and then you can temper it out throughout the week. You can sort of average it out during the week. You get used to it. You get used to it.

So you'll go sleep for 24 hours and then go three days on the trot, will you? I don't usually sleep for 24 hours. No, you don't. Right, that's just what happens when you need it. Do you get a lot of stuff done? I just think of all the stuff I could do on my to-do list. You would love to be awake for two days just doing stuff. Well, sleeping sometimes feels like a waste of time.

I know your body needs it. What? It just feels like there's time I could be doing stuff. You need to learn how to rest, bro. If I could just plug myself in, charge myself up, or maybe a portable charger, just a little plug, that'd be great. You and Ishmael would easily be productive as a couple.

Well, Ishmael, I hope you get a great night's sleep. Yeah, you deserve it. Thank you. See you, mate. There you go. That's a man who sounds like he's been awake for two days. We're going to end it. We're going to end it there, but there's some text coming through.

Is there more? What, it could be Ishmael? Yes, they can go more than 24. You won't believe how long someone has slept for. John O'Byrne and Megan. The podcast. The hits. As an adult, you know, most of us want to sleep for long periods of time.

Yeah, I've been saying that to my kids, you know, whenever they're like, I don't want to go to bed, I don't want to go to bed. It's like, you'll reach a period in life and that's all you want to do. Yeah. So we wanted to know the longest amount of sleep that anyone's ever had. We've got some amazing calls and texts coming through. We thought we, you know, Producer Grace was like, I can sleep. She slept for 18 hours before.

We're like, has anyone ever beaten that? Well, someone on 0800 The Hits has. Sophie, morning to you. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? Good.

More than 18 hours sleep in a row. Yes. I was in my first trimester of my pregnancy, but I slept a good 23 hours. 23 hours. Do you feel any better? So if you had a normal eight-hour sleep compared to the 23-hour one, did you feel more alive? No, I felt awful.

I felt so disorientated and so groggy. But I reckon even before my pregnancy, I loved my sleep so much, I could have easily done that as well. That's very impressive. It's a bit of a wake-up. What have I missed? What year is it? We're going to hook you up with a double pass to the movies.

There's The Materialist, a new movie in cinemas June 12th. Just promise me you won't sleep through the whole thing, okay, because it looks really good. I'll have a good nap before. Thank you so much. See you, Sophie. We were coming back from a work trip in America remember oh that's right

and you slept the whole trip like the whole thing from take off to landing straight away and they kept coming around with your meals because I was sitting

across from you and they put it in front of you I was like he's asleep he's asleep and then they take it away and then they bring another one out

like at the breakfast place it down carefully and they take it away I was like he hasn't woken up he hasn't woken up you told them to pull pin on the food delivery I was like yeah I was. I was like, he hasn't woken up. He hasn't woken up. You told them to pull pin on the food delivery to you. I was like, yeah, I was like, oh, don't worry. He hasn't woken up. The whole flight. Someone also

texted through, said they slept 26 hours after school camp. Now, I think we're going to blow that's still impressive. Oh, 26 hours? Yeah, 4pm to 6pm the next day when their parents came home from work. That's impressive. Jo, longest sleep. What happened? So, I have Coteraquina, which is

English as a reoccurring disc herniation and I was diagnosed with it at the age of 24 and I got told that if I didn't have the surgery I'd be a paraplegic by the time I was 30

and so I got the first back operation but for 18 months before that, I had gone to pretty much four doctors and they had just said, you know, you're just overworking. I was a caregiver at the time. And it turned out that I had a herniated disc that had herniated to like seven times its size. Oh, jeez. And so essentially essentially I was not

walking straight. I was in excruciating pain on a day-to-day basis. I couldn't even turn over in bed by myself. And so after I got my first back operation, yeah, I slept for like 72 hours. It was

amazing. How long? 72 hours? Yeah. I was amazing. How long did you say 72 hours? Yeah. Jeez. I was just that energized that I was in no longer pain. So after being in pain for like 18 months on a day-to-day night basis, it just felt so good. So you would have sleepless nights, obviously, with this pain. So this was your...

Absolutely, yeah. You made up for years of not sleeping in three days. Pretty much, yeah. It's like going to sleep Friday and then waking up on Monday and going, oh, that was the weekend. That's incredible. What did you miss over those three days? Anything pivotal?

No, because I was still in hospital. So I was potentially through the recovery period. But, yeah, it felt so good. And then when I finally got up and was able to move around, oh, I felt like a whole new person. You're coming in checking your pulse through the whole thing, weren't you, in hospital? Surprised I didn't wheel you off to the morgue.

That is impressive. Wow, we're going to send you out some Dilmar tea. You can have a cup of tea and lie down and hopefully open up that tea box and get the golden ticket to win a trip to Sri Lanka. Awesome. Thank you so much, guys. You have a great weekend. Next. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. We always love catching up with our Italian correspondents. In Tauranga. Back by popular demand. Ciao. Ciao, amici. Now I teach you a new word. Amici means my friend. We've reached the amici zone, have we? I think after all these months, come on, we are friends. The Italian mafia, very popular, isn't it? A lot of people know the mafia. Everybody does. Any family members in the mafia? Mine, they're all dead, yeah. My nonno, from my mum's side, and my nonna, born in Sicily.

Most likely they were related to mafia. Wow. In Sicily we got mafia called Camorra, and in Calabria we got mafia called Andrangheta. Even the gangs sound exotic. And do people like, are they scared of the mafia? Do they worry about them or they're just part? No, you know why?

Because they don't look scary. They look all dressed up with the most expensive suits. You know like what you see in the movie? With a nice hat, nice suit. They don't look scary. They're like Sandy's way. They're not successful. They're like models out of a magazine.

Because they're so rich. Did you have to do lots of jobs in Italy before you ended up here? Yeah, like I got a degree, but not degree, like university degree in hospitality. Then I've been always all my life in hospitality. Then I did a tour operator. I was a staff at the airport for Alitalia, the Italian company for aeroplanes, but not flight, just on land. Oh, okay, yep, like behind the counter.

Yeah, right. Correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You would take busloads of tourists? Yes, I did. Yeah, I've been. You'd take busloads of tourists. Yes, I did. Yeah, I've been traveling all Europe because I was a tour guide. Okay, so you've been a professional tour guide in Italy. What do you think is our greatest tourist attraction here in New Zealand?

You've got different attractions. You've got nature. You've got landscapes and walks and, you know, Tongariro Crossing. I love it so much. I would do every day if I could. You know, you've got other stuff. You don't have monuments. Hold on, mate, we have a bucket fountain in Wellington with all the buckets. Yeah, you're right.

Sorry, sorry. Yeah, you can take your trivi fountain and get it out the door. Oh my God, that just sums up the difference between New Zealand and Italy. The beautiful fontana to Trevi. And the bucket fountain. You've got a beautiful museum in Wellington.

I loved it when I've been at the museum in Wellington. What's our Colosseum? What's our Colosseum? Eden Park or the Cacton? The Cacton. You guys don't have a Colosseum full stop, okay? Hey, you've got a run-down stadium. That's what the Colosseum is. We've got plenty of those.

Yeah, I do. Teach release day. Good on you, Daniela. Have a great week. Ciao, guys. Have a lovely week. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Megan, though, we had the Radio and Podcast Awards. Big night for our industry

last night. Late night and then an early start for us. And yesterday she's like, I'm not i'm not gonna be here no i will not physically be here with you so you're on a top secret mission that you kept this very suspicious job that you're doing i know i'm laughing but i'm telling you the truth so she says she wasn't gonna be here and she has she hasn't turned up she says she had work and then we got this message just before. Hey, guys. I'm currently on a plane, so I don't think I'll make it in today. But I hope you pulled up okay. Have a good show. And, yeah, I'm going to get back to work.

So what went on last night, it's like the movie The Hangover, but in New Zealand with Megan. I like how she's like, I don't think I'll it in today question mark which is like there's still a glimmer of hope she could be here before as you hear the announcement or you know for the plane you think she might have gone to the effort of youtubing plane sound or maybe yeah just to get the day off but anyway she's not here at the moment so we'll push on now i want to know on oh andrew the hats four four eight seven when autocorrected you're dirty because it you know

it can be your best friend you know every time I go to spell something like definitely it always autocorrects I always spell it like defiantly I think yeah

for some reason I can't get that word right I can't nail definitely either that's yeah really good point but it is helpful at some times and other times

it just thinks you want to write something else and then it it flicks it makes some assumptions and yeah nine times out of ten, they're great assumptions. And you roll with them.

But sometimes you get used to rolling with the assumptions and you fire off a message. Yeah. And this happened to – Thanks for mansplaining how autocorrect works, John. No worries. Anytime. If you guys need any information, explain to you in basic terms,

come to me. Just ask your nearest male. I'll do that for you. So, yeah, my wife's friend a couple of days ago sent her a message sent her a text and

now we're reading between the lines here bit of backstory in her defence she has borrowed we've got a slow cooker you know

sometimes and it's one of those things you probably don't want to go purchase I mean how many times do you slow cook something how many times do you use the slow cooker

maybe once or twice i prefer a fast cook to be honest it's quite not a lovely smell when you come home and it's like this do you have to put it on like in the morning yeah i know it's a lot of admin like putting uh like a roast lamb and like six o'clock in the morning as you're leaving for work some sort of casserole or something like that you know but it's lovely the end result's good yeah but it does take a while but my friend has borrowed it a couple of times and she reached out and she's like, oh, hey, can I borrow? I'm guessing she wanted to say slow cooker,

but she said, oh, hey, Amanda, can I borrow your slow cocker? So the autocorrect, I think, is done and dirty there. Because, well, I don't know, unless there's something else. Unless it's a very low energy penis that you have in the household. Well, maybe that's it. Is it you? Yeah, well, it could be me. So there's a lot of things I want to say right now, but I'm not.

Keep it classy, man. We're a better show than that. So I wanted to know, though, 4487 on the text. We got double pass to the movies as well. When is autocorrect done your dirty? Yeah, okay, you can text too, 4487. We got double pass to the movies as well When has autocorrect done your dirty? Yeah okay You can text 24487 Would love to get you on New Zealand's Breakfast

This Friday morning Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits We're heading to a game Monday night aren't we? Yeah we're very excited about that as well And also the Warriors play Saturday night Against the Cronulla Sharks

At the moment the autocorrect fails Ben Boyce has a slow cooker in the household And was asked by a friend if they could borrow the slow cooker. And, you know, autocorrect did them dirty. I know. On one particular, with a cooker word. It's nothing more embarrassing than when you send away something and then you're like, oh. But then, like, in autocorrect, in, sorry, our defense, why is autocorrect going, oh, this seems like a phrase you would say often?

Exactly. Who's ever asked for one of those? Sorry, our defense. Why is autocorrect going, oh, this seems like a phrase you would say often? Exactly. Who's ever asked for one of those? I've had that. I've said before, I send off a thanks heaps, which is something I send off many times. An autocorrect is a thanks Jesus to someone I didn't know that well. And then they came back with, yes, Jesus is the reason. You know, they were like, wow, he's really gone deep with the religious propaganda.

And they came back with it. And then I was like, well, it's too late. Did you have to bounce back another yes, Jesus is the reason? I didn't come back with an amen or anything like that. But I was like, I just left it. You know, it was good. It was like, yeah. A-ben. If you're a chariot, you probably autocorrected to A-ben or something.

But good to thank Jesus at the end of an email, didn't it? It was something quite mundane, too. Just like a warrant of fitness. And then it was like, thanks, Jesus. And I was like, yeah. How are you going to thank him for everything? Listen, some fantastic, fantastic texts coming through. I send between 20 and 30 texts a day, this message says. And the worst one that I said was I just got out of mating.

Just got out of mating. But it was meant to send it to a client saying, just got out of mating but it was meant to send it to a client saying just got out of meeting another one on the text machine i often pick up a coffee on the way home they said i texted my other half i got a cup uh instead of autocorrected to i got it up which is i guess it's a nice thing to autocorrect too yeah can i can you grab some balls? It was meant to be, can you grab some basil? Again, why is Autocorrect jumping to this conclusion? My husband asked what was for dinner instead of grilled chicken, Autocorrect did to grilled children,

which is, I guess, you know, if that's your thing. Well, thank you so much for your texts and calls. Well, no calls, actually, just texts. I'm not thanking you for your calls. He didn't call. Lazy. Lazy, Oli didn't call, lazy It's a Friday, Texas These days, a text, you've got to be pretty thankful for it