Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan's Near Death Train Incident!
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Welcome to the podcast on a Friday.
Just reading a few texts, which you'll hear later in the podcast.
We talk about passive aggressive things that people do.
Lots of texts coming through since the show's finished.
I'm sorry you feel that way with the emphasis on you.
No, I love chucking that one out there.
Instead of apologizing, just someone says that's a real good one.
That's a good one, because inside you're like, I haven't apologized. I'm I love checking that one out there. Instead of apologising, just someone says that's a real good one. That's a good one because inside you're like,
I haven't apologised.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
It's a sorry,
but it's a sorry you feel that way.
It's a good one.
I'm not sorry for what I've done
or how I made you feel.
I use that a lot.
Do you?
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry you feel that way.
Well, because you know,
you do want to,
you are sorry that they're upset,
but you're not.
Yeah, I suppose it's quicker.
If I had my time again,
I'd probably do the same thing.
Another text comes through.
My mum says,
or if I say we should do something
and she goes,
or it roughly translates to me,
no, we're doing this instead.
Which is, yeah.
So I want to do that, or...
Andrew, my husband,
said one last night.
He was like,
maybe you could take the bins out this week.
And I was like,
oh, maybe you could. Maybe you
could. He says it in a nice way,
but passive-aggressive, you're right. Maybe you could do it.
I do like this one about sports
games. Bad luck, better luck next
time. You're like,
there's no good next time. We're in a tournament,
you know you've kicked us out. Better luck next time.
Yeah, that's a bit passive-aggressive.
It's coming through if you've got any more. 4487 on the
text. We're rolling straight to the podcast and a near-death experience for Megan.
John O'Bannon, Megan.
The podcast.
The hit.
In its text we received yesterday, Megan nearly died.
No other context.
It's like the equivalent of someone taking a photo of themselves in a hospital
and there's no sort of, what's happened here?
Were you expecting more from us?
No.
Okay, in response?
Well, I mean, I'm glad you're okay Would have been nice
Didn't get that
Did Ben join in on the chat?
He didn't even reply
I saw it later on
I didn't see it at the time
But you were like, oh, we'll talk about it
It was basically a talk about tomorrow situation
He was just like in his head
Oh, hear about it tomorrow
Yeah, hear about tomorrow
She's okay
Not even like an exclamation mark or anything
Like wow, a wow emoji
Mouth open, nothing?
Nothing.
So he gets upset with me when I don't text him back,
but I told him I nearly died and he's like, eh.
Well, that was a question.
It wasn't like, hey, Ben, do you want to hear about the story?
Then I wouldn't reply.
Oh, okay.
It should have formed it as a question.
Because they were both overseas and he said, would you like to catch up?
And he got nothing.
Crickets.
Until I came back and he was like, oh, here And he got nothing. Crickets. Until I came back.
Oh, here's the message.
Now I can see it.
So anyway.
Okay.
So please, please don't come for me.
I'd realized this was stupid.
Okay.
And believe me, I've, I've, I've learned my lesson.
So yesterday after the show, I went to a meeting and it was a long meeting.
I was an hour and a half.
And by the end of it, I was like, oh, I'm tired.
I am spent.
You had to stop listening after 15 minutes.
And it was one-on-one too.
So like you can't tip out.
You can't stop listening.
So afterwards I was like, oh, I'm going to drive home
and we're going to crank some music in the car.
Relax.
That's how I relax.
So I was like busting some tunes really loud.
I'm driving along and there's a red traffic light.
And so I drive right up behind someone waiting for the traffic light.
Then I realize that I can hear this weird sound in the middle of a song.
I actually can't remember what the song was,
but I recognize that the sound's not part of the
song right it's a ding ding ding ding ding and i'm like what is that what is that noise and i look
to the side of me and realize i'm on train tracks oh no have the barriers come down the barriers
are starting to come they're halfway halfway down. She's really loud.
She's realized that.
They are halfway down.
And I was like, oh, my God.
You're like, this song's a banger.
Bang, bang, bang.
When's the beat going to drop?
I was like, what is that?
So I slam my car into reverse.
And when I tell you, I just, the barrier arm tapped the top of my car as it went down in front of my windscreen.
And I was like, so I'm sitting there waiting.
And I couldn't reverse very far, so I still wasn't behind the yellow lines.
I was like, how wide are these trains?
The bottom of my car is still, the barrier arm is in front of my windscreen.
That's a frightening experience.
So there's a whole lot of cars behind me and I'm like right behind me
and I'm like, can you reverse?
But I waited.
And were they like, no?
Well, no, I wasn't yelling out the window.
Everyone's lined up.
There's nowhere to reverse.
Oh, you can't, yeah, I see.
So the barrier arm's in front of my windscreen.
The bells are going and I'm waiting
and I'm like, oh my God, what's going to happen?
No train came.
What?
Thankfully.
Oh, so hold on, hold on, hold on,? Thankfully. Oh, so hold on.
Hold on. Hold on.
Back the train up,
so to speak. You've let
a text, a pre-text,
Ben, you didn't reply, rightfully so now.
And now we come in. What happened
here? You know,
18 hours later and we end up with a
story about not even a
train was even involved.
If I was on the train tracks and the train had come, also it should have come because the alarm bells were going and the barrier arms went down.
Yeah, but it didn't.
But like, they're trolling me.
Is there someone in like a control tower being like, she's on the tracks, down you go.
I've just texted you, Megan.
I've finally replied to your text from yesterday.
Thank God I'm alive.
What did you say?
Bit of a letdown story.
John O'Bannon Megan.
The podcast.
The hits.
I've spoken about this briefly the other day,
about going last weekend.
We went to the musical theatre and my wife's shoe broke.
We had a few dramas with that.
So we were sorting all that out.
You went into Japan, Marta, bought her some jandals, slippers.
I was in solutions mode.
And as she was getting it all sorted outside,
I went up to, before we're going in,
I went up to the place that buys snacks and drinks and stuff.
And I bought a drink for her and I.
And I said to the kids, what would you like?
Would you like a treat or something?
And they said, oh, can I get a Maltesers? That chose so it's a bag of Maltesers great there's a lot going
on we sat down at the seats and they put the Maltesers on the ground after they'd had a couple
and I'm like don't leave it there you're gonna knock it over I was in dead mode I was like guys
don't leave it on the ground there's a lot of heaven for you yeah and then there was a lot of
other stuff going along my wife's shoe that she in. I went to the bathroom, like that.
I came back a little bit frazzled.
And then they had the Maltesers there.
And I grabbed some Maltesers.
I was like, I'll grab some Maltesers, eat some Maltesers.
I thought nothing of it until I was clearing out the car yesterday
because the Malteser bag was in the car.
And the girls went, you know what?
We've got a little confession to make.
Here we go.
I was like, what?
We didn't listen to you. And I was like, what? We didn't listen to you.
And I was like,
what do you mean?
And they're like,
these Maltesers,
we did leave on the ground
and we did knock them over.
And as you went to the bathroom,
we hurriedly picked them all up
from around the place.
On the floor?
On the floor.
Maltesers,
you came back in
and there was a lot going on.
You were a little bit frazzled,
a little bit going on
and you just grabbed
the Maltesers out and chucked a whole lot in your mouth.
And we didn't have the heart to tell you.
No, we didn't have the heart to tell you at the time.
I thought this was really adding to
my stress levels, that I'd just been
eating floor Maltesers.
Ben is probably
the biggest germaphobe on the show
with your pocket hand sanitizer.
Exactly. So eating Maltesers
off the floor. Couldn't really tell
you at the time that you ate just a whole lot.
They were like holding on to them like, well maybe
we won't eat these but we'll just hold on to them.
I guarantee he pumped about
nine liters of hand sanitizer into
his mouth after hearing that story. So not what
you want to hear. But anyway,
so yeah. Parents are right.
Sometimes kids' parents are right where they say don't do that
and you're right. They didn't want. Sometimes kids' parents are right. When they say, don't do that, you're right.
They didn't want you to have a win.
Exactly.
Do you start going... You start thinking about the floor.
You're like, how clean would that floor have been?
Not clean.
It was in a theatre.
Yeah, the Civic.
I mean, it's been around for like 100 years.
Oh, hundreds of years.
And there's seats stuck to the floor.
They're not mopping that base.
There's some colonial bacteria on that one, baby.
It's carpeted.
It's carpeted floor, isn't it, too?
But anyway, that's what i enjoyed
as well so enjoy your weekend if you're eating malteser floor floor chocolates
into the weekend of course and we've been taking part in something we're calling merch madness if
you've got some merchandise you're a business and you want to send it up here megan not a huge fan
of merchandise but we're going to get it for one day, one day only,
to wear all the merchandise, to model it,
and then we'll give it all away.
And people are starting, well, the first package has arrived, Megan.
She's, at the end of the month,
she's going to look like a corporate Frankenstein, isn't she?
Okay.
That's so accurate.
So here's the first box that's arrived.
I do love a courier box.
Okay, so no one has opened it yet.
I thought we should open it right now. I'm going to hand it over to
you in the studio. And if you'd like
to send us your company's merch, if you've got a
small to medium sized business,
you can just text merch
is it merch to 4487?
And that'll bounce back the address.
Producer Ellie just throwing her phone on the floor
in a fit of rage. Can someone have scissors?
Please?
I hadn't got that phone.
We just handed you the package
and hoped that your nails
would do the heavy lifting.
So this is very exciting.
We want to find out
the first business
that have sent us their merch already.
Think of this as you
stimulating the local economy, Megan.
Small business.
Trump's only focused
on the US economy.
We're just focused
on the New Zealand local economy.
He's doing wonders for the post,
that's for sure.
Yeah.
If you could do it a little bit quicker, I've filled in all the banter I have.
Sorry.
Here we go.
Opening up.
First bit of merch for Merch Madness.
What is it going to be?
What is it going to be?
Here we go.
I can see a hat.
And what's the hat say?
What's it say?
Veterinary Clinic Morinsville.
Oh, the Morinsville.
Put it on.
Put it on. Put it on.
Put it on.
Yeah.
So it's a black hat.
So white riding.
It says Veterinary Clinic, Morrinsville.
Okay.
So the little coffee cup they've got is like white and sparkly.
Beautiful.
Oh, that's nice.
They've got me with the sparkles.
We did speak to the wonderful team at the Morrinsville Veterinary Clinic.
Do they send the cow apron, the milking apron?
Yes.
I think that's what this is.
It looks like a tarpaulin.
It does.
It's even blue like a tarp.
It's a body tarp.
Great.
You are going to look like a million dollars.
You're going to look like a share milker.
Beautiful.
Can you put that on?
Put it on properly.
This is sensational.
This is just you absolutely making me look like a noob.
We'll tell you what.
We will get a photo.
We'll put that up on the hits preface.
Guys.
Tell you what.
It looks great.
You look great.
You do.
You look great.
And you're supporting local business, small business in New Zealand.
It goes right to the ground.
Oh, look, hey.
You did some baking yesterday.
If you had that, you would have been all good.
You're ready to milk anything right now.
You could milk.
I won't say what I was going to say.
I won't finish that sentence.
But you're ready to go.
Well, there we go.
Thank you so much to the Morrinsville Vets for sending that through.
And if you've got some merch, you can text merch to 4487.
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The hits.
Now, last week, speaking of things beaches, beach-like, we're in Fiji.
Thanks to Tourism Fiji.
George and Christy, we surprised them on Thursday last week,
two police officers from Rotorua, and we surprised them saying,
you're going to get married today.
By the end of the day, we're going to take you to Fiji.
They were in their wedding outfits just for a fitting,
and then it was an epic day and an epic wedding
that night. It was beautiful.
Now the day after, we had a few hours before
we had to fly back and
we went to the pool. Now Megan, you
were messaging our boss, our boss
Matt Anderson, a fastidious
leader in middle management
Matt Anderson. He was in his hotel
room doing work. He was working. You're like, come to
the pool. You're in Fiji. You can't.
He's like, I've got a lot of work to do.
And then he was like, oh, I don't want to get in my togs in front of everyone.
I was like, don't miss out on an awesome, beautiful day in Fiji because you're feeling
self-conscious.
No one cares.
You bullied him down to the pool.
I did.
That's pretty hard.
That's pretty hard.
Now he joins us.
Matt Anderson, welcome.
Yeah, Bulla, good morning.
Bulla.
Bulla, good morning.
So you came along.
You got Bulla bullied into the. Bulla, good morning. So you came along.
You got Bulla bullied into the pool.
You did get bullied.
Megan, you know, pressured you to come along,
but for a good, you know, an hour and a half there,
you were loving it, right?
Bullied you with positive affirmations.
Yeah, you did.
I mean, it got to the point the messages turned into phone calls,
turned into voice memos, online abuse.
Oh, really?
Yeah, pressure to get me down.
No, but it was lovely.
Come down here, you know,
stop working in the room on your own.
You're in Fiji.
Come and, you know, enjoy an hour by the pool.
So yes, I gave up in the end.
Yeah, so you came down to the pool
and you said at some point during the pool,
you're like, this is the most relaxed
I have been in three years.
Yeah, and I stood by that statement
up until recently.
Okay, so you had a nice time by
the pool. It was lovely. At the time
it was lovely. But there was, you know,
it was hot outside. There was a little
bit of shade, but Jono, you said
on a couple occasions, right? Yeah, I was like
oh, you know, from one pasty
white bald man to another,
would you like some of my sunscreen?
I roll an SPF 50, top
level stuff. Would you like it?
No, no, it's fine.
We're under the shade of the bar, cabana, or whatever.
It's fine, it's fine.
Me and Matt, very unusual tactic to not put sunscreen on.
Yeah, but I'm fine.
You weren't fine that night.
You looked very red coming home from the play.
Multiple rejections.
And then you pick it up from here, Matt.
Well, can I just also jump in?
I know I am safety dad on these occasions.
So I normally roll with SPF 50.
I did have my hat.
But again, I didn't expect to be in the pool.
So I had no sunscreen, no togs.
Megan made me get in the pool in my denim jorts,
to pull the record.
It does sound like I'm a bully.
But so we had 90 minutes in the pool.
It was lovely.
A couple of Fiji Golds.
And he got back to the room and thought,
I'm feeling quite warm.
Oh no.
Fast forward to
Wednesday this week,
I've got probably the most severe case
of heat stroke I've ever had in my life.
So you have been vomiting,
you've been to A&E,
like you send us imagery of your back,
you look like a warning label
for sun safety.
I won't lie.
I've now had two layers of skin that have gone off my back,
and I'm down to the third of peeling.
Also, you know when you peel, it's just like a little light flake.
His is like there's a layer of skin coming off.
Have you guys seen that TV show about Chernobyl?
I'm not far off that.
He sent us the photo.
I was like, what body part are we looking at?
You couldn't even make it out.
It's so burnt.
So 0800 The Hits, telephone number 4487.
How did the holiday end up in hospital?
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The Hits.
Just talking about holidays, holidays ending up in hospital.
Just some great calls.
Not great at the time, I can't imagine, but great calls for us this morning coming through.
I actually remember younger, we went up north, me and a friend over New Year's,
up north to his uncle's farm.
It was kind of in the middle of nowhere.
And his uncles, they had a little bit of a home brewing distillery sort of operation going on
where they had homemade spirits, of a home brewing distillery sort of operation going on where they had
homemade spirits bootlegged spirits and we would we would drink this stuff and i thought i can't i
don't know what the exact percentage of was methylated spirits to proper normal tasting
alcohol but it felt like about 85 methylated spirits at some point yeah you wash it down
you're like i'm pretty sure this is ruining my DNA
Right now, making it disappear
I went blind for like 15 minutes
But once you fight through the blindness
Yeah so that was frightening
It's like pure ethanol
Yeah I don't know what was going on there
It was a fun holiday, it was about a week
Once you fight through that it's just fine
Your body gets used to it
You probably should have gone to hospital like these callers
Sandra what happened? I decided to go on a trip of self-discovery post the breakup
and um i went over to the islands to samoa and uh it was okay for the first few days you took you
know took my own food uh boiled all my water you know it's quite sensible day four uh yeah back in
decided that it wasn't going to hold anything any longer,
and I spent the rest of the trip.
I was supposed to be there for 10 days.
Spent the rest of the trip running from my little whale
from the toilet out to the ocean
because I wanted to swim with the turtles.
So I swam with the turtles back to the whale,
out to the turtles.
Three days worth of that, and I gave up, went home.
I ended up in an ED back home in New Zealand on a drip,
lost five kilos in three days.
Jeez.
Great way to shred.
You don't usually shred when you're on holiday.
So that was, what do you think it was?
Campylobacter.
Oh, God, you poor thing.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, tested positive.
I did all the, you know, look up, boil the water, do this, do that, but yeah.
Can't put it back to the roller coaster because you think you're just getting better and then you get worse again.
That's awful.
The only foods I ate once I started pooping was deep fried chips because I knew that, you know,
less deep fried, they'd tell every bacteria that was around until I could get back to New Zealand.
Oh, poor thing.
Got it.
You clogged yourself up with potatoes until you could make it back.
The funny thing was on the plane on the way home,
although I had to try and keep my bowels in check,
I also had to connect to a patient who was having a heart attack
and I'm a paramedic.
So guess who was treating that on the way home?
Oh, my God.
Sorry, I can't.
I can't.
You've got to be okay for two seconds or I'm just going to whip to the bathroom.
Oh, my God.
I'd pretend I had another job in that situation.
Me too.
You're going to have a great day, Sandra.
Appreciate it.
All right, see you.
Hey, Leanne, what happened to you?
Holiday's ending up in hospital.
I know, I know.
And I wish I had a good story to kind of like go with the accident,
but I don't.
But I ended up breaking both my tibia and fibula off my leg
from my ankle to my knee.
Oh, my God.
One plate, 14 screws later, nine days in hospital, costing $80,000.
$80,000?
Where were you?
America.
I was in America, yeah.
Wow.
So what did you do? It was wintertime.
But instead of having a really cool ski accident story, I was going shopping, walking down the road to catch a bus,
put on a slapper vice and dropping a beer bottle on the ground
and just listening to that shattering sound.
Oh my gosh.
Tell me you had insurance.
Yes, well, because I was going away for Christmas,
my mum and dad actually said
Your Christmas present is travel insurance
And even today they said that was the best $200 they ever spent on me
Bit buddy old Southern Cross got a bit hot under the collar
When they got the $80,000 bill
But they were really good
They rang me when I was in hospital
And of course it was just before New Year's
But they were really good about it but yeah
$80,000 and three months of rehab
when I finally got home
Wow
There you go
I was just going to hit the shops and suddenly you're hitting the pavement
Wow
If that's not an advert for travel insurance I don't
know what is
Jono, Ben and Megan
The podcast
The hits.
She won the Supreme Award at this year's Halbergs Paralympian Anagra Maori.
She's won three gold medals at the last three Olympics.
It's pretty impressive. Last night she was on ACC Does Game of Two Halves and she joins us on the show now.
Hi, how are you guys?
We're doing all right.
How are you doing?
You survived ACC Does Game of Two Halves?
Yeah, I did. I'm doing all right. How are you doing? You survived? ACC does Game of Two Halves? Yeah, I did. I'm in job.
How many times
did they nearly cancel themselves?
Wow.
Not too many. I think it was pretty good.
They kept it PG. Yeah, it looks like a lot of
fun to be on. I was actually reading
though that ACC, the ACC
helped you with a foot injury a couple years
back, you know, bringing you income when you're injured. So I wonder if that's how they got you on the show. You're like, oh, I'll help out the ACC helped you with a foot injury a couple of years back, bringing you income when you were injured.
So I wonder if that's how they got you on the show.
You're like, oh, I'll help out the ACC,
not realizing it was the Alternative Cometary Collective.
Exactly, exactly.
It's like you give some, you take some, you know?
I had to give back.
I thought you meant the Alternative Cometary Collective
had helped her with her foot.
No, no.
No, that was the actual ACC.
They're quite proud of it.
It's all over their website.
They must come into that trouble all the time
with both acronyms being out there in the market.
I know.
Incredible last 12 months for you.
You know, you went to your third Olympics over in France
and we know you as a long jumper.
You've won two gold medals in long jump.
But when did you start becoming a sprinter?
Like you won a gold and a bronze there for sprinting.
Yeah, I know.
It's pretty funny actually.
No, I always saw myself as a long run for two.
But yeah, I broke my foot in 2017 and ACC helped me out.
Good old ACC.
Alternative commentary.
No, not that one.
The other one.
One or the other.
And then I was at World Champs in 2023 and I'd been celebrating quite hard the night before.
And the next day watching the 200 metre final and I messaged my coach and I'd been celebrating quite hard the night before and the next day watching the 200m
final and I messaged my coach and I was like
I think we need to have a talk about doing the
200. The coach wasn't like, are you still
drunk?
Yeah, he probably did think that actually
to be honest. Are you one of these people that were just
like really good at all sports at
school? I don't know if that
was me. I think like just long jump
is a lot of running.
So I think maybe it was just a similar
sort of event. Have you been
tempted when you're 10 metres from the finish
line to just jump over the finish line?
Yeah, exactly. Got the mix
up. You could actually get yourself
a huge advantage. I wonder if that's legal.
A legal play. Just a big jump at the end.
We need to talk
about the Halbergs because obviously you won the Para-Athlete of the Year at the Halberg Awards.
Really, you would have heard your speech before, but I think it's a really great end to your speech here.
If you can just play this now.
I was a really shy young girl.
I think little Anna could not believe that she has a career solely based on the fact that she has a disability.
That I'm standing up here without sleeves, without pockets,
showing that I have one hand.
It would blow her mind that we've come this far
and that we're able to be a professional athlete here in New Zealand.
Yeah, really, really powerful speech.
I mean, what was that moment like,
standing up there in front of all the room full of legends
and winning a Hellberg?
Yeah, so many legends.
And something I sort of dreamed about, I guess,
growing up watching the hellbergs myself,
then not really knowing how I was going to be at the hellbergs
or be a professional sportswoman.
It was an interesting time because obviously there was a room of people
who are really into sport but maybe potentially aren't that well-versed
in para sport.
And so I wanted to be able to say a few things that were specific
to the Paralympic movement and how special it is to me and how important it's been for me in
my life um and my journey okay anna grimoli with us uh she was on acc does game of two halves you
can catch it on sky sport and sky sport open before you go because you were you know well
you are still a long jumper quick game uh this is called jump to conclusions all right it's basically
true or false okay kind of in the style of Game of Two Halves.
If you jump the length of
your long jump personal best, but
in the air instead of forward,
would it be taller than the average
giraffe?
No, surely. Yes!
You're taller than the average giraffe. 5.7 metres
is your personal best, unless
I got that wrong.
5.96 actually. Oh, there we go.
Again, 5.5 meters is the average giraffe.
Wow.
Oh, no.
There you go.
You're jumping a giraffe.
Yeah.
That's so good.
If we made the giraffe lay down, it would be safe.
You'd clear it, yeah.
You'd clear a giraffe, yeah.
Jesus, how did your algorithm end up there?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay.
The official Olympic long jump pit is filled with kinetic sand,
not real sand.
Jump to conclusions.
Where are you going?
True or false?
False.
False.
Yeah, it is.
It would be cool if it was.
She's like.
It'd be such a strange thing to jump into, though.
I imagine it's nice sand, though.
I imagine it's good.
Yeah, it is.
It's usually pretty nice.
It's often a bit hard or a bit wet,
just so that it holds the shape of your jump a bit more,
which there is potential for it to feel a bit like kinetic sand.
Okay.
I haven't just gone down to the beach with a digger and, you know,
the plasters and needles and horse sauce in there.
And it was so good to catch up with you.
Congratulations on all your success,
and well done for surviving ACC Does Gamma Too Hard.
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast. The hits. It's kind of like two or three levels here in the building, And well done for surviving ACC Does Gamma 2 Half.
It's kind of like two or three levels here in the building.
And across the road, there's a cafe that we sometimes go to after work.
And you bump into people from the office, familiar faces that you see around the building.
And you just, you know, polite acknowledgements.
Hello, how you going, blah, blah, blah.
Now, I've been doing it with this gentleman for over 12 months, and it's got to that point.
Textbook.
We've spoken about it before, where it's gone too far.
Don't know the name.
Gotcha.
Yeah, right.
Megan, you fell into this trap just weeks ago with the overnight security guard.
Yeah.
Puli Asi.
Puli Asi. Puli.
We know his name now.
A week and a half of intense interrogation to try and get his name.
But we did eventually.
And so, yeah, I didn't know this guy's name.
But yesterday at the cafe, I was like, oh, he's got a bloody lanyard on.
Oh, nice.
And now, oh, not a lanyard, you know, a swipe card.
Swipe card with name and photo, that sort of situation.
But on a lanyard, right?
Yeah, so it's dangling.
So it's dangling around sort of the belly button region.
And I catch it with my arm like, great,
I can finally learn the name without having to ask the name.
Here's the issue, though.
Like, those lanyards, it's only got the name on one side as well.
Yeah. Like, my writing's really big, but not everyone's writing is really big.
But I find myself trying to conduct a conversation,
but also at the same time trying to stare down at his belly button
to just try and get the name.
And like you say, Megan, it spins around too,
so the name's not always at the front side.
Now, his friend comes over,
and I'm still trying to conduct the conversation, get the name,
and he's like, what are you looking at down there?
He calls me out for it.
Oh, really?
Has he got something on his shirt or something?
And I'm like, I don't want to admit that I'm just looking at his belly button so I can get his name.
Well, that probably would have been a good thing to admit.
Because they're wondering what you're looking at.
Yeah.
Otherwise, you're like, well, what is he looking at?
Just be like, full disclaimer, I was trying to get your name.
Trying to get your name.
Yeah, sometimes you're right.
Front footing these things are the best way.
I said, oh, I thought there was some coffee down there on your polo shirt.
And he's like, well, that's weird
because I haven't even had my coffee yet.
We're waiting for the coffee.
This is weirder.
Yeah, you've made it sound weirder.
No, you're right, Megan.
Does he know your name?
Yeah.
Oh, that sucks.
Yeah, it's the same thing here to you.
It sucks.
Yeah, and he's a lovely, that sucks. Yeah. It's the same thing here to urine. It sucks. Yeah.
And he's a lovely, lovely gentleman.
Still, I'll wait for that belly button swipe card again.
You need to go real close behind him when he gets their coffee, because you know how they
ask for your name?
What's the name for the coffee?
Just be real close behind him and listen out.
Why are you breathing on my neck with the air from your nostrils?
Can you back off a bit, pal?
Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.
The hits. We're getting
caught up in merch madness for
March. If you've got some merch, you're a
business somewhere around the country, you can
promote your business by sending up your merch to us.
We'll get Megan to, you're going to model
all the merch. I've never
said I'm all sexist when I say you're going to model the merch,
but we're only doing it because you're not a lover of merch.
I did model some this morning.
You can see it on our Instagram page.
A milking apron from the Morrinsville veterinarian,
beanies, caps, coffee cup that you thought you might keep for yourself.
It was sparkly, so you got me with the sparkles.
There is nothing that she will not influence.
We have no morals when it comes to your corporate merchandise.
You can text MERCH4487,
and then that'll send you back the address to send it to.
Now, we actually have had a message for a bit of a lead,
a merch lead that we need to call here.
Morning, Owen here.
Oh, Owen, it's Jono, Ben and Megan from The Hits.
How are you?
Oh, bloody ripper, mate. How's things?
Good.
It's lovely to have you on the show, Owen.
Welcome to Merch Madness, where for the month of March,
we're collecting all the corporate merch we can think or find,
all the corporate merch we can find.
And you've come through with an absolute pearler for you, Megan Pappas.
What have you got there, Owen?
Oh, buddy, we've got all sorts of merch from Acid Morph,
the South Waikato heavy metal band.
They'll be playing at Railfest at the end of the month.
Acid Morph, the metal band.
Great.
What merch do you dabble in there, Owen?
Oh, we've got signed CDs.
We've got badges, stickers, caps, beanies, cups, T-shirts.
Wow, you're rocking all the merch.
For sure, for sure. And so who started it all? Is this your You're rocking all the merch For sure For sure
And so
Who started all
Is this your job
To get all the merch
Mate I'm just the roadie
My wife's the drummer
Oh wow
Oh my god
That's pretty kick ass
Yeah
That is kick ass
Now we've got
I've actually looked up
Some acid morph
Is Rise to Violence
Is that a good song to play
Rise to Violence
Oh yeah
That's pretty full on
Okay great Rise Violence. Is that a good song to play? Rise to violence. Oh yeah, that's pretty full on.
She's a banger.
Acid Morph. So what would you want?
Megan, you've got your choice. Have you got all the merch possibilities with Acid Morph?
What are we going?
Megan? Oh, am I choice. Have you got all the merch possibilities with Acid Morph? What are we going? Megan?
Oh, am I choosing?
Have you got like a, like quite bright colours?
I think we shocked her with the music.
We left her speechless.
Have you got like a pink t-shirt?
Like a pink baby t-shirt?
There's a bit of pinky reddy blood on one of them.
Perfect.
Perfect. That'd be them. Perfect, perfect.
That'll be great.
Owen, you're an absolute champion, eh?
Well, thanks for getting involved with Merch Madness.
Asad Morf, if people want to check out the tour dates,
where do they go?
They're playing a rail fest on the 29th of March in Hamilton.
29th of March in Hamilton.
Okay, awesome stuff.
And we'll send you the address where to send the merch to.
Thank you so much, Owen.
Awesome.
Hey, thanks for your time.
I really appreciate the support.
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The hits.
International Women's Day tomorrow,
and launching this week,
an online platform called The Cyclist
aims to make expert health advice available to all women.
It's a great thing they've set up.
And to tell us more,
as founder Jess Quinn,
media personality, you know her from Dancing with the Stars.
She's also a diversity advocate,
having had her leg amputated at the age of nine.
And Jess is with us in the studio right now.
Thanks for coming in.
Thank you.
Thanks for having me.
Great to have you here.
Did you not have enough to do?
No, I was just so bored.
I was like, let's just throw another business in the mix.
How many businesses are you running now? I said that.
I actually only have the one.
But I'm a mum. You're a mum as well.
That's my huge business. That's a big
business. So the cyclist
is very exciting. Can you explain to
us exactly what it is?
Sure. It's not about cycling. Not at all
about cycling. Not at all.
I'm an amputee and I actually can't ride a bike.
I have started a business called The Cyclist.
I remember you saying that to me.
Riding a bike is something you can't do.
I can't ride a bike either.
I try and avoid something and I end up hitting it.
It's overrated, riding bikes, anyway.
But no, we're not about riding bikes.
The Cyclist is a women's health community.
It's a community-led, expert-backed platform
which has been founded off the back of mine and my co-founder Catherine Douglas's stories. So we were both diagnosed with
endometriosis, had years of misdiagnosis and just trying to figure out what was going wrong with us
and then we eventually were diagnosed after a long fertility journey and for me that included loss
and just years of trying to conceive a baby and it wasn't yeah until
I was in my 30s that I was then diagnosed with endo something that I very could have easily been
diagnosed with probably about 14 years before. Why wasn't it? I'm not 100% sure it's just something
I mean this is the whole point of our business is to bring light to these women's health
conversations because I think they're just so under researched therefore you
go into a doctor's clinic with some symptoms and my experience was oh it's just IBS and oh period
pain is normal that's fine but what's not normal is lying on your bathroom floor every month
vomiting and pain in the fetal position thinking about calling an ambulance because you're in so
much pain but when you hear the narrative period pain's normal you're like oh this is this is what
every other woman are dealing with but because no one's speaking about it, you just chug on really.
Yeah. So it's a platform and also a podcast as well, right?
Yes. So we have a podcast, we have a website, which is housing a whole lot of information. We
just really see, my co-founder and I were hugely privileged to, I guess, be able to afford to get
the information through seeing naturopaths and doctors and specialists, but that's not the case
for everybody. So we wanted a place for people to be able to go and get that for free so we have an
advisory board of gynecologists naturopaths nutritionists dietitians public health physios
psychologists who are informing our content so that people can access what they need in all
of women health women's health so not just endo we're talking pcos cycles um and everything uh
and then we have a podcast and then we also have a practitioner
directory which is a place where people can go it's been community led so people who have had
great experiences with practitioners and we've put them in there to give people a place to start so
they can search for a gynecologist and atropath thank you for doing this because my mum was
diagnosed with endo close to menopause so she had gone through her whole life ended up having a
hysterectomy
and she had the same thing.
A lot of people were like,
oh, period pain's normal and everything.
How well informed do you think women,
like ourselves,
are educated on reproductive health?
I don't think we know enough.
And I think the stuff that we do know,
we've had to find out ourselves.
Unfortunately, we're not taught
about our bodies in school.
Sex ed just teaches the real basics
around sex and I guess what a period is, but you're not taught what's normal, what're not taught about our bodies in school. Sex ed just teaches the real basics around sex and I guess what a period is,
but you're not taught what's normal, what's not normal,
the cycles of a woman's body.
I just think we're really under-informed,
which is why we've created The Cyclist.
This is a lot of information, boys, but when I first got my period,
I didn't realize that it came every month and I cried.
I was devastated.
I was like, wait a second.
I thought it was a one-off thing. It's such a-up I say to my husband all the time I'm like could
there not be a better way for my body to tell me that I'm not pregnant each month like you're sure
we don't have to go through all of this email or something also no one told me I was like no one
informed me about this so wild right like that's something that's going to happen every month for
the rest of your life as you say and you didn't even know that that was going to happen.
I like Ben's email alert solution.
Why had I not thought of that?
Or text, maybe we should go there.
Yeah, probably, right.
Yeah, text would be nice.
I don't know who you take that to to get that.
No, look, it's probably not my fault.
Let's do a crowd funder.
Crowd funder.
Probably not for me, but Jess, so good to see you again.
Congratulations on what you've been part of launching,
and if people want to check it out, where do they go?
Head to WeAreTheCyclists.
We're on Instagram, we're on TikTok, and WeAreTheCyclists.com is our website.
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The hits.
We like to catch up with her every week.
Nicole, she hosts a radio show in America,
and she's just back from a few days in Las Vegas watching The Warriors in Vegas.
Nicole?
A few days?
I was there for a straight week.
Do not downplay the amount of time.
Yeah, but how many nights sleep did you get?
That's the thing.
Total?
I mean, it was very, very little because it was insanity.
I need a vacation.
Yeah, you're out there doing God's work, mate, out in the trenches, out in Vegas now.
Because you were broadcasting, the pictures I saw,
looked like you're on a casino floor, your radio studio.
We are on the casino floor, but we're in a studio.
So we kind of look like you can walk down and walk into different restaurants
and into the casino and stuff, but you can look at us like we're zoo animals in there.
It's pretty awesome.
It was, yeah.
So you had some big guests.
We saw you hanging out with Katy Perry.
What do you talk about with her?
She loves talking about her daughter now.
We did discuss that Peppa Pig is,
that Mommy Pig is pregnant with her third baby.
Big celebrity news.
And her daughter is very massive.
She was obviously at the same time as The League.
Did you talk about The League with Katy Perry?
Yes, she met two of the sharks.
The sharks that I was telling you guys about,
about Nico and Kyle, those two Shark guys.
Two guys from the Canela Sharks.
Yeah, yeah.
The two hot rugby players.
Yeah, so she got to meet them.
They got to meet her.
They were freaking out.
They were geeked out like little kids.
It was very cute.
They were super starstruck.
And I was like, aren't the rugby players like celebrities where you guys live?
Like, can they even walk down the street?
Aren't they like the Katy Perry there?
Well, Katy Perry's like Katy Perry everywhere, I guess.
Well, yeah.
Nico Hines, you talk about there.
I mean, he's a big famous rugby league player,
but I'd say not to the level of Katy Perry, I guess.
Yeah, no, what we tend to do here is we kind of sit back
and we'll take a really creepy photo of them from a distance
and then freak out after the fact.
Ben did that to Jack Black.
He literally took a picture of Jack Black's back.
Because no one would believe me that I just saw him walking around town.
It was just a guy.
I was like, who are these American tourists?
He's got a frisbee around his neck.
It looked like he got dressed in the dark
because his shirt wasn't matching his pants.
It was like, and then I was like, oh my God,
it's Jack Black here.
Yeah.
And so.
Yeah.
He's a special dude.
He's like, he's, I mean, he's one of my favorite people.
Like he's hysterical and he's just, but yeah,
he definitely marches to the beat of his own drum for sure.
His patterns don't match up to that.
Never.
And I think he likes it like that. I think that that
works for him. Also, did I tell you
my favorite part of Vegas? My favorite
Australians I met? No. Not the rugby
players? No. I
may or may not have gone to see the Thunder
Down Under twice. Twice?
You saw Thunder from Down Under. Once was not
enough. What was Down Under?
Oh, everything. Everything
was Down Under. I've never laughed and had more fun
and tried not to cheat on my husband more than I've ever done in my life.
So this is like, for people that don't know,
this is like, I guess, Magic Mike essentially,
but for people from Down Under on stage, hot guys doing sort of...
We know, Ben.
I don't know, but people might be listening and not knowing.
Okay, fine.
So I'm going to put you on the spot here because you saw the rugby league
from Down Under and you saw the Thunder from Down Under.
What was the highlight of Vegas?
Be honest, Nicole.
I mean, it was definitely the Thunder from Down Under.
The show's so good, rave reviews, she had to go twice.
I had to.
And what's the storyline of the stage show?
Oh, no, Cobber, I've lost me shirt.
No, it's a lot of like, it's like different vibes.
Like they're dressed in like policeman gear and then they're like army guys.
And then there's like a big like Viking bedroom scene with a big bed.
And then they're like cowboys and they're riding ponies.
The whole thing is absurd, but it's so freaking fun.
Versatile.
What a storyline.
Don't be jealous.
I do have to tell you, I forgot to tell you this also,
because I was on zero sleep and very hungover when I spoke to you in Vegas.
I did collect audio for you guys.
Was it good audio?
You could barely hear it.
No.
Did I do it?
Yes, because it was on my phone and I didn't want to scare anybody.
So I stopped a lot of people because I told you there was a ton of Warriors fans there.
And I stopped and I would just walk up to them and be like, hey, do you know Ben and John O'Neill?
And like almost all of them were like, yeah, oh, yeah, they're a big deal.
Then like two people were like, who?
And I was like, thanks so much.
Do us a favor.
Don't ever play us that audio.
Yeah, we'll just take your word for it.
You've given us the sugar-coated version.
No, but most of them were like,
some of them were like, do you know them?
Like, do you know them?
And I was like, yeah, I know them.
Don't tell us what they said after that.
No, no, no, I won't.
Hey, Nicole, well, thank you so much for your time again.
Rest up and hopefully you'll be recovered this time
next week from Vegas.
Fingers crossed, baby. Fingers crossed.
Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.
The hits. Well, speaking of
all things communication, technology
wise, email. I'm back
at
a stage where I haven't been clearing emails.
Okay, so yesterday I
actually looked at a series
of emails I had been sent by someone
who was needing an answer.
Okay, now this email has sort of dragged out over two weeks longer, probably two and a half weeks.
They've been emailing you for two weeks and you haven't replied.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I had been meaning to get to it.
So the first one come back with after the initial email was like a just circling back on this.
Just circling back.
Friendly but annoyed. Friendly, but annoyed.
Friendly, but slightly annoyed.
Yeah.
Okay.
Two days, two days pass.
As per my last email,
I'm going to get one of those,
son to lose patience.
Yeah.
Third one.
Understandably.
Third one comes through.
Per my previous email.
Right.
Dislike starting to set in.
Yeah.
Here.
Please see the attached.
Now, what she had done
is attached the original document.
It was already on there.
So it's like, you idiot.
Just open this document.
It's been on there from the get-go.
You've ignored this.
You're an absolute menace.
Then finally, I got yesterday.
Now, just for clarity,
wanting to make sure
you're still wanting to do this.
You clearly have the reading comprehension
of a three-year-old.
They've got a to-do list and they need some answers.
Yeah, and I haven't given it to them, so I do apologise.
But thank you for their polite email etiquette.
But very passive-aggressive, though, isn't it?
Is this work-related?
No, it's admin-related.
Yeah, no, not work, yeah.
That's why I've left it.
You're like, oh, yeah, don't get round to that.
No one ever wants to do life admin.
No, I'm boring.
I like a friendly reminder.
I've never paid a bill to it.
I was like, well, it's not friendly.
Who's it friendly for?
It's not friendly for me.
It's a friendly reminder that this is overdue.
You're like, ugh.
Paying my power bill is not, yeah, no way is this a-
Friendly, we're not friends.
We're not mates.
No, you're right.
We're mates.
Why don't you pay this month and I'll pay you back later?
Just want to get your calls and texts on uh the greatest plays from the passive aggressive playbook my dad does a good one when he texts uh like sometimes i will see the text number i need
to go back and i don't want to just come back with a thumbs up or i want to reply back and he
will send quite a detailed message but if i haven't replied he'll just send the same thing again
exactly the same message no like hey did you't replied, he'll just send the same thing again. Exactly the same message.
No like, hey, did you see this or anything like that.
And then sometimes it'd be like, oh, three times.
A third time.
I'm like, geez, I really should reply back to this.
But no other mention or anything else.
Oh, hey, did you see this or anything?
Just same message over and over again.
Where do you sit on?
And I noticed a few people doing it around the office now.
Must be nice.
Oh, yeah. You know, you say, oh, we're heading off now for the weekend. And someone few people doing it around the office now must be nice oh yeah
you know
you say
oh we're heading off now
for the weekend
and someone will just
chuck out from the office
must be nice
our boss says that
all the time
I feel like it must be nice
must be nice
see you guys Monday
oh that must be nice
oh we're just going to go
to some work in Fiji
oh must be nice
yeah
okay
so the greatest plays
for the passive aggressive
playbook yeah 4487 interesting choices just come through on the text Oh, it must be nice. Yeah. Okay, so the greatest plays from the Passive Aggressive Playbook.
Yeah, 4487.
Interesting choices just come through on the text.
Well, that's an interesting choice.
That's not a Passive Aggressive.
That's like, I wouldn't have done that.
Yeah, interesting choice.
You do you.
Is that how it is?
Yeah, you do you.
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The hits.
Talking about the greatest plays from the Passag Playbook,
the Passive Aggressive Playbrook.
0800 the hits's the telephone number.
You can text 4487.
I do like this one, and it's sometimes when you're staying in a communal situation, maybe on holiday,
oh, you're finally up.
Or like when you go and stay with your parents,
and they're like, oh, you're finally up.
Excuse me.
Half the day's gone.
It's 8.15 in the morning.
Adam, good morning to you.
How are you?
Good morning, Tim.
Good, John.
Greatest play from the Passag playbook.
What have you got?
Just the simple letter K.
You know when you're messaging someone
and you're having a big dialogue of messages
and then they finish that message with K.
Yeah.
Not even the O.
Not even, okay.
Do you know what's worse is when they put a full stop.
It's like K, full stop.
You get it like a full stop, yeah.
And I can see it.
You sent us a text before
just with a full stop to show us
and just a word or two
and a full stop
does feel passive aggressive.
It does.
So, Kate,
I know your dad winds you up
with K, doesn't he?
You know what,
sometimes thumbs up.
Sometimes I'll send a long message back
and it'll be questions
within that message
and we'll just put a thumbs up.
I'm like, what's a thumbs up?
To what?
My mum does the thumbs up
to me quite often
so whenever
she speaks to me
in real life
I don't reply
I don't say anything
I just do a thumbs up
and say how do you feel
she seems less
aggressive and more
just like cool
sweetest
good to everything
I love that one
that's great
someone's texting too
love that for you
mean I hate it for me love that for you love that for you's great Tell someone to text in too Love that for you Oh yeah Mean I hate it for me
Love that for you
Love that for you
Yeah
No offence but
Is always a good one too
Oh yeah
Start something with
No offence you love
But
It's like
It's already
Prepare to be offended
Yeah
But I've said no offence
So you can't take offence
You know in the workplace
Someone's texting
Instead of
Addressing something directly
They copy in a boss Like they CC in your boss.
Oh, yeah.
And you're like, oh, CC in the boss.
You know, sometimes you're on an email chain,
you're like, there's 92 people CC'd on this thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're brilliant.
Some other great texts coming through here.
Happy to discuss further.
It means I've already had this conversation with you.
But I'm happy to discuss it.
Or happy to go over this again.
Yeah.
Someone's just texted her,
okay, which is great to us.
Well played.
Someone said,
my mother-in-law is great at this.
When she doesn't agree with me,
she'll say,
start the sentence with,
I think you'll find.
John O'Bannon Megan.
The podcast.
The hits.
Here with the New Zealand Herald
daily quiz.
We like to do it each morning
and Megan is doing it solo today
to see how she goes.
Going really well so far.
Well, you're down five down, are you, or four down?
We're up to question five.
Five.
We've split off like the Avengers, but we'll come back together.
We're doing our own little projects.
We'll come back together next week.
Good luck.
But you might not need us, Megan, if you continue on like this.
Well, I'm using my lifeline on question five.
Yeah.
So the question was, which battle in 1690
established William of
Orange as the ruler
of England and
Ireland?
No idea.
No idea.
The options were
Battle of Orem,
Siege of Limerick,
or Battle of the
Boyne.
And now Boyne's
come through on the
text from Fiona.
Thanks, Fiona.
Okay.
Only text that's
come through.
So if you want to
use Fiona as your
lifeline.
We do know she's
from the UK.
We do know she's
in the Navy.
She would know
this shit.
She would know this stuff. They'd have to learn it in the Navy. She would know this shit. She would know this stuff.
They'd have to learn it in the Navy.
Okay, let's go with Boyne.
That is correct.
Nice work.
All right.
Five correct so far.
Question number six.
Hold up the paper, please.
Oh, sorry.
I've got to get my poker face back on.
My full golf on.
Okay.
All right.
Jennifer Lawrence starred alongside Chris Pratt in which science fiction film?
Was it Gravity, Passengers or Interstellar?
Passengers.
That is correct.
Well done.
Odd movie anyway.
It was an odd movie.
What was it about?
They got in space.
He was the only one alive and then he woke her up or something.
She woke up.
Yeah.
And then they had a relationship.
She found out that he woke her up
Is this all happening
In space
Yeah
I can't remember
Where they were going
They were the only
Two people
And they had
Like a robotic
Barman
But anyway
That's not important
A robotic barman
Or bum
Barman
Yeah
Alright
Question number seven
What is the signature
Drink of James Bond
Famously ordered
Shaken not stirred?
Is it a vodka martini, gin and tonic, or scotch on the rocks?
It's a vodka martini.
That is correct.
Well done.
You're a specialist.
See you seven down.
Yes.
Wow.
The highly competitive Megan too.
Fizzing.
She is loving every minute of this.
I am fizzing.
She is loving it.
I could tap out now and be so happy about it.
All right.
Which car model was the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle?
Was it the Ford Fusion Hybrid, the Honda Insight, or the Toyota Prius?
Prius.
Surely.
That's correct.
Eight seconds.
Wow.
Mensa, baby.
She thinks she's a Mensa genius.
I did diagnose you as a genius.
What are your qualifications?
That's what I was thinking Do you just go around the community
Going you're a genius
I'm pretty spot on
Making people feel a million dollars
Alright question number nine
Which English settler is Pocahontas famously
Associated with?
Is it William Adams, John Smith
Or Robert Barnes?
This is where you need Ben Boyce. This is where you need
Ben Boyce and his Disney knowledge.
But anyway, can't have him today.
No, I can't help you today.
I feel like it was
John Smith.
What a middle
of the road name. I really haven't
tried. What should we call
this character? What were the other ones?
William Adams or Robert Barnes.
They all sound like accountants.
Yeah, they do.
Lock and John Smith.
That is correct.
Is she up to number 10?
Oh my gosh, I reckon you're going to get this.
What is number 10?
Yeah.
What is the name of the donkey character in Winnie the Pooh?
Oh my gosh.
This is incredible.
Incredible scene.
She's done 10 out of 10.
Did you put it into easy mode today or something?
10 out of 10.
I'm going to need the answer.
Sorry, we didn't answer in time.
Unfortunately, 9 out of 10.
The answer is.
Too late.
Too late.
Can't hear it.
Can't hear it. New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz.
She got nine out of ten.
Eeyore.
Sorry, the time had passed.
The time had passed.
There was a time limit.
We had to take your first answer like the Alpha Quiz.
You said we are the champions.
That's wrong.
That's a song by Queen.
It's like the Alpha Quiz.
So nine out of ten for Megan.
Jono, Ben and Megan.
The podcast.
The hits. Here we go. The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. A nine out of ten for Megan. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.
Here we go.
The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz.
Always an exciting day here on the show when we try and get ten out of ten on the New Zealand
Herald Daily Quiz.
Yeah, yesterday sort of proposed that maybe we try and do a solo approach.
Sort of Justin Timberlake away from NSYNC sort of thing.
See how successful it goes.
Really, I set the bar at zero.
The bar has been set.
It's still, in fact, at the start line.
So anyone who takes a step over the start line is currently in lead.
You did get the first question.
It was quite a hard question, though, wasn't it?
You dived in with such confidence because we haven't taken away the lifeline.
You could have asked.
Oh, right, so the lifeline's still available.
Oh, I think so.
Is that right?
Oh, great, yeah.
I suppose it is.
That's the way.
You got one lifeline. You could have used the lifeline. Yeah, could have asked Oh right so the lifeline's still available Oh I think so Is that right? Yeah I suppose it is That's the way You've got one lifeline You could have used the lifeline
Yeah could have
Of course Queen producer Ellie
You can confirm the lifeline's still available
Yes the lifeline you can use
Okay so Megan are you going today or what?
Yeah
Okay
Go on
Good luck
But we were going to
Remember she has to cover her face
No facials from Ellie
To make it fair
You have to cover your face
With a New Zealand
herald and hold it
up in the picture
like a kidnap
victim.
Okay, thank you.
You can have
Phil Goff.
Phil Goff is your
face which says
deeply disappointing.
There we go.
I'm sure you got
sacked for doing
something about
something.
Wow.
Okay, Megan,
question number
one.
Which country is known as the birthplace of silk production?
India, China or Egypt?
I know what I would say
China
It's China
I'm pretty sure China was using silk a long time ago
Don't look at us
I love the way you're looking at us
You're like come on guys
I'm pretty sure China was the first to use silk
That is correct.
Well done.
Nice.
I was going to say Egypt.
And at the top
of the leaderboard.
Wow.
You had a game.
Pole position.
That'll probably be enough
to win it
between the three of us
to be honest.
All right,
question number two.
Which rapper recently
postponed his shows
in Auckland due to a scheduling conflict?
Oh, easy.
That was an easy one.
All right, question number three.
What is the second busiest airport in New Zealand?
Is it Christchurch, Queenstown or Wellington?
Hold your paper up there, Ali, over your head.
Come on, Phil Goff.
Wellington's international, right?
Don't ask me.
You left the band, bro.
We're still doing
tribute gigs. We're still touring, aren't we Ben?
It's not Queenstown.
Both are international.
I'd say
Christchurch because it's...
I know it's international and...
Oh, is the other one international too?
And it's in the South Island.
You're forming everything into a question.
Like, we're going to answer.
It's the biggest one in the South Island.
So I'm going to go with Christchurch.
Christchurch.
That is correct.
Well done, Megan.
Well done.
That's racing.
This is hard by yourself.
She's three from three.
You did really well.
All right.
Question number four.
What is the main character's last name in Roald Dahl's Matilda?
Is it Wormwood?
Wormwood.
Honey, that is correct.
Well done.
Four for four.
Scooting ahead.
Okay.
Question number five.
Which battle in 1690 established William of Orange as the ruler of England and Ireland?
Was it the Battle of Orn?
Orn?
The Siege of Limerick
or the Battle of the Boyne?
No, you can throw that out
for the lifeline.
Okay, lifeline.
It's one of the battles.
Do you?
Yep.
You write it down.
No.
No, write it down
so we can see afterwards
if you know.