Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: My Grandad is cooler than yours!

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

On today’s show: Ben ended up making his Uber driver very happy due to an extended trip Megan has a clever hack for when people ask the time, and you can’t read an analogue watch… We chat with Nicole from NYC on Diddy's mindset after getting off on the big charges. What did you hate as a kid but love now? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast on a Thursday morning where you'll hear we've been talking about why your granddad is better than our granddad. Some granddad stories and some incredible stories have been coming through.

More texts have just come in as the radio show has ended, so we thought we'd bring it to the podcast. Yeah, we didn't hear about your granddad, Megan. What did your granddad do? I didn't really know either of my granddads I died when I was young but one of them went to the war and the other one I don't know. Sure he did some stuff? No he had one leg longer than the other. Oh did he? Yeah. Hello it's John O'Bannon Megan here welcome to the podcast. Hi how are you? Great to have you on we're just bragging about our granddad's Megan's granddad had one leg longer to the podcast. Hi, how are you? Great to have you on, we're just bragging about our grandads.

Megan's grandad had one leg longer than the other. He had like a built up shoe, like one platform. Oh, I did a little platform. Spice girl shoe. Oh, cool, yeah. And then, yeah, I mean, I don't know if that makes him cool or not. Okay, so his whole life, he lived a whole life.

All you know about him is he was a little bit limpy. Yeah, maybe that's where I got my hipper shoes from. Yeah, true, yeah, genetic. Now, it's not your grandad, but your grandmother did something incredible. My great-great-grandmother. What did she invent? The indicator.

And she sold it to Ford. No way. Obviously for a very low price, but yeah, she did. It was all the paperwork was officially assigned and stuff and we have it somewhere. Wow, so the indicators we use today all over the world was your great-great-grandmother. Was it the one, you know how they used to like stick a little arm out? Yeah, they slicked it out. Yeah, a really old school first one.

So that's what she invented? Yeah. Amazing! She sold it for a very low price to Ford. Old Henry, Henry came in, he drove a hard bargain, I'll give you a shilling and a bloody bit of aniseed or something. How much did she sell it for? I'm not 100% sure because I've never seen the paperwork,

but it was with my great-grandmother's things. Inflation too, you know, we're talking about inflation. Yeah, like 20%… But that is pretty incredible though. Was it something that the family were, oh, you'd be proud of, or was it one of those things later you're like… All of us grandkids will know about it. Oh, that's cool.

No, her name was Lillian. I can't remember her last name, actually. Yeah, so she sold it to Ford. Oh, wow. I don't think it's in any official paperwork about the thing, but we've got the paperwork and we've got the paperwork. I can't remember her last name actually. Yeah, so she sold it to Ford. Oh, wow. I don't think it's in any official paperwork about the thing, but we've got the paperwork

of selling the idea. Oh, that's very cool. That's really, really special. And every time you use the indicator, well, that's a lot of times, though. Do you think of your great-great-grandmother every time you use the indicator, or just sort of every now and then?

Every now and then. Yeah. Well, Grandma would have liked this left turn. Everyone's aware I'm turning left. Thanks to her. That's very, very cool. Thank you for sharing that with us. We appreciate it.

Thank you. OK, and enjoy the podcast. We actually start another car related story, don't we, Ben? Oh, yeah, we do. Yeah, have a listen. Jono, Ben, and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. You have had some issues with the council recently. You got caught driving in a listen. Yeah! Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. You've had some issues with the council recently.

You got caught driving in a place you shouldn't be driving right. What do they call it? A certain type of vehicle area. They call it a fine. It's kind of like if I was like, I was driving where I shouldn't have been, but they trapped me in there.

Yeah, 150 bits. I had nowhere else to go. No, I'm not gonna write to the council, but I just think we should make a rule because something happened to us over our holiday break. Why have the same name of a street, two of them in the same city or town? That happens to us all the time. Why?

Surely once you have a name of that, that's the name. Yeah. Right? And then you go, well, we need to come up with another name. Because it happened to me, we hosted something like an awards night over the holiday break and got in, you know, it's quite late in the evening, I was going to catch up with some friends, they were having a mid-winter Christmas, they were like, hurry up, we've been going for a while, we're probably at 11 o'clock at night, I'm like, cool, put it

in the dress, got on the Uber and then suddenly I went, oh, we're going over the Harbour Bridge. Which was opposite direction. This is not, and then I looked at the thing and I was like, oh, this, yeah, and this was going for what could have been probably more like a five, ten dollar Uber, I was like, oh this is the fifty dollar Uber, this is, I'm like, oh. But it's on you because you clicked the thing. I know, and I kept saying sorry mate, and he's like, don't be sorry, it's all good. I'm happy. He's like, don't worry, once you go on that harbour bridge, I'm going to take my time

getting off and turning around. He's like, if anything, I feel sorry for you. Yeah, he didn't say that. He said, don't apologize to me. I was like, yeah, you're right, actually. Once you get caught on the motorway, it's like, oh, I'm here for a bit now. But I was like, well, who?

What monster puts a, like, once it's in the same town, city, whatever, that's it, that should be it, right? There's three of my streets. Is there? Yeah. But they're all different. It's like an avenue, a lane and a street. That happened to someone who spoke to, I think they found out the radio, they had just landed in New Zealand and then they got a taxi like, so they landed in Auckland and they were meant

to go to a street in Auckland. But they put it in and it was a street in Tauranga. So they drove, not knowing where they were going obviously. The driver was like, hey, I feel, don't apologize to me. It's all good. Thank God Auckland is really big. All the way to Tohtora. Yeah, big, big city. It's two and a half hours. Oh, geez.

Five hour round trip. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. As you would have heard in the news, the National Library of New Zealand is disposing of more than half a million books, 500,000 books from their foreign books collection to make room for more items. It takes up about a third of a

rugby field in space. Wow. You can see why. It feels like they could be giving it away but anyway apparently only 1% has been lent of the books in about the last sort of almost the last decade. The last 20 years 80% have not been lent out. We were like give them to us. We'll give them away, but it's 500,000 books. 500,000. Imagine poor bloody Joe Riddell, the building manager, if 500,000 books turned up at the end of the day. And then try to send them out as well.

Yeah, you know. Joe, we need to store these in a room. So we're backpedaled off the every caller wins a book idea. Megan, a new addition to your fashion regime. You've never worn one of these, have you? I was a little bit upset you guys never noticed. Cause I never ever. I don't spend much time looking at your wrists.

I never ever wear a watch. I've got one watch and it was given to me by my husband. It's a fancy one on our wedding day. And so recently he was like, you don't ever wear it. Famously when I wore it other times, the batteries run out and I didn't know. And I wear it upside down sometimes because it doesn't have any numbers on it. Famously when I wore it other times the batteries run out and I didn't know and I wear it upside down sometimes because it doesn't have any numbers on it. She's got hands and no numbers. Oh so no numbers at all?

No she's got little marks. Oh yeah okay I understand that but you have an issue with this because without the digital aspects to watch you you can't tell the time. No I can sit here. You can work it out right? It's hard now because I know what the time is because you can't tell the time. No, I can sit here. Not quickly, you can work it out, right? It's hard now, cause I know what the time is, cause we say it all the time, and I've got digital things in front of me.

It's one of the great, great things about radio, we'll tell you the time, 7.28. Exactly, but I've never really needed, I've got my phone on me at all times, so I've never really gotten good at telling the time. But I've got a nice watch, and I want, I've always wanted to be one of those people, you know how when you wear a watch,

people like pull their sleeve up and glance at it real quick? It's so cool. It's so cool. And you just glance, it's so cool. It is cool. But it also, there's a little bit of pressure involved with it too, because you wanna deliver it quickly,

smoothly, you need to let them get on with their day if they're running late for something. And if you're holding up going, hold on, I think it's between 3 p.m. and next Thursday afternoon. And that's what happened to me because I've been doing that for fun I just pull up my sleeve and I glance at it to feel cool because I've never done that but I can't read the time. Just say my mate my mate would do that he'd just say half past and then people go what's the time you got half

past and then you walk away. And get on with your way. And you will like, is it half-arse? But it's enough time to bamboozle them. But I did it recently. That's what you need to do. I did it recently. And then that's good enough. I mean, right now it pretty much is half-arse. Yeah, right.

Most of the time it kind of was. Yeah, and it's not fun. What if it's like 8 o'clock? Well, it's never fun. They don't have a watch. They're not going to end that moment. They're not going to end it later. They're not going to be half an hour early

or half an hour late. Recently I did it to look cool, so I pull up the sleeve and I glance at it, and then someone said to me, oh what is the time? And I was like, oh god. Cause I was like, I'm gonna have to re-look at it. By then you're like, I don't care. And then it'll take me a couple of minutes.

20, 50 past left. But then also they're like, well you just looked at it. So I put my wrist out and showed them and was like is that right because that's all I could do I was like you look at it What you don't deserve a watch if you can't you know I know that's what my husband's eating like if you don't wear it and learn then I'm gonna give it to someone else Okay, it's not wearing active wear and someone's like you go to a crossfit cast I just like wearing active wear and someone's like, should we go do a crossfit cast?

And you're like, I don't know. No, no. Don't need to get active. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. That. Yeah, really shocking interaction socially yesterday with a lady who was walking in opposite directions. And then I was like, oh, I know this lady

from the kids' primary school days. So I locked eyes with her and she locked eyes with me. And it looked like a familiar eye lock. Oh, nice. Two human beings who knew each other. Now I said, oh hey how are you? How have you been? Now at which point she then launched into a story which led with, your mum would have told you about my parents and I'm thinking, oh mum hasn't told me anything about the parents. She's like they're just making the transition into the retirement village and I was like no part of this story is riggedy-diggity-diggity. And she was like oh you know mum. And I was thinking no I don't.

And they're having, turns out they're having a hard time you know transitioning from having their own house going into retirement village living. And so she's telling me this story and after that she goes, hey how's the family? And I said great, Oscar's 15, Poppy's 12, my kids, Jen's doing well, still working well and I could see the look in her eye was like, dear God I don't know who this man is. She's trying to piece it together as well. So now we're both in the situation, we've both realised that we don't know who each other are. How do we exit safely with credibility intact?

That's what I'm thinking. Yeah. I bring it back to the retirement village. Oh, don't bring it back to anything. Just be like, well, nice to see you. Nice to see you again. Yeah, exactly. I can just go, alright, see you later.

Oh, good to see you again. Oh, good luck with your parents. Yeah. See ya., alright, see you later. Good to see you again. Good luck with your parents. See ya. You need to have a slow fade out of it. Oh yeah, at that stage you're done. You're done, you both know you're done. I have offered advice. I said, you know what? I don't know what's your advice. Strange man, I don't know.

I said it's a hard transition at that stage of life. You're used to living one way, used to living the next, but knowing your mum as I do, she'll adjust. I'd just say she's like, you just know my mum. Actually she's a stubborn old duck, she's probably not going to. I think I even ended it with, oh catch up soon. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hats. Catch up with Nicole, she's based in New York. She hosts a radio show right around the country from New York. Yeah and she does this for free. We don't pay her a cent. And

I have no idea why do you do this Nicole? Because I just love you guys. I don't know. You've really grown on me and now it doesn't feel right when I don't talk to you during the week. Like these past few weeks I felt empty. You're on vacation I saw saw you're off the family. Yeah. Yes. We were down in the Outer Banks in North Carolina We go every year. It was so nice just to be the F out of New York City It's always nice. The summer is like gross here. It's just like hot baking garbage everywhere We got Nicole with us. We haven't spoken to you in a while But did he just seems like he got off the majority of all the treacherous charges. I freaking, I'm sick to my stomach. I couldn't even, like, I wanted to throw up that day.

And again, it's not like we didn't say, like, I have, we all, I think a lot of us had this bad feeling, like, somehow he's going to get off. And I think a lot of it was they weren't charging him with the right things and the things they were charging him with, they couldn't necessarily prove. They didn't have enough to prove it so it looks like he's only going to serve a little bit of time and it sounds like all of this stuff is just going to continue I mean he now if anything he knows he can get away with it so I feel like it might just like he might up the ante. Is there more because this was a criminal case is there more civil lawsuits to come? That's yeah right like it's kind of like with OJ. I feel like just the fact that he settled with Cassie long

before these charges ever came, like doesn't that just show isn't that just like proving that there's stuff that he's guilty of? Like it's not I don't know. Yes, I think there have been enough victims that they might try to hit him civilly because they couldn't get him. And there seems like there's hundreds who have horrible stories about what he had allegedly done to them. So yeah, I'm assuming that where they're going to go the civil route this after that, I don't, I don't know how else you do it. Crazy.

15 million on lawyers. But I mean, that's chump change to him. Yeah. He'd be paying for lunch. Right. And then you'd have to do some other stuff after lunch, but you'd have to work your lunch off. You'd be itemising the bill wouldn't you?

No such thing as a free... And so the prison time he will get for the charges that he was found guilty of which was sex trafficking. Not sex trafficking. Not sex trafficking. What was it? Transportation to engage in sex. Right.

Isn't it? No. No. Racketeering not guilty and sex trafficking not guilty. Okay, so but transporting sex. Yeah. It feels likeering not guilty and sex trafficking not guilty. Okay, so but transporting sex, it feels like, is that trafficking? One is whether you're making money off it or you're just taking someone. Ah, I see. And he's been in jail for a while, so do they count that as part of the sentence?

Yes, I think time already served is like a thing and so there, I know like the prosecution's obviously like gunning for a little bit more time but I just feel like I have lost all faith. I've lost all faith in the legal system and humanity. I just like this I thought that this was it. I was like this man for years people have known has been a bad dude that did a lot of crazy things and he's finally finally gonna get that we're gonna get justice and like I just again yet again it's like I just don't understand how this happened you know if this was New Zealand you'd never hear of that person ever again but it's America he could bounce back but look at your president

yeah like me seriously I mean you can literally do whatever you want you have enough money and you have enough power you can for the most part get away with anything and that is being proven justice. It's just and then poor Cassie having to live through all of that after she was paid off, then going on the stand and being brave enough to tell the story, living through it again while pregnant and then still him not coming like it, not getting found guilty. That's just got to be a nightmare for her. Yeah, not guilty, but not innocent.

I think we can all agree he's not a not a great guy. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. That certainly is the case for sure. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. And well, you said something in a very public environment here at The Hits.

I could have just done it in front of YouTube, but we were in a meeting, so there was a whole bunch of people in the room and I was like, hee hee, chuckling away before the meeting started. And I was looking at a video on my phone and I thought I would share it with the room. I'd be like, look everyone, ha ha ha, look at this funny video. And that's when everyone pointed out that it was AI.

Oh, I hate that. Yeah, I've fallen victim to that. I'm like, look, there's a bloody shark fighting a velociraptor in a spa pool in Palmerston North. Oh, I was like like, AI you idiot. But it wasn't that obvious. I really believed it was real. It's getting good. Yeah. Really, you do have to double check. I go straight to the comments section now.

Yeah, you have to rush to the comments. First one's like, AI, fake. Yeah. But yeah, then you kind of look through and if more people are saying that, you're like, oh, OK. Because there was a time where, like, oh oh they've got six fingers, you know? But now they all had the right amount of fingers and toes. When you say there was a time, that time was only a few months ago.

It was moving at a rapid pace. Because they just had the Wimbledon, the big tennis tournament in the UK, did you see that? And someone had made like an influencer who was there enjoying Wimbledon and all these sports stars across the world are like, oh great, you know, liking it, great, it looks like she was having a great time. She was totally AI. She didn't exist and it looks so realistic That everyone that they are falling for that as well. So yeah Everything now you're just like I'm so skeptical everything. I know My kids are like, are they AI? I don't know

But also like why because this was a woman falling off a boat like a party boat into the water? That's my thing. Why? Because I watch them and you get duped and you feel like you want to go to small claims court But you are you know why do this to me? Yeah, but we can't complain we've done years of doing that stuff on a TV show For us we're the only people that can't complain because I'm like for years we did that on TV and things We're like this thing a lot easier to prank now though. Oh, yeah Back in the day you had to put effort in Although people were more skeptical now, you know

It's harder to pull one off. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you look at the OG pranks What was that got you know war of the worlds or whatever it was back in the day when I like the aliens are coming You're like, oh no Yeah She's the stuff you can get away with. I used to say that in a dorm microphone. We were a gullible, idiotic society, weren't we? You're right, those people would have been like,

why did you betray my trust on that? Aliens were coming to the world. Yeah. Oh well, there we go, just be wary. Go straight to the comment section and don't trust anyone like Ben. But are you, like Jono said, you wrote a letter to the council this week. I know, I'm entering my boomer era.

We put you in the boomer stage, didn't we? You've got to look out for your elders guys because I'm going to get scammed. That's what everyone said, you're real close to getting scammed, babes. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Hey, the Emmys were announced yesterday and Harrison Ford, geez, how old is he now? He's 83. Looking into that.

Is he? So he's had a career spanning five decades, 50 years of career as well, iconic characters. He's played like Indiana Jones, Han Solo, things like that. But he's never been nominated for an Emmy until yesterday, his first time as 83. As a granddad, he's a granddad of multiple grandkids and he's been nominated for an Emmy. But the Emmys is the TV, right? He's probably done more, he's a granddad of multiple grandkids and he's been nominated for an Emmy. But the Emmy's is the TV right? He's probably done more movies.

Exactly, exactly. And this TV show Shrinking, he plays such a great character, it's a good show. Very dry isn't it? Would you shine any emotion with the nomination you think Harrison Ford? Probably not. I don't know if he's the type of guy you couldn't tell if he was happy, angry or sad. And I think the character he plays in the show kind of seems like what I think he would be like in real life. Real dry. More of a documentary. Yeah. So they'd be proud of their granddad wouldn't they? First time getting nominated for the Emmys. That'd be pretty

cool. I mean if you had Harrison Ford as a granddad that'd be kind of cool right? Your granddad, he fought in the ward didn't he? Yeah one, the other one was I was a reverend actually It was that was this it was his gig and as well He lived in it they live in the caravan outside the house for some reason who was in the house No one so grandma and granny was empty, but they'd go out and cannery this north Canterbury like winters It was like 15 meters away. They like we like the caravan. It's cozy heating in there no nothing it was cozy a bedroom yeah multiple bedrooms that would go empty until family would stay it was like okay very unusual did you feel guilty when you would come and stay they were shunted out the back in the car but they

loved it they loved it though one of those households to but just like I don't know if your grandparents all like that just so many clocks ticking clocks yeah stay the house so you just drive your bonkers. And the dead of night too. Yeah, it's just like the clocks ticking. It's so ominous. Yeah, and I'd take all the batteries out and they would wind them up next morning. Were they the ones with the TV curtain?

No, well that was the other granddad. They had a TV curtain. Yeah, so the TV would finish for the night. They'd put a curtain over the TV that they'd sit on top and they'd be like, no more TV. And we're like, we can just lift it up and watch more TV. They're like, no, TV's done for the night. The curtain shut. Was it to protect them from the TV rays?

I think that was protecting the TV for longevity, but also because that was the signal that the TV was done for the day. Put the TV to bed. And he got back from the war too and he didn't think he needed, because he had fought for New Zealand that he needed to abide by New Zealand law. Sometimes, yeah. Which I mean, amazing. He's like, I've done my bit forever now.

Amazing sacrifice, you know, like incredible, but you can't get off speeding tickets and parking tickets, just by saying. I went to bloody Gallipoli for you mate. I fought in the war. Well, you're going 180 and a 50. So why was your granddad better than, well why's your granddad better than our granddads? That's what we want to know. What's the coolest thing about your granddad right now?

Can you compete, probably not with Harrison Ford? I mean the bar's set very high. You can probably compete with a TV blanket or a TV curtain. Till they have a curtain over the TV right. I've set the bar lower but that's okay. Somewhere in the middle. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hats. Because Harrison Ford yesterday as a granddad nominated for his first Emmy, which is pretty impressive of a 50 year career. Now there's no way that we can prove your story either, two. Chances are a lot of the people we're speaking about are no longer here to validate the story, so we'll just have to take your word for it. Even if you phone up and you're like, my granddad strangled someone with a cordless phone. We'll be like, okay Kill two stones with one bird. All right, we'll buy it Ellen your granddad cooler than ours

Yeah, he was pretty cool. He he was a painter by trade and Got to help paint the set for the Lord of the Rings movies. Oh that's very cool. Great job of painting all the background of New Zealand there. Very skilled painter. That would have been a big gig. Yeah I was only young at the time so I didn't realise how cool it was then but now that

he's gone I'm realising just how cool he actually was. Yeah that's great. I know my grandfather helped build the harbour bridge. Did he? Gone, I'm realizing just how cool he actually was Grandfather helped build the the harbor bridge Yeah, he did they moved from England and 1920s or something. Give them a break. It took them ages too. It's nice if it could go where it was just windy. Like, you know, like, yeah. Do they not factor in the wind? But anyway. Oh, I'm sorry.

Here I am with a bloody hammer, swinging from a rope, building a bridge, and you want what you want. You don't think you... You want it to be able to drive on it. Yeah. You think any future generations could have reinforced the bridge? I'm no longer here to do anything.

Karen, morning to you. Good morning. Sorry, we're just bickering away here. Your grandad, cooler than ours? Well, yeah. He's a famous actor in the UK. His name is Arthur English. You might know him as in programs here, Are You Being Served? And yeah. Wow.

That's very cool. Could you get a more English name than Arthur English? No, you won't. It's English. It's a surname. How cool. He looks like a little character. The photo I've got of him here, he's got a drawn on mustache.

Yes. And in the day, like when he was in the war, war he was a tanker man and he did a lot of comedian stand-ups and then he became an actor and yeah, did a lot of stand-up shows but he was famous for this little mustache that he had. He was in Dad's army too. Wow, that's very, very cool. Well done blowing our stories out of the water. You know, Jono's grandad kind of helped out with the hover bridge.

You can't drive over it when it's windy. I'm not going to help out. He was the guy that said, don't, it's fine if it's windy. It'll be fine. He worked with what he had. Karen, go and have a great day. Really appreciate your time. Should we take one more, May as well?

Let's do one more. Tay, you're on the radio. How are you? Hi. Good. Thank you. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well, mate. We're having a grandad off.

Why are your grandads better than ours? Well, my great grandfather did the same sort of thing along with the Harbour Bridge, but not quite the Harbour Bridge, but it was the Fairfield Bridge in Hamilton. Can you drive over it when it's windy? I don't think so. I employed all bridges at all costs, especially the high-leveling cane bridge, especially when it's windy. Yeah, exactly. Listen, give these guys a break. Give these guys a break. They didn't have cranes, they didn't have anything.

Did they have qualifications? Yeah, but there's empire state buildings and things that have been around for a long time, but they can still go up when it's windy, but anyway. There's a photo somewhere circling that's got like about maybe 20 men sitting on top of the Fairfield bridge, unrestrained and everything, you know. Yeah, exactly. You can have a fair day over it these days. Yeah, no health and safety back then either. It was a tough day. Yeah.

Who would have thought in 2025, there'd be two people moaning that they could, they're moaning about the bridges that they pulled their blood, sweat and tears into. Are you guys? Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hit. I've got a day about the poop crews on Netflix. I don't know how to say this. I mean it's a real... It's a docker.

It's a docker. It's stuff that's real. Like rather than watching shows that are scripted, movies like that, I feel myself a lot more watching documentaries. Well you do feel a lot sorrier. You're emotionally attached more to the characters because all these real people had to go through the Situation sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction some of the documentaries, especially the murder mysteries. You're like

Watch the one with those people marry. Oh she's married to the Eiffel Tower and he makes love to his car's exhaust pipe. A different algorithm. That quite popped up in my algorithm at the moment. But I was thinking the other day, as a kid, there was probably nothing worse than watching a documentary. I'd be like, if a young man gets to see me now, I'd be like, oh cool, he's sitting and being watching a documentary.

Cool old man. And the news, your parents were so invested in the news. All I thought about the news was, oh dinner's probably about half an hour away. Yeah. Yeah. But I thought there's gotta be heaps of things that you hated as a kid, but now you love as an adult.

Right? You know, as things change. Sleeping's a big one. You know, it seems like as a kid, that's the last thing that you want to do is go to sleep. It's the big three. It's the showering, sleeping and eating. Like those are three of my favourite things and kids just don't want to do them. I've always liked the shower, like even as a young, you know, like I always enjoyed the shower.

Fan of the shower? I don't have a big beef of the shower, or like vegetables and salads, but yeah, but some kids hate. Some kids, you're like, just trying to have a shower, they're like, no! Like, well, you're gross. My message to the tamariki, enjoy napping while you can.

Yeah. Okay, cause then there's a long runway between your teenage years where you can't nap, and then eventually you sort of hit late 80s, and then all you do is nap until you take one big, long nap and you never wake up. Like literally some days I roll out of bed and I'm like, I'll see you later. Until then I'll dream about you all day.

I do. The first thing I think of when I wake up is, when am I going to be back to sleep? And I schedule that in my head. But as a kid you're like, that's the last place you want to end up. Going to bed is a sign of weakness as a child, isn't it? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats.

Want to know what you hated as a kid, loved as an adult. A lot of texts coming through, leftovers. As a kid, you're like, oh, no, not again. But as an adult, you're like, meal prep is done. Yes. You're like, I don't have to do dinner because there's just dinner left over. Grocery shopping's come through as well. As a kid, that was pretty boring, right? That's my time out now. I just dinner left over. Grocery shopping's come through as well as a kid that was pretty boring right?

That's my time out now. I know that sounds sad. I enjoy grocery shopping. Especially if you get to go by yourself which you can just browse. Truffle oil's on special. Yeah it's so nice. Yeah it's a wonder a lot. It's a bit of music.

That's quite nice. No one pestering you. And you're doing something for the household as well so you know but you've got your own. I think the more we talk, the more miserable you become as a human being, the older you get. The more bleak your life becomes. So, I hate 100 of the hits, what you hated as a kid and love as an adult. Jay, how are you? Yeah, good, how are you guys? Yeah, we're doing really well, mate. What you hate as a kid but love as an adult?

When plans get cancelled and you just stay inside. Oh yeah. Like if a birthday party gets cancelled when you're nine years old, that is, you're never gonna come back from that, are you? It's a catastrophe. Devestators. Oh exactly.

Yeah, but you know, someone phones you up right now and they're like, sorry mate, that dinner that we had planned, I can't make it. Both of you don't, both of you don't wanna go. Friday evening plan falling through. Why do we all like that? I actually cherish the few social things because life's busy. But there are some things that you don't want to go to.

We've all got those things. Okay, so let's just zero it down to the things you don't want to go to. If that cancels that, then you're like, dream come true. We had a flight for work many years ago. Remember, we didn't want to go down there and it got cancelled. We were like, not on us. That's not on us. It was going to a thing. And then it was a really terrible day, weather-wise, Jay.

And it kept getting delayed and delayed. And we're like, maybe it'll get cancelled. Or it'll be too late. We won't make it in time for our show. And then it just got... Yeah, the weather gods were playing ball that day. And we never made it back. Yeah.

Just secretly hoping the whole time. Yeah. Oh, Jay, I appreciate that one. You're going to have a great Thursday. All right, cheers guys, see you. No one for me? I hate it as a kid because Dad would listen to a lot of Talkback Radio. Now, I'll turn on Talkback radio and I'll happily listen

to bloody Gary from Timaru's thoughts on the speed bumps in the main street. You know, he's, you know, you can sit there peacefully and not, it's so negative. Well, they'll moan about it because when they travel, my daughter's with their grandma, she loves it, news talk, but my kids are always like, Mike McCosking. I love how they call him McCosking.

I'm like, I'm not gonna change the fact that I know. I was like, he was talking about something boring this morning. I'm like, I'm not going to change the fact that I know his name. Mike! He was talking about somebody boring this morning. I'm like, yeah, that's right. He's always talking about boring stuff. Oh, McCosking! He's always talking about boring stuff. That's why you don't listen to That Station.

But you're right, as an adult, you're like, oh. Oh, yeah, you just kind of sit there and enjoy a day. Vegetables is probably another one you were just saying before. Brussels sprouts, I used to hate those. My mom would boil them, and they'd go kind of gray and bitter. Now I love them. Do a bit of a roast. They would chuck them on right at the start too.

Mum would, you know, and by the end of the day, when the chicken's cooked, you know, the veggies are well done. Now you pay $28 for them to be drizzled in some exotic sauce. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Don't you, I think one of the greatest social free falls is when someone's telling you a story and you laugh and then you're like, oh no, this isn't a gag.

Yeah. Have you done that? Yes. Yeah. I do that all the time on the radio, like when a listener will be like, oh I named my car Ruta and you're like, ha ha ha, and then you're like, oh it's after my dead mother. Yeah. Your mother's name was Ruta?

She knew what route to go in, you know, so I named the car after her. But Stevie Wonder, he did this to an entire stadium. Oh really? So everyone started, so there's rumours that Stevie Wonder can see. You know, he spent his whole life, for whatever reason, he decided he was going to, you know. John has been in the TikTok hole of conspiracies. Yeah, it feels like some, yeah. So he's in a stadium and he starts off and he sounds like he's doing a comedy

But I must say to all of you something that I was thinking of and I wanted to say it right now You know there have been rumors about Me seeing and all that Laughing he's got he's got the whole stadium laughing truth is and then he goes the truth is and you're like uh-oh here comes a gear change. Okay Stevie really shifts it up a gear. The truth is shortly after my birth I became blind. Now... Silence!

Deadly silence! That was a blessing. And he goes uh-oh he's going into a heartfelt thing. This wasn't a gag. People and the spirit of them. Woohoo! And how they look, what colour they are, but what colour is their spirit? Awwww! Aww yeah that's beautiful! We're all terrible people! I'm laughing at the first one.

I love a couple of the woo! John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The Hats. John, a bit of bad weather, particularly rain in the top of the North today. I felt like a bit of a pest to be honest. I was at the supermarket and I noticed a gentleman had the squeakiest pair of shoes I'd ever heard

in my career and I was like, I'll record that for radio, you know. Every bit's everything's content, that sort of thing. And then as I was following this guy around recording his squeaky shoes I was like this doesn't sit well with me. Did you have your phone like down? Yeah I wasn't making I wasn't arm out like following around next to the shoes and I actually got to the self-service check-out I'm like I must have looked I must tell them that I've been filming

Recording and I said I listen. I'm sorry been covertly recording your squeaky shoes They said can I please get your permission to play it on the radio? He said, that's absolutely fine. He's like, do you know what? These shoes are the bane of my existence. Now have a listen to them. They are the squeakiest shoes ever. And he says they don't squeak on every surface.

They're very squelchy sounding, don't they? All around the... it sounds like a couple of mice being... What were they? Sneakers? Yeah, they were sneakers, but he's like, you can't predict what surface they're going to make a noise on. So they're very... They sound wet. Like he was just saying, wet shoes. So yeah, he's like, I've thought many times I should throw them out, but he's like I only bought them four months ago Oh, yeah Is that where your jandals get wet right?

You'd be very self-conscious about it wouldn't we? So we want to know after some weird guys are recording it like can I play that on national the radio for the country? You're like oh now I feel like He doesn't know how to say no Oh is anyone noticing this? Yes, yes, yes, this guy's recording it. He's even going to play it on the radio. He's thought about throwing them out but he has now.

He's got all of those books that have been shredded, haven't they? The library's got rid of them. So, oh I know that, we want to check this over. You can text 24487. The sounds that are the bane of your existence. They could be noises from pieces of machinery, fridges, cars, whatever. The sounds that are the bane of your existence. They could be noises from pieces of machinery, fridges, cars, whatever. Just triggering sounds. What's a triggering sound for you?

I've got one. It's something my husband does and you'll know about this, Jono, because he's got Invisalign. Oh yeah. So every time he goes to eat, and I think I've made him self-conscious about it because he does it in private now, you've got to pull out the Invisalign and do the old slurperoo. So it's kind of like a mouth, if any of you haven't seen it, it's like a thin clear mouth guard. And when it pulls out, it's like yeah. I had one for a while then and my wife is like, look at the old man take out his dentures.

You know, she's like, you are so sexy right now. The strings of saliva. I bet it whips up the old pheromones in you, didn't it? Oh, literally. It makes you cringe. Take off your dentures. Things are getting hot and heavy right now. I actually know they've stopped now. So, oh, Andrew, that's 4487.

What's the sounds that trigger you? The smoke alarm. The battery of a smoke alarm when it's running out. And it doesn't go all the time, but you hear it and you're like, oh, and it's so high-pitched. Yeah, and you're like, is it? But the distance, the issue I have is the distance between the beep is just enough time for you in the middle of the night to go around the whole house,

no, okay, it's stopped, just lie back in bed and then it goes again. It's like someone set it up on prank mode. Yeah, it's like, let's just have it, dee dee dee dee dee. You're like, okay, yeah. You know where it is. Yeah, exactly. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast.

That's the triggering, annoying sounds that you can hear. Everyone's got their hot buttons, right? Yeah, my husband's sloping his Invisalign when he takes them out, his little mouth guard thing. Yeah. Oh, but there's no other way to do it, though. You can't. No, there's not. He's like, what do you want me to dribble everywhere?

I'm like well make less of a sound. Because your string of saliva comes out so you feel like you have to suck it back in. The guy who I followed around the supermarket weirdly recording his shoes as he was walking without his knowledge. This is consensual shoe recording by the way till I got his permission said these Squeaky shoes have become the bane of his existence because he doesn't know what surface they're not going to agree with And obviously the the shiny supermarket floor is one of those ones where it'd be a little nerve-racking when you walked into places Yeah, so great text coming through here on four four eight seven noises that trigger you, this is a good one. Cats and dogs

cleaning themselves on the bed in the middle of the night. Oh you just hear... They really get in there you know. That's better than hearing them go... Yeah when the cat's got a hairball. Oh no! Or they're about to... yeah. Yeah, a lot of ones for the alarm. The wake up alarm.

Oh it's so triggering.. Yep, yep. A lot of ones for the alarm. The wake up alarm. Oh, it's so triggering. It is, yeah. Oh. And I know they've gone for a gentle approach too with it. No, no, but those, don't, you can't. That's not gentle. No.

There's nothing funny about that. It's aggressive. There's the other one that goes, meh, meh. Yeah, oh, that is. That's a bit too aggressive. Yeah. Let's get Justine on the show. Welcome, how are you?

Oh, good, thanks. Great to have you on. Jussie? What, do you go by Jussie, or is that the first time you've been juzzied? No no, sometimes I do, yep You get a juzzy here and there or what's the noise that triggers you? The car windscreen wiper Oh, particularly when the window gets a bit dry too or they sort of lose their, yeah there's a combination thing

Have we got audio of that? Yeah Sounds like Jaws Yeah, there's a combination thing. Have we got the audio of that? Yeah. Sounds like Jaws! It does! It does! And it's always raining too, so you're not going to get out and fix it. No, exactly. That's a good one. Have you got your windscreen wipers on today, Justine? I have, but there's quite a lot lot of rain so it's not too bad.

Stay out of the water though today. Shout for Jaws. Appreciate your call. Thank you Justine. Have a great day. Gary with us on 0800. Thanks Justine. The noise that triggers you Gary? that triggers you Gary? People gargling food when they talk with food in their mouth or smacking their food while they're eating. Well, people hearing other people eating is a real bug bit. Yeah. It drives me wild.

I don't care how big you are, how tough you are, you will get told. Because once you zero in on it, you can't not hear it. We were at a show, a magic show and there was a guy behind us. That's right. Now Megan and myself zeroed in on him and he was going... Hrrrk! Hrrrk!

Hrrrk! But he obviously had something in his throat or nose or... Yeah. Hrrrk! But I pointed it out to you and you're like why did you do that? I can't un-hear it. I would have been the magician I would have made him disappear. Have a good one mate.

See you Gary. Ben you have an issue with my breathing from time to time don't you? Have you noticed that since you started working with me? No I don't know what you're talking about. Does she have an issue with it too? I don't know I haven't been talking behind your back or anything. No. Sometimes you click your fingers a lot too.

Do you know you do that? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And do you notice me going... Yeah. With my nostrils? That's OK.

That's OK? He's had an issue with it for 10 years. Is that OK? Didn't sound like OK. Is that the breathing you've got an issue with? It's just his breathing. Everything has to be at a performance for us. So for 10 years it's been the bane of our relationship.

He's like, I'm sorry for breathing mate.