Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: My Kid Ate Dog Food and Refused Fried Chicken

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

On today’s show: Jono goes on a full-blown rant about rental car insurance and whether it’s just one big scam. Producer Troy relives the trauma of his first “ceremony” gym class with Francisco, and we surprise him with a visit from the man himself! Why Megan’s daughter ae dog food but refused homemade fried chicken. We hear from Black Ferns hooker Atlanta Lolohea ahead of their World Cup semi-final. Dear Megan, My husband cheated, we split, and now I feel betrayed that our friends still hang out with him. Am I wrong to want them to pick a side? The weirdest things kids have eaten (including maggots, firelighters, and plug chains) Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Good morning, welcome to the podcast for your Tuesday morning. I see a mention on an apple too, Ben's Ways on holiday. But your apple eating, I always find a bit of a lottery. You never know what you're going to get into. I know.

This one is crunchy, but it's bland. What are you going on there? Is it a gala? Yeah. Royal gala. Have you tried the pink ladies? Yeah, pink lady's good. ambrose are quite like ambrosia.

Yeah, they're quite big at the moment, the old ambrosias. Jazz apples are crunchy. Yeah, and I try and get ones that are small because you know how kids bite an apple and then they don't want it anymore? Yes. Just the nuggety little ones. A little nuggety ones. You don't, I tell you what I haven't eaten in a while, the Granny Smith.

Well, it's a cooking apple, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite sour. Yeah, that's what you'd make an apple pie out of. Yeah, just had to... Did you know that? What? Did you know that? That you made apple pies out of apples?

No, out of greenie. Smith's. I didn't know the variety of apple, but I knew apples were involved in apple pies. I'm not that bogan with my taste buds. Yeah, I don't know many people that were just like munch on a fresh Granny Smith. No, my mum used to put them in my lunchbox as a child. Granny Smith. Yeah.

Also, the skin's really tough. Yes. Yeah, they are. I only had red and green, two colours back in the day. Well, what do you have now? Oh, mate, there's a crazier number of apples. I'm going to go chat, TBT. How many varieties of apples?

I know, but they're all variations of red and green, right? There's yellow ones? Oh, yeah, I guess. Is it the yellow ones? Pink ones? True. Okay. They've really, they've...

Tusha. We've really inbred the apples, haven't they? We're getting into Apple chat. We are. Gee whiz. She whiz. Worldwide. Okay.

How many do you think? Different varieties of apples? 200. Seven thousand five hundred. Come on, really? Yeah, crazy. I do find it weird when you watch a cooking show overseas and they mention like a type of potato or apple

that you've never heard of in your life. You're like, how do we not have that? Anything can be turned into an apple. I feel like we do that with the kiwi fruit as well. We've gone crazy with kiwifruit. I really love those ones that are like red in the middle though. Yes. Yeah.

What's happened there? Looks like they've been injected with Boysenberry or something. I don't know, but they're yum. So we've got the goal. We've got your classic green kiwi fruit. You got your gold, you got your red. Many varieties of kiwi, well, there's probably only three. I need to know what they did to those.

Yeah, berry-like flavors. Oh, is it? Yeah. The red kiwi-fruit. So the kiwi-fruits run off an affair with the neighbour, the berry. They had natural, resulted from natural breeding, cross-breeding in 2007. But what were they breeding with to make them red? A berry.

Oh, so two plants combined? No, I don't know. There must have. There must have been a berry, a bloody sexy. berry next door and got her claws into the kiwi fruit. Yeah. And that's it. My father-in-law was involved with produce.

He was telling me a crazy fact about apples. So if you get an apple from America, for example, imported, by the time it's in your mouth, that apple could be six months old. Whoa! Is that why my Royal Gala's bland? I don't know. I'm not going to pin that on the international apple distributors. But yeah, obviously there's chilled containers and things.

things. Yeah. But by the time it's in the supermarket, sometimes if it's been imported six months, crazy. Wow. And a lot of them still crisp. And then, yeah, you put them in your fruit bowl and they're done after a week. Yeah, you've got to go quick on them. Yeah, they've got their timing down pat.

Hey, there we go. That was some produce chat. We should do a podcast on produce. I still don't know what made the red keyword for it red. We'll come back tomorrow with it, shall we? I know everyone's going to be. Well, we've all got stuff to do, Megan. Waiting with baited breath.

To be fair, I mean, we've got meetings to go to this stuff. I'm sure people listening. other stuff they need to get to. We will follow it. We'll close the loop on this thing tomorrow. You enjoy the podcast. First up, we try to take down the rental car industry. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Apologies, I'm going to forefront, front foot this and say, rental car industry, come in for you. That's right. It's happening now. Big takedown. Now, I imagine this is what Mike Hosking feels like when he does a big

spiel on the prime minister and, you know, how the government's letting him down or something. Can I just, I rented a car. Okay, yesterday. Late? Late. You're late? A holiday.

Yes, granted. But that's not my issue with the rental car. What I want to zero down is on the rental car insurance. Okay. Is it necessary? Now, I'd love text poll 4487, off the record. Are you in the rental car game? Is it necessary?

Because I know you go there, they're like, it's peace of mind. Another $40 a day, piece of mind. Another $40 a day. I get a second rental car. That is insurance. I can crash that one, then drive the second one. I know, but you have to pay for the one that you crashed initially.

That's the point. That's shocking logic for me. I'll take that one on the gym. It's like any insurance. You get it as a gamble, you know, because you're not sure if you're going to use it. But if you don't, get it and you need it. It's really just backing your driving ability, isn't it?

How confident you are on your driving ability. And other drivers. Do you get it? Rental car insurance? Do you? I know, that's the thing because there's that tiny little bit of me. Like 99% of the time it's going to be fine, but there's that 1% where you're like going to have to.

It's the same as any insurance. When you're like travel insurance, do I need it? No, no, you don't. But we get it because they prey on our fear and anxiety. So, okay, what I want to know is my normal insurance. Would that cover my rental insurance? Surely, why else am I paying that insurance? What normal insurance are you talking about?

Your car or your home and contents job? No, because it's somewhere else in a car that's not yours. Yeah, but it's still me anyway. Why would your home and contents cover that? Because I'm already paying insurance. I've got my ass covered over here Now I have to get my ass covered over there Life is just one big giant ass covering

And you have to pay to have your ass covered Too much money Under an ADD-N-A-D-A-T. Okay, text poll, 457 Rental car, if you are in the rental car industry Would you get rental car insurance? John O'Ben and Megan The podcast

The Hats Now we've got producer Troy in the studio So Troy, if we can just bring you back in Last week you shared a harrowing tale of powerful 45 minutes at the gymnasium Yeah, it was brutal. It was my first ever ceremony class.

Yep. Firstly, I didn't know it was Partners Day. Partners Day. You said the gym you go to Les Mills, they rank the classes by little sweat drop graphic. How many sweat drops out of five? And ceremony was five out of five. But you didn't know that when you went there. No, I just thought it was going to be maybe a two.

Two out of five, like a nice little lunchtime sweat. And I got paired with a man by the name of Francisco. Because you didn't have a partner for Partners Day. I didn't. I didn't. And so I got paired with the PT of the gym. So he's the personal trainer. And so he's training alongside you as a partner, right.

And Francisco couldn't move on from his activity until I'd finished my reps. Oh, so he's looking at you like, God. I felt the pressure. You couldn't walk for how long afterwards? Four days. Four days. You were hobbling. Day on the Friday afterwards he was hobbling.

But then, you know, as it always is the case, the second day after her. And you're just falling onto the toilet. Catch me, porcelain. Yeah, it sucks when you can't wipe yourself. You know, you're so sore. We have a very special treat for you, Troy. Okay. Could we please welcome to the show?

The one and only, Francisco. Good morning. Hello, team. Hello, Troy. How are you? Oh, does that voice haunt you, Troy? Hey, mate. Now, Francisco, we've heard one side of the story,

And we just thought, you know, as a proper mainstream media organization, we should do a bang-up job of getting both sides. Both sides of the story. This is an incredible idea. It was fantastic. I honestly, usually in ceremony, we've got what we call the lighter side than the heavier side. When I arrived, I usually go to the other end, which is the heavier side. Not because I want to go heavy, just because it's like, it's quieter, you know? Yeah.

And there he was. In the heaviest station, I'm ready to start in the heaviest exercise at the back of the room. So this is, now this would lead you to believe he's physically capable of running a heavier session for 45 minutes. Absolutely. I was okay. This is the pro, the pro man of the day, of the day, you know? Be honest, when you looked at him and realized he was in the heavier part, did you think he was in the wrong area? No, not at all. Honestly, I always trust people, you know, by the judgment when they position themselves on a station. And I say, okay, cool, if this guy is in this station, he'll be good, right?

So not so long after that I realized that it was his first session, because he looked at me and say, how does his friend, mate? Oh, so he asked you, how does this all go, mate? Yeah, honestly, it was awesome. It was our great partnership. maybe waiting a little longer to take over sometimes, but nothing... He said you're really good Francisco at what, so the motivational quotes, Troy. Yeah, it was, how did I say it? It was it was, it was aggressive motivation.

Oh, yeah, no, I was like, come on, Troy, yeah, you're doing great, Troy, come on, Troy. Yeah, I'm waiting for you, Troy. It's just like... So, did you hear that he took four days to... recover the lactic acid really set him yeah but but you know what i was there last thursday and that was seven days after after that and i didn't see him there i don't think i don't think you're going to see him again francisco can i say that on behalf of you too that's fair that's fair yeah what listen can i just chuck this out there shall we go and get franciscoed we we join you for

for a class francisco could we do that absolutely you are more than welcome uh we are ready for you. You can come. All of you can come. That's great. Francisco, it's a date. We're going to get Francisco's. I'm not ready. I know I'm not ready. We're going to be hobbling. We're going to be hobbling. We'll see the pain that Troy's gone through. We'll get that done before the end of the week with Francisco. John O'Benin and Megan.

The podcast. I've got a two-year-old and a four-year-old. My four-year-old son, he's very sweet. He's a sweet little boy. And he's pretty good at doing all his jobs. but yesterday we were like go and wash your hands before dinner go wash your hands you know you can't eat dinner before you wash do you reckon they wash you know how you're on top of the hand washing you know in the household away from home base

how do you reckon the handwashing's going terrible terrible terrible rubbing their hands you name a location on an animal they've probably put their hands on it and then boom straight into the savloys yeah we went to one of those indoor playgrounds at the weekend and then they have like it was a birthday party and then they eat afterwards and they're all smashing the food and I said to my husband did they wash their hands

or like hand sanitised or anything he's like oh no it's immunity imagine the germs in there and they're just like that's what I always said as an irresponsible parent I was like good for the bloody immune system

mate builds up there we're getting them too soft too much sanitisation so yeah we're standing there saying go and wash your hands for dinner and he just looks at me stands there and looks at me said nothing

and I'm like go and go and wash your hands you know the Oh, you can't have dinner until you've washed your hands. He's just standing there. And I was like, are you hearing me? Use your tarringa. And he said, I'm just waiting for you to use your manners.

Sassy. Yeah, no, that's salty. I mean, he's not wrong. So I was like, go and wash your hands, please. Did that work? Yeah. Sometimes when you've bullied someone into using the manners, the manners come across quite snarky too, don't they?

Please. It's not a true please. You know, when you ask someone to say sorry And they're like, yeah, sorry You're like, that's not the sorry I wanted You need to say sorry for strangling your brother And they're like, sorry But yeah, I mean, he wasn't wrong

We spend a lot of time barking orders at them And don't say please So yeah, I got schooled by my four-year-old I love it to that to hire who's been strangling your My two-year-old Who's been sorry for strangling your brother Sorry, that's just a normal day at us You're bloody busting my balls over here, mate

Can't a little sister strangle a brother every now and then? I did just like toss that out there. It is just a normal day on our house. Please stop strangle holding your brother. Yeah, that's always great advice. Get your foot out of his mouth. And then wash your hands after. In fact, have you wash your hands before strangling your brother?

That's the important one. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Yeah, Megan. Now, Megan, someone's been sliding into your DMs. We do this every week. If you haven't heard it before, sort of, you know, people after some advice.

This is their last resort. Last stop. You imagine. Imagine the people that they've spoken to And then they end up here Yeah, so people slide into my DMs And obviously we have permission to put this out there For everyone to pass

Judgment or advice on Today's message reads My husband of 11 years And I have recently broken up After he cheated Bloody Dog Act And it's not just that Now there's drama in our friend group

It's important to say that my ex was friends with them before I came along but for years we did everything as a couple and they became my friends too. Since we broke up, a bunch of them are still hanging out with him, inviting him to events, acting like nothing's changed. And I'm sorry, but that doesn't sit right with me. If you're my friend, you don't get to keep being tight with my ex that feels like a betrayal. I've already told a couple of them that they've got to pick aside.

I know it sounds a bit harsh, but loyalty matters. Am I out of line for expecting my friends to cut him off? or do I have to accept them? Some of them just aren't as loyal as I thought. She's not out of line. Not out of line. Bottom line, she's not out of line. Those who are feeling, she's hurt.

Maybe her idea of loyalty is different to other people's. But you can't, at the end of the day, IMO, tell people who they can and can't be friends with. No. You know, that's only going to create a divide between you and those people. Yeah. She could probably avoid going to places if they've invited him. She could probably go, oh, can you just tell me if he's going to be there,

I'll dodge that bullet? Yeah. I think this happens when you, because I've been divorced too, and like it doesn't necessarily have to end terribly, but your friends are probably always going to split. People always take sides. You and your ex-husband. Yeah.

Did you split amicably? Yeah. As abacable as it can be. It's never a nice, it's never like a rosy process, I imagine. Yeah. And so did the friend group divide up? They picked sides. Really?

But it's funny to me that people always have such a strong opinion on how your relationship goes when they're not in the relationship because you're my friend and my relationship is separate to that but people will always choose a side my thoughts were if I have to beg you to be my friend if I have to work really hard to make the relationship continue then it's not meant to be and you just let people go

do you think you ended up with the better half of friends say that publicly no you don't have to say that is it weird going through that process knowing that people are talking about you behind your back Yes. Does that sit with you? It was awful.

And because I was also like, you know, on the radio and everyone knew that my marriage had ended, so that was not fun either. Then it becomes radio fodder? Yeah. No, I can't imagine that was a nice feeling. But it's just, I don't know, I just think if you're fighting to keep people's attention and friendship, then it's not worth it. Yep, okay.

And you're right, you can't dictate who people are going to be friends with or not. Oh, 800 of that. What would you do? Okay, this person's your friend. they've told you, hey, you can't go and hang out with the guy that you were friends with initially because he did the dirty on me. She does say they were his friends first, but the relationship went for 11 years. So at that point, you're all friends, right?

They become everyone's friends, yeah. You can cancel out that argument pretty quickly. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. In the middle of our Dear Megan. Dear Megan. Slide it into Megan's DMs. If you've got any issues, personal issues that you don't mind airing on the radio and us making 20 minutes of photo out of, then please

do DM Megan. This is a good one today. But the advice is good. I think everyone's hearts are in the right place when they pass judgment. This one, my husband of 11 years and I have recently broken up. He cheated and they've got a mutual friend group now. They were his friends to start with, but after 11 years I think

they're just all friends. But now she is saying that they can't be friends with him. They can't have it both ways. She's asking them to pick a side and she wants that side to be hers. Do you think she has the right to do that? Is that a wild claim? A wild request upon friends.

What do you think, Brett? So I would happily open the door for them and I would slam it on their backside as they exit with my life. The friends that are hanging out with your ex? Oh, yeah, definitely, yeah. If they've got the option to choose, then their option to leave is even stronger chosen by me. But would you be okay with them hanging out with you

and your ex at separate times? Look, at bottom-miners, it's not realistically my problem. That's their problem. And if they've got the problem, they've got the problem. Yeah. It's hard, though, isn't it? Because it's not their drama. And they kind of get dragged into the drama the friends do

and told to pick sides. Or sometimes not even told, but they just feel they have to. Yeah, yeah, understandably. But, like, once again, you just kind of, kind of control the situation that's unsubble. You know, like the weather, for instance. If it's going to rain, it's going to rain. You can't control that.

good facts from Brett. That's some good thinking. Who's he going to hang up with? Yep. So if they make that bad choice, look to make the bad choice, just say in the door behind them. You should always go make better friend. Yeah, go buy some new ones off T-Moo or something. That's right. You have a dollar friend. Yeah, dollar friend. Good on you, Brett. No worries. Have a good day.

Good on your bread. Did it make you feel good when Brett really heartily laughed at your drug? Not really. I don't think you heard what I said. I think he's just being polite, to be honest. You need Fred around you at all times. I like Brett. More of Brett on the radio. textory here you can't control who people are friends with my ex bought his new girlfriend around to meet my parents at first i was a bit weirded out by it but then i thought well i can't control who my family are friends with or who my friends are friends with so now i'm chill with it's pretty decent yeah um paulette on our facebook pages said people who keep being friends with others that cheat on

their partners shows the integrity of those people move on be thankful that they're loyal to a person like that it shows their values are not aligned with yours except his low standards. Coming in with a hot take, Joe, the Waikato, what would you say if this was your best friend? And they asked you stop being friends with their ex. I would say, wouldn't you want to surround yourself with things that don't choose sides? So, yeah, friendships are going to see through anyway.

I have zero tolerance for cheating, but there's so many different reasons why. So, you know, unless you're the fly on the wall, who are you to, you know? Make a judgment. Yeah, no, good call there, Joe. Appreciate that. That's a really good thought and we'll take Andrea as our last caller this morning. Andrea, if you've broken up with your partner,

he's or she's cheated on you, are you demanding that your friends don't be seeing them? I wouldn't demand of them, but I myself would like the loyalty of my friends and I would be loyal to my friend if they asked me that too. Okay. It's 60 word. Okay, a wide range, wide spectrum of feedback on this one.

Megan, what's your wrapper? I've been through a divorce and a serious. friend breakup and I don't think you can expect people to choose and you don't want to be the bitter one but I in my situation I appreciate when my friends go to the other one and say I don't appreciate what you did but we can still all be friends people make mistakes and you can not like what someone did but you can still love them as a person so I don't know I don't think you can tell them who to be friends with do you know I've I'm reading a book well I'm not reading a book I got Chat GBT, GBT, to summarise a book for me.

And it's called The Game of Life and How to Play. It was written in 1925. Yeah. Okay, and here's forgiveness dissolves negative cycles. So you forgive your friend. You move on with your life. Otherwise, it sits with you. It's just going to eat you up and make you bitter.

Damn right. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. It's stoked with the Black Ferns, aren't we? Oh, yes. Huge performance on the weekend. They're into the semis of the World Cup final.

And of the World Cup, sorry, over on the other side of the World Cup. world and joining us as Black Ferns Hooker, Atlanta Lolo, here. Thank you for being with us this morning. No, no problem. Thanks for having me. Good to have you on. What time is it over there at the moment? 7.40pm.

Oh, yeah. A bit of a niggly time for having to do radio interviews. You probably want to have dinner and relax with your friends. Luckily for you guys, I haven't eaten. What do you do in between games? What does the team do? Do you all hang out or have friends and Farnham over there that you spend time with? Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Yeah, find our little hobbies. Go hang out with them. How much training's going on in between games? Are you kind of just, like, resting your bodies? Yeah, we train pretty much every day in between, except for like one day, which is our rest day. We read about a bit of a half-time chat in your quarter-finals match. What kind of rev-up do you get at a pivotal moment like that?

So, yeah, for that hard time, it was pretty much just bite through your mouth guard and do you. Bite through your mouth guard. That was the advice. Not those words, but the vibe. That was the radio-friendly version. Biting through your mouthguard, not recommended by nine out of ten dentists as well, too. I just need to get that out there for the dental industry. But Atlanta, this game, Canada, what are we doing?

What's the game plan? Do we distract them with some maple syrup or something? Yeah, I think we've eaten all the maple syrup. Okay, no maple syrup left? Yeah, well, since the last time we've versed them, we've grown so much, so hopefully we can get our redemption. Yeah, because you played them here in New Zealand, you? Yes, in Christchurch.

So I guess no team you can sneeze at, because all the teams at the World Cup are magnificent, obviously, but Canada's one that you are wary of? Yes, they're a very strong side and good physically in the way that they're more, so we'll just, we'll be on top of that too. What's the vibes like with the girls? Obviously, over here, we're very, very proud of you guys. You're doing amazing, but like, do you reckon you can make it all the way? Of course. We back ourselves. We're back here too. In fact, I've put all my kids' life savings on you.

winning the thing so no pressure just the future of my children rests on your shoulders there atlanta i'll have a great future what do you know i'd like to know when we talk to people on the other side of the world what are you staring at right now at my window i can see a parking lot only the best for atlanta style than i yeah parking lot are there cars in that parking lot yeah um there's one one car okay what are we looking at what are we talking there Exactly what we say to them. This is what you dreamed of. Only the best for our girls.

This is the dream. Staring at a single car in a parking lot. Now, do you have to share rooms with other teammates? Yes, yes, we do. I am currently rooming with Teresa Setefano. Hi, Teresa. Is she being bugged by this interview you're having to do? Now you can talk to us.

Is Teresa... Hello. A messa. Oh, hello, Teresa. Sorry, you're there. No, she's there. Hi, Theresa. I was just about to see if Atlanta was going to... No, Atlanta, like, if someone said you can switch with someone right now,

would you switch or would you stay with Teresa? Oh, I'd definitely stay. Oh, good on you. She has to say that. She's right there. She's holding a weapon. Is she a tidy roommate? So far, yep. She's not going to give us any dirt.

No. Oh, that's good. Hey, well, listen, we are so proud of you back here at home. I'm sure you're feeling all of that through social media and whatnot. So? Yeah, we are now. Yeah, now. Was it a bit quiet for the first couple of weeks?

I think so, maybe through some of the main media outlets. Yeah, classic. We were talking about it on the show yesterday. It was wild. So the All Black's lost, as you had noticed, South Africa, the Warriors lost. And then you all guys, your story was like third or fourth down, and we were like, this is ludicrous. Yeah, they've got to bump us up. They've got to do this.

This parking lot's waiting for a bump up. You need to be staring at at least a park with grass, not a car park. I'll find it some Good on you Well hey listen we are proud of yeah And we're talking about you every day on the radio So rest assured I've got my jersey guys

Oh thank you so much You got the merch Yeah good luck And don't you worry All three people listening to this show Are hearing about you every day Oh great Good luck this week

Thank you so much Thank you for having me We'll talk soon And bye Theresa John Oven and Megan The podcast The Hits It is a handful of countries

that it's going to see an upcoming partial solar eclipse. We just saw a lunar eclipse. When's this happening? It's a good question. 22nd of September? Yeah, right. So next Monday. I don't know what that means.

This is my problem. The moon's always doing something cool. Every second week, every fortnight. Have a look at the moon this week. And it starts to lose its shine eventually. And the thing is they say, okay, you have to look at it the 22nd of September. But what happens if it's cloudy? You're not going to see it.

Let's not put too much weight on that if you see it. Good luck to you. Now, something I witnessed yesterday, Noel Leemings. And I mentioned too, if you have got through life without doing this, then don't worry. It's coming soon. It really is. It's the glass door situation. So the automatic glass doors, and I was walking in, saw a gentleman walking bang towards it.

And he was assuming that the sensor would pick him up and the doors would open automatically. That's not a dumb assumption. Yeah. But he was sort of staring at his phone and the sensor for whatever reason didn't work and bang, face first into the glass doors of Noel Liam. Were there many people around? Just me, just me, just me. And I saw everything.

But you pretend that you didn't see everything. Yeah. But it was so much impact that all of his face grease had left a mark of his face and the open mouth lips against the glass. That's where you know you've had it with impact. If that was me, because, you know, we're a lot of makeupy, every day you'd get like a full face implant because usually you're not coming in soft because you're not expecting it so you're walking at full pace yeah it really catches you out of the blue someone did it at the office a couple of weeks ago remember we're in a work meeting oh dear god it is

you can't help it laugh when it's not you it's one of the greatest things you can witness those doors are not even that clean and they face planted the yeah and it was a crowded meeting that saw that too, and just bang! And the default for me is to laugh rather than ask if you're okay first. It's not a great trait, but it was hilarious. It's the natural trait. It is the natural trait. So yeah, to that poor individual.

I'm sorry. Thank God I've never done that in public. Although I have been caught, and you know those big revolving doors? Yeah, they can, it's all about timing with those, isn't it? It's like a skipping rope. You have to be like, okay, one, two, three, like you can get caught in them. They're really confusing. And some people insist on multiple people going into one section.

I'm like, let's not push this too far. This is a one-person gig here. But, yeah, sometimes two or three people get into his, a cake slice. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, R-O-P, not R-O-P to the man. He didn't die. Well, I hope he didn't die.

To the wonderful gentleman from Nilemon. R-O-P to his dignity. Yeah. And there's nothing, because you drive home in the car, and you're like, who saw it? Was it on security camera? Are they going to put it on TikTok? Yeah. Anyway, that's probably going to happen to one of us in the next few weeks.

You can guarantee that. John O'Venn and Megan is a podcast. That's a European order calling it. We actually, Nicole, phone through the show before Ben left the end of last week. And, geez, she is on fire with something she has created in the app world. Good. Morning, Nicole. How are you? Morning. Good. Good. Oh my God. Did I just cough as soon as you answered the phone? That was a great start. I'll be honest.

No takebacks, mate. That's what we love. Now, congratulations on what you've achieved. This is pretty cool. Now, people haven't heard about it. What have you done? Okay. So I was a completely stressed out. mom, I was working, I had a couple of kids, and I was losing my mind on a regular basis, right? So I went looking for a tool, couldn't find one, so I decided to build one. So I've created Pam, which is an app, the entire purpose of it is to reduce the mental load on moms, parents, but to be honest, mostly moms are carrying the mental load these days.

And it's gone bananas. So it reads all the school emails, like you can talk to it, you can take photos of crumped up birthday invitations, and Pam just thinks of everything you need to do and loops in the right people and creates a calendar for you, basically. Do you know what, Nicole, I'm hearing this term mental load all the time in my household from Jennifer. I'm carrying all the mental load. I'm like, I've got mental stuff going on in here as well.

It's different. I'm not caring something. Literally lies down at night or even during the show, and his brain's like, la, la, la, la. That's the whole thing, right? Like, you actually don't know what the mental load is. And what Pam does, it does the mental load for you. So, like, all the things, you know, you get a birthday invite and you think, oh, you're sweet. There's just some kid's birthday.

It's like, no, no, no. there's R-SEPing, there's buying a gift, there's like reminding the kids to write a birthday cards. Oh, this is so good. And so Pam goes, sweet, I've thought of all that for you, now the mum is not the default parent, now everyone can see what needs to get done, let's like share this. And I'm not going to be your project manager because I don't want a project manager my husband.

Good morning, thanks for joining us on your Tuesday. Good morning, thanks for joining an invite for a kid's birthday party and my husband puts it up on the fridge and that's him, you know, locking it in. He's covering out the mental load. He's got that mental load. And it gets before and he's like, oh, we haven't bought them a present. I'm like, I've done it. I've bought everyone in your life a present.

I bought your dad a Father's Day present because they don't think about it. It just... No, and like, you know, like their brains are wide differently. So you kind of can't throw them completely under the back. Could I stop it? I'm the one that's, I'm going to put my hand up and say, I'm the one tarrying the mental load in the house for the, just through work purposes. You know what?

You know, and I love this Pam idea because, you know, my wife is working in the evenings much later. So all the stuff, like the kids' birthdays and all that sort of stuff. That's me. That's me. So Pam is my friend of this. I just want to stick up for the few guys that may be going, hang on a second. You're trying, like, dads are doing more than they had ever done. But like, the research that I've shown is it's still 90% of the time.

Mum's the primary one doing it, right? So you're the one in 10. He's the one, he's owning the show. So, like, I wish I'd married. Wait, I don't know. Too much so that my wife is like, she doesn't want, she doesn't want meetings with me and to-do lists from my to-do list. So maybe she'll take Pam's to-do list, you know? He tried to initiate.

a nightly 15-minute sit-down meeting where he would hand over notes and to-do tasks and she wasn't able to bar of it. That's exactly what you want before you have mummy and daddy time in the bedroom, right? Yeah, it kind of kills the mood. It kills the mood a little bit. Yeah, definitely kills the mood.

The success of this app too, which we need to get to, it is more popular than bloody Tinder. Well, you may need Tinder a wee bit before you need Pam, to be honest. Congratulations, that's a huge achievement. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty epic. And the whole reason for that, right, is that, So we, honestly, we have no money. I still haven't made a dollar.

Like, we are broke is broke. But our users use it, freaking love it, and tell everyone they know about it. So it's growing massively, and they're raving about it on the app stores, which has just bumped our ratings up to, like, at one point last week, we were number one out of all the free apps in New Zealand. Wow. So how do you make money of this then, Nicole? Like, in a couple of months and a couple of weeks,

we will have a premium version that we hope those people who are like crazy in love with Pam, can't live without her, they can pay for. But we always want to have a free version because I think everyone deserves to have the mental load licensed for them. Oh, well, well, well done. Congratulations. It's such a cool idea. Thank you. It's really, it's awesome. Oh, thanks guys. Super cool to talk to you. I'm like a big

long-time fan. We're a little bit of a few moments. So thank you very much. Thanks. John O'Benan and Megan the podcast. You might have heard in the news. New Zealand's got a new running champion. Jordie Beamish is one of the 3,000 metres steeple chase at the champs in Tokyo. Well done, Jordie. First time we've won a track event in 42 years.

Incredible. So good. Yeah, and speaking with all things incredible, the Black Ferns, doing well over at the World Cup. We've got Atlanta Lola here, joining us from the Black Ferns in 20 minutes time, too. It's going to be fun to talk to her. Yeah, the girls. I'm saying it doesn't sound like I'm having fun.

I need to be more lively with my voice sometimes. I get told off. Oh, I just thought you sounded chill, you know? No, I'm not trying to be chilling. I'm trying to be excited. Atlanta Lola here joins us next I want to talk about what your children have eaten that they probably shouldn't have

They're experimental They're learning, they're learning They're learning Them and dogs The thing that annoys me most Is that you make them So this particular night I had made like homemade little Korean fried chicken

And my daughter was like no I'm not eating it It was delicious My son smashed it But she was like I don't want it And then they'll get in the bath and they'll drink their bath water. But when it comes to, like, feeding them. Bath water is actually really, it's really tasty.

I do have fond memories of drinking bathwater. It's got a certain flavour. You know, sometimes when you get... Yeah, we! Bits of body, DNA. But sometimes when you get a mouthful of chlorine pool water as well, you're like, you know, every now and then. Are you? Yeah, and like when you fill up with petrol.

Oh, yeah, that's quite a lot. Just, yeah, those little things. Not an everyday thing. so yeah she didn't eat the fried chicken that I'd made her but we've given them all little chores to do that we help them with so her job is to feed our dog you can see where I'm going with this so I usually bang the spoon on the side of the bowl to get rid of all the you know jelly meat and stuff off the of the spoon and so she's copying me she's banging the spoon on the side of the bowl and I'm like okay cool she's getting it off to my back for a second and when I turned around she's cleaning it off with her finger and then her finger goes in her mouth. Why not? Why not? Waste not what not.

It's good enough for the kids. And it looks like a casserole situation. Yeah, it smells decent. Oh yeah, there's probably, as I said, 10 years ago, we would have made every intern and radio eat some dog food on air for some entertainment. We definitely have done that. Different time.

We haven't made producer Grace do that, have we? Times have changed, Grace. She'd be chowing down on a dog roll right now if it was 10 years ago. Oh, she says I'm not an intern. Sorry, I should stop calling you intern, Grace. What is your job? She's giving you hands sick or something. All I figure Grace's job is to get annoyed at me when I ask you to put things on social media.

That is in a job description, yep. But yeah, so she's wiping it off, she's licking her finger. And I was like, don't eat that. It's for Leo only. Just like, Leo doesn't eat human food. We don't eat his food. It's yucky. You're eating his dinner.

But it mustn't, she must have thought it tasted okay because she looked at me and just went, It wasn't really spitting it out? Yeah, there's probably more nutrition in that than the fish fingers I eat, to be honest. That's probably true. Don't look too hard into fish fingers. She's definitely gnombing up some dog food, yeah. I would love to get your calls this morning, 0800. It's our text number on New Zealand's breakfast.

4487. What do you want to chuck open? What did the kids eat? What did your child eat? I mean, again, don't want to eat the fried chicken, don't want to eat the lovely food you'll make, but you turn around for one. and what have they got in their mouth?

What are they eating? I can't think of it. The only thing I think it was a marble Oscar 8 when he was young. And then I had to, the doctor said there's only one way you know if it's emerged from the body. And that was through sifting. Four days of sifting. That is love. I'd do that for you, Grace, if you swallowed a marble, mate, to make sure it had to come from your body.

Would you? Yeah, I'd do that. I wouldn't. It's the love I have for these people on this show. I wouldn't do it for you too, ma'am. You need me to sift through, find a marble. We had to stop our son. He would go around and see, like, miscellaneous things on the floor and put them in his mouth.

Well, they don't know. And be like, that's not a way to check what that is. Yeah, but you go, some of you have some wins, you have some losses. You know, it all equals itself out. Okay. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Talking about what your children have eaten.

My daughter helps me feed our dog, and yesterday tried some of the dog food for herself. But won't eat the fried chicken I made her for dinner, but she'll eat the dog food. But what did she think? Was she... She, because I said, don't. eat it obviously and she was fine she didn't say yuck she didn't really spit it out so if it was a master

chef moment the creator of the dog food dish would be going through to the next round in her eyes probably uh we'll go to the phones oh 800 the hits uh what what the kids have eaten we'd love to get your calls and text on Luke good morning to you how are you

yeah good how are you yeah we're doing well Luke bulls what are the what are the kids eating in bulls mate rocks for breakfast uh what's that what are they eating for breakfast and Bulls? A bit of cow shit at the moment.

Nah. So basically the wife was sort of bribing the kids in the seafood market to behave. You know what kids are like. Probably a bit like you when you're a kid, John. But, yeah. So one of the daughters chose a mints. And we didn't, we asked her to just have a couple and put them on the kitchen bench. And we sort of, at nighttime she's screaming.

She had stomach pains. And it was sort of like a hospital material. The little material is tight, top, stomach pain. So we rung up the nurse down the road, and we sort of said that everything's pointed into appendix. She says, what is she eating? I said, well, she's had a couple of mints, but that shouldn't have done it. So we found a packet under her bed.

It was all gone. And she says, yeah, apparently, if you have a whole packet of mints, it can cause stomach pains, and that does say that on the packet as well. Oh, the lackative effect, yeah. Yeah, if you do have the... Six hours of screaming and stomach. pains and all that sort of stuff and yeah she she sort of herself out in the end but

it's I really need to get that messaging out there a bit more it's some tiny tiny font on packets of like little eclipse mints and things could cause a like sort of effect because once you start on the mints you can't stop I want that with chewing gum you end up with the whole packet in your mouth Luke thank so much for your call mate really to appreciate it and uh from Luke to a Luca good morning oh my sister's too shy oh classic system material Luca classic system material what have you what have you what have you eaten? She was crawling and then she

was one and she was crawling on a mat and then there was maggots in the room and she ate one. Oh, Luca, are you throwing your sister under the bus here, Luca? No. No, no. I'm out of my sister's Lisa. Oh, your sister's Luca? Yeah.

Oh, I see what's happened here. So who ate the maggot? Luca or you? Luca Oh, Luca Did she like it? Yeah, because she cried because she didn't want to take it out

Too tasty Too tasty It's a little pet for her mouth To be fair, I haven't tried one myself You know, they say you shouldn't yuck it If you haven't tried it Right? I had the same thing with a cicada

I was running one day And through the park And gosh, little cicada ended up in the You know how bugs end up in your mouth Sometimes and you go Try and get them out But it was too late It had gone down

You followed the whole... Yeah. They're quite large. Well, no, it was a very small one. Did it make them noise in you? My stomach's a... Luka, have a great day, or whoever we were talking to. Love your work.

Megan with us on 0-800 of the hits. What the kids eat, mate? Good morning. My children or my daughter was just going through a marshmallow phase and decided to eat firelighters because they look like marshmallows. What is that exactly? That is confronting. Is it like sort of petrol or gasoline in a...

Oh, is it? In a biscuit form? Yes, pretty much, yep. Did it actually go in, or once she got a taste of it, she spat it out? She nibbled the edge of it, and I noticed as soon as she put it in a mouth because of the face she was making, and then we had to ring poison control to see how bad it was going to be for it. They should stop making them look so tasty. They really should.

When you're expecting marshmallow flavor and you get the firelighter, that would have been a huge shock. Yeah, it was very confronting for her. She didn't do it again. Could have done a great, like, get the lighter and blow out, do a great party trick. There's a warning for marshmallow lovers. I tell you what also looks deceivingly delicious, the old urinal cakes. Have you seen those? What do they look like?

Yeah, like little blue dis. Producer Troy, you'd be familiar with those. They're more located in the male division. Yeah, we don't have urinals. But if you're a child, you'd be like, oh, this is a snack at my level. Hey good on you Megan Appreciate you calling through this morning Have a great day

You too, thank you Great text on 4487 Megan Someone said my daughter around age 2 Devoured a plug chain from the bath Not nice waiting for that to come out the other end If you just see a little bit too Yeah Like a magician

Pulling a hanky out of its sleep Is it still going Two metres of plug chain Well thanks for your calls and text on that one and many we can't read on here. Just purely for the time of day. People are having breakfast. I feel you though.

You turn you back for a second and suddenly, yeah. Boom, there's a remote control. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That is the Wiki Outerea Māori Language Week and in Taihapi, there is a food truck that's offering up free coffee to anyone who places their order in Māori. Yeah, I'm sure if you just give it a go. That's going to sink them.

That's a shocking business. I mean, with all great intentions, obviously. Yeah. But you can just bloody Google the coffee order, can't you? In a way you go, if you don't know today. Yeah, I mean, I don't suspect it has to be flawless. Like, you give it a go, and I'm sure. Yeah, I'm not going to make a dollar this week.

Good on them, though, for supporting a wonderful cause. Megan, I want to pitch things to you. It bends away. He's on holiday this week. I want to pitch things to you. We label you the fashion Easter of the show, which makes you cringe every time we say fashionista. Thank you for saying that.

It does make me cringe. Why does it make you cringe? I don't know, because I don't think I'm particularly fashionable. To be honest, we are putting you in the same realm as us. It's like out of the three of us, you're wearing your Wu-Tang hoodie today. You're here by default. That's a great hoodie. Thank you.

No, you said it with sarcasm. And then you went, that's a great hoodie. And it didn't make it better. It didn't make your comment any better. But when it comes now, I'm going to pitch this to the international fashion industry. It's about time they hear this at seven past six in the morning. Yeah. Sizing's.

We've got 44s in the UK, size nines. there, the sizing is all out of whack in every different region of the world. I honestly bought some trousers from China and this may come across as a stereotype but they make the trousers shorter over there.

So you buy trousers over there, they're dangling halfway at my calf muscles. So my pictures, like we've done with the phone plugs, the charges. Yeah, the charging kit, yeah. We ended that madness so we're just going to have one universal charger. Let's create

one universal sizing system. Shoes, trousers, tops, you name it. I agree with the shoes because, you know, like, I don't think they need to change. Everyone's feet are either big or small. But like when it comes to different body shapes, it is difficult because we're all different in different parts of the world.

Like, yeah. I don't mind us wandering around in slightly smaller clothing if my guts are poking at the bottom. You know, I've bought some clothing from international. buyers where they have smaller people and smaller bodies, I'll take the head on that because this is my idea, so I'm going to have to live with that. I've got a crop top on, and I've bought a size large. But like it varies even between, like, if you shop in New Zealand at different stores, the size is very at different stores too. Amen, sister. You're like, you get a 12 here

and it doesn't fit you there and it's too big there and it's, yeah. Why? Why? I don't know, I don't know, babes. And I don't care what system we go with, but let's just lock it up. Let's just put, let's nail our foot to the floor and go, we'll all agree internationally. We'll have a vote, international referendum, and land on a size. Yeah. Yeah, a sizing system. And also, like, men's and women, sometimes when you're buying shoes online and you buy an eight, and then you realize it's a men's eight, and it's very confusing.

39's, and then eights, and just use one system. We've just solved fashion. We have. Right on to the next problem. Fashion won't even be awake right now to hear this. They've been out at some, you know, fuelled up on cocaine and champagne till five in the morning. They're missing this important message that could revolutionise their industry. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Good to have you with us this morning, Ben Boyce Away on holiday, and Megan and Jono, stumbling and fumbling our way through the program. Now, the internet, it's a thing. It's taking off. It's got a big future. You love a doom scroll. I do, yeah.

Another frustrating thing about social media for me is, Jen will my wife will go I'll go just can you check the calendar when say for arguments sake the electrician is coming over I was like right be right I'll be right back with you about when that electrician is coming the time and day and I go on to look at the game and I don't I go straight on to Instagram it's just your default when you open your phone

it's shocking and then all of a sudden three hours later on I'm watching a duck getting massaged or something she's like when is the electrician coming over yeah it is what is it doing to us I know it's because I get little notification so last night my husband's like oh can you tuck the kids in like go check on the kids and then he comes back and i was on timo and he's like what has happened between now and then i was like well i got a little notification honestly it's the beginning of the end when they go what was the turning point in humanity it'll be the internet yeah yeah anyway for the meantime we

love it and uh we do a little feature where it was the last thing we watched on the internet that made us go that's enough internet for today now this is usually these are negative things weird This is a really, I thought, a lovely video because, you know, the internet, particularly over the last week or two, been flooded with all sorts of wild stuff. Yeah. Have I told you my opinion on Charlie Kirk?

Do you want to hear it? Do you want to hear it now? I've heard, yeah, I've heard about everything. I used to be honest and never knew who Charlie Kirk was until Friday. Geez, he's really blowing up the net at the moment. But this is a guy, okay? Now, picture this. He's, I'd say, three quarters of the way through a really big joint.

Massive. Okay. And he's like a stoned sock. Okay. And he just sums up humans beautifully. Now I don't know how much... Very different algorithms. Look at him there.

He's just set up the camera. He's just smoking away. He's covered dripping in gold chains. I'm not at all surprised you got fed this though. Yeah. Stoned Socrates. This guy's kept Michael Hill jeweler in business. Look at it with his watch and his bloody...

Yeah. So have a listen to this. Okay. If a person laughs too much at silly things, deep inside they are lonely. If someone sleeps a lot, it often means that they are sad. If someone talks less, then they are protecting their heart from being hurt. If they cry easy over small things, and they've been holding in pain for quite too long.

If a person gets angry too quickly, it means that they care too deeply, but don't know how to show it. Isn't he amazing? And it keeps going on for another middle of a sock. And I'm like, this guy, I don't even think he remembers doing this. Yeah. Because you cry quite easily. I'm a crying. It's an endearing quality, to be honest, but I can't remember what he said about people who cry.

It's an embarrassing quality. No, it's not. I remember my most embarrassing crying incident was at the rock of all places, dear God. And my former co-host, Robert, was leaving. And I had to make a speech in front of everyone. And I went, oh, Robert. did you make the noise and this is like morning tea time like 10.30 a.m. in the office and you know they don't know how to deal with emotions over there like do you want a can of

Cody's mate. Did you actually make the noise? I can't remember probably hopefully for comedic effect. Then I had to go and like regather myself in Studio B. Pull yourself together. I love you cry a lot. Paige, who's the marketing person there, they're like, Paige, you're the only female here, you're going to check on him. Page comes in, she's like, are you, are you okay? Very embarrassing.

Sometimes I'm telling a story and I look over at Johnno and he's all glazed eyed, but I think it's very sweet. It's a great quality. So yeah, we'll put, Grace, can we put the stone Socrates on? Yeah, we'll get that up on the Hitsburyf's Instagram. He's great. He's actually got to, you know, I messaged him, and I was like, I really love your account.

And all he keeps bombarding you back with his, Like, great, let's do a promo. $150, I'll do a story for you. So he's also a Savi Socrates. Yeah. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. The Primetime Emmy Awards were on yesterday.

And this is one that we were on a TV shows. Yeah. So Tyca was over there, wasn't he? With Rita Orra, yeah. So what are you being nominated? I think he's nominated for what we're doing in the Shadows, potentially. TV show, yeah, sure. Or the pirate one

What was that one with Lisa Cudrow Our flag means death maybe Am I just making stuff up Am I just trying to list off Tyker's IMDB And hoping that one of them's been nominated And what people can't hear Is Troy's feeding you information in your ears

Thank you Troy Thank you Troy I think boy Was a boy nominated Hunt for the World of People Something Anyway He's done us proud

Seth Rogan's TV show The Studio won a total of 13 Emmys that broke the record for the most wins for a comedy series. You've just started watching that. I've heard good things. Literally this morning. Yeah, it's about he takes over as the head of a movie studio. And he gets into the film industry because he loves the art of film.

And then by the end of it, he's just having to make a movie about Cool Aid Man. Does it have lots of actors playing themselves? Yeah. And Martin Scorsese is on there playing himself. Yeah, he does a good, because he has to interview all these directors to make Cool Aid Man. And Scorsese is doing his pitch. He's like, The Jonestown Massacre. They all drank Kool-Aid.

He could be Kool-Aid man. And a show that we all talked about, adolescence earlier in the year, their young actor in that, 15-year-old Owen Cooper, he made, broke the record for the youngest male acting winner. The Emmy goes to

Owen Cooper. I love him. Wow, it was just so surreal. Honestly, when I started these drama classes a couple years back, I didn't expect to be even. Even in the United States, never mind here. I was nothing about three years ago.

I'm here now. So tonight proves that if you're listening and you're focused and you step out your comfort zone, you can achieve anything in life. Well, there you go. Two years ago, he only started acting. Good on it. Well done.

John Oliver, too. His show's coming to an end, much to Donald Trump's joy. Stephen Colbert. See, he won an Emmy, didn't he? I don't think he had one one previously. One for the best talk series for the first time, yep. And there was a bit of a time restraint on speeches. 45 seconds was the limit, every second over.

They would take off $1,000 to the children. What the Boys and Girls' Charity of America or something? Yeah, I think they ended up in the negatives because everyone liked to chat. Stephen, Stephen, Stephen, Steve, Steve, Steve, Coo! There we go. Think of the children, he's saying. Think of the children. Well done, well, don't him.

He got his CV out there. though he was looking for another job good on Stephen Colbert but well done to all the winners