Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Our colleague wakes up to dead people!

Episode Date: November 26, 2025

On today’s show:  Megan’s gearing up to stilt-walk in the Santa Parade, but her mum has serious safety concerns! Ben’s daughter spectacularly throws him under the bus in the family debate over phones in bedrooms. The worst possible workplace spillage… and yes, it actually happened. Our colleague wakes up to dead people and no, we’re not exaggerating. Is Megan being totally scammed into buying these school photos? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cookies, and delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast. We're talking about the greatest spillages. One happened in the office that you hear about very shortly on the podcast. A whole laptop destroyed and a white shirt. But both of, well, no, the shirts come back, the laptop, not so much.

That was more of the concern of Jade in the office. She was worried about a shirt. Coffee stains are a bit of a nightmare to get out of the whites. So she's done well to get that out. Yeah. So we had some leftover calls on this, which we can get to. Now, Michelle, you've had one of the greatest spillages, we understand. I sure did.

Yeah, I was unpacking the groceries, had a bag teetering on the bench, and took a can out, and the whole bottle of olive oil fell on the floor and smashed everywhere. Jeez, it would be like an ice skating rink, isn't it? Olive oil is very lubricating. Oh, my God, it's so bad. Was it a Lisa one? It was a, yeah, yeah, one of the big bottles. Also, that's like $27 bloody dollars at the moment.

That's a floor suck. That is a floor suck. Yeah, it was a lose-lose situation. Yeah. Well, you're like rubbing all your bits of bread in it and just, you know, trying to get the most out of the olive oil. Get the pans on the floor and pre-lubricate them. Yeah, exactly. It's slippery too.

I imagine how long was it slippery for? Oh, it's still slippery. Yeah. And waterproof, too, is a little oily conditions. Yeah, yeah. I know, it's into the floorboards, which wasn't great. Every time you spill something, you have a moment where you're like, oh, I know. Thunder from down under are coming to New Zealand.

They might want to come and rub themselves along your kitchen. Bring them over and get them to roll on the floor. Yeah, then get back on stage. You could probably just have them like face down, just slide in the back and forth. And then just get them, they'll absorb some of that and slip them over. Get back out there. Oh, sounds good. Yeah.

It does sound good, isn't it? I'll come over. Yeah, I think we'd all want to watch that. I don't know if you've got a family you live with? I do. Well, they're older, actually. I've got boys in their 20s. Yeah, they're going to come home and go,

why is there a naked man in a G-string that you're sliding back and forth on the kitchen floor? Yeah, I know. Yeah, this has taken a turn. Oh, well, thank you for sharing that with us. And hopefully it works out of right. We've got Plan B sorted for you if it doesn't. Yeah, awesome.

Thanks for that. Bye. And listen, we hope you enjoy the podcast. There's more of those spillage calls coming up. And also, oh, good, yeah, good, Michelle, it is good. You enjoy the podcast and also why Megan's mum doesn't want her to do something this weekend. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. These stilts are made for walking.

That's just what they'll do. On Sunday, these stilts are going to walk all over here. Yeah, Megan, Pepper. is going to be stilt walking in the Santa Parade on Sunday. And Ray, Ray, her mum, joins us now. Good morning, Ray. How are you? Good morning, team.

Good morning. Are you ringing about the weather? Well, how is the weather? I regret to inform you we have low cloud, but there's no rain, and we haven't got any wind. Yesterday, it was blowing its nuts off. Good for the washing, though. Great for the washing. Yeah, thank God I haven't got nappies anymore.

Well, give it some time Yeah, well that could be in the horizon You said that and I'd ask Megan We know your mum well enough to do that Ray Ray we understand there's some concerns around the stilt The stilt comeback I think to myself when I look at my bunyan And I look at those ridiculous shoes that Megan wears

And I'm thinking in years to come She's going to be walking on her knees Yeah She's looking at her bunions But do you know what Like you talk about my ridiculous shoes because I wear heels all the time. But maybe that's why I'm good

because I'm literally walking on poles all the time. Yes, but you're talking to a 75-year-old lady that's got a massive bunion and you really don't know what you're looking for. Yeah, a lot of bunyan concerns here. Well, it's too late that horse is bolted. They're there. Yeah.

What, the bunions? Yeah. They creep up on you up. Come out of nowhere. Wake up one morning, got some bunions. Now, are you worried about injury? Yeah, I'm thinking about the health and safety side of it. I said, well, what about a big long?

walking stick. No. He's going to be one side but I feel Ben should be the other. Like you're a tripod. What's Ben going to do? I'm not going to do. I'll flatten him. A long walking stick's a genius solution, Ray-Roe.

No, but I was like, unless I'm in a Gandalf costume, like I'm going to look like it's not. It's not going to give the full of feet. You don't have to call it a walking stick. You could call it a wacker. So if anyone gets in the way, you know, whacks. Nothing quite like whacking the kids at the Santa Parade, Rairo?

I don't think that's what we want. I don't think that's what the Santa parade wants. No. Okay. But I'm just concerned because my husband's had a big chat to me. He's like, this is not what we need right before Christmas. Are you hurting yourself? My mum's called me to be like, are you sure this is a good idea?

I just need some faith, guys. Yeah. We believe it. Honestly, I've watched her do it, Ray Ray, and she's really good at it. Like, she's, I mean, I tried it yesterday in the office. And it was like... Yeah, mum saw. What did you call him, mum?

A gangly horse or something, didn't know. Yeah, I looked like a foal learning... It was ridiculous. But then I did offer, you know, that you didn't have your feet properly in the shoes, and I think that would have helped. I don't know if it would have, to be honest. I felt like, this is the scene in Bambi, when Bambi's learning to walk.

Yeah. Yeah, that's how I felt. It did look ridiculous, I have to say. You can see that on the Hitsbred for social media. So after that, I was like, far out, full kudos to me. Meagan, full kudos, because, is it kudos or kudos? I don't know. I don't know.

You covered both as well. I don't know. I reckon her all look quite good when you're walking along and Megan could put her hand on your head. I reckon that would look lovely. Listen, I'll be there to support your daughter, Ray, Ray, Ray. I'll be there. But, yeah, it's a real skill you've got there. And to do that for one and a half K's.

I know. It'll be interesting to see what she's like on Monday. Yeah, true. All right. Well, we'll find out. So the concerns are from you, valid ones. We all have those concerns. Okay.

A lot of bunion, basically. concerned. I don't know how valid those ones are. I want to do it now before I get the bunion. Bunions. Yeah, just think of your bunion. All right. Ray Ray, you can catch Megan at the farmer's Santa Paragia.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. We're playing a Mariah Carey game, of course. I want to know if you're in or you're out. Have you heard Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas yet? Or are you still in the game like Megan. Yeah, you are saved by your daycare people. For your kids, they said, don't come in now.

Every day at pick up their people. playing a Christmas playlist and I feel like I'm running the gauntlet but they said yesterday don't go in Mariah's just started give it three minutes you're only survive you're the only person on the show still in the game and PJ in the afternoon so we're like go go on so like you know those war movies where we've been shot we're like save yourself keep going keep going guys do it for us and I'm like okay see you're on your way you're not dragging us across hey you're going to skip away bye now I know St John's Ben's been shot too by the way a lot of parents that listen to the hits radio station a lot of kids as well and

And, you know, phones with kids and young people and stuff, it's a big topic of conversation. And every parent's trying to work out their systems and how to best police that, I guess. And, you know, if you do give your kids a phone and what they're getting on to and what they're looking at. And my wife... Do you remember that, what was that show?

Adolescence. Geez, we were hot on it then, then following that. We're like, oh, I'll get back on the bloody devices. Yeah. It was a little bit like that, wasn't that? Yeah. But my wife, for some reason, last week, she decided she's like, no more phones for our kids in the bedrooms.

She's like none in the bedroom if they want to use it they can do in the lounge She's like what do you think about this And I was like Yeah I'll support you on this To be honest in my head I was like what does really affect me too much

Yeah If you want me to go What your mother says What are your children Yeah but it doesn't You know like I don't feel like A for or against this one really strongly So I was like no okay

You're passionate about it I'll back you up on it How's your backing up go I was like What do you think it's good idea I was like yeah Yeah if you're into that That's yeah

And so she went and she laid down the gauntlet to the kids and she said okay this is what's going to happen the kids were a bit off put by this and obviously a little bit rattled and they came to me you know they came to me and they're like hey what do you think about this and I was oh you know your mother feels strongly about it and I did a little bit and I shouldn't have I was like well your mum's you know come to it and I'm supporting on that and they're like oh okay okay you like to be honest I was like oh yeah I guess do I still get to look at my phone in the bedroom okay then I'm I'm okay with that.

Yeah. So, but then my daughter, see, and as they do, you know, these days they like to make a PowerPoint presentation, you know, in which she went on a new computer and she was all right for, you know, reasons why she should be allowed her phone in the bedroom. Oh, go to chat, GBT, to write me up a list of reasons.

Made it look really good, and she put it on the screen at home. She sat us down as well, and she went through all, and she had to make some good points. It's hard to say no to a PowerPoint presentation, is it? And then in the middle of it, she was like, part of it was, and dad isn't on board with this idea. And my wife's as little looks around to me. Oh, I was saying, hey, I was trying to play, what is it, Switzerland?

I was trying to play in the neutral body. Classic you. Neutral ground. My wife said, did you say it? I said, well, look, it's, you know. I wasn't like as passionate about it as you are, but I was prepared to support you on it. Not much support. But as soon as you go, oh, something your mother, that's immediately saying you're not on board.

You've got to be a united front. Yeah, I know. So I don't know how this. She'll shake your ground at the moment. My relationship and also this. We'll see how that plays out. You won't be allowed into the bedroom to use your phone. No, you're right.

We're able to use them in the lounge with the kids, that for sure. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Catastrophe in the office yesterday. We were out in the kitchen, and all we could hear commotion. And hordes of people gathered around one person's computer and the owner of that computer joins us now, Jade, from the office. Good morning. How are we?

Good. How are you, babes? I'm actually doing okay. I feel like I've recovered overnight. It was panic stations yesterday, mate. It absolutely was. Great name for a radio station, too. The panic station.

Everyone's just like, oh God, you know, everyone's in a bit of a foster the whole time on here. It might be hard to run it without a laptop, but we'll make it work. What happened? What happened? So as you do You're telling a wild story And you get the hands involved And

Fierce gesticulating Yeah, exactly They say, what is it, 90% of a story's in the hands Or something Who says that? So people who talk sign language? Yeah People are trying to make me feel better about it

But I've flung around And I've knocked my mocker Homemade mocker Didn't even buy one that morning Thank God But knocked my mocker over it onto my work laptop and I've absolutely fried it, but

not only that, I've got it on my white shirt. Yeah. Oh, God, that's most. Well, that was the thing. A very crisp white shirt. It felt like you were more worried about the white shirt in that moment. Yeah. So I jumped up

and I'm screaming, well, calmly alerting everyone that I've spilled my coffee all over my shirt and everyone stops and points behind me and I forgot that they are having someone from IT, sit down in our area each day.

Oh, where's possible eye witness to capture this? So I've had one person from the IT actually just staring at me, telling me to tip my laptop over, tip my laptop over, but I was too busy worrying about my shirt, so I did get a little bit of a telling off. So he's like, can we maybe focus on the expensive electronic equipment that the company's invested in? It's a word laptop that you don't actually own

is probably the main concern here. And so what's happened? Well, it's actually come up, it's coming up, Jade. I've got a brand new work laptop, a better one than I had, and the stain came out of my shirt. Win, win. Really? I should probably just take the rest of the week off of that. It's almost like insurance fraud, you know?

You're like, oh, whoopsies work, I tipped over my thing on my laptop. Don't say that, don't say that. No, I've had like four or five people be like, I need to spill a coffee on my lap. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're all going to start doing. I remember Ben when we were at The Rock, you did that, didn't you? But over the studio equipment. Not long after we were leaving the rock

It would be announced We were leaving the rock And we were leaving the rock And so I didn't do it on purpose And I was drinking like a raspberry tea Like a herbal tea Very unrock like And I just knocked that all over

The expensive equipment And I was like oh Oh my answer It would be better if it was like a bourbon Yeah exactly It was like oh it was a herbal tea It was lovely So this is what we want to open up

Hey thank you Jade I'm glad everything's turned out All right and you're still a current employee Of NZ me So far Are you And at work, yeah. Not yet.

Yeah, well, you just check your swipy works. We want the worst spillages. Okay, on 0800, The Hits, 4487 is the text. Equipment you've ruined, maybe wedding dresses, you've ruined. Maybe if you know you're one of the major petrol companies and you've had an oil spillage in the ocean. They're pretty about those ones, that you'll probably take first place. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits.

Just talking about the worst spillages, one took place in the office yesterday, an entire cup of coffee over a work-issued laptop, which is no longer in service. It's no longer with us. But Jade got a brand new laptop, so I'm just saying, maybe she wins out of the situation. It does get results, doesn't it? Yeah. So, 0800, the hits, telephone number 4487. I remember, mum, this is, oh, geez, it would have been 14, so let's say 94-95, and it's still, I can remember it as if it was yesterday. Annie Pryor was peddling F-POS, which was a new.

new piece of technology She was a pack and save Going around the pack and saves With a sash She wore a sash Like a... Oh she's like an F-Post seller Yeah Like get on board

Like she was in a Miss World competition And it had F-Poss sash And so she was at pack-and-save I got home from school And you remember those Watties Microwave chips But came in a red box Oh my God I do

They were really good I don't know what happened to those They were bloody fantastic Two minutes in the microwave Yeah Little sort of shoe string jobs Anyway I did some of those For myself after school

And then I got to the lounge And for some reason She really nailed her foot to the floor on a white aesthetic white carpet, white couches, white walls, it was like a laboratory, it was in the lounge. And then I took the Heinz ketchup

and whoever the consumer was before me had not tightened the lid. Boom, just shake it like a resin paint shaker. Oh no. And it went everywhere. It was... Oh, God. And Mom got home to me. I wasn't cried across the full spectrum of cleaning products

as a 14 year old, so I just poured straight, non-diluted bleach all over the carpet. The couches. She came home to me on my hands and knees, like, look, I was cleaning up a homicide. Gordon, you're still rocking all the bleach. I think that would have put you off. Well, now I can manage the bleach a bit better.

So we are after the best villages. Heidi, I understand you did the same thing. And not me. It's my husband, and it's very similar to Jono's story. My husband, we weren't married at the time. You know that dry bit in the top of the tomato sauce? Yeah. It sticks out if you haven't closed it properly.

Yeah, right. He couldn't get the tomato sauce out. So he shook it really hard, and it ended up exploding and did a perfect line right across the ceiling, right down the wall, and straight through the middle of the TV. Good spilage. We'll give that 8 out of 10. That's a great spilis. We're going to give you a Dill Marti event calendar. Thanks to sharing that with us.

Yeah, good on your Heidi. Julie, you're on. Greatest Spillages is what we're talking about. Good morning. What happened, mate? Oh, well, I was getting married, obviously, and my mother decided to make me a wedding dress. And anyway, I was going overseas to get married,

and a bunch of friends took me up for the day, and as you do, you know, copious amounts of alcohol would consume. And I get home, my mum said, well, you better get up on the table so I can hear me a dress. So I sat in up on the table and suddenly started feeling a bit queasy. So she grabbed the first thing she could find, which was a bucket. And I sat down and proceeded to lose all my, you know, afternoon's entertainment.

And I didn't get up. I was so polite. Thank you for that. And when did your afternoon's entertainment end up? In the bucket. No, it made it into the buckets. Yeah, but by the time I'd finished and I stood up, mum without thinking about it, I grabbed the bucket from the garden.

And, of course, he was a dirt ring on my wicket. wedding dress. Oh, no, on the wedding dress. That's on you, Julie. That's on you. Did it come out? It's on me. Yeah, no, no. I take full responsibility for it. Why did she need to hem it in that very moment? Yeah. Well, I think I was leaving the next day, so it kind of had to be done. Well, she left it late. Oh, we're going to give you a Dill Martia, Ben, Calender. Keep he's coming through.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. See her, cheap thrills. It is The Hits Breakfast. 7.08 on your Thursday morning. Bronte from the office is with us in the Studio. Hello, Bronte. Hello, Jono. Lovely to have you in here. You mentioned something to Megan the other day, which really caught our attention.

Well, after all the Cassie business, which was me thinking I had a little ghost in my house, you mentioned that you see people. Debt people? Yes, yep. It's kind of like the movie in some ways, isn't it? Yes, 100%. Yeah. When do you see, here now, you can see dead people?

No, not now. No. So it's just in my sleep. I'll be, I will be fast asleep, I'll wake up just out of nowhere and I'll see somebody in my room, whether they're standing in the corner, sitting on my bed, running towards me, and it happens most nights. Most nights. And you've woken up to someone lying in bed with you. Yes, beside me.

Yeah. Do you know, because imagine when you're coming to waking up, it's probably quite murky exactly what's going on, but is it like a ghostly sort of transparent sort of figure? No, sometimes it's just like the silhouette of something, someone, and but most of the time, is I don't even know how to explain it sometimes I think somebody's broken into my apartment that's how real it is So you can see faces? No

Yes, oh you can So sometimes I can describe What that person looks like, physical attributes What they're wearing It's not the same person No, never the same person The one that was running towards you Like can you tell

If it's like a friendly person Or not friendly? Like are they ever not friendly? Yeah, what do they want? Yes Yeah, I have no idea So sometimes I do get a lot of the ones that are running towards me I feel like I'm being attacked.

But sometimes I've had a little girl sitting on my bed who's in her little nightgown and she's just sitting there on the end of my bed or standing in the corner of my room. Like there's definitely nice ones and then... When did this... Like this is something you've carried with you for a while? Yeah, since I was 12.

Wow. It makes me feel sick in the stomach because I know a lot of people don't believe in this stuff and that's cool. And a lot of people like to say that mediums are making things up and stuff, but Bronte has no reason to... We're not paying you any money for this, right?

No, make this up. We're paying her to do social videos at the office. You do work for the hats. And you've also been to a couple of doctors about this if you don't want to sing. Yeah, yeah, yep, I have and they have all kind of been like, do you have anxiety, don't sleep properly, and put me on things and it never helps. So they have no idea what's happening. So are you visualising these in a state of sleep or you're awake?

I think I'm awake. So what happens is I'm asleep and then I will open my eyes because I feel, I just have a weird feeling, and then I look around my room, and there's just someone standing there, and I'm awake, I get up, I run around, I scream, obviously. So you remember doing all of this part? You remember running around and scream, yeah. So you can physically get up, run out of your room,

and the person will still be there. When I walk back in and, like, realize I come to a state of mine, I'm like, okay, that wasn't real, they're not there. What do your neighbours say? I haven't talked to them about it yet. Have you got flatmates? Not anymore. Well, we're going to play some audio

And you might see why her flatmates It's quite confronting, like listening to this before I don't feel like it's, you know, when something's like a crime's gone on or anything This is, but it's obviously you waking up in the night But very scary So people have this sleep tracker act where as soon as you start Like talking or making noise in your sleeper

It will record you and that's what happened with Bronte So this is scary Terrify. This is scary, trigger warning So you're dead asleep when this is happening, okay, here we go What the fuck? My! Oh my God. That is horrific.

That's full on. It doesn't get any easier. Like, you know, because I guess every time you wake up, it's a new thing and you don't know if it's real or, like, a real person or not. Yeah, no, it's honestly, sometimes I don't scream. Sometimes I just have like a little. conversation with whatever whoever is sitting there and do they talk back no i don't i don't usually remember them talking back right so what do you do like uh after a moment like that that we've just heard are you like oh well back to sleep then literally i sit i sit on the side of my bed and i'm like

it was a little weird and then just go back to sleep do you sleep with a lot sleep with like a light on the corner or something like i did try but i can still see them oh my poor thing yeah so there's nothing nothing you can you just got to embrace it yeah just live with it guys Been to the doctor, been to professionals, no results. Yeah, I mean, maybe something like this has happened to you or someone you know. Or maybe you've just got some helpful advice you can pass on to Bronte, because we're lost. A lot of texts coming through going, poor lady, feel sorry for it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits.

Bronte, who we work with here at The Hits, she had something to us the other day, and she was very, you know, gracious enough to come and talk to us about on the radio and share what happens to her most nights. She sees dead people And this has been recorded on her sleep app And this is frightening audio Tell you what's even more frightening Is I forgot to censor it when we played it before It's now censors That's the scariest part

But this is Bronte Seeing people in her room What the That is hard to listen to Yeah it is She's at the end there There's a person in my room I know

So all her flatmates have moved moved out. I can see where they're coming from. Yeah, yeah. And I went home to the hits. We want some help for Bronte. She's been to doctors. She's been to... She's talked to mediums about it. She's tried all kinds of different home remedies.

But yeah, nothing stops it. And as is always with this audience. Wanting to help out, lend a helping hand, Jackie. This happens to you? Yes, it does. Oh, geez. More than one person. Yeah, so I can fully understand where Bronte is coming from.

This has happened to me as a child my whole life. I started when I was a kid. It happens to my sister as well. Wow. And I was very lucky that we were born, difficult to explain, but basically we were raised half Christian, half spiritualist. So we went to the spiritualist churches and got help. And unfortunately, there are a lot.

a lot of people out there, mediums and that who claim to know what they're doing or claim to be a proper medium or claim to help, and I can guarantee they don't. They just make things a hell of a lot worse. So do you still see it today? Do you still see these images today in the middle of the night? I do. Not in the middle of the night, I'll do it in the middle of the day. Oh, really?

All the time. Yeah, and now my daughter's doing it. So my husband just told me yesterday she's three, and he said to me, so she went to play with the little girl in her room who was sitting on her bed. So it's a thing, genetic thing. Well, Bronte had happened to her since she was 12. Have you got any advice for Bronte? Yes.

So what I did is I did just keep trying the medium route until I found someone who actually knew what they were talking about, who actually knew what they were doing, and helped me to control it. So a little bit of advice I can give on how I do it is I, there's a few ways you can do it. You can imagine yourself in a bubble. You can imagine yourself in a sleeping bag that zips up your face. You can imagine yourself in a big cloak, anything that covers your entire body and your face. And every single night, day, whenever you feel the need, you put that around yourself and you tell them that you are not open.

You are closed for business. You will not be looking at them. Out of ours. You're not acknowledging them. Yeah. Out of office. Yeah. Maybe you sleep in a body bag.

or something. Okay, wow. Yeah, okay. Okay, well, thank you, hey, thank you, Jackie. Well, we'll pass that on. A load of text coming through here. Guys are really interested to hear Bronte's story. I thought it was just me.

This happens to me all the time. Started in my 20s. Still going now, says Haley. 20 years later. Paula, quickly, you got some advice for Bronte. Yeah, I reckon the Long Island Medium. She's a little bit of a interesting character. Don't you?

I think people say that about it. me too but it's actually really amazing and I think you know in one of her episodes she goes and meets with a little girl

who's having these night terrors and helps her how to manage it too so I think it's a yeah you've got to find a credible person I think to help you

like a good advice keep us coming through actually 0-800 the hits 4487 we've got a load a text coming through so if you can help out Bronte that would be great John O'Ne and Megan

the podcast that. Now Megan, I'm claiming you have fallen victim to probably one of the greatest scams that parents will encounter. No, it's not a scam. They know that you're 100% going to buy these. Yeah. So at our kids, Kendi, they go around and they take photos of, you know, they do the

class photos and then they go around and take photos of the kids. Every year, I'm like, I don't need any more photos. I take a bunch of photos of my own kids. It's fine. I've never bought the class photos. and this year my daughter just absolute sass queen she's sitting there scowling at the camera

like how dare you take my photo so I haven't bought that you should be paying for this haven't paid for that because I get enough of that at home but they did take photos of them individually and then of my daughter and son together

like sibling photos I don't know what they're doing exactly she was looking through them she's like oh my god I'm going to buy all these she's like no I'm not comes in the next day and I bought the whole pack of like 40 photos they know what they're doing they know what they

there's no parent on the face of the planet that's not going to buy cute photos of their kids but like my daughter's smiling at the camera it's so hard to get her to do that you'd get out at your phone and she's like don't take my patches she scowls at you no no fair news

so she was looking and smiling I had to that's it the industry no if we have a week night guess how much so I bought like it's just digital digital photos Yes, how much? How much? $240.

Yeah, see, having a laugh. That's like Christmas done for us. Producer Troy was like just screenshot and putting through AI and go remove the watermark. Smart, smart. They do it when my dog has a great time. He goes along for doggy daycare and he loves it. But they do that every year and we've bought the first year as well. But they put it.

Well, yeah, they do individual shots. They obviously get a photographer and he has a medal. And I was like, my dog has never won a medal for anything. What does it pull of participation in being a dog? Good little medal around is there. Oh, so it's like, end of year awards. He looks stokes, but I'm like, you'd never want it. What was the medal for?

I don't know. I mean, the dog wouldn't tell me. He's like, I know you. You don't deserve a medal. Biggest barker, most in the butts. I don't know what he did. So you got sucked in once? Once and then year after year, I'm like, oh, no, I don't know.

We don't need this again. We don't need this again. I thought you were going to say you buy them every year now to compare as he grows and changes. No, no. We've got the dog and look at him every day. Oh my God. Can we put the picture of that. We can find the dog with the middle.

Yeah, we'll try and find out. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. We love it when New Zealanders mentioned in anything. There's been a couple of mentions that we've stumbled across over the last week. Yeah, you know, movies, TV shows overseas movies and TV shows, it really, it's maybe it's the small country syndrome, but it's nice to know that people over there know we exist on some level. Yeah, I think that's what warms the cockles of our hearts.

Now, there's one that the Simpsons have done, just last, Within the last week. Yeah, the new episode of The Simpsons are right at the end. They go to a... I watched the episode the other night. They go to a country. You don't really know where they are. The whole lot of rich people

and they have to sign one of those NDA, non-disclosure agreements. And as they leave, they have the name of the country peaked out. But you hear New Zealand in the final bit. Have a listen. I wish I could have seen more of... Many historical sites and natural wonders. At least I'm bringing home a souvenir from...

Oh, I'm just glad to get the... Out of New Zealand. Oh, I never signed the NDA. He hadn't signed the NDAs. New Zealand. Oh, that's nice. And then they fly over. You can see the South Island and stuff as well.

Yeah, so that's pretty cool. Did tourism New Zealand put some in their pocket or someone from New Zealand work there? Some of the references do feel a little sort of propaganda, don't they, that we've paid them off with the tourism board. There's one of my daughter was watching. There's a Jonas Brothers movie out, Christmas movie. K.J. Harper's in it. They're New Zealand actor In the movie

And they're sitting in the back of a van The Jonas Brothers are like Oh, we're got to go to New Zealand See all the Kiwis And it feels like it's kind of crowbarred Into the storyline But I haven't seen the whole movie So it might make sense

Talking in a Kiwi accent I know, I was half paying attention Poppy was watching it I don't know many but There's a whole bunch of New Zealand references that you might not even know about Okay and we can add these to the list Of New Zealand shoutouts

We started with point break In the 90s Count our Reeves So where am I going to go, man? Cliffs on both sides, I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand. My friend would say that every time he'd go to the beach. A lot of people wouldn't get the reference. It's such a great movie.

Well, they're like, well, you're in New Zealand, but. Yeah. You're going to go, man. I don't do New Zealand. You're like, you are in New Zealand. I don't even know there was one in James Bond. There was James said by some sort of exotic Russian-sounding villain. Is it duplicate of Sierra Vernaya, like your secret transmitters in New Zealand? New Zealand.

Is that gold and I? It's pretty cool. New Zealand shout out. Apparently there's one in Star Trek where they keep referencing the New Zealand penal colony. Oh really? Yeah. What's the penal colony?

I don't know. All I'm managing is a colony of... Yeah, I think it's... But I think it's more like a prison. Are we imagining the same thing or am I alone in that? It's another movie. There's a lot of them here on this island. They're just growing like trees.

Breaking Bad. It's New Zealand part of Australia. New Zealand is New Zealand. Right on. New Zealand, that's where they made Lord of the Rings. I said we just moved there, y'all. I mean, you can do your art, right? Like you can paint like the local castles and shit. That seems like a... I don't have too many castles, but no one tell them.

That seems like a tourism payoff, doesn't it? When they made Lord of the Rings and they have other great tourist attractions, we should definitely go there. Deadpool. I don't remember this one. This is when Julian Denison was one of the main stars. Maybe I couldn't save Vanessa, or maybe I can save a robust teenager from New Zealand. Oh my gosh And it's when it said was an American accent You're like oh

Guys that's us They're saying now dying You feel seen We feel seen Now you know that's our moment All right well we've already forgotten a few But if we missed any four four eight seven minutes John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hats Lost my keys at work yesterday Which is really frustrating too And as you're looking around People notice that you're looking around for stuff And what are you looking for? Looking for my car keys

Can't find them someone goes they'll be somewhere I feel like that is probably the most redundant I've all said it like I've been guilty of saying it but when you're looking for something it'll be somewhere thanks genius you hope it's going to be somewhere I hope it's good and it's not really helpful advice

was it Homer Simpson quote it's always in the last place you look yeah because that's where you find it well you stop looking after you found it if you're still looking after you found it you've made a terrible mistake it's worse when you're like oh have you seen my keys and they're like, well, where'd you leave them? You're like, oh, well, if I knew that. I do, I also like, too, it is what it is.

We're like, what is, what is that mean? It is, it is what it. I've got nothing useful to really add to this. You can just come out with like, oh, it is what it is. Yeah, it is frustrating. I could do with your help. Yeah. Did you find, oh, you obviously found them.

Yeah, no, I found. Well, I got to work this morning, so, yeah, no, I found them. And it was the last place I looked. Oh, it wasn't in the last place you like. No, I didn't. Stop looking after that. But there are. those phrases too that you just

kind of lean back on, don't you? Because you feel like you need to have some sort of input into the situation. Do you know my ex-husband hated when people would say cheer-up, Charlie? Like when you're upset? Oh, I don't think anyone has ever said you up Charlie. Oh, cheer up, cheer up. But cheer up

Charlie. So, but then I used to always just say it to Brayton. Tell you what, we did witness in an old workplace. There was a bit of tension happening in the room. And the guy came out with and he said to her oh come on just smile buttercup oh tell you what gasoline gasoline me and ben were like oh no it's like a just calm down but worse hey that's just you need to calm down just smile yes that had some impact though that was better than uh you know

it's the last place you look and it'll be somewhere john o ben and megan the podcast the hits We've been talking a lot about Christmas songs at the moment with Mariah Carey game. And this is really, really cool. This is blown up on the internet. These Scottish teenagers, they look like, you know, stereotyping. You look at them and you're like, oh, they look like they're up to no good on their BMX bikes, out and about. Do they have the belloclava going on? Belaclavas, but we're all in track suits, you know.

Yeah, match your Nike track suits. Yeah, these kids out in the street. And a lady whose house they sort of rolled up to on their BMX is, she had one of those push-button security. systems that records and she had said in the past you'd had people like egging her house and all sorts of stuff going on and she was like what are these kids doing they push the button they're up to know they're up to some shenanigans yeah and what they did and it's gone viral is they started breaking out to it one led the christmas song and they all kind of joined in but if you'd like to leave a message you can do it now yeah watch christmas i give you my heart

but the very next day i gave it away year to save me from tears. I'll give it to someone special. Shrews me, this is to get you in the Christmas spirit. Bye. Love you. Oh, that's cool. That's cool.

They definitely went and did a ram raid after that. Oh, it's Christmas. Gabriel Mart. The Scottish voice is wonderful in singing, is it? Usually internationally, any accent, they all kind of sound similar. But the Scots are really standard. now. Yeah, that's very cool.

It's like harmonised in the middle there. It was beautiful. We did some Christmas cheer as well. Not just out there going six, seven and things like that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. I'm a Santa parade taking place this Sunday. It's going to be huge.

And Megan, you wanted to get involved. This came from you as a stilt walker. Well, it was an off-handed comment. I was like, oh, I should do this because we're talking about how we're going to have a hit float. We were asking what song we should have playing because we can't have Mariah Carey all I want for Christmas. And I was like,

oh yeah, we're doing the Santa Parade. Maybe I could stilt walk. Yeah, that was your mistake. That was your big mistake. Comment. And now I've found myself doing it this weekend. Yeah, Pam,

the wonderful, gorgeous Pam from the Santa Parade has said, yeah, sure, you can stilt walk. You can do it. And there's concerns from Ray Ray, your mum. She phoned you yesterday. Yeah, with genuine concern. She was like, look, you did this 25 years ago.

You've only just recently got back up. Do you think you can do a whole Santa parade? I understand. and Ray Ray's concerned. It's been all our concerns, some of the other go. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know until I try.

Yeah. Your, what is it? The frontal cortex. It was not fully developed the last time you were doing this. Now you think about consequences. Yeah, the fear wasn't there. Now it's definitely there.

So we'll get Ray Ray on after 8 o'clock to explain her concerns. But actually, we're just trying to make you feel better. We've got people phoning us up, oh, 800 of the hits with public performances gone wrong. Michelle? How are you? How are you?

Oh, we're good. Performance is going bad. We're trying to make Megan feel, I don't know, more confident, less confident. I don't know what the purpose of this is. Neither do I. Just human. Yeah.

Now, this happened during a high school performance we understand. Oh, God, yes. It was devastating. It was my first time singing in public. Oh, no. And I was singing in front of a Lionel Richie song in front of my entire high school. Oh, God.

And that is brave. That is really brave, yeah. Yeah. There is not a more judgmental crowd. Oh, my God. I just kept staring at the lights at the back of the room. I didn't want to look at anybody. At least with a singer, if you have a bad gig, you're not going to see those people again.

But in high school, you're going to go back on Monday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm going to go to math class. And so what happened? Well, my dear friend, and we practiced for ages and ages, and he was a new boy to the school, and he was a very good piano player. So we had decided a few weeks out that we would do this. And he was so good.

I was the liability. I was the weak link in that chain. But I don't know what happened, but halfway through the song, he made a little, you know, just a little mistake. I was the only one who really would have noticed it. And then it just took over and he just stopped, stood up, and walked off the stage. Oh, he's done. He's out.

Oh, halfway through. Oh, yeah. And my heart sank. and I thought, oh, I can't walk off too. I can't do this. And then I just, there was a bridge that he didn't do. And then I just, yeah, I just like women will understand, fulfilled the requirement to finish by myself.

Oh, you went acopella on it? Yep, just went a cappella and finished the song by myself. And there was dead silence and I walked off. Oh, if you want something done. What was the Lionel Ritchie song? Was it Not hello, the other one Dancing on ceiling all night long

What does he have? No, it was a slow one It was one of his slow ones It might have been hello actually Yeah Good on you for just carrying on Geez, I had to It was just morbidly embarrassing

But he didn't even speak to me for the rest of the year In fact, it was well into my 30s When he caught up with me on social media And did he apologize then? Um, yeah. Was he too embarrassed? He felt too bad? Yeah, he just felt he just kind of froze once he made the mistake and made the mistake of looking up and looking at the faces in the crowd and it was all over.

It was all over. Well, Michelle, we have, we have redemption for you now. Oh, awesome. Take it away. Take it away. I'd rather not. Fair enough. Now you can walk out on us.

That's fun. Yeah, I'm traumatized. Yeah. The piano player just walked out. I thank you for sharing that story with us. We appreciate it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

Lovely to have you with us this morning. Lovely. Good looking legs. Well-defined. Well-defined legs. Greymouth's finest legs right there. Now, all of us actually did to do a police background check for an event that we're associated with here at the stage. they require you to do a police background trick

and you can understand why but I always get nervous about doing a police background check because you never know what you've done do you never know what's gone you know you should know what you've done you've done a lot of stuff what shows up on there just if you've been arrested

I think so yeah and you can actually when you do the police script background check to be honest it was a little bit of a ballache you know when you're like do I really want to go to this this badly and I'm going to do a police background check and then I messed it up because of course I would

put the wrong bloody identification in so they go back and forth and to redo the whole thing again. It wasn't much to me. It was just like filling up a couple forms. Yeah I was like it really wasn't a ball like if it was just a form. My balls were ate it. It was pretty easy. To be honest though it felt like you put in the information

and then they came back a couple weeks later and went provided on the information you provided it's sweet well you could put anything in it yeah it felt a little bit like were like, did you look into my information or just take my word for it? Yeah.

You said pretty clean given what you told us. Yeah. Yeah, you did right. Provided out of the information, you've all told us that your police report is fine. Yeah. I'd like to do police background. You come over for a barbecue?

Like a police background check. Get some full police background. And most people done police background checks? I haven't had to do one until we started working here. I don't think it's that common. I didn't do one until I came here. They do advise you too on the. when you're filling out the form

because you've got two options to disclose all information or just some or no information and they're like we advise you to disclose no information to future employers you're like so what is this process

what are we doing here it feels like they're really you know leaning on our side so thank you to the police their team their team battler yeah so we're all clear we all got us back

can we all clear modern citizens I kind of wanted something spicy just he could get out of it no just because I don't know, I was just like, it's boring. There's not much going on there. You can remedy that pretty easily.

Yeah, you're right, you can. If you want something spicy on your record, we can do it after 8 o'clock if you want. You do it right now if you really want to. We'll at least do it later when more people are listening. Yeah, true. Now, Lizzie, I don't want to bring up the darkest time in your life. But did that sit?

I was singing that too, and I didn't want to ask, but John was asking. It's not on my record. Like, I never got convicted of anything. When it came to the airports, that was. So, yeah, if you haven't heard, you know, we've probably talked about this many times. But we did a TV skit that went wrong, got arrested at the airport. Yeah, and so I never got, I got discharged without conviction. So it's only convictions.

But I still had to do community service and pay fines and stuff. So I still got punish rights. But that's, yeah, I guess on my record, there's no criminal conviction. Because that would affect you travel over the States. Yeah, yeah. So that's good in some ways, but also, yeah, I had to pay, like, thousands of dollars and also do a lot of community work, which was justified. Does it stay on there forever? I don't know.

Surely there's a grace period that if, you know. Oh, if you did something, yeah. Look, if you just think 10 years ago, surely it's like your criminal conviction. Yeah, probably depends on the crime. It stays on there forever. Forever. Yeah, it's a consequence of your actions. Remember that, kids.

Yeah, it stays there forever. Unless you know someone in the police who can hack into the database.