Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Our Maiden Voyage!

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

On today’s show: How We All Got Lost in a Carpark... A man who never wears undies?! How Jono and Ben nearly sank a celebrity’s boat Jono’s shocking eye patch interaction One of us got tricked into spending over $700! We talk to the official captain of the Pirate Ship Pacifica Plus, our intense first ride on Rainbow’s End’s newest attraction! 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. Hey, welcome to the podcast. We're here at Rainbow's End to where the brand-new pirate ship is going in the background. We have some people coming back, rubbing their eyes from screaming. This must be the third journey it's taken this morning. Yeah.

Rainbow's End, with a fun never ends. Yeah, it looks pretty awesome. After every ride there, it looks always one person that's like, oh. I shouldn't have had that second hot drink this morning, yeah. But it's been awesome to be here for the last couple of hours. It feels like we had all four seasons too. It's been rainy. It's been sunny as well as it's been windy.

It's been all happening. Well, we've heard two across the road is there's a stake, a smokehouse. Yeah. And the alarm in the smoke house has been harm in all morning. And then there's a department of the block east of the smokehouse. I know. Apparently happens quite often. The people at Rabba's End that work through the night and stuff,

they're saying it happens quite often. And sometimes all the alarm will go on for hours. Those must be the most patient people in that apartment block. But also, like, what's the point of the alarm? Because no one's coming running. No, you're right. It's not the monitored alarm, is it? Yeah.

I'd love to talk to someone who's fresh off the pirate ship for the podcast. Should we do that? Do you think we... Oh, we'll talk to your daughter, Sienna. She's fresh off the pirate ship. Yeah, Sienna has been here this morning. How'd you find it? It was actually really fun.

It was fun. It's, like, way scarier than I remember. Yeah. Well, actually, I don't think the last time I read it, I was like seven. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was really fun. It was actually quite in the adrenaline rush.

It was a great way to start my morning since my 4 o'clock start. Yeah, yeah, there's not so much of the adrenaline rush when I wait you up at 4 o'clock and go, you're coming, you're coming, we're going. No, that was not fun. Ben was trying to give you a life lesson as you're driving down the motorway at 5 in the morning. This is what I have to do every day. I've did this every day, and I said that, I'm like, oh my God, it's... I was just trying to give you some perspective.

And sometimes you're like, oh, why is he moaning about me having to pick him up from the gym or something at 10 o'clock? No, because I was trying to go to bed. A.m. perspective. No, but I was just trying to say, this moment right here is why I, like, sometimes go, oh, do you reckon you could finish a little bit earlier or something? And I'm like, running around, waiting for you. What a time is that bloody drama lesson finished? And I have to wait outside through during the week on Tuesdays.

9.15. It's like, yeah, we get home to my... Anyway, she's doing the same thing at the other end of the day. Nappy and he used to go to bed in an appropriate hour. Yeah, but I don't get to it. And that's what I was saying at 4 o'clock. Okay, I think we should take this off, like. Yeah.

This is the why I'm like that late. Okay, okay It's perspective, guys, it's perspective It's too understanding, but anyway, you guys You know what I say to myself and I'm at those late things And sitting in a car park on a winter's Tuesday night at like 9.45 I'm like, well, at least he's not out ram raiding. You've got to look at the silver lighting.

Yeah, I mean, see, Enra's in drama class. You know where they are, you know what they're doing. Yeah, yeah, and I've been nice to be in bed, but hey, at least they're not... At least they're not ram rating. Thank God for Uber Tene, though. That's a lifesaver. No, I don't have to drive her everywhere. All right, join the podcast here from Rainbow's End this morning.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now, broadcast in this morning from Rainbow's End, very excited. The pirate ship, the brand-new pirate ship, Pacifica, first day to day, and we're going to be the first people to ride it, along with a whole lot of hits listeners from around the country, riding it this morning on the Maiden Voyage. It's very exciting.

Do you know what was really exciting? watching Megan trying to find a car park this morning. So it's... Well, there was hardly anyone here. It's an empty car park. I'm sitting on the stairs at Rambozanne, and she's in an empty car park. And listen, I'm guilty of this as well. You never know which one to pick when you've got hundreds available.

You sat in the middle of the car park for about five minutes. Reversing, no, not that one. Picked another one, went forward again a little bit. It was comical. No, do you know what happened was? We got an email with special instructions on where to park. And of course, Jono didn't read it. No, because you guys didn't park, and I drove around the back where we meant to park.

What happened is me and Ben read the instructions, and you did not? Yeah, we went to park around by where the maintenance people come in. Right around the side, it was all in a text that you thumbed up this morning. Typical Jono thumbs it up. He literally just parks outside the front door of Raybozine. I'm like, well, yeah, the joke's on you, actually, John, if I'm not reading instruction. If you want to read your text that came through this morning at 515, that's where it tells you where everyone needed to park. How does just come back on me?

Well, because I rang and I was like, I can't see your guys's cars around the side. and they're like, Troy's like, yeah, they're parked at the front where they didn't read what was going on. I did, but I was confused. Hence where I was, you know, changing parks. I've parked underneath the roller coaster. I assume that was where we were meant to park. Anyway, this is fun.

A lot of car parking issues aside. Well, you brought it up, but you were in the wrong as well. We are here to ride the Pacifica, the brand new pirate ship. And looking at her, she's a beauty. We're taking her on her maiden voyage. It's very exciting. This brand new pirate ship soars up to 20 metres high. can take 50 passengers.

It came from Germany and it's been put together and it is incredible, so we can't wait to not only witness it in action but be part of it just after 8 o'clock today. Currently the poles getting a polishing. The safety poles on the boat and she's going to be looking shiny. Well, it already looks shiny and brand new,

but shinier and brand new aurora. It's very exciting this morning. The maiden voyage will be happening around about 8.30 today. People will be coming down. There might be a chance for you to come down and join us. We'll tell you where you can park. No, you will well.

Don't listen to him because he parked entirely in the wrong place. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. So we're thinking of everyone today. Where they're looking better around the country, apparently it's a bit nasty again next week by the look of things. But thanks to ASB helping Kiwi kids get one step ahead for 150 years of ASB, and we've been giving you the chance to win throughout the week. A cash and money box, $150 cash to put towards you or your kid's savings, and a grand prize drawer of $1,500 with your cash in confessions.

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13-year-old save up and buy, but, you know, a little bit quirky, a little bit different. Imagine a chest of drawers. They wouldn't come cheap either. You must have had to save for a while. Well, it cost $800. And we're talking about the mid-80s. So that was quite a lot of money.

I was going to say, why don't you, that seems like something your parents would buy for you, but you're pitching to them a very expensive chest of drawers. Like, save up yourself. I never even kind of entered my head that my parents would buy for me it was just one of those things that I wanted and now I was earning money

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Hey, good on you, Suzanne, and we'll enjoy that and have a great weekend. Oh, that's so amazing. so much guys John O'Ben and Megan The podcast We're talking a wee bit about How many underpants do you have in the rotation This week

That's one of the random conversations That we've been having Yeah well we look at producer Troy I only got seven pairs of underpants That he's working with That is leaving no room for era Should we say No room for era

You're right Megan And Michael actually messes through to the show Good morning Yeah good day Lovely to have you on now How many pairs of underpants do you own Zilch You don't own a single pair of

None at all None I haven't since I was 13 years old How old are you now? 34 Wow What about? What about like

Shorts Like you don't wear stubbies For your job do you Not for my job But I do wear stubbies You just gotta watch Who you wear them around here Yeah

Yeah you definitely do Do they Did they end up dangling Yeah Yeah yeah I actually had an incident was one of my last bosses. He tried to wedge me up onto the flock one day,

and I wondered why he screamed as he threw me up the wall, and I didn't realize about five minutes later, yeah, yeah, he saw something that he doesn't really want to see. Oh, well, that'll teach him. And what, well, as a pre-tailor, as a teenager, you just went, listen, undies are not for me, too constricting? I got, because we wore boxer shorts back in those days, and they was like silk, and they were quite bloody annoying and itchy,

and you'd be getting them stuck up your ass, I just got sick of pulling them out and you get holes in them and then your berries hang out and I was like I'm just going to Mando Was Davenport the brand of underpants that you might have back in the day? Did you have those Davenport ones

with the Looney Tunes and stuff on them? Yeah, yeah, yeah I did I've had all sorts of love hearts at all point Daffy Duck yeah, Mickey Mouse in that year but you're right the silk is a terrible terrible fabric for boxer shorts because they do they do

Why did they ever invent silk boxers Oh crap They were, and I think they were meant to sort of be romantic in some capacity. Also, they'd ride up and, right, like, it would look like you're, like, a heavyweight boxer underneath your school shorts. They'd be up around to your belly button. This is very high. But then what is the difference between wearing, like, boxes under your shorts?

You know, like, it's not holding anything in. I think there was the silk that was the issue. That's why they would ride up. Is that what you were asking? No, but I mean, like, for him to not wear any undies anymore? We just, you went from... There's no difference. 100 to zero.

Yeah. Yeah. But they were still hanging out with your boxes, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Letting it breathe, letting it hang. It's like, you're like it's silk boxes or nothing?

Yeah, it's nothing. It's no opt-ins for another thing. It's probably back in the day we had like pretty much just jockeys and silk boxes for a while until they really changed the undergame. Yeah, they did. But you, not for you. You changed the game by not wearing any. And it's just left washing. It's less washing.

It's easy. Yeah. And no. No injuries? No injuries, no. And you're not like, Jono, soiling yourself all the time? No, no, no. I was more thinking like, you know,

you've got a pair of jeans with a zipper. Oh, gosh. No, nothing in that department? No, no, no, I've obviously got a knack to putting those on because, yeah, I've not actually had that before. Yeah, no, go out wide. Go out wide on those. Yeah. Hey, listen, thanks so much for sharing, T, that's incredible.

22, yeah, 21 years. No underpaints. yeah John O'Ben and Megan The podcast We're here at Rambors' End this morning Very excited just after 8 o'clock The Maiden Voyage of the brand new pirate ship

It's going to set sail the Pirateship Pacifica launching at Rambo's End today You can come along Afterwards today it's open to the public And we get to ride the Maiden Voyage just after 8 So it's going to be awesome It looks incredible in front of us right now It's a beauty, German engineering

Some of the finest Germans flew out here Put it in probably it i wonder if they ate some of our fine sausages we've got um she might have okay they love a sausages don't they yeah what have we got with our fritz's weeners yeah they are very good though so thank you to them uh for install in store and that that'll mean a lot for you to say that they shout out that they're in the dark yeah uh yeah so it's incredible so we'll be sitting sale on that after eight o'clock but we're again it reminds us being around boats and this is obviously not a boat on the sea of course uh but we have gone out on the boat

boats on sea and it's not really our place out in the water is it? No, I'm not much of a watery, watery. I'd rather be on the boat here at Rabers End. That's incredible. It's a safe boat. Yeah, we had to do a fishing thing for television. And Matt Watson, wonderful guy, lent us his boat. The, you know, fishing legend, Matt Watson.

Well, God, was he on it as well? He was like, he came down, he backed it in to, you know, to the water and stuff. And he was like, cool, this is the boat. I think they were giving the boat away. It was a big promotion. He's like, you guys go out by yourselves. Well, like, you'll be fine. That's his first mistake.

He's like, you're honestly, you'll be fine. You know? Okay, well, okay, right. All right, Pat Watson, you know your stuff. So he reversed the boat down the boat ramp and it's in the water, okay? And he's like, all right, hop in there, sub bend of me hopping, and we kind of float away from the jetty. And then I look down and I go, is there meant to be water coming in here? And he's like, what?

He's up on the boat ramp. He's like, water. I was like, yeah, there's a water coming. And it was getting up to like. Did you have your butt? There was a bung out. Yeah, yeah, there was a wrong. Oh, God.

I pulled the bung out. Oh, of course he did. He's like, you don't pull the bug out. He's like yelling at us. He's like, spruiting down the boat ramp, dived into the water. You literally sink it. Yeah, as we're like, what are we doing?

And then afterwards he's like, maybe I'll come out with you. Yeah, Matt, anyone that knows these two, no one ever says you'll be fine to them. So, yeah, we always need help. Actually came out, and then he went on another boat, and he just sort of sat beside us just to go. He didn't think was going to go. We ended up having to try a fish that day,

and we were YouTubeing videos of how to, like, fishing lines together. We're like, this is not, this is not our place. Because your place, you're probably got a, I didn't realize

me getting out a jet ski. Yeah. Yeah, I grew up with boats. I'm like, I love boats. I love being out of the water. It's fun. I enjoy it.

Yeah. But yeah. It's not for you. You're like this fashion person. Oh, you're an expressional. You're just a bloody groggy bogan. I am a grottie bogan

on the inside. Here's my jet ski, man. And yeah, motor racing and, yeah, I know. I'm not afraid to admit it. No, that's good. Have you had any blunders on the jet ski? No.

No, that's not useful for what we're talking about. Thanks for that. Okay, well, let's talk. Going out to sea, have you had some boating blunders out at sea? Like we did with Matt Watson's boat. Almost sinking a brand new boat that they're trying to give away. I imagine, too, that boat, speaking of boat ramps, that's a high-pressure situation. Reversing trailers.

People are stressed and they want to get out there. And there's always people watching and waiting for the boat ramp. Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Morning, hey, good news for Warriors fans

Luke Metcalf The Australian Playmaker for the Warriors signed on for three years after, oh I was worried I was worried he was going to go He was going to go So that's great news

Where was he potentially going to go? Well, they were thinking Maybe he might go back to Australia Some big offers Some big offers from Come in there with their Australian dollars Come in here with your big ideas And your big Australian dollar

So very excited about Luke Metcalf sticking around for three more years At the Warriors Saw the lovely photo With him and his partner They're in their baby, signing, doing the sign-in of the contract. I was thinking, what things can I do to keep him around, you know? Probably stay away from him.

It's taking out his wheelie bins. Stop, stop lingering around his house. Just anything, anything, I'd do anything. He's like, I'll stay if Ben leaves me alone. And I have, so yeah, there you go. He keeps testing him, oh, massage, your neck calves. I'll do whatever. But right now, you know, he's sticking around, so that's good news.

We're here at Rambozene this morning. The Rambozzeen Pirates Ship. Can I touch it? Can I touch it? You go touch it. Here we go. The big, the boat. is here. It looks incredible. The pirate ship Pacifica, the brand new pirate ship,

and it's going to set sail. It's made in voyage just after 8 o'clock today. Yeah, I tell you what's thrilling, though, broadcasting out in the rain. It's just starting to come down with rain. Everyone's panicking, trying to cover up the electrical equipment. There's an alarm going off across the road. Apparently, there's a business across there that the alarm goes off every night throughout the night. Next to some apartments, I'm like, geez, could this stop? If you're the owner of the bloody Texas smokehouse, sort it out. It's sort it out.

It's really effective me. I've only been here for two hours, and it's driving us. But you know, the one time we reference it, it's stopped. It's stopped right now. Okay, so we're talking about boating. I mean, if you're coming all the way from Texas to turn off of the arm, it's a long journey. Maybe that's the thing.

Come in, guys. Yeah, so we are talking, going out to sea and boating blunders when you're out on the ocean because, you know, things won't be going wrong today at Raybo's End, but they can go wrong if you're taking a boat out into the ocean. Yeah, we've got Tisha on the phone. How are you? Hi, I'm good, thanks. How are you? What a cool name?

Yeah, Tisha, is it Tisha or have I screwed up a name? It's Keisha, K-E-Y-S-H-A. Yeah, of course it is, of course. Tisha. Again. That's what I do. Now, what happened on the water? What was your boating blunder there?

So we're in Wonicat. Normally have a four-wheel drive at this beach. We only had two-wheel drive. It's perfectly flat morning for water skiing, so we decided we'd unconnect the boat trailer from the car and walk it down the beach. all going smoothly so far took the boat off I was holding the boat I think it was about 11 at the park

my dad was then all of a sudden the trailer runs off down the beach into the water oh no dad runs out fully closed phone throwing out of the pocket to grab the trailer but it's like speed up in the air because it's sort of a big drop off at the beach

we were at they sit up in the air holding the boat down and then luckily at 7 a.m. there was these two fishermen and they came over with a rope car to tie it so I was standing there holding the trails at the trail is still like two

meters underwater halfway down and we managed to pull it up with quite a few people didn't get the water ski that morning those actually. You know I know a very stressful situation for you and your family but funny to watch like have you seen on the internet you're like yeah but in those situations you're right

it's high stress high stress particularly the person the boat I know as well hey appreciate your call this morning you have a great a long weekend. Thank you. I was just remembering my son's friend over New Year's, and Fongamatar, there was this guy, and he went out on his own fishing, and he caught him Marlon or something.

The Marlon pulled him off the boat. So then his boat's floating away. He's the only one on the boat. And then all he had was apparently when you were doing marlin fishing, you got like a sort of an artist. He was going to say a strap around his waist. Yeah, so he had the strap and it was keeping him afloat in the water, because it was a buoyant one.

He floated 36 hours. Really? Yeah. And then so my son's friend was out fishing the next day with his family. And they're like, oh, what's that bobbing in the... He's still there. In the distance. He had floated for 36 hours.

Sharks had circled. Oh, my goodness. And they pulled up, it was, because it was in middle of New Year's so that sunburn. Oh, my God. Crazy stuff. Why wasn't the strap connected to the boat? No, good question now, Megan. But it would be nice to know 36 hours before that.

He was in the water. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Now, it's bring your child to work day today. Poor Ciena, Ben's daughter. Well, this is on her. This is really on her. You know, she was like keen to come along with the maiden voyage here at Rainbow's End invited.

And I was like, well, if you do come, you've got to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning. And how's that treating you right now, Sienna? Well, not great. Let's just say I like the normal time I get up way more than this. Yeah. She's like, do you do this every day? Yeah, every day. You know why I fall asleep on the day?

the couch on a Friday night watching a movie this is why this is why now Sienna turned it into a life lesson in the car he was like Sienna now this is why I go to be so so you know when you always I'm like oh I do it's so early just what do you like pick me up in the gym at 1030 and I'm like oh I'd like to go to bed if that's okay this is why this is why anyway Sienna you're here today everyone that gets to ride the rainbows Dien pirate ship today had to bring something for the maiden voyage so I asked Sienna of bringing something along today what have you got you know? Okay, well, you know how pirates love treasure?

Yeah. I bought some Treasures nappies, cut her dry and snug, and I got them in a stage three, six to 11 KG's perfect for Dad. Thank you very much. It's my idea of weight. It might be a little bit big,

but hopefully they'll grow into them. There we got some treasure guys. We've got some Treasasasasas as well, pirate treasure today. But you were here, and it's funny because I was going to tell the story, and I know this embarrassing as you see in it, but...

This is a meme of our family. Well, it's become a meme with the family as well over the last. Since we went away overseas and you know when you're a kid, you go along with your parents and your parents run into someone they know and you check out of the conversation. I get it. I do it with my parents as well and it happened the other day with CNL where I ran into someone. I was talking and we're having a good conversation as well and they were saying halfway through the conversation, oh, you guys have been overseas and I, where'd you go?

And I started explaining the places. And I started off and I was like, oh, we went to Paris and then we went to Italy and then went to Rome. And then Siena must have checked back into the conversation because then you came back in with, and France, like this. And we both looked at her. I didn't even say it like that. I was just like, oh, and France. Like, I didn't hear you say Paris. I'm sorry. And we both looked at her like, wow, took her overseas and her geography is really, really strong. Stop. Stop. I can tell you on so many things you said.

Yeah, but right now I've got the microphone. I can take it away from you. So that has been a great little moment that I really enjoyed as well. It gets quoted every day. Yeah, so there we go. And France. And France. As Paris is in France as well. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Megan right now getting a corset yanked on and there's a lot of... I don't need to breathe. I feel like this is sitting women back a few hundred decades. You keep it up, love. We're here at Rainbow's End this morning We're about to set sail After 8 o'clock on the maiden voyage

The Pirateship Pacifica The brand new pirate ship here at Rambo's End We just saw a test runner as you said before It looks incredible It goes a lot higher than I thought it was going to do It's bigger and better And I can't wait for people to try it Open to the public today from Rainbow's End

And we'll be getting to that after 8 o'clock We're all dressed up in our costumes Megan's we're calling her the pirate queen I'm like No you called me a wench We've got to stick with the time I mean if the shoe fits and Ben you're looking fantastic

you're sort of Roberts and Crusoe like yeah yeah I've got some pirate stuff tattered away pirate yeah it doesn't look too far off what you normally wear I think you're not so bad yourself I've got an eye patch too from the costume shop you know when you get stuff in the costume shop it's got a really

costume shop smell doesn't it very distinctive it's comforting and disturbing at the same time but it comes with an eye patch and I just don't know how many people conjunctivitis at Christmas parties have worn. Put it on. But it does, it reminded me of

it was probably about 24 and it still sticks with me. An absolute eye patched shocker I had. So went to a dress-up party and everyone was dressed to the nines and then I was outside having, you know, sucking on a

bloody dart. Yeah. And there was a guy there with an eye patch and he was just dressed in normal clothes I'm like oh mate where's the bloody

rest of you oh Jonathan did you John oh and he was like oh I'm the bouncer I lost my eye

to a very severe yeah well he's not yeah he's not a pilot that's just on a day off or something

you know don't like his worst enemy would be a dress up party surely if he's wearing it you know and he's like

I'm sorry bro and he's like you're not the first person say it's night it's fine but don't like don't accept the gig being security and a dress-up party if you've got an eye patch because people are going to ask questions of course you've got an eye patch scandal why is he not got a scandal one I know terrible yeah he always does it like last night we even we noticed so when he said goodbye to people yeah it was a lot of awkward handshakes are we going to talk about the michael galvin chris

mourner um awkward moment we're at the alpha quiz live last night we do that around the country and, you know, the cast of Shorland Street turn up because they're shooting. Which is great. The wonderful Chris Warner was there. At the hangar out in West Auckland doing the alpha quiz. End of the night, they came out to say goodbye to us, which is lovely. Yeah. And I just went to, yeah, anyway.

You went to shake his hands. Right after he said goodbye, textbook goodbye, we all said goodbye. And he was on the way out and you put the hand out, like way too late. Dr. Chris Warner ghosted me and left me hanging. And again, Megan witnessed it. So good. In my mind, there's a montage of all the moments where you've been left hangar. with your hand out.

I just can keep my hands in my pocket down. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. The Hats. I actually just want to bring you in because producer Troy got severely salesed. He got

sales hard at the optometrist. This was just yesterday. What happened, mate? I went in for my five yearly check. That's supposed to do two, but I haven't gone on five. Yeah. And I just wanted my free... Explains a lot. My free Southern

Cross Health Insurance provided eye test. Right, okay, so you're going in, you just want to... It's like a warrant of fitness on the eyes. You're still good to be out in the market, staring at things. And I don't want to pay any money, so I just get my free eye tests. I'll worry about the frames later. I went in.

Firstly, they did two extra tests on me that cost $80 each, because it had been five years. That's my fault. And then... Did you need them? Do you need the extra tests? I didn't, no. They came back fine. Yeah, that's fine.

Anyway, I sat down with the sales rep, and I was like, if I get lenses, I'll just put them in my current frames. They're good frames, haven't done me wrong. And then he goes, mate, you've had these for three years. I think you've had three years of photos in these glasses. Good sell, good pitch. You need some new frames. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. I was like, that's hard to argue with. Yeah, and so then he takes you over to another part of the store. Yes. And he goes, just indulge me. Oh. Just indulge me. Try these ones on.

I think they suit you. And I put these on. And he goes, those are the ones. Those are the ones. And that's when you go, oh, thanks, Vietnam. I'm all good. I'm all good. You look like a young George Clooney in those glasses.

He was throwing compliments left, right and center and I went, yeah, okay. Okay. And then I sit down with him and he goes, sweet, yeah, bing, boom, boom. You definitely want the blue light filter on those two. You want the polarise. You want this, you want this, you definitely want this, this sort of coating on the glasses too. So that'll be 700 bucks. That's white your card there, mate.

From a guy that went in for a free eye test. I know, you ended up paying what, $700 plus the two I tests as well. Jeez. Oh, you're a sucker. It's a $900 visit, isn't it? But as soon as they start complimenting your aesthetics, you know, you feel, you feel obligated. Yeah, 100%. Yeah.

And I feel like saying no would be a disservice to his sales techniques. Yeah. He's going to be okay. Yeah, I think he'll be fine. But we had all been talking about how you had three years of the same glasses and photos. So I'm glad someone brought it up with you. That happened to me at a car yard once. We bought a car years ago and then we sat down to do the transaction.

He goes, why use your money? Any talk like that? Oh, yeah. Why use your money when you can use ours? Have you thought about taking a loan? Geez, he sold me on that. Yeah. Why use your money when you can use ours?

Yeah. Greatest line in sales history. It's great. You know you're getting upsold, though, too, but it's so hard to avoid it. Same buying an engagement ring for your friend. You know, I went in there with my friend, and she was helping me out, and I was like, this is my budget, told the guy my budget, and he's like, cool, this is what you can get for budget. I'm like, great, looks awesome.

And then he's like, but do, but have a look at this. And then he brought up this one. And I was like, what is he doing? What is he doing? He's like, this one. How much do you love her? Just a couple thousand dollars more. I'm like, what are you doing?

What are you doing? And he's like, this one a little bit better. And then my friend, she's like, yeah, that one is heapsed. I'm like, oh, of course it is, but it's not your money. Did she get the nicer one? Yeah, she didn't get the nicer one. But I was like, the guy, he knew what he was doing. He knew his one, just a little nice and a little bit.

I was like, yeah. Well, shout out to all the great sales reps out there. Scamming us and ripping us off. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. A lot going on here at Rambo's End as we're about to set sail on the Maiden Voyage of the Pirateship, Pacifica, happening this morning, the brand new ride here at Rambo's End, and we wanted to find out a little bit more about this boat, this magnificent boat. The Pirateship, very iconic for many, many years at Rambo's End,

and it's great to have it return here. And with the mate of voyage, we're happening about 20 minutes. You can follow it all on The Hits Breakfast on Instagram, and it comes with its own pirate, Esmeralel. Welcome. Ahoy, me, matey. Ahoy there, matey. How are we doing today? Yeah, no good. So first Kiwi pirate I've met. Oh, yeah. Yes, absolutely. Right here from Altaroa.

Yeah, great. So have you ridden the ship? Did you bring it here from Germany? That's right. Yes, all the way from Germany. Touched down here. Yeah. And decided to call her the Pacifica because that's the last ocean I crossed. And I thought it could represent us really well. She's a beauty. That's for sure. see on your travels? A lot of pillaging, stealing, thieving.

Well, you know what? I met many friends out there, including a whale. Oh, yeah, nice. I heard I hitched on the back of a whale, and my friend whale now and took me all the way to Germany to find me ship. You rode a whale rider over to Germany. And then you took the boat back. Okay.

That's right. Yep. And I... That seems like a plausible story to me. It was a great time. tell you that. So we're about to hear off on the maiden voyage very shortly. Is there any tips and tricks for the boat?

Because you know it the best. Well, yeah, you're right. Well, if you sit up here, you know you're going to have a really wild ride. So that's at the end of the boat where it gets almost vertical. That's right, yeah. Now, I know you cross the ocean on a whale and, you know, through the seas and on the pirate ship bringing it back. Well, last time the pirate ship was here, we were the last people on the day to ride it.

We were going to ride it all day on the end. the original Rambozzean Pirateship. That was our idea and then two rides into it, this guy gets motion sickness and he was like, I'm out, I'm done. So what's tips for him today to get through this? Oh dear, well, I think I always breathe before I do things like that.

Maybe hold Ben's hands. And you'll be on your way, you'll be fine. We'll be cheering for you. We don't have to do it all day today, it's just one ride, all right? Esmeralda, she rode her on a whale, okay? She'll do this for two minutes. He hasn't held my hands since the Christmas party of 2023. We haven't spoken since then

Well, thank you for having us here We're very excited about being one of the first to ride it So thank you for having us Oh, I'm so excited for you all Welcome to my crew Very good We're part of the crew Ismerelda and the rest of the pirates

Here at Rambozene we're going to be riding The brand new pirate ship Very shortly here on the Hits John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits The Pirateship Pacifica about to set sail To be honest I'm off the boat

Everyone's filled up And I'm on the outside John and me can have found their way on the boat. Everyone gets to ride the maiden voyage but me. Let's get a chant for Ben. I can't kick off anyone on the boat. So you guys enjoy the maiden voyage. I'll be right, guys.

I'll be like pillaging your cars like a real pirate in the car park. Oh, there is a spot for me. Okay, I can get on the boat. I can get on the boat. All right. Okay, we're about to launch the maiden voyage of the rainbows and pirate ship. Who's ready to go on the maiden voyage? The boat is packed.

The lap bars are coming down right now. This is history in the making. Megan Pavis sitting behind me. I'm actually a bit nervous. I'm quite high up here. This thing goes vertical. You can see it on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. And who are you, mate?

I'm Krista. And what are your hopes and dreams and aspirations? I have no idea. I'm a fan of park rides. Are you a fan of theme park rides? some smiling faces here mega page has got is that on your shoulder page a raccoon on your shoulder she didn't have a parrot so she went with a raccoon okay uh the traditional pirate raccoon uh on the pirate ship we will be back shortly oh here we go we won't be back we're gonna run it live baby

live radio at its finest i'm saying Ben's at the other end of the ship Ben is cool. Ben is cool. The chant. The people love him. He's with his fans. A man of the people. We're just, and it is starting now.

The slow rocking back and forth of the Pirateship on its maiden voyage at Rainbow's End. As it gets higher and higher, you can see all of this on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. It's starting to get quite high now. Hands are in the air. Gravity is taking effect. Oh my God, my guts. My guts are falling out my back end. Ah!

Oh, God! Make it stop! Oh, God! John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Yeah, right. We just rode the pirates, the new pirates. ship here the pirate ship Pacifica geez that was fun that was a lot of fun because it's really high

and you feel that little bit of in your tummy with a little bit of weightlessness it was awesome that was way more intense than i remember it being that was so high i could just see jono screaming the whole time just yelling stuff i don't know what he was yelling i was trying i was trying to do radio but then i was like oh i don't know how good this will be sounding have we got audio of it grace i hurt my throat screaming Is it going to blip over? Oh my God! I don't know if we're still on here.

So keep the screaming. This is so great. This is exhilarating. You guys were right near the middle of the bow. You weren't even going as high as I was at the back. You're at the back. It literally looked like you were going to fall on us. It was awesome.

It was a lot of fun. So the first, a successful maiden voyage of the Rainbow's End, Pirateship, Pacifica. That was fun. Now, people are, it's packed again, people riding it for a second time. I remember the other one being quite gentle. This one is, like, it's quite fast. Yeah, it is good. Everyone is thrust you into the air.

You know, at the start, they go out, they were attacking, and the jibbing, it was taken. And then they really, they changed the game. It was like Formula One on water. Yeah. It's kind of like that today. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. bake sale yesterday.

Yeah, it was great. So people all around the building, obviously, I'm not going to man explain a bake sale. I'll know how it works. Yeah. So we all went there and we purchased some goods from the bake sale. All raising money for kids can, wonderful organisation that we are doing the handball for next week. Yeah.

And then I walk back into the studio and Grace, producer Grace, you come on here, mate. Hello. Gen Zee producer Grace goes, what cake are you eating? And I said, I've chosen a lovely slice of carrot cake. She's like, that is old man food. You're eating old man cake. It's not old man cake. Everyone listening right now is like, yes, that's old man cake.

Who picks carrot cake is their first choice, old people? The same person whose favourite ice cream flavour is rum and raisins. Yeah, he does like rum and raisins. I feel like that's old. That's an old man. I feel like carrot cakes are. Shame carrot cake. I feel like it's okay.

It was like that fruit cake that my dad loves and sits in the freezer and lasts for like 10 decades or something. That feels like old man food. But it doesn't, carrot cake. I feel like that's fine. Just like not when you're at a baby. salmon there was so many delicious there was like fudgy there was beautiful caramel fudge slices and afghans yeah scrolls with icing can i just out of interest get a list of you

of old man food correct um well we had carrot cake what else was i saying yesterday fruit cake carrot cake fruit cake or um eating sausages just like cold sausages out of the trench oh i love that i love that yeah yeah oh day after a barbecue and there's a cold sausage While you peruse for something, that's great. Slice up a sausage and put it on toast with tomato sauce. What about mince on toast? I like mince on toast. No, that's great.

That's a big old person thing for me. But that's a great way to use your leftovers the next day, Mitz on toast. You get that at some cafes. I feel like old people just put anything on toast. What should I put on toast? Mint's on toast. Oh my God.

You know where you live, eh? I like corn beef too, Grace. I'm not saying anything. Kiwis love anything on toast. There you go. So that was a fresh of a cake shaming yesterday. Thank you, Grace. Keeping us humble as always.