Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: She found a teacher on OnlyFans... 😱

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

On the pod today: Megan took Basty for his first day of school, this will MELT your heart We wanted to hear your mundane celebrity stories...never would have guessed what we saw Ronan Keating doing... The sauciest Dear Megan we've ever done... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, welcome to the podcast for your week, Tuesday. Tuesday. Tuesday. You're a bit sleep deprived. Yeah, I am. My daughter woke up at 2 a.m. 2 a.m. telling me that she'd seen monsters.

Yeah, you don't want to hear that at 2 a.m. No. And you're pretty like... Do you believe her? Because there was a spirit in her bedroom. Do you believe her on the monster front? Yeah. You do.

And I know people will judge me on that, but it's just, it's all the time. And after the medium got rid of Cassie, the spirit that she was seeing all the time, she's never mentioned her since. She's never mentioned Cassie again. Wow. So that's quite odd to me. Now monsters are moved out, which is... So the medium said she calls them monsters because she knows they don't look like humans,

the spirits that she supposedly sees. So she sees monsters. She's not always afraid of them. Right. But last night she was and I was like, I don't like saying there's no monsters because I don't want a gas lighter if she is actually experiencing something. So I just say, I've already scared them away. I've scared them away and she said, no, you haven't.

He's behind you. And I was like, oh. Does she tell you what they look like? No, she doesn't, not usually. She can tell me if there's like, because she often talks about her second mum and dad and she says they're older. And I'm like, maybe that's my grandparents

because the medium also said my grandparents were there. So she talks about them and says Nana and Popper, which she doesn't have. She has an Omer and an Opa and a Granny and a Pop. So I don't know. She calls these two Nana and Papa. What did you call them? I never met Grand.

Well, he died when I was a baby. He was granddad though, I think. And Nana. Wow, interesting. It was Nana and Granddad. Wow. Yeah, that's. So I don't know.

a lot of weird coincidences, but I just try not to dismiss her and be like, no, there's nothing there. And also you don't want to make a big deal of it as well. Yeah, I never bring it up. It's just if she brings it up, you're like, oh. Yeah. But sometimes she's talking to, you know, I'm in bed with her and she'll be

looking up talking and then she will take a sip and be like, the monsters gave me some juice and, you know, she's interacting, I don't know if it's an imaginary friend or what? Yeah. It's very weird. That's what you want to hear from your kid at 2 in the morning. There's a monster scene behind you. I'm just used to it because everyone always comes to my house now

and they're like, oh my God, where's the monster? I'm like, I don't even think about it. But at 2 a.m., when she says there's a dude behind me, that's not it. That's not the one. It's not it. It was just me. I just put it over.

I'm very translucent skin. Sorry. I just thought I'd remind you that you were doing at work today. Oh, yeah, thanks. Don't forget your work this morning. I know you talk yourself to get your son to school, but yeah. She's like, ah, monster! Yeah.

all going to be in the podcast. Basty's first day at school. And also do people talk to themselves out loud? It's a surprising number of people do. John O does. Yeah, unfortunately. In a surprising way. I'm not proud of it.

And that's the podcast. Ben's back tomorrow. I was thinking, should we give him a call? Seby's... Answering. Is he in transit right now? Maybe. He's coming back from Singapore.

He's been on the Disney cruise over there in Singapore. Does he get like the holiday depression? Like when you come back? I always get that. Same. I always need a day buffer, but he's coming straight back into work. He doesn't mind doing that. Hello. Hi.

Hi. Is that Siena? No, it's Indy. Oh, Andy. You're on the podcast, Indy. What? I'm on a podcast, Dad. Not a podcast. Not a good one. Not a good one. Why is he not answering his own phone? Oh, do you want me to give him the phone?

Well, no, you don't have. We'll talk to you. How's the holiday been? Soka, we just got, we just landed back. Oh, you just landed back, fresh back. Oh, welcome. Welcome. Welcome back.

Yeah, thanks. Radio. Radio. It's just the radio. Hello. Hello, my radio. Bloody radio. She's my, I'm on a podcast.

I'm weird, weird, okay. What I loved about that interaction was, we didn't say anything. We just said Indy. You're on a podcast. And she just went, I'm on a podcast. Cool. And she was going to roll with it.

Yeah. Just trying to piece it together. And then I just heard Ben's chuckle. Oh, right. Oh, we've missed that. Fresh back, fresh back from the Disney Cruise. Yeah, just arrived back. Just walking through security.

Well, you're about to get to security right now. Oh, really? Oh, they're at the airport. Gee, mate, talk to me about your to-do list. What have we? Oh, no, that's, yeah, no. There's been a lot of stuff and pushed aside for, you know, the last couple of days.

So, yes, today's going to be a big one. Yeah, lots to get to. He's at the airport. I know he's thinking about that list. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, because the Wi-Fi, obviously, you know, not, you know, I haven't been able to get on that much. So, yeah, there's a lot of stuff backed up.

So, yeah, really go. How many emails today? There'll be a lot of emails. There'll be a lot of, you know, food to get, dogs to be walks, that sort of thing. Oh, well, well, go on. He's got a powerful day, mate. All right, sounds good.

Look forward to. All right, good, mate. Bye. There you go, Ben, back on deck tomorrow. Funny side up. Jono, Ben and Megan. on the hits. Great story.

Producer Troy has just told us about what happened to you. You were making a way back from a family wedding Sunday morning, Troy. Yes, yep. Early flight out of Christchurch. And I had to go and get a coffee. Right. Because, you know what early flights are like. Domestic airport coffee.

Domestic airport coffee. $9 for black coffee. Wow. I'm from black coffee. She's an extortion at the airport, isn't it? Yeah. And although Christchurcher is a lovely airport, isn't it? A beautiful airport, yeah.

I feel like they could do more more with the food stuff on the other side when you get through the security gates. Have they put another something in there? There's not a lot there. There's a relay. Oh, you love a relay. Love an airport relay.

Yeah, okay, so you've got yourself a coffee. I'm sitting there having a coffee, and then I see this guy in a black t-shirt, you get a gold chain and aviators. And I was like, that's a cool-looking guy. Yeah. What kind of gold chain? Like, just like a small...

Cuban one or a little taste? A little tasteful one. Yeah, right. Okay. and he orders a thing I'm like, that guy, he looks too cool to be just an average Joe on an airport. Right.

And so I kind of looked at him a little bit more and I was like, hang on. That's Ronan Keating. Ronan Keating. Life is a rolling ghost. Just got a lot. You and Ronan Keating first thing

Sunday morning at Christchurch domestic airport. Now what's Ronan ordering? He got a big sort of bowl of coffee. I don't know what it was. Some sort of... Like a latte bowl. A big latte bowl. I would not have put Ronan for a latte guy.

And he was there too, by the way, because he did Selwyn Sounds. Okay. Oh, yeah. And as well as his big bowl of latte, he got a panini. Was there? A little chicken cranberry-bri pinini. Oh, lovely. Was there?

You know how sometimes you get a pinnini because there's literally nothing else. Was there other options? That was chocker. Yeah, it was full-out. He went for a pan-a-kini? Yeah. That is such a... At 7.30 in the morning.

Early morning, a depressed. pressing airport pinini. He went a bowl latte and a pinini. Okay, Paul, I bet. He's got the taste buds of a menopausal 60-year-old. We've got the music for them. But what I love about this is Troy has got imagery of Rodan Keating from a distance too. So it's like surveillance footage of Roan Keating Keating.

Ordering the pinini or eating the panini? This is in line. Oh, so you didn't capture it. and Rolly was, he's having his chicken cranberry pinini. He looked too vulnerable. Yeah. I mean, you don't want to, yeah, I mean, it's a bit intrusive, isn't it, to film someone while they're eating?

I was going to go up to order, sure, but not eating. I was going to go up to him, but I was hung over. He was probably hung over, and I thought that conversation was just going to be grim. Yeah, what, what had you planned to say to Ronan? Like, what were you going to? I was going to go up and be like, hey, I'm a producer from the hits. I was actually going to get him to make a comment on your race, your track stars. That's a lot of information.

Well, this is all good in hindsight, Troy, but like yeah no it was but I as I said hungover a lot of information to convey a lot of context

he was elbow deep into a pinini he had no time for you well hopefully he was loving each bye as if it was his love you know there would have been probably a time

in Ronan's career and this is not a dig by any stretch of the imagination any stretch of the imagination there would have been time he would have been on a private jet having an actual Italian hand feed in Panini

now he's having to go Christ you at airport and paid 25 bucks for a Panini on Sunday morning. Was he getting on the same plane as you? No, he didn't come up to Auckland. He must have gone maybe Queenstown or something like that. Yeah, Rob. Oh, good on your own.

Okay, so this is what we want to open up. What is the most mundane thing you've seen a celebrity doing? Can we be eating a pinini? Have you seen a celebrity vacuuming their car at Washworld? Supermarket shopping. Yeah. I've seen a celebrity not wash their hands

in the toilet. So yeah, the most mundane thing you've seen a celebrity do, Antonia. Hi. I saw Dave Grawal in a bar ordering a pint of Guinness with myself and then proceeded to spend the next eight hours getting quite intoxicated. And then as we walked him out that night, he'd proceed to sit on the ground, talk to a cat, start singing to a cat, trying to bring it home with him in a taxi. Tried to take the cat home. So it was just a recap, just because your phone was a little watery there. Dave Girl came into your bar, drank Guinness for eight hours. You had to help him out to a taxi, sat on the footpath and spoke to a cat.

Yeah, I'm starting serenading a cat and singing, having, like, full-blown conversation. Was he singing foo fighters? No, he was just singing random, like, lyrics if you get me and talking about this to, like, you know, he was quite a strange man in person. Right, and so then did he try and take the cat in the cab with him, did he? Yes, yes, and me and my friend have to try and stop him. this random stray cat. Dave, put the cat down.

Dave, give me the cat. He actually came back the next day to apologize and gave us a private concert in the bar when he closed and gave free tickets to a gig as well. Are you kidding? Yeah, he was a regular. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

What a god, do you reckon he woke up the next morning, he's like, oh, dear God, I talked to a kit. I sung to a kit on the footpath. I tried to take the kit. He spent a lot of time talking about random stuff, He was quite a strange man, so maybe he was like, I need to go back and apologise or, I don't know. I just was everything that I said last night, I take back and I'm sorry. Oh, we've all been there.

We've all been there. Hey, that is great, Antonia. Thanks so much for sharing. Appreciate it. No worries, thanks. There you go. Can you beat Dave Grohl talking to a cat? Nicole?

Nicola, welcome. Hi, how are you? Okay, the bar's been set. Dave Grohl, sitting on the footpath, talking to a cat. That's pretty useful. What is yours? The most mundane thing. you've seen a celebrity do?

Hugh Grant spitting in a bowl. Oh, why was he spitting in a bowl? At the dentist, he was one of our patients. I've just broken patient confidentiality, I'm sure. Hugh Grant's spitting the mouthwash back into the dental bowl. Exactly. It's never hot when you have to do that. No, it's stringy.

I mean, no matter how famous you are, there's no eloquent way to do that. No, not with a big brand donation. Was he nice though? Did he have a good, you know, like, manner? Yes, he does. Yes, he does. He had a very, yeah, very easygoing manner.

Oh, good. That's good. There you go. Well, that's the name drop. We equally had John Cleese and as a patient. He literally used to make me have tears running down my face with laughter with his dryness. Oh, John Cleese was doing like a comedy bit while he was getting his teeth done. Oh, yeah, he was just, he was just constantly always.

He's amusing. Oh, that is very funny. Well, there we go. Hugh Grant, spit in the mouth froth into the dental bowl. That is a mundane task. Thank you so much, Nicola. Remarkable messages coming through. Oh, my favourite text on 4487,

Robin Malcolm buying Alplates at Repco. I'm sure Robin loves the fact. You don't get more mundane than, you know, Kiwi acting royalty, Robin Malcolm, having to go into Repco and buy El Plates. No, I think she'd actually find this quite humorous. She would. So 800 of the hits

Most mundane thing you've seen a celebrity do, Matt? Oh, I served Orlando Bloom in a supermarket back in the UK. Oh, that is supermarket shopping? You're probably one of the most mundane tasks a human can engage with. Yeah, he was pretty polite, I remember. He was buying a couple bottles of wine. And one of the guys I was working with started a rumor that I ID'd him. Oh, I bet you don't.

That would be, like, I'd find that quite hard. hard as the celebrity though because I'd be like well they're going to look at everything I buy was it just two bottles of wine no he had a whole trolley I can't really remember what else was in there to be honest obviously nothing too scandalous yeah is he a loyalty card going no no but his parents did live pretty locally from what I understood so I think he was trying to keep a low profile yeah Orlando Bloom's supermarket shopping that's uh that's got and obviously not um part of the everyday rewards program clearly he doesn't need to be he doesn't need every day rewards. Have you seen the reward he's got in between his legs? He doesn't need it every day. He's

been rewarded. Life is rewarded that man. Good on you mate. You have a great day, Matt. Really appreciate it. Cheers, guys. Thank you for listening. And the great text here for, Rosie, I saw Scribe, mowing his lawn. Mowing his lawn? Rapper Scribe. How many lawns do you know I mow like this? Not many. and Megan on the hits. The 2025 declined baby names list has been released. Leigh, should we get the awards music? They release this every year, don't they? Surely the bloody Department of Internal Affairs,

they must be like a really exhausted nightclub bouncer. Where they're like, yeah, how many times do you have to go through this, guys? Same rules as last year and same rules. Yeah. And always get the same requests. We want, here's some lovely awards music, Megan, for a list of some of the, The band Baby Names Over the last 12 months

From the Department of Internal Affairs The most popular with eight rejections this year was King A lot of them too you find A spelt like autocorrect gave up You know King's spell K-Y-N-G-G-G-G-G Yeah so that was straight-up spelling

Princess with straight-up spelling Had six rejections Prince was a close second declined seven times but then yeah we do get to the funky spelling so in New Zealand you're not allowed titles you're not allowed anything

that's royal so that's... We got colonised bro that's what happens because Kanya he named one of his children's Saints and Saint has been banned this year

title yeah so Judge was requested and declined but it was spelled J-H-U-S-E-E-E I love it. Love it. Just giving it a bash. And just in case you're wondering, Queen is still not allowed if it's spelled Q-W-E-N.

I thought Fannie was a bit of a rough declining. Because that wasn't old, there were a lot of Fanny's back in the day. Fanny's everywhere. When our grandparents' generation, my grandmother in particular, she was a Winifred. You still meet, you know, older people named. Fannie. Yeah.

I mean, it was a legit name. And how do those people feel now? Yeah. They kind of cut off the fanning line. Stop. You know what you're doing. What am I doing? I'm saying a lovely name.

Hile. Like, Hile has been declined. H-E-I-L. H-E-I-L. Oh, really? Yeah. They didn't follow through the second part of that shout-out. No.

Gunner? Gunner was declined. Oh, really? Which is, I'm sure I've met Gunners. and then strains of marijuana was declined. There's always the Satibis and there. Rabbi was proposed and that was declined. Lucifer, the name of the devil.

A lot of them are kind of spelt like, you know, a Fortnite username, aren't they? Yeah. And I guess that's the trick to try and get them past the internal affairs. Yeah, it doesn't matter. If you say it out loud and that's what it means, you're not going to get it past. But Sovereign, S-O-V-E-R-Y-N-N, didn't get it past the game.

Okay, well, Well, this is what we want to chuck open. Oh, 800 the hits. Some do get past the goalie, don't they? Four, four, four, eight seven on the test. Have you managed to get a name past the Department of Internal Affairs? Maybe you've heard of a name that really slipped past the goalie there? Yeah, teachers always have great stories about these.

Interesting names in your classroom. If you've got one of those, four, four, eight seven on the text, you can call us, oh, 800 the hits. Barron von Virois or something, I don't know. Please, give us a call. Oh, God, I hope there's no COVID's out. there. Rinse and repeat. Every year they're like, just don't name your kids.

Queen King, Prince, strands of marijuana. Don't name them after meth, vape shops. No matter how you spell them, we're going to get you. Okay? How often do we have to do this list? King is always top of the list. You can't name your kid King. Yeah.

I mean, it's a lovely name. Yeah, but it's a title. It's against the rules. I can't even do the plural version of Kings with S on the end either. You can if you're a music artist. Yeah, you can. He's very successful artist, Kings, as well. So, 0-800-the-hits telephone number.

Have you got a name past the Goldie with the Department of Internal Affairs? Or maybe you've seen a name that managed to slip past their security systems. We've got Kara. Kara, welcome. How are you? Hey, good. It's Kira. Oh, God, I knew it.

I knew it when I said, Kara. He was rolling the dice. I did. And my ongoing thing is. I just don't. While Department of Internal Affairs catch names, I don't get any of them correct. So, Kara, what have you, did you get one past the goalie? No, not me. I used to work at a school and there were some goodies. Probably the one that stands out was Dear John.

A child named Dear John? Yeah, he was called, to be fair, nobody called him that. They called him DJ. But his actual first name was Dear John. As in like, was it based off the John Deer Tractor or the Dear John letter? I think they probably just heard it as a letter and then liked it, like the sound of it. That has got a lovely tone to it, doesn't it? Yeah, and lots of alcohol names. We had quite a few alizés, chardonnays.

Oh, no, no. Oh, I love a shardin. We had a chasseedo at one stage. Oh, chasseed. What's a chastado? It's makeup. brand. Yeah.

I love that. I love that. Is there, any seven yongs? Any Mabelis? No. Maybe she's born with it. Any Gucci's?

But some of brand names are actually really nice names when you think about it. You know, if they were associated. Yeah. Yeah. Alizet's a lovely name. You said Alizai gives you a... Flashbacks from when I

worked at a, yeah, different radio station. It was the sponsor of all our promotional parties. Just Alizai. It immediately makes me gag in my mouth. Hi, Kara, thank you so much for sharing. That's brilliant. Appreciate your call this morning.

Joining us is Anonymous. Welcome. How are you, Anonymous? Good, how are you? We're doing well. Did you get one past the Department of Internal Affairs? I'm a teacher. And the name was, it looked like Leia.

It was L-E-Dash, like a hyphen, A. L E-Hifen A That was the birth name Leia Leia Leia That was Ladeshha Oh

That's good Yeah So That is great They didn't know Right That's questionable But

I didn't realize You could put Like Your symbols In your name Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah But it sounds Yeah Yeah Yeah I mean That's not It's not

It's not It's not Right No It's good It's good It's very good You guys must have some chuckles when some kids start school.

We do, yeah. A lot of sounding out and making sure that we're saying it properly, first off. We'll keep them coming through. You're going to have a great day, anonymous. Cheers, mate. Jono Ben and Megan on the hits. Dear Megan. People slide into Megan's DMs all the time,

you know, generally inviting her to fancy schmancy events sponsored by Champagne. That was one time. And I won't be invited back. We've been to a Formula One event sponsored by Mewatt. But in amongst those, a plethora of high-end invites. Some people just wanting advice, which is... And we always say this in the meetings. This must be their last stop, isn't it?

Surely. Or it's... You can put it out there completely anonymously and get a wide range of responses, which I think is probably why people do it. A general consensus. Without having to put it on the internet and get owned. But however, we do put it on the internet.

And this one has gone, the Stratford, what's it called, the Stratford Bant, Stratford Bantapage, Stratford to Suburban Taranaki, kicking off on this one. We went on a podcast, a topic of discussion on a podcast. So today's Dear Megan reads, I'm having a bit of a crisis. My daughter goes to a local primary school, and I've just found out one of the teachers there has an only fan's account. She doesn't teach my child, and nothing inappropriate has happened,

but I can't shake this weird feeling. I don't want to judge her personal life because she's an adult and she can do whatever she wants to do outside of work. But part of me wonders if I should tell the school. My husband says, leave it alone, but my mum thinks I should say something just in case. Would I be overreacting if I spoke up?

Mike, the first thing I thought, how did you find out this information? That is... Husband's like, no, no, no, no, let her be. Let's not stick our noses in here. He's like, don't get it taken down now. I've just found out about it. Just paid my annual subs.

For goodness sake. You know what? You know what Goss is like? Yeah. And this is she like, I don't know, parents, the ladies at the school. You're going to get in the same. You've just, your best. He just started school yesterday, your son.

You're going to get into the school yard. Gossip? Yeah. It's the only thing that keeps you going. I was thinking because I've just dropped my son off at school. how would I feel about it, I don't care as long as they are a good teacher. Like if they're a good teacher and, you know, like I don't care, nor should I know what they do in their personal life. Amen.

Like if you are a wholesome teacher and you're dedicated to the craft of teaching and you're cooking meth outside of school hours, I mean, two separate lives. Two separate lives. That's illegal. Classes would be quick. Whereas this is not illegal. Yeah, I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. And so this person is shocked that maybe an adult is leading an adult life

outside the hours of 9 a.m. and 3pm. Yeah. And should you report it? I do understand that. And maybe if the government's listening, if they pay teachers a little more. Yeah. It wouldn't have to be moonlighting and hustling. That is a common thread on the Facebook page.

A lot of people have said, do you know how much teachers make? She probably needs to make something on the side. Someone else said, There is a code of conduct, and I'm pretty sure teachers aren't allowed to do things like this. There's a professional code of conduct teachers have to abide by. I personally don't care, but this is actually a breach of that requirement. Okay. So that would be interesting.

If there's teachers that know about that, so whilst it's not illegal, she could be fired for it. I guess the council would have to decide on that. Okay. Oh, 800. Again, on with you, Megan. I don't think I would care what they get up there. They're adults. They can do what they want in their own time. They're a good teacher, like, good to my kid.

Like, I'm fine. Okay, oh, 800 of the hits. What would you do in this situation? You found out this information. Teachers moonlighting in an adult-like world outside of school hours. Do you leave it alone, or do you tell the school? Or do you write to a radio station? Those are your options.

Pretty much got 100% of the Texan calls on one side, don't we? Almost. A few people saying it's in breach of. of a code of conduct for teachers. But, so basically, a daughter goes to a primary school. The mum has just found out that one of the teachers there has like an adult account. And she doesn't teach her child, but she's wondering what she should do about it. Should she tell the school?

The husband says leave it alone, but she feels weird about it. She doesn't even teach her kid. You know, like, I just... It does feel, I can... Look, from her point of you, you can see just if we step in her shoes that's what my wife always says I need to do

just look at from someone else's point of view for once. And if we look at her point of view, she's found out this information and yeah, I mean there might be a grey questionable area with ethics and codes of conduct. Yeah. So she's like, is it my place to say something? And I understand why she's asking that

question. I mean it's a fair question from her point of view without painting her out to be like a malicious Karen. And her husband said no, don't do it. And she's just asking for advice. It's not saying she is going to go guns blazing. Doesn't sound like she's told anyone else, apart from national radio shows. And 99% of us are saying get your sticky

nose out of it. So, I guess if the school's going to find out, they might find out in their own time. Someone said, get your husband did check how explicit the content is. Now, that is a thorough investigation.

Because I think... That is from a man. Yeah, on that scale. then you can decide whether you go to the school. He's like, I'm just checking. I'm just seeing what we're dealing with. This will be a two-week investigation. I'm sorry, honey. We will get to the bottom of it.

You stick with me, stay with me. Anonymous, what would you say if this was your friend asking you for advice? I'd say don't say anything. I think this one wants to tell, though. I mean, that's why she's asking other people. And eventually, I mean, it's already out there. It's going to get out eventually. But I just wouldn't.

Don't say anything. I guess that if the teachers were doing something that made look sideways so you'd probably question yourself but this is not that moment. Yeah, like I said, she's in the 90s, the worst possible scenario was running into your teacher at bloody wickles or paper plus. That was a nightmare, let alone stumbling across this online,

but that's 2026 now. Someone's also said, does it matter if it's a primary school teacher, leave it, if it's a high school teacher, then potentially some of the students could stumble across the content. Does that make a difference? Yeah, I suppose. Yeah.

You were saying in the 90s, that's all you had to worry about. Did you have rumours about your teachers at school, though? Oh, wild ones, yeah. One of our younger English teachers had a rumour that she was moonlighting at Bubbles Bathhouse. And I'm like, in hindsight, I really don't think that that was true. No, oh, kids are the worst. I mean, she must have been very clean if she was, you know. She was a great teacher.

Teaching by day, bathing by night. Yeah. And look, I was good in English, you know, so she was doing her job. But it cares if she was at Bubbles Bathhouse. That's right. What does it really matter? Bubbles Bathhouse sounds like something you don't want popping up on your bloody bank statements. Good-day, Nika.

How are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you? Happy New Year, Nika. Okay, new year. All right. What are you saying to this person? I would say just leave it.

I mean, even though they're not, you know, this daughter's specific teacher, if they're not doing anything to the kids or, I know, that sounds really wrong, but, like, you know, not doing anything to affect anyone, then what would you get out of it telling the, like, the people, like, the people, I know, apart from ruining someone's career in life. Yeah. Well, exactly. Yeah, they're not harming anyone.

What's the point? And how do they even come across it? Yeah. How do you think of it? Everyone keeps, how did this information come to be? You're right, you're right. but we'll never get to the bottom of that unless we get to call her husband.

Yeah, does she even know it's true? Because if she brought that up and the whole investigation goes... He's on it. He's going to do the investigating. Don't you worry about that? We'll close that case. But okay, Megan, what are we saying?

I think it's pretty obvious. I think most people are saying leave it alone. Get your sticky beak out of it. Don't go and tell anyone, especially if you don't have decent evidence and nothing is being, no one's being hurt,

nothing's happening from it. side up. Dono Ben and Megan on the hits. People are grizzling the Australian Grand Prix over the weekend. People were paying $30 for a sausage sizzle. Oh, geez, Bunnings well I tell you what Bunnings would be

rolling in their grave, they would never dream of charging. 30 bucks, just a sausage and bread, or are we talking a high-end looking hot dog? What is it? Not that $30 is okay in any instance, but... I don't know, but I think it did come with chips. Okay. But also $9 for one piece of

of salmon sushi, one piece. I know, I hate to say this, but you kind of expect those ludicrous prices at an event like that, don't you? It's a captive audience. Yeah, and you could bring in your own lunch, so that was an option. Yeah, right, a lunchbox.

How did you feel about that? Because I know you would have dreamed, you would have done anything to be there, Megan, and there were a lot of people, I noticed, a lot of popular people who were over there on social media. I'm so happy for them. Were you jealous? But, yeah, I was very jealous. So I kind of tapped out of a lot of content at the weekend because I was like,

no, I just, no, let me just watch the race. I don't want to see all these influences there. Does it make you feel any better known they spent $9.50 for a piece of tuna and avocado sushi? That's why I brought it up. Good. Because ha-ha. There we go. Have you enjoyed your $30 sausage? Something happened yesterday and really embarrassing, I think, to get caught doing this as a grown adult. And I think a lot of it stems from being an only child as well. I talk to myself out loud all of the time. You do.

Do you do that? No. Do you talk to yourself in your head? Yeah. Yeah, I see, I vocalise it. And I know it's an unusual thing for a 44-year-old man to be doing. But yeah, yesterday I was doing it in a room, just sort of giving myself a pep talk because I was trying to change the bloody duvet cover. Oh.

One of that is one of more dreaded jobs in the household. I'll vacuum any day of the week. and I'll scrub a toilet. Do you have a technique? Yeah. I generally try and fold the cover inside out, grip, pinch the ends, try and flip it over. But it's such an arm and shoulder workout.

Like it's so, one of my few talents I have in life is quite long ups. You do have a big wingspan. Big wingspan. You're an albatross. Yeah. Wow, you do. Yeah, it's one of my things. So I'm really good.

You can put your arms down now. Okay, I was just showcasing it to me again. One of the few advantages Taking a selfie really useful Big long arm And generally changing the duve cover But you'd think so But still an absolute nightmare

You're always sweat and sweaty And tussling and swearing And so I was sitting down I was just having it I tried one attempt Failed So I was like You can do this

Okay You have got this You have done this many times Out loud Yeah And my son walked in He's like what do Are you talking to yourself?

It's like, yeah, giving myself a pep talk, changed the UV cover. You can't do this. Yeah, I felt a little embarrassed. So do you not say anything to yourself out loud? You'll never talk to yourself. No. Not really. Yeah, because I was wondering if that's a sibling thing.

I had no one else to talk to. Just myself. Just myself. I'm trying to think of a moment where producer Troy, do you talk to yourself? Out loud, you do? Oh, that's good. I was going to do a text poll, four for eight. seven, are there any grown adults who are actually talking to themselves out loud?

So, have you ever given yourself, like, a pep talk? Like, when do you talk to yourself, Troy? Normally, it's when I tell myself to calm down. Can you get a bit off the handle, can you? No, it's just more like, I don't want to cause a fight with my partner, so just stay calm. She doesn't mean that. Some of the time she's heard me under my breath say, she doesn't mean that. Just let it just get to have it.

What did you say? Nothing. Dude, that's an internal thought. That's not an out loud thought. I know I say all these things, but it's. In my head. Yeah. Okay.

So, I'm at 4-487. Are you talking to yourself out loud or in your head? Tasman texts in going, I, my husband does this all the time, full conversations. She said for a while there, I was really worried he had an imaginary friend and whether we should get him some help. But no. It's odd. It's only odd because I don't do it. What do you do?

Like, you said the first time you ever talk in the morning is. Like when I do, like, wethers for, I record some wethers. She doesn't say anything to yourself for like an hour and a half, two hours. What would I say? So I get up. And then an hour and a half, like I was speaking, I'll be like, oh, there's my voice. Do you talk to yourself in a morning? I do.

This is a bad. This is really embarrassing, but I do. What do you say? I say, hey big boy. I go, today, and this is so embarrassing. I go, today you're going to be trying to be the best husband and father you can be. I say that. I haven't achieved that yet.

But I keep saying it every day. Oh my God. And then I say, this is more for my work. I say, today you're going to be trying to be engaged and concentrate. at radio. Oh, I don't laugh. I'm going to cry. That's so sweet.

Do you actually? I do. I do. It's very embarrassing to say. No, that's very sweet. I say it out loud. That's so nice. Multiple times.

But as I say, I keep failing. If you could just really work towards that, though. I know. If I can achieve it just one day would be nice. Catherine. Morning. How are you? Good, thanks.

Are you talk to yourself out loud? Yeah. I do a bit. I find I'm a bit of a verbal process. So, like, when I'm trying to make a decision or something like that, I tend to talk to myself, I have noticed, as I've got a bit older, I do it a lot more in the supermarket, and I do notice, like, occasionally I'll be talking to myself, and I'm like, oh, man, someone could be looking at me.

Yeah, amen, you're all wondering, I'm going, courgettes, cool, get, it's, cool, cucumber, cucumber, cucumber. Yeah, I do that, too. Like, I'll be, like, because you have your shopping list, right? And then you're sort of like, okay, I need to get this. And then I'll be down an island. oh I forgot the onions and like I'm literally verbalising it and I'm walking out the aisle. And you know you look like a crazy person but you're happy with it, Catherine.

Yeah, I'm like, you know what? Who cares? I was told her a friend who is a, she's a teacher in Dunedom and they had a school fundraiser over the weekend. Sort of beginning of the year, let's get some funds in, you know. Bake sales on the Sunday and all sorts of mini Ferris wheels and that did the whole jam. And then she sent some footage of the adults tug-of-war competition. Your stock standard tug-of-war game. Yeah. Sort of what looked like about eight adults on either side of the rope.

Okay. And then the two mothers who are at the front of the line on opposing teams, they were getting serious. They were eyeballing each other and stuff. Were they winning anything or was it just a bit of fun? Just prestige. Miss Presti, the money can't buy prize of prestige. And what it ended up in, so the tug of war happened, but it ended up in a full-on UFC wrestle, two mothers in the sand pit,

one mother pinning the other mother's face down into the sand with her knee on her torso. No. I've seen the imagery. It's ugly scenes. Hilarious scenes though. What? Hilarious. Okay.

But you would know, you're competitive. I know. I was about to say, I know I can't talk, but I don't think I would pin someone down in a sandpit. I honestly wouldn't put it past me. I haven't been to a school fundraiser before. Can I cast your mind back to four weeks ago? We raced Maddie and PJ through the country. Yeah.

We lost the race. I was very salty. You didn't talk after the race for three days. You didn't say anything to anyone. But did I pin Maddie McClean's face in a sandpit? Did you want to? Yes But there's many things that happen in my mind

That I know I can't do in real life, you know? You refrain Yeah So I wait 100 of the hits What I opened this up What was meant to be fun But turned way too competitive I'd love to know

I were 100 through it's 4487 Also I've got one for you I didn't pin someone's face Into the sandpit But I did get quite competitive At the weekend On something that was supposed to be fun

Social sports, family games Board games Oh board games Yeah they're a sort of Like a great way to really destroy their families evening and start playing Monopoly. Yeah. Some people don't talk after ball games. Janine, I'm sorry Jamie, welcome.

Hello. Happy New Year, Jamo. What started as fun. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. What started as fun but got way too competitive? Well, you know the swing ball. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. It's a classic. Playing with my 10 or 11-year-old son. And we were both really competitive, so we were really competitive. We were there whacking this ball, and we were on fire. And I gave it a massive whack, and he just happened to leave four. Knocked him out. Oh, no, with the tennis ball?

Did you say you knocked him out? I felt down. Oh, no. Can you please explain that properly? That is, geez, that tennis ball must have been coming with some velocity there, Jamie. Oh, we were, I mean, we were, I'm surprised the ball was still on there. whacking. The sad thing is we're so competitive we can't play games together anymore because we got concussion again from us playing ball.

Yeah, right. Can I just jump in here, mate? You've just got to stop knocking your kid out, Jamie. I know. First rule of parenting. That is a great call. It's really funny. You get that like that with your kids, don't you? Yeah, yeah. At least her son was playing rough as well. Like when I do it with my five-year-old son, it's kind of worse.

He's like, can you stop going so hard? He's like, don't hit it so hard. Joe, what started as fun, but ended up in absolute competitive madness. Well, years ago, we were playing my husband, well, it was my fiancé at the time. We were playing Pictionary with some friends. And he just couldn't get my pictures. I couldn't get his pitches. We were getting really angry.

We didn't talk for ages, and we were due to get married. Well, we did get married. by the way, but we didn't talk for ages, but it was like, oh my God. So you almost didn't get married after this pictureary fallout? Well, no, we got past it. We're still married. We've been married 30 years, so we got, but we've never played it again, ever. No, yeah, it's one of those ones, isn't it?

I wonder if anyone's gone into a wedding, like, during the silent treatment? Oh. Get down the eye, and you're like, oh, you know, I have to talk to him. Yeah, I do. Good on you, Joe. That's brilliant. Yeah, a lot of board games being flipped over. A lot of fisticuffs at fundraisers.

You took part in a really fun thing Friday night. Yeah, look, it was a Bridgeton party, and everyone was dressed up. It was a masquerade, so it was like full regalia, you know, from that time. And everyone got really into it, beautiful masks. Did it look like one of those bloody eyes wide shut parties from that movie with Tom? No, that was creepy. Oh, was that creepy? This was like elegant.

We had like all the music being played by like a string quartet. You know, like very Bridgeton. You don't watch Bridgeton. No, not a cross-up. But we found out once we got there that there was a best dressed part of the night. And then people started coming up being like, you guys are definitely going to win it. Oh, God. Don't plant that in her head.

I kept saying Andrew, I was like, oh my God, I think we could win this. He was like, don't get it. Just chill. Just chill. I would be on Andrew's side. And then they would go to. to announce it and they're like tonight's bestries and i was like Andrew we have got this and he's like shush just shut up and then they were like it goes to a couple and they they named us bestries

and i had to Andrew just looked at me and was like don't make a spectacle because i probably would have fist pumped and been looked at you did you speak to did you speak to or did you just you play it cool no i played it cool did you just elegantly glide up to collect your what were they mumford and sun's tickets that's pretty good price inside i'm like I totally heard this But then you said On the way home You're having a crack at him

Yeah I was like excuse me You won that My dress did the heavy lifting in this competition I carried you in that best dress competition He's like okay Pick yourself up for the next one For God's sakes

Yeah I mean that was just supposed to be a bit of fun But yeah What started out as fun But ended up competitive Bridget We were having a family scribble match with my sisters and mum and dad and I can't help myself

and my best points option was to put the C-bomb on a triple C to get the points. It was my best option. It was your only option? My only option. I mean, it was my best points option at that moment. And so you've launched the C-bomb

on a game of Scrabble. You say family, like who's playing? Who's around the board? My sisters, three sisters and mum and dad, well adult, we've all got our own children. And my brother-in-law who bless him doesn't swear and he's a lawyer. And he said, by the way, I would allow the word. I was like, yeah, it was definitely legal. But my sister threw the tiles off the board.

It was a disaster. Oh, right. The board came flipping over. Just my tiles. Just my tiles. Just my dog, went skating off. So did you walk away with the points, though? No, no.

game abandoned. Oh, Bridgett. Wait, was she upset that you'd done so well out of that word, or was she upset at the word? I think she was, I think she was just doing good PR on behalf of my parents, not wanting to see that word on the board. Triple points! Triple points! Is it in the dictionary?

Oh, that's so good, Bridget. That's great, Bridget. It was, sadly, sadly, my husband's proudest moment of me, he's told me. I had two children And that was his parents God, I never loved you more than that moment You put a C-bomb and scrabble That's my girl

I love that Hey good on you Bridget, you go and have a great day Cheers, you too, thanks See ya Funny side up Jono Ben and Megan On the hits I took the day off to take my son

My oldest to school Let's see That's a huge beginning of a new chapter I think for most parents It's that, for us anyway, it was the moment of realization where you're like, oh, they're not going to be around forever. You know, this is, that's what I thought. And I hate to stick the knife in. Probably 12, 13 years left before he wants to go and spread.

My son's already going, I'm going to go straight overseas when I furnished school. I'm like, bro, you need to live here until you're 40, I thought. Oh. But that's, but it's exciting. It is exciting. And he was really excited. He was waiting for it. He turned five a few weeks ago, so he's had to wait to go.

So he was just fizzing. And I didn't think I was going to cry, but I'm getting a bit emotional. I wasn't expecting it to be a big thing. I thought, because I seem to remember like it's been a while since I was at school, my parents just kind of dropped me, and you go in and you do your thing. They barely stopped the car from rolling, didn't they? I think the car was still moving. They kick you out.

They had a siggy in one hand in a Miami. Miami wine cooler in the other, you go and live life. I got dropped off one day and then the next day I'm like biking 15 minutes at five years old. They're like, off you go. Yeah, and there's a lot more trust in the community back then, wasn't there. Yeah. So we get to the school and they didn't tell us until that morning that it was like a big ceremony. So there's about six new kids and they said there's the whole school's going to go into the hall.

And then we get welcomed in with a porphyty. And I was like, oh, no. Porphyry's a tear duker. Caratia, tear juker. There was a Karakia, and they had a student calling for us, and she was incredible. And I was like, oh, no. So me and Andrew, somehow we ended up at the front of the crew. So that meant we went into the audience right up the front of the school hall.

We're in the front row, no stage or anything. So the kids are right in front of us. And they're welcoming us. Then they start singing. that Tearoha song? Oh God. And I look at Andrew and he's welling up and we just both bawled. And he's like, don't cry for the kids.

But there's like year nine. Don't cry for the kids. Not in front of the children. Not in front of the children. There was year nine boys in front of us. And they're just looking at us like, are you okay? Like what's wrong with you? You'll understand one day.

Balling our eyes out. It was really beautiful. It was really sweet. And then afterwards they were like, okay you can feel well your child and send them off. Basty just runs and he's gone. Yeah. That's humbling.

That is humbling. Come hug! There was no hug or anything. Kling on to my clothes as I walk away. Yeah, no, that doesn't happen. Means he's ready. But afterwards, I asked my husband how he was doing because I think he probably cried more than I did.

How are you doing? I'm good. I was trying not to cry in front of the kids. You didn't try very hard. You're like bawling your eyes out. And we're in the front row of the assembly. It's when they start singing songs, all the kids, and you're like, oh.

And then he just ran off and didn't even say goodbye. He's like, see you up. Big boy. Sucking in the big ones there. Yeah. The Pappas. Were you the only couple interviewing each other for radio after the? Yeah.

Yeah. But then I, we took our daughter along because I was like, it would be nice if she sees where he's gone. because she's spent every single day with him, and now suddenly he's gone. So I asked Aya how she was feeling she's three. We've dropped off, Basty. Yeah, and I love him.

You love him. Yeah. Do you, are you doing okay though now that Bass is gone? No. What's the matter? I miss him. Aw, it's okay. You're going to see him after school?

Hey. Oh, that's, you didn't factor that in, did you? No, after school, he gets home and she's like, I hate you. So, really. Because he deserted her. Yeah, it must be. He's in the dog box. But then I asked Bastion Howe's day went at school, and I was unprepared for what he had to tell me.

What did you tell me just before? What were they calling you? A little kid. I mean a cute kid. Cute kid. They called you a cute The girls think you're cute And they gave me a cuddle

Did they? Only one of them Did you like it when they gave you a cuddle? Yeah I felt a bit happy Mate, mate Be worried You're in West Auckland

He's going to be a father by the time he's 16 It was day one And he was like The girls called me a cute kid He'll be vaping and raising kids Before you know it Also I think it was the older girls too So that checks out

He's his father's boy Yeah Dono Ben and Megan On the hits