Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Should Megan Claim the Mystery Birthday Flowers?

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

On today’s show: Megan considers taking credit for the mysterious birthday flowers her brother thinks she sent. A wild 1975 Christmas song resurfaces on TikTok with a twist no one saw coming. Jono rants about deodorant marketing… Megan lands Producer Troy in hot water with an awkward age question.\ Our entertainment reporter reveals the questions they weren’t allowed to ask a Wicked cast member. How the safest Mariah player finally got out! Jono insists he originally invented Apple TV.... Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Good morning, welcome to the podcast for your little Friday, your Thursday morning. Great to have you with us. Just John O'Ne and me this morning. Yes, Ben was away today. We kept saying he'd run off with Metallica.

That's a lie. I don't know if you could tell we were lying or not. That was very believable. There's no way he would ever run off with Metallica. It's like, yeah, it just gives him so much anxiety. Doesn't seem like the life for him, a life on the road, a life of rock and roll. Could he be the planner? Could he be the logistics guy for Metallica?

Your friend, Ellie, sweet, sweet Ellie, she works for a company that puts on a lot of shows, including the one last night. What's the general rule of thumb? Do these artists, they're gone the next day, or they hang around, or what's the deal? Most of them are gone the next day. Some of them, like Ed Shearing lingers. You can always tell if there's a break in their schedule, then they're going to be. to stay but we are either first or last on a tour generally. So I think we were last

of the leg last night so they might hang around they might hang around yeah. Yeah. Especially like Toll went to their concert last night. We don't know if that's a secret or not Jono was told. Yeah. So maybe they'll hang around and watch Toll's concert. Well he's the, I think the singer of Toll he is a winemaker and he loves

I think he's friends with Sam Neal. So he goes to Sam Neal's vineyard. Is he two paddocks? Sipping, does he do the Yeah, he's a full wine guy Do the sniff, isn't I? Yeah, incredible. Incredible, isn't it?

What these people get up to in their spare time? I feel bad, I just thought he would be like a bourbon guy. I don't have a, yeah, I'd love a cool hobby like, I'm a wine connoisse. I don't have time for cool hobbies, you know? All these people like Alice Cooper, you know, Alice Cooper, the right? Yeah. A huge golf enthusiast. Like he's a real, like almost a professional golf player, he's that good.

These, like, full-on rockers have like a very, calming. Yeah. Side hustle. Yeah. It's almost like the balance. Well, no. Okay, if you could have any hobby.

So, okay, there's, when you leave radio, at the end of a radio show, you can go and do anything. What would you like your hobby to be? Making shoes. I'd design shoes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's cool. It sounds like too hard to start now.

Yeah. But that's a good idea. Yeah. What would you call a shoe brand? Oh, I don't know. The heels are off. The Pappas. The Pappas.

Well, you know all those fancy brands like, Christen Le Breton? It's like they've got fancy names. I don't think anyone's buying a Megan Pappas show. Yeah, you might. Hey, well, you're just going to get your name out. I mean, sure, when Karen Walker started, she was probably like, who's going to buy a Karen Walker belt? That is a very stock standard name. Yeah.

She sounds like Karen Walker could work in HR. She's, everyone wears her stuff. That's true. What would you do? I really like colognes. Do you? Yeah, I love colognes. You do always smell nice.

I've got an array of colour. When you've got no hair, you've got no good clothes. You've got to have something going for you. You're a nice clothes. Don't say that. But, yeah, I would like to design clones, but then I'm like, that's a flooded market. That's like podcasts to me, the old cologne market. You know that there is a place in Auckland where you can make your own cologne.

It's just like a one-off. Yeah, you should do that. It's really fun. You pick bass notes, top notes, and it's a whole process. I like going into World. You know, World, and there's a lovely guy there, Francis. Okay. And he's got the craziest colognes.

And he's like, oh, this one's designed by the bass player from Prodigy. And so he gets them all in from around the world. And he's like, yeah, he's got this really unique, yeah. I'm still, like, blown away that all these rockers have these really, like, crazy. Chill side hustles. So I think that would be a fun thing to do. You know, this ever ends. Whatever happened, him, oh, he released a cologne.

it, no one bought it. I'll be honest, people probably think you don't smell as good as you do, but Jono smells really nice. I would, so you would buy some, would you? It was like a back-and compliment. I would. I don't know how to take that.

I would buy the prior cologne. Now it looks like our boss, Matt Anderson, is desperate to get in and have a meeting. We'll get, Matt, come on in. Matt, come on in. Can I wait for this. Come on, Matt. Come on.

He's coming in for, our boss, Matt, we're in the podcast intro. You're looking desperate for a meeting. What's the loose, loose topic of the meeting? He likes to tell us how we did. today. No, you know what I was actually going to say? What?

As I said to you guys this morning, very quickly during the song, the show was very funny and free flowing this morning and Megan told me that's because you're super hung over from... No, I see tired. Oh, well, thank you, Matt. Thank you, that. You're on the podcast intro now.

Great. That's a great tease for the show today that you're about to hear. Free flowing. Free flowing podcast. I mean, it'll be tightly edited for the podcast now, so... Enjoy. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. Oh, Megan, you have just been given a gift. A little golden goose from the gift gods here.

You've received a text. My brother has messaged me. We love each other, but we don't like do presents, you know? I find adult sibling relationships are interesting, aren't they? Because you spend a lot of time together for, let's say, an 18-year period. Yeah. And you kind of go your separate ways? And we're very different.

He's quite quiet. He builds cars. He's very good with his hands. He's a bogan. You're shocking with your hands. Yeah. I like to talk. Ben will vouch for that.

But he messaged me And so he lives in Nelson I live in Auckland And he message me And said Hey You wouldn't by chance Of sent me flowers

And I was like Okay So it's his birthday She hasn't responded yet Now you have the opportunity Because have you seen Have you sent flowers? He's not

He would have loved Metallica last night If you know what I'm saying Like he's not really a flowers guy Everyone appreciates flowers though I guess it's the thought Yeah, it's really, it's a two-day gift, though, isn't it, before they start wilting and smelling the old flowers? But so you haven't gone and got them a present, and you haven't replied yet. So this is your opportunity to claim a gift, look like a great sister.

Yeah. I just know it just says hope these brighten your day. It doesn't say who they're from. Beautiful. I could claim it. I could claim it. Because clearly the person who sent them doesn't want to be acknowledged. Someone needs to be acknowledged for this.

What happens in the future if someone's like, oh, do you know, did you get my flowers? He's going to be like... Just go, oh weird, I sent your flowers too. Either one of ours turned up. Must have been mine. Sorry, you might want to take that up with your florist. Okay.

Big guy? I just, I'm happy to do that. You know, I'm happy to take the credit. But I just don't want to be found out. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Megan has just been sent a present, a gift, a golden goose gift from the gods of gifts. It's your brother's birthday.

My brother's birthday And he texts me saying You didn't by chance Send me Flowers He's a Bogan Like doesn't say much He's probably not Who I would send flowers to

Okay not a flowers Because you were talking about Getting him here For Metallica from Nelson You were going to fly him here Yeah To Metallica And you didn't do that

No So the next best option Right So you're going to fly into Metallica And then you're like Well the next best option For a gift is nothing That's with a two

Those were you two clear options, really? Yeah, that makes sense. I went from the most epic gift to just nothing. Oh, no, if I can't get him that, there's nothing's going to... So you haven't seen the flowers, and he said, are these flowers from you? So I'm like, do I claim them? Do I claim the flowers? What could go wrong?

There's no cart. Well, no, the card just says, I hope these brighten your day. Lovely gesture. Doesn't say who it's from. Yeah. It seems, also seems, the message almost seems, like they were sent to someone who's grieving. Yeah.

There's no happy birthday. Yeah, like, yeah, maybe they've been... Maybe they were just, like, wrong delivery address. They're yours for the taking. Haley, morning to you. Does Megan claim this gift, or do you think it's going to come back to bite her? Good morning, guys. No, you need to be honest.

I wonder if you could possibly ford those flowers to my girlfriend who's starting a new job on Monday, please. Or for the flowers. Oh, yeah. And then what, you claim them. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe they can just be New Zealand's flowers. hours. We just keep forwarding on to everyone.

So if you're in a situation... It's a really good option, Haley. You buy your own bloody flowers. It's so expensive. I know. I know. And that's the thing. I wouldn't have paid that much money.

Like, sorry, Justin. I wouldn't have paid that much money to send flowers to my bog and brother. Because he would be like, cool. Actually, she'll pay no money to see you to Metallica or send your flowers or anything, Justin. I'm sorry. Haley, thanks for your call. Really appreciate it. Rachel, morning to you.

Did you, are you one of these people who have done this? Hi, so the gift claiming thing. Have you done this? Have you claimed a gift to you had no part in purchasing? No, but I sent a gift. I sent flowers to my friends and they arrived and they didn't have a card on them. And her new boyfriend, like they'd been together, seriously, they'd been together like about three months. He didn't.

He didn't. Oh, what a dick. He claimed them. He actually claims them. Did you, like, Doberman? Well, hell yeah. Like, what happened was, I was waiting for my friend to acknowledge. Like, because I were, she, I can't remember what was going on.

No, it was her birthday. Right. So I'd sent them. So I was waiting for her to acknowledge or just to say, hey, got the flowers, you know, as you do. Yeah. And she never said anything. And, like, two days, she never said anything. I was like, that's really weird.

And so I messaged her and said, hey, did you get my flowers? and she are. And he would have had some explaining to do then. Did he get her anything else? I can't remember. We were just too, like, all pussy that had told me. Did you confront him yourself? No, she did.

Rachel didn't have to say anything. He incurred the rat. Did they stay together? No. No. Well, if he's doing that, if he's had the flags were there after three months, if he's pulling that trick.

So this is the other side. This is the victim. I don't want to get caught out. This is the victim in the crime we're talking to here. Rachel, thank you for airing your side of the story. No worry. Appreciate it. So you might get found out.

That is, yeah, that's a... But like, we're not in a relationship. So you can't break out with me. I can just laugh and be like, ha-ha. Good gag. Didn't get you anything. Jokes on you. Another text 4-487 saying, don't do it, Megan, karma.

Is it a problem with his audience? Too many morals. John O'Benon and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, Mariah Carey. We barely know her at the moment because we're trying to avoid her. All I want for Christmas is the song

If you hear it in a mall Scrolling through social media On a bus Whereever, on a bus Then you're out of the game And it's not a C-System Yeah You have to be honest with us

And tell us if you're in or out of the game Otherwise you're just cheating yourself But there is no prize for winning Yeah Someone's text in Melissa Thank you so much I just wear air pods everywhere Crank up your podcast

When I'm wandering through the supermarkets Still in says Barb on 4487 I'm not going outside of the house says Amanda doesn't leave the house well that's a level of coming into this game that no one really needs to show but obviously I accidentally scrolled on TikTok yesterday not on mute

Not thinking No not thinking it didn't come across it The lapse in concentration against a lot of people Your Eyes so we're not obviously playing the song On the station until we're all out which leaves A bit of a hole in terms of the Christmas bangers on air But we have stumbled across an incredible Christmas song Now this was apparently just doing the rounds on TikTok at the moment

But this is an actual Christmas song It's like playing on the radio I'm just trying to get the artist I think the artist's name is Linda Linda yeah Now not many Christmas songs Should come with a trigger warning

But this one should So it starts off all sweet and innocent Look outside The snow is falling What a side to see That's lovely good start to the song Daddy will be coming home As happy as kids

Daddy's on his way home for Christmas? That's great stuff. This seems like a stock standard textbook Christmas song. And it goes on. Uh-oh. We're sorry to interrupt this program, but a bulletin has just been handed me. There's been a serious accident involving the number five bus out of New Haven. Dear God.

The only information we have is that the bus skidded on a patch of ice and slammed into a tree. Into a tree? Uh-oh. Isn't that Daddy's bus? Isn't that, the kids are starting to ask questions now? Mommy, isn't that the bus? That daddy likes to go on? Yeah, that is the bus that daddy likes to go on.

She's in denial. Yeah, no, she's trying to make the kids feel better. That's great. Everything's all right. It's going to be another happy Christmas. She's just trying to keep up appearances in front of the kids. Yeah, until, uh-oh, breaking news. Oh, no, another one.

Ladies and gentlemen, I've just been handed the latest report involving bus number five out of New Haven. Oh, oh. And from all indications, we're sorry to report that there were no survival. Oh, God. That means everyone on the bus perished. I don't know. I'm laughing. It's horrific.

Well, you're laughing because there's a need to be covered off in a Christmas song. Uh-oh. Oh, my God, this just can't happen. What am I to do? She's not... The nurses is not happy. What have I got left in life to look forward to? Maybe your two kids that are standing here listening to you say that?

I've got nothing left in this life. So they're all in the bloody doldrum singing... Oh, hold on. Merry Christmas, everybody. What? No, it's late. I miss my bus. Oh, don't just stand there.

Help me with these presents. It's going to be. Yes. I miss the bloody bus. Fashion Christmas And, you know, thoughts and prayers with those poor souls On bus number five That was a roller coaster

Yeah, there's a lot of devastated families That Christmas, well, not this one, thank goodness Oh yeah Wow, there we go I forgot about the busload of other people That was from 1975 And it was actually a Christmas song by Linda Betty John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast, The Hits No Ben this morning, he's still out metallicering his face off His leather pants Yeah, it's really out of character for him off brand but hey we've lost him to the band this might be the midlife crisis we've been waiting for for them we thought it was his blonde hair era it's his leather paned

hair now I just want to have a little bit of a rent about deodorant a deodorant if you will something I have noticed lately and you might have noticed that I noticed that I smell yeah that's firstly I was just no I was going to say you don't so you're still using it still use it basic hygiene but

a new brand of deodorant big deodorant as you would like to call them all over body deodorant all over it so I've been led to believe and correct me if I'm wrong that the only areas of major concern have been our pits and bits when it comes to

and now they're trying now they're trying to convince us that forearms, elbows, knees are also just as pungent is it deodorant or antiperspirant I don't know I haven't looked into it but it's not just one brand Like the rex owner, dove, they're all getting into the all overbody deodorant game. Is it trying to stop, like, your whole body from sweating?

No, I think it's trying to sell us more deodorant. Trying to make us paranoid and anxious about other parts of our bodies that smell. Yeah. Yeah. It's also, same with the bloody toothpaste industry. How many shades wider can our teeth get? Every week they're like another ten shades wider. If my teeth get any wider, they're going to start voting for anything.

mate I can't get any whiter I think you are ready for news soxieb yeah okay I 800 80 10 80 your thoughts there are too many shades

of whitening toothpastes and plus like we've heard multiple times they don't really they all do the same thing they'll do the same thing yeah there we go nothing's more whitening

than anything else but we still buy into it the end of my old man ran okay great John O'Ben and Megan the podcast the hits

we cross to our entertainment reporter, Nicole. Live from New York City. It's our entertainment correspondent, Nicole Ryan. And you've been in Las Vegas, Nicole? I somehow survived. Barely, but you know what? It was just about 48 hours,

and that was the perfect amount. And I got out of there right before I lost my engagement ring, which was a disaster. It dropped down the drain the night before I left because I had had too much to drink. and then a guy had to come and get it. You have to get a plumber in? Yeah, I did.

Okay, I'm playing the role of Matt, your husband. What's going on? What's going on? What's happening in Vegas? What are you doing? Why is it off? Why does this always happen? What's the matter with you? You're like, I've just got a slippery ring finger. In Vegas. It only happens in Vegas, though. Yeah, no, no. I mean, listen.

Why did you take it off in Vegas? I take them off before I go to sleep. I was washing my face and brushing my teeth and taking my jewelry and my makeup off. It wasn't like I was, it was like time to go to sleep. It was part of the skincare routine. Gotcha. Yes, thank you. See, you know.

You understand. You should tell him, do you like these, these pores, these flawless paws? Trying to stay beautiful for you, okay? Now, Wicked, everyone's very excited all around the world about Wicked. And you got to hang out with one of the cast members during the week. Yes, we hung out with Bach, with Ethan Slater. I loved the first one, but I think this was better. I mean, it was so, so good.

I can't even describe to you. Like, we laughed a lot more than we did the first one. Like a lot of laughter, obviously cried. I looked like a crazy person walking out of the movie theater. But it was amazing. And Ethan was a doll. I didn't know what to expect from him, but he was actually really, really sweet and very witty and very funny.

Okay. So here's the situation with Ethan. So in the first when they started filming, he had a wife and a baby. you can correct me if I'm wrong in any of this correct and then he did the movie with Ariana Grande they hit it off he left his family

behind for Ariana but now they lost his engagement ring down the drain part listen it happens it happens yeah obviously they both got a lot of heat for this relationship but the relationship's now over so that's an elephant in the room

did they say not to talk about anything was there any prerequisite Megan you know there was you know we were told please do not talk about the relationship I do happen to think that they're still going pretty strong. I think that they're still dating. I think that they are still very much dating. But also, fun fact, because I have a little inside info, a little tea, obviously through

Scooter Braun. He's your mate, but he also managed Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande. He had told me, in confidence, that this is with, before he had, like, stopped managing. It was, like, one of the last draws, and he was like, I don't want to do this anymore. he had finally taken a vacation with like a bunch of friends she had called when all of this drama was going on and was like you need to get home you need to get home and fix this for me and she was and he was like i don't like what is there to fix like you slept with a married man i'm not doing this anymore and was like you're going to have to figure this out like because you know he was like almost a fixer too like when you're a manager like that you're fixing things for them right and fixing like bad PR and all that stuff and so listen they got themselves into trouble i'm not condoning it it's horrible but like these things happen, right? Especially when you're working on a price closely with somebody. So, yeah, as far as I know, they're together.

That is tea, though, Nicole, because she, they've always said that people don't know the timeline. So he was still married. There's still be, there sort of, like, might have been problems between him and his wife. Again, maybe they were separated. Again, it just turns into a media circus and no one knows, like some people forget those are real people, like the ones that aren't celebrities like his wife. Does Scooter Braun, does Scooter Braun, he stopped managing after that? What did he say?

It's too hard to manage people. No, I think that he'd kind of been done. Like, he just, like, had, like, his time had run out, and I think that he had sold his soul to the devil, he felt like, and he just was ready to do other things and not be a slave to, like, all of these huge celebrities that had to have been more than a full-time job, the full-time job of, like, 20 people.

Jeez, I tell you what, we leave it. We lead a simple life down here in New Zealand, mate. It's not so much. None of this is happening in New Zealand. No, that nonsense's going on here. We're all sleeping with our cousins down here. We are not in a girl Are you sure?

There's not a deep bloodline around here, mate John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Run off with Metallica Join the band He's like Give me feel

He's wearing leather pants He's got a jacket With studs on us I can't imagine Anything less Ben He'd look good In a pair of leather pants He's got leather pan legs

He's got great legs But you know he's off today How good was this song last night With all the fire of techniques Yeah It was an amazing concert. It really was, if you head along to Metallica. If not, you probably saw all the coverage on social media.

Can I confess something? I did probably the most unmetallica thing the whole night. You wore your plugs. No, I didn't wear your clothes. I took my ear plugs and I was too embarrassed to wear them. Good, good. It's worth the deafness and years to come. But recently I've had a cracked lip.

You know, just a really tiny crack lip. And then every time I smile or something, it re-splits the... That's so sore. Yeah, I don't wish that upon my worst enemy. It's the, you know, the tiniest little inconvenience. Do you wear lipstick to make it? No, I'm having to constantly reapply stuff. And my daughter's given me kindly her Jasmine Pink lip chip, chapstick lip stuff.

Dude, that looks like lipstick. I know. And so I'm having to secretly. Show me? Well, well... Oh, no, it is chapstick. Yeah, no, this is playing. I've got my little pink...

My little pink... chapstick out just like trying to secretly apply pink chapstick to my lips and I was like there's people there's people on the ground there who are like they would prefer their lips just erode away and fall off before they put on pink chapstick

that's what I was doing it's so lipstick looking they just looks like a lipstick yeah it does can you imagine this all this is all down yeah but you're right crack lips really hurt they do you know even James Hetfield, wouldn't put up with crackles, sweaty. Should we put a photo up of my little pink chapstick on the hit breakfast?

Please, please do. I'll tell you what was really cool. We were seeing generations of Bogan's there, all from the same family tree. Wasn't that a core memory for a lot of those kids there? I saw it probably would have been a granddad, a dad and a daughter together, all three of them. Cute. That was very cute. I literally saw a granddad in a mobility scooter walking with what looked like his son

and I'm just relaying a story you said except I've had it in a mobility scooter so trumped at you, bro. Was yours on a mobility scooter? Mine was. I just expected to see like a lot of 40-year-olds in black and ripped jeans. But there was so many different ages here.

Yeah, a family event. It was like Christmas in the park for Bogan's. It was wonderful. You were like, you found it weird because you haven't been to a concert with your family. I have with Oscar, yeah. I took my son to, he went along to travel. of Scott, which was, he started talking to the security guard, this giant man.

Yeah. And he was like, hey, mate, he was a high-fiving and, you know, sort of chatting away. I was like, who was that? He's like, oh, that's the only from school. His 15-year-old mate's doing security. It was enormous. Because he's doing security at Eden Park. Like seven foot.

He said 15. Yeah, 15. God, what's in the water. I know. But you've been to many concerts with your parents. I have. My parents, when I was really young, my first. The first ever concert was Tina Turner.

To fill the heart. What a... What a concert to go to with your parents. Had a bee sing in my armpit, but I still loved it. Did you get stung during the show by B? I did. But it was still great. How did this one go down?

Core memory. Yeah. And I went to Electric Light Orchestra, which you might not know the name, but you'll know some of their songs, this. I was like young. You didn't appreciate it. You don't appreciate it at the time, but now I'm like, that was cool. Yeah.

And I went to pink. My dad loves pink, so I took along to pink. Was that a good show? Wayno light pink? Loves pink. What's his favourite pink song? I don't know. I know producer Grace went with her mum to pink.

You guys are huge pink fans, are you? Yeah. I remember Mum, I'm pretty sure she was a huge Charday fan. Oh. That's right. A bit of Smooth Operator. It's just as for the F1 fans reminds me of Carlos Sines. He's called The Smooth Operator.

Annie, getting the pelvis work into this one? Did you see this? Why? I was really, did you? I did not. Honestly, I did not. I appreciate it now. Yeah. Shade, really good artist.

Smooth operator. I imagine a young John O'Rour at the same. It really was not. It was the wrong target demo. But 0-800. This is what we want to open up. Do you go to concerts with your parents? Have you taken your kids to concerts?

Maybe it's like us. You went to something epic and you didn't appreciate it at the time. and now you're like, that was cool. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. This morning, what you went to, what concert you went to with your parents, or what did you take your kids to? Yeah, lots of families at Metallica last night. Yeah, there were heaps of families too.

And Metallica actually took a moment, Robert Rhello and Kirk Hammett, the bassist and guitarist, they did some New Zealand songs, and they sung 660, Don't Forget, Your Roots, which was wonderful. What was it? Megan keeps going, they should have rehearsed. It's not, it's not good. Like, they should have just done one song and done it really well. I can't, it's in yellow, says Troy, here we go.

It does sound like a little bit of a rehearsal, okay? This thought was there, and Chris Mack was there last night, so I'm sure he would have loved that at the moment. The whole band would have been chuffed. And then they did split ends, And it sounds like, well, this is producer Troy's audio. It sounds like there. Troy is the front man for their covers band.

Have a listen. Let's go Troy. You're on pitch. You sound great. You do, mate. You do. So you can say you perform with Metallica, mate. Are you still alive?

Anyway, it was a fun night, like you said, lots of families, and we wanted to know, you know, have you gone to concerts with your parents? Have you taken your kids along? We'll get your calls on now. Linbo, how are you in Auckland? Hi, Lynn. Yeah, Linbo probably threw her. She got thrown off by your nickname.

What did you go along to, Lynn? I went along to David Cassidy, and his opening act was Elton John. David Cassidy. I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with David Cassidy. He's... It was a heartthrow Back in the day All right

And Elton John opened up for him That same situation My wife got tickets To the Oh god This is terrible story Are you going to say The Pussycat dolls

And Lady Gaga opens Lady Gaga open for them And I was like This lady's amazing She's better than the year She was Yeah that's cool How old was Elton at the time

Lynn Oh well I'm 67 now So he was pretty young He was actually I've heard of then Yeah, crazy. You're like, bring on David Cassidy, whoever you are. Yeah, exactly.

Did Elton impress you, or were you like, just get David on? Well, you wouldn't believe it, but I couldn't compare it much because it's the only concert I've ever been to. Oh, you're one and done. You're like, no concerts are going to get better than that. And my kids, if I tell them, they're just like, nah, nah, we all know how much. She's a one concert lady. Cassidy had her, and no one was going to better him, hey. Thank you so much for your call.

Really appreciate it. We've got Chase with us. Oh, no, 800 the hits. Chase, what'd you go along to with your parents, or what'd you take your kids along to? I took the old man along to ACDC. Oh, years ago. And how was that night?

Oh, that was wicked. It was the best night ever, eh? Like, within 50-odd meters within the front stage, you know, so I was right up there, Woshpit and stuff. It was wicked. Did your dad join you up the Mosh Pit? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was just after he spewed up.

It skewed his ring out, you know, beforehand. Pretty, um... Did he get a bit adventurous at the pre-drinks, did he, Chase? Oh, he did, you know, it was me and him. We went up, and we were at my mate to play, and I went a few drinks. Beforehand, you know, I had a few drinks beforehand, you know. Had a few drinks beforehand. My mate got home from work, and I was like, oh my gosh, you guys are wasted.

And then he ran his mate's partner ran up into town, dropped his block my old man, fell out of the car. I'm like, oh, shit, mate, what do you like, come on, dude, get yourself together. He pulled himself over to the bush, spured his ring out into the bush. I was just like oh bro come on like you know we're here it's your favourite band mate like you ain't gonna see them again alright I've got this I got those pulled himself together the straightest I've ever seen this man

after he spewed his ring out walked through the gate so nothing had happened and was just like yep sweet as straight to the mosh bit oh that's just what a night you wouldn't get a more New Zealand story scared his ring out fell out the car went to ACDC bloody great night mate best night ever

hey good on you chase really appreciate your share and keep these coming through, shall we? I'm 800 with the hits. Every caller gets on here, he goes, hey, Chase, guess what? What's that? You're in the draw to go. It's wicked in Australia.

That sounds like a bit of you, you and your dad. Wait, that sounds like a wicked idea to me. Good on you, babe. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the Hits. Last night, they opened up from Metallica Evanescence, and you were watching it with producer Troy. And you threw him an absolute bomb. Come in here, producer Troy.

You asked him what? I said, I said, we were guessing how old everyone was last night. And I was like, do you think she looks older than me? And what do you say, Troy, that is a hell of a bomb to throw your way. What do I do with that? You could just say, well, she's ages away. I can't see her on the stage. Yeah, but then the big screen, that really blows it up so you don't really have that excuse.

But does that show the fine lines and wrinkles of, you know, far the time? Well, I didn't. She looks amazing. And so you said she looked younger than me. I said she looked at about 39. Dude, just always say, yes, she looks older than you. Because, A, she is older than me. But it's not going to lie, though.

because we were talking about how I was mistaken for Amy Lee in Vegas and someone asked for my autograph and I was like do you think she looks older than me because she is older than me slightly but she looks younger than you is that what you say yeah but think about the the money she's got for like you know the cosmetics and you know she lives in America so the surgeries are back so it's you're natural to say I was pretty angry

it's a frosty reception for the rest of the concert singing in silence like an old married couple John O'Benon and Megan the podcast the hits speaking of all things singing All I want for Christmas, Mariah Carey, we are trying to avoid that song. It is infecting the community. The community, like a disease at the moment, heading into Christmas.

And Nicole, I must have been off when you spoke to Nicole last week. Yeah, so Nicole has technically stayed in the game for almost two years. She didn't get out from last year, morning, Nicole. I reckon it was a set-up. Someone must have known. So you continued the game. game on from last Christmas and yeah you know it's a pretty you're in a pretty safe run let's say from boxing day through to early November you've got you know sort of 10 I just don't hear

Christmas songs because I don't I don't really like yeah I just managed to get away from hearing them but Nicole she likes Christmas but yeah not a like not a Grinch but you don't thrash the Christmas music oh no no okay so you spoke to Nicole last week she'd gone almost two years without hearing the song what has happened overnight Nicole I decided to pick my four-year-up, four-year-old up early from daycare yesterday, and I got there, and I thought it was great because she was playing musical chairs, and she was still in. Oh, bless.

So I was like, oh, awesome. I'll sit there and watch. And the songs they were playing with, like, kids' songs, and kids' Christmas songs, like the Kiwi Christmas one. And I was like, oh, no, I'm pretty safe. And I turned to the manager there, and I was like, I'm playing a game where I can't hear Mariah Carey. So I hope Rebecca doesn't play that at all in the next couple of songs. I said, oh, she'll be out soon anyway.

we can go. Well, she turns out my kid won and the last song she played with the two kids that were running around the chairs was that song. Oh no. I looked at the manager and she's like, oh, you're out. I was like, yeah, I'm out. Your kid's like, oh my God, I won and you're like, no. Yeah, so we decided that we both you know, like she took the win in the game and I took the loss. Yeah. But, you know, there was a win. She won musical chairs and she hasn't won. before so. Well if only she wasn't so good at those goddamn musical chairs

Nicole. Well, I just didn't turn up 10 minutes earlier. I would have been fine. Oh mate, well, listen, hey. Sorry, it gets you at the most unopportunative times, doesn't it? The wonderful teachers at my daycare centre, they always give me a heads up. They're like, just wait out

in the car, I can see you've arrived like they're playing some Mariah. They know. And what did you say when you heard, ah, ha, ha. Imagine it took a couple of seconds to sink in Nicole It actually did And then I was like I was standing there listening to the song

And then I was like oh Oh damn I think that's the most of the reactions All right well listen good on you Thank you for thank you for playing It'll be back again You can be back into it next year John O'Benn and Megan

The podcast The Hits Look we went to Metallica last night And I know we've been going on and on about it this is not about the show but it's about what happened beforehand I just said we weren't going to go on about it sorry so this is what happened for this is non-metallica related but also okay right also it was really great

beforehand parking around Eden Park is a nightmare it's in the suburbs risky game taking a car to a concert these days in any part of the country yeah and I also turned up after even since it started playing break me down but here is my life

A little tip. Have you heard of the parkable app? I promise this isn't a paid endorsement. Here we go. It's an app where there's random little parks available. So someone might rent out their driveway or a park they've got that they're not using or businesses. That's smart. Yeah.

So I found this car park that was in a business. But when I got there, it was in the cordoned off area. That's how close to Eden Park it was. I got there just before seven. Shows already well underway, and the roads are shut off. So they said, there was a sign saying residence only. So I was like, I'm going to shoot my shot. And I said, oh, I just need to get to this address.

And they said, sure, put your hazards on, go slow and make your way to the address. They thought I lived there. Yeah. Parked in this park that was free, and it cost me $9. How good. Yeah, I don't know what to say to that. It turned up super late. You know, it's when you hear those ideas, you're like,

Why didn't I think of that app? I told producer Troy, and he was like 10 years ago I thought of that app. Do you know what? But he didn't do anything about it. I had the same thing with Apple TV, Troy. Ben doesn't believe me when I tell him this story. Oh, my thing was I was lying on the couch one day when video shops were a thing. And I was like, wouldn't it be great if you had a tube from your lounge to the video shop, a tube system?

Like pneumatic tubes. Yeah. So you're like, oh, can I get bloody Terminator 2 judgment day, mate? You talk down the tube and they're like, oh, no, I don't see that door now. and it sucks the video to your lounge. Have you thought of the logistics of all the tubes that would be required? It would be a nightmare.

It would be a nightmare. So essentially that became Apple TV. Like really, that's the base. Like if I was a brainstorm meeting, they'd be like, no idea's a bad idea. I'd throw that one out first. They'd be like, maybe there are some bad ideas.

And then they would have built off that. Yeah. I felt like that would have been the seed. You didn't quite think of Apple TV. Probably not. No, had nothing to do with Apple TV. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. No Ben and Megan. Just John O'O. Megan today, Ben has hit it off with the boys from Metallica. He's run off with the band. They're still partying. Still rocking and or rolling

at this time of morning. You know, that was that kiss song, wasn't I want to rock and roll all night and party every day. Well, Ben's doing that. He's living that dream as we speak. I just can not imagine someone less likely to do that. No, no.

He'd be so nervous about rock and rolling all night and partying every day. Like you'd get to 10 a.m. He'd be like, I've got so much stuff. Emails. I've got admin. Sorry, guys. I'm going to stop partying. We did party last night at Metallica.

Good night for everyone who went along. Wasn't it? 40,000 people sold. It's just so good to see. Every hotel in the city booked out. Some even double booked, apparently. People were turning up yesterday. Sorry, we've already got people in your room.

And they sent them away, cancelled their bookings. I don't know where those people stayed last. You're out partying with Ben. That's what they're doing right now. But Evanescence opened up for them, which... Wow. Evanescence has a special place in your heart because you were confused for Amy Lee, the singer. In Vegas, someone asked me for my autograph.

I tried to convince them it wasn't me, but I ended up signing an autograph. They just wear you down. Yeah, I was like, it's not me. They're like, I know you don't want anyone to know. They're like, you're doing a really convincing New Zealand accent, too. Good on, you keep up. Yeah, I wasn't talking in an American accent. I was very confused.

Yeah, so Evanescence. But she's 43 and, man, she can still sing. Sorry, that was me. It did feel like it was missing a little something without the... Yeah. Wake me up. You know, so I was just trying to fill in the gaps. It was hard not to sing along when you're filming a video.

Did you post it on social media? No, not that bit. You should. You definitely should. I love watching other people's videos where they're singing over the band. Yeah. Who they've paid to see. But Troy, producer Troy.

It's done just that. actually. Metallica, halfway through their show, they did a couple of Kiwi covers. They did 660. Don't. Don't. What's that? Probably shouldn't have done it.

Like, great, because I did see Chris Mack there and he probably was fizzing over the fact that Metallica doing their song. And you wouldn't have known, he'd be like, hey, that's our song. It was, don't forget the roots. But, you know, to be fair, Robert Trujillo, who's the bass player and Kirk Hammett, the guitarist, they were, they were the duo doing it. And they were like, you know, we learn these local songs. couple hours before the show. Yeah, maybe don't. I mean, you be the judge.

Don't put a bit of local favour. Don't put effort into... Oh, like, no, don't learn it two hours and... Because... That's... Come on. That's Troy. To be honest, Troy sounds better than they do.

It sounds like Troy singing with Metallica doing a covers cover's band. You were great. You were really good, Troy. We're going to play that all morning. Here we go, Troy.

On key. Totally on key. For a, you know, Manta sing-along, that was pretty good, Troy. It was really good. And you're like, I'm going to capture the whole crowd singing And you don't realize like it's just picking you up Yeah

But that's nice that they put a bit of effort in And try and do local songs Yeah, but have you got audio from Don't Forget Your Roots? No, no That's really Why do you want to crap on Metallica, mate? Because they're great at what they do But you can't tell me Chris Mack was listening to that

Being like, you guys nailed that Anyway, it was a fun night Hey, Metallica will be fine Yeah, that's fine It was a really good night in Eden Park, do such a fantastic job. Hey, and everyone was really well-behaved. Everyone was in good vibes. What I like about that crowd is it looks like,

there was a whole bunch of people there who don't listen to any music that wasn't recorded after 1990. That was recorded after 1994. Like music doesn't get any better than this. And it was very, like you look across, it was very black. Yeah. It was like an all-blacks game. Oh, now we've got the 660 version.

Here we go. This is them doing, don't forget your roots. Family, yeah. Yeah. It did sound a bit like a bit of a rehearsal. I get it. I get it. Yeah.

They were rehearsing on stage. Yeah. But anyway, it was a fun night. It was a nice thought. It was a nice thought. It was a fun night for all.