Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Should we start the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee?

Episode Date: April 14, 2026

On today’s show:  Ben takes the kids op‑shopping and accidentally puts on a stranger’s hat... Megan turns mouse control into a game A new group is proposed: The Itty Bitty Hitty Committee Is it weird that Megan does her taxes in bed? Jason Gunn reacts to the rules at the new Christchurch stadium We find out Cameron Diaz makes guests change clothes before entering her home! Megan is exposed for replying to emails only in her head Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Hey, welcome to the podcast. It's not going on right now because we're in the middle of something you'll see on social media. Shut up. I already know what you're going to say. What?

We're in a musam-a-man. No, carry on. We're on a lamb, a beef masamon cook-off at the moment with Megan Pappas. And for something you can win, you'll find out about it shortly. You do. You do. You do. You do.

I was just concentrating and you two were bickering amongst yourself. Producer Grace was just saying, oh, someone's about to help us played up. You're like, what, who's waiting up? Who's what, mate? Chase what? No, don't play it. Because as you all know, you can't plate it up yet because there's more ingredients to go in. We've ever finished putting the ingredients in.

So I'm like, go play it up. Yeah. And we, yeah, we got, we put all of our ingredients in the pressure cooker. You had like a big brother. I just want to throw something at you. And we had some leftover ingredients. And we're like, oh, these aren't in there yet. And we're like, Megan, have you put these in?

Not saying. Not saying. Not telling. It's fun if we were just like, oh, yeah, just, no, you've saved that till later. What are you going to do? Having never cooked in a press cooker before. Like, having never, have we to say we're not a press cooker? I've said it.

The cat out of the bag. I've said too much. Believe it or not, we're using a utensil to cook this, masamon. But, you know, I'm safe to say we're not going to win. But on the small chance, now we have created a culinary, a culinary dish that the judges love and it beats yours, how is that going to make you feel? Because you ready... I just

I won't believe them because I'd just be saying it for lulls. What all happened though if produced a trick because it's a blind taste test if he likes it, genuinely likes that and we haven't done anything to mess with that. You won't be, you'll go be taking your one around 20 people in the office and show... This one, try this one, try this one.

Yeah, yeah, and then just a... This one's better, right? No, I just reckon you'll probably just do that for lulls, so I'm not going to give you anything. We're not doing a vlog. I'm just saying on the very small chance. I'm not saying we're going to win it. We haven't teed anything up. No, no, nothing.

We tried to tee. Be honest with it, we tried to tee stuff up. We tried to get, we're going to order like an Uber eats one and stuff on that. That's been scrapped, okay? That's been scrapped. I will, if he sees yours as best, I will curtsy and I will allow you, I will allow you the win. You're right, bed. She will go around everyone and go, taste this one and taste this one.

Yeah, been right. Better than one. Look at it. Do you what, though? If it was just me and John, I think. I think I'd be like, good on you, Jono. But God, Ben, you just wind me up. I don't even want to want it, to be honest.

And that probably winds you up more that I don't really care. How did your sister deal with you? Yeah, this is, yeah, the years of having three sisters. She's like, you like, you like to poke at me. Well, we'll give you the results of the Masamon cook-off, the mighty Musa-Mahawk. It's just a curry. Exactly, exactly. Is it?

That's not what we're calling ours. Ours is a masterpiece. Enjoy the podcast. Johno, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The heads. So, yeah, you know, school holidays at the moment. We had a couple days off last week.

And, you know, there's tough times at the moment. Some of the activities that maybe you would have done, you know, you don't quite have the money for those sorts of things. Trying to find free activities. I literally Googled, like, free things are the kids to do in the school holidays. What was the top of the list? Going to the park? I was like, can you go to the playground all the time?

Try and find a new playground. Yeah, well, that's a good option. But my daughters, both of them were like, can we go to a thrift shop? They wanted to do some thrift shop. I was like okay okay all right I'm like sure if you want to go yeah to the thrift shop I guess but you're like ring ring Maclemore have I got a shopping excursion for you it's like it's not really my thing but I was like and they're like come on dad you come on take us along I'm like tell me you got a full length fur coat I was like I could just sit in the car with my laptop do some

stuff or you go on the thrift job or whatever and they're like no come in come in and then they try to talk me around they're like what about you know there could be vintage sports gear in there because they know that I like buying the old school I was like you find an old Warriors top. This is the thing. This is the thing. So I was like, I'll go into the thrift shop with you and have a look around. And they're going around, doing their thing, finding some stuff.

Also, don't we call in an op shop? You keep saying thrift shop. Okay, op shop. Off shop. Yeah. Okay, so I've got an op shop. No matter what op shop you walk into, anywhere in the country, that all smell exactly the same. What is it?

Mothball. Musty worn clothes. But it's a comforting smell. And I guess you're saving the environment. There's so much fast fashion these days. My daughter's found some stuff. They're looking around, I'm like, how long is this going to be? But then I went along to the section, and I saw there was a hat, a warrior's hat.

I was like, oh, damn, just sitting there. And I was like, oh, put it on my head. I'll find the girls. I'm going to look who's just found a warrior's hat. Because we're just talking about this yesterday after the show. They're quite expensive with Warriors hats. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So I reckon you would have been looking at about $95 for that hat from 1994. I'm like, who just found a Warriors hat, cool retro Warriors hat. And then I hear this, excuse me, I'm like, oh yeah, turn around there's this guy. He's like, I think you've got my hat on. Oh, no. And he was. Trying on another hat.

And I hadn't seen him when I dropped on the hat. I just seen his hat. And I was like, I'll put that on. And I'm like, damn, I look good at this Warriors hat. No, that's one. I probably shouldn't have put it straight on my head. That's what you do with the hat. At the time, I was like, oh, look at this Warriors hat.

And I went, oh, God, I'm so sorry. I wasn't trying to steal your Warriors hat. I just thought it was We like how much did that have? Did you have? No, I've kind of felt like it was his hat. The only thing in the thrift shop you liked was something that was already owned. Yeah, so I walked away with nothing but my daughter's found some stuff.

So that was good. Yeah, embarrassing moment. I walked away the embarrassing. Did the hat guy walk away with a new hat too? Keep an eye on his? Didn't quite keep an eye on his new hat. There we go. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Again, you had an unwanted guest. I did. This is, I do live, like, in a lot of, um, And near a forest, shut up. It's far out of the city because, you know, it's expensive in the city. So I had to go far away. It's so far away.

Yesterday morning she was driving in and fell asleep on the way in. That's how long the drivers. You got to work and visit sleep in the garage at five in the morning. Yeah. So we get a lot of hay fever because we're parked by a forest. We've had witters before. But this is the first time that we've had a mouse. And we were sitting eating dinner and we saw.

saw the mouse run from like one room and then skidly D under the door of our lounge. Geez, for something so tiny, we really are petrified of them. Are we rodents? Rats and mice. I'm like, we, you know, five million times the size of them. Well, I remember, and like, dad would always be like, or actually, it might be mum. One of them was like, yeah, I'll go get it. It was probably mum.

There was always someone designated in the house. But then when we, the mouse turned up at our house, everyone. All four of us, my two kids, me and my husband were like, No! But then I remembered that Jeremy Wells gave me this fancy pants moushtrap. Do you remember that? World's Most Unusual gift? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't even know how that came to be, but you had it. I think you bought it over as a gift, yeah, like as a silly gag gift, right, on the radio show, yeah. So it's this fancy, like, thing that you connect to your phone and it just, you can electrocutes the mice from space with a laser. Like donut bait thing, and then you, so we put that in there, and I'm. I connected up to my phone, oh my God, it was the most amazing, like, game to watch. So you do a test strike. So I was like, there's one strike on my phone.

And we're just sitting there watching the app in the complete other end of the house. Then suddenly it's like, but a ding, second strike. Congratulations. You have caught your mouse. I was like, oh my God, really? Wow. So it can, like, it tells you when it's striked and it tells you when you've got, but it gave me like a badge. It has like a badge.

It has like a little donut, so it just stays in there. You just literally reset it and it gives you a little, like, alert on your phone. But I felt bad because it was like I got a badge. It's like levels of a game. And they're like, ding number three. Well done. You've paralyzed the most. It's saying goodbye to its family and friends.

You have killed your foot. I was like, oh, I feel bad. And then my kids wanted to know because Andrew told them we were going to put it outside. So they were like, let's come and we'll all put it outside. And Andrew's like, um. We can. Why don't, they should just change it so you're not like ending the life. But maybe it's like a little boxing glove in there.

Boom. He's just like unconscious, unconscious for a couple of minutes. Put it back outside. Take it back outside and it kinds of, ooh. Yeah, they'd be nice. Give it like a little zap. Like a standing eight count or something in boxing. You're right, buddy.

Legs are wobbling. Knock out. Back out you go. That's great rodent technology though. It was like a sad, but fun game. I'm wanting live camera footage too on that. Yeah. It also took like 15 minutes.

It was incredible. So thanks, Jeremy. Oh, there you go. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Yeah, now you may have to see these pop up, and there's a few of them coming out. We've got some new hits ads that we filmed a couple, well, I guess a couple weeks ago, right? Yeah, it's essentially just playing on the stereotypes of our character.

So it's less of a commercial, more of a documentary. series on Megan's, you know, rampant online shopping addiction, Ben, your rampant costume addiction, my choice of questionable tattoos, Maddie's love of marathons in the afternoon, Maddie McLean and PJ's, she lives on a farm. Does she love it? I don't know. She lives on a farm. She's there. But in the ads, you can see them now on the hits Alteroah Facebook and also on its breakfast Instagram and Maddie and PJ's Instagram as well. Here's a little taste of them.

We're Maddie and PJ from the hits and we would love for you to hang out with us in the after. Betty! I'm a farmer! Peach, babe! You're not a farmer, you're married to a farmer. Two very different things. I can't hear you! So, you can win some stuff from the ad.

Yeah, each time they come out, you can win something. So we thought we'd let you know a swan dry with PJ's one, and then I think you're one with a tattoo. You can win an actual tattoo. A tattoo. A tattoo. A tattoo voucher. You could get a military tattoo if you want. If you really want to go down that. So you head to the Hitsbury for Saltero or Facebook. What do you win for my one?

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait till it come out, mate. Wait. I'm sure it's an online shopping spree. Yeah, I think so. How good. I'm not across. No, I want to pitch something. Producer Troy, I'm thinking about this over the break.

You know, because we've always talked about having a sort of club for our show, right? Yes. We talked about the six o'clock club from time to time, but it's very much, you know, just for the six o'clock out. We keep saying you're 60 and you know it. That didn't really take off. No, it didn't really take off. And this one might not come up either.

But Troy, your dream was to start, you know, like a WhatsApp group or a Facebook group to keep some of the fans of the show. And I was thinking because someone was talking about a school committee. I was like, oh, over the holidays. It's like no one really wants to sign up for that. But what about the Etty Bitty Hitty Committee? Oh, my God. Love it.

Love it. So we have a little group of the superfads for the show, the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee and everything we run past the Itty Hitty Hitty Committee. I really like that. That's our show name. That's up there with Shoshy Crack. Yeah. So just, you know, we keep it small, we keep it tight, you know, the super fans, you know,

people that we want to go to, every idea for the show. We're like, should we be investing in this? Should we be giving away a voucher for megan shopping? We run it past the Eddie Bitty Hitty Committee. Love it. It's good stuff. Pitching it now early in the morning, but we can talk more about this later. I'm already in.

I'm in. I'm in. The name's got me. I don't care about the admin in the back end. Yeah, well, that's cool. I don't know how it works, but I was just. like, that could be the name. Yeah, that's a big.

The Itty Bitty Hitty Committee. So there go. Okay, go. So, I mean, you can text your interest, 4487. What's that a pun off? Like, what are you, what are you referencing here? I'm not going to be a bitty committee, I think it is. I've heard people say before.

He's also a member of that group as well. He's the chairman of that committee. I'm working on my pictorials as we speak, but you know. He texts 4487, would you like to be part of the the Adi Bitty Hitty Committee? Yeah. What could you bring? Yeah.

You've got to have some skill. on a committee. Yeah, we'll run some sort of board system, you know, that we're on the board and we'll run every, big decisions for the show past that. What is the non-related bed thing, that activity you have done in bed. Over to you, Megan.

Well, we've spoken about this because I like to eat dinner sometimes in bed, and Ben likes to roast me and say, I like having full three-course meals in there. It's just every now and then if you're watching your laptop and you just have some dinner in bed. Do you know what I like dinner, the whole meal? Yeah.

You get the whole meal, okay. Yeah. Well, what do you mean the whole meal? I don't know. Just like the plate. I don't eat half of it. It's not like a snack. It's like an actual.

Oh, yeah, no. You're always in bed. Every now and then. You spend more time in bed than Charlie Bucket's buddy grandparents. They were doing a lot of time in bed. So, you know, I was trying to figure out where this has come from, and I think it was when I was flatting. So you know how you don't, your bedroom is your place. Yeah, right.

And you don't exactly have a couch and you widen. So you'd sit in bed and do. things because it was your personal space. And I don't think I've ever kind of grown out of it. So I mentioned it's tax time and I was sitting in bed doing my taxes the other day.

Nothing sexier. No, I just felt like the task is boring and awful but if I sat in bed it would make it better. Like it made it, at least it was comfy and homely while I did a boring task. It's just like an office with

worse posture basically. Can you want to be hunched over? Yeah, I don't have an office. No, I put a pillow on my lap and then I put the laptop on. So it's like, lift it up. Not a dig. This is not, but you do fall asleep quite easily. Do you like?

No, okay, so I did get drowsy. I did get drowsy, but it made me do it faster. So I was like, go, go, go. And then I lay down. Okay. And then you had a nap. Yeah, I think. Oh, I'm here now.

I might as well have a nap. Like, I get annoyed. My wife wants to have, like, tea in bed. And I'm like, a cup of tea. Oh, my God. We do tea and bed every night. I'm like, no, I just feel like that's one step. Well, that's, that's, that's, we're at the rest home we can do that.

It just feels like we're going to take a tea to bed. Why, wait until you're in a rest home. Enjoy that now. You can do teas, taxes, tortellini, dog, all in bed, maybe spark in relation. Oh, that's, you know, as soon as you tell you to be, you know, a tea, it just feels like that. Yeah, the start, the spark's still there, baby. After the tea. A cup of tea in bed is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

I love a tea. Don't get me wrong. I love a tea. but it's yeah I do my tea tonight but I'm not taking it to the bed should we adjourned to the bedroom with our tea

you know you don't watch TV in bed oh no I do I do yes I do but what's wrong with having a cup of tea and watching the TV you just happen to be sitting in your bed it's your next step you're rubbing your bunions

isn't it that feels like I know I'm with you bed get up with a walker and away you go you know it just feels like you're there maybe I'm wrong well my husband who is 10 years younger than me he enjoys

he enjoys You know what? Have you ever thought he's still going to be around later in life? Have I thought? Yeah. You guys tend to die first, so he'll probably die together. She died doing what she loved. Her taxes in bed.

And having a cupboard tea. Hey, that's the wrong with our spiciness. So what are you doing in bed apart from sleeping and, you know, like, you know, adults, what unusual activity are you doing in bed, you know? Like maybe you're like Megan, you're doing your taxes. It made it comfy. Maybe you're okay with a cup of tea in bed. Maybe that's fine.

I was watching a Instagram interviewer with Flea the basis from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He says he does exercise. Exercise. He wakes up in the morning and kind of does exercises and stretching in bed. Is he alone? Because otherwise you're getting a biffo in the face. We probably have to be for that situation. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

We want to know what are you doing in bed apart from the obvious things. What would surprise us? Like Megan doing your taxes in bed. Nick Jonas. He thought this was really weird. I did see it was a bit weird. doing your taxes but now you're expiring and I'm like you do you what do you say don't yuck yuck other people's yum yeah whatever sometimes it's fun to do that uh now Nick Jonas you said he

refuses to do something yeah at the bed it's for him the bed is just for sleeping have a listen to the Nick Jonas I think beds are for sleeping only like I don't sit on the bed I don't eat on the bed I don't read a book in bed or watch TV I can't do it fun gone he's got a chair he's got a chair he'll sit next to his wife she yeah she'll lie down on the bed and he pulls was up the chair next to her. She's like my dream. I'm just watching an interview. She's like my dream evening is to go to bed, like watch something to, you know, like movie, snacks.

And she's the husband won't do it. Refuses to do it. I like it. He's making the stand. Maybe that's because Amanda your wife loves having cups of tin bed. You can have a sitting chair. Yeah, I could do that. To me, he sounds like a grumpy old man. Yeah, it does, that does feel like they've just,

they've been together too long and they're just sticking to their gun. Yeah. So 800 of the hits, uh, non-related bedded, activities you're doing in bed. Lee, it's good to have you on. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. What is it, mate? I'm actually an Xbox player. Oh, playing games. Oh, yeah, okay. I've done that, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'll play PlayStation Xbox. Would you play it quite regularly in bed? Yeah, every night. Every night. Every night. Can I ask a personal question, Lee? Have you got another human body in that bed with you? No. Yeah. It gets difficult when you got another one there. Yeah. Because they have to agree, you know? Consent to you play.

Xbox. Well, I mean, no one wants to go to sleep with P. Well, I used to get up in the weekends and play PlayStation in bed. Were you a big gamer, were you? I actually play with headsets on because next room's got a fire roll that wakes up real easy. Oh, headsets, there you go, yeah, so he goes me sitting there with a headset

maybe muttering, ah, damn, you know, little things from time to time as I would be. Tell you what, we'll get producer Troy in. Lee, Lee sounds like producer Troy's dream. Imagine you and Lee and be together play. Do you need a flatmate Lee?

Do you want a flatmate Lee? Do you want a bedmate? Maybe Troy can be your bedmate? Well, yeah. What are you? What's your dream, producer Troy? That's pretty much my dream

was just having a big, like 60 inch TV at the foot of the bed. Controller with an arm's reach. I reckon it'll be a Star Wars themed bed. 75 right beside the bed. Oh, 75 inches, too you're mate.

That's the sort of inches you want in your bed, mate. I would get into bed with my bestie and play games. You guys are fine to do that. I appreciate. Now, you actually recorded your partner, Troy. Yeah, this is what I came into bed last night. She was already in bed.

She'd poured herself a Coke, no sugar, no caffeine. A Coke in bed. No caffeine. And was watching. At nighttime. Yeah, no sugar, no caffeine. No caffeine. I'm not yacking out of people's yums, okay?

She was deep into an Alan Parsons project concert. Oh. watching the concert just having her coke and no headphones laptop on your lap laptop on your lap

the concert just watch okay you keep saying you're not judging people but you sound really I sound judging don't they

yeah okay okay okay thanks for you calls and texts on that one I did

a fun bed related fact too if you're spending a lot of time in there Megan you know over a year

your sweat leaves behind oh don't do this 98 litres no I'm a cold person. I'm not a sweaty person. 98 leaders you're sitting on there, baby.

This will be based on how much men sweat. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Christchish has got a brand new stadium. Very excited about that. Opening up to sports games and concerts. Very shortly won New Zealand Stadium, Takaha. But Crusaders, of course, it's going to be their home ground,

but the iconic horses that have started every Crusaders game just before kickoff since 1996 are no longer going to be at the games. because of safety reasons, they're saying. Here's the CEO, Colin from Canterbury Crusaders. We've had to confirm, unfortunately, that we won't be able to take the horses into the new venue with us. The new stadium, it's designed to bring fans closer to the action than ever before. It's an incredible venue, but it's very different to where we've played before.

And there simply isn't the space to safely accommodate the horses without compromising the field of play and risking the safety of everyone in. involved. Oh, that's a safety issue and you do get that. But then a lot of people saying online, you're very passionate about it and as part of the game day experience there that they love. They're saying that, you know, maybe this should have been a bit more part of the planning,

I guess, for the new stadium. I don't know. Can we shout out to the wonderful acoustic guitar in that message as well? Yeah. That was beautiful. Now, we have a man on the phone. He has got Canterbury pumping through his veins. I think Canterbury even gave birth to the sky out of her womb.

Jason Gunn, Morena. Yeah. Morena, Morita, long time no speak. Oh, nice. How are you? I'm well, I'm well, and look, let me tell you something. I understand, and wherever you are listening to this, Kioran, good morning to you. I understand, though, if you are listening to this and you're not from Canterbury, it's like, you're like, horses, come on. I mean, come on, really. But I think it's about context, and what I heard the Mighty Collins speak mightily yesterday, I thought, you know, when you think about the new stadium, you've got to go, why are I building a new

stadium. Well, of course, it was the old one, but they got knocked down on the earthquake. And then I just think that whole, when you start looking at that, you start realizing why we're so passionate about the crusaders. And it's not actually entirely about the rugby, you see. I think it stands to so much more. And that's where I think a lot of this passion, understandably, comes from. It's actually, it's actually not about the 18 minutes of rugby that follows, it's actually about that we have this very close bond post-earthquakes and also post that horrific day in our mosques. You know, the Crusaders brings the community together and then the horses are a big part

of that. And so that's why I think people are so passionate about this topic. Yeah, because there's a lot of people saying they're going to boycott the games, you're not going to go to them now. I don't think it'll get to that, but I know they're going to be missed, right? There was nothing quite like it. Look, absolutely. And without taking you back to the dreadful times of those earthquakes,

I remember that first game back at what was our temporary stadium for 14 years. And we hadn't been together with probably five people, let alone 15, 20,000 people. And when we gathered in that stadium post-earthquake, and the music started and those horses came around, it wasn't a signal that rugby was going to start. It was a signal to the community that, hey, look, we've all been through some serious crap. we've been to hell and back, but maybe together we've all got this.

So there's so much emotion tied in. And then where did that start? The music started. The horses played, and we went, maybe we're going to be okay, Christchurch. Maybe we are. And then we played a game of rugby in one. Again and again. It happens down here a lot.

That happens down here. You do a lot of winning, don't you? So any slight change to that tradition and throws the people. And that's why I think you've got to realize that when you, it looks at, looks like, oh, the horses, but I think etched into this is more of a, hey, that's all part of what we did and how we came back

together again. And I think there's, probably without trying to get too deep and serious about it, I think that's where the passion lie. It's not about horses in a rugby game. I think it's about that. This stood for a time when we all came back together. Yeah. That's a perfect explanation, and that

makes perfect sense. It does. Now, Jason, we're a solutions-based radio show. You know this. You know this. Always. You say solutions, I think you guys. Okay. You get yourself. Some other iconic Cantabrians.

Megan, Ben and myself dress up as horses. Yep. You ride us all the way onto that field to open the game. Right there. Stop right there. I have always wanted to give Jason Gunn a piggyback. So what do you think? I think it's quiet.

Anyway, I'll let you speak, Jane. This music, Jason. Here it is. Here it is. We'll make noises. Yes. Absolutely. Well, yes. You'll be steam coming out your nostrils.

Absolutely, yes. I'm not quite the lightweight that I was back in the day, but I'm willing to go with me. Well, listen, you pitch that to your fine people in Canterbury, and we can workshop the idea. Look, look, I'm always up for workshopping. I'm also capable to be the man to re-deliver bad news. But, look, it doesn't matter.

I'm keen for that. I love your passion. I love that we're talking about it, so I love you guys. Surely we could get the horse. Surely there's something we can do to get the horses in there. Oh yeah, I love your passion too, Jason Gunn. Thank you for putting that into our context for the rest of New Zealand. We appreciate it.

Thank you, guys. Have a great day, mate. Appreciate it. Jason Gunn. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Cameron Diaz, actor, a legendary actor. I'd say she'd been in many great things.

Yeah, something caught your eye yesterday on the internet after the show. And it really, this is a first for me. Have you ever heard of anyone doing this? No, but it's. But it did remind me the other day you were talking about Megan's pants and pants dragging along the ground. You were thinking in your head about all the things that the pants brought in. You know, bringing them into the house.

And this is, I guess, Cameron Diaz has taken that thought, an extra step. Yeah. You're right. She's really run up and up to 120. But what's she doing in New York? Well, she calls this her biggest ick. So she lives, well, I don't know if it's obviously just one of her houses, but she has an apartment in New York City.

So this is specific to there. She says when people. come over when guests visit her New York condo, I imagine it's pretty fancy, she makes them change their clothes. So not just their shoes but their clothes because of the New York germs.

The filth. The filth of the city. In New York, she doesn't want it trapes through her house. So, and I mean she's Cameron Diaz. She's in a position probably to provide whatever it is, slippers, pants, track pants. I don't know what she's doing. I'm guessing she's got probably in that situation. For many of us, she'd be like, oh geez.

But what I'm like, I'm a plumber. I'm like, gday Cameron, heard the bloody pipes are blocked, mate. She's like, okay, I'm going to have to get you out of those overalls and put you in a tuxedo to clear the, to do your job? Like, what is the outfit appropriate to the, if she's having a dinner party or everyone is sitting in, like, prison track pants? Yeah, maybe it would be, like, uniform. Like, I would imagine.

It might be, like, track pants and a, like, squid game. Yeah, exactly, yeah. She did joke that she said, you have to wear a body condom. So maybe she does just have, like, a little, like, potros. Hasmat suit. Hasmat suit. So, like, I don't know, if you're going over for wines on a Friday night, she's like, put this hazmat suit on. You know.

You look like you've been cleaning up a clandestine laboratory explosion or something on the news. Oh, well, good on her. I mean, that sort of thing once it gets in your head and she's obviously gone in deep. Yeah. She needs a solution to it. Plus, New York, I mean, you see rats that has a certain smell, you know? Like, there's a lot more pollution. there. You can kind of

understand. It feels next level maybe take shoes off. It might be just a good first step. But maybe her friends just know that you take a change of clothes in a bag when you go there. And you change in those are your house clothes. Oh yeah. Listen, what we're after is New Zealand's biggest clean freak. Do you want

to nominate yourself or nominate someone that you live with? Listen, there was a huge period through our house where bleach, whatever? It smelled like a freshly cleaned pool. You know, when you go to the public pools. Didn't you bleach some, you had bleach on some clothes? I'd spray bleach everywhere.

I just love it. It's such an effective liquid. It's, as a substance, it's like spray it on that. Whatever was there is gone in about 10 minutes time. But the issue was I forgot to wipe the bleach off after it's done. It's heavy lifting. And so then that would result in if someone press their pants against the bench, they get bleach pads.

T towels, all of our towels are bleached, stained. Not to mention your house. smells like disinfectant. A crime scene hospital. Yeah. So bleach has been banned from my fuddy. But geez, I loved it. I love it.

You are a bit of a clean thing. I wipe the bench down in here every morning. Yeah, it's quite pungent too sometimes first thing in the morning. I appreciate that. Oh, thanks that. Well, I've got two feedback here. He says two pungent. I have one of the smell quite pungent.

It's nice clean, though. It's quite pungent smell. I can see where your family are complaining. Do you know he's got his little cleaning corner under here? Yeah, no, his little cleaning corner. You've got like your, you're quite a little. and your spray I do.

It's my little cleaning corner. So yeah, I'll nominate myself. And you love vacuuming. I do, yeah, that's a really satisfying, satisfying job. There's worse things to be obsessed with. I'll nominate myself, but I'm sure I'm not the worst. Like, I'm pretty light at the end of the clean friction.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. We are on the hunt. We are just talking and on the hunt. We're doing both things. Talking and Hunting for New Zealand's biggest clean Freak Megan, you do something with a toothbrush, which now you've told me I think I might get into it. I thought I was going to get out of this bonus got free, but you're right.

I take, so once you change your toothbrush, I take the old toothbrush and I save it for cleaning my car. So, you know, like in between the windows and all the little like nooks and crannies, I get in there with the toothbrush. You have no idea how satisfying it is. You mustn't do it often. Shut up Just looking at the Looking at the vehicle bed You've seen her car

Yeah Doesn't look like it gets toothbrush And hey that's fine You're a busy person Yeah I feel like that's every average You know every mum's car It's probably like six months

Every six months it gets a toothbrush Like I sat in your passenger seat once And my legs were up by my knees With all the contents that were in the footwell Okay That's busy footwell That was all my work stuff Yeah, there was lipstick everywhere too

You'd be pleased to know my husband is clean in the interior since then Was it a toothbrush? No Chrissy, happy new year Hello It's good to have you on Are you New Zealand's biggest clean freak Chris? Oh, it's not me, it's my mother

It was a shocker when I was younger Everything from ironing the underwear You know, fathers, brothers Boxer shorts To vacuuming twice a day Twice a day, wow Wow, that is a big rotation Yeah, the ironing the underpants

Imagine how much time that would take over A 12 month period, a lot I know, and the best thing was that she didn't do it half the time It was mine on my sister's job It doesn't No one sees them Yeah She's passing out those jobs, you know

No one sees them but your groin nose Oh, is it a wrinkle? Your groin nose Yeah Yeah, it was a bit Did she need a hobby? No, she probably just needs medication but you know

it's a different story they weren't diagnosing that back then no no not at all although she did work at a psych ward so maybe oh it might have just been if she did work at a psych ward it might just been like a shut off

from the world sort of some people find it quite satisfying too right yeah quite possibly I am getting into an ironing era I ironed teetals and stuff but like hold on you're laughing at underpant lady

you iron teetow people see the teatels all right I suppose yeah I can show you my undies If you want my iron undies, if you want to see this. Do you want me to iron your undies? Yeah, could you?

That'd be nice. Yeah, but he's got to be wearing them at the time. Hey, Chrissy, you're going to have a great day, mate. Really appreciate it. You know, guess what? I found a chat GPT AI cleaning windows over the week-long period where I was just doing stuff. What, you go AI at a cleaning? Yeah, go vinegar, cup of vinegar, then water, and palm olive or whatever, dishwashing soap.

Oh, man. Magic concoction. All mixed together. Almost together. Oh, you put in the spray bottle. Clean your water. You don't have to do hardly any wiping. Wow.

You do something just to get the residue. Oh, it's a game changer. Streaky? Better living, everybody. Better living. Wow, there we go. The 20-year-old self is just like cringing. Oh, I know.

I know. I mean, back of the rock. 21 years old. You know, when you're 44, you're going to be talking about cleaning products for windows, you're a loser. That's kind of banter of flown on the rock. No. No. Maybe if you've drunk window

Window cleaning solution That would have gone off John O'Nean and Megan The podcast The hits How's everyone going, alright? All right? Yeah, I'm okay

Yeah, I just had a technical issue there So I've hopefully covered it with asking I thought you actually cared Yeah, no, no I don't care about how everyone's going To be honest I did, can I just tell you I fulfilled a life I won't say it's a lifelong dream

But probably a dream as long as internet comments sections have been an option for us online. Is, you know, generally when ever like a news organisation, like the New Zealand Herald or whatever, will post a story about a celebrity, whether it be international or domestic. Most times it's in New Zealand, it seems to be something we really jump on for this. I mean, it's all poppy chopping. It works wonders in the comment section, doesn't it, under an article. And it's always been my dream to be the first person in a comment section based on

a domestic celebrity and what they've been up to. First person in the comedy section to type, Who? Question mark, exclamation mark, question mark. And I've always just tried to get in there because you've got to get in there first. Yeah. Which sort of leads me to believe you really need to be a bit more aware of what people are doing in pop culture and just there was someone who commented on a who once who said,

oh well clearly if you don't know then they're nobody yeah so they listed the cast of of celebrity Treasure Island okay and by typing who uh you're you're playing dumb but also somehow appearing smart at the same time like these people aren't worth your knowledge you didn't just write who you wrote who never heard of any of them not a single one of them one of them to really ram home that point obviously you'll take it the mickey though yeah yeah and oh you've got top likes on that comment. Oh, thank goodness. The dream has come true.

But I know someone else had actually done a genuine one. Where's the celebrities? Someone else has put that in it. Frigg Bunce, Orbach legend. You've got singers, actors, TV. Portia Woodman Wicklet, who is the bloody Gold Medal.

Never heard of any of these clowns? Someone else is scraping the bottom of the barrel. You know, that's like a... How have you not heard of any of these people? Because they have covered, you're right, they've got social media influences, they've got sports people. If you're into one thing, surely you'd have one or two that you'd go. They're trying to appeal to a broad range of Kiwis. So there's people from all walks of life, all types of, you know, there's a lot of different ways you might know them.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the people who type who, like me, they know exactly who these people are. But they're trying to convince everyone that they're above caring. I mean, maybe they're right, Simon Barnett. I mean, who? I mean, I didn't do to him. What's he ever done? What is he ever done? Does he like a car salesman?

I mean, who? Oh, no, he sells the houses on TV. Oh, yeah, he does. He does a good job of that, doesn't they? Yeah. Who? So I tell you what, if you guys ever get the opportunity to write a who under a local celebrity article on Instagram or Facebook,

please take it. Take it with both hands. I should be so lucky to be invited to go on something like that. But then everyone would be like, who? Yeah. We'd be writing it. Who? Who?

John Oven and Megan. The podcast. That's against face. It's just like, you're not sure why, what this is all about. There's something that you're doing and you need to explain yourself. That's all you know, that's all we know. And then producer Troy's like, there's audio. You need to play some audio.

And Megan's like, what? Audio. Audio. I mean. I'm like, I'm cheeky and I'm sassy, but I'm a goody good. Like, I don't like breaking the rules. No, and you're also, having worked with you now for a number of years, you don't like not knowing what's coming. No.

But I guess no one really enjoys not knowing what's coming. radio like I like surprise birthday parties Yeah which go on for three months I've never really been surprised by something on radio and it's been A good thing No whatever is producer Troy will bring you in here this is a bit of ambush Ambush journalism he's bringing to the show here He's always dreamed of working on RNZ with John Campbell

We all have Okay so what's going on You might not be breaking any rules but you've been breaking your word Oh god that's worse Breaking my word So do we want to play the audio or do you want to explain it first? Well, let's play the audio. I would say the law would say breaking rules is probably worse.

Yeah, breaking your word. You're right. You're right. Well, no, no. Oh, you just ramrated a dairy. You stuck to my word. I said I was going to drive my car from that. I said I was going to do it.

And I did it once I say something. So do you want the audio, do you? I know where this is going. You might remember this from very early in the year. To be honest, I don't usually do this because I always, everyone else, I fail. Okay, so this year you've taken on yourself too. Replying to emails and texts, like straight away.

Like straight away, that's your word. Is that not your voice, Megan Pappas? Before I present any evidence, would you like to defend yourself? Look. Or for any explanation? This is come from the bosses. This does not come from us. It was one thing.

It was one thing that Harriet didn't get a direct answer from. Harriet's our boss. Now that was week, that was day two, I think, of the radio show this show. It's like she's going to reply back. And she did. She was a flurry on everything. I have replied since as well. You've done some replying.

This argument is outdated because I've replied to her. She may have had to wait a couple of days. You might have replied to one. Yesterday Harriet scrolled through all of the unreplied emails. Wow. From this year. From the last couple of months. So what's she talking?

What's she talking? How many she got? I think it was five plus. Five to five to seven. Emails in 10. Are these group emails? Because I've told you before, like a group email, unless you want a direct answer from me,

send it directly to me. If it's a group one, I'm not going to reply. I'm sure they're all directly too. I'm pretty positive. I'll send a novel reply, and I'm like, well, what am I going to add to that? Nothing. Ben's covered everything. Ben's the show email, though.

He represents the show on electronic mail. He represents overboard, so I'm like, I don't want to add to this. I think Harriet just wanted to know, have you given up? I haven't given up. It's just, it's just got up. So can we give out your email? dress right now and you reply to everyone that emails you're in. Oh my God.

It would be so good. Please. I mean, I'm pretty sure you can figure out the structure of the NGME email program. We should put it on a billboard somewhere around the country. I'm going to reply to every one of these emails. It's just not fun. It's such a bollick. You're like, oh. Someone's brushing your teeth but you do that every morning. And also, I've told

you, I answer in my head. This morning John I came in the studio and he was like, morning. And then I swear to God in my head, I was like, morning. And then I realized I hadn't said it out loud. You know what Ben did? He said it out of his mouth. I didn't set it out of my mouth.

You did, you did. And I was like, oh my God, I replied in my head. So that's your thing. You think you've replied to emails in your head. Yeah. I've signed off. The technology is probably almost there. Soon you'll be on to just lick your eyes and it'll do it.

Put a chip in me. I'm so down for that. And I'll just be like, hello. She's 100% not going to be charge of admin for the itty-bitty-hitty-hitty committee. No. I'll be across the emails for that. I'd love to be a CEO, but. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hats So left work yesterday We've got a This cafeteria next door Just the one down On the same side of the road as us You two

I don't know Why that's important to you too But I just thought I'd tell you where it was Thanks for the audience too They need to know Where this is situated this cafe But I was outside I saw a guy

With a cup His own sort of keep cup You know how people take their own I'm not going to mansplain it They take their own cups in. He was outside the cafeteria with a full cup of whatever he purchased, coffee, tea, whatever it was. And he was drinking the cup double-handed. So he was holding up with both hands.

Okay. And I caught my attention. And I walked up to him. That's a cold day. That's a cold day move. But it wasn't a cold day. A soup. It wasn't a cold day.

It wasn't a cold day. Yeah, that's like a down south stitch. Get your hands warm from the cup. Or like if you've been a missing person, search and rescue have just found you, you're giving you a nice hot cup. And a metallic blanket. You'd be on the news, double hand and a hot drink. And I said to him, oh, that's unorthodox.

And I don't know why I said it, because as the words were escaping my mouth, I was like, oh God, what if he's got Parkinson's or, you know, there's a medical reason why he needs two-hand more support. Why would you pass judgment audibly to a stranger? I just caught my interest. I said, oh, this is a little unorthodox. And he, thankfully, it wasn't medical related, but he said, do you know what's happened? I said, please tell me. He said, last three weeks, he's had coffee incidents where he spilt coffee over his trousers

on three different, three different occasions. So he's like, I am so gun shy around coffee now that he now has it standing because he's like three times he's been sitting and he's the cup slipped onto his pants at work, not ideal. So now he stands straight and double hands the coffee. That's how paranoid this poor guy is having it like some sort of ceremonious drink. Is he drinking it out of a mug? Like a keep cup. It's got a lid.

No, no, it was an open one. Yeah. Put a lid on it, babes, and sit down. Well, that's probably a good idea. It's an alternative too. It looks like a toddler. Is he also going guzzling it and then going, ah? He does look like a toddler.

That's exactly. Yeah, good summary. I mean, it's awesome that people, I always forget about the keep cup. Like, I've got some at home, but forget to bring them in, and it's awesome. We went to place over, you know, like, went some markets over the time off, and went to order a takeaway coffee from this place. And they're like, do you have a keep cup? And I was like, oh, no, I didn't bring one with me.

And they're like, we don't have takeaway cups. Oh. They're like, we can loan you it. I can love you a market. And I was like, how does that work? Because I'm going to go to the market. And then you just wander back and you drop it off. So it's like, you're going to loan me.

We can load your mug. Listen, I appreciate the sentiment. Too far. Too far. I was just saying, I just went out. It's okay. Go woke. Go broke.

That's it. How hard is it to wander back and drop a mug off? I'm going to wander around the markets for like two hours with a mug that I've got to come back. What's the difference? We're holding a mug and holding a cup. I can put the cup away. I can get rid of it. I can put it in a cycling.

I must be on there one, bed. Oh, that's too much admon for me. I haven't got great, great. But I was like, we're going to. loan your mug at my aunt that's admin for me. You're like, I don't have a kick cup here. I've got about 52 promotional ones saying you're in a cupboard. And I'm all for it.

I'm all for it. You can't say you're all for it. I'm all for everyone else doing it, but God, I don't want to. I'm not all for taking a mug and having an honesty policy and have to return it. Well, then you're not all for it. I still want to borrow a mug. Time in place, though. If you're at work, you're like, yeah, I've got a kick up or use it.

Bring it back. Yeah. If you're just going to a market, you're not wandering around the bloody cup in your pocket. Jeez. That's what I thought as well. Thank you.