Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: The 10k race continues with some sneaky plays

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

We send Jono to complete todays challenge during the show Checking in with Matty and PJ and where they are on their travels Calling out Matty and PJ  The kindness of strangers is amazing  We tell you the stories we've been told from people giving us rides for the 10k challenge! 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. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. A big week for us and a big week, hopefully for you, as we've been doing this. The Hits' $10,000 race. We have been racing, and B.J. From the Hits afternoon show.

We've got the North Island. They've got the South Island. We started at the very top yesterday morning. They started at the bottom of the South Island. It's a race to Wellington, Megan. First day, it gets 10 grand to give away however we want on the show. That's very exciting, and obviously it's got quite competitive naturally. I was watching all of their stories yesterday, what they were getting up to, how they were doing the challenges.

Yeah, there's some questionable behaviour happening in that show. Oh, you want to call them out for some questionable behaviour? Okay, so let's find out. Let's bring on. Is it Maddie this morning? Good morning? Maddie. It's PJ.

Hello. Hi, Paige. How are you this morning? Yeah, I'm the one that has exhibited good behaviour. I'm actually, I must say, I have been pure and honest and, sure, slightly competitive, but, you know, it's just all part of a healthy competition. Well, yesterday, Pige, you guys started a bluff. Six o'clock there yesterday morning got various rides.

All sorts of rides, including Utes and trucks with the, like, sheep. on it and got... He had to load in sheep. A guy named Hoggett at some stage. I mean, it sounds like it was an adventure. It was six modes of transport by the end. We had Vanessa in the car. We had Hoggett

and the Yood. Then we're on the stop truck. Then after the stock truck, we hitchhiked. Then, after the hitchhike, we jumped into a butcher's van. A guy called Porky gave us arrive from Ashburden. I'm not going to lie. I was concerned. I was concerned. I was concerned.

We were all concerned, no. But Walkie pulled through, then Ewan and Rakhaya took us in his youth with his two kids to Christchurch. And we got these safely, guys. And it's a Christmas miracle. It's incredible, the generosity of people along the way. People going out of their way. We've had it, you've had it to help us out. So we started, as you said before, at the top of the north.

We've made our way to Hamilton. That's where we are this morning. We're about to you, Peach. Currently in Christchurch. And we are getting a rise from a lovely woman. called Kelly. At around 7 o'clock, I think she's going to pick us up.

I'm not going to lie, I did just wake up. That's why I've got morning voice. So we're going to get a ride at about 7 o'clock to Kai Kolda, and then we don't know what's happening from there. It feels like you've made huge advancements. Yeah. So technically, Kays-wise, you guys have less to travel. 400, just over 400 Ks.

We have 500, but you have the ferry. So time-wise, we have a bit of an advantage this morning. But we also don't know how we're leaving Hamilton. We've got no transport so far. How did you guys get to Hamlete? Oh, various rides along the way. You know, like we're...

We drove along 90-mile beach on the beach. Yeah, we're cars, basses, all sorts. We got our way down here. So, Peach, we'll catch up with you without the morning, throughout the morning. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits

We're in the middle of our 10K race We're racing Maddie and PJ From the afternoon show It's the first of Wellington wins $10,000 to give away to you On the way though We've had some challenges From Bryn our night show host

And we are allowed to do the challenges It's in the T's and Cs of the rules Within the show When it's happening As long as we don't advance Along our journey As long as we're not Travelling and getting further down the road

Which we're not Because we're still here in our hotel room Yeah we've done it at the top of the north yesterday We got to Hamilton last night and we got issued a challenge from Brin and here was our challenge. Okay, it's time to get hands on. Your next challenge,

milk a cow, a real one with udders. Technique and confidence both counts. Better get moving. Oh, moving. Yeah, good pun, wasn't it? So that was the, Megan's just caught up with that one. Yeah, I've just got it. That was the challenge that Bryn issued us late last night

and we were already getting one step ahead of the game. want to win the $10,000 to give away to you. We want to beat Maddie and PJ. So Jono joins us right now. We've sent you out into the wild in the Waikato. In the rural roads of the Waikato, we're heading to a farm. Coincidentally, producer Troy has a friend who owns a farm. So don't worry.

I know your lactose intolerant, Megan. Don't bring me back any milk. She had two full blue milks yesterday, and we didn't see her for about 45 minutes. You don't need to give away the tour of secrets? We'll bring some fresh milk back from the farm, but you're going to go and see Sarah and Alec, and there are 300 plus cows. The girls get milk first thing in the morning,

so that's why we're having to get ahead of it, and also in the afternoon too. So next time you see me, I will have my hands wrapped around a nipple. Okay. Well, we're not coming. It's all mine, I don't know. Are you going to, like, hook them up to the machine, or are you going to physically hands-on tanks?

I'm going to keep it classy. We've been in a milking shed before where we've done the hand job, and it sort of ended up, I drank the milk from the other, and it was squirting out, and I thought it didn't feel right, did it then? No, and I remember one of the most disturbing things that I ever saw in my life was actually at a milking shed, and one of the cows was actually going to the bathroom, and Jono, for some reason, we're on camera, wash his hands with the liquid that was coming out of the cow. And I was like, what are you doing? Yeah, I know.

Listen, we're a bit more sophisticated now. So there's a reason that the bovine industry and the milking industry has employed technology, and why not use it, you know? It would be silly not to. All right, so next, we're going to try and tick off our challenge before we've even got underway this morning. This is good. This is exciting.

John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Yeah as we race down the country Trying to get to Wellington To beat Maddie and PJ From the afternoon show To win you $10,000 to give away

We were issued a challenge When we got to Hamilton last night Because it's not hard enough You know To make a hellway down the country Hitching rides We have to get challenges along the way Yesterday's challenge for us

Was sliding down the sand dunes Which you did it I mean you did it Yeah we ticked it It wasn't a great attempt But hey we did it Swam down the sand dunes Yeah, we've got sand all in our bits and pieces, that's for sure.

And Bryn issued us a challenge when we got into Hamilton last night, it was the milk of cow. So we thought we'd send Jono this morning. It had to be early this morning. That's when the girls get milked. And as long as we don't advance the show, we're okay. It's okay. It's in the rules of the competition. So Jono should join us now live from a cow shed in the Waikato.

Yes, thank you, Bena Megan, live in the cow shed. and at the moment smelling alive, smelling rural. Steph runs the farm with Alec. Yep, yeah. And how many cows are you... How many girls are you milking every day? It ranges, I think at the moment about 150, but sometimes up to 300. Yeah, right, that's a lot.

And morning and night, so they get done at, what, before the daylight and then in the afternoon? Yeah, about 3 o'clock. Right, okay. It's a lot of cows. There's a lot of milking that goes on. A lot of heavy girls. Yeah, so we're doing it. an honest, honest day's work, an honest 10 minutes work, Ben and Megan.

Can I come down here, Alex? Just walking down like an alleyway, just surrounded by cow ass right now. Just a lot, staring up. I can see what they've had for lunch, dinner and breakfast. Okay, so what do I do, Ellen? So you've got to pink the hose here, and there's a little pin under here you've got to pull out. Okay. So that it will drop off, and then as you uncut that cow, swing it around and chuck it on the next one.

Okay, I took in none of that. Okay, so I'm going to pinch this hole. There's a hose that's attached to four suction cups which are attached to the other. Yes, yeah. I pinch the hose. I push your button under the suction cup. Yep. Just give it a kink like this, pull her out as it drops off and then she's ready to go from the X-Roe.

And then slap it back onto the teeth there. Yep. Okay. What happens if I put those on my nipples? Did it extract anything? Yeah, we might not make as much money from your milk. I'm not as lucrative. Yeah.

Okay. Alright, so I'll give this a go. Do you mind holding the phone? Picking the hose. Yep, kink it in half. Pull out that pin. Pull out the pin. Yep. Drop the things.

Yeah, and then un-cooked your hose and then that will bring the suction back. Oh, okay. Oh, I see, that's got the air in it. Yep. And then swing it around that way. Yep. And I'll come into this girl. Yep.

Coming into this girl here. Okay, and then I'll just chuck them on the floor? Yeah, yeah. So that will be your front right. This one will be your front right. Oh okay, yeah. Sorry, I've done a terrible job explaining. So hold this in your left arm like that.

Yep, and then go in, um, find your front right. One. And two. She's not looking overly comfortable. We did just milk her. Oh, she's, three and four. Is that doing something? Yeah, yep, yep.

No, she's giving you a little. bit more there. The four cups are on. This poor thing has been, there's nothing left. We've taken every last drip. What's her name? That's Sally. Do you know all the names of 300? Yeah, they're all got names. Can you rattle through some of them for us? We'll rattle through the top six here. We've got Sally 1, Sally 2, Sally 3. I see what you've done there. Hey, well listen, thank you. So we can say we've milked a cow. Yep, yep, definitely. Okay. You just haven't had your initiation, but if you go over there, you're. Yeah, there's a lot of from it flying out the back here. You're really in the firing line here. Do you get that in the face

sometimes? Yeah, once in a blue moon. Yeah. It's not a good day at the office. What a way to start a day. Well, Alex, thank you so much for having us. We've milked a cow, guys. I'm officially able to milk anything. So when I get back to the studio, Ben, if you need any milk, we don't have to buy it this morning. All right. Well, thank you so much, Alex. No worries. I'll catch you later. drenched in feces, just drenched in cow. Tell you what, shout out to all the dairy milkers, really put themselves in harm's way every morning.

Those cows, they don't care. They don't give any craps. They do give a lot of them, actually. But no, thank you to Alec and Sarah. I just ask you what? Who? Alec and Sarah. Oh, you call them Alec now.

You call him Alex to his face. A lot of times it was Alex coming through. Thanks, Alex. No, Alec, it was the broadcast. It was the trends. mission radio waves, but no, thank you. We've knocked off a challenge before 7 a.m. That's the good thing.

Oh, no. We'll let you know what, Maddie and PJ's challenges. Very shortly about big news. Winter Olympics going on at the moment. We've won a couple of medals, which is awesome. But there was a stunning confession live on TV. So a Norwegian athlete, by athlete, won bronze as part of a team event. And use the moment on television afterwards to say something.

Now, here is him in Norwegian. So basically he sounds upset. Yeah, he is. One bronze sounded upset. So basically he went on and said, look, a week ago, I chatted on my partner. And this is live. She knows about it, right? Yeah, she's broken up.

She's broken up with him. It's all over. He's like, she was the gold medal. This is nothing in comparison. I just want her back. It was like a heartfelt play in the moment. Big play, too. Why?

Why would he do this, though, to himself? National TV? Yeah, I know. But I guess in some of things. International TV. They'll be watching, going, oh, he looks happy. He looks happy getting his bronze,

doesn't he? So in some ways he's gone, no, I'm not happy. I'm not happy about his bronze. Would he have still done it if he got gold? Well, he said she was the gold medal, but you're right. Okay, but this was a few moments laughed afterwards

in the press conference. Yeah, I haven't got any reactions from the girl that I mentioned. And yeah, I'm happy because then maybe she hasn't seen it. Maybe she will see it at the right time. I hope I don't make anything worse for her but maybe it can help I don't know

He's gone international He's gone on international So he's put it all out I can't tell if it's sweet or creepy Like I don't know what I would feel in that moment You can tell he's so remorseful It's hard because he has cheated You know

But he's like Admitting guilt in front of the world I know He's opened himself up there So what's happened Now since then as the good journalist That we pretend to be From time to time

We went digging and by digging we put it into social media and we went, what else is out there on it? And we found this. Now, she has actually commented to a Norwegian media. She's seen it and what was her reaction? And this is her response. But the former girlfriend has actually now spoken to Norwegian media

just this morning and it sounds like it's a no guy. She said his infidelity was hard to forgive. Not even a medal. Should have thought about that. But again, maybe if he'd got a gold. Didn't need the should have thought about that. He knows. You don't need the last, no at all, bloody person going,

she's a captain in his pants. They're like, okay, all right, well, it's a bit about that. She's just looking after the girls. I don't know. It's a bit late now, like, all right, mate, we know. Yeah, so unfortunately. Kick at the goolies, right at the end. But you haven't said, you know,

when bronze had probably been training his whole life for that moment. But again, like, if he'd won gold, would she have taken him back, you know? And he probably would have won gold if he hadn't cheated, because he probably had other stuff on his mind. Yeah. Should I thought about that. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast, The Hits.

They've got to Christchurch. They've done really well, from the bottom of the south yesterday. Yeah, they cheated the last two hours. Yeah, it always helps when you've got some performance-enhancing actions, don't you? Yeah, steroids. We started way at the top, the very top, as far as you can go in the North Island. And, geez, it's quite a beautiful part of the country, as we keep saying, but very isolated. Yeah, I didn't realize it was so remote, and I didn't realize that there was so.

much past Fanger, eh? That's the thing. Yeah, it's another four hours pretty much, isn't it? It feels like four hours. But Paul, the gorgeous Paul was the first person to pick us up from Cape Ranga. Paul, wonderful guy. Yeah. We're shorts all year round.

That's his big claim to fame in the north. Hey, we've got to drive on the beach as well, 90-mile beach as well. He had a four-wheel drive, and he's like, it's faster on the beach. That was pretty cool, actually, just banging along the beach. Yeah, especially because Megan was violently carsick, and couldn't do any more windy road. No, just bang it in a straight line. Yeah, no. was one. And Paul, you do get to know these people,

don't you being locked in a car with them? We know all about Paul's family. Joe his son who's an author, Jess, who's a nurse. Trudy made some wonderful Afghans for us. Oh, she did. That was the thing. Trudy's his wife, by the way. Paul went out of his way to come up and help us out to drive. As did everyone yesterday, really, went out of their way.

And then, yeah, his wife made Afghans and had a little snack. Do you know he told me she made two batches, but she felt like the first one was too dark. So she made us another batch. She wanted them to be perfect. I'm glad she did, because if we had the those dark ones. We'd be having a different conversation right there. But he had speaking of conversations, he revealed this to us.

About 30 minutes into the car trip about what had happened to the car. A bit concerned about the odor of the vehicle, Paul. We lost our cat for three days a couple of months ago. And I kept going out to the porch yelling, you know, calling his name, waiting from to come. And it wasn't until I wanted to go somewhere in this car that I realized that's where he had been for the last three days. And is there a happy ending to this story?

After I cleaned it out, yeah. Oh my God! That's good. Apparently the cat did his business a lot where Megan's sitting right now, so we can do that, Megan. Actually, that's not true. It's where Joddow is. Am I sitting in cat filth? Only once, because the rest he did all on the floor mat on your side and the floor mat on my side.

Oh, that's, yeah, respectful. There we go, yeah. Nothing like to tell you that about sort of half an hour and hour into the journey. And all I could smell was cat from that point forward. No, you couldn't. It was actually wonderful. Yeah, that was about two and a half hours in the car was poor.

Amazing. Then he had to go back to where he was. It was incredible. Well, I bring up to speed of how our day went yesterday after 7 o'clock as well as the accusations of cheating because the drive show, they did something. I mean, they've admitted it. They admitted it on air, right?

On the radio. Yeah, we need to call them out after 7 o'clock. I think we need to be a little careful. And their punishment was nothing. Yeah. It was dumb punishment. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.

The Hits 10,000 race. We have been racing our afternoon show here on The Hits, Maddie and P.J. They've got the South Island. We've got the North Island. We started at the very top. They started at the very bottom. It's the first to Wellington that gets $10,000 for that show to give away however they want. Bit of a tour update.

we've managed to land ourselves in the city of the future, Hamilton. And I tell you what, looking at Hamilton, if this is what's the future is looking like, I am very happy. Very happy. Are you looking at a building at the moment out of the window? A nice building. Futuristic building. Elon Musk will come here and he'd be like, the future has come.

Yeah, a big trick yesterday from the very top of the north for us all the way to Hamilton. Multiple modes of transport. So many people going out of their way to help us, which is incredible. Shout out to Paul. He helped us out. Don't do it last. Shout out to Debs. She helped us out.

Shout out to Sarah. No, Debs and who was driving. Izzy. Isaac, yeah. Isaac. Izzy. We're on Izzy jubbs. Yeah.

Yeah, so many people helped us out. It was incredible, as did many people helping out Maddie and PJ are from the afternoons. They join us right now. Morning, guys. Good morning. Good morning. You sound sprightly, Matthew. You do.

I'm ready. We are ready to go. Look. a slightly slower start for us this morning as we figure out our first ride, but we think we've got it sorted. Tell us, where did you actually end up yesterday? Because what we witnessed to you were making quite a inroads. God, that was shocking.

I'm sorry, that was terrible broadcasting for me. He managed to make it all the way to Christchurch from Bluff yesterday. It was a mammoth effort. We had six different modes of transport yesterday, including. Including a butcher's van with Porky, it was unbelievable. I reckon, did Porky have big fingers? Big wide fingers. Believe it or not, I wasn't really focused on the size of his fingers.

Oh, right. It sounds like you want Porky to give you a prostate examination. Well, incredible. You had so many people helping us, as the way as you said before. It's amazing these people helping us. We've all we got is $10 to try and make our way down the country. That's epic trick that you made to get there before three when you show. starts. Easy, right? I know. We were flying. We're absolutely flying. We're so proud of ourselves

for making it here by three years. I'm just checking over the rules here, Maddie, that Ball Buster Brinsent through the Taskmaster, no travelling must happen during one's broadcast. Yes. Yes. So we have some audio, Exhibit A, Your Honor, from, I think from three o'clock yesterday, I think we have some audio that we should want to have a listen to. Not where we've planned to be, but we have managed to get live radio from our car as we are entering Ashburton. Yeah, we had hopes that we would be coming to you from the Christchurch studio this afternoon. Look, it's been a day. We knew things weren't going to entirely go to plan.

Oh, yes. So that was yesterday. You know, broadcasting while travelling, which is against the teas and seas of the race, so Maddie MacLean. Yeah, what we had, fans were. in was a lot of road works and a lot of afternoon school traffic. Sounds like a huge problem. A little bit slower than what we had planned.

You know what? I would have been happy with steroids if they'd use steroids to cheat. The trust has gone. But you also went on the radio and admitted that you were cheating for what? Two hours? And this is the thing. We were not cheating. we chose to do something that we knew

was technically breaking the rules which is cheating I think it's a definition of cheating and we owned up to it and we copped it on the chimp because we are not sure we might break the rules but we're not lying

we're not lying I see oh they're honest they're honest cheaters I see what they're saying that's the best guy can we talk about your punishment is listening to a song that doesn't hend it you at all. For two hours non-stop, Rachel Platton, fight song. I beg to differ. Listening to

Rachel Platon's fight song for two hours straight is going to be the world's worst torture. Apologies to Rachel Platton who worked her ass off on that song. But you still get to travel up the South Island while doing so. Yeah, we're not happy. We're not happy as a show. We're not having, Matt. Hey, take it up with Bryn. Brin was the one that dushed out the planet. We will. Okay, well, yeah, I feel like punishment wasn't done. If this was a prisoner of war situation, and, you know, you've been captured, you're a North Korean soldier, and you'll be taken in, and they're like, we're going to torture you now.

Oh, God, what are you going to do? Waterboard, what's going to happen? Electricity? No, we're going to play your racial parents' fight song. I love that song. Oh, I've got a lot of here. You really have, you're right. It's a great song.

Can I just ask a question? How were you guys yesterday? How were we? Good, good. Yeah, big day, big day, good. How are things at the end of your day? Tiring. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what time did you guys stop racing? Maddie McLean. We'll catch him in the afternoons. He'll be back here. Three o'clock, Maddie and PJ. Great to have you on this morning. Maddie, I feel like there's something you want to get off your chest.

Okay. Mattie, hold there. Hold there. We're going to hang up on you and play a song and they pretend we never spoke to you. Just play Rachel Platton fight song again. John O'Vennon and Meg. the podcast

The hits Lord played last night in New Zealand great to have Lord performing came out at one stage she had a t-shirt I saw with a blues a blues t-shirt

which is pretty cool shout out at the blues rugby team Oh good on her Good and your daughter Indy went along Yeah well I was meant to take her along Yeah I had it all planned

But of course we're on the road So I couldn't take her along Now this is the commitment he has To the 10K race He'll even leave his daughter And make her go to a concert by herself He's doing his best to not be disappointed Yeah I was he gotta

miss it but I was like hey if you go along can you record get your voice memo thing out get some audio for the radio she's like oh do I have to do it I was told it cold get you talk loud over a song can you send through something she's like all right I'll do it so here's in the while Lord was flagged this is Indy's daughter at the Lord Colton she's singing tea now I hope you can see me I'm actually dad was meant to go with me but I'm kind of glad you you can know what I'm saying

sorry that yeah it was indie last night at Lord Chishish glad that I wasn't there so you have to listen to my singing it sounds like you know

when you hear like a journalist who's kidnapped in the Middle East sounds like audio a bit Help Send help

send help Send help If anyone guess this message it's like one of those you're like oh she's in a lot

of trouble my daughter Annie but actually who was in a lot of trouble Maddie and PJ yesterday because they're on this 10K tour. And they cheated. The 10K race, the first to Wellington from each show to win $10,000 to give away. We just had Maddie openly admit yesterday that they went on air.

They were broadcasting while travelling, which is a no- hours. Now, listen, I would like to make it known that our show starts on this incident, Maddie, isn't so much to cheating because you've owned it, you didn't try and hide it. It's more the punishment that has been handed down from what I have. understand, Megan, that's the leaving sour grapes with you. Well, it's also the cheating. Just be careful. Just be careful.

Just be careful, because Maddie has something that he wants to say. Maddie you're back? And go easy. PJ had to get to her poor 10-month-old baby Frankie in Christchurch. Do we really want to be... Oh, don't bring Frankie into this. I have to bring Frankie into it, Megan. That was the whole reason why we continued to travel. Hey, listen, mate, did you just hear Ben ditched his daughter?

That's the commitment he's got to the road. I don't even know she got home from the Lord Consum. I don't know. Sounds like she's been kidnapped by bloody a terrorist organization. But we did, yes, we did. We did break the rules and we were given a punishment by Bryn. And if you're not happy with the punishment, that's not our problem. Ready?

Okay, actually, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to pass you on to the more calm of the tour. Okay. What do you want to say? We know what are you going to say? We know it's coming. We know it's coming. What do you want to say?

Hi guys, sorry he's working on his emotional regulation. I think I need to take over. All right, Paige. How did us with it? What do you want to say? He's just saying, we did our punishment, and if you're not happy, then that's not our problem. And a little birdie has told us that you guys may have done a similar thing. What?

Okay, so let me say, we might. of quarter bus, our free intercity bus, so we didn't pay for it. And we did get it at 7 o'clock. But, wait, sorry, what time? At 7 o'clock. And we got in before 9 o'clock. So technically we did it. Also, we traveled less than two hours.

But we also only did it because you cheated. You kissed a boy, so we kissed the boy. Seems fair. And sorry, we don't control the intercity bus network's departure times. Yeah. It's a great bus too, by the way. So we traveled two hours extra, and you guys also traveled just under two hours extra.

Yeah, we panic because you got quite far ahead. We thought about it. We blocked you guys from our Instagram as well, too. We hope you'd never see it. Who knucked? Who knucked? Oh my God, we were just saying that this morning. We're like, this is weird.

We can't see anything. I know who nacked. Annette. I've seen a screenshot. Annette. There was more than Annette. There was a whole lot. It was more.

You're even. We are even. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast. The Hits. The Hits 10,000 race. A huge week for our show in the afternoon show, Maddie and PJ, as we race. Our respective islands, we've got the North Island.

They've got the South Island. We started at the top. They started at the bottom. It's a race to Wellington to win $10,000. First there at the Beehive. We'll give that money to give away. however they want on the show. At the moment, it's a race to the bottom.

Both shows involved in cheating scandals. Oh, no. You thought that Norwegian skier who admitted everything was the only cheating scandal this week. But us. Okay, so Maddie and PJ yesterday, they went two hours extra on air. They travelled while they're on radio. Yeah, travel while broadcasting, that's a no-no. And then we...

We heard about this. We did. And I would argue that's why we did it. We travelled two hours after the cut-off time of 7pm. I'll be honest, I panicked for how far they'd got in a day, too. Yeah. They were getting to Christchurch. They got to Christchurch from Bluff.

They could be in Wellington by today. So we're like, we needed to keep going. So we got into Auckland from travelling all the way down from the top of the north, got to Auckland. It was that anti-city bus offered to us. Offered to us and we're like, hey, we've got to take it to Hamilton. Yeah. We took it.

We did, we did. And it was a guilt-laden bus trip, wasn't it? It didn't sit well with any of us. And we posted because we had obligations to give intercity some coverage. Yeah, well, yeah. As you would. Free bus trip, yeah. You pat my bum.

I'll pat you'll pat you also. And then we thought, hey, well, wouldn't it be nice if we just hid these posts from the afternoon show and they couldn't see them? We even blocked Bryn, who's the taskmaster as well. And he's joining us right now because we went longer than the 7 o'clock curfew, the cut off when we were allowed to travel. Some would say our scandal a little more sadistic. If you're comparing the two, Bryn. Yes. Good morning, guys.

Sorry, I'm trying to get inside his ear. Sorry, Brin, you keep going. Bullbuster Brin, our taskmaster. What do you think? Look, I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed. Your voice never changes So I couldn't tell if you were angry or not

He sounds happy to me I don't know It's hard to tell I'm happy to be giving a punishment to you guys actually Yeah Can I just say That the drive's punishment

Is really rubbish Because it doesn't actually Hinder them in any way Don't know about it Two hours to Rachel Platin's fight song That would drive me and say I like the song I like the song

Okay so Bryn We know there's a punishment coming for us as we try and make our way from Hamilton this morning. What's it going to be? Rip the band out off. So this is the punishment for travelling after 7pm. You have to give away your $10. Oh, that $10 because all we've got is $10.

I forgot we heard $10. We haven't used it so far, but that's $10. That's our one, that's like the golden ticket. Well, you might need it, but you've got to get it away. Okay, Brin. Is there any other parameters? We can just, we need to give it away. We need to hand it over.

You just have to give it away. Yep. Give it to someone. Is that fair enough parchment? I think it is. I think it's very fair. Shut up. To be fair, I think we're, yeah, got off pretty lightly.

What's your least favorite song, John? To the tub thumping, chumblewomen. They get knocked down. That song has never been knocked down. I want to know. Four 487 on the text. Okay, Brin's made his ruling, but are you happy with that? Is this all fair?

Because we want to win the race fairly, well, fairly from this point onward. What are you doing? Why been this late? Is everybody, you know, we're back to the square one now. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. And we also can't wait to see if we can make it to Wellington before the afternoon show. Maddie and PJ were racing the country.

As we keep saying, we've got the North Island, they've got the South Island. It's the first of Wellington that gets $10,000. Huge price to give away on their show. We really want to win this and give this away to you. Yeah, and thank you for all your messages. A lot of people messaging through to the studio. They're invested in this wonderful journey.

And we've just been punished for taking a bus at 7pm last night. Thank you very much to Intercity. Those apparently outside of the race hours. The race hours are 6 a.m. till 7 p.m. There's a lot of T's and Cs. Are we expected to read all the fine print, you know? We know that is a rule. This is a race none of us asked to be on.

No, but I still maintain. We broke that rule and we took a two-hour ride because Mady and P.J. travelled two hours within their show. had already broken a roll. You're not allowed to travel during your show. Loads of texts coming through on 4487. A lot of people want the money because we have to give away the $10 as well.

Yeah, that's our punishment. Kayla's like, could have it for lunch? That's good. Yeah, we can show you lunch, Kayla. Ten bucks is all we had. Someone said there's a bit of a loophole. No one said you couldn't give the $10 to each other. Yeah.

Just give away the money. Well, I think technically we're one team. One. Are we? I don't know. Feels like they're making these rules up as we go along. Another text. This is not fair.

They had to go on a bus that had its own timetable. Thank you. That's dead. And, yeah, I might have written that text. Someone else that says not enough punishment for us. Excuse me? What about their punishment? Their punishment is listening to a song over and over again.

So we both shows guilty of traveling two hours longer than they should of yesterday. Now, someone is also just text through saying the punishment should be both teams going back two hours. Oh, my God. That would take us back to Auckland. That would literally feel like we've gotten nowhere. I feel like we're happy to give away a $10. Where are they? Christchurch. What's two hours backwards, Tebowro?

Yeah. Well, yeah, probably going back to... Ash Burton's a hour and a half way, isn't it? Yeah, so, yeah. Oh, no, let's ignore that text. Yeah. Yeah, okay, I feel like maybe it cancels each other out. Like, once we give away our $10, it's all, it's fair.

So from here on in, you know? Let's end on this one. They should give both teams a bit of grace. They're good sports. Still doing their show. shows on the road must be very stressful. Thank you. That's a nice one to round it out. Thanks, Mom.

Yeah, yeah, I was going to say I text that one. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. John O'Benn and Megan with you, we're in the middle of our 10K race against Maddie and PJ from the afternoon shows. It's the first of Wellington. We've got the North Island, they've got the South Island. It's been a hectic day of traveling for both parties yesterday, right?

How are you feeling? Talk to me. It's been a long time traveling. sitting in like sitting in transport because it's just a long distance but it's been fun I've been met some amazing people on the way everyone's been really really lovely but it's I don't know what it is about sitting on your bum in a car it's so tiring

you get so tired of retirement home tour John and Megan just napping I'm just napping around New Zealand just this every time we're taking them out for the day all that had it up okay you'll let's see if you fall asleep

today he doesn't he doesn't he's always on he's always on he never stops we were in the bus yesterday Us two were having a nap and you were furiously getting through your to-do list on your laptop. We haven't had a lot of to-do time, really. We need time. It's like a hurricane.

It was like two hours of, but it to do. The poor person next to you on the bus was like, shit. That lovely guy and he was off to Parmesan, all. He was like, man, I've never seen so, why's he so angry at his computer? But we have met some amazing people. Everyone just being generous, helping us out, you know, just giving us. rides along the way. You entered the city bus,

gave us a free bus trip. Coffee club gave us some lunch yesterday. What about bloody Deb and Isaac who turned up yesterday and bought us all these snacks? And instant Kiwi cards to hopefully win us some money? What I love to is you talk to people and you really find out about

their lives, their divorces, the relationships, all the kids, you meet everywhere and people are so open and you just have wonderful conversation. There's a lot of negativity going on in the world, but there's some beautiful people out there. Then we get out of the car and we're like, have a nice life. We might not have ever seen them again.

I hope we do. But you had a big chat with Deb who's incredible and she was being talking for a long time when you're awake about Formula One. Well, she turned up yesterday if you didn't know, she was like, it's Liam Lawson's birthday today. And I was like, all right, we have an F1 fan. Lights out and away we go. And you did talk for a long time about F1.

We did. I love how they call him the pipe piper and he has all the rookies following him around. It's been going on for 20, 30 minutes now. She's so sweet. Deborah and Megan. They're just like, and he has so much time. I just, non-stop.

Deep, deep, deep. I think he started slowly softening out that. I think yeah. Do you know what? I actually love that the two girls in the car are talking motorsport. What are you like, what are your hobbies, Isaac? Should we talk about nail, doing our nails or something or something? I don't know.

So I was Ferrari before Carls City. And it just went on and on and on and on. And poor Isaac he was driving. Debs' partner. We were trying to get something started with it, you know, conversation-wise, but it was overrun by Formula One, the soundtrack of Formula One commentary. I could hear you taking the piss, and I didn't care. You did get, you had a great chat, which is awesome.

Paul, who was our first ride yesterday from the very top, the lighthouse at the top of the North Island as well, drove up there, drove along the beach with us, 90-mile beach. That was cool. It was just very, very cool, driving along the beach. Tell you what, I really enjoyed, Paul, I, too, he knows how to take a corner. Don't he, Paul could. He was like, he was like trying to get us there, you know? Well, because as soon as Ben promises $200, the car starts to go a little faster.

You guys need to win this race. But he had a concern about the car and this was it. We lost our cat for three days a couple of months ago. And I kept going out to the porch yelling, you know, calling his name, waiting from to come. And it wasn't until I wanted to go somewhere in this car that I realized that's where he had been for the last three days. Apparently the cat went to, did his business a lot where Megan's sitting right now. So we can do that, Megan. Actually, that's not true.

It's weird job. It's just, oh. Yeah, so thank you to everyone that's helped us so far. But hey, the helping doesn't stop there. No, we appreciate it. And if you want Megan to pull us to sleep in your car, then... Or if you want to chat about Formula One. Yeah, we need a lift out of Hamilton.

If you're heading south of Hamilton, doesn't matter how far you're going, we'll take anything. After 10 o'clock today, Ben will promise you $200 that you may or may not win. What are you bringing to the party? Oh, just a name. He's terrible, terrible banter. He has a lot of chat, and then he has a little nap,

and then he comes back before he chat. Just talking. Like a little half-time Super Bowl break. Bad Bunny comes on, does a song, and then he comes back. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. John O'Benn and Megan with you on the 10K race. We're racing Matt and PJ from the afternoon show. First of Wellington.

It gets $10,000 to give away on their show. we've given, well we've promised a few things along the way. You have promised $200 to everyone who's taken us somewhere. Look at you lying on the bed over there. I know, I was like, this is so great. We're in a hotel room. I'm just lying on Troy's bed. You know when you see photos of people enjoying a hotel room and they're like sort of sprawled

over the bed, Megan's. I've got a test, do I sound, can you tell when I'm sitting up and when I'm lying down? No, but we can look at you and we can see you on engaged. I know, but do I sound different lying down? No, but you definitely look different lying down. Oh, well, they can't see me. So we're in Troy's hotel room, screaming, apologies to the neighbours next door.

They've been in some live radio this morning. Since about 5 o'clock this morning, they'll be getting that. So good on them. I did get lipstick on your bed, Troy, so you're going to have to explain what those brown marks are. But we need to get out of Hamilton. As much as we love Hamilton, it's a beautiful day here. The sun is shining, but we do need to get to Wellington as fast as possible.

So if you can help us out, let's get to Lisa. Happy New Year to your least. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Hi, good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well. We're good. I'm comfy as.

Megan's doing great, actually. Is anything you can do to help us out today? Yeah, absolutely. So I have got a Ute that needs to get to Palmerston North as quick as you guys can get it there. Oh, Lisa. So whose use is this? So I work for cross-country rental, so it's a cross-country rental unit,

and we need it in PAMI, ASAP. You need it in the Pami Depot? Oh, we could take it to the Barme Bay. I guess technically within the rules, that's okay because we're not paying for it. It's not paying for it. If anything, you should be paying us. We're doing you a favour. That's amazing, Lisa.

Are you in Hamilton, are you? Yes, I'm in Hamilton. We can bring the boot to you. Oh, okay. We need to talk more about this. We'll take this to the back room, Lisa. Yeah, yeah. You hold there.

Well done. Thank you so much. Who is that from cross-country rentals, did you say? Yeah. Sorry, yes, yes, it's croft country rentals, yep. Shout out. Is it a manual? No, it's an auto, Megan.

Oh, we'll go. Yeah. Well, I mean, I can fang it in a manual too. We can, oh, this is, wow, Lisa. This is great. This is great help. We could be in Wellington by the end of the day? Couldn't we?

Yeah, yeah. All going, wow. Wow. Do you have another car that you need to transport from Parmesan to Wellington? Potentially. We've clocked the race, guys. All right, Lisa, thank you so much. We'll get someone else on the show.

Chris, good morning to you. How are you, buddy? You can help us out of Hamilton? You can help us out to Hamilton, Chris. Yeah, easy. Telpo. Are you going that way? I am going that way. What are you doing there? What are you doing in Topol today, Chris? Taking you to Telpo. Wait, do you have anything, like, are you going there anyway?

No, not really. Oh, my gosh. Why? Why are you doing this? Yeah, this is amazing. the generosity. Yeah, why not? Why not? There are some really good people.

As we're sitting in the passenger seats of these cars, I was like, I don't know if I'd be doing this for people. It's incredible. Really good people. Well, Chris, we'll get you a number two and keep in touch. Safe to say we can get out of Hamilton, guys. Yeah. Nothing against Hamilton.

No, no, it's a race. I mean, if anything, we'd want to move back here and live here forever. We can't. We can do that after the race. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. country all through the kindness of people offering us rides, offering us free transport, bus rides, taking rental cars back, all sorts.

We're doing it on a $10 budget, and that we've got to give away as part of our punishment. So we've got nothing. And it is extra punishing too for the wonderful people that pick us up along the way. I've been getting grief about the conversation. You've assigned me as chief CBO, chief banter officer in the front seat. You love sitting in the front seat. Leading the bed. Now, I dive really deep, get into kids, kids' professions, previous.

relationships, marriages, divorces. We cover a lot of ground. And yesterday with Sarah, poor Sarah, who was taking us from Fungare to Auckland. We're calling him Timu Graham Norton, weren't we, yesterday? Because he was just really getting into some questions. Running a chat show in the front seat. And then it got to a point in the conversation where I was like, oh, do you like donuts? I said to her, you just picked up on the donut thing, but I actually said to her,

what's your favourite food? The favorite food is your favourite doughnuts? What's your favourite doughnut? That's a big question. To get Uber eats around here? Would you ever be an Uber driver? It just went from one thing, do it next. I was like, geez, you're really deep-dived.

So thank you to Sarah for not only driving like four hours out of her day, but also putting up with Jono. Yeah, probably felt like six hours for poor Sarah. So the kindest thing of strangers done for you, Adele, welcome to the show. Happy New Year. How are you? Happy New Year. And how did you like Fangere?

Because I actually live in Fangere. It was amazing. Everyone is so nice. Shout out to Brian at the coffee club. He shouted us lunch, B-Dog. Oh, awesome. Awesome. So I had a baby, so I'm a mama of four kids, and I had my number four during COVID time.

And anyway, I went shopping one day and pack and save, and I had done all my groceries, and I couldn't afford my boys' nappies. So I walked out of the supermarket, and this lady came and tapped on my shoulder and said, hey, here's your napes. And she brought me two packs of nappies. Well, I couldn't believe it. And then I went to Walkworth, because my kids. his dad lives there, and I thought I had enough money in my bank and he paid for our groceries. Oh, yeah. That's so nice.

I was. I can tell it still means so much here. Yeah, that does. Yeah. It's just those little things. You're right. And at the time when you need it the most, you know, someone coming through it, that's pretty awesome. It is.

We had to chat with some people in the pack and save there too. Everyone even working there is so lovely. They are. Honestly, if I'm going to, you know, it's like, it's a, it's a chat. It's a great town, you know. You meet nice people, you know, you get to know everyone. So, yeah. Adele, thank you for sharing that lovely story.

And enjoy your trip and I hope you fellas get to Wellington. Thanks, Adele. I'll tell you one thing. I'll tell you one thing while you guys are tripping is making sure you got a lot of snacks and make you hydrated because it's so hot. It is hot out there. Keep up the old electrolytes. Keep the fluids up, Adel.

Losing a lot of fluids on this trip. Thanks so much, Adele. That was lovely. Keep these coming through. Kindest thing as strange has ever done for you. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. About to start our 10K race.

Again, after 10 o'clock, we're racing Maddie and PJ. First of Wellington gets $10,000 to give away. And we're just doing it through the kindness of strangers. Amazing people that have just helped us out. And Maddie and PJ as we make our way through the islands. And we wanted to know what's a kind thing a stranger's done for you? Yeah, Hazel. Great to have you on.

Happy New Year. Oh, thank you. Happy New Year to you, too. It's starting to feel wrong, isn't it, that catchphrase? But let's keep going to keep going with it. Hazel, kindest thing a stranger's done for you, mate. Well, I was driving along the motorway, and a naughty person was speeding and doing their naughty things they do,

and the police had to chase them and threw out a whole bunch of nails to stop the offender. Anyway, that went on, but unfortunately I was a victim of one of the nails. So I could see my cubs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I pulled over. And I was in my work car, so I phoned our service team, and they'll be like, yep, no problem, we'll see you soonish.

And anyway, then I see a big van coming up behind me, and I was like, oh, sweet, that was quick, you're here already. And then I was just like, hi, thanks, backed higher. And then I got on with a bit of my work in the car on my device. And then I get the phone call going, okay, we've made contact with the workshop guys. They'll be there within 10 minutes. like, no, they're here already.

And then he was like, no, then definitely not. And I was like, excuse me, mister, are you not from our service department? And he was like, no, I just saw you and needed help. And he's just random stranger. Random stranger came along and changed my tire for me. That's awesome. You were just sitting in the car, just thinking it was the service department.

Yeah, yeah. And I was just like, so just like, yep, you're getting on with your job and then kind of ignoring them. But I was a show of being just like, oh my goodness, night and shining up. Tell you, who should be changing the tire? The bloody New Zealand police, mate. They wrote, they spot you.

I don't like that's all those hardworking boys. They were chasing him. Yeah, they had some other things going on. Excuse me, excuse me. You just change the tire. Yeah. That's nice, though, because I've had a flat, a puncture on the motorway in Auckland,

and no one stopped for me. I was there for two hours. What else? I was like, does anyone want to help me? Oh, that's a lovely. Where do you live, though, Hazel? I live in storewater, and this was in the north of Auckland.

brown dairy flat area oh that's lovely oh good on you well hey there are some nice people out there wonderful stories of kindness Lynn welcome how are you Lynn kindest thing a stranger's done for you hi one time I was at countdown and I had to put back some soap and one soap powder on one other item because I just didn't have the funds and this man behind me said I'll pay for it I'll pay for it and I said no no it's all right I can do without them anyway um he insisted on paying for it and then he was like right behind me to my car and help me put my little bit of I had in my car, and I thanked me that when I got home and I was unpacking and he dropped

a $100 note in with the shopping. Oh my, serious. Wow. Even today, I cannot still, I mean, I see him, he'd said it, you know, I know what it's like. I've been down and out and had nothing. And honestly, even to today and I'm 68, I still cannot believe that, you know.

That is lovely. That is lovely. It didn't just slip out of his top pocket or anything, didn't it? He's like, damn it, I lost 100 bucks every lot of dollar. Where did I put that? We were walking through town once. That's right.

These charity workers came up and I'm like, oh God, here we go. And Ben was like, oh, yeah, I think I've got five bucks. Five bucks, yeah. And I pulled out what I thought was five bucks. It was a 50. And I didn't know, I realized I had a 50 because I needed to pay something for my daughter's school thing. And I was like, a 50. And I had it up.

And I went to put it in the bucket, guys. Did you put it in the bucket? Oh, amateur. I did not want to put it. But I had bought it out. I was like, I could not want to put it back. Because there was a crowd. gathering and they all went whoa when you pulled it out so yeah yeah i was like damn it was a 50 but

no hey it was for charity and i went yeah what a great guy i am reluctantly gave 50 dollars oh well that's a wonderful story mate thank you so much for you