Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: The axeman who died mid-competition… then came back to life!

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

On today’s show:  Why is Ben making his wife sprint after back surgery… Can we help our mate Irish Dave spot the fake Irish accent? Jono vents about a friend whose entire personality has become fitness — but Megan calls him out for the exact same thing. Kiwi axeman Kahu Woolley recounts dying mid‑competition and being revived by a defibrillator! The chaotic things Megan’s five-year-old did while sleepwalking. We chat to Urzila Carlson, and she shares behind-the-scenes stories from filming a major Hollywood production! 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 team. Welcome to... Oh my God, Grace, please. What's up? That grating of the wooden... What is it?

Wooden knife on her little... She's trying to scrape out all the butter. Is that a noise for you that? Yeah. Grates on you. Oh, yeah. I can see that's a little bit of it. It's like when you lick a wooden spoon,

you know, when you eat with wooden cutlery. Actually, the other thing that gets in... in me, but I don't actually have it gets inside your head as a fork if you drag along the bottom of your teeth. Oh, I do that all the time when I eat. But it doesn't actually happen when you do it, when you do it, when you do it, when you do it, it doesn't actually affect me too much. I always think about the bottom of, bite my fork. And Andrew's always like, can you stop? Like, it doesn't make a noise.

I get one, she's zero in a noise, though. You really amplifies. There was a guy behind us at the magic show, remember? And he was like a... Yeah. It's like a... And soon some person, one person brings it up, and then he'll like, oh, thank you. Thanks.

And I see to Jono, can you hear that? And he's like, no, what? And then when you do, everyone's like, well, that burst and you're like, oh, okay. Yeah. Do you know the big one, my daughter does a lot is the tapping of the fingernails. You tap a lot. You tap a lot. I tap a lot.

Am I a tapper? You tap your laptop and you tap your things and tap your hands up. I like doing that with my reading. Yeah, you tap your laptop heaps. I know I tap a lot too. Probably got it. Probably got from you. Genetics.

Yeah, yeah. Could be. I whistle. Do you guys find whistling annoying? I haven't noticed it. No, my wife just hates it, hates whistling. But other people, she's a great whistler, ironically. We're a prolific whistler.

But then my dad will come up and he'll say, and I zone out to it, but she's like he's been whistling nonstop for quite a long time. I whistle hard out like I'm singing it, but I do like, you know, like trills and everything with my whistles. And Andrew's like, okay, can you tone it down? Give us a teaser. No, I can't because I'm smiling like I can't do it. I'll record it.

I'll record it. What do you want me a whistle? I laugh. I can't now. Wait. Badehoven's fifth symphony. Did you do a fifth one, Troy? He did.

Hey, yeah. Do you know what song that is? I like this game. Go again, so I wasn't paying attention to the song. It's really hard to get a song when you whistle it. What was it? Oh, Ray. Nice.

Go, you go. Ben, we'll play the game with you. Oh, geez. I'm in love with the shape of you. There go. Go. Are you breathing in? Yeah, I breathe in a whistle.

No, you can't have someone breathing in. Look, how do you still breathe in? I've never been able to breathe out whistle. Yeah. That's the same thing. You just have to eliminate the breathing back in and just keep doing. Yeah, thank you. Got it.

It doesn't matter if you're breathing in or out. Yeah, I've never been able to breathe out and whistle. Well, you were doing the top of it. You're doing both, I think you're doing both. It's hard whistling. Because we'll get you in the end and the way out. You'll go, yeah, yeah. So you just need to eliminate the ones when you come back

and just keep going to the forward momentum and you'll be fine. If you want to keep whistling. I don't know. I wonder if this is fun to listen to. No, we're not. It's better stuff right now. It includes me almost get my wife run over. John O'Bin and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Now I've mentioned, you know, a couple of times, you know, over the last 12 months, my wife had back surgery last year. She had spinal surgery. And I, she's a lot better now. She's doing like strength and conditioning and stuff. But for time and time, forget about the fact that she's had that.

You do. Well, you know, like, forget about it. When you're getting it to do a million tasks for the day. Walk faster, come on. And this is one of these moments. Yesterday I was on, I'm like, just need to get stuff done, sort of, you know, ticking stuff off my list. You're in the zone. Family are all out with me.

I'm like, oh, we're just, everyone's slowing me down. I'm just like, come on, guys. Bloody family dragging me down. It's just get in, hustle, do it, and then just get back to it. What everyone else wants to be doing, which is not these things right now. What are you getting in hustling and doing? Oh, we just had to go across to the mall, we had to get a couple of things. So we're going across roads and stuff like that.

The family, we're like, got to get some stuff. We had a list about three or four things. I always say hurry so we can chill. That's a great idea. Yeah. And this was like just get into one of those situations. Should you have just done this as a solo mission, you believe? I would have preferred it as a solo mission, don't you?

Yeah, it would have been fine as a solo mission. But anyway, we're about to cross the road and it was, you know, it was busiest road. But at that stage, it was clear. And I was like, guys, we can just go now. And so, and everyone went to go. and my wife who, you know, I've forgotten her head back splurgy. Had a broken back. She had obviously, she used to be doing strength and conditioning,

but not so much sprint work. As she took off, it was like she'd been shot by a sniper, you know. And I was across the road. I'd safely got across when I had to look back. And I was like, she was mid-road holding her back. And I was like, just as a moment, I'm like, well, I'm safe here. The kids are safe. And she's, the car's covered.

There's cars. So she's in the middle of the road. Oh, she was just having a little, like, spasm. A little, yeah, back spasm basically. It's a thing. Oh, she's like, come on, come on. You can do it. It's like one of those war movies.

Yeah, it's like. Just keep walking. And then all I had to go kind of out there. And I'm like, well, I'm not having a carrier like across the thing. What did you do? How awful? Don't carry her. Did you just sort of help her across the road like an elderly lady?

Yeah, no, she's like. Did you get a whack? Yeah, pretty much. It was all my fault as well, too. It's a poor thing, you know. I'm like, take it. Come on. We can go. Let's do it now.

He's like today on the to-do list he's taking her to the track. Getting those 100 metres sprints up. We need to get some sprits up. The standing starts. We need to just get going, all right? Oh, Amanda. I know. She had to deal with that.

He's back a little bit up to that. Literally he's back. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's. It's St. Patty's Day, of course, playing the cause. And we got our friend of the show, Iris Davin with us. Top of the morning to you guys.

It is the top of the morning, isn't it? Yeah. A vet. The thing for you, when he's, You say, top of the morning to someone, you actually say, and the rest of the day to yourself. Oh, is that what you say after that? Is that the response?

No one has ever explained that there's a follow-on response to this. Now, Irish Dave, every year we put a huge weight on you to represent an entire nation. I've done better as the years go on. You've done well. I do remember the first year being quite hung over, but you did ring me at 6am on the morning morning. So now we've got you in the studio, which is great. You've bought across some glasses, some hats, some sort of leprechaun hats we've got as well. on hats. I did assume that someone would forget to wear green.

So I brought the green with it. I did. I did. Yeah, I put it on the calendar invites. Did Irish Dave coming in? He wants us to wear green. To be fair, it was very loose from Ben. He knows he should remind us. I was like, I was going to remind this morning. I was not going to do it. It's not worry about it. He's giving up. He's giving up on Edmund. You know, we've worn him down, Dave. It's on them, Dave. It's on them.

Irish Dave, I do have a question before I start saying top of the morning in an Irish ac scene. Is it okay for us to? You can absolutely do the Irish accent. It's one of the safe ones. It's the safe one, yeah. Okay, it's good. We can do that. Hey, I bought something for you.

You know, you bought something for us, Horace hats. I've got your, um, potatoes. A potato for you as well, too. Thanks very much. When you say Ben was doing, making us do this at 6 o'clock,

Irish wrist watch. Irish wrist watch. Can you say? Irish wrist watch. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. It sounds like you've been joking before. But,

but, so, Penny's day, we often get the story behind it, and we love the story behind it. No, obviously I named after St Patrick who got rid of the snakes you tell us every year Famously the Welshman who kicked all the snakes out of Ireland Yeah There's actually a bit of like mythology to it

Which I learned recently And the snake actually represents paganism That he brought Christianity to Ireland And that's what Because you're like there's no snakes There was no snakes before There was never any snakes A picture of Welsh guy pitching up going

Oh snakes out And I got rid them all when Yeah, so celebrate it all around the world. We see Chicago, the river, green every year, which is pretty cool as well. Eco-friendly. And people all over the world. Get involved. Get involved.

Yeah, I mean, there's, I think I said last year, there's 5 million people on Ireland of Ireland, but there's about 70 million of us scattered all over the world. Yeah. Doing stuff like this. Probably the most affable of all the nations. I mean, the accent does a lot of the heavy lifting. It does a lot of the heavy lifting. It does a lot of the heavy lifting.

It's hard not to love an Irish person. Isn't it? We've known each other for a while and there was that sweet period for four months when you were at a certain age that I enjoyed as well. Ben, leading question, I like it. When I was terti tree, that was the greatest time of your life, I think. And I was 33 and a turd?

That's right. For four months, I could go, how old are you going to get done? So since you've given us the green light, so to speak, on the accent, we want to play a game. We want to play a game. Now, 0800 of the hits, there's cash up for grabs. You've got $50. for each caller, if you can fool Irish Dave.

So you can either put on an Irish accent or maybe you're from Ireland, and you can ask a couple questions to them. Oh, 800 of the Hats. And if you can full Irish Dave, you get 50 bucks. Top of a morning and to you. Kiwi. I mean, I'm looking at Megan for that.

Oh, 800, that's the telephone number. Can you play Irish or I wish I was Irish? John O'Brien, the podcast. The Hits. Our friend of the show, Irish Dave with us. Great to have you here this morning. Thanks very much. We love her.

It's nice to be in the studio rather than getting a phone call. It's great to have you there. We got you a breakfast sort of. I gave you a potato. I got a couple here as well, but you've got your breakfast. You've got your breakfast in a bag as well to go afterwards. Hannah Murphy's for afterwards. Murphy's afterwards, yeah.

Now Dave, he wasn't happy with the Irish music that we played in part one of his appearance today. It was like cliche. What would you like there, Dave? I'm like a little bit of amber, a little bit of hosier. Oh, I was here. You've got some great Irish artists. I went to the Hollywood, which was the first time, not Hollywood, the Hollywood in Avondale to see Amble a few weeks ago.

Like, amazing spot. I don't know if you've ever been there. I haven't been to the home. I haven't seen who you're talking about those, so that's awesome. Yeah. Okay, so what we're going to play right now is a game called Irish or I Wish. And you have to try and con Irish Dave with your Irish accent. Now, it does feel like a game that in 15, 20 years they're going to be playing and going,

can you believe they were doing this on the radio? It was a different time. We wouldn't do that now, but we're doing it right now because we're allowed to do it. We've got the blessing of Irish Dave does approve this message. But they'll edit that bit out in 15 years. We had an Irish guy. We're wearing silly lepracorn hats as well. Look at them as well.

Okay, let's get to it. Okay, we're going to start with Kelly. Welcome to... Top of the morning to you, Kelly. Good morning. How are you? We're doing well, Kelly. Now, Irish Dave needs to figure out if you are Irish. I think we could all play this game, to be honest.

But you go away, Dave, with your intense investigation. Top of the morning to you, Kelly. How are we? Not so bad in yourself. I'm great, I'm great. But Swedish there? I have a quick question for you. What day is today?

Oh, it could be the best. It's St. Patrick's Day. The Scottish? We've got the United Nations of accents going on. Okay, I'm going to stop it before we get into D-A-R-As and we can't get to. What do you think, Irish or I-Wish? I think it's an I-Wish. I-Wish.

Kelly, we're going to hook you out with $50 for your Sympatties Day, though. Thanks for playing. Oh, beautiful. Thank you. I didn't even need to get there. Sloppy accent you get 50 bucks, Kelly. Someone texts it and said, Kelly sounds like Borat. Can you just do us a favour?

Can you say, my wife, in your Irish accent? Um, me why. All right, that's a good one, come on. Uh, Gina, Irish or I wish, uh, try and con Irish day with your accent. Uh, top of the morning, do you lads? How are you getting on? Ooh. Okay, I'm a little more difficult than kids. There's a more difficult. Any questions?

Um, I would like you to count to five. One, two, three, four, five. So, oh. There's Gina. It's Gina Irish. I think she's Irish. I mean, I've, what are you're going to? I also think she might be Irish. Gina?

I think she might be putting on an Irish accent, but is Irish. But it's actually Irish. Gina, are you Irish? Yeah, I'm Irish. Yay! Where are you from? I'm from Gory in County Wexford. County Wexford.

There you go. The sunny South East. Okay. Do you know Irish Day? I don't know. Maybe you might have met in a pub once or twice, but I don't know. Surely we'll be in the pub today. Oh, yeah.

Well, you get for self, empty backs as well. Let's do one more really quickly. Are you celebrating today, Gina? I'm actually on my way to work. I just dropped the kids off this morning. But yeah, we might see if we can do a bit of celebrating this afternoon. The answer is yes, we'll be in the post. At top of the morning, too you.

Michelle. Good morning. What do you reckon, Dave? Okay, what questions can we ask? Michelle, how many different types of stout are there in Ireland? Oh, there's quite a few Gosh, you know, I've got quite a few favourite I don't know

It's not a real, and I feel like it's unreal It always peers off to Scottish Yeah, to be honest Keep it at one or two syllables Short, short and sharp So you're thinking it's a no, it's a not Irish? Let's go, can you say potatoes? Potatoes?

It's an I wish. Are you Irish? It's an I wish. No. We're going to hook you out with 50 bucks as well for you said Betty's Day. Thanks for playing, though. Are you a very good three out of three Irish, Dave? I know my people.

Like I know you guys. So I was doing a little bit of a bit of research. Boyce is from Donny Gold. Norman originally, but moved into the... Sorry, I'm okay, I can pass. I can pass today. You can say you're Irish. And then John O'Priar.

He screams Irish. Screens Irish. And I don't know if you know this. but John, I'm assuming your name is John. Jonathan. So John in Irish is Sean. Is it? Yeah.

So today you're Sean O'Priar. Sean O'Brien. But I'll take Sean O'Brien. There's no John's in Ireland. No. They're Sean. It's not okay. Irish Dave.

Happy St. Patty's Day. Thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for lots of fun. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. I just had Irish Dave a friend. A bit backstory just saying that we called him Irish Dave

because it was two Dave's in our friend group. It's not that we just name everyone from the country they're from. but he's embraced it. It's like his Instagram handle and everything as well. But telling us about some Paddy's Day and we are celebrating some Paddy's Day with a bit of an anchor twist. You can check out a new video we just did on our social medias as well. Trying to split the A, so drinking milk into Anchor Milk

and trying to get to stop, you know, but when it gets to the A. It was actually a lot harder than I thought. And you can win yourself $500 if you can go along there. Thanks to Anchor, the original cold one, and you can win $500 on that post. fit to be good at that, wouldn't he? Yeah, we spit something else in it. Yeah.

A bit of... Wow, that was a niche. Intellectual humour, right? Yeah, that's what they come from. I'm from that era. From where he was from. Yeah. It's just a...

Anyway, my friend, really disappointing stage in our friendship. I've got a friend who's become a full on fitness dude. And, you know... Jimbra. Yeah, I mean, good. He's chosen a healthy lifestyle. but now every time

he's like, should we catch up? Should we go for a run to Invercargo? Or, you know, do you want to go for a bike ride to Wellington? Everything's fitness focus. Where it used to be, let's just sit down, eat some chips and dip. And regret it about half an hour later. He's now gone. So, yeah, I don't mind people doing it in there finding their fitness thing,

but when they push it on to, you know, that's when it's become his whole, it's great. I mean, something becomes your whole personality. Great, they're doing it, but then at the same time, it's like, And he's going to live a far better, healthier life tonight. You still catch up and he can have what, I mean, I don't know, and I have a protein shake or some creatine or something. I'm sure he sits down for half an hour at times, doesn't he? No, he's all go.

He is all go. And he, what is really impressive is he was the opposite. Really? I know how some people just do a full 180 and, you know, he's got t-shirts and the sleeves are missing now. Oh, yeah. You can see all finely sculpted muscles too. I guess once you get into that whole F-45 CrossFit running, the runners, they're prolific, aren't they, on social media. It's probably hard to get out.

It's like a cult, like bloody Glory Vail, Destiny Church, you're in there. You're in there. You're in there. He's in there? Mani McLean's in there? Mani McLean ran one marathon. Now he just can't, he almost runs three marathons a week, this guy. Although you guys are in a bit of a glass house, because I remember, like, every time we go away, when we went to Fiji, I went in lax by the pool.

And I'm like, where are you guys? You spent how long at the gym and Fiji, both of you? I was like, get out of the bloody gym. We don't drag you along to the gym. No, you make me feel bad. You don't look at me. I don't scream gym guy, though, do I? Are you actually lifting anything?

What are you doing here? Free Wi-Fi. Lift my water bottles and the water taps. It gives, you know, motivational pets on the bottom. Keep lifting, mate. Keep it up team. Good for morale around where you're in a city fitness.

City fitting, mate. City fitness. City fitting. They're like, come on, come on. Just at least try to lift some weights, you know. Welcome to City Fitty. My name's Ben.

You're like the bar's heavy enough. The bar is heavy. The bar is heavy. The bar is a lot heavier than you think too. You just look very weak, just squatting the bar. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. It's. A really, really fascinating call that we recorded a couple days ago. Yeah, Kiwi Axeman by the name of Kahoo Wully. He died. Mid-tournament and yeah, joins us now. Kahoo, welcome.

How are you? Hey, mate, how are you? We're doing well. Crazy story. You're dead. Well, clearly you're not now. But you were. Mate, yeah, I was.

Yeah, I was. Yeah, the heart's not beating. They sort of couldn't get me back online and took two or four goes with the frubulator and managed to get me back online. So, yeah, pretty chuffed about that. You sounded, you sounded. Yeah, so what? Where were you at the time?

Yeah, a long story short, I was competing in a competition in Australia, and, yeah, basically suffered a card-acarrest, sort of half-mid shop. And I actually finished the race and went back to put my ex back in the box and sat down and looked at my wife and said there's something wrong here and, yeah, collapsed. Oh, my goodness. And the rest of history, yeah. So for 15 minutes your heart stopped beating, right? Yeah, I had four Axman friends of mine, one from New Zealand and three from Australia,

sort of doing CPR and couldn't get a pulse until they got a defibrillator on me. So, well, thank God there was a defib on site. That's a good lesson for every venue to have one handy, isn't it? Now, when you're having a heart attack, what does it actually feel like? Well, I didn't feel pain at all. That was a weird thing. You know, I sort of felt obviously I was losing my breath. And then I started getting tightness, but it wasn't painful. My vision started going blurry.

And then I just, yeah, from there on out, apparently my eyes rolled back in the head. Oh, my God. That was it. So what, you're out for 15 minutes. Do you remember anything? Did you experience anything? What was that like? That's probably one of the biggest questions.

I've been asked. No, no, I didn't see anything. Complete darkness. It might be different for other people, but certainly for me, I didn't see anything that was stereotypically read about, so, no, nothing for me. So what's the last thing you remember,

and then the first thing you remember? Well, the last thing I remember was saying to my wife there's something wrong here, and I don't really remember anything until I saw the rotor blades of the helicopter. So incredibly, because you're wood chopping at the time, that's, you know, one of your passions and what you're doing,

and you're back doing it again. Yeah, well, yeah, I'm sort of surprised as well. But because my mate sort of got on to me really quickly, I haven't had any heart damage or prolonged brain damage, so my recovery is pretty well being instant. And I only got the go ahead sort of two weeks ago from the cardiologist, and I haven't done any training. I'll sort of be waiting for him to give me the go ahead

and decide to come on over and give it another crack. Do you get nervous now going into it? Like giving another crack after. Does your wife get nervous? Well, I've just done three days down in Canterbury last weekend. Yeah, I've got to be completely honest. The first one there was a little bit, how's this going to go? But got through the first couple of days and the third day,

I was sorry, like I'm back online again. Because you're, you know, you keep yourself in good shape. You're obviously very fit for what you do. And it just shows that something like this can happen at any stage, particularly guys to keep an eye on their health. Well, that's why I've sort of been doing so many interviews. If I could raise a little bit of awareness, So even if you feel fit and healthy,

it might just play to go and get checked, just in case you never know. And know where the defib is. Yeah. Well, that's, yeah, we've got a great story. Great, I'll tell you what, given the stage I'm at in life, wouldn't mind one in the studio.

Kahu, hey, good luck and glad everything turned out all right. Well, I appreciate it. I'm fine, man. Thank you. Just incredible. Oh, 100 that hits, 4487. Probably a long shot, but is it happened to anyone else? Like, have they died and come back to life?

Did you see any, though? Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. Have you died and come back to life? I was surprised we've got so many people calling us right now with us. Yeah, well, usually with these topics, we always go around the room. Have you got an example?

Have you got an example? And if we don't have an example, we're like, don't. Don't do it. So we're going against all the rules of commercial radio. Every bone in our commercial radio body right now is saying, don't do this topic. Yeah. But Ben, you threw it out there. Yeah, it's coming through.

Jennifer, happy New Year. Yeah, hi there. You died, Jennifer. Yes, I did. Yeah, I was at the hospital in Waikato. I'd had an operation and I was in the recovery room. I'm lying on my bed with my blankets right up to my chin, but I was very unhappy. I was very cold. I was in a lot of pain and I had one of those monitors on my arm that were going bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep. And I was trying to lie really still because if I lay really still and just breathe really evenly, it hurt less and I felt a bit better. And then the next thing I heard the monitor on my arm go, boon. Oh, that's not a good sign.

Oh, you heard it? Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. So the next thing, and I didn't really think about it until quite a bit later. I could see the anaesthetist run out of the operating centre because I'd been last on the list and come to me beside the bed. So he was in a different room? Yeah.

And you saw him leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there was a nurse sitting at her desk and I was the only person in a bed in that area. So I was the last person recovering from my operation. And I could see her sitting there. When the thing went, I don't know what she did, but I could see the anesthetist. And when that happened, I didn't feel cold anymore.

I wasn't in any more pain. I wasn't upset. That's crazy. So you're like floating above the hospital? Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah.

And do you remember being brought back to life? Yes, I do. The next thing I remember was the nurse beside me, and she's stroking my arm, and she's telling me, come on, Jennifer, come on, take some big breasts. We want you to take big breaths. Come on. Wow. And, yeah.

And you're like, Jenny's back, bitch. I'm back, baby. That's incredible. Yeah. Yeah, so it basically showed me that there's something else other than what we know and see here. That's nice to know. Yeah, so I'm not frightened of dying, but I've got more stuff to do now. I don't know.

Oh, that's incredible. Well, thanks for sharing that story. And obviously it gave you a different perspective on life after that. Oh, shit, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's, I'm also, I am very spiritual, so it wasn't a surprise to me. Back when that happened, it was probably, oh, it's about 25 years ago. But in the last 10, 10 or 15 years, I've really explored my spirituality.

And that guy kind of said to me, it's like, oh, there's lots more out there that you can learn about. Oh, good on you, Jenny. What a great outlook on life. Well, that's incredible. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing on the radio. Really appreciate it. And tell you what, there's more.

Do you want more dead people, Jenny? Do I want what? More dead people on the show. Do you want to hear from more of them? Oh, yeah. The stories are amazing. It changes your perspective online. John O'Vin and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. I've got a big five-year-old now, second week of school, guys. And everyone says that when they go to school, they get super tired. He doesn't seem to be super tired. But he sleeps like he's conked when he's.

when he sleeps all night seven till seven like he is out no but I mean like he's full revs right up until bed I see Who sleeps harder Him or you?

Him Yeah Well You're on a plight Not in the world I'm like okay tomorrow I'm going to be doing this He's not worried about Ben filming him

When he sleeps Yeah Weird if he was But My husband and I Were watching TV in bed Ben Like Love it

and it was like 10 o'clock at night. I should have been asleep. And our door opened. And my son had been asleep for three hours. But he walks in and he's not wearing any clothes. I was like, what is happening? Why are you naked? And I thought maybe he'd like wet the bed.

And we're like, what are you doing, buddy? Nothing. Walks across our room. Like nothing going on. And we're like, Bastie, what's up, mate? Oh, he's not paying attention to you. No. No.

And then he goes into a bathroom and goes into the shower and we can just hear like, I was like, has he turned the shower? Oh, no. Oh, unless he's gone to the shower. I mean, that's. And then he's like a drunken dude. Like a university student. Like a uni student at your flat.

He's gone for a little way in the shower. And then he trundles off. Like, what is happening? It's like a horror film. I'll wake up to a buddy. a hypnotized naked child peeing in your... So has he done... Obviously sleepwalking, right?

So, yeah. Obviously sleepwalking has never done it before. And I'm like, oh no. We've entered a new chapter. It must be like school exhaustedness. And so my husband went in and was like, you're all right, mate, he wakes up. He's like, what's happening?

It's quite frightening that can happen, eh? Yeah, because then we were worried, you know, they say you can't like wake them. What do you do? Do you just guide them back and at what point do you wake them or do you just help them back into bed? You film them and you play that footage at their 21st. It's the only solution. I was like, well, thank God he made it to the shower.

Yeah, good on him. A lot of university students wouldn't have made of that far. No, one of my flamersed in a pop plant and, you know, all kinds. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Sirzler Carlson, very funny New Zealand comedian. You'll see you on seven days. She's all over the world these days and great to see her touring New Zealand.

Great to see you touring at the end of the year, and it's great to have me in the studio. How are you doing? Oh, good. How are you? Lovely to see. You know, it was quite confronting. Is it a little said, oh, you're still here.

You thought I was dead or just... No, I just thought maybe you guys have gone through a really bad breakup and no one's talking about. That happens? My parents did that. I was like, where is that? It's been years. Is anyone going to bring this up? I have to notice.

There's a massive gap at the dinner table. These guys' relationships lasted longer than my first marriage is. Girl, same. It's lovely to have you here. Now, last time we had you, I know it was a while ago, but as you left, and after we did the interview, you're like, oh, by the way, I'm about to film a movie, Adam Sanders producing it, Amy Schumer's in it, and we're like, what, what, what, as you left? And we didn't really even get a chance to talk to you, man.

Why did you bloody give us that gold during the interview? Well, because, you know, you don't want to up yourself too much, and you want to go and do it first. They could always edit me out of the movie. You never know. You're a pretty big character, though, in it? You're a big part, yeah. I know what I loved about that, because everything bar two lines that my character

I said it was all just off the cuff stuff. Really? It was so good. So the director, Tyler Spindale, who's Adam Sandler's nephew, so we'd film whatever's in the script, and then it'd say to Amy and I, go nuts. We just go off cover. We just had the best time. Oh, great.

Watching that, it really did feel like you. Yeah. Yeah, honestly, it's not acting. So we're like, can you act? And then when I read the script, I go, I don't think I need to, actually. That's just you. Yeah. Well, that's pretty cool.

Like Amy Schumer, like she thought of you for this, contacted you. And then you ended up doing like a Zoom read-through with her. She was on it. Yeah, because I didn't even know what it was when they say do a self-tape. I don't know what that is. I had to ask chat GPT. And then she was like, I'll do it with you.

And then I just got it. Did you think you're being scammed for a little part there? Yeah, I was like, I do sometimes feel like, what's that show that Jim Carrey did with a whole thing? Yeah, I'm like, I'm being Truman Showed right now. But yeah, it was so much fun. And then, because honestly, it was like three days from her contacting me in the middle of the night on Instagram to me getting the role and then another way to get the visa. And I was like, why isn't everyone famous? Just be famous.

Choose it. It's easy. Choose it. So what? In three weeks you're over there filming? Yeah. This is wildly disorganized on their behalf. I know.

It's like, because I think they wanted to cast someone else. You know how I know this. This is so funny. I haven't told anyone so here's your little here's your little excuse us here's your little

we need this you don't know how much we need this right now okay so you get team A and team B when we're filming so then they block everything out with our standings

right so Amy's standing looks just like her Gillian Bell standing looks just like her everyone's standing looks just like them mine was a six foot two Russian model

so I'm going and so for the camera angle and the lights and stuff she's just like this bending down on every I was like every time I looked at I go who were they trying to ask me

definitely not of short fat South African I tell you that so you go from filming this huge Netflix movie you go you know you're filming shows in Australia at the moment in the back end to stand up comedy Is it hard to go back to stand up? Okay, so can we just fix that right now?

I've never gone back. Stand up is my main, my first love. Shut your mouth. You shut your slip. You can give him a slap of you off. That filthy mouth. That is my number one love. Everything else I do is to push stuff for stand-up.

But I'm having so much fun. There must be moments in your career. Because listen, I was telling producer Troy, When you were first starting out in comedy, do you remember you and me? Yeah, you're my very first TV show in New Zealand. We flew on a, it was you, me and a former leader of the mongrel mob flew on a domestic flight. On a pencil of death. To Napier.

To a prison in Napier to film a sketch. Yeah. Wild day. So you must have, I mean, humble, humble beginnings flying on a domestic flight with me to Napier to now. Like, you must have so many pinch yourself moments. Honestly, and I, it's like imposter syndrome where I just think I get to do the coolest stuff. I ended last year's tour. My last show of the year was at the steps of the opera house in Sydney.

Wow. Like, it's insane. Or, you know, like I play arenas in Australia. You walk out and there's 10, 15,000 people and you go, Kaching. What is it? Is that what you go? No, that is not it.

You know, this is actually a chat that I had with Jeremy Corbett years ago. I go do these gigs and I'm so excited for the gig. And then when I get home, I'm like, oh yeah, and I'm getting paid. for it. Yeah, that's good. That's the last thing. I'm not motivated by money, you know, but I mean, obviously it's good. We can't wait to have you back here.

We're bullied you into performing in New Zealand later in the year. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. Yesterday, the Oscars, the Academy Awards were on the 98th one. And producer Troy, you just sort of told us, after the radio show, you're like, I'm going home, I'm having an Oscars party. Yeah, and party probably is putting it a bit too. Is as glitzy and glamorous as the parties they have at the Oscars? No, it wasn't.

It was my two unemployed friends coming around to my house. Just have some beers. Just have some beers on a Monday. And some sausage rolls you made? Well, no, they actually didn't get made in the end. Oh, you didn't make them? Well, they didn't defrost some time, because I didn't know you had to take them out to defrost them. I thought you could just go from Frozen.

I'm sure you can. I feel the guys I feel like you just chuck it in and it'll push through. It'll push through that stage. Oh, I just left them. Because Mandoo, our boss, text you said, how's the Oscars party going? You said, I feel a little depressed sitting here with my two unemployed friends, three beers deep on a Monday afternoon. Shout out Jack and Riker.

They're trying. You dress? What's the dress code for this? Is it, you know, black tie function? No, I had a beanie and dressing gown on. It was a dressing gown that was merch from one of the movies. But I was looking more unemployed than they were. Do you know what I love about Patricia Troy holding an annual Oscars party?

He grew up on the West Coast of the South Island. The West Coast wasn't ready for you, mate. You needed to go and, they're like hunting, mining, fishing. You're like, what about the best original score? And they're like, you go to the big smoke, mate. You're too much for this town. People that didn't watch it, what's some of the big results from the Oscars? Big results, K-pop Demon Hunter's best song.

Oh, nice. Goldie. Although the guy got Bruce Lee cut off, didn't he? Yeah, when he rocked up to accept the award, one of the songwriters got to say her thing, and when he sits up to the mic, this happened. Thank you to Netflix. Thank you for Sony Animation.

Thank you for Ian Eisendraff and Spring Asper's. and is there it? I'd like to think Oh I would like to think I would like to think It wasn't a slow fade In other music

It was a Snare Leonardo DiCaprio He's like always a staple At the Oscars And it seems like his movie One Battle after another Won a lot of Oscars

Right, six or something One Oscar after another He didn't win himself But the movie won He is in the most amount Of best picture winning movies Out of any actor. But why does he not win?

Yeah. We're complacent. We don't know a good thing we see it. Conan O'Brien, he hosted. Was he good? I thought he was really good. He did it last year and he's, he was better than last year.

Yeah, it was good. We got some more to go there? Security is extremely tight tonight. I just got to mention that. Yeah. I'm told there's concerns about attacks from both the opera and ballet communities. About Timothy Shalame.

Yeah. Had a crack say they were dying forms of art. But in context, he was also talking about movies, not people not going to movies, and he didn't want to be part of, you know, he wanted to make art that people were going to go and watch. He wasn't saying that ballet and opera was bad. He was just saying people aren't going to it as much.

But what we did is we just clipped a little bit of that into and had outrage. We love some outrage as well. So yeah, so your Academy Wars part, you had bingo as well too, didn't you? Had a bingo. We forgot about the bingo actually because we had too many Bears and so

Les of a party more of just a miserable Monday afternoon Bears session But I got some audio for the radio Okay

I'm at my Oscar's party This is me After the first Award This is me After five awards I have guessed

Zero of them Correct Currently 10 awards Down sausage rolls Are still Defrusting These two

boys are too scared to Talk on the on the microphone But I can tell that frosty They're frosty with me

These American ads are crazy There's an ad for skin cream And one of the potential side effects Is bleeding eyeballs My friend Jack has bought Some drinks That he calls Jesse Plymonade Very clever pun

Plymonade It's just a mnade With a picture of Jesse Blumen's face on it So Wild times at the Oscar Is it just an excuse for you to bing's drink on a Monday? It was, I think. Okay, so what are you getting behind?

We'd love to know. Maybe it's the St. Patty's Day. Maybe it's State of Origin. Maybe it's Thanksgiving. What are the things you celebrate? We've got one of our bosses here. He loves... Oh, we've got to talk about Matt's...

And every four years, he holds a massive party. It's so nerdy. So what are you really getting into with an annual? Maybe even it comes up every four years like our boss Matt. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. We've been going around the country

Going to the Wheatbex Kids triathons A really great events all over New Zealand I think the last couple this week Might we want to Palmie today I think Maddie and PJ heading along to that one

And Megan We were in Wellington on Sunday And lost track of you For a pooh It felt like 45 minutes An hour And what happened Talk us through it

We got separated Because I had to check in a bag Classic So yeah So we're all together You went to check in a bag Yeah, because my bag was too big. I sat in seats.

You went to go, you even got some beers, John, and you couldn't come back. So, John got bears, he was separated because he had to drink his beers over somewhere else. It's all very stereotypical. And I just stayed at the same spot, and I was like, I've got my laptop, I'll just sit here. So I text you and said I'm in the middle of the lounge area. You said you're in the main area. Yeah. And I thought that meant that you were in the chicken part.

That's gone past security sort of thing. Yeah, so I... Doro's at the bar, so he could have found him there. Could have found me then. All very on brand for us. Me getting checking in her oversized baggage, been doing some emails. John, I know how you get lost to Wellington Airport. It's just two hallways and then the main dining area.

Yeah, well, I'm about to tell you. So I looked at my phone and I was like, okay, 21 was the gate. And so I headed off to the right and down into an area that I didn't really recognize. It was really small. Yeah, you're going down the Jet Star alley. That's the other side of the... You know, the blood's and crips. You've got the Air New Zealand on the left, Jet Star, on the right.

And then I, so I did have a moment where I got to security, and I was like, I don't know if I'm in the right area. And I was like, well, he's 21. So I pushed on through. And then when I was through there, I was looking around, and I saw Grace. And that's when I realized she was on Jet Star and I'm on Air New Zealand. And Grace was like, you are in the wrong area. Oh, mate. What gate do you need?

And I was like, 21B. and so I sent to the flight attend and I was like where's gate 21B? She was like we don't do A's and Bs. So I was very confused. Yeah, why would you have a B gate? She was like, you are at Gate 21 but I'm flying in New Zealand.

She was like, no, you need to go the other side. And I was like, I don't understand. So I showed her my thing and I had, I was looking at the seat number rather than the gate. 21B was your seat number. 21B was a sick at that because you were sitting next to me. Like that was your seat number. First faux par, yeah.

Yeah. So I trudged off the other way and went through security because, again, I thought Ben was already through by the main area. So I got stuck in a huge queue at my second security for the day. And when I went through, I don't know why this keeps happening to me, but they, when I always beep and then when I go through the arms up thingy, there's a big yellow square around my... Private parts. Yeah.

What do they do there? Just give a little prod. The guy was like stepped out and a woman stepped in and she's like, I'm just going to touch you with the back of my hand. And I was like, it feels the same to me whether you use the front or the back of your hand. Just give it a gentle tap. Give it a tap. What are you packing in there?

I don't know what it is because she did a tap tap and she's like, you're all good, mate. And so I carried on. But then I couldn't find you guys. And the guy alerted me when my bag went through security that something had smushed up all through it so a nectarine that I'd had in there all weekend had gone through my whole bag so I went in and then when I got to our gate that was actually our gate

it said it was going to Queenstown and I'm like I don't know what's happening I lost you SIGA's text and I was like where are you Ben you're like you're like can Roger Dalton please come to the flight I was like what's happened to Roger Dalton after checking in and going to catch his play it's Megan it's John O'Benon and Megan

the podcast The Hats Tia Megan Okay dokey time for another, Dan Megan, people slide into my DMs with situations that they want us all to give advice on. I think generally there's some great advice that gets handed down by the hits audience. Yeah. I've been getting more and more just because people appreciate other people's opinions as long as we keep it respectful. So today, this one reads, Dear Megan, my five-year-old daughter does dance. and earlier in the month they started talking about the end of term show and all the rehearsals.

Honestly, the thought of all the running around and sitting through endless practices just felt overwhelming. So when she asked about the show, I told her there wasn't one anymore and she didn't need to go back till next term. Great stuff. Now the other kids have been asking where she is and she's come home asking why she isn't a part of it. I feel awful and I don't know what to tell her now. do I admit I lied or try to explain it another way. You've been busted. It's getting to the end of the lying phase of your parenting

when they start to find out that their parents aren't that great. They're not great people. Well, you can do that for a while, can't you? A little white lies, obviously. I don't know how she thought she's going to get away with that, to be honest, because the other kids would be like, where are you? Very gossipy community. Hey, as a dad of a dancer, it's a commitment.

It's a commitment, but also in the same breath, You want your kids to find the thing they're passionate about. Find their people. Ben, I know you get dragged along to a lot of musical theatre. You must have been to a few dudd musicals over your time. And he's going to list them all very shortly. But, you know, that's the commitment you have. Right, yeah.

When your kids do find something they love, it's great. In saying that, I don't, like I'm just playing devil's advocate, you can see how someone might get overwhelmed. And if you've got a lot going on and then you have to commit to the dance as well. My daughter Andy loves dance She goes a couple times a week But she came to us last year And she's like, do I have to do the end of year thing?

I'm not that And I was like, hey great Say no more Say no more Say less Say less And that was a sweet spot I was like course that's sweet

Did you have to do any like Oh that's yeah Oh that's a shame No you're like great One less thing in the calendar Yeah I love it Love going along

But the end of year I'm like yep I'm with you I can see it's a huge commitment How old is the child sorry Five years You're pretty young Pretty young

You can get away with her Or can you get away with it? I would usually, I don't know, I want to say, be honest, but then your five-year-old's going to know you'd lie to them about something that means a lot to them, and then, you know, trust issues. Oh, you know, but they forget about it. You know, kids get over stuff. Do they or does it come back later in life where everyone goes to do with their childhood?

They turn out as toxic masculinity, social media influences. I stick to kind of saying the truth, no matter how hard it hurts, and then you just sit with them through the hard moment. Okay, what would you do if this was your friend? Would you tell them to be honest with the child or continue on the line, keep going down the web of deceit? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.

Dear Megan. Okay, story in today, I'll 800 the Hits if you've got some advice. My five-year-old daughter does dance, and earlier in the month they started talking about the end-of-term show and all the rehearsals. Honestly, the thought of running around and sitting through endless practices just felt overwhelming. So she told her daughter they weren't doing them anymore.

Yeah, you know, some advice I also would give us a dance dad. You can get a lot of stuff done in your car. You know, a lot of it. You can sit on your laptop and look like a pest who's hacking someone's Wi-Fi network. But I find myself really productive in that vehicle. You can sleep in there, can have naps. You can probably limit of distractions of that. You're right.

So, you know, you can take advantage of that, but that's not the issue. She's been caught lying by her. Her five-year-old daughters found out that she was lying when kids came home and were like, why aren't you at rehearsals? She wants to know what to do now. As soon as she said overwhelming, like my default was to be like caring because like it can be overwhelming as a parent, but a lot of people are just calling her selfish. I like this one from Rachel on our Facebook.

She said, honestly, I hear you. Often after school activities are run by talented and passionate individuals, sometimes they tend to forget the kids and their families have so much. on their plate. I'm guessing you've probably got a lot going on, and you do need to notice when you need to slow down and rest, so I understand. Honestly, looking at you, we had the Manifest Festival on Friday,

and looking at you and Andrew, who were juggling children, and he came from rehearsal, he turned up to a whole big situation, and I was like, damn, we are pretty glad to be through that period of parenting. It is a juggle. It's a spinning plate scenario. Chase, should this mother continue the lie, continue to torment and gaslight her child or come clean?

I reckon she should have given her the option, really. That way it sort of gives, you know, if she changes her mind down the track, she can be like, well, you know, I did give you the option and you chose that you didn't want to do it. Instead of just saying that they weren't doing it, I guess. Right, okay, so put it on the kids. So even though the parent didn't want to take them along, give the option. and then obviously just suck it up basically. Yeah, well, I've got five kids, and they're all taking up sports,

and it's overwhelming and hard to juggle them all to get them all to a sports practice and that. And it is a lot, but at least if you give them the option, then just sort of, like I say, you know, if they really want to do it, then they've got to, you know, it's something they want to pursue in, then, you know, you can, like, you know, really suck it up. Suck it up. Next time I'm having a winch, I'm going to think of you chase with your five kids. Yeah, jeez-y-my.

must be fertile. I feel pregnant just talking to you. It's hard work, but you know, you make it work, you know, and I'd like to say, you know, they've all taken up sports and, you know, it's just part of parenting, I guess. That must be a juggle for you. Yeah, no weekend for you, but that's pretty awesome that you're doing that.

So thank you for sharing us. There you go. Five kids. That's five kids. Well done, Chase. Sounds like a great dad. Cheers, guys. Have good days. You too, buddy. And he had time to call us as well. Probably didn't have time to call us, but he did anyway. So what's the advice we're going handover, Megan? Lots of text, lots of feedback on social media. I think the consensus is, don't gaslight your children. Don't lie to them. Well, because later in life, you're going to

be like, don't lie to me, you know, when they're teenagers and stuff. So they're going to, yeah. And a lot of people were saying as well, if you feel overwhelmed, get a carpool situation going, talk to the other parents and get some help from others. People are always willing to give you a hand. Get YouTube to teach them how to dance. So there we go. If you wanted to get any advice from Dear Megan, you can slide into her DMs with your personal issues and we'll air your laundry on the radio.