Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: The Best Way to Fire Someone 

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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The John O'Benn and Megan podcast thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast. On a Tuesday morning, you're here on the podcast. We threw out something that we didn't think we'd get anyone to call or text about, and the text is still flooding on through

when it comes to relationships and people never arguing. It came off the back of a hack that you've now discovered, right Megan? Yeah, I've started saying sorry, and you're right when we get into an argument. I mean, I don't know if he's right, but man, it's just like diffused so many arguments. This great one here, someone says, Megan, I'll try your hack next time. I'm right, but my man's having a sook. And I definitely have done that.

Now I'm off the radio and he can't hear me. Hey. Hey, John O'Better, Meaghan here. How are you? Oh, I know how you are. Now you've never argued with your partner? No, we had two. We had one when she made a mistake and buggered our credit rating. Okay, that can happen. I guess that can happen. Mistake, but you know, yeah. But a couple of months into our relationship, I got someone else pregnant. I don't know

how that happened though. I was going to be scared. And that caused an argument maybe. Well, it was a heated discussion. I can say that. I sat there for about an hour and a half on the couch listening to her talk and she had every right to, I do not take that away from her. But we had two outcomes, and one was that we carried on with life, and we sorted our shit out.

So what happened? Well, I married her, and we're living the happy dream now. Oh, that's nice. I'm glad you've made good from that. That's awesome. Yeah, life lesson learned. Oh, good.

And if you argue, I mean, that's a big argument. That's a big one. That's a big argument. Well, you're right though. It's a big argument. That's a big one. That's a big argument. You're right though. It's got two outcomes. Either you try and work through it or you don't. Someone packs up and leaves, yeah.

Yeah. Yep. Yep, that's the only outcome. We now, we have a beautiful relationship. We're very open about everything we do. We couldn't be happier and we're soulmates. Oh, that's lovely. Oh, that's lovely.

There we go. Hey, well listen, thank you for sharing. You guys have a great lovely. That's so sweet. There you go. Well listen, thank you for sharing. You guys have a great day. You too, see you later. See you mate. There we go, wow. It just carries on. More of that, more of that to come.

And the podcast, enjoy. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. If anyone's up, I can imagine you wouldn't want to get out of bed this morning. No. It's not a jump out of bed day, is it?

Yesterday, geez, I had an absolute nightmare at the chemist's warehouse. So I got to the end there, you're kind of just before the counters and they've got that little row of everything on... Treats that you can buy. Creatine and specials and... Vitamins. Poor, poor ointments. God, that always gets me.

It does? Because you wait for ages and you're like, oh yeah, I could have that. The supermarket do a good job of that too. They do, yeah. Just putting stuff by the council. It's almost like a little tactic. I think they know what they're doing. Yeah.

Yeah, there's a little child in front of me and he was under five. I can never really tell the age of kids. Once your kids get older, anyone under five, I couldn't tell you. Yeah. Yeah, so he was just playing around and he had his fingers and his guns going,

pew, pew, pew, pew, just shooting things. I was like, oh, well, I'll just shooting things. I was like, oh well, I'll just join in, be a friendly guy. I just gave a very gentle, mind-eye front foot this. I went pew, pew, just that. That was all I did with my fingers, like a gun, towards his body. And then he just started crying. Cause she shot him! I did give him a beauty.

I got him a beauty. I got him a beauty. And you feel like a monster making a child cry. Especially when you don't expect it coming. Like sometimes you're bullying children. You're like, oh that was the end result. And then the mother I felt was like, so sorry, so sorry. And she's like, oh it's okay, he's tired, he's tired.

Does she know what you did? No, well her back was too... Oh yeah. I didn't say I just shot your child with my fingers. I love to see the security camera footage of you just making a gun signal towards your child. Yeah, I was like, oh sorry, I was just playing around. You look back at the footage and he's like, I just did a wee pew pew, but he gets out of the... ...and the kid's like, ahhh!

Have you ever made a child cry that wasn't your own? No, no. It doesn't sit well with you. So what did she think you did then? She was like, I just thought I was playing around with her. Just looked at him and... Yeah, yeah, true. The only time I've made a kid cry,

I kind of, it was kind of the intention because they were being mean to my nephew on the playground. Oh, oh wow, you went and did you? I went up, I will do this for any kid, I went up and I was like. Wolf auntie. I did the whisper very close to them,

I was like, if I see you do that again, you're gonna be in big trouble. Because their parents were nearby and they weren't doing anything. Oh, that's threatening. Yeah. But then they cried and I was kind of like, oh we're not gonna do it again. Did you have to go through a smile as well?

We're like if I see you here again, you know. Well that's a nice conversation that stranger's having with my child. Why is that woman very close? End you. That will be the last slide you ever take. And then as I walk away happy as the kid starts crying and I was like, success. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. David Beckham, a former football star, now just uber celebrity and married of course to posh spice as well. And I was going to say cocaine peddler, cologne peddler. Yeah cologne peddler. He's got two very different occupations. One is with bad slander. But yeah, he's got a lot of cologne out there, doesn't he, in the game?

He does. He's a very fashionable guy as well too, David Beckham. Two very different occupations. But yeah, he's got a lot of colonial there, doesn't he, in the game? He does. He's a very fashionable guy as well too, Dave Beckham. And so you can see why this particular incident hurt him a lot. Hurt him in his pretty face because he was cutting his own hair, shaving it off, and well, at some stage the clipper to his clippers, you know, the little attachment fell off. The guard thing.

Yeah. And he ended up with a pretty bad sort of bald spot in the middle. Have a listen to when Victoria picked him. What have you done? The thing of the clippers fell off my head. You were trying to give me some haircut. What have you done? It's not funny.

Let me see. Let me see. I mean the hours of content that the kids have got from this. The clipper head fell off. It does not look good. I'm going to always be honest with you. It looks terrible. Here we go.

Be honest Victoria. Yeah I love that. Throw it back to the documentary. It's short right? Like he was going for like a three or two even, and he's just got a little bald patch. Leave it a week and it'll be fine. Yeah, but you don't want to leave it a week. I guess you can make way some caps.

Why does he run out to act so devastated when you're bald? He's only like 10% bald and look how devastated he got. It is going to grow back. It's just going to grow back. He's like, imagine. Look how gus it is. How does that make me feel? Oh my god, there's a patch. It's got to grow back and he's going to be fine.

Oh my god, I'm one step closer to being Jono. You'll be fine David, you'll be fine. It's the rest of us you have to worry about mate. Out here in the battle zones. So we did want to open up, well it's ironic that I set up this topic, haircut horrors. Have you ever had one? Like a long time ago obviously but. Yeah well the only thing, the only piece of content I can bring to this party is eyebrow related okay. I went to the barber and he said something and it was we're going to host things at the Music Awards or something, can't even remember what it was and I was like I'll go get a get a fresh shave and

half of the shave he's like do you want me to do your eyebrows? And he said it in a tone where it was a common practice in the barber industry And I was like sure yeah, you can tend to the eyebrows and he ran the shavers ZHONG! ZHONG! Yeah, no eyebrows he came back up Ben's like what happened down there? What I think, my theory is the guy was like, I can't charge this guy whatever for a haircut. I've done nothing. The guy's got no hair. I'm going to look for... Do you want me to cut something else while you're here? That's what happened, you know?

So he cut the only hair he could find. That's what my theory was, I don't know. Yeah, that's a pretty good theory. Well, I got my money's worth, that's for sure. Wait, was that right before you hosted the musical? What year? I'm going to go Google the pictures. Jesus, come on. All blends into one. Was that right before you hosted the musical? What year? I'm gonna go Google the pictures. Oh jeez, I can't move. All blends into one. So yeah, just be wary.

It's not a common thing. When they say it like a common thing, don't be fooled. Not necessarily a common thing. Have you had a haircut horror before, Megan? I have had one where I actually tried to look like Victoria Beckham. I was like, when she had that really short bob, I took in a photo. And they gave me like two strands of long hair at the front and they cut it like Been short at the back And I did the whole Someone holds up the mirrors of the bad sorry Johnny wanted to stand but I'm gonna hold up the mirror at the back of the haircut

I don't think anyone in the history of haircuts. They've ever gone. Oh actually no, you know Great anyone in the history of haircuts have ever gone, oh actually no. You know at that moment you're just like, oh that looks great. Well what are they going to do? They can't put their hair back. I know, that's the thing. But you do the old, oh it's so good, I love it. And then I went into the car and just cried. Oh did you? I did a car cry.

Yeah, you're right. I mean, what can you do in this now? If you don't like it, there's nothing. Oh that looks great, thanks. Oh my god. So it was like a front mullet sort of thing. A frullet, yeah. Yeah I did like a front mullet sort of thing. A frullet, yeah. Yeah, I did have like a frullet. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Now we're talking about David Beckham. He had a bit of an accident where he went to cut his own hair. What have you done? What have you done? The thing of the clippers fell off my head. You were trying to make me some kind of cut.

What have you done? It's not funny. Let me see, let me see. I mean the hours of content that the kids have got from this. The clipper head fell off. It does not look good. I'm going to always be honest with you. It looks terrible. If you want to check it out, you can do so right now.

We've put it on our story on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. Looks almost like in the shape of an iron, you know? An iron stamp on the hair. Yeah, I'm David Beckham. So haircut horrors, Ben, I remember you went through a blonde era and- It was like two weeks ago. Yeah, not that long ago too.

I've done many different haircuts over the years. Geez, we mocked you for that. When it first debuted, you were like, Ellen DeGeneres, what are you doing here? M&M. Draco Malfoy and stuff like that. It's fun. I get it. I get it. It's fun. Annie Lennox. I got my kids through desperate times during lockdown to shave my hair as well. It'll definitely look like a prison haircut.

It was like, well, even, no, but that was probably, you know, saying good things. Prison haircuts are probably better than that one. Yeah. Probably like a white collar prison maybe? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, let's get Jamie on. Haircut horrors. What happened, JMo?

Yeah, hi. My mum used to cut my dad's hair all the time and he was actually a groomsman this day. And he said, can you give me a quick haircut? And mum cut his hair and the guard fell off and he had this big stripe all the way out the back of his head for the whole day at the wedding. Oh. That would happen a lot too, wouldn't it?

That little clip. Don't you notice? Like straight away, if the guard's falling? Maybe the mum did notice. Sabotage. Sabotage. I noticed, yeah. Dad was wondering what the guard was doing on the floor.

Oh Jamie, that's a great call. Appreciate it. You're going to have a wonderful day. Let's get Stacey on. Morning haircut horrors Stace. Morning guys, how's things? We're doing really well. Oh good.

So this was when I was a teenager. I convinced Mum to get my streaks in my hair and I've got very, very thick ginger curly hair. So I went to the hairdressers and they put you know those rubber caps with the holes in it. The most unflattering things in the world yes. Oh yeah 100% so they put that on if you just say five hours later they couldn't get it off my head. All the dye that they put in my hair fell out because that's what they ripped out because it was a bird's nest. And they charged me half price.

So I never asked mum to get my hair done again. Yeah. So you sat there for five hours and you had no result. I look like a bad version of Annie after it's done because I had to cut my hair after that and it went right up to my shoulders and then it buoyed up more. Oh, Annie's adorable.

They charged you half price, you look good. I didn't want this at all. Yeah, thank you so much Stacey, appreciate it. That's wonderful. Sarah, how are you? I'm very good, thank you, how are you? Good, feedback on the show this morning, be brutal, be honest. What do you think?

Oh yeah yeah good. Oh yeah yeah good, that's all we're talking about. We'll take that. We strive for an oh yeah yeah good. Alright what happened with you, your haircut horror? Wasn't myself but it was my son, so I was actually in hospital giving birth to my second son. It was the husband at home with our two and a half year old. I get a photo from him to show that he had given my son a haircut.

So your husband had jumped on the clippers? Yeah, he thought he would give him a little haircut and started off giving him a bit of a clipper cut and the clipper got stuck. Oh god. Oh no. And so he thought, oh okay, I'll try this other one. Thinking he'd put on about a three, but put on a one. My son, while I was in hospital, received pretty much a complete shaved head. Again, another, another, why does everyone sound so like, this is me every day, that's my every day.

Well this is my little two and a half year old going through some lovely long blonde locks. Who's now pretty- Is that sympathy for me Sarah? Oh no, no, that conversation. Well thankfully there was probably a berth in between the event and you coming home so hopefully you died down a bit. You have a great day. There was, there was. I think I had too much to worry about.

You have a good one. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. I had probably a dream scenario happen in the corporate world. So he's kind of new to management and new to a company that just started out about a few months back. And there's been a problematic employee.

Okay. Well, they label them toxic nowadays, don't they? Right. Toxic sounds so vicious, doesn't it? It does. You're toxic. Am I? Sorry, I'm just a bit snappy on a few emails.

Yeah. So yeah, this guy's toxic. And so, got to the point where he's called and he's like, we need to move this person on. And he's like, oh god, he's the most non-confrontational person ever. So this has come from above, right? This has come from above. And so they're like, this is part of your role now that you need to...

I could never make anyone redundant could you? No. Some people get hired especially to clean out people. Yeah. Awful role. Special breed of person isn't it? I'd probably walk into a room come out and they'd be like how did it go? I signed him for another 10 years.

Yeah. Do you know who'd be good at that? Producer Grace. Yeah. She'd be like babes you're out. Like sorry it's not here. See ya. Later. See ya later. You's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not here it's not employee in question emailed him and said I need to have a meeting with you he's like I can't. So because I think there's a line of processes you need to go

through now where you start performance managing them or something or anyway and then you basically make it so unbearable that they leave anyway. I think it's the tactic, the HR tactic. I don't know how they are after last week's HR news that went worldwide. Hands-on policy. I don't know that I don't know, that might be a tactic. That job's gone. It might have been performance approving that, but he got into the meeting, sat down with the guy and he was about to, he had his things that he needed to read to him and say, I'm going to be looking, I'm keeping an eye on you every day.

He said, I hate to tell you this, but I've been offered another job at a different company. Oh, so the person he was gonna fine Fine he's like I'm so sorry and the guys like he's going we've devastated to lose you If you could write a script for the ideal situation He came in and he bloody left himself. That is an ideal situation. Yeah, you're right. You don't want to go too like, oh we've got to deluge you because then you don't want them to go, oh stay, you don't want them to do that.

You want to go, no I understand, it makes sense. It's good for your career. I can't offer you that same, you know. Definitely can't. You're not worth that much to me. Although if he's listening now, he knows he was about to be fired. John O'Bannon-Meghan of the podcast.

That's... I think this relationship might last guys. I might not need a third husband. Because I found a hack when it comes to arguments. Or maybe I've just grown up. Right. It's taken me 40 years, but I've got there. You've told us what this hack is.

Yeah. I feel like it's you just finally going, oh, maybe other people are right sometimes. Yes. Having debated stuff with you before, I totally agree with what you just said. It feels like, where are you going to start doing that for me? But that's probably more of a self-centered radio

announcer sort of thing. So myself and my husband, when we get into arguments, I have gone away and I come back and I just say, I'm sorry. And sometimes he'll even get a, you're right. And it's amazing. Like it diffuses. He gets like, he's like, oh my God, thank you. And like he's happy.

It's all gone there's no like silent treatment because in the past you know there'd be silent treatment sometimes it could go on for days and you're like oh this sucks I'm sorry. You guys with your silent treatment, can I say silent treatment is a jeez that's a powerful tactic I can't handle silent treatment Ben likes it because he can get stuff done. It's like we're both not talking to each other. Your productivity is at an all time high. During silent treatment. I don't actually like doing it, because you feel like it sucks.

So you're basically just saying you figured out how to say the word sorry. Yeah, it sounds like it, right? That's your hack. Your hack is, do you actually believe in your heart of hearts sometimes that you are sorry and you are wrong? That's your hack. Do you actually believe in your heart of heart sometimes that you are sorry and you are wrong? Most of the time, I'd say probably like 80% of the time. Sometimes I'm like I just want this to be over. Well that's very mature. That's a whole

new genre of gaslighting, mind-deafening someone into thinking they're actually right. I think I'm too quick to say sorry, like I'm like oh yeah I'm sorry, because I don't like confrontation. That doesn't feel real. That's what my wife says,. Like I'm like, oh yeah, I'm sorry. And then, yeah, cause I don't like confrontation. Oh, that doesn't feel real. That's what my wife says. It doesn't sound like a genuine sorry. I'm like, I'm just sorry. That's a sorry. I'm sorry that happened and now we can move on.

I've used it so much, it's just completely lost its meaning. Yeah. You know, follow it up with a you're right and say what you get. Okay, all right. Cause you're like, oh, why is it so hard to say sorry? And why is it so hard to say you're right? Do you reckon there's people out there who have,

like couples who have been together for years, who have never argued? Yeah, me and my first husband. Did you not? Didn't you? No, we never argued. So how did you end up like, like you obviously split up,

and like, so when did that happen? I think when we went to counselling, they were like, the fact that you don't argue is actually not a good thing. Oh really? Because it's not about how, this is what they told me, it's not about how you argue, it fact that you don't argue is actually not a good thing. Oh really? Because it's not about how, this is what they told me, it's not about how you argue, it's how you make up. So, you know, if you accept responsibility, I only just learnt that now.

But if you're not arguing, I guess it means you don't really care. Yeah, that's true. Right. That's a good way of looking at it. Really? Okay, 0800HITS, 4487, have you never had an argument with your partner? And do you not care about them? We'll find out. Maybe you do. Maybe you do.

Maybe you just like completely are in the zone with each other and you just don't argue about things. That would be impressive. Guaranteed. There's no one listening who has been together for over 10 years who hasn't had an argument. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The HITS. Talking, you know, discussions, arguments and relationships. Megan, we're gonna she's got a hack,

which is just her admitting maybe for the first time that she's been wrong about something. Maybe, I don't know. It felt loaded. Yeah, a little bit. Me and Ben like to argue a lot. We just have discussions. I'm not a big argument person, but sometimes I'm like,

I'm not gonna. I know how to push your batons. I'm gonna dip my toes into this one. Remember, remember... As the way someone aren't really in the back of my mind, care about it much, but I know it's winding you up. Do you remember the great three day Megan Markle debate? Yeah, but do you remember in the meeting the other day I said, I'm sorry, Ben? Well, yeah, but...

I'm sorry that we got into a such big argument about that. But then she's straight after her saying, she sees it 100% of the time, but 20% of the time she's secretly correct. Exactly, exactly. Alright, so we did want to find couples out there who have never argued. Let's say the benchmark's gotta be 10 years. You've been together longer than 10 years. Mikey, welcome to the program. Hey mate, how are ya? Lovely to have you on, Mikey. You and your partner never had an argument?

No, we just don't ever get into an argument. We disagree on things, but it never ever turns into an argument. That's really impressive. Like how do you do that? You know, when something is a little bit of a... Talk to us. Talk to us to fix the people.

Help us out. It's just, you never really has to escalate. We don't, people don't always agree on everything. You don't have to agree, but you don't have to yell and scream at each other do you? That's very well. Something quite satisfying about it. I'll give you another life hack actually.

Okay. A counsellor wants you to argue otherwise they're going to go out of business. That's true. That's why they're here. Right. Yes. That is a great life hack Mikey. Congratulations on you being grown up. Appreciate it. I don't know if I'm growing up mate. Oh it's very mature.

He's just super chill. Mikey's just chill. Yeah good man, good man. Let's get a kushle up. Morning to you. How long you been with your partner? Um 36 years. Never in an argument for 36?

Never. Really? Yep. What? Wow. What but like... If we got a problem, we work it out and we discuss it and we write it on paper, our finance and say if something breaks down we just sit and work our budget out and say yes we can do it, no we can't afford it yet so let's wait for a while and things like that.

He's never ever done anything that's... Never, never. Wow, that's amazing. And so writing things down on paper tends to work for you? Yes it does. So what if I write down you're a dick? Who's that for? I say, okay, well one's yours then.

If I'm a dick I haven't got a dick. I can see you again. I'm good to argue with you. Okay, Keith, he's coming through. Oh, he's so good. There's so many more coming through. How long you been together and have you never had an argument? Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hats. Talking about, have you been in a relationship and never argued? Never had an argument? It's wild, the podcast. The Hats. Talking about have you been in a relationship

and never argued, never had an argument. It's wild the amount of messages coming through. There's some happy people out there. Jenna, welcome. Hello, how's it going? You're in Invercargill here, it's like minus five there today. So cold. So cold, the phone's frozen up.

How long you been with your partner Jenna? Oh you there? Yeah no the conditions working against you this morning you been with together for how long? Um so we've been together for just over 11 years we've just had our 11 year anniversary but married 8. Never argued? Um no we do have a fair share of just conversations, but it's never like a screening match. Gotcha. And then we agree to disagree.

Okay, that's good. Yeah, okay. I hate agreeing to disagree. I tried to do that the other day when we were having an argument. I know, I can't. I was like, oh, I'm not going to change you, you're not going to change me, and then we'll walk away. You're like, no!

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Megan Markle is a saint! She's a saint! It's just easy, like, we don't often come to the same conclusion, so we just, you know, just agree with it. We can't solve this, so... Yeah, it goes back to our first caller. He was saying, you know, people are going to disagree on stuff and you've just got to be at peace with that. Megan Markle, she puts lawn clippings on sandwiches.

Okay, Megan, she's a monster. Stop trying to poke the beer. Alright, let's go to a pinda. How are you this morning? Good. I'm the big listener for you guys and every day I'm chasing you guys. Thank you. Thank you for listening. We appreciate it. Love you both and I really, really enjoyed when you guys went to Sri Lanka and I want to go to Sri Lanka now.

Oh, well hey, we're influencers. We're influencers. Don't voice it out about us. It really helps when Dilma pays for you guys. Yeah, it's a great trip. Now, Apinda, how long have you been with your partner? 23 years. And have you ever had an argument? No, not at all. Really? So would you discuss, you'd obviously discuss things, but...

We do like, we both are on the arranged marriage. And we both, when one person is heated, and another one is really, really calm like ice. All right. So you okay, so you both are, oh, so one of the opposite. Try that Megan. Andrew says you've got to be calm like ice. Alright, so you both are the opposite. Try that Megan. Andrew says you've got to be calm like ice. Yeah and then work very well and we are working together every day. Oh my god. Wow. And you can feel like every day we're going to heat up. Oh you haven't been this and we both are taxi drivers. And you can feel like every five minutes ups and downs but not at all

No, we're taxi drivers. There you go. We'll never had an argument And I'm the first Indian girl who working here in the South Oakland from last 20 years. Oh Congrats. Well, it's lovely to meet you. Congratulations on your wonderful relationship I love you guys and love you both from my family and from my kids and blessings for you all and your family. Oh thank you. Oh that's so lovely. Thanks Appinda.

See you Appinda. And we can't drive without you guys. Aww. I see why I couldn't argue with you either. Ha ha ha. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats.

He's been getting into artwork recently Ed Sheeran, selling some paintings. Yeah. For about $1200 each. Have you looked at the paintings? Oh cool. They're kind of Jackson Pollock if you know that sort of artist. They're very inspired by him. Oh no.

I'm not a big art person but they look like splat paint splatters. Yeah but it's cool, bright coloured splatter stuff. I know but I feel like I could do it. Oh yeah but I wouldn't buy yours for $1200. That's the problem. Yeah, the difference is you throwing paint at a canvas and Ed Sheeran throwing paint, it's just better. I know but he's a musician.

Yeah. Like, he's just splattering paint. Love Ed, but. All right mate, bye. When he comes into the studio, you can bring it up. I would tell him, I would tell him. Okay, we'll have to get a chance to talk to him. What would you pay?

What would you think, $1200 is too high. What would you pay? What would you think? $1200 is too high? What would you pay for that piece of art from Ed Sheeran? Honey? Honey? See, Sheeran, the thing is that anyway, we'll get to the thing. $1200 is probably a bit low. I could paint splatter on it and be like, oh, this is Ed.

Forgetting it's Ed Sheeran painting it. That's the thing. Ed Sheeran painted my face once and I didn't like that. Now, my wife's a teacher. Radio. Yeah. Talk about this before. My wife's a teacher. Radio. Talk about this before, my wife's a teacher, she'll like, it's part of their job and I guess any job you have you always pick up on things and you do stuff that, because you're used to doing it in your job you do it in everyday life. She's correcting spelling on your holiday.

Spelling mistakes, she knows, she won't correct it publicly, the spelling, but she'll say it to me at the time, things are spelt wrong. But over the weekend, we were going for a walk through the park, my wife and I with the dog, and there was these teenagers on one of those lime electric scooters. And they were sort of being, you know, I could see them in the distance, they were kind of being a bit silly, the freedom on there, on the thing on the path, but I'm like, oh, yeah. And then- Couple of teenage dirtbags. And then at the end of it, they're still about 50, 100 metres away from us.

You could see when they'd had enough, one of them chucked the lime scooter within the bushes. Just like, oh, disrespectful. Yeah, and Ben's like, oh, she's going to confront them. We were walking towards them and then my wife looked at me, she's like, she said, do you mind if I say something? Because she's a school teacher, she's used to that. And I said, oh, I'd probably rather not. It's what I said.

That's sweet that she asked. And she said, and there's a couple more steps later she's like, oh sorry I'm gonna have to. This is Ben hates public confrontation. God I love her. Confrontation's not my thing for her. She's like a school teacher and she did say it very nicely. She said, excuse me.

And I'm like, oh god. Did you turn around and walk the other way? I'm not on there. She was like I'm just wondering what you guys were planning on doing with that lime scooter over there. The one that you put into the bushes. They're like oh yeah sorry. You're like kids they get off and we're in grand and put her back on the path and we sort of walked on our way. She said it really nice but I was just like oh je jeez, inside of me I'm the life. Not my happy place.

We're not married, we're not married. I'm just walking. I'm still cool guys. Look, I'll pick it up, I'll throw it into the bush. Yeah, take that old lady. I didn't think you were cool before she said anything. No, it's true. You haven't lost anything.

It's true. It's what you're used to though, you're used to confrontation. Oh I suppose yeah, and it's used to saying out on the schoolyard every day. Teachers, parking wardens, gang enforcers, all used to confrontation in their day to day. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. That is a see our cheap thrills. She is in a relationship by the looks of things with Harry Jowsey who is born in Australia,

spent a lot of his time growing up in New Zealand and he's been on a lot of reality shows, right? Heartbreak Island back in the day. It was like his big one as well. Did he find love on Heartbreak Island? He's found love quite a few times. I guess not because he's potentially in a relationship with Sia. She's 49, he's 28.

It's a moment. But hey. Yeah so back off me. Love is love. Love is love. Yeah, back off you but hey. Yeah, so back off me. Love is love. Love is love. Yeah, yeah, back off you. True. Yeah.

Well, that's nice. I don't know Sia to mock Sia, so I... Sia was sitting in the room right now, I'd go, oh, there's a toy boy or something, but I can't, you know? I know you better than friends. And I wouldn't know Sia, like I wouldn't want to be taken in with good intentions. Yeah, you'd need to develop a rapport with her, wouldn't you? Yeah, exactly.

I wouldn't just come straight out with it. So yeah good on them I'm happy for them. I know see you tomorrow. Isn't it weird we'll become friends and then I'll relentlessly mock you. Well good on Harry, he's a lovely guy Harry. Dear Megan. Alright today's the Dear Megan it's been blowing up on social media we put it up last night. So let's get to it. Alright this one reads Dear Megan the guilt is eating me up which is kind of funny because this is about someone eating something they're not supposed to. My daughter's friend

often comes over to play and the first time she stayed for dinner I knew she was a vegetarian but when we all sat down to the table, I honestly didn't realise she had taken a sausage. We had cooked some vegan sausages for her, but she grabbed the real deal and she loved it. I don't blame her. I do not blame her. The vegan ones taste like disappointment. Don't they?

And just- She's like, my wife's vegetarian and she's like, those are sausages. Nah. And if you're having to, you know, manufacture a false imitation sausage. She's like, that's kind of what I got out of meat in the first place, yeah. Now every time she comes over, she asks me for meat.

I feel so guilty that I didn't tell her parents because I figured, well, it's done now, but what do I do? Do I come clean to her parents? Do I give her some meat and tell her not to say anything? It is her body after all, and she always talks about how yummy it was. She said, haha, but oh god, I feel bad. Now we did, because a few comments last night

on social media saying, is it a religious thing? So we did want to clarify that, we went back to the person. We've had some correspondence, it's not a religious situation. Okay, so we can rule that out. Okay to the person. We've had some correspondence, it's not a religious situation. Okay, so we can rule that out. Her parents are vegetarians, so that's how she's been brought up.

You know the issue with kids though, you can't trust them. I've always said never commit armed robbery with a child because, I've always said it to you Ben. Yeah you have, you have. You know, you get into the investigation room, they're going to spill the beans. They don't even know they're spilling the beans. They can't read a situation. So eventually, the sausage info is gonna get back. It's gonna go back to home base. That's...

Yeah. That's hard because she obviously likes it. And unless there's a reason why she can't have it, it kind of is like her choice. You could guess. Yeah, but at what age, well that's the thing, what age, and this is a question, I don't have the answer, can a kid decide what they want? And before that is the parent's responsibility.

I know, but it's not as if it's Lolly's. No, but the parents might be morally against animals, the killing of animals, I guess. And that's probably something that they're very, I don't know, I'm guessing, I don't know. You could guess like the child. I didn't give you a sausage, what are you talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's true. I guess I learned thinking that, didn't eat a sausage. Yeah, you didn't, yeah. They really cause some trauma for later in life about sausage consumption. Got it, if she likes a sausage, wait until she tries bacon or something. Oh, yeah, we want to know on 0100 the hits 4487. Well she wants to know what to do, does she tell the parents, does she talk it

through with the parents, say she's already eaten meat, does she just give the girl meat when... Oh yes it was an accident at first, so you could front foot it and go hey it was an accident I want to tell you and she really liked it. Like a lot. So why don't you give us some more or I can bring her over and I'll give her some. It's like Bastie coming over to my house and picking up my watermelon vape and he's sucking away on it. He's like he really liked it. The juicy watermelon flavour, same scenario. No it's not. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. You're saying minus five, minus six Queen Queenstown of Bukalgol? Feels like minus six in Queenstown of Bukalgol this morning.

Well if it feels like it, let's call it. Let's just say it is. That's right. Dear Megan. I love the feels like temperature. Let's just say that's the temperature. We're all feeling like it's minus six. They say it's wind chill, right? But then if the wind's chilling it to that temperature, it just is that temperature. Yeah, 100%. You're right. I'm with you. That's right. Do you feel like going to work? Feels like not going to that temperature, it just is that temperature. Yeah

Do you feel like going to work feels like not going to work today? Yeah Someone slid into your DMs Megan a sausage based incident. So her daughter's friend comes over to play. She is vegetarian and They served up sausages. They made her vegan ones and normal ones and she snuck a normal sausage and loves it. She didn't tell the parents because she was like, well it's done, it's a one off. But now every time she comes over she wants to have meat. What does she do? We have established, because lots of people were saying it could be for cultural or religious reasons, I did go back to her and she says it's not for those reasons.

Her family is vegetarian. Now a lot of comments on our Facebook page, I like this one it says once is an accident but to carry on deceiving her parents is unfair, how would you feel if a parent went behind your back? And another one says you need to find out even if it's not for cultural or religious reasons there could be other reasons why the child is not supposed to eat meat. Honesty is the best policy, a lot of people are saying thank you Sharon. Yes honesty is the best policy but it's also the most awkward policy. Imagine if I knock on your door, Ben I've been feeding your kids sausages. That would be a

degrading... wouldn't you feel humiliated having to go over and... Well especially if you've been doing it. Like, I do feel like in some... First instance, it was a mistake. You know, it wasn't intentional. Now is probably the time to fuck it. Let sleeping sausages lie and then... Well then, and then go,

Hey, but then they'd like it if you want me to, I can. But if not, it's up to you. Yeah. Okay. We're going to go to the phones on this one. Jimmy, morning to you. Happy Tuesday. We're trying to make Tuesday a thing.

Yep. Very touch cool. Yep. You like Tuesday. We're trying to make Tuesday a thing. Yep, that sounds cool. Yep. You like that Tuesday. He's on board enthusiastic. What would you do here, Jimmy? Well, if you count from the excellent angle that Ben was suggesting, they could lose a friend. Because if you say it was an accident,

they'd say, well, why did you put the meat sausages out for a vegetarian date? In the first place. It does seem like tempting fate, doesn't it? Bringing out beers in front of an alcoholic sort of situation. Yeah, is that what you're saying? Well, there were other sausages that were meant for her, I guess.

And other people there, right? I've seen that though, unfortunately. They'll say that there's meat sausages in front of her and she ate them. And it's your guys' fault. So you're thinking keep quiet? That's a hard one because if you keep quiet, you should lose the freedom as well. So so it's a double edged sword really.

You can't trust kids not to say anything. Like if you say keep quiet even if you just did it the one time the kid might go back and go I ate a sausage. Yeah true that's what they're going to say. Well you could broker a deal. You keep this between you and me every time you come over there'll be these little meaty parcels. Teach them about deception, lying at an early age. You know what they have these little red ones you can eat straight out of the fridge. You can treat them to an array of the sausages, the whole spectrum of sausage. The lion king of sausages. Every animal.

Alright Megan what are we saying back to this person? Yeah on Facebook heaps of people coming through, you know what I'm saying sir? And I think we'll have to go with the general consensus on Facebook is to be honest because yeah you could lose the friend and I agree if it was your kid and someone was doing something you'd specifically ask them not to, for whatever reason you kind of have to front foot it and be honest I think. Common sense prevailed. My idea of sneakily feeding sausages to the child.

You're never looking after my kids. Not that you want to, but you know. Yeah, I couldn't think of anything weird. Well, there you go. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. The Coldplay couple, which is slowly making its way out of the new cycle now. It comes in hard and fast and disappears even quicker now doesn't it? I mean it's been three or four intense days of scrutiny for them and you know we'll move on and

forget about them. Remember Tiger King? Yeah, true. Just get on with your life don't ya? Yeah. The internet moves on so quickly we're so impatient we'll just ruin their lives and we'll move on to the next one. I know that's the thing isn't it Anyway, but they have created a viral moment that even our mums yesterday had heard of, right? Yeah, my mum who's not on social media doesn't really use the internet that much. She knows about it. Yeah, that's when you've transcended

into the viral hall of fame. So we are just taking a look at other people who have schooled themselves a plaque on the wall of the viral hall of fame. Now this one I think it was like 2010, 15 years ago. Yeah. There was a rainbow in Yosemite National Park and a guy was filming the rainbow and this is what it sounds like hallucinogenics are in real time. Have a listen. Oh my God, it's full on double rainbow all the way across the sky. Oh my God.

He was loving a double rainbow. I don't think I've ever been that excited about anything, but he loved it. It was so, I just listened to the whole thing. It went on for ages and he was so happy about it. And then he was like, I think he's turning to a triple rainbow. And he's like, what does it mean?

What does it mean? I thought he was really on something, didn't they? But I don't think he was. No, I was just watching an interview with Jimmy Kimmel. He's like, no, no, Stone Cold Sober that time. That time. He's like, there's other videos on my page that you can watch. Oh, really?

But then you were saying he's no longer with us. Yeah, I think it was COVID. I think he passed away through COVID. Yeah. So rest in peace double rainbow guy. Then we're going to move on to this one. I know this was a big banger Ben because we copied and pasted this into every conversation when it came out in 2016.

Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel. Daniel Daniel Daniel Daniel Daniel back at it again with the white it was a random now not everyone would have seen that video but those who had could really enjoy the damn damn Daniel Daniel Daniel Daniel Daniel Daniel excited with his mate called damn Daniel who had lovely white van shoes. He was like, back at it again with the white vans.

It was very exciting about it. Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel. Damn Daniel. He sounds like he's from South Park. Back at it again with the white vans. Vans gave him a lifetime supply of vans. Really? Yeah. He went on the Ellen show when she was in her kind era. You need a hype guy like that guy in your life don't you?

Yeah, you do. In the final viral video from the viral Hall of Fame, and everyone will know this one, this is from 2007. Ha ha, Charlie. Charlie Batman. Oh Charlie. Charlie Batman. Charlie Batman. Charlie Batman. Charlie Batman. Charlie. Charlie bit me. Ow, Charlie! Ow!

Charlie! That really hurt! 880 million views! Crazy, eh? Crazy. We're 19 years old now. Oh no, we spoke to one, well it was supposed to be the boys, Charlie and the brother a couple of years ago, and then John was like, can you put your finger back in the mouth?

They were like, oh no. Made him put his finger in his brother's mouth. But luckily now they were pretty much adults now. They were like, I guess we can, but. They were like, say the voice. He's like, no, I won't probably say the voice now. But it was lovely they spoke to us, you know. Was that like one of the first viral videos in 2007?

Pretty much. I think. Sold the rights, didn't they? Yeah, it was an NFT. Yeah. Well, remember NFTs, everyone here, that was a great video. Yeah. one of the first viral videos in 2007? What have they been? Pretty much, yeah I think. Sold the rights didn't they? Yeah, as an NFT.

Yeah. Well remember NFTs, everyone here, that was a good investment. $700,000, they sold the NFT for me. Hey, my mates have money, so yeah. Oh my god. That would put you through college and buy you something.

Make some white fans. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Okay, so if you are new to the show or maybe you haven't heard, I like Formula One. I'm a big fan.

Be honest. Okay, I've made it my whole personality. You do, you're lovely. It really is. And you do, and it's- It's 90% of your personality. And there are good looking race car drivers and I guess that helps your interest.

There's so many hotties. I can say it because my husband's not listening There's so many hotties I can say because my husband's not listening yet. So many hotties. I reckon Drive to Survive has captured a whole new audience for Formula One. Especially women because there's so many hotties but that's not why I like Liam Lawson. It's because he's a Kiwi driver and we've finally got a Kiwi driver in Formula One. And he's hot. And he is in the Red Bull team. Oh sorry. Stop, we're never gonna get an interview with him. He'll get a restraining order, stop. Well you've done that to yourself.

You said ride that thang on his social media. So listen, don't blame us for no Liam Lawson on the program. Anyway, I'm supporting Akkiwi in Formula One because it's very exciting. So I've made it my whole personality. But he is in the Red Bull team. Now I don't drink energy drinks I'm off the Coca-Cola now

I've gone cold turkey on that. I just drink water and tea and coffee. That's it But but and this is non-spon. I would love it to be spawn, but it's not Red Bull's got a new drink out that's sweetened with like monk fruit I've never heard of monk fruit. Did they make up a fruit? It's a sweetener so it's like stevia but it doesn't taste yucky like stevia. So they've got this new one and I've started drinking it and my husband turns to me at the weekend and he was like you're drinking those quite often now. I was like yeah what it's I explained the whole monk fruit thing to him. He's like what's a monk fruit? Red Bull's invented a fruit to sell drinks.

And he turns to me and he was like, so you've made this your whole personality and now you're only drinking Red Bull because of Liam Lawson. He was like, is this, this is a bit much. Red Bull gives you wings and the ick. Seems like a huge coincidence to me that all of a sudden. It's purely because it's like a good...

It's monk fruit. I'm not even going to bother. No don't. He should just be happy you're not a Lewis Hamilton fan or he should be buying Ferraris. Exactly. Red Bull's a far more affordable option. All those tag wheel watches. That's right.

Exactly. Jon O'Ven and Megan, the podcast that... About a terrible 10 hour ordeal guy by the name of Leon had in New Zealand just recently. He lives on Great Barrier Island. He was driving home from somewhere, misjudged a curve in his car, went over a bank and plummeted a thing that flipped about three times and plummeted down about 20 meters down the bank. His phone flew out the window as well and he was trapped. His stomach was injured. He couldn't get out because the doors had sort of collapsed around

him. Oh so he's like stuck inside the car. And he was stuck in there and he was like, oh no one's going to, it's Great Barrier Island I guess you know, to yell when you're 20 metres down a bank, no one's going to hear you. And he was like, well I'll just wait till the morning and waited for 10 hours. So he stayed the night in the car. In the car for 10 hours until it got to about 6 o'clock. Daylight started to happen and he started honking the horn and yelling.

And as luck would have it, someone was jogging by, a passerby, heard the noise and alert had to ring 111, get someone, a chopper came in to help him out. But he's now in the hospital. We've just got out of hospital and he's he's OK with after a few injuries. But crazy story. That is crazy. It would not have been freezing.

Oh yeah you're right actually. All through the, yeah. You'd hope the old AC was still working wouldn't you? Just turn the ignition over. At least put the hoods, keep the hoods loud through the night or something. Turn it up loud mate. It's a crazy story. It equally is traumatic, I would say, in my vehicle as well. Just recently I was pulling out of a driveway and you know when someone's like waiting on

the footpath and I was like waving them across to walk in front of me before I pulled out. And so I waved them across and then he just walked over and opened my passenger door. What? He's like, I need you to take me somewhere. I was like, who are you? Oh, right. He's like, where are you going? I said, I'm terrible at making up excuses on the spot.

Are you? No, I'm generally pretty good at it. I cannot add little excuses on the spot. And I'm like, I'm going to the kids meeting. He's like, the kids meeting? I was like, no'm going to the kids meeting. He's like, the kids meeting. I was like, no, it's a meeting. Then I'm going to get my kids, and I was trying to piece together this backstory,

and he's like, I'm going there too. Oh, really? I'm like, well, that's a huge coincidence. Hop in, mate. Coming to the meeting with me. Yeah, we're going out. Didn't you have a story recently where you picked up a woman?

How does this keep happening to you? It's probably about five times this has happened that people have tried to get in the car. Anyway, I drove off and I did call the police because I didn't want him to get in... No, it's in the house's car. Yeah, and other passengers. Oh, so you got him out. He didn't get in the car. I didn't think you were in Uber or anything, did I? Well, that little red sticker on the back door is that,

should I take that off? That's why all these people are hopping in the vehicle. I must have a terrible star rating. Uber drivers don't take me anywhere. We have some story about a kids meeting. They made me get out. That's quite terrifying. Just lock your doors. Do you lock your doors when you drive?

I think it automatically does it, but it's a pain. I lock mine as soon as I get in. And then the kids go and get the car. It's actually quite funny when the kids go get the car. It still locks. Hi! What's the password?