Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: The Moon Is Affecting Our Sleep!

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Jono’s wild Uber story—"Your government had to change my identity!" The longest engagement leads to Jono making a crazy promise… that we might actually pull off! Matty and PJ blame us for something gross… Is this the ultimate romance fail? Our Italian friend Daniella’s epic George Clooney story! A hilarious game to spice up awkward social events! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganInstagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast on a Friday. Today, well, it really escalated on the show. We could be sending you to Fiji to get a lope. If you want a lope in Fiji, Ben and Gage, you can head to thehitstockco.nz if that sounds like you.

It's just Jono chucking out wild... Accusations and claims, yeah. One stuck for one. Well, listen, it's taken 24 years for one to stick, to be honest. Would you elope? Would you elope at a... Like, I reckon I could. I mean, if I did again, I reckon I could do that

and come back and have a big party. If I went for a third time, I would. Yeah. But I thought about it the first two and I'd get in so much trouble With the families and stuff There's so much BS with the family stuff You can say bullshit You know about that

Sometimes it can become a day for other people So I totally get When people want to go a lot And then come back and have a party Just let people do what they want to do It's their day and they're paying for it I have a question for you So obviously not your first husband's guest list,

but your guest list to your original wedding, did it change dramatically between your first wedding and your second wedding? Yeah. I think there was like maybe, apart from my family, I think there was probably like four people that were the same. Yeah, I understand that. It's a snapshot of your life in that period. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in fact, every partner of my groomsmen,

they're no longer with now. But you don't regret that. It's just that's who you're hanging out with at that time in your life. Yeah. Yeah. You can't predict it. No. So if you do want to elope, it's actually happening.

We could be sending you to Fiji. Thanks to Tourism Fiji. Head to the hitstock.co.nz. But first up, a wild story from an Uber ride that Jono took. Have a listen. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits.

One of my favourite hobbies. We had to go to an event with the sales team last night here at work. And in the Uber, I love to interview Uber drivers. You love to interview Uber drivers. I love to interview everyone. I had an awkward moment many or a couple of years ago where I asked, I was a cab driver, I said what's your biggest fear? Meaning

the most amount of money he's earned on a journey. I took that as like spiders. So did he. He went deep. He was like, my biggest fear is losing my wife and children.

And I was like, oh dear Jesus, I'm in deep here. This is not meant to be this deep. And then so he went on how much he loves his children. He poured his heart out. And I'm like, well, that's a genuine fear. You don't want to lose your family. And he's like, how about you?

And I was like, what? I can't go back with something trivial. So I was like, oh mate the wife and kids i'd love that so we had this dnm on the western motorway but anyway so i'm interviewing the uber driver last night you know oh so where abouts you from mate and he said brazil right i said oh lovely love i says lovely country he's like no bloody nightmare oh really i gotta tell you how i ended up here oh and uh i don't want to name i i i did record him uh but i'm not going to play the audio because uh i think the situation is quite dangerous so he came here uh many years ago and he used to be a police officer and he was like in sort of uh the the SWAT team i guess the brazilian SWAT team and uh he obviously put a lot of interesting people in prison.

A lot of seriously bad guys. And then he got out of the police force and he lived in America. And then his mother died, so he had to come back to Brazil and he couldn't, thanks to visa issues, get back to America. So he was stuck in Brazil and he was no longer in the police. These bad guys get out of prison. And what they do is they hunt down the police officers Oh really they put them away

And end them And he was at the supermarket And his neighbour phoned up and was like you've got to get home quickly The gang Had launched a grenade Into his kitchen Blew up his kitchen He's like maybe I don't need to get home quickly

Home's the last place To get home I don't know much About that now And he was like At that point He's like I've got to get out

Of this country And you know He had many friends And colleagues Who ended up dying Through revenge attacks From these people He comes over to New Zealand

And he explains the situation The New Zealand people Are like Oh it sounds like A great story mate And then they had to check I honestly felt like I was listening to the Bourne Identity In an Uber when he's telling me this story

Our immigration people checked His story With the Brazilian government And all matched up Helen Clark signed it off Gave him a new name, new passport New identity Been here ever since

Good on us good on us. Yeah, good on us. That's a great story. And that probably happens. You didn't have anything to do with it, really, did you, Megan? No, take the credit. You've saved a Brazilian man's life. Thank you.

But, I mean, that stuff must happen all the time in the country. I'm glad he's here safe and well. He worked in many jobs, but now he's just driving Ubers. How long was the ride? Now let's not it was probably about 30 minutes and I interviewed him

for about 28 of those minutes We started off with the how was the day how long was your shift when do you knock off did the light stuff and then I went heavy Oh God

John O'Ben and Megan The Podcast The Hits It's Valentine's Day I hope you have a wonderful evening if you're celebrating this evening He doesn't mean it I do I have. The hits. It's Valentine's Day. I hope you have a wonderful evening, if you're celebrating this evening. He doesn't mean it.

I do. I have no problems with people. He hates Valentine's Day. I just don't get caught up in it. Happy Valentine's Day. I mean it. No, I mean it. Happy night, if you're into it.

He's a Valentine's grinch. No, he's not. He's pretty relaxed when it comes to Valentine's Day. He just doesn't engage in the commercialism of the day Doesn't buy the Hiked up flowers The hiked up restaurant prices He doesn't like dining

With other diners Who are also celebrating Their relationships But if you want to do that That's fine You want to do that And something else That you're critical of me

Megan is I'd just like to wind you up Yeah Is the fact that I I hadn't mentioned that I don't know why I hadn't mentioned it before. It wasn't like I was keeping a secret or anything. That was seven years from the time I got engaged

to the time Amanda, my wife and I got married in Fiji. Which I also find it strange that you were so quick to get engaged, but then you put the handbrake on. He likes love, but he doesn't like paying for things. As I say, we were in our 20s. It was young. We were like, you know, there was time.

There was time. So you knew she was the one. Yeah. But you didn't want to, like, seal the deal fully yet. No, but I feel like... No, you need to keep your options open. In a lot of ways. I feel like the engagement is a commitment.

It is. Huge commitment. Yeah, like it feels like that was going to happen. You know, we're going to happen when the timing was so and did you mention you got the engagement out of the way quite quickly though didn't you yeah yeah it was probably within the first year or so so yeah so then we're like hey we're happy i was happy i've um maybe i didn't have that conversation with her she i think she's given up on me was she like knocking at you about it was she like it's just pretty chill about it i think think. She was very chill about it.

At least it was all pent up inside. But anyway. We never had a conversation. It was a wonderful wedding in Fiji. And we talked about, you know, like whether you'd been engaged or still currently engaged more than seven years. I've been engaged for nine years and we just got married last year. Oh, wow.

Oh, congrats. I kind of wanted to wait till this year to sort of make it to that decade. 26 years. 26, congrats. I kind of wanted to wait till this year to sort of make it to that decade. 26 years. 26 years. Wow. We've been together 33. It's just a piece of paper for us now. So, yeah, we want to kick this off again.

I just got such a huge response on the text machine, 4487. Oh, 800, that hits. It's Valentine's Day. Are you sitting on today, Valentine's Day, still engaged, years and years later? Yeah. See, all the people that are currently engaged feel longer than seven years, maybe. Yeah, you've set the benchmark with seven. Okay, okay.

Yeah. All right, can you tell? And it's fine. I'm not going to judge. Megan might judge. Megan might judge you. I'm not 100% sure. I'm just going to line you up.

I won't judge you. I'll judge Ben. Someone's got to judge. I'll judge Ben. Okay. I won't judge you. I will. Someone's got to judge. Valentine's Day, we're talking about our relationships yesterday, and I mentioned that it was seven years after I got engaged that Amanda, my wife, and I got married in Fiji.

It was a wonderful wedding. We had a great time in Fiji. Yeah. And, yeah, it just took seven years from the time we got engaged to the time we got married. John O'Bannon Megan, the podcast. The hits. Like, it's just how long it took us. No, but I feel like, because we were early 20s

and we got engaged, so I feel like maybe if we got married, people might have thought, oh, yeah, rush, you know. I feel like it was later in my 20s to get married, so it kind of felt like, yeah. Long engagement. Yeah, long engagement. Well, it doesn't sound like it's fine, does it?

Just like winding you up. Like I had to defend myself. He was just holding Amanda hostage with a piece of jewellery for seven years. So you were after longest engagement. Do you want the thresholds over five? Well, yeah, I think so, but hey. Yeah, I mean, there's some beauties coming through. We wanted to talk to a lady who actually got engaged today.

So the proposal was done on Valentine's Day. Oh, wow. I thought you meant like literally today. I was like, it's only like 25, seven. It's an early engagement. It's an early engagement. But seven years later, still hasn't walked down the aisle. It's Valentine's Day today.

Seven years to the day. We tried to get her on. Then she just texts back saying, sorry, can't answer my phone. My daughter's started vomiting in the car. Happy Valentine's Day today. Seven years to the day. We tried to get her on, then she's just texted back saying, sorry, can't answer my phone. My daughter's started vomiting in the car. Happy Valentine's Day. Oh, my God. I'm so sorry. That's all you need for Valentine's Day.

I'm so sorry. Hey, Luce, how are you? Good morning. It's great to have you on, Lucy. Can you beat Ben's seven-year engagement? Yeah, I can. So my partner and I actually started going out when we were 14 wow and then on my 21st birthday we got engaged and now um i'm 30 turning 31 soon and we're still

engaged oh high school sweethearts that's awesome that is weird it's 14 years old. You've spent more. I know. It's so wild now when I see a 14-year-old. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah. As a parent, you'd be like, no way. Put it back in your trousers, thanks. Literally. Yeah, she has spent the majority of her life with – I can see you trying to work that out.

Yeah. She's 14. She's about to be 31. So what, that is 16 years old? And is it plans to get married? Yeah, everyone's always like, when are you getting married? I'm like, oh, just like the thought of writing a guest list. Yeah.

It's like, oh, and the money. Yeah, I mean, that's always. Now, hey, here's an idea. Ben, you got married in Fiji. Yeah. Would you want to get married in Fiji, Lucy? Yeah, I reckon I could do something like that. Would you elope to Fiji to get married? Yeah, I reckon I could do something like that. Would you elope to Fiji to get married?

Yeah, I reckon I could elope. Well, we could sort this out. Who could sort this out? Could we? Someone can sort this out. No, no. Johnno. You can't just say stuff like that. We'd all love to get married in Fiji.

Lucy, it's not a thing that's happening. Are you going to pay for it? Yeah. No, of course I'm not going to pay. Yeah, no, Lucy, don't get your hopes up. I'm not going to pay for it, man. I'm just saying, Are you going to pay for it? No, of course I'm not going to pay. Yeah, no, Lucy Duggee hopes I'm not going to pay for it. I'm just saying, would you like to? I like the free-by-skip marry. Take it from me.

Fiji is great. I love it. I'll recommend it. But hey, I'm not saying we can make that happen. But hey. Who doesn't want to have a wedding in Fiji? Probably producer Ellie. Doesn't want to organise a wedding in Fiji.

We'll see what we can do. Well, that'd be amazing, Lucy. So if it were to happen, we could get you to Fiji, you'd do it? God, yeah. Okay. Okay, all right. People are keen. People are keen, yeah.

We wouldn't have any fun today. Yeah, apart from the people that have to make it happen. The bosses that are here at the radio station. Sean is just chucking things out wildly. Okay, poll. 4487, if you're still engaged, would you get married in Fiji if we were to provide it? I'd get married again in Fiji.

It's two out of two. Would you elope? Okay, you elope because we can't afford to take everyone there, right? Would you do it? I'm going to have to go. My son's losing it in the background. Lucy's like, please, can I exit out of this weird conversation? Have a good day, Lucy.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. A new survey released worldwide. New Zealand's the seventh most tired nation in the world. Most fatigued. I'll fight them. As far as people go.

That's how I feel today. Singapore. Apparently the most tired people are in Singapore. This feels like the international version of the argument you have with your partner. It does. A little bit. Tired Olympics. You are tired today, though, the argument you have with your partner. It does, a little bit. Tired Olympics. You are tired today, though, aren't you?

You haven't had much sleep. Wish we were going to talk about why. Oh, yeah, we're getting to that after 8 o'clock, your theory of why. Because I bet I'm not the only one. Science disagrees, bruh. Science disagrees. Now, something my wife is doing, I mean, apart from buying socks for the dog, which is one thing I think is a bit unusual.

Dog socks. I guess it's to stop him slipping on the floors and get him up because he's getting old. Because last week you were like, I'm concerned we've got the dog socks. We'll use them once and never use them again. Well, yeah, the dog, they sit a lot next to the dog. Because when he goes outside, you've got to take the socks off. He's got four, obviously got four limbs. I told you, get him shoes.

Oh, he can him shoes as well. Crocs for dogs or something. Something he can just slip on and slip off would be nice. What, that he can slip on and slip off? So he has to slip his two front legs into two crocs and his two back legs. Oh my God, if you could train him to do that. A lot of admin for me. The dog's like, why are we doing this?

Anyway, but that's what we're doing. We're doing that at the moment. We love our dog, Bo. He's great. He's a big, fluffy, white Samoyed. He's a cute dog, and he gets a lot of attention. He knows it, too, when he gets out and about. He's a show person.

He wants cuddles. He wants to go out to people. I'm like, not everyone wants to see me. He's like, the fans need me. The fans need their dog. But often people will come over, and people go, oh, that's such a nice dog. What's his name? Blah, blah, blah. And when my wife and I are out walking, for some, oh, that's such a nice dog. What's his name? Blah, blah, blah.

And when my wife and I are out walking, for some reason she started doing this. She said, what's his name? And she'll go, Ben. And then I looked at her like, why are you saying that? And then they'll go, oh, you're so cute, Ben. What a beautiful, can I have a cuddle? And then my wife will look at me like,

this is the greatest joke ever. This is such a weird joke she's like all the compliments you get i love it i don't think there's ever been a dog in canine history named ben yeah so every time she's done it like three times now we've been out and about and we're like what's the dogs at ben i'm like nice way to get a compliment oh you're a good looking boy Very weird thing just to embarrass me John O'Ben and Megan The podcast

The Hits We share the studio with the drive show At work And the other hits shows It feels like there's just this constant Passive aggressive tension Between the two shows at the end of the day Different end of the day

We beef over everything with the studio. The temperature, the computer screens. That's right. You're right. Yeah. If I'm logged out of the computer. You know, like I was saying to them, because they rang me on the spot yesterday, and I think you're about to hear the audio, but I'm like, you're going through your mind of

like, what? Oh, God, what have I done wrong this time? What's the show done? What have we done wrong? I heard the tease and they had beef with one of us and I was waiting. I'm like, I'm not going to get a phone call. You got the call.

Let's have a listen to them calling me yesterday on the radio, Maddie and PJ. I put my coffee cup down and I went, oh, what is that? And then I put my finger down on it to pick it up to see what it was. And I went, it's a fingernail. I don't want to,

I don't want to lay blame. I don't want to point fingers. So I thought, let's get to the bottom of it. Maybe we can just resolve it. And they called you. They called me about it. I don't want to point fingers,

but we're going to call Ben right now. And I do, you know, in Maddie's defense, I do share the same computer with him. Now the history between you two sharing the same station is you used to log out of the shared computer. He would then log back in and it would take, you know, 10 to 15 minutes for the computer to reboot and log in. So that was a real pressure point.

I logged myself out. And so he would. Anyway, I didn't feel like it would take that long for that. But anyway, that's fine. I feel like I said to him yesterday, I feel like we're flatmates. And, you know, someone's labeled their food and I've eaten the leftover. You know, that's what it feels like. I feel like I said to them yesterday, I feel like we're flatmates. And, you know, someone's labeled their food and I've eaten the leftover. You know, that's what it feels like. We feel like we're at that stage.

So anyway, he accused. And, you know, no one wants to see a fingernail at their workspace. I get it. And he accused. He was like, is this you? And I was like, I don't think it was me. You don't look like a fingernail biter. I was looking at my fingernails during the call.

I was like, well, I don't think it. They all look like they've got the tips and stuff on. But I don't know. Did they tell the origin gender of my fingernails during the call, and I was like, well, I don't think it. They all look like they've got the tips and stuff on. But I don't know. Did they tell the origin gender of the fingernail? No, they said it was quite big, because I said, well, maybe my small, my pinky maybe? And they were like, no, it looks bigger than a pinky. It looks bigger than a pinky.

So it's quite a butchy. We need to do a Cinderella thing. Sort of. It's like netball. Like netball. Everyone knows their hands out before the netball game. Match the fingernail up to the finger. Yeah, true.

I don't know if they kept it. And then I mentioned Jono cutting his fingernails by the pool. Yeah, have a listen. I'm sorry to anyone else under the bus, but about a year ago we had a call to the show that said they spotted Jono in Fiji and he was trimming his toenails by the pool. And they thought this was the

weirdest thing that anyone has ever done in public. My friend, I'm happy, happy to point the finger over the other side of the desk and point it squarely at John O'Brien. Now, can I just bring something up? Yes, this happened. I was on holiday. I didn't know that you were in Fiji.

I feel like you left that part out. It's even worse. I was poolside. We took it international. And at a beautiful holiday spot. I was poolside and I thought, well, some personal grooming time. What are you doing? Nothing else.

You're just sitting there, right? I was like, I was going to kill two birds. And unfortunately, a listener to the show was also there. And they were going, ugh. Now, and also can I point out, he he starts by going I don't want to point fingers and he points fingers and you're like I don't want to throw anyone

under the bus then you throw me under the bus these are all just hypothetical things I don't want to do this but here I'm going to do it now

well look I was on the spot I don't know what to do but anyway I don't think it was me I think we can safely say it's not me we'll get to the bottom of that without pointing any fingers

listen out of everyone fingers are pointing towards me. I've got a history of removing nails in public places. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We're talking about my engagement. How long? So seven years.

Seven years between you getting engaged and when you got married. Yeah, talking about going to Fiji, how awesome it was. It was a great time. And we wanted to know, and we did it yesterday. People had a long engagement, or longer than mine. Lots of people are still currently engaged and longer than I've been. Waited longer than Ben, yeah. So Jono decided to chuck out some wild, as you do usually.

Well, I was like, why aren't you following Ben's footsteps? I said, who would be interested if you're still engaged and getting the wedding done in Fiji? Now, you said, well, how are you going to do this? That was your first question. I said, well, we'll start with a poll. Okay, Colmar Brunter poll. 100% of the respondents said would love to do that.

Now, we had Lucy on the phone at the time when you chucked this out there. You'll hear a little bit here where Lucy's on there and you bamboozled her with this idea. Now, here's an idea. Ben, you got married in Fiji. Yeah. Would you want to get married in Fiji, Lucy? Yeah, I reckon I could do something like that. Well, we could sort this out.

Who could sort this out? Could we? Someone can sort this out. No, no, no. No, no. Jono. You can't just say stuff like that. So it seemed to me like the simple solution for everyone, apart from probably Producer

Ali and our promotions team Yeah well it's too many people You're like What about eloping in Fiji And now Matt our boss Has come through And they were like Lovely to see you Matt Anderson

Good morning guys You're gonna get told off Yeah This is the funny thing With you Jono Is you're an ideas guy But you're not necessarily A details guy

What do they say now In our meetings Go blue sky Blue sky White label solutions. Blue sky thinking. We'll take it offline. We'll circle back to this later.

We'll circle back to this later. Some hot fire corporate speak happy. That's what I do for eight hours a day. Well, the funny thing is, since you threw this out there into the ether this morning. Threw it into the sky. Obviously, as you say, not necessarily too details focused, but our promotions team.

No details focused In the last hour have been fielding a lot of interest from Tourism Fiji Buller What? Oh my god Great Are you serious? So there's a little bit of detail to work out, but obviously, a lot of detail to work out

I'm not a details guy, don't look at me when you're asking that, mate But it's Valentine's Day, people are feeling loved up, our friends at Tourism Fiji are feeling loved up So I think Oh my god They can make it happen loved up. Our friends at Tourism Fiji are feeling loved up. So I think they can make it happen. So someone could get married in Fiji? Again, our promotions team have got a lot of work to do. You just made Larissa's Friday very, very busy. But yeah, I think we're going to be able to make this happen.

The one time Jono chucks an idea at all. You've got a manifesto. Now, Monday morning, we are going to be giving away a Lamborghini. And we all get one each. Every caller gets a Lamborghini Monday morning. We'll just chuck some stuff out. That is amazing. I guess we've got a lot of details. I've got a lot of questions, but maybe I can take these.

We can take these offline. Take these offline. Shall we circle back later? These are details, guys. Now I'm thinking through all the details, but I'm thinking, okay, well, so what we do know, Fiji wedding. Yes. So we are going again bit of detail

to work out I just feel like I have to caveat that but yes our friends at Tourism Fiji have come to the party they're keen to work out

some details and we are going to find one of these couples that have been engaged for a long time did they hear the bit when I was saying we are also going to be there

did they hear that part I don't think we said that but we could say that now yeah well all three of you are obviously happily married Megan loves it so much she's done it twice. I can do it again.

No need. I can do it again. No need. If I get to go to bed. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. So this happens a lot to the point where when I drove home last night,

I saw the big full moon and I immediately was like, I see you, big dog. It's going to be a rough night. In terms for you or for? Everybody. Really? So when I got home, I said to my husband, I was like, have you seen the big moon? He's like, oh, great.

It's going to be a rough night. So often, not all the time, but often when there's a big full moon, our kids will wake in the night for no apparent reason. Right. And it happened last night. I woke up at 2.30 to my son standing over me doing that creepy thing where he's like, Hello, mummy. Yeah. He was fine.

There was no reason. He just wanted to cuddle and went back to sleep. But it always happens when there's a full moon. Now, I'm probably in the camp where the moon doesn't affect. I mean, it's just the moon. It's doing great stuff for us. Love it. You know, love it every now and then when it's like, oh, it's a funny colored one.

And we always sort of take grainy photos. It happens often enough that we said it last night, like we called it. And then I've heard from ECE teachers that the kids are always a little bit like scrambled, maybe lack of sleep, a little bit like hyper, hard to deal with on the morning after a full moon. Some people think it does affect, yeah. I had a friend who was in a relationship and now no longer in that relationship, but he would always go,

all full moon, all things are going to kick off tonight. Like arguments and stuff. Was he a werewolf? Maybe it was just a relationship. Werewolves? Yeah, yeah. Is that where it comes from?

No. Would they argue about every full moon, would they? Yeah, every full moon werewolves come out. But I feel like he's manifesting the argument.

He's like, oh, I think they kick off tonight. Yes, he'll kick off. He's in an arguing mood. Exactly. You were telling me about the word lunatic. which is Latin

for the moon, lunar. Yeah. Lunatic, crazy. Lunatics come out at full moon. There's bloody Rachel Hunter outside the window there. Hello, Rachel Hunter. Waving at us or anything.

Hello, Rachel Hunter. Lovely to see you. Not great for radio, but good for us. We can see it happening in real time. Yeah. But yeah, so the moon. We should ask Rachel Hunter if she believes in full moons. She's gone, mate.

She's gone. But yeah, science is divided on it. Many people swear The full moon Affects human behaviour Hospitals and police Often report More weird incidents During a full moon

Exactly As I was saying Lunar The Latin word for the moon Lunatic That's where that comes from Lunatic of course So hey

0800 the hits 4487 Another poll We're doing polls all morning Colmar Brunson polls Aren't we majority water And then the moon affects the tides. Maybe it's pulling the water inside us.

Oh, yeah? Okay, are you buying this? Okay, yeah. 4487 on the text, or 0800 the hits. Is it affecting, or is this kind of, eh? I'm going to raw dog the phone. It's a full moon. That's what you do.

Hello. Hi. Are you full moon? Are you a full mooner? Absolutely. What does it do to you? I'm a midwife And the moon We always have hundreds of babies born in full moon

So was it a busy night last night? I was thankfully off call last night Yeah well timed with the moon See there's too many people Saying that it affects in different ways. Okay, someone says, text through, terrible night's sleep, struggle to get to sleep, my dog woke up unsettled. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. About the moon and is it affecting, can't believe we're talking about this, but here we are, because Megan reckons it's affecting her sleep, and so many people texting through saying it's a thing. Yeah, Karen, how are you? Not too bad, how are you? Yeah, good. Tired. Karen, how are you? Not too bad. How are you? Yeah, good. Are you a moonatic?

I'm guessing so after I heard you guys on the radio this morning. What do you reckon? I think it has to be true because normally I zonk out and I wake up the next morning. I hardly ever have a run tonight. Yeah. And on Wednesday night, I only had two hours sleep because I had to prepare for a medical procedure Thursday morning which I got sedated for and I was very knackered yesterday,

full keen to sleep, went to bed early and kept waking up every couple of hours and just didn't get a good night's sleep. Woke up this morning thinking, that's insane, why did I have such a terrible sleep? Because you were sedated all day. We heard you guys on the way to work. I'm blaming that on the procedure.

The anesthetic's supposed to make you tired. I can talk that one away. Karen, love you. Sorry, Karen. Sometimes they get like this. Jacinda, you're on. Hi, yes, I used to work in retail and we all knew it was a thing.

What, the moon affecting people's moods? Yep, absolutely. That was when the nutters came out. It was just terrible. We'd have people wanting to return a printer because they didn't like the shade of blue it printed, or half a ream of printer

paper that they'd already used half of. So like random complaints, you'd get more over the full moon? And they'd get stroppy about it. I told you at the time I wanted sky blue, okay? And then I had to test that with a half a ream of paper. It all

made sense. Thank you very much for your call. Appreciate that. Chantelle, you're on. Full moon. Are you believing in the madness? Is that me, Chantelle? That's you, yeah. Oh, hello, hello. Hi. Firstly, oh my gosh, hello. Lovely to have you on, Chantelle.

Great to have you on the show. Oh, nice to talk to you. Yeah, no, I was just, I sent a text through, just to encourage everyone to look at the maramataka. So it's the Maori phases of the moon. And basically, I'm with you on this one with the full moon. It's basically highlighting like there's high energy in that time.

And, you know, a lot of the time the kids go crazy. But it does have different effects on different people so like for an example my kids and my fiancee are crazy whereas I'm the complete opposite like I like to the law but you know I'm I'm pretty like low energy all right feels like so yeah so you sleep through the night your partner has to deal with the kids that's great yeah pretty much pretty much it sends us all into a bit of a mad spin

but yeah it's all they're all different days and stuff and it's all to do with the moon oh the moon well listen

I came into this a non-believer and I leave a non-believer aww thank you Chantel I love you Chantel we'll monitor it over

how long is this moon how long is it sticking around I don't know Iel We'll monitor it over How long is this moon How long is it sticking around I don't know I don't know about the phase How long is the moon full It was just a big dog last night Because it is Valentine's Day of course And you know a lot of people

Trying to do romantic gestures And we thought You know we could find out If people have done romantic gestures In the past And had them go wrong Megan you're like Well well, I can't. All mine hit is what you said yesterday.

Yeah, all mine hit real good. What ones hit the hardest? I've done like a – I write poems, like step-by-step poems on like – it's like a scavenger hunt thing. Oh, yeah, nice. And then at each like destination there's like a little gift or a little something. Oh, really? I know.

I'm pretty romantic. Under the kitchen door, look for more. And there's like a pair of underpants. He's like, oh, okay. Yeah, I guess something like that. You can do that with chores. Like, you know, for Andrew, like things to do. He sends me daily to-do lists.

But do it under a thing. Under a garage, you'll find the weed blower. The leaf blower. You're like, oh, cool. Now I'll play the leaves. And then under the leaves You have something else You know

Before you yawn Mow the lawn Yeah Things like that That's a great way To get the jobs done A cute way Of getting jobs done

But it does backfire Does it You know Romantic gestures Can backfire And especially I think The more that goes The more detail

That goes into the planning Of a big gesture The more that can go wrong Yeah We spoke to a lady once Where I think it was Valentine's Day and she, you know, mid-Feb, the height of summer. So that's very integral to the part of the story

where she's like, okay, I'm going to lay on the bed and wait for my partner to come home and I thought I would lay there with chocolates. So it's going to be a romantic thing. Romantic, yeah. She's had a bloody long day at work, okay? He's running late. She didn't know when he was coming home romantic thing. Romantic, yeah. She's had a bloody long day at work, okay? He's running late. She didn't know when he was coming home.

It was a surprise, obviously. I think she fell asleep. She fell asleep. She fell asleep, and she woke up to him having to wipe her down with wet wipes because she was just covered in brown sludge. Which is not a romantic-looking thing. Is he like, what's happened here, hun?

No judgement, but like, what? Did you have something spicy for lunch? So, that one backfired, yeah. She really kills the mood when you're lying in a mess of browns and in the white bed. It was a nightmare. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. It's Valentine's Day, of course. A lot of Australians just reading an article heading to New Zealand for Valentine's weekend, the most popular destination, Auckland. It seems to be with Waiheke Island top on the list of things to do. Valentine's Day. That's for Aussies coming into

the country. Celebrate Valentine's Day in your own country. Aussies. I feel like we welcome you with open arms over here. And all you do is kick our criminals out. Now we are talking about romantic gestures backfiring. Just had a wonderful tale of a lady who tried to romance things up with chocolates lying on a bed.

Mid-feb, hot weather, she fell asleep, the chocolates melted. It was a brown smush. Yeah, it was a real show. And her husband came home and had to do a bit of a cleaning. He didn't want to wake her up as well, but she woke up to being dabbed down with detail wipes. I think that's worse. Yeah, dad. Woken up to being cleaned.

Are you okay? Are you okay? Yeah, yeah. What? I'm trying to be sexy. Anything coming back from that? No. How's this text?

Romantic gesture backfiring. Bit of a left to centre one. I want to remain anonymous. Okay. I was in labor when my ex had planned a romantic weekend away with the woman he was cheating on me with. Oh, wow. He kept sneaking out of the hospital to see the woman he was cheating on me with. While in labor?

While she was in labor. While giving birth with their child. So the birth of his child really spoiled those romantic plans. He's like, damn it, I've got a weekend away. I want to throw down for her. Brendan, you're on. Good morning. Hey, how's it going?

Lovely to have you on, Brendan. Romantic gesture backfiring. What happened? It was just a it was in a hotel room and we had well, i had all these candles around the place and like you know the the tacky rose petals all that stuff and then uh i was worried while i was waiting uh for my partner i was waiting for i thought i better go and check in the bathroom because i was just worried about

um the the rose petals catching on fire. You know, something going on. You smoke alarms, you're in a hotel. Yeah, I get it. I thought I would just blow out some of the candles just in case they were out of sight, just in case, you know. And the wax was so hot that I blew too hard on the candles and it went right up my nose. And then it solidified, so I couldn't breathe.

It was pretty bad. You're like, darling, you take my breath away. So were both of your nostrils plugged up or just one of them? It was both of them, yeah. And then we were trying to melt the wax out to get it out, and both of them, yeah. And they were trying to melt the wax out to get it out, and it was like, yeah. Oh, it feels like, well, hey, it's well, yeah. Also,

your partner had to try and pull the wax out of your nose. That would be painful, too, with nose hairs and all sorts of Nothing sexier than picking your partner's nose on Valentine's Day. Exactly, and when you had bland. Oh, Brendan, that is a wonderful call, mate. You're going to have a great weekend.

Yeah, you too. Enjoy Valentine's Day, whatever it is you've got planned. But next, Matt, our boss, needs to see us urgently about something, which worries me. That's next. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

We'd like to catch up with Daniella, who's our Italian correspondent, we call her, even though she lives in Tauranga. So let's go to her this morning. Ciao. Bella, ciao. Ciao. I never received that much.

Spoiled time with my songs from my country. Thank you, guys. That's all. Bella, ciao. Take us straight back to Sicily or Rome. Rome, please. That's my country. Thank you, guys. That's all. That's all right. It takes us straight back to Sicily or Rome. Rome, please. That's my city. But my mum was born in Sicily.

Then you're not wrong. I love the... Olives from Sicily. Yeah, not only that. Arancini balls. Are they from Sicily? Are they? Yes.

Only Arancini? Oh. How was your week? Because there was the big football game, the Super Bowl, but when you were talking about soup bowls to us the other day, it sounded like you were saying Super Bowl. Can you say soup bowl for us? You're so mean.

Which one do you want to know? Just a soup bowl. A soup bowl. Or the Super Bowl. So if I had a bowl of soup, what would you say? Super Bowl. There you go. That was on this week, the football.

Yeah, it was good. Daniela, we've had intel that in Italy you ran into a famous movie star, probably one of the world's most famous film actors. How hot he is. Man, I'm 39, but, you know, it doesn't matter how old you seem, it's super hot for everybody, I think. Who was it? George Clooney. Oh, wow. He was super hot for everybody, I think. Who was that? George Clooney.

Oh, wow. I was not in Italy. Sorry, it was in Nice. Yes, Nice. You know where the French cost? South of France? Yeah, he was there. Yes, he was on the stairs of the casino going up.

And we were just visiting there on the square. And I just remember that I said to my girlfriend, is this George Clooney? No, it's not. And she says, no, you're wrong. And we go closer. And I said, no, no, that's George Clooney. I just screamed remember that I said to my girlfriend, is this George Clooney? No, it's not. And she says, no, you're wrong. And we go closer. And I said, no, no, that's George Clooney. I just screamed so loud, George, I'm here.

This is Daniela. I just did it like that. He just waved to me. He was so nice. He waved. He was so cute. More than cute, but anyway. That's very cool.

That's a big banger, too. Yeah, that's a big dog. Isn't he married to an Italian? Amal. Where is Amal from? No idea. I'm very cool. That's a big banger, too. Yeah, that's a big dog. Isn't he married to an Italian? Amal. Where is Amal from? No idea. I'm very honest. I'm not really a gossip girl.

I'm not up to date. She's Lebanese. Lebanese. Here you go. I couldn't have got that more wrong. Apologies to Italy and Lebanon. Actually, while you're here, Dali, now there was this news story that was from a couple of months ago.

But this lady, she's British, and she had a stroke, which is very sad, very scary. And she woke up. She's okay now, but she woke up after surgery. They removed a blockage from her brain, and she's speaking in an Italian accent. Now, this is a legit news story. She's never been to Italy before.

She's not sure why she's talking in an Italian accent. We wanted to play you a little bit and see what you thought of the way that she's talking in Italian. Okay? Okay, you go. happened to me? Nobody can tell me what's happened to me. It's so strange. It blows my mind. And it sounds Italian, but I've never been to Italy. I have no Italian friends. I never learned the language. All of a sudden, can you believe it? It is blowing my mind. It's blowing her mind. Is it blowing your mind? It's very interesting, though. Our brain is so clever. Have you heard the lady who woke up with a Chinese accent? No. Where you heard the lady who woke up with a Chinese accent? No. Where you find all this story? We're not going to

play that one because that one I feel like it's culturally insensitive. Then there's one that woke up sounding like Dracula too. That was my favourite. Oh really? When you've had a stroke it must rewire the brain. You know what guys, I think in these people that wake up with different accents,

there was something wrong on the soup bowl. Something was wrong on the soup bowl. Too much soup? Yeah, too much soup with a bowl. Hey, Daniela, as always. Hey, Jono, I need to say I love your series. Congratulations. Oh, thank you, mate.

It's so funny. I just put on and I said, oh, what John is doing there? Okay, I need to watch this. We need a little bit of Bantai life. We cannot be always serious. That's right, Daniela. Hey, lovely to chat with you, mate. You go and have a wonderful weekend. You too, guys, and keep up the good mood

because you guys made our day every morning. Oh, lovely to talk to you. Ciao. See ya. Ciao. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

Hey, now last night we had a bit of a work function. We went along there with some of the work team from all around the country here at the company we work for.

Bit of schmoozing. Did you schmooze? Yeah, it was good. As much as I can schmooze. I'm not very good at schmoozing. Yeah, I know. What do you need to do

with a schmooze? Just a bit of light banter?oozing. What do you need to do with a schmooze? Just a bit of light banter? Just talking. Oh, light banter just keeps you out of the way. That's all this thing is in life, is just talking rubbish. So a large percentage of being a human, about 90% of it is just talking rubbish with other humans. Especially us. And there was someone there, and she was playing a great game.

Now, she would go around to people and she was particularly guys and she would go out to them she's like watch this i'll pretend that i know this person and and we're like hey did you go up good to see you great to see you again oh how you been like that give them a hug and stuff and and you could just see their eyes almost like darting back and forward like how do i know this person? It's a really genius play. Stressful position to put any human in. It's because we all work, it's a big company, but we all work for the company, so you're like, oh no,

where have we crossed paths? What have we done? And it was like a sales function, so maybe was I too drunk and I started talking to them? The panic in their face. A monstrous game to play. Because no one ever wants to go, no one ever wants to pull the pin out and go sorry, remind me, where do we know each other

from? That would easily, that would solve so much awkwardness. And it was one of those occasions where you would know the face of someone or know them and you talk to them and you're like, just give me a little bit where you're from. Just a little bit of where I know you. As soon as they drop in one thing, you're like, yes, that's it, you know? But she kept

it up for ages. It was really smart. It was really smart. Especially because the people have no idea who she is. Sometimes if you're talking to somebody, you're like, I can remember the face. Vaguely remember. Yeah. I did that fish and chip shop unintentionally. Just started talking to this lady.

Of course you did. Who I thought was one of the mums at school. And she, again, was probably going, where do I know this man from? So we both had this conversation. The penny dropped for me halfway through. I'm like, because I said, oh, how's your husband? And she mentioned what her husband was doing,

and it was completely different from what the husband I was referring to was doing. But we both continued on the conversation, and both knew that we didn't know each other. We're like, oh, good. Hopefully we see each other soon. We're both too polite to call it out. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Botched surgeries and beauty treatments. We've been talking a bit about it the last couple of days because Nicole,

who is a New York correspondent, we talk to her every week about entertainment news. We just found out she's part of a news story. There was a guy that was injecting counterfeit Botox into her. The man who gave me Botox, it came out two weeks ago

that he was arrested for not being licensed to do what he was doing and injecting his victims, I'm error quoting, with counterfeit Botox from China. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Do you have some of those Botox in you? Who doesn't love Chinese botulism in their face? Are you okay?

I saw on the paper, I saw all the victims, what they were experiencing was heart palpitations, trouble swallowing, and double vision. Three days after I got it in March, I went back to look at my statement. I started getting double vision. Three days after I got it in March, I went back to look at my statement. I started getting double vision and was going to doctors, MRIs, neurologists. No one asked me if it was like Botox. We thought it was maybe residual from the accident I had had two years ago.

Nicole, I don't really feel like laughing. That's really serious. We have to laugh or we'll cry. I'm trying to sue him, but yeah, it was too good to be true. I mean, it was so cheap and I was like, okay, obviously it's too cheap because it's not. Nicole, if it's super cheap, then you've got to question what's going on. So yeah, wild story. And then we just opened up to 0800-THE-HITS-4487 on the text.

Your medical mishaps. Some crazy ones coming through. We spoke to a poor lady who basically they messed up an operation on her spine and her brain fluid was leaking on her bed and everywhere. And Daniel phoned through. I started getting this lump growing right underneath my nipple. So I saw my BP about it. And he said, oh, no, it's just benign fatty tissue. But if you're self-conscious about it, you can get it cut out.

It's a minor surgery. Of course, being a self-conscious teenager, I said, yep, absolutely. And I don't want to have little titties. Another nipple. So, yeah, I got booked in for surgery first thing in the morning. Got discharged about lunchtime. Went home to have a day off school, got on to the video games, played them for about four or six hours, totally distracted,

before I looked down and checked on my surgery site, and I don't have a little titty anymore. I have like a B cup. On one side only. What happened? Daniel. Has he gone? Daniel. Is he gone? Daniel.

Oh. So that's where we left it yesterday. Daniel cut out. He had grown a bosom. And we've managed to track him back down. Oh, that's good. Thank God. To complete the story, right?

We need closure on this. So, Daniel, what actually happened? Oh, that's good. Thank God. To complete the story, right? We need closure on this. So, Daniel, what actually happened? Oh, they've done an absolutely fantastic job on the stitching, but somehow something had bled or something had started leaking into the void and it just kept on going for hours and hours and just swollen up.

So you had a breast? A blood breast. A blood breast, yes. Not a milky one, a bloody one Oh Daniel And then did they drain it? Yeah, yeah, I got rushed back to the hospital Put on the local anesthetic and they drained it Funny thing was, I ended up being the first surgery

And the last surgery for that day The same surgeon Oh my god He's like, hey, let's just keep this one between us, eh? So there you go. Daniel, thank you so much for... I couldn't have gone into the weekend not knowing you were there. Sorry.