Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: The strange flatmate story Megan couldn’t share on air!

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

On today’s show: The team shares their own unforgettable flatmate stories, including Megan's podcast only story! Ben’s awkward taxi ride with a fan... did he misread the photo moment? Megan’s husband sends forensic-level screw photos for a DIY job… and she still gets it wrong Jono discovers he has a matching tattoo with Megan’s best friend, and has zero recollection of it Jesse Ryder joins to chat about the upcoming Hot Spring Spa T20 Black Clash and his cricket adventures in India Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cook Easy, Delicious Dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Hey, welcome to the podcast, and we said we were going to start the podcast with the story that was, well, we couldn't really tell it on the radio. I don't know exactly what the story is, but something to do with someone you used to flat with me. Yeah, we were talking about flatmates you remember. I actually flattered with a lot of guys back in the day. Most of them were pretty memorable for not great reasons. I can imagine you being a pretty rock-solid flatmate. You wouldn't have eaten other people's foods.

would have respected conditions Pretty clean Ben live with a guy who would just get just unreasonably angry about the wet towel the foot towel on the bath Yeah

I was a bit of a shocker for getting out of the shower and just you know I don't dry myself in the shower Just standing on the bath mat and dry myself there And that would just wind him up Because I'd get up before him

And the bath mat would be Just a little wet Not a little bit It'd be soggy You always dry yourself in the shower Yeah I kind of do it I'm out My day start

I'm out I'm out I'm out I'm out moving on I'm moving on. You're just like absolutely saturate the bath mat. Oh, not real. I mean, I do sure. Yes, you do. Yeah, no.

No, not saturated. Look at me. I don't retain much water on myself. You know, like I've got to grab the towel from out of the thing. Your whole body's like a slipstream. Yeah. So, yeah. So this was about one of my flatmates, Lloyd, who was an accountant.

I imagine there's lots of Lloyds who are accountants. I hope so. Yeah, I hope so, yeah. He'll be fine. There's a strong Lloyd community in the account. It's not. Do you know, he was not. Do you know, he was.

The most, we never really saw him. He just spent all his time in his room. He was clean. He was very unassuming guy. Didn't have much chat. Pretty chill. Like, you'd forget Lloyd was there. Keep to himself.

Yeah. And he was fine. He was pleasant. Like, I have no issues. But one day Lloyd was like, I'm going to move out. And I was like, oh, good. Do you need a hand? He was fine.

He didn't have much stuff. Very unassuming guy. And he left. And we had a DVD player back in the day, like a flat DVD player. and we opened it up one day and he'd left one of his DVDs in there but it was some illicit material but it was very niche

Not that I'm going to kink shame him but it was just a guy shaving women Just shaving content Maybe he was just into manicuring Yeah Shaving his other job was You know like working in Brazilian waxing and stuff

Yeah, you never know. What was the content? Like, were they talking or were they saying? No, there was no, I mean, I didn't watch the whole thing. Was the guy shaving like, all right, Lorraine, Lorraine, you're done. Next, please. And then the next one will come in.

No, like, it wasn't a barbershop. It was, um, yeah. No, like banter. How you been? The weather's not bad out there lately. Wasn't it like, it's risky letting someone else shave you because you don't know how much, like, just even on your legs. You know, like you don't know the pressure to use a ray.

And it was a razor. Well, clearly this guy's a professional. No, look, if I'm honest, too fast, especially for that area. Oh, really? The razor was too fast. A bit fast and loose, was he? Oh, yeah. Now, can I just defend Lloyd here, too?

Okay, sure. Who's to say that it wasn't one of the people that was still habitating the flat, and they pinned it on poor Lloyd? Oh, yeah, it doesn't sound like, it's real, yeah, huge character assassination right now. Because, oh, no, there's Billy Lloyd's shaving gear. Yeah, you're right. The other girl I was flooding with, I don't know that it would be up her alley. But, yeah, I don't know.

I don't want to kink shame either of them. No. I don't want to yunk you, yum. Whatever you're into, Lloyd, but I wish he'd taken it, and I wish I'd never seen it. If it was his, he would have been like, oh, damn it. Probably a lot harder back in the day, though, for, you know, nowadays, the internet. Do you know what? But back in the day, you know, there was DVDs and videos and all sorts.

Oh, you had to go to video easy. Yeah, and go on that special. Like a guy that I did actually flat with him, but he was telling a story about his flatmate. He used to keep his, like on a VHS, like his, but he had it inside. And it was an Anna-Aquan movie called Fly Away Home was the cover and it was outside. And he put it inside there. No one will ever.

He was like, yeah, it's like a kid's movie about these geese that fly away like that. And no one in the flat, apparently it's a good movie, but no one in the flat would ever think, oh, she'd look at home. At least her niece came to stay or something and you're like, oh my gosh, she'd love this. So he'll keep it inside the cover of like a flyaway home. And then just, like, the DVD or whatever that was. And it was like, yeah. That's a good play.

Yeah, good play. It's like, oh, yeah. Now that I think about it, I don't think Lloyd ever asked for his bond back. So maybe he did realize he'd left it there. Yeah, he's like, I can never show face around there again. Unless anyone's in for a shaving, then Lloyd goes. Lloyd's your man. There's more unforgettable flatmates right now on the podcast.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. We're reading a story about some two 87-year-olds in the South Island. 87 year olds and they're flatmates That's cool Man and a woman flatless Purely platonic They're not in a relationship

And Geez they must be New Zealand's oldest flatmates though 87 years old Why do you think that doesn't happen more often Probably does Probably the news doesn't get hold of it But I imagine that sometimes you would go to a retirement home type So it's cool that they're actually still just flatting

You know Also you're 87 and you do not want to deal with anyone else's BES You're very much stuck in your ways But then great for companions You know, I like to hang out and do stuff. Geez, you really put yourself in a vulnerable position when you move into a flat, don't you? Obviously, none of us flatted for a number of years.

But there's always that one person who sticks with you. The one person you cohabitated with. The most memorable person. Yeah, unforgettable flatmates was what we want to open up. Describe their aura. Have you got any, Megan? I've got a few, but I remember I got kicked out. I was flating with two guys.

You got kicked out of the flat. They were like, hey, we have to ask you to leave. Because one of them, his girlfriend was moving in. But I was quite happy to leave because his girlfriend was also his cousin. So they said, oh, my girlfriend's going to move in. And I was like, your cousin. That's an unforgettable flat, mate. Yeah.

I don't know how that relationship went. I don't know if they're still together. Yeah, I can. It's not illegal though in New Zealand. Exactly. I was just going to say that. 4487. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

We're talking unforgettable flatmates after two 87-year-olds in Christchurch flating together, which is very cool. It's very sweet. You are lumped together with a whole bunch of different personalities, aren't you, and a flower? I live for a little while they were with a little baby. What? I hope they had parents. They did have parents, yeah. Did they know you were in the house?

Yeah, of course. Okay, it was just... Yeah, it does sound like it was here. I remember coming home from quite an exciting evening, and it was about 7 in the morning, and I was talking, this baby was like, one. and I was talking to the baby and the baby was talking back to me. It was a big evening. Giving me some advice.

Come on, you can get through the day. I'm like, I don't know if I can, baby. I believe in you. You would look like the baby, two babies talking to each other too. Big, bald babies. Thank you, sweet little motivational baby. The baby didn't exist.

And then they asked you to leave. Yeah, exactly. All right, unforgettable flatmates, let's get to it. Let's go to the phones. We've got Shona with us. How are you, Shona? Hi. I'm good, thanks.

How are you? Good. Someone you used to live with and you have never forgotten them. Yeah, she was a nurse, and she worked in the obstetrips and Guine Ward, and she was a little bit weird, and she had her own food cupboard and stuff. But one day she told me she used to listen to our other flatmates having sex by cutting her stethers spoke up against the wall, which was a very disturbing factor here. Oh, yeah.

You're not used to the old Steffie, though. Yeah, I wouldn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you learn that in medical school? You're like, this could also be great for, like, leaves dropping.

I'd put a pillow over my head. Yeah, no, I think her life was pretty empty, maybe. I mean, if you're doing that. Yeah. Thank God she wasn't listening to me. I'd just be just me apologising. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't mean to it.

Sorry. Sorry about that. Yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, shall I go? Yeah, okay. Good on you, Shona. Appreciate your phoning through, mate. That's really funny.

Producer Troy, you've got to come in here. You live with someone for a number of years, didn't you? When you first moved to Auckland. Well, I first moved to Auckland. I lived with a French man, Pierre. And he played a great name for a Frenchman. Was that his name or did you just decide that was? It was actually his name.

Oh, Pierre. And he played the steel pan. The steel pan. Now, this is... A Frenchman. Yeah. This is quite a soothing instrument, though. I would come home and he'd have a bunch of friends

because he was obviously like a working holiday person and he had a bunch of other working holiday friends and they all played like like wind flutes and like and so I'd come home and it'd be like Robin Hood and the band of Mary men in the living room it was so random

I'd pick for a frechman yeah I were all just sitting in the lounge and I'd walk in and they'd be like hey mate ding ding a ding I guess out of all the things that people could be doing in your lounge that's pretty tight in comparison actually speaking of full on stuff we've got you've got a

story that you can't say on the radio, Megan, but we are going to put it on our podcast intro. Lloyd, the accountant I used to live with, he had an illicit hobby. Really? Yeah, this is a good tease for our podcast. I'll tell the story on our podcast. After 9 o'clock this morning, that podcast is not appropriate for the radio?

I feel like we've already gone there with the stethoscope story already this morning. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. When you have a conversation sometimes and you replay it and you're like, maybe, you know, do what led to that? Did I do that right? I had a moment yesterday with a day of admin with the kids. And the kids in the afternoon, I was trying to get through all my admin.

And I had to drop my wife's car off to get a service. And because it's getting done today, but I left it there yesterday afternoon. And they were like, how are you getting home at a place? And I said, oh, just to order like an Uber or a taxi. And they're like, I will give you a taxi chip, which is lovely of them. It's a nice, yeah. I've never heard of that before. I know, it's really lovely.

And when the taxi driver turned up, she turned up, we started going. And I could see her sort of looking at, looking at me, you know, how through the real, you know, the little mirror thing. And then she's like, are you, are you, are you Ben? And I was like, oh yeah, I'm Ben. Yeah, how are you doing? And she was like, I was just watching one of your videos. And she was saying all these lovely things, which was lovely.

And I'll get to the point of why, you know, she kept talking about. She's like, my husband and my kids, they won't believe this has happened in my thing. And I'm sure she said, we'll get a photo. You know, like, we'll get a photo. And I think the kids, they back me out of my phone. So we have been in conversation, you know, she'd get a photo. They won't believe this and saying lovely things. I'm like, this is lovely.

We had a chat for 15 minutes. She balls over and drops off And I was like Oh hey Would you like to get the photo now And she went Oh it's all good Maybe next time

Maybe next time And I was like Oh And the kids just went Airball And they cracked up laughing And I walked inside Just kind of like

Did I miss read that Did I? I was sure she said All sorts Stroking your ego And then I was like Well did I ruin things In the 15 minute drive

Like she wanted to get a photo and then all of a sudden she's like, maybe next time. And there's never going to be next time. We're never going to be in that car again. What did you say in the 15 minutes? No, I don't think it was anything bad. I'm not that person to go,

hey, would you like to get? I always feel like a dick if that's the case. Well, you are that person. But only because she said, we should get a photo. Did she? Well, that's why I said the kids are so sure she said, should we get a photo? Or like, in that 15 minutes, she's like, God, I mean that Ben guy.

Yeah, I know. But there's nothing more humming than you're like, oh, should we get that photo? And she's like, oh no, it's okay, maybe next time. I'm just trying to look up words that rhyme with photo. Just to see what, you know, could have been misconstrued with. Have you been to Kyoto? Yeah, well, maybe.

I was just like, I was really humbling. It was quite a humbling sort of experience from when going, like, a lovely experience. Do you like GoPro's? Or maybe it was GoPro. Do you drive a Toyota? I don't know, mate. Do you like going in slow-mo? There could have been so many options.

Do you like eating Froyo? Maybe it was, I don't know. I don't know, but anyway, it was a very, very humbly express. So never do that. Never, like, never bring it up as well. It's just trying to be a nice thing. And then it was really next time. You're like, what's wrong with this time?

It's kind of polite, but also cutting at the same time, too. Oh, no. Because everyone knows he's not a next time. It's not going to be a good time. Maybe the lighting wasn't right or something. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Dilma's been named New Zealand's most trusted tea band for 10 years.

Dilma making the world a better tea. Do try it. And we've been seeing which one of us is the most trust. We know Dilma's trusted, but what about us? Putting scenarios to the office. Just quickly, what was the one yesterday that Ben didn't hear? Do we remember? Oh, yeah, who was...

Oh, yeah. Between you and Megan, I was completely out of it. Yeah, which I understand. You got quite a few votes, but I... Yeah, I'll back out that one. You'd be riddled with anxiety over the secret. I don't want to hear your deepest dark secret. Don't even tell me.

No. I wouldn't tell anyone. I'm very good. I'm not even telling my wife about something. I didn't tell me about him about... What aren't you telling your wife? Well, things that I'm not, people will tell me in confidence. Deepest, darkest secrets of others.

Exactly. He's got a dark, dark soul in there holding on to things. Let's get J-9 on the phone. How are you, Janine? Oh, fantastic. How are you guys? We're doing well, mate. What's on the cards this weekend?

Oh, mate's having a birthday, so we're going to have a bit of a celebration. Oh, good on you. Well, it's going to be a lovely weekend for us, hopefully. And hopefully we'll give you $100 to take to that celebration as well. Now, the question today, who out of Megan Ben, or myself, do you think the office voted to most likely save them from a fire? Most trusted to save them from a fire.

She's petite, but she's fierce. I'm going with Megan. Yes. I think Megan were pretty good in this situation. Have you got a firefighter's costume in your garage? I probably have a costume related, but I'd have to find that first, and that would take a while.

Hold on. It'll be quite flammable, I imagine, the material of your costume. Not legit. Okay, Janie. John, Ben would get very flustered. I don't trust John, not to just stand back and, like, film it.

Good content. Yeah, it would be good content. Yeah, all about the content. Okay, well, we don't know what the office has said. So hopefully, for your, for you, they've said Megan. Just ever listen. Who would you trust that I'd want to be to make you from a burning building? Megan.

Because she's so nice. I would go for Megan. I just, she just has this, like, fierce mama bear instinct, and I think the adrenaline would hit and she'd just be ready to save anybody. I'm going to pick Megan because she'd pick up the thing. phone and dial 1-1-1. Ben would have the costume, though. Here we go. Gordon knows me well.

I'm going to say Megan, because she had such a huge cry last time I didn't pick her. I don't know what, your pity boat? I'm going to go Jono. He's pretty fit. I reckon he could busts through some shit. Yeah. Pretty fit, yeah. Now, can I just say, the top of this is starting to sound like, you know,

when everyone had to thank Beyonce at award shows? Yeah, it does. Listen to the beginning of this, because Megan, through this whole campaign, which I said we've loved it all the way through has gotten us crabby when people haven't voted for her. Listen to the first couple. Who would you trust that I'd Jonathan and Megan to save you from a burning building? Megan. Because she's so nice.

Because she's so nice. That is Bronte who I called out like one of the first days. I'm like, Bronte. You can hear the fear in Bronte's, you know, voice. She's like, because she's so not. I don't know what to say here. No, Bronte's my friend. She knows I'd bloody throw down for her. All right, all the shenanigans aside, Janine. You pick the

right person. You got the 100 in the Dilmar pack there, mate. Thank you so much. I love Dilma tea and go, Megan, Gilpourour. Yes, thank you Janee. Were you paid to say that too? You're pulling to say that as well with Janine? Yeah, 100 bucks. You're 100 bucks, that's what he paid you off.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Now, Megan, something that came through to your phone yesterday, 10 photos from her husband, Andrew. I often get a to-do list, but I guess it's because he's like your wife, Amanda, Ben. They work during the day and we have a bit of time in the afternoon to get things done he's

incredibly detailed and i appreciate the attention to detail because i show none of it in any area of my life i literally said yesterday when you weren't here i was like god i feel like i'm married to ben just like the detail it's a forensic level to detail ben i think you'd really admire this so i got the to-do list which is just a written list and i was like okay great that's a lot to get true, but I'll do my best. Then it was followed by photos and not one photo, but quite a few. He needed six screws, little specific screws. So he got out the ruler and he took, I'm not even kidding,

10 photos of one screw from every different angle. He moved to different lighting. He's even got to screw the screw next to a ruler to show how many mills. How many mills the flat part of it is, how many mills it is long and how good the actual screw part is. There's a lot of angles of that screw. Yeah. Well, look, this is great.

I mean, you can't get it wrong if it goes to this level of detail, right? I do the opposite. I'm like, I think I think I know what I need. I go to Bunnings and I get home and I was like, damn it, that's the wrong one. And then I go back to Bunnings. And I rinse and repeat that about four or five times. Yeah.

Yeah. So he was like, you can't screw this up. We're going to nail this, huh? And then I went in to Bunnings, and I had found the thing. It even said 10 mills on it. It had, it was an exact. the same as in the picture. The multiple pictures.

I took it home and it was legit like two mills, too girthy. Oh, you're screwed it up. He said, I literally took a photo of that angle against a ruler. And I was like, well, I don't know what to tell you. We've got to put all the 10 photos up on the Hits Breakfast Instagram. And just go, how on earth did you mess this up?

Yeah, I mean, yeah, you should have, you probably should have got someone to help you. to see how, like, annoyingly detailed my husband is. He's like, I could not have done any more, apart from going there himself. Yeah, or like a FaceTime video call, but he wouldn't have time for that because he's working, but you're like, does this the one? Yeah, and he went to do it at 7 o'clock last night. He's like, right, I can finally put this hinge in. And he's like, no, you got the wrong screw.

Two mill too big. Two mill too big. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Now, something happened yesterday after the show that, Megan, you brought up, and I have zero. recollection of this monument. It's so weird that you have no recollection of this. This is a monumental event that I definitely should have remembered. It was so weird chats going on

after the show yesterday and somehow you ended up showing us some of your tattoos. You do have a lot. Just random things too and I was like oh this is a dog smoking a cigarette and then Megan said oh my best friend Nick he's got the exact matching tattoo with you and I was like

really just did he go to the same artist and she said no you made him get a matching tattoo of a dog smoking a cigarette. And Jono's like, no, no, I got this ages ago. I just walked into a place and got it. And I was like, well, I don't know how it happened, but you have the same tattoo. Like a chain smoking dog.

If I made a guy, I get a chain smoking dog, that's a moment that I should have remembered. Yeah, yeah. It's like a bulldog with a peeky blinder on. Yeah, he's got a little hand on. So it's very specific. Yeah, we did it at the edge radio session. We're working there. We were a whole, we talked about it.

I was like, win one of Jono's tattoos. And we did a whole thing, fine. Yeah, I was like, at the edge, got it on his thigh. He came on the studio. We talked about getting Jono's wife and kids first His tattoos Get my wife and kids on there

Yeah well that was one of the options Like which tattoo is he going to get And then we landed on the dog Smoking the cigarette is one And he's got He just to prove it to you yesterday He did drop his pants in his workplace And send us a photo

On the same Yeah Can we get Nick on Does he regret this Can we get him on Is he answering or No he's not answering Okay

At least he remembers that Yeah I feel like buddy Trump when he's asked about Epstein And I'm like What? No, I've got no recollection to that. And they're like, well, there's clearly photo evidence.

Yeah. Oh, you're having a good time with this guy. And there's photo even as much in a photo of the same tattoo. You mean, please know he's got lots of tattoos as well. So it's not like his one and only. You haven't like soured his body with it. To be fair to me, though, you said he couldn't remember which one of it. He's like, I don't remember if it's John or Ben or what tattoo I share it with.

So I mean, there's, you know, murky memories at the whole event, obviously. That's when I'm like, geez, I've been to this job way too long. You can't remember. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, where was that at? What was that? Yeah.

So how do you decide, because you got lots? You just go on and go, yeah, that. Yeah. Do they always meaning? Yeah, I haven't done that. Meaning. Yeah. Deep rich meanings.

The dog, they talk through the complex dog, smoking a cigarette. Well, you never want dogs getting lung cancer bit. And that's a bit cause I like to put my way behind. Dogs are suffering from lung cancer. So it's just a daily reminder that. Take those cigarettes out of the dogs. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hit. I care again. We're playing it at the moment trying to avoid Mariah's most iconic song all I want for Christmas. We're still in the game and we feel like maybe we should put ourselves under immense pressure. So we've just recorded this. So you listening right now, if one of us stumbles across Mariah, you won't be able to... You won't hear it. We'll bleep it out. Yeah, we've been trying to sabotage ourselves actually a couple of times this week, haven't we? And this time with Instagram. Okay, I'll go first. All right. So I'll log

into... Are we just using our own Instagram accounts? May as well, I guess. Yeah, it's your own algorithm. Mind you've got some old stuff on here. I don't know. Do you get fed much Christmas? I don't think yours there's much Christmas stuff on it. I haven't had, no.

No, I haven't a huge amount of Christmas content, but we'll see. Getting a lot of, I watched a video with a dog Christmas and they put it, it was actually quite cool. They had some wrapping paper across a door frame and the dog

put his head through the wrapping paper for a treat. And then they took photos with the dog with Christmas antlers and stuff. But the background's like the wrapping paper. Yeah, cute. And they had music, Christmas music on it. And now since I've watched that,

I'm getting a lot of Christmas And I'm like, uh-oh, uh-oh, I shouldn't have watched that because didn't have Mariah music. Now, feeding me Christmas stuff, so I could be at riskier. So you just, yeah, you just tap on one and then they're like, this is... He loves Christmas and dog stuff. This is you. Yeah.

It takes like a week to actually work it back to some more melody. Need to see any more Christmas dog stuff. Yeah. Okay, I'll go first. So we're taking Instagram off mute. Megan's catchphrase for this whole campaign is... Still cute on mute. Taking off mute now.

And we're going to do 10 scrolls, okay? Oh, 10. Here's the first one. What's that? That's Madonna playing guitar. Next, scroll. Kim Kardashian's $15,000 offer for Late Father's Bible. And I went backstage at Metallica to see James Hetfield.

This is the Wiggles. I don't even know the Metallica song. So what's the world record for this? I'm talking about to beat him. That's the guy trying to beat a world record. Hey! Dana's here, so be nice. There's Dana White from UFC talking.

to someone. Then I've got a Disney ad for celebrating at sea. Then I've got this guy playing drums. And I think I'm safe. There we go. What I was done?

We can put our headphones back on, Megan. He got through. He just heard John and go, no, it's a little commentary, but we couldn't hear actually the songs there. Spectrum of entertainment. There, okay. Megan, you want to go next?

Oh, that's Chris Mack, reacting to Metallica playing their song? Oh, God, it's Whitney. Okay. There's a jab at people in their 40s That's a I don't really know what's happening there It's social

You've just summed up social media I can't even read that out Because it's inappropriate It's a gag about two wolves Another Liam Lawson one How many am I up to? Well you're up to the second Liam Lawson one In about six scrolls

My Instagram account is so stupid And that's Olivia D Well done. I think you got there. You made it. You made it through. I get a lot of like husband-loving stuff. That one was, he thinks he's just my husband, but he's literally my favourite person on earth.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah. All right, mate. Should I go TikTok? So go risky, go TikTok. Okay, yeah. Because TikTok, I don't really scroll TikTok that much.

I mean, I'm on TikTok, but I imagine that'll be a wild ride. Okay, there's four non-blondes. That's that trend, okay? Reminding my daughter to fix her face or something. some sort of mother-daughter. I don't know what this is, but anyway, that's okay. Okay, another trend with a song, but it's like when people pretend to be birds,

the out, you know, the old trend with their bodies. We're like, okay, the TikTok awards are back. Okay. That's good for TikTok. And good for awards. Oh, he's a sports cafe in Australia with Mark Allison Taylor. Producer Taylor's on that now with Rick Solito.

I don't know. Well, this is someone breaking out of jail at the moment. So that's it. That's fine, but that's a skit. Don't film it. Oh, no, it's a skit. I don't know what that is. Don't film it.

I get all these guys like young kids breaking into cars and stuff. I'm like, don't film it. Do not film it. Inspired unemployed, that would do some funny stuff. Realistic Warriors line up for this year as well. There you go. So lots of rugby league related content. That's definitely me.

I'm good. I'm clear. I'm clear. There we go. We made it through. I did not think we were all going to clear that. No. That was probably the most dangerous game we've played.

John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Clash is back. The Hot Spring Spars. T20 Black K. Black Clash. with Wolfbrook. It returns to the Bay Oval and Tauranga in January 17th. It's going to be huge.

Of course, rugby and cricket legends take each other on in a game of T20 cricket and get all the details at Blackclash.com.com. And we're joined by someone who is going to be playing in the Black Clash, Black Cap Legend. So many crazy words to get your mouth around this morning. Jesse Ryder joins us on the show. Good morning. Morning. How are you? Not too bad. How are you? Yeah, I'm good, man. exciting. You're one of my favorite cricketers to watch, and it's awesome that you're playing in the Black Clash. Was that a pretty hard decision to come back and play that? No, they gave me a ring and just asked if I was keen. Yeah, I'm happy to play. It looks like

a fun day out there. Yeah, good. Do you get a free Sparpool? How's it work? I'll be asking. Do some groundwork, do you see? You deserve a spar pool. Now, do you go hard against team rugby? Because obviously some of the rugby players are very good, and being team cricket, you know, there's a bit of expectation you guys should be better, but they're pretty talented, right? Yeah, well, a lot of them played a lot of age group stuff growing up, so, yeah, it should be a good challenge, actually. I'll be dusty as.

Yeah, when was like... Because you're still playing, are you, or is that kind of stop now? I'm still playing, like, overseas and the retired players comps and stuff, but, yeah, we've had like payment issues over the last year. A few tournaments haven't paid the players and stuff, so it's been a bit of a

niggly year, but, yeah, still playing a few games here and there. Do you need us to make some calls, mate? Yeah, it might need to actually Yeah, I've got no sway at all But we can call someone who might be able to call someone Where were you playing over in India? Yeah, been over in India

Three or four times this year You must be like a god over there They're cricket mad, aren't they? I think they've actually They've turned me into Indian I've got an Indian flag next to my name now When they bring up players and stuff So I'm a local now

Oh really? Excuse me I've turned Indian guys In the day, yeah How does it compare? Because I know you, like me, you grew up a little bit in Marsden, you know, among other places. How's it compared to Marsden?

Yeah, a few more people, you know. I think Mumbai is about six New Zealand's in itself. Wow. That's incredible. Am we're a bit of a mild butter chicken guy, are you? Yeah, definitely a mild butter chicken. Yeah, nice. You haven't brunched out at all, Jesse, since you've been over there?

Yeah, stick to what I know over there. You go to Thailand, you have a pad Thai, you go to India, you have a mild butter chicken. Yeah. Now we've found some amazing audio from something that happened when you were playing and we wanted to play a little bit and then stop it and see if you remember what happened next. Okay, this is a game, pretty iconic game. He's like, Jesus, where's this going? It's all good.

Game against Wellington, you were playing for Otago in the Super Smash. Here's the start of it. Oh, that's out of the ground. That's gone. It's downtown. Okay, it's downtown. What happened next? You hit the ball.

Oh, my car. Yes, you hit the ball on the commentator Ian Smith's car. Have a listen. That's gone. It's downtown. It's on my car. It is. Oh, they get hit my car.

Ah, the downside of getting a park so close. Yeah, poor old, to me. Oh, it's a rental. Did it actually hit a car? You can see on the TV it's got like a dent in the car. They got a shot. So, yeah, was there conversations after that or what? No, he must have just ghosted me.

hopefully you got insurance with the old rental yeah surely didn't come for you to pay the xx nah you always do one because you know cars parked around cricket grounds really they are in international cricket games and then games like the basin reserve too you know when there's a roundabout is there pressure is there pressure on this game going out there for the black clash and you're like you're like i've got to hit a couple of sixes or you just oh i'm just gonna turn up and have a bit of fun caused a bit of chaos with the crowd i think going to ask what's the sledging like in these games? Like, do you get out there

and just roast each other? I haven't been a part of one, but I'd say there's a bit of banter, surely. What were you like with that when you were playing cricket? Oh, it was pretty quiet unless I got rolled up. I remember the test we won in Hobart, a lot of

lip flying around from both sides, and that second innings, we decided to start giving it back, and yeah, I don't think they liked it very much. Do you sometimes go too far And everyone's like, oh, come on, mate Yeah, sometimes, hey Sometimes something comes out

That shouldn't be said But you'd almost want You'd almost want chat GPT there To go, right Yeah, well nowadays you're good, right? I love my cricket Megan, you're not, you're on the fence A little bit of cricket, although 2020

You're not the shorter version That convinced Megan that she needs to watch The Black Clash, Jesse Ryder? Well, I'm playing, so there you go. done beginning and end indian cricket player jessie rider will be playing john o' ben and megan

the podcast the heads to the all blacks taking on Wales early Sunday morning New Zealand time good luck to Liam Lawson oh yeah

taking on the world at the Formula One on it's Sunday night too the Vegas Grand Prix oh that's good timing actually for New Zealand to watch it right yeah and good luck to you today

getting through the hot weather too beautiful Friday what a great way to wrap up the week now I just have mentioned this before we go, a friend came over yesterday and borrowed the toilet, or used the toilet, and it's always weird to say, can I borrow your toilet? You know, it's a phrase that we use a bitch, isn't it? But next time one of the kids went in there and said, what's happened to the toilet paper?

And he had neatly folded it into like a pointy sort of triangle envelope at the end. Yeah. Which is, you know, I mean, it's a lovely touch. It seems like one of the world's most pointless exercises. But anyway, his dad was hotel hard when he, he, worked in hotel so it was almost a family true it was part of their DNA that after they used the toilet paper

they'd have to neatly folded it I was like how many minutes have you spent over your entire life folding the ends of toilet paper Is that because I always took it to mean that it looked at the room had been service the toilet had been clean Yeah probably yeah Because it's like someone's done origami with the toilet paper

And I said I do appreciate too Sometimes you walk into motels And they've made a little swan out of the Flannel. Have you ever seen one of them? The towel is pretty cool. I've seen an elephant out of the towels.

That's quite cool. Disney crews, they go hard. Did they go in the room and they go. Do they do Mickey Mouse? They do all sorts of like crazy cool things in Disney Crew. Every day you can make your room and it's amazing what they can do with the like towels. Imagine those poor bastards.

How long they've spent? Folding towels. Look, it kind of looks like goofy, but it's in a towel. You're just going to rub it on your body. You're like, okay. Like a swan and stuff like that. Yeah. So hey, well, shout out to the people that can be bothered doing that.

in their lives. Shout out to you guys. Thanks so much hanging out with us. As we said before, good luck with the Mariah Carey game over the weekend and we can't wait to hang out with you guys.

Well, we'll do it again from Monday at 6 o'clock. We'll see you then.