Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: The team is falling apart!

Episode Date: July 27, 2025

On today’s show: Ben and Megan are seriously beefing and it’s all because of spoilers! For once, Ben was the one who fell asleep How Jono interviewed a dead person! What’s your best Liam Lawson story?  We’re upgrading job titles — “Receptionist” is now Guest Experience Coordinator! It’s time to confront our CEO… about his alleged scam. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday morning here for the podcast audience, great to have you with us. Fresh off the show, this is what they said these should be like, you know, you've just played a concert and you're backstage and we're reviewing

what's just happened out on the stage, so. Megan's Pilates message come through. You got Pilates today? It's telling you what time it is. Yeah, it reminds me to book the Pilates. I set an alarm. Is that what, that alarm's just purely specifically tailored for Pilates reminders? It happens every day, yeah.

Oh. That wasn't sassy, that was just like, it happens every day. That's why I know now it's your Pilates reminder, because often when we're recording the thing, it goes off. Sounds like the start of Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas. All I Want For Christmas. Every time I hear it, I'm like, oh. Bebby has to caveat there by saying, not s sassy because he's been sassy to me all show.

This is what we're talking about. We've just come off stage, we're just going to do a bit of a posting analysis of the show and I'm gonna, I'm gonna say tensions are running high today from the get go. From 6am straight out of the gate. I'm chill. Ben was trolling, Ben was trolling Megan the entire morning. Yeah I know. Hey look and like to honest, we could talk about Formula One or not talk about Formula One. I just have to go from the audience point of view. It was the biggest story of the day. So we had to get it out there. And I understand you wanted to not avoid it. So we had to work our ways around it. That's where it started. That's so that you'll hear that in the podcast, but bickering over

that. And then also it's a immersion to Megan's birthday bonanza. Now your issue was your birthday was on Friday. On Friday. Yeah. Yeah. Which we, you, which we wrapped up the stuff after the show for you to go, which is fine, you know, I get that. And it was Friday, okay, she's off for her birthday. And then on Sunday, we get a message on the WhatsApp going, hey guys, won't be at the netball, the final of the netball that we're there emceeing because the birthday extravaganza continues.

Yeah, like I don't know what you- On Sunday, three days later. are you gunning for an apology? We need to say, you must have known about this more earlier than Sunday, where you're just like, whoa, that's birthday, just kicking on the moor. Also, do I bring up your trip to Sri Lanka where I did the netball by myself while you were swallowing about in Sri Lanka?

That's a very, very, very important point, but I guess, we're giving you more, I didn't miss you on the day, I was sorry, we're still in Sri Lanka, mate, you're gonna have to do the netball. It was three minutes that you had to cover. This is my point, this is my point. This is basically what the show is gonna be today. And then next week Angie's got more birthday stuff going on. I'm like, Jesus. But that shouldn't hinder you in any way.

Why do you and Jesus celebrate their birthday more often, you know? Both as important as each other. So yeah, if you want to know what the rest of the 30 minutes of... Maybe the King's birthday or the Queen's birthday. I know you're trolling me so I'm not biting. Wow. That's a little entree of what you're going to get in the podcast. Have a great day. Enjoy the party. Shock loss a Saturday night.

Yesterday of course the ANZ Premiership Netball was on, which we're going to get to in a moment. But first, we need to address, there's a big Formula One race happened overnight. The Belgian Grand Prix. Yes. Now you're a huge fan of the Formula One. There's delayed coverage is on right now. Because the Grand Prix was at like one o'clock in the morning.

And so you don't want to know the result. There might be some people listening right now that don't want to know the result. There might be some people listening right now that don't want to know the results. So if you want, you can leave the room right now and you can change. You're gonna talk about it. We'll give a live update. You guys are gonna talk about it.

Yeah, only really briefly, but we need to probably just front foot what's happened. So Megan's heading out and. What do you mean what's happened? Oh, big stuff. Big things have happened, mate. Yeah. Okay, she's out of the room.

Liam Lawson, Kiwi Driver, achieved his third points finish of the Formula 1 season, taking eighth place at the Belgium Grand Prix. So pretty awesome. So it's big news this morning, it's making news, it feels weird not to talk about it. Who won the round in the Horace? Can you believe that Liam set his GPS incorrectly and he ended up in Germany? Took a wrong turn. It was a bit weird eh? It was a bit weird. But anyway that's why we're... It still came first. Oh my god amazing. Yeah so that's how we're gonna have to do updates this morning. Just for Megan's better

but really. Yeah. Excuse me, there'll be lots of people that didn't watch it at 1am. Yeah but lots of people have work this morning. Exactly. Oh so they'll watch it at work. Yeah I seriously... No they'll be working at work mate. Yeah they'll be working at work mate. Yeah, they'll be working. Like you should be. They're watching it work. Actually, 4487 on the text, do you want us to avoid telling you the updates?

Or is Megan the only one in New Zealand? For some reason we cannot say the result that's already happened. For Megan's benefit. 4487 on the text. I went to the ANZ Premiership Netball final yesterday Mystics in the tactics. Gee whiz electric atmosphere. Have a listen to this No one's cheering for us obviously just to be clear we could have edited it though They would never know now just listen to when the Mystics get a goal Now just listen to when the Mystics get a goal in. Here go goal! That's crazy. It was hard playing for Canterbury in that environment.

But jeez they nailed it. Are we allowed to talk about the netball result or is someone going to watch that? Oh my god you're so conceitous. So does that happen in a time when we were all awake? Oh okay is that how it works? I don't know. So if you haven't watched the netball yet I'm going to tell you the result. If the Warriors played at 1am. I'd watch it.

I'd watch it. You'd get up at 4. Yeah I would or I'd just go, well that's what happens when I watch it live. Mum and Dad, Mum and Dad are going to fight today. It's the start line of the week. This is the first one we're talking on the radio. This is not the bar we're sitting this week guys. I came in waving a white flag.

He started the fight. This is not the tone we want to this week guys. I came in waving a white flag, he started the fight. This is not the tone we want to set for the rest of the week. As a breakfast show that brings update news, I feel like we need to do that. That's just the consequence of the job. You're reading the news in sport and you're avoiding the bigger stories. It's playing now. But not live. Not live.

No, but everyone, have it in the middle of the night Ben. But you still would update it. As a Formula One fan, so many people watch it, the replay, because they have it in the middle of the night Ben. But you still wouldn't update it. As a Formula One fan, so many people watch it, the replay, because it happened in the middle of the night. And then they would avoid radio in the morning. Because that's the way... Anyway, and you know what? You're doing a great job of doing an update when I momentarily leave the room. We're going live to the Formula One. It's not live though, Jono. It's already happened.

Oh my god! It's already happened. Anyway, the mainland tactics, great result for them. Winning their first championship in 28 years which is pretty awesome. They were incredible. They were real upset in the netball yesterday so it was really really incredible. Jono, Ben and Megan. It was a podcast. That. They did pretty well. 8th place.

He came 8th, got 4 points for his team which is good. Yeah it was just awesome. The race was pretty non-eventful though. It's pretty boring. They kind of just followed themselves around for... They're like oh sorry I've just been driving at 350kms an hour for you. What do you want me to do? Sorry, sorry, that was boring for you. Putting my life on the line.

Well, uneventful, shall we say. But you did well. I went to the movies Friday night with the family and I was looking forward to it. We went to a fancy cinema, we were like, I'll make a special treat, but one of those ones with the fanciest seats. And so it was cool and we had meal and a couple of drinks and things like that. It was like a nice night out. And I'm not a napper during the week or anything like that. But, you know, it was probably Friday nights and we get up at four in the morning, a couple

of drinks. And I was like watching and really enjoying the movie, but I just must have had a moment. You went into a dark comfy place on a Friday night. Yeah. Me and Jono were both like, no. I had a great time, but I must have had a little moment where I must have just sort of closed my eyes and then I hear my daughter go, Dad. I'm like, what? She's sort of going like that.

She's like, you are snoring in a quiet part of the movie. I'm like, oh no. And I was after, I was like, is anyone here? She's like, yes, everyone laughs. Oh no. It's just darkness. I was like, in that moment, hopefully in, yes, everyone laughs. Oh no. It's just darkness. I was like, in that moment, I was in darkness.

They don't know which person it was. Because you're not going to put up your hand and go, that was me. Kids, you should stop snoring so loud. Annoying kids. What movie was that? It was Sid Meier, which is great. I really enjoyed it.

It was really good. And that's not a knock on the movie. It was actually really good. It was just a knock on me having a nice red wine. No, it's a dark, comfy place. And watching it. And your tummy was full. Yeah, and my heavy place.

I was in my heavy place. I was you, I was you. Those are the sleepiest of all conditions, the movie theatre. You give me five minutes in the movie theatre, I'll show you a deceased man. Because me and Jono have been to a movie, we made to watch movies sometimes so we can interview people. During the day I'm like, no I'm not going to sleep during that one. But you know, but at night they were full.

I swear, that one time we went, we went with other breakfast show hosts, all of them fell asleep and I was like, oh don't worry guys, I'll hold it down for all of us. I love it when you're so tired and you jerk, you know, when you're in bed and you go, have like a muscle tear there. What the hell, what in heaven? I've had that on the hairdressing chair and then you try to put in your arms, slipped off or something, not that you were having a dose. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Oh jeez I had a shocker yesterday, absolute shocker. So I had to do a little fundraising thing in the morning and they were like oh we're going to interview one of the young squash players. She's doing really well, she's an emerging squash player. Right. Now you want to do a little bit of

research about what questions you're going to ask and whatever and so then I go online and I'm like great, found the lady, doing the research, copy and paste. Then I'm interviewing her and I said oh, this is in front of probably about 50 people. I said, came up with some hard hitting squash questions, said you represented Wellington in squash back in the day. And she goes, no. And I was, that should have been a red flag. That should have been a red flag. Straight away, maybe you researched wrong person.

What have I done wrong? Yeah, it's all running through my head. So I'm like, okay, well I'll just try and confirm my fears. And I come up with, I'm thinking the internet has done me grubby. That's what I'm thinking. And then I was like, well tell us, cause you moved here from Australia when you were six. She goes, no.

Oh. She's like, I was born here. And I'm like, dear God. Then I started a gas lighter. I was like, no, no, you were born in Australia. She's like, no, I'm pretty sure I know where I was born. Yeah, I think she'd probably know more than you. But anyway.

Did you abort this line of questioning or did you carry on? No, well, I was like, this is all I've got. And then I was like, so what was it like marrying a fellow squash player? She's like, I'm not married. And it's at this point where I'm like, I've 100% got questions for the wrong person. She's, but I loved her play play too because she dragged it out. She knew what was happening. And she's like, have a listen to this. She's like, you're talking about my dead grandma. Oh, so it was, oh wow. Same name. Both squash players. So I had 12 questions for a deceased person. The senior. Yeah. She loved it though, she thought it was funny.

I loved that she had to chuck in my dead grandma, not just my grandma. Exactly. You would have passed away, you would have got that at the last question. And you died in 2013. Yeah, your research can't have been that interesting. Talk us through the dying part of it. What was that experience like? Plus I hit the family hard.

There you go. Talking through the dying part of it. What was that experience like? I must have hit the family hard. There you go. So the first person to write questions for a dead person. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. So last time, this time last week, ahead of the Belgian Formula One, we had a listener phone through, just off the cuff, and he wanted to make Megan jealous about Liam Lawson, who she is the ultimate fan of. She says our Liam every time she says Liam. Because he's Kiwi.

Yeah and he's great, got points this morning, got eighth which was awesome. We couldn't find that out till after the replay. Sorry, we can't say it. But this guy, yeah Regan phoned up, listen to what he was doing. Yeah me and a friend are heading over to the Belgium and the Hungary Formula One race. You're going to Spa? Yes, we are. When's this happening?

My birthday weekend. Alright, make it 11, talk. Sorry. Sorry, go ahead. This Friday, catching up with some friends in London for a few days and yeah, spa for the following Saturday. Oh, that sounds pretty cool. Okay, cool. So, yep, I'm happy for you. So two robberies.

Are you taking, everyone takes Liam Lawson some Whittakers? Have you got some Whittakers for him, just in case you see him? I haven't got the Whittakers yet, but yes, I am going to get some Whittakers. Got to give my shot at getting into the garage, right? Yeah. Have you got like a pit pass or anything? Like a... No, no, I wish. No, the tickets were sold out, so it was buying them through a reliable Facebook marketplace, as you can imagine how risky that is these days.

Oh, is that how you got the tickets? It is, yeah. So there's a small party you're going, I hope this all comes through? Absolutely, yeah. I did it with a mate a few years ago going to Singapore and it played out, so let's hope it happens again. Oh, they were tickets to the spa depot, they bought me! Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, my bad, sorry, I sold you, you thought you were buying Formula One tickets. Oh, I'm sure it'll work out, but that's exciting. Yeah, can't wait, very much looking forward to it,

so hopefully another Kiwi in the stands will help him do well. Yes, big old. I'm just trying to think how I can get in on this. I'm like, do you call me? Like, but then if you talk to Liam, calling me is probably not top of mind. And then I could get him to sign something for me, but then that's a bit creepy. Or get him to sign two things and just say... He's like, I'm doing none of that.

You keep suggesting things, none of which I'm going to follow. You just have fun yourself. I will enjoy that. That has definitely made Megan jealous with your Liam Lawson story. Congratulations. Cool, thank you very much. That's Regan, he's over there right now. Well hopefully as long as those marketplace tickets came through. So, oh and under the hits,

you can text us 4487, that's our text number. You've never been able to go to a Formula One race? No. Make Megan jealous with your Liam Lawson story. Okay. Have you got a connection? Maybe you ran into him somewhere in New Zealand.

I have met him before. Why is this, are we calling this Bait Megan Monday? Right from the start of the show. What on the birthday three week weekend? So many layers. Someone even texted you, you seem so chill Megan. Where did you get those claws sharpened over the weekend? Yeah, I know, wow.

I'm very chill. We missed a minute in the mall. I'm super chill. All right, well let's find out. Make Megan jealous with your Liam Lawson story. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. The Belgium Grand Prix took place early this morning. Liam Lawson from New Zealand, the Formula One driver, did really, really well.

He's got more points. He got within the top 10 again, right? Got four points. He got eighth place, which is pretty good. Best 10 mates as well, which is pretty good. Megan, if you're just joining the show, wild fan of Formula One, huge fan of Formula One, you should start a podcast since you're in top. Yeah. You know, since it's your passion.

That's a great idea. You should do a podcast, the Megan Formula One podcast. Now that's a podcast I'd listen to. But today we continue on with Mocking Megan Monday, as Ben has been doing all morning. Mocking her about her extended birthday. I just thought this had been big news this morning and we couldn't talk about it.

That was the leading story on the Herald. Oh, till 7.30. Yeah, well it's still a big story. Also, like he did better last Grand Prix. It wasn't like, huge. Sorry, shade it, Liam. Not my Liam, mate. Not my Liam.

You made it sound like you got a podium or something. Anyway, sorry. Oh, sorry, Liam. He said, I got eighth, mate. The wet. It was wet, and he got eighth. And a car that's pretty hard to drive compared to some other car.

Anyway, I don't need to. We have 20k's an hour. No, that car's fine. You're getting confused. other car. Anyway, I don't need to. We have 20k's an hour. No, that car's fine. You're getting confused. Dino. Stop trying to talk Formula One to me. Dino, we're making Megan jealous with the other Liam Lawson story.

What have you got? Yeah, we're out, well it was New Year's and we're out near the beach where we live. I won't say where it is, but he was renting a property out there and There's a public walkway right down behind the property and we're walking down there and him and his girlfriend and a few mates We're having a swim in the pool My young fellow walked up the fence asking for selfie for a selfie and he obliged. He was a real nice guy. Oh, that's awesome. He's like, I'm in my Speedos, but I guess you can do that.

Oh, that's lovely. I told you he was really nice. What would you have paid to live next door to him in a pool? I don't know. So yeah, well, let's check that property out again next time. Yeah, go on, you Dean. Just text that address through to Megan too. She'll be booking properties either side of that.

That's not a comment because I do actually want to talk to him one day. Is there a lady in the bush? Pam, morning to you. Hi guys, how are you all? We're doing good. Make Megan jealous with your Liam Lawson story. What is it? Definitely. My three children grew up with him when they went to the same school. Oh, no way. So we know his family quite well, yes.

Did he ever come over to your house? No, no, no, no, no. But we used to go around to his a lot. Oh wow! How come you never reciprocated the invite there, man? He was an amazing kid and he's an amazing adult now. So he's done very, very well for himself. So we're all very proud of him in Clarks Beach, Wild Park, where he originally comes from. Yeah, and it's his family pretty incredible how they've supported him, right?

They sold, I'm not sure if it's that house you're talking about, but his parents sold their house to pay for his Formula One career. Yeah, that's when they moved into Pukki. So yes, they did. His mom's amazing. She's an amazing woman. Oh, that's when they moved into Pukki, so yes, they did. Karen, his mum's amazing, she's an amazing woman. Oh, that's a lovely story. Amazing woman, so yeah, yeah.

I hope that made you jealous Megan. It does, it does. It does. It's pretty cool though that everyone's got like, you know, two degrees of separation or something from Liam Lawson. Yeah, that's it. Oh yeah, but he's done so well for himself. It's just amazing to hear his name everywhere at the moment.

So you kind of buzz out and you're like're like wow I knew him when he was little What was he driving at age two three? When did he start driving? She's I wouldn't have a clue Oh, I'd probably say he'd brought a bit and started driving at the age of three or four Thank you very much you're cool this morning and making me Megan jealous In the car. Well thank you very much, you're cool this morning and making Megan jealous. Well come over to your house for a potluck Pam. You guys have a wonderful, wonderful day.

Oh we will, you too, isn't that nice? We need more Pams in the world don't we? We need more Pam positivity on the radio instead of you two bloody cracking off at each other every three minutes. Ben started it. There we go. Winding Megan up. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Joining Justin Timberlake performing throughout Europe at the moment. There we go. There we go. Winding Megan up. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Morning, Justin Timberlake performing throughout Europe at the moment. He's getting a bit of grief for the Justin Timberlake karaoke tour they're calling it because he's pretty much doing what this thing is doing. Like you sing along and this is some audio from the concert. He's not singing a lot of it. Have a listen. You think he'd come back in there?

Oh wow, does he come back? Not much. Because the ones I've seen he goes, because I got that and then takes it to the crowd again. Yeah, the karaoke tour, so he's checked out. Yeah, got on him. He's at the age where he's like, I'm a slow fade out to retirement. You can do the heavy lifting.

Some people see those tickets are like 600 bucks. It's always your bugbear. When you go to a concert, they're like, you sing, yes, it's me. I haven't come here for me to sing. I know how terrible I am. What would you sing? Fair enough. Now over the weekend, Megan, Fridays. It was my birthday, did you know? Yeah, I I did know. We got you a present which is great.

Anyway, I set a precedent for future birthdays, they're not big birthdays but anyway. Being handed over a present from the team and then within the space of 30 seconds was like why have we set a precedent about giving gifts? I want to end it now. So happy birthday Megan. Happy birthday Megan. So Friday you got out of work early, you're like Friday got to go birthday, understand, Andrew picked you up.

It wasn't that early in the end. This thing's had more phases than the moon. And then Sunday, we were at the Netball yesterday, it's like oh guys can't go because... Birthday extravaganza is continuing. Hey I warned you, I said that I do a countdown. I'm not one of those people that's like oh I don't say anything and then oh someone forgot my birthday. I don't let anyone forget my birthday because I give you a countdown. This was a bloody multi-day festival and so next weekend continues on. What's happening next weekend?

Well me and Andrew are just doing something by ourselves next weekend because we had like, I've got my friend group, I've got my family, I've got like another group of friends. Didn't you and him go for a massage on Friday together? Yeah. So you did something, anyway Jason with, I'd be like, what? Anyway. No, he gets it as well. We do a week long extravaganza, but we're busy during the week, so it's going two weekends.

Anyway, don't- You got to gripe though. It's like Glastonbury. It's the second of the week, weekend one and weekend two. You didn't come. It didn't involve you in any way other than having to hear about it. Yeah. Okay, so... Involved me yesterday at the netball, John O'Bannon, oh Megan's on her birthday, which

was on Friday. But anyway, Prime Minister was there mate, he's going over three meetings afterwards. Wasn't that his birthday? He was still there, no but he's still there. He's the busiest person in the country. So, Megan's birthday extreme again. I'm a Leo, I'm not even going to apologise for it. Geez, these two are so tense this morning. I'm just like sitting in the middle.

It's like a game of tennis, you know, when you're like boom, boom, boom. Oh yeah, so you've got a gripe about your birthday and not the fact that it went on for too long. Hey, I had a good weekend. Ben's coming all grumpy. Anyway, so I, my husband, I didn't want a cake. I'm not a huge fan of cake. And so I was like, Ben's coming all grumpy. Anyway, so I, my husband, I didn't want a cake. I'm not a huge fan of cake.

And so I was like, I just want a custard square. I really like custard squares. They're bloody delicious. And he's like, I can make, he said our whole relationship, he can make them. And I was like, go on then, never has. So he was like, for your birthday, I'm gonna make you a custard square instead of a cake.

I was like, yes, I've been fizzing about it the whole time. So he gets these individual heart cutters and makes individual fancy custard squares. And I'm talking like it's like Millefeuille, like French pastry kind of deal. Why didn't he just go to bloody Hollywood bakery? I know. So he's got like crispy flaky pastry and he's piped in the custard. It looked phenomenal and it tasted phenomenal. But I was like, I kind of just wanted the one that's got like a soggy pastry on the bottom and the custard's hard enough to slice. And you kind of push it and it wobbles a little bit. That! That! I wanted the chewy, soggy pastry and I got the fancy French.

And I was like, you worked real hard but... This is not what I wanted. But that's always next weekend for your birthday or the weekend after. I can see that in Ben's face. He's like, I'm waiting for it to finish. I got one more jab. Maybe next weekend. I tell you what, we didn't get enough of a present on Friday. Maybe we'll whip down against some custom squares. Someone did say you should have got me the bigger Formula One Lego car.

Oh, cute. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Now, we know, Ben, how much of a consumer you are. If you look up a consumer in the dictionary, you probably won't see a picture of Ben because it's a dictionary. They don't put pictures in dictionaries. But you get swept up in a novelty promotional campaign, a collection campaign.

I do love a collection, you're right. Especially when it comes to your soft spot of Disney. Big Disney fan. Talk us through your collection. What collections have you got? I've been caught up in the past with a lot of these, The Disney Dominoes that were at Woolworths for a while. What did you do with all those Dominoes, mate? I've got them in my set, got my full set.

Where is it? In a bookshelf, but there, you know. Do you bring them out and show people when they come over? Maybe I should try and do that more often. No, don't. I reckon more people would come to your house if you said, do you want to come over and check out my Domino collection? Got the full set.

I ended up going to Swapmeets. Oh, dear god. Because I was one away, I needed Nala from the Lion King. And I just could not get it. And then in the end there was one in my local, my wife said, I'm not going with you. And the kids were like, I'm not going with you. And I went down to a swap meet. As your friend, don't repeat that again.

That's the first and last time you say that out loud. I got Nala and I've got the full collection. I'm so happy for you. Who was it that underground swapped me? Just sort of people, like-minded people? A lot of kids. I think I was the only one over the age of... Oh my god!

And you went by yourself? I'm the age of 15, probably two there too. I mean, her parents there, but they were more chaperoning the kids, you know. You went by yourself? Yeah, well no, that was a good one, mate. Oh, you creep. You definitely needed your kids to smoke screen you there. But anyway, they've got a new one.

Always got a new one. Oh I know, you're the Disney discs. The Disney discs. They're always Disney discs. He knows. They come 40 to collect, they come with cards as well as discs as well. Or it's like you're not buying the collector's book and I'm like, yeah I am. Yeah I am, you can't stop me.

You can't stop me from going to that swap meet, did you? I'll use my big boy money. Yeah, I'm my own man going to his Domino swap meet collection. Thank you very much. But we got in touch with the team at Woolworths and we want to set you a little bit of a challenge over the next fortnight. And it comes with a gift. It does. So have you already got a book, have you? No, my wife hasn't let me buy one. Well, Megan is going to hand you over. I got the book!

The Disney Discs Book. Okay, oh great, yeah. It's got like a game thing you can play too, like Folds Out is a game. Yeah, I know all about it, but I just don't have one. You do now. Mum wouldn't let me have one. So, the problem is it's empty, okay? Okay, what is too? It's empty.

And we're going to set you a challenge that you have to fill. You've got two weeks to fill the entire Disney Discs. You're really going to get these in there. The Disney Discs. You've got 14 days to do it. Yeah. But you can't set foot into a Woolworths store. How do I get them?

You have to beg, borrow, and trade. You could sell your body. What? You're not going to go to Woolworths at all to get those Discs. You have sell your body? What? You're not gonna go to Woolworths at all to get those discs. You have to get them from people so maybe you do need to go to your swap meets. What about on the radio? Now the thing is the good people at Woolworths they've given us a whole bunch of stuff from the store that you can use as trading. Okay I can trade like. So today for example I've got your four roast

chickens. Okay, you can use four roast chickens. Oh so someone's got, okay so I just need a disc or anything. Just one to get your collections done. I've got nothing. So okay, who's got a double of something? Oh Andrew the Hats, what can I give them four roast chickens? Did you say a double of something? Yeah well like if you've got two of something or if you want to part with one. Some people aren't collecting them. I hear people online not collecting them, I'm like, oh, have them. Ah, someone's already called truth, Ash Burden, Morena Sam.

Morena. Great to have you on. Now you'd like to get involved in Ben's Black Market's Disney disc. I would love to. What have you got for me? Well, I've got 17. I've got the first one, Mickey Mouse, Mickey and Minnie Goofy.

I've got a bunch of princesses. I've got Mark. We'll stop you there. We'll stop you there. Sounds good. Are you in the market for four roast chickens? I could be. I prefer some vouchers.

I said four roast chickens. We've been very clear from the outset. Oh, shoot. Sorry. I'll get the dog. The dog sounds like he'd love some roast chickens. We've been very clear from the outset. Oh shoot, sorry, I'll get the dog. The dog sounds like it would love some roast chickens. He's like he doesn't want roast chickens. Or she does want the chickens, yeah maybe.

Okay, well you're twisted ma'am. I'll give you a voucher. You can trade with a voucher. Okay, $50 Woolworths gift card. What will you give me for that? Which one? What about number one? Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse, love it. Alright, I've got my first collection off to a start. 4487 on the text throughout the week. You're going to have to break the news to the dog. He's not getting chicken. This is how it works. We'll continue to do this throughout the week. And hopefully. Okay, I got one. I've got 39 to go. Feels like I need to get more than one a day. But anyway, we'll work on that. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hats. One of the people from Netball New Zealand come across to us, we were there Jono right and say, which one of you is mates with Christopher Luxton? We're like, the professor. We're like, what, do you want him to get him along? Because it feels like don't come through us. It felt like a, can you pull up some strings and get along to the Netball sort of question. And then they were like, no, no, he's here.

He actually just pointed you out and said if you wanted to come across and say hi at half time. We're like, oh yeah, we can do that. Yeah. We probably couldn't get him to come along to anything. It was nice to meet Amanda. Have you met Amanda? No! She's lovely. Ballerina. I really went deep with her. Oh god. You're like, how did you end up? Oh jeez. It was only a two minute conversation. I got a really pride.

That's on you Ben. You're supposed to save the Prime Minister's wife from John O'Hara. How on earth did you end up talking about her ballet career in the space of two minutes? Now also over the weekend, well, early in the morning, overnight, 1am, Liam Lawson racing in the Formula One Grand Prix. Now Megan does not, I get it, you don't want to know the results. Can I just say one thing, is that any other time there's a Grand Prix, Ben doesn't care about the result that much. But when I haven't yet watched it,

suddenly it's like breaking news that he needs to bring up every break. Can I say without a word of a lie, it is the red banner on the Herald for the most important news story of the day. Oh no! So either something really good happened or something really bad happened. And I'm not going to spoil it for you, but I just feel as a show, we can't ignore it. Because if you don't want to know the result, you shouldn't be listening to radio or looking

at anything this morning on the news. I'll also say, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I don't think anyone is coming here for breaking Formula 1 use. Okay, so you can remove yourself. But I will leave. You can leave, and we're not going to spoil it for you or anyone else right now. If you don't want to know the results, then you need to switch away right now. Okay, so Liam Lawson did really well.

He got points, he got eighth as well. He beat his teammate as well. I need to get back to you on that one. But yeah, he's got more points. For his third points finish of the Formula 1 season, so eighth place. And as I said, it's the biggest news story in the country right now. So it feels weird us not front-footing it but I understand for Megan's sake we haven't. PS3, Oscar PS3.

Okay there we go, Megan come back in. And I can't believe that Liam Lawson was pulled over for speeding and... Yeah I know, speeding. For speeding, that's the whole point. He got some demerits and lost his license. It was a school zone Megan, I mean you know, he shouldn't have been going that far. But yeah, if I just chime in on this this morning, whether we give updates or not, Aaron, you want to get involved in this debate with Mum and Dad Fighting?

Yeah, mate, absolutely. Look, I'm an absolutely up the wads fan. I love Liam Lawson too, anything to do with Kiwis. But like a true fan would get up regardless of the time. I'm with you. Whether or not they had to start at four in the morning, I think that's just, you know, you can have a couple more coffees or something. You said you love Liam Lawson, did you get up at 1am to watch the Grand Prix?

I was actually asleep, but um... No, but you're right, he's talking about true faces. I do like him because he's a Kiwi, I'm just not a huge F1 fan. No, I'm with you. If I had to watch this Grand Prix, I would have gotten up at 1 a.m. And I would not have gone back to bed You'd be complaining that I was a POS this morning I just think as a radio show that brings news and sport and updates we can't avoid saying what happens

So that's my only thing. I know but what's wrong with me momentarily leaving the room Ben? Azza would you like us to give live? Would you like us to give the updates of the news? Oh, live updates would be gold, mate. I'm travelling to work at the moment and when I get to work I normally work and I don't normally watch sports. You know, it's lucky for some, eh? Nice for some to be able to watch a replay of a race.

You have yourself a great day. All the support that I'm looking for from my fellow F1ers is not coming because they're watching it! Right now! Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Now our CEO Michael Boggs joins us in the studio. Welcome Michael. Good morning.

Lovely to have you here. Megan was just saying she texts you all the time. We've never texted you. Well she texts regularly. It's sort of like a texted you on it. Well, she texts regularly. It's sort of like a weekly sort of thing. We have quite a chat. And I text on his birthday. I text him and say happy birthday. Is that how you get a car park at the building? Exactly right.

Yeah. Yeah, just be nice to people. All right. OK. It's called being nice to people. You should try it. Now, the reason why we have you in the studio, Michael, is we have a new producer, producer Troy who you've just met.

Good looking man too I thought. He is a good looking man. Now Troy you received a message from Michael. Yeah this is maybe third or fourth day into the job. I got this email from Mr Michael Box. Your name? With the subject line, time sensitive. And to be fair he was very excited.

He was like oh my god I've got an email from the CEO a few days in. So this is the yeah this is great service from NZ Me's welcoming the new employees one by one. He's come from the dark side never once met the CEO. Never. And so the email read hi Troy I need a job done. Please share your personal mobile number and watch out for my text. Best wishes Michael Boggs. Is that what you did Megan? You shared the number and that's how you started texting? Yeah. So maybe it's not a scam, Troy.

That nearly confused me straight away actually because I thought what you were saying is you received a text from me and I was asking you for your number. But actually it was an email. Okay, I got that. So now we just wanted to clarify was this from you? It's always very time sensitive when I text Troy. And what's the job that you need done? What do you need from Troy? He is the man who manages every minute of the show as you know. So he is everything on time.

But I can tell you that would not have been me. Well we've broken Troy's heart. He thought he was already in the big game. I'll have to report that as fishing. Or that be a whaling? Would that be a... Or is he going for like the CEO of a company? That's whaling.

That's not against you, Bogsy. We've learnt about this today. It's not the size of me. No! I'm not calling you a whale, god! I promise I've lost weight. Fishing is for like individuals, and then there's other phrases so they call it vissing if you are being scammed by voice detection or it's whaling if they're going for like the big

dog like a CEO or a very famous person. So that's why it's whaling. I am going to listen to your show every day now because I just learned something. Yeah, there you go. Thank you so much for that. Forget about hosking mate, you know, you can come. Yeah, thank you so much for that. Thinking about Hosking mate, you know, come here. Well, thank you for coming in, Michael. Appreciate that. And I'm sorry, Troy.

I know if you ever need a job done. A time sensitive job. He does need a job done as our producer. That's the job. That's the one you sign up for. But that's fine. We'll talk about that later. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Tiltro made news over the weekend.

Of course she was married to Chris Martin from Coldplay. That's right, I forgot about that wee connection. And it's a genius move, because obviously everyone's been talking about the Coldplay couple from the astronomer business. And they've hired her as a... The HR ladies resign now too, hasn't she? Yeah.

I know. And so they've hired Gwyneth Paltrow as a temporary spokesperson for the company and this has gone viral. I mean this is a way to handle a problem really from a business. Great. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300 plus employees at Astronomer.

Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days and they wanted me to answer the most common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow, unifying the experience of running data, ML and AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation. Real tongue in cheek, obviously. Because we know it's called Astronomer, but no one knows what the hell that company does. I love that it's so mundane and boring as well.

I know. She's like, thanks so much for your interest in the company. I don't know if that's quite what everyone's interested in, but hey, great way to sort of bounce back from that company's point of view. Whoever pitched that is a genius. Yeah, a temporary spokesperson, AKA a fancy way way of saying we're just trying to cover up for

this absolute air storm that's taken place over the last seven days. And absolutely ride the wave of interest that they've got at the moment. Great play. It's a great ad for them. So Gwyneth's got a new job title and producer Grace has pitched to us that she would like a fancy new job title. I'm the social and audio producer for the show, that's my title.

But I've got a couple other ones so you guys can pick through. That's pretty fancy. I can be fancy, I make it. Okay, so you put this in the chat GPT. Yeah, chat GPT'd it. Okay, how about this? Cross platform media architect.

Ooh, that sounds fancy. Ready? Media architect. Director of social soundscapes. Another banger. Are we ready? Head of online atmosphere and sonic presence. I like that one.

Oh, that's the best one. I like the architecture. Okay. Narrative experience designer, audio and social. Head of online atmosphere. I've got one more guys. Manager of sound and social synergy. Okay, so this is quite fun.

How about people like call us, 0800THAT, so they can text us, 4487, and basically tell us your job, and we'll try and make it sound fancier than it is. Yeah. Can I do one for us? Yeah. Senior audio content strategists and broadcast communication specialists.

Oh, that's a nightmare for the email signature. I'm gonna put that on my email signature, and everyone will be like, who do you think you are? Jono,Bannon Megan. The podcast. The Hats. So we're just talking about Gwyneth Paltrow. She was of course married to Chris Martin.

That's a little wrinkle that you may have missed over the weekend. The fact that she is now the temporary spokesperson for the company Astronomer, who have been in the news about being caught out of a Coldplay concert. The couple were from Astronomer. Now the CEO has resigned, the HR lady who's also in the video, she's resigned, but Gwyneth Paltrow, a couple of resignations, she's got herself a gig. She's got herself a job.

Super response person. Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300 plus employees at Astronomer. Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days, and they wanted me to answer the most common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow, unifying the experience of running

data, ML, and AI pipelines at scale. We've been thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation. Very funny, it's gone viral. Now, the place sounds so boring, no wonder they're having affairs. I still don't know what they do. So, should we zhuzh this up with an officer fair or something? Okay, so we are going to take your ordinary job title and we're going to put them into AIChat GPT. And it's the start of a new week, we'll give you a brand new job title.

We do love a buzzword job title, don't we? Yeah. It feels like the more words included in the job title the less you know what that person actually does. Reception for a while. Remember if it was a while ago it was like manager of first impressions. Yeah. That was the thing for a while. It's not the receptionist, it's the manager of first impression. Which I guess it is. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. Well you can polish a turd can't you? Polish a turd with some buzzwords. Let's go to the phones. We'll get Craig on. Morning to you Craig.

Morning guys, how are you? We're doing well. It's lovely to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning my friend. What do you do? I'm a truck driver. Okay, Megan. What about we upgrade truck driver to heavy vehicle navigation technician? Oh yeah, I like that one. As soon as you put technician in you're like yeah. Yeah, that's good. That is really good.

How did you like the radio one oral professionals? Craig really appreciate going to a great weekend Nelson Well, we're doing really well Nelson, whatna. Morena, how we doing? We're doing well. We're doing really well, Nelson. What do you do for a job, mate? Oh, I'm a road worker. Okay. No, you're more than that, Nelson.

What about we change it to surface operations specialist or civil works field operative? Ooh, field operative sounds good. Sound like a spy from the Bourne Identity. Yeah. Yeah, those are some good ones. You pass that on to the team, Nelson. You've got to rebrand.

Cheers, mate. Have a great day. Have a great week. All right. Sorry, I forgot your name. What's your name, mate? Me? Yeah.

Yeah, Harry. Harry, sorry. Clumsy radio. Clumsy oral work for me there, sorry. Harry, what do you do? I'm a window cleaner or a transparent cleaner. I'm a window cleaner. I'm a window cleaner. I'm a window cleaner. I'm a window cleaner. I. Clumsy oral work for me there, sorry.

Harry, what do you do? I'm a window cleaner, or a transparent surface cleaning technician. Oh, yeah. You've already got one. You've got one. I had a vertical surface sanitation specialist. That's good.

We should consider that one, yeah. I like it. So you have yourself a great week. There's a great text coming through. Someone's already done theirs. They're a dishwasher. And they said, underwater ceramic technician, which is quite good.

Yeah, that is really good. This is quite a good one. A multi-platform engagement specialist in domestic entertainment. A stay-at-home parent. Oh, yeah. That is nice. Multi-platform.

Yep.