Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We are absolutely SMASHING this wedding planning!

Episode Date: February 25, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: We leave our bride and groom completely speechless! You'll never believe what Ben stole from the Wahs... The girls grill the boys with some burning urinal questions. Jono’s dusting mishap—how did he manage to injure himself this time? If we could redo our weddings, what’s the one thing we'd change? Stick around till the end—can you outscore us in the NZ Herald quiz? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: 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 Wednesday morning, you'll hear very shortly, we get into a debate. Well, not a debate. Megan, you ask some conversations about what goes on

in the guy's bathroom. Yeah, because I ended up there, and I was very confused. Because we never go in there, the girlies. We don't experience urinals. Tell you what, it's a wonderland. It's a wonderland of urine, isn't it? You just walk in there, and you we don't experience urinals tell you what it's a wonderland it's a wonderland of urine isn't it you just walk in there

and you're hit with a wall I imagine because you're using one that was not it was out of service to the gentleman we switched

the male and female so I imagine it wasn't too bad but you walk in very pissy conditions it's the only way it's not nice but producer Grace

you had some more questions that you'd like to ask. Not safe for radio. Not safe for radio. I'm going to go straight to the fact. Do you pull out your whole penis or is it just the tip? Well, you pull out the whole thing.

Well, I mean, you can poke it through the fly. Yeah. Do you poke the whole thing through? When you're five years old and you first start going to the bathroom. You pull your whole pants down. Yeah. Oh, okay. Most people stop doing that.

They call it doing it old school. Okay. I know because I'm experiencing that with a four-year-old at the moment. There's different types of, I guess, shorts and pants and stuff that you would sometimes see. Is it dangerous pulling it out? There's no fly that goes over the top. Why is it dangerous pulling it out over the top of the fly? It's teethy.

It's doing the fly back up, and you need to make sure everything's back in. Back in. Oh, my gosh. You know, like little bits of skin and bits and pieces and stuff can get caught on that, I guess, from time to time. If you're going in there with a friend, do you stand side by side and have chats? And cross wheeze? See, maybe I'm the wrong person.

I don't. I don't. But some people might. I would. Now, you stopped sword fighting pretty much halfway through your primary school career. Oh, God. Yeah. Chatting?

If someone's already in there, I'll start chatting. But I'm not going to stand next to them. So if you and Ben went in together, you would give each other a wide berth? As I do general rule, I would. But I may have another one. Courtesy. Common courtesy. You do your thing, I'll do my thing.

I don't really chat. I might say hi, but that's about it I don't feel like it's a conversation place you never look do you ever look I try not to only famous people

yeah only famous ones once I had the chance to do it next to Dave Grohl had a look had a look oh my god we're all wondering

yeah you keep wondering tell me when keep going keep going as big as a guitar yeah no no

but it's an interesting little environment isn't it the old public toilets well maybe tomorrow we should do the opposite

of that we get to ask questions about the girls bathroom that's a good idea yeah because there's often about the questions about you guys

often go together in packs like packs and stuff like that safety in numbers yeah which is interesting

I wouldn't get up at dinner and go, hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom and try and take some other people with me. Jono, come. But you guys can't do it from time to time. We'll find out why you go packing tomorrow on the show. Okay, we'll get to that. Here's the podcast.

Enjoy. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We are planning a wedding for Christy and George They're going to Elope in Fiji Make your tropical wedding dreams come true in Fiji Where happiness comes naturally

And all thanks to Tories in Fiji It's going to be happening soon Yeah, trying to get them to Auckland for their dress and suit fittings Thanks to Barkers They're supplying gorgeous George with a suit Yesterday the wonderful team from Diamonds on Richmond Said to Christy they've got the wedding ring sorted. Oh, my God.

Sorry. Oh, my God. I'm already crying. Thank you so much. No worries. And Chrissie joins us back on the phone. I'm sorry, you didn't realise you had to do so much radio for this whole thing, Chrissie.

That was in the fine print. Just let me get married already. Why do you have to keep calling back? Also, she's got a job as well. Yeah, you've got a job. She's got a job clearing my demerit points. Can we do a police check, actually, on Johnna? I reckon there's more in there we don't know.

No, don't. Don't do that, Chrissy. You'll think far less of me. We've got a job. We're going to plan this wedding, and we're trying to put things together so you guys can go alope and have a wonderful time. Thanks to Tourism Fiji, all right? Thank you.

We've got wedding bands from Michael from Diamonds on Richmond. We have organized amazingly. We've pulled together something else. Oh, no. Oh, okay. No, don't say, oh, no. This is good. This is good. No, I mean, no. I mean, oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, okay. No, don't say, oh, no. This is good. This is good.

No, I mean, no. I mean, oh, no. Oh, precious, oh, Christy. A male dance review. No, it's not a male dance review. It's Ben. It's definitely not me either, dancing. You don't want that.

We're going to bring Trish on, okay? Okay. Now, Trish, welcome to the show. Hello. It's good to be here. Lovely to have you on, Trish. Now, Christy's with us too. Christy has no idea what you do in your line of work, but you can tell her.

Hi, Christy. Firstly, congratulations. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Hello. I am Trish Pang. I am a wedding dress designer and the founder of Trish Pang and Yours Truly, and we would

love to gift you your very own wedding dress. Oh, my. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Oh, sorry. Oh, wow. I don't know what to say. Sorry, I feel like I should really say something great right now,

but I'm just speechless. Like, that's incredible. I don't know if you're familiar with Trish Ping dresses but they are beautiful and this is the Trish and she's going to give you a dress. Oh my gosh. Oh.

Sorry. My brain's just working. It's a lot to take in. It's a lot to take in. It's a lot to take in. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much. I mean, like, thank you. Oh, I need to find a better word than thank you.

I'm so happy for you, gorgeous George. Yeah. That's awesome. Trisha, thank you so much for this. This is incredible. Tell us about, you know, because I'm looking at your website now. Tell us exactly what you do. Yeah, cool.

So I've got the two brands same location in that grayland auckland um trish king and yours truly so yours truly is all about like making bridal accessible so these dresses are ready to go because usually our lead time's like eight months so so these dresses are like ready to go um so you know it's going to be a quick timeline, but I'll have four seamstresses ready to alter. Oh my gosh. Amazing. Do you have something in mind? Are you one of those people that's always thought of your wedding dress? Do you know what you want?

Honestly, to be perfectly honest, I never even dreamed that I'd actually have a proper wedding dress if we were getting married. It just didn't seem like, oh, I'm going to cry. No, I wouldn't have a clue. We'll guide you through it. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you so much. Oh, pleasure. I love love.

I'm sorry. I'm going to ugly cry. Very cool. It's really special for us to be part of this journey with you as well and some amazing people like Trish coming on board from yours truly. So thank you so much Trish for helping out. Oh, of course. Can't wait to meet you,

Christine. Thank you, Trish. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. So there you go. You got your wedding dress sorted and our desperate plea for dresses, suits and rings this is just oh man this stuff doesn't really happen like I feel like I'm living

someone's dream or like a movie or something it's you babes it's all happening oh my gosh this is so cool there's a lot of reset for desperation on the radio isn't there we're like please please please hey well thank you, Trish.

Thanks, Christy. Have a lovely day. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. So, yeah, I was in a male's toilet yesterday, which is a real eye-opener because I'm obviously never in those.

But at my gym, they've switched the toilets. So males turn into females, females turn into males because they're doing work and the contractors are predominantly men, so they can't be in the females' toilets. Yeah, fair enough. So they've switched them. Oh, I see. Okay.

I walked in and I was amazed at how different they were. Complete different setup. We have a huge row of mirrors with hair straighteners and hair dryers. The boys' toilets don't have it. Right. with hair straighteners and hair dryers. The boys' toilets don't have it. Also, I walked in and the two urinals that are there, in the bottom is like a blue spiky thing. Yeah, that's the anti-splash technology. It was really advanced over the last 10 or 15 years.

There was a period there where you would, and it would splash back into your shins and if you're wearing jandals and on your feet. But some genius came up with this mat. I don't know. And then on top of the mat, there's usually just the little blue urinal cakes. Don't buy those for a birthday cake.

Yeah, don't eat them. So I bought, I was talking to the producers. It's not edible cakes. You'll learn that one the hard way. We did try them. We did try them. Producers Ellie and Grace are joining us too because I went out there and I was like,

there were spikes in the bottom of the urinal and we could not figure out what they were for. Yeah. Also, question. Some poor soul has to replace those mats. Sometimes there's more sort of trough-like urinals as well. Everyone sort of can stand along and they get splashed back sometimes

if you're like wearing jandals or something like that. Not you would at a gym, but that's a horrible situation you don't want to have. Okay, so my question was the urinals were individual ones but they were so close together. You could touch shoulders. As a rule, I wouldn't

stand next to someone at their urinal because it's too close. Yeah, okay. Only if there's none available. But it's a bit weird if someone does. There's etiquette. And you don't look down. You stare straight at the wall and pretend like nothing's wrong. Suppress your emotions.

And if it's one of those... Unless there's a celebrity, then you can look down. That's fine. Other question is, then when you're at the trough one, what's the etiquette of space between? You normally would go... Well, I would. I'm a bit of a trough coward.

That's what they call it, a trough coward. So I'd go to the urinal if there was... I was i was going to sorry the cubicle if there was an option mate there's an option i definitely why are you a trough coward just mate there's reasons you know have you got the option not to do not to have to relieve yourself next to another human being there's a lot of yeah yeah so i would and i think generally people would go at opposite ends of the of the urinal there's some people There's some confident dudes that would come and rock up next year, start a conversation, all sorts of stuff. You're like, I'm not one of those.

Probably not, yeah. Sometimes you guys probably do this in your one as well. You start talking to someone, but then you have entered a cubicle, and then they feel the conversation needs to continue on. And I did this with our boss, Matt, a few weeks ago. Oh, yeah. Poor Matt. About something inane as well. I was like, how was the weekend, mate? It's good. And then I went into the cub boss, Matt, a few weeks ago. Oh, yeah. Poor Matt. About something inane.

I was like, how was the weekend, mate? It's good. And then I went into the cubicle and we continued the how was the weekend chat. Also, my question is, do you ever go to the cubicle and sit down for like number ones? Or can you? I don't generally, no.

But some people do. Out of laziness, you could do. Depends how tired your thighs are. But some people do. Out of laziness, you could do. Depends how tired your thighs are. But at work, the work toilets, they're probably quite clean, but it's not really a comfortable, relaxing place to sit down. That's probably why you spend so much time sitting down for number twos, because you don't get to do it otherwise.

It's like, well, this is a treat. Take a load off. I would. Ellie and Grace, did you have any good in this open forum? I'm really enjoying this, actually. So you would go to a cubicle if you could. Me personally, yes. It's quite uncomfortable.

I never understood this. Why do they even exist? Why don't we just have cubicles for everyone? To get more efficiency, get the guys in, get them out. Yeah, I guess so. Like in a sports arena type situation. I mean, that's everyone for themselves. And it does probably mean the lines are a lot quicker than the female toilet lines. But then there's a lot of close proximity in those lines.

I was walking to FC. I walked into there. There was a huge line for the female toilets. There was a lady in the male toilet. She's like, I'm sorry. I can't wait. I was like, no judgment here. Was she standing at the urinal or what was she doing?

How was she? Well, to be fair, when I met her yesterday, they'd cordoned off the urinal. And I was like, excuse me, don't tell me I can't try. Anything's possible. Dream it, push and believe it. If you've got more questions, you can keep us coming through. 4487 on text as well.

Sometimes the one that really throws me is there's a really low urinal. And I sometimes like to just give that a go. Just give it a go. Is that a kiss? Yeah. Just give it a go. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. We are sending someone to Fiji to get married. Married at first flight with Tourism Fiji. Very excited about this. This is happening next week. They're off to get married. And tomorrow we've got to get them sorted for clothes, don't we? Thanks to Diamonds on Richmond.

They've got the wedding ring sorted. Yeah, it's going to be an amazing wedding just three hours away. Thanks to Tourism Fiji. In a tropical paradise at the Outrigger Fiji Beach Resort. But we've got some things to sort out. Christy is marrying George. They are both police officers from Rotorua, and

George, good morning! Hey, how you going? We're good, we're good. Thanks for jumping back on with us again. No worries, thanks for everything you guys are doing. We're trying to pull it all together. It's all coming together alright so far. You guys are awesome. We thank you so much for all together. It's all coming together all right so far.

You guys are awesome. We thank you so much for being part of this journey with us. This is awesome. Yes. Cheers. It's really amazing. So now you know you've got wedding bands. You've got the wedding rings.

Thanks to Diamonds on Richmond. They've looked after that part of the equation, George. Yeah, me and Christy are really blown away by the generosity and stuff. That's awesome. They even said you could put a diamond in your wedding band if you wanted to, which I don't know, maybe it might be your thing, maybe not your thing, but you've got options. Do you want diamonds in your wedding band?

Probably not. You don't sound like a diamond guy, George. He's straight up the guts. Now George, have you thought about what you're going to wear to your wedding? Probably not. No, I'm going to be plain if anything. Well, yeah, because it was probably

a week ago you didn't even know you were going to get married in Fiji. So we're trying to pull everything together and we have Mike on the line right now. Good morning, Mike. Morning. Now, Mike, where do you work? I work at Barkers. Mike works at Barkers, George. Now, Mike, where do you work? I work at Barkers. Mike works at Barkers, George. Now, Mike, we've got George on the phone.

We call him Gorgeous George for obvious reasons. And what would you like to tell him? Hey, George. Well, to kind of keep you in the Gorgeous George state of mind, we'd like to get you into Barkers, do a little bit of a fitting, and make sure you're suited and boot do a little bit of a fitting, and make sure you're suited and booted. You're getting a free suit, George?

Oh, wow. Really? Yeah. Free suit? Yeah. Sorry, I'm blowing away a little bit. I know. It's a lot to take in.

It's not absolutely free. It's affecting Barkers, bottom line. Yeah. Mike's like, well, it's not free for me. But anyway, Mike, that's a very generous thing Nothing's ever free, but this one's free to you Oh, that is so cool You guys have at Barkers a huge range of stuff, so there's plenty of options

that George can look at, right? Yeah, I've got plenty of options for him and we'll get him something that's nice and timeless, so he can look back on the photos at any time with plenty of pride Oh, that's lovely Now, Mike, people can obviously go to Barker's for their wedding. Why don't you give yourself a plug?

Mate, I was about to start doing an ad, and I realised I knew nothing about clothing, so you take it away. Yeah, we do a huge range of suiting. We kind of specialise in taking care of whole bridal packages, everything from kind of off the rack right through to all made to measure. So kind of whatever your style, we can get you covered. How long is Bark? Bark has must have been around for hundreds of years.

Not quite a hundred, but we're just over 50, which is a pretty long time in this game. Bark has must have been around for decades. It's a long time. Five odd decades. Now, obviously, George can look through your range and you will help him through. What would you recommend

for some sort of tropical wedding situation? Tropical wedding. I think maybe something in a little bit of a linen blend, something light and breezy,

maybe a lighter color. Okay, I'm going to divorce court. What would I wear there? Divorce court? Well, it kind of depends whether you want to make them feel like they're missing out on a good thing. Always.

Yes, I want to look my best at divorce court. Something tailor-made and suave. There's options as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Mike, thank you so much for jumping on board. This is amazing what you and the team at Barkers are doing for this. So thank you so much. Oh, yeah, more than happy to help out.

We can't wait to get you in, George. And, yeah, take care of you. Hey, mate. Really blown away by you guys. And thank you so much for helping us out. Yeah, it was pretty hard to take. I can imagine. It was a lot to come. Yeah. You're a humble man, out. Yeah, it was pretty hard to take. I can imagine. It was a lot to cut.

Yeah. You're a humble man, George. Yeah, we appreciate it. We're yelling at you every day. I know. Awesome, Mike and George. You guys are going to have a lovely day. We appreciate your time.

Awesome. Thanks, John. Cheers. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. The Warriors game of the season. New season starts in Las Vegas Sunday afternoon New Zealand time.

And New Zealand put on a charter plane which sold out in 17 minutes. People out of Las Vegas. So yeah, 17 minutes is all it took for that plane. Because they don't normally fly direct to Las Vegas. No. But they put one on especially for it and it sold out last night. So a whole lot of Kiwis are going to be over there for the weekend. Sold out last night?

Oh, sorry, it left last night. When they put it on for sale, it sold out in 17 minutes. Wow, that's impressive. You're really jealous that you're not there, aren't you? I am, I am. On a whim, I went to the Warriors' first grand final. I got my money for my drink driving ad, and that's why I spent it on. So, you know, I have had a tendency just to pay money

to go see the Warriors and now I'm like, I should have gone. Ben was in a drink driving ad. He wasn't in a drink driving incident. No, a drink driving ad, a commercial. Got money for it and they don't pay you for drink driving. He was there. We'll try and hunt it out for you. I'm just drilling my breakfast. The one smashing

a pie? Yeah, in pies. That got me to the Warriors to watch them lose the grand final, but it still was pretty epic. Tell you what was epic. Yesterday I went to a little fundraiser, but the fundraiser was, it was a dangerous game too, and it was, you know, teenagers. Make your own sandwiches.

Oh, yeah. Okay, risky game. So laid out on the table, so you paid $2. Right. And you could put anything you wanted in a sandwich. Now, this is like the buffet, all-you-can-eat buffet. It's seen as a challenge to get your money's worth, isn't it? Any New Zealander's like,

I am going to try and build a high-rise apartment of a sandwich if it's free. So even though we're making money, if it was $2 a sandwich. I think they lost money. Yeah, it feels like they got a lot of money. I saw a kid put steak or beef, ham, and chicken. Three different animals. A meat lover sandwich. Yeah, it feels like that's a 10 buck.

Especially for raising money. Yeah. It's at least a 10 buck sort of exercise. Yeah. There used to be that sandwich place down the road from our old work. Yeah. And there's a sweet old couple. Did you used to go there?

It was like this lovely old couple. And they would go to the supermarket every morning, buy all the ingredients, which is probably setting them back anyway. It's kind of like a, in a way it was kind of like a subway where you can get your bread and then you could just choose

how much stuff they put in. But people just took the, yeah, it was five bucks. Anything you wanted. How long ago was this? Oh, it was 10 years ago. They're out of business. They're not out of business.

Because people were just like massive amounts of food inside a sandwich. So that's what happens. What's the best sandwich you think you've ever made? Okay, if you were to make your dream sandwich. I know you do like a chicken, a rotisserie chicken, don't you? Yeah, I like chicken and coleslaw and buns. The thing for New Zealand summer, you know, it's just like a weekend meal with cheese, chicken, cold slaw. Yeah, that's great.

That can be brunch, lunch, or dinner. The bachelor's handbag, they call it, from the supermarket. You grab the little bag and you take it with you. It's a go-to, yeah. The bachelor's handbag. Yeah, that's what they call it, yeah. And you grab it from the supermarket. Good chicken comes in a little bag.

The divorced dad satchel. It's amazing, though. It's like you take it for picnics, take it to the beach, take it wherever. But, yeah, that would have to be Iconic for me It's versatile That little bag isn't it

Yeah swing it around He took a ham once From a corporate box Didn't you Put that in your ham bag Get it at the Warriors What Yeah

Did you make some sandwiches Out of that leg of ham You did Did you take a whole leg It was ham It was ham Yeah It was left over

It was left over I was just chatting I was there It was the first time in a corporate box, the Warriors, I stayed a bit longer. My wife was working there and then I was just talking to the guy and I was like, oh what are you doing with that ham now? And he's like, what are you doing with that ham? And he's like, oh you want it? And I was like, yeah alright, and I put it in my backpack and walked out.

Was it covered? Oh yeah, I think we put some like, some vets around it and stuff like that. And then did you pull the manky ham out at home? Yeah, it was great. You cut off the outside, good to go. It's really good. It's really good. It's really good.

It's really good. It's really good. It's really good. and stuff like that. Oh, my God. And then did you pull the manky ham out at home? Yeah, it was great. Yeah, cut off the outside, good to go. It was great. Ham lasts for ages. It's all good.

And you wonder why you're not invited to Vegas, mate. Yeah, exactly. John O'Byrne and Megan. The podcast. The hits. So I was doing some dusting last night. God, I remember producer Grace saying, she's just started flatting,

and she's obviously fresh out of home. She's like, where does all the dust come from? So much dust. What is dust? What's its purpose, and why haven't we cancelled dust? Isn't a lot of it dead skin? Is it? I think so.

It's like what you're excreting. It's probably a combination of a whole lot of stuff, right? Yeah. I just don't know why we invented dust and what its purpose is. It's honestly the most pointless. So, you know, you find yourself as an adult just doing so much dusting for someone. Do you dust? But my beef with dusting is you're not one of those people that, like, dust it off.

You have to, like, wipe it and get rid of it, right? You're not just like, why do you dust it off and then have to like wipe it and get rid of it, right? You're not just like why do you dust it off and then float it into the air? I guess if you vacuum it, yeah, but you're right. But it kind of does float back in the air and float into other places. What's the point of that? You've got to wipe it and get rid of it. That's why I'd use the vacuum. I'd go the lazy option. Then you get stripes. Yeah, but then my

issue is the vacuum. I'm quite vigorous with it. So I'm down on the bottom of this. There's a force leveled shelf, okay? On top of the shelf there's photo frames. So I'm on the bottom last night, vacuuming away, hating life, painful exercise. And the one way to make dusting

more painful, have a photo frame fall straight on your head. It came diving down from the top shelf. And you know when you get hit in the head, it really just like for five seconds, you're like, what has happened here? Did you have your hat on?

Of course, I've always got a hat on. I wasn't sure if you were like, when we get home, we take our bra off or whatever. I wasn't sure if you were like, oh, thank God, get the hat on. I sleep in the hat. The hat never comes off at all times. Shower in the hat. hat never comes off At all times Shower in the hat Thank god it protected you But yeah no

That was a bit of a rattle actually To be honest Have you ever had a photo frame Fall on your head? No I don't think I've had a photo frame No I wouldn't advise it Not a funny It's not something I've done

Have you injured yourself cleaning? Producer Ellie Have you? You have I think Quite a serious injury Yeah You did

As opposed to a Photo frame on the head Yes no I put my back out mopping I was going very hard On the mop And It just literally

One minute I was fine Next minute My whole back had seized And I couldn't walk for a week I'm not even kidding How much like pelvis Were you putting into your mop It's usually all arms isn't it

Yeah are you two okay With your vigorous cleaning? I know. You know what? I didn't activate my abs. And so it was pulling on my back. Engage your core. Yeah, I didn't.

I didn't. And then I had to take... You didn't slip or anything? It was just one of the... No. It was just one final just... And my back went... And then I had to be on Norflex, like muscle relaxers for a week.

From mopping. Right, that was your ACC form. And they're like, no, she didn't. You're like, no, I did. No, I did. I put my back out mopping. Okay. Yeah, in your ACC form And they're like No she didn't And you're like No I did No I did Back out mopping Okay

So I'll wait Under the hits Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits We're talking Cleaning injuries this morning So many people

Have got injured Just been cleaning I guess everyone's Doing it every week At home And you're doing it briskly Just trying to get it done Liquids involved

Cords Things like that From vacuum cleaners. It's dangerous. It is dangerous. You're right. We shouldn't do it. Tell you what it says, the retracting vacuum cleaner cord. Boy, oh boy, that comes back in at a rate of knots when you push that thing down.

Especially if you don't hold the end and you just let it fly. It's like bam, bam, bam, bam. Patricia Raleigh, she put her back out mopping. Vigorous mopping technique today. Ellie's got a photo frame fell on my head last night, Dustin. It sucks when you get hit in the head, but it's really funny watching someone else be hit in the head, isn't it? Let's go to Susan.

Morning to you. Good morning. Great to have you on this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. Susan, cleaning injuries, what were you doing? Vacuuming the floor. Yeah. My own business, but vacuuming the floor. And it was one of those, you know, backpack things, those commercial grown-ups.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Like the Geist Busters sort of like. Yeah. They look like. They have a lot of suction power. That's what they look like. Yeah, they do.

They get up the cat first. So I just kind of turned and the drill went flying and landed in my foot. Oh, the drill? A drill. It was on the desk. The husband had just used it and the whole bit went. Did you swing the backpack into it? Yeah.

So the actual drill was sticking into your foot? Yeah. So is it. What did you say to your husband? I can yeah. Oh, Susan! Yeah. Oh. What did you say to your husband? Um, I can't say that on air. No, fair enough.

Why is this here? Susan, have you got any long-lasting injuries from having a drill in your foot? Uh, just a little bit of a scar

and a little bit of a lump, but, you know. I reckon they get you a vacuuming for the rest of your life. Well, I'm not allowed to now, so it's all good.

Doctor's orders. Doctor's orders. Good on you, the rest of your life. Well, I'm not allowed to now, so it's a good question. No, doctor's orders. Doctor's orders. Yeah. Good on you, Susan. Appreciate your call. We're talking cleaning, injuries. Rebecca, what happened? So my husband was busy vacuuming.

The phone started to ring. He got all excited, went running to get the phone, leapt over the vacuum cleaner, which was in the doorway, and smacked his head on the top of the doorframe. Oh! So he cleared the vacuum, but smacked his head on the top of the door frame. So he cleared the vacuum but smacked his head. Oh, he did. So it happens when you're six foot two and you're trying to be a ballerina.

Jeez, that would have really, he would have, did he fall back or did he make it through? Nah, just stunned and dazed and staggered towards the phone, no doubt. But then it's like, after the event, you're like, what was I thinking? What was I thinking? I think so. Good on you, Rebecca. That's a great one in terms. Appreciate your time.

Lynn, good morning to you in Auckland. Hi, how are you? We're doing well, Lynn. Not too well. Actually, I had a photo frame fall on my head last night while dusting. But what were your cleaning injuries? I was working as a nanny come housekeeper and I was cleaning the reins going up the steps,

inside the internal steps, and I missed a step and next minute, you know, and I was only a matter of three steps to the bottom, I was sitting on my thumb and my ankle was going one way and I'd broken it. You hear about so many people falling down like a couple of steps. Yeah. Well, this one just was those ones, you know,

how you have a couple that are straight, and then you have a couple that turn. Just a simple wiping of the banister. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a bit OTT when it comes to cleaning, so I've had a few of once I was cleaning the light shades on the outside of the house, you know, the front door entrance. And I was on a stool, and

my own fault, I suppose, of course it was. The stool moved, and I whacked and fell onto the tiling at the bottom. And whacked, had a big cut in my nose, and I've still got the scar now. Oh, really? Lynn, I reckon you run a pristine house, Lynn. I reckon there's a speck of

dust sitting in Lynn's house right now As I said I'm OTT but that's old school right That's right, good on you Lynn, have a great day You too and I love your programme Thank you Lynn, that's very kind of you

Thank you Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast. The hits. If I was to do it a third time, I would probably elope. What I love about you is you're self-roasting and you're getting in there about your multiple weddings before we have the chance to.

I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed. But I have had two and there's things I'd change about both. Husbands. Well, let's go one thing. Well, I was going to say the groom for the first one. That's okay because he'd say the bride, so that's fine.

Because we wanted some sort of advice for them as they get married and we thought maybe one thing, one thing that you would change about your wedding. Now, you've got an option, you've got... The groom? Oh, I've got both weddings.

Yeah, the groom for the first one. Might be something little, might be something big. The thing is, it is such a snapshot in time. I know we've spoken about this lots, but there's only a couple of people that made it to both my weddings. And maybe it is a reflection on me, but the second wedding, even though it was only like seven years ago,

there's still people I would not have there. So that's why you changed. I'd get rid of the MCs. Right, okay. Who was MCing at the time? It was a couple of people that I don't talk to much anymore. That's what happens. You know what I changed about my wedding?

My hair. Did you have hair? When I was just clinging on to dear life. It was hanging in there. It was like bits of floating spaghetti in dirty dishwater. Did you climb it over? I'd just whack it off. No, I was just kind of sitting there.

I would go back and sit myself down and say, whack it off. Were you Homer Simpson-ing? I was Homer Simpson-ing. That was one thing you changed. I kind of need to see a photo now. I'll bring one in. I'll bring one in, yeah. So that would be my advice, one thing I changed about the wedding.

Wait, do you get married in times where there's no digital photos? Yeah, I was just having a break. He's not going to bring one in. You know there's not charts, he's going to bring one in. There's no digital record back in the day. Just take a photo of a photo and then bring your phone in. Yeah, I'll do that. Are they black and white?

Yeah, I got sketched actually by, you know, I look like Prince William. And yeah, back in those days, we didn't have photography when I got married. So we got sketched. We stood there for seven hours as they painted us. I'm going to say no one cares about what's on the table.

Not food wise, but you have things about, oh, what's this place setting got to be like? What's the thing? What's the thing in the middle of the table. Not food-wise, but you have things about, oh, what's this place setting got to be like? What's the thing? What's the thing in the middle of the table? All that stuff. When you're at a wedding, I mean, some people may notice that stuff, but no one cares.

No one cares. I'll tell you what no one cares about, the cake. You've never had a cake. Oh, good on you. So many people put so much effort on this cake, and no one's in mood for cake. We had a punch bowl. Fiji, they had a carver bowl bowl and they put punch in the alcoholic punch.

It was the best thing ever. It was the best. Yeah. And I was like, that's great. Everyone could share and grab from the punch bowl. I was like, great. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah.

Or do a fake cake. We'll cut into it if you want the photo. There's cake and there's also dessert. No, just don't do a cake. Don't do a fake cake. We didn't do a fake cake before. Like a polystyrene cake with icing on it. I see.

No cake. Then someone's going to go and eat the cake and they're going to eat the polystyrene poisoning. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I did something yesterday and it shouldn't throw you out so much, but go to a supermarket that you don't normally go to.

I don't know why it throws you right out. And sometimes, I'm not going to name brands, because sometimes you have a supermarket close to yourself and you get used to your stuff and it's laid out. You know where everything is. And then you go to another supermarket of that same chain and you're like, okay, I'll get this. And then you go,

like yesterday my daughter had guitar lesson and right next to the guitar lesson was a supermarket. Different chain? Different chain. And I was like, and not that it's a bad supermarket, but just going in there,

I'm like, I just feel lost. And sometimes they don't have the brand that you're looking for. No, they're different brands, different things, different layouts. It's like driving overseas. You know the basic rules, but you don't have any idea

where you're going, do you? And you feel, I don't know, I feel uncomfortable there. I'm walking around with opposition bags in my truck. Already I'm like showcasing. You're not loyal. I don't usually go here.

They're looking at me like, this guy definitely isn't. I'm looking around like at the ceiling. I don't know why. It's also not the same as like Bunnings and Mitre 10 where you go there and you at me like, this guy definitely isn't. I'm looking around at the ceiling. I don't know why. It's also not the same as Bunnings and Mitre 10, where you go there and you can be like, ask for help. You don't ask someone like, where are the muesli bars?

I thought, what's this random stuff that I never bought before? The kids are like, what's this? I don't know. I don't know. I panic. I feel like you start at the produce and you end at the frozen and anything in between, that's up to the supermarket. Sometimes the same brand can even change their layout.

And the way they do it with the different bags and the fruit section, the bags, the packing. And the trolleys are different. I don't know why it throws you out. I felt like your parents when they try and do a Skype call or something, it's just like it was really throwing me out. It really puts you off. I feel like the supermarket's main goal is to keep you trapped inside there for as long as possible. Wandering the aisles, buying stuff you don't need for as long as possible. I did that yesterday.

You make it out okay? Yeah, I did eventually. I thought I came back from guitar and I'm like, oh, jeez, I wasn't. I'm all flustered. Did you turn your supermarket bags inside out so you didn't have the competing brand? John O'Byrne and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Turn your supermarket bags inside out so you didn't have the competing brand. Now, red hats with white writing on them. Getting a bad rap at the moment, aren't they?

They really came to the forefront of the US political system, didn't they, over the last few years? Make America Great Again hats. Now, over New Year's, I was staying in Whangamata and I found in the cupboard a dusty old hat. It was a red corduroy hat and with white writing on it, it says Las Vegas. And I love this hat. It's a great hat.

Thank you. It's just unfortunate. Now, from a distance, when I'm walking along the street across the road, it looks like a mega hat. It does. A lot of people have said it and brought it up to you. We've been around conversations. Well, that's Johnno wearing a MAGA hat.

Yeah. So then I have to go, then I feel I have to over-explain. Oh, no, it's not a MAGA hat. It says Las Vegas. But that's the issue when you've got a red hat with white writing nowadays. It's a tough one. It's not often you have to wear a hat with a disclaimer, don't you? Well, you're right.

They've pretty much taken that colour scheme and they've owned it. They've owned it. Yeah. It's great branding. It's like Charlie Chaplin had the original moustache that was smaller than

someone else in history and now you can't go back to that. Now you can't have a Charlie Chaplin. Well, what if you're a huge Charlie Chaplin fan?

No, you can't do it. No, I just really love Charlie Chaplin so I thought I'd grow this little moustache. You can't do it.

You can't do it. It's amazing how things can get cancelled, isn't it? I had a Michael Jackson t-shirt. Yeah. Now I've started wearing it again. I feel like it's okay to wear a Michael Jackson t-shirt again, is it?

Oh, it's up to you. I've been playing songs on the radio. It's up to you, I believe. For some reason we forgave what he did, if he did anything. It wasn't even proven. Yeah, nice. What's your most controversial item of clothing that you've got? I've got a Kanye West t-shirt from many years ago that I don't wear now.

See, this is why I don't indulge in merch. Because I went to the concert many, many years ago. Yeah, that's true. Don't indulge in merch. You don't have one piece of merch. Nah, because you just don't know. You're really putting yourself out there as a billboard. But then you wear clothes potentially for fast fashion.

Oh, yeah, that's right. I don't know where I got it from. Do you mind that a four year old in a non-ventilated factory made that top? Yeah. It was cheap. We're all hypocrites

in some way, aren't we? We are, yeah, no one's perfect. I can give you a red hat with white writing

if you want one. Like you said Megan though, everyone's brought it up with him. You still wear it but he still wears nothing but that hat

for like a month. I like the hat. I like the hat. And you're like, everyone thinks he's Magnus supporter. You can switch out to a mega hat. No one would know.

John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hats. We started yesterday talking about where did you name your kids or what did you name your kids after? The most popular names in New Zealand the last two years for boys has been Noah. Two years in a row the most popular and Isla was the most

popular girl's name last year in New Zealand. So your great story over the weekend, who you met, someone? I actually don't know how we got to this, but he— Yeah, because you weren't talking for very long. No, we got a deep dive into how his children were named, and one of them was named after the hot doctor that delivered him. That's a rough one for him, for the father, because every time he calls his son's name,

he's reminded of a hotter, more successful person. And it was how it was pitched, too, from the wife, being like, we should name him after a great doctor, and he's so hot. It's quite hard. As a parent, it's quite tricky to name kids. It's so difficult. You go through people, and you're like,

oh, I know a person like that. They all remind me of this person, good or bad. Then there's other people, you know, like through history that have names as well. And you want something that's not like super common. Or they're able, you're like, they're going to get teased for this name as well. Yeah, you've got to run it through the tease filter.

You're like, how am I bullying this kid at school? Right, there we go. You really do have to run through that list, don't you? You have people who have annoyed you in the past's filter. You're like, how would I bully this kid at school? Right, there we go. You really do have to run through that list, don't you? People who have annoyed you in the past as well, done you wrong.

I imagine there'd be throughout history, imagine all the Rolf Harris's who've had to go to birth tests and marriages and change their name. The Diddy's,

the R Kelly's, there'd be people named after these people. That's why naming your kid after a celebrity is a risky game because you don't know what future scandals are on the horizon, do you?

That's true. So I went home to the hits of telephone number. Emily, what did you name your kids after? I named my son after one of the Sydney 2000 Olympic mascots. Oh, what was the mascot's name? Ollie. Oh, Ollie. Okay, that's good.

What was Ollie? Like platypus or something. Yeah, what was Ollie? Well, it was either Sid, Millie or Ollie. So I liked Ollie. And he is a ginger as well. And at one point he actually wanted to change his name to Oliver Twist. Oh, so Ollie was a kookaburra.

I'm just looking at it now. This was the Sydney Olympics Australia. Jeez, you really swept up in the Olympics, weren't you? No, it was the first thing I saw when I came home. It was sitting on the stairs. It was a romper. Oh, it's a cool name. I mean, great name.

Ollie's a great name. Jake, good morning to you. Morning. What did you name your kid after, Jake? I named her after a constellation. So her name is Andromeda. Oh, wow, that's a cool name. Never heard that before.

Yeah. Wouldn't run into too many with the same name, would you? Nah, not at all. What do you yell out when you're calling out to her? So she goes by Andy as her nickname, but when I'm mad at her, I call her by her full name. Andromeda. Yeah, parents always do.

I get it, Benjamin. Good on you. Thanks for your call, mate. Appreciate it. Yeah, don't worry. Apparently get a Benjamin. Good on you. Thanks for your call, mate. Appreciate it. Yeah, don't worry. Apparently Benjamin wasn't even on my

parents list, but my mum was quite induced. You know, she was full of drugs and all sorts of stuff afterwards, you know.

She wasn't a drug addict. No, she was just, well, that could explain a lot of things. She was just, yeah.

After the birth. Very difficult birth. And then apparently my dad was like, hey, you've got, it's a boy. And she's like, Benjamin, boy.

And that was all. Oh, so they had done no brainstorming. She's like, where did that come from? No, they had, but Benjamin wasn't even on the list. She went off list. Yeah, she was like, yeah. And then she doesn't remember even saying that. But Dad was like, well, you see.

So maybe Dad wanted it and put it through that way. He's like, you're drugged up, darling. He named him Benjamin. I can't remember Benjamin I can't remember Pretty sure I said Cameron the whole time Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits

Talking about what you named your kids after So many great texts coming through There are yeah I had a friend I just remember this while the song was playing He suggested a name for their daughter Which also happened to be his ex-girlfriend's name But not because he had a connection with his ex-girlfriend's name.

But not because he had a connection with his ex-girlfriend, he just liked the name. It was Michaela. And so did his wife liked the name Michaela as well, but she didn't know the connection to Michaela. Oh, well, that's fine then. No, there were some robust conversations after she found out a couple of years down the track. Oh, they named the kid Michaela?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, you can have different people with the the track. Oh, they named the kid Michaela? Yeah. Oh, okay. You can have different people with the same name. Exactly, Ben. But you'd be like, why did you want to name them after your ex? I don't know, that's... It's a nice name. It is a nice name. We know someone who named their kid

Axel. Axel Rose. Guns and Roses. I thought about naming my son Alton with an A, just to make it different. It's making it different, but it still sounds the same, though. Because you're from West Auckland, that's why. Okay, 0800, that's the telephone number. Rachel.

Good morning. Great to have you on. Rachel, what did you name your spawn after? For my oldest son, we named him Tyson. He's nearly 30 now, but me and his dad and my ex-partner really just, well, I still like Mike Tyson. Who doesn't? Oh, yeah. He had a

controversial period, but you're right. You battled on through that. He's had some parts in The Hangover. He's fought last year. Jake Paul as well, right? But that was the thing. When you name your kids after celebrities, they're humans. They're going to make mistakes. Yeah, and back then, they never had any Tysons around,

that wasn't a very common name, but as the years went by, it was, and he was a little feisty, I still love him a bit, I hope he's not listening, but when he was little, he was a real little feisty little boy, you know what I mean? So he really stood up for his name, so yeah. Was he biting ears off children?

He had a face tattoo. But I do remember at kindy one day, as little kids, you know, they bite sometimes, but yeah, nothing too strenuous. Nothing too strenuous, just a little nibble on the earlobe. Good on you, Rachel. Thank you so much for sharing. Cool, have a good day, guys.

See you. Andy, good morning to you. Good morning. Great to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. Andy, what did you name your child after? Oh, it was actually my wife that put the name toward it, but Oakley. Oh, after the sunglasses? Sunglasses.

Yeah, or the brand in general. Yeah, we love snowboarding, so we... Oakley's a cool name, actually. That's a really cool name. Yeah, yeah. Does it get you a discount when you walk into the Oakley store? Oh, mate, have I tried using that?

I've had the same. I've gone in, birth certificates and everything, trying to get discounts. It doesn't work. Oh, you did go in. Yeah, surely that's 15% off your next snowboard or something, Andy. Yeah, maybe. Maybe when he's older if he gets sponsored, if he's in sports

or something, maybe we get that. Is he an extreme sports kid? You know how some kids love motocross and all that sort of stuff. Does he do that? Yeah, well he's seven at the moment and he's been into BMX now for about four years, three, four years. So he's right into that.

If there is not a sponsorship on the horizon for Oakley. That's really cool. Hey, thanks for sharing, Andy. Have a great day. Hey, you too. Thanks very much. That's a great text coming through. My son's name is Carter after Dan Carter.

That's pretty cool. If you're a fan of The Princess Bride, the movie, we named our youngest son Wesley after the lead man, The Princess Bride. Oh, was Wesley the butler guy? Yeah, and his older sisters and I taught him to say, as you wish, when we asked him to do things for us. He gave birth to a butler.

Hold on. John O'Bien and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Zealand Herald Daily Quiz We like to grab their online quiz First thing in the morning Let's see if we can get to 10 out of 10

Normally you can play online And you don't have to stop When you get one wrong But we decided that's the way we play it Now Quiz Queen Producer Ali Welcome back Hello thank you

Nothing too exotic In the old question department This morning What are we looking at? There's a few dicey ones. Okay. But you've got this, I think. All right.

Our quiz team, the Quistifer Luxons. We were the Quismas Crackers before Christmas, which worked too because we were all white as well. But the Quistifer Luxons. Can we do two in a row? All right. Question number one. The Sahara Desert, the largest hot desert in the world,

is located in which part of Africa? Is it West Africa, North Africa, or Southern Africa? Great question. Never eat soggy Weet-Bix. Have you been to Africa? No. And I don't know where it would be located in Africa. You're married to a South African.

I know, and he doesn't want to go back there. Oh, well, there you go. That's why you haven't been to Africa. I'd like to go Are we going to use our lifeline first up? I guess so There'll be hopefully an African person listening To the show right now text 4487

My husband wouldn't even know the answer to that The Sahara So what are the options Either north, west or south Well it wouldn't be south Because then that's the South of Africa You think it would be colder

Is that what you're thinking But then is that closer to the equator So that could be hotter Is north a closer John's text story John said it's North of Africa. Now, John hasn't let us down in the past.

I know, but does that count as our lifeline now? Yeah, it does. I've read it. I've read the question. That's our lifeline. Are we locking it in?

Yeah. That is correct. Thank you, John, and thank you to the other people that messaged as well. Have we ever spoken to John? Like,

John is a fountain of knowledge. Every morning, John texts in and saves our ass. He might be Googling. Yeah. He might be. But hey, it's great.

He's our hero. Alright, question number two. What is the primary source of energy from the sun? Is it chemical combustion, nuclear fusion, or nuclear fission?

Fission? I wonder what's these that's the only... Fission. It's showing me it's not going to help. The primary source of What from the sun?

Energy What's the primary source of energy? Chemical combustion Nuclear fusion or nuclear fission Well it's not nuclear You wouldn't say it's nuclear, would you? There's two of them that are nuclear So I would say it's probably nuclear I don't reckon it is

I have no idea This is just a stab at the top Let's go get low with it It's probably nuclear. I don't reckon it is. Look, I have no idea. This is just a stab at the top. So if you reckon it's not, well, let's go get on with it. If you think it's not nuclear. Is the Sins? Listen, might I also say I have no background in science. When it's multi-choice and there's two that are very similar,

usually that's the one, right? Oh, is that what you're leading? Well, I love it that you guys are split on this. One person's going to be wrong. So who are we going with? Well, I have a shocking track record. So go with me. Go with me. Go with Jono.

Okay, the top one. The one that isn't nuclear. So you want to lock in chemical combustion. Yes. That's not it. That is incorrect. It was nuclear fusion. Didn't know that either.

Oh, there we go. There you go, something. He didn't say nuclear fusion. When there's two that are similar in a multi-choice, it's usually one of those. I was just going to call John, just while we've got a little bit of time here, and just ask why John knows so much stuff,

or if it's thanks to the internet. Because he has saved us every day, John Texan. He does. You would have got question number three right. John, why do you know so much stuff? morning guys um not really sure hey it's not google no no no wow you're really helping us out you're the uh the unofficial fourth member of our quiz team so thank you are you welcome did you know the nuclear fusion answer? Yep, yep. Oh, get out of here, John. Wait, ask John the next question.

It occurs because of the hydrogen collision in the sun. That's what I was saying. That's what I was just saying. Okay, John, I've got one more question for you. Which iconic cartoon character is known for saying, What's up, duck? Is it Homer Simpson, Daffy Duck, or Bugs Bunny? See, this is playing into my hands oh guys i don't know

much about cartoons oh bugs buddy there we go that's one for me what's the thing you can take care of the science i'll take care of the cartoons and maybe the occasional sport question