Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We chat to Tim Finn + an expert explains oil supply risks

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

On today’s show:  A Bristol Indian restaurant goes viral for hilarious song parodies like Naan I Need and we call the star! Why Ben was dragged out of the airport when he was already there... We brainstorm alternatives to Megan's husband  having to kiss other women in a musical We chat to legendary kiwi Tim Finn from Split Enz about reuniting and performing together for the first time in years! Chief economist Brad Olsen explains oil supply risks and what NZ drivers can expect How Jono witnessed the most relaxed car thief in action Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee 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. Megan's going to try and repeat what I'm saying at the same time. See if you can talk along to me going at the same time. No, it's not annoying at all, is it? We usually were game, didn't we? That's right.

See if anyone on the other end of the phone would notice. We try to do the three of us. You can't just go, kib-l-l-k-b-kib-kib-kib-h. That's right. We did it on the edge, and we were trying to talk along and see. how long we could do it. And I remember after doing it, that one of our bosses at the time, Leon, who came in, he came in, he came in and we're like, wow, he doesn't come in, he's going to tell us how good, and he's like, never fucking do that again.

He was like, that was the most painful radio I think I'm ever listening to. I had apologies for swearing on the podcast, but that's exactly what he would have said. I can picture it. So, oh wow, he's going to come in and go, hey, that was so good. And he was like, no, I never do that again. You know, Leon doesn't beat around the bush. No, it's great. It was straight shirt and we're like, okay.

I think we did try it from time to time. We did, yeah, we didn't listen to him. And it probably was really annoying radio. But yeah, sometimes you just need brutal feedback like that, don't you? Yeah. Do you find you become numb to feedback, or does feedback still affect you if it's negative? No, you go. It still affects me.

Still affects you? Yeah. It depends who it's from, though it's from, I guess. Nah, it's just from strangers. It affects me, too. It's a feature. Not that it should. because we don't know them from a bar or soap

and we don't care about them. It's easy to say to do. Some of those things that people are easier to say than actually do. Well, that's what I noticed a few people on social media who have been doing, you know, good things for the community where they do like a cash drop or something. Yeah. And then they do a follow-up video

and they focus on the negative comment. But then I go to the comments. I'm like, well, you know, there are hundreds and thousands of, hundreds and hundreds of positive comments. But then you find yourself zeroing in on the one, one negative one, which tends to eat away at people. It's more as the one that you remember, right? Yeah.

And it shouldn't because you're like, well, overwhelmingly, everyone's like, good on you. Good on you. Keep doing that, you know? They don't know you. You only need to concern yourself with the opinions of the people in your life who actually deal with you. That's right. That's what you should focus on.

Which is great in theory. It doesn't make it any easier for Ben. I can tell. He's like, I'm not going to take that on board. No, well, no. I know it shouldn't matter. But then you are trying to entertain people or trying to do things. So you're trying to get the reaction.

And when you don't get it, you're like, oh, I miss the mark on that one. You know, it is feedback. It's direct feedback on what you're trying to do. Yeah, but if you miss the mark, you know, you move on to the next thing. Yeah. Do you, are you happy, like, would you rather no feedback or would you rather a bit of negative feedback from a piece of content? Probably rather no feedback actually. Oh, I'd rather just hear.

You want something. Yeah, it's good to know. Some people don't like feedback at all, but I think it's kind of good to give you. Comments off. Yeah. But, no, I haven't, you know, like, for you, you know, buy something. and stuff sometimes you're like you know it's good to know it's good to try and improve on what you're doing because or it's good to shut the door and be like they don't know what they're talking about yeah yeah yeah

yeah exactly uh but there's always going to be wins and losses isn't it when you're doing stuff yeah no matter what you're doing if you're a musician you're going to release a dud every now and then and people are going to tell you what everything's subjective it is you know just have a good time uh we're here for a good time not a long time none of us are getting out of this alive no it's true we're all dying At some point, aren't you? So you've got to enjoy it. It's a cheery thought. A cheery thought.

What age would you like to live to? What do you think would be a good one where you're like, I feel satisfied with life? I don't know. It's not so much an age. It's a point where I'm like if I'm struggling with my body and it's all turning to shit. Then you're going to David Seymour.

I just be like, oh, pack it in. Yeah. I mean, you don't want to sit there in the home, do you have to be spoon fed and stuff? I do feel sorry for those people. They're probably going, this is not what I want. Yeah. Yeah. But as long as my mind and my body are still kicking.

I reckon looking at Ray Ray, you're going to have a long life. She's active. She's nuts, eh. She's in her 70s and she rolls around on the floor with my kids. Wow. She's crazy. I'm not going to put her in the Sprightly category because she's still very young Ray Roe.

We don't like saying Sprightly, do they? It's also patronising. Is that weird? I'd love to be called Sprightly. No, it's like, it means you're old, but you're like, you know, jumping around. Spritely, yeah. But is it unusual that she's like 75 and she doesn't take any medication? That is really impressive.

She never really had an ailment. No. Wow, that's really good. Good genes. Yeah. Yeah, good genes. She's all go. She's all going to.

She passed that on to me, hopefully. Well, you can lead a long life and... Punish Andrew for a long time. You hear some Sprightly entertainment. I tell you what, on this podcast. We stumbled across someone on Ben's Instagram account. Oh, this is so good. He wouldn't be getting any negative comments.

We tracked this down. This is so good. Yeah, have a listen to this. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. One of the best videos

that we've seen in a long time. It's doing the rounds at the moment. It's from an Indian restaurant in Bristol. Now, we've just discovered them

after watching this one video. They did a parody of Olivia Dean's Man I Need. Yeah, this is called the Nan I Need. Order me, order me. Looks like we'll share

a couple of sides. Need you to pass over the chat to me. Already know I can't hit you alone. A fender on my mind. Mm. Already gave you the time and the play that stays the spice. Here we go. Just get me the nan I need.

Tell me you got something to tape I want. You can actually text. We've got the video up. If you go, Nan, text NAN 4487. We'll bounce you back to the video. hilarious. Someone commented, it's amazing how a musical artist can be behind the beat and in front of the beat

at the same time. That's incredible. And we watched that video this morning and gave us a real chuckle and then we had a look at the account. They've done most of all parodies. All like Indian restaurant parodies. Let Kermas in the head tonight.

All that's in there. It's in the crapness of it. You know? Like it's so good. I've been waiting for this karma. I just wait to see how they weave some sort of word in there. Yeah, well, have you heard of Barbie girl? I'm a bojigoo in a bargy world. Eating chutney, it's so yummy.

It's really hard to get chutney into a song. It's so good too because the enthusiasm is about the same as the singing as well. Oh gosh. It will always be bargy. girl to meet now. It's amazing. It's amazing. So we, listen, I think,

what should we call this place? Because, what, it's the UK? It'll be dinner time. They should be open. Let's just get, oh, the stars of the video. The stars of the video. Should we get them on?

Next, and if you want to see the video for yourself, text, Nand 4487. We'll bounce that back to you. This is the, not quite as good as their version, but, you know, Olivia Dean, she gives it a crack. This is Mana, Mana, Narni.

Narni. It's Mani. And he got something to dab. I want. I kind of like it When you order another bull Whatever the type of bits you want Come on then

I gotta know you order me A Na-Ranii We just played you a version of that song That's blowing up the internet From an Indian restaurant in Bristol, UK The Narnoini A great video you can text NAN to 4487 We'll bounce you a bit of a bit of a bit of

I mean, and he got something to dab I want. Just, you know, slapped on a bit of a wig, and just a hell of a performance. Yeah. Tell you what, they're not too late to Best Musical Performance at the Academy Awards Monday. You're taking the piss, but it's called on millions. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. Millions.

Now, we figure, given the time zone, we should be able to call through to the restaurant. Dinner time in the UK. Good evening, Urban Tandor. Hello, Urban Tandor. How are you? Yes, it is. How are you, sir? I'm good.

I'm good. How are you? We're really well. Listen, our name's a John O'Ben and Megan, and we're calling from a radio station on the other side of the world in New Zealand. Okay. And we have just stumbled across the Narn I Need video. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we are in love with you. Oh, it's the greatest thing that we've seen on the internet this year. Thank you so much. Appreciate it for your love, yeah. Do you star in the video? I'm the one who was with the wig. Oh, are you the main star? You're the Olivia Dean.

You do a wonderful job. When did you notice you had a natural musical ability? I think my wife tells me how did you know how to dance and I never dance in my life. You're a natural. Have you been surprised that this thing has gone worldwide? Have you been surprised how many people have seen it? Yeah, a lot of people, a lot of people. I mean, our highest video still now is 12.9 million.

views. Oh. Do you get people coming to your restaurant now just to meet you? Many, many, many. And they pick pictures with us, you know. And it's very surprising that they recognize us without a week. And this is something that you do, looking at your social media. You've done a few, like you've done a grease, the movie parody as well.

Yeah, we've done it out. We've done many. More coming up. More coming up more on the way. Can you give us a tease, like what's nice? next? What songs next? These are all confidential, unfortunately. Can we do some brainstorming with you? I've just looked up some other songs.

Nan, I feel like a woman. Oh, yeah, Narn, I feel like a woman. You got piano Narn, Billy Joel. It's good. It's a song you have the piano nana. Macho, macho, man. Narn's a very good word to use. Not live. No, no, not live.

No, no, not live. We'll leave those with you. Oh, yeah. And if we're ever in the UK, which I imagine we won't be, but if we are, we'd love to come visit you. Yeah, please do. Whenever you come to UK, please visit our restaurant that's in Bristol. Here's a really high-risk, high-reward situation. Have we got any New Zealanders in Bristol?

Yeah. In Bristol. Would you give them, let's say, a $50 voucher? If there's any of our listeners in Bristol, all I can promise is we give the best service. I'll give you the best service. Don't you worry about that. Hey, congratulations on making the world smile.

Well, you have a great day. Thank you. I'm really glad that you guys are enjoying it. I will convey your message to our team, you know, the creative team. Oh, yeah, please. Awesome, mate. Yeah, of course, of course, of course. Thank you so much.

Thank you. We've got a team. Creative team behind there. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. And it's something that happened. You know, I like to be able. When I'm in, a lot of dads, I like this, not all.

Because my dad is shocking at it, but airport dad mode, you'd like to get there early, you'd like to get there on time. Yeah. I've even got their family to, before the airport customs was open one time, going overseas. Very anal traveller. There's two incredibly anal travellers on the team. Matt Anderson, our boss, really, really. Love travelling with Matt. I bet you do.

I love it. Now, who mentally checks out in that scenario, because we have travelled with Matt? That was very good. Did you back off? Did you back off? You relaxed. I was like, he's got this under control. And that's what I like.

And so we were lucky enough to travel overseas the last week. And there's a store overseas that my daughter's really wanted to go to. Brandy Malville. Brandy Malville. I have to start like this. And it's my op. It's my, you know, like,

it's a teenage clothing store. It's one of those stores that as a grown man, you just feel awkward being in there. So I'll go find something else up the street and let you guys do your thing. Yeah. One, like only one size of clothing. Like,

they'll have multiple sizes. But if you're like, that top, then it comes in one size. You're like, those pants and it comes. I'm like, don't get my head,

around that but that's a shocking business model so once you buy that size it's gone no there's lots of them but all in the same size so you got one design of jeans but they're all size 30 yeah and then you might have a top that's all size whatever it's so if it doesn't fit no it's a shocking business model hey it's so popular and the source and my daughter's lover and we were overseas and we're like cool the shopping day we're going to get this done you're going to go to brandy melville i could go do whatever it is you can spend your whatever your money you'd saved up and do that great then we're coming back from our Disney crews and we're getting a ride. Hold on.

Hold on. You went on a Disney cruise, did you say? It's not important about this one. Every time you mention your Disney cruise, you're going to get this song. What is important? We were going to the airport. We had a ride to the airport. They were like, hey, we need to go.

Can we go back to Brandy Malville? Because we had a bit of time. I was like, no, we've done that. We've done that on the day. I've checked it off the list. And they're like, oh, we've been thinking about tops we need to do. Oh, so they'd already been. Yeah, the bean.

We've done at the airport. And I was like, we're going to the airport. going to the airport. They're like, can we go back? Because we've got time. And then I looked at my wife and she's like, well, there's a top I've been thinking about. That is stressful.

I'm stressed for you. So then I was like, oh, they're like, hey, you can stay with the bags at the airport. I'm like, cool, I can have four bags and not be able to go to the bathroom or do anything because I'm sitting with bags. How many hours until the departure? Oh, like we had probably like a three-hour window before we had to come back to. Pretty tight. Yeah, three hours before we had to come back to, you know, checking in?

No, we hadn't properly. No, it was too early for check in at that stage. God, that even makes me a bit nervous. I was like, we're at the airport. We need to, now we've got to go away and come back here. But in the end, we did. You're outnumbered. Well, I ended up, we had to pay for storage of bags and to go back into this brandy

Melbourne to come back again. I'm like, most frustrating thing is like, we were here, guys. We were here. Oh, yeah. It's how it's a little, dad. How did they get to the point where you arrived at the airport? Well, because our ride, our ride was just provided was to the airport. I'm like, great, we're at the airport, guys.

And they're like, uh, uh, uh, we need to go back. You're outnumbered, like females. That's the thing. on that one though. That is a stressful exercise. My husband is Romeo and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

My husband is Romeo in Ann Juliet. We can't change the original Shakespeare. That feels like that's far gone. But there's a new version that they're about to perform. It's going to be all around the country. Yeah, it's an Auckland, Wellington Cry Search. It's a jukebox musical, which means you know all the songs, Katie Perry, Pink and all that. But Andrew is Romeo.

And in this one, it's all about Juliet if she had lived and moved on with her life. She moves on from Romeo, so I wasn't expecting there to be any kissing. So this is a play that's toured the world. It's a script that has been around for a while, and we wanted to make some last-minute script changes to his kissing scenes. So obviously, I mean, it's a given Romeo needs to kiss Juliet in some form, at some point in the play. Well, some sort of interaction. I mean, maybe we can see if, you know, somebody's better than a kiss.

Yeah. So we were trying to help our Megan out and save her marriage. You know, we can't have her not concentrating on the radio show, if she's going for a bit of divorce. You know, we need Megan here. This is a cockpit. You know, we're in a cockpit here, and we need to all be concentrating.

It needs to be a sterile cockpit at all times. Concentrate on the flight. I'm not sure I quite get your analogy, but anyway, okay. We can't be bringing our personal issues to the show. So Andrew Pappas joins us now, aka Romeo. Good morning. Where for out now? Romeo, where are you?

What's going on? How are we going, team? How are we going? We've got a right. Now, last night, we came along. You guys had a bit of a dress rehearsal, a bit of a showcase, and we ran some scenes with you and Juliet. Some alternating things that the listeners that helped us come up with. We had your dabbing.

We had your high-fiving. We had your fist-bumping. We had you eating cans of tuna so your breath smelled. What did you think of our options? Look, guys, I think what we've learned here is that everyone just needs to stay in their lane, I think. I won't tell you guys how to push the buttons and talk. and maybe you guys leave us to the creative side. Okay.

Some of those offers you guys had, I don't think anyone's going to be winning a Tony Award for those rewrites. So we try, I mean, we, to be honest, we had an ulterior motive to stop you from kissing her. That was our game plan, and has it worked? Have they made these script changes? There was another one, Ben put two COVID masks on you, and we got you to kiss with the COVID masks on?

That was a bit triggering. Yeah. It's not really reading, hey, not really reading. Okay, so you didn't take it away. talk to the team, the directors, the producers and the, you know, sort of workshop it some more? They've looked, they've seen the offers and they've gone, look, thank you so much, but it's a no thank you

for today. Oh, that's what I say about our marriage. Thank you so much, but it's a no. Thank you. Look, babe, every night, every night I'll be coming home to you, all right? I'll give you, I'll give you more than a kiss.

Oh, there we go. I'll tell you what, why don't you say, when you are kissing those women you're thinking of Megan. Literally what I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about the thousands of people looking at him on the stage. But then after that he'll give you a little thought. Can you please tell everyone,

everyone messages in how insecure and needy I am on the text machine. Can you please tell them I'm not? Look everyone, this is what I have to deal with on a daily basis. I'm in so much trouble. See ya. Thank you so much for hearing me out, guys. I feel really seen right now. Also, he's on the way to go to an opposition radio station.

So see you later. I'll go. Bye. All right. Thank you so much, Andrew. That divorce might be coming sooner than we thought. I thought it was going to at least see up the tour. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Split-Eans back together after performing at Electric Ave, and we're going to be catching up with one of the legends from Splodians. Tim Finn very shortly will tell you more about the tour. I've been spoken to Tim Finn before. I'm a bit nervous, yeah. Legends. Just want him to like us. We picked behind the curtain.

I'd like to want to hang out and go, hey, we should hang out. I mean, of course I'd hang up. Well, the birds just wanted them to go. No, they were nice. Ben's mango will the interviews. They just wanted them to like me. All right. So what we want to know, because you were doing some great research, Ben,

they all went to a school, Sacred Heart. Now, Sacred Heart has a long list of really successful alumni from there. Who are the Big Bangers? Dave Dobbin went there. Yeah. Sean Fitzpatrick, the All Black. Both the Finns. Yeah, right.

A lot of people like Michael King, historian. Yeah, like comedians. actors, authors, you name it, you know, entertainers, they've had a huge list. And Neil and Tim Finn, obviously. Mike Chun, he would have gone there? Peter Ehrlich. Yeah, Dave Dobbin, yeah. You name it.

Well, we just did. Yeah, we just did. So we're going to go through to Sacred Heart now because you want to do a little test to see if Tim or Neil, or both of them, are the most famous, former students. It's really putting someone on the spot here, isn't it? It is, yeah. Good morning, Sacred Heart College. Good morning.

It's Jono Ben and Megan calling from the radio station. From the radio station, from the Hints radio station? From where? From where? We're just a generic radio station. We don't like to give way too many details. No, no, no. How can we help you?

Question, who would be the most famous person that you've had at your school, like off the top of your head? Who would you think? Who would be the most famous person? Because you've got a lot. Yeah, you've got a big list of kids. Previous students, yeah. Previous students.

Oh, from split ends. Oh, there you go. Would you say Neil or Tim out of those two? Oh, you can't. You'd have to say both, wouldn't you? Okay. You've actually, you've named, because we're looking at the list of people you've had.

You've had everyone from Dave Dobbin, Sean Fitzpatrick rugby player, there's black caps, there's authors, there's so many. There's too many. But the one you named is we're about to talk to Tim Finn on the radio. And so we just thought we'd see how he ranked with his old school, and he's right up there. Oh, well, there we go.

Nailed it. I did the right thing. You did. It would have been awkward for poor old Tim, If we were talking to Sean Fitzpatrick right now, they'll be like, I'll have to remind you about that. Well, tell him Sacred Heart says hi and well done. Oh, there we go.

Does he have like his photo up on the school anywhere? I don't think his photo would be any. Maybe his name, but I don't think it's... Too many. You can't put all those pictures up. Yeah, exactly. Someone would get missed out and I'd feel bad, wouldn't they? That's what happened to my school, but anyway.

Ben never got onto the wall of his school. And probably with good reason now, though, every time I bring it up, I'm like, why would I deserve to be out there? Ross Taylor's up there twice, but anyway, that's a story for another day. He's represented his country. Anyway, we can take this off. You didn't need to, you can go now and get on with your day.

Thank you so much. All right. Enjoy talking to him. Okay. Thank you. Okay, so, oh, 800 of the hits. Did you go to school with a famous person? Some great texts coming through already.

Give us some names. Okay. My brother was in the same class as Andrew Merton's all black. And then I was in the same class as Scott Dixon, IndyCar racing. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hats

Now we're talking about the most famous person you went to school with After, well we got Tim Finn Joining us very shortly from Split-Eans He went to Sacred Heart And he was top of the list from Sacred Heart And geez, some huge names there Dave Dobbin was there as well All Blacks

Peter Ehrlich A lot of like creatives like art Yeah He's fostering the arts At Sacred Heart I went to school with a lot of successful people Again all blacks and politicians and things as well

and they get their names and blazoned on walls and trophies and things not much out there for your humble commercial radio announcer never been invited back for an inspirational speech nothing nothing you Ben no no and I do I keep bringing it up Ross Taylor as a legend he was at the same time as me

you know in Mara Rapa College and yeah he's got his picture up twice of the wall of legends and it feels like that if they wanted to fill wall space say hey I'm here I know but then you know from the school's point of you do we go to international cricketer or a guy who says call 0,800 the hits and tell us the weirdest thing you've done in your car. You know, who are you going to put on the wall?

It barely gets the time right in the morning. Should we put Ross up again? Yeah, yeah, you know. Yeah, we probably could fill space with Ross again. Yeah, you're right. Are you, Megan, are you emblazoned? No, but I did go back to do a speech at like the end of the year. Yeah, but only because I'd gone on and on about it on the radio.

There's a pity one. Yeah, I feel like now if they put back, it's pity. And everyone was kind of glazed over when I was talking, so I don't think they really knew anything about me. Didn't inspire anyone. So the famous people you went to school with, Matt, who was it for you? Good morning, yeah. So my brother went to school with Andrew Merton.

That was cross-church boys high school. And I was in the same class as Scott Dixon. That was Manning Intermediate. It's no longer a school now. That's crazy. Wow. Two really successful Kiwis. Were they good school kids?

I don't know about Andrew Merton. I know some stuff my brother got up to a high school. That probably wouldn't be too good. I think he was pretty straight up. Was Scott Dixon racing cars when he was at primary school? I'm pretty sure he was. Go-Cats, yeah, probably. Oh, that's very cool.

Yeah, it's great. No, it's great. No, it's great. So have you been to an awkward reunion with Scott or? No, well, the school's not there anymore. It was an intermediate and it's integrated into primary now, so. That's cool, though. No, no, a few class photos there that we've got.

Do you think if you saw him today, he'd remember you? Uh, no. All right, we'll see if this is the same thing. We've got heaps of calls to get through. Yeah. Kisina, welcome. In Wellington, who did you go to school with? Brooke Fraser.

Oh, Brooke Fraser. Oh, that's pretty awesome. Was she doing music at school? Yes, and she was doing music and she was doing drummer as far as I know. Oh, she's doing drumming. Oh, drama. I was like, wow, I never saw her doing any drumming. Yeah.

I guess it makes sense, but no, it's drama, it makes a lot more sense. Brooke Fraser, wonderful, her artist. She's in America. Isn't she really successful in the States now? Yeah. Yeah, I think she was winning, like, Grammys and stuff. She won a Grammy, yeah, yeah. Well, Cassini, you can say you've been to school with a Grammy winner.

Let's get Hayden on. Who did you go to school with Hayden? Hi, Maurena, guys. Morning. Yeah, talking about Ross Taylor. Yeah, well, I went to school with them as well, but maybe controversially, we borrowed slash stolen off from a upper college. Oh, yeah, because he wasn't at Waterbrook College from Philadelphia.

for long, but long enough to get his pitcher on the wall a couple of times. He's so salty about it. Yeah, Parmy boys definitely, you know, pushed him, extended him into that next. The cricketer that we know and loved. The cricketer, yeah, well, he started him off, but you're right. Yeah, yeah, you guys, you know, Masterlin's bad when Parmi's a step up. Only slightly.

You guys weren't, like, pitching for Ben? No, no one's pitching for me, mate. Not even my school was pitching for me, that's for sure. John O'Ben and Megan. That's great to have split ends back together. And great to have the legendary Tim Finn with us on the show. Hello, you three. Hey, nice to talk to you.

Very nice to talk to you. Split ends back together again, first time playing together in like 17, 18 years at Electricab. Did you get nervous before something like that? Well, there were some nerves. You know, the band hadn't played for a long time, but we had some amazing rehearsals, and so we were pretty confident. But, you know, you always keep a little nervous there. I mean, you allow for that because it helps.

Yeah, it means you care. That's what's on my mum, Annie Pryor away, says Tim, so you can take that with you on tour. Words of wisdom from Annie Pryor. From John O's mom. She would know. She would know. Is it hard to remember all the words and all the notes of the music that you have to play?

Like, did you have to refresh yourself? It's pretty easy. I mean, I play some of these songs when I do solo shows, and Neil does as well. I did learn to play message to my girl on the guitar, and I've never played that before. I used to just sing harmonies with Neil and support him in that song. And it's capo on four,

because otherwise you are playing a lot of C-sharps. I'll pretend I know what you're talking about. Do you, I mean, you and Neil are brothers, obviously, and I don't know that I would be able to hang out with my brother as much as you have and literally learn work with him. How do you navigate that? Well, Neil's six years younger than me, So when he joined Spitzens, he was just a kid.

He was about 18, I think. And then just spin forward a few years from there. He was writing, I got you for the band. So he earned his place very quickly, obviously. And it was a good relationship because that age difference, you know, it was, I don't know, just kind of no problems, you know. And that's kind of what's gone through to now. We've had our ups and downs, but just, I mean, the thing is we don't hang out,

you know, we basically see each other at family occasions or we play music together. And we basically don't see each other a lot in the gaps. That's interesting. Yeah, it works. I mean, when we write songs together for Finn Brothers Project or whatever it is, we can dip into that same little tide pool of memories without even talking about it. You know, we can remember things and they come through in the music, not directly. We're not writing about, you know, family Christmases or something, but it's all in there.

Now, you guys, you went to Sacred Heart College, and Ben was actually looking into it. So many famous New Zealanders went through Sacred Heart College. Now, we phone Sacred Heart College, Tim. Oh. And we're like, off top of the head, we spoke to someone in reception. Who do you think is the most famous person from Sacred Heart College? Now, where you've got, you know, Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick, Dave Dobbin was from there, Ehrlich, was from there as well.

Toa Fraser. Yeah. As well. Who do you think they said, Tim? It depends if they, you know, what they knew. I mean, because, like, they might have just been somebody who's only recently arrived into New Zealand or something. Yep, no, right. We'll play you the audio now, Tim.

Okay, this is Sacred Heart College just minutes ago. Who would be the most famous from previous students? Oh, from Split Ends. Oh, there you go. I'd just say, Neil or Tim, out of those two? You'd have to say both, wouldn't you? Okay. We're about to talk to Tim Finn on the radio.

And so we just thought we'd see how he ranked. with his old school and he's right up there. There we go. Nailed him. I did. It's been awkward for poor old Tim if you're... All right. Well, tell him, Sacred Heart says hi and well done.

I mean, that's very heartwarming, guys. No one's ever done that in all these years. I mean, all those canes were worth it after. Oh, was there a bit of that going on? Because we were wondering if you're... There's a lot of caning. I had 35 in my first year. How many is?

Forty-five? 35. Oh, geez, they were caning up a storm then, weren't they? Did you get it? It was a dormitory record. Uh-oh. And, you know, it was a badge of honors, to be honest. You could choose the bum or the hand, and usually I'd go for the hand, but man is hurt.

By the way, can you please contact that woman and offer her a couple of tickets? Because that, you know. Really? I think she's, I think she sounded like a lovely person, and I just want to, would love to do that for her. So we can contact. We will, we will. We'll do that. Yeah.

Oh, that's so lovely of you. That's a nice gesture. Oh, well, Tim, thank you so much for your time. It's so great to have split ends back together and going around the country. And how did we go? We were nervous about talking to you because we wanted to make a good impression. Because you're a legend. Yeah, like we wanted you to like us.

Bean, I don't think you should. Do we mess it up or where I came now, Tim? No, I did like you all. I think you're very nice and intelligent. And, you know, it was a pleasant chat. And, you know, I could tell that you were just keen to kind of try and get inside it. And that's what I like. Oh, good.

Let's examine it. Let's talk about it. That's good. We should do more post analysis at the end of our interviews. I tell you what, the sacred heart thing has thrown me for a loop. So I was really impressed with that. And yeah, luckily, she said what he said. But it was interesting that you thought to do that. So well done, too.

Thank you so much, Tam. We will call her and make sure we get her a double pass to your show. Please do that. I would love that. Oh, my God, he's going to think we're so needy. Oh, no, sorry, Tim. Yeah, I'm very needy. and Megan

The podcast The Hits And well More popular than ever It seems And they're extremely popular Already sold out To their concert

in Auckland and Wellington Putting on a second show All the details at Hitsstock0.NZ And we spoke to do The Legendary Tim Finn New Zealand Music Royalty was on the show

Just 20 minutes ago I got a bit I tried to get him to like I said do you like us How was that Just thinking you know How was the interview And then it really went into

A lovely answer And probably thought I was very needy You know Yeah regretting that But you should He was trying to be like

Oh no it was good But it was good and I like the bit about this He really got into it Oh no Let's uh you know We can talk about this after the show But let's probably never do that again It's gonna be my new thing guys

I could ask every interview how it was Now we phoned uh We did phone Tim's Tim and Neil's school Because there was a long list of famous people That came from the school And we just wanted to know Where did they rank

On the list of famous alumni Who would be the most famous previous students. Oh, from split ends. Oh, there you go. Would you say Neil or Tim out of those two? You'd have to say both, wouldn't you? Okay.

You've actually, we're about to talk to Tim Finn on the radio. And so we just thought we'd see how he ranked with his old school, and he's right up there. Oh, there we go. Nailed it. I said the right thing. You did. It would have been awkward for poor old Tim if you're there. Well, tell him Sacred Heart says hi and well done.

So we played that down to Tim, and he, He was taken her back. Yeah, he was very touched by it, and he wanted to give a couple of tickets away to that lady. So we need to call back. He said, can you call her back and tell her to have tickets? How, what? There's a lot of, like, we don't have the tickets physically. No.

How are we going to, anyway, we can sort that out, but we'll go through. Hello, it's John Omen and Megan calling back from the Hits Radio Station. I'm so sorry to bug you. Oh, you just bugged my workmate before. Oh, you know, we wanted to talk to her because we just spoke to Tim Finn, and he wanted to pass on a message to her. Oh, that's so lovely. She'll love that. A message to my girl, he said, no, I put that out there.

He just said a message to my girl. I'll let her have it. Is she available to chat to us? I will just put you through. It won't be a sec. Thank you. Now she thinks that he said message to me. I know, I know.

I'll leave it, I'll leave it, I'll leave it. Hello? Hello, it's Jono Ben and Megan calling from the Hits radio station. Sorry to bugging me. Hi, hi again. Hi. How are you in the past like 10 minutes? Yeah, I know.

I thought it's been all go, all go. Why not pester you again? I'm sorry, but we just spoke to Tim Finn. We played the little bit of us talking to you about you remembering him from being one of the famous students. And listen to what he said. Have a listen. Hey, by the way, can you please contact that woman and offer her a couple of tickets? Oh.

Really? I think she sounded like a lovely person and I just want to, would love to do that for her so we can contact. We will. We will. We'll do that. Yeah. He wants to give you tickets to the show. Nice. Oh, what a nice guy.

A personal invitation from Tim Finn to come to his show. Oh, that's amazing. I'd love that. Oh, that's awesome. You hold the line, we'll get your details. We're at plaster those all across the radio. But thank you so much for your time today. It was really cool to talk to you. Thank you very much.

It was a really nice phone call to have. Really heartwarming radio, that's what that was. I know. Heartwarming stuff. How did you like it? It would be the heart, not the hits. How was it for you? Was it all right?

The Postalysis was all right for you? It was really good. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The HAD. Talk about what's going on with the US and Iran at the moment that seems to be making the petrol prices jump up to over $3 at the pump, and they're talking about options that these things may not happen to.

We're not trying to fear any of that things like carless days for some people and things that are all on the table if this continues. Similar to like when you have water rations and you're allowed to drive on even or odd days or things like that. That has happened previously, hasn't? In the Muldoon era. Oh, Piggy. That was his name, Piggy Muldoon.

People called him that. You probably wouldn't get away with that nowadays, would you? No, he said that. It's probably not the nicest. No, what's your name, Piggy? Why? I assume they thought he looked like a pig? I don't know.

Terrible, no, sorry, I even used it in 2026. I feel bad. Do you know, I've just 40 minutes ago had the most hilarious conversation. I pulled out of my driveway. Yeah. And there was a guy, hoodie backpack. Okay, hoodie backpack combo. strolling up the middle of the of the street and we're like we're not on like a main road or anything

and i was i mankarend okay i just sort of sat in the car and see where where he was walking to and he was kind of looking in the windows of vehicles up the street and i was just looking in my rear vision mirror so then i reversed up and i wound down the window i said morning mate he said hi there said what are you up to maim i was just just going for a walk i said because it looks like you're about to break into, you know, one of these cars that you keep serious, he's like, no, no. I was like, oh, you keep looking in the windows. He's like, oh, this was really good from him on the spot

because I'm looking for my phone. Oh, oh. And I was like, oh, you think you've left your phone. Someone else's car. And a car that you don't recognize. I mean, you've got to look everywhere for your phone, so I guess that's... Yeah, and I was like, hey, just so you know,

I'm probably going to call the police. He's like, okay, thank you. I was like, well, you have a good day. He's like, you too. mate and then we got on our way on our way so I don't know I thought I'd give me a heads up you know there's a chance to get away here what was his reaction

as you drove off did he get it he was the most relaxed car thief I've ever seen very casual just out for a bloody 5 a.m. stroll 430 am straw do you know if there's days we're allowed cars on certain days is that you know car thieves are they

do they have certain days they're allowed to steal cars probably they can't drive away on a car if it's not their day yeah the evening days Monday Wednesday Friday That's right. Like the purge. We all know what days it's happening. So yeah, well, shout out to that guy.

Hope he found his phone or stole a car. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Talk about petrol prices and what's going to happen with all the big news that's going on in the world. It's the petrol countdown. Are we going to run out of gas?

They're going to be carless days, all these things. Or is this media fairmongering, you're saying? I feel like the media love to whip things into a front of. We are the media. I know. We are mongeras though. We love peddling fare. But joining us right now, economist and all round.

Chief economist, chief executive. When did you upgrade to chief economist, Brad Olson? Oh, well, you know, there's a lot happening in the economy, and sometimes if there's a bit of inflation in the economy, you might have to see a bit of, you know, name inflation as well. You've upgraded yourself. We've got chief on the phone. Chief economist Brad Olson.

Talk to us, baby. Are we going to run out of petrol? Well, we certainly don't hope so because it sounds like the government's already planning to sort of, you know, coming over the top and tell us when we can't drive, you know, how much we can buy, what you can do with it. It's sort of scary stuff.

I mean, we've got to be realistic. This is the biggest oil price shock that we've seen for a generation, if not potentially forever. 20% of the world's oil goes through the Middle East. And at the moment, if you try and drive a tanker through, you're getting missiles, drones, mines and everything else. So the issue at the moment is almost less that oil prices are going up, although I know everyone's being hit by that.

It's that, you know, in a month's time, a couple of months' time, you start to get to the position if the tankers can't get through. You could be paying $2,000 a litre for oil. It doesn't matter if there's nothing in the tank. But people keep saying that we get our oil not from there. Singapore. You get it from Singapore, but is it like a supply and demand situation? Well, it's more that that's where it's refined.

So you'll remember 10 years or so ago, we were refining it here at home at Marsden Point. But it's not like we were pumping it out of Fungeray Harbor, the crude oil itself. We were getting that crude from the Middle East. Now, although, yes, we're getting our refined petrol from Singapore and South Korea, they get their crude oil from the Middle East,

from the likes of Saudi Arabia. So it's the wider supply chain that's all choked up. And, I mean, we know as well that it's difficult to get some of our exports into the region. There's a bunch of meat and dairy that we send through to the Middle East that, again, can't get through because of bombs and missiles. So at the moment, it's a supply and demand issue. Everyone's still trying to drive. There's sort of no big change in demand, apart from maybe a few more people doing some panic buying. But it's the supply thing, not right here right now. I think we've got something like 55 days worth of oil at any given time, and

there's a bit more on the water. But it's that if you don't get the next shipment coming through, do start to worry about just the levels we've got. We're not there yet, but the concerns there. Do we know where we keep talking about this magical ship? We've got some stuff on a ship, it's in the water. Do we know where the ship is and if the ship's going to make it? Last I heard, I think there were a couple ships coming in. One was awful near Indonesia about 10 days ago, so it's in the right part of the world.

That's great. It's on the conflict zone. But again, the worry is not that ship. It's the next one after it, which is probably still stuck somewhere in the Middle East, too scared to move because it's going to get bombed. So this is, I think, the big challenges that we're all sitting here going, look, if this war doesn't end soon, and again, little old New Zealand doesn't have a lot that we can influence the war,

we're sort of sitting here just twiddling our thumbs going, well, we're sort of hoping someone else might come and help us out, but it's tricky. I trust you, you're an intelligent economist. Chief. Chief Economist. What are we realistically looking like paying it in the pump? At the moment, I mean, we saw crude oil prices yesterday go to about,

100 US a barrel again. I think we're probably thinking in the sort of 320 a litre range for 91 but here's the big thing there's still such a huge variety of fuel prices across the country I mean Mike if you go on gasby at the moment

you can sort of save a good almost 15, 20, sometimes 30 cents a liter if you drive ever so slightly out of the way so you know looking at those I think is important and I dare expect that people start to make smart choices given these higher prices You know, people are not done.

They're not going to go, you know what, I'm just going to keep filling up. You'll see people that work from home more or they take the bus. I mean, hey, maybe it's time to make some new friends do some carpooling a bit more. That sounds dreadful. Sitting in a carpool together in the morning. Yeah, that's a great idea. I have to live like an hour out of the city to a fort. You have to come pick us up.

You have to pick us up. Hey, Brad, thanks for breaking that down, mate. Yeah, we really appreciate it.