Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We Have a go at Fortune Telling 🔮

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

On today’s show: Producer Troy had his fortune told and it came true! We read out your fortunes We put a search out for Billy Bass Jono talks about the humbling experience he had Whats going on with Brooklyn Beckham? We get Bens dad to weigh in We join in on the throwback to 2016 trend and talk about Jono and Bens interveiw with Jared Leto Jimmy Carr is in the country and making fun of us. Jono heard a cool story from a courier Bens wife accidentally stole from a hotel We get the inventor of kiwi onion dip to join us Megan made some bread and pasta with the Onion soup sachet for Jono and Ben to try Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh, cook easy, delicious dinners the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Welcome to the podcast on a Wednesday morning, some rough weather hitting New Zealand right now at the moment. It feels like summer has not been that great. Very inconsistent. Are we not recycling enough? Is that our thing? Are we going to do more of that?

Mother nature. No, it's that tropical weather system. Limee, yeah. Mind you, Feb seems to be the more consistent, doesn't it? Yeah. That's the month. That's the where we should be taking our own. We say that every year.

Yeah. Because I feel like it's rainy over Christmas, New Year's every year. And we're like, damn, I wasted my holidays in January. A public holiday for Christmas. A couple of days off for years. Yeah, get back into it. And then maybe February. Yeah, yeah.

That'd be nice. Maybe we can pitch that. Well, we have Whitesuggy weekend. You just need to extend that into everything. Just get a few more holidays going on that period. I think we actually do pretty well in the grand scheme of things for public holidays. Oh, compared to the rest of the world. Yeah.

You look at everyone else's just a couple of. back into it again. Yeah. I think how many public holidays do you reckon we've got? Have I played this game with you guys? Is it 11? Let's have a look. See if you can guess all the public holidays and without Googling.

Oh God. Are you including like local anniversaries? Oh let's just say anniversaries. So there'll be one anniversary for a one. One anniversary. Yeah. Okay. I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

See? I said 11? Okay. Okay. So what's one anniversary? One anniversary? Wittangi. Yeah.

We're talking about matriki. Matriki. A king's birthday. Easter? Yeah. I'm talking about Easter. Good Friday. And Easter.

Monday, isn't it? What was after that Sunday? Do they count as two? Good Friday or just Easter. No, it's just got Good Friday on this list. Okay. I think you get the other one after Sunday becomes, anyway. Okay.

Then we've got Labor Day. Oh, yeah, Labor Day. Yeah, that's a beauty. Christmas Day. Yeah, that's another beauty. New Year's Day? Is that? New Year's Day.

Yeah, that's count as one. Yep. There's one... Boxing day? Boxing day? Boxing day. That's observed. Okay.

Okay, we're missing two. There's one where 25th of April. Oh, Isaac day. Of all the ones. You forgot the monsters. You forgot them. Literally.

Oh, geez. At least we miss me again. We almost forgot. It's almost comical. But didn't. Shit. No. Okay, so we're missing one.

We got Matariki. That's the newest one. Yeah. Oh, day after New Year. year's day. Yeah, first and second. Oh, there we go. Is that counted?

Yeah. Oh, there we go. We've got 11. Well, done. Thank God you got that last one. Enjoy the podcast. Jono Ben and Megan. The podcast.

Now, we have been away for, you know, for a couple of weeks. And producer Troy, you went to Japan. Look like you had a wonderful time in Japan. It was a case of wonderful time on Instagram, not as fun in reality. I was so crook. Oh, I'd like people to post the bleak moments on Instagram. Oh, God. I'm down.

with gastro. I'm stuck in those me, bleak hotel room, that would be more enjoyable. But you heard your fortune told to you over there, right? Yes, I had essentially been crook for about a week.

It was New Year's Day and we're like, okay, I'll drag myself out of bed, we'll go to a temple because that's what you do on New Year's Day in Japan. You go to your first temple of the year. Oh, really? Did you celebrate in the Japanese tradition of having KFC for Christmas Day?

We tried. There was lines down the street. It was going to be a three-hour. I will wait. Really? Wow. She's the colonel would be rubbing

his greasy hands in Japan, wouldn't they? Damn. So yes, we went to this temple and I got this little fortune, this little paper fortune. Yeah.

And... What illness did you have just to have interest? So both my ears were blocked from the plane. So it felt like I was underwater. I could hear my own voice in my hands. Oh, yeah, that's annoying. Went to a doctor.

He said you've got infections in both ears and a sinus infection. So I was just, just not having a good... I was just infected. Riddled. How long were you? your ears block for?

At the time we went to the temple, we'll weak. And it's so annoying. And you don't want to, like, I know it's terrible for the person's suffering, but you don't want to keep banging on about it, because everyone's like, yeah, we get it, you've got ears. And sinuses. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I got this, this fortune.

There are different categories of the fortune. So general explanation said you'll face hardships only in the beginning. Okay. I was going through a hardship as I was reading this. I was true. You think sinusy hardships? Yeah. A legal case, if my claim is legitimate, I will.

win. Oh, okay. The thing I've lost will be found at an unexpected place. What have you lost? Nothing yet. Okay, but then we're, yeah, yeah. Any trades I have will be profitable. And it says, your illness.

Your illness will drag on for some time. It is advisable you change a doctor, and you will get well completely by some unexpected magic treatment. Right. I was like, that's interesting. Sucks because it's going to drag on for some time. Yeah. And it did.

It went on for another week, no change in my ears being blocked. and my sinuses all being all puffy. And then me and my partner were at Harry Potter World. And we're waiting in line for the magic broomstick. And all of a sudden, both of my ears went ping, ping, and popped and drained. And I just felt this overwhelming pressure release. And I looked at my partner and I said, the magic of Harry Potter. It's the magic of the brew stick.

And everyone around him around him. Really, the ground man's really into the... I'm unblocked. I'm unclawed. The magic is magic, guys. It's magic. The magic, it's cute and me. Cheers running down my face.

That is very, very coincidental though. That's amazing. What happened in that moment? Like, when you were standing in line, did anything happen? Absolutely nothing. Sounds like you could have also sued the airline and won the case too, mate.

If his claim was legitimate. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. We've been talking about Fortune Cookies, producer Troy. Incredible story in Japan. It was feeling unwell. for Oweba and you got your fortune and it said it was going to be cured by magic

by some mysterious unexpected magic and then all of a sudden my ears were fixed by Harry Potter World yeah so you had two weeks of blocked sinuses infected sinuses blocked ears and yeah you were waiting in line and you said there was a sound effect over the speakers at Harry Potter World that burst your eardrums kind of yeah it just felt like

did them just unblock and drain and I was like oh the relief talk us through the relief It was amazing. You imagine hearing the reverberation and the noise of your own voice and your own head for two weeks. And then all of a sudden, silence. And then you actually got to enjoy Harry Potter World. Yeah, exactly. And the one day that was left of my trip.

Oh, really? It was right of the ends. So you got some fortune cookies. They're not quite the same fortune as what you got. These are from Pack and Save Mount Albert. It's pretty much in line with the Japanese Temple, Pack and Save Mount Albert, isn't it? Yeah, interesting story in the back of them about fortune cookies. I was just reading.

So this is back in the 13th and 14th centuries. Mongolian rulers were concerned they may get overthrown by their subjects. And so they sent around warlords to every village to confiscate the weapons. And the people were going to plan a revolt and they didn't know how to do it. So they sent out little mooncakes to everyone. And inside the moon cakes was notes. So we're going to do it, guys. I'm going to revolt.

We're going to do it. And the moon cakes got through. And inside was the message. And now they bring in good fortune. Wonder how many people digested important notes. Yeah, you're right. Oh, God, you ate all the information. I also see on the back as suggested eating scenarios

where you can have with tea or coffee, with friends, at a barbecue. After dinner. Or whenever. Whenever, people get together. And we're getting together right now. So we've all got a fortune cookie here in the studio. You want to crack yours open, Megan? Yeah, okay.

I'll go first. Do you know, if you look at the fortune cookie like that, what does that remind you of? A bum. Yeah. It's a skin colour, didn't it? That is a little bit, yeah. Thanks for that, John. All right, we're going to play some music for you here, Megan.

Megan's Fortune for 26. So we'll keep this in the studio and we'll find out if this is... Oh, so it's got numbers on one side. They're fairly run-of-the-mill numbers. My fortune says, there is a true and sincere friendship between you and your friends. Well, pack and save Mount Albert. You couldn't get more generic.

Genuine friends. Genuine friends. True and sincere. It doesn't say what. Friendship. Okay. Well, I don't really know what to read into that. But anyway.

Oh, you guys do love me. I've got to crack one. Open right now. 4487 or 800 of the hits if you want us to... They're yummy too. You can enjoy them anywhere. We never. Okay, mine says distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand.

What does that mean? I don't know. Distant water I don't know Oh if you can help us decipher that 448 7 117 And then some numbers off in the back I don't know what that meant

If your garage catches fire You're like, we haven't put the hose The hose Oh I'll lead it to the neighbour I don't really know what to mean about that Okay Jono what's your This says

If you make a habit Of buying things you do not need You will soon be selling Those things you do not need Is what I said? Yeah It's just more fact Yeah

Okay Go on a drunken trade me purchase Late at night So don't buy unnecessary things Is your thing Okay Yeah well I went hundred the hits We'll take one quick one

Jan, you're with us You want your fortune read What have we got there Fortune teller producer Troy For Jan Here we go Jan What does 2026 hold for Jan Jan?

You will benefit From tonight's experience Tonight! Tonight. Tonight, Jan. Interesting. Tonight's acupuncture. Oh,

relieving, relieving. All right. Can we call you? And the purpose is for IVF, so there we go. Oh, my. Okay, that's great. Okay. Oh, my God, seven on the text.

Well, good luck tonight. Can we call you tomorrow and just see if you're pregnant? No. Under the hat tonight. Maybe in three weeks. Okay, you're watching told? Oh, my God. All the best, Jan.

The podcast. The hits. Right now we're going deep into the fortune cookie box and trying to get people's fortunes told for 2025. 0800, the hits if you want your fortune. Read out as we crack open a fortune cookie. Looking at the cookies, how do you think they get the fortunes inserted in there? Do you think they make the cookie first and slide them in through the cavity?

No, because they're all perfectly placed. Do you reckon they cook them with the... No, they cook it and then when they fold it, they put the thing out. Oh, that would make sense, right? That would make a lot of sense. Yeah, I was thinking about that. 100% I think a robot's doing that job for them now. Yeah.

But your producer Troy has come back from Japan, his fortune eventuated, and we just had a wonderful caller on, who, whose name escapes me, so I'm going to call her Jan, because that's her name. And it said, you'll benefit from tonight. She's got acupuncture, IVF as well, you know,

so she's like, this could be... We need to keep in touch with Jan. Hopefully that's... This is good fortune. We're giving out there right now, but I'm 100 of the hits. Let's give away something. Ours are pretty generic. We might have to do another one on social for us.

Shelly, happy new year to you, show catchphrase. Happy New Year, guys. How are you? Lovely to have you on, Anne Kau. Let's read your fortune, Shelley and Mount Munganui. Cracking open the fortune cookie. Listen not to vain words of empty tongues. Oh, it sounds like she's telling her not to listen to this show.

We're not, yeah, yeah. It's like, stop listening to this show. Vane words from empty tongues. That could be the show's new slogan. Shelly, will you watch out for those empty tongues and those vain words? I feel like we've left a little bit confused and rattled at the end of that one. Rhonda, lovely to have you on. Happy New Year to you.

Happy New Year to you too. Show catchphrased. Happy year. All right, here we go. Here's your fortune. We're cracking open a cookie. Awesome. Friendship.

A building. contract you sign with laughter and break with tears. Aw, that's crack. It's kind of a statement though. Where's the fortune? Have you got some people in your world that potentially

could make long-term friends, you think? I really have long-term friends. Don't need anyone. Make another long-term friends. Sounds like you need to. Build those relationships. We'll take one more. We'll get James on. Welcome to you, Jimmy. Happy New Year, Legends.

Happy New Year. James. Nice to hear from me, James. I hope you doing well. Now, here's your fortune. Did you realize, did you realize, Ben, you said 20-25 a minute ago? Oh, did I? Oh, geez. We're still warming up, mate. We're still stretching the hamstrings. You're my boss now, James, or no? Pretty much.

Yeah, you are. Okay, you're all across it. It's good. You're stuck in last year. Yeah, I'm stuck in 2025. You're right. Here we go. Here's your fortune, James. James and Fielding. Your candle will brighten the world around you. Unfortunately, it creates a shadow of its own, but you will still serve the purpose you're meant to.

Oh, that was, that was good, that was bad, and that was good again. You brighten our candle. You do, James. You do. You do. Maybe your candle will set Ben's house alight, because then the water's too far away to put out there. The distant fire. The distant water won't help to put our fire close at hand.

That might make sense that way, isn't it. Don't be bringing your flaming candles over to his property, hey. Thank you so much, James. to have you back. Your luck with 2025 or 2236, whatever year you choose to celebrate. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast,

The Hits. Last week, as we were coming back, we were coming back for a couple days in Topor with some friends, which was fun, and then we had night as a family in Hamilton. We stayed at a hotel

because my daughter, Siena, her Christmas present was to go to Sound Splash. She really wanted to go with her friends, so she went along there, came back to the hotel at night, and then went back the next day. Now, it was the final Sound Splash, wasn't it?

I think there's the final squaw coming up. I think it might be. Oh, am I getting confused? Yeah, I think you're getting confused. I think it's, yeah. All the festies, they roll into one for me. I just start in December and don't end until jam. Yeah, because there was no accommodation in Raglan region, obviously, when we went to books.

So we ended up doing the, you know, between us, we were sort of taking a wife and I between the, the Uber service as you are as a parent. Did you, did you, do you, do you splash? Did you, did they didn't go into the festival. But on the Saturday, we were going to check out of the hotel. We knew we were going to pick a cent or up. later that night and then I got offered some tickets to Ed Shearron so I was like oh man can I can I go back you know we'll take into my other daughter to Ed Sharon do you mind doing the pick-up at the end of the day it's just up the road it's just

up the road she was okay with that she was fired with that so she took you know she took one for the team and waited around to the evening she we booked her a movie and stuff like that did she go I could take the ticket to each year and you could come to her mate didn't come to her yeah not transferable sorry love she had to her name in Lodge so so she waited around to about 1030 that I went to a movie and stuff like that. But then we were checking out of the hotel and she's like, maybe I could get a bit of a late checkout

of the hotel. So we went up to the counter like, can get a late checkout. Now normally you'd think late checkout would be what? Maybe midday if you're pushing it? Yeah. On my head, a person behind the counter is like, how late do you want? My wife went three o'clock. Jeez, that's a late checker. Three o'clock.

When are they going to clean it? Three o'clock. And then the person went, looked at the computer and went, yeah, we could probably do that. And I was three o'clock. And then my wife walked away. came back and went, what about five o'clock? And I was like, you are taking the...

This is clicking over to a new day. That's like exactly what I thought. And the person went, yeah, okay, we can do that. So, yeah, so she had the hotel, which was amazing, incredible. That's literally like another... That's what I was thinking. I was like, well, anyway, no complaints about me going to Ed Shearing now. You've got a hotel to yourself, a rest of the day going in the movie.

She's all sorted. Good on you. How far have you pushed the late checkout? That's what I thought. I've never heard of that before. But yeah, but because I was leaving... leaving earlier, normally I like to check all the room and stuff, you know, before we go, check everything's all good.

And I said to Amanda, I was like, can you make sure everything you've got, we've got everything. Can you film yourself doing it and show me the footage? You are the last person in the hotel room. She's like, yeah, I've got this. No worries, don't worry. Does she check under beds? Yeah, she's pretty good with that.

Check out all the beds, under pillows, that sort of thing. So the next day, next day we were like unpacking our stuff all back in Auckland. And I was like, what's this? and she's like, what do you mean? What's this? And I'm like, this thing, this electronic thing. And she's like, that's seeing our daughters. That's her Alexa, isn't it?

I'm like, no, no, that's not her Alexa. Because she had trouble with the election where she takes it around and stuff. I was like, no, that's the hotel's clock radio. Classic bloomer confusion. One of those fancy talky things. Tells the time. And she's like, oh no. She's sitting there going, hey, Alexa.

Alexa. So she had just taken, unplug the clock radio, put that in the bag. Quite a bit to unplugging a clock radio. She was like, I was so proud of myself getting this one. I was like, have forgotten the Alexa? Yeah. I was like, no, that's definitely. So, yeah.

So what are you doing with that? We have to post that back. Not only did we get a late checkout. Listen at the hotel's like, this lady is having a lot. He's also taking the clock radio with her as well. So, yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hit.

There's a big social media trend. Looking back at 2016, you would have seen it everywhere at the moment. And looking back 10 years ago, it's amazing when you look back at people look different, people in different jobs, lots of stuff going on. Yeah, kids, how quickly are that? It's the way off of me looking back at 2016 and go, geez, the kids, you know. They would have been like five. Yeah, well, four and six. Yeah.

And now they're right, yeah, it's like, wow, looking back of those photos. I look back at the photos and like, gee, still had no hair. Yeah, true. Yeah, yeah. Anything, I'm just kind of, what I did is I aged early and I've just platoed. I wrinkled hard early and I've just wrinkled for the last decade. 2016, all I could,

all that springs to mind for me is the Rio Olympics and they had a toxic green pool that looked like the poor bloody swimmers or the divers. I think it was a timing pole, yeah. We're like leaping into nuclear waste. That's the only thing,

someone had messed up the chlorination of the pool. That's the only thing you remember 2016. It's not even anything personal. Looking back at that year, we went across the cooks traded in a banana boat. Did you have a TV show? Yeah.

We were in New York and stuff and, you know, we did lots of different things. We travelled quite a bit, actually. We did, yeah. But it's a blur all that period, honestly, in our lives, because you're running two jobs. Our poor wives, Chin and Amanda, pretty much solo mothers through that period. Yeah, right. But then you look back now and you appreciate it more, don't you?

Then when you did at the time. I do remember one adult telling off that really stuck with me. When we did manage to go to New York, we were interviewing the cast of Suicide Squad, that movie. Yep. And Jared Leto, who we're interviewing by himself, we're a bit worried about him because he's kind of more of a serious actor and stuff. We'd see some other interviews online where people would not quite gel with him. And we're like, well, how's he going to take our sort of silly gags?

I was picking not well. Yeah. And you go into that room, it's quite serious and sort of serial. We go in the room. And we had, honestly felt like everyone in the room was on eggshells around Letto, too. Yeah. But he was actually lovely. We seemed to get on quite well.

And he was playing the Joker. And we're like, can we give Jono a joke at makeover right now? And we had some green hair dye that we'd snuck in in our pockets and some lipstick. And he's like, yeah, of course. So he sprayed Jono's hair green. He put this big lipstick all over your lips as well. And he kept going, you like that, don't you? I was like, yes, I do Jared Lito.

I do like. And so we were like, this is great. Well, we had a laugh. We left the room. We were like, this is awesome. And then this lady just comes up and goes, come here. And I just remember getting the biggest adult telling off. Because it was like, it was all just too gimmicky and too stupid.

She's like, you're lucky he liked it. Otherwise we'd send you back to New Zealand and we're like, and then she's like, do you think this is funny? And I just looked at Jotto's face. He still had the big smiling joker lips. In green hair. Given my current situation, yes, I do. And we sat in a corner by ourselves.

I had wet wipes and I was wet wiping his hair to try and get it off, like feeling sorry for ourselves. My real lips were actually really sad. But my Jared Lido lips. No, we're loving it. So that's what I remember about 2020. What about you? That was the year I got engaged.

in Maritonga. We got our dog, Leo. RIP Leo. Yeah, but he's not really, you don't talk about him much. No, yeah. So he's 10 years old this year. Wow.

And I had my hip surgery. Andrew would have been last year of high school, was he? Was he? Or was he still? I don't actually want to tell you how he was. I think it might have been his 21st birthday. Oh, wow. So we're not far off.

All right. That's what we remember from 2016. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Yesterday, Korea came to the house and knocked on the door. And it was a really confusing interaction, I must admit. Because for about 10 years now, and I'm sure you've come to accept it as well, some people come up to you and go, which one are you?

Yeah. And I always go, one of the two. It doesn't matter. People just start talking to you as, yeah, Johno, and I'm just like, I just go along with it. You don't correct them. I like it when people go, where's Ben to me? And I'm like, right here.

You know, and I'm like, that's fine. No, just, you go along with that. A lot of people concerned about your whereabouts. Yeah, I'm like, I'm actually right here. But anyway. So I said, oh, he said, which one of you? And I'm thinking, well, there's a big clue on the name of the package. But anyway.

Oh, yeah. He goes, oh, I said, oh, you know, I'm John. I'm lovely to meet you. And he said, guess where I was just a couple of days ago? He said, I was at Ben's house. So I'm thinking, well, the hard work of elimination's already been done. Yeah. Because he said he met you two days ago

and then he was still confused about out of the two options. Yeah. Which is when I was. Maybe that's just fun bantery that he wanted to jump up. But anyway, he said, do you want to hear a cool story?

And I don't think anyone in the history of being asked the question do you want to hear a cool story has ever said no things. No, you're right. You don't want to be left guessing. And he's like, I also work, I don't know why he launched into the story,

but he also, in his role, delivers supermarket shopping for some of the supermarkets. And he's like, guess what? I'm like, I don't know. There's a warehouse, a giant warehouse, stocks all of the supermarket's goods, which is purely dedicated to delivery.

He's like, it's all run by robots. Oh, wow. Robots do all the packing. Crazy. There's not people in there. So when you order your online shopping, I assume this is for all of the supermarkets. They're just robots that pick the items out of the shelves

and put them in the bags. Three items per paper bag, he was saying. And I was like, that is it? That is a cool story. You weren't wrong with that story. And he's like, soon a robot will be doing my job. He's like, I'll have to come and work with you. He's like, I could be Jono on the show.

I'm like, so you're going to take my job. I just want to figure out the logistics of that because the robot has to grab eggs differently than they have to grab, you know, like broccoli or... Cool story. Well, yeah. We should go to the factory. I want to see it.

Let's go to the factory. You do want to see it, don't you? You do. When you hear stories like this. Yeah. It was a cool story. He was right. wrong.

That's what I was like, it was a really confusing career interaction. I was really hoping. I was hoping the cool story was going to be about his interaction with Ben. Yeah,

yeah, that's what I was like, oh God, that's what I was worried about. What did you do with the courier? He did see what I was doing to a robot when he arrived. John O'Benn and Megan

the podcast. The hits. Talking a little bit about 2016, lots of text coming through and people remembering some huge world events happened when you look back in 2016. Pokemon Go.

Oh, geez, That had a meteoric rise, isn't it? We're all just running around with that. I ran onto some private farm at 9 o'clock at night trying to get. A Charzard or something. Yeah, my son would have me going all around the bloody country catching things. Oh, that was fun though.

Our friend Sam still plays it. I know. He's still doing it as well. Donald Trump was elected the first time round as well. Stranger Things, which I think is what really started this whole look back at 10 years. That was the first time it came out, the 10 years ago. Yeah, keep them coming through, 4487. And you can actually, if you text throwback to 4487 too, you can see what we were doing in 2016.

I see you've gone for a lowbrow gag with a photo of Ben with an old bald man. No, it's you. It's you. It's not gag indeed. You look exactly the same. Well, speaking of reminiscing yesterday, we're reminiscing about the onion dip, the kiwi onion dip, very famous over the summer period. And Megan, you're going to present us with a recipe next. Well, lots of people were sending in recipe ideas of how to use it other than the dip and other

than the soup. You can bathe in it, use it as exfoliant, anything. And some quite good suggestions as well as it. Yeah, so I made a couple of them and I made them and brought them in for us to do a taste test. One you're not so sold on there, right? No, the pasta, I don't know about that. Well, we have tracked down

someone really special, okay? The actual inventor, the creator of the onion dip. The wonderful rosemary, a national treasure. Have they called you Dame Rosemary yet? Have you been damed? No. I got it. I don't really like the word, Dame.

Okay. Queen Rosemary. No, I'm not about the Queen, I'm not supposed to about the Queen. Lady, no. I think Lady, Rosemary. Okay, well, Rosemary, you came up with, it's amazing to talk to you because you came up with the thing that we all seem to love, particularly in summertime in New Zealand,

the classic Kiwi dip. I know, isn't it a marvelous? Do you know, it's gone on for years, every generation. I like that. How did you think of putting the onion dip and reduced cream? And what were you trying to make? I was trying to make a dip. I was thwarting around with lots of products,

of our own products, because that was part of my job. I thought the onion soup product wasn't doing very well. So I thought we must have a look at that. And I put it with cream, and I didn't really like it, and I put it with this and that. And then I thought, how stupid. Why don't you put it with your own product? Well, reduced cream. So you were tasked by, whatever they were called at the time, but Nestle, to try and shift more units of onion soup, were you?

They were part of my job. Right. Because of recipes that would sell product. Oh, geez, this one is really taken off. It's just as down to earth as that. That was what I was doing. What other ones would we know you for, Lady Rosemary? Oh, thank you.

I doubt anything else, really. I mean, I'm even amazed at that. Hey, I'm coming up 95. Are you? Wow. I'm still relevant. How's that? You are, you're always be relevant.

How old were you when you came up with it? It's probably about 50 years ago. Wow. Or 60 years ago. Yes, it was probably around 60 years ago. A lot of people like to talk about how to make it. You know, it's pretty simple, right? But it's people like put it in the fridge afterwards and put malt vinegar or lemon or anything.

Just mix it together And if you want to add a little lemon juice, do And if you want to add a little bit of vinegar Instead of lemon juice, do But I mean, really, it's just basically two products Do you know, that's why it's lasted And why that recipe's lasted Because it's simple and it's only two ingredients

Do you want to hear something truly disturbing rosemary And I know you're 95 years old So I hope this isn't how lasting No, I've got a couple of months ago. 94. Oh, 94. 94, okay. Well, I know this, you know, I hope you, are you sitting down?

Yes, I am. Megan must tell you what happened to one of the packets of your onion soup. I sent it over to my friend who had, she was in Australia. She missed it so much, so I sent it over and her flatmates used the onion soup packet to make soup. No. I know. No. I know.

Are you still with us, Rosemary? In the defense, though, it does say on the package. Hack it, that's what you need to, you know. But, yeah. It's sacrilege. She was devastated. Trans-Tasman relations have never been poorer, Rosemary. Oh, Rosemary, that is incredible.

I love you. I think you're wonderful. Well, we love you. You're a national treasure. Yeah. Oh, bless you. Yeah, well, very nice talking to you. Do you still eat it?

Do you still eat it, Rosemary? Pardon? Do you still eat it? Oh yes Of course I do Good on you I suppose you got it really Oh yeah

That's your thing You know who invented this Me? Me Oh you're up there We're splitting the Adam You know Some of the great things

Yeah Absolutely Yeah Lady Rosemary As we like to call you Thanks so much for your time Lovely talking I'm great to talk to you

Bye John O'Benn and Megan The podcast We've all been enjoying The Hid DIP It makes it easy To be back at work

though to be honest That's true Yeah, we did speak yesterday about the onion dip, and you sent a care package to your friend over in Australia. They use the, her flatmates use the onion packet to make onion soup. Yeah, an absolute crime upon the onion dip. And your friend was devastated, wasn't she? Absolutely.

Because they would probably have a version of the onion soup over there, but it's not going to taste the same. No, it's not going to taste the same. You can tell we actually spoke to the inventor of the onion dip. Rosemary, 94 years old rosemary. And this is what she said. She had saying. I sent it over to my friend who, she was in Australia.

She missed it so much. So I sent it over and her flatmates used the onion soup packet to make soup. No. I know. No. Not good on a 94-year-old's heart, that sort of news. So she was devastated by it as well. Hey, she's made it to 94 too, eating her onion soup.

She still eats it? Yeah. Her onion dip. Now, you've taken some of the recipes we got through you so. Because we were like, you know, does anyone use the onion soup? part of it for anything else. We've got a few good suggestions. What I do is I use it for other things. Say if I'm making

cheese scones, I'll add the onion soup mix to the cheese scone mix in the flour, or I'll use bacon and onion, which is a bit more. You can also use it as a thickener for if you're doing a meatloaf. As soon as you guys were talking, I was like, are you serious? Sousland cheese rolls. Yeah, there we go. That was Shane and

Sarah. So those were some of the suggestions came through. Now, Megan, the sort of affordable Nardi Elim of the show. She just took it upon The Timu Nadia So we're going to call it the Timu version of Nadia Really good

Really good good I'm okay with that Really good cook You took it upon yourself To go home and make some of these recipes Yeah so one of the One of the recipes was You use the onion soup packet

Mix it with butter and put it in bread So you make like a garlic bread Oh my arteries I've had a pretty hard four weeks And they're like quivering Let the sight of this So I've done this But I've baked the bread

And I've put it in the oven I've made it from scratch. Shut. Do you want some or not? No, I do actually. She always just liked to get in the from scratch. She was at, I did this from scratch. Well, I wanted it to be a nice bread for you.

She can't buy a nice bread anywhere else, apparently. Thank you. So this is onion-dip, garlic bread essentially. Yeah. Is that right? Okay. It doesn't have to reduce cream. It's the onion packet mix with butter.

Oh, the bread's a bit globy. Shut your face. That's delicious. Is it? It's nice, it's really nice. Producer Troy said it was quite salty. It's a little bit salty, but not. I can't handle it, yeah, but no, that's nice.

And then one of the other suggestions, someone said... My favourite food's fish fingers, I'm very easy to impress. You mix the... It's a bit salty, but it's good. Okay, we've got it. Quite a lot salty, actually. The other idea was to make the dip and put it in pasta. That last mouthful is quite salty.

So I'm going to try the pasta. Is that salty or is that right? No, I don't actually like the pasta The pasta is too much of a good thing It just tastes like you put pasta in the onion dish It was It looks restaurant quality of the pasta Did you make that pasta from the crack?

It's nice but it's quite thick Yeah and I tried to water that down so much Yeah this is a suggestion came to It's a texture thing I don't think we I'm just going to put it out there I don't think we needed onion dip pasta If you want to try it as a new forkum there

It's nice But it's I don't know if I can eat a whole bowl of Yeah Someone did message and say after our chat yesterday, their wife made it for their kids last night, and they said the same. Texture's weird, a bit strong. Until this point, I reckon the Italians have nailed all forms of pasta.

We don't need to jump on board. We don't need to come in with our onion dip pasta. So yes to the bread, no to the pasta. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. Megan's made some bread out of it as well as some pasta from your suggestions yesterday. The studio smells like onion dip. It does.

It's quite pungent, isn't it? Yeah. So you did the bread in the pasta, which was being you claiming too salty the bread. Megan's now getting salty at me for saying it's salty. Do you know what I said? I said, oh, because she said, made the bread from scratch. From scratch. She always says all right from scratch.

I don't say from scratch. You say that. And I just innocently asked. I said, oh, have you got a breadmaker at home? Yeah. You couldn't have said anything more offensive to her in that moment. No, I needed that with my hands. hands.

I needed it to my knuckles. She didn't need your comment, but she needed that dough. Anyway, we're all suffering from water retention and bloating from the salt intake. Yeah, a lot of more texts coming through as well. What people use it for, potato bake. A lot of people say potatoes, best on roast potatoes. You mix potatoes and butter and onion soup mix, then roast delicious. And potato salad dressing as well.

And mushroom sauce for steak as well with onion soup. Cream and mushrooms are really good as well. You'd be crazy out there. You know, I was cooking the other night, and I'd stumbled across, so I asked ChatGBT, GBT, make me a burger patty recipe. Right. So I made these burger patties. I'm scrained.

Good on you. From scratch, with the mints and all the bits. And they were, in my mind, the juiciest, most delicious petties I'd ever had. Because you made it from a crank. Palm scratch. And I had mustard and garlic and all sorts of bits. And so I'm tasting. I'm really proud of these patties.

So I've given them out, I've cooked the burgers for the family. And as the chef, you can't go, these are the best patties I've tasted. That's arrogant. How good are these guys? Exactly. But then what I found myself doing is like, how are the burgers? And then people are like, oh, yeah, they're good. And you hover.

You hover. Yeah. I do that. I was like, how are you finding the juiciness of the bird? Like, trying to just get some positive feedback. I know, they're like, good. And you're like, no, give me more. How juicy?

Like, what's your favorite bit? It has the flavor. Yeah. Sorry, Megan, that's lovely. Your bigger, because when you make dinner and everyone starts spraying tomato sauce or something. And then something before even trying it as well. I'm like, it's just a taste a bite of it.

And you go, oh, yeah, but, yeah. So when you make something from Crank. You're from Crank. That's right. I walked away from that going, that must have been a really annoying dining experience for everyone. Me just trying to ask leading questions. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

That's. We've been talking a lot about the 90s, because we're looking for the best 99 songs from the 90s to play out here on the hits on the 5th of February all day. You can vote now at the Hits Stock Code in NZ. Yeah, you were reminiscing yesterday about something that you used to have on the wall. Yeah. In your lounge, was it?

Yeah, well, we had it in the house. I don't think Mum ever really committed to fully on the wall. You'd have it sort of leaned up against something, but it was like a singing fish. The Billy Bass, a singing fish. It had two songs, and it was motioned. activated and I feel like a lot of houses around the world had it at that time in the 90s. Nothing quite like a singing fish wall ornament is there.

Potion activated. So you turn it off at night in case someone went to get... Yeah, if you went to the bathroom or something like that, it would give you a heck of a fright, that's for sure. So you wanted to, you launched a bit of an investigation yesterday to see if anyone actually had any of these still working, functioning in their houses. And David Lomas, he doesn't stop when he's searching for, you know, deadbeat dads on the other side of the world.

He doesn't stop the investigation. You continued it on after the broadcast. That's right. And Amy phoned through. Hi, good morning. We did throw out the question. Has anyone got one of these novelty bass fish attached to their walls still? Yeah, the trout, the singing trout. They were a huge thing in the 90s. My family had one and you're saying your family has still got one.

Yes, my uncle, he has a singing Billy Bass on his wall. My four sons absolutely adore it. It's a hit every time we go to his house. See, I was scared of it when I was. younger because it just like out of nowhere is like oh don't worry yeah motion activated slight problematic Jamaican accent I was just wondering is the accent stick here no no it's a trout that's a trout that's fine yeah you can't cancel trout's from and I was just I was just like mimicking the trout out of this whole

situation you're probably the most problematic one at the moment the trout's on the trout can swim away happily Amy we actually got your uncle's number what's his name his name's John So this is still working in his house It's still working It's having a great time Every now and then it won't Turn around and look at you

But yeah no it sings the song Well should we see if we can call him And then we can see if we can activate it On the phone and we can hear it Yeah yeah give it a go Oh give it a go How do you think John's gonna like a cold call? I don't think he'll be super impressed

That's great That's what we like Okay Oh no You do the talking John Oh yeah You talk old mate I mean, he's going to be honored that we want to acknowledge

This could be the last working one in New Zealand, you know? Yeah. Going through to John, where does John live, Amy? He lives and live in. Okay, great. Great part of the country. You're going to say you're a... Live in, live in a loaga?

I won't say that to John. Don't start with that. If he's still asleep, he's going to be pretty mad with you guys. Hello. Oh, John. Are you living... De Vindaloka? I'm sorry?

A living... No, don't. John, it's John O'Ben and Meekin here from the Hits Radio Station. Sorry to bug you. But we understand you've got a working trout on your wall that sings the song, the singing trout. No, no, I haven't. It's a bass. Yeah, oh, sorry, the bass.

Sorry. And it's not working. Oh! We've got Amy on the phone, John. I've actually got it on the bench at the moment trying to fix it after having some little visitors damage it in some way. Oh, it's not working. We wanted to hear it. Uncle John, is that my little visitor?

Is it my little voice that broke your bath? No, there's only one lot of little boys come here. Oh, no. Okay, well, we've made things even more awkward. Sorry, I can't help you today. I'm looking at all its insides. You've gutted the fish But it normally sings beautifully

In fact, as a replacement or as a, you know, a consolation Could we get you to sing with the accent The don't worry be happy song John You don't have to do this John But we'd like it I'll take there as a no All right John Hey lovely talking to you, have a great day

Good luck fixing the fish Catch up See you're awesome Thanks for talking to us No worry All right, see you, mate. Bye. See you, mate.

We're very close to having a working one on the radio. 4487. Have you got a functioning bass? Singing fish. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. We are looking for the best songs of the 90s, as voted by you.

And head to the Hits. Stockho.com. com. And vote for your favourite 90s bhares. We're 99 songs, aren't we doing that on? The 3rd of February. Oh, fifth. Fifth.

The day before white on your day. Yeah, heading into that weekend. I knew I was taking a gamble trying to land the date there I knew we're going into it but you're reflecting and reminiscing a bit of nostalgia about the

the Billy Bass Fish you had on the wall of your house which is no longer when you were growing up No, mum I actually got rid of it a couple of months ago as well too when she was clearing out and I was like oh that was such a iconic thing from the 90s and we'd be trying to find someone

that's got a working one in New Zealand we had one before that Someone had it, but it was broken. And Grant graces us with his presence. Good morning. Happy New Year, Grant, show catchphrase. Happy New Year. Thank you for getting on board with the cashphrase for the show.

Now, do you have the singing fish, the Billy Bass? Ah! It actually plays two tunes. Take me to the river. Is that the other one? Wait a minute. I'll push. Ah, what a hell.

I can't believe it's still going. This was actually at my work. Have you got it on the wall, have you, Grant? It's right above in a smoko room. Oh, iconic. An iconic thing. Yeah, we had one. My mum decluttered.

She got rid of it and I was like, oh, I kind of wish she kept it around now. Appreciate you, your phone. Has the novelty of the Billy Bass worn off or the employees still enjoy it? It's worn off, mate. I can't imagine. How many years? Has it been on that wall? I don't know.

As long as I've been here, I've been here eight years, so it's been here as eight years. Still going. Someone's obviously keeps replacing the batteries on it, too. You can physically actually turn it off. Yeah, I was going to say you can. That's a good thing. You can turn off the motion sensor so it doesn't play the song. Yeah, have you got that one on motion sensor?

So every time you walk into the smoker room? No. No, no. It'll drive your bassy, mate. We'll drive your bassy. Can you do us the honour of taking us out with you're one of the favorite of the two tunes don't know

I want to sing it and don't for a note don't worry Hey Grant Could you send us a video of it Yeah, of course I can Oh thanks Grant That'd be great

We've got one We've got a working one on the radio Put that up on the Hits Breakfast Instagram Hey have a great day Grant Appreciate you listening All right, cool, thank you A rough one for the beckoms. You may have seen on social media in the news.

A lot of talk about David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, and their son, Brooklyn Beckham, at the moment. Now we cross live to our Beckham correspondent. And you've really been breaking it down blow by blow. Megan Puppers. What's going on over there? Okay, so Brooklyn, he got married to Nicola Peltz, who is an heiress to a billionaire fortune,

her family are richer than the Beckham's. And there's always been talk that the family, don't get along with Nicola. Don't like her. So this is Victoria and David don't get along. Yeah. And so initially when they got married, the rumour was that Nicola didn't want to wear

Victoria Beckham dress. Now it seems that maybe Victoria Beckham pulled out of her dress designing a month before the wedding. Because that's what Brooklyn said yesterday is part of his statement, right? Yeah, so it's like a six-page statement on his Instagram. I'll just read the start of it. He said, I read all six pages, thanks for.

I can. I've been silent for years and made every effort to keep those matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed. I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm not being controlled. I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life.

Wow. That's terrible when all this family stuff gets the head on such public platforms. I mean, don't get me wrong. I loved the coverage that we gave the Harry departure from the royal family. But the end of the day, when you're actually looking at it, these are people and families. It feels very similar too, doesn't it? Right. David Beckham was at an event overnight, so you've got the audio, great.

And some reporter was harassing him, wanting some questions answer. Yelling out as he's walking along. David, do you have a message for Brooklyn this morning? Ignored it. David, you disappointed family business is being aired in public? I'm disappointed you're asking me about it in public, mate. Do you have a message for Brooklyn? Actually, this is probably a good platform to get him a message.

He did kind of touch on it in an interview. Yeah, so they didn't ask him directly about it, but he did reference his children, and it sounds like there's a little bit being said here. They make mistakes. Children are allowed to make mistakes. That's how they learn. So that's what I tried to teach my kids.

But, you know, you have to sometimes let them make those mistakes. as well. What do you think about this, Megan? What mistake is he referencing, like his wife or the argument? All saying these things, yeah. There was also some talk about, what's this about the first dance at the wedding or something? So apparently, according to Brooklyn, he said that his mum sabotaged their first dance. It was in the schedule, and right as they were going to do it, Mark Anthony came on stage

and called, yeah, and called Brooklyn up to the stage. And his mom, he says, did an inappropriate. dance on me. Stop right now. Thank you very much. What was that dance? So he was like hugely embarrassed. She ruined the first dance.

Same. Annie Pryor gave me a lap dance at our wedding. Do you know the internet's gone crazy with this because there's no footage of it? Obviously everyone's uploaded like all these different memes of what the dance looked like that Victoria gave Brooklyn. What is inappropriate dance on me mean? Maybe he was sort of insinuating.

It was inappropriate. yet to dance. Yeah, maybe. And we have taken it and run with it. And we just, so yeah, as you said, a lot going on and very,

it's very sad that's all playing out so publicly. Your dad's met Brooklyn Beckham. We need to call Kevin Boyce. Kevin Boyce to Costa Brooklyn Beckham. Well, yeah, he was on some... I'm surprised he even knew who he was. I don't think he did.

He was on some Boomer tour around, they were going around, you know, together as a group, tour group around the States. And they were at a restaurant, and then someone went, oh, that's Brooklyn Beckham.

And my dad, I think he was like, oh, who's that Brooklyn, Oh, Dave Brick, oh, and he went over and had a chat. And said, Brooklyn Beacon was lovely. I was like, oh, I can think when he told me the story. It was like, oh, no, how long did you sit for? This is inappropriate, Jeff. This was inappropriate.

This was inappropriate. Yeah. But they had a photo together. He said he was lovely and stuff. I don't know how they found connections. But I was like, how long did you talk to him for? He definitely would have gone, do you know my son, Ben? Oh, my son's, I don't know who.

But anyway, said he was lovely. So anyway, you will find out from the only connection we have to the Beckon. Kevin Boyce at some stage, my dad. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, the hits. We need something to distract us from the wild weather that's going around New Zealand at the moment, and it feels like the Beckham saga between Brooklyn Beckham, the son of Victoria and David, is making big news. Yeah, so basically there's been drama going on pre the wedding,

and Brooklyn has finally come out and said a statement. He is estranged from his family. He's got no plans to talk to them. No plans to reconcile. No. Very sad. And he's trying to set some things straight from his point of view. Now, these are top tier celebrities.

You know, it's hard for, you know, little radio show on you to have any connection to the Beckham's. But we do have one. And we're going to cross to our entertainment reporter. Ben Boyce's dad, Kevin Boyce, who Brooklyn Beckham has a personal connection with him. Sat down for lunch with him. Yeah, Dad doesn't know that we're calling, though, right? So we'll see how this goes. Good luck, guys.

Strap yourself in. I'm sorry Kevin Boisbee. Oh, Dad, it's me, it's your son. How you doing? Sorry, I feel like I wake you up nice and early. That's all right. I had to get up to answer the phone. It's Jono and Megan here with me at the moment.

We're sorry to bombard you, but we were just talking about Brooklyn Beckham and how sad it was that the things that you're not looking good in their relationship with his parents. No, I like my dad. You've met Brooklyn Beckham. You've sat down with him. Yes, I did. And that's in America.

It was only in Beverly Hills Hotel. I can stop bragging about it. Beverly Hills must be nice. We on a bit of a Ben calls at the Boomer Tour. It was like a boomer tour around America, you know, a big tour party. But he had a great time. And yeah, it sounds like he was, I don't know how long you punished him for, but it sounds like he was a lovely person.

He was lovely, actually, and met his fiancé and now his wife to be. Oh, did you? Oh, did you? Yeah. Okay, Kev, are you all over this drama and the family then, How Brooklyn and Nicola... I'm picking no. Probably not.

Brooklyn and Nicola are on the outs, and then Brooklyn came out yesterday and said his family have not been very nice to him. Are you all over this? I don't know, but all over it, but as far as... I can't say too much, really, because you don't know too much.

You signed an NDA when you had your chat. Out of respect for his friend, Brooklyn Beckham, he's not going to speak publicly. He can't make any comments at this time. Yeah. David, Dave, I can't. people. Well, I'm, you know, David.

Can we two? No, Dave. Can we two? But no, no, the, yeah, it's very sad. It is a sad. But you don't know what's happened. No. Whatever's happening is sad.

Wait, I'm trying to get some goss out of him. He's got no gossip. Did Brooklyn talk at all about his family when you were with him? No, he was there on his own. He was there. But I think it was very wretchedly that he had made that engagement. No, I don't know. What did you actually talk about when you sat down?

Because you sat down with him. He was at the table. Oh, God, did you sit down? Yeah. Well, we were sitting there. We were actually over there for a wedding, nothing to do with any beckham. And they, we, some of the son of there's Brooklyn Beckham over there. I said, well, I'll go over and so later.

And I said, oh, excuse me, can I, you Brooklyn Beckham? He said, yes, I am. I said, are you Kevin Boy? Yeah. Yeah. But then he said, no, he said, look, how are you? I said, but. I don't think of all the details.

No, I said, I've got a son who's relatively famous. Oh, my God. John O'Seed you would have mentioned, and I'm like, oh, God, you would like, no, I, like, compared to the Beckham's, you're like, I'm not even like. I said, can I get a photograph with you? And he said, yes, I love to do that. And so, yeah, got a photo with somebody. He's his girlfriend or a fiancé took the photo.

Hey, can you take this for us? She's an heiress to a billionaire empire. Yeah. I know. And she said, would you like your phone back? I said, oh, I'm just... Now tell me, Keev, did they invite you to sit down, or did you just grab the spare seat at the table?

They didn't invite me, but I just... To ask you a question, yes, that is correct. I did. Okay. Oh, dear God, he's sitting. Okay, so if you had to take a side, are you going to pick David in Victoria, or are you going to go Brooklyn Beckinside?

Based on... That's this point in time. I haven't met David in Victoria, of it. There's no sideback in here, but I actually would say that Brooklyn was a heck of a nice guy. Oh. And I bought a hat back with Brooklyn on it,

and that was, that was, that was from the place in Brooklyn. Yeah, I know. I'm a huge fan. I bought his merch. I heart Brooklyn. Okay, all right.

Well, that was my hat trick. Yeah, there we are. Okay, all right. Kevin Boyce, my dad. There we go. They are corresponded on the Beckham saga. Thank you. Lovely to talk to you.

Have a great day. See you. All of it. Thank you. Bye. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The heads