Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We Pranked Ben… Big Time!

Episode Date: October 19, 2025

On today’s show: How Jono go mistaken for another radio host! Night hosts Brin’s mixed review of Mariah Carey’s performance. We chat with Principal Sally Miller about the impact of poverty on students, ahead of 24 Hours of Handball. Ben puts Australia and NZ relation to test over coffee! Megan’s parents join the show to share funny stories from her childhood. We prank Ben! After he shared the story of his manly parts popping out on a paid social video, we get his social media agent to call him and say the story has reached the higher-ups. What are you falling asleep to? From scary YouTube stories to the Ikea catalogue podcast Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cookies, he delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast. We're just waiting, actually, in real life, waiting on hold to talk to Vance Joy, Australian musician, actually. So he's going to be joining us.

You'll probably hear that on tomorrow's podcast. Yeah, that would be good to chat with Vance. Very talented Australia. We played AFL. Yeah. Then he got a law degree, and then he decided, well, I'm not talented enough. so now I'll start a successful music career

and go on tour with Taylor Swift. Now you'll know the song of Rip Tide and 643 million views on YouTube alone. It's been in the charts in Australia. Like, it was the biggest song. So it came out, I was looking at last night. It came out in 2013. It was Australia's biggest local song by an artist in 2024.

So that's how big, it's just consistently. Like, yeah. Think of all the new artists that play music in 2024 in Australia and like Bart's joy is like, no. So I'm still here, mate, for my song from over, Nearly 10 years ago. Yeah, exactly. Still kicking your sweet cheeks.

So we're about to talk to how much will be cool. He'll be joining us on Zoom. So if this ends abruptly, you'll know that Vance Joy's face has popped up on our Zoom screen. Now, Megan, away from the show today, I'm just going to call her because the timing of her messaging us 4 o'clock in the morning. Well, Formula One's on at the moment, too, right? Hey. Oh, hi. Oh, yeah, well put on.

How are you? Yeah, I'm good. How you go on? Megan, how's the Formula One going? Not watching it. No, she said, not watching it. Whatever. There's been some suspicions raised this morning, Megan?

Oh, yeah. About the timing of the Formula One? Yeah, it just seems very, very convenient. I'm in bed moment. Okay, okay. Laptop, laptop, or phone? What are you watching it on? No, I'm not watching.

Not watching. Okay. Okay, well, when you're watching, when you're not talking to us, what are you watching it on? All right, listen. How's William Lawson doing? I thought you were calling and ruined it for me. No, no, we're not going to ruin it for you. Well, well, you're watching live anyway, so it's fine.

You're watching live. No, we actually, to be honest, we're waiting for advanced joy interview to come up on the TV, so we're not, yeah. Well, listen, hopefully your stomach bug gets better and we'll see you tomorrow. Yeah. All right, see you, Megan. Get better. All right, enjoy the podcast.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Taylor Swift reading about her and since she started her career, she took 17 years for her to earn her first billion, which is a lot of money, obviously. I remember when I earned my first billion, it's a landmark day.

The 17 years for first billion, two more years to earn a second one. So once you make a billion, once you make a billion, you're on that billion trade. That's what they say, you're just going to get that first billion underway and then you're on your way. And the billions keep on billioning. Keep on flowing. That is wild. Yeah, just two years or a second billion. So yeah, really step things up after that, didn't she?

Don't you worry about her? No, she were worrying about her. Just please. Cost of living, not probably affecting her too much at the moment. Listen, I had a really interesting moment over the weekend. And I entered a full Ben Boyce to-do list mode. Oh, right. So just dropped my daughter off at dance and I had 60 minutes.

I was like, okay, get some petrol station, clear emails. I know you like clearing emails. Yeah, doing all those things, yeah. A bit of admin. And I was like a whip into the supermarket as well. So it's, you know, 60 minutes on the clock. It's on a busy Saturday quite a lot to achieve with traffic and things like that. So I get it all done and I walk into the supermarket.

My final stop, I'll swing by here because the milk will be still cold by the time I pick up. I had it all in my head. Gotcha. It makes sense. So about 14 minutes left until I had to pick my daughter up, okay? And I get stopped at the front door by security. And he's like, Ben. I'm like, hey, mate, we both just roll with it, eh? Most people, they've got 50% chance.

It's amazing how often they get it wrong. But that's fine. I don't mind. It doesn't stress it either. That's fine. I'm getting a lot of compliments about that. Love the videos you do with your kids at the moment. Love the pranks you pull on your kids.

I'm like, no worries, mate. I'll keep it up. So I take a lot of credit for those. I'll pass that feedback on. They're loving them. They're loving them out there in the market. Then I walk in. Because I'm trying to just keep moving.

So I'm trying to go through the barrier arms. When you know what you know with the trolley arms. And he's like, hey, hey, hey, I've had a photo with you. And I was like, oh, that's awesome, mate. Hey, well, you have a good day. And I'm trying to just trying to, he's like, let me show it to you. And I'm like, okay, let's have a look. So he opens up the photos, this app on his phone.

And he's scrolling back. And he's like, it was a few years ago. I'm like, okay, right? And producer Troy did just make a mention. If you're trying to look for a photo any longer than a week ago, you're in the trenches. Yeah. Yeah. We got, I saw him straddling motorcross bikes.

So he went over the Gold Coast, have a lovely family holiday on the Gold Coast. It's very hard to find a photo. It is. Yeah. And honestly, dude, we got to 2019. And I actually said to him, I was like, should we just, should we do another photo? Yeah. We can do one now, reenacted.

One will I'll have a few more wrinkles and, you know, just make a new member. And he's out, no, no, no, we've got to find the original. Do you know there's a little hack before you get to the end of your story? You can sometimes type in a word and they will find a word if it's in the background or the location of it. You're kidding. Yeah, that's a little hack that I've here as well. So if you go ASP and sometimes there'll be ASP signs behind you or whatever it is or you go, oh, location of it is doing the little hack as well. That's what I mean.

Yeah, anyway, if you know where the photo was taken, you might have been able to help with that. So anyway. I was willing to the airport. Oh, so you've got a location, got to come on. But anyway, you're deep. Yeah, I would have loved that information to pass on to him in this moment. I felt like we were there for like, you know, 20 minutes. Eventually we land in 2014.

Oh, my goodness. I've been looking through all this guy's memories from 2025 to 2014. Over a decade of photos. Here it is. And he brings up the photo. And it's a photo of him with Vaughn Smith from Fletchen Vaughn. Oh, from Z.m. And he's like, there you are.

And I'm like, no, it's not me. I was like, there I am. There I am. And I was like, you have a great day, mate. And, yeah, I was about the pity. And at no point, did he realise you late? No, he's fully convinced. Another ball guy.

He's like, whatever. Same thing. One in the same. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Got Bryn Rutkin does the night show here on the hits and the news in the mornings, joining us because you spent the weekend hanging out with Mariah Carey and pitball. Sort of.

Yes, in a way. Yeah, yeah. We were breathing the same hot air. In the same stadium? Yes, that's fine. And you're hanging out with them. If you could catch COVID off them, we consider that hanging out, Bryn. So this is Fridays.

So the big concert of artists all together in Australia and Sydney. And a massive line-up this year. They obviously got Pitbull, who I was so keen to see. Was Pitbull there? Pitbull was there. Is that Pitbull? No, that's definitely not Pitbull. Who's it?

Yeah. There he is. Mr. Worldwide. He was worldwide, too. He's going to get to all the places. Just not New Zealand. He's not that far worldwide. It will go most countries, but not New Zealand.

What was pit bull like in real life? Amazing. Incredible, charming, mumbling Spanish words. Which, a lot of Spanish words. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what d'Ale means? No. Because he sings it a lot in his song.

Well, should go? We'll chat GPT it. So it was amazing. It looked like a lot of boardcaps in the audience. Yeah. His songs attract a lot of beautiful women. They were all wearing board caps and men's suits, though. Yeah, and big sort of aviated glasses as well, too.

Look like the uniform. It's like the first time I've actually seen at a concert, like a mass group of people actually dressing the same. Yeah. It's incredible. Now, producer Troy, you just chat to EPT's Dalé. It means let's go. Oh, let's go.

Let's go. He's the vibes guy. He is a vibes guy. He is one fun. Absolutely. It's got to be in your moment to dress up up. It's going to be Johnny. Does he sell ball caps at the merch stag?

Does he or people bring their own bald caps? Everyone was prepared. Yeah, right, they swung by the $2 shop and got a ball cap and they got a... Team who did very well last week. And how was Mariah? She was good. You don't sound overly convinced.

Well, I mean, I wasn't really there to see her. She just happened to be playing. She's a great artist to get, bro. Yeah, yeah. She is definitely a diva. I saw her when she was in New Zealand about, I think 11 years ago. And I sort of came to the conclusion back then

that she probably stopped. Oh, really? What was the voice, you mean? Yeah, yeah, like she's done her bit for the years of the world. You're calling for a retirement? I am. Wow.

I'm probably going to get a BSA complaint for saying this. But 11 years later, my opinion hasn't changed. Wow. And did she headline the whole event, did she? She did, yeah, yeah. I mean, she was great, though she has ruined a game for me Well the game that we played last Christmas

And leading into Christmas Was trying to avoid all I want for Christmas Being sung by Mariah The most popular of all Christmas songs But the game's finished She played it in concert, right? She did, which is the biggest flex For getting out of the game

Yeah, I saw it live Well, lucky it hasn't started just yet So you're safe She went a bit early with all I want for Christmas Yeah, how was that? Yeah, that was the song she ended on Actually, right? Yeah, and I was very surprised

That she did that song A bit of a shame It's not coming to New Zealand A huge shame I feel like Kiwis would have packed out Whatever arena they would have made it Yeah Would have been with my people

Baldcaps It's a stadium full of bald caps I would have blended in for once Would have been a merit Now I know Megan this morning as well She messaged at like 4 o'clock in the morning Saying she's got Violent, violent, violent gastrope

Oh she didn't say that She said she had a tummy bug Graphic gastro She said a bit of a tummy bug Yeah John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats

We're playing handball for 24 hours to try and raise money for kids can. A million dollars is what we hope to raise for Kiwi kids in need. And Saletuti Mela joins us on the show. Mora. Mora. Lovely to have you on. You're the principal of Aracura School in Wainoyamata. And it's a pleasure to be talking to you this morning.

Thank you for your time. Not a problem. Now we're playing handball for 24 hours next week to try and raise some money for kids can. A wonderful organisation, but I understand you and the school know kids can quite well. Yeah, yeah, we're a kids can school and they're a service that we absolutely need. And so that's why I was happy to hear what you guys are doing and supporting the copapa and happy to talk to you about it. Paint a bit of a picture for us, you know, where this money goes towards and how it actually helps the kids. I guess, you know, when kids don't have the things they need, you know, basic things like shoe.

and jackets and food, you know, they tend to carry that as shame, you know, they feel embarrassed, they feel shame. Those big emotions don't help them with their learning at all. And so, you know, the support of kids can means we can eliminate all of that. You know, if they're coming to school, if they haven't got the right shoes, we've got it there straight away, we provide it for them. You know, they don't build up negative emotions and negative feelings about themselves. Now, you're on the ground.

Has it got worse, you think, over the last sort of 12 to 24 months with the cost of living? It definitely has. It definitely has so many of our Fano are struggling. You know, I'll go and pack up a whole lot of stuff. You know, kids can food and anything else that we've got in the school and deliver it to Fano because they're doing it tough. And so the fact that we can, you know, make sure in winter, like we have last winter, make sure that the kids are in jacket.

It's one less thing that, you know, Fano have to have to worry about when we can provide for the kids while they're at school. We've been saying a few times over the last couple of weeks because sometimes you feel like this doesn't happen in New Zealand. You know, you're like, but it is. It's a problem that it happens every day and this is why we need kids can. You know, unfortunately, we need kids can to help out. I know. I mean, it used to be because I was one of the, you know, a child sponsor for a long time with tear fund. I was with them for age.

you know when my kids were babies but now it's like the the issue is no longer just overseas it's right in our doorstep and and this is this is the reality and so you know we're charged here at school you know for the education of our our children and young people but actually the big issue of poverty has such a major impact on their well-being on attendance and and so the support of organisations like Kids Can is so critical to schools like ours. And the thing is, you know, children don't ask for this, hey? They don't ask for these challenges, but they're in it. And also parents, you know, they're doing the very best that they can.

And what they need is a hand-up. They don't need judgment. They don't need any of that. They just need a hand-up. And we're really grateful that Kids Can can partner with us to ensure that that supports given directly to our famo. I was Sally Tutte Miller, who's the principal of Ardakura School in Wainui Amata, who have a partnership with kids can.

We're trying to raise a million dollars to help out 10,000. Awesome. 10,000. Stressful. We're like, well, it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot of best. It's a lot of handball.

Let's talk about just quickly about the difference it makes in the kids. You must see it. You know, when their bellies are full, they're not hungry, when they have their jacket, when their shoes, you know, don't have holes. you must see a real difference in the way they approach school. Oh, they're just so much happier, you know. Like I said, you know, children shouldn't have to carry the burden of poverty. They shouldn't have to carry the burden of, you know, this cost of living.

They're children. They need to just be children and focus on their learning and all the developmental stuff that they, you know, that's such a big part of their life, their friendships. If we can solve the food issue and ensure that they, They've got something to eat every day, morning, tea, lunchtime, if there's warm clothes here that they can wear. You know, because sometimes they turn up, you know, A, well, T-shirts, in the middle of winter, and they try and tell me that they're not cold, but it's really, they're too shy to us, and we just give it. We just give it to them. Yeah, well, you are doing a magnificent job.

You keep up all the great work, and thank you so much for your time this morning. Really appreciate it. Oh, thank you, and thank you guys for what you're doing. Really appreciate it. If you can help, even give just as little as $3. You can text Kids to 933, make an instant $3 donation. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

Now, in the weekend, popped over to Australia, got invited to a little thing in Australia, which was cool. To go over to Sydney by myself for the weekends. Yeah, right. Flying solo. Suspicious trip over, 24-hour turnaround. What's he getting up to over there? Who knows? Well, yeah, so I was going over there, and my kids were like, can you get me?

some clinkers. Now clinkers are like, I don't even know what clinkers were, but they're like chocolates. Almost they look like a sniffter type thing. They're in like pineapple lump type bags. Apparently, they're on TikTok at the moment. People do this whole thing. You bite into them and they're different colors inside. And so people are doing trends going, if this sniffter is pink, I'm going to do this and they'll bite of twig. Oh, it's yellow or it's pink or things like that. So you need to get some sniffters if you can. So I was like, okay, I'm sure. No, sniffters or clinkers? Oh, clinkers, sorry, yeah, clinkers, yeah, I was clinkers, yeah, that's why I couldn't...

It's like, you can go to the dairy, get your own sniffers. They still make snifers? No, I don't think they do, actually. They were a hell of a lolly, weren't they? Yeah, so these clinkers. So I was like, I called, arrived at it in Sydney had a bit of time. I was like, I'll take the train into town. So took train into the city, and then I got out of the train station, I was like, oh, great, there's a woolworths there.

So I'm wheeling a little bag with me. I'm doing this. I'm like, I'm walking to the hotel, but I was like, let's go find these blooming clinkers. Yeah. get into the supermarket. They're all like, the ladies like, oh, sold out. TikTok, TikTok's screwing us,

busting our chops. Just like, weeks ago, you could have had hundreds of bags, but all of a sudden, they were a frenzy on TikTok. It's how volatile social media is. I mean, it's going to have the high highs, and I'm warning your clinkers, you're going to have low lows. You're going to come crashing back down. I was like, oh, well, just keep looking for supermarkets.

There's about four different supermarkets, so I just walk in my way around, wheeling my bag everywhere, trying all these supermarkets. None, absolutely none in the city. Sold out. Geez, the clinker people will be, buddy, thrilled. Gone. But then you feel weird

I don't know we have a weird You're weird walking to a supermarket And not buying anything So With a bag too Backpack and wheeling a bag You're like, what's this guy So on the way out

I was like You're the distant You're the close cousin To those pushing a trolley Outside the radius of the supermarket So the last supermarket I was like let's buy something I'll buy some chocolates

You can't get in New Zealand They're not clinkers But I'll buy something Violet Crumbull? I bought the little caramelo Colalas Yeah they're nice But as I was walking out

And I was thinking about this later I was walking out the place you walk out. There was a guy coming in, quite a burly sort of Aussie guy, walking, he was walking in the exit part of the self-service. Anyway, it was like a rom-com moment, bang, straight into each other. And he was holding a cup of coffee, freshly made black coffee. And two, no lid, no lid at all, bang.

Now, some of it fell on me as well, too, scolding hot coffee. Was he like big Aussie biker sort of built? Yeah, quite big, quite big Aussie guy. And the coffee all on the ground as well. I don't know, I thought about this later I just, I apologize profusely I'm sorry, no, no, this is not on you He hit my bag, he hit me, coffee was

scolding my chest And I, I apologize to him And he was like, oh yeah, just bought the coffee Yeah, it's okay, it's okay And then I apologize to the lady The supermarket, can I clean it up I was offering all these things You're playing away from home

He no, he came in through the exit I thought later, but I was like, yeah, can I buy you another one? He said, no, no, I'll go down the road and buy another one I was like, oh geez, I felt bad I don't know why if it's a bad He takes the gamble walking in that way And with an open lid coffee I know, everywhere went everywhere

And then I went outside I changed my t-shirt on the foot bath And regathered myself And then I was like, oh, that's not a great start To Australia upsetting someone And without a word of like I walked down the road

Walking down the road And the same guy came out of a coffee shop The new guy And we were so close To hitting each other again We locked eyes I was like in some ways That would have been quite funny

But at the same time You would have been on one of those 501 flights. Yeah, exactly. Caught on the detention centre. Caused an international incident as well on my quick trip to Australia. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. 12th on the grid.

You said the grid? No, you're doing well, mate. Just don't question it, though, because then people start to lose confidence in your delivery. Oh, good. And there's no coincidence, too, that the race is starting as we speak. And Megan Pappas is not here today. Usually the Formula One stuff given time zones,

middle of the night, she'll get up early to watch them. But she was really conflicted about how she was going to do radio and watch Formula One. I think she found a workaround because she's apparently got a stomach buck as well. And she got up at 4.10 a.m. and sent us on the group chat. She's, oh, not well, it's just going around. So that's commitment. She would have set an alarm to get up, gone back to sleep. And now watching Formula One.

But her parents are up this weekend. Another reason why she's probably not here. Yeah, and we got to meet them for the first time and find out a bit more about Megan on Friday. A pleasure. Some very special guests in the studio, Megan. Oh, yeah, my parents are here. Ray and Wayne, or Ray, Ray and was, Warren. Ray, Ray, Ray and was.

Warren, no, no, no, no. Way no. He prefers Wayno. Hey, no, if you can get the branding right. Get his name out there. What can you tell us about Megan? Like, we're getting, you know, like, what's the first thing? You know, that's what we had asked parents, you know?

In our days when she was little, the TV turned off at 11 o'clock. Right. Good night, here we came on. It was the time for her. And I'd be still sitting up trying to get it to go to sleep. But didn't you, like, rub alcohol in my gums or something? Oh, I'll try everything. Are you rubbing alcohol?

Why wasted it on your gums? It was. It was a different style of parenting back then, too. It was. I think the doctor could recommend that too. Oh, it was. Yeah, it was the 80s, eh? Yeah, just.

They also said smoking kept weight down too, didn't it? Yeah, there's a little wild things to be said around there. Well, it does, but it also gives you cancer. Yeah. Megan said you grew up and you were naturists. True. Yeah. Ben said,

Ben said, do they come with clothes on or clothes on? You want to make you feel comfortable at the same time. We can shut the curtains of having. They just said it's too cold. Yeah, not great conditions, is it? We're getting ready. Oh, getting ready.

Okay. Can I ask a question? When every time I see naturess on the news, they're always playing the most inconvenient sports for nudity. Like, you know, volleyball where things swing and like, You could just play like... Tennis. You could just do like lawn bowls or something?

You know, they're always quite vigorous activities. No, no, not lawn bowls. It's bending over. Oh, you don't want to bend over there, okay. That's when it's all hanging out. Oh, yeah, that's true actually. You're right. Flop and free and hanging out.

You've got to pick your sport. What about the parking? No, no, the parking situation can affect you sometimes on your street. What's the parking situation like at your house, Megan? You got it all sorted for them. There's a lot of off street parking. We don't need mum to paint yellow lines. Okay.

I forgot my jacket to my STMS. your high-vis jacket so a lot of road works going on Daniel Street is it? Tremendous Right, okay tremendous and it's winding you up Very much You've taken it upon yourself to do traffic control

So you've got road cones You've been painting yellow lines on the road Yeah, STMS jacket Barrier arms No, the whole lot The Barry arms Have you got a barrier? Oh no the ones that fit on the coast

Oh I thought you're like I stole one of those ones like a parking building When I stop the traffic I've got the cones over there You've got to have them set out properly. Cones over there, and then the barrier arms come across to me. It's not even retirement that's done this to her. She was always like this.

But does the traffic, are you allowed to do this? No. Where does it say in the rule book that you can't? Don't you know there's no such word as can't? I feel like there is when it comes. Anyway, that's up to you. There's a lot of road cones in Auckland. You've got to let these guys know what the rules are.

She used to always say, what does it say in the rule book? And I'd be like, what rule book? And she's like, exactly. The laws and the... I don't know, there's probably a lot of something The road code? I think it looks pretty official You know, I've got the old jacket everywhere

So no one's going to complain And I went out and I said Don't do as I do, do as I say Moved A large part of your day's taken up worrying about If people are parking outside the front of your house No, not always Just depends really

How much traffic's coming up the hill I've got a neighbour exactly the same Yeah he's fixated on people parking outside The front of us He has cones out So if he's got friends coming over He saves a space for the space for them. Oh well I did say to one guy

where do you live and he said oh why is that and I said I'm going to come around and park on your lawn Was he on your lawn? He was on the garden actually I thought that was a bit sad Lovely to meet you in person in the pair of you Thank you for all the content you provide for the radio program

Is it insightful seeing where I come from Excuse me? Excuse me? What do you mean by that? It explains a lot I'd like to shift blame. It's close the loop, does it? John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The hits. No, Megan, this morning.

Apparently got a volatile stomach or come down with a case of I need to watch Formula One at 8 o'clock this morning, one of the two. Yeah, we'll find out at some stage before 9, I'm sure. Well, maybe she didn't want to look you in the eyes this morning. Yeah, well, maybe. Maybe that's right. Now, Ben, just a bit of a backstory. Last week, you shared a harrowing story,

one of the most traumatic moments in your career. It was something I really wasn't sure about sharing. I'd waited a few months since it happened because I was like, I didn't want anyone to really know, but I was like, oh, maybe I will share it. Simon's gone and be vulnerable and talk about it. And I left out a lot of details as well. But obviously behind the scenes, you guys pestered me with questions.

And I told too much, I thought about the weekend. I was like, why did I tell everyone about this? Why? And then why did my, you know, my colleagues take it to another place? Radio, hey, no other industry would do this. This is bullying. This is something that, honestly, I was very reluctant to talk about it. And, you know, we talked about it multiple times, and you're about to hear prank me with it as well.

A low moment couldn't have got much worse. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are you? No, probably, well, no, you're not. No, I'm not. I mean, this was, brought us a lot of joy. Yeah, brought us a lot of joy.

There's no part of anyone on the team that's sorry. Are you guys sorry next door? No, they're not sorry. Exactly. I'm sorry. I brought it up. In hindsight, if I took it back, it was a low moment that happened on social media. where I had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction

that was up for a few days And we spoke to your social media agency Kelly on Friday Hello, how are you guys? We're good We're good This is after the show

Friday after the show right now And Ben's gone home We've lied to his face I know I don't like lying to him But it was for a good cause Yeah What is it? For me it is

Definitely So he's not here We've said that we need out of the studio early So he is on his way home, hopefully. Now, Kelly, he explained probably the most traumatic moment in his social media career when he realized... His little potato was on show in a client video, a big client.

Yeah. And can you confirm, did you actually have to look at this video? I did. The funniest part was he's ringing me on a Saturday. I'm like, oh, that's weird. Ben's ringing me. So I answer, and he's just like, oh, I just have to have. the most awkward conversation with you

and he's just, it was so funny he was absolutely traumatised but I was too awkward on the call to look at the video and so I just kept playing it down like oh it'll be fine, it'll be fine I'll just talk to a client on Monday but obviously I did look after

you're like I can't look at it while I'm talking to him and you can confirm you can confirm and you saw when it came out potato. Yeah yeah the thing that confuses me is he was told like on DMs

and... No, to be fair though, you did have to zoom in quite a bit. Kelly! He had to get the pinch on, did you? Had to, had to. We need to get confirmation. Well, yeah, the poor guy, he's scarred.

He's emotionally scarred from this event. And now we're just going to make it worse. And this is his fault for getting into radio as a job. Yeah. You know, we put this on Ben. He's the pranker too. That's right. So if anything, we'll do this as revenge for his daughter's Siena and Indy.

Now, Kelly, What we're going to do is you're going to call them, and it's going to come up from your phone. So you just merge Ben into this call. We'll just sit by as spectators in the grandstands. And best of luck. Thank you. Okay.

Merging now. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Okay. After the show Friday, Ben, you were really vulnerable last week, and you shared a story about how you accidentally exposed yourself on social media. Yes. In a client video.

So I couldn't take it down straight away. He had to call Kelly, who were. works at the agency and said, what do I do? She had to explain to her in a very awkward conversation and what was actually going on. And she was analysing the video. And show the video, yeah, so she could see it. Yeah, and it was a long moment.

It had a few months to go with a bit of a wardrobe malfunction. So, yeah, plucked up the courage to tell everyone about it. Well, thank you. And then we plucked up more courage to get in touch with Kelly from the agency and get her to give you a call on Friday after the show. Oh, Ben. How are you? Hi, I'm all right.

I'm all right. Yeah, I have been too, thank you. Is now an okay time to talk? Yeah, I'm just in the car, but yeah, all good, what's up? Okay, perfect. Hey, a bit of an awkward one for you. Oh, okay, yeah. Did you happen to talk about the content mistat on air by any chance? Yeah, yeah, no, we did, but didn't mention any who was for or anything like that. So we didn't, yeah, didn't talk about, no mention of the names or anything like that, yeah.

Okay, so what's up? Yeah, no, what did you say exactly, just so I have full context? I just said filming something for Instagram and obviously told about a story for, like, had a little wardrobe malfunction. It was for a client, so I couldn't take it down. And then I recounted, I didn't even use, didn't use your name either, but I did say I had to call someone from the agency and we had a very awkward conversation about the video

until, yes. Oh, okay. What's happened? Oh, no, I woke up this morning to this call and an awkward email. I didn't want to stress you out while you were on air this morning, which while I just waited until now. I've already got a call with him this morning,

but I'll just read the email he sent last night just so you have full context. Yeah. So he said, hi, Kelly, just try giving you a call. I'll put in an email for tomorrow. Sorry to present that on your Friday and a bit of an awkward one, in brackets for me as well. But I heard John Owen talking about the content slip up on air earlier in the week in brackets, which I thought was hilarious, might I add.

So thinking everyone else would see the humour too, I sent the video around the office with context that Ben spoke about on his radio show. However, not everyone thought the humour, and it has gone all the way Chelsea office in Sydney, and I've been taken to HR as the content should never have gone live, and it's put our brand in a bad light. After multiple back-and-for-com this week with HR, they've asked if Ben could join a board member. meeting by Zoom tomorrow, like in brackets Friday, afternoon, and please explain what happened.

Really sorry about this. Let me know how he has placed tomorrow. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. Yep. Yeah. I mean, yeah, obviously no one wanted that to go like that, that's sure.

Sorry. I didn't, yeah, think that was going to go to a, yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah, no. And I guess, like, we talk about it on the phone if it didn't look that obvious. but yeah, when zoomed in, it was sticking out like a sore thumb, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's not a biggie, but he just said they'll have the video on the screen

so you can talk through what happened. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I obviously don't want to cause anyone any more grief, so sorry about that. Yeah, no, not your fault at all, and because obviously it went through the approval process and all as well. And I'm happy to be on the call with you if you want to. Okay. Yeah, what time soaps today? I can do any time this afternoon if that needs to be done. Yeah, I'll make it work.

Obviously, it's important, so I want to make sure it's all, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I shouldn't even brought it up. I was reluctant about bringing it up as all. That's why I tried to make it, and then tried to make it not copied it. Sorry, hang on. The client's calling me now, hang on. I'm just going to merge the call so you can be in the call with them to, hang on. Just one second, just one second.

Yeah, okay. Hello? Oh, don't, no! What? What? What? No, no, no, no, no, no. We've just said hello.

How are you? No, no, don't. If you could keep your potatoes and your pants, it'd be really ideal. Why did you get Kelly involved in there? I didn't get Kelly's name. You've pranked so many people and you're pretty savvy to this, kind of thing. We needed to get the best involved. Oh, Chilly.

Chelly. I'm so sorry, that was so hard. Oh my God, Kelly, you nailed that. Far out. Oh, you do you want. Oh my God. You can hear his soul leave his body. I know. Sounds so good.

Well, Chelle and I, we've never spoken about it again. I don't know. I want to pretend it never happen. My absolute favorite part of that. is when Kelly said, yeah, when you zoomed it, it was sticking out like a sore thumb, wasn't it? Oh, Kelly, listen, if you need a new career,

professional pranking, you should be doing it, Kelly. Oh, that was good. I'm relieved that it hasn't actually gone international, that's for sure. It's gone international. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Yesterday in France, stole some jewels from the Louvre, the museum

they got in there through the lift, the elevator like a scene out of a movie and got away on a scooter as well

priceless jewels as well so yeah taken from the Louvre yesterday the heist seems so much more sophisticated in France doesn't it

feels out I can just imagine them fine fine designer suits you know George Clooney types

pulling off the ice Ocean's 11 style thing as well yeah it's a big player to sit down and brainstorm

having a crack at the Louve yeah and in the middle of the day too broad daylight on a Sunday I mean, it's no ram rate in the bloody dairy for vapes, is it?

No, you're right. So it's high stakes that one. Now, we're going to get to producer Grace and producer Troy in, actually, because we're just chatting before the show. Stuff that people sleep with, you know, to make themselves feel comfortable and relaxed. There's a wide variety of things. We've got focusing on the noises, so there's, you know, the white noise that you play for babies. It replicates the womb, apparently.

Yeah, right. I guess if you get used to it as a baby, then that's something that right now. that would just probably annoy me. Yeah, it just sounds like you're in between radio stations. Yeah. But then they've got different varieties. They've got offshoots of white noise. Oh, really? Now there's pink noise.

So what's that? That's a little less than white noise. So this is white noise. Oh, yeah. That's pink noise. And then, once you've enjoyed your pink noise to sleep, brown noise. Brown noise. It just sounds like white noise to me.

Yeah. What's brown noise meant to be? Like a city hum. The hum of a city. Which is okay. I guess it's quite pleasant as well. Producer Grace. I'm with us right now.

Now you sleep to something quite unusual. Yeah, you guys are like making me feel really weird about this now. I full asleep to listening to like podcasts, like thriller podcast, murder podcasts. Right. That's quite a grim sort of thing to go to sleep with and having your brain before you go to and dream, is it? Yeah, I was thinking about it. I was like, I get a lot of nightmares. So maybe I'm not, I'm not helping myself.

with that. But I just like, I find it so comforting to fall asleep. It was like, Lorna died age seven. I'm like, oh. God. That's not comforting at all. There's nothing about that sentence is comforting. Tips about Leah's murder flooded into the Huntington Police Department. Friends and family hung flyers around the city.

Voice is soothing, but the context. On the weekend before Christmas, Dress Barn closed its doors, hanging a sign that said they had closed out of respect for their former employee. So, producer Troy, you have a connection to sleeping and true crime podcasts as well.

My ex loved them. She would fall asleep every night. Not with their phones in, not like, you know, privately. Just playing loudly on her phone. But quiet enough that I'd only pick up every second word like murdered, strangled. All the key words. Oh, did not end well for whoever that. I can't get their name, but it doesn't sound pretty.

It was a sign for the relationship, I think. You're like, get out now while you... I didn't murder her, that's not. Just to clarify. There's no podcast on you. Not yet, no. Not until the police... Okay, so what's the unusual thing

that you like to fall asleep with? You know, some people like nothing. Other people love to fall asleep watching a show, listening to a podcast, listening to white noise, brown noise, pink noise. I didn't even know what... Coloured noises, I didn't even know her a thing, you know?

But that's each of their own. John O'Benon and Megan, this morning, she's got it... Well, she says she's got a tummy bug, but, you know, she may do, or it may be the fact that she loves Formula One, and that's going on right now. She is sick. She's love sick for Liam Lawson. We should actually call her, because you raise a good point.

It's a coincidence, Ben. Too much of one. Yeah. Last week off here, she was like, oh, it's going to be on the same time. Eight o'clock it starts and stuff, yeah. Yeah. How am I going to work that in? Well, now that's how she's going to work it in.

She's figured it out. So, yeah, we'll follow that off after 7 o'clock. Now, what are you falling asleep to? True crime podcasts popular. Producer Grace listening to... Tips about Leah's murder flooded into the Huntington Police Department. So she'll fall asleep listening to...

Flires around the stories of horrific gruesome murders. I like the soothing nature of it, but I don't like the content. Dress Barn closed its doors, hanging a sign that said they had closed... Especially getting into your brain before your dream and stuff. Yeah, do you actually dream at Grace... She said she had nightmares quite often. Do you get nightmares? after listening to stuff like that.

Yeah. Yeah, she does. Thumbs up. So, well, there's an easy way to end those nightmares. I'm not an expert. I'm not an expert. Producer Troy said his ex-partner

did the same thing. Many different varieties of noises. White noise, popular for the babies. Then we learned about pink noise. And there's brown noise as well. Pink and brown just seemed like very close cousins. That's wild. That's getting into the milk variety category.

There's too many. Varieties of things to go to sleep too. I like something on. I like falling asleep to something. Do you watch stuff? Yeah, I like watching something. It just makes my brain not think about things. But then my wife gets frustrated because I'll fall asleep

and then I'll put back on the next night and then I'll put it in and she'll be like, we've watched this five times now. You always fall asleep at the same point. Well, yeah, I'm trying to work out where I am. We've been stuck on Happy Gilmore for nine months. Don't tell me what happens. Nate, morning to you. Hey, how you going?

Oh, we're doing well. It's lovely to have you on. Nate. What are you falling? asleep with? I've watched a series on YouTube called Mr. Nightmare. Is it a nightmare?

Yeah, they're pretty scary stories. It's like a collection of short a minute long stories and I'm asleep like a baby at the end of it. Really? But does it not affect your dreams and stuff? Not at all. Not at all. I don't know.

I'm wired a bit oddly, I think. Sorry, are there just minute-long installments of scary stories of like, And there's your, what's that sorry? Like three or four minutes long each story and there's usually three stories per video. And you reckon you get through one and you go to sleep? Sick man, you're a sick man, mate.

It works, it works. We love it. Great text here, 4487. I fall asleep to someone reading the IKEA catalogue. I listen to this podcast every night and this is the audio of that. We gathered a few lovely. He's whispering. You're like, what's he said?

This week on Special at IKEA. Other IKEA stores, check back often. I can imagine our podcast could probably put some people to sleep as well too, you know? Maybe we need to start whispering. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. Just over the weekend popped over to Sydney for a quick little thing on Saturday, which was cool.

I went over there. The weather was lovely. Jesus, it was loving. It just feels like it's warmer over there. You're like a high-flowing businessman having an affair in Sydney. Yeah, just an overnighter. Just by myself too, just by myself. But, you know, like...

Is it weird travelling just by yourself? Yeah, she's quite enjoy it. Yeah, it's quite nice to wander around, check out the city and stuff, you know. No pressure. No, you can go out when you want. You can do what you do. You're on your own schedule. You're not waiting for people to get prepped in the bathroom.

Exactly, you know, wandering around. Beautiful down by the harbour in Sydney, you with the opera house and everything like that, which is cool. But one thing I noticed, you know, going on the plane. There's a couple of things I noticed. Firstly, they say Wi-Fi's on some flights. That's just say Wi-Fi. Let's not do Wi-Fi. We haven't got there.

We have not as a society. We have not cracked plain Wi-Fi. And that's fine. Yeah, I think it's fine. It used to be a good thing. If you're lucky to travel anywhere, it used to be a time where you're like, well, no one can really contact me.

That was your time to go, hey, I don't need to. Now they're like, plain Wi-Fi, it's a thing. You can get on there. And it's like, I've never once been able to get on plane Wi-Fi. And then they're like, we don't have Wi-Fi on this plane. We do have Wi-Fi on this plane, but it's not working today. I know. Yeah, it feels like the beginning of the internet when the dial-up was going, you know,

and it wasn't, it was a bit shaky. Let's just give up. We don't need Wi-Fi everywhere we go. No, you're in the sky. I understand that the technology is probably pretty hard to use. I'm not just, just, it's fine. It's fine. Just don't, yesterday it was one of those, we've got Wi-Fi.

I'm like, great, could I get it working? No. And the other thing I really noticed as well was, geez, people love to, you've got a seat, right? They allocate your seat. On every flight I've ever been on, they've allocated a seat. But, geez, people love to get up there, get at the front, get on the plane, don't they? It's like a mad rush. Oh, when you're wanting to get on.

Why is there so much rush to get on the plane? It's like, we've all got a seat, guys, we've all got a seat. Yeah, it's not a concert. We're all running to get to the front of the, yeah. I would understand if it was the best seats and everyone was trying to get in first, but you can't, you can't change your seat. So it's like... That would make travel far more exhilarating, though. Like, okay, all right, when the gates open, you just sprint, everyone's like hooning, trying

to get into business class. Because I was on the very back row, on the way back, which is fine. I was like, okay, I'm back row. Close to the toilet. I like that. there in the back and it was fine um so they were like you got i got called on after all the business class and all those people it's like can we board seats 50 to 60 i'm like yeah cool and then you get on there and they're like all these people in row 20 and row 30 they'd got on there i'm like

guys you should have wait it's like why were they rushing to get on there yeah i mean and then once you're on there you're just waiting yeah you're going to be sitting down for a long period of time yeah and you can't even use the wi-fi that's the thing as well so yeah maybe it's because you're down the back of the plane sorry it doesn't reach to row 58 sorry Maybe you're right. That's why. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now, next week we're doing something that we're really proud to be associated with.

It's playing handball for 24 hours, the kids game of handball. Raising money for kids can, a wonderful organisation who will help out Kiwi kids around the country. There's thousands of kids that go to school. Hungry, cold, struggling to learn, and we're hoping to raise a huge amount of money. A million dollars is what they hope, which will support 10,000 children with food. warm jackets and shoes yeah it's a big goal and how much that how much of that money raise is going to be spent on deep heat none for our legs none of it none of us do you to provide our own deep heat unfortunately uh but i'll bring the deep heat yeah uh so if you can help out uh

it would be just even a couple of dollars would be amazing you can head to kids canball org dot nz right now and donate uh for yeah for just three dollars ten dollars whatever you can afford we'll go towards helping out key with kids and schools all right throughout the country actually been signing up and doing their own fundraising efforts as well throughout the month of october two so we're going to be catching up with those schools over the coming a couple of weeks and also one of the principals of the schools that do benefit from kids can joining us after eight o'clock this morning but jordan watson who we're doing it with how to dad social media superstar when do you when do you hit superstar status in the social media game well he's

definitely hit it he's hit this status Yeah, he'd be knocking on superstars. He's a superstar. But Jordan actually, he received some letters from some of the principals who work with kids can. One day we were doing some writing and one boy said, I can't think what's a right. I said, just write what's in your head. I came back to find a page of, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry. I've seen students break down or become disruptive mid-morning, only to find they haven't had breakfast or are worried there's no food at home.

for later. Their behaviour is often misread when in fact they're just hungry. Thanks to kids can, one student who was regularly provided breakfast at school went from struggling to engage in class to becoming a confident learner and school leader within a year. His progress highlighted how powerful basic nutritional support can be. Yeah, and so many of us, so many of us take it for granted. It's happening in New Zealand, which you just, sometimes you just don't think it is. Yeah, So if you can help, you can also text kids to 933, make an instant $3 donation. It's reading something from another teacher saying a child told me he gets a quarter of a sandwich for tea and looks forward to coming to school because of kids can.

So you can eat and hates the holidays because there's no food. It's things like that. It's happening every day. And that's the why. And that's why we're going to be doing it next week. And we'd love as big or as little as you can donate every dollar will help a kid in need.