Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We put Ben through a heart rate–monitored interrogation!

Episode Date: December 7, 2025

On today’s show:  A wild Christmas party story involving Megan’s husband being GRINDED on! Awkward family moviewatching moments (Love Actually, Team America, Sausage Party, Brokeback Mountain). Megan’s partner’s Christmas traditions: midnight gift opening and carp-in-the-bath ritual. Ben goes through a heart rate–monitor interrogation to uncover the Rogue. We chat with Jess Tyson, the reporter who got hit by a seagull Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday morning. We're going to start things off with a little bit of an issue going on in your household, Megan. Yeah, my husband went to his work Christmas party. Bit of bump and grind. Bit of bump and grind.

Art Kelly saw nothing wrong with it. Yeah, but Ralee, well, you're now... Yeah, he's in prison, isn't he? A lot of stuff he didn't see anything wrong with, but... Yeah, true, you're right. Yeah. He's not a moral compass that we should have been following. Well, maybe he's no bumping of grinding, it shouldn't be.

There was a confession after his Christmas work party. Yeah. Well, good on him for being honest, too. I mean, that means he's got nothing to hide. Yeah. Yeah, true, actually. It didn't need to add that conversation. Although maybe someone might have, you know,

you take your kids to the daycare and then we're going, oh, Andrew, you know, I don't know why they would. He's like, if I'm going to put this, if I front foot this, she's not going to ask him. No, it's good on for doing that. Yeah, and I will definitely be hunting this woman down. But that's just, you know, by the way. Honestly is the best policy.

So, yeah, this is, well, it's your fault for marrying such a hot dude. You know, that's on you. Can you guys stop? Yeah. I'm right here. Well, if we had the chance to grind, we would grind with him as well. But, yeah, that's coming up in the podcast too. Also, I just got talking about awkward movie moments you've had with friends or family members being watched a pretty wholesome movie.

It is a very wholesome movie. Yeah, about love actually. but there is, you know, some sinister scenes. There's a few nerdy bits in there. There's a few nerdy bits inside. I mean, some of it's fine. It just felt like the one storyline is like, oh, well, they, yeah, anyway. How would you cope growing up in a nudist park then with your kids?

Oh, I mean, you know, that's probably a bit more. I don't know. I mean, that's... He doesn't grow up in a news park, but they're not all, like, grinding up against each other. And then, you know, like, this was an inferred adult movie and they get more and more nude. And, yeah. Like, naked women will come up and talk to you. Yeah, that's fine.

I mean, that's, nude stuff's fine. It's just that in this particular thing, you know. I'd be a nervous wreck in that part. They come and talk to you, do they? Naked. Well, everyone's, like, walking around, chatting. It's just like everyday life, but they've got no clothes on. Yeah.

Well, that was your existence for a number of years. Yeah. Did people get sunburn? Like, do you, you must mose through the sunscreen? They're all very brown just because they've always got their clothes off. Everywhere. Yeah. Yeah.

No tan lines. Paul Henry, in his book, he's, He does it. Does he? Yeah, he's, uh... Oh, she'll talk some about it. Yeah, he's a nerdist, yeah. Yeah, over in, uh, where is he?

Palm Beach? Yeah. Palm Springs, Palm Springs. That checks out, actually. Yeah. He's very tanned. Got a wonderful all around, you know, all covered tan. Not like my bloody thighs, Megan, you said the widest thighs you've ever seen.

Transparent. They are. They're so white. I can almost like see what's going on. Inside. Yeah. I guess that's a good thing for, two tans. Good benefit in it, you know?

They're out there, those tan lines. Although tan lines are fashionable these days, right? I was just going to talk about that. Yeah. I picked up my daughter a couple of times over the last few weeks just at lunchtime for appointments and things. They're bloody all out there, mate. Sizzling away on the lawn, just sunbathing. With sunscreen on?

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. But they're all about the UV time. Oh, they love knowing the UV. Oh, UV's up to this today. U.S. Honestly, if there's one thing I could tell the youth of today is please wear sunscreen. Particularly.

Even if you don't care about skin cancer, you'll get wrinkles. Yeah. The best thing you can do to your skin. Sunscreens, guys. Try and bang it into them, but you're right. They don't want to listen. They're like, shut up old people. I don't want to get my tan lines and stuff, you know.

I just wish I'd warm sunscreen more. So it's not like a burn, is it? But it's a line. It's still sun damage, you know? Yeah. Well, I sound like an old lady, but, like, honestly. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool to me.

What? No, it doesn't. It's trying to be sarcastic But it came across really weird All right Enjoy the podcast Yeah John O'Benn and Megan

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That listen to a particular artist They send you a wee video message His one very good because he's been doing a whole thing with orphan Annie, who's mocking him as well. You're one of Alex Warren's top listeners. I feel so bad for you. He sucks.

Hi. So, hi, so thank you so much for that. That was very kind of you. So is that the Lanny doing his awful now? Andy, he's got beef with orphan Annie. Because he's an orphan. He's an orphan as well. So it's quite funny what he's doing at the moment.

But something we need to get to right now, that happened over the weekend, a Christmas party incident with your husband. What is it about Christmas? parties people just like let loose at the end of the year um and andrew did have his one um and for the daycare yeah we we um had the like the pre thing we i let them hosted at our house and i took the kids and me away so that the house was free and okay right so they spent all day setting it up made it look real nice you put on the preload party he's the only guy with like i don't know

15 women and i was like it's all good all good all the kids in the daycare come around as well do Okay, this is more for the teachers and stuff, okay. The hire you go with, it's all good, it's all good, the less good I think it is. So this is like a hens party that he's tagged along with. Yeah. It is, you're happy, yeah. In retrospect, it kind of is. And they'll be wanting to let their hair down?

Yeah, there was a lot of drinks, you know, just a normal Christmas party vibes. The next morning, I didn't hear him get home, I was like fast asleep. And the next morning, he's telling me about his night. He was like, there is one bit that happened. I was like, here we go. What happened? And he said, well, like, we went out to a bar and everyone was dancing. Everyone was good vibes.

And I met this woman. And I was like, oh, okay. Here we go. We met this woman. We were chatting away. He's great with the small talk. Loves a chat. Obviously, he had a couple of drinks, so extra chaty.

Very charismatic gentleman. Yeah. He was like, oh, she was telling me about her family. and stuff and like she's married she's got a couple of kids and I was like me too and then she starts

grinding up on me and he was like she wouldn't leave me alone she would not leave me alone having a pal was cried okay I was like oh you know you can walk away

you know you can literally like move away but once you're engaged in a grind you know you're locked it's rude isn't it then but he was like don't you have aren't you don't you have a husband?

I was like, don't you have a wife? But apparently the woman at the daycare had to step in. Undrinder. Oh, really? Ungrinder from the situation. Yeah, get the jaws of life, whatever it is. He's like a magnet. I can't.

I can't. You knew that when you signed up to the relationship with Andrew, though. He didn't you? He's a grindable guy. He is. I can see. I don't know. I thought the marriage and the kids might, you know, stop the magnet.

But, no, he definitely couldn't step away from that situation. Yeah. And, yeah, you know, I mean, you don't want to hurt her feelings, do you? It's Christmas time. What do you mean? Well, you know, if you're offering yourself for a grind, you're putting yourself a very vulnerable position. You don't ever want to deny a grind. And they walk away going, oh. What are the unsexy chat, though, both of them talking about their significant others and the children and then grind time.

So he's moved out. He is moved out. Last movie, last little hero, Andrew. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. It is a big week this week on The Hits. No, Ben and Megan's The Rogue with Invisible Zinc, mineral sunscreen. Yeah, this week, one of us is going to pull the ultimate summer disappearing act. We don't know when, we don't know how it's going to happen,

who it is, but one of us is going rogue and going to turn Invisible, and you could win $5,000 thanks to Invisible Zink Mineral Sunscreen. If you can text in and work out exactly where they are, now, at some stage this week, it's going to happen. One of us, I can hands down on my heart say it's not me. Who's the rogue this time round? Last time I said it was me the whole time. So I'm going the opposite plan of attack.

It's 100% not me. Hand on hearts. It was Megan last time. Yeah, it was me last time. A wonderful game last time. Yeah, so honestly we don't know. We got caught into our meeting room and this happened last time as well. And one of us got told we were the rogue.

The other two got told separately that we weren't the rogue and we all started thinking it could be them, and we bought bags into work and stuff. So it's happening again, and this was last time when Megan, suddenly went missing. Megan? Are you the rogue?

Hello, Jono and Ben. Are you the rogue? I may have gone rogue. Oh, Megan, you've played the best game ever. How? Like the best game. Like, we're saying, like, we don't trust you anymore whatsoever.

No, you're like, geez, you're light to our face. Yeah, what you did last time was smart You started being the investigator Like sort of, you're questioning us the whole time Deflecting Yeah Did really well last time But I kind of feel like

What, I was it last time So you think it's not going to be you again Yeah Okay Okay So it's not me It kind of like writes me off Could be me

It might not be It's hard to It's hard to Your gameplay from Benboards I don't know Well could be any one of us You gameplay sitting on the fence Could be me

Why not be me That is very uncharacteristic Last time he was like It's not me It's not me Yeah Well yeah I could tell you more

Throughout the week You're going to have to keep listening But once you do work out Where the person is You text spotted Plus where they're hiding To 4487 to enter And thanks to invisible zinc

A mineral sunscreen Summers here Say sunsmart Make Invisible Zinc You'll go to sunscreen You could be winning $5,000 Is that money go down

Or is that $5,000? Is that 5K? Damn that's good before Christmas Five grand You know a lot of money. So you need to stay for... We could have just said one grand and kept the four grand and split that amongst us.

That would be nice, you could win $1,000. Too late for that now. Yeah, so it'll be happening. Last time you ended up in a sort of motel and Matamara, didn't you? Someone tracked me right down to the motel, locked on the door. Yeah, that was... Because the video of you, you could see stuff in the background. I was looking too.

Once we... I got a lot of texts coming through for Matamara towards the end, and I started looking up motels and motemara and looking online. and then I was like, yeah, that's the one. Yeah, so. Someone done a Google review of your exact same room. Yeah. It's a good reminder that people can find you.

Really quickly. The more stuff you put online, people can find you. Yeah, so The Rogue, this week someone is disappearing when and where they're heading. No one knows. Well, they do, hopefully. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. I feel like we're on the countdown to Christmas not too long to go.

We've been talking a lot about Christmas recently with our Mariah Carey game, which is finished up on Friday. starting to play all I want for Christmas and as we talked about over the last couple of weeks it's in a very iconic Christmas movie Love actually a different version of Mara Carey's all I want for Christmas she's good voices girl yeah Sam singing it and I thought over the weekends and maybe it's time you know I should watch that movie because it's a classic a Christmas classic to watch with my kids as well and what you don't realize watching movies again with kids is there is well

sometimes my kids are you know now teenagers but even still there's some scenes in there, there's some stuff, and then I'm like, ooh. Oh, yeah. There's probably three that I can think of in that movie. There's the adult film actors, aren't they? And they're, like, stand-in for that. That one was the definitely one I keep going, flicking through, like, fast-forward through those ones.

But then you don't know when they're going to come back up again. Then they'll pop back up again, oh, this one again, so I flick through that one. Would you make a scene? Were you making a scene? Oh, maybe we don't need to watch that storyline. Yeah, because there's lots of different storylines in love actually. You'll get, you know, your bucket will be filled with storyline.

Yeah, we don't need to know about this. their relationship, that's fine. There's enough for going on. So I flicked through that as well as all. What about that woman who's trying to get with Carl the whole time and her brother keeps calling? It's inopportune moments. Yeah, yeah.

And there's a few things in the other little bit. I'm like, well, that's the old grubby collin. He wanted to go to America and have loads of, loads of this. Yes, yes, yeah. Well, that's another one as well. Yeah, fun times as well. And then you meet three women, then I've only got one bed. I don't know how they're like a lot of six weeks ago.

And no pyjamas. And no pyjamas. Oh, nightmare. It's cold over there too that time. a year you need your fat shaming in that movie too yeah the lady in the Hugh Grant's storyline where he's the girl with a huge thighs

yeah they're talking about her talking about churning her chubby and all sorts of stuff and it's her family's even calling her that as well and she's beautiful yeah it's a few things that don't quite stack up as well they call that character building back in the day didn't they or bully egg one of the two

so what we wanted to know is have you had awkward movie moments or at all TV moments with your family. Was it you? Did you watch Team America with your parents? With your parents. They were puppets.

I remember that scene. The puppet scene when they're all puppet scenes, but there's one in the bedroom, very detailed. It goes on and on and on. What was Ray Ray saying during that? Do you know in those moments, I just find myself sitting completely still. I was like frozen on this spot. I was like, don't move, don't make any gestures.

I think I closed my eyes and was like, me over. Something else worse with puppets, too. We never spoke about it. We never spoke about it. That's the thing, after the time you don't, right? You just like, yeah. Oh my gosh. They had a hammer and tongs, weren't they?

I think I learned a few things, too. And that? All right, so what was the awkward TV or movie moment that you had to experience with your family? What were those ones? Maybe the warning for other people, like, hey, watch Love Actually, but maybe there's a couple of storylines, things that maybe aren't quite there for your teenage daughter.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. As we get in towards Christmas It's time to watch a few Christmas movies Watch one I hadn't watched with the kids Love Actually over the weekend And there was definitely a couple of storylines With teenage daughters I was like oh this is slightly awkward

Yeah And you just kind of fast forward To skip through it Yep Straight through that one That their first time watching it Yeah Yeah they've seen bits of it

Like on TikTok and stuff like that But not the full movie So yeah And I would say I really enjoyed the movie But there was definitely a couple of things I was like oh this one Yeah, that's just like me and my wife put on the movie sausage party for our kids.

My mum did that too. And no, it looks like a cartoon. She was like, I'm going to put it on for the kids. Oh, no, no, don't. It's a cartoon, but it's not for the kids. It does look cute and fun, but it's definitely not one for your young kids. Thanks, hell. But good old family sit down the sausage party.

There's some great ones coming through. Awkward movie moments. Paul, lovely to have you on New Zealand's breakfast. What was the movie? Hey guys. How are you, buddy? Hey. Hello.

Hello, mate. Hey, mate. What was the movie or TV show that you watched? Yeah, Paul. Good day, mate. Hang on, hold on. I think we've made this the most awkward scene. We have, definitely have.

You're there, Paul. You're good, mate. We got there in the end. What was the movie or TV show that you watched that were like, this is awkward? It was years ago. My wife, so my father and Louis come over, and he used to be into Disney movies and stuff. So he was quite sort of into the change. stuff and my wife got out a Meg Ryan

moving at Shetadai this is going to work and it's called in the cut and it's R-18 to the max anyway he pulls his sleep on the chair and he wakes up at a scene where it's quite I would say explicit and I'm behind him and he says Is that what I went yep

Now we've got some audio here Oh Oh just by the music Yeah it does It does. There was a bad, bad movie choice from your wife there, Paul. Oh, it was thumbs up for me, though. As long as he's asleep, I'll heavily watch it.

He pretended to go back to sleep, and my listen to stand around and look at him out and I just had two thumbs up, and I was like, really. Good idea, mate, appreciate it. Robert, morning to you. Morning, how you? We're doing well, awkward movie moments, Rob. Well, we're all away up in our batch we have up in the Mold. sound and we all four would sit around and watch

a nice family sort of movie. We weren't too sure how it was going to go and they stuck on Brobeck Mountain. Brokeback Mountain. So I was here with my mother and a whole lot of her friends and we were watching and then all of a sudden it gets, oh my God, I just sunk. Oh, I feel very uncomfortable right now

and I'm going to just sleek out of the room. Did you just back out? I was going to say, just leave with him. Yeah, it's a good movie that one, but you're right. I did the same with Bridget and with my mum. And then I was like, we're even cups of tea And I was like, right, off to bed, I go. Just got to leave the situation.

You just thought, I'm out of here. Yeah, yeah, no, it's, no one enjoys the feeling, do they? No. You're dead right, Megan. Your approach of just not saying anything looking straight ahead. Yeah. Nicky, morning. Hi, guys.

Great to interesting. Morning, happy Monday. I was looking after some friends' kids. I don't have any kiddos, so I'm not really sure what appropriate movies are these days. But I couldn't find anything. So I put on the mask with Jim Carrey because this was something I watched as a kid. Did you know how many sexual enderwendoes are in that movie?

No, but I'm as... Smokehead. That's the main part I remember about it. Smokhan. Exactly. All of those, like, the hot girls and the guy's tongue falling out and, like, you know, you don't care about that, but the kids are like, what's going on?

Oh, he did a bit of an agoo-gued. His eyes sort of pop out of his head and stuff. He said, and I'm like, oh, oh my God, like these are a monster now, and then the dog turns into a monster, and there were tears. Never, ever. It was bad. There's a lot of objectifying going on there.

You're right. And there's a little young girl, and she's like, why are they doing that to that lady? And I was like, oh, God, I don't know if I'm going to any of this. This is the wrong choice. Exactly. She's right. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits.

Forista 724 on your Monday morning here on the Hats. John O'Bin and Megan's, the Rogue, with Invisible Zink Mineral Sunscreen. Yeah, it's a big week here on the hits and you need to stay tuned because at some stage one of us is going to pull the ultimate summer disappearing act

and go missing. It's all thanks to Invisible Zinc mineral sunscreen. One of us will leave the radio show at some stage. You need to work out where that person heads. You can text spotted and the destination. You can text multiple times

to 4487 once they're gone and you can win $5,000 if you guess correctly as thanks to Invisible Zinc. mineral sunscreen creates a physical barrier to reflect the sun's UVA and UVB rays. That's just all off the top of his dome. It's just something I like to spout around the office. Now we must reiterate too when this person disappears. It's not your classic radio industry pre-Christmas redundancy,

although it would be a really entertaining way for someone to find out that are being made redundant. And is it a smart play from someone to get on Christmas leave a little earlier as well? Well, maybe. Yes, one of us. One of us last time that happens, we honestly don't know. We all get called into a meeting room and one of us gets told they're the rogue and it happened last, earlier the year, right?

We did this and it ended up being you, Megan. We all did not know it was Megan, do we? Megan. Are you the rogue? Hello, Jono and Ben. Are you the rogue? I may have gone rogue. Oh, and Megan, you have played the best game ever.

And then she ended up in Matamata. Some gorgeous little motel there hidden away with producer grace and you tracked her down. Yeah, we give clues once that person goes missing and, you know, so you can narrow it down and hopefully you win $5,000, a huge amount of money. That's a massive amount of money. Now, last time Megan did a really good job of deflecting.

She was doing, she played the role of lead investigator. I think it's you because of this. I think it's you. I was saying it was me the whole time. Now this time I'm just going to say it's not me. Okay? 100% not me going missing from the show. Okay?

Okay, well, it's 100% on me. It's not me. I did it last time. So, yeah. You did it last time? Yeah, you did it last time. I suppose that's... I got a lot of admin stuff at home.

You know, like my wife, you know, with the back operation and stuff. It's really difficult for me to get away. So, you know. I'm too disorganized to even organize my life. So I couldn't... Well, no, so the hits does it for you, though. Oh, yeah, true. Yeah, no one's going to...

No one's expecting you to book anything. Began didn't book a hotel, mate. Oh, you did it? No. Oh, okay. No. Interesting to know how radio works. Yeah.

Well, you know behind the scenes I've been very busy. You have been? Got a lot going on. Oh, no one's busy than Megan Puppers at the moment. I didn't say no one was busy. I just said, I'm busy. You don't have to. I'll say it for you.

I'm busy. Text 4-8-7. Are you busier than Megan? No, I don't... It's got a somber concerts and all sorts. All the priorities this time of year. You think of everything you've got going on in your life? Nothing compares.

So at some stage, one of us will go missing. And, yeah, it's your job to decide to work out where exactly they go missing. Now, I bought the old heart rate monitor. rate monitor in from home and I think after 8 o'clock we can chuck it to the people 4487 you decide who puts on this heart rate monitor and you can phone up and you can ask them questions

Only one person Yeah I think only one person We can do it throughout the wake Yeah, I'm different people If you want to really drill down on someone You know like yeah Well I'm just yeah I know who I'd want to put it on

Who's that? Ben Okay We'll put the heart rate monitor on Ben after 8 o'clock And you can phone up and you can ask him any questions Will he remain consistently can't? Will he remain consistently can't? During the investigation

On my boys go a little higher Jono Ben and Megan The podcast The hits I mentioned that last week My daughter CNN's got her learner's license

She took the test And got it Like top marks And I wasn't I wasn't backing her To get that Because I was like You need to study more

On the road code She told me she had She'd been doing this thing Online I'd be like You just seem like You're just doing the test And not the real

In-depth stuff But hey She got it She got 35 out of 35 So she's nailed the test So she's hacked the test, but does she know the road coat? Well, yeah, she seems to have, actually, in her defense.

I was like, I just felt like she was just doing the test. Anyway, so now that she wants to learn how to drive, she's found some learner plates that we had in the garage for some skit that I bought it somewhere out in line. Put them on my car. I didn't realize they were on my car until someone yelled out the other day when I, I look at, yes, I was a bit slow to get going. I got a little toot from the lights. And then I was looking to find the place that I was trying to pull in for.

You know, when you slowed down. And I was going, like, the speed limit, but it must. And then as a guy, he went round me. He went around me. And this is in town. I was like, you can't go around on the other side of the road. And he was like, well, he learned a driver. And all sorts of stuff.

I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's my daughter, mate. It's not me. She's the terrible driver. Although in this moment, I am being a little bit inconvenient. Yeah, but I was going like 50. And ever, for some reason, that feels slow for other people. That's a great way to give Lerder driver's confidence.

I know, that's what I thought. Are you supposed to leave the Ler flight's on? if you're driving? Probably not, right. Yeah, I didn't realize they're on that. They're just sitting inside the car now, so I don't really want to drive around with L plates. It's kind of a get out of jail free card though, too, isn't it?

I'm sorry, sorry. Well, you'd think so, but they still abuse you clearly. Then they look at you're like, how old are you, mate? 20 years ago. Just starting. Glenn has actually just phoned through. We'll put them on here. Glenn, you are a driving constructor.

Yeah, yeah, I was. How many years were you doing that for? 14. Okay, and then you're out of the game now. some great stories over those years I still got my ticket but I'm not yeah some real good stories I've even been threatened to be killed once

but anyway oh wow geez oh let's go more into that what did he fail someone oh yeah he was a gang member but he pulled a knife on me but he didn't like that he was actually on methamphetamine it took six cops to hold him down oh my gosh I love it how he's in the gangs

he's like you know what I've got to do I'll go and get my restricted all the stuff I get away with I am not going to shirk the law of the driver's license system. The one I was telling you, buddy, though, was I had a guy from overseas come for his license, and I failed to make times. And on the ninth time, he said to me, if you don't pass me, I never see you.

And I said, I gave him my phone number. I said, go for it. Here's my name a number. He finally passed after he went out with the driving instructor. But a couple of months later, I was out doing firewood, and I switched my hand with my chainsaw. My wife drove me to hospital, and part of my days, he was my doctor. Oh, really? Yeah, I recognized you from somewhere.

I said, oh, look, I don't know. No, he goes, where do you work? And I said, oh, I work in the bush. I don't work in the push. Yeah, I want him to save my hand. He's like, I might have another appointment to get to right now. Oh, my God. I love he's a doctor as well, and he couldn't pass the licence.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. John O'Beno Ben and Megan's The Rogue with Invisible Zincol mineral sunscreen. You need to stay listening to the show this week because one of us is going to pull the ultimate summer disappearing act. So we're going to go Invisible, going to go rogue, and we don't know who it is or when it's going to happen. But if you can guess out, I guess where that particular person,

John I've been a Megan that he heads to in textory, spotted, and the location to 4487. You can enter as many times as you want. All thanks to Invisible Ink Mineral Sunscreen, you could be winning $5,000. I feel so much better this time round because it's so freeing, not being the rogue and having it hanging over my head. There's a lot of mental games going on here in the studio.

It's 100% not me. It's hard because, yes, Megan was the rogue last time. So then she's kind of using this as a theory that she wouldn't do it the second time round, which is... Well, I do see where you're coming from, a little bit, Megan. But then wouldn't that be the put you off the scent? But that could put you off as well, yeah. It'd be the least likely one. I'm just saying, I feel very relaxed.

I feel very free. Last time you played an amazing game where Megan went missing earlier in the year. She was the rogue from the show. This is the moment we found out. Megan? Are you the rogue? Hello, Jono and Ben. Are you the rogue?

I may have gone rogue. Oh, Megan, you've played the best game ever. Yeah, you did well. Did well. Put us off the scent with your investigative skills. Ended up in Matamara, and people that guest spotted and Matamara to 4487, someone won some money. This time it's $5,000 thanks to Invisible Ink Mineral Sunscreen,

offers broad spectrum protection, suitable for all skin types, including sensitive skin. Now you've got something in the studio. Yeah, we've got a heart rate monitor here and you wanted to put it on Ben. Oh, 800 of the hits, actually. If you've got any questions you'd like to ask, Ben. It's set at 90, the resting heart rate.

So anything below, oh, sorry, over that would insinuate some nerves. I can't stop beeping. So it's just a kick in, is it? It should do. There's just been a couple of comments from Ben where I was like, ah, and you know, is it a great liar? No, no, not very good. The guilt gets get me out.

Have you turned it on? And your voice goes hyper. high yeah yeah uh so first first question i'd like to ask you is you said it can be you you got too much to do this week oh no it's not a good sign it's beeping already what what exactly do you have to do this week it's it really gone up there isn't it oh geez it's he the rope what are you on no why's it going so high troy oh why's your voice going high oh hang on you haven't answered the question either i know i just want to just get my heart right down He'd be a nightmare in an investigation room.

We just asked you how you were doing today. Did it happen with the airport when, you know, the whole incident where I got arrested the airport? They take into separate rooms and they ask you to separate. How are you in that environment? Oh, well, the thing is, I've got to be honest in the situation. But then you're like, what's the person saying in the next room? What are they saying? That's all Ben.

Really gets inside your head. Okay, see, now what he's doing is a classic technique, deflecting. Telling us a story from 10 years ago. Give himself enough time to think of an answer. Oh, I still haven't got my heart. I'm going to be done. What is the answer to the question, Ben Boyce? I forgot the question.

Tell us what you said you've got so much to do this week? Yeah, I have. What is it? It's been the rogue. I mean, no. I'm not the rogue, I'm definitely not the rogue. Got a lot of stuff going on. You're not doing a good job.

I'm not going on. Lots of going on, guys. Well, my wife just had back surgery, you know? So, you know, she is just coming back to drive and stuff. There's a lot going on the outside. So she is driving now. She is starting to drive again, but not all the time, you know. Have you still got family staying?

No, family, you have some family have left. There's Joyce around, your mother and more? She's, you know, she's around, but she's also going to America. She's going to America this week as well. Yeah. Well, she started to drive. Not all the time. She's, yeah.

Talking very quickly. I'm very quickly. High, high pay, high pitch. There's a lot of beeping. This is really putting me off the beeping noise. Can I take the thing off a finger? No, okay. When does Joyce go overseas?

This week, yeah. What day is imperative? I don't know, man. I'm not a travel agent. We have a 10-year-old boy on the phone who claims to be your son. would you guys talk to No No

No Okay so I haven't done a good job of this But I'm not the rogue Look can I just say I'll put it on record right now What's the time mate 27 Monday I'm not the road Not the road

If you're not How did you make such a fiasco I'm not the road I'm not the road guys Okay Well one of us is And all Well you'll be revealed this week

And you'll be like Oh wow he was playing a great game That Ben was there We thought he was a shambles Maybe this is just his anxious heart rate all the time. I think it was really, yeah, you put this on at any stage of the day. This is what I'm going to be like.

This is what goes on internally. It's me all 24-7. She's lying down to bed at night and things like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep. John O' Ben and Megan, oh, no, or there she is. Megan, we can just see her through the window running back from the bathroom. We're all on edge because one of us is going to go missing this week from the show. One of us is going rogue. We don't know who it is.

when it would happen, and if you can work out where the rogue's going to go, you could win yourself $5,000. We thought you'd gone road. Yeah, that was a good play on day one. Yeah, Day Run, wow. Before you disappeared. She's gone. Mark, Annball, she's just giving me two minutes to go to the toilet.

Oh, sorry, Mark. Can you extend, how much more would you like, Mark, to add to that bridge, maybe? Just another 30 seconds would have been. Yeah. So Megan might not be the rogue. Oh, she might not. She's going toilet, guys. Oh, you're jumpy.

Yeah, we're like, maybe she's the rogue. Maybe this is what's happening. It's not me. It's not me. I was the rogue last time. 100% not me. You keep saying I was the rogue last time. Does that matter?

Well, I don't know. Wouldn't they spread it around? Well, maybe you're right. Okay, we'll find out at some stage of this week. Listen, something I see every afternoon driving home. Is this sweet, it's probably so wholesome it could be in like an Air New Zealand ad or something, you know, like a one New Zealand ad. It's a sweet elderly couple, both in Warriors gear. But he, I'd say, late 80s, early 90s.

Right. And he's pushing his wife down the road in her wheelchair. Oh, the part of the Warriors gear, too. Got matching Warriors gear, nothing quite like, like, I hope it's his wife, or it might be his mistress. There's a Ben. Yeah, that's my dreams that are, isn't it? She's a dream woman right there, buddy.

Sometimes it's how I had to get mended to the game. Strapmering. Yeah, well, that sounds beautiful. Isn't it lovely? That's nice to it. That's what life's about, isn't it? Then I was telling, I was on the phone to my wife when I was driving past, I was like, oh, I saw that lovely couple I see every day, and he's pushing her down the road on the wheelchair.

She's like, you'd let go of the wheelchair if I was in that. I was like, I would not. I was like, you would. And then we started arguing about who would let go of the wheelchair if we're... You know what marriage is like after. Yeah, but then you obviously ride through that, and then you get to the sweet stage where you're pushing wheelchairs and matching warriors gear. That's where we're all heading, guys. It was very lovely, very sweet

I don't know how he gets back up the hill though He doesn't, oh yeah, that's a bit of it Yeah He doesn't look like he's much core strength You know And do you dare not grunt As soon as you like Yeah, it's like

Yeah It's like when like I'm sitting on the ground And like my husband gives me a hand up And he's like oh I'm like excuse me Are we not allowed to grunt? No Sometimes it takes a bit of work

Internalise it It's on our strength more as opposed to there No, I don't care, internalise it. I'm not very strong. I don't hear you grunting. Can you pick, can you pick, Megan, up the floor now, and we'll see if he's a grunter?

Can we do that? Go on, let's give it a go. Let's give it a go. Oh, I'm definitely, grunt. Just try not to grunt, Ben, whatever you do. Bring that, I'll bring that mic over. Okay, so Megan's lying flat on the floor. He's going to have to do a little, yeah. Yeah.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Christmas Resents for 18. lot of winners on Saturday night, two of which took home over $500,000, which is not a bad little thing to have just before Christmas. Well, five grand would be nice to have too. One of us is going to go missing from the show as the rogue this week. We don't know who it is. And if you track him down, you win 5K.

Yeah, we'll tell you more on that in the next 10 minutes, but right now we're talking Christmas traditions as we head towards Christmas. And you mentioned a couple of things that you have done over the past of the decade or so. Yeah, so I was talking initially about how we stay up to. midnight um and we wait for santa and then we open presents at midnight i've done that for both my husband's christmas eve this is christmas eve you'll open up some presents well first christmas present you get to open up together as a family at midnight no all of them oh do you yeah all of them that's a long christmas eve yeah and then we do wait sometimes you don't get to bed till like 2 a m so

this has come because you know andrew's family your husband south african so a lot of um south african families do that. My other husband was like Eastern Europeans Czech Republic so they do that as well yeah. Geez, I'd like to be in bed by bloody 8 o'clock Yeah, my wife did introduce something because her family, they would open one, they'd get to choose one present on the night before. And that

was at a more reasonable hour and actually it's quite good because sometimes you know like particularly if there is a few presents, particularly the kids, you know, it kind of makes that one special the night before as well as I was like, oh no, I don't mind that one. But you don't have to wait till at night to do that. Yeah, there is options is eight, nine o'clock in the evening, it's even six o'clock. Well, you know, but it's not Christmas Day.

I know. You're waiting for Christmas Day. It doesn't matter. I mean, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. Yeah. But the other thing, I mentioned to my first husband, Czech Republic, that's where they're from, and their family do, like, carp in a bath, which is quite, I don't know how popular it is, but it's from that area, Germany, like Czech Republic, all of them.

That's because the carp was a cheap fish. you'd buy the carp which is like found in muddy waters and everything and then you keep it for 24 hours in the bath and it flushes out its system so it makes a cheap fish taste better and so what do you just fill up the bath with your stockstand of bath water yeah and they let the carp swim around in the bath just one one fish what depends how many you want I guess so clean the fish the fish but then it becomes kind of a Christmas tradition because if you had the carp for Christmas you have the carp in a bath you must always remember the carp's in the bath too you don't want to be hopping in and a lot Alive, alive. Oh, jeez. Yeah. Something around. Okay, well, hey, each, each tradition there right now.

Ben's too scared to mock traditions because it's all based on culture. Well, that's right. KFC, Troy, you're going to Japan, aren't you? Apparently, KFC on Christmas Day is, that's the tradition. You have to book out weeks in advance to get your... Really? Yeah, to get you called... Yeah, on Christmas Day, that's where they all go, apparently.

So 800 the hits, the tradition that's been bestowed upon your family. maybe by your partner, maybe you bought it in to the, maybe you're staying awake till bloody two o'clock in the morning for no reason. Then your kids are waking you up at five and you're like, woo, all right. There we go. Going under Christmas for very little sleep. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

About new Christmas traditions that some people have around the holiday season, including staying up until midnight, your family do, Megan. Yeah. Start up to midnight, open all of the presents, not just one. you do on Christmas Day? Just eat. Just eat. Just eat. We've really nailed the foot to the floor too with the old Christmas dinners, haven't we?

We've stuck with hot foods. Yeah. And sometimes not a great co-lab with a 30-degree day. You know, hot hams, hot potatoes, hot everything. But then you look like jack in a salad. Yeah, true. We're just mentioning Venezuela, someone message in saying, people roller skate to church on Christmas Day.

Seems like a risky activity. You know, hundreds of people roller skating to the same location. Or roll a skate at dawn And you're like What if you're taking Nan But then if Nan's been doing it Her whole life She'd be pretty handy

Pretty good on the skates And then what happens When you get to church You're still all wearing your skates Do you take them off? You carry some shoes with you A lot of logistical Things are a lot of questions

4487 on the text If you know anything or about that But we've had a few more texts Come through for other Christmas traditions We need to get behind Amanda How are you? Yes I'm good thanks

Hi guys All right lovely to have you on Monday morning Amanda, what's been dragged into your house on the tradition front? These little yellow rubber chicken slingers, they're little finger flicking flinger thingies that you

stick your finger in one end and you flick it like a rubber band with the other finger and it's just hectic and there's little rubber chicken flingers fling around everywhere and the kids get in on it, the oldies, the youngies it's a bunch of fun. She are you... They're just like, look at all these.

They're just like, little finger slingshots, but they look like rubber chickens. Oh, rubber chicken fingers? Do they, when you fling them, do they go, ah! No, they don't, but you can. You can make that noise. You'd like to make that noise, Megan, you can make that noise.

And you know, those little chickens, like, go, pah! Make it again. Creatively, you can just do whatever you want with that game by the sounds of it. And so, while you're flinging them at each other's faces and things, eh? Yeah, everywhere. Yeah, great. You can make your own. if you don't want them in the face or whatever.

But anywhere, they end up behind the TV. You find them next year, behind the couch. It's quite funny. It's very, very, it's a lot of fun. If you Google rubber chicken flingers, you'll see them straight away. There we go, yeah. Yeah, appreciate your call. Thank you so much for coming through.

A great tradition I like to do is sort of an hour and a half into everyone drinking. I like to go, what's everyone's views on international politics? Then I just step back. It's launched a grenade. It's a funny. Fun family tradition to do Someone said on the text We have a curry on Christmas Eve

Realise our kids don't like ham And fancy salad So they have butter chicken Is their favorite food? Love a Christmas butter chicken My friends every year Their tradition They have

They have like Chinese takeaways The night before And on Christmas morning Their tradition is to have leftovers Of that every morning Cold Chinese Yeah cold Chinese Yeah they love it

Their daughter love it It's her favourite thing about Christmas And they've done it for like the last 15 years You know like years Well the however you celebrate Yeah. We hope you enjoy your Christmas.

Jono Ben and Megan on that. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Weekend, I watched iconic Christmas movie Love Actually with the family and realizing it, watching with teenage daughters, there was a couple of, yeah, there's a couple storylines, one of in particular that I wasn't so fond of. It was quite awkward, and so we sort of skipped through that every time it would pop back up. But that makes it more awkward, doesn't it? You picking up the remote being like, look.

You know, I know. Yeah. You make it. And you didn't know when it was going to pop back up too because there's not in any linear sort of order you know, no rotate going after this one this is going to come up which is suddenly we're back here

with the sort of more adult sort of stand in scene maybe you could, because you can edit it maybe you could do a Ben Boys edit of the movie yeah yeah I don't know how you'd edit that I don't know just take it out yeah

I'm sort of Christian broadcasting or something if I do that no I'm not watch the Ben Boys edits there might be a whole You can have your own Netflix, like, prudeflicts, or not prudish, it's just a bit of awkward watching with one of my daughters is 13, you know? So we want to know your awkward movie moments with friends or family. Good morning, Helen.

Morning. Lovely to have you on. Now, this one still left, leaves you with scars, still quite traumatic. Seriously, and, yeah, like, it was a, yeah, it was an experience. I mean, these guys were late 60s, early 70s. Okay, so you've taken them out of the retirement village? Kind of. We had an older person's group.

Yep, and you thought, let's go to the movies. Yes. And I picked the movie. I very carefully picked the movie. What was it? I can't remember what it was called, but effectively it was a story of a young guy that could create perfume from the smell of something.

Okay. And it took a bit of a downhill when it turned out he was actually killing people, quite horrible. and they're using their skin to create the perfume. Okay. So it's a bit of a plot twist. How's the test audience taking this plot twist? Yeah, so people are starting to squirm.

Okay, okay. And then he ends up in court and he's sentenced to death, set back in, I don't know, the old days. And he releases his perfume. And long story, short, it turns into this mass sex thing. Oh, really? Wow. Wait, how did we get there? Ended in a giant sort of group

group scene, did it? It did, yes. And yes, and we were in, like, one of those lighthouse theaters, so, you know, everybody's sitting on couches. So it wasn't, there wasn't really a separation. Oh, so you're quite, everyone up close, watching everyone up close on the screen.

Very awkward. Please tell me you didn't have to drive home with these people. We did. We had to put them all on a bus and bring them home together. How was that right? Were they discussing the movie? There was no words.

Oh, no one's talking. No words. It was literally a silent trip. And after that, they never wanted to go to the movies with me again. Oh, that's brilliant, Helen. You can't have a great day. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

All right, we're wrapping up the end of the year, and we thought we'd host a bit of a end-of-year kind of awards ceremony and end-of-year assembly that they do in the... the school halls. Yeah, handing out certificates for some great moments from the year. And this one has come through over just the last week. A Māori television journalist here in New Zealand, Jessica Tyson is her name. She was recording something for the show that she does.

And a very windy day out in Auckland and a seagull ended up smacking her directly in the face in between filming. Very, very vicious. Have a listen. Oh, my shit. Yeah. You're right? Yeah. Oh my God.

My eyes. So, yes, millions of views online over the last few days and winning our award, our certificate for going viral. Congratulations, Jess Tyson. Thank you. We'll send you out a clip art that we got for you. We'll make that up on the computer. No, tell us about this, because this must be crazy. Something happened to you, if people haven't seen it, this has gone everywhere, right?

Yeah, it has. Yeah, so I was just recording a piece to camera for my story, and next minute the seagull just flew into my face, and I started bleeding. She was, and it comes in at a rate of knots as well as the seagull. How are you, physically, emotionally, spiritually? How are we going? I'm actually, I'm having a good time because it's funny. It's crack up, right?

And I just, you know, people are very worried. They're like, like, is it okay if I laughed? I'm like, of course, otherwise I wouldn't post it on social. I know. I laughed really hard. and then you see the blood and you're like oh god now I feel bad like yeah yeah are you any serious injury sustain no which is really like it was only about a centimeter from my eyeball it was just above my eye below my eyebrow I've got a little scar there to show the evidence oh wow

okay so yes you're a reporter for um Māori television and you're in the middle of Auckland CBD it's quite a gusty windy day and yeah and so what happened is the seagulls sort of get blown off course or what happened? I think it was just the wind but also just really random you know? It looked like I had a personal agenda yesterday. Yeah. It was coming for you.

What sort of story were you doing? What were you covering? I was like, hang on. I was doing a story about sustainable fashion and talking about fast fashion and the impact on the environment and then the bird is like, no. The bird should be down for that. It wasn't like it was a story of banning chips at the beach here anyway.

So the bird, yeah, really came in a rate of knots into your face. What did you think in that moment? Because a bird into the face would probably be the last thing I would think in that moment. Oh, honestly, I was so confused. That's when I, I think I said something. All their words I was saying mostly because I was so surprised that a bird flew into me. The part or the most painful part was the impact. It felt like a heavy pillow was being smacked against my face.

Oh, jeez. Has anyone from the Seagull community, reached out for a formal apology? That have not. How was the Seagull? It just went and joined its mates back on the ground, trying to get food. It was all good. So this video of you has gone everywhere.

You put it up on your social media, which you can see Jess Tyson as well. But it's gone every. Are you surprised? I saw it on New York Post over the weekend. BBC. It's in Australia. It's gone worldwide. I didn't actually think that the media would pick it up, to be honest.

but now that I think about it as a journalist I would actually be keen to post that from our news station you know so I'm like oh no wonder why but I was just hoping it would go viral on social next minute it's that you know worldwide it's kind of cool it's gone to the fake news media they're the ones that love it the most because we can relate well how many millions of views do you think this thing's had

well on TikTok the America ABC against my permission in fact They, this is about 4 million. Oh wow. The ABC in America took your clip and posted as their own.

Yeah, they did. Well, they asked for it and I said not for TikTok they can use it for anything else but TikTok and then they posted it straight away on TikTok. Oh, really? Roos. Yeah.

Routy mongrels. So I'm trying to get it pulled. You know, good on. Hey, well listen, good on you for putting it out there. Now people, that's just the content they're going to come to you for now. I know, yeah, how do you back that up?

You can't really, right? I reckon I'll just have to keep, because there's different things, different trends that I can edit it to. So I'm going to keep doing that. Well, you can be the animals to the face, lady. We can be like, we can just be off camera and we're like, what is it today? Oh, it's a durable. It's not good for animals.

It's not good for Jess as well. You're respected journalist, Jess. But you could be an even more respected social media superstar, Jess. We continue on with this. I thank the bird for that. Hey, you're legend. Thanks so much for your time. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits.

My dog, Bo, he's, yeah, he loves a bark. And he goes along to a doggy daycare once a week. He goes along and hangs out with other dogs. And I know he's a bit of a shambles for them, I'm sure. He loves it. He's a hot mess, this guy. Yeah, he loves just barking and talking away, a beau. And I think they call him Bo voice as well instead of Bo Bois, because they all get their last name.

It's true. It's a very good last name for him because he loves just barking. Oh, he's quite vocal. Yeah. You're taking for a walk and every dog and every person, he's like, oh, I want to see them, I want to see them, I'm like, mate, not everyone. Hello, hello, not everyone is about you, but we're walking with the family on the weekend and the dog, and the dog, my beau went over to, you know, he wanted to see this dog. And I was like, Bo, we don't need to go over there, we don't know them. And then my wife went, well, how do we know that?

How do we know that the dog does not know that dog? How do we know that that's not another dog from doggie daycare? Oh, yeah, he's like, that's true. That's true, mate. And I couldn't notice that. Well, no, you just need to go, well, because he dogs, okay. And we're in charge of them. No, I can't be bothered going over there.

Yeah, he's like, oh, I want to go see Rex. You know? And in that moment, I was like, first I was like, why is your mind thinking about that to my wife? But also, secondly, I was like, I can't answer that. It's great theory. Did they sniff bums? Well, I didn't then go over there in the end. Because isn't that like saying hello?

Yeah, I think it is. So if they didn't sniff bums, maybe they know each other. Unusual. Unusual ceremony there, isn't it? It is. It really is. So you're fun sponged him. You didn't get to have a sniff.

Oh, sometimes I'm like. mate, you don't have to see everyone, because otherwise you just want to see everyone. It's, yeah, so that's basically, I was like, it's like walking around with Jono on a leash. Exactly. Minus the sniffing, might I add. If you could pull Johno away, you would, right?

If you need places you need to go. How has you been to with the other dog owners when all this is going on? Do you sit there in silence and watch your. Oh, you kind of have beer like, you know, you talk about, oh, what's your dog? Oh, what's your dog? Oh, what sort of breed is, oh, is that every, you know. He mounts every dog, sorry.

I'll have a great day I love the owners that are so self-aware and they know that their dog is an absolute just hot mess we ran into a lady the other day she's like sorry woodstop this dog absolute nightmare regret getting it

barks and everything bites and everything I'll keep its distance and she just kept mowing I'm like good on you