Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We reveal the answer to our divisive riddle!

Episode Date: March 1, 2026

On today’s show:  Megan discovers her husband has to kiss someone! How ben handled an awkward intimate scene sitting beside his daughter Why producer Grace got in a yelling argument with Ali Williams What's the one line that instantly kicks off an argument in your house? "I'm so tired," "Do what you want," "My mother-in-law is coming." Why Megan's mum is talking about her n*ps Is this the worst version of our anthem... Mascot race chaos led to a Warbirds flyover pilot calling us out on air! The hat-backwards experiment: does it make men look hotter? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. It's a podcast. Another one. Here we go. Season what are we up to season what? Season 12, episode 123.

Oh my God, we're back again. And actually, we must say hello to our international audience. We do have a mix of them. Troy, produced Troy rattled through them the other day on the podcast. All over the world, all corners of the globe. Yeah, well, made a bit of a lot. Like, you like mock me because I was like, it's not the time, morning and the time,

date and stuff, you know, for people to listen overseas. And then producer Troy came through and said, there are people that listen throughout the world. Venezuela, Guatemala. Yeah. Where my mother-in-law was born, you didn't like that fact. Namibia. That was fine.

That was fine. Yeah, no. It's not a real game changer for me. To be honest. When you come with facts, he wants his game to be changed, all right? I'm like, okay, Andrews. Yeah, okay, yeah. He doesn't know her.

I don't know. I've never met out. Well, that means he's part, like Namibian. Yeah, right. And Greek. And Greek. South African, he's a wonderful mix, eclectic melting pot of gorgeousness, Andrew. You're eating an apple there.

It looks like a good one. It is actually. You know, when you get a Royal Gala and it could go either way. Yeah. That's a good one. I'm finding myself really enjoying the jazz. The jazz apples. Jazz is good.

I like Ambrosia, too. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, you're good. Yeah, real gala are good when you get a good one, though. Yeah. It's one of the best. Roll the best. Nice and crispy there, Megan.

Troy looked like he was going to say something. I was going to say, do you want it a couple of more bangers of people are listening? Oh, yeah, of course. Make us feel better. Eight people in Brunei. Oh, nice. Salton.

Yeah, eight people in Liechtenstein. Okay, well, hello. Not really. Where's Lexingtonstein, sorry? Is that Germany, Grace? Eight people in Panama, the tax evaders. I don't know they're all the taxvators. Is that the canal?

No tax there. Well, I think that's where a lot of them go to get their Like a tax haven type thing. Lechtenstein is a German-speaking place between Austria and Switzerland. Oh, wow. And a big shout-out to the one listener in Lesotho. Who?

Lesotho. Are you saying that right? L-E-S-O-T-H-O. That's incredible. Southern Africa. Lesotho. Lesotho. Andrew's mother got any connection to there?

I'll find out for you. We're more impressed if she does. It's known as the Kingdom in the Sky, a mountainous landlock country, entirely surrounded by... South Africa. It's the little country in the middle of South Africa. The awkward country that refused to be... So they probably do have some kind of... Connection, yeah.

Isn't that strange? There's a little country within a country. Yeah. And within that country, there's one I-heart radio listener. That's supposed to be to... They're really against the norm, aren't they? They're like, nah-da, na-da-up, yeah. Apart from knowing the countries, is there any way to contact these people? No. No, they're just a stat. They're just a number. He means so much to us. They're not just a stat. They're not stat to us.

But as far as contact, they're not putting through all their... That's good. We're not minding all their technique with all their details. You know, that's your own. If anyone's listening from abroad to this right now,

we'd love to start talking to people who are... Instagram is probably the best way for them to get in contact with us. Hits breakfast. DM us on the Hits breakfast. And we will get in touch and try and make this a thing because it would be wonderful to talk to audience members from all over the world. Or do you think they may be subscribed and went...

Yeah. And it keeps popping up. You know, it's like, the new episode of, you know. Is this like active listeners or just, like, tapped in one time? In the last three months. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. Okay, well, that's...

Okay. We can do, like, an international podcast, like, shout-up thingy. Yeah, okay, we'll try and do that. Okay, so if you are listening from somewhere away... Is that over your segment? Somewhere that Megan's mother-in-law may have not have visited. Then we can, hopefully get in touch with us, DM us, and we'd love to talk to you. That'd be great.

But enjoy the podcast. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. That's. Megan and Andrew, your husband, Andrew, Megan. Yeah. I made a joke on the show a while ago.

Well, actually wasn't a joke, but my husband's doing a musical called And Juliet. So it explores what life would be like for Juliet if Romeo, if she didn't die. So if Romeo died, she didn't die, she got to carry on. As told by Shakespeare and his wife on stage.

It's really cool. Not actual Shakespeare, though. No, no. No, not actual change. He couldn't make it. So my husband is playing Romeo. And I... We mocked you, we're like, well, of course he's going to be kissing Juliet.

And you're like, no, no, no, no. No, because she's exploring life without Romeo. So she's moved on to other... She's moved on. She had to get on with her life and start a family. And that's the whole point. Romeo comes back to life and he's like, what are you doing? What's up?

Like, we were together like two seconds ago. I died for you. And so I... She's like, well, I met Barry the neighbour. Pretty stable, got a good job. Yeah, he's really helped me through. the grieving process, got close to him. Is Barry part of it?

No, not Barry. I googled at the start of this. This is going to make me sound like a psycho. It does, yep. That's fine. I googled whether Romeo and Juliet had to kiss and the musical And Juliet. So that was a better option than asking Andrew. Yeah, because I was like, I don't want to start an argument.

And also, if they don't, I won't ask it, it will make me look super chill. Yeah. Yeah, right. So I googled and it said no. And I was like, amazing. Because he's done musicals before. I think a couple now where he's had to smooch. He did Evita and he had to kiss Evita.

And he told me it was a peck. And when I went along, there was groping and a patch. Well, you want to believe that, what was his role in that? He was like a soldier or something. You've got to believe that the soldier and Evita are in love, you know, and that does involve a bit of groping. I was like, did you have to grab her butt? Like, was that a direction that was given to you for? He went off script there, but he needed to sell the relationship to the audience.

So how did he bring this up that he had to kiss? So at the weekend, we were at a cafe, and I was like, I was having a vulnerable moment. And I was like, ha-ha, I googled whether you and Julie would have to kiss. But funny, like, you don't. So it's all good. And he kind of looked at me and went, uh. And I was like, wait, what? And he said, well, at the end, there is a kiss.

Now, to be fair to Ben, this whole time, Ben's like, are you sure that it kiss? He's like, it doesn't sit well with me that they don't kiss. Well, I trust in Google. Yeah, fair enough. They want to see Romeo and Juliet lock lips. Yeah, that's what I would think. Swaps alive. That's what you're paying for.

So we were with our children in a very crowded cafe and I just look at him and I was like, when were you going to tell me that? And he was like, well, the time, the moment hadn't arisen. The time he hadn't come. Maybe he'd do it in performance and go just before. By the way, Megan, we kiss. And they're going to go over the kiss. Off script.

I mean, there's never a great time to tell your wife that you're going to be kissing another woman. Right at the start. Right at the start. And I run lines with them too. Funnily enough, we've never got to the end. Yeah, that would have been a good time. I'm sorry, Angie, I'm normally in your corner. And then I said, what kind of kiss is it?

Where's the last page of the script here? Oh, I must have left in the bloody car. I was like, you need to describe what kind of kiss. Because I got caught off guard with Evita when there was a passion of butt grope. So what kind? And he was like, wow, it's like a, not like a new relationship. It's like a rekindling kiss. That's a good, that's a passionate.

I was like, what is that? That's it. We haven't seen each other in five years. We're going to patch. Listen, why don't, why don't, you lock me in a room with them? I'll have a watch and I'll come back and report. I thought you were going to say you have a pass. I'll have a watch.

I'll report back. It was sensual and good. Central, yeah, they hadn't seen each other in many years. They'll be practicing daily. Yeah. We'll have more on that. Well, no, they do rehearse daily. They're practicing that case.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Yeah, also the weekend. I took my daughter, because she loves musical theatre. She's really into anything live theatre. That's kind of whatever passion's daughter, seeing her. So I'm like, any chance I get to take her along, I'm like, really like, give it a go.

We've seen some really amazing shows and some shows you're like, ah, you know, over the years, but it's just good to go. What about that? Well, you know, I'm like, just go along and experience live theatre. List the ones that are like, ha. Some shows me are like, oh, I just lost two hours of my life. But anyway. But it's cool. Like, I'm starting to get to develop her passion.

I'm starting to really get on board with it as well So we went to a Rocky Horror Picture show Over the weekend No, it was really good It's such a fun show Like I Oh that's rock you're That's the Justin Timberlakey

He wasn't in it Time Warp I know Time Warp Like you know the songs You know Richard O'Brien Who spent a bit of time Growing up in Hamilton and Tadonga He wrote it

You know and he was there He came out at the end Which did you meet him Oh it didn't meet him But he came out on stage at the end They brought him out He's the creator. So that was pretty cool.

And it's a really, really fun show, but I didn't know anything really about the story of Rocky Horror Picture Show. And my daughter, Asena, came along. She's, you know, and her couple of friends came with her. So there was like three girls around 15, 16 years old. Yeah. And I was like, looking up, I was like, oh, is this a little bit raunchy in parts? All I remember, I haven't seen it either.

It looks a little unhinged, the whole thing. Yeah, and that's kind of part of the fun, right? A lot of fishnet stockings. Yes. That's the only thing I know about it. There was a guy here in reception filming some stuff with another radio station I was like magnificent legs

Sheet whizzy could fill out those fish nets And he was in fish nets As part of the promotion for it as well So yeah So I was like oh will it be appropriate And I'm like I looked at the thing And I said off 14 and 14 and up It's fine

I'm like it's good And it was really good And really funny But there was one particular scene In the second half Where it was sort of like a bedroom scene It was all done kind of There was no nudity really

They got that Tasteful But it was just you know When you're sitting next to your daughter And two kids That you're looking after I'm responsible I'm the parent for these guys.

Did you want to put your hands over their eyes? I was like, this is getting, and it was funny. Like, it was really funny in the scene, but it just kept going on and on and on with a guy and a girl. And then the guy and a guy, it was all happening. It was all happening. It all done it in a very funny way. And the audience was loving it. But when you know inside you're like, I'm a little awkward just because I'm who I'm next to, you know?

Everyone else loving it. And I'm like, I've never had that before. Because normally I'd be like sitting next to your parents. So now, in this occasion, I was the parent next to my daughter. If you thought you were dying inside, just imagine how Siena was feeling. Did she mention it afterwards? No, we didn't delve too deep into that. It was a really fun show.

What was the one you were watching with Jenny Boys? That was Bridgeton. Bridgeton, they got a bit spicy. They got a bit steamy. But if you go along and see it, it's really cool. It's really cool. And awesome to have, you know, like such a New Zealand connection to Rocky Horror Picture. Your husband was there?

He was there as well. Yeah. Although he came home and he was like, great show. I loved it. But I don't know what happened. No, no, he texts me afterwards. He goes, do you know what happened to the end? I don't know.

Did they die? Were they aliens? I don't know. Like, there were things, but it was great. It didn't matter. No one could explain the plot. They were so talented, but like, what happened? Did Richard Bryan come out and explain the plot?

No, so. Were that a word of light? I think they're aliens. Oh, they're meant to be aliens. I think so. I think at the end they're aliens. And I think, yeah. And then Andrew said, did they all die?

And he was like, I don't know. I only got the alien part. So anyway, it was great. It was really good. With your hands on your head. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. And afterwards, we went and watched the second half.

It was a really lovely area, too. It was very nice to get loud in there. Thank you to the Auckland NFC for that. There was the Mayor of Auckland. There was Dave Dobb. There was a whole lot of people. We shouldn't have been there. New Zealand's elite.

And Ali Williams, former All Black, now one of the co-owners of the club, right? Yeah, he came over and he started having a conversation with us. And we're sort of standing watching the game, and there was a flurry of goals being scored. Now we're with producer Grace, who's a wonderful 24-year-old Genzy and a passionate supporter of Auckland. Yes, I'm normally in the ports.

I'm normally screaming a lot. Yeah. On a side note, they said on the big screen, go and hang out with the ports, the supporters. Which is fun. And my gut was telling me this was a terrible decision, live mics. And it turned out it was because they were yelling all sorts of nonsense

into the live microphone. To be fair, you were leasing you. You were as well. They were like, stop interviewing them. I'm not. They're just shirting. I'm not. They're grabbing the microphone from me.

It's funny. It was only Jono's bike that we're coming up to as John I was over here. Yeah. So apologies for what was broadcast. So you're usually in the port. Yes, I'm usually in the port. And you also have to picture. I'm 5'2.

Ali Williams is 6 foot 6. There's quite a bit of a difference. A tall or black lock. Yeah, yeah. So it was that we were 2-0. It was the third goal, but the reflough disallowed it. And so I'm yelling. I'm like, that's unfair.

Yadi, yada, yeah. Lots of vocals from me. And then John was like, oh, is it a handball? and I like turn around to be like, Johnno, what the heck. And then Ali Williams is like, whose team are you on? I was like, Ali, how dare you? My loyalty lies with the port. So he thought that you said it was a handball.

Yes, but it was the idiot, Jono. And so I was screaming at Ali Williams. You had your pointing, yeah. pointing a finger, looking up towards and just going, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I'm in the port every game. I'm like, how dare you? The temperature shifted up about four or five degrees.

It did get tense. He was like, whoa, whoa. He kind of backed off. And I was like, sorry about. her she's a lot she's kicked the chihuahua yeah that's a great description he's one of the honest but he enjoyed your feistiness I think he's like when I told him I was in the port at the time he's like okay good girl and I was like okay but yeah that was my fight with she went toe to toe and there was other people watching going wow she's screaming at the owner

of the club you are like a chihuahua you look all cute and then if you're like I don't like chihuahua's this that's really really they're really like uh bitey they'll be like why did the hits lose their association with Auckland FC why are they not renewing the contract in 27. No, he loved it. Good time and go along and it'll great win from the Auckland FC as well. So they're second in the table now. Yes, I don't know if they're, did they get

pumped up? They're still second. But yeah, pretty awesome season so far, so hopefully they can continue to do so. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. The hits. Pressure words or phrases that can really lead to some thorough emotional discussion.

A friend of mine, he says the big one for him is when his wife says my parents are coming to stay that always results in some robust conversation following the my parents are coming to stay

because he's got a whole bunch of issues that I don't need to delve into on the radio gotcha how amazing it happens for a lot of families right

we would was someone who when his mother and law would come to stay he would rent a Waterloo for her to use.

Oh my God. Oh, no. I know. Yeah, they had a tense relationship. I don't think they're together. I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised. Imagine making your mother-in-law.

She had her own bathroom, I guess. Oh, my God. I mean, a bespoke toilet just for you. And it's not one of the ones like an electric gab by the end of two days. It's clean. It's clean. Jeez. How much do you hate that person?

What are the hot buttons for you and your relationship? What are things that really set you off? Where do I start? Do you have a phrase or anything for us? It's probably, as I said the other day, someone says I'm tired. One says, oh, I'm feeling a bit tired today. The other one always seems to come back. Yeah.

Oh, tired. But we said the tired Olympics. You keep going back and forward. You're like, oh, well, no one wins that. I got five, I was like, what time do you get up in the morning? Yeah, yeah. It's almost like you need to stay awake for a whole night just to prove a point. Yeah.

Now I'm officially more tired. Yeah. Couldn't possibly be the fact that you're both tired. Yeah, well, yeah. We should disagree that we're both tired. We're adults. We're always going to be tired. Let's just move on.

You know what I discovered pretty early on and our one was do whatever you want. Doesn't actually mean do whatever you want. I was like, okay, cool. Because I'm going to go out for about two days. If your partner is saying, do what you want, like that's a real, she's real pissed at that point. Do what you want.

Do what you want. Yeah, you will. She's just leaving off the, you will anyway. But then you go, okay, cool. And then you come back, you're like, you said do whatever you want. I didn't mean. it. Do whatever you want means

don't do it because I want you to stay with me and if you don't No if you don't under like I want you to choose me as you do whatever you want. Yeah. To be honest when you say do whatever you want I know what it means but I was like the words are telling me to do whatever I want.

Yeah exactly. What's just that? So I'm going to do the words. The other big ones too, I'm fine. You're right? I'm fine. I'm fine. I know you're not fine. No yeah. I'm fine means I'm not fine but you're should know why I'm not fine. I see again, all their games. Don't play games.

Just like, so be straightforward on that. It's too hard to play the lady quiz game. We do alpha quiz. That's enough of a quiz for me, mate. I just need to know, exactly. What is it? Let's try and sort it out. Talk about it.

No one in the history of saying, I'm fine has ever been fine. No, because when you are fine, you don't use fine. You say, I'm great. I'm good. I'm happy. And it's like, you should know what you've done. You're like, oh, man, that really opens up some stuff.

It's the stuff I've done. Cherry-picking. of them. Okay, so 8 hundred of the Hats. The one phrase that, them's a fighting words, that kick off an argument in the relationship. John O'Ben and Megan,

the podcast, The Hits. Well done to Daniel Hillier, who over the weekend became just one of a few Kiwi golfers to win the New Zealand Open, and he was on his honeymoon. Well, he didn't go on his honeymoon to play in the golf, but he won.

But Milbrook looks like a wonderful place to have a honeymoon. Exactly. And he said after he won, this is the second best day of my life, which is a great thing. I was like, good boy. Best day being the wedding eight days earlier. But like, yeah, his wedding was a week before. Like, how did he focus?

Well, good on him. I'm sure the couple are very happy with the end results. Yeah, that's right. What is he win for that? A lot of money. Oh, okay, sweet-ass. And they'll probably go on a better honeymoon now. Yeah.

So, yeah, good on them. So, yeah, that could have been fighting words. I'm going to play golf. That probably is for a lot of people going on the honeymoon. Yeah, yeah. You want. Oh, you're a professional golfer. Winning cash.

We are talking about the fighting words in your relationship that really kick off the spicy conversations. There's a good one from our mate Jimmy, James. He said, you're just like your father. This phrase on Saturday made me so mad. I decided to sleep on the couch. Oh, yeah. You're turning into your mother or you're turning into your father.

Does that happen? Even just when Andrew will say to me, oh, you look like your mum just then. I'll be like, you take that back. Oh, of course you're doing. do genetically. They made you. Or like, yeah, you're doing something and he's like, oh, you're turning into your mom.

I don't know why, why does that drive us crazy? Because you love your parents. Lots of hot buttons coming through, right? There are some hot buttons. A lot of phrases, too. I don't mind. Go on then. Calm down.

Calm down. It's good. Relationships basically, you just sort of learn over the course of a relationship that half the English language means the opposite of what's being said. It's one that you can understand for a lot of families. when someone mentions Donald Trump, they've said on the text. That is either going to go either way, right? Yeah.

So your politics probably is something. Yeah. Them's a fighting words, Rachel. What is it in your relationship? Oh, mine is, I guess you're a better person than me. Oh, amazing. Oh, that's a compliment in a way, though, right? Oh, well, not when my whole family's like, oh, you're so perfect.

Oh, in that regard, right? I guess you're a bit of us. Yeah. That's a great phrase. It's a great phrase. It was patronised. And it's never meant with genuine intent, is it, Rachel? No, it's not.

I'm just so bad. Thank you so much for your call. Appreciate your sharing. Anonymous is coming on this morning. Happy New Year Anonymous. Oh, happy New Year to you too. It's great to have you on. The Dems are fighting words in your relationship.

Yeah, it's fine. Just go. Oh, that's a double-banger. That doesn't mean it's fine, right? It's fine. Just go. And usually it comes from me. And you say that knowing that's not fine, and what happens when they go?

Yeah, what are you actually meaning when you say that? Yeah, well, you kind of hope that they'll read between the lines and not know. So when they do go, that's when the argument starts. Yeah, well, that's what I said before. We do read between the lines. We know what you mean, but we're just taking the words at face value. Because you want to go. Yeah, absolutely.

And then we'll deal with that tomorrow. The argument is you said it was fine I went Hopefully time will heal You said you don't mind Benz said you don't mind Having a disagreement with a man Because it means you get a lot of stuff done

Get a lot of stuff done You get to I'm very productive More productive Also true Also true And when women get pissed off they often clean So

Yeah I'm same I'm doing all sorts of stuff No one's talking to each other Getting stuff done Getting stuff done And bang around loudly Yeah Hey, good on you.

Thank you so much. You have a great week. Appreciate it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. We started doing something heading into the weekend. Well, someone's been leaving riddles for us in the studio on a Friday, and we encounter them, and we try and solve them over the weekend.

And this one, that's been out on social media. We don't know if we've got a definitive answer on. Whoever is leaving the riddles, Grace, make sure that they've got an answer. Yeah. That would be the first rule of riddling, surely. That is a definitive answer. I'm with you.

We put it up on social media when so many comments, hundreds of comments. Here's the riddle. I enter a room with 50 people. A killer walks in and kills 30. How many people are still in the room? Now, there's a few different ways you can look at that one.

50 people. Yeah, so like as the killer is adding an extra person? So that person enters and then a killer enters so you add two people. So it's 52 people still in the room. That's what most people thinking as well. But then some people... Dead or alive, they're still in the room.

Some people are also saying, are they still meaning a little grim? Dead. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. How many dead people? Yeah. That's another answer as well. So what would that be? And then other people are saying, what happens to the person in the room that walks in the room is the killer?

Like, what happens they are the killer as well? Because, yeah, so we've got kind of, you know, like... Oh, 800 of the hits if you got any ideas on this one, because we've got a riddle that doesn't have an answer. We think it's 52, but most people think it's 52. But then also, yeah, there's still people in the... Producer Grace, can you come on in? As the person who does not know anything about this riddle... Definitely isn't leaving them in me for it.

It's not your handwriting on this, is it? If you were the riddler, what would you say would be an appropriate answer to this riddle? Personally, if I was the one who wrote the riddle, I would say the answer is 52. Okay, so that is correct. But I like the other, the working, people have shown their working on other ones as well. Like the still idea is quite fair. I kind of got hooked on that, but I don't know if it's... Who knows? Could be an answer.

We'll have to hunt down the riddle and ask them. That riddle was less hard, more confusing. How's so quiet? I'm just saying. It was confusing. Let the riddler know that. Next time. Pass on that feedback, please.

I'll pass on the feedback to the mysterious person. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. First did we get onto this topic. I just, I remember someone mentioning it on Friday. Yeah. Friday like about a family whistle yeah I remember you saying you're not a fan of your wife whistling at you no she her family like her dad had a whistle that would kind of they they would know

about it and they would get you know get the attention of each other and they're kind of like a little thing and sometimes she'll use it on me when we're out and about it's like a sheep whistle isn't it's like her one she can do a sheep whistle but the family one was like almost like do do do do I can't the whistle yeah like that it was like that loud like you don't like being whistled at no and it really gets her I hear it and I ignore it. I'm not a dog. I'm not reacting to a whistle. I'm not reacting to a whistle.

I guess, like, you didn't grow up with a family whistle because that's how, like when you're in a crowd of people, that cuts through. Don't use a whistle on me. It's only people in your bloodline know that particular whistle. It's like a car alarm for your genetics. Yeah, and I'm like, it's not my whistle. I'm not reacting to it.

That's not for me. It's your family whistle. Yeah, very upset about it. I do. I just. I'm something about it. Would you prefer to be whistled at or clicked fingers at? Probably click.

I don't know. Oh really? But the thing is if she's like yelling out, Ben, Ben, with everyone talking, like, it gets lost. I don't know. I just don't like it. My mum, I always,

my mum and dad, but mainly my mum in like crowds and the supermarket anywhere, she could whistle and I'd be like, yeah, here I am. Wonder if she's still got it, Ray Ray. She would give her a call. Yeah. Do you reckon she could still belt it out? Absolutely. The family whistle.

So ours was like, imagine if your family's whistles. I'm speaking. Hello, ma'am. Good morning. Good morning. Eight bloody degrees this morning. Is it?

Autumn's here. Winter. It might be autumn in Auckland, but it's winter and Nelson. Straight into the weather report. No pussy footing around. No. It's sticking straight out. What?

It's sticking? I don't know. No, no. You got it. You got it. Move on. Hope that the audience didn't hear it. We're talking about family whistles this morning, Mom,

and I said that we had one you particularly would always use. Now, I've done the whistle. I wanted to see if you still remember it, and you can do it the same. Yeah, wait on, just got to get my lips puckered. There we go. Yeah, it was, yeah, yeah. My ears prick up. And you'd use that in crowded malls.

Would you use that crowded malls and sort of fears to get the attention of the kids, Ray, Ray? Yeah, well, it's a backwards one. Oh, yeah. It's the reverse sexual one. Yeah. Okay. Who came up with a fan? Was that you that came up with it?

I don't really know. It was just, I don't know. It was, well, you couldn't very well whistle your kids and go, no, you don't. Yeah, no, you had to go, oh, wait on. It's too cold. It's too cold. On the spot, it's quite hard to whistle, isn't it?

Eight degrees, too. Yeah. You got to really moisten those lips. There was actually frost on the caravan roof. Oh, there was. Not ideal whistle conditions. Ice. Ray, Ray?

Yep, I don't. Keep up the good work. Keep warm. Okay, I will. I'll tuck the nips away. Oh, okay, thank you. Oh, that was it. I knew we should wrap her up.

Thank you, Mom. It was it. So glad I'm thinking about that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's. A lot of great support on over the weekend. We had the Super Rugby. We had the league.

The NRL kicked off in Vegas. That looked like a fun time. look epic and the cricket was on too over in Sri Lanka. Yeah, Sri Lanka, India. They've got the T20 World Cup, New Zealand. The Black Caps have made the semis. So that would be happening at some stage this week. But their last game they had in the sort of round-robin stages over the weekend,

they played England. And before the game was the anthem. And, you know, that's what happens. International Sport, they had the anthem. Yeah. But it felt like our version was on double speed. And the players... So there was no singer.

They just played a tape. Yeah. And the players, even the Black Caps, New Zealand team was like they could, I was just cracking up through this whole thing. I try to sing along with this. It's going a little fast. I mean, I'm very patriotic, but our anthem does drag. It does drag, yeah.

You know, so it's like, maybe this is the version we need. Oh. You definitely need to relearn it, the pace of it. But it also, happy birthday, it's, that song drags as well. So maybe that was the theory that was, you know, attention spans. You lose people after. Maybe we need to do a clap with it. God, Up Nation.

Yeah, and just try and get it going a bit faster. Not as good as Fergie's rendition of the U.S. National Anthem, which was like an NBA All-Star game. Yeah, it was. And again, the players were having a good laugh at that one. They literally crying with laughing. She really kicks it up at the end, doesn't you? A cabaret performance, isn't it?

I like the movie where she's like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. The player's like, oh, jeez. Let a flag. One still there. Anyway, you also are a ish, so he's one of the black cats. He does a really sweet thing, doesn't it? Yeah, he's a spin bowler, and one of his mentors was Shane Warren, the legendary Australian cricketer, who's sadly no longer with us.

and, you know, they would message a lot and there was a special delivery, a cricket delivery that Shane Warren taught each showdy as well. And so now he will like, if he gets a wicket with that delivery, like you'll either text him, still text him or sends a video and goes, oh, mate, you'd love this, you know,

and just like a nice thing. He's like, I know he doesn't get it, but I like to think he's got it. Oh, that's really nice. I know he's not going to reply, but it's pretty awesome. I just thought, you know. Do you think Shane Warren's family

turned that phone on time to time and they're like, how are we going to tell them? How are we going to do? Five texts from Ish. It's a lovely way though just to keep in touch. I'm sure people, you know, people go to grave sites and stuff and chat and people just talk up to the universe as well sometimes, but this is a really lovely thing.

Great prank from the family would be to text back on Tom. I saw that, mate, amazing. That would throw us, wouldn't it? It would really wouldn't. That would be like, what? That would be such a good prank. Don't tell you what, I'm watching, I'm watching. I saw it, mate.

All right. And two, international roaming charges. just to send a video that's cost to do. One NZ to be appreciating that too. That's a very cool thing. So good luck to the black caps this week. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

Yeah, I need to publicly apologize on behalf of me and the show, actually, to, I've been referring to them as middle class and upper class management here at the radio station. Now, we do things for the show, which is like little adverts that play over the intros of the songs. We're like, good a guy, guys, Johnny Ben and Megan here, back tomorrow. Coming up on the show this. Record those before we leave on a Friday for the weekend to play out to, you know, highlight things that are happening on the show on Monday. Get people tuning in. Yeah, it's just been brought to my attention that Sunday's ones.

This is the one Sunday. This is the piece of content that's meant to get people tuned into the show and going, oh, I'm going to wake up on Monday morning and listen to that program. And I tell you what, this is a show that I would like to listen to. Oh, that's right. They can't get in, they can't get in. So we're going to go Liam Lawson. We're going to track down people that know him.

Yeah, cool. this is Sunday he probably has spoken to him before wouldn't he? Oh yeah we should talk to him yeah yeah does come in yeah yeah so that was the teeth

that was our trailer for the thing the chat that we had I was busy at the time that's why I'm not there you guys are just meandering that was like talking about

what we were going to do and the part where we did the bit saying is not there okay that's the crucial bit where we would have got to it's not that. Yeah, so maybe

it's so cryptic people are like, damn, I do have to listen to that show. I don't know what's happening. They're like, well, he would have spoken to who before.

You're right. That's the new teaser trailer. Everyone's like, oh, I'm intrigued. To be fair, I'm glad that's all that went to me. Like some of the stuff I'm saying behind the scenes,

we dodged a bullet on that one. It's a show you want to listen to though, right? So apologies to to, Hits management. I think that played all day. Troy, produced Troy came and he's like,

did you hear the teaser for the show? I was like, no mate. How good was it? What are you doing, Jono? No, I think what happened is I did that and then I got distracted and then once I get distracted do you have lost me?

Not coming back to the task at hand. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. The Hits. Picture Avenue and good Charlotte, both happening over the weekend. Geez, look fun. Yeah, it did.

There was a lot of great stuff happening over the weekend, including the mascot race at the Auckland FC, thanks to Barfoot and Thompson. We went along. We'll be drawing a winner to win $1,000 if you backed one of the mascots. But I tell you what, we assembled probably every mascot available in New Zealand. There wouldn't have been a mascot anywhere left.

They assembled like the Avengers. It was pretty cool actually. You know, the 15 to 20 mascots, half time of the Auckland FC out in the field. Firstly, you look very funny when they come out. It's, yeah, and you can never tell which one's going to do well. Because some of them were wearing rugby boots. And I was like, they're going to kill it. I was pretty sure the lady dressed as a giant house was probably going to struggle.

And the guys are tennis ball because they couldn't use their arms to run. It was all legs. Oh, the poor New Zealand blood drop. Yeah. Mr. Blood or Blood dude, whatever his name is. It was comical, though, because it was just so slow. You either want to be in the running to win it or just be dead last. I think the blood drop's still running the race now.

But just kept to slowly waddle. It was shuffling. world first. We made them run not only one length of the field, but then they had to turn around and run back. In hindsight, maybe it was pushing the... It's good, though. It really, like, it really brought a new element to it.

A lot of exhaustion. Yeah. And Harold, the draft, was leading pretty much by three or four lengths the entire race. Here's some shambolic commentary from us. The crowd does whip up into a frenzy, doesn't it? So Harold's in the lead by at least 20 metres. Then at the finish line He stumbles

Probably two metres away from the finish line Harold the draft Head fell off on the giraffe Which was not a good thing for mascots Look away, look away kids We had to kind of slide the head back on In a panic in Ari And then the blues mascot

The Volcano Cahoo took it out just at the end there But geez it was entertaining It was very good So whoever had Harold the drafts got $1,000? No, no Cahoo Oh no, Harold's got, sorry,

we just explained how Harold the draft fell over at the finish line. Yeah, it's early on a Monday morning. Idiot. So I was like, oh, he could have. You could give more money out if you want. Tell you what, it was a bit of a fiasco, the whole thing, because before we went onto the field to do it,

they're like, just so you know, we've organised the warbirds, the planes to come over, do a flyover. They're like, it's happening afterwards, but so maybe at the end of it, you can just point up towards the sky after the race. We're like, great, no worries. And you know, in my mind, I'm thinking, planes are pretty hard to coordinate.

You know, once a plane's going, it's going. You can't stop it. Did you hear the memo as we were walking onto the field at half time? They said, oh, it might happen during. You were like, wait, so during or after? Yeah, and then it did happen during. And they kept in the middle of race, kept telling us to point up and look at the...

Three times. So there was mascots racing, there was planes flying. It was a buffet of halftime entertainment. What more could we do?