Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We surprise Megan with Liam Lawson in studio!!

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

On today’s show:  Megan finally meets her favourite celebrity, Liam Lawson! Liam talks social media pressure, muting racing content, and Kiwi fans gifting Whittaker’s. Sibling survivor stories: chopped fingers, umbrella-flight injuries, and pickaxe accidents. Megan’s husband critiques her flirting with Liam… We call the director to try and change Megan’s husband’s on-stage kiss! 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 team. Megan, four years into making this interview with Liam Lawson, her hero. And it was after the show yesterday, and it started off on Zoom. Hey, mate. Who's there? I don't know when they're going to start now.

There's a silence. Hello? Liam. Liam. Oh my God. Can you hear us, mate? Hi, Liam. I can't hear anything.

I can't hear. I can't hear. This is no way. Liam. Liam, we can hear you. We can hear you. I can't hear you. Okay.

I can't. I can't hear. Oh my God, guys. Wait, has he gone? Has he gone? Oh, we'll try and reconnect. We'll get Troy to. Okay, shaky start.

That's it. Oh, my God. We had him. That's an interview, right? We asked him, can you hear us? We got one more surprise for you. We got another surprise to you. Hold on.

Shush, look. Oh, my. He's Liam Lawson. He's here. Oh, my God. In the flesh. I can get out. He's here.

What a reveal. She was mortified. Oh, Liam. A ruthless shutting of the laptop, Lid. No, you're acting was good. You were perfect. I actually turned the volume off. We were probably a little bit hammy over the top.

Should we do a take two? Should we do a take two? He was just in the room. the studio B, so there you go. Hi. He's here. I'm unprepared. Well, you've got questions you want to ask him, but you're... I do, I do. Hi, Liam. How are you?

Hi, I'm good. How are you? He saw the video, Megan. He saw the video. I did. So, okay. Do you know the funny thing is he posted the eye emoji. He was having a conversation with their comms team about what emoji to send. We had the exact same conversation. I was, yeah. What does the eye emoji mean?

Well, I thought, well, I mean, I thought it meant like, I don't even know what I can't mean. No one knows what emojis mean. I thought it made sense like I'm interested or something like that. Oh, I was like, does it mean I can see you, you creep? Oh no, no, no. We went way too deep on it, bro. To be fair, I literally put no text with one singular emoji so I probably could have done.

It was good. It was very cryptic, it was nice. Well, welcome, you're here. It's so cool. Thank you. So nice to have you in the studio. We want to thank Rebaugh as well for hooking this up because you could be anywhere right now. You have a Grand Prix this weekend. You could be in Melbourne organizing that. When do you go?

Tonight. Yeah, yeah, tonight. So I'm here for here for the day and then this evening I got a flight, flight to Melbourne. So it's going to be a busy week. I just told Jono before that the cars are like totally new. He didn't know that. So yes, they are. Like how you've been testing them? How's it going? How's it feeling? So we get official testing. So we can't test whenever we want. We can't just go out basically test these cars all the time so we have simulators that are very very important the very top secret simulators that we use to prepare for these races and develop the cars and then we have the official test days which we've done all of them now we did them in barrain a week ago a week and a half ago and we did barcelona a few weeks ago before that so yeah we've driven the cars trying to learn

them as quickly as we can they're very different like way different how much how much more different can they be like a lot yeah yeah yeah a lot different so they've gone like we're 50-50 between hybrid and combustion engine now. So the battery is, uh, it's very hard to manage. Like, we run out of battery like qualifying during the race. We have to manage it. Yeah. So the drivers, we have to do a lot more this year. In previous years, you pretty much just flat out. The system sort of does it for you. Um, but this year there's a lot more that we have to do to like actively manage it. And we're watching our dash and making sure that we're not running out of fuel basically. Jesus, like the stress of driving an EV.

It is. It's honestly, you're like, your range is, it's kind of, except it's just your power. because if you run out of battery, 50% of your power's gone. Another thing to add to that. Have they got a bathroom for you now, isn't it? No, no, no. I've still never gone before. Yeah, I didn't know.

Megan was telling us about that. Yeah, some drivers just go. Just go? I can't. I've tried. I genuinely have. It doesn't work. I'd be the same.

Honestly, it's every, you have, it's a very, like, the belt system is very tight in Formula 1. So, um, I get stage fried at 200 Ks in hours. Yeah, it's also. John O'N and Megan. We are halfway through our Liam Lawson interview.

This happened yesterday and we thought we couldn't go past asking him about Netflix. Drive to Survive. Do you watch Drive to Survive? Because that's obviously just dropped Friday for us. Yeah, I haven't. I watched the first, like the first one that I was in a couple of years ago because I thought that was pretty cool when I first came into Formula One. Yeah, I haven't.

Obviously, it's been a big year last year especially. So the last couple of seasons I haven't actually watched it. It's kind of weird, right? because you see yourself, but you also see people talking about you and conversations that you haven't heard. I don't think I would be keen to watch that. Yeah, I think it does a great job at getting the sort of in-depth behind the scenes of Formula One, which obviously you can't see on TV.

But, yeah, it's a very high adrenaline, high, you know, intensity sport. And it's basically like having a microphone on you immediately afterwards, you know, you get out of the car and sometimes you do stuff that maybe you wouldn't normally do. and it all gets captured and it's good for the sport it's just for us watching it we don't yeah do you forget about the microphone sometimes that's the problem yeah all the time

you know honestly you're like mid conversation with somebody and you look up in the boom mic just over you yeah you're just like oh don't worry it's only on a place I haven't really heard of it Netflix I don't think it's gonna take off probably should look at you too many to be fair you come across very well in this season so like yeah we're very proud

I did see and this might be one of the moments where the boom was over you and you didn't know. You said you got a perm. Oh. Yeah. They put that in? Yeah. I know.

It's why you wearing a hat today? Yeah. Actually. No, I did. I did. I did get a perm a year ago. I was actually thinking of buzzing my hair. I don't know.

I was thinking about doing it. Become one of us, mate. Become one of us. And now he said second foot. Oh, he's like, no. He's not doing it now. I don't know. I just don't think I'd suit it.

I don't think I'd suit it. But yeah, I did. I did. Have you had it redone? Nah, yeah. You don't need to be embarrassed. You're so young. How do you handle this crazy pressure, bro?

Like on the global stage. I don't know. It's just something you're, I mean, we're introduced to it from such a young age, especially with Red Bull. I think I'm almost grateful that I was picked up by Red Bull at a young age and you're put under the spotlight and under the pressure from 16 years old. You have, you know, guys, you have helmet marker calling you, putting pressure on you if you don't win your next race you're out of the program like that kind of

pressure at 16 which used to freak me out and i think you sort of get built for it and you get to formula one it's a massive step but it's almost prepared you for it so um yeah it's it's definitely something that's we spend a lot of time working on i've had uh like a performance coach since i was very young that's been with me um on a mental side and it's yeah it's it's pretty brutal can i ask um you know like i i know it's tough driving f1 but as a dad now I have to teach my daughter to drive and that's a stressful occasion. I mean, I'm not going 200k an hour. What's advice you can give me to pass on to her?

Because I get very anxious. She's a learning driver. Honestly, like, I think it's so valuable that, like, you know, you go to Hampton Downs, they have that concrete skid pan and it's, like, super slippery. I don't know if you've ever driven on it, but one thing that, like, nobody has is, like, or nobody gets taught as any car control, like having a car that sort of, like, if you're driving, you come out of control, most people don't really. know what to do. So, but like it can really help, you know, just spending time on like a really

loose, on a gravel road or something like that. So take it to do burnout. Like here. So I'm going to run on the back. Burnouts. Okay. Yeah. It's interesting. I think that's a great. Great advice. Um, how do you deal with like, because in Drive to Survive, we see you sitting on the bed? First of all, in your hotel room was the camera crew just chilling in your hotel room with you? I haven't seen it. So we're, I don't actually remember. It's, you're in a hotel and you're on the bed and you're just scrolling. on social media looking at comments and what i never do that anyway i i i i don't a i i i do it must have been early early last year maybe or something like that yeah right

and you turned off notifications on social media because i saw a lot of reports saying you deleted it yeah so i so basically i deleted it basically then i read like a year later so like last year i I re-downloaded it, but basically have everything, like everything racing F1 related is just muted. So it's just stuff like my friends, what I want to see. So how did you see our video then? That's right. Yeah, I mean, I haven't met you guys.

You will now. Yet, yet. Listen, we're getting the helicopter sign. It's been a pleasure to meet you and have you in here and make you. Megan's dream come through. Oh, just I'm such a huge fan. I'm really proud of you. I know that sounds weird.

but like it's really awesome to have a Kiwi and I think you represent us so well and I think yeah stay off social media because people are and Kiwi's up around there I see them bringing your Whitakers and all sorts of Kiwi staff that's been amazing last year the Whitakers

I mean I had so much chocolate too much I mean the team my team now are big fans of Whitakas because it's just I had so much of it last year so it's cool like I see the flags at a lot of races that I probably wouldn't expect to see them looking forward to Melbourne this weekend

seeing some more of them. So it's been cool, especially being home to see the home support and feel it, honestly. It's pretty cool. Awesome, great. Thank you, mate. Here you go. What a guy.

What a guy. I think I'm in love with them too now, Megan. It was so nice. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. There is a lot of question over whether much of the season of the Formula One will go ahead. They're supposed to be a Bahrain Grand Prix, a Saudi Arabia Grand Prix. But they're looking at maybe canceling those.

And just as important, producer Joy's trip to Jordan, that he's booked for him and his partner, Neve. Neve will be happy with that investment, Troy. Plus oil prices, gosh, it's all go at the moment. Don't we get the majority of our oil from Singapore? Yeah, we do. Hopefully, for the time being, won't be too affected, hopefully. Have you seen the petrol prices?

Have they just gone up? Yeah. I don't know. I haven't seen the petrol prices. That makes me sad. What a way to start the day. But speaking of Formula One, ooh, where was a big day yesterday?

Gosh, I really 100% thought that you guys were pranking me when you said Liam Lawson was going to appear on Zoom for an interview. Yeah, so this is an interview four years in the making. It's been a lot of weird content created on social media by you and us and us. We're guilty as well to get Liam Lawson's attention, the Formula One driver and it came through. A bit of a prank on you though yesterday, wasn't it? I mean, yeah, you couldn't just let me have the interview straight up. You had to put some sort of a prank in there. but I'm not even mad about it.

Yeah, no one wants to see just a stock standard interview, someone walking into a room and being interviewed competently. But yeah, this is how it started. We had Liam in another room here in the building, snuck him into the building, and he was on Zoom. Hi, Liam. I can't hear anything. I can't hear anything.

Liam. I can't hear you. Liam's... Can you hear me? We can hear you. I can't hear you. And then the feed cuts off. shuts the laptop and you thought that was the end of it. I was like no it can't end this way.

We've built this up so much. And I was like inside, I was trying to be chirpy, but inside I was dying. Yeah. And then surprise. He walked into the studio and oh, the emotion, hugging. Yeah. Touched his body with your body. I did. Which, yeah, my husband had some things to say. We'll get to that. Yeah. He was analyzing the hug. Yeah, he was. But we'll play you the interview, Tempa State. Yeah, this morning. Really good though. Lovely guy.

That would be a big takeaway. Covered a lot of ground with him too. Yeah. I actually don't remember what happened. I like blacked out. I don't know. Thankfully it was recorded. Yeah.

Surround sound, Dolby Digital. Don't judge me because I was just so flustered. No, you did a great job, mate. Did a great job. What I appreciated to is after he came in, he left something in the studio. Now this is probably about a minute and a half after everyone's, left. Megan's noticed something that

Liam's left behind. What's that, mate? It's his Red Bull. Half drunk. It's got his DNA. He could make babies from that. Could you?

No, no. Red Bull does not give you babies. No, it gives you wings without babies. He's given me grace for that shrine video. I don't think I can get grace. No. But yeah, there's a can. It's been, you could auction it.

Give it money away. Yeah, for a drink. Can I just drink it? I don't know. Charity? You know, charity? Oh, not for us, but it's Christmas function. I did the same because we had Justin Bieber,

we came into the studio, the TV show. That was pretty cool. And as we were like, as they all left, we were cleaning up afterwards. And it was like, oh, there's this water bottle he drank from. And then I kept it. And then I was like, why am I doing this? Like about a week later, I'm like, this is weird. How much do you love Liam?

Have a drink. Have a drink. No, because that's creepy. No, because that's creepy. Well, is it? Otherwise, it's wastage if you just throw it out. Have a sip. Have a sip.

Have a sip. Have a sip. Have a sip. Catch meningitis from Liam Liam Lawson. Hey, no, what if he's got like a cold? The whole time I'll be like, sick as a dog, but I'll be like, but it's Liam cold. But I drank their red bull and I love it. This is a premium cold.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. I was talking to a friend. She, um, she, um, she, I, I'm an only child, so I don't really know what it's like to grow up. Yeah, my parents are like, geez, we can only burden the world with one of these. And I didn't do any more. They had you and they were like, God, no more.

Didn't run it back or follow up. But yeah, so I kind of just spend a lot of time talking to myself, basically, is it? Oh, did you? You do, you have a lot of imaginary friends. Was it lonely? Well, I didn't know any different, you know? Yeah, right. So you just kind of end up playing tennis against yourself with a ball and a wall.

I was pretending I'd play basketball against other people I wasn't there was no one else there But actually you probably become quite tight with your friends You know, is it? I don't say with yourself You do, you do become quite, you get to know yourself very well You're happy spending time by yourself I don't mind honestly

I happily spend time by myself Yeah, that's quite healthy But yeah I was talking to her She said she's still traumatised about what went on When she was growing up She had an older brother and they they can be

naughty can they can really there's two of us me and my older brother and yeah we got along great we still do but build resilience

doesn't it and they kind of take it upon them so it's their God given right and duty in the family unit to build character and bully and she was like

oh the stuff he would do I do remember him he was a little bit naughty and he had a pinch on for setting things alike Oh. It really signs of showing him a promising arsonist, but he didn't end up there, thank goodness.

But one of his things he would do is when every time she was in the shower in the morning, he would go outside and turn off the hot water. Monstrous act. Yeah. Monstrous act. So then she, ah, screaming had to go out in the towel and the freezing cold and turn it back on. Another big play from his. She was like at least once a week.

Large majority of all my items would be out on the front lawn from her bedroom. Beds. Oh, he sounds horrific. What beds? Beds? Beds, shelves, desks, put them all out on the front lawn. Oh, what a dick. No, she's like, I just, yeah. Every time she hops in a shower now, she can't help but be on edge thinking that someone's going to turn the hot water off.

So was it more like pranks? Yeah. Because I remember my brother, he would tease me verbally, like, so it would make me cry. And then, like, I do remember either he got a black eye or I got a black eye. I think I might have given him one. We used to like physically fight. And then one time he pushed me on a skateboard and I was like, go slower, go slower. I was hands and knees on the skateboard and we hit a stone and he was pushing it.

He was running with the skateboard. I propelled forward and got like gravel all down my face. Ouch. Mom was not impressed. So this is what we want to open up. I'll get some emotional piano music. Sibling survivors. Did you survive?

An older sibling. It's always the older ones. Although my daughter does beat up her older brother, so I don't know how that's going to go. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Talking about siblings' survival stories because, you know, when you're younger, you fight a bit with their sibling,

and sometimes it's pretty brutal. You don't know the consequences of your actions. Tell you what, this text machine is really entertaining. Well, get all these stories and put them on the Hits Breakfast Instagram. There are some horror stories of older siblings and the torment they've put there through the younger ones. Kelly has texted in and said,

when my brother was about six, we taped an umbrella to his back and convinced him that he could fly like Mary Poppins. We pushed him off the roof of our house, but all that happened was he broke both his arms. And you're so trusting at six. You're like, these people aren't going to do me wrong. There's same blood and flesh.

I can fly! And then, no. That's so brutal. You do have a warped sense of what you can achieve also when you're a child as well. I remember we were at a, my friend's dad was like a manager at a club of football. Football club, I think they're called. Not a club of football. A football club, yeah.

And we had a, we had grand plans to swing with a rope from one of the grandstands to the other grandstand on the opposite side of the field. I think we made it like, we tied a rope to the bar on top of the grandstand. And I think we made it about three or four rows of seats in until we fell off. So. So not quite the other side. Did you fall on the seating? Yeah, on the plastic seating. Yeah, no, it was it too bad.

Again, character building exercise. But let's get Sonia on the phone. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Sibling survivor, are you, Sonia? I am indeed, yes. What happened, mate?

We grew up on a farm in Misfin, and back in the day, Dad was at work, and we decided in our wisdom that we would help chop the wood. So when you got home, it would be chopped. Are we talking an axe, right? Not a chainsaw? Yeah, no, God, no, not a chainsaw. I might not be here today. We, yeah, so I held the wood and my sister chopped.

And I don't know if we got the wood, but we got my finger. And off it went. You cut your finger off? My sister cut her finger off. My sister did. Which finger? Wedding ring finger. Oh, on your left hand?

So as a two-year-old, you can imagine, I was two and my sister was four. So we were only little. Wow. That is young to be wielding an axe. That is... And so now your finger, did you get attached or reattached? Yes, yes, we did.

Yeah, but then as a two-year-old, I got it in water and it didn't survive. So now you just got a... What do you mean you got your finger in water? Oh, well, you know. in a swimming pool. While it was trying to heal. Yeah, and so it fell off.

And that's a happy ending to that story. Half finger. Well, Sonia, that is... I know why I'm laughing. Wild. Well, thank you for sharing. Oh my gosh. Thank you for sharing.

That's really set the bar. A sibling survivor, Sonia. Kierkaa. Yeah. Keep these coming through. 0800, it's a telephone number. I went out with a boy who had his... little pinky finger chopped off by his brother

with an axe. Who's the kids have axes? That's the rural kids. They're driving cars. Yeah, they're a lot tougher than us urban softies. Keep these coming through as well. There's an older brother who would put a scream mask on and run into the bedroom of his younger sister

and that gave her trauma for, I think she's still going through therapy. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Hey, Ben's away. We said he's got a mystery family overseas. That's why he keeps fleeing our shores. Also, he was giving me crap about how many days I've taken off. We're only into March.

What's the telly now? Because you were in the lead. Well, I asked the producers to officially work it out, but he's in the lead now. He's taken over. He's taking over. Keeping a breast of that annual leave telly as the year progresses. Now, after 8 o'clock, really exciting. We surprised Megan yesterday with a interview with Liam Lawson.

Now, you thought it was going to be on Zoom. We all tear. We link. We click. the link, it was all textbook and then this happened. Hi Liam. I can't hear anything. Oh, he can't hear anything.

Liam. I can't hear you. Liam, we can hear you. We can hear you. I can't hear you. So it all turned to custard. But what happened after that? Oh, he turned up in studio.

Oh my God. And you'll hear the interview, 10 past 8. We are talking about survival stories of your siblings because, you know, you love them, but it gets pretty brutal. We've learned on the text for Shane this morning. Honestly, there's like attacks with axes and pickaxes and stuff. Somehow it doesn't seem so criminal when you attack your own family with a weapon.

Although David Bay might have something to say about that. My brother put a pickax in my head when I was four and he was seven. Jeez. So obviously survived to tell the tale. Haley, you're a sibling survivor? Hi. What happened to you? I was actually the sibling that was the meanie

I'd been watching a movie with my brother and his mate and it was that grudge one where they make that creepy noise where the noise goes and at bedtime I had snuck into the wardrobe where the boys were sleeping and started making these creepy noises once all the lights were out and his mate got so scared he went home and he's never been back never came back for a sleeper even to this day he hasn't come and slept over

He didn't even come back during the day. He wouldn't come back during the day. What a monster, Haley. And did you own this crime? Or is this the first time you're confessing? Oh, no, I owned it. We still talk about it to this day. And my brother still makes with him, and we still tease him.

And he still doesn't come back, though. He's still not the day in the night. He's like, I don't know. He's very funny. Barb, morning to you. I didn't lose a finger. Another trying to fly with an umbrella story. My sister got me up on the tank stand.

And I tried to fly with the umbrella, but I came down and landed on a piece of wood with a six-inch nail. Oh, Barb! It went right through my foot and was from both sides of my foot. And it was rusty. I remember mum carrying me and sitting me on the kitchen bench and trying to pull it out and feeling the rust going against the bones in my feet. Stop talking, Barb, stop talking.

Barb got a barb through her foot. Umbrellas are so deceiving, aren't they? children. They really look like they can carry your weight as a flying device, but let's get that message out there that they can't. Next time I tried jumping off the neighbour's garage because it was higher. We figured that I wasn't high enough. Oh hold on, you went back again for more. Yeah, and spray my ankle. Oh, you're lucky that's all you did, see your time round. She's persistent. She's an optimist. She's an optimist. Maybe we need more height to get more wind under the umbrella.

John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Well you're worried that your husband Andrews In a musical And it's called Anne Juliet About Romeo and Juliet And that he has to kiss Juliet

Now we're just trying to get to the bottom of the kiss The Deets of it And the director of Anne Juliet joins us now Hamish Good morning, how are you? We're good Hamish

Director of the fantastic musical Ann Juliet As the director Are you directing his lips towards Juliet's. Where's that coming to it? I do that with an intimacy coordinator, but yes, there is a kiss

between Romeo and Juliet and the show. Because Megan, Megan Googled it. Hamish. So I googled it when he first got the role and it Google told me that there wasn't. And might I add, nothing from

Andrew, he never once said to me that he's going to have to do a little smooch. And we found it quite hard to believe. a good lesson in not trusting Google all the time. I'm going to say not trusting Andrew. It's like that too. Or Andrew.

Yeah, because we found it very hard to believe that, you know, the main lovers, the love story that we all know, Romeo and Juliet. Now, I know this is a version afterwards, but we felt like if he came back, surely there'd be some smooching. Well, yeah, there is a little moment between the two of them, I have to admit. Are you underselling it little moment? Okay, here's what he told me. He said it's not like first,

meeting passion. It's like rekindling kind of kiss. It is a rekindling. Well, I don't want to give too much away, but they definitely find each other again and they share a moment. But do you know what, Megan, by the time it happens in the show, you'll just be so proud of him

that you won't even notice it. Oh, good sell. Can we talk, can we talk? Okay, let's talk some hard stats here. How long? How hard? Pretty, pretty not hard, pretty soft, but it's a few seconds. Okay, seconds.

And Hans Hamish, because last time he told me he was kissing someone on stage, he kissed a Vita, and his hands were like groping her bum. So is it handsy? It's not handsy. I need to worry about hands. So if any of that happens, that's Andrew.

That's Andrew adding it to it, right? So you've directed him, what's your direction to him? If there's any adlifts on the day, we'll know, Hamish. Exactly. We had been brainstorming some alternatives for this scene. A broshake. Yeah. A bro shake.

Okay. Could work maybe. Fist bump. We got a fist bump. I love a good fist bump. That COVID elbow that we all did for a little bit. We didn't want to touch, you know? Yeah, just like thumbs up.

No contact, thumbs up. Sure. Okay. These are just options. I appreciate the offers and do you know what? I'll take them back to the team and see where they land. Here's one. I know you probably want to keep it in the world of kissing.

What about that awkward one where you don't kiss but you just bang cheeks and make the noise? You're like, m-wa. One of those? Sure, yeah. Listen, again, appreciate the offer. We'll see where we get to. Early days.

Rehearsals are in early days. Well, on that, Hamish, one more question. Has there been any new rehearsing of said kiss yet? There has not. There has not. Okay. How many insecure spouses are you handling at the moment, mate? There's always one.

Always one. Oh, always one. And we've got the one. Yeah, okay. Oh, no, it's all fun of games. I'm sure it's going to be a great way. I'll tell you what, we'd love to come along and have a look at the kiss and the whole play. The whole play. Oh, definitely. We'll definitely have to get you along. Awesome, hey, well, good luck with the rehearsals. Megan, thank you so much. I'd love to come along.

We'll all be going, curse, curse, curse. I don't think you want us there to be honest. I wasn't allowed to boo Juliet No, I wouldn't do that I wouldn't do that John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits

So yesterday you told me There was going to be an interview with Liam on Zoom And then that didn't go quite to plan The start of that stuffed up Yeah it did Really badly He couldn't hear us

And I was devastated You were About 10 seconds That whole thing was done with But then they came in Big surprise Fun moment And you'll hear that after 8 o'clock

But you got home to your husband and he was analyzing the hug that you showed him. Yeah, so there's a hug on the video and there's also some pictures of the two hugs I got. Now, because you were like, you're like, give me the video now and then you

just scroll along to the video, screenshot the hug? No, the other picture our boss took for me. I was like, thank you. Oh, you got different angles of the hugs. No, different hugs. Oh, two different hugs? Two different hugs. Multiple angles. Thank you for having my back and taking a photo of that moment. That was lovely. Now,

Which hug was better? First hug, second hug. The second hug. So the second hug, he double-armed it. I sound like a psycho. But I'm just trying to explain he's really nice. Was he around the waist? No, he went high.

I went low. So I went around his waist. Quite the embrace. And because I just said, you know, good luck. All the best for Melbourne. Like, we're all rooting for you. And he gave me a hug. And he squeezed and he said, thanks so much.

I really appreciated it. Who squeezed? Who was the squeezer in this? I doubt that. I doubt he was squeezing. It was a firm cuddle. There was squeezing going on, but I don't think. Anyway, let's not.

I really appreciate anyone. Like, platonically, anyone who gives a good, firm hug, like, really commits to it. Yeah. Pushes the air out of you. However, Andrew, your husband, he has a theory on... Because I went home and I was like, here's the photos. Like, I was telling him all about it. I was excited, and he brought me back down to Earth.

No, say it again. I have... I have game because I used it to get you. You're hugging him like he's a life raft and it's like your life depends on it. He double-armed hugged me. You're like a koala. No. About a plant.

Babe. Are you saying I was like too grippy? Yeah. Don't analyze this. This is why I'm not worried. Also, you should be jealous not saying I don't have game. You don't have game. I know, but like, oh.

you're like hi how's you going are you happy that I don't have gang want to be my friend oh shut your face don't be jealous because I got to meet him well he doesn't want to be friends with us now he knows you live here

oh see you know and then when he's like this is why I'm not jealous oh how did that that really deflated me actually but he could have his walls up too he could be secretly jealous and he's down playing it you know but a gaslighting

because he made me go through the video over and over again and he's like, see that first one he's got one arm down and you're gripping him. That's so embarrassing. They need to turn this into an ESPN style sports show where they analyse hugs. And you can see here, not confidence going into that one. Do you reckon there's always

one person in each hug that's not as into it? Yeah, yeah. I had stuff at the same fate in a meeting. I started a hug train and the first lady I hugged, went, oh, we're hugging. And that really gets inside your head. Like, well, now I've got to commit to half a dozen other hugs that generally don't want to be touched.

I think we were doing a shoot the other day and everyone was hugging and then Ben's like, oh, do I have to hug you now? Because I hugged everyone else. It's weird because I see you all the time. But I'll give you a hug. Yeah, right. Once someone starts a hugging, you do feel the obligation. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. So I had to go to an office yesterday and I got myself into a bit of a good buy hole. So I generally don't like it. like to say goodbye and see, I'd just like to ghost. You know? You do. If we're at any function, suddenly you just realize that Jono's gone. It's easier, easier departure.

You don't get caught in conversation. I mean, it probably adds another 30 minutes I'd say to your night, going around saying goodbye to people. I usually just try and say goodbye to the person who invited me. So, like, if you're at like a work thing, like, you know, the clients and the bosses, or if it's someone's birthday, you say goodbye to the, you know. Okay, you do the ass kissing. You kiss the, goodbye boss.

That's nice and pleasant. Thank you. Thank you, my sir. But you just disappear. Yeah, I do disappear. One time I tried to ghost from a stag do, I told you about that. You're climbing out a window? I climbed out of a window, but what I didn't factor it is the pub was two stories and beneath

it was a courtyard with everyone from the stag. And I'm like, watching me dackling from a window going, what on earth is wrong? Are you okay? Dangerous? Yeah, I, yeah. Well, no, I could make it. I could make the leap. Yeah, I had factored that in.

But yesterday I said goodbye to a bunch of people in this office And then I got caught in a conversation with someone Okay Now the conversation went beyond the point of Oh well I've now been welcomed back into the office Yeah okay And so I'm like Okay well I now need to say goodbye to everyone again

Did you know? I did And then I went back and said goodbye And they're like, why are you still here? I thought you left five minutes ago I was like yeah sorry I got caught in the conversation And then the person was like Well you don't have to say goodbye again

You've already done that So yeah, I did two rounds of goodbyes. I understand now why you don't do it. Yeah, it's easier not to. Don't say goodbye to people. No, it's like, do you know when you're going to a car, when you're leaving somewhere and you go into the car and you do your big goodbye at the place

and then you realize you're walking off in the same direction and then you can't have to carry on the conversation? I've done that at work. Yeah, with the car park across the road. Multiple times. And then you carry on walking. And you've run out of stuff to talk about. The other one too is when people come to your house,

house and then they leave in the car and you stand at the end of your driveway waving and you wave as they drive down the road and you never know when to stop waving because they're still sometimes waving at the end of the road and you're like five hours later are we done now do you think they know they've gone just kick them out of your house and shut the door that's it don't say goodbye put that on my tombstone he never said goodbye he just died