Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We test if Megan will ID'd

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

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The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast on the 8th of May, a day we'll remember forever and ever. Hi Megan. We'll remember this day, yeah, when I was ID'd. It's great, like, what are you like when you,

because, okay, you're going to hear, you proved a point, you proved a point. You must feel very validated. What do you do in that situation? Now, are you, when you get, like, you've got to win, you've got to win, are you one that would, point. You must feel very validated. What do you do in that situation? You've got to win. You've got to win. Do you want to rub it in someone's face or you take the high road? What are you?

I subtly rub it in the face. I kind of just walk with my head held high and I don't really say anything. She's taking the low road. Michelle Obama says when I go low, you go high. I go low all the time.

You do want that recognition though, right? You do want that little... Sometimes you don't need to say anything. The recognition is just there. What you're going to hear very shortly is the evidence. We have for years not believed Megan when she said, I get ID'd consistently. We were like, okay, maybe it happened once by accident

and you've dined out on it. But we put it to the test. We did. I didn't have any faith because it has been a wee while. So I was like, maybe that ship has sailed. It's been a few drinks in between. Now, you got the one. Few ID'd drinks.

You got the one, you'll hear it in a second. But was it to do with who you went with? Potentially. No. Because I did go with producer Grace, who's 23. She does look very young. And so maybe he thought we were too, like, young. Maybe he thought it was like a mum buying alcohol for her daughter.

No, but he gave me a compliment. He did. No, he did. We can try and make cheap, shoddy gags, but we can't. We can't. And here is the evidence of Megan getting ID'd. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Now, Megan made, well, someone told her that she looked 19 in a photo. She's been dining out on this. Oh, she has. And she's like, oh, but I do get ID'd all the time, is what she said. She's Benjamin Buttoning the ageing process,

reversing it. But unless she brings the average age of the show down, that's a plus, perception-wise. And she also claims she gets ID'd a lot, doesn't she, Ben?

Yeah, so we thought we'd put that to the test because we didn't believe it. So we've got Megan right now. She's run down the road with Gen Z producer Grace. She's outside the liquor store. Well, I'm outside the liquor store? Well, I'm

inside the liquor store. Can I just say, doing radio out in the wild is awkward. When you're on your own. Hey, she's got her fellow 20-something year old bestie, the BFF, your producer Grace, Gen Z, she's out. You look like a couple of 20-somethings

going to get some liquor. Some very early morning liquor. Yeah, girl. On a Thursday. So you're in the shop at the moment. Is there any suspicions being raised from the owner-operator? No, but we are the only people in here. So I've just been consulting with my fellow Gen Z-er

about what is cool for like kids to have. Because you want to go out and buy something not too mumsy. You're trying to look younger, right? What are the purple goannas of 2025? Well, she suggested long white, but they're quite expensive. And I'm like, girl, I'm on like, you know, and just got on my full-time job. So I'm not in that price bracket. So I was looking at like pals and I think a

four-pack producer Grace is always talking about nitro nitro which sounds terrifying do kids still drink nitro um I used to drink nitro probably the young ones yeah so I mean that could that could really put you into the teenage category yeah but I don't want to come in too young no you want to look like early you know you don't look like you're 15 or anything right yeah i've gone i think i'm going to get a four pack of like these vodka and lychee because it's only 72 calories okay okay all right you know like the young ones are into their health and stuff you're a health conscious 19 year old do you want to ask producer grace is it ask producer grace is there anything you should be saying you know as a younger you know to sound a bit younger as you make your order?

Is there anything I need to be saying when I, like, go to buy that will make me sound younger? Maybe start with, like, an, oh, my God, hi, I'm just here to buy some alcohol. Okay. Oh, my God, hi, I'm just here to buy alcohol. He's like, yeah, well, I've kind of figured that out. Do I need to say, like, a lot? Yeah, like and literally. So literally, I'm literally here to buy literally. I'm literally here to buy alcohol.

I'm literally here to buy alcohol. You literally are. I'm literally dying right now. I know I'm here really early, but I've picked that. That's good. Okay, that's good. Are we heading up with our four, what have we got, sorry? Four somethings, vodka lychee.

I've got four vodka lychee, and it's in a cute pink can, I feel like. It's, you know, the can's attracted me. So what do you want here? Well, aren't they supposed to ID if you look under 25? Okay, so this is the dream result. Approaching the counter. Good luck, good luck. I don't know why my heart's racing.

Because it feels like we're doing an undercover sting, that's why. Yeah, it does. But it's not. We're not, we're not trying to entrap the liquor store hi how's it going i'm literally here to buy alcohol um i'm literally here to buy just like a few cans of alcohol oh my god yeah sorry Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! ID! Oh! ID! Did you? Did you? He asked for my ID! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! This is! This is! This is! Megan! Megan! Yes!

Yes! Do you mind handing us over to the wonderful gentleman? Yes, okay, hang on. He's going to have to put my headphones on. Here we go. Do you mind having a chat to the boys? I will pay for the alcohol, I promise. Okay.

He's like, who are the boys? What are they? Hello? Hello, mate promise He's like, who are the boys? What are they? Hello Now be honest, they can't hear you right now Did they walk into the shop And did they get you to ask her for ID? No Oh no, that's great, hey we're from the radio The hits, we just, Megan always says she gets

ID'd, we didn't believe her She's overage, she's fine You did all the right things. But obviously she looks... She's actually in terms of procreation, she's in the geriatric category. Yeah, but she looks young this way. Oh! This whole campaign is backfiring on us! It is. It's backfiring. Well, thank you very much. We were hoping that you wouldn't,

but you did all the right things. So well done to you. You have a great day. Thank you. Megan, what a win. A crushing blow for Jono and myself but for Megan, a real win. Sorry, she looks young that's why. Did you get that? No, we didn't hear that unfortunately. No.

I'm going to dine on that for the rest of my life. In real time we've heard the evidence. This is not how it was meant to go. All right. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Big news in the world.

The conclave to determine the next pope has begun. Cardinals from around the world gathering in the Vatican. All eyes seem to be on the Vatican right now. Yeah, and there's a few facts I found out about this vote. Very traditional, isn't it? They've kept it old school. When they obviously announced the winning pope,

the smoke comes out, doesn't it? The white smoke. White smoke, yeah. So they put out smoke every day, black smoke. They haven't decided what white smoke they have. Don't know what a group email

can fix, obviously, but anyway, they're still sticking with the smoke. They installed the chimney on the Sistine Chapel especially. Oh, so it's not there all the time? No, they installed it on the 2nd of May and I guess they'd take it away again. But also they're on a strict

diet, so they only eat something that the nuns have prepared and there's only certain foods because sometimes they hide or in the past have hidden messages in food to sway the vote. Vote for me. You like this pasta?

More where that came from. I wonder if they do like the old classic 1980s rugby club speech, thanks to the nuns in the kitchen for the food. Well, there's big news, and we thought we'd cross to our UK correspondent. Gavin Gray is huge over there, right? Huge, absolutely huge. And I think as we get nearer and nearer the conclave, as we now all kind of know it through the film

and it's been used as a word so often, to elect a new pope, that is getting nearer. I'm now receiving news, all of the 133 cardinals, so senior members of the Catholic Church, all expected now to take part in this secret conclave. They have all arrived in Rome. And so this race now, as it were, to succeed Pope Francis, well, I think it's probably the widest field that we have seen for some considerable time. Why is that? Well, because Pope Francis appointed so many of those cardinals. They are new to being cardinals.

So I think along with his way of much wider thinking, more welcoming perhaps into the church, we could see a very, very different pope, but 1.4 billion members of the Catholic Church. So no wonder this is making headlines around the world. There is talk it may be an African pope, the first ever African pope. It could be a Filipina. The Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tegel is one of the favorites. Very interesting times here. And fewer than half of those given a vote are going to be European. And that's the first time in history.

Wow. What I love about over there is you can bet. You can find places you can bet on anything, and there are odds. There are odds for the next Pope. You can put money on who you think it's going to be. Absolutely. Everyone kind of enjoys this, and the smoke, of course, from the chimney

adds to that excitement as it goes through. You know, it gets closer and closer until you finally see the right-coloured smoke, as it were, billowing out. We all know a decision has been made. It's going to be a fascinating moment, I think, for the Catholic Church. And that is because Pope Francis had really moved in a much more open way. I think some of the big discussions are still over. His blessings for same-sex partners and that open discussion about the role of women in the church

those two subjects will will it be a much more open pope a younger pope as well so yeah it's going to be very interesting now all those over uh it's only cardinals under the age of 80 who are entitled to take part so that does rule out a few um they've been quick to talk. There's a German cardinal called Walter Kasper. He's 92 and he says people want a Pope to follow Francis to get out there and to represent the community in a better way.

He liked bloody washing the feet of prisoners, didn't he? Yes, that's something I might balk at once or twice I reckon. Yeah, no, you wouldn't catch me washing other people. But, hey, I'm not a pope. I'm not a pope. They do a professional at the mall just down the road from me.

I mean, I don't know. What's your feet? What's your feet? You can get pedicures and manicures and all sorts. Basically, they are the popes of the Westfield Mall. Professionals. And I tell you, the real winner out of this, the bloody local dry cleaner at the Vatican.

So many robes to dry clean. Oh, yeah. We're coming up with some business ideas that we have to set the doors up. Maybe we need to set up a pop-up dry cleaners over there. Gotta keep them white. The white's white, eh? A Pope-up dry cleaner. Come on, Nappy Sand,

you're gonna soak them. No Pope announcement just yet, but a smoke coming out. Black smoke means no. We're waiting for the white smoke. Check back into their hotels, order some room service and do it again tomorrow. Is that right? We're laughing in the news because it says some of the Cardinals are quite old and they have to get up early tomorrow and do it again.

That's what they signed up for. They signed up for the gig, yeah. True. All you have to do is wake up and go, yes or no to that guy. No, all right, we'll put some more black smoke up and we'll go back to the hotel room. Well, Producer Grace is joining us right now. Sometimes I'm sure it feels like you're working with people

of the age of the popes. Yeah, definitely. Are you guys not? Just wait and look at me. GMC Producer Grace comes in weekly in what is fast becoming one of the most volatile segments on this program. What is winding? What does volatile mean?

It better be something good. You can look it up on the ChatGPT account that we share that she's now programmed to ask, whenever I asked I was like asking about a basketball documentary and now after every question it goes but more importantly, how are the hemorrhoids? It took me a day to set that up. Lots of hours spending. You'll ask a sensible question. Let's get to the hemorrhoids? It took me a day to set that up. Lots of hours spending.

You'll ask a sensible question. Let's get to the hemorrhoids question mark. Have you answered? How are your hemorrhoids, Jono? They're not bad. They're under control. Clicking and grinding. Jono is winding you up though this week.

So it's more to do with Jono than the rest of us. Yeah, definitely more to do with Jono. Matt spent three days with me, producer Matt, and he's driving me crazy with this. Yeah, okay. Producer Matt. No, this is producer Matt. He's also our boss.

No, but he's producing us right now. Yeah, so she's zeroing in on two middle-aged white bald men here. Okay. Yeah. This is the target market. What you guys are doing is you're ruining Diva for me. Good. Diva is my favorite word,

and I think Matt said it like 10 times within one minute. Gotcha. You guys have ruined Diva for me. Not like the way Ben ruined stuff for his daughters. You guys have absolutely ruined Diva is my favourite word, and I think Matt said it like 10 times within one minute. Gotcha. You guys have ruined diva for me. Not like the way Matt and Ben ruin stuff for his daughters. You guys have absolutely ruined diva for me. Good. Slay diva. Yeah, well, Matt started saying to Grace because he was just going to slay diva,

which I really did appreciate, Matt. And I thought, well, as soon as we start saying it, it really is going to dip over that hill of popularity. Sorry, can I just come in to defend myself momentarily here? I've done that on purpose. It's like, you know immersion therapy when you don't like something so they give you heaps of it to make you like it? I'm doing the reverse psychology version of that.

If I say it enough, you'll stop saying it. He's changed the word say to slay, so I'm dying in the producer booth. Every single song that we play that has the word say in it, I'll now sing it to Grace. This is a good way back to get back at the Gen Zs, isn't it? Well, I don't like this now. You manipulated me. Destiny's Child, Slay My Name.

A Great Big World, Slay Something. She got yesterday. And I slay it all over again. Oh my God, please stop. This is HR worthy. I actually love that. When you've got, you know, 40-something white people saying, it's officially the death of it, Grace.

I'm sorry. Yeah, I think diva's out, guys. I'm going to have to try and find another word. Oh, jeez. Okay. For a generation who hasn't been around long, you've got a lot to complain about, too. Go away, Jono.

Slay diva. Slay. Slay, everyone. Have a slay day. Slay lovey. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

We have now tried to make... Bring you down. Bring you down. What we're doing here is some textbook New Zealand tall poppy chopping. Yeah. You know, Megan has felt like a million dollars ever since this compliment came her way. It's levelling things out, you know?

It was like even in the moment, I just looked at these guys and Ben went, oh. At 19, I felt like she'd overshot the mark. But in saying that. So he's on a point-proving mission here. But in saying that, I will give you, like you said you get ID'd and we sent you off like an hour ago to go to a liquor store

and you got ID'd. So that's a win for you. That was, yeah. Thank God. And we even spoke to the gentleman behind the counter and we're like, had they gone in and pre-organised you to ID? And no, he just said you look young. Bless him.

I paid him afterwards. Can I chuck out a theory? I know what the theory is. You walked in there with 23-year-old Grace. Buying a drink for Gen Z's as well. Yeah, bringing down the average age. But my husband is 10 years younger than me, and when he was younger, we'd go into liquor stores,

and I would get ID'd and he wouldn't. That's happened a number of times. You've made your point. We've heard it. It's okay. Now we have some more young people in the studio. What are your names? My name's Mac.

Mac, welcome. My name's Noah. Hello, Noah. Age-wise, what are we looking at? I'm 15. I'm 10. Okay, welcome. My name's Noah. Hello, Noah. Age-wise, what are we looking at? I'm 15. I'm 10. Okay, so we've got you in here, and you guys didn't know why you're coming in here,

but we're trying to, this week, you know, the next couple of weeks, see who can look the youngest, who can appear the youngest out of the three of us. So we thought while you're here, we could get some advice for maybe what we could be dressing like, what are the kids saying at school,

those sorts of things, all right? You two, you know, the prime of your life is still ahead of you. What you're looking at right now is what happens when life slips over. We're going down the other side. Speak for yourself. Megan, you're teetering. She's at the peak. She's rocking back and forth.

Okay, so boys, first we're going to ask you this question and no hard feelings here. Out of the three of us, who of first appearance looks the youngest? Oh, you, mate. Me! He's just freezing up to you. You easily are at the other end. Mac! Mac, are you saying that seriously?

Yep. Okay. Yep, you. All right, well, get out, guys. Get out. Both of you. No. Oh, that's rude.

I said to them beforehand, I was like, there's nothing that can offend us. We have very thick skin. Straight away, they're offending us. Straight away. I'm like, no. That's because I really thought they were going to say me. The only thing that offends you is me being called younger than you.

Yeah. Okay, no, fair enough. We'll take you on that one. Okay, all right. So what should Megan and myself be doing to make ourselves look a little younger? Do you know what I say? I didn't think I'd be saying this, but all right.

What sort of things can we add to maybe our dress? What are kids into? I tried baggy jeans the other day. They're kind of in. Maybe like a hoodie. A hoodie? Oh, a hoodie. Okay, good hoodie.

Is it because Jono's dressed in like a Wu-Tang jersey? Definitely. Like a crusty old cap. Yeah, I know. For the workplace, too. I've dressed like a teenager for the last 25 years. So the clothing is giving off a youthful appearance, isn't it? Okay, clothing.

Which is probably not saying much about me as an adult. No. Functioning adult in society. Megan looking what? A little motherly? You reckon a little matron? I reckon, yeah. Yeah.

Wearing that dress. Like mum wears sometimes. You've got us on work. Except for Jono, who doesn't seem to care about appearances for work. Hey, guys. It's a really touchy subject with these two. They're getting all, well, you know, it's workplace. I take back everything I said before.

You definitely can be offended. But I am going to come for Jono. Hey, I'm just sitting there, guys. Just sitting there being young. I suppose if we were on a Saturday or'm just sitting here, guys. Just sitting here being young. Suppose if we were on a Saturday or a Sunday, you'd wear the wig. Just being young. Have you heard Ben talking,

and is that cringey, or is he nailing it? It's very cringey when I say skibbity and riz and stuff. Oh, yeah, definitely. I've seen that. Yeah. So would we chuck in skibbity and riz? No, no. No?

No. No cap, Ohio, you know, bus and that sort of stuff. Just the normal stuff. Just normal. Yeah, yeah. That was last year. That was last year. Okay, what's something that's this year?

Yes, boys. Oh, yes, boys. Can I say yes, boys? Yeah. Yes, boys. Yes, boys. Yeah. It's funny.

Funny how all of a sudden we've just said it and it's like, it's probably gone unpopular just after we've said it. Yes, boys. Okay, so dressing younger, saying younger. Okay, well, not as much saying younger. More about how we look. Okay? All right.

Okay, well, hey, well, you two have a good day. I'm going to go and hang out with my yes boys now. Just us three young guys. Just living the best life we can live. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We hung out with a. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We hung out with a really lovely school, some school kids.

We did some work. We helped out with Kids Can, a wonderful organisation that provide kids around the country with jackets, with food, make sure kids can start the day and are on the same page, part of the same team. Feed, warm, don't have to worry about the details of life. They just have to learn and have fun. This is a very cool school. They were running a very hyped-up operation, weren't they? They're one of the schools that got jackets now,

thanks to the 24 hours of handball that we did, and you guys helped us make over $470,000 for them. So we got to see the kids get their jackets. It was a very cool experience. And I tell you what, this school, I wish I went there. Go to Paris! It was like a festival, wasn't it? And they were running it.

I tell you what, they were running a very tight, military precision paki paki clap system, weren't they? Paki paki tōi! Paki paki tōi! Paki paki tōi! Paki paki tōi! He's got those kids working in time. It was awesome, actually.

Afterwards, they do this once a week as well. They had some music, almost like a DJ, and they're dancing and stuff. I dance along to this one good part. He goes, you're too old to dance to this. I'm like, here are you right. No one said that to me. Well, they wouldn't because you just got ID'd at the liquor shop. This is the first time in my life I've started a conga line,

and man, it felt good. Oh, yeah, so it was an amazing school we were at. And what we've done, we've been to schools around the country before and things like the Weet-Bix triathlon for the kids as well. And kids, you know, much when you're a kid as well, you get swept up in the occasion, right? You know, if someone comes to your school or you see someone there, you go, you want something. Oh, someone's getting something signed.

Maybe I need something signed. Yeah, it's a snowball effect, isn't it? And even though I swear like 70% had no idea who we were, but they're like, yeah, right, with Vivid, permanent marker all over my school shirt.

Write your name. Oh boy, I can't do the school shirt. I remember we had Trevor Mallard come to our school to open the new sports hall. Did the kids go feral for Mallard? None of us knew what he even did. What he stood for?

Anything like that? To club your autograph. Trev! He just got like Trev written across the back of your school shirt. It's never impressed anybody. We were playing handball yesterday again because that's how we raised the money

and we had sweatbands on and the kids wanted the sweatbands. Megan, straight away you gave yours away which is nice. Because this beautiful young girl money, and we had sweatbands on, and the kids wanted the sweatbands. Megan, straight away, you gave yours away, which is nice. Well, because this beautiful young girl was like, I love your sweatbands. I was like, oh, heaven. That's what they do.

No, that's what they do. They come in with cuteness. We've experienced, they'll take anything. They'll ask for anything. Can I have your hat? Can I have your car keys? Can I have your sock, your shoelaces? Well, I gave away the sweatbands on my wrists as well,

and then I only had my bangles, and one of the girls was like, can I have your bangle? I was like, good on you for trying your luck. But a strange piece of memorabilia for that child to end up with. My sweaty sweatband. They all got our sweatbands at the end of the day. Some kids there and there. But you're right.

They'll go home and go, who did that? Sorry to the parents. Did you sign the sweatband? Yeah. Yeah, sign the sweatband. It's quite hard to sign a sweatband. You know, very hard. Anyway, but I've never done that before. I got asked to sign

school shirts and I was like I don't need any parents. Who signed this? Oh, Megan signed it, didn't she? Well, I dare say that'll hold a special piece of history in that child's heart forever now that sweatband. Doubtful. So unusual memorabilia, that's what we want to talk about.

When you got swept up and you got something and you took it away and maybe you haven't regretted it. Maybe you're like, yeah, that's pretty cool. My best friend Ellie, she went to the Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix and after the race, everyone runs onto the track and picks up pieces of rubber. Yeah, grown adults on their hands and knees picking up tiny pieces of rubber. What are you going to do with that? I guess you have it there.

I don't even know which car it's come from. Yeah, but there'll be a reflective moment in life where you go, what was I thinking? It doesn't matter. I get swept up in the moment.

I do it. And then what does it matter? Later you can get rid of it or you can take it home. Or you can keep it in your garage. You don't want to go, yeah, exactly. You don't want to go,

oh, I should have just picked it up. Because you can show everyone it's from the car and then maybe a couple of weeks later you might want to get, yeah, exactly. You don't want to go, oh, I should have just picked it up. You know, because you can show everyone it's from the car and then maybe a couple of weeks later you might want to get rid of it. I'm all for getting

swept up in the occasion. He does get swept up. He always gets swept up. I fully admit it. My daughter the other night went to a concert and she wanted to line up and I'm like,

you're exactly the same as me. This is what I do. Dripping in merch. By the time we got to the front of the line after 45 minutes there was only a XXL hoodie

and I'm like, she's like, see, it fits. I'm like, it does not fit. It's so big. She's like, see, it fits. I'm like, it does not fit. It's so big. She's like, can I get it?

I'm like, this is so big. But she got swept up. She's going to grow into it. Yeah. Sort of. But then you also need to pull yourself, like there's online shopping.

Okay, there's an option for us to get a similar one. Yeah, exactly. That actually fits. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. A lot of people get swept up on the occasion. I'm one of them, and I like it. I like it. I don't mind collecting unusual bits of memorabilia. Yeah, your niche memorabilia.

Yesterday at a primary school, Megan handed off her wrist sweatband to a young child who's going to go home and hold on to that. All of them went. I had a headband and two wristbands. Ours went as well in the end too. It's gone. And they'll be, oh, great. They seemedband and two wristbands and they all... I was wearing this as well on the end too. It's gone. And they'll be, oh great,

they seemed happy at the time and that's fine. One thing about primary schools is no matter what primary school you walk into,

we've walked into a primary school in America, primary school in New Zealand, they all smell the same. Don't they? There's that distinctive...

It's not a bad smell. No, no. It's just the smell of children being educated. It's a very... And we saw the sick bay. Man, that brought back some memories. All's just the smell of children being educated. And we saw the sick bay. Man, that brought back some memories. All sick bays kind of look the same. Still got that same scratchy blanket, you know, the grey blanket. But 0800, that's after your niche merch, sorry, memorabilia. Mel, welcome. Morning. Good to have you on. Your kids collected

some niche memorabilia They certainly did They went to the last speedway at Weston Springs A few weeks ago And brought home a clump of dirt From the track Because sometimes they Brrp it up onto the crowd

Where's that dirt now? He made it into a heart And brought it home and said he was going to keep it together And now it's just dirt Yeah two weeks later And it's just dirt But you know I could replace it And he would never know the difference

No that's right But you've got a piece of Speedway history there Yep absolutely Clump of dirt How you got on your Mel Really appreciate it No problem As a parent you're like

This is Okay you can do it But you know in the back parent, you're like, this is, okay, you can do it, but, you know, in the back of your mind, you're like, this is pointless exercise going on here. We'll get producer Grace in, shall we? Her friend went over to the Taylor Swift shows in Australia. The Eris tour. What did she bring back? So she went there and her and her friend collected a bunch of confetti,

you know, Taylor Swift does the confetti, and came back and sold it. Is it, because I haven't been there, is the confetti, does it have, like, something special on it? Do you know that it's from Taylor Swift does the confetti, and came back and sold it. Is it, because I haven't been there, is the confetti, does it have something special on it? Do you know that it's from Taylor Swift? No, I think it's just regular confetti. Oh, right, and how much did they make from that? I don't know, sold it like $10 each on Facebook groups,

and I think she made enough. Like a bag of it? Yeah, like a bag. I think she made enough maybe to cover her tickets. Can I just say, I appreciate that Megan thinks that Taylor Swift is earning so much, she'll individually brand pieces of confetti. I thought it might be like, errors, confetti. Because otherwise, how are you going to know?

Exactly. Exactly. Thank you very much for your call. Appreciate it. I don't know why I'm thanking you for your call, Grace. You went on the phone. You're on the studio. Thanks for calling in, Grace.

That's great. All right. Thanks for listening, Grace. Emma, your niche memorabilia. It is a piece of the, well, it's not mine, it's a grandparent, but a piece of the Berlin Wall. Oh, yeah, that was the famous wall that sort of separated East and West Berlin and Germany there.

Yeah, it's a very unusual thing to have. I think they sell it. I think they sell them, yeah, which is, yeah, still a bit weird. It is a little bit weird, especially for the time of history it was. But, yeah, they love it. A very entrepreneurial way to get rid of the rubble, though, isn't it? Selling it off piece by piece. I remember Eden Park did that when they re-turfed the whole ground.

I think they gave it away or we got it. I ended up with a bit of square on my desk for a while, trying to keep that grass alive. It died eventually, but it's really hard keep that grass alive. It died eventually. It's really hard to keep grass alive. This is why you're not the groundskeeper. It's just a small little square. You're like, come on grass. That's so weird. No, you're like, what's

the grass? You're like, it's Eden Park. Yeah, but it died. Were you meant to water it daily? No, I did. I didn't really know how to water it. And what have you done with the rubble from the Berlin Wall there, Emma? It just sits in a drawer. Yeah, it would be in a drawer, sit up. It would be.

Good on you, mate. Have a great day. You too, bye. Shout out to the people who pulled down an entire wall. Yeah. That's no easy feat. That was a big wall too. That's a heck of a wall.

A lot of it's still there. There's just a big hole in it. Yeah. So great text coming through here. I've got a piece of rubble from Nelson Mandela's cell block. Really? That's a piece of memorabilia right there. Wow. So thank you so much for your calls and texts. Really appreciate it.

John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. Weka rode 300km from the west coast of Christchurch. Just ended up going in someone's ute accidentally when the door was open and they got home and they went, oh, there's a weka. They just sat quietly got home and they went oh quietly and then some dog blankets apparently until it got there but now the wicker's been safely returned but long distance that's a big trip yeah um am i speaking of all things uh nature

my daughter sent me a photo of a cow that uh wouldn't leave her alone at the park yesterday oh that's pretty cute though like it would do was following her along the fence line And she'd just scratch its head That's freaky You know, generally Think of cows as friendly, cute creatures You know, wanting pats and scratches, do you? They just want milking They just really liked Poppy

Now, I must make an apology A public apology Speaking of Poppy You went to her dance recital And, you know, when you're in those situations, being your daughter dances too, and your other daughter does stage shows, when you're in those situations,

a lot of your focus is on, where's my kid? That's what I've come to watch. Yeah. The rest of it kind of just seems wallpaper, you know? And kids en masse, particularly all dressed in sequined dresses. Well, particularly those dance ones, because it's not like an overarching story, know it's like sometimes you know you just got individual you know like yeah they're all and they're all doing the same moves and all dressed

they look the same every other kid apart from my own looks the same okay so then after the show run into a friend of ours maria and uh her daughter's there with her. Yeah. And I come in confidently as a supportive parent, and I hold my hand up to her daughter, and I say, bloody cracking work out there today, mate. Good dancing. Bang. Slapped her on the high five. She looks at me and says, I wasn't out there tonight.

I didn't dance. And then I was a bit shaken by her response, obviously. So I said, I came back with a gaslight. I said, are you sure? Are you sure you weren't out there? Yep, pretty sure. She's like, I'm pretty sure. I stopped dancing three years ago, she said.

Then Maria tries to come in. She tries to smooth over. Oh, yeah, now she's into basketball and stuff, but I'm not letting her go. Why? I'm like Well you should have been out there Because I remember you to be a bloody great dancer

She's like no I was shocking That's why I moved on That's why I stopped dancing That's why I stopped dancing So yeah Tried to convince a girl That she was in a dance recital That she took no part in

That's the thing So the lesson Take away from this Is just don't give compliments Or Pay attention That's the thing. So the take away from this is just don't give compliments or pay attention. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

You may remember a little while ago we played the sport of handball, the schoolyard sport of handball for 24 hours, helping Kids Can. We called it Kids Canball. Kids Can, wonderful organisation that helps Kiwi kids right around the country with breakfast, with jackets, looking after, getting all the kids

basically on the same team so they can be warm and well fed and be able to learn well at school, you know, so everyone's in the same position which is awesome. Yeah.

Raised over $470,000 for 24 Hours of Handball all thanks to you guys donating as well so it was awesome. A lot of cash money, a lot of cash money. A lot of cash money. We went to primary school yesterday, didn't we, the three of us,

along with the how-to dad, Jordan Watson, who was the mastermind of Kids Campbell. And we got to hand out the jackets and stuff. Yeah, it was really cool, actually. 250 jackets? I know. This school was, if I could pinch a Gen Z quote, was a vibe It was a vibe

It was so much fun, the principal was amazing the teachers were so we spent so much time dancing Lunchtime under the coal or the covered learning area it's like a dance party the teachers are DJing once a week, it's great

the kids are up there. They're singing along. It's really awesome. Yeah. And we, obviously, we turn up. And I know our place in the world now. You know, we're out of the demo. We're out of that demo. So it's a humbling experience to turn up to it.

I mean, the Hits is a family-friendly station. People can be listening to us on the radio. One of the girls was like, I'm going to subscribe to you. I was like, okay. I don't think that's – yep, cool. Please do. Subscribe to the radio. Subscribe to the radio.

Hello, children who probably don't know who we are. Hello. A lot of energy. A lot of energy at this school. You want to party? Yeah! That was really cool. Megan, we all got to talk, and Megan, you asked us some questions.

We thought it would be easier for you to ask some questions about the handball situation last year and also what we were like at school. Now, this is where I thought we were trying to inspire the kids. John, I was like, I was shocking. The kids needed to hear it. They don't need to hear that. I'm not going to lie to the kids. He was like,, I was shocking. The kids needed to hear it. They don't need to hear that. I'm not going to lie to the kids. And he was like, this guy here, putting at me, burnt

the gym floor, you know, and then I had to go into like, it wasn't like an arson thing, it was a mistake when I was trying to put on a performance. Like, I was again... He was trying to apply himself at school. I was trying to. I did, I applied myself at school and this was me going the extra mile for my dance performance. Yes, in middle E I went too far in the wrong direction.

And burned down the school hall. But I definitely applied myself over the top. No one else had pyrotechnics for their dance recital at school. I don't even know how you got that past health and safety back in the day. I didn't. No one knew I bought fireworks in school until I bought them. We were like, surprised. Yeah, I did.

I pulled them out from under a blanket, and I had them. And everyone went, what is he doing? It was a Michael Jackson performance. It was, yeah. To what song? It was, oh, it was a bit of a medley that I'd put together, I'd made together. So it was like Thriller and The Bad and all sorts. You know, it was, yeah, it was a bit of a medley.

I really want, do you remember the dance moves? Oh, no, because I, but no, no. He does, he does. I did the classic thriller moves and stuff like that and I couldn't moonwalk and stuff like that but the performance got abruptly cut off because I let off the fireworks and then it started burning the floor.

I remember my teacher, Mr Stock, just yelling out, no Ben, no! Because you're the one man band, you're also acting as the pyrotechnics expert and performing. A lot going on. How are you incorporating the lighting of the fireworks into the routine?

Trying to do it while moving with, I think, a lighter and stuff. All this stuff was just, yeah. What's he doing? What's he doing? I lit one and then I lit another and it was just, yeah. And I had a firework signature first that we had from home that it was going to be like my smoke machine. Oh my gosh. But I lit it off before the be like my smoke machine. Oh, my gosh. But I lit it off before the fireworks,

so I did it the wrong way around. So you didn't have anything to put out there. No. Did they make a mess in the hall? Huge mess. Like it sort of was that talcum powder around the whole gym floor. And then I was the first dance. They stopped it after that,

and then everyone had to clean the gym because of my mess for the rest of the period. Everyone was like, thanks, Ben. So you lit off the fire extinguisher and then still had to clean the gym because of my mess for the rest of the period. Everyone was like, thanks Ben. So you let off the fire extinguisher and then still kept going. Yeah. Were they sky rockets or just like little sparklers? Yeah, ones that sort of, I don't know. The fountains. Yeah, fountains, that's it.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. A situation for a mother in Kentucky in the United States. Her son, 8 years old got hold of her phone in the United States. Her son, eight years old, got hold of her phone and the Amazon account. He ordered 70,000 lollipops. 70,000.

They arrived in just boxes and boxes and boxes. Over four and a half grand's worth American of lollipops. They feel like there needs to be tighter security on that old Amazon thing. You're always hearing stories of like, oh, a kid ordered a Lamborghini that just turned up

out of nowhere why is no one asking questions I guess it's on someone's legit account 70 that 80 that number that's a lot

just definitely mush the keys together more more more well producer Grace Hilliam our quiz slay queen diva welcome back that was a bit painful

I'm not going to lie yeah no it was painful sorry yeah no I won't. Sorry, mate. 10 out of 10 on Tuesday, Wednesday. Zero out of 10. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, true. We didn't get a single one right. You're right. Sometimes I think people must drive to work going, you idiots, how do you not know Tootie Carmen's mistress's sister's name? And we've got a lifeline too, so all right, here we go. Okay, ready.

Question number one. Who is New Zealand's best-selling author with 19 million books sold in 105 countries? Essie Summers, Niall Marsh, Linley Dodd. Oh, Dodd with the old Harry McCleary. That's the only

one I know, so that's why I jumped in there and pretended like I knew authors. Would that... Linley Dodd had a crack at us. Do you know that? Did she? I don't know if she did. Well, her people did.

Her team. We did a sketch about Harry McCleary, and Harry McCleary met a very gruesome end. Went out the gate, and then, yeah. Guys, what are you doing? You can't do that to Harry McCleary. No, we shouldn't be doing that. You're right.

That's what Lindley said. That's what the team said. Anyway, that's a dog leg. So are we going to use the lifeline or not? I think we're going to have to. The biggest selling author. I don't know internationally how well Harry McCleary went. True.

If we're going to do a process of elimination, you wouldn't say it was like 90 million, did you say? Yeah, 19 million. 19 million. 105 countries. Would Harry McCleary have gone? No, I wouldn't say it was like 90 million, did you say? Yeah, 19 million. 19 million. 105 countries. Would Harry McLeary have gone, no, I wouldn't have thought so. But then, yeah. It seems like a very Kiwiana piece of New Zealand.

If one of those other authors had written something that popular, wouldn't we know about it? Wouldn't we know? Yeah. 4487 on the text. So far, no one is helping us out. So we'll have to use our own brains and courage. What was the first one? Essie Summers.

I like Essie Summers. Should we lock in Essie Summers? Love Essie Summers. Is it S-C Summers? It's E-S-S-I-E. Essie. Oh, okay. I'm not going to lie, guys.

Again, I did forget the answer, so I'm not giving anything on my face. John, let's lock it in. Are we going to lock in Essie? Yeah. That's correct. Oh, what? We got it. Essie? Yeah. That's correct. Oh, what? We got it. Essie Summers.

That's crazy. Wait, wait. She was known as New Zealand's queen of what? Romance novels. Oh. Romance novels. 19 million copies. We learned something today.

That's good. Okay, question two. Question number two. When was New Zealand's last census? March 2023, March 2024, May 2023. That's good. Okay, question two. Question number two. When was New Zealand's last census? March 2023, March 2024, May 2023. We did it.

It was March when Harry Styles was here. We were trying to bribe everyone afterwards as well for doing it, but you're right.

There was a whole lot of celebrities who were in the country. There was one definitely on there. That would be 23, Harry Styles. We're doing March 2023,

locking that in. That is correct. Well done. Thank you, Harry Styles. That's right. They've really made in. That is correct. Well done. Thank you, Harry Styles. That's right. They've really made a rod for their own back, the census people. You've got this one. If you hold out, you get free Warriors tickets and movie tickets and everything.

All right, question three. The United States comprises how many states? 55, 50, 60. 50. Yeah, that wording was weird. There we go. Well done, team. I think you'll get this one too.

What was David Bowie's real surname? Jones. Jones. Brown-Smith. Jones? Yep. Locking it in. That is correct.

All right, we'll take this question. We'll take an answer. We'll go to the break. Okay, this is the one. Every quiz this week we've had a sheep question, and this is our sheep question. Number five. How many sheep are in new zealand at last count 23.59 million 235.9 million

2.39 million they filled out the census all right well we'll have a think about that well we're still good at lifeline jono ben and megan the podcast the hits and we are cooking with gas we're blindly guessing our way through a half of. But anyway, we're at question number five, are we, Grace? Yeah, question number five. How many sheep are in New Zealand at last count? 23 million, 235 million, 2 million. So more than 2 million. Yeah, definitely.

I think the 200 is about too many. 23 is coming through heaps on us. So should we use the lifeline? Let's go 23 million. That is correct. Well done. I want to sort of be a little bit more than that. Okay, question number six. Should we use the lifeline? Let's go 23 million. That is correct. Well done. I want to sort of be a little bit more than that.

Okay, question number six. The course of true love never did run smooth is a famous line from which William Shakespeare play? All's well that ends well, a midsummer's night dream, Romeo and Juliet. Let's say Romeo and Juliet. It sounds like a romantic line. Say the line again. The course of true love never did run smooth. It's Romeo and Juliet. Let's say Romeo and Juliet. It sounds like a romantic line. Say the line again. The course of true love never did run smooth.

It's Romeo and Juliet all day long. Okay, all right. We'll go with that. Are we locking in Romeo and Juliet? I'm looking at Megan's face. She is not sold. That's my favorite, and I don't remember that. John, I said all day long, so okay, let's go with that.

So Romeo and Juliet? Yeah, that's incorrect. It was midsummer. I had that play too. I read it from cover to cover. Why did you listen to me say all day long? Not all day long. It's actually at 6.30.

It's ended the day. Well, I'm sorry, guys. Let it down again. At least you got over halfway, and that's what matters, guys. Not a bad effort today for the New Zealand Herald Daily Quote.