Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We've been keeping a secret wedding from you!

Episode Date: February 24, 2026

On today’s show:  Is Ben an amateur at parenting a teenage girl… or just permanently out of his depth? We finally lock in Megan’s opening line for her Liam Lawson interview . How my brother discovered his signed David Bowie poster was fake! Jono’s “genius” strategy for dealing with dead animals…  Is Megan’s dog… racist?! The boys break down the sacred, unspoken rules of the men’s urinal Megan deep-dives into the America’s Next Top Model documentary 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. Welcome along to the podcast on a Wednesday. We just actually just teach me a bit about Formula One. You know a lot more than I do about the sport, Megan. And I hadn't thought about going, they had to go to the bathroom sometimes because they're racing for a long period of time. And they can't get out and stop at the local gas service station and ask for the key or anything.

Just hold on a moment. I just need to go to the toilet. There's no time for that. You better buy something. You better buy something. Liam's buying a couple of red bulls just so you used to bother it. Yeah, it was an hour and a half

and they obviously hydrate a lot and so sometimes they need to wait. Because they sweet a lot, right? Yeah. Oh, so they would have a huge liquid intake pre-race. Yeah. So it's all sitting in there. So in order to go to the toilet, they just kind of need to let it go. At 200 kilometres an hour.

Yeah. Oh, that's a lot of pressure. Just, literally. So they've got like their like race suits and then they've got their external like shelter. There's two lots. to suits that are on. So I imagine most of it gets caught up in the suit. Yeah.

And sweat. You wouldn't know the difference. By the energy, is that when they come out and they sometimes just put big jackets over the top so they can give them a bit of... Well, they undo them, so they wear them halfway down their waist.

But I have definitely seen some drivers come out with like a wet patch around the bum. No. I would have thought there would be some sort of thing that they would invention. I feel like they could do something. But they don't all do that. So Liam Lawson said he's never been able to.

He's never able to win in the car. He's tried, but he can't do it. Yeah. I imagine it's probably, yeah. Yeah, because you'd be like, You're like, you're trying to get the quarters? No. I've heard on the team radio, one of them was like,

I need to go to the toilet, and then the engineer was like, just let it go, and you hear it. Feels like that didn't need to be a conversation. What about a little suction thing that? He sort of pops on there, like, oh, yeah, pops on the end. And that goes out the exhaust or something.

Yeah, like when they, you don't know where it goes when you go to the toilet in the plane, do you? And you don't want to think about it. So they have their water tube, and they have two tubes, either ends of their body. go on intake and outtake don't get them mixed up

no yeah just don't think about those things but yeah of course it's part of the sport right obviously not a much publicised part of the sport oh it's not something they want to get out there and you know what how's the race you know what peering their pants

with all these guys peeing their pants around the track some nappy sort of situation like at the POS that could be another option so then they don't like extra weight do they? No that's true

so there's nothing they can do apart from what they're doing I guess yeah yeah well I mean as long as it's number ones as well, I don't think. Imagine the hell. Although you drive faster. If you had to go home and you'd like, you really need to go, you're like, maybe that's it.

End of the race. He'll be like, why is Liam not getting out of the car? You go to go home. His race suit's white too. He just won. He drove so quick. Yeah, no, no. I'll just wait here for a bit.

Is there all right, guys? Everyone go. Yeah, we'll meet you back at the hotel. Oh, we got Leon Lawson. He is joining us on Zoom. I don't know if we'll ask him about any of that, but he'll be joining us next week. We talk more about it on the podcast. John O'Bennon and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. You know, it feels like kids, they realize pretty quickly they can play you. You know, like I feel like your parents, right? Once you learn the art of manipulation, it really is a powerful tool, isn't it? And obviously, phones and kids is, you know, a big topic of conversation for every parent and everyone's different to what they do. Do you reckon here's a question?

And it's hard to tell because we weren't parenting in the 90s. But do you think it's harder to parent nowadays? or was it harder to parent in the 90? Because I remember my mum's only concern, pretty much her major concern, was me walking home from school and being offered McIntoshes by some guy in a rusty van. That and clean underwear, my mum would always have.

Yeah, make sure you clean underwear. I felt like there was less stuff to stress about. At least your parents were worried about that. I remember, like, biking to school at like five. They're like, see you're by myself on the road. But they weren't worried about that. You'd go out for like 13 hours. You'd leave at 7 in the morning.

No contact. or anything, right? Returned sunburnt, stubbed toes. Back in time for dinner time. You're like, okay. Oh, we'll get some dead old on those stubbed toes. Come and have a cock of arm. Well, now you've got phones.

Any signature dish, by the way. Yeah, probably, yeah, need to say what that is, because I didn't know what that was. I did it. Thank you. Yeah. That was from the Macandosh, the guy with the Macintosh. He was offering that as well.

He knew it was my favorite dish. He tricked me. But you had obviously kids and phones these days. You want you give kids. That's part of the reason why I guess a lot of parents like want to give, you know, an old phone down to your kids for security reasons, right? You know?

But there is a whole thing about how much screen time do they have and that's a big debate. And I've talked about this before when we set up the phones for the kids, our old phones, we put a screen time sort of password on it so it gets to a stage and it stops and they can't use it anymore. So you only know the password? Well, yeah, my wife and I knew the password and we get, I thought it was a message to both of us if they are a request for more,

but they can zero in. They've been targeting me. Like, oh, here's the weak link. Because I said to my wife, I was like, yeah, as you get these messages all the time, she's like, I've never got a single one. So it's like a request that comes through to you asking for more time. Andy would like more time. And you can say 15 minutes, one hour all day, you know.

It depends what sort of mood I'm in. Have you ever pushed all day? Once, yeah, if I'm in a really good mood, most of the time. It depends how busy he is on his own device. It's a good gauge of your mood. Maybe I need to do it. Or we can say no, too. That's the other option as well.

Have you ever said no? Yeah, I think, yeah, once, but not really. I'm really, I crumble with those things. I'm like, oh, 15 minutes as well. That's why you've been targeted. Yeah, I know, I'm targeted like that. And on one time, it was probably about six months ago where I think I had, I was washing some dishes or something, and Indy, my daughter was doing something.

She was editing something on the phone. It stopped going, and she's like, oh, hey, can I have some more screen time to finish an edit? I was like, all right, fair enough. And I blurted out the password, like a number. That meant nothing to anything and thinking that she would forget. Well, I thought yesterday. They never forgets. They're like elephant.

Yesterday I complimented both of them. I was like, you know what? I haven't had for a while. I haven't had a request. You guys have been doing so well with your screen time. And they're like, yeah. Oh, idiot from them for saying anything. It was nice of them to say, you know.

They said, oh, look, Indy remembered the past word. So now I go to Indy. She's my go-to, what Asena was saying. So, yeah. But then they twisted it around and they said, but it's good. It's brought us closer together, his siblings. Oh, great. I love that.

And connected us together. And you always want that. Is they having that argument? They're on chat GPT. What's a good argument here? Oh, damn it. We're bonded as scissors over this. I'm like, oh, how can you get mad with that?

Weren't they using, when you're sleeping on the couch, using your face to unlock your face time as well? Yeah, yeah. Just hold your body like, yeah, open your eyes. You wake up, you're like, yeah, back in again. So, yeah. I reckon that no phones and schools thing's going really well, though.

I reckon they're not getting around that at all. No, no way to get around that. No, shut that down, real quick. They're definitely not. Not on any of devices, aren't they. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. We are manifesting here at The Hits. If you want something that you could dream and you want it to happen,

put it out to the universe and maybe we can make your dreams come true. Yeah, we're going to be doing that before 9 o'clock, but in the meantime, we're making, very selfishly making one of our dreams come true. We didn't actually honestly think this would happen, though. No. We didn't. No, we were just having a bit of fun. We've been talking about this for such a long time,

it's just never come through. Gather some momentum, gather some steam. And what you'd like to manifest is... An interview with Liam Lawson, Formula One driver, from New Zealand. Yeah. We've wanted to have them. We've been, particularly yourself, you're a huge fan. You love it.

You know it a lot about the sport. And, you know, you've seen him pop up another radio stations and TV shows. Oh, the things you've said about that. The things you've said about that off here. Yeah. Oh, he calls to agents. Why am I in here? Why is she doing?

Why is he doing this? How did they get this? To be honest, they're not lying. That's all truthful. Oh, I'm just devastated. We've been secondhand to a lot of those conversations. All the adjectives we've heard them. We're like, wow, we really need to make this happen.

But we, you know, to be fair to, you know, Patricia Troy, producer grace, the team, they've been trying to hit all the angles. But he's a busy guy, Liam Lawson. And finally, a really creepy video we made you film. Of all the professional angles, and it was a creepy video of me sitting in front of a shrine of him with candles and everything that made it to him. and he commented on.

Got his attention. And now without a word of a lie, we got an email through from Red Bull yesterday. He is going to be joining us on Zoom next week, which is very exciting. Tell you what, it's the most highly anticipated interview since bloody Oprah interviewed Megan and Harry

and they, you know, rain down crap on the royal family. But that's also the problem is it's, you know when something gets hyped up so much when it finally, like the anticipation is eating away at me. Like, I'm not going to sleep before that interview. That's my issue. Have we built this up so much that, you know, we're all going to crumble. We could do.

We're on this journey as well. I know. Now I'm, I wasn't nervous about it, but now I'm nervous about it. I've got, you know. Now, what we thought might do is get Megan match fit for the interview. And we thought a great place to start would be what's the very first thing Megan is going to say. What's the opener? What's the opener?

What's the opener? You need to start things off. That's my first impression. Don't make me look like an egg. What are they saying if I, lights out and away we go. Lights out. And away we go. That could be a good start.

Yeah. Lights out and the way we go. That's a great start. All right, Leah, lights out and the way we go. I suggested you say that. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe the first thing she says is how stable is your relationship? Good, good question.

But then you wait for him to answer and go, oh, it's meaning your relationship with sleep. You know, are you, and you can save it. Oh, yeah. But then if he's like, oh, yeah, she's a bit rocky at the moment. Yeah, like, oh, tell me more. I don't know why you wouldn't say that. You're both in relationships, but anyway. It's good to know.

How are you with puns? Surely I would start with pun. I don't know. It's hard name. I mean, you can hit me with puns. Have you got anything in there? I don't know. I was like, I was nervous before this, but now I'm all lorselened up.

No, no, it didn't quite work. Does it loosen the loss? Oh, no. That doesn't work. It doesn't work. We'll get to the brainstorming on that one. So these are not great. I'm going to lay down the lorson.

That's good. That's better. Lawson order or something, you know? What you can do? What is Megan, the very first thing that Megan is going to say? Pans are risky. Let's not go puns. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. We've manifested an interview with William Lawson, Megan's dream, and we want to prepare for it where we don't want you to look stupid. We want to know the first things you should say in the Zoom interview. I know another big concern of Megan's is the outfit. What's going to be worn? We'll get to that another day. I'm racing overalls in the helmet, I thought it would be good.

Oversized T-shirt with a picture of his face and a love hat. Oh, my God, no. I bought your Liam Lawson socks. You can wear those for good luck with his face all over. Well, he won't see those on Zoom, so I can wear those. That's another day's problem. We'll get to that. But in the first instance, what do you think?

The first thing is Megan should say to her idol. Mitchell. How's it going? Talk to us, Mitch. Happy New Year, first and full ice. Happy New Year. Well, that should be the first one, you say. Yeah, oh, true.

Happy Year. Show catchphrase. Happy New Year. Yeah, that's a great start. They're going to waste a lot of time explaining. What are you saying Happy New Year in March? Yeah. But Mitchell, what do you think the first thing that should come out of Megan's mouth?

What does the back of Max the Stephens' car look like? Well, I guess everyone. He was a rocky last year. Max is the world champion, well, was the world champion. So, you know, like... She's always going to get very overly defensive of Liam. Of our Liam. That's going to put me on a good foot with Liam off the back.

I like Mitchell's gag one, though. He's kind of a gag. I like it. That's really nice suggested, Mitch. Simon, morning to you. The first thing that Megan should say to Liam Lawson when she meets him, her hero, next week. Well, considering how she was manifesting,

I thought she should start off with. Oh, great one. Thank you for gracing me with your presence through this Zoom portal. I like it. I do like it. It makes you sound a little woo-woo, but anyway. Oh, great fun.

Yeah, I don't mind that song. Yeah, I like it. We're like, sorry about here, Liam. You know, we'll come in there. We can batch it up. This is what happens when you put this out to everyone. That's good. You're all just out here to make me look like a fool.

On a side note, Claire joins us. Welcome. Hi, how are you? You're really good to have you on. Now, Claire, you tell us what you're bringing to the table. Okay, so there's a guy at a local restaurant to us that is harassed constantly for looking like Liam Wilson. So I thought maybe you could go into a practice run. That's a great idea.

Oh, can you wait a bit of a Zoom. We can pop up her zoom. We'll do a dry run with the look-alike Liam Lawson. Stunt double. I think he gets harassed all the time for, like people say, do I know you? You look familiar. I haven't met you before. And yeah, he just apparently, I don't know what Liam Wilson looks like.

So I'm really sorry, Megan. But apparently this guy looks like him. Does he hate it though? Because he say he gets harassed. Is he like, oh? I don't think so. I think he's all for the fun of it. Not a bad person.

I mean, great to look like Liam Lawson. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Very confusing for the people who think it is Liam Lawson. Is this a side hustle? What is this? I think he's well used to it. Okay, well, I'll tell you what, we'll get the details of the venue, and we'll try and track this one down because I dry around a dress rehearsal.

It would be nice about it. It'll build up the confidence. It would. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, break the ice for you at least. I don't know how they're going to be answering questions back, but that's okay. That's okay. I'm sure he'll go with it.

Okay. Yeah. Like I heard Bad Bunny rehearsed. You know, for like a week. straight before the Super Bowl halftime show. That's right. This is my Super Bowl. This is it. Yeah, this is it. Yeah, a week's worth of rehearsals. Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

The most over-rehearsed interview ever. That wasn't the answer that he was meant to say back to that. There's so much of playing it cool. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. We're having a manifesto. If you can dream it, you could win it. You can come along. And some people will get whatever they want to manifest happening and come true. You'll get your chance to put something on the

airways very shortly. It's a wide and varied range of things that people want in their lives. New lips, new teeth, new decks, deck, new solar panels, holidays. People want warriors tickets and sold out games in Christchurch as just saw come through before. New best friend that also races in the F1. You name it. Well, this is what we're focusing on at the moment.

Don't cringe. Oh, no. You might become best friends out of it, aren't they? Benj is grimaced. Dedicated a wild amount of airtime. to this Liam Lawson interview that hasn't happened yet but it's coming next week. Megan manifests of it and he's coming out

and we feel like that you should decide what the first thing is that Liam says to Megan especially on Zoom too because it's you know a Zoom interview. It'll always be a bit awkward the start of it. You don't want to start with like I can hear you but can't see it you know, you don't have to start with that. You know that's often how Zoom you just unmute yourself. That might be the first thing you say to him

I don't know. Yeah so far all we've had is what's the back of Maxis Fisapin's car like in the This is his former teammate who he was always winning races. But like you said, everyone was behind his car. Max, yeah. Right. And then there was someone about, thank you, dear gracious Lord,

for granting me with your presence during the Zoom portal. It's pretty much. Might be a bit much. The Texas has come through from Anthony. Can I read that up? Yeah. Oh. Hi, Liam.

As you're aware, I like younger men. If I were a racetrack, what would I be? That is good. Yeah, I feel like. I'd be all with it. Okay, you're all having a laugh. That's good. It was good.

But a little awkward for all of us, really. Yeah. I don't even know what that means, but all right. Texts through here from someone called Andrew saying, Hi, Liam, just so you know I'm married. Oh, shit. You've got another great first thing to say. Let's get Aaron on.

All right. I think we have a winner. First thing, first words that come out of Megan's mouth next week. Well, radio stations normally have first time, long time listener, first time caller. Yeah, you're a long-time listener, first-time caller, yep. Yeah. So you can say something like long-time fan, first-time stalker. I mean, talker or interview.

That's really good. That is great, Aaron. That is good, first-time stalker, yeah. We're locking that, Adam? I think it's good. Well, up to you, Megan. Long-time fan, first-time stalker. I mean, it's talker.

Talker. I mean, he's playfully knows that, you know. I mean, he's seen me sitting in front of a shrine of him, thanks to you guys. That's pretty good. It's probably not a surprise to him. Although I'm not stalking him, guys. Just a fan of his work. Yeah, exactly.

I like it. Let's lock it in. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. Not talking about the biggest secret you've heard to keep, but you can now tell us. It's, you know, there's time heals. Time heals. Statute of limitations is past.

Although some secrets, people take. to the grave, don't they? Have you got a secret you'd take it to the grave right now? Oh, not off the top of my head. I'm pretty good to keep you secrets. I don't say anything to anyone. No. Sometimes my wife will go, oh, do you know about that? I mean, yep.

William, tell it, you know, like, it's not my place. It's not my secret to tell. He's a lockbox. He's a two-step authentication. Yeah, you need another password, yeah. Passments too, week, week, week password, you can try. I'm not telling you any of it.

Well, I'll put an exclamation mark. Oh, weak, weak. Oh, eight hundred of that. Biggest secret you've had to keep, but you can now tell us, Rory, what was it? Yeah, mate. Look, it's out now in the family. But what happened is my brother was a chef working at the Mondesia back in the 80s when Bowie toured. What's the Mondesia?

Is that a fancy restaurant, obviously? Mondesia and Pacipurner, where the opposite of the Bruce Mason, there's a couple of apartment blocks there. Probably you guys don't remember. that you're too young. David Bowie was staying there. My brother was a chef there. So my oldest brother, Spick, gave him a photo of Bowery. He said, look, can you get this

sign? He went, yeah, yeah, yeah, no worries, no worries. But he didn't. So he brought it home, and he put it on the bench and wrote a note, sorry, I didn't get to see Bowery and everything, bloody they'd are. And I'd come home for the pub and I'd seen the note. I thought, oh, poor bloody Speck, he didn't get it done. But then next

morning, mysteriously, there's the photo signed. Two Speck, lots of love, David Bowie. We saw it, we thought, oh shit, the old man signed it. So we kept it, we just kept it secret. He saw it, and he was bloody over the moon. He thought, oh, my God, this is great. And so everybody knew Dad had done it,

because he could even tell it was his writing, because he was left-handed. I smudged. Was there any chance he came over at night and signed it? David Bowie. Yeah, he could have come while you're asleep. Totally, mate. It's popped in.

Then about 10 years later, we're up in the Gold Coast on a holiday, and little thing went down and Speck was pissing Cole off big time and Cole just turned around him and said well Speck buggy you and we knew, everybody knew exactly what he was going to say and we said, no, no, don't say it, don't say it!

He said, Speck, Dad signed your photo. And it was just deftly quiet and the old man just, the look of the old man's face was like, oh shit, I've been caught out. And when my brother got home apparently he threw the photo across. the room and he gutted. But then he kept the photo and he

reframed it because it was funny. Somehow it's got better history. But everybody knew when Cole said, buggy aspect. You knew it's coming, it's coming. No, no, no, no. How many years had it been kept a secret? I think about 10, I think,

eight to 10 years. Wow. That's a good run. We can still bag him today about it. Dad's dead. He takes no responsibility on it anymore. He's done. You're a classic.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Well, speaking things that I don't think are still living, we've got like an attic in the house. We just put luggage. It's just, it's that room where I'm like, I am dreading having to, I feel like we'll just leave it for the kids to sort out.

Out of side out of mine, those things. Oh, there's just so much stuff in there. You know, I was jamming something else in there yesterday and opened the door, and I was like, that really familiar smell of, death. Why is it familiar? Really gets the nostrils going. Sorry, it's not familiar.

But you know, you know the smell. And then I did the adult thing and I made the mature adult decision just to shut the door and pretend it's not there. To leave it. Because I don't want to investigate it. I know what I'm going to find. I'm not going to enjoy finding that. Yeah. You know?

It's just going to stay there then. Hopefully, sometimes you just shut the door and these things resolve themselves. Like if you leave it long enough, it might mummify and dry up. It has happened previously. And if you're right, it starts to seep through the,

the air vents. But if you can ride that out for five to seven days. You're fine. You're on the other side of it. And it's like, bloody be like 45 degrees in there at the moment. Yeah.

So, you know. It's dehydrating it. At the moment it hasn't found it's permeated into the rest of the house, but I hope the family doesn't notice, because you know who it's going to fall on to remove. Yeah.

And that guy doesn't want to remove it. I was going to say it's easier for, I don't mean to gender stereotype, but like it's easier for the woman to leave it because then I'll be like, I'll make my husband get it. Like I killed a cricket yesterday with the spray, but I didn't want to pick it up because I hate those things. Left it in the middle of the hallway and I was like, I'll pretend I never saw it. So the dead cricket's just there. I went back later, it had gone.

He'd gotten rid of it. It's great. So you just pretend you didn't know it was there. That's what I'm doing now. But then who's going to get rid of it? Is Jen your wife going to go out there? Decomposition is going to get rid of it. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast.

The Hits. Took Leo to the vet. He's just constantly having issues. He's allergic to the grass in our area, it turns out. And so he gets real itchy. This is your dog, by the way. Oh, no, not, yeah. It's my dog.

It's not your kids or anything like that. My husband. You would say, though, if you had one little mangy child and you're like, I'll just take that one to the vet. Yeah. I guess the bet was clear enough. I just thought, yeah. Yeah, thank you for clarifying.

But he itches. So he itches his face. He itches his, like, like, bum. You know how they scoot on the mat? And you're like, don't do that. Every time I go to your house, starved for attention that little fellow. He just all over. You sit on the couch, he's all over here,

you're rubbing his bits all over here, sniffing. He really gets... No, but he's just excited that it's someone new. Yeah, gotcha. Friendly dog. He loves people. He is a lot. lover and this is my problem is that

so we took him to the vet and he goes here quite often and he always gets excited to go to the vet um he wheeze and excited to see the people the other animals I always have to like hold him tight on the leash be like calm down he's like no one pays any attention to me at home get it out here

get it out in the wild but there was what are those big is like a cavoodle or a big like poodily looking or a labradoodle but it was a big... A lot of breeds. I don't know. It was a big poodily looking dog.

And it was like beautiful white thing, but it was, it looked a bit, you know, calmer than Leo. So it's just standing there. Leo is jumping about, happy to see the dog. And as I've mentioned before, he gets a bit... Trusty. He gets a bit thrusting. And so he starts trying to like mount this dog that's three times, four times. the size of him.

Is he jumping on his hind legs? Yeah, he's really, really trying hard. So I had to pull it away, so embarrassed. I'm like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. There's a weird thing, like, especially with Leo, he just really likes white dogs. And that's when the owner looks at me and was like, oh, racist. Accused Leo being racist. About another dog?

And I didn't know what to say. I was like, wow. Is it a joke or is it? Well, I thought it was a joke But then maybe they just had a real dry sense of humour That's a sentence you don't expect to hear No Your dogs are racist

Jerry Springer probably did an episode on it back in the day I think it was more to do with like hair colour right Like prefers blondes prefers white hair dogs I don't know But he does really like to Hard enough training a dog Without having to include diversity and inclusion Well, maybe the dogs haven't been doing it enough.

Maybe we need to get into dog community. We don't turn to the dogs for their hot takes on the multicultural society that we live in nowadays. How do they feel about it? So I don't know. I think he's done enough at that vet that I might need to change. Worst part is he can't even defend himself from this racism accusation. Yeah, he was still jumping about happy as. I was like, no.

Brick some other multicultural dogs out for him, you know? What is it all mean now? Watch him. What is it all mean now? you know. I bet the next time you have a birthday party for him it's going to be like United Nations and dogs. Look at all Leo's mates.

A little African dog over there. Korean dog. German Shepherd. This one is a little shit. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. We're going to start a new part, excuse me, to the show.

The Unwritten Rules of. And we'll just name a location and you can chime in with the rules of this particular place. Oh, 800. The Hits, 4,48.7. We're going to kick things. off with the urinal. And many unwritten rules in the urinal.

You only learn over a number of years when you start your toilet in career. When you first start, particularly the boys, we're just pants down to the ankles. And it's all go. As you get older... You realize you don't need to do that.

Although it would be far more comical if we were still doing. Pants down to the ankles. Just standing there ready to go. Bastie pants down to the ankles, going? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

All of a sudden say, she'll stop. Well, we'll go, hang on, why am I doing that? At the start, you definitely do. That's a big unwritten rule for the adults. So, what do you do now? You just unzipping. Yeah, yeah. Is there not splashes?

Oh, yeah. Horrific. You just can't think too hard about what's going on. I once went into the bloody Fungommer Mata Club in my jandals. Oh, yeah. And you can, yeah. Well, yeah, because they have different types of urinals, too. You know, sometimes there are a 10.

catch to the wall and just like a all circular thing. Other times they're like a big trough sort of thing that you're standing on with sort of, yeah. So it depends that. The trough ones are squash back every, you know. Gross. It's a big metal thing. Nothing quite like a crowded trough.

Just people just, yeah. Sometimes you have your own little one. There's little partitions and stuff. Other times it's just like every person for themselves. So because when women go to the toilet, it's a very social gathering. Even if like we linger, we chat and you chat to strut. strangers, especially if you've had drinks. I feel like you'll become temporary best friends for like three or four minutes.

Yeah, I think the rules that apply inside your one compared to our one, completely different. Yeah, so you're not doing selfies and pictures and like... Very minimal socialising. Yeah, if anything, if you can try and avoid eye contact, do so. I don't think there's too much chatting. I mean, some people will chat at the urinal, but that feels weird to me. I feel like that's a... You might check before and a half, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then you do your thing, and then the way you go.

Is that your unwritten rule? That's for me. No chatting while they're... Well, it's hatching. Everyone needs to space apart, you know, if you're doing it. So have the two of you stepped up to urinals together, surely in your time? It's not side by side, but yes, together at the same time. And you don't chat.

But then I would like, if there was a urinal, this is me personally, and people call me a trough coward, and that's fine. I think that's the term. Oh, are you shy? If somebody had the thing, then I'd probably give them the space and I would go into a cubicle. Oh, if it's empty. Yeah, like if there's two next to each other, you're not going in an empty room. You're not standing right next to the person who's already there. You've got to give at least two urinal space.

Or if there's a, yeah. Although there's another location, take that one. So that would be an unwritten rule, isn't it? Give people space if you can. Even if you know the person, are you still not chatting while you're weeing? Not for me, really. No, I feel like in that moment, you know. Hand washing.

Yeah, Grace always do. We go to the toilet. Granted we're in cubicles, but we'll be like yawning away. Yeah, see, I tried that once and it didn't feel right. Didn't sit right with me. It was like a boss Mando, actually, because I walked in. And I was like, oh, he's at the urinal.

I'll give him his space. I'll head into a cube. And I started the conversation, and it was a conversation we couldn't stop, and it continued on. And sometimes you don't know who's in the other cubicles and stuff. We went yesterday,

some other announcer goes, how you find it going to 10 o'clock? Oh, I'm going to go out of 10 o'clock. And I'm like, who's in the cubicles? Like, are we having on the show? So, okay. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. I want to create some unwritten rules, particularly when it comes to the men's urinal. Now I understand, Megan, this is a part that you're quite curious about what goes on there? Yeah, well, we don't have that, obviously. We have cubicles, and I just want to try and understand. Completely different set of rules in Megan's playground.

They're all talking. A lot of us socialising going on. Just another room where you can socialise, really. Yeah, and often you will, like, go to the bathroom together, right? You'll go home and go to the bathroom. It's weird. I think it's weird as dudes, if you're like, yeah, I'll go over there. I don't even really know why, because me and producer Grace will do it after the show

were like, do you need to go toilet? Yeah, we'll go toilet. Safety of your numbers? Yeah, maybe. We just have a bit of a chat. Debrief, that's a situation. Yeah. Do you think your bladders are in sync now, you and Grace?

Yeah, I think so. It happens quite a lot because you do go to the bathroom. And in there, you're like, you look great today, babes. Yeah, I love your outfit. You know, when you're like preening in front of the mirror and stuff. It's giving debar, yeah. It's like you're gone for 10 to 15 minutes, so. Yeah.

It's not that long, is it? No, it's not. It's exaggerating for effect. So we want to know some unwritten rules When it comes to the urinals There's lots of texts coming through Leave a gap As they come through

Is ideal formation They said you Empty Stranger Which is true So Ideal Formation You Empty Stranger Which I agree with

I agree with That is the ideal formation So when you walk in And it's you empty stranger Well like it's No The one here at work There's two together

Side by So And they're two close Yeah Do you know what The It's you empty That's it It's not you

You and someone else You're a stranger. The wonderful cleaner here in the building. Yeah. Sometimes I find myself in there with her. Yeah. And she's not thrown. She's not, no, she just continues on about her job.

Yeah. Really makes me gun shy then. If you want to get stage fright. Yeah. Try doing it with a cleaner there. But if it's like empty, sorry, last question. If it's empty, there's no one in there, will you go to the urinal? Probably would.

Yeah, probably go to the urinal. Well, it's why they always go use, do they? They're easier, the urinals. Oh, yeah. Just don't look down. Don't look down on the ground. Well, that's the thing. Another text come through, 4, 487.

Eyes Forward, Soldier. That's what they said. I know. It's a straight of here. It's not sideways. It's not conversation with ice forward. Except if there's a celebrity. You can't, but you can't out.

Side eye, but you're not meant to side. How far can you move your eyes? Let's get James on. How are you, my man? I'm good. I've never seen my man before and it felt great. Not going to lie. James.

Lovely to have you on, my friend. What's your unwritten rule of the urinal? Well, get in and get it done. Less the minute time spending there the better. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Get it done. Get it done. Yeah, someone else was saying shake responsibly as well.

Right. I went in there, actually. I should have read that one out. Oh, thank you so much, James. Now, do you leave a gap in between? Is your ideal formation, you, gap, stranger? He's like he's got it. He's a man of his word.

He's like, get in, get it done. Get in and get out. He did. He did with us as well. applies it in other areas of his life too. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's what to watch with Megan. Now Megan, you've been watching a big show that's on Netflix.

It's getting a lot of talk about at the moment to do with America's next top model. Yeah, it is focusing in on the realities of a reality show, which we know never. that wholesome behind the scenes. Netflix loves going back, you know, sort of 10 or 15 years and exposing all the ugly truths of what went on. Sometimes things are better left in our memories. Yeah. You know, it's like, yeah, no, none of that was right.

None of it was right. Well, I mean, it's left in the memories of the models that were on it too over so many cycles, and their memories are not good. Really? Some of them have to do with some horrible stuff. It sounds like it's going to be like a regular thing because it's called Reality Check, America's Next Top Model. This is some of what you'll say.

I haven't really said much, but now it's time. On America's next top model. We were showing the behind the scenes of what the fashion world was. I wanted to fight against the fashion industry. There was a line that I feel was crossed. It was wrong, and for some reason no one really seemed to see it. It's a TV show to you guys, but this is my life. I realized Tyra would do anything for the success of her show.

I knew I went too far. Right. So a lot of people that came about. because during COVID a lot of Gen Zs went back at, well, went and watched it even for the first time. And they were really taken back by the show and it had not aged well. A lot of comments about body figures and stuff as well. People fat. Obviously none of the models deserved that.

And there was shaming lack of people's circumstances. There was really questionable challenges where they made people change their race. Oh yeah, I saw one. I saw a clip who's like, today we're going to change your. change your ethnicity that's a big challenge that's a big one it's just it's black face it's just not

okay but then you're saying the guy who had to say that line was not on board with he wasn't on board Jay Manuel he wasn't keen for it but Tyra was like no it's fine it's done in the right way but then when it came to actually presenting it he had to stand there alone and say it she wasn't with him he's like well you could have

at least stood with me and done the line with me because she was like it was her show right and I think she did go into it with good intentions but as it got more and more popular, they kept trying to progress the show, push the boundaries. Do you remember that meme that was like, we were rooting for you?

She got really angry with someone, right? Yeah. So that light, she continued berating that girl, but they cut it out. And what she said, after she said, we're all rooting for you, she said you can go back to your house and sleep on your mattress on the floor with your baby

for all I care. There's a real horrible, I've only seen clips. I couldn't watch it. My wife started watching it. I was like, I can't do this. I can't watch this is too much for me. But, yeah, there's a horrible, for that clip of the lady who was, who cheated on her partner on the show. She was one of the models.

They kind of, it's almost like entrapment. They had these other, other models come to it. It was like drinking and all sorts of stuff. Oh, I've heard about that. The Italian guys. And then they filmed the whole thing. And the next morning she had to film a boyfriend. She was blackout drunk.

And they filmed. They just kept filming. No one stopped it. It just feels like. And then the camera people were like, oh, we shouldn't have filmed that. I apologize next day. They had to film to go into the doctor the next day, getting pregnancy tests. all sorts.

It was just like... The thing too, watching it is Tyra's on there and she speaks about it post the series but she doesn't really apologize.

She kind of makes excuses the whole way through and I feel like if she'd front-footed it and being like, it was wrong, it was awful, we did bad things. It wasn't right.

Then maybe it would have been okay. Yeah, but then Netflix doesn't have a documentary series. It's a pretty short episode. It's crazy given that you watch it at the time. Do you know what really

annoyed me about that show? What? They came to New Zealand once. Did they? Yeah. And then they stayed in a tall building on the north shore of Auckland. I remember that. And they're like, this is New Zealand's tallest building.

And that really got me up. Directly, if you look out the window, there's another building just across the bloody harm that's taller than the building you're in! Anyway, that's the old, they should do an extra episode with me. That might be the extra episode going. And there are another thing we got wrong, and we shouldn't have done. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits.

The monkey from the zoo in Japan. Oh, well, no. update or anything like that with punch sets. If you want to see the videos, the old keyword punch, you can text that to 4487. I think that link's still active and alive. The monkey that the little baby monkey that seems to be in sort of

cast aside. Rejected by his friends and family and now he's cuddling a little soft toy. A soft toy that you buy from IKEA people are now selling this because they're sold out worldwide those toys from IKEA now selling them for like over a hundred bucks each the punch toys in the moment. Well they're not the punch toys, the toys that he has, you know?

Ikea's like, damn, we get some kids to make those for like 30 cents. So, wow, we really hike the prices. Yeah, 120 US dollars for some of them at the moment. Jeez. Great marketing campaign from old punchy. That's been great. Imagine if that monkey was getting a cut of all those. And the queue for the zoo I saw yesterday.

Just so many, like thousands of people all lining up to seeing the monkey, you know. And then we'll forget about them and we'll go. Fagely go, oh, remember that? Yeah, punch, that's right. Do you remember Moodang? Mudang from last year The Baby Hip-up Punches the new Moodang!

Does anyone remember? I feel I'm more invested in Punch than Moodang. Producer Grace was all about Moodang. Now, Producer Grace, it's lovely to have you in here actually. Hi guys. Our younger, 24-year-old member of the program has been keeping a deep dark secret for how long?

399 days I kept this secret and it kind of teared me apart. It is a long time. Especially for you. You like to talk. Although on a tent account, You didn't keep the secret because you told us. Yeah, I did tell, actually, I did tell you guys, but there was a person that I had to keep the secret from,

and I kept it from her for 399 days. So what was the secret? So my brother got married over the weekend. We had this beautiful big wedding, and in the wedding, he revealed to everyone there. He was like, hey guys, we've actually secretly been married for 399 days. And everyone was in the audience was like, what? Was it a gas?

And I faked a gas. Everyone thought I wasn't in the original wedding. I was like, no way. but the thing is my brother's best man is my best friend's brother. So he didn't know. So I had to keep the secret from my best friend who I see like once a week. I'm so confused with that. I'm so lost.

I'm following you, great. My best friend is my best friend is my brother's best friend. Oh yeah, no, I get it again. Family connections. So you had to keep this from your best friend. I kept it from my best friend for 399 days and it teared me apart because we tell each other everything. So why do they have a secret? Was any reason why?

So the reason was unfortunately my granddad passed away last year. But when he was getting sick, we really wanted him to be at the wedding. So he set up the wedding. Unfortunately, he passed away before. But they were moving to Australia and they were like, for admin reasons, it could be so much easier if we're married. So we had a secret wedding. Oh, well, no, no, it could be hating on that for the reason.

Was anyone up? Was anyone like, no. No, I don't think anyone was up there. It's probably a really good time to tell people at a wedding. There's a few shampas deep. You're also having a wedding. You're celebrating with those people. It's not like we got married.

We're not going to do it. Yeah, and definitely the second wedding was busier than the first. wedding but it got really confusing because in family context would have to be like first wedding, second wedding when we were planning different things. It was a lot. Don't plan two weddings. I wouldn't do it. Megan's done it. I knew it. I was just amazing.

It came quicker than I thought actually. Yeah, that was swift. Good on your sister. You know you have two weddings on one person though. Didn't know that Megan. Yeah, to find a whole other guy. Oh, that was swift been. Yeah, it was getting quicker and quicker. I know. It's like a race now.

Megan's remarried twice I need two husbands I'm greedy gay Who's thinking a husband's young John O'Benn and Megan The podcast That's great day yesterday

Wouldn't it Hooy Blazing hot Not in the studio though It's freezing in our studio I'm wearing a puffer jacket again I don't know why It's like as soon as it gets warm outside

They crank it down Yeah And I know it's a first of a problem really isn't it you know like you know there's people out there in the heat yeah it's a problem that a lot of women facing officers because we run a little bit like colder than you guys you guys have a faster metabolism so you get hot yeah i think it's i think i'm the same as you i get cold yeah so i'm always getting cold but it is a known fact that they do keep the eck on uh to stabilize with the male body around officers it's that's a known fact but there's more females at the hits

and I put my hand up and say it's too cold so yeah so I'm with a camp female on that one there was a rumour that our aircon in this building was controlled by someone in Australia no that's lie I know those wild rumours that they didn't like changing it all the time because everyone's constantly complaining they're like oh we can't do it it's from Australia well speaking of the heat was waiting in the car

yesterday afternoon outside my daughter's dance school and you kind of I reckon there's a show in dance dads just dads sitting in cars waiting for their daughters to finish dance as you can see Tony his son did not off it's 5.30 in the evening he's been waiting for an hour and a half

how often do you have a car sleep? I try not to try not to because if you sleep too late in the afternoon you're bloody screwed for night time aren't you but I did run into one of the other dads who I see from time to time and he's said I've just been at a family funeral today I was, oh, sorry to hear that.

And he said, well, it was actually quite, you know, it was really sad because it was a younger death. But he said it was quite entertaining. Yeah. Because he said in his family, and every family's got one, a troublesome cousin. You know, a cousin who's, oh, what's that cousin up to, just all sorts of, you've got a troublesome cousin? Yeah, yeah, I guess, I guess. Yeah. No one that springs to mind.

Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, good. Not one that, yeah, maybe I'm the troublesome cousin. I was about to say probably me and my family. Yeah, like, if you don't know. you've got one then maybe you are the person so yeah and he said the troublesome cousin's kind of you know he's got an ankle bracelet right and he you know when people do the eulogy or you can come

up and speak and say a few words yeah and uh the troublesome cousin was like oh he he took it upon himself to go up and say a few words about the person who passed because they were quite close okay okay and he had written a uh uh rap song oh wow that he wanted to perform live And so he had a instrumental beat I'm off YouTube or something And plugged in the phone or the computer or whatever And started rapping And he said the first line

And I'm not like Without a word of a line Was I was in bed Getting some head When I learnt you were dead Oh my goodness And he was like Why am I crying with laughter at my

And he's like, no one could stop because he runs in that somber and the song just plays. Oh my Lord. He said it felt like it went on for about 15 minutes. He's like, that was the start. He said it was just all downhill from there. Okay. But I love it. A touching tribute.

Well, I guess it. I would have to have the whole thing. And I probably, if that's what we can, we probably couldn't even see that on radio.