Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We've Got Evidence Megan Always Likes Younger Men...

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY Ben's to-do list obsession is wreaking havoc on his family! The laziest things you do—like calling your partner from another room...  Megan’s Valentine’s Day tips for the lads (show these to your partner!) Jono swears lettuce is just fancy weeds.  We chat with The White Lotus star Morgana O’Reilly!  Gen Z are stealing the street cred from balaclavas.  A colour-blind electrician... what could go wrong?  Jono only likes butt massages—yep, you read that right.  And stick around to find out who got gifted a caulk as a present! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to Wednesday's podcast. Great to have you with us. Just looking at, we were talking towards the end of the show about Taylor Swift wearing what's been deemed a bad luck charm. Yeah, yeah.

And there's an article here, in-depth article here, about what are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey going to do with all their time together without the distraction of a world tour and a Super Bowl celebration? What are they going to do with all their time together? Speculation is swirling. Well, they went on a big luxurious holiday last time, didn't they? Yeah, I think they'll hang out. They've got lots of things I'm sure they love to do.

How long is his break? When do they start training again? If he plays again. What if he retires? Then they have so much time together. when do they start training again? If he plays again What if he retires? Then they have so much time together What are they going to do? He's still got his hobby podcast His little hobby

That's obviously doing very, very well Yeah So there we go Well we can all wonder today What those two are going to do to fill up their days God they have a lot of money together don't they? They do What would she be over a billion dollars wouldn't she?

Yeah she's a billionaire. He's like worth 50 mil. They're doing all right. Don't you worry about them. Don't worry about what they're doing in their time off. And don't you worry about what they're doing with their bank accounts. But right now we worry about what Megan was writing in her diary when she was a teenager.

John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. We thought the most famous Bridget Jones's diary. We thought, but no, apparently not. There's another diary that's, you know, we've just discovered. Could have remained hidden forever. We're loving.

It's your diary, Megan, from when you were a teenager, your actual diary. Yeah. I think I was 15 when I wrote this one. I love to write a diary every day, and then I gave it a rating at the end. Well, thankfully, someone at a former radio station passed me a diary and I managed to take some quick snaps of some posts because I didn't

want to take the whole diary. That felt like an intrusion of privacy. And it is teetering on us bullying a teenage girl as well at times but this is former Megan. This is you seeking quite a lot of validation From the diary in this post

Oh really? Pretty standard I'm pretty cute right? Oh gosh Dear diary I'm pretty cute right? I don't like have anything majorly wrong with me Oh god But I think I've been overlocked

And I'm upset Oh no I feel bad for a 15 year old Megan. I don't think the diary is going to offer you the reassurance. It's just a diary.

It's not a therapist. I don't know what this is about. It's probably quite good for you to get out these thoughts though. The ball's coming up

and because we're fifth form, we can only go if we're invited by one of the people in the sixth form or the seventh form. It's a classic

Cinderella love story. Wanting to get to the ball. Cinderella with more pimples and links Africa, probably. The group I'm in is pretty popular. We like the popular group. We talk to all of the hot seventh form boys. I tell you. You must be popular.

Well, I don't, but Michaela and Jodie and stuff do. I'm popular friends. Who falls into the and stuff category? Well I don't But Michaela and Jodie And Stuff do So you'd think We'd all be I'm popular friends Yeah Who falls into The and Stuff category I don't know Apologies to them

Popular and Stuff Well I hate to Break this to you But I haven't been Invited to the ball By anyone So how close Was this

Do you know How far out From the ball are we I don't know At this point I haven't even been Invited by Daniel's not very good looking friend Poor Daniel

Poor Daniel's uggo mate He gets a shout out I know who it is Daniel's friend could take me Why doesn't someone suggest to them That he could take me I could totally go with him If it meant I could go

Well, please, whatever you do Don't let the ugly guy read this. The secondhand embarrassment is real on this one. Yeah. It's next weekend. There you go, Ben. It's next weekend. I have a week.

Uh-oh. What if I just told Daniel's friend he could take me? And he's not as good looking as Daniel. No, you didn't write that. Maybe he could. And then I'd say yes, and then I'd get to go to the ball. Anyway, maybe I don't want to go with an older guy. They seem like jerks anyway. You've a real

rollercoaster of emotions here. They're just a couple of years closer to getting a bare belly and a bald head. Sounds like the perfect catch to me. Shot's fine. I wonder what people say. Anyway, if I'm not going to the ball, it's a 4 out of 10 day

and why can't older girls take younger guys? Is a question. There ten day. And, you know, why can't older girls take younger guys? Is a question. There you go. This is where it all started. This is her hatred for older gentlemen. It's very fortuitous. Are you married to someone who's, what, ten years younger than you?

Yeah, you know, they can. Older Megan did it for younger Megan. If you took Andrew to the school ball, he would have been nine years old when you were... Shut up. Oh, so good. Megan's diary. He's not an older guy with a ball to eat and a beer belly.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Tom Cruise has got a new Mission Impossible movie coming out in just a couple of months. He apparently passed out multiple times while filming some of the adrenaline-filled scenes hanging from planes.

The insurance they must pay on him to do his own stunt must be astronomical. Maybe the mission is starting to get impossible. Yeah, exactly. You're right. Yeah, he's dangled off planes. He's ridden motorbikes off cliffs. He's wild. He is wild.

Have you seen an image of him casually sitting without a harness on top of the Burj Khalifa? Oh, it's like the World's Tallest Building or something, eh? Yeah. I went up the viewing platform inside, and I almost passed out. He's sitting at the top outside. He climbed out of a helicopter to just sit on it with a selfie stick, which is a bit of an act, isn't it? But anyway. You're like, oh, selfie stick.

Are you doing this amazing thing? Oh, selfie stick. Oh, you're a selfie stick Now I thought kids You know when kids are young Like you'll give up Young kids Megan You know they've got

When they want to know something There's no boundaries There's no You know there's no waiting For a good time They'll just burst in You can be in the bathroom You can do whatever

Oh yeah they've got no gauge Do they And what an appropriate question Is for the scenario Exactly Yeah But I thought that maybe That would stop as the older they get and they start to become more aware.

But I think it's still something that kids, when the kids are so in the moment, they just need to know the answer to that question. Happened Saturday. I was in a real, on one of my just got to get some stuff done. And my wife and I. Like every other day. Yeah.

But I was like, I had a list and I was like, cool, I'm going to go through this list. One of them involved putting together part of a flat pack. I was like, oh, this is not fun. My wife and I are doing that and then my daughter comes up and goes, hey, what are we doing next Saturday?

You're like, oh, this is not, not the right time. She wanted to organise some social event. I was like, hey, it's not the right time we're putting together a very... Mum and dad are nearly divorced

over this flat pack. Flat pack. And then we got that done eventually with a lot of bickering and then about an hour later my wife and I were looking, and then i got we got that done eventually with a lot of bickering and then about an hour later my wife and i were looking you know and we're like we thought we'd put money into the wrong account and we're trying to work out stressful banking stuff daughter comes on and again have you had a chance to look at what we're doing next saturday i'm like can you see can you hear what we're in the conversation giving you an hour yeah you've got a constant checklist to do this she needs to book

in a time with you we're a week away from that and then another time she came up late i was in the middle of a gym workout no i'm on her side i'm like mate i'll get to this thing she had one question and it took you all day yeah you right. You probably didn't even answer it. I did eventually. I got to it. I put it at the end of my to-do list and I got back to it. I was like,

we need to talk about what we're doing. Next weekend was a long way away. So what I'll say is that it doesn't stop. Those questions don't seem to stop me. I think that's on you,

to be honest. To be honest with me. It's usually assignments the night before. You're like, there's no good time. There's just no time in your day.

There's no time. They don't have an idea of of when is an appropriate time to do i remember the same thing i was putting my daughter to bed she's like by the way i've got to find six snails by tomorrow morning this is like 9 30 at night yeah trawling through the garden at night with a cell phone like looking for impossible to find yeah that's the end of that story. She didn't do that earlier. No, but that's the thing, they don't. They're just in that moment. We all can't believe she didn't do it earlier.

What happens if she just doesn't bring snails? Then she fails the project. Same thing. I had the same thing with my daughter, saying that I've got to build a cardboard Hogwarts by tomorrow. It was about 7 o'clock and I was like excuse me what and then she had to go to bed about an hour later and I'm up there

like painting this thing making it like a Hogwarts I thought it was pretty good like I stayed up really late in doing it what did you get I don't know I kept saying

has the teacher marked this Hogwarts thing yet no not yet are you sure they haven't marked the Hogwarts thing for months I never got a grade on this thing

so yeah the teacher didn't need it. She was just trolling you. Probably, you're right. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. I witnessed something yesterday.

I feel like we're almost reaching peak laziness as a society. Humanity. And AI is just helping us get there. Absolutely. It's almost like we reach a certain level of laziness, then we spend the next five years brainstorming how much more lazier we can get. Now, I went to the supermarket yesterday. I haven't seen this at many supermarkets, but there was a new add-on to the building.

Okay, so you've got your click and collect, which is an option now. Turn up, boom, and there's kind of like a locker, isn't there, outside the front of the supermarket where you undo the door and you get your shopping that's already been done for you by someone at the supermarket where you undo the door and you get your shopping that's already been done for you by someone in the supermarket. Now, there's like a bloody drive-through section of the supermarket. So this is straight to boot. Really?

So now we've become so lazy that we can't even bother doing the collecting part of clicking and collecting. You know, just parking your car in the car park, walking 20 metres, opening a thing, getting your shopping. The shopping's been done for you. Oh, right. So what they take, bring it out and put it in your boot. So now you pull up.

Yeah, you can give them a little message and say, I'm here. You pull up, you pop your boot. They deposit the goods, like some sort of mafia transaction. Shut the boot, send you on your way. And I'm like, wow. I'm not slagging it because I definitely just want to use it now. I'm loving this lazy. Jeez, that's, oh wow you're right I mean and there's also delivery as well for the supermarket so all your options are pretty much covered we really can't make life much easier for ourselves I mean

it's efficient like going to the supermarket can take like an hour sometimes if you're doing like a weekly shop I always do click and collect I, but there was a time in history where we would go out hunting for five days to get our food with beer hands. We've done that for a long time. We can't even bother opening the car door now and walking 20 meters to get our food that's already been collected for us. A lot of it's no interaction with people too. People enjoy that, right? Do you say hi when they open your boot or is it just like chuck it in? I reckon we should do

drive-through gymnasiums where you just drive through. You stick your arm out the window, someone puts a dumbbell in it, lifts your arm up and down a couple of times and gives you a protein shake

and sends you on your way. All right, so I'll enter that as 4487, the laziest thing that you were doing. Maybe it's now or maybe it's in the past.

Well, you call it efficiency too, don't you? Yeah, sometimes it's not lazy. Sometimes it's efficient. It's not lazy, it's efficient. Lazy Well, you call it efficiency too, don't you? Yeah. Sometimes it's not lazy. Sometimes it's efficient. It's not lazy. It's efficient. Lazy people are really efficient because they find the easiest way to get it done. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. We're talking about, well, we said lazy, but maybe efficient things that you've done, little hacks throughout your life. Yeah. I've got to get producer Ellie in here too. Yeah. Come on in, Ellie.

She just shared what she's doing Is it efficiency or laziness I'd put this in the laziness category Do you even think of this as lazy You didn't even really think of it Yeah I just do it And it works So if I need something from downstairs

Bear in mind I'm in a two bedroom townhouse So it's not big at all I'll just call my partner who's in the other room And get him to bring it up Or what's for dinner Basically just call him From who's in the other room and get him to bring it up or you know what's for dinner just basically just call him from like probably 20 metres away

technically stairs are so inconvenient though thank you thank you the 5G network is like this is a waste of my time and resource

I do remember my sister and I used to do that to my mum but the old school phones you bring like 137 or something and then you put it down and mum would go answer

I remember that you're like it's us it's us who invented the phone was it Alexander Graham Bell who invented the phone yeah

he's like it wasn't quite what I had in mind no exactly but good usage though and what happens if he screens you then you know

in real time that he's yeah I know that he's on the VR machine playing Playstation so I've got to go down and somehow get his attention without freaking him out, so that's always fun. Does it work both ways?

Does he do it to you when he's upstairs? Yeah, he'll usually message. Yeah, he'll be like, oh, I'm getting a bit hungry. We're like, oh, okay. Food time. Debbie, welcome. The laziest or maybe the most efficient thing you do. Hello?

Yeah, what is it, mate? Actually, the laziest thing I do on a day off, I ring my husband and say, could you please bring me coffee instead of getting out of bed and getting it myself? Oh, you're ringing from the kitchen. You're in bed and he's in the kitchen. Oh, he could be anywhere in the house

and I just ring up and say, can I please have a coffee? Okay, good. Again, you're employing Ali's technique. Using your manners, I like it. And, you know, he'll say, well, why can't you just get out of bed? And I just say, well, that's a small thing I ask you to do for me, so could you please do it as my husband?

Tensions start to rise. And what's the end result? Do you get your coffee delivered? Yeah, I always get my coffee delivered. Yeah, there we go. Oh, nice. Wait, so this goes down every day off? Sorry? Does this get your coffee delivered? Yeah, I always get my coffee delivered. Wait, so this goes down every day off?

Does this happen every day off? No, not every day off. Most Saturdays. He should just learn it. Does he say the same thing every Saturday too? Why don't you get it yourself? He should just be bringing it. No, well, I figure I make his tea, I do his washing, etc.

So it's like, that's one thing I ask for tea, I do his washing, et cetera. So it's like, I just don't like the one thing I ask for. Well, speaking of washing, thanks for airing your dirty laundry today, Debbie. Appreciate it. Have a great day. Let's get Penny on. Good morning. Oh, hi, guys. How are you?

We're doing well. Laziest slash most efficient thing you're doing, Penny? Oh, okay. So it's probably a bit of both. A couple of days ago, I bought a robotic vacuum and mop. Oh, yeah. And I thought, oh, well, you know, this will save me a lot of time and I can do other jobs. Yesterday, I was watching TV and just watching it work.

Amazing. Oh, yeah, still getting the vacuum cleaning done, I guess. Yeah, and you couldn't have watched TV if you were vacuuming. Someone's texted in 4487 saying they have a cleaner come once every two weeks and they start to feel lazy and guilty sitting on the couch watching the cleaner do the cleaning of the house. So then they go to the movies. Watch a movie on a Wednesday morning and let the cleaner...

You tell them you've got an important meeting with the cinema. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We've got Valentine's Day in a couple of days. Appropriate song, isn't it? Perfect song. I know Valentine's Day is not everyone's bag, not everyone's cup of tea.

I know that everyone's not, well, doesn't have a Valentine. Love is in the air. But for those of you who want to participate, I also know, like, everything's hard at the moment. You don't want to pay for something. And then there's those people that are like, oh, it's so commercialised. Yeah. Here's a way to participate in Valentine's Day and not pay anything.

Do some hand stuff. Not contribute to the commercialisation. Because, John, you buy presents for Valentine's Day. Just flowers and chocolates and the likes, you know, just your stock standards. Do you get a present? No, I don't for whatever reason, and this is sexism at its finest. Yeah. Doesn't come back the other way.

Does it? Traditionally. Traditionally. I don't know. Things, you know, we're in a new era now. Yeah. A very liberal era. Yeah.

Would you like flowers? Would I like flowers? I'd take some flowers. Yeah. Oh, no, I actually find them, we were talking about flowers earlier today. I find them a nightmare. You're on a ticking countdown to when they start smelling and wilting. It's a lovely thought, flowers, though.

Yeah. But not one that Ben participates in. Ben doesn't participate. It's a lovely thought, flowers, though. But not one that Ben participates in. Ben doesn't participate in Valentine's Day. No, we never did. Amanda and I used to. We'd do it on a night before or after. So we'd go like we used to go. Because then you're not out on the Valentines with everyone else.

You can go to the movies and you're not like, everyone's on Valentine's Day. He's not going to succumb to commercials. It's quite a nice to do. But we haven't really celebrated it since the start. We a nice to do, but we don't really have really, yeah, really celebrated it since the start. We don't do presents, but we do like,

I don't know, something. Like if you want to do it, you know. No, he's anti. I'm not anti. I'm not going to yuck your yum,

as you would say. I'm just like, you do you. Well, here's some tips I came up with that won't cost you anything. Number one, make a card

and the cheesier, the better. Hand make a card and and the cheesier the better. Handmake a card and write something cute inside. What? Oh, handmake. Okay, yeah, no, that's a good one. That's free. That's free.

You can copy the Simpsons one and do I choo-choo-choose you into a train. I like arts and crafts. I'm down with that. But he hates cards, too. I do hate cards, but I like making stuff like that. When they get home from work On Friday

Do everything Have dinner organised If you've got kids Manage the kids on your own Confine them to a quiet spot And ask them what their vice would be Like a laptop A book

Or a wine And give them some time To themselves That's a nice gesture But which way? Which person's doing this? Whoever's listening Okay

Are you saying Either way How does it fall on? Very confusing. Just whoever is listening and wants to do something nice with their partner. Make food, especially if you're not the person who generally cooks. If you take away that chore from someone, it's very nice. It could be breakfast as well. It doesn't have to be.

The love language cooking, isn't it? Yeah. Do a bunch of chores that you don't usually do trust me on this one do it and thank me later

okay do some chores you don't usually do scrub and don't then go and tell them all about it and ask for a medal just do them

that's the best way of doing it once you've done the chores go and tell them all the things you've been doing but how do they know if the chores have been done if you can't brag about them publicly

I've been up there getting leaves out of the gutters if I can't tell anyone. Green gunk under the lip of the toilet? Yeah. Hair out of the drain in the shower?

Here's one for you, Ben. Make a playlist of songs that remind you of them. That's cool. Okay. He's not doing any of those. I like this.

I'm not doing it on Friday but I'll do it on another time. The higher his voice goes the less I believe he's going to do any of these. I'll be honest with you. He really doesn't want to participate in the day. I'm'll do it on Friday, but I'll do it on another time. The higher his voice goes, the less I believe he's going to do any of these. He really doesn't want to participate in the day. I'll do it on Friday. No. Recreate the night you met or your first date. That's my last one.

Or just an element of the night you first met or your first date. It's a whole bunch of stuff Ben is not going to take on board. I like them though. I'll use those. I've used those throughout the year. They're really good. Just not on Feb 14. On Feb though. I'll use those. I've used those throughout the year. They're really good. Just not on Feb 14. On Feb 14.

Yeah. But they're good. They're good. They're great stuff. They're all great stuff. Yeah. Okay. You're welcome.

Good tips. Good tips. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. As you heard in the news, there was an extortion, a couple of extortion attempts

from a supermarket in New Zealand. It looks like it's the security firm they're putting it on, which is independent from the supermarket. Right. They hire them to do the job. But, yeah, it sounds like some people have been coerced to be paying a lot of fines. Was it one security guard or was it like?

It was two. According to this article I was reading that this lady was, you know, accused of shoplifting, taken to a room out the back. She wanted to see the footage. She's not originally from New Zealand. She wanted to see it and they said, no, no, no, but you need to pay this money or you'll be trespassed. There'll be further fines if you don't pay this money right now.

Oh, and if you're in a room and you're feeling scared, like you already said. She ended up paying $395. Oh, God. Yeah. It's horrible. I remember being taken into that room at Whitcalls when I was 12 years old.

Terrifying room. It's like a cupboard storage room. I was in the supermarket yesterday and I was having to old. Terrifying room. It's like a cupboard storage room. I was in the supermarket yesterday and I was having to buy some flowers for someone in the family. And flowers are an unusual gift, aren't they? It's sort of like, I'll give you this thing. It's a ticking time bomb.

You've got about 72 hours until they start wilting and smelling. Yeah, they don't last too long. I guess it's a thought, you know. It's a nice thing. Yeah, I like moved on from flowers a little bit, I long. I guess it's the thought, you know. It's a nice thing. Yeah. I, like, moved on from flowers a little bit, I think. Not a flower person.

Well, I like them. It's just I end up going, well, they're so expensive. And then they end up dying. You're like, oh. Do you buy yourself flowers? No. Or are you doing the Miley Cyrus? No.

No, she looks after herself. Doesn't have a flower cost. She can buy herself flowers. Yeah, well, she probably can't afford them. They're quite pricey sometimes, aren't they? What I've, as I was grabbing these flowers, what I think I learned to appreciate is at some point in history, someone's gone, those are flowers.

Now, and those are weeds. Where everything's growing from the same place. Like, who's to say that, you know, hundreds of years ago, an obnoxious weed, they're like, hey, these are a lovely, these are a nice gesture to give someone if they lost a job or they're celebrating something. But we've just gone, no, those are weeds now. We don't engage with those.

You mean weeds that look kind of like flowers or just weeds? Just weeds in general. I mean, but you look, I mean, your eyesight's going to tell you, isn't it, that something looks prettier than the other thing. Like, at no point are you going to go, well, give someone these. But we've been told. We've been told. No, but you're right.

Like common sense would say. I don't think you need to be told. No, but have you ever been overseas and you're like, oh, my God, those are beautiful flowers. And you're like, you pick them and everyone's like, oh, those are weeds. Oh, wait, that's what I was asking. But he was just saying like weeds, weeds, like as in. Oh, well, I guess, yeah.

I guess there's probably some. I mean, you're not picking up those spiky little ones that stab you. I know what you mean. And it's like lettuce, too. My dad, my father-in-law, he was in produce. Do we have to give him

the number for Newstalk ZB, do we? It sounds like he should be overnight talked back. What were you doing? It sounds like a late Saturday night conversation. Now we're talking about lettuce.

There was only one, there was iceberg. Iceberg was the only lettuce. And now he was saying the lettuce that you're getting all the little bits and stuff, they are weeds. And now we're eating that as lettuce. 20 years ago they were weeds growing on the side of the road. So it's all a mind frame,

isn't it? It's a mindset. You change your mindset. But also like those weedy flowers, if you put them in a vase, they just don't survive. It's like they've worked out which flowers kind of survive in a vase. 15 years' time. 15 years' time we'll be gifting weeds to each other. Hopefully you've survived through that last couple of minutes.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. This week is a new series of The White Lotus. Series three. The first two series are incredible. Set at The White Lotus resorts around the world. Drama, murder, mystery, comedy.

They're very, very good. I even love the theme song. It's very catchy. And it's really cool. We've got a New Zealander starring in this latest series. You'll know her from TV shows such as Neighbours, Mean Mums, Wentworth as well. Morgana O'Reilly joins us. Morgana, good morning.

What's up? I think I just went through puberty. Very excited about you being in The White Lotus. Huge show, full of drama, but I tell you what's quite full of drama, trying to log on before and see the episodes. Before they come out, you've got to get apps,

you've got to put passwords in, you've got to download other apps, authenticator apps. There's a whole lot. There's a lot of drama and me trying to watch but it was great when i got there it was awesome to see you in there did you get to watch it well yeah the first episode yeah he's had to hand over his passport fingerprints some blood i know that's what it was like trying to get the scripts and all the things you know yeah obviously it's a hugely popular show and so i imagine they're they're very security conscious about any spoilers and things what lengths do they go to um well you

know so when you're on set anywhere you get given a thing called sides right which are your it's a cute little miniature version of your scripts for the that day the lines that you have to say if you don't give your sides back at the end of the day, they won't give you them the next day. Oh, really? That was, I was like, okay. Make your pet lose sides constantly. You've got a great story.

I think you shared with us last time you were in talking to us about how you sort of found out they were interested. It was at your friend's wedding. You'd done an audition online and it sort of came back and you're like, oh, this is cool. cool yeah I was at her wedding and she was kind enough to let me sort of be like an honorary bridesmaid that day because that was I was up in LA and I was just about to go um I'd been hanging out with them watching them get ready all day and I was about to go and take my seat for her to walk down the aisle and then I got a text from my agent just really lovely feedback just that wow we've just

had this lovely feedback from White Lotus Casting and and I just felt like well first I felt like stopping the wedding. It would be worth it. And how was filming? Did you relocate because you've got two kids? Did everyone go over and relocate to Thailand for a little bit? Oh they came up for a little um a little holiday. They did about two or three weeks up there. Just enough time to not completely ruin them for accommodation options forever. Yeah, Luna, my daughter is still saying, oh, it's not as good as the Four Seasons.

So you actually stay in the hotel that you film in? Yes. Awesome. Oh, it looks amazing. A retreat in Thailand. Wow. Did you have a pad thai? We had a couple of pad thais, actually.

I'll tell you what's a nice meal when you're up in Thailand, if you're ever there, is a pad thai. Oh, good to know, good to know. There's a pretty decent cast as well. You're working alongside Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan. I love Amy Lou Wood. You're an accomplished actor, but, like, what is it like working around these people that are, you know, been in so many things that we've seen?

Oh, just so weird. So wonderful. Like, so great. But just absolutely mad. I mean, especially because it's such a big cast. Everybody's a juggernaut, you know? So, I mean, there was a lot of times I had to really face myself because I'm a fairly extroverted person

and I still found being in that environment, not because of them, but because turning up as an absolute nobody, pretty confronting on the social side of things, you know, just like going to lunch and stuff like that. I mean, like, oh, God. Now, you mentioned your character in the series. We like to play a game with the actors called Character Assassination,

and we're going to roll through your screenography, and you have to try and remember the character's name that you played in this project, okay? Oh, gosh, yeah. Okay, we're going to take it back to 2014, 2015. It was Neighbours. Naomi Canning. Naomi Canning, boom, on Ramsey Street.

Then we're going to go to 2011. You were in Nothing Trivial. You played? Wendy. Trudy. Vanessa. Amanda. Are you just plucking names?

Rachel. Alison. Oh, Alison. Alison. Who can forget Alison? The Australian prison drama Wentworth in 2019. I want first- Ralph Sacks.

Yeah, well done. Mean Mums. Jess. Well done. My Life is Murder with Lucy Lawless. Sarah. Kelly. Patricia.

What year was this? That wasn't that long ago. That was only three years ago Denny Denny Oh Denny How could you forget Denny? And finally

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Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Have you noticed, I don't know if it's just me, I noticed a trend of young people wearing balaclavas nowadays. Oh, no. Just as a fashion accessory. I know you're Kendrick Lamar trying to bring back the flares at the Super Bowl, but yeah.

Well, some of the dancers were wearing like balaclavas. Right. Is this in day-to-day stuff or more sort of fashionable sort of places? No, just day-to-day. I've seen them

wandering around the mall and stuff. But now the issue I have is, you know, the balaclavas losing its clout. Once upon a time you saw someone

in a balaclava. You got hands up, you're lying on the floor, you know some stuff's about to go down. Now you're like, oh, is this kid on the floor, you know some stuff's about to go down. Now you're like, oh, is this kid going to buy an iced tea or what's happening here? Fashion or fury?

What's about to go down? You wouldn't imagine people too comfortable in shops if people walk in with a balaclava. I wouldn't have thought that was... Allowed, probably. It's ruining the street cred of the actual balaclava though, isn't it? And it's hot. It's hot.

I saw a kid yesterday. It was like 27 degrees yesterday. That would have been 42 degrees on his face. You're right, actually. The balaclava. I've never felt the need to put a balaclava on in my life. No, but we're not in... Oh, yeah, no.

Actually, it probably was if I was going to do it when we were in Toronto and places like that where it's snowstorm and blizzard. Would you have done it? Yeah. Oh, your nose is freezing. Your face is... For warming purposes. Yeah, warming purposes.

Yeah. Like we don't live in that sort of climate. But yeah, I'm very practical in those situations, but not in the middle of summer in New Zealand. Yeah. All we had back in our day was frosted tits. That was the most adventurous thing we did with fashion. Now you're chucking a balaclava on your face.

Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot to answer for fashion these days. Bums out at the beach, balaclavas, bell bottoms. A lot of cheeks out at the beach. It's hard to keep up. It is. And I realise I sound old, but, you know, it's happened. But then you come back around and cycle.

Just ride it out. Get your bums out. Are you a cheeks out at the beach guy? No, I'm definitely not. How about you, Megan? You a cheeks out at the beach? No, I'm not. I haven't brought myself to it. But you know, men's fashion at the beach doesn't seem to change much. How about you, Megan? You're checked out at the beach? No, I'm not. I haven't brought myself to it.

But you know, men's fashion at the beach doesn't seem to change much. Not too much, eh? Like, women have a lot to keep up with here. You're right. What's in the summer? We'll find out. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Brother, you told us this yesterday when we finished the radio show, and we're like, we need to talk about this on the radio. So my brother, when he left school, he really wanted to be an electrician so he did an apprenticeship and that's all he like we just knew he was going to be an electrician and so he did the apprenticeship for a while and he would often get it's not funny i don't know why i'm laughing electric shocks he would get shocks and we're like i don't know why this keeps happening but one not an ideal traitor for an electrician is it but i imagine they all do get it from time yeah like what do

you call it occupational hazard yeah you're working with electricity it's gonna happen yeah and then one time we went on a plane and he asked us why the cup of tea was orange he was like i'm not drinking this there's something wrong with it we're like what are you talking about it's just it looks normal so he we found out he has colorblindness his is reds and greens and browns so when he looks at the grinch what does he see i'm not sure like a grumpy brown guy probably is like a brownie situation because a lot of people have colorblindness, but they often vary. They're different types, but his is red, green, brown. They all kind of look a weird color to him. So a lot of the wires and stuff are reds and greens when you're an electrician.

Last thing you want to hear too from a bomb diffusal expert is they're going in with the scissors too. By the way, I'm colorblind. You're what? with the scissors too. By the way, I'm colourblind. You're what? Do the red wire. My dad's not the same, but he's a schoolteacher. So the worst it was, he'd come out with ties that didn't quite match. And sometimes you'd go, oh, should we tell him? Other times you're like, yeah, let it be.

My brother and even my father-in-law have colourblindness. So they often would check outfits with me. He would come out and he would be wearing the wildest colours. You're like, they do not go together. So did he pull pin on his electrician career or the boss? The boss had to sit him down and say, this is dangerous. You're going to really hurt yourself. We probably can't see this through.

So he had to pull the pin on his electrician career. It's very common. One in 12 men suffer from colour blindness. Yeah, I think women can have it, but mostly we're carriers. 1 in 200 women. So now he's got into mechanical work, hasn't he, where colours don't matter so much.

Don't matter so much, yeah. He still wears his weird outfits. This is what we want to chuck out. 4487. When did you realise you weren't right for the job? Yeah, maybe there was a reason like colour blindness Or maybe there was just other things You're like, hey, this isn't for me

I remember my mum really wanted to be a policewoman Like that was her dream And when she finally got around to like doing it all She's way too short She was told she was too little She couldn't do it I don't know if that's still a thing No, they take anyone now

Send the bloody little children out there now Even I could do it Hello mate, it's but back in the day. No, they take anyone now. Send the bloody little children out there now. Even I could do it. Hello, mate. It's a little dress-up day at kindergarten, is it? A new cop on the street. National, getting all the cops back out there. For me, honestly, I knew I wasn't right for a job when I was doing waiting, hospitality stuff.

And it takes a lot of skill, a lot of charisma, a lot of patience, a lot of charisma, a lot of patience, none of which I have. And there was a moment where I'd spilled a whole tray of sparkling wino down a poor lady's back at the races. And I was after that. That really rattles you in the waiting game. I can imagine.

It really shakes your confidence. I walked out on the shift. I was like, the waiting industry doesn't need me ruining its good name. And that was it. Walked out halfway through You knew You knew your weaknesses And then a week later They called me and said

Hey are you keen to do another shift They didn't even notice My big storm out Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits I want to know When you went right for the job

4487 on the text Your brother Megan Found out he was colour blind Yeah so he couldn't be an electrician He's getting the reds and greens Wires confused Which is not ideal And a couple of shocks Well I'm glad and found out he was colourblind. Yeah, so he couldn't be an electrician. He's getting the reds and greens wires confused, which is not ideal, and a couple of shocks. Well, I'm glad he got it sorted and got himself out of the game

before he became a news article. It'd be very confusing, I imagine, as a racist if you're colourblind. It would really throw you, you'd sort of be channelling your vitriol at the wrong people. What? Wouldn't you? Yeah. The incorrect ethnicity.

You'd be like, what are you talking about, mate? Well, let us just sit you down and explain how it all works. For me, I worked at like a plug factory for three months over summer, connecting electrical plugs, parts of the plugs. I didn't quite know what I was doing. And I just remember like there was a quota every hour. You had to put two things together, and I'd have to get 70 on average per hour,

and that's what to me. I would never get close to that. And the sweet guy next to me, the old guy would always come, and he'd always get his 70 done with 15 minutes spare each hour and come help me for the last. I'm like, I'm not going to do this.

I'm really surprised because you're such a task-focused, efficient worker. Yeah, I'm like, I'm not going to have this. I'm really surprised because you're such a task-focused, efficient worker. Yeah, I was trying, but I just found it quite hard to do. And I was like, and you just keep looking at the clock all day going, you know, how long you do this. Make it end. Yeah. Now, ironically, I look at the clock all day just saying the time.

Maybe help me in that regard. And isn't it just nice to know that sweet, lovely old man's been replaced by artificial intelligence? He probably has to. I know. He's probably right, yeah. Well, good on him, though. Yeah. So he was actually doing double the workload, so they didn't actually need you.

Exactly. They could have just got him over time, yeah. James, when you figured out you weren't right for the job, what was it, mate? Yeah, I was starting to become a chef. I really wanted to be a chef. And the tutor was looking over me. He said, you can't cut. Every time you're going to cut something, you're going to cut your hands off. So I'm going to have I really wanted to be a chef. And the tutor was looking over me. He said, you can't cut. Every time you're going to cut something, you're going to cut your hands off.

So I'm going to have to kick you off the course. He didn't try and teach you how to cut properly? He's just like, you're never going to learn. You can see my hands, because I've got hand-to-eye coordination problems. And you can see my hand keeps slipping towards the knife. He's like, okay, before you cut your finger off, mate. Really? I need that on my watch

Do you still enjoy cooking at home? Well, I can't cook anything that needs cutting But anything else, I'm alright Tear it apart with your teeth or something Your hands? Just rip it apart with your hands? Raw chicken or something? Still get a grown-up to cut it for you

Have you still got all your fingers, James? Yes, I have Oh, that's good, yes That's great Yeah, love your text, mate. Love your call. Sorry, James. Great text actually through on 4487. When I knew I wasn't right for the job

as a travelling sales role having to visit lots of people and I realised that I hate two things. I hate people and I hate driving. Oh no! See everything about it. So I stepped out of the role. Another text come through.

I thought rugby was going to be a career for me. Then I was invited to representative trials. Thought I was hot stuff. I need to meet Jerry Collins for the first time. Legendary all black Jerry Collins. That end of the rugby career. End of the rugby career. Oh, don't you hear what he did.

Puts you in your place, doesn't it, when you meet legendary all black Jerry Collins. Oh no, you're far better at this than I am. You go off and do your thing. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit. An adult-ish meeting.

It was just an admin meeting yesterday that I had to do. I had to go into the office and face-to-face stuff going on. And the gentleman was like, oh, take a seat. And it was kind of like An office lounge Right Situation So I'm in an armchair Yeah And about 30 seconds Into the meeting

And I'm having I don't know this guy I'm just having to Keep eye contact Okay The chair starts Deeply massaging My lower back

And buttocks Oh really And I'm like Oh In my head I'm like Oh But I can't I can't acknowledge it

I don't know this person I'm like Is your chair? During the heat, they must have known it was a massage chair, right? You would hope so. Yeah. You would hope so. But I haven't brought it up.

I just continue on the business the whole time. This thing is like kneading my buttocks like a pit, you know, like sourdough or something. And to get to the point sort of seven or eight minutes later after a very, you know, rewarding massage, I felt inappropriately touched by this chair. I was like, this is a massage chair? Or am I going bonkers?

He's like, yes. We haven't figured out how to turn it off. I feel like that would have warranted some sort of a warning. Yeah, he's like, I forget to tell people because they sit in it. I can see the weird look in their eyes of, do I need to go to HR? Maybe it's a good thing if you're laying people off or, you know, relaxing. It's a great way to close the business deal too, isn't it? They can get what they want that way.

It's a useful thing to have in the office. A malfunctioning massage chair. Was it just like a normal-looking seat? No, like a lazy boy sort of looking, yeah. Oh, okay. But it only focuses on your gluteus. Nowhere else. So I'll tell you what,

never had a more relaxed bottom in my life. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. We'll talk about the Super Bowl, which was this week, about what particular things people were wearing, including the

jeans that Kendrick Lamar, the bell-bottom jeans seem to be back. Travis Kelsey was wearing a very fashionable sort of, well, maybe more op-shoppy 70s outfit. He obviously didn't have a backup if they lost, because he was still wearing it like looking forlorn after the game.

Did you want him to wear it, tone it down or something if he lost? Oh, yeah, I think so. Just jeans and a t-shirt. Yeah, just something a bit more, you know. Not your party outfit. He looked like a used car salesman from Whangarei, didn't he? Yeah.

From the 70s. Yeah. But then next, you know, after they lost the game, you saw him sort of, you know, walking up to the corporate box where Taylor was. He looked very upset. Obviously they'd lost. It looked like he was doing like the walk of shame.

Like he'd been out all night and he'd hooked up with someone and he was walking home and was like, oh God, I'm in the same gear from the night before. Why did I choose this suit? He spent $3 million on that corporate box. Did he? For his friends and family. Wow. It's a change for him. Well, you're right.

Do you ask your billionaire girlfriend to pay for it? He would have walked in and said, put away the spring rolls, the mini pies, pack them all up, we're going home. Cut the bar tab, it's over, it's done. Now, Taylor Swift is wearing something at the Super Bowl and she's being sort of called out for it. Yeah, so she repurposed, you might have seen at the Grammys, she wore a little chain around her upper thigh that had a little T on it. Wasn't looking at Taylor's upper thigh at the Grammys. Didn't know.

And she repurposed that chain as a necklace at the Super Bowl. Now, she was kind of snubbed. She didn't get anything at the Grammys. And then at the Super Bowl, of course, Travis didn't win. So people are now calling that chain. They're like, don't wear it ever again. It's a bad luck charm. It does seem a bit odd that she didn't win anything at the Grammys.

What does it stand for? Taylor or Travis? Well, I don't know. Oh, yeah, true. But she's got a lyric in a song that says, what if he's written mine on my upper thigh? So maybe it was meant for Travis. I don't know.

So people are saying this is potentially the reason why. It's cursed. It's a cursed charm. Don't wear it again. Every time she wears that necklace, 12 puppies slowly lose life. It'd suck for her if that's, you know, she'd be like, if that gets into her head as well too, she'd be like, I like this necklace.

She's a little bit superstitious though because she used to always have a 13 on her hand, you know. She used to always draw the number 13, her lucky number, on her hand. Have you still got your cork and your coin? I got it, yeah. That was when I went overseas, you know, doing my OE, and my dad was like, I've got a gift for you. I'm like, oh, that's exciting.

Was it parting wisdom? I was like, what is this? And he gave it like a cork, like a wine bottle cork, and it's got a coin in the top. He was like, your mother and I took this overseas when we did our OE, and this is good luck. I was like, oh, lovely, lovely. And I haven't got rid of it, and I take it when I go traveling,

and it's good luck. But now I'm like, this random cork with a coin in the top of it. But then it happens where you do it every time. And because nothing bad's happened, you're like, this is why. I need to take it everywhere. I have to take it every time. I have to take it everywhere I go. Yeah, anytime I go see it.

Oh, I lie. It looks like someone, you know, at the end of a long night of, you know, whining and dinnering has just shoved a five cent coin into the top of a cork. Totally. And do you think it was your dad was like, damn it, I damn got him a leaving present. What do I got here? Yeah, probably.

Tap his pockets. This might have passed. Hand it down through the generations of voices. Yeah, it could be like a prank for me. Yeah, for me. All right.