Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: What secrets are you keeping from your partner?

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

On today’s show: How did Ben end up sitting on a child Jono took the producers on a massive detour and now they’re fuming What secrets are you keeping from your partner Megan is seeing a physio for pro athletes — must be all the Pilates Gen Z are officially over Ben’s rambling Jono is completely addicted to watching Lives 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 tea. Welcome to the podcast on a Wednesday morning. We've been talking a lot about Taylor Swift, as the whole world has. Her new album has been announced. Just an announcement of the new album. Just send everyone into a frenzy, right?

It is, yeah. And CJ joined us at the start of the podcast. It's great to have you on, CJ. Hi, thank you for having me. We did get talking in the show, which you'll hear very shortly. about, you know, the unconventional Taylor Swift fans spoke to a Bogan who loves drag racing and stock cars and, you know, V8s and Formula One and stuff, and a huge Swifty.

See, there's a few low-key Swifty fans in the Motor Racing Fraternity. What's your confession, CJ? So I'm part of a sub-community called the Swimos. The Swimos. The Swimos. Oh, a Swifty and an Emo. Swimmo. Cool name. Okay, so Emo Swifties.

Yeah, yeah. a sub-community? Well, online it's quite big, but I don't know how big it is, like, in real life. Hey, well, you're around, so around the world, there's a lot of people. Yeah, yeah. So what do Swaymos? So what do Swaymos do? Like, give us a rundown of, like, do you wear certain clothes?

Yeah, no, so I, basically, I'm, like, covered in tattoos, got the piercings, head-eye, heavy makeup, everything, but I just really like Taylor Swift. As well as, like, hardcore music at the same time. So what is it about Tiswis that, like, really appeals to you? I just really like her storytelling and her ability to carry, like, themes through albums and stuff. I think she's one of the best storytellers in the music industry. Yeah, she's really clever. Isn't it cool?

Yeah, I was reading online about the Smo's. Yeah. Former community that celebrates the merging of these two seemingly different worlds, finding common ground and shared musical taste and emotional resonance. Isn't that lovely? People around the world can find their people. Have you been judged by the world? the emoes for your Sweenoemoing.

Oh yeah, definitely. You take it on the chin though? Yeah. I mean, you know, different strokes for different folks. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's right, yeah. Maybe the emoes should try it. They might like it.

Yeah, exactly. Sometimes, you know, I don't know if it's nowadays, but when you used to grow up, used to be embarrassed, you know, people would be shamed for music they listen to sometimes. Now it feels a lot more. Yeah. Everyone's a lot more embraced for their musical tastes.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Oh, that's very cool. The bullying, the bullying did build character, though, didn't it? Oh, the therapy bill. Yeah, awesome character. Hey, well, good on you, CJ. So you're excited about the new album?

Definitely. I was watching The Countdown Live on our website yesterday afternoon. Good, are you vaping while you're talking to us? Maybe. That's all right. You do you. You do you, CJ. Hey, thank you so much for phoning through, mate.

You're going to have a wonderful day. Yeah, thank you, too. See you, see, CJ. You enjoy the podcast. John O Ben and Megan The podcast The Heds Well we hosted something in the weekend

Jono It was a lovely event And after the event We were just chatting to some people And a guy came up to us You were there And he was like Do you remember when

Said to me When you injured my son Yeah And did you Well at first not straight away No you know I've injured a lot of kids over the years And I was like

What you mean And you said Do you remember being on a holiday In Fiji And as soon as he said that I was like Oh yes I do remember this At a water park

a situation where I had come down the slide. I thought I'd give an adequate time. He hadn't obviously moved the kid and I had come down. And once you're coming off the end of a water slide, there's very... Velocity. How old was the cat? Eight. He kept saying, Dad was like, he'll be, he's got to be fine.

He's got to be fine. The more he said he's going to be fine, the more made me why he's like, is he not okay? As soon as he's out of hospital, he's going to be just fine. He's going to be fine. Four years ago, he was like four. He stopped out. Wait, what? So he was at the end and you body slammed him.

He was at the end, he had moved away. in time and I just came yeah who do you put this on the kid I don't know I mean probably a little bit of column A little bit of column B I remember apologising at the time and I did say to him the other light least I weighed about the same as the kid and then he said the dad was like

you said that on the day four years ago finished with a gag I was like the same joke I used then I used four years I didn't remember making the joke but I did remember landing on the I felt terrible with tears no I think he was no it was all right

just rattled Yeah, we're out of a way where it was, I remember, speaking of tears, I do remember that. It was quite a traumatic day. I remember, I think I was telling you about it because my daughter, Indy, was, we paid for them to do the whole big slides and everything, and she was quite young, and she didn't want to go on the big slide. And she kept going up and then going, I can't do it.

Yeah. I was like, and I thought it was going to be one of those real parent, teachable moments. I was like, here we go. We're going to get on the tube together, the two of us. And she's like, I don't want to do it. I was like, I reckon once you get to that first corner, you're going to love it. Look, these little kids are loving it. You've got to love it.

Everyone loves it. That little kid I just ran over. He loved it. He's going to be fine. He's going to be fine. And so we went on and I was like, and I said, no, trust me it would be good. Now, yeah, no, it wasn't good. She did.

Soon we got the first corner, I could hear her go, this is not fun. I was like, yeah, some people water slide people, some aren't. And it was, yeah, very. So, yeah, you forced your daughter on there. Squashed a kid. Squashed a kid. Traorized your daughter. Two childhoods that day.

That's why I can't go back to Fiji, guys. I love how many stories you do that starts with. I thought this could be a. teachable moment. I did. I was like, this is going one of those moments, she'll get to the bottom and go, you're right, that was not as bad. It was fun, but no. She hated it more than she thought was you. Right. Nears. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hits. You have a nice cardion. Is that new? A jumper? Yeah. Yeah, it's newest, yeah. It's a grey woolen jumper. Yeah, I blend it right into the background. I was just realizing before. We've got grey curtains. The room at the moment, they've tried to redesign

the studio for the last six months, and it's kind of ended up looking like a corporate conference room. There's a big grey curtain behind me and I was like it's exactly the same top of colour with my jumper. Matching. Who were a better? I'm just ahead here in the studio this morning.

Big news today. Taylor Swift announcing new album she did that yesterday, didn't she on Travis Kelsey's podcast? We'll get to that. We get to the hype later on because there's, you know, there's a conversation that needs to be had. After the show yesterday,

we had to go down into the, you know, into the city to do something. Producer Grace, producer Troy, You're in here as well. Team meeting, we all talked about what we were doing, where we're going. I think specific roads and car parks were mentioned. I was like, cool, that's the road we're going on. This is the car park we're all going to.

You guys followed Jono, who went nowhere near any of those roads. We both came out of the car park. Both came out of the car park. And I thought, this man in front of me, he knows Auckland. Yeah, no, I don't. He drives like he knows Auckland. He drives like he owns Auckland. He drives like a maniac.

He does. Like just, yeah. Oh, listen. We went down roads and, legal turns that you can't go down. Tell you what, some of the greatest shortcuts around this country involve a sign that says you can't turn right down here.

Tell you what, you turn right down there, you'll save yourself. Quarter of an hour. Yeah, but what happens if everyone started turning right down there? He doesn't care about that, that. Why are you allowed to, no one else is? What was the test you did yesterday on it? You were a sociopath.

It did say you don't have a respect for authority. Authority, yeah. And he parked in some of very high risk. They might be right, but the area of the town that you're like, I don't think you meant to go anywhere near that, but you've took some risks and you might be fine. Yeah, that's the thing with my driving. You take risks.

Sometimes they pay off, sometimes they don't. Sometimes you get ticketed. You know what happens? Producer Grace and Choice said they followed me, and then they didn't take the illegal right turn. Because we were safe. Yeah, that's sort of 15 minutes late. Yeah, 10 minutes.

Added 10 minutes to us. Yeah. Well, in the conversation before we left, Megan, you specifically said, just make sure whatever you do, don't go down Queen Street. you'll end up in this position that you were in where you can't turn anywhere and you'll get a ticket. I just want to say I wasn't here for this meeting and I came back in and I just put full trust in Troy and Jono.

So I blame them. Thank you, Grace. Thank you for trust to me. All I had in my mind is just don't end up on Queen Street. I follow Jono. I should have said whatever you do, don't follow Jono. It was a specific street at a car park that we all parked in except for Jono. It's how he lives his life.

It's how he does the Herald quiz. He goes in with blind like. Arrogens. This is parking tickets. It all, yeah, we end up with a council. It's the confidence, yeah, that you think you know what you're doing. No one wants you driving anywhere now. No.

There's too many bloody bus lane. Like, green, can I drive down this bit? Can I drive down that bit? Now, my problem with the bus lane is buses are only in them 10% of the day. When you're not often you see a bus lane where the buses all packed up. Babes, I'm not disagreeing with this. Free lane. Absolutely on board.

That's also the point of the bus lanes that more people, we think about how. how many people are on a bus and it's so they can just go through. We don't want buses piled up, Johnner. No, I know, but they're never in there. They're hardly ever in there. So why can't we just dot in there when they're not in there? Surely that seems like fair game. Again, there was that test you did yesterday, Megan?

That's so bad. You're passing it with flying colours. So you might be fine. We'll find out this. We'll remember this moment right now and we'll find out if there's a ticket. Also, I got a ticket like 10 metres away from where you are. So if you don't get a ticket, I'm going to be pissed. Well, I've done the research.

You, you made the fatal mistake of driving down the area you car. drive down megan yeah yeah i stayed in the safe green zone baby john oh ben and megan the podcast the heads i didn't yesterday i um was hiding i um was hiding well i was hiding in the fridge and not in actually literally inside the fridge it's good hiding spot well no i was in the door yeah in the door oh so the door was open your head was in the fridge and i'd like closed it behind me so i was as much in the fridge as i could be without actually being a safety Do you realize people could still see you in that situation?

But I figured they were like, oh, she's just doing something. I don't know. I was wiping shelves, that sort of thing, yeah? Yeah, and it was like 8 o'clock at night and I was munching on something in the fridge. What were you having? Pickled onions. Right. I had all the things to munch on.

That's probably, you know. Late night pickled onions. Very boomish. I go through like a jar a week. Do you love pickled onions? Wow, that's a lot of pickled onions. A lot of times. A lot of times they just sit there for months.

A lot of people's fringes. Or like a cheeseboard. No, I'll just like munch pickled onions all the time. I feel like it's a food my grandmother would have survived on during the Cold War. You know, have it on standby in case the Russians come sort of thing. Okay, fine. I like a ginger nut and a bloody pickled onion. Anyway, I was in the fridge and quietly munching on a pickled onion.

And my husband came in and was like, whoa, what are you doing? And I dropped the whole jar. So the juice went everywhere all through the fruit. fridge of like, saved it from smashing, but literally spilt it everywhere. The brine. All over mahjamis, all over the floor. You smelled like a pickled onion. Now, were you hiding this from Andrew?

Is this a secret shame of yours, your pickled onion addiction? Kind of. I was like, I didn't want him to know that I was just munching on a pickled onion at night. If you're going to sneak food, let's make it worth the shame. That's what, when I dropped it, he was like, wow, that's a madman. He was like, no one eats those apart from you. you don't need to sneak them. It does feel like that, right?

He's like, you also don't need to hide them at the back of the fridge. I know they're there. He's like, I don't want them. No one wants them. You're either a pickled onion, person, and you're not. And he was like, all right, well, I'll leave you to clean that mess up. So, yeah, it wasn't even worth it. Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's at the lighter end of the scale of stuff you're doing behind your partner's back, is it? Yeah, it's not divorceable, I wouldn't have thought. Was that the gateway to other stuff? I don't know. I'll just put that with you. Do you want these fishermen's friends I was talking about before? That's why they're in here. Pickley from here.

The pickled onion princess over here. But a lot of people would hide treats from there. Oh, 100%. Yes. That'd be happening around the houses all over the country. I've got a tray of Red Bull that I haven't taken into the house. I've kept it in my car. Oh, is that your little thing, hiding from, yeah.

Yeah. Because I don't want... Just eat a little thing hiding stuff. In the back of my car. I get it. You know, sometimes... So I don't want anyone to... I don't want him to drink a red bull.

It comes fair game as well. I have to hide just costumes. I buy a lot of costumes. And that's my secret shame. And sometimes, my wife won't know if I've been in a new costume or an old costume. She goes, is that you? It'll be like, no, we've had it for years, some sketch years ago. I do that with clothing, that is his costumes.

Do you ever, like, buy a costume that's not for anything, but you see it on special and you're like... Sometimes, yeah, that'll come in handy one day. But most of the time, it's... For a purpose. Yeah, for a purpose. But other times you'll go, oh, I could you... Do you have a costume website that you frequent just for fun? Yeah, well, there's a few.

There's some big bangers overseas as well. Yeah, well, there's some of those ones, but my wife always like, it's just land for, it's not land for, I'm going to hand these down to the kids. And they're like, please don't. You're like, they're not filling up the land, they're filling up our garage of anything. I'm using these, I'm loving them. Okay, so I ate over the hits. What are you sneaking in, sneaking into the household behind your partner's back?

You're sneaking around doing. Is it a lighter things? Yeah, a Nemo costume or is it pickled onions? Do you sneak anything? I don't think Jen would miss a trick with you? No, I don't know, I don't, no, I don't really. I don't, pop our daughter, she tried to, because, chocolate once it's, you know, for general consumption, just disappears.

So she's like, I love these biscuits. So she had hidden them. I discovered in her drawer that her hair ties and clips, but also great ant magnet as well. Hard lesson to learn. That's right. It happens with the kids' Easter eggs every now and again, too. They leave them for too long. I just blow the ants off and eat them.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Caught red-handed by her husband eating pickled onions. Ben Boyce piting many costumes that slide into the property. Yeah, I do. That's my thing at the moment. But what are you hiding from your partner, your little secrets you keep in?

Let's get Dee on the show. Morina, Dee. Morning. Lovely to have you on. Right, your secret. What are you hiding from your partner? It didn't get into the house. I was supposed to be on a health kick, and I stopped in at McDonald's,

and I hid the evidence in the post box, So the hubby didn't find out. Yeah. But he went to the postdoc that afternoon. And I didn't have the guts to tell him that it wasn't youth that had left their rubbish. Was he blaming the troubled youth, was he? Yep, he was blaming the trouble youth. The delinquents out on the street.

You're like, oh, those bloody kids. To be fair, that was a terrible hiding place. You're really banging on the fact that he's not checking the mail. Yeah. He doesn't really One time You're hiding McDonald's So you need to like chuck it in the neighbour's wheel even

Yeah I've done that before With a cheesecake I had an entire cheesecake on the way home in the car It was meant for people Wasn't it? It was meant for people A bit of bloody delicious That's a lot of cheesecake That's a lot of cheesecake

You had a wee nibble When you're like, can't stop You can't stop They look really stodgy and heavy But they're quite nice and light You know if you have one those cakes Megan Not a whole one No, no, normally you don't.

Wait, how are you eating it? Just through hand. That is the grimmest. Oh, no, it was sliced up so you could grabbing clumps of cheese. She's a while trying to drive at the same time. She's not an absolute monster. Shantay, how are you? Good, thank you.

How are you? We're doing well. It's lovely to have you on. What are you secretly hiding around the house, Shantay? Well, mum used to actually hide chocolate. and things that, like little sweet treats in the peeveg and the freezer. Frozen peas? Oh, because no one had gone in the pee bag, right?

No, no one went in the pee bag. Smart. I think you have rock hard chocolate, don't you? Oh, I had no idea how she did it. Yeah, they're really smart, though. Good hiding place. I guess it keeps it for ages as well. That's smart.

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that's so sweet that relationship Laura good morning to you good morning great to have you on what are you hiding around the house Laura online packages or clothing just shopping mainly

I'm quite bad for us I will get purchases either get them sent to my parents' address to connect them in the house and my husband quite often says Oh, is that new? And I'm always like, no, I've had it say, you. It's the classic line.

It's what Ben's doing with his costumes. Yeah, it's from a sketchy today. Just gaslight your family into thinking. I don't even know why I feel like I need to hide these. Maybe I should be like, no, damn right. I bought a sloth costume or whatever it is. Own it. You know, you do should own your addictions.

I'm proud of it. Yeah. I would be proud of a sloth costume. I'm in the same. camp though. The worst thing is if your partner has like a sick day or he's home with one of the kids. I'm like oh no, how do I call the courier and say

abort! Not today! Don't drop anything on today. You almost need their cell phone number, don't you? You have a direct line of contact. Let's drop it off tomorrow. Yeah, we have cameras. That's why I have to get it sent to my parents because he knows the courier driver's arriving. She's got the hacks. She's got the hacks. You can get it delivered to the neighbour's house

as well as another option. I love it this morning Thank you so much for giving us a call this morning John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hids It's been really hobbling around

since you came back from the weekend Yeah I have sustained an injury And I wish I had a better story I've had to fill out an ACC form And I get scared

lying on those So even if the story's really rubbish I'm like Well you have to tell the truth right It's legit yeah Well, yeah, I don't care. They're going to pay out anyway.

They might do. They might do it. Do they do many investigations, ACCC? I don't know. I'm sure they might do. Who knows? I'm sure they was. It's something that's quite ongoing, imagine? I'm just scared that when you get to, like, the treatment place, they're going to be like,

now, what you've written here doesn't match up with the injury sustained. It says you were paragliding and then got into a UFC fight when you landed sort of thing. I mean, you've got the eye. You have creative control. It's over to you. You can add to as much GST to the story. As far as you want. Yeah.

Well, I didn't. I went with the facts, which was I was changing my daughter's nappy on the floor. And when I got up, I put my knee up, went to stand up, and my knee went to stand up. And my knee went one way, and my leg went the other way. I don't know how you do that. I don't know how it's physically possible. It literally popped, and I made a sound. I haven't heard myself make before, and went down on the ground, and my daughter, who's three, was like, I'll carry you to daddy.

I was like, bless your heart. But I was hobbling around. and I have been to the physio. I was like, maybe it just needs a little rub. It just needs a little like, e. And so I went to the physio and they were like, oh, I think this is quite bad. They were like, I'm going to send you to like this acute sports clinic.

And all the way through this, you're like, all I did was stand up and correctly. Yeah, stand up. I've been standing up and down my whole life. Not in a rush or anything. Just stood up. No. But now I have to go to a sports clinic where, like,

actual athletes have done themselves an injury. What are you in here for standing up? Yeah, what are you in here for? Yeah, exactly. Oh, I got off the ground. They'll be UFC fighters. They'll be like league players. They'll be netballers.

I know. I just, yeah, I got off the ground. I don't know what I'm going to. They should have a lame injuries clinic too. Yes. So everyone feels in a safe space. Yeah. You feel like, oh yeah, I've pulled my abs by sneezing and that sort of stuff.

Yeah, I rolled over in bed all that kind because now I have to go with legitimate athletes. It is. I don't want to bring up a low point in my life. But a similar conversation when at the one time I did get arrested for doing the TV skit that went wrong. Yeah. Went to the airport and then I got arrested and was in the cell with a lot of other people. And the conversation goes around, what are you in here for? Does that actually happen?

I was the only one that had done a TV sketch that went wrong. Out of everyone else. What was everyone else in there for? And I was saying that somewhere fine. Wasn't one of the other prisoners like, oh, that was silly? Yeah, I was just silly. I was like, mate, okay. You just ran right in the dairy.

But anyway, it was silly. He was right. He was right. It was silly. At least he had a purpose. You know, what was yours? Yeah, exactly. Someone's actually texted on this 4-487 while we've been talking about it.

I can't talk about this on the radio, but we had a patient once come in and fill out their ACC form. It was for burns sustained, secondary burns sustained, due to lighting a fart on fire. Oh, no. I mean, you could have said that. That would have been more entertaining. How can you, there's nothing else you can write for that? Like, how do you get... Well, I guess they had to write it.

They had to write it. Burns in your bar hole. I guess, I mean, I'll get this an option to just not. Yeah, but then they're like, how to... Yeah, exactly. Sat on a candle, sat on a candle. That happens. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. It's Justin Timberlake there with you? I remember a couple of weeks ago, we're all roasting him for his lack of enthusiasm about his live concerts where he would just start a line and then the audience would have to sing the rest of the song. Sometimes he put the mic down. It's not my phone. So he would just be wandering around the stage of the mic

And then everyone was roasting him Why are we paying $800 to see you know I don't want to sing you'll pay to see you sing Well then he came out and said I've got Lyme disease Yeah How do you feel now? He said he's really struggling Everyone else takes time off

People don't want to pay $800 to see you put the microphone down I'm sorry I've got Lyme disease I know so take a break Take a break and stop taking people's money for you doing nothing. Sorry, I've got Limes either. Well, thanks to coming along and performing. I appreciate it, Justin.

Yeah, if you're sick, take some time out. Thank you, mate. Who's this other one having a crack at me? Conduance and Grace agrees with me. I'm totally agree. I like this guy, he's happy to be here. No, because he's just stealing people's money now from like crossing around on stage.

I'm sorry you're unwell. I hope you take the time you need to get better. Thank you. I'm sorry you're unwell. I hope you take the time you need as well. Security, security, get rid of these two. All right, what's winding up to you. Get them out of here.

Apart from Justin's up. It's winding me up. Yeah, what is winding up Gen Z today? Now, I'm producing Grace back in again. This is making me nervous because it's something I do. I'm done. Yeah, well, it's something you and Jono actually do, but you were the one who front foot it last week.

It was revealed. So, John, if you want to play the audio for me? Okay, so is this, can I just ask? Is this something that we're doing it is considered criminal by all of your generation? No, I think it's just a personal grudge for me. Okay, all right. Here we go.

Notice I do that from time to time. I just talk out loud to myself, do that? Yeah, everyone. Well, I think everyone does it. I do all the time. Mumble around the house and everyone like, you look insane. But you're just mumble, you're clearing stuff out of you. So yeah, what's the issue?

I hate when people talk out loud for no reason, what's in their mind. I'll be working here, like I'll be working and then if you're talking out loud, are you talking to me and you're like, no, I'm just talking and then I'm going to go back to work and then you're just mumbling away. I am kind of conscious of trying to do it, you know, away from other people. Normally when I'm by myself in the car. I respect

that, but the people, I love my mother so much. Love you, Angela. but mum does it a lot It's a bane of my childhood Because I'm like, what's that? They're like, oh no, I'm just reading a text You're like, well don't keep it in your head Yeah, that is frustrating, I get that

So that is a big gripe for me. Megan, you don't talk any head, does this annoy you? Oh, absolutely. Jono does it all the time. You like mumble along and I'm like, what'd you say? And he's like, oh no, I'm just, I'm just talking to myself or you're reading what you're writing. Yeah, I know I do that.

I know that must be annoying to listen to. I can't stop it. I can't talk without time. Hello there. You're working in here. How are you today? Oh. Oh, do you actually do that?

Yeah. And when he writes text, I'm like, oh, I don't. We'll be there soon. But however, Ben, now he does the boomer thing when he talks into it, but it translates it to text, not a voice message. I have to say, I actually do that too. It's not a boomer thing, because I just hate, I've gotten over typing. Just send a voice note.

No, just send a voice memo. But some people are like, Grace, I'm at uni, I'm in a lecture. Like, I can't. I'm like, okay, let me like voice to text. So I'm back in, John. No, but when you send a voice memo, you can see the text as well. I know, but some people, just want the straight

They just want the raw reading material I hear I'm making John there problem is it does do you dirty a couple of times

yeah oh my God I wouldn't mind seeing your bosoms when I get home sort of thing when I'm saying I wouldn't mind seeing

the blossom Yeah John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Online It's a wonderful place at times

And what I've really got into I don't know if you've watched many of these Like when people go live on Instagram

It's like Oh this is interesting People you follow They're live now on the other side of the world. Right, yeah. Just talking, it's always a name sort of chatter, isn't it, the lives?

Sometimes, yeah, I don't really pop into too many lives. No, neither. Yeah, uh, oh, you would watch them and you'd be like, oh, you could edit that, edit that, yeah, you could trim that down. People love that. Like, there's a whole part of society that love watching YouTube and things. Like that guy, I show speed that came to New Zealand as well. You know, he's, he just runs, it runs for hours, you know,

like cameras rolling, everything he does, cruising in the car and stuff. People love watching it. He live streamed his entire journey. and he's just like clearing his text on his phone in the van, people just, yeah, people just watch it. That's so strange to me. Oskoska's like he's driving 5Ks from our house. From our house.

I guess it's, you know, for a large part of people, it's social interaction nowadays. Exactly. So I've got a new hobby. If a live stream pops up on my phone, I click on it. And because you can join the comment section as well and then the person hosting the live stream sometimes it acknowledges your comment.

And I did, I panicked. I panicked in this particular line. I was doing, Grace was actually watching me. And the lady who was talking, I said, have you heard of New Zealand? That's what I see in the comment section. And she's like, stopped what she was saying. Have you heard of New Zealand? She's like, do you think I'm an idiot?

Of course I've heard of New Zealand. Everyone's heard of New Zealand. Then I started to get a roasted in the comment section. You loser, who hasn't heard of New Zealand? Well, this sort of thing. And then so I was like, well, I've got to try and disarmes. this anger, this tsunami of assault that's happening. And I said, do you like New Zealand?

And she then stops her live stream again and goes, just because I said I've heard of it, doesn't mean I've been there, you idiot. And then I get roasted again, like, yeah, you idiot. Just because people know places, they haven't been to them. So that was a new hobby. Just trying to get some New Zealand marketing out there. So he's going to jump on lives now and be like, Have you heard of New Zealand?

Made tourism, New Zealand. can do that. Next comment said put a little link to like holidays on now. You can put it. The lightest trolling ever. Just asking a genuine question. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. We're not quite marketing geniuses, but hey, we're putting our stuff out there. We're going to see. That's all you can know for you. Exactly. Slinging stuff at the wall. Now you'll know if you're listening to the show for a while. Daniela, we call her our Italian correspondent from Taodoga.

She's been with us for about a year. Now we stumbled across her just by phoning a hotel by accident one day and she was on reception there and geez, she's bought some life, much needed life to this dead excuse for a program. Every time she's on the energy and excitement levels

increase. Yeah, she's such a wonderful person to chat to but we've never met her in person. I only ever chatted on the phone. I know, so we're going to do it this week. We're going to go down and you know we thought we want to bring something for her so we're going to put together a New Zealand's best Italian cuisine in the way

frozen pizzas, spaghetti in a can, you know, pasta and sauce, that sort of stuff. I found a Sarah Lee Turamisu. Great. Perfect. We'll take the client names out of it on the day in case she's brutally harsh. So, Sarah Lee, if your Turamisu is tasted on Thursday. Who knows? Who knows what brand it is?

Mystery brand, Turamisu. But yeah, so we're going to be doing that and very excited to be meeting Danielle for the first time. But there are some foods that we really have, you know, I think caused some international hate crimes with the bacon and eating sushi, a confusing one, putting the old Tandori chicken in a pie too. Oh, who's saying that's a bad idea? I mean, I love it, but I mean, do you think if, you know, you came here and you're like, oh, Tandori chicken and a butter chicken as well in pies too?

But even pies in general, a lot of places don't have, like, meat pies. That's true, actually, you're right. You just don't get, you know, like relations that live overseas and stuff when they come home. That's the thing they want. Honestly, that's the thing I think we should be most proud of. The fact that we put meat in pastry. Together. You don't get it work.

Like a saucy, meaty situation. So this is what we want. When you landed on New Zealand soil, what food really confused you? Yeah. From our food pyramid. They're doing that. Like, I mean, your husband, you know, bring a plate was obviously something that confused him. Bring a plate and potluck.

He thought everyone bought like just one thing and you chucked it in and got lucky. So that is confusing Us putting spaghetti on pizza Does that throw you out? Yeah. He's given that a bash. Okay, so 100 the hits, 4487 That's our text number as well. In New Zealand for the first time you came to New Zealand

What was the thing you're like, geez, this is weird? Why are we doing this? Roast us, roast us, like we'd roast it. But maybe they've gone on board and maybe they love it now. You're right. Maybe something we're doing right. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. The Hits.

Electric food I love this song That's good Thanks Megan Benson will appreciate that It's Benzabone Mr election blue It is the hits breakfast

718 on your Wednesday morning It's good Show some passion for the music You love it so it's good That's what you were saying off here Yeah There we go That's the real behind the curtain stuff

Now we've been talking this morning About foods in New Zealand Maybe we're doing things A little differently And confused you got to New Zealand Yeah There's many out there Cheerios coming through as well.

Oh, yeah. Deep frying the chocolate bars. Deep fried morrows and, yeah. That would really throw you for. We need to make them more unhealthy. Why are you doing this? Double down on the bloody cholesterol. You eat those for dessert after you've had the fish and juice.

Yeah, true. You're like, the chocolate bars are pretty good by themselves. Yeah, we like to push the arteries to their limits. Oh, 800 of the hits. So 4487, you can text us as well. Fiona, when you landed here, what was the food that confused you? Corn silverside. Yeah, the old boiled meat, isn't it?

Corned beef, bloody corn silverside, all right. It's super salty. Silver side in the UK, you know, it was, you just roasted it like a normal roast dinner. We bloody boiled it here, mate. Do you? And everything, my husband would start looking at me going, what the hell of you just fed me? And then I found out afterwards that you're supposed to boil it to take the salt off. The other thing, too, that came, that reminds me of a period in our cuisine history too

where you'd have the corn silverside and your parents would like sort of boil spinach, boil Russell sprouts and you'd end up with a puddle on your plate. Big puddle, maybe some mashed potato is your next sort of that white sort of mustardy sauce. Yeah, did you have that mustardy sauce with your corn silverside? It'd be right, it would just boil the crap out of everything. And your Russell sprouts go like grey and soupy. So you're eating your food out of a lake Plate lake, hey?

A lot into a soup. A salty lake. Okay, well let's go the positive. What's one food where you like, damn, we're doing that well, Fiona? Probably pies. Yeah. Proud of our pies here in New Zealand?

All right, hey Fiona, I'd love to talk to you, as always. You have a great day. And you, cheers, guys. Okay, who else are we got on the phone there? Claire, morning to you in New Plymouth. Good morning. Great to have you on. What was the thing that confused you?

Oh, curate sausages. Yeah. A staple. No, I still do like them, though. Well, I have made them sense for my family when they visited from the UK and they said, why are you giving us courage sausages? But actually, they were quite nice. Yeah, the dimple sausages, a curry sausages.

They were kind of a vibe for a while. Yeah, they were. I still make them. I love them. I love them. I love them. I put those days behind me, guys. Yeah, I know.

A carried sauce. Probably a 90s mum meal. Why? What's wrong with this? I love a sausage, don't get me wrong, but a carried... Oh, no. Another text, too, on the sausage theme there, Claire. I don't know if this threw you when you arrived in New Zealand,

but the sausage sizzle, and they're saying, why put a tasty sausage in a thin slice of dry white bread containing onions and sauce? Yeah, weird. Do you not do that? Is that not a thing? No. Aussie New Zealand thing, maybe.

But you didn't read the rest of the text. It says, now I love it. Now I love it. Oh, we've converted them, you know, guys. We love a sauce here. We do love just chucking stuff and breed, don't we? If I can put any meal, I put lasagna in bread before. I mean you put a pie in bread?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Double it down. It gives a lot of casing. Cleo, we're going to hook you up with a Cadbury price pack. We appreciate your call this morning. Awesome, thank you. Pineapple-flavored lollies really threw someone when they arrived here. And brunch.

Oh, yeah, brunch. Yeah, I was looking into that before. I've not done in U.S. and the UK and Australia and New Zealand, but not done all over the world. What happens at the weekend when you sleep in and you're in between, breakfast and lunch? It's just late breakfast for a lot of those people who are really loved. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

It's a grace for the last week or so. You've been learning a little song that has no real melody, but anyway. Yes, it does. No, it doesn't. That features all the names of the United States of American presidents. Yes, in chronological order. I just want to say that. This is a little teaser.

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas, Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Matavambeam. So that's pretty much the gist of the song until they get to Donald Trump at the end. Yeah, so, well, you know, well done. Thank you. You've lived this, all 47 of them.

But, yeah, I mean, I think that the problem is that it's long. It's long version. And to me honest, I don't know if you're right or wrong in the middle there. I don't know. Yeah, that is true. I know the start. And then in the middle of them, I don't know, she could just be saying guys names of accountants yeah the other big issue with this though

ben is grace has spent many hours learning this party trick and she goes around trying to perform it and no one wants to hear it no it's too long it's too long you tried it this morning producer rosy from next door at another radio station in the same building coast fm yeah uh you thought this morning right well she denied you yesterday you said i've learned this can i perform it for you and she said... No, thank you. That's okay. Now it's not a good time.

Grace is trying to perform the presidents to Rosie. Do you want to hear it, Rosie? Oh, I would love to hear it. What time is it? Like 5.15? It's a great start to your morning. I'm so excited. Do you want to start?

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas, Jefferson. She's singing. She's singing. It's a song. Andrew Jackson, might have been... I can see by your face you don't know here. Have you heard enough? Okay.

Thank you so much. Thanks for listening. Maybe every morning. My favourite is the groan before she starts. She's like, oh. Oh, she's singing it. Also, Rosie's a really good singer, so she's probably just analyzing that too. She's like, Grace, shut up.

Maybe you can just do it in installments, sort of, you know, five or seven presidents at a time every morning for her. Oh, yeah. I don't like my idea of handing someone a sheet, you know, so I can follow along. It's like, correct. Ben, it's been, to you have a credit. You've been trying to brainstorm more entertaining ways she can perform this. I would like that. So they're more like, okay, Thomas, you know, I'm like, a checklist.

Yeah, checklist. Okay, I've actually come up with another idea that I think is really good, guys. If I get all 47 presidents tattooed on my back and then I just face the other way, I pull my shit up, and I go, I just start singing it. Fantastic. Wow, she really loves. That means you're going to have to get Donald Trump tattooed and get back, though. Twice. Twice.

No, I'll just put DJ. Yeah. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We were on Taylor Swift's website yesterday. The whole world was. and a friend Zee, and she later announced

the new album on her boyfriend, Travis Kelsey's podcast. It's called The Life of the Showgirl. You'll track down, I'd say New Zealand's biggest Taylor Swift fan. Her name's Enia, we spoke to her earlier in the year. Anya, good morning. Good morning. How are you? Big day for you.

Yeah. A huge day. Taylor Swift's superfan. How was it yesterday? Oh, well, it all started like one in the morning. I wasn't actually awake, but that's when Taylor Nation posted they posted 12 orange photos that said thinking about when she said see you next era yeah right so Taylor Nation this is your special group is it no no Taylor Nation is like

Taylor's team okay yeah right on social media and then at 1pm yesterday sort of everything dropped out on her website and a countdown popped up for 412 and then yeah the big album announcement, which was super exciting, and we've got the podcast coming at 11 a.m. this morning. She's got all the time. It's got the more calendarized. So Taylor announced the album. There was a little teaser on

her partner, Travis Kelsey, and his brother's podcast as well. It was, yeah, the new album. Very exciting. And all done on the 12th day, 1212 as well. It was her 12th album. She's a genius like that. And orange, the big color, like you said, was everywhere all over the world. Empire State Building, big billboards

as well. It's pretty impressive. It's actually crazy And like the further you look Like maybe we make up some of it But like applause By Lady Gaga Was released 12 years ago And if you went to the air as tour

You'd know that that's like The song before she comes on And she Yeah no you've gone deep You've got too deep I think you've got too deep No no Because Taylor's like tweets

On Twitter about that So Oh have we've got two deep Oh I take it back I take it back So Sometimes you would

You would just read so much into stuff, though. There's so many intricate Easter eggs that Taylor leaves, though, on purpose. Yeah, exactly. Now, as a super fan, what do you know about the album so far, apart from that it's going to be orange?

Honestly, not that much. She's in the back of the new heights teasers, there's a few different colour TS's. So we are assuming that there's going to be sort of four or five variants of the, like,

vinyl variants but I think we're going to get a lot more information today on the Newhouse podcast. Jobs at 11am 11 a.m. podcast. Now, what's it? Can you just run through the merch you've got? Because you have a shrine room for Taylor Swift. Don't you dedicate it to her? Oh, yeah, a little bit.

Don't be, no, it's a great thing. Don't be embarrassed about it. Hey, you're millions around the world. You know, huge fans. Ben's got a garage full of costumes. Exactly. And Taylor Swift T-shirt is a couple of Tyler Swift T-shirts are proudly in there. Yeah, so I've got like a lot of sign merch from like different eras going back to like red era, I think. And then obviously I talked to you guys earlier in the year about my most prized position, which is my bird house that is also signed and she made it in 2007 for a charity auction.

Those birds don't know how good they've got it. Do you let birds into the house? It's in a special own plastic protection box Oh, the birds don't go near it Yeah, no, fair enough I understand that You've got something that she created from hand and signed Yeah, it's crazy really

Yeah, and I yeah Got it from America I won't tell you how much it cost a ship here But I actually coordinated with one of my friends in America To get it over to me Oh, good on you And what does she mean to you, Taylor Swift? Oh, she's just inspirational

like as a female in the music industry and all the barriers that she's had to overcome and she's overcoming so many times and proven that she essentially the greatest pops out in the world well that's very cool so taylor nation do they have a Travis nation can I start that I'm a big fan of Travis go on I'm sure I'm sure you can now because Megan you're a bit shady on Travis are you still shady on his ulterior motives I'm just I'm still not sure how long they've been together Yeah, like, if you were friends with him and she'd be like, we've got to go to Megan's house and he's like,

oh, okay, I'm going to feel the bloody judgment again. I just don't want him to be using her. Watch your intentions, what's your intention. The fact that he's like, oh, launch your album on our podcast. I'm like, what do you think, Enia? I think she always

likes to do, like, surprise us in different ways and so it's a new way to be able to include someone that's important in her life. Thank you, Enia. Thank you, Eni. important in her life and he's been in her life for years now

imagine if she got on some other point like oh you went on Joe Rogan's podcast to announce it I've got a podcast you've got to come on by that would have been the conversation

imagine if you've done that oh hey India we'll let mum and dad fight and you go and have a great day good luck hope you really enjoy the album

you guys too see you mate while we've been talking to Enya so many other people coming out of the woodwork petrol head who's a huge

Taylor Swift fan yeah I'm a tail Well, how about this? I'm a Taylor Swift fan, but dot, dot, dot. Give us a call right now, but I like something that you wouldn't think. Atalus who a fan would love. Would love to hear from me next on that. But I'm a practicing Zatist.

Could be. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. This is my brand new album. The Life of a Showgirl. GS 12. Yeah.

It's such a lads response. I love it. Hey, well, hey, they're both footballers, of course. You know, but good description, though, from Jason Kelsey, describing what was saying. You know, as an audio medium, he did well. Nailed the art of audios, painting pictures with words. But they kind of celebrated like it was a touchdown, didn't they?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Leave everyone on the roids. All right, so we are saying, I'm a Taylor Swift fan, but dot, dot, dot. Maybe not, you know, you're stereotypical Taylor Swift fan. Caitlin, good morning. Good morning, guys. Great to have you on.

I'm a Taylor Swift's fan, but dot, dot, dot, dot. I am a complete petrol head. I love motorsport. Well, that's fine. I mean, everyone pretty much is a tenniswear fan. But, yeah, like, so you're a full on Bogan, you'd said, you'd say? Yeah, yeah. I live in North Auckland.

I go to Western Spring Speedway in the summer. I ruin my sleep schedule to watch the Formula One. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my God, Caitlin, we're neighbours, too. We're both Westies. Maybe we should hang out. Oh, my gosh.

Yes, I need to show you my bingo cards. I made F1 bingo cards. Oh, my God. Okay. What's on the bingo cards? Stuff that needs to happen during the race. Yeah, like Ferrari messing up strategy or someone at Red Bull complaining, things like that. I love it.

That is great. So you love F1, you love Speedway, and you also love Taylor Swift. Yep, that's the one. What a mix. What a mix. Keeps you an interesting person, Caitlin. Thank you. I love it.

Have you met Liam Lawson? No, but my dad has, and I'm very jealous. Megan's dream to meet. What did your dad? say about him was he sold um yeah he he met him before he um got into f1 because we we volunteer at the racetrack down at hampton downs and the like so yeah track side and um yeah he was there in an event and he said he was quite short that was his only feedback is a short in conversation or short in satire we'll let you decide he's still tall than me oh good on yeah

and so do you have to hide your taylor swift your love of taylor swift amongst your motorsports the motorsport fraternity? No, not really. There's a couple of Swifties in there, so, yeah, it makes the races go by quickly if it's raining and there's a long endurance race. Just sing some Taylor Swift. That's great.

That's great. I see, I love the Warriors, and I love Taylor Swift. There you go. That's too, you know. And I'm sure there's plenty of others out there. I think it's like times change. People are a lot more comfortable being diverse these days.

Yeah, you're right. In your interest. So much so that the next Warriors gave he's going to sit in the South Stand and start a Taylor Swift sing-along. With all the team. I'd happily wear my T-shirt to a worries game. I wouldn't have any problems with that.

All right. You've said it now. It's like it happen. I'll make it happen, yeah. I don't know about to sing-along, but what I can try. It's a love story. Okay, put it over the loudspeakers and we'll get it up. And then you'll get the song on.

Yeah, we'll get it started. All right, guys. Hey, good on you, Caitlin. Have a great day. Yeah, thanks. You too, guys. Very exciting. Yeah.

And to celebrate Taylor Swift's brand new album, we're going to play some Lifehouse. Who are also fans of Tatar Smith, we're guessing. I don't know. Who is it?