Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why Ben was a horrible sibling...

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

On today’s show:  Sibling Survivors returns, with Ben’s sister Amelia exposing childhood haircut sabotage. Megan revisits the viral Coldplay kiss cam after the woman involved speaks to Oprah. We learn how to really pronounce “feijoa.” A discussion on The Manosphere documentary and toxic masculinity online. Does Ben's outfit make him look naked? Check out our socials to see the photo! Comedian David Correos explains why he lives nomadically at fans’ houses... Plus who do you think is the better singer out of Megan and Producer Troy? Message us on FB and Instagram with your pick! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. Now, Megan, we've just offended Megan. We asked, you know, could Troy get someone to sing the intro for something that we want to do, which you're actually going to hear about Sibling Survivors? You thought of a great intro for it.

Yeah, like, I'm a survivor, that song. Sibling Survivor. And Megan was singing, as she was singing, I said, Troy, do you think maybe you could sing the intro? You can see how that might be a little bit of free. I literally sung it. And then you're like, oh, Troy, could you do it? I can see that.

Timing was off, sorry. A song from a woman, you know, a woman group as well. You're like, we'll get a man to see. Can you, okay, give us your audition. No, I don't want to. So no, she doesn't want to do it out of, you know, pity. Yeah.

No, okay, Troy. You come and do your version, then Megan can do hers. Yeah, we can decide. Let the podcast audience. And then I started suggesting other people in the building that can sing as well, and that made things worse. I didn't think you wanted to do it, but now you're like... Carlina would be good, yes.

Yeah, Kaylee. Yeah, Kaylee, Rosie's a great singer, you know, in the building just off the top of the... Maybe not Troy, but hey, he might hit it. So I think for us for the audience to have a true grasp on the vocal talents, we need this a cappella. Okay, we need this acopoeia. Don't you agree with us? Yeah, I think you're right. Who would like to go first?

Ladies first. No, not me. This is the most polite rat battle. Yeah, okay. Take it away, Megan. Okay, take it away, Megan. It's all eyes just so I can hear it. This is so embarrassing.

Come on, you do it. We're not looking at you. Go, sorry, go, go, sorry. No, no, that's it. It was pretty good. That's pretty good. Go, Troy. It was better than what I'd do.

Yeah, go on. Go, Troy. I might have to change it down a key because fiance's up there quite a lot. That's all right, yeah. Sip, zip. Oh, no, go, sip. We could have probably to rehearse this before.

Well, yeah, you put them on the spot. Sibling, Survivor. Oh, do you know what? We should harmonize it. Oh, yeah, now do it together. Now do it together. Okay, you do that. Okay, you go, we'll still close your eyes.

Three, two, one. Sibling Survivor! Not bad, not bad. I think together as a group, you work well. I see why Destiny's child, that's probably how it happened. They're like, hey, wait, you can do it. We can do this together. That's why they drop Michelle.

It works me to all two. Well, there you go. You'll hear that next week. The high production values of the sibling survivors in show. And actually, if you want to hear the calls of sibling survivors, arrowing. The crackers. We'll get to that on the podcast.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. What's going on? This is part of the show called Sibling Survivors, where you can call us, Oh 800 The Hits, 4487, as the text number as well. And tales of, you know, siblings,

they're kind of the people who can deeply love you, but also try to decapitate you with a trampoline in the afternoon. Beat you up with love. Yeah. Ben, we've got a little bit of a surprise from sibling survivors. Oh, yeah, okay, so it's obviously a... Do you recognize this voice? Hello Benjamin That's your sibling

Hello Amelia The favourite The favourite child Yeah the favourite child Amelia Hey my sister Amelia Who apparently you traumatised In your younger years Well yeah we get on great

You and me Amelia But we did to have you know Like all siblings I think we had our moments didn't we We definitely did Yeah Amiga knows a little bit about it at all I wind megan up a lot

The same way as I've wound up Wowed you up a lot as a kid Oh, Amelia, you poor thing. I feel sorry for you. What's the longest lasting scar, Amelia, if you were to pick out, pick one. I wouldn't say scar. Longest lasting, how long as long as lasting, how long my hair had to grow was about a year before it. I finally was able to tie up again.

What did you do? What did you do to her hair? Yeah, we were making. No, I want to hear it from Amelia. You explain it. Yeah, well, we thought it would be real cool to make those things that used to get in the, when you went over to CG and you had the little, the cotton wrapped around you know

oh yeah I was putting that on to Amelia's yeah yeah yeah he'd made me a really nice one and then he didn't like it so he just chopped it off at the

well I couldn't get it off the knot was too tight and I was like oh we'll just chop it off and you had a little stump of hair growing for a little bit up the frown

yeah but he on all conditions he said I wasn't allowed to tell someone what had happened because he didn't want me to get in

him to get in trouble so he proceeded to tell me to make up something so he made up that the goat that I had at the time

had junk on my back and chewed my hair and that's why I had like a Mohawk. Was that the first stop in the brainstorm was it? Are there any other options? Complex goats, sorry.

This will do. This will roll with that. And mum was like, oh yeah, that makes sense because I didn't have a goat. So she believed me, but I had to have a hair clip for about maybe six months every day to school.

Did you look like little, fill a little from the Rugrats? Yeah, pretty much. And it was right on my part line as well. Oh! You couldn't hide it. That dastardly goat. Did anyone at school notice?

Well, I think I had told maybe my friends that my brother had told me to lie. But, yeah, I think I don't remember the ridicule, but, yeah. Now, there's no way Jenny Boers your mum was, she did not. Surely not. I know, but mum, I think you're just going along with stuff. I told her many years later, yeah, and she was like, oh, I didn't realize all that. Great goat's storyline. Love it.

Hey, well, there you go. Thank you so much to me now. I imagine there's more, Amelia. We could probably bring this back another day. I'm sure that we're like therapy. Locked in the attic having to climb down the drain pipe. Okay, that's wrap it up there. That's wrap it up there.

Ben, you're seven. I didn't think you've got to climb down the drain pipe. It was just a gag locking in the air. But anyway, that's it. What did he do to your Lion King posters? He used to steal them. And he told my Michael Jackson poster on the back of the wall. I had that one back.

That one back. And the R. Kelly one. And I'm like, that's fine. I can on you, Amelia. I think there is a new, I know, a part two in this as well. Yeah, I'll be able to. You're back. All right.

I'll have a thing. Oh, geez. All right. All right. Love you. Bye. See ya. So you go, Ben's sister.

Ben's sibling, Amelia. Sibling Survivor. What a heroic tale. Okay. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. All the news about petrol prices and the things getting more expensive to go to, well, I was going to say a better time.

But for some of these people, it wasn't a better time. Yeah. tales of siblings survivors Sometimes yeah The biggest bully in your life Is your sibling Yeah they can be yeah Producer Troy was just saying

Surprised many people are still alive After surviving their siblings You know it's usually at kids stage Where you haven't quite Been able to think things through Like you would Consequences Yeah

And things like that Like if this was happening out in public This is just assault A lot of the time Yeah But aviation back and forward It's been building up for many years Joe welcome

Your brother trained a sheep to do what? Yeah, I got chased by my sheep that turned into a ram and chased me down the paddock and my brother was something, they're cracking up. Absolutely laughing. Rams have a real chip on their shoulder too, don't they? Yeah, they do.

Yeah, they... Did the ram ever catch you? Yeah, got the back of my leg. Oh, my God. Damn. Oh, Joe. survived your survived your sibling and where is he now

where is my brother now he lives in Kai Poi well shout out to Kai Poi and yeah I like so what he does no please tell us I'm interested now okay he's a rep for

engineering company I can see why you want to keep that a secret hey good on you Joe professional sheep trainer or anything like that you have a good one Michaela Welcome. You're a sibling survivor, Michaela?

Multiple. What happened? Which one would you like? The fact that she thought I could, I was a fish and could breathe underwater, so she sat on my head in the pool. Oh, no. She had friends over one day,

so she lined me up in front of the swing set so they could all take turns of kicking me in the back. This is torture. This is like Guantanamo Bay. Did you ever get one back on her? I sure did one Christmas She got a bike And I was very jealous of it

So my mum was building the bike I took the pliers And I stabbed her in the back with them Oh wow You stabbed her in with pliers Damn yep I stabbed her straight in the back With the pure of pliers Did it pierce the skin?

Did it pierce the skin? Oh absolutely it did You're like You're proud of this There's no part of you who regrets it Oh honestly I am so proud You know Because like that's

That was only when we were little, you know, like, as we got older, like, she just got more violent. Well, there you go. Should we be laughing? Well, I mean, you really set the bar when you shanked her with a pair of flowers. Oh, absolutely. Prison. That's like prison. All right, Kimmy's coming through.

There's just some amazing tech. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Yeah, we're just doing sibling survivors' tales of sibling survival. And, geez, there's some traumatic stories out there. Good morning to you, Rina. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. You're a survivor, Rena? No, I have the problem. Oh, okay. Welcome to the group. Welcome to the group. This is a safe space. Confess your crimes.

I remember five. I lit a fire under the house, and I blame my brother. Thankfully, someone found it before it burnt in the house town. Did it get a little bit out of control from the miniature arsonist? My parents said about 20 years old that it wasn't actually my mother. And he was so angry with me. You lived with that for 20 years, they thought it was your brother. Yeah, pretty much.

And then I used to do like stick figures with like a boob and stuff and right, Adam drew this and tried to get him into it. But when you break that down, if he was the artist, why would he be the name to it? So that dumb. Oh, I did love the old stick figures with boobs. So, classic. It was too much boob for that stick figure. Yeah, it didn't seem like, why.

Real full back. Hey, go on your reaper. I appreciate you call, mate. He's looked really well now, but he stays at the first 14 years. He couldn't stand me. Wow, that's good you've repaired your relationship. 14 years of torment. Nicole, welcome.

Oh, hello. How are you? We're doing well, mate. You're a sibling survivor. Oh, I just watched most of it. I was the youngest, so I got favoured. Oh, you were left alone. What did you witness?

We lived in the south, like, real deep south. So, like, oh, mate. My older brothers, one time. I'm my brother, my brother, I won't say, because someone will know. Anyway, he was in the backyard, and he had his fishing rod out, and he was trying to catch some fish.

And he couldn't, obviously, because he was in the backyard, so he yelled out for my sister and made her pretend to be a fish, like run around the yard pretending to be a fish. The next minute, mum comes out, someone's got a hook in their hand. He's reeling her in, too, like. Got her. Got it. Yeah, he was just literally, like,

Caw, yeah. She's got scars. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, the 90s was a character building time, wasn't it? Yeah, that was a great call. And Grace, you're a sibling survivor. Welcome. Hi.

You survived? I did. I'm the youngest before. Oh, wow, you got it. What happened, mate? So I had like a super fit brother, and I was not a fit child. And we were playing tag, and he always, tried to tag me and then I was in for ages.

So I remember he cornered me and I picked up like a rusty pole and I said, don't do it. And as he stepped forward to tag me, I stepped forward the pole and I cut his lip. Oh, you shoved the pole in his face? Yep. God, that's probably lucky that's all you did. Technist injection then.

Yep, he's got a nice little scar right under his nose but thankfully he grew a massive beard so you can't see it anymore. Also you warned him, Grace. You're like, don't do it. It was in my defence. I did warn him, and as he stepped forward, I... It's a terrible defence.

As your lawyer, I advise you not to use that one. Sorry, I'll go. You're going to have a great day, Grace. Appreciate you listening. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Mattie McLean, Matthew McLean, we call him. He's probably the station...

Or maybe the country's biggest married at first sight fan. He started a Facebook community group. We get him on once a week just so he can get a lot of stuff off his chest. And he joins us for our weekly maths update, Maffy. Lovely to have you back on. Hi, team. How are we? Usually we catch you mid-run.

Don't sound like you're getting the heart rate up this morning. I actually am out for a run. I have had to pause my run. Oh, this is not good. No, don't apologize. No, you're training hard at the moment. Wednesday next marathon. coming up.

I'm doing the Christchurch marathon mid-April. What's harder? The marathon for Christchurch and the marathon watching Married at first sight because that just keeps going. Honestly,

four nights a week. I don't have the time for it but here we are. At least when you know an actual marathon's done, you know, that 41K mark or 42K mark. You're just like,

when does this thing end, maths? That's it. Honestly. And I feel like I am still loving it, but my God, they just keep

over the same stuff every day. It's like, I just, I can't fathom these people just not being able to get their S together, you know? Yeah. They had not a lot, there's not a lot of self-awareness, right? That's it. That's it. They also, dare I say it, some of the most deeply insecure people that they've managed to all get

together in one place. And so they just feed off each other. insecurities constantly. Oh, that's the joy of reality TV producing. Find the world's most insecure. Put a camera in front of them and let him go. But here's the thing I keep thinking about. Why? If you are so insecure,

why would you ever sign up to be on a show like married at first sight? I just don't understand what they hope to gain from it. Social media, external gratification. Yeah, they need it from other people. Then we've got to stop following these people on social media. Do you reckon we save them? Save them by not following them. Save them from themselves, honestly.

Now can you explain what's going on here? We've got some audio of Beck. She's not happy. She's been called all sorts of names under the sun at the dinner party. What did I do to you to deserve being called a dumb and a freak multiple times? Why? Don't turn to G out, I'm asking you.

Yeah, I'll tell you. Paul Beck, I actually feel really sad for for her in a way because I feel like she is possibly the most insecure out of all of them. And so she's trying to dominate as this like alpha personality, but she just keeps tripping over herself. I do think she is actually a good person deep down. She just doesn't know how to handle herself in these situations. And she's got herself in the situation where the mean girls have kind of ganged up on her

and she's so desperate to be a part of their gang that she just keeps putting her foot in her mouth constantly trying to please these people who are never going to like her in the first place. I just don't know why she doesn't just get over. I have to talk into you and Dr. John. Yeah, Dr. John Aiken. There is a group of girls. They're sort of like a high school situation.

That's it. That's it. It's like being back at high school. It is like watching Regina George on Mean Girls. I just can't believe it. Honestly, they are looking for a new expert on the show. And I am semi-empted to message John Aiken and say, do you need me on the couch?

Because I have so much to say to these people. But there's an important word there, expert. Expert. Maybe armchair expert. He drinks up the drama, Maddie. Now, you know, just so you know, there's no pressure from us. If you ever want to free yourself from the shackles of Merritt at first sight, if you want or you can. I can't.

I can't. You can't. You can, Maddie. Luck is right. He's got to keep going on. I'm an addict. I need my sick. All right, Maddie.

Well, let you get back to your run. Thanks a much for catching up with us. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hats. Hey, thanks for joining us. Now, group chats, they're a thing, aren't they? Whether you're doing them on text or messenger or WhatsApp, kind of too many, too many chats going on across multiple platforms IMO.

But I don't think that you can just drop an IMO and get away with it. It's natural. It felt good. In my opinion. If you would just let it slide, if you'd let it bend and bring it up. I know it made him uncomfortable. I could see it in his eyes. And jarred him.

Yeah, did you? It's a little bit, but it's all right. But, yeah, the WhatsApp one... I love when people say IMO or something like that, and then they say what the thing is, just so they don't... In my opinion. So you sound in touch, but also out of touch. At the same time, yeah.

But the WhatsApp one, really interesting. Now, WhatsApp just littered with a lot of people trying to scam you. Like, hi, Kelvin, I'm not sure if I gave you the wrong number the other day. Do you want to see me a new number? Dennis, it's Eileen. Great to see you again. Hi, I'm Doris. I'm flying into Queenstown.

You want to pick me up from the airport? Stuff like this. But then I've got a lot, a lot of group chats. Oh, my God, you just scrolled. Yeah. Are they all group chats? All group chats. And so it's really ones that have just died.

And they die a slow death, the old group chat. There's always that one person really organized, love them. They're like, let's get a group chat going for this event that we're heading to. Yeah. And everyone's all guns blazing. There's always a couple of people who don't say anything. It's like they're just staring. from a distance.

That's usually me. Yeah, you don't really participate in our group chat, do you? You just kind of... I just kind of, yeah, look. Yeah. But there's passionate members of the group chat, and there's ones who just slowly fade out on it. I'm a slow fade out on the group chat.

Are you? Oh, no, there's ones that I keep going with. But there is ones that have been set up for like a weekend. We go to Wellington for work. It's like, Wellington weekend, I'm not going to keep that one for me. We've done that weekend. We've moved on from that. You know, you can delete them, eh?

Yeah, it needs a little bit of a clear-up, I think. Look, you know, we had one for we raced through the country a few weeks ago for the $10,000. Delete it. And it's got a picture of me looking deceased lying in bed as the profile picture. So this is the game I wanted to play with you two. Okay, you scroll back onto your oldest group chat and you try and reignite it. Try and reignite it this morning. Oh, I don't know about that.

So it needs to be a group chat, not just a message from someone. Yeah, no, it needs to be a group chat. Definitely. I'm going to, I can go back to 2022. too and launch one. This was a oh,

this was a dance one too, Poppy's dance class. The parents of the dance class should I try and reignite that one? Yeah, go on. What should I type? I don't know, this is very,

I'm not for one when we're in the safe house on the edge. Oh yeah, what are you trying? Oh my God. That was probably seven years ago. Who's in that? That's 2018, I don't even know.

Well, you try and kick that one back off. Hey, guys, how you going? Yeah, okay. Oh, this is a whole bunch of parents. Oh, I'm no longer in me. member of the group. Oh, what a way to find out. They're talking about without me.

Yeah, sorry. Sorry, you're trying to find it this way. We were talking behind you back. Okay, I'm going to go, hey, dance team, how's everyone going? Oh, God, this is terrible. This is from four years ago. Oh. And I'll bring you the response from that after the news.

I'll message to WhatsApp group from many years ago. Five years ago for my daughter's dance, all the parents, who I don't know. Have you got a response? I messaged, hey, dance team. I'm hope everyone's doing well, just trying to reignite the group chat. One person's come back going, oh, long time no here. Good, thanks. Then my wife, who's also on the group, has replied to everyone, you're a cloud.

So that's the effort of it. Troy's got social anxiety for me doing that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. That New Zealand potentially has been saying chupp-chups wrong, the iconic lollipops. The logo on chupacupacupes. tip of every chupichup to put on the end of every chupichupe your chupichu pop now the problem is chupichup spanish origins so yeah we have been we have been taking our version bastardizing it and running with it for 40 plus years although that we did play some ads from this side of the world

that did say chupp chupps in them so if anything they have misled us yeah they directed us in the wrong yeah blame the australians yeah there's these fault now you've come you've you've You've come with another jaw dropper, Ben? Well, at the moment, it seems like it's Fijal season, doesn't it? Right around New Zealand, it's just like there's, there's always people bring them into the office. Feels like people that have a tree in their backyard, they just can't eat them all. It's just impossible to eat them all. It's just all of a sudden, so many Fijos everywhere.

Lovely, lovely fruit, isn't it? Can't say anything bad about the Fijio. I'm not my favourite. I'll be honest with it. I think it's like coriander, isn't it? For some people, it tastes kind of perfumery. But it's probably one that we have a bag of mum brought down and I haven't touched it. And the kids have been eating it.

Yeah. You go one way or the other. Yeah. I'm just like, I get it right. It's okay. But it's not like, oh, God, I eat these Vigoers. Wow, that's first fruit. I've heard Ben Boyce thought backing.

It's a big fruit guy. Big fruit. Big fruit. Carrots, you name and he loves everything. Yeah, everything. But Fijaws, it's okay. That's okay. There's a new apple on the market too.

I saw it on the new years. It's red on the inside. Ooh. Yeah. I saw that on the news last night. Anyway, that's a huge dog leg. Okay, but anyway, feed jowas. Anyway, we love them or, you know, well, most people love them, but have we been saying it wrong the whole time?

Because there's a couple of English geysers on a podcast are saying this. Was it a Feidua? Fajua, yeah. It comes from New Zealand and all over South America and it's used to fight depression. How'd you eat it? Just spoon in. And you can actually eat the skin on it as well? Oh, can you?

Yeah. What, you'd just eat all of that, would you? I just eat it all, yeah. It tastes like a sweet. Yeah, don't ruin it. It does taste like a sweet. What? It's like Harrybo or something.

It's a different world. isn't it? It's an absolutely different world. I found this the other day, mate. So many things in there, I'm like, do we need a fact-check that? Hello, they don't sound, they're like me. They don't sound trustworthy with their information, those two guys. It's not, I guess it's a sweet, I guess it'll like.

I wouldn't describe it as like a lolly. Like a candy, no. It almost is a little bit like, tangy sometimes. Is it to fight oppression or depression? I don't know if it's either of those things, but hey. But anyway, how they say it, was it phajia? Phyjua. We've been phajah

And again on further research Apparently From Spanish Portuguese origins So a lot of people know these fruit from New Zealand, right? If you know and if you want to hear how they say it In New Zealand they say it as Fijoa

But it's originally more of a Portuguese Name Portuguese named after a Portuguese botanist Fejoa It said in Portuguese So if you hear Fajoa Well that's also correct Fajua

That guy's voice massages my eardrums. I know. So good, hey. We are looking to pranads. That's what he does, that guy. He just does words, how to pronounce words. We use him a lot. On YouTube.

That's his lane. We use him. I don't know if anyone else uses him as much as we do, but... We are looking to pronounce. What's his name, Julian? Julian, I was like, get to the point, mate. Get to the point. He always has a lovely calming intro, and we're like, impatient.

She should try and interview Julian just for us. We should actually. Yeah, and just go through words that we're unsure. Even, you know, Jono is one that confuses people, so maybe he can do one for us. How to say Megan is another word as well? People say Megan. Some people say Hono or something in America. Ben's fine.

Ben's fine. No one confuses that. Ben, I said it like, but anyway. Fay Joa. Yeah. Fay joa, guys. Not fee, Faye. I'm going to feel like a bit of a wink as saying Fayejoe, to be honest.

Yeah, so maybe we won't embrace it. John O'Bin and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. What to Watch with Megan. So many things to watch out there at the moment, aren't there? So there's a torrent of content, my friend, and it's just bombarding us every day. Have you watched this? Have you watched this, ever watch? Oh, that's good.

You've got to watch that. Are you watching anything at the moment that's really tickling you? I'm doing Drive to Survive only because I hear you bagging on about Formula One. Honestly, in terms of a reality show, the access, they have. They have access all areas. They're not allowed to tell them to bugger off. I just watched a poor episode where, because it's all last season, obviously, where Liam Lawson was dropped from Red Bull

and in the interview they're like oh you're going to have to take off your Red Bull Top I saw that clip online Yeah and put on the It was that was a brutal It's crazy, mate It's okay and you can tell him Poor fella

Anyway that's a good one And that's thanks to you Megan She is I tell you what The Mistress of streaming Yeah So there's another show on Netflix Where it's like a movie length documentary Yeah so it's not a series

It's like an hour and a half It was quite heavy for me. It's called The Manosphere. And it's all about toxic masculinity online. You know, men build, invent, build and maintain society. That's a fact. You know, and... Don't women do that too?

I don't... I look around, can you name anything that a woman is invent and built in our plain sight? Around here? Nothing. Men built all these buildings. They engineered them. They designed them.

Do we definitely? knowing that. It is a fact. He's got a good point. So at the start of this, my husband was like, you're going to be triggered. Can you just stay calm? Were you triggered? Well, it's, they're idiots.

These guys are idiots. So it's brought to us by Louis Thoreau, who is a, you know, like a journalist, he does lots of awesome documentaries. The beauty about Louis is he's so chill and he lets, he creates space for the people to show you exactly who they are.

So he's not going to fight back. He's not going to confront them. But the manosphere is like it's a section of the internet where you've got toxic masculinity. It's the Andrew Tate. And influencing a lot of you. Not all young boys, but it is

influencing a certain section of society to live a certain way. At points, it seems comical. It seems laughable. And you're like, these guys are idiots. But then you have to remember they are influencing young men and there are fans that are coming up to these guys being like I love you that's the scary part it honestly feels like you're just like what happened in your childhood mate yeah there's a lot I'd love to go back to their childhoods and I know there's a guy on

the HS Tiki toki who's a British geyser and his father you learn later in the doco was English rugby international and he was not in his life at all growing up yeah and you can tell that has affected him. Yeah, but also he says, oh, if my mum ever heard me talking like this, she'd be so disappointed. So it's not a belief that's been handed down by his parents.

So it is just, I think it's interesting, it's informative. He, Louis Thoreau's done an amazing job. You said you went like, you're like, it was okay. Oh, because I guess I probably wasn't a new discovery for me about this world existing. Yeah. But yeah, like it's... But I think it's good for those

people out there who think that it doesn't exist. Yeah, exactly. I think it's really good. And, you know, people that have young kids, boys or girls to know that that sort of world is out there. Oh, and like I went to an all-boys school. And at times it was like prison. But then these sorts of characters have always been around. They just haven't had a platform.

Yeah. To broadcast. I guess that's the scary thing is they do now. They've got a platform and they've got followers. So would you get people to watch the Manistphere or not? Yeah, but I reckon once you get halfway through, you've kind of. You've kind of. I thought he needed to have the tape brothers on to really send that into the stratosphere that doc.

I don't think we need to give them more of a platform, do we? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. On this weekend, there's always a great time if you can head along there. And I got myself an outfit. Oh, you're going along with a festy outfit? So I wanted to wear it. Costume or outfit? Outfit.

Now, it's been a bit of a tough week on the show for fashion, isn't it? You know, like for our clothing choices. I don't say fashion about clothing choices. Megan, you had a brand new F1 top you wore on Monday. I debuted some merch, a Ferrari top, and man, did I hear about it? Oh, no, because you've been anti-merch your whole life. You don't you refuse to wear merchandise?

But you might remember, I did say, Big Famer Phantom Formula One, I said if I was to get merch, it would probably be Ferrari merch. And this is a Ferrari shirt, it's got Ferrari logo on it, but it's got a lot of other logos all over. Yeah, all the other sponsors

that you might not actually align yourself with. Shell oil, big oil. I know. Hewlett Packard. Hulet Packard, obviously a top-tier sponsor, Hulet Packard. They had a massive logo on the front and pretty much took up the entire back, Hewlett Packard. How did you make printers sexy?

I don't know. Yeah, well, yeah. You put them on Shao LeCleur. All day we thought she was from our tech department. We're like, can you just go and have a look at the printer over there, man? I think we're run out of ink. But it wasn't only me. Then producer Troy had a new top that he was really proud of, his pod racer at Star Wars top.

Pod Racing is. It looked like P-O-O racing, though. didn't it because the way it's, you know. You're going to wear that again to work, Troy? No, he's not. You ruined it for him. Lost confidence. I love how I'm chucking this on you too.

I definitely wasn't a part of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'd want to know if I was wearing a poo racing top, you know. You got to tell it to us straight. So anyway, what's your fashion value? Well, yeah, so, Symphony this Saturday, and I saw something online, maybe a few weeks ago, and I was like, oh, that's cool.

It's kind of popped up in my algorithm. I was like, cool, like a matching shirt and shorts, a combo, you know, festy outfit. I'm like, great. I'll order that, ordered it, and it's been sitting at home. Good to go. And I'm like, good, I've got it all sorted for a symphony. You were full confident to look at it yourself, not ask anyone else. You didn't ask anyone here.

Look great on the model. Did you ask your wife or your daughters? No, I don't ask you. No, good I knew. I'm my own man. I'll wear my own Disney T-shirts if I want to, thank you. So I ordered it. And then we were just talking about it with the kids a couple nights ago about what people,

you know what my wife is going to wear the symphony. And she was like, I hadn't thought about it. I'm all sorted. I'm all sorted. I got it. I bought a new outfit. And I went and got it on. Walk back out and I walked past my wife.

I was in the laundry at the time. And she's like, oh, geez, I thought you were naked. And I was like, oh. And she goes, yeah, you look like you're naked. I love that that gives her a jump scare. Oh, God. Have you bought a skin colored outfit? I didn't think it was that skin color.

But maybe going past it thing. And then the kids are like, no, I don't think you are naked. My wife's like, well, I don't know. And now I've got it in my head. I'm like, can I turn up? You've got your family second guessing it. Like maybe can you put a pixelation over the appropriate parts of your outfit? Well, you don't want to like turn up and look like I'm fully nude from a distance.

Is it like tight? That's not tight. It's just probably the colouring of it maybe was on. But I don't think it is. Have you got it here? I've got it along today so I can show you. Fashion show. And maybe, like, I'm hoping that she was wrong.

That glance was wrong. And I, you know, but now I just don't want people like to walk past on Saturday and go, you could get arrested in that. Yeah. Yeah. After the absolute roasting that you've given me and produced. so Troy, you can count on a non-biased answer from us. I know I'm going to get roasted.

The model look great. The model look really good. Let's check it out to the people, okay? We'll get Ben in this outfit. We'll get a photo up and then you can judge. You can judge whether this is safe enough to wear to symphony on the weekend. It's a referendum. The collars are also quite big too, so maybe I should have tried it on in store.

But anyway, that's a... Big collars. Bigger collars than I thought. Oh, okay. John Trembalter. Take on something online. Thinney Music Festival. We're excited about going along.

If you haven't been before, it's incredible. Oh my God. Live music. What's? Live orchestra. How many people have text outfit to see what you're wearing? So, yeah, I bought an outfit online without seeing it in the flesh. Just saw it look good on the model.

And I was like, clicked, I bought it. And then it arrived. It's been sitting there for a couple of weeks at home. Haven't tried it on. I'm like, I'm sort of. I'm ahead of the game. I've got an outfit. You know, I'm good to go.

When you say a couple of weeks, are you outside of your return time? Maybe. This is the thing that worries me at the moment because I put it on to show the family other night and my wife's like, oh, you look. So I walk past her, she's like, oh, you look naked. And she would know. She would know what you look like naked, too, out of everyone.

And now it's in my head because it is kind of close to skin colour. I'm like, oh, geez, it's a shirt and shorts combo matching and, yeah, I'm not sure. It's fashion, darling. Now we are throwing it to the people, the public, as to whether you should follow through with this to symphony. Because, I mean, the public are the people who are going to have to witness it. Yeah, you know. It's only fair that they decide.

Oh, is it fair that inside? I'm putting myself up for a roasted. You are, I mean... I think sometimes when you ask, you're just letting yourself be roasted. So what's the feedback? Go on, hit me with it. If you were on the fence with your confidence with this outfit. I'm just gonna read them as... I'm not gonna pick through them, I'm gonna read them as they come. It's fine. Oh my god, don't wear that to symphony. Okay, no, it's not fine. He doesn't look naked. That's good? It doesn't say that anything else. Oh, okay. Please know, Ben my friend, get something.

different, that's not a good outfit. I know. Speechless, lull, very, yeah, nah. Oh, is there anything on the positive side of it? That's that perfect for a festival, someone said. You can text

text outfit to 4487. You do look naked. I've got some callers here too. Debbie. Yes, hi, good morning. Debbie, well, have I made a bad decision? Yes. Yes.

It's very, I don't know, skin on, skin on. A lot of skin. Looks how I read that. What's Kim Kardashian's thing? Skins. Yeah. Skins, yeah.

Skims. Okay, Debbie, Debbie thinks too much skin. Chloe. Yeah. Welcome to the fashion line. The fashion referendum. Does Ben Weathers to Symphony? I think it looks gorgeous.

Oh. Well, you said, ugh. Yeah. It's pro outfit. She's perfect for a festival. Pro outfit. I'm pro outfit. I need to arrive after it's like the sun is set.

No, I think in the darkness, that's going to be your worst enemy. Oh, really? Once the lights are off, everyone's going to go, they're going to report you. There is a white stripe across your middle. I think that saves you. Don't tuck that under. Oh no, okay, okay. I mean, if you're wanting to take the advice of what we've just heard, it's over to you.

Also, this is rude because you're assuming that you're looking naked is a bad thing for everyone. Some people might be into it. It is a terrible thing. And I've seen myself from the more a many times. Someone might be like, oh, Ben's naked. I'm not sure who. There we go. Well, we'll see if you decide to wear it or not Monday.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. New Zealand International Comedy Festival, that surely, isn't it? And if you want to hear our conversation with a very funny man, David Corrios, magnificent head of hair, Coriose. Movie star quality hair. Luscious.

Luscious lots. I came in here and was rubbing his hair in my face. We spoke to David and you know David not only from his comedy. He's also on the Burger King commercials. Yeah, I was on Taskmaster as well. Very funny guy. But he's doing something very unusual. He's very unique, isn't he?

He's a quirky character. Yeah, we had a friend of ours who went on a first date to one of his shows. David ended up butt naked lighting fireworks out of body parts. Wow. Yeah, that first day, first day, risky. Was that impromptu or was that on the ticket? Now, he thought the guy going on the date was like, oh, a comedy show will be a good location, you know, not enough pressure to talk the whole time. You can laugh as well, didn't realize, you know, that David was on and what he was going to be doing.

He's very funny. But, you know, he takes us to some places that maybe it's not first date material. Second date, third date, fine. We told David that someone, our friend took his first date there. He went, oh, dear God, that's not a good. He doesn't endorse it. But, yeah, interesting thing about when he goes on tour, he doesn't stay at it. motels and hotels.

Nah, yeah, I'm nomadic, hey. So I got scammed in Perth. Me and my girlfriend thought that we had like accommodation. And then it turns out it was just a straight up scam. So what happened? Oh, I had to like go on Instagram and ask people, hey, do you want to go any place I can stay? And then they were really cool.

So I've just been like asking people on Instagram. So you travel around the world and you post on Instagram. Has anyone got a house I can stay in? Yeah. And everyone's accommodating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you haven't got missing yet. Nah, I haven't got missing.

No, me and my girlfriend are there. So fans? Yeah. You stay with fans of your comedy. You stay at their house. Is that crazy? Yes. It doesn't seem crazy on the service.

But yeah, you're growing, you're growing, man. Are you doing background checks? Like, do you have a cop friend who checks on these people? We're just hope and pray. Just hope and pray. And we turn up. And, like, the house is sick. That and house sitting.

We're also house sitting a lot. Oh, yeah. So how do you travel? Okay, so you travel this is wild, what you're doing? But also you have at all times, what, 23Ks of stuff? That's all you've got. Yeah. And the costumes?

keep adding up in the show, so I have to like sacrifice one thing for another thing. So I am hitting at about 22 kilos. How many pairs of shoes have you got? I have got one pair of sandals and that's about it. I don't have to wear socks. Wow. So that saves on weight. Like if you're going to New York right now?

Oh, well, I'll put... Socks on. Yeah, put socks on. We'll buy some socks, I guess, there and not take it home. So there you go. Doesn't live anywhere. Wander's around the world with 23 kilograms of belongings. Megan, we went away for four days.

Your bag was 23KGs. Yeah, we live different lives, me and David. You do. You're not staying at fans' houses around the place. Different lives. This is what we wanted to over not. You know, each to their own. You know, the world would be a boring place if there weren't people like David.

Exactly. And me. And of course you, Megan. Of course. So we wanted to know, much like David's staying, it seems very wild to us, staying at the house of fans for people where he's like a message on Instagram. I'm like, where's the place that you're like, I can't believe I stay there.

I stayed the night there. Yeah. Thankfully in this job, you know, we're, you know, very privileged to stay at the broad spectrum of accommodation offerings of this country. Sometimes it's fancy. Sometimes it's fancy.

Other times it's like the Soviet Union built as. Oh, that one in Wellington. Yeah. I was like, I'm pretty sure I walked past a baby who was going to shank me with a knife. I was like, there was like, what? You just never know what you're going to get. I was like, what is this a part?

The other block. It was wild. In the room, I was like, I'm pretty sure it's a crime scene. Yeah, when there's miscellaneous stains everywhere. Yeah. A chalk outline on the car. Can't believe we stayed there. Where's the place that you can't believe you stayed the night?

We'd love to hear from you. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Bryn Rundkin from the night show there, spanned it out. Nice to have you in the studio. Good morning. Bryn, you're an agreeable young chap. I mean, you've even agreed to host listeners for 15 hours at symphony this weekend.

Yeah, can't wait. But you're a wonderful socialiser, and you must have accepted some strange accommodation. I have said yes to lots of things. And one occasion, I actually stayed in a haunted house. The Alberton Manor in Mount Albert, which is a beautiful home state. And allegedly it's haunted. And I just stayed in there one night. It's like a, it's not a place you stay is.

It isn't. How do you end up saying here? I don't know. Do the tour and didn't leave. Yeah, exactly. It's about who you know. Yeah. So, yeah, stay in the at it.

People. You have some stories. You stayed in the attic of it? The attic, which was just really, I'm quite claustrophobic as well. So, like, being in a tight space and hearing noises. So you did hear noises? Yes, I did. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Yeah. But I didn't see anything. It's a beautiful old building, but it's very much kept in the old style. Oh, they put you in the attic. What was it? It was a stunt thing? Well, it was just a haunted occasion.

Oh. Yeah. I feel like you weren't meant to be there and you're not telling us. It was for Halloween. What kind of noises were you hearing? Like creaking on the floorboards. No, none of that. I was hoping I would hear some of that.

Well, Bryn Rutkin. I love a Bryn's story. Have you guys done like a Ouija board? Yeah, I've done a Ouija board as a child. Yeah. Yeah. Did you do one in the house? We did.

And? Nothing. Oh, I feel like if you were going to get anything. It felt like when you said, if you got a Ouija board, you were getting lead on with a... Why did you bring that up? There was no point to bring that up. Thank you for 90% you nailed that whole thing.

Except for you went, oh, yes. Oh, wow. Chrissy, happy new year to you, Chrissy. Good morning. All right, you can't believe you stayed where? So like you guys, we get a bit of a lucky dip with accommodation when we travel for work. And this time, there was a group of us that went down to Christchurch. And all the accommodation was booked out from the main group.

So there was three of us that had a separate accommodation. and we got booked in this Airbnb. And this time we thought, we've got the good deal. Like, this looks great. It looks spectacular, looking at the photos. Anyway, we drove for what seemed like miles and miles and pitched black into the country. And by this time it was about 10 o'clock at night,

and we drove up and there was just these broad iron gates, like black gates, with a little sound speaker. It was exactly like a horror movie. and then the gate slowly opened and we wove down this windy little trick anyway we arrived at the Airbnb and we thought okay no this is fine we'll be fine we're not in danger

anyway the man opened the door and he was very kind took us all to our individual bedrooms and then proceeded to say okay good night and shut the doors behind us unlocked the door and got locked in your bedroom and we were like we woke the next morning and we were like Did we just get put to bed? All right, good night.

But we slept well and it was a beautiful spot. Oh, that's nice. That's not. All right, good night. Well, you've been turning out really late for the Airbnb check-in for this poor fella too. That's great, Chrissy. Thank you so much. We're going to hook out with a family past the Auckland there.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. All things, traffic. Stuck in gridlock stuff on the motorway. You know, when you're sort of side-by-side with another vehicle. And I was just looking straight And I could just feel eyes

Burning on me You know, you can see it out of the peripheral And I tried to ignore it for a while I'd move forward Then the car would move adjacent And still staring I looked over And it wasn't an adult

It was just a strange little child You know sort of eight, nine years old Just staring Kids can get away with staring Yeah Can't they? They really do lock eyes sometimes They do

And he was really making me uneasy Like he wasn't taking his eyes off me And I tried to sort of acknowledge him with a head nod To be like, okay, good, you can move on Move on, you can move your retinas to somewhere else now But no And the problem was I would move forward The car would move next to me

And just, like probably for about five kilometres Just still like, is this thing on my face? Like, what is? Was he laughing or? No, just looking, just looking, like a horror movie It was looking deep into my soul At all the terrible things I had done I don't know what was going on

But yeah, very unsettling. I hate it when you see someone you know in that situation. You're bummed to someone to a set of lights. You're like, hey, mate, wind down the window. How's it going here? Good, good, good. You wrapped up your conversation. You move forward.

Get another red one. It's the same as well, eh. You have a conversation with someone, then you see them every aisle. You can only hope the conversation happens at the checkout rather than aisle one. Yeah, you're right. Oh, you're again? Oh, you're again. You know, some little comment.

You're like, we've done this. We've done this already. Sometimes I just go to the other. other end of the supermarket and try and reverse back. Oh yeah. If you see them in the produce section at the beginning or something, or just go to another supermarket. She's just like a trolley in there.

This is not worth it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's been talking about when bringing the kids to the office went bad. Great text here. My brand new admin staff came back to her desk and my son had placed 25 snails all over her computer screen and keyboard. How are we to get 25 snails from? They don't read the room, but that's what you love about them.

I remember once having to take, it was through necessity. We were juggling kids when we were younger. We had Demi Lovato. We had an interview with her. I remember that. I had to bring my daughter, Siena. She was quite young about three at the time. I was sitting over there for a second.

You can play unlimited on the iPad, and you just as we're about to start the interview, she walked over to Demi Lovato. She goes, have you seen my iPad? And I was like, this is not the time to be showing Demi Lovato, your iPad. We've got like five minutes with Debbie Lovato. Yep, cool, wrap up. What did Debbie say? She was so lovely.

She was really interested. I'm like, this is not going to be our whole interview. Just looking at it. How many minutes did she chuck up with looking through your daughter's iPad? Yeah, I'm like, we can maybe move this conversation to a bit later on right now. Oh, that's so cute. It's not our first interview question. Have you seen her iPad?

So Teks 4487, Keithy's coming through. We'll get your calls on shortly. I went yesterday the whole day without my phone, which... Ooh, did you feel loss, lonely? It's like when you don't have power And you're like, oh, I'll just have a cup of tea And you're like, no, I won't You know, every now and then I'll be like

Oh, I'll just set a timer Oh, I can't do that And then, yeah, I felt lost The only time I felt really weird about it Was when I picked up the kids And I had the kids in the car And I didn't have a phone I was like, what if I break down?

What do I do? This is how reliant we are on it We spoke to Chris Parker He went on comedian Chris Parker Was on Celebrity Treasure Island It's like a stag do celebrity Treasure Island No phones policy and he ended that feeling really free

and he was at peace and he's like I am never going to use my device ever again and then he's like literally in the car ride on the way back from the island he opened Instagram and he was like 40 minutes later he's like oh well back in the game I did feel quite free

but liberating it is it's kind of sad when you get your phone back and you don't have many notifications it was just you guys having some banter on the group chat some prices banter it's probably more of the security thing that you get You worry about, like you say in the car. It's like, what if I broke down?

What if I didn't turn up? It's like, well, we used to kind of do that, you know? But here's the other thing is I could still send text on my laptop, so it's connected. And so I was still messaging, like, important things on my laptop. No one tell the government. That's the way the kids could get around there at schools. No, it hates to hear this information. So I was sending text yesterday, and I text, I was like, I need to text Andrew on the laptop.

to say the phone's in the car. I've left it there. And could he, the dog was getting a haircut. Anyway, I sent all these details, a lot of details, admin details, and I sent it to Andrew. But it was a group chat with our babysitter. So I was telling the babysitter about our schedule, about the dog getting a haircut.

Was it a babysitter? Did we glad to be crossing her on the phone? I just text her back and I was like, oh my God, I'm having an absolute mere. She was like, no, I also wish it. It was Friday. Do you think anyone has not got a cell phone listening right now? They're not going to be able to call us.

Well, they can call us on a landline, yeah. Is anyone operating day-to-day without a cell phone now? Or a partner or a parent? You know, like you may be hard pressed. Yeah, okay, do you know someone that's operating with a cell phone? Ed Shearinder, it does, right? But he's got assistance. Yeah, he's got someone with them at all types, you know, so it's a little bit different, right?

Yeah. What do you do for like, you know, five hours? of your day. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Lincoln Park, they were here last night, weren't they, Lincoln Park? And apparently they set a all-time record. They fully sold out Spark Arena, which I thought other artists would have done that in the past, but apparently not. Yeah, totally. Yeah, 12,000, 736 tickets they sold.

So the capacity's around 12,000, right? It's probably not because an artist couldn't do it. It would be the stage setup allowed more tickets to be sold. That would make sense, right? This is Lincoln Park, recorded on someone's cell phone. Because you've got people like Olivia Dean coming later in the year who's already sold out. So surely that would be the same situation there, right? So that's the girl singing.

I don't know her name. The new singer. She's amazing. Yeah, she's amazing. There you go. Well, they've got a plaque for it too. So if Olivia Dean comes against a plaque, we'll talk about her on the radio. Emily Armstrong is her name.

There you go. Yeah, she's awesome. Just threw it out there. and had to spend a day without a phone yesterday. Felt lost. Lost and free. I always find when I don't have it, if you go across the road,

get a drink or whatever after the show, I just find myself staring at people, just like looking them in the eyes. And then when they catch you, looking them in the eyes, they feel a little uncomfortable. That's the worst time is when you're waiting for something and you're like...

Getting him choked up about this, I'm an emotional bit of radio. Roll the cameras on this, this will be a tear jerker. It's the worst time when you don't have a... I mean, if you always... want to cry for something, make it a bit more relatable, mate. Something in my throat.

I know we're always wanting the clicks, mate. Choose your topic. That time Tuesday was, yeah. Megan didn't have a phone that one time. It was a cafe. It was hard. She just doing it tough. I bet you can relate, Megan.

The tears welding up in your eyes, are they, Megan? Other Megan. Sorry, very confusing. We've got a Megan on the phone. How are you? Hi, how are you guys? We just threw it out there. Does anyone listening not have a cell phone in 2026?

You obviously do. I do, but my father-in-law doesn't. Never had one? Never had one. We got him one for Christmas about 10 years ago, but his fingers were too big to push the buttons. Oh, he's got the big old hearty fingers. Yep.

King Charles fingers. Yep, yeah. So he kept pushing too many buttons, and he just got frustrated with it and threw it away. Throw it away. Well, we've got his landline. I just would love to talk to him and go, what is life like not having the stress of being contactable all the time?

Yep, yep. I imagine he's going to answer, and I'm going to regret doing this, but we're plowing on anyway. Good on you for talking and dialect at the same time. That was impressive. What's his name? Hi there. Oh, hi there.

It's John I been and Megan from the hits. You're on the radio. Speak your pardon. Yeah, a bit confronting. but it's a bit confronting. It's John O'Benn and Megan from The Hits. We have Megan on the phone. Megan McDermott. Yes. I'm not sure. I'm not sure we ain't got to last name stage, but yes.

Okay. We were talking about your, I'm gathering your husband who doesn't have a cell phone. That's right. Could we talk to him? No, because he's loading stock into the yard to go away on a truck. I knew I'd regret it. What's life like living with someone who doesn't have a cell phone? Well, it could be very frustrating sometimes.

I bet. Most frustrating, but I guess after all these years, we're used to it. What if you need to talk to him while he's driving the truck halfway between here and there? Well, we just don't. He can't. Because you younger people need to remember that we didn't have any of this Navman or anything. We just followed an old map and you went to town with your list and you came home with it. If you forgot something, you forgot something.

It was a better time. Was it? I don't. It was a time. Parts of it were. Yeah. Oh, well, that's good. And I suppose when your husband gets home at the end of the day, you've got a lot to catch up on.

A whole day's worth of conversation. Yeah, lots of conversation. That's correct. Yes. Oh, very good. Well, I hope you folk are having a good day. You have been so agreeable and lovely. Thank you so much for talking with us.

Okay. Thank you. And Megan McDermott, it has been an honour. This will live on in our hearts forever. That's good. See you, mega, thanks so much. She's like, why did I call the radio?

Why did I call the radio? You got to have a great day, mate. Really appreciate it.