Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why does Jono have a mysterious G-string in his pocket???

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

On today’s show: The curious case of the G-string in Jono’s pocket Ben's $10 hack that could save your marriage We pranked Megan... and it involves Liam Lawson Behind the scenes of reality TV: “The producers totally manipulated it” Discontinued items we seriously miss That time the babysitter got tied up for hours!!! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Tuesday morning. I know Megan today, she, uh, unwell. She really went downhill yesterday, didn't she? She did, yeah, poor thing. She suffers from, uh, asthma. Quite badly, quite badly too, to the point where you're like, oh, are you okay? Do you need to go to hospital? She was really struggling to breathe and stuff. It's like Darth Vader, you know, like, maybe he had asthma the the whole time Darth Vader. Someone get the guy a ventriloquist. That's why he was so evil It was like, your Christ, all I need is... Put me on a bloody, you know, one of those oxygen tanks. Yeah, you're right It was wheezy But you know, I don't know what time she got into work because we normally meet up around five o'clock in the morning

But she was here to watch the race, the replay of the race with Liam Lawson. Oh yeah and she was too, she got herself too excited towards the end. She did, she was fired up until that point. Yeah I was sort of editing and then she was so excited, had her headphones on, she was screaming and yelling and she worked herself up into a bloody asthmatic frenzy. Well I don't understand, I like, she's a huge F1 fan and I love the fact that she loves it and I'm, you know, I love the fact that she loves it and I love the fact that Liam Lawson's doing well. But he came eighth last week and he got eighth this week, right?

Yeah. Yesterday she was... I think cause he was... And last week she was like, oh that was a boring run. And I was like, but he had eighth. It was big. Why was that? Like, why was she less excited about that one than this one?

Because I think it was, he was ahead of the whole Red Bull team. So he was ahead of Verstappen. Oh, gotcha. He was ahead of Yuuki who replaced him. Okay, that makes more sense. But I was like, yeah mate, the week before and you were just like, oh yeah, great. And it carried on. Yeah.

And then she was like, yeah, but yeah, okay. Eighth is eighth? Yeah, eighth, same result. But yeah, right. Who was behind him. Who was behind him. Okay, that makes more sense. Thank you for saying that.

She was just, yeah, it was like, oh, she was like, so good, guys. You know, she really has taken a motherly role of Lee Lawson. She then went off to the doctors, has got some steroids and prednisone too. We can't, we don't feel entirely safe around her when she's on steroids, do we? Anything can happen. Unpredictable really. It's just like, you just don't know. And the strength, like her strength really increases too.

So it's kind of like a, you know, when you see those documentaries on the, you know what I'm going to say, they're strong. You're walking on eggshells. I can just say if you've ever watched The Incredible Hulk, he's quite mild-mannered, and then all of a sudden, you're in the clothes. Look at me, make my own bread. And then you're like, whoa, geez, all right, so calm down. We just say it was best you stay at home this morning. So hopefully she'll be back tomorrow.

Now, speaking of all that, hopefully she'll be back tomorrow because we're due to go to Wellington. Oh, yeah. Now, I wanted to, this is a question I wanted to ask you. Very organized traveler, probably one of the more organized travelers I've come across. You and our boss, Matt Anderson, you wouldn't get two more organized. I did like traveling with him, because it was great. I was just like, he's got that covered. He's got that covered. He's an organized traveler. You're an organized traveler.

Have you already packed for Wellington? No, I haven't, actually. I thought you would have. Yeah, no. Toilet bag, for some reason, I've left my toilet since Sri Lanka. I pretty much left the bulk of my toilet bag there, ready to go. Have you got double ups you can use in the bathroom? Yeah, I have a lot of stuff, except for toothbrush.

But yeah, I just pop that back in and then I'm good to go. So yeah, but not too much. I mean, so if it was going away for longer than a night, I definitely would have been packed by now. I thought you would have done it on the weekend. I did. That's my bugbear with my wife. She always leaves it to the last minute.

Does she pack on the day? Well, she will be like, we've got to do this. Coming up, we've got to do this. Let's get it done. Let's get it done. I don't want it, because I'll be in bed. And I'll be like, it's just midnight. It's midnight.

I want to go to sleep. Is she not packed at midnight? Is she still going stuff, you know? And I'll be in bed and I'll be like it's just midnight She's still like going stuff, you know, and I'm like lights on and I'm like this we you know So and your flights at six in the morning. Sometimes we're up at four and I'm like don't want this that you know, yeah She's got other stuff that she's you know, she'll work and stuff like that I get that but it's sometimes I'm like Can we know this is coming up let's get it done the weekend before. Yeah time! But yeah that's okay. But mind you a smaller domestic flight you can do that on the day. I can do that on the day. Will you do it today? Yeah do it today yeah yeah get it done today yeah although we're not leaving till tomorrow afternoon so I probably could do it tomorrow but yeah. Yeah no there we go

but I see it's good traveling with you you got a little suss. Yeah I think I think Matt our boss might even be slightly more organized. I do like that. He really yeah He's an erotic traveler that guy. Yeah, I did like that All right. Well, I enjoy the podcast and we'll be back tomorrow John O, Ben and Megan the podcast The Hats. You know, there's a video doing the rounds following a lot of people AI getting very very good these days and it's some bunnies Some rabbits jumping on the tramp in the dark. It looks very very cute I watched it last week and I was like, well don't tell me that was AI Yeah, apparently I fooled millions of people around the world though this video of your cute little rabbits

We'll put it on the hits breakfast on our Instagram story jumping on a trampoline in the dark Oh, that's so adorable. It's called on the night vision camera Yeah, the rabbits are jumping on the tramp and I'm sure rabbits would love to jumping on a trampoline in the dark and you're like, oh that's so adorable. It was caught on the night vision camera. Yeah, the rabbits are jumping on the tramp. And I'm sure rabbits would love to jump on the tramp. Well that's why I thought, well this is plausible. Why would AI do us dirty on such a cute setting? And then producer Troy was actually telling you before that if you look at the bottom

of the screen, two of them disappear. Just kind of disappear, yeah. AI getting very, very good though, as we said before, it used to be like, oh, it's six fingers on this person's hand. Stephanie AI. Now you just, you can barely tell. It's been in the space of under a year that it's advanced. Hey, no Megan today.

She's off with respiratory issues. On the steroids too, we can actually have her in here under steroids. She's a bit volatile. She's very volatile. Yeah. Rips down the curtains. She's like working with a WWE wrestler. Smashes her head through the studio door.

She keeps calling me, you know something brother? And I'm like, I don't know why, because she keeps calling me brother. You're going down brother! Okay, okay, so it's just be she. Let me tell you something brother. I'm like, okay, you just talk on the radio like a normal person. So yeah, we had to stand it down for 24 hours, wait for the steroids to wear off. For the effectors to work its way out of her system.

We were leathery brown tans again. It was quite scary. She looked quite veiny in the neck too. Anyway, so we wish her the best in her steroid abuse recovery program. Listen, the shocking, this has probably happened to a lot of people. It happened to me yesterday. The old static electricity from the washing cycle with the drying gets quite clingy. It does, yeah. And so I've gone through the majority of the workday yesterday until I noticed

something in the in the lift going to my case. Oh there's something poking out the bottom of my jeans. And I was like oh it looks like another shoelace or something. And I pulled it out and it was someone's g-string. Someone's g-string. Hopefully someone in your household, otherwise you're gonna be like, she's playing today. It's probably my daughter's g-string. I'm kidding, it was Jennifer's. But the worst thing is, it's my wife's one, is the gilts come on you,

like, how am I gonna transport this home? So you put on, I pulled it out and then I was like, oh God, there's cameras in the lift. You've got underwear. Yeah, I've put it in my back pocket. And, the last thing I'm hoping is if you get pulled over and it's an empty your pocket situation Don't do this, Mr. Officer, but you don't want to see the results of this Can I see what's in? Yeah, the worst thing that if you ever take a flight or something. Yeah You're like, oh it's the washing machine. Put all your stuff out there and you're like, oh god, he's got his G-string

Yeah. You've got it in your pocket. You've got it in your pocket. Oh, it's the washing... Put all your stuff out there, you're like, oh, he's got his G-string. That he can get changed into at any stage throughout the flow. I know. There's all sorts of assumptions that come when you've got a G-string in your pocket. Hey, actually, you're right. If you want to wear a G-string, you wear a G-string.

It's fine. Sometimes it's a little thrilling, I imagine. But then I got it home and I was like, what pile does this go? Do I put it back on the spare bed with the mountain of laundry that needs to be? Yeah. Oh, it's been washed, but then how was it? It's been with you all day. It's been out and about? Yeah, it's been washed but then how has it been with you all day? It's been out and about. Yeah, it's been in my grubby pocket. So I decided I'd just keep it in my pocket, just for safe keeping for the time being.

Good to go. That's the backstory, I'm sticking with it. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. That. Megan today, she's away with respiratory issues. I love saying respiratory issues, it's a fun word to get to. Not many opportunities you can say respiratory issues, so we'll take full advantage.

Now I know that with every relationship and every person have little things that, you know, kind of are their little bugbears. And I get it. Everyone's different. And a clutter for me. And there's two places of clutter at home. I will leave it for like a week or so. I'll be like, fine. And then all of a sudden I'll be like, if it's the table and the bench in the kitchen I'm like I've just got to get rid of this stuff.

Where does it go though? You're a shover aren't you? This is the problem. I will just, I will put it all together now my wife you know she's very good at a lot of other things but sometimes she'll come home, she'll unload stuff from her bag, there'll be school stuff, there'll be bills, there'll be glasses, there'll be whatever it is. I hate it when people come and just vomit all their belongings everywhere. They'll come and go and all leave stuff on there that she's still dealing with and your

admin stuff and it's just like, it's spread out and it's clutter. For me it's clutter and I'll go, I'll leave it for a week, sometimes two weeks and then I'll go, no, I've just got to deal with it. To be fair to you, that feels like a decent amount of time. And I'm like, yeah, I know she's probably still going with it, but I'll just put it in a pile, love it, put it put in a pile sometimes put it in a cupboard Sometimes out of sight and then often she'll go hey, we didn't pay the power bill last month I was like, yeah, we get that. Oh my god. It's probably the cupboard where I put stuff away

Yeah, no, I realize that's probably not the greatest thing to do but didn't look nice on the table Yeah, tell you what doesn't look nice not be able to turn the lights on. Yeah, my mom my mom's love She's she's she loves clutter. You know. Oh Jenny loves clutter. So this is childhood trauma. Yeah she just keeps stuff. She won't throw anything out. It's just stuff everywhere. I look at it and I'm like I'd love to just get stuck into like throwing stuff out but it's your house. Well one day you know. One day I will. Yeah no I hate to bring up dark times but that will be your responsibility. I tell her I'm like I'm gonna throw a lot of this. I'm gonna go and do a full clean out. I'm going to give it away. I'm going to do a full clean out.

I'm not even going to come here, I'm just going to send people with skip-ins. But my daughter the other day had to get some photos printed for something for school. Getting photos printed, I was like, wow, I haven't done this in many, many years. What, for a project? Yeah, she wanted some photos from a camera, you know, like for her phone, printed out to put into a school project, like on a poster. And I was like, okay. I don't want to say that,. I think there's ways you can.

Yeah, well, there is printers and stuff. We don't have, oh, what? You could just put the photo on a document online and you can just email the document. Yeah, well, it had to be, it was a display thing. It had to be up. It was like a big art project thing. And it had to, you know, so I was like, okay, cool.

We'll go to a warehouse station and get some photos printed. Why pay full price? Yeah. And so while we're there, it was like 10 minutes to do, you know, to have that to come through, you sort of just have 10 minutes to fill in the store. And I found, for $10, I was just wandering past it, it was like a little sort of desktop organizer, you know, like a little container that people would have on their office desk,

that people with doing jobs and work and stuff, that would be like their to-do list. All their stuff would sort of sit in this little metallic sort of little box. It's basically like a box. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying. A little mesh box, 10 bucks. And I was like, oh my goodness, I could buy this. I could buy this and I could buy this. For the clutter.

For the clutter. And I bought it and it is a game changer. I went home, I put all the clutter in there. That's Amanda's little thing. I could move that away out of sight. She could move it back in. Oh, so you moved the clutter box away. But I haven't put it away out of sight. Everything's in the clutter box. Yeah then she can bring the clutter box back do her thing and then later

next I can move the clutter, put new clutter in the clutter box and move it away. All sorts of random stuff's in there but I don't care it's her clutter box. You don't have to deal with it, you're all right it's not an eyesore for you. No I'm like this is great but she knows that her clutter is in the clutter box. Do you have that random tin or jar or glass in your kitchen that just has, it's got everything, you know, rubbers, pens, pins, a lot of pins there and always a random UNO card? Yeah, like just you're right, stuff for hair ties, Disney discs, you know, whatever it is. Exactly. Some coins or something that you'd have from the batteries that you needed to, yeah. Just stuff like that.

Every six years you're like, oh we should definitely chuck everything in here out. There's no place. Yeah, you're right. Just that little, yeah, every household I feel has got one. Well maybe we need a clutter box. Maybe you've just cracked marriage, my friend. $10 thing that's saving my marriage. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats.

Megan today, she's away sick and we need your help right now. She's off with respiratory issues and she's on steroids. So we get a little bit... She's volatile. She threw a TV at the cleaner once when she was on steroids. So we need to send her home. But right now we need your help. She is a huge F1 fan, a massive fan of Liam Lawson.

Her dream, this is true, her dream is to have Liam Lawson, an interview with him on the radio show. And we've, oh my gosh, we've tried. Yeah, we have tried. Behind the scenes. We love him. We're all fans of him, but Megan more than anyone else. And so we thought, what if an interview came through while she was away? So this is the prank. So right now, what we've done is we've managed to find Liam Lawson

talking on another radio interview to Mike Oskings. A better radio show. So we've stolen excerpts from that interview and we are going to seamlessly interview Liam Lawson. Now this is where you come into play. You'll hear the interview that we've inserted ourselves into. It's totally fake. Liam Lawson didn't talk to us, but you need to help us out. Now off the back of this interview, 0800THITS, can you please call us up and just audience feedback. That was the greatest interview ever. I can't believe you got Liam Orson. We're going to say to Megan, we've only got him for like a minute, a minute and a half. He's busy after a race. It happened through his parents. They got in contact. It happened really quickly.

We had to make it quick. Yeah Yeah and even if you can just go, oh Megan will be so gutted she wasn't here, stuff like that when you're feeding back to us, so 800 hits, we'll start playing the edited interview, so the video that we're going to play Megan will start from this point very shortly. Yeah we're all in on this joke remember, okay, just on Megan, we need your your help here we go. Well this is super exciting we've been wanting to have Liam Lawson in our show for as long as we can remember and we've managed to get him for I know he's only got a couple of minutes to chat to us. He's on WhatsApp right now Liam Lawson good morning how are you? Good morning how you doing? We're doing well. Firstly congratulations Hungarian Grand Prix

eighth place getting more points as well, beating Maxx for 7. Congratulations I mean how does that feel? Thank you, it now finally does sort of feel real, it's a very cool feeling. So you said, I imagine last night, huge night, big celebrations coming 8th, holding out the world champion, did you get on it? Not really I'll be sound very happy but It was just pure relief which is also how I felt to be honest because it's it's been obviously a huge journey and

a lot of people have put a lot into this so Yeah, it's it's it's it was very exciting. Yeah, the sensible sensible Gonna ruin it all with one big night. No, what we would have done well Well listen, we must be honest with you, Megan, who we work with is a wild fan of yours. Almost, you know, she- Stalkery a little bit, mate. You could look at blocking her from your Instagram, but anyway, that's over to you. Is there anything you'd like to say to Megan who will be gutted that she's not here this morning, and to the other fans back here in New Zealand?

Thank you, and to, yeah, I mean to to everybody listening and to everybody who's stuck with me for All the years leading up to this Yeah, thank you because obviously it's a huge journey and for me This is this is what I've what I've dreamed of doing since I was a kid So I just want to say thanks to everybody because I appreciate it a lot Yeah, New Zealand is very proud. We're very proud of you. Yeah, all New Zealanders are very proud. We really appreciate your time this morning. Wow, the text has come through already. First text, what an awesome interview.

Yeah, Megan, we got it. Yeah, I'm just ashamed that Megan wasn't there. We had to take it. We did. So cool. The other option was saying, no, we have to wait for Megan. You might not get her, Megan. We did.

No, they're going on summer break, aren't they? Yeah, for a couple of weeks. Yeah. So we'll just... Hannah, good morning. what did you think? Oh my god, I cannot believe that you guys have done that without Megan, she is going to kill you. Oh no, she's gotta be gutted, oh no, but we had to take it.

I mean, we had to take the interview, I feel bad about it. 100%, especially after that racist weekend, it was bloody incredible. Yeah, it was, it was. I mean, I think it would be even worse news telling Megan, hey, we had an opportunity and we said no. Because yeah, yeah, I know. But it's really cool to talk to. I think Megan's going to want you to have said no.

Yeah. She's literally going to kill you. Oh, thank you, Hannah. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. Carol, you heard the Liam Lawson interview? Oh my God, that was awesome, guys Megan Wolbeg gutted this time. I know it was so good to have him but I also feel really really bad about that but yeah. We probably could have asked better questions to be honest. I know she'll be like what didn't you ask about that? I don't know Formula One. I don't know.

I just didn't want to look like a dick in front of him. Varun how are you? I'm good thanks how are you guys? Yeah good fresh off that Liam Lawson chat, very exciting. That was crazy, I can't believe you guys got Liam Lawson on the show. I know. Megan must be so gutted. I don't think we bring it up to her until tomorrow she's back. Then we put it on social media, I don't want her to feel worse.

She's already sick. It was the best time, he beat all of the other three Red Bull cars, especially Max. It was one of his best races of the season. It was a great race. It was a great race. It was great to get him. So thank you for running. Thank you so much.

And, uh, yeah, well, Liam Lawson, probably the first and only time he'll be on the show. Yeah, we really appreciate everyone's feedback on that one. And we'll have some explaining to do to Megan when she's back out. Brother, the reality show's coming back to Australia. We got talking yesterday. Have you ever been on a reality TV show? Yeah, and there's a lot of texts and calls coming through. Police 10-7, Motorwave Patrol seems to be very popular

for this sort of, in fact, I think every, if you're not a true New Zealander, if you haven't been pixelated on Police 10-7. Exactly. But Honeymoon Island was one, and there's Mike Dawes, who's a Kiwi guy living in Australia. This show just finished. It was airing over here. Yeah Dawes who's a Kiwi guy living in Australia.

This show just finished, it was airing over here. Essentially this was the trailer. My feelings are growing. From the makers. I'm married at first sight. She's a woman, I'm the man, just chill out. You're controlling the dominance. So looking for love this time on an island setting, right?

Which is, you know, kind of, I guess, Love Island, other shows, they're doing it, you know? Yeah, it feels like a popular setting to look for love on. They never have love in a kitchen, do they? No. And Mike Dawes, Kiwi Guy, who was on that show. Well, so essentially you meet someone and you're just, you're biffed on an island with them

and you have to make it work. Yeah, pretty much, man. So we did a speed dating around 20 guys 20 girls then they they pick six couples that go on like they basically throw you off a boat on an island and they say it's like survivor but bro we're from New Zealand this is like glamping for me. Do they film the whole time? Like go do you get time when you know you're not on camera? I mean, how does all that work?

Right. So that's the weird thing. So you are just on camera 24-7. So like have a producer crew that come in the morning and then you have a nighttime crew as well. Oh, that's weird. Do people legit film you in your bedroom like while you're in bed and... Yeah, they tell you when they're doing it. So they'll do like pick up and b-roll stuff for that

and then they put in the night time producer he pretty much just goes and chills in the hammock but what's weird is like we crack we'd wake up at like 5 a.m. in the morning because it's when the sun comes up and honestly by the time the sun goes down I'm ready for bed. I just you're absolutely naked but it's weird because I thought it was going to be more like Survivor where there were going to be challenges on the island. Bro there were no challenges. The challenges were sit on the beach and talk about feelings all day. That's a challenge for some people. And so okay so when you're actually, did you play it up for the cameras? That

tension in that relationship? Are you manipulated into getting into arguments? Here's where the manipulation happens, when the day two rolls around and everyone gets these beautiful messages from home, I'm probably getting messages from my ex, I'm like oh here we go, it's all good because she's a cool chick and we don't have any, there's no bad blood but the full video that she sent they like fast cut the video. So on the video, she actually said, Mike's so motivated with his career and job that sometimes he can make me feel small.

So be strong, blah, blah, blah. But on the actual video, all I heard was sometimes Mike can make me feel small. Bro, those are two very different meanings. So then, Stuck up in the edit. Yeah, oh yeah, they play around with their heart out, bro. Okay, look, you sign up to this sort of crap, you've got to be prepared for that stuff.

So like, I was here for it, let's go. It's made me look like a dick, very stressed now. Is there like some kind of support for like you guys afterwards if you're being smashed on social media? Like people aren't really prepared for that kind of, I guess, bullying. Oh, it's aggressive bullying. It's pretty hardcore. There's a couple of characters on there that are just getting absolutely reamed. But look, you've got to be prepared for what you say and you've got to hold yourself accountable. Now, they manipulate the edit or not, you

said it. Is that what they tell you too too if you actually hit them up? So I mean it's in the contract. It says in bold, we be prepared. We might not paint you out to look great. And yes they do have support crew afterwards. So they have a counselor or therapist dude. There's a couple of them and you can ring them anytime and talk them through whatever you're feeling. Yeah, right. And so, okay, having gone through the experience, would you do another one? Not like, not a relationship one.

But I'd like to do like Survival or SAS Australia or... What do you want to do fellas? Do like the celebrity gimme atti or something like that? No mate, we don't make the cut for that. You done that Megan? No. I'd get bored. Have you done that Megan? No. I'd get bored, I'd lose interest in day one. Oh Michael, thank you for being so open and honest about the whole experience.

Oh there's it, do they pay you? Yeah, yeah, you get 120 bucks a day tax free, so. Oh, sweet, sign me up. Hey look, honestly the best part about it is you get to sit on a beach, beautiful beach, in Fiji for a month without having no phones. For people, for us who are just on the go 24-7, it was the best part of it. I was like, I don't have to do any work or nothing, I get to relax. Oh Michael, well yeah, thank you for being so open about the experience and yeah, great chatting mate. Oh good, pleasure to talk to you. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hits. Yesterday, I was driving along after the radio show. I like to flick around the stations and I had the radio on in the background. You are a flicker, are you? You listen to, well, obviously the commercials on the hits though, don't you? Yeah, I do. And most of the time, don't get me wrong, I love to listen to the hits. But yesterday I had it on, I was just flicking around and I had the radio on in the background while I was deep in thought and I thought my radio was glitched, it broke it. Because I was listening to the country music station, okay, so I had this song. Now I want to start playing the song and I

ended up shazaming this afterwards. So this is a new song apparently, country music station. It's called Bottle Rockets. Okay, cheesy country. Talks about beer in a can. So this is like cheesy. Keep us playing. This is the same song. Keep playing. And I was like, okay, so in the background, I remember thinking, oh, that's a bit cheesy. And then I went away deep in thought, and then all of a sudden I was like, is my radio glitching? Because... And I was like, what, Hootie and the Blowfish is playing? What, have I changed stations?

Have I got two stations mixing? This is Hootie and the Blowfish. That is Hootie singing it too. This is Hootie and the Blowfish. Has he remixed? Oh, this is Hootie. Yeah. the Is it a collab? Yeah, so this guy who's a new artist is obviously remaxed Cutie and the Blowfish into his new song. But jeez it was confusing me. And the two topics don't correlate in any way whatsoever. One guy smashing beers, throwing rockets in the sky and...

Hold my hand. Whose hand is he holding? I was like, I was very confused. You know, when you're at the stations, you know, when you get out a range of one and maybe another one's merging through, but now apparently he's used Hootie and the Blowfish with their permission of course as part of the song. I imagine he asked Hootie. Yeah, I mean it's definitely Hootie and the Blowfish there, but it's got McCleary bottle rockets featuring Hootie and the Blowfish. There you go. I learnt something yesterday. Very confusing.

I guarantee you'll be playing that in about a week's time. I did actually think that. I was like, we probably will end up playing that. I listened to it a couple of times yesterday afterwards after she's amming it, you know, when you put it... Metal Rockets in the sky! And then you're like, oh, hold my hands in there. Very, very unusual. So yeah, very strange thing. So who's the dude? Scott McCleary. McCleary or something, yeah.

So I love a song with... They all sound like an accountant, don't they, the country singers? But they always got, you know, cold beer in a hand or a truck or a dog ran away or you know those... A lot of the times I'm like, if you guys honestly, if you just you know knocked drinking on the head, a lot of life's issues would be would be solved for you, but you also wouldn't have any songs to release as well. That's true. Hey next, the new song Herald Daily Quiz. We're a person down for this today, Megan today. Megan's away. she's off with respiratory issues. Really came on quick yesterday, the old respiratory issues.

She came to work super early to watch the replay of the F1. And then towards the end when Liam Lawson was coming eighth and holding out Max Verstappen, she was getting too excited. And I feel like that kicked off her breath. Respiratory issues. It did. She was shallow breathing from that point forward. And then after that, she sort of faded away out. She's not in there today. Producer Grace is with us this morning because you've... You think your response will be bringing something back to the supermarkets.

Well, I just want to say it was actually Producer Troy who was like, Grace, I think this was you. You can take full credit. So I'm taking full credit for this coming back to the supermarket. Well I just want to say it was actually producer Troy who was like, Grace, I think this was you. You can take full credit, so I'm taking full credit for this coming back to the supermarket. I'm really proud. So it's the return of a discontinued chip that was on the shelves. Yeah, it was thin cut sour cream and chive chips. Not well, not well.

Yeah, it's my favorite. Apparently we and Jono were talking on the walk here. Thin cut is like not the thing now. No, I feel like we're a thick cut society now. Don't you want a bit more bang for our buck? Correct, you want more sturdiness and structure when you're dipping? Nah, see I'm not a dipper.

I'm not a dipper. That's why I think the theory is, I'm not saying that, you know? But, because they've replaced it with sour cream and onion and people have been like, it's not the same. Which is a, that's a controversial decision, I believe. Like, the sour cream and chives,

that's been a rock solid staple in the chip category for decades. And then to add an onion to it-solid staple in the chip category for decades. And then to add an onion to it and then get rid of the popular ones. So we were googling, we found a whole Reddit page being like, can you guys find these everywhere? And I was talking to Ashley and she's like, oh down south there's some, but like they have been discontinued. So I sent an email like a logical fit person. It was actually my first ever email I've sent to a company. It seems very boomerish of you.

Yeah. Don't say that. I said, I'm reaching out to inquire about the food. If I had sent an email to a company, what would be happening now? What would you be saying to me? I'd be saying, you're a boomer, because you're boomer age. I'm young.

Let me be. So I'm thinking, Sour Cream and Chive Chips, they've been my favorite product in your range, but I recently haven't been able to find them in any supermarkets. I'd really appreciate if you could let me know whether this flavor has been discontinued or simply out of stock.

And what are they saying? And then they came back to me. Take a breath, guys. Dear Grace, thank you for reaching out regarding the availability of one of your favorite products. We appreciate your feedback and continued support. We can confirm this flavor has been deleted. Don't worry, they said deleted. What, deleted deleted. I was saying maybe that's like industry terms.

I like how it sounds when someone disappears from work we should say what happened to them they got deleted. Megan's deleted. However we have just recommended manufacture of the flavor it will be back on shelf soon. What? Just one email and you've got it back on? Yeah so I think that was all me guys. Seems like a shaky business. You know that stock we decided on to make while you've got it back. Yeah, so I think that was all me guys seems like a shaky business I think just yeah, no that's not we decided on the bank while we're bringing about Maybe they get heaps of emails a day and they're like, okay. Okay guys Email yeah, I was just I was the person who pushed it over

So guys if you see thin cut sour cream and chives, thank the hits. Thank great But everyone has that sort of product to that you know, sometimes goes away and they're like, I really wanted that. Yeah, and it's niche too. Troy, you've got a deodorant issue. We'll get producer Troy in here. I've also got a deodorant issue. The Rexona Quantum 78 hour protection.

Just if it was a green can. Okay. Disappeared. From where I go, I can't find it anywhere. And you know when you have your, no one else cares. I understand Jono. For many New Zealanders, I was like them Georgie Pie was back in the day, it was pie place grace and you used to, like your McDonald's, your KFC, you go along and get pies. $1, $2

pies. We never had one in the Wadidapa where I grew up. So you know, go across the palm of your welly and you'd get your pies. I bought so many once and we had 12 in a freezer. Oh, you'd freeze them. A freezer, you know. That's smart. I was like, Georgie Pie has got to come back. It came pies. I bought so many once and we had 12 in our freezer. Oh, your freezer? Yeah. A freezer, you know. That's smart. I was like, Georgie, boy, it's gotta come back. It came back.

I don't think I ever had a pie. No. When it came back, they brought it back and everyone went, oh thanks, but we've kind of moved on. McDonald's owns the right store. So they bought it back on the menu. Everyone's gotta love this. And everyone went, no.

And everyone didn't, no. Oh. Ronald's like, you guys bullied me into putting pie. Ronald's like, I'm a burger guy! I'm a burger guy! Now you made me put pies on you! You made me a bloody burger guy! Sorry, yeah, my memory was a lot... anyway... There's actually far better pies out there now.

Yeah. Alright, I'll eat 100 of those. What has been discontinued that really grinds your gears? Now it can be anything. It can be food related, it can be cosmetic related like you've talked about before, clothing related, whatever it is. The thing you're like, this is not around anymore and it really winds me up. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Producer Grace has just emailed Bluebird wanting to get the thin cut sour cream and chives back on the market. Emma, you've also emailed

Bluebird on this topic. Yeah clearly I didn't have my words right or something. You emailed them months ago, Grace just emailed them yesterday and it felt like they were quite wishy washy and said all right then we'll take your word for it we'll bring it back but you've been you've been chipping away for months. Yeah when they first got rid of them I don't know like maybe June July last year my husband's and my favorite chips so I emailed them and like yeah they've been discontinued up we've replaced them with these other flavors which is worse gross yeah we went around supermarkets petrol stations four squares, cleared out shelves like we bought about 30 something packets and we had so many that some of them started expiring before we ate them. Wow! All it took was one email from Grace and

she got a result for you. Well done Emma. Yeah! John O'Ban and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. You bang on about it. And I feel like Emma too, who joins us on the phone here. Emma too, apparently we've got another Emma on the phone as well. And you've come in second place, but don't take offense to that one Emma.

I'll try not to. Now, something that's been discontinued that really grinds your gears. Cold power washing powder. Okay. Is that gone? Something that's been discontinued that really grinds your gears Okay, is it gone Yeah, okay and see I washing powders a very specific thing for you isn't it very specific tastes Never did you wrong never did you wrong? What do you think what did you email them? Did you do a boomer email like producer grace with the thin cut chips? I must be too young, I did not pull the boomer and email them.

Have you found a replacement that works alright or are you still like, damn I really wish my clothes smelled like that? I do still wish for the smell but I have found a replacement. You've let it go, you've moved on. But yeah, cold power felt like a staple. A staple in the washing powder game. I didn't know to be honest. I didn't know it had gone. But hey, that's alright. Alright, good on you Emma. Well Emma too, go and have a great day alright? You too.

You may be Emma too on these phones but you're Emma number one in our hearts Emma. Don't forget that. Carol, morning to you. Good morning. Okay, the product that was discontinued that's grinding your gears Carol. It was called dirty chai it was one of those sachet coffees. Oh yeah so like a chai, okay chai tea sort of thing. Yeah and it was so good I actually got heaps of other people drinking it as well. Right and then they just ripped it away from you, did they, Carol? Yeah.

No warning, nothing. Dirty try. Just like the ultimate ghosting. Yeah. Well, someone's texted into Le Snack. Oh, yes. Yeah, Le Snack was a very healthy option in the school lunchbox for decades. And then they just disappeared

from the supermarket. They're still sold in Australia apparently. I felt like it popped back recently. Yeah it did for a limited time though, just reading here on the article. Woolworths bought it back for a limited time, probably just to go. Is anyone still buying this? Oh no, turns out we made the right call. I used to love a Lesnack. Yeah, good. I didn't even feel like it was enough of the whatever that cheese thing was to crack a ratio. Remember our dream was to do the world's biggest lasagna and just a big giant bucket of cheese? Oh yeah, we even filled like a pool in a town or a city or something, you know.

No one was willing to fill their pool with... Everyone can come along and dip in their crackers. With processed cheese. Hey, it could still happen. Well, clog up the filter system or it would be a nightmare. Yeah, real logistics not great. Philip, morning to you. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hey, how's it going? That's funny because my name's not Philip.

Oh, your name's not Philip? Hey, well that's alright. It's been discontinued. We were all hoping to bring it back, but alright. What pseudonym would you like to go under, Philip? Dylan. Oh, Dylan. Alright, I can see what's happening there.

That's alright, Dylan. It's a teasing mistake. But the one that I want to bring back, mate, is the discontinued one. Dylan! Oh Dylan! I can see what's happening there. That's alright Dylan. It's an easy mistake. But the one that I want to bring back mate is the clinkers. Where's the clinkers gone? What's with the clinkers? Yeah, clinkers. You know the red, the green and the pink covered in chocolate. Nice and crunchy. I can't think of a clinker. No wonder they had to pull it off. We're both very confused Okay, yeah look clink yeah, they're almost like your little

almonds were a little tight look like schools a little like rabbit droppings The pods people teaching in about the pods that's right They were iconic for road trips around the country spoken about before the tangy fruits a lot of demand for tangy fruits to come back They were discontinued. I think we need to hear you know, the grieving process is done with that one The movies I just remember going to the movies and mastered it and tangy fruits So people would roll them they had wooden floors and they'd roll them from the back and you'd see if it could go all the way Under the seats the front you'd hear it go Yeah, oh still going one still going. Yeah, probably hoits who are like mate floors and they'd roll them from the back and you'd see if it could go all the way under the seats the front you'd hear it go Oh

Still going mine's still going. It was probably Hoyt's who were like mate This is a lot of man hours cleaning up this and also someone's texting to sanitary and peanut butter discontinued Oh, yeah, that was recently. I did hear that. Well, keep this coming through 4487 the products that you really miss Yeah, the products RIP products. Vianetta ice cream Oh, that's another one. You know it was a fancy night products. Vianetta ice cream. Oh, that's another one. You know it was a fancy night when the Vianetta was rolled out from Mumden, yeah? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hit. Now over the weekend, I was taking my daughter, Andy, out to her netball game early in the morning and encountered a lot of traffic. Like a backlog of traffic. And the time that we thought we had to get there, we were like, oh, we're going to be a couple of days. My wife's always like, have you put Google Maps on? Do you?

And I never use Google Maps. I always think I'm above Google Maps for some reason. It always catches you off guard. Well, I put it in, at that moment I was like, oh, there's a bit of traffic. And I looked into it and I was like, oh, geez, we are going to be late. We're going to be past the time. And so it was coming up about nine minutes afterwards, eight, nine minutes. And I was like to Indy, you know, she was next to me and I was like, hey, we're going to be a little bit late. Can you jump on the, you know, they have the WhatsApp group,

they have the team. Yeah. And I was like, can you jump on there and just send a message, say, hey, Indy's going to be five minutes late. And she's like, but we're not going to be five minutes late. Google Maps says nine. Right in front of me.

Yeah, but just say five minutes. She's like, why do you, why say five minutes? You know, it's going to be, it's going to, it's saying nine minutes right now. I'm like, I don't know. I was like, that but just say five minutes. She's like, why say five minutes? You know it's gonna be, it's gonna, it's saying nine minutes right now. I'm like, I don't know. I was like, that's what people do. People just say five minutes,

it sounds a lot better than saying we're gonna be nine minutes away. It sounds like you're really really late. You are gonna be five minutes late if you ignore the other four minutes. Yeah, exactly. But she was just one of those moments, she's like, why do you do that?

Why don't you just say nine minutes and that's what it's gonna be? I was like, I don't know, but it just seems like everyone that says 5 minutes, we all know it's not 5 minutes. 5 buys you, I reckon 5 buys you 15. 15 buys you 30, 30 buys you an hour. We all know it, it's the world's most socially acceptable lie.

Yeah, you're right. 2 minutes away as well, that probably gives you 5 minutes. Yeah, 2 buys you 5. It just keeps, you just round it up to the next one. The complete false economy But everyone knows it except for like a like a 13 year old girl and her netball team So yeah John O Ben and Megan the podcast the hats morning when babysitting goes wrong Megan shared a story yesterday about how she was babysitting a

Little kid and to put it close to the candle a candle in the jacket the quarter light Yeah, that was her niece and then she was miraculously asked back the following week to do more babysitting. I mean, I'd be a little gun shy if I was those parents, but we did get talking babysitting blunders when it goes bad. And Sarah called us up as the part of the podcast yesterday morning. Have a listen to this. Good morning. What an honour it is to have you here, Sarah. Now, this is back in your days when you were being babysitted or you were doing the babysitting? No, we were being babysat.

Yep. Yep. Babysat, true, not babysit it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So my brother, he's about 10 years older than me, but we were getting babysat by this lovely young woman. And my parents went out and my sister and I went to bed because he was a full Dennis the Menace kind of trial.

Just a nightmare, yep. Just an absolute nightmare and my parents came home at 1am and knocked on the door and the babysitter was tied up. He had tied her up at about 10pm so she'd spent three hours tied up. How did he do it? Did he answer the door at 1am? Yes, he answered the door at 1am. Hello, welcome home.

A little bit of a situation I had there. Wow, three hours, wow, what happened with her? I imagine she wouldn't have been too happy about that. She was not happy. We didn't see her again as a babysitter. Did she get extra pay? Yeah, I haven't actually asked that question but I would hope so. How on earth did she end up in a position where she was tied up? I think they were playing a game.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so he didn't let her go. He what, roped around the arms and the feet?? Yep, yep, something like that, yeah. He must be good at knots, good lord. Yeah, yeah. And like, for him to hold, she would have been negotiating, surely? Yeah. Yeah, true. Not three hours later, he's like, nah, not too... Even with the parents coming on, that would have been a good moment to untie the babysitter. My mum was mortified, that is for sure.

Oh my god. Where's Denna? How's prison teaching him nowadays? Is he alright? Hey lovely to hear from you mate. You have a great one Sarah. Yeah you too. Wild. Absolutely wild. Incredible huh? So you know in times of life you're like well I'm not actually that bad. Those are one of those moments. Not actually that bad. Those are one of those moments. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. The government yesterday, of course, proposed to replace the current NCEA with new qualifications.

Now this isn't actually happening, but it looks likely to happen. What do you mean it's not actually happening? I thought that's what we were talking about for the last 48 hours. Well yeah, like it hasn't actually, they're going to take submissions on it and changes. They want to overhaul it. But then I was saying before, the submissions, people have got up until September, which is very quick. Yeah, well, nothing's going to kick into gear till like late 29, 30.

Basically, if it does roll out, it'll roll out over five years. Because they have to stagger it. Obviously, if you're year 12, then you can't start a new curriculum, I guess, right? So essentially, we're going to be washing out all the dumbos, starting with a new breed of employable university ready students. Well, that's the thing. I mean, it's a really interesting debate. I was just doing a bit of a read on it this morning and you know, there's a lot of people saying the system

isn't amazing and a lot of teachers are like welcoming this move. But then there's some other people there as well as teachers saying, oh, hey, there is actually some really good things about it because not everyone should be trying to get into university, not everyone wants to. It's not recognizing all the people that want to get into trades and helping out and that's what NCEA was designed to do, was give you more of a balance. The example they use is how many people are using calculus in their day-to-day life, but that's a big thing of, you know. Or Latin.

Yeah, things like that. The amount of times I speak Latin, it's the dairy. So that was probably the thing you know if you want to get into university then maybe it's not the best system you know at times but then they were saying you know if you want to get more balanced and more practical skills for life then there's a lot of merit in the current system. Well then surely there's a balance Yeah. I was actually talking to someone last night about it who's at a university and they were saying the exam strategy, it essentially just becomes who has a great memory. You know, if you're sitting in an exam, it's just a memory test essentially and then he,

again, he's at university, he's like, why are you bothering with that? Everything you need to know is on your phone. You don't need a good memory. So creating a system that can balance both. But then universities are complaining that students aren't ready for exams because they haven't been sitting them at school. And that's all university is, is exams.

So yeah, maybe there's something in between. But it does feel like- One thing's for sure, I should not be talking on this topic. I have no expertise whatsoever. I'm just regurgitating. When did you tap out of school? Early. I was halfway through fifth form. I was a disappointment. But you know, schools, it's for some people and it's not for others.

So I guess that's what NCA was created to do, was to give you more of a balance. And we always talk about, there's a whole lot of life skills you don't learn at school. Now I'm pleased to see my daughters as part of next year, they're learning about taxes and GSTs and a whole lot of things like that. You're like, okay, there's stuff that really smashes you in the face when you leave school. You're like, what? Yeah, what is this? I know. Why didn't anyone tell me about this? Why do I have to pay so much to that? But yeah, that's a very good point. So that's really good to know that is actually getting introduced now. You know, budgeting and things like that because that's a lot of real world. Did you finish 7th form?

Yeah, I went on my 3rd, you got my university qualification. Yeah, well because I had to get into broadcasting school. Oh, that's right. He likes to bang on that him and Megan have degrees. We're degrees, mate. I've got a BATLA certificate of merit from the New Zealand School of Broadcasting and Meth Production.