Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why is Megan by herself from Mother’s Day again?!

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

On today’s show:  Ben accidentally ate food at the wrong event... but was it a wake? The most Gen z reaction from producer Grace when we surprise her with an idol! Why is Megan by herself from Mother’s Day again?! Movies every kid should see before leaving home sparks huge debate. Jono's friend is convinced a business near him is money‑laundering fronts The annual “It’s gonna be May” meme has forced an argument between Ben and Megan! 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. Okay, podcast, I'm going to start with a scenario. I just saw pop up on Instagram. It's from something that Mr. Beast posted a few years ago. Scenario is simple. Every person on earth privately presses either a red or a blue button.

Okay? Yeah. I'm trying to get my head around this at the same time, so that's why I'm pausing. Can I just say the pauses make this really dramatic too? Yeah. Okay, so you've got a red or a blue button? button, you can do that privately. If more than 50% choose blue, everyone survives. If less than 50% choose blue, only the red button presses make it. Oh. So what? Is there an option to go,

hey, do you need everyone to press? Don't you just go over and just press blue? Yeah, but would everyone? Would everyone? I guess that's the thing. Would everyone in the world, would they all press the same? Is there an option to go, hey man, you would? Would you trust everyone in the world to press that blue button? everyone to die. Well, no, there's only half that die, right? Only the red button presses make it. Yeah.

I know, but then you're going to, you have to collude with only assholes. Only the people that said red. But then you're like, but then you could be thinking, well, there's going to be people that aren't just going to, they're not going to do. They don't go to do what anyone and tells them. If, yeah, 100%. Like, if you look at an internet comment section, are you trusting those people to all? Yeah.

No, but that's what I'm saying. If you push red, you know you're only going to, you're going to be on earth. with only assholes that we're ready to sacrifice everyone. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah. So yeah. Well, is there an option to go, hey, man, I might just sit out of this whole button pushing thing.

I'll just see what the results are and I'll chill with the people who live. Honestly, I'll push blue. And if there's some asshole that knocks me out, then so be it. Okay. Because I wouldn't want to be here with the reds anyway. Wouldn't want to live in a world full of red button pushes. It's a really thrilling way for the old population control. It's a good format.

Yeah, you're like, are we all going to, okay, once every 20 years, the button push. I thought we're going to do it. It's kind of like squid game, right? In the second season when they're like, leave or stay. Yeah. And you just want to leave, right, but heaps of people want to stay. Well, that split or steal game that they play on radio sometimes, you know? Let's play that now.

Okay, so what I'm going to do for you and Ben play, okay? All right, split or steal. Split or steal, okay? Oh, Megan, competitive Megan. Congratulations, I am giving you $5 million. Okay. Okay. Now, one of you has to leave the studio.

I'll leave. Okay, you leave. And Ben, you tell me what you think you might do with this five million dollars. So how's it work? So if I say steal and Megan says split, I get it all, right? Correct. And if we both say split. You get two and a half million dollars each.

Gotcha. Yeah. I'm thinking she's going to go on the fact that I would say split. I'm hoping she'll go with the fact that I'll say split even though I think deep down she really wants to steal it I'm going to go for some good in the world I'm going to say split but I think Megan being the savage that she is

with games will just go you're probably listening on bloody snoop No no I have a choice turn it down Okay now Megan you can come back in Megan I'll wave wave her back in you stay you can just stay You're just waiting for the result We'll just knock on the window get her back in Okay so I need it

This is good listening okay Ben has made his decision in regards to the locked in my decision. Welcome back. Megan Pappas, $5 million on the line. Are you going to split or steal? So I know Ben and I reckon if it was anyone else, he would split it. But I think because it's me, he's chosen to steal it. Well, what a turnout for the books.

So you're saying steal? What do I do if he steals it? Oh, if we both steal, we split it? Or we get nothing? No, if both steal, we'll go over nothing. Nothing. If we both split it, we split it. Two and a half million each.

And if, if Megan says... I know, but if I know he's going to steal, there's no winning for me, right? No, but if Megan says steal... We both get nothing. No, no. Yeah, but if he said split and you've said steal, you walk away over the cash. Okay, so I'm going to say steal, because I think he said steal, thinking that I was going to split. Well, there.

Well, there. Well, done, Megan. Five million dollars. Well, good. All done, Megan. I don't want She won Yeah

And that is such a smattering of applause Five million dollars Well I'm not stoked about it Am I Did you say split? Yeah split I was thinking The goodness of your goodness

You know Deep down that you'd want to Yeah But I said Megan's all gonna be She's gonna be She's gonna be stee all the time That's Megan No I just thought

I said I would always split But I thought Because it was me Oh now she says I'd always She's saying anything Would fight more

No, Ben Boyce will always split, but I thought he was... Thank you. That's where I thought you'd end it. No, but I thought you'd be like Megan all know me, so I'm going to steal. Oh, wow. Why would I? My Godin knows me, so I go for the one that I think Megan would do. And you've always said, all I need's a mill.

All I need a mill to get a shit. Yeah. Sorry, Ben, so you're... Sorry to Jono because he's paying for the money. I'm the real loser in this. I came here with nothing. I walk out of here with nothing, but Jono now is $5 million down. And I leave with $5 million.

So you're the loser, Johnno? Okay, follow on. Question. Are you continuing work? No Okay, there we go Some truths, some real home truths Enjoy the podcast

John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats Look, something happened about a About a week ago And I still feel really embarrassed by it And I'm going to change some details To not to give

Not to give too much Because I don't know if the people there Actually knew that this occurred Because last time you said I'm mortified that I'm telling this story It was a wonderful story How you accidentally exposed yourself On social media

quite as bad as that in hindsight but you know one of those things you're like oh i feel really bad about it so we got invited along my daughter's and i to a bit of a function i'm not going to say what it was or who buy but by a company and uh we arrived there it was quite a you know fancy event lots of people all dressed up i saw the lady at the door she was like and i've replayed this conversation lots in my mind too since then she was like go to the bar great to see you go to the bar area grab yourself a drink there's mock tales or you know make sure you mention our company name at the bar you know you get the drink. I'm like, great. There's a pre-function sort of area. And then when you're ready, you can go through. I'm like, great. And then she said, and also,

oh, there'll be food. There'll be food available too. And I'm like, okay, great. And so we go through, get the bar, my daughters and I, we get a mock towel. We like, this is delicious. We look around and, you know, like, we're in the pre-function area. There's a lovely long table of food. And we're like, well, we're hungry. And the lady said there was food available. So head on over. And we're chatting to all the people there, talking small talk about the event. we're all, you know, and I was like, oh, great. And I'm, I was dinner time, very hungry. My daughter's hungry.

I'm eating, you know, a little mini slider. I'm like, oh, this is delicious, you know. And then I'm like, my daughters are like, you're going to try this mushroom crumb mushroom thing? I'm a fancy food, whole table. The boys are digging in. Was anyone else digging in? A couple people were not probably as hard as us, but we were definitely digging in. Sleeves were rolled up.

I was like, yeah, there was like a lovely little like pastry sort of thing with pistachia. It was fancy food. I'm like, this is delicious. Welcome to the good life, girls. So I had one of those little boat tray paper things that filled up and I was eating away and chatting away to some lovely ladies around it. And then talking to one lady as I was just going, I think a second or third slider burger. And she was like talking about other stuff obviously. And then she was like, oh, you work on the radio.

That's where I know you from. So I was like, yeah, great. So now she obviously knows where I am, which is fine. Yeah. And then she goes, how do you know Brian? And I was like, oh, I don't know if I know Brian. And she goes, oh, okay. Who?

Who? Oh, how'd you get to come along here today? And I said the name of the company and she just went, oh, oh. And every second, oh, made me go, oh. And I looked around because I met some people that were going to our function before. And I looked around the area. I was like, none of those people were in that area. I was like, uh-oh.

I was like, girls, you know when you're smiling, you're trying to get attention when it was out the other end on the table? Oh, I would give anything to have seen you in that moment. Come here, come here. I don't think this food's for us. This is Brian's food. They're like, what, what? I'm like, yeah, it's not for us.

They're like, we've just got like plates and food. I'm like, I know, put it down, put down, put down. Dear God, please tell me Brian's still with us. I don't know. Oh, God. We put down the food and we walk through and we're like, and then for the first. Do you think there's awake? Well, I don't know.

What's the occasion was at his birthday? I don't know. I hope it was awake. R-I-P Brian, but I hope for comedic purposes. For the first sort of 10, 15 minutes of our function, I'm sitting there, go, oh God, oh God, maybe, you know, when you're thinking and you're like, maybe, maybe, And I was like, oh, maybe, because there was no food. And I was like, oh, maybe that was the food.

That was the food. I'm fine. And then 10 minutes later, our food comes in. Oh, that was not the food. And you're like, I'm full, thanks to Brian. Yeah. And I'm like, oh. And then at the end, I'm like, do I apologize or not?

But I'm not who, too. I just like, well, no. Just pretend it never happened. They'd gone into their function and stuff. I was like, oh. She's going to be saying to everyone, oh, I don't know how Ben Boyce from the radio. Yeah, that guy from the radio. Listen, if you, if you are that particular lady, please text.

in 4487. Who was Brian? What was happening? And does Ben owe you about $150? Yeah. The good thing is if Brian has passed, she can't corroborate your relationship to him. No, but I just said I didn't know him.

She just said from school. Oh dear God. That is hilarious. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Weekend to sport, as you mentioned before, Super Rugby.

Not all at the same location last week. Jeez, that was epic at one New Zealand, Takaha Stadium. The A&Z Premiership Network Continues. The Warriors against the Eels in Australia on Saturday and a big game for the Auckland FC they're hosting Melbourne, the city,

in an elimination final at Go Media Stadium tomorrow night. Sorry, what are you going to say, mate? Formula One is back. One kicks back in, yeah. After five weeks off. Quite a big break, but then obviously they couldn't do the ones in the Middle East, right? Yeah, so kicking off the Miami this weekend.

You know what's been going on in the Middle East? Oh, no, no, no, no, that spring one. And I'm looking forward to hearing talking spit. What is it called? Spit talking? Talking pit, talking pit. Talking pit. Not talking spit, that's the baby podcast. Talking pit, yeah.

Or fans of saliva. But yes, you host that with Lewis Capaldi's brother Anthony Capaldi. Yes. Thanks, Jono. There we go. It's on Iheart radio. Now, Grace, come on in here. Producer Grace, we just, I think we altered the course of Grace's life about five minutes ago, don't you?

Yeah, she's a huge Auckland FC fan. Has been since they started. She's got merch. She goes along to all the games. She's in the port. She goes into the port, sings away, loves it through rain, hail, sunshine, thunder. You've been there. The thunder I sat through about like two weeks ago was it.

It was the craziest thing I've ever done. That's awesome. I really cool that. You just love the team. You're passionate about it. It's awesome. It's great. It was nice because all my friends and my partner had their own team like over in England.

And then when AFC came, I was like, I have my own team now. I can get into it. Yeah. Good on you. Do you abuse players and referees? Yeah, I like to say I get out my female rage. Yeah, gotcha. I can see you.

I can hear you. Yeah. So Steve Corrica, who's the coach of Auckland FC. He's an Australian guy, right? He coached Sydney for a while. He's done a great job with the Auckland FC and he was coming through to talk to. We're in the same building as other radio stations and New Zealand Herald as well. Ryan Bridge hosts a New Zealand Herald now in the morning.

So he gets big guests coming through to do the little filmed thing. we always see them like past past our studio because we look out to reception a great guests sometimes because you know we're so lazy we haven't booked anyone sometimes we just intercept Ryan's guests in reception yeah don't we yeah

hey what do you do it come in here and so Steve was finished his interview with Ryan and we went out and we ambushed the poor guy and said you know would you come in surprise our producer who's a rabid fan of you in the booth and so we we came in with Steve O Steve from the Auckland FC now

We're going to surprise producer Grace, Steve. Thank you for doing this. No problem. Good luck for the game this weekend. Yeah, it's a big one. Do or die. Do or die. Are you feeling confident, mate?

Yeah, I am. I am. Good good. Okay, so we're going to surprise producer Grace with coach Steve. Here we go. Grace, Grace, we've got a special guest for you. Hi, Grace. Oh my God, Steve!

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm in the port. Oh, my God, I can. Guys, Steve Farmer him. I don't know who's watching this, but that. Oh, thanks for that, Steve. Yay, Steve.

For that for tomorrow, mate. What a nice guy. That was awesome. Oh, he's so lovely. He smells nice. Yeah, because you've got a hug. But all your sentences drag out when you, oh my God, Steve, of course we are.

I'm on the point. Shut up. Shut up. It's Steve Parker. I was lost for words. Oh, you guys. No, you weren't. You were not lost for words.

And the guy, I walked out at the end, the guy from Auckland FC who was taking step around was like, wow, this is like a make a wish. Really? Oh, no.

It was so stoked. It was really cool. So good luck to the Auckland FC. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Okay, so for the second year in a row, my husband is doing this.

And I remember talking about it with you guys last year. We've got two kids and Mother's Day is coming up. And last year, my husband, he went to Hamilton to sing the National Anthem. That's a Patriotic.

duty like going to war for the basketball from memory but he also like stayed the night and I was like I don't think that's necessary it's a very like it's a short drive oh you're coming down from the high of singing the anthem

both versions I imagine it's good to sit in the room and just decompress yeah so yeah he wasn't he wasn't here for Mother's Day now this year I think he did afterwards hey we did something and he made up

for it. So I was like, okay, well that's fine. Gotcha. This year, he is going on tour for six weeks. And right at the start of when he leaves is when Mother's Day is. So this is, he's playing Romeo in the musical Anne Juliet. And so now they're taking it around the country.

I mean, that's what you get for dating Romeo. I mean, being married to Romeo. It comes with the territory. It's in the brand. He's out there, and he's smooching other ladies all around the country in the plate. He's going to be enjoying a hotel stays as well. Oh, shut up then. sleeping through the night.

I know. Yeah, yeah. So he leaves on Tuesday, and nothing's happened. Like, there's been no pre-Mother's Day situation. Is that what this radio voice breaks for, so you can alert him while he's driving? Well, no, because he's doing the musical all weekend. He's busy, though. He's busy, mate.

He's smooching girls. Excuse me? I grew two children. Oh, look, hey, like, yeah, thanks to who? Thanks to him. Two children. Births them, look after them. He also went on tour when my daughter was a month old.

So do you rather him say no to the whole gig because of Mother's Day? No, I just wanted him to do something beforehand. I see what you're saying. Yeah, I can't. Or like, organize something. Maybe he's got something planned. Of course he's got something planned. He doesn't have anything planned.

He had that romantic thing where he wore those tuxed and boxers' shoes. Oh God, maybe that was the Mother's Day present. You laughed. You laughed. That's on you. That's a present for him. Where's my present? I want some time alone.

It's over a week away. He'll do something. Yeah. No, but he's gone. He's gone on a couple of days. Yeah, audio Uber eats or something, mate, from his hotel. So if you can just drop them a wee word and say it's in your best interest to do something for the second year in a row. Six weeks is tough, though.

I mean, I get it. Schedules happen and, you know, you've got to do work and there'll be a lot of people listening right now. That will have to happen because that's just the way you have to pay the bills, right? Yeah. But six weeks is a long time to be a way. It is. Yeah. And like I can do it, it's fine.

It's more the kids that are going to be like, where's dad? Does he come back intermittently? No. Oh, he's away for the whole time. Yeah. That's a while. Yeah, thanks guys. Thanks for the sympathy.

No, the smooching he's going to be doing on stage over this. If I'm only my husband had the same amount of sympathy. You're right. He'll have a kiss every night on stage just to keep him through that tough times. Well, just rest assured your work, husbands. They've got a little bit of sympathy for you. He'll be like, oh, I think of you every time I kiss them. Oh, great.

Well, that was depressing, alright. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast. The Hits. You know, we all are, and we were talking yesterday about songs that we thought that every kid needs to hear and know before they become an adult. And we thought today, well, why don't we look at movies? Yeah, we're going to do the playlist of the songs next week on IHeart Radio. Compile them.

You can need to our social media, The Hits Breakfast, and just suggest a song. But, yeah, there's some banger movies that need to be seen before, you know, the kid leaves. house that it leaves the home and because there's so many movies being made now as well you can go to take this time this pivotal time to show you the old stuff when yeah you know movie technology wasn't as great as it is nowadays some still stack up and others are like oh my this is slow some of them you forget the age that they should be watching because i showed my kids mrs doubtfire i thought that was pretty chill that's a good one but there's this real serious adult conversation when they break up oh yeah and i was like oh can't fast forward this because the kids are like what's

happening. Oh, it was too emotional. I thought the most spicy bit of that movie we needed to put his bosoms out with the two tops from the hands. Yeah, the potlids. Their favorite bits when the face falls off and it gets run over in the street.

Yeah, it's a great movie. But you're right. I remember seeing that as a kid just not. I think my parents had separated the times in the start of it. I was like, well, that was tough going. It was more like a doco. It was like, well, this gets in the funny bit

where he's in the costume and stuff. It got there and was like, that was great. But the start of it, So even when I watched all the kids recently, I was like, oh, this first, does it still bring back memories? Oh, that's sad. A little bit triggered at the start,

but then it's great after that. I worked through that bit. And then love of costumes and everything that I love is this kicks in. Oh, you poor bugger. Was that like the first movie your dad was like, oh, take you to the movies, kids? I can't remember like, yeah,

at what stage of my life I saw it, but I just know that my parents were separated. I was like, oh, that's tough start. Tough start. How about we just edit that bit out of the movie? So, 0,800 of the hits, this is what you want to know, one movie that you think every kid needs to see before they leave home. I'm going to pitch one, and I know that it might be controversial,

but I love it, labyrinth. What kind of magic spell to use? Slime and scales. Now this is, yeah, like Dave Bowie in there, Jim Henson created a lot of the characters for it, who of course created the Muppets and stuff. I remember watching it as a kid and thinking it's, yeah, It was a classic.

A little bit scary. But I did try and get my kids to watch it, probably about six months ago. I was like, oh, this is so weird. Now there's the baby getting stolen at the start. Does Bowie steal the baby? Yeah, I was all. Yeah, I was like, wow. The bobblin steal the baby.

Do we need to watch this? I was like, maybe not. So I put it on boards. 10 minutes? You couldn't do it? I was worried about 10, 15 minutes. Yeah, and I was like, when we get to the fun stuff. I watched that movie so many times.

Is that the way he's spinning the balls around with his hands? Yeah, the sort of metal balls and sound. Yeah. And those like red fox things take their heads off and play basketball with their heads. That's right. The bog of eternal stench. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

You could see Bowie's bits and pieces, couldn't you? Yeah. My sexual awakening, I think. With Bowie's tight. So, yeah, I mean, that's a good one for you, Ben? Oh, look, I'm going to go. Oh, geez, there's so many in there. Back to the future.

Oh, that's a good idea. My calculations are correct. When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious shit. I was surprised that it still sort of, you know. I can't remember that being in the fact. We have, out of three movies, did we have to pick the, but we, like, talk, I did not. Like, a great scorn or something.

We go, Moni or something, you know. Roads, where we go, we don't need roads, something, you know. It doesn't involve blasphemy. Big fly, you know, like, yeah, something, you know, there's plenty of, but anyway. It felt like one of those movies that I was nervous to show the kids as they got older. For the technology reasons. I was just like, oh, is this good, and it was still stuck up? Yeah, stacks up, I thought.

My husband has never seen any of them. Oh, you can show your kids and your husband as well. I'll sit you up for that. Yeah, dude. It's like, your whole relationship's kind of back to the future now, I guess. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. What movies do you think all kids should have seen before they've become adults? So many great texts coming through.

We've got iconic ones like The Goonies, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, There's Mighty Ducks, Cool Runnings, and Neander Jones. Look in the mirror and tell me what you see. I see Junior. You see Junior. Well, you want to know what I see. I see pride. I see power.

Cool running. Good movie. Great movie. Honey, I shriek the kids has come through. Yeah, remember the Titans. So many great texts. Hopefully they all stack up too. As you mentioned before, sometimes when you play them to the kids, you're like,

honestly, this was revolutionary, you know, at its time. And they're like, well, now it's just kind of like taking me from 5G to dial up. Yeah. And the attention span, I feel, even with yourself now, not just the kids. Like, get to the point, man. The original, you know, chulling the chocolate factory, jeez, it takes a while to get into that. It's the whole weird thing where they're singing about the Candyman in the store.

He never pops back up again. Is that the dude in the spectacles? He's on the, he's like, get a can. The Candyman can, because he mits is up with love. You don't come back in this movie. The Prince's Brides come through. You are just slightly in your favourite hand-fighting. So I'm grateful being the biggest and his strongest.

I don't even exercise. Who's that guy? He's like a giant. Put him into radio. I watched that for the first time when I was older, and I don't recommend that. I think I was Andre the Giant, who was the rest there. He's in that movie. Oh, R-I-P, Andre.

Indiana Jones. It's a good one. It's another ripper. Listen, it's just us naming movies now, but there's some good ones. There's some good ones. Now, Graham, you must share your tradition. Happy New Year, by the way, Graham. Happy New Year, team.

You must share your weekly tradition. Yeah, so it began when we decided to do Pizza Friday, where we make homemade pizzas with our three tamariki. And I was like, okay, we're going to sit and do something. Let's plan it. So we decided to pick some movies. And it started when Wicked came out. And before we let the kids watch it, we have to watch the original Wizard of Oz. Gotcha.

And then that led to the return to Oz. A little bit scary for little kids. We've got 10, 8 and 4-year-olds. The OG Wizard of Oz is problematic too, wasn't it? On the set? That's it. Yeah, a bit wild. But one of the biggest wins has probably been my kids quite like musicals.

So Jack Black's School of Rock. Oh, that's a good one. So every Friday you'll watch a movie together as a family. Every Friday so. We have to trawl through all the different subscriptions I'm on. We've watched all the ones you've said. Totally on board with Megan. Labyrinth is one of my top films.

I took my daughters to see the 40th anniversary in the cinema earlier in the year. Did they like it? Oh, they loved it. They didn't like watching at home. But we went to the cinema. They came out and said, Dad, this is a great movie. I told you. Oh, yeah, that's what a great tradition.

So you obviously watched a horde of movies there, Graham. What's the one that you would recommend that every kid needs to see before they leave home? I think high school school of rock. Oh, School of Rock, Check Black, yeah. It just takes so many boxes. But, yeah, the kids, like, I stupidly let them watch Hannah Montana, and now they're obsessed with that. Terrible decision.

Oh, great. Thank you. What a wonderful thing you're doing. Yeah, that's awesome. Victoria, Morning to You, the movie that's every kid needs to see before they leave. home? Morning, Lord of the Rings. Come on, Mr.

Crawling. Yeah, great. Jono's refusing to see it for some reason. It's not too late, though. I just feel like every Kiwi needs to. Yeah, exactly. And you really actually enjoyed cinema if you haven't seen it? No, you're right.

What is this? What is the summer? In Kiwi cinema. I know, Kiwi, yeah. It's part of our history. Yeah, it is. It's, they just seem. Oh, it's great.

We get into it. You get into the characters. They seem what? What? Long. Oh, they are long, but... This radio show's long, mate. It's shorter than the radio show every day.

People sit through this. All the Rings movies are actually shorted into this radio show. Summer, good morning to you. Morning. And great to have you on, right, the movie that you've got to play your kids before they leave home. What is it for you? Frozen. I love Frozen.

Megan's not a huge fan of Frozen, but I just won a sweet spot for me when my kids were little. They love Frozen. I got into it too. It's Goy. Yeah. What is it about the movie for you, Summer? Probably Alsace making her castle. Yeah.

You said Elsa's a little bit whiny for your liking. Yeah. She's like got a sister that's devoted to her and she's got these awesome powers and she's still not satisfied. Oh, I hate she. Well, it's hard. If you think you touches, turns to ice. Let's try that. Yeah, but then she puts gloves on and it doesn't.

Yeah, no, but still, you don't wear gloves everywhere. Oh, so you're just saying with the gloves everywhere. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats Quite old a mate yesterday Just for a coffee Near who's next to his work

And across the road from him There's like a hair salon And we're sitting outside the cafe And he's just You know everyone's got Have you got a suspicious friend in the group? You know somebody just doesn't trust anything anyone Every phone call that comes through

Is like some You? Diffusing a bomb Yeah I'm up with that person Mind you don't answer phone calls No I don't ask phone calls No No good can come

from a private number call? No, I mean, that's 100% true. What call on a private number is it going to be good? Text 4487. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong. Text 4487. Has anyone ever answered a private number and good has come from that?

Yeah. But you're right. Usually it's people chasing money. Yeah. Wanting to ask you something or attend something that you don't want to do. But, you know, he's a very suspicious guy. And he's always like, this is what they're not telling you is. He says that a lot as well.

He's looking across the road at this hair salon. I was like, what do you keep getting distracted? he said you just don't know what's going on in there. And I was like, well, they're probably just removing hair from people's heads. Could have a good guess. Safebed. But he's really suspicious. He looks out the window every day at his office at this hair salon.

He thinks they're doing some sort of operation out of the back. What's led him down that part? Oh, I don't know. What's the evidence? He leads to, he's like, oh, there's all sorts of people walking in and out. I was like, I think they're called customers. There's bins out the back. It does.

Yeah. What are they throwing in the bin? Zane's another rug. But he thinks there's some sort of money laundering operation going on there. But he's a huge leap. Huge leap. That was a popular money laundering region. Interesting.

Yeah, barbershops. Yeah, it's a good way to launder money. Because you can really never really tell how many heads you've shaved, you know? Someone's like, how have you got $5 million this week? A lot of people came in and we got fades, bro. Headcount, that's how you do it, mate. It's all about headcount. Yeah, I guess what all of the price.

that maybe people could charge, I don't know. And concreting was another popular one. Right. Because you could do a concrete business and they're like, well, how much concrete have you poured? And you're like, oh, it's about 20 metres deep in there, man. A lot of concrete. It wants a lot of money to pour a lot of concrete in there as well.

So if anyone needs to launder money, those are too fantastic options. I'm glad we're helping out people this morning. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. And producer Troy, executive, producer Troy, really extended. going beyond the executive producing role and more into a parental role yesterday,

producer Troy, for Grace. Yeah, big brother, I feel. Big brother, I really leaned into that yesterday. She asked me to be a support person for something. Gen Z, producer Grace. Now, this is something that you don't like to do by yourself. I really, really hate needles, anything to do with needles, getting blood out, injections,

so I had to get something done. So I asked producer Troy if he'd come with me. So you were Grace's emotional support person, But also you were sort of acting as a jester. You were there for distraction as the needle was going in. Yeah, really helpful. He was really good. When you said yes, Troy, be honest.

Was it because you wanted to help out Grace? Or is it because you wanted fodder for us to talk about? No, I think to be honest, I was maybe mid-email and she asked me and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then all of a sudden there was a calendar invite and I was like, what's this? She's like, when you agreed to be my support person, I was like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Well, this was pre-injection. You've got to feel like this form first. Oh, that's good, huh?

Basically just says if you died, they're not going to be liable. Yeah, because you can die from so many things, really. It's like blood clots and, like, heart. Like, if you've got a pre-existing condition, your heart could stop. Well, this is evil. You're a very evil man. Have you ever had Gillian Bar syndrome, paralyzing illness? Because that's, if you have, that's bad.

Great support person. Yeah, not the best person in hindsight should take along, but it all went fine. It was beyond easy. And I don't know it's because Troy was such an amazing support person, or if it was me, but I think it was Troy. So this is you getting the injection? You look at your... I look at my support person.

Yeah. I really told you about my day though. Yeah, we've already had every single conversation. I went to last weekend. Yeah, I'm already done. Guys, that was so easy. And it was done! It was done! I literally blinked.

Honestly, me and Troy were talking after. I was just looking really deeply into his eyes. That's really weird. Really weird. We have a moment. It's a friend. a bond. Yeah, okay.

So would you, you still need someone to go with you next time you think? Or do you think? I'm afraid if I was a big girl and went by myself, it would have been disastrous. So I think next time, Troy's going to be coming again. Do you notice the patronising tone, Ben, do you think you'll need someone to go with you next time? I don't care. Oh no. Okay, Ben, I need people.

I think we'll get a sticker on your sticker chart. I'll be great. Oh, 8-under of the hits. What are you too afraid to do on your own? You have to take a support person. You won't go to dinner by yourself. Oh, well, I can. But rather if we had company,

but I wouldn't go to dinner by myself. Yeah. I did it once. I did it once. It didn't feel good. I was adopted by a lovely family who was celebrating their grandmother's birthday from Raratonga. And you're like adopted by, people feel sorry for you eating by yourself.

Yeah. I can. I mean, it's, yeah, functional. You're away for work or whatever it is by yourself. You can eat dinner. I need lunch. Eat lunch. Most days by myself.

That's fine. But, yeah. But like, do you go to a cafe or whatever? Sometimes, yeah, with a laptop and computers. Oh, sad. I mean, if you've got the distraction of the laptop, you're like a busy person. Yeah, I've got stuff I'm doing.

I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just sitting there staring at people eating. That's weird. So what is it you won't do on your own? Megan? Going to the movies. Never have. Wouldn't do it.

I can't imagine myself ever doing it. But once you're in there, you're not talking to anyone, eh? I know, but it's just like, if anything happens, you're like, look to strangers. I don't know. It just feels like it should be a shared experience. I ran into someone from our work at the mall and I said, what are you doing? They're like, I'll just going to the movies by myself. I was like, that's sad.

And they're like, yeah, it is. So I've just broken up with my partner. I don't think it's sad at all though I think it's sad I suppose for the 90 minutes you're not talking to yeah and if you want to see a movie sometimes you don't have other people or schedule wise you know if you really want to see something

British Troy does it all the time that's sad Troy that's not sad at all I don't yuck other people's yub that's what you always say Megan but you're on radio sometimes you have to for content John O'Benn and Megan

The podcast The Hats Well it's the first of May today Well, now you'll see the memes pop up for this. Well, you might have already seen the memes pop up for this. Now, Megan, yesterday we started talking about this day coming up. I'm like, oh, we can do that.

It's going to be May. And I said, no, the day was yesterday. To be honest. You're supposed to do it yesterday because it says it's going to be May. Like now it's already made. But it's going to be May for the next how many days? It's been a bag bear of mine too, Megan. I agree with you.

Yeah. Like, Jan first, right up to yesterday you could be. But you've got to be playing that song every day. It's coming. No, but it feels like sitting off the fire alarm when the fire's already going. And the reason you see all the memes today is because it's in America. Like tomorrow is, you know, they're a day behind. But technically, it's still May for the next how many days.

So it's going to be May. We continue to be May. So I can still play it. Maybe you'd say it'll still be May. But it's going to. It's going to keep me in May. Well, producer Troy, you know, always... 31 days, May.

I get to do this for 31 days. Producer Troy, we call on the United Nations of radio producers. He always likes to keep the peace. He's got an alternative for you, Megan. Guess what? It's me. I like that. The bloody months of the year really throw me.

Like, not the names or the order of the months of the year. I've got a good grasp on that. You know when you have to like sign an important... bit of documentation and they like to go the date, the number, the year. Right, what a quaint stuff. I always have to count the number of the month on my fingers and it's never a good look when you're signing a mortgage

counting on your fingers, is it? I'm fine until you get to double digits. Like from October on, I don't know. Oh, I thought that's when it gets easy, right? Does it? Well, yeah, sorry, 10, 1112. It feels like that's an easy run. In the middle there, I'm like, oh, is it 7 or 8 or 6?

Is it 6 or 7? Yeah, 6, 7? Are we still doing that? We love to do that. I mean technically you did it. Have you been taught the knuckle theory? My daughter was teaching me that yesterday. No.

So you go, like one knuckle will be January, so that's 31. The next, like the indentation in between your knuckles. Feb can be obviously 28 or whatever. It's a bit of a rogue month. So Jan, Rogue month, Feb. March, back to 31. In between your knuckles again. April, back to 30.

Oh, right. Yeah. And they alternate. all the way across your knuckles. If you don't know the 30 days have September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31 except for February. I mean, if you're not across that right. Yeah, it was pretty easy, right?

I mean, it seems a bit quicker. Yeah, it's going, I don't mind the 10-minute knuckle theory myself. The knuckles seems like it takes a lot longer. I mean, it looks like a toddler. Yeah, it does look childish. Yeah, it does look at April. Wait, just let me count my knuckles. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. I'd probably best to just get across the little rhyme, aren't I? Yeah. The rhyme. I think we all learned it at school. And like, you only have to do that first, but 30 days have September, April, June and November. And then I think you're fine. No.

Yeah, but you could also count 10 of your knuckles. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, the thing with snoring is you don't know. Well, you know, I don't know I'm storing. Now, this is my thing. My wife has said probably the last couple of years.

And not every night or every morning she'll go, oh, you snored, but sometimes she'll mention that I snore. And I don't know if it's every night. all the time when it happens, if I'm lying in certain positions, what's causing, I don't know, and maybe I've always been a snorer. I don't know. You don't have people come up to you and go, you've been snoring for 20 years now, you know? Yeah, you're right. But then surely your wife would have noticed over your sleeping career.

Yeah, she feels like maybe it's got worse over the last couple of years. So, yeah, but not all the time. I've heard you snore on the $10 tour we did. But it wasn't like intense. This is a cute little lip. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Baby hedgehog or something.

Sure. Sometimes I snores so deep and you actually wait yourself up. Yeah. That was me when I was pregnant. You're like, real intense. My husband's like, God, I hope this stops once those babies are out. So I saw an ad for, it popped up and it was like for nasal strips. So you put the little strip across your nose.

It's all in the name, really nasal strip. What are they meant to do? It's been doing, like, healthy airwaves. Yeah. Yeah. And as soon as you put it on, you can feel like you can get more air into your nose instantly. So your nose sort of looks like a lightly damaged aircraft. Yeah, yeah.

Just a bit of a bandage over. Put a little like a little black strip across. And I've got those that arrived this week. I was very excited. I was like, great. They've got a 30 pack. And I've worn them sort of like three nights this week. And every time I've worn them, I've sort of, I don't see my wife first thing in the morning because different hours.

But I've gone, how was it last night? You snore? She's like, I don't know. I don't know. I didn't know. So I don't know if they're working or she just hasn't. But is it every night that you've worn them, she hasn't woken up to you some morning? So maybe they're doing its job.

Maybe it's doing its job. Maybe, I don't know. It's the best response you can get. Yeah. Like the strips are work. Now, can you reuse them? I don't know. Well, I don't know.

I think technically they're meant to be a one, but you probably could. You've got to chew through one a night. You probably could because they're quite, they really do lock in there. Like in the morning, peeling it off. I feel like how many layers of skin have I peeled off. But they, yeah. Remember a former producer. Taylor Montoya, who has moved back to Australia with her husband, Marcelo, who plays for

Bulldogs now. He would tape her mouth shut. She had mouth tape. He would go, all right, time for your taping and put mouth tape over her mouth. So she can breathe through her nose better because she was a mouth breather. But I think he was doing it from a loving stuff. It just sounded quite kidnapping. It did, yeah.

She was on board with it, but it was weird. Yeah, so apparently if you breathe through your nose, it can control the breath. He's an athlete. all about that. Yeah. It seems odd. But anyway, so we thought,

well, what are you... He said, why are you taping me up at 6.30 at night? Don't you feel like you'd wake up in the middle of the night

and you're like, hmm? Yeah. Oh, no, that's right. So what's part of your nighttime routine? I've just introduced this at the moment.

And I thought, well, oh, 800 that's 4487. What's something you're like? Every night before I go to bed, I need to do this. You have the bedtime parade, don't you? Yeah, because I do a lot.

I have to fill up my water bottle. I take all vitamins. I get everyone's vitamins out. Yeah. When do you have vitamins? I don't. But if I would, it would be a morning thing. When I have done it, it's like up in the morning.

The way you asked her, it sounded like vitamins wearing your routine at some point. It used to be. Then I, like, I've made that doctor-on who's like, ah. Dr John, yeah. Your body, your body. Weez it out. Yeah. Sure.

But I think that's why I do it at night because then I don't we. Yeah, gotcha. Oh, keeps it in there. And then like the amount of serums and potions and potions and stuff I put on my face. I lash serum to make my eyelashes grow. All of that pila-well, it must be working because you look 48 years up.