Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why is Megan spending Mother’s Day alone?!

Episode Date: May 4, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Ben’s daughter is using his exhaustion to hack into his phone! We confront Producer Grace about her unexpected addiction Wild birth stories—including one where she had to drive herself to the hospital! Is our Italian correspondent Daniela excited about the possibility of a new pope? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the Jono, Ben and Megan podcast. Thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners that everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast today. As Megan, very distracted with Formula One going on. I get it. I get it. You're a huge fan and very invested in Liam Lawson right now. And he's, well, he's not going as well as we would hope at this stage. We don't know the end result at this point. We're at lap 38, but right at the very start got hit by Jack Dillon. So, yeah. Are they driving on the wrong side of the road in America?

Or is that? Because that's quite tricky. There's only one way. I've done that in America. It's very stressful. So, yeah. You're kind of there towards the middle of the year. Oh, you do?

Yeah, you do. Oh, Liam's in the pit again. Turning stuff. I think his car's munted, guys. Oh, really? Yeah, no, we're back. It's not his fault. We're back. Poor Liam. And you just feel sorry because you know what's goingunted, guys. Oh, really? Yeah, no, we back. It's not his fault. We back poor Liam.

And you just feel sorry because you know what's going to happen online after this. It's brutal, isn't it? Sport, you know, top level sport is brutal. But yeah, it doesn't make it any easier or any better. Even over the weekend, he had a crash with Fernando Alonso and I read the comments. Man, they were brutal. I was like, this is still a person. He doesn't want to hit that car

no same with the guy who hit liam lawson you know it's accidental just give everyone a break you weren't saying that about jack down no i actually love jack yeah true this is the time you said jack now it's very upsetting because he's obviously stuffed the race for liam but you didn't mean to because he's out of the race yeah it's all right. Did you just spill water on the gear? It's his drink bottle. Did you see that video of Hosking demanding hot water upstairs?

I saw something about it. But he likes it with a little bit of lemon or something. He likes warm water with a bit of lemon, and his routine was all thrown out because the taps were off the other morning. The toilets weren't working. Oh, yeah. So he was in a right fluster, and so he's on air about it,

and he's like, usually I have, you know, hot water, a little splash of lemon, and then the boss, the boss went down to New World, got a thermostat drink bottle, like Ben's one there,

filled it up with hot water, put the lemon in, hand delivered it. Are you talking about the big boss? Yeah. Oh, my God. It must be nice. Let's try that tomorrow.

One of us will demand it's a lemon and see if we hear the bosses. Because our boss is working with us this week. Oh, yeah. Well, he's, yeah. He'll probably do it because he's helping us out this week. But that's got higher than. He can't hear us right now. So let's do that on the show.

Oh, okay. So see if he'll do it. Yeah. And then if that works, go up a level. See how high we can take it. Are we demanding the lemon drink or would that be too obvious? Why don't we demand something else that's just as pretentious? A matcha.

Okay. Is that too pretentious? That's maybe too pretentious. We'll work on that. Okay, we'll have that for you on tomorrow's podcast. A little surprise on the show tomorrow. But right now, enjoy this. John O'Bannon Megan.

The podcast. The hits. An issue, don't you? An ongoing issue bubbling away in the Pappas household. Deep sigh. It's this Sunday, right? And my husband has decided to work on that day. And initially, we did have an initial conversation, right?

So he said, should I do it? And I said, yes. No, he's not just working. He's singing the Australian national anthem. Not our one. No, not our one. He's singing the Australian national anthem. Not our one. No, not our one. He's singing the Australian one at the New Zealand-Australian basketball game in Hamilton on Sunday. Yes.

So he asked you. Initially, he was like, should I do it? And he told me it was one game and he would have to be going just for like, go down there, sing it and leave. And then I was like, oh, yeah, that's fine. Had more conversations. And he has to be down there, sing it and leave. And then I was like, oh yeah, that's fine. Had more conversations and he has to be down there from 10 a.m. He has to leave 10 a.m. He won't get home till 6 p.m. on Mother's Day.

And I was like, you know it's Mother's Day, right? He's like, yeah, but you know, like we celebrate you every day. Well, if he's not there, the players will have to awkwardly mumble at themselves. He needs to be there to serenade.

Maybe he can apologise to you in between. Oh, let us rejoice. Sorry, Megan. Happy Mother's Day, baby. For we are young and... Well, you dedicate it to her. This one goes out

to a wonderful mum. I would have just appreciated... The Australian. Is she Australian? This one goes out to all the beautiful mothers out there today.

To my wonderful wife, Megan. Love you, babe. Could you do that? Every mum knows that all you really want for Mother's Day is to not mother. You just want a break. And not only that, I'm going to do it on my own on that day. But I keep saying to you, Megan, off air, this wonderful post you made a couple of days ago about how you went to a Mother's Day lunch felt very spoiled.

This is your words at the Mother's Day lunch. Felt very spoiled. This is your words at the Mother's Day brunch with all these amazing brands. Food, wine, even better company. You've had your Mother's Day, mate. That may or may not have been a dig at my husband. You put it all over social media. You've had your Mother's Day as far as I'm concerned. Not from him! As far as I'm concerned.

I'm with Andrew on this one. Back to work, mate. Back to work now. You bloody get your piece of toast in bed and he'll serenade some sweaty basketballers in the afternoon and that's your mother's day. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. We're all, you know, concerned. Probably not as concerned as we were a couple of weeks ago when adolescence was the number one show about social media and kids.

I reckon we've all forgotten about adolescence. I'm like, back all your devices in your room, mate. 100%. But you do want to, you do want to limit,

you know, your kids. And we've got something my wife set up as far as the kids get. They've got their phones and stuff, but they get their limit on how long they can use their apps for. So it gets to a certain period of time. They can no longer use it unless they get – they can send a little message to us or one of us, as I've discovered, to get more screen time on a particular app.

Oh, yeah, you have an app on your phone that does that. So I just come through and go, Sienna would like more TikTok or something, and I'll go accept or not accept. Oh, that's a great – Except for 15 minutes, like except for an hour, except all day. But I'm the weak link. She always targets me as well.

What a position of power you are in though. Yeah. Some of us are like, no. Yeah, especially if you're off-site too. You don't have to – What a king. Sometimes it's like 15 minutes. I'll give it 15 more minutes.

Powerful. Like a dictator. We get up early for this job. And Friday, Saturday night, from time to time, if I'm at home or watching something on TV, I'll probably do what you guys do. You end up falling asleep on the couch. I drive as my wife, Craig.

So I'm like, we've got to keep going in the weekends. Because if you want to stop, I'll fall asleep. But what I just discovered my other daughter Indy was telling me is when I'm asleep on the couch and my daughter Sienna

wants more screen time, she'll come up to me and she'll go, Dad, Dad, Dad, you just need to enter your pin into your phone. She'll give me my phone and I'm half asleep,

I'll wake up and apparently I've done it three or four times just enter my pin in for her to get more screen time and then I'll go straight back to sleep. No recollection of four times just into my pen and for her to get more screen time and then I'll go straight back to sleep. No recognition of it whatsoever. Like I don't Great play and she's like, oh, yeah when you're half asleep, you're just like you're just eating your pen

And does she not know your pen? No, it's a special pen for this I thought she was using your face as the face ID, like holding the phone up as you're sleeping to unlock your phone. Don't tell her about that one. So, yeah. Yeah, so I'm like, what? She's like, yeah, we do it every time and then you go back to sleep. Wait, did your other daughter dob her in? Yeah, well, yeah.

She's like, you know what she's doing, don't you? And I'm like, no. Maybe you're not tired. Maybe they're slipping sedatives into your... Yeah, I'm a lot more relaxed when it comes to that. So there you go. You've got to watch out. It's like another two hours.

Kids are always on to you, eh? Margie, this is full circle for you. You've spent years pranking people while they've been sleeping. I've been a victim of it multiple times. Listen, you've just handed down those genes, my friend. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

Last year, I needed to do some images on the internet. And I was using AI, the ChatG GPT program, and it was free. And I was like, you're pushing us too hard. You need to upgrade. So I've ended up upgrading to a paid. You pay for it. Yeah. And it really, to be honest, is not worth it.

The monthly payments that I've signed up for. But here we are. And I did the same with my masterclass. I think the only masterclass I watched was like Gordon Ramsay teaching you how to make scrambled eggs. That's the only one I watched. Paid for about 12 months anyway. So ChatGPT Pro.

Now, Producer Grace, she logged into my ChatGPT Pro because she uses it to create images for our radio show. I'm like, that's absolutely fine. So she sends me a text the other day. She's like, I've programmed ChatGPT to now call you bald man. So whenever I ask any questions, it's like, that's a great question, bald man. Would you like some advice with that, bald man? So I get that.

So I'm on. Now, I'll bring producer Grace in here, because I think we need to have an intervention with poor grace so i'm on chat gpt on the weekend and then i'm having a conversation with out of the blue chat gpt goes to me hey bald man hey bald man how's your pad tie addiction going and i'm like um i think i had pad thai like a month ago. I'd hardly put that into an addiction category. And I said to GPT, pad thai addiction question mark? And he said, yes, bald man, you asked me a few weeks ago about how to cure an addiction to pad thai. And I was like, hmm, please tell bald man more.

And it takes me back to the chat. And Producer Grace, Producer Grace, I'll hand it over to you. This is you, obviously. I actually can't remember it. I actually don't remember. When your chat said, I think I'm addicted to Pad Thai. I mean, it's delicious. And of all the things you'd be addicted to, it's probably not the worst.

I think it's because I'm trying to say for Europe, and I think I got it every day one week, and I was like, how do I cure a pad thai? How do I cure a pad thai addiction? Oh my gosh. And, you know, what are the signs of a pad thai addiction? And it basically came back with saying, consistently eating pad thai more than regular pad thai lovers.

Yeah. And it said, would you like a cure for this? It said, basically, there is no cure, only temporary distractions. You can have a sad tie, which is zucchini noodles as an alternative. Therapy, it also suggested. Or the last one was just acceptance, and accept the fact that you are addicted to pad tie, Grace. I knew sharing this account, having your account

would somehow come back to bite me. I do think I have a pad thai addiction, guys. I will never be asked that question again in my life. How's your pad thai addiction going, bald man? But also scary that it's worrying about you. Yeah, it's been thinking about it. I appreciate the concern. You were having a conversation with

it at the weekend. Yeah, so now we have to be aware of Grace's pad thai consumption Okay, we're all a team No eating in front of her, you know, that sort of thing Yeah, no, I definitely had pad thai about like three times a week Oh, jeez, yeah, I've got a problem Hey, next Jono, Ben and Megan

The podcast The hits Also making news, PJ, of course, from the afternoons Maddie and PJ, she's on maternity leave at the moment And she told Matilda, who's filling in for PJ and Maddie About PJ. She's on maternity leave at the moment and she told Matilda who's filling in for PJ and Maddie about her birth story in the Wairarapa. My husband is like, okay,

should we go watch some rugby? So we go up to his rugby club, maybe 10 minutes into the game I'm sort of sitting sideline and I'm like, hang on. Did my waters just break? Oh, my God. I just had these tummy niggles, and they got more and more frequent

and more and more intense. And I was like, BJ, I think we've got to go. And he goes, really? Do you reckon we could stay until full time? And I was like, no, no, no, I think we've got to go. He goes, do you reckon I could just say goodbye to the guys? I'm like, Beige, my waters have just fully broken. Get me to the hospital!

We're in the car. By the end of the road, I reckon I was fully dilated. Oh my god. And then about two minutes later, we're on the main road. I'm like, BJ, pull over. And I had to go to the toilet on the side of the road.

I'm not going to go full detail, but I think you can imagine what's happening. BJ is panicking, looking at me going, get in the car. We sprint to the hospital, literally seven to ten minutes after arriving, Frankie arrives. Unbelievable. Oh my goodness. Unbelievable. Only you, only you would have a storyline.

That is incredible. But most importantly, who won the footy? Oh yeah, we did get to stay the full time If he stayed to say goodbye to everyone Frankie would have been born on the car Or on the side of the road Yeah, wow You wouldn't get a more PJ story than that

And it made news you were saying Yeah, it was on the New Zealand Herald She'll be thrilled about that Thrilled Yeah, the fact that she was going to the bathroom On the side of the road I mean, in those times You've just got to do what you've got to do, right?

Yes, without going into too many details. She's lucky it was the toilet and not the baby, you know? There's similar feelings. Main Street of Masterton, eh? Many babies birthed on the Main Street of Masterton, and also conceived as well. So we wanted to know this morning, oh, 100 the hits, 4487, do you have a better birthing story than PJ that maybe could have made news?

Megan, do you have anything there? Well, mine were just like emergency caesareans. Sorry, I'm the herald, not interested, sorry. You're letting her finish your story. I have a male midwife who I – Oh, that's interesting, maybe page three or four. Not front page stuff but yeah

I did power power vulnerable him nah you're slipping more towards the back of the paper now I'm trying my best Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast

the hits PJ from Maddie and PJ in the afternoon shared her birthing story that ended up being all over the New Zealand Herald

and all over the road. Yeah, true. You're right. It was messy. Lola Young is one of the singers about it. The soundtrack to that birth. But yeah, poor BJ, her husband, didn't even get to watch the end of the rugby game that he wanted to.

But it was newsworthy. And so we wanted to know this morning, 0800 the Hits, why is your birthing story newsworthy? Great text coming through here, 4487. This is actually from a mate of ours. Talked to their midwife about some crazy stories. She said she'd just had the week before a lady giving birth and said if she could light a cigarette during labour.

Have a half-time ciggy break. Oh, really? While giving birth. Had she been off it? Maybe it was a celebratory cigarette. I'll find out. I can get back on the old darts. Let's go to the phones. We've got Kat with can get back on the old, on the darts. Let's go to the phones. We've got Kat with us on 0800 The Hits.

Newsworthy birth, Kat? Hey, how you doing? Yeah, what happened? What could have made news about your birth? So we, my baby came four and a half weeks early and I'd actually organised for my husband to go and have a sort of last night of freedom out on the town. He ended up getting a bit messier than planned, asked me to go and pick him sort of last night of freedom out on the town um he ended up getting a bit messier than planned asked me to go and pick him up i went lonely young messy yeah yeah heavily pregnant you know tired two o'clock in the morning he wasn't where he said he was so i called him he

said he was somewhere else i went there he wasn't there he was somewhere else anyway you know a bit of an argument but a stress um two hours later my broke. I couldn't wake him up to start with. He was out cold. And then he was still so drunk, I had to drive myself to the hospital. Oh, no. That's poor. Yeah.

It gets better, though. It gets better. My waters are broken in the car. It was horrendous. We got to the hospital car park, and he's like, hang on, hang on. And I'm like, I can't hang on. This baby's coming.

And then he starts spewing up in the hospital car park and he's like, hang on, hang on. And I'm like, I can't hang on. I mean, this baby's coming. And then he starts ewing up in the hospital. Hospital staff are like helping him up there. You're okay, sir. We'll get you some help. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, they got me in. They got me checked out. The contractions hadn't started.

So they put us to bed and he got into bed and fell asleep. And then the contractions came thick and fast. So I sort of like elbowed him like, babe, this is it, this is it. And he literally just strokes my head and goes shh, go back to sleep. Oh my god! So did he actually witness it or was he just asleep?

He ended up being a 22 hour labour so it was a pretty big marathon. But even for him, the poor guy, he's gone from being drunk to being hungover. He's going to have a newborn when he's hungover. So it up with a newborn. Oh, jeez, that's so good. Thank you for sharing with us.

We appreciate it this morning. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Last week about school cross-country, and Megan, you reminisced about how you faked an asthma attack. I did. I didn't like running in cross-country,

so I do have asthma to this day. I was like, I can get out of this. It was really early on though in the race, and I was like, ooh. But when my mum came to pick me up, she saw right through it. Yeah, what level were you, did you overplay it, you think?

Maybe. Yeah. God, it was exhausting. I had to do it for like an hour. Faking asthma attacks. As soon as I got in the car, mum's like like cut it out easier to just have an aspirin really isn't it well a friend of mine was listening to the show

on Friday he said oh I live with this guy in the UK who and he worked in this office he said it was pretty much like the office on the office the David Brent office it was so mundane and boring and he they're like oh you want to come to work drinks? And he said, oh, no, I can't. He said he's a recovering alcoholic and he was part of AA. And he wasn't. He was not. He drank alcohol. Fine.

It was just the first excuse he could think of. So to the point where he went to an AA meeting to make himself feel better. But that's a blanket. You're never going to be able to drink with those people. No, and that's what he wanted. That's what he wanted. Yeah. So we'll go to the phone.

Stacey, the lengths you went to to get out of something, what was it? Well, I was about 18, and I was living in a flat with, I think, five other people. And they all had the day off, and they decided that they were going to get a keg of beer and day drink. So I was like, I want part of this. So I phoned my boss and faked that I had a toothache. Yep. And then spent the day day drinking and then felt guilty, so booked an appointment for the dentist a couple of days later, which got me more time off work.

But then the dentist said, you actually need three of your wisdom teeth pulled out. Oh, damn it. Feels like karma, doesn't it? Yeah, kind of backfired a little bit. But then I got more time off work because I had to, yeah. And you had the day drinking. You don't, there's something at the end of the day.

You had a huge win. Big win. I love how the guilt's just really got to you. I know. I really liked my boss, so I kind of felt bad lie to her. Oh, there we go. Well, that's what happens when you lie to your boss. You end up getting wisdom teeth ripped out.

Yeah, but I got a day drinking with my friends and I got lots of time off work. Let's not forget the day drinking. That's right. Good on you, Stacey. Have a good one. Oh, good. Thank you. Wendy, good morning to you. Good morning. Wonderful to have you on the show this morning. Thanks for calling through. Now, this wasn't

you that made up the excuse. No, it was my 14-year-old son. Okay, give us the backstory. What happened? So, he's got epilepsy and stuff, and he's just started at college. He'd had a seizure the week before, and he looks like crap, like bags under his eyes. Looks terrible. And then I'm at work.

I get a phone call, and it's Blake's come. He's told us he's had a seizure. She was like, you need to come pick him up. I get there, and he's like smiling, and nothing's wrong with him. So we get home, and I'm like, okay, well, you can't have devices, no Xbox for a month seizure-free. And he hasn't had another seizure since.

Oh, okay. He tried to pull out the old seizure card. He did. He did. That's what I went with, though. You go with something you've already got because you're like feasible. You know what symptoms are. Yeah, but then you're not always... Yeah, and because it was a new school,

they couldn't look at him and go, there's nothing wrong with you. But he had the biggest smirk on his face until you found out that his depression was gone. So hard to know. As a parent, it is hard to know too when you're like, are you sick? Are you sick, sick?

Are you plough on sick? Or are you like, this is bad sick? I think you feel bad when they're telling you that they're not well and you're like, get your ass to school. Oh, so many times I've done that. He's got a few disabilities and so he's also got haemophilia. And at his old school, he worked out if he told them he got hit in the stomach, he could come home.

And he did it for like three months. And I was like, tell him to go back to class. You've got to have some positive about having medical stuff, don't you? It's got to be some shining light. Hey, that's great call, Wendy. Thanks so much. You've got to have some positive about having medical stuff, don't you? Yeah. It's got to be some shining light. Hey, that's great call, Wendy. Thanks so much. You have a good day.

Debbie, morning to you. Morning. The lengths you went to get out of something, Debbie, what did you do? When I was in grade nine, I was living in Johannesburg with my dad and my stepmom, and I wasn't doing so well at school. So my first term, because the reports are a bit different from grade nine, I did my own report. Oh, you wrote up your own report?

Yeah, I printed it. What? I took the school's letterhead, I printed it. They were very impressed. I just copied my friends but changed the grades. And I carried on doing it until the third term. Oh, you did it for nearly a whole year. Pretty much a whole year.

Yeah. And then the teacher emailed to say, oh, you know, Debbie's not doing so well, so you better do something about it. She's going to fail the year. And she said, no, but her reports have been so good, she doesn't know. Maybe you over, did you oversell the reports? You need to put something like a little bit negative in. Yeah, I did.

That is very funny. And what were your actual reports doing? Because you would get those, wouldn't you? Yes, no, no, we were given them You got them on the last day of the term Yeah, right So I just threw them away Yeah, you wouldn't even look at those No, no

Because the ones you were printing were seamless Much better Oh, that's really good, Debbie Go and have a great day Thank you so much Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits

We'd like to catch up with our Italian correspondent, Daniela, who lives in Mount Maunganui. Cha-cha-cha-cha-chao. Cha-cha-chao. Oh, guys, I missed you. Oh, we missed you too. It's been a while, actually. I thought about you over the holidays, Daniela.

You guys maybe should stop to go holidays. Yeah, no, always working, always working. I was thinking we should do, we had an idea that we were going to do an Italian lunch with listeners from the show with Daniela. Oh, it would be so cute. It would be a nice...

Who's cooking? Who's cooking? Well, you, of course. You're the Italian. Or we could come down. We could come down to the mountain, find a good Italian restaurant, put it on for you and some listeners or something.

That would be fun. No, no. There is no good italian italian you can come in my house i will cook for you okay i got the feeling that there is so many good mediterranean restaurants a generic mediterranean but nobody is really specialized on italian authentic i'm sorry we've talked about you know telling you can buy in a packet here in New Zealand. You can add milk and stuff like that. I know you'd be turning your nose up with that. What about the stuff that you can buy, you know,

comes in sort of packets and you buy the sauce separately and then you can heat those up, mix it together. Would you ever do that? Let's be honest. Yes, we do that sometimes. Oh, good. Just thinking maybe we just rebrand our Italian restaurants as generic Mediterranean restaurants.

That covers the base. And what's been happening in your life over the last two weeks, Daniela? In my life, what's been happening? I've been reading a couple of interesting books for growing myself as a person. As a person? Okay, what's one book that you've read? People should read this. Let Them. Oh, Let Them. myself as a person. As a person? Oh! Okay, what's one book that you've read and you're like,

oh, people should read this? Let Them. Oh, Let Them. Oh, Mel Robbins. Yeah, Mel Robbins. Yeah, yeah. I just started that and it's at the beginning and I cannot say much

but I'm starting. I did the audio book of that, yeah. Isn't the book Let Them it's just all the, like, whatever people are doing, just let them. Let Them, yeah.

So it's a pretty short book. Well, no, it's actually a lot of different chapters and different aspects of your life. And I think also goes, well, she does go through it because people are like, oh, what about this scenario? What about, you know, she actually goes into detail. There's exceptions to the let them go.

What about someone rammering and hearing? Yeah, and they're like, you know, those are the things, yeah. Now, the whole world, you know, seems to be looking at it. Italy at the moment, obviously the Pope passed away and they're going to be looking for a new Pope. The Vatican City is really, I've been lucky enough to go there before. It's like another country within Rome. It is technically another country. And it's so tiny when it's another country.

It's a pretty surreal sort of place to have them in the middle of a city. I know, and they've got their own pharmacy, their own post office. They're not mixing it up with us human people, you know. So, like, when you say it's got a pharmacy, got a dairy, isn't it just another suburb? I think you'd have to have a passport to go through into it. Yeah, that's why we call it Vatican City. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

That's why we call it Vatican City, for real. It'd be like in the middle of Christchurch, you wanted to go into the same square, and all of a sudden you're like, oh, that's a whole other country. There's customs. From memory, you had to go through, and then you're in there, and you're like, oh, I'm in a country,

and then you go back out again later. So you have to take your passport together? Yeah, they even ask you the passport when you're riding off. Really? So it's like a whole other place. Yeah, so technically you can take off two countries in a day, you know?

Have you met a Pope? I saw the Pope once from the balcony. It was Papa Giovanni II, that was Joseph II, whatever you call it in English. I'm not sure what you call it in English. And yeah, I saw him from the balcony once. Do they drive around town in the Popemobile?

You know? They can park anywhere they want in that little city. Have you ever been there, Daniela, when they've done the voting for the new Pope and the smoke out the tower? No, but I didn't see the smoke here real. No, never.

I was having a look. It's the world's smallest country. Less than 1,000 people live there as well. It looks like the world's smallest railway. 300 metres. Can you just walk the distance of the railway? I guess it probably connects up to other places. Where does it go, just back and forward?

300 metres. Seems a little pointless anyway, but there we go. The whole world will be watching your part of the world over the next couple of weeks, that's for sure. Good, watch out, eh guys? No, Daniela, Lovely to speak again. And, yeah, we'll look forward to that lunch. Ciao, guys.

Have a lovely day. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Great weekend. Big weekend of sport. The Warriors, third on the top of the table in the NRL. But, jeez, it was a rollercoaster, that game.

They were at halftime. You're like, there is no way they can lose this. Up by 18, eh? How can you lose by 18 points a head? Yeah, and then it came back. Could tie their hands behind their back

and still not lose. Oh, we got there in the end with four points, but geez, it wasn't good for the heart rate, but great for the Warriors this season.

Why didn't you wait? What for what? You know, you wait until the result comes out and then you watch it back. Yeah, I should have actually. Yeah, then I would have been relaxed.

That was one of those ones you didn't want to watch live. You're right. But it was very good to see the Warriors performing well. And then, of course, this morning, Liam Lawson, who's a Kiwi F1 driver. He's racing in Miami this morning. Yeah, they did the sprint race as well over the weekend. And we were very excited that he came seventh. He got points, right?

He got points for his first time. We were stoked. And then, yeah, a bit of a crash with Fernando Alonso. that he came seventh. He got points, right? He got points for his first time. We were stoked. And then, yeah, a bit of a crash with Fernando Alonso and he got penalty. So is that like when everyone, no one wants to claim that you have an accident in town and you're like, it wasn't my fault. You don't want to admit your fault.

And they did that and then went to someone else. And then the FIA, the overlords, said no, it was his fault. And unfortunately, there's about 29 professional 4K cameras capturing the whole accident as well. And he's only got third party too. Now, Miami starts at 8 o'clock. So what are we, a blow-by-blow coverage for an entire hour? We feel like we're going to lose Megan from 8 o'clock this morning.

I know, I was like, I'm tapping out at 8. She has just got to be distracted. He's qualified 14th, not bad. We're very excited for him. Have you been commenting on any of his posts lately? No, because you made me self-conscious. Yeah, you did. You were really.

Well, the last one was he was like, I'm going to Texas or something, and you were like, go and ride that thing. No, he compared his car. He was like getting back on the horse. On the horse. Ride that thing. That's what you said. T-H-A the horse. On the horse. Ride that thing. That's what you said.

T-H-A-N-G. Jeez, that was embarrassing. Tell you what was also embarrassing for me. That's a big supporter of the ANZ Premiership this year. We've partnered up with that, which is great. Not quite the level of the ANZ Premiership, but I went along to my daughter Indy's first netball game on Saturday. And what I find is when you turn up to those things,

they've got their training down the side of the court. There's another game going on, 13-year-old girls, and you're like, well, I don't know anyone playing this game. So I'm standing there by myself. And you feel like, I don't know, for some reason, as a grown man watching someone else who's not, I know no one in this game, I'm like, I'll just look at my phone. That's okay.

I mean, it's all right to be an enthusiast of underage people. No one knows which one's your daughter. I know, but you still feel a bit like Indy's warming up with her team. I'm like, I'll just have a look at my phone on the sidelines while this game's going on. So then you're just being incredibly disrespectful to the young girls playing netball. I know, and that's what happened.

And then someone must have whipped a netball along and it bounced and just straight, and I could just see it as I was looking at my phone, just a netball suddenly careering towards my face. Bang! Straight on the nose. And you know when your nose... Cold morning.

Yeah, eyes are watering. I hear this girl go, sorry. And you want to play it cool, but you're like, oh, God. It's all good. And this lady's like, should have been watching the game. Some lady next to me. I'm like, oh, salty. And you're crying.

I'm like, oh, lady, I don't know anyone playing this game, right? And then if you watch that game and then the next game, everyone's like, oh, okay, poo. Yeah, exactly. Why is this all here? It's a fine line between supportive parent and police sketch. Yeah, well, that was a sporting week. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hit. Well, onto this, because I read this in the paper today, and I was like, surely this isn't a business idea because in America you know like everywhere you know things are tough and things are expensive particularly eggs.

A dozen eggs in America is costing you New Zealand dollars $16, $17 a dozen. Jeez that's wild. That's quite expensive you know we're locked online before

and it's around $8, $9 roughly for the same price. You know so that's double the price. Do you go organic or are you getting the old bloody cage jobbies? Well, they can't get cage jobs anymore. Oh, the cage jobs can.

No, they've gone. No, but you get barn ones. Yes. And I feel like that's a bit elusive. Like, what does that mean? They're all shoved together in a barn? You feel so superior getting those sort of organic ones, though, don't you? Free range paddock.

Oh, yeah. Well, what they're doing in America is you can rent chickens. It's called a place called Rent a Chicken. Original. Yeah. So basically you'll get, well, this is a lady explaining what you'll get turning up. We provide a portable chicken coop with two to four egg-laying hens. Two hens lay about a dozen eggs a week.

And we provide the feed with the rental. Oh, there you go. Rental chickens. Yeah. So they'll get like like a little cage a little crate sort of thing couple of chickens in there or the food as well and people are renting chickens they don't own them but they rent them for a little bit of time just to get their eggs mate we can be we can be hiring goats we can milk our own goats rental goats how much is that? Say you're paying for a dozen eggs a week. It's obviously cheaper. 16 bucks in the long run.

Yeah, is it cheaper to rent a chicken? Yeah. Do you think at Friday night when they're like, I feel like KFC, they're like, oh, we could roast that. We could roast our rental chicken. It ran away. They're just getting a little bit like,

oh, I don't know. Yeah. Hopefully not. Hopefully not for the chickens. But yeah, really, really. But it would be tempting. Cost of living. Innovative business idea.

So at the moment, because these people in Americaica they're saving money we wanted to know oh under the hits four four eight seven uh tell us your best cost saving tip or your most inventive cost saving tip i'd say one of your one of your big bangers ben boyce uh the tightest tightest button radio that's what we call him tightest tightest Checks and Radio. He went to a wedding and he took a card. I didn't. I said you could do this. He took a card and it didn't have a present attached to it. So he could do it.

He chucked the card on top of the pile of presents and said, hope you enjoy the gift. I said you could do this. Because if you say hope you enjoy the gift, they'll be like, oh, where's this? You know how? Because the cards get detached from the presents. I didn't do it, but you could do it. I how because the cards get detached from the presents I didn't do it

but you could do it I'm just saying he really overplays the I didn't do it part you can even go to the trouble of putting a little bit of sellotape on the outside

of the envelope as well just so like oh it's obviously stuck on something but it's coming anyway for a guy that didn't do it

he really has thought about it down to a minute detail of sticking sellotape on the outside you also take stuff from buffet breakfast when you're on holiday for lunch. Yeah, well, you can walk out with one thing.

One thing's fine. You don't have to pretend like you're about to eat the croissant. A whole family does it. You're like, and you just walk past the table. And in the pocket for lunch. We'll save that for lunch. The ham for the corporate box ham you took home. This is not all on me right now.

A whole ham. Cooked ham. For the Warriors corporate box. Put it in his backpack. In your ham. From the Warriors called my boss. Put it in his backpack. In your bag. I asked for that though. I said, what are you doing with that? And they said, oh, you can have it.

And I'm like, thank you, I do. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. And right now, saving money. What are you doing? They're renting out chickens in the US. You can rent a chicken for a week.

It'll lay a dozen eggs. Apparently that's cheaper than buying a dozen eggs. Yeah, which I don't know who's doing the maths on that, but I guess it's the way to do it. We used to work with someone who didn't pay for internet at home and would buy like a drink.

They were across the road from like our fast food. Burger King. Yeah, and go across, just buy one drink and sit there and use the free Wi-Fi. And they just keep refilling their tiny little cup of soft drink.

Technically, you're a paying customer, right? But you'd need to go every day. And does that not equate to just a monthly bill? What of like a baby? He would have done the maths though, this guy. He certainly would have done the maths. And he'd walk everywhere. That's right.

He was a prolific. I saw him one time walking with his wife and the newborn baby. He was making them walk like 10k. You're going to say he's a prolific walker. He was a prolific walker. He was. their newborn baby. He was making them walk like 10Ks. Are you going to say he's a prolific walker? He was a prolific walker. He was. He loved walking. He was.

Great walker. I've done that thing where I've literally turned into my mum, and every time something's on special, and I know that we buy it all the time, I'll get like two or three. So I've turned into Doomsday. Are you buying a bulk stuff? Well, I guess if the toothpaste is on special,

I've got a few in the cupboard. You know? And I've got 24 rolls of toilet paper at all times. Just I buy it when it's on special. You want to wipe, you can wipe whenever you want. No matter, whenever there's another shutdown, pandemic. I will be ready. It's the first thing we all come for, toilet paper.

We know where to go now, Megan. We're concerned about wiping, don't we, when something like that happens. Let's go to the phones. James, morning to you. The. We know where to go now, Megan. We're concerned about wiping, don't we, when something like that happens. I know. Let's go to the phones. James, morning to you. The lengths you're going to save coin, James. Well, about six months ago I was got $2,250 on groceries

so I thought, we'll do an experiment. And we went to over to Palm Beach, went to Pack and Save and our grocery roll drop has dropped by about $67 a week. So you're saving, what, $60 a week by travelling how far? Just 16km to Parmy. 16km drive to get to, wow.

Now, have you added up the petrol costs there, James? That's another thing. My wife's car is a fuel economy turbo. So if you do short runs, it uses a lot of fuel. He's thought of everything. Yeah, it sounds like he knows what he's talking about. It uses less fuel. So we're actually using much more fuel.

Great, Pummy. $67 saving. Good work. Good work there, James. Do what you got to do. Great text here. I save money on water and I shower at the gymnasium. That is a good one.

I bet you a lot of people do that, right? Yeah, I collect water. I collect cold water when you're running the hot tap Oh my mum does that I know What do you do with it What do you do with a bucket No I've got bottles

So like I Water my plants with it Or I put it in the dog bowl There's nothing more degrading Than a shower I know I'm turning into a boomer Standing in a bucket While you're having a shower

I'm like oh Otherwise it just goes down the drain guys So what you would stand in a bucket up north? Mum, yeah, like a big-sized bucket, more like a washing basket sort of, you know, and you'd stand up there with a shower on, you'd stand around there and it fills up around your legs and then afterwards you can put it on the garden

or wherever Mum was going. Wait, is she collecting all of your shower water? Is that your soapy shower water? Oh, that's weird. Yeah. No, it's just the cold water until it turns hot for me. She's got all, like, just pubic hair all through her garden. And Ben's wheeze.

I'm not winging it, guys. Come on. Your plants are looking hairy for this time of year. Oh, come on. John, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Welcome our quiz queen, the Gen Z of the show.

Quiz slay queen. Yes, slay queen. I just want to say, I have an announcement today. It's the 5th of the 5th of the 25th, and 5 times 5 is 25, so today we're going to have a good day. Oh, okay, that's good. It's in the fates. We missed the whole Star Wars day yesterday, mate, the 4th day. Oh, yeah.

So, yeah, we didn't get to do those gags on radio. But today, let's get the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. That math makes no sense, though, to the fact it's going to be a great day. But I appreciate the positivity. Because five times five is 25, Jono. Yeah, OK. I'll roll with it. Just go with it.

OK, question one on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Grace. The game Dominoes originated in which country? Egypt, China, India. Ooh. Not any that I would have picked. Egypt, China. It reeks Egyptian to me.

I kind of felt Egyptian too, like tiles with little hieroglyphics on it. Yeah. I don't know. It was made in China for me. I was thinking maybe it's – Oh, like – Yeah, I don't know, but I'm not sure. The Chinese came up –

They like Mahjong and lollygames like that. Yes, it's kind of like Mahjong. I don't know. So I'm not sure. The Chinese came up with Mahjong and other games like that. Yes, it's kind of like Mahjong. I don't know. So we'd use our lifeline first up. China was the original Milton Bradley. They came up with a load of good games. Maybe they were just trying to westernize Mahjong. Okay, do we want to take a guess or do you want to put it to the lifeline on the text?

We can only use the lifeline once and we're going to use it on question one. Maybe it gets easier from here. Okay, lifeline it. Let's just use it. Okay, so if you know 4487 on the text, help us out right now. Dominoes. Yes, the game Dominoes originated in which country?

Egypt, China or India? I'm thinking China now after you said that, Ben. Oh, now I'm back in, I don't know. We had a dream once that, you know, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, he broke a Guinness World Record for tipping over cereal boxes

like Domino's, didn't he? Oh, that's right, he did. And we wanted to go to the Weet-Bix factory and do it with boxes of Weet-Bix. It's pretty impressive. It was like Domino's

they went around the, yeah, but we've patted for long enough. China's come through a couple of times on the text. Should we lock it in? We're locking in China? Yeah is correct someone said china surely that didn't sound yeah yeah come through three times but once he's surely yeah you're right okay next question what is the front of a surfboard called

deck rail nose a nose How sure are you? That is why I pressed it. That's correct. Well, good. He's sure. That's sure. Okay, cool. Question three.

Oh, my God. You sound so cool right now. I can't surf. Okay. What part of a bee collects nectar from flowers? The tongue, the antenna, or the wings? It ends up on their legs, right? On their back legs.

Does it? Very sticky. Have you not seen them? Yeah, they end up with those little orange blobs on their legs. So are they tonguing the flower? I don't know.

They're placing it on their... Okay, let's go to the break on this one. Okay. But their wings could fan it onto their legs. Oh, we're going to dip out at question three.

We'll debate this. We'll talk about the birds and the bees. Jono, Ben and Megan. dip out at question three. We'll debate this. We'll talk about the birds and the bees. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Just our lifeline. We can only go to it once.

As soon as we get a question wrong, we stop. We're out. Back over to our quiz slay queen, Gen Z producer Grace, who actually, sorry to dog-league here, someone's text saying, I need Gen Z participants for my master's research. Would Grace be keen to volunteer? If it's not anything physical, I can't run.

That sounds very vague. What is the research? As long as you don't have to talk on the phone either too. Oh, I hate talking on the phone. No running, no talking on the phone and no eating tomato sauce and then I'll do it. You wouldn't get a more Gen Z answer as long as I don't have to do any physical activity

or any hard work. Question number three related to bees. What part of a bee collects nectar from flowers? The tongue, the antenna, or the wings? I was thinking pollen on the legs. They collect pollen. Is that the same? I don't think it is.

Nectar pollen. Nectar with the tongue. Tongue seems like the most obvious one, but is that tricking us? What do you want to do? Because pollen's the orange, like, fluffy thing. We had a whole song to talk about this, didn't we? Why don't we go the antenna? No, tongue

Victor Locking in tongue So we're locking in tongue? Yeah That is correct Oh, thank goodness That's why we're not going antenna Alright, question number five, is it?

Four Four, okay Jeez, we're dragging it today Which Beach Boys song contains the line I love the colourful clothes she wears? Good Vibrations, God Only Knows, California Girls. Pick a Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations.

That is correct. Well done. Nice. Thank you to my dad for that many car trips, listening to the Beach Boys for that one. When I ask this question, I want you to answer with the impression because I know you'll nail it. Okay.

Everyone get prepared. My wife. Very nice. It's close. In the TV show Friends, what is Joey's famous pickup line? How you doing? How you doing?

That is correct. Well done. Now they're getting easier. Yeah. This is also a fun one. Which of these is not a shade of orange? Chartreuse? Chartreuse.

That one. Amber. Terracotta. Chartreuse, isn't it? Chartreuse, isn't it? That's a green. I know that they are. Yeah, that's correct.

That's great. There we go, guys. It's the most horrible form of alcohol I think ever invented. Yeah. Chartreuse. Have you had Chartreuse? Not really. It's like you're form of alcohol I think ever invented. Chartreuse. Have you had chartreuse? Stop it. It's like you're drinking aviation fuel.

Okay, who recently stepped down as Team New Zealand's America's Cup skipper? Peter Birling. Peter Birling. Yeah, it's correct. Damn. Smoking it. Question number eight. Next one.

Who won the first MasterChef New Zealand competition? Nadia Lim, Brett McGregor, Chelsea Winter. Oh, okay. Brett. It was Brett. I think it might have been Brett. Yeah. Yeah, that's correct.

Yeah. Okay. Oh, it almost got us there. All right. I'm excited for this one. What are we up to? A nine. Okay, cool.

How many islands make up Indonesia? 18,307. Oh, there's lots, though. Yeah. 1,8 Indonesia. 18,307. Oh, there's lots, though. 1,830. 183. Haven't we had this? This is something similar. I think it's a lot.

Something crazy like 18,000. Yeah, let's go, AD. 18,000? Guess what? That's correct. Yeah! We're learning! Here we go.

You said it was going to be a good day with your weird maths. All right, Christian, here we go. Oh, I'm going to... I feel like I need Megan. Megan, I might need you to potentially, I'm going to. Okay. Which New Zealand MP features in the video for Kiwi singer Stan Walker's new single, Moake Tonu? Oh, I don't know.

Hana Rawiti Maipi-Clark, Kushla Tangarere Manuel and Tabitha Paul. I don't know. I haven't seen the video. A, B or C. Let's lock it in. Should we go Tabitha? Okay. Let's lock in Tabitha. Tabitha? This is question 10. This is for the win. 5 times 5

is 25, guys. And that is incorrect. Joe and Ben and Megan. Who was it? Was it A, B or C? I don't know. I have to start the whole quiz again to find out.