Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why Jono Couldn’t Focus in the Changing Room..

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

With Ben off on his so-called “Hot Girl Autumn” holiday, Jono and Megan take the reins. In this episode: Babysitting blunders galore... from painted decks to falling asleep on the job. We review our South African radio mates’ attempt at the NZ anthem! Megan’s hotel robe mix-up that left a staff member very confused. Jono tries to have a serious chat in a chaotic charity changing room… and can’t stop laughing at what’s behind him. What are the Bieber family’s bizarre house rules? Jono officially welcomes Gen Z into the workforce Plus, Shoutout to the Black Ferns powering through to the semis!!!  Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh. Cook easy, delicious dinners the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast for your Monday morning. It's just John O'Noy today. Just saying, no Ben. He's often as hot girl European, well, it'll be summer, spring. Spring. No, autumn. Autumn. Hot girl, hot girl autumn. Really doesn't have the same ring to it, does it? No. No. Hot girl or just covered up in comfortable jackets. We're in three costumes that he's taken with him. He was going to take five costumes over, but his wife Amanda vetoed that.

And, yeah, just saying day one of when one of the cogs is missing. It takes a while to get your head around things, isn't it? What are you doing? What are you doing? You doing a good job, though, Megan. Well done. Thanks. Yeah, you were here.

No, you did a good job. It is quite hard when one of us is missing because we all do particular things or you don't really have to think about it. Yeah, so Ben, usually, he's the anchor. That's what they call the anchor. Big anchor. Big anchor. One of the biggest anchors you'll find.

But he'll back in outs the same. song and go that was bloody edge here and coming up some more edge here and this is the time and then coming up on the show blah blah blah so we have to think about all those things you know you reneged those duties don't you just slip into all that but you did well you did well mate uh and we did get talking about babysitting blunders you'll hear a story uh what megan walked into with producer grace looking after her kids yes what else did we do today that was uh well that was well we have kandis on the phone who wants to share a story of a babysat a bit of a teaser but kandis what happened to you Well, the parents said to let the children do whatever they would like.

Oh, God. And so you took that as gospel? Yeah, let them do what they like. And they wanted to paint, so we went out onto the deck to paint. And they covered the deck. Oh, you painted the deck? No, they didn't mean to paint the deck. You didn't stop them painting the deck?

Well, they were allowed to do what they like. Well, just multicolored. Yeah, just multicolored, just everything, everywhere. And then I found out that the paint couldn't wash. off. Oh, it wasn't the water base. And so when they came home, where you're like, well, you did say whatever they like? The mum did say, well,

I did say. You had your ass covered, that's good, Candace. Yes, I did, because she was good, because you know, let them do whatever they like. They know their rules. Did they invite you to babysit again? No. And that's the thing. They do know

their rules, but they also know the rules don't apply when the parents are out there. Yeah. Thank you so much for your call, mate. You're going to have a great day. you too guys and there's more of those coming up enjoy the potty yeah and have a good day

John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Grace Producer Grace who we work with Gen Z Producer Grace who's gone home sick with a migraine

I call that weakness sign of weakness in that generation You get migraines Don't plow on though don't I We don't talk about our feelings In our generation

But no Grace You've got to look after After your children Friday night I did She would be a great babysitter I'm going to say that about Graeme. I reckon she would really do a good job of entertaining the kids. She's got like child CPR certification too, so she might seem free and loose.

She can resuscitate children. She can. What about adults? Surely if you can do it for kids, you can do it for adults. Well, she'd give it a good go, I reckon. Give it a bow. She's like, sorry, I only work with children. I only resuscitate children.

It's slightly different. What about old men? So, yeah, I left her with my two and four-year-old. My two-year-old and Grace are very similar, both very strong. droppy and argumentative. High highs, low lows. High highs, low lows. But I did get frantic messages from her.

I was at Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, watching that amazing show. And I was getting frantic messages from Grace saying that my daughter had refused to put her nappy back on after going to the toilet. Yeah. She was like, oh, she told me it's uncomfortable and she just wears undies to bed. I was like, she absolutely does not. Right, she's trying to play the babysitter, yeah.

Good manipulation. She was like, well, I feel bad because she says it's uncomfortable. I was like, oh, too bad, sweetheart. Got to wear that nappy. I say that to Ben every day about my nappies that he puts on me. Uncomfortable. Malky. It's got to be done.

Rashi. So then we went through all the negotiation techniques to get one on her. Eventually, she got it on. But the kids also stayed up quite late. They were having fun watching a movie and doing things with Grace. I do get a message from her very late saying the kids are super asleep. Slay. That is, you wouldn't get a more grace message.

super asleep. Kids are super asleep, Slay. And then what did you come home to? So we were home. It wasn't too late. About 10.30 on Friday night. And we come home and it was quiet, quiet. And lying on the couch covered in a blanket in her jammies,

Grace was fast asleep. In her own pyjamas. She put over her own pajamas. She turned up in her jammies and slippers and she had her soft toys. I was like, a child has come to look after my children. Surely one of the core, the core task. the babysitting is staying awake. Yeah, but I mean they were in bed, so

it was fine. She was passed out on the cat. Was she meant to go home or did she stay the night or what happened? Well, so I tried, I didn't want to wake her up so we just tried making a bit of noise and like banging things. I actually accidentally dropped something. She's still fast asleep. So I went into the room.

The TV is still playing and on the TV there was like a true crime murder documentary and they were going through forensic photos. It was gruesome. Yeah, she likes all that stuff. She's like, she's like, fell asleep to some gruesome true crime.

But ended up staying the night because she didn't want to drive home, which is great. So we're going to open this up. Babysitting blunders. A friend of mine too, kids are volatile. You never know what you're going to get. They ended up locking themselves in the car, in the garage. So the parents came home and she was negotiating to go like a sort of a... Negotiating with little terrorists.

Yeah, push this button to unlock because they had the fob inside the vehicle. I've been there. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. It's revealed the beep of family rules that they have on their wall. There's 10 rules. Oh, the household rules, are they? We value innovation and moving the human experience forward.

We value health and physical wellness as an act of stewardship. We value sustainability and creating products that serve humanity. Sounds like a business. Those are tedious house rules. What about? We value flushing the toilet. Is that on there? I really value that in my household.

Yeah, putting the toilet seat down. Clearing the toilet. wrestling at the middle of the night? Value folding clothes? There's none of that. Nothing. Yeah. Well, you can value sustainability when you've got billions of dollars, can you?

Yeah, each to their own. Hey, we're just talking to our nanny nightmares, babysitting blunders, whatever you want to call it. This morning, 0800, that hits the telephone number. We've got Rebecca with us. What happened when you were babysitting, Rebecca? Oh, I've had all sorts of things happen. Have you had quite an illustrious babysitting career, have you? One time I was met with a babysitting a kid when I was only like nine.

My parents were home too But I was spinning her around on a chair She was about two, I think I was sitting around on a computer chair And she fell off and hid her hear on it Did you tell the parents? No No

No It was fine luckily Next time you retell that story Try and do it with a little less laughing Luckily I'm a lot more trustworthy with kids Now I've got mine Yeah right You've had a good track record now

That's great Rebecca You're going to have a wonderful day Thank you Our friend, I must say it, our friend was a nanny over in the UK, quite a wealthy family. Yeah. And the mother of the child was away at work and then came back. And our friend was wearing her expensive gowns in her closet and her shoes. I would totally do that.

Oh, everyone probably does. But you never want to get caught doing it. And then she had degradingly, she was like, I think this is probably the end of our professional relationship. And then she had to, like, degradingly take off the shoes and the ball gown. She was like, that was a lot. She got pictures first. That was a lot. Jen, morning to you.

Hi, morning. Baby, lovely to have you on. Genebo, now babysitting blunders. What happened? Yeah, so it was a while ago, back when I was a teenager, I was babysitting this kid and he had just had dinner

and, like, put him to bed an hour late, put him to bed, and then an hour later he came out and he had, like, his clothes were, like fully covered and like vomit whether he's caught something from school and then I had to change all a shege, all pajamas, like call up the parents,

like, oh my God, I was like 15, and I was like, what do I do? Oh, this is, you're like, this is not worth the $10 an hour. Pretty much. Yeah, that is. And that's the thing when you're looking after other people's kids, you never care for them as much as you like your own, do you? No, no. You know, you don't feel as much responsibility. And gee, that's the worst, too. That is just the worst. Did the parents hurry home?

yeah they did they were just out at dinner thank gosh and so like really close i want to take my time hey uh jane we're going to give you the double pass are you a fan of gabby and or her dollhouse yes my daughter absolutely loves it you're heading along mate you got a family pass all right oh amazing thanks so much no need to book the babysitter someone's text in as well i was a babysitter i got them jacked up on pizza mcdonalds lollies and gave them two harmonicas I hope they gave them to them when they were leaving They were running electric by the time the parents got home John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast It is a few days after you've shamed yourself Performed at Eden Park Doing the South African National Anthem Now this came off a bet with the radio station in South Africa 5 FM And they're basically I ended up having to learn the Well not even learn trying to learn

I genuinely tried my hardest to learn And I thought I had it nailed And I was trying to even just do the English parts Yeah, sounds a call to come together Phala la la So that was Then I kind of merged it into a sort of a co-lab Between South Africa and Christmas

But you did perform it on Thursday At Eden Park Yeah And singing the national anthem of South Africa, please welcome John O'Brien. Smattering of applause there. My apologies to South Africa, the continent of Africa, Charlie, Theron, and Bill Tong.

Dear God I haven't heard this This is horrific All I'm thinking is bring the choir Fade the lead vocalist out Okay, that's enough of that And then the whole time you were heckling me, which I couldn't hear. There's no cue cards.

You did have... The words were in and down. Also, I mean the words were there, but was the pitch. Yeah, the pitch, no. The only pitch was Eden Park. So there we go. They're good support from the friends. And then Mike from 5 FM and Saturday. You sent the video to him.

Yeah, we got his reaction on how... What did he think was your pronunciation right? What did he think of the anthem? Hey, Johnno, it's Mike V, and your performance is world-class, brew. World-class? I think he needs to raise the bar on what he believes is world-class. Eden Park, as the location, is insane. And your actual, and the performance is outstanding.

You had a couple days to pray for this. That is ridiculous to me. I don't know how you learned such a long anthem. We have a very, very long anthem, and you nailed virtually every part of it. Well, geez, they're a lot friendlier in South Africa. Yeah. Maybe we should move over there. They've got a positive attitude.

I think you bamboozled them with the location. Yeah, right. Smoke screen. Good play. Anyway, they had a crack as well because they were going to learn the Todayo version of... Well, they did actually lose the bet because prior to the All Blacks beat South Africa. And let's see how they did. Hey, John, it's Mike V.

No, that's what I just played. Let's see how they did. That's good. They are smashing it. Yeah. They are smashing it. chapter of international anthem butchering behind us. I'm just thankful that the All Blacks won last week,

because if we'd made that bet this week just been. Do you know, I reckon haven't? I reckon South African team heard my rendition of the anthem and they're like, we've got to write these wrongs against our country. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Go ahead on to the Black Ferns, can we just say too.

Yeah, I know there's a lot of talk about, oh, the Waz, the All Blacks, but the Black Ferns, through to the semis. Great Caitlin Vaakolo. Strong Caitlin Vaughalos through. Smash in South Africa. And there's the sixth of the second half for New Zealand. There we go.

Yeah, the girls. Celebrate our wins, not our losses. Yeah, everyone's going on about the All Blacks. It's fun to crap on people sometimes though, isn't it? Yeah, that's what the media love doing. Makes them feel better about their miserable lives. That's the theory we go off here in the soulless media game. Speaking of the weekend, I, and my whole family,

family actually went and stayed at a little stake A at a hotel. You said, I've never met anyone who stays at so many hotels. Yeah. Every week you're at a bloody different hotel. You're some sort of junket with a hotel chain or something. I was so happy. I had more hotels than Paris Hilton. She owned to the Hilton.

I was so happy that Ben wasn't here because he would be like, ah, I'm going to the hotel. He would give me great, but then you're doing it anyway. I'll take in his role. And you get fast passes when you go to theme parks. I just, that's just something he would say. Yeah, so we did a little steak, hey. and this time we were like

well take the kids it'll be great it'll be great and my husband at one point so we got there I was like okay

maybe you don't do this because I think maybe it's more of a female thing because we wear bras and stuff at the end of the day no I don't wear bras but I'd love to get into the game you just

like to de robe you know yeah just let it let it be like a pair of tight socks or something yeah it's like a harness

So, you're essentially wearing, so, you know, like, I took my clothes, I put my robe on, I was like, lovely hotel robe. Let gravity take course. Gravity, okay. Yeah. So I'm in there, the kids are in there, and my husband's like, I'm going to go check out the surrounding, see if there's any ice, go look around. So I'm in there, my robe. Kids are hanging out, and there's this little, like, after a couple of minutes, there's a little, like, did it on the door. Yeah.

Friendy knock. Was it a knock of someone where you're like, oh, I know that person knock? Or did it seem like a stranger knock? No, it was like a, it was just a little tap and I was like, A'all, the husband's back. My kids at this point was like, because they always do this thing when dad comes home,

sometimes they hide. So they hid and they were like, Dad's going to find us. So I answered the door by myself without the kids around and I went, all right then, come in and rubbish me. Please tell me it was like the janitor or something?

Who was it? It was the one of the staff bringing extra towels. He opens the door I'm in a robe there's no kids to be seen I'm like come in and ravish me

when he's bringing extra towels. Did someone order a ravishing? A ravishing too are you? He's like why do you need extra towels you've just got here you're weird woman and then was like and also using the word

ravish as well because I was being stupid I was like, because nothing was happening because the kids are here. And I was like, awesome. Awesome. You're going to need some towels for this ravishing. Tell you what?

Strap yourselves in. And so what did he do? He just gave me the towels and walked away. There was no conversation. They would have seen it all, mate. There's nothing that they haven't seen. Yeah. Well, now, after what happened to you, there's nothing they haven't seen.

That was the last. At least I wasn't naked. That was right. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. Good morning. You have a nice weekend, Megan Puppers. It's blistering pace of a weekend. We had just stuff on every moment of every day.

Jam packed it, did you? Yeah. But then, you know, you go back to work and you feel like you need a break. Yeah. You can have that holiday feeling, leaving your family behind, coming into a... It's a sad reflection, isn't it? You'd rather spend time with us than your family. You're like, oh, I just...

You know, when you have little kids going back to work sometimes seems like a holiday. It's great. We took the famed Christchurch over. the weekend, see my parents. That was lovely. Whenever you go back to your parents, do your, does your mum be, oh, you look, look malnourish, you need to eat,

just food. That's so much food. I wish, I'd wait for the day where someone says that I look malnourished. You look malnourished. You really do look malnourish, Megan. I just gave it to you. Thank you.

But I like going home, does your, do your parents like revert back into like looking after you mode? Yeah, yeah. Love that. No, it was good. It was good. And my dad was in the Air Force and he took us to the the Air Force Museum and he got to, and Oscar and him had photos in front of all the planes he

used to fly in, which was, that was lovely. That was a nice, that was a sweet moment. But, yeah, it came back yesterday for a charity football game. So we mentioned this on Friday. I think it was James that called up and said he'd seen you on a flyer, and we were like, I don't think Jono's remembered, because he's in Christchurch for the weekend. To be fair, the calendar appointment had to remind me on Friday, so I had forgotten, technically speaking but you're for our mate sam smith he's a comedian he's uh he's got ms and he it was for

multiple sclerosis so the fundraiser get get some bloody who's who and who's that of new zealand show business out on the paddock have a run around you know the vibe yeah it was fun it was really fun brie thomas are really good at football from zdm and like really competitive as well yeah she was yeah so a lot of them are very good football players clint robert's great football player too from zdm but anyway you i was just there huffing and puffing and we I really, I think the last time I played football was literally 1988, 1989, when I was a child. Way before golden balls. I'm surprised you haven't sustained some sort of injury.

No, the funniest thing, because in the changing room afterwards, I haven't been into a communal changing room setting for many years as well. And you've got two groups of people. You've got people who, you know, will just like sort of quietly just put their trousers on in the corner, not make a fuss. and then you've got the people, boom, towels off, just roaming round. And I'm like, this is a chariot. Okay, okay. But these are all, are they, was it, it's obviously split between male and female, right? Yeah, it wasn't a co-shed dressing room situation.

But we would know people. There was a mix of all sorts of really good footballers too. And they were, I think we were just making up the numbers, to be honest. But I was having this, I was sit down, conversation. So I'm on a bench, okay? So I'm on a bench. And I'm having a very serious conversation with my friend John Bridges, okay? He's telling me about job losses and things.

In the changing rooms. In the changing rooms. He's just talking to me. We're both sitting down. He's talking to me. But directly behind him, just dangling, waving, right by his shoulder. And he's telling me about job losses. I can't stop laughing.

And he's like, I can tell. He's like, this is not a funny story. I'm telling you. Job losses. And all I can see is golden balls in the background. Just waving around and like being dried and flopped. And I couldn't take my eyes off, I'm not going to say, but I could not, when there. Is someone well known?

Yeah. Was it Clint Roberts? No, it wasn't Clint. I'm not going to throw anyone under the bus. But, you know, when they're in the line of sight, you just cannot take your eyes off them. And that's all I could see, just above his shoulder, just waving around. And I was just like, please just finish this process so I can get back to being serious. How close?

Like, if he turned around. Real close, bro. Real close. They were almost like You're like John Just turn to the right right now Yeah And boom he would have got one in the face

It was a great end of the day It brought me a lot of joy So I'd like to apologise John who was telling me a serious story And I couldn't stop laughing all the way through it And I couldn't tell what It can't say why as well Or look at the boards behind you know

Oh that's a great start For the Monday morning Thanks for that John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats I need to make an apology Well it's not so much of an apology

to our Gen Z producer grace just more of an observation than I've noticed and I think everyone's... That's definitely not an apology. What do you mean? No, it's a... Don't ruin it. I'm about to... Trying to have a nice moment with you

and now you're getting all salty. I know you've got a migraine. She's like, just want to go home. Salty is her base level. That's where she starts her day. Now Megan, I think you'll agree and anyone driving to work now will probably agree that, you know,

the last couple of years there's been an integration of the Gen Z generation into the professional workforce. Yeah. You know? And there's been, you know, some turbulent times.

They're lazy. They don't, you know, they do this and that. They drink marcher. They talk too much about their feelings, all this sort of stuff, you know? And it's been coming,

firing back the other way. Yeah. We're old, useless, don't know how to do dancers on TikTok, that sort of stuff. Can't use technology. I, now correct me if I'm wrong. But I feel that now,

it's been like therapy. Both generations have said what they hate about each other. Now we've reached a common ground where I would like to well, welcome your generation into the workplace. I think your, Grace is growing on me. Grace is growing on me.

This is weird. Okay. I think Grace is endearing. I think the whole Gen Z community are endearing. And at one point, we're going to move on and hate future generations together that enter the workforce. You're going to hate the alphas. I really hate those guys. So I think we should welcome them in officially.

I think there's been enough time. Don't you, Megan? Yeah, but I'm, this is so random. I probably welcomed them in before you did. Yeah, why only now? What was the trigger? Do you need something from me? I was like, you're definitely going to wind her up with this.

Threatening. Threatening. I felt threatened by your sarcasm. So what's it? It's like your, keep your enemies closer. Yeah. Your friends close to be your enemies closer. That's what John is doing right now.

That's right. Yeah. No, no, I think it's time to, you know, put that to bed. There's only so much money you can do about another generation in the workforce, isn't there? I still have more to do. That's not only thing. What do you want to say then? Well, I could just keep going about how annoying you guys are.

Well, stop. I'm trying to put it to bed. But I don't want to put it to bed I want to keep going It's like why I come to work To fight I'm trying to have a piece to I'm trying to bloody

Russia Ukraine this mate I know but I just You're just so suspicious I'm just suspicious Because you're never nice So now you're nice Just saying you've grown on me grace It's all I wanted to say

But I've never been nice to you So what's I'm just really confused I like it when she calls me King and diva Says sleigh Do you like that Do you like it when she

programmed your chat GPT To say awful things to you Yeah She's got Hey I don't give you my chat GPT Yeah I've got a special special chat she would be so I do thank you I'm keeping these guys I do thank you but they doesn't sound like a thing no I'm still really confused it does sound kind of condescending

that you're like now I welcome you to the workplace why is it but what if I don't want to be welcomed by you what if I'm not welcoming you what if she was like welcome before you said she was welcome the privileged middle-aged middle-aged white guys welcomed you okay I'm officially I'm officially in the workplace thank God the white savior came a long ago thank you no need to think me no need to think me please stop the things stop things. I just do it out of the generosity of Maha. John O'Ben and Megan the podcast. The Hats.

Our high school teachers are striking this week. It is a different year level each day today, starting with the year 12 and 13s. Okay, thank you for that update there, Megan. Now, I need to make an apology, something that you actually witnessed in the workplace. Now, we work with a lovely guy called Jacob. He's in one of the departments

here at Enz-Me, and he's got an accent, okay? Wonderful accent, gorgeous accent. You know, he's been here for a number of months now. And the whole time I've made a wild assumption that he's French. And I said, are you French? But what's it like being from France? And he said, I'm not from France.

And it threw me. You witnessed it. You were like, oh, God, you put your head in the hands. You should have just been like, oh, where are you from? Because his accents, you know, obvious. French. Straight away, you're like, what's it like, tell me something about France. I was like, tell us a fun fact about France.

He said, why would I be able to tell you any fun facts about France? I'm not from France. He's from France. Because I've spent a lot of time. To me, he sounds like he's got like a Formula One accent. I'm like, he could be like a Formula One driver. It's a very exotic. European, but I couldn't tell where it was from.

But I also didn't assume like you did. Yeah. I also once accused an Italian guy of being a Spanish guy. I mixed them up. I've got a great track record, so maybe I should just shut up and stop guessing accents. But Troy, producer Troy's popped in here. Yeah, we've actually got Jacob on the phone. Oh, you've tracked Jacob down.

You'll track them down. So everyone can hear his beautiful accent. Okay. His beautiful French accent. All right. Good morning, Jacob. Or should we say bonjour? Bonjour.

How are you? Now you tell me that this doesn't sound... Can you just say, hello, my name's Jacob, and what you did on the weekend? Hello, my name is Jacob. I mainly cleaned my house and did nothing really special and I do have the worst German accent. The first time someone thought I'm French. friends. He's from Germany.

Do you know what? Hearing him on the radio now, Jacob, you do sound German to me. He doesn't sound German. He does sound German. I thought that most people assume, or maybe in the otherlands. Okay, I'll play some German music then.

You talk some German. Yeah, okay. Let's see that. Hello, Newland. It's good. It's all of October of Scheme. Now, they're just giving off German vibes. I'll get in the German vibes there.

Okay. Now, if you can do me a favor, under the French music say, hello, I'm Jacob and I'm from France. Hello, I'm Jacob, and I am from France. See, he still sounds too. He still sounds German. He's from the beautiful Bavaria.

All right, hey, I love you, Jacob. Auvoir. Love you, too. See you, man. Thanks, Jacob. Text poll, Jacob. Is he sound French or German to you? 4487.

German. Open up the polls. Feed it to the people, Megan. John O'Neon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Now, Jordan Watson, you know him? How to Dad. How to, Dad, yeah.

Social media sensation. Millions of followers online. We did something pretty special with him last year, and, well, he phoned us after the show Friday with another big announcement, live from Papa Moa. Live, mate, live out on the handball court, mate, get in the training and getting the stretches in. Oh, you know, the glutes were tight last year.

The glutes were too tight. And you've had some back injuries as well, too, right? Just classic, you become a dad, and you sneeze at something the wrong way, and you throw your back out. You know, I was telling you yesterday, actually, too, I ended up going to a driving range thing, a Father's Day thing with Chemis Warehouse.

There was a whole lot of former All Blacks there as well, and I was intimidated by them because they were incredible sports people. But at the end, they all walked out hobbling. They all walked out of it. And I was like, oh, these guys are out of there. They're not quite as mass space as they used to be. Although at the right event, because Chemis Warehouse, Voltaireen. Yeah, exactly.

Maybe that was their play from Chemis Warehouse. Have you, Jordan, have you ever had a little bit of Wii come out? Because Ben's joined the Little Wee Club. Yeah, that's something, Megan, we didn't need to bring up in front of Jordan. I'm trying to keep my cred, Megan. You are, yeah, so we'll help the weather there, guys. He got a fright and a little bit came out. Anyway, it's not important right now.

What is important that last year, three of us actually, and now we've roped in Megan to join us this year. Kids Campbell is back. We played handball for 24 hours. It feels like a bit of a blur looking back to it, doesn't it, Jordan? It does. It feels like if you've ever gone on like an OI or an amazing holiday 10 years ago and you can't really remember much of it and it feels like it wasn't real,

that's how it feels. So I'm hoping that this time round we won't be like, oh gosh, here we go again. Hopefully it feels fresh. Well, it does. It feels big this year. We're going bigger. Yeah, we're going to go. We're very excited to announce where it's going to take place.

You want to tell everyone how to add where it's going to be? Guys, this year we're going big and we're doing it at Eden Park. Yeah. Has Eden Park ever seen Hamble? I think this would be the first time Hamble's ever been played in Eden Park. This would be one of the greatest sporting moments at Eden Park. Yeah, and they've had a few over the years. So Eden Park are letting us do it.

We're going to be playing it for 24 hours, raising money. Last year we raised almost $500,000, which was incredible. We have a dream of trying to double that this year, which is huge, particularly in... Making being anxious. It is. But we're trying to get some schools involved, and schools around the country are joining up, Jordan. Yeah, that's the difference this year. I mean, alone, basically, just us, right?

Trying to bang the drum last year. Half a million dollars. New Zealand jumped on board. So this year, look, we thought if we get every school on board, which you didn't have last year and they fundraised for the entire month of October, they can help us get a bit more momentum, get a few more donations from the aunties and neighbours and friends that haven't heard about it and we can crack a million dollars. If you are a school out there and you've heard about this and you haven't quite signed up, make sure you head along to kitskandbore.org.

com and get your school signed up. Yeah, it's going to be happening on the 30th of October the big event, but you can do stuff leading up to it. Well, hey, we're not the boss of you. However you want to fundraise, the ball's in your court, so to speak. Yeah, can we use that another? I think that's fine. Yeah, that kind of works. It seems like a great analogy. It kind of work.

It does. Now, kids can, for those that don't know, do some amazing things. Now, you've been an ambassador for a couple of years. What have you seen firsthand that they provide? They provide your classic things that a lot of us can kind of take for granted, but it's kids that are heading to school without much in their lunchbox. So there can be breakfast. They provide warm breakfast at school.

Your wheatbecks, but there might be some spaghetti on toast there. and also warm clothing. Basic things like shoes and socks and rain jackets is such a big thing. There's kids that might have one rain jacket or one warm item between four kids. And so if it's a rainy day, you have kids being like, oh, I might actually not head into school today. So it's those little things that make such a huge difference. And the whole idea is that if kids can can help school become like a safe place for these kids, then they want to come to school.

And they'll actually sit down and they'll want to learn because their belly's not rumbling. it's like a flow-on effect. So for me, it's such an awesome charity that just makes absolute sense. So I want every school that can sign up to jump on board and when we start screaming at you in October and we've got cramp and we're asking you to please donate, please do it, okay?

It'll help our cramp ease off. Well, the four of us were lucky enough to go out and see one of the schools receive their jackets and I thought was a really cool thing. The whole school gets them. There's no singling out. No one being left out, feeling like, well, why didn't I get a jacket?

Yeah. He gets the jacket. Megan was dancing with children. She's done her knee in since then. Yeah. We haven't even got started. We got bad backs. We've got wee coming out.

We've got sore knees as well, but we're going to do it for a great cause. You can actually donate right now as well. Kidscampel.org.org. You can chuck anything from his little is just a couple of bucks. It all goes to help out Kiwi kids. And I don't feel like they get the best start. So get on there right now. Kidscan.org.n.com.n.

Donate some money. We really, really help us out. What are those shots that people get, you know, the injections? Oh, like, cortisone injections. Has everyone got a quarter zone injection for Jordan's bulging disc and Megan's knees? I should be right by the time it comes around. Right now, this whole phone conversation, I'm just full on on the thigh master.

I ran out yesterday and bought one, same as Megan. I'm just going nuts right now. I am clenching in and out. Strong pelvic floors in this campaign, hey? Well, thanks so much, Jordan. Appreciate it, mate, and really look forward to the end of October. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

Just fine with a week's worth of a hello. Oh, we're a great tie-in. Yeah. We're doing make a meal of it Monday. And today the flight edition, Megan. Yes, so when did you make a meal of it? Maybe it wasn't even your fault. Maybe the flight went down.

I mean, if you're still available, I'd love to get your text four for eight seven. Maybe there was an emergency landing and you were fine. I know Maddie McLean. He flew all the way from Auckland to Dunedin over the weekend for the marathon. Almost touched down on the tarmac and then it was too windy they had to turn back. Two, two almost landing. He must have been inches away from touching down and then had to fly a little bit. But also slightly relieved.

You didn't have to run a bloody marathon. I would be. I'd be like, well, I tried. Yep, I did everything I could. They're going to talk more about that on the afternoon show this afternoon. Maddie and PJ with Matilda Greenfilling in. Tilly, good morning to you. You made a meal of it on the flight.

Morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well, mate. Yeah, so what happened was it was the last week of the school holidays and you guys know I'm a teacher. So we went on a holiday. Well, it wasn't a holiday. It was a personal trip to Fiji with our 10-year-old. And then on the way back, well, coming back, the flight,

well, we went from Suva to Nandi and ready to get onto our flight, and they tell us a flight is canceled. And, of course, it doesn't perplex this whole 10-year-old, but the biggest part of it, the next day was school. The next day was going back to school. And I couldn't tell anybody we went to Fiji in the holidays, and so I couldn't have Monday off too. Oh, so you had the problem where no one knew you were in Fiji

And then you were stuck in Fiji So you had to tell you everyone you lied that you're in Fiji I don't know I'm just to tell them Good on you Tilly The flights don't go that often either How long were you stuck there for? I stuck there for about a night or two

Oh, it must be tough Must be horrible Yeah, hold there Tilly You're in the draw for a week's with the hello fresh Fiona Good morning to you Good morning You made a meal of it on the flight Fiona Oh it wasn't me

It was my mother-in-law What happened? My mother, so they'd come over for their first visit to New Zealand after we'd moved here in 2011 during the World Cup. And my husband and my eldest went to a rugby game, tried to get my father-in-law to go with them. He went, bad, now, boy, because we've got the flight to catch. My mother-in-law had messed up the times, and it was actually the day before that they should have been at the flight. So I got a phone call from my nephew, who was over with them as well, saying, Auntie Fee, we've missed our flight.

I went, don't be stupid, I'm taking you there tonight. And now, it turns out, my mother-in-law had messed up. Oh, how, and so when could they catch the next one? It was 10 days later when we could get all three of them back. Oh, it's great. I'm having family, but... Yeah. Yeah, to this day, though, I can still see my father-in-law, God rest his soul,

sitting there going, kind of bloody gone the rugby game. Yeah, he missed out. He missed out. Those are good calls. Thank you so much. Great text here, too. I was on a flight from Wellington to Auckland, and the guy next to me was scrolling

through adult content the whole time waiting to take off. On the flight? Yeah. Was someone sitting right beside them? Because you can see through the gap if you're behind too.

And a great, this was the story of my friend's parents, they went over to Bangkok and they're on the flight and that flight attendant is like, you must stay at my cousin's hotel. Okay. So they turned up to the hotel and it was a hotel where you could book by

the hour. Yeah. They'd contraception in bowls. Oh. Where they'd probably change the sheets more than the towels. But surely some people were just going to get to sleep. Yeah, I guess so. But they spent one night there and they could air everyone's room service orders,

if you know what I mean. They're traumatised. They're like this sweet couple in their 60s and 70s. Who recommends that to the... The flight attendant. She wanted to get drum up some business for her cousin's hotel. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

We want to give you a week's worth of Hello Fresh. We want to know when you've made a meal of it. Yeah, we theme these, don't we? We've done the weekend edition when you made a meal of the weekend, when you made a meal of, oh, can you. Why did I start listing them off? And I regretted it as soon as I started listing it off. But today we're going to do the flights edition when you made a meal of it.

Yeah. Edition. And this is because we know that our friend Ben is taking a flight today. He's going on holiday. And we're a little bit confused why he isn't here because we, from what we understand, flight hasn't left. No, I believe it's an afternoon flight. Okay, we'll go through now.

Do you know his number off by heart? It's easy. It's a while it's saying here. Oh my God, that's cute. It's one of those word ones. Hello, Ben speaking. Oh, okay. Hi.

It still sounds pretty domestic to me, this phone line. Hey, guys, how's it going? Good. It doesn't sound European. He's not talking with a European accent. They have Wi-Fi on the plane or something. No, no, the plane, not on a plane yet, but you know. You know me, we've got to get the airport at least eight to 12 hours before the plane leaves.

When does your flight depart? As far as this afternoon, 2 o'clock, we've got to get the family ready. You've got to check that screen multiple times at the airport like a dad does. You know, you've got to walk faster than the rest of the family. All those things you've got to do as a dad are travelling. Do you know what time our show finishes? Yeah, what, 9 o'clock, normally, right? Yeah, so 9, 10, 11, 12, 1.

No, that's a good 5 hours. 2 o'clock flight being in. It's dad airport man. I bet he's at the airport right now. I'm just outside the airport right now. You know, you're in traffic. All those things can play, and we've got to weigh the bags. There's all the stuff I've got to do, guys.

Now, honestly, honestly, when were you packed? Not the rest of your family. When was Ben's bag packed ready to go? My bag's been pretty much packed. I mean, I kind of left them out of the bag, but for a good week, they'll be there, ready to go. He's got costumes. He's got costumes. He's taking costumes over?

How many costumes are taking? Just three. My wife made me cut them down a little bit. from what number oh like there was five potential five but now it's gone down to three she's like put the Eiffel Tower away away Matt leave that in there

yeah I just your poor wife is going to need a holiday once she comes back from this holiday well yeah probably probably right actually I'm yeah I know she puts up with a lot particularly me all the time

we're going to talk about making a meal of it flights edition because last time you went on holiday you actually didn't come back for like a week that's right yes that's right And then no one believed me to the fact that, anyway, it was a global IT outage. And anyway, we've had this conversation multiple times. Global IT outage. And he's like, I'm stuck over here in Florida or so Miami or something.

And there definitely were flights coming back to New Zealand. But there's, you know, semantics. Megan, we've been through this, Megan, multiple times. We don't need to keep going. Well, have a safe trip. Godspeed over there. And make sure you learn how to pronounce Quasol. We'll miss you guys and we'll talk soon.

Here go, Ben. European Hot Girl Summer. Well, we're supposed to say miss you back? Miss you. Miss you. We want to know when you've made a meal of it. Flights. Yeah.

Whether it was your fault or like Ben says it was someone else's fault and there was on a global IT. Maybe you're on a plane or you thought it was going down. Oh my God. There's some horrific things that happen on planes. Yeah. Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. We've got a big announcement to make with Jordan Watson. How to Dad very shortly, don't we? Very exciting announcement. Something happening. in probably about a month's time. Yeah.

Yeah, big, big, huge. Big, big huge. That's enough. Don't say anymore. Yeah, it's coming up in four minutes time. Really interesting tradition I got stuck in Friday afternoon. I was just picking my daughter up early from school for an appointment. And it was kind of peak lunchtime, which now they have between 1 and 2 p.m.

It's very late months. Late for lunch. We were always a 12 to 1 situation. Yeah, same. Morning T.10.30. What time to school star? 8.30? This is a late lunch.

Yeah, very late. But I think a lot of them do it now. One or two, then you're out. You're only there for another hour and then you're out. Yeah. Anyway, it's not for me to resched your school lunch hours. Bigger issues with teachers going on at the moment than school luncheows. Yeah.

So I turned up and I was just going to meet her in reception so she could sign her out. So I'm walking for a set. This is the hive of lunchtime activity. A lot of noise, a lot of running around. Then boom, this bell goes, ping. and everyone freezes like it was like a mannequin challenge remember the mannequin challenge from a few years ago

everyone froze and so I felt like I was like looking around and I was like this part of the squid game I didn't understand what was going on so I didn't know if I was required to freeze as well yeah and so I was just slowly making my way my way through these lifeless zombies

so like frozen like literally like Just throwing just standing there. Statues. No one's saying anything. Okay. There was just standing still. Yeah. And I'm sort of zigzagging my way through. And there was a, there was obviously there to do some maintenance.

He's looking at me. He's like, what do we do? What are we a part of here? Yeah. I was like, I think we're meant to stand still. So we both stood still. And we're not looking at each other. I was like, how long does this last for?

And then about two minutes later. Two minute. Bell rings again. And then everyone goes on their way. And I asked, I said, what is this? And Povey said they do it every day They freeze for two minutes And it's a moment of reflection

And thinking how the day's gone A moment of peace It was strange Tell you what You know I consider myself to be a pretty progressive person That's progressive moment of peace Think about what's happening

A reflection of the day Well you don't reflect on the day Do you really It's a good tradition Do you get, like, is there a punishment if you don't do it? Because I'd just be like, I've got places to be. I know, I know, but you don't. You don't, you've got to freeze.

That's nice. We should do it on the radio every day. Just silence for two minutes where we all reflect. I feel like you do that all the time. Our boss stresses out. I take us off air a lot, actually. We'll just call it a moment of silence. Like, you'll wander off when we go to get coffee.

We lose you all the time. I feel like you're just constantly. Crazy school drill, isn't it? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. We've got it now. No.

Well, yeah, I think we were. I think we're starting to slip into it then. Not a good time because we're running late for news. There's ads to play. Can't do moment of silence on the radio, mate. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. And we are a man down this morning.

Ben is going away on holiday. But I don't think his flight is until later. Oh, what? So, what, has he not left yet? Is he still on domestic soil? Yeah. I don't you still here. We should have a call later.

Just double-check the timing of his flight because I think he's... Is he leaving today? I think so. Oh, he's a party. Oh, you know. He'll have a to-do list of 59 tasks. He's got no time for radio today. He'll be panicking right now.

Hey, well done to the Black Ferns too over the weekend getting to the semifinals. Caitlin Vaakolo. Strong Caitlin Vaughal, Struth. And there's the sixth of the second half for New Zealand. Yeah, well done. Off to the semis. Beating South Africa. Yeah.

That was great news. Great news. It's now also big news over the weekend. Ed Shearing has released a brand new album, isn't he? Play, it was released over the weekend. And he, to celebrate, did a pop-up concert in New York on Saturday. Live streamed it on TikTok to a million views. I said I wanted to redo what we did in COVID, but I actually do it with a crowd.

And New York's a fantastic place to do that. TikTok's a fantastic platform to do it on. And yeah, here we are. He's like, here we are. There we go, a million views. Here you go, boom, like that. Thanks, Ed Shearing. He is so good life.

Just one man. Talented, talented chair. When he does all the pedals and the loops and the things like that, that would do my head. Imagine having to control. I can't even push next on this bloody computer every day. Producer Troy was telling me the company that made his little loop pedal thing. They've made a proper Ed Shearing custom one for him now,

which you can buy for $4,000 if you want it. But he also did a pop-up bar in Auckland. Now, this pop-up bar was time. could fit like five people in there but you can go in and buy a beverage and buy some merch I tried to build a deck once and that was a nightmare getting council consent

how did Ed Sheeran just biff up some building in the middle of the city? It's a temporary structure does that help and was he serving alcohol as well did he have an alcohol licence? I hope so oh Ed Shearing gets everything signed off by Wayne Brown I see okay alright it was a lot of red tape for a

very short time yeah did you go along no but I heard there was a crowd Did you go along with producer Troy? Didn't go? Okay. Oh, that's not useful for us. A text four for eight seven, do you go along to Ed Sheer and Popper? Was this promoting his upcoming shows, was it?

His album that was released. Yeah, all of it, all of it. Just everything. This album's a lot more positive after the last one. And he's got a new song? That comes with a new album. He's a talented, talented human being, isn't he? Has he ever released a crapper of an album?

I don't think so. No. No? No. And I don't know how he hasn't like tapped out. How he finds more things to sing about. Obviously some songs go better than others. But overall, the guy's never released a dud.

And he was also on that tiny desk feature that show that pops up on the internet with a world's video series. Yeah. The tiny desk. We'll put all this up on the Hits Breakfast. You can put him in any setting though. A tiny desk with acoustics and he sounds great. I thought we should do our own version of that. The tinier desk.

We've got a really tiny desk. So small. Save and costs. Build the tiniest little desk we can find. And then get the world's biggest artist in to perform around that. But well done, Ed Sharon. What a prolific weekend. Is that everything he's done over the weekend?

Makes me feel bloody lazy. Opened up a bar! Built a thing in the middle of the city, released an album. In New York, yeah. To the tiny, tiny desk show.