Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why Jono Was Crying Alone In His Car...

Episode Date: August 24, 2025

On today’s show:  Why was Jono crying in his car? We break an AI drive-through… When you just knew it was going to be a good school day (“when they rolled in the TV”) How Megan ended up making a plane late! And the scary near-death experience Megan witnessed Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday here. A fun show for you today to check out very shortly. I've just, I've left something in the letterbox, and it's freaking producer grace out quite a lot. The rock to push. Do some Foley.

It's the rocks. You'll hear more about it shortly, but in a snapshot, what is it, Ben? It is the rock's head, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, his head attached. do, well, an octopus legs, though, it's eight tentacles with each of his legs is another one of his head, a mini head. It's like a plastic little octopus, and it's

freaking producer grace out. She said it's kind of like, if you ever seen a toy story, and there's that, the baby. Oh, mishmash. And it's got kind of like the crab sort of metallic sort of arms. That's creepy. She's saying it kind of reminds her a lot of that. Three-D printed, really. Yeah, it's

really good. I don't know if he did it himself, or he just bought it as a 3-D printer, but anyway, I As you're here on the podcast, I didn't see the funny side of it at first. I just took it to a far more sinister place. He really did jump from zero to a hundred. He was claiming he had a stalker. Yeah, I was like, oh, this is creepy. This is creepy, Amanda.

And my wife's like, oh, no, oh, no. I'm going to have to tell him. He's going to have to, yeah, it's been sitting in the letterbox for a week because I don't check the mail. Because nothing good comes from the mail. Nothing good. You can quote me on that one. Quotes of the year. They have quotes of the year.

Nothing good comes from the mail. I agree. Have you got like a courier package? Oh, that's, yeah, but the mailbox. No, no, no, like, sound mail. Yeah, going into the mailbox. I'm sorry, New Zealand Post, but nothing good comes. Nothing good comes in any below.

Yeah, outside the mailbox. Absolutely, yeah, the good comes, but you're going to the mailbox. It was the last time you went in and then you're like, yes. Sometimes you get a dominoes, just, you know, 15% off your next order. Okay, all right. Sometimes you get a friendly local real estate agent. That's a, yeah. Wanting to do an appraisal on your property.

That's right, yeah. I'll tell that straight to recycling, but, um. Yeah, back in the day, no circulars was a big one too and people get to tell you about circulars going into your letterbox as well we had big problems wasn't it? I know.

Yeah. They put a boasting bus catalog in here. There's no circular. No circulars. It did used to fill up by everyone. That was marketing. I guess before social media

and everything else it was like just get it in their letter box and you have like 19 sort of catalogs for all sorts of stuff. Did you do one of those circular runs? I did newspaper delivery. My stepbrother did. I'd sometimes help them out with that.

Yeah, they were same thing. So the local paper. A friend of mine did circulars, but they dumped all of them in the river because they didn't want to do that delivery. I think that was a common, sorry, with teenage. I mean, trusting teenagers to do that, right. And it's a tedious job. I remember, like, you'd have to get up first thing in the morning,

and I'd have to meet Mr. Barrett, four o'clock outside the dairy, and then he would load you up with what felt like 520Ks of newspapers, dangling over my BMX bars. Oh, my God. So it was like a yellow. it was the heralds. They had like this yellow thing you put papers in the front and the back. I was like,

it was so heavy. You couldn't even stare it, going down a hill. Oh my God. Yeah. It was a good day too when it was raining because mum's like, all right, I hop on the corolla. And I'd sit in the boot and we'd have the papers in the boot and I'd just run out. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, she was like, this is not my job. This is meant to be teaching. You used to take around though,

like that, the milk. The milk we were talking about the other day, that milk trucks as well delivering. And it's gone full circle now. You work in the same building as the herald. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Get delivered. They deliver it to you now, just out there at you know, every morning. And salty bad, geez, they get angry if it was running late too.

People are like waiting and buy the letterbox. Oh, really for that, yeah. Obviously, Internet wasn't, I don't even think it was a thing, God. So they probably want to read what's happening in the world and, you know, do the crosswords. 10 minutes late, I'm like, I'm sorry, I've just been lugging a truck's load of newspapers around on my BMX for two. I fell off down the hill. Get home and I'd be all sweet, sweating and hot. It was not a fun job.

Well, you hear about, more not that, but you hear about the rocktibus on the podcast as well as plenty more things, including a Megan's adventure over the weekend with, what, what a heck of a weekend with Tony Street. It's like the hangover, a Melbourne edition, wasn't it? A whole lot went on over the weekend, but next, why was Jono crying? We'll find out on the podcast. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Very embarrassing moment.

Friday I was waiting for my daughter Poppy to finish dance and it was in the darkness of my car and just knocking off a series called Shrinking, which is a really good series. Jason Segal, Harrison Ford. It's like a therapist who's basically, he's dealing with grief and he's also, he's got his patience. And it gets to the final episode. Okay, I'm watching this in my vehicle and it's everything you wanted a final episode, okay? Harrison Ford's hardened character finally lets his guard. and Seagal's made up with his daughter

he's had a tumultuous relationship with the other character, she's patch things up with her mom and I'm like, oh, this is wonderful. You know, and it depends on the time and day, but it caught me at a vulnerable moment. And I started crying. I was like, this is a lovely end to this series. You've seen the show, haven't you?

Yeah, yeah. Did you cry? Yeah, no, I think I did. I think I did cry. Please say no right now. I mean, I wasn't like bawling, but like water came out of my eyes. Time and place stuff, wasn't it? I mean, you started crying during what? Oh, how to train your drag.

How to train your drag. And it just depends on what sort of mood you're in at the time, I think. Yeah. So anyway, tears are streaming down my face. I'm in the moment. I think I'm in a safe space inside the car. Darkness, too. Then I hear,

Gidey, mate. One of the other dads. And I'm like, okay, I've got slightly tinted windows. I can pretend I'm not in here. Well, I can just ignore him. Two bad options. Yeah. So I wind down the window.

I've tried to compose me. myself. I wind down and I was good a boy and he's looking at me I can tell he sees what I'm going through what emotional roller coaster

I'm in the middle of and he's like hey you go mate good and there's a bit of silence and I was like I've got to acknowledge it yeah well otherwise

he thinks you've been crying to something else thinks my life's falling to pieces the wife and kids have left me and I'm living in my car or something so I'm just watching

the show it's really good and he goes must be I was like you should catch it and he sort of started walking away then you should catch it on ample TV

drink is really good about the What did he actually want? He was just wanted to say hello Just fill in some, you know, five minutes until the daughters came out Yeah, yeah Nothing more humiliating than being caught sobbing by yourself Oh, that's okay, I don't think that's shameful No

Well, it wasn't you When you cried, was it in the piece of your own home? Yeah, I didn't actually watch it in my car I think that's more weird Yeah, maybe that's the thing Yeah John O'Bin and Megan The podcast, The Hits

AI seems to be everywhere at the moment. A lot of fear around how many jobs it's going to take. But then there's also a lot of great opportunities for it to be used to help you out as well. That's the thing, yeah. And I think that when people are fearful, they start to attack back, don't they? My son, Oscar, he was like, oh, do you know there's offensive terms for robots in AI now? Oh, so what? People are calling it.

Callancers. Oh, really? That's probably going to come back to bite me in about 15 years, isn't it? But it's a turn from Star Wars. clankers and then the other one is tin skins oh really yeah okay that's scary

well eventually the robots are going to have feelings and emotions yeah they'll be like that's a slur that'll be a slur in 10 years time till you cancel this guy you know are they going to end up just looking like us and then you're going to be like get out of here your tin skin

yeah that's the thing he said there's a sketch where there's people like playing baseball or something on a field and there's a robot looking through a fence and they're like you'll never be one of us tin skin but they're better than us They are better than us. They don't have existential crisis at work.

They don't need to go for toilet breaks. They don't have to awkwardly stand around for bloody Margaret's morning tea in the communal kitchen. They just get stuff done. No, but we have empathy and feelings and love. You're right, Megan. Yeah, you're right. Human to chemistry. How's that for the productivity, mate?

Empathy and love. We went to a robot cafe. It's hot. With a lid on there as well. Yeah, the lid's secure. Yeah, the lid's secure. It's genius. It was good.

Everyone was getting in the comments section I noticed on that's breakfast, like, it's just a glorified coffee machine. I guess it's somebody's with the arm. I agree. I agree. Had a robotic arm. And where's the hot tattooed dude that's like, how's your day going? You're like, good?

Yeah, true. We had to try and do that. And it wasn't the same. Oh, it wasn't the same. Okay, so we heard about the drive-thru that you go through where they take your order with AI. They're Burger King. They're in you. They're employing AI.

So, this was a, I'd never had this experience before. I had either of you I've had it once when I turned up there before And what was your It did a pretty good A pretty good job I guess in some ways

I don't think this is a great reflection of the AI I was just trying to I was just trying to outwit it the whole time Hello Sorry what was it Hi day

Hello What can I get you Can I please have A quarter pack thank you And a bucket of chicken Sorry we don't carry Burger Ito anymore Can we have

a wopper without the cheese will that be a large with coke can we put the apple pie inside the burger sorry we don't carry that I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry could you please repeat that well yeah someone's causing stress what time do you knock off today mate will that be a large with coat okay so you can If you're using the AI right now. Okay, a large with coat of no sugar. But then just at one with a little bit of sugar. A large Hawaiian pizza?

They can't just like, they can't imagine to make food. Sorry, we don't exist. I mean AI is good, but not that good. To be fair, this is not a true reflection of this AI system. Like if you can feel secondhand embarrassing with my AI, then I'm feeling that. Oh, she's going to get real person. Oh, now, yeah. Hi there, did we push the AI to the limit there?

Sorry, so I got the hopper live combo and spicy chicken fries. No, we've got an actual person doing it. In conclusion, we'll go around now and we'll see if we AI. Do you know what? Probably would have been really good if we just made a proper order. Well yeah, but anyway. Not as cocky now with the real human, are we? So there we go.

It always has to go back to a human with empathy and love. Well, yeah. You were being a pain in the about asking for things that don't have. It didn't the other time that I did. the time that I do it. Oh, I goes to BK for a Hawaiian pizza. Yeah, so really it was. Maybe they're not that good after all.

Inconclusive. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Well, there'll be a lot of people heading to school this morning, and some may be dreading it, some may be looking forward to it. I mentioned the other day that my daughter Poppy, for like four days leading into this event, she was counting down the days. She had been rossed on as the runner, the school runner for the day.

So basically just running around the school, delivering notes, delivering detentions to students as well. Very powerful position to be in. You hang out in reception, you just told to go to, you know, class 14C or whatever. It's kind of weird that they haven't got a better... Yeah, it feels very old school. Like, I don't know, yeah, my daughters have never, their school's never had to this. So obviously, yeah, but producer grace knew all about it. Yeah, we had a runner too.

It feels like now you can just send an email or a message or something. Yeah. I don't tell them about email. Yeah, right. Yeah. Hide that from them. I got scared doing the runner job, though, because you had to go into classrooms, like older kids' classrooms and then classrooms of, like, dudes you thought were hot,

and you're like, oh, my God. A little daunting. We have to hand your crush a detention. Yeah. Yeah. So, anyway, I didn't have the heart to tell her, like, basically just being the runners, like being an intern at a company. I've done that job.

Can you go to get coffee? Yeah. She got paid in Scherbert. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice. That's not a bad payment system, is it? and a day off, I guess, class, you know? When you knew it was going to be a good day at school?

When they wheel in the TV. Oh, yeah. Although they probably don't do that anymore. No. We used to have a big TV on a trolley and then you'd put the DVD in and be like, yes. Yeah, you knew that was going to be a good lesson, right, when that's sort of coming. You're like, either the teacher had checked out or there was something that was part of the lesson that you're like, great, this is great. There's a lot of TVs being wheeled in like two weeks before Christmas, isn't it?

Yeah. Although they have taken the wheels off the TV now, and I think the TV is just on the wall. Oh, yeah, nice. Yeah, that's right. I reckon it was a good day at school where you had a substitute teacher who didn't really care. Yeah. They were like, there for one day. They were like, to be honest, if you do the work, you don't do the work, whatever.

They were just super chill. All care, no responsibility. That was a great day. What a great job, that one. Yeah. I'm just here for the minimum wage. And then I'll be on my way. Come on in.

I'm like, hey, I don't care. Do it. Do it. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I just talking about when you thought it was a good day at school. You can call us 0800 of the hits 4487

When you knew it was going to be a good day at school Megan the wheeling of the TV A big one for you Yeah someone's texting And also agreed when they wheel in the projector And project the sexy stuff on the ceiling On the ceiling Yeah, I didn't have a whiteboard

Well like genitalia on the roof of the classroom Are they all lying on the ground looking at her? I never had it on the ceiling No No, neither But hey, it's adventurous stuff that's going on in Nelson Ella, good morning to you. Morning.

Oh, lovely to have you on the show this morning, Ella. When you knew it was going to be a good day at school, mate? I like the TV as well, but also the Gerald the giraffe. Harold was a man, primary. Yeah. Harold, that's it, not Gerald, Harold. Harold was great. But I've actually asked my kids what they reckon because we're dropping them off.

And Toby, what do you reckon? Phonics. He loves the phonics, Lainey. I reckon playing with my friends When your best friends are there in Aston When there's a soccer ball for Aston Oh, that's great Ella

Good call We should buddy hire you for radio As an out and about person Yeah That was good broadcasting from Ella there I remember we spoke to someone A teacher who was told to jump in The Harold the Draft costume

Remember? And he said it's not very breathable No And he had to stand at assembly in front of the whole school for a very long period of time, he passed out and he collapsed on the ground and he said the last thing he could remember was a kid going, Harold's dead. Oh, my God.

Harold's dead. That's so traumatic. All right. All right, well, you go and have a great day at school, kids, and thanks for phoning through, Ella. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.

Taidonga. Morina to Aaron. Welcome. Hey, mate. How are you? We're doing well. You know it was going to be a good day at school when, Aaron. Well, back in the 80s when I was at school,

we always used to have like a sports day where you had houses within your school and you'd all go along and compete against each other. And not that I didn't really like it, but I'd go to the roll call and then I'd just go home for the day because I'd really miss you. No one's going to miss you, really, in that environment. You're not an impact player.

Aaron, that's actually genius. Yeah, yeah, I was there. I was there. Yeah, good on you, Aaron. Do you remember what your house was called? I was Yellow House It was Hutt Valley High School back in Lower Hutt So yeah

Just a real fun time They'd do it twice a year So they'd have two days off for nothing It was gold What they do for a sports day there The greatest burnout Who can run from the police the fastest Yeah

Who could roll the biggest Open a Cody's with your eye That sort of thing Yeah all the great activities in the Hap Good on Erin You have a great day mate Thanks guys have a good day team Appreciate it. Mark with us, 0,800 of the hits.

When you knew it was going to be a good day, Mark, at school? Oh, when you had a snow day. Oh. Obviously from the South Island. Yeah, I lived in Dunedin. You used to live in Dunedin. And you have snow and you, you know, wake up in the morning. There's snow on the hills and that sort of stuff.

And then you sit around the radio waiting from the say, yeah, school's off and whatever. Yeah. Go out and be playing in the snow, make snowmen, and things like that. That's a good memory. Core memory, as they say. Never got that in Nelson I always dreamed that school would be shut for something

We had a river next to us When we moved out to the countryside And sometimes the river levels Mum would be like Oh it's a little dicey We can't drive over You know Because we come across the road

You know Oh right Yeah but mum would always plow on to Mom River levels It's a great excuse You know Your version was flood days

Yeah exactly Yeah That's funny Well good on you Mark Appreciate that The snow falling in the south. Got a snow day.

Hey, good on you, mate. Appreciate it. Thanks so much for you. He calls in your text. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Now, over the weekend, I thought I had a stalker at the house. Now, this is, yeah, no, I really, I leapt from zero to 100.

Because, you know, last week I was talking about how someone was impersonating me online. I don't know why in my head. Anyway, so long story short, lover of the rock. I love Dwayne the Rock Johnson. And my friend Luke knows this, and he's got a 3D printer. And he knows I love the rock And he knows I love puns So he made me

And I brought this in He made me The Rocktipus So it's Dway Johnson's head With multiple heads all over And it's the rocktipus And eight legs It's like Medusa

And so my wife Was at a party the week before That Luke was at And he was like I couldn't go along Because of work And he's like Oh you need to take this home

And give this to Ben And they decided They put it in the letterbox For me to find and then get a nice surprise. I didn't check the mail for a whole week. I just don't check the mail. I just don't check the mail.

No good comes from the letterbox. But my wife was like, my wife dropped a hindler. No good comes from the letterbox. I agree. It's just parking finds. When is good come from the letterbox? When you ever go to the lidbox, you're like, oh, I'm glad I went there. Never. You are so right.

So I didn't go there. My wife during the week is like, she was like, he'd check the mail? I'm like, no, I'm going to check the mail. And then later, because I hadn't checked the mail. You're like, no good comes from the letterbox. She was like, oh, look what I found in the letterbox. And all my head was like, that's creepy. That's weird.

That's weird. Is it? Is it really? I was like, that's weird. Someone knows where I live. Someone knows I love the rock. And they've turned them into an octopus. It made me a weird, the rock octopus.

I'm like, this is not good, guys. This is not good. Lock every window in the house. We're getting some bars installed. I can see Amanda look at me like, oh, where is he going with this? And she had to come back to me going, hey, this is from your friend Luke. He thought it would be kind of funny that. Put in the lower box, thought you'd get a bit of a laugh out of it.

But you're taking it into a weird place. She's meant to be a bit of a lot. I get a text from my friend Luke, like, oh, sorry, but I didn't want to alarm you. I just thought you'd find it funny. I'm like, oh, geez, I've really made this into a weird thing. I'm like, no, it is really funny. The Rocktibus is genius. No, to be honest, your friend Luke made that into a weird thing.

The right head on an octopus, that's starting in a weird place. We're going to get a picture of that up on the hits breakfast. Eight tentacles, it looks pretty legit, though. It does, can I? Each of the tentacle has another head of the rock. The octopus. It's made out of plastic or something. It's like vinyl.

So I think it's a one of a kind rocktopus. There you guys. That's pretty incredible that that was late like 3D. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, I thought it was a stalker and I was ready to move home. If you loved one, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, what about nine of his heads? Right there for you, my. That's right, yeah, the rocktopus.

Great part. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Now, it wasn't your day, though, was it on the weekend? No. I am always pretty onto it when it comes to flights, because I have missed flights in the past, and I don't like being late.

No. Your dad, well, this is from childhood trauma, though, isn't it? My dad loves to go to an airport and wait to be called. So, you know, when you're late and they call your name, he waits. On purpose? Yeah. He's like, I feel like a VIP And then everyone's already on

And then I can just go on Doesn't have to wait in a line Lail-Layne sellers come to the Yeah He's like I feel like it's VIP treatment I'm like no it's like because you're late But he's sitting there waiting And so does he feel the judgment of other passengers

As he's walking down the aisle Does it just water off a duck's back Good on you Wayne What a great way to live life You know, given zero Yeah Good on him Other people are like

A little inconvenient But him he doesn't care So Mike Hosking effects This was an international flight over the weekend I was in Melbourne to watch Corteo Cirque de Soleil that's coming to New Zealand, very good but we were catching the flight back Tony Street and I

and we were having a little beverageino Okay Yeah, yeah It was one of the airfield bars I was having a wine And in the bar, it was very noisy But they still had the announcements Yeah

I could see a good one I was going to try and wave her in but she ignored me. She still had the announcements, like the boardings and all that playing, but it was kind of hard to hear. There was like lots of atmosphere in the bar. Right.

So you know this. You know the environment you're in and there's a screen with all the flights and the departures in the bar. In my defence, in my defence. There's no defence here. Streetie had the airline's app on her phone and she's looking at it being like,

well, it says boarding times this, but there's no announcement on the phone. So we're all good. Okay. Carry on with the wines. We look and we're like, well, it's 10 minutes. It's past the boarding time.

It doesn't say anything on the app. Streeties, like, it's all good. Another five minutes go by, and she was like, I'm just going to go check the gate. I'm going to go check and make sure. And she comes bowling back being like, scow you drink, scow you drink, let's go, go, go, go. There was no one in the lounge.

Leaving it wasn't an option. Yeah, it feels like there could have been an option. You're right. Actually, did she say, scowl you drink? I was like, I paid for it. It's definitely going in, you know? Leaving it was an option, you're right, yeah. No, I'm not leaving the drink.

I sculled it, and sculling wine's hard. And we bolted down there just as we get to the gate, we got the VIP call. We got the Kimmeek and Pappas and Tony. Oh, you got yelled out over the PA. That's, yeah. Unless you're Wayne, that's humiliating. Nah, it didn't feel as good as my dad says it does. Especially if you're not expecting it, too.

And so you had to do the Walk of Shame past 200 passengers? They don't like it. I got so many looks. Yeah, good. Because they know. They know. I'm just every time I'm like, how are these functioning human beings put themselves?

How have they put themselves in this position? You've checked in, you've got a boarding pass, you're through the gaze. I was having a savvy and the announcements were quiet. I blame Tony. And she stings of alcohol. I know. Can you smell the alcohol on it? This is me running down the gang plank and Tony Street is like blaming me for the audio.

That's your signal for audio where she kept way over here there, John. Okay, okay, yeah. As he's a drink. He's a drink and nods. Last person to board. And she had to scull her a drink. Disgraceful. If not for me, she'd be still there, not making her flight.

And also, like, filming social content on the way. I'm like, guys, you're already running, late. I don't want you to get an Instagram video. Oh, you can hear that I'm running. Okay, when did you hold up a flight? Like, you held up a plane because of you. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. that we're just me going to held up a flight on sadly God, it's real making me sound like an a-hole this morning Sorry, it's only banter though Kirsten Have you held up a plane like Monster Megan? Yeah, but it wasn't intentional I had a really busy week

I had my 18 months old with me And just as I'm going through the gate My friend says to me, can't you just stay a couple more days And so I'm stressing out And I'm like, no, there's no, I can't do it I got through the passport check, and then I started to feel faint, and they had to get a wheelchair, and they were like, are you sure you able to fly? You're going to be all right to fly?

And I'm like, yeah, I'm okay, I'm okay. So I had my son on my lap, and they were wheelchering me through right up to the door. I had like three attendants there, and they were, like, helping me down the aisle, and it was last one on, and everyone was just like. Were they staring daggers at you? Were they, Kirsten? Well, no, they weren't, actually. I think they were kind of sympathetic because I had a little.

little kid with me. Yeah, yeah, well, there you go. And everything turned out all right. You didn't pass out on the flight? No, no. Had lots and lots of drinks, and they kept on double-checking on me. Megan had lots and lots of drinks, too. Yeah, I think they're probably different kinds of drinks.

The wrong kind. Just keeping fluids up. Helen, morning to you and potidua. Good morning. How we doing? We're doing well, Helen. You held up a flight, mate. Did.

Yeah, we were, as we were arriving at the airport, we bumped into an old friend, and he goes, oh, come and join me in the quarter of land. So, like, oh, okay, sure, you know, sitting there big noting it. And he goes, all right, I've got to go. I'm in a different flight, by both. And then we're sitting there's no one here. And then all of a sudden we were like, we were in the domestic. Oh, no.

So then we had to get to international, and it was like five minutes to depart. And then the lady at security was like, we're like, oh, we're on this flight. And she goes, you and everybody else, darling. And then they start calling our name. and we still haven't got through immigration. Oh, you and everybody else, darling. Did you make the flight? We did, because she finally got it

when they started calling our names. But, yeah, we were definitely not the most popular people on the plane. You're like, sorry, we're just big-noting it in the Kodoo Lounge. A domestic. Hey, good on you, Helen. Appreciate your time and calling through. Have a great day. John O'Bennon and Megan.

The podcast. The Hits. New Zealand Post will no longer be shipping to the US. You'll be able to get your packages and parcels there through other people that will take it that way. But not just people at the airport. I was going to say, do we all just wait at the airport and go, where are you going, mate? Oh, you'll have to see family and San Fran. I'll hear you drop this off.

I feel like the airport's frown upon that if you take packages. So is this to Trump's tariffs? I think it is to do with tariffs, yeah, as well. So it's not economically viable anymore. You send stuff to America, don't you? Yeah, sometimes. The family over there, yeah. But now it's a good way to get out of it.

Just be like, oh. Like a tariffs. Teriffs. Yeah. I'm not shipping anymore. Can't do it. Terrence. Maybe.

That's right. Yeah. I was lucky enough over the weekend to go to a premiere of Cirque de Soleil, Corteo, which is coming to New Zealand. Really good. We know those shows are amazing. People do things that they really shouldn't be able to do with their bodies. Incredible to watch.

Well, he's got magnificent bodies, the circus people, don't they? Oh, my God. There was one. Pictorials. Like, pole dances are incredible anyway, but there was a, one where the pole like floated up in the air and you know they never they don't have any attachments or anything so she's pole dancing on a floating pole hanging on just by like her knee it was just amazing yeah it is for a while every time i hear cirque de sale i remember

that terrible story with guy williams remember oh yeah we sent guy williams along when we're doing a TV show to film a piece of content at cert de sale and he came back to the office and we're like how'd that go mate not good not good oh yeah i uh i kicked his circus perform in the face. Yeah. Spinning around. Yeah. And he like kicked this poor French bloke in the face and his nose was bleeding.

Yeah. And we're like, we couldn't play that. We didn't play that footage. Oh no. Yeah. It wasn't guy doing it intentionally. He didn't try and kick him, but he was spinning around stupidly. And then it just, yeah.

And you could tell he couldn't speak English to the guy, but you could tell he was angry in French. Yeah. He was like, scy, pardon my French. You would be, yeah. So Megan, something happened to you. Well, this was even before the show. And they said the attire was

Cirque Sheik And I was like, what a circus sheep? Like, what is that? Ben's definitely putting on a clown costume That's a circus shirt. That's right. You could have done that, yeah. So, you know me?

I wore my most like inappropriate heels And when we got there, I just spent the whole weekend being late to everything, honestly. It was dark. They'd already turn the lights out and they were saying that it's going to start in two minutes.

So we were like, okay, hurry. And so lucky to be there. and lucky that they gave us tickets right up the front. So we had to go down in front of everyone. And you know in dark theatres, they often light the stairways. So there's a little strip of glow on the dark stuff. So you can see where the stairs are.

Walking down, being careful, I'm in an inappropriate heels. And then I'm like, okay, there's a strip. There's a step. Strip, step. Then there was a no strip. So I was like, there's a landing. There's a flat piece before we get to the next part of the stairs. I'm walking down.

There's packed crowd everywhere. around me and I misjudge a step. Boom. Did you collapse? I fell hard. Oh, the old lady's had a fall. The old lady had a fall. The old lady had a fall at a restaurant the other month, too, didn't you?

I was wearing a short dress, and I definitely, it definitely flipped up over my back. Oh, no. I mean, the good thing about being at a circus is they're like, oh, maybe this is part of the show. Yeah, they do have people that are dragged in the crutch. Yeah. I see that lady, she was the greatest act of the night. I was with bloody Tony Street, who was in more appropriate shoes, and she'd, like, left me for dead.

She'd left me for dead. I went down, I hit my knees, I went flat down, skewed up over my back, and I'd skinned my knee, and it started bleeding. I'd get up, and I yelled out, Tony! She's like, she's not with me. She's gone, mate. And I just ran the rest of the way. Did you have some family-friendly underpants on?

I just had normal, just under the other things. but they were like nude-coloured, so people definitely thought they saw my bomb. Dinner and a show. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hit. Now, Will Smith, the movie star, actor and rapper as well.

Originally started his career as a rapper, has been accused of something online. Very bizarre if this is the case. And it feels like these days when it comes to AI, I'm not sure what is AI and what's not. Scott, yeah, it's got me 12 months ago. I could have picked it. Oh, I probably couldn't even pick it 12 months ago.

But especially nowadays, it's really good. So he's rapping at the moment. He's been touring around. I was just doing a bit of a deep dive. It seems like the tour has been going pretty well. He said some big crowds, like 60,000 people in France in June. But there's been a video that released on his Instagram account where some people are saying some of the shots in there

with people holding up signs, the people in the background, are AI. Megan's saying definitely AI. I'm like, ah, borderline for me. Some of the screenshots, though, it's quite clear that the faces are all, like, Like, not blurred, they're like melting. So you reckon it's 100% AI? I reckon that could be... Only some of the shots.

So like, it's weird because, yeah, everyone's saying his shows haven't been bombing. So why do you need to manufacture an audience? But it's just some crowd shots where they're cutting to like fans and holding up signs and stuff. Oh, there's one like, Will Smith, you cured my cancer sort of stuff. Yeah, you can make it. Help me survive cancer. Thanks, Will. And then there's a girl, a guy holding a sign and then a girl's a girl's.

hand goes into his hand holding it as well. So she's got the cancer sign and they're saying that's... He's got the cancer zone. Odd headache to give yourself. Yeah. Yeah, from his... It's probably a team of people though I'm sure that works with them. If it is the case, I don't know. I'm like, it's still a moving shot and you blur it for me. But it's not...

It's a moving shot. It's not a photo. It's not a photo, Megan. That's all I'm going to say. No, but it's not blurry. Their faces are very clear, but they're melting. So, listen, what we'll do... And all of them are. We'll put them up on the Hits Breakfast and you can decide for yourself if they've had to manufacture an audience, which is weird.

I just don't understand why they would have done it. If he's got big audience. It's looking here. He's got $69 million on Instagram, which is 20 million more than Ed Sharon has on Instagram, which is pretty incredible. It might be on to something. Bloody hell we could get AI to manufacture us an audience. Yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it?

Yeah. Might take a leaf out of all smithful. That's definitely what we want. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Talking about this on Friday, you're away, Megan, at a funeral. And we've got to talk about when you got to meet your hero. And so many calls and texts come through.

Some good experiences, some bad. They always say don't meet your heroes because I'll let you down. But sometimes it's good. Have you met your hero? I met a few of my radio heroes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did they let you down?

The heroes let you down? Yeah. You're still working with two of them, so it's great, you know. No, you haven't let you down. You'll leave you down, just to be clear. But we're also not in the hero category. as well. So it kind of cancels each other out. We didn't

meet him but chatted to Kanye once. Did you? It was horrible. Oh, was it? Well, I can imagine it could be a bit of a rollercoaster. That would be a horrible experience. Yeah, it was just like really like short and blunt and rude. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, because he doesn't care about you. Now, we got talking about this yesterday.

Sorry, on Friday, now someone rang up about meeting Gemma Flynn and we need to play you this audio, Megan, because how... Oh, she's going to have an issue with it. Yeah, well, I had an issue with it. Everyone had an issue with it. Have to listen. Jimmy Flynn.

Oh, some people probably won't know her. No, Richie McCaw's wife. Yeah. Here we go. You had to, yeah. It's an amazing hockey player for many years, yeah, for New Zealand. There we go. So she's the hockey player.

She's not Richie McCaw's wife. Yes, she is. She's also Richard McCaw's wife. Yeah, but amazing hockey player. But don't start with that. When I met her, no one knew who she was. She was just trying to get a table in a small restaurant over on a beachfront. a beachfront and I knew exactly

who she was and I was the manager so I was like boom I'm bringing a table on from outside I'm getting the drink she wants I'm getting a table for Ritchie McCaw's wife that's what I'm doing why is she catering to this lady and then I must have said something and then there's the guy next to her goes oh you're Richie McCaw's wife her girlfriend at the same

and I was just like man like give the girl a break she's an insane hockey player yeah she was that well before she was her his um Yeah, exactly. You're right. So that was Nicole. What did everyone have an issue with? The fact that he called it, Richard McCaw's wife, straight away.

Now, we've got Kim on the phone. You met your hero, Kimbo. I did. Actually, Richard McCourt. Oh, Richard McCourt. You mean Jim of Flynn's husband? Yes, funny story, because I was pre-the-bus exchange in Christchurch. And I was about 16.

And I've seen this gentleman coming up to me, and I was like, oh, he looks so familiar. and I generally thought he was when I'm my brother's friends I went up to him casually I was like hey man I know you from somewhere what's your name he's like

Richard McCaw and I was like Richie Richie I was like oh you're one of my brother's friends and I was real cash He's like no no no And he's like look I've got to go So anyway he's trying it off I can't be bothered explaining who I am

He just told you my name And my friend's like do you know who that was I was like you're Richie McCorn like Richie McCaw the rugby player I'm like oh my God I love it because all me of those situations people were like you don't get their full name But you got their full name, you're like, how do I know you still?

Yeah, yeah, like I just didn't know who he was. And so what are you, like the moment you realize, uh-oh. I mean, I was so keenly to run back to him and, you know, be one of those fans. But I thought, no, I'll leave him to him to and just keep this whole story to myself. Oh, good on you. That is very funny. I really appreciate your time. Thank you.

Keep this coming through. Oh, 800 of the hats, 4487. When you meet your hero next, we need to get to someone who's tick through you that met Jack playing frisbee i think uh but apparently no one believes him johnno ben and megan the podcast that when have you met your heroes he said he who haven't been's been lucky enough to meet his long long list of heroes so there's have you ever met anyone with so many heroes no have you met al al cool jay no he's another he's a he's elusive well he was someone i like i had a face when i was into you know

you had the necklace and you went to mr minute and purchased the skeleton key to put around a sort of a gold necklace from Pascos. Yeah, no, I wouldn't say hero, but I mean, I did like, I made a mind of his fashion sense for why he could pull it off. I couldn't pull it off. The Rock. Ladies love Cool James, hello, cool Jay, yeah. So, yeah, all right, enough about me. It's about other people meeting their heroes. It was Jack Black

I met Jack Black in 2012 I think it was He was opening for the Food Fighters at Western Springs With Tenacious D And they opened the gates And everyone took off And I was at the front of the queue

And screaming around the back of the Soundstage And we saw this guy Playing Frisbee with himself He was trying the frisbee And then running after it Playing frisbee with himself That's impressive

That's a wee bit strange and then someone said, oh shit, mate, that's Jack Black. And we went, no, no. And anyway... You could go, do you want someone to play with, mate? Someone you can actually throw it to? We were standing there looking and we went, hell, it is Jack Black.

So we all just went over and chatting to him and he was just, he was fantastic, unreal. Just like, we're all sort of group around, you know, surrounding him and we're having a chat, and he was looking forward to the concert. It was a beautiful day. And then, of course, I just brought myself a new phone. and everyone was saying

oh can we have a photo so he's taking photos with people you know and I was up there by myself so I said to this very pretty young girl I said hey could you take a photo of me and Jack together she goes yeah sure fine no problem so we're standing there and arm round him and hugging him and she's going click click click and I thought thanks cheers great

and Jack goes all right look I've got to go guys got to get ready for the show and he took off and I went off to the mosh pit and standing beside the Santa Sage I thought I'll just check those photos out and I had a look on the camera roll and I had a look and all I could see was photos of

this pretty young girl Oh no! She'd held this new phone around the wrong way And taking photos to the cell Oh no Because I texted everyone and said Oh man I've got these really cool photos of me and Jack Black I'll put them on Facebook

and everyone's going, where are those photos, bro? Oh. Well, you know, a funny thing happened. He's got a photo of a random stranger. Yeah, yeah. On selfie mode. I got to meet my hero because I was a huge, at that stage, I used to watch School of Rock on repeat.

They absolutely loved it. He loves his frisbee. Like, when I saw him out and about in, you know, in Auckland that was a couple of years ago, he had a frisbee around his neck. Now, this is years after you had seen him. So he's always always. ready to play frisbee jack black yeah it was really bizarre we just saw what's this guy throwing a frisbee

and it was taking off and then he's off after it like a dog after a frisbee and we thought gosh that's strange hey well i know he loves frisbee i believe you that sounds like an amazing story good on you have a great day mark john o ben and megan the podcast the hits with you we're talking this morning about when you had the opportunity to meet your hero so many texting calls coming through yeah a whole bunch do you know who my heroes are who teachers, doctors, nurses solo mothers none of the superficial celebrity stuff

I went out of his telephone number had some really good calls come through this morning Jack Black, someone saw Jack Black playing Frisbee by himself that's a remarkable act Yeah How? Well he had to throw it up And then he'd sprint after it

Go for the fitness Huge cardio workout No he wasn't doing that Yeah that's what he reckons Yeah that's what he reckons I guess it would kind of, like, if you throw it on the right angle at my boomerang bear, yeah. I'd give you a reason to sprint.

Yeah, we've got Sharon with us. Good morning, team. Good to have you on. You met a hero of yours, did you? I did, I did. I was working at Rugby World Cup in 2011 looking after transportation. The team's the match officials

and getting them in and out of all the rugby games. Wow, geez, big job. It was a huge job. Yeah. And I met a huge amount of people. But at North Harbour, I was told we have a special guest, had no idea of who it was. And upwalks, Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr. And at the end of the game, we had to get them out, well, I had to get Orlando out of the arena really quickly.

And walked him down to his motor car, and we had a long chat, super guy, gave me a hug, hopped in his car, and off you end. Wow. So what's the light band here you're having with Orlando Bloom? What topics did you cover? Oh, we covered, well, he's not a rugby, he doesn't like rugby at all, but Miranda was obviously supporting Australia. He's like, oh, rugby's a bit mad. She dragged me along to him.

Absolutely, but then we also covered him during his forming in Wellington and all that. It was great. He was a really super guy, really interesting and real casual, you know, just a normal. It's a nice normal. Maybe that's why that relationship never worked out is so he's like, she keeps dragging me along to rugby games. really that keen on it. I thought about that one, yeah.

Yeah, he's probably like, oh, why don't you just go along? It's, it's your thing. It's your thing. Hey, good on, you really appreciate your call, Sharon. That was impressive. That's a great pleasure.

Thanks. Have a great day, guys. You too. Maybe they didn't need to get him out immediately because of security reasons. It was just like, he's like, I can't spend another minute. Do any more rugby guys.

John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now, you've just arrived fresh back from Australia. Must be nice, Megan. We went. I got flown to two. the premiere of

Cirque du Soleil Coteo, which is coming to New Zealand. Most of shows, eh? It's so incredible. Like the things those people do, it shouldn't be possible. Yeah, it's remarkable. And you become, I always say this with the circus, you become numb to it.

You're like, oh, get in the blade cage with the motorbike, mate, you know? Put a child in there. Let's ramp up the jeopardy. And then you walk away and you're like, the whole thing was amazing. I know, I know. What was it getting all salty?

This is amazing too. because they have the stage in the middle of all the people so you can see through to the other side and then there's a whole crowd on the other side as well. But yeah, it was amazing. But heading back, we had a bit of drama on the plane. What happened? It was kind of exciting at the start

because they did over the PA, they were like, is there a doctor on the plane that's willing to assist us? And I was like, oh my God, it's like the movie. Is there a doctor on the plane? But I realized it was the girl that was like diagonally behind me. And she was having a real issue I think they said at one point

She was alluded to mushrooms And they were serving mushrooms on the plane So she was having a seizure She was having seizures And I was like Oh my God are we going to have to turn around Like what's happening? That's scary

We were a good kind of hour into the flight So we powered through And I think they Did they just turn the blasters on? Speed up, we landed very like 40 minutes early Was there a doctor on the plane or no No there was a few nurses there was a nurse actually sitting beside me

so I felt very safe and so they were assisting they were assisting but they have so much medical equipment on the plane that you don't even realize I don't have to I would have thought the stewards would be trained in they were yeah they were trained in how to administer it but they were kind of like

second guessing like should they epipen should they right yeah and they had like medication and they had oxygen tanks and all kinds of things things. Wow. And so she, what happened?

Is she okay? Well, she was stable enough. So when we landed, the paramedics came on the plane, everyone had to stay seated and they kind of quickly checked her out to see if she was... What about the people that want to stand up quickly? No, I was amazed. Like, the whole plane just kept seated. I was like, oh, that's cool.

No one was awkwardly half hunched over and beneath the thing. No, some people go way too early, eh? I was like, what's the same of you, mate? What is the same year? I usually stand up just because I need to stand up. I'm just like, my legs are done. I want to stand up. I made that phaeton mistake.

Yeah. I did that once. Well, I did it recently, actually, and I don't know why I did. Because the person next to me, I could feel them getting all jumpy. And then I was kind of half hunched doing a half squat for about five minutes. Terrible leg workout. Yeah. So this person, you think, hopefully all good?

Yeah, it seemed like with the medication, everything they gave her, that she was pretty stable by the time we landed. She's really do. A lot of vulnerability were in a plane, isn't it? Halfway to a flight? When you're right. Yeah. It happened to a friend of us, and the poor fellow next to her past. passed away, didn't he?

Old guy, yeah. And they didn't have any other seats on the plane so they had to put a blanket over. Just put a blanket and she was sitting next to him. Yeah, the whole time. Yes, took his meal. Took his meal. Took his mail.

I know the nurse beside me was so busy with everyone else. I was like, she's going to want to eat those crackers. Did you watch the entertainment while all this was going on? I mentioned it's quite a lot going on. We're watching Fast and Furious or something. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. We've got some Hello Fresh to be one.

We want to know how you made a meal of it over the weekend. You can text meal to 4487 for a chance to win some Hello Fresh. This week, the menu of the week, this week, rich cherry tomato and leek Orichita as well. It looks very, very good. Last night, my daughter made chicken pasta, all by herself, actually, for the family, which, from Hallow Fresh, which was really good. I don't even know what an Orichita is.

I'm just going to pretend nod and smile. You don't even know what an Orichita is. Megan's the bloody legend. You can check out the full menu at hellofresh.com. NZ because dinner just got better. So how did you make a meal of it over the weekend? I had a shocker on Friday that just like I ended up. Your husband was actually at this event.

It was a chemist's warehouse put on this lovely thing for Father's Day and had a whole lot of people there. And I had some work on. So I was like, I don't know if I'm going to make it. And the lady texts me and said, if you can make it, it's still running to a certain time, come along. So I was like, all right, I was running really late. I was probably two hours late to this thing that was only three hours. But I was like, I'll get there for the start. And it was at a golf driving range.

And when I turned up, I was like, well, this is a fancy event. There's people like Dan Carter, All Black Legend there, Paddy Gower, from the TV. I was like, oh, geez, you're Martin Gaptel, the cricketer. They're all there as well. And they were like, hey, you're just in time. You can just get in for the longest drive. Oh, wow. Martin Gaptel's just hit 300 yards.

Oh, my Lord. So you have a one shot. And I was a bit frazzled because I arrived. I was like, the last thing I want to do is have a group of people stand around and watch me have a drive. That doesn't seem. Fair. You know, I was like, I can hit a golf ball okay sometimes, but I haven't had a golf ball, ball, probably a year's time.

That's the problem with golf, is it just put so much unnecessary pressure on the, you know, Lydia Co. Ryan Fox, they're fine, they're fine, but you're everyday manta. Yeah. Actually, if you're on a whole one of a golf course and there's like 20 people waiting to start there around and you're like, that is a lot. This was the situation. Does it count if it goes like 300 metres like sideways? Well, yeah, well, this is the thing.

So everyone's sort of stood around. Baring of my Martin Gapdel knocked it into another suburb. I'm 300 yards. So you're up. And I swung it and I must have gone underneath it and just hit the T. And for some, the ball sort of went up and it went forward slightly and then spun backwards. And went backwards. Behind you.

Like I went negative. Honestly, negative yards. It's not far, but maybe negative 30 centimetres. And I was just like, oh. You know. Does minus count? Yeah, to be fair, that's a skill. Yeah, everyone was like, was that a trick shot?

I'd like to say it was a trick shot, but no, it was just me trying to hit the ball. So just making a meal of it in a situation where these sporting legends going on. And you weren't all doing it at the same time? They were like watching each of you take a shot. They had been doing it because I turned up late. Everyone's like, oh, that's what's old made ever shot. Did you give it, you know how you do some practice swings? Did you have a couple of practice?

I should have straight in there? I should have done. I don't know. I should have something. Sometimes when you do practice swings, it looks like you know what you're doing and then you go and hit the ball and completely miss you.

What was the point of practicing? Yeah, true. Yeah, so a real shocker in that situation. What did Dan Carter say to console you? Oh, he was, you know, he could tell. Well, the good thing in the campus warehouse kit, there was some ointment and stuff. Some savelon.

Yeah, so really help with the self-inflicted burn that I put on myself. So, yeah, did you make a meal of it over the weekend? Did you have a shocker with it? John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. You can be made.

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Yeah. What is this green thing? It's like, oh, this nutritious food. Oh, 800 that's the telephone number. Let's go to Brenda. You made a meal of it, Brenda. What happened? It wasn't actually me.

It was my husband. And it was a number of years ago when we were putting new insulation to our ceiling. And he goes up there with his pink bale of pink bats, and our roof is really low. And he gets on one side of it, and he gets his knife and zips it open. And it bursts open. And he gets wedged into the... the lowest part of our eaves on our roof, and I'm inside, and all I can hear is,

hon, help. Through the muffled pink bets. Yeah, muffled, they worked really well. Yeah, and I'm wondering around, going, what's wrong, where are you? And he goes, I'm stuck. The pink bats have got me in the corner. And I'm like, I'm just no help.

I'm honestly no help whatsoever, yeah. He eventually obviously got himself out of there, but, yeah, all I can envision was... Oh, did you know, did you go? You can have sort that. one out yourself, mate. It sounds like a you problem up there. It was definitely a you problem. Brenda, that is really good. You can hold there in the running, having a meal of it. Gary, our friend Gary, how are you, buddy? Yeah, good guys, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well. It's lovely to have

you on a Monday morning, Gary. What did you make a meal of? It wasn't, again, wasn't myself. It was my neighbour taking an hour and a half to back a trailer of topsoil down his driveway. That sounds, yeah. When did you move in next sort of Ben Boyce. Yeah, that sounds like something I would do, to be honest. True story, I took him a knife and fork, and he says, what's that for? And I said, well, you're making a meal of that, mate. Oh, sorry.

That's the last thing. Your neighbour needed to. You don't want that to be a spectator sport, eh? Like driving range and backing trailers, two things. Parallel parking. I don't want people to be watching me do it. Even Gary came over with prop comedy as well. Oh, you were like, oh, God.

To the neighbour's seat, yeah, they definitely saw her. Good on you, Gary. Appreciate it. All right. Two winners. Two, two, two, who are we picking? Oh, they're both good stories. We're going to have to pick one.

Or should we go, Brenda? Okay. Brenda. I love that you left it up to home. Yeah, I did. I honestly, I was no help. Well, you've got yourself a week's weather. Hello Fresh.

If you can get your husband back down from the ceiling. You can enjoy that together. And I've got Gary back on. Would you like to invite Gary over for dinner every night next week? You can eat at their house. Gary. Certainly because you've met me and you know I'm fat and I don't

need a hello fresh out. That's 100% the truth, Gary. Gary is a big fat but so fat. I resemble that, guys. Oh, no you're not, Gary. Thank you so much for listening to listen to the pair of you.

Have a wonderful day.