Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why Megan Got Left With Some Random’s Baby?!

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

On today’s show:  Why Megan got left with some random’s BABY?! Jono gets called out for always inviting people to chat with his eye contact. Ben is still giving Megan crap for having two lounges—and she’s just found out he has dimming lights! Dear Megan: Seven years after I cheated on my husband, I’ve tried to rebuild trust, but he still punishes me emotionally. Should I keep trying or finally walk away?  Jeremy and Mania from Radio Hauraki want our curtains, and we’re determined to trade for something good! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cook Easy, Delicious Dinnas, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Welcome to the podcast. We got talking today about strangers that have helped you out. There's something lovely, heartwarming stories, people coming through. Although one about, was this, this not the pig one, is it? Oh, yeah, no, that was, they moved into a house and then the vendors said, oh, do you want our pig? The strangers gave them a pig, a Cooner Kitty pig, which was quite aggressive. Had tusks. Oh, my God.

The pig was kind of, holding them hostage in their own house there. Now we've got Pauline, good morning. Good morning, guys. Actually, Pauline, this is a podcast. People could be also listening in the afternoon or evening. So can we cover all bases, thanks. Pauline, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hi, everyone.

Yeah, lovely to have you on, Pauline. Now, what did you, you left something with a stranger or gifted something to a stranger? Yeah, I work as a house support worker for the elderly in two different communities here in a coroner. and I was just popping in for some bananas one day to the local supermarket and there was an elderly gentleman in front of me with his walker and that and he was struggling and he went to pay for his groceries and he was like $5 short or something like that and he was just mortified and my heart sunk

and the reception, you know, the lady at the counter she didn't know what to do and I just sort of said I'm happy to pay for your groceries for you you know there's not much here and it was like bread butter and some milk you know it was hardly anything they said no no no no I won't take you know money and I said

no please it would be you know my privilege to do that and so it was it was minimal cost but he actually waited for me when I went outside and he burst into tears and I just take them and I said look I know

what this is like I was a soul mom for six years and sometimes I just couldn't afford the basics and I said somebody did that for me and said pay it forward one day and I said this is me paying it forward. Oh go on you. That's lovely Pauli what a nice story. I tried to pay for a guy he was trying to buy something at warehouse stationary and he was short and I was like don't worry I can like pay for the rest for you and he was like no. What a matter of he's short megan you know no like short yeah geez looking at always short always height shaming people away. No he was short my first husband was short

some of my best husbands some of my best husbands have been short no I mean short on money I get you I was just wing a dick but he was like no like oh really yeah we just walked away without it I was like oh a lot of it's a pride thing

isn't it for some people do you know we try it when we got to hits a couple of years ago we tried because we thought it'd be a nice thing to do get the company credit card and go down and shout some people some groceries and we did do that and people you know we're thankful but we filmed it and it felt really

ike filming it you know we're like well we can't release that anywhere we came back to work and they're like where's the footage we're like no one's going to see that yeah unlike unlike pauline who wasn't doing it for social media views yeah yeah exactly hey well paulin you keep out the good work what a wonderful person you are oh thank you cheers thank you so much enjoy the podcast you too John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits I'm going to be honest

You know Seasoned Radio hosts we are We're heading into this topic And I'm not I'm 40% confident on this one I don't know if we're going to get any calls Okay now this is something That a stranger has left you

Yes Can either be alone to you Or given to you forever Because you've got a great story Megan This was thankfully only loaned to me Or left with me We were in a cafe My husband and I

Just the two of us which never happens. We were child-free. And so we're just sitting there having a coffee. And there was a woman opposite us who had a, I think maybe a five-year-old and a baby and a pram. And I was like, oh, my God, I've been there. How nice is it that we're the ones that are kidless today?

And she's wrangling. Sorry, kids, if you're listening to this. They really do love you. Most and so on. And the five-year-old was pulling at the mom and I was like, oh, we've been there. But she needed to go to the toilet. And so she's got this baby and a pram. and the five-year-older needs to go a toilet

and I've been to the bathrooms in this cafe before very small no room for a pram so she's kind of I can see her looking around like what to do and she turns to me and she says kind of weird but can I leave my baby with you I'm going to take her to the toilet and I was like what's your name should we meet or did she give her name

or she just left the baby I was like yeah that's cool did you have any option in this or you felt like this the baby was already with you. Nah, the baby was already. Yeah, right. And how long would you have had the baby with you?

Sure, it was about 10 minutes. Oh, really? Enough for me to be like... Is she coming back? Is she coming back? God. Well, she's wrangling a fire. Oh, I see.

And then sometimes when you're in there, you're like, oh, I might go too. Yeah, it's probably a lot going on. Well, she probably did a quick surveillance of the cafe floor. Guy in trench coat, probably not. It's a vaping teenager, no, and she looked at you. She had an old mum-looking lady. Excuse me?

She'll do. The other than month, no. He was like, what are the mother, lady? Very, like, hot-looking woman, looks responsible. Yeah, do look responsible. You do? Looking at you, I'm like, that is a responsible person. I would say that.

She asked no questions other than, like, I don't even think she said hi. She was like, can I leave my baby with you? Okay, so what is a stranger given to you? Maybe it's, you know, it could be an item. It could be something that have left you in a will. I would love to hear from that. My wife, in America, when we were visiting family, She walked up to a lady in the store

And she said, excuse me, I love your jacket Where did you get it from? And she said, you can have it. And she was like, what? And she was like, yeah, I try and do one nice thing a day. And you can have it. Her name was Felicia. We're like, bye, Felicia.

Every time my wife wears the jacket, I'm like, Felicia's jacket. But I was like, crazy, eh? Like a sparkly jacket, yeah. I say that to people all the time. And it was cold outside too. I was like, Felicia.

Felicia has not thought this through but yeah it was really lovely Maybe Felicia stole it or someone else She's handing over the bloody evidence I was wondering with beepers we left the store But it didn't She's just trying it on Yeah sure you can take that yeah

Where's it from literally that rack John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits A stranger got you to look after their baby While they went to the bathroom over the weekend Megan Baby like in a pram little

Probably like nine months Old I reckon Like God help me if it would cried or anything. Did she like, you look little baby, baby, baby. Yeah, I did. I tried to interact and get it to smile, but it was just staring at me like, who aren't you?

Yeah. Andrew was like, don't you're going to make it cry, and then what will we do? Well, good on you for doing it, my mini baby. I really have a choice. Charge with the babysitting services? No, no. Only, I've very briefly looked after people's babies. Sometimes, you know, very irresponsible parents would be like, you know, do you know,

do I be to have a photo with my baby? And they'll just shove babies in my hands. And, you know, I'm sort of awkwardly holding a baby there. But all the time I'm thinking, like, one day, they're going to go, look, baby, look at who you had a photo. The baby's going to be like, why did you do that time? Why did you hand me over towards? My favourite is when they hand you a baby, and it looks at you and starts crying. Strange ball, man.

No, they look at me, they're like, he's one of us. Let's go to the phone. Shall we'll get Ben on from Nathia. Good morning, Ben. Mornina. Mornina. Stranger. What is a stranger loaned you or given you, my friend?

So I was the stranger that. gave something away. So I lived in Australia a few years ago and was moving back to New Zealand and I had a vehicle that I no longer needed. So I drove around until I found a young homeless family and gifted them my car before I moved back. Oh, Ben.

Bloody Oprah Winfrey on the phone here. That is... Most people just put it on the equivalent of Trade Me, you know? Like, I don't need this. I'll sell it. What was their reaction? oh like tears they were a young family with two kids and you know so it was just just something to try and and pass it on because i i had been homeless myself before and struggled with addictions and stuff like that so it was a little bit of trying to help myself or helping someone else yeah what a lovely thing for you get to do yeah well done even more so in turning your life around as well mate yep some poor ladies now married to me with two kids so A great human, Ben. Keep up the good work, mate.

Have a good one. A nartia. We'll get Kay on. Good morning to you. Hi there. Lovely to have you on. Stranger, lones you or gave you something? Kay, what was it?

So it's pretty hard going after Ben now. Sorry, Gay. No pressure, Kay. Yeah, what are we going to bend first? Oh, yeah. I'm the stranger and I'm the stranger that left my baby with someone. And Megan, no, that wasn't you. Oh, I was going to say.

Oh, so you've done the same thing. You must look around and go, well, who? looks the most trustworthy. No, 100% yes. And also you kind of like kind of beg for help with your eyes. You know, you kind of look around like, is anyone going to connect with me? Is anyone going to connect with me now? Because my toddler, we were McDonald's and my toddler was absolutely screaming,

going, mommy, I'm going to poop myself. And I just couldn't leave my, like, I couldn't get my one-year-old in the stores, physically couldn't fit. So I just was stuck there looking around for help. And this lovely lady kind of volunteered, but I could see that she was exceptionally and uncomfortable. Oh, well, good on her. Good on her.

What I love it. Now, out of the three of us, who would you pick? Your toddler screaming, Mommy, I'm going to poop myself. You got Megan, Ben or Jono. What are we going? Probably Megan. Yeah.

I'd pick her too. I'd have to deal with Jono. He usually has to poop himself and I have to deal with that. He's already got a baby to deal with. Johno Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's. I know what a stranger gave you where there is a nice thing. I was just telling you guys where that song was playing that also when we're

going to a sports game in America with some family. One of the family couldn't make it. We had an extra ticket. And there was a guy holding up a sign that's saying, need tickets. And I was like, oh, I'll go up to him and give him my ticket. And said, here you go, mate, he's a ticket. I don't want anything for it, thinking it would be an amazing moment. He was very indifferent about it.

Just like, oh, yeah, thanks. And then I found it afterwards that apparently some scalpers hold up signs that say need tickets because it doesn't look so suss when they're having, like, conversations. So when people go to, he's like, oh. So he just gave us free tickets to a skeleton from the scalp. Another ticket, yeah. That's very generous. It was a lovely.

Heart of gold. That's what I said, that I think. Now, producer Troy, you're in, too. You tried to loan something. We actually give something to a stranger. Yeah. Yeah, I went to this really nice dinner. It's like a fancy dinner.

It's a place called Autalana, fancy Italian. It was a really nice pasta. Had like some sort of breadcrumb thing on top. I didn't know half the ingredients that were in it. And I had his leftover box and I was just walking home. I was, oh, I'll do the right thing. Give this to a homeless guy on the street. He's probably quite hungry.

Nice. So I said, hey, mate, would you like some dinner? And he goes, oh, what is it? I'm like, oh, it's some like lemon chorizo pasta with like a nice crammy. He goes, nah, I'm okay. You got the linguine? They're in chinny balls. You know, those central city ones, they got a fine taste.

Fine tastes. Oh, 800 of what a stranger has lent to you or given you. Nicole, how are you? Yeah, good, mate. How are you? Good. Lovely to have you on. What a stranger left you or what a stranger loaned to or gave you?

Well, they didn't really. really loan it or give it to me. I kind of just was, I walked into a dairy. The lady there was like, hey, do you mind just waiting here for a minute and watching the shop? And I was like, okay. She took off and came back like five minutes later and she'd gone to the toilet. Oh, so you're... She loaned to the dairy.

Any customers come in? Oh, yeah, but I just told them to wait. Yeah, you're like... Sorry, this isn't mine. I'm just... You're probably more of a security guard in that situation rather than... We live kind of like in the hood, you know? So she's probably like, oh, you're okay.

looking you probably won't rob us. But then those are the people sometimes you need to be the most suspicious of. People like you, Nicole. I know, right? But I walked away thinking to myself like, I've got one of those faces that's like trustworthy. Oh, please.

I've always wondered what they do when they need to go wheeze. Yeah, well, they ask random people and I'm one of them. Did she see all the blocks of butter you put on your handbag washers? Good on you, Nicole. Have a great one. Cheers, mate. See ya. Rachel.

Morning to you. Good morning. Great to have you on. Jeez, you're a ray of sunshine, aren't you just? Good morning. I love that. So were you the stranger there, given something, or did you give something to a stranger? I was Oprah Winfrey as well.

I was on a flight from Cambodia to Vietnam, and the airline had their 25th anniversary, and they were giving away a flight, and my seat number got pulled out, so I won a free flight. And I thought, you know what, I'm already heading that way, so why not gift it to someone else? So, met someone in the backpackers where we ended up and said, yeah, would you like a free flight? Wow, that's awesome. How did the person react? He was like, are you sure? Is this real?

Like, if you just take this bag for me, too. Yeah, it's not one of those situations, did you feel like Oprah, giving away the cars? Yeah, it was great. It was so good. Oh, good on you, Rachel. Have a great day. You too, thank you. Thanks, mate.

One test to go on just sticking on topic, actually, I was flying back to Auckland, and I was in Kuala Lumpur. airport in Malaysia total stranger came up to me and asked me to look after his duffel bag I sat there for 10 minutes there's no sign of him then I saw a sign that read you'll be

executed if caught with narcotics tell them not to go to rid of them vines it was a real eye so I walked away leaving the bag there and then that caused 20 minutes later a whole other set of commotion with everyone going to the unattended bag yeah wow

never accepted duffel bag that's the most suspicious of all the luggage the duffel bag isn't that John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats I was just mentioning before Yesterday I was at the park

And a gentleman comes up to me And he hops out of a four-wheel drive But a dusty, dirty four-wheel drive One that's actually been used, you know He's got a army helmet on And an army jacket All right And whenever anyone, one thing I've learnt in life

Whenever anyone approaches you In an army jacket Or any sort of army fatigues outside of the army, you're in for a colourful conversation. So it was quite clearly... He does own one. He does own one. Yeah, so there you go. I was going to say, he definitely wears one.

So he's quite clearly not in the army. With some flag, I don't even know what country flag you're supporting it in some war. No, yeah, it was... We put a YouTube video up and I was wearing it in the debates in the comments section. Oh, God, you should definitely know the... Yeah, you should. Yeah, I should. Still their blood on it.

It's quite a political statement. Yeah. I don't know what country I'm supporting I've got like a camo jacket but that's just from a surf shop It's not previously used in a war The Germans didn't do anything crazy Did that? Not that I know of

Good, yeah Now they're clean Yeah great So anyway he starts talking to me And he's one of these people who's just like Doesn't even give you an introduction Just starts conversation Just starts firing off stuff

All sorts of what, the vaccine We covered the vaccine Covered off that And the whole time he's talking I'm like, how can I escape this conversation? I must be feeling how people, what they're thinking when I'm talking to them. This guy's like, I've found my people.

Yeah. He's got a nalmy jacket on as well. And he starts doing that thing that a lot of parents do, listing names of people first and last names as if you should know these people, then going into stories about them. Yeah, yeah. And he's like, Gary Treadin.

Yeah, Gary runs the sheet mill factory out in Swanson. I'm like, I don't know, Gary. Even when you say, I don't know. They still want to tell you your story, don't they? Plow with her. Well, his daughter. Yeah, she was the under 18 bare-knuckle fighting champion in Tarapa over the weekend.

And I could not escape. I could not escape this guy. Apart from just having to be rude and say, listen, mate, I've got to go. You just have to sit there and humour them. What is it about your face that attracts these? He's an eye contact. He looks around.

You look around. You bring it in. You like attract it You look at everyone Slowly you look at everyone's face And Ben and I walk with purpose You meander Like you've got nowhere to be

You do You give the sense of like This guy's got plenty of time To listen to my stories And he wants to tell stories back So this is great You're right It's meander at the back of the back

And look at people smile And stop Is he stopping He's stopping He's stopping He's having a conversation And that's fine I don't mind have a conversation

But when you've got places to be We had somewhere to be the other day And I got trapped in reception Who was talking to you? just as you go hi and why you know you do everyone knows the thing where you say hi how are you but you keep walking like I want to say hi to you but I've got something to do

you need to get good at that good advice well yeah well my advice is never lock eyes with anyone in an army jacket and an army helmet including yourself in public John O'Ben and Megan The podcast

If you guys have the same thing same sort of situation might not be with this particular thing at home but something that you We've dealt with every day, and I worked it out this morning. 13 years we've lived in this house that we're living in right now. Now, unlike Megan, I don't have multiple lounges and toilets and stuff like that. We just have one lounge.

You have two toilets? Yeah, we don't have like three loungers, the west wing, the north. Where do you keep your help? So we just have one lounge area, which is like, it's a room that has the kitchen and the lounge, all together, a little office area. It's all in the one room, not multiple rooms around the country. But what it does mean, well, the country, run the house, sorry. But what it does mean, if it's all in the same room, there is one sort of light switch. You know, where you go across, and there's five switches.

Five switches. Controlling different parts of the area. And I worked out this morning. I'm like, I have not worked out. I've turned this on and off twice a day, at least. And I still have not worked out which light switch does what? It's all five. If I'm like, no, no, no one, that way, that one, that way, that way.

I'm like, yeah, because I'm leaving the house. I'm turning all the lights off. You never nail it first time either. No. You're like, I'll just turn that one off. No, that's not the right one. I'm like, why? You hit them all on and then turn off the ones you don't want.

Yeah, exactly. But why have I not? Why is my brain not figured this out? No, you know, and it doesn't take long to learn the system. Like, just give yourself, I'd say 30 seconds and you'll figure out which one. Okay, that one is that one, that one. But every day I go, no, that one, no, that one. And it's just like, it's frustrating.

Yeah, feel the same thing. And why don't the electricians put them all down like on the same way? Sometimes our ones are going up. That's turning that one off. And then the other ones are going down. that's turn that one on. And one's got a little knob system thing, too. Oh, must be nice.

There's a dimmer. All right. All right. Three lounges. Two. I've only got one lounge. You probably just have one switch per lounge. I get it.

I understand, but mine sort of has to catch. No dimmers, though. No dimmers, though. No dimmers. Yeah, I don't have a big, like, multi-switch board. She just has to go raw dog light. She can't set a mood. I can set a mood, but my mood is confused every time I go to turn the light switches off.

Really, really, really. confusing so maybe one day I'll know it or not might I just say to producer grace and listen love your work gen Z producer grace but every morning we come in here and the lighting's overnight lighting it's kind of slightly dark yeah she cup first thing she does is come in every morning

boom it's like the sun is in here because you got no warnings big studio lights come in here grace for someone who like suffer some migraines and has it dark and like no light and there you're like it comes with no warning you turn it on like because I just have to I just have to turn it on because

else the lighting's going to look crap for my videos, guys. I know, but like a bit of a warning. No, I just do it at 6 a.m. when we go on here. Show's about to start, guys. Put the lights on. Whoever comes in first should do it, Ben. Very abrupt. Because we're easing into the day.

Well, that's me waking you up. Literally this morning, Ben was like, oh, that's broke. Yeah, he did. We can't trust him with lights, which is, man. Exactly. He's got multiple in his match. And a dimmer. A dimmer, mate.

You come around. I'll show you. One lounge. Show me your dimmer. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hats Morning, it looks like

We'll have the op Opportunity to carry our license On our phone, our driver's license In the future The government Looking to put that through Which makes sense

Rather than having to carry out A physical cart Yeah, your wallet everywhere Yeah So you get fined I think it's sort of dollars Some of them were saying before So yeah

We used to put our driver's license photos Up on It's breakfast social Yeah See who looks more guilty You just look Yeah you do Just look guilty.

It looks like a mugshot. Yeah. I look, yeah, it looks like I've been caught doing something I shouldn't have been doing. Yeah, you can see that one on the news. You look naked. All right, let's get to Dear Megan. Dear Megan. Someone has come through with another dilemma that they want to put to the nation, Megan.

This one is to do with someone has cheated in the relationship. And this is the person who has cheated with the feedback. It was a while ago, though. It says, Dear Megan, John Owen Ben, seven years ago, I cheated on my husband. He chose to stay in the marriage, but ever since he's been emotionally punishing me. I feel like I'm still paying for it every single day. I've apologised. I'd never done it again, and I've tried everything to rebuild trust. But he still brings it up, he still resents me, and honestly, I'm exhausted.

I don't know whether I should keep hanging on or if it's time to finally walk away. What do you think I should do? Should I leave? It doesn't go into details as to she says she's done everything, but why? what everything is. So whether they've done counselling. Yeah, true. That would be a good first step. Yeah.

Before, if you haven't done counselling, then yes, let's chuck that out there as a suggestion. Before you do rip the plaster up. But they're so they have done couples counselling. Yeah. You'd imagine over seven years you would have tried something, right? Yeah. And it's a tough, from the other person's point of view,

it's a tough one to let go off, fully understand. Appreciate that. But at some point you've got to. If you want the relationship to carry on, you've got to move past it well yeah but some people can and some people can't move past it so I guess Beyonce could

yeah but then a lot of other people can't that's the end of a marriage you know which you want to understand because someone else is being unfaithful so but Beyonce's married to Jay Z too yeah I'd forgive Jay Z you could do anything

he could do anything to me she's got a lot of money though a lot of money now he could create his own problems too obviously he really didn't need so many problems It's a song in that.

Simplify life, bro. So, 800 of the hits. If this person's your friend, they've sat you down, they've gone to listen to seven years deep, he's not forgiving me. I don't know what to do. What would you say to them? And if you wanted a constant reminder of, you know,

your mistakes in the past, move back in with your parents. That shouldn't be the person you're living with. You need to love. What do you reckon, Megan? I reckon it's done. I think couples can recover from cheating. But you've got to, you've both got to.

to work at it. And you've both got to make the decision too. Which I get, he didn't do any wrong and if he can't move past it, which I get, then you don't have to move past it. I guess it feels like it's over. You can't. You can't let someone punish you every day. That's not a relationship. It's the ultimate trump card though, isn't it? Hey, that's a funny thing you bring up. Remember that time

you cheated on me? That's, yeah. You win every argument. Any argument will always like that. From a guy's point of view, we don't have many wins when it comes to personal discussions. So if you've got that little one up your sleeve to pull out. Okay, well, maybe the situation. Funny story. Remember when you cheated on it? You can you pick up your bloody wet towels.

I'm just sick of it. 4487 is our text number. I'm 100, The Hits. We'd love you to get involved. Maybe you're seeing something we're not in this. We need to get back to this person with some advice. Does she leave? Yeah.

Or should she stick around? Can you patch it up? John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Yeah, Megan, today, just quickly, it's blowing up the text machine, as I said before, but the dilemma is. So they are in a relationship.

She cheated seven years. ago and they chose to stay together, but ever since she feels like her husband's been emotionally punishing her. Dear Megan. Yeah, let's go to the phones. What advice would you give? Tilly, good morning. Good morning.

How are you? Yeah, good. What would you say to this person if they were your bestie? I think it's done, to be very honest. If you had somebody once, who's to say you're not going to do it again? And it's her point of view. What about him? what is he had to

what's his version of the story yeah well he might be you know miserable as well I'm sure he's not happy oh course if he's speaking how the way he does he's really not happy and maybe he was staying together for another reason like maybe there's I don't know if there's kids involved

or something like you know I wondered about that too sometimes you stay in it for the wrong reason and that's not the right thing to do yeah but the kids need the best version of both parents too. I don't need a toxic relationship. Yeah, staying out

of guilt. You've got happy families by the sounds of things and you know that and it's so hard to come back from that and this is experience speaking, yes? Yeah. Now you just have to let it go or you're going to punish yourself

for the rest of your life. He doesn't need to do anything. Yeah. Sounds like they both need to heal, don't they? That was a lovely thing. I see that. Yeah, but you see it with a stupid smirk on your face. Yeah, he does, he does. He's trying to be genuine and smiling at the same time.

I can't be. Guys, you'll see me? You're like, this is some Oprah star. You can't give us a good bit of advice with a smile on your face? No, unless it's nice advice. It's nice advice. You can. You can give advice.

Thank you, Tilly. Smile on your face. Yeah, good. Let's have more Tilly on the show, agreeing with me. I have a good one, mate. Yeah, yes, sir. Have a good, Denise, what are you saying on this one? Does she leave?

Cut and run. No, she has to listen to him anytime he brings it up. It's his way of coping. The same thing happened to me. My husband cheated on me. We were together 30 years, four boys with my best friend. I found out after five years. Oh, jeez.

Yeah, did the counseling, everything. And the counselor said, her way of coping, if she brings it up you have to be ready to talk about it regardless. There's no time limit on it. This could go for years and if she can't accept it then she should leave but he has every right to bring it up his way.

It's a massive trauma and you'll get pennies dropping all the time. It might be a song on the radio and it just brings you back to the moment but she has to accept that this is his coping mechanism. So there's one thing bringing it up all the time and having the conversation, but it sounds like she's just using it as a Trump card and like an argument.

And she's using the word punishment. It's not. It's his way of getting closure and he will have a massive confidence issue and always second-douting what he did to cause this. So he has to get the closure on why. It's never his fault, but she has to accept it, and if she can't, then she needs to leave. Well, how did you find out about it? Funny story, lots of secret phones, and my ex-husband's partner turned into Glenn Close

and sending me messages anonymously and all sorts. So then I engaged Julia Hartley Moore, and she did surveillance for me. Oh, a private investigator. We've spoken to her, yeah. Yeah, yeah, she's a very dear friend of mine now, probably enough. I bet, and so the moment you find out, I guess you probably had your suspicions, but as Julius says when we were spoken to her, it's just confirmation. I didn't have any suspicions, that's what was so, everyone knew but me.

It was a real cliche. We had a totally fine marriage, we were together 30 years, four amazing boys. But he became quite aggressive when she wanted to pull the relationship. out the relationship and then I found the phones and I gave him two years but and she Julia just said enough enough

call it and I did oh good on you well hey listen to Dice really appreciate you sharing this morning that's a very personal story thank you so much for sharing that and helping out this other person a lot of people are saying it's time to let it go if you haven't tried couple couples counselling then it's too far gone

it's been seven years Like, if both of you are not happy. Life short. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The HADS. In the same building as some other radio stations, including Radio Haredaki, Jeremy Wells. You know, I'm from 7th Sharp, and I. Stewart, works for the ACC. They do the breakfast show in the morning at Radio Haraqui, and they want something about us.

Something that's in the studio now, they are on hold, they can't hear us. Before we enter into this negotiation, Ben, just like to remind you, in past negotiations you've had in your personal life. Not good. You haggled a guy up Yeah, I got the price wrong So I went up And sit it down You paid more

You're not good at hardball No, no, exactly So don't just don't give it away for free But these are the things we don't want The curtains that we've got put in the studio A few months ago We don't even use We don't like, it looks like a conference centre

They don't know that we don't want them Okay Okay well, Jeremy Wells, Menais You're at good morning from Radio Hodaki Good morning, sounds it all gone We're doing really well Now we understand there's a bit of a negotiation on the cards. Yeah, look, we've conducted a six-monthly review here at the station,

and as part of that, we've got a feng shui expert in, Master You, and one of the issues with our studio is there's too much positive energy coming in from outside via the glass walls. Right. To that end, we need a new set of curtains. I came over the other day to see where you guys got yours from, and I understand that you may not be having yours for, longer. Well, that's the discussions going on. Now, coming back to the positive energy,

is that outside and inside the studio or inside the studio, how's the energy? Negative or positive? It comes from the outside, Ben. It comes from the outside in, and then what happens is you're looking for a balance between the positive and the negative, according to Master You anyway. So there's a lot of positive coming in, and then we've got to try and balance it out somehow. Surely that's a good thing. Surely positive energy pouring in through the windows is fantastic. Could you not just be more positive in the studio? And no, too much positivity, as you guys well know, is a bad thing. Right.

You just wander around with a creepy smile on your face the whole day. Exactly. Okay, so you're looking for curtains. Now, we did, yeah, as we said to Minae the other day, we were looking to offload the curtains, but it's kind of like a kid, you know, when the brother or sister gets the toy that you didn't really want, and now you're like, well, maybe I do want that toy after all.

Okay, so what do you guys want in return for the curtains? Oh, well, what can you offer? Like, can we get 30 minutes on 7-Sharp? one evening or like, how's this work? That would be costly, but we do have things which are going to we've got things to swap because we're obviously getting rid of a lot

of the stuff out of us. Gotcha, yeah. For example, we've got a plushy, fluffy version representation of my downstairs operation, which we're attempting to give away. We've also got the POG Cody Log, the penis Cody Log, which used to be

a fixed to the wall of the studio. Gotcha. A segment that we ran on the show for for 10 years, we've been trying to find a home for that. That's got a lot of stuff engraved on the front of it, but again, it is wood, so you can just sand that off, you've got a hardwood table. Okay, it feels like you're just offering just a whole bunch of stuff that you want to get rid of

anyway. I do like plushy toys. Yeah, I think, Megan, I think you'd like it particularly. Yeah, right. We've also got an intern, Zoe, we can give you some of her hours. Some human trafficking. It's handy. Okay, well, how about you give us 24 hours?

We'll have a little discussion, and we'll come back here tomorrow same time how's that sound brilliant that's what i like about you guys your decision makers but what about the dimensions of the curtains does anyone factor that in because what if it sounds like a them problem not our problem yeah they can take their sewing machines to it i'm sure we can send you the dimensions you can cut them to spec if you'd like are we going to meet like in a car park like facebook marketplace or something like that you know i reckon we meet in reception because it's halfway that makes more sense okay do they do you need the rails too

Exactly we do. Yeah, we need everything. And if you've got any money, we'd like that as well. For a log of wood and a penis plushy. Yeah, okay. I quite like the sound of Jeremy's downstairs, so I'm quite curious. All right. All right, we'll talk to you guys.

All right, thanks guys. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Herman from Hamilton last week, trading his way from a paperclip to a house. Okay, so let's talk us through the trades. You were just telling us off here. So the paperclip went for...

chewing gum, to a tin box, to a massage ball, to headphones, to an Xbox, to a $500 jewelry voucher, oh, that's good. For a $1,200 tattoo voucher for some wheels for a car, and those wheels went for a car. Amazing guy, and he joins us back on the phone now, because you got us involved with this whole thing, didn't you Herman? I did, yes. You know, you said, what can you swap for the car and we're like looking around, like, Ben's laptop, the multi-plug power unit there.

Yeah, yeah, it's quite handy. We can get like five plugs into this. So we should have probably focused a bit more on that, right? Yeah. Yeah, we were looking around. And then, Ben, you came up the great suggestion. Why don't we just add to the car? Then we don't ever use a car on our hands.

And we added a 30 seconds worth of advertising. Yes, and I appreciate that so much because it definitely helped me get to the next trade. And since that, we've made a couple of trades as well, which is so cool. Bring us up to speed with Herman's trades. You had a car and an advertising package, and then where have we got to from there? So I actually bumped into this really cool guy.

His name was Chris, and he offered me a $10,000 renovation voucher. It's a huge upgrade, so I mean, I took it, of course. As you would. We've actually got Chris on the phone. Oh, okay. Yeah, we've managed to track down. Chris, good morning. Good morning, buddy.

How are you? $10,000 worth of renovations for the car. Yes. And the 30-second ad. Yeah, no, it's a good. Cause. Very good cause. So what exactly is the business? I mean, do you do the renovations yourself, Chris? Yeah, yeah. So we're building, plastering and design company and painting.

And yeah, we do pretty much everything you can, anything to do with your home, really. Okay, great. Well, you've already started the air. I haven't started the timer in 11 seconds. No, he hasn't even started. He hasn't even mentioned the name of the company. All right, Chris, we're really putting you on the spot right now. Your 30 second ad starts now. Okay. Ready? Five seconds down. Okay, it's Crystal Stund Design.

We're a painting and building and plastering company. I've been around, I've been doing this for 40 years. Stun Design's been around since 2017. We're based in Hamilton and Auckland. For all your renovation needs, please reach out to us, 021247-999 or check out our website, stunpainters.co.n.z. And also shout out to Ridgebeam Carpentry,

who actually got me on to this. So there we go. Let's hear what some of their satisfied customers had to say, Megan. Oh, is that me? I'm a satisfied customer? Yeah. Not a confused customer, just a satisfied one. I think they are great.

They clean up after themselves. They do a good job. They don't... That's enough? That's good. Hi, Jono Price. Satisfied customer here. I have never been more satisfied.

They satisfy... Oh, the time's up. So, standards. Design is the name of the company. Good on you, Chris, for getting on board and helping out Herman. Yeah, he's an awesome guy, and I know her succeed, so just looking forward to seeing the end result. Good on you, Chris. Well, I appreciate you jumping on board with Herman's house.

Now, you did mention Herman that you've made a couple of trades since Chris. Yes, I have. No, yesterday I made a trade for the $10,000 voucher, and I doubled it somehow, and we now have a $20,000 voucher for heat pumps and solar panels and all that kind of stuff. So that's amazing. Jeez, this is gathering some momentum. Honestly, do you want my honest opinion when you came in here and you said, I started with the paper club and now got to use car?

I'm like, he's going to stall here. Yeah, I mean, either I'm just like the luckiest person on the planet or I don't know, but I mean, I'm grateful for it. So right now you want someone who's in the market for your heat pumps and all that sort of stuff? That is correct. Although I might have a trade lined up in the next hour or so for something even bigger, which is, it's a house, but it's no land. It's just a house.

Would you finish the, you'd finish the mission if you get the house? Well, I think I need house and land. Like, this is just like a movable house. So I would probably trade this for something else to get a bit closer. But it's definitely a step in the right direction. So this isn't good enough. Herman wants the house, the house and land package. Yeah, I'm going to get it.

What do you want? Three, four bedrooms, school zones. What are you looking at? Yeah, pool. Oh, Paul would be nice, isn't it? What is amazing what you're doing? Herman trying to trade up to get their house. Make sure you keep in touch.

We'd love to follow your journey and see if you can get there one day. Thanks so much for your time. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Coldplay, of course, well, I don't need to mansplain exactly what happened at a Coldplay concert a couple months ago. The whole world heard about it. But now, they're a little bit rattled.

Every time they go to the jumbo tron, put beep on the screen. Not a kiss cam. As Chris Martin from Coldplay said. But they had a proposal in concert over the weekend. And Chris just liked to check out Chris Martin. lead singer, that everyone was still a couple. My brother, I need you to nod as I do some very basic security checks, okay? Is this person your partner?

Yes, no one else's partner, okay? So just getting everything cleared from the get-go now, just in case, you know. Imagine if Ben Boyce was Chris Martin, you'd be really rattled now. You'd be like, oh, no, we've got to cut the cam. Got to cut the camera. Would you pull the camera from the concert? Well, I like what they're doing now. It's a lot of disclaimers now.

A lot of disclaimers now. Now we're going to go to the audience If anyone's in a relationship That's not meant to be Just take your hands off Being to be at the front gate Doing a relationship on everyone A relationship check

But there's no one's blaming Chris Martin For that And it's their own fault Yeah exactly It'd feel some sort of responsibility Yeah Now this morning I actually last two mornings

I've walked past the billboard And it's for Toopor Right Okay They're obviously doing a bit of a tourism drive For Toopo Wonderful part of the country Nice

But on it You know, you've got a really good-looking couple sort of making their way along some sort of exotic part of Taupor. And then on the billboard, it says one of CNN's top 25 international travel destinations. Okay. So CNN, the reputable news network. Yeah. I mean, 24, that's worldwide. Huge.

But then whenever I'm like, oh, top 25 is like, you're 25. Are you 25, which is still great. There's a lot of places in the world. So now I want to do some further research to see we're exactly on the top 25 list they are. It does feel like, but maybe not. I mean, top 25 sounds better than if they say, we're in the top 22 or 23, you know? Yeah, if they were like 22 or... Well, then the top 22 things, you're like, oh, yeah.

But they definitely means that they're between 20 and 25. Yes, yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree. But they've got some, you know, magnificent... Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's great. You've got, obviously, the lake. Wonderful part of the... Maldi carvings.

Yeah, that's cool. So, okay, so do a bit of research. Okay, where do you, take a guess. I'm going 24. Yeah, okay, they're just slipping in to the top 24. 22 then. Okay, I'm just reading this as we go. Okay, they were nominated.

They were in the top 25 places to visit in 2025. Okay, so that's fact. Great. Fact, you must see the cinematic landscapes. The hooker falls. Oh, great, yeah. The quirky McDonald's has a decommissioned DC3 airplane. Yeah, it does, yeah.

A fun and unexpected local icon, it says. You've got luxury stays, hook a lodge, for example. Great. Yeah. Okay, and then it's got, oh. What? Okay. I can't find any credible source that specifies the exact ranking number.

Oh, so with just, to see any in the top 25. We're not going to rank them. They're not going to rank them. I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have liked to narrow it down in order. I'd just say these are 25 great places. I don't want to list them. Yeah, I don't want to give a winner. Okay, so there you go.

They have an assigned specific rank. So they're okay to say that then in this instance, yeah. That's not what I expected. It's like a participation award, though. Well, yeah, but still. You won a ranking. Yeah, I need a winner. Everyone's a winner.

No, Megan, everyone's a winner. I just don't see what else was on the list. A couple of the other big bangers on the list. Sorry, this is just live Googling. Greenland, Ho Chi-Men City. Oh, yeah, okay. East and West Sussex in the UK. Cuba, Pakistan.

Okay. Oh, then we're more like, like not. Antarctica. Well, the whole countries and stuff. Yeah, places. And then in New Zealand we'll just narrow it really down. Total war.