Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why seeing Jono drive to work this morning would terrify you…

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

On today’s show:  Why seeing Jono drive to work this morning would terrify you… Megan panics realizing hitchhiking is mandatory in the 10k race New Zealand gets named in the Epstein files and we all wish it hadn’t Our entertainment reporter spills all the Grammys gossip Jono confesses to a crime involving a stolen car… Dear Megan: My husband loves coaching our kids’ rugby team, but he’s terrible at it. Do I say something or let it go? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. No Ben today. It's just Jono and I. Raw dog and it. Fumbling our way through.

Not raw dogging. Why are we raw dogging? No, we're just here. We're just here. Just doing our job. And Kylie, lovely to have you on the podcast. Hello, and how are you this morning? We're doing well, Kylie.

We're just, what you'll hear in the podcast. Dear Megan, someone met. You didn't they on the DMs? Yeah, so it's a husband who is coaching their kids' rugby team. He wants to do it again, but people on the sideline are being rude and saying, look, the team needs better direction. They're basically saying he's a bad coach. The wife wants to know what she should do about it.

Should she tell him? Should she encourage him? Should she tell the others to pass off? What's your advice, Kylie? I think that she should find out who this mother is, storm up to her. Get right in the face and say, if you think you can do a better bloody job, do it. Oh, love it. Yeah, I love some side.

line aggression with an umbrella poking an umbrella in a face too like waving. Kylie's the friend that everyone needs. She's going to throw down, she's going to be like, hold my earrings. I'm stupid force. Hold my earrings. Definitely me. Yeah, I love that. Yeah, you think just tackle the feedback face first, face on.

Face first. My sister-in-law does coach her. I think it is. And she said it's so hard. And she loved it for her son. but at end of the day, the people, the parents and stuff, are just ugly. Yeah. What's wrong with people?

I know. And I think the ugliness, as I was saying before, it gets confused for passion. People just wanting to see their kids do well, and sometimes it gets away on people. And they probably drive home in the car and go, whew, that was a lot. You know, the intensity of a sideline. You need a cup of tea and a lie down. Yeah. Yeah.

Sometimes you just, I think. There needs to be, and I know they've been trying to do it for years, but a big reset of what the role of the sideline parent is. Yeah. And if you can't behave yourself, you can't be there. Yeah, you're just there to support. Yeah. Kiley, next time we have a problem I'm calling you, okay?

Awesome. Thank you very much. Yeah, anyone owes us money. We'll send Kylie over. She will get it. Yeah, anyone says anything mean about Megan on the internet. We'll send Kylie over. Oh, yeah.

Don't you worry. Thanks, Kylie. All right. All right. All right. Have a good one. You too. And you.

Enjoy the podcast. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Jesus, bloody sticky overnight. I don't know where you're living in the country, but some humid conditions where we are. So, so sticky.

It was 94% humidity. Sticky, sticky. You walk outside and you're like, moist. How sticky was your bed sticky? Oh, yeah. Like a fan going. Yeah, just moist.

And I got out of the shower and I was, was perspiring. You know when you get out of a shower sometimes? You're still sweating. It's really hard to dry yourself. Yeah. So I was like, well, what I'll do is I'll just, I won't put my shirt on yet. Okay.

Because I won't put my t-shirt on yet because then it'll get on. You're talking about this morning. This morning. This is just hours ago. Okay. Still hot. 95% humidity you said. That's how hot we're talking.

So I'm like, well, I'm just going to drive to work shirtless. I don't know why this is too. I drove to work shirtless this morning. Felt very vulnerable. Even though I'm doing it, I'm like, this is an unusual scene to see someone. Driving to work, driving this time of morning with no shirt on. Not that it matters, but did you have a hat on? Yeah.

Okay. Why does that matter? Well, because, you know, you've got a few tattoos. Right. You're like a little bit bald. And then you're shirtless in the car. It just is more of a terrifying image as a whole package. Yeah.

My concern was, my concern was because, you know, there's only a few people on the road at the hour of the morning is that you do bump into people who work with you too. Saw a lovely Charlie from Flavor. He pulled up to me in the traffic. And I had... What are you doing?

I know his car. So I was at the line of the lights and he brought it right next to me and I reversed back. So I wouldn't be in the direct line of side of Charlie. And then I got into the car park. bloody Ivanka Zoresich Time Saving Traffic Sonich

Vonich, yeah She pulls in She pulled in She did she see you? I'm still shirtless in the car park Because there's no point where I've had the chance To put my shirt on before entering the work car park People are going to start messaging Ben and I

And be like Is he okay And so I got out of the car and I put my shirt on Bill Ivanka from Timesaber Traffic She I think she saw I think she saw I'll expect a message

from her today. But now you know the back story. Yeah. Okay. Sticky. Sticky, guys. Please keep your shirt on at all times today. Sticky conditions out there.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now yesterday, our boss, Matt Anderson, called an urgent on-air meeting with us and the afternoon show, Maddie and PJ. He had a big announcement to make something that's happening next week. So one of you is going to head to the very top of the North Island, the shows. One of you is going to head to the very bottom of the south. Island and then we're going to get you to race to the beehive in Wellington and the show that

gets there first is going to get $10,000 to give away on their show. Okay so we're racing for the people. Both shows. There could be no prize and you know I would be so competitive. Already I'm like I'm devising plans. We'll be tired, no money and stuck in Wellington. That's what you'll That's what will happen if we lose, Megan. Yeah. And we've just received an email through electronic email. That's what email is. Yep, we've received an email.

From our boss, Matt Anderson. Good morning. As you know, we've launched the $10,000 race where you lot are running around the country trying to get to Wellington before Maddie and PJ. I have approximately zero spare minutes to deal with the chaos that's about to unleash. That's his job. He started it. He chucked this grenade.

Yeah, this is for his sick entertainment. So I'm making this official. Brin Rudkin will be the taskmaster for the journey. Bryn Rudkin who works nights while the rest of you are asleep, he is in charge. Now any problems, disputes, desperate pleas for help, all go through Brin. Good luck. And we are joined by Brin in the studio. Good morning.

Ballbuster Brin will call him from now on. Yeah, I'm in charge. You're going to be running the rules and regulations for the race. Pretty much. I'm basically the NZTA of the station. I'll be making sure that you're getting from A to B, essentially. Now, here's some questions. Can we just fly?

No, you have to remain on the ground at all times. You have to... What's stopping us, just jumping in the Hitscar in Cape Rianga, and breaking the speed limit, going at about 130 to get to Wellington, and not stopping? Well, that's breaking the law, isn't it? Yeah. No, I'm going to be very strict on you, John.

especially you. I feel like Jono, you are a bit of a rule breaker, but I'll be keeping my eye on you. But to be honest, I'll lose enthusiasm for the project really quickly. I'm going to, but poor Megan and Ben are going to have to be dragging me. That's okay. I'm going to be the opposite. I'm going to be so over the top run.

You're going to see a new side of me. Megan, I've got a question for you, actually, just about, you know, transportation. Have you ever hitchhite? No. She doesn't give hitchhiking vibes, Megan. No. No. But this is something that you may have to, well, actually, you will have to do.

you'll have to hitchhike your way across the country. Yeah. Do we have like someone watching us? What happens if we get into a dodgy car? I'll be with you. Hitchhike, I love the jeopardy of hitchhiking. You're just getting into someone's car, hoping that they're going to be normal.

And then we have to listen to the punishing chat between the said person and Jono as he grills them about their life. Well, you should be used to that. Why, I mean, you never get used to it. So we're going to have to hitchhike down the country. Yeah, yep, hitchhike. Pop your thumbs out and see who picks you up. I've only ever picked up one hitchhiker.

Clay from California. We're on a radio promo, tracking a train up the country. And he was going to the opposite end of the country. And I took him to the other end of the country. And he stayed at their house. Turned up to my apartment. And Jennifer, my wife was there. And she's like, who's this?

This is Clay from California. He's going to stay for four days. Still got Clay's socks, actually. Oh, so that's the advantage of picking up random hitchhikers. He stayed at your house for four days and your wife still married you. I know. I've picked up a hitchhiker before on the Crown Range Road, which is between Queenstown and Wanaka. He was a farmer.

He did have a chainsaw. But his tractor had broken down. This is a true story. I was on my way to the Wanaka A&P show. Yeah. And I picked him up a little bit dodge. but I live to tell the tale. Was you holding the chainsaw?

Was it visible? Was it visible? Yeah, and there was like oil dripping all over him as well. You could have driven up. Have you said Texas chainsaw massacre? Yeah. Okay, I wait under the hits. Hitchiking stories. Have we had hitchhiking horrors or maybe you've met the greatest person

and you're now lifelong friends? Do you still keep in touch with Clay? No. No, I haven't spoken to Clay in many years. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. We're racing through the country next week against Maddie and PJ

from the afternoon show. First show to get to the briefcase of $10,000 in Wellington wins that money to give away. But we have to hitchhike, which I've never done before in my life. You don't scream hitchhiking. I've not picked someone up. I have never stuck my thumb out myself.

Yeah, there's some great stories and there's some stories you probably shouldn't read on the text machine. Oh, really? Have you tried to get the one about the partner, the true story one, Troy? Have we got them? Same story, different guys. says producer Troy.

Daniel. Hello. Hitchhiking, hi? Or hitchhiking happy story? Oh, it's pretty happy. We own her house. We've been with her for nine years now. Wait, was she hitchhiking, and you picked her up?

Yeah, well, actually, I met her the night before at the pub, apparently. But I didn't remember. And then picked her up later on the next day, and took her to Christchurch. and she says she was staying at a backpacker. I said, no, stay at mine. I just don't know how you get from, you know, just meeting to staying at someone's house. And you're still together?

Yeah, we own a house together. Oh, that's a lovely story. Megan, you could meet a future, another husband, a third husband. Yeah, okay. You can't. G.S. with us on 0800, the hits. You picked up a hit chiker. Yeah.

So it was quite funny. I was on my way to walk the heathy track with a friend of mine, and we got sort of to the coast, and he was this guy, and he looked pretty questionable. We thought, oh, well, I'll give him a go. There's two of us on him. It'll be fine. So he jumped in the car.

He's like, oh, do you mind if we pick up my lady out the road? He's got a dog with her as well. Okay, then that's fine. As we pulled closer, we could see she had a good wobble. on and as she got a whole bladder of wine out of her top and the dog jumped in the car as well it was fine we took them all the way to their house because they were just going to it was so it was really funny dog's name was boo and we were listening to the radio and on come that song me and you and a dog named boo and we're all just singing along like a happy little family it was

great oh there on that was a happy I thought it was going to go south and have you remained friends with wine bladder and dog man No, we did it. We did for a little while. We ended up after we'd walked the heapie. We went back to see them and had a couple of beers with them. And, yeah, they were pretty friendly with the old devil's worse. Well, thank you, Jessica.

I mean, that's the thing when you hit jiking. The driver's going, are they safe? The passengers going, are they safe? No one's confident in the transaction, are they? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. Algorithm is fed with all sorts of nonsense. Megan, you get a lot of it too, sometimes fought a bit to you too. Yeah.

In bursts. And then I stopped for a while because you never reply to them. So I'm like, I don't know if you enjoy. I don't know if you enjoy the... Jono needs affirmation, like, you need smiley faces or hearts or... Yeah, a guy like eating an apple with one bite whole. And I'm like, this is impressive. And you never got back to me on that, but that's okay.

It's a really niche type of content that I'm like, do you know who will like this? John. I would love to hit reset on the old algorithm if I could. But I got this really interesting piece on a New York guy who's been arrested, imprisoned 32 times for hijacking buses and trains 32 times. Now, his name is Darius McCullum. This is him. He's got Asperger's.

Okay, okay. And so what he does is he'll hijack a train or a bus and safely drives their routes in uniform, dropping passengers off on time and making all the safety announcements. So essentially doing the role perfectly. So he just wants a job. Just give the guy a gig. Where did he get the uniform from?

I don't know where he's got the uniform from. But I don't think they can give him a gig now thanks to all the criminal convictions. This is him in the bus terminal. If you notice the bus is sitting here unoccupied. So I can just go open the door, start the bus up and pull on out with the bus. Nobody was suspect anything because they probably think I'm just, one of the drivers. So it's like, help yourself.

It's like solve service. I think he applied for the job, got rejected, but turned up anyway. Legend. He sounds like the most committed employee. Put him up on the Auckland Transport. We'll take him. Maybe a bus will turn up on time. He's never late.

Give the poor guy a break. Absolutely. And it's on the bus company. Put a fence around your buses. Lock the doors or something. Yeah, to be fair, he's right. They're just sitting there unattended. That's on them.

Lock them up. So yeah, I was going to send his resume to Auckland Transport. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. On your computer. Hyperfixating, you're calling it, which I guess is just trying to learn everything about something except when to stop. Yeah. I do that when we do the Alpha Quiz,

when we do the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz, and there's like an interesting tidbit. I go down, I'm like, okay, I need to now know everything about that. Yeah. We were saying you'd sort of be great if you start hyperfixating on the actual radio show. That'd be quite nice. Just once, just maybe once. But so Ray, who has this very popular song,

Where Is My Husband? Do we play it all the time? A heck of a jam. A banger, as they would say. One of my favourites at the moment. And there's a little part in the song where Ray sort of goes on a bit of a rap rampage. So you just want to learn the 11 seconds of the song. This is what you were focusing on yesterday.

And we're like, well, if that's going to distract you, we may as well use it as a bit of on-air stuff. Yeah, and initially I thought that I was going to sing along with her, but producer Troyes and I told me he's got an instrumental. So I don't even have her voice guide to help me out. Talk to me. Percentage-wise, how prepared are you feeling? There's one section that I know the words,

but it's the timing and it's the pace. It's so fast. She's very clever. And when the day is here, forgive me God, that I could ever doubt it. But it's so fast. I can never get it in time. When she's singing it, it sounds. I would like a ring

I would like a dummy ring I would like a big and shiny diamond that I could web a run a talk a talk about it But when the days I don't know I do I do I do I Oh you're nearly there Sounds like she's reading the bloody terms and conditions At double speed

She's going so far So you've got till Thursday Yeah I reckon you're almost nailing it now Yeah I'm almost there What about over the instrument What if you do it over the instrumental Oh god okay

There's four counts Okay, go again I see Is it go there? Okay, Troy's going to count me in One, two, three I would like a ring I would like a diamond ring

I would like a diamond ring I would like a big a shiny diamond That I can wave right a dougatuck about it And when the day is hell I don't know it Doi joy joy Is he about about that man is testing me Uh huh, uh huh

I help me help my life You know what? I reckon you're at the stage Where you could sing that at karaoke I'm at 1 a.m. in the morning. Thanks. That's where you're at right now.

Right now. We'll try and get it a primetime karaoke hours, maybe sort of the 7.308 o'clock slot by Thursday. You're nearly there though. Yeah. It's a work in progress.

Good on you. I'm just, I'm saving it for when Ben gets here. And what use will this bring her in life? Who knows? John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits.

Files. Millions of files have been released. It's pretty grim reading. Not that I've read it. Three million pages worth. The highlights that we have. seen Argrim reading. And, well, a big takeaway,

New Zealand loves a shout-out, don't we? We love a shout-out in a movie or a song or a TV show. And movies or TV shows, they're always like, and my cousin's going to go to New Zealand, and we're like, yeah. More recent one was the Jonas Brothers Christmas movie. New Zealand got a shout-out, didn't they? Did you watch that movie?

Yeah, it's all parts of it, off and on. My daughter was watching it. It's so good. KJ. Apple was in the film. Yeah. Is that why New Zealand got the shout-out? Because KJ.O.F. was in the film?

Was it in reference to KJ's character? I don't think so. Oh, they were just saying... No, because I think KJ, I can't remember. I can't remember. So it's such a great movie. You don't remember much about it. I don't remember if KJ was American or Kiwi.

He had a shirt off. Seems like some information you'd remember of it anyway. Yeah, the Epsine Files. So New Zealand loves a shout-out. Well, guess what? New Zealand mentioned over a thousand times in the Epstein Files. In what? Like, are we happy about that?

In what way? Why? I know there was an article in the front of the Herald today. There was a couple who was managing, managing one of the Epstein properties as well. Listen, I think, you know, if there's any time for New Zealand not to, not to, you know, try and go hunting or do some journalism on when we got a shout out. Now is probably the time. Let's just let this one slide. Let that one go under the radar.

Yeah, it's pretty grim. Even what, even New Zealand should have gone, hey, can you just delete New Zealand out of the EFCEN files next book? Retreat. It's not great branding. But that's the thing with those files is like it doesn't mean there was like we were doing anything wrong doesn't mean New Zealand was in there for a bad reason

right? New Zealand wasn't on Epsine Island See no photos in New Zealand hovering over a girl lying on the ground All right, we'll have that be known John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits Live from New York City

It's our entertainment correspondent Nicole Ryan Coming to us from minus 9 degrees in New York City. Oh, God. How cold, mate? How cold? I mean, it's, I don't, if it's cold for me, then it's cold.

Because, like, I like the cold and I'm, like, very used to it. You go outside for more, like, I walk the dog and I come back in pain. That's how cold it is here in New York City. Do you put shoes on the dog or a jacket or something? I have tried. Have you ever seen videos of trying to put, like, those little booties on a dog? It's not natural for them. I've tried.

Shoes aren't for dogs. Those dogs are like, I'm sorry to our ancestors, you know. Yeah, yeah, it's unbelievable. No, sometimes like a little jacket or something. But again, he's like, I was wild at one point in my life. Many, many, many eons ago. I can look after myself out here, Brett.

I got this. I'm okay. Huge news. The Grammys just yesterday. There's some big takeaways. Can we delve into, first of all, Chapel Rhone's outfit? Chapel Rhone wore a sheer dress, and then it was kind of just clipped up and connected to her boobs.

So she didn't put it over her shoulders. Yeah, was there an outfit? I mean, I mean, also, there was like a big controversy of like whether those, like, whether it was real or not. Like, I'm sure she actually has those piercings. I mean, it's not, I mean, I feel like that's very on brand for her. But, uh, yeah, like, I think she loves shock value. I think she loves to just kind of make everyone be like, wah, wah, wah, wah. We'll put a picture up on the hits breakfast Instagram.

shall we? Yeah, of the answer. I'm really not that phase by boobies, to be honest. I grew up in a nudie park, Nicole, so I'm like, eh, it's a body. It's a body. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Have we discussed this before when you say nudie park? Did you grow up in, like, a nudist colony?

Yeah. Yeah. Her parents were, uh, yeah. We need to take this offline, Nicole. Okay. Okay, we will. We will because I, I'm not part of a nudist colony, but I do, like, we're in a naked household.

Like, we don't, like, we don't race away. But that's for another day. It's a really time. First day of work turned up in her birthday suit. We're like, bro. No, I did it. No, I did it. That is not going to fly around here.

I love that. Justin Beaver made a comeback at the Grammys. And he performed. It was very stripped back. He did a loop pedal, but it was a bit underwhelming considering we've seen Ed Shear and do the loop pedal. Have to be seen. What did you think, though?

He performed in his boxer shorts. He's got this whole air about him that he's like, I don't give her. You know what? And I get it. I think that he's so over the entertainment industry, but this is how he makes money. This is like what he does love. I just don't think he likes all the minutiae that goes along with it.

So he's like, I want to be back, but not really. I thought it was kind of weird that he just came out in like the boxers or the shorts. But I also think that that might have been like something that he's going to be putting out, like part of his clothing line or something. Maybe the memo wasn't sent out about the dress coat. Chapel Rhone didn't get the thing that you had to put stuff over your shoulders. He didn't realize you couldn't turn up with your underpants on.

There was a big memo. So I kind of thought it was supposed to be stripped back, reflective, you know? It's a bit of symbolism. Yeah, I don't know. You're not wrong, John. He probably should have had those shorts connected to his bosom. I feel like that could have been a better list. Yeah.

Okay, so, but I also think like he hasn't been back. It's been like since he quit the tour, you know, or like cut it short. It's been years since he's performed. I thought he would have like jazzed it up a little bit more. It didn't have to be like over the top, but something more than this, but that showed you just how much he does not care. And also Donald Trump going to be suing, host Trevor Noah after this gag. That is a Grammy that every artist wants, almost as much as Trump wants Greenland.

Which makes sense. I mean, because Epstein's island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton. So, oh, I told me. One thing that I thought was, forget about it. They can do whatever they want. They can say whatever they want. It's a free freaking country. And we have the right to say whatever we want.

He, I like Trevor Noah. I think he's awesome. I do think it's time for a new host. I wanted something like a little bit like, I don't know, more jazzier, like, just a little bit more fun. I mean, I feel like he's done it. He's succeeded. He's been great, but I'm ready for something new and fresh. She just wants the whole thing to be jazzier.

Cosby. Basie, you know what I think? You know what? Cosby. There you go. That's who we need. We need Cosby. No, I feel like, yeah, maybe I don't know.

Maybe Taylor with her life of a show girl. I'm just all about the jazz and the sparkle and the, like, the, I don't know. I don't know. It was kind of lackluster for me. I did love Bruno and Rose's, like, performance. at the beginning. That was what it's all about. Yeah. Hey, well, Nicole, thank you so much.

That was the Grammys. You keep warm over there in New York, mate. Thank you. See you, buddy. Bye. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

The most stolen car in New Zealand for the fourth year in a row is the Toyota Aqua. Really? Same top four cars that people are stealing. Have you ever had a car stolen? No, I've had it broken into. They didn't want to take it, though. There was a car that was outside our house last year, and it was just all the windows were down and it was running nonstop.

Yeah, and it was empty. Did you check the boat? No, I didn't check the boat. I did go in there before I called the police and I opened the car door and there was a really nice Nike hoodie. So I took the Nike hoodie and put it on and then called the police. And my son's like, what are you doing? Your fingerprints are going to be all over the car now. and then so I put the Nike hoodie back

What are you taking it now? But then I figured Well I'm stealing off a thief You know that cancels out that thief's crime If I'm taking the owner of the car's hoodie No Potentially Tere Megan

Potentially It's a series of terrible decisions Anyway dear Megan Dear Megan someone slid into your DMs Yeah if you ever deliver That you want us to discuss on the radio You can sign into my DMs Megan Louise Fappers on Instagram or you can message our Facebook or Instagram.

This one reads, Dear Megan, my husband is the coach of our kids rugby team. He's put his hand up again to do it, and he gives up his weekends, and he's very enthusiastic. It's very sweet, but he's not very good at it. Oh, no. The kids are lovely, but they seem confused. There's a lot of running in the wrong direction,

and some of them still don't really know what position they're meant to be playing. Other parents have started moaning on the sidelines, saying maybe they need a bit more structure and the kids don't seem to be improving type comments. Meanwhile, Hubs comes home buzzing. He loves coaching our kids team and doesn't care that they're not winning.

Given that I hear all the bitching from the other parents, do I say something to him gently before they do or do I just leave it because it's just a kid's team? This guy sounds so sweet. The most dangerous kind of man is a man who's having a great time and has no idea he's bad at it. That's a dangerous man. Oh, that is, yeah, that's a difficult one.

My first instinct is if she can come in empathetic and softly and go, hey, how about we have a, you know, an assistant coach this year. Yeah, someone helping him. And then the assistant coach knows more about, and then eventually we'll take over his head coach, you know, get rolled like bloody Scott Robertson and, you know, 27, they'll have a new coach and be hitting down a whole new path. If you can find one, because aren't they quite hard to...

I know, and these people volunteer. That's the thing. He's giving up his time, and that's kind of a lot of comments on our Facebook is like, tell the moaners if they think they can do a better job, put their hand up. Amen. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people on the sideline

who have a cricket referees and coaches, and it's easy to do that on that side of the field. And it starts young, because I remember when I used to umpire netball, like intermediate teams, really didn't matter. People would have a crack at you. It's like, I'm just volunteering.

I just play myself. You're abusing a 12-year-old girl. I'm trying my... Yeah, it would have been. I try my best. And when you break it down, I mean, it's just parents and family that just want to see their kids do well. Yeah.

You know, at the end of the day. But, yeah. Okay, 0-800 of the hits. What does this lady do? Does she tell her volunteer rugby coaching husband not to sign up for another season because the parents are bitching and moaning about him? Oh, don't mean to know and kill the vibe.

I know, you're going to break a poor guy's heart. What's the best way to approach this? Look, if the kids are having fun and he's having fun, who cares? Who has fun losing? Support your husband. They don't know. I know. Imagine how much fun they'll have if they start winning, mate.

Having a time of their little lives. Does she break it to him gently? Does she offer to get him some help? Or do nothing at all? Yeah. And just let it roll off. in the way of the screen. I sit in a different place than Ben does.

This is what Ben deals with every day. No, he doesn't, because I have that big camera thing here. He's a hero. I don't hear him complaining about the light in the way of the screen. It's not in his way. That's why. Ben's away today and it's falling apart at the seams. No, it's fine.

We're talking about dear Megan this morning. Stop pretending it's fine. It is. Someone has slid into my DMs. This is really heartbreaking. So they've said my husband is the coach of our kids rugby team. He's put his hand up to do it again. and he gives up his weekends.

He's very enthusiastic. And he loves it, but there are parents and people on the sidelines complaining that the team's not doing well, the kids need some more direction. But he comes home buzzing. He loves coaching, and he doesn't care that they're not winning. The wife now wants to know,

should she say something to him? Should he hear it from her that these people bitching? Should she leave it alone? What should she do? It is just a kid's team. Oh, I know. And being around a lot of kids' sports, that's the, we're in the sport era of our parenting at the moment. Really, honestly, the people who volunteer, coach, referee, take your hat off to them. Yeah.

Just wonderful people. So you don't want to discourage that? I wouldn't imagine. I try coaching. My daughter had a very short stint at basketball. Yeah. I coached her basketball team. Fiasco. Absolutely fiasco. Why? Well, because I just, I didn't know what I was doing. And then the girl next to me was like, can I go on the court? And I was like, yeah, sure, you go on the court.

And then another girl would be like, can I want to go on the court too? And then all of a sudden I had nine players on the court. Yeah, I was pulling people out. No, the subbing was off. Okay. Yeah, you're worse than this guy. Literally that two weeks, two weeks that team lasted. Amanda said on our hits breakfast Facebook page,

I'm on a sports committee and coaches are so hard to find their like hidden gems. He's already doing more than what the moaners are. if the kids are happy and he's happy then what does it matter? I kind of feel the same. I mean, the worst outcome isn't losing and you don't want to discourage a volunteer.

Someone getting embarrassed to? No. You don't want the kids to feel like winning's the only thing that they're there for. It's about team. It's about... John doesn't agree.

Why are we turning up to lose? They're just playing. They're just having a good time. Anonymous joins us. Oh, 800. hits. What do you reckon? Well, I think take your head off to him. People don't volunteer simply because other parents give them a pretty hard time.

So if I was his life, I would encourage him to maybe look at some coaching courses he might be able to do because he's so passionate about it. So rather than ruin his buzz, you know, give him an opportunity to go and be around other coaches and rugby unions and local clubs and that often have development offices that can help him and he can be around other young or inexperienced coaches and learn some stuff to make him better at what he does

without actually hurting his feelings. That is a really great, sensible phone call we've received from you anonymous. I don't know why you'd want to keep your ID to the hidden. I want to put my good name to that comment. There's a few people coming through on the text saying a coaching course wouldn't go astray. YouTube, someone's texting saying YouTube's great. Maybe she can just sort of start sending random YouTube links to his text.

Oh, maybe the team could try this. Yeah. Because it's hard to coach, too. You're dealing with so many personalities and tactics and someone's texting. I like this one. Maybe the kids aren't that good. Why don't we blame the kids here? Everyone's always having a go at the coach.

Everyone blames the coach. Let's turn the attention towards these kids. Are they any good at rugby? Pete, what's your solution to this? Oh gooday, mate. I do a fair bit of coaching myself. Bless you. There's always the winger in the background. But if they're winging in directly to his wife,

she needs to tell them to have a thing about their feedback and give it to them directly. It's not her job to pass it on. If they've got complaints, they need to go man up and talk to them about it. Yeah, good on you, Pete. Good on you, Pete. And good, and good. Thank you for coaching, too. Yeah, what age do you coach, Pete?

I've been coaching the under group of girls' football team for a while and also a group of boys under, you know, the little kids. I played a lot of football in my life, so it's time to get back. Easy. Oh, good on, you Pete. God, we've got some lovely people listening to this show. And will you keep up the good work? Really appreciate the feedback.

And, Megan, what's the wrap up on this one, mate? I just think, defend your husband. Don't worry about the people being awful, because people are probably always going to be awful. If he's having fun, they're having fun, just do you. Do you? Carry on. People are awful. People can be awful.

We humans suck. 100% of the time. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Grammys for yesterday, you were deep inside the Grammys, weren't you? I was. Olivia Dean, taking out best new artist. She did.

Jesus Christ, I never really imagined that I would be up here, let alone nominate it. So thank you so much. I guess I want to say I'm up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant. I wouldn't be here. Yeah, I'm a product of bravery, and I think those people deserve to be celebrated. Olivia, there's a lot of ice chat, wasn't there? A few of people wearing badges. There was a few comments during speeches and whatnot, and rightly so.

Ice, not good, not a good organisation. Not a good drug either. Both counts. Great for cocktails. Great for cocktails, bad news all round, though. Apart from cocktails. Now, in our family, we do birthday extravaganzas. So it goes for like a week or a weekend, a few days.

John Owen being always, you're an. anti the birthday. Well, we're not anti. So we're just like, it drags on for too long. We're not, you have you got your one day, you have your celebration, you move on. You guys are doing friends dinners, family dinners. Well, because otherwise, how do you celebrate with everyone? Then you're going away on a, then, then Andrew, your husband who had his birthday last weekend's had three events already.

Then you're bloody going away to a hotel on the weekend. Yeah, that's just the two of us. What's that? Is that more birthday celebrating? Yeah. We just like to celebrate when someone's, you know, you like to celebrate someone's birthday. Anyway. You always like to chuck in.

I just like to celebrate people that I love and respect. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with that? You guys. She comes back and will try and make us feel bad. Okay. I organise the birthday presents round here because these two are like, eh.

I'm doing group birthday presents now. Well, up until your arrival, we had an anti-present arrangement. All you have to do is put in the split money amount and I organise it. It's very low maintenance. To be honest, I don't want. To be honest, I know. You're just stepping in to play the Ben Park because he really winds up. It's a bug bear for him.

He's like, we've started presents now. Everyone gets a present on their birthday. What's wrong with that? To be honest. To be honest, not much. Like, I can't see any issues with it, to be honest. How dare you make that person feel special on their day? Anyway, so yeah.

He was put off by you, because your first birthday on the show was a milestone one. Yeah, I was 40. And you had a big billboard on the screen out and reception. and I think he thought that was too extravagant. So that's put him off. Do you know what? That's what happens when you care about people. They give it back to you.

Anyway, so the extravagans are raped up. And it finished up with the family on Sunday. They all came over to our house. And I had made... Avent number three. Yeah. I had made a big cake. Andrew is a really good baker, so I wanted to make him an extravagant cake.

And it was, I said it yesterday. I said again, magnificent looking cake. You could enter that into a... the national cake chance if there is such a thing. But I just, I made it and I put in a lot of effort. It was a ginger cake. It had like coffee, cream cheese icing.

It had like homemade hokey pokey bits and a caramel drizzle. And it was quite intense. It was very rich. And so we all had a little bit. The kids tried it as well. And we're all sitting there tapped out after eating all day. And that's when my son, who is four, gets up and he's like, I need to go and do some yoga after that cake.

Work it off? No, is that excuse me? Has he done yoga before? Oh, like once or twice. Once or twice he's done it because they have like kids yoga on YouTube and it's themed to like Minecraft or Sonic the Hedog. Downward dogging after a belly for a cake. It's not the ideal position I wouldn't have thought.

No, and he's your normal, he's quite bogan actually for our family. He loves ACDC Thunderstruck. Not, you know, not the yoga type. But he gets up and announces to the whole family that he's going to go get his yoga mad and do some sonic yoga in the lounge. So removed himself from the party. And he went full, he did, he went full-blown yoga in the lounge. I don't blame it. You remember when you're that age, adult parties.

He was like, I'm done with it. Yeah, I mean, adults, they're just like kids except they talk about boring stuff, don't they? From a kid's point of view. Yeah. So I can see why yoga would have taken president over there. Third party. I'm done with this. Let's wrap this up.

He's a one-party guy. John O'Ben and Megan The Podcast. The Hits. The Hits. Top 99 of the 90s. I was going to say it's a sure week. Sure week.

Yeah, we are ending the week on an absolute high with all of your votes, 99 songs for the 90s. So you can head to the Hits.com. We're going to be doing that Thursday and we've just been having a trip down memory lane, Megan, with 90s cartoons. God, there was some goodies.

Oh, weren't there? And I really do miss the era of the TV theme song that explained the entire premise in song form. So if you missed anything or you'd just come in halfway through a season, you knew what they were there to do and what the whole thing was about. Yeah, you know? Like nothing explains it better than Captain Planet. Winds! Water! Without cows combined.

And then it breaks down the synopsis. Gonna take pollution down to zero Oh then climate change got in the way Sorry Captain Planet But I did see Netflix is doing a series They're developing a series So we're going to get a new Captain Planet It's uh

It just reminds me of coming home from school Yeah Coming home and having a mini bag of chips Or two minute noodles Oh we got a popsicle A traffic light Yeah Pinky and the Brain

Oh yes Pinky and the Brain You're pinky and the brain One is a genius The other's insane They're like two mice Laboratory mice That would

Yeah Try and take over the world And the brain Brain brain Brain brain When you haven't heard these songs in like 20 or 30 years You know every single word

Umuramae pizza cats This is one of my favorites Yeah Summeri pizza cats Oh yeah Who do you call When you want some paparoni and they shot them out of the roof of the pizza shop

I'm trying to talk over this because the names are cancelable there's like Guido and Savini Savici and there's some accents going on there too wasn't there yeah and yeah so many great ones Ren and Stimpy and other beauty I used to be terrified of that show golden era for cartoons the 90s It's time for your medicine, Wren. Now open up.

Quite disturbing Renan Stimpy, wasn't it? Yeah. Beavis and Butte's was another. I always think, like, people who make Renan Stimpy and Spongewob and stuff, they're unhinged. Yeah. Can you come up with this stuff? They're definitely wearing shorts and, like, Birkenstocks to work. Yeah.

You know? Yeah. A relaxed cartoon vibe. And microdosing. That's toad on NZ.