Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why There Was Dead Skin All Around My House!

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

On today’s show: Jono’s birthday gift for a four-year-old goes horribly wrong... Megan leaves dead skin everywhere, and we find out why! Producer Troy signs up for a CrossFit competition... and ends up vomiting and hobbling for days. It’s Megan’s final straw with the ghost, Cassie! We debate: what event were you secretly stoked got cancelled? Plus, Jono and Ben are reminded of when they were HATED by NZ!  Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh, cook easy, delicious dinners the whole family will love, because nothing beats dinner time. Hey, welcome to the podcast on Monday. We're going to get into very shortly, Jono's present you bought for someone that maybe wasn't deemed appropriate for the age. Yeah, four-year-old. It's hard to know what four-year-olds are into nowadays, isn't it? Yeah, but I still maintain. I have a four-year-old son. You were buying for a four-year-old.

Okay, well, best you've liked that present that I purchased. Yes, but I wouldn't. Yeah, I wondered. That's probably the thing. I was just thinking as you were talking about the story, which you were. in a minute yeah the kids probably a lot of kids would have loved it but with parents would be oh jeez you like is it appropriate for a four-year-old yeah just playing playing to the crowd knew he knew he would have liked it but yeah you can't have shockers

with presents can't you from time to time no people give noisy ones to you when you're a parent and kids and you're like why did you have to get this noise like drums and things big things that make the obnoxious noises and games and stuff but yeah what's the most annoying toy in your household at the moment oh at the moment um I don't know what it is at the moment, but the one I always remember and a lot of parents say it is it's called The Cube

and it sings different songs it's the most annoying thing. It's like, the dogs in the circle woof, woof, woof, it's like, oh God, it's horrific. And it goes off by, they go off by themselves and then they take ages to turn off.

Yeah. What was that Niles Barkley song? Not crazy. Yeah, we had a dancing rat that would dance to crazy and that was, yeah, geez and you know, because once they figure out

oh you just got to push its hand and it'll do it again and again and again there's like a dancing cactus which you might have seen on TikTok where it records your voice and then it plays it back but the trouble is if you leave it on in the room you're like turn it off

and then it goes turn it off and you're like Bastion can you go on Bastion can you go on? You're like oh my God antagonising it. Yeah it's a ripper. I reckon some of the the engineers of the toys

are like just what's the most sadistic sick toy we can think of. When they go off, you're right, when they go off when you're not even like, you walk past, we've got with a stitch toy that's like, Ahana means family or something and you're like, I'm going to walk to the room because you can't give a fright. Yeah, we've got a stitch toy. What is it? Like, I didn't touch it. It's like, wasn't telling me this.

Yeah. Yeah. And then other times it won't do anything. You'll go up to it. You'll hit it and I'm like, why are you going off? But it's got this maniacal laugh. And so you'll walk into the room and it goes, ah, ohana means family. And you're like, great.

I know, ohana's been family. it'd be fun to put like if you were designing those toys to have it on um absolute stitch-up mode where people walk in and are watching you yeah you know god yeah i'd do it wouldn't last long go in the bin uh so there we go enjoy the day enjoy the podcast and enjoy your life here it is john o ben and megan the podcast the hits interesting uh shopping experience i had on the weekend so i was sent to the warehouse to buy a present for our friend Bryce and Sharon's son, Rubin, okay, fourth birthday. Right.

And I must say I'm a bit out of the child present buying game. You know, I'm... Why don't you send me a message? I've got a four-year-old boy. Oh, listen, I thought I had the skills to go and do it myself. So I went to the warehouse. Despite openly admitting he's out of the game. So where are you sitting on this?

He's out of the game with so many things. I've not been out of the game. I'm like, surely I've got the basic skills to buy a four-year-old a present. That's what I thought. He's got blind confidence. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like, even if you haven't bought a present for a number of years, you know what four-year-olds like, right? So then I...

Do you? Do you? Yeah, do you? You're about to find out. So I returned home with the Zuru Insanity Smoking Barrel Blaster gun. On sale. On sale. Look at this thing.

It comes about 900 bullets. and then I get home with this giant gun Jen goes, who's that for? I said, that's for the little fella. She just said, are you insane? And I said, no, but it says on the pack, insanity, the gun's insane. She's like, he's four years old. And she's like, what's the age on it?

And then I look on it, because I didn't look at the age. And it was eight plus. And I said, but the age is just, it's a guide. Like, you take the age, you have the age, and that's who can actually play with the toy. That logic wasn't washing. Even my kids were like, what are you thinking? He's a very active four-year-old, a very active four-year-old.

So then I had to go back to the warehouse, and then I got talking to this lady. Hello, how are you? Good, how are you? Yeah, good, thanks. I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. Listen, I was sent here to get a present for our friend's child's birthday who's turning four, and I came home with that. Oh, no.

Was that a bad decision? Probably, yeah. It's got a 950. 50 bullets. So now I've just got a pencil case. That would take the children. It would take you. How old are you? Four. Yeah, see, he's your age. Would you like to play with this thing?

What thing? This, this gun. Or do you think it's too much present for a four-year-old? Too much. Yeah, she knows. She's four. I should probably... So there we go. So it turns out I am out of the game. And I can't. So I ended up just giving him a bloody Spider-Man pencil case.

Spider-Man pencil case. I was like, much would have preferred the 900 bullets. Oh, you went from like a massive blasting gun to a pencil case. There was definitely something in between. Humbling, going back to the warehouse,

15 minutes later, just after you've walked out of there with confidence, this kid's going to love this. How did the pencil case go down? I don't know. I don't know. Just drop the present off of the door, Steve. So you're probably disappointing. Nothing like a gun.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. Tonga Ria, in the National Fire, sorry, in the National Park, big fire taking place over the weekend of fire crews. Still battling that today. Obviously, all the tracks and huts closed until further notice. It'd be quite dry there too, wouldn't it? I think they see this morning only 20% contained.

Jeez, wow. Scary. So hopefully they get it under control. Was it human-made fire? I don't think they've actually announced how it's happened. I'm just trying to put it out first. Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

Priorities. I always like to blame someone before. we get to the real issue. Guy Fawks, there we go, Guy Fawks, put on that. Yeah. Now, over the weekend I was by myself and I thought I'd do a beauty treatment. Okay.

Now, beauty. I know, it doesn't always work out for me. Quite often it fails. Yeah. But I, before my husband came home, I was like, I better clean the house. Because it looks like there's like croissant. My son likes to say croissants.

Oh. Must be nice. He's only allowed them at the weekend. And I was like, did he? That's a dragged croissant all through the house. He's like flaky pastry everywhere. And I was like, this is gross. I'm going to have to vacuum and do a bit cleaner.

So I'm cleaned up. And then lo and behold, more flaky pastry turns up. And I was like, he hasn't eaten a croissant. I don't know what's all over the floor. I was really confused. And like I said, I've done a beauty treatment. were you flaking was your skin flaking

so I had done what is it oh your husband Andrew constantly isn't here right now so we bring him in come on Andrew I really wish he wasn't here I wasn't here right now

would you have married her if you knew she was going to flake so you do you know what I'm talking about now yeah it's your bloody footstuff oh it's feet flakes guys I told her not to do it

what is he like how are your feet flaking so I love it when your husband's standing there putting a palm to his face so hot it's so hot I'm like oh yeah my wife she's molting

okay footbags you put these bags on your feet and it's like a foot mask and I'd never done it before and Andrew said to me don't do it I said I've heard of these are you sure you want to do this

right now are we getting into summer you might be walking around bare feet i was like this is something you got to do maybe when i'm not here on tour maybe for like three months so i went i did it when he wasn't here yeah yeah but your feet like literally peel off oh so it's eroding layers of oh oh you said don't do it because you're gonna like your feet literally peel off and i was like it'll be right so i waited for him to go away over the weekend but they are still pealing Hope bloody bestie wasn't, oh, there's a bit of cross on, yeah, mate. I left a bit of cross on. Classic me.

Hey, I cleaned up. You need socks. You need to be 24-7 in socks after that, surely. She's got open-toed shoes on right now, guy. Let's see. She's flaking all over the studio or not. Don't like. Have you got one of those little vacuums around that just go around?

Oh, I'm so glad. All the men in my life are here to give me crap about this. Feet dandruff. There we go. Okay, well, thank you so much for that. That was... Hey, great, though. because the skin underneath,

oh, baby's bum. Baby's bum. That's right. Can you do that on your bottom too? John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Tonga Rio and Big National Fire, sorry, in the National Park,

big fire taking place over the weekend of fire crews. Still battling that today. Obviously, all the tracks and huts closed until further notice. It'd be quite dry there too, wouldn't it? I think they see this morning only 20% contained. Jeez. Wow.

Scary. So hopefully they get it under control. Was it a human-made fire? I don't think they've been actually announced how it's happened. I'm just trying to put it out first. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Priorities.

I always like to blame someone before we get to the real issue. Guy Fawks, there we go, Guy Fawks, put on that. Yeah. Now, over the weekend I was by myself and I thought I'd do a beauty treatment. Okay. Now. I'm beauty. I know.

It doesn't always work out for me quite often at face. else, but I, before my husband came home, I was like, I better clean the house because it looks like there's like croissant, my son likes to say croissons and he's only allowed them at the weekend. And I was like, did he, that's a dragged croissant all through the house. There's like flaky pastry everywhere. And I was like, this is gross. I'm going to have to vacuum and do a bit cleaner.

So I'm cleaned up and then, long behold, more. flaky pastry turns up and I was like he hasn't eaten a croissant I don't know what's all over the floor I was really confused and um like I said I'd done a beauty treatment were you flaking it was your skin flaking so I had done what is it oh your husband Andrew who's just here right now so we bring him in come on Andrew I really wish he wasn't here oh well I wish I wasn't here right now did you would you have married her if you knew she was going to flake. So you, do you know

what I'm talking about now? Yeah, it's your bloody footstuff. Oh, there's feet flakes. Guys, I told her not to do it. What is he like? How are your feet flaking? So, I love it when your husband's standing there, putting

his, like, palm to his face. So hot. It's so hot. Oh, yeah, my wife. She's molting. Okay, footbags. You put these bags on your feet and it's like a foot mask And I'd never done it before

And Andrew said to me Don't do it I said I've heard of these Are you sure you want to do this right now We're getting into summer You might be walking around bare feet I was like this is something you gotta do Maybe when I'm not here

On tour maybe for like three months So I did it when he wasn't here But your feet like literally peel off Oh so it's eroding layers of Oh You said don't do it because you're going to, like, your feet literally peel off. And I was like, it'll be right.

So I waited for him to go away over the weekend, but they were still pealing. Hope bloody Bastille wasn't always a bit of cross on. Classic me. Hey, I cleaned up. You need socks. You need to be 24-7 in socks after that, surely. She's got open-toed shoes on right now, right now, right now,

so flaking all over the studio or not? Have you got one of those little vacuums around? Go around. Oh, I'm so glad all the men in my life are here to give me crap about this. Feet dandruff, there we go. Okay, well, thank you so much for that. Hey, great, though, because the skin underneath,

oh, baby's bum. Baby's bum. That's right. Can you do that on your bottom, too? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The head. The Kiwis League team, the All Blacks, also the Auckland FC,

and the Silver Ferns all having wins over the weekend, and Liam Lawson and the F1 this morning, Megan did pretty well. And the points came, seventh holding his starting position which is great for him. Well done. Because his seats up in the air isn't it next year, whether he's going to race or not?

They've said it was after this weekend that they would decide whether he had a seat or not so fingers crossed, he's done enough. Now, amazing sporting feats over the weekend but, well, you know, you took part of another one, producer Troy, didn't you? Yes, I did. You could say

a sporting feat, I guess. Participated. Yeah, participated in like a gym competition. Yeah, you were there. You were there. there in body, flopping yourself around the gym, people just kind of giving your pity pats on the back as you were trying to do burpees. Yes, I think the burpees is what caused the vomit afterwards. Oh, did you vomit?

Yeah, I might have been the only person at Ceremony Games that went and had a wee toilet vomit afterwards. So, this is Saturday morning, God knows why you tried to sign up for that, but jelly roll. Good on you for doing it. That's right, yes, I'm proud of myself, yes. Are you sore today? Very sore.

Have you not seen the way you're walking? Yeah, he were walking and very, slowly into this ago. You're hobbling. I hobbled home afterwards, fell onto the couch and slept for four hours. I did you? And then I woke up at maybe 5.30 and I was like, oh, I've got to get ready for jelly roll. Now, you were quite excited, but as was many people about jelly roll. Shabuzzi as well, it was going to be awesome outside, but then jelly roll, he got sick. He got sick. Was he at your class? Was he at the gym games? He was in the Toilets of Les Mills too. It was. And my partner, my partner.

And Neve said, oh, he's cancelled. And I heard the hallelujah chorus. You're like, oh no, oh no, that's a shame. I was so happy. I was probably the only person that was happy that jelly roll can't. Because he was canceling. People were at the gate. They're about to walk in.

It was half an hour before the opening act started. There are breakups that give you a longer notice than that. So you probably won out of all the tens of thousands of people who actually were secretly soaked that Jellyroll wasn't going ahead. very happy those plans got cancelled. Your legs couldn't have handled it. No. I went back for another four hour sleep.

Did you? Straight back to sleep. Because it wasn't a sit-down concert too, right? It was out since. No, it was GA. You'd be standing the whole time. You would have been, oh, the quads would have been burning. I might not have made it into work today.

This is what we want to open up. What event were you secretly stoked got cancelled? Because, you know, there are those things that you can't be bothered going to. It's most things for me at the time. You know, like right before you're like... I mean, we had to go to Christchurch for something that we had to do with work and we had already announced that we were leaving this place to work

and they're like, well, go on down, have a whole day partying and drinking with students. And it was traumatised from the last time we were in Christchurch doing it because 10.30 on a Monday morning, I was drinking out of some girls' Nike, grungy Nike shoe. That's right. And so we got to the airport and they're like, all the flights have been delayed.

And we're like, oh, no. And then again it got delayed. We're like, oh, this is. And we had the afternoon show and we were like, oh, and then we're sure it won't be delayed a third time as well. And then they cancelled the flight. Oh, my gosh. It was so good. Honestly.

And then we had to, but then we made calls to the people that we were going to hang. We're like, so sorry, we can't make it. We fight some. I'm so sorry. What did the boss of the edge at the time say? He's very, very. He was just like, oh, well, you couldn't do anything about it. Yeah.

We'll reschedule, but we'd left. And then I think these people would still hit us up about later going, you still ask that. We're like, we left the station. We're done. That surely moves on to someone else. But when his plan's been cancelled and you're pretty stoked about it, what were you are stoked that actually ended? Yeah, so a lot of catch-ups with people.

Sometimes you can tell when you're trying to organise it, catch up with a person that they are completely not into it as much as you're not into it, you know? You're pushing hard and they're like, oh, I've got a bit tired. You're like, no, you'll be right. John O'Benon and Megan, the podcast, the hits. You were stoked to were cancelled. A lot of wedding texts coming through.

Yeah, a lot of people, obviously. Obviously, probably don't want to go on air for obvious reasons. But, text here, wedding got cancelled. I was the bridesmaid for. It would have been seven months, I would have been seven months pregnant in the dress. And they just said, you'll just have to squeeze into it. As they had no bigger size.

Unfortunately, he got cold feet. But hallelujah for me, I would not have fit in that dress. And something you'd like to get cancelled, Megan, at the moment. There's a ghost in your house. Okay. Over the past couple of weeks, we've been talking about Cassie in my house. we think we have a little visitor. My daughter, who is three,

she started talking about Cassie that comes to visit our home. We've cleared my husband from adultery, we think. It's always good to have a seat of doubt, though, with it. They could be chatting. You just never know, do you? Yeah. She's been talking about beautiful Cassie that comes to our home, and neither me or my husband know any Cassies.

And there's been a lot of chat going forward From Aya, she's been saying Cassie is her big sister. She talks to her in her bedroom, so it's creeping me out a little bit. Also, last night, she said hi to something, looking somewhere else in the room, which freaked me out. And this morning when I got up for work at 4 a.m., I went out to the kitchen and complete darkness. I just heard through the hallway door. And I was like, I was waiting because I was like, I thought my son was like, can you knocking on the yeah um so i was waiting and waiting and nothing else happened but that

that was the first time i've had like real shivers from this whole ghost ghost experience i love i love the name cassie too it sounds like it could be a wonderful movie franchise yeah cassy returns cassie three cassie four yeah well so far i think if cassie is a ghost my daughter's not afraid she sounds like she's friendly we had spoken a couple of weeks to a wonderful medium and she's anything but medium she's larger than life. Jess, welcome back. Good morning, how are we? From the evidence you heard you, did think there was a supernatural presence in Megan's

house. There's a strong possibility from what I just heard, to be honest. Now with the knocking and the other little things that have come about, but... How are the ghosts knocking, though? You know what? They can make noises. They can do lots of things. I have lots of activity that goes out in my house constantly. So, yeah, they can do lots of things. I haven't noticed anything other than that knocking, only just what I has been saying to me. But it seemed like we don't bring it up to her anymore just to see if she will bring up Cassie.

And it really creaked me out when she said Cassie just wants to talk to you. That was the one that, you know, made my blood run cold. Yeah, it would. What kind of things? She could be like, I've been sleeping with your husband. It's kind of weird. But we're in love. Don't let society judge us.

What kind of things would, like, a spirit want to talk to it? Like, why would she possibly need to talk to me? To be honest, you know, it could be a number of things. So it could be that the person's name is not actually Cassie and that it's actually a loved one of yours who needs to talk to you. And she's just picked a name and run with it. It could be that there's a girl named Cassie who wants to talk to you. And I don't know what they want to talk to you.

they have such a wide scope of conversation that I never know until I'm sitting down in front of someone. You mentioned you're living in a bloody houseload of them, are you? I am. I've got my mum, my nana, my brother, plus whatever else I bring home. What a ghost baggage. Does that get exhausting? Like you're like, oh God, I've got another one today.

Hi, what do you want? Yeah, it does sometimes, especially at 3 o'clock in the morning when you wake up. And the reason why you'd be hearing things between three and four is it's actually witching hour for them. So it's the best time for them to move around and do things. Oh, I'm so glad I get up at that time in the morning every day. Thank you. I'm going to think about that.

Every morning. Okay, so what can we do? What can we do here for Megan? Can we get you over to Megan's house to maybe see if you can talk to this, Cassie? I think that's a great idea. I think I'll come over and I will check it out and see if there's a spirit in your house. Tell her to go away. But we'll see if there is Cassie or not.

So you will say, hey, time to move on. And you can tell Cassie to leave. Yep, if Cassie's a real ghost and she's there, we can ask her to leave and she can move on. We can change the house and clear the energy. There's lots of things we can do. Wow. That was the thing.

I did bring up after you said my mother's father was following me around. Mm-hmm. And I had a little concern. I was driving home. I was thinking, how much stuff is he watching me? do. They have no privacy. Oh, that's, no one wants to see any of that. He's seen at all,

John. Oh, God. I've done some stuff, Gish. Yeah, I know. I know, John, and do I have to answer to, like, when I go and through to the other side, is he going to be like, mate, come on. Oh, they'll have a rap sheet for you. Oh, no, no. No one wants

any of that. Oh, geez. Okay, okay. The Hats. The Hats. The Jelly Roll had to cancel his Auckland concert over the weekend due to illness. A bit of a shame. Very last minute, too. But obviously he really tried his best and couldn't get out there, which is a real shame for everyone that had spent money to come around and see him from around the country. We spoke to someone earlier who was in that situation. They're at the line about to walk in the gate and was given the news.

Very philosophical about it, wasn't he? He was like, ah, people get sick. Yeah. It was his wedding anniversary as well. And traveled to go to the show. Yeah. Oh, no. So, yeah, sad when that happens, but you understand when they're touring lots.

So Megan right now, very excited about the F-1 at the moment. No, I'm upset because Liam Lawson's teammate just overtook him right on the final lap. I thought it was a happy fist pump. No, no. It's hard to tell, hard to tell when you're silent. Overtake your teammates. Oh, now he's back to seventh, though. Liam, now Liam Laws has overtaken him again.

Great, maybe they said give it back to him. Oh, no. Okay, so he's doing the right in the final lap right now. It's about to finish. It is about to put. Okay. Landon Norris is just one, but we're just, I think Liam's going to come seventh, guys. Which is great.

Second out of the four race, raid ball teams. Anyway. So over the weekend, we hosted a little thing on Friday night, Jono, and we were chatting to people

as you do, you know, going around mingling. And someone went, I've always wanted to ask you something. And I was like, oh, okay, what is this?

And they brought up something I'd forgotten about. They said, was it true that you guys were at one stage going to take over from Campbell Life? And I was like, oh my goodness,

I remember this. Now, this was a while ago when we had a TV show on TV3. Now, Campbell Live, John Campbell, love broadcaster, TV3 decided that they no longer wanted Campbell Live around for whatever reason. That's right, and there was a huge

backlash because, you know, he's the people's man. And then I think someone from TV3 along the way said, what sort of show were they look at replacing him with and they said, oh, there's many things we could look at, we could go more serious, we could go more comedic, we could do a show like a John Owen Bed.

So they said like a John Owen Bennett. So this was in the, that's right, I remember so their management had set the newsroom down and they're like well what's it going to be replaced with and then so obviously the manager was ad-libbing on the spot it could be like this it could be like this giving examples to show and they said a like a joanna bit and then all of a sudden that got taken out

that jono and ben were going to be replaced to campbell life that's right we had like what like what it was total news to us and it wasn't true because no one there was no chance of this happening in a million years but I remember the herald the next day put a photo of us a big like smiling dicky photo of us and a real sad forlorn in fun of John Campbell next door.

And it was like John O'Bed been tipped to takeover from Campbell Live. That's right. Which is totally not true. And the barrage of comments under this online was just hateful towards us. How would they take a John Campbell? These two idiots. And it was just like, well no, there's no chance of this happening. How would they replace incredible news with these two losers?

And then we're going to, and no one had talked to us and we wouldn't have done it. But it was just like the whole country just hated us. That's the problem with the news. And I suppose we're guilty of it too. They just write stuff and say stuff. There's an impact on people. I know. I feel like, there's a great tidbit.

Let's run with that. And this person was like, was this ever a chance? I was like, no. There was no chance. There was no one even contemplated it or talked to us about it. I remember texting Joel Campbell going, this is the first I've heard of this. Just by the way, mate. He's like, don't worry.

I didn't think it was true. And we just got. It's a nice way I'm saying, yeah. I know. That was never going to happen. But people just hated. I was like, wow. Yeah.

For something that we had nothing to do. I think the Herald's same building as us now but at the time I was like oh you could have used a nicer photo of us not looking like dorks and John Campbell looking very sad next to us Well then they put the project on didn't they That's right, yeah they did

I guess was kind of in the In the style it wasn't us In the style of That's what they meant But the Herald didn't write an article about that did they No Actually we got it wrong John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hats We're trying to avoid Mara Carey's All I want for Christmas is you, the most iconic Christmas song, singing how long we can go without hearing it, wherever we are, social media, shops, as soon as you hear it, you're out

of the game, you can join in, if you want. All of us still in the game after the weekend. Yeah, safe. Yes. Although, I completely forgot and we keep saying social media is still cute on mute. I was just scrolling away, not on mute, I completely

forgot, and I went into farmers. Jeez, you really were playing fast in loose. I heard jingle bells, but no. Mariah Care. Oh, wow, we're still in the game. We can always, we can play the alternate versions. You're not in the cat one. Just if you hear the original one, you're out of the game.

Someone else that was, you know, wondering if they were going to be in or out after a weekend in Auckland joins us right now. Yeah, Chase, morning to you. Good morning, how are we? Oh yeah, we're doing well, buddy. What happened over the weekend? Did you get caught? No, I didn't, unfortunately.

Which I guess is a good sign. Oh, that's good. My wife and I even went up to the jelly roll concert on Saturday night. Oh, I heard it was a ripper. Yeah, you can't have men to get sick, can you? Yeah, it's a shame on it. They're hardworking mayonnaise, so I guess you've got to come a bit of slap. Oh, that's nice.

You know, I didn't hear anything in the crowd while we were all waiting to be entered into the gates or nothing like that. Yeah, because he got sick, right, if anyone missed that, which, you know, I guess happens, and he couldn't perform. But, but, yeah, it sounded like it was quite late in the day, so obviously he was really trying to get there. Oh, definitely, hey, man, and just to say it at 5.30, you know, it was a bit like, oh, no, like, he obviously pushed as much as he could, you know, and just couldn't do it, eh, which is, fair enough. So what was the vibe outside the gate? Everyone pretty understanding? Oh, yeah, everyone was to a point, I guess, you know, you had a few guys that were tossing up a bit of a riot and, you know, having a bit of a yelling, screaming demotion and that. It's definitely going to fix it.

Some people paid a lot of money to go all that way, you know, and see him, so I guess some people would be. pretty gutted too with all that money that they had to spend on accommodation flights, you know, it's totally understandable too from that sort of perspective, yeah. Yelling in the queue is probably not going to do much to get them on stage. It's just people wanting to be heard, isn't it?

People like to be heard. Oh, that's, yeah, unfortunate. And what did you end up doing? What was the old turn at night? I just jumped in the car and drove home, put some jelly music on and just drove home listening to that the whole way home, just feeling sorry for ourselves.

We're celebrating our wedding anniversary So, you know, like to say, you know, it's still good spending the day off the missus and spending that time with her so can't really, you know, can't really complain about the day. And the silver lining is, you're still in the Mariah Carey game. That's the greatest news. Oh, for sure, you know, you guys all want to listen to car radio, missus had ZM and that on, but just mute straight away when I open her car.

The mute, mute on Facebook, you know, listening to you guys, mute on Facebook scrolling. That works a treat as well. Oh, good on you, Chase. I'm trying to avoid it as much as I can. Good on you. Love to talk to you. I'm sorry your weekend didn't work out as well as you hope,

but love it talked to you. And you're going to have a great week, mate. Now, someone who is out is our colleague, Ashley Bryce, CEO of music, Ashley. She was sitting on the couch with her mum. CB, you just got me out the game. What fucking game? The Mariah Carey game.

I don't even know what you're talking about. I've got more fucking important things to be wearing about than fuck Mariah Carey. You just sent me me. I didn't know. I thought I was sending something that was good. Oh, Sherey.

There were five expletives in that. She didn't care, eh? She's taking no for us. I love it. I love it. She like sent a reel to Ashley, Ashley watched it and then had the music behind it.

Can we redo those beeps to just be a smidge longer? Yeah, just to feel like after 7 o'clock we play that again, we definitely need to, right? We'll send that off to the beep department. It's really like the beep which is over top of it. It's still playing. still in the game or not. John O'Bennon, Megan, the podcast.

The hats. A lot of great sport on over the weekend. The All Blacks beating Scotland. Oh, it's a blueie. Damien McKenzie has played a winning hand for the All Blacks at Murray Field. What a try by him. In the final seconds, wasn't it? Yeah, it was pretty awesome.

Just doused in blood just there. Because they've opted for the white tops, and they really do showcase the blood. You know, the black kind of hides it, doesn't it? It makes it look all the more dramatic. It does, actually. The Kiwis. And what a great game it was against Taua Samoa, and they took that one out. And New Zealand are the Pacific Championships champions for 2025.

They were losing by quite a bit at half time. Yeah, it was like 146 or something like that. But yeah, a great second half on the Kiwis. And this morning, Liam Lawson races in the F1, and we lose Megan for the good part of the next couple hours. I'm here. I'm here. News to top sessions when it matters on the run in for the title. It's Lando Norris on Grand Prix pole.

there we go so we'll keep you updated this morning some random audio I played there hope you enjoyed it as Liam Lawson yeah takes it out well hopefully takes it out this morning we must bring producer Troy in

because after this show on Friday I feel like an apologies in order it was it was producer Troy's birthday on Friday and we went across to the cafe across the road and we're getting some hot drinks at a round of hot drinks firstly we had a shocker with the hot drink situation

because you bought a hot drink for producer Troy and so did Grace not knowing you that you'd each bought a hot drink for each other. Well, because we were like, we'll buy him a coffee and he loves a brioch. So we'll buy him a coffee and a brioch. And we were like, okay, you get one, I'll get the other. And somehow, I really thought she said she was going to buy a brioch.

We ended up no brioch and two coffees. Yeah, so then the coffee. We sent one back. We were like, I didn't order two. And they were like, you idiots, you did. Then we sort of huddled around outside the cafe and sung the most depressing version of happy birthday. Well, you didn't want it. All we could tell us we started.

to sing it, you could tell, the look in your eyes was like, dear God, please don't. No one wants that. No, you didn't want it and loud. And we respected that. Happy birthday, dear choice. So we whispered happy birthday. Then, I'm gathering the gift coffee. Now, I must say, I wasn't across all the details on this, so thank you,

Megan. Heart was in the right place with you and Producer Grace. Execution, a bit shaking. Okay, so a coffee was gifted to you? Am I correct? Two coffees? Two coffees. Didn't order the second one, send that back and they were very confused. And then we took one off here and we're like, I was double part, and I was like, great, two copies. This was cool.

And then I had to give one back. So after the mumble, mumble, happy birthday, Grace then goes, oh, we've got something else for you. Now, the look of fear in all of our... And we're like, what else do we have for? Troy's got, you know, face like a puppy. Like, oh, you've got something else for me. And then Megan's like, no.

Yeah. We don't have anything else. What have we got, Grace? What are you talking about? The other thing, and we all looked at you're like, we don't know what she's talking about. And it was the unordered brioch. Yeah.

So, there was many people. be another gift that wasn't there in the moment. And then we gave you a voucher that wasn't redeemable because, you know, we didn't get the actual voucher till later. Which was handed to me like you were handing me some illicit substances as well, like there you go back here.

So it really was a shock around. Listen, our party planning committee, sure, yeah. We'll re-grew and we'll be better next birthday. That's right. You've got a year. We've got a year and I sort things out. John O'Benon and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Let's know if you're still in our Mariah Carey game

or not, will you're falling victim to that over the weekend. That is trying to avoid the song All I Want for Christmas is due. If you hear it anywhere, you're out of the game. We must play some audio of Ashley Bryce, who works with us. She got out thanks to her mum, and she filmed her mum. Hilarious. That's great audio.

I'll hope that for you at some stage this morning. So because we don't want to be playing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas at the Farmer Santa Parade on the hits float this year, we've been throwing it out to you guys in a competition to choose our song, and you could also win tickets, flight, accommodation, VIP tickets at the Farmer Center parade, just for choosing the song. Yeah, and we've got Kelly with us on the phone. How are you up and early this morning?

Yeah, not too bad, thank you. What are you dealing with? What's the real deep stuff you're doing with at the moment, Kelly? I'm recovering from a broken foot. Now that's no good. Ben's whilst recovering from back surgery. How'd you break it? Oh, I flipped on a bit of uneven concrete, nothing fun.

That's it. When you get to our age, you know, You're like, what? Can't even ground. They can get you. You're not in a moon boot, are you? I was. I'm actually due to go back.

I've been off work for like five months now. Oh, my God. Yeah. So I'm due back in a couple of weeks' time to work. How old like, gee, did you rip tendons in all sorts? Yeah, I ripped some tendons, and I cracked my cuboid bone, which is like a tiny little bone in the foot. So, yeah. Fun.

Damn. We sure out of that for summer. That's right. Yeah. Good timing. I was drying my hair, my head this morning from the shower. And I put my neck out too, just from towel. Just toweling.

My God, I'm like, yeah. Well, we haven't got you on just to talk about our injuries that have happened on pretty lame circumstances because you've been someone that suggested the music for the hits float at the Farmer Santa Parade, right? What was the song you thought we should be playing? It was underneath the Christmas tree by Kelly Clark. Oh, that's a great show.

This is a good song. What do we reckon? Do we want to lock there one in? I love it. I love it. That's one of my favourite. Yeah. The best thing is it's not Mariah Carey's all I want for Christmas.

That's right. That's, yeah, we're trying to avoid that. Yep. I love it. So, yeah, that's going to be the song that we're going to play on the hits float at the Santa Parade, Farmers Santa Parade. And you've also won, because you've got to pick our song. You've won flights coming all the way up to Auckland or fuel vouchers. One Night's Accommodation and VIP seats for four people.

to the Farmers Santa Parade. Awesome. Thank you so much. We'll warn you, a lot of uneven ground. Be careful. Yeah, you're right. Quay Street's pretty flat, but then you've got the gutters and there's all sorts of hazards. You're right. But yeah, we'd love to have you part of it and to enjoy the fun that is the Farmer Santa Parade.

John O'Beno Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Big weekend of sports. All Blacks with a great win over Scotland, very close the end. Damien McKenzie has played a winning hand for the All Blacks. Murrayfield. What a try. How did he stay in?

It was incredible, Damian McKenzie. Blood all over his white shirt I said. All I could think about was who's the poor person who has to nappy sand all those nice white

all black toys. Surely they just chuck it out, right? Well, they'll be a memento, right? Keep all the blood in the DNA. Exactly, yeah. Kiwis, well, great game with Samoa, Tau Samoa yesterday. They won in the end.

New Zealand are the Pacific Championships Champions for 2025. Lots of other great sport going on. The netball this morning, Silver Ferns. at Scotland, which just happened this morning. There's a Formula One going on where Liam Lawson looks like at this stage

Megan, he's in the points. He's in the points. He's fifth at the moment, which is great, started 7th. And speaking of great sport over the weekend, eclipsing all those wonderful things. Eclipsing Damien McKenzie's performance for the All Blacks was producer Troy and some cross-fit thing he signed up for. Les Mills' Ceremony

Games. So this is, now if we can cast your mind back, I'd say six weeks ago, you went to a class by accident and you were paired up with the trainer. His name was Francisco. Not so long after that I realized that it was his first session. He looked at me and say, how does his friend mate?

Oh, so he asked you, how does this all go, mate? Oh, yeah, no, I was like, come on, Troy. Yeah, you're doing great, Troy. Come on, Troy. Yeah, I'm waiting for you, Troy. So we said you got Francisco. And you weren't able to sit down on the toilet for like nine days after, after dealing with Francisco.

Never been the same. So this is the same class and then they have game... So this is the competition you've entered now. It's a competition thing. So it's basically nine stations and you just try and whip through them as fast as you can. So how did you get from accidentally going

and getting punished by Francisco to deciding you're going to do like games? It's a bluer, honestly. It's a blur. I don't know how it happened. It's a full 180 mate. Yes. My girlfriend, Neve, her friend wanted to do it,

didn't want to do it alone. and so I did a class I can do this blind confidence and midway through you said that the few people were like well I yeah so I got there started at 12 o'clock in the humid hot Auckland sun

I was outside and after the first station so like two minutes in I was like I've made a mistake I'm not going to do this and by the fourth or fifth station we're on the exercise bike and Neve Neve was there supporting me and she said someone

someone looked at me as I hopped on the bike and went, oh oh yeah, no, I was like come on Troy, yeah you're doing great Troy come on Troy, yeah I'm waiting for you Troy You've got a lovely pat on the back A patronising pat on the back You'll show me some footage from someone

The judge, the guy that was counting our reps And the official of this whole thing patted me on the back and said Come on mate What do you call those bikes Where you're peddling but your arms are going to? Assault. Assault bike You're doing the assault bike

And did it feel to you like you were going really fast? Yes. Yes. It looks slow motion. It's a video. You're on the... Now, the problem with you is you're too polite. Yeah.

The first week you started here, producer Grace workplace bullied you into remembering all 47 US presidents for some reason. I'm like, look, I can't even log into the bloody Microsoft One Drive yet. Grace has got him learning presidents. I reckon if you ask Troy, if you called Troy at midnight and said, hey, make, can you give me a hand moving house? You'd turn up with a trolley at 1230. Exactly.

You'd be there. I'm a yes man. I'm a yes man. So do you regret signing up for it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

I really do. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's... I hope you had a great weekend. Producer Troy signed up for some sort of CrossFit competition at Les Mills and regret signing up for it. Pretty broken today. If you are, yeah, you are right in thinking he only did one CrossFit like six weeks ago for the first time as an accident. And then somehow went from that to signing up to an actual games and now he can't walk.

I thought he was trauma. He teamed up with a trainer at Les Mills Francisco, and you imagine what Francisco, you want him to be in your head. That's who Francisco has. Gorgeous accent, gorgeous pictorials, just a gorgeous human being. And he was traumatized by Francisco. Like I said, he couldn't sit down correctly for at least seven days after that class. And then next thing, he signed up for a competition.

To agreeable, really, isn't he, producer Troy? So we wanted to know why you regret signing up for. For me, it's not often the kids these days. They're the ones that they see something, they like something, they sign up. You pay the money as a parent and then off in a couple weeks and they're like, I don't have to go to this? I'm like, you're not the one that you wanted to do this. I didn't force you to do this.

I didn't want to do fire poey classes. You're the one, you signed up. I pay the money, you're going to see it out. Yeah, I did piano and guitar and I, it was too hard. But I'm like, to see it at the term, because I'll pay for it, see out the term. Then we can discuss that. Yeah. But they should, those places, should give you two, three years.

Yeah, probably. Gage interest lessons. Yeah. I remember when I was probably, I wasn't the age of drinking, but I found a loophole in the drinking system. And you could go to an RSA, a local RSA. I'm not saying all the RSAs, the one I found. They're a little bit fast and loose with, you know, the age bracket. Yeah.

And so the problem was I could get in there, you could get discounted drinks, obviously, because it's the veterans. But then I had to sign up. So I had to be like a functioning member of the RSA, like a really young functioning member. And I'd turn up to meet meetings on Sunday mornings, have to be involved in organising darts competitions. Wait, how old were you?

Oh, listen, I was probably 16 to 17. You're going to meet you. And then on Wednesday nights it would be a nightmare there because we'd all turn up and there would be like 100 teenagers in the RSA. They loved it though Charlotte behind the bars She was wonderful It was the same with the Bowls Club

Signed up for a Lawn Bowls Club Got a Herald article And then the next year It was like young people back in their lawn bowls You got a herald article Well yeah There was four of us We've got faces all over

It was like yeah And I think we lasted one season And didn't play again It was fun We'll come back to this in 50 years What was this like The Resurgence of Lord Bowls We were like the faces of the resurgence

We were like To be honest It was just cheaper booze But it was fun And something you could do it on a Friday night with mates so yeah but you didn't even do it past a year

season and then we'll come back 50 years time we'll come back it was great we've got a good little taster John O'Benn and Megan the podcast The Hits

We're getting into the Christmas spirit here on the hits but trying to avoid the Moriah Carey's all I want for Christmas the most iconic of all the Christmas tunes Yeah we can play

alternate versions like the heavy metal one but if you hear the original recording you are out much like Ashley Bryce who works here at the hit CEO of music Ashley Bryce sitting on the couch with her mum and was sent an Instagram video by her mother and well this was the result

TV you just got me out the game what fucking game the Mariah Carey game I don't even know what you're talking about I've got more fucking important things to be going about than fucking Mariah Carey. You just sent me in fucking real with her. I didn't know.

I thought I was sending something that was good. Oh, Shiree. Jeez, mouth's like a Sail GP sailors, aren't they? Actually, no, the sailors wouldn't talk about that. I just want to know what the vibes were leading into that moment, too, because it felt like there was some tension bubbling away. I hope so. Otherwise, she's coming hot.

Now, we wanted to know is your business a Mariah Free Zone, a Mariah Safe Zone, and there's a cafe. Yeah. We've got Bevika on the phone. Morning, how are you? Good, good. I'm great. I'm just on my way to work. I listen to you guys every morning.

Oh, thank you very much for listening. We appreciate it. And you're going to make your cafe a Mariah Carey Safe Zone. Yes, 100%. Yeah, great stuff. So this is a promise on behalf of your business. What's the name of the cafe? It's called Fika with me.

We're located in Birkenhead on the North Shore. Wonderful. French toast has custard moose on it. Oh, stop it. That sounds good. Yeah. Delicious. All right.

So we need to... It's a safe zone from where I, but not from my waistline. So what you can do, Beveka, is head to the Hits.co.com. And we've got a little sign that you can print out, and you can stick it on. the window of your store so people will know they can rest easy when they're having custard sprayed all over French toast.

Awesome, that's good to know. I'll be sure to do that. All right, and let us know if you get out of the game, but obviously you won't get out of the game at your cafe. We appreciate you call. Chicken and waffles too. Oh, stop it.

Yeah, yeah, that's quite popular as well. Home of the Heart Attack. Fika with me, have a good one. That's so cool. So if you want to be a Mariah Safe Zone, let us know. So we can give you a little poster to put up in your room as well, sorry, in your store as well. So 4487 on the text and help everyone stay in the game when everyone's out of the game.