Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why we are disappointed in Ben's Europe holiday present

Episode Date: October 5, 2025

On today’s show: How Ben's clean laundry spilled all over a Paris street. Megan reveals a degrading moment a paper sheet stuck to her sweaty body during a mole check. Spotting a fully naked man and a police evidence photographer at the Manawatu River. Jono finally gets his satisfaction after his wife's and daughter's luggage completely filled the car for the drive home and he already warned them... We debate with massive Swiftie Enya if the new album is rushed Listeners share their worst underwear nightmares, including red, lacy mother-in-law's undies found in a rugby bag. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast today. We just had a bit of a fiasco with PJ. PJ, who's back with Manny and PJ this afternoon on the radio, which is lovely. Matilda Green did a wonderful job filling in for her. Then I see she's been standing her, sun tanning her arms and legs.

There's an odd way to say she's on holiday. All right. Now, Ben, you've just returned from holiday as well, and I could hear you as we were about to record crunching away on some fresh New Zealand produce. And I was going to ask you what was the produce like over there because you're a big fan of produce. That's like my favourite thing when you travel to go to those

like farmers markets and they have some beautiful ones in Paris. And even London has amazing farmas market. Tell you what it was nice to go because I had to go to the supermarket last night for the first time in probably three weeks. First time I'm driving in like three weeks because they've driven, apart from a quad bike and that was stressful in Greece.

Oh, okay. You've driven quad bike. Yeah, we hired a couple of quad bikes a couple of days. Yeah, no, and that wasn't, but that's fine when you go down the road, but when you need to turn you're on the wrong side of the road, you know, because on the right-hand side's where you drive, you're like, which way don't go, which I go, which way don't go, which way don't go. Oh, my God. I can't imagine you want to quad-biking.

Yeah, it's two days, two days quad-biking. It was fun. Did you? Did you? Did you used to do quad-biking on the farm when you roll? Oh, yeah, a little bit. I mean, it's pretty easy to handle. You don't, you know, they're kind of automatic and stuff like that.

It's just the road roads. They're also easy to roll. I've rolled ones down the sand dune yeah oh wow yeah but wait you said you were talking about the supermarket oh yeah no it was nice to go to the supermarket and not convert

you know like for three weeks I've been going through and go oh that's only oh no that's like 10 bucks New Zealand everything double or a bit long bit more than that so it was actually quite nice to go and the cucumber that I was just eating on 250 baby 250 New Zealand cucumber I did notice you've got a I was like oh yeah I did I did well that was

you not have enough in Amanda's mum I love she bought she bought that for us when we came home she's like yeah it's a little bit of it i was like to be honest it was nice joyce but nozga's the ones in france the ones from peg and say they don't stack up joy that it was nice it was a good gag appreciate it and had it this morning yeah but yeah but hey that's fun the french patissary that we're used to what a what a wanker oh what a wanker it doesn't stack up it's no poor Joyce I'm not telling you that I'm gonna text her and tell her this in the podcast this is a lovely gesture yeah I'm not as good Joyce just so you know

Anyway, enjoy the podcast. It's great to be back with you. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. I went and got a mole map. Well, I went and got my whole body checked. I had a couple of things I wanted to check.

I actually have a little pre-cancerous thing on my lip. I have to get sizzled off. And it's my second one that I've had on my lips. So just wear your sunscreen. Especially where, like, lip balm that's got sunscreen in it. Because this is my second one now. And it's painful to sizzle off. Not out with our generation, especially you growing up in a nudist camp.

You would have just been running when you sizzle off layers and they'll be like, that's good you burnt off the first layer for summer and you're like, is it? That's what my parents used to say. It wasn't as much sunscreen now. You get first burnage for the summer

and then you're good. You get a layer. I've been blistering for nine days. I feel like we're a little bit more sensible although a lot of the kids want to know UV, UV. What's the UV levels? I'm like, stop caring about those.

Don't do it because you'll end up sizzling things off your body. But I saw me and got a mole check and I knew I was seeing a male doctor and I was fine with that and I went to the gym beforehand now I didn't really think about it I knew you had to get naked like I'll get naked and they look over your whole body and you hear everything so I was like I'll be fine

I'll just like do a little spray afterwards I'm not a smelly person am I what are you spray you're doing it oh okay I haven't sniffed all parts of you ever come over here then mate Yeah, I know you're inside your earrings, they stink, but that's, yeah. So I went to the gym, but then I did, like, an infrared sawn or afterwards. Right. And got really sweaty.

Not smelly, just really sweaty. Pre-molmat. Pre-molmat. Isn't the infrared, isn't that, like, blasting rays on you? Or is that another one? No, that's just, it's just red light. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So it's not cancerous. But it's like, it was like 65 degrees. It's hot. And so I went there afterwards, and I was like, I'm good. I've cooled down. I don't smell. I've sprayed. We're all good.

He's like, can you just. can you just take your clothes off and lie down on the bed on the bed is one of those strips of paper one of those and so I'm lying face down first

he's checking up all over the back and then he has a moment where he's like okay just roll over for me and we'll do the front um did you feel like a piece of fish wrapped up in paper

the paper on the bed has stuck to make make it funny she's like a fish a greasy fish for the fish and gyps shop They're like, stuck to me. Put some salt on it, wrap you up, send you up the door.

You know I'm fine with nudity. I'm fine. But like, there's something degrading about having like a dog peeling paper off my boobies. I'm feeling it down. I'm like, I'm so sorry. That would be really satisfying for him though. You know when you sort of peel off. It's like, well, you buy a new computer or so you take the plastic off.

Like I was being unwrapped, like a new fridge. To be honest, I'd probably prefer skin cancer to this moment right now. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Fresh back from Palmerston, North Ben, fresh back from Paris, me, Parmy. Me, fresh back from my home. Yeah, just the spectrum of holiday. But, yeah, fresh off the school holidays. I was there for a basketball tournament for my son.

But one of the other mothers came. into the game because there'd be a couple of games a day sort of thing she was a bit rattled and I said are you right and she said

I've just been walking along the Manawatu River I was like it's not that bad there's a lovely there's a lovely walk along there's on the gorge there 180 kilometres of river

the Manawatu River and she's like it was a naked man in the Manowatoo River a fully naked man she's just walking along the path and he hadn't got to the water level

where let's say his tea bags had been dipped Oh right Yeah, it was halfway up five. And she was like, oh, and he's there to her morning, lovely day for it. She's going lovely to call. Or what? The nudity, the swim.

So what, just swimming? Just having a swim? He was just sort of standing there, knee deep. Oh, so he wasn't actually attempting to go in. No, and she was understandably a little shaken by this and worked for the floor. I walked another 10 metres and there was a guy on the bush with a camera. photos and she said there's a naked man over there and he said I know I'm taking photos and she said is this for modelling purposes yeah what is this he said no for

evidence police evidence purposes oh really so he was going to send it to the police and she's like why don't I just caught and said he's taking photos of the guy I'll just call they called the police she's like oh there's a naked man in the Manawatu room and they're like he's back at it again he seems like pleasant yeah pleasant he was pleasant I mean you grew up around naked people I wouldn't be phased by that. But it is confronting for people if you don't want to. Not expecting it.

You're not wanting to see it. No. Maybe they can have like a new... Like, you know, you go to beaches. They have the nudist section. Maybe they can have a nudist part of the river. Murchy, Gungi Manwatu River. You can stand knee deep.

Is that... Would you normally swim in there? Oh. Maybe... Is it like the Waikato River? Well, it's got a lot of farm run off, I think, in the whole eye and stuff like that. I mean, you can. I'm not going to stop you, but, you know, there's better play.

The river's seen, maybe. Yeah. I thought about that. Naked people over there? No, I didn't see, no, but I thought about that because the river is not that great over there. And that's where they put the triathlon. Because people got sick from swimming in that. I was like, oh, jeez, you couldn't pay me. Did it look bad?

I suppose it's not beachy. You didn't go to any beaches. In Greece we did. It was lovely. You can swim there. Was there any nudity? Because you go over to Europe and, like, people are naked a lot on the beaches. Yeah, like, yeah, the top list. Can you see bosoms? I was trying My wife kept going Look over there

And I'm like Stop making me look over I'm like I'm not going to go out the beach Stop making me look Yeah You're wearing your sunglasses The petrol station speed dealer

Yeah Yeah Eyes were very focused Guys On the movies Not on the movie Not on the movie It's not on the movie

I can't escape them Hey John O'Bin and Megan The podcast The Hats Which was awesome Once a lifetime experience, I'd say. Hopefully you're also staying

in the same room with one bathroom is also once in a laugh time experience for the four of us. How does that go with three women? Oh, a lot of time with me just going, I'll wait down a reception. Like, you know, like while you guys get sorted. You know, a lot of times for me just, you know, like... Well, go for a walk. Yeah, do some stuff. Yeah,

oh, yeah, right. Yeah, walk around and stuff like that. I've lived in a hotel room with you before and you are a quick shower. He is in and out of that bathroom. I'd say within 90 seconds to two minutes. Really? Showed, wash, dressed, ready to go. Getting real, yeah, well, that was the thing. I definitely punished my family because I scheduled it.

I booked it, you know, like I was like, guys, oh, we're on a schedule. We are doing stuff. I had my costumes packed as well. You're talking about your family taking lots of stuff. I took all my costumes overseas, my series of gags that I wanted to do. My husband said, it looks like I don't think Ben was holiday. He must have set a blistering pace. Punished this.

Production schedule. Yeah, production schedule. Sometimes the family kept doing step counts. And they go, Jesus, up to the 10,000. You know, get the whisperies, they're like, 12 case today. You know, like, they're just, it'll be like, guys, guys, we can, we can walk, we can walk. He arrived over there with a suitcase full of costumes and a heart full of dreams. Yeah, but everyone does on the, on the travels.

I punish the family with that stuff. They punished me by taking me to Sephora and Brandy Melville stores, my teenage daughters. My wife punished us by reading. She's one of these people that reads all the stuff, you know. When you go to a museum. I don't know, like some of it, but there's like, we can't spend all day reading every single thing. I can blast on through a museum in about 12 minutes. I went through the Auckland one the other day, under 10 minutes.

What did you learn? You just look around. You let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go l'em stuff. But, yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. But I went away, you know, it went away to France. And I thought, you know, as well as a couple other countries.

But I thought maybe I should bring you guys back something from France. I'm really hoping for something in particular. Well, Megan, there's a lot of amazing shops over there, designer shops. Chanel, you know, like there's stores. There's Tiffany and, I'm going to walk past all that sort of stuff. Oh, no, Ben. Big, beautiful Louis Vuittonso. There's romantic stuff.

There's amazing chocolate over there. You know, that designer hambrack. Did you go to the Macaron shop? Yeah, had some wonderful macarons. You know, Mona Lisa saw that. You know, I could have bought you home one of those as well, but I thought, well, not. You could have bought you home to Mona Lisa? Yeah, as well, could have.

You know, that's the, you know, but I thought, well, I don't get you guys something. Okay, he's purchased. He's bringing back his bag, which is. I got my little Paris bag here right now. Now, guys, I wanted to get you something practical, because people would come back with chocolates and things like that. God, as soon as soon as they're like practical, I'm like, I'm like, oh. Guys, I have got to you, fresh from France.

Four French hand sanitizers for each of you, guys. Here you go, Jono. Thank you so much. Megan. There you go. Producer Troy and producer Grace is. Are you joking, man? This is great.

This is practical. There's two in France. 99.9% of the germs le guest saint et aletal. Ben. They will do it. It's all in French, Megan, but it's still good stuff. The alcohol is the same here and in France. You went to France and you got me hands sanitizer.

There you go, guys. I wanted to do. bloody beret I got one of those for a gag as well nothing screams Europe like hand sanitizer so I thought you know

that's practical Megan there you go so guys it smells just like our hand sanitizer too wasn't a desperation purchase at the airport I don't know

but anyway I got you something fresh back from France there you go it's all in French Megan you're welcome oh that's so great what a guy

John O'Bennon and Megan the podcast that's great to be back with you back after the school holidays of course We, a family, we went to Europe for a couple of weeks, which was great. We had a really great time.

It was awesome to experience that with the kids, a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Unless they pay for you to go later in life. You're gladly go again. You silly kids, you remember what I paid for you to go to Europe? Wow. Yeah, but you know, you probably, like, I put some stuff on social media, you probably see the good things, us in front of the Eiffel Tower or the Coliseum, but what you don't see, what you don't talk about is the dark side, the travelling.

You know, a 20-day trip when you don't have. The underbelly. Well, the underwear. When you don't have cleaner, like, you can't take enough stuff for like 20 days. You know, so it gets to a point, and it got to us in Paris, we were like, I've got no more clean underwear. I've got no more socks. You know, I need to find a laundry mat.

Yeah, well, sometimes you can degradingly do it in the basement of the motel. Yeah, I've done that a couple of days. Using friction and water and you're like, this is a load. Yeah, so I was like, you know, I got up early one day in Paris. In Paris, you know, the most romantic city in the world. And at night, it was beautiful, the Eiffel Tower sparkling. But I tell you what, at 7 o'clock in the morning, you know, it's not the most romantic. Especially when you're carrying a big rubbish bag

sort of big plastic bag full of your washing Well you can't be romantic all the time You know sometimes life needs to take away And Paris is like the most beautiful But also in area is the most yuck Yeah so this stage you know It was quite sort of cold because the buildings are tall And I'm walking on the street

There's a few sort of homeless people out Look cute kids and berets off to school Is that? It's cute, yeah And just me carrying a big rubbish bag Of sort of you know Of the whole family's laundry Trying to find a laundry mat

on Google Maps around the streets. Finally did. Finally found that after about 25 minutes of walking. And then you get in there. I'm the only one in there, but it's all in French, obviously. And I'm like, I don't know why this stuff means. I think I honestly, I think I washed it with fabric softer. I think, oh, that'll do.

That'll do. I finally got some stuff working and I was in there for a while, got the whole family's washing, carrying it back in the same bag, and then walking down the streets of parish, and it burst. The plastic bag burst. And my underwear, my underwear is all over. My clean underwear now is all over the streets and I'm degradingly having to pick up

and it's all in the le gutters. It feels like the beginning of a lovely romantic comedy movie where, you know, as you're bending down to pick up your undies you bump into a charming American expat soldier. That's what it would be nice. But it was just me trying to pick it up and then hold it in the hand and I finally found like a mini-mart, you know,

and I was like, I need to get some rubbish bags and the guy, language difference. Finally did, got those. Lee rubbish bags. Got outside. they're the only ones he had and then I worked out that were rubbish bags

for like little you know like office rubbish so I could put you know like honestly he had all our washing like 20 he knew what he was doing

he knew what he was doing instead of one big I was like this big big bee he's like yeah yeah you're right you knew you do need like this hot

Frenchman to come along and be like do your need something I says don't no I was just like an embarrassment and degradingly pick out my undies

in the most romantic city all over the road so that's why I wanted to know this morning embarrassing underwear stories Yeah, they can be your best friend or your worst enemy underpants, can't they? Oh, 800 that hits the telephone number, text, four, for eight, seven. The old static electricity can really do your dirty at times.

Did you dirty, right? Did me dirty at times where their, um, Jennifer's G-string ended up inside my jeans, and I was wandering around all day, and I didn't notice till the end of the day. What amazes us, eh, Megan, is how he ended up wearing it because of the static electricity. Yeah, how did it go from being in your pant neck to on your body? The electricity. Static electricity will do some weird things, right? Put them around my legs, up my legs, and over my precious parts.

And then you insisted on doing that little whale tail at the back so we could all see. They kept bending over to pick up and stuff. I'm like, yeah, we've seen it. Yeah, okay, electricity, baby. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. To me in France, a plastic bag of McLean washing, went all over the roads. It had to be my undies, too.

You know, when you pick it out, you're like, pieced up in my undies. But it was like three pairs of my undies. Would you rather have been women's underwear? Oh, actually, too. Down nine side. Yeah. Well, the problem with his underpants is their little Bob the builder ones. I'm picking those up all over the streets of Paris

It was very embarrassing So we wanted to know you're embarrassing underwear stories Lots of text and calls coming through Someone was in a communal camping ground And having a shower And their underwear went down underneath their shower And went along the water Floated along to like a lady

About three cubicles down And had to go Can you chuck and be back by undies? Yeah Which is No The soggy knees come flying over three cubicles No one really wants that right

Text us 4487 anytime 0,800 the hits on the phone is what Brendan's done, underwear nightmares, what happened? Yeah, morning team, how are we? Good buddies, lovely hearing your voice again. Yeah, it's been a while, mate. Yeah, I got a little bit of an embarrassing story with undies. Put my rugby uniform in the dryer to dry.

Didn't even look in the dryer to see if there was anything in there. Put my uniform into a bag. put that in the car, get to rugby, play the game of rugby, and had a shower, and pulled out my clothes that I was going to wear, and out comes a pair of size 20 red, lacy undies. They were the mother-in-laws. And so at this point, you're like looking out of the changing room going, dear God, no one else from the rugby team see this.

Who saw it? Everybody. They ended up getting hung in the changing room And I got fine every week For the rest of that season They had to be lacy as well Red lacey They're like they're not mine

Everyone's like sure Did you ever tell your mother-in-law where they were Where they were arrested? No but she did mention That the dryer must eat undies Because she's missing it here No Brendan's the one eating the undies That sounds terrible

It sounds terrible Oh Brendan Well you make me feel a little better For picking up my undies all over the streets of Paris So you're making me feel a lot better this morning It's something more embarrassing I'd rather do that mate Trust me

You're going to have a great week Brendan Cheers team Thank you There's one text here 4487 My terrible underpants underwear nightmare was I was working as a paramedic And I was bent over working On somebody and my G-string snapped

so they need to get her colleague to go into the shop and buy more but you don't have to get your colleague to go and do that you can still go in it feels like you want to yeah that's right I've had like a body suit you guys will know about this but some of them have like snaps down there so you can go to toilet and I think maybe you were supposed to wear undies under them but one time I like had the straps too tight and when I sat down abruptly it just popped open

like a slingshot And it did, it slingshot up my body, and I was in public. Boom, in the bottom of the chin. It's like, I don't know how I'm now commander, and I don't know how I'm going to do that back up. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Speaking of memories, memories that'll last me a lifetime over the school holidays, a week in Palmer's to North alone. For five days, then my wife and daughter came down.

Dude, I was genuinely worried about you. I know, I kept sending Megan videos, like, check out this inappropriate video. It was so many videos. Oh, really? I was like, I know that you're just sitting there, doom scrolling. I did a welfare check on Friday, but it probably could have been done earlier. Seven days too late. I was deep inside my head by then, mate.

I'd spent eight hours in a car by myself. Oh, God. Anyway, well, this is what I want to bring up. And I drove down. Yeah. Jen and my wife and my daughter, because my son was at a basketball tournament. So he went down with the team. Right.

Okay? And the team van. Jen and my daughter, Poppy, they flew down. the Thursday yeah okay so I drove down now I specified I departed on the Sunday and I and I took one medium-sized bag and I opened up the boot because we're all going to drive back I said now can everyone witness the boot space and the available real estate for when we drive back and I had my bag there and just a jacket neatly placed on top okay I was like this is what you got to work with okay now we as a family and I'll say I'm

guilty of this as well we're overpackers we are shockers absolute shockers so it's not a strong suit for us. I picked them up from the airport Thursday. Okay? I'm waiting outside the Palmer's North Regional Airport. They're wheeling out a god damn that's as high as the birds can be packed with bloody

suitcases. Pushing it on the trolley and I'm thinking to myself I'm sucking in the big ones. How long are they going for though? You only go for a couple days. You're saying, we're the end of this tournament. I'm an overpacker. I pack tuxedos and meats outfits and all sorts, you know. But then you pack for a few.

every outcome like different shoes different outfits. I mean honestly I've gone away on New Year's trips middle of summer and I was like better take my ski pants and a puffer jacket just in case. Sometimes you're thankful you do and other times you're like why did I bring that? So I'm driving them from the airport and I'm like just with their luggage alone the entire boot is full and I'm thinking I'm silent I'm not saying

anything I'm not saying anything so we get to the point where we're all going to return now adding Oscars materials in there as well oh no so he's going back he's coming back listen we drive I drove back I think with a suit. I didn't see the kids for nine hours. They never had an underluck. I was like, hopefully we packed them in the car too.

I can't remember. I'm sitting with a bloody suitcase on my lap. Jen is having to ride the bonnet out the back. It was a nightmare. And I haven't said anything until right now. And I didn't say I told you so? Oh, you didn't. Did Jen not address it at all?

No one said anything. No, no. You've got to get you told you so. This is why I'm doing it right now. I know. It means nothing to us. We're like, yeah. Like, well, for us, we're happy it happens.

Let's call her, do it life. The nation needed to hear it. Yeah, but the nation are happy that happens. You're not getting your satisfaction of someone going, yeah, I'm wrong. Yeah, no, you don't get, throughout my marriage career, you don't get many I told you soes. I like to take it away from, I would have gone in and been like, I'm sorry, I've overpicked, because then you take it away and you don't get the October so. Quickly take it away.

So, here we go. No, I'm not satisfied for you. No, this is not, this is disappointing for you. This is no point. I've held on to it for this particular moment. We don't care. We need to say it, too. The people were involved.

The one for me is they're probably driving to school right now. They're not listening to us. No, you're right. They're on a better show. They're on a bit of show. It's not going to change next time. So you are told you so. It means nothing out of this.

Hollow victory. No, no victory at all. Anything, another loss for you. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Lots of good school holiday programs on. People put in some hard work to entertain kids over the break.

Yeah. And mine are quite young, but we still made the most out of some school holiday program action. I saw one at the zoo. I went to the zoo last week, and, geez, it felt like about 900 kids in a little hiver's vest, like little tiny children wandering around hibers. I was like, I would not want to be responsible for all those kids. I love when they wear their hibers vest and they hold hands and go on a little drang together. It's cute.

Because normally you do something, you come back and go, we got 29 out of 30. That's great. But when you come back with kids, you know, you can't go back. You can't go back and go, good news this, 29 out of 30 came back. Those are good stats. Yeah, normally I'd be stoked with that. But in that occasion, people are like, well, hang on. 99% is...

Let's not focus on the what. It's focus on the 29. 29, K, 29. That's still great. You didn't lose 29 kids. Last one, not bad numbers. In those occasions, it's not great stats. So we went to a couple of activities.

The first one was like an arts and crafts thing. So you're like making paper things and there was sculpture. They had clay. So we're like doing like these clay sculptures. Like I was so involved. What do you mean? Isn't you a program? Aren't you paying other people

and you have to be with your kids? Oh, yeah, no, you had to take your kids. Oh. Then I was, you know, I was like, move aside, I'm going to make it better than you, kind of thing. Oh, yeah, competitive. You know me. You're like, you know, ma'am, you're meant to be taking eight hours out now.

You're like, I know, but I love making clay stuff. You're like, can you stop pushing the kids away from the table? So we made these clay figurines and you're supposed to put them back on the table and leave them. But my son insisted on taking his snowman, I don't know what it was. it looked, it looked like a poo. It looked like a poo. Did you hold him, you're like, this looks like it. I know, we were like, just put it back.

We don't need to take this home. Anyway, he carried it with us, and then we went to another event. It was this awesome show at the theatre. So it's this little theatre room, and he had his clay sculpture, and we watched the show. You say sculpture was like a sculpture, like you're really disappointing. How old is he for? Yeah, yeah.

He's trying. It's not going to make the bloody Sistine Chapel there, is it? So as we left this show, we're all like, where's your sculpture? Where's your sculpture, mate? And he was like, I don't know. And you might recall this has happened before with his light-up hat that I made him for another event. He left it in the theatre. Counterfeit, counterfeit hat.

Yeah. For the Disney event, yeah. They bowed me up about it at Disneyland Paris. They're like, you work with someone that's making counterfeit. Disneyland merch. Disney merch. So my husband's like, well, I've got to go find it because it looks like a poo. So he went back into the theatre.

rummage is around where we were and he can't find it anywhere. So he has to explain. He goes back and he's like, I'm really sorry. But somewhere around this area, it looks like a poo. It's a sculpture. It's clay. We've left it in there, but I just really need you to know if you see it. It's not poo.

It's my husband's, I mean, my son's sculpture. Get your story straight, Megan, if they come talking to you, all right? John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits I don't want to keep banging on about it But I got nothing else to talk about The fact that I was away for a couple of weeks

That's okay You can back it costs you a lot of money You can bang on about it Well you're true And you know you do notice of things They love She's keeping cigarettes alive over there in Europe I know

They love smoking in restaurants It's not until you Disneyland smoking areas You know you name it You go to Europe and you're like Oh we don't smell that much in New Zealand They love it They're like keeping cigarettes alive

And bars And they make it look so sexy, don't they? They make smoking look... The French do, yeah. Lung cancer, the most sexy thing. I'm like, oh, you know, maybe, maybe. And seeing, like, these gorgeous, beautiful women, like, smoking is very weird. Yeah.

But I wanted to play a little game, you know, because you go across, you know, to places. We went to, you know, France and Greece and Italy. Go on about it. Places where, you know, they're not speaking, you know, traditional, you know, with English. Traditional English. Like, we would speak here. Like, the greatest language known to languages, English. I don't know why I said traditional.

But anyway. Something we can all understand. I don't speak English. You know, and you've been going to Disneyland as well. And I'm not realizing in Disneyland, Paris, that obviously some of the characters when you go on to the ride. So I have a listen to the charismatic Spider-Man. You go to Charismatic Spider-Man.

In French. That's Tom Holland. Charismatic Tom Holland and Spider-Man, French. You go on the ride in half-its in French at the start. And then they kind of have conversational. with sort of like the English language as well to sort of round things out for you as well which is quite nice as well

you got a French Iron Man here as well So what did you do? Because you couldn't understand any So did you enjoy it as much? Yeah you do well Because in that case they had I think Captain Marvel was talking She was talking to her to him

So she was in English So she was very recapping it I think for us So everyone only got half the couple Yeah, sometimes they'd have her written down as well. Captain Marvel's multi-language bilingual. She'd be like, that's right, Iron Man, it is one of the things we need to do. That's really over-explaining it. We're going, oh.

Half the boat's like, yeah. I see why he's saying it. And even the people when they came for the rise, that was quite funny. They would explain that sometimes do a joke. And then some people would laugh, and then they'd do it again. And they go, it's a good one. Did it work in both languages? Yeah, sometimes you can tell for them,

they were like, okay, we're definitely got more English-speaking people than this right than the other one, because the first joke did not get a laugh. Then all of a sudden we were like, oh, that's a good laugh. But we watched the TV show, and I thought I'll play a little bit audio for you guys right now, and you can guess what show was the family watching. This is obviously overdubbed in French, so have a listen.

All right, we're at a hotel in Paris, and we're going to play a game for the radio audience. What's it called? What TV show are we watching? Any clues? It's in French. Okay, there's a great clue, I do. Yeah, I'm going to say,

yes, I've got a boutique de cado because I had put a cigarette. Oh, yeah, it's not a detainment no more. Country calendar. There's cained laughter. There's can't laughter. And there's multiple voices. I'm going to say friends.

Yes, iconic episode, too. Was it? It was the one where our Chandler gets married to Monica as well. Oh, yeah. It's just really. like, it's basically how I didn't understand anything that was saying, but then you're like, you get emotional because of the music and then the way they say it

I'm like, oh geez, this is really emotional. So why don't know, Megan? You win that, why not? You win that. Did it sound like the people were not? No. No. Not rare. They sound way more exotic. Yeah. I wonder what's French for pivot. Oh, yeah. Pivot.

Yeah. So there you go. You guys nailed that game. Well, don't. Did they eat more breadsticks? No. It's still the same show. They've just dubbed it over. Cross all. They were smoking cigarettes and berets, yeah.

The whole thing. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Swift dropped a new album last week and a movie out in cinemas at the same time. The whole world is talking about it, the life of a show girl. And we have got New Zealand's biggest Taylor Swift fan. It listens to the show. Her name's Enya.

Good morning. Morning team. Yep, pretty big weekend. We're calling you a New Zealand's biggest Taylor Swift fan because we've spoken to your. many times in the past. You've even got, is it a bird cage that she has made and signed Taylor Swift herself? Yeah, birdhouse. And what

other Taylor Swift stuff have you got? Did we ask you that? Pretty much got all the blankets and I've got signs said. Sorry, the blankets? What do you mean? You say all the blankets, like that's a common thing. Oh, she like releases a blanket every era, so. Really? Yeah, yeah.

Some are like woven and then others are like fluffy shirper ones. That wouldn't have been my lead thing. I would have been like, I've got all the albums. I've got all the blak... All the blankets. Poor Patrol can bring out blankets, then Taylor can bring out a blanket. There's so much merch I don't know where to start.

That's the problem. And so every year she releases a blanket, how many blankets have you got? Probably 10. It's a bit excessive. Okay, so you love Taylor Swift. There's a movie out. There's a new album out. It's like the biggest album in one day already of 2025.

I feel like I know the, answer to this question, but what are your thoughts on both? I really enjoyed both. Crazy, I know. I know there's been mixed reviews, but I just think she likes exploring different genres, and it's really interesting to see a whole new side of it. What genre would you call this then? There's definitely pop hints, yeah, obviously, through it,

but not all the songs would be played on the radio all the time. It's interesting because the Rolling Stone, you know, their publication, you have it five out of five. But then I was reading a New York Post article and he said, The Hater's going to hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, and that was referring to him. He was not happy with the album.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. There's such a lot of mixed reviews for it, but from a fan perspective, she always manages to surprise us. Now, I also think, too, you've got a factor in, she recorded the album while she was on that wild tour of hers through Europe. So she's...

Oh, yeah, it's crazy. She's finishing work for the day. Then going to record an album. I can't even be bullet-stacking the dishwasher after one. I just went through Europe. I didn't record an album. I know, but she doesn't have to. It's not an excuse to, like, rush through an album.

I walk 10Ks a day, you walk in a year. You know, it's hard. It's hard. She recorded the whole album, mate. And I'm going to say, it sounds a bit like it's rushed. It sounds like, she told it in a little bit. You didn't just go there, did you? Oh, you like taking the digs in her, I mean.

No, I really like her. She's someone who just took a dig at her. But I was like, oh, I expected it's like the life of a shit. showgo, I expected it to be like showy and it's kind of meandering. I think it's the opposite and the fact that it's the behind the scenes side of it. Like she's

like we said, she's performed for three hours straight each night. That's right, man. About all the other stuff that goes behind the scenes. Hey, how about you do a show for 95,000 people? Then go, hey, I'm just going to finish recording my album. Do the album after the tour. Like, what's the rush? Well, I was

expecting more from the fate of a failure as the lead single. Oh, okay. It's okay. It's okay. Did you see the music video? No, I haven't, Enia. That's a good point. Does that make the song?

It's coming out later today on YouTube. How have you seen it? And the movies. Oh, yeah, of course, yeah. The Taurus of movie is out at the same time. What was the movie like? It was good. It provides a wee insight into all the songs.

So she sort of goes through and explains her reasoning behind all the songs. And after the movie, like, it made a lot more sense. and I think you'd appreciate it a lot more, Megan. Yeah, okay, I need to watch the movie. And also, Taylor gets two bites of that with juicy, juicy apple, you know, releasing an album and a movie. And you sent a wonderful photo, too, of you recreating one of the album shots inside the movie theatre and Invercargelena. Yeah, they don't know about that. They don't know about that.

No. The movie theatre. Yeah, feed off the seats, hey? Oh, yeah, so you send it to produce. producer Troy and he was like, what is this photo? And then he got the reference, so he knew why you were sitting in that photo. You kind of got your leg sort of braced over where are the movie seats. I sent my reference shot because I didn't know if he'd get it either.

You sent your one first, he said. It's like, oh, was this meant for me? Can we put that up on the Hitz's breakfast, then, yeah? Go on. Yeah, so people can go and say for us. We'll put it some by side. Because Troy said he was sitting next to his girlfriend

and he went, uh-oh, and just tilt. She's like, who's Enia? Tilted the phone towards him. Uh,

Enia, we love talking to you. Well, we're stoked for you and all the other Swifties to have Taylor Swift music back in the world is very, very cool

and the movie out as well. Thanks so much for your time. Hey, good on you, you. You have a great day, mate. Bye. You too. John O'Benn and Megan

The podcast. The Hats. I stay back at school, term four for many people Oh, and I'm a son. He's only doing one day of school this term. Wild. He's like, he's like, my last day of school. And he keeps going, no, he still have to study.

He's still got exams. He's like, last day of school. He's still studies, still exams. Still trying to get that in there. But it washes over him. So yeah, what we want to do, it's a popular tradition, isn't it, when you return from holiday to do a bit of a school holiday show in town. Back in the day, you know, it really did showcase whose parents were low-key really rich.

You're like, you know, we've just returned from the Maldives. And I'm like, I just picked up this leaf on the way to school. You know, everyone was bringing like sticks and leaves for show and tell. Definitely forgotten, right? Yeah, it's almost the same as buying us hand sanitizer from Paris. Hey, still got you something? Yeah, some of your mates would come back from Paris and I was like, I was at the Noody Park. It was my down the road.

Yeah, well, hey, there go. Hand sanitizer, you're germ-free, guys. You'll be germ-free show. It's great. Parisian hand sanitizer. So, yeah, we want to open up the school holiday show and tellline. What's happened over the last couple of weeks that you can report on? on.

Yeah, I mean, as I kept banging on about this morning, we went away for a couple of weeks, you know, through Europe as well. And going through, you know, the different language things was something that was really, and done for a while, the different languages throughout the country. Saying Ben was really tough. The name Ben, and just the way I say it as well, you know, if someone had to write my name down, I got Bean, I got Bin, I got PIN, PIN many times, and Penn as well. So I got the wide spectrum of all different days of it.

Did you try Benjamin? Yeah, maybe I should have gone with that because being in the way I say it is not great. But I tell you one of the coolest moments I had was just walking past, you know, just Buckingham Palace was there and I walked past a guy and I looked at him and he looked at me and sort of, he must have thought, oh, there's a Kiwi

and I thought, oh, that's a Kiwi. And all he said to me was up the waz and walked off. And I was like, the beautiful language of New Zealand. And Ben was like, of all the things you could say to me in English. It's all we said to all we said to each other. Talk dirty to me. I looked at double locks and then he went up the wares.

And I was like, oh, beautiful language. The beautiful language. I mean, we've been saying bonjour and all sorts of stuff everywhere else. That's the most romantic. Although my wife was, because I get frazzled and my wife would just go, you can't just keep saying bonjour to everyone.

It's like using it for thank you and things like that. It's hello. Well, I'll be like get something going to go, bonjour, and you'd be like, she's like, you idiot. It's like someone giving you a coffee and you're like, hello. He's like, I'm having a colonoscopy. Bonjour.

So just say uploas, it's my thing. That's my towel for show and Dell. My show and tells I was in an Uber and unsurprisingly was punishing the driver. with a name chat. Oh yeah. Now he was not only an Uber driver but also a prison guard right at a maximum security prison business. Yeah. Are the prisoners mean to you? Yeah. And they don't, what we call that, um, gym? They got a gym there. Yeah, inside everything, you know, they got free doctors, free education. So what else you need? Yeah, then food. He said,

it's amazing in there. He said some of them don't want to leave. He's like, what would you leave? You don't have to pay for power Don't just pay for petrol I was like damn check me into prison homey John O'Benn and Megan The podcast We're just It's first day back to term four

And we're doing school holiday show and tell It's a classic format Is it in the class So a little bit of fill of content Before the teacher actually Is to do some proper work Yeah Megan what happened in your life Well I just stayed at home

But some big news in our household My daughter went to the toilet On the toilet number two For the first time Didn't miss? It was weird, though, because, like, all of us do it all the time we don't think about it, and you definitely don't have an audience. We were all there, cheering her on.

Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. It'd be weird if I went to the bathroom and you guys are all there. And then you're clapping out. That's a huge celebration. We're all like, yeah, we're so proud of you. You've got to miss those days. I mean, I can do that for you if you want. Well, I do.

I'd like the applause. But, hey, I got my... I'm so proud of you, Ben. I'll just, I'll stick to my bubble blowing. Hey, guys. On the toilet? So what has happened? What has happened over the last two weeks that you need to update us on?

It's the holiday show and tell. Gide Brett. Welcome. Morena, morena. Welcome to the Monday morning madness. We're doing well, Brett. Is this Brett from Tauronga? No, Brett from Todong.

I wouldn't live that side of the main of the last thing. Now, what's your show and tell, Brett? No, well, I'm too old to be back in school. I don't think they'll let me back to school. Hey Oh, but we were just demolished It's very rainy The whole lot of the first I did

Oh, raining the whole time Yeah, no, not good I couldn't even get out to do me lawns, right? Now I got upset white Wounds look yuck House is not good Hasn't he didn't even get a chance To mow his lawns, Brett

Yeah Almost took Monday off to go and do me lawns I love I love the sound of Brett Got to do me lawns too You wouldn't have it any other way Good on you Brett But do you remember the show and tell too?

There would always be that one child who'd bring in like a praying mantis inside a glass with some glad rap over the top of it. The praying mantas are clinging onto life. A few like your pencil holes stabbed on the top of it as well. James, welcome. Morning. Holiday show and tell, James. Well, after 15, 16 years of being Android, I decided to go iPhone.

So I've been getting my head around this iPhone. Oh, he swapped technology phones. Oh, that's a tough joy. Yeah. Nothing makes you feel more like a boo. an early boomer than, you know, when you go, you switch, right? Yeah, well, I've now got rid of my Spotify on the weekend. I'm now going to Apple Music because so I can have music waking me up.

I did it primarily because we're running a business. I found Android phones with me. It would last about two years from now. Completely screwed. Yeah, right. So he's made the big change. It will last longer. It's like you're in a long-term relationship with these companies, aren't you?

I know. It's so hard to break up with them. It's like probably a lot of marriages that have got on for full. 40 years. It's just easier if we just stay together. There's too much admin to separate now. It's the same situation. That's what they bank off.

Hey, thanks so much for your call. James, appreciate it. And I appreciate all the texts to on 4487 for holiday show and tell. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. To school, all the kids are at the moment. And I think a lot of parents will be relieved around the country.

Teachers having to deal with, I'm reading online, the new brain rot phrase that is everywhere. I've been traveling a bit and you hear it. no matter what language if people are talking you hear six, seven like people just saying six, seven

is like a phrase it doesn't really seem to have a lot of meaning but amazing how many opportunities you get to use it if you see the number six and seven you're like six seven in France was it

six seven no people just say six seven oh they do it the English version kids about 11 years old talking in French and then you just hear them go six seven

you're like did they just say six seven like that and then you'd be like going past a platform six seven and everyone would stand underneath go six seven and do the I would do it and the kids would be like please stop please stop right now

the internet's a wonderful place isn't it and then we'll move on we'll forget about it yeah yeah remember that six seven remember when we were planking and doing all those other things oh planking dabbing dabbing yeah that was a goodie yeah what was that one where everyone stood

still in the room oh the mannequin challenge that was fun that was fun we did the mannequin challenge and we're hosting the music award The Music Awards. Everyone stays still and you don't do that in front of cool musicians. I mean, a lot of people did to their credit, but then there was a couple people just rowdy, pulling fingers, doing whatever. Like the live TV, guys, you know, have some decorum.

We wanted to do the world's biggest mannequin challenge. We're like a room full of people. Someone pulled their pants down and we're like, come on, guys. A bit of class, bit of class. We're trying to do a mannequin challenge, most sophisticated of all forms of entertainment. Yeah, you're right, the musicians don't need that. They don't need us and they don't need that. But good luck to the teachers today.