Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Will Megan's husband let her do this interview...

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

On today’s show:  Ben’s so frustrated that his wife keeps doing this with the fridge! We debate on whether men look hotter wearing hats backwards. Why David Hasselhoff once filmed a music video at a listener’s auntie’s house! Chat with Wellington mayor Andrew Little after swimming to prove the harbour is safe. Weirdest things you've brought on a flight. Producer Troy breaks the sacred rule by heating fish in the office kitchen... Maddie McLean recaps explosive Married at First Sight drama. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. I know in the household that I have a lot of like figurines and things around the place. I get that. Stuff. Yeah, just stuff up, you know, you know, Simpsons figurines or Funko Pop things or, you know, whatever. I have those up.

That's fine. And my wife, she's into plants. She loves plants. And so she will cover areas and that's fine. That's fine. Interior plants. Yeah, lots of plants. Lots of house plants.

She loves them. You know, they're in the bathroom. in the car we we ended up getting a free piano from someone who didn't want a piano and that thing now just lives covered the plants it's like a plant air bmb it's basically just covered in plants the whole thing um so lots of plants everywhere um and that's like the plants starting to annoy him well that's cool lots of plants that's fine it's fine it's fine but last i go home with the gym and i was like i'm about to have dinner and i was like oh just want to wash my hands and you go to the sink there's plants in the sink there's plants in the sink and then they're

draining. They're apparently a drain, their bottom draining. And you can't move them because they're draining. I'm like, I'll go to the bathroom wash bath. Plants in the bathrooms. Many plants are in the house. And then I was like, I'll go to the logic. There were plants and the laundry. I was like, three sinks.

And I'm like, they're all draining. They're all draining. They were in the watering post. They put a couple of got put in there to drain and that wasn't allowed to like, I'm not allowed to move them to wash my hands. And I'm like, well, this is where it tips over the line. This is where it goes from being fine in the house to come on. I'm with Amanda though.

Like you do a big water or sometimes you soak them. I soak them in the sink and then you can't take them out because they're draining and it'll dribble everywhere. Recovery protocol. All blacks don't even get treated that good after the game. They're recoveries. Not even that. I'm like, what? Just do that.

Put all the plants in the bath. That's a good one. What's irking you more? The plants or the display pillows on your bed? Both are up there. Both are up there. The display pillows because you can't use them. But then I couldn't use the sink.

because these bloomin plants are sitting in there. And then you can't wash your hands over the top of the plants because they apparently don't like that. No, they don't like hands. You don't want to make the plants, sad. No, no. Is it because there's a heap of plants everywhere, but you're not allowed all your paraphernalia?

No, I'm okay. I'm okay everywhere. It's just when they get to the sink. It's like in the sink, I feel like the plants, you know? They're in your territory. That's a kitchen sink. This is the kitchen sink. And then the bathroom sink.

That feels like that's when they're like a housemate that you want to get, you want to get rid of it for the house, you know? So I'm fine. Fine with them in the corners, but not in the sinks. Well, maybe if Amanda's listening, you can manifest more plants in your household. Oh, geez. Turn it into a full-blown forest. More monsterias or whatever they are.

What is he living? He's in the white town. What are they more? Monsteros. There are we go. I feel like you're living in the bloody Amazon. It is. area out?

So my husband was going to rehearsal and he was wearing his... He's going to be in a show, a stage show, Andrew, isn't he? And Juliet. And Juliet is the name of the show. She's going to be on it as well, yeah. He's Romeo. And I googled straight away when he got the part. I was like, does Romeo have to kiss Juliet in this musical?

No. That's good. Sure, they should. That's part of it. Anyway. No, it's different. This musical is a different take on. No, it's really good.

I want to see some passionate. You know, if I'm going to the theatre, I want to see some live passion. It's what I pay my money for. He was going to rehearsal and I said goodbye. But when I said goodbye, he was wearing his hat backwards. And I was like, before you get there, turn your hat around, please. You can't go out in public with your hat backwards. So why is it?

Why? Because they look infinitely more attractive when they've got the hat backwards. I was like, who are you wearing your hat backwards for? Turn it around. And Julia. But boys, guys, wearing their hats backwards, more hot. I don't know. I think there's a demo where you can.

There's a safe zone where you can do. Imagine me turning up here. I wear hats all the time and went backwards. You'd be like, hey, mate. I would think, I reckon you look cool and confident. Not a number. Go into a meeting with a hat backwards. Yeah.

When I worked at the edge, I would probably want. But that was a different stage of my life, you know? That was felt like our environment was fine. Here's a bit more corporate. I mean, don't look at Jono, but apart from Jono. Excuse me, Johnno's hat. One of your hats is like fraying and falling apart. I don't think anyone's like, look at your tattoos and what's on your t-shirt today?

This is Michael Scott from the office. Yeah, I mean, no one's looking at you. He looks like a teenager, but apart from Joe. So you probably could wear a hat backwards and everyone would go, that's just Jono. I could. But why you've just not got a standard when it comes to wearing a hat backwards? Oh, no, I just don't feel. I've never wore one backwards.

I think you have to have confidence. Maybe that's where the hotness comes from. Sporting and the activities like that, I would probably wear one, but in, you know, day to day, you know, outside the weekend. I reckon you should do it. Okay, well, I'll try it tomorrow if you want, yeah. And see if you get any comment. There's certain hats I would wear.

You've got to do it confidently. Okay, okay. But I put it in chat, Jeb-T, to see if this is a thing, and they see that's a real phenomenon. It's because you look casual, you look confident, you look unbothered, but also when you put your cat backwards, it accentuates certain features on your feet.

face. Yeah well. So it makes your jawline look more chiseled. That's what... Feels like, you know, in your 20s, that's an okay thing. Well, you wear your hat backwards tomorrow, mate, and I'll mock you all day. So I guess it's going to be confident. I'm going to be confident.

This is what fashion is. It's confident. No, I reckon you guys should try it today. Try your hat backwards. Well, text poll. Okay, 4487. Does... Is this for the people attractive to guys?

Do people... Is it a thing? Are you more attracted to a gentleman with his hat backwards? Or does it look like you'd have to go home and meet his hair as pears? parents. Sleep in a single bed. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits.

The most impressive signature that you've got from a famous person. Have you got something signed? Because we've got a story yesterday. We're still talking about it. David Bowie. He signed something or did he? Have a lizard. My brother was a chef back in the 80s when Bowie toured.

David Bowie was staying there. My brother was a chef there. So my oldest brother, Spick, gave him a photo of Bowie. He said, look, can you get this sign? He went, yeah, yeah, yeah, no worries, no worries. But he didn't. So he brought it home and he put it on the bench and wrote a note, sorry, I didn't get to see Bowie and everything, ladi-da.

And I'd come home for the pub, and I'd seen the note. I thought, oh, poor bloody speck. He didn't get it done. But then next morning, mysteriously, there's the photo signed. Two-spec, lots of love, David Bowie. We saw it. We thought, oh, shit, the old man signed it. So we kept it, we just kept it secret.

He saw it, and it was bloody, over the moment. moon. He thought, oh my God, this is great. And so everybody knew Dad had done it, because you could even tell it was his writing, because he was left-handed. So it was... Smudged. So, then about 10 years later,

we're up in the Gold Coast on a holiday, and little thing went down, and Speck was pissing Cole off big time. And Cole just turned around him, said, well, Speck, everybody knew exactly what he was going to say, and we said, no, no, don't say it. Don't say, don't say, don't say.

He said, Speck, Dad signed you photo. And it was just deftly quiet. And the old man, just the look of the old man's face was like, oh shit, I've been caught out. When my brother got home, apparently he threw the photo across the room and he gutted. But then he kept the photo and he reframed it because it was funny. That somehow has got better history. Yeah. It was crazy. But everybody knew when Cole said buggy aspect. You knew it's coming. It's coming. No, no, no, no. What's going to say? There we go.

They're a big thing. Getting things people to sign stuff like before phones, that was a lot bigger. Yeah, it feels like the selfie's really taken over the other city. I had an autographed block of waiting on the sideline, run out and after games, sports gays, against signatures, punishing players. It was such a good period in New Zealand sport, isn't it, when cigarettes were sponsoring sport. The kids after the game could just go on and mall your favourite players, whip their clothes off.

Fat one in the bag and to sign something, hopefully. Yeah, it was... But then half the time it's just a squiggle. And then you're like, oh, that's... someone's so signature and people were like, cool, man. Yeah, you didn't have photographic evidence back in the day either. You just had to take your word for it. Shout out to those heroes of players weren't even professional at the time,

and I'm sure the last thing after you've played an hour of netball or 80 minutes of rugby. Five days of cricket. The last thing you want to do, it would be swarmed by eight-year-olds tugging at you and making your... You sign this? Can you sign that? Can you sign this? Can they do it? Yeah, right. Okay, so 800 of the hits.

What is the greatest signature you've managed to acquire? Yeah, who can impress us with the best signature next? Maybe you got a letter from the Queen that was signed by the Queen. Some people had that happened in New Zealand while she was still alive. Dan Carter signed a pair of jockey underpants for me, as I said before, my mum washed them and got rid of whatever that. That squigger was on there. Are you wearing them at the time?

No, I wasn't wearing them. I bought a pair so he could sign them. Oh, they were fresh? Did Jenny Boyce not question why there was a squiggle on the underpants? Surely there'd be a question first. She'd washed them, so he got rid of the stain and away we went. Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Greatest signature you've acquired.

Sandra, good morning to you. Good morning, how are you? Really well. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. I don't know we're still doing that. We're trying on the show to see how long we can keep it going. It's annoying a lot of people, but anyway, we've made a weird decision there to try and make

it our catchphrase for the whole year. We're plowing on, Sandy. Plowing on. Now, we just spoke to someone who had a fake David Bowie signature because their dad felt guilty, but you've got a legit one? I have. I have got a legit one. I was working at the White Heron Hotel when they were filming Merry Christmas

Mr Lawrence. It was a long time ago back in the early 80s and I was one of the receptionists at the White Heron Hotel because that was where, that was the hotel in the day where all the people that, important people came over that stayed there like Joe Cocker, a whole lot of people, they had villas across the road.

So I saw David Bowie on a daily basis, and I'm not going to lie, I did have a bit of a crush on him. He just came and buy cigarettes every day and check him with us. And yeah, and he gave me a signed photo. Oh, that's lovely. That's really cool. Okay, what's your takeaway from Bowie? Nice guy? Oh, lovely guy.

Smoked a lot, obviously, though. Jeez, you miss it. It's every day. He was very respectful. And he would come down, he would come down and talk to us all the time and get his own cigarettes and things, whereas there were other people that would stay and they'd send people to do there. Well done.

So, no, he was a very respectful and lovely guy. A big one to hand over a photo of yourself, too, is it? You want this. I think I might have asked him. Oh, good. Oh, good. Yeah, that's much better. You'd definitely have to back your credibility, don't you?

Join us on the phone. Jan Louise, Happy New Year to you. Happy New Year. Now, the show official catchphrase, happy new year if you just turned into the show. But also, what signature did you get? Who did you get to sign something? I've actually got a whole bunch I've got tank

Christina Aguilera Vitamin C, Billy Piper T-Matic and all of the black-eyed peas Oh wow There's a few there you lost me on But there was some sound like a shopping list Let's this song

As we go on Oh yes Why'd have a C Not just picking them up from the unikim or anything And so you obviously got to meet all these people Yeah Yeah Whenever they came to New Zealand

Christina Aguilera performed at my high school. I won that competition. Really? What? How was that? What high school was it? Rangitado College. Oh, wow.

She turned up and played at lunchtime or something? Yeah, yeah. Jeez, they really caught her in a moment of weakness. That's incredible. That was awesome. Was that at the height of her, I guess, celebrity? It was after she won her first Grammy, I believe. And she went and performed at Hunky Tocke.

That's pretty cool. So what's the secret for getting signatures? I don't know. I feel like I manifest it half the time. I just believe I can and I just go for it. I mean, Black Eyed Peas, they played big day out. I think Metallica headline that year and I managed to wrangle my way backstage

and all of a sudden I was rounding them up with my little Kodak camera for a photo. Oh, that's cool. Well, I am, just get in a bit. Get in a bit. You never know what the quality of the photograph was with those ones. No, it was a gamble, wasn't it? Sometimes everyone had red eyes.

Sometimes people pulled their genitals out. And you wouldn't know until two weeks later. You're guaranteed none of the... Sometimes people pull the fingers. You did that, didn't you? You ruined a family photo. In Sydney, yeah, with mum. One shot and one shot only you did that.

Yeah, I did. I feel terrible too. Do you? No. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. The best thing that you've got signed.

Who signed something for you? So many great texts are coming through from pop stars, Lincoln Park, Backstreet Boys. Belletti James's autograph. Someone's got on the text machine. So Edmund Hillary, that's a great story. We should try and get this person on. Sadly, a lot of them seem more epic when they've passed away.

Because, you know, you can't get it anymore. Yeah. Although Edmund Hillary, don't we all have that, technically, on the five domino? Yeah, well, this person got Edmund Hillary to sign a car. they had a broken leg, got signed the cast, and then 40 years later, they've still kept it. They cut that part out and kept it as well. Oh, wonderful, Surred.

Great New Zealander, hasn't he? Your one story about Surreed is he left his phone number in the phone book. Yeah, I remember people telling that. Recklessly, too, from the Edmund Hillary family. You could call them up. And, yeah, that was a very different generation, a trusting generation, right? Imagine how many people pranked Sered? Oh, no.

Is that Seredman, is your fridge running? Yeah. You're like, that's Sir Edmund Hillary. I just go check it. No, it's like that's a red. Now, that's on him, though, for putting his phone number in the phone book. Astrid, great to have you on. How are you?

Good, thank you. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. All right, who you got? Whose signature, Astrid? David Hasselhoff. Oh, the Hoff. When was this?

It would have been about 1986. I would have been about nine. Oh, my gosh. God, so height of like Baywatch. Yeah, this is kind of Baywatchy. Night Rider Baywatch days, isn't it? In his peak. Yeah, but he was in New Zealand to do, um, film a video for his music video.

What, he flew all the way to New Zealand to film a music video? Yeah, yeah, at my auntie's house of all places. What? Your aunties, yeah. So, yeah. So did you just hang out at your aunties while he filmed? Correct, yep. That is wild.

What was so special about your aunties? Funny. Yeah, just, you know, filmed a bit of filming in the paddocks, and then, yeah, we all had a chat with him and a bit of afternoon tea sort of thing, and then they were on their way. Was it just, the concept of the video just Hasselhoff in a farm paddock? Yeah, he was riding a horse. Oh, did he have horses in paddocks in America?

Yeah. Obviously not. Not as nice as our ones. Did he have a white flowing shirt half unbuttoned? That's how I imagine it. Blue. Blue. Blue.

Blue shirt, white pants. Oh, yeah. 80 cent chest. 80 cent chest in that outfit. Oh, that's so cool. Well, thank you for you sharing that with us. It's amazing. Yeah.

Nice guy, though. Very nice guy. Yeah, really polite and stuff. Yeah, really nice. That's great. But David Housofford or auntie's house. You don't get a more New Zealand story than that one. Should we do one more?

Yeah, so one more quickly, shall you? So I'm going to have a gamble on this one. Soirene, how are you? Hey, good guys. Good morning. How are you? Happy Year. Happy New Year.

Show, catchphrase. Now, what is the signature you got? So I got the Brian from the Backstreet Boys. Oh, you got Brian. You got Brian. It wasn't a day when they had their concert over in Auckland about, I don't know, 2009, 2010. I can't remember now.

But a big fan, me and my back then fiancé, and we couldn't get tickets to the concert. but I worked at the Auckland International Airport at the time. And so I knew that there could be a potential that it could be flying out the following evening the night that I was working. So sure enough, sure enough, I was walking. I see these guys walking around with their big bodyguards, as you do.

But funnily enough, no one was recognizing them. And so I had a bit of a thought that if ever, one of these guys walking to the shop, I will yell out and get an autograph. And you yelled at, Brian! Brian!

I did. I did. But at the start, he came into the shop. I was at the back. I saw him. And I ran out. And by the time I get to the front,

he was already gone. And I got, oh, I missed my opportunity. But I said to myself, oh, you know, Manifist, I got to do this for my fiancé because she's a massive fan of the boys.

And sure enough, he came back. And that's when I yell up. Brian. He came back, Backstreet's back. You thought I'd gone. I went to win.

I don't think about that purchase. Come back. Yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. Oh, that's so awesome. We've got to see a different bride for the backstreet boys. These are a great. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Liam Lawson, you've manifested this interview with him. You love F1. Liam Lawson, big fan of him on the track. Megan, and it's happening next week on Zoom. Every time you mention it, I get a flutter of nerves in my tummy because yeah I'm really excited to interview him it's the first time I'll

even get to chat to a Formula One driver and he's Kiwi you don't want us to screw this up for you and will we get any questions I don't know but yeah I'm just like behind the scenes don't go too nerdy though don't well don't you fluff it up too much but we don't want no one wants to listen to a 22 minute deep dive on Formula One on that car part take that offline take that off line that chat tire compounds Yeah, I know. Yeah, you're right, Jotto. Light and fluffy. Light and fluffy.

Yeah, it's all right on the hat. I like dusting. But we thought that Liam's an already magnificent guest, someone that you've been wanting to speak to for a number of years. Yeah. And we thought, why not we make this special Zoom interview, an already special occasion, even more special. Yeah.

Like, adding another person? Adding another special guest. But I don't necessarily have to be part of the interview. I mean, at this stage, we're probably going to have minimal words to say. They can join us and just watching you We're going to be there We'll try We'll just say some questions

But this person won't They'll just be here Maybe we'll have them outside Just looking through the window As you Face dressed against the glass Yeah I know what you've done

And that very special guest We're thinking of It's your husband Andrew Puppus Good morning Good morning Why do you say like that Your husband

Well I feel like we've forgotten About your husband Through this whole process No he's there I've still got my rings on He's there And why is it going to be here though That's the question

Andrew what are you doing next week We want to come along I'll have to see what's happening in my schedule What's going on here, hey Well I think I think you just You're perching up on a stool

During the interview Steering at Megan interview Liam Lawson Two of the greatest men in her life That would be a wonderful situation He's a busy guy I don't think I need supervision Or

I feel like you might Two of the loves of your life in one room? Do you say two of the loves of my life? At least he knows. I don't get the height, babe. I really don't get the hype. The guy drives cars, I'm just going to say. I drive the car.

So you brag it about it, do you? No, no. Infinitely better than you. His car's got one seat. I've got seven seats. I don't really don't get the big. deal here. He doesn't even have like mirrors in his car. No.

Nothing missing. You're right. I'll tell you what, you like you sound like a better catch than Liam to be honest. Seven seats. Seven seats, say. Wow, sexy. Yeah, where are you going to sit, Megan? You're not going to sit with Liam, are you? But you can sit with Andrew in six different places, yeah. I've spent a lot of time at home telling Andrew how like it's purely platonic. I just like his driving. I'm not listening.

All right, Andrew, we'll leave, we'll see if the schedule aligns, we'll see if it can work out. We'd love to have you there. No, I wouldn't. We would. I said we would love to have you there. I just say me would. Anytime I laugh at anything, Andrew will be like peering at me, like, stop giggling.

And you can actually catch Andrew's podcast with Suzanne Paul on IHeart Radio called Forks's Sake. A little plug there for you, mate. Is that how you got him on the show? He's like, plug my podcast. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits And so we thought we should be talking about

One of the biggest shows on TV right now Yeah but we're going to be really honest and transparent None of us watch it We watched episode two Megan When we're on the road and we were really invested in that event You guys got quite invested in that one Yeah

It's a big commitment though It's on like three four nights a week Married at First Side Australia They're into the whatever series they're into right now 9882 We're famed hungry people pretend that they want to get married to someone and they film it for our entertainment

and now none of us are watching it but there is one member of the hits who is who said vehemently he wasn't going to get on board and he's on board and this is What to Watch with Meggie Maddie MacLaine Maths Maddie welcome Seamless guys

that was seamless Oh yeah we didn't have time to make you a new intro so we had to talk over Megan's name and what to watch So Maddie I've seen you on social media We're following you you're very passionate about it. I mean, you get passionate about things, and we love that about you, Maddie,

but you're very passionate about married at first sight. I cannot decide whether I love to hate or hate to love this show. It's a fine line. It really is a fine line. Is it a hate watch for you, you think? I love the drama. I mean, I am a sucker for a little bit of drama, but this show is actually the word.

And yet, and yet, I cannot look away. I am so, I'm in, hook, line and sinker, honestly. Well, there's going to be a lot of people watching this show. And, you know, some cherry pick moments for you, Maddie. There's some standouts. It's been a real rollercoaster. And anyone that watched last night's episode, I think, can agree. Especially if you watch Massa lot, it was the most explosive dinner party

that there's ever been on this show. And that sees a lot because these dinner parties go crazy. I saw a woman throw a glass of red wine over someone one season. and this takes the cake. It was crazy. What happened? It's not even the relationships. Like, you put the relationships to one side.

It's just the women attacking each other. And they just went all in. There's gang of women ganged up on a couple of the others, the brides, and they just started attacking them viciously. Well, we've got some audio of this, Maddie. Oh, no, we don't. We just have some audio of other stuff from MAPS, but have a listen. I'm your Nigerian prince.

I now ask if any person, has a genuine reason why these two should not be joined in marriage. I don't think I can marry you. Oh my God! My God! Do you think it's all the producers just sort of pulling strings like puppeteers in the background? Yeah, maybe. And as someone who has been on reality TV before,

I do understand how it happens because everything in there does feel so heightened. Everything just feels so much bigger when you're in that. environment than it would be in the real world. But still, last night, just the way that these women were attacking each other, it was next level. And then you've got, you've just got so much going on. Like the relationships themselves, some of them are going strong, others are absolutely doomed from the beginning.

Does it make you feel better about your life? What you get? And I think that's part of it. I think that's going to go to bed. I get into bed with my husband, Ryan, and we look at him. each other and we go, we're normal. I know, yeah. You're like, we're not so bad.

It's the ultimate, yeah, puts everything in perspective of that show. Hey, well, uh, Math's Maddie. Maff's Maddie. We're gonna, cool, we'll catch up with you again. Only 812 episodes to go, Maddie. Yeah, exactly. Can I give a quick little plug for any Maff fans?

We have Alyssa from Maffs joining us on the show this afternoon. Oh, wow. You can catch this afternoon from three. I don't know who that is, but I'm impressed. Do we like Alyssa or is she a baddie? We like her. Look, Alyssa, we like it.

We like Alyssa. She's starting the show, Megan. That's why we like it. She'll be there after three this afternoon, Matthew McLean and PJ Harding. We'll catch you. Thanks for your time this morning. I really appreciate it.

Thank you. See you, matey. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. A little talk over the last few weeks about the Wellington water after a bit of a sewage leak has deemed the water unsafe. until now question mark yeah new wellington mayor

Andrew Little he was former member of the Labour Party he led the Labour Party for a while there didn't they yeah we did an atrocious segment with poor Andrew Little we put it we made him hold some t-shirts oh it was meant to be yeah anyway that was yeah we are live on television we saw this thing online where there was someone doing speed folding with t-shirts

we're trying to be do YouTube things better than the YouTubers and yeah yeah you do YouTube and then they were like oh get Andrew little to fold t-shirts. I don't know why, but we bullied this poor, poor guy into the studio and made him fold t-shirts live on television and that was probably about as entertaining as as it sounds. Well, you don't know how to speed fold. It's not as entertaining as when people speed-pile. It's just like, how long are we sitting on this? How long are we sitting on this? That's on us. That's on us. Oh no, it's not Andrew. Little side. He looked up going, yeah,

he was probably like, you want me to what? I've never trained for this. So anyway. Yeah, so anyway, Yesterday he decided to prove to, you know, Wellingtonians that the harbour is safe again to swimmer. He went out in his rash shirt and went out into the ocean and swam. Look and ripped, what I say? Look, and he's... It's not ripped. It looks good.

The ripped tides weren't the only thing about it. His ripped physique, that's what I was, yeah. And good on him for taking a hit. Like, do you reckon his team were like, mate, we need to get people back into Loyal Bay. You're going to have to take the... Get him to suck it up, big guy. Yeah, maybe.

Actually, don't suck the water up, though. Hold your breath. Might have been that moment of the same. Simpsons with a three-eyed fish, you know, Mr. Farns, he just ate it. Yeah, you know, it's like, eat the thing, it's like, yeah, and then he spits it out. I reckon, personally, I'd be a little hesitant about jumping in there now. I mean, at some stage, it's got to be, it's got to be safe. Absolutely.

You'd hope, you know? It was very poopy just recently. Good on him for doing it, but is he still with us? I don't know. Riddled. Reminds you of the Paris mayor. Yeah. During the Olympics, there was the River Seen, which looked sort of toxic green, didn't it?

nuclear green. And did get some people sick afterwards. I don't know if she got sick, but there definitely was some people in the Olympics that got sick from her. Now, we've managed to track down Andrew Little's number. Do we call? Do we give him a 638 call? I mean, politicians are up early.

Oh my gosh, really? Well, you've got some history. Well, not good history. We just said we made him do a terrible, you know, hopefully he's forgotten with that. We made him do some laundry on television. Hey, maybe you start by saying he looked really good in his rashy yesterday. He did look good. Hopefully he's a round to answer the phone, though.

This is a lie. He might be having a sleep in. Oh my God. He might be on a drip at the hospital. Beep. Any other thing? Oh, Andrew Little, it's John O'Bennel and Megan from the Hits radio station. We did not expect you to answer.

I should be worried. No, we will. We just wanted to check in on you. It's just a welfare check. We saw you. Firstly, you looked great in your rash shirt yesterday, out in the water, and we wanted to check you're still with us. Still here, still here, not a single turn on the stomach, and still bleeding.

God, good on you. Feeling fit and healthy, Andrew? Very fit and healthy, thanks very much. That's why you get to come up at the time of the day. That's right. Now, did we wake you up? Sorry. Did we wake you up?

No, no, no, no. I'm just about to sit down and have breakfast. Oh, good, good. Well, I'm glad you're feeling good, Andrew. And the messages, get back out there. Jump in the water in Wellington. I'd love to. It was so nice to do it after three weeks of not getting in the sea.

But I'll team a diary and see whether I've got time to you today or not. But, you know, I can't go out to here. There's really windy down here. No, no, no, it was all good. It was lots of seaweed around, but they were tested. So, no, that was all good. Walking into the water, were you confident? Were you confident?

Whose idea was this? Now, it was totally my idea, and it's kind of, once you commit, that's it. there's no go back. And that was it. Sometimes it's cold, though. That would have been my thing. It would be less about, oh, it's a bit cold. Well, you expect that.

South Coast beaches in Wellington. You expect them to be colder than the average beach. That's why you're swimming them. So I knew that was going to happen. So you're just running and get your head under. Well, good on you. Good on you. You're out there doing God's work, Andrew.

Head under. That was a commitment too. It's part of the test. Well, we'll keep updating you on your health situation over the next week. We'll check it on you. So far, so good. Thank you. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast.

That wasn't the most scandalous thing that happened on our flight. What was it, Megan? Well, scandalous. Okay, it's not actually my first time doing this either, but... It didn't sit well with either of us. No. I had a thermos in my carry-on luggage that had to go through the security scanner. And it was like a big round silver thing.

and it contained my soup. See, the people on security would have been like, is it a medical sample? What is this? She's transporting. They didn't ask. Yeah. I know you're a really good cook.

Soup made me sad. Yeah. It made me sad the photo of the soup. It did look a little bit. You get that every night for dinner, don't you? Yeah. I'm sure it's really tasty and flavour-s. It is really good.

It doesn't photograph well. No. No. No. No. No. But it's not my first time because I, I have...

We put a picture of the soup up on... No, but it doesn't look great. No, yeah, we can. Everyone's going to roast for a suit. Yeah, well, hits breakfast on Instagram. We'll put it on the story. And then another time I have packed a chop. A single pork chop?

Can you? This screams boomer. This really screams boomer. I was doing paleo back then. I was just really worried that I'd get hungry. And did you do the chop on the plane in the pork shop? I don't think I ate on the plane. But it did go through, it was wrapped in tin floor when it did go through the scanner.

We're away for work. I said, what are you got to do? You know, like, I've got my own soup. I'm bringing it and I'm going to have it. Excuse me, I don't like that tone. That's not what I sound like. I got my own seam. Hey, hey, I wait on to that.

This is what we're opening up this morning. What have you transported on a plane? Anything weirder than soup and a chop? It's pretty unusual. I imagine people would have to, like, when they're traveling, moving cities, moving locations, travel with some way. Which is fine until it has to go through the scanner. Because you have that moment where you're like, don't bring it out in front of everyone.

Remember our mate came in for an interview. I won't name him. And he had come from a region where the giggle grass was legal. The hippie herbs. And he checked in his pocket and he's like, oh dear God. He still had some in his pocket. After he had arrived and landed. And he had gone through international airport security.

With the sniffer dogs here too. They missed one there and let one slip through the cracks, didn't they? John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. unusual thing that you've traveled with on a plane. Megan took some homemade soup with her. And a pork chop wrapped in

tin foil. Remember our boss at the Rock Radio Station? He got called aside for something in a bag and they were trying to do it really discreetly. And it was like, do you have something in your bags come up on in the scanner? Like typing your bag and he's like, what's going on? It's coming in the shape. And they're describing the shape and all that stuff.

And they're like, we need to have a look at it. Is it okay to do it here? He's like, I guess so. It was a microphone. But they thought maybe the shape of it was looking like something else. Oh, that's nice that they were trying to protect his privacy. So, geez, what have I caught my bag? But even if it was one, like, why do you need to...

Yeah. Yeah. You're just trying to keep it private. Yeah. It wasn't a vibrating toothbrush or anything. Oh, I've had that before. It's never a good look when your bag's vibrating. No, you're like, yeah, not a good look.

It was a bit suspicious. You even second question what's in there. Now we're going to go to the phones. That's our job. Milan. We'll get to you very shortly, but first of all, Shirley. Welcome. How are you?

Good, how are you? Good. Can I just take a moment and say, I wanted to go to Milan. But Milan hung up on me. We will get to Millen shortly. No, you're lying. And first of all, we'll go to Shiley. Welcome.

Hi. Shirley, tell us, what did you take on the plane? I took a kind of beetroot on the plane. Okay. For what reason? Why? Well, we were staying in Tasmania and we were like in the motel for like three days. So we thought, I'll shoot down and get a few groceries and just, you know, do our lunch.

at home. And yeah, so we got back to the hotel and there was actually no can opener to open it. So when we were packing to come home, I thought, oh, stuff, and I thought, well, maybe we'll just take it home. You don't want to leave a bloody good can of beat through to the hotel, do you? No, hell no. And we actually, we declared everything because we've been to the markets and we had best jerky and we've been horse riding and we, you know, our boots and all that stuff and they did everything and, you know, that was all cool. And then we're just going through the scanner and it was like they hauled me up.

at the other side and my friend and I were like looking at each other I'm shit I'm sure I've bloody declared everything and it was like okay and then she's like well did you pack your bags yourself and do you know what's in your bag oh god you feel automatically guilty when they ask those questions don't you're like yes I think I do and I yeah and then I just said started the question to myself and it's like and so they pulled everything out of my bags and yeah it was a kind of beetroot oh there we go and let it through let it through sometimes when you watch that border patrol people come through some wild stuff.

Like, octopus, testicles and all sorts of things. You can tell the customers, people like, why? Why? Why do you have this? 0-800-the-hats telephone number. Strangest thing you've taken on a plane, Mullen. Hey, I, Jan. Traveling through the States a few years back,

and I took some creatine powder and protein powder. Got to get them gains. Yeah, got to get them gains while I was away on holiday. But the worst thing was I was carrying it in a plastic bag, Oh, like a little bag Out of a bag Yeah, just to cut down on like Carrying a big container around

Yeah, I get that So what are they doing that situation? Did it come up? Yeah, it was actually in my wife's bag Oh, you threw her under the bus She actually didn't realize that I had it And yeah, they took her through security And then they had to obviously check, ask her

Had to open up her bags She's like, I don't know what's in my bag? powder. She didn't realize and then she obviously clicked off. Billen's been taking some pre-thine and protein powder. And the funny thing was I was kind of on the other side of security. Then you're like, I'm not with her. It's all her one now.

Yeah, I mean, she was pretty pissed off afterwards. Yeah, and she's still currently sitting in a U.S. prison right now. Yeah, she found the funny side of it later on. But, yeah, she was pretty limited at the time. Oh, but we're going to hook you up. bags in front of everybody. A double past the Auckland, NFC, 5 o'clock on Saturday's coming your way.

Thanks so much for your call. Oh, cheer, thanks for that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's. Producer Troy made a very bold decision in the office. In the communal kitchen. Now, Megan, you called him out instantly because you're not a fan of seafood.

Well, I also just thought it was a general, we all talk about the general rule of, like, don't eat up fish at work. And now, producer Troy, come on in here. he's taken a fish-based meal into the sacred forbidden zone, the work communal kitchen. Can I just say? It's hard to catch five minutes yourself around here these days. It's a...

Yeah, no, you're right. To sit down for five minutes and have a bit of food. Yeah. It's important for energy, creativity, get the brain. Productivity, we need you doing stuff, mate. Booking interviews, you name it. And also cost to living. I've got to bring in lunch from home now because, you know, can't go out and be buying food every day.

And you're in a fence, it looked delicious. Like what you were eating looked delicious. It was a replica of Al Brown's iconic fish slider that I made it home. Yeah. It's got a lemon mayo. I've heard about these, yeah. Yeah, it's very good. So you made these, and then you bought them in, and you decided to know,

and you didn't microwave them. No. The sandwich press. Because I knew the rule about microwaving fish at work. I didn't know that that rule carried over to any form of warming up. Oh, listen, I think it's just heating fish. Yeah, if it swims, it can't go near the sandwich. I think that's work policy

Michael Boggs, our CEO, put that in play. But also then you came into the enclosed space of the studio. Yeah. Like I guess reheated. Like I got, I would have a bit of tuna, like a cold from the can and you heat that up for the first time and the sandwich. Anyway, that's another debate for another day. I'll say that's fine. You can't heat, no,

you can't heat tuna. What about if I want a cold tuna salad? No, you can add that. Oh, thank you. Thank you. But you's just not allowed to any form of heating. It's heating of fish and seafood. It's not okay. So it's okay at home and you can do what you want in your own house. I understand that my senses are particularly senses. Because you're all of a sudden going, oh, oh, and they were like, what is she?

Yeah. You guys are like, oh, you're so dramatic. Anything seafood related. And I couldn't smell it at that time. And then as I left to go do something, we had a meeting afterwards. It just wafted. Yeah, classic Ben to Troy's face was like, oh, that's not that bad. It's not that bad.

And then we leave and he's like, oh, God, it's pretty, pull on. I'm with me. I couldn't smell anything. And then we went into a closed door meeting and it felt like I was sitting next to a fishing trawler. You had a meeting with like our bosses. Did you bring the fish into it? No. I tried to.

Was the smell following you? I tried to finish the slider before I got there. But I had maybe like a mouthful left and I'm like this one. It went through the office. It went through. The cloud left in the office. It was going into a meeting room and shut the door and I was like, how is the smell come with us? Yeah.

It did smell like there was a deep sea fisherman. In the meeting with us. Our boss, Harriet, was like, is that? that Troy? Oh God, that's disgusting. Anyway, now we've made himself conscious about his fish sliders, which did look delicious. They were delicious, but no, never again. You know, Christmas lunch we had last year, I ordered a prawn.

Oh, here we go. And Megan was sitting next to me. She's like, ugh. She's not a fan of the Kaimuana, but she said, can you go and eat that at another table? No, you liar. No, you'd already eaten it, and it was just the shells that was sitting in front of me. And I was like, can we move the shells?

They just perched right under my nose. I did exaggerate there, but... I let you eat them. And then I was like, can you get rid of the bloody heads? Just staring at me. So, okay, so rule of thumb now for the show. No fish in the kitchen? Coldfish.