Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Would You Trust Jono to Plan an Anniversary Getaway?

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

On today’s show:  Ben insists on daily 15-minute meetings with his wife... but she’s not buying it. Your weirdest Facebook Marketplace pickup stories! Would you trust Jono to plan an anniversary getaway? Producer Troy’s chaotic experience taking Megan’s toddler to the toilet for the first time. What’s it really like to sing a national anthem that isn’t yours? The brands you’d go to war for... Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee 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. Hey, welcome to the podcast. It's been a full of morning, actually, here at behind the scenes. We just had a whole class, a whole school class come in. A whole lot of kids, they were great, actually. They were great.

And normally you throw it out to questions at the end, thinking maybe you might get one, maybe two. They had a lot of questions. They felt like I was in a press conference. Yeah. But good questions. But they were really smart. Yeah. Well, one was like, why do birds chirp?

And I was like, well, this is really dog-legging from, you know, what we were expecting. I thought that was a punchline to a joke. It was a gag, yeah. No, but he was like, no, I'm just curious to know, what is bird's chirp? So we looked it up. Chat, GPT, main form of communication, obviously, marking territory, mating, another big one as well. We gave them all bucket hats, hits bucket hats. And one of them was like, can you tell me, please, what was the purpose of gifting us these bucket hats?

Putting us in these hats. She was great, too. I really liked her. She was the direct, she was awesome. A journalist or like a politician. Well, what's the thinking behind this? So why are we, I'm just trying to give you a little gift you come in here as well, but it was great.

It was a great question. Lots of great questions. A lot of, and a lot of questions, but they were just naming their achievements. Like, did you know I performed in the music com? Did you know I was the mass champion at the Mathscom? That's cool. They're proud of them. No, we didn't know.

No, to be honest, I didn't know any of that stuff. So it was good to know that. It was really good. I was zero from. six from all the things. I was like, I didn't know about that. I didn't tell me with that. But yeah.

Do you know back, like when I was a kid, if I had gone, hey, guys, do you know that I was in this, everyone else in the class would be like, shut up, Megan. But everyone was like very respectful of each other. Yeah, supportive, eh, which is really cool. I did like the question from the back, which was, you know, we're starting to run out of questions. I thought we got through them all. We'll take one more.

Looking at us, she said, looking at us, does that make you feel old and irrelevant? And I was like, yeah, it does. It really does. Yeah, and especially saying that too, made me feel, yeah, really like that home. Now you pointed it out what it does. Yeah, yeah. But I'd say it's a humbling experience, but it was fun, actually. Yeah, they're like, tell us how many years ago you were intermediate.

And then we tried to just go, listen, now one bit of advice would be, it goes too quick. It just, we segued off the question. Yeah, Winston Peters didn't answer the question. It was like a politician in Prescott. It was a couple of times we did, we segued across, but that's okay. That's all right. We gave you, you know, some answers. You gave answers.

We just didn't quite answer the questions directly, like a politician. Yeah, teachers are like I'm so sorry But they didn't have to be sorry about anything It was really, really entertaining I enjoyed it, so it was great We're a bit sweaty now Nothing worse than a question-answer session When no one asks any questions

That's humbling That just makes you feel like they actually Don't want to be here Yeah But Megan you had a good play too You had good thought that Because they asked a lot of questions We covered off here

Who's your favourite team Edward Team Jacob from Twilight We got into K-pop demon hunters We got into all sorts They're really split on K-pop Do you like cricket? You're like, we covered it all. But you thought maybe it was just to keep the lesson, well, I guess the outing going.

The longer they stay at the radio station, the less time they have to spend at school. Genius. And for us, they played into a hand. We're like, questions to ask, course. Keep them coming. They're going to keep on asking questions until the teachers are like, no, enough. These kids are smart. And they did, at some point, they had to say enough.

I'd say a good 35 minutes of questions. It was. It was non-stop. It was a big Q&A. It was, but it was great. We really enjoyed it. The most random Q&A as well. I'd love to see like the,

well, the Prime Minister up to that and just get kids to ask. That would be a good sketch. Just like that. Just go for whatever. Whatever's in your head? To phrase it as a question and say it. Because kids, yeah.

And it's like, you want kids. And for them, I reckon, because the politicians, they know how to answer. Okay, what's happening with the taxes, what's happening with this, roads, whatever. But they don't know about. Yeah. They don't know about, like, what's your team.

Yeah. You team Edward or Jacob. Yeah. We should actually get the Prime Minister in here. Team Connie or Jeremiah. We'll get that class back in. See how he handles it. You're all right. Yeah, we'll see how. We made it through. She's slightly scathed.

Are you guys team Conrad or Jeremiah? And Twilight? I don't know. What's going? And what? Pick one. Well, I need to know what I'm picking. The summer I turned pretty. It's always obsessed with this right now.

Conrad or team Jeremiah. Can I Google? No. Conrad. What are we basing it? There's a popular choice. Why are we joining the team? Because they're two boys, one girl and

who deserves the girl right the two of them okay I'm gonna go team which is Conrad which is Jeremiah they're both you know I'm gonna go team Jeremiah

Conrad's got the straighter here Jeremiah's got the curly hair I'm gonna go Jeremiah you would I know I'll go Conrad yeah

you would too I feel like if I had picked teams for both of you that would be what I've always been oh okay Conrad Fish Ah okay

Yeah okay Does it make it sense Yeah okay I've heard that reference before it makes a lot sense Yeah Yeah, okay. That's like when someone asks you a star sign and they go,

hmm, make sense. Scorpio. You would pick Jeremiah. Yeah, okay. Team Conrad all the way here. I don't know what that means, but anyway, enjoy the podcast. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Now, Ben, you are trying to introduce something into your daily routine in the household. Yeah, well, because I mean, you know, everyone, I'm sure everyone I'm listening right now, things are busy, particularly when you throw kids and family life into the mix. And everyone schedules, you know, every house. holder's different and I'm working a lot more in the morning and missing all that and my wife

works later in the day so I take care of a lot of the after school activities and making short teas and dinner sorted and go at the supermarket all those sort of things in the evening and I'm fine with that but there's stuff that happens throughout the day that I feel like my wife and I'm we need to talk about we need I don't want to make all these decisions yeah I want to kind of go hey this is what happening this is the dog needs this the cat needs this what things happening I just want to go through some of those things crossover admin you do this with Andrew don't you yeah he gives you a time limit, though. Exactly the same situation.

But I can't call her, she's a teacher, so I can't call her and text her during the day. Like I, I mean, if I text her, if I'm lucky, she might get back to me on a lunch break, but she probably won't. So between now and maybe six, seven o'clock, I, you know, she's off the grid. This must frustrate. So I'm like, okay, I keep putting stuff aside on a list to go, these are the things I need to go through. I've tried texting them, emailing them, starting sort of to do lists of the two of us, those sorts of things. A whiteboard in the kitchen. Whiteboards, those are the things.

but she's got her schedule and she's, I'm like, well, now I'm trying to go, let's just have like a 10, 15 minute little sit down, little talk at some stage. Just build this into the day when you're home and we can go through the things we need to do. So you've sent a meeting invite. You want to a quarter an hour meeting. I want to do that. We can have a cup of tea. Whatever it is, we can just do this every day.

Amanda's like, oh what? So now you're like my boss now. And we're going to sit down and you're going to dictate to me what's going to happen. I'm like, no. You swear you and Andrew need to just live together. I'll live with Amanda. And I can make these decisions. I just don't want these coming back later and go,

what happened with this? I was like, well, I had to make a call. And I do that a lot of the time, but it's some stuff I want to talk about. Yeah, but I mean, in Amanda's defence, 15 minutes a day, that's over an hour, hour of 15 admin a week. It might be quicker, it might be quicker, you know?

And then we tried it the other night. She's like, all right, we do this thing. And I'm like, well, we each bring stuff. She didn't bring any stuff. I was only me. It was her thing, first on my agenda, is this meeting too many minutes? And I was like, I was not trying to come across,

like I'm like running the shit I don't want to be your boss I'm just like hey you just deal with a lot of the admin and then you go one for one and they was like well she didn't have any ones sticking like that I do feel like you

are probably making mountains out of molehills but that's okay it just needs a connection point what about lunchtime let's just talk about stuff well it doesn't always work like that because sometimes they have to go out and look after the kids and stuff

you know like okay here's a deal okay you have a meeting with yourself you take the notes down the minutes Take the minutes. Feed the minutes over to Amanda. She'll just delete them from her email. Okay. Well, I can do that. Yeah, it feels like we tried it once, half-hearted attempt number two, and it's pretty much faded out again.

Other night, we're going to have this meeting. She's like, oh, I've had a hard day at school. Do we have to do it tonight? I'm like, yes, that's the point of the meeting. Dude, it's literally, you're exactly the same as my husband, and I would like everyone who's thinking that you sound like annoying and draining. Like, that's what I deal with. That's what I deal with.

I deal with a seven-minute lunchtime meeting. Sorry for trying to run the household at a family meeting. I have a seven-minute lunchtime meeting on the phone. And then I have a 15-minute... Three-thirty meeting on the phone. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Okay, fine. Oh, God.

You and Andrew are going to have your own little meetings. I like to. Yeah, maybe even I can go through stuff. What do you got stuff to go through? Oh, yeah, that's good. Yeah, I like that. That's good. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Jerry Farmer and Westport on Monday got hit by lightning in that rough storm as well. But thankfully, all good, I reckon's gumboots he was wearing, saved his life. Oh, that's right, yeah. We spoke to that wonderful battler in Taupo who, he was struck by lightning, wasn't he?

Yeah. It jandles on or something. Yeah, yeah. Well, this guy couldn't see for about 10 minutes after being struck by lightning. Fortunately, all right now, but you reckon that jamboots was the saviour. Here we go. So it's a good reminder to wear gumboots everywhere you go.

Everywhere. At all times. Now, Megan, can you please share the story of what happened to your marketplace. We're going to open up this topic. Your wild marketplace interactions from Facebook marketplace. Or Trade Me, you're saying too, Ben. Yeah. So I had bought, I was trying to find some exotic flavors of candy floss.

And it just happened to be that they were selling them on, I think it was Trade Me. These packets of, like, I can't even remember the flavors, exotic flavors of candy floss. Well, this was for, because you used to own a cafe. Yeah. Not for personal consumption. No. You're like, damn, I could go some niche exotic flavors. Of the flavours of candy flowers.

Thanks no good for me. I don't know there was other flavors. Well, like watermelon or hummus flavored. I actually think one of them was bubble gum. Oh, yeah. Bubble gum candy flops. This sounds like a good product to go and collect. Yeah.

And so it was all bagged up and everything. It looked legit. And so I had to do a pickup. I had to go round and get it myself. And so they gave me an address. And I was like, this will be fine. It looks fine. Turned up to, it looked like an old villa.

And I was like, weird. It's not a store Knocked on the door And a mature woman came to the door And she was like What do you want? That's always a great way to open the door Isn't it?

I'd love to open the door like that What do you want? What do you want? That's how we all want to open the door And immediately I was like I've gotten the wrong I've gotten the wrong address And I was like

I'm after some candy floss Like as in question Like have I got the right place And she doesn't say anything to me She turns around and yells into the house, It's for you! It's for you! I told you'd be for you! And I was like, okay. Do love a bickering elderly couple. Love it.

And a man comes to the door and a towel. I'm thinking he's just got out of the shower. Is he the candy floss king, is he? Yeah. Not what you'd imagine. And he's like, can I help you? I was like, I'm after some candy floss. Half naked man.

And he was like, yeah, come in, annoyed. And I come in and he ushers me into like a little lounge in the front of the house. And so I sat there for ages, ages with like four cats. Yeah, great. I was hoping there were going to be a lot of cats in the house. And I just literally was like, I'm going to die here. This is it. This is the last thing.

And I could hear the two of them arguing. I'm like, I've been led here under false pretences. I really thought they were selling candy floss. Did they bring candy floss out? Ages late. It must have been like, Probably 15 minutes But it felt like an age

And he brought out the bags of candy floss Did you inspect them for human hairs I can understand why he's in a towel Candy floss, very sticky substance You don't want to get that on your clothing Maybe that's how all candy floss operators do their job They looked legit like how they were selling them They were all bagged up properly

Like it was just the most bizarre situation And I left and I call my husband And I was like I'm never going back there Never ever ever ever ever I haven't eaten candy floss since I've never sold or purchased anything online I couldn't think of anything worse than meeting some bloody grub in a Wendy's car park trying to haggle me down for my nana's frying pad.

Couldn't make it anything worse. People make a lot. There's a lot of money to be made in us. It is. If you can do the hustle, it's a fair point. So, 0800 of the hits. Your craziest story from Facebook Marketplace or even trade me. Because you do have to often meet up with strangers.

You have to deal with strangers. Yeah, how is it gone? What's the most bizarre story? Facebook Marketplace, Trade Me, whatever. What happened to you? John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's about what happened when you were selling something on Trade Me or Facebook Marketplace.

Great texts just come through. Bought some videos of Marketplace seller a few years ago. He didn't want me to go to his house, so he arranged to me to a local shopping complex. Did the exchange, I left and he followed me in the car for a few kilometers. I was thinking, what the heck is starting to get really stressed out. Turns out he was my neighbor from three houses down. Oh, my God. You would be like, oh my God, this business is my baby.

And then it's like, oh, okay, he lives down. there. So they could have You slam on your brakes and yell at Stop following me! She's like, I love me in.

Lures you in with his VHS tapes. He was just going home but yeah. They could have done that a lot easier on the street but anyway. They did that way.

Alice, what happened to you on marketplace or trade me? Well, I listed something. I can't remember clothes or something and the lady came

to pick them up and she parked right across my driveway and then got out and she got she was quite intense. She got right in my face and I was wearing my ID tag

I'm a registered nurse and when she saw my tag she went oh my God I can't talk to you I can't I just can't do this you're vaccinated aren't you oh really and she backed right away from me

and then she stood in the middle of my driveway with her car blocking my driveway and proceeded to give me a big lecture on the virtues of not vaccinating and I was the devil if I was a nurse because I was vaccinating people for the man and oh it was awful and she wouldn't leave and you're like are you going to buy a stick? My child had to come out and rescue me

oh my gosh so would trade again five stars do you want the autumn or not what's happening here yeah yeah geez yeah oh alice are you on strike today alice um no I'm actually working in public health so I am fully there with the nurses they deserve far more than what they're getting and I really hope the best for them good luck to them Yeah, we spoke to Kate this morning who had just finished a shift and she was going to go on strike as well

but she just sounded broken the poor woman. It's a really difficult time and look, all the love in the world to them I'm still registered but I work in a different area now so it's very difficult because they still have to work because I don't take patience

and they've asked for us to go and help but it is really awkward for us to you know we need to care for our patients but we also need to care for ourselves good on you okay well well we're with you all we're with you all mates appreciate your time alice you have a great day you too take care bye thank you you too Rebecca good morning good morning how are you guys we're doing well mates what went wrong on marketplace or trade me for you um I was trying to sell a pair of shoes and um a girl who's probably about half an hour away from me wanted to buy them haggled me on price because she had to pay for fuel um

was was a no show multiple times um kind of ghosted me a little bit and then told me she was in hospital and then told me she was just completely ghosted me and then so i blocked her end of story and then um a couple of months later a guy messaged me saying he wanted to buy the shoes for his girlfriend, I organised a meetup and because I Facebook stopped the girl beforehand to see who she was she turned up and picked up the shoes and paid for them in five dollar notes.

Oh wow. So it was the same lady. Same person. Same lady. She wanted them shoes. Yeah, she really wanted them shoes. You know, I picture a Facebook marketplace. You know, like an action movie where the heroes like walking through some chaotic market in Egypt or something and there's like goats and cursed,

and someone trying to sell you a dagger. That's what I imagine, like, market, but online. You know, if it was the real-life version. I appreciate you, call. You have a great day. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits.

October, my wedding anniversary, and I said to Jennifer, who's my wife, I said, don't you worry about our anniversary. I've got everything sorted. Okay. Now, she's like, Ben. So, October, so what you're like, you've gone early too for you. I'm very old. That's why I'm like, don't.

Everybody just ticked over in September. I'm like, geez. Don't you worry. I've got everything. I've got a plan in my head. And she's like Ben. She doesn't like surprises. She likes to be across all details, doesn't want to be thrown out.

I like looking forward to something rather than just having something sprung upon me. What if you knew something was coming up but you knew it was a surprise? Would that create more anxiety? Oh yeah, that definitely would. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Well, she's in the same in the case. And I said, don't you worry, I've got all the plans in my head. And she rolls her eyes.

And I said, excuse me, what's with this eye roll? She's like, you can't plan. You're not the planner. As soon as you said, don't worry, I've got it soared from my head. No, no. So, and then I got on, I was like, I can plan. I can, and then, do you know what's ironic? Is we're going to Christchurch next week.

And for four weeks, she's like, have you bought the rental car? Have you bought the rental car? And I haven't bought the rental car. And I just, you're talking about that this morning. Is that what you're doing? I just did it at the 6 o'clock this morning as the show started, just so I could say the rental car's book. So I can plan.

So you roll with me on this anniversary. It's going to be very special. And so I figure out what the plans are. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits Yesterday we had quite a lot of Kid Wrangling here at the work

after the show We had a school come in, a class that had come in and they got a tour around the radio station and intermediate age and they had asked a lot of questions

A lot, not all related to radio Well none of them were actually I mean the first question was from a wonderful young gentleman Why do Birds chirp And that was a really good question Well you thought it was a set up for a bit

and then we were chat GPTing and it turns out birds chirped through well basically for communication territorial reasons mating reasons they had us sort of at the end they had us up against the corner of the room and they were just like a press conference

it was really funny there's so many different questions do you like cricket do you like this oh they did some like how did you get into your job or you actors all sorts of things you had a theory though behind the barrage of questions they just don't want to go back to school it lasted like half an hour

it was good place Some of them would just tell us, do you know, I used to live in Fiji? You're like, no, I didn't know that. They moved on to, like, statements about themselves. And that's cool. I was like, good play from the kids. They're like, we can push this out less time at school. Yeah, you're right.

My favourite part was we gave them all a bright pink hits bucket hat. We pulled them all the bucket hat. And the final question was from this, this wonderful young girl who's got a future in journalism. She was doing some hard-hitting one. She's like, I have a question. Why have you made us wear all of these bucket hats? And we were like, well, purely for marketing reasons, you know. And we got them printed in China and we got to get rid of it.

She literally was like, what was the thought process behind us? Behind putting us in these bucket of us. That's right. And so we had these kids come in as well. Then we had your kids come on as well, Megan. Yeah. And I guess anyone who's got like kids coming to work with you, it's hard because you're trying to do your job and then you're trying to make sure they're not annoying anyone.

And they're like, sit there and do that and they don't want to. Well, they're four and two. Two, yeah. And what I love about kids is they do not adjust their purpose. performance for the climate. You know, and that's the beautiful thing. They're like, take me as you see me. Like I went out to the producer's booth.

They're there on the floor, right in the middle of the doorway, eating lunch, on the floor, both with their lunch boxes out. Seemed very early for lunch too, but anyway. Had a more inconvenient lunch eating. They're like, I don't care. That's where we eat lunch. You can even like open the door and be like, eh, and they're like, you're right, mate? Yeah.

Now, cross onto my face. You are busy working, you know, doing your job in the studio. And producer Troy, who's only been here what, for, like, A month. Yeah, a month or so. You had to do something that you probably haven't done before. Yeah, no. Basty, your son asked me, I need to go to the bathroom.

And I thought, well, I know where it is. I'll show you. And that's about as much thought as I put into it. And as I was walking out of the studio and to the bathroom with your son, I was like, oh God. I don't, what happens once we get in there? Yeah, well, what stage is he at? Does he need assistance? Yeah.

Where is he, yeah. Where's he add on the spectrum of going to the toilet by himself? Because those urinals, they're quite tall. So I imagine he's not using the... No. I don't think he would even know what they were. He would go into a cubicle. Yeah.

That's what I hoped. So we walked in and I kind of gestured to the cubicles and I was like, is this look familiar to you? Is this sort of like... And he goes in and he didn't shut the door. Oh, great. And our lovely receptionist, he was also in there using... Oh, Gun Jan was in there.

So I kind of, I jimmy'd close the cubicle door and held it closed. and then I heard things happening in this is like okay this is good nature's taking course and then he just shouts out I stood up and did that I let go of the door but as I did that he locked the door

and so then I was trying to negotiate with him how to like unlock the turn the thing from red to green and he got out and it was all good and then we came back into the studio not once you know

no in you four weeks as well Well, not once have you offered to take me in the toilet. I stand up too. Well, now I know I can. You can. He's very proud. He's literally just figured out that he can stand up. And he was like, you have to sit down.

I can stand up. I'm like, it's great. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. We've been a bit of a challenge issued to us by a South African radio station. Radio 5 over there. They were like, let's put a wager on the game. The all-black South Africa this weekend.

Whoever loses, whoever's team loses, has to dress in the opposition colors and perform the opposition's national anthem somewhere. So this is happening next week if we lose, the All Blacks lose. You said somewhere I thought we were just doing it in the studio. Do we have to perform it to people? I don't know. I don't know. It's probably up to them where they would decide.

But let's hope it doesn't get that far. Okay. To be honest, I'd rather just lose money. The kids' life savings would be a lot easier than losing our dignity. Because it's got four languages in the anthem, the South African one. So we were starting to get a little bit worried. I mean, obviously we want the Allbakes to win and they do really well

at Eden Park. But we thought we might get some advice from someone who sung many, many anthems at sports games over the year. She's an amazing performer. You'll see it all, things like symphony and around the country as well. Ella Monnery, good morning, Ella. Good morning. It's always good to talk to you, Ella. Very hard case, Ella, I find.

Do you remember that Football World Cup thing we did? Yeah, yeah. And Hamilton? That was an unusual event, wasn't it? Sold out arena. That's right. It's like a smattering of like 32 people in this giant stadium, us and Ella Monnery.

Yeah, my band was bigger size in the crowd. Now, Ella, you have performed anthems many times. How nerve-wracking is that experience? Look, guys, I'm not going to lie to you, but genuinely the most nervous I've ever been for a performance is when I have to sing the national anthem. You do hear people fluffing it up, and I'm like, how much of that is actual technical stuff?

Like the in-air speaker's gone or things like that. That can all go wrong, right? Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's definitely. the chances of, you know, your in-air's not working or the track not working and stuff, but for me, whenever I've done it, like, the most nerve-wracking times is when I'm singing an anthem for a different country,

which really isn't going to help you guys. With the New Zealand anthem, like, we grew up singing that, you know, like we did it in school, like we know it back to front, whereas, like, I had to sing the Scottish anthem the other week, and it's like, it's not my anthem, but I don't know that. Can you give us a couple of bars of the old Scottish anthem? I literally can't remember it. She's deleted it in her head.

Have you done the South African one? No, I'll leave that to you guys. You guys are all right to do that. Yeah, okay, yeah, all right. So, do break it. My Apple Watch told me my, like, heart rate was stressed because I was so nervous when I was, like, going to get more words from. Well, because I've seen you at things like Symphony, you know,

you're singing, you know, in front of thousands of thousands of people. And so you get more nervous doing an anthem than that. Yeah, I think because, well, one, it's live on TV most times. And then two, it's like you're leading people. Do you know what I mean? And it's like you don't want to do too much and you don't want to do too, like not enough. And then the first time that I actually ever did it,

I tripped up on the little podium, on the middle of the field. Oh, no. It went viral on TikTok, so like it's all right. Like paid off, you know. Went totally viral. Well, we've actually got audio of you singing our national anthem. Oh, that's good. That was last year's letters though, I think, yeah.

Have you thought about getting into singing? Yeah, just a bit on the side, you know, but yeah, I'll think about it. Well, thank you for your advice. You made me way more nervous than I was before I talked to you, but anyway, I regret a lot of us. I couldn't lie to you guys and tell you that you'll be all right. It's really nerve-wracking, unfortunately. So the Scottish one, for example, how many times did you go over that? Did you rehearse that, you reckon?

Honestly, like 50, and I was riding it. down on a piece of paper but yeah the Scottish can have it, they can have it lot to do and actually it's something pretty cool you are doing with the All Blacks, I just saw before you're doing part of the fan zone for the All Blacks Blaslow Blizzard in Auckland. Yes Kings and I are performing Clint will be there

and yeah hopefully you guys might be doing the answer. Well, you're there mate Put us on coach John O'Bennon and Megan The Podcast The Hits Oh 800 of the Hits we're going to open this up What brand are you

wildly loyal to you can text us to 4-3-8-7 because something we've noticed behind the scenes been that Megan's been hooked into a brand Yeah and this has come from You know funny we had that conversation about Liam Lawson and F1

Because it's all come from this Yeah so I love Formula One Did you guys know that? And Liam Lawson's team All this year He's been in two different teams But all of them are under the Red Bull family

So I do get fed a lot of Red Bull propaganda In my day Have you been in front of? Influenced, subconsciously influenced. I think so. I think so. So I've got on to drinking Red Bull, but the monk fruit one, like a natural sweetness. Right.

And they have started to send me some Red Bull. This is like non-spon. I'm just like, cool. Amazing. Red Bull hasn't given her wings, but it gives her free trays of Red Bull weekly. They turn up weekly. Wildly loyal to Red Bull now. Now we know your anti-merch stance too.

You don't wear any merch, band merch. sports merch, anything, the opposite to Ben Boyce. I look on both sides of the desk, I see a guy drenched in Warriors, dripping in Warriors merch. And I haven't seen one bit of merch on you. Would you think about Red Bull merch? No, but do you remember Bronte in the office, she had a big Red Bull Racing jacket?

That she sold a marketplace, and I was like... Could have done it? I would have worn that. I probably would have worn that. This is a big step for me. Yeah, it's a huge step. What happens if he ever leaves the Red Bull team? I'll just go wherever he goes.

Okay, but then what, yeah. But then the trays of Red Bull are going to keep turning up. You're still drinking Red Bull or not. I'll probably be hooked on it by then. So Megan, loyally, fiercely loyal to Red Bull. I would say my big one,

Coupie mayonnaise. That's not what I thought you were going to say. I plow through Coupie. It's just like the heroin of the condiment world. It's incredible. And what I love about Coupie as well is once you peel off. The fat content. Yeah, but that's the thing.

You take off the plastic wrapping, you can't see. They don't have. Yeah. They don't have the last. label on it. The chart on it. So you don't... Filt free.

You don't worry about the calories, the high fat content you're pouring into your body. What are your body you using it for? Everything. You name something. I'll put it on it. Tax returns. Maynard. It's got to spray mayonnaise.

Your wife. Mayonnaise. Now you're doing things to me. All right. So what are you fiercely loyal for? Brands, maybe, you know, your whole house is decked out and branded. Brands from something. We need to get you some Coupie merch.

Yeah. I told we'd come around. I'd always confuse me how they got nothing on the bottle, though. Yeah. It is it? Look, put a brand on there. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. What are you fiercely loyal to as a brand's products? Some great texts coming through here on 4487. My partner, fiercely loyal to Catmandu clothing. Drenched in Catmandu clothes. It's a great brand. Is that New Zealand? Catman Do's Macpack, New Zealand.

I always get confused. Both great brands. They have a sale. They sell hard. So it's like, this is coming out by like 60% or something. You're like, what? You know, before, they really go hard, don't they? Yeah.

When you buy it outside of the sale, they're like, you idiot. You should have been buying this. We just had a sale a week ago. Camandu was founded in New Zealand. Oh, there we go, yeah. The 99% off sale. Yeah, you're right. They go hard.

Eddie Nass has come through as well in the clothing round. James said Samsung, Samsung for life. Oh, yeah, well, see, I try, you know, a lot of Apple stuff, you know, And once you're on a system, it's very hard to change away from that system because you hear something go, it doesn't, you know. You did have a period, too, where you were working Samsung with the Mac and it was doing your head. It just wasn't.

It just, it didn't work together, you know? That's how they get you. Yeah, they do. Compatible. Yeah. We'll never be the same. We're going to go to the phones right now. The brand loyalty, wild brand loyalty, Brooke, what are you got in Tauranga?

Good morning. I'm not quite in Tauranga. I'm in Auckland, but I am fiercely, fiercely, fiercely, fiercely, to Red Bull as well. I'm a hairdressing educator. And the rest of the team loves the V and the mothers, but I am fiercely loyal to the monk fruit, the Red Bull. And I get to the point where I've got trays of it in the back of my car. If I get too low, I slightly get, like, panicked. Right. So you've always got a supply, you've got to panic. If there's any emergency, civil emergency, you've got your tray of monk fruit, Red Bull. You've got bootloads of it, too.

Yeah, my husband discovered it. I'd had a... it because I didn't want him to drink it Brooke and then he found it yesterday he's like what is this do you know what my partner did too and he was like I think you might have a problem he knows I've got a problem you're like no problem I just love it

I love it yeah problem for who so where did it come from why you so like mine's obviously Formula 1 related where did it come from for you well being an educator I'm like not performing but I'm standing up in a in front of a lot of people all the time and it literally is one of those things that you're on the go 24-7

and to get a hot coffee in a car or something like that just doesn't quite kick it so it was red bull and I don't know why I chose red bull it was just like that tastes the best and they can't really go wrong so geez it's red bull you're running at 150 all day long pumping that garana pumping through veins good on you brook you have a great day appreciate you listening Thanks. Good on you. Great text here. Mark's saying,

Timu hard all the way. He's like, I even ignored the child labour parts. Just teemuing hard. Tilly, morning to you. Morning, guys. How are you? Oh, it's good to hear your voice.

Tilly, the brand loyalty. What are you fiercely loyal to? Vogel's bread. I love bread and that's the best one. Oh, yes, that's good. Yeah. How many times you have to pop it down, though? Pardon?

How many times you have to post it? toasted in the toaster Just once Usually I'll give it a double pump Sometimes you do have to Yeah I like it to be

I like it I like it crunchy But I also like the butter melting on it Oh Tilly Yeah Tell you what I'm getting into Recently the old Mollembourg

But you know My issue with Mollembourg Up until this point was Slices too thin They've now gone A super thick cut Mollingberg Oh for you Yeah

That's really really good Not as good as vocals though Tilly Pardon? Vogles or Mollembourg. Would you go Mollembourg? I do try Mollberg. We are really spoiled for choice when it comes to bread in New Zealand. We are.

We are spoilt for choice when it comes to bread. Vogels is my go to, no matter how expensive it gets. Yeah. Bread and apples, I find we're spoiled for choice for. Yeah, we've got a lot of those. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. Yes, we are joined by a very special guest over Zoom right now. Ian, from Christchurch.

I am very jealous of you because you have designed a helmet that is going to go on Liam Lawson's head. Yes, I have, yes. It's very exciting. What Megan wouldn't give to go on Liam Lawson's head. That sounds weird. Megan is a super fan. You probably want to keep Megan away from Liam Lawson. But how did this come about?

Now, what are you like a helmet designer? I mean, how does this happen? No, I just happened to go to the local dairy with the kids. and my son Michael really likes his F1, he likes Liam Lawson, and he saw a designer helmet for Liam Lawson to wear Singapore Grand Prix. And he wanted to have a go, and I was like, well, I'll have a go as well then. So we both put an entry in, and six weeks later, we find out. Sucked in to the sun.

Sorry, sorry, Michael, I'm sorry, mate, I know. The dad's design was slightly better. It's never too early for kids to learn that dads are more skilled than they are. Well, to a point, I'm sure he'll be surpassing you. no time at all. So what was your design? What's special about it? Well, I kind of took a look at some of the helmets that Lawson had worn before and some of the colors and stuff that he likes. And then I wanted to throw in kind of some of his passion. So I know he's kind of into his golf and he likes that. So I kind of threw on a little

golfing character and a Kiwi and real kind of Kiwiana, bright, vibrant designs. So there's some green and blue and pink and yeah, just a big bright helmet that should stand out whilst he's driving around the track. So what's the, he's going to wear it at the Grand Prix? Do you get anything out? Yeah, so the cool thing is we get to go to the Grand Prix and watch it over.

Watch it. Yeah, and a hand over the helmet for him to wear, is that right? I believe so, yeah. So, Megan, I'll put a word in for you if we get to see him. What Megan wouldn't give to be on his head, you need to say that. That sounds weird. You could have gone with like one of those helmets.

You know how the people wear at the sports games? They usually have beer cans and a straw that at least, you know, both sides. You could have done Red Bull on both sides of that. But Liam Lawson, so he's always got Red Bull flying out of a straw. Anyway, you won the design. I'm too late. So pretty amazing.

You get to go over. Who's all going over? My son Michael gets to go. My eldest daughter, Alex, is a bit upset. She's a real big F1 fan as well. And she listens to you guys every morning. So morning, Alex. Oh, morning Alex.

Yeah. So, yeah, Michael and I are going to go over. And, yeah, it's pretty exciting because it's not just the race. There's, like, after quality. on the Saturday, the food fighters are playing. And after the race on Sunday, Elton John's there. Are they all performing at the Formula One?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, my. A lot of the ticket. Wow. That's incredible. Yeah, as you say, Liam Lawson, I was just reading here before. He reviewed every submission himself.

He obviously went through it. So that's pretty cool. You know that he's seen it and you know that he loves it. That must be pretty amazing feeling. Yeah, it's super cool. So before we even found out that we'd won, we knew that they were kind of looking at a short list of entries. And I said to Michael about that,

And he was just, like, so excited to think that Liam Lawson had taken the time to go through all of the entries that everybody had put in. And, yeah, he's seen every one that people made for the competition. Because I actually, I knew this competition was happening. I saw it on their Instagram and I was like, I want to design him a helmet. You can't just have phone Megan on and put your number on there. That's not going to work. Paul Megan on 021. Hearts and kisses.

No. Pitches of yourself. Megan is married, by the way. She's got kids. You know, we've made this weird. I'm sorry. Amazing what he does on the world stage for New Zealand It's really cool

It's incredible Yeah, it's awesome And it's nice to have some kind of QE elements on the helmet and stuff So they'll get shown around the world Hopefully as he does well on the track Oh well done Congrats

I'm so jealous It's such a cool prize You're going to remember that forever Well until you get old and get dementia You're going to remember this trip forever And bring me back Bring me back some memorabilia Okay

Like even if you just get You don't even know it No, even if you get, like, some rubber off the track or something. Ian, don't you worry about it. You've got family to worry about bringing back stuff for it. I don't mean, like, pull a hair out of Liam's head or something. I mean, like, I don't know. If you could take a cotton swab and just get him to open the inside of his mouth

and just get some of your DNA there, mate. It's going to be like school. We're like, could you put up around or something? I'll bring that for you. We like, school, we're like, could you pass this note on to Liam? Oh, my God. Should we write him a note? No, Megan.

I reckon we should end the Zoom call before you end it first. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits It's K-pop Demon Hunters Which seems to be everywhere All over the world right now Novak Djokovic

He even had his celebration move In the tennis In the US Open Was a soda pop Dance-inspired move From the movie Is it the Saja Boys? Yeah

And it was a really cute Lovely story You're my Soda Pop They're demons And the demon hunters Aren't they The Saja Boys So he did the little

Dance move As a celebration And this was his reasoning behind It's my daughter's birthday, so this is a big present for her. She's going to rate me tomorrow. How was the dance? Because she told me how to dance. It's a K-pop Demon Hunters.

Obviously, it's a big thing globally for teenagers and for kids. But I didn't know about it before my daughter told me a few months ago about it. So we're at home doing different choreographies, and this is one of them. So hopefully I'll make her smile when she wakes up tomorrow. Oh, that's cute. Cute until if it gets too old and then it's embarrassing. Yeah, yeah. We had, for about, it felt like 500 children in the studio yesterday,

and we ran a snap pole. We're like, who's into K-pop Demon Hunters? Really split down the middle, wasn't it? Were they like 11? Yeah, something like you get to that age and it splits. And they're like, no, it's not cool, basically, because we're all into it now. Yeah, parents are into it.

Yeah, once the adults get into it, it's lost its edge. Well, tomorrow we're doing something very special for Father's Day. New Zealand's unhandiest dad. Yeah, we are looking for the unhandiest dad around New Zealand who are going to put them two dads head-to-head in a competition to see if they can build a couple of items that might have 10 to win themselves a $500,000 might-a-10 gift card. I was thinking of another thing that I absolutely had a shambles with.

You know, when you move into a place, you're like, oh, we've got lots of pictures we want to hang up on the wall. Yeah. Now that seems like a pretty straightforward exercise, just putting pictures on the wall. Even 3Ms come to the party with their little... Sticky hooks. Yeah. Yeah.

And I got home in the driveway. there was a van called the hangman Jen and Genu got a guy called the hangman tank Because you can be horribly wrong with those things He's done a great job I think I'd given one a bash It added like nine or ten holes in the wall

And still the frame wasn't hanging If you've got a real heavy frame It pays to like get it into a stud And I wouldn't trust you to do that No exactly Do you reckon the people like the hangman Are just having a laugh Like that would be the most base level thing

As a Trady Oh well it's a tradey probably Yeah you're right I'll start a business hanging out of hocks for useless people who can't. It's obviously a market for it, though. Yeah, absolutely. Lozah with us on the phone, Lozah. Hello.

How are you? Good, how are you? Did Loza throw you off guard there, did it? I'm used to it. My friends have called me that before. Oh, nice. Good to have you on. Do we notice a South African accent there? Zimbabwean. Zimbabwean. Is that like calling in a Canadian-American or New Zealand and Australian?

Probably is, right? You'd like to nominate someone that you think is New Zealand's unhandiest dad? Yes. My dad. Your dad, your actual dad? Yes. He took like one year just to make a side table. The side table?

But he got there in the end. That's pretty handy. Yeah. It took a while. I was waiting for so long for it. He was like, it's done. And, yeah. Was it one that you'd assemble or one he had to make from scratch?

No, assemble. It was, um, trade me. Oh, right. So that's just like a screw in the leg's job. Oh, no. I thought he was building it. Listen, I'm useless, but I would back myself to get that done. So it took a year.

Yeah, but I was happy in the end. Did he get assistance from anyone? No, it was just sitting in the garage. Sometimes you don't want to rush through these things, these jobs. You want to take the care and the time that it deserves. There's all the precious items you'd be putting in that drawer. He doesn't want the drawer to collapse on you. How do you think you'd go in a time pressured, stressed,

building a build-off on Friday at Mata 10, live on the radio? Me or him? Him. Oh, probably not good. Not good, but that's the kind of environment that we're creating on Friday at Mata 10, you know. Would he like to join? Do you think he'd like to join us? If he's not working, yeah.

Okay, all right. Well, he could be taking, he could be one contestant in New Zealand's unhandiest dad competition. Oh, my gosh. I'll tell him about it. Yeah, the only thing is you've got to go, hey, I nominated you as an unhandy dad on nationwide radio. Yeah, I'll be calling them. I'll be calling them.

And we don't have a year, too. Do it's it, by the way. Just we kind of need it wrapped up in a show. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. I was just talking yesterday about what your house is known for. Ben, you're known as the filming house in the neighbourhood.

I think so, yeah, just random stuff that sort of takes place. Everyone's like, ah, just filming. So it makes me a worry if anything actually happens that is sinister. They'll be like, ah, they're just doing some sketch or something. Well, yeah, because you were screaming in an ice bath. Yeah. Ah, ah, oh! In an ice bath.

You're like screaming going, help. They're like, no, they're just filming. Just filming. Is they right? Yeah, they'll be doing a stabby scene, a funny sketch. Your house, I was thinking you said your house was not known for much, your current house. But remember your house was overgrowing its trees on the neighbours. You're the obnoxious tree growers.

Actually, I've got obnoxious trees on every angle. Yeah, that's you. The passion fruit goes over one side, the fruit trees over the other. And then the neighbours get frustrated and they trim them back. Yeah. Well, it's free fruit. Yeah, true. That's a positive.

Tilly, joining us on 0800 The Hits this morning. Tilly, hello. Hi there, morning. Morning. We just bought a house two and a half years ago, and we have mom and dad, my elderly parents live with us. So basically, it's a long white house.

So we've got the units, the garage, in between, and then us. So it's a long white house. But Mhabi decided that he wanted to tutu with a little, you know old tractor so that's part in the front yard and we have a we have a caravan as well oh you're a tractor caravan long white house geez you got a lot going on on that property it's funny though i'm too inside yeah no i always i always appreciate our house with vehicles

strewing all over the lawns not like that have you got the caravan up on swapper crates too tilly yeah yeah legend ben's grandparents tell your caravan story oh they lived in a caravan they had a nice house, but they just had a caravan. They never went anywhere, but they just decided they like sleeping in a caravan and North Canberra. It's the best. If you ever you want to feel you want to get away, we, during lockdown,

the caravan was parked just in the driveway and all we do is just go to the caravan and we were on holiday. Yeah, right. Well, yeah, here. I don't understand like you downgrade your living conditions. Megan, not so, because

it's just you and what you want to do in there. And it's just So I can't describe it It's just water The stuff Tilly was doing in their caravan Hey good on your Tilly You want to come anytime with the kids And I'm here

Yeah, true Good on you Maybe you should put a caravan in the yard But you'll put you know They'd refuse to sleep in the bedroom Wouldn't they your grandparents? No one was staying in the house It was just yeah

Which I found unusual through But you know Maybe they liked the coziness of it They did They found it really cozy Which is lovely But I guess Winter time I'm like

Bad Hearts You know they were out there Still sleeping Great text here too four, four, eight, seven, bit of a niche one, but in the early 2000s, I thought that fireworks were going to be ultimately banned, so I purchased a thousand or so, boomboxes.

Oh, my gosh. A thousand boomboxes. Evidently, since 2015, I've been having fireworks every Saturday night. Oh, you're that house. The fireworks, who's doing fireworks not in November? That's them. Every Saturday night.

That's, yeah. That's annoying. Say it, Ben. Who's doing it outside of November? Keith is doing it. He's known as Godzilla in the neighborhood. Imagine if he had a fire at his plate, like, with like, how many, boombox? I thought it was like someone's having a siggy in the garage.

Yeah, oh, blah, blah, wah, wah, yeah, geez.