Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: You won’t believe this Mandela Effect involving NZ

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

On today’s show: Petty revenge stories from the service industry including decaf sabotage, and fake “out back” searches. Guinness World Record holder Gabriel Wall ran 100m over LEGO... and lived to tell the tale. Producer Troy is nominated as NZ’s perfect partner for tracking his girlfriend’s cycle!  The Mandela Effect blows our minds: Looney Tunes, Darth Vader, Monopoly Man, and Pikachu’s tail. Hamish Kerr wins gold at the World Athletics Champs, but Jono may have ruined their friendship. Jono and Megan prepare to tackle a gym class with the infamous Francisco... Jackie van Beek joins us after winning Taskmaster NZ – despite never watching the show before being cast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh, cook easy, delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. What up, fam? Welcome to the podcast for your Wednesday morning. That's a wee Easter egg for the show today. Reference, yeah. I went to Baker's Delight last night. Baker's Delight and wonderful, wonderful young chap came out from the bakery. About 18, 19 years old.

I was standing there with myself a couple of pensioners. In fact, all of us pensioners out of the rest home, just picking up our supplies. and he came out, arms wide open, what up fam. I actually love that. What up, Pam. It's through there, but through there, but it's through, I really did appreciate it.

Maybe I'll do that on the show tomorrow. Good old what up, ferv. Oh, this is after six bacon buns, thanks fam. But those, bakers are like bloody good, eh? So good. Really good. And it's just, yeah, I can never walk past one without buying bacon buns.

I used to, like, when I was younger, do a gym class and then I'd go. past Baker's Delight and get one of those is it spinach and feta like Oh yeah the folds Yeah they're really good Yeah they do it they Completely undoing whatever you do at the gym

When we first the radio station We used to work at the company They had a Baker's Delight down the road Yeah that's one I'm talking about Yeah and when you know You used to enter radio and they would pay you Negative dollars And Baker's Delight always had free samples

On the Oh You're not getting by on the free samples Not getting by but slow you know somewhat filling up and I'd pretend to be perusing the cabinet well and you'd have to do it when six other people were in there ordering as well why then just walk out yeah just walk out and have a little you know four minuscule pieces of ficascia when I did drive we used to go and get pre-show slices we'd get from there yeah yeah a little treaty treat before it's been a great

advert for bakers alike isn't it unpaid unpaid what's your favorite item in the bakery menu if you go to any bakery around the country custard slice yeah hands down other den Heath ones in... Didn't I see that they were in receivership? Yes. That's sad. Timaru. Was that what they're from?

Yeah. Apparently they're the big banger ones. You used to work... We both used to work with Sharon Casey. She was a big backer. Big backer. Yeah. She should seem to her condolences.

She'll be feeling that. She'll be devastated that those years. Yeah. Custard Square's a great option. What, yeah, that white crispiness on the tops, the icing on the top of the custard square is always... That's pivotal, isn't it? Yeah.

Sometimes it can get a soggy. Can't at the... I kind of like. I like it soggy. What's your go-to? Probably a bacon egg something. Oh, boring. Pardon?

What's that boring? Why is bacon next something boring? I don't know. I have all the treaty treats you can get there and you get a bacon and eat. Yeah, savoury, savory, baby. Yeah. Are you sweet? Are you sweet?

No, generally not. But like a custard square is not too sweet. Yum. Tell you who wouldn't be caught dead in a bakery, Ben Boyce. Very health conscious, not with us at the moment. he's gone to a better place and that better place is Europe is hot girl autumn

but you all hear a snippet from what he's doing on the show today you'll also hear about Jono's meat juice yeah horrific it's a bit of a that sounds a lot worse than it no it isn't actually

it was worse than it sounds what happened to me last night when I was rinsing out the meat juice and man Francisco we're about to get Francis we're about to head off and get Francisco to the gymnasium This is a personal trainer that producer Troy ran into Had a powerful 45 minute session with

And both of us are going to experience that pain And you're crook Yeah, so I'll see how I go I think it's actually going to kill it It'll either kill me or it'll make me stronger Troy can just sorry It's a song in that Well it doesn't kill you're right

Maybe we should have Kelly Clarks are blasting you Just Troy can we So what are we talking like kettlebells Oh Christ Is it? So there's four or five stations and each station has like a weights or a strength part and a cardio part. So your strength is, yeah, like kettle bells, barbell,

and what are you doing like bicep curls? I hate the ropes, the battle ropes. Oh, God. How many of like each lift rep do you have to do? You have to keep going until Francisco says stop. It's as many, yeah. Oh, what? Oh, what?

So he'll go, well, that, then move on to the next one. And do you get a break in between each? You get two minutes recovery, I think In between each station Okay I think if he does what we did last time It'll be you do eight reps And then you do another like a press up

And then you do six reps And then a press up And then four reps In a row till you get down to zero Until you get to two minutes break Until you're done Yeah and then you get a two minute break Oh gosh

And then you're off to the kettlebell station And then you're all the rower Oh the row I hate rowers they are the worst I was a rower and a boat and I hated those urgs

God how long do you have to be on the row until your partner finishes Yeah I've done there 86, 420 We are going to be abused Are we partners

So Megan will be partners Who's going to be a lot of abuse Being fired by Hurry up and finish me out Listen I'm sick Yeah you are This is not going to be fun

Anyway We'll bring you the updates I'll bring the results Of the Franciscoing tomorrow Enjoy the potty John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits

And you shared something after the program yesterday You used to own a cafe owner operator Yeah Would you do it again Yes I would do it again What was the name of your cafe

Both and Co and it still exists It's got a great new owner now And I would do it again Absolutely It was a lot of fun Geez you're in the trenches Because you'd finish radio

Wouldn't you And then go straight to the cafe Yeah And I do I worked in the kitchen a lot too And I do that at the weekends Was pregnant while I was working in the cafe.

It's a lot now that I think about it. Piling it all on. Hospitality is great. Maybe not at the moment. It's a lot of hard work. But you get the odd difficult customer. And you didn't, you hated people asking for things extra hot.

There's a bug bear. So this is, please don't do this. Because we used to, you know, obviously have, it was a cafe. So people coming in asking for coffee. When they ask for a coffee, like a coffee extra hot, My parents do it too. The thing is there is a temperature gauge.

You hold on to the milk frother. It's supposed to get to a certain temperature before it starts getting burnt and ruined. Gross. When you ask for it extra hot, it ruins the coffee. Just drink it straight away. Producer Grace is going, mm-hmm, yeah, uh-huh, amen, sister. Yeah, I totally agree. So someone comes and says, I want an extra hot.

For revenge, what would you do? Heat the crap out of it. Yeah. You want a hot? Absolutely. it could power a small city that's how hot it was absolutely roasted now grace we've got you and too used to work in retail and so a difficult custom would come in yeah they'd be like and i'd be like yep i've got that i'll go get it for you from out back and i'd walk out back and then i'd just

sit down for five minutes and i'd go oh it's so hectic out there sorry it might take a little bit of time go out back plonk sit and i just sit there talking and yapping for five minutes and then i come back out it took me like one second to find anything i was really good at my job But that's what I used to do, because I was like, if you're being difficult, I will be petty. Yeah, that is petty. But then did you ever come back and be like, sorry, we don't have it? Oh, well, like, I was good at my job. So if we had it, I would give it to them.

She was obviously, he wants to make the sale. I want the sale, I want the money, you know. She's going to hurt the bottom line. Yeah, I went to a, this is a side note. Went to Baker's Delight last night. The dude behind the counter reminded me of grace. Do you know what he said to? There was three of us, waiting.

He came out from the back of the bakery, and he goes, what up, fam? what up fam i was like i love that he would have been 1819 legend i love it what up fam what are we after you want to scroll you want to scroll look at you want to scroll i said what up fam i was like i was probably the youngest he was like 50 and 60 what up i could tell they were a little rattled but i appreciated it okay and the best one i did used to actually work at a barrister as a cafe i didn't do this but i knew people who did do this is that if you come in and you order a coffee,

if you're mean to us, we will be mean back and give you non-caffe coffee. Decaf. So you said, Decaf, that's a monstrous mode. No, we never did that because decaf costs more. Yeah, I wasn't the owner, so I didn't care.

Almost I was like, do it. She just wanted revenge. 0,800 of the hits. This is what we're going to do. Have you worked in the service industry, retail, whatever. If you had a difficult customer walk in, what petty way would you get revenge on them?

A lot of the times they don't even know. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. If you worked in the service industry, uh what you do petty things you do to get revenge on difficult customers this isn't like you know anything too disgusting or like you know breaking rules and it's just the petty we things you do to make yourself feel better i'm too frightened to send a meal back do you send mail back meals back yes you do we've talked about this before because we used to own a cafe i would rather

someone tell you that they weren't happy with it than write a google review afterwards like give them the chance to make it better i know but you own the cafe what about the bloody disgruntled chef back there. Six bears deep. I hope they didn't. Yeah, it comes out garnished with some very suspicious looking things on us. Well, yeah, someone said they used to get their parsley garnish, like old ones or out of the bin or whatever, and sprinkle it on the steaks if they had to recook them.

That was the petty revenge from this year. I witnessed one yesterday. I don't know if it was so much petty, but there was a back and forth on, at Subway. I hadn't been to Subway in years. There was a guy who was having a real tense negotiation. It was a standoff at the counter. Yeah. He had ordered a 12 inch, like a foot.

long, but he wanted it cut in two and then wrapped his two individual six inches. Did he want different things on each of them? Same ingredients, but then the gentleman behind the counter's like, well, if you wanted two different six inches, that would cost more technically than a 12 inch. But they weren't different. Same one? Same,

he just wanted it. But he's got a 12 inch. They went to give you a foot long and they cut it in half. So the only thing he was asking for extra was more paper, I guess, to wrap them individually. Finger labour. Using the fingers to do the rolling as well. I'm kind of on his side

I was at there I was like Jesus if he pushes this any further that guy's going to put six inches of something else in that sandwich before handing it back over to him but oh 800 the hits petty revenge that you got on customers Tanya

it's great to have you on the show thanks very much what was the game you were in Tanya well this happened a number of years ago in the jewellery industry the jewellery game okay yeah so a little bit different

from your other services but it was I would have been in the early 20s and my manager at the time would it be like 50s and she had this customer who we like to call a knower, knows everything

doesn't matter how you try to explain it and all the rest of it. They know it all. They've done their Google search and he was giving her such a hard time and it went on for a good 10 minutes and then she just turned around to him and said oh excuse me sir you know you're flying

and done. Oh that is brilliant And it just stopped him in his tracks, and it lightened everything up, and he pulled his head in, literally, and it was better. Yeah, pulled his head in, litter. So good, Tanya. That really disarms a gentleman, isn't it? You did that to me yesterday. I did that to hear yesterday. John, I was like, no, it's meant to be like that.

It's fashion. It's fashion. Got nothing to hide, Tanya. I'm an open book, hey? That's a really funny, really funny petty revenge. That's great. really appreciate your call. Let's go to the phones.

That's what we're doing. That's while we're here. Nicola, morning to you. Hey, Nicola, how are you? Good, thank you. Okay, Petty Revenge. What were you doing? Yeah, a few years back when I used to work in a fish bar

and everything was laid out nicely, and you'd have people come in wanting to pick a particular fish which would upset your whole display, no matter what piece you got them, they didn't want. So when I used to put it in the bag to weigh out, once I'd put the sticker on, I used to squish it with my hands once I gave it to them. and said, have a nice day.

So you don't like it before you like pick a particular fill it. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and I don't want that one. I want the one to the left or to the right. Smile and say, have a nice day. And just a little gentle, that just must bring you so much joy, Nicola. It did. Very good.

It's just, you should always be nice. Like, I know the customer's supposed to always be right, but also be nice to the person serving you. Exactly, 100%. That's a great one here. I used to work in customer service and would deal with all sorts of characters but if I had a disgruntled customer

and they demanded to be emailed back any information they would wait until the last minute of the working day and send the email so that if they needed to reply they'd have to wait until the following day. It's petty but it just makes you feel better when you're dealing with those sorts of people. Worked at a popular fast food place

Whenever anyone said there wasn't enough salt on the chips I would then make it look like snow Jono Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits Now this is fresh off the bin juice disaster Five days ago Now I she had emptied the bin here in the studio

And all the bottom The juice that sort of collates and gathers At the bottom of the bin Ran down my leg into my sock Yeah Now I've had another juice Catastrophe Is that bed related?

Last night no This is a meat juice related The worst of all, I'd say worse than bin juice. There's one meat juice that I just can't stand. Do you know, the supermarkets now, they have sort of plastic containers for, if you buy mints or steak, and on the bottom a kind of sort of serrated spike. It looks like a tray. Like a tray, like a urinal mat sort of texture.

Sure. If you've ever seen one. And the thing is when you've emptied the meat out of, the tray, all the juice and all the meat juice, it's at the bottom of the tray. Now, I'm a responsible boomer, Gen Z producer, Grace. I'm trying to, we're trying to save

the planet for you, mate. All I hear every day from Gray, you've ruined the planet for my generation. So what I'd like to do is I rinse out the meat juice before putting the plastic container in the bin. Okay? Now, the problem is... How is that helping the environment? Surely it's helping the environment somehow.

It's helping the environment? Thank you, Grace. Yeah, she says, helping the environment somewhere. No, it was blood in the environment do they put blood down the sink biodegradable anyway you know you put the plastic in the land in the blood down the sink that's from what I understand

how you save the environment anyway my issue is saving the environment isn't the issue is so you're rinsing it out with the tap and the new you know toilet mat bottom of the tray boom like a boomerang

and all of the blood the meat juice the bottom of the bottom of my chin, neck, top of my t-shirts. It was a literal bloodbath. What? Was it mince? Yeah.

Mint's blood, too. Yeah. So it wasn't chicken juice. Yeah. Chicken juice is a whole other level of juice, isn't it? Yeah. It's like, have you ever done that thing when you've left a spoon in the sink by accident and you turn the tap on, it rebounds back into your face?

To know what, this is, just a warning, this is pretty grim. But I was washing out, uh, washing as my daughter's toilet training yesterday. And I turned on the tap too hard. Oh, no. Yeah, I had the same thing, haven't it? Oh, no. Same thing. You're just like,

which probably doesn't do anything. No. As I was doing, as I was going, I was like, there's some bovine up, you know, and the great farm in the sky. Chewing on the paddocks, laughing, laughing at me right now. Take that. Revenge, mopho.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. expecting more strikes today. Year 10, the secondary school strikes continue, so no school for year 10s today. Rolling strikes. My son was involved in the strikes yesterday, but they still had to go to school.

They just had... Oh, really? Yeah, they had stand-in teachers, but the teachers weren't allowed to teach. They were just... Just kind of supervising. Yeah, so they just basically had his year in a hall and they could study or do whatever they wanted,

so they were looked after, but not. Right. I think it probably pushes the boundaries if they do the teaching, and, you know, it goes against the strike, or whatever. Okay. So he was like,

sweet day, sweet day. I was like, how much you get down? He's like, so much stuff. All the stuff. I was like,

elaborate further. He's like, oh, you don't want to hear about all this stuff. Everyone's just sitting there watching like Netflix on their phones or something.

Great stuff. Great stuff was achieved yesterday. Hey, after the program, we went across where I got a drink yesterday and we were talking about the Mandela effect. What was the catalyst that kicked this off? Producer Grace,

you actually looked at it. Can you come in here? You looked this up because we did ask that question. So it's like, The theory being that, you know... People share the same false memory. Over a really popular event.

And you said it was obviously related to Nelson Mandela. Why? Can you remember? I actually can't remember. People thought he died in prison, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the reason why. But I can't remember why I brought it up.

I was just trying to talk, I think. Yeah, just filling in time. I think I wanted us to start our own Mandela effect, which I'm still, I'm still... That's right. We're going to start our own Mandela effect. It will happen, guys. She wanted to start one about Ben, Mandela Effect about Ben. I'm going to say it

He's the pack and save stick man You think it's an animation It's actually Ben Boyce That's the Mandela Effect Okay we'll get that out there People can remember that Guys very slim Yeah but so it's essentially

Just collective gaslighting It is yeah And a lot of it is pop culture moments That we have believed in our mind To be one thing And there's actually another This is one I didn't know New Zealand

Is actually part of the Mandela effect There's a fact about New Zealand That the rest of the world A lot of people swear New Zealand used to be the north-east of Australia on the map, not the south-east. So we're up higher? Yeah. I don't know what the back now, there must be something behind this as to why people...

Probably because they were always just shoving us in random spots on the map and or leaving us out. They have left us out a couple of times. I don't blame. When you look at the size of the world on the map and the scale of it, you can understand why we get lifted off to the invite list. Especially since we're so small next to Australia They wouldn't even notice us

I was just going to go What was the theory behind People thinking This probably could have been done Hey listen Ray Nothing people enjoy more on the radio Then listen to someone Google And then also type

Talk what they're typing at the same time I love it Older school maps Here we go And globes sometimes squashed or shifted smaller countries Just to make them fit nittyly To make them feel a part of this So there was probably times where it was located to the southeast,

or northeast. Another one of the Mandela Effect. People remember this incorrectly. Now, probably one of the most famous lines in cinematic history. Luke, I am your father. Darth Vader. Luke, I am your father. He doesn't say Luke.

Yes, he does. No, he doesn't. I thought he said Luke too. Have you got it? He says, no, I am your father. So he's obviously reacting to a line that, Luke has just said to him, listen No, I am your father

Oh, no, I am your father Are you sure? It sounds like he says Luke Will I have another listen? No, I am your father Oh my God That's wild For years we've gone around going

Luke, I'm your father Grace looked into this though Again, the theory behind this is that When it was referenced in pop culture People would say Luke so you knew what they were Reference? Yeah. Context?

You know what the movie they're talking about. Here's another good one. Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who's the fairest of them all? Classic line. This has really upset me this one. Big Pegas, that's like been around for a very long time. We all know it to be mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall.

It's not mirror mirror on the wall. It's not. I'm sorry, it's magic mirror on the wall. Have a listen. Magic mirror on the wall. There it is. Yeah, that's clearly from like the 80s, isn't it? Isn't that wild?

It sounds really old. That is crazy. So, yeah, 4487. You can text us too. That is the text number. Yeah, can call us as well. 0800 the hits. Have you got something that is part of the Mandela effect?

We'll get your calls and texts on. Does that, like, those popular sayings count? Because for years, I always thought it was you're the splitting image of someone. Hence, you split them in half, and it's two images of the same thing. I see the logic? Spitting. It's spitting image. I never knew that.

And I will always say split. I will not change for the English language. Makes more sense to me. Under any circumstances. Okay, so I went hundred of the hits. So have you got something that will blow our mind with the Mandela effect? One more two about Looney Tunes, which I will tell you after the ads. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the Hats.

Talking the Mandela effect today, this is a phenomenon where a large group of people share the same false memory about an event and a pop culture thing, maybe a TV show. It's wild how it happens. It's a huge glitch in the matrix that we can all remember the wrong thing. Some of these are huge quotes from movies like, Luke, I am your father. He said, no, I am your father. Yeah, we just proved that before. No, I am your father. No, I am your father.

It's really upsetting me. Yeah. Because these are like... Maybe, but it would make sense, you know, you don't know. He was just reacting to the dialogue that Luke gave him. He would be like, well, it's weird if you say my name at the beginning of that line. Yeah. And the theory behind that is that everyone who referenced it in, you know, comedy sketches and pop culture moments.

They had to say, Luke, I'm your father, so you knew they were talking about. To give it context, yeah. Now, here's one. Looney Tunes, you know, the cartoon company. Raised a nation of children in the 90s, Looney Tunes. Made us all the deranged people we are today. Looney Tunes. Now, how do you spell Leruny Tunes?

T-O-O-N-E-Y, T-O-O-N-E-S. No, stop you. Shut your sweet lips. Shut them, shut them. Looney Tunes, T-U-N-E-S. Oh, God. Which makes no sense because it's a cartoon, so I can see how we... Why, that's really missed a trick there.

Yeah. Looney tunes. The Brainstorm meeting, did no one go, why are we naming it after a tune and not a tune? I don't know how this happens. It's very weird. A lot of texts coming through on 4-48-7. Thanks so much to the 6 o'clock club. You're 60 and you know it for joining us.

There's one about E.T. And we all say E.T. Phone home. Yeah. And he points to the phone. Champagne moment in history. Well, no. He says this.

E.T. Home phone. No! Home phone. Of course, because his English should be out of whack, too. He wouldn't know. He's like, not my sense. cell phone, my home phone.

E.T. Home phone. E.T. Home phone. This is just wild. Oh, I don't like that. Troy, is the one on Forrest Gump that you've sent through? Come through here, mate. So, producer Troy, new to the program. What are they saying about Forrest Gump, the Mandela Effect? Well, what would you say is the famous quote from...

Life is like a box of chocolates. Apparently it's not life is like a box of chocolates, but life was. like a box of chocolate. My mum always said life was like a box of chocolate. Amen, brother. Amen. Oh my God. Jesus.

It's shaking my foundations. Great couple of texts coming through here. Apparently you think there's a black dot at the ear or a black end to Pikachu's tail from Pokemon. Yeah, there is. It's a lightly bolt with a black tip. Nothing. Have a Google.

Have a Google. Oh, he's got black tips on his ears. I remember drawing it. In primary school, with a black tip at the end of the tail. Is one person also says the Monopoly Man, this is a famous one, doesn't have a monocle. You always believe that he's got the circular glass over his eye. Oh my God. He's got a gorgeous moustache.

No monocle. No monocle. I don't know where these come from. We all believe these to be true. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you're waking up to this this morning. You might want to go back to bed. Just have a couple of days to download what you just heard.

Like when I Google it, he looks weird without a monocle? Yeah. Like even though he's right in front of me. In your mind, you've got him as a monocle. There we go. We'll leave that there, the Mandela Affair. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hits. We have a Guinness World Record holder joining us right now from Christchurch. He is the fastest 100 metres running over Lego. Gabriel Wall, good morning. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. This is insane because most of us would dread to stand on a piece of Lego in our kids' room in the middle of the night,

it drops you, one piece. But you have set the Guinness World Record for the 100 metre dash across. How much Lego was it? It's about 300 kilos all up. Gee, where did you get 300 kilos of Lego? I was super lucky. I partnered with Lego Education Charity Imagination Station

based in Christchurch. And as you say, Megan, it's a bit insane. When I reached out some, I said, I've got an idea, I think it might be a bit crazy and they said, yep, they're kind of crazy, we'll help. So they bought an entire minivan full of Lego and we spread it all out, cleaned it back up with a leaf lower at the end of things,

then it's all got dry cleaned and it's all back in use at Tudonga in Christchurch. You ran on it for 100 metres. Were there any injuries? Yeah, there were some injuries and it's funny that people say, gosh, is it really as bad running on a whole bunch of it as it is standing on one piece in the middle of the night

because when I came off the end of the track, I had cut my feet up quite badly. But there was a single piece that was stuck kind of in the bottom of my right foot. So I'd come off the end of the track and still got to have the experience of standing on that single piece again at the end. Just a kick in the gut.

There's actually a lovely story behind why you're doing this. You created a bucket list for yourself, did you? Yes, I did. and it was one of those things where each year I'd pull it out and I'd kind of like New Year's resolutions I'd pick a couple of things to do I got through the easy things pretty quickly so I was getting on to the tricky and or expensive ones

So what else has been on your bucket list you've achieved? There's been lots of lovely travel ones so there's things like riding a camel in the Sahara and going up the Eiffel Tower and learning to do a Rubik's Cube at the moment I'm learning to write a unicycle that is also very humbling. I saw someone commuting,

and we saw someone commuting on a unicycle. Yeah. The other day I was like, that is an unusual mode of transport. It is, but now they could put it on their bucket list and tick it off, which is satisfying. So was it getting a world record the bucket list goal,

or was it specifically the running on Lego? No, it was a world record, and I bought the book and, you know, did my research and kind of went through to highlight things but there are a lot of amazing people out there doing really difficult things so strategically in this one i um actually had it introduced as a new record oh smart yeah we think our producer grace uh has broken the Guinness world record for naming all 47 u.s presidents in under 27 seconds do you want to have a listen do you want to have a listen to grace and see what you know as a current

record holder if you think this would stack up have a little bit of Listen. Andrew Johnson, Ulysses, Grant Rutherford, Behaves, James Gaffer, Arthur, Christopher, Christopher Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover, and Cleveland, again, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Howard, Howard and Calvin, Colourne, Herbert Hoover, Frath and Delano, Rosemary, Howard, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Rosal, William, Johnson, Richard, George, George, George, George, Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Donald Trump again. That was very impressive. Yeah, no, she's, well, have we sent it off to the Guinness World Records? I think we've emailed them. They can lodge it. So that could be something you could learn as well. 47 U.S. presidents? That would have been a lot less painful.

I like your strategy there. Okay, and so any advice if people are wanting to run on Lego? What would you tell them? I mean, my son, he's 13. You're not allowed to attempt it until you're 18. He says in five years he's going to come back for that record. So I suppose I'd say to anyone else attempting it, you know, be prepared for my son in five years because he's coming for it.

Okay, it's going to be handed down through the generations. Passed out of the family. It's now an heirloom. Hey, well, congratulations, Gabriel. What a great way to live life. Yeah, totally. Things off your bucket list. Awesome.

Thanks, guys. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The head. So we're playing a game. Where in the world? It's Benjamin Ross Boyce. Hey, guys, where am I in the world? I'll give you a clue.

This is the only thing that sucks more than me. Yeah, I suck quite a lot. That sounds weird. Okay. I mean. Anyway, you know what I mean. Okay, have a listen. Just realized that I'm been talking quite loudly.

I'm going to exit here. People got to look at me weirdly. But hey, at least I'm not joining the Mile High Club. Unless I'm doing it by myself. No, that's weird. Okay, back to you. Here you go. Where in the world is Benjamin Ross voice.

Is he still travelling? God, it takes ages to get there. Yeah, he's off on his European Hot Girl Autumn. Autumn. Yeah. I hate those airplane toilets. They scare me when you flush them. You know, you think of all the technological advancements we've had throughout history.

Nothing is, there's no change to that. No. Sounds like it's going to take you. Suck you into another vortex. It's really good. Thank you. It's one of my talents. Now, we have producer Troy in the studio with us because you shared a little insight into your relationship with your lovely partner, Neve.

It's an app that you've downloaded. we need to front foot this for you. How long have you and Neve been together? Six months. Six months. Okay. Now, we all know what we're thinking. You're in a certain period of the relationship. Okay. It's fruitful. Everything's going great guns. You'd love everything about each other. And I'm trying to do everything I can to prolong that. Good on you. Until the day I die. You're a kind soul. You're an empathetic guy. That's what I know about you. We've only known you for a short period of time, but you care about people. But you're really you're going to put the rest of us to the shame

with this one. What are you doing for Neve? I've downloaded an app called Stardust. Okay. And it's an app that tracks her monthly cycle. Which is, you know, when you hear that is a sentence on its own, you're like, that's unusual, that's creepy.

Initially, I'm going to say that I thought it was for your own benefit, if you know what I'm saying. What do you mean? Like, do you, so you it wasn't for selfish purposes yeah I thought yeah I thought it was

selfish purposes right no it wasn't at all it wasn't at all not for your enjoyment it was just for me to try and figure out how to navigate the certain mood differences okay is that maybe saying it the right way

anyway changes changes yeah to assist and her well-being on an app now this would mean so is this just an app that you have Neve doesn't know about

Did you just go Oh, clearly day one today No No It is an app we both have And I'm just a receiver of information Okay She's got the app, I've got the app

She puts all the dates in She puts all the data into it And all I get is notifications Okay So I get notifications Such as Neve is feeling feisty today So that's a back off

That's a just take it easy today Don't bring up those issues That you've been skewing on for Has she ever seen these notifications? Yeah, I show it I don't know if I would appreciate the phone calling me feisty. I'm going to show you. But it's good for you to know how you need to behave when you get home.

Exactly. Another one. Increased testosterone levels today are increasing knees physical strength. Go bench press some stuff together today. Hey, how do we go bench pressing stuff today? You feel like bench pressing stuff today? It's a good day to bench press stuff. And there's also a feature in the app where I didn't know this.

And Neve didn't have to tell me this, but she did, that she can cast a spell. Yeah. She gets two spells a month. and the spell is basically she can craft a notification to send to me to basically ask for something Oh, okay, so it's like him She's cast a spell this morning

She did I got a notification that said From Stardust Our machine learning algorithms have detected An important insight about Neve today And I click on it And it says There's an 85% chance

That Neve will desire Chocolate in the next 48 hours So you're going to have to provide chocolate That's my task He's like a menstrual weatherman Isn't it? Yeah It's a strong chance

cramps today darling you can and you really went above and beyond because there was a period there where low in iron well i was day one of of period and i saw a tic-tok that said on day one is when they're very low on iron so a good meal to cook is steak and chips so he made her steak so i got home i'm really trying it's really sweet it's very sweet and it's all because i love her very much oh i also've been tracking it as well with jenks I just say You're a bit moody today You're on you

That seems to have done us pretty well So I don't need any of it There's been no backlash from that system Absolutely not Okay I ain't under that Troy is Troy New Zealand's perfect partner John O'Ben and Megan The podcast

That's Robert Redwood The actor and director has passed away Oh How old? A C Why do I feel like it was 89 Yeah 89 Oh that's sad

Yeah R&P I try and refrain from saying this. Good innings. Yeah. 89's a good innings. When can you start saying good innings? 85 onwards?

I think so. Yeah. You've had a good innings from 85 onwards, haven't you? It's just the worst possible condolence as well. It was a good innings. Especially for those who are like mourning them. They're like, well, yeah, but I still don't want them to go. Good time to bring up cricket.

So what we're doing right now, New Zealand's perfect partner, producer Troy, I've only been with us a month or two and we are finding out probably New Zealand's most caring and empathetic man. Been with his partner for six months and he has an app where he, along with her, track her period so that he knows exactly how to treat her at what time and he made her stake in chips on the first day of her period.

Low and iron. Yeah. That is, well, a lot of people get sports notifications on their phones and stuff but Troy's like, bang, ovulation window opening. Bing, today's a good day for chop. Clit. Yeah.

I actually love this app. Good on you, Troy. Yeah, many texts about people filling up cars for their partners, too. Lots who haven't even been to a petrol station in years. My mum, for some reason, hates filling up her car. My dad will always do it for her. Oh, that's nice. I do that for Jen quite a lot as well, but not every time.

But, yeah. You're just desperate to be like, what do I do? Something. Have I got something. Sometimes I fill up her car. I tell you what, Troy, you're six months deep right now. You call me when you're 19 years deep, mate. I think he'll still be the same.

Remembering to bring home 12 rolls of toilet paper. That's considered caring and empathetic. So we are after New Zealand's most perfect partner. Rochelle, morning. Morning. How are you guys today? Are you nominating yourself or your partner, Rochelle? No, my husband, Haydham.

I've been so blessed and he's such a great partner for 25 years. Okay, shout out to Haydham. Yeah, he's just been incredible. just helps with everything around the house and with our daughters, with just for jump in and do everything when they're babies. They're like adult children now, but he's like such a solid dad, such a solid husband, just to help with everything.

Even all my friends say he's a 10, and all the boys get really annoyed and jealous of him. Well, lucky you snapped him up Rochelle or else I'd be riding that racehorse, my friend. Lucky you got Hayden locked up in the stables. Yep, yep, we should all be that lucky, right? Yeah. Oh, that's really nice. Hey, good on, Michelle.

Appreciate that. Some text coming through, Megan. Have a hotty bottle and her slippers ready for her when she gets home from work. That's cute. Nightmare in the summer. Seven years and with my partner. She makes my lunch every day as well as my dinners because I work longer shifts. Do you know what?

It's nice. It's nice that you're acknowledging it and it's not just expected. Yeah. Never let that go. Yeah. There's another one here too. My partner is, I know, I'm nominating my. myself because I think I'm an amazing partner.

My wife would say otherwise, but there's only one vote, and I've voted, and I am awesome. So there we go. Did you text us this morning? Yeah, I did that as well. Just to get some positive stuff in there. And thank you very much for your calls and texts. Some great ones there. Some sickeningly cute people out there.

Disgusting. Lower your bar, guys. Lower your bar. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. After the show today, getting Franciscoed. Francisco.

Where's your best go. Now, just joined the program. Producer Troy, went to the gym, Les Mills, and he unknowingly signed up for a class and didn't have a partner. It was a partner's day, wasn't it, Troy? And you got partnered up with a personal trainer called Francisco. Hulk of a man, yep, Francisco.

And I was his worst nightmare. He couldn't move on from an exercise until I finished. And so he was like, come on, Troy, I'm waiting for you, Troy. And you were hobbling for days, still hobbling, still hobbling. Yep. Haven't walked the same since. Francisco. When I arrived, I usually go to the other end, which is the heavier side.

Not because they want to go heavy, just because it's like, it's quieter, you know? Yeah. And then he was. They was like, come on, Troy. Yeah, you're doing great, Troy. Come on, Troy. Yeah, I'm waiting for you, Troy. You know.

Francisco, where's your disco? He makes his encouragement sound kind, but you said he was. Aggressive. He turns. It's like a web. Wolf in the Moon. It's like San Francisco in ceremony. So you have signed up.

Megan and me are going to go and get Franciscoed later on this morning, which we're a little apprehensive about, to be honest, after hearing that. Yeah, we are. And we thought we would get in touch with someone who's also a Lee's instructor. Maybe give us some advice. Yeah. We've got Anj Hilliam.

Producer Grace's mum, Ange, on the phone. Good morning, Jono. How are you? Good. Lovely to have you on. Now, Ange is Grace's. Mum, Genzi, producer. Come in here, Grace.

You've made a wonderful daughter, Ange. You've produced a wonderful daughter. We love her to death. We give her a lot of crap, but, man, she's cool. Vice-Busor by what I hear, so thank you guys as well. I've told them that. It's been honestly, it's been a... Oh, sorry, Mom.

No, she was saying yesterday, you're actually a trainer at Les Mills. Yeah, so I'm a trained Les Mills instructor, but I instruct up here at I reworked the Silverdale. northern arena. Now, Grace, would your mum and just take you for aerobics classes when you're a child? No, I have done my mum's RPM class and I

always would sit in the back and the problem is my mom would be like, hey guys, my daughter Grace is here today, everyone say hi to Grace! And I'm in the bat like sweating and puffing and I'm like, mom, shut on. I always felt sorry for the people who had the reliever teachers as moms who would come in for the day. Oh, it's your mom. Yeah.

So we've signed up to this bloody Ceremony? Ceremony, I hear. With Francisco, who really, she got inside deep. He got deep inside Troy, producer Troy Francisco. Troy has not been the same since. He has not walked the same since.

He's forever changed. Yes, he's got a different look at his eye. So we're doing this class today after the show. What are we in for? Oh, it's going to be probably pretty tough. So my first question to you is you've both got life insurance. Yeah, I have. I have.

I don't particularly want to use it. The last thing is that, you know, on the third day, you are not going to be able to walk upstairs or get off the toilet. Three days later? Yeah, it's a third day it's going to hurt the most. Every time I fall onto the toilet, I'm like, this will be the day that I break it, you know? So what do you do on day three? Just, oh, where's Megan?

Oh, she's just stuck on the toilet? Stuck on the toilet. She needs to stretch, stretch and stretch. Do we retrieve her, or we just leave her on there and wait for it to slowly wear off? Just have fun. That's the main thing. After all that now, you're like, just have fun.

I'm ready. I'm ready now. Come get me, Francisco. Once you get going, you won't be able to stop. You're going to be living on a toilet from day three. Just have fun, though. Just have fun. All right, Hay, Angel, really appreciate your time.

We'll be to let you go to your class. Yeah, thanks so much, guys. See you later. Where is your best go? And so the results of us being Francisco We'll be on the show tomorrow. Terrified. John O'Ben and Megan

The podcast. The hits. Can I just give a... This song reminded me of a TV show I've watched on Prime called The Girlfriend. It's really good. I think it's number one

in New Zealand on Prime. Robin Wright and her son's girlfriend are like battling it out. And they're both a little bit psycho. Oh, so the mother... It's a mother-in-law issue, is it? Yeah. The whole time, too, you're not sure who is more of a psycho.

Yeah. And it does end badly. What's your relationship like with your mother-in-law? Great. Yeah. Yeah. I'm lucky. He struck the lottery with the mother-in-law.

Yeah. Well, sometimes, maybe it's an old trope. Oh, yeah, get over the mother-in-law, busting my tropes. I think I can understand now, because I've got a son when the love your girlfriend comes out. You are going to be a bloody nightmare. I was watching this TV show and I was like, Oh, I can see me being like that. Bestie.

My beautiful boy. Bestie, whenever he brings a partner home. You're in trouble. They are in for a wild ride. Mama lions coming out. At least I know that about myself. Now, welcome to the show. It's great to have you on this morning.

Do you know when you park your car in the garage? So a lot of cars have the alarm fob. So when you walk away, you hit the alarm. Yeah. I can not help but do that multiple times. I've got the same energy as when I'm with a pedestrian button. Oh. You know the crossing?

What about a lift? Lift multiple times. Feels like it gets you more results if you push it three or four times, doesn't it? It doesn't. Do you push you over multiple times? No, because it beeps at me if it's already locked and you push it again. It's like, bap. It's all right, mate.

Yeah, so can you back off? Yeah, done the job. What is that? What is that? I don't know. Maybe I feel the car's more locked if I lock it five times. I used to do that with the door in an old place we had was like

kind of an apartment and I was really paranoid about the door being unlocked because you could basically just walk in off the street, you know, there's the front door and I'd wake up in the middle of the night sometimes sort of sleepwalk and check the door, open it, lock it, shut it, open it and lock it multiple times we'd wake up in the morning

the door was wide open. So you did the opposite The opposite effect. Left it wide open, yeah. Some people think that if you do it at a pedestrian crossing it makes it go faster if you push it like but but but but but but but but I don't think it does. My lowest point in my radio career was we were in the red light district of the city. Okay.

They had a pedestrian button and someone from the team said I'll give you $20 if you lick the pedestrian button. Oh. I did it. Did anything? For entertainment, for content. And you were fine? No, well, literally afterwards I was like, and I squirted

squirted hand sanitizer into my mouth It was like It was not worth it It wasn't captured on video It wasn't Radio It was a real low point We're just going to pull back the curtain here

For something that we do on the show most mornings As producer Troy has found this really motivational Fitness guru Online and he's got to see Troy coming in here I don't know much about the gentleman but he's got a series of

really inspirational songs that he posts every day. Yeah, his name's Yoshi 2.0. Yoshi 2.0. And he's just bouncing around like an absolute, like a Les Mills aerobics instructor, isn't he? Every day he goes into like a public park.

I don't think he lives in America. It will just go somewhere like a public park, set up a tripod with his phone on it and do like a little hoppy dance to his original songs, which are like motivational. And they're great. They're really good.

So we thought we would start playing them for you on the radio Because they really get us up and going Don't they in the morning This is called the pain of discipline It is, yeah This is our favourite Yeah, here we go I know you're tired

But Do you want the pain of discipline Or the pain of regret The pain of progress Or the pain of regrets With no one's watching You gotta out my respect All along it's just me

This my zone All along is you versus yourself Oh my God Do you want the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. What does he say towards the end there? He says, do you want the pain of discipline

or the pain of regret, the pain of progress or the pain of regress? When no one's watching have to earn my respect all along, it's just me versus myself. Here we go.

I know you're tired. Sing along if you know the words. Do you want the pain of discipline or the pain of regret? The pain of progress or the pain of regrets but no one's watching you're the un-earned respect

all along. It's just me versus my son. Yeah, the last one really throws me, the last few syllable. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. I want to say congratulations. Should we call him for end of the show, Hamish Kerr? Yeah, he could call it. Well, I don't know.

He came in after he won his gold at the Paris Olympics, and now he has made history at the World Athletics champs in Tokyo. He's claimed the high jump gold in a brilliant performance. Just trying to find a bit more energy. And there's the endurance from Hamish Kerr. The Olympic champion, comes the world champion and what a couple of nights for the New Zealand team. Jesus, he's on fire.

We're doing really well over there, aren't we? Yeah, so he's made history because he's the first New Zealander to win a world champs medal in High Jump. Well, good on, you, Hamish. And how are we going to the pole vaulting? I know Olivia McTaggartner and Eliza McCartney are they're competing for the pole vaulting. They're made through the finals? The final at 11.30 p.m. tonight.

Do you know, when you said I was Hamish Kerr, a friend of the show, I was, I was second-guessing it because I think I may have potentially put our friendship in jeopardy, show friendship with Hamish Kerr. How? Well, we went to Luke Combs at Eden Park and Hamish was sitting next to me and his lovely partner, Maddie, who she's the thing she's well, I dived. I interviewed them. I interviewed them both for the entire concerts. Oh, I walked away from that going, oh, that was one of those times where all I did was just ask questions. upon questions about, you know, Maddie, engineer at Canterbury University,

heptathlet. I didn't know what heptathlon was, and boy, boy, did I ask some questions about heptathlon for two hours of a Luke Cohn's concert. We've addressed this about yourself, and you know this about yourself. In the moment, do you not know what's happening, or you just don't know how to stop? No, well, it's at the end of it. At the end of the night, I was like, gee whiz, I really slipped into an interview mode there. I think he even ended the night with, he had earplugs in by the night.

I don't know if they were for Luke Combs or me. Did he not start the night with them? No, he didn't. You know those little foam ones? He kind of just gently put them into his ears and might have been a sign. And he did say at the end, he's like, well, that was an experience. I think I don't know if he was talking about Luke Combs or having this an east to me. A lot of people like talking about themselves, but not when they've paid a lot of money to go to watch someone playing.

Oh, we covered some ground too. I was like dietary, you know, the calories of a daily chicken intake for his training. and she was... Wow. Yeah, so I don't know if he's going to be back on the show. Well, congratulations. Former friend of the show. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hits. She's the winner of Taskmaster Jackie Van Beak. Last night it happened on television. The winner of Taskmaster, New Zealand, season 6 with 164 points, is Jackie Van Beek. She's the winner of Taskmaster. Master Jackie Van Beek. Good morning. Morning.

How are you guys? Oh, good. Morning after the big win. Has it sunk in Jackie? It has sunken. I have been getting a lot of texts, mainly from kind of mothers of school children who have been watching it with their kids,

very excited to once have bumped into me at the school gate. I was going to ask, is it like other reality shows where they film like multiple winners? Did you have to fake it? I don't think so. I hope not. Yeah, so poor Pax is like, they got me to say I won. Now, Jackie, we understand you had never watched an episode of Taskmaster before going on it.

Well, I'd never watched it before I was invited to participate. Then I thought, I'd better find out what it is. I knew it was a fun show. So I watched, of course, you always watched the original pilot of the original format. So I watched the UK one, loved it. I watched a couple of the New Zealand ones. I loved it. Absolutely.

I mean, appalling, oh dear. And you're like, I've got a mortgage to pay, so. No, and then a lot of my friends had been on it, and I was a little bit like, oh, I don't know, I don't know, I don't really do, I don't really do these kind of shows. And they were like, Jackie, you're going to love it. You'll feel like a nine-year-old in heaven. I always thought that comedians, this was a show that they really wanted to do because it lets you just be free and, like, a lot of comedians were really keen to do it. And you're like, oh, yeah. Well, you see, this is terrible, isn't it?

But the thing is, what an undeserved winner. No. Not at all. Hadn't watched the show. Didn't want to be on the show, won the show. The thing is, no, I did want to be on it. I was very happy to be on it. But the thing is, you see, I'm not a stand-up comedian.

Because you're exactly right, Megan. Like, you know, a lot of stand-up comedians go on the show, you know, that's their profile. I think I did this long interview the other day. young guy in the UK, and he said, okay, after like 50 minutes of chatting to him on Zoom, he said, okay, now's the time where you can share your Instagram handle. And I was like, I don't really know what it is. I said, I'm only talking to you because I thought you seemed nice. Something we learn about you during Taskmaster, which you shared with your fellow contestants.

I do community hip-hop every Tuesday, 630 to 7.30. Now, is that true, do you do, have you just done community hip-hop last night? That's right, I couldn't sit down and watch the show because I was down at Tappac, bopping all day. I do. I go every Tuesday, I've done it for years and years and years, absolutely love it. Can we please come to your next performance? I'll look at the Spark Arena after I, you know, like, pastmaster fame.

Yeah. Yeah, no, forget Spark. Eden Parker got more gigs now, mate, we can have it there. That's true, true, true. Jackie, now, something that people might not know. You actually ended up writing and directing the Australian version of the office. What an honour. I did. It was an honour, especially as a Kiwi, which was quite funny.

But they've made 13 versions around the world. Have they? We have they? We'll only know the UK and the US, but there's so many versions. And it was the first time we were going to put a female in that brilliant lead role. So that was really fun. And so do you run, do things have to get run past Ricky Jervais? or anything like that?

No, those guys were really hands off, they're EPs, but they don't really have any interest in doing, you know, being involved. They sent us a couple of nice messages saying best of luck, we love the idea, and that was it. Lovely to catch up with you, mate. Congratulations on not only winning Taskmaster, but a hugely successful career. Love your work. Thank you.