Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW:Megan’s About to Interview the Boyband She Used to Kiss on Posters!

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

On today’s show:  How long is too long to wait after your partner passes? We debate the awkward timeline. Megan’s new beauty routine is making her feet sweat... Is it weird to get emotional over an inanimate object? We’ve got thoughts. Ben’s officially over what his teenagers keep doing, and he’s not holding back. Plus, Megan finds out she’s interviewing the boyband whose posters she used to kiss. Childhood dreams incoming! Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. We got talking today about strangers that have helped you out. There's something lovely, heartwarming stories, people coming through. Although one about, was this not the pig one, is it? Oh, yeah, no, they moved into a house and then the vendors said, oh, do you want our pig?

The strangers gave them a pig, a Coonucity pig, which was quite aggressive. Had tusks. Oh, my God. The pig was kind of holding them hostage in their own. house there. Now we've got Pauline, good morning. Good morning, guys. Actually, Pauline, this is a podcast. So people could be also listening in the afternoon or evening. So can we cover all bases, thanks? Pauline, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hi, everyone. Yeah, lovely to have you on, Pauline. Now, what did you, you left

something with a stranger or gifted something to a stranger? Yeah, I work as a house support worker for the elderly in two different communities here in a Coramandel and I was just popping in for some bananas one day to the local supermarket and there was an elderly gentleman in front of me with his walker and that and he was struggling and he he went to pay for his groceries and he was like five dollars short or something like that and he was just mortified and my heart sunk and the reception, you know, the lady at the counter she didn't know what to do and I

just sort of said, I'm happy to pay for your groceries for you, you know, there's not much here and it was like bread, butter and some milk, you know, it was hardly anything and I said, no, no, no, no, I won't take, you know, money and I said, no, please, it would be, you know, my privilege to do that and

so it was minimal cost but he actually waited for me when I went outside and and he burst into tears and I just liked him. Oh, that's lovely. And I said, look, I know what this is like. I was a solo mum for six years and sometimes I just couldn't afford the basics

and I said, somebody did that for me and said, pay it forward one day and I said, this is me paying it forward. Oh, go on you. That's lovely, Pauline. What a nice story. I tried to pay for a guy he was trying to buy something at warehouse stationery and he was short and I was like,

don't worry, I can pay for the rest for you. And he was like, no. What a matter of he's short, Megan, you know? No, like short, yeah. Geez, Megan, always height shaming people. No, he was short. My first husband was short. Some of my best husbands have been short.

No, I mean short on money. I get you, I was just being a day. But he was like, no. Oh, really? Yeah, we just walked away without it. I was like, oh. A lot of it's a pride thing, isn't it, for some people? Do you know, we try it.

When we got the hits a couple of years ago, we tried it. Because we thought it would be a nice thing to do, get the company credit card and go down and shout some people, some groceries. And we did do that, and people, you know, we're thankful, but we filmed it and it felt really icky filming it, you know? And we're like, well, we can't release that anywhere. We came back to work and they're like, where's the footage? We're like, no one's going to see that.

Unlike Pauline, who wasn't doing it for social media views. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Hey, well, Pauline, you keep out the good work. What a wonderful person you are. Oh, thank you. Cheers, thank you so much. Enjoy the podcast. You too.

The podcast, the hits. Just, we're talking about crying over inanimate objects. Just one text that's come through here. My son cries every time he eats a gingerbread man and has to eat his head and legs off. Oh. Still does it, though. Just cries through it. You do.

You can fight through those emotions, can't you? Some people cry, and wouldn't they be gingerbread person as well, too, of late? Yeah, I think we've gone woke on the gingerbread. We've gone woke on gingerbread. I think so, too, but then some people would be crying saying that as well, right? But, I mean, I've never really seen an anatomically correct gingerbreads person, which would really make the gingerbread, a little unusual biting off that part. As a woman, I think I'm okay calling the gingerbread man.

You're chill with it? I might be alone. Thank you. Okay. So I was talking to a friend who got into, I guess, with his wife, they were having what you would label, a robust conversation. Right. Spicy debate.

Okay. Also known as an argument. Okay. And they got talking about life after death and, you know, what their lives would look like. if one were to go earlier than the other. And how long the other should wait before moving on? Now, he's like, bearing in mind, he's like, I know I'm being silly, but this is a hypothetical conversation.

Yeah, true. Okay, so she said, if you go first, I'll give you six to 12 months. All right. He said six to 12 months. He wanted 24. He wants two years of nonstop grieving from her. She's gone six to 12 months is fine. And if you've gone on a long, slow fadeout,

I've been grieving already before you've left. Oh, yeah, true. So, you know, do I factor in those months of grieving? Yeah, yeah, again, hypothetical, but you don't know how it's going to... Yeah, she's like, I don't want to be miserable for two years. And, like, when does it start? Does it start, you know, day dot you dead? Okay, I count 24 months from the funeral?

Yeah, well, I guess, yeah. You just lie in that scenario, because you know what? They're going to be dead, so they're not going to know. That's what she said. She's like, you're not going to care, mate, you're not going to hear. That's the thing. So just lie, so you don't have this argument. Haunt you in ghost form or something.

You're like, yeah, I'll wait five years. Five days later you like on Tinder or they're not going to know. Whatever old person Tinder is. Rinkly Tinder. It depends on my mood because me and my husband talk about this and I'm like, some days I'm like, no, you deserve to find love again. Like as soon as you're all ready. And then the next day I'll be like, you need to pine after me.

You're never to marry again. Never? But it just depends on the day. Yeah, right. So what do you think is a good time? What would you give yourself? Isn't it supposed to be a month for every year you're together or something? Is there a rule around it?

I think so. A breakup rule. A month for every year. I don't know. I think putting a time on it is odd. Just when never you're ready. Yeah, like I feel like one of those things you can't put a time on because you're either going to know you're ready or you're not going to know you're ready. The people that do get together and people don't.

So I would say in Amanda's case, if I passed on, if she's ready and she wants to, that's, you know, I'm not going to know. You're not going to know. And she does her thing. I don't feel like if you say a year, I mean, who needs to know? You know, like, what person's going to be like in a year's time? But usually, you could be gone in July. She's got a new plus one by Valentine's Day. Yeah, yeah.

And he's like, oh, that's quite quick. But I'll be chill with it. I'll have a little quick. No, no. When you put it like that. I mean, I moved on to the second husband before my first husband was dead. So there's always that. Yeah, well, that's true.

You know, line them up. Yeah. Text poll. Let's settle on a time that's appropriate for you. How many months? You can text 4-487 on New Zealand's brick. John O'Benn and Megan The podcast

The Hats I have a bedtime parade That's what we call it Like bedtime parade Is put all my lotions and potions And all that jazz on How long does it take you usually About 15 minutes

Yeah that's quite Add that up over a week What does it involve A bit of removing makeup Applying some moisturises Bits and pieces Lots of moisturisers And then I've started

Putting them on my hands I'm like put everything on my hands You're quite paranoid about getting old lady hands Aren't you? So you've got driving gloves too Yeah I've got driving gloves And I've got like under eye serum And then I've got like eyebrow and eyelash serum So I've got to put all that on

And now there's something I do right before I go to bed Do you think they work? This isn't a loaded question I don't know I You don't know if that stuff works Like we just Yeah I feel like it does Yeah

So Hang out well it makes you happy And doing what you know Yeah Do you? So I've added something else and it's like when I get into bed, I sit on the bed and I've decided to start moisturizing my feet because you know how you get like dry feet? And I was like, why should my feet be neglected? What do you want to say?

Bed Talk is open for. Just wait. Just wait for bed for it. That's a step too far. Okay. So I was like, people get cracked heels and stuff. So I'm like, what if I moisturise and that's not going to happen? and when I have nice, like, supple feet.

So you're doing this specific, like, for your feet just before bed? Yeah. Right. Don't you have greasy feet, though? Yeah. Aren't the bed sheets getting all greased up with greasy? Yeah. Not the bed sheets.

So herein lies my problem. So I do it right before I go to bed and I'm like, putting on this cream and it's supposed to be good for, you know, like, cracked hands. Oh, for hands, right. Okay, yeah. This might be my problem. So the past few days, I've been walking around and I'm like, man, I've got sweaty feet. Like I've got red

Because I'm not wearing socks I wear like heels You're slipping and sliding all around Yeah And I'm slipping in my heels And I'm like What is wrong with my feet I've got like

Sweaty feet Because you've leathered them up With grease Mate Yeah so it's not soaking In very well So I've literally still Got greasy feet

In the morning No one wants greasy feet No I know We've got What we've got is we've got Like tiles out In reception We could take Megan shoes off

And like Like a curling Slider along Slider along Yeah It's like a snail. So, yeah, I'm going to have, like, nice, supple, greasy feet, but it's not a conducive to wearing shoes every day.

And it does feel like your bed sheets are going to get, like, John O'Brien. I remember you always say, we had that debate, do you wash below your knees in the shower? And Ben was like, I wash my feet every day. I remember you tried to send a selfie of your washed feet to us. Well, I was going to, to Meg, and then I noticed that the plug hole was reflecting. Yeah, it was like so metallic, and it was. That's not a flattering angle.

No, it wasn't. And thank God I didn't send that selfie. That would have been cancable. Don't just, by the way, don't see me a fluttering angle either. No, no, no, I was just want to get the feet in that, no, anyway. I'd love to see that angle, though, just for comedic purposes. Be like, oh, yeah? You're like, this is what the ants see.

Double chin and. Yeah, just whatever's going on underneath. You don't want to look at the undercarriage. Yeah, definitely not so good. John O'Ben and Megan, a podcast. Oh, yeah, I don't know what's going down there for me, to be honest. said big news this morning Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey, are engaged. Oh, bad day for Megan Markle to release her second series of her show on Netflix, right?

Her show of putting compost from the garden on meals. Apparently she makes a cooked breakfast every morning for the family. Apparently she does that, like a hot breakfast, yeah, every morning. Well, I don't, does she go to work? Like, that is her work kind of, isn't it? But then she's like, oh, I'm so stressful. It's like dropping the kids at school. That's a weekend thing, you know, that's a weekend hot breakfast thing.

I mean, if anyone could have a hot breakfast any morning, I'm sure they'd all pick, yes. Yeah, exactly. Not all of us have the time on our hands. Now, Megan, you just said something to us a couple of days ago, and we need to talk about this on the radio. Something you cried over. Yeah, well, I have a tendency of naming things, especially my car. My current car is Muffy, and the one before that was Ruby. Oh, and Ruby.

So is Muffy named after your muffler, or? Muffy comes from the number plate. Oh, okay. The one before that, she was... Not what I was thinking. She was a red MX5. A little racy MX5. This was my dream since I was little to get a convertible.

And so she was my first car that I bought solely myself. And I had her for like 15 years. How often did you have the top down? All the time. It would be like spitting and I'm like top down with it. What does it like on the motorway like? Is it just like a crazy tornado in your face or it's actually blocked by the windscreen? little flap behind you, weirdly, that kind of stops the wind from blowing back at you.

They've thought about it. Yeah, I'm sure they would have. Okay, so this car, mental legged you? Yeah, and then the windows stopped working, like the electric windows. It had a few things, a few quirks, and I was like, it's time to give her up. So I traded her in, and for some reason that felt worse than selling it to someone, because I didn't know what they were going to do with it. Oh, the things they were going to do.

They were going to scrap her or? Yeah, don't worry, that went to some 48-year-old guy who's, divorced his wife, left his family. Oh, great, and he has a little white fluffy dog. Yeah, I love that. I love that. I got a new hairpiece, starting a new chapter in life. But when I traded her in, I still vividly remember.

I drove away from the car yard, and I cried. And I was like, bye, Ruby. There we go. I don't know, do you? Actually, a car that I traded it, and it was our family car for the car that I currently drive. We saw it the other day. Did you?

And my wife was so excited. She's like, it's our whole car, like, almost like waving. I'm like, the car doesn't remember. remember us. No, it's not like those dog videos when the soldiers return from war and the dogs are like, oh my God, it's you. The car does not have shared the same way. And the people driving it were looking weirdly at us like, I don't know if we know this

family. They're like, that's the car, it's a car. I guess people sell cars. Yeah, exactly. I hadn't given the car a second thought, but obviously they had. So yeah, we want to know, oh 800 of the hits is our telephone number. You can call us on New Zealand's breakfast. Text, 4487 as well, crying over inanimate objects.

And as soon as we mention this, it brings one thing to my name. mind for me. The famous scene, Kim Kardashian, loses her earring. My earring's gone! Are you sacked? Oh my god, I'm going to cry, my diamond earring. My diamond earring came off in the ocean. My diamond earrings's gone. There's people that are dying.

There's people that are dying. Although that was $75,000 that earring. Yeah, I'd be crying too. I'd be crying. You were thwarted Miami's 5. Yeah, like you put that in New Zealand dollars. That's over 100K. definitely I'd be crying too

everyone mocked you for that and I was like why it was a hundred thousand dollars you know John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hats Selling your MX5 I had to give it up Yeah I traded it in

Which felt worse You know you when you're driving that Through your 20s 30s Yeah Yeah that's cute Oh look at that cute lady in the MX5 I hop in a red MX5 now Midlife crisis

Yeah It must be what I don't know Naming things or making personifying things My wife, every time we stay in a hotel or something, she always thanks out loud. Thanks for having us, room.

Oh, bless. Now I found myself doing it when I'm like, this is weird. You also touch the plane, don't you, when you walk on? Yeah, yeah. Give it a wet pat. But I don't go, good luck for the flight, mate. Give it a gentle caress, almost like a pat on the bottom. Get out there.

Yeah. Give it a go. And then you're saying you cry over plants as well. That's the thing. You're right. It's when I named things. So my MX5 was red and I called her Ruby. And then I used to name my plants because I was like,

Maybe I won't kill them if I name them. So I had Ed, and I got really attached to Ed, but Ed died. Oh, God. Oh, now you're still. And then, yeah, I had to say goodbye to Ed and put him in the rubbish. Well, someone else is just as, well, just like you, shall we say. Yeah, sure we have a call. Yeah, they just text in 4487.

What's going on? And I said, hey, yay, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I said, hey, sing it. What's going on? Legend song, legend song. John O'Bin and Megan here from The Hits, how are you? I'm good, how are you? We're doing well.

Listen, we were just replying to a text you sent about crying. Can you turn down the four non-blones? It's a great song I mean we're playing on the hits Yeah I'll just wander away from that Hang on Yeah no worry I mean you can listen to it any time you want

Forne on Blonde's they've recorded it And you can play it at your discretion Corrin You're crying over inanimate objects What was it for you? Honestly I bought my first phone When I was 15 I was so excited about it

And then I got really attached to it Because it didn't break It survived everything and then it's only a 3G so it's cutting out at the end of the year and so I had to buy a new phone and I cried because I powered it off for the last time and I felt so guilty I felt so bad about it Do you become quite attached to your objects do you?

Yeah I do I don't know why when we moved cows we were going to throw out the fridge and I didn't want to because it was like 20 years old and there was nothing wrong with it And my dad said, no, it's a waste of time. Just get rid of it. I've still got it. Sounds like these are the beginnings of a big problem later in my for hoarding. It sounds like it might be, eh?

Well, there you go. Crying over the phone, having to power off the phone for the last time. It was like putting it down and you see it slowly shut down. You're like, oh. Goodbye, my lover. Oh, no, my phone. I'm so sorry. Goodbye, my friends.

All the words I've said into you. All the good times we've had. You know all my secrets. I was like, you served me so. well it's time to you to retire I'm so sorry love your love your work Corinne we'll let you get back to the

the four non blondes okay thank you and I said oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you're good you're good you're great you really nailed that I was like oh it's a bit high for me

that bitch so you nailed it oh god have a good one you too have a good day John O'Ben and Megan the podcast The Hits arrested yesterday at the airport in Auckland for importing nearly one million cigarettes failing to declare that just put down as close but one million cigarettes quite a lot you can't confuse the two can you I both start with sea I guess remember when you used to travel overseas and it was the big thing oh pick us up a brick

brick of brick of cigarettes like a box of air you're coming back you make sure you use that you know someone to want it yeah I was the annoying person that was like no because I'm not contributing to the decline of your health yeah fair enough Why? Really? You wouldn't even buy? No. Why would I want to help someone, like, hurt themselves? It's their passion, Megan. No. It's their hobby. So many cigarettes, too, the big break of cigarettes. You could come home for a while that you could just come home as many as you want.

Then they started getting a bit tired on it, didn't they? I feel like we get whipped up into a frenzy about a journey of friends. You've got to get your two things worth. And then you go to, like, to the stores nowadays and you're like, oh, it's cheaper sometimes. Yeah. We really don't need to. You go to, like, chemists and the cologne. is, you know, like it doesn't feel like

it's quite the frenzy it once was. No, it did used to, yeah. Still now, you're like, I've got to get two bottles about booze. You're like, why, do I? Consumerism at its finest. I won't drink him. I was putting in the cupboard with the rest of them.

I got my two bottles. Probably never get near, yeah, they'll still be there when I die. Don't you worry about me. Just quickly, something that's been whining me out lately about my teenage daughters, just the slow pace they walk at. Like, you know, yesterday, they wanted to go to the mall, and then we get there.

It's like, it felt like they've got no else to be it's like you wanted to be here let's just pick up the pace apart from going to school and then the odd after school activity there's nothing they have to rush to yeah and just the just the and i know i did as a teenager it's like the feet don't even come off the ground they just almost scuff like they're skating along the thing i agree with you the pace for everything else but as soon as you get to shopping that's like my chill time i want to wander is that right guys go in and you go in with the purpose and you get it done and you go whereas like i don't know i like to wander and look and in patient generation they do dawdle don't know that's what i think you're all about like you know like the attention spans and stuff and i'm like come on guys come on

i've got 23 meetings to get to a mole map appointment dry cleaning the drop off like 50 things still on my to-do list today and walking slowly is not one of them so yeah teenagers just pick up your feet when you walk your dog is it like a blistering pace yeah the dog he's the same too he wants to sniff this and do that and blow it's not yeah no one's running at ben boy's place. The dog wants to sniff things. I'm being a dog. You've gone wheezed nine times on this one street. Surely that's it now.

He's the guy that's like dragging the dog along and then realizing he's trying to do a poo. And my wife as well too like a walk, is it a walk, or is it a walk? Like what are we doing?

Are we dawdling or are we like actually walking? Yeah, because she wants to pick up rubber she wants to do this thing. I'm like, yes, the pace of those the professional Olympic walkers with the pelvis hips going side to side. Maybe I should get into that. You should.

After the show, We get a coffee, right? We go and get a coffee. But I've noticed you, like, gun it first. Is it because we walk too slow? Yeah, just got to go. Come on, guys. He's like, just got...

I'll see you there. I'm going. I'm going. We have to be at the same place. I feel like I'm making up time. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. Yeah, this is a good thing.

This is an exciting thing that's come through. Teasing Megan all morning saying we've got a surprise for her. Now, the last surprise we had for her didn't turn out to be a surprise. It was audio clips of Liam Lawson. interviewing by Mike Hosking and you thought we had interviewed him. You passed it off as you guys interviewed Liam on the one day that I was away sick. She loves

Liam Lawson Formula 1. I was beyond gutted. She started crying and went out oh this is awkward. And it weren't even crying on camera for us too. It was off camera. That wasn't even good for a social video. I just did a quiet sob and making myself a coffee. I'm happy for you? That's good. It's like oh this is yeah. Oh god how sweet

am I though? I was like I'm looking the show got him. We're like you're okay you know I'm just a bit sad I missed it but no I'm going to You know, it was like, oh, okay, you know. You thought I was going to blow up, but I was just really sweet about it. I thought you'd blow up when we were like, it was a prank, and you were like, oh, you guys, but you're just like, oh, okay. You know, so it was just a weird flat ending to the whole thing.

Now we're bringing it back. We're bringing the good vibes back, okay, because we have another surprise for you in less than 24 hours. We know this for a fact. You dedicated a large part of your life to these people. Now, you had posters on your wall. Now, you talked about it as a teenager. Now, you had a couple of boy groups up there. They're right.

Handsome was one of them. Hanson was one of them. Another one? I had five. I had bachelor boys less. Stop. Stop. Stop talking. Go back.

Go back one. Go back one. Oh my God. Five. Now we have got... Jump Jam. The Jump Jam band. They're coming to New Zealand.

They are coming to New Zealand. It's just been announced May next year they are coming to New Zealand. They're back together. Five, the original group, five are back together. And we have got a Zoom interview with them. Because they were on tour for a while as three, weren't they? Yeah, still called five. confusing but yes

a Zoom interview yeah we've got a Zoom interview we'll see them face to face the whole all five of five now this is happening this is happening Richie Sean Scott J. Abbs all of those ones if you named all the correct

members then yes then they all be there were they were the original five yeah well they're there we've got the OGs we got the OGs over Zoom with you yes we honestly have now this is going to happen tomorrow you'll hear tomorrow on the show but we don't want Megan getting you know like

Oh, carried away. She can't ruin the credibility of this fine broadcast. No, we want you as chill as you were when you found out we didn't have Liam Lawson. Yeah, we need those vibes. You're going to put me an ice bath. Minus the, no, minus the sobbing. No tears. No, what we've got is we've got a little heart rate monitor.

Now, John has brought that in. Now, we'll get your resting heart rate, and then we'll also give you a level. Now, you've got to keep your heart rate under that level. Producer Troy, you figured out how to work this. Well, you're talking to them. Well, you're talking to them. If it goes over the level tomorrow, the interview's over. Why don't we get your resting heart right now?

This is when you're just hanging out with us. Because you used to kiss them goodnight, right? Yeah, especially Scott. What? Kissed posters. Did you have very soggy posters? Do you know, one time I kissed it with lip balm on and I stained one of them and I was like, oh, you idiot!

Would you kiss them on the lips? Well, yeah. I'm right. On the poster. Does he used to kiss your posters? I've never kissed a poster. I did some stuff with a pillow. They never a poster.

I had a lot of cricketers. I wasn't kissing Martin Crowe good night in bed or anything like that. Mark, great batch. No, no, no, Mark. No, not, Matt. Not paddles, originally. Maybe I should have been.

Sometimes it was all of them. Sometimes it was just Scott. Scott's your favourite. He will be on there tomorrow. Front and centre, Scott will be there tomorrow. Now, what's a resting heart rate right now? What have we got there, producer, Troy? They're sitting at 110.

Because you've just told me. Oh, yeah, this is very exciting. We need to do beforehand. First thing in the morning, resting. heart rate and then we'll give you a level that you have to stay under. I've lost it at 110 right now. Maybe it's Ben doing it to you. Are you guys going to talk too?

We can do. We don't want to ruin your five interview though. We're not here to embarrass you with a heart rate monitor or anything about how excited you had us to be on a Zoom call with us. But you have to bring up the fact you used to kiss their posters, all right? I have to tell them that. Yeah, I don't know why we're making the rules, but we can actually, to be honest, you can do what you want.

You don't even do with a heart rate monitor. Oh my God, teenage vegan is fizzing. having tomorrow. I'm very excited that five are coming to New Zealand and Megan. And we will chat to them. They'll be joining us tomorrow on the show. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Pop star Taylor Swift and NFL footballer Travis Kelsey are engaged. Then Pierre announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post, co-labbing across the two. Oh, yeah, they get multiple accounts working good. Rich could engage them.

Oh, yeah, millions. Within like 20 minutes, I think I had 1.8 million likes. huge the caption was your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married which is pretty cool there was them in a garden

we'll share it on the hits breakfast I think we have already actually on social media them in a beautiful garden him who traversed down on one knee it looked very romantic it did it was nice of them to share all those photos

I wasn't expecting to get like such an insight into their engagement tell you what no one's going to be happier than her new brother-in-law Taylor swear

Of course, that was Jason Kelsey from the podcast that she did just a couple of weeks ago. So, Megan, now let's pull, let's, you know, break down this, peel the layers off this onion. 24 months or so they've been dating a couple of years. Through that entire two-year period, you've never trusted him. What are his intentions? What is it an ulterior motive? That's what I was saying. I don't know what his intentions are, but now I do.

Oh, now you do. Intentions will love. Oh, he just wants to marry her. I think it's sweet. it's very cool actually can we talk about the ring for a second it's humongous well you'd hope so

I thought she was like going to be more of a vintage understated kind of situation but it's an eight carrot cushion cut it's worth between half a mill and a mill and it is

it's probably more than that it's huge yeah I don't know I never know what the carrots mean I just sort of smile and wave I do remember when buying a ring for my wife you know my wife has a

life that you go on in with your budget this is, you know, but then they always give you that one, you know, this isn't your budget, but, if you really love her. Yeah, and then they show,

and I was like, why you show me in the but one? The buds, if you're in there. And then I was with my friend and she was like, well, that one is nicer. I'm like, oh, you're not helping me. Of course it's nicer. It's like, we're at the most double the price. It's all right, the jewelers know what they're doing,

though, right? This isn't your budget, but, let's see you. Oh, Gary Pascoe, show her how much you're here, mate. Show her how much you're. Now, we have, over the last sort of six months or so, been in touch with a listener Enya, who's from Invercargo, and probably New Zealand's biggest Taylor Swift fan, you'd say.

She's got so much merch and memorabilia, almost a shrine room to her. Yeah, she bought something online that Taylor Swift had actually made and signed. I think we've got some order of us talking to Enya. My most prized position, which is my birdhouse that is also signed, and she made it in 2007 for a charity auction. Those birds don't know how good they've got it Do you let birds into the house? It's in a special own plastic protection box

So no bird has pooped inside that Taylor Swift Handmade Birdhouse Should we try and go in you Because as soon as she gets on her phone this morning She'll see it She's going to have the notifications We need to wake her up

And tell her the news I reckon we can beat the internet to this one I hope so If she answers now This is an early morning way It is. But it's worth it. I mean, it's good news to wake up to, especially for her.

Yeah. Unless she's not sure about Travis Kelsey like you, Megan. No. I'd like to officially announce I'm on board. Okay. I'm on board. No, she's probably like you probably doesn't have sleep with the phone. Hi, yeah, Eni here from my Kiwet.

Okay, well, we'll try Eni throughout the morning and see if we can break the big news to her. John O'Beno, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Radio Heraki. Matt Minaya and Jerry Host the show Jeremy Wales Manila Stewart

And we're in the same building They're across the way from us And they've seen something that we have in the studio That they would like Now this is off the back of an expert They got into their program Part of that we got a feng shui expert in, Master You And one of the issues with our studio

Is there's too much positive energy Coming in from outside via the glass walls Right To that end we need a new set of curtains I came over the other day to see where you guys got yours from and I understand that you may not be having yours for much longer. The positive energy. Is that outside and inside the studio or inside the studio?

How's the energy? Negative or positive? It comes from the outside, Ben. It comes from the outside in. And then what happens is you're looking for a balance between the positive and the negative, according to master you anyway. So they're wanting our curtains that we have in the studio.

To be fair, we've slid the curtains back. We're not making much use of the curtains. No, we don't really like them, but don't tell them that. No, behind the scenes, we hate the curtains and we'd love them gone. But as soon as someone wants something from you, you should look at what you can get in turn. So we're going to try and work that out. But first, can we even give them away? Yeah, so we're taking this up to the board level, exact level here at the company.

We're going to go through to our boss, Jason and Stanley. Stano, get his thoughts. Hello, Jason speaking. Good day, Jason. John I've been a Megan here from the Hits. Oh, good I go, I'm here on official business. Yeah. We mean business today.

We do mean business. Now, there's been a lot of discussions about the curtains in the studio here at, in the hits, right? Mm-hmm. Now, it's actually a sensitive subject. Yeah, we don't mean to, because a positive thing has come out of this. Now, there is another radio show in the building. There is in the market for some curtains. They came over and they asked, and we talked them on the radio.

want our curtains? I mean, I want them gone out of there. They look terrible. Well, what's wrong? You want them gone. Well, Radio Haraki, Jerry and Minaya have pitched a case for the curtains to be relocated to their studio because they spoke to a feng shui expert who said there's too much positive energy coming into their studio from the outside.

And then I was thinking, well, their outside just looks out into that little alleyway where you vape all the time. I'm just looking, going, I'm not sure that grey deckplay is terrible, don't you think? So there's a lot of positive, I don't know what, positive energy, you're giving them from outside there? Too much positive energy, stane over from you? So they came out, and they've talked to us now like, well, John I Ben and Megan have got curtains, how do we get curtains? And we went, well, actually, have we maybe got the deal for you?

Because we don't want these bad boys. This sounds like it's going to be a them problem, though. Yeah, this is true. And if you can pass that off to them, go for it. But I'm not sure it's going to improve their show, is it? Less positive energy from the outside. I don't know. Maybe.

So you're okay as our boss for the curtains to be relocated. They wanted the curtain rails as well. I don't know if we can stretch that far. No, they can get their own curden rails. You guys still need the curtain rails just in case. Yes. A different colour curtain, right? When you took over the role of big boss of radio,

do you think these are the sort of the sort of the, The big issues you'd be tackling Stano. Jono, can I tell you the two things I deal with most often? What's that? My Kosking? No, no, no, no. My Koskin, green. Like you guys.

You three, easy, easiest. Two things I deal with most often. Car parks. Oh, yeah. Car parks are a problem for everyone. And the second one, which literally has been 20 years of my life, is air conditioning. Carparts and the aircon. Nowhere did they take.

teach me at Radio Boss School how to deal with car parks or air conditioning. And literally, you guys have bitched about air conditioning before. You've bitched about car parks, like, literally everyone has to think about it. Yeah, no, you're right, you're right. They don't prepare for that. Correct. Okay, we'll pass this back on. We'll pass this feedback back to Bajeri and Mania.

And thank you for your time. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. The whole world talking about the Taylor Swift engagement, Travis Kelsey. Even Donald Trump at his meeting in the White House. I have to tell you the biggest pop culture news of the year broke while we were in this cabinet meeting. Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged and the world wants your reactions are. Well, I wish I'm a lot of love.

I think he's a great player. I think he's a great guy and I think that she's a terrific person. So I wish them a lot of luck. Now he said some things about her that haven't been. been quite as complimentary right so yeah he said i think she's a great person since when he probably caught him off guardies like i can't think of any burns in the moment on the spot so i wish them a lovely thing oh that's nice okay well uh yeah so it's taken over the whole world's news and we wanted to know four 487 on the text uh what is it

overshadowed for you today but we need to let new zealand's biggest taylor swift fan know we've been trying to call her since six o'clock this morning this is enna she's in Bacagal and she's got a whole room dedicated to Taylor Swift in her house. My most prized position, which is my bird house that is also signed and she made it in 2007 for a charity auction. Those birds don't know how good they've got it. Do you let birds into the house? It's in a special own plastic protection box.

And we've been harassing her phone all morning but to no answer and she just called back during the song. Hi, it's Enya I'm... Hi, Inya! Congratulations! I've been too busy freaking out all morning

We try to call you like from 6 o'clock this morning we're like, we need to be the first to tell you because it's going to be huge news but when did you find out? I woke up probably at like 6 a.m. We tried calling you at 6 o'clock to be the ones to break the news.

My first thought was I wonder what Megan thinks about this. Yeah, Megan, just... Yeah, here we go. See, no, my issue. Listen, you're not getting an invite to the wedding, mate. So, my issue was always like, I'm not sure, like, is he using her? Is it real?

But now I'm, like, on board. I'm on board. I think, like, he's serious. Okay, so we can put that aside that chapter, that era behind us. People can still use each other in marriage, though, Megan. Well, that's true, too. Okay. But, Enil, you sound giddy.

How you feel about it? honestly I'm just so happy for them like oh what can we say like she's been through so much such a roller coaster and now she's found her happily ever after greatest day of your life I shouldn't say that because my husband might be listening is it better in the time your husband proposed to you I might have got more likes on my Facebook post about it

But you're, I mean, you know, each they probably will keep their original names, their OG names. I mean, everyone can do what they want these days. But if I was him on a football field, Swift would be a great last night. Travis Swift. Yeah, I mean, it would be. I'd be like, yeah. You'd want to play with that on the back of your jersey. But anyway, I'll leave that to them.

But then they have to reprint all the jerseys. Oh, yeah, true, actually, you're right. Back in nightmare. So happy for you that you're so happy. We were just a little upset. We weren't the ones to break the news. Well, I'm very happy anyway. and I don't even know what I think of it

I honestly didn't know what type of ring she would want and then I saw it and I was like it's so like old schooly and it's just very hurt and I don't know it's very impractical but I don't know she's had a lot of time holding a microphone so she's been training for it for a long time excuse my ignorance has she been engaged previously no no this is the first

You say it's a big ring But have you seen Look at the size of his hands Is it just me It knows how big his hands are Yeah when he's holding her weight He's a big lad eh Just in general

I was just look at that before I mean the ring's obviously big But if he put it next to his hands Look it's like his hands He's got a big hands He's almost covering a large portion of her back Like the pretty much the whole back It's just his hands in the photo

Yeah we like that He's a handsy guy Okay okay It's such a lovely photo shoot Oh Everybody got to look everybody there is talk that maybe this had happened a month or so ago or even earlier

when do you think this happened this engagement I think it's happened in the last couple of days yeah I think they probably wanted to share the news and if it had happened like a month or two ago then it would have been leaked so they wouldn't have been able to do that and their suspicion around his haircut as well so yeah hey thank you so much for your

calling us appreciate your time mate have a good one you guys too bye Yeah, so we want to know what news that it's overshadowed today, that big announcement, Taylor Swift News. I guess no one's going to call and say, hey, I was going to propose, but I put it on hold today. But surely there was something out there. Keep you anonymous. Yeah, we can, we don't have to say your names.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hit. Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey, they've got together. They've been together for a while and they've got engaged just overnight New Zealand time, which is pretty exciting news. So we just opened the phones on our 800. It hits 4487 on the text. You know, what is this news overshadowed in your life?

You know, the light world goes on. People starting new jobs. A text here 4487 saying they're a first day on a brand new job today. Can't talk. It's the first day on a brand new job. And... Hey, but if you've stuck for what to talk to your new workmates about, it's a good banter.

I like banter today. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Something to talk about. That'll pull you through it. I've just finished paying off $700 with a parking ticket fines. Oh. Big day.

Big day. Is that huge on it? That's a personal story for me. Just a fact. Caitlin with us. Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey's engagement overshadowed. All big news today, Caitlin. A little bit.

Well, look, I am a Swift D, so I'm very excited. But today is a big day for the F1 fans because Cadillac has announced their lineup and is Checo Perez and Botas, which is really great for them. and the room is a big day for f1 fan you sound like megan I could be like I close my eyes I'm just sound like I'm hearing that from megan

oh my god Caitlin so when I woke up this morning and went on my Instagram that was the first thing I got I got fed the big F1 news before I got the Taylor Swift news and I was like this is such a big day yeah the new there's a new a new team right Cadillac that's being added next season and the whole time everyone's like who are going to be the two drivers oh so it's just been announced today

just well we just heard they were and I've already forgotten who they were. Checo and Bottas. Checo and Bottas. It doesn't compare. What about the Warriors' Unchanged lineup for the first time in a while? Big announcement. Rockerberry is all right.

He's playing, you know? Again, overshadowed by Taylor Swift engagement. I hear you, I feel you. All right. Well, I appreciate it. I'm with you, though, Caitlin. It's big news. It is big news.

Thank you, Megan. Good on you, Caitlin. Have a great day. Yeah, okay. See you, mate. Oh, it's our friend Ben and Nartier. Taylor Swift overshadowed your big news today. Ben?

Oh, At Maria, my father. At Maria? Yeah, no, so it's mine and my wife's 11 year anniversary

today. Oh, happy anniversary. Well, yes. Happy anniversary, babe. Oh, that's cute. That's lovely.

I mean, you guys still get to celebrate, but obviously the world are talking more about Taylor Swift than Trachskelson. We would have dedicated half an hour

of the show to Ben and Ben and his wife's 11 year anniversary. What have you got your wife, Ben? It's steel just by the way. We'll probably go out

in the weekend. Go and have a nice dinner or something like that. The traditional gift is steel. What are you supposed to give that steel? Roofing. Some roofing products or something. I don't know.

A total span garage? Oh, yes. Now we're talking. Hey, babe. Happy anniversary. Who can? Total spanish. A cottage.

There's many options. Are you good on you, mate. Have a good one, Ben. Have a good one.