Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Jono’s 15-Hour Mystery App Had Us All Guessing Wrong | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: July 29, 2026

On today’s show:  (00:00) We check our shocking screen time stats after speaking to a phone addiction expert(03:20) Jono’s mystery app sparks a hilarious guessing game... and the answer is peak boomer behaviour(08:30) The old-school playground insults and sayings we haven’t heard in years(12:30) We discover how all of us ignored the same work email chain(14:45) Megan shares the unexpectedly motivational bedtime wisdom from his three-year-old daughter(17:20) Tough love vs being babied: the parenting debate continues(20:55) Producer Grace gets called out for still having her parents cover some of her bills(24:15) Commonwealth Games gold medallist Zoe Hobbs joins us after her incredible 100m victory   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!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 tea. Just having a little bit of a debrief. Had the wonderful Francis on from Touch Grass, which is sort of a cell phone addiction centre for young people. And then we just checked our screen time. I was like, let's have a fun little bit of a banter at the end of this interview.

Who's got the most screen time? I said I had nine hours and 32 minutes or something, daily average. A daily average. That's a lot. You know when you say something in a conversation and you think everyone will have the same thing? But then you just meet with shock and silence. You're like, oh dear God, I wish I didn't hand out that information.

Let's all say, yeah. Mine's nine hours and like so casual. Now, Grace, can you look at my phone and see what that's all being useful? Could produce Grace Sarah. For reference. For reference, what is your screen time? I do use my phone a lot. Well, yeah, it's only showing up yesterday's day.

So yesterday was on it for just over six hours, which is a lot. But then I'm looking into it. It was a podcast. I listened to for half an hour. There was an editing thing I used for over an hour as well. So somewhere would I feel like good? This is a real indication of where things are in the world. One minute on calls and a whole lot of messages.

So yeah, I'm not calling many people, but I'm texting people as well. So that comes up. A bit of music there as well in email. But yeah. Evenly spread. Yeah, social media. Instagram was probably the biggest one. Mine's four hours and two minutes.

So you're on it five hours more than me. Took an Uber that comes up, but not as much. Only just come up with four minutes on the phone, whereas the Uber driver arrived is about 20 minutes. So yeah. That's a day, right? Yeah, yeah. You're on it five hours a day more than me.

Just getting stuff done. Nine hours. What are you doing for nine hours on your phone? I honestly genuinely don't think I'd be on their nine. Lucky if I'm on for an hour and a half. I would have thought, but maybe an hour and a half to me is nine hours. That's the mode of life I'm living in. Okay, well, I'm looking.

Jono's top app, he's on it for 15 hours a week. 15 hours a week just on one app, Johnna, and I don't think you'll guess what it is. It's not Instagram. No? Am I, really? Why did I give her my phone? What are you on for 15 hours ago? I don't know.

It's giving boomer. It's really giving boomer. Is that? Mm-hmm. Okay. What apps are. Should we throw it out? Is it?

Yeah. be got an app. Weather. No, you'll be on the weather for that. Is it changing radar? 15 hours a week on this app. Yeah.

Not messages. No. Phone. Oh. Is he calling people? Yeah, maybe that's it. He's calling some of those parents and talking about this stuff. He loves a chat.

So if you're on the phone for like six minutes, that counts the screen time. Yeah. I'm not on the phone that much. Fifteen hours. Okay. Should we throw it out there? This is fun.

Okay, 44, 8, 7 on the text. Can anyone guess what? What the, is it an app? It's an app. It's an app. Jono is on an app for 15 hours a week. It's not messages, it's not phone and it's not Instagram. Can I say this is a frightening topic?

A frightening topic to throw out to the audience. Well, it was your idea. Okay, from you. My wife's to sex series. She said Maps. No. Oh, I thought she had it. Yeah.

It's not Maps. Not Maps. John O' Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. We just spoke to someone from New Zealand's first cell phone addiction. Center and we looked at our screen time. Mine was well over nine hours and I don't know what the app is that's causing all this but producer grace is on it at the moment. So we're trying to guess what it is. Happy New Year, Tim. Okay, everyone's guessing what app I've spent 15 hours on a week to get my daily average up this week, around about nine hours, 23 minutes.

Already. Yeah. It's only Thursday. And you have no idea. You don't know what it is. No. If you're spending that long on a day. How much do you spend on your farm? You're a digital farm. Oh, yeah, you do. Probably like it.

Oh, I can probably tell. Yeah, tell us. But you're not, I don't know. At work, you probably just check in and check out of it, don't you? You just, you just, like, add stuff to grow and then you leave. Right. You know? Tim, what's your screen time?

Have you got that average screen time up, Timbo? Not really. I'll stay my day. Check on first thing in the morning and you do the rest in the afternoon. Oh, an afternoon. Good. Your smartphone user. So, okay, what do you reckon the app is?

I don't know what it is that I've spent this amount of time on. Facebook. Oh, Facebook. No, no. Grace did say it was giving boomer, didn't she? Yeah. And I don't even know how to use Facebook, which is even more embarrassing. Oh, thank you, Tim.

Have a good one. No, what we do? Catch you. So I spend 52 minutes on Township, which is my farm, my farm game. 52 minutes a day. That's not too bad. I mean, your real farmers are out there, 14 hours a day. All conditions, all weather.

I mean, you're playing it all weather, actually, as well, aren't you? Yeah. I want to be a farmer, I just don't want to deal with the poops. I would have thought it would have been more. No, just tap in, tap out. All right, Jude, we're deep in the bowels of my phone. What do you reckon this mystery app is that's causing me so much grief and screen time? Pokemon Go.

Not Pokemon Go. Oh, yeah, that was popular for a while, wouldn't it? Yeah, no, I never got it. It's still popular. It's still popular, yeah. I would do it on behalf of my son when we were travel for work. He's like, oh, there's a Charzard. You're in Wellington.

Go get the Charzard. That was, but that was... But how do you get the Charzard for him? I was just on my phone. Oh, so was he on the same? Yeah. Oh, okay, got you, got you, got it. Yeah, it was just basically a unpaid Pokemon hunter there for a while for him.

No, no, not Pokemon Go. Joe, what do you think the app is? Is it Solitaire? That is a boomer. That is? No, no, no, no. That is, I'm saying Solitaire is a wonderful boomer sport. My dad loves Solitaire, John Pryor.

I was on a, like, a gym, like an elliptical. the other day and it had solitaire on there you can play I was like it was quite hard to do because you're actually you had to let go of the swinging arms yeah but I was like yeah why is it so hard to recatch the handle

I know I don't know elliptical probably screams boomer as well I like that Jim of Cookman it feels like the worst apparatus to have a digital card game a couple of games of solitaire while I was on it but yeah it was yeah I mean to pass as a time

nothing takes longer than the time you're at the gym waiting for something, you know, like 20 minutes to count down. So Solitaire was great. Wait, so is it Solitaire? No. Okay, producer grace. Let's reveal. Wait, is it a game?

No. It's not a game. It's not a game. It's something that's standardly, like when you get an iPhone, it will be on your iPhone. Okay. We said weather, right? Yeah, not weather, not maps. Okay.

It's not a podcast. I'm going through some of those. It's not male. No, I think what makes it so boomery is there's no reason he'd be on it for 15 hours a week apart from the fact he's a boomer. Calendar. No.

Last week's average was 11 hours, 24 minutes, so this obviously contributed even more last week, whatever it was. Yes. What is it? What are you doing? I'm not on my phone that long. Do you want me to review what it is?

Yeah. It's the clock app. John. What? The clock means a clock. Oh, no, I wouldn't. Yeah. Do you use it for timing you read it?

Yeah. I've started. Yep, yep, no, I know what it is. I've started like a stopwatch. Right. And then I clearly don't stop the stopwatch. And that goes non-stop for 11 hours and 24 minutes. The clock's probably like, that's the hardest working clock in the game.

When you leave the clock running, it gets so hot. My phone get really hot. And you're like, oh, the battery's gone on these phones. It's like you running it in the wrong way. What are you setting a stopwatch for every day? Oh, sometimes I'll do it for like running. He never care about the outcome I wonder how that ended up

Nothing makes me like feel worse And when I check the thing And you just see how much time's gone You're like, that's my life just gone away Like when it gets so huge amount I'd be like you're looking at it You're like 14 hours You know you think back to that moment

You'd think of how much time sticked away So yeah Oh yeah I've just gone oh jeez my clock Doesn't get that Yeah no jeez my clock's been taking on Well, the only thing worse than that being the clock would have been the torch app. The only thing that would have topped that. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. Eight weeks till spring. No, eight weeks till daylight saving. It's only, yeah, like four weeks till spring, guys. My daughter, for some reason, she got into the car yesterday and she was like, oh, and it's only one day until the end of winter. Yeah, I text her. And I was like, oh, no, it's not.

I think it's a bit longer because I know you're across it. I was like, I think you've gone early. It's like another. the month. We've got August yet. She was so disappointed. That's like waking up on a, on a Monday morning thinking it's Sunday.

Yeah. Four more weeks. But it's only four weeks. And the days aren't getting longer. It's getting lighter. Speaking of kids as well, something I popped into my head the other day and I haven't thought of for a long time.

It was just, you know, like, I kind of thought that, you know, kids these days and I feel like New Zealand is it is, you know, if you want to get,

like, it's a lot easy to get clothing with labels on it. You know, like you go into any store around the country and things are a lot cheaper than they used to be back in the day and a lot more easily accessible. But when you would turn up to school or a friend's house back in the day with something with the label on it, maybe you had some shoes, you know, like Nike top or added as shoes or whatever, added us track pants, you would be called a label basher.

And that was like one of the worst things that you would be called. No. It was such a label basher. Look at it. Like you turn up, you're proudly wearing a new Nike top. They're like, label basher. Yeah. Nowadays kids would be like, yeah, that's cool top and carry on with the day.

But back then it was the worst shame you could bring upon your family was being a label bear show, you're right. Do you remember when Barkers, like big baggy Barker's track pants, everyone was wearing them. And I like, I begged, I begged and I got one pier. Oh, they had the label down the side of the leg there. They were iconic, yeah. Yeah, I got one pair and the first time I wore them, everyone was wearing them.

But the first time I wore them, everyone's like, label basher. I was like, do you know how much I begged for these? I was telling the kids about it. You were too fashionable for Nelson, Megan, weren't you? Now you're a label basher. Yeah, and I'm proud of it. And everyone's okay with it.

And even the kids these days. It's like, they were like, what? You would get mocked for doing? And I was like, yeah, you would. You would. Humbled. Keep you humble. Here's the thing I don't understand those.

Because when those Adi Day snap pants with the three stripes on the sign, they snap open. Everyone used to. Yeah, everyone used to wear those. I got the rip-offs with four stripes. That was all I was allowed. And then you go to school and everyone's like, oh budget

pov-o you're like I can't win with you better well either I'm a label basher or I'm povow like one of the two so yeah so good

I'm glad things have moved on a little bit in that regard there were some good sayings in the school yard back in the day we're just talking about shame on your name Tony would you rub your finger against your other finger

I don't know I don't know I don't know show yeah you kind of rub you both your four fingers over each other like you're trying to light a fire

with sticks or something and that represented It's great, great shame. Scab? Oh. Yeah. The other one I thought of the other day as well, too, people would like, who would excel in class would get called strainers.

Do you remember that? It was such a strainer. Like, you'd hand in an assignment. This guy's a straining hard for excellent. I was like, again, it was like, why are we mocking everyone for doing that? That morphed into try hard. Yes. Yeah.

Before that was at my school, it was a strainer. He's a straighter. You're like, I handed my assignment on time. It's very tall poppy all of that. It is. It is. How dare I try hard and succeed in what I'm... Do you know what, Producer Grace,

do you know what a scab is? No. Did you have no lips, big sips, producer grace? No lips, big sips. What is that? Well, it was, you know, pre-men and jihadists. Well, I think men and jihadists was probably still a thing. We were just ignoring it.

And you could share your bottle of 1.5 mellow yellow. But you had to promise that you wouldn't put those lips anywhere near the top of the bottle there. So no lips, big sips. But then it was, because you were kind of pouring a... kind of a fountain of of soda into your mouth so it was very risky you could go bad

so there we go some great old sayings eh thankfully times move on John O'Ben and Megan the podcast The hits So you're a bit of administration

for us to tend to today with the best song actually speaking of Megan I think we need to send an apology to Ben because yesterday as Ben was leaving the studio

he said to us I'm gathering we're not hosting that thing this afternoon noon and Megan and myself both went huh? That was the noise we made in sync, huh? You're at the door walking out. Me and John I was still sitting here and we're like, huh?

And you said, oh, there was a thing that we were asked to host by two different managers. Yeah, two different emails. Oh, I said when? And Jono's like, like where? On email. He's multiple emails. Yeah, Harriet our boss did email. About a week ago, say, hey, can you host this

thing? Let us know by the end of tomorrow. And then Larissa and another one of people who've got the hits. Also followed up, they went, oh, and then another email saying, don't worry, Harriet's already on it. I'll leave it with you guys to sort out. Okay, do you know what happened? Because when people reply and everything gets pushed down,

sometimes I only see the final response. So I saw the email that said, Don't worry, Harriet's already. So I was like, I'm not even going to bother with what came before. So all the three emails, you're like, yeah, I didn't say, don't worry. It says Harriet's audio across it, basically. So, yeah.

What I like to do is, was like, you know what, this one time, I'm not going to be the admin person. He didn't reply either. So all three of us ignored. Yeah, I saw it a couple of times. I was like, oh, someone will talk about it. So I was like, okay. Usually it's you.

Yeah. You know what? Up until. Yeah, I know. But I was like, hey, I don't need to be everyone's mum. Fair enough. So I'm like, okay. And I mean, the end result is.

What was a great result? Yeah. Did anyone want to be here late? Like, yesterday I have to know. Someone else is dying. Someone else did it. Someone else did a great result. Now, I thought up until working with Megan, I was pretty shocking on email.

But then you're like, the great thing about life is when you think you're bad at something, there's always someone who's worse than you. And that's Megan for me. I'm glad I can be that for you. Thank you. No, I mean, I looked at the end result of that email chain and it said, don't worry. I don't know. I just don't worry. I mean, it says, Harry, it's all the assed, I think. And so I didn't read on.

Don't worry about the thing you don't know that. We're talking about. It's all done. And Dustin. John O' Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. My three-year-old daughter.

Aya, she runs the household. She's an absolute firecracker. She came in here to work the other day. She was running the office too. Came in here, ran it like a boss, didn't she? She was really impressed with Ben's Toy Story backpack. Yeah, she got. She liked that one.

I've got some food props. She was worried that you were going to steal some of her Tony's characters. She was like, that's not an oshy. She was telling Ben off. As soon as she saw the Toy Story backpack, she's like, this guy's going to like my ooshies. I know his, I know what wheelhouse he plays in. So putting her to bed at night is rare and is difficult. She just doesn't want to.

We get daily updates. Oh, go, I had to bed at 9 o'clock last night, 9.30. You're full of sleep often before she does, right? Yeah, and I wake up and I'm like, oh, she's asleep. But also, I've lost two hours of my evening. Anyway, so I went into her room. I was walking to her room last night, and I could hear her talking. And she was saying something to herself.

It really took me off guard, so I went and recorded her. Because you thought there was a ghost in her room. Well, you cleared the ghost. And we've got a lady over who cleared the ghost who didn't like Ben or me, the ghost. So we had to get out of the room. When I hear her talking in, I often stop and listen before I go in because I'm like, oh God, who she talking to? But in this instance, she was talking to herself. This was Aya last night.

I believe in myself. Mama. Yes, baby. That's not very dangerous. That's not very dangerous. I believe in myself. You believe in myself? Yeah.

That's good. You should always believe in yourself. That's a lovely comment. Yeah, that's very sweet. Does she understand what believe in yourself means? Well, when I walked in, so I was like, oh my God, she believes in herself. And when I walked in, she was climbing the bed frame. So she has like this big teepee bed that has like a big point.

It's wooden. And she was climbing it. Oh, so she did have to believe in herself. I was going to be like, get down, you're crazy. And then she was like, I believe in myself. And I was like, oh, God. You can do it. Climb that TP.

I felt like I had to encourage you rather than be like, you can't, get down. Good attitude, good attitude. Don't get anything done with that attitude, can you? She was like, it's not dangerous. I didn't hurt myself. I didn't hurt myself. I was like, oh, bless. Whenever you ever said that to yourself in a day?

What, I believe in myself. Yeah. Oh, no. Many times I'll say, I definitely don't believe you're going to pull this off. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. Hey, we talked about, well, tough love. And we've got some, well, some calls.

I honestly, they're great calls. Well, they were great calls, but some of the... Character-building style parenting back in the day. That's what they called it when they bully you. Parents, normalised telling you a kid that something that they're doing is boring and not worth witnessing. Elio just asked me to watch him jump down from a rock. Not even an impressive rock. a small rock.

And I looked at him and I said, no. Why? I'm not sending another man into the world. He thinks everything he does needs witnessing. Next, he'll be starting a podcast. So that was an Australian mother. Yeah, M. Rusciano. I don't think I could do that to my kids.

That's how we got onto the tough love segment. There were hoses being stuck through windows to wake children up by soaking them. All the items from one poor girl's bedroom. Ended up in a skip bin because she wasn't cleaning up her room. threw out all the items. Yeah, doors taking off hinges. People's up until two in the morning because they wouldn't eat their vegetables. They were sitting at the table.

So those were tough love. And we thought, well, let's flip it around today. Let's go the opposite. Pampered. Pampered kids. Oh, we're calling it pampered. Yeah. I call it babied.

Okay. Oh, baby, that's fine. My brother, and maybe, maybe, chucking out of generalisation, maybe it's mums with their sons because I can see that happening with me and Basty. Right, okay. My mum still... Basty's going to be well looked after. Yeah, you don't worry about her.

years. Yeah. Well, because he got a girlfriend recently and I was like, I'm going to be such a chill mother-in-law and then I was like, who's this girl? Where is she? What is she? Is she being nice to you? Came in hot and he's only five. Anyway. Well, that's the thing. She's like seven.

Okay, taken after the taken after the day. Yeah, yeah. But my brother, he still lives in the same city as my parents. I don't. So maybe there's a bit of jealousy there. But my mum will go over. to his house, she'll clean it, she makes dinner and drops it off for him. He gets laundry done, she hangs out washing for him.

He's older than me. When you say maybe a little bit of jealousy, I'm getting caught. There's a lot. Does groceries for him. I'm like, he's a grown man. He is a grown man. He can do this himself. It is easier when they live in the same city.

You're right. Yeah, they want to hang out. Maybe if you stayed and hung out with Ray Ray and Wayno, you might have got the same treatment. What? So yeah, I wait 100 of the hits. Pampered, pampered children. The opposite end of the parenting spectrum. You can absolutely dobb in your siblings.

Yeah, I'm going to say my sister and she knows. And I've talked about this many times before. Both parents, because my parents separated, but both took her to the Gold Coast without me. Yeah, because that's what we all like her. She's our favourite voice. I was around. I was not doing any, there was no reason for me not to go on that.

There was like. You've told this story so many times and I'm like, what was the reason? There was no reason. Have you ever asked your parents? Yeah. to get to bottom of us at some stage. Oh my God, we just should call your mum. First of all, she'd be like, hello, who is this?

Exactly. As an only child, because my parents, they had me later in life, so all their friends' kids had kind of grown up and moved on. I got a bit of pampering, but also a bit of hard-ass parenting as well. I don't think they quite knew what to do, what their parenting style was. It's a real mix of stuff. I could get away with a lot of stuff, but then I'll be punished for a lot of stuff as well. Probably made me the confused that old I am today.

All right, pampered. Babying, we're calling? it? Who's been babyed in your life? Are there still adults living at home? Oh, maybe. And maybe we need to go to producer Grace. I mean, she is still a baby. Yeah, four-fri-old. John O'Benn and Megan.

It's a podcast. The Hats. Morning? Just talking about pampered children yesterday, we did the complete opposite end of the parenting approach, which was tough love. There was some tough-ass love happening in the 90s, wasn't there? Oh, yeah, definitely.

But Megan, you raised an issue that you had post-show with the treatment your brother's receiving. I'm like, maybe it's because he's still in the same town as my parents. I moved to towns when I was 18 and he gets groceries. He's getting washing done. Mom will clean his

house. She makes dinner for him. It's all go and I don't get any of that. No, it's lovely. I'm the baby. I always thought the baby was the one who would always get babies. Nothing wrong with loving your kids. People who generally

have a problem with the treatment of pampering are those who are just jealous. Yeah. And I get it. I get it. You'd like your house. cleaned and... Oh, my mum's dinner? Yeah, but you're in a different, like, yeah, a different city. IQ. Oh, what? No.

I just think I'm more, you know, I'm more capable than my brother. I'm like... But then you had your parents living for a month. You had that treatment, yeah. Yeah, but he's had it for like years. An intense four weeks. Like 22 extra years to me.

Yeah, this is kind of 20 years spread out in a four week period there. You got it all done. Now, great text coming through on 4487 about pampered kids. My younger brother was so pampered every single day, Mum would drive his hot lunch to intermediate because he didn't like sandwiches.

He would get hand-delivered hot lunch. And the sibling didn't just had to go to school with raw old Sammy's. Why can't you put your foot down and say, well, I don't like sandwiches either. I need hot lunch. I need hot lunch delivered, isn't it? Another text here along the same lines as you. Meagam, my mate's 32's, mum still does washing, changes, bed sheet.

Fills his car with petrol too. Wow. 32, that would be a dream now. I mean, if you're getting that, you're not going to get rid of it, are you? Who's going to say no? Exactly. That's exactly the mantra that producer Grace lives by. Yeah, exactly.

She is the baby, though. You're the baby and your family. Yeah, I am the baby. 25. Yes. Who owns your car? My parents. Who services and maintains your car?

Hey, I maintain it a bit, but my dad's a lot better than me. Ha, I can put oil in it. It's all my parents Okay Do they cover insurance? Yeah Yeah All insurances

What about health insurance? Oh wow They love me They want me to be healthy Also I like for a long time I was the only Hiliam like Sibling in Auckland

So you got all the love What do your brothers feel about This whole system that's going on They get love too They get love too I think we all get love Are they getting insurance paid and stuff Are they being love

The house and contents insurance? I am. the youngest. Okay, no, I pay for my house and content insurance. That's the one insurance I pay for. Oh, God. Do you... Don't roll your eyes at me, okay? I'm doing my best. Do your parents even say to you, oh, don't tell your brothers that we've given you this?

Oh, no, because I'm the type I'd go straight to them and be like, look my mom and dad did. See, now, I need to defend the boomers here because, you know, also the same generation's like, you won't let us get a house, you know, but it's also the same generation paying for your insurance. No, I'd rather a house than my

insurance paid, so we can do a flip on that. Jono. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Jono, Prior. Jeez, mate. If you pull this off. Celebrity Booker, Jono, Prior now.

I don't know. We're really pulling back the curtain here. I have been in Coms overnight with poor Kelly, who is Zoe Hobbs manager. I don't know why you took it upon yourself to do this. I'm regretting it now. But hopefully all going well. Kelly?

Zoe? Zoe. Zoe? Zoe. Oh, my God. Zoe Hobbs. Wow. Sorry, it's Jono Ben and Megan from the Hits. Congratulations.

Thank you. Oh my lordy, we're so proud of you. Thank you. I felt the support from home so much. I didn't get on my phone until late yesterday, and my phone's just been going bonkers. I've been a little bit overwhelmed with the amount of support that's come from home. But I'm so thankful.

Just watched the medal ceremony, mate. Very emotional. Some tears, what was going through your mind as that flag was raised and the anthem was playing. A lot, a lot of emotions, just the journey it's taken to get here and knowing that those closest to me were in the stands watching the moment together. It was unreal. I never thought I'd get a moment to stand on a dais and hear the national anthem and see the flag get raised. So it was really special.

I heard you talk yesterday about young Zoe as well and people saying that you should not carry on with 100 metres. I mean, that's pretty crazy that that happened. Yeah, crazy. I was told to take up, we'll consider taking up other events other than the 100 because, yeah, it's too stacked. So, glad that I stuck to my guns. Would you like to name and shame that person? No, no, no.

That's a great message for young people. It is. Because that happens to a lot of, like, especially in New Zealand, Kiwi kids are told you can't do it. It's too big a dream. So you're an inspiration. Good on, you're Zoe. Now, how you used to date, it looked like as you crossed the finish line,

you were surprised. Yes and no. It was more just like, obviously it's a huge feat to have won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and for that to be in the iconic event of the 100 was just, I think, the part that was where I was in more disbelief. I knew that I had it in me to get the gold, but in a 100 it's such fine margins and it's just about putting together the right race. And yeah, I had to put together a really good race. No room for hiccups. And I think. I managed to execute really well and that's what helps secure the goal. One hiccup you couldn't control is the torrential rain that you were running in and we were like if there's one event that you kind of need grip on the ground is that? How does the rain affect your race? But semi-final was crazy.

I don't think I've ever run in anything quite as bad as that. I started to go a little bit blind on the start of the line for the semifinal because it was that torrential that my makeup started to run into my eyes and I couldn't. I was like, I was like, oh, I can't wipe my eyes because then I'm just going to get black eye everywhere with my mascara. And I'm on television and it's a nightmare. And so I was like, I'm just going to have to blink profusely to try and get like any form of irritation out of my eyes. Meanwhile, we're like crouched on the start line ready to go and I'm like feeling the torrential rain on my back and I'm like, okay, let's just get the show on the road. Wow.

That one was more about just like, yeah, getting through safely and managed to take that box and onto the final. and fortunately the final eased up a little bit in terms of the conditions. So that was quite nice to have that final, a bit nicer. And now you have the metal around your neck. Interesting shape of the middle at the moment. It's more sort of kind of like a triangular shape metal. I think it's like a Scottish shield almost. Oh, that makes sense.

Now, Zoe, I don't know. A lot of training that you've done leading up to this. I don't know if you remember a particular race that took part out at Trust Stadium there. I was actually part of your training program. Don't come in here and say any credit for anything that's always done. And a roundabout way, is there anything you'd like to thank me for Zoe? Wasn't your singlet backwards? Yeah, isn't it?

Yeah, he's the one person that should give up on 100 metres. You were told to do it. Yeah, I'll stop being a hater. We re-shared that video and how much, like, you're so much faster than Jono, but in that race, was that 100% for you? I want to know if Johnno was going to know if Johnner was going to. I was honestly mate I was going as fast as this body could move and then as I saw you you were too busy filming yeah I was a lot of stuff going on I noticed you could have done a bit more social media in your race yesterday

yeah I should have got the hand to cam out film from POV oh we are so proud of you though congratulations who's over there you talked about your friends and family like who are there to support you and share this moment with you um I've got my parents here, my aunt's here, partner, Kelly, Chelsea Lane, who's my therapist and James, and I've also got a training partner, Zach. What did your parents? I'm just waiting on the other side, so we're ready to celebrate all together and, yeah. What did you have a nice evening?

What was the first thing your parents said to you when you saw them? They said that was so cool. Love it. My mom actually missed the race. Oh, really? Dad had like sprung out of his chair and was covering the, because mom was trying to film it. The camera didn't catch any of it except for the start. You know your mom?

There's the lot of cameras. Mom was like, what are she done? What are she done? And dad's like, she's just got the call. Oh my gosh. The problem is your sport goes really quickly. Yeah, that's the problem. Over in 11 seconds.

Oh, Zoe. Yeah, it was here. 10.93. Yeah, such a great time. Such a great moment. Congratulations. Thank you for your time this morning. We really appreciate it.

Thank you. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. That's overhaul, an annual and sick leave. It looks like it's all happening. We were just working through it. Now, it looks like the biggest change is you can accrue annual and sick leave from day one of working in a... Establishment.

Yeah. So apparently you had to wait 12 months until that happened. To accrue the leave, which I always found weird. It's about weird if you get sick or you get to, yeah. But like, why do you have to work your butt off for a whole year? Like, you're still. still, people still need a break in that first year. I can't remember.

I can't remember the last time I took a sick day. I mean, there's probably many days I should have. Well, yeah, the last week or so. I've been coughing and spluttering all. Yeah. And you were like, I'm on the back end of it. Yeah, that was like, when we got back two weeks ago. You're like, it's the back end of it.

Yeah. You still seem contagious. I don't know. It really has lingered this. Four weeks, four or five weeks, but it's still having a sick day. Still having a sick day. You're such a boomer. Oh, God.

Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Pye Awards happening next week and we've been backing a lovely guy from a bakery who I ran into in the supermarket just by chance. His name's Jason. We tried to phone him the other morning to see how his pies were coming along and we woke the poor guy up. Hello. Jason? Yes, yes. Oh, dear God. Are you asleep?

I am. Oh, he sounded so cute asleep too, didn't he poor Jason. So we're just going to call him now. He did see him. There's pictures yesterday of his creations looking... Actually, like, perfect. He'd sliced it in half and shown the inside. As the show's foodie, you were really impressed by the pastry? It didn't sink in at the middle.

The pastry was super flaky. Good meat to gravy ratio. I think you had to get them in today, to be judged. That's why he's been having late nights. Good morning. Is that the future pie of the year winner, Jason? Sped King. How are you?

Hi, Jason. Hi Megan, how you doing? Good. Are you exhausted? Have you got your entry in? Yes, we have entered the pie on time yesterday. Just five minutes before the door shut. Yeah, it's stressful. Now, I don't know what the protocol is, Jason. You send us some really tasty looking photos.

Can we put those photos on our social media? Definitely. Definitely you can. Okay, alright. Just so you can. Yeah, we're giving away too much, but I guess it's already in now. No one can change anything. When too bad at 3 a.m. I got three, half a three.

Because I keep creating my pastry. Make sure I got all those layers out there. Oh, creating. Very, very late. Chase, I saw the picture of the pie, and that was the first thing I noted. The layers of your flaky pastry, they looked perfect. If it was up to us, you'd win the competition. We haven't seen the other entries, but they did look amazing.

Let's be honest. I mean, I would be honest. I haven't seen any of it. But they looked incredible. You might be better ones out there. But if it was up to us, and we were just looking at Jason's pies, they were really,

I tell you what, if you text Pie to 4487, you'll get pictures bounce back of Jason's creations that he's entered into the Pi Awards. If we are two to be one of the gold winner, we will get a golden call tomorrow morning. Oh, do you find out tomorrow morning?

So tomorrow morning, only the gold winner will get a phone call. Wow, that's quick. And the rest, we are now on Tuesday. They're not mucking around, are they? They're not getting into what I suppose. Yeah, only the winner will know. Wow.

So the winner will get a phone call and then invited to award dinner in city and the rest is now at the award dinner. So do we do, so tomorrow if we call you? The phone call is most important. Okay, we're waiting for this phone call. All right. Okay, well we're waiting for the phone call. Definitely, if you get that call, definitely we are one of the gold winner.

of the goal winner. Right, we're hoping for a phone call. Definitely. We're manifesting a phone call. Okay, well, yeah, we won't call you in prank, you. That would be... Yeah. Not the day, not the day.

If we don't get a call, that means we're definitely not winning a goal award. Okay. The only goal award winner, we'll get a call. Okay. Right, so when does that call come through? A call calling out to Baker from 5.30 to 7 o'clock in the morning. Oh, geez. time. Oh, but we should call you tomorrow morning to see if you got a call.

Okay. Should we do that? Are you going to be able to tell us if you got the call? Of course we can. Oh, okay. Yeah, I can text Jordan. I'll say, hey, I got a golden call. Yeah, you text us. Yeah, yeah, Texas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got the golden call. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, well, we're really enjoying going on this journey with you, Jason. Good luck. Hopefully you get this golden call tomorrow and text me as soon as you know.