Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Liam Lawson Prank Makes Megan Cry | THE GREATEST HITS

Episode Date: August 8, 2026

One year ago this week... Jono and Ben convince Megan she missed a Liam Lawson interview and It ends in tears.   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Megan, you're away yesterday, and there's no secret you're a big fan of Formula One and Liam Lawson. It's your dream interview to have him on the show, right? Yes. I've spoken to you guys about it all the time. That was your mistake, really. No, we do want to make this happen for you. We haven't been Ardu so far, but we thought yesterday with you being away, what if we pretended, if you're listening yesterday around this time,

you're all in on the joke that we were going to pretend that we had Liam Lawson on the show. We got interview some things of him talking to Mike Hosking, right? and put that together. And it made it sound like he was on the show, got some great reactions from listeners playing the game, but you didn't know this and we played it to your first thing this morning. Have a listen. Can we just say, we need to be honest too.

Megan, who we mentioned at the beginning, huge fan of yours. Like, we'll just be absolutely devastated she's missing out on this. A little obsessive, shall we say? Yeah, like if you want to block her from your Instagram, that's over to you. But what do you want to say to, you know, the likes of Megan and all your thousands of other fans back here in New Zealand?

Thank you and to everybody listening And to everybody who's stuck with me For all the years leading up to this Yeah thank you because obviously it's a Huge journey and for me this is This is what I've dreamed of doing since I was a kid So I just want to say thanks to everybody Because I appreciate it a lot

Oh my God, I cannot believe That you guys have done that without Megan She is going to kill you I know, she's got to be gut I know but we had to take it I think it would be even worse news telling me going to, hey, we had an opportunity and we said no. Oh my God, that was awesome.

Guys, Megan Woolbeig's gutted big time. I know, it was so good to have them, but I also feel really, really bad about that. Fresh off that Liam Lawson chat, very exciting. I can't believe you guys got Liam Lawson on the show. No, no. It was a great race. It was a great race. And it was great to get him.

Yeah, so there we go. That was some highlights. It just came through last minute. Well, the other option was saying no. Yeah, what did you? And we don't want to. And we don't want to put it out, because normally we were to put it on social media yesterday. We're like, well, no, you're sick.

So we thought we'd... We didn't want to give you another aspect. We front foot it today. Thanks to the listeners for having my back. You guys are, like, in so much trouble. Why? Why? What's the option?

Like, what else could we have done? He's going on a summer break. Surely there is one other time. One other time. They said he's only doing a round of interviews, very quick ones before a two week break. He did morning rumble. we did a few other, you're really quick as well. So yeah, it was like, yeah.

He did Hosking. So we jumped on the bandwagon of that. We jumped on the piggybacked on them. I'm sorry, yeah. But as soon as you said I had a confession, I knew exactly what it was. I knew exactly what you've done. No, hey. I haven't gone behind your back already.

I'm not even like angry. I'm just like really sad. I'm just really disappointed. Don't bring the vibes down. Yeah. Just don't have me. Hey, we had Liam Lawson on the show. Yeah, like silver lining.

Don't say you're sad. Don't say you sad. That's like my dream. You know, that's my dream. And we could have like, well, we thought, well, should we ring you and get you in? And we're like, well, no, you're sick. So, yeah, so honestly. Oh, so you did think about that, but you still didn't do it.

Well, no, because you're in a sick day. Yeah, you're honestly came through. You called me after the show. Yeah, I did. And she sounds awful. She sounds awful. I don't know if Megan's going to be in tomorrow. We might not be able to do this confession.

Wow. So yeah, apologies. I know that's but awkward. But hey, but hopefully that means we'll get him again as a show in the future. Did he say anything about seeing my comments on Instagram? No, that's all we had. That's all we had. Honestly, it was about 90 seconds.

Yeah, so. All I wanted to do was not disappoint you in my knowledge of, I put in Max Verstappen's name, this hard one. You're calling him Max Verstaffin's name when he was rehearsing. Yeah, so I was like, Vestappen. So that's what I didn't want to mess it up for you. It looked like I didn't know what I was talking about. So, yeah.

It's not AI, eh. No, no, it's not AIA. Promise you it's not AI. Grace. Hand on heart, it's not AI. It's not AI, is it? Who organised it? Was it you, Grace?

No, it was Troy. It just Troy, it came through. Yeah. So anyway, Liam Wilson. Tell you what, Troy, that is some award nominated producing right there, my friend. That'll get you nominated at the Radio Awards. It was a brilliant get, Troy. If I knew I could have got it when I was here.

Sorry, mate. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. So that was audio this morning. That was all good, too. Yeah, that was awkward It was tears. Yeah.

You walked out of the thing and we're like, oh no. I'm a little bit embarrassed to say and we cry. Megan, there is a large part of me that feels really guilty. We were undeserving of the interview without you being involved in it.

But there's 10, you know, that's a large part of me, but then there's 10% of me really enjoying the entertainment value of you missing out of this. This is what happened yesterday. Can we just say, we need to be honest too. Megan, who we mentioned at the beginning,

huge fan of yours. Like, we'll just be absolutely devastated she's missing out. A little excessive, shall we say? Yeah, like if you want to block her from your Instagram, that's over to you. But what do you want to say to, you know, the likes of Megan and all your, you're thousands of other fans back here in New Zealand? Thank you.

Yeah, I mean, to everybody listening and to everybody who's stuck with me for all the years leading up to this, yeah, thank you because obviously it's a huge journey. And for me, this is what I've dreamed of doing since I was a kid. So I just want to say thanks to everybody, because I appreciate it. a lot. Oh my God, I cannot believe that you guys have done that without Megan. She is going to kill you. I know, she's got to be gut. I know, but we had to take it. Now, just before you said, you did ask us if that was AI. Can we just say, we need to be honest too. Megan, who we mentioned at the beginning, huge fan of yours. Like, we'll just be, what am I doing here,

guys? I'm pushing buttons that I shouldn't be pushing. Can you tell? I don't know if I told You couldn't tell at all. No. Are we smooth? Does it sound good? We did Kings of Leon coming as part of the prank. I just thought everyone needs a second of Kings of Leon in their life. There you go, there's another little bit.

But you did accuse us of it being AI. That wasn't AI. No. Okay. Promise it was an AI. Okay. But it wasn't an interview. It wasn't an interview with us.

It was an interview he did with Mike Hosking a while ago. So we didn't get Liam Lawson yesterday. So the thing is, you missed our Liam Lawson. interview, but so did Liam Lawson. We did play that out on the radio yesterday. That was the listeners' reactions. They were on board with it. They knew we were doing this to get you.

To be honest, I was like so happy that the listeners had my back. They were like, you guys are me. Well, they had your back, but they were just playing a role. Yeah, right. It was like wrestling, like WWS. I was like the one freaking day. So if we also, actually, if we want to thank anyone for this prank, Mike Hosking. Thank you very much.

much too. For actually getting Liam Lawson. Yeah, he's the one, he's the one legitimate radio show that did get him. You know, it's been a really long two hours because Paul Megan was quite upset that, you know, I just sad. I just missed out.

I did have a weak cry. I'm sorry. You want to bring the vibes down. No, it's not. Like, it wasn't, because I was angry. I was just like really sad. I missed it. Yeah, I know.

You're sick. And then obviously you miss out on Liam Lawson. But the good news is no one got Liam Lawson. Hopefully we'll get him now in the future. Who knows? Or he'll just really like increase that restraining order. one of the two so listen

sorry man let's blame the steroids on the on everything it's all the steroids fault yeah

have you ever wanted if I was a true fan yeah can I just say steroids in relation to Megan it's been sick

if you want to explain the steroids yeah not Liam Lawson yeah how steroids help Liam Lawson yeah I don't know

unless you put the car on steroids yeah I'm just like for anyone else going why are we blaming steroids

it's me I'm on steroids yeah so well there we go another prior boys prank production.

It was a good one. That was good. It reminded me at the point where we once got Guy Williams and we did a hidden camera thing on him and he was talking about a boss and it was meant to be a whole thing. But then it turned into a serious work meeting and Guy was giving honest feedback on the show and we're like, we shouldn't be listening to this. No, yeah. And it's like, okay, what are we doing? You have a crisis. Like we did this morning, you have a mid-prank crisis meeting.

What are our options available? How do we get out of this with a clean nose? We had to reveal to guy We were like, hey, guess what? That meaning that you thought was private wasn't so private. Weird old thing. Were you dumped on everyone.

We had to walk away from the media. I was like, I can't listen to this. We won't play that anywhere else. Oh my God. Hey, anyway, Megan. No one got Liam. Great to have you back and maybe we'll have Liam in the future.