Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Megan gets told off by a teacher | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: May 22, 2026

On today’s show: Jono’s petty court battle finally ends… with a very unsatisfying outcome Behind the scenes, the big boss puts pressure on Mike Hosking We somehow end up live on Newstalk ZB! A listener got in trouble at work after being told to twerk on their lunch break Megan Papas gets told off by a teacher at school drop-off One of us accidentally booked the exact same date as our partner… awkward Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Hey, welcome to the podcast. Now, you might have heard on a previous podcast. We're talking about a meeting that we had to go to. We heard about the company KPI's. And Megan was away.

And she was like, I got out of that meeting. Well, now it seems like there's a round two for those, make good, for people that haven't been in the first one. So she's got to sit through two back-to-back KPI meetings. Yeah, because we've got another one after that. Key performance indicators we found out. Was it performance? Yeah.

And so we will call her mid-KPI meeting. She was, I'm not going to lie, she was dreading it. Yeah. Well, she loves to nod off. So she's going to stay awake for not one but two meetings. Hopefully she'll answer. She won't be able to do it because the big bosses are there. Is this calling from your number?

Calling from my phone. Yeah. So she might answer. She might be it's emergency. She's, you know who I feel sorry for? The poor bosses who have to go around and do the KPI. She's not going to answer. No. I'll call her again so she thinks it's emergency.

Just want to see how it's going. Surely she'll feel it vibrating or something. Or maybe she's that engaged. Yeah, she's like, wow, those are great things that we're hoping to achieve. No, she's not doing it. No, she's deep in KPIs right now and you can be deep in the podcast, which starts with Jono and your court. in your court. It's the end of that.

It's the end of the case. Case close. Case close on Jono's court session. That's up next. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. I've been keeping up to date with my ongoing back and forth with the New Zealand courts just to recap.

I'll try and do a really quick recap. I'm tiring. Are you tiring of this, Megan? Yeah, but I'm also, I feel like you're bringing us into disrepute by doing this. I'm just trying to have a win for the little. For yourself. Yeah. as Megan says, for no one else but yourself.

Yeah, I know. But anyway, I got a speed camera fine. Okay, and I didn't get the tickets. It went to the courts. They had their fee on top of it. And I'm like, hey, I'll pay the original fine. Just feel like the court fees are unnecessary, just given I wasn't aware of the infringement.

$55. So that's for the court fees on top of that. Right. So for the first time you knew about it, you were saying in your story, it was the first... A court letter. So combined fee for the... 80 for the fine.

55 for the court admin. And you've been back and forth, you've been ringing people, you've been emailing, you've been talking, you know. I've been printing out documents and handwriting my evidence down and scanning it and sending that back into the Ministry of Justice. And the last email that I had. So what's your evidence? Like an empty letterbox?

Yeah, what is your evidence? Literally, I took a photo of our mail room and I was like, look, it's empty. An empty shelf. I don't know what other evidence. I haven't received it. My hands with nothing in it. This could have a letter in it, but I haven't got... You pulled my pockets out, you know, you can show you any pockets, hands in the air.

I've got nothing. I've got nothing. It's true. What more can I do? It's like, when an Uber-reach doesn't arrive, you're like, evidence of it. You're like, it's the doorstep. So we had a couple of emails back and forth, and basically the lovely lady at the courts. Like, listen, there's nothing we can do about it.

You've got to pay the fine. And so I'm like, well, I don't feel like I should pay it. Where do we go to from here? And I can tell she's probably thinking, well, you go to is the website to pay the fine. So I heard back. I heard back. What's the from? I almost don't tell me they waived it.

Because I just don't think you deserve it to be waived. I heard back. Yeah? Call me New Zealand's Rosa Parks. We've had a win. Oh my God. The court fees have been waived. Have they?

Yeah. is what I would say if they had been waged. Oh, they haven't. They're like, they're like, mate, just pay the fine. Oh, good. Just pay the fine, you idiot. Stop wasting our time and reason. And why don't you go and find a hobby and go outside, get off your email,

stop scanning stuff and writing into us and leave us alone. And better yet, obey the road rules. Pay for your parking and go to the speed limit. It was an isolated incident too. It's not. He's ever had anything. They probably could go, oh, we'll let this one off.

You drive like you're the only person on the road. Yeah, it's a sad day, guys. The system wins again. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. A Kosking from News Talks, there'd be the premier broadcaster and radio, has been for many years.

Been confirmed yesterday as well. His number's really good, Ben. Okay? And ours, not so good. And he pointed that out last Friday. This was a week ago. Luke McCaff, what's he gone and done? He's gone to.

the dragons, you know, and go to the dress, like me going downstairs and working for him. What's the... I take exceptions to that. We're not, you know, we're not bottom of the table. No. Worryers are playing the Dragons this weekend, aren't they? Yeah, exactly, yeah. So, we have asked him to come on our show, because he did, in passing,

so I better go down there and teach them a thing or two about radio. So we've kind of called his bluff in a way, right? Yeah. Well, it did sound a little bit patronising, a bit of a throwaway comment, like he wouldn't actually do it. No, so we're like, okay, come on down. We've never seen him. I only once on the floor in the same building, you know.

To be fair, the dragon's comment sounded like a throwaway one too, but we've really turned it into a thing. Yeah, you're right. But anyway, we spoke to Kate Hawksby, his wife yesterday, to see if she could maybe convince him to come on. This is a huge ask. I mean, I want to help you guys out, so, I mean, I can try. But if I had any sway over Mike, you know, I mean, he wouldn't wear half the things he wears. So Kate didn't hold much hope. And then Hosking.

got hold of the audio that we had spoken to his wife. That's my wife, if you haven't picked up a voice, and she's now on the hits. So they've sunk to new depths. I mean, I'll try because I love you guys, and you work hard, and you do a great job and don't listen to a word he said. And she doesn't...

She doesn't love those words. I love his big... We've become a burden for it. Oh, we have. Now, the big boss, our boss and Mike Hosking's boss joins us on the radio right now. I think we have a decision from the great man himself. Who's the great man, is it, our boss, Jason, or Hosking.

I'll let you decide, Jason. Welcome, Stano. Greetings, good morning. Now, you've had to deal with the fallout over the last few days of us sort of poking the beer. Correct. How's that mean? When you get to this time of the year and he hasn't had a holiday, it starts getting quite awkward, and it's quite like,

after Monday or Tuesday was it, it wasn't looking good. We've text bombarded him, we've put up billboards to give us attention. Yeah, be honest, Stano. Did he know who we were before this? He pretends not to, but I think he does, but he's not great with names. He called you Naomi, I think. Yeah, he did. He needs glasses because he was standing in front of a billboard.

I know. He needs some. Very much. Have you heard back from Kate today? No, we know. We haven't heard anything. We're hoping, you know, that he might come down and join us one day after the show. Is this going to happen?

Well, if you haven't heard from Kate, that's probably not a good sign. Because Kate has more sway than I do. He hasn't mentioned it this morning. Even though yesterday, as you heard in that bit, he was talking, it was Ratings Day in Radio Land yesterday. And he was talking about should he come to see you guys if your rating go up or they go down or whatever. He hasn't mentioned it this morning either. This is not the way I thought this phone call was going to go.

You can say, as his boss. You can say, come on, get down. Totally. He claims to be a man of the people and help out everyone here at ZMEE Tower, so to speak. I'm leaning on that, but I'm not feeling confident at this point. Okay. Okay. I'm just being honest. No, that's fine. That's okay.

Yeah, he's going to be there. And then Monday morning, I've got three sad people. I've got three sad people being you three. No, that's fine. That's okay. We'll leave it. That's what we like about you. You say, no, you give it to us straight.

Although I thought you were going to go give it to us another way just then. And tell us he was coming on. Okay. All right. I would text Kate. I think she has more sway. He is in a good mood today, though. Let me be honest.

I am about to go see him in a couple of minutes. And I'm going to say, look, it feels like a lot of people toe around. It's my cos. It's my cosque. Even the boss sounds like he tiptoes. No, no, no, I think it's just like, it's like, think of it like a zoo, Megan. Okay. Like, the zookeeper is in charge, but when you go into the cage, you still can bite you.

The mercy of the animal. Okay, yeah, got you. He can bite your head off. He got you. I could go literally walk in and ask him right now because it's just gone into the commercials if you want me to. Yeah. Well, let's record it during the ads. Yeah.

Let's do that. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hads. We'd be going back and forth with Mike Hosking, a broadcaster from News Talk ZB. He's the top dog in radio, and he made a comment. We've said it many times over the week. You would have heard us talk about how he compared us to the Dragons and the NRL, the team at the bottom of the table.

We were offended. We talked about it. He's talked about it. It's gone back and forward. We've been trying now to get him to come on our program because he said he would come down and help us out. So we're like, OK, come on down. Now, to get an answer out of Mikeoski, I mean, he's the guy that gets the answers out of politicians. stuff but get answer to him.

It's been four days. I reckon it would be easier getting the queen on here and she's dead. Yeah. Yeah, you're probably right. It has been back and forth and we've just had our boss, big boss, Jason on, Stano. I thought he was going to say, it's all go, guys. He's coming on the show and he did the exact opposite. He's not looking good guys.

No, you're right. And so he is now upstairs. We're in the same building as Mike Hosking and Newstock Z, B. Another floor couple of levels up. and Stano is about to go into his studio if we can time this correctly and talk to Mike while he's playing some ads. Let's see if we can get an answer.

Stano, you're live. Okay. Okay. So our boss Stano is going in. Okay, I'll just go in there. Good luck. Is he in a good mood, send me? Is it John Ben?

Yeah, it's John A bit and Megan. Yeah, I'll just take, want to talk to you about that. Oh, he wants to talk to her about that. It's not good. Oh, that's not good. That's the real, Jason. Hold on. Who are you talking to?

John, I'd better meet him. Right. So I would have things that come up here and then just jump in it for the trending at 8.4. I would have him know it. Right. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. At 855, can you guys come up? Yeah.

Sam is saying he wants you in there with him at 855. Oh, okay. Oh, my God, we've been invited to the Z-B studio. ZD. Towers. Our SWAT cars don't work out there, but we can try to get us up. Sammy, Sammy said it's all good. Sammy's smiling.

And Sammy's actually really more the boss. Sammy's the executive producer. So it might be happening. He might be coming down. Well, what I think Sammy is you come up at five to nine. Awesome, we're going up. He's not covered down. You come up five to nine, and then, and then you say to him Monday morning, it's all going.

So it's like asking if your friend can come and stay at your house in front of your parents? 100%. Okay, say no. Thank you so much. This rolling coverage. Five to nine. We'll see you here. Okay, mate.

See you, buddy. Don't be late. Don't be late. Anyway, we'll look at our logistics. It's 53-54, Samsung. 53-54. Oh, geez. All right. What's 53, 54?

A 583. The time. Okay. I'm very confused. I'm so stressed. Okay, mate. Steve, bye. See, too.

Bye. Can someone just give an answer? Like, this is... This isn't even made up. This is how much people have to tiptoe around. Oh, I love this. Oh, okay. So we'll, I guess we're going upstairs.

We'll try and work that into the radio show. We'll have... Can you get changed out of your Wutang jersey, please? There's been a lot going on, guys. You know what's been happening behind the scenes. Don't have a crack at me about my Wutang jersey. Thank you very much. Well, he's not going to come on if you wear that.

That's what sure. We'll find out if we get the answer for Mike Hoski. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Mike Hosking from News Talk, Zabee. If you've been listening to the show all week, you'll know what's been happening. He called us out. He called us like the Dragons of the Radio World.

The Dragons, the NRL team. Not the fiery cool ones off game of his own. No, the ones that are bottom of the table. I want to be a fiery cool dragon One that breathes fire out of his nostrils Yeah one of those dragons The unfortunate team that's not doing so well in the NRA At the moment

But yeah so he did say in passing Now I should go down and teach him a thing or two And we've really dug our heels in on that one And we're like well you need to now You need to stick to your word Mike And just before his show ended This morning we ambushed him All of us in corporate wear

Ben you had your blue suit on Megan and you're looking like a CEO. Oh, thank you. I'd say CEO, a member of the exec. Yeah, okay. A nice blazer. Thank you. And you looked like a stripper.

I did. Yeah. You had your bow tie around your actual neck. To pull the curtain back, it's been a chaotic morning. We've had, you know, interviews, then all sorts of stuff going on. This chaos happening in the background. Then the A-leg trophy came in for some reason, half-fay-through all that. It's great.

All of it was great, but there's been a lot going on. Then we're like, Mike Hosking wants you. Well, his team wanted it. He didn't know we're going to come in live on his. his shot before it wrapped up. And then so we all had to get dressed in suits, panic dressed. And so I ended up with a bowtie around my neck like a male entertainer. But then we ambushed Mike Hosking in the studio to try and see if he had come down.

Here's what happened. Trending now with Camasd Warehouse, half-price vitamin sale on now. Mike Hoskin. Michael. Michael. Michael. Michael Noel James. Hosking. And you've dressed up specially for me.

Megan, I don't think I've met you. before, have I? No, not ever, but nice to meet you. Ben? I'm Ben. Other way around, other way around, but it's fine. We answered it either. You know what happened to the hair? My hair? Yeah, it was white when we saw it. Yeah, I know, I think you were right. I was having a mid-life crisis. You've especially dressed up just to come in and see us? We did. We did. We've got bow ties, we've got suits, and Mike, I know we've been having back and forth, and I know you're looking at my bowtie,

which is just tied around my neck, not my actual shirt. You look like you took my advice a little personally. You didn't take it personally, did you? When you call me not the sharpest tool in the box? I remember, Megan, I remember when these guys were successful. Do you? When was that? It was a long time ago. It was that long time ago. It wasn't long either, too.

It was the early days. I'm so sorry it got so out of control. That's what Mike. To be honest, we've really enjoyed it and we're here to beg you, to come down to our show and teach us a thing or two about radio. You said you would do it.

You said, I need to pop down. So we're like, come down after the show and, you know, one day and we'd love to have you at nine o'clock. Lovely, would you? Yeah. What do you need in the studio? Do you have a rider? To help you out a lot of time, because there's a lot of work to do. Okay.

So we need at least half an hour to 45 minutes. And that's just the basics. Wow, okay. That's just the basics. Well, I see my family again. No, no, well, certainly not for the day. Listen, we'll arrange it on one of my quieter days, and I'd love to come down.

I don't know where you are. No, I don't think I've ever seen you on the level. We're just down one. Okay. But look at the studio in here, eh? That's what you can aim for. This is a success. Not a speck of dust.

Exactly. Anyway, lovely to see you guys. My show ends now. Okay. I'll go back to yours. Anyway, nice to see you guys. Have a good weekend. Happy days.

Happy days. That was, so that was that. So he still wasn't committed to doing it, right? It all very vague. On what it was quiet a chase? Yeah, what does that? Like, anyway, is that? I want him down here.

It did sound very non-committal. Everyone's tip-toeing around. Let's get him down here. He's got to come down. So, fingers crossed, we'll get him on at some point through 2026. Could you talk a big game when he's not in studio with us? You're like, just get him down in. John O'Bin and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. I'm in trouble from management. I feel like I'm being told off now. Yeah, I have been, for two things. I got in trouble with management, and I hope they're listening right now. But when I first got the job...

Is that part of the reason why you're getting in trouble? Maybe this might be the third reason I got in trouble. Before I started the job, I prefaced this. I was like, hey, I'm likely to break my phone screen. But the other one, I was like, I'm... Is that the first thing you said? Because you're going to work fine, right? Yeah, I've been work fine, so I was like, hey, by the way...

You know you could have kept that to yourself? No, but like I need a pre... No, she wanted a sturdy phone case. I just want to let them know, like, hey, I'm likely to break... Back to the important stuff. Yeah. I let them know. I was like, hey, I'm really bad at spelling.

Like, it's likely to become a problem. And now I've been told three separate occasions, Grace, you can't spell pretty much. And so now I have to get producer Troy to check everything. Not you can't spell the word pretty much. No. It's just you can't spell in general? In general.

Can you spell pretty much? P-R-E-T-T-Y, space, much. How many times have I said to you passive-aggressively? You've spelled that wrong on the gram. Yeah, probably a lot. If you ever see anything on social, but wrong, it's me. But now I have to get Troy to check everything.

And so this has been brought up on a couple of occasions, but to be fair, you did say you were a shocking stellar. I pre-warned them, thank you. She's got dyslexia. It's not fair. It's fine. It's such a funny thing to pre-warn your bosses about. By the way, I'm really sure.

Did you not pre-warn about anything? I think they knew enough about us, all the bad things that they hired us, so, yeah. And if not, they slowly find out and go, why do we hire those people? And then what's the other thing you've been getting in trouble for? The second thing, I got an email being like, hey, Grace, just in your emails, just watch out a bit. You're being a bit savage. And I was like, oh, okay, I think it's the Gen Z and me.

I don't do the, you know, the, the, hey, how are you going? I just get to the point. You're not doing the email dance. I'm not doing the email dance. Why? Why do that email dance? I don't like the email dance. I just do it, but I don't like it.

I see, I don't care about it. Hope you doing well. Yeah, hope this thing is. I'm trying to add a new one in now. Hope you're safe and will. Oh, that's nice. I do say thank you, though. I do say thank you.

I always have to write the email and then go back and go, oh, there's no niceties and write it up the top afterwards. Yeah, see, I don't think about that. But are you also starting with hey divas, slay queens and emails? Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, that's nice. Every email, all my professional emails are sleigh dealers, hey queens, what's up. So you've been pulled up on the emails.

Yeah, I've been put up on the emails, my professionalism. But hey, it's what it is. This is what we actually want to chuck open. 0800 the hits, 4487. what's the funniest thing you've got in trouble for at work or maybe someone you work with has been hauled into the office for Spelling's a good one and being savage on emails

we'll have to say how we have to share how Justin Bieber got us in a bit of trouble I've got a Justin Bieber one too Oh really? Yeah we deserved it though Oh 800 the hits Yeah okay yeah oh we're under the hits 4487 What are you thinking about you're thinking about something No it's right So think about Justin Bieber whether we deserved it or not

When we got in trouble with Justin be but still cuts deep John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Now we wanted to know the funniest thing You got in trouble for at work Producer Grace has had a couple

to do with emailing and spelling being a bit blunt on emails as well so four for eight seven on the text I had a friend who works in the corporate world He left it like four minutes to five One day recently And then God on the next day It was called into a meeting

And they were like, we need you to make up those four minutes Oh wow No That's not It wouldn't have been a productive of four. They would have just been sitting there waiting. That's ridiculous.

What are you getting done in four minutes? To logging off potentially. If someone's doing their work, then what does it matter? Well, Justin Bieber actually was a real big bone of contention in our previous workplace. He got us in trouble for the funniest thing you got in trouble for at work. Yeah, because we're obviously doing the TV show at the time, John and Ben, but working at the Rock. And we got Justin Bieber on the TV show, which was the biggest get ever.

He was coming in. I remember that. It was great. It was awesome. It was like Justin Bieber's coming in the show. but for the rock audience. Couldn't add a worse. And the rock bosses,

this was like, who are you hagging out with? Oh, yeah. It was like taking Satan to the Vatican. You had him on the TV, but not on the radio. No, but of course. Oh, but you're associated now with Bees.

It's trying to show, putting it on our Facebook page and stuff. It's like, yeah, and stuff like that because it's big for the TV show, but for The Rock, it's like, what are you doing? Justin Bieber.

Diplomatic incident. And then Justin Beaver was coming into the same building for an interview on another radio station and our boss, Brad, bless him, at the rock was threatening to hide in the stairwell and ambush Bieber. I think that might have been the same.

It might have been us interviewing him at the other radio station because was that the time he was wearing his purple hat? Maybe. His famous purple hat. He left it in the studio with us. So we held it to ransom and all took pictures of it and said we made him come back and everything

before we would give him his hat back. But we ended up getting like a very serious phone call saying just give it back. Just give his hat back. Oh really? We were all taking photo. like come and get your hat, Bieber, but no, not give it back. Hazard to guess he could probably afford another.

I know, right. You must still love that hat. All right, let's guess the calls and text. Sort of swabbed his DNA. Anon, welcome. Funniest thing you've been in trouble for. At work. Anon?

Oh, yes. My emails. Oh, you got trouble for emails like Producer Grace. What did you do? Well, nothing, really. I've just been responding to one of my managers at head office, and she sent me an email back that says, thank you for your communication in regards to that.

I'd like to say that your emails have been lacking a greeting are often briefed in their nature, and sometimes there is a delay in your response. Oh, so they wanted a, hey, hope you're doing well. They wanted the nice easing. Oh, that's funny. I'd be fine if I worked there. Yeah, you would be.

Now we have Anonymous number two joining us. Hi, so I work at a workplace where there is a significant age gap between me and my colleagues. I am significantly younger than them. And we were talking about trends, you know, that we grew up with. And I was like, yeah, you know, like wall twerking. And they were like, what? I was like, you know, you do a handstand upside down and then you twerk. And they're like, no, that's not a trend.

So your feet are up the wall, you do a handstand, feet on the wall. And then, yeah, you shake your booty. Please tell me this is going where I think it's going. It is absolutely going where you think it's going. So I was like, yeah, like I used to do it at university all the time. And then we're like, you can't do that. And to be fair, I cannot. But hey, I was like determined to show them.

I had two kids later, 30 kGs more heavier and I was going to do this. Okay? So I hiked up my dress into my bank. Oh, God. And I was like, this is how you do it. and I shoot you not. The second I tried to attempt this,

the CEO the entire board of trustees of our company walked past the glass of the board room. Your world war twerking. It was horrific. Did you get an email or was it a meeting?

I got a, hey, you have, you know, your dedicated lunchtime and what you do during that time. You can twerk on your own time. Better twerk stories So good That is brilliant

Jono Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Just reading this online This is incredible There's a Kiwi guy Graham He's got a

19903 Toyota Corolla And it's got The original engine And transmission And it has just clicked over 2 million

kilometers The car has done Two million kilometers How does that do Does the clock Just I don't know

It just loop around. Yeah. Just go around and around. He purchased it, purchased it pre-owned back in 2000 with 80Ks to its name. And he drives 5,000 kilometres a week between Wellington and New Plymouth as a newspaper delivery contractor. And so that we just worked that out before in chat GPT. That's the equipment of driving from top of the North Island to Bluff and back every week.

Jeez, Graham, clock's up some case. He's driving the length of New Zealand and then back again. Tell you what, the corolla is probably the most reliable vehicle out there. My dad had a 91 corolla and that thing was, it would still keep going today if you wanted to drive it. He gets it serviced every two weeks. He takes it into the mechanic because he does so many miles on it and wants to get servicing. Oh, so he is looking after that. Yeah, they reckon that's part of the reason why that it's gone to 2 million Kays.

That's nuts. So the average car would travel 12,000 to 15,000 Ks a year. Graham you're wild Wow he's doing 5,000 Ks a week Good long That Krola's like how much more can you ride me mate Put me to a retirement home That is really impressive

And now it's more of a just a point-proofing exercise I would imagine Yeah yeah So Graham we're gonna get No mate this car's buddy You know What is he doing in the car for that long Like you could learn like a language

Or he's spending so many hours in your car We should try and track him down next week He should be fluent in 10 different languages by now. Go, Graeme. Okay, well, should we do a text poll? He's probably heard every song ever that's ever been made, you know? Like, there's so many things you're right. You could be doing.

Yeah. Graham, by chance, Graham is listening right now delivering papers, 0800 of the hits too. Graham Hebley is his name. Yeah. And, yeah, she'll do a text poll. Who's got the most amount of Ks on their clock right now? Oh, yeah. People like it as a badge of honour, don't know?

They do. I think I had a 1980 Holden Marina that went around the clock a couple of times. I do it. because it didn't have enough numbers, so it started back at zero. It's quite good if you sell it, right? That's going to say, yeah. Only 50Ks on this thing, yeah.

It was like, Matilda's dad, didn't he? Oh, he drove it backwards on that bog, that Routel, I think, to get the clocks running backwards, but you just have to drive it around past. Yeah, but it's pretty obvious that it's a 1980 old car. Yeah, right. Questions would be answered, yeah. Matilda's daddy got away with some stuff, didn't he, on that car yard.

For a while, for a while, there. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, I've got a five-year-old. Just started school this year, my son, and so I'm new to all the school stuff. And it's a swift learning curve, but I got told off. And it was by one of the teachers, and it was in front of lots of people, like in front of other parents.

And I was like, oh, my God, I'm trying to, like, be cool. I'm trying to blend them with the moms. Adults aren't meant to get told off. No. I don't know how to take it. So, you know, the school drop off. There's cars everywhere. And I found a park on the other side of the road that I was on.

on and I was like, I can get in there, I can parallel park that. So I did a three point turn and I pulled into a driveway and then I backed out, parked perfectly. It was a perfect parallel park. I walked out. Stop breaking about your parallel park. I'm real good at it. So I pulled, I got out of the car with both my kids and we're walking down and one of the teachers was like, can I just stop you there?

I was like, oh no, what? Can I have a quiet word? You have a quiet word. It wasn't that quiet. She was like, please don't do a three. point turn into the driveway. There's kids walking down there. You need to drive all the way down and turn around and come back.

It was a you should know better. Yeah. Yeah. You should know better. And she's right. Like there's kids walking everywhere, but I wasn't going to hit one. I was looking. It's always a good day when you don't.

Yeah. Well, mine were in the car, so I wasn't going to hit them. But I just crumbled. And I was like, yeah, sure, yeah. Oh, I know. And you get all hot. Your face gets really hot. You know when it's turning red.

And other people looking at you. I know. As soon as a teacher talks to you in a stern voice, everyone's looking like, ha ha ha. I had it at the old school, the primary school that the kids were, and I parked in a place that I shouldn't be,

and I've got the teacher on the megaphone. Oh, no. And guess the kicker is, it was my wife, because she was a teacher at the school. Did she not know it was you? You know, card park, well, she didn't,

but I couldn't park there. You had a car park there. Because she was doing road patrol as a teacher. And I was like, When you're in those school, her school grounds, it's purely professional. Your whole family is just out to embarrass each other, eh? I was like, oh, no, I'm getting yelled at. And then I was like, this is my wife, on a megaphone.

Did she take that home, too, and yell at you at home? I know, so I had to move from the yellow lines and then carry on. Did you? Yeah. Well, you're not wrong. They're yellow lines. I know. She was right.

Thank you, man, I have no connection with. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hats. You're saying you're potentially. trouble. Yeah, like I'm a little nervous because... It's been a bit of the theme of the show. We had Grace getting in trouble for management for her spelling. Megan getting in trouble for...

One of the teachers at school. I'm not currently in trouble, but you know when it's... I'm in trouble with the New Zealand court system. Yeah, probably the worst one. And at the moment, yeah, true. In the moment, I feel like I might be. I might not be. Well, you are next, yeah. I took a bit of a risk, a bit of a gamble. Now, my wife, she's away, she's away on school camper, mentioned a couple of times. She's a teacher. And so she's away. And we had some painting done, you know, a couple of weeks ago. And, and, you know, the pictures, we had to take down from the wall, the artwork, the photos of the kids and the family and stuff, you know, they've been down for a couple of weeks now. And I'm kind of one of those people.

I just want to get them back up. Get the house back going again. Back up right now. To me fair, the reason that the house is being repainted. It's your fault. Yes. I went across again in my impatience. There was some marks on the wall.

I got the wrong coloured white paint and I painted over that and it really showed up, quite glossy when the rest of the paint wasn't. So anyway, we've got the new paint. It's all good. They've got too many variations of paint, don't they? Yeah, they do. Yeah, way too many. 50 shades of grey. That's just grey alone.

One shade of grey. Yeah. But yeah, so we got the painted and the pictures have been down and I said to my wife, I'll get someone round to do it because I know I'm not capable of that to put the pictures up. Are the hooks not in there anymore? No, they've all gone. They've all gone. You know, hanging out pictures a lot harder too than it looks.

And it's good when you get someone around and knows what they're doing. Okay. We don't want multiple, like, I know if I do it, it will be rock. So I'm like, cool, I know, I know what I can do. What is it that, like, I don't understand what you can't do. It's just, you know, lining it up and all the things. Where against me is when you've got a double hooker. Yes, you know, and you've got some of those.

Yeah, and they need to both align up and deal. And then put in the string over those blind too. Just use a measuring tape. It's not for me. I've got someone coming around. Hey, me, I'll come around and do it. And it was all happening this week. And I said, before my wife goes to camp, I'm like, hey, can you let me know where the pictures go?

And she's like, I might mix things up. I'm like, whatever, that's fine. And I put them out just underneath the places I thought they should go. And before I left, they're like, just make sure you're okay with that. She's like, oh, there's a lot going on. I haven't had a chance. Just look down there. Just look, let's look.

And she didn't have a chance. But we did agree on a couple of things before she went. And the other ones were just like, well, Moyer I thought they should go. Not her. So she's left for camp. The guys come around. He's put up in record time put the things we all agreed on. Because it's not hard, but anyway.

Is it the hangman? Yeah, yeah. Very good. Mirrors up, the things of the kids room are up, everyone's happy. And I'm like, oh, that was like, that was short. Have you got anything else? This isn't the big. And I was like, well, actually, I do.

I'm like, I'm going to tick this off the to-do list. I'm going to take, I'm going to. Take control, be. These pictures here, I want them up there. So they have. They've gone up. I think they look great. Was the hangman like, are you sure?

Could he see some fear in your eyes? It's like, do what do you? I was in him, what do you think? He's like, yeah, I think that. Don't bring me into this. Are they like single hookers? Can they be rotators or no? And then the double ones and things like that.

So I put them up and so I'll give you a part two of this on Monday. Could you not have taken a photo and sent it to your wife and be like here? She had her chance. She had her chance. They were down underneath. So yeah. Sounds like you're questioning yourself. I am.

Every time I look at the pictures, I'm like, I don't know. I did mix them up like she said, but they're not. I mixed them like too much. Oh, no. So I've tick that off my to-do list, but it could come crashing. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Let's get producer Troy in here.

Speaking of booking things. There's a show on at the moment, isn't there? At an observatory where you can lie on the ground and listen to Pink Floyd and just go to another place. Completely sober. Completely sober. So, Troy, you had a bit of a booking blowout, though. Yeah, I wanted to surprise my partner with this experience

because she had talked about Dark Side of the Moon and she'd never listen to the album and she's like, people say it's one of the greatest albums of all time. I was like, it is. And she's like, well, I'd love to sit down and listen to it and put some energy into absorbing the album. And then I saw Star Dome putting on the album with a visual experience.

So you can lay back in the observatory and watch some trippy shapes. On a Wednesday too, which I thought was an interesting day to book it for you too, Troy. Well, I originally booked it next Saturday. He had big plans, bigger plans, a day of recovery afterwards. And, you know, great, sound system, it's a perfect way to enjoy it. So I was like, great, I booked that, and then I said, Neve, keep that day free.

I've got a surprise for you. And then yesterday, a couple of days ago, she says, I've got a surprise for you Wednesday night. I was like, okay, because I'd start at 830 and I was like, oh no. You did some deep diving at work, right? You went and they looked up. I went on the start. like the session times and there's one at 8.30 on Wednesday. I was like, damn it.

And sure enough, we went to the Dark Side of the Moon experience on Wednesday night. So, cute that she, like, thought of that as well. I know, we're on the same page. You do, you spend enough time with someone, you eventually become the same person. So that is very lovely. So your issue is now, you've also got tickets to another session. And you keep raving, rave reviews from Troy about this, almost sort of trying to push the tickets onto us. You're like, guys, it's so good.

It's a must see. A low, low price of $49. You could be... So you're going twice? Probably not, no. That's a lot of money, isn't it? Like, lie down, look at stars and play an album. It's a night out, though.

It's a great, though. You could actually put your car speakers on just lie on the grass in a park and stare at the sky. What did they have on the screen, though? Like, is it... It was like you're going through space. You're like orbiting around, like, Saturn, and you go through the rings. You wouldn't get a more Troy night out. Yeah.

Yeah. Star Wars this week you've seen as well. It's been a big week. Big week. Big week. Big week. Big week. Gazing at stars.

Oh, my God. Yeah, well, there you go. That's a good booking blowout. What do you get, so are we giving away the tickets? Yeah, who wants to go? Oh, you can't get, what? No, we want to give away Troy's tickets. Yeah.

But if you would like to go, 4487. I can't go to the Star Dome because I had a sulk when my husband took me there for Valentine's Day. Why? I had a public straw in the Star Dope. Which he still brings up all the time. Why did you have a little? The observatory is the happiest place on Earth. I think he rushed me getting ready.

Oh, okay. I packed a sad the whole time, and so now we can't go back there. Oh, really? Yeah. He's like, look at the galaxy. Don't care. My makeup's all crooked. Yeah.