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Episode Date: July 27, 2026

On today’s show:  (00:00) Megan reveals the very awkward thing she accidentally said while hugging Steven Adams... (04:30) Dear Megan: An elderly neighbour who started things with a parking complaint now wants help at a working bee. Do you lend a hand or set boundaries? (11:40) The most embarrassing ignored-wave that still haunts Jono.  (14:40) Producer Troy gets Megan’s husband to expose her household quirks (18:20) Jono continues his mission to become Auckland’s official town crier and gets expert advice from a real town crier in Australia. (23:00)The childhood meals that traumatised New Zealand, including curried mince, mystery white sauce, devilled sausages... (31:30) Ben admits to buying yet another bizarre online purchase: an inflatable Trojan horse costume. (42:55) More behind-the-scenes stories from our tiny-chair interview with Steven Adams, including Troy’s fanboy moment and signed-singlet nerves.      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. You said Stephen Adams and just a wonderful New Zealand to Stephen Adams. You know, a story reminded as he left, someone saw him at the airport, and he'd had a meal, and he'd finished, he took his plates and cutlery and everything back up to the counter. That's awesome. What he's doing, you know, like as I say, he's teamed up the Warriors, helping out Kiwi kids around the country,

trying to get more Kiwi kids into sport. You can text Stephen to 933, help him out, make an instant. than $3 donation. He might never be coming back on this show again though because apparently something took place after the interview with Megan.

We had a good time. He sat on the table he was like, I'll take a photo of this like even posted it to his social media account so it looked like everyone left we had five minutes, we were under time we didn't, you know it was like this is great.

This is great. What did you do Megan? No, so like I know who Stephen Adam is obviously but I've never like been taken by his beauty before. quite as I have in person. He's very beautiful. Rustic, manly.

Yeah, and like he's so engaging. And do you know what? Like, men, if you look a woman in the eyes and talk to her like you care, woo-wee! It's like... Just don't stare too long into their eyes. If you're sitting at a cafe. He's just like, he looks at you and he taught, and he's so kind.

And he called my daughter chicken. And he was like, come here, baby. Like, he was so sweet. And so at the end of the end of the end. of you, I was like quite taken with him. I was like, he's the great man. And he came in for a cuddle. Now, keep in mind, I'm pretty short.

And he's 6.11. Yeah. And so I went in for the cuddle, but he like leaned down and kind of engulfed me. So otherwise your face would have been in his belly button. Yeah. And like, bless him, he doesn't do half-ass cuddles. I hate half-ass cuddles. He was like, mm-mm.

But I don't think he was making those noises. No. I'm just trying to. explain why this happened. So as he cuddled me, I wanted to say, have a good day. Because he's leaving, right? I was like, have a good day.

That seems like a nice thing to say. He's off, wish him well. But I didn't. How did you blow that? Well, because it's like, the hugging golfed me, and I was like, ah! And I got flustered. I usually managed to keep my call.

I keep my call when Liam lost. Lawson was here. You did. You did, yeah. But I, something came out that made no sense, and I thought I got away with it, but apparently producer Troy heard it and so did the microphones. Okay, we'll have a listen to this. Oh, I want to all first.

Hey, thanks, mate. What'd you say? I couldn't hear it. Hugged him and I said, how are you? Oh, how are you? At the end, about how are you? That's like one of those chats

you know, how are you really getting deep. Maybe he thought it was like, wow, she cares about mental health, you know? Maybe, yeah. Or maybe he's like, has she been here for the last five minutes listening to this conversation? Everyone's saying goodbye. I hugged him and said, How are you?

Let me listen again. I wore tall shoes. How are you? How are you? I wore, and then it came off the back of, I wore tall shoes because you're tall. How are you? How are you?

And the worst part is he didn't reply. Like, that was in his ear. I'd say, how are you in his ear? And he was like, I'm very okay. It's been a busy day, but I'm going okay. You don't usually ask at the end of a whole conversation. I had a shock at the other day when the netballist came in with the trophy.

Remember that? And I said, oh, it looks like a globe. There's a shape of the trophy. They're like, it's a netball. It's also globe-shaped. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, there you go.

Just add that to the list of guests who'll never come. back on the show. Hopefully you will. It's great to catch up with a buck. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Somebody has slid into your DMs, Megan?

Yes, if you ever have a situation, relationship, work, friends, whatever, you cannot submit your dear Megan and we will put it to the people for assistance. And judgment. Okay, so today's one reads, My neighbour has asked us to do a working bee at her house. We have only had one other,

with her before when she was complaining about where we park our car. So why in the hell would we want to help her? She even made a flyer that had all the details including what we should wear and what time to come, etc. We said we would have to check what we were doing, but she will see we're actually home, so we can't exactly lie. But now I have the guilt's because she is an older woman, so probably actually does need the help, but come on, that's a bit much, right?

then if you help her once she's going to ask us all the time. Oh, you open Pandora's charitable helping. It's funny that the relationship started with a parking complaint and now it's turned to can you landscape my garden. Yeah, because they're not, you think if things were on, people helping each other out, you'd be like, oh yeah, I'll do something to help them out.

Yeah. And no other comms apart from the parking complaint. Like, I barely got time to do stuff working me on my own house. She's his to-do list, lady. Someone else's house. Can you appreciate the flyer that was made though? Yeah, and I do in some ways because they're elderly.

Maybe you go, if you're going to do something, do you say, I can only help from 9 to 10. That's all I go. I'll give you an hour or something. Like, that's fair. That's better than nothing. It sounds harsh on the surface, but it is better than nothing. No, like, if you've got to help, do your cap the time.

I don't know. Maybe you give two hours. I don't know. But you're like, I'm going to go over there, and I'll give you an hour, and I'll do whatever, and I'll go hard. then I'll go home. Look. You know that saying, go hard or go home.

Well, after 60 minutes, I'm choosing the second option, thanks. Or you're not. You don't have to do this. I was going to say, I was going to go along with you, Ben, but then I used to live next to this woman named Mary, and it was a while ago. And so I don't think she's probably not with us anymore. But she used to grizzle. She used to grizzle at us all the time. And she cut down my passion fruit vine.

Like, she was pretty, I'd say, cantankerous as a bit. A good word. Yeah. But if she asked me for help, because she lived alone and she was older and, like, I'd always give her a hand. I think she just had, like, the default of cantankerous. Right. You know?

Yeah. The mode set wrong on that personality. And, like, if you help her out, maybe she'll change a tune. Away and then just spend the weekend commando crawling around your household. So she couldn't see you in the windows, you know. You just have to. I just think if you help her, you might get it back in some way. Like karma, you know?

What about one hour? This one powerful hour, Megan. Imagine she was your mum living by herself and you weren't near her. Right. Would you want her young couple neighbour to help her out? No, so cool. Jim's moat. How much money you got stowed away under your mattress?

I mean, she started on the wrong foot in a way, though. That's the thing. Like, I feel like if we'd be having this conversation. If it was a friendly relationship. Yeah, of course. I'll go over. But maybe I'm seeing it wrong. So 4487 on the text, 0800 the hits.

Should you do a powerful hour? Or nothing? Or help. Do you hide? Do you set boundaries or do you help, it seems to be. Can you sell your house? Is that an option? John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Dear Megan. All right, in the middle of a dear Megan, a situation a guy has with his neighbour. He said the neighbour has asked them, him and his partner to do a working be at her house. They've only had one other interaction with Beho before when she was complaining about where he'd parked his car. So why would he want to help her? But then he was like, you know, I do live next door.

She's going to tell if I'm lying. Do I say I'm going somewhere else? Do I help her? Or do I... What was the other option? Lie, help and... Go on holiday, sell your house. She was about setting boundaries.

If you're going to help, you just... Do it for an hour. 60 minutes. I mean, 60 minutes is a generous amount of time. He then didn't say he was worried, like, going forward. She's going to ask for more help. Could you go? over there, with all good

intention, pick up a rake, do yourself a lower back injury. And then you're like, you went over there, you looked like you're about to dig in. Is it option? Yeah. On Facebook, generally, people are saying, just say no. But Catherine said

was your car parked in an annoying place? Some elderly people are just franken to the point. You should help her if you can. Someone said, do what makes you happy. You have to put you and your family first. It's not as if you're like on a plane and it's going down and you need to put the oxygen on you first. It's just helping your elderly neighbour for a little bit.

Yeah, and how guilty are you going to feel when those around the neighbourhood come in for the working bee and you're just sitting next door sticking to your guns? All right, let's go to the phones. What do you say on this one? Maddie, happy new year. Happy New Year, guys. What are your thoughts made? I was thinking if you're kind of conflicted and you want to be seen to help but you think

she's taking the mek, then just help for selfish reasons. If her house looks better, then the whole neighbourhood looks better. Oh, for the property values. You want to get in the will? Why not you just want to get the neighbourhood up, so your prices go up? She's not talking about it. Oh, I thought you mean like... Offing her and then putting your name in her will.

She's got a nice house, so she's got money, so you... He's not selling a relationship with it. Okay, no, yeah, sorry. Matt, I took that way further. Yeah, he's just trimming some bushes and clearance of. a wheeze, maim. Good, good option, Maddie. Someone just texting saying,

listen, you could say, I'm really sorry I've got a strict policy of not doing manual labour for people whose first conversations with me were about parking complaints. Well, that's very honest. I don't know, people, they've just been through things, you know? They're just like cranky as the neutral setting.

This is going to be an unpopular opinion. Just because you're old doesn't mean you're a great person. Yeah. Just because you're old, it doesn't mean, you know. Not every old person. A lot of them are sweet, lovely people. I'm going to be an old.

I'm going to be an asshole. You know? Like, you also have to earn respect from someone. You don't just automatically get respect. Yeah. So, like, earn her respect. I don't know. I just feel bad because she's an old woman.

Why do I have to earn her respect? She's been through stuff. Heidi, it's good to have you on. Good morning. Hey, team. Hey, listen, I think they got off on the wrong folks. If they've got the spare time to help, then it can only help improve

navely relations and you just never know when you're going to need their help in return. Help from a 92 year old, you're right. You're right. We don't know that she's 92. We used to have an elderly neighbour and we would put their bins out,

we would trim their hedges and when we went away and we had no one to look after our dogs they, you know, they looked after them for us. Okay, all right, well, I feel like a monster. Good. Okay, Megan, what are we going to get to? go back with a... Well, I don't know.

We don't really have a definitive. I guess you're going to have to stick with your convictions. You're going to have to decide whether you want to keep that kind of relationship how it is pretty sour. Or whether you're going to try and be the bigger person. Yeah, true. Yeah, okay. Hellpower. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. you're their superheroes, you know, you teach them to ride bikes and do things, but eventually the tables turn. Yeah. The only joy they get out of you is basically your blooper reel. So, you know, every time I walk into a glass door or a piece of furniture that brings much joy to, particularly my daughter Poppy. So walking past the dairy just Sunday, and, you know, I know the local dairy guy go in there regularly. But obviously the acoustics inside the dairy weren't allowing.

him to hear me outside on the footpath. And I was like, Gidey mate! And I waved and he completely ignored me. And I turned around, I'm like, dear God, I hope no one's watching that. Nothing worse than you, you know, acknowledging someone and them not seeing you.

Because they don't even know that they've humiliated you as well. And so you're like, you try and give it another go just to capture their attention and save the moment. Because I knew Poppy, my daughter was right there next to me, reveling in every wave. And I did try and pull it back and yelled even louder again the acoustics and the dairy weren't playing in my field and completely blinked

and she was crying absolutely crying with laughter and I don't now there's no recovery from that when someone else witnesses in a direction like that is there you do do it to yourself though you often will like smile and like that person hasn't seen you that's usually when you were like you know like it was unnecessary there was no point you needed to do that he would have gone about his day not knowing that you'd walk past without saying hello Yeah. I know. I feel like I have also witnessed that.

Yeah, many times. You're like, smiling and waving and people are not even looking. You know that you can just walk past people and leave them. Like if someone obviously smiles, it's curious. Yeah, and you know, and you catch eye contact. Yeah, and I'm not talking about people you know. I mean, just people in general, you can walk past them. Without acknowledging them.

Yeah. And nobody around wants you to creepily smile at them. It puts them off a little bit. Yeah, I do not throw people out on that too. Why is that man staring at me? Smiling at me. The worst thing is cross the road. from work.

There's a cafe there and someone was walking towards me as I was cropping and they were waving vigorously and I gave it a big wave back. It was just someone from the office and I was like, well this is an enthusiastic indirection. And then I realized, oh-oh, there's someone directly behind me that you're waving at. And then I was like, please no one has seen it.

And then there was another colleague of ours who was like, well, that was embarrassing. They witnessed the whole thing. That sucks. I know, that is. You can't pull back from that. It's hard because they, They look like they've locked on to you.

You're like, yeah, great. Or like, when they yell at, hi, and you're like, hi. But then they know what they've done. They try and give you a pity way to try and see it. Someone literally said to me, oh, hi to you too. And I'm like, as well as the person that I was actually saying, hi to. You're like, oh. I do you to the afterthought.

Jono Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Yesterday, Jono, you mentioned that our boss Harriet introduced you to someone who started work here with your list of quirks up front. Yeah, Brittany, who's. just started. Herrett was kind of introducing the team.

Then she sort of rattled off a shopping list of all the unusual things I do in my life. She's like, oh, he replies to all emails and caps. She takes the radio show off here three times a day and wakes up at three o'clock in the morning, doesn't eat lies on his driveway. And I was like, as she was listing them out, blow by blow, really does, you know, over a period of time, that's all right, you get the odd one here and there. But when it's all in one hit, it really does make you feel like an unusual human being. And you don't know how strange you are until someone reads all.

your strange habits out in the list. So producer Troy thought it would be a good idea to go behind your backs and talk to your wonderful spouses and get them to record without your knowledge. Your list of quirks. Now we start... Everyone knows Ben's, like Ben's probably aware of his quirk. I don't know what mine are.

You're not aware of your quarks? They're not aware, really. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Well, now you can learn about them in real time because, yeah, your husband, Andrew, he says... This is edited down too that went on for quite a while. So you might want to listen to the full.

You might want to have listening to everything. Does he not have something to do? Does he need stuff to do? Megan the whole time is like, how long is it? And she's like, is it too long? Should we edit it down? Is it boring? Well, we have it to sit down apparently.

So we haven't heard this. Let's have listened to your husband, Andrew. So there's obviously cottage cheese gate where literally everything we eat is made of cottage cheese. You know, one day you'd just be like, oh, I'd love a brownie, you know? I'd love a brownie. And then Megan might make one, but it's made out of cottage cheese. And it doesn't have any sugar in it or chocolate or anything delicious.

So we also have a very specific cupboard designed for shoes. Whenever Megan arrives home, she takes off her shoes and she will put it in front of the cupboard that is designed for shoes. So every morning, as you know, Megan wakes up very early. She's thirsty girl. very thirsty. So she's always got a water bottle next to her bed. A giant water bottle that's always just, it's just filled to the broom with ice. So whenever she's walking through the house, specifically at about, you know,

four in the morning when she's leaving our bedroom, she'll be walking, clinking along, shaking her bottle. Yeah, you know, it's just a nice little way for me to know that, you know, she's leaving So less quirks and more just irks I think that Andrew has Put the shoes in the shoe cupboard It's why he's designated a shoe cupboard They don't, they actually don't fit in there

But I don't want him to know that Because What, not enough shoes And the cupboard's full Too many shoes Too many shoes So they have to sit in the front She's been on ASOS

Too many times Coria turns up to her house twice a day Yeah That's what I would have thought That would have been more of an issue Courier. A different, like two different companies. To be honest, I think you got a pretty lightly there from Andrew.

Yeah. That was pretty nice. Yeah. Is there anything that he missed off that you'd like to add? I haven't heard it. Troy, did you edit out any spicy stuff? No, you got away pretty lightly. Oh, see, I'm cute.

Tomorrow, Ben, Amanda. Amanda, Amanda's going to unload on you. All right. As you say, I probably know of mine anyway. So, yeah, it's probably, I could probably list them off if you want, but we'll see what Amanda comes up. Then, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Cryer in Australia, you know, a couple of, well, about three or four weeks ago, and we're like, well, they'll be cool to bring that to New Zealand. Yeah. He joins us again now, James from Canberra. Hello, how are we? We're doing all right.

Now, I'll chat with you a couple of weeks ago. It's really stuck with us. You know, you've made an impact on our lives and our hearts, Joseph. That's fantastic. I love it. Have you thought about us since we spoke? Every day. Well, that's good.

And so much so that Johno, who we do, show. He does the show here. His last name's prior. We're like the town prior slash cry. Could be something we want to try and we got the approval from the mayor of Auckland. Oh my goodness. Well, there you go. So if you've got the approval, that's the first

thing I was going to say that you need. You need the approval of the council. If you got that, there's no stopping you. I don't know if the council or that involved, to be honest, the mayor's just like, yeah, he can go out and do something. So yeah. Yeah, the mayor, to be honest, he's a little bit of a mad dog. Yeah. He goes against

the grain. He doesn't like the bureaucratic red tape, does he? So he's just gone straight to the finish line and allowed us to be the Town Cryer. There we go, fantastic. What tips? What do we need? Obviously we need some sort of regalia and a bell? You can go with the regalia that kind of 1750s look

for the military type thing. You don't have to go. You don't have to go that way. Right, I'm just looking at the Town Cryer uniform. Okay. Now, they do say fashion is cyclic. This must be coming back around shortly this one. No.

It's kind of like a cape. You almost look like Zorro. What's local for your area? What have you got that stands out in your area? Oh, okay. So we're talking about... Colonialism. Oh, yeah.

We can put you on a, I've got a Warriors' jacket. We can put you on a Warriors' League jacket. I mean, that's local. Stubbies, short shorts, yeah. Gumboots. Like the costume, if I'm in a warrior's jacket, I'm just got like a crazy person with a bell yelling. So maybe you need something a bit more formal looking.

Some more traditional. You do, you're right. I think you're right. And what sort of things do you normally announce when you're out? How does town cry? I do car shows. I do fates introducing politicians when they're coming on. So, for example, if the mayor's coming to do something,

you can shout something like, Oh, yay, oh yay, oh yay, my lords, my ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the mayor of Auckland, and insert name there. Oh, yay! Oh, yay! It is I, Jonathan Pryor. official town cryos.

Can I have one thing? Yeah, I have a lot of questions that I'm not a town cry, but you go first. Why are you sounding British? Why aren't you sounding New Zealand? He does this sort of rolling. Why are you trying to fancy up there? Like, does he need to fancy himself up as much or not? Just, okay, do it again, but sound more Auckland.

I just like doing their, oh, rah. No, because he'll be like, oh, yay, oh, yay. Okay. Yeah. Do you want it, do you want it, New Zealand? Yeah. I want it, New Zealand, yeah. Oh, yay. Oh, yay.

Oh, yay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't sound so boring. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. Sound excited, excited. This is the first time you said it, and you want... Oh, yay, oh, yay, oh, yay. No, Zoland.

That's it. Okay, that was it. Okay. Oh, really. This is going to be a hard one. Let's try this. You're not excited. You got you, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

It has to be, oh, yay. Okay, all right, okay. Oh, all right, okay. Oh, yeah, okay. More flamboyant. O'clock. Oh, yeah. A bit more flea.

Here go. Oh, yay. Oh, yay. Tizai. No, too. I die. She's die. Desai.

Desai. Tizai. I'm making about you. You're doing announcements for other things. Oh, Joseph. Mate, I've got some work to do. Okay, we've got to regroup. I don't know if this idea is a good one, Joseph,

but we thank you once again for your time. No, thank you. Tizai. Tis us, John O'O, Ben, and Megan. John O'O Ben and Megan. podcast. So my mom used to make like casseroles in the microwave. Oh, microwave casseroles, yeah.

I still use the microwave too, a big backer of the microwave. I actually think this dish she might have made in the microwave too, which makes me cringe when I think about it. I had some mince recently, which is like $22 a kilo. So I was like, well, I feel like I've made everything with mince. and I was looking up Google and I found this recipe for 80s mints and when I looked at it

I felt the trauma I was like I remember I can taste it I remember it. It was curried mints and it had so you just put curry in with the mints Very exotic spice for that era too was it deviled sauce to curry sausages That's the thing

There really wasn't a lot to it It's like curry powder cabbage Like you slice up the cabbage And you put raisins in it Lovely. Raisins. Yeah.

I said that to producer Troy and he's like, oh my God, I remember that. 80s, curried mince. Why did raisins have to be involved with savoury food? Well, I guess a lot of curry dishes come with like a sweet aspect. Like you have like a sweet pickle or like some people have it with like bananas or, you know, to balance out the curry flavor. And so you made this recently. So I was like, I'm going to make it and I'm going to see. The effects it has, yeah.

I actually, I don't know. whether it was the nostalgia or whether it just was good. I added some stuff as well. Michael, I was like, it just needs a little extra something. I travel to India and hand-read the curry with my own bare hands.

So I tasted it and I was like it actually was really good. And my kids, everyone ate it. Everyone loved it. I think a lot of the time the food trauma, the meal trauma comes from the consistency of the meal. And I've had it every now and then.

It's probably just because, you know, poor people, yeah, right. Knowing now as parents, when you're making lunch, you're just putting the same stuff in every day. Oh my God, and I can understand like now, mince, cabbage, raisins. Easy fix for Ray Ray. Cheap. And Nelson. Easy.

One for Annie Pryor. Love boarding up some corn beef. Oh, yeah. Love the old boiled. Yeah. Like a chewing on a wet sponge. Oil it up. A salty sponge.

But I didn't mind. Love boiled corn beef. And the other one was apricot chicken was one of her signature dishes. That really blew up in popularity. for a while, did you. They're like, you put the fruit with the meat. It's almost like they were like, we need to make chicken to taste like a dessert.

Sweeter. I do remember my mom, like devil sausages as well. I love sausages, but I felt like devil sausages. They're making something I love just not, you know. But they were always like pre-cooked. Like they ended up like rubber chew. Yeah, with all the onion and stuff. And then she'd always like, she made a good lasagna,

but she'd always sneak in frozen peas in the lasagna. Somehow they took your favorite food. millions roll in their graves. They're like, we didn't need frozen peas and the lasagna, but she'd put them in there. Not even fresh ones. And it's not sneaking them in because they really stood out. You're like, well, there's a peat.

Don't sass her. Who gets fresh peas? No one. You'd get fresh peas. No, no. The Italians would get fresh peas. So, yeah, oh, 800 of the hits. What meals traumatised you?

And still do to this day from when you were growing up. You can text 4-48-7. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. that traumatised you when you're growing up. Megan's gone back to an old staple from her younger years and Nelson. 80s curried mints. It's just that mints with curry powder, raisins and cabbage. I made it and it was actually pretty good. It went down well in my house. But so there's

some things coming through on the text machine that I remember that traumatised me. Ben, you said your mother was putting criminal ingredients inside lasagna. Yeah, well not, I say sneaking peas in there, frozen peas, but not really. They were very obvious. We're putting them into a lasagna. She They made a good lasagna, but the peas, I was like, do we need them? Did you pick out the peas or did you eat them? I would eat them, but I felt like, this could be a side, this could be a side hustle sort of thing, you know. Someone saying their mum would sneak in silver beet as a criminal ingredient into the lasagna as well. Yeah, we've all done that.

So, and... Oh, someone said beef olives. That's where you get, like, thin beef, like snitzel, and you essentially roll stuffing up in it, and then you cook it in the gravy. Now, producer Troy has just buzzed me in my own. and he said, listen, I've loaded in the food in a minute bed. Oh. Great memories.

This reminds me of the, you remember the Chicken Tonight era? I feel like chicken tonight, like chicken tonight. You can pull that on, eat anything. Yeah, you could, actually. Do you know what? I feel like that's where my love of cooking came from. Food in a minute. Yeah.

I used to love it. The baked bean, hash brown casserole thing. It was never achievable in a minute, though, was it? No. Oh, pretty close to. Janay, food or meals that traumatised you. Mate, good morning, team. How are you?

Lovely to everyone. We're doing well, mate. Good, good. It was peas, mate. Definitely peas. You can hear the pain in the poor guy's voice, can't you? Oh, man, I'm telling you. Still today, I don't like peas.

Is it? No matter what my mother did to try and hide the peas and mince, or put it in white sauce or anything, mate, my dad would make me sit at the table until all my peas are finished and sometimes up to an hour and I would still be sitting there. It was the thing, trying to get veggies.

Yeah, like a spagbao will put some carrots and celery in there and now. Why? Why? Because it's healthy, too. I just mind the vegetables. Just give it to me without. I love to, you know, did they put out their mystery white sauce

that was prevalent in the 90s? What was it? It was everywhere. Fish pies. Yeah, I'm always. Yeah, smoke fish pie. Pour it over corn beef. That was another one. You'd get the white sauce put over the corned beef.

Rose, welcome. The meals that traumatised you, mate. Morning guys, how are you? Yeah, we're doing well, mate. Good to have you on. My mum always made. It was like a signature dish. It was her chop soy.

Is that like mints with noodles in it? Yeah, but she did like beef strips, like schnitzel with like vermisilli. But it was always like ginger heavy because her whole, every day is like you've got to have ginger in your life to keep healthy but it was just yeah gross parents like latch on to one ingredient

like my dad puts fish sauce and everything reliable sauce it pulled us for a good couple of decades there didn't it someone's someone's uh text in saying too we would have boiled silver beet with most meals and their dad would drink the silver beet juice oh my dad would drink silver beet juice and carrot juice that you boiled the carrots still

nothing goes to waste yeah he's like look at all the nutrients in the You're right. They love making something. Lisa. Oh, yeah. Happy New Year to you, Lisa. Hi, how you going?

We're doing well. Traumatic food from your years growing up. Yeah, mine and boiled potatoes. Oh, I love it. Hamsteaks were great. They've disappeared, haven't they? No, you can still buy them. Pineapple on top.

Oh, yuck. Still makes me gag. If we didn't have hamstakes, we'd have, like, thick luncheon. Oh, yeah. Luncheon. Lunching you carve up yourself, hey. Jono and producer Grace love a hamster.

Do you love him. And I don't mind luncheon, too. I haven't had luncheon in many years. Maybe I would mind it now. I'm in cold ice sandwich. I luncheon with tomato sauce and white bread young. Oh, yeah. That was a staple.

You're right. That was a stable. What is luncheon? I don't know. Don't think too hard about it. Mel, we'll take one more. Okay, what was the meal that traumatised you when you were growing up? Oh, hey.

Yeah, I like, I don't mind sausages now, and I'll have them in carries. but I never really liked them on the barbecue when I was younger because they were overdone and dry and really horrible. Oh, they'd sample the moisture out of your saucies. Yeah. Were they like sizzlers? And that horrible luncheon with the peasing carrots, it just looked like slices of dog food.

And I literally did that one day. This girl used to pinch my lunch at high school when mum said, hey, I'll actually put a slice of dog food and a bit of tomato sauce and she ate it, but. Oh, she put it. It was actual dog. Oh, my goodness. Couldn't tell the difference.

I probably not. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Listen, we all know someone in our friend group who makes terrible purchases online. I think for us, Ben, obviously with all of his long list of costumes that he's purchased. Of Timu. How many costumes do you think you've actually got in your museum there?

Oh, oh, I don't know. Would you be in the hundreds? Yeah, probably, yeah. Hundreds? Of course, yeah, I mean, not a little of them, but paid for. A lot of them have come from the various shows and projects we've done over the years. Yeah. What you have a lot more? Have you bought any this week?

This week, have I bought any this week? It sounds like when his wife's asking him and you repeat the question back. I did just buy one the other day. What did I buy the other day? I bought any. Yeah, I did. I think you're worse than me. I did.

I did. Yes, I did. Do you know the courier, the courier's name? No, I don't. No, it just, it turns up. Yeah, I bought an information. inflatable horse because I thought you know,

Do you have an inflatable horse? No, a Trojan horse, you know, a lot of people talking about, oh, see, I thought there's got to be a gag in there at the moment. They have the Trojan horse. I was like, I can do something with an inflatable horse. You buy the costume and then you figure out the gap. Yeah, but I was like, oh, I figured out the gap.

Well, kind of. I was in the ballpark, ordered it, and then I'll work it out later what I'm going to do with it. Once you see the costume and all his glory. I was like, great, infidable horse. But the problem is it's not arriving until like August 17th I saw because it's, and I'm like, movie will be done by then. Yeah.

And so that's starting to get me a little bit worried. So what you're wanting is another horse-based film to a surge in popularity. Yeah. I'm sure, yeah, anyway, I'll work out what I'm doing with it, but Trojan horse is the working, it's a working, it's a brainstorming. Something will come to you. Yeah, no, right. I'm a good.

Oh my gosh. Yeah, so that was this week. I was trying to think what I bought, but that was this week. I love how you repeated the question back. I always do that when I'm asked a tough question by Jennifer, just to buy you some time. Do I buy anything? I did.

I did. I'll be honest with the idea. That's what I bought. I got another mate. He has just got a long list of ridiculous things that he's purchased from the internet. He kind of gets Instagrammed. Do you know when those, yeah, yeah, scrolling through social media and like, oh, that looks fun. And what he's purchased now is, it's almost like a wind bazooker, not a leaf blower,

but it fires out a shot of air. So from a distance, you go, blow someone's hat off. Oh, right. Or blow someone's like, if you've got a, like, Megan, if you're, have your hair out, just a blast of air. Why? For prank purposes? A prank purpose?

Oh, right. I was just thinking to any of your actual thing. So people are over at his house on the couch, you'll go, p, psh, it'll come flying off. Right. And I was just thinking, you know, at what point do you go, well, this has brought me an immense amount of joy, have I wasted my money?

And, but, like, it wasn't cheap, too. That was my next question. Well, that technology was knocking on the door of $100 landed. Oh, yeah. Just for what? For what purpose? Wait. Like blowing off a couple of hats off your friend's heads.

He said, I can't talk. How much is your inflatable horse? Oh, it's probably like half that. It wouldn't be... It's not movie quality. 50 bucks? Probably like 50 bucks. Oh, Dylan.

Yeah, man. What? You know, you know, you got... Oh, I thought you were doing like Timo 20 bucks. You got to invest Mr. Beast. Invest back in. So I tell my wife, she's like, you're not Mr. Beast. Back into the videos.

Yeah. Wow. Mr. Beast said he'd invest millions of dollars, though. What's the... Yeah, I know. getting the return on these costs? No, no, definitely not. But, you know, it's, yeah, it's a ticket.

Wow. Yeah. Well, least you're not buying a wind bazooka. Well, maybe, yeah, it should be. It does sound fun. Once we finish this break, he's going to ask for his details. It does sound like a fun thing, yeah. I'm sure.

Buy it, think of the idea later. You know, that's what he says. I was just thinking you could, like, put it between your legs and pretend to do a... Blow your skirt up? Oh, no, I was thinking, like, flatulants. Oh. Yeah, no, that's what I was meaning. So if you were wearing a skirt, you could like, and you're like, oh, Megan.

And it knocks on at all. That's funny. That would be a funny sketch like those European prank shows. And they'd be like, I know. Is it 100 bucks funny though? Probably not. I mean, $10 maybe. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Right around the country again, some of the coldest temperatures of the year yesterday in a lot of regions. Very, very cold for the next couple days. But cold often means beautiful sunny days. Well, I notice you've got a shoulder out. day.

Yes, because I've got a jacket on. It's actually really hot, but I don't want to take the jacket off. Fair enough, see, just like... Just a little bit of a shoulder. I just need to let some air in. Oh, is that what it is? I'm like, are you flirting with me? I don't know what's going on.

That too, Ben. That too. He never looks at me like he's looking at you when I get my shoulder out. Get your shoulder out. You can't poppy off. I love it how it's just for filtration purposes as well. Now, something I'll be doing old school, and I've been really enjoying it for the last, probably the last couple of months,

is when you're like often we're out and about you're traveling with the family going around doing things you sometimes we'll get a photo and I'll take a selfie and get the family in a photo but I've been really enjoying just taking one photo and that's it and it really winds up my daughters as well they're like take a burst

take a burst of 20 odd I know but it just feels like it fills up the whole photo and you've got 20 of the same photo I know I mean I do understand now technology's moved on and we don't have to do the one photo then develop it and then look at it later and go it was blurry and mum had her eyes shut.

Well, because I mean, deep down, you know, we're never going to go back and look at this. You know, let's just let's do one and done. I'll put it into a photo book every year. I'll put one. Oh, I need his one photo. They're like, you're going to put it in a book at the end of the year and our eyes are shut. I'm like, yeah, one chance. And I quite like it. I think you like the one chance.

If anything, pick your game up, pick your photo face up. So wait, even if you look at it and someone's got their eyes closed, I will. But I just go, bang, take it. I don't look at it. I'll like to like to the, yeah, I'm with your girls. Yeah, no. You know, you're just not. literally bitched at Grace, producer Grace, for doing that. She comes in and she looks and she, sometimes she doesn't really look at the picture on the phone. She's just like, take it and one photo and she walks away.

And she doesn't look at it. Well, poor Grace. I mean, to be fair to Grace, poor Grace's phones clogged up with so much content from this program. So many photos of us doing peace signs, outside locations, holding products. It's risky, like risky business though. when it's you and guests, she takes one photo. I'm like, bruh, I could have my eyes closed, and it's a photo with someone like famous.

I'm not going to post that. Yeah. Yeah, well, it's true, but I do like, I feel like a little bit of the old school, you know, a little bit of like, just, you know, one opportunity to give it a go. And then if I ask to look at it, because I'm like, I don't want my eyes closed,

she'll be like, oh, Megan, you look fine. Yeah, I've heard her say that as well. And that exasperated voice as well. Maybe it's a happy media. Maybe what do you think? Just take like three. Three.

Okay, three's good. Sometimes I don't need 45 at the same point. But I like one because you know, is everyone in their game? Is everyone feeling photo ready? Oh, sometimes people aren't even try. You know, everyone that's tried. We've got lazy with it. We're like, oh, one out of these 30 in the burst, they'll be all right, you know?

Just put some more effort into them. That's right. Take it back to the 90s. We're taking things into Kodak. It's just you do no effort in all of them. So you're like, yeah. Yeah. I said a consistently low bar in all photos.

You know, a little bit of a peace sign every now and then. If I'm feeling happy that day. Peace, sign, thumbs up from Ben, we're good to go. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. A good song at the moment. Alan Langley, played all around the world, and we thought New Zealand should have a version of it.

Yeah, so we've done one, and it's really, you know, when you're googling to see where the corrugated sheep rhymes with anything. So you end up doing a song called Choosing Tira, which is a lovely North Island town in the Waikato region, sort of gateway to the central North Island, they call it. And so, well, we've recorded the song, we thought that Titole needs to hear it.

So we're going to find, this is one of your favourite shops, isn't it, Megan? Nothing naughty. What do they do? It's it. It's at protein bars and all kinds of health foods. On the main road there. Yeah. Next to the corrugated dog.

Good morning, nothing naughty. Christine speaking. Have we got nothing naughty on the main street of Tirol? You do, yes. Christine. It's John O' Ben and Megan here from the Hits. Are your dear friends? Oh, hi.

doing? Dear friends, would you put us in the dear friend category? Oh, I don't know, maybe. Just acquaintances, acquaintances, yeah. How could I help you guys? Well, listen, firstly, we want to congratulate you on such a magnificent shop. We have been in there before. Megan, still purchasing your products.

I have a subscription. Protein bars are great. Oh, there you go, look at that. Yeah, you got some wonderful gear. And now, to make your day even more exhilarating, we have written Tito a song. Have you? Oh, that's exciting. I mean, originally it wasn't our song. Ella Langley's got the country song,

choosing Texas at the moment. You probably heard it's played quite a lot on radio. Have you heard that one? I'm... Yes, I have, yes, absolutely. See, I don't know names of songs, I just know the music. Yeah, no, it's a big song, it's massive, huge around the world. And we're like, it's really cool song,

but we thought maybe we could make it a bit more New Zealand. And we thought Texas and Tito, you know, like, Maybe that would work? Yeah, absolutely. Would you like to listen to it? 100%, why not? It'd be awkward if you said no now. Okay, here we go.

It's like putting you on hold, like whole music for you. That's wonderful. Okay, did you like that pre-prepared piece of comedy? I did. I love that. That was really good. You're very good just waiting there patiently while we play to our song. No, I'm more than happy to listen.

This is our song. It's like, mum, look what I did, mum. It's a song, we made a song. Sorry. Unfortunately, I'm on a headset, so I was trying to think, how can I push the button to put this on the speaker so the other office ladies? Oh, good are you. Well, listen, thank you for politely laughing in the middle part.

And, listen, sorry we put you through that. But thank you so much. No worry. We'll send it to Tourism Tito, okay? Okay, that'll be wonderful. Thank you so. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Stephen Adams. Kiwi NBA player pretty cool we had some time of them yesterday we decided to have a little tiny chat

we had a tiny amount of time so we thought we'd sit down on Megan's daughter's little table and chairs tiny table and chairs meant only for children yeah a little tea party six foot 11 Stephen Adam so there's a lot of human being to sit down

he was a little bit worried and as we all were about the chair he was like how's the structural integrity of this chair going to be he tapped his butt down and he was like I heard a creak and I was like you'll be right Here's Stephen Adams sitting down.

I heard it crack. Most of my weights on my feet. We'll make it quick. He was like squatting pretty much the whole time. His knees were up at his face. He doesn't have children, does he, Stephen? No, I don't. I mean, he's an uncle.

It's going to be a tough time when he used to go to the parent-teacher interviews at primary school. It's all you do. So 8.30 this morning, Stephen Adams, is very exciting. Now, producer Troy, you were also excited about Stephen Adams coming in because you've entered your, you know, you've had your Star Wars phase. Still going. Still going. Still going.

Still going. Yeah. You had your Marvel headboard phase, didn't you had a headboard? Now he's entered his NBA era. Yeah. Playing NBA 2K on... Playing 2K, picked a team, Grizzlies, following them. Yeah.

So it's like, Stephen Adams, this is perfect. He's the guy. Yeah. And you bought a retro... Well, he used to pay for the Grizzlies, right? You did. You bought a retro Grizzlies singlet, didn't you? Yep.

And you're like, well, what better day to wear this into the, the office. And I really should have learnt my lesson from that time. I wore the Warriors jersey and then got heckled by Worry's support and I had no information to have a conversation with. You've got to ask a lot of questions. Well, you're, because Stephen Adams came in and you're wearing this really cool retro grizzly singlet.

And you thought that would be good to show that, you know, I'm a fan. I thought it could at least with him just go, oh, that's cool jersey. And I go, thanks, man. And that's kind of what happened. He said, that's a really sick jersey, eh? And I was like, yeah, it is. Mike Bibby, that's the name on the back of it. I don't know that is.

Did you say that to Steve? Mike Bibby, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Bibby. Point of Bibby? You know, Bibby? You used to play with Bibby. And then he goes, he starts talking about the Aboriginal design and the games that they played. And I was like, oh, God, I'm out of my depth already. Yeah, yeah.

No, he really got into the meaning behind the thing. Yeah, which is nice. Because on the trim of it, it does have some indigenous design. You're right. And you could see the pure fear. The producer Troy's eyes. I just said, yeah, it's the only one I own. it's pretty cool.

He did well. I mean, it was the perfect duration for you not to expose yourself. Yeah. I mean, you kind of did expose yourself a little bit. You can tell. We can tell that you. I'm hoping he just chalked that up to nerves. Yeah, oh yeah, maybe.

Yeah. I was a little bit of it because I've had a Stephen Adams thing like for a long time since you played for OKC. And I was like, I'll bring it in and get him, see if you can sign it. But you always feel nervous about asking people to sign things, is it all? You see horror stories of people being like just ripping you out for asking. Or they're not allowed to sign something? But he was very generous and he did sign it as well, which was cool.

But he doesn't obviously pay for the team anymore. So you're like, is he okay to sign this whole thing? I was nervous because he's quite beautiful in person. He's rugged. You know what? He'd catch you an animal with his bare hands and he'd provide the meal for you, Megan. He gives really like engulfing hugs. And I was like, ooh!

And he was like, it was so nice. He was lovely. He was so like nice and gentle. and I was like, wow, okay. Gentle giant, who's worth millions and millions and millions of dollars. I know, I'm a big fan. And thank you for that chair did not break, too, because otherwise we could have been sued for millions and millions of dollars.

It's season's over, thanks to her tiny interviews.