Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jono is a Grinch! (Ft. Megan Papas)

Episode Date: November 23, 2023

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. It was a big day for Jono yesterday. Took to the tennis court. That's right, sunny Thursday it was yesterday, Megan. We went to the Stanley Street Tennis Centre, home of the ASB Classic, where Ben Boyce has tried to rejuvenate my childhood tennis career for, I don't know, just for a bit of radio fodder, I guess. Career. We use that term lightly. It was a very loose use of the term career. Yeah.

And it was a little bit of a journey. He took me down last week to practice. We had to film like, you know, how they do like highlights, reels for the tournament directors to see if I could make it in as a wild card. The hunting game is exceptional. Okay. Okay. All right.

You've already hit it now you're grunting what like the grunting's not going to hit it oh geez all right seriously no no no f***ing around we'll beat that okay I'm your coach all right I want to see serious Liz at the moment I've seen nothing but gags out of you well it'd be nice if you didn't swear at me. Hey, I'm like King Richard. You are like King Richard. You're mad with power. I just want to see one decent hit. Do you want to have an adult racket? All right, put my kid's racket down.

Okay, here we go. Yeah, no, a bit long, a bit long. They're landing in the grandstands. So the training didn't go down too well. There's a lot of grunting, not much action. Yeah, and the wildcard entry didn't come through. I'm so surprised by that. I was too.

It was a shock. Completely overlooked. Yeah, and tell you what was wild. My coach ditching me at the 11th hour for a lavish Disney cruise on the ocean. So I was left on my own. A player, just a solo player, making his way to the ASB Classic where they decided if I did just 40 shots back and forth with two-time Olympian Marcus Daniel,

then we'd unlock 40 tickets to the ASB Classic. Did he do it yesterday? Did you manage to pull off 40 shots in a row? Well, we went down to the tennis court. My grunt. Let's go down to the tennis court and talk it up, mate, yeah. And we did talk it out, like, yeah, there's a lot of talking on the tennis court to be honest Yeah we met with Marcus there was a bit of a warm up beforehand which

Jeez you don't realise how you've got to do a lot of running You know anything running and talking It's a big court Yeah Kate has been warming up with Marcus Very tired he's just been walking out with Marcus. Very tired. He's just been firing down 100 and something K serves. I fell out 300 K serves.

Now we're going to try this 40 shots in a row. I'm puffing and panting. I notice you're doing nothing. Is the heart rate up? Oh, we're warm now. I thought that was our first attempt. Actually, pretty bloody good attempt. If we can get to 40, we unlock the 40 tickets, okay?

Come on, let's go. Yeah, your serves are wildly inappropriate. Okay, I'll slow them down. Actually, pretty bloody good attempt. If we can get to 40, we unlock the 40 tickets, okay? Come on, let's go. Your serves are wildly inappropriate. Okay, I'll slow them down. I love how you're puffing and panting, and he's like, you all right, mate? I know, and that was genuine puffing and panting. So, yes, he had fired down lots of Joe. I think producer Joe was like, get a montage of 300K serves going at him and stuff.

Yeah, and he did that. So, you know, 10 of those, and then we got into it. 40 shots. Come on! Get it, sis! Get it, Sarah! Come on, go, Josh! Give me eight! For the nine!

Yeah! Woo! Woo! We got to 40 after about 30 minutes. His hits are intense. I thought he was going to tone it down for you, but watching that video, it's scary receiving those balls down the other end of the court. Do you know what was even scarier?

It was upstairs in the lounges, the top echelons of Auckland society were there for the launch of the event. In fancy clothes, good-looking people, fancy clothes looking down on me, huffing and puffing, sweating and wheezing. Do you know what was strange was seeing you in your tennis whites and you're like a heavily tattooed man. I was like, you don't often see tattoos on tennis players.

Probably for good reason. Wears all the sleeves and, you know. Yeah, probably for good reason. They've got great bodies though Fantastic all round bodies Marcus eh Woo Very well defined

Stop hating on Marcus I should The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast We've been doing this For three days now Our awkward first date It's been a long one

And it started At a random cafe Suburban cafe In Tuckerninny On Wednesday morning It did With our boss Harriet There as well Which all felt a bit awkward We started at a random cafe, suburban cafe in Takanini on Wednesday morning. It did. With our boss Harriet there as well, which all felt a bit awkward.

We were also very close. At least in the studio, we've got quite a big desk giving us distance. But at the cafe, we were less than a metre apart from each other. Yeah, forced together. But we want to know your awkward first dates this morning. Well, the dating game changed a lot since I've been with Jennifer. How would you cope with, like, dating apps? I wouldn't even know how to log in, start an account.

Back in the day, smash half a dozen purple goannas, get out on the town, may or may not patch them at the end of the night, may or may not get them pregnant, and stay with them for the rest of their life. That's how dating was done in the good old days. Jean's a lucky lady. She was. She was a lucky lady.

Or KGBs if that was your poison back in the day. Yeah, that was my poison, yeah. Wasn't it? But, you know, I honestly have no idea. How did you and Andrew meet? Why do you have a cheeky look on your face? Because I know how you met, but I just want you to share how you met. It was a... How you preyed upon a young boy band member.

Yes, he was part of a radio promotion. And he got promoted to your husband. He didn't get... We had a boy band promotion. He didn't get, we had a boy band promotion. He didn't get in the boy band because I fancied him. He got in the boy band, then I fancied him. Oh, right. So you're just saying.

I don't have that power. This was on the edge. You formed your own boy band, right? So you want to say I didn't enter him into, like you didn't make him win. I'm not the reason he won. I just put that out there. The sparks started to fly.

Yeah. The forbidden fruits of this relationship. I remember we were also told to break up. They were like, no, he can't be with one of the promotion boys. How long did you have to keep it a secret for before the wider station found out that you'd been dating him? About a couple of months. Really?

Okay, enough questions. Okay, all right, back out. Making you awkward here. Making our awkward date more awkward. So have you been on an awkward first date? Jeez, some crazy texts coming through. Of awkward first dates, yeah. Oh my gosh, every corner that makes it to here.

Don't forget you win a ham today. It's Friday hams, thanks to Farmland Foods. And we've got Kira on the phone right now. Kira, you've got a cracker. It's Friday hams. Thanks to Farmland Foods. And we've got Kira on the phone right now. Kira, you've got a cracker. It's cracker, aye. What happened? So my mate got told by the guy that she had just asked, saying that he was going to take her to the Golden Arches for a date.

So she got all excited, thinking it was a fancy restaurant. Put on her best dress, got real dolled up, high heels, everything, rocked up, and they got there and, yeah, it was a McDonald's. Was she in like a cocktail dress and high heels? Yeah, yeah, fully dressed up, thinking they were going to a flash as restaurant. What did he say when he saw what she was wearing? I don't know. He probably didn't

say much, thinking, oh, she's gay. She's gay. So I take it it didn't make it to a second date? No, they did. Yeah, they got married. Oh! All's well that ends well. It was like, this lady's fancy. Yeah. The golden

arch is bringing people together. It does, when you do say it like that. It does sound like a high end restaurant, doesn't it, when you do call it the golden arch. Like some sort of, you know, when you go for like a buffet at a Chinese restaurant on a Sunday. That's what I was

thinking. Yeah, the golden arch. Hey, good on you, Keira. I really do appreciate it. You have a good one. Keira, thanks. Bye. Now, Keira get her farmland foods ham, of course. And, Laura, it's a pleasure to have your acquaintance. Oh, thank you. It's lovely to be talking to you. Lovely.

Speaking of awkward, I made that awkward for some reason. I'm sorry. That was all my fault, Laura. What was your awkward first date, Laura? Well, I've been chatting with this guy online, and we've been chatting for a couple of weeks, and so we decided to meet up. And so we met up at this bar, and this guy walked in,

and I recognised him instantly, and he was looking around, and, yeah, and he was actually one of my good friend's husbands and he was who I was meeting for a date and they were still married and she didn't know anything. How did you know it wasn't him when you were back and forth fraternising? Oh, because he wanted to keep it exciting and he didn't want to give me his real name and that. And he's like, OK, let's meet up.

We've really hit it off over there. So he knew it was you? No, he didn't. No. No, because I didn't have my real name either. Because, you know, you've been burned a couple of times. Yeah. And so what was the reaction?

OK, give us the reaction from both parties in this wonderful scenario. Well, I saw what happened. Like, he walked in, and he was looking around. And I was like, oh, my God, you know, is he looking for his mate? And I told him how he'd recognized me, you know, what I was wearing. And then he saw me, and, you know, and then his face just absolutely dropped. Like, it was just incredible. And I looked at him and I was just, yeah, I was, I think I was really in shock.

And yeah, and he, he came up to me and he goes, oh, oh, like this. And I was like, oh my God, you're an asshole, you know. Did you tell your friend? Yes, I did, definitely. Yeah, she was at home. You know, she thought he was at cricket practice. Yeah, you know, it was horrible to have to do. But, you know, I did it and they ended up breaking up.

And, yeah, now they're broken up. Wow. Yeah, but he'd been doing this before. Yeah, I was going to say, it doesn't sound like his first rodeo. So lucky that you found him out. Just horrific, it was. It was horrible, horrible, horrible. But, you know, yeah.

Well, for that horrible experience, we're going to give you a ham. Well, thank you. A ham. A sponsored ham. This is radio at its finest. Farmland Foods ham. thank you for telling that catastrophic story enjoy that ham mate

have a good one thank you see ya bye it's Black Friday today it is massive in the States but over the past like 4 or 5 years it's really grown in New It is massive in the States, but over the past four or five years, it's really grown in New Zealand.

So it's the day where they have big sales after Thanksgiving, and you might have seen in the past, it's when people get trampled trying to buy TVs and stuff in America. It only seems fair, doesn't it? Someone's trying to get your 42-inch Samsung. Fight them. You show them. But yeah, and all of us consumers get sucked into it, don't we?

We do. And now what's Cyber Monday? Because I know you're a famous shopping. You know what you're doing? You know your way around a website? Love, love a bit of shopping. I always do my Black Friday shops online because then you don't have to deal with the traffic

and it's madness in the shops. And most of the sales are online as well. There are warnings too, don't go to malls. The malls probably don't want those warnings going out there, but apparently just for congestion and traffic and things this weekend as well. But you did bring up Cyber Monday, and that's why I was saying you don't necessarily need to rush out today because the deals go all weekend. Conspiracy theory.

Here we go. Cyber Monday is a thing. So if anything doesn't – you have to be patient, though, and you have to risk the fact that what you want is going to sell out. Because on Monday, often there's extra percentage off Cyber Monday sales. Because they're trying to get rid of the stock, I see, that they had for Black Friday. Exactly.

So the shoe's ever gone. 20% off. We'll knock another 20 off them. On Cyber Monday, yeah. $8 billion was spent On Cyber Monday. Yeah. $8 billion was spent on Cyber Monday last year. In New Zealand? No, sorry, that's internationally.

Oh. Which probably doesn't make it as. Oh, yeah, I know. You were more impressed when you thought it was New Zealand. It was. Yeah, don't try and fake. You're like, oh, worldwide. I really ruined your stat. Yeah, I appreciate you trying to still seem surprised by the worldwide figure.

But this is when I do all my Christmas shopping because the sales are so good. Yeah. But I know the Commerce Commission ask people to watch out for scams because a lot of places are like 30% off, but they don't show you what the previous price was. So the idea is you kind of get a list beforehand, know what the prices are beforehand so you can identify what is actually a good sale and what's not, and when you're being scammed. You're talking about a level of organisation that I will never have in my life right now.

Your Christmas Eve hack was quite a good one too. You and your dad used to go late night Christmas Eve shopping. It's, again, risky. High risk, but high reward. So you can go out on Christmas Eve and if the Boxing Day sales you can go out on Christmas Eve, and if the Boxing Day sales signs are going up on the windows, so say there's like a 50% off sale,

and no one's working on Christmas Day, so often they'll put up the advertising on Christmas Eve. If the advertising is up there, then you are legally entitled to the discount. So one time I got like a 50% off a watch on Christmas Eve because the signage was going up at like 5pm. I'm sure behind the counter the person's like, I know, I'm that person. Thanks, you're a pain in the arse.

Have your cheap watch. Get out of here. To be fair, Merry Christmas. I wasn't going up demanding it. They were the ones that told me. They said legally it's on the window so we have to give you this discount.

But yeah, it's risky. It is risky, but a good trick. Dogs, dogs, dogs. legally it's on the window so we have to give you this discount. But yeah, it's risky. It is risky, but a good trick. Yeah, Flashback Friday. I like to look back on things that have happened in the past and nostalgia. A bit of nostalgia for you Friday.

Some things really don't age well, do they? Some things do. Some things do. Things like the Cosby Show. We're probably not going to go and reflect about the fun episodes. I think you're saying that it has aged well. Yeah, no. We're probably not going to go back and pick our favourite episodes of the Cosby Show, for example. But you came across this one yesterday because we're talking about Black Friday today.

In the advertising world of the 90s. Do you think it was better? I feel like we had a lot more jingles. We had some pretty epic ads back in the day. Do you remember the Fairgo Ad Awards? I used to love watching that. Yeah, it was a big annual event too. Yeah, I do remember.

I felt like the 80s and 90s were probably the heyday for advertising. Mounds of cocaine on boardroom tables. Those were the days. Wild ideas. Big helicopter. They didn't have drones. Let's hire 10 helicopters to shoot a pie, a Big Ben pie or something. Yeah.

They did go big on the advertising back in the day. Now it's very stripped back, I feel. It is very stripped back. Cost of living, babes. Yeah. Marketing budgets, babes. Streaming platforms. People not watching ads.

Yeah. Muting them. So this is for Sanitarium Peanut Butter. Now it was the peanut butter, the utter peanut butter nutters? Was it just for the peanut butter? Was it a special flavour?

Just a range of smooth peanut butter. Now have a listen. I'm an utter peanut butter nutter from Sanitarium So it's basically kids dressed as factory workers As we see with child slave labour happening In the sanitarium factory Wouldn't fly these days But it looked like an outrageous factory. A Willy Wonka-like sort of factory too.

Yeah. Nightmare if you've got peanut allergies in the peanut butter factory. I still remember every single word. Sandwiches. And crunch. Do you know the last one, the kid that says and crunch? Is Drew Nemia. Former broadcaster Drew Nemia,

and singer, and dancer. Yep. Does it all. That's how he started his career. Triple three, started in a peanut butter factory. Humble beginnings. Child labour. Humble beginnings.

Well, there you go, the peanut butter nutters. Now today, hams. We've got from peanut butter to hams. We have a butt ton of hams to give away today. Everyone who gets on here with us today gets a ham, thanks to Farmland Hams. Let's go to the phones right now. We'll just do a quick one. Here, what's your name?

Your name? Why? Your name? Why? I regret this. Why did I do this? Joe. Yeah.

Was it Joe? Joe? Brian. Brian! God, why did I do this? Why did I do this, Megan? Was it Joe? Joe? Brian Brian Why did I do this? Why did I do this Megan? Brian You got a ham

Thanks to Farmland Foods Oh lovely Thank you very much There we go There you go There you go More splendid radio like that Coming up

The hits The Jono and Ben podcast You're a big fan of Gercs I love a Gerc Love a Gerc It's the most unusual One of the most unusual words to say on repeat You know there's some words The more you GERKins

GERKin Very unattractive word The GERKin But I was sent out on a GERKin buying mission By my wife Jennifer What? To just buy GERKins?

Yeah Because we saw these things on Instagram and you can replicate Big Macs on tortillas. Have you seen those? Yes. Oh, and you smash the meat on it. Flip it over. Yeah, okay.

Flip it over. Yeah, so we do that. And that has gherkin in it. And then you get the burger. So have you tried burger sauce? The Watties burger sauce? Yeah. So how was the Instagram tortilla burger

it was really good like Jen was making them and the issue she has is you've got a frying pan you're going to do

one at a time so you hand one out kids have one then you it's just like a constant you're not all going to sit down and eat together no and then by the time

she said by the time she had cooked 12 of these things she's like I don't want dinner anymore. So that was the experience. They tasted great, though. Right, good.

But, yeah, so this is why I had to go get gherkins. And there is no middle ground with a jar of gherkins. You can either have zero gherkins or 10 litres of gherkins. The jars are enormous. Unless you go for a cornacon, a cornacon, like one of those little tiny ones that you put on like a charcuterie board. You know, those cheese boards. You're saying three words in succession, and I don't know what they mean.

The teeny tiny ones that go on cheese boards are called corn-a-chons. Corn-a-chons. On a what board? Charcuterie board. Jeez. It's like a cheese board. It's good to have you on the show, mate. 2024 is going to be far more cultured than what you're used to.

A cheese board. I'll just say a cheese board. Yeah, just a cheese board. Yeah. It'd be great. But no, you're right. They do come in like 2kg jars or whatever. Yeah.

Two litre. But I'm not mad about it because I love a gherk. Do you drink the gherkin juice? I literally, the other day, pulled out a gherkin in the car because I couldn't wait until I got home. It spilt gherkin juice all over me, which is not great. But I would drink the gherkin juice. I know Ben's wife Amanda, when she was pregnant,

she just drank straight from the jar. Really? Yeah, like a glass. Yeah. Very unattractive food, though, the gherkin, isn't it? And as I was researching gherkins, there was a side article on the seven most unattractive foods to eat off your partner. Gherkins in that top ten. I don't know what the obsession is.

What's your algorithm on your computer? Why was that your sidebar? It was like a related article. Right. It's like your computer's like, oh, he'll be into this. Yeah. It's a big leap to go from gherkins to would

you eat this gherkin off your partner? But there are some people who are obsessed with eating food off their partner, aren't they? I prefer a plate

personally. Yeah. That's not for me. It's a bit messy. I'm cleaner than that. Mints on toast, you wouldn't eat that off your partner, would

you? No, because you get the red residue like in a Tupperware container. Exactly. How do you get it off? Chips and onion dip. Do that out of the belly button or something. We've found out that, Producer Joel, you've been working here three days, Megan.

Yes. And Producer Joel, kind of, sort of a little bit shy, came forward yesterday and said that you two have history. And you knew nothing of this history, Megan Puppers. I was like, um, huh? Now, a bit of background to Joel. He's worked his way through the ranks here at the company. You really do know every nook and cranny of the business, Joel.

Yeah, well, I've been here for almost five years now and worked in many different brands and stuff as well, kind of doing coffee orders, cleaning the place up. You name it, I've done it around here. For some reason, radio assumes that young 17, 18-year-old interns can do things like drive trailers, cook barbecues. I mean, I started out doing this. I'm pretty sure I gave a whole suburb food poisoning at one of my radio station promotional barbecues. I tried to back a trailer on a Dodge Ram and I jacked it exactly what are you doing at some point

the industry went you know yeah we'll trust these young kids to do jobs way beyond them but uh yeah that was kind of Joel's role in his way into it he Joel knows every part of this building he took us down to it he's like hey Carl I'll show you this room there might be some stuff in there that we want he took us down to the strange room about two levels below it's literally like a sweatshop there was a lady in there eating a hot lunch three quarts hot lunch off a milk crate and we're like what is this room it's a storage room i think like one of the promo storage rooms they keep the goods in there it's like the lady didn't say anything to us. But like, hello. She was sitting down on another crate

eating her three courses. She was able to get out though. She's not locked in there. Have you got her in there sorting promotional goods, have you, Joel? She's one of the team. So anyway, this is Joel's bag. He's done everything. And so you take it from here, mate. Yeah, well, yesterday you were talking about your house and I was like, I've actually been to your house megan i invited everyone over for like a

brunch or something and that's when you had john was like i've been to your house yeah and i was like i've been to your house because a few years ago when you're on maternity leave um one of my random jobs was dropping all of your promotional pr packages and online shopping orders that you'd missed for the last two months to your house. So I went out there with a basket of like 40 different packages and dropped them off to Megan Puffers. It's the company Courier. And you said you remember nothing of this interaction.

I don't remember that at all. Did you meet Megan then? Was I there? I knew Megan before. I don't know if she knew me, but I knew Megan before that. And I think you might have been out there in the back but yeah it was just a leave it at the door sort of situation right you're just like I'm surprised you didn't jump on the intercom you're like

boy help help put them down and go Joel's like oh can I just come and use the toilet go leave immediately no eye contact and I don't live near work. I live quite far out. That's a big trip. It's a 45 minute trip, isn't it? And that traffic. That's a big job. He's like, oh, my name's Joel.

I don't care. Get out of my property. I was devastated that he's like, I'll take your house. Do you remember getting the promotional goods that this poor guy drove? I remember the packages coming. Don't you remember the human that delivered them? Yes. I'm so sorry.

Anyway, this also comes off the back of Ben Boyce. When we first started here, he was like, oh, follow Joel on social media. And then he went, oh, I got a DM from Joel from about five or six years ago when he was a school kid. And you'd message Ben and he'd never replied to you. Yeah, I've met you about five times as well, but we won't even go there. It's fine.

Don't even worry about us. Oh, you keep it up, Jack. You're doing a good job, my friend. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Been here for three days, filling in for Ben while he's been on his Disney cruise. Been a wonderful three days, Megan. Live on in my heart forever these three days.

Why did you look away when you said that? You're lying. You looked up to the left. Yeah, I didn't know what else to say at that moment. To be honest, we'll get on to next week. We'll mow into more shows and probably forget about these three days. It's for the best. But while I've been here, at The Hits, we have been organising our Secret Santa.

So it's something you have to opt into. The bosses here sent out an email and they're like, anyone who's interested in doing an in-house Secret Santa, $20. Just write your name and then the draw's going to be done. You get it an anonymous person that you have to buy for. $20.

So they sent around a list. I didn't realise they were going to do this, but they sent around a list of everyone who has opted in for Secret Santa. And that's when producer Joel and I actually noticed that your name's not on that list, Jono. Absolutely. I won't be participating in Secret Santa. Neither's been, actually.

Neither Jono or Ben. Well, we've actually got a pact between us. We spat on each other's hands and we shook hands and said we shall never buy presents for each other and then Ben sanitised

and then he sanitised his hands a lot did you actually I just find it another thing you need to do another piece of admin around

already admin heavy time of year too. At some point in history, we all went, let's give ourselves this little period. Huge task. A four week period of unnecessary stress. That doesn't need to be there.

How much money would we save if Christmas wasn't a thing? That's true. So much money. Look, you putting your tree up on the 1st of November and getting bespoke wrapping paper. Yeah, but every night I get little twinkling lights and this beautiful tree and all the Christmas music.

It's a vibe that only happens once a year. Well, having done Secret Santa at many radio station events over the years, what I know of them is I'll probably more often not get given a pretty offensive T-shirt, some sort of offensive looking phallic object as a straw and you're like get drunk and you forget it you leave it there, you know? You don't work at the rock anymore

We've actually got nice presents here like aqua candles and things Yeah, we actually like try and buy thoughtful gifts Well, no I haven't So does that mean as a team we're not going to buy each other no Secret Santa presents between us? Do not even think about this next year when you're on board.

Okay? Don't you try and start up some sort of present giving operation here, mate. Don't come in here with your big ideas. But Producer Joel earns a lot less than you and he's opted in for Secret Santa. I actually opted Jono and Ben in as well. So they're doing it

I'm pretty sure. So even though you are a great story Jono I have I've put my producer hat on and I said Jono and Ben they'll do it. So you're in

and you have to draw who you have today. Sorry mate. Thanks. But and my other part too is if I'm not playing up to it I'm like I'll probably forget and then someone will be

disappointed you know. That's the genuine thing. I'm useless. I'm a useless human being. You don't want to disappoint anyone. Now I've signed up because I've got someone and chances are that person's not going to get anything. And they always say Secret Santa, but they always find out who gave it. Exactly. So the

disappointment will be real. It's like our staff opinion surveys here at work. They always know who's filling them out. They mean to be anonymous. They do the digging. Not hard. Whoever just gets the 20 bucks and a card, it's from Jono. That's right.

That's right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A moment with someone in my personal space. Yeah. Getting up in your grill at the supermarket. What happened? Just coming out of the supermarket,

I was holding my one-year-old daughter. Aya? Aya. Aya? Aya. Aya? Good on you for giving it a try. You know, you went in strong. And I know you've got Baz too, the older child.

Bazzy, yeah, Bastion. Don't ask me his proper name. Bastion. Bastion. Bazzy, Baz, Bastiano, Basil, whatever. Lovely. Good names. And Aya.

And Aya. Aila. Aya. Aya. Aya. So I was holding Aya, And Aya. Isla. Aya. Aya. Aya. So I was holding Aya, my one-year-old, and we were just coming out of the supermarket. And a guy, he, I don't want to age him, but- About my age, older man. About your age, older guy.

Look at early retirement, looking to retire. Yeah. Yeah. Look at early retirement Looking to retire Yeah Looked a little bit rough And he bowled up to me Quite a quick pace And I wasn't sure If he was going to go past me Or what was happening

But he did come right up to me Stopped in my personal space And I was also Holding my one year old So I was like I don't know what's happening here A little bit protective Understood Mother bear Took a Yeah. A little bit protective.

Understood. Mother bear? Yeah. Took a little bit of a step back, and he stepped forward, and I was like, oh, no, what's happening? And he says, g'day. He has a pretty cute little girl he got there. And I was like, oh, again, where is this going?

Like, I don't know what's happening. He's front-footed with some beautiful compliments though. Yeah. Yeah. And that's when he was like, she about one. And I was like, she's exactly one.

She just turned one. Knows his babies. Yeah. And starts talking to me about my child. He's like, she's gorgeous. I can tell you're a really good mum. I was like,

thank you. And just wanted to stop and give me some compliments about her. You said he was so close to your face that you could feel his breath. I could feel his breath on my skin. I think he wanted to give her a pat on the head and I didn't want that. Well, you know, I don't want to make assumptions or stereotypes, but he sounds like he's out there in the battlefield every day.

He's out there in the public all the time. He's seeing a lot of babies. So he would know a cute baby when he stumbles across a cute baby. Yeah. Yeah. And he seemed like an old battler who just wanted to have a chat. And it just wasn't at all what I was expecting when he came, you know, barreling up to me. Did he rank the baby out of 10?

No. He did say she was really cute though. Yeah, that's good. I'll give that a solid seven and a half. Not all babies are cute. Well, you'd give Aya a seven and a half. No, I'm playing the role of the old guy. I haven't seen your baby.

I'll give you an honest ranking, though, when I do. Of Aya. Rest assured, Aya. And it's not pretty, but it'll be honest. Okay? I think you should rank babies. I love it when people say, you look like a good mum. He doesn't know you.

I know, does he? You could be a shocking mum. Exactly. Yeah. I always find it when the people haven't even had the child and people are going, you're going to be such great parents. You're like, we could be shocking. I feel like, yeah.

We have no skills at the moment. Yeah, I've got no idea what I'm doing. You've got no idea what kind of mum I'm going to be. What to Watch with Megan. Now, Megan Papaz. Hello. You've been watching the new Squid Games episode. You're like, oh, there's new Squid Games.

I assumed it was the sequel to the original Squid Games that we all became unhealthily obsessed with during lockdown. In 2021. Yeah. No, this is the challenge. Squid Game, the challenge, which is actually a little bit juicier listen. Attention all players it is now time for the next game.

Please enter the game immediately. What is this? Damn. Oh, so it's a reality show of the Squid Game. So we're killing people on TV now. We've reached that stage for entertainment. No one dies, but the games, everything is exactly the same. Wow. The set up, the doll, the creepy doll that's singing, all of the games are the same,

and they are literally staying in the hall. It all looks identical to the show which is why they're all like, oh damn! Yeah. I'm just reading an article, 456 contestants. Playing for $4.5 million, so every time someone is eliminated

they add $10,000 to the prize money. How do we see them disappear from the reality show? So they get eliminated in the same way. So they play Red Light, Green Light, and they get shot with a paintball gun. But they have obviously been told to die elaborate deaths. So although they've just been shot with a paintball,

they're like, oh, down they go. But then it turns into like a reality show where they're all trying to stab each other in the back in the hall these are real people that are trying to win serious money uh and they've also added in the element that you can eliminate people during challenge like separate challenges you can point to someone and get them eliminated throughout the show. Are they all sleeping on bunk beds? Wow. Everything's the same.

And then you see them step on the glass plates and they fall into oblivion. Oh, into the darkness. Health and safety on this show must be like through the roof. Even firing paint guns at people nowadays. Yeah. You're right. But it's juicy. It's so good. The first right. But it's juicy.

It's so good. The first article is under a review of the show. Sorry, not first article. First comment under this review of the show. First comment from Daz. Oh, this show just looks like Netflix trying to make some money. Well, yeah, isn't that... That's the idea, right?

I think every show that they do, yep. They're not doing it out of the goodness of their heart, Daz. The production values on it are so good, though. They've got the pink suit guys and everything. It's legit and it's worth a watch this weekend. Now, the actual, on the Squid Game's, the first incarnation of the show, 38.5 million they could have won, not 4.56.

So on the scripted version of the show. So it's down a bit from 38.5 million they could have won, not 4.56. So on the scripted version of the show. So it's down a bit from 38.5 million, but still a ton of cash. Still a lot of cash, yeah. Yeah. 456 people, your odds of winning that are very slim. Would you do it? No. Seems like a lot of admin.

It does. It does. I'm not a gambler. My odds aren't great. I'd just be like, oh, can't be bothered. And the bunk beds look uncomfortable. They do. Yeah.

And there's like public bathrooms you have to. Yeah. And the cleaning of the bunks is up to you. I'm like, oh, hygiene would be low on that show. Not for me.