Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Bag-Snatching Scandal That Nearly Ended A Friendship | THE GREATEST HITS

Episode Date: August 22, 2026

One year ago this week... After finally meeting our beloved Italian correspondent face-to-face, Jono Pryor accidentally walks off with her handbag and jacket. Daniela starts searching the restaurant while Jono slowly realises he’s become the thief in the story!   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spencer Boone, it is the Hits Breakfast. John I've been and Megan, the All Blacks had a win over the weekend, as did the Warriors back inside the top four, which is good news, and huge amount of people watching the darts over the weekend to 10,000 people. She, was there? It's a parker in her over two days. It looked very epic as well, the world champs of darts in New Zealand. I love a sport where you don't have to be athletic, you know?

It's great, yeah. It takes a lot of skill, don't get any wrong? They're very talented, aren't they? Huge amount of skill, and the oldest-looking 18-year-old. You'll ever see. No one. Yeah. It was like 35.

Luke Littler. Well done, Luke. Congratulations. Yeah, the darts is massive all around the world, isn't it? It's pretty cool. It looks like a great vibe. And our also great vibe was Taranga. Last week we were there for 24 hours hanging out, and we went out for dinner, took Daniela, our Italian correspondent out for dinner. She's been living in Tauranga for many years. We took out for dinner, and it was great.

We had a great time. It was lovely to meet Daniela face to face because she was very much looking forward to meeting us. We'll finally see each other on flesh. See each other on the flesh. We did see each other on flesh. We did see each other on flesh. Yeah, right, we did. But we had a moment, and we touched on this very briefly on Friday,

and we need to bring this back, that one of us was caught in, well, theft. Red-handed. Yeah, a bag-snatching scandal. Okay, so can I paint the picture here? Because I feel like I really need to explain where this all came from. So we were leaving the restaurant that we were in with Danielle. We'd fed her the McCain pizza, fed her the canned spaghetti. It'd been a wonderful evening, okay?

Walking out. waiter comes up to me and goes oh there's a bag and a jacket and I'm thinking must be Megan's bag and jacket because I can see her wandering out with no bag or jacket Right so this is at the table where we were sitting at Okay, hand it over to me okay Now as we're wandering around the restaurant I'm like what I'll do is a gag reveal

Okay with Megan so I'm holding it behind my back So if you see that CCTV footage it might look like I'm trying to hide or conceal The content definitely definitely does So we're walking around with it behind my bag And we walk outside the restaurant and Megan turns around and I'm like

here's going to be the moment she's like thank you for bringing my bag and jacket and I hold it out in front you stopped wide-eyed looking at me holding it and I said

going hmm hmm what are you doing and you said whose bag and jacket is that words you never want to hear no you're right and you were like it's yours

it's like it is it tried to gaslight her into thinking it was it is not we were staying literally across the road so I'd left everything at the hotel, I'd just taken my phone. Which I found out then in that moment.

So I'm like, dear God, who's bag of jacket is this? Okay, then I go back in, poor Daniela. Daniel's in a right fluster. She's in the kitchen, she's looking at the kitchen, she's asking the stuff. She's panicking, and I'm like, is this your pack of a jacket? She's like, thank God I thought someone stole it. Technically someone did. Yeah, we never met her before.

We've read a long play for us to finally build up the trust with her over months, talking to her on the radio, finally get to meet her, and then snatch her bag of jacket. But it brings. We threw her head at some stage. Like, did they take my things? This whole thing was about. So, yeah, then the next morning the police were there.

They were in the cafe. We did tell them that you'd stolen a bag. Comically got out the handcuffs. And I was like, no, please. Taise him. Please use the taser. Paidahum. It might help him.

So, Giorno, accidentally stole a handbag in a jacket. If there's anything I've learned about Italians is you don't cross Italians, I'll be waking up with the bloody horses getting my bed or something. So when have you accidentally stolen something? We'd love to hear from you this morning. Oh, 800, the hits. So 4487, I'll tell you how I accidentally stole the shoes from an Uber driver. Really?

Yeah. You pulled them off his feet? Yeah, well, well, fine.