Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Greatest Hiding Place in Every House… | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: September 8, 2026

On today’s show: (00:00) Is under the fridge the greatest hiding place in every household? (01:50) Megan’s disastrous 3:15am attempt to clean a mouldy drink bottle  (05:50) Noah and his family share their powerful Child Cancer Foundation journey ahead of Wig Wednesday (10:40) What do people yell at you when they recognise you in public?  (13:05) Grace’s weekly phone-free café catch-up sparks debate  (15:45) A Queenstown hotel eyelash uncovers a suspected holiday affair  (27:35) Have you ever pretended to listen and somehow guessed the conversation correctly?  (30:35) Producer Troy argues Stevie Wonder made the greatest album of all time  (38:05) Megan’s new mum-friend group invites her on a Queenstown marathon weekend    Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See 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. Now, I just teased before that this could be the greatest hiding place in every household. I'd say most households have one of these. Yesterday, I pulled something out of the fridge and dropped, bounced off my foot and then went under the fridge. Into the dusty three centimetre high cavern. Yeah.

Did you try and kick it again? you know you drop something yeah that's the theory it softens the blow if you drop any items but then this thing rolled under the fridge and I'm like well that's that's gone there's no one ever in the history of knocking

something under a fridge has ever gone and retrieved it how many grapes are rotting underneath those little cherry tomatoes as someone who's got little kids many a car and toy has gone under there and I have to go under there with like the spatula oh do you get them out to you yeah because otherwise you

hear about it all day. I'd be like, that's gone forever, kids. You're not getting that bad. Fly swats for us and our family, because we often put it under the air with a little tip just sort of, but it gets kicked in and then it goes. So we've just got, it's a grave of fly swats underneath our fridge. The fly swat the retriever.

Yeah, well, no, just we just keep it under the fridge. You locate the floor. With a little bit like out, which is a dumb system, really. It's a storage system. But then, yeah, but then someone will kick it and it'll go in under, that one's gone. So I don't know how many fly swats will be under our house. fridge. I reckon at least a dozen.

I reckon if you got raided by the armed offenders and they're like we've looked everywhere. How about under the fridge? We're like, it's gone, sorry guys. Even out of the fridge. No one even pulls out the fridge to look under the. And when you move house, you're like, dear God. It was a lot there. Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast. That.

You came to work in a bit of a flap. I've had a rough morning. What's happened? Wet curtains we understand. I got up early. I've been editing a podcast this morning and so I got up early got everything going

I was in the kitchen at my house at quarter past 3 8. So it's dark I'm a little bit like you know the lift's working it's not going to the top floor

so I'm there in body I need that analogy you made me sort of think about that a little bit lifts going but it's not going the top floor not yet have you reached the top floor now

what floor are you on? Oh yeah I'm like I'm banging on the top floor Is that a good thing in the lift analogy Well, I think by 10 a.m., the lift's not going to be working. Oh, okay. So, lift breaks down.

Okay, right. Volatile lift. Okay. And I've also lost my beloved Formula One, like Stanley Cup thing. Oh, one of your four drink bottles you bring to work every morning. Yes. So I had to bring in this other one that I've got. But it was in the cupboard, and when I opened it full of mould.

So at 3.15 in the morning, I'm like, okay, well, now I've got to clean this drink bottle. and I was like that's pretty gross Was a glass an option? No because I have to What do you mean? I have to bring it to work She lost the other one

that in the bathroom I know I think I left it in the toilet And I was like surely someone She's going to leave it there I know How hydrated do you need to drink? I took all my things Do you go on the bowl?

If I'm thirsty enough I took all my things into the bathroom before I went home yesterday And I think I left The drink bottle on the on the sink okay I thought it would still be there but it's not um so anyway I'm washing this moldy drink bottle at 315 in the morning and I was like hot water is what I need

to sterilize this so I put a little dribble of um dishwasing liquid and I poured in hot water and I put the lid on of this thermos style drink bottle screwed it up and shook it a couple of times and in my head I was like oh no I know exactly what I've done uh this is a a good idea. So I tried to unscrew it and it's like suction tight and so it has a little flicky top so I flick the top and what proceeds is I'm not even joking probably seven meters of projectile foamy soap water. Oh like a water fountain. Yeah. Boiling hot and it shoots across my kitchen my dining room hits the blinds. It's kind of like that, remember that Kim Kardashian photo when she's opening the champagne? It's going on her bottom. Yes.

in my mind I could just hear the Formula One music when they're on the podium doing the champagne I'm like across my But you don't need that at 3.15 in the morning Yeah And so I'm standing there

and everything's dripping and I have to I either laugh or cry and so I'm hysterically laughing trying to clean up this soapy mess but it's still dark. I don't know if I've got it all. And across my wall is like drip stains

that I can't get rid of. So I'm going to have to message my husband and explain why it looks like there was an exorcism in the dining room. Even when you've washed it with soapy water. If anything, you've cleaned the curtains. Exactly. I've mop the floor. Yeah. Exactly.

You've done the good work. Yeah. You said you could laugh or cry, but it feels like you're on the verge of crying now. No, it's a lot. You feel like a race car in the red to use another formula one analogy. Yeah, but if anyone sees my cup, my beloved Formula Wonder bottle. Poor old Troy was out there with a search party.

I know, I had security. Poliasi was on it. Yeah. So that's gone, I think. Hey next, producer Troy, he wants to fight us on something. He's like, this is the best ever. And if you've any debate, he's going to disagree. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. In a week's time, it's week Wednesday in New Zealand, raising money for the Child Cancer Foundation. You can wear wonderful wacky wigs for the day and make a donation to support families and children going through cancer treatment. It really is a wonderful organisation and you can get more at wigwensday.org.n. And joining us in this studio is 9-year-old Noah who's been on his own cancer journey with his family after being diagnosed with leukemia at age 7 but is in remission now.

Noah, how are you? Good. You got the day off today to come see us? Yeah. Oh, nice. All day. I realized school hasn't started yet. It's just the morning.

You could still get a full day in there, but let's not put that into your parents' heads. And so why is Wig Wednesday important to you, mate? Because for, like, people that, when they lose their hair. Through cancer treatment? Yeah. And so you've been on this journey, have you, mate? Mm-hmm.

It's pretty weird when you lose your hair because it's, like, itchy and... Yeah, right. I lost mine. It didn't come back. Yeah, this doesn't come back. Yeah, it hasn't come back. Yeah, mate, so... And so how many years were you sick for?

You're cancer free now. You're in remission? Yeah. How many years were you living with it, mate? Two. He said, we've got Noah's parents here. Do you mind coming over and having a chat? Jeez, a hell of a journey for the Fano and the family the last couple of years, I imagine.

Yeah, I guess it's not something any parent wants to take on, eh? But I guess we didn't have much choice. But, yeah, you've been a bit of a battler, eh? The kids are very resilient, aren't they? Yeah. You know, we're here for CCF as well. We've had a lot of support along the way. Yeah, what sort of support did they give you?

Oh, man, we've had lots of... emotional in chats like trips away, which was really cool. So we managed to get away once you kind of finished all your hospital stuff. Just things like we were diagnosed just before Christmas and then Noah was diagnosed. And then literally within the week we were home, they came to see us. Say your life as you know it is not all the same. I don't know, just little things like giving us passes to go to the zoo or butterfly creek and things for Noah to look forward to.

It's interesting that you did say we were diagnosed because I know Dai Henwood, when he speaks about it, he says it's not only the person who gets diagnosed, it is everyone around them as well. It affects the whole family. Yeah, it puts everyone's life on hold a little bit, doesn't it? You've got a brother, eh? It's exactly the same.

He didn't know who was picking up from school or, you know, where he would be because we'd be in hospital. We'd disappear in the middle of the night. He'd wake up in the morning and, you know, Oh, Noah's gone to hospital or whatever. So, yeah, it throws everything. It just throws your life up. I can just imagine, you know, we're all parents and just getting that.

What's it like when you get that news, that diagnosis? Horrible. Yeah. We try not to think about it. No. Yeah, awful. Like, everything you have known and taken for granted and, you know, your normal family life is completely upended.

Pema and the blood tests say they were pretty awful. And then he had to go every once a month at some stage to go, He had to go to theatre and have the chemo in through his spine and lots of things like that. Jeez. Oh, you were so brave. So brave. And your parents as well, I can't even imagine. And so then at the other end of that journey, the remission, like, that must just be, oh my gosh,

what's that feeling like? Massive relief. There's a few drinks, eh? When you get to ring the bell at the end of your treatment, don't you? So that was pretty cool. Places like the Child Cancer Foundation, obviously, you couldn't do it without them. No. No.

It's given me goosebumps. We didn't know anything about it before this journey or about them, and we just grateful is probably the only word that we can use. They just were always there. Still now, he finished treatment in February, and, you know, like they're still here. I still get a phone call. And yeah, initially it's pretty overwhelming.

You get, you're in there, you don't really know what's happening, and then they hand you this big folder, oh, here's your treatment plan for the next two and a half years, and you're just, oh, yeah. I've meltdown, so yeah. It's quite nice to have people that have been there and helped other people before to sort of guide you in the right direction of... Well, listen, donating to this important organisation.

They want to get around about 280 grand, I think. And Whig Wednesday is how you can do it. Head to Whig Wednesday. It's quite a mouthful. It's a mouthful. It's not a mouthful. You want to get schools, workplaces, community group, shows support. And as you guys said, the amazing support that they do do.

More money raised this year to help out more families. You can participate. or if you just want to donate, you can do that there too. Thank you for sharing the most traumatic moment of your life. You're welcome. Thanks for listening, New Zealand. You put a lot of things into perspective. And make sure you get involved for Wig Wednesday next week.

A wonderful cause for the child cancer family. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. No, I get it because I do the same thing. When you see someone that you vaguely know from somewhere, sometimes you don't really know what to say. You kind of yell out something. It happens if you.

you see someone you might have seen on radio or TV, you know, things like that. And it's happened to us a few times over the years. A lot of people used to say, John I'll bet at 10, they'd say the full name of something when they'd see us. People used to yell out, John Campbell live. As if it was a hyphenated...

Like for John Campbell, yeah. You just yell out what you know them from. Yeah, and I get it. In the moment, you don't expect you. You just sort of yell out something. I had funny side up the other day, remember I was telling you about, because it's all on our billboards everywhere at the moment

in bus stops and we're a funny side up. They're like, Hey, funny side up. You're like, hey, how you doing? People always like to yell radio stations that I'm not on at me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. People might think, because there's three of us on the Billboard, that are names of funny side and up. Oh, they're true. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're one of the funny, you're one of them. One of funny side up. But yesterday I was walking through the mall,

and it was just after school time, you know, a lot of kids around the mall when I was walking through with my daughters. They're always like, oh, this is the time of my opposite here. The old people, they're from other schools, they're going to not want to run. into them. Like, you don't know these people. It's all about the ops there. It's the way the Jersey say it. Like, opposition.

Like, as a joke. There's some of the ops at the mall. I'm like, whatever, mate. Just go on. There's nothing more horrific than having to be with your parents after school time. Yeah. That's the main reason. It's just hanging out with me. Any excuse. Poppy's worst nightmare. If anyone from her school is, I was like, well, do you know them? She's like, no.

But like I go say, they roll with it. I might come up and rolling with that. But I've got yo TikTok, y'all down at me. And then I was like, yeah, TikTok. And I've never had that before Like I'm my whole TikTok Like it was like this is the weirdest thing And it caused quite a commotion

Because of the whole group of guys And my daughter's like Oh my God what is happening right now And it's like yo TikTok And it's like well I'm not actually TikTok Like I've done a couple of videos That's your identifying Feeture now

But I've never had that before Like TikTok as a yeah Did you yell like Yeah I'm also on the radio Do you know what that is? You could listen Radio would be better Like yell of 97.4 Rockland

or 97.7 category Yeah, they don't know what the radio is. I heart radio. You know, all those would have been better options for me. Maybe next time I should respond with that. Yeah, right, Megan. Please, any plug, we. Just get the radio out there.

Your radio. That'd be nice next. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Producer Grace has instilled a weekly tradition on the show. Every Tuesday after the program, we go across to a cafe, and it's a phone-free hangout.

Well, it's actually called no takeaway cup time. No takeaway cup. But we always get take away cups because we've got stuff to do. Yeah, and we actually sit down as a group, as a show, and you've eliminated phones from this whole experience. Well, just so we can catch up on life and make eye contact. Some of my life. It wasn't with the Gen Z is the one organizing it.

I know, which is remarkable. So I appreciate the sentiment. But not once in our no phone meetings, have we ever not had phones? Well, here's the thing, because yesterday meeting and you're like, we're talking, you're like, that's a really good idea. for the radio show and then you're like, I'm going to forget that. If I don't write that down, you didn't have pen of paper, you're like, can I write it in my phone? What's the deal here? And Grace is like, no phones. So Ben turns us back to try and block

me while I'm like running it on my phone. She's like, I can see you, Megan. I could smell you on my phone. I'm that locked in. But I, then we were talking about, like, we actually had banter. Yeah, we were good. And then you want to look at something and show something and you're like, oh, I can't do that. It's just, it's a fair. I was talking about a certain color and I was like, I need to give you a reference. And I was like, please. Grace, may I search this particular colour on my phone. Whoa, well, whoa, whoa, well. The reason the phone band started,

because Megan would sit there on her phone. It sounded like the national party. The phone band, the phone band. Don't you dare say that, then. Megan would sit there playing her games. Excuse me. Let me finish. The biggest insult you could say to a 25-year-old. Let me finish.

She would sit there playing her games, not interacting with us. Not making eye contact. She'd be locked in. But my thing is, as long as we're having a conversation, if you're like, hey, I need to show you something on your phone, that's fine. Okay, that's excusable. Also, I was doing research from my podcast. Tuesday is always around my podcast time.

Do you want me to move it to Wednesday? It would actually be really helpful. Well, I will say not once through our phone-free Tuesdays. Just Megan Bean phone-free. Not once. I mean, the rest of us have given it a decent crack. It's hard, though. It was hard, you know.

Work purposes. So if I move it to next week Wednesday, do you promise not to go on your phone? Yes. If anything, it's a sobering reminder how reliant we are on our phones. People do that for dinners, don't they too? They put it, the phones in the middle, and if the first listen, touch the phones had to pay for dinner.

We're not allowed phones at our dinner table, and if we do, the kids are like, no, phones, and you're like, oh, yeah, yeah. But yeah, the whole time, you're like, oh, if I could just... I've literally told my kids to get off a screen while I've been looking at a screen. That's happened many times. With no eye contact. Go on the screens, yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Something's gone viral. You said bonkers on the internet. Is that a level above viral? Well, yeah. No, viral is another way of saying it. A lot of people getting involved in this. This is a lady who put out a video.

She was her partner. We're here in New Zealand. Having a nice romantic getaway in Queensland. Beautiful. And it didn't go the way she'd planned. So from what I gather, he's like, go off and treat yourself. So he's booked a bit of a day spa situation for her to go away and relax. Lovely.

Lovely. A lovely gesture, right? Yeah. I'm calling out all girls in Queensland, New Zealand. right now that happened in the last week. One of you queens who I love and adore, and I would love to speak to, left an eyelash, a little cluster eyelash on my towel while I was out and my, the man that I was on holidays with that I have been dating for the last eight months, stayed home with a tummy bug.

I would like to thank you, I would like to talk to you. So she goes away, well, she's pretty much explained it, but she returns and there's an eyelash sitting on the pillowcase. God, I hope the tummy bug was fake, otherwise that chick's got something... Got gastro. More than she bargained for. Yeah. She's jumped to the conclusion or maybe hit him up and said, you know, did you have someone in here?

And I'm gathering he said, I did, because Ben and me are both gone, well, that could be anyone's eyelash. I mean, yeah, it probably doesn't narrow it down to too many people, but it could be like a cleaner or someone who... who had stayed in the room previous. It could have been. But obviously he's probably... In this case, it's forensic evidence.

Gone. Hey, yeah, you're right. Yeah, but I'm guessing the towel is not clean folded in the shelf. It's obviously one that's been used. So why would the cleaner... So if he has done this, and we're assuming he has, a risky maneuver.

Go off for a massage, and I will invite another woman into the hotel room we're staying in. In the short period of time. It is a race against time and everything needs to work to. Also, you've booked her in for something. that you know the exact time of.

So pretty clever. Like if you bought her an hour and a half massage. Oh yeah, you're right. You know you've got at least an hour and a half. Plus travel time and stuff. Great. Yeah, okay. You know?

Yeah, so he sent her a way to be relaxed and she's come back the opposite of relaxed, obviously. But she's also assumed, we think, that the woman did it on purpose, that she left her, like, some breed crumbs being like, your partner's cheating. But I initially thought she'd done it, you know, she just dried herself in an eye that she'd come off. she might not have done it on purpose Right Yeah well she's thinking the best of someone So is it like the Italians leave horses' heads in your bed Don't you it's the female version of alerting

So maybe the girl who came over to have a liaison Figured out that he was with someone Saw all the female products and stuff in there And been like oh you're not alone And left a piece of evidence Do you think when he was saying goodbye He was like where's your eyelash gone? Your eyelashes are all like

Uneven Do you think in that moment guys are that No Intuitive No No

So He's like get out Get out She's coming back Megan wants to chuck this out I don't think We're getting Getting on phone and through

No I want to know If you've ever Been the other woman And maybe you did Alert the The partner

You didn't know That they were With someone You went and Had your Liaison And then You left a brig

Crum Or you You told them When were you The other woman And you Let them know Or just a cast, than it.

A little bit wider, a little bit wider. Were you a woman who was alerted? Yeah. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The heads. Played you some audio of an Australian couple who came to Queenstown for a holiday. She went off for a relaxing massage.

He stayed in the hotel room and she came home to this. I'm calling out all girls in Queensland right now that have been in the last week. If you're not a girl, leave. One of you, one of you queens who I love and adore, and I would love. love to speak to, left an eyelash, a little cluster eyelash on my towel while I was out. And my, the man that I was on holidays with that I have been dating for the last eight months, stayed home with a tummy bug. So, was it a little clue, a piece of evidence?

Was it accidental or did they leave it there on purpose being like, I did not know he was in any kind of relationship, leave my eyelashes as breadcrumbs that I was here. So a high-risk high-risk high-a-ward topic here on radio. We really are taking a gamble. Have you been the other woman? And did you not know that they were already in a relationship? And did you alert the partner? That's what we're after.

Now, we've got a couple of calls here. Sally. Hello. What happened? Do you find out someone was cheating? Yes, I got messaged by Facebook. someone had stalked my husband and found out he had a wife and his sister had been sleeping with my husband

and his sister had told him and so he went on Facebook and hunted me down and told you so the brother of the lady having the affair was the good Samaritan yes he was oh wow that's a hell of a storyline how did you take the news because often sometimes you're worried they're just going to shoot the messenger and they won't believe you. How did you take it? I complete shock at first and then, oh my God, of course that's happening.

And then left them. What do you mean, of course? What were the red flags when you thought back? Just, oh, I don't know. The relationship had kind of broken down a bit anyway. Right. And it was fully believable. I'm sure all sorts of things start to add up.

retrospectively. And what did you say to this guy who just randomly messaged you out of the blue? Did you thank him? Yeah, I thanked him and I said, thank you for saying and not like, you know, wondering if you're going to ruin something that maybe didn't want to be ruined, but I said thanks a lot. And then when I asked my husband about this lady with her first name, he denied it. Of course he did.

Really? Of course he did. Even though I knew her name. Yep. Jeez, and so when did he actually give in and go, oh, you got me? He actually has never said it, admitted it. Really?

What a coward. I mean, he knows that it's true, but he's never actually. He said the words. Yeah. All right, how about we call him next? No. That would be some barnstorming radio, wouldn't it? He's joking, sorry.

I don't know. It won't make you do that. Oh, well, hey, listen, thank you for sharing. I'm sure it's such a traumatic period in your life for coming on and sharing that story. Oh, good. You deserve better than that. Have you got better?

You got another person? No, no, I'm just happy with myself. Oh, good on, yeah. In my kids. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Were you the other person in the relationship?

You found out that the person you were having a little something with was actually already hooked up. And did you alert them? We got anonymous with us. How are you? Good morning. Good morning. What happened? So my husband at the time was having a affair with his HR.

I rung her husband and gave him the fax so that he could make up his own mind what was going on. Yeah. Crazy. So how does that phone call go? It was a very interesting phone call. It was a very, he was denying it going, no, it can't be happening, can't be happening. and then you could almost hear the moment that it clicked in his head that it was happening.

Yeah, they're still together. They are. Wow. And what happened when you obviously went to talk to your husband at the time about it? He was denying it for a start until I put all the facts out in front of him, and then it was the next day we were separated. Oh, jeez. Wow, geez, quick turnaround.

And what made you suspect? There was a lot of things, but the, like, the little. late night messages to each other and going on work trips that weren't work trips and yeah there's a few things adding up she was very resourceful humans yeah gosh that's tacky me and ben both screwed up up i was like oh and so uh now what are you doing uh just alive living life happy yeah yeah well happy that's not going on in your life because you know one deserves that yeah i'm so sorry you had to go through that and so obviously she broke up with her partner They're still together.

Oh, her and, oh, right, they're reworking through things. Yep. Yeah, no, they're still together. They've, yeah, had a kid together and, yeah, never broke up, so. Sorry, are you talking about your ex-husband? No, so the person he had the fear on is still with her husband. Oh, sorry, I got to confuse. So where did that leave your ex?

He kind of separated, well, went on his own for a little bit, and has now found somebody else in his marriage with another child. Oh, shit. I'll tell you what. Thank you for sharing this juicy, juicy content, Anonymous. We're going to put you in the jaw for Olivia Dina, right? No, thank you. I hope you deserve something.

You deserve lots of happiness without that. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The HADS. All righty, the New Zealand Herald's Deelie Quiz. With our quiz queen, producer grace. Phone free for this. We have phone free Tuesdays after the radio show.

phone-free New Zealand here all daily quizzes as well. No loud, not allowed to use that, but we have a lifeline. Yeah. Okay, you guys ready for question number one? Yes, ma'am. What component of blood exists to cause clotting when a wound occurs? Is it the white blood cells, the platelets, or hemoglobin? Hemoglobin.

Because you're a hemophiliac if it doesn't clot. Okay. We're locking that in? Yeah. It's incorrect. Yeah, I thought that was incorrect by your facial features. You guys were so sure of your. So sure.

I don't donate blood. I would have thought the blood lady would have. Yeah, it's platelets. I'll double check it. We can double check because he was so sure. But you're a hemophiliac if your blood doesn't clock. Yeah, she does donate a lot of blood, doesn't she? I mean, me, I always get stuff wrong.

I was just throwing stuff out there, but I was surprised that I'd said the same answer as the bloodlake. Yeah, yeah. So I gave me some blind confidence on that question. I really thought Megan would nail this because she is the blood lay. She's the blood leg. Donates blood monthly to the New Zealand blood service. So what are the hemoglobin? I know, but I don't.

I'm not a bloody phlebotomist. I don't. Good to know what you were so sure of the answer. You were so sure. You can say, hey, I donate blood. Only because a hemophiliac, that means your blood doesn't clot. A hemoglobin is an iron-rich protein

and red blood cells that carries oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body. Can we change the answer for us? Well, call it if your blood doesn't cock, call it a platetone. Megan, the answer was right. wrong, man. Yeah, I'm sorry.

We're both going to take in the chin off. Me as well, I'm responsible. What was question two out of interest? Just see if we would have plowed on. I will, I will, question number two? We can't answer that. You can't answer it, but it's who played Tinkerbell in the 1991 fantasy adventure film hook.

Oh, that was Julie Roberts, wasn't it? Oh, we would have got on. I think it was. Guys, I perfor. Yeah, it was. I normally put my ham and cheese croissant on at the start of the quiz. And then by the time, we're done two breaks of the quiz. John O'Neon and Megan.

The podcast. Yesterday was having a conversation with Jen, my wife. And just in any conversation, it doesn't necessarily have to be with your partner. Sometimes your mind wanders, you know, when you're talking halfway through the conversation. I know producer Grace, she makes us all hold eye contact with her so she knows that we're digesting the information. Look at me. Look at me. She won't start what she's saying until we're looking at her dead in the eyes.

I know. It's a good theory. I can tell, you know, with, yeah. Both these guys, I can tell when they're at. locked in or not. I'm like, yeah, we'll have that conversation

again later because they haven't quite digested that. And then they'll go, blah, you're like, yeah, we didn't talk about that

20 minutes ago, but anyway. Must be frustrating. Must be frustrating. So I understand why you've employed the Remain eye contact system there,

Grace. But yesterday we're just, we're talking about something and again, my mind wandered to other stuff. She, Jen, obviously, probably knew it,

same as you been, she can tell when I'm soaking up the info. You glaze over. She's like, are you even listening? Because I'm making all the right facial expressions, nodding, and I think I'm selling the fact that I'm listening.

And she's, are you even listening? Now you've got two options here. You can be honest and say, no, I'm not. I made a terrible one say, oh, you can lie. I chose option B, lying. I said, of course I'm listening. What are we talking about then? Oh, that was a big question from her.

And a fair question, too, to be honest. Yeah, that was a pretty good follow-up, too. Do you go into your mind and I try and replay it back through my eyes? You're like replay, replay, replay, replay. But you've got a split second. Yeah, you don't have time to...

Yeah. It's like when a guy's asked something and he doesn't want to answer the question, he'll just go, huh. Yeah, it gives you a bit of time for them to hope they repeat the question. You do that all the time. Yeah, just buys your three or four seconds.

Now, you know, we're pulling back the curtain here for the guys, but it's a tactic that we use from time to time. Then I was, I don't know, this is never going to happen again in my marital career, but I just pulled it out of thin air, guys. I said, we're talking about the compost bins and what day they needed to go out. And I could tell she's like, you son of a bit. You're just fluked this. Was it a wild guest?

Well, it's kind of maybe subliminally and digested it. I think my wife gets annoyed because I do listen, but I am quite good at thinking about something else. and multitasking and she's like, you're not listening but then I've picked up enough to go, yeah, how we're talking about? She's like, oh, is she?

And you've given her three points. Yeah, well done. We all know that you didn't listen. You've just bullet pointers. I don't know how those three things connect. I've heard keywords over the last little bit. I'm like, yeah, yeah, good. I've seen both of those play out in real time.

Yeah. And I'm talking in the studio. John will be like, huh? And Ben's like, oh yeah, you're talking about, uh, Liam Lawson. Keyword Liam Lawson, Red Bull John O'Benn and Megan The podcast

The Hits Producer Troy In the first thing in the morning You like to look at what's happening around the world And send us an email of some of the things That's going on Something very exciting

Stevie Wonder's touring again Which is my number one artist He's the artist for me That I would pay Any amount of money to see live Oh wow Right like right now Given that you're hot off Olivia Dean

Bruno Mars You also have Somba tickets. If Stevie Wonder announced a show today. I'd sell those warriors tickets for $100,000, those things.

If it was this afternoon, midday, pre-tip pre, what is it, pre-sales, would you go in there? You'd have to, right? It would hurt. I would probably sell

Bruno, Olivia, and Somba to go to Stevie. I mean, he's got some amazing songs, but you were saying, oh, it's 50 years of his album songs in the Key of Life,

which, in my opinion, is the greatest album of all time. I mean, he's got some big hats. I guess it's all just It's all up to your own tastes Is it? I knew you were going to Oh, that's a good song

That's a good song I've come with receipts Okay This is why I think this is the greatest album of all time 21 songs It won four Grammy Awards This album launched

Synthesiser music Before this Since weren't being used So all pop All R&B Started with this album And it's just the album It reflects the human experience

It's got joy heartbreak, social justice, childhood wonder. And you haven't mentioned he was blind too. And he was blind the whole time. He couldn't see anything. Or was it. There is a rumour that he's not.

It's a hell of a schick to stick with the 50 years. Your whole life, yeah. Can't go out in public just like seeing things. So this is really hard. It is very subjective. Not saying that it's not an incredible album because it is, but is it the greatest album of all time.

4487 on the text. I don't think we're going to solve this argument this morning. But it'd be nice to get your thoughts. and what is the album for you? That is a really good argument you've put forward though. Like, I don't, yeah, I don't have anything.

You can't argue against it. I really like Mews, and I think some of the albums are probably some of the greatest. Oh, yeah. He composed... Yeah, and composes, like, his own symphonies in an album,

which is, like, kind of unheard of these days. You know what Mew's used, though? Synthesizers. Oh, and who came up with Sinsicist? Synthethyth, I can't be saying. Who wants to came up with that word that we can't even pronounce. Yes, but the first car wasn't as good as like a new Ferrari. So they've taken it and they're better.

So what is it? What is it? I'll tell you what, and I mean, it's up there for me. It's far. I don't know if it's my one or all time, but my daughter, Indy's really getting into Lauren Hill at the moment. And listen to the miseducation of Lauren Hill, that is a banger of an album. She's kind of one and done, wasn't she? Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Like, we sort of, yeah. And that's kind of me of the cool thing I think about kids these days. from social media, like say what you want about social media, but their musical taste, they're, I think of Tom Petty, Oasis, you know, Billy Joel, they're listening to Sabrina Carpenter, some Siena, Sparta, all sorts. Their music is just everyone.

Oh yeah, my son's listening to some Franks and Archeras stuff in the 1930s. Yeah, it's really eclectic mix now does. It's kind of cool, actually, yeah. Okay, so usually radio stations would dedicate a three-week campaign to finding the best for album ever, not us. Six o'clock in the morning.

We're going to knock it off before 10 to 7. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. The Greatest Album of All Time. It's very subjective, of course. Producer Troy's dying on a hill for Stevie Wonder. Today marks the 50th anniversary of Stevie Wonder's greatest album ever, songs in the Key of Life.

And he also's put in brackets. That argument is not up for debate, says producer. We decided to debate it, right? I don't think you can debate that it was hugely influential. Yeah, exactly. And all these are great albums. We're not saying they're not a great album. And then, as he said, did it all blind.

Makes it even more oppressive Yeah, gone on blind Wasn't he? What he turned out was incredible Yeah, so very, very incredible But Troy did actually come with some hard facts And stats saying, you know, First time the synthesizer was used

Or, you know, the introduction of soul and R&B And, you know, hip-hop from that point on Yeah, songs of the Key of Life. We wouldn't have songs in the Kiev of Springfield One of my favourite albums, which is the Springfield Simpsons. Do the Bartman? Now I get the reference of why it was called Songs in the King of Springfield.

All these years later. I'm like, oh, see, that's very clever. You have so many moments like that with The Simpsons. I see why they did that now. So, yeah, 0,800 the hits. We're going to solve a problem now, greatest album of all time. I'm going to chuck one out there. I'm going to say, appetite for destruction.

Guns and Roses, and just three of the songs on there. Sweet child of mine, absolute ripper. Then welcome to the jungle. And Paradise City. You know, Night Train was on there, Mr. Brownstone. That was a wild. That was the highest selling debut album ever. Wow.

Really? Yeah. All right. That's very good. That's really good. This got the calls. We've got three calls coming through. Ah, Paul, welcome.

Hi, how you doing? Yeah, we're doing well, Paul. Happy New Year to you. For some reason, it's really early to do this, but we're trying to find our greatest album ever. What is it for you? Well, as you say, it's subjective. And I get this Stevie Wonder thing,

but I would have gone within the visions, but I'm going to say for songs that go from start or albums go start for finish, you've got to go Dark Side of the Moon or maybe a bit of Jagged Little Pill from... Alanus, yeah. That was a great album. Well, ChapT has put Dark Side of the Moon up there

and that's top five this morning. Yeah, I was just asking you before, so you're a very good album. An Alana's a great album. A great album. And Paul sounds like an aficionado. He's got a wide spectrum of music there, Paul. Hey, thank you.

Put your foot. Good options. Kane, welcome. Greatest album ever. Oh, I am. It's... Jenny Boyce, Ben's mum, put him out. Yeah, love it.

I mean, it's been turning into musicals, movies. Yeah, I mean, yeah. They've done it all. Still gone. Okay, well, yeah. And again, we keep coming back to this. It's all just personal preference, is it?

Yeah, but that's a great album. Different strokes. Different folks. David, good morning. Greatest album ever. Link in the park minutes and midnight. Oh, no. for one.

It's very good. Yeah, producer grace agrees with that one. That was her childhood. She knows all the beginning bits of that song. Yeah. As I said before, chat GPT, this was its top five just before, just quickly. Number five, Michael Jackson Thriller. Number four, Fleetwood Mac Rumors.

Number three, Stevie Wonder songs in the Key of Life. Number two, Pink Floyd, Dark So the Moon. And number one, the Beatles, Abby Road. Oh. Is what chat GPT said. But again, it says it's very subjective. That also. It's how you're feeling in the moment?

Like, I can love Guns and Rose Sweet Child of mine and then feel like a bit of Alanis another time and it will be perfect for the moment. So they can all be good. All eyes on me? Tupac? That was a hell of an album. Looking hard.

So yeah, and why do we have to pit the albums against each other? Why can't they all be great? Exactly. And why do we have put women against each other in the workplace? I don't know why we're getting into that topic anyway. John O'Benn and Megan. I was just saying to you guys, you would be proud of me because I've made adult friends. That's cool.

It's hard, isn't it, to make friends as adults? Yeah. I'm not hard. I just think people have their friend group and they're probably like, I don't see them enough. And you're like, you don't have a lot of time. And then you meet new people. I get like real anxious when I meet new people and I don't know what to talk about. So they'll, it's more.

Which surprises us, you know, and it shows that you're being, you know, like being honest here now. Because you talk for a job, you know, and people would find that hard to believe. But I'm just talking to you too, essentially. You don't think about anyone else. If you look at the latest figures, that's all you're talking to. That's all right. We like listening to you. Thanks.

More people could, they'll be good, but hey, that's all right. Me, you just like to talk. Keep it close to that. So I have managed to find a group of women who like to listen to me talk to. And it's a bunch of moms from my kids' school. And they invited me on a girl's trip. That's cool. And I was like, oh my God, cool.

They must like me. Yeah, right. When did this invite come out? It was like a month ago. I think I might have been filling a space, but that's okay. That's all right. That's okay. I'm cool with that.

And so I have taken someone's flights that couldn't come. So I was like, great, paid for it. And they were like, we're going to do all these fun things. It's going to be awesome. And now I've been sent a registration. form for the Queenstown Marathon and I know that there's other options

so I could do the 10K Oh it's a marathon girls weekend away Yeah A rough fitness one Yeah So there's gonna be fun stuff Now you because you did sign up for run club

Remember you're so proud You're putting it on social media A neighbourhood run club That was 5K and I think I did it twice All right There's no more run club now No No run club to a hundred

Go to the run club to a marathon. Do they give you any clue? Like, oh, you've got to have stamina for the weekend? And you're like, yeah, I will, well be there. Yeah. Not an sexual run. But they exercise hard and party hard too. And I'm like, I don't do either of those hard.

I'm like, exercise soft, party soft. Do you think it's an option? The whole time, consistently. Do you think it's an option not to do the run or do you think you need to do some form of that? I mean, they've said, you don't have. have to. But I don't want to be, like, I don't even have a lazy one.

You can choose, like, other options, can't you? Well, there's a 10-K. They were like, you could do the 10-K. And also, I like fast walk rather than run. So my friend was like, well, I'll do the marathon. And, you know, so you've got ages to complete the 10-K. 100% she would finish that marathon before I finish the 10-K. She's going to run 42 kilometres.

Shut up. Oh, no, I'm just, I'm just getting, explaining the distance. I know. So I can't wake up in this hotel, like, and be like, see. you guys have a good run I'm just going to go back to bed but by the time you wake up they might have finished the marathon you could be having breakfast to be like how is that guys you know you could do that yeah also one of the other fun activities is um doing a winery tour great yeah great on bikes geez these guys are productive yeah I'm not the friends for you so I'm like I say knowing you

like I do I mean I don't want to have wine and exercise but also like I'm terrible the wrong Fred, the wrong crowd. Here we're on a bike. I'm definitely going to crash. I can't ride a bike at the best of times. Especially if you just run 10Ks as well, your legs aren't going to move, mate. Okay, 4-487 on the tech, so 800 of the hats. Let's make Megan feel a little bit better this morning.

What are you regret saying yes to, signing up for? And then later you're like, oh, what did I do that? Maybe they like me because they don't know me that well. It's a bold claim for them to go shield like a marathon, you know, and not even tell you that you. That's the core purpose of the trip. Okay, what did you sign up for that you really regret? I'd love to hear from you.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Well, you agreed for a fun sounding girls' weekend away in Queensland. With my new adult friends, I was like, oh my God, they've invited me for a girls' weekend in Queenstown. I'm thinking onsen, I'm thinking like wines, you know, all that kind of stuff. Oh, they've got the wines. Yeah. After a marathon.

After they've run a marathon. Yeah, so they're all going for the Queensland Marathon, and I've been sent a registration. I'm like, pooh. Oh, no, that's not for me. Sounds like a job for Marathon Maddie McLean, our afternoon host. He would ever, girls week in away with Maddie, running marathons. He would have a blast. He can come and take my registration.

So, yeah, what do you regret signing up for? We've got Stacey with us. Happy New Year to you, Stacey. Yeah, happy New Year. Hey, man. Yeah, that's the show catchphrase. All right, what do you regret signing up for, Stacey? Getting married at 22.

too young. Oh, I regret signing up for that. Shout out to Stacey's wife, and we still with. Yeah. Oh, so if you did it all again, you'd say basically it was too soon. Yeah, no, we broke up a year after.

After the wedding? Yeah, yeah. So after the wedding, we spent five years, after the wedding, we broke up, and it was just an abusive relationship, you know?

Sorry to hear that. Oh, that's no good. I think that's a, I feel like, yeah, But when you're young, you don't know, you think you know it all. And then you're like, you get to an age, I say that the kids. I'm like, oh, you're not going to think the same. You can't agree with that.

But at the time, I was thinking the same thing. So, yeah. I got married at 25, and I think that was too young as well. Obviously, that didn't work out. But you also still don't know everything in your mid-40s either. No, that's true. But you do know more than you knew in your mid-20s. Yeah.

Are you in a happy relationship now, Stacey? Yeah, I broke all of the day. I'm going to motorbike got way happier. Well, good on you, mate. Thank you. I see you, man. Appreciate you call. Emma, his phone through.

Now, Emma is actually the tour party organizer of Megan's trip to Queensland. Emma, lovely to have you on. Morning. And now we're just talking about how much Megan's looking forward to going. It's particularly the one part. What's her options? I mean, because honestly, she is really excited about going for the weekend. She's nervous about the run. What's her options running wise?

Well, I mean, we could go all in and do the marathon, but there'd be a very quick, quick build. Yeah, there's a half marathon and there's a 10K, and the 10K starts nice and early. So you'd be finished by 8.39 o'clock. Time for shopping before I cross the line a few hours later. A whole day ahead of you, Megan. Finished. What time does it start? Seven. There you go. I'm running at seven. But also what gave me hope there, Emma, is you say, you said, you said, you said.

said a quick build and we could get her up to marathon status. That's quick build. Yeah, we can do it. Quick build. Are you joking? No. It's like how many, is it two months away?

Yeah, I don't know if I'd have a friend at the end of it. I'm stressing about a 10K. Also, you would definitely cross the finish line doing that marathon before I even do the 10K. 100%. No, not at all. It'll be time for shopping before I cross the lane. Can I just ask you, on the itinerary of the weekends, you've done the whole marathon in the morning,

then she's talking about a bike ride wine to it. Is that all happening in the same day, Emma? No, after the marathon, we've got hot pools and dinner. Yes. And then on the Sunday morning, we've got, it's an e-bite ride and winery. Oh, the bike does it all. Yeah, there you go, Megan.

I've never ridden an e-bike. Oh, it's easy. My issues with riding a bike is the steering. I always run into things. Oh, it's a quick-weld, Megan, it's a quick-wild. Speed. All I'm hearing a problem, Zella. I don't know why you invited this lady on your girls.

Next time, we've got Maddie McClellan. He's keen.