Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - THE HIT LIST | Week 22

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

Missed the show this week? Don’t worry! We’ve wrapped up all the greatest Hits into one easy listen. Megan’s 2009 life goals list resurfaces  Jono takes a police test and is now convinced he’d make the perfect cop… as long as he doesn’t get corrupt Why Ben let his mother-in-law sleep with the gross dog blanket And plenty more chaos from the week 👀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. My wife, a school teacher, was on camp last week, and so my mother-in-law, Joyce, was staying and helping the kids in the morning, you know, when I leave early. And a dog, Bo, a big fluffy white Samoy, he's got a blanket. And he loves that blanket. Like, he's had a blanket.

It just sits on his beard at the moment. He kind of nuzzles it and chews it. And then if people come around, he wants to play with it. Does he show it to them? Do you know, that's the blanket? that's the sign of a really happy dog when it picks up its favourite toy and shows it to people. So he wants to play Tiger Ward.

He nuzzles it, he goobes all over at this blanket. It sits in his dog bed and it's for a couple of years now. Do you wash it? No, no, no, it's just his blanket. It's just his thing. He loves it. What colour is it? It's like, I think it was an old blanket.

It's sort of a greeny sort of white sort of colour. So you'd see his fair on it? Yeah, you'd see his fair on it. So the blanket sits there. Was it meant to be green or was it just turned green? No, it was meant to be green. But, you know, the dog, yeah, that's his blanket. We all know that.

But my mother and Lord Joyce was staying, and it was a night last week where we came home quite late with the kids, the kids and I. And she loves her sport and she was watching sport on the telly. But obviously she'd fallen asleep. And we came into the lounge and she was cutely falling asleep, all nestled up with a blanket round out. I'm like,

Oh, not the dog blanket. The things he's done with their blanket. I know. And we were like, the kids and I were like, Uh-oh. And you've never washed it. She's asleep. She's asleep.

We don't want to wake her up. At the same time she's asleep with the blanket, the dog's waking all tucked around. Oh, God. Just nice. And it's like, do you say something? Do you not say something? Do you just like,

she doesn't know it? Is it not all chewed? Like, I don't know. I mean, it was to be, like it was, there was no light time but the TV. So maybe she just grabbed the blanket from the floor. Oh my God. What is he rubbed on that blanket?

Everything. Everything. I don't know. I think if you're, I think my theory is she probably doesn't want to know. Like I don't, you've even told it? She's already done it, so don't tell her. There's no good can come from saying, hey, guess what?

Can we bring Joyce? Oh, because when the old rabies start flaring up, you might want to, oh, we'll be the blanket. If she gets a rash or something? Get your shots from that one. I'm like, oh no, what do we do? The blanket is well used. Did you lift it off her? No, I thought about that, but then I thought, that's quite weird me.

Hey, I'm just going to take the, like, why are you taking the bucket off? What if she wakes up and you're like, why is he talking the blanket? Why are you undressing me? Taking the blanket, so we left her there asleep. How close to her mouth was it? It was under a chin. Oh, no. Did it not smell?

Very cute. Maybe, I'm not sure, but yeah, it was like, I don't know. I don't know if we should bring that up or not. Call her. I reckon when you, the next day, when the dog reclaimed ownership of the blanket, she probably went, oh. Oh, no. This is not ideal.

This is not what you want. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. Megan I have been holding on to this a little bit of information for a little while now. I was sent something from a previous life of yours. Oh, God. I've had many lives. It looks, well, you've had your married life, remember that one?

My Roller-a-Durby career. A couple of years. Netball, did you do netball? Netball, rowing. Rowing. Cricket? No, shut up, dick. You always keep bringing up cricket.

You never play cricket? No, I've never played cricket. Softball I played. Softball, yeah. I always thought of you like doing 20 sports and I thought one day it would be quite funny. Volleyball, I did do volleyball. Yeah, making Megan do all the sports. She's claimed to have.

Yeah, no, I claimed to have done. But yeah, I got sent this. This is, it looks like a list of goals when you're working at the Edge Radio Station. Oh. Now it says Megan's list. Number one, where, so I'm imagining this is 20 something Megan, age-wise at the edge. Yes, like 24. So is this something that Megan's written or you don't know?

I can't figure it out. So I'd like to get her, yeah. On the top of the list, wear higher heels. I would say you've ticked that box. If that was, yeah, okay. So much so that it becomes a burden on us, she won't walk upstairs. Yep, yeah, true. Number two, find out if more animals exist.

Is that something you've done? Because I didn't know that flamingos were real for a time and I went to the zoo. Can you imagine seeing, I was like, I thought they were fake. and also reindeer. That's a lot. Okay. I didn't know reindeer in real. That seems like a pretty achievable goal to find out more animals.

I only talk to Fletch and Vaughan at work. How's that gone? Can you give us an update on that one? It's not going well that one. Okay. Still time. Still time. Still a lot of life to live.

Wear more sunglasses inside. Oh. I've never seen you with sunglasses on inside. No, I was a... a bit more into drinking back in the day. Yeah, I think I see, after the radio awards once, you might have sunglasses in size. There's bright lights in here, and if you're a little bit hung over.

Yeah, no, gotcha. It was a different time. Then finally, in bigger writing, wear more massive shoes. Oh, yeah, so really, you really wanted bigger shoes. Well, that stuff's pretty achievable in life. Yeah. Now, did you write that or was that a mockery list? I think that's a mockery list.

I have always worn massive heels. You have? Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's a couple of things we can have. help her knock off. Yeah, right now we can. There's a fletch hand of all walking outside the studio right now.

You're right, Ben. Let's go. Did you wave? I said, let's go. He said, let's go. Knock this off the to-do list. No, we're busy. You don't mean a to do list, mate. Love ticking some of the list.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. The snack. The Kiwi snack is back in supermarkets being made in New Zealand after it was discontinued in 2022. Apparently some supermarkets were

importing some from Australia, so that's why you might be confused that you might have seen it a little bit, but we haven't been making it since 2022. Until now, we've brought the domestic product. So we are making a bit. Return of the snack.

Hey, day. Return of the snake. Return of the snack. It's going on. He's written some songs. You can get Lesnack. I like the back cried. Parity area.

There we go. I'm bringing the snack back. Jesus, that what you've been doing for an hour and a half? You're so good at that. It was worth it. We've got to hope the Green Party new parody laws pass because we might be getting soon. A really French sounding product too, isn't it, Lesnac?

You can imagine some marketing genius going, let's just Chuck Lee in front of it. rate of the sophistication levels. A backbone of many school lunchboxes through the 90s. Totally. Always felt like there was not enough cheese back in the day for cracker ratio. But that maybe it was just a teenager boy, being greedy, you know, wanting to, you know. But it was great. It was a staple.

And yeah, you're right. It's back again. And we wanted to know what snacks would you like to return. The snacks back, what was something you'd like to resurrect? Bring back. I think we're all going to say tangy fruits, aren't we? Don't mind tanning fruits? Yeah.

But the problem was, we obviously didn't buy. enough of them for them to keep tangy fruits on the shelf. Yeah. So even if they came back, how many tangy fruits are you going to buy, you think? Like all the tangy fruits. For a little bit. Did you buy them outside? Because for me, they were really a movie snack.

You'd go to the movies and they were a real... Well, I don't remember them being anywhere else. I remember like Blockbuster and United Video, I had them and stuff, but again, it was in that movie. Was that their issue? You weren't supplying them everywhere. Like, you only put them at the movies. You couldn't get them in the movies. Yeah, true.

They really did... They pigeonholed themselves, didn't they, for the distribution. Yeah. Master had wooden floors at the movie theatre at the time. They were like sort of stairs that go down and you'd sit at the back and you'd drop a, drop one and see if it could roll. You hear it. It's going, it's going, it's going.

Oh, and it'd stop as it would go under the seats or the way, see if you get it to the bottom. That was a fun little guy. That must have been the bane of the poor owner of the Masters and Movie Theatre. Just cleaning up the 300-10-y fruit. Maybe that's the way it stopped. Got the little weapons, too, in the darkness of a movie theatre. They were tasty, eh, were they? But, like, maybe they could just bring them back in a packet, you know?

Like, they don't have to be in that plastic tariff. And the plastics are the thing that would rattle around and stuff. But, yeah. Jeez, if I could bring anything back, it'd be the boom of chewing gum airwaves. Oh, I love me in airwaves. Oh, is that gone? Yeah, that disappears, yeah. Oh, geez.

It was quite burny. Yeah, it was. It really was like pepper spray for your nostrils. It really did, yeah, they took it off. Maybe it was too powerful. Too much menthol running through the airwaves. It was an interesting thing, wasn't it? It was like chewing gum butt combined with Vicks.

just to clear out your system you're like, tiny, can I do one or the other? But they decided that we'd combine it. Yeah, it was really powerful, you're right. Because all of a sudden like hair colors, it was so strong that stuff. So maybe there's a good reason it's not on the market. So this is what we're going to do. O800 of the hits 4487.

You're bringing snacks back. The snack back to reality. Oh, there goes tangy fruits. Oh, they go Csys. They choke them so mad. But what? What? snack, would you like to bring back?

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The heads. Now, Ben, we were at the netball the other day. Megan, we were looking for you actually when we arrived. We're at the ANZ Premier. We've had a bit of a check-at history, all three of us, you know. Turning up together. To be honest, you haven't had a check-at history.

It's been on me. And Megan's done some last minute. Oh, things have, you know. Excuse me. I've done a couple by myself while you guys were on holiday. Yeah. Listen, I feel on the core issue when it became. comes to the shambles at the Nettball.

I forgot it was on one time. I haven't turned up and I haven't lived that down. So we're all, yeah, we all love it. We're there, A&E Premiership, it's so great, and head along, and we do a little half, three-quarter time activity out there. And all three of us were doing it on Saturday. It's only taking us half the season for all three of us to turn up. So we arrived and someone's like, oh, Megan was here, but I don't know where she's gone.

And we're like, oh, great play, Megan, arriving, then leaving. No, I was up and I actually saw you guys when you arrived because I was up in the stands looking down on you I said to our promo guy Wyatt I was like Where are the boys and they were like not here yet? Anyway. So I beat you. I feel this is a very passive aggressive conversation amongst the three of us.

Well Ben started it But we were just hanging out watching the netball And then a police officer came up to us And he was like, hey do you guys want to come and look at our activation? And they have a thing at the netball the police where you can see if you'd be fit enough to become a functioning police officer or at least make it to police college. Yeah, well, some of the things.

I don't think this is all of the things. It's a full-on, like, fitness test, right? Yeah, I wouldn't say full-on, but it was like they had a... I think they do that. No. To be actual. Yeah. I don't think you can do these two things you're going to get straight into the clubs.

They're like, first question is a moral one. Would you accept money from an organised criminal? And I said, how much? And apparently that was the wrong answer. Second one was a physical test. So they had like a jumping stick. You know when you see like the NFL combine and things and all the athletes like jumping as high as they can

and whacking the stick? Yeah. And I did relatively okay at that. And after the jumping one, I'm like maybe I'm built for the police. Apart for the fact I'd probably be a corrupt cop by morning tea. I would be built for the police. And then they're like, you need to go over and do the gripper test. See what?

You did one jump that was okay. you're like maybe I could be in the police 100% Yeah like you're like You're a track record of not Speeding tickets, fines Until they ask you guys questions Have you ever been arrested

Or had a court summons And you both have to say Yeah I'm not claiming I'd be any good I'm not confident I'm the one who's getting all cocky About the police I'm not brave

That's probably part of it You'd be like A member of the public You go over to the house They're like I think there's an armatured You'd be like Well can you just go and get it? I'll wait out here in the car

Yeah let me know how it goes text me when you're done. So then they're like, oh, now you've done the jump one, we need to send you over to the gripper test. And I'm like, well, I've been called a giant gripper for many years, so I'll be good at this. And it was like one of those things that you do with one hand, and you're having to pull as hard as you can.

And she's like, you need to get over 120 to qualify to... I feel like you'd be great at that. I would thought my forearm strength would be right up there, Megan. All the workout these four arms get, push-ups, etc. And then I was like going as hard as I could And she's like Oh

She was really The disappointment in the constable's eyes She's like I've never seen anyone Get so low on this test And there's like like seven year old girls And boys And I'm just going to go

She's like use your core I'm like I'm using my core My veins are popping out of my neck And she was like Oh unfortunately She's like oh you'd get in Potentially at the very low end, if we were desperate.

If the police were really desperate, we might consider you. We need like a hard grip for. I've got the grip of a bloody, athletic 90-year-old. So, yeah, no, not made for the police, guys. It's not going to happen, unfortunately. John O' Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

I'm learning a lot this morning about how to try and see if I can justify a purchase for a Warrior's top that I want to buy. I don't know deep down. I don't need it. genuinely this would be like the what number piece of merch if you were at it to add it to the connection oh merch wise lots of merch or topwise maybe yeah eight eight eight nine you know like tops of tops you know i've got tracksuits and all sorts of stuff he could come dressed as a warrior every day of the year in a different outfit but it's a cool top you guys were looking at yesterday it's a cool top and i'm like oh it's cool

but it's yeah i know i don't how much is it i think it's 150 probably because we we kind of he's already rounding down. He's already rounding down. I know how much it is. You know. I don't know. You don't have to convince me. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know what it is. I mean, I've got on sale, Megan. I got it in sale. So this point I want to know this morning is. It's a new toph and it's already on sale. I got on sale. I used a discount code.

Oh, yeah. Is that good? That's not bad. Oh, is that good? Yeah. So we're trying to come up with excuses. Reasons that you pull out is to bring new items into the household to convince your partner. We've got Cassie with us.

Happy New Year to Cass. Happy New Year. What do you use? So what could I say? Well, this might be more of a plan B, but if your justifications don't work, then you've always got Father's Day coming up in the future. And I use Mother's Day.

When I see something that I want, I just ask the son and the husband to buy that for me. So it's your backup win-win. That's a good idea. Okay. We've got Father's Day all sort of, to be honest, that they don't really do. Yeah, that's nice.

They appreciate it, but it's not. Maybe I could start with this tradition of Warriors' Tops of Father's Day. Why don't you go? You've never treated me on me on. father's day, put the gilts on. And you could also compare it to your, like, how many pillows have we got on the house? Oh yes, display pillows. You know, that's variations

of the same thing. This is just like the display pillows. I feel like that's going to start a separate argument. Oh, okay. You don't want to make her angry. No, true. But it's a good example. Get her on side. Yeah, someone's texting through saying, I say you need it for work has come through as well. Megan said, obviously, that I don't have any other real vices or anything. But then I remembered

your costumes. You've got multiple vices. Let's her jump to that conclusion. Those are the ones that we only know about. Yeah, exactly. Michelle with us, what do you use? Michelle, what can Ben use to get this Warriors top across the line? Well, it's not me.

It's my husband. He loves doing up old cars and currently is doing a 68 Mustang. And he convinced me that he found a better motor, but the catch was he'd have to buy the entire car to get this better motor. That's a great backstory. Great backstory. Apparently he's selling the car to get some of his money back. But you'll believe it when you see it sort of thing.

Exactly. We have three cars now that he's got here at the moment. It's an investment. It's an investment in your future, Michelle. That's what that is. Uh-huh. That's what he tells my daughters, too. Yeah, this is what you'll take, you know,

these will be worth hundreds of thousands of years to come. I just see his three cars and think of all the shoes I could buy. Yeah, that's true. I'm saying I don't have a red one as well as that, you know, I've got warrants hopes, but I don't have a red one. I don't wear them with red on it. Yeah, it's not as if it looks the same as the other ones. Should we try a couple of these? Should we try and call my wife Amanda see if this works?

I don't hold much hope. Good luck. We'll stay out of it. Oh, geez. She might be a bit suspicious she calling her midway through the radio show. Do you want me to jump in if you need help or do? Oh, absolutely. At the end.

Absolutely. I'm going to flound. I don't even know where to start. You know who we're getting to do this, right? Someone's saying just buy it and then ask for forgiveness later. Hi, if you record your name and reason for calling. Oh, she's one of these, is she? I'll see if this person is available.

Never been screened before. Hey, it's me. It's your husband. Don't scream me. What happens now? Is this going through to her? Just stop talking. It's just got a register.

For how long for? Thanks. Please stay on the line. Hello, Amanda speaking. Hey, how's it going? Hey, good. How are you? Hey, good.

Sorry, just a quick call at the moment. Yeah, look, I was thinking about potentially getting a worries top. Just wait. Just wait. What's it? What? I've been in the car. They have to drop out door at a school.

The entire preload to the chat. He's not an alcoholic. No, I've got no voices. You did to me. Oh, Amanda! Oh, my God. I don't have a read one. All the way the girl comes.

That's true. I'm sorry, Amanda. I need it for work. I need it for work, Amanda. Blah, blah, blah. D darling, you have got over 10 Warriors Teas tops. Oh, he's idiot. And it's not like I don't wear them, which is great.

But if you're going to get one, get it in my size and get the orange one, because I love the dark one. But you've got a cap suit. You've got beanies. You've got a scarf. You've got hats. You're like, you've got drink bottles. I only know that because we bought them for, I worry.

We can bought me on Christmas. No, that's weird too. Anyway, I think you would look great in the red one, Amanda. I think the orange one, it glows in the dark. Go with that one, Ben. How many pillows are in the house? Yeah, how many display pillows or the house? Who let the mantel?

I do love you. I do love you. Okay, okay, so that's not a no, but it's, My favourite boys. No, it feels like a no. It feels like a no. Anyway, Father's day's coming up, so, you know, hey. It's coming in a size small, which we're probably both fit, to be honest, and I go on the dark one.

Yes, but otherwise. You are so full of Warriors gear. Okay. No, I guess that's right. You're like a walking advertisement for them. All I'm hearing is yes, Ben. It's all right. What would happen if he bought it?

Nothing much. I'll give them a good time. Yeah, I'll get that to what I need to know. It's not grounds for divorce. No, you're right. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Yeah, no, we've spoken a few times, Megan, about your husband, Andrew.

He's in a musical called Anne Juliet that's going around the country. Really great musical. It is a lot of fun. It's an easy one to get into musicals because it's a jukebox musicals, so it's all songs you know from the radio. So we went along and saw it when it was Auckland. It's been to Wellington now on Christchurch. And my dad and step-mom were up about a week ago.

And they were at our place, and they were talking about Anne-Julius. And I said, oh, Megan's husband's in it. And they didn't realize that. And hadn't made the connection. And, yeah, they're like, we'd love to go along to that music. We're thinking buying tickets. And then a couple of days later, I was talking to you, Megan. You're like, hey, there's a like a secret little discount code that the cast sort of have.

It's like a little thing that you might be able to. Friends and pan. You might be able to pass on. Now, I know and love Kevin Boyce wholeheartedly. But passing on a discount code to Kevin Boyce and him, having to, I guess, be responsible for inserting the discount code into a website. Well, because it's quite tricky. There's a little bit of a, like, you've sent a screenshot to me to pass on.

It was like, it was a sheet, though, and I had full instructions on it. It was like, and you need, yeah, and I just had a look at it and you're like, follow these carefully because you had to put the code in at the start. Not, you know, you usually put it at the end when you're about to pay. So, so follow the instructions. So I messes the dad and I said, hey, this was not to share to anyone. You're very lucky to get this. You know, this is, you know, just, you know, but look, just follow the instructions.

you should be fine. He's a school teacher. He's the principal. It's a lot of concepts for someone, you know, of Kevin's age. Yeah, so anyway, I said that way he was like, very thankful about it, get a call Sunday night. And they were raving about the show. They said it was so good. I'm going, I'm glad it all worked out.

Did you get the tickets all good? Yeah, yeah, no worries. He was like, Kate was so helpful. I'm like, who's Kate? He's like, Kate. Kate, she was on the form you sent through and contact Kate. And I was like, oh, no. It's on the email address.

It does say. in the list of instructions. If you have any issues, please get in touch with Kate. This is like a little bit of a back door sort of on the sly thing. I don't know if we meant to have this code thing. And now he's like, yeah, I just email Kate. She emailed back. We had back and forward correspondents.

And then got some tickets. Just Kate like, who are you? Why are you emailing back and forward? Oh, my God. I love it there. He was like, this is too much for me. I'm just going to go straight to Kate. What even if he got to the bit of that?

I'm going to get an email from Kate being like, who are you sending this to? So thank you very much. They had a great time at the show. And hopefully Kate's all good with the fact that my dad emailed multiple times. I've got sick at and cringe. It's so good. I'm glad you enjoyed it, Keev.

He loved it. Lovely. The real hero's Kate. Thank you for being so accommodating. This random guy emailing you. Who's Kate? He's like, on the form. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. And we are joined by one of the many consultants on this. campaign. Our big boss, Jason Wynne Stanley, also affectionately known as Stano. Good morning. Morning, guys. How are you? We're doing a right. Good. Juvius, to be honest, Stano, because we've had word from you that Mike's going to come down, but I don't buy it. I'll believe it when I see it.

Well, so will I, Megan, to be honest. All I can say is it's looking better than I thought it was, although my reputation with him has taken a bit of a hammering. He's called me whining. about three times this morning so far when he keeps going with expletive use and then I'm not going down nah not not too busy too busy and I'm like come on it'll take like literally 10 minutes

he's like nah nah nah nah nah nah you're just whining whining whining so it's like oh yeah you used a zookeeper analogy the other day for your relationship right? Yes yeah very much so yeah so you're kind of like the

you pat the line for a little bit and then you just even know when he's going to bite your hand yeah I like saying that inside the cage, you know what I mean? You're like controlling from afar, and then you'd electrify the fence when you need to or turn it off and throw some food in there when you need to. Kind of like Jurassic Park a little bit, too, isn't it?

And then sometimes it all gets out of control and he bursts out of the cage. That's a good analogy, as you, John, which is why I can't actually understand why you'd want him in your studio. Well, we never had him down here on this floor, so, you know, it may happen. So after the show, he's going to get in the lift. He's going to go downstairs. Is it going to stop? No, no, no lift.

We don't take the lift. We don't take the lift. Why? So what I'm trying to do is I'll go down the stairs with him, and then when he goes to the car park, I will block for car parks to this way. And hopefully I strike at the right moment and he goes, yep, here we go. Okay, so that's the moment. That's happening in about seven minutes time.

Why doesn't he take the lift? Oh, he just likes taking the stairs. Good exercise, Megan. Good exercise. I always take the stairs up and down every day. He would be a stair. guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, Sen, good luck in cutting him off at the pass. I hope it works. I do hope it works for you guys because I think otherwise we're probably,

if it's not today, my gut is, it probably won't happen. And can I appreciate you to putting your relationship with him on the line as well? He's literally the only person in the company that Mike will talk to is Jason. No one else he'll engage with. He trusts Jason and we've really used your relationship, so thank you. Talk to, but not listen to. Yes, correct. I actually think Kate has played more of a part for you three than you realize. Oh, thank you to her later.

I reckon she's more of a weapon in this. Oh, thank you, Kate Hokesby. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. Go! John O'Bennon. Hosking. And Megan.

On the heads. With some high production values. Mike, what are you actually doing at this time of the day usually? It doesn't normally look like this. I can tell you that resurrecting music stations on the ground floor. The ratings were quite good, I understand. stand. They told me on the stairs down that you did you you did quite well. Yeah, we're not in your category. Of course not. But you did quite well. Is that because you've

arrived? Yes. I have joined their relationship. I'll see to spice things up. So you're relatively new to the, so let's join the dots. She joins. So you're here, you're here for four or five years. I'm just, I'm just trying to work this out. Going nowhere. So, so, so you're here for four or five years going nowhere. And suddenly old Megs turns up, turbo charges the program, ratings up through the roof. Where's our boss? Is he hearing us?

Michael's get everyone, wrap him up, wrap him up. So what about advice for us, though? Because you have been broadcasting for many decades, right? What's the one thing that's... What a condescending thing. Many decades. We have. No, the problem with you, Ben, is it's natural.

You either got it or you've been. Nothing you can do. It comes out. It's fairly early on in the career. They say something like, that guy's got it. That guy's. It's like old Meg's here. Yeah, she's got it.

I reckon Meg's got it. She's an audience mover. And so what you'll have in this industry is you'll have a lot of people, some of whom develop reputations and names. And they'll get given new jobs and they'll go, oh, so and so he'll make a difference on that show. Or you know, so and so is well known. But there's a very, very small handful of people that can actually move an audience. Five years, you didn't do it. And Mitz comes along and suddenly we're off to the race.

We're off to the races. I need this audio for you. for my parents. Do you know the real trick? What's that? Not to give a rats. Really? Yeah, you don't want to take it too seriously.

Oh my God, Ben, you need listen to that. No, anxious. Anxious. He's intense. He's an intense, guys. Very anxious. Is he a handbrake on the creativity? No, no.

He's a hard worker, Mike. He's like you. It's not about hard work, John. It's about performance and results. He's worried about offending people. Oh, give that up. Give that up right now. BSA's gone now anyway.

What are you? Say whatever you're wild west. Say who's going to get you? No one. Do you give me my prizes? 50K to give away at the moment. What do I have to do to win that? Not that it means much to me 50K, but...

It's just chump change. You want to give me the money now and I do the guide dogs. I can give them 50 grand. Do you do charity for the guide dogs? You give me 50 grand now. I'll give them another 50 of my own. Would you? Yeah, of course.

Well, Ben's obviously not interested in that. He's left the studio. That one normally happens in an... interview he leaves all his best research I only had three questions give me another one oh my god he's asking what you leave mate here's another tip I stay in the studio with all my guests Ben just dipped out sorry mate he's still talking geez where does he stop I have a interview halfway through and left the guest sitting there is that a good trick to stick around while the guests

Oh my God. Medium-length breaks. Don't go more than two in a row, and don't leave the studio half through the bloody. I had some audio I was going to play you, but I don't think it's in there. It's right. Mike,

so we have a caller. We have a caller who would like to talk to you. Okay. Kim, we've got Mike Hosking on. Kim Hill. No, no wrong surname. Kim from Christchurch. What did you want to say to Mike?

You definitely need to go and show these guys how to do the show. Oh, no, Kim. Wait, do you listen to our show, Kim or Mike's? No, I listen to you guys, you're wonderful. That's why she knows we need work. Name me, Kim, can you hear me? I can. Hello, Kim.

Hi. What part of Christchurch you win? I'm out in Cust. That's rural Christiuch. The three best bits about the show are what? Go. For $50,000, Kim, of Cust. For $50,000, Kim, of Cust, what are the three best things about the show?

John O'Bin and Megan. Oh, that's good. Very, very good. That's the other thing I've learned about the show. It's entirely possible. I think the audience are brighter than you lot. Yeah, yeah, you're probably right. That was the sharpest answer I've had since I've been in here.

Kim, lovely to talk with you. Call again. We'll be back with more with Mike Hoski, joining us this hour after Panicat and the disco on The Hits. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Now, Megan, you've got your parents staying with you. Yeah, helping me out while my husband's away.

Ray, Ray and Wayno. Yeah. Lovely, lovely human beings, Ray, Ray, Ray, and Way. I'm going to be a wonderful hug. Is that what you'd call it? Oh, like, I was at... She groped you from behind. I called that a wonderful hug.

It's a, haven't been touched like that in years. I was at the Nip-or the other day just chatting to you, and someone came up behind me and just, you know... Yeah, I got a behind hug from Ray Ray, too. It's quite confronting. Oh, that's me. Oh, Ray-ray. Oh, lovely. That's lovely.

But, yeah, Dad, I was doing something when I got home yesterday that very much surprised me. So, Dad's the type of God. very supportive but maybe this is where my competitive nature comes from so when I was at high school I wanted to like I was studying quite hard I was a bit of a nerd burger and I got 88% in an English exam

and I was so stoked and I went to my dad and he's like oh what about the other 12% so that's the kind of guy strives for excellence right okay well this is making a lot of sense now there's always a backstory with everyone and you're like well that tracks

Yeah, and I have a podcast about Formula One, which is a great place for me to put all my Formula One energy. Yeah, right. But I've told Dad about this. Sometimes you're fully distracted with the race on the show this happened on Monday. Yeah. You put a lot of energy into the Formula One during the show on Monday. I paused it. I was late watching it.

I was trying to avoid spoilers. Don't, but our boss is listening. He was there. He was there. He was watching in a real time, mate. It was true. He was here with the meeting. He was like, we have not got me again.

We've lost her. He had your headphones on. So anyway, I was, I've, you know, it's episode seven now. And I've told Dad about this. And I was like, I'm super proud. And I'm like, working hard on my own. And Dad doesn't say anything about it. I don't even know if he knows how to listen to the podcast.

Yeah, right. Never once mentioned it. And so I get home yesterday. And I'm like, where's Dad to Mom? She's like, he's out there. He's listening to your podcast. Oh. And I went out there and Dad's like, oh, oh, yeah, well, okay.

Oh, yeah, no, I'm just, I just, yeah, episode seven. I've listened to all of them. I was like, oh, bless. But then I was like, oh, he's going to tell me, it's great. What about the other 12%? He said, oh, that guy you do it with is great, isn't he? I'm like, there it is. Yeah, I was like, nothing for me.

There's no, no compliments for me. What are the insights on this? Oh, yeah. No, he did say, how many people were listening to this? I was like, one, you. Yeah, but now don't you want to do better? Now don't you want to pick up your game and be as good as the guy you do it? He had lots of compliments for Anthony.

I was like, where's my compliments? That was sweet. Oh, that's awesome. He was listening to it though. Yeah. But didn't want to tell me, his never once told me that he's even heard it. He probably follows everything you do. Sometimes that generation have a really hard time expressing love.

Dude, I need external affirmation about everything I do. You're very demanding too. All they need is a handshake and about him. Have a great day thing. So I think that's a lot of them formalised there. unions back in the day, wasn't it? I know.