Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - THE HIT LIST | Week 27

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

Missed the show this week? Don’t worry! We’ve wrapped up all the greatest Hits into one easy listen. (00:00) Megan takes things to a wild place imagining revenge on Liam Lawson’s car after a hypothetical breakup… 03:35) An unforgettable story of being stuck in a self-cleaning public toilet! (08:10) Ben’s secret costume-buying habit backfires in the most predictable way (12:30) Megan and her husband mysteriously develop matching full-face rashes... Was it from him kissing lots of different women during hits musical tour? (15:55) Drama erupts in Ben's family over “stolen” jeans… (18:45) HR today would NOT approve how we meet our partners! (22:05) Ben accidentally airdrops a VERY personal bed photo to a stranger in a cafe(25:40) Beauden Barrett finally sets the record straight on his drama with Jono And plenty more chaos from the week 👀    Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Morning, Megan, thank you for letting us speak about this on the radio. I have no secrets from our friends. Literally. To give a bit of backstory, well, I mean, obviously you're a big fan of Liam Lawson. Anyone who listens to the show will know you love Formula One,

and you're a big supporter of Liam Lawson. Because he's our Kiwi-Wan Formula One. Exactly. Yeah. And we were having a conversation, oh, there was a car park next to me in the car park, And I couldn't figure out if it was the victim of, you know, friendly prank shenanigans or sort of petty road rage revenge because someone had littered the entire bonnet of the vehicle in like rubbish coffee cups and sugar sprayed all over the boners.

They ripped over sachets of sugar and put it all over the car. So I didn't know if it was a good Samaritan going, I saw this person throw litter out of their car and I'm going to teach them a lesson. Okay. It definitely screamed to me like petty revenge, like an X. But then I was thinking, you're on camera, bro. Oh, yeah, true. There's a lot of security cameras. But anyway, that aside.

So we were talking about that. I want to do that stuff in my mind, but I never actually go through with it. So we're talking about that and we're saying, oh, that was really unusual to see that in the car park. And then you came out with Megan. Something that was related to that along the lines, but you've really gone down quite far down the track. I don't. I don't, I actually don't remember what my words were. You're like, I was, we do, we heard them.

You were basically saying that, you know, I was thinking that if Liam Lawson and I had a relationship and he did something wrong and went split. He had cheated on me. I said, if Liam Lawson cheated on me, I know what I'd do to his car is what I said. So she's in her mind, has plotted out an entire relationship with Liam Lawson. Despite the fact that you were in a, anyway. Let me explain. And he is strayed from the relationship

And you've already got the revenge plot Organised. This fictitious relationship. Let me explain. Let me explain. I was just thinking of someone who loves cars. Because then I said I'd put sunscreen on it because it absolutely destroys the paintwork.

Even when you wash it off. Oh, no, I can only get another one from my car manufacturer. Shut up. You can understand how when I was like, who loves cars? Liam, he would be top of my mind. Also because I was like deep in Formula One yesterday, I was recording a potty, so he was top of mind. Top of mind, yeah.

Like, I can see you working. I can see it, but when you say the words out loud. I mean, I could have just said if I wanted to like destroy a car, this is what I do. Yes. But yeah. I wanted to really like put it in a scenario for you. And you did. You took us to a place.

Then Troy was like, well, your current husband, Andrew. He would also be equally as disappointed if he found his car covered in sunscreen. He's not as into cars as Leo. But it's even more of a nightmare for Andrew because he doesn't have a sponsorship with Gil Tram. Yeah, I think of anything, you're right. He's going to have to pay for his own panel and paint rework. Liam would be like taking it into the little back little team and go, sorry guys, I don't know the crazy ex-body. Look what she did.

It's almost like she'd be planning this for decades. Don't make a video out of this because the last time we did a video and Leah be putting the little eye on OZ. Meaning I'm interested. This time he'll be like, get away from me. She's already been to the chemist where I've got the sunscreen. SBF 30. Ready to go. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

This wasn't a phone topic that even me being a huge enthusiast of public toilets and having a top five list. Even I was a bit like, I don't know if this one's going to fly. I thought maybe you'd find your people. Yeah. Well, yeah. But maybe you're the only one. You'd find you crazy.

And as we had through that whole Bieber song, no texts. No calls. Anxious times on the radio show. But then Vincent has come through. And then a hero comes along. Save the phone topic, Vinny. He did. You preferred public toilet location?

I wasn't necessarily more of a preferred public toilet, but I was a victim of a public toilet self-cleaning while I was in there. Oh! Did you have the malfunctioned? It happened. Yeah, yeah. This is back before the crusher truth. I had just moved there. I was 18.

I'd gotten a job working in a little bar called the Barra-on-Avon, which was just outside the Cathedral Square. And the All Whites were playing in the World Cup, and we hadn't lost the game, but we hadn't won one either. Oh, yeah. Yep. And then my mate goes, you need to come down to the bar. It's packed. It's a little English player, so we're playing all the games. And there's a game on at like 2 o'clock in the morning,

so I rock down there, and it's packed shoulder-to-shoulder. It takes out 10 minutes to get to the bar. I finally get there, order myself a drink. I'm like, oh, I really need to go to the bathroom. That's not number one. I need to go number two. So I go to the one at the bar, and someone's throwing up all over the seats. I'm like, oh, I'm not going there.

I got to use the staff one. Someone's taking the Swipekey home with them. I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh, it's 24-hour ones, just inside the Cathedral Square. And the alleyway that we go to to get to my work. So I go down there, I walk up to the first one. There's no lights on. It's pitch black.

I'm like, I won't use that one because as soon as I shut the door, I can't see anything. Go to the next one. Lights are on, doors open, fantastic. So I go in there. Can I just say I'm loving this blow-by-blower counten? I feel like I'm there with you.

You go through all your options? You're like, all right, desperate times. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, I have the little button the door shuts. I'll turn around. The toilet's against the wall. Weird little decoration.

There's little shiny things on the wall. It's a bit weird. No detail spared. Yeah. Don't get it. I don't want to know too much detail or your business. Of course the toilet's against the wall too, but anyway. Okay, sir.

But I drop my dacks and I get started. Anyway, about halfway through, lights cut out and it goes pitch black, music cuts out. Oh, God. I'm like, oh, someone's playing a prank on me. Something like that. I'm like, good-day.

Hello? No one's answering back, so I'm like, oh, I'll just have a feel around, so I'll fall in the toilet paper, and I'll just pinch it off. going. Going forward, just slightly off the toilet as you do. I've got to, I got to swing it up.

When all of a sudden all those shiny things on the back wall, start spraying high pressure like a badeo on steroids. And it is just covering this entire bathroom, up to bottom, just drenching this whole thing. Oh, no. It's like a lifetime for me. I'm panicking. The toilet paper's just mush now.

It doesn't matter. I don't need to watch before anyway. Did you not even get your pants up? No, no. I'm just sitting around my ankles everywhere like that. Yep, I'm being violated by a public toilet. This thing's just going off completely. It felt like a lifetime.

Finally all the water stops. The music turns that guy and you hear it. Na, na, na, na, na. It's a mash. And here I am. Pants around my ankles, drenched from head to stuff. I'm absolutely stunned not knowing what's going on.

I managed to pull my pants up. I walk out of the toilet and as I hit the door, the button on the door, the door opens up, and there's a guy who's seen me go in, bone dry, about a slag away

my mother's had the worst accident in my life. He's a watch has been on there. Pushed past him. See that sand you make on your feet with your so, as your shoes are wet. It's just really awkward. You're like, give that a minute. They're giving it a minute.

Do not go out here. Oh, that is great, Vincent. Listen, that's a cool. That's such a great call. I can't remember a time before that story. The longer it went on, the better it got. It was so good. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. Appreciate it. No, Megan, you like to try and get the occasional package online order through? Yeah. Stick that one through. Pass the goalie if I could use a football world cup term. I've just started... What's the time? I think you'll be at the gym.

I've just started sending them to work. Oh, yeah, that's so smart. Because your husband's back now. Yeah. We sort of have, you know, with this job, you know, because we're here in the mornings, but usually in the afternoon there's a little window where, you know, the wife's... I order a costume sometime to time and get in trouble with the... I usually get... And the person that can intercept, you know, if there's a delivery.

Yeah. Right. So this is your smuggling program. Yeah, and it's fine. So, you know, occasionally we'll order costumes for silly things. I see online and my wife always go, what are you buying that for? So now I try and sneak them through. And often because we've got quite a large dog,

so we've got quite a large gate at the front, often I will put, if no one's there, how can you just pop it over the fence behind the letterbox? Maybe in a bush. Yeah, there's a little spot behind the letterbox. I'm usually quite clear. It's quite behind the letterbox. I do put this on the delivery instructions.

Oh, wow. And it's by the dogs there. He'll protect it and stuff as well. Anyone asked any questions? Yeah, just pop it over the fence. Rather than get one of those cards, and it gets messy that way. Do you know what I've thought about doing is putting the wrong name on it, but without address?

Because then he'd be like, oh, this is come. And I'll be like, oh, it must be from the wrong person. And you're like, I'll sort it out. I'll get it back to. That's really good. Why do I always have to sort all this stuff out? I'll take it to the. All right, I'll sort it out.

Well, yeah, so what I did, the same thing, you know, I'm not going to be there. So pop it. If I'm not there, pop it over the fence, normally they put it in the spot. It's fine. But what I didn't realize is they just put it over the fence. And I drove the car into the driver and I heard this crunch. I was like, oh, what's that? Get out and I'd run over the package.

Now, one of the costumes, fine. Other one, they've sort of got that sort of bits that sort of plug in with the battery power. Oh, it was a power costume? One of your big bangers, a blow-up job, was it? Yeah, it was. But I don't know if it's going to be too good. But I can get no sympathy at home. I can't go, you know what happened?

You know, it's all my fault. And it's not a problem from the thing. I know and it's the deluxe. Do you think it... Can you go back to them and say, look, you didn't put it behind the letter walls. Oh, no. I feel like they just put it over the fence,

which kind of was what I said, but not in the spot that I thought they would put it in. Do you think it's the universe's way of say, hey, buddy, maybe enough costumes for one lifetime? Maybe. You think it could be? What was... What was...

Well, it's not a weird point. Well, one was the AI one's fine, the robot one, that's okay. But, and I don't know what I'm doing with that, but I'll come up with something with that. It'll run itself. It already has. It was sort of half.

You know the one you got into that was like the snail one that's half snail, it's kind of like a koala-based one of that. I thought, it was good to have. You've got a plan for that. Well, we're almost going to go to Australia. You know, things are just in the back pocket. Just got to have that, you know, ready to go at all times. So, yeah.

Were you going to do a costume thing? Well, no, it was actually no. But, you know, things can happen. The moving parts, you know. So, yeah. You're like, where we go, all? Goes for his catalogue. Oh, there's a costume for that environment.

Wait, I'm not done with the interrogation. I feel like too many questions to me right now. One website that's like, your favourite costume one? Probably, yeah. Well, for price, right, price. But there's ones if I had the money. Is it the same website society would frown upon?

Yeah, but there's some really good ones overseas. If I had the money, I'd be like, yeah. Movie quality. They don't always deliver to New Zealand. That's the bug bear, you know? On average, what are you spending per costume? No, no, the one, the cheaper one's like $40, made $40. He's like, what are you, my wife?

Maybe like $40, maybe, you know? I'm just like, does she have a case? I think she absolutely has a case. This one overseas, if I could order from them. How much are they? Well, these are all fully licensed,

fully beautiful. Hey, well, for your next birthday, I'll get you a voucher for this like, Ola, La costume place. They're fully licensed Amanda. If you wanted to,

like a Spider-Man or like, Hey-Hey the chicken from Moana, they have got the, I've looked at the Hay-A-1, couldn't get it delivered here, mate. I'm so,

look at his eyes lined up when he talks about it. Oh, when he said the words fully licensed, the joy in his sweet little face. Yeah, exactly. We'll look into a voucher for it. Thank you.

John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Again, something that you've been dealing with for a couple of days. Yeah, I think I've mentioned it, but I've been talking to you guys about it. I have had a full face rash since Monday. Can I be completely honest? If there is any chance for me to openly mock you on the airwaves, I will, I haven't noticed anything. Have you been?

No, I haven't. Well, he's far away and he can't see. He probably can't even really. See me? Can you see me? In high-deaf? Nah, not quite high-deaf. You're not 4K or anything. Yeah, no.

I'm flattering. It's like days of our lives. Soft focus. Yeah, soft focus, yeah. John, I wouldn't say either way, though. No, no. But I mean, I've covered it up with makeup. Okay, we'll take the makeup off.

Then we can get a full understanding of what we're dealing with. So I'm pretty rashy. I've had so many rashes since I've worked with you guys because I'm allergic to things, lots of things touching my skin. like metals and I can't put perfume on my skin gives me a rash The way you said that You sounded like

Were you making us responsible for your rash I'll be working with you Yeah yeah No I just mean like I constantly am talking to you About a miscellaneous rash I usually have to go back and be like What have I done to give me said rash Oh you have to retrace okay

This I've never had this before Full face eyelids Everywhere Little itchy red blotchy rash And I went home And I was like oh god because my husband hears it all the time. I said to Andrew, I was like,

oh, I've got another rash, but this one's a full face one. And he said, since when? And I was like, since Bloody Monday. And he was like, me too. And he's not rashy. He's not a rashy individual. Not really.

So we are both, he's like, is it itchy? I was like, yes. And we have matching full face rashes. Cute. Was he coming? That is cute. And so is it something that he's brought home from tour?

So we're like... Sleeping on. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Because he was on tour for six weeks traveling around the country. Smoaching up a storm, wouldn't he? Would a bee face? Oh yeah, I guess.

Smoo-hmm. Okay, so what do you think it is? So I've gone through everything. I was like, have I been using a new product? But then he didn't use it. We've like thought about shampoos, everything. Not washing powder on your clothes or towels? No, kept the same washing powder.

I usually try and keep everything the same for this reason. And then we have stumbled upon one thing, which I think it might be. What is it? So I have moved into the satin pillow case thing because it's like, I don't know, good for your face. What does it do, Grace? I don't know, it doesn't squish you,

doesn't give you wrinkles or whatever. That's what the satin industry is saying, yeah. It feels nice. So we've had these satin pillowcases for a while, and then I saw some on Timo, and I was like, I'm going to get these on this. And I got them. Child Labor pillowcases.

I know, I know. I'm allergic to child labor. turns out. And did I wash them before I put them on the bed? No. Oh, it's not wash them. No. Oh, that's a fatal moment. So this is this is me. Don't look at me like that. That's the universe saying

that is. Don't buy child labour pillowcases. Washing probably is more than the thing in it. Oh yeah. That's probably what the universe is saying. Yeah, yeah. But also don't buy. Do you support child labour so. Keep those hardworking kids and jobs. Do you know what? Yeah, it's taught me a lesson. So now I'm at Chi and Rashi and I won't

do it again. I'm so sorry. Sorry to the children. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Now as my daughters get older, I find there's often conversations going around between the two of them and my wife as well. There's accusations of people using other people's stuff.

Oh, well, yeah, you obviously don't get engaged in this. Sometimes, yeah. Marcella water or something? I hear that all the time. I don't even know what that is. Is it Micella water? Micella water, Missa. I don't know who it is and what it is.

And why they don't have their own, but whatever it is, that's a big hotbed of conversation sometimes. Having a son, it's really, it's a handy period when your kids get big enough and you can fit their clothes. Yeah, you wear. I got his jeans on today. Oh, really? Yeah. It's a bloody dream come.

So your kids obviously, you know. Yeah, so my wife and their, you know, my two daughters, well, sometimes, you know, they'll share clothes, they'll do stuff and bits and pieces. Yeah, which is fine. And most of the time it works out good. But over the weekend, my wife, she'd went, I think at the start of the year, she went on a, like, with my daughter. They went on, like, a theatre sports trip overseas. well she was one of the parent help as well and she bought like an outfit like a matching jeans sort of outfit with a top and some jeans as well yeah and over the weekend she's like

who's taking my jeans who's taking my big accusations i'm like well i'm in the clear where's the my cell of water yeah not me i'm taking the jeans it was like are you though like you well sure sometimes i sometimes i do grab some stuff but this one i was like have not touched them have they have not worn them she's like someone must have worn them isn't it great when you're not at the center of a yeah just watching on with like the popcorn you're just like, well, how's this going to play out? That was like, conversations like, well, I haven't used it. I haven't done it.

Someone must have taken it. My wife's looking through all this stuff. So she starts going into my daughter's, both the daughter's rooms. I bet you were like, you probably would have been checking and snide comments though, hey, knowing him. Yeah, stirring the pot. Yeah. It'll be somewhere.

Yeah, got to be there. Have me the last place you look. Yeah, it's where you left them. So she's going through drawers and going through cupboards and all sorts. The kids are like, we haven't, but we haven't used it. We haven't, you know, like, oh, someone has, someone has. And then she didn't find it. Then about half an hour later, my wife's like, oh.

I just said, oh, and her brain she must have thought of something. I'm like, what? She's like, I know what's happened. And she's like, the alteration place. And I'm like, what? And she's like, yeah. But you got these like six months ago. She says, yeah, they've been at the alteration place like six months.

I was like, have you even worn these jeans? She's like, oh, no, I haven't actually. So I'm like, accusations of my daughters. Did she apologize? Yeah. I'm like, hey, sorry guys, they're still at the alteration place. It's like, alter, and then she was like, well, the alteration place hasn't contacted me. I'm like, well.

This is not on the alteration place. She needed to deflect the plane. I wouldn't have said anything. I would have just remembered quietly. That's probably a much better player. Go back, get him and go, oh, here they are. Plant the evidence under their bed. Oh, wow.

Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan. The Hats. Morning, John O'Benn and Megan? They're calling it the wedding. They're calling it the wedding of anything? or have I just sort of see that. No, they're calling it a wedding.

Yeah. Taylor Swift and Trailer Swift. Trailer Swift. Travis Kelsey and. Why are they not called trailer Swift? Because it sounds degrading. Oh. Yeah.

I'd call, like you know how each couple's got a cute name? Trailer Swift. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know that's going to. You're calling a trailer trash or something. Yeah, exactly. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. It looks all like they're going to get married in New York.

We're going to actually cross New York. after 8 o'clock with Ben Harlem, our Australian friend in New York, and we're going to ask a big favour of Ben potentially could become an international incident if things don't go well. Yeah, yeah. We want to give them a wedding gift.

Yeah, exactly, but we're not on the list. So, yeah, we'll get to that after 8 o'clock this morning. But, you know, we wanted to know how you met your partner. Because Travis Kelsey, really interesting backstory, right? How he sort of put it out there on his podcast with his brother that he does. He went to a Taylor Swift concert. Trailer Swift. It's in your head now, isn't it?

Damn it. That would be a great, you know how they have, like, other artists who do covers? Yeah, Trailer Swift. Like the redneck version of Taylor Swift songs. Tril Swift. So he went to a Taylor Swift concert. He even made a friendship band with his number on her, and this is what happened. I was a little butt hurt.

I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I've made for her. You made her a bracelet? Yeah. If you're up on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets. And I received a bunch of them being there, but I wanted to get. give Taylor Swift one with my number on it. Not right now. Your number is in 87 or your phone number?

You know which one. He was but heard about that. He was. You know which one. And it worked. Well, no, I don't think he delivered the bracelet, did he? No, she didn't get the bracelet, but didn't she hear the podcast? I think so.

And they invited him along to another, you know, concert and hey, crazy. The rest is history. Yeah. Wow, way. I, that's, yeah, that's pretty sweet. It is actually quite sweet. That's a lovely story.

But I feel like, we're. been taken along now for the ride right from the get-go because we know how he wanted like you very rarely do you hear a car like a famous couple's meet cute like how they met and how they kicked it off and then when she got engaged we saw all the pictures and now they're getting married at a buddy stadiums so i like i appreciate that we've been taking along for the full fairy tale exciting story i mean with us you know it was work for john over worked for me with my wife and Megan it was a boy band a bit younger but anyway

You know A radio promotion too I tell you what all of our relationships Are really frowned on by HR in 2026 Wouldn't they You wouldn't be able to get away with it nowadays Well I reckon you're concedual That's okay

It was a real imbalance of power Jennifer was my boss She took advantage of me Still at this hot piece of meat She just bloody Ate me up for breakfast What was that movie with Nicole Kidman? Oh, baby, what is it, baby girl?

Baby girl, yeah. Yeah, I love that movie. Felt like baby girl. You drink that milk. Yeah, I did, I did. So 4487 on the text. Jennifer's now abusing me on the text machine. That's what our marriage is turned to do now.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's. Something that happened to me yesterday, I was just waiting to grab my daughter for something and went up the road from her school and just went, oh, we'll just pop into a cafe and do a little bit of work on my laptop. You love that.

I do. It's quite a lot. I find it a lot more productive because there's not distractions around. You know, like I should just put this washing on. I should just do this thing like that. I'm like, cool.

I'm here. I'm just going to just lock in as my kids would say and bash out some stuff. Are you, uh, excuse me, what's your Wi-Fi password? Nah, no, no, I'm not punishing anyone for that. Excuse me? Yeah. Sometimes they just have it there.

Sometimes they're just a lovely touch. That's a lovely touch. And I log into it. If not, I'm just like, Oh, you have a hotspot off my phone. Do you know for bloody about four years? I let this guy plug into my hot spot, my very special hotspot. I just get coming up.

You don't want you to get someone's hotspot and then it's just like, I just keeps connecting to it. I'm like, oh, I just connected. He was in and out of my hotspot. Non-stop, I had no idea for about three, four years. Yeah, it came up. Wow. But hey, I'm not coming.

And then what happened? Everything just fizzled out. Yeah, no. They deny you. They deny you know. My hotspot closed up. You got a headache. Exactly. So anyway, I was trying to do something on my phone. You know, my wife had sent me a photo and I was trying to do something.

Long story, anyway, but to send my photo to my computer and I decided to eardrop that photo. And as I was, actually, no other way around. I was doing that. And then as it came up, you know, sometimes you get the thing comes up. And then suddenly someone else's hotspot comes in. Yeah. And kind of, someone else's computer comes in over the top and you just go, click to that one. And you're like, oh, dear God, I haven't sent it to my one.

I've sent it to someone else's hotspot. They have the option now to accept. Yes, and I didn't really notice until right near the end. I just saw it sort of going through. And then it said my one. I'm like, cool, click on that one. And then all of a sudden I looked down. I was like, oh, that's not mine.

That's not mine just as I looked down. They'd accepted it. And it's fun of me asleep. My wife had two cups of tea holding in front. And I was like, oh, and then you're just sitting there and you're like, so I was accepted that. And now I'm looking around just really suddenly. Because also, they've got my photo.

It says Ben Boyce would like to send you this picture. It says Benjamin's fine on my way. And this is sort of ladies sort of looked around. Did she spot? Look around and I was like, hey, yes, sorry. And I was trying to, you know, when I'm all flustered, I just sort of bramble stuff. And I didn't really like that. And she just looked down on the photo and looked back at me and did nothing.

And then I was like, should I go over and say, can you delete this photo? What can you do with this? That's scream saver. Well, yeah, I thought of me in bed, but yeah. But it's not, yeah, it's not that spicy at all. But yeah, there you go. It's this one here. There's two cups of tea and I'm in bed with my arm up, but I'm fast asleep.

Oh, so you had ordered the tea. My wife was bringing me in tea and I thought of sick. And then you passed out before. Yeah, no, that's nice. Wait, are you, is that a tea in bed? Well, yeah, I don't think I'm not a tea in bed person. So I don't think I would have ordered the tea. She was just bringing in.

I think a gag, and then the gag got funnier for her because. You're asleep. It feels like the whole air drop world, too much responsibility for us. It's like the equivalent of going around just putting something in someone's pocket. You know? Yeah. Yeah, here you go. You're like this.

But isn't there a code now? There's sometimes because when I try an eardrop, the receiver has to give the sender a code. Oh, sometimes, yeah. Because I imagine all the wild stuff. Yeah, because people on trains and girls just get random pictures. Yeah, so I apologize that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats.

This is what it feels like to feel validated. Now, a week of so ago, I said that I'd visited a public toilet, walked out, and lo and behold, all-black Bowden Barrett was there, rugby balls under his arms, he'd obviously just come off the field from a kicking practice session, and, you know, I was gobsmacked that I could see an international athlete just hanging around the local rugby park. Sifting around the toilets like yourself.

Yeah, that's right. He wasn't actually sifting No, he was just making his way to his way to his bit. I was definitely sifting at the situation. So then, as it turned out, my vehicle was parked directly next to Bowdoin's. He's loading his rugby balls into the boo of the car. Yeah. And I built up the carriage to say,

Gidey, Bowden. And he looked at me and he made the signal with his fingers. You know, he did a little one in the thumb. And it's a sort of signify you're on the phone and he needs mouth to me. Sorry, I'm on a call. Yeah. But I couldn't see a phone. Right.

Couldn't see earbuds in his ears. there was no sign of any telecommunications taking place. And it's sat with me as I drove off. I was like, did he just make up a phone call to completely avoid talking to me? To get punished by someone who was sifting around the toilets. I don't blame him if he did. Yeah. Now, I feel like there's been from the whole team on Andolf here,

a level of, you know, non-belief of this story. Well, yeah, it just, yeah. I'm sure that you think you saw Bowden, but I'm not sure it was. Well, yeah, I don't know. I mean, you might have, you might not, but you've really gone deep on the story. I made you take part in a dramatic reenactment. You can see that if you want to text toilet to 4487. We've got a whole video because, you know, producer Troy went to the next step of asking the media liaison for the All Blacks to ask Bowden as well.

And he's like, well, the feedback we got was he did remember that. This was 24 hours after the incident. And you were like, what? Yes, remember the account it? And or care. I mean, he's got bigger things to worry about Yeah, he's training Yeah, and a guy who said hello to him outside of toilet

So, do you remember? Do you not remember that? So that's even sat with him, it's been a heavier feeling to sit with It's the fact that he's got no recollection of this So I'm like, I feel like, you don't believe me, that Bowden's saying he doesn't remember it So then I made you take part in a dramatic reenactment

Which we filmed at the park, You can actually see that if you text toilet Like Ben said to 4487 Put it online in the hope that this would have tract his attention, joggers memory. Yeah, right. Yeah, a recreation. God.

And so he's commented. He's commented on the video. What does he say? We haven't looked at it. I saw we tagged me. He tagged him. And I was like, oh, God. What is his response?

Bowden Barrett. Tick, tick. It's official, not a burner account. Okay, gotcha. Okay. This is actually true. Ah, actually true. I'm so sorry, mate.

I was on a speaker. phone call, so the car must mean sitting, the phone must be sitting inside the boot and I was fully locked into the conversation. Crying, laughing emoji. Oh, there you go. Why did we don't think about that? Just speakerphone sitting in the boat.

That makes a perfect sense. Place closed. I said to him, I feel seed heard validated. Speakerphone makes ultimate sets. He was. He was. He was on the phone. He remembers the story. He can't even that saga. Like you say, you know, a few hours before a big

that they've got on tomorrow. Yeah, he's talking to the All Black Coach or something. Who's like, hold on. Maybe he doesn't know you by name, only by face. Yeah. And he saw the video and he's like, I remember that guy. I remember the ass.