Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Lift Broke And We Were Told to Fix It Ourselves | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: August 19, 2026

On today’s show: (00:00) Megan’s terrifying lift encounter sparks stories of nightmare elevator rides (04:20) Producer Troy gets trapped in an overloaded lift and ends up leading the rescue  (07:20) The Masterton Micro Parade is just 24 hours away and Ben’s feeling the pressure (11:00) Megan reveals how she earned the nickname “Handbrake” at a Toyota racing event  (15:30) Jono admits he’s still using a 20-year-old towel and it’s definitely seen better days  (22:40) Ben’s replacement clock radio creates a surprising late-night problem (26:40) Olivia Dean ticket winner texted in over 500 times!!!  (29:50) Why parents get jealous of childless couples on holiday and the random strangers we envy Didn’t manage to get Olivia Dean tickets? Don’t stress! Listen to tomorrow’s show (21 August) for your chance to win a pair of the hottest tickets in town. 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 tea. Frightening morning for you, Megan, on the way up in the lift this morning. This is actually terrifying audio. It wasn't my lift. It's the lift next to me is getting maintenance. So your one was going okay?

Yeah, but this is not what you want to hear when you're riding your lift. It sounds like the beginning of a frightening movie trailer. And then it smashes down. That's the lift next to me. But. Terrifying when you're alone in that sort of travelling box. Yeah. Is that probably the worst lift ride you've been a part of? Or have you been a...

Yeah. I've been in ones that have made sounds, but I've never been in one that's stopped, which is my worst nightmare. What's more excruciating? Going in a lift with me talking to other people in the lift or having to sit in a lift by yourself listening to this? No, going with you. Yeah. I always get told off for talking to people in lifts.

and apparently facing the wrong way facing with my back to the door yeah you will you're just smiling at people creepily like putting a show on putting a little free shit now producer Troy you had a shocking lift experience brightening lift experience I was going to view a flat with my partner

and we met the real estate guy at the bottom floor with about eight different people he decides the best thing to do is everyone cram into the elevator let's go up together we'll do this all in one go and so there's all like yeah eight nine people in the elevator and I look up as we're going up and I see max occupancy six I always wonder how far you can push the limit

yeah also like is it weight shaming people like what is where you know it says max six and then it has a weight estimate you're like hang on hang on do we all need to say what we are no I just mean like it could be kids you know yeah could be kids were you looking around trying to get cagey weights of people in the lift you're doing the mass

massive judging yeah and and we had a big clonk and the whole thing just jerked to a stop and we're probably like two floors up. And does everyone make the same noise at the same time as everyone like, oh! Yeah.

Yeah. And there were women and children and elderly and... The real cross. Save the women and children. The cross section of New Zealand. All looking at the same rental property. Yeah. Okay.

It's a versatile place. This is real... I really proved for myself that I'm a guy that takes charge of a situation like this. Good on, you, Tril. I got my phone out and called the emergency number. on the lift. I've always wanted to call that number, but I've never had the need.

Who answers the phone? Are they calming? Some Bogan in West Auckland who could not give less of a about us. He answered the phone and he goes, what? He said what? And I said, sorry, we're stuck in a lift. Oh my gosh. Can you come help us?

He goes, where are you? I'm like, oh, we're in this suburb. He goes, oh, it's going to take me 45 minutes to get out there. If he's suck out west, it would. It's a trip. Yes, but this is your job. There's women, children, elderly people. I'm like, okay, leave now.

And he goes, have you tried opening the doors? No. Whose first instinct does I try to open the doors? He goes, ply open the doors. And so we did. We literally forced open the doors. And there's another set of doors on the other side. And he's like, look up and send me a photo of what's up there.

See you? And then he hangs up. Oh, so he hung up on you. So you took a photo. Text her through him. He's like, See that latch there, just pull that and slide those doors open. Oh, what's he having to do it yourself?

Yeah. Oh my God. Did the Bogan elevator technician get you out? I got us out. Yeah, off with his, okay, so his instruction worked. It worked, but then we were still like two feet below the next floor, so we had to get the women and children out first, and then we had to climb out and we saved ourselves.

How did you get an old, like the elderly must have really? You must have tugged them through. Step on my hand, Janice. Did you? Oh, Troy, what on. Was it the only elevator? It was the only elevator. Yeah.

So was he going to come and fix it for other people? It's probably still still on it for, I don't know. Oh, Andrew, the Hits of 4487. You're the worst lift ride you've been in. Can you compete with that? Very scary situation. You're currently stuck in a lift, and you need to fill some time. Oh, there's a phone in there.

You can call us. You'd love to hear from your next on our 100 The Hits. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. Megan, the lift this morning. Wait for it. It's like a horror movie, eh?

It's so scary. banging away. This was the lift next to you as you were trying to take the lift. Very scary. So I was in the middle lift and the one on the side is under construction

or refurbishment or something. I don't know what they're doing to it but that was the sound as I was riding my lift and I was like well I bloody hope it's that one. It is that those first two bangs for me are really, they're movie trailer like. Yeah. Aren't they when it's like

Weinstein Presents. I don't say that. Sorry, I couldn't think of another movie. Jerry Brown. Oh yeah, do you? Nolan. Yeah. Yeah, so we wanted to know, have you been stuck in moving on from that?

Stuck at a lift. Yeah, I know 800 of the hits. Irene, what's happening, mate? Oh, my gosh. It's about getting stuck in the lift, my eight-year-old granddaughter who got stuck in the lift by herself. Play the sound. Oh, no.

Oh, how old? Eight. Eight. Oh, that's frightening for anyone, but particularly a kid. Yes, and she's gone down to get tissues. There was two lifts, and we thought, gosh, she's taking a long time. to come back. And I went down and I said to my daughter, you stay up the top.

And then I said, no, no, she's got the tissues and gone up ages ago. And we're like, oh, so I jumped in the next lift and then I could hear her crying next door. Oh, poor thing. No way of getting her out. The technician was an hour away. Could you communicate with her Irene? We were talking to her through the door. My partner got some butter knives from a restaurant.

and managed to prize it open enough just to calm her down. Yeah, and in the end it took probably 40 minutes to get her out. And on the outside, though, they said, go to the restaurant and have what if you like. So she had ice cream and chips, and we sat in the bar for an hour just drinking popcorn. Yeah, that's what you like. She's got lifelong trauma from that, and so do you. Yeah. Yes, exactly.

So you have. She won't get in the lift now. I can imagine, yeah. Yeah, that is terrifying. Do you remember we used to work with a Mike, and he worked in an Australian radio station for many years, and he was saying that he went downstairs to get one of the guests, and they were a little bit nervous about one of the guests coming into the studio.

It was Russell Crow. You know, just, and they got into a lift. It's just him and Russell Crow. That lift broke down. Imagine being caught in a lift with bloody Russell Crow. Was there some choice words that you said? At first Russell Crow thought it was a prank. Like, he was like, you prank at me.

That's a great prank. And when it didn't he? He actually said he was there. It was a lovely guy and they had a great conversation. But yeah. Well, I guess Russell's like, this isn't my time.

It's using up your time with me. But like, all I hope is that the person had their phone and was like recording it. That could have been the interview. You're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stuck in a lift with Russell Crowe.

John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, the parade. It is 24 hours away. We will be in Masterton. Ben Boyce. Hometown Hero returns with his costume collection

for a one-off parade. You say hometown hero, but that's definitely a lie. It's just better to sell on the marketing hometown, whether it's the truth or not. It's not the truth. It's definitely not the truth. And our hearts you're the hero of Masterton. Maybe when we get to Masterton, we'll learn the truth.

I don't know anyone else from Master's it. PJ? Yeah, PJ, yeah. She's a heroic. She's a late mover to Masterton, but that's okay. Not an OG, not a day one of. Not a hometown. Germaine. Germant.

Flight of the Concord's. Definitely a home town. A lot of great rugby players. So Brian Lahore and people like that, you know. So yeah. Oh, there are better people. There are. Oh, yeah, definitely.

Definitely. So tomorrow at the parade, please come and join us with the location of the old town hall. It's been a real roller coaster of a journey. We've had ads in the paper stating the wrong location. We've had to do clarification ads in the paper. We've had Amir's, Beck, she doesn't want to turn up to the parade. Ben, you're going to be Amir, the mayor for a minute. A mere for a minute because she's booked herself somewhere else.

But yeah, so I feel like no one's. really going to turn up. I mean, maybe that's funny having a parade where no one's going to turn up, but it's not. It doesn't, I don't know. It doesn't fill your heart with joy. I think it is going to be the first parade ever where there's more people in the parade than watching the parade. Oh, that's all right.

That's fine. That's fine. We're having a good time. Yeah, so we got an article. We got some press in the Wadded Up at Times Age, which is great. Try and build up some excitement for the campaign. And, yeah, they spoke to us, Lucy, the reporter. And what I've noticed is they've put the article online.

And then they've also put it at page three of the Wadarup a Times age, which is great today. But a different headline. And, you know, you've got kind of more of a click-baity headline online because it's behind a paywall. The story's behind a paywall. Yeah. People are paying good money to read this. That says marital standoff leads to worlds first for mastered and microparade. So, yeah, it's basically saying a meritable, marital standoff.

and like, oh, what's going on here? Because obviously my wife doesn't like the costumes. So they're focused on that online. And then... Finally, a parade with a human cost. And then online, it's... Sorry, and then in the paper, it just says, Parade a world first for Masterhood.

So... Yeah. Did they have a big picture of your face under micro parade? Stop it. I know where you go over this. No. Not the only micro thing in the parade, Megan. We've got some tiny costumes in there, don't we got some small little costumes.

So, yeah. Yeah, they've really gone the old marriage rift angle as well. So we did pitch to Lucy, the wonderful journalist, that maybe she does a follow-up nine-page spread with Amanda following the parade. Yeah. Yeah, her thoughts, feelings and, you know, the state of Ben's marriage after the fact. Yeah, so if you are in the Wadarrara region, come along and support the parade. Come on 8 o'clock tomorrow.

Please, because Ben's very anxious about it. I do think of a good rap name. The Wired rapper. Why Rapper would be good for my rap name. It's a writer. Wraper. Yeah, why. Yeah.

Why. Please, explain it some more. The Wadarara. It's hard with the critics. Ra Rapa. Yeah. The wider rapper. Yeah.

Do you break, you roll the... The wider rapper from raw rapper. Yeah, that doesn't quite... Okay. He spends half an hour on stage explaining the name. The hardest rap he does was saying his name. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast.

The heads We're now Megan over to you You're away's today Yes I was lucky enough To be invited By the Toyota team To the launch of

GR racing And they've got The Yaris They've got the Corolla They've got like A bunch of Like very cool Racy cars

That people can just use On the road You know to drive in a corolla We had a corolla We had a corolla in the car For decades They just they keep They don't die

Yeah keep going Yeah Like us in radio They just don't die the corolla. Now, we kept saying yesterday on the show, Megan's away racing cars, and our boss in Australia, Craig, he thought it was a joke.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. We're like, no, no, she was actually racing cars. Oh, no, he knows he loved cars, but we just thought that, yeah. She's off racing, trying to be a race driver. And he's like, okay, what's she really doing? I was like, no, it's what she's doing.

Now, Ben thought it might be a little too late to start your motor racing career. Well, yes, it is. I did ask. I was like, what's the age limit for, like, the training and, And, yeah, it was considerably younger than me. Not good for your heart.

But I did. Shut up. I'm just, I know you're going to. I'm about to be ripped for a whole lot of things in this break, but I'm just going to, like, power through. So I went to Hampton Downs, and it's always been a dream. You know that I've wanted to do a hot lap forever. I've never managed to do it.

And I finally, when I was there, I got to do two over the weekend. So you got to drive around? I got to drive. It wasn't a weekend. It was the middle of the week. You took time off from. work for this too. I keep saying weekends.

Stop trying to slide this into the weekend and not use your days annually. It felt like it. It felt like it. But yeah, I got to race cars around Hampton Downs. And I actually got a nickname over those two days. I was there with, it was a lot of males. It's a male dominated sport. So I felt very lucky to be there.

There was three of us women there. And so when I got to race the cars, there was one point where, you had to do like a handbrake and spin around the cones on Hampton Downs race track, and I was like very nervous to do it in front of everyone. Oh, and a little bit of brake here. Yeah, nice job. This is me driving. The power on, handbrake.

Nice. Left side of the tower. And handbrake. That was me doing my handbrakey. I managed to smoke. I smoked the tires. Got smoke out of the tires? And...

I'm repeating what was told to me, but I did the best. I did the best out of everyone. And they started calling me Handbrake. And I was like, oh my God. Is your nickname Handbrake? My nickname's Handbrake. The most flattering nickname I think you can give a woman. In a good way.

Is Handbrake a good thing? Is Andrew going to start calling your handbrake now? Do you know what age's husband used to call me, like, the fun police? So it's pretty close to a handbrake. A bit of a handbrake. Yeah. But then I was the only one who got told. to slow down during

a slalom bit the instructor was like, you just slow down. So I felt pretty cool. I definitely held my own in front of the guys, but I did get to do a hot lap with... With racing Ryan. Ryan Wood.

The Ryan Wood. The Ryan Wood. Racing. Ryan Wood. Now we've watched some video of you and Ryan Wood interacting. Speaking of hot laps. You can play it if you want. It's me. I got him to record something.

Producer Grace has accused you of some top-tier flirting here. There's been lip-biting, sort of caressing of racing Ryan's chest. I don't know what else went on, but anyway, yeah. Here we are. Ryan, can you please tell the guys how good I was at racing? I wouldn't call it racing. I'd call it fast driving. It was pretty impressive, I must say.

You didn't even see me drive. I didn't. You just told me to say all this. You're such a lot. Listen to the giggling. I know, she'd never giggled like that with us, is he? No. She's sort of, and then she pushes his chest away.

She's like, get out of here. Ryan is also giggling. We'd spend a lot of time at the table. A lot of giggling. We'd just had like a two-hour dinner, and we've been roasting each other the whole time. Excuse me? We're just like good mates. All right, have a break.

All right, I'm going to call you giggles. I've definitely touched you before, Ben. Like, I hit you. Not like that. I like that. John O'Bennon and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. I mentioned last week that we had to get some new towels from farmers after many a bleach-based incident.

I used bleach recklessly around the household. You know, scattered the towels, the bath towels covered in bleach. So many of them went out to the garage to be used to, you know, the old town. They get used for. Rags. Yeah. Brip them up. Yeah.

Tows, they really come in stages, don't they? It's good that you can keep using them, though. Yeah. But there's some that have stayed in there And a couple of towels I'm like, gee, this is into the 20th year Of drying my body If those towels could talk

Oh, you have a 20 year old towel It feels like way too long for towels, eh? It's barely holding on to morning I used it this morning That's what reminded me about You see that face that producer Troy's giving you That's nasty It is, yeah

I didn't know it was going to be your towel Okay, so I'm just I have wetting it two to five years, they reckon. Two to five years, pretty normal for good quality towels. Is it exfoliating you? Is it crispy? I feel like it makes me wetter. When I go to use it.

It's like repelling the moisture back onto my body going, I've retired, bro. I did not know that's what you were using. Yeah, it barely absorbs moisture anymore. So that might be relegated to a, you know, a rag, to the rag status. But that is a good innings from a towel. It's a huge inning. Teller never expected to go that long It's like just retire me

Oh my God, throw me out The last 15 years It's like I should be on the pension relaxing instead of all your creases and creases Oh God Yeah so that's I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone else Using a towel into its 20th year

But what's the oldest item you're still using? Well my husband's still using me She got that out of the way So Ben didn't get in there quickly Absolutely. Well played. I've got a pair of nail scissors that I've been using since I was probably 10. So that's like 10 years.

Are they not rusty? All my ones go rusty. No, that's the thing. The handle's broken, but I cannot throw them out because I've tried to replace them and nothing is as good. But I think these were my mum's. I reckon there would be something as good out there. No, but I've tried. I've bought multiple.

Nothing's as good. And these were my mum's beforehand. So these are very old. nail scissors. Will you hand them down to Iyer and they'll pass their way through the generations of nails in your family? I've painted on the handle with nail polish and the handle's broken. I don't think they will want them. But man, they're good.

I just cannot throw them out. So they are 10, so that's about 52 years. Those nail clippers have been in service. You can talk. We're not using it, but it is up in the house. We've got a, my wife's granddad was an all black. And he played like five tests for the all blacks. And he has jersey.

We've got one of his jerseys and we've got that up. And that's from 1935. What was his name? John Dick was his name. And he played winger for the all blacks. And he, and it was an, it's a literal jersey.

Like it's a woolen jersey that they were playing in. Like every time I look at it, I'm like, man, technology is moved on. Yeah. It's like, yeah. It's like, yeah. It's like, yeah. It's like, yeah.

I've never put it on. Obviously it's in a frame and stuff. But I'm like, yeah, that's from 1935. And I'm like, wow. So, yeah. They were doing, and they were working jobs as well on farms, and then they're like, and you want us to go and play in wool?

You go on a boat for like three months? Yeah. To play one game in South Africa. John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The hits. After the oldest thing you're still using, discovered that as I was drawing myself this morning,

probably a towel 20 years good, hard service in my bathroom that it's done. And I think today's the day I will retire it, but I'd like to thank it for all it has done for my body over the year. years as well. Ben said there's a five-year lifespan for your average towels. That's chat cheap. This isn't an average towel. Yeah, let's keep going. Yeah, you're right. I guess it's will.

It's probably nasty. It's probably like, you probably just need to wash yourself after you as again. Let's go back in the shower. More lint than actual towel, I think, on that thing. So the oldest thing you're still using. Georgia, you're on the radio. Happy New Year. Oh, still going. Still going. Still going. As good as a day she bought it.

Really? That's incredible. Vacuum cleaner technology has really moved on. I tell you what, I'm really frustrated about, yes, huge advancements with the likes of Barry Dyson and, you know, Kevin Electrolux and things. But back in the day, your mum's vacuum cleaner would have sucked and blowed. I mean, yeah? It had a function where you could, you know, so you could pump up.

Some did have that function, so you can pump up in an airbed and stuff like that. That's not a function on vacuum cleaners nowadays. that light, yeah. Well, I suppose that's probably... I don't know how often I would use that. How often are you needing it? Well, once a year when I blow up a mattress over New Year's. You can actually buy little cute little ones from like, they're quite cheap.

They're a little, yeah. I'd just like to know that it's an option. Georgia, well, that's impressive. 33-year vacuum cleaner. I don't reckon any vacuum cleaner now would last 33 years. Anonymous. Good morning. Lovely to have you on.

This is a very ominous call. What are you using? That's a few years old. It's age, shame it. We're not using it. We've inherited it. It's an old English brass dyes helmet from the English Navy. Oh, wow.

We've just had it estimated, and with the numbers engraved on the bottom, it's 157 years old. Jeez. Wow. Wow. Can I ask how you ended up with it or not? We just got it from our family member passed away. Oh, just hand me down. The husband was, yeah, the husband was ex-Navy, so he was one who got it.

Are you allowed to sell that or no? I suppose you could sell it, right? We could, but there's no way we would. Could you wear it? Costume party? If you want to shrink about 10 centimetres, yeah, go for it. Is it little? No, it's huge.

Oh, right. Put it on when you're cycling down the road to the dairy or something. She's diving. diving 157 years ago on that helmet. Like, shout out to whoever did that. That's a big gamble. Wow, that's very cool. You don't need a diving belt, though, do you? Because it just weigh you down.

How old do you get it going straight to the bottom? It's one of those ones that you see in the movies where they had to bolt it onto your shoulder. That is crazy. You're good to go. You're like, am I? Listen, I've just put it into AI. I'm just going to sink now. What would 157-year-old English diver's helmet be worth now?

Now, roughly, we're talking USD here, 54,000. Woo! Yeah. Wow, so that's a great family heirloom. Yeah. Yeah, well, thank you so much for you. Now you're thinking twice about selling it. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

That. And it is the 20th of August already. What are you 11 more days? 11 days left of winter. Still cold. Still cold and icy around in the mornings, but I guess we're at the tail end of winter, which is nice. How cold does it get en mastered in?

Because we've got the parade there tomorrow and morning. A little bit colder. Obviously, as you head down the morning. the country? What would you suggest? Are we talking sort of thermal undergarments been boys?

Well, it's been a while since I've been a master of it. I mean, we are broadcasting outside. We're in the elements. Yeah. Fingerless gloves, maybe. Maybe if you've got some.

No, full fingers. Full finger gloves? All the fingers. All the fingers, yeah. But the problem with full fingers is phone usage. Yeah, they do. Oh, yeah.

They need to make ones with little fingertips that you can still navigate your way around. Yeah, it's quite well. Speaking of technology, When I first started the breakfast show, I guess you have a lot of concerns about, you know, like sleeping through alarms and stuff. Like me this morning.

I mean, it happens. You're getting up early as well, and it's not like the rest of the house are up and about. Think the longer you do this job, the less and less concern you have about it. Your body just wakes up. Yeah, but also when I wake up in the night as well, too, I want to kind of know what the time is as well.

Because, you know, is it almost alarm time or is it time to go back to sleep, you know? Absolutely. When was the last time your body just, woke up when it wanted to. Well, uh, no,

I think sometimes, yeah, but I think it still does that, oh, do you want to get up now? Sort of thing. Yeah, I guess so.

No, I don't really want to get up at this time in the weekends and then you can go back to sleep, but it still gives me that little, you should probably be awake around now. When my body wants to and when I want to are two different things. Yeah. So when I first started,

uh, I bought like a clock, an old style clock radio with big digits as well. Uh, that lights up, illuminates half the room because I don't like in that bugbearer of my wife again I decided not to put power points by the bed

so the phone's crazy dude I didn't know that you didn't have power plates so I was like nah we don't know which is good so when the phone I find you don't use I don't use my phone in bed it's a way just tucked in a little on suite area and then when the alarm goes off I have to get up and turn it off because it's like to turn it off or is that your selling point to Amanda the great thing is we're not on our

phones and bed yeah and on a phone and you have to get up she's just she's hacked it because she's got Siri So she just yells out, Siri, stop, Siri, stop. I don't know about this until recently, because I'm not there. But anyway, so I just have the big, whacking great cock radio, illuminating the room. It's pretty stable. Never lets you down. Yeah.

Unless it's a power cut. Yeah. We're going old school. Don't have an alarm on it, but just have the numbers and the big digital numbers. But it's, I guess after about five or six years, it's decided not to work. And so it stopped working. And I was like, oh, geez, I kind of missed getting up in the night and not knowing what the time is. Is it lit up?

Well, you know, it's like you can see it. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I was like, well, I'll go buy another one. And at first I was wanting the big digits so I could see it in the middle of the night. A big, big digits. That's why I bought a big size box. I was like, this will be perfect. But it's quite a big clock radio, the new one, but the digits are quite small.

Tiny digits. And you don't mean, my eyesight's good close up, but not as good when it's further away now. So this thing is... Size shaming your clock. So my clock is small. The digits are small. more with him again. And so it's on the other end of the room now.

And I wake up in the night now and it's like doing a night test at the doctors every because I'm like, looking at all right, is it a four, is it a three? What am I doing? I'm like, oh, why don't I not put plugs beside the bed? That was the point of this whole thing. Looms back around to, I should have put some punches.

I should have. Like now I'm getting up. And honestly, I'm like, this is a three. Is it the three? You know, because you're half asleep and your eyes are trying to focus and you're like, it's little digits. I think it's two-twenty.

I'm like, and I know something for my wife because she's like, she's disappointed at New Clock too. Exactly, there he goes. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. That's... You just ask a good question. You're like, why don't even need to promote this on the radio?

Don't get us wrong. We love giving away Olivia Dean tickets. We've never felt more popular. Like, Olivia could probably sell these tickets. I feel like Ben's the promoter. He's nervous and you don't need to be. Yeah, so we've got a double pass the giveaway, and it's a little fun game that we're playing.

for the next couple of days is we're walking around a location in baby steps and we're counting up how many baby steps it took us to do that and if you guess correctly one of the correct guesses we'll pull out random some other correct guesser and they'll win a double pass so western springs the venue of the concert yesterday you took tiny little micro steps baby steps around the lake at western springs baby steps okay one two three four five six seven eight nine ten I'm guessing that's baby steps. I hope you can lift a recorder on the entire time.

Just little pockets. I was trying very hard not to lose my spot. You know, lose count. I thought you were going to go one, two, three, four, bu, and then sing again. I should have. When you get to do it this week, Megan, you can do it, right? Can't wait.

You've got full creative control of your... I'm definitely not going all the way around Western Springs doing babysat. So I went from the sign across two rugby fields to the stadium and then around the lake ended up by a tram at Motown. If you know any of that, whether you need to try and guess out exactly how many baby steps it took me. Okay, so loads of, I've never seen the text machine working so hard than it has this morning. I think two correct guesses, and we've picked someone at random out of all the texts. Alex and Christchurch.

Hi, hello. Just hold those tears just yet, Alex. What was your guess for the amount of baby steps been took around Western Springs? Okay. Okay. one, one, two, four, three. One, one, two, four, three. Now, Alex, it feels like your numbers

come through a few times of different numbers, which is fine. Okay, yeah, I have texted maybe a trillion times, but, yes, it's also in the same phone number. It's got a 20 cents of text, it's going to cost you a little bit, but it will be worth it if this is correct. Let's go to me yesterday afternoon.

Let's go to me. Crossing to last me. Coming in, come on in, Ben, are you by the tram? How many steps? Okay, I remember. that number. I'm going to say it now 11,243. That's what you said Alex, you're going to Olivia Dean. Well done, the double bass. You've guessed how many baby sepice it took me to walk around Western Springs? Well done. How cool is this? Because

it's so hard to get tickets. Oh my God, I've got flights and accommodation. Me and my friend Claudia, she's listening right now. We've tried to win everything. I just can't Get through on ticket tech. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, you've manifested this. Good, aren't you. And I think probably getting the hardest, but sort of too, with the flights and a comm.

You did that first. I know. Had to get in quick before they got more expensive. But, oh my God, I'm the biggest Olivia Dean fan, so thank you so much. That's very cool. It's paid off, Alex, good stuff. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

Craig. Craig. Craig, would you put him in the boss category or coach category? No, no. Consultant. Consultant, yeah, Craig. You're not going to him for annual leave or, you know. Yeah, I keep referring to him as boss, but I'd say he's kind of like a coach for our show.

Yes, yeah. And he's a lovely guy. He's based in Australia. We had a meeting with him yesterday, and he's like, there's a clip going viral across the ditch of this guy. And he's kind of, he's a bit upset with childless couples going on holiday. I get so insanely jealous when I see childless couples on holiday. Like, what do you even? holidaying from because when you've got kids work is a holiday it's a little

eight hour holiday that you get every day and then just spending all day Sunday in bed getting Uber Eats because you're so exhausted and then you have the gall to turn around and say I need a holiday a hundred percent you come to work and you're like I've just come here I'm sick you're sick you know I know because you guys are always like oh you're trying to get out of this work trip I'm like I I don't know how many times I have to tell you that the work trip is my holiday. You love work trips, don't you? I get a hotel room to myself.

No one's coming and tap it on my face in the middle of the night. Like, it's the best. We can do it. We try that. It was weird. We're just trying to make you feel like you're at home. Three in the morning, ding, ding, ding, ding on your forehead. That's so true.

What are you holidaying from? Yeah. What are you doing the weekend? I mean, there's, but they, you know, you never know what the childless couple are thinking when they see you with your kids. Yeah. Exactly. Oh, don't make me feel bad. Russ is always greener on the other side.

That's right. You do get strangely jealous of certain strangers. I'm not that when I'm stuck in bloody peak hour traffic and I see someone on a motorbike just going boom through the middle lanes. But then when you see them in terrestrial rain, I feel less jealous. I even get jealous when I just look over and see someone smiling in traffic. I'm like, what are you smiling about? Troy, I want some of that.

Troy, Troy, who do you get sadly jealous of? People who can eat dairy? I remember my wife and I would be back to back around Europe when we were younger and stuff and I remember because we had these big backpacks and we used to get so jealous of people with bags with wheels look at them look at those people but then they get to stairs and we were like, who's laughing now but they weren't laughing at all they're just living their life and they also just picked it up I know but I was just like look at these and you get really annoyed with people with wheels with your wheels you're lugging around a backpack for three months we were talking about this

Yesterday would just be mentioned before when you're waiting in line at a theme park. And the fast passers, don't bring that back up. The fast passes, you get in check. Oh my God, don't hate the player. I hate the game. But you don't, they've paid for the fast pass. Everything's above pool. Well, have they paid for it?

Was Megan hashtag gifted the half pass? Most people have paid for it. You're right, Chon-oh. And that's, but they're just doing their thing. They're entitled to do that. But Jesus. The disdain you have for them.