Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The long weekend pod!

Episode Date: April 2, 2026

On this episode of Jono, Ben & Megan, Ben accidentally turns a harmless Disney food video into a full‑blown family debate about feminism, Jono reignites a long-dead group chat and learns the hard way that sometimes messages are better left in 2022, and Megan admits to committing the ultimate parenting sin by hijacking a kids’ Easter egg craft, and that’s just the start, with so much more to come.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. But, you know, your algorithm, it's very clever, eh, when you're on social media and you start watching some things, you get pushed so much other stuff. Yeah. People you don't even follow, you just get pushed. They're like, this person's into this, and you go through phases, you're into something,

and they just keep pushing it. I have a Mexican cartel era a week ago. It was all about the cartels. And you see how people get, so down a rabbit hole of things as well, because you show me that video, I was like, I have not seen a single Mexican cartel video. I don't know what you were talking about. But once you start watching it, you get fed more of it and it just happens. It's quite dangerous, actually, isn't it?

If you're clicking on, say, some spicy content, you know, that you're going to get more and more and more and it's going to get inside your head and then you end up in a, you know, it's how they call it a rabbit hole. Yeah. Go down deep and you get stuck. So, but not surprisingly, like Disney content's being fed to me a lot recently as well. And, you know, obviously we took the trip for Disney and stuff. so I'm getting a lot of Disney.

I love my Disney stuff. So where did you go on that trip? I was trying to avoid. I went on at Disney Cars. Try to avoid that, but it's pivotal to the story. It's like the alarm every time you bring it up. I can't meet, you know, like other videos. And this one popped up.

And there's this lady in Australia. And she makes these incredible, like, meals that look like Disney characters. Like absolutely phenomenal. Like, you know, think of all like, hey, hey from Moana and Monsters Inc and stuff like that. And when you say meals. Like dishes. Like, you know. Spaghetti Bolognaz.

Food and stuff. It just looks incredible. And I saw this, it got fed this. And I was like, wow, this is awesome. This is awesome. And I was like, I should show my wife and my daughter this because they'll be into this. And then I also on the boat? On the boat.

The thing was the lady and, you know, she had what can only be described as a plunging neckline. She's a mum in a strait. And I was like, I'm going to come up at the first shots of this lady and I'm going to go, hey, watch this. And I know what they're going to say. They're going to go, oh, what are you making me watch? So I thought, well, let's front foot it. Let's just go, hey, there's this lady here that she makes incredible Disney meals. But she's got a bit of a plunging.

And that's her business is fine. It's like, you know, but you have a watch. Don't focus on the plunging neckline. And my daughter said, oh, first thing she says, ooh, she's like, Dad, why are you looking there? I'm like, no, I'm not. But I'm just trying to say. Look at the Disney Meals.

And then my wife's like, oh, so we're checking out other ladies now, are we? And I'm like, no, I'm not. I just wanted to let you know that she had a bit of a plunging neckline. And then Siena starts going So why can't she have a plunging neckline? Why does it matter what? Why does a man get to dictate what a woman wear? You're like how are you ended up in this conversation?

You should have acted like you never even saw it. But I knew that would be the first thing they would have gone, oh, Josh, this video. She's like like, oh, I didn't even notice that. I was looking at the food. Why are you getting fed this? And I'm like, oh, yes, so then I start getting a man's dictating what a woman wears and why can't she wear? I'm like, oh my God, don't even worry about the plan.

Check out her pocahontas is. I mean, the meal she made of Pocahontas. I'm like, don't even worry. I don't think we got to the Disney meals. We got the shot of the plunging neckline and I was like, oh, I've done now. We've been caught out for misogyny. I'll be end up on a Louis Faroe, bloody documentary on Netflix.

In the Manosphere now, babe. I don't know. I said he want to be in the Manosphere. We'll take a breather from Ben's toxic masculinity. We'll be back. We'll just reset the show. Don't worry. John O'Benn and Megan.

The podcast. The Hats. Look, there's a little. lot going on in the world and having a five-year-old who's just kind of starting to understand, you know, the news and stuff. He sees and hears things about, you know, petrol prices and everything at the moment. What's, what's best you're feeling about the petrol prices at five years old? Is it a concern?

Well, he's just like, oh, well, you just filled up the other day. I'm like, I know, but then we use the car and then we need to put the, you know, God, you get sick of asking, I mean, replying to why. but then I always try to but do you know I've come up this great response to why for everything I'm like why do you think oh you throw it back yeah that's smart

and then what do they actually come back with anything or it shuts down the conversation he's like oh yeah I don't know what do you say it what tone do you say to him what do you think do you say it no I'm like why do you think oh yeah good good reverse psychology yeah that's smart actually yeah it's good stuff but he was watching the news and it was talking about money and the price of everything and all above his head.

But he started talking about how he knows that some people are finding it hard to buy groceries. And I was like, oh, that's so sweet. He starts trying to delve in to economics. And that's when I started recording him. Good. He's going to learn. It's the other rule about living with a radio host, Basty, too,

is they going to record everything, all right? That's another life lesson. Where this goes with mum and dad is quite funny. So does everyone have enough money for groceries? We do. Because you make money to buy stuff. You keep on getting money when you work. Yeah.

What does Daddy do all day? Just go to the, and do your rehearsal. But you don't get any money. Do I not get paid for my show? No. I don't get paid for my show. Why? It's a job.

Do you think Daddy just goes to the gym and sings? Yeah. Sweet gig. Sweet gig. You tell he wanted to say go to the gym And he sort of backs out of it He just go to the gym And yeah

Definitely wanted to say gym Those pecks aren't going to build themselves Bastie And so Andrew Not buying Andrew to go to the gym though are they No Just in case you don't know He's doing a show

Isn't he Andrew? He's doing Angeliet A musical Paid one too Just like he wanted everyone to know He should pay for that one I was like yeah No daddy just sings and dances

And goes to the gym Sometimes he doesn't get paid though Yeah he's right Yeah, but he was like, yeah, Mommy makes the money. I was like, you know it, baby. You know it. A little patronising for Paul Bastie too, wasn't it? Just do your little singing.

Are you a little hobby? A little hobby? Go to the gymmy round then? What's Daddy do? It is humbling when they do describe what you do for a job and stuff like that. You're like, oh, God. I know, I won't be long and I'll be like, you just like talk rubbish all day. Yeah, yeah, we do.

Yeah, wait until they find out, Megan. That'll be a humbling day. Hey, thanks for joining us. Now, group chats, they're a thing, aren't they? Whether you're doing them on text or messenger or WhatsApp. It's too many, too many chats going on across multiple platforms IMO. Don't think that you can just drop an IMO and get away with it.

It's natural. It felt good. In my opinion. If you would just let it slide, if you let it bend and bring it up. I know it made him uncomfortable. I could see it in his eyes. And jarred him. Yeah, did you.

A little bit, but it's all right. But, yeah, the WhatsApp one. I love when people say IMO or something like that and then they say what the thing is, just so they know your IMO and my mind. So you sound in touch, but also out of touch. At the same time, yeah. But the WhatsApp one, really interesting. Now, WhatsApp just littered with a lot of people trying to scam you.

Like, hi, Kelvin, I'm not sure if I gave you the wrong number the other day. Do you want to see me a new number? Dennis, it's Eileen. Great to see you again. Hi, I'm Doris. I'm flying into Queenstown. You want to pick me up from the airport, stuff like this. But then I've got a lot, a lot of group chats.

Oh, God. You just scrolled. Are they all group chats? All group chats. And so it's really ones that have just died. And they die a slow death, the old group chat. There's always that one person really organized, love them. They're like, let's get a group chat going for this event that we're heading to.

And everyone's all guns blazing. There's always a couple of people who don't say anything. It's like they're just staring from a distance. That's usually me. Yeah, you don't really participate in our group chat, do you? I just kind of, yeah, look. Yeah. But there's passionate members of the group chat.

And there's ones who just slowly fade out on it. I'm a slow fade outer on the group chat. Are you? Oh, no, there's ones that I keep going with. But there is ones that have been set up for like a weekend. We go to Wellington for work. It's like Wellington weekend, I'm not going to keep that one for you know. We've done that weekend.

We've moved on from that. You know, you can delete them up. Yeah. It needs a little bit of a clear up, I think. Look, you know, we had one for we raced through the country a few weeks ago for the $10,000. Delete it. And it's got a picture of me looking deceased lying in bed as the profile picture. So this is the game I wanted to play with you two.

Okay, you scroll back into your oldest group chat, and you try and reignite it. Try and reignite it this morning. Oh, I don't know about that. So it needs to be a group chat, not just a message from someone. Yeah, no, it needs to be a group chat. Definitely. I can go back to 2022 and launch one.

This was a, oh, this was a dance one too, Poppy's dance class. The parents of the dance class. Should I try and reignite that one? Yeah, go on. Okay. What should I type? I don't know. This is very...

I'm not for one when we're in the safe house on the edge. Oh, yeah, what are you trying? Oh, my God. That was probably seven years ago. Who was in that? It's 2018. I don't even know. Hey, well, you try and kick that one back off.

Hey, guys, how are you going? Yeah, okay. Oh, this is a whole bunch of parents... Oh, I'm no longer a member of the group. Oh, what a way to find out. They're talking about without me. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, you had to fight it this way.

We were talking. Okay, I'm going to go. Hey, dance team. How's everyone going? Oh God, this is terrible. This is from four years ago. Oh. And I'll bring you the response from that after the news.

You've got a response? I message, hey, dance team, hope everyone's doing well. Just trying to re-ignite the group chat. One person's come back going, oh, long time, no here. Good, thanks. Then my wife, who's also on the group, has replied to everyone, you're a cloud. So that's the effort of it.

Troy's got social anxiety for me doing that. John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Now as did we get onto this topic I remember someone mentioning it on Friday Like about a family whistle Yeah

I remember you saying you're not a fan Of your wife whistling at you No she's family like her dad had a whistle That would kind of they They would know about it And they would get the attention Of each other And they're kind of like a little thing

And sometimes she'll use it on me When we're out and about It's like a sheep whistle Isn't it? It's like her one She can do a sheep whistle But the family one was like almost like do do do

I can't whistle yeah like that it was like that loud louder you don't like being whistled at no and it really gets I hear it and I ignore it I'm like I'm not a dog I'm not reacting to a whistle

I'm not reacting to a whistle I'm not reacting to a whistle I guess like you didn't grow up with a family whistle because that's how like when you're in a crowd of people that's that cuts through don't use a whistle on me

it's only people in your bloodline know that particular whistle it's like a car alarm for your genetics yeah and I'm like it's not my whistle, I'm not reacting to it, that's not for me. That's your family. Yeah, very upset about it.

I do. Would you prefer to be whistled at or clicked fingers at? Probably click. I don't know. Oh, really? But the thing is, if she's like yelling out, Ben, Ben, with everyone talking, like, it gets lost. I don't know. I just don't like it.

My mum, I always, my mum and Dave, but mainly my mum in, like, crowds in the supermarket anywhere, she could whistle and I'd be like, yeah, here I am. Wonder if she's still got it, Ray, Ray. She'll give her a call. Do you reckon she could still belt it out? Absolutely. The family whistle. So ours was like,

whee-w-w-w... Imagine if your family's whistle was... Hey. Are you speaking. Hello, mum. Good morning. Good morning. Eight bloody degrees this morning.

Is it? Autumn's here. Winter. It might be autumn in Auckland, but it's winter and Nelson. Straight into the weather report. No pussy footing around. No. It's sticking straight out.

What? It's sticking? I don't know. No, no. You got it. You got it. Move on. Hope that the audience didn't hear it.

We're talking about family whistles this morning, Mom, and I said that we had one you particularly would always use. Now, I've done the whistle. I wanted to see if you still remember it and you can do it the same. Yeah, wait, I've just got to get my lips puckered. There we go. Yeah, it was, too. My ears prick up. And you know what?

You'd use that in crowded malls. Would you use that crowded malls? and sort of fears to get the attention of the kids, Ray, Ray? Yeah, it's, well, it's a backwards one. Oh, yeah. It's the reverse sexual one. Yeah, yeah. Okay, who came up with a fan?

Was that you that came up with it? I don't really know. It was just, oh, I don't know. It was, well, you couldn't very well whistle your kids and go, you don't, uh. Yeah, no, you had to go, oh, wait on. It's too cold. On the spot it's quite a little whistle, isn't it?

Eight degrees too. Yeah. You got to very moist in those lips. There was actually frost on the caravan roof. Oh, there was. Not ideal whistle conditions. Ice. Ray, Ray? Yep, I don't.

Keep up the good work. Keep warm. Okay, I will. I'll tuck the nips away. Okay, thank you. Oh, that was it. Yeah, I knew we should wrap her up. Thank you, Mom.

It was so glad I'm thinking about that. Pressure words or phrases that can really lead to some thorough emotional discussion. A friend of mine, he says the big one for him is when his wife says, my parents are coming to stay. That always results in

some robust conversation following my parents are coming to stay because he's got a whole bunch of issues that I don't need to delve into on the radio. Gotcha. That's amazing it happens with a lot of families, right? We would, was someone who...

When his mother-in-law would come to stay, he would rent a port-a-loo for her to use. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Yeah, they had a tense relationship. I don't think they had to give them, right? I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised.

I imagine making your mother-in-law use a port-a-loo. She had her own bathroom, I guess. Oh, my God. I mean, a bespoke toilet just for the... And it's not one of the ones like an electric gab by the end of two days, you know? It's clean. It's clean. Jeez.

How much do you hate that person? What are the hot buttons for you in your relationship? What are things that really set you off? Where do I start? Do you have a phrase or anything? For us, it's probably, as I said the other day, someone says I'm tired. One says, oh, I'm feeling a bit tired today.

The other one always seems to come back with him. Oh, tired. We said the tired Olympics. You keep going back and forward. You're like, oh, well, I got to find out. What time do you get up in the morning? It's almost like you need to stay awake for a whole night just to prove a point.

Yeah. Now I'm officially morning. tired. Couldn't possibly be the fact that you're both tired. Yeah, well, yeah, true, we should disagree that we're both tired. We're adults, that we're always going to be tired. Let's just move on. You know, I discovered pretty early on in our one was do whatever you want.

Doesn't actually mean do whatever you want. I was like, okay, cool. Because I'm going to go out for about two days. If your partner is saying, do what you want, like, that's a real, she's real pissed at that point. Do what you want? You will anyway. Do you want, yeah, you will. She's just leaving off the, you want.

You will anyway. But then you go, okay, cool. And then you come back, you're like, you said do whatever you want. I didn't mean it. Do whatever you want means don't do it because I want you to stay with me. We'll just say that then. No, if you don't, like, and I want you to choose me as you do whatever you want. Yeah.

To be honest, when you say do whatever you want, I know what it means. But I was like, the words are telling me to do whatever I want. Yeah, exactly. What's just saying? So I'm going to do the words. The other big ones, too, I'm fine. How, you're right? I'm fine.

I know you're not fine. No, yeah. I'm fine means I'm not fine, but you should know why I'm not fine. I see again, all their games. Don't play games. Just like, so be straightforward with that. It's too hard to play the lady quiz game. We do alpha quiz.

That's enough of a quiz for me, mate. I just need to know, exactly. What is it? Let's try and sort it out. Talk about it. No one in the history of saying, I'm fine has ever been fine. Yeah. No, because when you are fine, you don't use fine.

You say, I'm great. I'm good. I'm happy. And that's like, you should know what you've done. You're like, oh, man, that really opens up some stuff. It's the stuff I've done. I couldn't cherry pick any of them. Okay, so I wait a hundred of that.

The one phrase that, uh, them's a fighting words that kick off an argument in the relationship. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Symphony as well over the weekend, which was epic as well. Although what was an epic leaving symphony and when you try and get an Uber and it's, ooh. The surge. It's normally about 20 bucks in my house probably. imagine from that but it was $81 when I had a look at it and that wasn't the end of

Cynthia was walking ever an option for her I know you like a long distance walk well it was for me my family and not you know my wife and daughter who were with at the end probably not as much but we did walk get some food and then I thought maybe it'll come down didn't come down much far up yeah it's crazy how it's even if you can get one exactly yeah so Cynthia of the weekend but what was the most well embarrassing it was actually embarrassing for me but more embarrassing for my friend as well. We were walking across the road to Symphony on our way there and I was, you know, I was a responsible

adult that night. He said he had to have a conversation with himself Saturday morning about what went on Friday night. Yeah, I caught up some mates with some beers, you know, on Friday afternoon. You over-indulged. Probably did. And then, of course, we got about the family for dinner and it was good, but, you know, when I was, you know, his family with the kids and stuff like that as well, we'd gone out and then end up doing sarky shots with some random next table because of his

birthday. And I was like, why am I here? What am I doing this? children who were like, do you want to slow down? No, because I came back later. They're like, what did you do more shots? My daughter's went, no, he's okay. Were you operating on a different level at dinner? Yeah, yeah. My daughter's like, no, leave him me, leave me.

Dad's going to sit this one out. Like, fair enough, fair enough. So next morning I'm like, no, I'm going to be good at symphony. So it was, it was, didn't drink at all. It was fine, had great time. It was awesome. It's amazing, symphony. But what was kind of awkward is we arrived with some friends

who are walking across the road and one of my friends she was wearing like a long, I guess a long skirt that sort of went down towards the ground. You know when you walk close to someone the skirts that go towards the sky? Oh sorry, I mean, like quite close to the ground I mean, so you know like it's not a mini skirt scenario. It's one thing just about it's one that goes

close to the ground, Megan, close to a floor. A long skirt. Yeah, a long skirt. A ground facing skirt. Yeah, yeah. You know where the ground is Megan? Well, this was close to the ground And this is pivotal for the story because you know when you sometimes walk behind people and you're close in front of somebody you sometimes stand on the back of a jandal or a shoe

or whatever it is. I stood on the back of her skirt. Ground facing skirt. So it wasn't a dress, it was a skirt. It was an elastic waistband? Yes. So ground facing skirt, a shoe onto the skirt. And he sort of digs into the ground

and that sort of stopped there. And as she walked forward walking. She down-trailed her. Yes, she did. And yeah. And that was like one of those situations where I'm like, I am so sorry. And she's like, did you see him? And we're like, no, no, but you did.

Did you saw. Oh, yeah. I didn't get into panic situation. But you're like, no, it was fine. He saw, but he didn't digest. No, no. I wouldn't put that in a bank. No, but you're like, of course, because you thought was there.

You're like, oh, yeah, and it was all on display. But it was all like. How far did the waistband go down? Probably mid sort of butter, meant to low butter. range of G-string sort of you know like yeah and I was like oh this is like and we're close friends so we're like we'd laugh about it but at the same time you're like I'm so sorry you're even closer now with our witnesses people are around in the facility as well and you're like they're all on the way in as well and I'm like oh this is this is humbling for her you know and I'm not even like three sarkis deep or anything I'm sober so yeah he put this in our run sheets so he's saying he had a skirt incident and uh that is a sentence that never ends well incident. Exactly. Well, investigation pending and good luck.

Look, Easter's coming up. It's not that far away. And it was a little pre-Easter celebration. My son met up with one of his friends. Yeah. And their mom did like a little Easter egg hunt. It was very cool. And then she'd got these little...

Do you know one year I hid the Easter eggs in the exhaust pipe of the car? Couldn't find them in there. And I forgot they were in there the next morning. They're shooting out. They don't find them. find them in the exhaust pipe. At least they don't like suck it up. You would have been in trouble.

But I went to their house and they'd got like these little ceramic eggs that you can paint. So after they'd like done the hunt, they were painting the ceramic eggs. They were all sitting around a table, parents and kids, right? And then the kids got distracted. They went off to play. They're eating the rest of eggs. They're like away from the table. So all us parents are just like sitting around the table chatting with the leftover

craft. Decrative eggs, okay. And I was like, I'm going to paint me an egg because it seems like fun. Was this a competition situation where best egg wins, you know, some sort of... No, but in my mind it was. Yeah, I was going to say, you would have turned it into a competition. Sometimes these kids need to learn a lesson, don't they? Yeah.

So I don't know if this is on the nose, but everyone, it was just all sitting there. So I pulled over all the crafts to me. Right. And while all the parents having adult conversation, I'm sitting there painting one of the eggs. And there was like, attaching. and ears and sparkles, I was hitting at heart. This is the Sistine Chapel of Decorative Easter eggs. Yeah, to the point where I could hear the conversation going on.

And in my mind, I'm like, maybe you should join in a little bit. But I was concentrating. I was going to dialed in. All by yourself too, were you? Well, I was at the table with the parents. But not, but not. But no, they weren't participating. And I'd pulled all the crafts.

I'd pulled all the crafts over there. I know. I'd pulled all the crafts over to me. So I'd put like sparkles, this creation, this edge. clearly won. It was like epic. Not a competition. CEO says,

and how old were the kids? They're five years old. Surely they get some sort of... Well, like four and five. Yeah, like surely they get some sort of competition because they're four or five. You know, surely that bumps up what they do. Why?

They do they do crafts all the time. They should be better at it. I don't do it that often. So I'd made this beautiful creation right and I'd used all the sparkles. I'd hit it hard with the add-ons. Then the kids decide to come back to the table. And that's when they're like, where's all the sparkles?

Where's all the paint gone? We were only halfway through our works and you've used them all. I was like, oh, there's no more sparkles. I did use them all and they were like, where's the ears? And I was like, well, I used the last couple. I'm having to explain. Did they turn on you? The kids were really upset.

Yeah, I understand why. And so then all the parents had to be like, oh, it's okay. I'm like, oh my God, I've used all the kids. But you're like, look how good this one looks, guys. This is what you could aspire. It's like, Bastie, you can have this one. Look how amazing it is. It's all first place.

First place is over here. Who thinks it's first place? Also, you should focus. Don't leave the table until you're done. And then you move on to the next activity. Another valuable life lesson. Mommy's going to eat it. Mommy's going to use it.

They're four years old. They're four and five years old. You lied in an Easter egg coloring in competition. He lied about his age. I was a kid. I was a kid at the time. At least I wasn't entering the egg in an actual competition. I just tick the box.

So I was like, hey, what was age groups? I think it was like, I think at the time I was between 7 and 11, and there was an under 7. I was like, that drawing looks more of an under 7 category. So I'll just take the only box. Did it take out the... It took it out. I think I wanted to get my sister to go out and go and claim my prize.

I'm surprised you didn't walk in with your hands up and be like, arrest me. I feel guilty. I think many years later, we rang back the New World of Master to just to apologize. Yeah. No, like, ladies, I don't know, I won't work here. That's fine. Those milky bars didn't taste good. tasted of guilt.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. My family. Friends of ours, you know, they've separated and that's, that happens. And I've went through that with my parents. And that's, you know, sometimes I think it's not a bad thing because in the end people can be a lot happier, which is good. And we're trying to talking about that with them.

Were there any, like, advantages to your parents going their separate ways? Like, obviously. Two Christmases. Two Christmases was a good one. That was a good one. take that take that and each were they each trying to out

impress each other yeah for a while there they were oh yeah so that was good that was good play them off against each other oh yeah so yeah

so that happens and we were talking about that with the kids the other night as well and then they started going down the road of what would happen if Amanda and I spit up oh cherry

and I was sort of sitting on the sidelines as they got quite in depth with the conversation like oh who would move out of the house oh dad would move out of the house Was your wife joining in? No, she was sort of like... Oh yeah, no, he'll go here and I'll do this, then you'd be worried.

She was sort of an observer like, we're watching on the sidelines. Oh, they were talking to each other. Yeah, they were sort of, they really picked up the ball and ran with it. They decided I was moving out. I was like, okay, fine. And then they were like... He seems like the type of guy would have to move out. Like move out the ball buster.

Yeah, move him out. I could see you. Where could I see you in sort of a lonely little one bedder apartment? Oh, well, they had apartment. Partment was good. They were really selling the apartment, like some sort of, by a real estate agent, they were like, that would be a nice apartment, dad,

you'd get your apartment to be nice and clean and tidy. I'm like, okay, talk to me more about this apartment. They thought an apartment building with a gym as well too, one of those ones, car parking. So they've got over the trauma and the hurt feelings of the divorce, and now they're straight to the facilities. Yeah, so they're like a nice sort of two bedroom apartment. I'm like, okay, they were kind of selling me on it.

I'm like, yeah, that sounds nice. You know, that I think how clean you could keep it and all that sort of stuff, I'm like, and then I thought, oh, hang on, No, just like them just saying you'd be out. You're on your way. They've come to terms with that. Do they ever mention how often they'd come and see you?

No. Yeah, was that extra bedroom for them or? No, I don't know. I don't know, actually. You're right. They're just sort of phasing me out or not. It happens when people have like conversations of things that may or may not happen. Everyone growing up, I had that friend with the bloody divorced dad in an apartment.

You know? It seems like rules of morals. We're a little fast and loose. And that solo dad. Dad's house. Yeah, I'm saying I'm my dads. Should we go out of the week? Yeah.

Dinner was optional. Sometimes dads didn't even know they were coming. Yeah, come and they'll be like, yeah, we're starting at dads. And dad would be like, I had no idea that was happening. It was just used as an excuse. It sounds like you're going to be there, dad. Watch the space, guys. Watch the space.

Now, I mentioned, you know, a couple of times, you know, over the last 12 months. My wife had back surgery last year. She had spinal surgery. And I, she's a lot better now. She's doing like strength and conditioning and stuff. But for time and time, forget about the fact. forget about the fact that she's had that. You do.

Well, you know, like, forget about it. When you're getting it to do a million tasks for the day. Walk faster, come on. And this is one of these moments. Yesterday I was on, I'm like, just need to get stuff done. Sort of, you know, ticking stuff off my list. You're in the zone. Family all out with me.

I'm like, oh, we're just, everyone's slowing me down. I'm just like, come on guys. Bloody family dragging me down. It's just get it, hustle. Do it. And then just get back to it. What everyone else wants to be doing, which is not these things right now. What are you getting in hustling and do it?

Oh, we just had to go across to the more. the more we had to get a couple of things so we're going across roads and stuff like, the family and we're like, got to get some stuff. We had like a list about three or four things. I always say hurry so we can chill. That's a great idea. And this was like just get into one of those situations.

Should you have just done this as a solo mission, you believe? Oh, it would have preferred it as a solo mission, don't you? Yeah, it would have been fine as a solo mission. But anyway, we're about to cross the road and it was, you know, it was busiest road, but at that stage it was clear. And I was like, guys, we can just go now. And so, and everyone went to go. and my wife, who, you know, I've forgotten her head back splurgy.

Had a broken back. She had obviously, she used to be doing strength and conditioning, but not so much sprint work. As she took off, it was like she'd been shot by a sniper, you know. And I was across the road. I'd safely got across when I had to look back, and I was like, she was mid-road holding her back. And I was like, just as a moment, I'm like, well, I'm safe here.

The kids are safe. And she's, the cars covered. There's cars. So she's in the middle of the road. Oh, she's just having a little, like, spasm. Yeah, back spasm basically. It's a thing. Oh, she's like, come on, come on.

You can do it. It's like one of those war movies. Yeah, it's like. Just keep walking. And then all I had to go kind of out there. And I'm like, well, I'm not having a carrier like across the thing. What did you do? Just you just sort of help her across the road like an elderly lady.

Yeah, no, she's like. Did she get a whack? Yeah, pretty much. It was all my fault as well, too. It's like, poor thing, you know, I'm like, take it. Come on, we can go on. go, let's do it now. He's like, today on the to-do list he's taking

him to the track, getting those 100 meters sprints up. We need to get some sprits up. The standing starts, we need to just get going, all right? Amanda. She had to deal with that, so he's back a little bit after that. Literally he's back. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's...

Yesterday after the show about the singer Ray, about how she put a little plaque up on the wall outside her boyfriend's favorite pub, ex-boyfriend's favourite pub. So every time he goes for a drink, he'll be reminded of her. She said her heart was broken at that pub.

That's some high-level revenge there. It is. I love that. Some petty stuff. Because anyone would be like, hey, mate, your name's over here. It's probably happening to assign yourself to a new pub situation, I'd imagine.

Great idea as well. Obviously, a location of interest for their relationship, though, is it? Location of interest. Yeah, a location of interest. Do you know where I need a plaque? why did you drop the music are we still talking about Ray?

If you had released on from Ava If you had released a song I'd start playing your work A location of interest for us I'd quite like a plaque there When Andrew and I My husband started going out

He could only drive automatic Right I need a man who needs to I know he's how to work a clutch I had a red MX5 convertible. I remember that car. Yeah. Racy little job, wasn't it?

And we took it to the warehouse Albany in the car park, and I taught him to drive a manual. Oh, sweet. Now, what you don't know is we mock Megan consistently for Andrew being significantly younger than her. What don't they know? Well, if they don't know so. we've told you many times.

If you've just joined the show, if you've just joined the show. Because in my head, I imagine, she picked her up from after school, but it's not quite like that. He wasn't at school. When you met him, he wasn't at school. No. God, I don't. Put her in the files. No.

So that's the location of interest for your relationship. He was like 20. Yeah, yeah. And he couldn't drive him in your side. And kids these days, why don't need to? No, no, no, no. I said kids these days. Sorry, Andrew, great.

And now you sentence, kids these days. Yeah, that's right. Not related. Don't know how to drive a manual. Where was the location where you taught him to tie up his shoelaces? Have you got these written down? Do I need to just wait while you get it all out? No, we won't.

We will stop now. We will stop this. But that's good. And so did he nail it first go? No. There's a few bunny hops. Well, I suppose if you haven't done it before. So if you go to the warehouse in Albany now, you're like,

Oh, that's where I taught you to drive a manual? Yeah, it was in the, like, you know, there's an underground parking book, so it's a little bit secluded. Yeah. We should put a plaque up there. Yeah, we should. We're Megan toward her husband, who's significantly younger than her. Driver manual.

So that's what we want to know in your relationship. Where is your location of interest? Something that you go to, you see, and you're like, oh, that brings back memories or good memories? Yeah, bad memories? Bad memories? First Kiss or anything like that. where you can call us, 0800 the hits, 4487, as the text number as well,

and tales of, you know, siblings, they're kind of the people who can deeply love you but also try to decapitate you with a trampoline in the afternoon. Beat you up with love. Ben, we've got a little bit of a surprise from sibling survivors. Oh, yeah, okay, so it's obviously a... Do you recognise this voice? Hello, Benjamin.

That's your sibling. Oh, Benjamin. Hello, Amelia. The favourite. The favourite. child. You're the favourite child, Amelia, right? My sister, Amelia.

Who apparently you traumatised in your younger years. Well, you know, we get on great you and me, Amelia, but we did have, you know, like all siblings, I think we had our moments, didn't we? We definitely did, yeah. Amiga knows a little bit about it at all. I wind megan up a lot the same way as I wound you up a lot as a kid. Oh, God, Amelia, you poor thing.

I feel sorry for you. What's the longest lasting scar, Amelia, if you were to pick one? I wouldn't say scar. As long as lasting, how long my hair had to grow was about a year before it, I finally was able to tie it up again. What did you do?

Oh, yeah, we were making... No, I want to hear it from Amelia. You explain it, yeah. Yeah, well, we thought it would be real cool to make those things that used to get in the, when you went over to CG and you had the little, the cotton wrapped around, you know, around the... Oh, yeah.

I was putting it on to Amelia's here. Yeah. He had made me a really nice one, and then he didn't like it, so he just dropped it off at the... Well, I couldn't get it off. The knot was too tight. I was like, oh, we'll just chop it off. And you had a little stump of hair growing for a little bit up the frown. Yeah, but he, on all conditions, he said I wasn't allowed to tell some of what had happened

because he didn't want me to get him to get in trouble. So he proceeded to tell me to make up something. So he made up that the goat that I had at the time had jumped on my back and chewed my hair. And that's why I had like a mohawk. Was that the first stop in the brainstorm, was it? Are there any other options? Complex goat story. This will do.

Just roll with that. And mum was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense because I didn't have a goat. So she believed me, but I had to have a hair clip for about maybe six months every day for school. Did you look like little, Phil in Little from the Rugrats? Yeah, pretty much. And it was right on my part line as well. Oh, couldn't hide it. That dastardly goat.

Did anyone at school notice? Well, I think I had told maybe my friends that, My brother had told me to lie. But, yeah, I think I don't remember the ridicule, but yeah. Now, there's no way Jenny Bullish your mum was, she did not. Surely not. I know, but mum, I think you're just going along with stuff. I told her many years later.

Yeah, and she was like, oh, I didn't realize all that. Great goat's storyline. Love it. Hey, well, there you go. Thank you so much, Amelia. Well, imagine there's more, Amelia. We could probably bring this back another day. I'm sure that would like therapy.

Locked in the attic, having to climb down the drain pipe. Okay, that's wrap it up there. That's wrap it up there, guys. That's wrap it up. Ben, you're seven. I didn't think you've got to climb down the drain pipe. It was just a gag locking in the... But anyway, that's it.

What did he do to your Lion King posters? He used to steal them. And he told my Michael Jackson poster on the Badger Wall. I had that one back. And the R. Kelly one. And I'm like, that's fine. I go on your media. I think there is a part two in this as well.

Yeah. You're back. All right. I'll have a thing. Oh, geez. All right, love you. Bye. See you go, Ben's sister.

Ben's sibling, Amelia. Sibling Survivor. What a heroic tale. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's. We met a mate after work Friday. And so bearing of mind, I want to set the conditions.

We're finished for the day. Us? You know, we're knocked off midday from our work duties here. That's like weekends begun. Amen. He's still in the thick of the work day. Okay, so we're catching up for lunch. And we're walking to the location.

I know where this is. He's power walking. He's like really powerful. He turns to me. He's like, you're a doodler. You are a doodler. I'm not a doodler. We talk about that all the time.

We often stand there waiting for you and you're like, wander back, you smile at people, you know, the thing. We have to, like, when we're at the Wheatbex Triathlon, there's a lot of people, and we want to chat, and that's great. But sometimes we have to get places. Just smile and like, and you stop. And we always have to give you a pet talk and say, walk with people. We need to get there in charge, you know, this is a lot of talk.

Like, don't look around. It's like Joe Biden. We keep saying. You just walk in, shuffling along. Even when someone's waiting to get a photo. You can say, hiding for one and be friendly. Waiting to get a photo and we're like, come on, Jono and you dawdle over, by all means, move at a glacial pace. Yeah.

Yeah, the people are like, we go arms, and I come over. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Saunter over. That's two metres. That's two metres. So I haven't even asked the question. You've already given me the answer. Well, you did.

You said, am I dawn on? We said, yeah, and we've talked about this before, 100%. That's great, though. Like, I don't think you've got high blood pressure. No, I don't. like sanging around like especially after work Friday too I am probably dithering

I'd even put myself in a dithering category as well so there we go this was really frustrating to him who was like he was on the clock he just needed to get back to work I felt like the lunch was a big inconvenience in his work day to be honest you know when you're like

to friends let's catch up in the middle of the week the middle of the day and we'll you know we'll have lunch both of you are like don't really need this I don't really I can't imagine you'd be a lunchtime catch up goal I've been like catching up with people but I'm probably the same We've got stuff to do afterwards. Yeah.

It's kind of like, oh, yes, you know. I have a small window around lunchtime where I get stuff down before I have to go get the kids. So will you catch up with people in that small window? No. No. It's a part of the job of being an adult is you spend your time avoiding other adults, don't you? Yeah. It's pretty much.

Mr. Troy, welcome on in. Morning. Lovely to have you here. I'm going to be here. Geez, on Friday, you sent me some audio. You had confided in us that you weren't a huge fan of a meal that was consistently being cooked in your household. A pretty regular chicken and leak pie.

Yeah. Now, you said, I don't really like it, but I don't know how to approach it. And all of us said, don't say anything. Just suffer in pain until age 96. You said, take it to my grave. Yeah, take it to your grave. Do not offend someone who's cooked a meal for you consistently, weekly. The trouble, as you were saying, it's not just one night a week.

Because it's a pie. It's a big pie. And it's just two of us, so it's lunches and dinners for two or three days. to kind of say something at some stage. Yeah. And I thought Friday was a good opportunity because I got home. We were in a great mood. We're laughing.

It was sunny. It was sunny. Yep. She's just, you know, had some good news at works. I was like, okay, this is great. Conditions are perfect. This is my moment to bring her down. So how did you bring it in?

Well, she asked what meals we should prep for groceries. We're going to do groceries on Friday afternoon. And I was like, this is a good opportunity. Okay. How about we just take, maybe, could we take a week off the chicken leg pie? Yeah. Pump the brakes on the chicken. jacket.

Why? I said, it's just, we've had it quite a lot recent, like every week. Did you say it like that? Yeah, it sounded like a grow, no. And then she's like, do you not like it? I'm like, what's not that I don't like it? It's just every week.

Yeah, well, you keep saying it with a tone. And then, to make some matters even worse, he hits the record button on his face. Oh, yeah. And as I was kind of fumbling my phone to secretly record it, she asked me, do you hate it? And then I was kind of distracted, and I was like, yes. I mean, no, no, no.

This is the reaction from your partner I'm just sick Come here You're fat and stupid You just chicken I do I told me it was the best one you've made this week That's my chicken leg by not really good

Wow Troy And you got the DFS the dumb fat stupid Yeah Left field Came out of left field Yeah out of nowhere too Can I pull you up?

Your first words are, I feel like you're just about to say, I'm sick of it. Listen. I'm just sick. Come here. I'm just sick of it. Come here. Come here.

Come here. Come here. Give me a hug. Okay. So we want to open up a bit of a confessionable. A confessional. You can be anonymous with it as well, but if you've got a meal, maybe your partner makes or your parents make, you can give us a call right now and just say,

hey, get it out there. Get it off your chest. Yeah, it can be done anonymously. But at least you don't have to take it to your grave. You can chuck it out to the universe. There's probably one that my family would, all they've said to me openly, actually. It's, I make this, I'm really proud of it.

Okay, it's just a big, okay, white bread. It's essentially French toast. Okay, you've lost everything. A big, super thick, top white beer right now. Wait, is this dinner? No, no, it's like a breakfast, but it's essentially like you just soak it an egg, fry it, then I put cheese on top of it.

Oh, yuck. And then I put tomato sauce on top of it, And I love it. Oh, I love it. What is wrong with you? Are you like a toddler? Like that's like... Yes, we've established his palate.

It's very basic. Oh, it's like tomato sauce cheese and white bread. Nothing spicy. That's too spicy. It's like, yeah. It's like, oh my God, maybe... I really love that. What kind of cheese are you putting on it?

Tasty. Tasty. Tasty. Oh, okay, Rich guy. Yeah. Big baller over here with a taste part of a toddler apparently. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Symphony as well. for the weekend, which was epic as well, although what wasn't epic, leaving symphony, and when you try and get an Uber and it's, ooh, the surge. It's not about 20 bucks to my house, probably, I would imagine, from that, but it was $81

when I had a look at it, and that wasn't the end of symphony. Was walking ever an option for you? I know you like a long distance walk? Oh, it was for me, my family and not, you know, my wife and daughter who were with at the end, probably not as much, but we did walk and get some food, and then I thought, maybe it'll come down. I didn't come down much.

Far up. Yeah, it's crazy, yeah, where that happens. Even if you can get one. Exactly. Yeah. So Cynthia of the weekend. But what was the most, well, embarrassing. It was actually embarrassing for me, but more embarrassing for my friend as well.

We were walking across the road to Synthony on our way there. And I was, you know, I was responsible at all that night. He said he had to have a conversation with themselves Saturday morning about what went on Friday night. Yeah, I caught up some mates with some beers, you know, on Friday afternoon. You over-indulged. Probably did. And then, of course, we got with the family for dinner. And it was good.

But, you know, when I was, you know, his family of the kids and stuff like that as well, we'd gone out. And then end up doing sarky shots with some random next table because of his birthday. And I was like, why am I here? What am I doing this? Was there your children? Or were like, do you want to slow down? Yeah. No, because I came back later.

They said, what'd you do more shots? And my daughter's went, no, he's okay. Cut him out. Were you operating on a different level at dinner? Yeah, yeah. My daughter's like, no, leave him be, leave him. Dad's going to sit this one out. I'm like, fair enough.

Fair enough. So next morning, I'm like, No, I'm going to be good at Symphony. So it was. It didn't drink at all. It was fine. Had great time. It was awesome.

It's amazing symphony. But what was kind of awkward is we arrived with some friends who were walking across the road. And one of my friends, she was wearing like a long, I guess a long skirt that sort of went down towards the ground. You know when you walk close to someone. Go towards the sky. Oh, sorry. I mean, like quite close to the ground. Okay.

So, you know, like it's not a mini skirt scenario. It's one thing just above. It's one that goes close to the, close to the sky. the ground, Megan, close to a foot. A long skirt. Yeah, a long skirt. A ground facing skirt. Yeah.

You know where the ground is, Megan? Well, this was close to the ground. And this is pivotal for the story because you know when you sometimes walk behind people and you're close in front of somebody you sometimes stand on the back of a jandal or a shoe or whatever it is. Uh-oh. I stood on the back of her skirt. Ground-facing skirt.

So it wasn't a dress. It was a skirt. A skirt. With an elastic waistband? Yes. So ground facing skirt, a shoe onto the skirt. But my, and he sort of digs into the ground and that sort of stopped there. And as she walked forward, he got, you down-trailed him.

Yes, she did. And, yeah, and that was like one of those situations where I'm like, I am so sorry. And she's like, did you see him. And we're like, no, no, but you did. Did you? You saw. Oh, yeah, did. I mean, I didn't get into panic situation.

But you're like, no, it was fine. And he saw, but he didn't digest. No. I wouldn't put that in a bank. No, but you're like, of course, because you're. Before it was there, you're like, what's that? Oh, yeah, and it was all, it was all on display. But it was all like...

How far did the waistband go down? Probably mid sort of butt, meant to low buttocks range, G-string, sort of, you know, like, yeah. And I was like, oh, this is like, and we're close friends, so we're like, we'd laugh about it. But at the same time, you're like, I'm so sorry. You're even closer now. Were there witnesses? Yeah, well, there's some people are around in the facility as well, and you're like, they're all on the way in as well, and I'm like, oh, this is, this is humbling for her, you know?

And I'm not even, like, three sarkies deep or anything. stage I'm sober. When you put this in our run sheets, he's saying he had a skirt incident, and that is a sentence that never ends well. It's a skirt incident. Well, investigation pending, and good luck. Yeah, that's my story. Second to it.

Next, though, we caught up with someone who's doing something pretty incredible. Done it for over 50 days. Yeah, I don't know how much longer they can continue with it. Going nationwide, and it's blown up the internet. We'll get them on next on the hits. You've got hiccups, Sam, again. Yeah, sorry. It's been lying.

But yeah, you're nothing but a liar. I'll go with me hiccups. Your husband's theory is if you start hiccuping, you've been fibbing. So have you been lying this morning? Always. Always. Yeah, great. It's radio.

That's all we do. So, well, this isn't a lie. This was a horrific moment last night. Absolute shocker of a sleep. I don't know why, but the dog has decided I'm the guy that gets him up in the middle of the night and takes him out for a pee. And so he will, like, gently sort of jump on the bed and gently. tapped my forehead with his poor.

Oh, that's so cute. And we get up to all sorts of stuff in the night. He joins me when I'm, you know, sort of fosicking around three in the morning. But he tapped me on the head, and so I was like, okay, toilet time. Must be time to get up. Get up, let him out. Coffee. Triple shot a, triple shot of coffee.

Can you stop, like the sound effects, bro? Like, I'm trying to tell a serious story here. So what time is this again? I didn't know. I pounded back the triple shot coffee. then I looked up at the clock. It was five past midnight. Five past midnight.

Last night. And the panic said it. Stop her cupping, mate. Really distracting when I'm trying to do some serious radio. Highbrow stuff here. That's not serious. And you're over there going. It's just him being an idiot like, not checking the time.

Did you go back to sleep? Well, I panicked. Yeah, because I wanted to get back to sleep before the caffeine said it. I'll give up I'll get up You don't need to head She's railroaded It's all you're in your body function

Yeah, always just A man talk for a change Yeah When are we going to get to say something Oh geez Yeah No I'm not sorry anymore I don't always said that

That was sorry No it was necessary Ben She needed to hear it John O'Binn and Megan The podcast That's I think yesterday after the show About the singer Ray

about how she put a little plaque up on the wall outside her boyfriend's favourite, a favourite pub, ex-boyfriend's favourite favourite pub. So every time he goes for a drink, he'll be reminded of her. She said her heart was broken at that pub. That's some high-level revenge there. It is. I love that. Some petty stuff.

Because anyone would be like, hey, mate, your name's over here. It's probably happening to assign yourself to a new pub situation, I'd imagine. Great idea as well. Obviously a location of interest for their relationship. Location of interest. Yeah, a location of interest. Do you know where I need a plaque? Why did you drop the music?

Are we still talking about Ray? No, Ray, we moved on from A. If you had released a song, I'd start playing your work. A location of interest for us. I'd quite like a plaque there. When Andrew and I, my husband, started going out, he could only drive automatics. Right.

You know, like, I need a man who needs to, I know he's how to work a clutch. Sorry, I mean, I had a red MX5 convertible. I remember that car. Yeah. Racy little job, wasn't it? And we took it to the warehouse Albany in the car park, and I taught him to drive a manual. Oh, sweet. Now, what you don't know is we mock Megan consistently for Andrew being significantly younger than her.

Yeah. What don't they know? well if you don't know so we've told you many times if you've just joined the show if you've just joined the show because in my head I imagine she picked her up from after school

but it's not quite like that he wasn't at school when you met him he wasn't at school no God put her in the files no

so that's the location of interest for your relationship he was like 20 and I couldn't he couldn't drive him in your side and These days. They don't need to.

Don't need to. Sorry, you should take kids these days. Sorry, Andrew, great. And now you sentence, kids these days. Yeah, that's right. Not related. Don't know how to drive a manual. Where was the location where you taught him to tie up his shoelaces?

Have you got these written down? Do I need to just wait while you get it all out? No, we won't. We will stop now. We will stop this. But that's good. And so, do they nail it first go? There's a few bunny hops.

Well, I suppose if you haven't done it before. So if you go to the warehouse in Albany now, You're like, oh, that's where I taught you to drive a manual? Yeah, it was in the, like, you know, there's an underground parking book, so it's a little bit secluded. Yeah. We should put a plaque up there. Yeah, we should. We're Megan toward her husband who's significantly younger than her.

Driver manual. So that's what we want to know in your relationship. Where is your location of interest? Something that you go to or you see and you're like, oh, that brings back memories or good memories? Yeah, it doesn't have to be like first kiss or anything like that. Guys, tell you what, I feel like a bit of a monster. I have to set the scene. It's 1145 yesterday, Monday morning.

Kay, just gone to pack and say I've purchased some wildly overpriced beef mints. Right. Now I'm walking out and the sun was pounding down yesterday. So it's a race against time to get this meat back into refrigeration. I get stopped by two lovely sweet Bible ladies. And they said, can we ask you a question? I said, sure. They said, would you mind if we did a performance of the Bible for you?

And it's rude to ask a performer going, you know, how long's this? You did that to our friend Dan in the middle of his concert, in the middle of late Miss. I did. He texted him at a half time, which is the worst thing you can do to a performer. Who's got to perform in the second half go, hey man, how long is the second half? Oh no. Yeah, so you've already done it. You've got to your track record.

I do. Yeah. No, I think your biggest mistake in this is when they say, hi, can we ask you a question? That's when you need to say, I'm so sorry. I'm really busy. You're right. You've got to cut it off straight. Yeah, shouldn't have engaged.

You've got to stick around for the performance. You know, it's the most stolen book in the world, the Bible. I heard that the other day. Is it? Oh, I'm not surprised. Well, it's always in motels and hotels, isn't it? Yeah. Hell of a read.

Hell of a read. There we go. So thank you to those losers. Hopefully one day I'll see them do their performance of the Bible. Jono Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. I had a moment, I had a Jono moment, basically. I felt like, you know, we talk about moments that Jono had.

You just like, you told the painter I, You love you. Those sort of moments seem to happen to you quite regularly. They do. Yeah, daily. Daily basis. So, I tried to make a new friend in the elevator yesterday called Joe, who works in the building, another level, and Megan ruined that friendship immediately. What floor are you on, Joe? And then Megan said, well, clearly the floor that he's pushed on the elevator to go to. That was great point, Megan. Joe didn't want to talk to you. I was trying to save Joe. I lost Joe.

And I had a moment, yeah, I was like enough to go away with a family on a Disney cruise. Did you? Yeah. I should have said something. I didn't tell you beforehand, so you're a bit salty about it because I didn't want to be like, oh, look at me, off I go. No, that's, I wouldn't be fine. But you wait, when he comes back, you're worried.

I'll keep talking about it. Won't mention it beforehand, but I'll keep bringing it up now. I'll rub your face in it after. Jesus was good, guys. Jesus is good. Oh, you should have seen the things I did. Yeah, away with the family. And there was a few other people from Australia and New Zealand over in the sort of group

that we were with, that make, work in the media, but make sort of content on social media as well. And I'd met a few of these Australians the day before. And chatting to one guy, and he was like, I'm here with my wife and my kids. And, you know, we're having a great time on the cruise. And so I ran into him a little bit later. He was lounging by the pool area. And I said, oh, hi.

And it said hi to his kids. They was lying next to the lounger. And next to him was his wife very close. And then there was no one else for any other loungers. So they were a family unit. Yeah, the four of them all together. Tidy unit. It's together.

So I said, hi to him, hi to the kids. And I hadn't met the wife. So I said, hey, I'm Ben. Nice to meet you. And then I started making small talk. And she wasn't giving me much. But frosty. This is a bit frosty.

She's somebody thing. Yes, but it's like, how's your cruise going? You know, like, all did the standard banter. What's been your favorite thing you've done so far? Oh, I just rode the roller coast. That was fun. Like, she was giving me very little. And she in talks?

Yeah, she was in talks. Yeah. She was in togs. What were you wearing? Togococ? No, I wasn't wearing towels. No, so it's probably like a single shorts. The clothing's uneven.

Yeah, I was chatting away. And then after a little bit, she kind of got up and kind of left. And I was like, that was interesting. It was interesting conversation. Then I turned to the guy next to which I, you know, the husband. And he went, I don't know that lady. It was like, we were lying down at the lounges and, yeah, my kids arrived and it sort of kicked me over one. And I just ended up next to her quite close.

said it was alright if I'm here and she's like that's fine didn't say anything to her the whole time and I had presumed that she was married to him and then afterwards I was like oh oh I just looked like I was maybe trying to hit on her or something like going over how's your cruise going oh I've had a you know who's this got who's this creep talking to be in togs on a Disney cruise though that guy should have been like oh that's on my wife straight away yeah he could have saved you he did say I was just really had the moment I was going to jump in There was many moments. Like just jump in and go.

Were you awkward rambling? He's like, where do I jump in? Yeah, I was like, crucial. I've just been telling her all about my roll again. She was a cool story, bro. How long have you guys been married or anything? Nothing. Didn't get to that point.

Just a conversation about what's your favourite thing? I was like, I am getting nothing from her. And now I understand why. So definitely did a Jono. No. No. My husband is Romeo in Ann Juliet. We can't change the original Shakespeare.

That feels like that's, Far gone. But there's a new version that they're about to perform. It's going to be all around the country. Yeah, it's an Auckland-Wallington Christchurch. It's a jukebox musical, which means you know all the songs, Katie Perry, Pink and all that. But Andrew is Romeo.

And in this one, it's all about Juliet if she had lived and moved on with her life. Great premise. She moves on from Romeo. So I wasn't expecting there to be any kissing. So this is a play that's tour of the world. It's a script that has been around for a while. and we wanted to make some last-minute script changes to his kissing scenes.

So obviously, I mean, it's a given Romeo needs to kiss too late in some form at some point in the place. Well, some sort of interaction. I mean, maybe we can see if, you know, something's better than a kiss. Yeah. So we were trying to help our Megan out and save her marriage.

You know, we can't have her not concentrating on the radio show if she's going through a bitter divorce. You know, we need Megan here. This is a cockpit. You know, we're in a cockpit here and we need to all be concentrating. It needs to be a sterile cockpit at all times. Like, concentrate on the flight.

I'm not sure I quite get your analogy, but anyway, okay. We can't be bringing our personal issues to the show. So Andrew Pappas joins us now, aka Romeo. Good morning. We're for out there right now, Romeo. Where are you? What's going on? How are we going, team?

How are we going? We're going all right. Now last night we came along. You guys had a bit of a dress rehearsal, a bit of a showcase, and we ran some scenes with you and Juliet. Some alternating things that the listeners that helped us come up with. We had you dabbing, we had your high-fiving, we had your fist-bumping, we had you eating cans of tuna so your breath smelled.

What did you think of our options? Look, guys, I think what we've learned here is that everyone just needs to stay in their lane, I think. I won't tell you guys how to push the buttons and talk, and maybe you guys leave us to the creative side. Some of those offers you guys had, I don't think anyone's going to be winning a Tony Award for those rewrites. So we try, I mean, we, to be honest, we had an ulterior motive to stop you from kissing her. That was our game plan and has it worked? Have they made these script changes?

There was another one, Ben put two COVID masks on you and we got you to kiss with the COVID masks on. That was a bit triggering. It's not really reading, hey, not really reading. Okay, so you didn't take it away and talk to the team, the directors, the producers and, you know, sort of workshop it some more? They've looked, they've seen the offers and they've gone, look, thank you so much, but it's a no thing. thank you for today. Well, that's what I say about our marriage. Thank you so much, but it's a no.

Thank you. Hey, look, babe, every night, every night I'll be coming home to you, all right? After kissing other women. I'll give you more than a kiss. Oh, there we go. I'll tell you what, why don't you say, when you are kissing those women, you're thinking of Megan? Literally what I'm thinking about.

I'm thinking about the thousands of people looking at him on the stage. But then after that, he'll be like, he'll give you a little. little thought. Can you please tell everyone, everyone messages in how insecure and needy I am on the text machine. Can you please tell them I'm not? Look, everyone, this is what I have to deal with on a daily basis. I'm so much trouble.

See ya. Thank you so much for hearing me out, guys. I feel really seen right now. Also, he's on the way to go to an opposition radio station. So see you later. If you go. Bye. All right.

Thank you so much, Andrew. That divorce might be coming sooner than we thought. I thought it was going to at least see out the tour. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. Well, speaking of eating, you know, we went to Wellington on the weekend for the weekbooks triathlon yesterday. It's fun day, fun morning, as it always is. But, you know, we arrived.

The flight was delayed a couple of times, and we arrived to semi-late. And you two were like, oh, we'll just get a, you know, Uber or something to the room. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, it was like 8 o'clock or whatever. Yeah, Uber. It was dinner time. Yeah.

It was in the dinner time. And so I was like, oh, I'll just go. There was a sort of a restaurant bar area in the four of the hotel. I was like, okay, I'll just go there. And so I'm sitting there. just all of my lonesome just waiting and lovely family next to me

they're from the Cook Islands and they were having a family celebration of an auntie's birthday and they must have felt I looked like a bewildered lost old man you know when you see an old man sort of standing in the middle around about and you're like oh the dear fella he's he's got loose from the retirement village you need to take care of them yeah and they're like come and dine with us had you chatted to them beforehand

I just said hello yeah come and die on with that you must and I'm like oh no no I won't interrupt You know, you do that thing because I didn't want to interrupt their family engagement. Eventually, I ended up sitting with them. Of course you did. Yeah, of course he did. Oh, geez, we covered some ground. We covered some ground.

I remember like, oh, God, why would we ask this guy ever? You know what I love, though, is they had a couple of family members turn up a little later, and there was no explanation as to who I was at the table. And I could tell they were looking at me like, have we got a long-lost white cousin? How was this guy fitting into this setup here? He needs like, okay, this is Jono, he's our new friend. You know, it's a big table, though, so they didn't want to stop and go, hey, meet this guy, and I could tell her just trying to have long-lost relative,

how was he tied into this family reunion? So that was lovely. It was a lovely meal with these people. You were so random. I didn't bully myself into that situation. I actually didn't know you were going to eat at the restaurant, too. You could have invited us. We didn't know there was another option.

Oh, it felt like you guys had made your orders in the Uber. That was fun. You could have done as well. Ben ordered himself beers on Uber. That's a great. I've never done. I've never done that before. They come on, they just scan your license,

they check you're not intoxicated and all that stuff. The Uber driver, yeah, which all makes sense. How does he prove you're not intoxicated? I guess they're looking at me. I hadn't had any beers before that. Like walk on this line. But then obviously scan in your license and stuff as well. Jesus, we can just become the laziest species now, can we?

We don't have to do anything for ourselves. You probably pay another two bucks. they'll pour it into your mouth. Come to the room and pour it into your mouth for you. You're right. A little service fee, yeah, yeah. They'll do that for you.