Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - We Took the Station Off Air! | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

What happens when we take the station off air? Why do you lie about what you do for a job? Megan went to donate plasma and tells us about it Can we figure out what this jingle is that Tara has stuck in her head Ben went to the gym and mistook someone for the wrong person Jono had a friend who had his furniture rearranged by a guest? 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. John O'Best, the heads. I saw an Australian radio station do this on social media. Ben and Liam, now, what they did is they did what we all shouldn't do on radio, and that's just stop talking. Do you know, if you ever listen to Marcus Lush, wonderful broadcaster, Marcus Lush,

on News Talks, he'd be nights. He's just, the poor bugger's just on his own and bluff, you know, and he were talking and be like, hello Doreen. Silence for about 10 seconds, you're like, is Marcus okay? Like, is the station off air? And he really stretches out the old dead air.

We don't. We don't. So what they did in Australia is they stopped talking and then they left the studio. And at a certain point, an emergency song is meant to kick in for the radio station. Because the radio station,

the transmitters are like, well, there's no radio coming through. What's going on? To pull back the curtain, there is a light in the studio. So if something's not playing for a certain period of time, the light will flash. So that's the pre-warning. Is that the entree warning? It's a blue light. That's a scary one. And then listen to us try to leave spaces.

And then we usually get alerted and we'll talk again or we'll do something. Okay, so what we are going to do is do what they did. Now, this was Ben and Liam in Australia, and they ended up finding out their song was Shibuzi. Have a listen. There's no going back now, guys. seven six we're about to take this puppy off air three brave we'll see you on the other side god see in about 15 something so far oh god what's it gonna be what's it gonna be what's it gonna be

what's it gonna be shiboozy all right so their emergency song was uh shibuzzi now you might hear different emergency songs and different locations around the country no one without a word of a lie knows what's going to happen. Or you might not hear anything. Also our boss is like, I don't know if they've been updated since the 80s. So we might genuinely get like Madonna or something. Yeah. So we need to know.

We need to know what happens. So we're going to leave the studio in just a moment. We're going to walk out there to the office and listen to the radio out there and see what happens. What song kicks in for us if a song kicks in at all. And you need to tell us on 4487 of what happened in your neighborhood. To really pull the curtain back on the hits network, because it goes throughout the country on different frequencies and different regions and areas.

This could be an absolute nightmare to all sink back up. I know that we won't have to do it. Yeah, okay. Okay, so here we go. Oh, God. Four. All right. Three.

Two. And. Okay, we're going to stop talking. I'm going to start the clock. We're going to stop talking now. We're taking the station off the air, just like they did in Australia. And now. We're back.

We're back, we're back. Okay, 4487 on the text. We need to tell you what song we heard and you need to tell us what you heard. 4487 on the text, so good. You couldn't write a better song. That was a great song. We haven't played that song for years. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

We just did a bit of a social experiment. Ben and Liam, a radio show in Australia, did the same thing. They just stopped talking and they went away from the radio studio to find out what the emergency song, if any, would kick in. And we did the same thing here on the hits. That amount of silence really just leaves you thinking about life decisions, doesn't it? Silence is really deafening. So we left the studio just before and we walked out into the office where the radio was playing the hits.

And then it was silence for probably 45 seconds or so. Now where we were based, this song, this song started kicking in. Love is all around me by a wet, wet, wet, the most unusual name for a band ever. We've got our reaction to it when we heard it over the radio speakers. Is there an emergency track? We're about to find out. Oh! I feel it in my fingers.

Oh, the love is all right. Is it wet, wet, wet, wet. What is it? Is it love is all right? Oh, is this the love actually one? So that was our reaction. But we wanted to know 4487 what happened where you are around the country. Some people heard nothing.

Well, Christchurch, Canterbury, dead air. Just nothing in Canterbury. Northland. Dead air in Fangare. I heart radio, if you're listening. Nothing. They got nothing. Routarua, nothing.

Silence played. Manuatu, nothing. But around some other regions, there were songs and different songs kicked in. If anything, this has been a wonderful exercise for the company to put some songs in Fangare and Canterbury. This will be our defence. It was a great test. I think all the songs now. needs, I need updating.

You know someone said, in New Plymouth, we hear love is all around a lot because it goes off here quite a bit. They could have told us what happens. Warren, happy new year. Happy New Year. What was the emergency song that came on where you are, Waza?

I know, can't think of the name of the song, but it was a really good pink song. Oh, that's Kylie. Yeah, I think this one I played in a couple of regions. Pink, yeah. Don't let me get me. Yeah.

I mean, that's not a bad fellow. If it was all going down, if the ship was going down, I wouldn't mind listen to this. They should really have like sound of silence or something. Hello, dark is my. We're trying to not your attention to it. Taylor, morning to you. Morning to him. Happy New Year.

Where are you? I'm over in Saranaki. And what did you hear? Kylie Minow can't get you out of my head. Oh, that's a good song. So now, sorry, someone texted insane. they hear lovers all around in New Plymouth quite a bit as well. But can't get you out of my head must be the emergency go-to.

I reckon Rickroll should be the emergency go-to team. Oh, Rickroll, never got to give you. Oh, that's great. A bit of Rick Ashley. That's actually really good. We need to update it. You're right, Megan. We need to get a song around the country if it ever happens.

Maybe we should. We need to all vote on what song it is. That's a good idea. And sink it all up. Yeah. Yeah, text 4487, what should be the emergency crisis song if we go off here. Well, thanks so much New Zealand for taking part in that experiment. Hopefully he hasn't messed things up.

It was like one of those civil defence exercises. Did you get the zoo? Did you get the brach, brawag. That's cool. We all went under the desk. We all see how quickly we reacted. Yeah, it was one of those situations. Trying to solve the mystery that Tara got in touch with us.

Now living in Australia, obviously, spend many, many years in New Zealand and had had a jingle, she thinks, stuck in her head for about 10 years. The 10 years, and so she needs this case closed. She's resorted to sending us a very windy whistling rendition of the jingle. Now, the commonality here is that everyone's on board with a da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That's playing the strings on everyone's hearts. It feels very familiar. We've had a lot of great suggestions so far that we feel like we might be closed.

Do you know it, Megan? No, but a lot of people have said the G-J. It's a G-J-G-G. It's a GJ gardener. Okay, so Malia, you're pretty sure it's GJ. Oh, yeah. As I know, they heard it, you know, it's one of those little squirrels that run around in your head. And, yeah, like, it's an overshed.

So, yeah, it's a DJ. It's a DJ. It's a DJ. It's a DJ got to home. Yep, that's the lot. So if we line that up next to the whistle. Could be. Could be. We're going to have to. to call her back and pitch some of these.

And also the fact that her whistle might not be 100% right. Which is, yeah, whistling's tough too. Remember that game, the humdinger or something you've got to do? Which is not whistling, but I'm never good at the humdinger as well. Malia, just do you know that you're talking to the creator of the Novus jingle? Oh, really? Yeah, Ben, that's Ben's. Yeah, well, yeah, it's not, it's something, Megan, I don't know what it is.

Ben's claim to fame, Millia. He wrote that. Would you like him to? He's the one that goes, oh, no, that's. It's not, yeah, well, it's not the novice. I can tell you, it's not the novice jingle. What are your thoughts and feelings about meeting the novice guy, Melia? Oh, very, very impressed.

Oh, thank you. Never had a second album, though. The troubles and second album. What had wonder, eh? Couldn't back it up. What happened to the novice guy? I want to done. Good on you, Malia.

Every good one. Appreciate you joining in this morning. Levi, happy New Year to you. Happy New Year to you, too. Now, we're trying to get to the bottom of this Levi, this mystery jingle for Tara in Australia. What do you think it is, mate? I think it's the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, the start of it. M-I-C-E-Y, yeah.

Oh, I can see how you... Yeah, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E. I'm really crowbar in there, to be honest. Hey, not bad, not a bad suggestion. Yeah, I appreciate it. Let's leave I. One thing's for certain we are going to get to the bottom of this. And if we don't get to the bottom of it, at least we'll get up behind the knees of it.

You know, we're going to solve this. What does that mean? I don't want to reach the bottom. Get to the parts behind the knees. If we're going to get halfway up the hamstrings, I don't know if we're going to be able to close this case. So many texts coming through. Superlicker, country calendar, dog show, theme song. So we'll keep looking on.

Oh, yeah. Flintstones come through. Yeah, Cadbury Creamy. Okay, we need to do some more deep diving. and keep this coming through. Well, the problem is Tara's now burdened us with it. It's been burdening her for over a decade and now the nation's burdened with it.

John O'Bennan meets. She tried to solve a mystery for Tara who got in touch with us. She whistled the tune that's been stuck in her head for 10 years. Imagine just having that in your head for so long that you're now crossing international borders to try and get an answer for it. And that's what she's doing. She's got in touch from Australia.

The Aussies don't have any idea. She's been asking right across. I mean, maybe she's been trying to travel far and wide to get the answer to this. It definitely seems like it's a Kiwi jingle from a while ago that's stuck in her head, so surely we can figure it out. Oh yeah, well, I feel like we're getting close, but I don't know if we're quite an hour, would it? Simmons text here in the 4487. Super.

Super leger. Oh, it could be. Oh, sister you. Nah, not as super. Super leag. Yeah. Feels like you can sing any tunes over the top. Are all jingles just the same jingle?

Yeah. We're slowly starting to figure out. Melissa and Blair. Happy New Year to you both. Hey guys. Good to have you on. You've got a suggestion. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. You think you know what the jingle is. It's just Johno and Dan. Yeah, that's the moment. We'll politely answer to Jono and Dan. Yeah. Antiguan. And when's Mike going to turn up?

Yeah, I was... Tell you what, Blair, you're bloody railroading this, bro. Railroading hard. Do you know the jingle? Just doing my job. Just doing this is what he's come to do, mate. We're staring the ship in a direction. You're taking it off course, Blair.

Do you know the jingle, Blair? No, I don't, anyway. Oh, God. What's that minute? Do you guys think it might be the crown at? Oh, the crowd at. There is nothing like the crown. Or picking it up and putting it down.

I don't know if it's the right tune. That's nice. I don't stop there with the Nova song. Who's that? How good is that, Blair? How good. What Shakespearean author wrote that? It's not really, yeah.

Some poet. Anyway. A Shakespearean author. Well done. Good on you, Blair. I'm going to end this conversation now, Blair. You're a legend. Thank you for calling through.

Weather Heather's standing by from the Met Service. She's coming in to talk about the weather very shortly. But she's saying, turn on my mic. She's like, turn my mic up a bit louder, like Eminem at the beginning of that song. I hear more snare on my headphones. You'll be listening to this because you're a husband. A great jingle writer for many years. I'm iconic.

Yeah. It's not great to live with someone like that, though. What are some of his greatest hits your husband's? Trade Depot. Oh, yeah. Trade Depot, the Cold Out and Z. Made butcher. Oh, wow.

You just can't beat the mad butchers meet. Yeah, you know them all. Okay, so you're very unimpressed. Is that cartridge to you? You're like, I'll listen to it, you know? We do have fun in the spot blocks to see how many jingles. Gotcha, yeah. All right.

Now, you reckon you, you know what, this whistle. Can we hear it again? Okay, this is from our friend Tara in Australia. This is haunted her all the way over to Australia. Now we're trying to think of it. We're like, it sounds familiar, but we can't quite put our finger on it. You reckon you got it. I know.

I exactly know what it is. Do you want me to whistle it? Yeah, you can whistle it. And then it ends with a what? With a what? What is that? It's a very. Baby.

It's a baby. It's a baby. It's a baby factory. And the baby. Oh, the baby factory. The baby factory. Yeah, well done. Did you, is that one from your household, Heather?

Yes, it is. Oh, there you go. You're the perfect person to talk to. Now that will be stuck in my head. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Someone's got in touch with us all the way from Australia,

Someone that was living in New Zealand, though, and they've had something stuck in the head for years, and they need your help. She joins us now from across the ditch. Tara! Hello, how are you? Great. Good to have you on from Australia, up and Adam.

Yes, already at work. What do you do? I am a PhD student. I research genetics. Oh, okay. Genetics, did you say? Yes, I'm actually sitting away in a little RNA extraction room right now, so my boss can't hear me.

Okay. Well, we'll speak quietly, but something's been keeping... I don't know if we need to speak quiet. Oh, you're true. We'll speak normal level, you speak quietly, okay. That's how it works. Thanks for explaining how to phone works. We can all whisper at you all.

So something's been bugging you, something from New Zealand. It's been years that this jingle has been stuck in my head, and I would love to figure out what it is. Now, it's followed you over to Australia, this jingle. You can't get it out of your head. now you've sent us a voice member of you whistling the jingle. Yes. We'll play that down.

Perfect, because I cannot whistle under pressure. Okay, here we go. At the end, it feels familiar, but I can't, I can't think of it. So you think this is a radio or a TV jingle? Where do you think it's from? Sure, it must be radio. Well, it feels familiar, but then a lot of jingles are kind of in there. Oh yeah, da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

How many years ago were you hearing this jingle? Oh, look, it would have been like early 2000s, you know, oh, sorry, like late 2000s, early 2010 when I was a kid. Okay, so, you know, over sort of 16, 17 years, this has haunted you. It's been haunting me. I've been asking people for years. And have you asked many people if they know what it is? I've asked just about everyone that must have grown up in Northland

every time I meet someone. Okay. All right, well, someone listening right now and White-Noy. 4487 on the text. Yeah, it's not ringing any bills for me. Look, no one in Australia has known it. So I'm thinking this is pretty, like, part of me is thinking this is some kind of like farming or fishing

or part of me is like the Northern Regional Council, but I don't think, you know, I don't know. It's haunting you, it's haunting you. All right. Well, you speak at whatever level you want to speak at. We'll speak at the same, and we'll see if we can find out for you. All right, perfect, thank you. Well, try and close this chapter in your life.

I mean, you can't go on with it. it, can you? Without the answers. Oh, look, I would be amazing. It would fill something inside me. She can't move forward. She can't move forward. Okay. Oh, it's so familiar, eh? It's that last bit.

If you're listening right now, 4-4-8-7 on the text, 0-800 the hits. That's helped Tara out and see if we can land on it. Someone's, oh, geez, yeah, thank you so much. The hits audience, really helpful audience. It's already filling up with, is it Fraggle Rock? Is it a placemaker's ad?

A couple for G.J. Garden Home? It's a G.J. That's a G.G. That's a Gett. That's a Gett. We'll work it out. We'll work it out. Brown out the rule book. You said the government's not giving you anything in their budget, but we are. That doesn't seem like it, right?

Yeah. So every hour, $50 to giveaway as part of the $50,000 giveaway that we're doing at the moment. Your next chance, 8 o'clock this morning? Just happened to be that Blood Donner Week is coming up. they're just like looking for people to give blood and plasma. You're a big backer, aren't you? Yeah, just because. Just because my dad had an accident when he was really young and he required a lot of blood. And so his whole life, he's donated blood here in Australia like 70 times.

And he wanted to get to the 100 Club and he can't donate anymore. So I'm like, I'm going to take over. You're going to take over the century. And I'm going to try and get to the 100 Club. What are you sitting on at the moment? Well, not many. I've just kind of started because he's just stopped. So I, but with plasma, the good thing about it is you can.

The Papua's blood is still being donated though. That's good. Oh, sorry, the seller's blood. Thank you. But with plasma, you can donate every two weeks, whereas with blood, it's every three months. And he's never seen the plasma donations before. So I took him along. It's a fancy machine.

I hope this isn't too gory, but it takes the blood. It splits it. So you can see it working. and then it takes the like clear plasma and pumps the blood back in. Really? Yeah. Wow. That's amazing.

And then so your plasma just regenerates? Yeah. Over how long? I don't know. She's like, I'm just sitting there getting it drained for you later. Two weeks you can do it again. So it must be pretty quick. Yeah, right.

So I took dad along and, oh, I hate, man. The nurses have got stuff to do. What are they called the phlebotomists? They're busy. and he's... I tell you, who doesn't have stuff to do? Retired boomers. I know.

He donated blood 70 times. Oh yeah. And want to tell people about it? Want to tell multiple nurses. I can see they're turning their body to be like, I've got to go over here now. And dad is just yawning. He's like, I did it here.

I did it in Australia. He was like, I did it back then. You just did it at the doctor's office. They lined you up. And then as you left, they gave you a packet of cigarettes to say thank you. At the doctor's office. That's a wonderful gesture. That is a beautiful gesture, isn't it?

Yeah, it was wonderful. I mean, that's an interesting... The times have changed. Full pack of darts for donating blood. More people would have been donating blood. It was probably these days too. I was like, did the doctor hand those to you? And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think they had a deal. You've got a bag of a cigarette. Wow. Good on the doctor. Yeah, well, maybe just an ongoing business for the doctor too. Yeah. Yeah, I hope he didn't... If he donated 70 times...

Seventy... It's a lot of free cigarettes. He has to come back and keep seeing the doctor for other issues. Yeah, but I honestly think, as much as they were happy that I donated, I think they were very happy to see the back of us. So was he making you stress out or were you just feeling sorry for the nurses on behalf of your father? I don't want to put people off, but I did get a bit woozy. I had that cold sweat thing and my ears started to glaze over and dad was still yacking to me.

And as he's talking, he starts to go blurry and I just hear a long, Like, cool, I've zoned him out. Either I'm reacting to the donation or my body's like, just get rid of it. My body was shutting him out. It's weird you took the machine home with you as well. Tell you what, when your parents leave because they're doing a wonderful job looking after you at a moment, we can have no content. I know.

We can have no content on this radio show. We're providing a lot. Getting into the weekend. Great weekend of sport. A&Z Premiership Netball. We've got the Warriors taking on the Panthers on Sunday. night, top of the table clash, and the last weekend of the round robin for Super Rugby Pacific. But all heading to the finals next week.

Can I ask a question? Is Nathan Clary playing for the Panthers this weekend? I don't know if he, I don't know who's backing up or not from origin. I hope not. Yeah, he's pretty good. I mean, the less we have him to deal with, the better. And Smarty Martin's playing, eh? Yeah, he's all I care about.

Yeah, no, he's. She's like more Tamarty Martin. If anything of every warrior could be named Tamarie Martin. With a face like that, I understand. Never have too meky tamari. If this show is called Tamati, Tamari, Tamati and Megan, that would be her dream. Happy Place. I don't know how much radio would be made.

No. It's a little of smooching sound effects. What was in a happy place? The gym last night. Now I go to the gym quite often with my daughters. It's been really fun. You know, I've been going to go in the gym and we kind of motivate each other. City, Fitty. Yeah, city fitness.

City Fitty. City Fitty. And one night I had to drop one of my daughters off to dance. And he had dance. And then I said to my other daughter said, I'm going to go. to the gym while she's doing dance. I've got like an hour. I can go to the gym. Do you want to go? She's like, yeah, I do, but I might sort of make my own way run down there because I've just got to finish up or something. No, that's fine. So I'll see you at the gym sort of thing. So I got into

the gym last night after dropping off my other daughter, got inside and I looked across and my daughter, Sienna loves, what's the one where they were the stairmaster? Oh, the stairmaster, yeah, yeah. Is it horrible? Is it horrible? It's just a step up. Yeah, the stairs are going. The stairs are kind of moving. going, oh, bloody, high risk, high risk piece of machinery, that thing, isn't it? It is very high as well. Yeah, it is.

You've got to get up there. She loves it. I think also because no one's bugging you, she can pretty much look at her phone for like 30 minutes as well, too. That's the main attraction. Yeah. I feel like that. I'm not being on your phone for a while.

She's like, sitting there doing the steward up. Oh, because she's raised, you can't see what she wants. She's got a phone and she's at the gym. There's Wi-Fi. Yeah, exactly. So I saw her across the way when I gone to the gym and, you know, across the crowded gym. The gym is a place you don't really want to.

I don't really want to look at other people while they're working out or make, you know. It's one of my favourite hobbies. I'm just sharing people dead in the eyes. You don't want to, you know, like I'll say hi if someone engages, but for the most part,

I feel like people are just in there to do their own thing. Yeah. Anyway, I saw her across there on the stair masters, looked at me like that and I sort of smiled. For some reason I did the big shucka. Oh, we're doing shucker a lot lately. I was like,

I don't know why. I was like, hey, and shucker. And then I took two more steps forward. And it didn't get much of reaction. from CNN and went, oh no, that's not Sienna. Oh no. Is it another teenage girl?

Oh my God, Ben. And I couldn't see one because I wasn't getting, the bright lights are hitting me, it's quite far across the gym. The bright lights? You can't see the screen that's right there, let alone across the gym.

Yeah, this is like 20, 30 metres away. I'm like, big smile and a shuck her. And then as she looked down and looked away, I was like, oh, that's not Sierra. And then I couldn't, like, what do I do? And I don't want to go over to her and go, Sorry I thought you were my daughter, but the same time. No, I don't go over.

No, I didn't go over. If you need me as a police witness, I can vouch that you can't see well. She should be like, and he's trying to relate to me doing shuckers? He's trying to be like, hey. She's like, oh my God, this old guy at the gym shuckered me. What does that mean? She sort of smiled, like a real half-hearted smile and looked down. I'm like, oh, no.

I left it. I don't know if I can go back then, huh? No, they're going to print your picture out and put it on the wall, I think. Have you seen this priest? Has this man been harassing you? Has this man been shuckering you? Of all the things to do, she's like a shucker? I don't know why. And now I'm like, definitely regretted that one.

So yeah. So yeah, that was what happened at the gym. I felt like leaving at that time. And then my daughter arrived like 10 minutes later. Did you shuck her? No, no, it's just left to let her be. Now, a friend of mine said he had a few people from work over on the weekend. Okay.

And he encountered something never happened before when he's had people over to his house. One of the colleagues walked in and said, do you mind if I rearrange your furniture? Oh. Yes. In his lounge and dining area. What? He's got a wife.

The wife is out, so he was just having a barbecue with his workmaid. And he hadn't been talking about rearranging the furniture. Never. Never. No, his colleague comes in and is like, one of my specialities is seeing a space and the potential, you know, the potential in that space and I feel like this space is not reaching its full potential.

Oh, God, that guy sounds like a punish. I mean, it was nice to have that advice. I reckon like to go, hey, what do you think? But maybe... See, I'm like that. I've just put stuff in this house, and it hasn't moved for years. Whereas sometimes you're like, oh, that would have been nice over there for the last seven years.

Yeah, you move something around you're like, why did we not do that in the first place? Yeah. Yeah. So this guy completely, my friend's too agreeable. his wife's out, but remember, he's like, yeah, yeah, why not? Why not? Well, here, so they were outside having the barbecue. This person was inside sliding bits of furniture. That's so weird. It is weird. It is weird.

Were they like a feng shui, like, if a seniority or something? It was just like, it's my hobby, like arranging spaces. And so he figured, well, this person obviously very passionate about it. He's like, kind of lived here for five years and been pretty happy where everything's placed. Now, guess what? What? Wife came home. Oh, God. absolutely loves it absolutely loves it she's like the space is reasons for that

potential right that's good well that's a bold move to walk into someone's house and go confident well he was confident obviously backed himself knew what they were doing

yeah oh wow imagine if we came into the show home Megan your place tell you to bugger off yeah I mean we have seen some stuff

that you know that could be moved around but that's fine that chopping board you can't use that's on the bench Ben used to display chopping board

which is a bug beer it's just on the beach it's on the kitchen beach it's a beautiful piece of wood he would like to rearrange he'd like to rearrange

that out to the garage so no one uses it yeah put it in a cabinet or something like that yeah the old algorithm is really can you reset your algorithm I know you can like go

I don't want to watch this content but can you just do a board sweep across of like let's start the internet again for me I think you can but I don't know how to do it right yeah once you start watching something they're like, this guy loves this stuff.

Oh, yeah. I've clicked on a couple of videos of New York Knicks fans celebrating in the street. And honestly, it's all it thinks I want to watch now. It's just New York fans going, Le Potos! It's like distorting microphones in the street and climbing on top of Madison Square Garden.

Yeah, they're going pretty nuts, aren't they? They got to the finals for the first time at a long time. I do love that passion, though, from the fans. When is the finals? It'll start, well, probably next week, I would imagine, because the other, who they're playing against. They still need to sort it out. I think the game six today.

So, yeah. But another thing that keeps popping up, and again, I clicked on it once, so I think so I'm really enthusiastic about this is diddling. Have you heard of diddling? It's a competition. I know, it sounds like a word that you shouldn't be saying on the radio. Didn't he go to prison? For diddling.

What have you been Googling for it to go? Oh, that's what he likes. But have a listen to professional diddlers. Okay. Enthusiasts are here to cast a critical air over every diddle. Are didlers made or are they born, basically? Well, I would say they're born in. Oh, I know.

Yes, definitely. But a lot of very, very strong diddlers here today, so it's all now with the judges. It's kind of singing if you were drunk, really, I guess. Mr Fraser, the only contestant so far choosing the seated position. It just feels like a whole bunch of people being offensive to the Irish or something. Dittly, do, do, do, do, do, do. Actually, speaking about it, see if we find the audio of, like, unusual singing. I want to play the audio from the origin a couple nights ago, the Australian origin.

What, the anthems? The anthem, yeah, because they just came out with, obviously, they play it every hour. But I was like, it's the most Australian-sounding anthem, I think I've ever heard. What accent was? Yeah, accent was. We'll see if we can find it for you a second. There's a country artist, I think, who does. It doesn't always seem to sound so Australian.

But yeah, I'll have that for you. Really ramped at home. Patriotic. That and the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We'll get to that next on that. John O'Ben and Megan. Cheers to Dilma. Making the world a better tea.

Lord fade. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The hits. A New Zealand music t-shirt day. But I want to take a moment to celebrate Australian music. It seems of the day to do so, Ben. Not everyone is celebrating it, though.

No, there was an origin game of leg the other night. This probably didn't get talked. about as much over here because there was some controversy in the game but this Australian country artist gave the most Australian sounding rendition of the national anthem. Have a listen. Orchestra. Hello. Oh, really going through the nasal cavity there. Yeah, like it felt like he fluctuated between real Australian or not. That's the most Australian. That sounds like someone's taking the first. He's a country artist as well and he doesn't sound quite as Australian in the country songs I've been online.

Some people were like whoever hired him was tone deaf. I didn't realize it was called Advanced. Area Fair. You're like Aspery, Australia, actually. I loved it. I love it. It's a beautiful language. Beautiful, beautiful language.

More chances to win a share of $50,000. Every hour we're giving away $50. Just to mention this in passing yesterday, Megan, one of your worst nightmares is having to tell people what you do for a job. I hate it when people are like, what do you do? Sometimes I'll go media. I try and be really broad. and then they keep asking questions and so I just want something that I can say

that'll shut it down. Yeah, right. You can start wide. You go, I work for a company called NZME. Usually I find the acronym throws off a few people there, like, I can't be bothered finding any more out about that. But yeah, you're right, sometimes it does narrow down to what you do for a profession. And why do you dread it so much?

They usually ask about all my co-hosts, past and present. Oh, I don't want to talk about us, mate, okay. Not off the clock. No, and not, do you know what? Not when you're naked getting a mole mat. You know? It's not what I... I just...

I want to focus on getting through it. Well, you're butt-naked getting a mole map. Yeah. And who was talking to you about your co-hosts? The person who was inspecting the moles. Yeah. There was a lot of... There was a deep dive.

I mean, for them, it's just their office, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure it was nothing to him, but it was... He's just working at a desk. Just making conversation while he's doing the job. Yeah. Yeah, he doesn't want dead ear. He's looking at your moles.

And you mentioned this in past. yesterday, but loads of people lie in social situations about their jobs, including this lady's brother. He is a psychologist. Is it the follow-up questions? Like, oh, my God, what's wrong with me? Yeah, just gets way too complex. And they want a free diagnosis.

So what's he saying instead? He just says that he's a security guard, and it kind of just ends the questions pretty rapidly. I feel like I'd have a few questions. Yeah, it'd be like, like chasing him down. thing you've seen. How do you stay awake this or stuff? You've been in a gunfight.

But I guess so, maybe less than a psychologist. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, maybe his psychology background enables him to just shut it down a little bit. So we've created a society where people would just rather invent an entire fake career than discuss their actual career. You know, quietly people have gone,

oh, my real job's just too hard. I just can't be bothered speaking. And maybe it's because you deal with it, you know, for the majority of the week. You probably don't want to talk about. And then sometimes people are in different, I find too, people can be in different stages of jobs. Some people, sometimes it's awkward if they're being laid off or are they looking for work or things. So now it's best, I find, not even to bring that up.

Don't even ask what the job is. And sometimes people feel like you're getting judged on your career. People don't want to do that. You want to judge someone. You know, a person. Their job doesn't mean everything. That's true, Ben. Maybe that's really nice thing.

I was just one of the day. So you shouldn't ask them, what do you do for a job straight away? Because that's not necessarily what defines them. But you can create a. A far more affluent friend circle if you do know what they do for a job. Yeah, well that's true. That is very true.

Yeah. I mean, you don't want to be, oh, I'm not going to pick a job. Don't pick a job. No, don't pick a job. In saying that, I think I might just pick up saying I've got my redundant. That's a good enough. That's a good enough.

Yeah, things aren't good at the way. You're like, oh, okay. And then that person will never ask what anyone does for a job ever again. Yeah, yeah, you're right. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. We want to know when people say, what do you do for a job? What do you say?

Yeah, do you lie. And a lot of you do. It's a common occurrence out there. Many service people who say that if they do explain what they do for a job that people are trying to get freebies or discounts. That's a bold one to make when you've just met someone. Yeah, yeah. Can I have free dental work or can I have a free prostate examination or something?

Yeah, my wife did some work for, I was on that of events a few years ago before she was to teach you for one New Zealand for, which was Vodafone at the time. But when she'd say she worked for them, everyone was like, can you give me a free phone? That was like a question. I was like, no, I don't even get like a free phone. My true. Like, yeah, or I've got a problem with my phone.

Can you like, I don't work in the tech department. Do you know how I've got a new adult friend, Emma, that you guys have met? Yeah. Yeah, she's a physio and she's already done physio on my son. But I didn't solicit that. She did. Sounds like something you're solicited. Sounds like a soliciting.

Yeah. And she works with all. the professional netballers too. Yeah, yeah. Did you pay for it? No. It wasn't in the clinic. It was just... All right. Okay. Ian, happy new year. Oh, yeah, happy new year to you too.

Lovely to have you on. You lie about what you do for a job when people ask you. Yeah, yeah. So I'm a mechanic and people always ask me for favours. So I'd always say, whenever anyone asked me, I'd just say, I work at the St. Luke's tank juice bar because no one ever asks for someone to make a cup of juice to someone.

Well, you probably can't talk without the equipment, can you? You know, you can't make a strawberry lush just in at someone's house, you know? Yeah, it was a best one, eh? I'd be like which one's your favourite? Do you give your friends extra in the salads? You got for the pea protein powder on top? You know, those sort of questions, but... Yeah, yeah.

How many people have you sent to the St Luke's Tank Juice Party get discounts? I think lots of people must have gone around there thinking, oh, where's this guy? Where's old Ian? Ian said he'd be here and give me 50% off my bloody tank tango. Thanks Ian, appreciate you. Cool. Have a great day, buddy. We're talking, you're lying about your job, Bob. Welcome. Thank you. Good to have you on. Just talking about, do you lie about your job?

So you don't have to talk about it. Yeah, I try to avoid the question as much as possible, to be honest. Try and lead people in a different path, but be honest at the same time, but it just never seems to work. So what do you actually do for a job? I'm a pilot. Lots of questions. Yeah, lots of questions, lots of assumptions. I think it's mostly the assumptions that I try and stay away from.

Do you just, what's the most common question or the one you hate? A lot of people know pilots and they seem to think that because I'm a pilot, I know everybody else that's a pilot. Yeah. Oh, my sister's brother-in-law is a pilot. That's what all New Zealanders get when they go overseas. They live and what they fly. They just seem to think we know each other.

Every pilot's like, yeah, I do, I know him. I would like to think that every pilot knows each other, though. Yeah. Unfortunately not. Hey, can you confirm something? We heard a rumor yesterday, sorry, now we're doing it. Now we're doing what you hate. That pilots, if they're flying overseas, they eat different meals.

So they both don't go down with food poisoning if the food's contaminated. That is what our manual. So, yeah. Oh, it is in the manual. Well, there you go, because sometimes we read these things that come through on a text. We're like, is this legit? Okay. Good to know.

Yeah, they do. I'm not eating different things just in case there is a problem with one of the meals. And so, okay, so you don't say you're a pilot. What profession do you use? I've used different things in the past, but the one has the most success with selling PVC pubs. No follow-on questions. Yeah, I've got nothing for you.

No, it's it. You buy a plastic pipe and you put it in, and that's the end of the story. Yeah, that's a good one. So whatever happens if you tell someone you do that, and then they turn up at the airport, and they're like, hang on. that guy who's selling pipes is flying the plane. Surely, they get a little nervous. Has that happened?

Yeah, a bit of an upgrade, I suppose. Yeah. Thank you so much, Bob. Appreciate your sharing.