Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - When Mum Needed Backup Ben's Fact-Checking | Itty Bitty Bit

Episode Date: August 17, 2026

Ben Boyce admits he completely broke the parenting united front when his wife made a bold claim about legally having to wear shoes in the gym. One fact-check later, and he was in far more trouble than his daughter...   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don't know if you guys have this, but sometimes when a parent is sort of saying, being the responsible parent, it's the other parent's job to sort of back them up. Oh, okay, yeah. Sometimes I haven't been the wing man, the best wing person backing my wife up. So now I'm like, you're going as a united front. Sometimes I'm like, it's your, you know, I'll deal with my thing. You deal with your, you know, like, oh, but anyway. Do you get roped into it in the moment? Like, I'll get the right, mommy.

Mommy agrees with me. I'm like, oh, yep, yep, yep, yep. So nothing more than parents arguing through their children. Well, you tell Daddy that he should have supported me. So, you know, now I am this, you know, like, sometimes I just think, man, it's got it covered. She's got it covered. But not because I disagree. But we had a moment yesterday.

I kind of felt bad about this because my wife was talking to one of my daughters. She'd been at the gym and she loves the stairmaster, which obviously, you know, it's pretty self-explanatory what it is. but she just came back from the gym and she was wearing sort of socks and slides and my wife's like, where's your gym shoes? And she's like, oh, I decided I liked it better with not wearing shoes on the stairmaster. Risky.

Yeah, just socks. And my wife's like, oh, that's, you know, health and safety, not a good idea. And then she's like, and the lady I used to have as a gym, he worked at the gym, said it was illegal to not wear shoes in the gym. And that's where I went, illegal. Which was the wrongest ones.

Not illegal. I mean, like health and safety, probably terms and conditions. Oh, but that was a moment we were like to. Not illegal. So that was my backup. And then I was afterwards and I was like Googling up. It's not illegal. Is she eyeballing you through all this?

Yeah. So yeah. You're like, oh, this is one of those moments that I'm meant to back up. But I was like, I can't stand by and just say illegal. Illegal.