Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Why Matty McLean FaceTimed us naked... | FULL SHOW

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

On today’s show: Megan wants to go on a date with Ben... Why Matty McLean FaceTimed us naked... Rage room idea to relieve tension between Megan and Producer Grace Is Megan turning into a dance mum? Jono witnesses a dog walker being dragged by three huskies An accountant meeting derailed by a comfy chair... Can women use the men's bathroom? Listeners' workplace money mistakes after our work credit card got frozen Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee 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. I want to start the show off by kicking things off with. Just want to close the loop on something I bought up the other day. The shower shelf that I purchased two and a half years ago from Bunnings. And it was just meant to stick onto the wall of the shower. You did it.

Did it. It was just suction cups, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's not as if you had to glue it or anything. You had to pick it up and push it against the wall. I reckon including opening of the packaging. disposing of the packaging after the project in the bin. Six minutes.

And how long did it take you to do it? Two and a half years. Wow. So, yeah, that's off my to do list for today. What are you guys up to? We're going on a date tonight to Heather's The Musical. Oh, yeah, going on a date. Well, well, we'll be at the same thing.

Megan will be cut. Oh, we can't go together. Megan will be cutting in line in front of me. Oh, yeah, Ben gets a bit frustrated that Megan Q jumped him at a red carpet event. One time. and I was invited, and it was because it was Andrews. It was because it was Andrew's musical. They were like, just quick jump in here.

I didn't even see Ben in the line. Or was he just another face in the crowd? Once you get to that next stage, they all blend into one. It's not my fault you blend in. You were like, Megan, oh, I work with there. I work with there. I said, sorry, buddy, you can't come through. A lot of people.

Sure you do, big guy. I was standing there with Fletch and Bournemouth. What we got? Biggin, me couldn't get you. All of my boyfriends, exes and bleak. Did she just want to give you a glazed look? Yeah, they'll wave to people. But, you know, it's like seeing royalty and stuff, you know, they wave out.

But they're busy. They're busy people, we understand. You know, she'd love to stop and take time to talk to everyone, but she can't, you know. She had to get in there. So we'll see if that episode. Do you think you'll get that sort of red carpet treatment again, Megan? Well, I'm going to try. If I see Ben in the line, I'll do it.

Do it for the content. Yeah. Well, actually, my daughters have made me for, you know, there's a social media trend going around in the most of the most of the most of the moment where people go into like op shops and things like that and they close their eyes and they have to pick their outfit based on what they stopped we went into a costume shop the other day and what i ended up wearing i'm going to wear it for the red carpet only i think because it's quite heinous i definitely won't see you think of harry styles and then think of him if he had no taste but tried to be

as flamboyant it's definitely clothing bin harry styles yeah it's a very like a purple like jacket it's very yeah it's very yeah so you probably want to ignore me it's almost like willie won't as well too. It's got a little top hat as well. Oh, my God. Yeah, so that's just, that'll be me tonight. I'm dreading that. But anyway, hopefully it makes a fun.

But only got to commit to it the whole night. Well, maybe I'll do. We're not going together. You started this two minutes ago. You're like, we're going on a date? Yeah, we're not anymore. I've dumped you. No, you don't want to go with me.

Okay, well, I'll be looking for you. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. A couple of weeks ago, we FaceTime Mattie McLean from the afternoon show, Mattie and PJ. Yeah, it was for a video.

One of us was going to have to buy lunch. We FaceTime Maddie, and Maddie chose on the spot, which one? Jono Ben or Megan was going to have to buy lunch. I ended up losing. He chose me, and then I went and bought lunch and gave it to him when he arrived at work. And he faint, well, yeah, we faced two. He didn't answer our first FaceTime, because you don't blame anyone for not answering a FaceTime. No, he probably thought it was like, oh, what's going on here?

Was that? Because I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't think, no. In fact, I've never FaceTime Maddie McLean. No, no. No. No. No. He fast timed back.

He did. but apparently producer grace says we need to play this audio they were talking about it on their radio show mattie and pj and let's have listen just hopped out of the shower and i got a face time from ben boys so i quickly chucked a t-shirt on and i answered the face time now i am for all intents and purposes stark naked underneath from waist down except my t-shirt what do we call this donald ducking don't know at the time i think you and don't know I hope he's listening right now. There we go. I did feel like there was an energy.

Oh. I did feel like there was a different energy. You know, when people call up and you're like, you're naked. You can tell. There's a different energy. Yeah, there's a bit of anxiety. He was Donald Ducking. We should do that as a radio game tomorrow, like naked or not naked.

If people call up, we have to guess. That's funny. Yeah. It's a little bit creepy. That's weird. That's a bad idea. No, that's funny. Good, guys, I'm all the water school.

Okay, yeah No, you can do your game of your Ben No, let's not do that I take it back now As soon as you said I'm a way to school I'm like oh no That's what I wanted

Would you do that though Because Has he checked all reflective surfaces That's a big risk That is super risky The bathroom can be very shiny Yeah you tried to take a picture In the shower

Yeah And you almost forgot about The reflective plug hole Yeah that was me Washing my feet But yeah So we know, I just say it's the context again. I almost got an eyeful.

Yeah. Oh yeah, no, yeah. He doesn't often see me sharp things. I've never had. Only when I'm lucky. You never even got one though, did you? No, no. Thought better of it, much like that weird game he came up with.

Yeah, that's not, that won't be happening. That's for sure. But there we go, Madam McClain. Well done. Oh, no, ducking. Changes the real, change is the tone of that phone call we had with him that face. It does. Yeah.

John O'Bin and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. The scenes do you would have heard it yesterday. on the show we played some audio we can play a little snippet again no one needs to keep going back over ugly scenes this is uh low moments for the show producer grace and megan uh this is just a glimpse into their relationship off here what is you're got a guess guys we've got a guess we've got a guess we're got a guess is yeah but you ask me during the show and went in one ear and out the other

me and ben are sitting here like children in a divorce aren't we just watching this year? I hear in that is someone who is committed to the show, you know? She asked me something during the show. I was so focused that I forgot. So if she asked you after the show? I would remember. I'd do it straight away. Megan doesn't want to do anything after the show.

She's like, Grace, I want to go home. Excuse me? Yeah, you do it all the time. Okay, okay. No. I don't be past 10.30. I don't want to, but I do do it. This is just a glimpse from yesterday on here.

That's what you do, is just is it? Maybe that's the case. I don't know whether we keep calling each other. sisters, but like, Megan's old enough to be my mom. I was talking. Okay, okay. There's ugly sense. I would have been 17. Yeah, you could be a mom at that age.

How many parts of New Zealand? That's, uh, but people were phoning in going, oh, listen, we should get some therapy, maybe call management in, uh, are there relaxation practices we could put into play? But someone has got in touch overnight. Yeah. Ben, we think this could be a solution. I think this is good. I think this is a great idea.

I've been to this place and I loved it. Robina from Rage Out is the name of your business Welcome to the program Rabina Happy New Year Hi, how are you guys? It's good to have you on Rage Out

Yeah What is Rage Out Rabina It's where people come and smash up things Like electronic items Glass smashable We even do a car in there too Yeah

Like I said I've been along before You can basically You can basically hit cars They park cars in there It's great stress relief. Oh, I'm so down to that. So we're doing items, not people.

Yeah, yeah. I can't touch up again. Would we be in the same room with a weapon? Yes. That might not be a good idea. Yeah, bats in both the hands. There's multiple rooms in there. There's a bit of tension going on between you guys.

There is a lot of tension. Yeah, you would just heard the tension. So I feel like this, when your suggestion came through, I'm like, this is great. Rage you out, it's, it's, you can smash your stress away, break some stuff. And we might be, you know. Oh, yes. How's business going for you at the moment?

Rabina, a lot of people raging out? Yeah, it's going steady at the moment, so we're pretty busy in the weekend, but yeah. How do you get all your things? Because obviously I'm going to smash it all to pieces. Like, where do you get all the stuff from? We sort of source it out from like op shops and things like that. Yeah, we do give a lot of donations to op shops as well. none of them are

we buy them none of them are given us just like that all right you're purchasing them yeah no good on you Rabina well listen well thank you so much for getting in time I tell you what we could take Grace and Megan along and also maybe some stressed out listeners

as well they can join us too Rabina yeah she's like sure like raising out on a car is actually quite fun it's quite fun can we rage out at a photo of John O and Ben I feel like that's really good for me. You put a photo of us on there.

Yes. Because we still maintain that you guys are the root of this problem. What are we doing? We're trying to solve the issue. You're basing us. You're putting us against each other. We're fine. Are you?

Are you fine? Okay, anyway, Ray, I will raise you. Most relationships don't need a mediation, Megan. Hey, thank you so much, Rabina. I can't wait to come along and hopefully ease the tension by going to rage out. Yeah, no problem. Good to have you guys over. Thanks, Rabina.

We'll plan a date. We'll plan it when it will happen. It sounds so fun. It's still show from there. And then as you say, John, I said, maybe you can get some people along if they're feeling stressed or maybe we can break some things

with people on their behalf if you can't get down there. Are you like, I've got a big power ball we're like, yeah, we'll smash this plate, you know, things like that, you know, make it feel better. It's going to be a really aggressive program. We're really for four hours of just smashing stuff.

Well, maybe we could do stuff in between. Oh, we'll mix up the content. Yeah, it's not going to be just non-stop smashing. Very good, so we'll do that next week. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. Now Megan, we came off a show yesterday where it was, we've worked with you a couple of years, and I feel like we're in a good comfortable space where we can, you know, we can be honest, Ben, can't we?

That your competitiveness is out of control. It's absolutely out of control. We're filming a social video for that exact campaign, you know, and we had to guess after a second of a song, which artist it was. And this was just the end result. Ben, you were actually up in the game, 2-0, or 2-1 to you. Yeah, but this was one winner-takes-all. Well, Grace said that because you knew that you couldn't have. handle you for the rest of the day.

You sound competitive arguing that point. Well, I was just like, yeah, that's why. You notice of the video, I just stung back with the thing. I'm like, let's that Megan win this one, because we're not going to hear the end of it. Never long! Megan winning a game that didn't really mean anything. Pitching me down makes me sound psycho. It does a little bit.

It does. You know, it's like one of those reality TV moments. They stitched me up in the edit, but then you're like, well, you did say it. Did they add a little bit of showbiz, Rasmataz? They definitely did, yeah. Okay, well, what I'm about to tell you is not going to help my cause here, but we've started after-school activities. So my son goes to a run club, and my daughter has found a liking for ballet.

And I was like, I'll take her to one class if she hates it. I won't take her back. But she loves it. You showed us a video. She looked very cute in her tutu and stuff. Really good thing involved. So did you go day one with Tutu, or you're like, well, hold off the Tutu purchase until we see your enthusiasm.

enthusiasm for the project. Well, I don't want to make it sound pretentious, but it says in the email you get, you know, here must be in a tidy bun. Oh, so straight away, yeah, day. Yeah. Even when you were just doing a tester. Yeah.

Oh, wow. So you had to invest in the tutu. Well, I mean, it's not a lot. But I went along and I was like, I'm going to be so chill about this because, like, you know, it's just a bit of fun. She's three. She's easily the youngest in the class.

And I went along and it's like, it's so cute. It's so cute. The first one, they're just like, you know, prancing around, doing unicorn hops and all that stuff. So we went back for the second one. I'm not even joking you. She has picked this up.

Like, I showed you a video, Jono. Yeah. She is killing it. To be honest, out of the three sweet little children in the video, they all look adorable. She's the only one doing the hocks. Doing the choreography. On her own without her hands being held. And Megan's going,

uh, one, two. And she's doing that noise. watching the video back. And the other two kids are being guided by the children. I mean, they're like tiny, tiny children being held, having their hands out. Just like, look at the other two. They haven't to be guided. Because you know that, oh, you might not know sleeping bunnies.

So there's a sleeping aspect. Even when she's sleeping, her toes are pointed. She's like, God, she's perfect at it. And then she hops up, hands in position. Be honest, how much have you been working on this at home over the week? No, not at all. We're like, we're going to get there. and we go to do this.

The garage is cleared out as a dance studio. I said I wouldn't push her if she didn't like it, but she loves it. So Mama's pushing. We must bring producer Grayson, who's a 10-year veteran of the ballet game. She did a decade in ballet. Now, you have a message that you'd like to pass on to Megan.

I have done every dance style, so I think I'm the most qualified to say this. I showed you the video. Oh, you know, I was amazing. I was loving it. She was hopping on time. She was with the beat. Her feet were pointed.

See? No assistance? posture, but my opinion is, as a dance mom, because your husband does do musicals, and he is a dancer in those musicals, Andrew has more of a right to say stuff than you do about I. Oh, ho! Like, he's more qualified to say something. It's true.

You can say I is good, but you can't go correcting her, only Andrew can because I hate when, my mum didn't do it, but when dance moms would correct their kids, I'm like, you never dance. Like, why are you doing? That was a back off. That was a back off. Do you see the way she baits me? Oh, yeah. It's not baiting.

It's fat. It's not, it is fat. Was that necessary? No, probably not, but I just want to put that out there, that energy out there, that when I gets older, she might take her down more seriously. I can't tell her beat. One, two. I'm talking.

Here you guys, we're fighting again. They're fighting again. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hats. A lady yesterday on a rugby field, I just take the dog for a walk around these rugby fields. And she had a harness kind of around her sort of abdomen. and underneath her groin.

Okay, so it was a pretty heavy-duty sort of harness. Like a climbing, abseiling or something. Yeah, I guess, I guess. And then attached to that on leash, on leashes, three huskies. Oh, three big huskies. We have huskies in New Zealand, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was thinking, you know, if you are having to go to the point of before you go out for a walk with your dogs, of having to harness up through your groin and around your abdomen, there's too much dog for you. You're taking, they're taking your, They're taking you for a walk. They were treating her like a sled.

She was literally just having to run. She was getting pulled along by them. I actually, I said, you're okay. She said, I'm fine. I'm saying, you don't look fine. Well, you probably find until one wants to go the other way. Well, also, if the three of them bolted, they would definitely drag. Take you with it.

Yeah. And it's not like you can unclip that harness real quick. I remember, like, we've got quite a big white fluffy dog, Samoyed. And he's quite, you know, he's quite strong. And I remember one of the kids when they were younger going, I walked the dog and I was like with us you hold it and I'm like yeah but he's

no I don't know if it's got a little like go on and it was fine until we saw a cat and he looked off of one of the Sierra just like almost slid across the grass down there was like let go let go it's just the same thing could happen to her oh well yeah I was just saying how on earth

did you end up with three huskies she didn't look like a dog walker she looked like they were her dog just got a bit bloody over enthusiastic at the litter yeah didn't really That's a big commitment. Yeah, it looked like she needed like an emergency parachute, you know, to just have wind resistance against their pool. Yeah.

They were powerful things. Sometimes you see the dog walkers out with multiple ones and you're like, how are they wrangling that? There's one in our neighbourhood that takes about 10 dogs and they're all around her waist. And I'm like, what does happen if there's a cat? You're putting yourself your really vulnerable position, aren't you? So shout out to those people who are walking dogs with waste harnesses. Yeah.

My dog wouldn't be able to do that because you just want to mount all the dogs and the walk. Then you're pretty much mounting with them, if you're in there as well too. When was the last time you even took your dog outside? Yeah.

This is last time you even patted your dog. He ran outside. Does that count when he tried to run away? He's run outside multiple times. He's trying to escape to a more loving household. John O'Ben and Megan.

There's a meeting of an accounting meeting and about half an hour was scheduled for it and sat in this meeting room. and was being explained stuff about, you know, I've had some of my tax issues in the past. Right, yeah. Much publicised tax issues, just mainly by me publicising them,

but I ended up owning their land revenue some money, so I'm quite careful about paying tax now. You're not actually that good with money, are you? Terrible. No, terrible, yeah. No, honestly, if Jennifer wasn't around, I'd be living in a shopping trolley. They'd be like, what happened to that guy? So the entire meeting, the chair, oh, that was the key.

comfiest chair I think I've ever sat in. And he was explaining a lot of important numbers and figures and returns and claims. I was just like kind of recliner. It was a recliner too and it had a really cushioned seat. And I could not get out of my head how comfortable this chair was. At the end of the spiel, he said, have you got any questions? Now the only question I had was, where did you get these chairs from? And I could tell he was in his eyes.

I could see he was like so disappointed. you know, put his heart and soul into explaining what he does for a job and stuff that was going to help me, obviously. And all I came back and he said, oh, they're actually from office max. I was like, these are the nicest chairs. I've ever said him. He says he gets a lot of compliments on the start. The trouble is like half an hour when your accountant's talking.

You start understanding and then just all blurs. Someone gives you directions. I usually say at the end of it, do I need to know that? Like, what out of that do I need to know? Well, after they've talked for half an hour, at the end you go, do I need to know any of it? I think asking how could be the chair was was a better question. But, like, just tell me what I need to do.

Like, do I need to pay something? He's like, that's going to spend half an hour telling you. Yeah. I did one in the other day which I was quite good. I was like, well, you summarise that in an email. Beautiful. And they went, yeah. And I was like, great.

That sounds really smart, but it also sounds like you didn't listen. Yeah, I was. I got first. They said a lot of information and I was like, oh yeah, and I was like, could you summarize that in an email? And they're like, yeah, yeah, we're good. It's like, great. And it was a hack. It was a great hack because then it came through later and I was like, oh, that's a bit.

They talked about that's a bit I didn't understand, but I could have. Oh, and then you read it. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I thought that was a good hack. You could do it at the beginning. Hey, just everything about to say, just so you know. I mean, it really could have been an email. Yeah.

There's so many things in life that should just be an email that I think don't read and delete. That's your problem. You say that often. And I'm like, she wouldn't read the email. She wouldn't read the email. It saved me so much time. Could have been. But then Harriet's like going, hey, I've sent this email five times.

Yeah, but then Harriet just tells me in person. And I'm like, look how much time that saved me. Yeah, I know. But it's taking her six emails to get there. And you've broken the poor lady, yeah, by the end, which is like, for God's sakes. Like, how many. To cryback about the flights. To Christchurch.

Are these flights okay? And all you have different flybackers, you know, they're all good. I feel like, let's just put a blanket rule out there. If I have a problem, I'll tell you. Okay, so it's your bucket. Then you'll be like, oh, oh, I've got, yeah. I've been asked to do a thing on a weekend. What just happened.

Yeah, exactly. You know, I want to do the thing that I've been asked. Oh, but you've said yes to the flights across you. I wouldn't do that, Jono. Oh, very funny. Johno, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The head.

Excited about the World Cup and football happening this week. And we want to look out. You know, some people have a prediction animal. It goes worldwide. You know, octopuses or chickens and things. that? It was Paul the octopus, wasn't it? Who was the...

Was he the first one, the OG? I think so. In RIP, Paul, I think, got turned into Calamari. Oh, I know. You know, that happens to octopus. And he had a huge advantage. He had eight arms to choose all the... Yeah, well, true.

To choose the winners. But we're after a... Well, Megan's named it, the betting baby. Yeah. I feel like we can come up with a slightly better name. At the moment, that's the best name. It's a good name. The tip-off toddler?

That's good. So, yeah, a baby that can hopefully predict the results of the World Cup. We had some great people in yesterday. Yeah, Liam phone through. My young lad, Atlas, I think you'd be perfect for the job. Oh, what a cool name. How old's Atlas? Atlas is one and a half years old and I think the name says it all

mate. He knows a lot about the world already. His old man's no good with making bet, so hopefully he can make me a little bit. Deb, she thinks she's got the betting baby. I sure do. It's my friend's baby. Oh, okay. She has been listening to

every rugby cricket. netball game since she was conceived. So those are some great nominations. You can text through 4487 if you'd like to put your baby forward for the betting baby. But this is going to catapult the baby into superstardom, you know? Fame, fortune. And hopefully not a life of, you know, rehabilitation later in life.

You don't want them going off the rails. A child star that you're like, oh, I shouldn't have done. They'll be well supported. Exactly. There's a duty of care on our behalf, isn't there, for this sweet sweet little betting baby. But we wanted to know 0800 that's 4487. And were you a famous baby? Did you feature in an ad?

Were you a part of the news story? And our boss Harriet, lovely to have you in Hazer. Hello. You were a famous baby. I had a full page spread in the Christchurch press. In the bath, naked, but covered. With my mum.

Was your mum naked? Yeah, but she, I think she had like a towel. It was all very tasteful. It was a tasteful. But we were promoting a bathroom business. I remember you showing us the photo. Yeah, the bubbles were tastefully placed. Yes, exactly.

appropriate locations. But your mum was a model. She was a model. And so they're obviously saying it is a model with a baby. Yeah, that's the famous baby. Unusual concept for a photo shoot. Let's get a baby and mum in the bath. Yeah.

Sell some baths. You know, pack off some baths. A different time. Yeah. I've never seen a bathroom business advertising with people in the baths ever again. No. They just do the bath in there.

You're like, how would people look in those bars? I don't know. I need to see that. When you found out about it, did you hit up your mum for some cats? True, maybe I could hit her up today. Yeah. She were a part of it. She would have taken some money off that.

You would have had a talent for you, dead right. Okay, so this is what we're after. Were you a famous baby? Were you in a catalogue, a TV show? An Angettys? Can we get in Ann Geddy's? Oh, wow. There was a period there.

We love biffing babies and pot plants, didn't we? Angetties, do you remember those? Put on a bumblebee outfit and a pot plant and away they go. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Morning were you famous as a baby because, of course, we're looking for a baby to predict the winners of a football tournament thingy that's going on later in the week. Yeah, our boss Harriet, she was involved in a bathroom shoot with her mother advertising a soapy bubble bath.

There you go. She just sent through the photo, too. Oh. Here we go. Are we allowed to put that on our socials? We can ask Harriet. Need to be consensual, obviously. She also gets residuals.

If he put it up again, she'll get paid again. she'll get paid again, so we've got to be careful, you know. You're right, there is perfectly placed bubbles. There are, yeah, really appropriately placed at bubbles in the right locations there. So producer Troy, you were saying you're actually a famous baby as well. Yeah, Harriet telling that story reminded me, my mum sent in a photo of me as a kid. And you know those, like, red and yellow kids' cars, and they were like from Plunkett, you could hire them out. Oh, like the little tykes or whatever they're called.

Oh, yeah. He had like a little roof on it, but you look like a little car. It was just a photo of me kind of leaning out the window looking real cash. and she sent it into Women's Day or Life magazine or something and they put it in and she won like 500 bucks. Oh, it would have been That's Life. That's Life. That's Life. I love That's Life.

It'll be, why my cousin married my husband. The fallout. Oh, well, good on you featuring That's Life. Little baby. One mum, 500 bucks. Oh, wow. Nice. Again, did you get paid?

I didn't. No. Vivian, you're a famous baby. Yeah. What'd you do? A baby Reverend Marion two goes. on the Jono and Ben show. I have zero recollection of that scene.

Did you say marrying two goats? Yes. On our show. Dressed as a reverend. We have done a lot of stuff and it does feel like I forget some. There's flashes of memories, but yeah. Vivian, how old are you now? I'm 10 right now.

10, so okay. So I mean, it can't have been that long. You must have been a real little baby. It's eight years ago. We were having you. Did they. you right? Did they pay you well? Don't try to get a scam anyway.

I don't think they got paid. Oh, classic. Don't think you got paid. It was good at work experience, though. It was good, you know? Do you think they owe you now? Looking back? No.

No, she had the time of her life, little Vivian. Let's not do any more questions with Vivian. Well, great. Well, nice to talk to the baby that we got to marry goats. God you guys did some stuff, eh? We did. I don't know what would have called for that. scene. I know, I'm trying to think we did a lot of stuff

that we'd do mini baby versions of stuff but even that, I'm like, no, I can't get to that. You know, we do like baby master's-shearship. I remember my daughter put her in, indeed, we put her in a pot when she was a baby and baby master chef and things like that. It was the first sit her in a pot, you know, like, she's like, thanks for doing that. You're welcome.

There's probably going to be like an Ex-Mose documentary on that show in about five or ten years time. Hey, Vivian, thanks for phoning through. Sarah, were you a famous baby? Well, it was my daughter. So when she was four weeks old, I was doing, I worked for SPCA and we had Cupcake Day in Newmarket, doing selling cupcakes to raise money.

And we did it outside Dan Carter's clothing shop. I can't remember what it was called. And so he was there, and I thrust my baby at him, because I was too embarrassed to say anything. And the Women's Weekly photographer took a photo, and she was in the Wounds Weekly. Oh, with Dan Carter cradling her? Yep.

Yep. He's like, who is it? What is this? Whose baby? It's not my baby? Oh, that's a great story. I'm just stupidly shy. Oh, that's a good story.

So no words were exchanging. He just ended a baby. I mean, he's got good hands on the rugby field too. He didn't drop many balls, did he? So I trust Dan Carter with a pass for a baby. Oh, that's a great story, Sarah. Appreciate it. Wouldn't you a little miss something in Nelson?

Yeah, I entered a beauty pageant when I was little. Miss Kai Terry Terry and I I didn't win but I remember getting Miss personality Little Miss personality Do you think they made that that category up on the day? You're just so big a good one

I really like worked my way down the catwalk I think I got lots of laughs Rather than like Yeah That's great That's great John O'Bin and Megan The podcast

The Hits Last night I went to a little Event thing with my daughters and stuff And one thing you notice is You know when it's like a half-toe or one of those things you know an interval

yeah often you use the bathroom and being I guess the only one using the male toilets uh you're the only one and my family

it's normally a lot quicker for me to go in and out and this is one of those situations there was a huge long line that the girls were all waiting on yes I feel really sorry for you guys on that front when you go to concerts

and sporting games is there a way to speed things up I know because I feel like there must be all needs to be well it's because you have urinals right? Yeah, I mean, could you have, could you, I mean, is there a business in creating some sort of system where you kind of stand up and just put, like, sort of, there has, there's a sheweed.

Yeah, yeah. But like, have like a tube and you just sort of stand up there and it just kind of does the, I don't know, I'm brainstorming here, guys. Thank you. I appreciate it. I don't know if they, it's probably not up for the men to probably decide on what it. I probably wouldn't stand against a tube. You know, you could have your hands on your waist. Yeah, good night, mate, how's it going?

Anyway, so I was using the urinal last night. And it was a huge long line. And there was a couple people in the bathroom in the men's thing. But it was a lot quieter. Like I was pretty much straight in there. And then I just hear not looking, not looking, not looking. And I was like, oh, that's a, that sounds like a lady's voice, I guess. And I turned around and I was like, and it was.

And it was a lady walking through. And she had her sort of hand up, I guess, shielding her eyes. And she made her way through the men's into the cubicle system there. Good on her. She just decided enough is enough in the line. I'm going through and she just came in with a not looking, not looking. But any of the thing, I was like, is she looking? I don't know.

Did you give that a go in their urinal? Not looking. Not looking. Okay, looking a little bit. A little bit of peaking. Oh, good on her. Were any of the guys annoyed? Was there any chat?

I don't think so. We kind of just went, oh, oh, and I guess it startled us briefly because it was. And then she went into the, you know, the cubicle. And I was like, I guess all good, you know. She's a brave soul. I'm going to do that. Brave soul even walking into that, you know, smelly environment, to be honest. That would be my only thing.

What's the state of your chemicals? It was relatively good. Like, I probably wouldn't do it in a middle of a sports game or any of those sort of situations. It was relatively nice, I guess. But, yeah, there sometimes is, you know. Because if you did that in a woman's one, you'd probably get tackled. We would all be like, get out of here. Oh, yeah.

So I was wondering what the restriction. He's not waiting at on. I get reached it if I did that. But, yeah. But the reception was fine. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was just me and another guy.

Oh, my God. Yeah, sweet. What's your hands? Yeah. I should be an option. I remember there's a bar where you used to go out in town and it had, you had the combo, didn't it? Communal, like, washing hands and you went off to, yeah. You'd enter through a male, female door.

And then when you got in, you're like, oh, everyone's in here. I had something like that the other day. And everyone that came in was like, oh, oh, sorry. And then I was like, someone else came and go, ooh. It was like, everyone that popped in. just went, oh. And then I was like, no, it's okay. But the person before me had done that to me,

and I guess the person before them was like, oh, I'd like, yeah, maybe we start the, oh, bathroom. And he's coming through separate doors, but it's all open slather. What if I went to the men's bathroom here? Do you reckon anyone? No. Because I know people.

Just go there, not looking, not looking, not looking, and the way you go. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits. You know what I love, about this time, every morning. So we've got a couple of tent pole moments throughout the show behind the scenes.

618 to 623. Megan applies her eyebrow stuff and eyelash stuff. And around about... 807, 815, Ben eats his Greek yogurt. Those are the two moments that I appreciate it. I look forward to every morning. Very consistent though with your timings on those two activities.

Well, I try and get through the alpha quiz first before, you know, stuff gets stuck in my teeth with the granola. I do my makeup during the Herald quiz because that helps me focus. breakfast while and never getting breakfast What do you do? I just sit here, mate

sitting here and having a great time. He gets distracted by social media now and again. I do. Bloody Instagram. I need to delete it. I'm going to delete it. I'm not.

Now, Troy, Troy, producer Troy, we need to bring you into the studio because as a show we've had our credit card frozen. Well, it's just become unfrozen after a period of freezing

miss spending. The public need answers. I've never had a work credit card before in my professional career and I've, I've kind of gone a bit crazy. Did they tell you what the rules and regulations were around having one? No.

No, they just kind of said sign your name here, send a copy of your ID, and then a credit card turned up. And I was like, okay, sweet, great. In your defense, the one time I had a work credit card was when I went rogue on the show. Remember I got told off? No one told me there was, like, spending limit. Oh, you guys bought dinner, your monsters. We went around and we bought food and drinks and, like, oh, hard.

You went to the supermarket. We did get told off for overspending. There's a lot of personal purchases at that supermarket. Don't hand over the card and leashing and give provisers. Yeah, well, normally the way it goes is the announcers go, we want to do this cool, wacky thing. Can you go and buy this? And you have to go and get approval from the bosses.

Yeah, right. Can we pay for this in the budget? But with a credit card, I'm like, sweet guys, yeah, I'll go buy that thing. So the issue is we want to open up the phones. 0800 that hits 4487. You know, how much did you end up costing the company? Because one of Troy's purchases was flagged. This is what pushed it over the limit and got the card frozen,

was the ribbon that I bought for Megan's fridge peeling ceremony. Shall we peel the plastic off Megan's fridge? It would have been on there for 10 years. I went to the government contractor of ribbons. They do the NZTA banners when they open new roads. Oh, wow. We could have gone down a step.

All the big ribbon ceremonies this company's behind. Yeah, if they open a new town, they go to this company. Hospitals. Yep. And I commissioned a proper ceremonial ribbon that had Megan's fridge peeling ceremony all over. That's right, yeah. But it wasn't so much that.

it was the fact that you ordered, what, 10 metres? 10 metres of ribbon. It was pricey too. It was. Yeah, pushed us right over the limit. Hundreds of dollars worth of ribbon, so they said, hey, enough's enough. What did we do? We gave that ribbon to other people who needed it for ceremonies.

I've still got a section. Yeah, cut it into one meter sections and ship them all out. It's great. Yeah, see, we used it. We gave it. It was prizes. We should have gone round the country with the ribbon. And I'm having a thing.

What do you want to open? We'll open it. Yeah, we'll do that. That would also cost. If everyone that we sent it to, send it to, send it. We can buy more. and do a ribbon tour of New Zealand as well. You know that's going to cost more, right?

Oh no, but it's a good idea. How much ribbon does one show want to buy? I want to buy more ribbon. Okay, so 800 of the hits. How much did you end up costing your company? Now, whether it was through mispurchasing on a credit card or, oh, Dan, our friend, he does the breakfast show on the edge, Dan. He used to work at West Pack at the bank.

Did he have a serious job? Yeah, well, he did until this point. Yeah, and someone came. and they wanted a thousand dollars cash out and he mucked up something he gave them 10,000. Like he added up at the end of the day and he was like, ooh. I'm 10, I'm 9,000 out there. Oh my. Do you get it back?

I don't know. I don't think he kept his job after that. That's how he ended up and right. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Yeah, you wonder how some people stay employed, really, don't you? We had a guy, I won't mention his name, but he worked here previously and he said some

wild stuff about a well-known person. That falls under the category of defamation because it didn't turn out, you know, it turned out to be not true. Yeah. Apparently you can't just say stuff about people that's not true. No, no. You have to be careful with a live microphone in front of you. You do. One of my people I used to work with said a celebrity's phone number on the radio.

Got in big trouble. That's wild. A massive phone. Did they go to court? Did it? Yeah. But I think the company paid the fine. You have to really back yourself as an employee not to get fired when you cost the money.

The management and radio must be like, look at all the idiots we've employed and put microphones in front of their faces. You know, a lot of damage can be done. Thankfully, I've never done anything like that because I reckon I'd just get the boot. I'm like, no. So 800 the hits year. What have you cost the company? Some great texts coming through, as Ben said, we'll get to those very shortly. But first of all, we'll go, happy new year to you, Roxy.

Hello, guys. How we doing? We're doing well, mate. What'd you cost the company? Not me. I just want to say it. It's not me. Not Roxy. No.

So my cousin worked for a company and they had a guy there that does, you know, the purchasing and stuff like that. He was supposed to order 50 car batteries. He ordered 500. Cost over $300,000. Oh, wow. Mind you, it's useful to have to, you know, backup storage. of batteries. You never know when your battery's going to run out.

Well, that's what my husband, my cousin said. He was like, but we don't have space for 500 batteries. And did they all turn up? They did. They did. But you would have thought, like, I can understand the mistake, you know, sticky keyboard or whatever adding an extra zero. But you would kind of think it's a little different from 3,000 to 300,000?

Yeah. And the battery salesperson would. to be like, take the rest of the day. Look at this order that's just come through. Surely they could take it back. You would be like, there was a accent. They're like, no rebunts. You know the battery game.

Oh my gosh. Highly charged battery game. Wow. Proxy, appreciate your time. Did he keep his job? He did. He did. And my cousin's actually getting me to make him a t-shirt about it.

Oh, that's good. I mean, it was a mistake. They take a piss out of him all the time. Yeah. I mean, these things happens when you employ muntas like us, you know? We're all muntas, really. the end of the day, aren't we? Kylie, welcome. Hello.

Right, would you cost the company, Kylie? I resigned from my position, and they offered me a large hay rights to stay, but were on a buyout. It ended up costing the owners 150 grand to keep me. So the company was being sold? Yes.

At the time. Yes. So how did it go, how did it get up to 150K? Because of the multiplier on the buyout for any additional cost. Oh! Oh, Nully.

Kiley's like, oops, sorry guys. Tyler's everything. You have to pay Kiley a little bit more. Oh, that is great. Good on you. Some texts coming through here. I had to explain the one we had before that someone that didn't want to talk about on here, but how did the phone thing work that we teased?

They went away for summer break and everyone had their automatic replies on, basically being like, I'm away until January 16th. We'll be to reply then. But someone sent a group message to everyone on the company. And then everyone's automatic replies pinged back and forth. back and forth, back and forth, and they had tens of thousands of texts build up. So it was like, every text was like 50 cents. How did they not?

How does that not happen more? Automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic. And they would just keep pinging back. So it was like, there's thousands of me. And they came back and each person had like 10,000 messages. Again, the salesperson sparks like, like, take the rest of the summer off guys. These guys texting each other. I'll keep this coming through.