Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Ben's Holiday Accident Came Back To Haunt Him | THE GREATEST HITS

Episode Date: August 15, 2026

One year ago this week... Years after accidentally taking out an eight-year-old on a Fiji water slide, Ben comes face-to-face with his dad again.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We hosted something in the weekend, John, it was a lovely event. And after the event, we were just chatting to some people when a guy came up to us, you were there. And he was like, do you remember when, said to me, when you injured my son? Yeah. And did you, well, did it come back to you?

At first, not straight away. No, I've injured a lot of kids over the years. And I was like, what you mean? And you said, do you remember being on a holiday in Fiji? And as soon as he said that, I was like, oh, yes, I do remember this. At a water park, a situation where I had come down the slide. I thought I'd give an adequate time.

He hadn't obviously moved the kid, and I had come down. And once you're coming off the end of a water slide, there's very little. Philosophy. How old was the cat? Eight. He kept saying, Dad was like, he'll be, he's going to be fine. He's got to be fine. The more he said he's going to be fine, the more he's going to be fine.

As soon as he's out of hospital, he's going to be just fine. He's going to be fine. Four years ago, he was like four. He's 12 now. Wait, what? So he was at the end and you body slammed him. He was at the end, hadn't moved away in time, and I just came. Yeah.

Who do you put this on? The kid? I don't know. I mean, probably a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. I remember apologising at the time. I did say to him the other light. At least I weighed about the same as the kid. And then he said, the dad was like, you said that on the day four years ago.

Finish with a gag. It was like the same joke I used then. I used four years. I didn't remember making the joke, but I did remember landing on the, I felt terrible. Were there tears? No, I think he was, no, it was all right. Just rattled. Yeah, where out of the way he went.

I remember, speaking of tears, I do remember that. It was quite a traumatic day. I remember, I think I was telling you about it, because my daughter, Indy, was, we paid for them to do the whole big slides and everything, and she was quite young, and she didn't want to go on the big slide. And she kept going up and then going, I can't do it. Yeah.

I was like, and I thought it was going to be one of those real parent, teachable moments. I was like, here we go. We're going to get on the tube together, the two of us. And she's like, I don't want to do it. I was like, I reckon once you get to that first corner, you're going to love it. Look, these little kids are loving it. You've got to love it. That little kid I just ran over.

He loved it. He's going to be fine. He's going to be fine. And so we went on and I was like, and I said, no, trust me it would be good. Now, yeah, no, it wasn't good. She didn't. Soon we got the first corner, I could hear her go, this is not fun. I was like, yeah, some people water slide people, some art.

And it was, yeah, very. So yeah, you forced your daughter on there. Squashed a kid. It was traumatized your daughter. Two childhoods that day. That's why I can't go back to Fiji, guys. I love how many stories you do that starts with. I thought this could be a teachable moment.

I did. I was like, this is going to run those moments. she'll get to bottom and go, you're right, that was not as better. It was fun, but no. She hated it more than she thought she was. Exactly. Nightnears.