Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Could Diddy Be Pardoned? We’re Live from New York with the Latest

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

This week, we get into the latest headlines around Taylor Swift — from some surprising personal rumours doing the rounds to what Scooter Braun’s been saying now. We also break down how Taylor’s taken full control of her music and what that means for the rest of the industry. Then there’s the Diddy case — new updates, big questions, and will there be a presidential pardon....See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Time to head to the States. Coming to us from the city where the rats are the size of cats and cats are the size of just normal cats. Nicole in New York. Oh, you know what's so funny? My husband went out on Saturday night without me. That was nice. I got stuck home with the kids to watch the Knicks play the Pacers.

And he went with all of his boys. And after the game, after the loss, they wanted to drown their sorrows in a little nightcap. Walked down the street and apparently there were two rats that were like fighting, scurrying, like tumbling over each other. And my husband screamed like a little girl at the top of his lungs. And everyone, no one even laughed. They just walked ahead of him because they were embarrassed to be his friend. I'd do the same. Yeah.

I'd do the same. Yeah, okay. Follow this from New York now. She's been wandering around the streets of New York, hasn't she? Taylor Swift. She has. After she sold her,'t she, Taylor Swift? She has. After she sold her, or no, she bought back her music. She's been celebrating and she's been going out to dinner.

Can you explain the buying back of the music? So, okay, so they obviously, before Taylor, most musicians, most artists do not own their music. That was just kind of like a thing. Like no artist for the most part own them. It was the record labels, right? When her record label went out from underneath her and sold them, sold her masters. And it was like, you never even gave me a chance.

Like maybe I wanted to buy them. Maybe I wanted to own them. And they kind of all like left it off. And we're like, yeah, no artist does that. And then it was this whole thing because it was Scooter Braun who was the one sort of behind making that happen. So she decided I'm just going to go rerecord all of my albums, which is the most insane and like magical thing ever, and make those not like my original songs not be worth anything. Then because all of her fans are so rabid, they only listen to those, only stream those.

Then she did the Heiress tour, which made over a billion dollars, which then allowed her to have enough money to buy back the Masters if she wanted. I mean, I don't know. All of you also heard about what we might be getting soon, another album? Oh, really? Okay. So in the letter, if you go back and look at the letter that she wrote to all of her fans, one of the words, it's like this. And she uses 12 I's in this, which would be her 12th album.

And she has done this a couple times before. it's like this and she uses 12 eyes in this, which would be her 12th album. And she has done this a couple of times before. And now she's wearing very specific jewelry when she goes out on the town of New York, earrings that have 12 little diamonds dangling. It's all, everyone's like, we're getting, she is very calculated.

Do not laugh at me. You know, you're in deep again, Nicole. I believe you're right though. And that's the thing. She does drop little hints though though, doesn't she, towards things that could be coming up.

Unless she just accidentally sat on the eye on the keyboard there. One of her cats jumped on the keyboard and then hit the thing. She's like, oh, I sent it away. Oh, geez, that's embarrassing. Now, Nicole, sorry, back to Scooter Braun's a friend of yours, right? Well, yes. Our dads went to dental school together. We went to high school together. We are family friends. Yes, my mom was actually just over at his parents' house the other night. How did he feel about

that whole Taylor Swift thing? I was not going to call him because I'm sure he was getting a million people calling him. But you did see that he there was it was everywhere that he comments. He's happy for her. I'm happy for her and i kept being like maybe he should have just kept quiet like that was the first thing i thought of like just don't like you're just asking for trouble whether you say something good or bad so he was sort of damned if he didn't damned if he didn't i don't know the guy is a billionaire himself i think he's doing just fine but yeah i mean that definitely was not a probably of a happy time in his life to look back at because it really had the whole world on him.

He had the whole world really hating on him. Yeah. And he's not managing Bieber anymore. Nobody. He's not managing everybody. Also, did you see that there was like some drama going on between him and Bieber and who owed who money and that Bieber was having all these money troubles? And then all of a sudden Hailey sells her beauty company for a billion dollars. So I guess he's out of trouble if there was actually money trouble. A billion dollars?

Yeah, his wife's a billionaire now. Maybe she can throw us all a bone. I don't know. She can't possibly need a billion dollars. That's incredible. Well, no, I know how because we buy lots of beauty products but it's just like that's the way to go. Rihanna, Selena, Kylie Jenner, that's how they've all got money is because we keep buying their bloody beauty products megan call me after this and let's get together and start a beauty brand

look i don't want to like uh you know pour water on your idea guys but he's about to i mean nicole's got a you know nationwide radio show but you're not married to Justin Bieber. Okay, I said it. Also true. Also true. Yes. We can try our luck. You're not getting any when we sell it for a billion. So you're saying

their market value is... Their market value is not at present but hey, you can build it up. It sounds like a challenge. Is there a big carrot nearby Taupo?

There's our Koonee. Yeah, not far away. We've got a new dinosaur in Taupo and a fish in the park. Oh, there you go. From the big fish to the big apple. Yeah, not far away. They've got a new dinosaur in Taupo. Yeah, okay. And a fish in the park. Oh, there you go. From the big fish to the big apple. Yeah, there we go.

To New York with Nicole, our entertainment reporter who hosts the breakfast radio show over there on Sirius. Diddy, the trial continues on for Diddy. What's the latest, mate? Well, the latest is something I'd rather not repeat, but I will because it's newsworthy. It gets worse and worse with every person that goes on the stand, every assistant, every bodyguard, any person that was ever involved in setting up these freak-offs, everything.

But the most recent out of the mouth of our president of the United States was, would he ever pardon Diddy? I don't know what idiot decided to ask him that question at a press conference, but he went ahead and said, well, he used to like me very much. We haven't spoken in some time. But I don't know. No one's ever, no one's asked me. If they ask me, we'll think about it. I don't know.

I would certainly look at the facts. If I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don't like me, it wouldn't have any impact on me. What? What? What? What's happening? Where's he pardoning him from?

When can you get pardoned if he's found not guilty? No, the president can literally pardon anyone he wants. He doesn't have to explain. He can just do whatever he wants. He just did it. Did you see? He just did it last week with some reality show stars, the Chrisleys.

Yeah, he can just be like, and you're fine. So he wouldn't have to finish the court case? No. No, you're done. You're out of jail. You're out of court. Yeah. Really?

That's not someone that should be pardoned. I'm sorry. I'm just sorry. During the week, it came out that he broke into Kid Cudi's, who's a hip-hop artist, broke into his house because he was dating Diddy's ex, Cassie, and opened up all his Christmas presents. All the things he could do, like locked his dog in the laundry and then opened up the Christmas presents.

I think he also put a bomb in his car, allegedly, right? Yeah, his car. The Christmas present. Yeah, his Porsche. Yeah, the car bombing, I think, was the main thing. I don't think I heard about the Christmas presents, but that's epic. Yeah. In terms of coverage, I can see why the car bomb took think was the main thing I don't think I heard About the Christmas presents But that's epic Yeah In terms of coverage I can see why the car bomb

Took the oxygen Yeah Everyone knows how long It takes you to wrap All those Christmas presents But then I love the fact That he's gone in He's opened the presents

But then just left them There as well Just like that's sadistic Yeah These aren't worthy Of being presents Rewrap them Good luck

When you're on that mission You're like This is gonna really wind them up. Opening up them presents. You literally can't make it up. There is not a movie or a television show or even a reality show

that resembles anything that's happening in this country right now. I mean, are you just all continuing to laugh at us? No, we're not laughing at you, necessarily.

It's pretty wild what's going on when you think about it, you know? It would be funny if it wasn't real, you know? Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. Hey, Nicola. Thank you so much for your time.

You're going to have a great day. Of course. Okay, you too, guys. I'll talk to you next week.