Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben's daughters are planning his divorce...

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

On today’s show:  Ben's daughters are planning his divorce... Why Megan was sent off with a dramatic guard of honour and Nerf gun salute. Listeners share worst learner‑driver disaster as Ben is teaching his teenager to drive! Jono's Inland Revenue meeting is triggering anxiety... The best-spoken breakdowns in songs!  Nicole Ryan joins with entertainment gossip behind Secret Life of Morman Wives! Sibling Survivors returns with brutal childhood stories Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFAST Facebook: 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. Welcome along. No, Megan, right now, you'll hear her for a bit. She'll a wee cameo on today's show. She popped in, which is nice way to pop in. Just check up on how the show's going and then pop back up.

This is why she doesn't take time off, because you get little digs in. You know, nice a bit of pop in, you know. Nice a bit of her coming on. It's coming to work. No, but she really needs to go home. I mean, she even sat in the corner and just laid her head back, and she was just like, chatting her eyes in the middle of the show. I was like, yeah, you can't make it through.

Definitely go home. Yeah, one of the troops had to go home. But, you know, another thing you'll do, too, does this chalk up as one of the days on your rolling? You both are competing over who's had the most annual leave. Yeah. Does this clock, what did this clock up is? Half day? Oh, yeah, it's definitely, yeah.

She'll probably try and say, oh, it worked that day, but, yeah. She might be so. She's four and a half days off? Yeah, well, yeah, she started the year with a few days. off, didn't she? Yeah, and she's had a cup. But this one definitely seems like take days off. Yeah, no, she deserves it.

She deserves it. So, yeah, you will hear parts of her through the podcast. She'll pop and pop out. That's good to be going to do that. Yeah, again, she'll listen to this. This is why I come back to work too early after being sick. Because last night she texts saying, I'm feeling a lot better. I was surprised.

And I'll be in tomorrow. And then memes, people in the group chat, firing back memes. You're a hero. You're an absolute sergeant. What is it? Someone wrote. I don't know. What was the, yeah.

What did it, what, producer Troy, you sent a meme back. What was your meme? I felt you probably weren't entirely happy with the meme you sent back. What was it when Megan said she was coming back? Oh, it was the, it was just the movie poster for Super Trooper. A Super Trooper, yeah, you're a trooper. Yeah. I'd have thought more about that.

No, that's all right. It's on the spot. But yeah, she came back too soon, too soon, you know. But that's right. But then once you put Super Trooper, she had to come back. She did, yeah. You put pressure on her. One of them, Matt, Matt, our boss, Photoshopped at the Pooper Trooper.

That's right. I was trying to find what the change. Yeah, that's right. So that was all. So then, you know, once memes start flying around, you've got an obligation to return. You do. So, yeah, that's on the podcast today.

And also, Ben, now we're going to kick things off with a pending divorce. Yeah, yeah, where things are a rocky relationship. Things are not good at home, guys. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. They're my family. Friends of ours, you know, they've separated, and that's, that happens.

And I've went through that with my. with my parents and that's you know sometimes I think it's not a bad thing because in the end people can be a lot happier which is good and we're trying to talk about that with there any were there any advantages to your parents going their separate ways like you obviously

two Christmases two Christmases was a good one that was a good oh take that I mean and each were they each trying to out impress each other yeah for a while there they were so that was good that was good play them off against each other so yeah so that

that happens and we were talking about that with the kids the other night as well. And then they started going down the road of what would happen if Amanda and I spit up. Oh, cherry. And I was sort of sitting on the sidelines as they got quite in depth with the conversation. Like, oh, who would move out of the house? Oh, dad would move out of the house. Was your wife joining in? No, she was sort of like, oh, yeah, no, he'll go here and I'll do this.

Then you'd be worried. She was sort of an observer like, we're watching on the sidelines. Oh, they were talking to each other. Yeah, they really picked up the ball and ran with it. They decided I was moving out. I was like, okay, fine. And then they were like... He seems like the type of guy would have to move out.

Like move out the ball buster. Yeah, move him out. I could see you. Where could I see you in sort of a lonely little one-bedder apartment? Oh, well, they had apartment. They were really selling the apartment, like some sort of real estate agent. They were like, that would be a nice apartment, dad. You'd get an apartment to be nice and clean and tidy.

I'm like, okay, talk to me more about this apartment. They thought an apartment building with a gym as well, too. Okay. One of those ones, car parking. So they've got over the trauma. and the hurt feelings of the divorce and now they're straight to the facilities yeah so they're like like a nice sort of two-bedroom apartment i'm like okay they're kind of selling me on it i'm like that sounds nice you know that i think how clean you could keep it and all that's and stuff i'm

okay and then i'll like oh hang on no it just like them's just saying you'd be out you're on your you're on your way they've come to terms with that do they ever mention how often they'd come and see you no no yeah was that extra bedroom for them or no well yeah i don't know i don't know actually you're right they're just sort of phasing me out or not so it happens when people have like conversations of things that may or may not happen. Everyone, everyone growing up, I had that friend with the bloody

divorced dad in an apartment. You know? It seems like rules of morals. We're a little fast and loose. At that solo dad's house. Yeah, I'm saying I'm my dads. Should we go out of the week? Yeah.

Dinner was optional. Sometimes dads didn't even know they were coming. Yeah, come and they'd be like, yeah, we're starting at dads. And dad would be like, I had no idea that was happening. It was just used as an excuse. It sounds like you're going to be that dad. Watch the space, guys.

Watch the space. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. That's... Exactly. She's down with the sickness. 2028 says producer Troy. What's the song to hear when you've got like a head out.

So you ate six-day-old chicken soup and yesterday you were off, Megan, which, yeah, like, sounds horrible. Sounds horrible, right? Yeah. Sympathised where. What do you want to know from me? What we want to know? I just want to know you're okay because you're coming to work, which is great. It's good to see you, but you don't look at handy.

I can tell you not. It's hard work. I'm like, go home rest. Yeah. Well, I'm not like fully on the food yet. Came back too early. Came back too early. Yesterday you're like on the text, you're like, I'm going to be back guys.

The whole group to everyone was sending you, you're a hero, you're a battler. And we're like, we pressured you into coming back too early. Because I looked at our little sheet that we fill in and I could see there was like stuff replacing me. I was like, that doesn't sit well with me. I don't like, I get scared when someone else sits in my seat. Okay, we booked Haley Sproul to come on. Okay, she was going to fill in for the day. Who knows where that was going to lead to it?

They don't want to come in next if you want. Would have had electric chemistry, you know that, sure. So, what we want to do is open the phone line. Should Megan go home? Yeah, go home rest. All right? Now, talk it up as a half day. Have we got any medical professionals?

Alison, what do you do for a job? I'm a nerd. Oh, okay, live diagnosis of Megan. Talk to her. Yeah, you need to go home through that. Sorry. Oh. It's probably really bad for gastro bugs with a change of season.

And, you know, it may not be food poisoning. Because food poisoning usually, sort of, you've got 24 hours and it gets south out of your system. But, I mean, if you've got a bug, and I know it's probably more work at home with the number one. But if you have got a buggy, that I spread it around your colleagues, Oh great, so we're all going to be dabbling. Now you've made us all anxious, Alison. She's spraying gastro all over the studio. Oh, great.

Oh, no. Okay, well, she's definitely going home. Oh, definitely staying. I'm going to spread the love. Go home. Go home. That's what else. That's the medical industry. Now, TX.

Megan should go home. James, I love you guys, but you need to cut Megan some slack. Be nicer to her. She should go home. Thank you, James. We've been trying to send her home since 10 past six. He said, I make you feel. sad just by looking at me.

That's so... Oh no, because I get so much you're hurting. You're just like sitting in the... He's like, you're depressing me. Before the show started, it's like five to six, before she's reading you, she's going, who... Spreading a gas drive around the studio. I was sacking myself up.

Well, listen, why don't we do it make this deal? You read the news next live. Okay. Okay. Then go home. Okay. Are you going to call me when I'm at home, like you always do? I tried to call yesterday. Yeah, you tried to call me like three times.

I was fair to say it was busy. Content, baby. Allison, thank you for your diagnosis. We'll pay you. Okay. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast. The Hits. And Megan, I was reluctantly gone home.

She's not feeling very well today. She really was a struggle. We gave her a little guard of honor. A little guard of honor. And we had a Nerf gun in the studio. And it was like a five gun salute, was it, producer Troy? The Nerf gun as well. Off she went.

You'll see that dramatic exit from the show on the Hitsbury Fitzs, for its Instagram really shortly. Now, I notice you're a bit more tense than usual, Ben, at that moment. What's going on? Well, no, I've been, it's been some, I guess, tense times at the start of it, but I mean, experiencing something for the first time. My daughter, Ciena, has got a learner's license, and so we've been doing some driving lessons.

And, I can I just say, I'll front foot it, say, she's got really good over the last couple of months. At the start, very, like, you know, nerve-rexious. Anxious. How tight we're holding onto the door handle, like an ejector button. So we've gone from the mall car park after hours, you know, to now you're driving on motorways and things like that. So it really has advanced. But it's still, I'm trying to be more chill and relaxed.

But my daughter's here, it's like, you could just feel, especially at the start, just feel. She's like, I can just feel the tension. I'm like, I'm not saying anything. I'm chill. I'm chill. And she's like, no, I could just feel it. A clenched the doorline. I can just feel it.

I could see your foot sort of pressing in as the imaginary break, you know. And I try to be really cool and calm with my instructions. it's great when there's plenty of time. I'm like, I just want to take a turn up there and just want to, you know. And then sometimes it's like, she's like, I don't know what you're saying.

You just say, you know, but I don't, I don't blame your stress and anxiety levels because you're the one who's got to deal with the admin. If there's an accident, your car's out of action, you've got to take it as a panel be,

you got to pay for it to get fixed. So I can understand why you're on the edge of your, literally on the end of your seat. Yeah, no, on the motorway, and driving around town. Motorway must have been a, who,

first time on the motorway. I was like, it feels like all of a sudden it feels like we're going fast she's like we're going 80 but it feels fast you know normally that doesn't feel fast at all on the motorway so it's been a really interesting experience as we go and and you know because a lot can go wrong in that situation thankfully nothing has gone wrong so far and she's been really good and getting better and better at it but i'm just you know trying to be trying to be more chill and more zen which is not really me no so yeah the car would fill up with stress and tension pretty quickly i

imagine but I want some radio on she's like that relaxes me I'm like no don't need the radio I love the radio yep but not now oh so you're driving in silence as well as you're just need to be checking your mirrors and doing all the things and you're like it's oh 800 that so we want to chuck this open uh the worst learning to drive shockers that you had uh geez I my dad every time he comes up they're coming up today my parents from Christch actually and he's like he likes to remind me and mum too they were like you were a nightmare of a teenager and I'm like looking at my kids now, I was a nightmare of a teenager. Thankfully they've looked at me and gone, that's a path we don't want to go down.

But I had my learners and they would let me just go up to the dairy, you know, to pick up milk and whatever. And I decided it would be a fun opportunity to pick up my other friend, Ben Russell. So I went to his house on the other side of the suburb, picked Ben up, and I got a bit showy offy, and we slid around a corner into a parked car. And then I panicked, and I just drove off. And then Ben was like, well, I might get out of the car now. I don't have been in front of this.

And I just remember pulling into the driveway. The bumper scraping all the way on the road all the way back home. And I don't know what the opposite of a proud look on your parents' faces, but I experienced it that day. The police had already phoned. Oh, have they? Yeah, they're like, oh, your car's been in a hit and run. So they were waiting for, oh, my God, nightmare.

So that must make you feel a little better about your experience. Yeah, exactly. So far, so good. But we just, you know, well, no worse case, you know, worse case, well, not worst case scenario. It's not a worst case scenario. It's not really breakfast friendly. No, but you're learning to drive shockers. You're nearly worst case scenario.

We all know the worst case. Let's dial it back a few cases from that. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. Where is our Megan? She's just gone home. Yes, she wasn't too good, right? She came back to work way too early after reading a six-day-old chicken soup, and so she'll be driving home right now.

With the comfort of her own bathroom as well. Yeah. Taking her whatever she's got with her. I felt like we're just on the verge of just, spewfest 26. The whole show. I had to go sit in the corner on a beanbag with a head and her hands.

I was like, really it's time to go home. It really is. You know, I guess you've tried and it's great, but, you know. And it was a triumphant sendoff we gave her as well to Andrea Bacheli's

time to say goodbye. You can see that video on the Hitspreface Instagram. Thanks for putting that up, Grace Hilliam. And now I've, in the process, and my wife as well, you know, driving with my daughter, seeing an oldest daughter, she's learning to drive at the moment.

And, you know, it's an interesting experience. Yeah. Just getting through. And as I say, we have advanced a lot, but it's... Have you argued? Have you argued in the cockpit? A little bit about, you know, me not being clear on details.

But it's like, but stuff is there, you know, a car on the side of the road. I'm like, I'm sorry. It's not as clear as it would be if I had more time. Yeah, you do have a, you do have a neck, I say, half finishing sentences, like you don't fully finish sentences some of the time. Particularly in a panic too. You got to do that. I'm going to do the one.

She's like, what are you talking about? Where, where, where? So at the moment, so we wanted to know stories of what happens when you started driving. Great tech's coming through. I grew up on a farm, already knew how to drive when I was young. First time I drive on the road with my daddy, he fell asleep. So that's the opposite end of the scale. He's relaxed.

Yeah, farm kids are built different. Yeah. They're a better breed, better species farm kids. Tanya, happy new year to you. Happy New Year. Great to have you on. Teedog. What happened when you're learning to drive?

You had a shocker. Oh, I had a shocker. I was 16 and I lied to my dad, told him I wanted to do. live a surf club pamphlets when I really wanted to drive to Mahir and look at boys surfing. But we had a... It was in the surfing world? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and Gizzy.

Had a time and I had to be back by 6pm. We didn't even make it tomorrow here. I had to turn around and go back. So there was a bit of a road work, upper hill near the Fodid Artis, and I overtook a, but, you know, rookie mistake didn't look in my rear vision mirror by the time I did. There was another car that was trying to overtake me to overtake the car, and I just floored it and went into the gravel and started fish tailing everywhere. And my friend grabbed the wheel and it just flipped us twice, so we ended up in a ditch.

What, you rolled as a car? Rolled the car, yeah. 16. Put me off driving for a little while. I can imagine. Yeah. Yeah. It's shaky to get back on the horse, wouldn't you?

And obviously, most importantly, you're okay? Oh, yeah. Actually, nothing, we're fine, not a scratch. Okay, and then once your parents got over that pit, how dark was it? I was probably just happy that we were alive. and I had to pay their insurance access and my friend hardly got in trouble. I know it was like quite

I was a bit south, a bit tough. Double roll of the car there, Tanya. Wow, that's a big one to start with. Thank you so much for your call. Appreciate it. Dan, good morning to you, mate. Good morning, brother. Good to have you on.

What happened when you're learning to drive Dan the shocker? Am I telling that story I told you before? Yeah, we'd love to hear you told producer Troy. He says it's a great one. Oh, yeah. So I was driving for my brother. She had a bit of a headache and I was come up to the intersection. I actually had no license.

I was quite experienced driving. But no license? So your mum's beside you? Yeah. She had her learners. It gets better. It gets better. I'm not going to learners until like not that long.

She only just got her full. all right anyway, so intersection as quiet as was evening just before we actually park a car and hopping a boat to a boat but anyway police officer goes past

we were just at the stop sign and just goes past and there's out of the site with a heart solar racing I look over to mum and last thing I expected and she's you know she's not a hard out of lady and she's quite quite hollow and she goes

go go go go go go and I'm like oh that's all that's I just floor it off and they're just like, take the left left, take the left. Oh, you're in, your mom's got your own to a police chase. Yeah, well, it's not really a chase until they start pursuing it. That's very true. That's very true.

You're just in a race against yourself. I read the fine print. Now, I came in a, end of the long loop road, sort of like a cul-de-sac thing. And she's like, stop, stop, stop. No, jump out, swap seats. come over and she goes Now give me your hat

And she puts my hat on Jah That's my police officers Doing a coups boy And he looks And just I don't know if it was A smile or one

It was pretty much Expression list And he just went past And just carried on Going Oh you got away Scott free Scott free

The cop would have been Like fair play Fair play Wasn't say much That that's a lot Time again Now I'm 43 Now I'm 18

No 16 16 men though a bit more crazy back in those days That's very funny That's a good story Yeah We found a lot of the Rings We're really cool to know

There's more A lot of the Rings and movies Are being made a couple more Including one by US talk show host Stephen Colbert He's writing one with his son as well Sir Peter Jackson's still involved And hopefully all going well

He'll be filmed in New Zealand That's good Trump got his job cancelled didn't he Donald Trump's Stephen Colbyer basically That's right Yeah It felt like

Yeah, he said that, you're starting a video, he's like, I wrote the script or this idea for a movie, but I was like, I never have time to write it properly. And he was like, oh, all of a sudden. I've got time on my hands. I've got some time somehow. So, yeah. That's cool.

Listen, the bloody inland revenue are after me again, man. Again, you're not paying your taxes? Well, I thought I had. But they think otherwise. They're thinking otherwise. So, yeah, I've got a 1115 AM phone meeting with the inland revenue today. It's always going to be fun. I'm pretty sure I did.

Now, this leads me on to, so we have to have a meeting with, you know, the money people, the accountant, who's like, how have you ended up in this position? Sometimes you can pay it in the wrong year. I've done that before. Oh, so they've got the year. And I'm like, well, you know what it is for?

Just put it back in there. It's in your account? It's like, I'll put something in there. I haven't paid that one. I'm like, but I paid. And I'm like, oh, it's there. What happened on that occasion? Were they all right?

They had to move it across, but you still get, you get fees for whatever it is because you still get fined. You still get fined because it wasn't, yeah. I think I might have done that. Put it in there. Yeah, you've got it. Yeah, anyway. So talking to the accountant,

and that's about a half an hour conversation, all right, and they, you know, all sorts of stuff. Market volatility, you know, floating rates. I was just, and I sit there and I politely smile and nod. Right. And I get to the end of this meeting. We're walking out. My wife, Jennifer's like,

you didn't understand a word of what was just said in that meeting, did you? And I didn't. I didn't. I just sat there like a smiling golden retriever. nodding politely. And one of these things isn't at, I don't think I'm ever going to be good at. You know, you reach your point where,

like, I can't be bothered being good at that. Well, yeah, that's a lot of it. Like, I feel like sometimes you're like, if you really wanted to, you could. But you obviously don't want to. No, I don't want to. And it's probably putting a lot of mental load on Jen, my wife. She's like, she literally said, Joe, she's like,

I can never die. I can never die. The house, the lights will be off. There'll be no food in the fridge. So, yeah, that's what I'm dealing with at the moment. Tax woes. Well, yeah. Do you think you paid it or you're not sure?

Pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Like, if I was to give you a percentage, 82% confident. That it's in there somewhere. I just can't find it. Okay, you're going to have to get a better story before whatever time this morning. Oh, well, yeah, we'll rehearse. I don't know.

Take my word. I'm good for it. You know, let's take my word to it. What can I say? So it's your problem now. And I'll be like, no, it's not. No, it's, I've paid it. Like how much tax are you guys getting?

Just let this one slide. Yeah, they're not really a let it slide organisation. No, they're not, unfortunately. I found that out before. But yeah, so adulthood, it's just sort of sitting in rooms. And for me, pretending to you know what other people are talking about, nodding your head politely. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast.

The hits. We've been playing this song, I don't know, for how long. Why are you shrugging your shoulders? Have we not got where they hither? Oh, I don't know. He literally just spouted that as, like, fact. and I don't think we've contacted her. Oh, we haven't contacted.

So if I hear this listening, she's like, oh, I'm going. She's normally pretty good at coming through. She is. I guarantee her before 9 o'clock. Weather Heather from the Met Service, joining us very shortly. And if you're hearing this for the first time, well, it's news to me with the header. So this song, great song, Moll Smith will play a lot on the hats,

but we just noticed something the other day. In the middle of it, they have a little talking bit. We'll break down talking about. I think this has gone unnoticed for, since it's been released Come on come on Hurry up, I'm waiting Yeah, it's just a little bit of

I'm going, hurry up, I'm waiting Just a little talkie bit I like the talkie bits in songs too Why is he getting so impatient though What's he wanting? He's wanting someone to dance Come on Get up off the dance floor

I'm sorry I'm not a dancer, Miles Just a bit awkward dancing Wait a wait a get up there You know, a little bit of peer pressure From Miles Smith That's what we like And I like the talky bits Because you don't have to like

I don't have to sing in tune Or anything like that I just know I can, you know You join in. Yeah, I can talk along. I like that part. Shout out to someone who decided that songs didn't need singing. A bit of talking.

It's essentially just talking with a soundtrack underneath, isn't it? Yeah. So we want to know the best talkie bits. Now, some artists, you know, and so their songs, they go, like guns and roses. Like, this song played on the hits the other day. And they've got the whole, like, they've got sound effects of a phone call going on. This is on knocking on Heaven's door. It's calling.

It's ringing. Answer. Knock, knock, knock, and on him. I don't know if that conversation has any correlation to the song. What was he saying then? It's like, yeah, but I like that little talkie bit as well. But, yeah. So we want to know on 0-800-the-hits, 4487,

what do you think is the best talkie bit in the middle of a song? There's plenty around. What about that we're a sunscreen song that's purely talking about the whole time? Too much talkie, mate. Excluding that. Does he sing, Adam? Be kind to your knees.

You'll miss them when you're gone. Too much talky for me. He's gone through far the other way. I want just a little. Yeah, I suppose it's a little bit of singing, isn't it? But it's too much in that, yeah, too much talking. Someone's just texted in saying I know exactly what that guy is saying in the Guns and Roses's phone call. What is it?

You better start sniffing your own rank, subjection, Jack, because it's just you against your tattered libido, the bank and the mortician forever, man. And it wouldn't be luck if you couldn't get out of life alive. Okay. Again. It makes no sense. It's a great one from Supergroup, New Zealand band. We were talking about talky things In the middle of can't get enough

Having an abundance of platonic relationships Reminiscence of my man, Mike Plato Yeah, that's pretty cool that, eh? Who's Mike Plato? Is it Philip Shuri, the newsreel? No, I don't think it was. It was another TV two voice at the time, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so 0800 hits, your favourite talkie bit from a song. Thriller, Michael Jackson had a ripper in thriller, didn't he? The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in the search of blood. It's at Price I think it was the person who voiced this Yeah

So ever shall be found Pretty good It's a long talky bits It's a long talky bits John O'Bin and Megan The podcast The Hits Best Talky Bits

In a song Got so many texts Coming through For Best Talky Bits Brittany Spears Has got a good one There's a whole little breakdown

And oops I did it again Is he? Okay Remember that? Yeah Yeah But wait a minute Isn't this

Yeah Yes it is But I thought the old Lady dropped them into the ocean In the end Well baby, I went down and got it for you.

Oh, you shouldn't have. Oops, I. And again, what is it, what connection does it have to the... He was like an astronaut in the video, eh? But it was like a Titanic thing, yeah. He gives her the necklace, and she's like, but I thought the old lady dropped in into the ocean in the end. And she's like... I don't know what I had to do

with Oops, I did it again, but anyway, it was a good little breakdown in that song, right? Yeah, it feels, it feels like maybe the talky bits are, like, filler. We'll come back another day and we'll sing over the talky bits, you know, like a placeholder, but then they released the song. Taylor Swift apparently got some beauties. That's good?

Shinaia, she's come through a lot on the text. Yeah, that don't impress me much, which she lists a lot of things that are really impressive, to be honest in the song. Brad Pitt's definitely going to impress me. Okay, so you're a rocket scientist. Sad to Peter Beck and Rocket Lab, you know. Is that true that she's still not met Brad Pitt? Oh, really?

I think so. They need to make that happen. Well, Brad Pat will be like, I'm not meeting it. He already said it's not going to impress it. Maybe it will in the end. Maybe it'll make them work a little harder. For Shania Dyey joins us. Happy New Year, Dye.

Hi, happy new year to you too. Good to have you on now. Your favourite talky bit from a song, Die. Well, my absolute favourite would be Dance Around the World, all around the world by Blurta. Jeez, we're throwing out of back here. I love a guy, always. Okay.

It's right. Okay, we've got dance all around the world here. This is Blurter. And so they don't. until they came to a beautiful castle on a lonely hill. I love it. They all lived a prince with his two wise tutors and two guards. Come dance around the world with us, said the man in Brown.

But no, cried the tutors. For a prince must learn of law and justice. But a prince should also know some way. It's like an audio book that's just got music behind it, that's great. These people are on something, eh? Just a little talkie break down. I think that's one of my favourite talkie bits of the song too, Dye. That's impressive.

Do you know all the words to that talky bit? I guess when the whole song goes, I know lots of them. Okay, can we see if you're talking along with it? Okay, give it a bash. Oh, really? Go for it, Ty. So they danced until they came to a beautiful castle on a lonely hill. Castle.

They are left a prince with his two wise tutors and two guards. Sorry. It's like you just joining in on the last month. But in the morning. Fair enough. Cusses. Tudus. Oh, no.

Hang up on it. Tudus. Tudus. Tustle. I love it Oh Barbie girls Come through from Macquar as well There's a tenacious tea

There's so many texts Cover through at the moment Oh Brooke Brooke's phone's text through Uh Sorry Sorry Sorry it's just gonna do there

Brooke text 4487 Sayla V Bewitched A Ripper at the beginning Oh yeah Some people say Look like me dad Who can you see

You're up That feels again like Off off something. It was out of the time. Oh, really? You realize we're starting to record a song. Yeah, cool story.

Maybe we'll save the chit-chat to after the recording session. Brilliant. Kylie, morning to you. This morning. We're doing well, mate. Your favourite talkie bit from a song? Oh, it has to be the sunscreen song. Like, that's just epic.

Megan loves that song. Yeah, it's too much talkie. I'm thinking for this category. But all right, I'll accept it today. It's good talky bits. I still remember be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're going. I'm like, he was right.

It was a pretty random song. Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 97. It's actually got some really good messaging. You're right, Megan. It's an important message. Didn't even pay attention to that either. If I could offer you only one tip for the future. Yeah, well thank you for your call there, Kylie.

That's a really good one. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. That's... Speaking of Megan, can I just send you a heartfelt thank you? Heartful, thank you, Megan. Now, Ben, I don't know if you're aware of this, but our dear friend, Megan Pappas, is gracing the pages of the Woman's Day magazine this week.

Yeah, I did see a picture pop up for that. Looking lovely by, you know, in the garden there, covering the kids all looking like, didn't have gastro on that, you know, a big smile on your face. Where's this going? Yeah. Just a quote from the article, Ben, okay, if you would. Sometimes me and Andrew both feel a little guilty for pursuing our passions,

but we want to show the kids that it's important to chase your goals and for mum and dad to be seen to continue to do what we love. We're better people because we're living out our dreams. Her dream is here with us and she is living it. Dreammakers, that's what Jono and Ben are. It's in writing, it's in writing, Megan. I also in that article talk about my Formula One podcast, so that's my dream. Oh, is that your dream?

Yeah, no fair. Not the bit I saw Not the bit I saw Not the bit I'm reading in the social media quote Yeah Okay Classic radio host making it all about us Does feel like a dream

Dream come to for you right now Right vegan Yeah But they do say don't meet your heroes Yeah So well done Is it out right now Woman's Day magazine

Yes Yep it's out now Oh look I see your dogs Popin out of Andrew's crotch There in the photo Oh it's a dog head I forgot Can you all just appreciate

That looks so serene That photo the amount of wrangling that took. Also in the magazine there's a picture of I are smacking me on the head with a doll. It was chaos. That's probably the one picture we got. Good thing about photos, isn't it? You're just getting a little, a freeze frame.

Yeah, everybody looks like, great. It's like, oh, that's beautiful. It's like, I don't even know how they got I is smiling, to be honest. A-I, mate. A-I. Probably. We'll put that photo up on the Hits Breakfast and the quote, too, on the Hits Breakfast, social media. Make sure we get that quote up too, grace.

John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. I wanted to find out what was happening in the States. Live from New York City, it's our entertainment correspondent, Nicole Ryan. Hey. Good to see you. Good to see you guys. What's going on? Now, there is a photo that's going around of Justin Bieber and Usher,

supposedly having like an argument, like a physical altercation at, was it Beyonce's Oscar After Party? This picture has gone around everywhere, but it's AI, right? I don't know. I saw it too. I don't trust myself to tell whether something's AI anymore. I get myself into trouble constantly being like, oh my God, did you see this?

Did you read this? And everyone's like, that's AI, Nicole. Yeah, I would be shocked if there was a photograph of it. Although at those parties, if they are allowed to have the cameras, you know people are snapping as much as they can. I don't doubt that it actually went down, though. I mean, at least you are trying to do some investigative work. I don't even, I'm just like, wow, that looks like crazy.

I did you see this? And I repost it. We come from the same cloth. I do that on the show all the time then Megan has to undercut me with actual research Your friends Your friends with Scooter Braun though Justin's ex-manager

Do you have any details Any goss about what that altercation was about? No he's currently in Japan with his family And if you put some of the pieces of the puzzle together Like I know like he obviously discovered Justin And he signed him with Usher Years and years ago obviously But then you have to think about

how quiet Justin and Usher were around the ditty stuff, and we know very much that they were connected to it. And I think, I think this is my personal opinion. I think that they both probably were victims in some way, shape, or form. And who knows what, like, skeletons are in the closet and what, you know, what anger and unresolved stuff might be between them, having Usher have been, like, the adults, the person that my boo is supposed to protect him in those scenarios.

You know, like, I don't know. That's just the vibe I get when I first saw that they had gotten in a fight. Because apparently Usher approached Justin, and you might remember he did the Super Bowl halftime show, and Justin refused to be a part of it, even when Usher asked. So maybe... Maybe some longstanding beef.

There's some longstanding beef. I would have thought they'd have each other's phone numbers. You could have settled it over a text. You don't have to have the awkward face-to-face interaction, you know, so I always prefer that. All ready for Beyonce to snap a photo of it. She was ready. She was going to check it straight on Instagram.

She's like, this is going to get some great engagement. She needs it. Yeah. I mean, next time I might talk. I talked to Scooter. I'll see if I can get the, uh, the tea. But as of right now, I wasn't going to call him while he was on vacation and be like, Hey, what was going on? Yeah.

And do they speak now, Scooter Braun and Justin? No. No, there was the last time that they spoke, I think, uh, Justin owed him like $40 million or something. I don't know if he ever saw it. So. Okay. Yeah.

What do you mean? Yeah. Haley sold her thing for like a billion. She's good for it. And people said that that was one of the reasons for it. That he had, you know, he had sold his mat, like all of his music, right? for like, it was something like $200 million, his whole catalog. I, I, I, doesn't mean that he didn't pay him back, but I do think that that was one of

the reasons behind her doing that. That, again, is an opinion. Yeah, I, I hate it when your friends are your $40 million. I mean, that sucks, right? It does. It happens often. Hey, can I just ask really quickly, uh, the bachelor. There was a new season of The Bachelorette, sorry.

And that was going to come out and then it got pulled like the day before or something. So what's, what's going on there? What's happened? I can't stop consuming all of this Mormon-Wise content. It's unbelievable. She was in a very toxic relationship with her baby daddy. She was married, this girl, Taylor, Frankie Paul, one of the, from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,

sort of like the leader. She was one with the swinging scandal. She was married, had two kids. They got divorced. She dated this other guy named Dakota. They had a baby, never got married, and they had the most toxic relationship that played out on that reality show forever.

It was the hottest mess. It was toxic, it was volatile. It had gotten physical before in the past, which is one of the reasons I don't know why the Bachelor of Bachelorette didn't maybe do a security or background check perhaps. Yeah, because they played out on the show. We all saw that they had a toxic relationship. The police got called. She got done for assault.

She did. But it was released, I'm sure, by him. And maybe rightfully so, you know, because it was a big hot mess. And no network and good conscience could then go through, you know, with putting something on TV because it doesn't, you know, I'm recording, aligned with their values. But you have to feel so bad for all the people that put it on their time and effort into putting this reality show together. It's horrible. It's gone. It's gone.

It's gone. It's gone. And they said she might get sued like $100 million for money that they've lost in advertising and all the things that would be surrounding the release of the show. You guys love Mormon wives, don't you? I know Megan. It's the new season that I'm just binging at the moment. Oh, Megan, I literally have one more episode and I can't stop.

I'm like trying to savor it because it's so wrong but so right. So juicy. How do the Mormons feel about all this content? Oh, they're not pleased at all. No, no. No, I don't reckon they would be. I don't know many Mormons, but... Well, it's meant to be a secret life, isn't that?

It's not so secret anymore. Do you guys know you're filming? You've got mics on. Maybe that's how they get out. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. We've been talking about this a wee bit the last couple of weeks. Sibling Survivors. It's kind of turned into Sibling Survivor Thursday.

Just share the stories of torment. Your siblings put you through when you were growing up. These came through last week. Went into the shed, found as many, uh, four. of nails all through it and then he tucked them all under pine needles. So Mike ended up with them all through his feet.

He just turned to me and just like put the pickax in my head. This was actually the tamest thing we probably ever did to each other. But in primary school my siblings photocopied my diary and handed him out

on the school bus. And my crush, Adam, unfortunately rode the same bus and while everyone was laughing about reading the diary about how much I was in love with them and going to marry him one day he started crying

Oh A lifelong trauma that one isn't it That's pretty tough isn't that Yeah The effort of photocoffing the diary And then handing it out Like it's like hey you'll turn to page three now So uh

Siblings survival stories Ben Your wonderful sister Amelia She shared some great ones last week She got involved Not to my knowledge that she was going to do this But you cut her hair and then you made a mess of it And you told her to say the story Was a goat ate her hair

Yeah, yeah, which my mum was Well, she believed But maybe she didn't eat down She probably didn't But we kept that story up for many years Cheyenne, welcome Morning Lovely to have you on Cheyenne

It's a sibling survivor Thursday What did you survive? I didn't survive anything My brother and I We've got a five and a half year age gap When we, I think he was about two-ish. I was about seven-ish. It was like, okay, you need to go have a bath

and one of you needs to go have a shower. And of course, we both wanted a bath because showers are weird when you're young. And so we decided to have a race down the stairs for a bath. We got about halfway down the stairs and he was sort of winning, so I kind of pushed him down the stairs and he fell down, I think it was about

nine steps and hit his head on the skirting board and got about a five centimetre gash on his forehead, so he's been Harry Potter since then. Oh, geez, he's got the scarlet. A lifelong scar. Yeah, it's a decent scar. Like, you could see all the, like,

muscles and the blood and all that crack coming out of it. And my dad's a bit of a staunched dude, and even he was like, huh, who, ooh, whew. That's a rough push down nine flights of stairs there,

mate. Nine stairs. And it's a good... What's that, sorry? I wanted a bath. Yeah, well, yeah, really wanted that bar.

You're still sticking with that defense. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The hits. Siblings Survivor Thursday. What trauma did you survive when you were growing up in their household? It really can be a volatile environment, can it? But you all love each other at the end of the day too.

So it's a mix of emotions. But he has kids too, you know, you don't really work out all those things as well. You know, think about the consequences and all those things. Sarah, were you the victim? I was the victim. Oh, what happened, mate? My sister, one of many injuries that she could. caused me. I was

blindfolded and she thought I was peaking. She walked me straight into a wall and broke my nose. Oh jeez. slammed your head into a wall. Yeah. Were you peaking? Not that that matters. No, I wasn't peeking. And like I'm very

reluctant to have a blindfold these days. Yeah, I can see why you're a bit gun show on the blindfold. I mean, if you were peaking out of that blindfold, they're great commitment to the walking straight to the wall, you know. you're picking, no, no, no. You're really stuck with your story.

Out of interest, how many blindfolding occasions have come up since you've been an adult? Oh, there's been like a few, like, trust activities that you have to do. Oh, with work and things, yeah. Yeah. I can't remember the last time someone asked me to be blindfolded. Can you? Oh, it was probably, we were doing some TV sketches back of the day. Yeah, yeah, well, there's some stuff here for a radio now and again.

You're in a vulnerable position, aren't you? Yeah, blindfolded. Hey, well, Sarah, thank you for sharing your sibling's survivor story. you survived. Did you ever get any retribution? No. No, no. I haven't actually.

She caused me many other injuries. It was just a one-way torrent of abuse from your sister. I appreciate your call, mate. Thank you for calling through. Happy New Year, Kim. Oh, happy New Year. Good to have you on. You're a sibling survivor, we understand.

Oh, psychologically, probably not so much. Stuck with you? It's stuck with me. I'm 36 years old and I still, to this day, cannot watch the movie E.T. I have two older brothers. I'm the only girl and the youngest, to be in fact. And my brothers used to lock me in a room with E.T. on. And they always just say he was in my wardrobe and under my bed.

And to the day, I can't leave the wardrobe door open. I always check under my bed and, yeah. Even now, before you go to bed, you just check of ETs under there. Yeah, it's just, you just, It's just implanted in my brain and my son, he's now 10 and he's always asked to watch E.T. and I can't bring myself to it.

I was like, you're going to get psychological problems if you watch this movie. Yeah, the alien. You have really long fingers that kind of creep me up, proby-like fingers, you know, like E. Yeah, that's all. And I was like, oh.

You don't want E.D. giving you a prostate exam, I tell you that. No. Start tickling your throat. You know, they were just off-putting those fingers, eh? There's something about them. Well, I'm sorry that that's had a long-lasting effect on you, Kim, but thank you for...

It's okay. It's okay. I'll bring myself to watch it one day. That's right. And you'll probably go, oh, the special effects aren't actually. Yes, no, they're not good at all. I'm probably like, what was I so scared about? Actually, you probably should just watch it and be done with the trauma, but thank you so much.

Great text here. This is from Casey. My husband shot a metal radio antenna with a bow at his brother. But, yeah, he's not a complete monster. he gave him a line of defense, which was a tennis racket. And the antenna went through the holes in the tennis net. Of course it would, yeah. Straight into his brother's eye!

Oh, is he okay?