Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Sibling Survivor Stories | THE GREATEST HITS

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

From broken noses and scar-worthy accidents to childhood pranks that still haunt people today, we hear your most unbelievable sibling survivor stories!   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 team. Into the weekend, Easter weekend, and daylight savings as well too, right? It's happening Sunday, 3 o'clock. Clock's going back. 3 a.m., right? Yeah.

It's always good to get up at 3 a.m. and change your clocks when they're meant to be changed. No, like it automatically happens at 3 a.m. Just, yeah. Easter's a movable beast, isn't it? It's not the same zone every year. Yeah, why is that? I don't know. I don't know.

Maybe you can text 4-487. I guess it has to be a Friday, right? Yeah, it's always a Friday sort of Sunday situation. But yeah, I think you're right, the dates are not locked in the, like, 25th of December, Christmas. Yeah, and so does the, there's another question, probably none of us know the answer to, does the clock's backs always happen at Easter time as well? Or is this just a pure coincidence? No, pure coincidence. Oh, okay, there we go.

All right, thank you for answering that. Megan. Now we like to do this Oh no We've got an intro made from us Attempting to sing something last week Sibling survival That's me and Troy, you can't hassle it

Oh no Let's give it the platform it deserves Sliq Survival That's too much platform I think Troy's turned himself down Really

Did you do a take two on that No I think at the time We were like Nailed it First time. You know auto tunes an option. We want stories of sibling survival. Your brother, your sister, whatever,

when you were bickering back in the day. We've had some great ones so far. I was blindfolded and she thought I was peeking. She walked me straight into a wall and broke my nose. And my brother just looked me in a room with ET 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. Yeah, some long, long-seeded trauma that goes on from sibling survival stories. I got on pretty well most of the time with my sister. She was a bit younger, but you just just... She doesn't agree. Yeah, well, most of the time. We had our moments, but just I would wind her up a lot, which I suppose hard to believe now, Megan. I wind you up the same way, I feel like sometimes.

Yeah, yeah. Little things, you know. I don't think you would have been vicious. No, it's just more like, you know, sitting in the seat and it was like putting my hand in the middle of the car seat the back and she was like get away it's my you know the middle was you know or just like stay out of my room and I'm not I'm in the hallway and just putting my arm into a room and she'll be like mom and you're like I'm not in the room

I'm not antagonising he still doesn't yeah he does it to me just little things she's like a great joy out of that that was fun but that's the worst thing is that you can't stop yourself getting wound up but I can see you're like laughing and I'm like makes even even angry it was Justin how was Justin your brother older or younger he's older than me four years older than me we fought quite

a bit. It was the same thing. Like, don't go with my space. Like, blah, blah, blah. But hey, I remember one time

we chased each other. And I can't remember how it happened, but one of us went under the bed and threw a punch just, like, roguly under the bed. And I'm pretty sure I gave him a black eye. Yeah.

You didn't know exactly where it was going to go. No, I just landed it right in the right spot. Mystery punch. But then trying to tell your parents that it was like an accident is really hard. Yeah. Because you know what's going to happen.

You know what you're doing and the consequences directly after it. Well, I don't know because I was an only child. I had to bully myself. There was a guy at the Rock who used to work with. His sisters, I think it went on for a couple of years when he was quite young. He had convinced him he was adopted. Oh, yeah. And they were like, don't you talk to mum and dad about it because then they'll put you back to the orphanage.

So he just said to sit with deep. And they were like, you don't look like us. You're not part of the family. Oh, they sit with a trauma. All right. I used to just say, I was adopted. because I don't want to be any part of any of it. You dreamed of it.

We're talking the sibling survivor stories. It's surviving that intro is one big thing. I know, let's just can that. Yeah, no, no, Joe feels. Producer Troy and Megan, they did one take and one take only. Who said that? What was that? Oh, it was Kanye and Jay-Z.

Paris song. Yeah, maybe she did done two takes and maybe three, four or five. And then Troy's tried to disguise it. What I love is in the production. sweet. He's trying to disguise it with DJ air horns. As minimally a time as possible. But we want to know your stories of sibling survival. Every week we do this and every week we are, well, our jaws are on the floor pretty much

with some of the stories that come through. It must be a weird dynamic. You guys both had brothers and sisters that, you know, essentially someone can concuss you at 2pm but then you're sharing ice cream with them at 4pm. Yeah, and you go to school and if anyone bullies you, like my brother. brother would be like, you leave her alone and then he'll go home and bully me, you know? Yeah, it's like his right only. If anyone's bullying that girl, it's going to be me.

You move on pretty quickly as kids, you know. Yeah. It's a bad, it's good, it's bad, you know, it's tumultuous, but it's good. Amber, great to have you on. Happy New Year. Happy New Year and Happy Easter. And you're in Hamilton, you're heading away this weekend, mate, or staying home? Oh, heading away, going down to Gisbon to see Mum.

Oh, well, you enjoy that. So, and I tell you what, in the car you're driving, you can save some money because we're going to give you free fuel. Every cooler on air gets $100 free fuel this week. It is so amazing. Thank you so, so much. That'll be a huge help. Now, what is your story of our sibling survival set the scene for us? Okay, so I have two brothers.

I'm in the middle, and as siblings do, we all rile each other up. My older brother, one night, had a friend over. and I can't fully remember but I think I was totally winding them up while they were trying to watch a movie and then my brother I think trying to show off just suddenly booted his leg out and kicked me in the stomach

sent me flying backwards through our glass coffee table Oh my God! And so I was just sitting there in the middle of glass going uh-oh and he had the same expression like whoops, I think of it was I might have gone a bit fast.

That is. Now, Troy's saying that's the Spartan kick. Spartan kicked you to your guts. Totally. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. And then I remember another time I stapled his finger to the floor. Oh, well, you got a bag.

Any lasting injuries from either of those things? What's that, sorry? Any lasting injuries from those things? Um, no, just a few bruises to our, to our egos. The bums and egos. Pocket money. What did your parents say when they saw you through the glass table? They were just in shock.

I think first checked me out to make sure I hadn't got cuts all over me. I think I came away completely unscathed, which is amazing. Oh, you're like a stuntie in a movie. No, yeah. Incredible. Well, you're a sibling survivor, Amber. Congratulations. Yeah.

You're going to have a great weekend. And we'll take one more, Marty. Good morning, guys. Guys, how's it going? Good. What's your sibling survival story? So I was 10, 11. My brother was a couple years older than me,

and as young kids, as you always get done, you get told to do the dishes. And his routine every night was to get me drying. I dried off the first class. He'd start going through the cupboards sneakily, and he'd fill it with whatever he could find. So it was a little bit of dishwash, cod liver oil, you name it.

And he would force me to drink it. or he'd tell my parents to sell me and they would never see me again. Oh, my goodness. He could put you in a human trafficking ring. He had that power. It was experimentation. He would just see what he could find. He would make a cocktail up and then he'd say drink it or else.

Wow, so you knew the consequences. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. We'll rush you off to the island, mate. Okay. I thought you were going to say, when you did the dishes, did your, like, sister whip you with the teetail? You wind up round and round and then you out,

Yeah, that was a vicious weapon Yeah, yeah Yeah, Martin, great story Well, not so great for you But really traumatic for you But we're gonna get you $100 free fuel All right, mate No worries, thanks guys

John O'Ben and Megan The podcast We've been talking about this A wee bit the last couple of weeks Siblings Survivors It's kind of turned into Siblings Survivor Thursday You just hear the stories of torment

That your siblings put you through When you were growing up These came through last week Went into the head, found as many boards of nails all through it, and then he tucked them all under pine needles. 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 him and going to marry him one day

he started crying lifelong trauma that one isn't it? That's pretty tough isn't it? Pretty tough. The effort of photocoffing the diary and then handing it out

like it's like you'll turn the page three now so sibling 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. Deep 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, 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 feet. centimeter gash on his forehead, so he's been Harry Potter since then.

Oh, geez, he's got the scar like Harry Potter. He's a life on a 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,

hoo, hoo! 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,

yeah, really wanted that bath. You're still sticking with that, defence. Siblings survive a 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 that'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 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 peaking And like I'm very No peaking No picking To have a blindfold These days Yeah I can see why you're a bit gun-shy On the blindfold

I mean if you were peeking out of that blindfold they're great commitment to the bit, 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? I've 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 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 be, bed you just check of E.T. is under there? Yeah, 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, probie-like fingers. Yeah. And I was like, oh.

You don't want E.T. giving you a prostate exam. I tell you that. No. Start tickling your throat. They were just off-potting those fingers, hey. There's something about them. Well, I'm sorry that that's had a long-lasting effect on you, Kim, but thank you. It's okay.

It's okay. I'll bring myself to watch it one day. That's right, yeah. And you'll probably go, oh, the special effects aren't actually. Yes, not. They're not good at all. I probably would be like, well, what are they 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 he's not a complete monster. He gave him a line of defence, which was a tennis racket. And the antenna went through the holes in the tennis net. Oh, of course it would, yeah. Straight into his brother's eye.

Oh, is he okay? John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast. The Hats. We've been talking about this a wee bit the last couple of weeks. Sibling Survivors. It's kind of turned into Siblings Survivor Thursday. You just hear the stories of torment that your siblings put you through when you were growing up. these came through last week.

Went into the shed, found as many boards of nails all through it, and then buddy tucked them all under pine needles. 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 him and going to marry him one day he started crying lifelong trauma that one isn't it that's pretty tough isn't that yeah pretty tough

the effort of photocoffing the diary and then handing it out like it's like you'll turn to page three now so sibling 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. She'd probably didn't. But we kept that story up for many years. Cheyenne, welcome. Morning. A 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, 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 centimeter gash on his forehead, so he's been Harry Potter since then.

Oh, Jesus, got a scar like Harry Potter. He's got a lifelong scar. Yeah, it's a decent scar. Like, you could see all the muscles and the blood and all that crap coming out of it. And my dad's a bit of a staunched dude, and even he was like, huh,

who, huh, ooh, 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 buff.

Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, really wanted that. You're still sticking with that defence. Tales of Siblings Survival. We do this every Thursday. And I felt like when you get to a point, we're like, we'll never hear anything that shocks us. There's more stuff coming through.

Yeah. Yeah. Kids are just so brutal. You fight and you don't recognise the damage that a fork can do. No, you don't. You don't know. Consequences. Consequences of a weapon. Prefrontal cortex.

Yeah, it takes a while to develop. 25 for long. of males. Yeah. And the decision making that I made for many years, my mum would try and brush under the rug by going, well, your prefrontal cortex is developed yet, darling. You'll be right, just wait until you're 25. And did it all turn around up to 25?

No, even got worse, to be honest. It's been downhill since then. But, yeah, 0800 of the hits, your tales of sibling survival. Linley, happy new year. Oh, hey, happy new year. That threw you, didn't it? Yeah, of not. Yeah, it does.

It's something we've been trying to keep going on this. show. We've done well to get almost a May. Did you survive the attack Linley from your sibling? Yeah, I really did, but it was very frightening and hurt a lot. What happened? Well, because my brother is four years

older than me, and yeah, I'm thinking I was about 10 and so He was a little bit jealous of me. I don't know why, but I think maybe that my father paid me more attention than he paid, yes. You're the favourite? Yes, yes. So one day I was out on the grass, and there was a fence and on the farm.

And my brother threw a pitchfork. A big, yes. over the fence and I landed in my bloody leg Oh shit I'm sure it was a bloody leg after that

Did it go right through Was it poking through the other side Oh I'd tell you So I'm screaming And running into mum I bet you are And so did you have to go to the hospital

Or did you have to like rip it out Or what? I've still got the scar to this day Add slowly. Well, that could have been... I was kind of rut, didn't I another? We forked, Mark, Blaseet.

Well, Lindley, I'd tell you what, I'd love to sit down and have a couple of savvies with you. Sound like a riot. Sound like an absolute riot. Oh, thank you for sharing that story with us. We appreciate it. Jess, welcome. Hello, hello. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Yes. What happened with you with your tale of sibling? I would have been three or four. My brother would have been 10 or 11, and we were always taught us kids to shut the door behind. He was getting ready for school one morning and I couldn't understand why he'd left the frontal rope and why there was resistance and turns out he put his hand in the hinges

and I slammed it shut and yeah his middle finger was attached by a flap of skin I had to get surgically put back on. Oh yes! Oh jeez! Yes, I bet they're like, why is this bloody dog? No, it's shutting! Oh my goodness, I bet you can still imagine it like it was yesterday. Oh, I remember it was crapping my pants and run into my room crying.

Oh yeah. But the fingers are reattached, all good? It was reattached, but he still doesn't have feeling in it, like, on the tip of it. Yeah, has he used that middle finger to sort of communicate in any way with you? Yes, he'd probably slipped me off with it a hundred times in the pastime. Oh, wow.