Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Ben's New C*** Addiction

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

Ben can't get enough of the new croc jibbitz!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Now I'm very very new to the croc game, late to the croc game. You had a really, an unconfident start to the croc game. Your family bought you a pair of crocs for your birthday. Yeah they did, just a couple of months ago they did that. Many years crocs have been around and they've kind of become quite fashionable for a lot of people, but not everyone. They're a polarising pair of shoes really, aren't they? When you first got them I was a fully supportive friend. And you were a little gun shy.

It felt like you were walking around on rubber clouds of guilt and shame whenever you wore them out. Yeah, and my family, too, bought me these Crocs. And so my introduction to the Croc game, and they also brought me the Croc charms, the little gibbets, the things that you kind of bedazzle your Crocs with. You know, they can be the shiny jewels of the Croc kingdom. These can be animated characters.

There'll be logos of teams, people, all sorts of stuff. And I found myself over the holiday period. I went to Australia for a while. I bought nothing for myself other than Croc charms. That is all, without a word of a lie, is all I bought for myself. My family went out, they went looking at shops. I only think I went, and everywhere I'd go, I'd say, oh, croc charms. Oh, croc gibbets.

And I'm like, what am I doing? He's treating his crocs like a Christmas tree, decorating them. Now look, keep my crocs out. Look, I'm holding the back right now. Now this is not all that I own. Have you got backup? Talk us through every... I've got ones.

Oh, my God. I've got ones. I can't laugh. I'm going to soar back. What have you got? A couple have fallen off because I didn't put them on properly. I had a couple of more. I was like, oh, yeah, but I've got...

Describe to the audience how many you've got. I've got... On there at the moment. There's probably a good dozen on there at the moment. The thing everyone from buzz lightyear simpsons characters you've got lebron james basketball you've got uh toy story characters uh the warriors low yeah the wars a couple of warriors you've got ben on there as well yeah and i'm like jeez i had a look at myself the other day and i'm like oh my god what are you doing one of my daughters is into crocs really the other one not and so the one that is into Crocs, really into it.

The other one, not. And so the one that's into Crocs here and I, we're like, oh, it's Croc charts. It's all these things. We're getting into the Croc game together. And I got so swept up one time in this mall in Australia. I bought a whole lot of them. I'm like, yeah, great.

You get eight for $20. Whatever, cool. This is great. And then my daughter got some. She's like, can I have these? Yeah, yeah, buy them. That's great. And then my wife later was like, have you seen Sienna's new croc chart?

I'm like, oh, well, yeah. Yeah. She's like, who bought that? I was like, oh, I did. And she's like, oh, it's a Homer Simpson one. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's Homer Simpson pulling the fingers on both sides. And my wife was not happy.

She's like, what sort of parent takes this money? I'm like, look at me. I'm wearing croc charts on my shoes. What sort of parent are you? That's what sort of parent I am.? I'm like, look at me. I'm wearing croc charms on my shoes. What sort of parent are you? That's what sort of parent I am. I couldn't figure reams, for God's sake. You know what sort of parent I am. I wasn't looking at what Homer's fans were doing.

I was so swept up in the fact that I've got a LeBron James croc charm. Well, out of all the addictions a grown man can have, that is certainly probably the most damaging. You're right. There could be alcohol, gambling. Fun, cool ones. Yeah, but no, I'm with the croc chums. That's me.

Hey, guys, I'm Ben, and I'm a croc chum addict.