Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Best life advice you'll hear!

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

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today on the wild wild web how you can be living your life better welcome to the untamed realm of the world's wide web a swirling vortex of weirdness bullying and self-obsessed social media posts in this digital jungle jonathan being your fearless guides leading you through the wildest parts of the Wild Wild Web. This is the Wild Wild Web. The web is a wild, wild place full of a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff.

A lot of stuff too. A lot of grim stuff. If you want to get there, have you ever been on the dark web, Megan? No, too scared for me. No. Although I did look up something on 4chan. Is that the dark web? Not sure. What is 4chan?

I've heard of 4chan. Yeah, I think that might be a little bit darkish. Yeah, right. What did you look up on 4chan? I'm not going to tell you. Please tell us. No, absolutely not. Was it terrible?

It was stuff about a celebrity. You guys like your celebrity gossip, don't you? You like going down the dark, dark world of celebrity gossip, don't you? It's not anything illegal, just disclaimer Oh, it's an anonymous image board website for Chan Yeah, and I saw some images Of a celebrity? Yeah Let's try and put the celebrity

No Orlando Bloom on the paddle board No, that was just on the just normal way on the normal way so you had to go to dark web to look at a celebrity so it's a celebrity you admire obviously yeah i i actually do love you're admiring them admiring them a lot on the chan four or whatever it's called i didn't believe that this was uh out there it was out there and it was but now there's all deep fakes and stuff as well i just this is a while ago this was out there. It was out there. But now there's all deep fakes and stuff as well.

This was a while ago. This was years ago. Were you disappointed or happy when you saw the image? Those aren't the right objectives. I was taken aback.

Were you disturbed? Not disturbed. I was just like, whoa, whoa. It was full on? Yeah. What? That's a real good teaser. Okay, let's turn the turn the mics off you tell us then we'll react to it when we turn

the mics back on apologies uh audience okay break oh okay okay okay oh well i wouldn't like give me 400 guesses That I would never No No Great music though Yeah Are either celebrities Fairly obscure No Well

Fairly Not Yeah To go to the trouble of like If I was like Oh If someone said Hey that image is out there

New album I wouldn't go Great new album Yeah Would you go Oh well let's go to Let's go to 4chan and check it out? I don't know if I would.

I'd be like, oh, good on it. Also, when you gave away their gender. Also, when I looked it up a few years ago, they were more massive then. They had like a big song out then. Right. Okay. Well, there you go. And we were like, oh, that's a confronting shot there.

Yeah. Who had taken it? Did he take it? I think he'd taken it, yeah. Wow. Yeah. I mean, you can pretty much guess what's, you can pretty much guess. What you saw?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, welcome to the Wild Wild Web. Yeah. It's lovely. Now, I'm just going to change gear a little bit. I found some really wholesome life advice from a sweet, thanks Megan.

Thanks for your great content. You said the wild web and now you've gone down the wholesome route. Usually we end up in the nefarious places. Yeah, we started there already before we even got to the thing. Wholesome content. That's what this segment's about.

Have a listen to this. This lady's a Harvard professor and her take on how we could all be living life. So many people are trying to add more years to their lives. And I think that what we should be doing is adding more life to our years. And that will end up, I think, in the long run for most people, have us living longer. What people want to do, should be doing, is making the moment matter. And that whatever they're doing, they should enjoy doing it, rather than doing it for some end.

Now the problem is, the world has taught us to divide work and play, for instance. And that work has to be bad. So for students, It can be play and study, work and life. And again, I object strenuously. Bring play into your work. Exactly. Great message, isn't it? Hey, sorry, Ben. We will get back to this.

Your daughter's waiting at the door to be let in. Oh, she's not. Yeah, so this is Ben Boyce's daughter. Sienna's here to do some singing for another project we're involved with, not the current project. But isn't that some wonderful advice? Bring more life into your years. Yeah, instead of living longer years.

She's going for quality rather than quantity. That's a great bit of advice. And I'm sorry to segue from this, but here's another great bit of advice. It's a message from our partners. We'll be back very shortly in 22 seconds. Don't go anywhere. Thank you to our generic sponsors for that wonderful message. Welcome back.

Hard to be mindful all the time and be in the moment, whatever situation you're in, particularly with the stresses of life. If you're at home, there's a million and one things to do. I know you're cooking 49 meals a night, Megan. You've got Andrew on a protein diet. You've got the kids diet. Two little kitties.

And you can actually probably just get caught up in the doing and having to get the doing done. You always hear about people like on their deathbed, they get asked life advice and what they change and stuff, and they always say, spend more time with family. Yeah. You never hear them say, I wish I had more money or anything like that. Wish I worked harder?

Yeah. No? I've just? Yeah. No. I've just come back, guys. Sorry, yeah. That's what I miss. What other photos have you been looking at on 4chan? Quality over quantity of your years. Yeah.

Did you like that advice, though, from that lady? Yeah, it was good. It was good. Can you remember the advice? You stepped out for a minute. I had a conversation with a couple of people out there as well. So I remember it was something that she was, let me think if I can remember.

She said you need to add more life to your years. There you go. That's a great line, isn't it? Put more life to your years. Life to your years, rather your years than your life. My dad used to always say, and I remember this, he was like, you need to live, you're not living to work, you're working to live. You're not living to work. You're working to live.

So, like, you need to live every day, not let work take over from your life. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good bit of advice. If you're doing, like, something fun, like she says, then it doesn't feel like work. Well, it's like this job, isn't it? We all, and most of the people in this industry, really desperately wanted to be working in it. So you're enjoying your work.

Your work is your hobby. Well, we do stupid stuff every day. Yeah. And we would laugh every day in our work. Like, I don't have any hobbies. This is my hobby. Yeah. I'd be the same.

Yeah. If people said, you know how people have fun hobbies and things, coming to do this is probably. And the worst question is, what would you do if you're not doing this? Oh, Jesus, don't even... No, I don't know. Well, it might become a reality pretty soon. Yeah. I don't know.

The way life's gone. Yeah, true. Okay, so what would you do? You've got a certain set of skills. Auctioneer is a popular one. Real estate agents. A lot of ready people get into that, don't they? Used car sales.

But they feel like things you're just trying to cling onto from your skill set. It doesn't sound like something that you would be passionate about. Oh, you're saying so if you were to leave this and do something equally as passionate. Right. Geez. I always do like, I do admire people that do stuff that's really rewarding. You know, the people that do their job that helps a lot of people.

I always, you know, like I always like real like people like Mike King who dedicates his life now to helping us. David Lutale. David Lutale, yeah, things like that. I'm not saying I could be as good as those people, but I always admire what they're doing and think, geez, it must be hard. But at the same time, what you get from that must be pretty incredible.

I love that you went to that, like a heartfelt place. I was like, fashion. Oh, fashion. You are passionate about it. Fashion. You do have a passion for fashion. That's your hobby. Yeah. I like that. like a heartfelt place I was like fashion I was like make clothes fashion you do have a passion for fashion

that's your hobby yeah I like that it's a hard industry to get into okay so thanks Ben for coming with a heartfelt chair

so you'd like to go I missed the heartfelt chat in between so I'm going to bring it back so you'd like to go to the fast fashion cheap slave labour

world of fashion I didn't say I'd like luxury luxury fashion so as a designer or doing what I'd love to slave. I'd like luxury. Luxury fashion. So as a designer or doing what? I'd love to design, but I'd do anything. Do anything in fashion. Really?

Yeah. You must have loved that bloody movie with the old bloody mate. Devil Wears Prada, mate. That's the one. Fantastic movie. Yeah, that would have been. One of the best. Yeah.

By all means, move at a glacial pace. She was very good in that Meryl Streep. So good. Emily Blunt. She was great too. Anne Hathaway. Anne Hathaway. It was a good in that Meryl Streep. So good. Emily Blunt. She was great too. She was good. Anne Hathaway. Anne Hathaway.

It's a good movie. Yeah, that was a really good film. That's worth a re-watch. Did they do a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada? No. Just, yeah, one and done.

The Devil Wears Gucci or The Devil Wears somewhere else. The Devil Wears Sheen. Just someone running a sweat factory. The Devil Wears Tebowemu It's a great thing Guys are spending all this money on high end fashion

We could just Crank this out Actual devil just running children Working them to the bone What would you do Jono? A passionate thing Well it's kind of something related to this too I really enjoy writing stuff

And the rewards you get from writing things So like a book or a script? Probably scripts But I don't know much about it Write a movie We tried to write a movie for a bit there Knock on Taika's door He's in Hearn Bay

To be honest with you We submitted a movie to the film commission And the film commission They didn't like that movie. No. Not everyone gets a yes on the first go or the second go or the third go. You just imagine the amount of film scripts that are out there. Well, if we had a meeting with the Film Commission,

they're like, listen, chances are most movies don't get made. Wow. You've just got to keep grafting away. I was watching a TED Talk or something with someone who said they were quite a successful screenplay writer. Their first one didn't get picked up until their 13th script. Wow. Just kept going.

13? Imagine by seven, you'd be like, oh, afterused car sales for me. But I think probably the most successful people in the world are people that don't take um no as their you know final answer yeah it's happy with a no they'll keep on going yeah i find it's a disciplined thing too like you really have to be quite disciplined with it because you can find yourself in some dark holes yeah going what am i doing staring at the screen with nothing but yeah that would probably be it but that's kind of related to this in some way. So if I went the opposite, gigolo. Oh, yeah.

Gigolo. Not a successful one. There's a market for all sorts. Yeah. A really disappointing gigolo. It's like, oh, I was expecting a little bit longer. Hey, you'd be a, you know, a Teemu gigolo. And like, have you got 15 minutes on that?

An affordable one. Yeah, 15 minutes From start to finish Everything The welcome The clothes Everything Yeah sometimes you don't need A long period of time there Well that's what I say anyway

The time efficient jiggle No one wants Sting Going at it for four days You're like I don't even I've got things to do Sting Have you seen my to do list Get prior in here

For a quick five minute I'm like yeah Parent teacher interviews Parents are off school They're off chair, all sorts of stuff. I can't do four days with you. Oh, hey, listen, well, thank you so much for listening

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