Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Did Adam Levine Cheat?

Episode Date: September 22, 2022

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Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Now Adam Blabeen, he's the lead singer of Maroon 5, and the only one that I can name from Maroon 5. We always talk about this. Now I'm going to put this to bed. Maroon 5. I feel sorry for the other guys from Maroon 5. Well, you don't feel that sorry, but you haven't bothered to learn their name. Maybe I will. Maybe I should now, because what's going on right now?

You've got James, Mickey, Jesse, Sam, all the guys. All your favourite characters. Yeah, well they are my favourite characters because right now Admiral Bean's, you know, he's been outed for doing something that's not good. He's been private messaging people that it's not his wife, his wife is pregnant wife, and

flirtatious messages. Now he says he's crossed the line. He says that's all that he's done. But maybe there's more to come. I don't messages. Now, he says he's crossed the line. He says that's all that he's done. But maybe there's more to come. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know, Ben. I don't know. You gestured your hand to me like I was meant to come on with something.

But we're going to introduce from the New Zealand Herald, a host of a wonderful podcast, Cherie. Good morning. Good morning. Thanks for having me on. Lovely to have you here, Cherie. Now, we're going to be up front with you. We're an up front radio show.

You did some great content on The Herald. Oh, it was a fair podcast. Now, your podcast, give your podcast a plug. Yeah, so I'm one of the co-hosts of In The Loop, which is a New Zealand Herald podcast, and I host that with Katie Harris, and it's a weekly youth news podcast. Yep, and you did some content on there,

and we want to steal it yeah that's a good that's a good topic we should have done this and now we're like we'll bring you on and it allows us to do it because it was your idea well have we got your blessing yeah i give you the blessing oh thank you sheree thank you very much now i was around uh the adam levine scenario this week which uh emerged that uh he had been having some flirtatious messages with Instagram models and his wife. DMs, right? DMs, yeah, and then his wife didn't know about it.

And then he even invited one of the Instagram models, asked her to see if he could name his third child after her. So weird. Touching tribute to the affair. Yeah. So it's a bit odd. So he's kind of front-footed, I guess, afterwards and said that he was. He crossed the line, but it seems like maybe there's more going on.

Yeah, as we spoke about in the pod this week, Katie mentioned it very much could be the tip of the iceberg. There could be a lot more behind the scenes. Often when we see someone come forward like this, more people come forward. And a few more people have come forward and said, yeah, he's also sent me some really shady DMs. He's denied that an actual affair happened the model that came out and said that he deemed her said that there was an affair he said it was just messages so it's very messy at the moment yeah right you never want it to be the tip of the iceberg do you never want that term well there's a lot of stuff he should have come out and gone this is just the tip of the iceberg. Strap yourselves in.

So it raised you, and this is the question you guys were talking about in the podcast, it raised a really interesting point, whether, you know, DMing someone, is it also crossing the line? Is it kind of like, in a way, is it cheating? Is it getting close to cheating? I mean, it's kind of a bit of a grey area, as you guys said. It is a grey area, I think, because when it comes to sending like a flirty message over Instagram, there's also a huge sort of scale range of what, you know, what's kind of flirty and what's really crossing the line.

I don't know if you guys saw any of the messages of the screenshots that were sent, but some of them were very interesting, to say the least. They were a bit forward. You saw Ethan Hot or something, was that? Yeah, yeah. He wasn't talking about the weather or anything? Yeah, no. It wasn't like, hey, you look really pretty in your latest picture or something was that and I wasn't talking about the weather or anything or yeah no it wasn't like how you look really pretty in your latest picture or something it was like quite you know it was definitely on the furthest end I can think of in terms of flirting it's very very suggestive

uh so it is one of those things where some people would look at that as as cheating and we've you talk about emotional cheating as well if you're building a connection with someone versus an actual physical cheating but I think it really just depends on maybe the boundaries you set with your partner perhaps and what you define that as because it is one of those areas that could be interpreted in different ways well it could also be deemed of like if you're doing something behind your partner's back they don't know about then you might classify that as cheating, potentially. I mean, you can only imagine how his wife would be feeling through this. Oh yeah. Do you know if they're going to name the baby

after the... Surely not. I don't think that's going to happen. I thought it was interesting that they're having a baby boy. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay, right. I didn't know that. Yeah, I was like, is that weird to ask a girl if you could name... You could tell because I watched her video. Yeah.

And she was like, and this was the next piece of communication I had with him. And it was him asking her... Like a year after not hearing anything. And you could tell she was a little put off by it. Yeah, you'd be like, this is really like a random way to start a conversation again. Yeah.

So did you define it as cheating or not? If you're DMing someone in a flirtatious way, there's no physical interaction? Yeah. So you're saying in a flirtatious way. It's not just a DM. You always give me grief because I DM KJ Arpa. It's like, hey, man, I love you.

You're doing a great show. You do a great show in Riverdale. Yeah, it got weird when you were like, you're so effing hot. Yeah. I didn't go quite there. Yeah, but he is hot. Let's be honest.

KJ Arpa is hot. Yeah. What do you think? Do you think it is? I think in the way Adam Levine's done it, it is. It Let's be honest. KJ Harper is hot. Yeah. What do you think? Do you think it is? I think in the way Adam Levine's done it, it is. It's cheating. Yes. In the way.

The messages that he's seen and the way it's sort of come out, you look at it, you think, yeah, this is definitely crossing the line. Ben Boyce, where do you sit on this? Look, I think it's crossing a line. I wouldn't say it was cheating in what I would say what I would think traditionally would be, but I wouldn't be happy if I was his wife. I'd be like this is definitely

crossing the line it's not cheating but it's definitely a heavy conversation a few tennis weeks you'd claw your way back I don't know if you'd claw your way back

from that one that's for sure hey thanks Sheree if people want to check out the podcast where can they do that yeah they can listen to In The Loop

on iHeartRadio or Spotify or pretty much anywhere else you get your podcasts oh good on you, Cherie. Thanks for coming in, mate. Thanks for having me.

All right, let's try it out there. Oh, 100 The Hits, 4487 is our text number. Is it cheating or not, what Adam Levine is doing? Get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast right now. Unload your opinion on Adam Levine and he'll never hear it. Well, if your partner was doing it, not just on DM, but maybe a text, a message, whatever, would you be happy or not?

Would you deem it cheating? If you're a guy here for romantic advice, you are in serious trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Is that cheating? Sending flirtatious messages over social media. I'm just looking at all of my DMs that I send, Ben. Most of them are little videos are kids getting hurt to me. That's pretty much all they are.

All I send is I follow this wonderful, what is it, an account called Kids Getting Hurt. And it's kids falling off skateboards, kids falling off pinatas, trampolines, you name it, beds, couches. And that's pretty much all that's filling up my DMs. I've been so i've been thinking you've been flirting with me the whole time but maybe you haven't been i don't know let's go to tony and tauranga uh sending a dm to someone that's not your partner a flirty dm is that cheating i believe so yes yeah but it's i think um anything you know you're hiding from your partner or deleting messages,

that's, in my eyes, close as cheating. Right. I guess, yes, if you're having to wipe away evidence, then it's a big red flag. It's not cheating in the same scale as smooching with someone or kissing someone. It's not physically cheating. I think it's more like a mental side of it.

Yeah, I get that. Producer B Humps said it's almost like thinking about murder, but not, you know, planning the murder, but not following through. Yeah, very much so. Yeah. You've got it in you, but you haven't acted on that. Well, we're saying in this scenario, from what we know. But, you know, you've obviously gone that far to make the first move of touch.

Yep, no, I hear you, Tony. All right, we'll go to Shanley. Sorry, Shanley, is Shanley how I say your name? Yes. Sorry, Shanley, I had an absolute mare introducing you to the radio. You're in Christchurch. DMs, flirty DMs to people that aren't your partner. What are you lumping it in?

What category? Absolutely, it's emotional cheating, it's basically having an affair that doesn't have physical touch but you're still putting the time and effort in mimicking a relationship even though it's through text messaging, so absolutely cheating. Now I'm not trying to stick up with

Adam Levine here. Oh here we go Can't wait to hear this. No but I'm just saying he has said it was through a difficult time and a difficult stage in his life. So let's say their relationship was not happening. They were having a break. Would you say it was okay in that situation? Oh, you'd have to define the terms and conditions

before the break, but you could probably see the counsellor if you're having a hard time. Not reach out to a strange woman on social media. Not reach out to hot Instagram models. For emotional support. They're the great therapists. They're the best therapists in the game.

Thank you, Shirley. Appreciate that. And I think it might be a clean sweep. Yeah, you might be right. I'm trying to play the other side, but it's very hard. Yeah, I know, but you're half-heartedly playing it. Like, if you believe that you can send flirty messages, stick to your argument i don't believe it but i'm just

trying to find a scenario where it's okay we're all too scared to say yes it's sweet to do it's not gb we'll get you on welcome from canterbury uh you've been in this situation yeah my good morning mate um yeah i've uh done something like that about 14, 15 years ago. And yeah, I believe there's a reason why people do it. Normally, people are unhappy in a relationship. And yeah, that's why they do it. Yeah, no, it's a good one because you're reaching out for other connections, aren't you? That you aren't getting home.

Now, were you the one doing the messaging, were you? Yeah, I was. I was at the time, yes. And did your partner find out? Well, if I'm brutally honest, I was in an extramarital affair with a lady that I did send the text messages. Yeah, and it meant the end of my marriage. Do you regret it?

Oh, no. I married this fantastic woman and we've been married for 10 years so no I don't oh yeah okay it's definitely

crossing the line it's crossing the line but hey the things that work out a bit better so if that was a great ad for having an affair you couldn't find

a better one really but but now I'm happy and I'm really. But now I'm happy. I'm happy now. I'm really happy to be married. I see what you're saying. I won't do it again.

No, no. Yeah, you weren't happy. It shows the relationship stage. Yeah, but do you regret the affair part? Mate, don't try. I'm just trying to say, do you regret the actions of having the affair and the hurt that it caused?

Oh, absolutely, mate. I went through an unbelievably painful divorce. It was, yeah, yeah, it wasn't great. It wasn't great. But like I said, there's a reason why you start doing something like that, because you crave attention or you're not happy at home or whatnot, you know, so. Oh, good. I appreciate the call.

Thanks for being so open and sharing, GB. Yeah, I appreciate it. We do appreciate it. No worries, mate. You've been listening to a podcast from The Hits. For more audio, search up Megan Puppis on the 3 p.m. pickup or Brad and Laura on The Hits. Available now on the iHeartRadio app.