Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Megan Papas On Why You Should Watch Severance

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

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Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Megan Puppers from the 3pm Pickup tells us every week what are the shows we should be watching, whether on TV or streaming, and she joins us in the studio right now. Kia ora, good morning, Megan. Hello. What to watch now? I was watching you as you were walking in today. Yes. You look like you're ready. Do we need to get a towel on the floor?

Oh, jeez. I reckon we're good to go. I'm ready. I'm so ready to have this child out. How do you sleep? Do you just go on your back? No, because it's like a bowling ball on you, so you have to sleep on your side. Well, we were talking to someone, and they thought they had an invention

where you would create like almost a lilo-shaped pillow. Yeah. So you can lay face down, and you have your belly in the lilo. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. That'd be great. It's like when you get a massage and

there's a hole for your head, you can have a hole for the pregnancy belly. Now, well, one thing you have been doing a lot of, though, is watching

your love watching shows. You're first to watch all the shows. That's what we love about this segment. So what are you watching this week?

Well, there is one called Dated and Related. It's on Netflix. If you like Love Island, this is, I like Love Island, but there's an episode every day and it's quite a commitment. Right. This is only 10 eps and it is real trashy.

Imagine being swept away to a luxury villa in the south of France. You're there to find love in the most romantic country in the world with other gorgeous singles. Oh, did I not mention the catch? You'll be joined by your brother or sister who's also looking for love. That sounds like the bleakest television show I have ever heard.

It's not like where I grew up in Marston. It's not like they're looking for love within the family. No, no. But it's so awkward because I don't know about your siblings, but if I went on a date with my brother, oh, that would be horrendous. So they bring the family along as sort of like a... Yeah, so they go in as a team. There's a team of two. It's your brother

or your sister and they're supposed to be your wingman and help you find love but you end up going on dates together. So there's one where she where one of the girls went on a date with twin guys. So her brother's just sitting there like

listening to her chat up these dudes being like, I don't actually want to hear this. It's so horrendous but I can't look away. That's the problem. When you go on these shows now you're not even there to find love. You're just like okay well what's the twist? Are we doing it naked?

Do we have to do it with lions surrounding us? Because they all have to have a hook now don't they? Yeah they all have to be something different right? So dated and related. Here was my idea You know, lions surrounding us. Because they all have to have a hook now, don't they? Yeah, they all have to be something different, right? Yeah. So dated and... Related. Dated and related. Here was my idea, okay?

Now, the what that was called, it was for Valentine's Day and you're on a 100-meter track. Oh, there's a bloody pash dash for cash. I think it's been done or something, isn't it? So every 10 meters there was someone from your life that you had to pash in order to advance through to the next round. So you start with, I don't know, your boss. Oh, God.

The 10-metre line. And it advances all the way through to your grandmother or something. Yeah, right. No? Not for me. I mean, I'd watch it. But you need a lot of consenting people to be on board that show. The boss might go, well, I'm already married. I've got a

husband. It doesn't matter, mate. You put it on there, this person can win some money. It requires a lot of buy-in from a lot of people. Now, Severance is the next show. Yes. So this is on Apple TV. It came out, the final episode came out in April. So it's not new,

but Joel that works on your show has actually been absolutely addicted to it. Yeah, he's like, you need to get onto the show. Here's a wee snippet. My name is Mark S. And I have, of my own free accord, elected to undergo the procedure known as severance. I give consent to sever my memories

between my work life and my personal life. That is genius. So you manage to sort of compartmentalise your work and your home memories. They don't kind of... Exactly that. So it sounds great in theory, but the person, they call them innies,

the people who are inside, they don't have any concept of who they are on the outside. All they experience in a day is coming out of the lift and going to work. So they don't know who they are, they don't know about their families. And then on the flip side, the outies don't know how they're being treated or what they're actually doing when they go to work. So if Jono came round and he'd be like, hey, I'm from work, and I'd be like, what, who? You wouldn't know who they were.

Awkward work Christmas parties and all that. Well, they kind of are for one half of you, but not your other half. And it sounds pretty basic, but it goes down a twisted path. It's directed by Ben Stiller and it was nominated for like 14 Emmys this year.

It's so interesting where it goes and the cliffhanger is intense and it's actually just been renewed for a season two. Wow, there's Severance. It's a good idea. We all play some sort of role on the radio, don't we? Yeah. We're not the same people.

I'm boring out there. I don't know why I'm probably boring in here too, but I'm more boring out there. That's interesting know why I'm probably boring in here too, but I'm more boring out there. Yeah, no, that's interesting. Severance, where do you get Severance? Apple TV. Apple TV.

Yeah. Yeah, all right, there we go. Megan, what to watch. Thank you very much. Thank you.