Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Should Your Family Track You??
Episode Date: September 26, 2022We talked to Alex today about a wild phone tracking story and then asked you... do you think it's necessary to track your family/partner 24/7?!!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
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Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits.
But Ben, this is an interesting topic. Tracking in your relationship. Alex joins us. Thank you.
We tracked you down, Alex. Thanks for joining New Zealand's Breakfast. Morena.
Oh, Morena. Hi.
Good to have you on. Now, a bit of an issue with the husband.
Yeah, it's a weird one. So we started the app, you know, the one where you can track your family's phone?
Because I've got two teenagers and a little person.
So the teenagers have phones.
So when they're out with their friends, we thought it would be safest to get the app where you can just track them.
And when they finish their job at the supermarket, I can see exactly where they are and know if they're on their way home.
We've been doing that for about six months.
And on the weekend, I was like, hey, to my husband,
why don't we add yours?
And he's really, like, against it for some reason.
He's like, no, no, it's for the kids.
I said, well, I put mine on there, and so you can use it,
and we can all track each other.
And he's, like, dead set that he thinks he doesn't need to.
Doesn't want to be tracked.
Now, this is the interesting conversation to have
because now we all, and I'm sure you listening,
you're jumping to conclusions.
Why doesn't he want to be tracked?
What's he hiding?
As I'm sure you might have, Alex.
Yeah, I mean, we have a really solid relationship.
I mean, he does probably, you know,
stay after work for drinks sometimes. Sometimes I, you know, stay after work for drinks sometimes.
Sometimes I, you know, do that angry, like, wife text.
Hey, when are you going to be home?
Real passive aggressive.
But this, I feel like these are, I don't know, he's really putting his foot down, and I don't see why.
So what's his reasoning?
Just the fact that he doesn't want to be tracked?
He's like, it's for the kids, that's his only reason?
Yeah, he thinks it's just for kids, and that where he goes in his time we shouldn't have to be able to
he's a grown man he's not a suspect in an interpol investigation yeah he doesn't he doesn't need to
be tracked i get it like my family's on life 360 i think i'm on it but i'm just so bad technically
i don't know if i am on it. Right. Yeah, I don't know if
I logged in correctly. So that's just my
experience with it. Or maybe you don't want to be tracked.
Ben, you know me.
My tracking would be so bleak.
I'd be like, oh God, he's gone through the Burger King drive-thru again.
Oh no, he's going to Carl's Jr.
Oh no, he's gone to work.
Yeah, no, I get it. It does
raise eyebrows
but, you know, there is the privacy thing. Yeah, no, I get it. It does raise eyebrows, but, you know, there is the privacy
thing. Humans are,
you know, they have rights
to privacy. Alex, what happens
if he's whipping off to get you a surprise present?
You know, and that gives
the game away, the tracking app, you know, things
like that. Yeah, it would.
I don't know. I'm starting to get paranoid
and it's starting to really eat me up, so
I don't know. Oh, 800 the hits. This is's starting to really eat me up. So I don't know.
Oh, 800 of the hits.
We want to help Alex out this morning.
4487's the text for New Zealand's Breakfast.
Can you ask your partner to track them?
Can you track your partner?
I should just say yes.
I mean, even if you've got, we're not saying he's got anything to hide,
but I get, you know, but I get the fact that he might just be like,
I don't want to be tracked.
Like, why should I be tracked? It's weird.
It's weird being tracked.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
But at the same time, it does raise alarm bells a little bit,
like suspicions just to go, oh, but why don't you?
Are you being tracked?
Would you want to be tracked?
I haven't been tracked.
Actually, we're talking about getting my daughter on this app
in the weekend, you know, just to keep it so you don't have to do
that text going, you know, where are you?
What are this?
You know, have you left this such and such?
So, yeah, but I'm probably the same as Alex's partner
and going, I don't need to be tracked.
Like, why?
Yeah, like I said, I don't mind being tracked.
If you want to track me, it's pretty bleak viewing.
And poor kids these days.
How are they meant to sneak around and vape
and do all the fun things?
We are riding them like racehorses now.
Imagine if these apps were a thing we were growing up
in. Half the stuff, half the shenanigans
you couldn't get up to. Hey Alex, well thank you
so much for sharing. Really interesting
conundrum you got there and appreciate your time.
Thank you. Can you track
your partner? Help out Alex right
now. She'll be listening after this five
song. Someone's already texted and saying
marriage is built on trust and freedom.
Be free. Trust them. Is that what everyone else is thinking? 0800 the hits. 4487 song someone's already texted him saying marriage is built on trust and freedom yeah be free trust
them is that what everyone else is thinking oh under the hits four four eight seven is our text
the hits the jonah and ben podcast talking tracking this morning very very interesting
text coming through a load of text coming through a four four eight seven can you ask your partner
to track them can you track your partner is what we're talking about. Alex's husband, she's got the kids on life 360.
He doesn't want to jump on board, wants his freedom,
doesn't feel he needs to be tracked.
There's no reason for him to be tracked.
Hasn't been tracked up until this point.
Why start the tracking now?
I get it.
I get it.
Maybe she should slip a beacon into his butt when he's sleeping or something.
Yeah.
Keep an eye on him.
Ben, you were saying you wouldn't want to be tracked? Oh, yeah. Again, I feel like Alex's partner. Maybe she should slip a beacon into his butt when he's sleeping or something. Keep an eye on him.
Ben, you were saying you wouldn't want to be tracked?
Oh, yeah.
Again, I feel like Alex's partner.
Like, I don't feel like I'm doing it for any reason, any suspect reasons or anything,
but I just feel a bit funny about the fact that, well, why?
Why?
A lot of people, so many sex, 4, 4, 8, 7, it's a loss of freedom.
Everyone's too comfortable giving away their freedoms nowadays.
Anti-vaxxer.
No, probably shows the landscape of where things are at the moment. Tinfoil hat.
Hey, don't say that. You know that's going to rock
people up. Tracking's wrong.
Poor kids and poor husband.
You only need to track people like criminals.
Not your family.
So there's a divided thing.
Me and my husband, we track happily.
And I guess it's each to their own.
I do love a Find My iPhone app, though.
When you lose your iPhone, that's great.
I don't mind tracking the phone.
You'll keep that on the track system.
We'll get Mary on.
Welcome to the show, Mary.
Can you track?
Do you track?
Yeah.
Actually, we had a conversation with my partner about it. He works away most of the time and he goes fishing a lot.
So I did have to ask him if it's okay to track him.
And he was like, for what?
I was like, well, it gives me the peace of mind to know if we're on your own on your way home,
if I have to get dinner and all that stuff.
But at first it was
um so so and then he was like yeah you know what if it gives you peace of mind sure yeah and it
it's also he tracks me and he was just like sometimes it's like oh you're supposed to be
on your way home and pick up groceries where you know I was just like I'm just going shopping a little bit so you go shopping
you're like
oh
I don't want to be
trashed
what is this
1985
oh that's good
that's good
and I guess
I guess when you're
out somewhere
going out fishing
and things like that
in the ocean
you want to know
where they are
yeah that's really
good
sometimes I was
just like
oh I thought
you were on your
way home
and he was like
I just had to
stop by for a
little bit of
fish in the corner I was like as long as you're on your way home. And he was like, I just had to stop by for a little bit of a fish in the corner.
I was like, oh, as long as you're not.
Because I can see that he's in the middle of the ocean sometimes.
And he's like, oh, there's no one else in there.
As long as he's not in the middle of a bed with another woman, you're happy.
Yeah, I'm quite happy with that.
Good on you, Mary.
Appreciate that.
We'll get Kirsty on.
You're anti-tracking, Kirsty.
Yeah, I reckon it, no, that it's unnecessary.
I think that it will be so boring, like those traces when you had to do with COVID.
If you were in a shop that someone had COVID, you had to go, oh, I went to the warehouse,
and then I went back to Kmart, then I went to the supermarket, then I went back to Kmart.
And it might lead to the warehouse, and then I went back to Kmart, then I went to the supermarket, then I went back to Kmart, and it might lead to more questions even.
And if you wanted to make something up, you could say you were at a mate's house.
So I think either you trust them or you don't trust them,
but tracking is so tedious.
I could say I left my phone with Jono.
He's off to all these places.
You go back to Burger King?
It's embarrassing.
Yeah, my tracking history is bleak.
It's bleak.
Hey, thank you very much, Kirstie.
There is the trust issue too, isn't there?
But also, like, if you've got nothing to hide,
then you wouldn't have a problem being tracked.
But, you know, if there's no –
there's so many debates on this.
Fiona, Fiona, would you track your husband?
Oh, God, no.
Who cares where he is?
If I want to know where he is, I will just text him.
I love it. Who cares where he is? Who cares where to know where he is, I will just text him. I love it.
Who cares where he is?
Who cares where he is?
The longer he's away, the better.
Exactly.
Why?
Like, we're grown-ups.
We don't need to track each other.
No, I get it.
I get it.
So, yeah, some of the Greeks texting, tracking?
What are we, dogs now?
It's a step too far.
So, I would say the general consensus, summarising it, because I know there's been ones either
way, but most people were saying don't track them.
Anti-trackers.
Yeah.
Yeah, they don't like being tracked out there.
70% of the text saying, no, I wouldn't want to be tracked
and I wouldn't track my partner either.
So there you go.
Appreciate all your calls and texts this morning.
That was a really interesting debate. podcasts from the hits for more audio search up megan puppets on the 3 p.m pickup or brad and
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