Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Downloading your brain!

Episode Date: March 10, 2024

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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, Jono and Vienna are your fearless guides. Leading you through the wildest parts of the wild, wild web. This is the wild, wild web. Kia ora, good morning, afternoon, evening I don't know when people listen to this Whatever time of day it is, welcome

Good day Good day to you Lovely to have you with us Ben Boyce, still off Minus a Ben Boyce who's riddled with infection, fever Thanks to a swollen elbow and a gym injury Going to the hospital every day for an IV Gymjury Have you injured yourself at the gym? Yes to a swollen elbow and a gym injury. Going to the hospital every day for an IV.

Gymsury. Have you injured yourself at the gym? Yes. I don't want to tell you about it. I was attempting to be a runner. On the treadmill? Yeah. I actually ended up having to have hip surgery because I hurt myself.

Oh dear. What happened? I got a labral tear in my hip socket and then they found out I had hip dysplasia, which is like what dogs have. So to get my hips realigned, all because I was like, no, I'm going to start running. We've got to talk about this on the show tomorrow. Nah. You don't want to talk about it?

Oh, I don't know. Everyone thinks I've had a hip replacement and I'm an old lady. It's not quite the same thing. Is it sensitive? No, I don't mind talking about it But what do you want to talk about? No, just go Have you injured yourself at the gym? What happened?

It's to kick off into a topic With callers Can I put it in? You can put it in Thank you This is a live brainstorm Yeah, prepping I had a shocker

At the same treadmill incident And it wasn't actually Two times actually Ben and me had flown It was a long flight. And we ended up in Los Angeles for work. And it was daytime still there. So we're like, we'll go to the hotel gym to keep awake.

Yeah. Been there. And he was next door doing whatever he was doing. And then he just heard kaboom, kaboom, kaboom. And I'd fallen off the treadmill. And I fell asleep while running on the treadmill. What? Yeah. What?

How? We were reminiscing about it the other day, actually. I don't know, just so tired and jet lagged. Oh my God, Jono. I just woke up on the floor. He's like, what did you do? I was like, I'm pretty sure I just fell asleep on the treadmill. Oh my God.

That was one. And you just ricocheted off the back of it. Yeah. And then the other one was. It would have been great TikTok. It would have gone viral. I would have, with the security cameras. Yeah. The other one was great tiktok the other one was i would have the security cameras yeah the other one was i had just finished at snap fitness on the treadmill and i was i'd walked over and i pushed stop on the treadmill and i'd walked over to get uh some wipes yeah

all the spray and yeah yeah good on you and uh i unbeknown to me the treadmill when you push stop enters rest mode it doesn't stop it pauses it pauses it, I was going to say. But it's still going, slowly. Yeah, right. And then this lady stepped onto it. Well, boom, took her feet right out from underneath her. Her face went on the tread. Oh, my God.

And it was all my fault. It was all my fault. Is she okay? She was fine. Yeah, she was fine. Her sister actually phoned because we were working at the Edge at the time. Her sister phoned the radio station that afternoon and was like, Jono just ruined my sister's day with the treadmill.

So we should talk about this stuff tomorrow. Yeah, okay, good chat. Yeah, okay, we'll get on to that. If you're listening now, you're probably like, well, I don't want to listen tomorrow because I've heard it. Yeah, we'll try and spice it up tomorrow. We'll try and actually prepare it. Yeah.

Gingeries, that's off-bed. Anyway, so the wild, wild web We look at dark corners From the internet And you Has said You have something And you said

Is that okay? I said I already love it That you've got something You've gone in blind for this And this is really off brand for me Because it's talking about A tech startup

Okay But it reminds me Of a TV show I watched So Nectome No Nectome I don't know how to say the company, irrelevant.

This company is asking. It's probably not irrelevant to the company. No, they're a tech startup. They are asking you, what if we told you if we could back up your mind, would you do it? The catch is it's 100% fatal. So they reckon they can upload all of your mind, 100% of everything of your mind, into like a cloud situation to be downloaded in the future.

And weirdly, lots of people have signed up for this. So it's a waiting list of people on there. The price tag is $10,000. So you're essentially paying i guess to end it euthanize but with the idea that in the future you'll be downloaded your mind will be downloaded why would you want anyone having to the access to download everything in your mind the stuff i've thought about oh i didn't think about that oh my god yeah that's the first thing i thought of i was like i think i have some dark terrible things like are you giving them power to do whatever they want

with it because how are you going to stop them very that is frightening very frightening because a lot of people have been put on ice right or being cryogenically frozen yeah and that can cause damage to your mind and your body so this way nothing gets damaged and all the data is there listen this is uh i tell you what i'd rather have my computer history out there than what's going on in my mind yeah yeah wow yeah no i don't do not want people having access to my mind i didn't think about every little thought i suppose i suppose you're not there so you don't have to deal with the fallout. People would just go, jeez. I guess the idea is that you're coming back. Oh, you're coming back? Well, like your mind, would they download it into like a robot?

Is that the thought? Oh, and then you're living it. Okay, right. But then people have access to that. They go, jeez, he was a sick bastard. Do we want to turn this guy into a robot? No. That's the answer. Okay. Well, I suppose if you're at the end of life, it's something you consider maybe? Yeah. Or if you were like terminally ill.

Because $10,000 is not a lot of money. But I think we're better off preserving the minds of geniuses. Yeah, what are you going to bring? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Sick thoughts. Sick thoughts, yeah. We don't need them. Yeah.

The future doesn't need this. If it's a chance to better humanity, there's some great minds we can download. Yeah. Obama. Chuck his mind in there. Oprah. Oprah. Michelle Obama. Yeah. You'd put maybe Ar chuck his mind in there yeah oprah oprah michelle obama yeah you'd put maybe ardern's brain in there like like like people have succeeded in life you've listed a

lot of females kanye i reckon when kanye well listen i think it was da vinci who and i might have missed quite a this da vinci or one of famous artists, used to paint with his feces. Okay, now back in the day, we'd been like, bloody Da Vinci's fingers deep in his feces again. And they would have thought he was bonkers at the time. Now we celebrate. Yeah. Don't we?

But what are we celebrating with Kanye at the moment? The fact that he gets his girlfriend to wear nothing in public? Well, maybe, you know. There's probably better minds. Picasso, sorry. Oh, Picasso. Picasso. Literally, he was doing exactly that and painting with it.

Oh, my God. I will never hear that name again without thinking of him. Oh, listen, Picasso is said to have used his daughter Maya's feces to paint an apple on the canvas. Oh, okay. She was three at the time. Right. So he got the brush and that.

See, now at the time, if I came into work and I was like, mate, I've just been painting with the kids' feces, you'd be like. But now we celebrate. I'm devoured when I get an accidental finger in the nappy. I'm like, oh, God, the world's ending washed hands. It never crossed my mind to put finger to canvas. Well, you could turn that into art, works of art. That was today's Wild Wild Web.

Hey, thanks for bringing that to the party there. No worries. Go and download your minds and have a wonderful day wherever you are in the world.