Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Flashback Friday: The Milky Bar Kid

Episode Date: June 8, 2023

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Togs, togs, togs Undies You know I can't grab your fish chips Nick Minnit Friday Flashback Flashback Friday We like to look back on some pop culture moments

From years gone by I thought we could do Flash Friday One time And someone You know people bring in items And we're like Oh that's Flash Oh Flash

It's a Flash set of cufflinks you got there or something I didn't quite think that's what you were going to mean When you said it But that's alright Kind of like Antiques Roadshow, but it's Flash Friday. But in the meantime, we've got this brand, Ben, and we'll stick with it. Looking back at the Milky Bar Kid. What an icon of a generation.

He was the Justin Bieber of a generation, wasn't he? Iconic ads. Justin Bieber was the Justin Bieber of a generation, of our generation. But you're right, though. I remember from my childhood watching many, many ads with the Milky Bar kids. It was big in Australia and also New Zealand, right? Cowboys, if you're not aware of who we're talking about, it was a little child recklessly dressed up as a cowboy

and thrown on a horse to advertise confectionery. And he was always like, the Milky Bars are on me. You know, that was his big catchphrase. Shocking for the profits of Nestle handing out free Milky Bars. But here was the commercial. Milky Bar, get on each what's right. Milky Bar, let's clean it right. Guess who's Milky Bar?

And the Milky Bars are on me. Yeah. I like the line, the Milky Bar only eats what's right. Well, you know, you'd be probably... Couldn't say that now, could you? Yeah, five plus a day is probably what's right, technically. Not just chowing down on Milky Bars all day long. But yeah, an iconic commercial.

And we were talking about this before the show. Everyone had a connection to the Milky Bar, Kidd, or supposedly. Yeah, it was back in the days before you could google too so people would claim wild claims that they knew him their cousin i was you know people i was the book i did you know i told that lie oh god embarrassing and it was that thing like no one could make a direct comparison nowadays that lie would just be the oxygen would be taken out of it immediately but it did get to the point where I was like, oh, the Milky Bars. I say the Milky Bars are on me.

So I went home one afternoon and I said, mum, can we buy like 13 Milky Bars so I can come back and say I'm the Milky Bar kid? She's like, no. I'm not getting caught up in your web of lies. Milky lies. Yeah. So I did some research. Where is he at? Well, yeah, Because there might have been

A couple of them And I think there was A different one in Australia Than in New Zealand maybe And I think they did Nestle did a more recent one 2011 Yeah

With a newer Milky Bar We're talking about the OG one Yeah right And there have been Multiple sightings Of the Milky Bar kid On the internet Some saying

He's literally The sergeant in arms of a motorcycle gang. Is this true? In Europe, yes. There's one claim. Another one saying he's now a neuroscientist. Another one saying he's an acclaimed actor. Another one, an account of him, I don't know if the timeline of this one

stacks up. He's 64 years old with four grandchildren working as the groundsman at a country club in Spain. So he's fled New Zealand. F fled the Antipodean shores. Wow. I want to know where he is. Surely someone must know the original Milky Bar kid.

4487 is our text number if you do. Let's try and track down the original Milky Bar kid. Yeah. I don't think we'll do that next. I won't say that's happening next. Yeah, we can't put that promise on there. No, but it would be great if you did know.