Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - How a watch saved someones life!

Episode Date: April 21, 2024

Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's Wild Wild Web!  On today's edition we discuss the most boring attraction in New Zealand... and data hacks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Sorry, that abruptly cut off the intro. Long story short, I had to try and reload it in from my Google Gmail, and I've updated my computer, and Google doesn't work. Oh, it's not working working now because it was working. As soon as I open up the window it disappears. Now again I don't want to start the podcast on a sour note. Maybe you've done all the Googling.

No more Googling for you. Mate you've out Googled us. You've clocked the internet. It's kind of I want to look. No. Not any more Googling for you buddy. You've lost your Googling license. But it's quite a I want to look no no not anymore googling for you buddy you've lost your googling license

but it's quite a pivotal tool for a podcast called the wild wild web it is you use Safari okay I don't use Safari often

I often do use Safari do you what's your preferred browser Safari but then you go to Google when you Google stuff well I do Google Chrome

yeah Google Chrome is the thing or Safari and you know. Yeah. Remember Firefox? Another great browser, wasn't it? Back in the day? Something, Dogpile was another one

you used to look up stuff which is kind of like Google. But anyway. Dogpile? I don't think that lasted. Oh, no. It was just a... Some of them gave it a bash, eh?

Yeah. Back in the day. Was there one called Mozzarella or Mozilla or something? Oh, was there? Yeah. Okay. You lead us and I'll look up... Oh, no, I can't. You can't look up anything, right? in the day um was there one called mozzarella or mozilla or something oh was there yeah okay you lead us and i'll look up uh oh no i can't you can't look up anything right

actually speaking of google can i um so on the radio today on a good old radio good old-fashioned radio linear radio people tune in for um so i said there was a place in new zealand that made the list of the most 100 boring most boring things to go for activities this is like worldwide though right boring attractions and i felt bad i didn't want to say the thing because i've been to this place before and i think it's great um but anyway yeah i'll be great i've been along before there's a it's yeah okay so this is there's a lot there's the mirror things with the mirror maze and stuff. It's quite cool. It's amazing. Yeah, okay.

I'm going to, let me get to it and I'll explain more and then I can justify what I love about it. Okay. So there was like millions of Google reviews and someone's gone, some monster's gone through and picked out the words from thousands of, actually 66 million Google reviews and picked out words like boring, bored, bored, boredom, tiresome, dull, drab, lackluster, lifeless, mediocre, and tedious. Firstly, our radio show came out with all these words. We take a fix to drab the most.

We made a list of those are the most common words to describe our show. But yeah, so they went through that, and then they made the list of the most 100 most boring attractions as per that list and at number 54 oh it's quite high Motat

from Auckland made the list they had a set of great time great time at Motat beautiful planes got a cool you know

they're cool if you like oh he's back to defending Motat yeah no I'm letting him write the list yeah okay so there's a mirror there's some planes

there's a mirror maze there's yeah there's a great I mean you. Yeah, okay. So there's a mirror. There's some planes. The mirror maze. Yeah, there's a great place. I mean, you know, like Bassey. Don't just say, like, there's a mirror. It's like the, although the mirror maze is quite a cool thing. My kids and I used to love going through that because you kind of make your way around the mirrors. Yeah, there's the spaceship thing that twirls around as well. That's three things.

Yeah, there's the old style streets where you can go along and go, hey, that's what it used to be like. They're that beautiful old style streets and stuff motet lights at christmas time it's always amazing oh now you're joining no that was the asterisk that's always great always amazing but then i'm like walking through being like if the lights weren't here the tram rides and stuff as well there's a lot of stuff to do but anyway it has made the list to say i don't want to say it on the radio. I felt bad to say it. It's school holidays. You should go along and support Motet.

I feel like they make all their money at Christmas. Yeah, the light thing is really awesome, actually. What is it? The Museum of Transport and Technology, I think. Is it? I don't know. It's sort of going through the years of transport and technology. It's all in the name.

You don't get more technical than a mirror? Yes. Anyway, they made the list. I'm just making dumb geeks. I like Motet. I've done Motet. When was the last time you went? Christmas Lights.

Last year. Had to line up down the road. There's a huge line to get up. It probably sells out, Christmas Lights. Yeah, I said that was good. But when was the last time you went that wasn't Christmas Lights? When the kids were younger. You'll be a Motet person where, you know,

besties, you know, when you get, you know, you want to see some fire trucks and all sorts, you know, take them on to that. It was always a good day when school took you there

for a bit of a field day. I remember a giant ball and you put your fingers on it and it would be like electric. Oh, that's like Science Alive. Is that still a thing? That was a thing at Christchurch. Yeah,

they had one of those in Wellington as well, Science Alive. And they had the big thing, I don't know how it worked with science, they dropped you from that sort of vertical

sort of slide thing. Oh, yeah. You're sort of hanging up there and then had the big thing, I don't know how it worked with science, they dropped you from that sort of vertical sort of slide thing. Oh, yeah. You're sort of hanging up there and then they dropped you down. I don't know what scientific, maybe it was gravity or something. Maybe it doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, but that was fun. But mind you, when it's called the Museum of Transport and Technology, it kind of sums up the review.

I like it. Well, yeah, but then you're going to have... It doesn't scream party time. No, but then chuck a Tesla in there. Is there a Tesla in there? No, but I'm saying, chuck some stuff in there. You went from saying how it's good, now you're offering up, this is how it could be better. No, this is Jono saying.

Jono's saying, well, is it always going to be the same? I'm like, no. I push a button, the Tesla does party mode. I know, but they don't have that. You want a helicopter ride, teaser does party mode and they're like you know what they don't have you want a helicopter ride mate i've got a helicopter okay i know but they don't have that i'm just saying so you're offering up things that they could have to make it exciting you went from being like no it is exciting to being like yes it works what they could do is they could do the future of transport and be like oh you know there could be flying cars a couple of loads in there a work, a work on. It's not currently there. Okay.

That's right. We'll need more funding as well, too. And there will be. I'm going to join the board. I just love how you don't want to badmouth anything. No, I don't want to badmouth it. But then they've got all the planes. They've got the planes down the road, too, there, Betty.

Yeah, they're really cool. All the old war planes. Yeah. Yeah, the whole thing. No, that sounds cool. So anyway, a watch that saves someone. Speaking of technology. No, wait.

You need to tell us what was number one on the world list. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. World's most boring. If MoTak was 54, there's something more boring. You've got to Google it. Don't you tease me. Wait, do you not actually have that?

No, no, I don't. I just. If actually someone from the Museum of Transport and Technology could help out my Google situation. Okay, so it's a scenic railway in Missouri was the number one, the Branson Scenic Railway. Like if you're not into trains, you're never going to enjoy a railway. Is there like a transport theme? A couple of Legolands. Legoland Discovery Centre in Dallas,

Legoland Discovery Centre in Toronto. They made 9 and 10. Shrek's Adventure in London. I'm not sure what that is. Planetarium, another Lego Discovery Centre, Lego-based content. made nine and ten tricks adventure in london i'm not sure what that is uh planetarium another lego discovery center lego based content um a salem witch museum in massachusetts was number four that sounds exciting yeah okay that was apparently i get the lego thing uh the lego guy came out here the brick guy and he put on a display and you're like you're wandering like oh yeah seen that seen

that but you get it done quickly yeah i wouldn't say it was boring. No, it's pretty incredible what people can make with Lego. But once you've seen a giant Lego Eiffel Tower, you're like, okay, seen that, move on to the next one. So you're happy now with it? Yes, thank you. You're fulfilled with your cuppers filled on that one? What would you say is New Zealand's most questionable attraction? Without defaming hard-working Kiwi businesses.

Yeah, exactly. It could be a monument or something There's a lot of monuments Isn't there a big carrot in Olokuni? They're like cool But I'm always thinking when tourists are driving through Are they like why is there a carrot? I mean a trout and gourd I think it's the carrot farming and stuff around the region

And then in Cromwell it's the apple and the The peach I think the peach the carrot farming and stuff around the region. And then in Cromwell, it's the apple and the peach. I think the peach looks like a butt. On that note, we're going to take a little break from the Wild Wild Web. We'll be back after this. Welcome back. And you've got the golden shears. Yeah, that's where I'm from, Marston. You always thought it looked like a big giant cock-a-ball.

The big shears You can't Google it I'll have to Google it Your Googling's done That's probably why Cancel The golden shears in Marston Is like the shearing competition

I've just mansplained that For you But the old school shears They do resemble A very phallic looking object Don't they And there's a pride and joy As you're welcome to

master the sign of master and there you see as well they knew what they were doing yeah it's just it's just the top of it you know because the shears if you had a little if you sort of rounded off the top of it it definitely would be gawker balls very large large and small small testicles really though aren't they are the balls is that what they actually like on a pair of shears because i feel like they've made that it was very yeah handles yeah the handles of the shoes they made the handles yeah they're very cool someone was having a laugh and they're like they're like they'll never put this oh my god they put it up put it up mate we're proud of the golden cheers so there you go they still do the golden shoes so they do a gold chess went along and

watched a little bit of that as a kid it hasn't made the top list of most boring things to do so i'm pleased that would be quite exciting yeah it was super fast yeah oh yeah they're very impressive yeah but um so i started this all by saying the uh uh bit of technology has saved someone's life oh the watch yeah so it was a watch um so a guy got shot and the watch was in their pocket and no no but that would have been probably actually far better story yeah so a guy was he was in york it was really really bad conditions he was a cycling home and he there was a submerged pothole under flood water and he didn't see it on his bike had a bit of a bit of a nasty accident uh he got up thought he was okay carried on sort of cycling home or

maybe walking home with the bike later collapsed in his bathroom as well hit his head on the sink as well now the watch the apple watch detected a fool automatically dialed what 911 and alerted the emergency contacts of his location he woke up came to with uh with someone talking on his watch going this is emergency services what's your emergency oh paramedics and got them to come around had no idea what had happened and then um yeah and he reckoned because of the watch they helped save his life it's pretty incredible chuck the bloody watch in the museum of transport technology mate there's some technology i'm not looking for work on right now are we technology's all around us that's a bloody interesting technology it is chuck it in motet

maybe it wouldn't be so boring i'm allowed to add stuff to it yeah no the apple watch is for now here's a story that i read about uh airpods oh yeah i wasn't a story somebody thing on tiktok but airpods uh the next generation of airpods are going to be able to read your mind and what you're reacting to through the electrical pulses that your brain sends. Oh, I don't like that. Wow, that's the future. I don't like that. That's a couple of generations away from a chip in your brain, isn't it?

That is frightening. So once you've got a chip in your brain, you'll be able to call people from your head. But surely people aren't going to be into that right i mean it's happening on our phones not our generation but there will be younger generations who are like oh i guess this is what we all do we put chips in our head and yeah you know it's i guess how is it any different to your phone learning what you're into you know how it detects how long you linger on each story on instagram or tiktok it's probably not Changes the algorithm to what you're into. I feel fully penetrated anyway by technology.

Like there's nothing I can hide now. It's all out there. You know, we're pretty much all done for. Google's cancelled me. What I get frustrated about is the amount of different passwords you have to have nowadays. And you have to change them all the time. I've honestly got so many passwords to stuff. And everyone's different of like you have to put nowadays. I know. And you have to change them all the time. I've honestly got so many passwords and stuff and everyone's different

of like, you have to put an exclamation mark or another character, you know. How annoying is our workplace? I'm just like, just put my own password

in. If someone gets it, they get it. I don't care anymore. I feel like we change it every month and they're like, you can't use the last part.

Yeah, have you used that one before? Yeah, it's like, oh, of course I have. We're down to like 20 that I've had.

You know what really grinds my gears? The bloody authenticator. Oh, yeah. The three-step authentication or two-step. And you've got to download an app to be authentic. Oh, mate, it is. Security's gone. I get why we need it.

Yeah, it is good to have, right? Be honest, though. Have you boomed it up? Do you have like a note on your phone of all your passwords? Amen, sister. And it's called passwords. Mine's work password. My parents have this actual

notepad. They have the actual notebook. And I'm like, I'm smarter. I've got it on my phone. I'm like, oh, there's a bloody password I had to put into this. I know. It's for everything. I've listed them. You want to financially cripple any of us? Just head onto the notes. LastPass is a really good thing as well. There's the whole password app that my wife, she swears by,

and it's really good. She's got it on to my thing. So that will remember your last password and stuff as well. So all you need is the password to go into that, and then it'll do that for you as well. So even if you update it, you just save it, and it can save on to there as well. That sounds genius. Yeah.

So hopefully that's not – because they know all your information. They're very trusting. And they're like, who created this app? China. Yeah, I don't know. Do you know, here's a crazy... So maybe don't, do your research on that one. Don't take the word, I bet you boys said it was rock solid. I don't know. Maybe the next data leak.

Here's a story about hacking and stuff that my dad was telling me. So Seth Rogen, he made a movie about North Korea, a joke movie. Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, it was with James Franco. Yeah, what was that called? I can't remember.

And they went to interview the, like, yeah. It was about Kim, it was taking the piss out of Kim Jong-un. And afterwards they said they felt really bad and they should probably go and try and apologise. Dad's been reading this book. And then about three weeks later. interview sorry yeah three weeks later everything was gone from their production company bank account all of their personal information was taken every last dollar from their personal bank accounts what bank accounts jonah hill uh seth

rogan and the company had just disappeared, and they're like, what? Are you joking? And it turns out, okay, they got an investigator who looked into it and finally figured out after weeks and weeks of how the thing was hacked. He then tracked the hackers to, like, Manila, and there were two young North Korean kids or students who hacked into their computer. And apparently they do it all around the world with banks.

And that funds a lot of North Korea's nuclear missile program. And what they do in North Korea is if your child and your kid shows any promise in mathematics or science, boom, they're plucked out of their family. Don't see them again. They go off to this crazy school where they just learn about algorithms, hacking, and is creating a tribe, an army of online hackers. To fund the government. And so, yeah, then anyway, Tractor Band, that's how they cleared out Seth Rogen and stuff's bank account.

Because they spoke ill of our great supreme leader. I'm not saying a bad word about him. I'm calling him great and supreme. You just kick your bank account later, Jono. Isn't that wild? But that's how vulnerable we are. Everything's online now. So everything can be hacked when you think about it. Not for you, mate.

You can't get it to Google. If anyone's got a hack for me to get onto Google. You'll be getting cash out before you know it. It's not like you can tap out, though. Checks are a wonderful thing, because your parents used to write checks. Trust in the check system, wasn't there? No, you just do two little lines at the end of how much money, and then sort it.

It was a little line through the thing. Not transferable. That's right. God, it must have been easy to scan back in the day. And you'd always dabble, I'll date this for a couple of days Because that's when the money Will come You know as well

It was kind of like Here you go And this will be good For a couple of days What did they call that Backdated check was it Yeah Something like that

A rando check Yeah Yeah So you didn't have the money But it was kind of like Good for it Like if you paid via check And you dated it for a few days

You'd still like Get to take home The microwave Yeah And then it would Come out of your account Wild I know wild Just a trust in a random If you paid via check and you dated it for a few days, you'd still get to take home the microwave, right? And then it would come out of your account. Wild. I know, wild. Just a trust in a random bit of paper. Yeah.

Put your address and stuff on the back and say, yeah, like, oh, all right, whatever, mate. But still. It's declined and then you just run away. Yeah. Yeah, it was very trusting back then, wasn't it? And then we just used to get, your parents would get their checkbook in the mail

and they'd just sit in the letterbox. Anyone could take those. Oh, the old shit. Let's go back to the checks. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, well, that's been the Wild Wild Web today. Great stuff.

Thank you very much for listening and we'll join you again tomorrow.