Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Life advice from 50 Cent!

Episode Date: March 17, 2024

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Welcome to the untamed realm of the World 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 Welcome to the Wild Wild Web where we look at some of the wildest stories on the internet and some of the wildest conversations come out of it Now, first Wild Wild Web back after a few days

How was the Wild Wild Web last week? I got some wild stories out of producer Taylor Oh really? Yeah She got into fights back when she was a NRL cheerleader Oh, I can imagine her Yeah. She got into fights back when she was a NRL cheerleader. Oh, I can imagine her fighting. She got bottles thrown at her. She got bottles thrown at her when she was cheerleading the game.

Really? Yeah, that was one you can check out. Obviously a story that you know very well that I love as well. She told to Megan for the first time about her mum when her mum was working for the airline and sent that poor lady back on a plane back to Korea or wherever. Yeah. She had just landed in Australia too,

hadn't she? So they're definitely worth checking out if you haven't checked out those episodes of the Wild Wild Web. It's a pleasure to be back with the old gang. Now, 50 Cent, you know? In the club. In the club.

P-A-M-P. Yeah. What else is he doing? What other stuff's he up to? Candy shop? He's letting you lick lollipops? Yeah. Very is he doing? What other stuff's he up to? Candy shop He's letting you lick lollipops Yeah Unhygienic isn't he?

And also against the rules of the candy shop Yeah You've got to pay for those first Who's the owner of the candy shop? It's like 50 make You stop bringing in these lollipop licking People

Well I mean Yeah He's the owner technically The metaphor Oh is he the owner of the candy shop? He owns the candy shop. Is he making them pay for the lollipops? He owns the lollipop.

Oh. He lets you lick the lollipop. Is that, okay. Is there only one lollipop? Yeah. And then multiple lickers. It's a bad business model. I'd say so.

Shocking business model. Yeah, at least charge 50 cents for it. At least don't give it away for free. The only one crazier in the confectionery industry, Wonka. Yeah, true. 50 cent and Wonka See that Wonka movie It was good

Yeah The Timothee Chalamet one You say it like it's new It's been out for a while now Okay alright You say it was a lot more musical Than you had anticipated Yeah

It was one of those ones That surprises you When you go in there And he starts singing And the first thing you're like Huh what is he You'd see the same as me Probably out of the three of them

My favourite Wonka movie Definitely That was really well done It was very cool There's a bit of bloody Singing and jamming Yeah And there's the candy man

The weird sort of candy man He had a weird business model That original candy man I know Now it didn't age well Did it? It's like creepy now Original Wonka

Yeah Because kids went in And they didn't come out they disappeared into his yeah let's not let's not worry about 50 cents lollipop looking um the i had a question how did they navigate the uh the complicated potentially cancelable the oompa loompa casting so hugh grant was the only oompa loompa in the movie and he was obviously i guess cgi sort of yeah like a version of himself he was inside a jar

so not getting actual little people to play no it was but it was almost he was inside a jar like he was tiny tiny like yeah they took it to the point

where no one could get offended oh yeah but I think there was still some backlash and now from an island yeah he's like a group of people that live on an island

or something and grow cocoa beans I don't know I think there was still a few little murmurs around. Of course there was. Why wasn't they locking up a little person in that jar? I don't know.

Yeah. Anyway, we're not here to put, we're here to talk about 50 Cent. Yeah. And probably the last person you'd think of to give wonderful life advice, 50 Cent. Now, this is one of those wonderful. They have an album called Get Rich or Die Trying,

so that's good advice isn't it? That is good advice yeah. And he didn't die. Was he the one who shot Nine times I think. Nine? He was shot nine times. Was he?

In the same go or nine? I don't know. I always remember that was the big thing when he came out. Was 50 Cent shot nine different times? Yeah.

That's what I'm googling. Because I mean what Tupac took a couple of shots too didn't he? But not nine. times? Yeah. That's what I'm googling. Because, I mean, what? Tupac took a couple of shots too, didn't he? But not nine. Yeah. Nine times. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was nine times. That was the big thing about, yeah.

Yeah, that's crazy. That's when he walks with a limp or something in his song, I think is what he says. Oh, I see. Yeah. We'll do some on the fly. Oh, yeah. The real reason why 50, she got shot nine times. He said mostly in the legs.

Oh yeah. So it sounds like different times. Right. Okay. Good Lord. Yeah. Ow. Oh no,

he survived a brutal shooting. So all of the same gun. A brutal shooting in 2000 that left him with nine bullet wounds. Yeah. All over his body. Nine times. Crazy, eh?

Yeah. Anyway, you'd take advice from that guy, wouldn't you? Yeah. Yeah, we'll have a listen to what 50 Cent's got to say about this. Some people know how to live better than others with or without money.

They just sort out and pick a better person to share their time with. You feel what I'm saying? Even if you sleep in a one-bedroom apartment, you may be richer than a rich guy. Your life, the fabrics of your life and what you're doing and how you feel about yourself at the moment. 50 cents saying there you go. I mean, it's wonderful advice,

but it's also great advice coming from a multi-mega-millionaire saying, hey, man, there's people with no money and they're living life better. Yeah, but they've also got the stresses of bills. But I think the stresses are always there. They're just different, right? Yeah. If we can quote another rapper,

mo' money, mo' problems. Yeah, true. They say that. It wasn't on my 2024 bingo card to hear life advice and actually listen to it for 50 cents. Well, he's been through a lot, as we know. 50 cents. Shambolic lollipop licking operation.

Yeah, been shot nine times. Shot nine times and now this my favourite 50 cent story is when he bought all the tickets to was it Ja Rule's concert yeah

and so Ja Rule went on stage and there was no one there and you guys did the same thing with Guy Williams as well which was quite evil

it was fun because Guy came out and there was just the two of us in the audience but then when you think about it he's like

well I just got paid for a full house. I didn't know if it was going to sell out. He was like, I'm pretty sure I wasn't going to sell all the tickets. We bought all the tickets. And then he only had to do like five minutes of work and he was done. So the joke was kind of on us in some ways. But it was a great reaction when he came out.

There would have been that moment where he's like, I've sold out this show on my own merit. People want to see me. And then he walks out and it's like, oh. It's us too. But then he was also happy because it was a Tuesday night and he got to go home early. There was a lot of pros to that prank. But yeah, here's a story about 50 Cent.

I was working on the Rock Radio station. A guy phoned up his sister, spent the night with 50. Really? When he was in Auckland many, many, many years ago. Candy shop? Might have gone candy shopping Kmart's probably the only one Open at that time of night

Though isn't it Yeah Here's one for you Don't knock that He made her catch He made her catch the bus home What The next morning

Yeah Used the Auckland Public transport system Oh Didn't even call her an Uber Was this before Ubers Yeah Or a taxi

You could have called her a taxi He could have But he's 50 cent He's not going to start Throwing around wild taxi dollars He's like Catch the bus mate 250 Was this before Ubers? Yeah. Or a taxi. You could have called her a taxi. Yeah, you could have, but he's 50 cent. He's not going to start throwing around wild taxi dollars. He's like, catch the bus, mate. $2.50. I wonder if that was like a little calling card.

It was like, here, get yourself home, like 50 cent, like handing over a 50 cent coin. Like, I wonder if it was like, fuck it. She's like, this won't even give me one stage. I can go on the bus. I can only give, you know, maybe it was one of those things. But otherwise, apart from the mode of transport home, did she mention how the, yeah. What was the review What was the review

General review Very physical By all accounts I imagine he would be He'd be athletic Wouldn't he And he'd be Yeah

But this was I didn't want to ask Well he's got an athletic body But like He could be lazy In the bedroom You don't know Potentially

But this guy Bearing in mind The guy I phoned up Was talking about his sister So he doesn't want to go So he probably didn't get Too many details. Don't tell me too much about how 50 Cent destroyed you in a hotel room after a concert.

Yeah, I wouldn't go into details with my brother. What's the best bit of advice you've got? It's probably not the best bit, but it's just the one I remember all the time is don't get good at things you don't want to do. You say that quite often. I do. What do you apply that to? So like anything in your workplace, if there's something like. Around here, what are you not like photocopying?

Like pushing the buttons behind the desk. Yeah, she doesn't want to like. I do the same with washing the dishes sometimes. If you don't do a good job of that, someone will take over and go, oh, do it. You know, like that. Do you know also like making people coffee? I don't want to make people coffee. You did that. You had a cafe.

No, but I mean like instant coffees if people come to your house or whatever. My father-in-law's not going to listen to this. He asked for a coffee once. I made it terrible so that he never asked me again. A spiked coffee. It was almost a spiked coffee. He never asks me now. It's great. Or I'm like, do you want a coffee? He's like, no, I'm okay. Left a spite coffee. He never asks me now. It's great.

Or I'm like, do you want a coffee? He's like, no, I'm okay. Left a bitter taste in his mouth. Many levels. Don't get good at things you don't want to do, and then you'll never have to do them again. That's great advice. That's good.

What's some of – oh, Grace was pointing. Oh, Grace, our producer, was pointing, but not at us. It wasn't a finger point at us. I was trying to think of some advice. We used to, when we were doing an old TV show, Andy, our director, he would always say his mum's advice was like, you know, is it going to be on the front page of the paper tomorrow it was like do you need to worry about this sort of thing it was like you know like are you going to worry and and then eventually we did a prank that ended up on the front page of the paper

got that argument out of the way i was like well we can no longer use that because we did we did something that ended up on the front page of the paper. It wasn't good. So, yeah. Saying not to sweat the small stuff. It was kind of her message, but it didn't really work after you made the front page of the paper. I was like, well, we've achieved that, and it was horrible. Yeah, I always forget the advice that I've been given.

Yeah. It's a hard thing to hold on to because you're like, that's good advice. At the time, you're like, wow, amazing. Changed my life. I'll remember it forever. It's a cliche, but I would say it goes too quick. Like, Megan, you are in the earlier stages of raising children that you've created with your body. Yeah.

Ben and I, we're kind of hitting the teen years now, and fuck, it goes quick. Does it? It does, yeah. That's always cliche. Is it frightening for you to think, well, both our kids are now at colleges, that in five years they're out of the house? Yeah.

Getting jobs, studying. That is wild to me. I always find it funny you hear parents say when the kids leave, they have to rebuild the relationship with their partner because you spend so much time in admin and responsibility and then suddenly you've got all this time together and you're like, wait, what did we do? Yeah, what did we do before this? Yeah. We just talked about kids and we're dropping them off and picking

them up yeah yeah no so i'd say yeah enjoy it while you can because it goes so you're like you're not picking up where has that time gone yeah yeah and your 20s are your 20s disappear don't know i know that i think life just goes fast it it Remember when you were a kid A year felt like an eternity And now it's like a year is just I mean we're already knocking on April's door It was January two seconds ago A school term felt like the length of Oppenheimer Back in the day

You're like this is There's only what like six or seven weeks or something And school holidays felt like a year I know, so we almost got bored by the end of the school holidays. Oh, RIP. Those were the days. Those were the days. Going to bed early.

But then we didn't have devices really back then like we do now. To get outside. Yeah, get outside and make your own fun. Which is good for a point. And then you're like,

I want to kill for advice. An iPad as a kid. I'm talking to a bush for five hours out here. Yeah, I'm bowling a cricket ball against a wall for four hours. You're right. They got it good. They got it very good. This is an old person thing.

I know. I was like, now you're sounding old. Yeah, it's like back in our day. Do you know I have a theory too? You know when you're younger and they're like, talk to an old person who hasn't seen you for a while and they're like, oh boy, when I last saw you, you were this height and now you're this height.

And you're like, yeah, of course. Well, that's how growing up works in your head. But I'm doing that all the time. Same. And you know what the thing is? It's because, and if you're a snarky kid who gets all salty about old people going, oh, the last time I saw you, you were down here and now you're up here. It's because they've got're a snarky kid who gets all salty about old people going oh the last time I saw you

you were down here and now you're up here it's because they've got nothing else to say to you so you try and think of the first thing you can say to a kid

you haven't seen in a while you're like oh you're taller than you used to be and that's the first thing that comes off your head and you're often surprised too because you haven't seen them

since they were three and now they're like sixteen or so you're like oh jeez you know but even like your niece or nephew who you're like close to as soon as they get to that twelve thirteen year old age and they're like 16 or so. You're like, oh, jeez. But even like your niece or nephew who you're like close to,

as soon as they get to that 12, 13-year-old age and they start like being on their phone and not talking much, you're like, what do I say to them? They become really intimidating. Yeah. I'm like, I don't know. Are they just going to think I'm really uncool for anything I say? Yep.

How are you? It's coming. Good. It's pretty much the use of syllables just decreases with the communication. Good. Yep. Yep. Pretty much.

I think with the boys in particular. Yeah. Yeah. Our girls that we chat, in particular, I just stop talking. Yeah. It's like, I've heard too much about your day. Everything, shush, shut up. Let me tell you about my day.

Probably not that. Too much of it. Less on the deets, mate. All right? Obviously, it's. Let me tell you about my day. Sorry about that. Too much of a mess on the deets, mate. Obviously, it's not the time of year, but it's the time of year. All right, we're definitely going to get into commerce here. It's an interesting time. That's what you've got to look forward to as well, mate. Yeah, yeah. I can't wait for them to grow up,

but then I also don't want to deal with them as teenagers. I'm like, oh, it's a lot. We've all been there. It's raging hormones. We've all been there. We've all been there. It's Raging Hormones, Lynx Africa. Jeez, we've got the house just smelling like a permanent odour of Lynx Africa. It's a cliche, but boy, oh, boy. What a brand to have stood the test of time. It is.

Honestly, it's been used as comedic foil, Lynx Africa, but it's a nice smell. I like it. There's actually nothing wrong with it. The shower gel's bloody gorgeous and it's been around for generations it is

it stood the test of time it's the old spice for our generation isn't it well that was the Wild Wild Web today some advice chat you're going to have

a wonderful day that's our advice to you