Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Megans BIG confessions!

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

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Today on the Wild Wild Web, what a Japanese airport has never done in 30 years. 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 Ben are your fearless guides. Leading you through the wildest parts of the wild, wild web. This is the wild, wild web. Kia ora.

Welcome to the wild, wild web. Ben Boyce, Megan Pappas, and Shona Pryor here. This is the second podcast that we do. We do another podcast. That's the missionary podcast we like to call it. This one's the wild, the tant missionary podcast we like to call it this one this is one's the wild the tantric podcast kama sutra wild and this is the are you going to try some things this is the one for you no judgment no judgment this is where we pick a real story from the internet a wild story that's captured our attention we talk about it we see where the wild conversation

heads uh heads to uh today just reading, it's not really a wild story but I thought it was pretty impressive. There's an airport in Japan, it's been around international airport for 30 years never lost a single piece of luggage. Wow, that's a great claim. Claim to fame, eh? Heathrow's just online too.

Remember, did you see that last year? Heathrow just had warehouses and warehouses of people's luggage. Yeah. That lost luggage that they'd messed up through administration and lack of staffing. Well, same with Sydney. We were just talking about it the other day. They've got a lost and found. They're auctioning stuff away for charity. And there's like people's sunglasses, earphones, duty-free bottles, signposts, like a framed picture of Lionel Messi, the footballer.

I'm going to look into that because I'm pretty sure you can buy those online because I think they've done that before and they had designer stuff and I was like, let me at it. Well, imagine designer sunglasses. Because people buy them at the airport duty free. Yeah, or you just put them down and you're like, where'd that go? I don't know, it's gone now.

And you wouldn't have the insurance or the thing about that Japanese airport. That is a record that you now need to prove a point. Oh, I know. No one is slipping up this flawless, never lost a piece of luggage record. It's like we had a friend who had never had McDonald's. Oh, yeah, that's right.

He was like, I could happily try it, but now it's become a point-proving exercise. It's a thing now. You'd be like, want to go to McDonald's? No, I can't. It's this little party starter. What have they got there, Megan? You can register to bid.

Oh, well, there we go. It's an online auction. There's laptops on here for like $300. Is that a buy now? No, you have to bid. Oh, right, so it could go up a lot more, but that's cool. Three hours. Oh, no, three days.

So, yeah, it's probably going to go up, isn't it? Look at this. There are so many MacBooks. Imagine leaving your laptop. God, that'd be a... For you, Ben, that's like... Yeah. Oh, my.

There's about 30 laptops up there. Go on page two. There's probably more. Crazy. You lost your phone on a plane, didn't you? Remember that? And you were tracking it. You left it in the little seat pocket. I'd left it on, stupidly't you? Remember that? And you were tracking it. You left it in the little seat pocket.

I'd left it on stupidly. You left it on and you were tracking it like, now it's gone to Australia. Oh, now it's back to New Zealand. Oh, it's still back in Australia. That's right. I wouldn't go the whole way of tracking because obviously there was some spots where it wouldn't work. Yeah. I'm so deep in this now.

Look, they have so many AirPods. They've put them into like categories. Like you can buy three in one auction. Same at the gym. Have you noticed that at the gym? Like, my daughter lost her AirPods case and went to the gym, and they just had, like, a big box. And they're like, have a look in there and see if it lines up.

And you're like, oh, it doesn't fit in. It doesn't fit. Oh, yeah. You could just go to the gym and be like, I left my AirPods here. Yeah, I suppose you did. What do they look like? White? Yeah, white AirPods.

Oh, that's it. Is that gross, though? Maybe a little. Give them a dead old wipe, mate. Oh, that's it. Is that gross though? Maybe a little. Give him a dead old wipe, mate. You know the funny thing, when you were talking about my phone, I left it on the plane because I was meeting you in Australia

to do some work and I was just flying over by myself and like you said, we were tracking the phone back and forth because it was on. And then Jeremy Corbett, I was like, ah, that thing's gone.

A week later, Jeremy Corbett emails. He's like, I have your phone. Jeremy Corbett. I was like, ah, that thing's gone. A week later, Jeremy Corbett emails. He's like, I have your phone. Jeremy Corbett. For seven days. Yeah, it's something. Hey, we know you've got famous friends. Jeremy Corbett.

He emailed the famous Jeremy Corbett. No, he and an Air New Zealand engineer. I don't know how, must have somehow got onto my phone. And clearly I would have Jeremy Corbett's number on there because he's a friend of mine. Jeremy Corbett, the famous Jeremy Corbett. He must have found out it was your phone somehow and then gone

I know. I think maybe he knew Jeremy Corbett as well and that's why he contacted him. Now Megan, this flawless track record of this airport not losing one single piece of luggage luggage you confessed something which we weren't actually going to cover in this

but I feel like it's worth it we're going to relate so you go to Japan let's say yeah you're going to okay you go to Japan Disneyland

you're going to watch a baseball game you're going to go into Tokyo yeah and you're not going to you were saying before you don't buy any merchandise

no you wouldn't buy like oh there's a t-shirt with Disneyland here's a t-shirt oh we're too there's a cap nothing i've also like horribly put that down on my kids as well because we go to like wiggle shows and stuff and i'm like no you're not buying any merch where did this anti-merch stance come from i just feel like you get swept up on the moment and then afterwards like i would never wear it amen you do you do i mean you're talking you're talking to two guys who are dripping in merch this is all we wear is merch

so what are your classes merch like do you have to have gone to the thing like could you buy a i don't know let's say you really get into the warriors this season uh would you buy a warrior's top you know is that counted as much yes okay you wouldn't buy a warrior so you couldn't buy one piece of merch in your closet nah and also i'm a big you know big fan of shows and concerts i don't buy merch even like harry you know i love harry styles you wouldn't buy harry's doll c-shirt no not even to wear around the house to the gym what is it like because we went to the warriors and we probably go again we're all gone we're gonna turn up in our warriors tops we just borrow one if you had to borrow one if i wanted to fit in with everyone else right but you wouldn't buy one i know what i just i saw a woman before at the lift and she was wearing a ferrari jersey and i'm like big into formula one so my favorite team ferrari and i was like at i think that could push me maybe if it was

something cool i might get some ferrari well that's probably the most affordable of all the merch of course you were like the one piece of merch i'll wear is ferrari we're going to take a quick break from the wild wild web we'll be back after this welcome back so labels like a sort of a top with a label on it or shoes with like a designer yeah right yeah you're okay with that. But not, yeah. Like you're wearing a Wu-Tang jersey. You wouldn't wear this? No.

I went to the concert, got swept up in the merch. They had a good play, the Wu-Tang Clan, because they were all wearing these on stage. And everyone's like, oh, I've got to get one of those, you know, dumbass consumers. Oh, yeah, that's a good play. I'm wearing one too. I'm wearing Olivia Rodrigue.

I didn't even go to the tour, but I'm wearing a tour T-shirt. Do you know what? I was almost swayed by, this is before Kanye was cancelled, Yeah, that's a good place. I'm wearing Olivia Rodrigo. I didn't even go to the tour, but I'm wearing a tour T-shirt. Do you know what? I was almost swayed by, this is before Kanye was cancelled, when he was doing Pablo Tora, or even before that. I was a big Kanye fan. I thought maybe I'd get some Kanye merch, but never did. That is an issue you do run into when you do get merch.

Things do change. I don't think Olivia Rodrigo or Taylor Swift are going to be cancelled I've got a Kanye t-shirt that I'm like, do you not wear it? Well, no,

I don't know. I feel like it's, like I still think he's an amazing artist, you know, and I was a huge fan of Kanye, but obviously he said some things

a lot going on and it can be polarizing when you do it because people like do feel he said some things about different races and things like that that people,

you know, I don't stand behind those things. Which it kind of feels like you do when you wear the merch. Because you've gone to the effort of going,

yeah, it's like we were talking about the other day where people put on a Trump hat, you know, you don't just put it on because you're like,

oh, this is a nice hat. Oh, listen, I bought a Trump hat and all I wanted to do was make America great again. Who knew what a turn

that cap would take? But here, I've got a Michael Jackson Thriller t-shirt I love the feel of the t-shirt The cut of the t-shirt And I ride through it I still wear that Thriller t-shirt I can ignore I feel like Michael Jackson is

Yeah probably I don't know We're playing out on the hits We play it you know We've had this discussion before eh That's the question You like the music You like the t-shirt and it was nothing ever i think we have had this discussion and you know anyway can you separate the the artist's actions from the artist's work yeah and

but then alleged actions in this case we don't we can't prove we don't know either you know like there's some people that believe what they believe and And I'm not saying that's wrong, but yeah. Was never convicted. Yeah. Yeah. You do it. I love my Rolf Harris T-shirt. Oh my God.

I have a picture of my mom with Rolf Harris when she was young. And he's like. Oh no. He was a huge entertainer. He was. But he's like gripping onto her. And I'm like, this photo hits different these days I'm like you're right mom it's a really great comedian Hannah I can't remember last name but she's very very

funny and she's meeting Chelsea Chelsea Handler yeah she's like oh my god you're my hero you meet your heroes and she's like do you want my hero Chelsea Handler was like my hero was Bill Cosby when I grew up sometimes she's like well he was my comedy hero sometimes it's not great to meet your hero so you might not look back on this and be as cool as you feel right now it's pretty ballsy to say that in that moment but anyway i do love this no merch starts now just as if we've been thinking about this ben and me for one day get to dress you head to toe in merch. Oh, Jesus. No. Just like brands like Coca-Cola and we are going to go merch. Yes, please. Tramp pants, shoes, hats.

Shoes? Yeah, there'll be merch. There'll be some sort of merch shoes. Didn't Trump, don't give me Trump shoes. But didn't he have gold, you know those horrible gold sneakers that he brought out? He did, yeah. Now everywhere I go I want to buy you something, so I some merch. Oh, God, please don't. Please, can we Now everywhere I go, I want to buy you something. So I some merch. Oh God, please don't.

Please, can we just do one day where we get to style you? In merch. God, horrific. Brands, brands. Yeah. We're going to go hard and it's our choice.

You don't get to say anything. It won't be offensive. Why does this get my back up so much? We got so swept up. You went working with us at the time, but we went around New Zealand and we ate a sausage at every Bunnings store. Now, they have incredible merch.

Their merch game is down. They have everything. Amazing. And every Bunnings store has added their little thing to it. You know, a nipple. Oh, we've got one here. You know, you want this. They have got merch of everything.

It's incredible. Aprons, T-shirts, jerseys. Then they veer off into very special limited releases of T-shirts, hats, fedoras. Pizza veer off into very special limited releases of T-shirts. Hats, fedoras. Pizza cases, little trucks. You know, whatever. They've got everything.

And we got so swept up. They just went to the merchandise supplier and said, we'll take one of everything. It's so good, too. It's a nice green, though. I would prefer that over like minor teen orange. So, yeah. And everywhere we went, we were like,

oh, we've got to get this new bit of merch. We got swept up in it. To be fair, I love my Bunnings hat. Yeah, so you wouldn't wear that. I've got a green sort of bucket Bunnings hat with a little thing. You do not wear that. I do. Don't.

Just don't. I wear my Bunnings straw hat, that big one. Oh, you wear the big one. Yeah, yeah. I love the green one. The troublesome little tourist kid, you remember he was a British family? Yeah. I wear one of those. T-shirt as well.

Send Poppy my condolences. Those are $7. That's a good hat. $7.50. $7.50. This is great, but we got so swept up. See, you wouldn't even have got swept up, you know? No.

We always wanted the hoodie. The hoodie was the thing we never got. But it was a tradie-only hoodie. People with the tradie-only hoodies were like, well, they're damn good. Oh, exclusive. They were like the Bunnings green. Yeah, they were good.

They were good. We all wanted the... Harriet Abosler, she got swept up in as well. We all did. She got, yeah. But yes, I'm thinking at the moment... I can see the twinkle in your eyes. I'm thinking I will come in with the Bunnings straw hat.

That could be the hat for Megan. Yeah. I got the green one too, which is nice. So I can see you wearing that one. Please, can we just do it for one day? Yeah. We'd have to put things together. Yeah.

We'll talk to our stylist. Yeah. Great. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Just one show. You have to do it.

One show. Okay. Oh, God. A full day. A full day. I'm not wearing it in public. Why not? No.

No. Yeah. Anyway, you're running five minutes late for your voicing appointment. Megan's got to go off and do some voicing. Thank you so much for listening to the Wild Wild Web. I? Yeah. Anyway, you're running five minutes late for your voicing appointment. Megan's got to go off and do some voicing. Thank you so much for listening to the Wild Wild Web. Appreciate it. We'll be following up this merch chat. Oh, no, we won't.