Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Million dollar investments!

Episode Date: March 24, 2024

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Today in the Wild Wild Web, how you could have made $200 million off $20,000. Ooh. 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. Yeah, strolling through the wild, wild web again, looking at a real news article that takes us on a real weird conversation.

It does. So how was the weekend, everyone? Megan, you had a fun weekend. You got pulled up on stage at the Mentalist Show. Yeah. It was part of one of the tricks. Yeah, we all you had a fun weekend. You got pulled up on stage at the Mentalists show. Yeah. Yeah, Scott. It was part of one of the tricks. Yeah, we all went along at varying times.

But yeah, you and your husband pulled up on stage. Worst nightmare for many listening to the podcast. There are two types of people in that situation, eh? Yeah. And you were one of those. Mine and my daughter's the same. Every time, it's, ah, I'm stuck. But the other daughter's like, no way would I want to get up there.

There's no middle ground. There's no middle ground. Because I thought it would be really fun to be a part of it. And it was. Because now I'm even more baffled. Because I know I wasn't a plant. And I was just completely manipulated. So just explain as best you can what the trick was with you and Andrew, your husband.

So we both went up on stage. He established we'd been together for a while. And we'd travelled. So he was like, think of a moment where you've traveled, the two of you. And then he asked me to write down on a piece of paper, which I kept close to my chest, the country, the city, whereabouts it happened and what the event was. So it was France and Paris.

The season was winter up the Eiffel Tower and we kissed. And I wrote all that down on a piece of paper and he made me sit on it. And that was it. He never looked at it. No one would have seen it. And then he said all those things out loud in front of everyone. He guessed all of those things. Because we went, I think, the following day.

And similar thing with a couple he did, but they were only early on in their relationships. They hadn't had those things like you'd been to France. It was more about a dream place they'd like to go to, imagine a scenario. And hers was very, very similar to yours. So it's amazing how you both ended up landing on that same scenario. But it was France in winter up the Eiffel Tower as well, right? It was.

Yeah, it was exactly the same. And there were many answers from your show and our show that were the same. So he must do something that makes you think like that. My only other thing were, were there cameras on top of the stage that were zeroed in? That would be just, I mean, a lot of technology set up. I don't think there's any way anyone would have, cameras or not, anyone would have been able to see what I was writing. Because I had it so close to my chest. And if he's got a tiny little earpiece,

someone's back there going, gosh. But it'd be pretty hard to get it to go, because you hold it and you move it around. Yeah. I talked to someone who works at work and her partner's like a magician on the way to work this morning. We're just walking over and sort of does some mentalist type stuff.

And she was saying, you know, some of it is, you know, tricks. Of course it's tricks, you know. But some of it is also they have just incredible minds. She was saying that he would go like, the kiota magazine from the plane in new zealand and he'll spend like half an hour an hour looking through it and then he'll go test me on any page and she'll go page 44 and he'll go okay there's a house for sale it's got a kitchen it's such and just like almost like that's incredible like he'll know okay that what's on page such and such

and just will be like and he's like Oh my god You know just from that And training your mind To remember all those things Jeez I get through The Kia ora magazine In about 60 seconds Yeah well he's looking At every page

And then telling you You know bits of it And getting tested on it She was saying Just to keep his mind sharp Well there needs to be A level of that obviously Yeah

Yeah 100 So by the way So maybe you know When he handed me the book With 800 pages, he's memorized, maybe he's memorized all the big words in that whole book. And it's amazing. The show was amazing.

And being part of it, I'm even more amazed. But I'm also really frustrated. That you don't know how it works. No. Yeah, that's what you spend the whole time trying to figure it out. And Poppy, my daughter, told us off. She's like, just go along, be amazed, and leave. She's right, though.

And it was incredible. Scott Sylvan is his name he was really incredible uh anyway this is the wild world web uh where we find stuff from uh crazy parts of the internet now have a listen to this do you remember tony robbins yeah motivational speaker tony robbins he pops up regularly on my instagram algorithm my erratic Instagram algorithm. Have a listen to this fact. If you bought every iPhone since the first one in 2007, you spent $20,600. That's the amount you put out of pocket over that time period.

Now, if you bought the stock, hear me now, you took the same amount of money you spent at that time for the iPhone, and I went back and made a chart so people could see it, and bought the stock, today all that adds up to $206 million. So it's like, yes, that's the real number. How freaky is that? So if you're spending, say, $1,500 on an iPhone, say, 15 years ago,

if you had put that $1,500 into Apple stock and you had done that every time you had went and purchased a new iPhone, you'd have $200 million. $200 million. Yeah, but that's hindsight. Like, you know, they were making coloured computers back in the day.

Maybe we need some foresight, not hindsight. Maybe we need that guy, the menselist, to tell us what we should be putting money. Maybe they can use his power for that. What do you think has been your greatest investment? I haven't invested in anything. No, probably not. It doesn't have to be financial.

It can be time-wise as well. Investments, metaphorically speaking as well. Oh, God. Would you say learning the Rubik's Cube, Ben? I know you invested a bit of time doing that. I did actually spend a lot of time secretly learning behind the scenes. Yeah, I did. Really, again, frustrated me was learning something as an adult,

I find a lot harder. But I really tried. There was this lovely guy on the internet who does this, learned easy way to learn the rubik's cube i grew to hate the guy watching the video he was like it's so easy but it's not easy mate but it's all about algorithms remembering the algorithm i got quite good at the end there were some times i could get it quite quick and other times i would take a few minutes i kind of crumbled a little bit put under the pressure because i did it i did john i didn't know I'd been learning it secretly. So it was really hard to find time to learn it. And then we went to a Rubik's Cube sort of competition.

And these kids were doing it like eight seconds and stuff. Incredible. And I was like, and we were meant to try and see if we had 10 minutes to try and solve it. And then I started. And then you could tell the kids because they're all so switched on. They're like, oh, he actually kind of knows a little bit of what he's doing. Yeah. But then I would like screw up.

They'd go, oh. And they'd know before I did that they'd screw up. Wow. And then I'd screw up and they'd be like, oh, God, now I'd start again. But I got there. I got there at the end. And what has that got you in life?

Well, no, I'd forgotten. I was so disappointed that I got a terrible time. The day before I got like two minutes, and that day I got like eight minutes or something, and I was like, ugh. I didn't pick this up one sixth. I didn't know why he was getting so flustered. I was like, mate, we don't, both of us don't know how to do this why are you getting so wound up about it not a great investment of your time no but it was cool to be able to go like i could do it i

couldn't do it now you can hand me one i wouldn't i'd have to re relearn all the algorithms it's all about kind of remembering a same sort of pattern yeah weird you invested in a cafe you ran a cafe as a side hustle was that a good investment it was actually uh we made a 200 profit when we sold it wow so it was a profitable investment time wise though you must have been exhausted doing this job and then going to a cafe for the rest of the day yeah i'd work seven days a week and for a good chunk of it i was pregnant with my first child and still working in the kitchen. Like, we worked in it. So my husband was front of house and, you know, barista and all that kind of jazz. And then I was often in the kitchen making the food and stuff. What made you want to buy a cafe?

Well, we've always kind of delved in hospitality and we really like food and cooking. So kind of that. And he was a trained barista. So we were like, we can do this. Is it hard? so hard I bet it is it even sounds hard

it's so easy it's like because yeah there's so many facets to it and the business and the tax and trying to make a profit and food costing

and you think it's just like making sandwiches and serving coffees there's so much to it are staff a pain in the ass? the worst part of it people are the worst aren't they?

only because I was like when I'm going to be a boss, I'm going to be the coolest boss. But it's so hard to be friends with someone and manage them. Also be the boss, yeah. Yeah. Do you have like a signature dish at the place? You go along and you go, oh, that was our best thing? Our most popular thing? We did.

It was, we served like an eggs benedict, but it was on like a chicken coxinha. So it's like a Spanish Chicken hash cake thing Ooh Sounds nice That was like Covered in a Can Andrew make that for us If we came over

The lovely egg Yeah Yeah he could I don't know if he will He might give him PTSD Yeah He would never do it again No

It's so good Do you eat the food This is what I always wonder Oh you did Because I imagine You would see that as work And you'd get sick of it Yeah

That was our rule. If we didn't want to eat it, it came off the menu. So we loved everything on the menu. And like, I made a lot of the recipes, like my own ideas. So I loved them.

I guess everyone else did, but yeah. And someone else has that cafe now? Yeah. It's still being run. What's it called? Beauford & Co. Beauford & Co?

Is that what you called it? Yeah, so Andrew was born in South What's it called? Beauford & Co. Beauford & Co? Is that what you called it? Yeah, so Andrew was born in South Africa in a place called Beauford West. So it was supposed to be our family and yours, Beauford & Co. That's where that came from. What was the most hilarious excuse for a young person not being able to turn up to work on the day? Where you're like, come on, mate. Come on.

It was always Sunday mornings and they're like, oh, I'm not feeling well. Or like I've got food poisoning and you're like, no,, mate. Come on. It was always Sunday mornings and they're like, oh, I'm not feeling well. Or like I've got food poisoning and you're like, no, you're vomiting from something else. I imagine COVID now would be, well, probably not now, but a couple of years ago would have been a big thing for a lot of businesses. Oh, I've got COVID. Yeah, it's the fourth time this month. And the worst thing about lockdowns with COVID is that you had a whole cafe full of food thousands of dollars

and you had to lock down so all that food goes to waste oh you probably couldn't go back and get it and stuff as well

too for that period yeah so we ended up pulling it all out in crates and like just giving it to all our friends and family because it was

going to go off it was all perishable that was a bad investment then yeah having to give away food for free I just want to make

you feel a little better you were talking about Apple before and that fact if we put that money in. A guy named Ronald Wayne. Now, he was one of the co-founders of Apple. Yeah.

Now, he, with Steve Wozniacki and Steve Jobs as well. Jobsy and Wozniacki. And he sold his share. 10% of the company came up with it. He sold it for $800. Oh, no. Yeah. And later on, they gave him 1500

bucks to forfeit any potential claims in the future they're like just to make sure you're not going to claim again he's like yeah i'm out oh idiot and there you go so this is yeah this is he's still alive he is still alive he's like 90 almost 90 years old he was that was in 1976 so there you go does his does his family still talk to him? I don't know. I mean, you don't. You don't know. He's an Android guy.

He's not buying it out of, like, principle. Didn't he start... He's sitting on Samsung, eh? He's like, oh, Samsung's way better. I didn't like starting a garage. He was probably plowing away for 24 months. He's like, mate, this garage business is going nowhere. Well, interesting, and this is Wikipedia. After leaving Apple He resisted Jobs

So Steve Jobs Tried to get him back Many times And he didn't He was trying to get back So everybody at that stage Was like mate you're really good You want your back

He's like no no no So it was obviously Quite genius Poor guy Yeah but when you think about that Tricking yourself Yeah Well listen

That'll make you feel better About your miserable lives today Yeah Won't it If you're thinking You've made some bad decisions Well think about that one Hey thank you so much for listening

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