Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Prison social experiment!

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

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Welcome, welcome to the wild, wild web with our colleagues, Benjamin Ross-Boyce, Megan Louise Pappas and Jonathan Richard Pryor. Yeah, we're here looking at actual news stories that have made, well, caught our attention and we'll see where we start and where we end up. There's always an interesting place for these ones. But this one, Producer Taylor found this. It's not about the British guy, is it? No.

Well, no, it's about a woman who was in the UK. Actually, I don't know where she was, but she was overseas, and she tried to get an appointment with her lash technician. A text exchange went on. She didn't get an appointment with her lash technician. And a text exchange went on. She didn't get the appointment she wanted. She started to call the technician names. It got quite heated. In fact, things got very heated because the next thing you know,

she sets her lash technician's car on fire. And it's quite like the footage is, it's like. She pours petrol on the car. It's a burning inferno. Oh, she really did it's really like i mean it like blows up yeah that seems like a very reasonable response to not getting an appointment well i mean hey i'm not i don't go to a lash person but i imagine lashes when you've got your lash your lash person yeah they're very pivotal to your look and you

want you don't want to be missing a lash appointment first comment here on the internet her lash technician must be fire in the fire of Moses it's quite good because the internet has sympathy for the burning car

yeah as well yeah I mean it's you know I don't know do you have a lash person nah I've never had my lashes done

but it's like annoying if you want to get suddenly you've got an event and you want to get like a spray tan have you got an eyebrow person

nah I don't have my own eyebrows do suddenly you've got an event and you want to get like a spray tan. Have you got an eyebrow person? Nah, I don't have my own eyebrows. Do you? You've got some wonderfully even eyebrows. Thank you. What's the key to such symmetrical eyebrows? Actually got them, what do they call it? They say tattoos. Oh, yeah.

But it's. Is it like a tattoo? Is it a tattoo? No, it's. You want to know what they do? Oh, I'd love to know. They have like a tiny little blade, and they literally scrape, like cut your skin in the shape of little hairs, and then they fill the cut bits with ink. So is it permanent?

Yeah, well, it's lasted me about four years, but it starts to fade. So it's not a tattoo gun? No. Oh, interesting. So they numb them them but you can hear the blade scraping your skin because it's so close

to your ears it's quite a I noticed on that show that it seems like one of the guys in that prison show that both of us have been watching

he looked like he might have got actual tattoos prison tattoos he's got like blocked out eyebrows oh he's tattooed his eyebrows

I guess a lot of them have makeshift tattoos. They see they sneak it in. This is the show we were actually talking about this the other day, weren't we? We both watched

the first episode of it. Yeah, actually, I should watch more of that. It's an experiment they're doing overseas in an American prison. Quite a full-on nasty sort of prison.

It's maximum security. These murderers and... All sorts. So they've got one of the cell blocks and they're like, hey, they pretty much keep them in for 23 hours a day in their cells 23 and one so they only get one hour a day to go out and socialize and the prisoners when they sort of come out they're quite yeah

quite angry they're quite feral they sort of you know like and then if anything goes wrong they're straight back in they're locked again and sometimes it's more than 23 hours they don't come out and so it seems to create a culture that everyone's just kind of on edge. So the sheriff has taken a risk and he's like, all right, I'm going to unlock all the doors and you'll be able to not obviously leave the prison, but you're able to go wherever you want within your unit and we'll take out all the sheriffs and all the security as well. It's your little community.

This is you. If you guys work together, this is how it's going to work. But if you don't, within 10 minutes, if you're fighting or whatever it is, the doors will go back and we'll go back to where it was. So it's up to you guys to work together as a community. Hell of a gamble. Hell of a gamble here from the sheriff. How's it going so far?

Well, the first episode, it ends by the doors opening. And you're like, oh. And it's quite interesting as well because obviously, you know, the prisoners, when he's explaining it to them, they're all like, oh, yeah, we can do this. We can do this. But then they start to sort of go well there's sort of the older crowd they sort of go well we need to be we need to lead the way so they're sort of

going around talking to each other going okay we're going to be the leaders of this and then you've got the younger crowd looking on going well who's going to make them you know you can imagine there's not a lot of people there that want to be led yeah so they're already kicking off oh this is already going to be a sham. You haven't even started, guys. But do you know, it's quite confronting because you see people

getting beaten to a pulp. Remember that one that was up in the room and you just see like, you hear the sound of someone getting beaten and you can see them like through a tiny window

tussling and then he's like, stop, stop, my head's gushing. Yeah. It's like really confronting and then he comes out and the guard's like,

what happened? He's like, I fell over. Yeah. And did the guy stop when he said, stop, stop, my head's gushing. Yeah. Like really confronting. And then he comes out and the guard's like, what happened? And he's like, I fell over. Yeah. And did the guy stop when he said, stop, stop, my head's gushing? He did. Oh, that's polite. That's nice. And that's lovely prison rules.

Yeah. They're definitely like that because they do obviously a big sweep. The prisoners don't know what's going to happen. So they obviously go through. Before they're going to do this, they go through and try and look for any contraband or things like that in the cells. And they're finding a lot of stuff. But at the same time,

also the prisoners have hidden stuff. And I find it weird that they're talking to the camera going, hey, we managed to keep this. They're telling Netflix, they're like, didn't find my contraband. You guys grasp the concept of what we're doing here. What was the thing they found? What do they call it when they make a...

Shank. They found a shank. They found a shank as well. There's all sorts of, they make sort ofank. They've found a shank as well. There's all sorts of... They make sort of the moonshine or whatever it is as well. You know, the prison sort of wine and stuff. But the thing I've thought of is... So they have...

They're opening up the doors, right? But there's Netflix cameramen in there. That's the thing. I always feel so sorry for those people. No one's ever thinking about the people behind the camera. Like, are they going to be safe? They turned up to the production office one day like, Sam, Billy, you're doing the baking show today.

Grant, Tina, you're off to the maximum security prison. I'm like, what? When they're opening the doors for the social experiment. Yeah, because I thought maybe, because they do lock off a lot of cameras and have the area. I thought they would all be like that. But then you see some other shots of some of the people in, and you're like, oh, jeez, there actually is people in there as well.

So they're the only ones in there with the prison. So if things kick off, yeah, you're right. But an interesting social experiment, too, because, I mean, if it does work, you would have to say a lot of countries around the world would look at this, because I find a lot of the time, and I've never been to prison,

but you're putting someone in through a system where they only learn to become a better criminal surrounded by other criminals. I mean, there wouldn't be many cases where people come out a better person than when they went in. And that's what one of the criminals, he's quite a rough guy,

but he said, look, you're locking us up for 23 hours of the day. All that does is when we come out, we're even more aggro. And then you're not teaching them anything when they get out of prison. And then they get frustrated because someone does something wrong

and they get annoyed with them. They go back into the things and so it kicks off again. So they're trying to teach them a community and how to work together. You'd imagine it must kind of work because if it kicks off within 10 minutes, there's not much of a series.

No, true. There's a few more episodes, so we'll have to watch that. But yeah, very interesting. Well, because then once they come out into the community, they can learn how to deal with confrontation appropriately hey the prison sheriff he really is putting his balls on the line but um and yet there's obviously a whole lot of meetings going through they have all these meetings beforehand and they'll go and people like

it's not gonna work it's not gonna work he's already put his reputation on there he's gonna try and there's obviously obviously other cell blocks within the whole prison that aren't doing this. So he's like, this is the first one we're going to do. And if it works, we might do it throughout the prison. Just in case everyone's like, what is the show called? It's called Unlocked on Netflix. At night, though, I would think locking the, maybe it's just me, but locking the doors at night would be nice. I'd be like, can you please just lock my door?

Like, how do you sleep? Like, can I have a lock? I'd just be watching the door the whole time. I actually don't mind a little bit of privacy, particularly when it comes to a serial murderer next door to me. And if I'm going to sleep for a few hours. That was my only concern with it. I was like, maybe, can I have a key?

And then I go in and out. There is some that want to make it work, but there's a couple of characters in there that just want anarchy. Yeah, you're right. They're like, they're not going to happen're right. They're not going to happen. No. They're not going to. Oh, hey, we'll keep you up to date with that.

Unlocked on Netflix there. And, well, thank you so much for listening to this episode of the Wild Wild Web and have a wonderful day.