Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The most amount of money Ben's ever won!

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

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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. We are looking at some of the weirdest stories on the internet And who knows where the weird conversations will take us I loved your reference you did today on the radio, Ben Boyce

We were promoting this podcast And we see it goes to some very interesting spaces Spicy, out there spaces, doesn't it? And what did you call the normal podcast? Just the missionary What is this then? If you call the normal podcast? Just the missionary. Just the standard missionary. What is this then? If you want the missionary, well, this is adventurous stuff.

This is, you know. You know a position, this is it. This is trying some stuff. You're like, oh, okay. This is the reverse cowgirl of podcasts. And today, though, I guess it's more of a wholesome story. We'll see where it ends up, though. Oh, God.

So a Kentucky couple, I was just reading about them. So they won the they won the lottery over there was fifty thousand dollars now they did fifty thousand yeah so one the yeah so it doesn't seem like usually they're like huge jay it's huge it's it's a big amount of money but you're right it's not in the millions but they won fifty thousand dollars and they went back into they only found out when they went back into the store and the store obviously had somehow knew that the winning ticket had been sold there and they worked back into, they only found out when they went back into the store, and the store obviously had somehow, knew that the winning ticket had been sold there, and they worked it out from the camera, that they were the couple,

and they're like, hey, you won the lottery, and they're like, oh, we don't know where their ticket is. Uh-oh. And they looked everywhere, through the house or everywhere, three months, three months passed, and they're like, well, we're never going to be able to claim that $50,000 until he took the work car out, which is seldom used,

and he was like, oh, here's the lotto tickets for the work car. Been sitting there for three months. And then they retrieved the money. That's a great story. These people sound dumb. Like, why didn't you check the work car? Well, I guess. Let me check every.

You've won lotto. Check everywhere. And did he do 12 weeks of no work? I think it was a car that was seldom used by the sound of it. I didn't think to check there for three months. Megan's getting unnecessarily aggressive about it. I would tear my house apart. I dare not check one of the cars I use.

What idiots. This is the most hate I've ever heard come out of your voice. Really fired up. I did hear an interesting theory. I was talking to a lady on the weekend who takes so she takes the same lotto numbers exactly the same lotto numbers and plays it multiple times. The same six.

And then she takes different Powerball numbers, different options. So if she ever wins, she'll have the winning numbers in the same six. Right. And then she takes different Powerball numbers, like different options. So if she ever wins, she'll have the winning numbers in the Powerball. But one of the good things about it is even if she wins only, say she gets four numbers, she gets that four numbers all those times on the ticket.

Oh, so she'd win multiple. Yeah, she was like, I won a $40 thing the other day, but it turned out to be $500 because I had it multiple times on the ticket. Ah, that's a smart move but obviously it's all or nothing

yeah when it comes through it comes through hard yeah so your numbers come through you're like well it's $500

whereas yeah it was only a $40 winning this is an interesting reading here average lotto New Zealand $7 ticket

but your stock standard ticket you've got a 1 in 383,838 chance of winning. Dear Lord. Do you remember we talked about Lotto a few times? Because that is big news in New Zealand. Whenever it's a big

you know, when it's a big Powerball and this thing, it becomes big news. And so we talk about topical things, as you know, on the radio show, Megan. And so we mentioned it a few times when we were working at the Edge radio station. Then we got a message from our big boss at the time schusterman when andrew schusterman we got called into schusty's office and he's like oh we've got something seriously to ask you i thought it was a gag and we started going what is it he said are you in the

pocket of the lottery we're like what no and he was like well i've heard you talk about it a few times i've been like tuning into the show we're like oh we're just talking about big news I mean we have done like full disclosure we did an ad for Lotto like a while back so we were in the pocket

of the Lottery's Commission but not at this particular time we jumped out of the pocket we're willing to go back in happily go back into the pocket of the Lottery's Commission would you go back would you hop into the pocket

absolutely sounds like they got cash just so the Lottery's Commission know we are willing to jump back into would you hop into the pocket? Absolutely. Sounds like they've got cash. Just so the Lottery's Commission know we are willing to jump back into the pocket. But you know, not at this particular time. It was very funny.

A friend of mine, Son, she hosts the Lottery. Yeah, she does. And she can play, which I always found unusual. She's allowed to play because it's so,

you know, the scrutineers. They always say, yeah, we'll get the scrutineers to check the numbers. Like, what do they do? Well, they do. They have two machines.

There's no sticky tape on them. And they decide at the last minute, I think they toss a coin to see which machine they'reers to check the numbers. Like, what do they do? Well, they do. They have two machines. There's no sticky tape on them. And they decide at the last minute, I think they toss a coin to see which machine they're going to use. Like, she's never touched the balls. Not allowed to. I don't know. There's no touching of balls going on. It always brings a smile to your face when we talk about it.

Yeah. I was like, are you allowed to touch the balls? She's like, no, she's never allowed to touch the balls. They've got special gloves for the ball touching on there. They treat those balls with respect. But she's not even allowed to put in the special gloves to touch the ball. Oh, really? It's so under,

you know, a lot of it. There's a lot riding on it. Yeah. Like if Lotto loses credibility, then that's the end of Lotto. Yeah. You know, they've got to keep it. Yeah. They've got to keep it above board. Have you ever won semi-big? No, I don't often play because I'm so, I get really upset when I spend

money on something that's not a tangible good like you spend 20 bucks on a ticket and then you lose and I'm like, oof. Like your 78th pair of shoes or something. Yeah, but that's a tangible thing. I can wear that. I can see it. I can feel it. When I spend 20 bucks on a lotto ticket and I lose, I'm just like, all the things I could have spent

20 bucks on. I know. You kind of dabble, don't you? Yeah, but then I don't even check the ticket I didn't win you know the couple of times I bought it when there's been like big power balls I get overly excited and I literally break down everything I'd spend it on I'm like okay I put it this year I'd give this much to family I'd do this this Andrew's like so you gotta stop because then we lose and i'm like i really thought it was our time what's the one so the first thing you're doing once you find out you've won say 25 million dollars on loan are you paying off the mortgage are you resigning i like to think no yeah but then we've talked about it your best to go do a slow fade out.

Yeah. Yeah. I might not renew the contract, you know, just work it out and go, what's he doing? Oh, he's just, he's decided he's going to, you know, because you don't want to tell anyone. No. Maybe some travel. Maybe you just need to travel and, you know, tell people why. But I like radio, but then I'm like 25 mil, do you become unrelatable? Like, am I going to turn up in my car and it's like a, I don't know, Get a job on ZB, Newstalk ZB.

You can host with Mike Hosking. Suddenly I've got like an orange McLaren and you're like, hmm. Well, yeah, exactly. You'd be very relatable upstairs with Oscar. Yeah. You'd love to park next to each other. You know, park your choppers next to each other. We're the only two people in New Zealand who can relate to each other then.

But no, you're right. You did right. But my concern is people knowing yeah because once people know people you've we've spoken to a lot of winners before and they're like it's incredible what your friends and family will some of them some of them will do once they know you have money i i always said i'd give them a set amount and then say say you give them a million dollars each and then you're like i only won five mil and i've given away each of you a million dollars each. And then you're like, I only won five mil. And I've given away each of you a million.

That's it. You know, you'd have to set a set amount. Otherwise, they're just going to keep coming back. And like totally it would turn nasty. It would, yeah. And I feel sorry for the people that do probably blindly go on the news and not knowing the repercussions. The poor old Trevor from... Oh, yeah.

Was he a Te Awamutu or Narawahia or something? Yeah. Trev the Lotto Bogan bought the greatest stuff ever. Cars, bikes, hot rods. Oh, he had a great time though. He had a bloody good time. He went to his wedding riding a Harley, smoking a cigarette down the road.

I mean, he seemed like he had a great time. But I think, unfortunately, a lot of his cash just disappeared from people hanging on. Yeah. So you've got to, yeah. I know it's a stink thing not to tell people, but I think for the better of your relationships. Yeah. You know, if we see you turning up in an orange McLaren, we're going to be like, hey, Megan,

can you buy us a, well, we wouldn't want an orange McLaren, but maybe a green one, a green McLaren. In my previous radio show, my ex-boyfriends, we had a deal that if we won Lotto, we had a set amount that we'd give each other. So do we need to set that in place? Have you still got that deal with him? Well, I don't know. I think that deal is null and void now. I think it's been cancelled. I would hope it's still in place.

I mean, shit, if they want to give me money, I'm down for it. I'd love one of you guys to win the lotto. That'd be so good. We'd be recording that vocal. Hey, are we still on this deal? I'm pretty sure that's a lifelong commitment. Oh, yeah. Well, no one's backed out of it, so that's good.

No, they're not going to get a cent if I win. No, you agreed to it. No, you didn't agree to it. Okay, let's make a commitment. Let's all, okay, on the... I'll buy you a car. On the count of three, let's all name one thing we will give each other.

One, two, three. I know, I know. 10,000. Hyundai. You give me a Hyundai. I see 10,000. Ben's getting a Frisbee. I saw a Frisbee in the corner.

I was like, oh, quite fun. A second-hand Hyundai. Yeah. To be honest, I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want. You wouldn't win Lotto. It's your money. It's your money. I wouldn't go, oh, Megan, can I have it, you know?

Because, you know. I'd play you something. I would like to be invited to the mansion for lunch. Okay, yeah. Like, if you're doing something like that, if you're going, oh, we're going out to dinner and celebrating, I'll be all right. You pick up the tab or whatever. This is all new.

It's all new papers. But I still, at the same time, I'd feel, I'd feel very uncomfortable very uncomfortable going hey can you buy me a car john would be like yeah what about what am i getting oh i know yeah no i'd be in all honesty i'd be the same i'd be like it's your money i feel really uncomfortable i don't know who i would i mean i wouldn't ask you for money but i'd suddenly be your best friend i'd be hanging around a lot more than I do now. Yeah, no, fair enough. We're the same. Yeah, really interesting. I won $2,500 is the most I've ever won on anything.

Wow. For a $5 bet. That was probably good. That's a great bet. On horses or something. No, it was sports bet. It was two. So it was like, it was New Zealand were playing rugby and league on the same day.

And for both games to be the draw it was like 500 to 1 odds and I was like I'll put 5 bucks on it just you know and I don't bet too much and every now and again you know sports bet put something on

and then first game was a draw and I was like oh okay and then it got close and I was like oh my goodness I could actually like win

yeah and I said to Amanda I was like I'm going to win somebody this game it was very exciting the last bit of the game

and then getting the two and a half thousand500 winnings and taking, and I had that in my pocket in cash. I had to walk to the bank to put it in there, but that was like, even just scary. You felt like everyone was looking at you like, I'm going to get mugged. I think it was on like K Road and all.

I'm going to get mugged here. They know, everyone knows. And this is why we love gambling, stories like this. This is what keeps us in the game. Then I'm like, why did I put more on it? Why did I put more? Did you spend that on anything particular

or just go to bills? What did I? Yeah, I feel like we did. We put it on something. I think we did a holiday. I think we did a holiday. Yeah, nice. So we did like a Fiji holiday.

And it was like, it covered, you know, accommodation and things. So that kind of, yeah. Jealous. Yeah. My friend once won the car at the casino

when we were out on Friday night. No. Yeah. And then they give you the option of Would you like to take the vehicle or would you like money And we took the money And boy oh boy did we do a weekend That weekend

How much was left? I don't think an extraordinary amount We were at a very dumb young age I'm sure he looks back on it now and goes Well that was probably a terrible life decision What was the amount? Was it like 40 or 50k or something? I'm sure he looks back on it now and goes, well, that was probably a terrible life decision. What was the amount? Was it like 40, 50k or something?

I was a bit hazy at the time, to be honest. How of a weekend? I just remember them coming over because I was on the other side of the pokies. They're like, he won the thing. I'm like, what, what? Next thing, we're in a bloody penthouse. It's all go. It's all go.

Back in the day, it was probably a house deposit what he won. Probably was. Yeah, probably was. But hey, wouldn't take that weekend back for anything. We interviewed a guy in America. He run the First Division. Didn't he manipulate the system?

That's right. He found the movie about them. Yes. Yeah, it was. We interviewed him. Yeah. He had figured out. It wasn't illegal, but in the end it was, yeah.

Frowned upon. Well, not even frowned upon. What he was doing was completely above board, but he had figured out the algorithm. Yeah, and if Frowned upon. Well, not even frowned upon. What he was doing was completely above board. But he had figured out the algorithm. Yeah, and if he bought a certain number, it wasn't like the lotto that we play. But you play it a certain way and a certain number of times just by the – he worked it all out that he was going to win money. And the more you put into it, the more they were going to get.

And so he had a little syndicate going on. Why did he – did he get found out? I think he got found out and got banned from playing it, even though it wasn't illegal. Yeah, he didn't get, like, think he got found out and got banned from playing it even though it wasn't illegal yeah he didn't get like prison time or anything no they were just like mate you really ruined

the lottery for us the hard work and I don't know if that one is actually done anymore that particular style or whatever it was he was like hang on

there's a mathematical I know I can work this out yeah it's like a retiree and he worked it out he was like oh hang on so I suppose what's the movie

I forget the name of the movie it was yeah the guy who's... It was on Netflix, wasn't it? Yeah, the guy who played from Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle, the guy, he was playing him. Bryan Cranston. Yeah, Bryan Cranston. Yeah, he plays him.

Yeah, Bryan Cranston lottery, and it'll come up. We were talking about this actually off air the other day about a smart bet was made in the Super Bowl for the street. Jerry and Marge go large? That's it. We talked to Jerry. He was a lovely guy. He was a sweet man.

I don't think he'd spent much of it. No, he still lived in the same tiny suburban house. He hadn't bought a new car. He'd put the money into anything. He'd really done nothing with it. Who's this Orange McLaren? Exactly. Jerry was an Orange McLaren type of guy.

But we were saying The other day About the Superbowl Smart player That personally put money On there being a streaker And then he became The streaker

And his fine was Like a thousand dollars But what money Because there's some Some really crazy things You can bet on overseas And yeah So obviously

Surely there would be A loophole That if you Bet on something And then did it yourself You can't win Well I think They might do that now

They might draw The draft that went up. But you put $50,000 on there being a streaker and returned like a quarter of a million dollars. Yeah. Had to pay a $1,000 fine. $1,000 fine or something in band from the stadium or whatever. Also, you say streaker, but he was wearing shorts. He just was like.

Well, that's also a technicality as well. I'm kind of like a streaker is your full. Naked, right. We need to redefine the term. Pitch invasion. Pitch invasion, yeah. They, a streaker is your full... Naked, right. We need to redefine the term. Pitch invading. Pitch invading, yeah. They had a streaker the other day at the cricket.

They always cut away to it. Were they naked? They were naked. It was full of very heavy bush from the guy. Big bush. We saw some stuff. I was doing the ACC cricket competition

and they didn't play it on the TV but because it's everyone that follows the ACC are at the game, they sent it all out. It was just a... It was a big heavy... Like the game. They sent it all out. It was just a good... It's a big heavy, like the Rumataka Rangers there. Yeah, it was almost like he'd pixelated his own junk

with what was around it. He'd grown it out knowing that he was... Isn't the whole point to like scape, manscape, so that it makes it appear bigger? It wasn't like he was small or anything, but it was just... Oh, really? Big old forest four. I respected that. It was small or anything, but it was just... Oh, really? Big old forest fall. Yeah, that's it.

I respected that. It was good. It was great. Oh, great. Well, that's been today's Wild Wild Web. We always manage to end in a somewhat... Yeah. ...dudgy area. Very genuine story you began with.

Yeah, we did, actually. And then we got into... Oh, I blame myself for that one. Yeah, we slowly take steps down. Yeah, until we get there. And then we go, if you want to catch up with the missionary podcast, you can do that. And the other one, much more wholesome, family-friendly. Not this one.