Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Riskiest Proposal of all time?

Episode Date: June 24, 2024

On this edition of the Wild Wild Web a MMA fighter proposes live in the ring... And it's going viral!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coming up on the Wild Wild Web, the most awkward marriage proposal in front of 20,000 people goes wrong. 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. The third to last episode of the wild, wild web. We started to give a little fund last night.

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It is actually ending up i know we're making a joke about the behind the scenes stuff but it's yeah it's actually ending up it is actually we've got another one other thing we need to work on so yeah so this is the end of it more opportunities uh you were just talking about a marriage proposal that went uh horribly awry in front of what 25 000 yeah so over 20 000 people witnessed this one. So this was in an MMA fight, like the UFC, and it was a Czech fighter. He was fighting, and he lost. He lost his fight.

Wait, so he fought in an MMA match, so he was, like, mashed up. Yeah, and he'd lost. Sweaty. Extra mashed up. He decided to take that moment, apparently, according to this article, to propose to his girlfriend in front of all those people. Got down on his knee.

That's not a romantic moment. The blood-soaked canvas of a room. Octagon. Yeah. Bruised, bloodied. Sweaty. Yeah. It was a Clash of the Stars tournament in the Czech Republic.

He got down on his knee. And he lost. Yeah, yeah. But he's like, anyway, I can pull this. I had a loss, but I can pull this day back by proposing to my girlfriend. I can see where he's coming from.

You've got to have a win. Yeah. And so he got the microphone out there. We're like, will you marry me? And her response into the microphone was, this is the quote,

based on everything that's happened, I think probably not was her response. Oh, what do you mean? What had happened? I think probably not was her response. What do you mean? What had happened? I don't know. To the marriage proposal.

Everyone in the crowd are like booing in the crowd. Someone was even trying to throw water up towards them. They were like, oh, boo. It's her fault. Is everyone booing her? I don't know. I guess the booing, the fact that this happened, it was love wasn't winning at the end of the day. But then, and it wasn't in front of the crowd,

and I think this is where maybe she could have taken a moment, but maybe she took the high road. She did say later that he recently cheated on her with another woman. So I guess with her saying, based on everything that's happened, I think probably not. So right, he's going out of his, yeah. So he's really made a real play to make things right. I was a pants man, but hey.

Also, it must have very recently happened, because why was she even there? You just feel like, I'm out. To her credit, she was there, then she got dragged up for an awkward marriage proposal, and she said no. Maybe it's one of those occasions, you know, when you've been invited along to the corporate table,

and you're like, oh, well, there's free food, a couple of bottles of those occasions, you know, when you've been invited along to the corporate table. And you're like, oh, well, there's free food. Yeah. A couple of bottles of Lindau, you know. Maybe he thought she was just going to say yes in front of all those people. This is my chance. That was his theory, obviously. He's like, but then she would eventually say no behind closed doors. Well, yeah, you're right.

And go back and go, oh, I didn't really. Yeah, because you're right. Putting her on the spot like that's a bit of. She did go Michelle Obama when they go low. I go, hi, sit show. But saying based on like that's a bit of a... She did go Michelle Obama when they go low or I go high situation with saying based on everything that's happened, she didn't allude to it. She did it very classily. She still got booed, unfortunately, for the poor lady.

I wondered if you get proposed to in public and you don't want to marry them. Do you say no like that or do you wait till later? You're like, yeah, and then you wait. Because it's not really like a, let's talk about this later situation. Well, you can always go, oh, and then you wait. Because it's not really like a, let's talk about this later situation, is it? Well, you can always go, oh, that's nice. It kind of buys you that bridging conversation, doesn't it? In front of a big crowd, everyone's going to start cheering.

Well, let's just put it down to concussion. He said later he had not cheered on the woman. Here I go, I'm just reading the article at the moment. Oh, God, it's kind of awkward, too. You can see a little video of it here. She's sort of like covering her. She's like, oh, God, as he's on one knee. She's scratching her neck.

He's pulled out a ring. She's like, oh. Get me out of here. Oh, that's awkward. Okay, Andrew. Love Andrew. Always so cute. And what did he do?

What's his proposal? I was very honest, and I was like, do not do it in front of anyone. Do not do it on the radio. Please don't. Yeah. I guess it's a fear in media and stuff that everyone goes, oh, we'll turn this into a radio. Which you can do if you want to. But if you want to keep something for yourself, then.

Yeah. There was a time where he asked my co-host to come and do something on here for me. He sang me a song because he was moving overseas. But they said to him, just checking you're not going to propose because she doesn't want that and he wasn't he hadn't planned on it no but we although she's the bloody radio bosses would froth it on your proposal yeah what would you say okay so if he did propose to you on here you love him i'd say would you say yes yeah but i i was gonna say i'd be annoyed and say something later, but then you can't. You can't, like, say later, oh, you shouldn't have done that,

because it's like a special moment. You just hope that they know you better than that. Public proposal's not for me. No. I mean, it's a risky game. People in packed restaurants as well. Yeah. And a lot of the times the public ones are the ones,

are the guys who are like, are like I've fucked up so badly we did a like a skit remember that skit I just reminded me of on our TV show we had we got someone to go

like it was an actor going up to someone on the beach saying I'm going to propose can you hold up the sign will you marry me sign it's going to be a romantic moment

and then they would people go yeah yeah I'll help you out hold up the sign it was like hey this thing got down on a knee and then we got the actor

to go no and out hold up the sign it was like hey this thing got down on the knee and then we got the actor to go no and then people were like holding the sign and they all dropped slowly and then we'd go up

obviously afterwards and reveal after a little bit of awkwardness that it was fine and people were quite relieved that obviously they weren't

it's so funny yeah it was what did you propose in Europe didn't you yeah Rome it was yeah like the tree fountain It was fine, and people were quite relieved. That's so funny. What did you propose in Europe, didn't you? Yeah, Rome. Oh, the tree fountain. Beautiful. Rome really did all the heavy lifting for me. It was a wonderful place to do it.

It was very romantic being in Rome, so I didn't have to do a lot of romance. When in Rome. But I did try and make it a bit quiet, because I was a lot of people around, a lot of tourists, a lot of people trying to haggle and sell you know sell stuff and i was like i said to amanda quietly i was like hey will you marry me and she was like well you haven't gone down on one knee and so she's like based on recent events she had turned it from a what i was trying to do a private proposal she wanted a showmanship so i was like oh well i better get down on one day soon as i got down down on one day a guy who was holding like a hundred bouquets of flowers was just like this is my moment yeah he's coming over i'll get underneath she says yes and then he was right in there and i was like he was almost part of it like

it was almost a three-way kiss he was like he was giving me like he gave me the whole lot and i was carrying like a hundred bouquets of flowers he's like you're not engaged this is for you for you like obviously thinking i was gonna buy all these and uh and were you going no no no no he's like trying to walk away waving his hand you know i was like trying to give those back he really you know he took away he did kind of take away the moment for us but it was a funny moment uh as i'm trying to give back these flowers and everyone around going oh you know you know. I was like, oh, God. Did people applaud in that situation? I can't actually remember. They might have, but I just remember this guy

trying to get a big payday from us. In like a movie, the whole crowd would be rapturous, wouldn't it? I was trying to do it quite, you know. It was a public location, but I was trying to do it quietly. But Amanda, she took it. Hey, hey, hey. She was like, like well where are you you know so here I go.

It's quite weird that you expect them to get down on one knee eh? Yeah I think she was just kind of messing with me like you probably didn't really worry her either way but she was just kind of just

messing with me and yeah she did well play to it actually even in that moment she made me go oh god here we go. Especially if you've got like nice cream pants on too like grass stains. Oh dirty. cream pants on too yeah grass stains dirty yeah you don't grass stains on your knees too down on one knee there's good internet videos

too where people go around with their like their partners and stuff and they just drop on drop to one knee in locations i reckon if i went back to europe we'd do that yeah it's just like a montage of some dude just keying down on a knee no just at monuments around Europe he's just down everyone's like

great moment it's great practice yeah where do you reckon it would be would you ever propose here at work in the office

the most unromantic location you'd be willing to propose would you propose in the toilets of a bathroom of a restaurant

well I'd have to be quite smashed at that. But it's not a no, it's not off the cards. Well, I'm trying to think of the only occasion that I would do it. Let's say in a car park, a dingy car park. Don't know. Have you had some meaning to it, Megan, would you? Like it's the car park that we first kissed in. Yeah, maybe, coming back to that, maybe.

Yeah, yeah. Would you propose in Westfield Mall, the food court? Oh, no. Over at Butter Chicken? Food Court Butter Chicken? Butter Chicken. With none. I hate you want to do that.

You're branched out. It's not to say mocking anyone what they do, because it's up to the individual. But you're right. I probably would have. But that's not to say it's not a nice place. I still would enjoy the butter chicken. But hey, why not? Well, that's been the Wild Wild Web.

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