Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - There are only five real jobs...

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's Wild Wild Web!  On this edition we learn there are only five real jobs! is your job one?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the Wild Wild Web, why you might not have a real job. 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. Yes! Good morning! Welcome, or good afternoon, good evening, no matter what time of day it is. The podcast does not dictate when you may listen.

No, you're right. One of the pros of podcasting, isn't it? Listen any time of the night. What's the latest you've podcasted in the evening? I was probably going any time of the night. Have you ever, what's the latest you've podcasted into the evening? I was probably going to the gym at night.

My wife, like, sometimes go to bed with an audible book with ear pods on. She'll listen to that. Continues just reading in her ears

when she falls asleep. She always says, I've read two books. I was like, you haven't read two books. You've had them read to you. Yeah. You were asleep

for five hours that's what I need to do she does it when she's walking around she'll be doing stuff around the house and then I'll be like and I'll be like

oh she's got to put her ear pods in you can't read a book while doing other things but you can have it read to you she loves it yeah

she's a genius she loves reading but now you just don't have time to sit down and do it so you can actually have a book while you kind of

go around great way to block out Ben going just saying stuff that doesn't no real words no she's like well

how am I supposed to listen to proper written words got your book in again I get frustrated but anyway got your book in again is that like an

old married couple thing I'm just talking about something and then I'm like what's that? Oh you've got your book in again Doesn't even make grammatical sense Well today this is An interview with

Charles Barkley, Ben you'll know he's a former NBA player Now a commentator isn't he? Yeah he's great, analyst of the game Phoenix Suns I remember he played for Number 34 Charles Barkley Legend of the game. He was being interviewed, and here's a theory that there are only five real jobs in the world.

And I don't want to break your heart. What we're doing right now is not one of them. I can imagine it would be in the top 500 real jobs in the world. No. Okay, so have a listen to this. Don't look for the most money in the world. Don't look for the most money. Don't look for Elon Musk ad. Sorry.

Saying that backstage, you said that there are only five real jobs in the world. Yeah, teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor, somebody who's in the armed service. Everybody else will just shut the hell up and enjoy life. You know? Don't take yourself so serious. Like... You know, people talk about all these jocks.

I say, jocks don't have bad days. When you're making $25 million a year, you might be in last place, but it ain't that bad. What a great way to look at life. Only five real jobs, and he's probably summed up the real jobs. So what did he say? He was teacher? Farmer Doctor

Fire person was it Fire person Or I guess And armed services And armed services And to be fair None of those I would want to do

Because they're too stressful It's too much for me So he's probably right I'm trying to think of Other jobs that you like I mean there's a lot of Builders Builders are essential

Yeah that's a worthy job Yeah You're right That's a really worthy job Yeah Charles Add six to that Pl a worthy job. Yeah. You're right, that's a really worthy job. Yeah, Charles, let's add six to that. Plumbing. Yeah, well, yeah, yeah.

Like trades. Yeah, trades. You put them on a lot of trades. Yeah, that's essential. Yeah. Fashion. That's not essential. That's part of the arts.

What about your hair? It's not essential, I guess. No. But these are the things, I guess, that people want and make. They're great, you know, rewarding because people love them. But you're right, it's probably not. He's dead right. Everyone else should just calm down and enjoy life.

And that's a great way to look at life. Those are, I mean, Amanda, your wife, she's a teacher. She's a teacher, yeah. That's why she listens to books in her ears. She listens to books in her ears, yeah. Always learning and teaching. That is a job that is grossly underpaid. Yeah.

You feel like it's thankless, I imagine, because the kids aren't thanking you. No. Generally just being dicks. A lot of the time the teachers dip into their very small salaries and provide tools for the classroom. Yeah. You know? That's because they just love. Just want to do a good job.

Yeah. And it's, yeah, I mean, it's rewarding, but at the same time, well, I'm saying. How? Yeah. Well, I guess it's rewarding because you are teaching you know kids and you can see the growth for kids and you can see kids blossom they're doing god's work i just think that's like so i just end up yelling at kids they are dealing with a lot of stuff too yeah oh geez and even at a younger and younger age sometimes i'm like whoa you know like yeah having to deal with a lot of that stuff as well.

You're like, oh, jeez, I wouldn't have thought these things would be happening for years. Yeah. But I imagine all the people that do those vocations, there's a certain level or a certain amount of it is, I like doing this job because I'm really contributing to society here. Yeah. You know, that would be part of the fulfillment of doing those roles. Making a difference.

Yeah. We don't know what that's like. No, we don't. No, I mean, yeah. We're not saying it to be modest or anything. It's not a job. It's a fun job, you know, but... We were part of the essential services during lockdown, which we were like, how is this? And they were like,

please don't say it publicly, because we want the radio to keep going. And I guess in a way it is communication. Did you ever get pulled over by a cop during that time and show your information? No, I have my letter and stuff, but I don't think I ever got pulled over. Because I did and the cop was like, hmm.

Even they were like, should you, is this? Yeah. But you were like, you were giving information. That was the biggest thing that radio was giving information through that time and everything was changing

and the news and stuff. I mean, you could have just said Newstalk ZB is the only station doing that. Yeah, I was like, no one's coming to the house. And no one else is doing that. But we were doing it. Serious info. We were doing it, you know. Yeah.

Oh, we took it. And I tell you what, it was a joy to be able to come into an office and do your job, you know. And then I'd get home and then poor Jen's been out with the kids all day teaching them and yeah yeah i that was a god's i don't know how i would have coped if we didn't get to like leave the house and come into work yeah we're very fortunate very lucky and it wasn't like everyone got to you know got to work um in the radio industry like we were in a little i mean you were working zm at the time yeah and so there was a small what happened there you had a little bubble in terms of the bubble no it was you on that show

that's for a podcast for another time we'll do that in another episode okay I was just wondering I didn't know what happened yeah yeah

you do know what happened yeah yeah you're not in that bubble anymore at the moment no that bubble's been burst you're in our bubble now so yeah but yes you would

you'd come in there was like four of us there was only four of us on the show you know at the time you know with the producers and us and that was it

there was no people in the office for sales job even the bosses and stuff they couldn't come in so it wasn't like everyone on radio

get back to work no also weren't you new hadn't you just moved so you'd gone to a completely new job essentially and you're like

oh we hadn't met anyone no you just started a job yeah you're right you came into work and it was like there's no one works here and then, oh, there's someone here. We hadn't met anyone, no. We just started a job. Yeah, you're right. You came into work and it was like, there's no one works here. And then eventually you realise

there's a lot of people in this building. Because we walked past you, but we weren't allowed to interact with you. No. So we could see that you were here, but we weren't allowed to come over and be like, hey. We politely waved. Yeah, that's it.

It was a weird time. I even looked out there this morning when I was grabbing something and we had the John Owen Bend face masks we'd made. You know, remember the face masks? People were, you know, like things like that because they were hard to get to. Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, you couldn't get a bigger celebrity in New Zealand at the time. He put on a mask of ours.

You know, we made some with our branding on it and stuff. You used to walk around with a mask in your pocket. Now you're like, oh, I don't know. What a weird, I knew we'd look back on it one day and be like, this is weird. Oh, driving down the motor, even in the moment, I was like driving on a motorway with no vehicles on it. Yeah. Like an apocalypse. I'm going to admit that I got my phone out and took a picture of it,

driving down the motorway, because there was no one. I was like, I'm not going to crash into anyone. It's weird to go. And it was so weird. It's not that long ago, but how much has changed. But when you're in that moment, you know, people are like, will we ever go to the movies again? we ever go to a concert again well yeah well how quickly we will go back to you know like you know it's like but for a while there we'll maybe we'll

never do these things again just gonna take a quick little break from the wild world web we'll be back very shortly hello welcome back you were like oh my god asanto's got covered it was like a weird and all and now we've all had it and then God, so-and-so's got COVID. It was like a weird anomaly. And now we've all had it. And then you're like, oh, so-and-so's got COVID. I was in a place that they had COVID later. Someone went in there later. But you're like, well, you weren't there at the time.

Why was I getting worried? Yeah, I know. It's amazing how they can put fear into people. Yeah. Isn't it? They use us, the media. I reckon they're going to have to wait at least 100, 150 years to do another one of those because no one's going to buy into it now. Like a lockdown.

Everyone who's on planet Earth who experienced that needs to die for them to be able to pull off another one of those and people actually adhere to the rules. But when you think about it, big cities like London and all these big cities were completely locked down as well. That's insane. Although there were places that that weren't producer Taylor was based in the Gold Coast at the time with Marcello the Warriors were over there she was like never locked down once the Goldie was immune the Goldie just kept charging yeah incredible yeah some places just

kind of plowed on I think with various degrees of success, some good and some, fortunately, some lives were lost, which you've got to think that, you know, it's really sad. But yeah, but interesting, I feel like you're right, no one would do that again now, really. And then those people who camped outside Parliament with the anti-vaxxers, just yesterday, one of the major pharmaceuticals

has had to pull their vaccine back out of the market because it has serious side effects. And then these people were protesting outside Parliament and parliament i'm like look at you weirdos rolling around in your feces and stuff like they had a point which vaccine was it it was one that the uh i think boris johnson was very uh pro at the time he was going this is a great there was something uh we should actually look it up if we're talking not the one we had no it wasn't the pfizer one as far as i know um i think and it's also the latest version of astrazeneca yeah pulls its covid vaccine from the european market so it's

no longer you can get it over there so yeah really yeah really interesting time looking back and what you what we've learned from that and what we haven't learned is yeah yeah it had uh it had some effects on people uh and it could raise blood clots. Sorry. They suspended the vaccine use after unusual rare blood clots were being detected in a small number of immunised people. That women take all the time. Why do we have to come back to that, mate?

Just a side effect of the pill. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. But it was Yeah wild time Wild wild time Yeah

And Would you Would you Okay so they go Okay we're gonna There's another COVID outbreak Let's say this bloody bird flu Which is weirdly being transmitted

Through cows Kicks off What are you doing? What are you doing If they're like We're gonna have to do We're gonna have to lock down. Well,

I mean, you say that no one will do it again, but if people start dying in huge numbers, then I think I would probably stay home. And then if you're instructed by the law and the businesses and stuff like that, but I imagine there'll be a lot more people that, you know, you always hear those stories.

You go, that house is real lax and they're doing this thing and they're not, you know, and we were all such nerds knocking on our neighbours and they took a trip to Queenstown. They had a street party. Remember people having neighbour driveways at the end of the day? And they went to the thing and they didn't even get COVID

and there were news articles and stuff. Oh, that poor Wanaka couple. Yeah, I know. And they were just, yeah. Jeez, we hunted them down with pitchforks. Yeah, there was a lot of that stuff that the fear and and anger and stuff yeah is that going to be up to the individual maybe horrible for businesses as well too you know through that whole thing you know particularly when there was other cities and

places opening up and they wanted to open up it was you know and they're losing income and yeah horrible horrible times yeah after having a cafe during covert i can tell you it wasn't fun yeah well what were you doing? Contactless? Yeah. Well, in level four, you'd just shut. Shouldn't do that for a while. You were saying all your food.

Yeah, so you'd get, was it like 24 hours warning or a couple of days warning for a proper lockdown? So you'd have to close, but you have thousands of dollars worth of food in any sort of establishment that you just, what are you going to do with it? It's going to go off. Exp do with it? It's going to go off. It's going to expire. So we just had to give it away to people. Well, you can see how people did turn on Aunty Cindy, can't you? But also

what was she supposed to do? Well, she was only doing the best she could do with the information that she was being handed. It happened before, right? No, they were navigating their way through as best they thought. They thought, yeah, yeah, they thought. But also. Turns out we started thinking some other stuff.

I just feel like it's damned if you do, damned if you don't. Because if we'd not locked down and people had died, it would have been on her too. Yeah. A wild time. Trump, I hate to say it. He was like, he had the plow on strategy, didn't he? Yeah, but how did that look for New York? Do you remember that? Do you remember but how did that look for New York? Do you remember that?

Do you remember seeing all those body bags in New York? Yeah, that's the sad thing when you have that. Yeah, I mean, that didn't go well. No. A different time. A different time. Hopefully one that we'll never get to experience again in our lifetimes. I wouldn't say so.

Yeah. No. It's uprising. You know that movie Contagion with Gwyneth Paltrow? Everyone was watching that during the pandemic. Shit, that hit different. It was like such an entertaining movie. And then when we're in COVID, you're like, oh, no, I don't like this so much.

Nah, it doesn't feel good to watch this movie. It doesn't take much to crumble the world, does it? Well, that was the thing. It was like one bat bit a pig or something in that movie. And then the whole world's like, yeah something like that and then they ate the pig and she caught some weird disease and that's how it kicked off yeah yeah okay and who knows how this one started there were some theories yeah it's all wild stuff they said to that whole period wasn't there how does the bird flu get to the cow for the latest one? I don't know.

A bird could have bitten a cow. Yeah. Magpie could have bitten a cow. Stranger things have happened. Anyway, there we go. There's some reflections of the important jobs out there and then a bit of a review of COVID, a bit of a post-analysis there from all of us.

What a weird time that was. And that was a podcast. Well, thank you for listening.