Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's Wild Wild Web!  On this edition a man tells his dad he's going to be a millionaire.... then wins a million dollars!?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and wanted you to know all that I enjoy listening. So thank you, Ollie. It's lovely. It's so good. So we do this for you. This is purely for Ollie. Hey, now I mentioned this might be the coolest moment ever on a game show on television.

Now this is not recent, but you know how sometimes the old clips sort of circulate around again? Sometimes the bad, the cancelable clips. But this one's actually a really lovely clip. And so this was from a game show in America, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? We all know how the format works in that one, right? We all want to be millionaires.

Yeah. So this guy, John Carpenter. Now, I'd never seen this before. This is back in just around about 2000s, 1999, 2000. He was playing the first season of the American version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? And the host,

he'd gone all the way through without his lifelines. You know how you can phone a friend? He hadn't used any of those until he got up to the million dollar question. Oh my God. So this question was for a million dollars. It was which one of the US presidents

appeared in a television series laughing? And he was like, I'm going to call my dad. He's going to be my final friend. I'm going to call him for this answer. Have a listen to how this plays out. I like to call my parents right now. Sure.

Use my lifeline, call my parents. What are their names? My father. I'll talk to my father. Does he have a name? He does have a name. It's Tom. All right.

Friends at AT&T will get your dad on the line. So he's calling his dad for his lifeline. A million dollars on the line right here. Yeah. Can we just say the snarky host? It's like, tell him his name. It is for a million dollars. The snarky host is like, does he have a name?

What's his name? Well, the question's here. You're right. It's not for a million dollars. What's your dad's name, is it? Hello? Hello, Tom? Yes.

Hi, Regis Philbin here from Who who wants to be a millionaire hi we've got your son john uh with us right now he's doing pretty well good he's won a half million dollars wow and he's going for a million dollars and he needs your help to get there okay he's going to come on the line read a a question, four possible answers. One of them is the right answer. And the next voice you'll hear will be John's.

John, you've got 30 seconds. Starts right now. Some of there. It was a while ago. I wonder. Hi. It felt like he was really explaining

how phone technology works. The next voice that you will hear. Greg and Tom's like, I'm not an idiot. I can distinguish between your voice and my son's voice.

But this is tense. I mean, this is the lifeline. This is putting all the pressure on your dad. You know, you're calling up for a million dollars and how it plays out. Have a listen. Please, I hope they get it. Dad, hi.

And I really need your help, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to win the million dollars. You can tell the host is like, we just paid for a toll booth. You know how phones work. Because the U.S. president appeared on Laugh-In as Richard Nixon. That's my final answer. Well, my gosh. What can I say except Debbie, you're going to Paris,

and this is the final answer heard all around the world. He's won a million dollars. Nice to hear. Hey, great. What a baller. Absolute baller. That's such a baller move in that situation. Use your lifeline.

Then we have the confidence to go. Don't need you. Don't need you. I'm just ringing to tell you I'm going to win a million dollars and then he's like it was Richard Nixon that is my final answer don't you like

don't want to deal with all the BS yeah are you sure you want to lock it in he's like no I know exactly what it is that's a ball of move ball of move

also a million bucks back then what do you mean oh yeah 99 whatever it was 2000 yeah a million bucks is a lot of money now

but good lord USD as well that's uh that's what how have you ever been on a game show no we uh we played family feud a couple of times certainly in the celebrity edition to that you really get ripped up in the game yeah yeah it's quite it is it's when you get put on on the spot you know you think it was one of those things you think about like you know i couldn't do that i could have thought of that yeah but you get caught you the cameras and people you're trying to think of stuff.

It's like doing the alpha quiz. Yeah, exactly. You play the alpha quiz every day. It's quite tough. So for that guy to get to a million dollars, coolly, calmly and... Oh, no. And not use any of his lifelines and then decide to. I'm like, man, that's a ball of moof.

Yeah. I was going to take a quick break from the Wild Web. Back shortly. Hello. Welcome back. If you were to host one game show what would it be out of all the ones I do Chase just because I like the Chase he knows what he's doing the most iconic game show right now who wants to be a millionaire back in the day probably was but now it's been well overtaken by the chase.

Beat the chasers, all the versions of the chase around the world. Who's your favorite chaser? Look, I don't know them as well as, yeah.

Sean's a lovely guy. Yeah, Sean. You can just pick the one you've met. Yeah, it was great. The Dark Destroyer,

right? Yeah, do you know what? We're doing 24 hours of Zoom like here at the radio station when it was COVID times. We were trying to do a nonstop Zoom call. And throughout the night, we were like, we need some people overseas.

And someone we know knows him, Sean Wallace. And he was like, I can get him on and maybe you can do an overnight quiz with him for a little bit over the Zoom. We're like, oh, that'd be amazing to have the guy from The Chase. And so we had him throughout the night while we were doing the zoom for 24 hours and we we were getting questions before him we answered before him a couple times and we're like oh my god we are nailing this guy destroying the destroyer yeah yeah and then it wasn't till afterwards someone went you know there's quite a delay on the zone particularly international he lagged by about five seconds.

And we were like, bang, yeah, another one. And we were like, oh, yeah, of course. So we had quite an advantage on that one. Maybe that would be a great, the delayed chase. Yeah, you get the advantage. So they can't answer for five seconds. Yeah, so it's definitely a real lag on his end, and we weren't quite as smart as we thought we were.

Who's your favourite chaser? I like the newer one, the Irish guy. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, what's the name they gave him? I think he's, I just think he's... The Irish leprechaun. Yeah.

Is he the lucky leprechaun? No. What I love about Sean, we're lucky enough to talk to him a couple of times on the show, is he's up for challenges. Yeah. He doesn't care if he gets it wrong. He's like, I just learn from stuff.

He's like, I don't know everything. He goes to pub quizzes and he loses, and he's like, I just learn from stuff. He's like, I don't know everything. He goes to pub quizzes and he loses. And he's like, well, I see that as a learning exercise. Because everyone wants to quiz him. And he knows so much stuff as do all the chasers. But I thought it was really cool. Because I think you'd be that expectation you're going to be amazing. And you wouldn't want to do any quizzes or anything.

But he's like, I'll do it. I'm human. If I get it wrong, hey, you beat me. And sure, there was a delay on my end. But anyhow, he's happy to do it, which I thought was pretty cool. The Menace is his name. Oh, that is a cool nickname. Is he a menace?

He's a neuroscientist. And do you know, he got on the chase after he was a contestant in like 2017 or something. And they were so impressed with him and his general knowledge. They were like, do you want to be a chaser? Wow. He's that smart. Do your parents love the chase like, do you want to be a chaser? Wow. He's that smart. Do your parents love the chase? Do they love the crap out of the chase?

Yeah. My dad, Kevin Boyce. Don't age the chase. I like the chase. I'm not saying you can't enjoy it but it's a certain demograph, love it more. He's aging the chase.

Yeah. He just ages the chase. It feels very ageist. It was what my daughter said today. It appeals to everyone. Old people will see it if it's on TV. Have your daughters watched the chase? Well, only when my my dad stays that's the only time they're like oh this is papa's show this is like the show today do they like it though because i'm like maybe you should

just force feed them the chase for a bit they'd get hooked they'd love it they probably would get yeah they probably i don't think that they'd know too many of the answers and that's not like saying they're dumb or anything it It just feels like it's... It's targeted. It's targeted at old people. Ageism. So I don't know. But yeah, they probably get into...

They used to get into the old game show back in the day. Tell you what kids loved. One of my kids, you know, they really got hooked on the bloody block one season. Like home renos. Yeah. Just one season and then they tapped out. But...

Block did a good job too of like having those little challenges in between the house stuff yeah that were quite interesting when you're like why are they building

a plank over a pool when there's a four bedroom house that they need to renovate they're behind schedule they're over budget they're out there doing that but that was get the kids in

yeah smart the thing it takes too long for the reveal on the block now because I can go on TikTok and someone's like look at this before

and here's my house after and I'm like yeah quick we've become quite impatient like instantly yeah no it's a seven second renovation show not a seven month but you do your whole yeah yeah you kind of change are you you're kind of like show me now otherwise i don't want to stick around yeah i don't want to go through the whole drama of like did you like get it done in time blah blahah, blah, blah. Just show me what it looks like after. Even when we make stuff out and about today, I'm all conscious that we used to do intros for everything.

Here we are. And people are like, I watch my daughters. They're like three or four seconds into that, they're gone. Yeah. You've lost them. You know? And this is the best bit. Or building to something really, it's like,

oh, well, I don't care about your intro, mate. I don't care what you're doing. I literally do that when I'm scrolling on, like, Instagram, whatever it is. I'm like, don't care. Don't care. Someone's like, watch that video. You're like, oh, I gave it a chance. I don't know.

Moved on. No, it's actually really, really good. Just get past the basement. Someone works so hard on it, too. I know. You're like, oh, whatever. You know what frustrates me is I send out some bloody great content, forward on great content to everyone.

And I'm like people are going to love this content and you you're so excited to hear what the feedback is going to be about this crazy video that you've seen and you get nothing back oh sorry i've just got a long list of videos i'm not referencing you guys also jen my wife i'm like she's gonna crack up but you're just constantly sending her food videos it makes her think that you're like this is my dinner tonight babes get on it I mix her up I do send her a lot of bro lad content

which is probably not hitting but yeah no nothing back nothing you know just I don't even know if she's watched them

people are going to love this there's very specific content I'd send to you like we have a very what was the last one you sent me oh the gorilla

holding the bunny oh there you go great yeah so a gorilla picks up a little rabbit and carries it. Look at this. And carries it to bed

and sleeps, and they sleep together. The bunny and the, look at that. Puts the rabbit to bed into like a little, where you put a dog, like a dog bed.

A dog bed, yeah. Oh, that's so cute. So yeah, you like that one? Yeah. Okay, what have I sent you recently, Ben? And we'll just go through the direct messages. Yeah. Are we done? Okay, what have I seen you recently, Ben? And we'll just go through the direct messages.

Are we done? Hey, are we getting a wrap-up? Oh, you're producing Taylor saying, are we done? Are we done? Well, we're just looking through our DMs. The DMs I've seen to everyone. What was this? You sent me a Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef one.

Oh, that was the guy calling Drake accidently to the newsreader who tried to refer to Drake as a rapper, but missed out a very pivotal P and referenced him as not quite the rapper. Not a rapper. Yeah, but that extra P really does make a difference in the word rapper. I sent you the chicken leg stockings at the gym. Yeah, I like that.

I laughed at that. Oh, you sent me that guy singing. I had seen that one one the guy singing Hotel Jordan that's how we do it you're right though all the things you've sent me I've never responded

sometimes I would do like a heart thing or a heart but there's a lot there there's a lot there until Washington Motivation is that okay

I don't need any as long as I know you're enjoying them you don't have to tell me and that's the Wild Wild Web for another episode. We're getting the wrap-up from Producer Taylor. So we'll be back again.

And thanks, of course, to Ollie for that wonderful email.