Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Who's surviving off the least amount of sleep?

Episode Date: March 27, 2024

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Today on the Wild Wild Web. Actor Sydney Sweeney reckons she's never had something in 26 years. And this surprised me. Never tried it. I'll tell you what it is next. 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.

The wildest stories that we can find from the internet and then conversation that really takes a wee bit of a turn from that. Sometimes the stories aren't that wild, but the conversation gets wild, doesn't it? Yeah, something's wild about it. That's why aren't that wild, but the conversation gets wild, doesn't it? Yeah. Something's wild about it. That's why it's the Wild Wild Web. Today we're talking about actor Sydney Sweeney who seems to be everywhere at the moment. A lot of news stories about her. She was in that movie

Anyone But You. She was in White Lotus. White Lotus, yeah. Euphoria, another big show as well. Just two hot people in that Anyone But You movie though, right? Her and Glenn Powell. Sexual chemistry through the roof. In their bathing suits.

Everyone's just like, damn, I wish I looked like that. You're like, have sex the whole time. Is that what you're thinking? Sex. Go do some sex. Is that what you're thinking, Ben? What I was, in what way? Was I thinking if I was, what?

No, like the couple on screen. There's a lot of chemistry. There's chemistry. But then they like each other, then they don't like each other, and then they have to pretend. It's actually quite fun. I saw it with my daughter. Do they end up sexing?

Oh, hey, I don't want to give it away. I don't want to give away what happens at the end of it. Very confusing. I can't remember. Very confusing for my wife. No, they do end up sexing. Oh, okay. He gave it away.

Oh, that's right. No, I do remember. Yeah. Shower, I do. He gave it away. Oh, that's right. No, I do remember. Yeah. Shower, bed. Yeah. You name it. Yeah, that was a little... Laundry?

Yeah. No, I don't know if there was a laundry situation. No, I don't think so. It's all done kind of tastefully. You still see a lot, though. Tasteful love scene. Yeah. Confused my wife when she wanted to see the movie

and my daughter was like, well, Dad's seen it with anyone but you. And she was like, why would he want to go with anyone but you? And I was like, no, that's the name of the movie, Anyone But You. But anyway, Sydney Sweeney, she's 26 years old and she reckons she can function if she needs to on just a couple hours sleep, which is probably like all mums around New Zealand are like, oh, that's just, you know, Monday. But she's never tried coffee. Never tried, like

I'm get it, you know, if you don't drink coffee, but never tried coffee never tried like I'm get it you know if you don't drink coffee but never tried it at all wow she's like never been interested in it and just never had it because I think the smell

of coffee is almost better than the taste of it yeah you're right it's a couple of tough months realigning your taste buds to get into a coffee habit

yeah yeah Ben you've just given up coffee well yeah since I've been I keep banging on about my, but since I've been sick with my arm and on antibiotics, I kind of just was like, well, I don't really feel like this. And then I've kind of just got past the point. It's been over three weeks now.

So I'm sure I'll have it again. I just at the moment, I'm like, well, I'm not going to force it in myself. You must have saved a butt ton of cash. Probably. I reckon. Yeah, over the next little while. What about the smell? Has that enticed you?

Yeah, it smells nice. You know, I'm mad at my wife for making coffee or whatever. Yeah, over the next little while. What about the smell? Has that enticed you? Yeah, the smell's nice. You know, like Amanda, my wife, will make a coffee or whatever, and I'll go, oh, that smells nice. But she's like, oh, I'm fine at the moment. Me and Sydney Sweeney, mate. No, thanks. That's where chemistry over here is electric. Our electric chemistry.

Let's go to the laundry. I don't know if that's quite, yeah, anyway, no. She's like, oh, my God, you drank drink coffee. I'm in. Me too, quite, yeah, anyway, no. She's like, oh, my God, you drank coffee. I'm in. Me too, you know. But she's young. She's 26. Anyone who goes to Rhythm and Vines can survive on two hours sleep.

Less sleep. Yeah, you're right, actually. Every now and then. Over multiple days, yeah. Yeah, you're right, actually. You kind of feel like if you get a little bit, a tiny little bit of sleep, you kind of feel quite spacey the next day, but you're still operating, aren't you? A little bit jet lagged. Yeah, come back aty the next day. But you're still operating, aren't you? A little bit gently.

Yeah, come back at us when you're 10 years. Yeah, Sydney, sweetie. Come back when you're haggard and old and 40, mate. You'll see all you want to do is sleep, Sydney, sweetie, in the prime of your life right now. What's the least amount of sleep you've had? Well, probably doing a lot. Well, yeah. Work-wise, we've done a few things where we had to stay awake.

And we're doing one this week, actually, 24 hours, which is always, you know, it's just hard to get through that sort of middle of the night period, I reckon. So do you get any sleep during those things? I think you're – Health and safety-wise, they make you, right? Five minutes an hour you can rest, and then you can bank it up. For world record stuff, that's like the standard.

So you can go – if you didn't take a break for six hours, you can bank it up. For world record stuff, that's like the standard. So you can go, if you didn't take a break for six hours, you can bank up. Five minutes, you know, it's not really a lot over it. And then, I mean, those times you've gone, oh, cool, I've banked up enough to have an hour off. I find it really hard to get to sleep. Just go, no, I'm going to need to sleep because I'm going to wake up in a bit

and you're kind of a little bit wired, even though you're, you know. You've got 45 minutes of sleep. Yeah, go sleep, go sleep. So you end up probably not really sleeping as well. Yeah. Okay. Longest time with no sleep with you've ended up Probably not really sleeping as well Yeah Okay Longest time of no sleep

With you Megan Assisted and unassisted Longest time of no sleep Yeah Might surprise you Given that I've got two kids But it would be on that Rihanna flight

I think we got Eight hours sleep over a week Wow Eight hours sleep over a week Yeah Now this is You just recap for the Wild Wild Web audience

Just drop that name Yeah Rihanna Excuse me I'll just pick that. Yeah. Rihanna. Excuse me, I'll just pick that up for you. Rihanna had a promotion where she went to and did seven concerts. Oh, did you go there to do? Yeah, I did. I didn't know.

Seven concerts in seven countries over seven days on a 777. And I was lucky enough to go. Well, lucky. I went on it. And there was hotel rooms, but oftentimes you got to the hotel room really late and then you had a call time. Literally, like, because she had to make it all around the world.

So sometimes you'd be in a hotel for an hour and the same thing would happen. You'd be like, got to sit, got to sit, got to sit. But then what? They'd rent you a hotel room for an hour. I guess it was for a day, but you were only there for an hour. Oh, I see. Right.

So you just dump your bags, go do the thing, come back. Right. Eight hours overall. What about sleeping on the plane? Was that an option? Yes, but also it's just there was so many people there working on different types. Like it was the world's journalists. So they're all working and drinking and on different time zones.

Was it quite spacious on the plane? Was there lots or there's no no really no who are you sitting next to yeah like did you get your own like row or something on the plane yeah so i was with um i don't know if you know michael christian he's a radio host in australia and also tim dormer who actually won big brother australia Australia after we did the plane together. And they were very loud and outgoing. Aussie bogans. Aussie bogans. So there wasn't a lot of sleeping happening.

Plus, everyone got really annoyed because we didn't actually see Rihanna that much. So there was a lot of yelling and chanting on the plane. So there wasn't sleep happening. Was she actually on the flight with you? She was. She was right up the front, though, in, I guess, its first class. Because it was just a normal 777. Why is she going to come back and hobnob with the bloody minions?

Exactly. She poured you a champagne, though, right? Right at the start. She poured me a champagne and we were like, this is going to be epic. And then we didn't really see her again. Well, she ticked her obligations. I mean, we saw her in concert every night.

Did you get a photo with her? Probably not. I got a photo of her pouring me a champagne. Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah yeah and then you didn't see her again for uh the whole week nah yeah and it was yeah i just remember being so spaced out i remember being in like a weird concrete bunker of a venue in germany and we were all trying to sleep on the floor it was like a concrete floor and it was germany in winter so it was cold and no one's getting any sleep and we're just like

I don't want to see the show I just want to sleep oh really you're at that stage yeah yeah I imagine the most incredible show it would have been but seeing something

multiple nights probably loses it the same thing over and over and over doesn't shine bright like a diamond does it after a few nights and I don't want to complain

because it was still an amazing experience but I remember at the time we were like I think we've got eight hours sleep. And on that note, we're just going to take a quick break to hear from some of our sponsors. Welcome back, Megan. Back to your week-long tour with Rihanna.

I ditched out in Paris because I was like, we're in Paris, baby. I've seen that show three times already. And you're lying on the floor of a concrete bunker in Germany like a prisoner of war. Yeah. We went to go and see the Berlin Wall after the show and then jumped on a plane. Could you go and do your own thing? Not really. Not really.

You're Rihanna's prisoner for the week. We were in Stockholm in Sweden, which looked beautiful. The venue was amazing on a waterfront. It had huge chandeliers. And I was like, one day I'm going to come back here. Because technically I've been there, but I saw nothing on there. Yeah wow but it was an incredible thing to do though yeah it's probably one of those things that we have that from time to time when you look back and you're like oh my god i did that was but at the time it's probably not quite as amazing as yeah back you know and i remember going to mexico city and everyone they said we know that people have been

going off and doing their own things please don't't do it in Mexico City because it's dangerous. Like, please don't leave the group. Here's a crazy story. Here's a really crazy story. A friend of mine went and had stem cell replacement. So he's had a really bad back for a number of years, like almost 10 years, being trampled all over, everything, and nothing was really doing it. And then his mate said to him,

hey, have you looked into the stem cell replacement stuff, which is not available in New Zealand? Oh, nice. You can go on essentially holidays. So you fly to America, you pay whatever, 20K or whatever, fly to America, and then you go on a bus across the border with an eclectic mix of people and end up in Tijuana.

Oh, Tijuana. I did that on a Contiki, yeah. Yeah. And so he said. It was probably on my Contiki bus. Yeah. It was the afternoon and then we went back across. He said on this bus were UFC fighters, former people from the military,

elderly people, young people who needed stem cell replacement basically and then so you go to this place and you're sitting there and you have the operation

whatever and you've got to hang around for a number of days they make sure you're okay and they said he said

he was looking out the window because you're sitting on a big lazy boy just with drips and things he's looking

out the window and across the road was a restaurant and he said the Mexican cartel turned up okay Lazy boy just with drips and things. He's looking out the window and across the road was a restaurant. And he said, the Mexican cartel turned up. Okay. Oh my God. Three or four massive cars or whatever got out.

And he could see it all. Saw it all. Mowed the entire restaurant down. Oh my God, that's scary. Are you joking? No. What? Like, so just people dining at the restaurant?

Yeah, and the owners and stuff. They'd obviously done the cartel wrong in their eyes. And then they all left. He said it was like watching one of those crazy movies. The police came in. Oh, my God. The police came in and were like, we know what this place is. We understand you're all not from here. But no one is to step foot outside.

No one leave here. You'll die. So he sat there and yeah, he said the craziest situation he has ever been in. That's Tijuana. That's the place where everyone crosses the border to be like, I've been to Mexico. But it's not, apparently it's not real Mexico.

There's some beautiful places, according to a lot of mates that have been to Mexico, you know, Cancun and on the wonderful beaches and some wonderful parts. But yeah, Tijuana. But Mexico City was, they were like, don't go anywhere. Don't go anywhere other than where we tell you to go. I was like, okay.

Yeah. Because you see people, they stand outside hotels with machine guns. That's like security. I saw a donkey painted. No, sorry. It was a horse. It was a donkey painted like a sorry, was it? It was a donkey painted like a zebra?

Did you see that too? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, the poor donkey. I didn't sign up for this. God, we've all seen things in Mexico. And they've got a wonderful play. I remember going to lunch at the place and the guy the owner's like, shots, shots, and he's pouring like tequila shots in your mouth and stuff and you're like, oh, that's great. And then of course

it's on your bill at the end, but you know. But at the time you didn't feel it, you felt like, oh, that's great. And then of course it's on your bill at the end. But at the time you didn't feel like, oh, this is part of the wonderful service. But like that restaurant, there was probably unsuspecting people that just went there for food. Yeah, that's really sad. It's sad, but it's the reality over there. A lot of it's run by the cartels.

Crazy, crazy stuff. And just back to this donkey. surely a donkey Is impressive enough I would have thought so too It didn't need to be painted up Like by a House paint

Sort of Well yeah I guess so Could you tell it was paint Or was it It definitely looked like It had been painted Do you know what I don't understand

Is when you're walking The streets of Tijuana Just not saying anything They say Kia ora Kia ora Come over here I'm like

How do you know i'm a kiwi oh he's probably sick out like yeah yeah but like what is it about us that screams our blind innocence probably there's some idiot i can rip off yeah uh yeah because you'd think the donkey is well done we've transformed you from one mode into a slightly colorful more colorful mode of what you are yeah but how did it sit still while they painted it and i was i was at that time you know a regrettable period with dreadlock here you know for a time and i was the guy that was like weed mate this is you know this is oh this is the guy that's gonna buy all the weed from me

as soon as you walk down the middle hey mate do you want to oh no i'm okay do you want to hey mate you want to maybe maybe it wasn't even a donkey painted like a zebra. Maybe I was hallucinating. Wow, I had tequila shots. Wow, it's not just that. Wild time, wild time. Well, there we go. That was the Wild World Web for today.

Going to be taking a break for a few days. It's Easter here in New Zealand to our international viewers. Is it Easter worldwide? Oh, that's a very... I assume so. I think Jesus died at the same time for everyone. Well, yeah, but Easter moves around here, doesn't it? Go and have a gook, mate,

quickly before we wrap this thing up. Does it move around everywhere, surely? I don't know. So we'll do some live internething. Is Easter that same world? Easter looks like it is this year, 31st of March, yeah. Everywhere? Yeah. Maybe it is the same, 31st of March, yeah. Everywhere?

Maybe it is the same time. Why does Easter change every year? What you might not know is there are two different dates on which Easter is celebrated depending on whether you observe Western or Catholic Easter or Orthodox Easter.

And because the Jewish calendar is tied to solar and lunar cycles, the date of the Passover fluctuates each year, which is why Easter's date in turn changes from year to year. Okay. So that's why we've had it at different times. And so there are different parts of the world celebrating Easter at different times?

It falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the spring equinox. But does that not happen everywhere in the world? Well, yeah, I guess it would happen, but it happens at different times. Oh, so it's the same time for everyone each year, but it changes every year. Yes, yeah. You explained that well. So happy Easter, everyone. Well, right, to our international audience.

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