Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Would our opposition pick us up from the airport!

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's Wild Wild Web!  On today's episode, we delve into the aftermath of heartache and a broken promise, which ended in intense drama at the dispute's tribunal!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the Wild Wild Web, if you promise to take someone to the airport and you don't, you could end up in court. 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 Vienna are your fearless guides. Leading you through the wildest parts of the wild, wild web. This is the wild, wild web. Kia ora, welcome along to the wild, wild web, where we find something from the internet that has captured our attention, we like to talk about it, and who knows where we'll end up.

Today, an article out in New Zealand that we've read online, and this is an interesting situation. So this couple were no longer together. No names, which is probably good. But she was very unhappy that her boyfriend at the time failed to take her to the airport. She missed a flight. She also had to, you know, I think she missed a concert she was going to.

She had to organize to get her animals, which he was going to look after. They had to all sort it out. And so she took her to the tribunal, to court, basically, to say, hey, you broke a promise. And they've now dismissed it saying, well, they probably don't really deal with that sort of thing. Judge Judy would.

Judge Judy would. So you want to take that to TV court. You'll get some results there. So small claims court, I think she took it to, because she obviously had to pay for a new plane ticket. She had to pay for the animals to get looked after. And he was like, I'll sort it out. I'll take you to the airport.

Didn't. Classic guy material, isn't it? Always letting you down. Six and a half months they'd been together at the time. So it wasn't like it was a new relationship. What? What did he do? Was he out on a bend?

I don't know. So he agreed to pick her up around 10 o'clock and stay at her home, look after the dogs. He never showed up. She missed her flight. She had to book stay at her home, look after the dogs. She never showed up. She missed her flight. She had to book a new one, get accommodation for the dogs. I think she missed the concert she was going to. I guess she made a promise and didn't.

But that sounds like something you dump them for, not something that you take them to court for, you know? Maybe she did do the dumping and she's like, hey, I'm going to double down, take you through the legal system. I think the lesson here is never promise to take anyone to the airport. No. That's the rule of thumb. I remember I took my friend to the airport,

but I was like reasonably new in Auckland, and I went on the wrong motorway. I think I went on the western, heading west. Right. The opposite of direction. Back in the day, that was before the tunnel, so that's not the way you go to the airport. So they miss their flight

tell you what can we play a game we've done this before with us can we get Megan's phone put it in and we'll call someone you have to see say you're landing

and you need to pick up over the weekend and see if they'll pick you up who are you going to call a friendship we won't I mean there's some people we'd like to call

but we probably won't they won't pick me up I wouldn't want them to pick me up what are you saying she's like landing now them to pick me up What are you saying? She's like landing now No maybe just say Oh hey what are you doing this weekend

Because I'm landing Let's say like a real Kind of annoying time Like maybe like 9pm on a Saturday night Yeah that's good Just say hey Like a ride You could also Uber

But don't say that to them Just say Hey 9pm Any chance you could just come out And pick me up That would be really cool Who am I calling? Let's have a think Let's see chance you could just come out And pick me up That would be really cool Who am I calling? Let's have a think

Let's see If you could call But like what if you're A friend Ellie Like if we called Ellie I feel like she She knows I'm not going anywhere She knows my schedule

Intimately Jeez are you that tight That she knows your schedule Yeah Really We chat on the daily Do you? Every day

I know we know where each other are At all times Really? Yeah Staying at one of our bosses You'd probably do it We chat on the daily. Do you? Every day. I know we know where each other are at all times. Really? Yeah. You should stay in one of our bosses. You'd probably do it. She'd kill it. Lana Seale.

That'd be a good one, wouldn't it? Do you know her? We're in different cities. She's not going to be able to pick me up. But you're landing to Christchurch. Oh, yeah. No, Lana's not. She would do it, I reckon.

Well, then let's call her. Okay, you want to test it? Hey, you've got Lana Seale. She works for an opposition radio she's literally our opposition but also like we'll get it all fine that's not like yeah we don't need to okay yeah she hosts the morphing breakfast show okay so when am i arriving 9 p.m tomorrow night yeah saturday night just say robin crush it what am i doing uh i don't know it's your backstory okay i like it he's like it's your backstory but he's making you do it okay sorry i'll help you i'll

help you yeah'll help you here Okay Maybe I'm just going to do Some stupid radio promo Last minute thing That's just popped up Yeah

And I just thought Hey Non-work related Because then work Would pick you up Oh yeah okay Yeah Just going down

For a friend's 40th But why isn't the friend Picking me up Oh fuck I don't know Because it's their 40th They're already on it. Yeah, yeah. And I just realised all the friends will be at the party because I'm arriving late.

And I thought, hey, is there any chance you could just, you're in the neighbourhood? Oh my God. She'll be thinking the whole time. Drop me off and don't take you to the party. She'll be thinking, why is she not taking an Uber or a taxi? But that's good. That's the jeopardy. Okay, here we go.

You're picking up something for Trade Me. It was a pick up only. Dude. What? I'm flying to go. You're picking up something for Trade Me. It was a pick-up only. Dude. What? I'm flying to Christchurch to pick up something. Well, I don't know. I'm trying to help you out here. You're not really working with us here, are you?

Okay, you hit me with whatever you want, and I'll make it work. Okay, you're going down. Friends 40th. Oh, I've got it. Okay. You're having an affair. No! And you can't have any Uber receipts.

No! And so you need some. Yes, this is it. I'm not going to tell her I'm having an affair. No! And you can't have any Uber receipts. No! And so you need some, yes, this is it. I'm not going to tell her I'm having an affair. Okay, all right. You want a friend's party or an affair? Up to you, okay? Either way, you're getting, I just thought maybe if you could pick me up,

that'd be really good. We'll be back after this. Welcome back. What about if it's a surprise party? So my mate can't pick me up And I don't know anyone else who's going Yeah and it's close to It's not payday yet

So you know Okay What's your relationship like with Lana Sewell from More FM? So weirdly I met Lana through Roller Doobie years ago Oh really? Yeah Years ago She's lovely

She's awesome Yeah And then our radio careers kind of It wasn't how we met. Right. So you know each other through a personal hobby. Yeah. So like 10 years ago, maybe?

Okay. So, well, let's pick up status. This is not a new relationship. Do you want to go down a play roller? No. No, I don't. No, I don't play that anymore. Good luck.

Having a torrid affair. Can't have Uber receipts. No one can know. Need to get in and out without anyone knowing. I'm going to show her she doesn't have my number. She's like, who is this? Hello? Hello?

How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm good, thank you. What's happening? Oh, you're just leaving work. Nice. You know how it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bye, sweetie.

See? What are you doing? You sound like you're in a bathroom. Was that Adam? Yes, it was. Oh, bye, sweetie. Yeah, bye, sweetie. How are you?

What's happening? Yeah, yeah, not bad, thank you. Not too bad. Just, yeah, not bad, thank you. Not too bad. Just, yeah, no, just, you know. What are you up to this weekend? I'm going to the Gold Coast, which I'm – do you know Nicole Angel? Nicole, no. She went to broadcasting school around the same time as, like, Reagan and, you know, that crew.

I'm too old for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. so that she anyway she works over there at kiss so we're meeting up oh yeah um when do you get back just out of curiosity sunday you wouldn't be able to like this is what time to get back i'm trying to find a ride from the airport i'm going to christ church and i'm trying to get a ride because I've got like a friend's birthday party, but it's a surprise. And she is the only person I know. So I'm trying to not let her know. Oh, so what time are you?

I'm getting in like at five o'clock on Sunday. I'm at eight. I'm at eight. I'm at eight. But I might be able to, let me see when my flight gets into Auckland because they usually allow way too much time and I might actually end up being earlier. Oh, yeah, I see. We've heard enough.

We have heard enough. You're too lovely, Lana. It's John O'Bien here as well. She was going to change her connecting flight to pick you up from the airport. What a woman. The good news is you don't have to pick her up. You're so lovely. Shit, you're nice.

I've just been like, I can't do it. Maybe I can leave Australia earlier to get back to pick you up from the airport. Why don't you just say take an Uber? But you didn't. Do you know? It was lovely. Oh, no. I'll do that.

Oh, aren't you lovely? Well, you're a better human than we are, mate. We were trying to get her to tell you that she was having an affair, but Megan didn't want to go with that back story. Yeah, yeah. They were like, let's call someone from your phone, and then they found you, and they were like, Lana from an opposition radio station.

Will she pick you up on a whim? And she would. Better person than we are. Lovely. I was like, how can I make this work? I thought, oh, we've got a she pick you up on a whim? She would. Better person than we are. Lovely. I was like, how can I make this work? I thought, we've got a lot to catch up on, so I'm sure we can do it in that car ride. That is remarkable.

You're the best. Willing to change her own travel plans. Wow-wee. You didn't even know what this was and you come out looking like a legend. Oh, my God. Oh, I love you. I guess there's no party on then, eh?

No, no. It was all just a bloody bit of radio filler content, mate. For the podcast as well, too. Like, I don't know why I've made Megan do that, but anyway, we did. Just call me Mother Teresa. Oh, that was beautiful. Hey, well, enjoy the Gold Coast. Safe travels.

Yeah, thanks, guys. See you later. See you, mate. Bye. Well, guys. See you later. See you, mate. Bye. Well, remarkable. There we go. See? We're friends.

Well, you are. See, I wouldn't do that for you. She's like, I do get back up a bit earlier. I'll go and change my mind. I wouldn't do that for probably anyone. No. She's a gem. Unless she's just made up that whole Gold Coast trip,

which would be genius on the spot. I'm going to check her socials this weekend. Yeah, but like, she wasn't in the Gold Coast. That was a whole other level of defence. Beautiful play.

Yeah, well there we go. That is, well that was, yeah, I thought for a while they were going to get into a conversation

that, you know, remember that prank we did years ago with Guy Williams? Oh yeah. And yeah, so we did a hidden camera prank.

Did we tell you about this one? And it was really awkward because we had, one of our our bosses was going to he'd basically been saying some jokes as guy williams does some tweets about one of the shows at tv3 like he'd gone quite hard about it negative stuff so we're like it'd be funny if one of the bosses pulls him in and says hey mate you can't you can't make jokes about one of our shows come in what reality shows we're gonna have to stand you down for a week that was that was the plan and when they were going to come in and go it was a bit of a gag see what guy did uh but our boss started by going well he knew we had we're going to have to stand you down for a week that was that was the plan and when they were going to come in and go i was a bit of a gag see what guy did uh but our boss started by going we knew we had we're filming it but guy didn't he said so hey go on what are you loving about the

show what are you not loving and then so guy started very honest conversation that we were listening to about the things he didn't like about the show and we got to a stage where we're like we can't listen to this anymore this is to be fair fair, knowing Guy, he would have said that to our face as well. But we felt like we were really listening to a conversation that we did not need. Well, could, should be listening to. So we slowly lifted the headphones off and we were all like, okay, what should we do? He doesn't know we're filming. So we just pretend it was just a meeting.

So what did you do? They just kept talking for half an hour while we were trying to go, what do we do? What do we do? Eventually we had to do the right thing. So we're like, hey mate,

so everything you were just saying was on camera. We won't use it. We'll delete it. We didn't look at it. Our boss took a really long way to get to the point of what we had done.

Yeah, that's on your boss. He should have pulled that back and be like, hey, hey, hey, no, no, no. No, no, no, let's not get into that now.

Let's just get into it. Because he knew it was all being filmed yeah he would have been like John O'Mean can hear all of this anyway we'll talk about

the things you don't like later but right now we just want to talk about what did Guy say once you told him there's a little rattle he was he was like

you know when you're like what have I just said what any you replay everything you've just said in your mind and you're like hopefully they didn't hear it

well in this instance it was all recorded and on camera it's like when you go to hang up a phone call what any replay everything you've just said in your mind and you're like hopefully they didn't hear it well in this instance it was all recorded and on camera it's like when you go to hang up a phone call and you haven't done it

and then you have a conversation you're like oh what have I just been talking about imagine that but just on steroids

so it was one of those situations but anyway you guys great great great bit she came out

looking like a bloody angel really backfired on us anyway that's the Wild Web podcast for another week

gonna take a little break