Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 107: Buying and Selling Gold...

Episode Date: November 7, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone your podcasts where's the strangest place you've got a podcast from well there's not many options you just go to the main providers do you yeah yeah there's obviously you can get it through iHeartRadio which is great and other other places you can get because iHeartRadio is the company one yeah that's he's played the company yeah i don't know i don't know other places you where have you got where can you get podcasts uh i i listen to an unusual uh podcast on a web through a website oh yeah sometimes you can click on those ones Can't you? I can't even remember, what was it for?

Oh it was about guys who buy And sell gold And a very specific podcast And it popped up On the side ads on a website If you want to get into the gold game And I did, i got click baited and uh yeah it was a very special uh specific podcast you want to buy gold at the end of it

or not really it made me go my honest uh takeaway from it was this seems like a lot of effort for not much return right it seems like you're investing a lot of time and uh you might get a speck of gold oh yeah my friend my friend Mark was going to traipse through the hills of the Coromandel looking for gold. Yeah. Panning gold. People still do it. But I think it'll be long, long days with not much result. Oh, so it was actually going to find the gold?

Yeah. Oh, it wasn't like, hey, invest in a company. We've got the gold. You can invest in it and hopefully it'll go up in value. This is you getting your hands dirty. No, no, not really for me. we've got the gold you can invest in it and hopefully it'll go off in value this is you getting your hands dirty no no not really for me did some gold panning

at Shandy Town and stuff back in the day it was a school trip did you get any gold? you get like little specks I think they put a few they're probably glitter or something like that

I'm not sure they're little specks and it's cool and you get to take it it was a fun little thing you get to take it home in a little almost like a little

eyedrop sort of container full of you know some water and some some specks it was definitely glitter oh well hey it was fun it was fun for a school trip you know it's a panning for gold but uh what's the most valuable thing you think you've got most valuable sort of heirloom or something that you've uh i don't know i mean i don't know maybe oh amanda my my wife uh she's got a you an all black top. That was her granddad's. He was in a jersey, like an actual jersey that they played in. Not the state of the art Adidas ones they play in nowadays.

No, like a woolen jersey and a cap. When they got their cap as well, they got the all black cap as well. So that's in their homes, in the frame. So, I mean, I don't know what that's worth. Not that she's ever going to sell it, but it's, you know, that's probably something valuable, I imagine, if you wanted to. The rugby museum might like that at some point. Yeah, we could do.

But you could sell it to them? Yeah. Okay, what circumstances would you sell the top? Oh, look, it's not really mine to sell, to be fair. It's not mine to sell. Okay, you're out of work. I'm not, like, wearing it to support the All Blacks on Sunday and stuff like that, too, either.

I'm like, oh, I've got to check that on. Although the vintage stuff's all in vogue right now, right? It is. Yeah, well, mind you, that's very vintage. What's that, 1930s? Yeah, it's very early. So, yeah. I'd say the most valuable thing, well, it's not I don't own it,

but I think I might get it one day, is my mum's got a little gold rugby ball. Her father was involved in rugby. But I don't think the All Black level, but certainly South Island Canterbury representative. She's got a little gold ball. Like a full size or just a little pendant sort of thing? Just a little, yeah, no, not a full size gold.

A Shantytown gold sort of thing or not? Yeah, probably like the size of, you know those mini caramel, caramello Easter eggs? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's about that shape of gold. That's cool. And you want to tell me what circumstances I'd sell that under? Yeah, any. You're like, pay for parking. And you want to know what circumstances I'd sell that under? Yeah, any. You're like,

pay for parking. Whatever you want, I'll give this to you. Burger King, Burger King, McDonald's, if I need money, I'll sell that one. Yeah, now the bird of phone.

As always, we like to clear a message, and here is today's one. So, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, there we go, to short and quick. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, there we go. Just short and quick.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, you'd have to assume. It's always that saying, isn't it? What comes first, the chicken or the egg? But it isn't the egg. You'd have to assume the egg. But then I think... Because the chicken comes out of the egg.

I think you get yourself into a loop, though, don't you? How was the egg created? It was created by a chicken, and then the chicken, the egg, and I think it's one of those ones that goes over and over and over again. You know, YouTube will have an answer to this. Yeah, look it up. But I think it is one of those ones because you're always like, well, the egg provided the chicken, but then the chicken provided, yeah, it does get you into one of those loop situations.

Yeah, it's pretty safe to say, this is according to BBC. It's pretty safe to say the egg came first. Well, that's what you think, right? No egg, no chicken. But then... Oh, but then... Unless it was made in a lab, how did the egg get created? Could it only get created...

Back in the day, they wouldn't have labs to create eggs. Well, they are saying that birds evolved from reptiles. Oh, so the reptile came first. Safe to say that the first bird hatched from an egg that was laid by a reptile. Okay. That was similar to, but not quite a bird itself.

And then obviously the birds hooked up with other birds. I get that there's sort of evolution and all that sort of stuff. They evolved over time. But then why do we still, why did that stop? What, the evolution? Yeah, well, like, like okay let's say whatever it is uh i'm gonna say a llama hooked up with a horse and became a giraffe or whatever you know and they're all whatever their necks evolved and stuff so why we still have the original animals

why isn't it all just like well they're gone we just got we've only got two species now because they've evolved into into two of the most dominant species i don't a question. But yeah, I don't know why there's different... It's like we're... You know, there's humans saying we come from, you know, through monkeys and apes and stuff. But we've still got monkeys and apes. So how does... When did that go? Oh, yeah.

Well, sweet. We'll carry on this way. You guys keep staying. Oh, why don't they become extinct? Yeah. The ones that don't. Yeah. Like you've played your part in the role of...

Yeah. I don't know. But anyway played your part in the role of just yeah i don't know but anyway that's that's probably a hypothetical question for another day yeah like i mean why aren't dinosaurs still around yeah wasn't there a nice age oh yeah but yeah that's right so that's yeah so i just tried to chime in with some banter there but you're right you're right i'm just like well what yeah surely the the new breed of whatever it is will take over but it'd be the dominant species and the rest of it will go. But I don't know. I don't know. There's probably a reason why.

That's a very deep, deep, deep question. It's quite deep. I don't know. How would I Google that? Let me just go. Yeah. Why do species not become extinct? Well, there you go.

So the greatest threat to something becoming extinct is the widespread destruction of that particular species habitat. All right. Oh, okay, like the dinosaurs got the Ice Age. Yeah, so there you go. The polar bears and the ice and things like that. Obviously the monkeys have had a pretty good run of it out there in the forest.

They've been able to thrive. And we've had a great run of it out there in the forest. Yeah. You know, they've been able to thrive. Yeah. And we've had a great run of it out here, destroying the planet. Yeah, that's true. True. So that's why that's – but that's the simple explanation. Okay, that's good to know. You learn something every day, and that's something we learned today.

How do you think you would have gone caveman days? Not great, really. No. No. I mean, that was your only option. I guess you just gotta You'd lose some stuff Yeah to do some stuff

You know Yeah I wouldn't say you'd be Talking about all of it Like what you know now You wouldn't be going And go oh yeah Guess what I just

Do whatever Yeah you're just your Raw skill Whatever to survive Yeah Okay How would you go Because you had to catch

Animals with your bare hands Ben Yeah with all sorts Wouldn't you You'd have to go You know eat whatever Do whatever Just to survive. Honestly, if we are ever in any form of disaster,

like stuck out at the ocean for weeks on end, I'm a goner. Yeah. I am a goner. You know, someone like an experienced fisher person. Yeah. Fisher person, is that what we call them? I think so, yeah. Someone who enjoys fishing.

Yeah. No matter who they uh affiliate themselves with yeah they would do much better than i i wouldn't be able to like oh let me get a string and yeah yeah but i suppose if you're out there you got nothing else to do you're trying to have just sole focus yeah yeah that's true that's your sole focus i don't think you'd be but we wouldn't be as good as people who have obviously done a lot of that sort of stuff before who was the uh the guy and he's stuck out there on a dinghy with a tiger, that movie? Oh, was that The Life of Pi?

That's right. Yeah, The Life of Pi. He did well. He was managing a lot. Yes, yeah. Because he came off a boat, hey, and there was travelling animals to a zoo, and ended up with a bloody tiger in the dinghy. Yeah, I know.

Nightmare. Yeah. Tom Hanks did all right in Castaway, didn't he? He survived. Yeah, he did. A long time, actually, when I watched that movie the other day and a long long time he survived um yeah when you started talking to the volleyball yeah you're going a bit crazy through parts of it you know things are taking a turn when you're talking to a volleyball it's

amazing how emotionally attached you got as a viewer watching that movie and the volleyball you know when you lost wilson you're like at the end of the day that's just a volleyball but what it meant to him through that thing you're like oh yeah it was like Wilson and he's swimming after it

it's quite a dramatic scene really it's just it's a volleyball mate it's a volleyball mate Rebel Sport will be having a sale exactly you can go down there but you became really attached to that

I mean it helped him you know through that the character obviously that's truly a testament to Tom Hanks' acting acting ability and Wilson's too and Wilson could have Hanks' acting Acting ability And Wilson's too And Wilson

Could have been an Academy Award Best Supporting Actor Wilson Cast away That says a lot about Tom Hanks Doesn't it That he He managed to pull in

An Academy Award Just acting with a volleyball Yeah That's That's really Certain your dominance In the acting world isn't it Hey well thank you so much

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