Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 14: The Fisherman

Episode Date: May 8, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone Kia ora, welcome along to the Burner Phone, the JBBP, the Jono and Ben Burner Phone. Now if you like the number and you'd like to leave us a voicemail, that's what this is all about. You can text BURNER PHONE to 4487, the number will be directed straight back to your inbox. Normally I don't like clearing the messages on my iPhone, I don't. But on this one, on the burner phone, I do. Because every day we get a little gem. We don't know what's going to come up. Well, there's just never a good time to clear the voicemails.

There's never a time where you're like, oh, this is my designated clearing voicemails part of the day. Do you love, because there's a button you push, I think it's five or whatever, that you delete. Do you love when someone goes, g'day, Ben, it's Sajo, you beep. You're like, go on. You're like, I don't even know where that went or what it was. They might have been giving me $5 million. G'day, Ben, I'm just going to...

I just want to tell you, we're going to deposit a whole bunch of you. You're coming to an inheritance. You're my last call. I've been kidnapped. Whatever, you know, mate. Just moved on, deleted. Feels like when you're like... The only time I get to be like Simon Cowell on one of those talent shows. deleted feels like when you're like the only time

I get to be like Simon Cowell on one of those talent shows like yeah you're gone because I don't like that I don't like confrontation

I like people and I want people to like me but that's my little secret thing that no one will know about I'm like god

he's a monster he's a monster when it comes to clearing his voicemails the thing is where with AI and where it is at the moment

oh it's all fake now too it's not even my mum. No, exactly. But even like you could go, well, surely there's some bot that can deal with this and go, hey, by the way, Derek has said you've got an inheritance on your voicemail, you know. Let the bot do the hard work. Yeah, true. We don't need to do it, but anyway, we're going to clear some stuff from the voicemail today.

1.31pm. Can I get a home? I 1.31pm. Can I get a message saved? I don't know what that one was. I feel like people much cooler than us say that. What is it? I don't know. It's a saying from something. You know how things become sayings and I don't know. You're not up for the play. I don't know this.

You're not up for the play. Bloody beautiful mate. Oh, is that another one of those say I don't know this. Oh, Ben. Bloody beautiful, mate. Message. Oh, is that another one of those sayings? Two great messages. Great sayings. Yeah, great messages. We're not cool enough to understand them. Yeah.

Received on Friday at 10.39pm. Yeah, g'day. I'm going to read you the Kiwi surfcasting guide by Andrew McLeod. Chapter one. Surfcasting. The ways to approach it. The expert surf caster has accumulated years of experience and the skills and elements of his or her success are many and varied.

What I love about this is it's 10.35 on a Friday night. The best season to target a particular species, best baits for the local area, and where to source them. And he started at chapter one. I'm just Googling how many chapters. In custom-made rigs that have proven themselves. So is this from a book, or is this from like a surfcasting book?

Surfcasting book, yeah. We've got another 22 chapters to go. Proving their fishing, acknowledge their own shortcomings, and tend to ask similar questions. What bait should I use to catch that? This is good. This is my favourite, yeah. We've done a bit of fishing before.

We're not good at it. No, you didn't caught a fish on most occasions, so we ended up making you get one. Yeah, and we went out, just you and me, and we ended up YouTubing how to catch a fish. We were having no luck, and YouTube came to the party. Remember we got to, it was like Matt Watson's boat. For some reason, we got, it seemed like we thought he was coming out with us.

And he lent us his boat. And he was like, no, you guys just take it out there. And we're like, I've never been in control of a boat. You haven't been fishing and caught a fish. He let us drive the boat, didn't he? And then, yeah, he did. He parked it down there, whatever you do. He said, yeah, I don't even know.

Put it in the water. Remember that? And then he came running back. He's like, you didn't put the bung in. It was filling up with water. Yeah, we reversed the boat in. I thought we'd done a pretty bang up job of backing the boat in. But yeah, no, he was quite panicked then.

Yes. But then he was like, all right, away you go. We're like, okay. So we went out there, just the two of us in the ocean. We YouTubed how to put fishing line, how to put a hook on a fishing line. And we ended up, I think I got like a fish. I think we threw it back because it was on but it was like hey we caught a fish it was like a great moment it was like tom hanks and castaway one of those moments it was beautiful but and just going back to that bung thing like that's on matt watson yeah you put

the bung in don't send us out there without the bung and you plug the bung in but yeah it was a fun day and he was very generous with his time, wasn't he? He was. But not as generous as he could have been if he'd come out with us. Which probably seemed like, in hindsight, the sensible option. Maybe someone had told him we knew what we were doing. We clearly didn't. The thing with fishing, and all of my friends are in, a lot of my friends are hunter-gatherers. That's their jam.

I'm not. They'll go missing in the in the bush for two weeks you know happily hunting things and living off the land but it's not my thing but when i do go out with them i'm kind of playing a more spectator just looking after the heinekens yeah well i can imagine before he plays into your sweet spot i feel like you can have a drink at one time of the day i don't have the patience to just sit there with a rod but yeah well i find what sometimes you just put it in a holder and you have a bit, you know, like it's fine.

And then you're like, I got a fish. You know, that's beautiful. Like if you're hanging out with people, you want to hang out, it's fun. The thing is when you've got a fish and then you have to take the hook out of its mouth and it's wiggling going, what am I doing? This is not my normal environment. You know, you're freaking out. And I'm like, it's all slimy.

And then you've got to gut them. No, I like having a little rag or something to hold the fish with. Just sometimes a little bit spiky and stuff just to get it out. But I'll do it. It's not my happy place, but I'll do it. We've lost a lot of credit. I don't know if there's voicemail still going. They're high tide to be sold to fish.

They hope that there might be some answers that would lead them to becoming... We've lost a lot of credibility with this man. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this. Although in Chapter 3, I'll offer a few ways not to do this. Oh, this is good. This is so good. And that just goes to prove that you can leave whatever message you like on the burner phone, and we will try and come up with an angle for it. There's always fish in the sea, isn't it,

when it comes to talking about content, Ben? Yes, right. We hooked something up there, and I don't know if you've got anything else you'd like to add to surfcasting, fishing, boating. Is there anything else? No, I think we've covered a lot of bases, as normal, and we'll just take us out on some more from the book. Okay, here we go.

Inquisitive, analytical nature, required to improve and ultimately succeed. Surfcasting strategies. How long has this gone for? 22 minutes. and ultimately succeed. Surf casting strategies. To my mind... How long has this gone for? 22 minutes. Jeez, that's come up and well done. All right, well, thank you very much

for listening to The Burner Phone. We'll be back tomorrow. See ya. ...thoughtful and dedicated approach to surf casting, full stop.