Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 16: The Sam Wallace Incident...

Episode Date: May 9, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone. every day. And as John has said, you can leave us a message anytime you want. We'll clear one a day. And who knows where it will lead at a couple of days ago. Yeah, Noel, hold on. You're just saying, I just never know what the message is going to be. And now you're about to say what the message is going to be. So you're going to allude to the fact that you already know the message. Until the day off. What's today's message we're about to say? We're not that unorganized.

We're not going to go through 96 messages. So the one we've got today, the one we have just cleared, and we're going to play to you. Which he knows about. Yeah, which I know about. But I don't know about any others. But the one I do know about right now. And he never knows where this conversation is going to lead.

No, I don't. I don't know where it's going to end up. But it involves Sam Wallace, who works on Coast Radio Station. He used to be here on The Hits. You'll know him. Sam the Weatherman, who's been on TV, Aotearoa 10-7 as well. He left us a message because we spoke about him on the burner phone, and this is the message that he left.

Today at 8.26 a.m. Hey, good day, guys. Sam Wallace here. Hey, I've just heard that you guys have been retelling a story, and it sounds like some of the details might be a little bit skew-whiff. Could you please, I would just like to clear a few things up. So it seems we have made, in these situations, I'm like, am I retelling the story that I've heard,

or have I created a whole other story from bits of information that I've heard? I was with you, though. I was recounting the story as well. The amount of people I've told this story to. Yeah, so let's give him a call. Obviously, we've got details wrong. So let's give him a call and hopefully he'll answer. Who knows where this will lead to?

Well, I don't know with you now. Maybe you've scripted this whole thing. We'll go through to Sam Wallace now. Hello. Sam! It's John Owen being here, mate. How you doing? Oh, God, it always worries me when you guys call.

What are you up to? Full transparency, Sam knew we were going to call him as well. But he's worried about it right now. We got your message to say that we may have got some details wrong in a story that we told about you on the burner phone. Okay. All right. All right.

Give me more information and I'll try and clear it up for you. Okay. So the story we heard. Sam Wallace, Sam the Weatherman, traveling around the country broadcasting the nation's weather. You're in a hotel room. Steamy conditions. You've had a shower. Yeah.

The steam from the shower has set off a fire alarm or something in your hotel room. You've jumped out of the shower, not an ounce of clothing on you, dripping wet. You've hopped up on a table or a chair or something with your towel, trying to cover the fire noise, the fire alarm or the sprinkler. See what you can do. But you're butt naked, no clothes on, but as you say, your hands are in the air, you're fossicking with the fire alarm,

the smoke detector on the roof, standing on a stool or something as the door opens. What happens there, Jono? The 14 hotel staff walk in. We didn't know 14. He's now exaggerating it. But hotel staff walk on in, fire extinguishers. They're ready to go. They well know what's

going on. You're fully naked, all on display. We said on the podcast the other day, you're a weatherman. It was a full frontal. And that's the story that we, I don't know where we've concocted it from. But is any part of that true? This is

annoying because I haven't even remembered the story. But guys, that story is about spot on. But can I try and clear it up a little bit? Yeah, of course. It wasn't on my days of weather. It was actually, I was down in Taupo for my brother-in-law's wedding, and we were staying on the lakes of Taupo in an apartment that had a spa in the bedroom. Ooh!

Yeah, yeah, which sounds super romantic, other than I've got a one-year-old baby with me at the time. So it's a drowning hazard. Yeah, so it wasn't great. And anyway, me and the missus were having a spa with our little baby at the time, Brando, who was only one. And yeah, the spa in the room was hot and steamy. And we set off the thing.

And I was in the nuts, you know, as you do when you, you know, just with your wife. Oh, you're in your privacy of your hotel room, I understand. The alarm did indeed go off and um and i was i moved this year and i stood there and i was trying to turn the the alarm off from the top and the door opened up with two of the hotel owners so there wasn't 14 people and i literally had my hands on the roof with my tiny little fire hose hanging out with nothing to do. So, yeah, I can confirm you are speaking truth. There's a few minor deets that we've got wrong,

but for the most part, the story is true. Now, what is the first thing you say to people as they're at the front door? What are you saying? Look, I was so exposed at that point. I didn't have a lot to say, and I was actually beyond caring. I don't even think I bothered to cover up. I just stood there like a man that had given into his fate. I was just like, oh, I'm sorry.

I'm here in the nude, and there you are. And they shut the door as soon as they realized that it wasn't a fire, and we walked away, and I looked at my wife and said, this story is going to reappear somewhere. And here we are. And here it is. So did the hotel say anything the next day, maybe when you're checking out or anything? No, that was never spoken of again.

It was just a known glance. We know too much about Sam. Tiny little fire hose. You should have been like, what monster's put a spa pool in a room? It's got a smoke detector. It's got to get steamy. Surely that's happened before.

Yeah, well, I don't know. The way they entered the room, it looks like I was the only fool that's ever set it off. Well, Sam, thank you. Wonderful story. What a great story. Thank you for letting us tell it.

And thank you for the clarification. Some minor corrections, but for the most part, we're pretty good. You've done well. I thought there was going to be way more inaccuracies from you, but on this occasion, you guys were spot on. Well done.