Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 19: Graham Norton ...

Episode Date: May 14, 2023

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Maybe actually should we clear our personal voicemail? Oh, yeah, go and be a mad dog, man. I think I just did mine over the weekend actually. I haven't done it in ages. I'll bank some up. I love it Oh, you're going to be a mad dog, man. I think I just did mine over the weekend, actually. I haven't done it in ages. I'll bank some up. I love it, too, when you're like, hey, it's such and such. Then you just go straight to that number five. Straight to number five. Delete. Straight to

five. I'm going to... I think by now, if it was from two months ago, you would have got hold of me. Five. Whatever message you've given me you have no messages to send a message oh i don't even have any messages oh mate you've done it you're all over it all right to be honest i'm not that popular when it comes to my phone the only people i communicate with on my phone regularly you producer b hubs joel our other producer and my wife jen

yeah sometimes ann Annie my mum calls Oh yeah You love your You talk to your mum quite often Don't you Yeah I talk to her regularly My kids now too I get a lot

You know Now that they've both got phones For you know security And you know going out and about And just being able to contact them They're pretty good I don't know what your kids Are like at texting

But Oscar my son Very abrupt Okay when I will say like Hey mate, mate, how's school been today? Have you had a good day? Good. Oh, you text him at school. So that's your thing. No one wants your dad pestering him.

I said, hey, man, I'm just going to finish this. I'll be picking you up soon. He's just gone, ALR. All right. Oh, yeah. ALR. Yeah. Very minimal comms.

Yeah. I think, you know, boys, boys too. You know, like generally not always the best in that sort of communication vibe. Yeah, they aren't. Anyway, we're going to clear the burner phone message today. Let's have a listen. Who's left one? Next new voice message received today at 10.33 a.m.

Hi, gentlemen. Ben, it's Hamish here. I'm a Kiwis in Australia so actually you've got an international phone call here I was wondering if Jono could finish off his Red Chair story that he never finished on Grand Mountain

back in I think 2016 or 2017 Thanks very much Thanks, this is Hamish Bye I couldn't get the last part of that but you want to just finish Thank you very much. Thanks. This is Saj. Bye. I couldn't get the last part of that. But you want to just finish the great thing?

Thank you. Firstly, hello to our international audience of one. We'll take that. We'll take that. Yeah, that's great. That's great. We've got John. We haven't heard from John for a while. John the Kiwi.

Is John the Kiwi still with us? In Portland. He's our U.S. correspondent. We like to talk to him from time to time. thank you for listening to we actually caught up we had a coffee with John when he was here we did John from Portland so you read chair story um so she's but do we all have you ever said I can't remember was it good because you want to use the story of was it the circumcised one but it wasn't was that what you were going to use but do you want to say it or not I don't mind saying it yeah I don't mind saying it

but it was your story eh yeah it was I was a friend of no I'll be pretty honest it was your I had to borrow one of your stories because I didn't have a story

yeah but we can just talk through that that's fine yeah no I never got to I never got the chance to tell my story on the red chair this was many years ago

if you're new to the the burner phone Ben and myself went on Graham Norton's red chair it was a pretty surreal experience. There was an amazing lineup of people on that night. On the couch, there was Tom Cruise.

There was Emily Blunt. There was Charlize Theron. Seth MacFarlane, who's a creative family guy, was on there. Coldplay. Graham Norton. Yeah, I mean, this was an amazing couch. And we were standing backstage with a whole lot of people about to go on the red chair. We'd been part of that, and there was no guarantees that whatever we said was going to make the edit,

was going to get on telly. Because all we needed was a shot of us on the red chair for something we were filming, and the Graham Norton production team, they couldn't have been more welcoming. They were very, we were like, why are you being so nice anyway? They were lovely. And so you were on there first, Jono, always comes before Ben, and we decided, like everything, we were in matching sort of uniforms, our sort of uniforms that looked kind of like prep school uniforms,

I guess, school uniforms that we were wearing. Like an elitist privileged school. Yeah. As you sat down on the chair, Seth MacFarlane from Family Guy, he had the sort of lever that could flip you backwards. And he just said, as soon as you sat down, he went, hey, nice prep school uniform. After pretty much you'd said, hi, Graham.

And then he flipped you straight away. Didn't even hear anything. No. And so then after he just said, nice prep school uniform, I had to sit in directly after you wearing a nice prep school uniform i had to sit in directly after you wearing a nice prep school uniform yeah so i quickly took my put my blazer off and save my mom into safe face but it brought the house down i did it she got a good laugh actually that just taking a jacket off got a good laugh and then i said hey because he was doing a movie about sheep i was like hey we've

come from new zealand uh we love we heard about the sheep and he's like all right let this guy talk so i got to say my story which is actually a true story about how i accidentally put We come from New Zealand. We heard about the sheep and he's like, all right, let this guy talk. So I got to say my story, which is actually a true story about how I accidentally put super glue in my granddad's eye. It was on top of the fridge. I grabbed it and thinking it was the eye ointment that he was meant to have and then realized too late. But, you know, why are they keeping one next to the other?

I know, and they look very similar. In your defense. As soon as people were panicking around and going, what's going on? I was like, man, they look like I was trying to show everyone. They're like, not now. Like this, yes, we get it, but can we just deal? Look at this.

And he was like, I can't see. How can I look at this? Look at this. See, they're the same. So that's, yeah. He's like, that's not bringing me any comfort right now. So I got to tell my story, got to the end of the story. But then Seth MacFarlane still flipped me.

I didn't get to walk. I didn't get to walk holding my head up high. I found the interesting thing,, got to the end of the story, but then Seth MacFarlane still flipped me. I didn't get to walk. I didn't get to walk holding my head up high. I found the interesting thing too about the reed chair is when you get flipped, the producers say, listen, the flipping's not as violent as it appears on TV. So you actually, you have to kick your legs up so it looks like you've been thrusted back at a high rate of knots. Kind of fall on some sort of soft sort of airbed type thing behind you.

Yeah, then you get rolled off and then back out the back, kicked out the back, and that's the cruel, harsh world of telling a story on the red chair. But, you know, I never got to tell my story in full transparency. I don't think we've talked about this, have we? I didn't even have a good story, so I was thankful that Seth flipped me. I had to borrow your story. Which was a friend's story, actually.

Which is you borrowed this story. Now, your story, your friend's story which is you borrowed this story now uh your story your friend's story actually was a at a 21st birthday where a mother was giving a speech about her son lovely heartfelt speech and she had a locket around her neck didn't she that she'd been wearing with a photo of her son and be wearing it for for you know since he was born as a baby it was really cute she opened it up in front of everyone she's like oh here's the locker i carry this around i wear this around my neck everyone's like oh she's like and on the other side and she held up this little piece of something everyone's like what's what's that she's like hey it's his foreskin from when he was circumcised as a baby is that what everyone thought hey no, that's a baby foreskin right there.

She explained what it was. Yeah, but yeah, so that was the story, the fact that you were going to basically take the story and roll with it, which I think would have got a good response. It would have, yeah. But you never got that far to tell the story. So that's the story you were going to tell because I think at the time we didn't realise

we were going to be on the red chair so we were like, oh, sorry, we've got to walk some stairs. We started panicking. Yeah, and so there were a couple of stories that we liked and we were about to get to, but never got to tell that one.

Just back to the mother, like what was the connection? Obviously. I think it was carrying a little bit of her son around. Well, we could have kept a bit of umbilical cords. Well, yeah, true, but I guess, great moment though. I mean, I feel like, do you find that as a father I think it was carrying a little bit of her son around well he could have kept a bit of umbilical cords well yeah true but I guess great moment though

I mean I feel like do you find that as a father that every now and again you go oh that's a good video that's a good photo for the 21st

I don't know if I'll ever use any of these or go through as well but now I'm like oh yeah that's a great moment for your 21st you know to embarrass your kids

and to them it's a long way off but for you you're like oh this will come back and haunt you. I've got some stuff. Because even them, the kids, you know.

And as I did as well, you look back at the old stuff, you're like, oh, jeez, look at me. So you're like, hey, and the technology is there now. I can use CapCut. I can make this into a video. I can edit a video together, mate. Oh, you just wait when my kids turn 21. You should just start a montage video and just keep adding new little clips to it. There's another one for the montage.

Stop it, Dad. So that's the story. If you want to leave us a message, you can do so. Just text. We've got an outro now. Oh, sorry. Listen to this. You can shush your sweet lips because.

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