Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 33: THE LAST EVER EPISODE..

Episode Date: June 7, 2023

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Welcome to the Burner Phone. A little rattled, aren't we, as a team, Ben? Yeah, we got today's message off. Actually, we got today's message off yesterday from the Burner Phone. In the last 24 hours, Producer Joel, what's happened to the Burner Phone? I'm actually just watching it live out the window. Ben Humphrey, he's throwing beanbags around the place. He's flipping the office outside. Yeah, out the window Ben Humphrey, he's throwing beanbags around the place He's flipping the office outside

Yeah, this is producer Ben Humphrey So what happened was Joel, 22 year old Joel Left the burner phone There's no series without the burner phone Left it, where did you leave it? 23, sorry, just correct you first In between my desk

And former producer Ben Humphries desk as well he lost his job over this yeah and look he's had a few phone difficulties

and hopefully you can't hear this but he's been interchanging it with his sim card and he's like are you sure we should leave it there

I was like no dramas no one's going to steal a sim card so he did the classic so are you sure you should leave it there and you went

yeah it's fine so you put it on a location come you went, yeah, it's fine. So you put it in a location. Come in here, Producer B-Humps, who's out there looking for it. You put the burner phone in a location. Producer B-Humps, who's just walking in, let's get your version of events. You said to him. We know where the phone is.

It's the SIM card, which is about a one centimeter SIM card is the problem. And you said, are you sure you want to leave it there? Yes. So it was above, on a little shelf above his desk. Right at people's elbows height. So when they come over, you know, as we mentioned,

Joel is the conversation king and a lot of people swing by Joel's desk for a natter each day. And it's at the perfect height that people lend their elbow. And I thought to myself, are you sure this isn't going to get swiped off onto the carpet and vacuumed up? So this is where we're at.

We've got one more message left on the burner phone. And that's it. Well, people can still technically leave messages, right? Well, you might have somebody to clear them by calling an answer or a number. You can put my phone number out there. I'm happy to sacrifice my good phone number for the burner phone.

You can text burner phone to 4487 and we'll fire back a number. And like you say Ben, I'm pretty sure you can still retrieve the messages. Can't you? So, hi drama. And, Joel, like the amount of tiny little camera SD cards he's misplaced over the years. I'm sure you lost one yesterday. Never lost

one. Tuesday morning you had a little incident with another one, didn't you? We've had a few moments of stress panic, but I've never lost one. And I wouldn't say this is a loss, it's missing. We'll keep you up to date with the Burner Phone SimCut. In the meantime, potentially

our last message on the Burner Phone. ...received today at 10.14am. Hey, John and Ben. So I know you guys are doing the Big Time Now, XTV Stars, big radio hosts. And I just wanted to know what your first part-time job was back when you were laying the groundwork, young guns.

Would love to know. Thank you. There we go. First job. I'll hand it over to you, Ben. Well. The one I think you're going to mention, I don't know if it was your first job.

No, it wasn't. The plug factory. That was a summertime job through, yeah, through a summer at broadcasting school. I did that. So you're working in PDL, the plug factory, assembling parts of electronic plugs, which to be fair,

I didn't know what parts I was doing with them. You'd just get a big box and your day would be basically connecting these two things and putting them in another box and you'd have a quota system of how many you needed to meet and I was slow.

I was really slow. Were you holding up the production line? Yeah, and there was this lovely guy who would sit next to me, he'd come over and he'd help me out. He'd be like, I've got through on mine. I'll help you out, which was lovely.

I always remember that being very nice for him because I was like, oh, mate, sorry, I haven't got my quota today. Well, that poor guy's probably lost his job by now. Oh, yeah. Thanks to AI and technology. You're probably right. Imagine there's machinery to put the assembly of plugs in. Yeah, so that was the job that I did by hand.

It was from a guy I used to play cricket with in the cricket team. He was like, do you want a job? And he had a team he was like you had a job and he had a call like he had a job in a company car i know it was like yeah i love the world the plug industry mate plug me in yeah and then he was like great and then he was like you're sitting over there you're doing that i was like oh i thought i was going to hang out with you mate like wolf of wall street sort of thing but what was this problem with the plug game i wasn't entirely. I think it was marketing and, you know, something, you know. You're like, what's it called? What's it called?

No, no, you're down on the front line, mate. I was getting a company car and everything. But that was all right. How long did you stick at it for? I think about six or seven weeks. I think I was doing it daily, daily. You know, and it was, yeah. I used to listen to a lot of radio sport, I remember.

Yeah. I suppose it'd be quite good to chuck on a podcast. Yeah, you could chuck on stuff and just listen to that. I'd listen to a lot of Radio Sport was how I'd get through my day and stuff. So if I went back through the Inland Revenue records, that would be Benjamin Boyce's first paid gig? Well, probably not the first paid gig, but that was probably one that I remember. I did a few other, you know, and you do other holiday jobs.

I worked with my dad, used to be headmaster of schools, so you'd work, you know help out the ground staff and work over the holidays things like that yeah you know lots of things like that mowed lawns around the neighborhood when I was younger a lot of a lot of things like that my first job I remember uh Terry our neighbor Terry ran a sign writing business from home so out the back of his house in his garage and shit he had a sign writing business and his the big gig of the year for terry amongst other things he was a very very good award-winning sign writer big gig was he would make the asb tennis classic all the players names oh wow he would put them on core flutes so you'd have you know little bits of core flute that they would slide into the sign at

the court so you'd be like um you know cornicoournikova taking on Meriton and Ovila. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if that last one was a, might have been a combination. And so my job was to put the, put the names on the, Were they stickers

or were they painted? Like stickers. So you stick them on and you squeegee them on and then you have to peel them off. Gotcha, yeah. Nowadays again, you know,

RIP to that job. Probably done digitally now. Oh, it probably is actually. Although I did see a guy putting up a poster the other day for the musical Hamilton. They were out and about by hand. It was amazing how quick they do it. Oh, the street ones. Yeah.

They did like four sections of a big poster. And then he sort of just, it was kind of almost wet. And it kind of smoothed it out. And it had no sort of lines in it. I went up and had a look afterwards. It was really impressive. I expected his work. I was like crease he'd be bloody great at jury sealing oh no that's what i thought geez if that was still a thing do you know the uh the my one fond memory

of doing that uh amateur sign writing work uh was there was a player's name called fanny so f-a-n-i oh yeah schmella yeah oh right yeah and that made me oh that way i was there right in the demographic to have a little smile on my face there i could see you making joke ones too like i can see you making you know dick hurts yeah welcome to the court dick yeah i know but i. But I got to go along and watch the tennis too. Oh, that's cool. Because it was relentless. Because you didn't deliver all the signs at once because all the players aren't confirmed up until all week.

You're just running back and forth, core flute signs. No one ever gave a shout out to the core flute sign people. Yeah. Well, that's the Burnaphone today. Maybe the last. Could be the last one. You're right. If you want to leave

you can still leave messages so do so and we might see if we can try and clear one tomorrow if you want to join the burner phone podcast text burner phone

to 4487 and we'll send you our digits you could be on tomorrow's episode