Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 40: Naughty Words On Radio..

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

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This is our burner phone where you can leave us a message if you want the number it's an actual phone that exists you can just text burner or burner phone to 4487 we'll flick you back the number

and the text message and you can give us a call leave any message you want Now do you remember your burner phone numbers etc etc do you remember your old landline number? Can you remember it? Yeah, I think so.

I think I can remember my old... Yeah. I don't know if it's still in use. Oh, no, that'll be a reception, isn't it? Oh. Oh, it's ringing. So it's still It's amazing how numbers just

Yeah Ingrain Themself Hello We are not available now Oh Please leave your name And phone number

After the beep We will return your call Wow my new house My old house Is owned now by a posh Sounding robot Yeah There you go

It's amazing So you can still remember Your old number when you were a child? For 06, yeah. Yeah. 06. Yeah. Only one. I hadn't thought of it for many years until you just said that.

I was like, yeah, I think I do. But, yeah. When you're like, in your head, you're like, I don't need that information anymore. Let's get rid of that and put some new stuff in. Yeah. But it is kind of in there. But you're right. It'd be nice if you could sort of delete stuff from your memory and then sort of file the new stuff as well, you know? Yeah. But it doesn't really work like that, but it is kind of in there. But you're right, it'd be nice if you could sort of delete stuff from your memory

and then sort of file in new stuff as well, you know? Yeah. But it doesn't really work like that, does it? A lot of stuff we talk about for three hours a morning, I'm like, well, geez, 98% of that could probably go. Yeah, and then you read something, you're like, I really should have retained this other than the lyrics to a Hootie and the Blowfish song or something, you know?

But it's there. It's what amazing what is ingrained into your into your mind hootie and the blowfish though that should always live on in our minds so darius rucker is a singer is singer he's a very successful uh country artist now hugely successful uh he's got a great version of wagon wheel that's that's really really popular and some other songs as well so yeah we're the blowfish man i'm not sure i don't know if he was hooty and they were the bloke i don't know but yeah i imagine out the front if he's singing he's hooty right

well you yeah wasn't there another weedy little guy with long hair there was some yeah yeah it was it was yeah it was it was darius rucker and some weedy other guys yeah wasn't it the blowfish but a very iconic band for a while there. Tough work being in a band. Yeah. Isn't it? Particularly if you're performing with the likes of Chris Martin. You'd walk past all members of Coldplay in the street, wouldn't you?

Apart from Chris Martin. Well, you probably would, unless you're a super fan of Coldplay. You're right. Yeah. But maybe that's quite good. Marin Fyfe. Yeah. Adam Levine and the other team.

Yeah. And the other guys. Maybe that's good, though. Maybe that's what you. Marin Fyfe, Adam Levine and the other team. And the other guys. Maybe that's good though. Maybe that's what you want. Maybe, you know. You get the spoils of your rock star life, but you also get the privacy of... Yeah.

Yeah. Actually, that's probably the way you want to go. Maybe. Maybe for some people that would be a preferred option. Other people would like the fame and the limelight. Because, I mean, they're probably looking at Adam Levine like, oh, this guy's getting roasted for sliding into DMs of ladies. Bass player, he could be sliding all over the place.

Wouldn't even have a clue. The people he's sliding into wouldn't even know what he does for a job. What we do every day on this is we clear a message that you leave us. If you want to leave us one, text 4487, and it'll fire back the burner phone number for you. But here is today's. Yeah, g'day, John and Ben. Look, I really want to work in radio.

And, look, I've got an absolutely filthy mouth, so I was just wondering what sort of words you can and can't use on air. And have you lads ever dropped a few stinky air bombs on the radio or anything like that? But, yeah, no, if you could answer that, that would be bloody marvellous. Cheers, boys. Good. Great question. Great question.

I think, firstly, thank you for wanting to get into radio. It's lovely to hear, you know, a younger generation knowing what radio is and wanting to aspire to it. It's an interesting thing. That's right. And it's going to be a younger generation knowing what radio is and wanting to aspire to it. It's an interesting thing. That's right. And it's going to be around for years to come. You hope so. Yeah, I hope I don't have to remove the S off that years to come.

A year to come. I mean, it's like anything. It's all transitioning, isn't it? Like any industry, it's transitioning. And how people digest content is a lot different. Podcasts, obviously, getting bigger and bigger these days. Well, we do this, whatever this is every day. Yeah, it's a podcast.

Yeah, so have you said... Yeah, there is a whole lot of words. I mean, most of the words that you can't say on radio are pretty obvious. I'm going to chuck some out to you. If you want to, you can. Boobies. I think you'd be okay saying that, depending on the context. Sometimes it's context... You have a nice set of boobies I think you'd be okay saying that depending on the

context sometimes it's context you have a nice set of boobies you probably can't say well I'm talking to you okay mate you'd probably get away

with that I imagine but hey I'm not broadcasting standards authority so you know it takes one person to complain a lot of it to be honest

if we want to really pull back the curtain get the real Jono and Ben here a lot of it to be honest is in context so if the pull back the curtain, get the real Jono and Ben here, a lot of it, to be honest, is in context. So if the audience, for example, I just plucked this station out of thin air, listen to The Rock,

and they hear the word shit. You wouldn't hear that on the hits. What was that word? Can't even say it on a podcast. You can say it on a podcast, can't you? Can't say it. I won't allow myself to. But, you know, if it's the audience expectation of

potentially you might hear the odd swear word on the particular show then for the most part no one's going to complain to the broadcasting standards authority but then say you're

watching Susie Cato on you know like a and she wouldn't say it but you know you're watching a kids show or something and somebody said that then you'd be like

what the heck my kids were exposed to that not that Susie would ever she's so lovely she's like how are you assholes you, what the heck? My kids were exposed to that. Not that Susie would ever. She's so lovely. She's like, how are you, assholes? You know, that sort of thing. Then people are going to be blindsided by that. So it's all just what you expect from the person who's doing the broadcast.

Obviously, there are still limits to what people can say and not. And that's where taste and decency comes into it as well. But, you know, when we had our TV show at 10 o'clock, we've talked about this before, because we cooked, we could say a lot of, you know, you could say when we had our TV show at 10 o'clock, we've talked about this before, because we could, we could say a lot of, you know, you could say swear words. And we did. Every third or fourth word was like, hey, g'day, my love. You know, it was terrible.

You know, like, you're practically like, what? I agree. I know you always say that you want to go back to your previous self and say, pull yourself together. Oh, yeah. A lot of it. Like, just because we could didn't mean you had to. Like, sometimes it's not

Sometimes going here wrong I have a laugh and a swear word or whatever it is But it just seemed like we were doing it too often But then ironically the show really fell Apart and lost its way when we were told to stop swearing So maybe that was the core values Of the show people just like seeing these guys Go on and swear

You're not the same since you don't say you know Because it's 7.30 We moved to 7.30 Obviously you can't No you can't Yeah I mean there was still Some stuff that was Quite full on for 7.30

I would have thought But you're right It wasn't like you can You'd beep a swear word Yeah You'd still Swear yeah Swear words

And a lot of it I think the older you get With swearing too We still do a bit of it A lot of it Off air But you kind of just go You don don't need it to be cool. No.

It's probably cool. If I could go back to my younger broadcasting self, I'd say, just don't. There's no need to. There's a lot of stuff you're like, I was just doing that to try and be cool and edgy. Yeah. And then you end up on the hits and you reflect and go,

maybe cool and edgy wasn't my thing. But yeah. What do you think the worst word is in the world? Oh, well, there's words. I'm not going to say words. Do you think a C-bomb is the worst thing you could say? No, I wouldn't say it was the worst thing I could say. It's a great one in New Zealand because we use it for,

you could be a C-bomb. And I'm describing you in a less than favourable way But you can also Oh he's a good C-bomb Yeah you're right It's a versatile word I love it See I'm not a fan of it

No you never say it No I don't like it I don't think I've ever heard you say it I don't like saying it But it's I fire it out all the time But it's yeah Just for me I find it quite harsh

But I have people who might say it Well say it You know it's fine I can hear it and not get offended But it's not something I like saying out my mouth. You go

I love that little mouth of yours. You go to America that's like the one of the obviously there's other worse words but that's what

that really rocks them when you chuck one of those out in America. Obviously with stuff as well you know racially and things like that

there's some you know stuff that I know Oh we're not talking about the racist words just the fun ones to say. Yeah. Okay, what's the most enjoyable

swear word you get to say? What I get to say? You say a lot of F-bombs. Yeah, it's weird, yeah. But no, I try not to on radio. It's funny, when you're on radio, you just know I can't go there.

I mean, every now and again, it's, you know, it's slipped out. If you're recording something and you're like, oh, that's, you know, the safety, or if you're recording something and you're like, oh, that's the safety, or if you get pranked, you're not thinking about it, and you hope that those are now going to be beeped or not.

Sometimes they're not. So, yeah, but most of the time. Okay, here we go. A definitive ranking of every swear word from worst to best. Let's have a rattle through this list. This is quite interesting. Thank you to joe.co.uk. Number 40 on their list, cow.

I'll move up the list, eh, so we get a bit more offensive. Oh, is that like, yeah, like if you're calling someone a cow, yeah. Okay. The S-bomb. Shit, can't say it. 25 on the list.

That's 25. Jesus Christ, 24? Bitch, 23? God, what's in the top five? What wasn't the top five at what point okay tell me at what point did you just rattle off 23 24 at what point what no just give me the number don't give me the word but what number do you go from here on and I can't okay what point At what point When it gets to what Probably Poonani

Right Yeah Well you've still said it though So obviously you're comfortable Saying it on the podcast I find that a funny word Yeah but what point Do you get to

Do I get up personally And you go okay On a podcast Right now Not off air Definitely number 10 Okay 10 down 10 down

I'm like Okay Not going there Oh no but mind you Number 8's Knob Oh And I wouldn't Yeah Knob 10. Okay, 10 down. 10 down, I'm like. Okay, no, not going there. Oh, no, but mind you, number eight's knob. Oh. And I wouldn't, there's, yeah, knob. And again, context.

If you go, oh, here's the doorknob, you know, like it's. Or he's a bit of a knob. Like, I'd put bitch where knob is at number eight. Wouldn't you? Dick, it's not that bad. I wouldn't have thought that's number six. No. Calling someone a dick It's better than

Show us your You know but But still I mean bastards Number five These aren't terrible No No

Are they Well yeah I'm sure There's some other I would have said There's a new list That's been sent around I think we had it sent around The other day didn't we

For New Zealand ones as well And some sayings that Over time haven't aged well as well. So that's something to be mindful of as well. Number one, if out of interest, number one is the C word that we were saying. Okay. That's apparently the most offensive one. Most offensive C word.

Yeah, okay. Do you know the word? It actually comes from the history of it. It was to do with odour and the smell, a terrible smell when people were on a ship. So the acronym for it meant store high in transit. Meaning you put the

smellier goods if you're a manure salesman travelling the world with your manure goods. Then you'd store it high in transit. That was the origins of it. SHIT. Thank you for that. Very good question today. If, SHIT. Yeah, we got it. Oh, thank you for that. Uh, very good question today. If you want to leave us a question or a thought or something random,

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