Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 45: Man Buns....

Episode Date: June 27, 2023

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The Hits with Jono episode of the Burner phone thus far in the season. Oh, it's been, I enjoyed the other one the other day when we actually called Vaughan from Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. And that's probably because it was happened this week. So that's top of mind. Good effort. But it was quite funny to talk about an awkward moment where I'd accidentally sent him a photo of my wife and I. He dropped it to him.

Fully clothed. He was very confused. To be honest, I don't think I've even got his, I haven't got his number. So, you know, I'm not texting him or anything, so I just sent him a photo out of the blue. So, yeah, so I'm glad we got that all sorted because it's probably one of those things

he's probably wondered for a couple of years. What was that about? Because I never broached it. You were just in the vicinity. It was an accidental airdropping of a salacious photo or just a lovely photo? No, it was actually a nice photo. It would have been probably a better story if it was salacious, wouldn't it?

Do you have any salacious photos? I don't actually. I was doing that at the kids the other day because obviously, you know, kids having phones and the internet and all that sort of stuff that now, you know, and people sending photos and stuff like that, I'm like, it's just something that I wouldn't do because you just don't know. You lose your phone. You don't know whose hands it gets into.

Sending a photo to someone doesn't mean they're not going to, even on Snapchat, they can take a photo real quick of it. You know, you've got to be careful. Yeah, you're right. Screenshot it. It's like, don't send anything that you wouldn't want me or your grandma or your school teacher. Don't send any, that's what I was saying to them,

that you wouldn't want them to see. Yeah. If you go through that quick little checklist, then that should be fine. Jeez, the stuff I've put on the internet, I wouldn't want my grandmother to see. Or my family, actually, for that matter. Back in the day, too, if you had a naughty photo, you had to take it to the photocopier, print multiple copies of it, pin it to walls around town and go, hey, look at this.

Yeah, you're right, take it down to a one-hour sort of photo place. It was a lot of effort to go to shame someone, wasn't it, back in the day? You had to really dedicate some time out of your day. Now it's just a couple of pushes of a button and you can ruin someone's life. It was such a weird thing as a kid to go get your photos developed.

I remember that. And then go, I've taken 24 photos. And then go through and go, 12 to 14 of them were crap. They were like, oh, blurry, crap, missed it, such and such, not smiling, eye shut. Bung eye. And then you're like, oh, that one's okay, that one's okay. But it was such a weird thing where now you just do a burst on your phone

and that's it. Yeah, the old one hour. Remember when they introduced the one hour photo printing? That really changed the game, didn't it? Yeah. Are they still around? I imagine they've probably become sort of changed the game, didn't it? Yeah. Are they still around? I imagine they've probably become sort of framing shops now, haven't they? Oh, yeah, probably.

Picture framing, they might have pivoted a bit, I guess. Yeah, interesting. Interesting time for every industry, really, isn't it? In particular, the podcast game, because we've come in here, we've rattled up the market, haven't we, with the burner phone, and here's today's message. Hey, guys. I have recently started dating this guy, and I really like him.

He ticks all the boxes, but there's one little issue. He has a man bun, and I'm just really not a fan. I don't know what it is about them, but I just can't deal with them. They ick me out. They're like a mullet. It's not okay. What are your guys' thoughts on the man bun? Do you like it? Why are they popular all of a sudden? Do I need to convince them to chop them off? Help a girl out? Man buns. I could imagine you with a man bun. Yeah, I feel like I

could. I mean, I used to have longer hair for a while there, back in my regrettable dreadlock days, but I days. But you put it up. Did you ever man bun them up? I wouldn't man bun. I would probably ponytail. Did you ponytail the delocks? Yeah, or ponytail at the back and stuff. Just keep it off your face, mainly the hair,

if you're playing sport or something like that. Trying to look a little bit more tidy, I guess. But I would have probably considered a man bun if I could have done it. Not if I grew my hair long. Far be it for me to be a follicle fashionista. But I feel, outside looking in from the sidelines where I watch, you know, the hair growers play their game,

it feels like the man buns come, been, had its time, moved on. In my IMO. Yeah, right. That's what I'm feeling. I think there's people that can pull it off. Taylor, Producer Taylor, can you come in here? Producer Taylor probably is across the stuff. I'm like, if you want a man bun, have a man bun.

I mean, I understand if you're in a relationship with someone who's got a man bun and you might not like that, then maybe that's a conversation to go, well, what were you here out today? Is the man bun done? Yeah, deal breaker for me. It's deal breaker? Yeah. Oh, really?

Marcelo had a man bun? Oh. No go? Yeah, I would have never looked his way then. He could grow a good man bun. Yeah, I imagine he could. Has he had long hair before? So in his culture, they can't get a haircut before they're six years old.

So until he was six, he had really, really long curly hair. In Fijian culture? Yes. Really? And then from that point on, just get haircuts every two weeks. Yeah, right. So now he's running a short operation. Has that been something he's run for a while now?

Yes. Marcelo comes home with a man bun, miraculously. Yeah. He's been to work. He's trained with the Warriors, come home with a man bun, with a Tohu Harris length hair. Yeah, he he could kind of man he's not a man he's cool I love Tohu Harris and he's yeah and he kind of pulls it off some people I'm like yeah you know you're gonna tell Stephen Adams yeah are you gonna tell though either of those two people they can't have it they're here in a man bun me no yeah yeah no I'm not you're not like mate it's

done man buns done it's moved on I'm just saying I not like, mate, it's done. Man bun's done. It's moved on. I'm just saying I feel like it's had a great burst. Everyone was man bunning up a storm, weren't they? Maybe you're right in popularity, but I still feel like people need to, because otherwise everyone's going to look the same. Everyone can kind of go, oh, yeah, well, you're the man bun. You've got short hair.

You've got, you know, maybe. I don't know. I would rather a man bun than a mullet. Mullets are really, now they have taken the place of the man bun. Yeah, they probably have, you're right. See, Marcelo does try a mullet here and then and I hate it. I said, so he was growing a mullet all of last year and I said, mate, if that thing's still there by our wedding, we're done.

And I'll dye my hair platinum blonde and see how you like it because he hates platinum blonde. He doesn't like platinum blonde hair. He met me when I had platinum blonde hair. So he sliced the back end off, did he, for the wedding? Yeah. My son's got a mullet. It's really growing out too.

And he's doing something that I always wanted to do as a child was this rat's tail. I did a rat's tail. At the bottom of the mullet. And I'm like, he's like, I want to cut it off. I was like, don't, mate. This is my chance to live vicariously through his rat's tail. And he probably would never let me have a rat's tail. No.

And it was a long-term thing. Do you know the little... Yeah, the little rat's tail. It is because you have to start growing the very bottom of your... Yeah. And I imagine there's a few tough months there growing out your rat's tail, isn't there? Because you'd be like, what is that? Have you forgotten to shave it?

People would plait it and stuff, right? Yeah. So, yeah, that's a long investment. Yeah. It'd almost be better to grow your whole hair long, cut it off, but leave a bit for the rest of it. Yeah, you're right. What do you think has been the most disgusting

haircut in history? Oh, in history. You know what I'm going to go? I'm going to go the it was probably mid-90s I'm thinking, and you grew your hair long, but you'd part it down the middle, and you'd kind of have it both ways, like sort of half circles.

So if you've got a pipe and you cut a pipe in half, two of those sitting on top of your head would be perfectly defined splits down the middle of your head. That was a terrible time for hair fashion. And it was kind of the era of maybe Nick Carter from... Yeah, right. Sort of the Backstreet Boys sort of thing. Backstreet Boys-y sort of...

Yeah. I used to have a long fringe but shorter hair. What do you think about that one, Taylor? A long fringe but shorter hair. Yeah, when I was going to high school and you sort of flick the fringe up, my mum would be like, put it off your face. You can't see your face. It was a reverse mullet, a frolic, the front mullet.

Was that like an emo face? I don't know. No, wasn't definitely wasn't emo but it was it was probably a regrettable phase that's for sure just looking the fringe you know but the shorter of the thing it was yeah some people grew it down to their chin yeah and you're just like whip it back over the back of your head yeah mum didn't like that mum wasn't a fan this isn't a mum haircut that's up there with the rat's tail isn't it well i'm, I'm going to go into chat GPT now. I'm going to ask chat GPT officially, is the man bun done? Okay. Okay.

This will be the official answer from AI. Is the man bun done? Question mark. Here we go. It's always quite nice, chat GPT, isn't it? As an AI model, I don't have real-time information on current fashion trends. It's worse than you sitting on the fence, this AI technology. Okay, I would say

top five men's haircuts. Okay, and we try and pick them. Alright, we'll just see where that's... Top five haircuts. We'll just say top five haircuts. Yeah, yeah. Top five haircuts. Like the bob. Is it the bob in there? Okay.

Alright, okay. As it's typing out in real time. haircuts yeah yeah okay top five here like the bob is the bob in there okay all right okay as it's typing out in real time this is really interesting okay number five i'll count them down the top five haircuts the but oh here you go taylor's just been bought a photo of ben with dreams and she's just that's so much to process yeah that's lot going on there That's a lot Yeah Okay so the top five Okay number five The buzz cut In popularity Oh yeah

Number four The pompadour I don't know what that is A vintage style Inspired hairstyle That features longer hair on top Styled upwards and back Like a mohawk

Basically like a mohawk The crew cut at number three The most popular haircuts Number two The fade Yes Oh yeah a. Basically like a mohawk. The crew cut at number three. The most popular haircuts. Number two, the fade. Yes. Oh, yeah, fade. I like a fade. The fade is the best, really.

Number one, it's versatile. It involves shaving or trimming the sides and the back of the head with very short hair, leaving the hair on top longer. It's the undercut. Oh, the undercut. Of all time. I would have thought that was a controversial number one. That was popular for a while there and sort of went away, didn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, the undercut. All right. Well, there we go. Well, thank you very much for listening to this. Appreciate it. If you'd like to leave us a message for the Burner phone, you can do so.