Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 46: Taylor Swift vs Elvis

Episode Date: June 29, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone The community notice board. I don't know if I've seen a huge influx of... Well, the community notice board, you know, you see in the foyers of supermarkets and malls and things, you're writing all your advert on a very small card, the size of a card you used to do your speeches on, you know, at school. And it's, you know, in amongst a sea of other cards. I think we were next to a wellness retreat card. And I was just like, hey, call the Burner phone,

John and Ben's Burner phone, leave us a message. I don't know if we've had any pickup from that advertising campaign you know you wonder if it's something that people need to you know are you on the market what why are you going to the board for a specific reason or does it just catch your eye as you're walking past generally i think the most people who go to the board are people who are writing ads that go on the board not anyone coming to look at the ads i've never seen anyone stop and go oh i wonder what's on this you know montage of tiny cards advertising things there was one that kind of along the same lines caught my eye last night i was walking the dog down past some shops near home and one of the one of the i had a poster like an a4 poster someone to print out and it was for like school it was basically lessons if

you wanted extra tutoring and things like that but they'd use stock images of people i think as the sort of you know you want to get better at this sort of thing i was like one of them was a very saucy looking picture like the look on the the person's face i was like this it feels like the image that is not quite matching up with what you're ever but i don't know so they're advertising music lessons. It was like your lessons for something. But then it was like. Maybe it was like a spicy lesson.

It was looking like it was a little bit like, you know, the teacher looked a little bit like. Naughty. Yeah, naughty. And I was like, oh, this feels like. I don't know if this is. But maybe it was or maybe it's. Yeah.

Or maybe they're doing it in a rush. Just like teacher. Yeah. And that was the first one. Yeah. Well, it was a teacher. Well, yeah well she qualified though yeah it's hard to know that's the question but yeah so this is the burner phone uh and we clear some we clear some messages off uh the voicemail today's one is actually coming from my voicemail ben uh and it's something that's sitting clogging up my phone, a recording of a shop.

I walked into the shop and heard this. Hello, welcome. Great welcome, isn't it? So every time someone walks into the store, that plays. Hello, welcome. It's fun when you're only in there, you know, you're walking in and out. I'm like like this is novel this is real a real novelty but i imagine if you put on a 12-hour shift on the at the dairy yeah

bing bong i won't do the voice hello welcome hello welcome yeah yeah uh but yeah also too i imagine like every kid that goes in there and goes oh they make a noise would have to go back and check it and go oh yeah it did that was me walking. And then you'd go back multiple times, wouldn't you? Yeah. Hello, welcome. Yeah, every kid in Desperate Radio hosts just recording audio. And I said to the guys,

this is a great, a great welcome message. And he's like, ugh. I was like, can I record it? He's like, ugh. Well, I imagine the novelty would wear off, wouldn't it? Yeah, he had no enthusiasm for the project. Very enthusiastic, the person who recorded that. What's your favorite shop to walk into?

Out of all the shops that are on the landscape, you've got your dairies. You've got a petrol station. You've got a butcher. You've got a clothes shop. You've got, I'll tell you one really intense shop to walk into. Have you ever been to Culture Kings? Yes, it's an amazing store. Jesus, quite the shopping experience

though, isn't it? It's a sensory overload. They've got a DJ's, it's like a nightclub. DJ's playing, lights going, all these great Nike shoes all on the wall. Thousands of hats. You and your kids pop great Nike shoes all on the wall. Hats like around the outside. Thousands of hats.

You pop up on the, you and your kids pop up on the video in there, in the montage. Are we still in the montage? Yeah. Because I went along because I was, it was from Australia, Culture Kings. Yeah. And my son Oscar's, you know, obsessed with basketball and stuff. He's like, let's go to Culture Kings, Culture Kings. So we went along, I think it was the first or second weekend.

And 660 were there. They were doing an in-store. They were coincidentally there at the same time. And I saw your friend Chris. We had a lovely chat and just some banter. But they were doing a bit of shopping as well. And I think I got kind of swept into the slipstream of the 660 fame. Yeah.

Where I think the videographer was like, oh, he must be part of the 660 fame yeah where i think the videographer was like oh he must be part of the part of the crew yeah and so i got swept up like i'm just littered throughout the montage yeah you and your kids are there you're like like the group or biggest groupies of 660 they're like oh they're always following them over there oh he's over there as well it was like yeah i mean we're not because i have gone in since I'm like oh There I am You're on the screen Because it plays It was like a montage

A rolling montage Just a pesty fan Hanging around the band But yeah Now that's That's a really If you ever do anything Go into that shop

You walk out like What just happened to me Yeah it's pretty cool You're right But a lot A lot to take on board Do you know the There's a special room

Out the back apparently I was about to say The the shop owner came up, one of the assistants, would you like to come and see the back room? And I'm like, here we go. Finally, my low-level celebrity status is going to pay off with this. You know when you see over in America, there's videos of your shack going into this back room

and just picking anything shack wants. I go into this back room. I'm like, here we go. Going to get some clout with my kids here. And they're like, you see these Jordans? Diamond encrusted Jordans. And I'm like, yes. Are you about to put them on my feet, I'm thinking.

And he's like, these are $3,500. I'm like, yes. And then there was this awkward silence and i think he wanted me to buy them well he probably yeah yeah i think that room is it seems like a lovely room but it is it's a ramp up yeah yeah it's the stuff you'd see in rap videos and i had to sort of slowly weasel my way out of that room yeah as my son's going can i get diamond and christen i'm like no we're leaving now. Well, yeah, people pay a lot of money for shoes, don't they?

And as an investment, they could be. But I didn't have $3,500. No, I'm not. But I wonder if those things will be $300,000 one day or they'll still be $3,500. That's a very good point, though. But that's all about investments, isn't it? I guess you don't know the future. Even a house. You're like, my house could be worth less from what I purchased it for that's all about investments, isn't it? I guess you don't know the future. Even a house.

You're like, my house could be worth less from what I purchased it for. It's the risk, isn't it? But yeah, footwear has certainly taken off in the shoe game. We worked with a guy, DJ Severe. Oh, he's got an enormous amount of Jordans, right? Thousands. He actually keeps them in a lock-up, storage lock-up. And then he goes there every

sunday picks his five pairs of shoes for the week but imagine his collection would be oh yeah like art yeah do you collect you know what figurines you got well yeah it's not it's sporadically i collect figurines i could get you know but it's yeah nothing like that i do remember a family friend i think i've told you the story before her house just filled with elephants like everything elephant related to you know and i was like blankets yeah it was like everything and became the thing that everyone would go oh you see an elephant thing they're like oh angela she loves the elephant and she was she's like oh i kind of like i don't love them that but people started buying it and it became a thing and everyone would see it and you go oh she loves her elephants and i see it i went to the zoo and I saw an elephant trinket.

I've got to buy that for her. So I think it became like the bane of her, you know. Existence. Yeah, but everyone, but you do. It's probably one of those things. Once it gathered some steam and momentum, you can't undo it. There must have been a starting point where she had, you know. I think someone brought back something from somewhere else.

An interest in elephants. Oh, yeah, but not to, I don't think to the extent that it ever became, you know. But then it just really got a way out of it. I think everyone, you know, everywhere they went, they went, oh, it's an elephant thing. So you go to a house and you'd be like, wow. There's a lot of us really into elephants. And I don't know if she was that as into elephants as maybe the house made out to be. But that's what happens.

One of my friends growing up Gemma her mum Coca-Cola she would collect every bit of Coke like their whole house was Coca-Cola paraphernalia like some stuff that probably is worth

quite a lot of money I mean you know old stuff from the 50s and 60s did she drink a lot of Coca-Cola or just I can't remember

what her consumption levels were like but I just remember going to Gemma's house On a few occasions And just being like wow this is Impressive Who was the bloody

Lady in the hut Oh the Elvis lady Our Elvis lady friend What was her name Cathy for now Lovely lady She loved Elvis. Like, she went to her house when we were traveling through,

and she had such Elvis everywhere. Like, bedroom, bathroom, you know, lounge. It was Elvis. Just incredible. It was wild. Yeah. We went to, and she only had eyes for Elvis, didn't she? There's no room in Kathy's life for any other man.

No. Apart from Elvis. She was awesome. Because Elvis' movie had been out at the time. She'd seen it multiple times. Like 15 times. She puts on Elvis impersonation competitions in the hut. They're huge.

People from Australasia come to perform in there. There's a big prize up for grabs as well. But we were like, oh, I don't know. Elvis was kissing other people. He was smooching up with everyone she's like oh everyone knows if you're with Elvis

you know what you're getting in for yeah she did not like Priscilla did she Priscilla knew what she was in for when she signed up

to her so I was like I don't know I don't know Kathy but yeah she loved Elvis we went to her house she was a lovely lady

it was awesome basically Elvis clocks Elvis bedspread Elvis couch Elvis floor rug clocks with Yeah, we did. She was a lovely lady. It was awesome. Basically, Elvis clocks, Elvis. Dead spread. Yeah, Elvis couch. Yeah. Elvis floor rug. Clocks with, my favorite one was the clock and the feet were kind of like.

Swinging legs. Swinging legs, you know, on the clock. Yeah. It was like Elvis was dancing. So that was awesome. Elvis records, Elvis paintings. Elvis. I was like, where's your family, mate?

Photos of your family. She's got no time. No room or time in that household for her family. But amazing. Elvis' fans. More loyal than Taylor Swift fans, you think, Elvis fans? Oh. Well, only the duration they've been going.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. No, I'll give you that because, I mean, obviously Taylor Swift hasn't been around as long. It'd be interesting to see because Taylor Swift right now, I'd say without a doubt, probably the biggest artist on the planet for hype and tickets and all that, particularly on this side of the world at the moment.

But yeah, you're right. Let's say 50 years time, all those things. Are people going to be dousing their houses, fully grown adults, dousing their houses in Taylor Swift merch? Maybe, maybe not. It'd be interesting to tell, because there's still people that are doing it like Cathy with Elvis. Well, in 50 years time, I won't be around to tell you.

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