Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 51: Are We Giving Away A Car?!?

Episode Date: July 19, 2023

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This is where we clear a message every day in a special podcast that you provide the content for. You set the conversation starter by a random message that you can leave at any stage on the burner phone. Yeah, text 4487 and it'll bounce. So I'll just text burner phone to 4487 and it'll bounce back the cell phone number that you need to call.

And it is good you say you provide the content, which is good. Because, you know, content, which is good, because you know that's what every day we're doing pouring our hearts out every inch of our personal lives everything you see you guy, the back of your mind, like can I turn that into a bit of radio content Ben, I'm looking out the window

right now, at an empty desk I'm thinking how can I turn that into a chat bit tomorrow, do you find that? A lot of the time, it's nice when you can try and switch off from that but it's hard to because, even in the holidays like last two weeks of holiday I banged up a beauty amount of chat bits, they're all gone

end of the week, you're still thinking of stuff at the same time, my family know now too that in the middle of a conversation when I pull out my phone they're like oh he's putting it in his phone it's going to be a chat but even like my daughter Indy was like the other day someone was telling a story his phone. It's going to be a chat. But even like my daughter, Indy, was like the other day, someone was telling a story.

Midway through the story, she just looked at me and went, radio? I was like, yeah, gotcha. Good girl. Yeah. So she's even thinking about content. It's even consuming her.

It does. She doesn't do a radio show. We've done varying shifts. You've done drive and you've done nights. I've done nights as well. But I mean, the breakfast game, really,

when you start doing breakfast radio, it consumes a lot of your life, doesn't it? It's a lot of talking, but it's fun. I mean, I can't complain about the job, but you're right. It's a lot. The job is great. The downside is you have to think about stuff to talk about all the time,

but it is a great job. So we do enjoy the burner phone format, which, you know, you leave us a message, ask us a question. Yesterday we had a wonderful guy who I think had been Snoop Dogging it before he left the message. It was quite deep, wasn't it? The question about the meaning of life. He started going, oh, here's my question. And then he forgot his question.

Then he remembered his question again. And yeah, the meaning of life, which we decided was Be happy Whatever you do to make yourself happy That's the meaning of life And we solved that in a six minute podcast It's been a question that's Bugged humanity for centuries What's the meaning of life?

We just nailed it in another six minutes Do what makes you happy When people will leave a message on the burner phone That's one of my happiest particularly now hello um i just got my learner's license today you got three questions wrong hello um i just got my learner's license today you got three questions wrong and i don't have a car and i really want a car and i think when i get a car and I really want a car. And I think when I get a car, I can just gas.

So I might gas and be good then. Help me get a car. Thanks. Bye. Oh, my name's Julie. Bye. Julie, was it? I missed it.

Sounds like a child's just got their driver's license. Just got their learner's license. Jeez, we do let people drive very young in this country. Yeah. 15. I was driving at 15. 15's when you can start to sort of learn about it and stuff, right? And get your license.

Yeah. Or was it 15 you get your learner's and then you're restricted? Yeah, and then you get your restricted when you're allowed until 10 o'clock. Yeah. And then it's a great day, too, when you get your full licence Isn't it Jesus It must be 16 Before you can drive on the road You can buy a 16

Okay Oh 16 Yeah Why did I think it was 15 Yeah I thought it used to be 15 Did it Maybe there was a

I don't know Yeah well it's 16 at the moment Just a quick google So yeah So that's the current Current of what you can But it is very I mean it is very

It's crazy young. Yeah. But then there's kids in the South mainly. They start driving from age two. Yeah, they're driving around the country. Driving the Hilux. Doing all sorts. So you know, probably better drivers than me, you know, by age 10.

When did you go straight down as soon as you turned 16? Yeah, because as soon as I could, I did, because we were living way, like, a long way away, 30km or so away from school, and the farm, way back at the farm. So it was a 15, 20-minute trip to get to the bus, to actually get to the bus to get to school. And then so I had to get mum to take me to the bus. And then you'd have to get on the bus from there.

So that would take, like, an hour between the bus and head back. It's almost worth not me to the bus. And then you'd have to go on the bus from there. So that would take like an hour between the bus and head back. It's almost worth not going to school for. Yeah. So, yeah. And if you miss the bus, we did on many occasions. Hell, the frosty. Mum was always like, oh, now we're going to drive you to school and stuff. Yeah.

That's not just a five minute down the road. No, no. It was like, yeah, in the back of the Wairarapa all the way into Marston and, you know, it was out the back of Carterton because I started at the school and then we moved. And so, yeah. So then as soon as I got my license, me and mum was like in the back of the Wairarapa all the way into Marston and it was out the back of Carditon because I started at the school and then we moved. And so, yeah, as soon as I got my license, even mum was like, you're getting your license as soon as you can so I don't have to deal with you in the bus and you can drive the car.

Well, you should have gone. It's not my fault you moved too. Yeah. Yeah. So you got it straight away. So pretty much straight away. Yeah, good on you. I remember when I got mine, I had a horrible incident actually.

I had my learners. Yeah. And Annie and John, they were like, okay, you can go up the road and get some milk or bread. The dairy was at basically the end of the road, not quite a kilometre away. I thought I took that as I could go to my friend's house, pick him up, and go and just see some sights and sounds. Yeah, yeah. friend's house pick him up and go and just see some sights and sounds yeah now i picked him up and literally probably 20 seconds into the car ride went around the corner slid bang into a parked car oh no he went oh no i went i pan it i reversed it was a bad crash. He got out. He's like, I might just walk home.

I'll leave you to it. And I drive home. And as I was turning into the driveway, Annie and John were already in the driveway. The police had been called. Oh, really? Because I hadn't run. Oh, you hadn't stopped. I hadn't stopped.

Yeah. And you couldn't, you know, the look of disappointment on your parents' face. Yeah. And I was like, I'm sorry. And they were like, they were just about to go to Waiheke for a lovely lunch. Oh, no. Idiot. Asshole of a son.

Who didn't do this one. Crash the bloody 91 Toyota Corolla. Oh, shocking. Yeah. It was a bad day. It was interesting back in the day because, yeah, growing up in a small town where I did as well and no phones back then. I was talking to the kids the other day and they were one of those,

you know, classic old man tells story to kids who don't really care. But, you know, I would remember the weekends where I was allowed to take friends. I got to that age. But then just going, well, let's drive to such and such's house, see what they're doing. Wouldn't know if they were home or not, what they were up to. You get there, they're either home, they're not home. Then you're like, oh, let's go to such and such's house, see what they're doing. Wouldn't know if they were home or not, what they were up to. You get there, they're either home, they're not home.

Then you're like, oh, let's go to such and such's house. Drive it all around, just to try and make some social interaction, make your day, you know. There was no way to sort of, you know. That was like, wow, we spent hours just driving around. Should we see if they're home? Yeah. Oh, no, they're not.

Okay. Oh, sweet. Great to see you, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Hanson. We'll see you guys later. But where were they? Why were they out? Oh, they were out doing something or whatever. Oh, they're down there. Oh, cool. We'll see you guys later. But where were they? Why were they out? Oh, they were out doing something or whatever.

Oh, they're down there. Oh, cool, we'll drive down there and see if they're still there. They're not. I was like,

wow, we just spent up a lot of time. Yeah, but it did feel like in the 90s, a lot of people were at home. Yeah. Yeah.

A lot of people just waited at home and you could go around there and catch them. A lot of drop-ins back then. It's like that movie Home Alone, how it would have been solved, they say, you know,

if they had a phone. If he had a cell phone she's like kevin yeah uh yeah hello and then it would have oh sorry you know oh it's all right i'll get the next flight i'm coming back whatever you know all that stuff would have been sorted but yeah i reckon i reckon kevin uh would have called them even before the van had left the street yeah going hey guys just so you know you've oh sorry or at least got them where they're at the airport. They were in there as well. Hey guys, I'm still here. But then you wouldn't have one of the world's greatest movie franchises, Ben,

if we had technology. So your driver's license. I failed my test two multiple times. Three times on the scratchy test. I told you. Two times I was... One time I was just really bad and two other times I was just excited because I had events to go to. Yeah.

Like the big day out and stuff. Right. I wasn't fully focused on the driving test, which is probably not a great trait of a driver. No, no, no. Someone who's not fully focused at any stage. I think they ended up giving it to me. Oh no, I did pass it.

Then I think it took me two guys to get the restricted. Two guys as well, yeah. Then you get the paper license. Remember the paper license? You could actually scratch off the this is a bit of fraudulent activity, scratch off the age on it, and then you could stencil on new age. Oh, new age

on there, yeah. I don't know why you would do that, but people were doing that. Maybe they just wanted to appear like. Yeah, more mature. More mature, yeah. I don't know what reason why. But yeah, that was a great time for identification in New Zealand, wasn't it? Yeah.

Scratch off the age and stencil on a new one. Yeah, well, I guess it was. Couldn't get away. Again, technology wouldn't allow you to get away with that now. No, no. It's the world has changed, isn't it? So, yeah. I passed, I think, passed my scratchy test the first time,

passed my restricted the first time. But I do remember doing pretty well out and about going, yeah, I've nailed all the driving. And then he's like, just back it in. It was back at the police station in Marston. And he's like, just back it in, back the car into the park. And I didn't do that great a job of backing it in. And he kind of looked at it, got out, and he went, are you always this bad at that i'm like no no no he goes all

right then and then carried on and i was like oh thank you so much so he probably filled out all the paperwork to like yeah he's got his license i was actually you know because the mom made me get some lessons and all that stuff heard the aaa and stuff like that so i was actually feeling like i was pretty confident with that sort of thing but but then I just had a shocker, backing it in. He's like, I can't be bothered to change this paper. Yeah, right.

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