Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 52: The Fruit Or Veges Dilemma..

Episode Date: July 20, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone. Here we are, back at it again after a fantastic win. Opening game win from the Football Ferns and the FIFA Football Women's World Cup. It's just really set the country into a frenzy. It's what they needed. It's great, yeah. Especially the first game too. It's the biggest game of football ever in New Zealand. 42,000 people sell out at Eden Park. the first game too it's the biggest uh biggest game of football ever in new zealand 42 000 people sell out at eden park and it makes us like looking at the footage on the news and stuff i'm like the

rest of the world's seen this we're looking good we're looking great we're looking like it looks like when we watch football tournaments over in you know saudi arabia like oh they've got a pack stadium they're doing well we've put it we've put it Putting on a good display So far Now we need that For the other games Because I'm I'm worried Eden Park Saturday

USA are playing Yep Now Eden Park Is a huge venue Which was full last night Now USA's gonna be You know We need to impress USA

We do Yeah They're a sporting nation They're a really good side I think they're the favourites In the World Cup People from the USA Will be watching the USA

And if they're playing In front of 12 people It'll be like Just bury the other cigarettes yeah what we need um and it's probably very expensive and i don't know if it's ever been done but you know how you go to like a spark arena a spark arena um and sometimes they can move the amount of you know they move things around they move the curtain forward don't they move the forward. Sometimes they put curtains down over seats to make it. We need stadiums that can, kind of like Transformers, they can be small.

We go, hey, how many people? 500 people, great. And then they expand. That's a great idea. Like a harmonica. What are those things? Oh, accordion. Accordion, yeah.

Yeah, Producer Joel's coming in. Producer Joel loves sport. He'd like to Producer Joel loves sport He knows everything About the Warriors He knows everything About basketball And stadiums too So what do you think

About my idea It's a really good idea Like a retractable They've got retractable roofs We have retractable stadiums That you can You can just Just tighten

It can go from A 50,000 seat Taylor Swift concert Down to a 20 person Amateur theatre performance they do that like they so they have those

big cloths that they put up like the black ones if it's a night game they put it over and it like covers 20,000 seats where's that

you can do it at Eden Park as well oh do that because sometimes you know Eden Park when they don't get a lot of you know

there's big empty shots and stuff like that those blues games I think it's impossible. I think they can only cover 20,000. But if you're like, oh, hey, we get rid of those, and suddenly that's that, like the bottom stands kind of compacts and the top one goes down. I mean, I'm not an engineer.

Someone's got to come up with a design stuff. Get Wayne Brown. He could pitch in there. He might be able to put that in there. Compact's down. I'm not listening to you, you media drongo. And then suddenly, you know, like, oh, we need that other stand. Oh, now we've got two.

Versatile stadium. My other thing I mentioned to you during the show actually was if you do have an empty stadium, they have the technology now, which blew my mind when you told me about this, Joel, on Monday, to put the sponsors on the field. And that's just animation. That's not even sprayed on the field. Do that in the grandstands with a crowd. Yeah, well, during COVID, obviously they couldn't have people

and the NRL, National Rugby League, they were like, hey, we're going to do virtual crowds, so send us a photo of yourself and we're going to put you in the crowd and it's going to look like you're there. They had cardboard cutouts. Yeah, yeah, cardboard cutouts. I think there was like 2,000 or 3,000 for this one game and they just kept panning the camera to them. And in the first game, there was about four or five serial killers

and like world-renowned terrorists. Yeah, people were trolling them and stuff, saying, here's my photo, and you're like... That's why we can't be trusted. We can't be trusted. They probably just can't be trusted unless they're like Sims characters. Yeah, no, that's very good. Thank you very much, Joel.

But yeah, back to the Football World Cup. Get along, get along. I've decided that you said i need to go out and support well i said we'll simply go along you're like yeah i'll go i'll go to two games and we went i promised two games and i yeah i was born in america so i should saturday afternoon to try and go hopefully the weather's good like last night it was actually held off a bit but it was really went to be torrential rain which i think it's just arrived in Auckland now but yeah they're playing Vietnam yeah taking it back to the war settle some old some old beef on the field you can imagine someone's probably put a product it sits in a promo together for that hey we're taking it back to the war

take it back to NAMM all right we never We never talk about that. You know, that sort of stuff. Choppers are coming in. And it's like, yeah. The burner phone, though. This isn't a sports podcast. This is a podcast where you leave us a phone message. And you can do so by texting BURNERPHONE to 4487. It'll bounce back a number.

Call it. Leave us a message. And here is today's. Hi, Jono and Ben. It's Kim here. I've had a bit of a slow morning. And I was just thinking about tomatoes. So I realise they're

a fruit, but you wouldn't put them in a fruit salad. But does that mean that tomato ketchup is actually a smoothie? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Wow, she is having a slow morning. That is, Kim's voice sounds very familiar. I think we've spoken to Kim on the radio before. That is a good question.

Is a bottle of tomato sauce, is that a smoothie? Given it falls under the fruit umbrella. And could you just drink a bottle of Heinz or Waddy's? Yeah, but like, okay, you put an apple sauce on, so maybe

people have pork and they put a little bit of apple sauce. I wouldn't say apple sauce was a smoothie. But it could fall into the smoothie category. I'd say it's a sauce, but I'vece. I wouldn't say applesauce was a smoothie. But it could fall into the smoothie category. It could. I'd say it's a sauce, but I guess technically you could make a tomato smoothie, but it wouldn't. Yeah, the fact that a tomato is a fruit. This is a great website I've got onto.

Fruits that think they're vegetables. Tomato. Yeah? Yeah. I see a tomato as a vegetable. Yeah, me too. I feel like it's in the vegetable. Cucumber.

It's a fruit. Is it? Yeah. Okay. Pumpkin. Fruit. Olive. Pumpkin's a fruit.

Pumpkin's a fruit. Olive. Pumpkin's a fruit. Avocado? Corn? Why don't we just say they're fruit and vegetables, just label them and, you know, like, why do we need to? Yeah, produce.

Yeah, produce. Just chuck it under the produce category. Yeah, wow, a pumpkin. I would have definitely thought pumpkin was a vegetable. Fruits that think they're vegetables. Yeah, like you're like, oh, we have roast veggies. You don't go, and pumpkin, you know? Surely there's a prerequisite. So how the fruit's grown and whether it's all the vegetables grown,

whether it determines what camp it sits in. Eggplant, that's a fruit. Isn't that insane? So a fruit develops from the flower of a plant, while other parts of the plant can be categorised as vegetables. Fruit contains seeds, while vegetables can consist of roots, stems and leaves. Well, there you go. Someone's done that.

Good on them. I'm glad that bit of admin. So I guess, yeah, a tomato, it contains, you know, so you've got some seedy things inside. Yeah. It grows, yeah, off the, okay. Cucumbers have seeds seeds inside avocados stone

yeah I get that yeah anyway it's probably I'm with you let's just have them all under one umbrella well it's very confusing fruit and veg for me it sits in the same

it's in the same place in the supermarket I wouldn't like I love a smoothie but I wouldn't like I don't think I'd like the idea of a tomato smoothie but hey tomato juice I love tomato juice yeah not many people do you're like a bloody Mary too don't think I'd like the idea of a tomato smoothie bar. Tomato juice? Yeah, tomato juice. I love tomato juice.

Not many people do. You're like a Bloody Mary too, don't you? That's kind of a tomatoey juicy thing. It is basically all tomato juice. Well, depending on how you pour it. But yeah, for the most part, it's tomato juice. We went over to somewhere and I was really on a Bloody Mary phase. But I have taped it off.

I have, yeah. I only like it because it's like, oh, it's 11 a.m. It's acceptable. Yeah, it is. It is. Somewhat considered. Oh, yeah, I see why you'd be having a Bloody Mary.

It does seem like that. So probably that and maybe like a bubble, like a glass of bubbles. You feel like, oh, they're celebrating something. Oh, it's a breakfast. You know, that feels like you'd get away with. I mean, not that you can't drink. I wouldn't have a Bloody Mary at 5 o'clock at night, though.

No. A big old glass of tomato juice, 5 o'clock at night. But yeah. You're right. What's your favourite fruit or vegetable? I'll let you pick one of each. Oh. I'll tell you what I've been getting into recently that I didn't even know was a thing,

and it's probably been genetically made or something, was red pears. I mean, again, red pears... I didn't realise. No, no. I saw them in the supermarket a couple weeks like a nashi and they taste they taste kind of more nashier than the pears but they're not they're crazy expensive i'm kind of like oh red pears and we bought them and i've been i've been enjoying them so yeah i wouldn't say that's my favorite of all time but at the moment

it's on the top of my head i've been enjoying because i didn't know there was red pears so yeah when they're done okay i'm go, I do like a carrot. Yeah. Carrot and tzatziki. Yeah. Tzatziki, the Greek, you know, the Greek dip. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, good combo like that. Carrot and bit of hummus, you know that. Fruit-wise, I'm probably going to go strawberry. Oh, in season. Yeah, in season. I mean, we really, the top and tail of a strawberry season can be a bit green. But then, do we get fruit? We were having this conversation with the kids the other day

because why is it in season? Why is this not in season? But do we get stuff from overseas? Because overseas is the opposite season. So do we get their summer stuff in our winter? I think you do. Does that sometimes happen? So next year we went to the supermarket the other day

and there was like strawberries were at a crazy price and they tasted all right. And I was like, oh, these must be important yeah strawberries columbia my father-in-law john he was in the produce game what surprised me the one thing he told me he's like an apple that you're eating won't keep doctors you still can have health issues even if you just haven't one of those a day. Shocking advice. Don't see that on the family health diaries. But he was like, an apple that you say you received from California,

by the time it's got to you in the supermarket, could be nine months old. Nine months? Nine months. But it's obviously kept in correct refrigeration and the containers that they put them in are refrigerated ones. But I was like, wow. And full of, covered in pesticides and all sorts of capsules. Oh, mate, we'll keep them hunting.

Yeah. Keep them hunting. But yeah, I thought the lifespan of an apple can be really extended out. I went through a phase. It was probably one week, actually. I went, no, I'm going to buy organic. I'm going to go along to this pretentious supermarket and buy it. I'm going to leave. Did the rest of the food shopping. No, I'm going to get my. I'm going to go along to this pretentious supermarket and buy it. I'm going to leave.

Did the rest of the food shopping. No, I'm going to get my fruit and vegetables from this place. Went in there, and there was some lovely stuff in there, but very expensive. Triple the cost. Yeah, but it's good. It's no pesticides. And jeez, it didn't last long.

It doesn't. You got 24 hours max. I was like, what other stuff? And then it was a race against time. I was like, we've got to get all this stuff because it's all going off and I paid four times the amount of price that it is. I was like,

I've got to go back to what I know. Whatever they're spraying on it, it can't be fair. It can't be flash for you but geez, it helps you out. It means you don't have to go

to the fruit shop every 10 minutes. I was like, geez, so that lasted one attempt and then I was done with that. There we go, we've covered it all

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