Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 54: Studio Guests!

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

We were joined by some very special guests today for the 53rd instalment of the Burner Phone...    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone. the what are you what flavor you going to oh just some juicy fruit the old-fashioned juicy fruit just but try not to do you know i'm kind of like why don't eat gum every day and there was some i don't want to besmirch any company's names but there was some articles that came out about some of the stuff using sugar-free potentially leading to oh carcinogenic yeah right that would not have sat well with you sit well with me no i'm going to be chewing something every something every day, if you're having sweeteners and things like that as well. Are there sweeteners in that? Sweeteners apparently as well, yeah. What, stevia and all that?

I think so. Well, again, I don't know. I'm not going to be one of these people that, so you probably need to do your own research if that's something you do because that's... I think you just rest assured everything is carcinogenic, can't you? I think so, you're probably right.

Just be comfortable with that, but that's good. The other thing I was going to say, nicotine gum. Why don't you try that? Oh, yeah, I don't smoke, You're probably right. Just be comfortable with that. But that's good. The other thing I was going to say, nicotine gum. Why don't you try that? Oh, yeah. I don't smoke, but you're right. That might be a nice gateway to smoking. My friend Jeremy, he smoked for years and years. And then he's like, I've given up.

I've given up. And all he did was chew about 12 to 15 pieces of nicotine gum a day. For years? For longer than I think he actually smoked. And we're like, I don't know if that's how it's meant to work. It feels like you're more hooked on nicotine than you ever have been. He loved it. He loved it.

And he would give us a bit and it was... Yeah. Often he'd go, you want some gum? And I'm, you know, I was a gum person. So I'd be like, yeah. And then he'd give me that. And I'd be like, what is this gum? He'd be like, nicotine gum, mate.

It's disgusting. I want some more of it. It is terrible. Like, have you given up? Just give up. Yeah. that and i'll be like what is this gum we'll be like nicotine gum mate it's disgusting it is terrible like have you given up just give up yeah yeah no need to chew gum but uh anyway the burner phone welcome along it's lovely to have you here we uh clear a message from our burner phone voicemail one per day if you want to uh get the number the phone number text burner to 4487 it'll just bounce straight back into your inbox. And here is today's message. Hi, Jeno. Hi, Ben.

My name's Hannah, I'm 16, and I'm from Chicago. I do have a question. How long have you been with the Hits? The Hits, I don't know. Anyway, yes. It'd be really cool to meet you guys someday. I'm possessive about you guys. You're really cool.

Yes. Bye. Oh, Hannah. Hannah, you're a sweetheart. Hannah from Invercargill. Thank you for your message on the burner phone. Now, Hannah, we'd love to meet you one day too. We do go to Invercargill in our travels sometimes, don't we? Yeah, we do.

We get a cheese roll from The Batch. The Batch Cafe. It was gorgeous, wasn't it? Now we have some friends from Gisborne in the studio. Yeah. Come on, we can do better than that, Gizzy. Gizzy Hart. From Gisborne in the studio. It was about the same.

It was the same level of it. I think it was probably down a bit from the first initial, yeah. Come over here, guys. Welcome, welcome. How are you all? We're just recording our Burnaphone podcast, and you're doing a bit of a tour of the radio station. Come over here. What's your name?

My name's Devante. Devante. It's lovely to meet you. It's a beautiful name, Devante. Now, you guys are looking around the radio studio, just sort of eyeing up your options for what you can do for education and things like that. Radio, what do you think so far? Give us your honest opinion.

It's all right. Radio, it's all right. It's a new marketing slogan for radio. Radio, it's all right. I would probably go radio. It's still around? Yeah, it's still around. Who knew it'd still be around?

When was the last time anyone listened to the radio in here? Every day. Oh, in here? Every day. Every day? Yeah, every day. We've got a day one-er over there. Yeah, yeah. What's the skeleton? You've got a skeleton on your shoulders over there.

What's going on there? This is Huni. Our team is called Burnt Toast. Oh, yeah? Everyone in here is under the name Burnt Toast. Oh, no. So we've got Burnt Toast and then Barbie and his friends. Oh, we met Barbie before. toast oh yeah this is this is everyone in here under the name burnt toast and his friends oh we met barbie before barbie was like a soft barney barney sorry barney barney oh barney and his friends oh no no sorry we met a beer outside before that was called barbie yeah

yeah oh so you've all got teams yeah yeah right nice nice and what are you are you wanting to do radio um don't ask that don't ask that mate you've asked two questions that have been shocking for Yeah Yeah right Nice Nice And what are you Are you wanting to do radio? Um Don't ask that Don't ask that mate You've asked two questions That have been shocking For the radio industry Well we'll erase all this stuff

From the podcast Yeah Yeah But anyway That's good They won't take our jobs So that's the good thing You know

Don't do radio If anything Don't do radio Yeah no that's great We need to hold on to this This is paying off The bloody mortgage isn't it So how are you finding Because you're from Gisborne,

was the best part of your day sitting in traffic on the motorway? What's been the most exciting thing about Auckland so far? Seeing you two. Devante. Seeing us two. Oh, jeez. Well, we set the bar low so you can get a lot better than us. There's better tourist attractions out there than us two.

Well, lovely to meet you all. Nice to meet you, everyone. This has been fun. This has been fun This has been fun It's really been quite humbling To know that radio is still Still owning things mate People still keen to get in the industry

Huge show of hands Everyone was really into it That's for sure Hey well if you could say goodbye To everyone on the Burnerphone podcast It'd be great Bye Bye

Here we go From Gizzy Do we go Tolaga Bay Tolaga Bay And Tikaranga And Tikaranga. And Tikaranga. Well, thank you very much.

Not Gizmut. We don't want to be associated with Gizmut. All right, well, lovely to meet you all. Thank you. There we go, and that was the Burner Phone Podcast. If you'd like to leave us a message, you can do so. If you want to join the Burner Phone Podcast, text BURNERPHONE to 4487 and we'll send you our digits. You could be on tomorrow's episode.