Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 61: Where's Jono's Holden

Episode Date: August 2, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone. It's a replay from last night. I was watching the start of it. I was like, Panama scored an amazing goal near the start. And we're like, whew, this is going to be a real close one. And then I think France scored like six goals or something. I've just seen another one of them go in. The French look dangerous in this tournament. Who's your pick? I don't know. Having no previous football experience.

I have been really, really getting into this tournament, really loving it. But it's going to be really interesting. I mean, France look awesome. England look awesome. Sweden look amazing. And then USA, they've won the last two World Cups. And they haven't been as good as I think everyone thought they were going to be. So maybe they'll click into gear.

Maybe they won't. I don't know. It feels like football is a sport. Or soccer, as they say in America, is on the day anyone can win. It can feel like that. Teams, you can get more upsets in the sport of football than a lot of other sports, which makes it really quite exciting.

Well, fair to say, you know, if you've made your way to the Football World Cup, you are of a decent level. So they're probably all there or thereabouts. Yeah, you're right, actually. So no, it's really exciting. A lot of luck. I am stoked with New Zealand,

because you're right. You said a couple of days ago at the start of the tournament, before it began, we had the FIFA boss going, New Zealand, we need you. We need you to go along, buy some ticket sales. And geez, have we what? Have we what?

We listened to him. He's a powerful guy. I know. Maybe he should be running for the next election. Yeah, it's been great. It's been great. Full houses, you know, massive. You went to the USA game the other night.

Biggest game of, biggest crowd for a football game ever in New Zealand. Ever. Now you go to that same park for, and you know, New Zealand's national sport, they always say rugby. You go, you know, All Blacks Test is always going to be sold out. But, well, I imagine it would be always sold out. But Eden Park, you go to a Blues game or an Auckland NPC game on that same ground, you wouldn't even have like a quarter of that audience somewhere.

All bloody Blues. I know. Yeah. You know, so it's really interesting. Blues are like, where are all you guys during our rugby season? Come along. You come out on a Tuesday night. Tuesday night, yeah.

For two countries that are in a far, far away. Yeah, exactly. No, but it's great. I'm heading along Saturday, actually, the round of 16 match. Yeah, it'll be fun. Yeah.

Is that the Japan? I think Japan are playing in that game, I think, which will be amazing. They've been playing incredible. Now, my only thing is I'm a little anxious because, you know,

the Japanese, the dear, sweet, sweet Japanese, they clean up after themselves. They do. And the stadiums. Now, I'm going to see the Japanese people cleaning up. Am I obliged to join? Probably. Probably.

We can't let poor Japanese. It's our mess. It's our country. I tell you what, why don't you just take your mess with you as you leave? You know, like you go, if you've got, you know. Do I chuck it at a Japanese guy? No. You take it with you on your way out, put it in one of the recycling bins as well.

Isn't that a wonderful sign of respect, though, for the Japanese? A very respectful society. You've been over there. Yeah, it was an amazing time over there. I thought it was an incredible country. Everyone is really, really helpful as well, even though there's, you know, there is a bit of a language barrier from time to time, but everyone is really happy to come and help you.

Dare I say it? I hate to politicise this podcast, Ben Boyce. No ram raids in Japan. No kids, no 12-year-olds ramming. I don't know. I guarantee it. There wouldn't be a 10, 11, or 12-year-old who's even thought about doing a ram raid in Japan. Yeah, you might be right

We'll leave that with you Well no we won't Because we've got to keep talking It's the Burner phone Where we We clear a message From our voicemail Every day

If you want the number Just text BURNER to 4487 It'll bounce back to the number Here's today's message Hi Cam here Just wondering for Jono Do you still own the POS Holden Or have you finally grown up and gotten a car like

a Falcon? Let me know. Love to hear from you boys. He's got a great voice. He has got a great voice. He should be speaking of football, a football commentator or something. I know. Now he's referring to a car that I had a few years ago now. Jesus. You know, it was a Holden Kingswood

from 1975. Very old and I really enjoyed that car problem was it wasn't the most reliable was it? you probably needed it if you had it as a second if you were in a position

to have a second car it would have been great as a sort of weekend drive it around this thing lives under a cover in the garage and Ben you came on

many a journey with me we broke down on motorways I was always an adventure in that car. Winding up the windows was hard too. Winding up the windows was very hard and I always remember that. Yeah, because they would kind of go uneven and you had to straighten them up. The old school, you know.

No, none of the modern electrics or anything like that. A lot of people would come talk to you about that car. They loved that car. It was a really awesome car, but no power steering. Again, the windows, they were a bit sticky and fiddly. When it would rain too on the motorway the window wipers wouldn't work so i'd have to manually stick my arm out the driver's window and kind of maneuver the window wiper oh really myself yeah and then that was another bugbear the other thing too when it would rain uh there was some

sort of i'm gathering our air vents in the bon, and the rain would just pour through onto my feet in the footwell where the brake and accelerator are. And it would honestly be like. So I needed quite a bit of stuff to maintain it, to keep it at a standard, especially as your number one car, right? Yeah, it was. It was a daily driver. So the window wiper thing, was that a warrant?

Was that something that was coming up with the warrants? Yeah, it was. It was a daily driver. So the window wiper thing, was that a warrant? Was that something that was coming up with once? Yeah, probably. I do remember a friend saying that he had an old car as well and the indicator for when you turn left

would just go constant. It wouldn't, the light at the back, you know, it would just be a constant light. And so he was in there and the guy made him

do the indicators for his warrant. So he had to sort of quickly flick it up on offer to mimic. Did he pass? He did pass. So he had to sort of quickly flick it off to mimic. Did he pass? He did pass on that case. I was like, well, you've kind of cheated the system there.

Yeah, he got rid of that car not long after that. But yeah. Long story short, I sold the car. I became a boring adult. And, you know, sometimes you've got to do that stuff in life. I'm sure everyone, there have been many people with stories of things they've sold and gone, oh, well, that was my fun youth. That was my, yeah.

Now on to whatever this next chapter is. Yeah, I guess you could. You might be, I imagine you'll go, you know, 56, 60, you'll be like, I'm going to get another car. I'm going to go to Fumata Beach Hop and I'm going to get myself another car. You're probably right. Yeah. Well, good on you.

That's, you know, you think. And well, then hopefully you're too in a position where you're like, okay, I can you that's you know you think and well then hopefully you're too in a position where you're like okay I can have a car that I drive to work yeah

the thing is and it's no slight well it is a slight on you and a slight on me as well you're not you're not like a mechanic I'm no

no you know where I imagine if you had a car like that and you were really knowledgeable in that field that would be thing as well you're like

I can fix that I can do that thing as well you know that would be another benefit to having a car like that. 100% right. Neville was our local mechanic. Yeah, he was great. He was great. Wonderful Neville.

He was a lovely guy. He'd always give you – Neville once, even if, you know, you just paid $800 to get whatever it was that needed fixing weekly on that vehicle, he would always give you a little chocolate bar. Yeah, leave a couple of chocolate bars in there. That was a lovely touch, eh? That was a lovely touch from Neville. I was like, well, this doesn't really lessen the pain of the $800 bill,

but it's a nice gesture. Yeah, it's funny, those things, eh? They really do help. Yeah. It's like you go to a hotel every now and again, and they might leave a little chocolate. You're like, oh, this is so nice. And you're like, I'm paying a couple hundred dollars for this.

But in the grand scheme of things, it's nothing. But it does kind of mean something. I noticed the other day we went across the road to the cafe, the Vietnamese place across the road. Oh, yeah. And they had a giant bowl of mints. We were just mowing into the mints, you and me. Oh, yeah.

Not beef mints, as in like breath mints. Breath mints, yeah. Just before we'd even ordered the coffee, I could tell the lady was like, you're just coming here to spoon mints into your mouth? Yeah. Yeah. They were the pop ones, weren't they?

They were the pop, yeah. You put them in your mouth and you pop the plastic. Yeah, it's quite fun, that little game. Sometimes they shoot into the back of your throat and end up a choking hazard. But yeah, no. Would you ever have an old car? You're a classic car person. Well, I'm not a car person.

I appreciated your car. It was a very cool car. But again, I'm not a mechanic and I'm not a car person. I appreciated your car. It was a very cool car. But again, I'm not a mechanic and I'm not a car person. I did like, for a while there for John Ong and Ben, we had a ute that we'd been given for the show. It was on loan. And I got to drive that home. And that was really fun.

But I'm not a ute. I'm not a ute guy. I wanted to think I was a ute guy. But parking that, I was very nervy parking that, especially a very flash ute. I was like, oh like car park building i'd probably it's where i started my phase of parking like nine kilometers down the road yeah because i'm like oh i parked here can't i'm not gonna have a back it in or not gonna scratch it and i'd walk down the thing but that was cool i did appreciate i wouldn't

imagine you driving like a big ford ranger or something that's quite aggressive the old ford rangers aren't they yeah they're very cool are very cool. The problem is when you drive a classic car too is everyone yells out, do a burnout. Oh, yeah. So you're obliged to do burnouts, but then you're also very wary that tyres aren't cheap. No. You do a burnout, you do six of those every week.

Didn't we take it along? TV3 had the idea for a promo, and it was going to be like a one second shot in amongst the promo of me doing a burnout in your car and we took it all the way down

to like a drag racing and I was like I'm not really that comfortable with the turnout but I'll do my thing and you were there and we're like

do you need this really need this can we pretend and they're like no they will do it it'll be fine and then I can't remember what it didn't seem like

it was my fault but something happened The diff blew Yeah Yeah And Yeah Because they kept doing mold

And it was like Let's do another take Let's do another take And I was thinking The car's not designed for this guys No And I think it was quite costly wasn't it It was yes

The diff blew That's right Yeah Because we were driving back down And going Oh that's not good And it turned out to be A very expensive promo

Yeah For the most expensive Probably more expensive down and going oh that's not good and it turned out to be a very expensive promo yeah the most expensive probably more expensive second by second than avatar yeah yeah for that one so i remember going well that maybe wasn't and going into it i was like i don't know if this is the best idea but hey you know that shoot down to the second and compared it to a second with avatar you're right you're right probably the most expensive more expensive than tom cruise doing that big stunt where you know the motorbikes are crashing down towards the ground all right well that was the burner phone for today thank you so much for your message and if you would like to leave us one if you want to join the burner phone podcast text burner phone to 4487 and we'll send you our digits you could be on tomorrow's

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