Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 64: What's your favourite cake ever?

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone a phone have you actually got any voicemails hanging around on your actual phone been oh no i'm pretty good i do love the satisfaction of deleting uh messages you know yeah i love the one or two things it goes and i'm like yeah gone and you know and i'm like that could get what's your bank account because i've got five thousand dollars to give you i'm like gone sorry deleted i've dealt with that you love just jumping ahead to five, eh? Yeah. Is five the delete? Level six, is it? Yeah. One saves, one deletes.

I can't remember, I think, yeah. But yes, this is the burner phone. You can leave us a message on our burner phone. Just text 4487, put the word burner in, and it'll bounce back. It'll bounce back the number. What's the best message you think you've ever received? Best phone message.

Oh, that's... I'll try off the top of my head i can't um i can remember a uh a message from a former boss actually a voicemail message yeah i was doing a solo show yeah and i clearly wasn't cutting the mustard and uh the boss it would have been great for the boss because I didn't answer the phone. He's like, hey, by the way, new co-host starts Monday. And that was the voice message.

Oh, that was the voice message. He's like, I'm off on annual leave now. It wasn't a call me back situation. No, he's like, you can sort things out. It starts Monday. And I was like, geez, if I was in the boss's position, that would be quite possibly the dream scenario

nothing better than when you have a what do they call them tough conversation sometimes courageous conversation here's a test right now I want to see if it works

so let's see producer Taylor have you got your phone here yeah okay like I always wanted to test this theory now you get Taylor's

number up on your phone I'll do the same and if we both call at the same time will it go through to the message? Oh, yeah. Will it actually? Taylor.

I'm sorry. There we go. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. So hang on. We'll go.

I'll go on here. Because I always wondered that if you could beat the system. So you don't answer. You don't answer. Okay. Okay. Three, two, one. I'm calling. Jono. I've got Jono first. Oh, so Jono. So you don't answer okay okay three two one i'm calling jono i've got jono first so jonas you would answer that yeah should i answer it hello hello hello hi so i've got

message i've got message so i'm in that situation i'm great i'm like hey taylor uh sorry you lost your job you know but i've got the message sorry and this is a really weird way for you to find out you lost your job. Yeah, but Jono's going to have to do it like he's ringing as well and now you're talking to each other. But I wonder if that would, like, you know, would trick the system into going straight to message, but it doesn't quite work. One always sneaks through.

Yeah, yeah. I guess that makes sense. Yeah, no, that was a good little social experiment. I always love it when you're on a phone conversation and for whatever reason the phone cuts out and you both phone each other back and the first thing you say is don't know what happened there yeah you know as if but why would you know what happened there who's ever gone unless you're talking to a technician from spark or one new zealand no but it feels like maybe but you've

gone oh have i hung up or like i don't know what happened there either i didn't do anything yeah anyway here's today's message for the Burn Up. Oh my God. Hi, Jonah and Ben. Hey, sorry. I know you guys hit the cake-a-thon this week. Very exciting. I was wondering what's the best cake you have ever been given?

And also, do you guys actually think you'll be able to make all those cakes? There you go. A lot of talk about the cake-a-thon happening. The birthday cake book, the iconic one from most people's childhoods uh and we're doing all 106 cakes best cake uh ever ever made or tasted i can't yeah yeah what have you ever what have you ever tasted which yeah i would go uh cheesecake shop Rainbow cake Stunning Oh yeah The stun

It looks grotesque When you look at it You're like I'm not going to enjoy that But it's light Fluffly Fluffly Fluffly

And it's so delicious Like you can have it for Oh So it's cheesecake I don't mind cheesecake It's kind of like a light Fluffy Fluffly

Fluffly sponge cake Okay Mate multicoloured But the interesting part about this, and maybe you've suffered the same fate if you've had the rainbow cheesecake from the cheesecake shop, is what comes out.

Oh, magical. What? Magical in colour. Oh, really? Multi-coloured. Is it like when we drank all those traffic lights? The traffic light system was a thing in New Zealand for COVID,

and we decided to celebrate the end of it, because we'd had enough of it, by drinking a world record amount of traffic lights, the drink, which is orange, green, food colouring. Red, food colouring as well. It was basically like a traffic light. And everything that just came out was... Multi-coloured.

For days, for days for days like a rainbow it was like well i was very much at the back but like the incredible hulk what i imagine he would have been it was very green very toxic looking for days i was like maybe that's me forever like maybe i was i thought i thought the same thing it was just for a couple of days i was like okay this is a laugh and then it got it got to the point you know four or five days and you're like, okay, this is a laugh. And then it got to the point, you know, four or five days in, you're like, hold on. This is it. This is no laughing matter. This is what my outside business is going to look like.

And you're just thinking the inside, are you just stained with food colour? Yeah, it must have been. I'll tell you what, a cake I saw the other day, we're talking about best cakes. Someone had a birthday party. I found a picture online. It was just Krispy Kreme donuts,

but piled together on, like a cake, with candles on top. Everyone came on and just grabbed a donut. That's great. I was like, that's a great idea. It's just like a tower of donuts. It looked impressive. All the kids came along, grabbed a donut, away they went. The caker, Jordan Rondell, we spoke to her the other day on the show, just getting

some advice ahead of our cake baking marathon. Didn't give us the exclusive, did she? She shut down the shop. Next day. Pretty much that day. Because we said, how's the business going? She's like, great guns, the packet stuff's really where she's focusing in on. Yes, definitely.

Because she's shutting down her operation in New Zealand as far as the store goes. She's awesome. I mean, she's done amazingly, amazingly well. And she's still got stuff in New Zealand and in America. But I was like, hey, we talked to you. We could have been us. She spoke to Jono and Ben about it. And said, yeah, listen, guys, time's up on the store.

But yeah, I'm going to miss that store because we had one of the lemon cakes the other day. Ooh, if someone's going away. Exquisite, exquisite cake, Ben. I guess that's the thing now because you'll still be able to buy the packet version and make it yourself, and apparently it's quite simple. But, you know, it's not that hard to make and it still tastes amazing,

but you can't go in and purchase something incredible. So, yeah. But good on her. She's done so well. Now the back end of that message too was, do you think we can make 106 cakes? I have no doubt it's going to happen. How much of a role we play in that, that's where the question mark is. I mean, we're going to have wonderful Jenny Boyce,

your mum's turning up, wonderful listeners from all over the country, Nelson, Auckland, you name it, everywhere, coming to help. They have skills. I have full faith in those people. Imagine, hopefully, that we can do stuff when they're like, you put that on there, put that, you know. I want to be useful. Yeah, exactly.

So I think I'll be fine. I mean, the cakes, bless the book, but they weren't super complicated. Pretty basic. Except for the train cake and stuff. A lot of them. It was at the beginning

of our cake journey. Yeah, cakes have really come a long way since the book. You look at some of those cakes compared to what they are now where you watch that Netflix show. Is it cake? I mean,

if you bought one of those, they'll like cake you're like here you got me again is this cake yeah no that's definitely not even a good one too that show they're making handbags they're making shoes they're making all sorts and they're like you wouldn't know the difference between the actual period that's the premise of the show and but yeah so none of those none of our cakes is it cake sounds like hands down the worst format for a tv show ever but then when you watch it you're like i can't take my eyes off i think i read somewhere it was like the most popular show on netflix for a time i wouldn't be surprised because everyone's like what is this garbage then you're like oh is it cake

no that was definitely cake imagine who came in and pitched that to the execs they're like that would have been a tough sell is it cake and you're like oh god I don't know

definitely when you're in the boardroom you'd bring in a cake and you'd be like what is this was this cake

or not oh that's cake ah it's not watch me cut into it you know so yeah great great idea so hey

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