Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 67: AI Is On To Us

Episode Date: August 14, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone Kia ora, welcome, it's the Burner Phone The podcast that is existing on multiple podcast platforms That's right, no one can deny us that There's a lot of misleading facts in the podcast game And that one is 100% true We're existing We're participating, we're playing the podcast game.

Sometimes that's all you get asked for. Do you ever think podcasting, just talking a bit of shop here, Ben Boyce, do you ever think podcasting will ever take the reins away from terrestrial radio? It's an interesting one. A lot of debates happening in the industry about that. I think radio at the moment is great in your car. It's holding its own. The convenience of listening to radio in your car is a biggie for a lot of people,

but that's not to say that other people don't like listening to podcasts in their car. I know the television industry, the terrestrial TV 1, 2, 3, 4s, they are really really really having a readjustment period uh with how people digest content on demand is the way to go now i think a lot of places they just all they care about is the on-demand figures not so much what's happening on tv do you ever think radio will get to that point well i don't know it's an interesting one because yeah it's i feel like podcasts are something that you listen to predominantly by yourself. Yep.

So when you have other people in the car, you don't normally go, let's chuck on a podcast. But there are some podcasts that people will enjoy together. Who wants to listen to my specific podcast on gardening or something? Yeah. So maybe if you're in a car trip with a lot of people. But not to say that you can't find a podcast for everyone. Now, I'm going to go this might be uh a bit of irony i'm gonna go to artificial intelligence to ask if radio is going to oh it'll be a thing yeah yeah

because uh potentially artificial intelligence could probably run this whole industry on its own yeah without all of us we won't say that too loudly okay uh will radio be around for how many years? How many years do you want out of it? Oh, let's say 20 years. For another 20 years. What's chat GPT got to say on this? While I don't have access to future data, granted, I'll give you that. Hold on, it's just listing off. Here we go.

The future of radio depends on several factors, so it's not going to give us a definitive. No. Don't think you're going to have job security out of this answer. Yeah. Okay, buddy. Technology. As technology continues to advance, radio may evolve further

to incorporate digital formats, internet streaming, and other innovations to remain competitive. You wonder about that. Like if the particular show that we were doing every morning was suddenly just you could get it on iHeartRadio. Streaming. Straight away, bang. And then it just repeated throughout the day until a new one was.

That is probably the future of where we're heading. Yeah, or you listen to it. You can listen to the hits on iHeartRadio as it is, you know. Yeah. Content. Is the content engaging and relative? Now, this falls on your shoulders, buddy. Yeah, that's up to us.

Okay, that's up to you. That's not GPT. That's not the bosses. That's on us. Competition. It all depends on competition. Streaming services, podcasts, other digital media, how they are going to play a role in the future of radio broadcasting.

Yeah. Local relevance is a strong point. They're saying there's not many podcasts that can offer you local relevance. Well, those times at radio, I feel like really, really, you come together over radio as when we went through COVID. Floods. Floods, disasters. Unfortunately, with things like that, you need the news,

you need the traffic, you need the information. Sports games and updates and stuff like that as well to a smaller extent, but times you sort of come together and it's live, it's in the moment, and you need the information. Sometimes radio is the place that people turn to. Yeah, I know. Adam and Megan, who host the Hits Hawks Bay, when the floods were happening, they were, for many people, the only form of communication they had.

Oh, for the cyclone, yeah. For the cyclone, yeah. Yeah. Sorry, not the floods, cyclone. Yeah. So, I mean, hey, and saying, considering all these factors, it's plausible it could still be around in 20 years. Plausible, all right.

Don't chuck in plausible 20 years. Plausible, all right. Don't chuck in plausible in 20 years. Yeah, okay. However, it may be quite different from what you are used to today. Oh, and that's probably every industry. It is, yeah. It's an evolving time. You shouldn't be scared of change. It's just how can you be a part of that change, I guess, is where you're heading there.

But, yeah, I'm worried about this AI business. A lot of people are aren't they? Rightfully so too. It's pretty smart. Because people are like oh it doesn't have personality now or it doesn't pick up on specific brands or types of humour. I was like well there's only a couple of years till that's probably a possibility.

Yeah you're right at the rate it's moving. Well we're pumping all this data into it, information. It's going, thank you, thank you, thank you. I will better myself with that. Intel, thank you very much. The burner phone, though. Tell you what, AI won't be doing this, will they?

If you'd like to leave us a message, you can text burner to 4487, and what that will do is bounce back the telephone number, and you can leave us a voicemail like this person. Received today at 10.32am. Hey Jono and Ben, I don't like my voice, I am sending via this voice. What is your most prized possession? It has to be a proper answer as well, not something lame like family. Oh, there we go.

So that sounds like the voice off TikTok, doesn't it? The automated. It does. Speaking of AI. Maybe it's a question from AI. Oh, AI's thrown one back to us after we threw a curly one at AI. Most prized possession, and it can't be something lame like your family, because we all know loving your family is lame, Ben.

It's lame, yes. It's lame. According to AI. Most prized. Yeah, that's a really, really good question. I mean, your car would have been for you. I was thinking for a while that was probably your prized position for many, many years. You had an old classic car.

This might just be a thing with age. I have placed less and less value on possessions as life has gone on. Yeah. You know? Probably if you'd asked me this question in my 20s, I would have said the Kingswood, you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that is it. But now I'm kind of like,

ah, if it goes, it goes. There's other positions in life. It's something that, you're right, it's probably as you grow up, it's probably something that you place on. Yeah. Other importance.

Yeah, other important things. I mean, off the top of my head, and this is actually not my position, but we have it in the house like something like the all blacks top that my wife's granddad had we have that on the wall sentimental value you can go out and buy an all blacks top from rebel sport but you haven't got that i tell you what i make a photo album every year of the family the whole year that we've done with the family stuff and i always think we have a fire the family stuff. And I always think, we have a fire.

I don't have the, I mean, all those have made, you know, like 12, 13 of these. How long does it take? It takes, you know, a good few, quite, you know, a few days to kind of chip away at it. And then you print it away and you put it there and you can look at it. I'm probably like, oh, that's the one thing that, you know, because it's hard to replace that item.

Whereas like, you can get a new couch, you can get a new TV and things like that. But that's all going back through. I mean, you could go back through your photo stream and start again, which that seems like a task. Oh, but I wouldn't probably do that. I'd be like, oh, it's gone. But yeah, it's probably something like that. So your photo album.

A photo album for some reason, which is not something, yeah, just because it's so hard to replace and there's lots of good memories in there. I can't even think of a good answer for this. Most valued or treasured item? You probably just go the house.

Yeah. Just because if that went down that seems like a giant burden. Yeah. Doesn't it? Have to replace everything. The house is probably

a big wide one. Well, it's got everything in it, right? Yeah. But if you're like, if what's going to be the biggest pain in the ass if it ever went missing, you'd have to say house. Everything it, right? Yeah. But if you're like, if what's going to be the biggest pain in the ass if it ever went missing,

you'd have to say house. Everything in the house, yeah. Yeah. It would be. It's pretty devastating when you see those, you know, poor people that get, you know. Oh, in a way. Yeah.

Get their houses and everything destroyed, you know, it's just like, everything's gone. The terrible stuff. Yeah. People have actually lost everything. Yeah. Speaking of the Hawke's Bay,

the cyclone and stuff, there was somebody who worked for the company. They lost everything. They're like, I can't work. My work computer was at home. It's gone. And that really puts everything into perspective, doesn't it? And I mean, yeah, it would be annoying if I lost the photo,

but there's nothing compared to losing family and friends and loved ones and houses. Loving your family, Ben. Remember what the AI said? I couldn't do that. Couldn't do that. Okay, you've given a serious answer. What's the funny answer?

Like your figurines? You've got multiple figurines? A fibreglass cow was something that popped into my head. It's just looking pretty. I need to keep saying it. You've still not done that up. No, no. It's finding the time to do that.

Covered in moss and mold. Yeah, and it's broken apart and stuff as well. One of the horns, the cow's sort of horns, it's a life-size fibreglass cow. That's got it broken off now, so I'm like, I nearly need to fix that. I imagine birds just perch on the fibreglass, do they? Yeah.

It's just a place for birds to hang for a bit. It's all, yeah. It's a big cow. You snuck a lot of alcohol into stadiums in that cow, didn't you? Yeah, and it's got an empty, it's empty inside, and it sort of had a hole cut in underneath it where you put a little keg inside it when we snuck it in. So that's where sometimes the cat sleeps in there.

Inside the cow? Which is kind of a bit weird. It jumps up and sleeps in there. I guess it's a place to sleep. Probably offers a bit of shelter. So that's something. But again, you could replace it, but it probably doesn't have that sentimental

value of something like that. You're never going to get around to buying another fibreglass cow. No, I'm definitely not. Well, there you go. That was the Burner Phone today. If you'd like to leave us a message, you're more than welcome. If you want to join the Burner Phone podcast, text BURNERPHONE to 4487 and we'll send you our digits.

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