Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 77: Technical Difficulties

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone I'm really not, I'm not, like, I enjoy the moon. I appreciate the moon and what it brings to us, tides and all the stuff it does. Yeah, yeah, it does. But I'm not waking up at one o'clock going, oh, look at this giant red moon, blue moon. If I'm driving around and, or I'm at home and I'll be like, and I see, like, I'm impressed. Oh, well, I have a moment. I'll go, oh, that's a cool looking moon. But then I'm not, that's it.

I wouldn't, you're right. I wouldn't go, get a family, come out. We've got to see this. Yeah, the last, you know, talked about moon, highly anticipated moon,

the red moon, blood moon. That's right. I took a photo of it and I was like, oh, I better, you know,

get a photo and I, it doesn't look good, eh? No, I did the same, I think I took a photo of it. Fireworks is another one, you take a photo of fireworks,

they never look good. I mean, obviously when you get a professional camera, like at someone at the Warriors or whatever, they had fireworks the other day, they take a photo of fireworks, they never look good. I mean, obviously, when you get a professional camera like at someone at the Warriors or whatever, they had fireworks the other day, they look great, you know, but I take photos of my photos

and I want to do it. But then again, when are you going to look at those photos? Oh, there's some blurry shots of some sky rockets going up. There's a little smoke through the sky. Yeah, so again, fireworks photos. Digital billboards,

they're another one that are hard to photograph. Quite tough. We've been lovely people at Go Media, which are awesome. I chatted to Mike at Go Media Stadium at the Warriors, and he was saying, we're telling him about the thing we did with Steve, who's a big Warriors fan from Wendy's. We took him along

to the game, and we're telling him about we surprised Steve, and he was like, hey, send me a photo, and I'll put it up on a billboard, which was lovely, and he did. It's still around town at the moment. You can catch these billboards. We'll be trying to take photos of it every time we see it. Bloody difficult.

Yeah, it's just digital billboards look great in person, but again, when you take a photo, it looks a bit, I don't know, something about the screen on the screen or something, eh? It doesn't quite work. So I'm gathering, sorry, you haven't lost me. I was just looking at my phone at what this moon's all about. This is the closest full moon that we're going to get this year. So it's more than 160 Ks closer than the super moon in August.

So this is going to be a big moon, mate. This is a big one. This is a biggie. And I do love the saying, once in a blue moon. And so now we're getting to experience a blue moon. So sounds like something you'd see the doctor about, wouldn't you? What, a blue moon you know like and so now we're getting to experience a blue moon so yeah sounds like something you'd see the doctor about wouldn't you it feels like well the moon would go see its doctor and go oh you know well maybe it's something that you would try and then you'd go and have to see the doctor

oh yeah you've given the blue moon a crack, the blue moon. Were you blue mooning? Yeah. It was the closest interaction that we've done for it. Yeah, no, you shouldn't have done that. But anyway, enjoy the

moon tonight, no matter what you're doing. Or not. Or sleep through it. It does drive people a bit bonkers, they do say, don't they?

People that believe in that. Full moons. Yeah, you're right. Do you believe in that stuff? I don't know. No, I don't know

enough about it. I'm not a big star sign person, but again, if that's your thing you need to believe in, that's what you need to believe in. I'll tell you what I believe in. I believe in voicemails, mate. The power of voicemails. And that's what this is all about, the burner phone.

You can leave us a message. Text BURNER to 4487. You'll get the number, and you can leave us a message like this wonderful person. Hi. I hope it's not five years that chance of this. It'll all be gone by then. You had

a list of the songs for your best hits running through from round one, round two, and et cetera, and I've been following it, and now it's vanished off your page, and I don't know where it's gone, so could you please put it back? It's been wonderful following it, and I've been copying it.

Thank you. Bye. We're doing the best song ever at the moment. Yeah. Yeah, so people, if you've not been listening on the radio, people have been voting for their favorite songs and putting them head-to-head into a FIFA-style tournament, I guess a knockout-style tournament,

and we're getting to the last day. Today, as we're recording this podcast, is in the middle of the finals, the quarterfinals. But I think the website, we've had some website issues, a cooling system issue. Yeah, so what's... We've learnt a bit about it. We have, yeah.

We'll peel back the curtain here. I think we're okay to talk about this. Yeah, all of the companies... It's Canberra's fault. Yeah, it's Canberra. Canberra. Canberra. So all of the company's websites are run in a big, giant hard drive, which apparently is located in Canberra Canberra So all of the company's websites are run In a big giant hard drive

Which apparently is located in Canberra And it's in Canberra And they put it in underground caves This hard drive So it remains cool This is what I'm told I know it sounds wild I know it does sound wild

But I was there with the same conversation This is what we got told And the hard drives in the underground caves Obviously not doing their job Of keeping the hard drives cool Because they've overheated, and thus freezing all of the company's radio station websites. I don't know if the Herald is having the same problem as well.

The Herald's also part of our company, New Zealand Herald. They might have frozen as well. And all of the websites are frozen on the front page. Therefore, no back-end be Uploaded to the websites Therefore You can't vote At the moment On the website

For For the And they're back up now They're all back up now Because I was looking This doesn't really matter though It depends on when you listen To the podcast

Yeah but thank you Joel But yeah they are Officially they are back up now As of 10.38 Oh so The lovely person Who just left us a voicemail, they'll be able to follow along.

The Canberrisians have sorted out the overheating issue in the caves, and we're back online. But isn't that incredible? That's the other thing that winds me up about this building. Our air con is controlled by someone in Australia for this building. Yeah. Remember we wanted to turn the temperature down. You can't, mate.

You've got to call Australia. We're in a meeting room. That's right. We're like, oh, it's a bit, I can't remember, hot or cold, whatever it was. And we're like, no, like, no, can't do that. You've got to contact Australia. Who do we call in Australia? Yeah, just contact Australia, mate.

We've placed a lot of faith in Australia running stuff for us here, haven't we? Yeah. Our hard drives, our air con system. I mean, what does some guy called Derek in the aircon building in Toowoomba know what temperature we need here? Exactly. You're right. They're over there

and they're lovely. They're corkettes and they're lovely temperatures, aren't they? But that is interesting. The world is being centralised, isn't it? Who was I talking to the other day? Can't even remember. But their entire call center, all in Bangladesh. Yeah.

Everything is in Bangladesh. I mean, it's sad in a lot of ways for local jobs and stuff, but I guess from businesses, you know. Cost saving. Which hopefully means that the businesses will survive and be able to employ people. Who knows what we're paying those poor buggers in Bangladesh, but they're 24 hours a day. They're answering our calls. Cost saving, which hopefully means that the businesses will survive and be able to employ people. Who knows what we're paying those poor buggers in Bangladesh,

but they're 24 hours a day. They're answering our calls, mate. Ready to go. All right, that is the Burner phone. If you want to leave us a message, you can just text BURNER to 4487. We'll flick you back the number, and we love receiving your messages. 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.