Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 78: Fridayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Episode Date: August 31, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone commercial oh yeah nothing came of that one he's like listen i'll keep you on the books and i'll promise you a gig and i'm like because all you have to do is vacate the house for a day or two i'm like mate rent the house turn into a brothel i don't care i don't care what if you earn money while we're not there do it but anyway i don't know friends of ours did that where the world cup was on uh a few years ago just put it up in the airbnb their house moved out and it was like moved to their parents house for a and and made so much money through the World Cup just renting it out their house. Very clever.

I said, that's quite smart, isn't it? Because you'd probably pay your mortgage and some, wouldn't you? Yeah, especially if you can get free accommodation with a friend or a family member. Yeah, that's very clever. Anyway, he came back, this wonderful guy. He is late 50s and he looks 30. Wow. Crazy.

Yeah. And I said, what is the, like, I was like, look at this, mate. What can you do with this? And I was referencing my face and my age. So you know what the key was? He stopped partying. Stopped drinking, stopped all the nonsense. And he reckons that is the key to.

I thought it was gonna be popcorn you know at the start of the story i was saying i'm eating popcorn and you went do you know what and i was like you went into a big story and i thought jesus was gonna come back around because you felt like i just said i mean you're like that's cool but i say you've heard my popcorn story god yeah cool now i'll tell you another story unrelated but just a great story yeah i was like oh okay it's probably better i'm like i see what was the key to you know eternal youth he's like popcorn consumption it's gonna be i was like wow i thought it was gonna be like i ate popcorn every day yeah and that's something that i was like wow regular intake of popcorn that's what he told me snack food doesn't doesn't get too full. Like, the segue to that was, yeah, it just went straight away.

Very funny. Oh, there he is. There he is. Take a look there. What do you reckon? On his Instagram. Oh, yeah. It looks great.

Late 50s. It looks great. Like, almost in that era of Tom Cruise. Like, how do you look so fantastic? Yeah. Yeah. So not popcorn. Not popcorn, but, you know. Yeah. Really interesting. Interesting stuff. Yeah, obviously he was. He told me that So not popcorn, but yeah. Not popcorn, but you know,

really interesting, interesting stuff. Yeah, obviously it was. You told me that story, you know, like, unprompted,

that story. It's Friday, you know. Yeah, it's fine. We've been telling stories all week. Yeah, it's fine.

I didn't have any popcorn stuff. No. But if we want to, if we want to eat a wrap that, you know, sandwiched in popcorn, then let's do it. So popcorn's the way to looking good.

How much popcorn are you consuming a day no don't try it I'm not we've moved on from that now mate you moved on from it at the start very quickly

Ben Boy's prolific sneaker-er-innerer of popcorn into the movie theatre well I did don't you home contraband popcorn I don't anymore

I used to try it with my wife and she yeah she wasn't a fan of it and to be fair the popcorn's always better at the movies the popcorn from the movies is always something about getting it there

Did you get called out by the employee? Did you get caught? No, it was just my wife going you're embarrassing me don't take it out of a backpack It's not the quietest food to sneak out of a bag is it? No, so yeah, movies are very hard to eat quietly of a bag, is it? No. So, yeah. Movies are very hard to eat quietly at the movies, isn't it?

Yeah. It's bloody expensive, the movies nowadays, isn't it? I understand. The cost of making films and everything across the board has increased. Yeah, you're right. So you understand why. Make a night of it. That's the thing. You've got to make it a special occasion.

You do. It's fun. You do you do uh so today the burner phone this is uh apparently a follow-up message from our friend tanya who the other day we phoned on the burner phone podcast and you might remember her from taranaki apparently she phoned through with some some feedback from that phone call because we did uh answer the and Tanya, after me calling her four times, answered the phone with, who the F is this? That's right, yes. Why are you harassing me? So just to bring you back up to speed, here we go.

Is she eating popcorn? She might be having popcorn. Tanya from New Plymouth. I didn't say it on air, but the reason I'm not a grumpy person, I'm actually quite jovial. The reason why I was so grumpy was I had surgery on my right lower leg, like my ankle, I thought a year ago. And because I'm so tiny, I've got Crohn's, so I'm quite tiny. And the metalware has moved. So I've actually got screws poking out through my ankles, like through the skin.

So it's quite sore. I'm just waiting for surgery, which is going to be to be i think in october hopefully not for my birthday but um anywho um to get the metal wear out and it's quite sore and i had a taxi on its way because i get acc taxis and i for some stupid reason i was trying to get changed on my pj pants and the first thing i grabbed was my skinny jeans and i was you know wrestling to try to get my legs through and it was trying to get changed out of my PJ pants, and the first thing I grabbed was my skinny jeans, and I was, you know, wrestling to try to get my legs through, and I was really sore, and that's when the calls were just happening over and over and over, and I'm like, ah!

You know, and I hadn't taken pain tablets, hadn't even had a cup of tea yet. I was trying to make a doctor's appointment. But anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I had that grumpy response to the call. Oh, there we go. You didn't even have to clarify. I'd let you know that I had that grumpy response to the call. Oh, there we go. You didn't even have to clarify. No.

Because I thought that was probably the funniest call we've ever had. It was really funny. And like we explained on the radio, we played a little bit of it, that you'd rung her so many times over a short period. Producer Taylor had rung her. The phone would have lie, six or seven times over a couple of minutes. She'd be like, who the heck is this? On slot, on slot.

You know, and no wonder she's like, who the heck is this trying to call me? She obviously didn't use heck. No, you did, because that's lovely. That's lovely. What's the, you never say the C word, eh? That's your one word.

No, I don't like, no, I don't like that. Yeah, I don't find it, you know, but. I love using it. I'm using it, because it's such a versatile word too. Yeah.

Because you can be a good one, a bad one. You can be a real one. Yeah, people do use it. I mean, it's not like a, but I don't know. I just find it, I find it's a step. It's a step when you're swearing. Yes, it is. It's like, ooh, you're really, you know.

You're levelling up. You are. Yeah. I think in America it is actually considered like. Is it quite bad? Quite offensive. Yeah, right. Obviously there's more offensive words, but. Yes, yeah. I think in America it's actually considered like... It's quite bad. Quite offensive. Yeah, right. Obviously there's more offensive words,

but down here we use it in colloquialism all the time. Australia and New Zealand, we're throwing it out there. Yeah. But now back at, like, if you look at the history of swearing, take shit, for example, take that back to probably the 70s and 80s, it would have been terrible. You wouldn't even see 60s, 70s and 80s. It would have been terrible. You wouldn't even see 60s, 70s, 80s on radio, television.

It just becomes slowly accepted the more it's used in society. And there's words that probably way years ago that were really bad or words that have changed. It's interesting. Words, yeah. Obviously, they do carry a lot of meaning, some particular words. They can be very, very offensive. So who knows? Like in 10 years, we could be throwing C-bombs all over the radio. Obviously, they do carry a lot of meaning, some particular words. They can be very, very offensive.

So who knows? Like in 10 years, we could be throwing C-bombs all over the radio. G'day, Ben, you're good, you know? How you going? You're crazy. At that time, you wouldn't even say it. Now, look at you. Every second thing, you're like, g'day.

This great song's up next. Ed Sheeran, oh, he's a good, you know, like, you know. Ed Sheeran's still around in this hypothetical situation. Yeah, he would still be shooting out music. And he is a good one. He is a good one. Yeah, there we go. That's the Burner Phone for today.

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