Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 79: We've Been Scoped...

Episode Date: September 3, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone Thanks Joel Sorry we're just having a conversation with Joel in our ears Welcome along to the Burner Phone That's what I really do appreciate about your Average run of the mill talkback host News presenter on TV as well Is they are broadcasting

So they're talking as we are now But they'll have people talking in their ears As they are also talking it doesn't happen very often to us uh but when it does geez it really throws you trying to listen and be also trying to carry on that same conversation so i'll try and do it now joel can you hear me now so i'll just try and i'll talk and you talk in my ear and i'll see if i can continue on doing it so welcome along to the on doing it. So welcome along to the Burnerphone. Welcome along to the Burner.

My wiki was good, thanks. The Burnerphone podcast. See, I'm now taking my headphones off just to hear what you're saying. What we're here today is we clear the voicemail. So I don't know how that sounded, but he was talking in my ear the whole time. You know, I think you answered a question to him midway through that too. It's a real talent. I don, I think you answered a question to him midway through that too. So yeah, which, yeah. It's a real talent. It really is because you have to, I don't know how you do it.

I don't know how you engage the brain to have your mouth keep moving and thinking about what's coming out. Especially for long periods. So you can get little bits where they'll like take call of three or something. You're like, cool, I got that. You know, if someone's going, now don't go to the call of three because they're like, what are they trying to say?

We've got a bit of a mix up. You guys are going to need to, you're like, what? Yeah. to say? We've got a bit of a mix-up. You guys are going to need to, you're like, what? Real, yeah. It's a real skill. And it's something that the audience doesn't even know is happening. No, no. If you do a terrible job, they know something's happening. If you do a good job, it's no idea.

But they just had someone banging it, reading the bloody Harry Potter book series in the air while they were doing a news report live from Kabul. We did a live thing last year where it all went out live on TikTok. Remember that? And it was a lot of fun to be part of. And we had an earpiece in because the director who was doing this live thing was going to be talking to us from time to time, just a little bit,

which is fine. There's two of us. One of us can listen while the other one talks. But what happened is we somehow got connected to everyone's microphones, remember, who weren't even part of the thing they were just the next guest coming up so they had been miked up ready to come on but you could hear everything they were saying and we could hear lance savalli uh a world-renowned dancer just going off at his friend on his foot on the phone the face on the phone conversation outside going what you went and saw avatar without me you son

of a like he's like abusing his friend and we were all like trying to have a conversation and interview someone else but all you hear is coming through the prick went to

Avatar without me so distracting and you couldn't really take the earpiece out because in case the director was going to say something to us

so you kind of caught the situation going wow Lance is really upset about not going to Avatar with his mate but couldn't reference it until we had Lance

come up later. And he's like, how did you know about that? You're like, oh, mate. Oh, he heard you abusing him outside. Yeah, it was a fun time. That's right. The Burner phone. You can leave us a message.

You can text BURNER to 4487. It'll bounce back the number that you need to call. But here is today's message. Hi, Jonathan, Ben. It's Brianna and Ash. We saw your car when we were coming through a roundabout, and I think we scared, like, five people off the road with how loud we were screaming with the windows down. It's Sunday the 3rd of September, 2023.

It's 12.23pm, and I hope you guys are having a good day, whatever you fucking get around to do. Oh, now this is, we met them yesterday in Tauranga at the Ames Games. We did, yeah. We were driving from Auckland to Tauranga in a car with our faces on, which we mentioned on the show today. Not great if you're wanting to do a runner from a petrol station, Ben, having a car with your face on it.

Not great if you're needing to do a ram raid as well. Keep forgetting that we would. We had our faces on. People were like, oh, yeah, because it's like, it's John Owen Ben inside a John Owen Ben car. Yeah. Nothing really draws more, you know, you don't like that sort of attention on the road, though, do you?

You really got to watch your speed. You're indicating, don't you? Yes. Particularly me. Yeah. In an unsigned written vehicle, a bloody renegade on the road, but not when it's got your face on the side. But yeah, now these people, these two were wonderful.

They'd followed us. They said, we've followed you for 20 minutes or something. Yeah. All the way to Bay Park. How obvious were we of the fact that this was happening? We would never be good like criminals, would we? No. Because we wouldn't know if we were being tailed by the authorities.

Oh, what the FBI turned up. We didn't even notice them. They've been following you for like nine weeks. Yeah. So anyway, we met lovely people yesterday. I had a photo with them. It was been following you for like nine weeks. Yeah. So anyway, we met lovely people yesterday. I had a photo with them. It was lovely, actually. It was lovely.

Yeah. Ames Games, if you don't know what it is, it's just basically 11 and 12-year-olds. Yeah. 11 and 12-year-olds. Yeah. Intermediate age. Yeah. Competing in sports in Tauranga and the Mount.

And it is such a great event. Over 12,000 kids from all around the country. Even kids come over from the Pacific Islands. Yeah, I didn't realise that yesterday as well. No, they had been for the last few years with COVID. International students as well. Every sport, yachting, ripper rugby, futsal, basketball, netball. So many different sports.

Well, hip-hop. Even hip-hop as well took place. Okay, so you're an adult. We do have an advantage physically, mentally, over these children. What sport do you genuinely think you'd be able to beat those kids at if I entered you in one? Yeah, I'm not. I reckon the kids, yeah.

It's just clipped the other day. It was quite interesting. I think they had three professional footballers taking on just like about probably 40 to 50 kids. And it was like the professional footballers taking on just like about probably 40 to 50 kids. And it was like the professional footballers taking them on in a full field game. Well, the highlight I saw was the professional footballers scoring a goal. But it looked like bees swarming around the ball as the kids are all trying to get. I'd be worried you'd kick the ball and it would get into a kid's face because they're of the height.

You can't really go too hard on that one. I'll show you that clip afterwards. It's quite funny. I don't know how I would be worried you'd kick the ball and it would get into a kid's face because they're of the height. You can't really go too hard on that one, yeah. I'll show you that clip afterwards. It's quite funny. I don't know how I would be. Like, I would, you know, even like you'd think, well, what advantage would you have? But you were saying there's kids that age, like basketball, for example, there's kids dunking at age 11 and 12 years old, which is wild.

I can't dunk, you know? No, you're right. I don't know if basketball would be the one. Maybe like, it'd have to be a solo sport of some description so you could get inside the kids' head. You know, mentally get to them. Yeah. Because that's where we've got the advantage. We can manipulate them.

Yeah. Oh, you think you're good, do you? I feel like cricket, because I played a bit of cricket, I might do okay at a certain age, but even still, I feel like... There'd be some certain age but even still I feel like there'd be some really good cricketers yeah like I might be able to bowl faster

just because I'm bigger but not that I'm a fast bowler but even still but we're not talking about taking out a gold I'm just ending you in the you know first second round

of the tournament maybe I could go futsal as a goalie not that I've had a goal experience but just because I'm bigger you know you know

that's good but maybe I don't know you know, like, you know. That's good. And wide, but maybe, I don't know. I want to like badminton. Oh, yeah. I like badminton because it's a slower version of tennis. You know, you can just go. Yeah. Yeah.

You don't have to run around too much. Just have to be consistent and hit the thing back. Yeah. The shuttlecock. The shuttlecock. I get to say cock as well. I get to say cock too. Which is a big plus to that you know i think

that's why a lot of people get into it well yesterday actually we had a bit almost a scandal ben and it was happening live in the moment on the stage because we hosted the opening ceremony for the ames games 10 000 kids over two shows here you go here you go here's the footage now so look at it it's a hundred kids hundred kids taking on three professional sports players the professional football players are a lot faster than the kids too. But there's only three of them on a field. But yeah, look, it's like a scene from like Lord of the Rings or Braveheart where there's a battle going on here.

But they score a great goal. There's like 12 goalies in the goal as well. But then they get a fantastic goal here, over the top, bang. Oh, they've got a goal Oh beautiful yeah I thought they were Going to strike it in hard But he just did a gentle

Header over the top Over the top of the kids And that's the advantage You've got the height advantage But pretty incredible They've tested it How many You know

100 kids Well then in that instance Height advantage Basketball We would probably We wouldn't be too bad At basketball And that's just purely

On the height advantage Because we're taller Yeah That's looking at the physicality of it Yeah we had a funny Because we did the opening ceremony Two shows 10,000 kids

Eat your heart out Wiggles Oh yeah There's probably more audience Than the Wiggles over a day It felt like I felt like frenzy Because we've been But far less pay

We've been You know we're doing the odd It's the MC job from time to time. And normally New Zealand crowds, you have to kind of warm them up, you know. Not these kids. No. They were, you come out there and go, hey, we're John O'Meara. It didn't matter what you said.

They were just ready to go. But you had a great idea that we'd get giant inflatable balls and have a race. So we'd put the balls on the crowd and they'd have the first balls back. Yeah. And I was like, okay, we're about to get have first balls back to the thing and I was like okay we're about to get our balls out and I was thinking and I wasn't doing

the innuendo but then we're like okay then we're going to put our ball out you're going to you made it you made it weird but it wasn't meant

to be weird no we're going to throw our balls out into the audience and you were like afterwards you're like

oh there's no other way to say it no it was like yeah because we were going to have

a Jono one and a Ben one so you're like well my you know as soon as you go to say it. No, it was like, yeah. Because we were going to have a Jono one and a Ben one. So you're like, well, my boy and I. As soon as you go to say it, you're like, oh. Anyway, that was fun. Hey, well, thank you for those two people following us. I don't think anyone's ever followed us beyond sort of a kilometre bed. Yeah.

Yeah. And although, yeah, that would probably be it. That would probably be congratulations. It looked cool. Someone actually put it on their Instagram. They were sitting at the back of the thing of the Ames games. The Bulls, they said John and Ben got their Bulls out. And I'm just showing you right now on the phone.

It looked cool, eh? It did look cool, yeah. The big massive Bulls getting moved from the crowd, like kind of crowd surfing the Bulls were back and forward. I said, it looked good. Bloody big crowd, mate. I know. We'll never play to an audience like that again.

I never to that level, too, of people wanting to. We've done the Music Awards, and it's probably not as many people as that. But they didn't want you. That was no frenzy when we came out. 4,000 people, trendy-looking people, looking at you with disdain at the Music Awards. Not there. Not the kids. They don't know disdain just yet.

No, they just get excited, so that's what we loved about it. So enjoy the Ames Games. If you're taking part and it was lovely to meet everyone including people who left a message on the Burner phone as well. If you want to join

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