Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 81: Happy Birthday Kevin Boyce!

Episode Date: September 6, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone G'day there, welcome to the Burner Phone And if I could say one thing Ben boys It's the Burner for Hone Here we go, a bit of a theme song there Can we make a call, I don't know if I'll answer right now But I thought maybe I'll start Because I've been meaning to do this all morning, I haven't yet

So what I'll do as part of the burner phone. Who are we dialing? Oh. Kevin Boyce? My dad? This is birthday today. Oh, hello. Hello.

Who is it? Hello. It's John. I'm Ben here. It's Ben, your son. Sorry. It was a bit confusing. I was just ringing to say happy birthday on the podcast. I'll ring you later off the podcast, but it's part of the podcast. We just thought I'd be meaning to do it all morning and I was like, well, hey, let's do it as part of the podcast. Happy birthday. Podcast, thank you very much. Yes, this is being recorded, is it? Happy birthday, KB.

Thank you very much, John. Yeah, they're good. You always sound a bit like we've caught you off guard. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to do that. We, but I'm just listening to kids' speeches. Oh, no, you can get back to it. Get back to it.

Were the speeches that bad? Okay, just a minute. Do you want to say hello to Jono and Ben? Hi, kids. You're on the podcast now, well done Hello They're getting a chocolate later Have they said happy birthday to you as well?

Do they know it's your birthday? They absolutely have I don't know, I've had more messages today than I think I've ever had in my life Are you able to put us on speakerphone Kev? What's that? Are you able to put us on speakerphone, Kev? What's that? Are you able to please put us on speakerphone? What's this thing?

Hi. Wait a minute. Hold fire, please. He's trying to wait that out. It's all right. Take time. Here we go. It's coming.

It's hard when you're in the middle of a call, too. Yeah. Not doing very well here. It's all right. It was a tough request. It was tough to get one of these nine-year-olds to help me. That's fine. You don't need to.

I don't need it that badly. It's okay. Look, it's fine. We'll let you get back to work. I hope you have a great birthday. I'll call you later on. Thank you very much. Okay.

Thank you. All the best to you. Okay, see you. Bye. See you, Kev. There you go. I always love chatting with Kip

don't you just push the speaker thing yeah probably it's a lot going on I was like I'm surprised he answers the phone I'm pretty sure

you just pushed the yeah anyway happy birthday Kip wonderful guy Kip always happy to banter loves to chat

not even like picked up the phone in the middle of speeches yeah yeah yeah he's good he's a good talker like one of the things i love about dad he will talk to anyone and he will you know you go into a room anywhere and he'll make friends he'll talk to people it's a real it's a great skill you know just be able to chat to anyone you won't have to go oh geez i'm bringing dad along to this but you know he's just like great

you'll go talk to people make friends, find a common connection with someone, like working out where they're from. There's no such thing as awkward banter with Kev. No, just banter. Just banter. Just keeps going. Very good banter. Here's the message for today's Burner phone.

If you want to leave us one, you can text Burner to 4487. It'll bounce you back a number you can call. Hi. Sorry. I haven't seen him. I've been for, like, ages. I was around when I'm a fan, I've been for like ages, all around

when I'm jumping and sharing what's around. But I just want to say a song request for my sister. Could you do Counting Stars

by One Republic? That'd be amazing. I love her music, I love everything I used to do and that's just amazing. Okay, bye. Love you guys. Love your message. Yeah, everything you always do, and that's just amazing. Okay, bye.

I love you guys. Love your message. Yeah, we should get Counting Stars. I think we did play that the other day on the radio, but we'll try and work out. That doesn't count, mate. You know why? Yeah, because I guess we didn't request.

You didn't go. I did a reverse. We played that three days ago. Just tell them. We played it three days ago, yeah. We should definitely try and do the Counting Stars request. Did you ever request songs on the radio? I used to listen to the Top 9 at 9

The Hot 9 at 9, The Countdown Yeah, Top 9 at 9 was pretty much a radio staple everywhere Oh, it was, yeah Nighttime radio used to be so big with teenagers and young kids, didn't it? I remember in my room just had the radio on You'd listen to it at night Commercial radio would dream of the numbers. Yeah.

The audience numbers of that nighttime radio used to provide. Oh, because it was the way you could hear, you know, the newest and the coolest songs. It was pretty much the only way back then, wasn't it? It was a fun little, like, that's the good thing about radio. Here we are, propaganda, is it can be such a community experience, can't it? Like that.

Because you could pretty much guarantee that most of the teenagers in New Zealand were listening to nighttime radio at the same time. And you're like, oh, both of us are number two tonight. Oh, what? So you went to Christmastime. Oh, I should be number one. You know, like, yeah. You get really riled.

And now, having worked in radio. You're like, oh, it probably doesn't. You still got to hear that song next. But I know how those countdowns would work. Probably. Yeah. Let's just juggle it up every couple of nights. Oh, what?

You know, you need to keep voting. You need to get, you know. But yeah, it was. It was huge, wasn't it? It was really cool. I used to get annoyed, though, because you would record. Here we go. Old men talking about stuff.

But record on a tape deck. You know, you would record the songs off and stuff, and then somebody like us would talk over the start or the end of the song, which we do, and then you'd be like, oh, now I've got such and such talking all over it, you know? It was really where probably everyone who worked in radio has a very similar story about how they fell in love with radio.

And it was just listening to it, and then you'd end up doing your own radio show where you would have two tape decks. Did you do that? You had two tape decks and then you'd play one song off one tape deck and you'd pause and you'd be like, G'day, it's the man of the man of the man.

Here's one of the others on it. Boys to bed. And then you'd play off the other tape deck and you'd be recording the whole show on a third tape deck. I know. A lot of tape deck actually. So much tape deck.

And what a geeky way. What a geeky way to spend your childhood. But we all did it. It was the medium. Like, now you'd be making podcasts. Yeah. Or TikTok videos or things like that. You know, that was the creative outlet, you know, that you kind of had.

You kind of worked with what you got. And that was probably the easiest thing to do at that time. Yeah. The other thing I remember doing as well was trying to write the lyrics, pausing the tape, trying to write the lyrics for a song because you couldn't Google it back then. And then you'd get Smash Magazine or whatever

and they'd bring out the lyrics to like four or five songs. You'd be like, oh, that was what that was. Smash, amazing. You know, or whatever it was. You know, like you didn't know the lyrics to songs. Now it's so easy just to type on it and go. So on your Spotify and Apple music, yeah. Yeah, you're right.

They even have the lyrics on that. So I remember writing lyrics to songs out. Sometimes on cassettes, they would have the lyrics on the inside sleeve. That's right. Yeah, that was handy. I remember, Jesus, dark day, mate. Came out with the boys, bought myself a Cypress Hills cassette. Oh, yes.

Came home, Annie Pryor, not happy. Not happy. Not happy with the Lyrical content of Oh no But now you look back You're like Probably wasn't

You're probably right As a parent You're like You know Oh mate You play Cypress At bloody 2 o'clock In the afternoon

On the hits now Given some songs That are released Well true actually We probably have moved on I do remember My friend's dad Fired up

Same way about Rage Against the Machine And when it got to the They had some stuff to say He was like Oh I haven't done that You know Yeah come in You know we had same way about Rage Against the Machine. And when it got to the end, you know what, do what you told me. He was like, oh, I didn't do that. You know? Yeah, it can't be.

You know, we had wool. But every generation of young people had rebellious sounding music, didn't they? Yeah. That parents would look their, turn their nose up at. Although I was saying something the other day, and I don't know if it's true,

that kids to be rebellious these days, there's a lot of, you know, not everyone, but there's a lot of left know not everyone but there's a lot of left you know there's a lot of parents that are left so some kids are going the other way

they're going the other way and going all like turning into right wing bloody just to rebel against their parents because their parents are so left

you know the parents are going they're at all you know they're like well if I'm going to rebel well I'm going to start worrying about the economy

yeah the taxes you know we need tax breaks and all sorts I'm like because you do kind of you know and they're like well if I'm going to rebel well I'm going to start worrying about the economy yeah the taxes we need tax breaks and all sorts I'm like because you do kind of you want to do the opposite to what your parents do so if your parents are in that

you know then you're like you're not coming to smoke a doobie bro yeah you are going to be on the dole I think what I'll do

is capitalism thank you very much and I was like well maybe that I don't know if that's true or not but maybe that is a way that kids are rebelling these days that's funny i think swearing too geez the stuff we say around oscar and poppy but the theory being is if we say it make it fine they know it's wrong

they know not to go swearing in public and things like that but like i've got he's learning drums to killing in the name of at the moment. Right. Yeah, and all rage songs. He doesn't swear much though. Yeah. Maybe it's because we do it, he thinks it's uncool. Yeah, yeah. He's again doing the opposite. So we're raising a generation of nerds.

Nerdy capitalists is what we're doing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anyway, that was, jeez, we covered some stuff there. Kevin Boyce's birthday. Back to the beginning of this. What did we do? KB's birthday.

Talked to some kids. Tried to get on speakerphone. That didn't happen. Moved on to a bit of a request for counting stars. Then what did we do? Oh, Kevin Boyce just texted. He said, sorry, can't multitask. Just finished timing kids' speeches on my phone.

Couldn't put you in voice and volume. We'll talk later. Love heart. It's lovely. All understanding. We've got a lot going on So happy birthday to Dan I'll call him later

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