Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 83: The Next Actor Is Back??

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone to make these, but they're actually really good. I really enjoy them. Is it a Nashi? It tastes like a Nashi, but they're red on the outside. You can probably just see just a little bit of that. I have seen those in the supermarket. Yeah, they're really good. They're good, are they? I really like them. Yeah, they're more like the Nashis than the traditional pear, but I'm picking that a Nashi and maybe a Nashi and an apple hooked up.

I don't know. I'm trying to think who's hooked up to make that. Geez, they interbreed all the fruits, don't they?'m trying to think Who's hooked up to make that Geez they interbreed You know all the All the fruits don't they Yeah Particularly Who was I talking to The other day

And their friend worked As like a developer In the apple industry Yeah And They're on a constant quest To create the perfect apple And they haven't yet

According to this person But they've got like 97 varieties So many apples So many And some really big bangers The pink Pink Ladies, the Royal Galas. Like when you look at the fruit and veggie section of the supermarket, like apples have got something.

Like you don't have 19 different pumpkins. Or broccolis. No, it's just like easier broccoli. Tell you who competes though with the amount of different varieties taking up shelf space, the lettuce industry. Yes, you're right. They've chucked out all sorts of stuff in the lettuce game. Yeah, no, you're right.

I think we're a step away from buying lawn clippings. Yeah, yeah. You know? We really are. A lot of the, my dad, my, sorry, stepfather was involved in the produce industry for decades. Yeah. And he said a lot of like the mescaline.

Stepfather, yeah. Jeez, you've got some issues. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh, your dad, your stepfather, jeez. You've got some childhood trauma issues, haven't you? He said all the mescaline. Father-in-law some issues. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Your dad, your stepfather, geez. You've got some childhood trauma issues, haven't you?

Father-in-law. Father-in-law. That's the word you're looking for. That's the word I'm looking for. All the mescaline and stuff, that used

to just grow on the side of the road. Oh, really? And somewhere, somewhere along the line, they've convinced us that it's all fancy.

Yeah. Fancy. He's an iceberg guy, through and through. Oh, he likes the old iceberg. Likes the iceberg,

yeah. What's your favourite lettuce? No, I don't mind I don't mind an iceberg It's nice A cos Cos is good

Cos seems to keep quite well In the fridge Yeah For extended periods Isn't it the old cos Yeah the cos is good And crunchy It's good

Favourite apple though Like a bra I don't know There's something Braeburn's good You know Yeah A royal gala

A royal gala My Nana would love a Granny Smith yeah the green ones yeah they would peel off the outside as well she would

yeah she'd peel it off with a peeler the Granny Smith was very prevalent sort of 80s and 90s weren't many apples it didn't seem back in the day did it

red or green yeah like the wine red wine and white wine. Now it's all sorts, yeah. Do you remember your mum would come home with, like, cask wine? Oh, yeah.

They loved the cask wine. And then if you'd been good, they would let you use the bladder as a floaty in the power pool. Yeah, pretend to sit on it and sleep on it and all sorts, you know. Kids are, like, sucking on the dregs of wine and playing in the pool. The cask wine, that was an icon. I mean, they're still around, the cask wine. Country, wasn't it called country something? sorts, you know. Yeah. Kids are like sucking on the dregs of wine and playing in the pool. That was an icon. I mean, they're still around. The cast wine, isn't it?

Country. Wasn't it called country something? Yeah, it was. It was. Yeah. Country. Yeah. I'm sure it's still in the market.

Wine cooler was something that my mum and I. Miami wine cooler. That was beautiful. Yeah. That was kind of pals before they were pals, weren't they? Yeah. You knew it was going to be a big night when mum pulled out the wine coolers. I think it's just called country. I think, yeah.

Oh, it's country, yeah. Well, now you can still get it. It's just got big, you know, and then the variety underneath. I suppose it's still great white. A medium white. A dry white. Dry white. I'll have a dry white.

Red wine, medium white, or a dry white. You know, it wasn't like, there was no Pinot in sight. There was no, you know. Those were the options, yeah. Yeah, exactly. You can order that at Pizza Hut. All you can eat. I'll have a dry white wine, thanks.

Three litres. So what's that? Currently you can get that for about $26. Three litres? Three litres in a cast wine. A bottle wouldn't be a litre, would it? No, I wouldn't have thought so. A bottle of wine.

Jeez, three litres, $26. That's bang for your buck. Yeah. A what would be like 750 mils is it yeah about 750 mils yeah it is um so yeah you go you're right you've almost got four four times the amount well three times 26 for probably the price of a 750 yeah yeah so there you go yeah especially some fancy wine so there you go yeah that's yeah well if you didn't if you weren't too accustomed your palate wasn't too accustomed to wine that's probably just i i don't drink much wine so i you go yeah well if you weren't too accustomed your palate wasn't too accustomed to wine that's probably just I don't drink much wine

so I could probably go in there and have a drink wouldn't know the difference 27 bucks go back to the fridge pour yourself a little bit more and away you go

have it sitting in the fridge next to the you know the raro but Cas we should talk about that on the radio show here's the burner phone for today Now we must say too

We announced this morning that the Hits are giving away A trip for two to Taylor Swift and Feb Flights, ACOM You name it Are we doing the transfers thing? So they can look after their own transfers I'm not quite sure Producer Taylor's coming to talk about Taylor

Return flights for two flying Air New Zealand. Right. Now, usually you're the most important Taylor on this radio station, but now Taylor Swift is... Yeah, you're going to slip back to second seed. Yeah. So transfers looked after. But anyway, you couldn't get a more sought-after trip at the moment,

could you, in the radio competition game? Oh, totally. So long way around, I was going to say, our burner phone is being clogged up with obsessive Taylor Swift fans at the moment. Now you call the burner phone, eh? Yeah. Now. Where have you been?

Well, we've been in the trenches, mate. Battling away. 79 episodes. Yeah. Now you call us. Yeah, you're right. You're right, actually. People want that.

I mean, geez, they're fizzing for this, aren't they? But I don't know if this is a Taylor Swift- related voicemail, but we'll clear it anyway. Hello, John and Ben. I don't exactly have a question. Well, it's a question. When are you guys going to do more of the next actor? I am desperate for it. I've been showing all of my friends the old clips of it on YouTube.

I used to watch it when I've been showing all of my friends the old clips of it on YouTube. I used to watch it when I was younger and the old sitting still so that your parents can't see you and don't tell you to go to bed when it's too late and they don't even know that you're watching John Owen Ben. It's a childhood memory for me

so I need some more of the next actor please. Thank you very much. Oh thank you. Pop a segment on the next actor, please. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Pop a segment on the next actor. If you haven't seen it, that's where we controlled celebrities in a store via an earpiece. They pretended to work at the store, and we just got them to do a lot of stuff.

They looked very unhinged a lot of the time in the stores, didn't they? Yeah, they did. And I've been sort of feeding them back onto TikTok for a whole new generation, and jeez, they've been popping off. Are they? Yeah, they're popping off. Got a second life on the talk, eh? You know, just hundreds of, without a word,

hundreds and hundreds of thousands of views on each one. It's just been crazy. Robbie Magus-Evil, the one I put on the other day, 3.3 million views. Jesus. Really? Yeah. 3.3 million? Yeah.

Who's getting paid for this? Without a doubt, that's our most popular thing we put on TikTok. 3.3 million. Yeah. Yeah, it was a fun segment to do. It's a tough one, isn't it? Like, I don't know. Are we too old to prank people in shops now?

I don't know. I feel like you can get away with that one. I feel like some of the stuff we probably couldn't get away with but you need the celebrity out there they're doing it yeah

they're doing it I feel like it would be a very popular TV show we're talking about doing that as a TV show weren't we it was a fun segment

it really was although there were some hairy moments won't lie off camera where you do inconvenience people's days

and I think the worst one was I think we were in a Dunkin Donuts And A gentleman didn't take too kindly To what we'd made the person do to them So we came out We're like oh listen We're sorry mate

And he's like I've just had a really bad day Oh no you felt bad And you're like oh Because you weren't there to upset anyone But it was just You know like He just wanted to come and get a donut

Make his day better And we Because the joke was on the celebrity Yeah You know but it was like Oh I'll eat this to come and get a donut make his day better and we because the joke was on the celebrity yeah you know but it was like oh I eat this person's donut

before they or something like that I can't remember what it was and then the person was like hey I'll pay for that you know that one really cut it like it wasn't even

an angry one it was just a just a sad one but it was fun there were so many fun moments there was a whole new wave of celebrities too oh jeez

you get some angry people too remember we had a Shortland Street actor There's a whole new wave of celebrities too Oh jeez You get some angry people too Yeah Remember We had A Shortland Street actor I think In the burger place Yeah Yeah

And It was an overseas tourist I think it was Yeah Didn't it take kindly to something He'd like eat in a burger In front of Again something like that

Like disrespected him Yeah And we all Oh this is getting quite tense now Oliver Driver It was Oliver Driver Short Shortland Street director. And it was certainly not Oliver's fault in any way. We made him do it.

But then we came out and this guy was seeing red. And we were like, it's just a thing for the telly. It's just a joke. He has cameras and stuff. He's like, no, no, no. This is between me and him. And he was looking at Ollie. Hey, between me and him. And we're looking at Ollie. Hey, between me and him.

Oh, no, we're like, no, no, it's for TV, mate. He didn't even want to see us. He's like, don't care, I'm just going to talk about it. This is between him and me. And that was, we had to talk him down. Yeah, we did. I think he saw the funny side in the end. He did.

Yeah, where eventually, I think, because he wasn't listening, and then we're like, it's for TV and cameras. And I don't think we used it because we never always got people's permission. But then he was like, oh, I get this. This guy isn't just being really bad at his job. He just he's been made to do this and the other funny one which was we had laura daniel uh and she was shane cameron the boxer wonderful human being shane he was doing dancing with the stars and we sent laura in as uh the show's masseuse because obviously they're dancing 12 hours a day sort of thing so he was getting a massage and we were getting her

to like pour chocolate sauce on his back and like olive oil and he like it took him a while to notice what was happening and he was

he wasn't he was like what the heck is this stormed out and it wasn't until we were like even in the corridor we're like

Shane Shane it's us it's us he was like I didn't even click and then he went oh I get what's going on there.

I found it very funny. So good on him. So, yeah. But you're right. It'll be like just one of those things. What is this person doing? Putting bloody, you know, sauce and feathers on my back and stuff. Yeah.

But it was fun times, eh? The prank game. Prank game. Have some wins and losses. You do. But it was, no, it was enjoyable. And so long story short, we'd love to bring it back. Yeah. Next actor. It was quite complex wasn't it you'd had about six camera operators yeah

a lot of cameras yeah a lot of like secret cameras everywhere because you don't want to miss something you know like if they moved around and so what i loved is we had a hidden camera but it was in like a very suspicious sports bag yeah someone would have to carry over their shoulder there was a hole cut out of someone end. Always someone lurking around. The Sean Johnson one that we just put up recently has gone nuts on NRL sort of comedy sites. Oh, Starbucks. Yeah, yeah, because we took Sean Johnson a few years ago to Starbucks,

and he was pretending to work there. He was good. Producer Joel keeps sending it to me of all these NRL laughs and NRL sites, and they're all going around on that at the moment. Oh, that's good. And people are going, I can't believe they can't recognise him. He's the DATM Player of the Year that week. Well, we obviously edited around the people that did.

I mean, there's a few people that recognise him in it, but sometimes it's funny. It's not funny when people recognise him. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, he was good. He was really good. He was really good. He's committed to it. Yeah.

No, so it was fun. It was fun. And good sports for doing it. I don't know if I was in their position and then two people said, hey, do you want to come do this thing? I don't know how confident I would be going out to the floor and doing it. No.

Because you're out there by yourself. It's funny when you see it on TV later or online, on social, but you're right. In the moment, you're just that person out there by yourself. Harassing customers. Yeah.

So it was a good time. It was a good time. So that was the Burner Phone today. If you'd like to leave us a message or harass us for Taylor Swift tickets. 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.