Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 85: Ben's Lowest Moment..

Episode Date: September 12, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burner Phone Hi, that's us, that's the Burner Phone Great to have you here, it's a podcast only episode This is just bespoke for you, listening right now Bespoke audio content That has just been created for no other people apart from you Why don't you leave us a message, voicemail message, you can text Burner

to 4487, bounce the phone back. Where do you listen to the Burner phone? Oh, that'd be cool to know. Yeah, what are you doing

when you're listening to whatever this is we do? well, because it's dictated by you, whatever it is, but today we've got someone who's text through the Burner phone.

Yeah, we'll get on shortly. We thought we'd call them back and instead of leaving a message we can have a chat with them because we were talking on the radio today about one in ten? One in ten Brits, so two million in total, wash their towels once a year.

Once a year. Jeez, I start to question myself if I've pushed it four or five days, the towel. Yeah, I get confused, and I screw up the system at home, because I just use a towel rack and a heated towel rail. I don't know. My wife is very good at remembering which one she'd use. I, you know,

it's, it's four in the morning. I don't know. I kind of like, I just grab a towel from there and then I'll use that. I think it's the same on the next day. And she'll go, that was the one I used yesterday.

That was that. Oh, that's all, you know? So I don't know. So sometimes I get confused how long that's been in the rotate of the things. Are they different colours or same colour? I don't know.

Sometimes they're same colour, sometimes they're different colours. It feels like you don't even want to be bothered learning the system. No, no, I know. I don't know. I don't know. I just use a towel. It feels like quite an easy fix to learn it. Yeah, but you use a towel.

You use a towel. You put it back on. You use it for a few days and then you wash it. Yeah, our friend who you lived with had a huge bugbear with towels, didn't he? Not – Your attention to detail on other areas of your life, fantastic, but your towel usage, sloppy at best. It is, it is sloppy.

And he got really wound up because I wouldn't – well, I wasn't very good at putting the bath mat up in the flatting situation and also was walking onto the bath mat and his what he said was it was too wet it was like it's always a soggy bath mat

and even when I put it up he's like mate you've got to dry yourself on the thing get out there yeah so he was he's a fan of drying yourself in the bath or shower

yeah which a lot of people are yeah you know get that excess water off there then you're not taking it into the exterior what's the thing he was like oh that would wind him up if he, because I'd

get up first and then he'd come over. Nothing worse than a soggy foot towel. I see where he's coming from. So he just, I don't know. He raised a point. And so did you listen to him or you stuck with him? No, I don't know. Again, another system, he's like, I see what you're saying, but I can't be bothered. I get your point, but at the same time, it's like it's not important to me. There's bigger stuff to worry about

really, isn't there? You know, like then your feet get, because then you walk off that. Your feet, you know, they're pretty dry. They're maybe a little bit damp from the thing. You walk off one more step, you dry it with your towel if you really need to. But you're walking out in a tsunami of water. Yeah, probably.

Aren't you? Exploding it all over. And did you leave it on the ground or would you hang it back up? I would, yeah, after a while. I mean, it was never because I was doing that on purpose. I just forget sometimes. But no, I would always, I got into the habit of putting it back up? I would, yeah, after a while. I mean, it was never because I was doing that on purpose. I just forget sometimes. But no, I would always,

I got into the habit of putting it back up, but not. Yeah, it was still soaking. Still soaking, yeah. It's not soaking. It's not like I took it out of the shower with me,

but it was. But you're like, your feet are wet anyway, mate. It's not like you're taking dry. It would widen them up. I know it would. It would widen them up. And part of me liked that.

I know what I'm doing here part of me enjoyed that I know what the end result is going to be you know just because

because I know what you're talking about and it's he's fun to watch when he's wound up and also just you'd have a

shower because we would often you know travel to work together so I'd have a shower go back to the room in the flat

he'd have a shower and I'd have to wait and be like Ben! you know like as a sitcom you know like jeez the have a shower and I'd wait and be like, Ben! Like as a sitcom. You know?

The towel. And I'd be like, yeah, yeah. That's a good start to the day. Yeah, but I'm not going to go back in and go, oh, you're right, mate. I knew what he was talking about. That's an early win in the day, too. You're like, hey, chalked up a victory already. Got a rough start to his day.

And Lisa. Lisa joins us on the burnerer Phone, Ben Boyce. Good morning, Lisa. Good morning. What would you like to say to the huge Burner Phone community? Hi. I mean, that seems like an appropriate thing to say. That's a great way to start.

Now, as we mentioned, the Brits, two million of them, once a year they're washing their towels, the bath and shower towels. You texted, you got in touch with a really interesting story about a backpacker who stayed at your place. Yeah, we had been working on the farm and he found it so strange that I wanted to wash all the bedding in the house every weekend. He just found it so bizarre and when I asked why, he said, oh, at home we only do it once or twice a year.

It was just so foreign to him. Washing their sheets, their beach sheets, once or twice a year. If you don't mind me saying, what country did he come from? I don't know if I want to say. Okay, fair enough. Yeah. You don't have to say. We'll get in trouble.

Yeah, no, fair enough. European. We'll say European. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah. You don't have to say because you didn't. We'll get in trouble. Yeah, no, fair enough. European. We'll say European. Okay. What? That's fine. What did it matter? Let's say,

if we picked a country, why would it? I would just like to know if it was a thing over there. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, that's right. That was the only reason. You've got some feelings

about some countries. You're like, oh, yeah, I wouldn't put it past the blah, blah, blah. Is that what you wanted to say? I'm going to come out and say I wouldn't put it past the Finnish. Really?

Yeah. I feel like the Finns would be pretty relaxed with their bedding. I feel like they'd be very clean. Isn't it a washing powder brand as well? Yeah, true. The Power Balls. Yeah. Yeah, the Power Tablets.

And so did he appreciate the washing weekly I think eventually but it took a bit of convincing and especially being working on a farm it was I pushed it yeah

you definitely need to do this I mean but there'll be many flats around the country too where sheets haven't been washed I imagine for I'm going to 24 months

yeah some people will be running a 24 month Castle Street Dunedin I imagine students for 24 months. Yeah. Some people would be running a 24-month. Castle Street, Dunedin, I imagine. Students. Yeah. Not happening for all year, I would imagine.

Yeah. I don't know what the, let's see what the recommended sheet washing regime is. I'm going to Google, live Google here. Experts recommend once a week. There you go. Those are the experts. But I guess it's all what you're comfortable doing Yeah Because they do say you should actually wash your pillowcase

Twice Sorry, once every two days Every two days? Every two days, yeah Oh really? Experts, I think these experts work for Purcell Yeah, sounds like it Fisher and Michael

Yeah Well thank you for being part of the Burnaphone What would you like to say of the Burnaphone. What would you like to say to the Burnaphone community now you've been on it? I don't know. Everyone have a great day. Great. Another appropriate comment.

You guys have a lovely day. Thank you. Appreciate that. What do you think is the grossest thing you've done? Like the most unhyped, like the thing where you're like, oh. I think the older you get, the more. Many things through days of filming, you know, radio film. It's a lot of stuff with the radio TV stuff back in the day. You know, a lot of that sort of stuff.

Like I, we did a sports show, you know, it was a bit of an edgy sort of comedy sports show. And I had to drink, one of us, we tossed a coin and one of us had to drink some water out of a cricket player's box. Brendan McCullum, who'd been playing in a test match that day as the wicket keeper when we drove to all the way to napier uh you drove six hours yeah drove to napier the only thing we did there was to turn up with a cricket waited for the lunch break of the cricket he came and sort of pre-arranged it came saw us when j he go tossed a coin and uh one of us i lost i had to put some water in give a drink oh that was a low moment got back in the car and then

we drove back six hours yeah yeah what was mccollum's response was mccollum like what are you doing mccollum was like oh geez yeah he was like he was like i feel like i should give that a bit of a wipe down for you know like yeah you know now he's like he's probably making a lot of money as the coach of england you know he's respected yeah he's a, you know, like sort of thing. You know, now he's like, he's probably making a lot of money as the coach of England, you know. He's respected, yeah. He's a great,

you know. And you can say he once drank out of his box. Yeah, his cricket box, his protective cup. So, yeah, so there's a lot of things like that

that I'm not, you know, they make good stories. They're not super proud of these moments, you know, along the way. But you need us to do it for the showbiz, baby.

Yeah, showbiz, you know. You don't think too hard about those things and you probably should think harder you know the thing is though but

no one knew no one knew if you pulled out another box on TV no one's going to go oh that's not a sweated on

you know but then I know and it's true you could have probably but then he knew and other players knew and the people and if I had won the title

you know you'd make him do it I would have you know so I was you would make him do it i would have you know so i was like authenticity yeah i would have because and describe the flavor oh no i don't know it just was like i mean to be honest it was the drinking water it wasn't like you were like oh my god but it just was the thought of what it you know what you were drinking it through you know you're like yeah so things like that you know low moments like that please tell me there was a layer of protection

between him or was it just boxed straight on I don't know I didn't really want to know too much the origins

the origins story of what was going on I just knew that that was yeah that's what we'd done so good on him for helping us out

on that thing I was just after a story about you hadn't washed your towel for a couple of weeks but well yeah well there you go

you asked for the grossest thing so there you go that would definitely be up there. Hey, well, that's the Burner Phone for today. Another day, another successful award-winning episode of the Burner Phone. I couldn't think, if we actually ended these episodes into awards, how many we'd walk away with, Ben Boyce.

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