Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 91: Watching Live Radio

Episode Date: October 8, 2023

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The Hits with Jono and Ben's Burnaphone. So we also appreciate that. But you can leave us a message at any stage. We will get around to clearing some messages. And there's a whole lot of messages we need to get to, which is good. It's good that we left it for a little bit. Yeah, we're backed up. We're backed up. Apparently we've got, you know, about over 10, Ben, which is good to get through. That's great, yeah. The first one coming from a familiar friend.

If I can take you to Taranaki, who would it be? Oh, Tanya. Tanya, remember you sit on your burner fondle thingy on the Hits FM online that I can ask anything. Do you think I can actually join you guys live on air in the studio? As you know, I may be that day for the princess thing. I don't know, whatever you call it. But I can join the studio. I don't know.

See how my improv just kicks in for, you know, a few interludes. There we go. Tanya, requesting a day in the studio, the voice. A look of fear sweeping through your eyes. Not at all. No. Hey.

Welcome, Tanya. You're welcome. Maybe what we could do. Here's what I propose. We invite Tanya from Taranaki. Yeah. We do a special in-studio podcast with her. Oh, that's a great idea.

We do the Burnaphone IRL. I was going to say, well, we're going to go down to Taranaki. That's the other option too that we get off. Sometimes we do from cafes and stuff. We do shows from that. And that's always welcome. That happens too. A more cost-effective option for her.

But for us, that's not cost-effective at the moment. Budgets are tight around the studio. We've been told literally there's about $1,700 to the entire hit's name from now until the next financial year. So we're really making every dollar stretch. And domestic, international and domestic travel ceases to exist at the moment. I always find it interesting inviting people into the radio studio because I won't lie, watching radio being made

is probably up there with the top 10 most boring things in the world. I would say, yeah, I often think it would be pretty boring as well, to what you would imagine it could be to what it is. I imagine there's probably two minutes of like, oh yeah, okay, oh yeah, there's some buttons there, some screens there, and then 10, 15 into it, you're like, I've seen radio. Yeah. I've seen it done.

But I don't know. I don't know. I used to always have that same fear when people would come along and watch our tv show i would always go god it must be boring you know and we need to entertain them in between the thing my wife did we just got them drunk yeah well that we did too that was the solution you know we always feel like we need to talk to the audience and all that sort of stuff which was you know it's good to do that but my wife would always say you don't it's actually really fascinating for anyone who doesn't work in tv just to be watching oh there's camera persons over there they're doing this oh this person's doing this yeah all those things we're probably thinking oh god we haven't talked to

anyone for five minutes but she's like no actually it's more interesting watching you guys talk and do your thing than talking to the audience yeah yeah it probably shows a lot about our banter to the audience as well yeah probably low level yeah but yes you always say it was really really interesting the whole time because no one ever sees what happens. Well, I suppose if we went into

a chip making factory, you'd be like, oh my goodness, this is how chips are made. Oh, this person goes along the conveyor belt, this sort of thing, you know?

Yeah. But when it becomes, when it's your job, it's kind of the norm and you get a bit, you know, I'm not saying it's the most exciting thing ever, but it probably is more exciting

than we would think it would be. it was like that time that you were like hey let's go check out the brothel and i'm like oh okay well he's just to see what's happening how it's done and we're like oh okay so this is how it's done yeah that's exactly just have a look just what their line of work is as like it feels like that used car salesman doesn't want us in here right now he's hiding his face no Ben. No, but you're right, because I guess it's the unknown, isn't it? Yeah. You see cars being manufactured,

you see cars on the road, but how do they get made? But would you, I mean, I wouldn't imagine people coming back for day two of watching a radio show being made. No, hey, listen, I want to work in radio, but yeah, but I'm saying, you know,

Tanya, you're welcome to come along and to hang on out. Do you know what's thrilling? I was such a radio nerd from an early age. And there's kind of a common theme amongst many in the industry is that, you know, you were into it from a very young age. And I would harass poor Robert Rakete, esteemed broadcaster, hosts Breakfast on the Breeze now but he was hosting a show

on MyFM back in the day it was a huge show right it was massive probably the biggest show in Auckland yeah

he would invite me I would phone him up relentlessly pester him on the phone pester him god I would have been a nuisance and he generously

invited me into the studio and honestly it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen but that's because I was into it I was like this is what I want to do. Did you turn up to workplaces as a child?

Yeah, I remember telling you, as a radio student, Martin Devlin, great sports broadcaster, awesome. He's been very good to us, Martin. He let me come along. He didn't know me when I was studying, because I wanted to get into radio, into sports radio and stuff, and he let me sit through a show and a very small studio at radio sport this time

like it was tiny it was like a cupboard and I was sitting like next like right there like pretty much like a like just like how much distance between the two wasn't a lot like centimeters 30 centimeters and just sitting right there because that's all you could just shut the door and there was the two of us in this little studio. And that was, I'm like, wow, this is tiny. That's the respect they gave Radio Sport. And he let me sit there the whole time. Did you ask questions?

Oh, well, I tried not to. And before the show and after, I tried to. I just kind of watched. But then I remember him at the end of the show going, and you know what's made this show amazing? I've sat here and done a show with this weird kid looking at me the whole time like just millimeters away from my face watching everything that i do and i was like yeah you have and you've done a great show this weekend just been sitting here you've got to be in a weird

kid too sitting there not saying he's smiling because you don't want to go hey what are you doing now because he's in the middle of his stuff you know they're very busy in between radio sport they don't have the songs and stuff as well so

they're just talking just going would you laugh at the right moments I was trying to laugh but then

you're not too loud because you don't want to be like who's this guy laughing he's got a co-host or something so

but I was very grateful that he allowed me to do that because he didn't need to. And it was a long time sitting there. So, you know, it was lovely. He should have pulled back about 20 minutes in.

He should have. All right, weird kid, you've seen it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, there we go. Well, that's the Burner Phone, Tanya. We look forward to connecting one day, either when the budgets allow us in New Plymouth or you spending your own money.

We can't pay for petrol vouchers making your way to the studios. Have a great day. And if you want to leave us a message. 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.