Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Alan Carr Explains How Adele Organised His Wedding!

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

We are live in Auckland from Bunnings Manukau, on the show today Alan Carr the hilarious English comedian joins us and we continue with the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle tour!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Now, Joel, are we good to go, mate? Yeah, we're good to go. Every day, Joel goes, good to go, rolling when you're ready. And then we start talking for the podcast intro and he says, no, no, no, we're not ready. Do you want me to start recording now as well, or no? 22nd November, Kia ora, welcome. John O'Byrne Podcast, sitting in the car park of Bunnings, Monaco. Lambie Drive, high of activity at Lambie Drive there, Ben, boys.

Oh, this is great. There is plenty of parking, as you said before. It's something, it's a radio cliche where they're like, come on down and see us. Plenty of parking. There is plenty of parking. There is. Tammy. Sorry, can we interrupt?

Tammy, Tammy from Bunnings. She's in a conversation at the moment. Tammy, do you mind having a chat with us? Tammy. You're on the 123rd highest rating podcast in New Zealand right now, Tammy from Bunnings. How are you, mate? Tammy. Nice. Tammy from Bunnings. How are you, mate? Tammy.

Nice. Morning, guys. How are you going? Great to have you on. Now, Tammy, we got you up very early this morning. We apologize. Yes, very, very early. But we've had lots of coffee, so we're good.

Yeah, it's been great. Thank you for having us here. It's been amazing. How many team members have you got here? I think on this side at the moment, we've got over 140 right now. 140? Yeah. Now, okay, name them from your favourite to least favourite.

Oh, I couldn't possibly do that. Yeah. Now, this morning, you've set up a whole lot of activities, which we're going to get onto shortly. We've got the sausage sizzle. You were like, do you want to broadcast next to the sausage sizzle? We're like, yeah, that's fine. And you're like, there is going to be a cultural group.

It's going to be quite loud. And we're like, no, it'd be great for background, you know. But it was, you were right. They were amazing, but very loud. Very loud, very loud very loud look we thought getting that cultural group along um they really represent part of like our community our community locally but also the community amongst the team as well we've got quite a lot of pacific island team members that work here um and you know it was really special for them to see their culture represented today out here with the dance group it was incredible yeah and uh i like

on the card it's just suitable for all occasions and i would say you name an occasion name an occasion well like a bunnings warehouse sausage just all suitable yeah wedding suitable you got dragged up you got dragged up there as well too you got uh he had to move his hips yeah i think that was some shaky knees you did some really good shaky knees that wasn't dance moves that was just pure fear of a middle-aged white man being asked to dance in public, Tammy.

Yeah, no, you did well. You did well. Really good. A lot of people came around the area and they were like, oh my God, oh my God, this is exciting. Joe Biden's here.

Oh, wow. And then they were like, oh, no, it's some guy. Oh, yeah, he's on TV once upon a time. Joe Biden's here. And the bunnings dancing with the Cook Island group.

That's it but I then they were like use your pelvis you know work your pelvis I couldn't watch that too sexy?

there's just a lot going on was it too much pelvis for you Tabby? oh no I don't know I think you fit it in with the group you fit in well

thank you Tabby's being very polite Ben you came back and you were like dear god what was that I was on radio at the time so I was you didn't even nominate and you were like, dear God, what was that? I was on radio at the time, so I was like, yeah.

You didn't even nominate yourself. No, like, he will do it. He will go up. And you did a great job representing us, so thank you. And thank you for having us today. Yeah, no worries.

It's been great. So we've got a few more Bunnings warehouse stores to go. Is the sausage sizzle, is it a big player here? Yeah, yeah. Look, we really, you know,

part of what we do here at Bunnings is giving back to the community. And we're really fortunate that we're able to have the sausage sizzle up and running every weekend. You'll see the community groups out here raising money for their local causes. And, you know, it really can make a difference to a lot of the community groups. And now you don't need cash as well. No, no. There's a little scan the thing and away you go. Absolutely. Moving with technology, that's for sure.

It is a good play,'t it too? When you find there's other charity workers on the street too and you're like no, no, no, sorry, I've only got Air Force and they're like, bang, out of nowhere. Out comes a bloody portable Air Force camera. Yeah, you're like, oh, well played, well played. We actually, funny story, yesterday we were at an intersection, weren't we?

And there was a guy there and he was walking up and down the intersection and he's like asking for money. And we're like, oh, no, we? And there was a guy there and he was walking up and down the intersection and he's like, he's like, you know, asking for money. And we're like, oh, no,

we'll just get you some money. He's like, actually, it's all right, mate. I've got too much of it. I've got heaps. He's holding up

this sack of money. He's like, if anything, I should probably give you some money. Yeah. So that's what we need to be doing.

Which intersection is this? Very lucrative. We'll let you know on the way home. Well, thank you for having us today. Enjoy the podcast and we'll catch you tomorrow. Yeah, thanks so much, we need to be doing. Which intersection is this? Very lucrative. We'll let you know on the way home. Well, thank you for having us today. Enjoy the podcast and we'll catch you tomorrow. Yeah, thanks so much, Jono and Ben. We're in the middle of the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand.

We're travelling around every single Bunnings Warehouse in the country eating a sausage in each place. Yesterday, nine sausages we ate. We've eaten 13 so far, Jono. It was four over my daily limit, I think. The last four sausages, I was really battling through. Not while you're eating them. It's more post-sausage. It's like travelling from location to location, the sausage just sitting in your system. Yeah. But we got through today, and not as many

sausages, but we're in Manukau in the Bunnings Warehouse until about 10 o'clock this morning. So come down and see us. Grab yourself a sausage. Yeah, we're on Lambie Drive, sitting under a pop-up tent outside the front. Would love to see you this morning. But there's been a problem. There was a problem on day two.

Yeah. Ben Boyce, just to pull back the curtain a bit, running a very busy schedule at the moment. You ended up with a pink eye after the weekend. Don't say that. Stop saying that. Is pink eye a bad thing? It is a bad thing, yeah. Is it? I think it's a bad thing. Oh, right. You ended up with a pink eye after the weekend. Don't say pink. Stop saying that. Is pink eye a bad thing? It is a bad thing, yeah.

Is it? I think it's a bad thing. Oh, right. You've got a red eye. Yeah. A normalised pink eye, mate. Yeah. I don't know if I've got that,

to be honest. But you're trying to book a doctor's appointment. Yeah, well, yeah. And be in a Bunnings and eat sausages. There's a lot going on. I was trying to talk

to the doctor before just to go, hey, you know, with your eyes, you don't want to take risks and stuff. If there's anything I can do to over the phone, maybe a Zoom, send a photo. And they're like, well, we'd prefer you to come in.

I understand that. Yeah. See eye to eye. Yeah, exactly. I was like, how about 11.15 today? And I'm like, well, no, we're pretty much like we're going wall to wall to Bunnings Warehouse. There's nothing can go wrong this week. And, you know, if I can heart, listen, I hate to be a told-you-so guy,

but if I can heart back to a week and a half ago where I was like, what are we doing? Why are we going on this? We don't have any... Nothing can go wrong. Nothing can fall over. We can't miss a flight. That's the drama, though.

That's the drama. You can't have a burst blood vessel in your eye. You can't see a dot. There's nothing that can happen. I'm going to be wearing an eye patch by the end of this thing. But that's okay. Because we're heading around the country. We're going to call them One-Eyed Ben by the end of it.

I'll be good with all the Canterbury fans, the One-Eyed Canterbury fans. But is it sore? It's a little bit irritable, but hey, it's not like, there's nothing I've gone, oh, I did that, and that's, you know. So that's the confusing thing. It wasn't like, she's like, have you been lifting anything heavy, or have you, like, did you get, you know, poked in the eye or something like that and there's nothing to my recognition but when you're like no i can't come in here i can't do that time i can't do this time i can't do

tomorrow i can't do any day this week and she's like why why are you so busy and you're like oh because we're eating a sausage at every bunnings warehouse like is that not a good enough excuse for you yeah like she's like surely you can fall, honestly, if you need to miss a bunning today to go to a doctor's appointment, I can eat two sausages for you. I'll do that for you. Why don't you just do that? That's very kind of you. Why don't you just miss a couple of stores?

Mate, then I can't say I've eaten a sausage every morning. Yeah, but then you can go, well, I had an eye problem that I needed to sort out, which is a little more important than having a charity sausage. Like, I'm more than happy to go by myself for an hour or so. You're very kind. You should just call them back. I can't look at that thing anymore. The first casualty of the Bunnings tour. I would have thought it would have been an indigestion,

constipation incident, but no. No, not so far. I relate it. Who would have thought? They look a little redder today as well. Half of it looks redder. Oh good, that's always good to hear. Sitting outside Bunnings Warehouse in Monaco. How you going, Bunnings Monaco?

Oh, he's here. Easy. Again, we've got Counties Monaco Rugby here cooking their barbecue this morning. We'll talk to them later on, raising some money for the community, Ben. Yeah, it's been one of the cool things as we travel around the country, eating a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store is meeting all the different community groups. Now, it's going to seem or sound like

I'm drinking from the Bunnings Kool-Aid here. Drink it up, drink it up. But they just do so much for community groups. It's wild. Like, each different store obviously has different local community groups who come and benefit from this. You know, your humble Kiwi sausage sizzle.

I know. We've met a wide range of people from ballet groups to dog rescue to reformed prisoners. Mate, there's been a broad spectrum of community groups. It's pretty cool. Now Elton John coming back to New Zealand I think in a couple of months to finish off that concert. Do you reckon he's like, oh, I've got to go back and do that? I reckon it would be an amazing play from Elton John is if he remembered where this concert finished

and he's like, all right, we're going to pick it up from Rocketman. Halfway through, that's when I pulled out last time. You've got 45 minutes left. No, but he did have, I think, one, well, there was definitely another gig and I think he's doing another one as well. So he's doing a few more concerts.

Well, our friend became a big thorn in Elton John's side when he complained that he didn't get the full concert and then demanded that the promoter return a portion of the ticket price. Even though Elton was battling out there with... With COVID. Well, walking pneumonia. Walking pneumonia, whatever that is. Now, his concert is on Disney+.

It's just dropped last night. It's from Dodgers Stadium. Dua Lipa joins him on stage. It was kind of like the start of that tour that he brought to New Zealand. It's from Dodgers Stadium. Dua Lipa joins them on stage. It was kind of like the start of that tour that he brought to New Zealand. It looks epic. And people were tuning in last night to watch the concert. Don't get your hopes up. Dua Lipa won't be joining them on stage at Auckland. You never know.

Might be a wee surprise. But people noticed that you know how you get the captions. You can read along with the subtitles as well. Someone had obviously hacked into the Disney Plus system and kept putting Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump about 30 times throughout Candle in the Wind and other things as well. Well, just Donald, just saying Donald Trump. It just seemed like Donald Trump.

They just snuck in Donald Trump about 30 times throughout the closed captions. Well, I know Trump refuses to go back on Twitter. Maybe this is his way of subliminal advertising. He's hacked into Disney Magic. Can I say I love captions? I never thought I'd enjoy reading subtitles along. But it's so good. It's hard to watch a show without subtitles.

It is once you get used to it. And my daughter Sienna, she'll claim that that's reading. She's like, go to bed and read a book. She's like, I read three TV shows on Netflix today. It's like, well, I don't know if it's quite the same. I read all of the Avengers.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben, in the middle of the Bunnings Warehouse tour of New Zealand. We went to Kaikohe. And the rain. It's raining, but you've given us free hats and free sausages. And then you were a little worried. A car pulled up and they said,

how much for sausages? I said, free. And you're like, do you know what you've done? Great staff at Bunnings. They're all very hard case. We caught up with Gabriel in Mungify. You should tint your beard. Real platinum or real dark.

Oh, like, like, can you grow some hair? No, no, no, just end on a high note, bro. End on a high note. Put a hat on. Put a hat on. Put a mask on. Got a clapper. These are rescue pups that come into our care.

Janine from Saving Hope can win some money for your great organisation now, Janine. Hey! Janine, you've got 500 bucks. Oh, have I? Amazing. Thank you. We're going to give that to Saving Hope. I have to say thanks to our team, Bummies, and you guys for being here today.

Most importantly, thanks to John and Ben. Thanks to John and Ben. Did you hear that? You always make it all about yourself. There we go. That is some of the action from the Bunnings Warehouse. A sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand. Travelling around every Bunnings Warehouse in the country,

eating a sausage. 41 sausages we got to eat. Yesterday was a big day of nine sausages. It was good that you met some lovely people along the way. Don't you meet some okay people as well? But lovely people. There's a range of people. Met a couple of nine sausages. It was good that you met some lovely people along the way. Don't you meet some okay people as well? But lovely people. There's a range of people.

Met a couple of horrible ones. I was going to say that about you, mate. Yeah. No, seriously, it has been amazing, the people. Not just the community groups, the people that come along and support the community groups. This young guy, Ben, maybe, I'd say 16, 18 years old. He was 32, mate.

He looked very youthful. Anyway, but this was a lovely thing they did, just to buy a sausage, which was $2.50. Now, we're here with Ben at Bunnings in West Auckland, and what have you just done, Ben? Oh, well, I wanted to give back to the community and so I made a donation and Oh $50! He's too humble to tell us what the dollars were. Yeah I know that's incredible it's so nice of you to do that.

It was great just to meet you guys. Oh Ben what a, give it up for Ben ladies and gentlemen. 50 bucks and give it up for the other Ben who's gonna donate 150 bucks. Just gonna get my wallet from the car. Well, at least I say Ben. Just don't say which bed, but Ben gave a lot of money today. All right, how's that sound? Generosity all round.

The bends, eh? The beds. They come to the party. It was awesome, though. It was a lovely, lovely moment. And every barbecue, every sausage chisel we go to, as we said before, a different community group is running it. Yeah, today it's Lambie Drive, Monaco Bunnings, Counties Monaco Rugby, they're on the barbecue.

Yesterday we met a wide range of people, including the 100 Club. And Constellation Drive. Yeah. Bunnings, Constellation Drive, and we're with the 100 Club who are fundraising here today. Now what's the 100 Club all about? Yes, so the Great Skate 100 Club is about supporting men in recovery who are recovering from drug, alcohol and mental health issues. So pretty much we fundraise for fun activities, integrating into the community, supporting each other,

having another shot at life. Oh, good on you. What a fantastic organisation. Now, if either of us were going to survive in prison, who do you think would stand a chance? I can't even answer that for you man, just hang on to the next guy I reckon. I'm picking Ben and be quite violent. Here you go Ben, and you made a shank too didn didn't you, mate? No, I didn't. Grace Gate, a wonderful group who do exactly what they said. They help people integrate back into the community

and give them a second chance at life. And we all need a second chance, don't we? And if you want to find out where we're going to go on the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand, you can text BUNNINGS to 4487 and find out where we're heading today. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed. Oh, we're coming to you live from a Bunnings to 4487. Find out where we're heading today. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed. Oh, we're coming to you live from a Bunnings.

Who wants to hear some news? Oh, my God. Is that the popularity of this? No, you don't yell out who wants to hear some news. Who likes news? Yeah, they like news, man. Okay, so there was a landmark Supreme. I'm not going to barrel on anyway.

Don't knock my confidence. Well, don't. They don't like you, New. Yeah, they think Adele was sobbing through her residency. I'll be sobbing through this news update. Hey, so there was a landmark Supreme Court ruling yesterday that said that the voting age of 18 in New Zealand was discriminating and it breached the human rights of young people,

so they reckon they want to try and bring it to 16. Jacinda Ardern's on board with it. She's going to take it to Parliament, and if Parliament signed it off, that's what's going to happen. Oh, do you remember being 16? Yeah, I don't think I was... I don't even care about politics now. I don't think I was...

Let alone when I was 16. No position to do it. Yeah, a busy ram-ra and having a hell of a time. But the Make It 16 sort of organisation have been campaigning for the last two years to try and make it happen

and when you think about it, I mean, the main thing they're arguing on is to be able to vote on issues like climate crisis which will,

you know, affect a lot of young people more than the elderly. Now, a lot of, you know, sceptics would say this is a great play from the left.

You know, you're Greens, you're Swarbricks and that mob. You're James Shores and that mob. Well, because I imagine a lot of young people, like you say,

climate change is a massive issue, especially for our kids. Yeah. That's what they get taught in school. And so that's the issue they'll vote on and you're going to tick Green

there, aren't you? You're going to tick the left. My daughter's school actually putting solar panels and stuff up on the roof of the gym, basically the power of the school. They're going to be fully solar-powered at some stage. My daughter's like, Chloe someone was at school the other day. She's up there nailing the bloody solar panels on the roof.

I'm sorry, Chloe Solberg. Chloe someone. See, that's going to do well in voting. Where's Chloe someone on this list? I'm going to vote for Chloe someone. Oh, it's good. I mean, hey, I'm sure they are. We were listening to Kate Hawkes be on the way out

to Bunnings today, and she raised a good point. There's probably a group of 16-year-olds who are across politics who know about the issues and how they're going to vote, and then there's 95% of 16-year-olds out vaping and doing all sorts of other stuff. Jelly beans are now going to be 100% plant-based and vegan.

Now, I didn't know what jellybeans were made. Well, not the only thing they're made out of, but they were basically, they would no longer be made by a thing called carmine, which is food colouring made from crushed or boiled beetles. Apparently this is very common. Beetles like the insect. Well, I mean, hey, we were all questioning a bit of the vaccine, weren't we? No one's ever thrown shade towards the jelly bean industry.

Yeah. And this has been going on under our nose the whole time. It's going to be 100% plant-based, as I said before, made with things like beetroot and paprika in the treats, so vegans can enjoy jelly beans 100% plant-based from here on in. How does that make you feel? I know, producer, he's not a vegan, are you? Glue's an intolerant.

He's happy about it, though. Are you happy about it? Yeah, yeah, he's not a vegan, are you? Gluten intolerant. He's happy about it, though. Yeah. Are you happy about it? Yeah. Yeah, it's great. I can't remember the last time I had a jelly bean. Oh, they're lovely. They're lovely little things.

Yeah, when you have them, they're great, aren't they? Yeah, but I didn't know they were made from crushed up beetles up until now. Yeah, who would have thought? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In the middle of the sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, travelling around every Bunnings warehouse in the country. 41 stores from the top of the sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, travelling around every Bunnings warehouse in the country. 41 stores from the top of the north. We started on Sunday and we're going to end on this Sunday in Queenstown,

heading around, having a sausage each place we go, and donating money or raising money for the local communities. Now, this is Bunnings Warehouse in Lambie Drive, Manukau, this morning. Come down and see us. They've got some cool activities set up. They've got sausage sizzle going already with the county's Manukau rugby team.. Come down and see us. They've got some cool activities set up. They've got Sausage Sizzle going already with the county's Manukau rugby team. Yeah, that's right.

And plenty of parking. You know, it is a cliche. We say plenty of parking, fun for the whole family. Well, in this instance, there is and there is. Yeah, you're right. Tick, tick. Boxes ticked. We are sitting literally out in the car park,

aren't we, at the moment. I can tell you're a little shaky. I know Bunnings said, hey, do you want to go out in the car park? And I we, at the moment? I can tell you're a little shaky. I know Bunnings said, hey, do you want to go out in the car park? And I could tell Ben, he wasn't saying anything, and I could tell you'd rather be inside in the outdoor furniture section.

Well, that was, yeah, like it's lovely to be out here, but it's a little colder. Don't get me wrong. But you were too polite to say that. And then everyone else said, yeah, no, we should go outside and close the sausages.

And I can tell you weren't 110% on board with it. It makes sense, though, us being out here. But would I rather be in the lifestyle section lounging on a lovely, comfortable couch? Absolutely. Oh, no. We know all the great sections here at Bunnings. Now, we're bumping into some wonderful people along the way who are coming along, buying a sausage, donating to these community groups. And we met a gentleman yesterday, only been in the country a number of weeks. And is a huge, huge Hits fan.

Yeah, but he was kind of a Hits fan for an unusual reason. Here. Here's Stu explaining. Well, we're with Stuart. Recently moved to New Zealand. Yep, from the UK. Loving it. Yeah, you're enjoying it. Now, you've turned out that you're

a Hits listener. How did this come about? We bought a car the first week we got here because you need one here. And it was pre-programmed and we haven't turned it off since because it's brilliant. You know you can change it, right? I'm not that competent. She could change it. My wife, me, nah, not so much. But I don't need to anyway.

So just thanks to technical net miss, you're stuck with the hits. Exactly. Yeah, good. Listen, we won't tell you about other great shows that are out there. Some better shows, to be honest. Nah, rubbish. Well, thank you for coming down for a sausage.. Exactly. Yeah, good. Listen, we won't tell you about other great shows that are out there. Some better shows, to be honest. Nah, rubbish. Well, thank you for coming down

for a sausage. No worries. It tastes good. Do they have the classic sausage sizzle in the UK? Nah, it's completely here and I think they do it in Oz. So this is my first one

in New Zealand. And there we go. That was wonderful. Stu, who's a big fan of the hits. No one tell him about other radio stations. No. Okay.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt.

Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret.

But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. From the Bunnings Warehouse to the Gossip Warehouse, NT in Hollywood's Can You Hear Us? I can hear you just fine. Yeah, no, we couldn't be in two more polar opposite locations right now. We're in Bunnings, Monaco, a hardware shop, and you're in Hollywood, Los Angeles,

California. What I love about it, the black and white of the whole situation. Exactly, exactly. But I'd like to be where you guys are. That's great. Hey, we're eating a sausage at every store. You wouldn't really have a sausage and bread in America, I imagine. It's more of a sort of a hot dog. Yeah, I mean, I like sausage and bread. That would be good. I mean, you don't always have to have a hot dog. You could have a sausage. You know, there's other things, like we have the patty sausages rather than a hot dog, and then you could have, like, that with, like, biscuits in the morning and gravy and stuff like that.

Well, this is, yeah, I don't know what your equivalent would be in America of a Bunnings, but this is— A Home Depot. Home Depot. So we're basically going around every Bunnings store in New Zealand. They are famous for their sausage sizzles with the barbecue. And we're having a sausage at every single store, NT. Hey, this week, Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, they've called it quits. And I was hoping they were going to get married and hyphenate to Wilde Styles.

Oh, that would have been a good name. That would have been a great name. But they've decided to take a break from dating, NT. How come nobody else in the world has picked up Wilde Styles? That would have been great. Let's almost get back together, guys, just for that. We would have had, you know, we had Bennifer and Brangelina and all this kind of stuff.

How come nobody ever said Wild Style? That was the name of the band, and Bill and Ted was Wild Stallion, so it kind of goes like that. Yeah, they split, and I think that everybody could see it coming. I mean, I talked about it before. I said that once the movie on all the press had been done, then really what are they together for? It seemed very forced towards the end.

Just, you know, I don't think anybody is really all that surprised. I think the only people happy, at least in America, are Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster because all anybody could talk about was Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster not being able to get tickets and not being able to get tickets. And then all of a sudden, Olivia and Harry announced their split and nobody talked about it anymore. Ben, you've also taken a break from dating too. Thanks to your niggly marriage. Hopefully you'll get back out there one day.

But what does take a break from dating mean? Does that mean that, do we set a calendar marriage. Hopefully you'll get back out there one day. But I want to take a break from dating me. Does that mean, do we set a calendar appointment, they're going to get back together, or it's over? Oh, it's over. That's just publicity speak. That's like canoodling, that's, you know, their schedules were just too busy, they couldn't make things work with

their, you know, just whatever the most innocuous kind of thing that you can come up with where neither party is offended. Now, Football World Cup, I don't know how big it is in America, but Budweiser being told they can't sell their product in the stadiums in Qatar, is it big news in America? It's big news in the sense that I was paying attention to it, and I think a lot of people are.

I think that they really got screwed. And I think that they really got screwed over. I think that what you're seeing here is you're seeing, OK, which celebrities are willing to forego a paycheck for not being in guitar? Right. Rod Stewart? No. Shakira? No. Nicki Minaj? Absolutely. Give me all that money. David Beckham? How much can you more can you even give me? You know, so you see which celebrities care, which celebrities don't. And then with the Budweiser thing, what was it, 48 hours before? So you've set everything up. Everything's ready to go.

And then they say, no, you can't set it up at the stadium. Sorry, you're out of luck. But I'll guarantee you this, that Budweiser is not going to pay as much money as they did before. FIFA's going to have to do something because Budweiser's their biggest sponsor. Well, hopefully Budweiser, the international beer conglomerate, will recover from this.

But, you know, they are on offer. They've got the zero beers on offer in the stadium, but that's about as satisfying as eating a vegetarian sausage. I don't know what the point is. Hey, NT, great to catch up with you this morning, mate. You go and look after Hollywood, we'll look after these sausages, and we'll speak next week, my friend. All right, take care.

Tuesday morning in the middle of the Bunnings Warehouse tour of New Zealand, eating a sausage sizzle at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. Yeah, just been given a lovely Bunnings straw hat. You can't wear them with your headphones, That's why I didn't put them on. They're lovely. They're great after the show. Yeah. But then they're good for the sun, too.

Good block in the sun. But, you know, unfortunately, they don't. Not conducive for headphone wearing, are they? Now, producer Bee Humps, who's been on the road with us, and yourself and Harriet, who works at the Hits, done a wonderful job of organising this, mate. So well done. Yeah, yeah.

Thank you. Thank you, Harriet. Harriet did everything. Oh, stop palming it off. But thank you, Harriet. Thank you, Bee Humps. She's palming it off. If everyone's going to palm it off, I'll take the credit for it. Thank you, Ben. You're very welcome. Someone needed to book the flights, accommodation

and all that. And I'm glad I did that. And that's why we keep you on, buddy. Doing God's work. But producer Bee Humps, you walked out of the petrol station lavatory yesterday and when you pick it up from here. I was busting and so I ran in there. You were busting too.

I was. I was almost drowning. And you were like, don't make me laugh. He was hobbling. He was so full of, he had to hobble into the petrol station. Is that why he was listening to the Jono Ben podcast? I was like, well, don't make me laugh. I was wondering why he had that on for an hour. And so anyway, I got into the bathroom,

and I was arranging myself and then my sunglasses fell off my head. Into? Into the bottom of the toilet bowl. Oh, how filthy is your face that your sunglasses were like, this is the only option. I need to leap off this face. At this stage, you're not getting into too many details.

You're going in for a pee, but had you actually... Well, I was going. Oh, you were going, so this happened in the middle of it. I just continued to go because I was busting. And I thought, damn it, there's my son, he's gone. And so I flushed. So you were like, I've got to get rid of them. And I think that's pretty much the rule.

They always flush your wet wipes and your sunglasses. That's what they tell you to do. I flush got to get rid of them. And I think that's pretty much the rule. They always flush your wet wipes and your sunglasses. That's what they tell you to do. I flushed and they stayed there. And then I thought to myself, do I, don't I? You do. Pick them out. You just get toilet paper and lift them out. What good's toilet paper going to do?

It's just going to be a soggy mess. Once they're in there, you're always going to, putting them on your face, they're always going to be a soggy mess. Once they're in there, you're always going to, putting them on your face, they're always going to be the glasses that have been in the public restroom. That's a service station restroom. It's, you know, there's dastardly things that happened in there.

So then you came out and you're like, oh, I've left them in there. And we're like, what happened to them? You're like, they're just sitting in there. So now it's either another motorist is going to come along and go, oh, there's some perfectly good sunnies there. Yeah. Or someone's going to have to fish them out with tongs. And you know

his big issue, he's like, I was like, just pull over on the side of the motorway if you need to go. He's like, I don't want to bring the hits into disrepute. Then he wanders into a petrol station. He's just bloody sunglasses. It's probably clogged up the bathroom, unfortunately, at some petrol station. And so you guys all thought that I should have picked them up.

I don't know. I'm with you. I'm with you. I wouldn't have gone there. I mean, I probably would have told someone maybe to go, hey, but. I say pick them up. You went home and Caitlin said what? Yeah, I told her the story and she said, okay, well, where are they?

And I said, well, they're still there. And she was like, what do you mean? You left your sunglasses. Yeah. You know you're in good company. Ben, you looked it up yesterday. Harry Styles had this happen to him just last week. Yeah, and he posted about it. He's like what should I do? So that's what we want to know today.

To help out Harry Styles, to help out producer Bee Humps, although it might be a bit late to go back and get the glasses. If you drop something in the bathroom, has it happened to you before? It doesn't have to be your glasses. Maybe it was your phone. Do you fish it out? you before? It doesn't have to be your glasses. Maybe it was your phone. Do you fish it out? Wallet.

Was that it? I mean, yeah. Are you fishing or not fishing? That's the poll this morning. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. In the middle of our sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, travelling around the country. Today we're at the Bunnings Warehouse in Manukau this morning

before we head south. Pacific Island, Cook Island Group are playing before us right now, which is incredible. Noa Noa, they're a dance troupe and it says on their card they are suitable for all occasions and I would vouch for that, Ben Boyce, you name an occasion, I would book these people

but they are performing here at Bunnings. It's suitable for doing radio in a car park at Bunnings. It's great. Incredible. They're doing great. So apparently one of us needs to go up and dance very shortly. That's you. That's definitely you. This is a middle-aged white guy's worst nightmare.

I won't lie. We are on the Bunnings Warehouse Tour of New Zealand, travelling around and eating a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country, and it's been so much fun so far. We went to Kaikohe. And the rain. It's raining, but you've given us free hats and free sausages. And then you were a little worried.

A car pulled up and they said, how much of the sausages? I said, free. And you're like, do you know what you've done? Great staff at Bunnings. They're all very hard-cased. We caught up with Gabriel in Mangafai. You should tint your beard.

Real platinum or real dark. Oh, like, like, grow some hair? No, no, no. End on a high note, bro. End on a high note. Put a hat on. Put a hat on. Put a hat on. Put a mask on.

Have a clapper. These are rescue pups that come into our care. Janine from Saving Hope can win some money for your great organisation now, Janine. Hey! Janine, you've got 500 bucks. 500 bucks. Amazing. That's true.

We're going to give that to Saving Hope. Restless. I have to say thanks to our team, Bunnings, and you guys for being here today. Most importantly, thanks to John and Ben. Thanks to John and Ben. Why don't you always make it all about yourself? There we go. Yesterday on the Bunnings Warehouse tour, my daughter, Sienna, came down.

It's been a while. Things really kick up again. How awesome is this? My daughter, Sienna, came down and had a sausage. She was on the Nature's Fresh ad. She was eating sausages. We got called Sausage Girl. She warned us that we'd be called Sausage Men.

This is what happened when Sienna came down and had a sausage with Sausage Men. Here we are, the world-famous Sausage Girl. Hello. I'm eating my sausage. You are eating your sausage. Is that what you do all the time? Ready? Do you want me to do my Sausage Girl hair? No, but this eating my sausage. You are eating a sausage, is that what you do all the time? Do you want me to do my sausage girl hair?

No, but this is for the radio. You're re-enacting what you did on the Nature's Fresh ad. Now, because you said it would be called Sausage Boy and Sausage Boy. Sausage Man and Sausage Man. So this is the joining of Sausage Girl, Sausage Man and Sausage Man. I'm eating a sausage. It's like when the Avengers come together, you know, from Thor and Iron Man and stuff. They come together in one movie.

It's a sausage man and a sausage girl. Their only power is indigestion. All right, are you proud of us? Uh-huh. Come so far. From where? We come from Mungamwha up north. From no sausages to 11.

Yeah, we have. We've come Mungamwhai up north. No sausages to 11th. Yeah, we have. We've come a long way. You're right. That is some of the fun we've had so far on the Sausage Tour of New Zealand. Right now, the Cook Islands group are performing for us. You can hear us. You hear in the background? I don't know if you can hear us.

But you can hear us. They're doing an amazing job. Isn't it incredible right now as we continue the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're in Bunnings Warehouse in Manukau right now. As the Cook Island Cultural Group performs for us, you can hear it. They're incredible.

They are amazing. Very good. Very good. And very good bodies too here from the guys who are in front of us right now, Ben Boyce. If only you had muscles like them, we would have a few more listeners. But yesterday on the show, we caught up with UK comedian Alan Carr, who's here for three days. Yeah, he's here at Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington this week performing a regional trinket.

He's very, very funny. Chatty man, you'll know him as. And we caught up with Alan Carr yesterday from a Bunnings warehouse. But good, we're sorry we're not in studio today. We'd a Bunnings warehouse. We're good. We're sorry we're not in studio today. We'd love to meet you. We're big fans. Oh, that's sweet.

Obviously not big enough to be in studio. You obviously don't care that much, but that's nice. Now, guess where we are, Alan? I don't know where. Where? I don't know why you would know where we are. I'm not a stalker. Where are you?

We are on a sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand. We're eating, we're devouring 41 sausages over seven days nonstop. Oh, that's my dream job. I love a sausage. What's been your favourite sausage? Four sausages deep, dare I say. If we're in the same room as you, I'd say yours. Four sausages deep. Wow, say. If we're in the same room as you, I'd say yours. Four sausages deep.

Wow. Sounds like a night out. This is going to be laid in an innuendo for the next four minutes. Well, don't interview me from a sausage factory. You know my act. I mean, it's like... We did it specially. We knew Alan Cowle was coming in.

We knew his sweet spot. We're like, here we go. Show me the sausage. But actually, are you vegan? Because you were on a farm. You bought a farm

over lockdown. Is that right? Yeah, yeah. You've turned vegan? Well, my ex had a farm. Thanks for bringing it up. And who I've divorced. I ended up on a farm

in lockdown. That's what I talk about in the show. I was a farmer and then, I know this is really mean, but it was really tough in lockdown and we stopped naming the animals just in case we had to eat them.

And some of them got suspicious. They were like, wait a minute, I used to be called Pam. Actually, you brought up, well, I brought up your ex in a roundabout way, but that's one of the things you talk about when you're here in New Zealand, part of your routine. You do talk about things, you know, your divorce, him going to prison.

He went to prison as well. Is there anything that you don't talk about in your stand-up? Oh, no, I'm very open, very open about everything. And then, you know, if you've seen my stand-up before, you know, I mean, I don't get very political. All I do is I just talk about what I've been up to. But, you know, everything I talk about, you know, Adele who married me and Paul. I talk about living on a farm.

I talk about all the things, the divorce, the romance, the honeymoon. I mean, I just open up. It's like therapy. I just talk about everything that I've been up to. Well, you do mention Adele, who, from what I gather, planned your entire wedding and she officiated it. Yes, she got ordained, especially, and she married us. And then obviously we go and took the marriage licence down to,

you know, the county hall. So who married you? I said, Adele, you Brits are crazy. I love it. I was like, no, it is Adele. Because we see Adele, obviously Brits are crazy. I love it. I was like, no, it is Adele. Because we see Adele, obviously, you know, being interviewed on stage and stuff. What's she like as a close friend of yours?

What you see is what you get with Adele. She's so down to earth. She's so funny. She'll be cackling with you, having a glass of wine. She's just, yeah, she's just the best. She's like the most unsuperstar superstar. I mean, with just that amazing voice, you know. So what you see is what you get.

I know it's a boring answer, but that's what she's like. And I think that's what comes across on stage. And that's why she's an absolute superstar. Because you, I was reading you bought her a toy from a charity shop, a toy, a little doll or something that she finds quite ugly, and she keeps trying to get rid of it, and you keep bringing it out of the trash and putting it back on the shelf. Well, her house is just lovely, and what do you get for a housewarming party?

So we saw this absolutely minging doll. It looks like Chucky's sister. And we just kept popping it in the house. I hate that doll! And then she'd throw it out, and then we'd get out the bin and pop it in the house. I hate that doll! And then she'd throw it out and then we'd get out the bin and pop it in her bed. Oh, it was lovely to catch up with you. We're huge fans of your work

and we keep waiting for you to pop up as Prime Minister of Britain. Well, everyone else has been, haven't they? I'm like, one day it's going to be Ellen Carr. Give it a bash, mate. Vote for Ellen, vote for Ellen. You're going to have a great day, mate. Thanks, mate. Thanks, mate.

Bye, loves. Bye. It's Alan Carr. You can catch him in New Zealand this week. You can catch us at Bunnings Warehouse, stores all over the country. It's an amazing Cook Island group performed in front of us.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Let's go. Jono and Ben. With five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. It doesn't matter where we are, whether we're in the studio or we're in the car park of the Bunnies Warehouse in Monaco.

Yeah, and I mean, what does Wordle give you? Wordle doesn't give you $5,000. Wordle just gives you satisfaction. But you can't pay off the mortgage with satisfaction. That's true. You can't go into the bank and go, I'm satisfied. And they're like, well done, you paid off your 30-year mortgage. This is real stuff.

And we're going to head to Hamilton this morning. Good morning. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Anna. Hello. How are you, Anna? Good. How are you?

We're good. We're heading to Hamilton later on today at the Bunnings. We'll see you there with a sausage in our mouths. Nice, nice. Hey, Anna, $5,000, what would this go towards? Oh, well, me and the kids are going to play, and I said I'd share it with them. Oh, that's nice of you.

Well, what you can do, because they can't hear anything, just pretend you lost if you win, and they will never know. They'll go, ah, because you'll make them turn your radio down, so that's right. All right. It'll make a good dent in the Christmas present. Oh, good on you, mate. Good on you.

Now, who do you want to send away to head to the soundproof aisle of Bunnings? I think we decided Ben, you guys. Okay. Ben Boyce is heading off. You go to the section where they sell all the insulation there, Ben. Cover that around your ears so you don't hear anything and we'll get five words out of you. Anna, the first thing that comes into your mind

when you hear pre-cooked sausage. Pre-cooked sausage. Had plenty of those. My daughter's saying sausages. Oh, she wants to go plural. Okay, let's lock in plural. We'll follow your daughter's lead.

What's her name? Paige. All right, Paige, well done. She's gone sausages. Word number two, generator. Generator. Noise. Power.

Power generator, that's a good option. We'll jump ahead to word number three, which is paint. Paintbrush. Paintbrush. Word number four, gas. Gas, what do you guys think? Petrol. Petrol.

Can we come back to that one? No worries. We'll jump ahead to word number five, which was garden. Oh, my son says garden tools. Garden tools, yes. And we'll finally lock in gas. What would you have for word number four, gas? I want to say petrol, but... Petrol's a good option.

Yeah. Should we go with that, guys? Yep, they're both saying yep. Lock in petrol is our Noa Noa, the Cook Islands group, continue on performing here at Bunnings. Let's get Ben Boyce out here. Hips are shaking. Pelvises are thrusting in front of us, Ben Boyce. And you're back from the soundproof booth.

I am, I am. All right, how are we going to go? Are we going to win Anna $5,000? That's the plan? I'm feeling confident. She wants to knock some knock a dent in Christmas and you just sit there and you just wait for Ben to win you and your whanau $5,000. Let's get into it, okay?

And if you find... $25. And the guarantee this morning if you find a better word-based competition, we'll beat it by 15. No, we won't actually. That's probably too much money. All right. Word number one, pre-cooked. Pre-cooked.

Oh, sausages. Sausages. There we go. $25 there, Anna. Are you advancing ahead to the $50 round? Yep. They're doing it. All right, let's do it.

Word two, $50. Word number two was generator. Power. Boom. Anna, you got 50 Word number two was generator. Power. Boom! Anna, you got 50 slides in your bank account. What do you want to do, mate? It's over to you. You guys want to carry on?

Yeah, let's do it. Okay. Word three, $100. Here's a cool handy. The Great Rutherford. The Red Rutherford, Ben Boyce writing on this one. Paint. Brush.

Ding. You've got $100. Now, would you like to head to word four? Just a reminder, it was gas. Yeah. Will you walk away with your head held high, Anna? Yeah. No, let's carry on.

Word four, $500. Gas. There's a lot of gas. We can smell a lot of gas coming from the barbecue. I can smell a lot of gas coming from Ben. There's a couple of options here, but I'm looking at one right now, so I'm thinking barbecue themed. I'm going to go bottle couple of options here, but I'm looking at one right now. So I'm thinking barbecue themed. I'm going to go bottle.

Gas bottle. Oh! It was petrol. Oh, that was the other option I was thinking of too. Oh, Anna, we dipped out, unfortunately. We'll go to garden. That's the word number five. Center?

Garden tool. There you go. Hey, three out of five, Anna. You played a rock-solid game. You're a wonderful person. And, hey, we'll be seeing you this afternoon, okay? Alrighty. Hey, thanks, Anna.

Thank you for listening. We really appreciate it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Over the weekend, Jono, I had an embarrassing situation that happened. It was just getting dark and I was driving with the kids and I saw up ahead on the road I was like, oh, hedgehog up ahead, probably about 15 to 20 metres

up as it was just getting dark and it was in one of those positions where you couldn't really swerve around it because there's traffic coming the other way. The memo hasn't got out to the hedgehog community about the road, has it? No. They all make a go for it and they're way too slow for the distance it needs to be covered safely. I mean, surely one hedgehog has watched another give it a go,

and it's ended in grim circumstances, and they haven't passed that. This one was not moving fast at all. I tried my best to try and avoid it within my lane. Front tires missed it. Back tires clipped it. I was like, ooh. And the kids in the back you could tell

they were just like oh as well because they're big you know big animal lovers and we sort of drove off in silence for sort of 10 to 15 meters and then the kids are like dad you need to go back we need to give this thing a burial oh dear god and so i'm like they're they're they're spiky disease laden sleepy slow they're basically me yeah of the animal world so you don't tell me They're spiky, disease-laden, sleepy, slow. They're basically me of the animal world. So don't tell me you're reversed back up. Well, no, so I parked up the road at the end of the street, and then we started to sort of walk back.

I sort of looked for a cardboard box to kind of slide underneath in the back of the car to sort of pick it up from the road. Couldn't really find anything. It's getting kind of dark, and we're walking back, and I sort of had my light on from my phone as well. Can I just say the only grieving that needs to be done for a hedgehog is, oh, that was sad, and then you get on with your day. Yeah, well, yeah, but also we're with the kids now,

so we'll have a look back, and this other lovely couple were walking along as well, and they could see us sort of looking around between sort of cars on the road, and they're like, what's going on? And the kids are like, we're looking for a hedgehog. They're like, oh, we'll come and help you. We'll help you. Oh, there's a whole search party now. Yeah like, we're looking for a hedgehog. They're like, oh, we'll come and help you. We'll help you. I'm like, oh, there we go. There's a whole search party now.

Yeah. So we're all the couple, me. Not even the hedgehog's family were looking for the hedgehog. Me and the kids, we're all looking up. We're walking back up the road looking for this hedgehog in between the traffic as it sort of happens, trying to do that safely. Another lovely lady, old lady, was there as well. She was outside her house just going in.

She's like, what are you doing? And we're like, what are you doing? Oh, here we go. We're looking for a hedgehog that we've hit on the road. She's like, I'll get a spade. I'll come back and help you. So now we've got the old lady. We've got the couple.

We've got me. We've got the kids. We're all looking for this hedgehog. Less people have looked for missing children. Yeah. So there's a group of us. And we walk back up the road. And we're like, this is the spot. And then I look down.

And I was like, uh-oh. And then one of the other couples, the couple, the nice couple saw what I saw and they're like, is that what you're looking for? And I said, yeah, I think so. And they picked it up and it was a pine cone. I was like, uh-oh. Now the pine cone had been half broken in half because I'd hit it with the car, but the whole time I thought I'd hit a hedgehog, but I'd just run over a pinecone. Well, at least you gave the pinecone the send-off.

The send-off it deserved. You can tell me I've not only wasted my time and my family's time. Multiple people. Multiple people. Mate, we were already wasting time looking for a hedgehog, and now it's a pinecone. And in that situation, you don't really know what to say.

You're like, well, hey, thanks for helping me look for that pinecone. And the guy was like, do you want to keep it? I'm like, well, no, I don't want to keep it. Has anyone got any words they'd like to say about the pine cone? No? Okay, we'll get on with our lives. Yeah, I don't think anyone's ever had a funeral for a pine cone before, but we were pretty close to doing it on the weekend.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, news to hand overnight that the voting age in New Zealand could go from 18 to 16. The Supreme Court has ruled that their recommendation is it should go to 16. Jacinda Ardern has said she agrees with it. She's taking it to Parliament, and if Parliament pass off on it, that could

be happening, 16-year-olds voting in New Zealand. It seems I wouldn't have trusted myself. I'm just talking personally and how I knew I was as a 16-year-old. I wouldn't trust myself to vote'm just talking personally and how I knew I was as a 16 year old I wouldn't trust myself to vote Ben Boyce let alone did I care I don't think that's probably the bigger issue is it

I'm not saying it's for everyone I'm sure there is a huge percentage of 16 year olds that care I was just a shocking one shocking teenager I pierced my ears with a compass you know at age 16 got infected did you put a cork behind it

or did you just go straight? Just straight through. Just straight in here. Got infected, and it blew up, and I could have been like one of those sort of elephant titus in a documentary on discovery or something. So you're saying at age 16, you're piercing your ears with a compass. You shouldn't have been boating. I wouldn't have given myself the right to vote.

And I was also mixing every form of alcohol together with my parents. Look at good. You know, gin, whiskeys, molasses, olive oil, vinegar, you name it. We put it all in a bottle. And that is not responsible. Would you like me to vote at 16? No. Would you like me to vote at 41?

No. But hey, you're allowed to. That's fine. At 41. Yeah, well, that's the question. I feel like the younger generation on a whole, this is generalising, are probably a little smarter, a little more switched on than maybe you and I were. Well, this is the play that apparently people are talking about,

particularly with climate change issues, that this is a hot button for them. You know, one of their favourite hobbies, you know, the Gen Zers and the youngos, Ben, is blaming the older generations for ruining everything in the world. And we have. We've done a good job of ruining the environment. And so they're saying that the Greens will benefit hugely from a 16-year-old voting age. I'd like to think I, well, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I made the decision around about that age to wear a Looney Tunes duvet.

We've talked about this before. Made into pants, waistcoat, and a bandana to the ball. I mean, that was what I was doing in fashion. That was my decision then. The bandana felt a bit unnecessary. You're already pushing boundaries. You're like, oh, I'll chuck a bandana into the ball. So would you want that person to be voting?

I mean, a guy who was, you know, go, oh, okay. He's got Daffy Duck, Taz, do you have Taz the Devil on there? Taz, Bugs, Marty, you know, they're all on there. All on there. So it was a duvet. Now, remember, it was a duvet. He got his mum, Jenny, to pull out the sewing machine and make him a suit for the ball out of a duvet.

And the poor girl who went with you, she had to have a piece of it too. What did she have? She had, I think, a couple of the characters on her gloves. Longer gloves. She put a camera. She was like, oh, God. I've got Bugs Bunny as gloves right now.

So, you know, I, looking back, I'm like, well, that person should not be buying. I mean, who's he going to vote for? Now, did you wear the bandana like a pirate or like a gangster? Did you have your ears out or ears tucked under? Oh, I think I might have the tips of my ears underneath, I think. I think it might have been. What's that? What's that?

Is that more gang? Well, it's a pirate who wants to be a gangster. It's a pirate who's thinking about changing profession. You know what? I thought I could do some drive-bys out there. Yeah, so that person

should not be in voting. So that's all we want to know this morning. No, 100, the hits. So 4, 4, 8, 7. What were you doing at 16? What was the thing you look back on,

the iconic moment at your 16, good or bad or otherwise? And should you have been voting? Yeah, we will decide whether we would have been eligible to vote at age 16. Heading to every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country to eat a sausage. 41 stores, we're going to end up on Sunday in Queenstown as we eat a sausage everywhere we go,

raising money for some great local communities as we travel around. Yeah, it's been fun. It's been really fun. Hopefully we're still saying that on Friday. Ben, we were just talking about the voting age. Could we lower it to 16? Supreme Court said it's discrimination, discriminatory. Just letting 18-year-olds vote and above. But it's going to go

through Parliament to see Jacinda's backing it. She wants to go through with it. But we were just saying, what are we doing at 16? We want to decide if you would have been sensible enough to vote at 16 years old uh and some great texts coming through here we trust 16 year olds to be in charge of a car they should be allowed to vote if they want to that's a quite a good point actually i hadn't thought of that text here i was sneaking out of boarding school to drink and sleep with my boyfriend at 16 yeah okay okay well that's what you know i imagine people were doing back then but generally if you're having to sneak out and do anything

That's probably a good sign Look at us, we're travelling around the country Eating a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country Yeah, true, you're right We're a long way off 16 Tiana, you're on, welcome What were you doing at 16? I was having fake sleepovers with my friends

So we could sneak out and go to parties Oh, so there was no sleep going on You faked sleeping. Yes, yeah. I would tell my mum that I was having sleepovers when in reality either they were having parties or we were going to someone's party. Now, were you caring

about secondary tax? The tax rate? The OCD? Were you caring about national labour? I was caring about how I could explain a hangover the next day. Yeah, well, yeah. See, in that situation, would you have given yourself the right to vote? No way.

OK, all right. Here we go. Hayley, you're on from Hamilton. 16 years old. I don't think that I'm ready. It's like a lot of us, eh? I just like the colours red or blue, and I just choose one of those. What were you doing at 16, Hayley?

There's so many examples that I could have given of stupidity, but I remember one time I was arguing with my mum. She wanted me to wash my face. I was saying no. Finally, she won, and I thought, ooh, I'll show her. So I went into the bathroom with a flannel, and I scrubbed my face so hard that I came out with two grazes on my cheeks that I had to deal with for the rest of the week. And I'm like, why did I even? What was the point there?

Well, yeah, it was a more affordable exfoliating option, wasn't it? Just grazing a flannel along your face like sandpaper. And, I mean, your mum was having to remind you to wash your face at 16. I mean, if you haven't been reminded to, you know, basic hygiene, I don't know, would you have let yourself vote? No way. All right. We're going to get Justin on from Wellington.

Good morning. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. 16 years old. What were you doing, Justo? Yeah, mate, I was making some pretty silly decisions. I was one of those kids that just wanted to do everything that everyone else didn't want to do. So if everyone's trying to vote for one person,

I'll be voting for the one person nobody wants to vote for. Are you going to vote for David Seymour? Yeah. I mean, when I was 16, I definitely would have gone, everybody hates that fella. I'm going to vote for him. Just to be spiteful of everybody else. And that's a lot of attitudes, isn't it?

Just to go against the establishment. Yeah. That's how Winston's going to get back into Parliament, mate. We keep going this way. I'm going to hook you up with the Farmer's Voucher and the other calls as well. Thanks to the Farmer's Centre Parade on Sunday. Appreciate your call this morning, mate. Thanks, mate.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Lizzo, you're on The Hits, Jono and Ben from Car Park at the Bunnings Warehouse in Monaco this morning. 8.29 is the time. We're eating a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse stores in the country. We need to eat our first sausage today before 9 o'clock. Haven't done that yet? Yeah, we do. I'm trying to put off as

long as possible. Nine sausages yesterday was a lot. The last one was, yeah, that was a battle. But anyway, we're back on the sausage train today. And hey, Ben, it's fine. It all finishes by Sunday, mate. It's only six or seven days away. Chris Mack from 660 came down, popped in and saw us yesterday. Fresh off Eden Park where 660 played in the weekend.

And he brought along some hot sauce for us to have with our sausages. Sausage number eight. Chris Mack from 660's bought us a wee treat. Yeah, I found this hot sauce in my fridge. No idea how hot it is. It says insane on the side. It does say insane, Hank, yeah. Oh, that's got to be... That's quite a bit, sorry.

It comes out really fast, I thought. Wow, that was a good... That's so unnecessary. Oh, whoo! thought. Wow that was a gutter. It's so unnecessary. Oh! Woo! Yeah it was ugly, ugly scenes. But for the next three hours it felt like my lips wanted to divorce my face. Did you have that like this tingling? I couldn't even feel it, it was somebody else's lips I felt like I was wearing. Oh my god my lips were like what, why have you done this to me? I've done you pretty well over the years. It was just, yeah, very odd. And so Chris Mack, he doesn't forget his roots or his chilli sauce. It was, yeah, but thank you for coming down, Chris. As we said, you don't get more New Zealand rock and roll than that, do you?

Stadium show to a bunning sausage sizzle within 48 hours. Everywhere we go around the country, 41 sausages, 41 different community groups. And this morning we have Scott from Counties Monaco, the Steelers, the legendary Steelers rugby team. Good to have you here. Morning, team. Thank you. Great to have you on, Scott.

Now, one of your colleagues said Toad. So is Toad your name? It's a stitch-up, isn't it? It's a stitch-up. It's actually Toad because of my stature, but hey, we won't hold that against him. Toad was probably the more family-friendly version. Hence why we don't need too many sausages this morning.

Anyway, Bunnings, you guys do a few sausage sizzles here? We do, yeah. We're trying to get out in the community. You've got a few of the community team here today, so we're trying to get around as many people as we can, just spreading the rugby love, really. So what would the money today go towards to help out the club? It's going towards junior rugby.

We're trying to really push for junior rugby and see if we can progress those numbers up a bit. They've dropped over since COVID, so we're just trying to increase that again. We're competing against so many sports in counties because it's a lot easier to sit in the gymnasium these days than it is to come to a rugby field. Just trying to change the mums around a bit.

Good on you, mate. Now, Ben Boyce, where would you have placed him on the counties team? He could be on or off the field. He could even be a flagpole in the corner. Maybe the corner flag would be better. I'll probably be about as skinny as one, just hold up a little flag at the end there.

That'll work, right? Do you need a new flag this season? We do, as long as you keep the pink away, mate. We're okay. Now, you did turn up today and you said it's not that bad. Now, Ben Boyce, if you haven't been following this rolling coverage, he burst a blood vessel in his eye. I'm not sure how.

I'm lifting something heavy. It was probably in my backpack or something like that for me. And so you had to dot off to the doctors yesterday? Yeah. And what happened? What did the doctors say? The blood vessel, seven days, may turn yellow, just battle on. You know? $50 later,

there you go. I did a bit of homework listening to the boys on the way in, but when you get here it's not actually that bad. But do keep your distance from him. No one wants to go near me today. What's going on? Is this court any longer? He's definitely keeping a safe social distance, two metres away.

Hey, well, good on you guys. Good on you for getting out in the community. And, you know, the Manukau community is so awesome, isn't it? It is. It's a great community. And, hey, the more people we can get involved in sport, it doesn't have to be rugby, but more people can get involved in sport. Bunnings do a lot to help that, so yeah, really appreciate the support.

It's what I've noticed is Bunnings don't go out there and brag about what they do for the community, do they? No, and they did a good show today. They've got a fantastic team. Everyone seems to be happy, so they're pretty good at that. Yeah, no, I'll tell you what. I've been drinking the Kool-Aid, mate. You'll be like, what happened to John? I don't know.

I think he's working at Bunnings, but he's Glenham in the lightbulb department. Just loving it. Your head looks like a lightbul to Jono? I don't know. I think he's working at Bunnings, bloody Blenheim in the lightbulb department. Just loving it. Your head looks like a lightbulb. That's probably the perfect place. Hey, good to meet you, mate. Keep up the good work. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I see Sprite and L&P bottles are going to be discontinued and the green and brown colours that they are right now are not as good

to recycle. What, the green? The coloured bottles? The coloured bottles are not as good to recycling so they're going to be changing the green Sprite bottle and the brown iconic L&P bottle to, I guess, the green? The coloured bottles? The coloured bottles are not as good at recycling so they're going to be changing the green spark bottle and the brown iconic LMP bottle to, I guess, the clear version. You know, one of my favourite things to do is crush my soda cans with my foot. Now, Producer Joel,

you ruined that. Well, I've got one on your mouth. I need a bleak life. I have one joy and it's crushing my soda cans and you said to me, Joel, you crushed my dreams. What did you say? I was just reading on the Ladbubble, a very credible source, that apparently they all go to the rubbish part, not the recycling part. You can't recycle them. Yeah, you can't recycle.

I did actually hear that as well. I've been crushing cans for a year. No, no, no. If you want to recycle, you look at the can, you can recycle them, but not when you crush them, apparently. Yeah, I didn't realize colored bottles were an issue either. Yeah, well, hey, there we go. So they're going clear.

Well, I suppose the liquid's colourful anyway. You get a little bit of juice there, though, a little bit of colour, you know. Ben, one thing I've noticed driving around all of these Bunnings stores is the array of vehicles that we come across. And yesterday we were following a van. Now, in the van, it was your champagne 1990s van with curtains. And they in the van, it was your champagne 1990s van with curtains.

And they had the curtains drawn. Which, it's like a mobile lounge, isn't it? Yeah. It's a mobile lounge that you'd definitely probably buy weed from or something like that. Have you dreamed of having a car with curtains? I haven't dreamed of having a car with curtains,

but I guess, you know... I feel like a car with curtains would raise a lot of suspicions. You're sleeping in your car, then I guess having curtains is a nice option, you know. Yeah. But they're never like, it feels like the curtains have been around for 20, 25 years, doesn't it, when you see curtains in a car. At some point, the automotive industry went, mate, curtains was a shocking idea. Let's stop adding curtains to vans.

It'd be nice, though. I mean, when you've got kids, when they're young, you kind of have those things you put on the window to stop the sun from streaming in onto their big bald heads when they're babies, you know? So maybe curtains is a good idea. And also the other thing is, too, you're limited to the zones you can drive and park in with a van with curtains.

You know, there's certain areas, and they don't need to be mentioned, that you'd want to keep at least a 5K distance from. Who's that old van with curtains? Definitely phoning the police line, not the 111, the non-emergency one, going, hey, keep an eye out for Ben Boyce and his curtain van. There's the hits, Jono and Ben, on the Bunnings Warehouse, a tour of New Zealand, eating a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse,

from the top of the north to the bottom of the south. Yesterday, nine sausages we had to eat. We're just about to eat sausage number 14 in just a few moments. Yeah, and Ben, we also have been very impressed when you walk into a Bunnings and you ask anyone with the green apron Any of the team? Yeah, any of the team

if you ask them anything you name an item. Weedwhackers. They'll be able to tell you what aisle the weedwhackers are in. And that has always impressed us, because this place is ginormous. We've lost about four staff members on this tour of our hits team.

We're like, well, we're never going to get them back. They're lost in Bunnings. We'll send an email to their family and wish them good luck. But we thought we'd put some of the Bunnings team to the test, under the pump. Like, is it a charade? Is it a facade that maybe they're getting fed information in their ear? Yeah.

You know, there's someone up above going, oh, yeah, we're going, aisle 23, aisle 23 for the whackers. Or do they just know it all? And B, we ran into at Constellation Drive, Bunnings Warehouse. B. Hello. Now, I'm good. Bea. Hello. Now Bea, I'm good.

I took my hat off before and Bea was like your head is blinding me. The light of my big bald head. I know, it was so shiny. You're like,

it's so shiny. It is shiny, it's very shiny. Very shiny. Have you got anything in Bunnings you can polish my head with? You've got a head polisher.

Oh yeah, we've got a very good buffer. If I wanted to find that buffer, where would I find it? What aisle? That would be in Tool Shop. Oh, Tool Shop. Now, okay, we're going to play a game with you, okay? We're just going to name items.

You've got to tell us what aisle they're in. Ooh, depends. Water blasters. Aisle 20. Ooh, okay, I want to find a paintbrush. Aisle 14. I need a leaf blower. 21.

Petrol line trimmer. 20. Spanner. Tool Shop. Hammers. blower. 21. Petrol line trimmer. 20. Spanner. Tool shop. Hammers. Tool shop. Paint. 14.

Ooh, barbecue. Lifestyle. Outdoor furniture. Lifestyle. You want to buy me too? I'm free. Oh, Bea was awesome. She couldn't tell us what aisle our dignity was in, though.

All fruit and vegetables. If you want to know where we're heading as we head around the country to visit every Bunnings, we're coming to a town or a city near you. Text Bunnings to 4487 and pull more down and see us. Give some money away to the local communities that Bunnings supports. You can buy a sausage and help us on our journey to eat a sausage at every Bunnings in New Zealand. Couple of Kiwi heroes.

Who are? Doing it. We are. Who? What? Doing it for Aotearoa. That's right. It's Justin Timberlake here on The Hits.

Jono and Ben, that is our show for Tuesday. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. Thanks for coming down to Bunnings Warehouse in Manukau this morning. We're heading to Takanini, Whangamata, and then Hamilton for the rest of the day. A few more sausages ahead of us, Jono. Yeah, you can check it out if you text 4487. Bunnings 4487, all the times and dates will be there. We want to thank the great team of Bunnings Manukau.

We want to thank the Anuanua Cultural Group. Geez, they were incredible, weren't they? From the Cook Islands, they were performing for us for about half an hour. You said you felt like Simon Cowell sitting at a table going, you're through to the next round. Straight away, they're through. They were incredible. Thanks, of course, to the county's Monaco Steelers as well

for cooking the barbecue this morning. It'll be running for a bit longer if you want to come down and support the team. We'll catch you tomorrow from 6. Have a great day.