Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Handbag Theft Scam At The Supermarket...

Episode Date: November 15, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast Ben tells the story when he had a close call at the supermarket... we continue on our epic Bunnings journey and Mark has a great 5w5k win!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome. It's the 16th of November. It's the podcast. Jono, Ben and producer Joel here currently getting face deep in a bowl of chilli con carne there. Mince on toast. I do like a mince on toast for breakfast every now and again. Every now and again. Not every day I'm having it. No, not every day.

Yesterday you had three sausages. Feel like there's a theme. We're going to have 41 sausages over the next week as well. Yeah, true. For breakfast. You're going to have a lot of eating. You don't normally eat during daylight hours. No.

No, it's 41. Get ready, mate. You love white bread, though, don't you? You love a white bread, too. I love white bread, yeah. You're going to do them all? That's the plan. That's the plan.

Oh, yeah. One each or one? I think we'll go to one each. One each? Yeah. We're going to all Bunnings stores across New Zealand. There's one day there's a lot of stores, right? Like 20 nearly sausages in a day.

I don't know if it's quite that much, but yeah, there's a few. Now, Producer Joel, very tall. One of the things we like about you is you can always get up high on the shelves and reach stuff and get – Dust, you can always dust up high too, which is handy. It's very handy. Good duster. Great duster.

But there's these new cameras installed here in the Hit Studio and they come they're installed from the roof and we're like oh if anyone's

going to walk into those it's going to be producer Joe because we walk underneath them we're fine but this morning straight away

five o'clock walks on in bang but in fairness it is directly in your line in your path it's a stick

that comes down from the roof and you open the door, your face is straight into that camera. Yeah, this morning at 5am, 4.55 if the boss is listening. Sorry, but to be fair, it's more like 20 past 5. I had a glass of water just straight in there and I was looking at Jono. I was actually looking at Jono's dashing legs across the hallway and then it just boom, straight in there. I saw it too for the distance.

I might have to go in early today. A bit of a delayed concussion coming on. We've got a good close-up shot of it anyway on the camera. The camera, like the Black Ferns final, the camera's been sent off for the rest of the game. It's out as well. We'll be down to 14 cameras now. So, yeah.

And we've got, how many in here? Five. Well, there's no 14. That was just a gag. That was a gag for the rugby analogy. But you're right, there's a few cameras in here now. Five cameras,

because there's always been an issue with radio that it's never been filmed. Then one day we decided as an industry, we've got to film what's going on in here. Yes. And I don't know. What do you think? Well, that was the thing.

Everyone, you know, who, you're like, oh, radio, whatever you want, you don't know what's going on. But anymore there's more social media more filming than ever that's ever before i mean it's good i mean you've got it i mean if you don't do it now you don't lost you're behind if you're not first you're last if you're not out there on social media without doing stuff you're out going around eating 41 sausages out there then what are you doing although a funny moment, one of the other producers

from across the hallway came up to me and said, are you really going to be eating 41 sausages going around the country? 41 Bunnings warehouse stores. I'm like, yeah. She's like,

whew, I'm so glad. With respect, I'm so glad I'm not your producer. Because producer Bee Humps and Harriet from the office as well, they've been working hard on the schedule.

To be fair, I think producer Bee Behance would happily trade places with her. Oh, yeah, in a heartbeat. Like having to organise flights and the comm. Because it's a relentless schedule. We all hear it on the podcast today. You had to read it out in fast forward. It's so one thing falls over one flight. We miss one, you know, know a roadblock a car crash somewhere

the dream's over the whole thing unravels the dream is over it's like dominoes they all collapse nothing can go wrong over seven consistent days of travel even look at the schedule

which you can if you want to text Bunnings to 4487 you can get the schedule back even looking at the schedule you're like oh we finish on this day at this place

and then we're like oh but we've got to be in the next town in the morning at six o'clock so we're probably driving or flying to that town after we first just it's gonna be fun and then we come back and go straight to the bloody santa parade oh what yeah yeah that's and then you've decided to do cricket commentary on the night what is. What is wrong with you? You're only around for a short time, so that's, yeah. You're not going to be around for much longer, though. You're making it shorter by the day. You're like Tom Brady.

You're the Tom Brady of New Zealand. How are you going to retire? What are you going to be like? It's not going to happen, mate. It's not going to happen. He's going to be going around eating sausages by himself. No camera crew. Put it on social media, mate. I'm not going to happen. He's going to be going around eating sausages by himself. No camera crew. Put it on social media, mate. Put it on there.

I'm still doing it. Still doing stuff. You're like, oh, it's a bit sad. It's a bit sad now. Enjoy the podcast. We'll catch you guys tomorrow. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. 6.05, it is The Hits, Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning. That's Callum Scott in that song, Where Are You Now. Now, he played at the Power Station last night in Auckland in New Zealand. Great to have Callum Scott in the country.

And he was in the studio with us yesterday. And we did a really fun little thing where we put him undercover to sing a song, a cover of his song. And we had him under a blanket in the studio and he would sing along. It got very hot. It was one of your blankets i got home and i was like did ben wash that blanket before he put an international pop star what is it what is it like is it your dog blanket it's a blanket that's you know like it's in circulation yeah it's in circulation it's pretty good it wrapped up your bony little body on a cold winter's night yeah it's sort of the

extra blanket that i put on top of that you know like we But we were under there with Callum Scott the other day, and he sounded really good. I didn't know if we should join in with the song or not, but we did at the end. And both of us, shocking singers normally, but I think we just got away with it. Are you saying it harmonised? Well, no, definitely not harmonised.

Take it away on yourself for a while. You're not going to enter idle. But it wasn't as awful at the end as I thought it was going to be. Have a listen. One, two. One, two, three, four. I'm in the corner watching you kiss her. Oh, oh, oh.

This is weird, guys. And I'm right over here. Why can't you see me? Oh, oh, oh. It's like a 90s music video. I'm giving it my all but i'm not the guy you're taking home i keep dancing on my own step aside james corden there we go safety in numbers too when you're singing safety yeah and we just we sort of pull back just a little bit. Now you can see that video.

It's very funny on the Hits Breakfast Instagram and Facebook as well. He's a lovely guy. Us in the cover. He is a lovely guy. He was so lovely at the end of it because we enjoyed catching up with him. He was like, hey, guys, would you like to come to the concert? Would you like to come? I'll put your name on the door, which is lovely.

Again, he's a true gentleman. I know, so good. And you went, no, no, no, mate. I'll buy tickets. And you can see no, no, no, no, mate. I'll buy tickets. And you can see Callum Scott go, oh, what a legend. So last night he played at the Power Station in Auckland. So now it's your chance. I open the floor is yours.

Your review of Callum Scott's concert. Because you bought tickets. It was good. What was your favorite part? Apart from the song where he sang that last one, I'm in the Corner, and the one before that we played. What was the other favourite, the standout moment for you? Oh, he came out and he's like,

Welcome, Auckland. How are you going? Oh, yeah, it was good. Was it good, was it? You know, all day, we got a message from the record company. All day he was on Ticketmaster. I think it was looking. He was like, oh, Johnny hasn't booked.

Maybe he booked under another name. He kept texting us through, waiting for your credit card details to pop up because it was lovely what you said back to him. I'll buy tickets. Don't worry. Listen, do you want to know the honest truth? You know the honest truth.

I think I know that. That's why you're leading me into this. I didn't buy tickets. Yes, I know you didn't buy tickets. I just don't, like, don't invite me to stuff. Because I didn't want to go, yes, I'll take a free ticket, knowing it's a Tuesday night. I would love to go.

It looked incredible. It looked incredible. Mitch James was opening up for him. But, you know, you know me, Ben. Mitch James wasn't opening up for him. No, he wasn't actually. He has been over everywhere but New Zealand. Mitch James didn't open up for him yet.

No, you explained that to us the other day because Mitch would bring it. Too difficult with the tickets because Mitch is obviously a big artist here, so he'd probably feel like he brought a lot of, you know. So he's like, hey, this is my, you know. So Mitch didn't explain that to us in the interview as well. Good to see you were listening to that interview as well. I would have known all this if I'd bought a ticket. But anyway.

The Hits, the Jono and ticket but anyway Now it starts on Sunday, we're on a mission to have a sausage sizzle at every Bunnings warehouse store in New Zealand, so we're coming to a town near you, there's 41 stores around the country that means we're going to eat 41 sausages and bread, a wonderful thing they do at Bunnings where the sausage sizzles help raise money

for the community and they've kindly agreed to put them on for us in short bursts throughout the week because they don't normally do it in the weekend. Well the Black Ferns aren't the only heroes this week and we're doing it for the community charities, the local community organisations Ben, that's why we're doing it

we're not doing it to selfishly get attention or create a New Zealand record. That's not why you would do something, is it? No. You're all about the community. Community-minded, community-hearted. Okay.

I've been dragging the chain on this. I haven't been overly enthusiastic about it. Well, there's a lot of sausages in seven days. 41 sausages, seven days. I will only do this if you agree to wear a meat dress like lady gaga but instead of steaks it's made up of sausages sausage if you're so enthusiastic about this project i think the mad butcher's date to a school ball was sausage juice oh mate mate you're doing things to me but you're quite concerned about the uh the schedule usually you're like we'll knock it

off in seven days and you've just said this flippantly. Poor Harriet and producer Bee Humps are having to organise all of the transportation, the logistics behind it. I don't know how we're going to do it. Let me talk you through how it's going to work. It starts this Sunday, 20th November, Mangowai 10 to 10.30am. Then we go to Kirikiri 12.15 to 12.45.

Then Kaikoi 1.45 to 2.15pm. Whangarei 3.45 to 4.15pm. Then we go to Kedikedi, 12.15 to 12.45. Then Kaikoi, 1.45 to 2.15pm. Whangarei, 3.45 to 4.15pm. That's Sunday. Then on Monday, 21st of November, Silverdale, 6am to 10am. Glenfield, 11 to 11.30am. Constellation Drive, 12.15 to 12.45pm. Graylin, 1.30 to 2. Westgate, 2.45 to 3.15. Newlyn, 4pm to 4.30. Mount Roskill, 5.15 to 5.45. Mount Wellington, 6.30 to 7pm. Botany, 7.30 to 8pm. Tuesday, 22nd of November. Bunnings Monaco, 6am to 10am. Takanini, 10.30 to 11am. Whangamata, 1.30 to 2 o'clock. Hamilton Tarapa, 4.30 to 5pm. Hamilton South, 5.30 to 6.30 to 7pm, Botany 7.30 to 8pm, Tuesday 22nd of November, Barnings Monaco 6am to 10am, Takanini 10.30 to 11am, Whangamata 1.30 to 2 o'clock, Hamilton Tarapa 4.30 to 5pm, Hamilton South 5.30 to 6, Wednesday 23rd of November, Mount Maunganui 6 to 10am, Tokoroa 10.30 to 11am, Whakatane 1pm to 1.30, Rotorua 2.45 to 3.15, Taupo 4.15 to 4.45, Thursday 24th of November, Gisborne 6 to 9am, Hastings 10.30 to 11 o'clock, New Plymouth 1.30

to 2pm, Halwada 3.15 to 3.45, Whanganui 4.45 to 5.15pm, Friday 25th of November, Palmerston North 6 to 10, Fielding 10.30 to 11, Potoroa 1.30 to 2, Petone 3 to 4pm, See? See? That all seems pretty achievable. Definitely didn't have to speed up my voice during any of that. Not one thing could go wrong. Like, not one thing goes wrong. The whole thing unravels. That's how long we've been in each store?

29 minutes? Not long. It's all happening from Sunday. All the details are the hits.co.nz. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed. Oh, more news coming in from Ben Boyce right now. What's been happening overnight, mate?

Well, I said before we love a novelty marathon. Jono, you ran a marathon up the top of the Sky Tower, you know, outside around the circle. You ran around and around, and I've got a new idea. A guy overseas has done something. I think maybe you could do it. Mate, hold it. Just button off the new ideas, buddy.

We're about to embark on a sausage-eating marathon. All right, we'll hold off on this one. Let's just one marathon at a time. Okay, actually, this is a very stupid idea when I explain it. But a Chinese man has gone viral after running a marathon in a pretty good time whilst chain-smoking his way through a packet of ciggies. Now, smoking, obviously, really bad for your health,

and you run, and he knows that, but the guy's name is Uncle Shen, and he's known to do the marathon while smoking. He's done it in the past, he did it in 2019, and his time this year, better than the time he did a couple of years ago. I mean, it's a great

advert for the cigarette industry, but generally, cigarettes as a whole probably doesn't need this good PR. We're like, they made me faster. I'm healthier than 12 months ago. So he did. Every photo that I've got of him online doing this marathon, he ran the full marathon.

He's just got a cigarette in his mouth. So he chain smoked the whole way through. What was your time roughly? Can you remember when you ran outside the smoke? Oh, no. It took ages. It felt like three days. It was like six hours or something like that.

Three hours, 33. Yeah, no, it took ages. It felt like three days. It was like six hours or something like that. Three hours, 33. Yeah, like three hours, 33. That is amazing. Is he pro-cigarettes? Is he trying to get a good spin out there on them? Get some cigarette sponsorship back into sports or something. I'm not sure what he's doing, but he's made a lot of international news this morning.

There was a glory period in the 80s when cigarettes, you know, anything athletic, cigarettes. They did a collab with cigarettes, didn't they? Cricket, tennis. There was fashion shows. You name it. Everything sponsored by Benson and Hedges. Rothmans, also.

Children's fundraisers. Here, kids, have one of these, mate. Hold these for the old photo with the big check. It's probably a good thing that's not happening. And that is making news this morning. Ben has a family trip booked to the Hot Springs Spa T20 Black Clash.

Jono wants to give it away. It's Jono and Ben's hit him for six. And I'm trying to pull those cheap thrills away from him because I found out that he's got an

all expenses paid trip for four family trip for Port of Christchurch for the Black the Hot Springs Spa Black Clash. The T20 Black Clash.

Rugby taking on cricket. It's going to be great. Now, what I thought we'd do is potentially put your trip on the line. We're going to try and give it away to a listener. Every day this week, we've got one of the athletes on from the Black Clash. And you've got to try and figure out who it is.

If you fail just one of the days, your trip for Port-au-Christ Church goes to the next caller. And now it's time to welcome on today's mystery athlete. Welcome to the show. G'day, guys. Okay, so I've got six questions to try and get the mystery player. I've got the team list in front of me.

Well, the team list, which is helpful. It's like a game of Guess Who live on the radio. All right, first question. Do you play in team cricket? Yes. Oh, yeah, okay. We're doing a good job of disguising your own voice. You sound like someone who's snitched on a gang or something

and they're having to conceal their identity on the news. It does. It's like an episode of 2020 or something. All right. Are you a fast bowler? No. I really want to ask him if he did a ram rate but I won't. Are you

a wicket keeper? No. Okay, so we're nearing it. Are you looking through the list here, do you think? Yeah. You've got to cancel out the players that we have spoken to this week already. I know. I cancel out the other players.

They're not a bowler, not a wicketkeeper, a batter. No. No. Oh. Oh. Okay. Okay. Is your brother doing pretty well as the coach of the English side right now?

He's OK. It's the former Black Caps spin bowler, Nathan McCullum. Is he correct? Yeah. I love it. Such a brotherly response. He's OK. He's doing OK.

You can't puff a nut too much. He's getting enough of that from the English turf, isn't he? They love him over there, don't they? Yeah, he deserves another doctorate. Now, Nathan, are you exciting for the Black Clash, the Hot Springs Spa T20 Black Clash? Are you guys taking it seriously when you're there? I mean, what's going on, Nathan?

Oh, 100%, mate. It's 2-2, so we're going to win this one, don't we? Do you find it a bit easier being a spin bowler that the body doesn't have to, you know, sort of go from not doing as much as you were you're playing to spin bowling as opposed to the fast bowlers? Yes, but then

the other part is I end up still having to do as much running in the field as I used to when I was playing because I'm going from boundary to boundary at the end and I throw myself around like an idiot. I forget that I'm 42, not 22. Did he just call you lazy, I think, Nathan? Was that a roundabout way of saying...

I wasn't calling him lazy. Because Korea was lazy because he was spin bowling. No, I like the hate. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, Nathan. Did I read somewhere you're now in the construction industry? Yeah, correct. So, yeah, I own a company called Total Property Works with a couple of other guys in here with me.

So, yeah, it's going good. We've got a pretty good team in here as well. Supply issues, nightmare supply chain issues. I think Jim's back. You can get Jim again now, apparently. Jim's back. We might have a little bit ourselves. But, yeah, it's on the way up.

But, yeah, the industry's pretty buoyant at the moment, so it's good fun. What is the transition like when you go from professional sports to, I wouldn't say it's an ordinary job you're doing, but, you know, jobs like... Oh, who's throwing shade at Nathan McCullum now, mate? I called him lazy, apparently. The unintentional roast of Nathan.

But, you know, were you having to work like the rest of us schmucks? You called him lazy, apparently. The unintentional roast of Nathan. But, you know, were you having to work like the rest of us schmucks? Yeah, look, it's obviously a bit of a challenge, that first step. And a lot of people sort of liken it to when you first come out of school, when you're trying to find out what you're doing. And the best way to try and do that is transition and get a bit of work experience through and a lot of athletes are now doing that and the support for athletes is certainly a lot better than what it used to be but it certainly is a hard transition

going from traveling all around the world and playing the game that you love to but we're pretty lucky here. We've got a great team environment, some great people and a bit of a high-performance culture as well and some good people that we work with. So it's a different challenge, but it's certainly very, very enjoyable. Well, good on you, mate. And I tell you what, the way things are going for us,

if you need anyone sweeping up the sights, might give you a call next year we need a plan b that's for sure i'll tell you what the boys would love to have you on site so we'll see you filling up the truck doing a rubbish run we can do it all we're not well but we'll give it a go all good good on you nathan lovely to hear from your mate and uh look forward to the hot springs spars t20 black clash. You go and have a great day. Awesome. Cheers, guys.

I've managed to hold on to my trip for another day, but you could be winning it tomorrow if I can't guess the player that's playing in the big match in Christchurch next year. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a lot of big stuff going on in the world. The war in Ukraine. There's a big protest going on and unrest in Iran. Big midterm elections in the USA. But, you know, New Zealand's got some protest going on and unrest in Iran, big midterm elections in the USA.

But, you know, New Zealand's got some stuff going on right now. Donald Trump about to announce his presidency campaign. Yeah, yeah. So Jacinda Ardern's been over there at the East Asian Summit with some of the world leaders. She's also been in Vietnam for the last few days. And I thought, well, what big stuff in the world has she been talking to over there in Vietnam? You know, talking to their leaders.

And have a listen to this. I was driving into work this morning on the 5 o' there in Vietnam? Talking to their leaders. Have a listen to this. I was driving into work this morning on the 5 o'clock news, just as I was pulling in. Have a listen. The Prime Minister has reached a deal with the Vietnamese government which will allow more lime imports into New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern says this is good news, given the hefty price tag at the moment.

I don't know, but I just checked and currently they're $39 a kg at New World. So you can see that there's a reason it gets called green gold. Big stuff going on, eh? Big negotiations. Done a lime deal. Like, I've been up with, great, great. I can't remember the last time I had a slice of lime. I mean, it's nice, you know, like a...

It's a lovely touch to a, you know, fizzy drink. Corona or something too, you know, like that. But $ bucks a kg But yeah Why haven't we heard About this travesty earlier I mean you put it on You know

Mexican tacos And stuff like that But I reckon Gayford Loves a lime With his snapper That he's catching From the ocean

Yeah And so Dern's like I'm going to have to Go to Vietnam To sort this out This is breaking the bank This is the big thing

That we need to sort out Right now Cost of living Yeah well it's part of the cost of living. So, yeah. I mean, I'm sure she's doing other stuff over there. But rest assured, we can all afford Lolon. 39 bucks.

But they're only, anyway, anyway. So that's the big stuff that's going on. You've got to say something you pulled out. What were you going to say? No, I was saying they're only small and light. It's not like they're watermelon heavy, you know. So 39 bucks a kilo. They're not much of a kilo. So it's, you know, anyway.

It's fine. Anyway, good negotiation with the Vietnamese there. It's good. Heartland, we've done a collab with Heartland. You can find them in supermarkets all over the country. Our crazy out-of-this-world mix of maple bacon, sour cream and chives, and salt and vinegar.

I walk through the supermarket and I get unsettled when I see a full shelf of them. Brought into one yesterday, front door, full boxes, and I'm like, why aren't they empty? But then I suppose,

if they're empty, well then they can't sell them. Well, that's why I keep telling myself, keep restocking them. And you get one at $10,000 as well with a chip pick if you buy the chips. Money doesn't grow on trees, but it grows in the ground in the form of potatoes with this. And all you need to do is take a picture with them, scan the QR code, and send that to us. We're going to give away $10,000.

And one person who's done such a thing is Leanne Morena. How are you? Yes, I'm a bit starstruck. You're starstruck? I get like that around Ben Boyce as well, Leanne. He has that effect on everyone. It's a glow. Now, we understand you bought the chips.

Firstly, thoughts? Give it to us straight, Leanne. I thought that they smelt like bacon, which is very good. They tasted like salt and vinegar, which was even better, because that's my favourite. And not so much the sour cream and chives, but I really liked that flavour. Yeah, right, OK. So two out of the three ain't bad.

Was it meatloaf said two out of three ain't bad? Yeah, yeah. But they were pretty good. And the goats liked them too. Oh, the goats liked them? You feed them to the goats? I didn't know I did, but I had to fight them for it you see because they really liked them.

I made you a TikTok video of all the animals trying the chips. There was the goats, the lamb and the calves. Yes and I made you a TikTok video of them all sharing with me the bag of chips.

Who's it testing well with? What demograph on the farmyard? They all decided that they did like them. I don't feel like any of those animals would turn their nose up at anything, though. No. The goats, like, eat tin cans and stuff like that. But anyway, animal testing, they say it's bad. But in this case, it's not bad because the animals are in it. Animal testing fully backed by Jono and Ben. Yeah, this one, it's not bad because the animals are in it. Animal testing fully backed

by Jono and Bede. Yeah, this one. This type. All animal testing. Well, no, just when the animals are having some food, that's fine. Yep, yep. But I had to buy another bag so that only I could enjoy them. Well, Leanne, this is a wild ride. Do you usually go home and test food on your animals? No, it's just

that I happen to have the bag out there and they're all so nosy, especially the goats, and the rustling of the bag, they're like, oh, what's in there? And so they had to have a look and have a taste, and so I just started taking some photos of all of them trying it, and I put it together. Oh, well, we will have it.

We will have it, and you will be in the draw for the $10,000. Oh, awesome. So well done, Leanne. That's all you need to do. Send us your chip pick, and you've got creative with it too. Those are the ones that catch our eyes. So we're going to be doing that draw early December.

Good luck. Thank you so much for buying the chips. We really do appreciate it. Oh, no, that's awesome. Thank you for doing that. And I'm bummed that I don't have a bunning store near me so I can come and annoy you too when you have a sausage. Oh, we're out, Nabil.

We're out hustling chips. We're out doing sausages. We'll save some for your goats, all right? Yeah. I sent you a challenge on your Facebook page that one day if you ever get around to it, you have to get your bag of chips and run through the goat paddock

and see if you make it to the other side without being taken down by the goats. Okay, well, Ben, we'll meet you at your farm next week and Ben will give that a crack, okay? Okay, sounds good. What, John, are you going to do a nude? Okay. Nude?

Unnecessarily nude. We're turning up without clothes on. I'm sorry, Leanne. Have a good one, mate. You have a good day. Oh, thank you very much, guys. See you later. We love a bunning

sausage sizzle in New Zealand, but not just in New Zealand, in Australia. A guy by the name of Josh captured my imagination, got my attention because he went around. Well, let's let him explain. The whole crux of it is I got a sausage in bread from every

bunning store in the country. So this is off your own bat. You've financed your way around Australia and had a sausage at every Bunnings. Now, how many sausages in total? How many stores did you visit? It was 300 or something like that. It was quite a few. Every now and then you'd grab a cheeky second snag.

He did this in the weekends. It took him a couple of years. COVID's held him up there for a bit too. What a hero. So it inspired me to ask him if we could do a similar thing, go around every Bunnings Warehouse store in New Zealand and have a sausage sizzle at every one. And he gave his sausage-y blessing, didn't he?

He said, yeah, you can play in that pool. And I've been strongly against it, made no bones about it, and you've been trying to coerce me into going on this. He's even pulled out the, oh, do it for the community organisations card, because that's what the barbecues raise money for. That's right, the sausage says,

it all raises money for the communities. He's like, don't you love the community? And I've said multiple times, no. You're going on about this anyway. Although my daughter, Sienna, she had some words to say yesterday. Well, she was the starring role of a bread commercial, wasn't she, where she had to sit on the beach and eat sausages. But being a TV commercial, multiple takes, multiple sausages,

here was her word of warning. I ate so many sausages, and they were really good. If you have too many, or they make you feel sick. And I got known as Sausage Girl. So you guys will get known as Sausage Man and Sausage Man. Sausage Man and not Sausage Men?

Just Sausage Man. Sausage Man and Sausage Man. So there's the dark sausage. I'm prepared to be known as Sausage Man because I want to do this. When you're going to be walking through the mall, I'll be like, look it's Saus be known as Sausage Man because I want to do this. When you're going to be walking through the mall, I'll be like, look, it's Sausage Girl and Sausage Man when you're with your daughter.

The sausage family. The worst of the Avengers. So, yeah, we're going to be doing this. It's going to be starting on Sunday. We're going to head around to every Bunnings warehouse in the country. 41 stores over seven days. It's going to be a blistering seven days. If you want to text Bunnings to 4487,

you can get all the dates and all the stores. Come down and say hi. Do a meet and greet, a literal meet and greet. You can have a sausage and bread and say hi to us. And Ben has promised me, too, he's going to wear a Lady Gaga-style meat dress, but instead of steaks made up with sausages. Okay? Pork sausages.

Now, nothing's going to go wrong on our trip. It's going to be great. We're going to raise money. Nothing can go wrong. If, nothing's going to go wrong on our trip. It's going to be great. We're going to raise money. Nothing can go wrong. If one thing falls over, the whole thing unravels. If we're going to raise money for the community, it's going to be great.

But, you know, Barb... He's pulled out his community card like a monopoly. Again and again and again. You'll have a lot of that. So what we want to do is, you know, just get some tales from the barbecue this morning.

0800 the hits. 4487 if you want to text New Zealand's Breakfast as well. Spilled from the grill. What happened? Barbie disasters? We don't want to go, oh, we invited some people over, had a lovely barbecue, great conversation. That's great for you, but probably not great for our radio show.

You gave your family food poisoning, didn't you? Yeah, there's no coming back from that. I've got PTSD, post-traumatic salmonella disorder. But the family didn't actually suffer too much because I was point-proving. Jen, my wife, was like, that's not cooked. It's not cooked. I was like, it is cooked. Watch me eat this entire chicken breast.

In fact, give me yours, and I'll prove that point. And boy, oh boy. Tell you what, say what you want about salmonella poisoning, but jeez, it's a great weight loss regime. You want to shred for summer. It keeps coming back and back, doesn't it? Okay, so 100 of the hits. Spill from the grill.

What happened when you were barbecuing? Love to hear from you next on New Zealand's Breakfast. Before we head away to do a sausage sizzle at every Bunnings warehouse in the country. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're on a mission to have a sausage sizzle at every Bunnings warehouse store in New Zealand.

We're coming to visit you. You can get all the details if you want to text Bunnings to 4487. Starts on Sunday, goes for a week. 41 stores, 41 sausages and bread over seven days. And they do it for the community as well. There's nothing quite like a community sausage sizzle. Every bite, you can just taste the charity. Local sports teams, schools and kindergartens will be raising money along the way,

but we wanted some barbecue stories. Ben has somehow managed to take the fun out of fundraising. Congratulations. For the people who are there in short installments, they're having fun. But for me, you've taken the fun out of it. Yeah, true. I'm dragging you along on this wild sausage eating marathon. So spilling from the grill.

What do you want to spill from the grill this morning? Let's kick it off with Sue. What happened? So I was on the PTA at my son's school. This is going back many years ago. And my job was to cook a sausage sizzle lunch for the children at about 300. Stock standard fundraiser, isn't it?

The Kiwi sausage sizzle? Exactly. So I never checked the drip tray and I started this barbecue, caught fire. I'm thinking, no, children are going to go without lunch. What are we going to do? So luckily enough, I resorted to plan B, which my house backed onto the school field. So it had a gate in between. So I went home, cooked all the sausages, and then I was like,

how am I going to get all the kids their sausages? They can't file through one gate. So we made it like a school trip. They kind of walked along the road, up my drive, collected their sausage, out the back gate, sat on the back field. Crisis averted. Oh, so you just destroyed the other one.

It just caught up in flames. Yes. Completely melted, like the knobs were falling off and everything from melting. How did you put it out? I kind of just called the caretaker. He dealt with that while I went and cooked sausages. Like, can you deal with this inferno?

Yep, it was, yeah, I was pretty stressed out. I love your primary school caretaker. Like, can you deal with this inferno? Yep, it was, yeah, I was pretty stressed out. I love your primary school caretaker. We put so much responsibility on them. They just have to be able to do everything. They're brilliant. They really are. Yeah, they're mowing lawns, they're fixing drains, putting out fires.

It's like the caretaker will do it. Has anyone asked the caretaker who's got skills in putting out fires? So, well, you saved the event. Well done. Just managed to. Just. Well done, eh? Thank you for sharing that with us. That's all right.

No problem. Have a lovely day. You too. On 0800, the hits. Christy, good morning. What do you want to spill from the grill? When I first moved to New Zealand, I was asked to bring a plate to a barbecue. Okay, yeah, as you do.

Common colloquialism we use here. Quite right. Not a common colloquialism in South African terms. Oh really is it not? No. So I turned up to a barbecue with a plate, thinking that that's what was required.

And I was looked at very strangely for my empty plate when I was thinking I paid the plate paid for plates, not a deal here. Oh, so you're like, maybe they need some help with the crockery. They're short on plates, knives. Do you only bring knives and forks as well? Exactly right. I know, I felt like a right tool, but it was a good lineage.

No, no, it's not your fault. We should stipulate here at New Zealand, bring a plate. It generally was something on top of it. I got to eat and myself and my family had a great learning experience out of it. We'll never arrive with an empty plate again. Ever since then, you've put things on top of the plate when you've turned up to houses. That's wonderful, Christy. Appreciate your call.

You have a great day. Thanks. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You'll know our next guest from as many years as a journalist on TV3. His award-winning documentaries, Tickled, Dark Tourist, and now he has a new one in cinemas. It's just hit cinemas. It's called Mr. Organ.

It looks fascinating. David Farrier, great to have you here. It's nice to be here. Hello. It's nice to see you again. It's been a little while. It has been a while. Last time I was with you, we were driving in the car to Hamilton. Do you remember that? Oh, we were. We were off to the press club. It's been a little while. It has been a while. Last time I was with you we were driving in the car to Hamilton.

Do you remember that? Oh, we were after Press Club. It was really nice, wasn't it? Thanks for that. We've worked together for many years in the same building,

all of us, but I'd never spent that much confined time with David. It was a wonderful conversation. We'd have fleeting conversations in the hallway and the lift.

Suddenly I'm in a car with you. I think it went quite well. We text each other, can I get a lift to Hamilton? And I was like, okay, how's this going gonna go and then oh you're a good banter though john both you guys are good banter oh were you concerned that it might go badly well i was like hopefully i live up to the banter expectations was it good was it good you'd be honest with me uh david was it right it was 10 out of 10 banter okay now i want to i wasn't playing hand plan on

this but i'll throw another. I went swimming with you. You, me and Samantha Hayes were the only three people in the pool? How was that? That was a strong nine out of 10. Good.

On setting, on setting. On setting. It wasn't on setting. We had some really beautiful intimate moments together. Well, we're bloody proud of you, mate. You've done some fantastic work

and now it's out. This latest documentary movie it's a it's a weird documentary it starts somewhere quite funny and hilarious and it ends somewhere quite dark because you investigate this uh this guy mr organ now it started as what a nova zella sort of car clamper is where it started and then obviously without giving too much away it kind of spirals from there yeah you know You know, back in 2016, I'd always walk past this antique store, Bashford Antiques, and there was just always drama in the car park at 11 p.m. at night. People were screaming at each other.

The police would arrive. And so I became curious about that because the guy doing the clamping in the car park was charging up to $760 for like half an hour's car parking. I started looking into the clamper, found out that his name was Mr. Organ, and then found out at once upon a time he was a prince, apparently. I'm like, why is a prince clamping in Ponsonby? This is weird.

The film goes places that it's a real ride. And he's been quite troublesome. This guy's been quite troublesome for your life. Yeah, he has. A big part of the reason I left for America last year was to get away from all of this, to get away from him. You know, there's events that transpire in the film. It's manipulated in a series of ways that just made my life really unpleasant.

And getting out of New Zealand was a really sensible solution. So this was obviously filmed a while ago now. And is he still being a pain in the ass? He's, you know, we're opening in about 60 cinemas. Some of those cinemas have certainly gotten phone calls from mr organ uh you know not particularly happy about the film being played so do you fear for your safety uh i look on a personal level yes and it's difficult to explain why if you haven't seen the film but yeah it's not a fun time for me i'm loving being here with you guys oh it's nice to see you just at the moment it's not a very great time to be here

because of the film well you know i think everyone's so fascinated about it it's called mr organ but let's talk about some of the other stuff that you've been doing as well because you've been amazing stuff in america you're just like you're basically carved out uh like with through the podcast with dax shepherd and obviously kristen bell your mates with them you're on podcasts as well yeah it's been very surreal i mean i left to go to a new job there as a documentary that i was going to direct that fell over almost immediately and it was very stressful because i had no job which meant i had no visa in america i went to book my flight back to new zealand and dax who i'd been working with with on a monthly podcast

we do he was like why don't you just pitch me a weekly show and why don't you make a show under the Armchair Expert umbrella and you know Armchair Expert has a lot of you know it has millions and millions of listeners yeah I pitched a show that ended up just being very simple I'm stuck in America I can't get home which is just my life and the idea was gosh I better learn about American culture and so each week I take a deep dive into a different part of American culture first episode very serious it was looking at American religion and what Americans believe and then there are other episodes that are very silly like why is the water level on American toilets so high we were wondering that we were there a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah. Listen to the toilets episode of Flightless Bird. Oh, good, because John and I roomed together, and we're in a hotel, and I was like, you're trying to go, trying to be quiet. You can't. It's abnormally high. It's risky.

No, it's crazy to me. And so the toilets episode looked at that. It also looked at another phenomenon I've noticed in American toilets, where there are gaps in the cubicles that are really big. So when you're in're in a you know you go to the toilet you can look through the gap at someone washing their hands they can look into the cubicle why is that and that's what i do now and now you're there so he is the reason you're able to stay in the states he kind of rescued me and he's lovely he's a genuinely just sort of lovely human man mates and stuff as well with

him yeah yeah have you watched Frozen with Kristen Bell? Because that's my dream. I just want to watch Frozen with Kristen Bell. I haven't raised that one yet. But I think that would be friendship cancelled. You probably would be. And rightfully so. That's why I could never be mates with him.

I want to know, David Ferrier, because you've done so amazingly well in America right now, but how American are you? David Ferrier, how do you spell colour? It is C-O-L-O-U-R. Oh, so you're still in New Zealand with the spelling of color? Okay, that's good. I always put the U's in.

Okay, my baby was stinky, so I had to change its what? Diaper. Oh, you're going diaper? You're not nappy? You've moved on from nappies, have we? Yeah, I've moved on from nappy. And final question, what's a fanny pack? A fanny pack is, it's like a little, you put it on your front

It's not on your bum But fanny here is bum Other way round Oh is it? It's not that American after all I've been making a huge mistake This is bad I've got to go

Someone call the cops David Ferrier, Mr. Organ, it sounds fascinating. It's always so good to catch up with you. And as Jono said before, we're so proud of everything you're doing, so keep it up. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The latest visitor to New Zealand, international visitor, popped up

in Auckland's Viaduct Harbour yesterday. Just a little bit under the radar, but it's prompted a warning from the authorities. A highly venomous sea snake, not a sneeze snake, a sneeze snake, not a sneeze snake, a sea snake from the Pacific

was spotted in the popular marina in Auckland. They're highly venomous, as I said before, but they are quite docile. Are we freaking out about this? Is this like when we had one case of COVID? That's what I loved about the comments, quite funny, on the New Zealand Herald's post. It's like, uh-oh,

lockdown level four, red light coming now. It's going to be a 1pm press conference about the snake. Yeah. Another great comment, too. A lot more dangerous things going on in Auckland than a sea snake. Why can't I say snake? Just stop it. Stop trying to attempt it. But is it a sign of global

warming? Oh, here we go. He's always with his climate change messaging, isn't he? They meant it. They live in the trop warming. Oh, here we go. He's always with his climate change messages. Well, hey, they live in the tropics. Thank you, Producer Joel. The weather is, you know, the temperature of the ocean is warmer. Come into New Zealand, warmer oceans. But better temperatures to swim in.

There's a plus side to climate change. Yeah, Doc has said keep away and and you can call 0800-DOC-HOT, which just seems like a made-up number from Doc as well, but they said, yeah, it is pretty docile. It probably isn't going to attack, but still a little bit scary. Is it Doc Hot or Hot Doc? Hot Doc. It's Chris Warner, I think, from Shorten Street.

Welcome to 0800-HOT-DOC. Would you like me to prescribe you anything? A bit of love. But don't let this get out to Australia, though. They were freaking out over one snake. 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. Or play on to win more. Right around here. It's not just Charles who's king, mate. Cash is king. Okay, that's what we say every day before we start the radio show, isn't it? We bow to Charles first and foremost.

He's our leader. Do we? He's our leader, and then we bow to Cash. Okay, well, I don't know if any of that's true, but we've got a lot of cash on the line right now. $5,000 with our game. Just a simple game of word association. Five words for $5,000.

Head to Tauranga. Mark, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you, mate? I'm doing all right, guys. I can't believe I got through. How are you doing? Oh, doing well. Lovely.

What are you doing right at this moment, Mark? Right now. Right now, I am pacing backwards and forwards while my little eight-year-old girl who's about to go to school is smiling at me because every morning she'd be, Daddy, call. Daddy, call. Daddy, call.

And I'd call her. I'd get through. So I got through. Oh, nice to have you on. Thanks for calling. All right, you need to make the decision now, Mark. Jono or Ben, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Ben.

Ben Boyce, he's heading off into the soundproof booth, which looks a lot. It's actually modelled off Willy Wonka's glass elevator. Don't know if you're familiar with that design, but that's how we architected that one. I grew up watching that. Now, Mark 5K, what are you going to do with it? Well, I lost my job a few weeks ago, so most places I've had a few job interviews,

they're not recruiting until you start in January. So, holy moly, mate, 5K, get me through Christmas in a year. No pressure on Ben, boys. He can't hear any of this right now, but when he gets out of the booth, we're definitely going to tell him all of that information. You tell him that. You tell him, yeah. Okay, Mark, what's the first thing

you think of, mate, when I say ketchup? Sauce. Sauce. Sauce. Let's go to word number two, buzzy. Can I go tomato sauce? Well, yeah, probably sauce. Ketchup, sauce. Locker, sauce.

Word number two is buzzy. B-U-Z-Z-Y. Bee. Buzzy bee. Grammy. Word number three this morning for you, Mark. Award. Grammy Awards.

Sand. Oh. Sand. Oh, sand. Sand paper, but then again, is Ben a bit of a DIY guy? Well, you think of a handy person, and he is the complete opposite of that. Oh, OK, well, let's go beach then. Locking in beach. Because I'm Tauranga, we live by the beach here, so, you know.

Beautiful. Mount Maunganui, stunning, isn't it? Yeah, well, I'm about a 10-minute walk from the beach. And we'll go to the fifth and final word this morning for you, Mark, is picnic. Picnic table. Picnic table. You've locked in your five words.

We'll release Ben from the compression chamber. That is the soundproof booth. You're looking nervous. You're looking nervous, Ben. Why? What went on in there? It's a little musty smelling in there. Is it? It's a little musty. It needs an airing out, I think. Maybe it's the winter moisture that has been

lingering in the soundproof booth. Mark, you just wanted to tell Ben something before he embarks on this mission, too. What did you want to say, Mark, to Ben? Look, look, I'm sending good vibes your way, Ben. I lost my job a few weeks ago and I've had a few job interviews, but none of them are recruiting until January. So holy moly, mate, 5K would get me through Christmas and the new year.

He lost his job a few weeks ago. I'm sorry to hear that, Mark. And I'm now with a lot of pressure on my bony shoulders right now. Exactly what we wanted. Oh, okay. I may try my with a lot of pressure on my bony shoulders right now. Exactly what we wanted. Oh, okay. Well, I may try my best every morning, but hey, this one's personal. All right, let's go. I have a little eight-year-old girl

who is walking around looking at me thinking, please, please, please. All right. And there's an eight-year-old girl in the mix. I mean, what else do you need? The high drama. Let's do it. Oh, okay.

Word one, $25. Ketchup. What do you think of when I say ketchup? Sauce? Boom! There we go. $25. Are we advancing on, Mark?

Oh, you're too right. Word two, $50. Buzzy. B-U-Z-Z-Y. B. Yes. We got 50. We got 50, Mark.

100. Does 100 sound nice, Mark? 100 is great. So let's risk it all. Let's go to the $100 word. Let's carry on. Word three. $100.

Grammy. Grammy. Award. Yes. Grammy. Award? Yes! Yes! Okay, this is good. Okay, that's $100. That's not going to pull you through to late Jan for those job interviews, Mark.

I'm gathering you'd want to go on to $500? $100 is not even going to get us a week's worth of groceries, so yeah, let's carry on, eh? Yeah. Word four, $500 dollars you can buy a lot of limes now though uh justin just done a great deal with vietnam yeah not many lines but they're slightly cheaper sand sand got two should i say them out loud i don don't know. Can I give them a hint? No, we're not allowed hints, mate. No, no.

Okay, let's put Mark on hold. I'm thinking of Sandcastle or Sand Beach. Sandcastle or Sand Beach. Okay. I won't look you in the eyes. It's like after that Christmas party in 2008. The first one that did pop into my head was Beach. Oh, yes!

Yes! Yes! 500 sitting in the coffers, Mark. Now, this is the big leap up to 5k. Are we doing it? Are we living as the great philosopher John Bon Jovi said? We're only halfway there.

Are you ready to live on a prayer? I'm going to ask my 8-year-old. What do you think, Chloe? Should we take the $500 or go for the $5,000? What do you think? I don't know. She said, I don't know. That's a lot. $500 would get us a load of groceries and some.

But $5,000? $5,000. Big decisions. What are you going to do? It is a huge decision. Let's go to the ads and come back. No, no, no, we can't do that, can we? Well, that's all we would do.

Thanks, Ryan Seacrest. I'm going to take the money. He's going to take the money. You're walking away with $500. Oh, well done, Mark. $500, well done. There we go. There's the shopping. And what would we have done if we did go to the $5. Oh, well done, Mark. $500. Well done. There we go. There's the shopping.

And what would we have done if we did go to the $5,000 word picnic? Picnic. Basket. Oh! You made the right call, Mark. Well done. Oh, well done. It's like that show on TV in the afternoons where, you know,

they take the money and then they drop the little counter down and, you know, and they don't win and they're so happy. Oh, yeah, well done. The chase, well done. Yes, we've ripped off the chase, basically. Thank you very much, Mark. Appreciate you listening. Everyone's good, too.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Cost of living. There's a lot of talk about that at the moment. You mentioned before Jacinda Ardern. She's in Vietnam at the moment. She's done a big lime deal with the Vietnamese. It's true. This is from the news this morning at 5 o'clock.

The Prime Minister has reached a deal with the Vietnamese government which will allow more lime imports into New Zealand. Jacinda Ardern says this is good news, given the hefty price tag at the moment. I don't know, but I just checked, and currently they're $39 a kg at New World, so you can see that there's a reason it gets called green gold. We've got a lot of problems in New Zealand.

I know when the lime price was up, you know, cost of petrol, cost of... Cost of living is sorted now. Ram rays, you're like, no, it was sorted the limes, that was first on the list. Those Vietnamese, they drove a hard bargain, but I ripped them down.

I think I'm like you. I like to do the shop at home. You like going to the supermarket. I don't mind. I wouldn't say I like it, but I go to the supermarket. Yeah, I do it every week, do the family shop. Sometimes I try and often do it without the kids because that's a fun game where they try and put stuff into the trolley.

You try and put it out. It's a little thing that you do. It's like a public toilet. You want to head down, stick to your game, know what you're there to do and get out. Yeah, but I embarrass myself. I had something happen to me that I've seen other people do before. You bought a bag of limes for $39?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You schmuck. I didn't know Jacinda was getting a better deal. No, I embarrass myself. I've seen other people do it, and I've always gone, how could that happen? But I did it. I did it.

I accidentally took another lady's trolley yesterday when I was at the supermarket. It must have been in the same section, around the meat section. I grabbed the trolley, went away, and I started putting stuff into the trolley. So by the time this frazzled lady came up to me, by the counter, she's like, you've got my trolley. I looked down and I was like. Oh, you'd gone all around the trolley. Yeah, I'd gone like half the shop.

Nothing confuses you more than when you lose your trolley. You're like, it was literally right here. I turn around around and then some it seems like a game you would have played on the tv show yes exactly but i did i obviously uh accidentally took a trolley got to pretty much by the counter this lady comes up she goes she's out of breath she's i think i've got my trolley and i'm like look down saw nothing but my shopping on top i'm like no I don't arrogantly said no sorry look I think you've got it wrong I don't actually have your trolley and she's like I think you do and I'm like look

this is all my stuff and then she lifted up a couple I think they were a couple of our bags of Heartland Chips and underneath was her handbag her handbag I was like I can see why you're so frazzled now I'll be taking your handbag around the whole shop as well and your handbag plot the whole shop as well.

Yeah, and your handbag plot just pipped at the counter. He usually gets away with it. The amount of handbags this guy's pulling in from pack and save every week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Well, we want to know this morning, what's the one item? If you could get rid of one item of your partner's from the house, what would it be? Now, I asked this question to my wife yesterday.

I recorded it because I knew what the answer would be, and it was exactly what I thought. Have a listen. What's one item off the top of your head in the house that you'd like to get rid of of mine in the house? Oh, easy. Medicine ball. Damn thing. I hate it.

Why? Why? Because it's helping me stay fit, stay in shape. It's in our bedroom, and I kick it, and I stub my toe all the time. I've already thrown it outside once. Yeah, I know. Where did I find it the other day?

Where was it? Outside on the grass by the garage. You threw it outside. Good workout, though. Stupid. Good workout for you. So that's a medicine. During lockdown, I ordered a medicine ball.

Now, this is what's the most surprising part for me is you've got a medicine ball. And I thought when you said, I have a medicine ball Now what This is what The most surprising part For me is You've got a medicine ball And I thought When you said I have a medicine ball I thought well Ben You know lifting up A Panadol tablet

Isn't a medicine ball You're modelled off The Pack and This is a fun True fact The Pack and Save Stick Man Is modelled off you It was actually

A portrait of you Was it A life drawing A life drawing And you've got a medicine ball. And you leave it around and people kick their toes. Yeah, I do leave it because I like to, you know, do these YouTube workout videos. Kind of got into the habit during lockdown.

Ordered it during lockdown because I couldn't go to the gym for a second, you know, for a wee bit. So I was like, well, you know, I can use... What do you do with it? Do some, you know, just put it up, mate. Vigorously puffing and panting away in the room, you know. So that's what I do. But I do sometimes forget to put it back in the corner and when it's out, you know, if you stub your toe on it.

Because they're quite weighty, aren't they? Like a soft rock. Yeah, yeah, it's like a 10kg medicine ball if you put, yeah. 10kg? Yeah. It's double as body weight. No, it's a lot for me. It's not for anyone else.

So that's the item that my wife would love to get rid of. The other day I couldn't find it. I came home and I was like to the kids, where is this thing? I left it there. And Sienna's like, hey, mum threw it in the garden out the front. In a fit of rage. Yeah, which I said, as I said to her in the video, good work out for her. Yeah, good cool work out there.

It's good cool work out, you know. What would, there'd be probably one thing that my wife, Jen, would love to throw out. I have, some may label the t-shirt somewhat misogynistic. Some, some, some prudes. PC matters. I'm sure I would. Okay, what's the t-shirt?

You would. It says, I don't need Google. My wife knows everything. Oh no. It's a t-shirt. Oh, get rid of that. And it's got the Google logo.

I don't need Google logo. I don't need Google logo. I don't think Google was part of that. My wife knows everything. I'm not surprised. To be honest, I've never been brave enough to wear it. Because she does know everything. But the thing is, it was a gift from my father-in-law. So I'm stuck in this thing of like,

don't want to disappoint the father-in-law. He's brought me this. Put it on every time he comes over. And then also not wanting to offend my wife. So the only place I can wear it is around work. So I'm going to bring it in every day. Please don't. Please don't.

Every day. And I'm going to hug you and we're going to have photos with it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I want to know the item. If you could get rid of one item of your partner's, what would it be? What would you like to get rid of? Ben's wife Amanda wants to get rid of his medicine ball. Keeps kicking her toes into it.

And I understand why she'd want to throw it. And potentially a somewhat sexist T-shirt I own. Yeah, very sexist. I don't need Google. I don't need Google. My wife knows everything. It's the sort of T-shirt you'd see some guy wearing at the store cars. That person is you.

Like of anyone. Anyway, let's go. Oh, and with the hits, we've got some farmers. Farmers vouchers thanks to the Farmers' Standard Parade. Let's go to Greytown, shall we? First, we'll kick things off with Debbie. What do you want to get rid of your partners, Debs? Oh, he's got way too many

soft toys for a grown man. Oh! What is the appropriate number for a grown man. Oh. How many? What is the appropriate number for a grown man? Zero. So he's got more than zero. What's the key? That's cute.

That's lovely. No. How many has he got, Debs? They're banned from the bedroom now. I don't know, about 10 or 15. Look, I've got a lot of toys in the lounge as well, little figurines, so I can't talk as well. But I'm going to give you a $50 farmer's voucher

thanks to the Farmer's Santa Parade. Oh, that would be wonderful. You'll buy some soft toys, buy one of those cute bears for Christmas or something for your partner. No, no. Okay. And I've got a T-shirt for you.

It says, I don't need Google, my wife knows everything, okay? I've got a T-shirt for you. It says, I don't need Google. My wife knows everything, okay? I've got a T-shirt for you, and it says, my wife never listens, or at least I think that's what she says. Good on you, Debbie. I'll go one for one on offensive T-shirts. That makes me very nervous. Well, I've got another T-shirt.

Okay, stop now, stop now. Great stuff. Megan, you're. Stop now. Great stuff. Megan, you're on from Wellington. What do you want to get rid of your partners? Well, it's not really my partners that I want to get rid of. It's actually my stepdad and my mum. Now, this is a situation that just happened on this weekend.

My stepdad is a builder, and he has a tool shed in the garage and it's quite large and he just hoards a lot of stuff in there. And on the weekend he went to Melbourne so my mum decided to have

a bit of a tidy up and throw some things out. Oh, without his... What did she check out? I did say to her, should I tell him? And she's like, no, I'm just going to, like, surprise him. And he had this old exocycle in there. I don't know why this was in the till shed. But she decided it was time to go.

So it had been sitting there for about two to three years. So she threw it out. Anyway, he got back from Melbourne and said, oh, I've got a surprise for you, and took him into the tool shed, and he was, I think, quite shocked. I've got a surprise for you. I've thrown out all your stuff. Surprise!

And she didn't even say thank you or anything. She put a lot of effort into it, which I was quite proud of her. But the first thing he says was, where's the exercycle? The wheels on that thing are worth like $150. Oh, no. And it was time your mum got on her bike to find the exercycle.

We're going to hook you up with the Farmers Voucher. Thanks to the Farmers Centre Parade. Appreciate your call this morning. Awesome. Thank you, guys. Victoria, good morning. Hello. Good to have you on. You sound like you're in the midst of being busy in the morning. Awesome, thank you guys. Victoria, good morning. Hello. Good to have you on. You sound like you're in the midst of being busy in the morning. Pretty much, just coming out of the library

and crossing, but I'm about to make it to my car. Oh, good on you. I'll get a bit quieter in a minute. Don't worry, we know the hustle and bustle of the morning. This is real radio. It's what happens when people are getting ready for work. Now, Victoria, throwing stuff out of your partners, we all secretly have something. What is real radio. It's what happens when people are getting ready for work. Now, Victoria, throwing stuff out of your partners, we all secretly have

something. What is it for you? Well, my partner had a lot of religious clothes. They were very holy. And I used to get very embarrassed when we'd go out and I'd turn around and he'd be in some disgusting t-shirt with some hard hole that he'd been wearing under his

aircraft engineer overalls. So it smelled as though it was disgusting. He had quite a series of those. I thought you were describing Jono until you said aircraft engineer. And then I was like, oh, no, it's not. No, no, sorry, it wasn't Jono. No. No, so it was pretty embarrassing.

And so one day I saw all of these shirts just hanging on the washing line. And they were dry. So I was bringing them in, being a good wife that day. And then something occurred to me. I actually don't want to ever see them in any of those shirts ever again. So I got my sewing scissors out and I cut them all off the line. Oh, wow. And then I folded them into nice squares because they were cotton and I passed them to him and I said these will

be really handy for washing the car. And the reaction? Well the thing is you might be surprised that we're now divorced. We both actually had a good sense of humor and he took it with good grace because there'd been many discussions in the past about the holy t-shirt that he was wearing when we went out oh well good oh good on you and uh your new do you have a new partner oh no i haven't got time for that oh why do i ask these questions why do i go down this road ben you always take a risk and I'm like, I just grimace here in the corner. I'm like, why is it?

I'm not sure there's a large queue for women who are going to cut clothes off live, to be honest with you. Oh, well, Victoria, thank you very much for your call. Appreciate you. Appreciate your time. You go and have a wonderful day. You guys too. Thanks so much for the call.

Take care. In fact, if anyone wants to date you, shall they text it? Okay, Jono, stop talking now. Stop. I don't know. It depends on what their wardrobe looks like. Thanks, Victoria. Have a great day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, I've been

down a rabbit hole of pure bureaucracy. Right. Have you signed up to the government website Real Me? It's like an identification. Yeah. I think I have, yes. Yeah, people listening will know what it was. And I needed to access Real Me for a form of identification. But before I can get, I've already signed up to Real Me.

Yeah, so the real you signed up to that, right? I remember get, I've already signed up to Real Me. Yeah, so the Real You signed up to that, right? The Real Me, I remember the Real Me doing it. Tapping the keys, creating the password, the questions and everything. But then Real Me's like,

we haven't heard from you in a while. This is not, this is the website, not there. It gets confusing. I'm not talking to myself in the mirror.

Real Me. The website says, we haven't heard from you in a while you're gonna have to verify you are the real you and god nothing makes you question if you're the real you and trying to verify your your real self on real me yeah it is wild like then you go through some questionnaire and it's like we're gonna need you to verify which one of these animals is a giraffe and i was like well they know my love of drafts and so i'm clicking through i was like no that's a cat no that just that's just a tall horse with dots and a really long neck on to the next one but you have to do this and then you have to take a photo of yourself put your face in a circle stare at the sun stand on one foot and still it's not

verifying that it's like a lot of loops to go through finally i go through this test and i can email back and like great thanks for your application we'll be back with you in one to five working weeks working weeks? so I don't know who I am they need to go like check the DNA of the giraffes

that you've gone through they go hang on is that a giraffe? yeah turns out I'm probably like a Serbian guy named Sergio this whole time

my life's an absolute lie but yeah there we go the real me the hits the Jono and Ben podcast now we spoke to Josh in Australia a couple of days ago because he's made international news for doing this with Bunnings Warehouse. The whole crux of it is I got a sausage in bread

from every Bunnings store in the country. So this is off your own bat. You've financed your way around Australia and had a sausage at every Bunnings. Now, how many sausages in total? How many stores did you visit? It was 300 or something like that. It was quite a few. Every now and then you'd grab a cheeky second snag. So every Bunnings warehouse store in Australia, huge country, so many stores, he went around

and had a sausage and bread at every one. And I was like, hey, could we do it? Could you give us your blessing, your sausagey blessing for us to do New Zealand, to go to every Bunnings Warehouse store in New Zealand? He said, yeah, no worries, mate. Go for it. How was that? Have some snacks. Yeah, get out there. Yeah, so he gave us a blessing.

So I thought, why not? Let's go to every of the 41 Bunnings Warehouse stores around New Zealand. And I thought of many reasons why not, when he said why not. Yeah, he tried to bring my daughter, Sienna, on. Yeah, well, she has a sausage background and career in sausage work, where she fronted a Nature's Fresh Bread campaign and was required to eat multiple sausages while filming the TV commercial. I ate so many sausages, and they were really good.

If you have too many, they make you feel sick. And I got known as Sausage Girl. So you guys will get known as Sausage Man and Sausage Man. Sausage Man and not Sausage Men? Just Sausage Man and Sausage Man. It's a risk I'm prepared to take being known out there as Sausage Man to do this. Have you thought about the poor hits who has to remarket the station as Sausage Man and Sausage Man in the morning?

So it looks like we're doing this. Bunnings, they've given their blessing as well, as long as we do every sausage sizzle for the community groups that those barbecues they fundraise for. Now, listen, I love that part of it. Love the part. Sports teams, schools, kindergartens and more. What I don't like about it is doing it 41 times in a row.

Well, we're trying to do it in a short amount of time because they kindly opened up Bunnings Warehouse. There's sausage sizzles in each place we go to. You can get all the details. If you want to text Bunnings to 4487, see the dates in the stores, come along and get a sausage with us. But they've opened up during the week

because they don't normally do that. So you've bullied, you've strong-armed them. You've coerced them into having to open up their barbecues outside of fundraising hours. Listen to them. He's gone mad with power. Well, otherwise it's you and me for the next, what's 41 stores

for the next 20 weeks, you know, doing it. So I'm like, let's do it. Seven days. Let's see if we can do it. 41 stores, 41 sausages. It's an easy walk in the park. Yeah, well, it's got easy for you, but poor producer Bee Humps and poor Harriet, who are having to organise all the travel, all their logistics,

and you said, no, no, it's fine. I'll just rattle through the list earlier this morning. Let me talk you through how it's going to work. It starts this Sunday, 20th November, Mangafai, 10 to 10.30am. Then we go to Kerikeri, 12.15 to 12.45. Then Kaikoi, 1.45 to 2.15pm. Whangarei, 3.45 to 4.15pm.

That's Sunday. Then on Monday, 21st November, Silverdale, 6am to 10am. Glenfield, 11 to 11.30am. Constellation Drive, 12.15 to 12.45pm. Graylin, 1.30 to 2.00pm. Westgate, 2.45 to 3.15pm. Newlyn, 4pm to 4.30pm.

Mount Roskill, 5.15 to 5.45pm. Mount Wellington, 6.30 to 7pm. Botany, 7.30 to 8pm. Tuesday, 22nd November. Bunnings Monaco, 6am to 10am. Mount Roskill, 5.15pm to 5.45pm. Mount Wellington, 6.30pm to 7.00pm. Botany, 7.30pm to 8.00pm. Tuesday, 22nd of November. Bunnings Monaco, 6am to 10am. Takanini, 10.30pm to 11am. Whangamata, 1.30pm to 2.00pm. Hamilton Tarapa, 4.30pm to 5.00pm. Hamilton South, 5.30pm to 6.00pm. Wednesday, 23rd of November. Mount Manganui, 6.00pm to 10.00am. Tokoroa, 10.30pm to 11.00am. Whakatane, 1pm to 1.30pm. Rotorua, 2.45pm to 3.15pm. Taupo, 4.15pm to 4.45pm. Thursday, 24th of November. Gisborne, 6.00pm to 9.00am. Hastings, 10.3030 to 11 o'clock. New Plymouth, 1.30 to 2pm. Hullwater, 3.15 to 3.45. Honganui, 4.45 to 5.15pm. Friday, 25th of November.

Palmerston North, 6 to 10. Fielding, 10.30 to 11. Pardua, 1.30 to 2. Petone, 3 to 4pm. Wellington Central, 4.30 to 5pm. Lyle Bay, 5.30 to 6. Saturday, 26th of November. Blenheim, 6 to 9.

Nelson, 11.30 to 12. Shirley Christchurch, 3 o'clock to 3.30. Rickerton, 4.15 to 4.45. Airport, 4.30 to 6pm. And finally Sunday, 27th of November. Dunedin, 7 to 8am. Queenstown, 10.30 to 11am. Easy.

Easy, there you go. There you go. Just a simple trip up and down the country. Seven days, 41 sausages heading to every Bunnings warehouse store in the country. Text Bunnings to 4487 and we're coming to the town near you. They've had to hire a helicopter

Ben, a helicopter. It is the Hits, Jono and Ben, can't hear you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits boarding call with Visit Anaheim, House of Travel and Fiji Airways. Yeah, if you want to get in for the trip of a lifetime to go to Anaheim at Disneyland, what is incredible, it's all thanks to House of Travel, Fiji Airways and Visit Anaheim. You can contact housetravel.co.nz.

I wanted to make that so difficult. And you can call up whenever you hear the hits, boarding call. Emma, welcome. How are you? Speaking of incredible things, Emma from Rotorua. Hello, how are you going? Three daughters and a husband, or three husbands and a daughter?

What are you running there, Emma? You decide. Whoever they are, you're going to take them all to Disneyland? Oh, for sure, yeah. It's our dream, and I've dreamed since I was little to go there, so that would just be an amazing prize for the girls. It doesn't matter what age you are, you're just going to love Disneyland.

I don't know how someone like Joe Biden would enjoy Disneyland. There's enough there for me. He loves an ice cream. You see, he does love ice cream. There's a lot of ice cream there, but it doesn't matter how old you are, you just love the place. Happiest place on earth, yeah. Happiest place.

All right, you've got a simple question to answer. If you do so, you're in that drawer, OK, Em? OK, I've got my little nine-year-old here next to me, so she might need to help me out. All right, your question this morning is, Anaheim is part of which United States? US state is Anaheim in? of which United State? US state. Is Anaheim in? It's in LA.

Yeah. California. Yeah! There you go. There we go. Process of elimination. You are in that draw. You can be taking your three husbands and your daughter over to Disneyland.

Really appreciate your time. Correct. Thank you. Now, can I just say too, producer Joel is coming and eating chilli con kahan for breakfast. What I love about a 23-year-old

is there's no time restrictions when it comes to food. Oh, mince on toast is good. It's good. But yeah, but you're right. Breakfast mince on toast? I've had it, yeah. This is lunch for us.

We've been here since 4am this morning. Three sausages yesterday. He's very hungry. He's hungry. He's a growing lad. And it's a hit. She got a John Owen beard, 8.51.