Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Does Cliff Curtis Prefer The Beaches In NZ or Aussie..?

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Today on the show we chat to Cliff Curtis and Sam Worthington ahead of the release of the brand new Avatar: Way Of The Water movie! We also meet Saphire a very cute kid who gave us an assortment of baked goods.   Enjoy :)   @thehitsbreakfast on IG for all of our content.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, 24th of November, it's the podcast, we're live from Bunnings in Gisborne. Had a wonderful morning here on our sausage tour. We're 23 sausages deep, Ben Boyce of our 41 team. Yeah, we're about to eat the 24th one in just a second right now, and as we carry on our way. Yeah, what's going on? What's going on with your sausage stomach? Not a lot, not a lot of movement really going in. Things coming in, not things. Anyway, you know.

It feels like stockpiling in there, doesn't it? Yeah, which worries me a little bit. It feels like it'll be quite the event. If that's a way that you can put it. I was going to show you a picture actually. I was just looking online. Robert Downey Jr., you know, of course, Iron Man actor. Look at him, mate.

Oh, he shaved his head. He shaved his hair off. He looks like Jeff Bezos. He does look a little bit like Jeff Be Look at him, mate. Oh, he shaved his head. He shaved his hair off. He looks like Jeff Bezos. He does look a little bit like Jeff Bezos. He's identical. Why did he shave his hair? I think it's for a movie role, but I was just going to say, what do you reckon? As a man who's, you know, bald by choice, like Robert Downey Jr., you both shaved your hair off.

You both could have luscious locks. What would I give that out of 10? Yeah, what do you think? He looks right, eh? No, it unsettles me. Why? You of all people. I mean, you can give him

honest feedback. Is that how I look? Oh, gosh. I don't know, you don't look as good as that, mate. How old's Downey Jr.? He'd be 56, isn't he? Oh, 56, Robert.

Robert Downey Jr., 56. He does look good. 57. 57, there you go. Thank you, Producer Del. He does look better than me. Yes, there you go. Thank you, Producer Joel. He does look better than me. Yes, you're right, Ben Boyce.

Yeah, no, it makes me feel weird. I think he looks better with hair. Some people look good with hair. Is that how I make people feel? Yeah, but you're not Robert Downey Jr. Everyone's comfortable around him, bald or not bald. So, yeah, we've met some wonderful people here today, haven't we? It's Bunnings at Gisborne. The boxing club is out there cooking the barbecue.

I've never been to Gisborne before, actually. It's one of the places I've always really wanted to go, and this is the way I like to see it, arriving at 9.30 at night in the darkness and leaving very shortly on a fixed-wing plane. That's exactly how I manage my time. Inside of Bunnings. You've seen us on the Bunnings, been to good Bunnings.

Bunnings is incredible. I saw some water at the hotel, but it was dark, but it looked nice. But, yeah, I haven't gone to Rhythm and Vines or anything like that, which has always been a dream. It's beautiful. Let's go this year, Ben. I could go this year.

I feel like, well, I am away this year, but I do feel like maybe my time might be like, oh. Joel, producer Joel, Gen Z. I'd go along, though. You hung out with me at 660. What was I like? You were good, man. You hung out with me at 660. What was I like? You were good, man. You ditched me, didn't you?

Yeah, I went to the bathroom and they came back. You went to get a drink. Was it like seeing your drunk uncle, Joel? No, I reckon you guys should maybe start shredding for R&B next year and lock it in. Yeah. Oh, we need to get rid of it. Are we not shredded enough for R&B this year? We're 24 sausages deep.

I don't think we're quite a prime R&B. But Gen Zer, Joel, let's call a spade a spade. Our festival years are behind us. I've seen older. I've seen older. What are you guys, 50? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen older than 50.

Yeah, me and Robert Downey Jr. used to go to school together. No, yeah, I feel like we can do it. It's all about confidence. It's a confidence game. It is confidence. And still being confident. Everyone's like, oh, my God, what's this person doing? That's a confidence game. It is confidence. And still being confident when everyone's like, oh my God,

what's this person doing? That's the thing. Because you're aware of, what are the old guys doing here? Dave Dobbins there. There'll be someone older than you at the festival. Yeah, Dave Dobbins played there as well. But I feel like if we turn up,

we're like, well, that's the end of Rhythm of Ice. It's not when we started dabbing and you're like, well, that dabbing's done. Hey,

enjoy the podcast today. We're off to take a fixed-wing plane and hopefully we'll be around tomorrow. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're travelling around all of the country visiting every Bunnings warehouse store to have a sausage. The sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, it's a hard

one to say. 41 stores, we're going to hit up by Sunday, eating 41 sausages. Oh, these sausages, I'm starting to get the sausage shakes. You know, just an overdose of sausages. You go through an emotional rollercoaster with sausages. You love them at first, then you hate them, then you love them again. It's kind of like Stockholm Syndrome with sausages.

Maybe at the end of it, we'll have to wean ourselves off it, weaner ourselves off it slowly. Weaner ourselves off the weaners. But, you know, at the moment, I won't lie, we're in the trenches, Ben. We're in the trenches. The finish line still feels quite far away. We end up in Queenstown on Sunday, a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse.

23 we've had so far, 23 sausages. I think the turning point, if I can talk personally, from a personal sausage consumption point of view, I think the turning point for me yesterday was in the morning at Bunnings Mount Bonganui, where we ran into Jim. Now have a listen to Jim and his community organisation. Now you've got up early for us, thank you this morning.

You've dragged your 16 year old son out of bed. Totally. He's pumped about it. How pumped are you mate? Not very pumped. Now what do you do Jim? Oh basically we just help dads out and often they go through difficult times, particularly if they're going through separation and getting time with their kids.

So we just sort of teach them conduct, playing the long game, making sure that if they know they do everything right they won't have a problem. We also do supervised contact service. So we've got parents, mums and dads who need to go through supervised contact. We've got a really good service here. Yeah, we're really grateful. Oh, good on you. Doing great stuff. There we go.

Can I just say, your sausages, eight-inch sausages... Yeah. Too much inchage. Too much inchage. Do you know how many sausages we haven't eaten? We don't need an eight-inch. The other sausages are intimidated by your sausage. We talked to the staff at Bunnings about it. Eight?

Oh, yeah. Jim and his big sausage. It was enormous. It was the biggest sausage I've ever seen. Yeah. And we had to, yeah. We went through it, we got through it, and we've now made our way to Gisborne.

You can come down and see us at Bunnings Warehouse this morning. We're going to be here until 9 o'clock. You can grab yourself a sausage as we try and eat sausage number 24 at some stage. All raising money for great causes around the country. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In the middle of the Bunnings Warehouse sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, travelling to every one of the 41 Bunnings Warehouse stores to eat a sausage. We're in Gizzy this morning.

Gizzy, they've made us wear gumboots because apparently that's what you do in Gisborne. Yeah. Wonderful Caroline gave us a pair of gumboots. How are you, mate? All right. A lot of people pouring in this morning, first thing. And they said that's what everyone does in Gisborne.

I've seen no one else in the shop wear gumboots. Maybe it's just like Hayes the new people, you know, like a little prank they're playing on us. Lovely gumboots, though. Yeah, very comfy., very comfy now the World Cup football on at the moment we spoke to Rachel Jackson-Lees who used to read news with us in the mornings she's living over there in Qatar at the moment about the tournaments

you know all the world's attention is huge right around the world, they built a whole new city for the Football World Cup she was saying it's insane, they built a whole underground train system because of the heat, obviously, so people can get from location to location. Tell you what, Qatar have spent no expense, Ben Boyce. Yeah, big money going into it. But a few shocks so far.

And yesterday, Japan 2-1 over Germany. Now, Germany were one of the predictions to potentially win the tournament. Now, the Japanese, you were saying, you said Japanese fans after the games have been going around cleaning the stadiums, picking up rubbish. Yeah, which is lovely, aren't they? Do the players get out there after the game too?

They probably do. They don't like to leave anything behind, which is awesome. But a day before Japan won their first match against Germany, a bit of an upset. It was predicted by an otter. Now, in Japan, they've got a prediction otter. You know how they love to wheel out an animal,

and then they're like, hey, you predict which team is going to win? Well, the otter put a little ball in the little cup that said Japan over Germany, and everyone's like, silly otter. It doesn't know what he's talking about. Dumb otter. But the otter was correct. The otter was correct, so predicted the win over Germany. So pretty amazing.

Big upset so far in the tournament, right? Yeah, there's been a couple. Argentina got beaten. It doesn't mean I think they're out of the tournament, it just obviously makes it a bit harder for them to make the qualifying stages later in the tournament. Now, you're running some sort of shabby underground illegal sweepstake. Producer Joel, you were manning the spreadsheet.

Pete Boyce has got you to do it. What sort of cream are you taking off the top of the sweepstake, Boyce? What are you slicing off the top? There's $100 cash up for grabs for the person that gets the right country allocated to them. Have we allocated a person to every country, Joel? Yeah, we have. I'll let everyone know

after the show who they have. I'll fuck them out of text. And what you owe Ben. And what you owe debt to. What body part you'll have to relinquish. We're more corrupt than FIFA, hey? We're going to catch up with Cliff Curtis and Sam Worthington stars of the new Avatar movies very exciting filmed in New Zealand it's coming up just before Christmas Avatar was huge biggest grossing movie of all time when it first came out so this is the sequel. Now you and me were saying

we really respect Cliff Curtis and every time we feel like we never want to disappoint Cliff Curtis. And then we've been looking at Sam Worthington, another respected thespian. These are hardcore thespians, Ben. And we're interviewing them from a Bunnings warehouse store. Yeah, how's it going to go down? I don't know. I'm a little nervous. The worst thing, the worst combo is dumbass radio announcers and hardcore thespians. Yeah.

Well, they're 8 o'clock this morning. But James Cameron, of course, he's the director and writer of Avatar. Also, as well, Titanic, the iconic movie, 25 years old. 25 years. Couldn't have found a better version. Couldn't have found a better version than this. What is this version of My Heart Will Go On?

Jeez. I've got my kids to do it on recorder. James Cameron was talking about, in an interview just recently about how he could have almost cast some very different people in the main roles. Kate Winslet had been in many similar sort of movies where she was playing sort of old school characters and everyone was like, she's great.

But he felt like that was lazy casting to get her along. So he wasn't going to look at her. In the end, they were like, you really should try it, Kate Winslet. He's like, all right. Came along, she's like, amazing. Yep, great. I'll grab her. She's going to be the one.

And then Leonardo DiCaprio, he was real super famous at the time. He came along. Everyone from the office. This music's really distracting. Joel, can you lose that? Keep it going. See if we can plow on, Joel. Yeah.

So everyone, you see, James Cameron said everyone from the office came into the meeting because everyone wanted to see Leo. Wanted to meet him. Yeah, so all the girls Cameron said everyone from the office came into the meeting because everyone wanted to see Leo. Wanted to meet him. Yeah, so all the girls, everyone's from the office there. And then he's like, hey, Leo, I need you to do a bit of a screen test. Video you doing some stuff with Kate, who's been cast. He's like, I don't do screen tests. If you want me, you can have me or not.

And James Cameron put his hand out around all the best for your future, mate. And said goodbye. And then he said, look, this movie is going to take two years out of my life. I'm not going to screw it up by casting the wrong person. I need the people to scream test. And Leo went, to his credit,

Leo went, yeah, all right, okay, I hear you. I'll do it. They did it, and hey, the rest is history. So there you go. Crank up the music, Joel.

Play us out. Na, na, na, na, na, na. That is interesting. Yeah. So basically, Leo said, I don't do that. Then he got told, now I do it. And everyone went, you, nah. That is interesting. Yeah. So basically Leo said, I don't do that. Then he got told, now I do it. And everyone went, you're great. And that's how they got cast.

Did he come in with a tude? Would it have been that sort of situation where he went into the office and everyone went, oh, he's one of those. Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know. But amazing, amazing casting. You couldn't imagine that movie without anyone else. Gwyneth Paltrow was the name he also mentioned there.

He was first looking out for Kate Winslet's role with Rose. Tom Cruise? I don't know. Tom Cruise. It's weird once you've seen a movie. also mentioned that he was first looking at for Kate Winslet's role with Rose. Tom Cruise? I don't know. Tom Cruise. It's weird once you've seen a movie. Yeah, that's the thing. It's hard to unimagine. I know what you're saying.

Can't imagine anyone else in those iconic roles. No. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. And mortgage payments look like they're going to jump up for people, which is, you know. That's fun. Tough times at the moment. Yeah.

Brace yourself, they're saying. But the banks are getting record profits. I know. Well, how does that work, Ben? And interest rates look to be going up, so not very fun stuff out there at the moment. I just said, how does that work? You just ignored my question.

You ploughed on. I don't know exactly how it works. All I know is it's going to be hurting a lot of families around New Zealand. I mean, why would I ask a guy who's on a sausage marathon about the economics? Speaking of the sausage marathon, well, we've headed from the top of the North and we've made it as far as Gisborne, trying to eat a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse store

in the country. Jono is with the Cook Island Cultural Group right now. He's wiggling his hips. Magic Mike Steppersides. They blindfolded us, Ben Boyce, and we had to pick up tools and try and figure out what they were. I know this is a clamp,

but they're not accepting clamp as an answer. Is it a clamp? Yes, it's a G clamp. Well thank you. A G clamp? Oh! You love revving up the crowds, don't you? You're like a hype man, but who creates no hype? How are your kids going today, alright?

Yeah, good. We'll get a bigger reaction there. How are the kids going? Good. That was the same reaction. Hang on, the phone's just ringing. Friday Jam's next year, Fat Man Scoop? We'll get a bigger reaction there. How's the kids going? That was the same reaction. Hang on, the phone's just ringing. Friday Jam's next year, Fat Man Scoop?

No worries, he could be your hype man. Behind the scenes, for some reason, we've eaten other sausages. Definitely mid-20s by now and still a long way to go. And we have made it to Gisborne this morning. Bunnings Warehouse, we're going to be here until 9 o'clock. If you want to come down and meet us, have a sausage as well. Put some money towards some great local community groups. Now, Tarns and Dave, welcome.

Thanks, Jono, and thanks, Ben. Lovely to have you here. Now, what do you guys do? We work for a company called Recreational Services here in Gisborne. And if we're in Gisborne for, say, three hours, what do we need to do? Mate, come around and see the sights. See the sights. That's a lot, three hours, what do we need to do? Mate, come around and see the sights. See the sights. That's a lot of three hours.

And we've got a crab in our radio show. And a sausage as well. Yeah, sausages are good today on you guys. There's a tradie breakfast going on this morning here. Tradie breakfast here at Gisborne. Big store. I didn't realise Gisborne was the first city in the world to see the sun every day.

Every day, mate. You can't go wrong. Every day. Now, what do you do? We've got Gen Z-er Joel back in the studio. What do you do when his mob come here for bloody Rhythm and Vines, mate? What do you do? What do you do?

Strap yourself down? I think Dave Dolbin's going to be headlining at Rhythm and Vines this year. He's awesome. I love Rhythm and Vines. It's great fun. Oh, they love Rhythm and Vines. You hear that, Joel? Too good.

Don't ruin the relationship this year, mate. They love you coming. I often hear Gizzy Hard is a saying. Gizzy Hard, that's a place. It is hard. Now, Dave, can I ask a question from both of you? The wonderful Caroline said you must wear gumboots because everyone in Gisborne wears gumboots.

So we've put gumboots on, but no one else is wearing gumboots. Maybe she gave you a bum stare there. Yeah, I think so. Go to the supermarket with your gumboots. Maybe she gave you a bum stare there. Yeah, I think so. You can go to the supermarket with your gumboots in your pyjamas. Oh, then we'll stand there, then we'll blend in. I'm loving to meet you guys. Thanks for having us. We're at Bunnings Warehouse in Gisborne until 9 o'clock. Then we continue

on. We've got to eat 41 sausages right around the country. We're doing it until Sunday. If you want to find out where we are, text Bunnings to 4487 as the Sausage Sizzle Tour continues on The Hits. Every time you come around, you know I can't say no. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Jono's internet wormhole. Yeah, Ben Boyce learning about the Football World Cup. There's some interesting facts and figures, aren't there, that, you know, some sanctioned ones, that they want to get. Everyone's having a great time without drinking alcohol no need to go anyway you're getting a lot of people finding out how boring football is to watch oh there's how long is it 90 minutes oh mate uh but no there's some interesting facts just about the tournament

in general which uh you know it's a billion a multi-billion dollar sport isn't it i'm watching a documentary on fifa at the moment on Netflix. Have you watched that? I haven't seen it. I've seen it pop up. They'll be happy about the timing of that. Yeah, perfect timing for the documentary to come out. Well, Qatar got it very controversially.

Qatar won it very, like, it was in the same bidding as the USA and the UK. And Qatar was, like, not even in the top three to win. Oh, really? So then there were the old bribery allegations. It gets political being boys. We're not here to talk about politics. But 50% of the world's population are going to be watching this tournament. Now, just last week, they said there's 8 billion people in the world now.

So that means 4 billion people are going to watch this. Oh, but jeez. That's a lot. That's a lot of people. Those are some great figures. And that's where they make a lot of their money from the television rights to the Football World Cup as well. Maybe we should have done a football-based

TV show when we had the chance. Isn't that just the Football World Cup? Well, yeah, it probably is. Probably that market is covered. Brazil, the most wins of any nation. They've had five World Cup wins, which is pretty impressive considering it's every four years. Russia, you won't see them at the World Cup this year, mate.

Right. Why? Well, because what's going on in Russia right now? That's right, Ben. Yeah, they weren't happy with the invasion of Ukraine. So they've said, no, you can't play. Even though Russia hosted it, I think, in 2018. Hosted the World Cup.

Not long ago they were hosting. Now they're like, sorry, guys. That'd be an Orkies email to send to Putin. It's definitely one when you call up and you hope it goes to voicemail. Don't answer Putin.

Don't answer Putin. Oh, hi. Hey, yeah. No, you definitely wouldn't leave a voicemail in that situation. Youngest ever player to play in the World Cup?

15 years old? Sheesh, that's young. Still not old enough to vote in New Zealand, but you can play in the Football World Cup. And those are all the mildly interesting facts about there.

Japan, big upset win over Germany just happened overnight. Australia yesterday lost 4-1 to France after going up by 1-0 up at the start of the tournament. But after 7 o'clock on the show, Jono, we ate five sausages yesterday, but you also did something else five

times as well throughout the day. I'll tell you what it was. It made me laugh. What did I do? I'll tell you after seven. It is that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I'm going to try something here, Ben.

You're going to say, don't do it. Every fibre of your being is going to tell me not to do it. You're going to yell out at you. I'm going to try and get a gizzy, gizzy, gizzy, oi, oi, oi going. What do you think? We are in Gisborne. Yeah, but you haven't prearranged anyone to come around. There's a few people here at Bunnings Warehouse,

but they're kind of 10 metres away. You haven't kind of got a crowd around you. Normally it works better where there's a crowd close to you. High risk, high reward. Do I do it? Give it a go if you want to give it a go. Gizzy, Gizzy, Gizzy! Yeah, there we go.

Thank you, Producer Joel. My reputation as the world's worst hype man continues on as we mow through the country having sausage sizzle at every Bunnings in Altair. They can get back for Rhythm and Vines, mate, to get on stage here in Gisborne over New Year's. Maybe I can do that Gizzy chart on stage. It would probably work a lot better there.

It's not the environment. What's the time? 6.51 in the morning. I know, a smattering of people around. Ben, one thing that I noticed yesterday, while travelling, we're spending a lot of time people around. Ben, one thing that I noticed yesterday, while travelling we were spending a lot of time in the car and I was having to send an email. And I thought, well, why don't I try out the speech-to-text function

where I could just push the button and go, Hi, Tom, great stuff, would love to... And it was an important management email I was sending. It was, it was some notes back on some editing, some video that we were doing Big boy stuff, you know stuff you wouldn't understand I wouldn't understand, I thought it had a lot to do

with me anyway. No, no, way out of your wheelhouse so I'm trying to send this upper level email in the car and I'm going, hi Tom, everything looks great, then Ben next to me starts chiming in, would you like to go for dinner? And then that comes up on the screen. Then I have to delete it and start again.

Hi, Tom. And you go, I think I'm in love with you, Tom. And you were sabotaging my speech email. It was amazing how quickly it would pick up my voice and your voice and sort of transcribe it into the email. It was great. You were too afraid to really reflect your real feelings. No, because every time you do it, I have to restart the email. It was great. You were too afraid to really reflect in your real feelings. No, because every time you do it, I have to restart the email,

and you're like, hi, Tom, and you smell like a rainforest. I go, okay. Hi, Tom, can I pet your cat? It was the most frustrating email experience I've ever had. A lot of fun in my position, though. Very out of character for you. Very out of character for you. On-air character, maybe, but off-air character.

This is not the bad voice I know. Hey, I'm tired and full of sausages as we travel around the country. you very out of character for you it was on air character maybe but off off air character this is not this is not the ben voice i know uh hey i'm tired and full of sausages as we travel around the country that's what i'm looking for entertainment these days just annoying me sabotaging your emails the hits the jonah and ben podcast a lot of uh stores around the country preparing for black friday gonna be some big sales around tomorrow yeah i know black bunnings are preparing for black friday we're at the moment, Gisborne Bunnings, and they said it's all happening. Us coming on tour this week was a real...

They've got a lot going on. There's Black Friday. Last thing they need is tour. It's travelling around every Bunnings warehouse store in the country trying to eat a sausage. But that's what we're doing. 41 stores. Inconveniencing people as we go.

Yeah, started at the top of the North Island, making our way down to Queenstown. Hopefully do that by Sunday. 41 sausages. Sausages, hard word to say. 41 stores. And we'll see how we go as we try and work these through our digestive system. Yeah.

Yeah. They really are sitting and we're both just having, and not, you know, you don't want to, we're not lowbrow show people. No, we're not. We like to hold a high level of decorum on this program, but nothing has come out. Not one bit since Sunday. It's concerning me as well, too. I feel like it's

forming like a cement block inside. I don't know what. You were like, yesterday, you'd like it all. I'm going to have to go surgery. It's a surgical removal. You'd like it all come out, like one of those Play-Doh machines when you pull the lever down and it all just sort of comes out. Yeah, I think it's going to have to come out the sunroof. Yeah, we're going to have to have a...

No, we're going from each Bunnings store to Bunnings store. We're travelling around. Yesterday, we had a few car trips in between stores. We also had a couple of plane trips as well as we got around all the various stores. And one thing that amazed me yesterday was... Because we talk lots about how you're a sleepy jotter. You like to have a sleep because you never get much sleep at night. You're up at like 2.30 or 3.30

or something crazy in the morning. But the problem is that I brag about being up at some wild hour in the morning, but the effect of that is you usually get to brag, but then you're also sleepy, constantly sleepy. Yeah. You slept on three car trips yesterday and two plane trips.

You had five naps throughout the day without a word of a lie. That's not an exaggeration for radio. I feel revitalized. Usually people, usually our types, we return from these trips and we look like Joel from Three Days at Rhythm and Vines. Not me. I'm going to come back.

I never felt better apart from the 29 kilograms of sausages sitting inside my stomach. I've never slept more over the past years. I feel better. I'm going to get back home. Gene's going to be like, oh, you must be tired. No, I feel like I've been to a wellness retreat, a meaty wellness retreat.

Like, we'd have like a car trip, let's say an hour 20. You would sort of, at the start, banter five minutes, five minutes either side. At the start and the end of the car trip, then the rest of the time you'd be asleep. So an hour 20 car trip, you'd have probably an hour 10 sleep. Incredible. My only concern is being so sleepy all the time

that when I eventually die in a few weeks, that people are just going to think I'm sleeping. Oh, it's old sleepy Jono again. You're prolific. You're incredible. I can't believe you had five naps yesterday. You've slept through it on tour. My goal is to sleep the length of New Zealand if it can be done. First person to ever sleep

the length of New Zealand. I'm sure some retirement village van, you know, rounded them all up, and there's probably half a dozen pensioners who might have done the same, but I'm determined to beat them or equalise them. So, Jono has pretty much slept through our trip so far, as well as, you know, waking up to eat a sausage and then go back to sleep afterwards. Maybe it's all the sausage that's making me sleepy. Well, you'd often sleep it. Maybe you're right.

Maybe you're right. But we've got to know this morning on 0800, the hits, 4487, what have you slept through? Have you slept through like a big event and something happened in your neighborhood that you're like, I just slept through it last, which doesn't surprise me now having seen you the last couple of days. Wasn't there a riot outside a place you were staying a bit? Yeah, New Year's, right outside the window.

We were talking about this. I haven't stayed up till midnight at New Year's. That's no surprise. And I think it got to 12.01. I was like, all right then, off to bed. And I conked out and just woke up in the morning. I woke up and there was glass everywhere. There's bits and pieces strewn all over.

I was like, what's going on here, guys? And they're like, are you serious? There was a, like directly outside your room, there was a riot. There was police. There was yelling. There was everything. I slept right through it. Right, right, yeah. outside your room, there was a riot, there was police, there was yelling, there was everything. Did it slip right through it. Right, right, yeah.

Prolific, prolific sleeper, Jono Pryor. My only superpower. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're travelling around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. 41 stores over a week. It's a lot, a lot of sausages to eat as we try and eat a sausage at every single store. Yeah, I feel eight months pregnant.

About to birth a sausage baby is how I feel, Ben Boyce. as you try and eat a sausage in every single store. Yeah, I feel eight months pregnant, about to birth a sausage baby, is how I feel being boys. But you've also had a crack at me, you know, a Kiwi hero for sleeping too much. Mate, it was prolific. Every time we'd go on a car trip yesterday without a word of a lie, three car trips, three naps, two plane trips, two naps. I was like, he's just, he's napping and napping. Yeah. I don't know, it's when I, you've said it before, it's when I stop talking. It's like, he's just, he's, I can't believe, you're napping and napping. Yeah. I don't know, it's when I, you've said it before, it's when I stop talking. Yeah. It's when I stop talking and the movement of things, you know, planes, trains, automobiles,

whatever. If I'm moving, I'm sleeping. Yeah. Like a little newborn baby. So what have you slept through? Did you sleep okay last night? Yeah, straight. Because you were like, you got in my head, you're like, you're not going to get to sleep

tonight. And I was like, as I lay in bed, I was like, oh, Ben might be right. Maybe I've had too much sleep. And then, boom, out within five. I woke up and I was like, jeez. I couldn't get to sleep last night for ages. And I, anyway, well done. That's your superpower.

You're very good at it. It did cross my mind, though, our conversation. All right, let's go to the phones. Lizzie, you're on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Lizzo. Good morning. How are you guys? Full. Full of sausages, but that. Good morning. How are you guys? Full.

Full of sausages, but that's okay. What have you slept through? Like Jono, you've slept through most of the trip so far. What have you slept through? Oh, I'm like Jono. I've slept through everything. But when I was a kid, our chimney caught fire, and they sent two fire engines down to deal with it,

and I've slept through the whole lot. Never realised that they'd been what had happened or anything. So a fire you've got a couple of fire engines, sirens everything all go and you sleep through the whole thing. Absolutely. For those listening in the demograph

where you're being made to go to bed and you're like I don't want to go to sleep. Sleep. Get it now guys. All you want to do when you're being made to go to bed and you're like, I don't want to go to sleep. Sleep, get it now, guys. All you want to do when you're an adult is go to sleep. Hey, good on you, Lizzie. Thank you very much. Such a great story. Thank you, Lizzie.

Have a great day. You're most welcome. Have a great day. See you, buddy. Tamsin, you're on. How are you, Tammo? Good things new. Yeah, we're good.

You slept through what? Well, basically, we had people breaking into the house, and right next to my bed were lever windows, and smashing up the lever windows, it woke my dad up next door, but I slept through it. Next door someone woke up, and you slept through it right next to it? Right next to it.

Lay in your room. No, they didn't get that far. My dad managed to catch them before that. But they would have. And I would have still been sleeping. It's quite good being that oblivious to everything that's going on. Yeah, I don't care what's happening when I'm out. You can do anything to me.

I won't mind. Just don't tell me about it when I wake up. I don't want to know. Don't want to know. Hey, thank you very much for listening, Tamsin. You go and have a great day, all right? You too. Gisborne this morning at Bunnings Warehouse.

Come down and see us. We're raising money this morning for one of the local charities, a boxing gym here in Gisborne. I notice everyone in Gisborne knows each other. They're all high-fiving and handshaking each other. Yeah, it's good to be in a school town. We're wearing gumboots as well, too, because apparently that's what people do in Gisborne.

That's what we got told. But I've seen no one else in gumboots. No one. Not one person in gumboots. Work boots, jandals, you name any other type of footwear. Clogs. Someone was in clogs. But no gumboots people.

Yeah, I feel like they're mocking us here in Gisborne this morning. But it is a lot of fun as we continue our Bunnings Warehouse sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand. I was just reading a story out of New York. So at the airport security scanner, they found inside someone's bag a cat. A live cat. Thank you for your opportunity to tell me that. Just in case you didn't know what a cat sounded like.

So they're putting the bags through the x-ray machine, and they're like, oh, hang on a second. Open up the bag, and a cat was in the bag. You normally say cat got out of the bag, but the cat had opened up the bag and a cat was in the bag. You normally say cat got out of the bag, but the cat had got in the bag, and the person whose bag it was, wasn't their cat, lives at the same house as them, had no idea that the cat

got inside the bag, travelled to the airport, put it through the scanner, cat got out, and apparently the cat's fine, the cat's all good, the person missed their flight, but got on one later on that day as well. Incredible, eh? That is incredible that they can pick that stuff up. How do you get all your stuff through when you're going through the airport? How do they not?

They pick up a cat. Here we go. Some of the stuff you're taking through is a lot bigger, like our sausage costumes. Yeah, is that what you mean? Yeah. All the sausages we're taking around the country as we go. Cats, they do end up in interesting positions.

I know my mother-in-law, she had an issue where a cat took, her cat, took a whole leg of roast lamb from someone's kitchen, dragged it across the road. It was about 150 metres away, pulled it back to their place. Yeah, they're curious things. Our cat got stuck up the top. We got a little loft the other day, and we got this rickety little stair thing that goes up that you pull down.

And we came home later that evening, and we're like, meow. And you're like, what's going on? Where's the cat? And we got up to the loft. They're very cute. Your cat hates you, though. Your cat doesn't like spending time with you. He's made friends with a rabbit, hasn't he?

He has made friends with a rabbit. He likes me when I've got food. He's kind of like you. He likes me when he has to. But behind the scenes. Then he goes away. He goes away. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're going around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country He has to. But behind the scenes. Then he goes away. He goes away. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. We're going around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country trying to eat a sausage as we go. And here's some of the highlights so far. Jono is with the Cook Island cultural group right now. He's wiggling his hips. Magic Mike step aside. They blindfolded us, Ben boys,

and we had to pick up tools And try and figure out what they were I know this is a clamp But they're not accepting clamp as an answer Is it a clamp? Yes it's a G clamp Well thank you A G clamp?

You love revving up the crowds don't you? You're like a hype man But who creates no hype? How are your kids going today alright? Fine Yeah good We'll get a bigger reaction there How's the kids going?, all right? Fine. Yeah, good. We'll get a bigger reaction there. How are the kids going?

Good. That was the same reaction. Hang on, the phone's just ringing. Friday Jam's next year, Fat Man Scoop? No worries, he could be your hype man. Behind the scenes, for some reason, we've eaten other sausages. Definitely mid-20s by now and still a long way to go. Yeah, it has been a lot of fun, apart from the constant eating of sausages,

which were delicious at first, but now we're 23 sausages deep as we head around the country, trying to get to 41. So it's been some tough going, but we have met some amazing people, raised some money for some amazing local communities as we go. And one of the coolest people that we've met. Now, can I just mention something, too?

Ben, we're talking and doing radio, but everyone's so friendly here that when they come in, they give you a handshake. And so we're having to handshake and talk at the same time. Multitasking, aren't we? You're not witnessing the greatness. But, Ben Boyce, you nailed a bro shake. I know.

I'd never nailed a bro shake. And you were doing radio. And I was trying to do radio at the same time. Oh, my God. But one of the coolest people that we've met on our sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand was Little Wee Sapphire. And she came down and bought us a couple of gifts. She had baked goods for us.

Yeah, have a listen. That's way too much sugar Sapphire. We're here with Sapphire. How old are you Sapphire? Five. Five years old. And what did you just give us? You gave us a lovely present.

Now what's this one? Um, yeti balls. Yeti balls. So it's some baking, it's some yeti balls, some white balls. They're white balls. Yeah. And this one. So it's some baking, it's some yeti balls, some white balls. They're white balls. Yeah. And this one is, what's this one? Um, reindeer poo.

Reindeer poo. Oh, yeti balls and reindeer poo. Did you make these? Yep. Or did you pick these up from a reindeer's bottom? No. Did you rip these off a yeti? No.

No. Thank you very much. That's so kind a Yeti? No. No. Thank you very much. That's so kind of you. Thank you. Yes. What do you want to say to the people? That we saw your car. Oh, you saw our car.

Did you key it? Yep. She was, you just don't get any cuter. Yeah, it was adorable. She was adorable, Sapphire. So thank you very much for the yeti balls and the reindeer poop. Yeah. We added that to the sausages inside our stomachs right now. We also met Terry in Whakatane as well, too.

We've got Terry here for the Whakatane men's shed. What do you do in the men's shed, Terry? A bunch of retired guys getting together, doing lots of work for the community. We're just over the back of town, got a shed up the back there where we do a lot of woodwork, restoration of chairs and all sorts of things people bring in. Can you restore my face? Is there anything you could do to this beaten up old thing there, Terry?

We could probably put through a sander and repaint and touch up. A bit of filler up the top there? A bit of filler, yeah. there. A bit of filler. The answer is no, it's beyond reproach. Thank you very much, guys. Appreciate you coming to town. My face isn't even a doer-upperer. Can't even do it. One of the awesome things about travelling around, though,

is seeing all the different community groups that are burning supports and all the different things that people are doing to make a difference in the communities. Yeah, it is. And we're meeting some wonderful people along the way, Ben. Yeah. Isn't it? That's been the joyous part of the journey.

The sausage consumption has been the challenge. That's been the challenge. Terry, I mean, Terry, you just heard before, that he brought some special sausages down for us, and they were big sausages. They were girthy. They were big. They were wide. They were, yeah.

Terry, yeah. Terry had a lot of sausage. He did. And that's the thing as well. I was like, Terry, mate, we're like 20 sausages.

But he was like, no. He brought those down, especially for us as well. Thank you very much, Terry. We've loved meeting everyone so far. And Ben Boyce,

if you've loved meeting people, well, there's many more people to meet, mate, because we're only halfway through. I know. As Bon Jovi once said, we're only halfway there. The Hits, Bon Jovi once said, we're only halfway there.

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. We're travelling around the country trying to eat a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse

stores, but it doesn't mean that we stop doing five words for $5,000 and you could win on 0800THETHITS this morning. Now, who have we got on the phone there, Producer Joel? Tilly from Auckland. Tilly, it's lovely to hear your dulcet tones this morning. What's going on? Just parked on the road waiting for the rain to stop

and the motorway's jammed. Oh, it sounds glorious. Sounds like a fun Auckland morning, doesn't it? Always, always. Where are you heading to this... Well, thank you, mate. Where are you heading to this morning, Tilly? To work. Yeah, what do you do?

I'm a teacher. Very nice. Well, let's pull some words out of that teacher's mouth and try and win you $5,000. In fact, we are in a Bunnings. I have five words for you. Lowest prices, just the beginning. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I had to miss out. Just the beginning, but I say you did well. Now, who do you want to send away into aisle 23 so they won't be able to hear? Jono or Ben? Let's go Jono this time. All right, Jono. Let's turn Bunnings Warehouse into Winnings Warehouse this morning. You can head away.

That'll be nice. I'll just wait until he's out of earshot from me. Okay, he won't be able to hear. Here is the first word this morning. What pops into your head when I say high-vis? Best. Best. Yep, we're in.

These are, I guess, kind of producer behemoths have gone for sort of Bunnings and where we are, specific words. Gizzy is the second one this morning. Gizzy. Gizbin. Yeah, Gizbin. That's exactly what I was thinking. Shed is word number three.

S-H-E-D, shed. Shed. I don't know. Tool shed. Tool shed. Yeah, that's a good option. Citrus is word number four. Citrus.

Fruit. Fruit. Yeah, nice. And finally, Tilly, the last word is builders. Builders? Builders, yeah. B-U-I-L-D-E-R-S. Builders.

You have no idea what I'm thinking, but never mind. Crack? Were you thinking crack? Yes. Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking the same thing as well, builders, crack. Well, I mean, that's an option if you want it, but I don't know. I don't know if Jono's thinking the same way that you and I are thinking or not. Let's go crack.

I mean, I know Jono will go for something like that. Okay, you're right. I think you're playing into his hands right now. I'll give him a wave. He's talking to some people down aisle 23. He's good at that. Okay, you're right. I think you're playing into his hands right now. I'll give him a wave. He's talking to some people down aisle 23. He's coming back now. Yeah, I'm not too sure

about shit, but we'll go to shit. There's some rumours going around that we're helicoptering everywhere. Oh, really? I went to Crystal there. She's like, oh, where's your helicopter part?

Oh, wouldn't that be nice if we were helicoptering everywhere? Tilly, let's get the word out there, John. I've been helicoptering everywhere. And Mike Hosking's the only one that does that on the radio, I think. All right, here we go. Let's see what pops into your head when I say these words and try and match up with Tilly to win us some money.

Word one, $25. First word I said to Tilly was high-biz. Vest. Yes. Lock and vest. There we go, $25. All right, T-Dog, you got $25. Are we going on to $50? Thank you. You want to go? Okay, let's rest. $25. All right, T-Dog, you got $25. Are we going on to $50?

Thank you. You want to go? Okay, let's go for $50. Word two, $50. Gizzy. Gizzy is the second word. Gizzy. I'd go Gizborn.

Gizbon. Yay! Why'd you make that sound weird when you said that? Because I was going to go Gizzy Gizzy, and then I pulled out and ended up with Gisborne. Okay, you have $50. Tilly, do you want to risk it to go forward to $100? Yeah, I came in with nothing.

Let's go. Word three, $100. That's the attitude. That'll win you money or lose you money. She wasn't sure about this one. This is the one she was least sure about, Tilly. Shed is the word, Jono. Shed.

Let's see. You're doing things to me, Tilly. Stop making the noises, mate. Shed. Sorry. Sorry. I'd go garden shed. Tool shed is what.

Tool shed. Tilly, I apologise. It was a good option as well that you had, Jono. Let's see how you would have gone with the last couple. Citrus was word number four. Citrus, fruit? Yeah. And builders.

Builders. Builders, crack? Ah, crack. He said crack. We were wondering if you'd say crack. I thought of crack. So did Tilly as well. There's a lot on offer here today.

Yeah. Tilly, I'm so sorry. You're four out of five, but that unfortunately does not get you any money. You're so close to winning the $5,000. That's all right. At least I've played today. I try every day, but yeah. We'll get you back on again.

Hope you do well navigating the rain and getting to work this morning, all right? Oh, yeah. Thank you. Enjoy your time in Gisborne. It's sunny here. It's's beautiful here but we won't rub that in first to see the sun i'm there i love your work tilly you're going to have a wonderful day thank you for listening bye the hits the jonathan ben podcast sausages are my happy place now at the start of our journey it was we're heading into every bunnings warehouse store in the country

there's 41 of them and we're eating a sausage at each store. We've had 23. We're going to have our 24th before 9 o'clock this morning. Now, Ben, you are a little anxious today, ahead of today's journey because we are taking a fixed wing, a tiny little fixed wing aircraft from the

Hawke's Bay to New Plymouth. Yeah. And your concerns, you're like, fixed wings are not your thing. Tiny planes aren't your thing. It's, you know, alarm bells started raising for me, but when they said, how much do you weigh and how much does your bag weigh?

So anything you're going on to a flight where it's like you need to be, you know, quite specific about the weight, that starts to worry me. And then also like going, it's a fixed wing plane. I mean, that's what I want my wings to be. I want them to be fixed. It's always preferential when the wings are fixed.

I don't want to go on a non-fixed wing plane. I'm just wondering, what happens if we turn up on the scales and we are overweight? Do we have to jump on a treadmill? Do you have to, like, shred? The sausages are sitting there. I reckon I've put on a couple of kgs of sausages over the last couple of days.

So is that going to... You know, like, a very scary situation. Well, the good thing is, the silver lining of this whole thing is if anything goes wrong, we won't have to eat any more sausages. Okay? That's the bonus. That is the bonus. And so what is it about tiny aircraft?

I just feel vulnerable, like a little bit vulnerable up in, you know, up in the sky. I don't know. I know. You're probably perfectly fine and it's going to be fine. But it's one of those things where you feel like for some reason you're in a little plane, you're kind of bobbling around you feel a little bit more vulnerable I always get nervous when you get on a plane and

the pilot goes can you shut the door mate when you're asked to when you're asked to do functional things on the plane I really that's we know I'm out of my comfort zone I took one I think it might have been on the holiday in Fiji and the guy was I think he had jandals on and he had he opened up the window and he had his sort of arm out there while he was cruising along the tarmac, like an arm out the window, like he was a truck driver driving along Tokaroa or something. And I was like, uh-oh. There would have been some nervous laughter from you there.

Yeah, there was a lot of nervous laughter. But he was great, got us there, and it was fine. And I'm sure it'll be fine today, but it does make me a little nervous. And I'm always nervous. You know me, I'm running at different stages of nerves. Well, maybe you can text us, 4487, your great stories of flying, you know? I don't want bad stories. No, I see great ones.

People will only text it, I took a flight from Dunedin to Christchurch, it was wonderful. That's what I want, yeah, yeah. Send in those, or maybe even send in ones where things have gone wrong. No, no, no. Just 4487. I don't, no. Have you nearly perished? No, I don't want those stories this morning.

Or you can send in good ones as well. Oh, jeez. Just put Ben's mind at ease. Wonderful people at Gisborne have turned out and the wonderful team here at Bunnings. Just keep every 10 minutes walking past, handing us a new piece of merchandise. We've got some great merch. Their merch game is on

point. We're going to come back dripping in Bunnings merch. My family is going to be dressed in Bunnings merch for the next 5 to 10 years. It's like whoever was in charge of the merch at Bunnings went to the merchandiser and just ticked every box. We'll take it all. We've had netballs, rugby balls,

bucket hats, caps, ponchos, those big straw hats, everything. Fedoras. You want a coffee cup? You want a ball? Someone's handed me, you're a bit nervous about flying, here's a little stress ball, a little bouncy ball as well. I said I've got a Bunnings G-string yesterday. You didn't believe me. I'm still hobbling.

I think maybe there are Bunnings G-strings. We're catching up with some amazing people this morning. I reckon by the time we get to Dunedin, they'll hand us a Bunnings wedding dress. And we struggle to bring the comedy each day on the radio show, but fortunately someone in Gisborne just brought some comedy to us before. Now, what's your name buddy? Kale. This is Kale.

Kale said I've got a joke for you, roll up. He said roll up, get recording. Alright what's your joke? What do you call a broken can opener? What do you call a broken can opener? I don't know. I can't opener. That's good.

That is very good. That's very good eh? Now we'll be stealing that material, okay? You'll be hearing that maybe seven to ten times over the next 12 months. Hey, after 8 o'clock, there's a brand-new Avatar movie. It's been a long time since the first ever Avatar film came out. It was the highest-grossing film ever. We are just the grossest people ever.

I think that's what we got the award for. But after 8 o'clock this morning, Cliff Curtis, a Kiwi actor, you'll know him for everything. He's done Once More Warriors, Hobbs and Shaw. He's been in so many different things over the years. Well, he's starring alongside Aussie actor Sam Worthington, who was in the first one. I think, you know, we've come into contact with Cliff probably half a dozen times over the last five years.

He started off frosty, but we've slowly chipped away at Cliff Curtis. I think we're mates now. I think he tolerates us. I love Cliff. He's amazing. And he tolerates us. I love Cliff. He's amazing. And he joins us after 8 o'clock. We're going to interview them.

Two legendary actors from a Bunnings Warehouse store over Zoom. What could go wrong? We'll find out in five minutes on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Avatar, the first movie, was the biggest grossing movie of all time. A massive movie. It's been a while since Avatar's been around, but they're back with a new movie, Avatar Way of the Water.

I know one thing. Wherever we go, there's family. It's going to be in cinemas in New Zealand December 15th, directed by James Cameron, who also directed Titanic, and the first one. It's starring Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis and Aussie actor Sam Worthington, who was in the first one as well.

And filmed in New Zealand too, which is amazing. And we're joined over Zoom now by Sam Worthington and Cliff Curtis. Can you see us and hear us? I can't see you. You're too small. Oh, we're tiny, are we? Yeah, you're like about, well, you're about that, you're about one centimetre.

We've shrunk last time since we spoke. There you are, yeah. Go back to the small. These guys have suddenly got big heads talking to big movie stars. Sorry, there's a lot of light bouncing off my big bald head here, so I apologise. You've got a really great reflective quality going on. We're in the back room of

a Bunnings warehouse. Don't ask us why we're here, but it's so nice to talk to you. Cliff, why are you there? Why are you in the back room of a Bunnings? Well, we're in the middle. We're having a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse in New Zealand. Non-stop sausage marathon. We're up to sausage 18 and we smell like sausage.

You're going to be backed up for days, aren't you? Oh, mate. Well, we had to stop the sausage tour to talk to you guys. We're so excited about the movie coming out. Of course, it's the second movie, but you've already filmed the third one. Is there pressure on? Has this one's got to go well?

Not for us. Not for us either. We're just going along for the ride. This is a great adventure. Yeah. You're like, we've already been paid. We're all good. We're all good.

We got paid in sausage. Don't worry. Sam, something I found interesting about you is you're not on social media. So how do you know what your friends have had for dinner if you're not looking at photos of them on Instagram? I ask them. Oh, that that way the old-fashioned way he's probably having dinner with his friends i'm a luddite man i couldn't be involved in any of that like yeah i barely own a phone well the movie of course is way of the water um but who has the best way of the water i mean australia or new zealand i mean you've got bondi beach you've got great barrier in australia you've got

great lakes in new zealand beautiful rivers overall who are we going to give it to want to start some beef between the two of you that's an incredibly astute question yeah i'm gonna have to say that uh some of the most beautiful beaches i've been to have definitely been in australia they really and i really it's true but my favorites are at home yeah someone get him into politics what a beautiful real fan said i want to oh that was stunning now uh guys you worked you worked with james cameron on this movie uh i've never met james cameron uh i feel like i probably never will but i feel like he would terrify me is it scary working with James Cameron no man he's he's he's a gentle soul salt of the thing maybe back in the day you

know you know like we all are we were all kind of a bit more passionate but he's he's look to employ an Australian in the New Zealand and allow us to do what we're doing he's he's that's you know he's an incredible guy he changed my life and you know cliff talks very highly about him because he's he's a down-to-earth guy who just makes these spectacular movies about you know amazing families and stuff like that so i couldn't speak any more highly on him it is you know there's no sense of any elitism in our workplace he's one of the crew he's our fearless leader he's a genius no doubt he you know his sense of creativity and his imagination is unparalleled but he's on the ground with us there's nothing that he asks us to do that he

wouldn't do himself or he hasn't already done you went under the water with motion captures on for the movie that was the thing we all yeah we all there's cool way of the water so you know you're gonna get wet and it was like well here we go We're going into a pool. And I remember I got a phone call in 2015 and Jim was taking up freediving. And part of me knew right then that he was going to get us to do it down the track. And that's how we did it. He taught us, he got us all in

and taught us with the world champions of freediving in the world, how to slow your heart rate and get more oxygen into your body so we could be underwater for minutes at a time and perform scenes that were action orientated or emotional in a, you know, 30 foot depth of a tank. It's crazy. Did you hear that?

What was that? Your phone? That was my phone saying something went wrong. Please try again. I thought it was like one of the people around there going, go wrap this up. I'm telling you, mate, you don't screw with the Avatar people, mate. They'll come at you no matter what you say. Just quickly, we've got to wrap it up. But New Zealand obviously had a big part to play in this movie. How much can we claim we're part of New Zealand?

Can we claim some ownership of this movie? 100%. I mean, shooting in Wellington for years. We've got the set design, the costume design. We've got the – We shot a lot of it in the back of a Bunnings. We've got the visual effects team down there at Weta. You know, we got a huge claim on this.

A lot of elements inspired by the oceanic cultures, including Maori, the tattoos, everything. You know, yep, I'm going to claim a lot of that. Lovely catching up with a pair of you. Keep safe over there. Good luck with the sausage tour, mate. Yeah, we're luck with the sausage tour back to the sausage we're doing god's work you know that you got your thing we got ours we gotta go all right okay bye the hits the jonathan ben podcast coming to you from gizzy hard that's what they say here gizbon

bunnings warehouse on our bunnings warehouse tour of new zealand now you know uh earlier in the morning i tried to gizzy gizzy guzzy, guzzy, and I was waiting for the oi, oi, oi back. It's now. You're too far away. Go out to the group. At the moment you're going to get the same lacklustre reaction. You're too far away.

Now, Ben, I know you were worried. We spoke 25 minutes ago. We're taking a tiny fixed-wing aircraft from here to New Plymouth later on today, and your anxiety level are at an all time high. Higher than the hell the planes can go. At least the day looks good around at the moment. And I said you know text in 4487 put Ben's mind at ease

before we head on this plane on the Bunnings sausage tour. Hi guys it's Steve here. The not so good news is the weather can be terribly windy and stormy around Taranaki and the Wellington region. They need really good pilots there. The good news is the best pilots in New Zealand are the ones that are willing to fly to Taranaki and Wellington. So that's a good one.

Hey, guys, I'm a small plane pilot. Just tell Ben to put his mind at ease. The big planes never crash. The small planes hardly ever crash. Okay. So there you go. None of this is helping me this morning. Yesterday we were actually talking about a lot of internet crime around at the moment.

A lot of people getting scammed. Millions and millions of dollars have happened in the last three months. And NZ, you know, the company that we work for, the hits, they're big on cyber security. And we have our email and we get sent. It's pretty much every month you get sent a video to watch, all to do with cyber security. You have to watch the video, and they're quite funny little videos, but they also teach you. At the end of it, you've got to take a question. It's one question, you've got to answer that question, you get five choices, and you've

got to send that through. I don't even know this video existed. This is the thing. So the last two times I have watched the video, done the thing, and the answers are all really good answers. Like every one I go, oh, yeah, that seems like it's feasible. Oh, yeah, that seems like it's feasible. And last two times I've locked in the wrong answer.

But you can't go back. Once you put the answer, it's like there's a better answer, and then you've got to submit that to IT. Now, IT have got my findings of the fact that I'm some gummy that can't work out how to answer this multi-choice question. And yesterday I was saying to you, I was like, I keep getting these questions wrong. I'm worried about the company. And you're like, what questions?

What video? I've honestly... I've done about half a dozen over the past year. And I have never watched, I mean, instructional videos of the Bain in my life. They keep popping up, reminders all the time going, you haven't done this, you're 12 months behind. Well, this whole time I've been kindly sharing the company's sensitive information on the dark web.

I thought that's what we were supposed to do. You ever watch one of these videos? Even though I'm getting it wrong, at least I'm going to see it further than you. Yeah, well, what's better? A guy who's never watched a video or a guy who watches the video and then fails the immediate questionnaire? And you can't go back. He can't, like, it's already sent it to IT. And I'm like, oh, no.

They're going to go, it's two from two I've got wrong recently. They're going to restrict you to a parental guidance on your internet usage around the company. Well, at least I'm maybe one step better than you who have not done it yet. Instructional videos. I even go onto YouTube and I see some legend has taken time out to film a blow-by-blow instructional video on how to get hair out of a drainpipe. And I check out after 30 seconds. Instructional videos, you lose it.

And they lose you too, Ben, I know. They do. Are you doing other things while the video's playing? Well, yeah. Is it just playing in the background? So it looks like to the pals that you've watched the video? No, no, no comment. No comment.

I'm not going to lock in an answer for that one either. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of talk yesterday about finance, the interest rates are rising. We're told to brace for a recession. It's not good news. Mortgage rates are meant to rise as well. We don't really know what it's all about. So that's why we talked to a financial expert. She's from enable.me. Her name is Hannah McQueen, or as we like to call her, Hannah Lightning McQueen. I think she joins us this morning. Good morning.

Good morning. Ka-chow. You know we love that joke. You're like, when are you going to let that stop? But we're not. We can't start talking about the economy until we get a ka-chow out of you, Hannah. Ka-chow. Yeah.

Now, the economy at the moment, it's anything but kachow, really, isn't it? I mean, what is going on? I mean, we hear all these stories of the time that we're in a recession, the times are tough out there, but things seem like they're going to get even worse. Yeah, it's a little bit of a hot mess

at the moment. So, what we know is that interest rates are going to go a little bit higher in the short term, and if you've got a mortgage that's coming off a fixed term in the next six months, you're going to feel the burn of that. So that means that you're going to have to create your own tailwind so that you can navigate the next 12 months. We know it's only for 12 months that we need to be able to navigate this.

And there are things you need to be doing to do it. You've just described my exact situation. Okay, so what things do we need to do to navigate this. And there are things you need to be doing to do it. You've just described my exact situation. Yeah, okay. So what things do we need to do to navigate this tailwind? Okay, so if you navigate the headwind, create your tailwind. Oh yeah, sorry. Something about wind. I couldn't even get that part of the whole thing. All right. Anyway, what do we need to do? Just tell us. Okay, so what we're doing with our clients is we're first determining what's the term that your mortgage is on.

If it's less than 25 years, we want to extend the term out to 25 or 30 years. That means that your fixed repayments are going to drop, and that's going to cover at least half the interest rate increase that you're going to be experiencing. That's the first step. Now, you are unlikely to be able to do that with your current bank, and that's for all banks. You normally have to move banks in order to unlock that function. So there's a little bit of work there. Then we need to determine, well, which bank do we go to? Like, which is going to be the best for you? And I kind

of have the view that I don't like any of them, but if it's going to work for you, then let's try and take advantage of it, right? Now, if in moving banks we can get a cash incentive of 1%, that means if the interest rate is 6%, you're getting cash back of 1%, your effective interest rate is only 5%. That's going to cover the other 25% of this kind of interest cost that you're having to wear, and the other 25% is going to come from you sharpening your spending.

So you need to spend a little bit less, defer big costs, and we're going to move through the next 12 months and come out the other side. And what's on the other side of the recession? Economic growth. And that's what you should be preparing for right now. So there's good times here. Can you break your contract with the bank?

I know you think you've got to pay a fee, right? Is it almost worth looking at that to try and settle on something a bit more long term? Now, when you are breaking a mortgage to go on to a higher interest rate, there are no break costs. So they'll say there's a break fee, but the fee is zero. So in that situation, there isn't an extra cost to bring it forward. And for our clients, we've now started, anyone that's going to be having a mortgage come off in the next six months, we're looking to break now in anticipation of these higher rates. We want to lock in now.

Because this is the first time the Reserve Bank, in my mind, in the last couple of years, has given some really direct pieces of feedback that we can make decisions on. And that is awesome. She was Hannah McQueen. And we've just got the banks online too saying, get rid of that lady you're talking to.

She's going to sink us. Ka-chow. Ka-chow. That is amazing. So essentially we need to play the banks off each other, make it work in our favor, and we will navigate through 2023. And there's good times ahead. It sounds positive.

Good times ahead, baby. Good times ahead that we're going to get through the next 12 months. Yeah, you can get a hold of Hannah at Enable Me. Always love having you on the show, explaining it in simple terms. For us dunces, Hannah, really do appreciate your time. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I showed you a picture of Robert Downey Jr., the actor, who, of course, in Iron Man and many other movies over the years,

he just shaved his hair. He's bald. It unsettles me. He looks like Jeff Bezos now. Yeah, you said it's for a role, I think, in a new movie, but you were like, oh, that unsettles me. You have all people. I know.

And then I was like, do I have that effect on people? And you said yes, I do. But I thought you, of all people, would be like, yes, that's good on him, he looks great. But you're like, oh, it just unsettles me. No, some people, like Dwayne The Rock Johnson, he pulls it off beautifully, doesn't he? Yeah, he does. He looks good. Vin Diesel.

Yeah. Me. Yeah, I know. Well, I'm used to you. Like, this is you. This is you. You fought through the weirdness, didn't you? Yeah, no, you don't.

And maybe if Downey Jr. sticks out for another three or four years. And you said he's looking younger than you. He's 57. He's 57 years old. Hey, we've been travelling around the country, as you know, on the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Tour, the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour in Gisborne at the moment. One thing I've noticed travelling around in the hits vehicle, Ben Boyce,

and it's something that I imagine only the radio industry gets, is people yelling out, have you got any freebies? Yeah. Where are any freebies? Yeah. Where are the freebies? Now, I'm going to speak on behalf of the radio industry here, okay? The cost of living crisis has hit us. It's hit us as well. There are no more freebies.

There haven't been freebies for a long time. I mean, now and again, you get the odd one. They come down here and see us. It's not like the glory days. No. John and Ben's Heartland Chips, you can share a packet between 12. We'd be handing out lip balms, hair products. Cool charm.

Pregnancy tests, everything. Well, who knows? Maybe there was a time. Maybe you wouldn't want to hand too many of those out in rural New Zealand. But now they're still yelling it out, Ben, and we can't come to the party. The best thing we've got is the air freshener hanging off the rear vision mirror. Maybe I think the government over-ordered all the rats tests. Maybe you should give that to radio

so at least the out-and-about... Come down and win a rats test. The Hitzmobiles, the Black Thunders, righty-righty-right. We've got stuff to palm off then because we were walking through, where were we the other day? Up north, Kitty Kitty.

And a guy, lovely gentleman, he said, can I have your T-shirt? Yeah. In the past, I've seen you give your station clothing away, which is lovely. But then next time they're like, the workers are like, where are your station top?

You're like, ooh, yeah, I've kind of given them away to someone. I gave this, I gave a Hitz jacket to someone, and they turned up wearing a tinfoil hat at the Parliament protest, Ben. Well, some of that's true. That's true. There was a Hitz jacket there, wasn't there? And it was good marketing for the Hits. I think we should hand our merch out to everyone

and just see where it ends up. But yeah, just so you know, we would love to give freebies. I've got nothing apart from Ben's fruit scraps he leaves in the door handles. In the door well of the car. I think we've got some extension cords in the back. We can give you a sausage. You can probably eat our 24th one because that's what we're doing, going around the whole country eating sausages as we go. 24. We're about you a sausage. You can probably eat our 24th one because that's what we're doing, going around the whole country, eating sausages as we go.

24. We're about to hit 24. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks so much for hanging out with us over the last couple of hours. We're at Gisborne Bunnings Warehouse, travelling around the country, as we mentioned many, many times, trying to eat a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in New Zealand, from the top of the north to the bottom of the south,

all inspired by an Aussie guy, Josh, who went around 280-odd bunning stores in Australia eating a sausage. He did it over a couple of years. We're trying to cram it into one sausage-filled week. And also as we go, collecting every piece of Bunnings merchandise we can. Fedoras, straw hats,

we've had aprons, we've had them all, we've had bucket hats this morning, t-shirts, you name it, Ben Boyce. The merch game is tight. Oh, they go great. We're dripping in Bunnings merch as well. It's great. I'm going to wear nothing but Bunnings clothes, I think, for the rest of my life now coming back from the tour.

The sausage sizzles. Are you going to commit to that? I'm going to make you commit to that. I'm probably not. You've said it. I'm saying, to be honest, I'll wear some of it. But, yeah, from time to time, I like it. I want to see you in Bunnings head to toe for the rest of your life.

You said it. I know. Don't go to all the things. Commit to your promise, mate. Don't be like like it. I want to see you and Bunnings head to toe for the rest of your life. You said it. I know. Don't go. Come on, do your promise, mate. Don't be like a politician. Don't be changing your mind. Yeah, so every sausage sizzle as we go around the country, raising money or awareness for some amazing community groups

to get down and support the communities as we get about. You can text Bunnings to 4487 to find out where we're going to be. Yeah, we've got Jim in the team. The Boxing Jim. He's appropriately named. Jim from the gym. Jim from the gym. Jim from the gym. GYM is his actual name, I think, spelled as well, too, from the boxing gym.

One of the coolest people we met was little Sapphire yesterday, a young girl in Rotorua. That's way too much sugar, Sapphire. We're here with Sapphire. How old are you, Sapphire? Five. Five years old. And what did you just give us?

You gave us a lovely present. Now, what's this one? Yeti balls. Yeti balls. So it. Now what's this one? Yeti balls. Yeti balls. So it's some baking, it's some yeti balls, some white balls. They're white balls. Yeah. And this one is, what's this one? Reindeer poo. Reindeer poo. Oh, yeti balls and reindeer poo. Did you make these?

Yeah. Or did you pick these up from a reindeer's bottom? No. Did you rip these off a Yeti? No. No. Thank you very much. That's so kind of you.

Thank you. Yes. Guys, what do you want to say to the people? I only saw your car. Oh, you saw her car. Did you key it? Yep. She was adorable.

She was very cute. She did key our car though. So that kind of took away the cuteness a little bit there. But we ate the baked goods and they were delicious. Usually you don't eat listener baked goods, do you? You started hallucinating. You hallucinated one time, got quite volatile. So we kind of buttoned off it.

But you had to from a cute little girl. We had a couple of really awesome guests this morning. There's a new Avatar movie coming out December 15th. The second one, The Way of Water. And we talked to Cliff Curtis, a legendary New Zealand actor. He was with Sam Worthington, who's from Australia, was in the first Avatar. And we kind of put them under the pump because we said,

which country out of Australia and New Zealand has the best body of water? Because this movie's about the way of water. This is their answer. Well, the movie, of course, is Way of the Water. But who has the best way of the water? I mean, Australia or New, the movie, of course, is Way of the Water, but who has the best way of the water? I mean, Australia or New Zealand? I mean, you've got Bondi Beach, you've got Great Barrier in Australia,

you've got Great Lakes in New Zealand, beautiful rivers overall. Who are we going to give it to? We want to start some beef between the two of you. That's an incredibly astute question. I'm very pleased that you're starting off by putting us together putting us against one another I'm gonna have to say that Some of the most beautiful beaches I've been to have definitely been in Australia They really

My favorites My favourites are at home. Oh, jeez. He backpedalled pretty quickly there. No, no. There's nothing. You cannot deny the beauty of the beaches over here. But my favourites are my own. Oh, what a great answer. It looks like an epic, epic movie in cinema's December 15 Avatar way of order. Hey, sausage madness continues on. The sausage shambles.

That is Jono and Ben continues on today. Thank you, Gisborne, for having us. Woo! Thank you, Behumps. Why do you do this? You're always so far away from the crowd. Part of me likes it. Yeah, sure, I guess, yeah. We're heading to Hastings, 10.30 to 11.

We're going to be catching that wonderful fixed-wing aircraft that Ben's stoked about. That's how I want my planes, though. The wings fixed. And hopefully they'll stay on. New Plymouth this afternoon. How are they in Whanganui? You can check it out on our story. It's the Hits Breakfast Instagram. my planes though the wings fixed and hopefully they'll stay on New Plymouth this afternoon Harawira then Whanganui you can check it out

on our story it's the hits breakfast Instagram thank you for watching listening consuming however you digest our product

Ben as we said before you can text Bunnings to 4487 to find out where we're going to be in a town or city near you

as we travel down the country eating a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse stores we'll catch you tomorrow