Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono Pryor... Hype Man

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, Jono showcases his hypeman skills, Ben leaves his fruit in the car again and we chat to Matt Brown the founder of She Is Not Your Rehab!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, good morning. It's the podcast, 23rd of November, Jono and Ben in the middle of our sausage tour. We're at Sausage 19, the Bunnings Warehouse in Mount Monganui. Yeah. And we're going until Sunday, halfway point. We got up this morning, I could feel, I could feel spirits were at an all-time low, Ben. No, but we're back now, we're back, you know. Well, we're semi-back. I mean, we're getting there. I woke up this morning and I was like, the last thing I feel like eating is food that's not sausage.

So hopefully there's more sausage on the agenda. There's definitely a lot more sausage on the agenda over the next couple of days. There's sausage fest continues around the country. It's been a wet morning around a lot of the country. Yeah, big storm hitting Mount Maunganui where we are this morning. Coming in offshore right here, mate, battering the houses of the mountain. Here we are at Bunnings, Mount Maunganui, and we are on our sausage eating tour. We're having a sausage at every single Bunnings.

We clocked up some Ks yesterday. Have a listen. The CQDS, what do the CQDS do? 13 to 18 years old. Sailing, drill, marksmanship, seamanship, first aid. Can you kill a man? No comment. That means they could kill a man, Ben. What have you just done, Ben?

Oh, well, I wanted to give back to the community and made a donation. Of $50. Give it up for Ben, ladies and gentlemen. This is number eight, Chris Mack from 660. He's bought us a wee treat. Yeah, I found this hot sauce in my fridge. No idea how hot it is. For the next three hours, it felt like my lips wanted to divorce my face.

And B, we ran into at Constellation Drive, Bunnings Warehouse. We're just going to name items. You've got to tell us what aisle they're in. Water blasters. Aisle 20. Paintasters. Aisle 20. Paintbrush. Aisle 14. I need a leaf blower.

21. You want to buy me two? I'm free. Some of the great people we've met on the way as we travel to every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. 41 stores. Sunday, it's all going to finish and we can get through these 41 sausages at every store.

So yesterday we kicked things off in Manukau, then we went to Takanini, then we went to Whangamata, then we went to Hamilton, then we went to Hamilton again. Boy, oh boy. And I tell you what, Hamilton has really nailed their foot to the floor

on the roundabout system. One day someone said, the city of the future, the future is roundabouts. And it's a lot of roundabouts. There's roundabouts for roundabouts in Hamilton. You're right. But there's tensions. Tensions on the sausage tour. We're halfway through.

We woke up this morning and we're like, still a long way to go. Yeah, because I think 18 sausages we've eaten officially. Behind the scenes, for some reason, we've eaten other sausages. We're definitely mid-twenties by now and obviously it's all for a good cause. All the great community groups come out and do the barbecues at the Bunnings. But producer

Humphrey, we're calling him the Nibble Nazi. Is it just me calling him the Nibble Nazi? It's just you, mate. Can you explain your Nibble system? I'm just making sure that all sausages and bread are consumed.

You've got to, you know, as your mum always said, you've got to eat your crusts. He's like, no nibbling. No nibbling. No, you're nibbling, you're nibbling. Yeah. I'm like, mate, we are nibbling. Down the hatch. We're like 18 sausages.

You haven't had a single sausage on the whole thing. No. He's like, nibble, nibble, you're nibbling. From my waist to my throat is just sausage. Just my whole body is just full of, consumed by sausage. We've got all these wonderful community groups out for you to start nibbling now. I know, I know. And then I got in the car this morning,

and I think we are seeping sausage out of our paws, Ben. We smell like there's like an aroma of sausage around us. But anyway, we'll continue doing God's work as we're in the Mount today. You can come and see us. We're in the Trade Centre, trade section of the Bunnings Warehouse. Two guys who certainly don't belong in a trade section. We're travelling around to every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country to eat a sausage.

It's a big tournament that we're doing, a sausage-based tournament, but overseas there's someone trying to take the shine away from what we're doing, the Football World Cup. I know, and I want to apologise to FIFA as well because you do your thing and we may have come in. We don't do this every four years. We may have just come in last minute and taken the glory from their game. Taken the shine away from the beautiful game.

Taken the bear away from their game, so to speak. But you're saying there was a lovely moment with the Japanese supporters yesterday. Yeah, there was actually. Really awesome. This was the first game of the Football World Cup. There's some shots going viral on social media. And the Japanese fans who travelled all the way over there to Qatar to see the football, going around the stadium afterwards, cleaning up just off their own bat.

And a guy sort of came up to them. He was filming them. He said, what's going on? He's like, we're respectful. We're grateful to be here. In Japan, we don't leave rubbish behind. And we're going around. Just going around with our heads.

Jesus, the opposite of New Zealand. I know. That's what I thought. Have they been to a movie theater in New Zealand? It's sacks of rubbish. They're going around. There's a whole team of them going around and cleaning up. They're just the fans.

Just fans. Just fans. Not paid at all to be there. Just grateful to be there. Why? I'm like, how is that? What are they doing? It's like, we don't leave rubbish behind.

I guess they started saying rubbish, and they're like, no, we need to clean that up, which is awesome. That is, well, that is a wonderful sign of respect, and one that we certainly don't have in this country. No. Did you go to the 660 concert? What did that look like afterwards? I was doing exactly the same thing. Were you doing the same thing?

Were you in the big sack picking up all the garbage? No, rubbish left behind. That was my model. You were just happy to be there. Yeah. Big news from the Football World Cup overnight, though. Saudi Arabia beat Argentina. Now, Argentina were one of the favourites for the tournament.

It doesn't mean they're out or anything like that, but they beat them 2-1. Lionel Messi, you'll know him as one of the world's most famous footballers. I say you'll know him. You get annoyed when I say you'll know him. Well, you know, I get annoyed when you say you'll know, and people clearly wouldn't know them. But people would know Lionel Messi.

Okay, good. They would have heard of Messi. That occasion's all right. So it's going to be a national holiday in Saudi Arabia after that match, after they won 2-1. Huge, messy, messy situation there for the Argentinians. Well, yeah, the messy situation was cleaned up by the Japanese supporters who cleaned up Lionel Messi as well. And that took him out of the stadium.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As we've mentioned many, many times this week, we're heading to every Bunnings warehouse store right across the country from the top of the north to the bottom of the south. It's going to take us a week, and we're visiting all 41 stores and having a sausage and bread in each store.

Do you know what I have noticed about Bunnings? So much merch. Oh, yeah. She's there across their merch game. There's like your Basinglets, baby onesies, fedoras, caps, ponchos, jandals, g-strings. They have got everything. I don't have g-strings.

Oh, you didn't get one. I was just waiting for the gag one. You didn't get one. I was given one. I was waiting for the gag one. I was like, here we go. Funga Matar said, here you go, mate. At the beach.

They cover all bases. Except the g-strings don't cover all your bases. No, they should cover more of my bases. My bases should not be a spy. I wonder why you're walking around in the trade centre before like that. Hobbling around. You're just supporting the team, mate. No, but they really are.

The merch game's on point. And every store you go to, they've got a different type of merch. I keep angling for a corduroy hat. I quite like those. No one's picking up what you're putting down, though. He does. He keeps going, they're nice. Every shop we go into.

Oh, these are cool. Because we've had the straw hat. You know, we've had the straw hat. We've had a fedora. I keep saying to you, these are the cornery ones, Jono. Just hopefully loud enough that someone will go, I'll take it. But no. Oh, these are nice.

Yeah, well, buy one, mate. If you love it so much, buy one. But anyway, we've had a lot of fun hanging out with the Bunnings team. They're really cool people. And yesterday we put Bea to the test before they put us to the test. Because when you walk into a Bunnings, they just know where everything is. Name an item, they'll tell you what aisle it's in, and we did this with Bea. Bea.

Hello. Now, Bea, I'm good. I took my hat off before, and Bea was like, your head is blinding me. The light of my big bald head, eh, Bea? I know, it was so shiny. You're like, it's so shiny. It is shiny, it is very shiny. Very shiny.

Very shiny. Have you got anything in Bunnings you can polish my head with? You've got a head polisher. Oh yeah, we've got a very good buffer. If I wanted to find that buffer, where would I find it? What aisle? That would be in 2 Shop. Oh, 2 Shop.

Now, okay, we're going to play a game with you, okay? We're just going to name items. You've got to tell us what aisle they're in. Ooh, depends. Water blasters. Aisle 20. Ooh, okay, I want to buy the paintbrush. 14.

I need a leaf blower. 21. Petrol line trimmer. 20. Spanner. Tool shop. Hammers. Tool shop. Paint. 14. Ooh, barbecue. Lifestyle. Outdoor furniture. Lifestyle.

You want to buy me too? I'm free Bea was incredible As John has said before Just one of the great One of the many great Of the team That work for Bunnings Yeah that's right

So they heard that We put Bea to the test So they wanted to put us To the test yesterday And they blindfolded us Ben Boyce And we had to pick up tools And try and figure out

What they were They're blindfolded right now We're and we had to pick up tools and try and figure out what they were. They're blindfolded right now, we're in Bunnings and you're trying to guess what tool he's yelling out, you're trying to guess what's the tool you're holding. Yeah. You put your tool out before and I was like mate, come on. And you had a lawn seed spreader.

No idea what that was, the biggest tools in Bunnings right now are us. I know this is a clamp but they're not accepting clamp as an answer. Why not? I don't need more. Why not? Is it a clamp? Is it a clamp?

Yes, it's a G clamp. Well, thank you. A G clamp? Oh. What would you use that for, Jono? Yeah, that's how I said it. The G clamp? Yeah.

Just the general G for general clamping. Yes. That's what I think too. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed. No such thing as a slow news day around here. And if there is, well, then we'll just make up the news. Well, actor Chris Hemsworth, the very handsome Chris Hemsworth,

Thor, you'll know him. You'll know him. Can I say you'll know him with Chris Hemsworth? Yeah, you can. I get frustrated when Ben starts saying, you'll know these people from da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, no, I still don't know him. Can I say you'll know him with Chris Hemsworth? Yeah, you can. I get frustrated when Ben starts saying, you'll know these people from da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, no, I still don't know them. I know them less.

Yeah, I know Thor. Yeah, Chris Hemsworth. Familiar with his work. So he's doing a show on Disney Plus at the moment where he pushes his body to the test. It looks really epic. He's like plunging into Arctic waters. He's doing all sorts of crazy stuff.

Same as us. We're in the same field. We're pushing our bodies to the limit. We probably are pushing our bodies to the limit. He's doing all sorts of crazy stuff. Same as us. We're in the same field. We're pushing our bodies to the limit as well. We probably are pushing our bodies to the limit. On our sausage marathon. Chris Hemsworth could be putting our sausage marathon on Limitless, the show on Disney+, right now that he's doing. But as part of the show, they tested his body

because they want to see what it's going through, what it's capable of. And they found out that he has a significantly heightened risk of developing Alzheimer's disease due to genetic factors that he's got over his life. Now, this has obviously happened on the show. They were like, do you want to edit it out? And he's like, no, I want this to be part of the show. But the shocking diagnosis for him,

that there's a good chance he could get Alzheimer's later in life, is on the show, and he's decided now to step away from acting for a wee bit to spend some time with his family. So he doesn't have Alzheimer's? No, he doesn't, but there's a good chance he's decided now to step away from acting for a wee bit to spend some time with his family. So he doesn't have Alzheimer's? No, he doesn't, but there's a good chance he's got the genetic genes that he will have it later in life. So I don't know how they find out now that you could particularly have it. Well, that makes me worried that I should go and get a test.

I'm very forgetful already. I'm surprised yet. I'm playing a long game with the Alzheimer's. Well, I mean, that's an interesting moral dilemma, isn't it? If you knew that you were going to contract an illness later in life, would it change your approach to what you're doing now? Ben Boyce, I hand the microphone over to you. In some ways, while you don't want to find out about those sorts of things,

in other ways it probably would make you live life to the fullest. Well, you can prepare for it, can't you? You can go, I'm going to spend every moment with my mate Ben eating sausages because that's a worthy cause. Exactly. Okay, that's what I would do. If I found out it was all going to end next week, I'd say, sorry, family, I need to eat these sausages.

That's right. I want to live my life to its fullest. But yeah, well, hopefully. Fullest, literally fullest. We're very full of sausages yesterday. Very stodgy, very stodgy. We've got another one to get into, sausage number 19 very shortly. And just quickly, the world's largest goldfish has been caught.

I showed you a picture of this before. It was in a French lake. Actually, we'll try and put it up on the Hits Breakfast story on Instagram. 30 kgs. It is a monster. Yeah. It is. Basically, it's a great visual representation of how my stomach feels at the moment.

It is enormous. It's big. It's bloated. I hate to fat shame a goldfish. Oh, you have. How did it's bloated. I hate to fat shame a goldfish. You have. How did it get so big? I know. Obviously, just eating for a number of years,

and they just keep growing and growing, do they? The guy's taken a photo with it. He's caught it in a lake, and he's now put that photo up as his Tinder profile pic as well. So good luck for him in that. Do you eat goldfish? I don't think you do. I don't know.

I don't know. The cats would love it, wouldn't they? Jeez. Oh, the cats would be the cat community frothing at that goldfish? I don't think you do. I don't know. I don't know. The cats would love it, wouldn't they? Jeez. Oh, the cats would be, the cat community would be frothing at that goldfish. Hey. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a brand new Disney animated movie. It's in cinemas tomorrow.

It's called Strange World. It looks awesome. It's about a legendary family of explorers. They end up in, ironically, a strange world full of hilarious and unusual creatures. Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the voices. And Dennis Quaid, how many years he was married to Meg Ryan, a big Hollywood super couple. He's been in The Parent Trap, Dog's Purpose, Footloose, Day After Tomorrow, so many, so many movies for many, many years in Hollywood.

He's a Hollywood legend. He is and we caught up with Dennis Quaid yesterday. Hey. How's it going? We're going all right. Of course, you guys are in a strange world. Well, welcome to a strange world, New Zealand. Here we are.

Yeah, it doesn't get any stranger. Is it really that strange? Well, we do because you guys encounter some unusual creatures in a strange world. We've got a national bird that doesn't fly and 26 million sheep. No snakes? You're right. Yeah. That's because you have no predators. Well, that's true. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, just a 26 million sheep. No snakes. No snakes. You're right. Yeah. That's because you have no predators.

Well, that's true. But yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah. Just a lot of sheep, 26 million sheep.

Except for us. We are the only predators. Have you been watching police 10 seven? It wasn't like I'm voicing, you know, a Disney movie like this and then seeing it later. Like, do you have to use a lot of your imagination when you're voicing it uh completely yeah my imagination was completely useless i came

to find out because when i saw the movie it was like i i never would have thought that now you fly dennis yeah flying in the movie but also you know you guys travel around in an aircraft but you're an actual pilot you can fly a a plane. I can fly a jet airplane. How do you get on that? How do you get your air points up for that? I could be soloing in like 12 hours. I've been flying solo in 12 hours. I have a motto.

Come fly with me. I won't kill you. I won't even maim you. Now, also, Dennis, is it a strange world? Because we know that you are friends with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Is it weird? Are there any benefits? I don't know how close we are now, but yes.

That's a good impression. It wasn't an impression. Oh, is that just the way you talk? Sorry. Are there perks to being friends with the president? Oh, yeah. You get a lot of those White House souvenirs and stuff like that. Dennis Gray, obviously you're a legend.

You've done so many amazing things in the film industry. This movie, obviously you're a legend. You know, done so many amazing things in the film industry. This movie, Any Given Sunday, Footloose. I mean, this interview with us would be up there, right? Right. Yeah. We'll keep reading your IMDB list. Yeah. But you've also worked with Kiwi actors as well. KJ Apa and A Dog's Purpose, Kim Crossman, who's a big New zealand actor as well and very happy whatever which makes big news over here as well every time you start with kiwis that's love it yeah do they hold a special place in your heart or can you barely remember the people we've just named absolutely it's the best place i've never been in New Zealand. Yeah. We have wonderful golf courses.

Like Montana on the ocean, from what I heard. Yeah. Well, you're a golfer, right? You can come down here. You can play some golf. That's right. I'm a golfer and a pilot, so I can fly there, play golf. What are you waiting for?

Have a great time. Oh, well, listen, it's been wonderful hanging out. Congratulations on the movie. Looks fantastic. Hey, nice to talk to you. See you. Take care. See you later. See you. Take care. See you later.

See you, legends. That's Dennis Quaid from the brand-new Disney movie Strange World in cinemas tomorrow. It looks really awesome for the whole family. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The FIFA Football World Cup on right now in Qatar. And all the world's attention.

Everyone's talking about the tournament. Very shortly, we're going to be talking to a Kiwi, Rachel Jackson-Lillies, who used to read news with us in the morning. She's over in Qatar. Her husband, Tom McRae, reads news for Al Jazeera. What's it like being a Kiwi living over there? A lot of talk about the alcohol and the stadiums and stuff. So what is it like in general?

Are you allowed to drink alcohol? Those questions we're going to put to her in about five minutes' time. Right, so Ben Boyce wanting to run a legal sweepstake. I tell you what, the only thing more corrupt than FIFA is our FIFA sweepstake for the Football World Cup. So how do you want to run it? How many teams are there? There's 32 teams.

So right now we'll take a couple on the radio and over under the hats, and then producer Joel back in the Auckland studios will keep taking everyone's calls until we fill up the entire 32 places in our sweepstake. And at the end of the tournament, someone's going to win $100. Yeah, and I, like FIFA, I'm open to bribes. I'll take, you know, coffee loyalty cards, 25 cents off a litre of petrol, any of those sorts of things. You can phone us now, 0800 THE HITS, and join us on New Zealand's Breakfast right now to join the illegal sweepstake.

Hayley, good morning. How are you? Oh, Sue, good morning. How are you? Oh, Sue, good morning. How are you? We told everyone we were going to go under pretend names. Just for legal reasons. Her real name, Hayley, she doesn't want to know that. Yeah, internal affairs starts to get, they get a bit niggly, don't they?

They start digging deep. But all right, Sue slash Hayley. Okay, so Joel's got a hat with the names of the teams playing in the FIFA World Cup in the studio. Do you want to pull out a name of a country for Sue, please, Joel? USA. USA is coming in at number one. Okay. Well done.

Well done, Sue slash Hayley. Do you know 50% of the world's population will watch the Football World Cup? It is massive. Four billion people will watch the Football World Cup. Wow. This morning, a bit of a shock loss too, if you haven't caught up with that one. Saudi Arabia beat Argentina,

one of the favourites, they thought, going into the tournament. There we go. Now do we have Hayley on the phone? Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hayley, if that's your real name. It's not your real name. Hayley, you there? Helen. Helen is on from line four.

Oh, Helen. Hi, Helen. Great on from line four. Oh, Helen. All right. Hi, Helen. Great to have you on. Now, Joel, I love you, bro. I love you. You're a great guy. But nowhere in this list is the name Helen or Sue.

No, you're right. I think it's two Haleys. It's two Haleys. So far we've had a Helen and a Sue. But I love it. I think more of the shambles in the Football World Cup is us. All right, Helen. Let's pull you out of team.

What have we got, Joel? France. That's actually a really big one as well. Oh, my. Well done. Nice work, Hayley, Helen, Sue, Herbie and Amos. We appreciate that. Good luck.

You could be winning $100 at the end of the tournament. Keep an eye on France. That is your team, all right? Right. Will do. Thank you. Good on you. And do you team, all right? Right, will do. Thank you. Good on you. And do you know, research has shown that if the host country holds the Football World Cup,

there's a baby boom. Everyone starts getting a bit thrusty after the games on the field. Yeah, it happened in Russia. I wouldn't imagine so much in Qatar because I think you can't have a baby out of wedlock over there. Don't be thrusting in Qatar. Maybe. Maybe there'll be a few more marriages over there. Maybe football's like an aphrodisiac, like a bunning sausage.

Let's do one more on the air, and then we'll keep the calls coming through on 0800THEHATS until you can get a team allocated an illegal sweepstake. All right, we'll continue on with our name rule. Jackson is coming to the line one. Jackson. Jackson, how are you, Jacko? Oh, yeah, you got it right. We're doing all right. Okay, Producer Joel, pull the name out of the hat, Jackson. Jackson, how are you, Jacko? No, I ain't got it right. We're doing all right.

Okay, Producer Joel, pull a name out of the hat for Jackson. Tell him what country he's got to back in the World Cup. Jackson's got Spain. That's actually quite a good one as well. A really good one. I'll take that one. And any team can win on the day. Argentina falling today, as you mentioned there, Ben Boyce.

Okay, so what we're going to do, if you'd like to enter our illegal sweepstake, if any payment is not followed through, we will be taking body parts. Nothing special, just like a finger or a thumb or a big toe or something. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, you were talking about a glass of milk with dinner. Yeah, well, that wasn't actually me.

Now, there's something making news at the moment. A lady in the UK went out on a date with someone, said he was a very good-looking guy. I felt like straight away, she's like, this guy looks great. I feel very compatible. They went to a restaurant, lovely restaurant, nice restaurant. She's like, everything is going great. And then a waiter came over and said, what would you like to drink?

How would you like to start off things? She started, I think, with a wine. And then he said, I would like a glass of milk Is she on the date with a toddler? She said yeah, nothing wrong with having a glass of milk But she's a kind of threw her in that situation and you know and a restaurant dining restaurant I would like a glass of milk. Yeah, no, I can understand how they would put you on it. This is a tinder date They had me before so that bit. Yeah, it met through online I'm not sure if it was t this a Tinder date? They hadn't met before. Yeah, so they met through online.

I'm not sure if it was Tinder or one of the other dating websites, but they decided to go out. She said everything was great, found him attractive, but just the fact that a grown man would go out and order a glass of milk, and it wasn't in a situation where, like, I'm going to be eating hot food, spicy food, or anything like that. It was just, like, a glass of milk. I can't honestly remember the last time I consumed a glass of milk.

Yeah, like I would drink it. It's not like it would make me, you know. But it's just an unusual thing to have it at restaurants. Now, we've got Harriet with us here from the Hits. If you went on a date with a guy, fine dining restaurant, you ordered a lovely vintage cab sav or something, he ordered a glass of milk with dinner, are you going back for a second date, Harry?

Absolutely not. No, the milk's a turn-off. It's a turn-off. The milk has gone sour. Particularly if it's just normal milk, like not even chocolate milk. Does the chocolate milk make it better, flavoured milk? Yeah, I reckon it would.

Who just has a glass of milk these days? Say what you want about the guy. He's got some strong bones, though. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Football World Cup on right now, and we're going to cross live to Qatar. A Kiwi living over there, Rachel Jackson-Lees. Good morning.

So nice to talk to you. I'm good, thank you. It's nice to hear your voice. Every morning we'd hear your voice. You did a wonderful job reading the news on the Hits in the mornings, and then you left us. You upped and left us. I'm in the middle of World Cup

madness now. Yeah. You realise you weren't married to Rachel, right? Was I not? She was a colleague. She did a wonderful job of reading news. And she's actually married. Now, listeners, the audience might not know this, you're actually married to Tom McRae. What the hell? The whole time she was

married to Tom McRae. He was on News Hub and then he got a job at Al Jazeera over there. And so you guys, you know, up sticks, move the family over there. The kids are over there going to school, and how's it going? Oh, it's really good, actually. You realise that kids are so resilient, and you throw at them a new country, completely different to anything they know.

You chuck them in a school they know absolutely no one. It's a different curriculum to what they were taught in New Zealand. Go about their day absolutely fine. It's adults are the ones that have more of a problem. We could all get on with it like kids do. Yeah, we do. We get rattled. Well, you've got to promise us one thing, that you're not over there reading news with the Middle East, Jono and Ben.

You promised you would only read news with us, Rachel. I promise. I'm absolutely not doing that. Now, the whole world's attention feels like it's on the Football World Cup, which is happening over there, and Qatar. Is that how we pronounce it? I need some Qatar lessons, literally, from you. So, yeah, because I read something the other day

that maybe we've been saying it wrong. Look, and do you know, it's said all sorts of different ways over here, just to confuse you even more. But I think the consensus from the locals is that it's more like Qatar. So we wouldn't say Qatar like you would in New Zealand. It would be more of Qatar. A lot of talk about the Football World Cup, in particular the Budweiser situation.

Sponsor of the tournament two days before they're told no booze in the stadiums at the football grounds. What's the feeling there? Yeah, and you know, there are a lot of controversies with this World Cup and to be honest, there's not a lot of talk about them when you're here. The local media certainly don't report

it. I mean, everybody, there's such a large expat community here, so we're aware of what the world is saying. But the one issue that they do really delve into here is the alcohol, as you say. And while the Western countries might be reporting, you know, the outrage that they could do this return just two days before the tournament began

and suddenly say, nope, there's no beer to be sold at any of these stadiums, people here are celebrating. I mean, there's absolute joy. They don't mind that this happened just two days before. They never wanted alcohol to be sold at these tournaments in the first place. It is just not part of the culture here,

and people are celebrating. Because am I right in saying it's an offence to drink alcohol in a public place over there, right? Yes, and to be drunk. So if you're found drunk on the main road, you can go to prison for up to six months for that as well. You can't drink alcohol in a public place. So alcohol is strictly controlled here.

So if you were to come and visit Qatar, you would only be able to get alcohol at a hotel. So there's not lines of bars and restaurants like you would find in New Zealand, for example. There is nowhere obvious that you can see alcohol anywhere. So the only place you can get a drink is in a bar, which is within a hotel. So therefore, it's concealed from public view. The only other way you can get it if you live here, firstly, you have to become a resident, which we recently have, and that's a whole process in itself.

But then once you're a resident, you have to apply for a permit if you want to visit the one alcohol shop that they have in the country. And you guys will be fascinated by this, but you have to get permission from your employer. So you mentioned my husband. He had to go to Al Jazeera and say, can I please have a letter, could you please give me permission to go and get this permit, which they granted him. So they have a letter, could you please give me permission to go and get this permit, which they granted him.

So they write a letter, he takes it along to the alcohol shop, he pays an annual fee and he gets granted a permit. For him to actually buy any alcohol, he has to go in there, it's not advertised, you don't know how much anything's going to cost until you get there. When you buy what you want, it has to be concealed from public view. So you cannot show this anywhere when you leave. The consumption of it has to take place at the purchaser's house. So you can't go to a friend's house and have a beer.

You have to drink this at your own house only. It's absolutely forbidden if you give away some of your alcohol. You can't give it to a mate. You certainly can't sell it to a mate. And to even get this in the first place, you've got to make an appointment. So you get a 15-minute window to arrive. If you miss that window,

well, then you've got to go back and make an extra appointment. That might be in another week's time. Oh, my God. Well, what do they do then if they can't binge drink and make bad decisions? What are they doing over there? Well, I mean, you know, it's their culture. Yes, exactly.

And I guess probably the question mark hangs over how did it get so far down the track that Budweiser was associated and told they could put alcohol on the grounds. That's probably the big question mark. So there's obviously a lot of money floating around. So what I will say, there's so much money floating around. I mean, this is the most expensive World Cup in history. It's estimated to have cost $220 billion US.

So what you get for that is seven brand-new stadiums with cooling systems, a brand-new underground train system, which connects all of those stadiums. You've got the five-star hotels, new roads, new motorway systems. They've upgraded their airport, which resulted in it being voted the world's best airport.

And an entire new suburb. I mean, where this World Cup final will be held, there's an 80,000-seat stadium that's built there. Apparently that was just sand 10 years ago. Now it's an entire suburb. You've got theme parks, you've got golf courses, you've got the five-star hotels. I mean, Doha has had a complete transformation all for this four weeks.

Wow, geez, there you go. No supply chain issue over there, obviously. Well done them, well done them. And how... Whip down to the local Bunnings Warehouse, Joe. And quickly, how hot is it? Like, are we talking 40-plus degrees at the moment? Oh, when we first got here in July,

it was in the 40s every day, and you just don't go outside. I mean, you can't. But at the moment, it's dropped, and when I say dropped, it's around 30 degrees every day, which is really nice. Oh, Rachel Jackson-Lees, lovely to hear your voice again.

It sounds like you're having an amazing time over there and enjoy the Football World Cup. Thank you so much. So good to chat. We're in the middle of the Bunnings Warehouse, a tour of New Zealand, going to every single Bunnings Warehouse in the country, all 41,

and eating a sausage. And here's some of the highlights and lowlights so far. The CQDs, what do the CQDs do? 13 to 18 years old. Sailing, drill, marksmanship, seamanship, first aid. Can you kill a man? No comment. That means they could kill a man, Ben.

What have you just done, Ben? Oh, well, i wanted to give back to the community and made a donation and oh fifty dollars give it up for ben ladies and gentlemen sausage number eight chris mack for 660 for us a week treat yep i uh found this hot sauce in my fridge no idea how hot it is for the next hours, it felt like my lips wanted to divorce my face. And B, we ran into at Constellation Drive,

Bunnings Warehouse. We're just going to name items, you've got to tell us what aisle they're in. Water blasters. Aisle 20. Paintbrush. Aisle 14.

I need a leaf blower. 21. You want to buy me two? I'm free. Here we go. It's been fun so far. Really enjoying it at Mount Maunganui

this morning. Come down to the Bunnings Warehouse. They've got the sausage sizzle going. It's right by the trade entrance, so just past the

main entrance this morning. Come down and donate this morning. Wonderful organisation. Kids Need Dads is benefiting this morning from the sausage sizzle

as all the community groups do around the country. Also, there's candy floss on offer. There's popcorn. You've got sausages, candy floss, popcorn, vital ingredients of the food pyramid. Nutritious breakfast, I think that's what they call it. Hey, one of my favourite things so far on the sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand

was you getting dragged up to dance yesterday. Now, we had an amazing, amazing Cook Island cultural group. I know, I know. Yeah, yeah, they were good. And I got pulled up. I got pulled up as a 41-year-old white man, not a safe place bed, not a safe place dancing in front of... I won't even dance in a nightclub at midnight in the darkness.

You won't? You won't even do it? No, but I got pulled up. Now, the thing is, they said, we're going to drag up one of you to dance before I even had the chance. Before I even took a breath, you were like, he'll do it! He'll do it! And you didn't even put yourself,

you weren't even in the mix. Then, oh, geez, I enjoyed it. This was the moment that Jono was up there. Jono is in the middle of being dragged up there with the Cook Island Cultural Group right now. He's wiggling his hips. His hips, well, unlike Shakira, his hips are definitely lying. Oh my goodness. What did I just witness from you? Like... Magic Mike step aside.

It was tragic Mike, that's for sure. How did you feel in front of everyone? Not your happy place? I think at least half a dozen people have just fallen pregnant with those pelvic thrusts you just saw there being, boys. John O'Brien, not in his happy place. I felt like a politician. You know, they get dragged on stage at APEC and they simultaneously embarrass their country and create a meme.

You look like Joe Biden out there, mate. You're very shaky out there in that situation. I was like, is there a way to end it now? Because that's all I see. So, okay, I couldn't see what I was doing in my head. I knew it was bad, but on a scale of Cardi B doing WAP to David Seymour twerking. Like is there one past David Seymour twerking. Is there one past David Seymour twerking? Past Seymour twerking?

Is there another option past that? Another thing as well, you love revving up the crowds, don't you? Every time we talk to someone, you love a... A hype man. Yeah, you're like a hype man. But who creates no hype? No. And this was yesterday.

I think we were talking to the Scouts, weren't we? We're here at the Bunnings Takanini store, and the Papakura Sea Scouts are here. How are your kids going today, all right? Yeah. Yeah, good. We'll get a bigger reaction there. How are the kids going?

Good. That was the same reaction. Take three. How are the kids going? Good. They're good. They're good. They gave you the answer the same way. They were. How are the kids going? They're good. They're good. They gave you the answer the same way.

They were like, why does this guy keep, like he's got Alzheimer's? Why does this guy keep asking us the same thing? Just juicing up the crowd, eh? But at no time did they get any more excited. Good, okay. I'll try. I know, sorry Matt Anderson, our boss is going to hate this, but I'm going to yell. All right, Bunnings, what do you want to say?

He's still got the magic touch. If you want a hype guy who gets a smattering of response, then. Hang on, the phone's just ringing. What, Friday Jams next year, Fat Man Scoop? Instead of Fat, yeah, he can do it. Yeah, no worries. He can be your hype man. That'll be great.

I'll put him down. 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 or play on to win more. It is our game of word association. We play it

every morning at this time on The Hits. You match all five words, you win $5,000, but you can stop at any stage and take some money as we go. Yeah, I mean, the only winning to be done out of a hardware store on radio at the moment, but yeah, unless McCormick's sitting in the outdoor furniture section of some competing hardware outlet.

Oh, safe to say we're the only one doing it, Ben Boyce. We're going to head to Invercargill this morning and joining us from the Deep South is Lisa. How are you? Hi, I'm good, thanks. How are you? Yeah, good. What are you doing in Inver's lease? I'm a sales rep. Oh are you? Yeah, good. What are you doing in this lease? I'm a sales rep. Oh, you're selling stuff?

Yeah. There we go. Great follow-up question. Good banter from me, eh? What do you sell? Courier product. What's that? Courier.

Oh, yeah, all right. Because the more suspicious you're getting, the more I'm thinking, is she selling me? What's she doing? All right, Lisa. Okay, who do you want to send away? I reckon you want to send John away after all these comments. But it's up to you, John or Ben.

I've already done it twice. You didn't help me, Ben. Neither did Juliet. And so we'll go back and just put it with Terence. This is your third time playing. All right, John. Desperate times, eh? He can head away.

He can go away just around the corner of the hardware section of the Bunnings Warehouse this morning, and we'll roll into the words. Here we go. I think Producer Humphrey's chosen words that may be related to hardware stores and what we're doing on our Sausage Sizzle Tour. Generally, he's given me a sort of general sort of,

yeah, nod along. Here's your first word this morning. Mount. Mount. Now, do you know where we are? Because I'm thinking that's what he's thinking. Yeah, but I'm not, Bill. Oh, but we're in Mount Maunganui.

So I don't know if that's what he was angling for. I don't know if that's what Johnna will say, but there's lots of other mounts as well. So I'm not trying to influence you there. First word is mount. Let's go Maunganui. All right. I hope I'm not trying to influence you there. First word is mount. Let's go monganoi. All right. I hope I haven't put you crook there. All right.

Second word is DI. DI. What? Oh, no. DI. Is he thinking D-I-C? Oh, DIY. DIY.

DIY. There you go. Sorry, I can't hear. I'm in Bluetooth. That's all right. DIY. That was a good option. Community is the third word. Community.

It's tricky, aren't they? It's bloody, bloody tricky trying to theme them. Get them every other time I'm staying in the car. Sorry, Lace. I honestly have no idea what to say. Let's come back to that one. Or you can influence me. Okay, well, yeah.

Community, I don't know, group, community, barber, community, service. I don't know where anyone's doing that today. I'm sure they will be around the country. Oh, we'll come back to that one. You ever think of that? Yeah. Power.

P-O-W-E-R, power. Power tool. Power tool. No S, right? And wood. Wood is the final one. W-O-O-D. Wood. I'm just going to say chopper. Wood chopper? Yeah. Is that what you said? Chopper? Wood chopper?

Yeah. And let's link back now to community. Community. What do you want to say? Barbecue. Barbecue. Community, what do you want to say? Barbecue. Community barbecue. All right. There's some tricky words this morning here. We'll bring Jono back around from behind the 4x2s.

Just talking to Lynn there. We're having a chat. So many road cones out there in Tauranga. Oh, you love Tauranga. Little is road cones. Anyway, that means there's some work going on. That's a good thing. That's positive stuff.

And you want to put some words out of my gorgeous mouth there, Elise? She does. She does. There were some tricky, tricky words this morning. Producer Humphrey, you've got to look cute with the words. Tried to theme them a bit and we got into some interesting places. But anyway, let's head into it right now and see if we can match some words. Word one, $25.

Coming to you this morning from Bunnings Warehouse as well, so that's kind of, anyway. Mount was the first word. Whanganui. Yay, there we go. Yeah, well done. $25, Lise, what do you want to do? You want to go to the next word for $50?

Oh, yes, let's go. All right. Word two, $50. D-I is the word. D-I? D-I. D-I? I know.

D-I-C? D-I... Oh! What was it? D-I-Y. Of course. We're in a bunnings, you idiot, Jono. Yeah.

We're not driving drunk from a Bunnings, mate. I'm drunk on sausages. I'm sorry, Lisa. That was a shambles. They were tricky words. DIY was it. Community. Community was the next one.

Community service. Yeah. After your DIY. Power. Power tool. Yeah, well done. And wood. W-O-O-D.

Wood chopper. Hey, well, you pulled it back in the end, but those tricky words in the middle where Producer Humphrey's trying to get cute, and it didn't quite work out. You are cute. You're still cute to me, Bee Hubs. Hey, Lisa, you're still cute to us as well. Love your work.

I'll tell you what we're going to do for you, Lisa. What's that? We're going to send you out a Bunnings straw hat. Oh, God. I was adding on that. Everyone around going, oh, how are we going to send that out? You know what we're going to send you out a Bunnings straw hat. Oh, God. I was adding on that. Everyone around going, oh, how are we going to set that up? You know what I'm going to do? A Bunnings straw hat and a Bunnings poncho as well.

Okay, Lisa, we're going to get you. We might send you out a voucher, baby. It might be easier to post, all right? John, I can buy it for you. And a Bunnings apron and a Bunnings visor. You're going to get a lot of Bunnings. You and your family are going to be dressed in Bunnings gear. I'm the family now she's stopped talking right now

Lisa you have yourself a great day thank you we're travelling around all of New Zealand from the top to the bottom of the country eating a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse store as we go today, this morning Mount Maunganui Bunnings. Come on down and see us.

We'll be here until 9 o'clock. Grab a sausage you can support. Kids need dads as well, which is a wonderful, wonderful cause. And I tell you what, it's a lot of sausage this morning, Ben. We're running an 8-inch sausage. That's a lot of inchage. A lot of it. Too much sausage for where we're at.

Yeah, totally. It'll be sausage number 19 we're about to eat shortly. And, yeah, with bread as well. With that eight inches, I'm going to count 19, 20, and 21. Those are the next three sausages. But anyway, you can come down. We've got candy floss on offer. We've got popcorn.

We've got us sitting in the trade section just talking to ourselves loudly. But, Ben, you've dragged me on many tours around this country. I have. Pulled me away. Kicking and screaming. Pulled me away from my family. The family actually text me. They're like, can you get him away?

It's getting on our nerves. So I come up with this thing. I'm like, oh, God, budding sausage, that'll do? That's all I could come up with on the spot. Elaborate plan. But one thing I have noticed is when we check into any motel or hotel, there's four of us on the road here, Harriet, Producer Humphrey, and us two.

Every hotel or motel we go to, we're put in rooms directly next to each other. They come as a package deal. Do you notice that? I have noticed that. I think Harriet and Producer Behemoth are on different floors. Different floors. But most of us are direct, and we always are.

It's almost like they think we have separation anxiety for each other, and we do. They're like those puppies, you know, they want to see the bees sleeping together, and you pull them apart, and then they go back and cuddle up. It's like that. It's a lovely touch. You know, I knock on the wall, say goodnight, and they're like... It's like Bert and Ernie. They can't sleep separately, but it's a...

What I do like doing is sneaking into a room, watching you sleep. Oh, nice. Just hearing you breathe. Cute little breath there. But, yeah, it's something that happens at every place I've noticed. I think it's, yeah. Do you hear me? Do you hear what I'm doing?

Oh, now and again I hear you fossing around. Do you? Do I fossing? Now and again. Do I? Now and again. But no more so than you probably hear someone else. So not stuff like you wouldn't report me flossicking?

No, if you hear sort of bottles clinking, I don't know what those are for, beer bottles. I don't know, maybe, I'm not sure. Just abusing myself to talk to myself. Do you hear all that stuff? No, not at all. But we continue on with the tour today. Yeah, we're at Mount Maunganui today.

Now, Producer Hartford, you know the list. Where are we heading today? We're heading to Tokoroa, then off to Whakatane, and then we go to Rotorua, and finally Taupo. And then we fly back to Auckland. Then back to Auckland, and then off to Gisborne. Don't you think about getting home prior because we're going to Gisborne. Then we go to Gisborne.

So tomorrow morning, Gisborne. I've never been to Gisborne, so I'm very excited about going to Gisborne. Never been before. Well, mate, you get excited because you're there, you're eating a sausage, and you're leaving. You're going to see the wonderful sights of Gizzy. Just reading so many scams have been taking place in New Zealand over the last three months. Nine million has been taken from unsuspecting victims in New Zealand. It's crazy, eh? Nine million over three months.

That is a lot of money. Prolific, the scammers at the moment. And you and your cheeky Ponzi schemes, you'd be responsible for six and a half of that mill, wouldn't you? But I am upsetting you, apparently, to be honest. Not me, you're upsetting the sausage squad, Ben. The team of travelling sausage enthusiasts as we make our way through New Zealand

having a sausage at every Bunnings. Because we're driving, a lot of driving the first three days. You know, driving through Northland, driving around Auckland, driving around the Coromandel. A lot of driving. Yeah. A lot of time in the car. Yeah, so what am I doing in the car to upset him? Well, you have a wonderful diet, a well-balanced diet.

Well, not this week. No, but you are balancing it out with fruits and vegetables and produce, which is good. Well done. I'm trying to, in between the sausages, I'm trying to eat like a bit of fruit just to level things out for me. I'm not. I'm just hoping at the end of seven days I produce one giant sausage.

That's what's going to emerge. Just a 20 metres sausage. Well you see how many anyway, let's not talk about how sausage. Well, you see how many... Anyway, let's not talk about how many. Anyway. So, Ben, you are consuming fruit, which is great. Your fruit consumption is great.

That's not the issue. My problem is what you're doing with it afterwards. And I have evidence A. If I could present this to the court. Boys, OK? I'd like you to explain something. What's up? Ben, boys.

Yeah? What is this? Is this you? Is this you again leaving your produce? This is my fruit intake. Well, I'll put it in the bin, but sometimes I do forget. But I will put it in the bin. That's my... All the time you do forget. In between sausages, I'm having some fruit intake. He leaves his fruit in there. It'll be there at the end of the day, I promise. We'll see. We'll see.

There you go. Banana peels, strawberry stalks, apple cores. He leaves them in the door handle. And this is not new. You're not just doing this. You've done it in my car. Yeah. And you make the vehicle a travelling compost heap. It's not just us on the tour.

It's us and a family of fruit flies because he doesn't remove the fruit scrap. I do remember. You do? Yesterday I went a couple of times and got rid of the stuff. But I have, yes, I'll put my hand up and say say in the past I have forgotten and left some fruit in your door. Well, you know, like banana peels. Multiple times. Multiple times.

Yeah, okay. And then I'll find a rotty. I don't want to just throw them out, but yeah, okay. So this is what I want to open up this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast 0800, the hits. What winds you up while you're driving? Okay. Doesn't necessarily have to be passenger related can be other motorists as well a big bugbear uh for many people and and for me as

well as when you let someone in and they don't give you the finger off the steering wheel just the acknowledging something hey sometimes people put the little hazard lights on or they flash the lights and that's nice yeah just muster up the strength to lift a finger off a steering wheel and you make people's day. Do you know what annoys me when I'm driving is when someone slows down and they're looking for something. They're looking for a house, they're looking for a car, but they're not indicating. And you're kind of

like, do I go around you? Do I, what are you, you've slid right down, you're kind of creeping along and then they go ahead and you're like, what are you doing? Just do, tell me what you're doing. Can I go around you? Can I not? It's a really awkward situation. That winds me up. Okay.

That's when Joe Biden's driving in front of you. So 0800, that's the number, 4487. What winds you up while you're driving? What drives you crazy? What's driving you crazy? I didn't think of that. That's great. What's driving you crazy?

You can text us too. Thank you, Producer Joe. 4487. My major fear is that I'm probably going to end up doing about 10 of these things. So give us a call now. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Justin Timberlake, 817. Jono and Ben with you, coming to you from Bunnings Warehouse in Mount Maunganui.

Come down and see us. We're here until 9 o'clock this morning. Just by the trade section, there's sausages raising money this morning for Kids Need Dads. But I've been upsetting everyone as we head around the country trying to eat a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse by leaving my fruit. My leftover fruit in the door. I do get rid of it eventually, but sometimes

I have been known to forget. He likes to say, I get rid of it. I've never once seen him get rid of it. I've never once seen him dispose of it. When do you take it? When do you do get rid of it? You're asleep every time. You're always sneezing in the back of the car. That's a bugbear for the other. I do, I am, so they call me Sleepy Jono. As soon as the car starts moving, I'm like a baby.

Yesterday, you were on the move. You just asked a question to Producer B, and you were in conversation, and then he was like, get a photo of Jono sleeping. I was like, oh, he's sleeping. He was just in conversation like 10 seconds earlier. You're like, he's very, very sleepy. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

That's one of my superpowers, is I can go to sleep at the drop of a hat. So we're going to go to the phones on 0800, the hits this morning. What's driving you crazy? We'll kick things off with Brooke. We understand it's your fiancé. Brooke, what's he doing? Yeah, oh, you know how some people have energy drink addictions? Yeah.

Yeah, mine's got one of drinking them and throwing them either on the floor of the front seat of the car or everywhere else in the car except the bin. Is he pounding back the monsters, is he? Oh, I think they are, yeah, the gold ones. Oh, the gold ones, yeah. So people are leaving their empty cans in the footwell. It's a four-door car and we have three children and currently the only person that can occupy that vehicle is him It's a four-door car, and we have three children,

and currently the only person that can occupy that vehicle is him because there is no room for children or myself. Oh, so it's just full of, like... You're like a travelling recycling bin. It is literally a travelling recycling bin. There's backpacks full of... There's rubbish bags full of cans. There's backpacks full of cans. There's just cans everywhere.

I hate to say there's an option, but I won't point it out. He needs to take them out. What's his name? Name and shame. Braden. You and your Guarana-fuelled body need to empty that car out. Brooke, you go and have a wonderful day. Thanks for listening.

You too, thank you. Cheers. We'll go to Douglas. Welcome. You're on the show, Douglas. What's driving you crazy, mate? When I'm on the road and you're running late for somewhere and then you get stuck behind a car that's going way too slow for speed, you're actually going.

Yes, I know what you're saying. And then sometimes you get to that passing lane situation and you've got to go past them and then all of a sudden they speed up. You're like, where was this? And why are you doing this? Now you're having to do 220 just to pass them. We're not in the work car, we're not, that's for sure.

Yeah, that has come through multiple times on the text machine. Someone says when anyone yells at me I just smile and wave and it really takes the wind out of the situation. Ben Boyce, a lot of texts about horn usage now i know you are very anxious about even sounding the horn i don't like sounding the

horn you and my wife both like to lean over and tweet the horn when i'm in the car because i refuse to use you would like different modes of the horn because you you think that there's just goes from zero to a hundred it's aggressive i just want a nice friendly one you know just hey no so you know the lights are going green. That's what I want, but yeah. What I love doing is just as soon as the lights go green and I'm behind a car, just bang! Not even a second later.

Straight away like a buzzer in a game show. Get them moving. Well, let's get Gareth on. Welcome. Gareth, what's driving you crazy? Hey, mate. How are you guys going? Yeah, good.

Hi, it's our mate Gareth. How's things? Yeah, not Hi, it's our mate Gareth, how's things? Yeah, not too bad, not too bad Yeah, well, driving along the motorway You've got someone behind you Cruising at the right speed And then they undertake you Pull in front of you

And then they slow right down to under the speed Yes Why don't you just stay in one lane? Just stay in one lane I feel like you'll get a live demonstration of this Are you walking down the motorway right now Gareth Pretty much

We're in the eye of the storm Oh Gareth Thank you very much That's another good one Many texts coming through on 4487 Another one here My words are too outrageous for radio, but when people don't pull over and merge properly.

Merging like a zip is a huge bugbear. There's always someone that guns it and puts two cars in front where it should only be one. You know what I hate? I hate those lights at the beginning of the motorway. Oh, you're always like, they're a waste of time. You just power on through them. I do. What is the point of them? That's to keep the traffic flowing at the beginning of the motorway. Oh, you always like, they're a waste of time. You just power on through them. I do.

What is the point of them? That's to keep the traffic flowing at the same thing. I just, I don't think I'll get it. Otherwise it clogs up later. Yeah, never once waited for one. Boom. Straight through the reds. Get on that motorway.

They are just holding up people unnecessarily. But then you're holding up people later because you're not letting it all flow. Other people are letting it flow. I can't be bothered letting it flow. I've got places to be, mate. I've got sausages to eat. Oh, jeez. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Matt and Sarah Brown, they started a wonderful movement, She Is Not Your Rehab, essentially getting men to treat women better. Yeah. Matt Brown joins us on the phone this morning. Kia ora, Matt. Kia ora, brothers. Thank you for having me. Wonderful New Zeal yeah. Matt Brown joins us on the phone this morning. Kia ora, Matt. Kia ora, brothers. Thank you for having me.

Wonderful New Zealander, Matt Brown. Yeah, you guys do such an amazing work. It was probably about a year ago where you guys kind of blew up

worldwide with Dwayne the Rock Johnson. How did that all come about? We worked in the family violence sector, prevention of family violence, and he had an idea one morning

and wanted to write a letter to the Rock using our son, Angelo, who was five at the time. And the whole point of that was just to engage in our Pacific Polynesian community. So we got Angelo to write a letter to The Rock using his voice, and we filmed it. And Dwayne responded back, which was a surprise,

which was a shock to me really, because I thought he'd been mired by him, responded to it. I suppose after having 10,000 people tag you on our post, responded back which was a surprise, which was a shock to me really because I thought he'd been mish-bound, responded it. I suppose after having 10,000 people tag you on our post, I was like I'd better respond or I'm going to look like an idiot. You guys have stuffed up my algorithms here. It was incredible, he responded and we were lucky enough to go catch up with The Rock a couple of weeks ago and we got a question from Angelo to play through him again and

it was amazing, he remembered your movement and talked about everything it was yeah it was awesome oh yeah yeah thank you so much that means so much to us especially to my family just watching that your interview was hilarious like Ben said it was amazing that he remembered all the details of the interaction with you guys and you do do such a wonderful job and it started with conversations in your barber shop yes just talking to men and now being a massive advocate for mental health. You know, a lot of men, we don't have many spaces where men can go and talk. And, you know, the one thing about the barber shop is, you know,

there's a slight vulnerability to it. You're walking into this place and trusting the stylist or the hairdresser or barber to really make you look good. You're giving them power. So in a sense, there's a bit of vulnerability there. But, you know, when men trust you with the outer appearance, they soon start talking and opening up. I've learned through the barber chair that we are so more alike

than we are different. That's awesome. You've cut a whole lot of famous peoples here as well. Everyone from All Blacks to Wu-Tang Clan. Yeah, it's been cool, bro. Never thought that barbering would take me all around the world and cut, you know, such celebrities. But, you know, the biggest treasure is cutting the men in my neighbourhood

and hearing their stories. It's such a pleasure. So you're teaming up with White Ribbon. You've got a wonderful activation that you're doing. Tell us about that. Yes, so every year we do a White Ribbon Day campaign, which is the international prevention of violence towards our women. This year we decided to do something creative,

which we've collaborated with a famous Maori artist, activist, artist named Mr D, who is from Tauranga Moana. He's a graffiti artist. We put the submission out on our socials, posing a question to all men around the world. If she is not your rehab, then who is she? And we've just had thousands, thousands of men respond and telling us who the women in their lives are,

their partners, their daughters, their mums. And these men have all submitted one word. And to back up this one word, they've submitted a hundred words of why this woman is that word. One of the most popular words that was submitted was home. She is home. And so what Mr. G has done, he's famous for crossing out words. So he's crossed out not your rehab. And on top of that, he's put the positive adjective of what the woman is, of who the

woman is. That's awesome. A lot of people have submitted their words, even All Black Roger Tuivasa-Sheik, Tikitane, a musician as well, Kaskadier, Francis Tipeney. I understand a lot of people even incarcerated as well. Yes, so we've chosen to take 20% of the

submissions from men incarcerated. It's just been beautiful. The words are so beautiful. Some of them I've read and I've sat there just crying because this is a side of me that I, as a barber, am privileged to see and witness. And now I want the world to see this side of me, you know? What do you think, if you were to nail it down to one thing, we can do better to help solve this problem? We need to be courageous in having these conversations.

I always encourage the men that sit in my chair, the most courageous thing we can ever do is own our story, or we will forever be standing outside of our story, hustling for our work. When we can engage in our story and be courageous in having these conversations without having a substance in front of us or a beer, that it's all right to talk and share your feelings. You raise an interesting point there too about doing it without a beer or a substance in

front of you, where it has actually been at the core of a lot of Kiwi culture, hasn't it? Definitely. And I think they cause domestic violence, having a beer in front of you. So people want to see this work as part of the White Ribbon campaign this year. How can they do that? Yes, so we're opening up the art gallery down here in Christchurch

to exhibit all the art, the 100 pieces of art that's here in the CBD in Christchurch called the She's Not Your Rehab Art Gallery. That seems awesome, poetry, photography, art,

a little bit of a documentary as well. You guys, as Jono said before, you and your wife Sarah are doing amazing work. Matt, thank you for sharing with us again what you're doing

and keep up the great work. Awesome. Thank you, brothers. Appreciate you guys. The us again what you're doing and keep up the great work. Awesome. Thank you, brothers. Appreciate you guys. We're on the Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand, heading around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. From the top to the bottom, we're going to be done on Sunday. Well, we're meant

to be done on Sunday. 41 stores, 41 sausages, but my eye. Eye update. Yeah, no, we have brought you... Rolling eye cover. Eyewitness news coverage of my eye. In the eye of the storm. This is what happened is Ben turned up on Sunday and all of us went, oh. Yeah. What happened last night that gave you such a pink, hue-ish look on your eye?

I've got, yeah, like a really red bloodshot eye. Just on one corner. It's pretty much the whole corner of my eye is all red. It was on Sunday when we turned up the first thing. You know when you turn up with something, you're like, I hope no one notices it, but you know that everyone you talk to notices it. I can't stop staring at it. Everyone looks at it.

You can tell. I can tell the moments that people notice it. They'll be chatting away, and then they'll look at it. And in their head, they're like, oh, oh, that's why it's very red. Someone, a wonderful person came up yesterday and said, show me your pink eye. It's not as bad as you guys are saying, but you went to the doctor. Yeah. What did the doctor tell you?

She said. Burst blood vessel, which can happen. I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but I've just kind of got to ride it out. And she said it's going to go yellow. Your eyeball's going to go yellow before it gets better. What do you feel like? Eye update today. what do you think? Is it getting better or worse, or just about the same?

It's... No, it's about the same. Now, as someone who's had their own eye issues over the years, conjunctivitis. I've had many wild rides with conjunctivitis. I don't even know how I got it, but we were interviewing the Prime Minister one time, and she told

me off for not completing my full course of antibiotics. Antibiotics, yeah. I went roasting from Jacinda. She's like, if they gave you antibiotics, you've got to finish the full course. And I had gunky eyes talking to the Prime Minister. You could tell she was kind of keeping her distance. My eyes were glued shut. Well, yesterday I thought I should get some sunglasses,

because I don't have some sunglasses at the moment. I thought maybe it would help protect my eye. We're travelling in the car for a while. So I went in. We had a couple of minutes. I went into a sung some sunglasses at the moment. I thought maybe it would help protect my eye. We're traveling in the car for a while. So I went in. We had a couple of minutes. I went into a sunglass shop along the country. It was in Whangamata. Yeah, it was.

Oh, no, this was actually another one I popped into. How much secret sunglass shopping are you doing? Well, I went to another one, and I had a look inside. And the lady in the store was trying to, I noticed the sunglasses. They're really cool. And she's like, they're David Beckham sunglasses. I was like, ooh, okay, David Beckham. David Beckham. She's like, they're David Beckham sunglasses. I'm like, ooh, okay, David Beckham. David Beckham?

She's very fashionable. You know David Beckham? I'm like, yes. And then she said. David Beckham's personal sunglasses, personal range of sunglasses. Yeah, he's got his own range of sunglasses. And then she also said, you've kind of got a David Beckham haircut. Oh, here we go.

That was playing into my sweet spot. You're like, keep it on, lay it on thick. And I put them on and I was like, ooh, these are, you know, I could be like a David Beckham, maybe no sugar version or something, like a light version that no one wants. 0% David Beckham. Would you still take 10 mil from Qatar? You know my morals. You know my morals.

Would you ignore their beliefs and take 10 mil from Qatar? Let's just say right now, I'm looking at these David Beckham sunglasses, I'm like, they're really cool. She's like, oh, yeah, David Beckham, you can pull it off. And then I looked at the price tag and I was like, uh-oh,

they're like $270 sunglasses. Oh, ouch. And I'm like, any time... Well, you've got to pay the bucks to look like Beckham though, don't you?

No, no, but any time you buy something that's, even though I've never bought sunglasses that expensive, but even if I do buy sunglasses that are priced,

you end up losing them or sitting on them. That's why I just buy ones with flames down the side from the petrol station. So I was looking at them and I them i was like can i justify i don't think i can and then i saw out the corner of my good eye not the one with the redder another pair of sunglasses that look similar and i was like oh what are those and you could tell the lady go oh he spotted it

i hoped his gunky eye would stop him from spotting it but he spotted another pair of sunglasses they look very similar she's like well those ones you those ones, you know, they're like $60 sunglasses. Oh, you could feel the passion go out of your sales pitch. I bet you didn't look like Beckham then. I put them on and I was like, sold. These are great. Yeah. And you could tell, she was so close to making a David Beckham sale, but it wasn't to be.

Yeah. What did she call you once you put the sunglasses on? What did she say you looked like then? I don't know. She's like, oh, you lost it now, mate. Get out of here. All right, you and your golden balls go and have a great day. We're at Mount Maunganui Bunnings Warehouse in the middle of our sausage sizzle tour of

New Zealand, trying to eat a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse in the country, meeting a lot of great people. Yeah, lovely eight-inch sausages on offer today at Bunnings Mount Maunganui. And also a lot of candy floss as well. And Ben, you're saying one of the favourite things and the most enjoyable things you've witnessed this morning. The tradies, your big burly tradies coming along. And their face light up when they're like, we want some candy floss. Yes, they walk away with their little stick of candy floss.

And the hivers vest. That's so beautiful. Covered in tattoos. Hey, something else really cool yesterday. You loved it too. We were in Whangamata and they were having the big sort of all classic cars and hot rods were all there for beach hop, and we got to eat our sausage while this was going on.

Is this your happy place? It's good. So we've just had a big bogan-looking hot rod start up here, Ben, boys, which is a giant mobile blackboard. A lot of people are just drawing all over it with chalk. Oh, someone's written Bono and gene for us on there that was 28 dollars worth of petrol just then cost a living cost a living this segment brought you by the green party oh we've met some amazing people great community

groups as well no carbon emissions on that one. Wonderful. And also, I've taken it upon myself to be the travelling hype man for the tour, trying to hype up the crowds, get them juiced up, and it's working a treat, particularly with the scouts in Takanini. We're here at the Bunnings Takanini store, and the Papakura Sea Scouts are here. How are your kids going today, all right? Yeah, good. We'll get a bigger reaction there. How are your kids going today, all right? Yeah, good.

We'll get a bigger reaction there. How are the kids going? That was the same reaction. Take three. How are the kids going? Yeah, they're good. They're good. They gave you the answer the same way.

They were like, why does this guy keep, like he's got Alzheimer's? Why does this guy keep asking the same thing? That's the most excited you'll hear any New Zealander. We're off to eat sausage number 19, it is that.