Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Boys Health Is Not Looking..

Episode Date: November 24, 2022

We are on our Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of the country and we are live from Palmy North today!   Enjoy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

25th of November, Kia ora the podcast, Jono and Ben live from the Bunnings, Palmerston North and jeez Ben, they've turned out in force this morning. We've had lots of people come down and visit us in the lifestyle section, we've been sitting under a piccola unnecessarily under a piccola because we're not outside, but it's quite nice. But just in case the elements got inside, don't you worry about us, we'll be fine. What was your name mate? Jaden. Jaden, you've come down, you're a pretty trendy looking guy Jaden, isn't he? Isn't he, isn't he, I know. Now Jaden,, mate? Jaden. Jaden, you've come down. Bloody trendy looking guy, Jaden, isn't he?

I know. Jaden, tell us something about you. I'm a master's student at Massey University. What are you studying? Marketing. How would you market our show better? What could we do? Put me on the spot here. We have. As a marketing

idea, this going around every store in New Zealand eating a sausage, how does that sit? Where would that go? It's definitely great exposure and great awareness and great community engagement. Right, so we're ticking a few boxes. Bunnings are winning out of it. The community's winning out of it.

Exposure marketing. It's good. I like that. Okay, now how would you rebrand a couple of old dogs that have been doing their job for a while, battling away? They need a bit of a refresh halfway through the career. What's going on? Three quarters of the way through.

You guys are doing a good job already. Maybe that's the next Billboard campaign. We're doing a good job already. Yeah, we're hanging in there. Yeah, nice. And so what are you going to do when you finish here? Are you going to be marketing bloody Coca-Cola? What's going on?

Not too sure yet, but I've still got a year to go. So, yeah, still a bit of time to think about that. Good. Well, lovely to meet you, mate. Lovely to meet you. Thank you for coming down. How would you market our podcast? Because that's actually, that's something about what are we...

That's too tough. He needs another year of study before he can answer that one. We're 192 on the charts, baby. Yeah, come see me in another year. Yeah, that one, I don't know. That could answer that one. We're 192 on the charts baby. Yeah come see me in another year. Yeah that one I don't know. That's a tough one. Now producer Joel

Black Friday you're rambling on about four boxes of scorched almonds for $19 today. Have you seen any other bargains? I haven't actually I

haven't. I just bought some Birkenstocks recently and I kind of realised. You've been talking about those for a while.

Yeah I've actually been wearing them it's toes out Friday today as well it's the theme in the office. But yeah I bought some and I realised I probably could have got a while. Yeah, I've actually been wearing them. It's Toes Out Friday today as well. It's the theme in the office. But yeah, I bought some, and I realised I probably could have got a way better deal

if I had waited 24 hours, but that's all right, you know? Yeah, they wouldn't come cheap on me. I haven't got a pair, but I imagine they're not cheap, the old Birkenstocks. I know that you like to theme a Friday dress at work. We're not there with you, but we've got a few items, luckily, from Bunnings, and their merch game is incredible,

so we want to do a Bunnings Friday dress you need to work on the name we'll do it on Monday we'll call it Bunday we'll dress up like Bunnings we've got everything

mate we're coming back with Bunnings gear we're all going to be dressed in Bunnings gear for the next 10 years beanies hats

straws haven't got a beanie yet jandals we've got jandals netballs we've got netballs we've got rugby balls we've got t-shirts we't got a beanie yet. No. Jandals? We've got jandals. Netballs? We've got netballs. We've got rugby balls. We've got t-shirts. We've got a straw hat.

We've got a cap. Two caps. Mate, you've got greedy. Look at you. I have got greedy. You've got a stomach ulcer as well, don't you? Yeah. We'll enjoy the podcast. We'll go off and eat another sausage. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. It's a Friday morning. It's a good feeling and we've made it all the way to Palmerston North

on our Bunnings Warehouse tour of the country. And here's some of the action that happened yesterday. So you've got up early for us. You've dragged your 16-year-old son out of bed. Totally. He's pums about it. How pums are you, mate? Not very pums.

The wonderful Caroline said running Gisborne wears gumboots, so we've put gumboots on. But no one else is wearing gumboots. She gave you a bum stare there. Yeah. This is Cale. Cale said, I've got a joke for you, roll up, get recording. What do you call a brick and can opener?

What? A can opener. What tear you over the Whakatane men's shed? A bunch of retired guys getting together, doing lots of work for the community. Restoration of chairs. Can you restore my face? Is there anything you could do?

Put through sander and repaint and touch up. There's a bit of filler at the top there. We're here with Sapphire. How old are you, Sapphire? Five. You gave us a lovely present. Reindeer poo. Did you make these?

Yep. Or did you pick these up from a reindeer's bottom? No! And we saw your car. Oh, you saw a car. Did you key it? Yep. Oh, little Sapphire. We've met some wonderful people along the way,

Ben Boyce, travelling and traversing this sausage-y country of ours. But yeah, right now, we're 29 sausages deep. There's 29 sausages in our system. There are 29s to come. Yeah, you're 28 28 but this is 29 don't get ahead of yourself

I was trying to skip a head one sausage but we've jammed kiwi crush into us metamucil, laxative nothing is happening we haven't quite gone that far have you got commercial grade laxatives here at Bunnings

what are all of those in I'll take a whole packet and nothing is happening Have you got commercial-grade laxatives here at Bunnings? What are all of those in? I'll take a whole packet and nothing is happening. But anyway. Yeah, well, I actually wanted to quickly see if you could remember, in order, the places that we've been. Because we've been to 28 Bunnings in different places around the country. Let's see if you can fire through and go in order.

Because I forget. Someone's like, where were you yesterday? I'm like, I don't remember. It's been a blur. I think I'll go well in the kindergarten stage of the sausages, the early stage. Intermediate high school, I think I'll lose it, and then hopefully come back in with university graduation sausage. Okay, so we started on Sunday. Let's just go real quickly.

We went to Mangawhai. Brand new store opened up there. Then we went to Whangarei. Yes. Then we dotted up and saw the lovely people of Kaikohe. Yes. And then we said, hey, thanks for having us.

We'll go to Kitty Kitty now. Yeah, well done. Called it a day. A day two. Started where? Monday morning, we woke up and went to Bunnings Silverdale. Yeah.

Then we dotted to Bunnings Glenfield. Well done. Bunnings Constellation Drive. Oh, very good. Then we said, thanks Constellation Drive, we're going to head over

to Bunnings Grey Lynn now and have a sausage. We did. Then we said, let's go out west, guys. What's happening out west? Yeah, we did. And then we went, I get a bit lost here, to head over to Bunnings Grey Lynn now and have a sausage. We did. Then we said, let's go out west, guys. What's happening out west? Yeah, we did. And then we went, I get a bit lost here, did we go to Bunnings New

Bunnings Westgate? Oh, I'll give you that one. Yeah, Bunnings Westgate, then we went to Bunnings New Lynn, then we went to Bunnings Mount Roskill, then we went to Bunnings Mount Wellington, then we wrapped up the day in Bunnings Botany. You're doing really well. Okay, then what was next? Day two, we woke up Bunnings, Monaco. Then we went to Bunnings, Takanini.

And then we went to Bunnings, Whangamata. Dotted over, did two stores in Hamilton. Oh, very nice. After Hamilton, we went over and stayed the night in Tauranga. Wonderful evening in Tauranga. Woke up, went to Bunnings, Mount Maunganui. For a guy who's slept this whole way through the journey, you've remembered a lot of places.

Now, I get a bit shaky around here. Was it Bunnings, Whakatane? No, but they're dipped out there. It was Tokerau, then Whakatane, and then we carried on our way. All the way, yeah, there's still a few more places to go, but we've got all the way to store number 29 this morning, which is Pampas and North. Yeah, come along, see us, have a sausage.

We're hanging out in the lifestyle section at the moment. Yeah, we're under begola. Is it a begola? Yeah, it's like a begola. So we're protected from the elements in here, which is wonderful because it is raining outside. So, yeah, come along and see us in the lifestyle section. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The Football World Cup going on in Qatar at the moment, and we spoke to Rachel Jackson-Lees. She used to read the news for us in the morning. Don't start speaking yet, Rachel Jackson-Lees. You just hold your turn. We're talking about alcohol consumption over there because it's not something that is done very regularly. You have to do it in places that are allowed.

You're not allowed to do it in the stadiums. Yeah, the officials pulled out of the Budweiser deal to have Budweiser in the stadiums two days before the tournament started. And they're elated over there, according to Rachel. An 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 that 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. And there's only one alcohol shop in the country. Her husband had to apply through work to get a license to even buy it. Then you've got to book in, and you can't just swing on down to the botlo, mate. You've got to book in your 15-minute slot, then you can buy alcohol, and you've got to hide it, and you can't just swing on down to the bot low, mate. You've got to book in your 15-minute slot, and then you can buy alcohol,

and you've got to hide it and take it back to your house. It is also available in licensed hotels and restaurants and bars around Qatar. But just watching online before, a couple of very confident fans trying to get through with binoculars that you could fill up with alcoholic drinks inside. So fake binoculars, and they got busted. I used to have a pair of those, and my friend Mike got very confident with them. He was very confident, because he reckons if you filled them up to the top,

you couldn't tell they were fake binoculars. He used to get security to hold the binoculars while he was looking for his ticket. Oh, that is a little gutsy. But these were the same binoculars that these guys had, and they got busted. So I reckon, whoa. Should have filled them to the top, guys.

What's going to happen to them? It's very serious. Six months in prison, isn't it? That's what can happen, yeah, for drinking alcohol, being seen with alcohol in a public place. So maybe six months prison for novelty binoculars. I had a Bible.

There's a book as a Bible and it's cut out so you can put a hip flask in. But then I was like, who's taking a Bible to a rugby game? A football game. It's very inventive. I mean, you used to have a segment on TV where you'd sneak stuff in. Yeah, yeah.

But you were bold one time. You took a whole pallet in. A pallet load, yeah. And it got through. I mean, that's so much. It was ludicrous. You just went up to the gate and they opened the gate for you. They're like, well, why would it be anything else but a person working here at the stadium?

What happened to the pallet? Did you? Yeah, no, not a lot of it. Oh, that time we got a bit of it out. But other times it kind of got donated to the stadium. But hey to the pallet? Did you? Yeah, no, not a lot of it. Oh, that time we got a bit of it out, but other times it kind of got donated to the stadium. But hey, that's what happens. That's what happens when you're doing the sneak game, mate. Yeah.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're heading around every Bunnings Warehouse stores in the country to eat a sausage and a sausage sizzle. We're about to eat a sausage number 29 this morning in Palmerston North. It's been a real adventure as we sort of travel around in car yesterday and in small

planes just to get to places and be able to do it in a week. Yeah, so fixed wing aircraft, which Ben, you said you always prefer your wings to be fixed. Even though the wings were fixed, I knew they were fixed. I was still very nervous. We talked about it on the radio yesterday. I was very, very nervous going into it because I feel very vulnerable in a very small plane.

This was a four-seater. It was. It was a tiny, tiny, tiny little plane. And the weather, the conditions weren't on our side. It was terrible weather, windy, rainy, thunderstorms, perfect, perfect flying conditions. And just before the flight, we had a bit of a chat, didn we uh as we're trapped sorry sitting in the plane here's what happened okay ben boys we're about to take off on our fixed wing aircraft heading from gizzy to hawks bay now i don't want to make fun because you are genuinely genuinely not not yeah i was nervous coming into this and then i came

here to the airport and it started raining, and I said to John, the pilot, what's it looking like? And he says, it's one of those days, is what he said. Maybe he means that in a good way. Sometimes people say that in a good way, don't they? Well, I don't know. There's rain coming, and he says it's going to be bumpy.

I'm nervous. It's a tiny, tiny plane. I kept saying to John, away from you guys, it's going to be okay, though, John. And he wouldn't say anything back to me. He doesn't respond to that, does he? It's going to be okay though, John. And he wouldn't say anything back to me. He doesn't respond to that, does he? It's going to be okay though, isn't it? He doesn't want to guarantee okayness.

Well, I'd like someone to guarantee. Well, if it starts going down, you said, you said it was going to be okay, John. Okay, final words. What do you want to say? I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. Let's rest assured, like producer Bea Humphrey said, they wouldn't go out if there was a problem.

I suppose that's good. But that's also what they said before multiple plane crashes. Oh God, we're about to go. Oh Jesus. It's tiny, it's tiny. Oh God. Did we make it out alive? Did we land safely?

You'll hear the rest of it later what you did in the middle of what was going on it just baffled me yesterday so we're going to talk more about that i will say i will say it was it was a flight for the you're like we'll never forget that flight for multiple multiple reasons and one more thing without a word of a lie we're about to take off and we're sitting there for a while in the small airport runway and John's like hey we've just got to wait there's some rabbits on the track

we've got to wait for some rabbits which is cute but also it's called a runway not a track too if you want to use the correct lingo

but yes no we did have to wait for rabbits but John was a very experienced pilot we were in safe hands but at one point the plane

I think it did a 360 we were sitting at the back but we were at the front, midway through the flight. It was wild. Anyway. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed.

Uh-oh, uh-oh. There's been a spillage in aisle seven, clean up of topical events. Ben Boyce, what have we got? Black Friday today, as we've mentioned before. So there's going to be heaps of sales online in stores here at Bunnings Warehouse as well. They've got lots of Black Friday specials here.

And I reckon even despite the cost of living and inflation, Black Friday is expected to blitz Boxing Day sales again this year. I reckon it's a bigger shopping day in New Zealand than Boxing Day. They're strapping themselves in here at the shop here today, aren't they? And the last thing they need is two idiotic radio announcers

sitting under a pergola in the lifestyle section. Yeah, I know. It really feels like we're here at the wrong day. I feel like everything around us will just be taken away and sold as we do the radio show, and eventually it will just be us sitting on a floor. Of course, it's the day after Thanksgiving in America. Thursday is Thanksgiving.

Friday is where the Black Friday, why am I mansplaining this? No, it's good just for, you know, the females who don't understand, Ben. And that's why you do it, mate. It sort of signifies the start of the Christmas shopping period. And they really kick things off. And what do they do at the Black Friday sales?

Kick things off from zero to 100 with a lot of specials. Producer Joel, you just remarked to us before you saw a special last night at the supermarket. Yeah, I was just driving in this morning and I saw that there was four scorched almonds for $19. Or four boxes of scorched almonds. Now, forgive me, what is your average box of scorched almonds for $19, or four boxes of scorched almonds. Now, forgive me, what is your average box of scorched almonds on its own? I actually have no idea, sorry, but I thought it was a random promotion.

Four for $19 would be like... Four for $5, that's a deal. Yeah, it would be like about right. I don't know. I feel like they're about six, seven, maybe eight normally. Big deal. We call producer Joelel harrison hungry hungry harrison the guy is just always eating yeah and only you would notice four scorched almonds for

19 we've been eating 41 sausages that's just about a brunch for him in the weekend it's taken us all week good luck and johnny depp uh it looks set maybe to return as captain jack sparrow for pirates of the caribbean now he said uh when he was in the middle of the trial a few months ago that the question was put to him, if Disney came to you with $3 million and a million alpacas, nothing on this earth would get you back to work

as Pirates of the Caribbean. He said that's true. So maybe Disney have come to him. They might have come two million alpacas. That's a lot of alpacas. Alpaca and a punch for the contract. I'm reading an article here that says Johnny Depp not returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean. But then in the same article it says Johnny's expected to do a test shoot in February.

Yeah, well, that's the thing. It's all kind of under wraps in the United Kingdom. Test shoot in February. I don't know why he needs to do a test shoot. Yeah, he's like, you pretty much know what I do as a pirate. You put me in how many movies, Captain Jack? You know what I've done off screen as well. I dress like a pirate in real life. Just

chuck a camera on me and I'll start being a pirate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want to know, heading into the weekend, who is having the best weekend on 0800 THE HITS or 4487. We've got some $50 farmer's vouchers to give away because the Santa Parade's on Sunday. Yeah, looking forward to that. We go from

our non-stop sausage parade straight to the Santa Parade on Sunday, don't we? And then you've decided to commentate cricket. That's what I'm doing this weekend. Just to give himself a mental breakdown before Christmas. Non-stop, boys. Tell you what, let's get some callers on. Who's having the best weekend? John, you're on.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hey, how's it going, fellas? Oh, listen, we're doing well, Johnny boy. What are you up to this weekend? Oh, well, today after work, got a boys' night, boys' barbecue, and then straight after that, going to Hamner Saturday morning with the kids and the missus. And then if we get some alone time, hopefully make another kid.

You kids, you don't need to see this. This is our friend John from Christchurch. Yes, that's the one. We bumped into about 11 o'clock at a KFC on a Friday night. It's in the square there, yeah. Yes, the best place to bump in.

Now, every Friday, just to let you pull back the curtain, John, you actually text us and you say, you guys need to decide whether I go to work or not today. Are you going to work now? I'm currently, but it's easy to turn back. All of you send away, mate.

Yeah, it's just one comment from us, isn't it? We'll flip a coin again because that's what we like to do. Okay, you want to go heads or tails? John, whether you go to work or not today. Well, heads has been screwing me over, so I'll go heads again. Okay, we're want to go heads or tails? John, whether you go to work or not today. Well, heads has been screwing me over, so I'll go heads again. Okay, we're going to go heads. So what is the deal? Heads, he doesn't go to work. Tails, he goes to work.

John, it's tails again, buddy. I'm so sorry. Oh, my God. It actually is. He's showing me the piece, the 20-cent piece. Mate. Oh, my God. Well, good luck piece, the 20 cent piece. Mate. Oh my God. Well, good luck making kids this weekend, John.

Yeah. Thank you. I need to practice. If you've got more kids, you're going to need to keep going to work. We're going to send you our $50 farmer's voucher so you enjoy that. We're going to head to Lee from Marawatu on 0800 The Hits right now. Lee, why the hell aren't you at Bunnings Palmerston North right now? I'm on my way to work, so that's why.

Yeah, well, don't worry about work, mate. Come and see us. We'll flip a coin and see if you have to go. What are you doing this weekend? My mother-in-law's coming over to watch the kids so that my partner and I can be kid-free and go out for the evening. Oh, are you going to try and make more kids as well?

Oh definitely not. None of the kids. If anything, saw it off. We've got a saw here in aisle number 8 we can get you. So what's the plan? What's Date Night going to involve? Without getting into too many details. Probably just the movies or a nice walk or something if the weather holds up. Oh, lovely. You know what date nights usually involve is going out to dinner about 6 o'clock, going, oh, I think I'm done now at about 6.45 and going back to bed at 7.30. But listen.

Jeez, you're a catch prior. Lee, we're going to get you one of the farmer's vouchers, $50 farmer's vouchers, okay? Oh, awesome. Then it can be a shopping spree too. Oh, enjoy that. Enjoy your weekend. Yesterday we were at Gisborne Bunnings, Gisborne, and ran into Chris Hemsworth. It was Chris Hemsworth. I swear. You thought it was Chris Hemsworth.

Oh my, I had the long hair. It was Thor, Thor Chris Hemsworth. You know, not home and away Chris Hemsworth. Long haired, beard, handsome Chris Hemsworth, you know, not home and away Chris Hemsworth. Yeah. Long-haired, beard, handsome Chris Hemsworth. And his hammer was in aisle six. He had a whole bunch in the hardware section. I think that's why he came into Bunnings Warehouse. But yeah, we talked to the guy and he was like, yeah, now and again I get confused for Chris Hemsworth.

He looks identical. Well. Yeah, and he was very humble about it though. I don't know how many Chris Hemsworth movies have you watched. Did you not say identical? Actually, like he's similar. Oh about it, though. I don't know. How many Chris Hemsworth movies have you watched? Did you not say identical? I see. Like, he's similar. Oh, maybe, yeah.

I wouldn't say identical, but he did look a lot like Chris Hemsworth. Yeah, I'll give it. The last six Chris Hemsworth movies I have seen, I've had conjunctivitis, so maybe. He probably snoozed through them all. But now, also, we were talking to Loz, who we're on the road with, Lauren from The Hits. Your dad gets confused all the time for someone. Loz, who's that? Who's the, Lauren from the Hits. Your dad gets confused all the time for someone. Loz, who's that? Who's the guy from the block?

What's his name? Peter Wolfkamp. Peter Wolfkamp. Oh, Peter Wolfkamp from the block. Oh, woo! Yeah. Yeah, does he look identical? Relatively, yeah.

He's walking around Bunnings. He gets stopped asking how the block's going and stuff. He's always really confused. So there you go. People do get confused for others. Now, Ben, I'll hand the floor over to you because I know you want to say some stuff about bald guys and me.

No, not at all. It's all yours. No, mate, Patrick Stewart. No, no, pit bull. No, no. You're saying no, no, and then you're just plucking bald people. Murray Deeker.

Do you know I... Do you know I did genuinely get confused, and we mentioned it before. For a light bulb. Here at Bunnings the other day. For the neck minute guy. Didn't I? Yeah.

At Christmas at the park. Now, Levi, who's a dear friend of ours, we love Levi, but he was the neck, for many years ago, you remember the saying, and he was the neck minute. I actually said it this morning. Yeah. Yeah. It might come back like that bloody

I'm blue song but I was at Christmas in the Park and they're like the neck minute guy and I was too I didn't want to correct them

they were so happy to meet Levi and they're like say neck minute and jeez the disappointment on a fan's face when I delivered

a lacklustre neck minute it was nowhere near as good as Levi does it. No, I could tell they walked away. They weren't that satisfied with their meeting and greeting. So, oh, Andrew, the hits, 4487. We want to know this morning, who do you get mistaken for? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

In Bunnings Warehouse in Palmerston North until about 9 o'clock this morning, about to have sausage number 29 as we try and eat 41 sausages around the country. And Black Friday here today. Hey, they're gearing up for a big one. Producer Joel said he saw four boxes of scorched almonds for $19. And we've had a text in since then saying it's not much of a bargain, Joel. Yeah, apparently you can get them single for $4.50,

so four for $18, which... Jetstar, sorry to interrupt, they've announced some pretty great specials today. Oh, 10,000 airfares between New Zealand and Australia, so starting from $33 and things like that. So they're doing it, they're doing it. The scorched almond world, though. Almonds are pricey, but we're doing what you look like.

We bumped into a Thor version of Chris Hemsworth yesterday at the Bunnings Gisborne. And Ben Boyce, who do you get confused for? Me a lot. Yeah, I get get confused for? Me a lot. Yeah, I get to answer to Jono a lot. There's a guy actually we met in Tauranga who gets confused for me. His name is also Ben as well. He comes down and everyone's like, yeah, you're Ben.

You're Ben from the S-Ben. He must cop a lot. He's taken on a lot of feedback. He probably gets a lot of abuse, so I'm very sorry to that, Ben. Someone else just texted and said, Jon John, I saw you the other day. I thought you were a thumb, so I get confused for a thumb. We're going to go to the phones. What are you getting mistaken for?

Who are you getting mistaken for? We're going to kick things off with Debbie from Parmy. Hi. Debbie, why the hell are you not in the Bunnings Warehouse, Palmerston North, right now? You tell us. I didn't know you were going to be there. Oh, okay.

Well, that's no excuse. We're here tonight. You can still come down. We'll wait. Okay. Don't you fade out on this, Debbie. You come down to Palmerston North. Debbie doesn't have to come down and visit us.

She's probably got work and stuff to do. But who do you get confused with, Debs? This happened years ago. But it was April Iremia. Oh, April. Yeah, she was on TV for many years. She played netball for New Zealand. She was on One News, Sport.

Yeah, she was great. What dastardly things did you do under April Iremia's name? I know. No, nothing. I had a second job, and I was working at a, I had a second job, and I was working at a pub, and these guys came in, and they went, oh, April, what are you doing working behind the bar? And I'm like, no, I'm not April.

And they were just adamant, and I'm just, oh, yeah, whatever. And then a friend of mine who I nicknamed Inga, because he was a short version of him, who I worked with during the day, he walked into the pub. He goes, I go, G'day, Inga. He goes, G'day, April. And so...

And then those guys were like, you're lying. Why was April in a mere line to us about pouring pints behind the bar? That's awesome, Debbie. You go and have a great weekend, all right? Okay, thank you. Love your work. Cam, you're on.

Welcome. Cam, you're on. Welcome. Cam, you're on. Welcome. Sorry guys, Cam just dropped off. Now, hold on, Joel. Okay? This is some real talk here. Is this on radio talk? Yeah, this is on radio talk here. Did Cam drop off, or did you drop Cam off? Why

would I try to sacrifice the good name of the Jon and Ben show? Because we're not here in the studio with Joel. Joel's up in Auckland. We're in the Bunnings warehouse. You can say anything right now. Cam dropped off. Cam hung up. Oh, yeah, Cam must have been busy.

Cam, he's called back. He's called back. Cam, you're dead. Yeah, how's it going? Cam, now tell us. Did you accidentally hang up or did you get hung up on just then? Oh, I got hung up on. Cam.

Oh. I think Cam's gone off. Cam's hung up again. Sorry, guys. Oh, he's hung up again. sorry guys. Oh he's hung up again has he now Cam? Who did you get mistaken for buddy? So I get mistaken for Prince Harry quite a bit. Oh really? Yeah, just because I've got ginger hair and ginger beard. What are the perks of looking like Prince Harry apart from people mentioning side jabs at your hair? Nothing really. I've been offered,

they're like, oh, you look like Prince Harry and want to shake my hand, which is bizarre, but... You're lucky. But that's the biggest perk. Do you have a wife that manipulated you away

from your family, tried to tear you away? Oh, no, she's pretty close with my family, so. Oh, there you go. That's good. So you're not living any life like Prince Harry apart from someone who said,

oh, you look like Prince Harry and gave you a handshake. I love it. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Hey, I'll tell you what, mate. You know what? It's the Santa Parade this weekend. We're going to give you a $50 farmer's voucher, right?

Oh, awesome. Thank you for that. It's all yours. No worries. Have yourself a great weekend. Cheers, you too. We're going around the country, heading to every Bunnings Warehouse store

and eating a sausage. 41 sausages, seven days. It's a lot of sausages. And here's to some of the sausage-eating madness yesterday. Now, you've got up early for us. You've dragged your 16-year-old son out of bed. Totally. He's pumped about it.

How pumped are you, mate? Uh, not very pumped. The wonderful Caroline said Ronan Gisborne wears gumboots, so we've put gumboots on, but no one else is wearing gumboots. She gave you a bum stare there. Yeah. This is Kale. Kale said, I've got a joke for you, roll up, get recording.

What do you call a brick and can opener? What? A can opener. What tear you from the Whakatane men's shed? A bunch of retired guys getting together doing lots of work for the community. Restoration of chairs. Can you restore my face? Is there anything you could do? Put through sander and repaint and touch up. There's a bit of filler on the top there. We're here with Sapphire. How old are you, Sapphire? Five. You gave us a lovely present. Reindeer poo. Did you make these?

Yep. Or did you pick these up from a reindeer's bottom? No. And we saw your car. Oh, you saw our car. Did you key it? Yep.

Great New Zealanders. Wonderful people of Aotearoa that we've met along the way. And Ben, as we were departing Bunnings, Gisborne yesterday morning, we were pulled aside to have a conversation with our staff member. He said, just before you go, Caroline got in touch with us.

She pulled us aside and said, I need to talk to you about something. Yeah, a funny story. A funny thing happened to her a couple of years ago at a different store, a different location. Involving your father, Kevin Banter Boyce, we call him. My dad, who loves to chat. And, geez, he got himself into an him. My dad, who loves a chat. And, geez, he got himself into an awkward hole with poor Caroline.

Have a listen. Now, we're here with Caroline in Bunnings, Gisborne. And, Ben, we're just leaving. She's mentioned as we are departing. What has happened, Caroline? So I've met Ben's dad at Bunnings Porirua. And you're like, he's chatty, and he is chatty. He's very chatty.

Kevin Boyce loves a conversation. He's very chatty. He tried to loves a conversation. He's very chatty. He tried to get a free umbrella out of me from Bunnings Porirua about three years ago. And then he dropped Ben, the son, in it with a photo. He says to me, do you know who this guy is? And I was like, I've seen him on TV. He goes, I'm his dad. Oh, he's trading off you to get a free umbrella.

I can't get free umbrellas. He can't get free umbrellas either. Did he manage to swindle a free umbrella? No. He paid full price. Was he trying to bargain you down for the price of nothing? Pretty much. He should have charged you more.

That's the thing. Humbling to know that dropping your name won't even get you a discounted umbrella. I'm me and I don't get discounted umbrellas. I love it. So what else is he haggling and extorting? I don't get discounted umbrellas. I love his show. What else is he haggling and extorting? I don't know about this. It's obviously not working. Maybe he tried once.

He's like, I'll try this once. It didn't work. And he's like, I'll never do that again. Maybe he needs to pretend to be the father of a better son. That's what I was thinking, yes. Pretend you're Jeremy Wells' father or something. Wells would get you a free umbrella. Jack Tame's dad.

You know, like all this people. You know, anyone. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Into the weekend, of course, it's Black Friday today. So it's a big day right around the country, right around the world. So many sales. Yeah, we've got people. Are you here for Black Friday?

Or are you here to just watch two people talking to a microphone? In the lifestyle section of a Bunnings warehouse. Under a piccola. What are you here for? Do we just come to see what you're doing? Oh, okay. It's us. Black Friday, they're gearing up here today at Bunnings.

And Ben Boyce, just a wild day of sales. But you said in America it happens after Thanksgiving Day. It was tradition? Yeah, the tradition to happen after because Thanksgiving happens over there on a Thursday. Then you have Black Friday sales. And it kind of kicks off the Christmas, the Christmas time, the festive time of year as well. But there's a couple of reasons why they think it was called Black Friday

and where it all started from. A lot of people back in the day used to take the Friday off as well. A lot of businesses weren't that happy about it because you'd have Thanksgiving holiday, then you'd have the Friday off, and then you'd have a four-day weekend, which is a smart play as well. But, yeah, it's the biggest event over there as far as shopping goes. It's even bigger than Boxing Day in New Zealand now, which is pretty cool. Well, yeah, we've had Click It Up Tuesday.

We've had about three or four prelude sales to this, haven't we? We're like, whack it up Wednesday and things like this. I don't know if these are any good. They also talked about getting businesses back into the black, you know, when they're in the red and things aren't going well. That's one of the reasons why they think it might be called Black Friday because it gets the businesses out of the red back into the black, you know, when they're in the red and things aren't going well. That's one of the reasons why they think it might be called Black Friday because it gets the businesses out of the red,

back into the black, getting some profits. Stimulating that economy. Giving the economy a deep tissue massage. But Black Friday, the worst day of the year, busiest day of the year, not probably the worst, but for plumbers. For plumbers? Plumbers, busiest day.

I don't know what, everyone's flushing down their toilet on Black Friday. But busiest day of the year for plumbers hopefully some stuff from us today because things aren't really going well in that department

12% of Black Friday shoppers are drunk really I suppose it makes sense can you do it online as well too right drunk shopping is exciting isn't it

because you're like there's nothing holding you back your inhibitions are gone yeah yeah do I need a fixed wing aircraft? Boom, blow it on, trade me. More people die during Black Friday shopping than shark attacks.

Do I die from Black Friday shopping than shark attacks? Have you fact-checked these facts? Producer Joel's put some of these on the sheet. Is this a stitch-up, Producer Joel? Mate, I don't think US News 10 facts about Black Friday would lie about that. They said since 2006 there's been seven people

dead and 98 injuries opposed to less than that in shark attacks. A great white is less likely to bite you than me. I could kill you right now

in this shop on Black Friday. Trying to get over a good deal on a petrol line trimmer or something like that. That's the thing, it gets wild out there.

Joel, are there any more exciting facts from 10 Facts About Black Friday? It's not, but there's actually a few businesses in New Zealand that are boycotting it because they're like sustainable businesses and they reckon just the amount of plastic and just the bad things to the environment. So some shops are closing for the day. Right, but then they'll be opening up again tomorrow? Oh, definitely. They're not going to miss Saturday after Thanksgiving.

But what? And leading into Christmas with the same products. What does this moral stand mean anyway? Okay, I won't go. No time to... Yeah, right. So enjoy Black Friday wherever you're shopping. We're going to enjoy Sausage 29 in the next hour or so,

and you can win $5,000 next. That is the hits. 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. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning, and we've got Terry Lee joining us in the store at Bunnings Warehouse this morning. You listen to this game all the time? I listen every day. Oh, Terry Lee, now you came in and you marched into Bunnings and said, I have got a bone to pick with the pair of you.

A complaint with us and we're like, uh-oh, what have we done? You invented those chips. Now, they are the bane of my life. Oh, jeez. I cannot stop eating them. Every day I go to the store. I hunt the stores if they haven't got them. There was a lady, she had two in her basket the other day and I begged her if I could

have one. Really? Did you choke her out in the store? I said, in the end, she said, just take them. Just take them. You love the chips. The chips. I brought a packet last night and I thought I'd bring a whole packet down to get a photo.

Yeah, nice. Well, I'll show you the packet. There's barely five left in there. Terry, I love Terry. She looks like an addict. She can't pull away. She's had a taste. Should we give them all a taste?

We'll have to try and get your box sent down from Heartland. Oh, wow. Oh, look at that. She's already won. She's already won anyway. All my Christmases have come to watch. We're going to play five words with you, Terry. You hear the game, you know how the game works.

I know how the game works. All right, now you need to decide which one of us is going to stop shoving bangers in our mouth and pull some words out of their mouth. Jono, Ben, who do you want to go with? I loved your answer yesterday with the old boulders crack, because, I mean, everyone was thinking it, but weren't they, you know? It was, yeah. What do you reckon, matey? I'm going to go with um with jonno all right you head away you head around the

aisle here at bunnings warehouse and uh cherry leo course she knows how to play the game so wait for him to get all right here we go let's get into it uh producer bee humps are these words that relate to today all related to today and our tour. And our tour. Okay, so the first one is black. Friday. Yes, that's what I was thinking as well. Black Friday.

We'll mark that down. Three burner is the second one. Barbecue. Yeah, barbecue. Pot. P-O-T. Pot. Kettle.

Spade. Is word number four. Spade. Is word number four, spade? Dig, garden. Dig, dig. We'll come back to that one. And hose is the final one. Hose. Hose. Yeah.

It's a tough one in the Bunnings store right now very fun many many hoses h-o-s-e hose i don't know how hose the gut hose water water yeah water's good water's good all right and spade you went with dig it was just it was just good i think spade's good i don't know. Spade. Oh, that one's going to kill me. I know. Spade. Spade dick. Is that our $5,000 word?

No, that's the fourth one. So that's the $500 word. Oh, yeah. Okay, dick. Okay, dick. I think it's a good option. Let's try to get Jono who's talking down there. You're supposed to give me easy words.

I know. Well, producer Bee Humps, you know, it's funny how the words, it's easy when you're playing along at home, right? I know. I know that you get here. You're like, oh. Okay, John, here we go. All right, Terry Lee, let's win you some cash. She's looking at you directly right now.

She wants to win. Staring me in the eye. Okay. First word we said, oh, let's just go straight to the $25 word. Word one, $25. Black. Friday. Yes, there we go. $25. 25 bones,, $25. Black. Friday. Yes, there we go.

There we go. 25 bones, Cherry. What are we doing? Keep going. Keep going. Let's go and win your 50 bucks. Word two, $50. Three burner.

Barbecue. Yes, all right. Now, do you want to keep the 50 or do you want to go? Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Cherry is staring me in the eyes like she's reading me, you know, my future or something. Yeah, she's trying to get the words from her head.

I need this money so bad. Okay, all right. Word three, $100. $100. Word number three is pot. Pot? Pot. What did you say?

She's about to slap you. You get this wrong. Pot, as in like a kettle. this wrong? Pot isn't like a kettle. Yes! Isn't like a kettle. Terry Lee! We have a hundred bucks. Do you want it? That's yours. Keep going, keep going. Keep going.

Word four. $500. This is the most intense game of five we've done. I feel like Terry's quite volatile if this goes bad. Okay, okay, the next word is... Oh, this is what we got to... Oh no... Spade. Spade.

Spade. Terry. Oh, what would Terry have said with spade? Thinking. Would you go like shovel? Oh! What a throw! Jono! I'm sorry, Terry. Oh, no! Terry Lee, I'm sorry. A dig was the word.

She's jacked up on me. I don't even want to go in the last one just in case you want to go in the last one. I needed that butt. I needed that Dyson vacuum cleaner. Oh, what was the last word? The last word was hose. What, water? Oh! Jono!

Terry! Hey. Terry, four out Oh, Jono! Terry! Terry, four out of five. I tell you what, have we got... We're going to give you a hundred bucks, all right? Yeah, we'll give you a hundred bucks for playing.

Because I feel like I'm quite scared right now and I want to get out of Pappas and North of Life. Terry Lee, we love you. Thank you so much for listening. So sorry we didn't win your $5,000,

but hopefully we'll play again. It is The Hits. You got Jono and Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Apologies before. We had a few technical difficulties of broadcasting out of Bunnings Warehouse in Palmerston North.

In the middle of our chat, everything just went. Yeah, in the middle of our chat telling you how we almost died, it probably sounded like we died in the middle of it. Now, we had a wonderful gentleman here. What was your name, mate?

Spud. Spud, who's been documenting the whole thing. Everyone's been running around trying to... He's got behind-the-scenes doco footage that we're going to release on Netflix later in the year, I think. We'll call it The Breakdown. And everyone was plugging things out.

High stress. Spud had it all covered on his phone. We'll release that as part of a Netflix doco, as you say, Ben. But yeah, we flew yesterday. We're mentioning on a tiny little fixed-wing aircraft, we had to get from Gisborne to Hastings and over to

New Plymouth. Now, Ben, this was playing on your mind all day. I was talking about this yesterday. Just four seats on the plane and a pilot who's taking us across there, across some water, across some mountain ranges. I was a bit nervous about these two little flights that we had to do on this plane.

Now, the passengers that were on before us were 90 kilograms of fish. So the pilot, John, had transported fish. So that's the sort of plane it is. You know, you just chuck stuff at the back and get it from A to B. And that's what he did with us. He chucked us in the back four seats. Very close, isn't it?

Now, you mentioned when you heard private plane, you were thinking yeah kim kardashian dwayne the rock johnson lounging around you know you see them on instagram like look at me on my private plane yeah yeah well i'm gathering it was the same plane but it just looks a little different on the inside and the inside and this is what happens when we got to the airport there was more uh bad news for me okay ben boys we're about to take off on our fixed wing aircraft heading from Gizzy to Hawke's Bay. Now I don't want to make fun because you are genuinely. Yeah genuinely not not yeah I was

nervous coming into this and then I came here to the airport. Okay I'm yeah okay have a sleep mate enjoy the in-flight service enjoy the in-flight entertainment Just think of all the air points you're getting. There's no air points. John, a very experienced pilot, he got us there safely, but we flew through a storm. The treacherous. There was time where we could not see, without a word of a lie, we could not see for like five, ten minutes anything around us.

It was like, if you've never flown in a tiny little fixed wing aircraft in, you know, torrential storms. It's like if you like commuting inside a washing machine on a spin cycle and also having the gut-wrenching fear that you could die at any moment. Yeah, like a nervous fly going into that situation. Oh, my goodness. And, well, before 9 o'clock, you need to stick around because what I was there hugging my Toy Street backpack, like you said, but what you were doing, my wingman in the sky, what you were doing.

And the fixed wingman. Yeah, what you were doing just amazed me on what you kept doing. I was just like, how is this happening? I'll tell you about that before 9 o'clock. Oh, it's moments like that that make you appreciate life more. I know, and we're going to jam another sausage in our mouths. We're going to carry on eating sausages as we try to eat at all 41 Bunnings Warehouse stores.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. In the middle of our Bunnings Warehouse, a tour of New Zealand, heading to every Bunnings Warehouse to eat a sausage. 41 stores if you want to find out where we are. We're going to a town or city near you as we head south.

We're heading up to the South Island tonight. Bunnings to 4487. Just text Bunnings to 4487. Now, we've been documenting our flight yesterday on a tiny little fixed-wing aircraft through some treacherous conditions there, Ben. And you were nervous the whole way through. Was there any point of the flight where,

maybe it was the 15 minutes where we couldn't see a thing in the air, that you were like, oh, I'm calm now? As we sort of came towards landing, and you could see the land again, and probably the second time, because we took two flights, I was like, when we came into land the second time, for about 12 to 14 seconds I was feeling okay as we came into land because it was like, John, he can get it from here. We're going to be fine.

It was very windy. It was very windy out there. And we're not just talking about the sausages in our system. Outside the conditions were windy. Now, this is mid-flight. Mid was very windy. It was very windy out there. And we're not just talking about the sausages in our system. Outside the conditions were windy. Now this is mid-flight. Mid-flight update. Thoughts, feelings, fears? Lots of thoughts, lots of feelings,

a lot of fears. All of the above. Like I was just saying, on a nice day, it would be glorious, beautiful, but it's raining, it's bumpy. Every time there's a bump, I'm like, trying to play a call but i'm really i see you've sent a love you family message off yeah i've said yeah like yeah i've said my goodbyes to everyone uh everyone all your affairs in order i've even booked an

obituary a little notice in the herald uh tomorrow you know i put it all you know now you had handed me the duty of clearing your internet history if anything went wrong, but I'm with you. So what happens now? People are going to know, Ben. Producer Joel, if you want to log in, you can clear that for me. That'd be great, all right? Here we go.

And I was thinking, if we went down, would we make the news? You know, where would we be sitting in the lineup of the news? Second, third, fourth story? It'd probably be part of it, I'm sure. Do you reckon it would be the filler content that they do just after the sport if they're running early? I just could not believe this. So this is, we talked a wee bit about how you like to sleep.

Every time we get in the car, you sleep. Every helicopter, you usually had five naps you had on one day. Like, just prolific. Just sleeping the whole time. As soon as you stop talking, you fall asleep. It's like taking someone out for a rhyme, and you're like, oh, jeez, we've got to take him back at the end of the day. You said yesterday, I woke up, you're like a newborn baby.

He's like, oh, he's awake, it's awake time. Oh, it's nap time. Oh, we've fed him, we've given him a sausage, and then he goes back to sleep. It is like travelling with a newborn baby, it is. And you've changed me, and I appreciate the never change. But we're in the sky right now i know you sleep on planes but this plane is going all over the place there's a

thunderstorm we are flying through you could not see anything and this is what happened so we're on a tiny tiny plane we can't see anything out the window there's rain coming through it's bumpy i'm terrified oh my it's fast asleep yes it's bumpy, I'm terrified. Oh mate, fast asleep. You're just sleeping, you are sleeping through this. You are sleeping. I am like, oh my god, I could be further from sleep. If I could offer you one bit of advice,

look out the window and enjoy the view that you can't see. It's concerning when I do wake up and I see pockets of the pilot just looking at a giant paper map while he's staring with his knees. He seems very experienced, which is comforting, but right now I'm just like, this is... You're cuddling your Toy Story project. I am. I don't know what to do. I am... He's a incredible pilot.

He did a great job. And as producer B. Hump said, if it wasn't safe to go, they wouldn't have been doing it. But still, for me, it was freaky. And you sleep. How do you sleep so much? Because you get up so ridiculously early. I tell you what.

If you ever want to give yourself a thrill, have a sleep on a fixed-wing aircraft through a storm, and then you get woken up by the feeling of dropping out of the sky. You wake up, you look terrified, and then instantly back to sleep again. Even in the car yesterday, you're like, guys, I'm all done. I've done six naps for the day. And then producer B hums his night mate as your eyes just glaze over and went to sleep. I had to try to stay awake to prove I'm important on that show.

Prolific sleeper. Hopefully I'll make it to the end of the show today guys. Who knows? Black Friday, a lot of great sales around the place, but we've just had someone come up to us. They're with us in the Bunnings Warehouse store in Palmerston North, but have a complaint about something that I have done. Now, you have a bone to pick with Benjamin.

I absolutely do. So, we're avid listeners of the hits and we always listen to Jono and Ben in the morning and I don't know where it came from, but somehow there was a story that came up about the yellow car. Yeah. Yeah, so it was me. I told the story about how my daughters play a game and they play... Oh, I don't want to explain the story again.

It's to do with the daughters and a yellow car. But, hey, I'm not going to explain it because obviously this has caused concern in your family. Oh absolutely, so I'm a school teacher and every morning it's a very rushed thing and so I'm always on edge anyhow but having children in the back of the car quacking each other because they've seen this yellow car on the way and I swear we drive past ones that are parked up so we always know we're going to drive past them so it's almost a pre-empt that. And then it's, yeah.

How many yellow cars in Palmy? Probably over 100. You're saying there must be more yellow cars in Palmy than anywhere else? Oh, absolutely. I feel per capita there is way more yellow cars in Palmy than any other city in Palmerston North. I was going to go over here because you were saying here, you work at Bunnings here, Megan, you drive a...

Yellow car. Yellow car. There we go. I'm very sorry about this. And this is one of the cars that we probably drive past and know it's going to be parked here in the morning. I'm sorry for introducing that game to your family right now. You seem to love it.

Yes. Yeah, you love it. There's a yellow Karcher water blaster over there. What do you do now? What, yellow Karcher? The yellow car. There we go. The Bunnings game with the yellow Karcher. She picks a punch.

You've started something. No, I've started it. Now Jono's started something else. We're off to eat sausage number 29 before 9 o'clock this morning as our sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand continues. And if you've got any complaints, you know, come down. Let's face them, face to face. Any complaints to Palmerston North, you can join us at the Bunnings Warehouse.

It is the hits, Jono and Ben. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're sitting under a lovely pergola, aren't we, in the Bunnings Warehouse in Palmerston North this morning? Yeah, we've got some deck chairs. It feels like we're outdoors, but we're indoors, Ben. It does. It's confusing my sensories at the moment.

It's an overload. But Black Friday today, isn't a lot of talk about all the bargains that people are getting. You have been mentioning them all morning. Producer Joel, very happy. Four boxes of scorched almonds for $19. Although apparently that's... Not much of a bargain.

Not much of a bargain. Really? That's just the price of four boxes of scotch almonds what they normally are I reckon it's going to be the biggest shopping day of the year

despite you know inflation cost of living all those things that we've been talking about lots lately economy's not that great they reckon they're still

going to go nuts today right around the country maybe they've been lying to us that the economy's not that great do you reckon that's you had a theory about it yesterday we were driving

the car you're like I reckon the media us us soulless people are to blame the car. You're like, I reckon the media, us, us soulless people are to blame. I kind of do in a way. I reckon they,

there's obviously some truth to it, but I reckon the more people talk about it and the more things are like, oh, it's going to get bad, it's going to get bad, then that stops people from spending, you know, on holidays or hotels or going to buy stuff

and then that hurts the shops and it kind of feels like that makes a bad thing even worse. But, you know. Thanks, Grant Robertson. You led me into the thing. I wasn't going, hey, can I have my little soapbox for two seconds? And then you're like, oh, yeah.

Hey, you tell us your theory and then shoot me down. No, it's a great theory. I'm not saying there's not a recession or cost of living, but I do feel like the more people talk about it, the less likely people have got that money to spend. So you're going on the let's ignore it theory, which is a good one. Trowel on theory. Trump did it with the vaccine.

He did it with COVID. I don't want a Trump theory. It's not a Trump theory. Now, it is Black Friday, and the Bunnings team here, all on their aprons today, they've got the bargain of the day. What is your bargain of the day if you want to come over here, Kerry? They've got them stapled. Did you have to staple that to your chest, Kerry? That's the commitment to Bunnings Warehouse at the day. What is your bargain of the day if you want to come over here, Kerry? They've got them stapled. Did you have to staple that to your chest, Kerry?

That's the commitment to Bunnings Warehouse at the moment. I've got an AEG grinder kit today. Oh, that's the grinder kit. That's what I call Ben Boyce on a Saturday night. And Geraldine, what have you got, mate? What's your bargain of the day? The 30-piece DeWalt

fastener set for $22. Oh, that's good. That's a good bargain. Now, these guys, like I said, staple them into their chest. There's blood rolling down their chest. That's how committed to Black Friday they are. Yeah, we've really come on the most inconvenient day here in Palmerston North today. But we wanted to know, because it is Black Friday,

what's the best bargain that you've ever got? It doesn't have to be today, just in general. The bargain brag line. So you just name the item. For example, a plastic chair. And then we've got to try and figure out. I'm just naming stuff I can see. And then I'd say, hey, I got that for free.

You're like, wow, that's good. Or some bunting that I can see hanging from the window. You just name the item, and we've got to guess how cheap you got it for. Okay, that's the game, the bargain brag line. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is Black Friday. A lot of talk about Jono and Ben podcast. It is Black Friday. A lot of talk about the bargains. They're heading into Christmas on Black Friday.

They're gearing up for it here at the Bunnings Warehouse in Parmy. And we've got the bargain brag line. So what you need to do, you need to tell us the item. And we, Ben, need to figure out how cheap you got it for. Okay. Now, I did this a few months ago, and I came into work, and I bragged about a $150 pair of jeans that I got for, how much can you remember? I know, I remember they were really cheap.

How much? $34. $34? It was $28, producer Humphrey. $28 pair of jeans. Now, then we spoke to Hannah Lightney McQueen, our financial expert on the show, and I told her about the bargain pair of jeans. She said, yes, but did you need them? That's a financial advisor talking right there. And I haven't worn those jeans once. Have you not? No.

Why not? I don't know. I just kind of, I thought, well, that's a $28 bargain, and I've never put them on my legs. I don't know why. Okay. So you definitely didn't need them then. No, let's go to Hayley. Welcome to the bargain brag line, Hayley. Good to have you on. Morning.

Morning. Okay, you name the item. We'll try and figure out how cheap you got it for, mate. Okay, it was a ham. A Christmas ham. A Christmas ham. Now, jeez, they can get up to, you know, $60, $70. Yeah.

But at a bargain, I would say $38. Was this, can I ask you, was it pre-Christmas or post-Christmas? Oh, good question. No, it was before Christmas. Okay, this is prime ham time. Yeah, they're ramping up the ham prices. What did you say? I said $38.

Okay, I'm going to say $31 would be a bargain on a ham. No, you two are both way off. It was $0.54. $0.54? Yeah. No, you two are both way off. It was 54 cents. 54 cents? Yeah. I nearly died when I saw it. I was like, really? 54 cents? The guy had obviously missed the decimal point when he did it.

So I quickly fossicked through the rest of their hands, looking for any more bargains. But yeah, it was meant to be $54, and I got it for 54 cents. Oh, the pig's like, is that all I'm pulling in? That is a great bargain. We're going to hook you up with a prize. Thank you so much for your call this morning. Thank you.

All right. Appreciate you listening to the show. Now, Graham, do we have Graham on the line, Joel? Graham should be on the line. Yeah, Graham, welcome from Hastings. How are you, mate? Thank you. Good morning, John, do we have Graham on the line, Joel? Graham should be on the line. Yeah, Graham, welcome from Hastings. How are you, mate? Thank you. Good morning, John, Ben.

How are you? We're doing well. It's the bargain brag line, Grazer. What was the item? We'll try and figure out how cheap you got it for, baby. Okay, so this was going back 14 years ago. It was two days before Christmas. My wife and two kids were in farmers looking at toys,

and it was a little tight, cosy coop. You know, the kids sit in it and peddle themselves around by their feet. The car, I know, that would be hundreds of dollars, Graham. Yes, I say $220. No. I'm going to go

$152. No. Talk to us, Graham. What was the bargain? Okay, so we got it for $39.95. Get the hell out of here, Graham. Get out of here. Get your car out of here, Graham.

So I asked the lady. She couldn't find a price tag on it. She went up the counter, punched something in the computer, and said it's $39.95. I said, I'll have it. So we paid $39.95 for it. One of the kids hopped in it. I had to push them through. It was nature farmers. I had to push them through

nature because we parked on the other side. And I get to put it in the car and turned it sideways and the price tag is stuck underneath it for $399. Oh, you've policed them. Jeez, that lady definitely got fired the next day.

That is brilliant. What a bargain. A decimal point wrong somewhere, I think. What a great story. We're going to hook you up with a prize. We really appreciate it, my friend. Cool. Thank you, guys.

Enjoy Black Friday. If you're getting out and about and getting yourself some bargains, whether in-store or online. It is The Hits. You've got Jono and Ben, 8.36. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. At Bunnings Warehouse in Palmerston North this morning. Yeah, a lot of wonderful people from the Manawatu have popped in this morning.

Ben, should I do my hype thing? Yeah, if you want. How's it going, Bummy? No, it's good. Hey, don't you, producer Jono, get that sound effect out of there. That was the best response Hype Man Prior has had on the tour. How's it going, Pummy?

Oh, they're on fire here Friday morning at Bunnings Pummy. But yes, we have, just during the break, spoken to a family of very generous and concerned people. Yeah, they're very, very worried about what we're doing

around the country. What's your name? Calder. Calder. Sorry, John. Rachel and Scott. Scott and... Eleanor.

Lovely family have turned up with Gaviscon for us because you're concerned, genuinely concerned about what's going on inside us right now. You're eating a lot of sausages every day. You're sitting in the car. You're driving. You're not moving your body much. You're probably not getting some good fiber

And so we really wanted to make sure so that you guys can stay on the air as long as possible You control the antacid you control the indigestion Maybe you get some push through We really just want we really just want healthy Jono and Ben Know your health professionals too. Yes. Are you? I share a lot.

Yeah, you did. Yeah, you're health professionals. That's right. Yes, yes, yes. I've been on that night and you've just said that. No, I'm sorry. Oh, God. So you're open heart surgeons.

Yes. We haven't had much push through. So what do you suggest? How do we get the pushing of the through? Ten jumping jacks every hour There's a clean-up in aisle six. More water. A lot more water. Right by the bathroom over there in the corner.

I'm very, very concerned about what's going on on the inside as we try and eat 41 sausages around the country. But not just that. We've met so many amazing, amazing people as we've travelled around, raising money for local community groups as we go on Bunnings. And this was yesterday in Whanganui. We're in Whanganui, and we're at the Bunnings here. There's some rescue dogs here.

Adorable, adorable dogs. Sorry, what was your name? My name's Marika, and this is Ashley, and we work for Whanganui District Council. I'm the pound keeper, and we've got heaps and heaps of dogs to rehome. Lots of lovely dogs, so we've brought three of them here for people to look at and yeah if you're looking for a new dog please come and see us.

Yeah right you've got over 30 you said that need to be homed. Many in foster we've met a few dogs along the way on this wonderful journey and they love our sausagey fingers. Of course they do. We feel like we're very popular dogs then you realise we probably just smell like sausages. Fantastic, that's wonderful.

They're cute, adorable dogs, aren't they? They are, they're all lovely dogs. Obviously we want to save as many as we possibly can, because they're all worthy of living with a wonderful family. Yeah, right. So if people are in the position to help out, to have a dog, where can they go?

They can call us at the Whanganui District Council or they can go on our Whanganui Adopt-a-Dog page and message me. We also work very closely with Iran Rescue. So Iran will buy the dogs off us and they get them all de-sexed, vaccinated, registered, microchipped and everything. So you can contact Iran Rescue as well.

Now we're talking about getting ben de-sexed earlier earlier in the week for that as well stop him humping and everything oh he's a shocker he's a shocker i have a bit thrusty sometimes i'm like get off my leg yeah okay so maybe i can book in for that maybe at the end of the trip yeah have you did you because you've been doing this for a while have you you? I have, yeah, about four years. Four years. So have you figured out who actually let the dogs out? Have we found out the answer? If only we knew. No one knows.

Someone did, you're right. They didn't close the gate and the dogs came out. All right, well, get hold of the Whanganui District Council if you'd like to adopt a dog. Great for Christmas, summer, New Year's. Absolutely, but they're for life. Don't forget, a dog's for life. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We had an idea. Well, it came from a guy, Josh, in Australia who went around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country and had a sausage sizzle. And it took him years because they were open on the weekends. Australia's a massive country, and I think there's over 300 stores in Australia. So he had over 300 sausages, which is pretty incredible.

And then we talked to Josh and we're like, hey, can we have New Zealand?'s our territory can we do that and he gave us his sausagey blessing and for the last few days we've been heading around trying to eat a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country and boy oh boy we've met some amazing people so far. So you've got up early for us, you've dragged your 16 year old son out of bed. Totally. He's pums about it. How pums are you mate? Uh, not very pums.

The wonderful Caroline said running Gisborne wears gumboots, so we've put gumboots on, but no one else is wearing gumboots. She gave you a bum stare there. Yeah. This is Cale. Cale said, I've got a joke for you, roll up, get recording. What do you call a brick and can opener? What?

A can opener. Terry here for the Whakatane men's shed? A bunch of retired guys getting together, doing lots of work for the community. Restoration of chairs. Can you restore my face? Is there anything you could do? Put through a sander and repaint and touch up. There's a bit of filler up the top there.

We're here with Sapphire. How old are you, Sapphire? Five. You gave us a lovely present. Reindeer poo. Did you make these? Yep. Or did you pick these up from a reindeer's bottom?

No. And we saw your car. Oh, you saw our car. Did you key it? Yep. Yes, that is the Bunnings sausage tour so far, and I feel like my body's stopped being a body and just now a portal for carrying around 29 sausages.

A sausage dispenser. That doesn't actually get rid of sausages but geez you go you're bouncing from bunnings to bunnings and i feel like a campaigning politician you know in the heat of the two weeks out from the election just gunning it just does that how you feel yeah a lot of kissing babies a lot of shaking hands i reckon we'd be good at that side of being a politician but not the politics side of it no to make decisions and we met some amazing people were were part of the Bunnings teams, and every sausage sizzle they put on is raising money for local communities as well.

So we swing on in, we have a sausage with some great people, and then we head on. The journey continues, right? Yeah, we both feel nine months pregnant, and the waters haven't broken, guys. No. They haven't broken. We've got some Gaviscon in our system.

We even bought some Kiwi Crush yesterday, didn't we? guys. No. They haven't broken. No, we've got some Gaviscon in our system. We even bought some Kiwi Crush yesterday, didn't we? Nothing's working. Well, you know, things are just, you know, we'll give it some time, mate. Give it some time. Hey, well, thank you very much

for coming out this morning. Harvest of North! Yes! Best response of the tour so far. Loving these responses. Now, we're going to continue on the tour today

if you want to see us getting to fielding very shortly, aren't we, Ben? Then we're off to, where are we off to you want to see us. Heading to Fielding very shortly, aren't we, Ben? Then we're off to where we're off to after that? Porirua, then Potone, and then our two in Wellington, Wellington Central, Lyle Bay, and then we're heading across to Blenheim tonight. We won't be at Blenheim Bunnings Warehouse until the morning, right?

Yeah, we're going to be doing the show tomorrow morning live from Benham Bunnings Warehouse, 6 till 9. You know what's concerning me about the line-up today, though? Porirua, Petone, Wellington Central, Lyle Bay. That's sausage, sausage, sausage. Not much break time in between sausage consumption. The Auckland Day 2 is when it really got to us. Nine sausages in one day really broke our spirits a little bit.

Yeah, you can follow the whole journey, the hits breakfast on Instagram, all the times we're going to be at those places and locations is up on there as well. Thank you very much for listening to the show. Go and enjoy Black Friday. Go to the local sports teams. Yeah, have yourself a great weekend. We've got to fill our mouths with the 29th sausage here at Bunnings Warehouse in Palmerston North.

We'll catch you tomorrow from 6.