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Episode Date: November 20, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we are live from Silverdale Bunnings Warehouse for our sausage sizzle tour! We chat to Jazz Thornton and Coterie burn Ben!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, it's the 21st of November, Jono and Ben podcast. We're live from Bunnings, Silverdale. We've kicked off our sausage sizzle tour of Aotearoa, every Bunnings warehouse. Having a sausage at every single one of them through New Zealand and it kicked off yesterday in Northland. Ben Boyce, just to pull back the curtain a bit, running a very busy schedule at the moment. You ended up with a pink eye after the weekend. Don't say pink, stop saying that. Is pink eye a bad thing? It is a bad thing, yeah.

Is it? I think it's a bad thing. Oh right, you've got a red eye. Stop saying that. Is pink eye a bad thing? It is a bad thing, yeah. Is it? I think it's a bad thing. Oh, right. You've got a red eye. Yeah. A normalised pink eye, mate. I don't know if I've got that, to be honest.

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

just to go, hey, you know, with your eyes, you don't want to take risks and stuff. If there's anything I can do to over the phone, maybe a Zoom, send a photo.

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

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

You can't have a burst blood vessel in your eye. You can't see a dot. There's nothing can happen. I'm going to be wearing an eye patch by the end of this thing. But that's okay. Because we're heading around the country. We're going to call on one-eyed Ben by the end of it yeah i'll be good with all the category fans the one-eyed category fans uh but is it sore because it's a little bit irritable but hey it's not like

there's nothing i've gone oh i did that and that's you know so that's the confusing thing it wasn't like she's like you've been lifting anything heavy or have you like did you get you know poked in the eye or something like that? And there's nothing to my recollection. But when you're like, no, I can't come in here, I can't do that time, I can't do this time, I can't do tomorrow, I can't do any day this week, and she's like, why? Why are you so busy? And you're like, oh, because we're eating a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse. Like, is that not a good enough excuse for you?

She's like, surely you can fall for it. Like, honestly, if you need to miss a Bunnings today to go to a doctor's appointment i can eat two sausages for you i'll do that for you why don't you just do that that's very kind of you why don't you just miss a couple of stores i might that's the way then i can't say i'm making a sausage yeah but yeah you can go well i had an eye problem that i needed to sort out which is a little more important than having a charity sausage i'm more than happy to go by myself for an hour or so you're very kind, alright you should just call them back I can't look at that thing anymore no anyway, we had a fun time yesterday in Northland travelling around having a sausage at every Bunnings

and we continue on today the wider Auckland region and who knew there were so many Bunnings warehouse stores in Auckland well our stomachs are about to find out and then we head throughout the rest of the country until Sunday this week when we wrap up in Queenstown, you can check out all of the dates and where we're going to be,

what times, et cetera. Text Bunnings to 4487. I'll stop talking. You enjoy the potty. Have a great day. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Broadcasting this morning from Bunnings Warehouse in Silverdale as a whole lot of adorable puppies just arrived.

I know. This is part of the Saving Hope Foundation. You can probably, listening to the show, you can hear the charity dripping out of your speakers because that's what we're doing. Going around Bunnings warehouses, having a sausage at every sausage sizzle at every Bunnings in Aotearoa and at every Bunnings. We're also raising money for every community group, different community groups. I know.

It's been so awesome. So let's kick into some of the highlights. The hits with Jono and Ben across Aotearoa. It's the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand. Yeah, 41 sausages is what we're trying to eat over the next, well, six days. We started yesterday and we headed up north and went around all the northern regions having sausages at every Bunnings warehouse store.

I must admit, Ben Boyce, heading into this, I was like a barbecue that's only been on for two minutes. north and went around all the northern regions having sausages at every Bunnings warehouse store. I must admit being boys heading into this I was like a barbecue that's only been on for two minutes lukewarm. I was lukewarm about this project you know I was but yesterday was joyous we kicked things off at the brand new Bunnings store in Mungify. At Mungify first store what's going on mate you get a call from home you're running in there you're getting picking up stuff. Problem is when you tell your family you're gonna be at every Bunnings store around the country, they think of things sporadically that they need from Bunnings.

So I end up doing running little errands. I've got some isopropyl alcohol. When Jono was like, I need some alcohol, I was like, it's 9.30 in the morning, but hey, I wouldn't put it past you. But yeah, what's this for? You just soak this through the bread. Works to treat, mate.

Real kick. And then I got a 3M hook, because Oscar, my son, wants to hang up the Christmas wreath through the bread. Works to treat, mate. Real kick. And then I got a 3M hook because Oscar, my son, wants to hang up the Christmas wreath on the door. Oh, right. Okay, good. He's gone early. He's gone early. He goes very early. Okay, so, and the alcohol's for?

And that's just for me to plough on through the day and have 40 more sausages. All right, good luck. As we went around, you sort of picked up, you know, shopping as you went around? Dishwashing tablets and other bunnings as well. Just go, go. And I'm going to get more texts as we go throughout the country. And then we had our first sausage, and it was electric, the atmosphere.

Sausage, and we are eating a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse in Aotearoa. This is number one. What do you say, Munger Five? Here we go. A smattering of applause. If you find better radio hosts Bunnings will beat it by 15%

as well. There you go. And you can tell. You just have the backing of the people. You can tell. No seriously we do. Everywhere we go as

you said before there's a different community group raising money with the sausage sizzle they're running them all day. We pop in for a wee bit and have our

sausage and it's awesome to see the communities come out and support each other and support us on what's going to be a huge journey this week. Trying to eat 41 sausages, 41 stores up and down the country. And we're at Bunnings Silverdale at the

moment so if you want to come down and see our sausages, you can. You're more than welcome. They'll be on the barbie come and have a sausage, come and see the adorable puppies from Saving Hope Foundation. And come and see these old dogs, Jono and Ben, battling away here. You can text Bunnings to 4487 at any stage. Or go to the hitstockcard.nz to find the list of all the Bunnings warehouses.

We'll be visiting this week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The All Blacks, a lot of talk about them yesterday. A draw against England to 25 all. Not what the team needed now, Ben. Not what the team needed. They were up with nine minutes remaining, 25-6, and England stormed on back.

And they were celebrating with the draw, weren't they, England? Yeah. Well, you know, there's just international rugby nowadays. Everyone's very competitive. I have no expertise to say that. It just sounds like something people would say. Now, you might hear a lot of dogs barking in the background, who let the dogs out

well it was the Saving Hope Foundation who are here at Bunnings today, we'll talk to them very shortly, because we are on our nationwide sausage sizzle tour Ben a sausage at every Bunnings in the country now there's 41 stores we need to travel around this week, having a sausage at every one from the top of the north to the bottom of the south

and we need some motivation as we go, and you may need some motivation this week as well, sausage at everyone from the top of the north to the bottom of the south and we need some motivation as we go, and you may need some motivation this week as well, so let's do it. It's just another motivational Monday. It's motivational, it's conversational, it's educational, it's inspirational. Ben, that's what we always say about this, isn't it? No one's ever said that about our radio show,

but why not? But John and Ben basically proudly present plagiarised cliches that were stolen off instagram these are people that can inspire you a lot better than us and beyonce the queen bee uh so this is some motivation straight from the beehive uh have a listen there will be wins and losses there will be tears and. You'll feel the shades of life deeply. Now with success comes challenges. With your wins, you may start to notice people spending a lot of energy trying to tear you down. Try not to take it personally. Unfortunately, it's something that comes along with success. Whenever

you feel like you're not in control or the world is against you, let that vulnerability motivate you into greatness. That's how I found my true self. There you go. Don't compare yourself to other people. Stop comparing me to Vin Diesel and Pitbull and Jason Statham and other good-looking bald guys. Stop comparing me, Ben. As we go along our sausage sizzle tour,

there's going to be success, and there's going to be people that are going to try and bring us down this week. There are. There's going to be the haters, and there's going to be wins and losses. Like the All Blacks. Like the All Blacks, that's right.

And the 41 sausages are going to be backed up in our system. I keep thinking, how are they going to navigate their way out of our bodies? And bread as well. Oh, there's a lot. Anyway, we're going to deal with that this week. You can have a lot of fun. There's going to be long-lasting health consequences from this.

Joining us literally on the road or through the airways every morning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. 660, of course, they played Eden Park over the weekend and there was an awesome moment. It was there in the crowd and it was incredible. They brought out the world champion winning Black Ferns. They're talking about history. moment it was there in the crowd and it was incredible they brought out the world champion winning Black Ferns. Yeah it was pretty cool. Machu Lechon, a 6'6", he even had those sunglasses on,

you know, the ones they've been wearing with the 2000, you know, 21 World Champs written on the sunglasses that Wayne Smith had that photo with. Hard to visually, you wouldn't want to drive in those. Yeah, because they've got, like, twink over the top of the sunglasses. Very, you know, it doesn't impair the vision. It reminds me of the Kanye era. Do we still talk about Kanye? He had the sort of the Venetian blind glasses,

which you purchased a pair of to try and get on there. Not very practical. I don't think they were polarised, those lenses. All right, let's get into other news. Ironically, we're in a Bunnings store. He's about to renovate the news. What's going on, Ben Boyce? Well, Tesla owner Elon Musk,

he's taken over Twitter. He's caused all sorts of internal problems there. Hundreds of workers quit last week. He's been sacking people left, right, and center. Yeah, he's taken over Twitter. He's caused all sorts of internal problems there. Hundreds of workers quit last week. He's been sacking people left, right. Yeah, he's sacked a whole lot. And then he said, oh, look, you've got to either turn up to work, you've got to work here or work, you can't be working from home. Some people that work there said the conditions,

they're extremely hardcore, was one of the quotes. And so some people have said that. What, making them come into the office is hardcore? You can't work from home. You've got to be in the office. You've got to do certain hours. You're a come into the office guy.? You can't work from home. You've got to be in the office. You've got to do certain hours. You're a come-into-the-office guy. Yeah, I think it's the best place to be working.

You and Elon Musk, you'd both be running your dictatorship, wouldn't you? Yeah, exactly. So Donald Trump got banned from Twitter. Obviously, he said some stuff a wee while ago that caused a few controversies around the world. So he got banned from the social media platform. And now they put a poll out on Twitter last week about whether they should reinstate Donald Trump. And 51% of the votes,

over 15 million people voted on this. And 51% said yes, put him back on. So they've reinstated the account. But now Donald Trump's gone, eh, I don't want to use it. Oh, that's sad. Surely they would have checked with Donnie before running the poll.

Yeah. Wouldn't you? He's got his own social media platform. Do you have any interest in being on here? No? Oh, then we won't do a voting campaign. 88 million followers he had before he was banned in 2021. And so they've reinstated his account.

But he's got his own platform right now, Truth Social, which I don't think is quite as popular as Twitter, that he started. But he's been saying it's been doing phenomenally well. Of course it is. And I'm going to carry on with that one. Which, I don't know, who's on Truth Social? I follow him. Big fan. You know my

feelings and thoughts. I was New Zealand's only pro-Trump broadcaster. That was a gag, obviously, and then it got a bit like, oh, actually, I probably shouldn't say that. Then you said you should button off the pro-Trump gag. We don't want people actually thinking that. We are in the middle of our sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, visiting all 41 Bunnings Warehouse stores in the country.

We'll tell you how. You can come down and see us and support some local charities in five minutes on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Black Friday this week. A Friday, they reckon, in other years up to 70% off deals. They're not too sure with the cost of living, if there's going to be that big of deals this year. But you had a problem with Black Friday, they reckon in other years up to 70% off deals. They're not too sure with the cost of living if there's going to be that bigger deals this year. But you had a problem with Black Friday, the fact that it's meant to be one day.

But the sales just... It's all spread out. It's all spread out. And then we've had Click Your Pieces Tuesday or something. And then there was another... Wasn't there another one like... Yeah, there's also Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday.

That's coming up on Monday after Black Friday. But it's meant to be just Monday. I like to buy my items at full price, okay? Well, if you find we're in Bunnings this morning, you know the rules. They'll beat it by 15%. Now, we are going to talk to the wonderful people from Saving Hope, the foundation. A lot of rescue puppies in here at the moment, Ben. Very adorable, aren't they?

Doing well, yeah. There was that lady who was running 101 Dalmatians. I think we're almost hitting the century of puppies in here this morning, but we'll talk to them very shortly. Have you noticed this time of year a lot of cookie time sales reps? You know, those I mentioned before, the fresh-faced Gen Zers peddling cookies coming into offices? Yeah, they're everywhere.

Often, yeah, right, in offices, outside of buildings as well. Went into the warehouse over the weekend. There was one outside. Would you like a free cookie? And then you get a free cookie. They lure you in and they taste it bloody delicious. Yeah, don't they?

They want to buy some more. They've got, what they have now is very clever. They've got this giant sample bin with separation pieces. Like, oh, you can try our hot chocolate

or you can try our new, you know, apricot one. Lots of different flavours now, eh? Oh, yeah. Salty caramel and all sorts of stuff. You like that, mate? Well, how about you get a whole... Anyway, the kids

have bullied me into buying a couple of bins worth, and I was like, how much are these kids earning? You know? It's taxing to get new grubby mitts on their earnings. Why are you doing an expose into the poor cookie time people? Just go and try and get themselves through university.

You're like, mate, what are they earning? They're out there trying to do stuff. It's not an expose, are you? Jeez, we should be doing this as a side hustle. So I went on to the Cookie Time website. Run slash own your own Christmas cookie business. All right, Pippa Wetzel, where's this fair go? You be part of an iconic Kiwi brand.

Okay, on average, how much? They're over a seven-week period. They gun it for seven weeks. Yeah. How much do you think, on average, they're earning?'re over a seven-week period. They gun it for seven weeks. Yeah. How much do you think, on average, they're earning? What, daily or for the whole time? Whole time. Oh, for seven weeks.

I don't know. Let's say, I'll lowball you so you can impress me. I'll say $1,000. $12,718. Ah. Seven weeks. Last year, the highest earner, $38,000. Wow.

That's awesome. That is seven weeks, and they sell it as, you know, gun it Wow. That's awesome. That is seven weeks and they sell it as, you know, gun it, that's your holidays, that's your bloody rhythm of mind,

you know, that is, we should be out there, Ben. We should be doing this. We should be hocking off, instead of eating sausages, we should be out there

peddling cookies. Couldn't trust Cookie Monster in that sales role though, could you? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're in the middle of our Bunnings Warehouse tour of New Zealand,

heading around every Bunnings Warehouse sausage sizzle. 41 sausages over this week. We started in Northland yesterday. Four Bunnings Warehouse stores over the course of the day. We even snuck in an extra sausage for some reason. Yeah, an unnecessary sausage. I don't know why we did that. We won't be making that mistake again.

That's for certain. The novelty hadn't worn off by then. But Ben Boyce, we went to the Northlands region, and we tried some of Northlands finest. You've got a red eye today for some reason. Is that anything to do with what we did in Northland? I don't think so. He's claiming he caught pink eye at 660.

I don't think it was that. Half his eyes are red like a demon. I don't know what I've done. Yeah, I've got a bunch. You've got a burst of blood. Yeah, maybe. I'm not sure. Well, you've just got to carry on in the Bunnings Warehouse Tour, mate. I don't know what I've done. Yeah, I've got a bunch. A burst of blood. Yeah, maybe. I'm not sure. Well, you've just got to carry on in the Bunnings Warehouse tour, mate.

You can't put eye drops in. I have been putting eye drops in. Yeah, you haven't done much, have you? No. Anyway, we'll continue. The ongoing saga of Ben's pink eye will keep you up to speed. But yeah, we were in the Mungify store, and they kindly let us on the loudspeaker,

which was a huge mistake. Hello, shoppers. Hello, shoppers. Hello, shoppers. Welcome to the new Bunnings Mangafai. If you'd like to see two low-rent radio hosts, please join Jono and or Ben in the paint aisle right now for a paint competition. Then we'll be heading to the sausage sizzle, raising money for the Mangafai Rotary.

Over to you, Ben. Oh, you pretty much said it all, but thanks for having us here. What a wonderful store. Pretty much said it all. Now, what we do is a paint competition holding paint tins out with straight arms. And Gerry, who would have been I won't age shame Jerry but he was over 60 he would have had gold card

he would have been getting free bus rides he smoked us. Wonderful core strength from Jerry. He did as well as that we also the good thing about the Bunnings Warehouse tour around the sausage sizzles in New Zealand is the fact that every Bunnings Warehouse sausage sizzle raised money for a different

community group. And we caught up with these guys from the Kitty Kitty Rugby Team. Here we are with the Kitty Kitty Rugby Team. They're fundraising at Bunnings today. We just had some kaitaia fire. It's dribbling down your chin. It's quite hot. I'm a little numb in the mouth.

I'm starting to see things. Now you wanted to be known as... Toby Bell. Toby Bell. Is that your real name? Yeah, that's my real name. Okay. I feel like it's not, but hey, we'll go with that.

Whoever you are, he's done some stuff. He needs to hide and go under a false name. And what position would you put Ben in? Ben? Probably in the front row. Probably prop. You know? No, no, I think you'd be great mate.

You've got the best figure for it. I'm quite chatty, I'm quite chatty. Can you chat in the scrums, is that okay? Maybe half back there. Okay, yeah, I can tell you that. What about Jono then? What were you putting in? Number 10, you know.

Playmaker, eh? Playmaker, yeah, playmaker. The playmaker. The playmaker. You playmaker. Playmaker, good. Controlling the game. I feel like they just want to make up some numbers.

Maybe Fozzie chucked me out at Twickenham. We might have had a different result. Plenty more from the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand up very shortly. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In the middle of our Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand, travelling around every Bunnings Warehouse to eat a sausage at every store. But on Friday, we caught up with the next big thing in New Zealand music, Coterie.

They're touring with 660 at the moment. You'll know this big song, Cool It Down. They're very good, very handsome, aren't they? Because they're all brothers. They're like the Maori version of handsome, aren't they? Ironically, we were in New Zealand over the weekend as well, I saw. But Coterie, as you said, they're all brothers. The four of them, we knew this coming into the interview,

but we thought we'd have a bit of fun. We'd flip a coin and one of us would have to ask them the question, how did they meet? Knowing, in fact, that we actually know they're brothers, but they wouldn't know the fact that we knew that. And you lost, John. I lost the flip. Now, I'd never met them before as well.

And, yeah, well, this is how it all went down. Kotori, welcome. No. What's good? Yeah, nice to see you guys. Thanks for having us, boys. Lovely. them before as well and uh yeah well this is how it all went down coterie welcome no no lovely now first time i've met you all and be huge fans how did you all meet we have the same parents yeah yeah the same mom and dad do you want to know how that works or are you yeah yeah brothers yeah actually yep sorry we've got to call it before one of us had to ask that awkward question yeah hi hi we're here for an interview for brothers one of us has to ask the question how did you make it yeah but yeah i guess you mean as brothers technically though sorry right? As brothers.

You know your parents. Who are you guys? What's your names? How did we meet? Nothing looks like it would stress you out. When was the last time you were stressed? Just before we were on the morning show and someone forgot our drum. So we had to use a water bottle as the drum.

Like the water cooler sort of container, right? You were performing on Breakfast TV. Yeah. They lost old drum. The Breakfast TV people lost it. No, not them. Those guys are fantastic. Some airline on a plane.

Oh, right. So it's gone. This is obviously before the concert this weekend, you know, with 660. So is there any issues with what you're going to have on stage or what? A water bottle. That must happen all the time for touring artists though. They must lose guitars and all sorts travelling.

Yeah, 100%. Well, this is the second tour we've ever been on. Both of them were with 660. Yeah. And we have lost gear every time we've travelled somewhere. Really?

Yeah. We actually sang the anthem at the Super Rugby finals and the morning we landed in Auckland, we found out we had no gear so we had to call the boys and we borrowed all of their stuff they see our cases with coterie and they just throw it off it's already on the plane they read the name and then they throw it off. It's on marketplace on Facebook. We'll stitch these guys up.

It's pretty surreal like last time I think I was chatting to you guys about how the fans kind of got you in touch with 660. It was kind of like the movement of the fans, getting you noticed. And now you're performing with them. The stadium's all over New Zealand. That's awesome. Crazy, yeah. We've kind of been just a powered by the people kind of band. So we're pretty lucky, pretty stoked, I guess. Actually, this is, I'm going to announce it.

I'm just going to say it. We have a song coming out with 660. Oh, wow. Awesome. So that's going to be out soon. Did you tell 660 you were going to announce this? No. We just secretly recorded them.

They don't even know they're on the song. It's just four minutes of water bottles. We've been illicitly recording them with our phones. We stitched it together. Here we are. Now, you guys also got something pretty cool I see online, Tats and Chats, which is a really cool idea. We're waiting for your boys episode

oh mate where are we down you were just saying it's just a very convoluted way of getting free tattoos I didn't say that so you're talking

to people like Chris Mack from 660 getting a tattoo at the same time and having a yarn absolutely we've had a few

cool people on there we had Ma Nonu pop in I saw him come in in the highlights as well. That's pretty surreal. And yeah, we've got Sean Johnson

coming in tomorrow. Wow. So yeah, if you guys are busy. Be very keen. Do you ever get guests who are going, ah, ah,

when you're trying to ask them questions? The other day, yeah. Literally exactly that. It's a great, it's also a great prank segment too. Yeah, 100%. Well, whilst people are getting tattooed,

they're kind of vulnerable, and then we throw on some hot sauce on the chip there, really vulnerable, and then we ask really invasive questions. Oh, wow. You're throwing hot sauce into the book? Hot sauce, chips, home address, phone number, everything. It's always good to see you guys.

It's always so trendy too. Yeah, very trendy. Yeah, it's really like it. How are we up our game a little bit? Yeah, no. 41-year-old men can't up their game, mate. Life's over for us. They lost their luggage, so I've been wearing this for three weeks now.

When you're travelling on the road, like we've done a few trips away recently, and the biggest bugbear for me is your washing. Juggling washing. No, we don't wash. Just keep rolling. I think I saw that. There you were there last time you were in washing. No, we don't wash. Just set the key. I think I saw that. There you were in there last time you were in there.

I think your mum was wearing that. Jenny was wearing that. Awesome. I wonder if I can find it. It's a beautiful blouse. It's a beautiful blouse. Cheers, boys. Have a good one.

Thanks, legends. That's Kodori. You can catch him on tour with 660 as they head around the country. Hey, next, after 7 o'clock, the Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand continues. How many sausages did we eat yesterday, and how many more do we have to go as we try and eat a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, we are in the middle of something pretty epic. We spoke to a guy yesterday, Josh Eastwood is his name. He's from Australia. Now I found out what he did online. I got a sausage in bread from every Bunnings Store in the country. I was like, hey, what if we, you and I, Jono, became the first people to go around every Bunnings Warehouse store in New Zealand and had a sausage?

Yeah, I know you're going to try and guilt me into it. Well, you know, I want to celebrate, you know, the famous Bunnings Warehouse sausage sizzle, but I also want to meet the community behind the barbecue, local sports teams, schools, kindergartens and more. Ben, I'm going to bring on someone close to your heart. My daughter Sienna. Well, she was the starring role of a bread commercial, wasn't she,

where she had to sit on the beach and eat sausages. I got known as Sausage Girl. So you guys will get known as Sausage Man and Sausage Man. Sausage Man and Sausage Man. So I'm like, let's do it. Seven days, let's see if we can do it. And you said, I'll just rattle through the list. It's two o'clock.

Hamilton to Rapa. 4.30 to 5pm. Hamilton to 10. Fielding. 10.30 to 11. Polidua. 1.30 to 2. Petoni.

There you go. They've had to hire a helicopter. Wait, a helicopter? So I want to put a wee challenge to you. I've got some names of sausages, and I want you to seamlessly try and weave them into the conversation. I've hit a snag. Taking my pet for a walk yesterday.

30 degree conditions. Ended up with a hot dog. Taking my pet for a walk yesterday. 30 degree conditions. Ended up with a hot dog. Yeah, hot dog. All of a sudden he's like, oh, I need to emcee a real estate award. Real estate awards in years to do, you know. Tony Street, broadcaster, good morning. Good morning, John O'Prior. Very happy to take over.

So giving, Tony Street, hey. Instead of filling in for me at the real estate awards, how about you fill in for me filling your stomach full of sausages next week? Oh, I'm no good handling wieners, I'm sorry. Apologies about Tony Street and her potty mouth there. Lowering the tone, lowering the tone of this highbrow broadcast. But thank you, Tony, for filling in at the awards for me. But this morning we're at Bunnings Silverdale.

Many great charities, all the community groups, they can get money from the sausage sizzles that they we're at Bunnings Silverdale. Many great charities, all the community groups, they can get money from the sausage sizzles that they do here at Bunnings. And we're going to talk later on in the show Saving Hope. Loads of puppies here. Screeeds of puppies. I've never seen so many puppies. All up for adoption, Ben. They are very cute. We'll find out how you can

adopt a puppy very shortly. But as you said before, we're heading around the country having a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. Yesterday, we headed to the far north. a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. Yesterday, we headed to the far north. Four stores, four Bunnings Warehouse stores yesterday. So we're four sausages down, just 37 to go over the week. Not too bad. I mean, four sausages is just like a normal barbecue.

That's no feat yet. Today's nine sausages. Yeah, around the wider Auckland region. I don't know why Bunnings had to put so many Bunnings stores in the wider Auckland region, but there we go. That's what we're dealing with. And yesterday we spoke to the sea cadets who were having a sizzle in Whangarei. Holly from the sea cadets.

We're in Whangarei and you're fundraising today. Yes, we are. We're fundraising for new sails for our boats. Well, you do need new sails for the boats. Is that what you said? Yeah, yeah. So it's really important for our boats that need new sails for the boats, is that what you're saying? Yeah, so it's really important for our boats that we have sails and we have one

that unfortunately has a large rip in it, which isn't really helpful when we're out on the water, so we are fundraising at the moment to get some new sails for our boat. Bunnings always has a sail, there's a little brigade there. Sorry, I was thinking on that one, I was thinking twice whether I should do it or not, but I did.

And he followed through, was it everything you had imagined, Holly? It was perfect. It was perfect. So what do the Sea Cadets do? Yeah, so the Sea Cadets are aged between 13 to 18 years old. We do a range of different things. Obviously sailing being one of them. We do drill, marksmanship, seamanship, first aid.

Can you kill a man? No comment. That means they could kill a man, Ben. John O's a member of the Space Cadets, which is not quite as sought after as the Sea Cadets. But we eat a lot of sausages. Fair enough, fair enough. Yes, this is one of the many community groups raising money on the Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand

with the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle. Oh, we're filling up our stomachs and filling up the bank accounts of community groups, Ben. They're filling up hearts. And hearts. Now, this morning, we're in the Bunnings Warehouse store in Silverdale. We're about to head around the country and take on as many sausage sizzles as we can. 41 sausage sizzles every Bunnings Warehouse store in Silverdale. We're about to head around the country and take on as many sausage sizzles as we can.

41 sausage sizzles every Bunnings Warehouse store. Not as we can. We will take them on. We will swallow that sausage, Ben Boyce, and enjoy every single one of them. We are at, as Ben mentioned, the Silverdale one. And Silverdale Bunnings has got hordes of puppies here. Local community group, Saving Hope, who have got rescue dogs. How many are up for adoption? 163, I think, at the moment. So we'll tellaving Hope who have got rescue dogs. Yeah. How many have for adoption?

163, I think, at the moment. So we'll tell you how you can help a dog. Very, very cute dogs very shortly on the hits. I bought my dog actually both to Bunnings because you can bring new dogs into Bunnings. Seems like a wild rule they've got there, but it's adorable. Yeah, and he enjoyed it when he was in Bunnings Warehouse. But the thing he'd never encountered before was an escalator. And one of those little travellers, and the dog sort of put his

front paws on, and then the people at stage he was like, what, what, what? He's like doing an ab workout. He's like, what the heck is going on? I was like, mate, just get on. Very confusing for Bo, but he loved it when he got into Bunnings Warehouse. So I bumped into someone from school. Haven't seen oh jeez, when was school? Like 1943.

So, you know, decades ago I was at school. Saw them on Saturday at the supermarket. And he was like, oh, you guys should come over. We should have a catch. It was one of those ones where you're caught up. Yeah. And then you're in the chat going, we should have a catch up. And you're like, we've covered off decades of conversation,

what you've been up to, what I've been up to for, you know, and we've done it well, but anyway. But they wanted another catch-up. I did that to one lady once and said, we should catch-up, and she's like, well, we just did that. And I was like, yeah, you're right, and it was a great way to end it. You are a classic for a we'll catch-up soon, and you never do. I know.

That's your full stop on a conversation. We'll catch-up soon. In the history of saying we'll catch-up soon, have you ever caught-up soon? No, no, not many times. But I've heard you say it hundreds of times. Yeah, we'll catch up soon. In the history of saying we'll catch up soon, have you ever caught up soon? No, not many times. But I've heard you say it hundreds of times. Yeah, you're right. It's a great full stop on the conversation. But he said, which I thought was an interesting proposition, you should come over and have

a spa. Oh. Oh. Yeah. And I was like, oh, okay. That's an interesting invite invite it's essentially saying to who someone come over to my house and have a bath with me it's an odd in your talks yeah but it's such an intimate setting the spa pool isn't it i mean you're right i mean awesome they got a spa

and you know going over and having a spa with someone is a nice thing to do but it is a weird thing to come over come over get 95 naked and sit in some hot water with me come over and have a spa it is an odd like if i hadn't seen you for a number years hey man you should come over yeah like family members that's fine even extended family and even if you're like people coming around for a barbecue or something like that you go hey we've got a spa if you want to bring your togs you can sort of thing yeah it's not like you must come over for a spa it's not the sole reason I'd invite someone round yeah it left me

a little going what is this what is it and you sort of it leads you to saucy areas in your mind why is he wanting me and my wife

to come over for a spa thank you Joel you know you get over there you see Joel playing some sensual music there for you Kenny G's blowing on the saxophone

and yeah and you get hot and red you know you get all flush. I can do two minutes in a spa at Tops before I just sit on the top of it and cool down. So it's going to be a worthless exercise.

Well, maybe at the end of the week, once we hit every Budding's Warehouse store in the country, you can have a nice spa. Well, the weekend is free. Yeah, yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Football World Cup in Qatar started today. The first game, Qatar went down 2-0 to Ecuador this morning,

the first game of the Football World Cup. Oh, not Ecuador. Very exciting. But the Football World Cup has had a bit of talk over the weekend because it's played in Qatar, a Muslim nation, and it promised the organisers, FIFA, that Budweiser, who's the big sponsor, I think they paid $120 million New Zealand dollars to have their beer there. They were like, yeah, you can sell alcohol in the games

for this World Cup, because normally they couldn't do it. Two days out, a couple of days out from the World Cup, they're like, uh-huh, no, actually no. So Budweiser actually tweeted going, well, this is awkward, over the weekend. And they have, there's a picture that's circulating around online of all the Bud, because they had to obviously fly the alcohol in to Qatar, and

it's stored in a warehouse sky high, just sitting there, and so now Budweiser have said, well, whatever nation wins the tournament, we'll give all this beer to that nation, so that you can have 0% alcohol at their ground. Yes, you're right, yeah, and I think in some corporate areas, there might be some sparkling champagne or something that can happen. What's the point in going if you can't get hammered? Hey, that's football, That's why you're going. It's going to be awesome.

I mean, the Football Cup is amazing. It's incredible watching the world's best footballers play. I'm watching a documentary at the moment on FIFA on Netflix about how corrupt the whole thing is. There's a lot of talk about the corruption and, you know, countries paying FIFA to go and hold the tournament there because obviously there's a financial windfall

for the host nation. But let's not talk about that now. Let's focus on the positives. Let's gloss over the corruption because Gary has come to Silverdale Bunnings. Gary, lovely to meet you face to face. Morning guys. We've spoken to you many times on the radio before. We really appreciate you listening in the mornings.

All good. Now Gary, first time you met Ben, he offended you. I did offend you, didn't I? Yeah, what happened, Gary? He said the S word. S word. Now, this is not the S word that my boss would probably get annoyed with me saying on the radio. This is a word that Gary would get annoyed with because instead of calling the tournament football, I used the other word.

I don't even know if I can say it around. No, you can't. He called it soccer. I'll say it. I'll get the blast word. I don't even know if I can say it around. No, you can't. He called it soccer. I'll say it. I'll get the blast wrong. Oh, here we go. He said soccer, and Gary, you were mortified. Gary was switching it.

Oh, sorry. I heard a squeak in the background. Gary's like, I'm going to be listening to another radio station after this. Yeah, no, Gary, so you're back in the English, obviously. Have they ever won a football World Cup? Years ago, right? 66. Yeah.

1966. And they thought it was all over. It has been ever since. Yeah, right. So have you been holding out hope this year? Not particularly, no. That's the attitude that'll win you a Football World Cup. It's New Zealand's attitude to next year's Rugby World Cup.

Not particularly holding out much hope. So what do you think of it being held in Qatar? I think you brushed on that one with the financial kickback aspect of things, because it should never be there. Well, I know, because David Beckham, Golden Balls, is an ambassador, isn't he? He got paid 10 mil by Qatar, and

obviously there's some beliefs towards homosexuality in Qatar. And you're saying a famous comedian in the UK basically called him out out because David Beckham has done a lot of great stuff with the gay community, posting a lot of stuff over the years, being part of magazines and articles and stuff like that. He's like, you've done some

great work, but now you're sort of in a relationship now with Qatar. So he put up Not a same-sex one. No, but he put up some money and said he'd like David Beckham to speak out about it, otherwise he'd shred all these thousands and thousands of dollars. If he doesn't, Beckham didn't. Didn't speak up. So all this money

has been shredded. I know, but Beckham's like, oh God, mate, can I get back to that after the tournament? It's 10 million bucks. Can we let it slide? I have done a lot of good stuff, can we just focus on that? Yeah, there'll be a couple of shaky months during this football tournament, but then I'll get back to the good stuff. It's 10 million. Alright, Gary'll be a couple of shaky months during this football tournament, but then I'll get back to the good stuff. Oh, jeez. And it's 10 million.

All right, Gary, who's with us today, the listener. Oh, great. Who's going to win? Who would you say is going to win the Football World Cup? One country. I would say one of the European countries is probably going to be prominent,

so I'm not going to... You're not going to name, all right. No, I'm going to say Portugal. Oh. Ronaldo. It's a good show. Yeah, Portugal, mate. They're taking it out.

Record this, Producer Joel. Portugal? No chance. I know nothing about football. No chance. I don't think Ronaldo can even make Manchester United's top team at the moment. But hey, we might come back through. It won't be soon.

This has been a light dusting of the Football World Cup and some hard-hitting topical issues with Jono and Ben. Your chance to win $5,000 not too far away this day. We're in the middle of our sausage sizzle tour of New Zealand, heading around every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. 41 stores. We started in the north yesterday. We're going to the bottom of the south by the end of the weekend.

41 sausages and bread. How are you feeling? Four sausages down. How am I feeling after four sausages? Well, just normal. Okay. It's like four, four. Yeah, you're right.

I'd eat four at your house for a barbecue. Yeah, okay. Today's a big day. We go around a lot of Auckland stores, nine sausages and bread throughout the day, so we're going to get back into the sausages. Yesterday, do you know what I did stupidly on Saturday night? I was at 660, which was amazing, and then one of my daughters was like, should we have a Fritz's Wiener which is like the big

sausages and bread. Oh it is the Ferrari of sausages. And I was like yeah and then I started eating it and I was like uh oh I'm eating this which I love but I'm gonna why am I having this before a week of sausages. Now you're down at the grassroot sausage mate. A humble fundraiser

sausage and we'll be getting back into them very shortly. You know what I noticed here too at the Bunnings Silverdale? You go into the lavatory public restroom, there's a shower. I could come in here and shower if I wanted. I did, I did, I just had a shower. We started yesterday in the far north for the first sausage at Bunnings Mungify. Sausage and we are eating a sausage at every Bunnings warehouse in Aotearoa. This is number one. What do you say, Mungify? Here we go.

A smattering of applause. If you find better radio hosts, Bunnings will beat it by 15% as well. Thank you for shopping at Bunnings. Now, fever pitch. You know, forget the Football World Cup opener. That is what fever pitch sounds like, Ben. The nation are behind us.

It's awesome because every Bunnings warehouse sausage sizzle raise money for different community groups, helping out the local communities as well. And we've met some great people raising money and also great people at Bunnings as well. Yeah, we went to Kaikohe yesterday and Jo, the wonderful Jo who runs the Kaikohe store, we had a conversation with her.

Ben, you bumped into some locals and they coined a phrase that you thought was common colloquialism. Yeah, the first person I spoke to in Kaikohe... Jeez, I said a lot of words then that I didn't think I was going to nail. Some of them kind of made sense. Did I nail them all? Yeah, about 70% of what you said made sense. But you're right. The first person that I bumped into in Kaikōi said,

what are you doing in Kai Vegas? So I was like, oh, maybe this is a thing. Everyone calls it Kai Vegas. So I said that to Joe. Joe, thank you for having us. You're welcome. Joe, are you happy to have us? Oh, absolutely.

Very thankful that you're taking your time to come up here. In the rain. It's raining, but you've given us free hats and free sausages. Yeah, we're all about the free sometimes. Yeah, I know. Then you were a little worried. A car pulled up and they said,

how much of the sausages? I said free. And you're like, do you know what you've done? What have we done? Are they gonna get up? It's probably gonna be a whanau gathering now. Yeah, yeah. I arrived in town in Kaikohe

and the first person pulled over and said, what are you doing in Kai Vegas? And then I came up to you, Jo, and you're like, I've never heard Kai Vegas before. Absolutely not. Like I said before, I've been called a lot of things, but not Kai Vegas. There you go. So don't go calling it Kai Vegas when you're there. It's not a thing.

Maybe it was another visitor going, oh, what are you doing in Kai Vegas? We're passing through Kai Vegas. We like adding Vegas to anything, don't we? We do. Ash Vegas, Rota Vegas as well. And we're in Silver Vegas this morning. Silverdale, come on down and see us. A lot of puppies here.

Saving Hope Foundation, the community organisation. And if you want to text Bunnings to 4487, you can find out where you're going to be visiting a Bunnings warehouse in your town or city as we make our way right around the country eating 41 sausages, seven days, on the Bunnings Warehouse Sausage Sizzle Tour of New Zealand. 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 on The Hits. You match all five words, you can win $5,000. But we give away money along the way. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on The Hits.

You match all five words, you can win $5,000. But we give away money along the way. And this morning we're in Bunnings Warehouse in Silverdale. We're going to every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country to eat a sausage. And the sausage sizzles, which are there for the community, Ben. Yeah. The community, putting immunity in the community. And Saving Hope is one of the community organisations that benefits from the Bunnings Sausage Thistle.

And Janine, from Saving Hope, you're going to play five words. Oh, no pressure. A lot of pressure. No, I won't lie. There's a lot of pressure, Janine. Now, tell us about Saving Hope because you've got many adorable puppies here today. Well, we take on puppies. We have got the most amazing team.

I'm absolutely amazed at everyone that's tuned out today. So these are the rescue dogs? These are rescue pups that come into our care, and then they go into foster, and then we find forever homes. We've got 163 at the moment. Wow. Looking for homes. Looking for homes.

We've got eight more pups coming in tomorrow, a litter of three, and a litter of two. They are adorable puppies there right now. So you've got a group of people here who will look after the dogs, foster them until they're adopted out. Yep. Yeah, and it's expensive, right, to look after dogs, to give dog food, vet bills and stuff

while you're waiting for them to find their forever home. Yes, our vet bills are normally about $70,000 a month. Jeez, and dogs just bring out the best. And a lot of people come here, some hardened tradies with neck tattoos, and they're like, oh, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, They're just adorable. So if people want to donate to your wonderful organisation, how can they do so, mate?

Well, we've actually a trialling text to make a donation. The number is 3493 and I just put donation and it's actually helping us to feed the pups, pay for the vet bills. 3493. You can also buy a sausage

today from Bunnings Warehouse in Silverdale. That money will go towards Saving Hope as well and if you're in the position to look after a dog, get in touch as well. So there's some very adorable puppies. Well, hopefully we can win some money for your great organisation. Now, Janine, who do you want to send

to the soundproof booth to match words with? Oh, wow. Oh, I don't think she knows your name. She's signalling Ben. She's going, oh, well, Ben's going in. We'll send him off into the watering aisle of Bunnings, aka the soundproof booth this morning. Janine, let's get some words out of your head.

First word you think of, Janine, when I say sizzle. Sausage. Sausage. Word number two, Janine, is tongs. Kitchen. Kitchen tongs. Tool. Word number two. Spanner. Kitchen, tongs. Tool. Word number three.

Spanner. Spanner, beautiful. Number four this morning, Janine. Serviettes. Party. Party, serviettes. And outdoor. The fifth and final word.

First word that comes into your head. Couch. Outdoor couch, because you're looking at one right now. I am. We are under a wonderful sort of begola situation here in the outdoor furniture section of Bunnings, Silverdale. Well done. You played a good game, Janine.

We'll get Ben back out of the soundproof booth. Will this money be going to Saving Hope? It will be going to Saving Hope. See all those dogs there, Ben? That's who you're doing it for, mate. No pressure. No pressure. Okay.

All right. Let's try and get five words out of Ben's mouth to match with Janine. Word one. $25. Sizzle. Oh sausage. There you go. Janine you've got 25 big ones in the account.

Are we moving forward to the $50 round? Okay. Yeah I think we'll do that. Word two. $50. Okay I said to Janine50 round. Okay. Yeah, I think we'll do that, yeah. Word two, $50. Okay, I said to Janine tongs. Tongs. The tong to tong tong tong song. What would you say?

Kitchen? Yes! There we go, that's good. There's $50, Janine. Are we going to risk that money? Yes. Okay, so if we get this wrong, we get nothing? Well, if we get it wrong,

I'll put it in. Oh, you're already doing enough. Yeah, Janine, mate. No. Enough. I'll put it in. No pressure. Okay, let's go to the $100 word.

Word three, $100. Okay, let's... It's tool. Okay, tool. Something's in the works, Ben. Eh? Oh, I just thought about something else we've got to do after the show. Something's in the works, Ben. Hey? Oh, I just thought about something else we've got to do after the show. Something's in the works, Ben.

Is the spanner in the works? Is the spanner in the works? Yes. It's a lot easier when you give me some sort of clue. That's good. Don't do that forever, Janine. Oh, thank you. You're doing it for the dogs.

Okay, should we try and win you $500? Okay, let's go to the next round. Word four, $500. Server yes. Coming to my party this week? What's that? Oh, another thing I need to talk to you about after the show. I'm having a party.

I'd like to lock in party then. Janine, you've got 500 bucks. I think we tap out there. I'd like to lock in party then. Yes! All right. Janine, you've got $500. Oh, have I? I think we tap out there. There'll be a lot of controversy if we carry on and keep giving you some clues. I'm more corrupt than FIFA, mate. Are you happy with $500?

Yes, and if I have to put $5,000 in, it would be a bit hard. Okay, we're going to give you $500. How's that sound? Oh, amazing. Janine, we're going to give that to Saving Hope. Oh, well, you're doing fantastic work, Janine. You're getting a bit emotional there. I usually do. Yeah.

And if you want to help out Janine and her wonderful group, Saving Hope, just text 3493 to make your donation. You keep doing God's work, Janine. We love your work. Well, I have to say thanks to our team, Bunnings, and you guys for being here today. Most importantly, thanks to Jono and Ben. Thanks to Jono and Ben. Why you always make it all about yourself.

There we go. Janine got the script. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits boarding call. We've been getting people on the draw for the last couple of weeks for that amazing dream family holiday to Anaheim. Flights for four, accommodation passes to Disneyland, $10,000 cash and more.

And it's all thanks to House of Travel, Fiji Airways and Visit Anaheim. Now, Kirsten was called up by Brad and Laura on Friday afternoon. She was the grand winner of this amazing trip and she joins us right now. Kirsten, good morning. Hi, good morning. I can hear the dogs in the background. Oh, yeah, we're in Bunnings Warehouse in Silverdale this morning and there's a lot of dogs, a lot of cute dogs down here this morning. Hi, good morning. I can hear the dogs in the background. Yeah, we're in Bunnings Warehouse in Silverdale this morning, and there's a lot of dogs, a lot of cute dogs down here this morning, Jono.

Problem is, when you're broadcasting, a lot of cute dogs makes for a lot of cute noise as well, Kirsten. Yeah. Tell you what, adorable puppies. Do you want us to, how many do you want? Mate, we're hocking them off today. How many puppies are you after? Well, I can't because I don't off today. How many puppies are you after?

Well, I can't because I'm going to Disneyland and I don't want the babies to do puppies for their sake. She's got to go and see Goofy, another dog. Yeah. So you won the Hits Sporting Call on Friday. You're going to Disneyland. It's the family trip of a lifetime. Anaheim Disneyland. Has it sunk in?

I'm still in shock, to be honest. Yeah, still in shock. Now, what does it mean to you? What does this holiday mean to you, Kirsty? Oh, it don't mean, it doesn't mean anything. It means a lot. It means, I've never been out of the country.

I've got two granddaughters that would absolutely fall apart. They don't know about it yet. I've kept it granddaughters that would absolutely fall apart I don't know about it yet I've kept it close to my chest because I suppose between my mum and my sister but my sister knows her way around the airport so I'm sort of living that way

my mum's living her life so I don't know how good that would be but yeah I still haven't quite made up my mind I'm still honestly in shock. So you'll take the grandkids away. That'll be such an incredible experience for you and the grandkids. Oh, amazing.

I just, yeah, I'm just going to shock. Like, we've been to the pools and things like that, you know, that they just wouldn't really get away. Hey, you said they don't know. You realise this is on the radio. Hopefully they don't listen to us then. I mean, we want them to listen to us, but... It's been three days.

It sounds like you still really haven't come to terms with the enormity of the prize. I honestly haven't. To be honest, I've never had money, or, you know, as I've been on an aeroplane, I've never been able to give them that sort of stuff. So, yeah. Oh, jeez.

You're really going from zero to 100 and never been on a plane going to LAX. You go to Anaheim, you go to a hotel, you go to Transylvania, you've got $10,000. It's going to be incredible. Every time I wake up, I just can't believe it. I feel like I didn't sleep for too long. Hardly, yeah. $10,000 it's gonna be incredible Neither did been over the weekend But Kirsten of really it makes me emotional to hear someone like yourself who really deserves this trip to actually get it It's a trip of a lifetime. It's amazing honestly I don't know what to say

to be honest. You've said enough and I'm sure there's many people listening going, who are probably in the draw saying well that couldn't have gone to a better whanau. I'm just so grateful so grateful. That's right, well all you need to do is pick us up

some novelty Mickey Mouse ears. That's all he wants, okay? Anything else you want, Ben? No, that'll be great. I just want you to have a great time and share some wonderful memories with your family. Thank you so much. I'll bring you back those ears. You're very welcome.

Thanks so much, of course. The House of Travel, Fiji Airways and Visit Anaheim. You can get all the details. I just want to thank all the sponsors, like the radio station and just everyone who put anything into helping this

to come to fruition. I'm just so grateful. It makes us grateful to hear you. This is so, yeah, and how much it means to you. Yeah, have a great trip. Yeah, thank you so much. Now, Jazz Thornton, you know her. She won Dancing with the Stars in New Zealand.

She's a huge social media influencer, does great work for mental health in New Zealand. Yeah, millions of followers on TikTok, and she caused a problem. Jazz, you created an international incident. New Zealand-B Zealand British relations have been at an all-time low. I'm so sorry.

So what did you do? You got sent a chocolate from a friend from the UK? Yeah, so she was visiting New Zealand and bought me a bag of different British treats, and in it was the cherry chocolate orange. Oh my gosh, is that right, Jez? And so I just unboxed it on video

because that's what I do. And apparently did it very, very wrong and woke up the next day to just, it had gone crazy overnight. But yeah, all Brit media kind of picked it up and I had to apologise. You were everywhere. I mean, the Land Bible,

which is the backbone of this radio show, they provide a lot of content for our show. They were across it because you ate the orange chocolate. You kind of bit into it like an apple where you're meant to, you knock it and the slices separate and then you eat them like orange pieces. Have either of you actually ever seen these in New Zealand? No. No, so I see why you did this.

I see why you did it. Because everyone's been like, oh, but they're in the warehouse. And I'm like, who goes grocery shopping in the warehouse? The warehouse probably hoped a few see why you did it. Because everyone's been like, oh, but they're in the warehouse. And I'm like, who goes grocery shopping in the warehouse? The warehouse probably hoped a few more people would do it. Oh, yeah.

Apparently they're selling out in New Zealand stores now. Like, it's gone crazy. Terry's Chopper Orange messaged me on Instagram and were like, thanks for the publicity.

Oh, wow. So you're like, well, where's my, mate, you need to be the face of this orange chocolate. There's conversations happening. Who knows?

Who knows what's going to happen? Maybe your first thing should be, well, can we just turn it into a simple bar that I know how to negotiate? Yes, it's so complicated. And no one, like, looks at a food object and you go, you know how I'm going to eat this? I'm going to smash it first. Like, it's not our natural instinct. So, of course, we didn't know.

I do remember back in the day at school with the Mellow Puff, there were a lot of kids would smash it on their head and instinct so of course we didn't know i do remember back in the day at school with a mellow puff there were a lot of kids would smash it on their head and then sort of pick it apart but that wasn't always the go-to way that was always the deranged student too smashing it on their head what was what's been the uh the feedback you've had like how many messages would you say oh thousands upon thousands upon thousands like it's been crazy i think every single like news outlet in the UK has covered it, all of the big ones in Wales, Ireland, obviously Daily Mail and stuff.

It's been on all of their night news and their morning shows. He been on the BBC? Probably, yeah. It's literally like, if you type in Jazz Fountain into Google now, the first bloody option that comes up is Jazz Thornton Orange. Chocolate Orange. You're like, I won Dancing with the Stars, I do such great work for mental health in New Zealand, Voices of Hope,

and now the first thing is chocolate. You're eating chocolate wrong. Your Wikipedia's now changed to Jazz Thornton Chocolate Monster. No, no. I just changed that now. So you had to issue a sort of a formal apology just to keep the relations between New Zealand and the UK okay? Yes, yeah, I did issue a formal apology.

You know, everyone was very offended. People were saying, you know, the whole of England cried, that people had to go into trauma therapy because of this. So I did cause, you know, a lot of hurt and a lot of pain in the United Kingdom. And they're just getting over the Queen, mate. I know. Yeah. I know.

I did do a video being like, look, I do have an award from the Queen. So, you know, surely she forgives me. And then everyone was like, no, she's coming back from her grave. She takes that award away from you. Oh, Jess, we love your work. And well done on making things right. I think anyone in the same situation would have probably done the same thing in New Zealand.

Yes. Yeah, I agree. I feel like all of New Zealand now should just make the exact same video just to piss off the Brits. Good on you, Jazz. Have a good one. Thanks, you too.

That's Jazz Thornton, who made international news for some unorthodox eating. Yeah, so we want to open the phones right now. 4487 on the text, 0800 the hits. Do you tackle food in an unorthodox manner? Are you eating a sausage sideways? Which would look unusual. Maybe you eat the bread first from the sausage sizzle.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben in the middle of eating a sausage at every Bunnings Warehouse store in the country. We're about to have sausage number five before nine o'clock this morning. But we're talking unorthodox eating. Some unusual things you do when you're eating. A guy we used to know, Chris, remember he would not let anything touch on the plate.

Yeah, he had to separate. It was kind of like apartheid on his plate. He had to separate all the foods. He'd never mix it. Like if he had a dinner with say meat and mashed potatoes or vegetables he would never touch. They'd sit in their own little ecosystem and he would eat one thing at a time. Yeah.

So he'd tackle the peas in one hit. He couldn't combine them all. No. Which yeah, it was a very systematic way of eating. Very disciplined and I just saw someone before, never seen this before, at the Bunnings Sausages here, sauced under the sausage. Oh. Not on top.

I'll try that later. And apparently it saves sauce around the lips. Putting it under the carriage. There you go. I'll sauce you underneath later on today, Ben Boyce. Under my carriage, I'm good. Let's go to the phones. Unorthodox Eating.

Jeremy, you're on. Welcome, mate. How are you? Yeah, good, mate. How are you? Yeah, good, mate. How are you? Yeah, good. Lovely to have you on, Jeremy. What are you unorthodoxing while you're eating?

With the old corn on a cob, I eat it a row at a time. Oh, that would be quite tricky to eat because it's very narrow in those rows of corn. Yeah, yeah. Kind of just get that first row out and then sweet as we go. Yeah, just sort of nibbling it like a little ferret or something. Just one row, one little row. How long does it take you to finish a cob?

Oh yeah, it takes a while. Still going from last Christmas. I imagine you're dragging the tail end at the dinner table. Yeah, that's right. The end's up all nice and clean and you don't have to pick all the crud out of dinner table. Yeah, that's right. It ends up all nice and clean, and you don't have to pick all the crud out of your teeth and stuff, and pick a date.

Yeah, I mean, I do love corn, but it's got a lot of after effects, doesn't it? You're right, Jeremy. Thanks for your call, mate. Appreciate you listening. That's very fascinating. Shelley, we'll get you on. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, unorthodox eating.

What are you doing? Hi, good morning. Stake and cheese pie, or mince and cheese pie, ideally. Take the lid off it, eat that first. Then with preferably a teaspoon, scoop out the inside and then put a tomato sauce on the bottom and there you go. So you're always making a little bowl, a little bowl of the pastry and eating like you would cereal,

but you're eating the mince and cheese like that with a spoon. That's right, yep. Deconstructing a pie. And it tastes better. You've got to have the teaspoon with it. And why? Why does it taste better? I don't know.

You eat that little bit of pastry at the end. The pastry bowl is delicious. Yeah, right. You're just getting more out of your pie, more bang for your buck. Hey, we appreciate you listening this morning, Shelley. You're going to have a wonderful day. And we'll continue on our unorthodox eating of nonstop sausages, Ben, all week. Until Sunday.

We don't stop until Sunday. We started yesterday. And I said to Behart, it's only six days to go. He's like, no, mate, seven. It's a lie. It's a big mountain of sausage to climb, but we will ride that sausage. You can text Bunnings to 4487 if you want to find

out where we're going to be, in your town or city, at a Bunnings warehouse. Weather around at the moment, thunder and rain for pretty much the whole week on and off, and there was a lot of rough weather at 6.60 on the weekend. They were at Eden Park, it was incredible

and one of the coolest moments. Did anyone get electrocuted? That was my concern when I saw it raining I was like man, Chris Mack's going to get bloody electrocuted. Because it was thunder and lightning for a little bit I'll get to that in just a second You're like don't jump ahead on your thunder and lightning gear mate, you're like I've got a system, I've got an order and I'm sticking to it

Well only because I started talking about one of my favourite moments as I'll get to this was when they brought out the World Cup winning Black of my favourite moments, as I'll get to this, was when they brought out the World Cup winning Blackfans on stage. Then we'll get to the Thunder and Lightning. Here it was with 660. They're talking about history. Some close friends of ours made some history in the stadium last week.

I think they're here right now. Can we shine a light on the roof right now? Open City, give it up for your Black Ferns. Was that before or after the Thunder? That was after the Thunder. Which you're getting too short. They sang the greatest over 660 with the trophy. The whole team? There was a bunch that sang, probably about 10 or 12 members of the team,

which was pretty cool. I think some were at the World Rugby Awards as well, too, the squad at the moment. That would be, that's a wonderful, wonderful recognition for the Black Ferns, but that would be my worst nightmare. In front of a stadium with people having to dance. Oh, but they look like they were loving it. They would have done a good job.

They're not a white, awkward man. Yeah, exactly. They had a great time. But yes, the Thunder and Lightning, we can open up the floor for thunder and lightning-based questions. Well, I've used it all now. Yeah, well, this is one of the things. As a parent, when your children are younger, you can say stuff,

and they'll just take your word for it. Yeah, it's great. Sweet spot, I like to say. You can tell them anything, and they'll take your word for it. But then they get to an age where they start to not only learn things and figure things out themselves but they can also do their own research. Like someone, like an anti-vaxxer,

doing their own research. Next thing you know you've got a tinfoil hat on and you're camping for 28 days. Now my daughter Indy 10 years old, but like a lot of kids, not a big fan of thunder and lightning, gets a bit scared by that. You know, which I understand. It's very, very frightening. Yeah, you're right, thunder and lightning. It was loud too. Yeah, and she all week she she'd be saying oh is it going to be thunder and

lightning and i said no no no they won't be doing a concert if there's thunder and lightning don't don't worry about it and then she came back to me that's a fob off yeah i was like they'll be fine but safety precautions there are safety precautions i said don't worry about it then she came back to me about an hour later after i said that and and goes, well, MetService, the weather forecast place, just been looking on the phone. They're predicting possible thunder and lightning throughout the afternoon. And so when did she download the bloody MetService?

She's on the read. She's across it all? Yeah, every day she's like, what do I wear tomorrow? I'll check MetService. I can wear shorts, you know? Has she got Herald Premium? She's across all Al Jazeera's? Subscribe to Herald Premium.

So yeah, when the thunder and lightning came at the concert just before 6.60 came on, I was like, uh, yeah. She's a crossover with Al Jazeera's. Subscribed to Herald Premium. So, yeah, when the Thunder and Lightning came, you know, at the concert, just before 660 came on, I was like, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. And then it would flash up. She'd go, is that lightning? And I'd go, no, that's the lights. They flashed on the lights momentarily. She'd be looking at the stage like, why have they got my lights on? It's still afternoon.

Yeah, so we had to go sort of, you know, hide out for a little bit. And then, fortunately, the lightning stopped and the thunder. When 660 came out, it was great. and yeah so we had to go sort of you know hide out for a little bit and then fortunately the lightning stopped and the thunder when 660 came out it was great yeah i mean it's a really it's a sad day in your childhood when you discover your father's not a meteorologist he's been lying to you for nine years about weather updates a lot of samoan flags too which is awesome because they played in the world cup over the weekend at 660 there was heaps of i got so many photos with samoan flags as well as i hold the flags some big flags that are being hung out the driver's side window. Some mad ones that if they, again, I don't want to be the health and safety nerd.

If they blew off and landed on a windscreen, it'd be kind of comical. But in a crowd of people, we get yelled at too from time to time. And usually it's people yelling Jono at me because they don't know which one is which. And that's fine. Or Jono and Ben at 10. People will just say that. But over the weekend, I got a new one. Hey, it's Ben and Jerry's.

And I was like, oh, I like the ice cream people. But I like that. I've had that before. I didn't correct them. A lady complimented me on our ice cream. She's really got the memos well mixed up. But I tell you what, we're getting a lot of great feedback about our ice cream out in the community. That's great, yeah.

Yesterday we headed up north to have our first four sausages on our Bunnings Warehouse Tour of the country. Yeah, we went to Mangafai, then we went to Whangarei, then we went to Kaikohe, and then we went to Kittikitty. Well done, you did a list and I was like, uh-oh. He's listing. Pryor never nails a list. Off the top of your head, you did really well. This morning we're in Silverdale

about to head to eat sausage number five before nine o'clock. And we did some great stuff at Bunnings. They're all very hard case, wonderful people and we caught up with Gabriel

in Mungify. Gabriel. Yes. How are you? I'm well, man. I'm well. How are we? You came over to us.

What was the first thing you said to us? I think you're funny but I'm funnier. And I agree. Everyone else laughs, so hey. You laughed straight away, it was great. Tell us a fun fact about Bunnings Mangapai.

Bunnings Mangapai had the best opening, the best blessing in the morning. We had the kapaka group down singing a whole lot of songs. It was just on, the community came out and really showed up. Thank you, kaupara, te uri o hou, Mang songs. It was just on. The community came out and really showed up. So thank you. Kaipara, te uri o hau, mga whai.

You're on. Now, if you could say one thing to Ben Boyce, what would you say right now? Oh, you should tint your beard. What? Trim it? Tint. Oh, tint it?

Yeah. Either go real platinum or real dark. Oh, I like that. Because it's hapa hapa. It's hapa hapa's confusing you, brother. Oh, shit. I mean, you should try it up here. Grow some hair. No, no, no. End's Hubba Hubba's confusing you, brother. Oh, shit, okay. I mean, you should try it up here.

Grow some hair. No, no, no. End on a high note, bro. End on a high note. Put a hat on. Put a mask on. Balaclava. We sell some.

I can find it. I'll buy some balaclavas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should not come to. He sold me a balaclava to cover up my big bald head. Oh, he was awesome.