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Speaker 1: Jam Mission with Jones and Amanda Dried July. Jonesy, you

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Speaker 1: and I did this a couple of times, didn't.

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Speaker 2: We, Yeah, some time ago.

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Speaker 1: This is an incredible charity. It raises money for cancer

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Speaker 1: for cancer treatment for families going through diagnosis and treatment.

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Speaker 1: It's been going since two thousand and eight. But it's

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Speaker 1: also a health benefit to you if you feel like

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Speaker 1: giving up the booze. So if you've ever thought about

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Speaker 1: taking a break from alcohol for a month, this is

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Speaker 1: a great time to do it. Just ask Ambassador Adam Spencer,

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Speaker 1: who joins us now. Hello Adam.

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Speaker 3: Hello. The Australian hospitality industry is still reeling from the

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Speaker 3: month that Jonesy gave up years ago. The repercussion still

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Speaker 3: felt after shots.

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Speaker 4: When I walked past my local pubbies to say, well

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Speaker 4: you you're not doing Dry July, are you by any chance?

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Speaker 2: And I said no. He says, okay, excellent.

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Speaker 3: Well it's crazy because this line's gone to an idea

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Speaker 3: on a talkback segment on a radio show of mine

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Speaker 3: in two thousand and eight, something that's raised sixty million

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Speaker 3: dollars over the years, and that hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 3: people give up the sauce for a month.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. That is an amazing amount, it really is.

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Speaker 1: And also you can be helping the charity, but you

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Speaker 1: could be doing it for your own reasons as well,

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Speaker 1: because it's not a bad idea to take a break

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Speaker 1: from the booze, let's face it.

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Speaker 3: Well, we did a little bit of research in the

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Speaker 3: lead into this one, and not surprisingly, when there's some

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Speaker 3: people people went two different ways in lockdown. Some just

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Speaker 3: invested in the home at gym and are suddenly doing triathlons,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of people the impact of that sort

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Speaker 3: of lockdown and the stress, etc. Did lead to leaning

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Speaker 3: on the booze a little bit more. There's more people

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Speaker 3: reporting to the Drive Your Life Foundation. They're drinking more

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Speaker 3: than they should now than there was this time a

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Speaker 3: year or two ago. It's the perfect time in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the year when you realize maybe those New

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Speaker 3: Year's resolutions didn't land quite as perfectly as you wanted

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Speaker 3: to take a mid year break, examine your relationship with alcohol,

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Speaker 3: take a month off, raise the money for charity, and

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Speaker 3: we find out the half of the people that do

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Speaker 3: Drive July extend beyond the month and six weeks or

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Speaker 3: a couple of months or three months booze free.

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Speaker 4: And when you originally approached us back when it first started,

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Speaker 4: and a man and I both did it, but at

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Speaker 4: the end of the month, not actually wanting to drink again.

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Speaker 4: I just had this moment of because all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: you can go to things without worrying about getting a cab.

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Speaker 2: It was all that stuff. There's all these benefits to

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Speaker 2: it as well.

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Speaker 4: I got to admit that some parties were pretty boring though,

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Speaker 4: standing there in those conversations with people that were smashed,

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Speaker 4: and you just hear the same story.

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Speaker 1: You notice how smashed everyone else gets, don't you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I like to say that it turns out, you know,

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Speaker 3: when I go to watch the Sydney's one place during July,

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Speaker 3: it turns out the umpires are trying really hard. Everyone

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Speaker 3: makes mistakes. We actually lost because we weren't as good

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Speaker 3: as the other team. And I got home and got

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Speaker 3: up in the morning and went for a job. That's interesting.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the thing is that you know, whether it's

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Speaker 3: not a tea totally movement, it's not give up the

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Speaker 3: doom and drink or you'll go to help. The reality

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Speaker 3: is the vast bulk of people, whether you do drink

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Speaker 3: a moderate amount or a little bit too much. The

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Speaker 3: vast bulk of people underestimate how much they do drink,

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Speaker 3: and a month off is the perfect chance to take

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Speaker 3: a step back and realize, Wow, I'm sitting at this

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Speaker 3: lunch and I've been offered seven drinks in the first hour.

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Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time I went to the

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Speaker 3: footy and dinner. Have a few. It's just a nice

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Speaker 3: little sort of midyear snapshot of your relationship without now

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Speaker 3: and also.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about some of the things that the money's

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Speaker 1: done over the years.

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Speaker 3: It started off with three guys who wanted to buy

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Speaker 3: a television for Prince of Wales Hospital because one of

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Speaker 3: them amount of cancer scare. We went on the radio

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Speaker 3: show plugged it up. Instead of three thousand bucks, they

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Speaker 3: made two hundred and fifty seven one thousand dollars and

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Speaker 3: the woman at the hospital said, it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a bloody good TV email. And it's gone to the

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Speaker 3: general amenity around cancer services, the quality of the waiting

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Speaker 3: room that you sit in, the chair you might sit

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Speaker 3: in them while you're getting your chemo, and there's a series

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Speaker 3: of other non hospital funds like the Red Kite charity

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Speaker 3: for example, that are also beneficiary. So when you sign

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Speaker 3: up to drive your light, you can pick a hospital

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Speaker 3: or a cancer service like red Kite, or you can

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Speaker 3: just give your money to the foundation and they'll then

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Speaker 3: spin it out to various cancer services for adults around Australia.

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Speaker 1: And also if you don't want to do this yourself,

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Speaker 1: you can always sponsor somebody who is.

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Speaker 3: You can do two things. You can sponsor someone or

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Speaker 3: if you're thinking about signing up, the best way to

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Speaker 3: do is do it with a eight, like they say,

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Speaker 3: with a bit of tree. If you're going to take

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Speaker 3: up jogging or ocean swimming or something, and you do

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Speaker 3: it with a mate, you suddenly won't let them down.

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Speaker 3: Do it with a colleague. Do it with a mate,

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Speaker 3: walk hand in hand, sober together, have at least one

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Speaker 3: person jonesy at that party. You can have a conversation

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Speaker 3: with who's not just on this speed dial, repeat loop drunk.

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Speaker 3: Do it with a friend or a work mate and

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Speaker 3: you'll love. Some people find it hard to do, some

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Speaker 3: people find it easy. But I can put my hand

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Speaker 3: on my heart and so I've never met someone who

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Speaker 3: did drive your li and said I wish I hadn't

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Speaker 3: done it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you won't regret it.

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Speaker 4: Amanda signed us up for ocean swimming and I was

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Speaker 4: all in for it until the goose fat smeth.

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Speaker 1: Make hung.

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Speaker 3: You can smear yourself with as much goose fat as.

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Speaker 2: You would, you actually do that. Sober and Adam, it's

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Speaker 2: always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Good work to go for go drive this July head

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Speaker 4: you drive yourly dot com Adam Spencer, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Thanks Adam.

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Speaker 3: Rather to speak with ours always, guys are going to

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Speaker 3: go get some goosebap, go and do it.

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Speaker 2: Smee yourself on us Jonesy and Amanda's m