Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: A Red Nose Day Special!

Episode Date: July 30, 2021

Today is Red Nose Day, Cure Kids' biggest fundraising appeal - where all donations go towards the research needed for kids with health conditions. No parent ever wants their child to go through illnesses that are sometimes undiagnosable. But with Cure Kids and the funds raised, it means we're one step closer to helping these kids and families! If you want to make a donation today, you can text RED to 3663 to make a $3 donation. We spoke to some important people associated with Cure Kids about the importance of medical research & fundraising. As well as this, we spoke about Ben's friend's absolute Zoom blow out when he was on an important business call, and the things you get unreasonably upset about! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

new to your mornings friends of skinny new zealand's most recommended telco just when you thought you couldn't get enough of jonathan then you can have them anywhere anytime welcome to the jonathan ben podcast friday 30 july 2021 prior voice back podcast and it's uh Nose Day today Isn't it here in New Zealand? Yeah Cure Kids Red Nose Day You can text RED to 3663

To donate $3 Although you can donate all year round We learnt as well But this is just the big fundraising day Where Cure Kids They raise a lot of money For research into All sorts of health related issues

For children We really do such great work To help out our kids in New Zealand So a couple of years ago do such great work to help out our kids in New Zealand. So a couple of years ago... What have you done to help out the kids in New Zealand, mate? Well, a couple of years ago, we were part of a Red Nose Day special on TV when we were at TV3, remember that?

And one of the things... Brendan Pongier, who used to play for the Tall Blacks and now works for Cure Kids, he was cycling from one end of New Zealand to the other to raise money and awareness for Cure Kids. So was cycling from one end of New Zealand to the other to raise money and awareness for Cure Kids. So it was an amazing thing he was doing. And then we were like, oh, for the TV show, can you guys do the same, but maybe make it some funny little segments along the way?

And we were like, well, we didn't really have time to do the whole length of this country. We didn't have the time or the athletic ability. Yeah, that too. That's probably more important. So we basically made it like a bit of a, oh, we'll get it. We'll get a hitchhike with a truck here. We'll get a helicopter ride here.

We'll get an army tank here. We'll do a little bit of cycling, but we'll basically on camera, you know, and we'll show it. We'll cheat our way up the country. Minimum cycling, maximum novelty transport. But Brendan Pongett was amazing, wasn't he? I mean, he... He literally cycled the whole way of the country, didn't he?

We were on the ferry with him, the Inter-Ireland Ferry, and they got an Exacycle on there. And he kept going. So he could say that he cycled the whole way. It was incredible. And you're meant to be cruising when you're on the Inter-Ireland. That's what the song says. He wasn't cruising.

So he cycled. I mean, even three hours on an Exacycle is a heck of an effort. But that was on top of cycling the North Island and the South Island. And had he done training? I don't know. I don't think he had done any training. I think he's just a physically of an effort. But that was on top of cycling the North Island and the South Island. And had he done training? I don't know. I don't think he had done any training. I think he's just a physically fit, amazing human being. He's a better specimen than you and I.

So there you go. That's a great example of what some people do. But as he was saying, it was all about the kids and what the families go through. And for him, it was a small sacrifice to make for these families that are dealing with it pretty tough. It was a fun trip. It was. It was a fun trip. Yeah, it was. It was awesome to sacrifice to make for these families that are dealing with it pretty tough. It was a fun trip. It was. It was a fun trip. Yeah, it was.

It was awesome to go around the country. We lost a body in the falls in Whangarei, didn't we? That's right. The dummy, your dummy, your long, loyal dummy that you've used in many TV sketches to get run over by vehicles. We threw it off. Biscuits, yeah. Yeah, we threw it off the top of a waterfall and then it was floating face down in the water. And we were like, oh, we can't leave it in there because then people would assume someone had drowned.

That's right. So then someone... It kind of sunk for some reason, eh? It did sink. Someone had to go in and rescue it. Yeah, but we were like, because you're right, the last thing you want is something that looks like a body floating down the river. Kevin, you named him. Yeah, it was Kevin. He did a lot of great stunts, yeah. Did you ever get another Kevin?

We did get another Kevin, actually, and it was great fun to sort of position him around the office. And when you're coming at night to do something, you're just, oh! You actually think someone's there, isn't it? Yeah. Sometimes when you get a glimpse out of the corner of your eye and you're in a shop and there's a mannequin,

you're like, oh! I know, yeah. So it was a lot of fun with Kev. He does normally live in my garage, but right now our friend of ours, Eli, he's borrowed it for something. What's Eli doing with Kevin? Oh, yeah, a show kevin oh yeah sure he's like mate you got kev kev he needs to be part of a show he gets booked a lot kev he gets booked more than you i'm his

agent i don't actually take any money i don't know kev does it all for the love of it but you're right he does i need kev you got kev i get calls from tv production companies all the time do you that kev that's not for me you're You're like, hey, it's funny. For someone to call up and go, hey, g'day, such and such, we're making this TV show. And I'm like, yes, tell me more. Here we go. OK. Here's a reason.

And they're like, yeah, so someone tells me you've got a dummy. I'm like, yeah, no, yeah, Kev. It's fine. He's booked up until the end of the year, Kev. My schedule's wide open But Kev's ready to go And if you'd like to book Kev too You can phone me

Just get in touch with me I'll book him out Currently Eli's got him But I should give him back Yeah but when you talk to Ben Make it believe like he might be getting a gig And then pull the rug And say you want Kev

Yeah Enjoy the show Have a great weekend Now I was actually thinking about this In the weekend When I was trying to use the TV remote. You know, we point the remote at the TV, and sometimes people will stand,

accidentally stand in the way of the TV, and, you know, obviously the remote doesn't work. You kind of have to kind of maneuver your way around it. But I remember my dad as a kid would get really upset if I was ever trying to point the remote at the TV, and he was standing in the row because he was worried. He was like, what's that thing in me? You don't know what that's doing to me.

He's talking about like, I don't know, the gamma rays. I googled what gamma rays. It's like from a nuclear explosion or something like that. Don't point that thing at the TV, the humble TV remote. He was worried. He was like, it's going through me. It's going through me. I don't know what it's doing.

So he would get unreasonably upset if I was there. But I was like, well, you're standing in the way of the TV. I'm trying to change the channel here, mate. I love that Kevin Boyce thinks the humble TV remote doubles up as a James Bond-styled laser gun. Yeah. Like, you don't know what it's doing to me. You don't know what it's doing to me. Wait till I've walked past.

It'd be a very dangerous function of the TV remote if it was also a laser gun. You know, changing the Olympic channels. You'd be mowing through the TVs, wouldn't you? Exactly. Just blowing up TVs. And has Kevin Boyce all right today? As far as I know. He's made it through those. He's made it through the last, you know, we're talking many, many years ago.

So, yeah, it seems to be all good. Don't point that thing at me. I remember getting unreasonably upset about it. Honestly, at the moment, 70% of my day is consumed with an obsession of what volume the television is running at. Oh, no. Now, Oscar, my son, he gets it from me every day, the poor guy. I'm like, what is that? Turn it down. What's it?

56. It's on 56. And then I turn it back down to a nice sort of 30 Leave it on 30 And then I go back and it slowly winds back up to 56 It's like 56 is what 660 had the level of their speakers at at Eden Park Not even allowed that to 9 o'clock or something like that, right? Yeah, literally on Wednesday night I took the remote

I was like, you can't be trusted So I took the remote and hid them in the cupboard So what, you put it to 30 and then you're like I leave it on 30, 30's a great number but i'm getting i'm getting wound i don't know why i don't know i'm like a young me would be like oh man just yeah but when you're not watching the tv show it's only it's so much louder when you're not into it oh it's so loud and then the ads come on you feel like your dad going oh the ads actually can i come to kevin boyce's defense something's actually just popped into my head as you were mocking your father for getting paranoid

about what the TV remote was doing to his body. You have a reader. Oh, hey, yeah. You've got a reader that goes around and measures what sort of... Oh, yeah. Sort of gamma razor. Gamma razor coming from electric devices. Yeah, maybe that's where I got it from.

I got a bit carried away with that, and now I have to put it in the garage because I'm like, this is getting away on me. Well, yeah, I know, because you will come into the studio, you wave them around the computers, and you're like, ooh, that's running at 80. Man, it was like, you've been walking around the neighborhood, and I was going under power lines next to the power boxes,

and I was like, what are you doing? I love it, too, because it looks like, well, you've got to bring it in and get a photo of it. It looks like a contraption from a 1980s sci-fi film. Oh, it does. Yeah, I got paranoid about it. Even like when, because we got a few little renovations done to our house and stuff,

you know, like, and put insulation. And then the guy with the electrician was like, what do you want? I'm like, no plugs next to the bed. And he's like, okay. I don't know what they're doing to me. So maybe I am doing it to my jeans. They've been passed down. So this is what we want to open up this morning.

Kevin Boyce getting unreasonably upset at the TV remote being pointed at him. Me getting unreasonably upset at the volume. What do you just get unreasonably upset about? Could be the littlest thing, but it really pushes your buttons. It's your thing. And we've got actually something pretty cool to give away right now as well for our favorite callers on 0800 The Hits. If you give us a call, we've got some Ever pretty cool to give away right now as well for our other callers our favorite callers on 0800 the hits if you give us a call we've got some ever blue hair and body care now it's a new locally made and naturally delivered hair and body care range shaking up

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So if you want some of those packs, give us a call right now. that's only if you care for your hair and or body if you don't yeah you get a lovely package to relax you after you tell us what really really winds you up unreasonably the little thing we'd love to hear from you next on 0800 the hits it's crazy it is the hits the gentleman ben 8. We want to talk about what you get unreasonably upset about. I've done something else that my dad also did as well. And does this wind you up when the kids open the back window down a little bit and you've got the windows in the front? There is a noise that I never believed my dad would hear when he was driving the K.

It's like, oh, you get this noise in your ear, but you do hear it when you're driving. And it's a slow builder as well, too. It's like... Yeah, you go, oh, someone's got the window down. I'll you do hear it when you're driving. And it's a slow builder as well. It's like... Yeah, you go, oh, someone's got the window down. I'll turn the aircon and we'll all open our windows. But not just one window, partly down in the back. It eventually feels like Israel Adesanya is pounding your eardrum.

If you're in that front driver's... I don't know, what is that? I don't know. How does that even work, that back window? It's the car playing trickery on us. Now, Juliet, something that unreasonably winds you up? It's when I go to put some toast in the toaster, and then it pops, and it's not quite done,

and so I'm like, okay, I'll put it in for a little bit longer, and I tell myself that I'll come back and pop it mid-second toasting, and I miss it, and it's burnt, and I get so annoyed at myself. Yeah, you forget, too. You forget you've done a double pump, don't you? That's so annoying. That's a very good one. Kitty Wye, you're on from Tokoroa.

Morena, how are you? Morena, I'm good, thank you. Great to have you on. Something that unreasonably winds you up. It's my daughter, actually, and it's really annoying. Everything has to be even numbers for her. Say, for example, the volume on the TV. When she puts on the microwave, it has to be an even number.

Even when she drives, she tries to keep, because she has the digital numbers, she has to have an even number when she's driving. I've got mates that do that same thing, yeah. Some people like that with the car, the volume and stuff like that, it's got to be on 32, not 31 and things like that. Exactly. Yeah, I know, yeah.

She loves the OCD. What happens when she's driving? So she has to be, like, on exactly 100 kilometres an hour if she's going... Yeah, that's how she is. And then if she's not, you know, she just slows a little bit until she gets to an even number, and she just gets really annoyed. She's like, oh, my God, look at that, you know. Jeez, that must be a cloud hanging over your head all day, wouldn't it?

I reckon. Hey, Kitty White, we're going to send you out one of these ever-blue packs. I tell you what, your body is going to be smelling magnificent. And as I say those words. That sounded odd, but anyway, the thought was there. And your hair, too. I'll come and smell you. No, no, I can't.

Hey, good on you, Kitty White. Have a great weekend. You too. Thank you. And let's get Yvette on from, oh, sorry, Dean, was it you? Yeah, Dean from Auckland. Welcome. How are you? Yeah, I'm good, thank you. Let's get Yvette on. Sorry, Dean, was it you? Yeah, Dean from Auckland, welcome. How are you? Yeah, I'm good, thank you.

What unreasonably winds you up, Dino? It dips, you know, the dips in your fridge where you take the little plastic lid off. There's a nice tinfoil thing there. Rip that off, put it in the bin, then all you have to do is take the lid off when you want to dip your cracker in there. My wife, she always just tears that little tinfoil thing halfway back.

So every time you go in there, you've got to battle past this bugger to get to your favourite bottle. So you want the full rip? I'm with you, Dean. Why have that awkward half-ripped tinfoil? Listen, I have no idea, and it winds me up big time. Yeah, no, well, listen, your body is going to be smelling magnificence too. I'll come and smell your body, Dean.

We'll get you one of these ever blue packs, okay? Yeah, that's wonderful. Great. Someone's actually texted in 4487, which I really enjoyed. Being told to chill or calm down when you're worked up. Oh, yeah. It's one way to really escalate the situation. Just calm down.

You're like, oh, yeah, right. It really does wind you up. We'll get Sarah on from Wellington. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Sarah, what unreasonably winds you up? Oh, do you know what? I've got two. So the first one is trying to get my kids to put shoes on before we leave the house.

Oh, God. Amen. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Just put them on. Yeah. I literally just throw them in the car half the time because I'm like, no, we'll just do it when we get there. We're not doing it now.

My other one is when I open my washing machine and there was wet washing in the washing machine that I forgot to put out. Oh, yeah. A little too long. Do you know what Ben does? And he won't like me sharing this. He's like, he just turns it back on again.

Don't you? Another run. That's a great hack. It's great for your very powerful, though. Make it someone else's problem. And we'll get Yvette on, shall we, from Taranaki. Welcome, Yvette. What unreasonably winds you up?

Oh, hey, guys, how are you? Great, thanks, Yvette. Awesome. Okay, so before I said there's many things that blind my gears, but having five kids and them putting their washing right near the washing machine. I mean, right near the washing basket, just not putting it in the washing basket. Not in the basket.

Just in the vicinity. It's close, but it's not quite, yeah. I know, I just don't quite get it. And then also preheating the oven and not realising that you've left a pot in there. Yeah, it's a nuclear temperature and you've got to pull it out. Yeah, I've got that, Yvette. That's a good one.

Someone will send you a Neverblue pack, okay, Yvette? Awesome. Thank you, guys. Good on you, mate. Someone's texted and saying when people leave empty milk bottles in the fridge, you know, just that little dribble? Oh, yeah. I'm the same with the toilet roll.

You really work those last couple of pieces, don't you? At the start, you're quite extravag pieces, don't you? Oh, no. At the start, you're quite extravagant, aren't you? You're like, oh, yeah. I've got a big chunk in my hand. Yeah, but at the end, you're like, oh, oh, oh, the button bit it off a little bit there. Thank you very much for your calls and texts, guys. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. It's Jono and Ben. It is Cure Kids Red Nose Day. Raising money for Cure Kids and the Int text RED to 3663 to donate $3. And we wanted to know where that money goes to that we're trying to encourage everyone to donate over there online or texting RED to 3663.

And we wanted to speak to someone that knows exactly where the money goes to firsthand. Dr. Susie Wiles. Well, blow me down. Morena. More goes to firsthand. Dr. Susie Wiles. Well, blow me down. Morena. Morena to you. Lovely. Every time we've had you on the show, I always feel you're far too smart and intelligent

to be mingling with us too. But thank you for lowering yourself, Susie. Don't be silly. Well, no, you're not lowering yourself. At the moment, you're here for a very good cause, Cure Kids. Yes, it's Red Nose Day, which is so exciting. Now, how long have you been involved with Cure Kids?

Oh, gosh, since about maybe 2015, I think. So they were the one funding agency, charity, that started supporting my lab's search for new antibiotics. And we could not have done it without them and they've basically stayed holding our hand ever since. Because we were actually talking about this earlier this morning, what Cure Kids actually do is they raise money for people such as yourselves to come up with medicines

for all sorts of ailments for kids, right? Yeah, and not just medicines, but also trying to understand how different diseases um impact on children so i mean they're doing all sorts of things you know they're funding research on childhood cancers on heart conditions infectious diseases just yeah everything related to children really and it's absolutely amazing the work that they do and the work that they fund so So I imagine your job would be increasingly difficult if you didn't have someone like Cure Kids helping you out, Susie. Absolutely.

As I say, you know, we wouldn't have been able to even get our antibiotic discovery project off the ground had it not been for them supporting us and then, you know, doing things like crowdfunding for us and all sorts of stuff. So, you know, when people donate money to cure kids, it really goes to researchers like me who are, you know, who are trying to understand diseases that impact on children

and find cures for them or treatments at least. It's amazing. So when you, you probably have to dumb this down for me a bit, but when you're trying to like to find out for you, what were you trying to search for with this antibiotic program? So antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria and the problem is that bacteria have become or are becoming more and more resistant to those antibiotics. Right. So it means that many of the, at the moment it means things like

maybe what would have been an easy, you know, just like some tablets for a couple of weeks might require now an injection or something to treat an infection. But the worry, the real worry is that within the next few years, we're going to have diseases that are completely untreatable, infectious diseases that are completely untreatable. And so in my lab, we're trying to find basically new kind of chemical structures that might make potential new antibiotics. So it's very early stage discovery. And that's one of the really hard things, because actually much of that really early discovery or early science work, you know, there's less and less funding for that. A really good example at the moment is the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. So they didn't just come out of nowhere.

They were based on like 30 years of this kind of early stage research that put them in a position that when the pandemic started, the scientists involved said, hey, we've got this technology that could be useful. So it's that kind of thing that they also, you know, that Cure also funds, this early stage work that's so important. Now when you're talking about bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics, is that why doctors are quite hesitant about handing out antibiotics nowadays? Absolutely. So we know that there's various causes for this resistance and it's a global problem. It's not just about our use in New Zealand, but all over the world. So there are some countries where you don't need a prescription. You can just get them and people take them for anything.

We know that people often take them for viral infections and antibiotics don't work against viruses. They only work against bacteria. And they've been used for a long time, especially overseas in farming and agriculture and things like that so it means that there's this sort of widespread resistance and so that's

why doctors are trying to get better and better at not prescribing antibiotics when they're not needed which can be very hard because people want you know they want something and if you're feeling rotten you know and you've got an infection then I think lots of people be be like, oh, can I have something? And, you know, and when a doctor says, no, you can't have it, it's not because they don't want you to treat you. It's because what you have is something that doesn't need treating with antibiotics. You're right.

You're like, just get some rest. You're like, no, I want something now. Geez, I tell you what, Susie Wiles, love talking to you. You're one of the great Kiwis. In fact, were you Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year, baby? Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. The top of the Kiwis, yeah.

Top of the Kiwis. But no, you're doing such a wonderful job, and it's great to have you working alongside organisations like Cure Kids. And people can donate this morning as part of Red Nose Day. You can just do a simple one-off donation, can't you? You can just text. You know, people can also donate online, so www.rednoseday.co.nz,

and I believe your team are also out there, you know, with buckets collecting on the streets. So there's lots and lots of different ways that people can contribute. You know, and don't worry if you can't do it today. You can do it any day. You know, all that money goes to, you can do it any day. All that money goes to funding amazing research. And they're aiming to raise a million dollars. Do you know what, Susie?

You'll be happy to know. We spoke an hour ago to the Briscoes lady, another great Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the year. She said Briscoes are on track today looking around quarter of a million dollars in donations from the Briscoes group. That's absolutely fantastic. That's so cool. Every cent, every dollar helps, and the more we raise, the more research we can do. Oh, good on you, Susie.

Hey, love your work. You get back to making some more amoxicillin. And we'll get back to doing some average radio. Yeah. See you soon. Nice to meet you. Shame right like a diamond. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion.

Mike Hosking on Newstalk's Ed Bean. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben, the hits. Now, Zoom and video calling has become a big part of the world over the last couple of years since the pandemic really hit. And I think everyone's had a lot of Zoom blowouts or things that have gone wrong while you've been using Zoom. Yeah, one of my favourite things is a lot of interviews are conducted over Zoom now with people overseas. And I don't think not one of those interviews has ever gone smoothly. The microphones are always an issue.

No matter how famous the person everyone has the problem with turning the mic on it always seems like the original thing of like oh i'm muted you're right but everyone everyone has it you're one of my favorite zoom stories is uh that you told me was uh jenny your mother and she was watching a zoom school performance but then she saw joyce your mother-in-law the So the whole school, yeah, this was during kind of like a lockdown situation. My daughter Sienna was doing a speech competition and all the other finalists for the speech competition were doing it over Zoom.

So everyone, her parents and whatever, were watching over Zoom. So hundreds of people on the Zoom call. But you're right, my mum was popped up and she saw my wife's mum on there and she was like, oh, hi, Joyce. Thinking, oh oh they're having a bit of a natter and it's like

it's not a private thing it's a public thing across everyone there's like a hundred other people listening the teacher had to go sorry ladies

sorry we're just trying to get the speech competition poor Sienna my daughter was mortified but to be fair to be fair though

it's a lot for that generation to take in oh and they've done well to even get on there yeah and they're treating it like a you know you turn up to the hall for the school play and they're sitting next to each other and then oh have you been you know i can see where they landed oh a friend of mine i was i was actually telling him about that story and he was saying well because he's he works for a company here in new zealand but they're an international company so they've got people all over the world. And, you know, there's a lot of countries

not quite as lucky as New Zealand, so Zoom's still a big thing for them. And so he was on a big meeting with all the bosses from all over the world. There's, like, the UK, there's America, they're all there. And he was at home, because it was during the school holidays, sitting in his office next to the lounge. And his son was playing Fortnite,

which is a popular game that, you know, the kids are playing. They couldn't see him in the back of the shop, but he was obviously next to him, him just out of out of the zoom shot and there's a new thing on fortnight which is a game you kind of get sucked into these worlds and you kind of have to battle people where apparently there's an alien ship that comes in out of nowhere and can sometimes basically suck you out of the game which is not a good thing to happen and so he's sitting there having a big meeting his son's playing fortnite and the son's like oh no help starts yelling help i've been abducted because he's been abducted in the game because there's an alien ship out of nowhere comes circling in and he's like looking over like

oh no there's a kid's voice yelling out oh no i've been abducted to all these people in america off the back of the thing he's like looking looking around, going, oh, look, sorry, guys, my son's just over here. He's playing Fortnite. He's playing a game. He's just had an alien ship. Sounds like a real big cover-up story. It does, yeah. But that was the actual story. But then you're like, well, that sounds like a guy

who's just abducted someone. That's what he would say. Yeah, why would they? So I'm like, watch him, watch him. Oh, he's playing Fortnite. Yeah, they're like, whatever, mate. Yeah, so it can happen. Blowouts on Zoom.

And I don't want to rag on Zoom, because, you know, it's a wonderful piece of technology, but we're still all just coming to terms with how to conduct ourselves on Zoom. Yeah. And remember Chat Roulette when that came out? And we all had the burning desire to just send our genitals to complete strangers. Photos of that. Thankfully, that period's over. Yeah.

Apart from you, Ben. You keep firing them through to us. We always hear those stories of someone. Friends of ours, that happened. She thought that her husband was on a voice call. She's like, oh, great. I can see nothing on the screen. I'll just walk past and get changed in the back of thing.

No, no. What was it? He's like, oh, good. But you're intensely looking at a meeting. And then you're like, oh, what's happening behind me These are the sort of things that can happen There was a guy, you were talking about the British MP Yeah, there was a British MP

Who twice had a massive blowout The first time I think he walked Into the meeting room nude And the second time he peed into a coffee cup But all of this took place in his home office Just go to the toilet Surely it's not that far away I know

I would never get changed in your computer room No There's a lot of things that aren't making sense there But anyway, take care out there It's a wild, wild world Take care out there guys Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees And this is the B**** News

Juliet has scoured all the dark corners of the internet to bring you these news stories with beeps in them. The stuff she's seen would change a man. Juliette, how does this game work? I find some cool news stories from around the world that I think might interest you guys, but I beep out a word and you guys have to figure out what their true headline is.

And the first news story? Coach surprises Argentinian fencer with... I'm going to go stabbing. Oh yeah, you really got me there. Fencing, it's all surprise. Got ya. That would catch you by surprise. You know, there's a lot of fencing

apparatuses around I imagine. Bit of a shanking in the Olympics. That's a surprise. Coach surprises Argentinian fencer with the fencing contract to finish off the wall that Donald Trump was building. That's a good contract. A lot of fence. Someone needs to pick that up, right?

Coach surprises Argentinian fencer with Olympic marriage proposal. So, the coach also happens to be her partner of 17 years. It wasn't just, you know, a coach to person relationship. That is not appropriate. But she had just lost and was doing a TV interview afterwards. But little did she know that her partner was standing behind her,

holding a piece of paper on the TV, saying, Will you marry me? It was in Spanish. The reporter told her to turn around. She turned around, obviously was really sad from losing her Olympic chance, and then sees her partner proposing to her. So isn't that sweet? Lovely. Lovely stuff.

So very happy for her. No, you can't be that sort of proposal, can you? No, no. It's lovely, actually. Caught on TV, too. And the next news story. Mum who gave birth to non-uplets says they go through a day. I'm going to say mum that gave birth to non-uplets says they go through absolute hell and they come back every day.

I'm going to say mum who gives birth to non-uplets says they go through a lot of explaining what non-uplets actually mean and how many kids. Because I don't know if I know. Fair enough. They go through a lot of explaining what non-Nuplets actually mean and how many kids. Because I don't know if I know. Mum who gave birth to non-Nuplets says they go through 100 nappies a day. So non-Nuplets is nine. Is it nine? Is it? Wow.

Twins but nine. A hundred a day? Yeah. And then they go through six litres of baby formula a day. This is a, I think she's like 26, the mother, from Mali in Africa. And she's got nine children. And they kind of want more as well. It's just the one I think they thought she had seven or something. Yes, yes.

And then they went to the hospital. It's like 101 Dalmatians. And they just keep coming. They're like, oh, there's going to be more in there. Yeah. She thought she was having seven, but then they just kept on coming. That is incredible. Crazy.

You almost want a nappy endorsement, don't you? Oh, you'd have to, yeah. A hundred a day. That's incredible. Crazy. You almost want a nappy endorsement, don't you? Oh, you'd have to, yeah. A hundred a day. That's disgusting. They must just never not be around the clock. Yeah. There wouldn't be one moment throughout a 24-hour period where one of those babies wouldn't be awake.

It wouldn't be awake, wouldn't be needing. Oh, wow. That is just, yeah. And the final news story. Olympic athlete Jessica Fox uses **** to repair damaged kayak. I'm going to go. She used some advice from Kate Winslet about sinking ships. She's like, hey, what did you do?

I just saved myself. I'm going to say to Crowbar in a topical event, she used one of the Cure Kids red nose noses to plug the hole in her boat. Olympic athlete Jessica Fox uses condom to repair damaged kayak. Even better.

So basically, you know the front tip of the kayak can sometimes split a little bit? So they use this sort of like black putty to fix it and then they put one of the Olympic Village condoms over it and latex works brilliantly. She went on to win a bronze and a gold medal. Straight over the tip. I know. I don't. And that is...

It's the boat. I knew as soon as I said that. I was like, oh God. Here we go. Playing into my sweet spot there, Jude. I know. You're like you're in the six o'clock club. There's no one listening. Red Nose Day with Jono and Ben. Donate now at rednoseday.co.nz or text RED to 3663 for an instant $3 donation. Good morning New Zealand, welcome along to the show

It is Cure Kids Red Nose Day today Now Cure Kids is such a great organisation Raises funds for child health research in New Zealand And throughout the morning we're going to be talking to some people that will explain a bit more about what Cure Kids do and how you can help out and help the kids all around New Zealand that really need your help here today. Yeah, because you can simply just text, can't you, for an automatic $3 donation. Yeah, so you just text RED to 3663.

And as you say, Jono, $3 will go towards Cure Kids just like that. Just with a simple text. And we're going to be talking to little Eva, who's the ambassador for Cure Kids before 7 o'clock. She was diagnosed with something at age 3 and she's kind of lived with it pretty much since she was born, sorry, but lived with it for the majority of her life. I know. And places like Cure Kids, organisations like Cure Kids fund the research to figure out what's wrong with these little talks. Yes, that's something that we didn't really quite understand until a few years ago.

For some reason I thought it was to do with cancers and stuff, but it's actually to do with research and to find out how you can help out kids in New Zealand that have things that you can't go, oh, that's what this is, or whatever. So they do all the research and development, and it's such a great organisation. So this morning, if we could all try and help out and give a little, it would really go a long way to helping out Kiwi Kids. Yeah, please do text for an automatic $3 donation. If you don't text, you are a monster.

Okay. That's going to be my messaging all morning. 3663. Donate $3 instantly. It's Kia Kids Red Nose Day this morning. It is the hits. You've got John I'm Ben Good morning

great hanging out with you guys on a Friday and of course as we said before it's Cure Kids Red Nose Day today

you can text red to 3663 to donate $3 instantly automatic donation the studio this morning looks amazing we've got lots of red balloons in here

and yeah John has got his red noses you. And yeah, Johnny's got his red nose. You've got a red... Oh, no, that's just your normal nose. Oh, he's been berating me all morning. He's like, you support Red Nose Day all year round with your red alcoholic nose. I didn't say alcoholic. But Bea Humphrey says,

bought you by your sponsors Heineken. So you insinuated. You didn't say. It didn't come out of your mouth, but you were laughing. Yeah, I love it it you led this charge against me berating

hey Ben Boyce I am seriously concerned that someone is trying to off you at the moment it's not my because for the last at least two months

everything you touch you're like ah you're getting electric shocks yes I am I feel like I'm the worst member of the Avengers

the guy who gets shocks about things ouch it's been happening a lot. I feel like I'm the worst member of the Avengers. The guy who gets shocks about things. Ouch! It's been happening a lot in the studio. Like I'll be touching the door handle or my headphones or, you know, I just get shocks. And that makes you very timid to, you know, like... Touch anything. Touch anything. You've even got, you're like, get the techs in here!

Get the technology people in here to fix this! You demanded behemoth! I never said get the tech people in here. It's not that way. You're like, Juliet, you get these tech people in there to fix this. You demanded behind. I never said get the tech people. It's not that way. You're like, Juliet, you get these tech people in here. That's your job's on the line. You had her by the throat against the wall. And then you're like, look at old red-nosed idiot over here drinking his alcohol.

It was a rampage. But anyway, you did demand the tech. And so the techs came in. They're like, listen, there's nothing wrong. And no one else is getting this. We're not bad at our jobs. We've wired everything correctly. And so the text came in, they're like, listen, there's nothing wrong. And no one else is getting this. We're not bad at our jobs. We've wired everything correctly. And do you know what?

We've been doing these voiceovers for this TV show, this coming to TVNZ. So we're doing those in another studio. And yesterday, we were in there for day two of these voiceovers, and I was getting shocks again. And I was like, oh, there's got to be something. Maybe it's your electric personality. Well, I don't know, but that's quite the case. And you were thinking, well, what's got to be something. Maybe it's your electric personality. Well, I don't know if that's quite the case. And you were thinking, well, what's different from what you've got on? And it was, I think it's a pair of shoes.

I think there's a pair of shock shoes that I'm wearing. Because it was a different pair of shoes yesterday than I wore the day before. And I wasn't getting any shocks. So he ended up doing the remainder of the voiceover in bare feet. Yeah. Which was unusual. I was like, what are you doing? He's like, I think it's the shoes.

I know. It's just a bit weird. Everyone else is like because they don't know the back story about what's going on they're like oh he's such an eccentric guy comes in and bare feet like he does his voice i heard he's a recluse yeah i know it really is a weird look because you know people don't know they're probably like no i like it he's like why do you want to be a I don't know. It's just him. He's an enigma. Like Matthew McConaughey or something. He's preparing for a role or something. Yeah, he's like, oh, he's gone off the grid. He's gone full method.

But it is the shoes. So you've got this pair of shoes that electrocute you. Yeah, the socks. Very dangerous for the shoes. I just feel like it must be like a friction thing that builds up with them. And then all of a sudden I touch something. Well, the sole's made out of rubber. I'd say so, yeah.

So I don't know what the deal is. But anyway, either that or you're trying to off me, and this is your way of doing it. Yeah. Just slowly electrocute you to death. Yeah. It is Red Nose Day, of course. We're going to be catching up with many people throughout the morning

to tell you exactly why we should all get behind it and support uh but next we'll tell you what happened over the last 24 hours uh particularly with the olympics scrolling through your feet so juliet we're just talking about uh you and your shoes uh shocking you electrically electric shocking you everywhere you go have you got some we've got some more info on it on 4487 someone's text through uh thank you to uh this member of the 6 o'clock club. Oh, yeah, we're going to start a club. It's a very small club. 6 o'clock club.

Yeah, we've got one member at the moment. Ben, you need to ground yourself. Okay, metaphorically and literally here. You need to take your shoes off and your socks off when you get home and walk around on the grass. That will stop you getting electric shocks. Oh, really? Become reconnected to the earth, my friend.

Now I sound even more like one of those people. What's he doing? No, he's just wandering around on the grass. He's reconnected to the earth. He's going to stop showering and wearing hemp clothing. Anyway, this is scrolling through your feed. The news from overnight. Now, I sometimes feel bad saying this is even news.

It's kind of disrespectful to the news to call this news. This has been regaling stories he's read from the internet. I've copied and pasted some of the best stories from around the world, but the Olympics is on right now, as we all know. And yesterday, it was New Zealand's first gold medal in the Games. Keri Gowler and Grace Prendergast, the women's rowing pair, and how good was this? Kiwis look so cool, so calm and relaxed.

They're under pressure from the Russians to their left. Kiwis, yeah, they edge on imperiously out to this gold medal. What a performance from the two women. Up to the line then is Prenda Garsengala, the world champions who now have the Olympic gold medal too. First Olympic gold in the women's pair. Congratulations on that audio, courtesy of Sky Sport. Courtesy of Sky Sport.

Ben's ongoing nervousness that Sky Sport are going to take us down if we use their footage. That was courtesy of Sky Sport. Oh, that's magnificent. We've got a really strong rowing team, don't we, New Zealand? Yeah, well, today we've got the Rowing 8 final for the men and the women. So they will hopefully bring home another medal or two. And the final for the single skulls, Emma Twigg today as well in the rowing.

Now, Juliette's your friend's sister. Yes. Racing today. Are you nervous for her? Oh, I am so nervous. I was overanalyzing everything last night with Sarah. We were just chatting and Sarah's just freaking out. This is her sister.

This is her sister. Yeah. But it's actually really special being able to be with all the families with them while it's all happening. Now, are you still living down at the clouds? Basically. Juliet's figured out that down at the waterfront is airing all of the Olympics. It's a whole centre and so she's just moved in there

over the last week and it's becoming a habit. You'll be going back down there today, will you? I will be. Every time I go down, I fall asleep on the beanbags and people just look at me like, who's this old woman falling asleep? And then when you start showering at night and you walk out in a towel, you're like, guys, I'm trying to get to sleep here.

I wake up first thing. I was just thinking of the rowing eight, which is happening today. My dad, Kevin Boyce, he had a commemorative beer can. I think it was from the 1972 Olympics when New Zealand won the rowing eight, and they put their photo all on this beer can. I remember as a kid going, can I open the beer can? No, no, it's a collector's item. And on my 21st, that was his gift to me. He was like, well, you can have this now.

And so I'm being, he started, well, I gave it to me on the 21st because, you know, I had a few drinks and so I was like, oh, well, should I open it? And it was terrible. Oh, no! The beer that's been fermenting for 20 years. Yeah, and then after, why did I open that? I should have just kept it as a collector's item. A beer that's been fermenting for 20 years. And then afterwards, why did I open that?

I should have just kept it as a collector's item. There was that ad for Steinlager. It wasn't there. They kept that commemorative can, and then they opened it up. That's right. And I was like, that would have tasted terrible. Terrific. Yeah. Yeah.

And, of course, last night at the Olympics, actually, the New Zealand Women's Sevens team. That was a great game. It was a really, really good game against Great Britain. And how was this quote at the end of the game from Ruby Tui? Courtesy of Sky Sport. There's not enough hand sanitiser in the whole of Japan to clean that act up.

That was just an absolutely terrible beginning. But there's nothing like your captain looking you in the eye and telling you to clean your act up. They really had a sloppy start, didn't they? They did a bit, but then they came through at the end. They were down 21-0. Oh, no, after about three minutes, but then they came through and took out that game,

and so they carry on in their competition. So it's so good, the Olympics. There's tennis today, New Zealand against USA going for a bronze medal, BMX sailing, so plenty of stuff happening at the Olympics. And as always, Jono, it's courtesy of... Sky Sport. Sky Sport.

Thank you very much, Sky Sport. Getting a backhand deal for Sky Sport. If I don't get free Sky Sport. Sky Sport. Thank you very much, Sky Sport. Getting a backhand deal for Sky Sport. If I don't get free Sky Sport after this, then I'm doing something wrong. Are you trying to get a job on Sky Sport? Hey, mate, I'm being honest. Keeping my options open. Next, we're going to look at some of the more unusual news

from around the world, the news and beeps. And more from Red Nose Day. It's Cure Kids Red Nose Day today. That's before 7 o'clock. It is the hits. jono and ben jono and ben just like family the family members you're ashamed of it is red nose day uh today cure kids red nose red nose day you can text red to 3663 to donate an instant three dollar donation and uh throughout the morning we'll be chatting to some people involved with our cure kids and red nose day and tell you why it's such a great organization and talk about all the amazing things it does

for new zealand kids yeah we're going to talk to a dear friend of ours eva little eva who's the ambassador for cure kids she'll be joining us in the studio very shortly now juliette yes i love and respect you you're a wonderful friend and colleague but you've made me self-conscious about something oh god this was weeks ago when she, oh, there's a doctor online who's done this thing where it can prove whether you're dehydrated or not. Oh, yes. Oh, that thing. You pinch the skin above your knuckle on your finger.

Yeah. And if the skin stands upright and doesn't retract back down, it means you're severely dehydrated. Now, I did that weeks ago, and my skin is still standing upright. There's not one bit of moisture floating around in this caboose. Yeah, is this a legit thing? Have we really looked into this or not? Oh, I just read it as an article and then moved on with my life.

Well, I didn't. Okay. So I did it at home too. But I also wonder, maybe it's an age thing, because the kids were all like, you know, I was like, how much water have you had today? And theirs wasn't standing up. And I was like, maybe it's just because...

It could be an age thing. Saggier fingers. Now we're all right. I'm sorry. But now I'm ploughing back water like a camel trying to store up fluids. You haven't gone to the bathroom a lot lately. No, I'm just drinking it back.

And the problem is when I drink water, I don't know if this happens with everyone else, when I drink water, it's like a water fountain. It goes straight in and comes straight out. It's just like a constant cycle of water going in and water coming out. Because I never know how much you need to drink. Sometimes you read it's like 900 litres a day. Yeah.

Like 10 centimetres a day. I just don't know. What is the official? I think it's about two litres a day is average. Maybe a little bit more for men. It seems like a lot, eh? Yeah. But I think just the general, maybe we can ignore my little finger hack,

but the general thing is if your pee's lighter in colour, then you're great. You're good to go. If it's a shocking colour of yellow, then that's when you need to sort it out. Oh, there you go. Six to eight cups a day, it's saying here online, of fluids. You plough through a day. You're very good, eh? Yeah, I've got a one-litre bottle full here.

So you would go through two of those a day, would you? Probably, yeah, at least, yeah. But I've never seen you go to the toilet. I'm like a camel. Yeah. It would be weird if I did see you go to the toilet. Yeah. Juliet, are you in there?

Okay. Are you going yet? Okay, moving on. Moving on. Moving on. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. The hips. Today is Redo and Ben. Breakfast on the Hefts. The Hefts.

Today is Red Nose Day, Cure Kids Red Nose Day, raising funds for child health research here in New Zealand. A very important day that we all hopefully will get behind and support Cure Kids Red Nose Day to give kids a healthy, brighter future. And you can text RED to 3663 right now to make an instant $3 donation. Now, we've got a very special little girl in the studio. She's very wise beyond her years, this lady. Young little Eva, welcome.

How are you? I am good. Now, you've been a Cure Kids ambassador, I guess, pretty much since the day you were born, right? I was three. Since you were three. So that's nowhere near the day you were born. That's a few years after that. And so what have you faced over the years?

Well, I lived in hospital for six and a half years with gastrointestinal failure. So I was born with a hole in my diaphragm and then all my organs went up into my chest cavity. Now, I'm not a doctor, but that doesn't sound good. Good to the doctors. And then, yeah. And then I... So you've lived with this for your whole life? Yeah, since the day I was born until I was six and a half.

And so Cure Kids have helped you out throughout your journey, haven't they? Yes. What do they do for you? They raise money for life-affecting conditions. And also research as well, too, right? Because there's a lot of scientific research that needs to go in and helping out these kids, because that's what we learnt a few years ago. I kind of thought for some reason it was to do with helping kids with cancer,

but it's to do with helping out all sorts of kids that unfortunately are not too good. Yeah, so they try and find a cure for kids with different conditions and they try to find a cure for each of them. See, isn't that a wonderful organisation? Yeah, it's awesome. And the kids, tell me, the kids, are they cured or are we still curing kids? Still curing kids.

Still curing, still cured. That's why we're here today. Yeah, that's why Red Nose Day is today. So we're trying to raise as much money today as we can to help out as many kids around New Zealand that need it, right? On Red Nose Day, you're helping kids like me but you're also having a lot of fun because red nose day should be a happy day I noticed there's a new uh filter and a new thing you can put online

so you can get the virtual red nose kind of like Jono sometimes has when he's been drinking too much in the weekend I've got a permanent red red nose due to my rampant alcohol intake. But this is like one that you can do. It's really cool. We were playing around with it before on Instagram. I'm permanently working for Red Nose Day. But it's a really cool thing you can do as well, because in the past you've been able to go out and buy sort of red noses and stuff to support, right?

But now you can do it as well, show your support online. Instagram, yeah. So how's your health now, Eva? Well, it's been good i haven't been in hospital for a few years but i've i have like appointments every three six months yeah however i do have i am getting my back reconstructed in a few months jesus is this to do with scoliosis yes Yes. Is that connected to... Well, yeah, because there was a hole in my diaphragm

and all my organs went up to my chest. It probably pushed my spine over. And so now there's a curve in my spine. Oh, my gosh. How many operations do you think you've had? I actually asked my surgeon, but he doesn't know. Over 30, probably. Over 30 operations.

Yeah. Brave little thing, aren't you? Yeah, it must be so hard. You know, with the school and everything else, we're just disruptive with having to do all this sort of stuff. Yeah, it's been quite good because it's quite calmed down. Yeah. Soon it'll be.

Now, be honest. Have you used this to your advantage? You know, if I was you and I had something. What is this question? It's been like, and i had something what is this question if i had something i look quite sick now and i try and use it to my advantage can you use it to your advantage let's be honest let's call a spade a spade do you give free stuff no you don't have to answer this here she does either and i know eva and i don't know you guys know each other quite very very well yeah i'm not just Sort of berating

A sweet girl There's a back story Yeah I like Have you had a free car Did you get a free car Well considering I don't have my Driver's licence

Yeah okay No free car Okay So should we ask For a free car now If anyone wants to give Eva a free car Lamborghinis

Ferraris Text 4487 right now Okay I'll be your agent Or we can just try And get some money From people Might be another way To do it right Yeah Hennies, Ferraris, text 4487 right now. Okay, I'll be your agent. Or we can just try and get some money from people. Might be another way to do it, right? So how can people donate? Do you know what we need to do?

What we need to encourage people listening right now to do? Well, you can text 3663 for an automatic $3 donation. All right, I'm going to do it right now. Let's do it right now. Red Nose Day, of course, today, helping out Cure Kids. Come together, help fund big research for little lives, which is a nice way of doing it, helping out so many people around New Zealand. So I really

do encourage everyone listening right now to dig deep and to text. Just did it. You did it? It says, thanks for donating to Cure Kids Red Nose Day. Well, you don't need to know what it says. It says that with the hits as well. And you can also visit rednoseday.co.nz Just be wary though, data charges may apply. That's what they say on thisoseday.co.nz. Just be wary, though. Data charges may apply.

That's what they say on this test. Oh, there you go. Yeah, I don't know what data charges are, but they've applied. Well, there you go. $3. It's just as easy as that. Just like that.

We've just done it. So right now, do it. 3663. A simple $3 donation. Help out many Kiwi kids around New Zealand. Always lovely to see you, Eva. Nice to see you guys. We're celebrating Red Nose Day with Jono and Ben.

You made me, you made me feel good. On the hits. Yo, that's Jono and Ben on your Friday morning. Okay, I just want to bring producer Juliet into the show here. Ju, you sent us a text yesterday. It was in response to something that we were communicating over. Oh, yes. And I said, sorry, in response to something that we were communicating over. Oh, yes. And I said, sorry, we forgot to do something.

And you replied back with, all good, in one text, which was fine. Yes. And then just moments later came a solo exclamation mark, just on its own. Yeah, that was it. It's almost like it was an absolute waste of time and resource on the 5g network to send a single exclamation because i checked to see whether you guys had done something that needed to be done and then i was like i feel like they haven't done it but i'll just check just in case and then you're like no they haven't they haven't and then i was like all good and i was meant to

have an exclamation mark in the original text but i forgot and i was like i hope they don't think like i hope they don't read into the all good message with no you know no happiness at the end of it oh so that was a light in that I thought I yeah I don't want you guys to think that I was like angry like passive-aggressive we were like oh she's not all good when you say all good she is the opposite especially the exclamation mark coming afterwards I was like oh she's really ramming it over all good yeah that's right all good so i just thought the extra exclamation mark would hopefully like a little lol or a haha or something at the end of it just to kind of yeah but that's quite a thing for your generation isn't it oh yeah because they can read into just totally if you

don't add a lol or an emoji or something oh my goodness someone's being angry yeah and the inventions of emojis is just being genius for our generation now because you can really just add it to, like, really understand the tone of a text with an emoji now. Well, you know, when you say, all good, I generally go, oh, she's all good. All good. You don't have to. Not she's being snarky. Oh, all good.

Well, I'd hope so. You're a lovely lady. Yeah, well, now we don't know, and this is an exclamation mark. Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz. Juliet won Best New Broadcaster at the Radio Awards, and now it's time to tell us dusty old broadcasters

what's been happening in the world of celebrity news. So the famous TV show that we all, I would like to say, know and love, but I feel like know and maybe used to love, because it's kind of died down a little bit, is X Factor. Simon Cowell has made the decision to axe it, to finish it off, after 17 years of existing, and he thinks the show has become slightly stale.

Technically he's decided to cancel it for five years and see how he goes at the end, but people think that it's probably just going to be the end of it. Listen, I didn't even think it was still going. I thought it had finished. You don't get more stale than not happening over the last few years. Such a long run, though, right?

He does got talent now, doesn't he? Yeah, I think so. Britain's got talent, is it? That's what I thought then you said. It's very confusing how he's across multiple sheds. Yeah, I know. I mean, if there's judgment to be made and ridicule to be thrown, well, Simon Cowell will be at the desk.

Yeah, true. That's true. But, I mean, X Factor has done very well in its time. They started One Direction, Little Mix and Leona Lewis. Those three artists and bands have been incredibly well since. So, I mean, when it was booming, it was really booming. And so it's probably right to pull up in now for Simon.

And, you know, this age we live in, a lot of the joy of that show was watching the bullying, for me. Anyway, that's what drew me to the show and you can't do it nowadays can't bully people on television what's happened to the world it wouldn't stack up though would it no no you go back and watch me we even went back and watched him uh callum scott's audition which i think was on got talent anyway but that's by the by

and callum scott's sister came out first and cal just she was in tears it was on Got Talent anyway, but that's by the by. And Callum Scott's sister came out first. And Cal just, she was in tears. It was just this rollercoaster. It was horrible to watch. Hard to watch. Yeah. You know. And I guess it was a show trying to impress him. But he was such a hard judge.

But yeah, you're right. It's like, whoa. But you've got to give it up for the man. You see, you know, he created a whole empire, didn't he, with that format. And David Walliams, who's the comedian and one of his fellow judges on Got Talent, he has a wonderful story about Simon Cowell. Have we got that? Yeah, we've got that and one of his fellow judges on Got Talent. He has a wonderful story about Simon Cowell. Have we got that? They're travelling through the airport.

This must go no further. He also has these shoes made from Baluti because he's not very tall. And they have a heel on them. One time we were travelling by plane and you know you have to take your shoes off to go through the scanner. Well out of the corner of my eye I saw this tiny little person.

Who's that? You know when you see someone out of the corner of your eye? But I looked and I'm like, oh my God, it's Simon without his shoes on. It was like, it was a small child. He thought that was Trim. Yeah, it was his little child, I'm sure. That's so good. He does look like kind of a short man, doesn't he?

And yesterday I reported on the fact that Bob Odenkirk had had a fall on the set of Better Call Saul. His son has said now that the act is going to be okay. And his collapse on set was a heart-related incident. But he's going to be fine, which is good. So hopefully he's getting all the care he needs. And Justin Bieber has sent a message, a public message of support to United States Olympian gymnast Simone Biles

after she decided to exit the Olympic final to help out with her mental health. He posted on Instagram a photo of her just throwing his absolute support under her, basically saying, what does it mean to gain the whole world but forfeit your soul? When what you normally love starts to steal your joy,

it's important that we take a step back to evaluate why. And I think Justin... He would know that. Yeah, because I think he cancelled the second half of one of his tours to focus on his mental health. So he obviously knows how that all feels. You know, there's a lot of people that would just push on through it. Just going, I've trained for this. The country's on me.

And much like him, when he pulls out of a tour you've got hundreds of thousands of people who paid for tickets yeah well you know at the end of the day you've got to look after yourself don't you totally it's awesome

that she's getting support like that as well yeah and I think it shows real strength that someone does that and then at Spy for more you can head

to the hits.co.nz after us 7 o'clock on the show more from Red Nose Day including the Briscoes ladies she's going to be talking to us just after 7 o'clock

and 5 words for $5,000 it's back and you can go at 7.45. Jono and Ben, friends of skinny. Limbo champions of low-cost mobile plans. Happy, happy, happy, oh. Red Nose Day with Jono and Ben. Donate now at rednoseday.co.nz

or text RED to 3663 for an instant $3 donation. Morning. It is Jono and Ben with you on a Friday morning. Great to have you with us. As I just said, it is Cure Kids Red Nose Day today. It raises funds for child health research in New Zealand. A very important day. Because, yeah, as we've been learning throughout the morning,

Red Nose Day and Cure Kids, they basically try and improve kids' health and funding by looking into all the science and the money goes towards all that. All the research. That's what I was looking for. The research program. I could see him drowning. All the science and stuff.

Research, research. Yeah, this is what you'll never make it as a science. Damn it. And all the science and stuff. How's all the science and stuff going? It's research, guys. That's what we do. It's very important.

And donate at rednose.co.nz or you can text red to 3663, donate $3 instantly. And it's also very important too because days like this make Ben look like a good guy and it helps cover up his dark past. No, it's a really important day

that the Hits are very proud to be part of and all throughout New Zealand people are getting behind this which is great. We spoke to Little Eva who's an ambassador for Cure Kids just moments ago. And I know the family personally, too. And what Tiff, Eva's mum, was saying, they went through in those years, basically living in the hospital. Which is six years. Yeah.

A long time. And, you know, organisations like Cure Kids helped fund the research, all the science stuff, as Ben said, to help her through, you know. So this is why it's so important. And if you've got kids, you know, you just feel so badly for families that have gone through things like that. Yeah, it really does hit home. So text RED to 3663 to $3 instantly. You can donate.

Or if you donate more, you can head to rednose.co.nz. Do it for the science stuff, guys. Do it for the science stuff. The Briscoe's lady surprises us next. Well, she surprises us because we know what she's talking to us about in just a few moments. It is the hits. What do you mean?

Oh, what do you mean? And it's Justin Bieber. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben, on your Friday morning, Cure Kids Red Nose Day today. Text RED to 3663 to donate instantly $3, just like that. And joining us right now is the iconic, the legendary Briscoe's Lady. Yeah, we've got the Briscoe's Lady,

because Briscoe's are a big backer of Cure Kids. And Tammy, the Briscoe's Lady, good morning. Bonjour. Bonjour. Nice to talk to you. Briscoe's having a sale this weekend. What's going on? I hope they have.

Every time they have a sale, you get a gig. So keep on selling. No, actually, when we do a one-day sale or a really short, sharp one, I tend to not get to do some of the voiceovers as such for them. So no, I don't. But, gee, we all love a Briscoe sale, don't we? Oh, we do. Now, listen, this is pulling back the curtain a bit. What is your arrangement? When do you film all of a Briscoe sale, don't we? Oh, we do. So what is your... Now, listen, this is pulling back the curtain a bit.

What is your arrangement? Like, when do you film all of the Briscoe's commercials? Well, it just really varies. But I'll do more like a spring sale or something, you know, that's a little more elongated, something like that. So it just really varies, guys. Do you come in at the change of season like an impact player? Yeah, I do.

We're here talking about beautiful Days and Curing Kids today because obviously Briscoes have been heavily associated and backing Cure Kids for many years now and once again doing it this year we hear murmurings on track for hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations Tammy. I know which is wonderful so I think actually

for Red Nose Day itself this year, I think they're thinking that it's going to be raised over $250,000 just on that particular day. Oh, my God. I think throughout this year, it's about $800,000 that they've raised. The Briscoe Group, yeah. Yeah, which is just fabulous, isn't it?

This is Briscoe's Rebel Sport Living and Giving as well as all part of the Briscoe's Group. They're huge supporters of Cure Kids. They are, and they have been since back in 2005, which is really cool. And so I think back in 2005, they started Add a Dollar campaign. And what that was was through the month of July, they would say to our wonderful customers, and thank you, our customers, because they just do wonderful things for this. But they would say to them, would you like to add a dollar? And it's just a really cool thing that our customers give so much, which is really appreciated.

Thank goodness for them. That's lovely. Over $8.8 million, I was reading here since it started, the Briscoe's group have helped to bring towards kids. And we've been learning a lot about what Cure Kids does and the research and development helping so many kids around New Zealand. Yeah, which is in so many different capacities too. People, children with life-threatening things or things that they have to live with but cope with.

And so it's all that wonderful research. And so ultimately, Cure Kids, really, they are the biggest people that do this child research other than the government. with but cope with and so it's all that wonderful research and so ultimately Cure Kids really they are the the biggest people that do this child research other than the government so the money that they put towards it is just fabulous so I mean thank goodness there's wonderful people out there that do this marvelous work we do we do work like this you guys and moi but aren't they incredible they they do they do another form of work that is just so wonderful, doing all this research for the children of New Zealand.

Yeah, and then listen, and that's not to discount the great work that we're doing. No, we do. We're doing some great work. We do, but we just have a little more hilarity. And humility as well. Exactly. And it's really interesting because when I was thinking about oh gosh I'm going to talk to you

guys and I've been is that how you think it is? you're like oh god I've got to talk to these guys no no no and I was thinking I've been doing my gigs for a long time and I remember way way back in the early days of the Red Nose Appeal and I would dress way back in the early days of the red nose appeal um and I would

dress up and and you know I'd be I'd be being the briscoe lady and I'd have this plastic red nose on my face well it hurt like heck and that was the red nose day of a long time ago we don't do the red nose as such like that anymore because you you know, that's just adding to landfill. And so they have this app. And I had to look up what an AR app is. And it's augmented reality. Yeah, it's really cool. We had a player of it before.

And it basically inserts a red nose onto your face while you've got the app. It looks awesome. Which is cool. I remember those plastic ones. They'd really cut into the side of your nostrils, wouldn't they, those plastic red noses? They gave your nose health. Yeah.

Do you remember the bit? Yeah. And they would sort of collect a lot of moisture, and it would be kind of a ball of nose moisture at the end there. And they made your voice all funny. That's right. Tammy, listen, I always love catching up with you, Tammy the Briscoes Lady, and congratulations once again

to the Briscoes Group. Over a million dollars this year alone that they're on track to give Cure Kids and 8 mil over the years, so well done. You're better people than we are. And people can just, we just did it before,

you can just basically text donate to 3663 and a $3 donation will be made towards Cure Kids, just like that. Well, that's wonderful. And thank you to everybody who donates. It's just so, so appreciated.

You're doing it for the children of New Zealand, and thank you guys for promoting it. It's just wonderful. What is that song? It makes me feel so inspired. You made me, you made me feel good. I listen to that all the time on this show. It's really good what's that

song be it's been a real fun week uh this week on the hits it is of course a red nose day a very important day today but we have uh been banging on all week about uh the biggest thing that's happened to the show uh the rocks biceps are being over a zoom call uh with us uh you put together a pretty amazing prank if we want to head to the hits breakfast on instagram you can see the whole thing where you surprise me in front of my hero and the awesome emily blunt i thought i was going to the movies next thing you know bang i'm in a video call with the rock we talk about awkward video calls just before well that was a bit of me fumbling around and you couldn't get away yeah nah well yeah you played a cool i think you uh yeah they they hang up from that zoom call

go he's a cool, chill dude. Oh, no. I'm like, have we got the bit where I say I love you heaps? Is that still floating around? I love you guys. I love you guys. I love you guys. Honestly, I love you guys so much.

Yeah, I like that. They would have hung up and gone, he's pretty calm. He didn't come on too strong, did he? But there was a couple of things reflecting back. I mean, moments, yeah, because you made me get a tattoo to profess my love for The Rock. heart the duane the rock johnson tattoo and i you know i didn't know we were going to be having a chat with them but you had a picture so i didn't have to show them my actual well i was just you know in this day and age you just

can't get your ass out can you not like the 90s man no but there was a bit like, how's this? My hero, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, saying this to me. Do you want to see it? Pull your pants down and let's see it. Pull your pants down and let's see it. He wanted to see the tattoo. And I said, that's a pretty iconic thing. And then even- You must have only dreamed of Dwayne Johnson saying those words to you.

Pull those pants down and let me see it. And then I've wanted to see- In your wildest dreams I've wanted to see this tattoo for a long time So yes, you're right And then at the end of the year They did a cheers with the Terramoira tequila And how's this for Memorably Blunt?

Cheers to your bottom, Ben I have, you know, cheers to my bottom I have probably one of the world's most famous bums You do And I have a Kim Kardashian You know, like it's Break the internet with that bum It's on his phone.

It's on The Rock's phone. My bottom. Yeah, he's got it. He's got the footage. What I love is we've treated your bottom like a fleshy Magna Doodle. Haven't we? We've just scribbled all over it. I'll tell you what.

If you're a celebrity and you want to get tattooed on the bottom, we've got the perfect canvas for you. But there's some controversy around the interview, Ben. There were some wild claims, mate. Some promises made. I got swept up. I was just promises made. I got swept up. I was just telling you, I got swept up in the excitement. And we're going to get to these next, okay?

Because you promised something to Emily Blunt. And to be blunt, I feel like you need to follow through with your claims. So we'll get to this very shortly. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah.

She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Now, Ben Boyce, there's been right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, Ben Boyce, there's been a lot of talk this week about the interview that you had with The Rock, the surprise interview. You got a tattoo of iHeartDwayne Johnson on your bottom, and we surprised, a face-to-face meeting with you and him over Zoom,

but also the wonderful Emily Blunt, his co-star from Jungle Cruise. Yeah, she's awesome, mate. She's great. She was there with him. And you made, you know, you got swept up in the melee. I understand this. I get this. And you were just wanting to make, you're a pleaser. And you just want to keep everyone happy.

And you probably felt a little guilty that, you know, you didn't have an Emily Blunt tattoo. But this is what you said. Can you get me on the other bum cheek? I'll get it after this. I'll get it after this. I'll send it to you, right? How am I going to send it to her?

How are you going to send it to her? I'll send it to her. What are you? What's your Gmail? I'll email it to you. What am I? Yeah, I did. I said a lot of things. I like it when we slow it down because it really hammers home the point.

I'll get it after this. I'll get it after this. I'll send it to you, right? You sound drunk. Yeah. Now, we had this conversation yesterday, and I was like, well, you've made this promise. I've done it. And you don't want to be known as the guy who frivolously just says, I'll get your name

tattooed on my bottom to celebrities and never follow through. I follow through with the rock thing. The rock. You know? Like, you said, would you do it? And I went, no, I can't all do it. And to prove my love. Yeah, well, now I want you to follow through with the- Prove my love, you know? Like you said, would you do it? And I went, no, I can't all do it. To prove my love. Yeah, well now I want you to follow through with the-

Prove my love to Emily Blunt. Yeah, exactly. But, you know- So we threw this out. We said we'll have a 24-hour poll to see whether you do this as well and somehow send it to her, as you claim. Can we get that slow audio again, Drew? You said-

I'll get it after this. I'll get it after this. I'll send it to you, all right? I'll get it after this, I'll get it after this, I'll send it to you, alright? I'll send it to you, alright. Oh, look, I don't want it to lose, like, my Emmy button is awesome, and the Duggar Cruises is great, you know, but I don't want to lose its, you know, I don't want to lose

its meaning, you know, the tattoo on my bum, you know, it's special, right? Okay, so we had a 24-hour poll, where, like, does Ben follow through with this? So we threw it out to the audience, you know, to the jurors. And we'll welcome Emma from Paraparaumu. Morena, Emma, how are you? Morena. I'm good, thank you. Great to have

you on. Your thoughts. Does Ben follow through with the blunt tat? I have an easy solution for you, Ben, to keep your bottom in perfect condition. You can just get one of those little fake tattoos and then you follow through You've done what you said

And then it will disappear And your wife won't be mad at you Oh, like a henna A henna tattoo job I love it We're going to send you a double pass To go see Disney's Jungle Cruise Really appreciate your call, alright?

Thank you I really do appreciate your call So that's none from one for prior Is that what you were expecting? No, no, no That's the problem with the hits audience. They're too responsible and nice. Yeah, I like it.

Back in the rock days, you'd be like, get it on his forehead. If he doesn't do that, he's a pussy. Lloyd, welcome from Auckland. Does Ben follow through with the Emily Blunt tattoo promise? Lloyd? From Auckland? Lloyd's gone. Leisha, welcome.

You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Do you think he follows through with the tat? You cannot get another woman's name tattooed on your butt. Oh, but hold on, Leisha. Let me play the slow-mo. Let me play the promise. The promise. I'll get it after this. I'll get it after this.

I'll send it to you, right? You know the adrenaline was pumping. It was pumping. There was things going on there But when you come back to real life You cannot get another woman's man when you're back You're right It was like a big night out

And now he's dealing with the consequences I'm like wow Next day I need to text around everyone Sorry guys They really got away on me Sorry Hey we're going to send you a double pass To see Jungle Cruise

It's in cinemas right now Enjoy alright Thank you Thank you. Thank you. So many texts on 4487 saying no, don't do it. Exactly, Juliet. What? What?

Well, look, hey, you get me her address. You get me her Gmail or her number. Then I can send it directly to a no-truth middle people, and then I'll do it, all right? How's that? No, listen, we'll put it to bed. The audience don't want it. They don't want it.

I'll submit to her if you get me that. But if otherwise, I won't do it. That right? How's that? No, listen, we'll put it to bed. The audience don't want it. They don't want it. I'll submit to her if you get me there. But if otherwise, I won't do it. That's what the people say. That wasn't how you saw that going, was it? No, it wasn't. It wasn't. You've been the butt of all jokes, and now the butt stops here, according to the audience.

But fair enough, too. I mean, we can go down a pretty dark hole, which is bad. You know, of you just promising to get celebrities' names on your tush. I mean, we can end up in a bit of a bind, I understand. So this is probably the sensible solution. Thank you, New Zealand. It is the hits.

You've got Jono and Ben in five grand, upper grand very shortly. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 7.46 on your Friday morning. Let's give away some money. You're only five words away from a massive payday. That's what we're trying to do right now's give away some money. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. That's what we're trying to do right now, give you some money, $5,000. We put it on the line every morning.

With this game, Five Words for 5K, it's a game of word association. It's a really, really fun game to play, but it is sometimes quite hard to match up what you're thinking and what we're thinking to connect all five words. It's been a long time since we've had a winner. Not even bloody Lotto goes this long in between drinks.

Yeah, you're right. Yeah. All right, well, it's... It's got to go today. I keep saying today. Today's the day, but you're just... False promises, mate. Much like saying to Emily Blunt you get her name tattooed on.

Maddy, you're on from Whangarei. Welcome. How are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing well. You work at Cotton On. Oh, God, I was hoping you'd try to bring that up.

Yes. Oh, okay. Well, tell us more about your job at Cotton On that you didn't want me to bring up. I love Cotton On. I know. It's not very exciting. It's just serving customers, stocking new clothes, you know, the normal. Mate, you've had Dwayne the Rock Johnson t-shirts in there recently.

I've got one of those. No, no, no, sadly. I don't think they would bring that out. Oh, I got one for cotton on the other day, actually. So, yeah. They didn't reach Matty's store because Ben bought them all in Auckland. Maybe that's what happened. Cleaned them out.

Hey, Matty, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth this morning to match words with? I would like to send Jono. All right. Oh, God. Good old Jono. He ran out of five this week. Good old Jono.

Here he is. He's shaking his head. He's not confident, but I'm confident, Maddie. So let's get into this, all right? First word this morning. What pops into your head when I say red? Red. Ooh.

Red car. Red car. Now. Oh, no, colour. Let's go colour. Let's keep it basic, colour. But the, can I, should I bring this up? Yeah, bring it up.

Well, no, I don't want to say because I don't want to be wrong, but I'm just saying we're doing a day today. I don't know if you just heard. It's a day. Oh, red nose, isn't it? I don't know if that's what Johnna will think. I was just thinking, oh, would that be the thing you would think? Yeah, I feel like it is.

You know what? Yeah, let's go red nose. But I don't want to be that person now. It's on you. It's on me, Matt. It's on me. Okay, right, Mad feel like it is. You know what? Yeah, let's go red nose. But I don't want to be that person now. It's on you. It's on me, Matt. It's on me. Okay, right, Maddie. Red nose. Okay, we'll go red nose. I hope. Anyway, I'll shut up now. Headlines is the next word. Headlines.

News. News. Good. Nice. I like that. I'm not going to disagree with that one. Friday. Friday. Oh, goodness. Friday night. disagree with that one. Friday. Friday. Oh, goodness. Friday night. Friday night. Nice. Producer Juliette. Oh, the weekend.

Oh, not weekend. Let's go weekend. I feel like weekend is like when Friday hits, it's the weekend officially. It's the weekend. Okay. Cone is your fourth word this morning. Cone. C-O-N-E. Oh Oh goodness, I'm getting a little bit dyslexic here and I'm thinking like road cone is that a word? Yeah, you can totally

go with the front of the word, that's great Can I come back to that? I've got another one Chicken is the final word this morning, chicken Chicken wing Nice, and let's go back to cone. What do you want to lock in?

I've got road cone and I've got like ice cream cones stuck in my head. Let's go road cone. It was the first thing that popped in. Producer Humphries, come on in here for one second. What's going on, mate? Sorry, can I just get a call on that? Was it wing or wings? Oh, chicken wing, please.

Wing, no S. Oh, wings. I was going to say wings. Sorry. Sorry, guys. You're going to go wings? Yeah. Okay.

Sorry. We've had this before. Our boss is now. It needs to be the exact thing, all right? No, that's okay. We're going to bring Jono out. And Jono, here we go. Here we go, Jono.

Here we go, Jono. I'm very sweaty today Yeah, I don't know why Very moist Moisture Okay My moisture content Maddy, maybe it's because I know I'm about to sweat out some cash for you

No, I'm sweating too, Jono A lot of perspiration happening this morning on Five Words Alright, Jono The first word this morning is red Nose? Yes! red nose yes thank god i was nervous in that one i was sweating because we had a conversation before and i was like oh i was thinking of the day that today is and then maddie was like oh you're right yeah i could have seen red shirt red car car, red balloons, which I'm looking at. But okay, we're one from one, Mads. Next word is headlines.

News? Yeah, I've got good news. That's correct. All right, carrying on. You're two from five. Friday. Friday. Hold on.

Was there a careless whisper there, Juliet? I don't know. Shall we hit the careless whisper music? What was that? Is the careless whisper music going to play? What? I heard a careless whisper, but Maddy, you might have been whispering to someone who's next to you, were you? Yes, sorry, I was.

Yeah. Don't forget to get the milk or something. Oh, right. Sorry, that was my fault there. Yeah, she at work. She at work. It's nothing to do with the composition, mate. I didn't even hear anything.

Producer Humphries, you were very quick on me before. Are you okay with this? I'm good. Yep, yep. The next Friday. Friday night? Oh, we talked about Friday night, Maddie. Didn't we?

We did, yes. What did you end up going? We can. night, Maddie, didn't we? We did, yes. What did you end up going? We can. Oh, Maddie. That's another great... That's silly. No, it's not silly at all. It makes perfect sense. Listen, no one's right and no one's wrong in this game,

apart from you today, unfortunately. No. Maddie, you're an absolute superstar. Should we go through the remaining two? Yeah, why not? Let's go. Let's go real quickly. Cone? Something's go. Let's go real quickly. Cone.

Something Ben packs. Okay. And chicken. Chicken nuggets? That's a good one, too. Yeah, chickens are very hard, but there's so many options. We went, oh, chicken wings. Hey, Maddie, you did so well today.

We're going to send you a double pass along to see Disney's Jungle Cruise in cinemas, alright? Oh cool, thanks guys so much And thanks Jono Love you Maddie, have a great weekend You too More action from Red Nose Day More action? Why did I make it sound like it was the Olympics?

I'll be sweat-tomping the excitement guys On the way for you shortly It is the hits Juliet went to spy school to get qualifications for this job which actually served her no good for reading Celebrity News but I tell you what

she's managed to slip arsenic into both of our coffees this morning without us noticing so well done you Ju what's happening in Celebrity News? So 660 have purchased 660 Castle Street in Dunedin which is the flat where

they say it all began, where they all sort of started their band, met each other, and they purchased it for $1.7 million. $1.7 million on Castle Street? On Castle Street. Have you been to Castle Street? I have been to Castle Street. It's like the Gaza Strip.

I mean, it's an iconic place. I mean, and it's great that it's so cool that the band are owning it. And they're doing a really, which I'm sure you're going to get into in a minute, they're doing a really awesome thing with it. But we're right, we've been to Castle Street before. I would not get into the real estate game in Castle Street. We walked along and checked out the flat. We're like, oh, the 660 will get a photo.

And some guy was like, come inside, have a look. We're like, do you live here? He's like, nah. Yeah, it's an open door policy when you go. You can just wander into the flat no matter who's living there and kind of have a little bit of a ticky tour but it's interesting because they bought it for 1.7 million but one roof valued it at 800 000 so they bought it for so much more they're great at making music but shocking that real estate investment but it's an awesome thing yeah tell us what they're

doing so um they're turning into accommodation specifically for performing arts students and so that it will go through a process students will go through a process where they apply to live in this flat. And 660, obviously, the University of Otago will choose these students, but 660 have a say in who these students will be that will live in the flat. They'll receive a $10,000 scholarship that goes towards their rent at the flat and also includes mentorship from the 660 boys. So every year, 660 will come and meet the new students that live in the new flat, in the flat every year and help them out and meet the new students that live in the new flat every year

and help them out. They're going to record they're going to install a recording area and they're going to set up an office for 660 so whenever they come down they can kind of just hang out there and then the accommodation will have rooms for four people. Oh that is a wonderful way of giving back. Yeah.

Why don't you start a radio house somewhere in the... Radio house. Come stay in my radio of giving back. Yeah, that's awesome. Why don't you start a radio house somewhere? Radio house? Come stay in my radio house. I just house like young students in my radio house. Hey, John is here to teach you how to radio.

Sometimes it sounds dodgy when you're involved in it. When sixes, you're like, what a wonderful thing they do. As soon as you hear about John O'Brien's radio house, you're like, oh, that's... Yeah, I don't know why.

Why does it sound like a... I've kidnapped a whole bunch of 18-year-olds. Yeah. When 662, you're like, wow, that's so cool, bringing back the next generation. Yeah, you're like, oh, mate. No one wants your radio house. Your radio house. What a bleak house.

I've installed a microphone Where you can talk to yourself Please let's not let that happen The microphone will just be made out of Used toilet paper rolls Johnny Pryor's Radio House Coming soon guys That's what happened when you were a tire

Don't let us spy for more You can head to theherds.co.nz After 8 o'clock more from Red Nose Day it's a big day today, raising money for Cure Kids and we'll tell you how you can get involved and how much it means to all the kids around New Zealand Red Nose Day with Jono and Ben Donate now at rednoseday.co.nz

or text RED to 3663 for an instant $3 donation Just gone 8 o'clock, you're on the hits Jono and Ben. Yes, it is. It's Cure Kids Red Nose Day today. It raised funds for child health research in New Zealand. So if you want to make an instant $3 donation, it's pretty easy to do, right?

Yeah, just text RED to 3663 for an automatic $3 donation. And as I've been saying all morning, if you don't do it, you are a monster. I love a good old charity fundraiser. Do you remember back in the telethon days where you'd be like, oh, I'll donate $10 for Simon Barnett to shave off his hair. Yeah. And then Barnett's like, oh, I've got to do it.

20 bucks of Simon Dello patches Wendy Petrie's elbow. You know? That was, yeah, that was. And then these poor people were forced into doing these degrading acts. Degrading acts. We're like, fair fact. I'll pay you right now, Ben, 50 bucks to stare into my belly button for the remainder of the show. Oh, dear.

Oh, God. Hey, Cure Kids, though, it's a really awesome thing. Improves the health and safety of, you know, the health of New Zealand kids. Research that goes into a lot of things. And, you know, because as a parent, I mean, we're both parents, there's nothing worse than, you know, one of your children not being well. And I remember actually, you know, my daughter Sienna, when she, the first three years of her life,

she had a bit of an autoimmune thing. I remember this. And every three weeks she would get like these massive fevers, she'd get sick, and we didn't know. As new parents, you don't know what's going on. You're like, is this normal? You know, every three weeks she'd had seizures from her fevers they were sore throats headaches it was like and you know ended up in ania but hospital starship were amazing all that

and you just don't know what's going on and why this is happening fortunately for us after about three years of going through this and for so you know we managed to work out with the specialist what was going on and sorted it but you know for some other kids it's not quite as easy as that and that's why you know it really hits home. I'm not trying to say we're only a small little thing about what some people go through and they go through much bigger stuff than we do but it really does hit home what happens to a lot of

families around New Zealand. Absolutely, well said and organisations like Cure Kids they're raising money today for research so it can go towards not just child cancer, that is one of the things that they raise money for, but all sorts, all sorts that children are going through. And we're going to be talking to Dr. Susie Wiles, who is New Zealand's Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year.

Is that the competition? New Zealand's Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year? I think you put it next to New Zealand. Yeah, it sounded weird. But Susie Wiles is one of the scientists that benefits from this funding, and she does the research into getting medicines for these children. Yeah, we'll tell you more about it very shortly. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Hey, Jono.

It's Jono and Ben, OMG I Want One. What's today's prize? Oh, my gosh. OMG. Hey, OMG I Want One is back. It's so exciting each day announcing what today's awesome prize is that someone will win this afternoon. And today's prize is a 12-month Disney Plus subscription,

which is awesome, actually. You can check out all the latest and greatest from all the Disney stuff on there. Now, this is for OMG, and as the show's resident poster boy for Catholicism, can I just apologise to all of my fellow Catholics for the blasphemous title of this promotion. I don't back it. And it's not the thoughts and opinions of John O'Prior, our poster boy for anything Catholic.

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Amen. Dr. Susie Wilds joins us about how important Cure Kids is and the research and where the money going to today. There's a race at Red Nose Day. Where it goes? She joins us very shortly on the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 8.46 Friday morning.

One of the problems of being an only child. And, you know, I've turned out a pretty well-rounded human being. Wouldn't you agree, Juliet? Yeah, thanks. Ben wouldn't even have me as the godfather to his children. But then invited producer Juliet to... Yeah. I didn't know she was an option.

That's where we stand. Yeah. Yeah. But I've known you for so long. Yeah, I know, Ben. But, you know, one of the downsides was I had no one else to talk to growing up. This is probably why you got into radio. Yeah.

Probably is when you think about it. Just so I a talk at people just have some form of human to human yeah this is it this is all say it all stems back from your childhood yeah that's like a therapy session but uh you know i ended up just talking to myself which no surprises are there really yeah but but it's gone on and it's like spilled over into adult i mean once you start talking to yourself, you can't stop. You can't just turn it off. And I still do it as an adult.

Like in the car all the time, I'm talking to myself. But you could just talk to yourself silently and not move your lips. Yeah, because you can do it in your head, right? But you're right. But sometimes it feels better to put it out there. Yeah, but the older I get, the more I realize you look like a raving lunatic talking to yourself. Do you guys talk to yourself? Now and again.

When I need motivation for something. You're like, come on, Julia. You're going to do this and you're going to do it well. I'll tell myself in the car driving. The thing is, no one ever wants to get caught talking to themselves. Don't they? You never want to be, because it's very degrading. Yeah, what were you doing? You have to find an excuse yeah i've got bluetooth a headset and whereabouts

i was very small but i'm talking on the phone to someone my wife my wife always catches me mumbling to myself and i feel like every time she catches me like what are you talking to yourself about i feel like lesser and lesser of a husband but i'm doing it at the moment in the car and i sit outside school waiting to pick up Poppy in the afternoons. And I'll do it. It's for work purposes. And I'm just taking notes, you know. And I just talk to him.

And then this guy came up to me on the window. He's like, hey, he's a parent of another child. He's like, hey, mate, everything all right? And I said, yeah, no, good, good. He's like, I just see you every day in the car just talking to yourself, and there's no one else in the car. And i had to explain myself explain yourself oh it's just this thing and it's yeah and he kind of he felt sorry for me i could see the pity in his eyes yeah and then you explained what you're doing a lot on the hits with john and benny's oh jeez more sorry for you come here

get out of the car let me give you a hug. And so we had an embrace. There we go. So, Ben, back to this Godchildren thing. Oh, Jesus. Move on. You've known Juliet for like 11 months. Yes, that's right. It's Red Nose Day. Text RED to 36...

Is that what we're talking about? No, but I'm going to talk about it right now. Sing it out loud like Jono would. Text RED to 3663. It is the hits. It is the hits. Jono and Ben are wrapping up our show for a Friday It is Red Nose Day

And all morning raising money for Cure Kids Ellie from Skinny Our mate from Skinny's phone through How are you Ellie? Good, how are you guys? Good I've just always assumed your surname is from Skinny Yeah, I'm Ellie from Skinny

You're always destined for this role, Ali. That's right. I'm loving the show this morning, guys, and loving what you're doing for Cure Kids, so why don't we donate $500 to you guys? Awesome, to Cure Kids. That's great. Good luck, and I'm sure you'll be raising heaps of money for everyone.

Thank you. Listen, I tell you what, you guys may be skinny, but I tell you what, you're fat on donations. That's a bloody good donation. Thank you so much, Ali. Appreciate what, you guys may be skinny, but I tell you what, you're fat on donations. There's a bloody good donation. Thank you so much, Ellie. Appreciate it. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits

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