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We catch up with 'Newsboy' Jeremy Wells! · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This Jon Woman Being podcast. Hey, that's us broad to
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  Speaker 1: you by Hello Fresh the experts and tastes that kiwis love.
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  Speaker 2: It's an honor to have the one and only Jeremy
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  Speaker 2: Wells with us.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, get a JOHNO. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing well, mate, It's always lovely to see your
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  Speaker 2: your face were I must apologize, must front foot this
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  Speaker 2: by saying I captured you in reception the other day
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  Speaker 2: and really got you down.
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  Speaker 1: An AI hole on AI.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Jermy, and you were such a lovely guy you
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  Speaker 2: felt obliged to continue the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was me punishing you. No, great, great,
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  Speaker 3: so funny. Look I love talking about AI. Jeez, that's
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  Speaker 3: that's the conversation, du juur, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it wouldn't have been a conversation in the nineties. No,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be worried about AI in nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker 1: So you're back have again, news boy? Now you how
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  Speaker 1: young were you when you first started? You must have
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  Speaker 1: been like eighteen nineteen when you I think so, I
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  Speaker 1: think I was. I think maybe I was. I must
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  Speaker 1: have been twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Were dream gig at that age?
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  Speaker 3: It was a good gig actually, looking back on it,
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  Speaker 3: but at the time, I just really wanted to go
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  Speaker 3: and hang out with my mates. So I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh God, I gotta go away again for a month,
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  Speaker 3: and I really just want to hang out in a
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  Speaker 3: flat and you know, stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff, sleep and cook.
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  Speaker 3: Spent a lot of time around an oven. Like.
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to a great podcast between two pers
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  Speaker 1: and they're saying, you were brought on as a researcher.
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  Speaker 1: At first, Mikey's like, because you're reading the news for
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  Speaker 1: him on the radio, and he was like, come on
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  Speaker 1: board as a recent hardly a researcher.
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  Speaker 3: I think I was doing a Bachelor of Communications at
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  Speaker 3: the time, and so he's like, oh, do you want
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  Speaker 3: to be and blah blah. I was absolutely, this is
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  Speaker 3: a great thing. So then I was doing some research
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  Speaker 3: and then next thing you know, I was doing some
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  Speaker 3: kind of reports. And that was how it all started.
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  Speaker 1: I remember watching you guys and wondering you'd always do
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  Speaker 1: these naughty things, and I was like, do you get
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  Speaker 1: in trouble for that?
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  Speaker 3: Well no, some people said you probably shouldn't have done that,
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  Speaker 3: and we said, oh, well, we just kind of got
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  Speaker 3: carried away, and they went, oh, there was so much
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  Speaker 3: money and TV in those days.
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  Speaker 2: Because obviously you did that when you when in the
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  Speaker 2: show sort of transformed into YouTube touring around the country
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  Speaker 2: as well. On the sellout to us.
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  Speaker 3: It was actually and originally it was a show called
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  Speaker 3: Rust in My Car. But I mean the thing that
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  Speaker 3: we're most famous for, this gay Gore piece that we did,
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  Speaker 3: was a complete accident. It really came off the back
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  Speaker 3: of the Miss New Zealand contest nineteen ninety eight Miss
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand Contest at the Dunedin Workingmen's Club that we
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  Speaker 3: went to. We had a huge night, nobody slept next
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  Speaker 3: thing and though we're being driven down to the southernmost
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  Speaker 3: point of the South Island Slope Point and on the way,
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  Speaker 3: they just like stopped by this trout that set up
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  Speaker 3: a shot. And I actually don't remember that. I have
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  Speaker 3: no memory of why we were saying what we were
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  Speaker 3: saying or anything like that. And when it came to
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  Speaker 3: be edited, I was surprised.
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  Speaker 2: So you said Gore was the gay capital of New Zealand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's just to bring the audience up to speed and Gore.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't happy at the time.
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  Speaker 3: No, but the Mirror at the time Mariog said, we
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  Speaker 3: are not the gay capital. We are not with a
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  Speaker 3: country western capital or the Brown Track capital, but we
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  Speaker 3: are not. I think her coat was there are no
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  Speaker 3: gay people in Gore at a different place, a.
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  Speaker 4: Different time, different Yeah, move on the studies. It's not
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  Speaker 4: what Meanwhile, Mike Putt watching, he's.
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  Speaker 2: The head boy of Gore High and so there that's
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  Speaker 2: you know, they have a can newsboy of the nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Then transitioning into the naughties, eating media Lunch had its
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  Speaker 2: own controversies as well. And I remember you got into
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  Speaker 2: the show's Sensing Murder, which was about psychics and them
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  Speaker 2: sort of trying to solve crimes telepathically, and then the
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  Speaker 2: person came up to you. The psychic came up to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, dear Weber not happy, No, she wasn't well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think we called it sensing bs and and she
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  Speaker 3: was a very popular show, that hugely popular show, but
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  Speaker 3: they always just seemed to fall short when it came
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  Speaker 3: to actually finding the body. We're just finding out that
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  Speaker 3: final thing. Oh no, we've run out of time. I
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  Speaker 3: keep looking. We've got more time. No, no, no, we've run
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  Speaker 3: out of time. So I have to move on to
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  Speaker 3: a new murder so and then yeah, she didn't like it.
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  Speaker 3: And then she came up to me, I think it
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  Speaker 3: was at the TV Awards and she she just said, Hi,
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  Speaker 3: I'm dead and I said, oh, no, I know who
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  Speaker 3: you are, and then she just laid She later kind
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  Speaker 3: of a really intense pash on me. It was, but
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  Speaker 3: it was. It was a hate patch. Have you guys
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  Speaker 3: ever been.
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  Speaker 2: It's quite sad runting on so many levels.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I think I probably could have head her
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  Speaker 3: up on charges, but anyway I didn't. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: was this really I could just feel the hatred coming through.
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  Speaker 3: It's really intense. But I say nineties, nineties nineties for me,
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  Speaker 3: for some reason, I remember more of it than I
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  Speaker 3: do the two thousands.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy, Well, so this has been a pleasure. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much for coming in, Thanks for having me