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We chat to beloved kiwi icon and children's TV presenter Suzy Cato · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: With the John and Ben Podcast.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Cheers to Dilma making the world a better tea. How
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: are you.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: We're doing good. Always nice to talk to you.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Likewise, trapped in a.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Lift with you was just a week ago.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, awful.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: It was lovely. He was honest behavior here at his
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: googeous wife with them, and he was.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: Just the only time Susan has ever been downbeaten liking life.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: This bald idiot. Oh, Susie. We were doing a bit
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: of reflecting this this week.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit of a competition, to be honest, deciding
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: which was the better decade, the nineties or the noughties.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: Now you've spanned across both, what would you say was
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: the best decade?
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that is really really tricky because when I
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: think of it in terms of songs, it's a.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Cut that was the nineties, and that was your signature.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: You and Me, Susie's World was over two thousand episodes.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: I was reading of You and Me.
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  Speaker 2: You did that's right. We'd recorded over five years. So
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: I'd go to the need of for two weeks of
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: every month from Auckland. I'd fly down record, record, record,
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: then go home and throw out and We did that
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  Speaker 2: for five years, so a very special part of my life,
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  Speaker 2: and by the sounds of it, a whold several generations
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  Speaker 2: of Kiwi's lives as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you must still have people coming up to you
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  Speaker 3: all the time and going I used to sit and
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: watch you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love it. And you know, through COVID
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: and things like that, got reintroduced to a new generation
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: of Kiwi's which was absolutely adorable. But you know, I
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: still love that the Naughties had Susie's World. Susie's were
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: part of the thing, but it still touched the whole generation,
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: several generations. And now I've got young scientists coming up
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: to me and saying, look, I'm going to put that
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: down to you. You inspired me to embark on a
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: world of science.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: You just got whoam mean a lot to you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, one of the main reasons we made
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  Speaker 2: Susi's was because I was robber science myself as a kid.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: And but they were all questions that I had wanted
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  Speaker 2: answered as a child. You know, why is the sky blue?
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: How can birds sit on power lines without getting electrocuted?
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: What happens when we eat baked bean?
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  Speaker 1: How do the birds sit on the power lines out
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  Speaker 1: of interest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really proud of you for not asking the other
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  Speaker 2: questions because they are not earth grounded, right.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, grounded, So if they touched the ground at the
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: same time.
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  Speaker 3: Order, When you look back at those iconic shows through
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  Speaker 3: those years, I mean you used to wear some really
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: bright clothing, right, I mean your personality is bright, but
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: the clothing may have been brighter.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, it was cosmic cosmic. Yes, if I had
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  Speaker 2: a face on, I'd be able to send your photograph
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  Speaker 2: of what I'm wearing today, though. TI dyed electric blue
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  Speaker 2: and pink, and.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: You do love a tight height.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you really bright neon sort of colors I remember.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely need to get yours or something. I remember
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: that Cosmic brand color. They're all just bright colors, and
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  Speaker 1: now they kind of come back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look at Barbie. You know, the Barbie movie
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  Speaker 3: kind of brought all that back. So this song, you
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  Speaker 3: know you were just singing before It's Our Time? You know,
• 3:15
  Speaker 3: where did that come from? Like, and did you know
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  Speaker 3: it was going to be such a success when you
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: started singing it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'd love to be able to take full quint
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  Speaker 2: for that song. And you and me and the studiess
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  Speaker 2: Lord and all the rest of it. But I'm a
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  Speaker 2: cog and an amazing will of talented people who created
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: those programs, and I very luckily one of about eighty
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: people who interviewed or auditioned got the role.
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  Speaker 1: So did send me another's audition for that that gig?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, there were lots of people that auditioned
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  Speaker 2: because it had already been going for a year before
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  Speaker 2: I joined it. Yeah, but the wonderful Pauline Cooper had
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  Speaker 2: been presenting it for nearly a year. They threw open
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: the doors and they've got a telephone call. I'd been
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: with the Early Bird Show with Russell Ruther. You'ld dooodle dude.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: Russell, you say it was aimed at preschoolers. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I was a lot older watching it. That makes
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  Speaker 3: me go, oh Jesus, was I just a bit slow
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  Speaker 3: on it. I didn't realize it was aimed the preschoolers,
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  Speaker 3: but I watched a lot of it. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: put you on the spot now because you've been through
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  Speaker 3: those decades, as John I said, you've had big hit
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  Speaker 3: shows in both those decades.
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  Speaker 1: Susie, what was your favorite decade?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: It is so hard I'm going to have to say.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Susie, you're so nice, you just can't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to offend a decade feelings decades.
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: Oh look, it's like choosing a favorite child. How can
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: you do that? They're both good for so many different breaks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna sit on the fence on this one.
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  Speaker 1: She's doing a trademark ben boys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's annoying, isn't it. But I get it, I
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  Speaker 1: get it, I get it. You don't. Yeah, you've all
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: got the positive points. Oh, Susie, listen. Always love catching
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  Speaker 1: up with you. Appreciate your time, and thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining us pleasure. That's not how you say goodbye to Susie. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing it. Yeah you go, you go, tell you away, Susie.
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  Speaker 2: See you see yea later. It's time to say goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: See you see year later. We've really got to fly goodbye,
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  Speaker 2: my friend.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: Oh not just to preschool. And that was for everyone