Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Dai Henwood on Lego, League and Life!

Episode Date: April 17, 2023

We chat to Dai Henwood the host of Lego Masters NZ on what is happening with his life, the Warriors and how good the show is!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, how are ya? We're doing alright, how are you man? Oh, I just hung up on him. Oh, jeez. Die Hemwood everyone. Almost got his name correct. He'll be back soon.

Sorry mate, that was sloppy on my part. That's what we do these days, that's the end of it, isn't it? No, we're very excited. Lego Masters, it's back. TVNZ 2 started last week, hosted by yourself Dai Henwood. I know you're a huge fan of Lego but also the Warriors, I've been lucky enough to commentate a game with you but have you thought of combining them? Lego Warriors, Let's Go Warriors, you can kind of get that on the sign?

I actually have over the weekend, I've got quite this enormous, punishing Apache Lego helicopter I'm trying to build. It's pretty amazing. And I ended up just getting sidetracked and building a rugby league stadium, which in hindsight doesn't look anything like a rugby league stadium. But I tell you, I'm pretty excited. It's a shame you weren't calling the game with me and Chris Key the other night. It was amazing. No, I tell you, between League and Lego, my life's a pretty full scenario. I was getting confused about what we're promoting here. Are we promoting Rugby League?

Where are we heading? We're promoting Lego as an amazing show to watch and Rugby League just is a holistic lifestyle. It's just got a combination of two very extreme pastimes all wound up in one convenient interview. All right, Lego masters, let's talk about that. Let's get back on. What are you, this PR guy?

All right, let's get back to it. What's some of the amazing creations? Because last year, the first series was incredible. I mean, I already had a couple of episodes last week but what's some of the things we can look forward to across the series? Well, I don't want to give away what they're actually building because I was, what got me

right is we did that first season and people, I was really surprised because I'm your classic Kiwi, you know, where you're like, oh no no, the Aussies have been awesome. The American show is awesome. New Zealand is just going to come out and, you know, build something for the average. And then they blew it out of the water, right? Like there was just amazing builds and like the one that won it last year, this huge seal that had a motorized hand and all this sort of carry-on was amazing.

And so then I was like, oh, but what about the whole getting a whole nother lot of people? Like, have we exhausted the talent? But there's this huge adult Lego community in New Zealand and they're just amazing. Like, every time I think it's an awesome show and I'm getting a few

dad points and I get a bit of kudos at school drop offs I'm feeling pretty cool. You must be killing it with the primary school demo It's amazing, there's a whole I was looking yesterday, there's a whole Spotify white noise Lego playlist where it's nothing but just Lego sounds, there's different things you

can listen to, here's the waterfall sound of just Lego basically, it goes like this. And it's just like white noise of just Lego, and it continues like that. Is it coming off a conveyor belt or something? I think it's just, yeah. Look, can I just say that's not relaxing at all? I found it quite relaxing and peaceful. I actually must say it made me quite tense. Just for that few seconds,

you've ruined your Spotify algorithm. Just the sound of crashing, breaking. It's going to be my Spotify-wrapped over the end of the year Lego playlist You look at these creations using thousands of pieces In the back of my mind I'm like who is the poor

The poor schmuck Who got into television Went three years of broadcasting school And their job is to solely clean up Lego from the set So You know going into it, that was literally my first question

that I asked the producers. I was like, hey, so who pulls all this apart? Because not only do you have to pull all the bits apart, and they're put together really well because they've got to be huge, they also sort them into colours and sizes. Oh, my God. But so people into colours and sizes. Oh, my God. But so people fought over that job.

Oh, really? We had way more people applying desperate to do that particular job because some people, that's their jam. They just put on their Spotify playlist of facing Lego on some noise-cancecelling headphones and they just get in the zone. I suppose it's quite satisfying getting the colours coded and everything away. Maybe season 3

is Lego sorters. People putting them away. Oh that's good. Oh my late late late old school public access TV. 12 hours of watching people sort Lego into different sizes. Really satisfying.

I've got Dye Henwood with us on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Lego Masters is back on the TV, on TVNZ2. All right, I'm going to put you on the spot here, Dye. Guess the Lego punchline. Obviously, you're a comedian as well as a lover of Lego. These are jokes from the internet. There's a bit of a theme going, so once you get one, I think you'll be away. See if you can guess

the Lego punchline. Okay, first one. What do you do if someone doesn't like your Lego jokes online? You what? I don't know. You swap them, like you find out their address and you call up a swap team to go into their house. A little extreme.

I might have gone too far. So this isn't what I'd do. Yeah, I was thinking before, you block them. But yeah, because they go block. Or you could call a SWAT team to their house. Yeah, you block them. That of course makes way more sense.

I don't know if this is going to keep working, but I'm going to persist anyway. Why was the Lego person going to the doctor? His nose was? His nose was blocked. Yeah! There we go. Dai Henwood, great catching up with you, mate.

Now, quickly before we go, how's the health? Oh, it's really good, man. I sort of had some scans and stuff in May where I find out what's grown and what hasn't grown and what treatment I'll be doing and that. But I've had like, I've had three months off and I've got another few weeks and I'm looking after myself as best I can.

I'm travelling around the country telling jokes. I've met so many awesome New Zealanders just travelling around this beautiful motu doing gags. So I'm mentally in a great place and I feel really healthy so I mean that's all I can ask for

One of the great people of this industry, Di Henwood, we love you buddy Lego Masters on tonight, TVNZ you go and look after yourself mate and we'll speak soon Absolutely, love you boys Take care