Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: David Seymour Is Against Lolly Taxes!
Episode Date: October 31, 2022Today on the show we hit down on the hard issues with ACT party leader David Seymour as he talks lolly tax.... Dame Susan Devoy chats CTI and ENTY is on from LA!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy... information.
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The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Kia ora, welcome. It is the 1st of November.
Wake up, wake up, wake up, it's the 1st of the month.
Yeah, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, they're a good, they're a good, they're a great group.
Bone Thugs, do you know I was reading, it was a weird clickbait side article that you get on, you know, a news website or something.
And it's one of the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is about how he was kidnapped.
Kidnapped.
Him and his brothers and sisters kidnapped as children.
Harrowing tale.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm sorry I couldn't come with lighter news.
Yeah.
I like, yeah.
I thought you were going to talk about the time where you actually interviewed them.
That was just funny.
We did interview Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was fun.
They were actually lovely, weren't they?
They were.
Although, you said something about my mother
and they got very defensive
on behalf of me
they did
because they were going
to Christchurch
and I was like
and I just went
oh you're going to Christchurch
she's popping and see
Jono's mum
because she lives there
and he lives there
she's lovely
and as soon as I said that
they were like
oh
you don't go near the mum
don't
yeah
and I was like
hey your mum's lovely.
And they're like, oh.
They could detect your sarcasm.
But no, it was no sarcasm.
Your mum is lovely.
There's no sarcasm involved.
Your mum's lovely.
They were, you know, they were great.
They were great.
A great chat, actually, Bone Thugs and Harmony.
Now, big show today.
She was, we had crammed a lot into three hours.
So much, so much talking and interviewing,
and it was almost too much content for my liking.
Yeah, there was a lot going on, and you'll hear it all on the podcast.
But yeah, some really, really fascinating stuff.
A lady, Sarah, who met Oprah.
That seemed like an incredible experience.
Oprah hugged her.
Yeah.
Got a photo of it.
They shared a moment.
She sort of told Oprah about how Oprah was like her TV mum.
And Oprah got very emotional. I know, it was awesome. Dave Susan Devoy joins us as well. She sort of told Oprah about how Oprah was like her TV mum.
And Oprah got very emotional.
That was awesome.
Dame Susan Devoy joins us as well.
She's now been evicted from Celebrity Treasure Island.
She punished you quite severely, Dame Susan.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
No, it was with some squash balls and stuff.
But squash balls, they...
This was for a TV show many years ago.
Yeah, not recently.
Yeah.
Or not on camera anyway.
But yeah, they've... Jeez, when they come in, they come in fast.
And they're just like tiny little pellets, aren't they?
Yeah.
Like rubber bullets, basically.
Yeah, I know.
We didn't think about that before going in.
You're like, oh, you have squash balls.
As soon as you see Dame Susan the Boy had a squash ball,
you're like, oh, my goodness.
And she'd be on target.
She'd be on target every time Dame Susan the Boy goes to a talk.
David Seymour, too, was a fun chat on the show this morning.
And a guy who visited Disneyland every single day for over eight years.
Every single day.
The novelty's wearing off for me after that talk.
I mean, I know it's Disneyland.
But there's so much to see and do. You're turning the happiest place on earth to probably the most
ball-lacking place on earth because you're having to go every day. He didn't say that though. He
said he still found magic and wonder. That's still pretty incredible. Just before we go today,
can you guys just between one and 24, because obviously you were saying off there, Ben,
you're a big advocate of the Melbourne Cup. If you choose a number between one and one and 24 today for the for the melbourne cup and uh maybe you can
okay all right what are you i know you don't like to beat or gamble or participate in the melbourne
cup for fear of having to owe people money yeah i'll go 12 okay okay 12 okay i'll go
because but you know i i do know a story from when I was little.
I think I was about three years old and my parents came to me.
And they were like, well, pick a number before the Melbourne Cup.
And Dad went off and put it.
And I said 12, apparently.
And it won.
But now I'm like, well, what did I get out of this?
They're like, oh, I think we bought you like a jacket or something.
But you won a lot of money.
But I was like, well, no, technically they won a lot of money on my winnings.
Hold on, did you go to the TAB and make the transaction yourself?
No, you just plucked a number out of thin air.
I still feel like that was my winnings.
I feel like a jacket is a sufficient payment for your input.
Jackets are nothing present.
So a jacket's like you need, it's a practical thing.
It's nothing but...
What sort of jacket?
Winter, light summer one? I think it's a winter jacket. I think, I don't know. I was too young. But, you know, jacket's like you need. It's a practical thing. It's nothing but... What sort of jacket? Winter, light summer one?
I think it's a winter jacket.
I think, I don't know.
I was too young.
But, you know, that's...
Warmth.
As a kid, you don't want a jacket.
But you put no financial input into this transaction.
A jacket is...
Yeah, I'd be happy with a jacket if I was you.
Do you still want the jacket?
No, it still fits me, actually, yeah.
12 for you.
I'm going to go nine.
Nine?
Yeah.
Number nine is Stockman, a Kiwi racer, actually, as well.
It's a Kiwi horse.
Yeah, what are you going to go, Producer Joel?
19, Smoking Roman.
You look like a racer's guy.
Can't you imagine Joel at the races, couldn't you?
Yeah, exactly.
So he's got the good pants on, the town shoes.
I'll be wearing them tonight, mate.
I'll be dressing up, dressing up to the nine.
Any excuse for a cheese cutter. You are not
going to the Melbourne Cup today.
I'm not allowing him to go to...
Imagine if he's going to turn up like tomorrow.
You're not allowed to participate. Hey, have a great
day, people.
If you're here for advice on life, you're in
big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits.
Yesterday was Halloween. If you haven't checked out
the video of you scaring the
poof out of me, you should do that right now it's on the hits breakfast did you clean up the pool
jeez well it was the second one that you were dressed as a sort of psychotic clown i think i
don't know what was going on i was like ronald mcdonald's wayward brother or something there's
a clown that had gone on a three-day bender he hadn't been home it really needed to just call
quits on the weekend and have some sleep.
The McDonald's family
had really cut ties with you,
mate.
They were like,
mate, he's really let us down.
The black sheep of the family.
I was like,
Ronald's doing great.
He's got the family business.
You've gone out.
He's happy.
You've gone out.
Whatever you were doing.
So you gave me a heck of a fright,
but then you had another surprise
for me as well,
and that one,
oh yeah,
that was the one
that really got me.
I'd be the clown that,
you know,
when the parents died,
I'd be a nightmare
when, you know, they're dividing up the estate.
Yeah.
Like, don't give him the money.
He's just going to, you know, he's going to be a shit.
But we were talking about this yesterday on the podcast intro, weren't we?
Yeah, I was talking about how my wife and I, we had a Halloween party
and we dressed up as Ghostbusters.
And I was reflecting on the Ghostbusters iconic song,
Who You Gonna Call?
And I said this on the podcast and have a listen to producer Joel.
What he did.
It really knocked your confidence.
It does, have a listen.
But I was thinking now with the Ghostbusters in 2022,
because, you know, it was the whole song was,
Who You Gonna Call?
Like nowadays it'd be like, maybe text.
You know, text is probably a lot better, you know.
Yeah.
Maybe don't.
It's a conversation.
It's not me.
Producer Joel Jeez
Like we have a conversation
Without like
I already lack confidence
I'm just having a conversation
He doesn't need snarky
Sneer drums
He's a snarky mate
From Gen Zers
But are you like
Mate
I'm talking to your generation
Like if you're a ghostbuster
You'd be like
Don't
Like Snapchat me
or something
you know
you kind of
the snedrum
really takes the wind out
you know
brings you down a few pence
doesn't it
it's like we've talked about
before
the cool story
oh cool story bro
no matter what you're saying
if someone says
cool story bro
it really takes the wind
out of your saying
oh no don't
that wasn't meant
to be a gag that was just again it rattles sag. Oh, no, don't. That wasn't meant to be a gag.
That was just, again, an opposite.
It rattles him, Joel.
It rattles him.
Don't play the bloody cedra.
It really startles him, doesn't it?
It does.
It does.
Yeah, we want to drum up some confidence, not drum it out of him.
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
So there we go.
That's what it's like working with a Gen Zer, looking down their nose at us.
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Are we still sitting at 87?
Yeah.
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Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry you got ro stats. Yeah. We apologize in advance. Jeez, sorry.
Sorry about that.
Sorry you got roped into this.
Jono and Ben.
Sorry.
On the hits.
Scrolling through your feed.
Are you entering our office, Sweepstake Ben?
Nah, probably not, to be honest.
You're not a horse guy, are you?
I'm not really a horse guy, but then also the admin of it.
Like, it'd be one of those things, I don't carry cash,
and then I'll be like, I've got to bring the cash,
and then it'll become something else that I have to do on the to-do list yeah right
and you don't need another thing on your to-do list yeah i like the office morale you know
getting things together but it'll be one of those things i'll end up having to bring cash and i'll
keep forgetting for weeks well welcome along to scrolling through your feed this is where
probably journalists look at it and go is this what the news has become yeah now there was an
actual poster from the inland revenue departmentvenue Department, the IRD.
Now, this was deleted, and they were obviously going for something a bit fun,
you know, a little bit of a laugh.
Nothing is more enjoyable than tax.
When you say fun, I think of tax.
It was to do with Halloween.
They put out a tweet from the IRD saying, fun fact,
basically along the lines of,
a lolly tax will teach
kids responsibility so you
can take some of their lollies from their trick or treat
haul. The tax can be as much as
one third of their lollies earned
on Halloween. So to teach kids about
tax, you can take
some of their lollies away as parents.
But it wasn't a gag?
No, like you should actually do
this. The kids need to learn about tax.
A light-hearted way of teaching the kids about tax.
Now, obviously, this is coming from a government agency,
and who's quick to respond on this one?
It's the ACT Party leader, David Seymour.
Of course he is.
And he joins us right now on New Zealand's most respected news source,
scrolling through your feed, David Seymour.
I tell you what, there's only one source of truth.
I know they said it was the podium,
but it's actually at DBC more on Instagram.
Oh, you're getting an Instagram plug?
I didn't get you on to plug your Instagram.
Your gram's blowing up.
It doesn't need any plugs, David.
It's going to blow up even more now it's been plugged on
New Zealand's leading breakfast show.
Now, David Seymour, we've just been talking about this this morning,
about how the IRD put out a tweet.
They took it back.
They've deleted it now.
But it was to do with Halloween, saying you could basically teach your kids about taxes
by taking off some of their Halloween candy.
Yeah, and you could teach them about how to vote too.
With the greens, they'll take all of it
because you're not allowed any sugar.
With labour, they'll take half of it.
And with acts, we'll give some of your lollies back, kids,
so party by that.
Now, I've always said the kids are never too young
to learn about the complexities of the tax system, David.
That's a good point.
We could tell them that a tax is a fine for doing something right.
A fine is a tax for doing something wrong.
Well, yeah, it seemed like a very unusual play.
And I know they've taken it back after a bit of a heap, but very unusual thing for the IRD to put out.
I mean, the IRD is not always the most loved organisation in the country.
Yeah, and I almost feel
a bit sorry for them
because they were trying
to get some love.
They were trying to move in
on the Halloween festivities.
But then at the end of the day,
there's a reason why
their Maori name is
Te Tare Te Ki.
They just take.
And it's very hard
to show up at a Halloween party
when it is there
to take, take, take.
Actually, what they forgot is it's the kids that are supposed to trick or treat
who trick or treats off the kids.
Well, I mean, even the cost of living
hitting the lolly collection market as well.
Yeah, 100%.
And you know what?
If it makes those kids recognise the spookiest thing at Halloween
is Grabby Grant Robertson taking your lollies,
then maybe it's a healthily education.
They should have left it up.
Oh, Grabby Grant Robertson.
Grabby Grant Robertson.
I don't know if that's a nickname that he'd love to keep up with.
It's a nightmare for HR as well, Grabby Grant Robertson.
One of the spookiest Halloween characters out there.
David Seymour from the Act Party.
Thanks for joining us this morning.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Experts in giving out inexpert advice.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Now, Ben, I know every year I get,
do you have bugs in your house?
You got a bug problem?
Oh, you get the bugs.
Flies.
He flies with my big bug bear for the bugs.
You, through summer, through 30 plus degree heat,
refused to open doors and windows
because you didn't want flies coming in.
So the family were just sweltering, I imagine.
Yeah, like as soon as you open the gate,
the door-to-door sales people come around.
As soon as you open the doors at home,
the flies come inside.
Everything's shut in my house.
So it was like a sauna for one summer.
And then I put you onto a bug,
the bug guy that I use.
So November, we do, we get it sprayed every November.
And it's like clockwork.
As soon as we let it lapse for a couple of weeks in November, the bugs, they're back.
Yeah, they're back again.
They've had their 12-month sabbatical.
They're like, we've had a good time out there, like an OE.
We return, yeah.
Yeah, and they return, And just an abundance of spiders.
Now, my issue is, I think, I don't know if you're the same,
every spider I come into contact with is a white tail.
Do you feel it?
To be honest, I don't know what a white tail is.
No, neither.
That's my thing.
But I'm like, it's a white tail, it's a white tail.
But it seems like a lot of spiders have that white little dot on their ass.
And so I assume everything's a whitetail.
And I'm very overly dramatic when I'm like,
it's a whitetail, stand back everyone.
And I like to put them outside.
I don't kill them.
Because I got guilty when we spoke to Rude the bug man,
who's way too into bugs for anyone's liking.
But I was...
He'd like me to go camping with him.
Oh, wouldn't he?
He's like, let's just leave the tent doors open.
No, Rude.
Wake up in a sea of mosquitoes.
Aren't they wonderful?
He does love bugs, though.
Rude, quite past.
Yeah.
And anyway, so I put them in the glass
and sort of take them outside.
But I swear, I'll walk 10 kilometres
and drop this white tail off.
Then the same guy's back the next morning.
Good morning.
They're back.
They're back and everything is a white tail.
So I'd just like to know, A, what a white tail looks like,
and B, what damage can they do?
Are they that bad?
Well, I think if you get bitten by one, it's not good, right?
But I don't know enough about the spider community.
I mean, Spider-Man was about as much as I really delved into the spider community.
Daddy Longlegs, apparently the world's most poisonous spider.
That's the rumor.
Yeah, they can't do anything.
They don't have the skills to distribute the venom to kill us all.
And that must be frustrating.
When you know you're packing, you know, I've got the goods.
I can do this.
But I can't do it.
But I can't.
God, that must be frustrating for them.
You know, wandering around with that inside you.
It's like you're going to the bathroom.
You're like, just, you know, when it doesn't quite.
Just a little bit.
Just this time.
Come on.
There we go.
That's it.
That's it.
Just a drop or two.
It's all I want.
It's all you want.
That's exactly what a daddy long leg is going through.
Hey, in five minutes time, we're crossing live to Hollywood.
Daddy Long Legs sounds like one of those sugar daddies, doesn't it?
Yeah, it's a really unusual name, isn't it?
Hey, Daddy Long Legs.
Yeah.
Mmm, coffee breath.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Melbourne Cup is on five o'clock today.
You have it live on the hits at five o'clock this afternoon.
You know the most stressful thing? We used to do the afternoon show, and they would be like, oh, you've got to take the Melbourne Cup is on 5 o'clock today, you have it live on the hits at 5 o'clock? You know the most stressful thing, we used to do the afternoon show and they'd be like
oh you've got to take the Melbourne Cup live and it was always so stressful because they
say it's at 5 o'clock but it never gets underway at 5 o'clock.
Horses they don't know about having to time out for radio shows.
Oh they're also drunken people, there's a lot of people they have to attend to.
Yeah I mean there's a lot going on, I mean they've got a lot going on but yeah that's
this afternoon.
Ben, I'm putting a lot of investment in the kids, okay?
My kids.
Right.
Not just any random kids.
My kids to look after us in our retirement.
You know, that's why you have kids.
So that when you're old and you can't change your underwear,
they do it for you.
Right. And they can financially look after you.
So I've sent them off to music lessons
now oscar's doing he's doing drums and poppy my daughter she's learning the piano and she
goes in with nathan her teacher and he's a wonderful guy they've got a great relationship
it's uh you know a bit of jokey relationship and stuff and so she came back from piano lessons now
when you send them off to piano lessons you've got so you've got visions in your head of what they're learning Beethoven, Mozart
Bach, you know all the classics
The stuff that's going to get you
An early retirement
That's why I'm investing in piano lessons
This is what happened as soon as she arrived home
Have a listen
Papa you've just got home from your piano lessons
And you spent an hour
Learning Bach
Beethoven, Mozart What was it this week?
We were learning still Dray. Still Dr. Dray and Snoop Dogg. Yeah. Okay. Not quite what
I'd imagined when I sent you off to piano lessons. Yeah.
And it starts getting quite dark when she starts singing the lyrics.
I mean, it's a great song, and you're never too...
It's never too early to learn your first gangster rap song on piano.
But in defence, and I mean, we know we talked about these people
like Beethoven and stuff like that, but that's like the 1700s.
I mean, you know, if you're talking about making money today,
Dr Dre's making a lot more money than Beethoven and Bach.
You know, when was the last piano concert you went to
where someone just played piano?
Only piano.
You raise a great point.
So maybe this is the way to go.
Maybe this is the avenue.
Next week I'll have you learning WAP on piano.
We'll be selling out concerts.
That's a very good point.
That is the hits you got, John. I'm bad. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A selling out concerts. That's a very good point. That is the hits
you got down on my bed.
Spilling the tea
on Hollywood's A-listers.
God, Eshians.
I have met
every single one.
Exposing scandals.
Because she's not a good person
but either is he.
Digging the dirt.
Is she a diva?
Yes.
And finding out
what's going on
behind the scenes.
Killing a cast member.
Yes.
It was a script.
No.
His identity is a secret.
But his stories have been proven right time and time again.
This is NT.
He's located 10,771 kilometres away in Hollywood, Ben,
but he's really located in all of our hearts.
NT.
Oh, NT, how's the week been, mate?
All right?
Yeah, I'm great.
How are you?
Yeah, no, we're good.
We're just plowing through life.
You know, it's just we keep saying, where the hell is 2022 gone?
It's November already, and that meant last night in New Zealand,
it was Halloween.
It's a big thing.
It's a big deal in America.
It is.
Is it a big deal in New Zealand?
Has it, like, taken off or no?
Yeah, it started to be.
Over the last 10 years, it seems to get bigger and bigger. You know, a lot
of people, a lot of kids in the neighborhoods, a lot of
houses, but not, we don't have the celebrities
like you do over there and they
all love dressing up. Yeah, they
do and it's kind of odd because I don't think
that there's all that many adults
like in regular kind of neighborhoods and stuff
that dress up, but every single celebrity dresses up.
It's an opportunity to
let me get on my Instagram, let me get
on my TikTok. It's just another
excuse, basically, for
content, rather than
any kind of great desire to
dress up for Halloween. We've lost the reason
for the season, haven't we?
Whatever the reason was.
It's become superficial, it's become commercial.
I see Khloe Kardashian turn up
to a party with Tristan Thompson.
There she is.
Tristan, look, how many chances is the guy going to get?
That kind of blew me away, and I'm not—
it's this thing with the Kardashians.
They just, they stick—unless you do something,
unless you go completely Kanye,
it's just, it's almost impossible to get rid of them.
They just, they will keep the claws in, especially if you have a child.
Now, that is the one caveat.
If you have a child, then they'll keep you like that.
If you don't, then they'll kick you to the side of the road.
It's why the whole Travis Scott thing and the covering for him,
if he's sleeping with somebody for the last 10 years or something,
they're the ones who will write the statements and stuff
because they don't want Kylie to look bad.
Travis Scott's been sleeping with someone else apart from kylie jenna for the last 10 years yeah maybe longer because and it was a big little little scandal here um last week or
so and you have to realize that kylie and travis had a one-night stand that turned into a pregnancy
it was a one-night stand oh she's pregnant oh we got to be together. And the whole Kardashian philosophy is, okay, well now you're together
forever. You know, just, I don't care if it was a one night stand and you guys didn't mean it,
you're together forever now, but he was already living with somebody. He already has a bunch of
groupies and stuff. And so then what happened was a few years down the road, they just said,
she goes, I'd like another baby. Okay, well, I'll give you another baby, but I'm not leaving my situation.
They don't live together, just like Kanye and Kim never lived together.
Scott and Kourtney, they live together some of the time,
but not all of the time.
It's a very untraditional, strange kind of thing
that they all have going on there.
Yeah, it's the same situation Ben has with his family.
He's got his groupies.
He doesn't.
You know, you've got your life.
You've got your life.
Yeah, they understand.
They knew what they were in for when they signed up to old hot pants over here.
NT from Hollywood, thank you very much for your time.
As we say, you live in our hearts forever and ever.
You go and have a great week.
Hey, you have a great week, you guys.
Hoping today will start well.
Too late.
You're listening to these guys.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Dame Susan Devoy, she's extremely talented.
One of our greatest ever sports people.
World squash champion many, many times.
And she's just been on Celebrity Treasure Island,
just evicted as well.
And I filmed with Susan actually many years ago
where she was hitting squash balls at us,
which was a very, very silly idea.
But she joins us right now on the phone.
Good morning, Susan.
It's been a long time since I've seen you boys at the squash club.
It has been a while.
How's the squash going?
Well, I've retired, gracefully.
What about yourself?
Yeah, we've retired as well.
We didn't have quite the illustrious career like you, though.
No, no.
I do remember that occasion very well, though.
Well, it's nice to talk to you again
because, you know, obviously one of our greatest
ever sports people, you know, you won
World Opens many, many times
over the years, but how did it compare
to going on Celebrity Treasure Island?
Oh, no comparison,
really. I mean,
I was good at playing squash,
but I sucked on Celebrity Treasure Island. Well, you were in the final six, though, you know? I know, I was good at playing squash, but I sucked on celebrity treasure.
Well, you were in the final six, though,
you know? I know, I know.
That's quite a miracle, really.
I think people were very kind to me, because
I did, I often actually
did ask if I could be put up for elimination,
but...
Send me off this godforsaken island.
Yeah, well, it was a bit like that,
actually, at times.
It got better, funny enough, but they never saw me as a threat,
so they just let me hang around.
Dame Susan Savoy with us right now.
Now, I was reading about you over the weekend, Dame Susan, that you basically got given an ultimatum at school.
You were in a Catholic school.
One of the nuns was like, well, do you want to be here,
or do you want to play squash?
And you were like, well, I want to play squash.
So you left school. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty much it, do you want to be here or do you want to play squash? And you were like, well, I want to play squash. So you left school.
Yeah, yeah, that was pretty much it.
Much to the disappointment of my parents.
You know, I'm the youngest of seven.
I've got six older brothers.
They had sort of different aspirations for me
than being a professional squash player.
But, you know, hey, this month I've been retired for 30 years.
So that's how long ago it was.
And so, you know.
Was it true you didn't tell your parents that you'd left school, though? You had to pretend for a while? So that's how long ago it was. And so, you know...
Was it true you didn't tell your parents that you'd left school, though?
You had to pretend for a while?
Yeah, for three weeks I used to get dressed up in my school uniform and hide under the house until they'd gone to work.
And then you'd sneak off to the squash court.
Yeah, yeah, basically that was it.
And then watch a bit of daytime television.
So, you know, school's overrated, isn't it?
Yeah, I was going to say,
I don't know if this is the right message to be sending.
Well, hey, you can end up being a world champion.
And also a dame.
Was being a dame one of those things which, obviously,
a tremendous honour, but also at the same time a lot of admin,
you have to change your passport, your driver's licence,
all that sort of thing?
Well, I don't put any of that on my official documents.
In fact, I checked into a flight the other day,
oh, a little while ago with Air New Zealand,
and it wouldn't go through,
and so I went to the count,
and the young girl behind there said,
because my ticket said Dame Susan Du Bois,
she said, what does Dame mean?
And I said, oh, look, I didn't want to say anything.
I don't know. So I said, it's my nickname. And't want to say anything. I didn't know.
So I said, it's my nickname.
And she gave me a real bollocking and said
if I ever used that on an official form again,
I wouldn't be allowed to fly.
Such a humble response from a New Zealander too,
not wanting to make a fuss about being a Dame.
Yeah, well, there's no perks that come with it.
I don't get upgraded.
The only perk is you get told off by the staff
behind the counter at the end of New Zealand. Yeah, it's just perks that come with it. I don't get upgraded. The only perk is you get told off by the staff behind the counter at the Air New Zealand.
Yeah, it's just embarrassing, really.
Well, Dame Susan Devoy, congratulations on making the final.
So congratulations on such a fantastic career,
not only on the squash court too, but off the squash court
and all the great things you've done with sport and race relations and everything.
You've led a fulfilled life, Dame Susan.
Yeah, well, I've been very lucky.
I think that's what you call about being privileged. You've led a fulfilled life, Dame Susan. Yeah, well, I've been very lucky, you know.
I think that's what you call about being privileged.
But I always remember that day you came to St Mary's School
and we went to the squash courts and you stood there
with your cricket box on and let me smash squash balls at you.
It was a stupid idea.
It was a stupid idea.
The thing is, before we turned up, we were like,
how hard are squash balls?
They're not that hard.
And then we saw Dame Susan hit one and we're like,
oh my goodness, these things are like little rocks.
And you didn't know back, Dame Susan?
Yeah.
Well, you guys have stood the test of time.
I think you were just starting out then.
Hang it in there, hang it in there.
Congratulations on still being great entertainment for us New Zealanders.
Oh, well, thank you very much.
That means a lot coming from you, Dave and Susan.
Really appreciate your time this morning.
You go and have a wonderful day.
Okay, thank you.
Bye.