Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - MINI: THAT 90'S SHOW - Simon Barnett

Episode Date: June 24, 2021

In this MINI edition of Jono & Ben, Simon Barnett joins us for our special edition THAT 90S SHOW!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. We're catching up with some iconic people who were all over our screens during the 90s, including this guy, Simon Barnett, joins us right now. So great to have you on, Simon. Hello there, Jono, hello there, Ben.

Am I putting on my voice now or later? We're in the 90s, welcome. Ironically, you were never on the hits. You spent all of your career on More FM. That's right. True. We were always in competition, so now we work for the same stable,

so that's great. Now, if anything, you should probably be reliving this moment over with Gary. But you're with us today. Gary wouldn't remember it, trust me. And as we talked about the other day, you're on an amazing show through the 90s,

What Now? Clash of the Codes. Clash of the Codes was a great show, if people vaguely remember that, where they got sports people to compete against other sports, right? All the heroes of sport. Yeah, and honestly, Paul McDonald was the brains behind that Olympian,

and that was a genuinely great concept. 12 different codes, sporting codes, three athletes that were right at the prime back in the day. We had Mark Allison, Dan Peralt, we had the real cream of the crop, and they all competed, the codes competed against each other, and you wouldn't think it,

like cycling did amazingly well because those people were just genuine machines. Ian Ferguson, legend. So sometimes you sort of think, oh, maybe they wouldn't be that strong, but their aerobic capacity, I was simply in awe of every one of those athletes. Yeah, it was a great show, and another great show

that we want to play a little game of now is Face the Music. Have we got the old intro there, Patricia Juliet? Have we got that right? Yes, it's time to Face the Music. And here's the star of the show, Simon Barnett. There we go. And here's the star of the show, Simon Barnett. There we go. And here he is.

That introduction brought to you by a VHS. How does it feel hearing that again? It is actually like a time warp. It's bizarre. Because I can remember running out. I remember the thumping nerves. I remember the live studio audience. I remember, who was the guy from the Mockers?

Andrew Fagan. He was a guest on a celebrity show. He pulled a knife on me on the show. He pulled a knife on you? We know Andrew Fagan. He pulled a knife on you? He pulled a knife. We introduced him.

I go down the crew and I say, this is Andrew Fagan. He pulls out a knife. I just about popped and went blind. And it was a rubber knife. I hate that. It would be real funny. So I had to say to him, Andrew, I don't know whether the knife gag works. You thought you were going to be shanked by someone live on TV.

Exactly. And then we had these three contestants, because people get so into the show, so they were all on those little lollipop stands. And one guy in the middle, 100% true, hand on heart, I'm doing the show, introduce the guests, and I think the guy in the middle looks a bit funny. He's looking pale.

Then his eyes roll back into his head. I promise there's no embellishment here. His eyes roll back into his head. He falls off the stage and gets enveloped in those inflatable tubes and completely disappears. The other two contestants look at him fall off and disappear into the set and then their hands back on their buzzers to play the game. Well, at least one's down.

We found an old episode on YouTube. The quality is not amazing, like sound-wise now, but we loved it. You threw out a couple of jokes. It was a guy who was a carryover champion and he was a drummer. And listen, we love this. Welcome along, Zane. Thank you. How are you going?

Good. Good. Now, you're a drummer. Yeah. But you're a bit, yeah. I'll talk slower then. But no, I shouldn't do that. I've got a funny joke about that.

What's the difference between a frog and a drummer? A frog has a better chance of getting a gig. I shouldn't have told that. That's not fair. I love that. I shouldn't have said gig. I shouldn't have told that. That's not fair. I love that. I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have told you. It was like you're second guessing yourself.

That's embarrassing, man. I sound A, like a chipmunk, and B, talking about, I was a hashtag dad joke before the thing. That's terrible. We did love both times after you had burned him, you were like, I shouldn't have said that.

And then you went and burned him directly again. You were like, I shouldn't have said that. And then you went and burned them directly again. And then said, I shouldn't have said that. That was my go-to line whenever I offended somebody, is that that sort of made it all right. You're right, I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that. Now, face the music.

The music quiz show was a lot of fun to watch. And amazing prize up for grabs. He was the one with the prize. Tonight's major prize is outstanding in every way. An incredible Sansui hi-fi system with award-winning Polk audio speakers. 100 watts of dynamic power from Eastern Hi-Fi, Pacific Audio, and Face the Music.

Yeah, now we've done our best to track down the Sansui. Unfortunately, Sansui didn't make it through into the new millennium. You know what's so funny? Man, people would spend three weeks and win for three weeks in a row to win a CD cleaner. It was just for fun. I don't know. I don't know what was going on back then. It was bad. It was bad.

It was bad. Someone has seen you, Dean. Sweating his guts out. I was nervous. I gave him a 40-inch crapper. It was a different time. It was a different time. That's so good. I used to say, It was a different time. It was a different time.

That's so good. I used to say, oh, well, this is what I'm aligned on the show. People don't come on this show for the prizes. It's all about the fun. Like, no kidding, Sherlock. I haven't seen my family in three weeks, but I've got a CD cleaner. Simon Barnett, thank you so much for your time this morning, mate.

Lovely, lovely catching up if you want to catch Sia's on with Phil on ZB for Midday Weekdays. Legends, fellas. Really nice to chat with you. I haven't laughed like that for ages.

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