Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - The Burner Phone 39: Mount Rushmore Of New Zealand!

Episode Date: June 19, 2023

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Hey, guys. Got a bit of a question for you. My friend is in America at the moment, and she just posted a bunch of photos of Mount Rushmore. And I was thinking, if New Zealand had a Mount Rushmore, who do you guys think would be, I think there's four, who would be the four Kiwis that would be on Mount Rushmore if we had one?

All good. Thanks, guys. That's a good question. It feels like this is too good for the burning sensations. Yeah. Not that we think any less of the burning sensations. Oh, I know, but this is, you know, you're right, actually. This is the perfect place for it.

That's a really good question. The most famous, iconic New Zealanders. Okay, are we going throughout history or are we going of recent times? That's the other thing as well. I was instantly thinking throughout history, thinking people like Kate Shepard, Sir Hillary, you know. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, let's get them out of the equation.

Let's say they're a given. Let's talk about people who are alive now and making a great impact. Rutherford split the atom, you know. He would pop and be up there. Cook? No, no. No, we've got a New Zealander to start off with, you know. He's good, bad, you know.

Maui? You chucked Maui up there? Well, yeah. He fished up the bloody thing, mate. Yeah, well, true. Maui, yeah. Maui up there Well yeah He fished up the bloody thing mate Yeah well true Maui Yeah Maui Yeah I'm trying to think There's lots of

I mean iconic New Zealanders Okay well Wipe out the iconic ones Okay so let's go The ones who are living today Who deserve to be chiselled Onto the side of What do you reckon

Where are we putting this thing to Oh Mountain Oh well let's put it up Where Ruapehu Yeah We're at the moment you know because you know they're shutting down the ski field i'm sure about the skis at the field so we're putting up a mount rushmore there oh there you go so i've just googled some 26 new zealanders famous new zealanders

names you should know uh that's okay so peter jackson he would be an option yeah he's a great option tyker would you put tyker up there would? Taika would be a possibility for the top four, definitely. Lord, Sam Neill. Yeah, Sam's great. He deserves to be chiseled in up there. Yeah, Taika's on this list of famous people as well. Dane Jane Campion. Campo?

Yeah, another great New Zealander. How many can we have up? There's only four of us. Four, so you've got to really narrow it down. That's where it gets tricky, right? I'd be no good at picking. Briscoe's Lady. She deserves to be on there.

I'd probably put the Briscoe's Lady up in the mix, right? This is. I'm trying to think who's. John Olomou. Oh, no. Not currently, you know, but of the last sort of, you know, just a legend. Yeah, it's tough. Okay, let's

Let's categorise it Okay So we'll pick one From each Each section So I'm going to go Media I was probably going to

Make it even harder I'm going to go media Because we just had Lord Sorry we just had Taika and Peter Jackson Now you're like

One of them Now I'm like And Jay can be like Get rid of one of them One of them's got to go Okay so let's go Let's go media Who are you chucking in

For media Cliff Curtis Another great one. Media icon. Hosking. Hosking. Hosking for media. Got to be living now.

Okay. Yeah, well, I mean, iconic. Hilary Barry. Another iconic. That's too hard. I'm going to go Hosking. Okay. Only because it'll get some street talk going.

Yeah, it'll get some. And he'll love it. Controversially. He'll take his helicopter up there and go and say, okay, Hoskings in the media okay let's go film and television taika sir peter jackson would be a you know from but you're gonna go in the now like speedy jackson great career still having a fantastic career so richard taylor with a wetter workshops i'm gonna i'm gonna play to the topical Ben, I'm going to go Taika

just because it's off the now No problems with Taika? I'm going to say we've got to put a politician up there got to put someone up there this is where it's going to get spicy who's the current who deserves it

currently sitting in Parliament currently, so Jacinda's So Jacinda's out? Jacinda's out. Oh, no, no. Oh, no, you said currently sitting in. Yeah, yeah. It would have to be Hipkins, would it? What, by default?

Because he's leader. But you can pick anyone. Well, currently sitting in Parliament. Collins. Judith Collins. Oh, you put Judith Collins on there. Yeah. Seymour.

David Seymour's eligible. Yeah, true. Chloe Swarbrick There's some great politicians I'm just trying to figure out which one we would like to lock in Let's say a sports person You've got to put a sports person up there as the final fourth Current sports person You've got Sophie Pascoe

Lydia Coe Lisa Carrington Stephen Adams You look at great All Blacks as well Lydia Ko. Lydia Ko. Lisa Carrington. Stephen Adams. Oh, yeah. You look at great All Blacks as well. I mean, the Warriors. It's not going past the Warriors.

It's, yeah, Tohu Harris. Put him up there, you know? I think Tohu Harris is fantastic. Put him up there. Okay. I love Tohu Harris. Yeah, no, he's great. Okay, let's just go.

Who's achieved great? Sean Johnson. Yeah, Sean Johnson. Great season so far. So you put him up under a – Brendan McCullum coaching the England side. Prerequisite of Sean Johnson. Currently, you know, current form. You're the only one in current form.

Currently, what are the – oh, jeez, this is a tough one. Yeah. I'm going to go Israel Adesanya. There you go. That would have to be who it would be. On the world scale, jeez, this is a tough one. Yeah. I'm going to go Israel Adesanya. There you go. That would have to be who it would be. Yeah, on the world scale, no one is doing... Well, not saying no one is doing better, but is doing incredible on the world scale.

Okay, let's chuck up Israel Adesanya. Okay. Let's chuck up a scientist. Nanogirl. Nanogirl probably deserves to be up there. That's only because I don't know too many other scientists. Rocketman. Peter Beck. Peter Beck.

Peter Beck. Yeah. Rocket scientist. Can we have half of Nano Girl's face, half of Peter Beck's face? I think we've already filled out the final four. We're just adding more people like New Zealand. When you actually have a conversation like this, you go for a small country, break it down per capita.

Some really successful Kiwis. It definitely is. It's amazing. Great question. Great question. We should take that to the radio show sometime. So I appreciate that. If you want to leave us a great question.

I don't know if we answered it. No, we kind of just categorized it. So that's why I feel like we could really settle on a four another time. Okay, we're going to continue this conversation on. Yeah, great conversation. Yeah, all right. Thanks for joining the Burner Phone. Thank you for being a part of the Burning Sensations.

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