June 19, 2024 • 5 mins
We chat to Jeremy Wells about not being welcomed back in a small NZ town, what young newsboy would say about being on 7 sharp, and how wild NZ TV used to be!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Jon Woman Being podcast. Hey, that's us broad to
you by Hello Fresh the experts and tastes that kiwis love.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's an honor to have the one and only Jeremy
Wells with us.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good morning, get a JOHNO. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We're doing well, mate, It's always lovely to see your
your face were I must apologize, must front foot this
by saying I captured you in reception the other day
and really got you down.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
An AI hole on AI.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Sorry, Jermy, and you were such a lovely guy you
felt obliged to continue the conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I thought that was me punishing you. No, great, great,
so funny. Look I love talking about AI. Jeez, that's
that's the conversation, du juur, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, it wouldn't have been a conversation in the nineties. No,
we'll be worried about AI in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So you're back have again, news boy? Now you how
young were you when you first started? You must have
been like eighteen nineteen when you I think so, I
think I was. I think maybe I was. I must
have been twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Were dream gig at that age?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It was a good gig actually, looking back on it,
but at the time, I just really wanted to go
and hang out with my mates. So I was like,
oh God, I gotta go away again for a month,
and I really just want to hang out in a
flat and you know, stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Stuff, sleep and cook.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Spent a lot of time around an oven. Like.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I was listening to a great podcast between two pers
and they're saying, you were brought on as a researcher.
At first, Mikey's like, because you're reading the news for
him on the radio, and he was like, come on
board as a recent hardly a researcher.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I think I was doing a Bachelor of Communications at
the time, and so he's like, oh, do you want
to be and blah blah. I was absolutely, this is
a great thing. So then I was doing some research
and then next thing you know, I was doing some
kind of reports. And that was how it all started.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I remember watching you guys and wondering you'd always do
these naughty things, and I was like, do you get
in trouble for that?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well no, some people said you probably shouldn't have done that,
and we said, oh, well, we just kind of got
carried away, and they went, oh, there was so much
money and TV in those days.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Because obviously you did that when you when in the
show sort of transformed into YouTube touring around the country
as well. On the sellout to us.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It was actually and originally it was a show called
Rust in My Car. But I mean the thing that
we're most famous for, this gay Gore piece that we did,
was a complete accident. It really came off the back
of the Miss New Zealand contest nineteen ninety eight Miss
New Zealand Contest at the Dunedin Workingmen's Club that we
went to. We had a huge night, nobody slept next
thing and though we're being driven down to the southernmost
(02:30):
point of the South Island Slope Point and on the way,
they just like stopped by this trout that set up
a shot. And I actually don't remember that. I have
no memory of why we were saying what we were
saying or anything like that. And when it came to
be edited, I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So you said Gore was the gay capital of New Zealand. Yeah,
that's just to bring the audience up to speed and Gore.
They weren't happy at the time.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, but the Mirror at the time Mariog said, we
are not the gay capital. We are not with a
country western capital or the Brown Track capital, but we
are not. I think her coat was there are no
gay people in Gore at a different place, a.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Different time, different Yeah, move on the studies. It's not
what Meanwhile, Mike Putt watching, he's.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The head boy of Gore High and so there that's
you know, they have a can newsboy of the nineties.
Then transitioning into the naughties, eating media Lunch had its
own controversies as well. And I remember you got into
the show's Sensing Murder, which was about psychics and them
sort of trying to solve crimes telepathically, and then the
(03:44):
person came up to you. The psychic came up to you.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, that's right, dear Weber not happy, No, she wasn't well. Yeah,
I think we called it sensing bs and and she
was a very popular show, that hugely popular show, but
they always just seemed to fall short when it came
to actually finding the body. We're just finding out that
final thing. Oh no, we've run out of time. I
(04:07):
keep looking. We've got more time. No, no, no, we've run
out of time. So I have to move on to
a new murder so and then yeah, she didn't like it.
And then she came up to me, I think it
was at the TV Awards and she she just said, Hi,
I'm dead and I said, oh, no, I know who
you are, and then she just laid She later kind
(04:28):
of a really intense pash on me. It was, but
it was. It was a hate patch. Have you guys
ever been.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's quite sad runting on so many levels.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I know, I think I probably could have head her
up on charges, but anyway I didn't. But yeah, it
was this really I could just feel the hatred coming through.
It's really intense. But I say nineties, nineties nineties for me,
for some reason, I remember more of it than I
do the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Jeremy, Well, so this has been a pleasure. Thank you
so much for coming in, Thanks for having me
This Jon Woman Being podcast. Hey, that's us broad to
you by Hello Fresh the experts and tastes that kiwis love.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's an honor to have the one and only Jeremy
Wells with us.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Good morning, get a JOHNO. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We're doing well, mate, It's always lovely to see your
your face were I must apologize, must front foot this
by saying I captured you in reception the other day
and really got you down.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
An AI hole on AI.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Sorry, Jermy, and you were such a lovely guy you
felt obliged to continue the conversation.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I thought that was me punishing you. No, great, great,
so funny. Look I love talking about AI. Jeez, that's
that's the conversation, du juur, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, it wouldn't have been a conversation in the nineties. No,
we'll be worried about AI in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So you're back have again, news boy? Now you how
young were you when you first started? You must have
been like eighteen nineteen when you I think so, I
think I was. I think maybe I was. I must
have been twenty.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Were dream gig at that age?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It was a good gig actually, looking back on it,
but at the time, I just really wanted to go
and hang out with my mates. So I was like,
oh God, I gotta go away again for a month,
and I really just want to hang out in a
flat and you know, stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Stuff, sleep and cook.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Spent a lot of time around an oven. Like.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I was listening to a great podcast between two pers
and they're saying, you were brought on as a researcher.
At first, Mikey's like, because you're reading the news for
him on the radio, and he was like, come on
board as a recent hardly a researcher.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I think I was doing a Bachelor of Communications at
the time, and so he's like, oh, do you want
to be and blah blah. I was absolutely, this is
a great thing. So then I was doing some research
and then next thing you know, I was doing some
kind of reports. And that was how it all started.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I remember watching you guys and wondering you'd always do
these naughty things, and I was like, do you get
in trouble for that?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well no, some people said you probably shouldn't have done that,
and we said, oh, well, we just kind of got
carried away, and they went, oh, there was so much
money and TV in those days.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Because obviously you did that when you when in the
show sort of transformed into YouTube touring around the country
as well. On the sellout to us.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It was actually and originally it was a show called
Rust in My Car. But I mean the thing that
we're most famous for, this gay Gore piece that we did,
was a complete accident. It really came off the back
of the Miss New Zealand contest nineteen ninety eight Miss
New Zealand Contest at the Dunedin Workingmen's Club that we
went to. We had a huge night, nobody slept next
thing and though we're being driven down to the southernmost
(02:30):
point of the South Island Slope Point and on the way,
they just like stopped by this trout that set up
a shot. And I actually don't remember that. I have
no memory of why we were saying what we were
saying or anything like that. And when it came to
be edited, I was surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So you said Gore was the gay capital of New Zealand. Yeah,
that's just to bring the audience up to speed and Gore.
They weren't happy at the time.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, but the Mirror at the time Mariog said, we
are not the gay capital. We are not with a
country western capital or the Brown Track capital, but we
are not. I think her coat was there are no
gay people in Gore at a different place, a.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Different time, different Yeah, move on the studies. It's not
what Meanwhile, Mike Putt watching, he's.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The head boy of Gore High and so there that's
you know, they have a can newsboy of the nineties.
Then transitioning into the naughties, eating media Lunch had its
own controversies as well. And I remember you got into
the show's Sensing Murder, which was about psychics and them
sort of trying to solve crimes telepathically, and then the
(03:44):
person came up to you. The psychic came up to you.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, that's right, dear Weber not happy, No, she wasn't well. Yeah,
I think we called it sensing bs and and she
was a very popular show, that hugely popular show, but
they always just seemed to fall short when it came
to actually finding the body. We're just finding out that
final thing. Oh no, we've run out of time. I
(04:07):
keep looking. We've got more time. No, no, no, we've run
out of time. So I have to move on to
a new murder so and then yeah, she didn't like it.
And then she came up to me, I think it
was at the TV Awards and she she just said, Hi,
I'm dead and I said, oh, no, I know who
you are, and then she just laid She later kind
(04:28):
of a really intense pash on me. It was, but
it was. It was a hate patch. Have you guys
ever been.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's quite sad runting on so many levels.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I know, I think I probably could have head her
up on charges, but anyway I didn't. But yeah, it
was this really I could just feel the hatred coming through.
It's really intense. But I say nineties, nineties nineties for me,
for some reason, I remember more of it than I
do the two thousands.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Jeremy, Well, so this has been a pleasure. Thank you
so much for coming in, Thanks for having me
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