August 11, 2024 • 9 mins
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Patrick Gower is an icon on New Zealand screens - and today we're chatting to him about his upcoming show 'Paddy Gower On Ice' where he travels to Antarctica to investigate the climate crisis
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today we
sat down with Petty Gower. You know Petty Gower. He's
been on TV three for years. He was the political editor,
he's hosted the debates. Then he was doing those drug
things one that Petty Goer on weed, Petty Girl on booze.
He's doing a wonderful job of documentation.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So we had a gatleman about Petty Gower on ice.
But we know that with the TV three folding. You
know what else is on your radar, Petty?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Well, I've been just been down to Antactica, so I
was almost off the radar because it was that far
away and I thought, actually, you know, it was negative
thirty five degrees down there, so the radar, if there
was one, would have frozen.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Definitely. My internal radar was freezing five.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The reason you're an Antarctica. See Petty Goaler on ice.
And I'll be honest, when I first saw the headliner
of he's doing another drugs one, but no, not the
drugs actual ice.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, no, A lot of people.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Ice is another word for my then fittermin and someone
said to me before, is it polar bees on meath
or something like that, and no, it's not. And that
actually did bring up because when I got down to Antarctica,
I was kind of like quite keen to see a
pole of beer, and then of course I realized they're
in the North Pole and Antarctica is in the South Pole,
so there was no center either.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But yeah, but it's about ice.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's about Antarctica and the fact that it's actually a
little bit scary fellas Antarctica is melting. Yeah, yes, it is, yeah, yep, yeah,
the sea ice is melting year on year. So that's
the bit that freezes in the winter and then gets
and then the frosts in the summer, and each summer
that they come back, the sea ice is getting smaller
(01:37):
and smaller, and that's a barrier around the big bits
of ice in the middle. And the worry is, Okay,
if we keep losing you know what is essentially the
predictive outer layer, we're going to lose the big bits
in the middle, which would mean four meters of sea
level rice. So actually I left there kind of really
frightened by what the scientists have been telling me because
it's like wool.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
So I mean, I guess what we're seeing is the
global change. At this point, it's hard to kind of
completely trust because it's happening slower. But if it goes,
she goes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, if it goes, she goes.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And that's that's their worry, is that something is happening
down in Antarctica. It's melting. The sea ice around it
is melting. Something's going on. They don't know a lot
about it, and they're freaking out about what it means
for the world. See what I even knew, guys, was
you know, every one of the world's oceans actually comes
off Antarctica, so it kind of feeds cold water into
(02:27):
the world. It's like our thermostat. And basically it's a big,
giant beast. It's massive. I've been there. There's so much ice.
You kind of and they say it's disappearing. You're like, really,
you know, just to the naked eye, But yeah, it's
And I really had to watch saying things like that
(02:47):
because I did want to say things like that out loud.
You shouldn't really say that to a scientists who's research,
but yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Know, it's it's it's like a beast.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That we've awoken, and now we don't know what's going
to what it's going to do to us, but we
see things like Cyclone Gabriel that it's going to do something,
that it's going to do something bad.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
So we're spending time with the bulk of scientists down there.
What kind of things were they attributing to the cause.
Did they have any ideas that they're obviously didn't, core
samples and all the rest of it.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, they you know, they're doing all sorts of
insane stuff, Like they had a gigantic drill that was
drilling down through the ice into the core of the
earth and taking out some of the earth to see
what happened the millions of years ago that Antarctica was
last sort of hitting this way. So they can sort
of try and figure it out. But obviously it's climate change.
(03:34):
The world's warmed up and we've shaken Antarctica, and and
you know what the scientists are saying is, hey, it
might be too late. We can't act to stop this.
Now we have to deal with whatever the Antarctica is
going to throw at us.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We're already on the runway track there.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
We just keep burning those carbon fields.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We are doomed.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's called They called it the climate crisis.
And you mentioned before cycling. Gabrielle having you know, grown
up and hawkspower, watched the with utter disbelief what happened.
But I was still blown away with what I saw
in the first episode. Were you talking to people who
were affected by that? And one of the women said
that her little boy held her hand, you remember that,
and said can you please hold my hand when we die?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Mum?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So there's you know, some horrible stories coming out of
and I actually tonight I get out with Extinction Rebellion,
which are one of the protest groups that everybody's heard about,
you know. They are the ones that I live down
in Wellington and they superglued themselves to the motorways load
that sort of thing. So I go with them to
try and understand where they're coming from. We actually go
out in Auckland here to one of the fuel stops
(04:37):
that distributes all the fuel around to the petrol stations
and block a truck there. And we talked to a
Kiwi guy as well in London who climbed up on
a bridge and stopped the motorways around London for forty
one hours.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah. Yeah, he's done two or three years in jail,
this guy.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
But we I try and talk to them openly to
try and get some understanding of what drives them to
do this kind of thing, you know, these You know,
I'm someone who I'm worried about the climate, but you know,
I'm concerned about the climate, but I'm not like into
it like this. But in saying that, by the time
I've been down to intactic, I start to understand them
a bit more. I mean, I still don't like what
(05:17):
they do, but I kind of get it, you know,
I can see a bit more wide they are so frustrated.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What was a light down there? Cold? Negative thirty five?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Is that just bearable?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yes? It is.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So if I took off ski goggles while I was outside,
I would just get instantly cold, because you know, you've
got a battle clavi ski goggles, a massive jacket that
you can have to walk in. Like literally it would
take me forty five minutes to get dressed.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And then you're like, have I got the right jacket
on underneath this?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh no, hang on, we are my gloves and you know,
twenty four hour a day sunlight. Yeah, like the sun
did not go down once. So you just like eleven
o'clock at night, about to go to bed, having a
milo look out the window. Absolutely sunshine, yeah, sunshining. Went camping,
had to go wheez in a in a bottle, you know,
because you can't. It's a zero waste environment. You can't
(06:03):
just like duck behind a boulder or a bit of ice.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you know you got to like is that right? Yeah,
You've got to. You've got to go in a bottle
and take it. What do the penguins do? Take it
back with your penguins. I'll tell you this about penguins.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
They also carry bottles.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Carry bottle. I went to a pingan colony. Everyone thinks
penguins are cute, right you know. I mean I thought
they were cute as well until I went to this
penguin colony. Look, it smelt like a boy's boarding school
that they fat. They've got bo they and they're actually
quite a stinky. They reek long story short.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Penguins.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
They might be cute in a photo, but up close,
when you got a ping on colony, they actually they
actually stink. So little penguins are sort of a little
bit off my off.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
My top on the same with dolphins, always smiling.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But if you keep from me with the.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So how did you get down to it?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Because I know they air force planes get other quite
a bit a the New Zealand Force.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I went down with the Mires massive American base. There.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I was on this gigantic American plane with a whole
lot of Yanks, and you know, they they drop you off,
and of course they go off to their base McMurdo,
which is gigantic, and then there's a few sort of
sheds and a few rickety buildings across the one. Yeah,
it's sort of the you know, you're you're in over here, yeah,
you know, and then next minute I'm sort of bunking
(07:24):
with a guy.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I hadn't slept in a bunk bed since with my
cousin when I was twelve years old. Yeah, it was
very weird for a forty seven year old and also
having to get up to the top bunk at my
age and get into a pup tint out on the ice.
I was glad, I've been doing a bit of yoga.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You've done something.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So you come back a bit worried what can we do? Obviously,
we need to be worried now.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I think you know what, everybody can do stuff
and we know all the sorts of things we can.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Do, stopping eating beef, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I think it's more we
need to think about adapting, probably like this is going
to come as probably to come quicker than we think
it is going to happen, and we need to think about, oh, well,
how are we going to live with it? You know,
we can't stop it. It's more how we're going to
live with it. And it might mean you know, things
that's say a bit crazy, and people will be like, jeez,
(08:12):
petty cent are crazy this morning?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Building an arc?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah yeah, well not quite building an art But what
about moving inland and things like that, not doing any
more stuff beside the coast or a whole sort of
towns or that are in dangerous areas, actually having to move.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
You know what sucks about living in land not by
the sea. You know, that's right, it's lovely living next
to the sea.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah. Yeah, I grew up next to the sea.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
My parents live beside the sea, and people you know
would have seen last night. You know, I currently live
beside the sea and in a floodplain. You know, I
live in the Hot Valley down Wellington. It's a floodplain
beside the sea. It's actually when you listen to these guys,
you know, at the end of every interview, I'd say, hey,
you know I live in the hot valley, what do
you reckon? And you know all these scientists cool week
(08:59):
and it's and it's a bit of a worry and
I know, I know we laugh about it, but it
will become very real to some people when insurance companies
start saying, actually, we don't want to ensure a house
in this area, or your premiums are going to go.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Through the roof.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Starting to happen in some places.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Starting to happen in some places.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It seems like a pretty good excuse for insurance companies
to wind it up.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, you to be a complete pessimist. Yeah. Cheap housing,
Yeah yeah, yeah, cheap housing. If you want to take
the rest, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Right, wide enough I do. It is fascinating. It's pettigal
on ice. You can catch it on three and now
Illisure blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
your days started with coasts Feel Good Breakfast Tony Street,
Jason Reeves and Sam Wallace
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today we
sat down with Petty Gower. You know Petty Gower. He's
been on TV three for years. He was the political editor,
he's hosted the debates. Then he was doing those drug
things one that Petty Goer on weed, Petty Girl on booze.
He's doing a wonderful job of documentation.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So we had a gatleman about Petty Gower on ice.
But we know that with the TV three folding. You
know what else is on your radar, Petty?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Well, I've been just been down to Antactica, so I
was almost off the radar because it was that far
away and I thought, actually, you know, it was negative
thirty five degrees down there, so the radar, if there
was one, would have frozen.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Definitely. My internal radar was freezing five.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The reason you're an Antarctica. See Petty Goaler on ice.
And I'll be honest, when I first saw the headliner
of he's doing another drugs one, but no, not the
drugs actual ice.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, no, A lot of people.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Ice is another word for my then fittermin and someone
said to me before, is it polar bees on meath
or something like that, and no, it's not. And that
actually did bring up because when I got down to Antarctica,
I was kind of like quite keen to see a
pole of beer, and then of course I realized they're
in the North Pole and Antarctica is in the South Pole,
so there was no center either.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But yeah, but it's about ice.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
It's about Antarctica and the fact that it's actually a
little bit scary fellas Antarctica is melting. Yeah, yes, it is, yeah, yep, yeah,
the sea ice is melting year on year. So that's
the bit that freezes in the winter and then gets
and then the frosts in the summer, and each summer
that they come back, the sea ice is getting smaller
(01:37):
and smaller, and that's a barrier around the big bits
of ice in the middle. And the worry is, Okay,
if we keep losing you know what is essentially the
predictive outer layer, we're going to lose the big bits
in the middle, which would mean four meters of sea
level rice. So actually I left there kind of really
frightened by what the scientists have been telling me because
it's like wool.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
So I mean, I guess what we're seeing is the
global change. At this point, it's hard to kind of
completely trust because it's happening slower. But if it goes,
she goes.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, if it goes, she goes.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
And that's that's their worry, is that something is happening
down in Antarctica. It's melting. The sea ice around it
is melting. Something's going on. They don't know a lot
about it, and they're freaking out about what it means
for the world. See what I even knew, guys, was
you know, every one of the world's oceans actually comes
off Antarctica, so it kind of feeds cold water into
(02:27):
the world. It's like our thermostat. And basically it's a big,
giant beast. It's massive. I've been there. There's so much ice.
You kind of and they say it's disappearing. You're like, really,
you know, just to the naked eye, But yeah, it's
And I really had to watch saying things like that
(02:47):
because I did want to say things like that out loud.
You shouldn't really say that to a scientists who's research,
but yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Know, it's it's it's like a beast.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That we've awoken, and now we don't know what's going
to what it's going to do to us, but we
see things like Cyclone Gabriel that it's going to do something,
that it's going to do something bad.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
So we're spending time with the bulk of scientists down there.
What kind of things were they attributing to the cause.
Did they have any ideas that they're obviously didn't, core
samples and all the rest of it.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, they you know, they're doing all sorts of
insane stuff, Like they had a gigantic drill that was
drilling down through the ice into the core of the
earth and taking out some of the earth to see
what happened the millions of years ago that Antarctica was
last sort of hitting this way. So they can sort
of try and figure it out. But obviously it's climate change.
(03:34):
The world's warmed up and we've shaken Antarctica, and and
you know what the scientists are saying is, hey, it
might be too late. We can't act to stop this.
Now we have to deal with whatever the Antarctica is
going to throw at us.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
We're already on the runway track there.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
We just keep burning those carbon fields.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
We are doomed.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, it's called They called it the climate crisis.
And you mentioned before cycling. Gabrielle having you know, grown
up and hawkspower, watched the with utter disbelief what happened.
But I was still blown away with what I saw
in the first episode. Were you talking to people who
were affected by that? And one of the women said
that her little boy held her hand, you remember that,
and said can you please hold my hand when we die?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Mum?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
So there's you know, some horrible stories coming out of
and I actually tonight I get out with Extinction Rebellion,
which are one of the protest groups that everybody's heard about,
you know. They are the ones that I live down
in Wellington and they superglued themselves to the motorways load
that sort of thing. So I go with them to
try and understand where they're coming from. We actually go
out in Auckland here to one of the fuel stops
(04:37):
that distributes all the fuel around to the petrol stations
and block a truck there. And we talked to a
Kiwi guy as well in London who climbed up on
a bridge and stopped the motorways around London for forty
one hours.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah. Yeah, he's done two or three years in jail,
this guy.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
But we I try and talk to them openly to
try and get some understanding of what drives them to
do this kind of thing, you know, these You know,
I'm someone who I'm worried about the climate, but you know,
I'm concerned about the climate, but I'm not like into
it like this. But in saying that, by the time
I've been down to intactic, I start to understand them
a bit more. I mean, I still don't like what
(05:17):
they do, but I kind of get it, you know,
I can see a bit more wide they are so frustrated.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
What was a light down there? Cold? Negative thirty five?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Is that just bearable?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yes? It is.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So if I took off ski goggles while I was outside,
I would just get instantly cold, because you know, you've
got a battle clavi ski goggles, a massive jacket that
you can have to walk in. Like literally it would
take me forty five minutes to get dressed.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And then you're like, have I got the right jacket
on underneath this?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh no, hang on, we are my gloves and you know,
twenty four hour a day sunlight. Yeah, like the sun
did not go down once. So you just like eleven
o'clock at night, about to go to bed, having a
milo look out the window. Absolutely sunshine, yeah, sunshining. Went camping,
had to go wheez in a in a bottle, you know,
because you can't. It's a zero waste environment. You can't
(06:03):
just like duck behind a boulder or a bit of ice.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you know you got to like is that right? Yeah,
You've got to. You've got to go in a bottle
and take it. What do the penguins do? Take it
back with your penguins. I'll tell you this about penguins.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
They also carry bottles.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Carry bottle. I went to a pingan colony. Everyone thinks
penguins are cute, right you know. I mean I thought
they were cute as well until I went to this
penguin colony. Look, it smelt like a boy's boarding school
that they fat. They've got bo they and they're actually
quite a stinky. They reek long story short.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Penguins.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
They might be cute in a photo, but up close,
when you got a ping on colony, they actually they
actually stink. So little penguins are sort of a little
bit off my off.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
My top on the same with dolphins, always smiling.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But if you keep from me with the.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
So how did you get down to it?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Because I know they air force planes get other quite
a bit a the New Zealand Force.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I went down with the Mires massive American base. There.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I was on this gigantic American plane with a whole
lot of Yanks, and you know, they they drop you off,
and of course they go off to their base McMurdo,
which is gigantic, and then there's a few sort of
sheds and a few rickety buildings across the one. Yeah,
it's sort of the you know, you're you're in over here, yeah,
you know, and then next minute I'm sort of bunking
(07:24):
with a guy.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I hadn't slept in a bunk bed since with my
cousin when I was twelve years old. Yeah, it was
very weird for a forty seven year old and also
having to get up to the top bunk at my
age and get into a pup tint out on the ice.
I was glad, I've been doing a bit of yoga.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You've done something.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
So you come back a bit worried what can we do? Obviously,
we need to be worried now.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I think you know what, everybody can do stuff
and we know all the sorts of things we can.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Do, stopping eating beef, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I think it's more we
need to think about adapting, probably like this is going
to come as probably to come quicker than we think
it is going to happen, and we need to think about, oh, well,
how are we going to live with it? You know,
we can't stop it. It's more how we're going to
live with it. And it might mean you know, things
that's say a bit crazy, and people will be like, jeez,
(08:12):
petty cent are crazy this morning?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Building an arc?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah yeah, well not quite building an art But what
about moving inland and things like that, not doing any
more stuff beside the coast or a whole sort of
towns or that are in dangerous areas, actually having to move.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
You know what sucks about living in land not by
the sea. You know, that's right, it's lovely living next
to the sea.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah. Yeah, I grew up next to the sea.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
My parents live beside the sea, and people you know
would have seen last night. You know, I currently live
beside the sea and in a floodplain. You know, I
live in the Hot Valley down Wellington. It's a floodplain
beside the sea. It's actually when you listen to these guys,
you know, at the end of every interview, I'd say, hey,
you know I live in the hot valley, what do
you reckon? And you know all these scientists cool week
(08:59):
and it's and it's a bit of a worry and
I know, I know we laugh about it, but it
will become very real to some people when insurance companies
start saying, actually, we don't want to ensure a house
in this area, or your premiums are going to go.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Through the roof.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Starting to happen in some places.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Starting to happen in some places.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
It seems like a pretty good excuse for insurance companies
to wind it up.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, you to be a complete pessimist. Yeah. Cheap housing,
Yeah yeah, yeah, cheap housing. If you want to take
the rest, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Right, wide enough I do. It is fascinating. It's pettigal
on ice. You can catch it on three and now
Illisure blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Thanks for listening to the Coast Breakfast Bonus podcast. Get
your days started with coasts Feel Good Breakfast Tony Street,
Jason Reeves and Sam Wallace
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