July 25, 2024 • 32 mins
They were the King and Queen of the airwaves and the longest-running duo in New Zealand radio history.
Now Polly Gillespie and Grant Kereama have reunited on Wellington Mornings, sharing laughs and even shedding a few tears on this week's Friday Faceoff.
The pair joined Nick Mills to talk the state of Wellington, Ardie Savea's move to Moana Pasifika, and their relationship with the late Jonah Lomu.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Stars.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's a big Friday for us this morning on Friday.
Face of a couple.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Of old mates.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Can I call you a couple of old boat Of.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Course you can, Absolutely you can a.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Couple of old boats that have been around this city
for so long and part of what made the city
so good that we used to wake up to them.
We used to hear them fight on that had nothing
to do with me. We used to get entertained by them,
(01:06):
were kept up to date by them. We were everything
was round. The Polly and Grant show, I was just huge.
So it came to me out of the blue. I said,
what about putting the old show to the old team together,
the old band together. So I approached Grant, who works
with us.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I see you every day.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, it works with us. So I said, do you reckon?
Holly would do a show with you. I actually started
by asking you if you come on? He said, I'd
only do it with Polly.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah. He phoned me and he said, now there's no obligation,
would you be willing to do face off with Nick
Mills with me? And I think yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
No, yeah, next been asking for a while. I've been
turning them down. I thought just me by myself was
a little boring. But with you as well, Yeah, No,
I lived it over.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
There'd be great fun.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And everyone looked at me when we talked about it,
you know, as you do you radio. People say, you know,
these things go through producers and executive producers, and they talk, well,
I'm not rigged, Polly. No, I'm not reged. Hey, right,
give me a number. I didn't give a damn.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
That's really funny. I think there was always a belief
that I was a little bit difficult, but I wasn't
like no they used to say. I remember they used
to say, Polly, you've got to stop changing the music,
and I went, I'm nowhere near the music. That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
No, it was your your responsibility.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What's changed, Polly?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Come on, you're outspoken, You've got millions on your Instagram
and you're the still the show girl of the city.
What's changed to make Wellington? What it is now compared
to its heyday. You were part of the heyday.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I was part of the heyday. I think I don't think.
I think it's silly to think it's just Wellington. I
think because we are Wellingtonians and we're very Wellington focused,
we feel like that all the bad stuff is happening
here because we are quite self centered as a city
and we have a high opinion of ourselves, as we should.
It's a great deservedly so, yeah, deservedly so. But it's
(03:11):
hard everywhere at the moment. It's hard everywhere. What's what's happened,
what's changed well is the cycle ways.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But you ride a bike.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I do not ride a bike.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Polly once had this bike, given of those little fold
bikes that you get. Ye said, look, come, I want
to get fair, I want to get fit. I'm going
to get one of these fold bikes. I can fit
it in the car and I can drive in there,
I can ride at home. So she put it in
the car. One day we did the show and we
I drove around to you know, by the overseas terminal
(03:47):
there and dropped her off on the bike that she unfolded,
and she started riding it and she looked. You know
how now when you see monkeys riding a bike, little
circus bikes, Yeah, that's what it looked like.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's so true. You know, it's always going around oriental
bait because we lived in Seatoon at the time. As
if you're going through the I was going I looked
like a monkey and I'm riding into a headward and
I think I folded that bike up and never wrote it.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It was the one time you wrote it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
How did you get up the hill? Because you lived
for me?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I called him at the bottom of the hell and said,
please come and get the very tired, windswept monkey.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That is a steep hill.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Thanks for that about that. Yeah, how's Wellington change? I
think I think the whole country's changed, The whole world
has changed for us. I think it's sad with Courtney
Place what used to be Reading Theater, which now could
be a casino or could be a huge something. But
(04:54):
but having that closed down for so long has really
disturbed that wonderful, vibrant part of Wellington. You know, the
nights with the clubs and the restaurants and everything would
be poppy and everything could be going off, and now
it's just Barren, you know, Blear Street, Allen Street, everything
that came off Courtney Place was just banging, you know,
(05:18):
and now it's just it's died. I think that's very sad.
And I think I think I might have heard you
talk about this neck that the story behind it is
the guy who owns the building basically won't do anything
with it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Read right, Yeah, the group. But they put it on
the market now, so there's anything. Everything's open.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
But we can't have a casino and Wellington can we.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We can't legally, but I think this government would change there.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Well, you know what, I'm not a gambler. I hate
losing money. I like, if I'm going to buy something
to spend money, I want something for it, no matter
what it is. So I'm not a gambler. But I
understand that something like a casino would draw people back
into Wellington because at the moment they're going to christ Church.
They're going to christ Church, the hotels are cheaper, there's
an international airport, they have a casino, you know, and
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so we need to draw people.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Back into our They're about to get that fantastic stadium too,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, what's change for you?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You're still out there and about I mean, you're you know,
you're doing your stuff, you're on radio. What do you
think has changed since it's heyday to now? And can
we get it back?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
We don't make as much money.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's just the economic situation in
the country, just the way it is at the moment
in the world, and it will eventually come back. It
is slowly coming back. I think what really hurt it was,
of course COVID and the lockdowns.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
And the Carcutta earthquake.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, so there have been a lot of things that
have been against us. But a few years of prosperity
and things will be good again. But it's it's going
to take a little while.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
It's still the most fabulous sitting in the country.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That was my next question. Do you still have the
confidence in the suits?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh yes, I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
I love the ceed elegance. I love the cosmopolitan. I
love that I could I could cycle like a monkey
to you know home, I could walk. I can walk
to lower Heart if I want it, you know, like,
I love how compact it is, how easy Wellingtons And
also I have no sense of direction, so I love
there being hills.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, I am. I was so close. I never ever
thought of living in the Lower Heart and I moved
to Lower Heart. You're boor in there. So since twenty
twenty one, I've been living in the EPOONI yeah, I
love you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
That mullet going on, yeah, never jacket.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, bourbon, I remember when he did have hair.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But have you, either of you met or had anything
to do with Torri fat What are your opinions of
the mayor of Wellington.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I've never met Torri.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I have I interviewed herectory and I've spoken with her.
That's a that's an interesting question. I have to pause.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No, No, you're being careful on what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Well, well, I'm trying to be more considered than I
always was, granting you know how, I just blurt things.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm not trying to get you, you know, I'm just
sort of saying, you know, do you do you get
the I have this rule where fifteen seconds and I've
worked people out, you know, I just say, yeah, that's
a good person, and that's no. I don't really want
to be around that person. And I find Torri great.
You find her as a person. I find her really good.
Do I think that she's doing the world's best job. No,
I don't. But then I think that you might be right, Polly,
(08:21):
that you know, it's just the world thing and we're
stuck in the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh yeah, I really don't know. I don't know her
well enough. I know she was a great interview when
I interviewed her, but I honestly I don't know her
well enough. I'm not overly happy with the whole city
going green before it's prepared itself properly. Personally. Look, I
have nothing against people cycling. It's very healthy, except a
monkey bike. But I don't know that Wellington is a
(08:47):
cycling city. We're not Amsterdam, we're not christ Church. We're
a holly city. And at the moment it's a pain
in the ass trying to get around the city.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
This city was me for horse and cuts, not for
buses and bikes, not at the same time. And so
we have narrow streets. Yeah, and it's always going to
be congested and you're not going to have a good
outcome when it comes.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
To and in small businesses like a newtown in Island
Bay for instance, now there's no way for anyone to
part you know, so small businesses are suffering and look
nothing against cyclists because I know how rare they can
become when you criticize them.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, go cyclists, Yeah, well they got I boys just
thought make the footpaths wider and that people cycle walk
on the same area and leave the roads.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
To a good idea. They have a line down the middle, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So that you know, because there's no Not often you
see cyclists and walkers in the same place.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Not very often you see cyclists that way.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Getting out towards the airport though, I mean that shared space.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I love it Island Bay. I think I've seen one
person cycle really Yeah, I've seen a few accidents for
people are opening car doors just CycL but you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Grant, I'm going to start with you on the All
Black and World and twenty and twenty three World Cup
Player of the Year and ow it's this week he's
leaving the Hurricanes to join Minor pacifica ah, but he's
still resigned with the All Blacks until twenty twenty. What
do you reckon? This is a big deal. Tell me
what your thoughts are when you first heard it. Now
you've got a huge small background because your relationship with Jonah,
(10:18):
which we'll talk about later in the show. So you're
a sporting guy.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, I coached a lot of rugby as well, including
Romati first fifteen, Scott Scholars first fifteen.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I just say Grant coach Scott's when they were playing
Romatai and they put Artie up against oh remember that, yes,
to take Cad out.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah. Yeah, but Artie was swapping from a position to position.
He started at number eight and then he played second
five eight. He's a brilliant They put it on a
blind side. Yeah, how do I feel about that? I
totally understand what he's doing. He's a young fella. His career,
you know, the career isn't huge, it's not a long career.
He's now. He wants to be with his brother, he
(10:58):
wants to be with his culture.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. Do
you mind if I interrupted?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's what more on a pacificate him? Right.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I remember when you're telling me about George, your dad,
who very sadly passed away.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
In November last year. Yeah, nast year.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
But he got to an age where he'd kind of
not been overly involved in his far noh, and his
fucker Pappa and everything, and then he came to a
stage of his life when he had your kids and stuff,
and he went, I want to know more about the
Maori and me. I feel like Ardie wants to give
back to his son one culture. Yeah, and I understand that.
I think it's sad for Wellington, but but it's great
(11:38):
for him and his far no and and for absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Look he gave us, He gave Wellington so many years,
eleven years years. Wow, fantastic. I have known him since
he was at high school same, so eleven years. But
I mean we saw at the beginning of this year
with him away, that suddenly Wellington was able to expose
these wonderful loose forwards creepy Flanders, you know, all these
(12:02):
wonderful new luckeye loose forwards that are coming in and
a good see Hi an opportunity. And so we're not buttist.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You're talking about the world best player in the world.
We're talking about artist save and we all love him.
You know, That's what it's not going to be in
the Hurricanes Jersey. That's what affixed me. I'm I'm I'm
disappointed for me.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
That is so selfish of you. Now, I don't think
of that as a culture for.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I understand, I understand. Yeah, I still love him.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah, I love him. He's a good boy.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So we all.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Agree that that's okay for him to do what I mean,
he can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's right. Of course, it's a short career, as I said, yeah,
you do what you can while you can, and it
will finish probably in about three or four years.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
And look, if he's still playing for the ABS, really,
you know, that's great, he's still ours.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, okay, either of you. No, that's all right, that's good.
I'm you're here to be you, not here to be
what I want you.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Rates bills, Oh I need to pay in mine? Hang on,
let me just check.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, you actually we are paying for we're paying
for soccer ways and because we haven't been paying enough
in the past pretty much. Really yeah. Well look yeah,
successive governments since World War Two, right, I remember somebody's
saying this, they have promised more for less every single
(13:24):
government that comes. Now, you will get more, you will
pay less tax. And this is what's happened. And so
governments and countries have got behind and it's been the
same at the local level. Do you know what.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
They've been doing that since the Roman Empire. Yeah, I
think it was Cicero or somebody. You told his brother,
this is how you get elected. Yeah, promise them more
than you can deliver for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
For New Zealand, it's only three years, yes, so every
three years they're going to promise more.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
So.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean we went on the website, looked at it.
Ethan did it for me, and I looked at it.
A mine went up two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I think, wasn't Ethan.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, I don't know where I'm going to get
that two thousand, one hundred dollars. What do you feel
for people?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
And they I feel for me. I don't know where
I'm going to get that from. Either. It's it's hard,
it's really hard. And what about people in apartments with
their body corporate feesh an apartment insurance, insurances, Oh my god,
trying to get insurance. And then you know, I wanted
to buy an apartment after I sold the b house,
(14:28):
but body cook fees were twenty five thousand dollars a year.
I thought, that's me renting. Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So you've got insurance and rates on top of that.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Actually right, yeah, it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And depending where you live, those insurances. Man, living in
lower heart, the insurance is crazy for us. Was it
was hard for us to get insurance because it's on
a floodplane.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
This is not this is not a paid for a placement.
But I went to money Box in the end for
insurance because it's they get you mortgages and insurance. I
didn't know about them, but I sat on the line
for insurance companies trying to get insurance from my house
for hours and then so I just went to them
and they got me four quotes in about twenty minutes.
Oh well yeah, that is a little plug for them.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But money I remember that.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Yeah, camera well known company. Oh really yeah, so yeah interesting.
I'm glad that it worked for you. So no answers,
no no quick faxes on that. It's just we just
got to suck it up.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
We do.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
We have to cut out those buying lattes at the cafe.
I don't know. I don't honestly worried. That's what I
worry about at night. I want to paying rates. Yeah,
Like where am I going to get that big block
of money really quickly?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
A lot of people set them up on as a
weekly AP. That's really I'm going to I'm going to
do myself because I've got like you, I've got behind it.
But yeah, we're doing what you're saying, you got by
I'm not saying you got by it, but I know
i'm by.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, we're fortnately. We pay fortnightly. Yeah, ap, yeah, way easier.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
No, No, you've always been so good at that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
List's good at that stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Least to do it for me?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Do you think I should do it for you?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You would do? Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
The warehouse, the warehouse where everyone gets a big bargain.
I said it first. I can't be saying that I
didn't mention what we're talking about. The Big Red Shed
is struggling to make at the moments, making big losses
as it competes with Kmart and Timu Now Sirs. Stephen Tindall,
the original owner, obviously, is trying to buy it back
and make it into a third supermarket player.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Pollie, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Do you reckon it's a good idea or bad idea?
If you've been to the warehouse lately, has it's lost
and shine?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
What's going on with.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes, yes to all of that. Okay, yes, I think
it's a great idea to make it like a tarch
you know what us like Target in America, where you
go there, you do your grocery shopping, you buy your blankets,
you buy you know, you can buy everything. Great idea.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Kmart's kind of taken over from there, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Camart though is Yeah. I don't go to Kmart for your.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Phone, don't you. You don't have one near you?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah, you know, I don't really like driving that anything
beyond thorn and Key. It's a bit rough for me. No,
but you're not a driver. No, I am a driver.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You don't like driving?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
No, particularly, I'd rather be driving you started driving.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, you're dirty.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Only because I had three kids and I was.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Like and I was the only driver in the house.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, but no, I don't look I like driving, But
I'm not a big kmart fan. The warehouse has become
very expensive when you can buy things like laundry powder
right like you would. I used to buy a bulk
at the warehouse. It's cheaper at Bunnings.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, So everything you can buy at the warehouse now
you can buy somewhere else. Cheaper, and if I go
in there like our daughter cares and might go, hey,
can you hear the kids?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I forgot a cot, you know? And I think, oh, damn,
I have to go to the warehouse. It's expensive. It
never used to be and now I look at the
prices and go, why am I here? So it has,
I think, become too expensive, especially when people go to
kmart and both things online.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I'm weird about food. I'm a weird goo when it
comes to food.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Very true.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
One of those guys that when I go to a restaurant,
I have to be able to see the kitchen. If
I can't see the kitchen, I'm not going to eat
there because I'm going, what are you trying to hide
from me?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Man also can't have designs on his plates.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Oh I can't have designs on my plates. It's going
to be plain white.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
But anyway, so when it comes the weird seeing, people
thought I was the freak great.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Always being weird. When it comes to food. I can't
buy budget food.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Right because it's cheap and not good.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Yeah, even though I know that it's the same.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Look at you Bear and Kitty, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
It's just are you free range chicken only and all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh no, no, no, I just chicken thighs. I love them,
but not not doesn't have to be free range.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I mean you can't put it so you can't buy
food like the warehouse. I well, no, the milk is good.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'm sure it is. I know that it's exactly the same.
But there's a strange thing about me is that I
can't buy budget food.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
One of the strange things.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I don't think I've ever been all the stranger.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
He can't eat leftovers either. No, I won't eat leftovers.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No, no, no, it would.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Be insane, Like I'd make an amazing meal and good
put it in the fridge and he goes on not
having that it's a leftover.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, I'm a great leftover.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I think it's better some day.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah stews.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh but it's been sitting on the fridge now, dangerous
old fridge and it's a bit of cookout of YouTube.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Oh no, no, that is not true. I think we're
both about the same.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh yeah, when did you like.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
To have my cooking? Not for a long time, actually not, No,
when do we separate? So when Marunt and I were together?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Ugly level you remember the exact date.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
No, it's even worse, only because I left him for
the worst man on earth. Oh dear, sorry, it was
true though. But I used to do I used to
do all the cooking, and we were together really and
now he is with Lisa and he does all the cooking,
(20:03):
and Grant's sister, Vanessa and I are still really good friends.
And I said Devanisa the other day, I said, Look,
I love Lisa and I love Grant. I said, but
it really pisses me off that he does all the
cooking now and he never was with me.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
You had a taste of that at one stage, member,
I did about three months, about three months, I did
gorm Gray food. It was Gormot Grant food for three months.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
But three months of our whole entire marriage. And now
he does all the cooking. You are a great cook.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It wasn't enough to keep hers. She still took off
with the world. Will story what time.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I'm feeling a little bit awkward, a little bit uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
No, we're not uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I know I'm feeling. I know you're fine. Like a marriage,
celebrate bringing you back together.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I'll tell you what. I am very lucky well, I'm
not lucky that my parents died, but I have no
I'm my only living member of my immediate family, right
and Grant and Lisa and Lisa's family, and I'm still
really good friends with grant mom and sisters. Vanessa and
I do so much together. But they have me for
Christmas every year. And Grant's wife, Lisa's family are the
(21:16):
most wonderful, warm, kind people. They treat me like one
of the family. They are incredible. So I'm very lucky,
and I don't I mean, we're still great.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Stay high. By the way, Oh, we had true last night.
Every Thursday night, the whole family comes together and we
just sort of sit around and needs some little pies
and have a drink and then go often.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
But the plays are not from the warehouse right now,
They're not left over.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
No, no, no, Okay, I want to get serious for
a bit because this is a part a part of
the story.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I might take a little.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Bit longer than what my producers given me to talk
about this particular topic. This is very serious and it's
obviously a very big part of your life. A very
good friend of mine, well he's a really good guy
and really good friend of mine James R.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When he does the music segment on one of the
greatest people you could.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Ever meet, James Husband.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, you got him, You got the guy.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He decided because he had a cousin that was in
a very bad way, he decided to donate one of
his kidneys to him. You've just gone through the whole
process and he's on the on the mend and everything's fantastic.
That's a very big part of both of your lives.
One of the most famous people in the world was
a mati of yours. You were training together, he was
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your friend, and you suddenly found out that you were
a match to give him a kidney, and you did
it well.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
For a joke, I would say to him, you know,
if you need a kidney, mate, just give me a yell,
which was the wrong thing to do because you know,
he was never going to say, mate, I need your kidney.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You know he used to Sorry. He used to play
for the Hurricanes, right, and then he would fly to
Auckland for dialysis and fly and fly back to play
and people were like, oh, Jonah, he's not he's not
at practice and leat on about him. The guy was
getting dialysis, but he was so pray.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
He never no. That's and so I feel I feel
a responsibility for not for not happening happening earlier because
because I didn't just go no. But you know, because
when when we found out when that he was really
there was when we saw him on the I wasn't
Sportsman of the Year Awards and he shuffled on and
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that was when we went home and I gave him
a call and I said, mate, what's your blood type?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
And it was perfect?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
And then from there, so making that offer, I said, well,
tell me the nurse that I have to speak to
to make this happen. And from there, yeah, look at you.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Jonah was like a brother for me. We were like,
it was my best boy mate ever. He used to
phone me from you know, like Amsterdam or Paris. Hey,
miss Polly, I found some shoes. I think you're really like,
you know, like we were so close. Yeah, but that
was that was It was quite incredible, incredible adventure.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And with James, I'm sorry that I've brought it up.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
No, I always get emotional.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You both are very very emotional about this. I mean,
our listeners can't see what's going on here, but I
can tell you that they're both extremely emotional. It was
pretty tough.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Look it's still is tough, it
really is. I miss him all the time because we
were so close, and you know, but you, Kidney did
him proud for a lot longer than you know.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, not quite long enough. James, James, we were talking
about before he came to me, and he said, look,
I'm feeling a bit nervous about everything, and he said,
can you give me some can you give me some help?
And so I said, look, I've got this diary that
I've written, because I write diaries about everything, and so
I gave him a diary for that whole time. And
he sat there and read it and went, oh my god,
Now I know what's going to happen. Now I know
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how I'm going to feel.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, would you no one's asked you this, would you
do it again?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Do that again?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
You got.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
About your liver ground, guys, and.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
We're a very serious topic. Okay, would you have done it?
Would you? Knowing what you know now, would you have
done it all again?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yes? Earlier I would have done it. Earlier, I would
do Yeah, I wouldn't say, you know, call me I'd say, mate,
give me, give me the number to the to the
nurse that I have to call.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
When he was married to Fiona, she she took care
of Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
What advice would you give to someone who thought about
giving a kidney to someone else? Would you what's your
ad for?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I would say, Look, i'd say do it. If you're
thinking about it, just just start to start the process,
all right. There are a whole bunch of things that
are going to that could stop you. Okay, even if
you decide at some stage I'm not going to do it.
The doctors don't go. The doctors don't go to the
personal look as it decided they're not going to do it,
they just go. They're not compatible anymore. So just just
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do it.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Just do it and make it very easy.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Just keep on saying yes, keep on saying yes, yes, yes,
and eventually one day you know you'll do it.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
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Speaker 2 (26:32):
Don't worry, Polly, I'll explain it when we get to
hots and knots.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I don't know what you're doing, but I'll do whatever
you want.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
What are you doing later?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
There's someone listening, very interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Holly and grad doing Friday that didn't come out. Olympics. Holly,
tell me what you're thinking of the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I'm especially excited this year because there are a couple
of leads from Scott's College who are friends with our
youngest son McGregor, Lewis Libbett, who is swimming, and James Preston,
who's running middle distance, so we've got a skin in
the game, a couple of lads we know. And I
love watching Olympic swimming. I think I'm a freak. That's
my favorite thing to wats is it? Well, you were
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a swimmer, so you don't enjoy it?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah? Yeah, just reminds you of all those those watching
the morning line on the bottom.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Of a pool, those early morning, early morning you.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Lap after No. I love that. I love the cycling, yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
You love that team pursuit one.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, I love those teams and rowing.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I just I just love the Olympics and Sprint. Have
you watched Sprint yet, the series on Netflix about the
world's top sprinters. Oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, I think it's on Netflix. I just watched the
whole series, so I'm looking forward to all of that.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Have either of you seen the Beer? Are you into
the Bear?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I love the Bear.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I loved the Bear.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Have you watched Showgun?
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
You got to watch Showgun? Is that for so many
it's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Talk to me about us politics?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
What are you thinking? Rat? Come on, come in, come
in and tell me what you think. I think Camilla
is going to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I really know.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I'll tell you you do.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I think she's there.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I think she's I think so too now I think
I mean Trump had a great couple of weeks there
and and even even at his worst time when he
was being shot at, it was it was very good
for him and as you know, for his fans, he
turned him and turned him into a superstar really and
they love him and they showed how tough he was
and that's exactly what he needed. But worth Fider bowing out,
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I know.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I know Biden one didn't bow out. His stumbled out.
It was stumbled out of different.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
And Carmela coming in. I think it all comes down
now to her VP pick.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Do you know what to be really honest, I've lived
in America, right. I picked Trump from the beginning before
he was even nominated the first time, and ject Tame
still owes me money for it. But I knew Trump
would be president. I don't know that America is progressive
enough for a woman of color, a woman and of
color to be president of the United States.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
It's George Clooney. I was going to suggest as VP
b Michelle Obama.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Well, you imagine Obama. The two best candidates are Kamala
Harris and Michelle Obama. But is America going to vote
for a woman of color? Yeah, I don't think. I
don't think so as it will. I don't. Well, we
will wait and see if.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You have a coffee on that one, because I think
she's gone. I think she's gone.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Well, if you want to do reject tame and fifty
bucks and not pay me, you're.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Not going to take fifty dollars, cut fifty dollars when
you're I had a big time like that. We got
a small time news talk, I had big time sit
You got.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
To pay our rates. We got become bid on the
Friday face.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Friday face off a special it is a special poll
and grant you're reunited for the first time since two thousand.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
And twenty was the last year. Yeah, okay, right, hit.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Me with your hots and notts.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Okay, I'm nothing deep and meaningful from me. My hot
is the start of the Olympics. I'm just hanging out
for that. My favorite international sporting event. I hang out
for it every four years.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
So remember watching Barcelona together. I watched every single minute
of it.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yes, So looking forward to seeing how it all plays
out in the next two weeks. My knots is once
again at the Olympics and the New Zealand sevens team
bowing out this morning to South Africa.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
We thought that was going to be a goal, didn't we?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah? We did.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Man, it's silling like that, don't we don't realize that
other teams have got better than us.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Come on, Polly, give me your hots and notts.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Okay, My hot is personal? Is that all right?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
I have just got my papers with honors in psychology,
counseling and therapy and I found that out this week.
So I'm really excited about that because that's something we
feel really good about it.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Are you going to start out on your own and
you know, can I come and sit on your couch
and talk to you.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
No, I'm not going to get to.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Be a security maybe, but it's something I've always felt
very passionate about helping other people through life, and not
would be just the way Wellington traffic is at the moment,
you know, trying to pick up a kid from school
and there's road works everywhere it takes. You know, you
can't get a park, you can't you know, you can't
move around our city at the moment. So I'm you know,
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I know that's part of life, and I don't want
to wind on about it, but it's a pain in
the ars, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Absolutely Thank you both so much.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Wonderful to see you both together again. And the amazing comrade.
The love you know, the love is still in the
air a.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Long time, grant more longer than I've known anyone else.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
It's alone.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, So it's great.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's fantastic, great to see. Great for the kids, Great
for the greend kids, a great for everyone, grateful Wellington,
great for New Zealand, great for the.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
World, and think what about hang on, what about the
universe and the university.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Thank you both so much having us great Kadama and
Polly Gillespie and keep an eye on what Polly's Instagram
and all the social media stuff he's on. We can
find out whether she's starting to do her courses and
look after people. She would be incredible, I mean she
would be incredible to actually if you had a problem,
she would sort it out like that.
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Stars.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's a big Friday for us this morning on Friday.
Face of a couple.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Of old mates.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Can I call you a couple of old boat Of.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Course you can, Absolutely you can a.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Couple of old boats that have been around this city
for so long and part of what made the city
so good that we used to wake up to them.
We used to hear them fight on that had nothing
to do with me. We used to get entertained by them,
(01:06):
were kept up to date by them. We were everything
was round. The Polly and Grant show, I was just huge.
So it came to me out of the blue. I said,
what about putting the old show to the old team together,
the old band together. So I approached Grant, who works
with us.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I see you every day.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, it works with us. So I said, do you reckon?
Holly would do a show with you. I actually started
by asking you if you come on? He said, I'd
only do it with Polly.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah. He phoned me and he said, now there's no obligation,
would you be willing to do face off with Nick
Mills with me? And I think yes, absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
No, yeah, next been asking for a while. I've been
turning them down. I thought just me by myself was
a little boring. But with you as well, Yeah, No,
I lived it over.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
There'd be great fun.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And everyone looked at me when we talked about it,
you know, as you do you radio. People say, you know,
these things go through producers and executive producers, and they talk, well,
I'm not rigged, Polly. No, I'm not reged. Hey, right,
give me a number. I didn't give a damn.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
That's really funny. I think there was always a belief
that I was a little bit difficult, but I wasn't
like no they used to say. I remember they used
to say, Polly, you've got to stop changing the music,
and I went, I'm nowhere near the music. That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
No, it was your your responsibility.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
What's changed, Polly?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Come on, you're outspoken, You've got millions on your Instagram
and you're the still the show girl of the city.
What's changed to make Wellington? What it is now compared
to its heyday. You were part of the heyday.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I was part of the heyday. I think I don't think.
I think it's silly to think it's just Wellington. I
think because we are Wellingtonians and we're very Wellington focused,
we feel like that all the bad stuff is happening
here because we are quite self centered as a city
and we have a high opinion of ourselves, as we should.
It's a great deservedly so, yeah, deservedly so. But it's
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hard everywhere at the moment. It's hard everywhere. What's what's happened,
what's changed well is the cycle ways.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But you ride a bike.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I do not ride a bike.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Polly once had this bike, given of those little fold
bikes that you get. Ye said, look, come, I want
to get fair, I want to get fit. I'm going
to get one of these fold bikes. I can fit
it in the car and I can drive in there,
I can ride at home. So she put it in
the car. One day we did the show and we
I drove around to you know, by the overseas terminal
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there and dropped her off on the bike that she unfolded,
and she started riding it and she looked. You know
how now when you see monkeys riding a bike, little
circus bikes, Yeah, that's what it looked like.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's so true. You know, it's always going around oriental
bait because we lived in Seatoon at the time. As
if you're going through the I was going I looked
like a monkey and I'm riding into a headward and
I think I folded that bike up and never wrote it.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It was the one time you wrote it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
How did you get up the hill? Because you lived
for me?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I called him at the bottom of the hell and said,
please come and get the very tired, windswept monkey.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
That is a steep hill.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Thanks for that about that. Yeah, how's Wellington change? I
think I think the whole country's changed, The whole world
has changed for us. I think it's sad with Courtney
Place what used to be Reading Theater, which now could
be a casino or could be a huge something. But
(04:54):
but having that closed down for so long has really
disturbed that wonderful, vibrant part of Wellington. You know, the
nights with the clubs and the restaurants and everything would
be poppy and everything could be going off, and now
it's just Barren, you know, Blear Street, Allen Street, everything
that came off Courtney Place was just banging, you know,
(05:18):
and now it's just it's died. I think that's very sad.
And I think I think I might have heard you
talk about this neck that the story behind it is
the guy who owns the building basically won't do anything
with it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Read right, Yeah, the group. But they put it on
the market now, so there's anything. Everything's open.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
But we can't have a casino and Wellington can we.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We can't legally, but I think this government would change there.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Well, you know what, I'm not a gambler. I hate
losing money. I like, if I'm going to buy something
to spend money, I want something for it, no matter
what it is. So I'm not a gambler. But I
understand that something like a casino would draw people back
into Wellington because at the moment they're going to christ Church.
They're going to christ Church, the hotels are cheaper, there's
an international airport, they have a casino, you know, and
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so we need to draw people.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Back into our They're about to get that fantastic stadium too,
aren't they.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, what's change for you?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You're still out there and about I mean, you're you know,
you're doing your stuff, you're on radio. What do you
think has changed since it's heyday to now? And can
we get it back?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
We don't make as much money.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's just the economic situation in
the country, just the way it is at the moment
in the world, and it will eventually come back. It
is slowly coming back. I think what really hurt it was,
of course COVID and the lockdowns.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
And the Carcutta earthquake.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah, so there have been a lot of things that
have been against us. But a few years of prosperity
and things will be good again. But it's it's going
to take a little while.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
It's still the most fabulous sitting in the country.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That was my next question. Do you still have the
confidence in the suits?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Oh yes, I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
I love the ceed elegance. I love the cosmopolitan. I
love that I could I could cycle like a monkey
to you know home, I could walk. I can walk
to lower Heart if I want it, you know, like,
I love how compact it is, how easy Wellingtons And
also I have no sense of direction, so I love
there being hills.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah, I am. I was so close. I never ever
thought of living in the Lower Heart and I moved
to Lower Heart. You're boor in there. So since twenty
twenty one, I've been living in the EPOONI yeah, I
love you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
That mullet going on, yeah, never jacket.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, bourbon, I remember when he did have hair.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Well.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
But have you, either of you met or had anything
to do with Torri fat What are your opinions of
the mayor of Wellington.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I've never met Torri.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I have I interviewed herectory and I've spoken with her.
That's a that's an interesting question. I have to pause.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No, No, you're being careful on what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Well, well, I'm trying to be more considered than I
always was, granting you know how, I just blurt things.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
I'm not trying to get you, you know, I'm just
sort of saying, you know, do you do you get
the I have this rule where fifteen seconds and I've
worked people out, you know, I just say, yeah, that's
a good person, and that's no. I don't really want
to be around that person. And I find Torri great.
You find her as a person. I find her really good.
Do I think that she's doing the world's best job. No,
I don't. But then I think that you might be right, Polly,
(08:21):
that you know, it's just the world thing and we're
stuck in the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh yeah, I really don't know. I don't know her
well enough. I know she was a great interview when
I interviewed her, but I honestly I don't know her
well enough. I'm not overly happy with the whole city
going green before it's prepared itself properly. Personally. Look, I
have nothing against people cycling. It's very healthy, except a
monkey bike. But I don't know that Wellington is a
(08:47):
cycling city. We're not Amsterdam, we're not christ Church. We're
a holly city. And at the moment it's a pain
in the ass trying to get around the city.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
This city was me for horse and cuts, not for
buses and bikes, not at the same time. And so
we have narrow streets. Yeah, and it's always going to
be congested and you're not going to have a good
outcome when it comes.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
To and in small businesses like a newtown in Island
Bay for instance, now there's no way for anyone to
part you know, so small businesses are suffering and look
nothing against cyclists because I know how rare they can
become when you criticize them.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, go cyclists, Yeah, well they got I boys just
thought make the footpaths wider and that people cycle walk
on the same area and leave the roads.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
To a good idea. They have a line down the middle, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So that you know, because there's no Not often you
see cyclists and walkers in the same place.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Not very often you see cyclists that way.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Getting out towards the airport though, I mean that shared space.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
I love it Island Bay. I think I've seen one
person cycle really Yeah, I've seen a few accidents for
people are opening car doors just CycL but you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Grant, I'm going to start with you on the All
Black and World and twenty and twenty three World Cup
Player of the Year and ow it's this week he's
leaving the Hurricanes to join Minor pacifica ah, but he's
still resigned with the All Blacks until twenty twenty. What
do you reckon? This is a big deal. Tell me
what your thoughts are when you first heard it. Now
you've got a huge small background because your relationship with Jonah,
(10:18):
which we'll talk about later in the show. So you're
a sporting guy.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, I coached a lot of rugby as well, including
Romati first fifteen, Scott Scholars first fifteen.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I just say Grant coach Scott's when they were playing
Romatai and they put Artie up against oh remember that, yes,
to take Cad out.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah. Yeah, but Artie was swapping from a position to position.
He started at number eight and then he played second
five eight. He's a brilliant They put it on a
blind side. Yeah, how do I feel about that? I
totally understand what he's doing. He's a young fella. His career,
you know, the career isn't huge, it's not a long career.
He's now. He wants to be with his brother, he
(10:58):
wants to be with his culture.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say. Do
you mind if I interrupted?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
That's what more on a pacificate him? Right.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I remember when you're telling me about George, your dad,
who very sadly passed away.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
In November last year. Yeah, nast year.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
But he got to an age where he'd kind of
not been overly involved in his far noh, and his
fucker Pappa and everything, and then he came to a
stage of his life when he had your kids and stuff,
and he went, I want to know more about the
Maori and me. I feel like Ardie wants to give
back to his son one culture. Yeah, and I understand that.
I think it's sad for Wellington, but but it's great
(11:38):
for him and his far no and and for absolutely.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Look he gave us, He gave Wellington so many years,
eleven years years. Wow, fantastic. I have known him since
he was at high school same, so eleven years. But
I mean we saw at the beginning of this year
with him away, that suddenly Wellington was able to expose
these wonderful loose forwards creepy Flanders, you know, all these
(12:02):
wonderful new luckeye loose forwards that are coming in and
a good see Hi an opportunity. And so we're not buttist.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You're talking about the world best player in the world.
We're talking about artist save and we all love him.
You know, That's what it's not going to be in
the Hurricanes Jersey. That's what affixed me. I'm I'm I'm
disappointed for me.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
That is so selfish of you. Now, I don't think
of that as a culture for.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I understand, I understand. Yeah, I still love him.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah, I love him. He's a good boy.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
So we all.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Agree that that's okay for him to do what I mean,
he can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
That's right. Of course, it's a short career, as I said, yeah,
you do what you can while you can, and it
will finish probably in about three or four years.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
And look, if he's still playing for the ABS, really,
you know, that's great, he's still ours.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, okay, either of you. No, that's all right, that's good.
I'm you're here to be you, not here to be
what I want you.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Rates bills, Oh I need to pay in mine? Hang on,
let me just check.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, yeah, you actually we are paying for we're paying
for soccer ways and because we haven't been paying enough
in the past pretty much. Really yeah. Well look yeah,
successive governments since World War Two, right, I remember somebody's
saying this, they have promised more for less every single
(13:24):
government that comes. Now, you will get more, you will
pay less tax. And this is what's happened. And so
governments and countries have got behind and it's been the
same at the local level. Do you know what.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
They've been doing that since the Roman Empire. Yeah, I
think it was Cicero or somebody. You told his brother,
this is how you get elected. Yeah, promise them more
than you can deliver for New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
For New Zealand, it's only three years, yes, so every
three years they're going to promise more.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
So.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
I mean we went on the website, looked at it.
Ethan did it for me, and I looked at it.
A mine went up two one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I think, wasn't Ethan.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, I don't know where I'm going to get
that two thousand, one hundred dollars. What do you feel
for people?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
And they I feel for me. I don't know where
I'm going to get that from. Either. It's it's hard,
it's really hard. And what about people in apartments with
their body corporate feesh an apartment insurance, insurances, Oh my god,
trying to get insurance. And then you know, I wanted
to buy an apartment after I sold the b house,
(14:28):
but body cook fees were twenty five thousand dollars a year.
I thought, that's me renting. Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So you've got insurance and rates on top of that.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Actually right, yeah, it's really hard.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And depending where you live, those insurances. Man, living in
lower heart, the insurance is crazy for us. Was it
was hard for us to get insurance because it's on
a floodplane.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
This is not this is not a paid for a placement.
But I went to money Box in the end for
insurance because it's they get you mortgages and insurance. I
didn't know about them, but I sat on the line
for insurance companies trying to get insurance from my house
for hours and then so I just went to them
and they got me four quotes in about twenty minutes.
Oh well yeah, that is a little plug for them.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
But money I remember that.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Yeah, camera well known company. Oh really yeah, so yeah interesting.
I'm glad that it worked for you. So no answers,
no no quick faxes on that. It's just we just
got to suck it up.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
We do.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
We have to cut out those buying lattes at the cafe.
I don't know. I don't honestly worried. That's what I
worry about at night. I want to paying rates. Yeah,
Like where am I going to get that big block
of money really quickly?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
A lot of people set them up on as a
weekly AP. That's really I'm going to I'm going to
do myself because I've got like you, I've got behind it.
But yeah, we're doing what you're saying, you got by
I'm not saying you got by it, but I know
i'm by.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, we're fortnately. We pay fortnightly. Yeah, ap, yeah, way easier.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
No, No, you've always been so good at that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
List's good at that stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Least to do it for me?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Do you think I should do it for you?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You would do? Okay?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
The warehouse, the warehouse where everyone gets a big bargain.
I said it first. I can't be saying that I
didn't mention what we're talking about. The Big Red Shed
is struggling to make at the moments, making big losses
as it competes with Kmart and Timu Now Sirs. Stephen Tindall,
the original owner, obviously, is trying to buy it back
and make it into a third supermarket player.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Pollie, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Do you reckon it's a good idea or bad idea?
If you've been to the warehouse lately, has it's lost
and shine?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
What's going on with.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yes, yes to all of that. Okay, yes, I think
it's a great idea to make it like a tarch
you know what us like Target in America, where you
go there, you do your grocery shopping, you buy your blankets,
you buy you know, you can buy everything. Great idea.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Kmart's kind of taken over from there, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Camart though is Yeah. I don't go to Kmart for your.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Phone, don't you. You don't have one near you?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Yeah, you know, I don't really like driving that anything
beyond thorn and Key. It's a bit rough for me. No,
but you're not a driver. No, I am a driver.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
You don't like driving?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
No, particularly, I'd rather be driving you started driving.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Yeah, you're dirty.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Only because I had three kids and I was.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Like and I was the only driver in the house.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, but no, I don't look I like driving, But
I'm not a big kmart fan. The warehouse has become
very expensive when you can buy things like laundry powder
right like you would. I used to buy a bulk
at the warehouse. It's cheaper at Bunnings.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah, So everything you can buy at the warehouse now
you can buy somewhere else. Cheaper, and if I go
in there like our daughter cares and might go, hey,
can you hear the kids?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I forgot a cot, you know? And I think, oh, damn,
I have to go to the warehouse. It's expensive. It
never used to be and now I look at the
prices and go, why am I here? So it has,
I think, become too expensive, especially when people go to
kmart and both things online.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I'm weird about food. I'm a weird goo when it
comes to food.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Very true.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
One of those guys that when I go to a restaurant,
I have to be able to see the kitchen. If
I can't see the kitchen, I'm not going to eat
there because I'm going, what are you trying to hide
from me?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Man also can't have designs on his plates.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Oh I can't have designs on my plates. It's going
to be plain white.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
But anyway, so when it comes the weird seeing, people
thought I was the freak great.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Always being weird. When it comes to food. I can't
buy budget food.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Right because it's cheap and not good.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Yeah, even though I know that it's the same.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Look at you Bear and Kitty, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
It's just are you free range chicken only and all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh no, no, no, I just chicken thighs. I love them,
but not not doesn't have to be free range.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
I mean you can't put it so you can't buy
food like the warehouse. I well, no, the milk is good.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I'm sure it is. I know that it's exactly the same.
But there's a strange thing about me is that I
can't buy budget food.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
One of the strange things.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
I don't think I've ever been all the stranger.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
He can't eat leftovers either. No, I won't eat leftovers.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No, no, no, it would.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Be insane, Like I'd make an amazing meal and good
put it in the fridge and he goes on not
having that it's a leftover.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
No, I'm a great leftover.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I think it's better some day.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah stews.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Oh but it's been sitting on the fridge now, dangerous
old fridge and it's a bit of cookout of YouTube.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Oh no, no, that is not true. I think we're
both about the same.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh yeah, when did you like.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
To have my cooking? Not for a long time, actually not, No,
when do we separate? So when Marunt and I were together?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Ugly level you remember the exact date.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
No, it's even worse, only because I left him for
the worst man on earth. Oh dear, sorry, it was
true though. But I used to do I used to
do all the cooking, and we were together really and
now he is with Lisa and he does all the cooking,
(20:03):
and Grant's sister, Vanessa and I are still really good friends.
And I said Devanisa the other day, I said, Look,
I love Lisa and I love Grant. I said, but
it really pisses me off that he does all the
cooking now and he never was with me.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
You had a taste of that at one stage, member,
I did about three months, about three months, I did
gorm Gray food. It was Gormot Grant food for three months.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
But three months of our whole entire marriage. And now
he does all the cooking. You are a great cook.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It wasn't enough to keep hers. She still took off
with the world. Will story what time.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I'm feeling a little bit awkward, a little bit uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
No, we're not uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I know I'm feeling. I know you're fine. Like a marriage,
celebrate bringing you back together.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I'll tell you what. I am very lucky well, I'm
not lucky that my parents died, but I have no
I'm my only living member of my immediate family, right
and Grant and Lisa and Lisa's family, and I'm still
really good friends with grant mom and sisters. Vanessa and
I do so much together. But they have me for
Christmas every year. And Grant's wife, Lisa's family are the
(21:16):
most wonderful, warm, kind people. They treat me like one
of the family. They are incredible. So I'm very lucky,
and I don't I mean, we're still great.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Stay high. By the way, Oh, we had true last night.
Every Thursday night, the whole family comes together and we
just sort of sit around and needs some little pies
and have a drink and then go often.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
But the plays are not from the warehouse right now,
They're not left over.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
No, no, no, Okay, I want to get serious for
a bit because this is a part a part of
the story.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I might take a little.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Bit longer than what my producers given me to talk
about this particular topic. This is very serious and it's
obviously a very big part of your life. A very
good friend of mine, well he's a really good guy
and really good friend of mine James R.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
When he does the music segment on one of the
greatest people you could.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Ever meet, James Husband.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yes, you got him, You got the guy.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He decided because he had a cousin that was in
a very bad way, he decided to donate one of
his kidneys to him. You've just gone through the whole
process and he's on the on the mend and everything's fantastic.
That's a very big part of both of your lives.
One of the most famous people in the world was
a mati of yours. You were training together, he was
(22:29):
your friend, and you suddenly found out that you were
a match to give him a kidney, and you did
it well.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
For a joke, I would say to him, you know,
if you need a kidney, mate, just give me a yell,
which was the wrong thing to do because you know,
he was never going to say, mate, I need your kidney.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You know he used to Sorry. He used to play
for the Hurricanes, right, and then he would fly to
Auckland for dialysis and fly and fly back to play
and people were like, oh, Jonah, he's not he's not
at practice and leat on about him. The guy was
getting dialysis, but he was so pray.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
He never no. That's and so I feel I feel
a responsibility for not for not happening happening earlier because
because I didn't just go no. But you know, because
when when we found out when that he was really
there was when we saw him on the I wasn't
Sportsman of the Year Awards and he shuffled on and
(23:29):
that was when we went home and I gave him
a call and I said, mate, what's your blood type?
Speaker 5 (23:35):
And it was perfect?
Speaker 4 (23:37):
And then from there, so making that offer, I said, well,
tell me the nurse that I have to speak to
to make this happen. And from there, yeah, look at you.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Jonah was like a brother for me. We were like,
it was my best boy mate ever. He used to
phone me from you know, like Amsterdam or Paris. Hey,
miss Polly, I found some shoes. I think you're really like,
you know, like we were so close. Yeah, but that
was that was It was quite incredible, incredible adventure.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
And with James, I'm sorry that I've brought it up.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
No, I always get emotional.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
You both are very very emotional about this. I mean,
our listeners can't see what's going on here, but I
can tell you that they're both extremely emotional. It was
pretty tough.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Look it's still is tough, it
really is. I miss him all the time because we
were so close, and you know, but you, Kidney did
him proud for a lot longer than you know.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, not quite long enough. James, James, we were talking
about before he came to me, and he said, look,
I'm feeling a bit nervous about everything, and he said,
can you give me some can you give me some help?
And so I said, look, I've got this diary that
I've written, because I write diaries about everything, and so
I gave him a diary for that whole time. And
he sat there and read it and went, oh my god,
Now I know what's going to happen. Now I know
(25:01):
how I'm going to feel.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Yeah, would you no one's asked you this, would you
do it again?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Do that again?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
You got.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
About your liver ground, guys, and.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
We're a very serious topic. Okay, would you have done it?
Would you? Knowing what you know now, would you have
done it all again?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yes? Earlier I would have done it. Earlier, I would
do Yeah, I wouldn't say, you know, call me I'd say, mate,
give me, give me the number to the to the
nurse that I have to call.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
When he was married to Fiona, she she took care
of Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
What advice would you give to someone who thought about
giving a kidney to someone else? Would you what's your
ad for?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I would say, Look, i'd say do it. If you're
thinking about it, just just start to start the process,
all right. There are a whole bunch of things that
are going to that could stop you. Okay, even if
you decide at some stage I'm not going to do it.
The doctors don't go. The doctors don't go to the
personal look as it decided they're not going to do it,
they just go. They're not compatible anymore. So just just
(26:11):
do it.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Just do it and make it very easy.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Just keep on saying yes, keep on saying yes, yes, yes,
and eventually one day you know you'll do it.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Debating the good, the bad, the ugly and everything in between,
Friday face off with Quinnovic, Wellington's property management experts call
oh eight hundred Quinovic.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Don't worry, Polly, I'll explain it when we get to
hots and knots.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
I don't know what you're doing, but I'll do whatever
you want.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
What are you doing later?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
There's someone listening, very interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Holly and grad doing Friday that didn't come out. Olympics. Holly,
tell me what you're thinking of the Olympics.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I'm especially excited this year because there are a couple
of leads from Scott's College who are friends with our
youngest son McGregor, Lewis Libbett, who is swimming, and James Preston,
who's running middle distance, so we've got a skin in
the game, a couple of lads we know. And I
love watching Olympic swimming. I think I'm a freak. That's
my favorite thing to wats is it? Well, you were
(27:21):
a swimmer, so you don't enjoy it?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah? Yeah, just reminds you of all those those watching
the morning line on the bottom.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
Of a pool, those early morning, early morning you.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Lap after No. I love that. I love the cycling, yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
You love that team pursuit one.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Yeah, I love those teams and rowing.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I just I just love the Olympics and Sprint. Have
you watched Sprint yet, the series on Netflix about the
world's top sprinters. Oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yeah, I think it's on Netflix. I just watched the
whole series, so I'm looking forward to all of that.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Have either of you seen the Beer? Are you into
the Bear?
Speaker 4 (27:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I love the Bear.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I loved the Bear.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Have you watched Showgun?
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (28:04):
You got to watch Showgun? Is that for so many
it's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Talk to me about us politics?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
What are you thinking? Rat? Come on, come in, come
in and tell me what you think. I think Camilla
is going to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I really know.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I'll tell you you do.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I think she's there.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I think she's I think so too now I think
I mean Trump had a great couple of weeks there
and and even even at his worst time when he
was being shot at, it was it was very good
for him and as you know, for his fans, he
turned him and turned him into a superstar really and
they love him and they showed how tough he was
and that's exactly what he needed. But worth Fider bowing out,
(28:45):
I know.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I know Biden one didn't bow out. His stumbled out.
It was stumbled out of different.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
And Carmela coming in. I think it all comes down
now to her VP pick.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Do you know what to be really honest, I've lived
in America, right. I picked Trump from the beginning before
he was even nominated the first time, and ject Tame
still owes me money for it. But I knew Trump
would be president. I don't know that America is progressive
enough for a woman of color, a woman and of
color to be president of the United States.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
It's George Clooney. I was going to suggest as VP
b Michelle Obama.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Well, you imagine Obama. The two best candidates are Kamala
Harris and Michelle Obama. But is America going to vote
for a woman of color? Yeah, I don't think. I
don't think so as it will. I don't. Well, we
will wait and see if.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
You have a coffee on that one, because I think
she's gone. I think she's gone.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Well, if you want to do reject tame and fifty
bucks and not pay me, you're.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Not going to take fifty dollars, cut fifty dollars when
you're I had a big time like that. We got
a small time news talk, I had big time sit
You got.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
To pay our rates. We got become bid on the
Friday face.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Friday face off a special it is a special poll
and grant you're reunited for the first time since two thousand.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
And twenty was the last year. Yeah, okay, right, hit.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Me with your hots and notts.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Okay, I'm nothing deep and meaningful from me. My hot
is the start of the Olympics. I'm just hanging out
for that. My favorite international sporting event. I hang out
for it every four years.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
So remember watching Barcelona together. I watched every single minute
of it.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yes, So looking forward to seeing how it all plays
out in the next two weeks. My knots is once
again at the Olympics and the New Zealand sevens team
bowing out this morning to South Africa.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
We thought that was going to be a goal, didn't we?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Yeah? We did.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Man, it's silling like that, don't we don't realize that
other teams have got better than us.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Come on, Polly, give me your hots and notts.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
Okay, My hot is personal? Is that all right?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (30:57):
I have just got my papers with honors in psychology,
counseling and therapy and I found that out this week.
So I'm really excited about that because that's something we
feel really good about it.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Are you going to start out on your own and
you know, can I come and sit on your couch
and talk to you.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
No, I'm not going to get to.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Be a security maybe, but it's something I've always felt
very passionate about helping other people through life, and not
would be just the way Wellington traffic is at the moment,
you know, trying to pick up a kid from school
and there's road works everywhere it takes. You know, you
can't get a park, you can't you know, you can't
move around our city at the moment. So I'm you know,
(31:39):
I know that's part of life, and I don't want
to wind on about it, but it's a pain in
the ars, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Absolutely Thank you both so much.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Wonderful to see you both together again. And the amazing comrade.
The love you know, the love is still in the
air a.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Long time, grant more longer than I've known anyone else.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
It's alone.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, So it's great.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
It's fantastic, great to see. Great for the kids, Great
for the greend kids, a great for everyone, grateful Wellington,
great for New Zealand, great for the.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
World, and think what about hang on, what about the
universe and the university.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Thank you both so much having us great Kadama and
Polly Gillespie and keep an eye on what Polly's Instagram
and all the social media stuff he's on. We can
find out whether she's starting to do her courses and
look after people. She would be incredible, I mean she
would be incredible to actually if you had a problem,
she would sort it out like that.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
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