June 19, 2024 • 5 mins
We chat to Jason Gunn about The infamous Thingee eye incident and his favourite decade!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With the John and Ben Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cheers to Dilma making the world a bitter tea.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So nice to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
How are you too long?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Too long?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The last time we ran into you was at the
Work Safe Site Safe Awards awarding safety in the construction industry.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I tell you what, I was most impressed with
your knowledge of overall safety and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Things were safe.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
No one.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I don't think anyone got to do that night. But
you were incredible that night because you spoke. You spoke
for like an hour and to be honest, we're like,
now by yourself, that's you know, that's tough going, and
you were just incredible. You had everyone captivated telling your story,
you know, emotional things you've been through and also great
life advice about It was amazing to watch.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh blease you every now and then. I just check
out the back to see if you did not off.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But we say we thought about it at the start,
let's be honest, but no, you kept us captivated.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This week we're on the radio and clearly now the
first thing out of the way, and we're debating nineties
versus naughties. You know the better decade.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh shivers, wow, because son of a gun Let's take
it back go sort of a gun and Jase TV.
I mean that would have been through the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Right exactly. Yep, the launch of Jason Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I remember I'd get home from school and you had
a really cool, colorful, stripey T shirt. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Back then, I think session was more forgiving, you know.
So you remember the striped shirt and the colorabul shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And I tried to get my mum to buy it.
I was like, oh, on the same T shirt as
Jason Gunn and I tried to get it a buy
me a Rebok one from memory.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
My god, I don't know what stuck with me. It
was a Rebok Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Good.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You would have been very young doing a TV show
back then, did you kind of like, in a lot
of ways, learn on the job.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
But I'm not gonna lie. So four gorgeous children now
that I have, they're all doing great. But even now
and then, if I think they're getting a little bit
too big for their boots, I remind them that their father,
at eighteen had a television show with his name in it,
and none of you have that eighteen eighteen mate, straight
(02:13):
out of school.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Meghan, who we were with, she's really nervous about talking
to you today.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I grew up watching you, and you, to me are
like a real New Zealand celeb. Oh stop you. You
know I don't believe in that word, Meghan, but but
that's very kind of you. And well, you know, let's
be honest. They were good, simpler days, weren't they. We
gathered around us screen and there wasn't as much going on.
(02:41):
I couldn't lose my audience to TikTok, and we longed
a few good kids, to the young and the wrestler.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Damn you hawky are you and your talk that we
saw the other night there? How you always wanted to
be that friendly, welcoming face when you came I'm home
from school? And you were that for some weeconds.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I always say to people like, when you talk to everyone,
you talk to no one. So I always really tried
to think about, who's that one really special kid that
I could go, hey, how you doing, It's good to
see you, and you know, I'd really just try and
talk to that one kid, because there were a lot
of one kids out there who didn't have the love
and the support and didn't have the self belief. So
(03:23):
I thought, if I could just possibly connect with that
one kid and on a bad day try and turn
it into a good day. And the most humbling thing
over all the years has been the number of beautiful
people who have grown up and said to me, hey, Jace,
I just want to say, mate, they weren't all good
days that I had growing up, but thanks for being there.
And I just think the most beautiful thing. And I
(03:45):
never take that for granted. And it's yeah, very humbling.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Let's not forget. Also about the wonderful Thingy who you
know for many many years it was right beside you
as well, and you have mentioned this on our show before,
but for people that haven't heard it, the eye popping
out incident that every members wasn't actually on TV. It
was from a blooper that you ended up releasing later.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Right, Yeah, many things happened in the making of The
Son of a Gun show that really should not see.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The light of day, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So you're like, okay, but it was pre recorded so
we could go back and do it again. So when
Thingy's eye popped out, we thought, yeah, no, that could
that could terrify a child. I will do that again,
And then we did it again. And then about six
months later someone said, hey, you know the start of
the end of television, We're making a bloopers show and
we thought, okay, you could have that blooper like, I
(04:36):
don't think that's going to go anywhere. So that went on.
The Blooper Show YouTube came out soon after, and then
Jeremy Wells had a show eating media lunch that he
put out, and on the opening titles of that he
included Thing's eye popping out, and then everyone just remembered
it as I remember Thing's eye popping out. But then
(04:56):
I've spent the rest of my time going.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Lie and actually what happened?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Jason?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay, how all of this being said and done. Nineties
or noughties, what are you going to put your good
name behind.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'm gonna have I'm gonna go nineties. I'm going to
go nineties because it was kind to me, and so
I can't turn my back on it. And I think
the Nordies started well.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But I don't know the wheels are falling off.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's not the wheels of the wheels of exactly. The
nineties were kind to me. I'll be kind to the nineties.
Let's lock a nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Lovely to hear your voice. We love catching up with you.
Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Love what you guys doing, the difference you guys mate.
Thanks to
With the John and Ben Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Cheers to Dilma making the world a bitter tea.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So nice to talk to you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
How are you too long?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Too long?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The last time we ran into you was at the
Work Safe Site Safe Awards awarding safety in the construction industry.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And I tell you what, I was most impressed with
your knowledge of overall safety and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Things were safe.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
No one.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I don't think anyone got to do that night. But
you were incredible that night because you spoke. You spoke
for like an hour and to be honest, we're like,
now by yourself, that's you know, that's tough going, and
you were just incredible. You had everyone captivated telling your story,
you know, emotional things you've been through and also great
life advice about It was amazing to watch.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh blease you every now and then. I just check
out the back to see if you did not off.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But we say we thought about it at the start,
let's be honest, but no, you kept us captivated.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
This week we're on the radio and clearly now the
first thing out of the way, and we're debating nineties
versus naughties. You know the better decade.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh shivers, wow, because son of a gun Let's take
it back go sort of a gun and Jase TV.
I mean that would have been through the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Right exactly. Yep, the launch of Jason Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I remember I'd get home from school and you had
a really cool, colorful, stripey T shirt. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Back then, I think session was more forgiving, you know.
So you remember the striped shirt and the colorabul shirt.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And I tried to get my mum to buy it.
I was like, oh, on the same T shirt as
Jason Gunn and I tried to get it a buy
me a Rebok one from memory.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
My god, I don't know what stuck with me. It
was a Rebok Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Good.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
You would have been very young doing a TV show
back then, did you kind of like, in a lot
of ways, learn on the job.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
But I'm not gonna lie. So four gorgeous children now
that I have, they're all doing great. But even now
and then, if I think they're getting a little bit
too big for their boots, I remind them that their father,
at eighteen had a television show with his name in it,
and none of you have that eighteen eighteen mate, straight
(02:13):
out of school.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Meghan, who we were with, she's really nervous about talking
to you today.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I grew up watching you, and you, to me are
like a real New Zealand celeb. Oh stop you. You
know I don't believe in that word, Meghan, but but
that's very kind of you. And well, you know, let's
be honest. They were good, simpler days, weren't they. We
gathered around us screen and there wasn't as much going on.
(02:41):
I couldn't lose my audience to TikTok, and we longed
a few good kids, to the young and the wrestler.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Damn you hawky are you and your talk that we
saw the other night there? How you always wanted to
be that friendly, welcoming face when you came I'm home
from school? And you were that for some weeconds.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I always say to people like, when you talk to everyone,
you talk to no one. So I always really tried
to think about, who's that one really special kid that
I could go, hey, how you doing, It's good to
see you, and you know, I'd really just try and
talk to that one kid, because there were a lot
of one kids out there who didn't have the love
and the support and didn't have the self belief. So
(03:23):
I thought, if I could just possibly connect with that
one kid and on a bad day try and turn
it into a good day. And the most humbling thing
over all the years has been the number of beautiful
people who have grown up and said to me, hey, Jace,
I just want to say, mate, they weren't all good
days that I had growing up, but thanks for being there.
And I just think the most beautiful thing. And I
(03:45):
never take that for granted. And it's yeah, very humbling.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Let's not forget. Also about the wonderful Thingy who you
know for many many years it was right beside you
as well, and you have mentioned this on our show before,
but for people that haven't heard it, the eye popping
out incident that every members wasn't actually on TV. It
was from a blooper that you ended up releasing later.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Right, Yeah, many things happened in the making of The
Son of a Gun show that really should not see.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The light of day, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So you're like, okay, but it was pre recorded so
we could go back and do it again. So when
Thingy's eye popped out, we thought, yeah, no, that could
that could terrify a child. I will do that again,
And then we did it again. And then about six
months later someone said, hey, you know the start of
the end of television, We're making a bloopers show and
we thought, okay, you could have that blooper like, I
(04:36):
don't think that's going to go anywhere. So that went on.
The Blooper Show YouTube came out soon after, and then
Jeremy Wells had a show eating media lunch that he
put out, and on the opening titles of that he
included Thing's eye popping out, and then everyone just remembered
it as I remember Thing's eye popping out. But then
(04:56):
I've spent the rest of my time going.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Lie and actually what happened?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Jason?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay, how all of this being said and done. Nineties
or noughties, what are you going to put your good
name behind.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I'm gonna have I'm gonna go nineties. I'm going to
go nineties because it was kind to me, and so
I can't turn my back on it. And I think
the Nordies started well.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But I don't know the wheels are falling off.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's not the wheels of the wheels of exactly. The
nineties were kind to me. I'll be kind to the nineties.
Let's lock a nineties.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Lovely to hear your voice. We love catching up with you.
Thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Love what you guys doing, the difference you guys mate.
Thanks to
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