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Again, we're doing something a little different.
We did this last week.
last week we did a podcast about the Spain Madrid episode of Connor Byron was go because that's when it dropped well guess what today is the day that episode two in the series drops and today's episode then is about New Zealand because that is where I travel and I'm joined by the crack team as opposed to the the map.
Terrific team Mike Sweeney of course at the helm came in a little late wearing one of the three shirts he owns in and I also joined by Jeff.
Jesse Gaschel. It takes time to pick them out.
Sorry, we're interrupting Jesse's intro a little, a little sprinkle, Jesse Gaskell, terrific writer producer, joke writer, and Jose Arroyo.
Also a terrific comedic mind and both of you, uh, have joined it's a trap.
What a trap. It's a trap.
What you do is you put honey in the trap and then they fall into the pit and nod to the spikes.
Um, this team, this unit has come on most of the travel shows.
Just about all of them.
If not, all of them.
And you I'm talking about the TBS days.
Uhm, and all those conel without border shows.
and now on the max series, color brand was go, season two, we are today discussing the second episode in the series, which is New Zealand.
Guys, we just think.
It's out right now.
Right now as we speak.
It's amazing. I loved it from.
I actually saw it just to prepare for this.
Oh, is that true? You did something?
It's a little bold word. You do preparation.
OK, and I saw it, and I like it.
No, you're not ever supposed to watch these.
I know, I know this.
So how does it hold up?
It holds up really, really well?
Okay. No, no, it holds up really well.
And it's just it's you jump from the North Island to the south.
You cover us, we covered a lot of around, which is yeah.
I mean, that's hard in that country because it involves flights and dropping and one of the things that we have found is in our travels is that You know, we go in the premise of the show as I visit fans that have reached out to me through the podcast. And so these fans were pretty well distributed around both islands.
In the North and the South, I learned a lot I had never been to New Zealand before.
The people were extraordinary.
They were lovely. We learned a lot about the the ancient culture now, the Maori culture and not so ancient.
that they've only occupied Allen for 800 years longer than what?
Is that true? That's what they were saying.
During that welcoming ceremony, which I knew it was there before that.
I think before that, it was a medical concept.
Yeah, it was for browsion lones.
And so it was interesting because when we went before we began filming, we were taken by we guide to this mountaintop that looked over.
This is in the north island in Auckland and uh, he there was a long discussion about the history.
And then he led a ceremony.
It was kind of like the film shoes.
Yes. He was blessing the film shoes.
Another another inch of right.
Yeah. And uh, which we should always do really.
Yes. I wish you. Okay.
So when I go to the American girl started drink too much with a doll.
We should be a blessing first at the American girl store.
Yeah, it was it was really nice to be introduced to the culture and then visit the fans.
And we learned a lot.
Our visit coincided with something that is in the Guinness book of World Records, which is part of the show, which is there is a ritual there called the Haka to the uninitiated just it looks kind of like a dance routine.
Like a very old kind of flash mob.
Yeah, it looks like a flash mob, but it's something that's performed.
It's been around for I'm guessing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years and it's very important to the culture.
And they tried to break the world's record for the largest number of people doing the haka at the same time, so they filled a stadium and I was joined by none other than TycoYtd.
TycoYtd who helped out and so that makes for a fun segment.
There's a... There were a lot of, um, I, when I look at the footage of that now when we were editing, I was stunned by how many people were doing the hocka at the same time, because when you're doing it, you're just, you're in yourself.
You're doing it. You're not quite aware.
But when you just learned it too, so you were probably focusing on the moves.
Oh, I was just trying to remember how to do this correctly, and it's intimidating.
Because on one side, I had a, you know, Maori guy, doctor.
And on the other side, I had Taika and people watching from the Guinness Book of World Record and it's being recorded.
So I was... Lots of newscairies.
Lots of newscairies.
I was in my head, let's do this correctly.
Well I didn't go on the New Zealand trip, cause I was still trying to figure out how to leave my baby.
Which is a code for battling your addiction.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You were at new horizons.
I fell off the baby again.
Yeah. It was great.
I just backed up for a second, that you were with child when we went to Norway and Thailand.
New Norway and Thailand, and we didn't know, of course, you've kept it a secret.
As you know the rest days, you know that I have a policy and no one's allowed to say.
Another of my writers are still getting you.
You get the baby. None of my writers are allowed to reproduce and it's a thing when you work with me that you have to sign.
And so you broke the rules and no but so that was...
And you were sort of interesting that Dot, who's now, How old a year.
So is he year to have?
You're and half? Dot is, was with us onto trips, which is really kind of cool.
Oh my god that's right.
Are you? She's been to Norway.
I should bring her on all of them.
Well actually this means that she's in the union.
She's in the gun. She's in the writer's gown.
Oh my god. And so now she's gonna bank her show.
She shows money. She's gonna be done here.
She's in the rears.
So yes, you weren't allowed to gut you.
Well, I just hadn't quite figured out a way to be gone for it because I knew the New Zealand show that that trip, in particular, was gonna be long.
It's a really long flight.
Yeah. And the trip was like, almost two weeks, I think, that you guys were gone.
Also, this was your newly, you know, you were still getting to know your daughter and it's completely understandable that you were like, Yeah, I'm, I'm think I'm ready to go on this trip.
Yeah, and this is really, really cool about it.
I have to say, but that, but then immediately after that trip, um, you said, I so want to get away from this child, side me up.
What I saw the daily, But the child did come with us.
But you stayed here.
Yeah, it's amazing just weeks later you were ready to go to Spain and meet Javier Bardel.
Yeah, I did pull it together for that one, here.
You pull it together for me.
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No, but I was gonna say that I was at home and I was, you know, keeping track of the trip, but that first day that you landed, I woke up and all over the news where these shots of Conan doing the Haka, and it was just it was perfect because part of the Haka is that you do these really grotesque war faces.
And so, the still that I kept seeing was you with your tongue out and your eyes engorged like a gargoyle.
Yes, of course, hips thrust forward. Because I said engorged.
Yes, hips not engorged.
Avoid of any liquid.
But that was our. Yeah, the day we landed.
Which is probably the best time to learn it.
Turn off the bandage.
Very quickly, we dove right into.
Yeah, right into culture and me at a stadium.
and uh, in front of all of New Zealand and then uh, we did, I don't want to give away any secrets, but let's just say we it's, it's worth watching that episode to see what's happening in stadium.
Then we're making our way through uh, the wilds of uh, the north island, in the south island are quite different.
The south island is the island where uh, Peter Jackson.
Okay. Filled out of a fivecomplete silence, but yes, some of the most dramatic.
Yeah, when the hobbits are hanging out, raw on air -yokey bars and driving catam obtained around a Marina, that's the North Island.
When the hobbits are going through some middle earth, that's the South Island.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Some of the distances we traveled to get, we had to go over this big mountain pass to get to Hokitika.
And that was quite a journey.
Before we left the North Island we did meet this young woman named Abby Hials, who was sort of getting me up to speed on, I wouldn't say customs, but pronunciations, how people Attitudes had a chance to have slang and she was with edit out one of the funniest people.
I've met her improv.
Yes. And was off the charts.
You guys are doing like a two person, I would tour.
I would do a two person show with her in Vegas.
If I could. She's so funny.
And and really delight and really delightful.
She should be an international star.
I know. I think she will be.
Which is not something I say about everyone.
No, but she's kind of the breakout.
I think kind of the breakout star of the New Zealand episode, Abby Howles.
And I just want to give a shout out to her because I'm hoping I cross paths with her again.
She was so uniquely funny.
She was funny in her bones and and just had just so much fun.
And I love the segments with her.
Yeah. were, were at the ocean.
And again, this is one of the magical things about these travel shows is you guys do a great job of finding these people.
I don't know who they're going to be.
I get out of a van.
I walk up, they say this is Abby, hi, Abby and within two seconds, I'm thinking, she's hilarious.
This is really fun.
We did so much improv.
It was really cool.
I know. Well, and I normally wouldn't I think I think someone telling me what just watch half hour of improv would maybe turn me off a little bit but it was legitimately so funny watching the unfortunate Oh the uncles no no we wouldn't we would never we cut it down you would never ask you to watch half an hour done problem Jesse what dare you to judge that part to edit as because yes because there was so many good chunks in there and it all built as it went so it just got funnier and funnier and so then you're like oh how do we tighten this up without losing any of these great.
I met somebody other I never meet anyone with that first name Conan, but you guys found someone in New Zealand who's name his Conan O 'Brien and I met with him.
That was fun. That was really fun and fun.
There are naturally very funny people.
And that was our town Booker, Gina Batista, came in on day.
She goes, I got an alert that there's a Conan O 'Brien word, something under phone.
She goes, I don't know that there's a Conan O 'Brien in his home.
one of my he had my ex. He had my amaics card. We figured out where the leak was and he was he was really funny.
You know, it's funny, there's something.
Um, we found this a lot.
It's one of the things that I like so much about the travel shows is that you go to these other countries and their, um, very self possessed.
They're like, Oh, yeah.
Okay, I know this, I've heard of this cone and guy, but anyway, and then they get onto just being themselves and And so the comedy is, it's a different kind of nervous around your eyes.
So there's a, there's a little scent of, I don't know, disdain.
And just being laid back, Abby mentioned that that's one of the sort of national pride of of New Zealand is how laid back people can be, and they were all very unflappable.
Yeah. No matter, you know, just meaning someone in a DVD store guys just buying.
Renting videos and they're just like, hey Conan, and they do work.
But they're just like, yeah, and they're just kind of sleepy.
You travel to 45 ,000 miles a year.
Here. Basically, the moon and back, right?
Yeah, to go see them.
That's cool. We go to the South Island and that was pretty fascinating just because the The winding van ride up over the mountains, through fog, past, just, I mean that yes, there's, there's a part of this life of making remotes, and there's no escaping it where if you're going to do this, you're going to be in a van for a longer time.
Yeah. Some countries more than others.
Yes. And New Zealand is a van.
country. It's you're in a van, yes.
It's not luxury transport.
And there's no way, I mean, if you want to get from which city were we in in the South Island Christchurch, we were in Christchurch then for us to get to Hokatika, which is on the other side of the island south.
And this is getting closer to Antarctica.
That's the fascinating part.
And I really wanted to go all the way south.
And if we had been that kind of travel show that's actually trying to inform people.
And we would have I would love to go back someday and go to the very Southern tip because that's almost as close as you can get to Antarctica without getting on a boat other than had it like Patagonia, I think is that closer we look and we looked into it.
And we were kind of like do need an down that way, there's wildlife.
And, but you know, yes, it would be a lot of ways.
A lot of ways to the fan.
And it's because of a whole different show.
Exactly. Exactly. This will not be in the special, but my hour we finally get to Hooka Tika and what you will not see in the special is we check into this hotel.
Ha ha. And I was taken up to this room that makes no sense.
I've stayed in every kind hotel room in my life.
And this hotel room, there is, you take an elevator up two flights to the third floor and then you walk down and they say just go through that door and you go through that door and there's some more stairs, the stairs take you up to an elevator that is not functioning, it's not a functioning elevator and hasn't been for a long time.
But then you like go up a ladder and there's another door.
And then you're in a hotel And there's an elevator door in that hotel room, but it doesn't open and that's in the like living room of the hotel room.
It was just, I couldn't figure it out for the life of me.
And then we, uh, they call it the penthouse.
Yes. Yes. But it's the kookiest thing I've ever seen.
And then we, uh, walked to a bar.
And there was karaoke at the bar.
Oh, and was it you Jose who played a cruel practical joke on me or was it?
Oh, was it. It was Jason.
I mean, Caitlin, you called up a song and he said your next cone and I said, I don't want to do it.
And I said, I don't know your next.
And it was lead Zeppelin's a lot of a lot of love.
Which if you know the song, you know, it's that I mean, I don't know what the rules are.
If I can sing, I can't really sing it.
against a unicorn, a inner foot.
There's that part. But then there's let's up on flight with claim.
Yeah. I'll not for that.
I'll just say a cat got track in a grain fresher, um, but then as you know, in that song, there's a long break.
Yeah, I'm just like and so everyone's looking at me.
So I'm just gyrating in this tiny bar and gyrating and dreading and j jazz reading while various weird, 1969 noises are playing.
I was looking at shelemy and I said, and everyone's looking at me like you need to make this interesting but it's impossible.
And then you finally get to the John Bonham.
it, it, it, it, gom, nom, but again, that takes a while, it's the worst song to do karaoke too.
Should not be on that playlist. I agree.
And Jason Shalami, wherever you are, I'm not gonna fucking forget that.
But I will pay you back in time.
Oh, he's the only one who could pull that off.
It's not so true. I have the whole thing on video.
I will say Jeff Ross' birthday.
We celebrated Jeff Ross' birthday.
That's right. That's right.
That's why we did karaoke.
Is that why we did it?
That's right. It is Jeff's birthday and Jeff says birthday.
Yeah, and Jeff said I want I want a whole lot of love in a very small bar And again, there were people in the bar regular patrons who just could have cared less about any of us Yeah, they had no idea I am this is a photo of Conan just sitting there It says musical break 12 measures.
Yeah 12 measures and you know what I did I sat down I sat down and I look like when someone's about to be executed by a firing squad or any allow them to sit in a chair.
I'm like Gary Gilmore just sitting there waiting for it to stop accepting your faith.
Yeah. But anyway, we had we, I meet a fan there who lives in very remote conditions.
And that's worth watching off the grid.
Yes. So that was fun.
It was a very, again, none of these two shows are alike because these countries are also different.
And I stress there are a lot of travel shows out there.
I promise you you will learn nothing from my travel show.
In fact, my travel show, as I said before, it robs you of any knowledge you may have had of that country.
It is a protein that eats at the brain, but I think it's funny.
I like to think it's funny.
I hope it's funny. And a couple of easter eggs in it, a couple of Easter eggs.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Oh my God, I get to do another dramatic turn.
A lot of people right now are, if you like the pit with Noah Wiley, if you like the pit with Noah Wiley, watch my travel show on Macs.
Because, let's just say, New Zealand has their own version of the pit which is just as gripping and intense, and I get to act in it.
And you get to really see my acting chops.
Exactly. And I think Noah.
Noah Wiley should fear me.
He should fear. Because if he saw this, I think he would immediately, that's why they rushed the pit on TV.
It wasn't ready. It wasn't ready.
They called Windyronas Shutland Street.
Yeah. A lot of the basic sound editing hasn't been done on the pit.
Who's going to cover a week at the hospital and they that you were coming.
And they said that don't and doing shortland street in New Zealand and he blows Noa Riley out of the water.
So what they did is they just quickly made it a day and instead of having all the scripture ready.
They just a lot of it is just people reading medications and contra indications of I want to thank you guys again and again a shoutout, you're here with me but Mike Sweeney Jose Arroyo.
And, of course, Jesse Gasco and so glad that you guys, they, you guys work so hard to make the shows come out and shout out to the whole team, uh, play of course through their ads, um, Eduardo and Adam, you're in the studio, but you did nothing that he shows, uh, Shalemi.
Uh, shout out to you, Jeff Ross.
Uh, I am very lucky to have you guys, and I'm going to say that.
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Two dimensional. There are two episodes now out last week was, of course, Spain and this week is New Zealand.
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