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Speaker 1: With the John and Ben Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Cheers to Dilma making the world a better tea. How

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Speaker 2: are you.

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Speaker 1: We're doing good. Always nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Likewise, trapped in a.

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Speaker 1: Lift with you was just a week ago.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, awful.

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Speaker 2: It was lovely. He was honest behavior here at his

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Speaker 2: googeous wife with them, and he was.

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Speaker 3: Just the only time Susan has ever been downbeaten liking life.

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Speaker 1: This bald idiot. Oh, Susie. We were doing a bit

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Speaker 1: of reflecting this this week.

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Speaker 3: It's a bit of a competition, to be honest, deciding

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Speaker 3: which was the better decade, the nineties or the noughties.

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Speaker 3: Now you've spanned across both, what would you say was

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Speaker 3: the best decade?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that is really really tricky because when I

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Speaker 2: think of it in terms of songs, it's a.

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Speaker 1: Cut that was the nineties, and that was your signature.

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Speaker 1: You and Me, Susie's World was over two thousand episodes.

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Speaker 1: I was reading of You and Me.

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Speaker 2: You did that's right. We'd recorded over five years. So

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Speaker 2: I'd go to the need of for two weeks of

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Speaker 2: every month from Auckland. I'd fly down record, record, record,

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Speaker 2: then go home and throw out and We did that

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Speaker 2: for five years, so a very special part of my life,

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Speaker 2: and by the sounds of it, a whold several generations

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Speaker 2: of Kiwi's lives as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you must still have people coming up to you

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Speaker 3: all the time and going I used to sit and

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Speaker 3: watch you.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love it. And you know, through COVID

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Speaker 2: and things like that, got reintroduced to a new generation

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Speaker 2: of Kiwi's which was absolutely adorable. But you know, I

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Speaker 2: still love that the Naughties had Susie's World. Susie's were

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Speaker 2: part of the thing, but it still touched the whole generation,

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Speaker 2: several generations. And now I've got young scientists coming up

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Speaker 2: to me and saying, look, I'm going to put that

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Speaker 2: down to you. You inspired me to embark on a

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Speaker 2: world of science.

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Speaker 3: You just got whoam mean a lot to you?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well, one of the main reasons we made

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Speaker 2: Susi's was because I was robber science myself as a kid.

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Speaker 2: And but they were all questions that I had wanted

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Speaker 2: answered as a child. You know, why is the sky blue?

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Speaker 2: How can birds sit on power lines without getting electrocuted?

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Speaker 2: What happens when we eat baked bean?

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Speaker 1: How do the birds sit on the power lines out

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Speaker 1: of interest.

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Speaker 2: I'm really proud of you for not asking the other

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Speaker 2: questions because they are not earth grounded, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, grounded, So if they touched the ground at the

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Speaker 1: same time.

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Speaker 3: Order, When you look back at those iconic shows through

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Speaker 3: those years, I mean you used to wear some really

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Speaker 3: bright clothing, right, I mean your personality is bright, but

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Speaker 3: the clothing may have been brighter.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, it was cosmic cosmic. Yes, if I had

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Speaker 2: a face on, I'd be able to send your photograph

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Speaker 2: of what I'm wearing today, though. TI dyed electric blue

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Speaker 2: and pink, and.

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Speaker 1: You do love a tight height.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you really bright neon sort of colors I remember.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely need to get yours or something. I remember

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Speaker 1: that Cosmic brand color. They're all just bright colors, and

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Speaker 1: now they kind of come back.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look at Barbie. You know, the Barbie movie

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Speaker 3: kind of brought all that back. So this song, you

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Speaker 3: know you were just singing before It's Our Time? You know,

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Speaker 3: where did that come from? Like, and did you know

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Speaker 3: it was going to be such a success when you

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Speaker 3: started singing it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd love to be able to take full quint

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Speaker 2: for that song. And you and me and the studiess

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Speaker 2: Lord and all the rest of it. But I'm a

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Speaker 2: cog and an amazing will of talented people who created

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Speaker 2: those programs, and I very luckily one of about eighty

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Speaker 2: people who interviewed or auditioned got the role.

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Speaker 1: So did send me another's audition for that that gig?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, there were lots of people that auditioned

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Speaker 2: because it had already been going for a year before

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Speaker 2: I joined it. Yeah, but the wonderful Pauline Cooper had

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Speaker 2: been presenting it for nearly a year. They threw open

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Speaker 2: the doors and they've got a telephone call. I'd been

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Speaker 2: with the Early Bird Show with Russell Ruther. You'ld dooodle dude.

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Speaker 3: Russell, you say it was aimed at preschoolers. I feel

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Speaker 3: like I was a lot older watching it. That makes

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Speaker 3: me go, oh Jesus, was I just a bit slow

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Speaker 3: on it. I didn't realize it was aimed the preschoolers,

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Speaker 3: but I watched a lot of it. We're going to

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Speaker 3: put you on the spot now because you've been through

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Speaker 3: those decades, as John I said, you've had big hit

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Speaker 3: shows in both those decades.

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Speaker 1: Susie, what was your favorite decade?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: It is so hard I'm going to have to say.

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Speaker 1: Susie, you're so nice, you just can't.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to offend a decade feelings decades.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, it's like choosing a favorite child. How can

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Speaker 2: you do that? They're both good for so many different breaks.

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Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna sit on the fence on this one.

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Speaker 1: She's doing a trademark ben boys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's annoying, isn't it. But I get it, I

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Speaker 1: get it, I get it. You don't. Yeah, you've all

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Speaker 1: got the positive points. Oh, Susie, listen. Always love catching

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Speaker 1: up with you. Appreciate your time, and thank you for

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Speaker 1: joining us pleasure. That's not how you say goodbye to Susie. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're doing it. Yeah you go, you go, tell you away, Susie.

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Speaker 2: See you see yea later. It's time to say goodbye.

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Speaker 2: See you see year later. We've really got to fly goodbye,

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Speaker 2: my friend.

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Speaker 1: Oh not just to preschool. And that was for everyone