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What's Up With Lily and Bob
My daughter Lily and I chit-chat and chew the fat about what inspires us, from goofy Keanu Reeves movies, to books, songs, and people doing wonderful things in the world. Come join us for some fun, giggles and bad jingles.
Episodes
15 episodes
EP.15 What's Up With... Dune 2?
My son Georgie jumps into this episode with me to talk about how much we LOVE Dune 2. It is recorded in my car on the way back from the IMAX, so the sound quality is rather rough, but I hope our wild enthusiasm makes up for it. And special gues...
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EP. 14 What's Up With...Women in Tech?
Lily and I talk about the unsung heroines in technology. We talk about Ada Lovelace (Byron's daughter!), Margaret Hamilton (NASA coder), and the 'Sew Sisters' (who stitched Neil Armstrong's spacesuit.... I'm not making this up). All amazing wom...
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Ep.13 What's Up With...Farts?
Lily and Bobby discuss the deep mystery of farting! If you are easily offended by flatulence, please refrain from listening. For the rest of you - enjoy!
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Ep. 12 What's Up With... Mummies?
Lily and Bobby go to the amazing Auckland Museum to learn how to make a Mummy out of Lily's little brother George. We also meet a dinosaur and get lost in a giftshop. Come with us and learn about how to wrap a mummy, and how to read the Book of...
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Ep. 11 What's Up With... Sitcoms?
Lily and I basically lose our minds over how much we adore sitcoms, picking favourite moments, quotes, characters, and generally being obsessive fans about the short but perfectly formed comedy format that is the mighty and magnificent Sitcom. ...
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Ep. 10 What's Up With... The Medium?
Lily and Bobby break into the double digits with episode 10 about our favourite book The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse, and why we preferred the book to the film (though we loved both). Which fed into a deep discussion on why different sto...
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Ep.9 What's Up With...The Generation Gap?
"Please Mind The Gap!" XYZ, BOOMER, ALPHA. Each generation gets a cool name, amazing new technology, new words, and some new issues to deal with. Lily and I talk about all differences between generations and interview some amazing people. Thank...
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Ep.8 - What's Up With...Taika Waititi?
Lily and I chat about the greatest Kiwi director of all time, Taika Waititi! It's a chaotic episode - bad jingles, suspicious sponsorship plugs, and shambolic moments - but we manage to cover our general love of all things Taika, and I name dro...
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Ep.7 What's Up With... Roald Dahl
Lily and I chat about the greatest children's writer of all time, the wild, the wicked, the wonderful, Roald Dahl. Also incredible news! We got our first sponsor because, like, our podcast is basically blowing up. We hit ten listeners last week...
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Ep.6 What's Up With... Voyager?
Could you create a playlist of songs that explains what humans are to aliens? Well, Lily and I chat about the wild story of how NASA shot a playlist of songs, laughter, and love into space to try explain to aliens what we humans are like. But i...
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Ep.5 What's Up With... New Year Resolutions?
Slightly scrappy episode where we talk to friends at a party (some background babbling, sorry) in gorgeous Coromandel asking fun stuff like what sweets they like, do they believe in God, and what's their New Year resolution! Thanks to all the b...
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Ep.4 What's Up ... With inspiration
Massive thanks to all the kids in the neighbourhood who came and talked to Lily and Bobby about people who inspire them. Heartfelt appreciation to the future surf legends the Frazerhurst brothers (Sam & Jesse), to our future football star J...
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Ep.3 What's Up With... Drag
Lily teaches Bobby all about the inspiring world of Drag. Bobby learns a lot and finds out that Drag is an external expression of what's within, and also finds out that honey is not just something you spread on your toast!
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