John Reynolds
The podcast repeated from 17:45 (starting again from 2:45) until 32:45. Annoying … but great interview.
I love how he speaks – he sounds excited and inspired and like he’s loving his life. Great.
“There used to be this fantasy about New Zealand – particularly the sort of southern quality of New Zealand character – of a certain kind of morose, taciturn, guardedness and a reticence verbally. My experience has always been that give New Zealanders a microphone or an opportunity and often you can’t stop them talking. We have a tremendously rich vocabulary.” (5:46)
Interesting.
I learnt this word today: atavistivic
adj. relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral
