Steven Holloway

First question, have you done more bus or car rides from Auckland to Hamilton across the last 20 years?

That leads nicely into where we want to start.

So part of our process at Between the Bears, we ask our guests for some contacts we can talk to about their lives and career.

People who know them well, good friends and family.

And you provided the most impressiveness of contacts we've ever received.

Yeah.

26 names and numbers in total.

That's good.

So in and amongst them.

So in and amongst family and friends were previous Between Two Bears guests like Steve Chew, Sir Wayne Smith, Ian Foster, Sam Whitelock and Brad Thorne.

But there was also Sir Graham Henry, Sir Steve Henson, Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Kevin Mialamu, Ma Nonu, Bowden Barrett and Adi Salvia.

It was a real power move.

But I wondered if they all know we now have their contact details and we'll be calling them every day.

Maybe big enough, yeah.

They're going to be coming hard at me now.

There was recently, this was a few weeks ago, I think, a reunion, 2011 and 2015, the team all got together.

Can you take us behind the scenes?

What happens there?

Who's organising it?

What do you actually do?