Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick. Now, you may well have felt some panic setting in just now. Where was that phone call at the beginning of the episode? Where's Hayden? Where's Roosevelt? What's going on? Look, I understand your feelings. We're all creatures of habit, especially with podcasts.
Any change, big or small, can feel disorientating and strange. You may feel a complex array of emotions, anger, fear, abandonment, you choose. But it's okay, because there's a good reason for this. Right now, Rob sits in Los Angeles, California, the United States of America. I'm back in New Zealand. And you know who else is in New Zealand?
rosabelle why call her when we can just have her on the show prepare to have your mind blown because this is the rosabelle episode i'm a flightless bird touchdown in america Hi, Rob. How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm good. I have to say recording this remotely, we're just talking about this before we hit go. It is this sort of, it feels so different than being in the room.
And also because we're in different countries and we're kind of recording this at unusual times, I feel kind of out of place of topics and time and place. And it feels like we're in this kind of like, it's like we're in the cloud doing this or something.
Yeah, this format's also a little different because, I mean, technically this is about the time we record in LA. What time is it there? It's like 6. It's 6.15. It's a little bit earlier than we normally do.
Well, I just thought it's so silly. You know, I've been back in New Zealand now for about two weeks and I have been staying back in my old flat. I don't know what Americans call that. With Rosabelle. And I thought it's crazy kind of not to have her on the show. And I guess the idea is I thought we could kind of
Learn more about her, and then maybe she can also correct some, not that I would have done this, but I might have got some things wrong over the years. She doesn't have a voice. She can't rebut anything I say, and maybe she can correct some wrongs also.
Well, I think ultimately, through learning about her and what you've gotten wrong, we'll learn a little bit more about Bravid over here, if that even is your real name.
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Chapter 2: How does David feel being back in New Zealand?
Look, I appreciate the use of it. We'll find out.
Now, I don't want to... This is obviously the Roosevelt Show today, but I did just briefly want to talk about some exchanges we had had whilst I am away. I understand your family has been watching the hit hockey drama.
He did rival... I mean, my family's not...
Natalie's watching Heated Rivalry. And we don't need to go too much into this, but I know you had to explain to your mom about some various things tied in with the show.
So it actually wasn't... We had gone to dinner. My mom stayed home with the boys. And I rented the movie Twinless for my mom to watch. What is Twinless? It's a new movie about a guy that his twin dies, so he enters this support group for grieving twins who've lost a twin. Okay, all right. And then he becomes best friends with this... Other guy who lost his twin.
And it's a really... It does sound like a mum movie. It gets really dark and twisted. And the one guy's twin is gay. And there's a... I don't even remember it being graphic, but there's a fairly graphic gay sex scene. Ah, right. And that's where... In that movie. Mm-hmm. And then I took my mom to dinner on her last night in LA. Natalie stayed home with the boys.
We get home and Natalie's watching Heated Rivalry. Yes.
I'm going to watch it next week. It's very raw and engaging. And you've got these hockey players who are in love and there's a lot of... sort of accurate portrayals of gay sex and sort of just, it's just happening. It's not like we're about to have the sex and it's just suddenly happening and it sounds like it's portrayed in a way that isn't often shown like this on TV, which is kind of amazing.
So she walks into that once she arrives home.
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Chapter 3: What is Rosabelle's background and connection to David?
And David Farrier.
This is how we lose viewers, not gain them. This is not the way it's going to work. Okay. I'm going to get Roosevelt. Roosevelt, do you want to come and join me on the pod? Hi, Roosevelt.
Hi.
Now we've got a little earbud for you there. Now explain to Rosabelle I've cleaned the earpod because it's always a bit awful using someone else's. But I had detergent and got it all in there. How are you? And then you put it back in your ear just now?
Yeah.
No, no. I've just been on the one the whole time. So, Rosabelle has a fresh one. We're all here. It's weird because this has never happened before. And it's like, I don't know where to look. I don't know how this works. But Rob, maybe you can kick things off. I wonder if you had any questions for Rosabelle. Because we're here to learn about Rosabelle together, the three of us.
You might learn some things about yourself, Rosabelle, in this.
I hope so.
I mean, I hope we mostly learn a little more about David.
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Chapter 4: What interesting experiences did David and Rosabelle share?
No. No.
I actually thought because I don't know if you've talked about this, but there's another a public figure who has a very similar name to you.
Ah, yes. Dave Farrar. The Stark photo guy? No, that's a different guy. He looks like me. There's a guy called Dave Farrar who is also in the media in New Zealand. And he is a sort of a short, bald man who is politically very differently aligned to me. And he's always spouting a whole lot of shit, as am I. And often people are very confused because they're like, why did you say that, David?
And I'll be like, it wasn't me. It was the other one.
So I kind of thought you were him a little bit. Well, I didn't know. I quickly realized that you were not.
Okay. Right. Okay.
I was taking, I was the photographer for the event. So we were seated next to each other at the sort of like staff table. Yes. And I remember making fun of you because you had brought, instead of like a regular bag that a normal adult might have, you had like a supermarket tote bag and, And I made a passing comment about it and you just kind of laughed it off.
And I was like, oh, that's nice to be able to laugh something like that off.
Yeah. I'm crying. I'm sweating.
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Chapter 5: How do David and Rosabelle navigate their friendship?
Yeah, straight in.
Immediately started talking about. So I feel like we hit it off a little bit. You came on, it was a good episode. A lot. I think we hit it off a lot. I think it was instant great.
But a little bit for you. That's fine. Yeah, I don't remember it.
What did you think of Rob?
I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what the show was. I'd never heard of the show, even though it's this giant, huge thing. But I'd Googled it and was like, this is a big show. I should go on it. This is a really great thing. And then this little man, Rob, pops up.
I think I cold emailed you, too. I think that's how you got on the show is I just found your email.
Yeah. And then we were waiting for the hosts obviously to come in and I was just in a little, um, on a little zoom with Rob and you made me feel very comfortable.
And I was, you know, I was in this house, I did it from another room in this house and I was nervous and you made me feel you're very good, Robert, making people feel at ease and like, it's not a stressful situation, even if it is stressful.
Thanks. And then, yeah, we... Then we started Armchair and Dangerous. Him and I started working together closer and closer. We were doing live shows for that. And I hate flying. And I also like road trips a lot. So they would fly to those shows and David and I would drive. Because it was like, let's go see these weird parts of America. And...
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Chapter 6: How does the episode conclude regarding their friendship?
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offer valid while supplies last free meals applied at discount on first box new subscribers only varies by plan actually that's the question i had for you rosabelle do you feel listening to the show when you do listen do i sort of misrepresent new zealand and the way it is or do you think it's kind of okay because i have a very like my view on things which could arguably be obviously not everyone's view
I mean, I guess the thing is there is no one objective truth about the country. So your view is your view. That being said, you do seem to have a strange view sometimes of the country. And also you lie a lot about me. I'm getting right into it. Do I? Yes. Well, I can't tell if you believe that about me or if you are hamming it up for the comedy or the drama.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges of living together for David and Rosabelle?
I feel like I can turn my brain off and everything is sorted. And she also has such good friends. I feel like I'm always hanging out with lovely people that are in Roswell's life and I can kind of like steal her friends and sort of get into that world. So I love it. Roswell's the easiest person to live with in the world. Annoying things. I didn't ask that.
Do you sometimes ignore me in the house? Like I feel like sometimes you don't want to hang out with me all the time.
Yeah, we got into an argument about that.
We got into a bit of a fight. I had to text. I mean, it's getting a bit domestic now, but something was off in the air and I sort of had to text Roosevelt, are we fighting? And Roosevelt sort of said, I think we are, but we didn't know what it was about. And we figured out that it was... I mean, did we even figure it out?
It was a combination of things.
It was a combination of things. It's hard as adults living together. It's hard, isn't it? You know, we all do things in different ways. That text happened this trip or this was when you were living together? Yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. So look, it's probably getting into the minutiae. It's not interesting. Zooming out a little bit.
I, because I want to learn, I want people to know more about you, Isabel. Something I find really interesting about you is people assume you're a Kiwi beer, actually an Australian. You were born in Australia.
Wow, you're just revealing all of my secrets.
Yeah, so I think that is something I find kind of amazing.
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Chapter 8: What unique insights does Rosabelle share about her work?
Can you explain to us what happened? My nieces wanted to dye it.
I want to see the top. And I said I should do it two different shades. Can I see the top? It's sort of like a lighter purple on top. And then the pink is like a different color. And so they just wanted to have a combo of the two.
This is a present from Rob. This is a present from Rob. This is sort of via... Yeah, so I wrapped it in a... No, the box is not the prison, sorry.
Oh, I guess it's something else. Let's have a little look. That's a flannel. Oh! I am so fucked up that I didn't see that coming. That's so fucking annoying. It is confronting. Wow. Yeah, it's horrible, isn't it? And it's all in my mouth?
Oh, no.
What is this? Oh, I'm sorry. I was actually really nervous about it and I didn't want to do it.
But then I did it because... That's much more visceral than I thought it would be. It's like gets in everything. It's on my glasses.
Yeah. Do you want... Some paper towels?
No, I'm okay. I'm so annoyed that my brain was so slow to know there might be a little gag coming.
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