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After School - Māorimind (Episode)

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1981

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If a pūkeko eats a wētā, how many legs have you got?
– Olly Ohlson fires a first round question at Richard Evans

Hello, we’ve had a bit of a catastrophe here.
– Olly Ohlson reacts to co-presenter Richard Evans losing his water-filled hat

My boss . . . found out I wanted to talk te reo and said if we do it for you, we have to do it for the other minority groups. 'I'm not giving you permission', he said, 'but I'm not denying it either.' That was his soft way of saying go ahead but it's your responsibility . The response that I got from my own people... they bought a receiver and took it by horseback up into Urewera country and a whole lot of them put up a marquee and they watched me on TV. That's how big of deal it was for them.
– Olly Ohlson on his everyday use of te reo on his show and its impact, One News, 30 September 2023

[Olly Ohlson] was later replaced by Jason Gunn, who told him, 'I'm bloody scared, you are my idol'. "But I told him to do his own thing not to emulate me, and he did more than that."
– Olly Ohlson is interviewed by Stuff writer Hamish McNeilly, 20 May 2016