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Hello, I am Amanda Palmer.

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The Auckland Writers Festival was kind enough 
to invite me and Neil Gaiman

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to do an evening together as part of the 
writers festival,

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and so we asked our friend, our new Kiwi 
friend Lucy Lawless, to interview the two 
of us.

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And when we announced that we were doing 
it, a lot of people asked 'Will you stream 
it?' Will you film it?'

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And so we've hired a film crew.

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It's all being funded by my patrons

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so if you're one of my patrons, thank you.

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It is your money that is paying for this.

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And I hope you enjoy this long, strange, 
funny, weird, very personal, rollicking conversation 
between me, Neil, and Lucy Lawless.

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The fact that Lucy is the one interviewing 
us is not random.

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We invited her.

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Or we asked the writers festival if they 
would invite her.

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She's really nice!

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(off-screen) We all are!

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Yeah, most of you are! Most of you are!

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I mean, the people yelling at me on Twitter

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to go home to the Yankee-land from which 
I came are not so nice.

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But most of the New Zealanders that I've 
actually met...

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- Who doesn't get that? - Pretty nice.

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Neil and I decided to do this for a reason.

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We could have done all sorts of things in 
New Zealand,

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but the fact that it's a writers festival, 
a literary festival,

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and that we're both writers...

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But this is almost like our debutante entrée 
into New Zealand society.

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We've never been seen together.

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Things got so horrible in the media when 
Neil left,

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that I'm like, the best way to do this is 
to actually just go talk to everyone,

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and like... show who we are.

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Be with people.

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That's always how I fix everything.

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It doesn't always work! It usually works.

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Interviewer: So what will success look like 
for you tonight?

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Amanda: That's a good question.

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I think success tonight would look like

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Neil and I getting off that stage

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and all 1200 people in the audience having 
a really good sense of who we are.

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Who we really are.

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Instead of whatever ideas they might have 
about us.

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That's good and bad.

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You also have to understand, Neil and I never 
do this.

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No. We never sit down and just, as a couple, 
and do this.

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I mean, we did a little bit of this way back 
in the early days,

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we did a little tour together, and we would 
take questions from the audience,

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but I don't think Neil and I have done something 
like this in ten years.

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Where it's me and him, together, on a stage, 
with a friend, just...

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Spilling our guts.

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Welcome everybody, to a magical evening with 
Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman.

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You're gonna have a lovely time, because 
these two people are the closest to unicorns 
you will ever meet.

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I first met Neil and Amanda years apart.

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I met Neil some years ago, and Amanda during 
the whole COVID...

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the beginnings of the COVID pandemic.

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And as I got to know them, I was really flummoxed 
as to how these two people

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could exist in the same room.

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Let alone in a marriage together.

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And now I realise that you need a room the 
size of the Aotea Centre to hold these people.

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They are very precious, and very dear.

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Please welcome Amanda Palmer, and eventually 
Neil Gaiman.

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(ukulele strumming)

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Another bride

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Another June

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Another sunny honeymoon

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Another season

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Another reason

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To make whoopee

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A lot of shoes

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A lot of rice