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JONO AND BEN CHAT WITH MIKE MCROBERTS ABOUT THE CLOSING OF NEWSHUB · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Kurna and good morning to Mike McRoberts.
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  Speaker 2: Lovely to with you guys and treading really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on the last day of my news Hub career. We've
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  Speaker 2: had so many good chats over the year.
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  Speaker 3: Love oh, we love talking to you and what a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful career.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Have you looked back on it, because was it two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and five did you start reading the news on
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  Speaker 3: news hubber You're obviously a reporter before that on TV
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  Speaker 3: one and on TV three. Was that how long you've
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  Speaker 3: been reading the news for?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, so this is my twentieth year doing six o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking forward to the gold Watch, but there
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 3: But there was the station. You know, we've all worked there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a station that was the underdog station. You know,
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  Speaker 3: everyone seemed to like work hard, take some resks, maybe
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  Speaker 3: being the rules occasionally. It sort of had that sort
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  Speaker 3: of work ethic and environment for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that was kind of the TV three
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  Speaker 2: culture and one that I really loved. And you flourished
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  Speaker 2: in the too. Ben. It's incredible and you think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I've kind of my mindset this week is it
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  Speaker 2: has been a bit torturous over the last four months.
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  Speaker 2: My mindset this week has been very much about celebrating
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  Speaker 2: what we achieved and been walking out, you know, feeling
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  Speaker 2: really good about what we've done.
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  Speaker 4: Well. I mean, imagine you looking back on your career.
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  Speaker 4: You have been to you know, the war torn zones
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  Speaker 4: of the world, probably some of the greatest journalism this
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  Speaker 4: country will see.
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  Speaker 3: And I was reading to also in typical TV three
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  Speaker 3: fashion as well, without insurance, sometimes without life insurance.
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  Speaker 2: So typical of TV that was. That was back in
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  Speaker 2: the day when you know, when I trusted the CEO,
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's done now time I can tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so what you know, like we'll look after your
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  Speaker 3: family if anything happens, is what they say to you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good intentive to get back. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it.
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  Speaker 2: Basically just took out a massive chunk of the cost
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  Speaker 2: and meant that I have the opportunity to go and
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  Speaker 2: tell those stories. But I mean, looking back at now,
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  Speaker 2: what were you thinking.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so stand out of the twenty years, what as
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  Speaker 5: in your mind as your greatest career moment have to be.
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  Speaker 2: Done with the stars.
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  Speaker 3: We saw another side of you, that's you know that
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  Speaker 3: I definitely enjoyed it. Just about no life insurance on
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  Speaker 3: that one.
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  Speaker 2: Either said, there's so many highlights. Obviously going to war
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  Speaker 2: zones and going to big natural disasters around the world,
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  Speaker 2: being the only New Zealand journalists fair incredible highlights. But
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  Speaker 2: I think probably the thing that the most of those
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  Speaker 2: teams you work in, you know, whether it's big events
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  Speaker 2: like Olympics or Commonwealth Games, you know, we had such
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  Speaker 2: amazing teamwork and it's taken a lot of teamwork over
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  Speaker 2: these these past few months to get the news to
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  Speaker 2: ear EVERYNTE and I just want to it's amazing professionalism
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  Speaker 2: of my colleagues to do that. It's quite humbling, and
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  Speaker 2: tonight we get it to do it for the last time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know what I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: say at the end, it'll come.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if this would soften the blow at all,
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  Speaker 5: But I know you're going to be leaving free studios,
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  Speaker 5: but you won't be leaving our memories. Like I will
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  Speaker 5: always remember you for so many events and like Dance
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  Speaker 5: with the Stars, you are part of our lives and
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  Speaker 5: we won't forget it.
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  Speaker 2: I think you brought that back quite well big and
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  Speaker 2: started us being a little bit creepy.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't want to start with dancing.
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  Speaker 4: With s welled to what are you doing? We allowed
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  Speaker 4: to ask that, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been very lucky. Actually, I've got a role
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  Speaker 2: with the NBR National Business Reviews, so it's it's like
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  Speaker 2: a proper job. I have to wear a suit, to
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  Speaker 2: wear a suit anyway, done that for a while. I've
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  Speaker 2: created a role for me which is tell Marty editors,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll be doing stories on the Marty economy and
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  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. So it's very exciting and I
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  Speaker 2: feel very lucky to have.
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  Speaker 1: Oh listen mate, well, thank you for everything that you
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  Speaker 1: and the team have done over over the decades that
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  Speaker 1: three News and news Hub has has been in our lives.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and thank you for you guys too. You
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  Speaker 2: have been such massive supporters and you know, probably the
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  Speaker 2: weirdest and strangest things I've done on television associated with you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and you said that. You know when we
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  Speaker 3: when our TV show John and Being finished up, you
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  Speaker 3: got up and it wasn't on screen, it wasn't for
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  Speaker 3: the TV. You got up in front of everyone and
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  Speaker 3: you came along to the last show firstly, and then
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  Speaker 3: you said a wonderfu wonderful, lovely, beautiful words, So thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much for that. That meant a huge amount
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  Speaker 3: to us.
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  Speaker 2: Great well, obviously the address for tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And probably won't mean the same coming for John. And
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  Speaker 3: if we do it, we're like you guys, We've just
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  Speaker 3: got a few words. It doesn't quite come with the
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  Speaker 3: same grabbing us.
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  Speaker 4: We don't have the same manner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mike, listen, good luck with the new job.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully I'm there.
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  Speaker 1: Say well, we'll see each other around and thanks once again,
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  Speaker 1: and and go to thank you my friends.