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The Muster- Sam Ruddenklau: Malloch McClean +MORE · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Steal My Sunshine by Len. The theme today is sun
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  Speaker 1: because we've got some finally. You're listening to The Muster.
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  Speaker 1: We're away over to Texas next to catch up with
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  Speaker 1: Sam Ruddenclaw of Mallet McLean Plus More. Good afternoon, Sam.
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  Speaker 1: Talking provisional tax to somebody from Texas isn't something I've
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  Speaker 1: done every day. Hell's sakes.
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  Speaker 2: All good, Andy. Yeah, and it's certainly not something that
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  Speaker 2: I've done either. And hard to, from here, like I've
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  Speaker 2: been here for 10 days and we've had 40-plus degree weather.
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  Speaker 2: It's currently 5.30 in the afternoon and it's 32 degrees,
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  Speaker 2: so it's hard to comprehend what it's like at home.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of guys on the trip with
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  Speaker 2: me that's from Gorge Road and just talking to them
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  Speaker 2: about production and what's happening there. It certainly seems like...
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  Speaker 2: It's been a tough run from a weather perspective, which
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  Speaker 2: impacts production, impacts feed costs, impacts fertiliser. So there's lots
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  Speaker 2: of impacts there happening at the moment that will flow
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  Speaker 2: on into provisional tax for dairy farmers or for made
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  Speaker 2: balance dates, which is 28th of October. So just, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: making sure that guys are thinking about that, updating their
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  Speaker 2: production numbers, and just looking at the cost side of
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  Speaker 2: their business and just making sure that tax is going
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  Speaker 2: to be sort of in the ballpark of where they
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  Speaker 2: need to be.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's certainly been a trying September, as you would
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  Speaker 1: have seen when you were over here a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago, Sam. You're due home later on this week,
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  Speaker 1: but it has been an interesting September. But like I say,
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  Speaker 1: sunshine today certainly changes the mood. But the big question is,
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  Speaker 1: why are you over in Texas?
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  Speaker 2: So there's 19 of us travelled over to represent New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand in the International Precision Rifle Federation World Championships, so
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  Speaker 2: the IPRF World Championships. They were held about an hour
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  Speaker 2: and a half west of Fort Worth, Texas. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been a shooting, well, the closing ceremony was yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, along with 32 total supporters and stuff, so
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  Speaker 2: it's been a good event.
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  Speaker 1: You've done pistol shooting for quite a while, though.
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  Speaker 2: Rifle shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Rifle shooting, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been sort of evolved from hunting
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  Speaker 2: and just an enjoyment of long-range shooting. And then, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just got into the competitive side. It's one of those
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  Speaker 2: things I quite enjoy. Well, it's quite analytical, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: so a little bit of a life-night-day job. But also
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  Speaker 2: it's something that's quite different as well, so it gets
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  Speaker 2: me away from the office and Someone once told me,
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  Speaker 2: some wise person once told me to de-stress yourself from
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  Speaker 2: the office. You've got to re-stress yourself doing something else.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I'm doing currently.
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  Speaker 1: De-stress to re-stress. That's an interesting say. Describe Texas for
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  Speaker 1: us then, because we hear about everything being bigger and
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  Speaker 1: bolder there.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very true statement. It is, well, we've been
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  Speaker 2: to a few big sporting goods stores that are absolutely enormous.
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  Speaker 2: For example, we're in one over there called Sheels, which
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  Speaker 2: has got a Ferris wheel inside. That's like three stories tall.
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  Speaker 2: Massive big aquarium with live fish, waterfalls, all sorts of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, yeah, it's really hard to believe unless you
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  Speaker 2: come here. And big vehicles. Yes, it's actually a really
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  Speaker 2: cool experience to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say life's prosperous over there at the moment
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  Speaker 1: for its citizens?
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  Speaker 2: It's a bit of a mixed bag, actually. Like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: I did some rough calculations just on the road today
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  Speaker 2: just around the cost of some groceries and fuel and
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. So a ribeye steak in the
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  Speaker 2: supermarket is $ 28 a pound, which works out roughly at
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  Speaker 2: the moment in New Zealand dollars $ 112 a kilo, where
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  Speaker 2: chicken's between $ 4 and $ 5 a pound, so that's about
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  Speaker 2: $ 12 a kilo. Sorry, $ 20 a kilo. So there's a
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  Speaker 2: big difference there. And some of that cost, petrol's $ 1. 70
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  Speaker 2: to $ 1. 85, depending on grade. And diesel is about $ 2. 90.
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  Speaker 2: So it's actually pretty close to New Zealand diesel price
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. So it's a bit of a mixed bag,
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  Speaker 2: to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: So is that an American currency or New Zealand currency,
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  Speaker 1: you're quoting?
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  Speaker 2: That's converting back to New Zealand dollars. So it's in gallons.
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  Speaker 2: So petrol's about $ 3. 85 a gallon. diesel about $ 6 a
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  Speaker 2: gallon over here so yeah it's a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: six bag as I say and just in terms of
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  Speaker 2: we've had a dry around today we've been up in
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma been through a bit of the grain belt and
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit of cattle country and it is extremely
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  Speaker 2: extremely dry through that area so there's been a pressure
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  Speaker 2: on from a farming perspective.
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  Speaker 1: As well But in general, though, like agriculture, is it
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  Speaker 1: in a pretty good place, would you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, well, definitely beef is in a really
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  Speaker 2: good place. Green is probably possibly slightly better than what
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  Speaker 2: it is in New Zealand currently. I read a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of stuff around cotton. There's a bit of pressure
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  Speaker 2: on there. So, yeah, I think that in general it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of, OK, but maybe not as prosperous as what
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand is at the moment, I wouldn't have thought.
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  Speaker 1: Now, people struggle driving around roundabouts here in Gore. What's
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  Speaker 1: it like going over to the freeway system of Texas?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a baptism of fire. We arrived in
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  Speaker 2: at Houston at 4 on a Friday afternoon, and I
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  Speaker 2: was the driver. We were straight onto the big freeways, but, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you've just got to trust Google and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you're that your steering wheel was in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the road, not on the outside of the road. That's
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  Speaker 2: bad news. I've only done it twice in 2,000 miles,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm relatively OK with it.
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  Speaker 1: So there are no cars coming the other way, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: when it did occur?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. It was... Yeah, you come off some of
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  Speaker 2: the big motorways, onto an exit, and then you go
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  Speaker 2: straight onto a two-way road, and it just seemed natural to...
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  Speaker 2: swinging onto the left-hand side of that two-way road. But
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  Speaker 2: you've actually got to cross over the centre line, which
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  Speaker 2: seems a bit bizarre, but it's, yeah, so I'm, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm OK with that.
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  Speaker 1: So a couple more days and you're back over to reality,
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  Speaker 1: to Terra Firma in New Zealand?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so tonight we're going to stay just on the
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  Speaker 2: border of Oklahoma and Texas and then tomorrow we're heading
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  Speaker 2: down to Houston, which is where we fly out of,
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  Speaker 2: Thursday this group was going through the International Space Museum
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  Speaker 2: in Texas and then home on Friday so back to
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  Speaker 2: reality back in the office on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you Sam. Well safe travels. It's not every
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  Speaker 1: day you talk about tax to somebody who's over in
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  Speaker 1: Texas but we've managed to achieve it today along with
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  Speaker 1: your adventures. Always appreciate your time on the muster.
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  Speaker 2: We could almost make this trip tax flexible I think
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't we?
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  Speaker 1: Well you're the accountant you'll know.
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  Speaker 2: Very good. Cheers, Andy.
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