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Kevin Milne: Tough trading and the loss of iconic Kiwi enterprises · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Good a Jack voyuristic titillation. We have developed a voracious
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  Speaker 2: appetite for the ugly and inane, says Anne. Great words.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I can't disagree with that at all, Neil,
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  Speaker 2: says Jack. Let he who is without sindcast the first stone.
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  Speaker 2: A hypocrites abound. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there are
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  Speaker 2: plenty of hypocrites who have been delighting in it all.
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  Speaker 2: I just I think what's amazing about the information age
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  Speaker 2: is whereas in the past, you know, people of course
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  Speaker 2: had you know, incidents in public in which they were shamed,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes quite deliberately, sometimes as a purposeful punishment,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being locked in the old stocks and pelted
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  Speaker 2: with fruit and that kind of thing. But the thing
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  Speaker 2: about virality, the thing about the spread on the Internet,
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  Speaker 2: is that there's just there's nothing you do. Once it
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  Speaker 2: kicks off, it's gone. And where as you might think
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  Speaker 2: they kind of deserve it this time, what's to say
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  Speaker 2: that the next time there's a viral moment where someone
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  Speaker 2: perhaps you think doesn't deserve to have their names splashed
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  Speaker 2: around the world, you know, experiences the same consequences ninety
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  Speaker 2: two ninety two. If you want to send us a
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  Speaker 2: message this morning, eighteen past nine and Kevin Milner's a
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  Speaker 2: let us today to Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: Heck, you got to Jack. I remember a time in
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  Speaker 3: TV when if you're going out to film somewhere that
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  Speaker 3: had a large crowd, And I'm thinking of race meetings
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  Speaker 3: where we used to go out and mainly you'd film
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  Speaker 3: the big race, but you would also get shots of crowds.
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  Speaker 3: You would never film people close enough so that they
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  Speaker 3: were recognizably at the meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: And I wonder what's happened to those sort of laws
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned suing the producers of the show or you
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  Speaker 3: know about coldplay or whoever it is. Yeah, I wonder
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  Speaker 3: whether there's any law about intrusion of that sort. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I definitely remember were on live show, on live coverage
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  Speaker 3: of race meetings, for example, the cameras would stick very
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  Speaker 3: wide on the on the crowds. So the very reason
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  Speaker 3: that somebody might be in that shot that shouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Shot, I don't know. I mean, I think in New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand we have like public space, you know, filming laws
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, in that video, having seen it
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  Speaker 2: a few times now, I mean they were they were
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  Speaker 2: smiling and all happy one moment when they had a
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  Speaker 2: problem with the video until the camera was turned on them,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So yeah, sure, But I also wonder if
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  Speaker 2: the you know, the nature of us all having smartphones
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  Speaker 2: and cameras in our pockets, powerful cameras in our pockets,
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  Speaker 2: has meant that actually, you know, just generally privacy when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to videos isn't what it once was? That
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  Speaker 2: the kind of societal expectations there have changed. But there's
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  Speaker 2: a very good point, sure, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And all it is only just a bit of fun,
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  Speaker 3: and it's sort of like a competition, isn't it really?
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  Speaker 3: You get it at all the rugby matches, Yeah, couples together.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a slightly it's a slightly dangerous practice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's really. It's been a kind of fascinating
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  Speaker 2: anthropological exercise, this whole thing. Anyway, Kevin, you're saddened by
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  Speaker 2: the closing of a retailer that you have never actually
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  Speaker 2: been inside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're becoming anwer, aren't we. To the announcements of
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  Speaker 3: Kiwi Enterprises closing down for reasons none other than the
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  Speaker 3: trading environment's got too tough. But the businesses that are
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  Speaker 3: now closing down seem to me increasingly those you'd have
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  Speaker 3: backed as winners rather than losers. Restaurants for example, and
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  Speaker 3: some of them. I'm sadden to hear that Madikan ceramics
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  Speaker 3: firm Morrison James is calling it quits. We had three
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  Speaker 3: of their huge outlaw pots and a bird bath with
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  Speaker 3: Morrison James striking glaze all over them. I love their
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  Speaker 3: ceramics because they have got maide in China or made
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  Speaker 3: in Vietnam on them. They're really strongly kiw. I love
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  Speaker 3: them because there are no two that are exactly the same.
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  Speaker 3: You might buy a pair that from a distance seems
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  Speaker 3: the same, but they're not there, made by artists, not machines.
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  Speaker 3: Then there's the classy Morrison James metal stamp on them.
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  Speaker 3: If you've got one, you'll know what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 3: proudly stating that they're from Matakana, New Zealand, which is
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  Speaker 3: actually somewhere I've never been to. We buy online or
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  Speaker 3: via our local furniture short store. There's been a phenomenal experience. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it would be to walk through the Morrison James Northland Factory.
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  Speaker 3: We've only wandered through their website and that's uplifting enough,
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  Speaker 3: and I recommend people do that. But once they're current
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  Speaker 3: supplies of clay used up, it will be all over.
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  Speaker 3: Well they've left themselves are very slight out. I heard
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  Speaker 3: the owners saying that if a generous investor where they
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  Speaker 3: decide they wanted to be part of a wonderful operation
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  Speaker 3: and a wonderful bet of the country that happily keep
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  Speaker 3: its colorful heart beating. I wholeheartedly recommend that if you
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  Speaker 3: like color in your garden, at least by something online.
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  Speaker 3: Now to remember Morrison James, as we found with the
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  Speaker 3: stunning bird bath that I bought London for Christmas. Their
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  Speaker 3: work arives at your door, superbly packed. Who knows if
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  Speaker 3: enough of us invest in something special for around the house,
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  Speaker 3: the unique Morrison James ceramics of Matticana might live on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is really sad news, isn't it, Because they'd make
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  Speaker 2: it incredible, Like they really lean into the color, don't they.
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  Speaker 2: There's a real kind of splendor to their color of
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  Speaker 2: their designs. Yeah, And to be honest, I'm a bit
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  Speaker 2: surprised because I feel like ceramics are having a moment,
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  Speaker 2: don't we feel like that? I sort of feel like
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  Speaker 2: pottery in the last cup five years and ceramics and
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of going through a little little
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  Speaker 2: boom period. And just curious that a Kiwi firm, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is preps finding it pretty tricky at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to buy a great, big pot like
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  Speaker 3: we have. They sell gorgeous jugs and right about every
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  Speaker 3: color you can think of, and they're superb.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is very good. Okay, that's a good little
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  Speaker 2: gift suggestion too. And like you said, yeah, I suppose
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  Speaker 2: to get running the risk of becoming collectors additions very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah all right, Kevin. Yeah, it is a shame. And
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  Speaker 2: you've never been to Matakana.
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  Speaker 3: Never been to Madicana. No love to go there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have to put it on the list.
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  Speaker 2: It's very it's very fancy these days. That's where all
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  Speaker 2: of the well to do is like to head up
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  Speaker 2: there for the weekend, go and check out the market,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can go on tours of the factory. I
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  Speaker 3: think the Miles and James Statory. I'm here, I am
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  Speaker 3: thinking that Madicana is atainly a little place that's got
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  Speaker 3: a big, huge ceramic statory, but I'm certain it's got
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  Speaker 3: loads of other great things as.
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  Speaker 2: Well, plenty of attractions in Matacana. So the next time,
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  Speaker 2: yeah er around the nine, you have to make sure
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  Speaker 2: you carve out an afternoon and go and have a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a look.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thank you for that, and thanks for drawing it
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  Speaker 2: to our attention. If there are any generous benefactors listening
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  Speaker 2: right now who'd like to invest, Like I say, ceramics
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  Speaker 2: are having a bit of a moment. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: your text this morning, heaps the messages regarding the Coldplay couple.
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  Speaker 2: Jack I disagreed. The damage is done. The CEO should sue.
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  Speaker 2: He should ramp up the rhetoric, keep the beast rolling
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  Speaker 2: and then write a book. At least make a buck
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  Speaker 2: out of the whole experience, says Shane Jack. Things will
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  Speaker 2: always go viral on social media. What I found disconcerting
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  Speaker 2: with the Coldplay cam is how the news around the
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  Speaker 2: world and the mainstream news media have weighed in and
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  Speaker 2: amplified it. Isn't that where the problem lies, says Mark.
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  Speaker 2: I think it all is kind of speaking to the
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  Speaker 2: same phenomenon.
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  Speaker 3: Mark.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I logged and I was on the BBC
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  Speaker 2: BBC yesterday and it was like, you know, like story
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  Speaker 2: number one, Gaza, story number two, Donald Trump and the
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  Speaker 2: head of the Federal Reserve having a tiff, story number
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  Speaker 2: three or four, the Coldplay scam, And I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're really you know, even the BBC's really covering the
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  Speaker 2: gamut of stories here. And look, I mean, I can't
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  Speaker 2: criticize anyone here. I am talking about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: But at this think it speaks to the kind of
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  Speaker 2: you know, like we wouldn't be talking about it unless
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  Speaker 2: it was a perfectly encaptured little you know, if unless
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  Speaker 2: that five second video didn't tell a much richer story, right,
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  Speaker 2: And there's something about human nature where we just want
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  Speaker 2: to laugh and share and laugh and share and laugh
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  Speaker 2: and share. The Internet allows us to do that so quickly,
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  Speaker 2: but I can imagine that the you know, the impacts
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  Speaker 2: are pretty significant.
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