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The Muster Full Show: 06/11/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Nathan Abernethy of Regional Ford joins us once again for
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Speaker 1: a Friday afternoon on the muster.
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Speaker 2: G'day, Nathan.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, g'day, Andy. Good to see that sunshine in again.
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Speaker 3: It definitely puts everybody in a better mood and rolled
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Speaker 3: into another month. So the year is drawing to an
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Speaker 3: end pretty quickly, but it's busy around here. October was
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Speaker 3: a really busy month, so we're hoping that November.
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Speaker 4: Is going to be the same.
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Speaker 3: A lot of used vehicles here, a lot of used
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Speaker 3: commercials especially, and passenger SUVs for that matter, so there's
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Speaker 3: no shortage of those. Got a real good mixture of
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Speaker 3: double cabs of all price brackets, probably ranging here at
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Speaker 3: the moment from about $ 18, 000 for a double cab four-wheel drive,
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Speaker 3: I guess right through to probably about $ 60, 000 for some
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Speaker 3: of that second-hand later model stuff, particularly the V6 Wild Tracks,
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Speaker 3: or we've got a couple of Raptors here as well.
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Speaker 3: But look, there is a truck that's just come on
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Speaker 3: the guard here that's a really good truck.
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Speaker 4: It's a 2023 Toyota Hilux SR.
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Speaker 3: It's travelled 82,000km, it is a 6-speed manual in a
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Speaker 3: charcoal grey, it's got the nice 18-inch alloys on it,
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Speaker 3: with all-terrain tyres, the side steps, the bonnet guard, it's
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Speaker 3: a really good-looking truck. As I say, 82,000km, and $ 46, 990
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Speaker 3: including GST, that's somewhere just over $ 40, 000 plus GST sort
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Speaker 3: of thing for that truck. So yeah, really good truck.
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Speaker 3: We've also got plenty of Ranger here as well, just
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Speaker 3: standing by one here that is a 2024 which is
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Speaker 3: the very latest model this one's got the 20 inch
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Speaker 3: wheels and the flares it's all dressed up it's traveled
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Speaker 3: 43,000 k's that is the 10 speed automatic really smart
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Speaker 3: looking truck in charcoal grey and for $ 49, 990 basically it
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Speaker 3: looks like a brand new one to drive away so
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Speaker 3: as I say lots of passenger cars we've got plenty
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Speaker 3: happening here just remember as we roll into Christmas not
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Speaker 3: a bad idea to think about the caravan the boat
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Speaker 3: or the trailer or anything and that we're going to
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Speaker 3: need next month when we're ready to go. We don't
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Speaker 3: want any hold-ups, do we? So think about that, think
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Speaker 3: about the workshop and getting that through. If there's anything
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Speaker 3: we can do for you, certainly give us a yell
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Speaker 3: and pick up the phone. Don't forget the guys up
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Speaker 3: there in Balclutha handling the new Fords up there as
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Speaker 3: well as Bridgestone tyres. So anything we can do, pick
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Speaker 3: up the phone or come in and see us. The
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Speaker 3: doors will be open at half past nine tomorrow morning
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Speaker 3: through till 12.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Nathan.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy the weekend.
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Speaker 3: You too, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to The Muster. I'm Hoka Nui,
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Speaker 1: I'm Andy Muir. The show's brought to you by Peter's
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Speaker 1: Genetics on a Friday. Welcome along. Pretty warm out there
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Speaker 1: on Main Street. What are we currently?
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Speaker 2: It's... Stand by. 19 degrees. We'll take that.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, straight on to it for a Friday. Bruno Mars
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Speaker 1: for the tunes. A bit to get through. It's a
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Speaker 1: busy old hour.
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Speaker 4: It would break my.
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Speaker 5: Heart, break my heart Hōkanui' s five-day forecast with Twin Farm,
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Speaker 5: Tehrom and Softex.
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Speaker 6: The proof is in the progeny.
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Speaker 1: This afternoon, partly cloudy with breezy northerlies and a high
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Speaker 1: of 25. Saturday, light rain developing in the afternoon with
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Speaker 1: south easterlies, 10 and 18. Sunday, light rain developing with
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Speaker 1: south westerlies, 9 and 17. Monday, cloudy with breezy easterlies,
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Speaker 1: 9 and 16. And Tuesday, sunshine with north easterlies, 11
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Speaker 1: and 22. So temperatures to hand, Clinton 13.5, Harriot 13.8,
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Speaker 1: Northern Southland 14.8.
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Speaker 2: Riverton, 14.7.
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Speaker 1: Te Anau, 14.1.
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Speaker 2: Te Raua, 15.
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Speaker 7: Winton, 14.1.
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Speaker 2: And Woodlands, 14.3. They're looking pretty darn good.
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Speaker 1: Jamie Mackay joins us for the country crossover, followed up
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Speaker 1: by Phil Duncan of Weatherwatch, looking at the forecast for
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Speaker 1: the south over the next seven days. Steve Henderson, based
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Speaker 1: at Awarua. We catch up, see how things are going
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Speaker 1: there between Bluff and Invercargill. Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington of
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Speaker 1: the Gore Police joins us in studio for a regular catch-up.
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Speaker 1: And then Elliot Smith out of Newstalk ZV. He's on
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Speaker 1: the ground over in Edinburgh.
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Speaker 8: Edinburgh?
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Speaker 7: Edinburgh?
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Speaker 2: Edinburgh?
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Speaker 1: Depending on how you say it, ahead of the All
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Speaker 1: Blacks taking on the unbeaten record against Scotland. Fooled forever, actually.
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Speaker 1: They've never lost to them, but they're at Murrayfield. It's
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Speaker 1: like they're home away from home. So without further ado,
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Speaker 1: we'll start the hour next in the country crossover with
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Speaker 1: Jamie Mackay.
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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay is host of The Country and joins us
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Speaker 1: once again for The Crossover.
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Speaker 2: Jamie, good afternoon. Property of the Week, what have we
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Speaker 2: got this time after last time's success?
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Speaker 1: Ah.
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Speaker 8: Are we talking about my old mate, my old late mate,
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Speaker 8: Rowan Horrell's farm? Is that what we're referring to, are we, Andy?
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Speaker 1: And apparently it was lost in translation. Somebody who was
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Speaker 1: listening picked it up halfway through the interview, a certain
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Speaker 1: farmer at Kowiki thought it was him.
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Speaker 8: Who, which certain farmer was that?
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Speaker 1: No, you've got to.
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Speaker 4: Mark Shallard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, possibly.
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Speaker 2: I'm not naming names.
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Speaker 8: No, I might have said they were the best two
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Speaker 8: farms in Riversdale, possibly Northern Southland, possibly Southland. No, Mark,
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Speaker 8: the Shallard farm is not for sale. I think I
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Speaker 8: can confirm that one, but... The Horrell Farm, and this
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Speaker 8: is a beauty, and I'll get a shameless plug in this.
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Speaker 8: I hope Shane Mosby's listening. He can definitely give me
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Speaker 8: a beer. I think it's for sale. It is to
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Speaker 8: be sold by deadline sale by the 12th of November.
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Speaker 8: What's that? So that's next Thursday. Next Thursday. 380 hectares. Sheep, beef, cropping,
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Speaker 8: beautiful farm, beautiful lanes, beautiful shelter, great mix of land.
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Speaker 8: If I was to reinvent myself and come back as
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Speaker 8: a farmer... I would happily farm that farm. In fact,
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Speaker 8: I used to live on it. Rowan and I flatted
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Speaker 8: there in the early 80s. Those were the days, Andy.
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Speaker 8: Life was simple in the early 80s.
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Speaker 2: There you go, Shay.
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Speaker 1: Drop off a 24-pack next time you're cruising through Main Street.
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Speaker 8: No, no, 24-pack from last time and another 24-pack for
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Speaker 8: this time.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know where it sits here at the station.
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Speaker 7: It'll be all right.
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Speaker 8: Well, you'll pinch half of it. We'll go halves on it, OK?
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Speaker 8: But seriously, I know there's a lot of interest in
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Speaker 8: this farm. If you're looking for a good sheep, beef... cropping,
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Speaker 8: mixed farm. Have a look at that one. Beautiful, beautiful
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Speaker 8: farm right beside the Matara River.
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Speaker 2: The election, it's happening tomorrow. It's been a busy old campaign.
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Speaker 1: It's been a frustrating campaign from, I don't know, just
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Speaker 1: from the outside looking in.
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Speaker 2: It's been a marathon, not a sprint.
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Speaker 8: Oh, a lot of us are over it. I live
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Speaker 8: up in Roslyn Heights here, up by the Roslyn Village.
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Speaker 8: and there's the big Roslyn overbridge, and there was clowns
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Speaker 8: from the National Party standing there waving placards. And I'm
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Speaker 8: with Winston on this one. It's a bit degrading. Where's
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Speaker 8: the dignity? And I don't think people take any notice
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Speaker 8: of that, especially in Dunedin here, because it's one of
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Speaker 8: the safest Labour seats in the country. And, yeah, I
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Speaker 8: don't know. I mean, you're lucky where you are, down south.
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Speaker 8: I think it's pretty... It's pretty cut and dried. I mean,
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Speaker 8: Penny Simmons, my old schoolmate, went to Riversdale Primary with
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Speaker 8: Rowan Horrell and myself. Penny will bolt home in Invercargill
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Speaker 8: because she's a very smart woman, and she will do well,
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Speaker 8: as will Joseph Mooney, obviously, in Southland. The interesting one
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Speaker 8: could be, and this is part of your listenership catchment
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Speaker 8: as well, could be Tyree. where Ingrid Leary's obviously a favourite.
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Speaker 8: But I think Mark Patterson, who's performed quite pretty well,
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Speaker 8: I think, for New Zealand First in the ag portfolios,
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Speaker 8: he might go well. So just keep an eye out
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Speaker 8: for him.
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Speaker 1: Have you voted yet, or are you a traditional Saturday voter?
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Speaker 8: I'm a traditionalist.
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Speaker 4: I'm a traditionalist.
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Speaker 8: Tomorrow morning, wander down. In fact, the church where we're
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Speaker 8: going to be voting is literally about 300 or 400
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Speaker 8: metres from our house. There's my favourite cafe, my local cafe, Rhubarb,
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Speaker 8: at Roslyn on the way there, so I might get
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Speaker 8: a coffee there and a coffee on the way back,
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Speaker 8: just in case, Andy, I have to wait too long
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Speaker 8: at the polling booth. And then I'm hearing there are
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Speaker 8: issues with the orange pens. They're too fat apparently this
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Speaker 8: year and people having difficulty getting their tick in the
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Speaker 8: wee box. Have you voted yet?
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Speaker 1: I voted last Friday. It was a horrible afternoon in Gore,
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Speaker 1: so Shannon and I thought, bugger it, let's go and
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Speaker 1: get it over and done with, and I'll agree with
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Speaker 1: those pens. They want you to tick the box. It's
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Speaker 1: not that easy. I think you just put a dot
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Speaker 1: in and it registers, but you can't really put a
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Speaker 1: tick for those big orange felt pens.
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Speaker 8: So in the intervening week, have you had any buyers regret?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 8: Happy with your decision?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 8: It's going to be close, Andy.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be democracy, but the big thing is, Jamie,
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Speaker 1: is when are we going to get an answer? That's
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Speaker 1: the other question as well.
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Speaker 8: Well, possibly not. In fact, probably not on Wednesday night.
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Speaker 8: Wednesday night? What am I thinking of? Let's try Saturday night,
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Speaker 8: tomorrow night. They are officially going to post interim results
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Speaker 8: after 11 o'clock, and I'm a political... I was going
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Speaker 8: to say groupie. That's not the right word.
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Speaker 1: Political junkie.
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Speaker 8: Junkie, yeah, groupie.
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Speaker 2: Well, you probably are.
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Speaker 8: You sound like Michael Laws there. So a junkie, now
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Speaker 8: that I've got the word right, I'll be up till
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Speaker 8: the bitter end. And look, this is how I see it, Andy,
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Speaker 8: and I hope I'm wrong. If opportunity gets past 5%,
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Speaker 8: and I think they will, a change of government is on.
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Speaker 8: because I think they're a left-wing party all day. A
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Speaker 8: lot of people disagree with me, including people like Heather Duplessy-Allen.
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Speaker 8: And the other one that'll come into play, because Te
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Speaker 8: Pāti Māori are going to produce an overhang of two, three,
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Speaker 8: maybe four seats. I think the Nats could produce a
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Speaker 8: reasonable-size overhang on the day. And I know they don't
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Speaker 8: want to go there. They don't want to get into
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Speaker 8: strategic vote-splitting, people supporting national but party-voting politics. New Zealand
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Speaker 8: first or act. But they're going to win quite a
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Speaker 8: few elections. They're very popular. You know, as we said, obviously,
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Speaker 8: Invercargill and Southland, they're going to win those. They're going
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Speaker 8: to win a lot of rural electorates and provincial electorates
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Speaker 8: around the country. So we could see, you know, that
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Speaker 8: might be the other saving grace if you want to
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Speaker 8: centre-right government. I dread, Andy, excuse me, I dread the
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Speaker 8: thought of a centre-left government, and I dread it on
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Speaker 8: behalf of a lot of people who are listening, hopefully,
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Speaker 8: to this show, Andy, and that's the farmers and the
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Speaker 8: productive sector of this economy. Don't be fooled, because even
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Speaker 8: though Chippy's made soothing noises and they're not going to
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Speaker 8: put ag in the ETS and they're not going to
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Speaker 8: charge for emissions and all that sort of stuff, that's
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Speaker 8: fine coming from them, but they're going to have... tsunami
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Speaker 8: of green and opportunity and God knows what the party
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Speaker 8: Maori think. And if I was a livestock farmer, especially,
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Speaker 8: I would be really wary. And if you're thinking of
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Speaker 8: voting for opportunity or the centre-left, don't, because it's going
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Speaker 8: to cost you a lot of money if they get in.
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Speaker 8: And that's a harsh analysis, but that's how I see it.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking tomorrow night I'll probably listen to the Hosk
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Speaker 1: on radio because the league semis are on around the
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Speaker 1: same time.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's playing Samoa.
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Speaker 1: No, New Zealand's playing Tonga, sorry, during the evening, so
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Speaker 1: there's an overhang.
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Speaker 8: There'll be a bit of biffo in that. Oh, well,
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Speaker 8: I'll be flicking over to that as well, but I
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Speaker 8: do flick between one and three, and Hosk and Barry
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Speaker 8: are on on ZB. You can actually watch them. I
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Speaker 8: think they've got cameras in there. They'll have really good analysis,
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Speaker 8: but between the three of them, you'll have no doubt
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Speaker 8: their old mate Paddy Gower saying, this is serious or
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Speaker 8: something like that. over-egging it a wee bit, but I
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Speaker 8: guess that's their job, to hype it up. It'll just
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Speaker 8: be interesting. And, you know, as I said, opportunity is
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Speaker 8: the real fly in the ointment here. I just think
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Speaker 8: it's just been interesting slash bizarre how they've come from nowhere,
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Speaker 8: they've advertised on Seek to get a party leader, and
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Speaker 8: she's performed well. I've got to say that. She's performed
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Speaker 8: well in front of the camera, and they're they're probably
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Speaker 8: going to be the kingmaker. I hope I'm wrong once again.
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Speaker 2: Just quickly as well, the All Blacks in Edinburgh.
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Speaker 1: I've got Elliot Smith on the show later on, but
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Speaker 1: this is their home away from home.
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Speaker 2: They've never lost to Murrayfield.
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Speaker 8: We've never lost to Scotland full stop anywhere. Look, they
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Speaker 8: ran us really close the last time we played them.
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Speaker 8: Was that last year's tour of the year?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, last year.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and they're a good side. They've got, I think,
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Speaker 8: Finn Russell. I haven't even seen the team. Is Finn
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Speaker 8: Russell still playing?
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Speaker 7: He will be.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I mean, they've got a good back line.
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Speaker 8: They've got half the Lions' back line, and they've got
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Speaker 8: a very competitive forward pack. This will not be the
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Speaker 8: walk in the park. And, in fact, I think of
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Speaker 8: our three tests, because we're going to romp over Wales,
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Speaker 8: and England are always a bit of a battle, this
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Speaker 8: could be the hardest one. And then we've got to
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Speaker 8: try and hope that South Africa on the other side
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Speaker 8: lose to Ireland or who else they're playing, France. and
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Speaker 8: then maybe the All Blacks get to play off for
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Speaker 8: the nation's championship or whatever they call it, probably against France.
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Speaker 8: So interesting times, I think. I just love when we've
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Speaker 8: got footy on in November. It's the next four weekends
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Speaker 8: filled up, Andy.
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Speaker 2: Pretty much, Toby.
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Speaker 1: Better leave it there. Next time we chat, democracy shall
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Speaker 1: have spoken.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and hopefully the Horrell Farm will have sold for
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Speaker 8: big money.
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Speaker 1: See you later. Jamie McKay, self-confessed political groupie in the
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Speaker 1: country crossover thanks to Bioactive Soils. Phil Duncan's next. Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the muster. Time to catch up with Phil
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Speaker 1: Duncan of Weather Watch.
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Speaker 9: And I'm here to remind you of the mess.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Phil.
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Speaker 4: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 1: If Alanis Morissette ever went to Australia, we should almost
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Speaker 1: do a muster trip over there. She doesn't like New Zealand.
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Speaker 4: Have her live in the background doing You Oughta Know.
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Speaker 1: How good would that be?
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Speaker 4: That would be fun. Yeah, I do actually like her
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Speaker 4: music too. Although I didn't really like her album that
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Speaker 4: she put out, like the last one that she put out,
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Speaker 4: which was quite a while ago now.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they all go alternative, but Jagged Little Pill, that
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Speaker 1: is an album for the ages.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Right up there with Brian Adams' one with the
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Speaker 4: wheel on it. What was that one? The Muddy Tire.
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Speaker 1: Don't Boris Get to the Chorus? No, that was Roxette.
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Speaker 4: It was early 90s anyway, so I had that contest.
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Speaker 2: Oh, waking up the neighbours.
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Speaker 4: That was it, yeah.
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Speaker 1: There we go. All the big issues here on the
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Speaker 1: muster as well as the weather. What's happening for the
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Speaker 1: next seven days? It's been not too bad this week.
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Speaker 4: Well, this week is not going to feel like El
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Speaker 4: Nino around the country. This is going to feel more
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Speaker 4: like La Nina because we've got more humidity, subtropical winds, rain.
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Speaker 4: And we've got thunderstorms and downpours. Now, I'm talking about
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Speaker 4: the country. I'm not talking about Southland so much. But
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Speaker 4: the whole country is under more low pressure. In fact,
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Speaker 4: we've got three low-pressure zones, large ones, that are coming
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Speaker 4: into New Zealand with the first arriving tomorrow. It falls apart,
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Speaker 4: but it arrives tomorrow. The next one comes in the
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Speaker 4: middle of next week. And the third one, which may
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Speaker 4: only affect the top of the North Island, but that
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Speaker 4: could come in next weekend. So it is a bit
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Speaker 4: of a different week at the moment. And at the moment,
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Speaker 4: your temperatures today, like through the roof, today's a hot
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Speaker 4: day in Southland, mid-20s at least. So there could be 25s, 26s,
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Speaker 4: maybe even 27s around Southland today. But it does drop
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Speaker 4: tomorrow to around 19, 18 degrees and 17 or 18
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Speaker 4: on Sunday. And Monday gets cooler still because you've got
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Speaker 4: an easterly coming in on Monday afternoon. And that easterly
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Speaker 4: is actually being dredged up from south of New Zealand.
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Speaker 4: So your maximum on Monday is 15. But by Tuesday
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Speaker 4: next week, you're back to 21. 19 on Wednesday. Your
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Speaker 4: next cold day, proper one, isn't for another week. Next Friday,
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Speaker 4: forecast to have a high of 13 and a low
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Speaker 4: of 5. But pretty much every other night, double-digit temperatures.
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Speaker 1: Mind you, though, this time last week, it was a
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Speaker 1: high of 7 or 8.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, we're at that part of spring where
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Speaker 4: you're still getting a cold blast or a cold snap
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Speaker 4: once a week or so, but there'll be more days
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Speaker 4: now that are warm, and you'll probably now start, as
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Speaker 4: we're getting today, you'll get more of these days where
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Speaker 4: you suddenly have, you know, like a summer-like day where
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Speaker 4: the temperatures are well into the 20s. So it's up
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Speaker 4: and down, but the downs are getting fewer and far between.
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Speaker 4: But because we do have an El Nino at the moment...
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Speaker 4: The spring changes will go on through into summer. So
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Speaker 4: we will get some cold days in summer, which is
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Speaker 4: like not breaking news, but it's just a sign that,
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Speaker 4: you know, there will be those days, I think, over
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Speaker 4: summer where we talk about there will be possibly a
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Speaker 4: frost and we might get a dusting of snow. That's
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Speaker 4: not every single day, but we've had this in the
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Speaker 4: past in Southland with El Nino. It can be a
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Speaker 4: little relentless with spring not wanting to sort of quit.
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Speaker 4: But at the moment, yeah, make the most of this weather.
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Speaker 4: It's subtropical or at least it's warmer than usual.
17:32
Speaker 1: To be honest, I thought heading into November, though, like
17:35
Speaker 1: you said, the end of October would be pleasant. But
17:39
Speaker 1: I thought around now it was going to be rather cool.
17:41
Speaker 1: But like you say, it's not too bad.
17:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's this break in the way that the highs,
17:46
Speaker 4: the big highs are placed at the moment. And so,
17:49
Speaker 4: you know, for the last couple of months, they've been
17:51
Speaker 4: nonstop streaming out of southern Australia and across the Tasman
17:55
Speaker 4: Sea and north of New Zealand. But just lately, the
17:58
Speaker 4: highs have gone further south of Australia, and the other
18:01
Speaker 4: ones have gone further north of New Zealand, up over
18:04
Speaker 4: the Coral Sea. And that's leaving this huge vacuum of
18:07
Speaker 4: low pressure, which is forming in the Tasman. And so
18:10
Speaker 4: we've still got high pressure east of New Zealand. We've
18:13
Speaker 4: got the next high that'll be tracking out, as I say,
18:17
Speaker 4: to the south of Australia. So between all of that,
18:20
Speaker 4: we've got low pressure, and that's why we're getting these
18:22
Speaker 4: temperature changes and swings. This week, this next seven or
18:25
Speaker 4: eight days ahead... is a little bit different to what
18:28
Speaker 4: we've been in the last couple of months, but it's
18:30
Speaker 4: very good timing for those in the North Island because,
18:33
Speaker 4: like I say, we are seeing the North Island getting
18:35
Speaker 4: close to drought. There are some parts that are very dry,
18:39
Speaker 4: and so having this rain coming through with 150, 200
18:43
Speaker 4: millimetres for some parts of the North Island is going
18:46
Speaker 4: to be very welcome, while you guys are getting a
18:49
Speaker 4: drying-out phase to some degree. In saying that, though, you've
18:52
Speaker 4: had some rain, you've had some dry areas, and Southland,
18:56
Speaker 4: for the most part, is bang on where it should be.
18:59
Speaker 4: The soil moisture maps show a lot of green, whether
19:02
Speaker 4: that is the lighter green, which is bang on average,
19:05
Speaker 4: or slightly darker green, which is showing just a little
19:08
Speaker 4: bit wetter than usual, maybe 10 or 20 millimetres more
19:11
Speaker 4: than usual. But all of that's pretty much putting Southland
19:14
Speaker 4: in one of the healthiest grass-growing setups at the moment
19:17
Speaker 4: of any other region in the country.
19:19
Speaker 1: Well, our soil temperature's rolling the early teens onwards. Yeah.
19:22
Speaker 4: Yeah. Things are lifting up, and there's lack of frost
19:26
Speaker 4: that we've got at the moment for the next week ahead.
19:28
Speaker 4: No frost, so that's going to also help.
19:31
Speaker 1: Okay, so when we look through into the end of November,
19:35
Speaker 1: everything is just going to be proving, everything is just
19:38
Speaker 1: going to be El Nino. I don't know how you
19:40
Speaker 1: describe it.
19:42
Speaker 4: The way I'm describing El Nino is that compared to
19:45
Speaker 4: La Nina, it's not very sexy. So La Nina is
19:48
Speaker 4: in the news all the time because... we get these
19:51
Speaker 4: high humidity days with very, very tropical weather, a lot
19:55
Speaker 4: of downpours and thunderstorms, hail, flash floods, and more tropical cyclones.
20:01
Speaker 4: Even if those cyclones don't hit New Zealand, the fact
20:04
Speaker 4: that we're talking about cyclone whatever that's up around the
20:07
Speaker 4: Coral Sea or cyclone, whatever, that's out towards Fiji. There's
20:10
Speaker 4: lots of things to talk about. El Niño is not
20:13
Speaker 4: like that. El Niño is like an extended spring and autumn.
20:17
Speaker 4: It sometimes produces thunderstorms. It sometimes produces gales. But a
20:21
Speaker 4: lot of the time, 80% of the time, it's just
20:25
Speaker 4: a little bit cloudy. It's a little bit unsettled. There
20:27
Speaker 4: might be a shower. None of it's spectacular. None of
20:30
Speaker 4: it makes the news. And as I mentioned in my
20:33
Speaker 4: video today, if you're a townie, if you live in
20:35
Speaker 4: the town or the city, it's even less interesting. So
20:40
Speaker 4: it's not until you talk to farmers and growers and
20:43
Speaker 4: gardeners and those on rainwater tanks, and suddenly they're the
20:47
Speaker 4: ones saying it's really dry, despite the showers we're getting
20:50
Speaker 4: every couple of days, the rainfall's tapering off. And so
20:54
Speaker 4: that's why in my video today at Weather Watch, I
20:56
Speaker 4: put up the soil moisture map to show, you know,
20:58
Speaker 4: there are parts of the North Island that are getting
21:01
Speaker 4: into the extremely dry category and Even though if you
21:04
Speaker 4: ask most North Islanders what's the weather been like, they'd go, eh,
21:07
Speaker 4: a bit average. So El Nino is boring, and it
21:11
Speaker 4: takes months for it to be noticed, whereas La Nina,
21:14
Speaker 4: it could take a week, and you've suddenly got a flood,
21:16
Speaker 4: and everyone goes, oh, that's what La Nina looks like.
21:19
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21:21
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21:22
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21:23
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21:24
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21:27
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21:29
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21:32
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21:36
Speaker 2: Up next, Steve Henderson. You make me.
21:40
Speaker 3: Feel like I've been locked out of.
21:44
Speaker 7: Heaven for too long.
21:47
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster, Steve Henderson, Dairy Farms at
21:50
Speaker 1: Awarua with his wife Tracy. Legendaries is the name of
21:54
Speaker 1: their farm, you can find them on social media channels
21:56
Speaker 1: for that reason as well. Good afternoon Steve, Legendaries, that's
22:00
Speaker 1: not a bad name.
22:02
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah and I can't even take any credit, that
22:04
Speaker 10: was all Tracy's doing so yeah that was formed back
22:08
Speaker 10: in the day when we were young and sprightly and
22:11
Speaker 10: yeah now it's just sort of continued on and evolved
22:14
Speaker 10: and I think Trace does a good thing on Facebook,
22:16
Speaker 10: trying to keep people up to date and keeping it real,
22:19
Speaker 10: so to speak.
22:20
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that. Just like the weather at the moment,
22:22
Speaker 1: it's pretty mild here in Gore.
22:24
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, we're very similar down here. It's getting work out,
22:28
Speaker 10: which is good for changing the humidity. You know, like
22:32
Speaker 10: Auckland weather, which, by sure, you can grow some grass now. So, yeah,
22:36
Speaker 10: this weather's just what we're after.
22:38
Speaker 1: I don't think they grow much grass in Auckland, though.
22:41
Speaker 10: No, no, not of the.
22:43
Speaker 1: Well, none of that's quite time, but anyway.
22:44
Speaker 10: Animal, animal, animal type, no.
22:47
Speaker 2: So feed quality, are you having to maintain it?
22:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are, yep.
22:51
Speaker 10: We're just starting to head into some covers now that
22:53
Speaker 10: are probably a little bit higher than what we need,
22:55
Speaker 10: but we don't have a true surplus.
22:56
Speaker 1: So, yeah, we are.
22:57
Speaker 10: We're starting a bit of quality control, topping behind the cows,
23:01
Speaker 10: let them eat what they eat, and then, yeah, whipping
23:04
Speaker 10: behind it. So it's not every paddock. it's probably mainly
23:07
Speaker 10: the ones that we didn't quite hit residual during those
23:09
Speaker 10: wet couple of times in spring so we're just tidying
23:12
Speaker 10: them up reset them and back to square one so
23:16
Speaker 10: it's a good time of year there's always decisions to
23:18
Speaker 10: make which is I think that's why people farm because
23:21
Speaker 10: they love making decisions so yeah feed quality and it
23:25
Speaker 10: reflects what's in the vat and you've also got cows
23:27
Speaker 10: cycling trying to maintain that and trying to hopefully help
23:31
Speaker 10: them conceive so yeah it's a cool time.
23:33
Speaker 2: Of year How are milk flows?
23:37
Speaker 10: Good, yep both farms are ahead of last season actually
23:44
Speaker 10: last month and this month to date so yeah they've
23:47
Speaker 10: pulled out of spring pretty darn well really considering we're
23:51
Speaker 10: back to just a couple of kilos in the shed
23:52
Speaker 10: and that's the only supplement going in and yeah it
23:55
Speaker 10: sounds crazy that you might be topping behind the cows
23:57
Speaker 10: but it's just keeping it consistent and also a bit
24:01
Speaker 10: of energy for AI too with the cereals going in
24:05
Speaker 10: so Milk flows are good, and I think right across Southland,
24:08
Speaker 10: you know, talking to the old tanker driver when you
24:10
Speaker 10: get a chance, milk flows are going really well too. So, yeah,
24:14
Speaker 10: Southland's certainly punching now.
24:17
Speaker 2: So your groundwork, you're on top?
24:21
Speaker 10: We're enough, I think, is how you'd describe that. So
24:24
Speaker 10: some of the paddocks are still damp enough. We've got
24:26
Speaker 10: a digger in there just blowing drains and chucking a
24:29
Speaker 10: bit of an overflow in where we need to. And
24:32
Speaker 10: we're keeping up. we'll get young grass in this weekend and, um,
24:35
Speaker 10: start on brassicas next week. So yeah, we're certainly not
24:37
Speaker 10: behind the eight ball, but, um, just waiting on paddocks
24:40
Speaker 10: to dry out and become fit. That's probably what we're
24:42
Speaker 10: doing at the moment.
24:43
Speaker 2: How are you doing with mating?
24:46
Speaker 4: Um, good, good.
24:48
Speaker 10: So we didn't quite have, um, you know, the 85%
24:53
Speaker 10: cycle before plans started mating, but, um, to date right now,
24:57
Speaker 10: we've had about 83 or 84% cycle now. So we're
25:00
Speaker 10: only six days into it. And, um, Submission rates are
25:03
Speaker 10: going really well, and it's the first year with wearables. So, yeah,
25:08
Speaker 10: we've gassed the person that's on the vet stand, and
25:10
Speaker 10: we've got no tail paint, and, yeah, literally just trusting
25:13
Speaker 10: the system. So, at the moment, it's going good, but
25:16
Speaker 10: once we get into, you know, week four, that'll tell
25:18
Speaker 10: a story. But, yeah, there's no alarm bells at the moment,
25:21
Speaker 10: and cows are cycling, and, you know, the 10-day forecast
25:24
Speaker 10: looks good. Pasture covers are good, so... Yeah, there's nothing
25:28
Speaker 10: really to worry.
25:28
Speaker 4: About at the moment.
25:29
Speaker 1: It's all about, it's like the All Blacks, it's all
25:31
Speaker 1: about trusting the process, it's what you're doing there.
25:34
Speaker 10: Yep, it is, it is, you can, you know, you
25:36
Speaker 10: can second guess yourself and end up in a real
25:38
Speaker 10: old bloody rabbit hole, so no, this year we've just gone, no,
25:42
Speaker 10: trust the system and leave it like that. Yes, you know,
25:45
Speaker 10: we get a couple of cows come through that say
25:47
Speaker 10: they've had a heat for X amount of time and
25:50
Speaker 10: then the confidence was lost, so we look at those
25:52
Speaker 10: cows and there was a couple this morning actually that
25:54
Speaker 10: clearly haven't had a cycle, but the algorithm must have
25:57
Speaker 10: said that they've shown some signs of a cycling cow.
26:00
Speaker 10: So it alerted, but then the alert come away. So
26:03
Speaker 10: you've still got to do your due diligence and farm,
26:06
Speaker 10: so to speak. But yeah, trusting the system, it's interesting,
26:11
Speaker 10: but pretty cool all the same.
26:15
Speaker 2: All things considered, then you're in a pretty good place.
26:18
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think we are, and hopefully I speak on
26:22
Speaker 10: all of Southland, really, because the weather was a bit
26:25
Speaker 10: gnarly there in August, September, and it's turned a corner,
26:27
Speaker 10: and there's baiters getting made, and people are a lot
26:31
Speaker 10: chipper when you talk to them, and calves are getting weaned,
26:34
Speaker 10: and yeah, I think most people are back on track
26:37
Speaker 10: and looking forward, so to speak, because, yeah, dare you
26:40
Speaker 10: say it, mating will finish at the end of December,
26:41
Speaker 10: and bugger me, that's the year done.
26:44
Speaker 1: So the staff is starting to get a little bit
26:46
Speaker 1: of a break now you've got through the carving cycle?
26:50
Speaker 4: Yep, we have.
26:51
Speaker 10: One of them, Sam, she's away. She's with the Melbourne
26:53
Speaker 10: Cup and kicking around over there for a week or two.
26:57
Speaker 10: So yep, she's away. The way we've got these wearables too,
27:02
Speaker 10: we don't have someone on the vet stand so it's
27:04
Speaker 10: just two people milking in the morning so we don't
27:06
Speaker 10: actually need that labour unit which is quite considerable and
27:11
Speaker 10: if that person wants to get here which You know,
27:14
Speaker 10: Callum does, he'll be on the tractor at 6 o'clock
27:16
Speaker 10: or half past 5 in the morning, whereas that work
27:18
Speaker 10: wouldn't have been getting done until half past 8, 9 o'clock.
27:21
Speaker 10: So efficiencies, we're certainly noticing a lot of that. And
27:25
Speaker 10: we've actually just got a Swiss girl started two weeks ago.
27:30
Speaker 10: She's on a bit of an ag exchange type thing.
27:32
Speaker 10: She's going to do six months. And yeah, that's a
27:34
Speaker 10: pretty cool person to fit into the system. English is fantastic.
27:39
Speaker 10: a lot better than I thought. And the farming knowledge,
27:42
Speaker 10: still got the farming knowledge, but our systems are totally
27:44
Speaker 10: different to Switzerland. So that's pretty cool to add to
27:47
Speaker 10: the team too.
27:48
Speaker 1: How on earth have you got involved with an ag exchange?
27:51
Speaker 10: It was Tracey. We were just looking for a staff
27:55
Speaker 10: member for this year to fill a bit of a gap.
27:57
Speaker 10: And it was probably more of a rural exchange than
28:01
Speaker 10: a staff exchange. It's someone that wants to come out
28:03
Speaker 10: on a working holiday, and you offer them the house
28:07
Speaker 10: and help them with, you know, buying a car and
28:10
Speaker 10: making sure they have a good look around and get
28:12
Speaker 10: involved in the community. So we're doing that side of things. And, yeah,
28:17
Speaker 10: the other outfit, they've done the visas and that, and, yeah,
28:20
Speaker 10: they just want to have a look around and then
28:22
Speaker 10: go continue the holiday after they've finished here. So, yeah,
28:26
Speaker 10: you know, you still go through the process and pick
28:28
Speaker 10: the right candidate. And, yeah, I think we've got a
28:31
Speaker 10: bloody good run in, She's ticking all the boxes and
28:34
Speaker 10: just loving to learn and loves the New Zealand lifestyle.
28:39
Speaker 10: She was in Invercargill with Tracey the other day driving
28:41
Speaker 10: around and said, why aren't people mad? There's no unhappy
28:45
Speaker 10: people here. Because in Switzerland, their population's about five-fold what
28:50
Speaker 10: New Zealand is and probably about a third of the size.
28:54
Speaker 10: Everybody's just angry all the time. So that was good
28:56
Speaker 10: to hear that Invercargill's a pretty happy place.
28:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no arguing about that, Steve.
29:01
Speaker 1: Good on you, mate.
29:01
Speaker 2: Enjoy the weekend.
29:02
Speaker 1: Always good to catch up.
29:03
Speaker 4: Cheers, Andy. Cheers.
29:06
Speaker 2: Steve Henderson, based down at Awarua.
29:09
Speaker 1: Rural support is our Southland Rural Support Trust, 0800 787 254.
29:12
Speaker 1: Steve talks about staff getting time away off farm. Well,
29:17
Speaker 1: Southland Rural Support Trust, they are there to help you
29:20
Speaker 1: if you need to have a conversation.
29:22
Speaker 2: Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington's up next to the Gore Police.
29:27
Speaker 1: This is the master on a Friday afternoon, Senior Sergeant Gary.
29:40
Speaker 1: Eddington of the Gore Police joins us.
29:41
Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
29:43
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Andy. Good afternoon, community.
29:44
Speaker 1: That sounds better than three little pigs.
29:47
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
29:51
Speaker 1: Look, it's been a busy couple of weeks down here
29:53
Speaker 1: in the south. From a policing perspective, though, there's a
29:56
Speaker 1: couple of things we need to talk about today that
29:58
Speaker 1: have occurred in the town recently.
30:00
Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously, probably most people would be aware in social
30:03
Speaker 9: media and community and keyboard warriors. We've had a bit
30:06
Speaker 9: of graffiti around this week, and it doesn't look good
30:09
Speaker 9: for the community, for the businesses, for the people and
30:12
Speaker 9: the image. And we get that. And what we're just
30:14
Speaker 9: trying to do is reach out to people. If you've
30:17
Speaker 9: seen anything, got any dash cam, CCTV, or have actually
30:21
Speaker 9: known someone, give us a ring, Crime Stoppers 105, or
30:25
Speaker 9: come into the station, come and talk to me.
30:28
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of it around town too. That's
30:29
Speaker 1: been the unfortunate thing. And when you're going past with
30:32
Speaker 1: the kids in the car and they're trying to comprehend
30:34
Speaker 1: what's there, we're not going to go into detail what
30:36
Speaker 1: was said. But it was pretty gross.
30:39
Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
30:39
Speaker 9: And also, you know, sometimes these comments are made, might
30:42
Speaker 9: not be based on fact. But trouble is, once it's
30:45
Speaker 9: out there, like the media, it's hard to get rid of.
30:47
Speaker 9: And so we're just trying to sort of safeguard. It
30:49
Speaker 9: has a massive impact on the community. And again, the
30:51
Speaker 9: businesses are just as hard times as it is, never
30:53
Speaker 9: mind trying to pay bills and repair stuff.
30:56
Speaker 1: That's one thing about gore in general, though. Graffiti generally
30:59
Speaker 1: isn't a problem, so this looks like somebody with an agenda.
31:02
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it would be the minority as opposed
31:04
Speaker 6: to the majority, absolutely.
31:06
Speaker 1: And keyboard warriors, stuff going on there. I mean, everyone's
31:10
Speaker 1: got an opinion. They're like buttholes. Everyone's got one, and
31:14
Speaker 1: they're keen to let you know what they think about things,
31:16
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of misconstrued ideas.
31:19
Speaker 9: Look, I've said before, social media is good. It's got
31:22
Speaker 9: a place in society and community. We also, people look
31:27
Speaker 9: at community Facebook messages and then we get information that
31:30
Speaker 9: leads sometimes to an arrest or information, which is great.
31:33
Speaker 9: But what I am saying to people is if you've got,
31:35
Speaker 9: you're entitled to your opinions, you've got freedom of speech,
31:37
Speaker 9: but if you've got things that you are, you're seeing
31:40
Speaker 9: or know about, come and talk to us at the
31:42
Speaker 9: station or just, you know, we don't want to be,
31:45
Speaker 9: Gore is a great place to live. We don't always
31:48
Speaker 9: get it right across the community and we've all got
31:50
Speaker 9: to take responsibility, including the people. So, Just be careful
31:54
Speaker 9: what you say and how you say it.
31:56
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a bit like that at the
31:57
Speaker 1: moment because of the election and just emotions running high?
32:01
Speaker 6: It could be, but some people have been like it
32:03
Speaker 6: for their life, basically.
32:04
Speaker 1: So the one thing you're saying today, Gary, is if
32:07
Speaker 1: you've got any issues or dramas, come and see us.
32:10
Speaker 2: You're there at the station.
32:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, come and see me personally. I've said it all before.
32:13
Speaker 9: If you've got issues, come talk to me. And if
32:15
Speaker 9: there is things going on in the community, I want
32:16
Speaker 9: to know about it. We want to know about it. And,
32:18
Speaker 9: you know, Well, we don't get anywhere without the community
32:22
Speaker 9: working together. It's all purpose, all together.
32:25
Speaker 1: Do people actually do that, though? Do they physically come
32:27
Speaker 1: and see you if they've got issues? How often do
32:29
Speaker 1: you see that?
32:29
Speaker 6: Some people now and again, but not many.
32:32
Speaker 2: Not as many as what you'd like?
32:33
Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely. My door's always open.
32:35
Speaker 1: The other thing as well is drinking with young people
32:38
Speaker 1: and party seasons kicking off, I suppose, is want of
32:41
Speaker 1: a better word.
32:42
Speaker 2: It's just that time of year, plan B.
32:45
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think plan B, as we know, we're
32:47
Speaker 9: both fathers, is know where your kids are going, having
32:51
Speaker 9: those conversations with them.
32:53
Speaker 6: We've all been there. We've all had a bit of.
32:55
Speaker 9: Drink when we start getting to 15, 16, 17, 18
32:58
Speaker 9: sort of thing. But what we're saying to people is
33:00
Speaker 9: know where your children are going and what they're drinking.
33:02
Speaker 9: Because we've had a couple of incidents where teenagers have
33:06
Speaker 9: been found asleep on the side of the road, intoxicated,
33:10
Speaker 9: not in the recovery position, vomiting. And no one knows
33:14
Speaker 9: how to look after them. And the last thing we
33:15
Speaker 9: want is someone getting seriously injured and end up in hospital,
33:17
Speaker 9: life changing.
33:19
Speaker 1: So it's all about using, this is where ironically enough though,
33:22
Speaker 1: social media, we talk about it before, but there are
33:25
Speaker 1: apps out there. For example, a lot of people use Snapchat,
33:27
Speaker 1: Snap Maps, know where the young people are. There are
33:29
Speaker 1: apps out there that tell you where people are if
33:32
Speaker 1: need be. So there are options.
33:34
Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:34
Speaker 9: Having those conversations, you know, and sitting down and talking
33:36
Speaker 9: and being a family together, we know kids sneak out
33:39
Speaker 9: of the, it's not just one type of child. There's,
33:41
Speaker 9: There's a few that hang around. There's always some influencers
33:44
Speaker 9: out there. We're just trying to make sure that, you know,
33:46
Speaker 9: if you're up to no good, we want to know
33:48
Speaker 9: about it.
33:49
Speaker 6: Ring it in. Crime Stoppers 105.
33:50
Speaker 9: And if it's urgent, 111.
33:52
Speaker 1: Being a Friday, people going for a few drinks.
33:55
Speaker 2: Same applies for adults, even more.
33:57
Speaker 8: Yep.
33:57
Speaker 6: Longer nights coming in now.
33:59
Speaker 9: Christmas is coming up. It's been a long year. People
34:00
Speaker 9: have all been working hard. And we're just asking people
34:04
Speaker 9: at the end of the week, if you had a
34:05
Speaker 9: good long week, just be mindful if you are drinking
34:09
Speaker 9: before you go home. what you've eaten, you've had a
34:12
Speaker 9: long day, no fluids. It will affect people in different ways.
34:16
Speaker 9: You could be over the limit. So just make some
34:18
Speaker 9: good choices and plan your way home.
34:20
Speaker 2: The year's gone too fast.
34:21
Speaker 1: Mentally, I think we should still be in August. It
34:24
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like Christmas is coming. I reckon it's because
34:27
Speaker 1: I'm over 50 now. All of a sudden, you start
34:29
Speaker 1: getting philosophical.
34:30
Speaker 2: It's weird.
34:30
Speaker 6: You start life at 50.
34:33
Speaker 1: What's the ad? It's not the ending, it's the next chapter.
34:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
34:36
Speaker 2: Anyway, hey, security as well.
34:39
Speaker 1: It's an ongoing thing too, but just lock up your possessions.
34:42
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think with Christmas coming, there's presents, trees are out,
34:45
Speaker 9: lights are out, just making sure you lock your doors,
34:48
Speaker 9: make sure nothing's sort of in full space in your
34:51
Speaker 9: cars that can be seen, and just take those, if
34:54
Speaker 9: you're going away, cancel your milk, papers, whatever, or talk
34:58
Speaker 9: to your neighbours, just reach out to each other, make
35:00
Speaker 9: life difficult for these people. small minority that go out
35:02
Speaker 9: there ruining people's lives.
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Speaker 1: Just make communication. Talk to your neighbours, let everybody know
35:08
Speaker 1: what the go is.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely.
35:10
Speaker 1: What else is going on with you guys?
35:11
Speaker 2: What else has been happening, Gary?
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Speaker 9: Well, we're still actively recruited at the moment. So if
35:15
Speaker 9: there's people in the community that are looking at or
35:18
Speaker 9: are interested in joining the police, again, come and talk
35:21
Speaker 9: to me or colleagues or new cops on the website.
35:24
Speaker 9: There's some good people in this community I think would
35:26
Speaker 9: be invested and be good police officers. So we're really
35:29
Speaker 9: trying to sort of... trying to track people locally if
35:31
Speaker 9: we can. We're still at the old temporary station still.
35:36
Speaker 2: Temporary station, yes.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, temporary station, still a work in progress.
35:39
Speaker 9: But, yeah, for those that don't know, we're at 241
35:42
Speaker 9: Main Street, which is the old ambulance station.
35:44
Speaker 1: Let's face it, you don't go by addresses in Gore,
35:47
Speaker 1: you go by landmarks.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you do.
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Speaker 1: You're on the way out of town on the left,
35:52
Speaker 1: not far from the showgrounds.
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Speaker 2: Hey, good on you, Gary.
35:56
Speaker 1: Enjoy the weekend, and you guys keep doing the job
35:58
Speaker 1: you're doing with the team in Blue.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks, Annie, to your team and thanks to the community.
36:06
Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington of the Gore Police catching up
36:09
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. Elliot Smith's up next from Gore
36:13
Speaker 1: over to Edinburgh. Newstalk ZB's rugby correspondent. So why are
36:19
Speaker 1: you acting like a bloody fool? Welcome back to the muster.
36:35
Speaker 1: We wrap up the week by catching up with Elliot Smith,
36:38
Speaker 1: lead commentator of rugby at Newstalk ZB. He's on the
36:41
Speaker 1: ground over in Edinburgh giving a rundown of the ABs
36:44
Speaker 1: as they look to go and conquer the Scottish once again. Elliot,
36:48
Speaker 1: good afternoon slash good morning. It's all go tomorrow or
36:51
Speaker 1: in a couple of 36 hours or so in Murrayfield.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it certainly is.
36:56
Speaker 7: Look, one of the great tests, isn't it? One of
36:58
Speaker 7: the great venues, Murrayfield. I'm looking up at Edinburgh Castle
37:03
Speaker 7: while I chat to you, Andy. It's a great city.
37:05
Speaker 7: You've got the architecture, the Georgian architecture, and then you've
37:09
Speaker 7: got two great teams that are going to play, we hope,
37:13
Speaker 7: a pretty good test match come Saturday afternoon. So, yep,
37:16
Speaker 7: the stage is certainly set.
37:19
Speaker 1: What do we make of the Scottish side? Last year
37:21
Speaker 1: they kind of crept up on us. What are we expecting?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think the lesson should be learned from last
37:26
Speaker 7: year that this is a very good Scottish team. Look,
37:29
Speaker 7: they have had some pressure. After they lost that game
37:33
Speaker 7: to the All Blacks last year that they should have won,
37:35
Speaker 7: they lost to Argentina the following week when they should
37:37
Speaker 7: have won that game, and Gregor Townsend was under a
37:41
Speaker 7: bit of pressure. They've been pretty resilient. They beat France
37:44
Speaker 7: in the Six Nations. They beat England again. And they've
37:48
Speaker 7: shown time and again that when the kosh is on,
37:51
Speaker 7: they can really deliver. It's just against the All Blacks
37:54
Speaker 7: that they haven't really been able to, you know, basically
37:57
Speaker 7: ice the occasion. They very nearly did that last year,
38:01
Speaker 7: as you said. They were 17-0 down, came back to
38:04
Speaker 7: level at 17-0. And then Damian McKenzie gets into his
38:08
Speaker 7: bag of tricks after coming off the bench and has
38:10
Speaker 7: a 50-22 try at a penalty goal and saves the
38:14
Speaker 7: day for the All Blacks. But it could have been... very,
38:17
Speaker 7: very different. It could have been Scotland's first win over
38:20
Speaker 7: the All Blacks. So I guess underestimate them at your peril.
38:23
Speaker 7: They've got a very, very good back line, the Scots.
38:27
Speaker 7: And last year they didn't have Hugh Jones, who's British
38:30
Speaker 7: and Irish Lions midfielder. He's back in for this game. So, look,
38:35
Speaker 7: they've added some quality, I guess, into the back line.
38:38
Speaker 7: I guess the concern is probably for them around their
38:41
Speaker 7: forward pack. And I don't think that matches up quite
38:44
Speaker 7: as well as the back line does.
38:47
Speaker 1: How do you rate this All Black side? Are we
38:48
Speaker 1: going to be looking at continuity over the next three
38:51
Speaker 1: games as far as positions?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so. Look, there'll probably be some changes
38:57
Speaker 7: next week against Wales, assuming all goes to plan and
39:00
Speaker 7: they win on Saturday afternoon here, local time. And that
39:05
Speaker 7: will give them a little bit of licence to bring
39:07
Speaker 7: in some different players next week. And, you know, Richie
39:09
Speaker 7: Maunga will be back from injury as well, most likely. And,
39:13
Speaker 7: you know, the likes of Leicester Vyinganuku will come in and,
39:15
Speaker 7: maybe rotate around some of the props and the locks
39:18
Speaker 7: and everything like that. So it could be quite different
39:20
Speaker 7: next week. But I suspect this team that is playing
39:23
Speaker 7: against Scotland on Saturday afternoon, our time, will be very
39:27
Speaker 7: similar to the one that plays England in a fortnight.
39:30
Speaker 7: at Twickenham I think change for change's sake will be
39:33
Speaker 7: unlikely on this tour. Remembering as well, you know, there's
39:37
Speaker 7: roughly a dozen or thereabouts players back at home with injuries.
39:40
Speaker 7: So finding combinations amidst all of that with the injuries
39:44
Speaker 7: is important to Dave Rennie. And I think we'll see
39:47
Speaker 7: that continue over the coming weeks, especially in what could
39:52
Speaker 7: probably be termed the big matches of this tour.
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Speaker 1: Fabian Holland and Scott Barrett, is that our locking combination
39:58
Speaker 1: going into the World Cup?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it might be. Again, barring injury, it
40:03
Speaker 7: hasn't been the best of runs in that regard. Look,
40:06
Speaker 7: I've been very impressed by what Scott Barrett's done coming
40:09
Speaker 7: back from injury. I didn't expect him to return to
40:13
Speaker 7: test quality as quickly as he has. I think the
40:16
Speaker 7: All Blacks have missed that. abrasiveness that he brings to
40:20
Speaker 7: test rugby. And I think he's playing, again, it's only
40:24
Speaker 7: been a short sample size of a couple of tests
40:27
Speaker 7: so far, but he looks like he's playing unburdened. Having
40:30
Speaker 7: had the captaincy removed from him, he looks like a
40:33
Speaker 7: better player, the player that we know he is capable
40:35
Speaker 7: of being. So I think that's a real positive. And
40:38
Speaker 7: Fabian Holland as well, you know, we all know about
40:40
Speaker 7: the shoulder injury he had. He's come back as well
40:43
Speaker 7: really strongly today. to TS Rugby. So I think those
40:46
Speaker 7: two are the first choice as it stands. Players like
40:51
Speaker 7: Josh Lord have had moments this year, and then Patrick
40:55
Speaker 7: Tui-Piloto and Sam Dowry can't crack this team at the moment.
40:59
Speaker 7: So it's become a real position of depth for the
41:01
Speaker 7: All Blacks, but I agree, those two. And the combination,
41:04
Speaker 7: I think, is really important as well. It's all very
41:07
Speaker 7: well having two good locks, but they've got to combine well.
41:09
Speaker 7: They've got to be able to scrummage well. They've got
41:11
Speaker 7: to be able to you know, work at the line
41:14
Speaker 7: out together and take some of the heat off where
41:18
Speaker 7: they can. I think that's where I like what they're
41:21
Speaker 7: doing as well. So it's a combination that I'm pretty
41:24
Speaker 7: excited to see grow over the next few weeks too.
41:28
Speaker 1: As far as Bowdoin Barrett at fullback, he really excelled
41:30
Speaker 1: in the bladders low. Is it just a stopgap measure
41:34
Speaker 1: until we get these guys back from injuries?
41:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think so.
41:39
Speaker 4: Look, I think.
41:40
Speaker 7: when push comes to shove next year at the world cup,
41:42
Speaker 7: it's probably going to be Ruben Love or Richie Wonger
41:44
Speaker 7: at 10 for the All Blacks and Damian McKenzie at 15. Um,
41:49
Speaker 7: but I think what Bowdoin Barrett has done is gone, Hey,
41:52
Speaker 7: you know, there's still life in the old dog.
41:54
Speaker 4: Um, yes.
41:55
Speaker 7: And he's playing a very valuable role and, um, you
41:59
Speaker 7: need players like that over a world cup cycle and
42:02
Speaker 7: at a world cup to, um, you know, having a
42:05
Speaker 7: squad and, and be able to call on as needed. So, um,
42:09
Speaker 7: I'm really liking the way that his combination is working
42:12
Speaker 7: with McKenzie at 10. They haven't had a lot of
42:14
Speaker 7: time together since the injuries to work it out. But
42:17
Speaker 7: just that expertise of both being in the All Blacks
42:21
Speaker 7: for roughly a decade each, they bounce off each other well.
42:24
Speaker 7: They slot in when the other player is missing. They
42:27
Speaker 7: pick up where the slack is needed. So, I think
42:31
Speaker 7: that's a real positive. And remembering as well, you know,
42:34
Speaker 7: the All Blacks are down to their third choice 10
42:36
Speaker 7: at the moment and probably their third choice fullback as well.
42:39
Speaker 7: There's probably a chance they would have gone to Will
42:41
Speaker 7: Jordan had there not been such disruption at 10 as well. So, yeah,
42:47
Speaker 7: I think that's probably where the All Blacks can boast
42:51
Speaker 7: is that they've got that depth that if they do
42:54
Speaker 7: get some injuries again next year at the World Cup,
42:56
Speaker 7: they can bring that combination back again.
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Speaker 2: Is there a buzz for the All Blacks in Edinburgh?
43:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is.
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Speaker 7: Look, I think it's been muted this week, just regards
43:07
Speaker 7: to the All Blacks losing their long-time head of security,
43:11
Speaker 7: Logan Cadwallader, and means they haven't perhaps engaged with the
43:15
Speaker 7: local community as much as they might have with signing
43:19
Speaker 7: sessions and various things that they do with Adidas and
43:21
Speaker 7: some of their other sponsors. I think that's been muted
43:24
Speaker 7: in that regard, but Already around town for the last
43:26
Speaker 7: couple of days, plenty of All Blacks gear and scarves
43:29
Speaker 7: and everything like that. Suggestion, obviously, that the tests are
43:34
Speaker 7: firmly coming and the All Blacks are in town. But
43:37
Speaker 7: I'd say perhaps a quieter build-up than maybe otherwise would
43:41
Speaker 7: have been expected for this test match.
43:43
Speaker 2: Good on you, Ali.
43:44
Speaker 1: We look forward to your commentary on Newstalk ZB over
43:46
Speaker 1: the weekend. It's going to be a cracking game.
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Speaker 7: Sure is, Andy.
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Speaker 4: Can't wait.
43:50
Speaker 7: And we'll catch up again soon, I'm sure.
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