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The Big Show with Chopper! · The Hauraki Big Show

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  Speaker 1: The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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  Speaker 1: in weekdays at 4 on Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 2: Stone Temple Pilots on the Hauraki Big Show with Pugs
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  Speaker 2: and Mogi. And we're very, very lucky to be joined
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  Speaker 2: in studio by a special guest, an absolute legend around
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  Speaker 2: these parts and across the ditch. Of course, I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about Chopper in the studio with us. G'day, you mad bastard.
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  Speaker 3: How you going?
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  Speaker 4: That's very lovely to say that. It's not often you
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  Speaker 4: wander into a compliment barrage like that.
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  Speaker 3: That was a real stream of compliments, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad there's tables in the way. I'm just
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  Speaker 4: wearing tracksuit pants.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll be all over.
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  Speaker 5: A little bit of grace never hurt anyone, man.
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  Speaker 3: They'd be loving it. Hey, I've got a question for you, man.
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  Speaker 3: We've sort of been banging on the show a little
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  Speaker 3: bit today because it's my birthday, my 50th birthday. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: happy birthday. Now, I understand you're also 50, which is
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  Speaker 3: a hell of a coincidence. What sort of changes did
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  Speaker 3: you notice in your life when you hit the big 5-0,
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  Speaker 3: if any?
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  Speaker 4: Well, now you're in the era where, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: your 20s, you used to hurt yourself when you got
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  Speaker 4: out drinking. And in your teens, you hurt yourself playing
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  Speaker 4: team sport. In your 50s, you hurt yourself when you
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  Speaker 4: cough when you're making the bed. Yeah. You know, you'll
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  Speaker 4: be halfway putting a fold in and you go, oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: I've done my back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've been talking about it on the show today.
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  Speaker 3: What happened today is I got woken up by a
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  Speaker 3: tui at 3.45. Oh, yeah? You know, a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: they like a native bird. I hate a native bird
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  Speaker 3: because they bang on and they're a protected species, so
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  Speaker 3: I can't get a shotgun out. Then I put on
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  Speaker 3: my hoodie. to get started for the day, and it
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  Speaker 3: was on backwards, so I had a hood on the
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  Speaker 3: wrong way around.
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  Speaker 5: So good.
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  Speaker 3: And I've had sore.
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  Speaker 4: So the zipper wasn't a giveaway? No, there's no zipper.
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  Speaker 3: How about drawstrings? But I've also, and you're right there,
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  Speaker 3: because I've also had sore kidneys all day, which have
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  Speaker 3: had me worried for apparently no reason.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, kidneys is a weird one. I mean, if your
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  Speaker 4: liver's sore, you're like, I know where that came from.
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  Speaker 4: I know where that is, yeah. I'll get you. Well, kidneys,
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  Speaker 4: do they filter out the blood or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: I think so, yeah. I'm pretty sure it's booze-related, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I've been relatively responsible with that. So
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  Speaker 3: today I've had 18 paracetamols and 23 ibuprofen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll give the kidneys something to do. I reckon
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  Speaker 4: just to be on the safe side, I would cut
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  Speaker 4: a big hole in your arm, put your blood in
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  Speaker 4: a bucket, filter it through a sponge and pop it
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  Speaker 4: back in, just to give your kidneys a bit of
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  Speaker 4: a day off.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: Just to be on the safe side.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe some codeine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Probably a suppository. That's a different system, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: Actually, the only thing I've got left, so I was
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  Speaker 3: trawling through, everybody's got a really terrible first aid kit
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  Speaker 3: at home. The only thing I've got left at home, ibuprofen-wise,
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  Speaker 3: is literally suppositories. Yep. And they're about the size of a,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a not terribly well-endowed man's downstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I was going to say they're a little bit
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  Speaker 4: like an albino bullet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are. They are.
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  Speaker 4: They're great. You can just keep pushing them until you
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  Speaker 4: hear a clicking sound. That's when you're dosed out.
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  Speaker 3: Tap. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: That's the last one.
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  Speaker 3: But you're back again. What do you do? Because I
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  Speaker 3: see your tour is coming up. You're all over the
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  Speaker 3: country once again, and this time you're celebrating 20 years.
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  Speaker 3: Of Chopper.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, 50 years of Chopper, but maybe 20 years of
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  Speaker 3: coming to New Zealand.
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  Speaker 4: 20 years of being good at it, yeah. No, I'm
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  Speaker 4: giving myself a little pat on the back. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's a while there because I kind of try and
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  Speaker 4: write a new show every year for people, but there
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  Speaker 4: is a bit of an appetite out there for people
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  Speaker 4: to be like, yeah, I want to hear that old
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  Speaker 4: bit again. You're like, yeah, no, I can do that.
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  Speaker 3: You must love that, though. You must love, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: just wheel out the old stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: It's good, but then when you start, you're halfway through it,
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  Speaker 4: you're like, this is a good bit of gear. Why
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  Speaker 4: did I stop telling you this? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: This is an absolute belter. You look at the audience there,
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  Speaker 4: cry laughing, some woman's fallen off her chair in pure delight,
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  Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, this is how it should be,
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  Speaker 4: you know?
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  Speaker 3: And is it easy to sort of, because you're pulling
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  Speaker 3: content from a million different shows over 20 years, is
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  Speaker 3: it difficult to sort of link them all together, or
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  Speaker 3: do you just do it with genuine charisma?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just pure charisma, basically. No, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't like segues because people don't need them. You know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean? Yeah. Actually, speaking of walking down the
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  Speaker 4: street and noticing something funny, I did that the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Just get to the bit. Just go for the throat.
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  Speaker 4: So this is just jugular slashing joke after jugular slashing joke.
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  Speaker 3: And everything happened just the other day as well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, especially, which is crazy for a 20-year career
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  Speaker 4: for it all to have happened last Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to mention that? Yeah. Actually, a funny
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  Speaker 3: thing happened to me 19 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: 20 years ago, it was a warm Wednesday in October
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  Speaker 4: and a series of hilarious things happened to me and
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  Speaker 4: here they all are now.
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  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, Chopper, we'll go to a tune
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  Speaker 2: and we'll come back right back.
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  Speaker 5: Do you like Velvet Revolver?
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  Speaker 4: I don't hate him.
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  Speaker 2: Perfect.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's better. It's the Hauraki Big Show. Oh, g'day, Matt. Oh, hi, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The Hauraki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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  Speaker 1: in weekdays at 4 on Radio Hauraki.
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  Speaker 2: Velvet Revolver on the Hauraki Big Show and we've got
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  Speaker 2: Chopper in the studio celebrating 20 years with his tour
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  Speaker 2: Gold coming up in November. Chopper, you mentioned before we
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  Speaker 2: started you'd never been to Greymouth. You're hitting a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the big centres, Ashburton's in there, Awamaru. Where else
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  Speaker 2: haven't you been around these regions of Aotearoa?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, on this current tour?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So you haven't done Greymouth?
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  Speaker 4: Greymouth's the only one.
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  Speaker 5: That's the only one you've never been there before.
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  Speaker 4: I have to admit, I want to apologise to the
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  Speaker 4: people of Oamaru. Is that how you say it? Am
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  Speaker 4: I saying it in.
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  Speaker 3: A wrong way? Oamaru, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: It's not bad, and it's also nice that you care
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  Speaker 3: enough to ask.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I like to do that. You know, if
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  Speaker 4: you're going to go to the trouble of crashing a
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  Speaker 4: train into a wall, I want to get your town's
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  Speaker 4: name right. If you're going to be the steampunk capital
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  Speaker 4: of New Zealand... You've got to get around with your
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  Speaker 4: leather top hat and your goggles on it and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. But, yeah, no, I haven't been there for
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years, so it'll be good to go
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  Speaker 4: back there and see what they're up to.
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  Speaker 3: Any horrendous memories around the country, man? Because you are
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  Speaker 3: hitting some pretty incredible spots. Your Grey Mouse, your Ash Burdens.
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  Speaker 3: Palmerston North must be a hell of an opportunity for you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I love Palmy. All my fans there, I call
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  Speaker 4: the Palmy Army. I don't. I've never said that before.
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  Speaker 4: I regret saying it now. I'm going to hit myself
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  Speaker 4: in the face when I leave here. But no, I
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  Speaker 4: think the worst thing that's happened to me on tour
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  Speaker 4: in New Zealand is I had a couple of guys
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  Speaker 4: in the hire car. I was telling a particularly funny
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  Speaker 4: story while I was overtaking and I almost killed us
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  Speaker 4: all when an oncoming truck came around a blind corner.
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  Speaker 3: Was it the truck's fault for coming around the blind
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  Speaker 3: corner or were you on the wrong side of the
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  Speaker 3: road when you went around the blind corner?
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  Speaker 4: It was their fault for focusing on the truck instead
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  Speaker 4: of the story. I got us back in the lane
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  Speaker 4: just in time, a bit of a honk, landed the
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  Speaker 4: punchline and they're all white. I'm looking in the rearview
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  Speaker 4: mirror being like, what's wrong with you? That's gold.
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  Speaker 3: And that is a hell of a title for the
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  Speaker 3: tour as well, gold. You're setting yourself up for failure there,
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  Speaker 3: high expectations, but you think you can deliver on it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I can deliver and I have delivered. I've been
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  Speaker 4: doing the show around Australia and we're becoming a fairly
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  Speaker 4: humorless bunch of people.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true over in Aussie?
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's getting a bit uptight, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You go to somewhere like Melbourne and everyone's either in a,
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  Speaker 4: They've got a little blue hair and a pierced septum
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  Speaker 4: or they're a Nazi and there's not much in between anymore.
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  Speaker 4: So it's nice to come to New Zealand where there's
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  Speaker 4: just regular folk.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, is that right? Are we regular folk? Because it
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  Speaker 3: feels like we're a little bit on edge over here
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, really? I mean, if this is you guys on edge.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to get tickets for Chopper's gold tour
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  Speaker 2: around Aotearoa, you can get them now from tickertech.co.nz.
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  Speaker 5: Would that be right, mate?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for most of them, for some of them.
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  Speaker 5: There's also eventfinder.co.nz as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's different ticketing agencies for each thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you can't figure out how to find tickets in
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  Speaker 4: your own town with Google, I kind of don't want
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  Speaker 4: you there. I don't want to be rude, but it's 2026.
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  Speaker 4: Help yourself. People message me and they're like, how do
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  Speaker 4: I find tickets? I'm like, I'd just be Googling it too, mate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, you know, there's got to be a bit of
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  Speaker 4: an IQ threshold.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, although they do have disposable income, some of them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe that's it. Maybe it's their butler's day off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They're about to buy 600 tickets and I just told
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  Speaker 4: them to get stuffed online.
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  Speaker 3: You never know your luck.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, damn it. That's why that bloody Invercargill show didn't
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  Speaker 4: sell out. All those Invercargill billionaires.
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  Speaker 5: Good on you, mate. Get to Googling chopper gold. In
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  Speaker 5: the meantime, you like The Cure? More than Velvet Revolver, maybe?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I reckon I do. Oh, this is a good one, too.
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  Speaker 5: It's the Hodaki Big Show.
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  Speaker 1: The Hodaki Big Show with Jase, Mike and Keezy. Tune
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