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The Muster- Alan McLeary: Shearwell NZ · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: We're so glad to see so many of you lovely
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  Speaker 1: people here tonight. And we would especially like to welcome
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  Speaker 1: all the representatives. This is the muster on Hakanui.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the Blues Brothers, but it's the one and
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  Speaker 2: only Alan McCleary out of Shewell, New Zealand.
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  Speaker 1: Al, good afternoon. How you going, mate?
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  Speaker 3: You all right?
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  Speaker 2: Great. That movie there, the Blues Brothers, they had to
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  Speaker 2: make it to the Palace Hotel Ballroom in Chicago. They
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  Speaker 2: had to pay the money for the orphanage. That is
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  Speaker 2: one of the great all-time movies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's the best ever, mate. It was the most
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  Speaker 3: expensive movie when it came out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was 1981 it came out, but all the
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  Speaker 1: cop cars smashed up.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great movie, mate. I've played that every
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  Speaker 3: day in the wool shed. The poor buggers at shore
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  Speaker 3: with me hate it, probably.
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  Speaker 1: Probably on cassettes as well, so you can get out
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  Speaker 1: there and rewind it every 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Great song, though. It's uplifting, isn't it? Yeah, you want
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  Speaker 3: that at the moment. It's been an interesting spring. I
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  Speaker 3: think we've turned the corner now. It's really patchy. You
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  Speaker 3: go north and farmers have had a great season. You
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  Speaker 3: go south and it's not so good.
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  Speaker 1: Last few weeks have been really good. This week's a bit, meh.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, though, Al, we're starting to get through October
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  Speaker 2: now and November. You start to see a bit of
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  Speaker 2: certainty on the farming calendar as to what you need
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And even at home, like I've got quite a few
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  Speaker 3: hoggarts grazing at home and, yeah, they're really picking up now.
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  Speaker 3: The grass is, I've actually got a banker grass in
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  Speaker 3: front of me, which, yeah, was pretty tricky there. A
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  Speaker 3: month ago.
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  Speaker 1: How wet did you get there at your place?
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  Speaker 3: I would say it's probably the wettest spring for a
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  Speaker 3: good 15-odd years. It just, yeah, it's just wet. Shite,
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  Speaker 3: it was wet.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking 2010? Yeah, well, don't pin me to an answer. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that seems... Oh, no, I'm not doing that. I'll never
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  Speaker 1: do that to you. But that seems to be when
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  Speaker 1: everybody talks about 2010 with the snow events. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But it's... It's got quite hard on top, but it's
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  Speaker 3: still really wet underneath. You're trying to work a paddock,
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  Speaker 3: and you've still got to leave spots out. But we're
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  Speaker 3: all sunshine now, mate.
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  Speaker 1: It's all go. So what are you busy at the moment?
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  Speaker 1: Cold cooling, going and seeing cockies and chewing the fat?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, never stops. I see people ducking down under the
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  Speaker 3: windowsill when they see me coming up the drive. But no, no,
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  Speaker 3: I've only done a wee bit of tailing so far.
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  Speaker 1: I'm away.
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  Speaker 3: doing a bit of cattle scanning tomorrow for the NAIT
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  Speaker 3: tag trials. No, not tomorrow, Thursday. But, yeah, just cold calling.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been down south for a while because things
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  Speaker 3: were a wee bit– I don't think they wanted to
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  Speaker 3: be talking to a guy selling tags down there a
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  Speaker 3: month ago.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of anybody hiding in the rafters
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  Speaker 2: of a wool shed to get away?
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  Speaker 3: I never look up. It'd be quite, you know, never
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  Speaker 3: look up.
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  Speaker 1: I did that once. Was it me? No, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was well before your time.
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  Speaker 2: I heard someone coming and I just couldn't be bothered talking,
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  Speaker 2: so I just had to hide. It was actually, it
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  Speaker 2: was up above the toilets there. It was a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a landing, so I just ducked up there.
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  Speaker 1: Ducked there.
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  Speaker 3: Right, well, I will start looking up when I go
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  Speaker 3: in now. Yeah, I'm sure, look, I've hidden from the
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  Speaker 3: odd sales rep myself, to be fair. Just ducked back
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  Speaker 3: into the shed or whatever, but yeah. I try not
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  Speaker 3: to be annoying, Andy.
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  Speaker 1: These trials are pretty exciting, though, regarding the cattle tags, though. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they are. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, as I say, we've passed the initial test with
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  Speaker 3: the NAIT tag for the cattle, but we can't quite
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  Speaker 3: sell them yet. Just the clipboard people have to get
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  Speaker 3: their side of it done now. But, yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 3: still two years of actual trialling them, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: retention and readability. So, yeah, I'm away to Glen Eyrie on...
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  Speaker 3: Thursday to read a few.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice part of the country to go to
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And a really well-run ship up there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's brilliant. Absolutely. So at the moment, I think if
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  Speaker 1: anybody's looking at tagging options, you're the man.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, without a doubt. Haven't been for a long time, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Self-praise is the best praise, apparently, too.
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  Speaker 3: Should I say more then?
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  Speaker 1: Well, keep going. I'm not stopping you. Well... You know,
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  Speaker 1: we have.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a great product. It's really well-priced. We've got
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  Speaker 3: our turnarounds good. We've actually got another laser on the
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  Speaker 3: water at the moment. It'll be arriving hopefully just before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: So it's coming.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting one from Aussie. So it'll be here, and
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  Speaker 3: Ray will have a– there'll be two of them there
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  Speaker 3: at the moment, two lasers at the moment. There's two
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  Speaker 3: people using the same laser. So we're right on the
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  Speaker 3: cusp getting everybody out on time.
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  Speaker 1: So this is your busy season starting now effectively.
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  Speaker 3: Mate, I don't know if it ever stops now. Like
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  Speaker 3: the stud guys, we've had about two weeks off where
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  Speaker 3: it's just been a bit slack because that was really intense.
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  Speaker 3: We've picked up some.
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  Speaker 1: Hello. Here we go. Here's an order now. This works
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  Speaker 1: so well. Come on, multitask. Keep rolling. Keep rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on. You can't even work his phone.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sweating that much with excitement.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness Ray is working the printer and not you,
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  Speaker 1: based on that.
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  Speaker 3: Hang on, I'll just take the 10,000. Yeah, look, they'll
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  Speaker 3: be there tomorrow, all right?
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  Speaker 1: What colour? You told me it was 20,000 before. But, yeah, no, look,
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  Speaker 1: we've been full bore.
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  Speaker 3: We've been full bore and then, yeah, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people tag now during tailing time.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's... You haven't done too much tailing this
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  Speaker 1: season so far.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I've been so busy, mate. Actually, I've been tied
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  Speaker 3: up a wee bit on the farm, to be fair.
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  Speaker 3: So I haven't been venturing overly far at the moment
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  Speaker 3: just because of that. But we'll be away now, so
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  Speaker 3: we'll get our way up country and annoy them up there.
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  Speaker 1: Just remember you've got Olivia's little note in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have, yes. Just a little side note. Don't lose that.
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  Speaker 1: Another order. Another order coming through, absolutely. New customer.
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  Speaker 3: New customer.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the great thing with you guys. We talk
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  Speaker 2: about this time and again, and I hear it from
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  Speaker 2: people as well. The turnaround from go to woe.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty efficient with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are, and hence we're getting another printer. So
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  Speaker 3: give us a week. It should be there earlier, but
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  Speaker 3: give them a week.
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  Speaker 1: Rumour has it the individual at the end of that
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  Speaker 1: phone call there already has 50,000 tags in the production line. Boom,
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  Speaker 1: Ray's on to it. He's all over it, yeah. No, look,
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  Speaker 1: we are.
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  Speaker 3: In all seriousness, we are. We are really good. But
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't mean to say you shouldn't order your tags early. Like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just don't leave it until the last minute, please.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean in all seriousness? No, what? Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But you guys are busy. That's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: So, and of course, we catch up with Julie over
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  Speaker 2: in the UK every month as well in between catching
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  Speaker 2: up with you. And, yeah, you guys are a product.
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  Speaker 2: It speaks for itself. And the word's getting out there
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  Speaker 2: and you're just getting busy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's... Yeah, no, what more can I say? We're
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  Speaker 3: just flat out. It's a great amount of people that
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  Speaker 3: are coming on board. It's quite flattering, really.
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  Speaker 1: So how do people get in touch with you then, Al? Oh, crikey.
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  Speaker 3: Dates, numbers. Hang on, let me look at my phone.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on.
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  Speaker 3: So my phone number's 027-232-4488. And if you want to
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  Speaker 3: ring Ray and bypass me, it's 0800-7999-8900.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, remember that well. It's taken a couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if it's right or not. I
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  Speaker 3: just spouted off some numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you need to listen to this. A bit more
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  Speaker 1: of the blues, brothers. Hang on.
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  Speaker 2: If you watch Jaws backwards, it is actually a heartwarming
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  Speaker 2: story about a shark who gives arms and legs to
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  Speaker 2: people who need them. Alan McCleary, better leave it there
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  Speaker 2: while we can. SheWow New Zealand, great to have you
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  Speaker 2: guys on board, eh?
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  Speaker 1: Always great, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you.
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  Speaker 1: Alan McCleary, the one and only. And that wraps us
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  Speaker 1: up for this afternoon. On the muster, I'm Andy Muir.
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  Speaker 1: This show's brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Try and
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  Speaker 1: have a cup of tea and a lie down. See
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  Speaker 1: you Wednesday. We'll be right back.