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The Muster- Michelle Watt: Country Crossover · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: The Country Crossover, brought to you by Bioactive Soils. Growing
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  Speaker 1: together with healthy soils. Become a proactive farmer with Bioactive
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  Speaker 1: Ag Fertiliser. Michelle Watt is Executive Producer of The Country
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  Speaker 1: and joins us out of Dunedin once again.
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  Speaker 2: G'day Michelle.
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  Speaker 3: G'day Andy and beautiful sunny day here in Dunedin. Long
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  Speaker 3: may it last and long may we don't have a
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  Speaker 3: repeat of this time last year because do you remember
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  Speaker 3: this time last year? This time on Friday last year
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  Speaker 3: in the afternoon it was crazy. I remember sitting in
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  Speaker 3: this building having no idea what was going on until
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  Speaker 3: I got home. We had no power.
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  Speaker 1: I actually had the day off work and I was
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  Speaker 1: just walking home from town and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: hail just came in sideways. It was unreal and I
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  Speaker 1: think I just took shelter behind someone's house because it
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  Speaker 1: was hitting you that hard due to the velocity of
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  Speaker 1: the rain and the wind mixed in together. It was hideous,
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  Speaker 1: but it was like 45 minutes and the damage was done.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it was insane. I mean, my house is up
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  Speaker 3: on a hill on the peninsula, so we get the
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  Speaker 3: full blast of a southerly or mainly southerlies or northerlies.
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  Speaker 3: And it felt like it shook the whole house. But
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  Speaker 3: the power, I just remember being in here and being
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  Speaker 3: absolutely oblivious to what was going on. Because down in
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  Speaker 3: downtown Dunedin here, you were getting the wind, but it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't quite as bad. You could hear it outside, but
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  Speaker 3: because we're down on the main street of Dunedin, it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't as bad as being up on a hill or
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  Speaker 3: down on the flat somewhere or something like that. But
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  Speaker 3: it's absolutely insane. I've never seen anything like it. The
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  Speaker 3: damage that was caused across... You know, Canterbury, South Targo,
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  Speaker 3: you can still see it in some places, can't you?
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  Speaker 2: There is nothing worse than election fatigue.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely. There's been a lot. And I think, actually,
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  Speaker 3: I contribute a lot of that to the fact that
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  Speaker 3: now social media plays a massive part in election campaigning.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's there all the time, right? You can't
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  Speaker 3: escape it. In the old days, when you and I
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  Speaker 3: were 18, Andy, which wasn't, you know, too long ago.
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  Speaker 2: It was longer than me than you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, mine was still in the 2000s. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: social media election campaigning wasn't really a thing at all.
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  Speaker 3: Not as big as it is now. And now you
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  Speaker 3: just can't escape it. It's everywhere. And there's some really interesting,
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  Speaker 3: funny sort of stuff. But still, it's how it's turned
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  Speaker 3: into like this absolute crazy thing and you just can't
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  Speaker 3: escape it.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 3: It does wear you down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Ag in schools, the debate on the change regarding agriculture
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  Speaker 1: being a standalone subject in year 11.
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  Speaker 2: This has got a lot of traction this week, and
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  Speaker 2: rightly so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I found this a bit of a shock, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: Removing it as a standalone subject in year 11. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we were talking to Fielding High School's principal, Nathan Stewart,
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  Speaker 3: earlier in the week, and agriculture is a huge part
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  Speaker 3: of that school's history. They have 1,700 students at that school,
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  Speaker 3: which is insane, because Fielding is not really It's not
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  Speaker 3: the biggest place. So they get a lot of, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: catchment from outside and around surrounding areas. But there's a
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  Speaker 3: few other schools that teach ag around the country as well.
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  Speaker 3: I think St. Kevin's in Oamaru also does agricultural, has
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  Speaker 3: an agricultural program as well. And some of the other
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  Speaker 3: schools do too. But this school also has its own
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  Speaker 3: 98 hectare farm and run dairy cattle and sheep and beef.
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  Speaker 3: So the kids actually get to learn practical farming skills
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  Speaker 3: as well as part of that course. The sad thing
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  Speaker 3: about removing it, and this is my opinion, Andy, is
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  Speaker 3: that if you remove this as a standalone subject, you're
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  Speaker 3: removing it not only for the rural kids, but the
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  Speaker 3: non-rural kids. So it doesn't give them an option. It
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  Speaker 3: also removes it for the fact that science isn't, If
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  Speaker 3: you put science all together, now I studied science, I
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  Speaker 3: enjoy science, but a lot of kids don't see the
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  Speaker 3: application of it. Ag gives an application. It gives a
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  Speaker 3: way to apply it to something. You use it on
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  Speaker 3: the farm all the time without realising it.
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  Speaker 1: You bring St Kevin's in there, that's my old stomping ground,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact is you didn't get detention, you had
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  Speaker 1: to go and cut gorse for an hour instead.
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  Speaker 3: That actually sounds like a good punishment, actually, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you imagine getting punished by, you have to
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  Speaker 3: go dig up all the thistles.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was very much like that, the gorse, right?
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  Speaker 2: You can go gorse cutting for an hour. You're being
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  Speaker 2: a little shite. That's just how it worked.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a working farm there, and just
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  Speaker 1: towards the end of my time, there was very much
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  Speaker 1: so a bit of an ag programme involved, like ag
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  Speaker 1: and economics. Because they weren't available locally, you could claim
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  Speaker 1: a bursary if you studied afar.
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  Speaker 3: And the thing is too, there's so many more careers
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  Speaker 3: available now in ag compared to when, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you and I were at school, Andy, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: think about doing agriculture and most of my friends went
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  Speaker 3: to Lincoln, a lot of them did, and studied accounting or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, commerce or business or farming and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Or some went to Telford, Polytech as well, which is
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  Speaker 3: still down in Balclutha. And I think it's, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot more to it now. You can rise up right
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  Speaker 3: through the ranks of some of these massive companies. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: You know, look at companies like Holter. You've got companies
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  Speaker 3: like Fonterra that provide sort of graduate programs as well.
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  Speaker 3: Dairy and Zed have options. Like, there's just so many
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  Speaker 3: options other than just being on farm that are related
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  Speaker 3: to agriculture now. And I think it would be a
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  Speaker 3: shame to lose that for those kids that maybe might
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  Speaker 3: not stay beyond year 11 as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you've got a big act coming to Dunedin next year.
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  Speaker 2: What's their name? For Jamie's benefit? Hang on, not that one.
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  Speaker 3: It would be good if it was them. Jane, you'd
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  Speaker 3: be excited.
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  Speaker 2: If it was Earth, Wind and Fire. Jeez, a boomer
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  Speaker 2: would be on fire if it was them coming into town.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get him too excited.
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  Speaker 1: No, Stathis and Chasey called him Stace and Chalice. Jeez,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to think what he called Duran Duran if
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  Speaker 1: he got that wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: This is Chase and Stathis, just a sample of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to annoy too many people. You either
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  Speaker 1: love it or loathe it. This is a remix with
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  Speaker 1: an artist called Becky Hill. So that's Chasing Status with
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  Speaker 1: Becky Hill. That song is called Disconnect, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: artist coming to Dunedin next year, and it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: good night.
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll be great. It's so good to finally
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  Speaker 3: break that entertainment drought here in Dunedin with Forsyth Bar.
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  Speaker 3: And also we've got Brian Adams playing an acoustic set.
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  Speaker 3: His Bare Bones tour is coming to the Town Hall
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  Speaker 3: as well, which will be another really fantastic show. But
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  Speaker 3: I believe Chasing Status, of course, they've played at Glastonbury
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  Speaker 3: quite a few times. I think three, maybe four times.
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  Speaker 3: They've been around since 2003 and great DMV sort of band,
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  Speaker 3: especially when.
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  Speaker 2: Just describe DMV. People don't know what DMV is.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might be some dodgy thing that you
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  Speaker 1: find at 4am in the middle of Christchurch.
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  Speaker 3: It does sound a little bit like that.
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  Speaker 2: Drum and bass. Drum and bass.
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  Speaker 3: So it's interesting remix music in New Zealand. Drum and
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  Speaker 3: bass is a big part of that. I expect the
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  Speaker 3: crowd to be massive down here. The students down here
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  Speaker 3: love drum and bass. But this concert will be absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I think you'll get quite a few age groups. It's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest indoor concert they've ever played too, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: Righto, Michelle. We'll leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: Just very quickly as well, did you stay awake and
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  Speaker 1: your nana stayed until midnight watching cricket?
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  Speaker 3: Actually, no, I fell asleep before it even started, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: So how good is that?
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  Speaker 1: How are you going to go watching status and chase
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  Speaker 1: if you can't stay awake till 8 o'clock?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, I might have to get back into
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  Speaker 3: the Red Bulls like the old days.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Good on you, Michelle. Enjoy the long weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You too, mate. Michelle, what in the country crossover thinks
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  Speaker 1: of Bioactive Soils? Earth, Wind and Fire is the name
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  Speaker 1: of this band. Fire, Earth and Wind, depending on who
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  Speaker 1: you listen to, I suppose.
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  Speaker 2: Up next, Nick Fuley out of Newstalk ZB. Let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you.