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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay is the host of the Country, and Jamie,

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Speaker 1: I think it's just you and I while all of

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Speaker 1: our colleagues are living it up at the Radio Awards,

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Speaker 1: you and I grafting away as per.

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Speaker 2: Well. Jack, that might be because I don't know about you,

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Speaker 2: but I didn't make the finals, and I'm just thinking

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Speaker 2: to myself, what's the host got, or Heather for that matter,

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Speaker 2: because you're filling into her. What have they got that

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Speaker 2: we haven't got? It doesn't appear obvious to me, Jack.

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Speaker 1: I think we can just slip it round, Jamie. I

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Speaker 1: mean you ask yourself for this, what's the host going

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Speaker 1: to have that you don't have in about six months

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Speaker 1: when you've got a few letters after your name, Because

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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you, thank you very much for that.

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Speaker 2: Mind you. Jack. Just on the subject of radio awards

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Speaker 2: and knowing I was speaking to you today, I was

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Speaker 2: trying to I think I've made in thirty years of

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Speaker 2: radio two finals, so not a great strike great to

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Speaker 2: be honest, Jack, but I must I'm in the same

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Speaker 2: category as the Hoskin Heather. But one year I did

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Speaker 2: make it. The finalists were myself, yourself and Larry Williams,

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Speaker 2: the blok who used to run the show. Neither and

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Speaker 2: you and I were also rams Jack and I'm not

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Speaker 2: quite sure who got second and who got third. They

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Speaker 2: didn't announce that, but I'm going age before beauty and

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Speaker 2: claiming second place.

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Speaker 1: You know what, I'm very happy to accept that result

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Speaker 1: as well. I think that sounds about for you. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of awards, the Rural King's Birthday honors recipients and the

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Speaker 1: highest accolade went to Vincent Ashworth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a good story. I was going to

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Speaker 2: tell this one to Heather on Tuesday, but she was

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Speaker 2: too busy giving me stick about my gong. So look,

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Speaker 2: this is the guy who was the well, as you said,

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Speaker 2: had the highest accolades. Great story. He got a Companion

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Speaker 2: of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to

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Speaker 2: Agriculture for services in New Zealand and internationally. His work

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Speaker 2: dates back to nineteen seventy. He was a senior agriculturist

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Speaker 2: with the World Bank. He led missions to help farmers

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Speaker 2: with food production and more than thirty developing countries. Notably,

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Speaker 2: he spent time in really harsh farming environments such as Afghanistan, Yemen, Ethiopia.

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Speaker 2: There's a place that needs some farming advice helping them out.

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Speaker 2: He launched the New Zealand Society of Farm Management in

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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty nine, serving as the inaugural president. Thousands of

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Speaker 2: farmers over the years have benefited from his findings or

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Speaker 2: their findings for their practices. He was a member of

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Speaker 2: To Save the Children's New Zealand Overseas Projects Committee for

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Speaker 2: a decade back in the seventies and eighties. And he's

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Speaker 2: a life member. If that's not enough, a life member

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Speaker 2: of the New Zealand Institute of Primary Industry Management and

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Speaker 2: the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science. What a legend.

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Speaker 2: Well done, Vincent Ashra.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's amazing. That's really special. Did some really

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Speaker 1: interesting data today, Ken, We living rurally have significantly high

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Speaker 1: mortality rates from preventable causes and alarmingly high rates of suicide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just look at that suicide rate. Jack and

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Speaker 2: I have done quite a bit of work on this

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Speaker 2: one with the likes of Farmstrong or help facilitate what

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Speaker 2: they're doing through my radio show Suicide rates for males

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Speaker 2: aged fifteen to forty four. I apologize if I'm repeating

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Speaker 2: these numbers, but they are sobering sixty four percent higher

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Speaker 2: in rural areas than in cities. Look, the stats don't

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Speaker 2: The stats don't stack up. For Mari younger than thirty

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Speaker 2: living remotely there twice is likely to die of preventable

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Speaker 2: causes than their urban counterparts. Non Maori thirty to forty

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Speaker 2: living rurally one point eight times more likely to die

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Speaker 2: from a preventable cause. And the kicker here is that

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Speaker 2: saying that you know tally health and a lot of

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Speaker 2: us are getting into health via technology isn't a solution.

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Speaker 2: Because he has some more shocking numbers for you, Jack,

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Speaker 2: Only seventy four point two percent of rural households had

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Speaker 2: access to the Internet. That's a shocking shocking And only

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Speaker 2: sixty four point six percent of some communities had access

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Speaker 2: to a mobile phone. I know that reception is an

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Speaker 2: issue around some of the more remote parts of the country,

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Speaker 2: but we are Jack, unfortunately when it comes to these

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Speaker 2: sort of numbers, a country of haves and have nots.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Hey, thank you so much for your time,

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Speaker 1: Jamie on that sobering note. Appreciate it. Hope, even though

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Speaker 1: you're not there tonight, you will be celebrating in some

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Speaker 1: other way, and congratulations once again Jamie mckaye. They're the

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Speaker 1: host of the Country. Up for more from Hither Duplessy

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