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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Sixteen minutes past nine on news Talk ZB. Aaron on

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Speaker 2: the email this morning says Jack, I'm with you. I

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Speaker 2: have a sort of childlike wonder when it comes to

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Speaker 2: riding along on a subway. Took New Zealand long enough,

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Speaker 2: but glad that Auckland is finally getting there. So twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, they reckon the CRL is due to open.

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Speaker 2: Not sure when in twenty twenty six. Usually it's best

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Speaker 2: to set one's expectations later in the year when it

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Speaker 2: comes to these kind of things. Ninety two ninety two.

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Speaker 2: If you want to send us a message, Jack, CRL

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Speaker 2: is achieving its goal, I want to write it. I

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Speaker 2: love the under London Underground and honestly I'm going to

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Speaker 2: bring up a mate when this opens. Sadly, no chance

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Speaker 2: of passenger rail from New Plymouth at the moment, though,

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Speaker 2: says Harry. Yeah, thanks for that, Harry. Seventeen minutes past nine,

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Speaker 2: Kevin Milner is here this morning.

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Speaker 3: Kilder Kevin, Jack, I'm pleased that you were so positive

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Speaker 3: about that work that's been done on the subway, and

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Speaker 3: you're wonderful city. It's one of those kind of really

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Speaker 3: positive things that can be totally overlooked because you can't

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Speaker 3: see it and there's enough bad stuff going on that

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Speaker 3: to celebrate some wonderful engineering feats to me. I feel

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Speaker 3: great about it and I'm pleased you've done it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. I saw Nicola Willis yesterday. She was

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Speaker 2: one of the you know, one of the VIPs who

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Speaker 2: got a bit of a tour, and she said afterwards

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Speaker 2: that she said, you know, somebody, how's it feelings? She said,

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Speaker 2: you know, it feels like it'll be familiar to any

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Speaker 2: New Zealander who's written in a subway around the world.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, exactly, exactly. It's twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: It's taken us this long, but we got there.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's I just yeah, I think, I think. I think

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Speaker 2: it's fantastic. So I can't I can't wait to go

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Speaker 2: on it. I mean, there is something I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It is kind of childlike. I think Aaron's right on

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Speaker 2: the email. You know, it's something that there's kind of

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Speaker 2: there's a bit of wonder that comes from from going

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Speaker 2: in a big kind of engineering, from experiencing a big

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Speaker 2: engineering project like that, right. I remember going through of

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Speaker 2: what have you tunneled for the first time and been like, oh,

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Speaker 2: this is a bit fancy.

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Speaker 3: It's great. You haven't lost that, Jack, Given everything that

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Speaker 3: you've done and everything that you get to see, and

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Speaker 3: you know, the incredible busy lives that you lead, that

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Speaker 3: you still get that childish pleasure from smallest Well they're

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Speaker 3: not reached there, They're not at all smallest things in

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Speaker 3: this case, but yeah, that you get that kicked from it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no too, right. So Kevin, you're off to a

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Speaker 2: special event in christ Church tonight.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the sat and I'll flow down to christ Church

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Speaker 3: for a very special event and in a way, a

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Speaker 3: very christ Church event. It's the one hundredth anniversary of

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Speaker 3: the Beads College Old Boys Annual Dinner, and I'm the

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Speaker 3: guest speaker. Coincidentally, my late uncle Ralph, my mother's brother,

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Speaker 3: would have been at that original Old Boys sinner one

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Speaker 3: hundred years ago. He was the secretary of the of

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Speaker 3: the first Beads Old Boys Committee. I've never really been

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Speaker 3: into old Boys or past fuels events. I had a

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Speaker 3: very unsuccessful time at some beads academically anyway, Like really bad,

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Speaker 3: failed most of my exams. What made it worse was

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Speaker 3: that my two older brothers had been stars before me

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Speaker 3: at the same college. So when after five years I

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Speaker 3: finally walked out the college gate with just school sert,

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Speaker 3: I kind of didn't want to look back. Not that

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Speaker 3: my failure was the college's fault. I just wanted to

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Speaker 3: move on. Now, nearly sixty years later, I'm invited back

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Speaker 3: to be the guest speaker at the one hundred's Old

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Speaker 3: Boys dinner that includes presenting annual prizes to twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: five three most successful old boys in sport, culture and business.

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Speaker 3: And here I am the guy who was the bottom

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Speaker 3: of a class left without school sert, handing out the awards.

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Speaker 3: I don't mind admitting, Jack, it means quite a lot

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Speaker 3: to me. I suppose it says something about life. A

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Speaker 3: Hayes should never let lack of success at any particular

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Speaker 3: time in your life get to you. Your luck can change,

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Speaker 3: sometimes remarkably quickly. You've just got to remain nimble enough,

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Speaker 3: positive enough to allow that to occur. And that happens

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Speaker 3: to be the theme of most speech tonight.

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Speaker 2: Jack Ah, so good, Kevin, how special? Not only to

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Speaker 2: be welcome back, but to be invited back for the

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Speaker 2: one hundredth. Yeah, aniversary, that is, it's not one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fourth, it's not the sixty second. They said, this

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Speaker 2: is the one hundredth. We're going to need someone really

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Speaker 2: extra special tonight. Let's get the former bottom of the class.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, yeah, lovely.

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Speaker 2: Ah, that's going to be really special, do you know, Kevin?

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Speaker 2: It is a bit of a weekend of anniversaries, right,

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Speaker 2: so you're you're you're celebrating the one hundredth anniversary. It

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Speaker 2: needs to you. Yeah, So today being what the ninth

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Speaker 2: of August is the ninety ninth anniversary since one's Edb's

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Speaker 2: very first broadcast, you believe, Oh wow, so there you go.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, crazy a ninety nine years since our very

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Speaker 2: first broadcast. I was a bit surprised, to be honest.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think we were that old.

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Speaker 3: Noah, So there you go nine years. I think it

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Speaker 3: kind of melded. It got because at one stage, and

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Speaker 3: I'm old enough to remember this ze B and the

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Speaker 3: national program, we're basically with the same year.

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Speaker 2: Radio you didn't have a whole massive range of different

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Speaker 2: stations like we do now. And you know, all everything,

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Speaker 2: mix things up too, but yeah, there you go. Hey,

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Speaker 2: have a wonderful time tonight.

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Speaker 3: Kevin, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you will. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. But

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Speaker 2: we look for hearing how it all goes. Yes, thanks

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Speaker 2: a lot, very good Kevin Meln with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yea ninety nine years since one's edb's very first broadcast.

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Speaker 2: So apparently it was the ninth of August nineteen twenty six,

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Speaker 2: which was a Monday, and they broadcast for three hours

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Speaker 2: from seven pm. So it was once a week on

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Speaker 2: Monday nights. And back then, of course, like radio was

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Speaker 2: the technology of the day, it was the kind of

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Speaker 2: shiny new toy that everyone was, you know, talking about.

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Speaker 2: Apparently people used to dress up to listen to it.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you think about the kind of iterations

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Speaker 2: and changes that ZB has gone through over the years.

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Speaker 2: I think it was eighty seven in which Paul Holmes

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Speaker 2: first started broadcasting and you know, you're waking up the nation.

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Speaker 2: Talkback started playing a bigger role, and so twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five news Talalk ZB is now number one in Auckland

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Speaker 2: and across New Zealand. From breaking news to unforgettable interviews,

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Speaker 2: the station has kind of, you know, gone from strength

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Speaker 2: to strength over the last ninety nine years, so amazing. Really, Hey,

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Speaker 2: thanks for your feedback. Jack, lovely to hear you this morning.

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Speaker 2: Please tell me how the trains have been put in

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Speaker 2: the tunnels or the tunnels open at one end. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm no expert on it, but I believe because they

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Speaker 2: linked to Brita Art, they can kind of the state

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Speaker 2: that's where the station's you know, they've got various junctions

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Speaker 2: and things and they can kind of get in and

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Speaker 2: off there. But yes, they do have to think about

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Speaker 2: that when designing the tunnel. Jack, it sounds like you

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Speaker 2: are the new Central Rail Link ambassador. Well, I'm just

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Speaker 2: a bit peeved, to be honest, that I didn't get

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Speaker 2: the invite so everyone and I also seem to be

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Speaker 2: riding along yesterday. All the cabinet ministers or the counselors,

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Speaker 2: the mayor was there not poor old Jack though, gonna

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Speaker 2: wait until twenty twenty six, like the rest of the

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Speaker 2: poops never mind.

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