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Speaker 2: So we've been talking about the decline of local newspapers

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Speaker 2: and are people just turning to Facebook community groups?

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Speaker 3: I'm in you know your own?

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Speaker 2: Just let you in.

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Speaker 3: Jim has let me into the Aerotown community page. Oh

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Speaker 3: my god, look at that. There's so much stuff going

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Speaker 3: on here.

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Speaker 2: Can I just check some mine's still pinning?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, don't bother leving Tyler and he'll just start

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Speaker 3: trolling everyone. Yeah, you'll have to kick him out. Let

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Speaker 3: him in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's probably saved, Jim.

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Speaker 3: I da'tly me and I feel so privileged to Ben

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Speaker 3: been the Aerotown community page.

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Speaker 2: You lucky Lucky man?

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Speaker 3: Is the cat still living in the movie theater?

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Speaker 4: Good question?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to post that. Yeah, OKAYX was the cat

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Speaker 3: called socks?

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Speaker 2: I don't know? Okay, yeah, post and you'll get an answer.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: We have also been heaving and we chat about coffee news.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people rang to talk about the coffee

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Speaker 2: News that they some hadn't seen it in a while,

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Speaker 2: but others absolutely love it. So we trinked down. The

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Speaker 2: man who runs coffee news around the country. His name

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Speaker 2: is Rudy Cox and he's on the line now get

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Speaker 2: it ready.

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Speaker 4: Good day, How are you very good?

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Speaker 3: Thanks for talking to us. What niche does the coffin

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Speaker 3: news fill in the New Zealand media landscape, Rudy, it's.

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Speaker 4: Just fun and it's positive. It's all like when I

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Speaker 4: scrawled to my Facebook, all I get is this care

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Speaker 4: guy that that in the US, and it's like all

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Speaker 4: doom and doom and it's all like and then there's

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Speaker 4: AI commercials and people trying to sell you shit, and

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Speaker 4: it's we're just We're just all locals. The people that

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Speaker 4: are in your newspaper are all locals in your coffee news.

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Speaker 4: So we love it.

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Speaker 3: So how many how many franchises are out there? How

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Speaker 3: much of the country does it cover?

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Speaker 4: Rudy, Currently, we have seventeen different editions, but we are

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Speaker 4: heavily recruiting, so we know there are places that want

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Speaker 4: it and and haven't got there yet or they you know,

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Speaker 4: with God when when cafes closed, with still trying to

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Speaker 4: sort of like find those those people that actually just

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Speaker 4: want want to run a franchise. So yeah, it's been good.

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Speaker 3: So what basically works as Rudy is you you do

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Speaker 3: all the content and that goes out and the people,

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Speaker 3: the franchises sell the ads in their local area. Is

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Speaker 3: that great?

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Speaker 4: They sell the ads and they do the distribution and

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Speaker 4: the rest we can we can print for them, we

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Speaker 4: can do layouts for them, we can design ads for them.

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Speaker 4: Everything is done just delivery and printing.

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Speaker 3: Is would the Coffee News ever go political?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: To be honest, like personally, there are franchisees who have

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Speaker 4: political ads in there. I don't. I just don't want

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Speaker 4: to affiliate with anybody. It just alienates to have the country.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just I'm happy not to take that money

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Speaker 4: and just keep it, keep it authentic.

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Speaker 3: So there's a comedy part of the comedy user is

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Speaker 3: it called the Lighter Side? Is that what it's called?

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Speaker 4: Or yeah? Yeah, yeah?

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Speaker 3: So what what's the last joke that you wrote for Rudy?

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Speaker 3: Can you can you remember?

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Speaker 4: I think we're due to write some but one the

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Speaker 4: top of my list is what does Jeff Bezos do

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Speaker 4: every night? Before bed?

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Speaker 3: What does Jeff Bezos to every night?

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Speaker 4: Pajamason again? He won, He puts his Pajamason.

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Speaker 2: He puts his pajamas on like Amazon. Amazon, that's a

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Speaker 2: good one.

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Speaker 3: Was too dumb for that was too.

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Speaker 1: Good?

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Speaker 3: And you write that yourself?

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Speaker 4: No I no, I I saw it. The jokes made

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Speaker 4: like honestly, but I'm like, every time I write it

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Speaker 4: or take him over like a copy and paste of

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Speaker 4: I just laugh. And I laughed my head. So I

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Speaker 4: love it.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for talking to us. Rudd pajamas.

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Speaker 3: That is actually really clever. I'm better use that one.

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Speaker 3: It's so long, so light, it's the light of sight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Curl News Talk zib to start promoting us and ads

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Speaker 3: and coffin news up and down the country. Yeah, this blanket,

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Speaker 3: let's buy an ad for Menta and Tyler afternoons and

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Speaker 3: every coffin news in the company country.

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Speaker 2: Let's start our own franchise. Rudy's looking for people.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm just gonna sign up

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Speaker 3: and make them pay. Lady, if you're still listening, just

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Speaker 3: put us in an ad and everyone.

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