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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: When you.

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Speaker 1: See it's.

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Speaker 2: Sun is Fun and.

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Speaker 3: Yous Dogs thirteen to twelve. That's Weezer Island in the Sun.

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Speaker 3: That music reviewer Chris Schultz has been in a weaser

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Speaker 3: frame of mind over the last couple of days as

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Speaker 3: they perform at the Good Things Music Festival in Australia.

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Speaker 3: But Chris has the craziest week because Good Things isn't

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Speaker 3: the only thing. He's a team thing. He's with us now,

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Speaker 3: Chris run us through the week.

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Speaker 4: It's been pretty wild. It started with the Kendrick Lamar

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Speaker 4: Stadium spectacle and then he played another one the night

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Speaker 4: after which I also got to go and see Dolci

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Speaker 4: open for that show, one of the year's most exciting

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Speaker 4: new artists. And then yesterday, yeah, Good Things Festival. That's

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Speaker 4: only one of three festivals that are on in this

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Speaker 4: insane week. There are also two Lady Gaga stadium shows

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Speaker 4: as well, and a whole bunch of other smaller side

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Speaker 4: shows from those events. So yeah, it's a week like

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Speaker 4: no other. I am over here in Australia for that

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Speaker 4: week and don't get me wrong, It is a heck

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Speaker 4: of a lot of fun. I have had so much

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Speaker 4: fun that I am going to have to throw my

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Speaker 4: shoes out. They are ruined. I need to get new

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Speaker 4: shoes today. But there's a serious side to this too,

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Speaker 4: right because all year we've seen all of these acts

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Speaker 4: bypass New Zealand in favor of doing these exclusive Australian trips,

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Speaker 4: and so going to Australia traveling for concerts is something

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Speaker 4: we've had to become a custom to. MUK fans have

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Speaker 4: had to do this if they want to see these

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Speaker 4: major acts. And I can give you the list, you know,

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Speaker 4: it's it's Kylie Mino, Katie Perry, ac DC, Green Day,

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Speaker 4: Billie Eilish. The list goes on and on, and we're

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Speaker 4: all sort of like, we're still talking about the impact

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Speaker 4: this one Metallica show had in Auckland just last month. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: there's still stories being written about the impact that had

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Speaker 4: on on businesses, on the economy, on hotels and restaurants.

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Speaker 4: And it's just in Melbourne. It's it's just keeping going.

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's wild. Really, it's just a whole week

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Speaker 4: that's kind of unprecedented that we're not getting any of.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean it is pretty stark when you

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Speaker 3: when you read out that list of artists and when

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Speaker 3: you consider what you've experienced in just the last couple

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Speaker 3: of days. So you going to Lady Gaga tonight?

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Speaker 4: I am seeing the Lady Gaga Stadium Spectacle tonight. Yes.

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Speaker 4: I think it's at Marvel Stadium, which is like eighty

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Speaker 4: thousand people. A friend of mine was there last night.

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Speaker 4: He messaged me one text message that said greatest night

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Speaker 4: in my life. So a lot to live up to there.

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Speaker 4: It's also jack like something happened on Wednesday that first

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Speaker 4: Kendrick Lamar show. Louise Upston, Our Tourism Minister announced a

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Speaker 4: suite of concerts and festivals that are coming to New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: The government is trying to do something about this. They've

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Speaker 4: launched this Major Events Fund. They're trying to entice major artists.

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Speaker 4: Back in the first recipients so that were six sixty

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Speaker 4: and Cincinny to open Takaha, the New Stadium in christ

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Speaker 4: Church and a Lincoln Park show for Auckland and the

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Speaker 4: CDM Festival for Wellington Ultra Festival. But it just the

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Speaker 4: timing of that really struck me. You know, I just

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Speaker 4: landed in Melbourne and I was about to go to

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Speaker 4: Kendrick Lamara and I saw that come through, and like,

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Speaker 4: that's great. It's really good news that they've recognized us

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Speaker 4: as a problem. They're doing something about it. But it's

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Speaker 4: too little, too late for these shows that are already

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Speaker 4: locked in for Australia.

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Speaker 3: Well, what's interesting I think is that if you think

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Speaker 3: about the economics of the music industry at large today,

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Speaker 3: clearly in the streaming era, the ways in which artists

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Speaker 3: make money and make a livelihood, the balance has shifted right.

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Speaker 3: So whereas in the past that they would have made

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Speaker 3: a larger proportion of their income from selling records, these days,

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Speaker 3: given they famously get such pitiful sums from the big streamers,

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Speaker 3: many more artists are putting on these huge shows as

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Speaker 3: they're kind of primary source of income and going on

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Speaker 3: these big world these huge world tours and these big

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Speaker 3: stadium tours. It's a real kind of trend for the

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Speaker 3: world's biggest artists. And so if New Zealand isn't able

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Speaker 3: to reverse the current position and isn't able to actually

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Speaker 3: entice a few more of these artists, it's going to

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Speaker 3: be a real issue.

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Speaker 4: I think, well, I think you know that Metallica shows

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Speaker 4: the great example, right, Like the city's maxed out, it

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Speaker 4: feels exciting, everyone's out and about and it just has

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Speaker 4: this kind of lift everyone feels. I don't know, it's

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Speaker 4: just it's kind of exciting. It's kind of cool when

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Speaker 4: when these major artists come through. But you're right, stadiums

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Speaker 4: are the currency these massive acts are trading in now,

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Speaker 4: and because it's so expensive to tour, these stage setups

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Speaker 4: are just ginormous.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: I saw this at the Kendrick Lamar show. There's some

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Speaker 4: huge screens and and he's got these he's got a

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Speaker 4: car on stage, he's got these giant steps that he's

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Speaker 4: sitting on and performing off, and then there's pyro and

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Speaker 4: fireworks going off constantly. Like these are expensive shows to

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Speaker 4: put on and bringing that down to New Zealand is tricky.

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Speaker 4: That's what one of the things the government is trying

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Speaker 4: to help out with and address there. So I can

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Speaker 4: understand why they're not coming. But you know, most of

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Speaker 4: these acts have been to New Zealand before they've played

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Speaker 4: it for you know, I really hope this is just

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Speaker 4: a blip that we've recognized it, and that you know,

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Speaker 4: in the coming years we'll get back on that touring

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Speaker 4: map and we'll be able to see them again. And

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Speaker 4: I don't have to keep coming to Australia because it's

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Speaker 4: a lot more expensive, you don't.

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Speaker 3: Say, especially when you've got to buy a new pair

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Speaker 3: of shoes. Hey, thank you so much. Have a wonderful

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Speaker 3: time at gagat and I make sure you hydrate lots,

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Speaker 3: and we look forward to hearing if indeed Gaga Stadium

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Speaker 3: Tour makes for one of the best nights of your

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Speaker 3: life as well. That is Chris Shltz, our music reviewer.

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Speaker 3: His substack is boiler Room, of course.

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