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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalks.

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Speaker 2: EDB, News Talks eDV. Yes, you're listening to Jack Tame

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live out of New York as I prepare for

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Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four US presidential election and have plenty

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Speaker 2: more to say about that this morning. My first impressions

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Speaker 2: from being on the ground. Orthough, it has to be

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Speaker 2: said that is amazing. As New York City is, it

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Speaker 2: is probably not the best place to have an overall

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Speaker 2: perspective of how things are shaping up in the US. However,

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Speaker 2: I have. Yeah, I already had a little bit of

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Speaker 2: experience in the last day or two with some people

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Speaker 2: who are very, very passionate about the likely result from

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Speaker 2: the election. So I'll tell you about that very shortly.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get in touch this morning, ninety

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Speaker 2: two ninety two is the text number, you know, the

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Speaker 2: deal Jacket, News Talks, dB dot co dot nz is

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Speaker 2: my email address. Kevin Meln there's with us this morning, KalDer.

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Speaker 3: Kevin A Jack. It's just extraordinary. Really, I can't get

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Speaker 3: over it, maybe because I'm an old guy, but you know,

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Speaker 3: it's sort of incredible that you're in now as that

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Speaker 3: you're coming in live from New York, as though you

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Speaker 3: had just wandered down the road from your place in Auckland.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is amazing. Look, I never want to

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Speaker 2: say anything about too confident about the Black Caps, and

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Speaker 2: I never want to say anything too confident or cocky

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Speaker 2: or optimistic about technology either, especially Kevin, when we're only

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Speaker 2: you know, fifteen minutes into our morning together. But yes,

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Speaker 2: it is amazing when technology works, what you are able

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Speaker 2: to do in this world, and just how connected we

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Speaker 2: can all be. So yeah, very much a privilege to

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Speaker 2: be broadcasting from here this morning. And this is a

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Speaker 2: place that hasn't just caught my heart, it's caught yours

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, of course you're talking about being in Central Park.

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Speaker 3: And I saw Leonard Bernstone putting on a content in

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Speaker 3: New York Philharmonic one evening, probably about the round about

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Speaker 3: the same time of the year we are now, and

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Speaker 3: just all the lights of the high rises slowly coming

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Speaker 3: on behind them as the show went on. You know, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I reckon Manhattan's for the center of the universe, like you,

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Speaker 3: so much going on there, so intense, As you said,

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Speaker 3: the hustle, I spent a week filming there in nineteen

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Speaker 3: ninety six. It was a travel video for tvn j

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Speaker 3: it's holiday program. It seemed you couldn't fail to make

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Speaker 3: interesting videos in New York. Just point the camera, something

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Speaker 3: happens in front of it. We were filming long lens

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Speaker 3: crowd shots and downtown New York when the cameraman asked

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Speaker 3: me to look into his eyepiece. Isn't that Gianni Vasacci?

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Speaker 3: And there was the renowned pest designer chatting on the sidewalk,

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Speaker 3: so we got shots of him. Following year, of course,

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Speaker 3: he was shot dead in Miami. We were told there

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Speaker 3: was going to be a huge moon rise over the

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Speaker 3: Manhattan skyline, which we were keen to film. Unbelievably, we

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Speaker 3: had permission to film off the roof of the World

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Speaker 3: Trade Center, off one of the towers. We went up

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Speaker 3: a few days, EGO, need to check it out. Quite

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Speaker 3: an experience, of course, wandering around on the roof of

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Speaker 3: the then highest building in New York. But when we

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Speaker 3: tested the camera, we got continuous distortion. Tend out to

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Speaker 3: me from all the broadcasting and telecommunications and tenna that

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Speaker 3: roof of World Trade Center made it impossible to film.

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Speaker 3: That left just the next best thing, Jack filming the

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Speaker 3: moon rise off the balcony of the Empire State Bold.

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Speaker 3: But we weren't allowed to take our tripod onto the

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Speaker 3: balcony in case anyone tripped over it unless we paid

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Speaker 3: a twenty thousand dollars insurance premium for half an hour filming.

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Speaker 3: We didn't have that sort of budget, so the cameraman

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Speaker 3: filmed the moon rise without a tripod off his shoulder,

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Speaker 3: which ain't easy for our troubles. We got the most

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Speaker 3: astonishing images of a massive moon rising up between the

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Speaker 3: Manhattan high Rise. The shots are a bit shaky, but

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Speaker 3: it turned out to be the most glorious sequence in

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Speaker 3: our half hour video of New York. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That's so special, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I suspect that that budgets and television certainly haven't improved,

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Speaker 2: and that views might have. But maybe getting permission is

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Speaker 2: even more complicated than it was back then. Heaven it

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Speaker 2: is like you, I feel. They call it the crossroads

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Speaker 2: like a city around which the world revolves At times.

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Speaker 2: I just think, you know that there can be no

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Speaker 2: place on this on this earth that has more languages spoken,

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Speaker 2: more cultures represented, more people from different backgrounds, rich and

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Speaker 2: So obviously you experienced that during a golden period.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure, but here we are sitting there talking about

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Speaker 3: in there. You're sitting in there. It's phenomenal, it really is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it's very special. Hey, thank you so much, Kevin,

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Speaker 2: and thank you for your text this morning, Jack, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely loved your introduction. The memories you have reminded me

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Speaker 2: of last year when I went back to Sydney having

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Speaker 2: not lived there for nearly forty years. So much changes,

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Speaker 2: but still so much that I can remember. Enjoy your time.

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Speaker 2: This is clear, Thank you clear. Yeah, it's funny. So

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Speaker 2: I lived here for five years, and long time listeners

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Speaker 2: to the show will know that for I think four

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Speaker 2: years we broadcast every week out of New York. And

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Speaker 2: it's funny. I've probably been since I have moved back

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Speaker 2: to New Zealand and lived at home, I've probably been

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Speaker 2: back or five or six times. And yeah, there's always

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Speaker 2: there's always like a little adrenaline rush. I actually have

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Speaker 2: a playlist that I play every time I land in

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Speaker 2: the city and go for my sort of first walk

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Speaker 2: in the sunshine to try and get used to the

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Speaker 2: jet lag and get myself on the right, on the

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Speaker 2: right clock. And yeah, there's something about it. There's some

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Speaker 2: sort of visceral reaction I have every time I'm walking

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Speaker 2: back through the city. Interestingly, though, I've just come from

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Speaker 2: Long Island today, so I've been out on Long Island

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Speaker 2: to an area that is very much divided between Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump supporters and Karmala Harris supporters. In fact, I was

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Speaker 2: just going through a couple of houses just before coming

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Speaker 2: here that had their lawn signs all laid out for

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Speaker 2: the upcoming election, like literally next door neighbors, ones with

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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris signs, ones with Donald Trump signs. You can

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Speaker 2: only imagine what disputes over the boundary line might mean

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Speaker 2: for those kinds of communities. But it's going to be

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Speaker 2: a fascinating time broadcasting here over the next couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks as we count down to the election.

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