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Speaker 1: Seeing a bit of a trend in hospital. Too many

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Speaker 1: young people are causing too much trouble. So instead some

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Speaker 1: pubs are going from the R eighteen to an R twenty.

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Speaker 1: Are the House on Hood and Hamilton's one such place,

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Speaker 1: and the owner, as Johnlawrenson is, well this John, very

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Speaker 1: good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Well Mike, pleasy to be here with you.

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Speaker 1: And pleasure to have you on the program. I've got

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Speaker 1: a son who is twenty five going on twenty six,

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Speaker 1: and he hangs out. I think there's an hour twenty

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Speaker 1: three and you know that sort of thing in Auckland,

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Speaker 1: So even older, is this going to be a thing?

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Speaker 2: Do you think I wouldn't surprise me. We've sort of

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Speaker 2: seen other bars deb belot it in the past. We

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Speaker 2: actually have with a couple of venues as well. And

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Speaker 2: in this far I've previously been twenty plus, dropped it

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Speaker 2: back to eighteen for a while just to give the

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Speaker 2: eighteen year olds a few more options than Hamilton, but

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Speaker 2: unfortunately they really blow up for themselves, and going back

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Speaker 2: to twenty seems like the only really logical approach.

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Speaker 1: Is there a noticeable difference? Obviously there is in an

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Speaker 1: eighteen year old versus a twenty year old.

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Speaker 2: I think when it comes to the way that they

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Speaker 2: drink himsolutely, I've sort of is the example. If you

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Speaker 2: were a thirty year old drinking with a twenty eight

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Speaker 2: year old, you probably wouldn't really notice the difference because

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Speaker 2: you know, there's still a fair bit of experience there.

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Speaker 2: But when someone's eighteen, that's really just the very first

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Speaker 2: time sort of out in that environment. They're just learning

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Speaker 2: how much alcohol they can drink, what's acceptable behavior, what

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Speaker 2: other people in the bar will put up with, what

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Speaker 2: the security will put up with. By the time your twenty,

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Speaker 2: you've been doing it for two or three years, And

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Speaker 2: I mean you're also talking about people at twenty one,

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Speaker 2: twenty two to twenty three, you know, the five years

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Speaker 2: into their social life. They really don't want to be

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Speaker 2: around people that are just discovering alcohol for the first time.

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Speaker 1: Are you getting pushed back on this or is everyone

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Speaker 1: happy with it?

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Speaker 2: Surprisingly, incredibly little pushback. We knew when we made the

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Speaker 2: post that there might be a bit of arguing between

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Speaker 2: the eighteen and twenty year olds, but what ended up

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Speaker 2: happening was just an overwhelming outflow of support and gratitude

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Speaker 2: from the people that were over twenty plus, that they

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Speaker 2: could go back to a bar that they enjoy. The

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Speaker 2: eighteen year olds have said very little. I wonder if

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Speaker 2: they probably accept down that there's a lot of truth

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Speaker 2: of what's being said.

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Speaker 1: Give us a quick snapshop of HOSPO and you're part

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Speaker 1: of the world. Are we're going well or not?

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Speaker 2: It's pretty tough out there. I mean, I think especially

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Speaker 2: Auckland Hamilton, we took a lot more heat during COVID

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Speaker 2: with those extra lockdowns when we were all in the

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Speaker 2: red setting for a lot longer than the rest of

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Speaker 2: the country was. And you know, I mean, the economy

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Speaker 2: is definitely not bouncing back as we would hope it would.

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Speaker 2: The intrust rates coming down out making the difference. Ye,

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Speaker 2: it's tough out then, like, but you know, this should

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Speaker 2: be a better year. Let's hope with these mortgages Rey folcts,

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Speaker 2: we get a bit more of extra money in the economy.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. I hope. That's good to talk to you,

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Speaker 1: John appreciated John Lawrenson, who's the House of Hood owner

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Speaker 1: in that particular part of the world.

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