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

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Speaker 1: from News Talk z EDB.

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Speaker 2: Seventeen minutes past nine on News Talks EDB, Aaron has

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Speaker 2: flipped me a note to say, Jack, I totally agree

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Speaker 2: with you. I binged all four episodes of Adolescents in

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Speaker 2: one night and couldn't stop talking about it for days thereafter.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Aaron. Yeah, it's funny. I see in the UK

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Speaker 2: now they're actually talking about even Kirstaff and the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister has lent support to us. They're talking about screening

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Speaker 2: it in all schools is a kind of educational thing

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Speaker 2: because you know, it's about knife crime, it's about a

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Speaker 2: stabbing incident, and obviously they have a big problem with

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Speaker 2: that kind of thing in the UK at the moment.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Aaron was affected, like I am, Jack, really

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Speaker 2: looking forward to watching a lesson. Of course, it was

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Speaker 2: recommended in our screen time segment just a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks ago on News Talks ZEDB. So we'll catch up

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Speaker 2: with our screen time expert Tara ten and see what

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Speaker 2: the next adolescence is going to be. Right now, they're

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Speaker 2: time to catch up with Kevin Meln he's with us

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Speaker 2: this morning. More Dian Kevin, what Jack, have you seen

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Speaker 2: this is yet? No?

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Speaker 3: I haven't. Actually, I'm sort of I'm one of those

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Speaker 3: people who always who thinks they're up with the play

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Speaker 3: and then somebody else says they're watching. They're right on

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Speaker 3: past that, because like I'm working my way through.

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Speaker 2: Right, okay, but yeah, you're not to play given, I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry if you're working even I was two years late

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Speaker 2: to teed Less, So if you're working through ted Less

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Speaker 2: so now then I'm afraid that we can probably safely

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Speaker 2: say you're not up with a play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. I realized that. No, I

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Speaker 3: will now you've said it, I will have a little squiz.

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Speaker 3: It's stunning Ado Lessons.

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Speaker 2: It is just it is. Yeah, I'm not I'm not

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Speaker 2: hamming it up one iota, and I cannot remember being

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Speaker 2: as moved by a TV show, certainly in recent years.

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Speaker 2: So if you have a chance, it's only four episodes

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Speaker 2: and they're only about forty five minutes or an hour each,

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Speaker 2: so very much. It's on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 2: It's on Netflix, But you need to I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 2: Here's my recommendation. If you're going to watch it, make

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Speaker 2: sure you save half an hour afterwards. Don't do it

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Speaker 2: as the very last thing you do before you go

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Speaker 2: to sleep. No, because I honestly, if you can go

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Speaker 2: and read a book or something afterwards, just to take

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Speaker 2: your mind off it for a bit, not because it's

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Speaker 2: you know, a horror or anything like that and really

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Speaker 2: really gory or graphic, just because it's really affecting and

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Speaker 2: you were sitting there like I was just kind of stewing,

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Speaker 2: you know. Anyway, speaking of a lessons, your daughter is

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Speaker 2: looking at buying a new car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been looking for a little hatchback for Tommy.

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Speaker 3: Of course, in the back of my mind are those

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Speaker 3: dramatic ads on TV about the safety ratings on cars.

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Speaker 3: My brother was killed in a car crash when he

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Speaker 3: was exactly the same age as Tommy. So I didn't

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Speaker 3: want to buy an unsafe car. My wife said, only

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Speaker 3: buying the car up to you, but it must have

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Speaker 3: a good safety rating. I was looking at hatchbacks around

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Speaker 3: the ten thousand dollars mark, and the dealer I know

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Speaker 3: put me onto a twenty eleven Suzuki Swift Imple for

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Speaker 3: eight grand I remembered for a small car that Suzuki

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Speaker 3: Swifts had a pretty good reputation for safety. I was

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Speaker 3: about to buy it, but when I put the cars

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Speaker 3: regio into the government's safety ratings Right Cars, the car

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Speaker 3: got just three stars out of five for general safety,

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Speaker 3: which was considered marginal, and just one star out of

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Speaker 3: five for driver safety driver safety meaning very poor. This

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Speaker 3: surprised me. I went online and found the Automobile Association's

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Speaker 3: review of the twenty eleven Suzuki Swift when it was

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Speaker 3: published when the car came into the country. It said fun,

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Speaker 3: safe and affordable. The two thy and eleven Suzuki Swift

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Speaker 3: notably exceeded the thresholds for a coveted five star Euro

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Speaker 3: end cap safety rating. So how come, I asked myself,

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Speaker 3: According to the same ratings, it's so unsafe now, But

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Speaker 3: I thought for my daughter's sake, I'd take no risks

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Speaker 3: from buy a newer car. For eleven thousand, I found

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Speaker 3: a great little two thousand and fifty Suzuki Swift, New Zealand,

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Speaker 3: new new tires, seven air bags, Bluetooth, et cetera. Again,

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Speaker 3: I checked at safety ratings. It was the same as

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Speaker 3: the two thousand and eleven car. Marginal for general safety,

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Speaker 3: very poor for driver safety, and I'm thinking what's going on.

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Speaker 3: Eleven grands a lot of money for kids first car.

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Speaker 3: It's what a lot of parents spend on their own cars.

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Speaker 3: I'm told by the dealers that has more safety innovations

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Speaker 3: come out in brand new cars, the safety ratings for

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Speaker 3: older models drop and drop. It's not like those older

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Speaker 3: cars are getting any less safe. It's about how they

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Speaker 3: measure against brand new cars on the market with innovations

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Speaker 3: like bicycle detectors that we're getting this year. If this

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Speaker 3: is so, I reckon that the safety ratings are a

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Speaker 3: bit misleading. Ten year old cars that have been looked

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Speaker 3: after are, in my opinion, not unsafe. They're just less

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Speaker 3: safe than new cars. People shouldn't be put off buying them.

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Speaker 3: There's a world of difference between the ten year old

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Speaker 3: car I've now found from a daughter and the ridiculous

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Speaker 3: cardboard car featured in the safety ratings. AD.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really really interesting point and something I've

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Speaker 2: experienced recently too, because we upgraded from the single car

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Speaker 2: we have, which is a Toyota Corolla Hatchback, and we

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Speaker 2: bought a new, well a newer, still secondhand Toyota Corolla Hatchback,

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Speaker 2: but yes, very very glamorous. But here's the thing. We

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Speaker 2: had a five star end cap rating. But I realized,

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Speaker 2: and the good thing was that the newer car did

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Speaker 2: have more earbags and that kind of thing. But I

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Speaker 2: realized that that some of the reason it had the

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Speaker 2: new or had had the full safety rating was because

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Speaker 2: it has things like lane departure warning, so it beeps

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Speaker 2: at you it's going to lane departure. It has like

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Speaker 2: an automatic break function if you're getting close to things,

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Speaker 2: and it has lots of things that beep at you.

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Speaker 2: But of course, after driving it for a month, we

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Speaker 2: actually found that some of those things that were beeping

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Speaker 2: at us actually probably made us less safe, because you know,

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Speaker 2: like if you're just going around a car in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the road that's turning or something, and all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, the car kind of lurches and screams

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Speaker 2: at you when you're not expecting it, it can be

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Speaker 2: quite unsettling. So I ended up actually turning off some

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Speaker 2: of those safety I measures, Yeah, go into the system

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Speaker 2: and turn it off in order to make us safer.

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Speaker 2: And it was like, ah, I think we might be

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Speaker 2: prioritizing the wrong thing here, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting thing I just think, Yeah, I just

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Speaker 3: think there's a better way of explaining what those safety

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Speaker 3: ratings are. It doesn't mean to say in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: and I don't I'm no expert, obviously. Yeah, in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't mean to say you're not safe. It means

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Speaker 3: that newer cars had have greater safety. Yeah, but of

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Speaker 3: course you can't afford those cars, so you have to

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Speaker 3: buy the older car, particularly if you're buying the family members.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean you can't afford to buy new cats of

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Speaker 3: the old family. You can't afford to buy it for yourself.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean the other the other thing I

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Speaker 2: think about too, is that, you know, is the safety

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Speaker 2: of other people. So so you know, of course there's

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Speaker 2: you as the driver want to be safe and you

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Speaker 2: want your passengers to be safe. But you know, I

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Speaker 2: look at some of the monstrously large vehicles around the

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Speaker 2: place and I'm like, man, this is not making pedestrians

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Speaker 2: any safer.

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Speaker 3: No, hell yeah, yeah, no, anyway, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thank you for that, Kevin. That's really interesting. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I hope that Tommy appreciates your your expertise on on

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Speaker 2: that front. Thank you for your feedback as well. Jack

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Speaker 2: really enjoyed Kevin's comments this morning. He's totally right regarding

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Speaker 2: the safety ratings. It's a funny old thing. Ninety two

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