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Speaker 1: Slip slide. Despite what Monther nature is throwing at us

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Speaker 1: at the moment, summer is on its way. The Cricket

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Speaker 1: a reminder of that. Also something that popped up on

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Speaker 1: the community Facebook page yesterday outfit called Slip and Slide

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Speaker 1: asking for places to put a giant water slide. Say

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Speaker 1: what tickled by this? We say hi to Emily Rutherford. Hi,

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Speaker 1: how are you, Luke good? Tell us about the giant

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Speaker 1: water slide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So basically I have this. It's the enormous water slide,

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Speaker 2: which it's basically like taking the classic keiwe backyard slip

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Speaker 2: and slide and making it one hundred times bigger.

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Speaker 1: How big?

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Speaker 2: And so I have actually two hundred meters of slide,

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Speaker 2: but they're in twenty five twenty five meter lot, so

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Speaker 2: I can have it sort of either fifty meters or

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Speaker 2: seventy five meters or hundred or after two hundred meters long,

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Speaker 2: depending on how big the hill is that we can

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Speaker 2: find to put this slide on. So I'm really wanting

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Speaker 2: to do an event in Canterbury this summer, and I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to find an appropriate location to put the giant

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Speaker 2: slipping slade.

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Speaker 1: Well, the most obvious spot I can think of is

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Speaker 1: the slope by EA Networks Center, where we've wanted to

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Speaker 1: put a hydra slide for goodness knows how many years.

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Speaker 1: So this is a nice alternative. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: it would be big enough though. How much run do

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Speaker 1: we need?

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Speaker 2: I think to make it decent, you want the hill

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Speaker 2: to be at least fIF three meters long, and then

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Speaker 2: you can put another as there's flat at the bottom

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Speaker 2: so people can come to a stop. Then you can

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Speaker 2: put another twenty five meters at the bottom for people

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Speaker 2: to come to stop. And then there's a big ten

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Speaker 2: inflatable pool that attaches to that well wet.

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Speaker 1: And while down at lake Hood would be cool coming

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Speaker 1: off the slide into the lake, it's not awfully hilly

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Speaker 1: there though. Could we make like an artificial ramp? Was

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Speaker 1: it too much? Evan?

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Speaker 2: I actually did meet with the guys at lake Hood

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Speaker 2: about a year or two ago about that, so I

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Speaker 2: have been interested in doing something there too. Yes, it

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Speaker 2: isn't quite steep enough, so it would be a bit

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Speaker 2: of a trickier setup, but we could potentially put a

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Speaker 2: giant inflatable tower on the hill and then yeah, then

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Speaker 2: you go off the inflatable tower into the lake. So

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Speaker 2: that is another option too.

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Speaker 1: I see that working because you're the same Emily that

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Speaker 1: runs that aquatic park, that inflatable aquatic park at Cromwell

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Speaker 1: in Lake Duns today.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I am so. I run the inflate water park

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Speaker 2: in Cromwell and then the giant slip insides is kind

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Speaker 2: of my secondary business.

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Speaker 1: I think of wedday jobs up at Mount Heart that

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Speaker 1: could be cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there would be a bit cold though, hey.

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Speaker 1: In the middle of summer, but gravelly though, we need

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Speaker 1: to put something down for a softer landing. How serious

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Speaker 1: are you about bringing this to Ashburton? Is this just

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Speaker 1: slip service?

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Speaker 2: No? I definitely. I mean I'm really looking for somewhere

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Speaker 2: around Ashpirdin or christ Church that would be suitable. We

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Speaker 2: definitely want to do something in Canterbury this summer, so

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Speaker 2: it's just about finding the right location and obviously having

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Speaker 2: the council obviously be pro it as well. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's the key.

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Speaker 1: Really, let's get at the side of the Rakai Bridge.

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Speaker 1: I'm very tickled by this. Is it just for the

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Speaker 1: wee kits or Dad's allowed on this as well? And

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Speaker 1: in which case do you make us do a special

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Speaker 1: test because I'm sure like many dads, I get excited

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Speaker 1: about the idea and then we give it a crack

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Speaker 1: and then there could be a long road to recovery.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I mean we've had to slide out in

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Speaker 2: Auckland last summer and in Cleanstown as well. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: we have just as many adults as kids, and that's

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Speaker 2: the same with our water park in Cromwell. We actually

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Speaker 2: get more adults and kids than Cromwell. Yeah. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's really heavy duty stuff. It's absolutely enormous and it's

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Speaker 2: very very heavy duty this slide.

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Speaker 1: So it's not worried about it's the dude that's sliding

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Speaker 1: down it.

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Speaker 2: And that's very hard to hurt yourself because you were

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Speaker 2: you sit on an inflatable tube and then there's a

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Speaker 2: massive inflatable pull at the bottom, which is you crash into.

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Speaker 2: So we get barely any injuries on this thing. Like

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Speaker 2: you'd beat you'd have to really really mack up to

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Speaker 2: hurt yourself.

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Speaker 1: Very wrong, don't make it a dear, Emily. No, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm very tickled by this, as I'm sure you are

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Speaker 1: listening as well. So that post is on our Eshburten

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Speaker 1: community Facebook page. If you've got some bright ideas that

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Speaker 1: maybe I haven't come up with of locations for this thing,

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Speaker 1: would be very cool to have it in our backyard

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Speaker 1: in the coming summer months. Cheers for filling us in EMILYE.

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