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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: New Zealand have won five of six titles at the

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Speaker 2: Golden Shares World Sharing and wall Handling Championships in Masterton,

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Speaker 2: Roland Smith and Joel Hennaday among the stars. Now, speaking

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Speaker 2: of stars, what a delight to welcome into the studio

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Speaker 2: on his way home after this iconic event. Host of

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Speaker 2: the Country, Jamie McKay, I feel like I should have

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Speaker 2: rolled the red carpet out, Jamie.

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Speaker 3: Lovely to see you well Lovely to see you Pinney.

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Speaker 3: You can't beat Wellington on a good day, and this

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Speaker 3: is not a good day. It was beautifully fine and

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Speaker 3: sunny when I left the Wira Rapper.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe a good day will be along shortly. We

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Speaker 2: can never count on it. Here in the Capitol. Golden

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Speaker 2: Shares twenty twenty six is all done. Tell us about

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Speaker 2: some of the highlights and the success for the Kiwi sharers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it was a great weekend for the Kiwi

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Speaker 3: sharers and wool handlers. Of course, this year coincided with

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Speaker 3: the World Sharing and woll Handling Champian Ships as well,

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Speaker 3: and you honestly couldn't have scripted a better finish. Roland

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Speaker 3: Smith's a bit of a friend of the country. The

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Speaker 3: radio show that I run doesn't rate as well as yours, Piney,

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Speaker 3: but I try him a best and it was so good.

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Speaker 3: This is a guy who's effectively come out of retirement. Look,

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Speaker 3: he's won eight Golden Shares titles. He's won one previous

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Speaker 3: world title. These days, he likes diggers and tractors. He's

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Speaker 3: got a big contracting business. He's running a farm, he

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Speaker 3: was running a sharing gang, and he's just he barely

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Speaker 3: gets any time to get on the hand piece himself.

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Speaker 3: He's just a magnificent athlete. And he was able to

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Speaker 3: come back and win that world title last night, and

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Speaker 3: that's what he was after. He had to go at

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Speaker 3: the double obviously the Golden Shaares Open title as well,

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Speaker 3: but that I think he just ran out of juice

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Speaker 3: in the end because he's not probably fit for competitive sharing.

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Speaker 3: But he's just so good. His quality is so good.

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Speaker 3: He was able to pip Toer Henderson. So it was fantastic.

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Speaker 3: You know, those two guys won the world title on

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Speaker 3: the front tower, retained the Golden Shares Open as we said,

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Speaker 3: and Roland won the World Championships, Joel Hanra cleaning up

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Speaker 3: in the wall handling great weekend for the kiwis.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely and it's still a massive event, isn't it. Masterd

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Speaker 2: and just comes alive. I remember my very first radio job,

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Speaker 2: was it Radio whited Upper in nineteen ninety two into

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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety three and the Golden Shears was enormous then

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Speaker 2: still the same.

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Speaker 3: Now did you have like a hot jock music voice

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Speaker 3: back in those days? Pony Well? Hi, I'm Jason pine Well.

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Speaker 2: I do, I must say I do remember that I

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Speaker 2: had to MC the Golden Shears karaoke competition that year.

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Speaker 2: Was there a karaoke competition last night or across the weekend? No,

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Speaker 2: there wasn't a karaoke competition, But interestingly we could have

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Speaker 2: done with fun because Rowena Duncan you know Rowena, my

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Speaker 2: former off sider, was one of the MC's. They've got

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Speaker 2: very good mcs and commentators there, but they had a

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Speaker 2: bit of a balls up if I can use those

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Speaker 2: words on your show. Piney with the sheep one mixed

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Speaker 2: them up and we had like a forty minute wait

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Speaker 2: before we could get onto the World Machine sharing title

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Speaker 2: that Roland Smith eventually won, so poor old Rowena and

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Speaker 2: the other EMCs were padding for time. They were wandering

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Speaker 2: around the audience talking to all and Sundry Chippy was

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Speaker 2: there with Karen MacNulty. Karen obviously has a lot of

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Speaker 2: big connection with the Golden Shares, a former bookie, so

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Speaker 2: he's right on the money there. So we could have

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Speaker 2: done with the karaoke competition to kill a bit of time.

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Speaker 3: And of course in the good old days they had

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Speaker 3: miss Golden Shares. That's no longer politically correct.

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Speaker 2: No, but I sort of feel as though if you

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Speaker 2: were organizing the Golden Shares logistically you make sure the

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Speaker 2: sheep are right, you know. Was it just an unfortunate

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Speaker 2: mix up?

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Speaker 3: Well, someone's head or roll Eventually it was a bit

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Speaker 3: of an unfortunate mix up. They would call it a

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Speaker 3: balls up or a boxing up the sheep and to

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Speaker 3: use farming terms. But see for that world sharing title,

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Speaker 3: the one that roll in one. They had three different

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Speaker 3: types of sheep, so they had four pirindal six crossbred

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Speaker 3: long wall that's a fall fleece and then ten second share,

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Speaker 3: a big, big two tooth young sheep that are second share.

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Speaker 3: So there's three different types of sheep and three different

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Speaker 3: wall types. So yeah, someone left the gate open somewhere

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Speaker 3: and anyhow we got there in the end. It was

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Speaker 3: a bit of a late finish, but it was a

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Speaker 3: fairy tale finish because Roland this will be it for him.

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Speaker 3: He was out there to get that world title. He

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Speaker 3: got it. Now Joel Henaay now has I think twelve

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Speaker 3: or thirteen open titles in the wall handling at the

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Speaker 3: Golden Shares. Rumor is that he's going to go hunting

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Speaker 3: Sir David Fagan's sixteen open titles in the machine sharing

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Speaker 3: to maybe be the greatest competitor at the Golden Shares.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he will be. All due respect to Joel,

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Speaker 3: because Sir David Fagan is an absolute legend. But no,

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Speaker 3: look what wonderful occasion the War Memorial Stadium all there,

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Speaker 3: the heats well and truly on and it was on

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Speaker 3: last night, and you know we count down now three years.

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Speaker 3: I think in the World Champs are going to be

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Speaker 3: in Australia.

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Speaker 2: The physical demands of sharing, Jamie, just give us an

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Speaker 2: idea of just how tough it is on bodies to

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Speaker 2: do this.

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Speaker 3: Well, I know a wee bit about it piney because

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Speaker 3: in a past life I was like a farmer sharer.

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Speaker 3: Not I did enough sharing to know this is just

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Speaker 3: too hard a job, you know, like I could knock

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Speaker 3: out two hundred a day. These guys will do six

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Speaker 3: hundred a day, or some of the world records are

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Speaker 3: eight hundred a day. That puts it sort of into perspective.

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Speaker 3: But it is that they are super athletes. These guys.

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Speaker 3: They not only share all day the tower Henderson's and

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Speaker 3: these guys are training in the gym all the time.

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Speaker 3: They're superb athletes. They say that a full day sharing

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Speaker 3: like a world record attempt, is the equivalent of running

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Speaker 3: two Olympic class marathons end on end. So it involves

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Speaker 3: amazing fitness and amazing coordination. I mean that these guys,

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Speaker 3: a lot of them, would have been top sports people

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Speaker 3: had they chosen to go down another field. They're just

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Speaker 3: genetically better than the rest of us.

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Speaker 2: Another great weekend. No doubt you'll cover it off on

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Speaker 2: your supremely popular country show. You talk about ratings. Most

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Speaker 2: of us can only dream of the ratings that you

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Speaker 2: pull on, Jamie. So look, I thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for the boost.

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Speaker 3: One got a studio with my face, plass that over

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Speaker 3: it like yours? Did you get sick of looking at yourself?

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Speaker 3: I do it.

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Speaker 2: But they need to change that screen, don't they.

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Speaker 3: We've got a big tractor at our studio.

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Speaker 2: I think I'd for one of those, yeah, rather than

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Speaker 2: a screen with my face on it. Jamie, great to

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Speaker 2: see you, mate, Thanks for stopping.

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Speaker 3: And thank you Piney.

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Speaker 2: Great to be here, Jamie McKay. Hear him on the

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Speaker 2: country across the ZIB network.

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