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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: Quarterbas nine on Newstalks ZEDV. Jennifer sent me a text

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Speaker 2: and so Jack made me laugh. We had to use

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Speaker 2: text to color pens to fill in the gaps on

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Speaker 2: our war mural. Jack, I totally relate. My partner and

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Speaker 2: I tried putting up wallstickers a few years ago. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: we are still arguing over it, Jack, Jack, Jack, Never

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Speaker 2: with the wallstickers. Never, never with wallpaper either, paint only

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, it's lower risk. Jack,

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Speaker 2: Well done for expressing vulnerability. I think it's serious, serious

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Speaker 2: vulnerability on my part trying to put up wallstickers. Our

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Speaker 2: text numbers nine two nine two. Don't forget that. If

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Speaker 2: you're sending me a text them this morning, standard text

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Speaker 2: costs supply you can email me as well if you like.

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Speaker 2: Right now, it is quarter past nine and Kevin Milne

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Speaker 2: is with us this morning. Kevin, have you ever done

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Speaker 2: wallstickers or wallpapers?

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Speaker 3: I can't remember.

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Speaker 2: You remember it? No, you trust me you remember it,

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Speaker 2: So don't. If you can't remember it, you haven't done it.

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Speaker 2: It's not the sort of thing that one forgets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I honestly the when you told that story, some

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Speaker 3: nervousness came back to me. But I can't remember an

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Speaker 3: event where we put their up. But I was going

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Speaker 3: to make the point that I don't know how good

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Speaker 3: you are at the wall stickers, but you've become a

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Speaker 3: frighteningly good interviewer. I watched I watched your interview with

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Speaker 3: the Prime Minister. I get nervous now just getting on

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Speaker 3: the end of the phone with you. I wondering whether

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Speaker 3: you might ask me a question I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If you have, and then interrupt you constantly until you

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Speaker 2: answer it. Yeah. I'm lucky to you know that. One

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Speaker 2: of the great privileges I think I have is that

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Speaker 2: I'm able to be in different roles, you know, So

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Speaker 2: it's nice to This is the thing I love about

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Speaker 2: our Saturday mornings together. Is it slightly more relaxed than

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Speaker 2: Q and A can be from time to time? Yes, yes, exactly. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I remember Brian Edwards a great interviewer. He credited some

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Speaker 3: of the success of his interviewing career to people being

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Speaker 3: just so nervous even before the interviews started. And I

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Speaker 3: think you're starting to create that sort of a reputation.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's interesting. Well, no, yeah, I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: about the reputation, but that's that's an interesting prospect.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I always think if they're politicians and senior cabinet ministers

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Speaker 2: and that sort of thing, they're usually pretty practiced it

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Speaker 2: speaking to people. But it is that being said a

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Speaker 2: foreign environment, being in a TV studio, I think, regardless

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Speaker 2: of who you are. But anyway, Keven, you you've been

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Speaker 2: celebrating an addition to the Milne family this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as you wait, under addition to your household, we've

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Speaker 3: added to ours. Not a baby. I drew the line

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Speaker 3: at that at age fifty two, which I thought was

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Speaker 3: a fair innings. No, we have a gorgeous golden retriever

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Speaker 3: nearly four months old, toilet trained in a recent graduate

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Speaker 3: of puppy school. All's gone well so far. The previous

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Speaker 3: owners trained him beautifully, though in the end deciding that

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Speaker 3: was a step too far for them and a and

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Speaker 3: a busy young household. Actually, he has already chewed into

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Speaker 3: some of the back files of My Woman's weekly columns.

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Speaker 3: This endeared him even more to my wife and daughter,

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Speaker 3: who thought it was hilarious. They don't realize those columns

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Speaker 3: may be destined for preservation in the National Archives. I

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Speaker 3: took his liking for My woman's weekly columns as confirmation

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Speaker 3: that retrievers are indeed extremely intelligent. Retrievers were, of course,

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Speaker 3: originally gun dogs that recovered game birds after they'd been

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Speaker 3: shut down. So don't be surprised if I'm knocking your

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Speaker 3: door Jack with some grouse and a partridge for your

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Speaker 3: Christmas dinner. In truth, Jack, actually, I noted when I

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Speaker 3: was writing this up, I wondered whether there were any

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Speaker 3: grouse in New Zealand. In fact, they were bought in

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Speaker 3: his zeland on the first four ships in the Canterbury,

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Speaker 3: but they never survived. But are surprised to find there

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Speaker 3: are still some partridge in the wild. Both. Okay, Now

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Speaker 3: we don't have a name for our yet, so I'm

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Speaker 3: tempted to call him either Tame or Jack. Tame seems

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Speaker 3: a great name for a pet dog, isn't it. So

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Speaker 3: every time someone asks his name and I replied Tame,

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Speaker 3: they're going to say, yeah, I can see that, but

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Speaker 3: what's his name? So we might go for Jack. When

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Speaker 3: he sniffs around nervous strangers, we can say, don't worry

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Speaker 3: Jack's tame, which would be rightly amusing to everybody, but

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Speaker 3: you by imagine.

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Speaker 2: Jack very good. That is very very very good. I

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Speaker 2: like that. He well, yeah, it depends on his behavior,

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Speaker 2: I suppose otherwise. Yeah, but I mean a goin.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, So there's something between that. You've got the trend

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Speaker 3: the two of you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I would have thought Golden Retrievers are dear, I say,

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Speaker 2: pretty high maintenance, aren't they in terms of in terms

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Speaker 2: of exercise and everything else. You've really got to keep

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Speaker 2: them moving a This is bad.

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Speaker 3: News for me, Jack. I thought we were getting something

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Speaker 3: clearly sort of straightforward because we've had border colleagues up

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Speaker 3: to now. Oh yeah, they're fairly.

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Speaker 2: I think borer colleagues the top of the list, aren't

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Speaker 2: they in terms of in terms of needing needing lots

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Speaker 2: of exercise and stimulus.

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Speaker 3: And that rustles are at the top of the list,

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Speaker 3: aren't they, are they?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I think so. When when I

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Speaker 3: had a look, I thought we were being fairly conservative

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Speaker 3: with the Golden Retriever. But it's so far honestly, we're

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Speaker 3: just running around. It's like having another baby in now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's so much fun though. Way, there's there's

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Speaker 2: such a kind of magic and joy from having.

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Speaker 3: A new year and family. I think it's turned out

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Speaker 3: to be. Now I am wondering why I've got talked

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Speaker 3: into the squad girls in the family.

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Speaker 2: Well here, yeah, yeah, true, yes, it's very convenient for her.

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Speaker 2: Well look, Kevin, thank you so much for for everything

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Speaker 2: this year. This is my last show for the year.

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Speaker 2: So you have a wonderful Christmas, won't you, and enjoy

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Speaker 2: having the puppy there. We should say, of course that

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Speaker 2: your family has given this careful consideration, the girls and

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Speaker 2: your family, and then obviously you're you are experienced, you

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Speaker 2: are experienced dog owners. So you're not recommending that everyone

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Speaker 2: makes a spur of the moment puppy decision heading into Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, hell no.

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Speaker 2: But you have a great Christmas though, and we will.

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Speaker 2: I'll look forward to speaking with you again in the

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Speaker 2: new year.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jack, it's been a pleasure, and thank you

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Speaker 3: for your Christmas card this year. That it's become something

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Speaker 3: we all look forward to now and you're not going

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Speaker 3: to be able to get out of that now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm locked in. Yeah yeah, yeah, Well it's

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Speaker 2: not very exciting.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, you've been a brilliant here and congratulations

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Speaker 3: to that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kevin. Yeah, look forward to catching up again.

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Speaker 2: So Kevin Milney, thank you very much for your text.

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Speaker 3: Jack.

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Speaker 2: Yes, best to go with the big budget when you're

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Speaker 2: buying a wall decoll but best to set aside a

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Speaker 2: contingency as well. You've got the wall decal cost, but

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Speaker 2: then you've got the cost for all of plastering that

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