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Speaker 1: With me now as Jamie Mackay, host of the Country.

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Speaker 1: Hello Jamie, Hello Heather.

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Speaker 2: Did we get to the bottom of the after shaved headaches? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what we did? I found a hold

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Speaker 1: on what was it? There were two ingredients in your perfume.

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Speaker 1: It was one was eleavender smell and one there's eleven

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Speaker 1: to smell. It's like lennelu it's called or something like that.

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Speaker 1: And then there's a citrus note which is like lemuel

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Speaker 1: or something like that. And those of your little migraine

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Speaker 1: triggers right there. So it's not your fault. Jamie.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. You've just I've just wasted a bottle

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Speaker 2: of Amani Stronger with you after.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if your wife likes it, that's more important. If

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Speaker 1: she doesn't get a headache from that, but just from

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Speaker 1: your general carping, then you're okay.

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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, I think it is the latest.

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Speaker 1: I want to know what's going on here with this

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Speaker 1: this ute tax. I think the thing is. I think

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Speaker 1: the problem here may be Simon Watt's actually who who it's?

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Speaker 1: This is not the time that he's actually got on

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Speaker 1: the tits of the farmers, is it.

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Speaker 2: No, he's a bit accident prone him and the other

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Speaker 2: bloke what's the other guy's name, the mental health minister Doocy.

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Speaker 2: He seems to do sy. The pair of them seemed

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Speaker 2: to be a wee bit accident prone and to be

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Speaker 2: fair enough, And I'd say this often repeating myself, but

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Speaker 2: you know, the current government is about as farmer friendly

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Speaker 2: as you get, and Federated Farmers, who were doing a

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Speaker 2: really good job being attack dogs at the moment, picked

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Speaker 2: up on this really quickly. Earlier in the week, I

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Speaker 2: think it was Tuesday when they kind of had the

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Speaker 2: ute tax two point zero and instead of red, they

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Speaker 2: had it and blue and they were dead right. Some

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Speaker 2: hair brain scheme somewhere suggesting that farmers should pay some

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Speaker 2: a ridiculous amount of FBT on their utes, and farmers

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Speaker 2: are no different than anyone else. If you're using your

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Speaker 2: ute for a lot of private motoring, well you've got

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Speaker 2: to stick to the rules and pay your FBT. But

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Speaker 2: the reality for most farmers when they're driving the high

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Speaker 2: Lucks or the Ranger around and nearly all but or

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Speaker 2: a good proportion of it as a business use, so

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Speaker 2: the FBT component should be very, very small. And someone

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Speaker 2: has obviously realized that in the Simon Watts department. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: fair enough.

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Speaker 1: Tell me tell me really quickly about this chap, Gordon Stevenson.

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Speaker 2: What's he want? Well, well he's I spoke to him today.

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Speaker 2: He was the big winner at the Balance Farm Environment Towards.

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Speaker 2: He took out the South Taranaki Farmer just east of Stratford.

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Speaker 2: There he took out what is the title? Let me

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Speaker 2: get this right. He's the twenty twenty five National Ambassador

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Speaker 2: for Sustainable Farming and Growing. But I never knew the blowcare.

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Speaker 2: He's a mate of a mate and everyone knows everyone

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Speaker 2: in Taranaki. But I chatted to him on the show today.

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Speaker 2: Most impressive fifty five years of age, which is quite

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Speaker 2: old to get that prize, but as he said, he's

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Speaker 2: well down the sustainability trip. This guy has got fingers

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Speaker 2: in so many pies and he's such a good all rounder,

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Speaker 2: great communicator, great with the community'd been involved in everything.

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Speaker 2: But wait for this, Heather. I chatted to him just

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Speaker 2: before we jumped on the plane to go to Mongolia

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Speaker 2: to drive a dirt bike, ride a dirt bike across

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Speaker 2: the Gobi Desert. So he's a bit of a go getter.

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Speaker 2: Keep your eye out for her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, Jamie, appreciate it. Jamie mckaie, host of the Country.

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