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Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, Host of the Country are Jamie.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Heather, it's great to be here in person.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on your award.

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Speaker 2: Well a lot for again.

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Speaker 1: What's it for?

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Speaker 2: I think something like outstanding contribution to radio but in brackets.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I've been trying to win a radio

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Speaker 2: award for thirty years and I eventually won something only

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Speaker 2: I've been hanging around.

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Speaker 1: Is this the one they give?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: This is the one that they give to someone who's

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Speaker 1: tried heaps of times and not one. Yeah, they go,

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Speaker 1: let's just put the guy out of his misery, given

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Speaker 1: this one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then normally just before they put you out

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Speaker 2: to pasture.

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Speaker 1: So are we scouting for a Jamie replacement? Then, of

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Speaker 1: course we're not.

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Speaker 2: Jamie.

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Speaker 1: You deserve it because you've done a fantastic job, haven't

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Speaker 1: you be honest about it?

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Speaker 2: Oh? No? But I mean, the one thing I have

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Speaker 2: achieved is way early on, I think I saw there

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Speaker 2: was a gap in commercial radio for rural programming, and

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Speaker 2: we tied that in with a bit of farming and footy.

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Speaker 2: We were doing rugby commentaries back in the day down

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Speaker 2: on Hokkanui and Gore. Yeah, and so I was often saying, love, Feather,

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Speaker 2: you don't have to be the best. I'm far from

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Speaker 2: the best. I'm no Heather, I'm no Husk. What I was,

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Speaker 2: what I was smart enough to do, was to realize

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Speaker 2: there was an opportunity first. So you know, thirty years

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Speaker 2: or thirty one years in my case, Rural Broadcasting still

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Speaker 2: own a couple of radio stations down South, even though

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Speaker 2: one's a computer. Rack and Bellcluther, Heather. But it's been

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Speaker 2: a great journey. And the likes of my dear cousin

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Speaker 2: you're better half, actually your worse half, Barry, like he's

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Speaker 2: been on my show like for thirty years. So we

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Speaker 2: just formed these long, long bonds. And I've been speaking

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Speaker 2: to the Prime Minister of the day every year since

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Speaker 2: the year two thousand. When Helen Clark came asked to

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Speaker 2: go on to our show, did she down on South?

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Speaker 2: And simply because, Heather and you're a student of political history.

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Speaker 2: Simply because there was this young whipper snapper called Bill

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Speaker 2: English who she thought was a bit of a threat.

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Speaker 1: Oh interesting, she thought, get get him, well, get on home. Listen, Jamie,

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Speaker 1: what I think you're too hard on yourself. But what

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Speaker 1: I want to say is The thing that you have

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Speaker 1: got is that you're immensely likable, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: the most important thing. And I could keep trying to

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Speaker 1: do that too. I could keep working on that one.

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Speaker 2: No, Heather, you know, the only soft thing about you

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Speaker 2: is your teeth. That's right, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being honest, Bears now.

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Speaker 2: You need that on your job. I'm not as hard

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Speaker 2: hitting as don't listen.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to turn this into a mutual admiration society,

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Speaker 1: but family, Heather, own the fact that you are a

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Speaker 1: wonderfully likable man, and that is very very important. Incredibly,

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Speaker 1: some people would say charming now, is it beers now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Bears now. So we've got the formalities out

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Speaker 2: of the road, and I know that you. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you've been that busy working. You can only go to

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Speaker 2: the after match. So I'm really looking forward to catching

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Speaker 2: up with you and cousin Barry afterwards. It's always a

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Speaker 2: pleasure to be up in Auckland with the big guns.

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Speaker 1: Got on you, Jamie, listen, go well, go and enjoy

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Speaker 1: your busies and we'll see you there shortly enough. It's

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Speaker 1: Jeremy McKay, Host of the Country for more from Heather

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