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Speaker 1: Happy White Tangy Day. Everybody. You'll probably see and hear

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Speaker 1: a bit of rgi bargie from up north today because

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Speaker 1: the Polleys are getting welcomed onto the Treaty grounds. If

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Speaker 1: you've ever been up there, or if you've never been

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Speaker 1: up there, you should easily one of the best Kiwi

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Speaker 1: weekends that you could experience. Sunshines, guarantee people of friendly grubs,

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Speaker 1: good plenty of drinks to be had at the juke

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Speaker 1: or or another watering hole, talking politics into the night.

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Speaker 1: Great time. Protest is an important part of democracy. Lance's

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Speaker 1: societies boils. It keeps powerful people in check, but it

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Speaker 1: must be peaceful. The minute you start throwing fists, punching

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Speaker 1: cops and shoving people around, you lose the room. And

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Speaker 1: I've seen that happen at White Tangy several times. We

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Speaker 1: all have seen it happen at many protests about a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of different issues. I might add, I hope

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Speaker 1: it doesn't happen this year. There is apparently a group

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Speaker 1: of twenty online who apparently say that they are ready

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Speaker 1: to be arrested in the name of protests, and what

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Speaker 1: a shame that would be. If there's one thing we've

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Speaker 1: shown each other as a country over the past fortnight,

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Speaker 1: with the storms and the floodings and the landslides and

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Speaker 1: then the cleanup. It's that we are still quite a

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Speaker 1: united and down to earth country, I reckon. The politicians

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Speaker 1: might argue, the lobby groups hiss in raw, but at

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Speaker 1: its heart New Zealand is mostly made up of decent

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Speaker 1: people who look up for each other. We saw Maday

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Speaker 1: house and feed and water their neighbors. I saw farmers

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Speaker 1: being fed by cooyer on Madey. We saw farmers helping

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Speaker 1: clear maldi own land of debris. We saw tradees and

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Speaker 1: workers leaping to help terists trapped under rubble. They might

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Speaker 1: fight about race and parliament, but the reality on the ground,

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Speaker 1: as you and I both know well, is way more

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Speaker 1: chill than they make out, much more chill than we

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Speaker 1: in the media make out too. To be fair, we're

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Speaker 1: basically a nation of hard working people of all different

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Speaker 1: cultures and colors, who sometimes disagree but mostly get on

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Speaker 1: with life and look after each other. Of course, there

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Speaker 1: are exceptions, but that's exactly the point. There are exceptions,

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Speaker 1: not the rule, and this white tangy day, especially given

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Speaker 1: how badly some other democracies have gone to the dogs.

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Speaker 1: I think that's something surely worth celebrating. So happy, Why tangy? Everybody?

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