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

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Speaker 1: from News Talk said, be.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Jeff's got a controversial take, Jack. I agree with

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Speaker 2: your comments this morning. Rugby golf and I love golf, Tennis, basketball, soccer,

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Speaker 2: maybe even hockey shouldn't be there. I'd love to see

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Speaker 2: darts added, I think they are hitting darts, aren't they.

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Speaker 2: I think they might be hitting. I've got to check

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Speaker 2: that for you, Jeef. Disagree with you on rugby because

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Speaker 2: rugby sevens. I think if it was rugby fifteens wouldn't

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Speaker 2: make sense. And rugby sevens is just such a spectacle

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Speaker 2: as well. It's the sort of thing that people can

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Speaker 2: pick up relatively easily if they're not that familiar with

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Speaker 2: the sport, and you have a real kind of carnival vibe.

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Speaker 2: Basketball got to keep it, especially because for international basketball,

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Speaker 2: Olympics are still the biggest thing. Tennis year. Lose it, Soccer, yeah,

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Speaker 2: lose it, hockey, keep it. That's my dad anyway, Thanks that,

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Speaker 2: Jef ninety two ninety two. If you want to send

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Speaker 2: us a message, Kevin Milne is with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Kyoda getting a Jack.

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Speaker 3: I'm from Hamilton.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Have you been enjoying the games, Kevin, I've.

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Speaker 3: Been loving the absolutely loving the game. Yeah, I just

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Speaker 3: couldn't say that my what's that sport? We go running

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Speaker 3: out the running out the side walls.

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Speaker 2: Speed climbing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's my that's I'm right in for that.

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Speaker 2: Now, what you want to have is that I like

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Speaker 2: watching the sport climbing mix, so you have the lead

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Speaker 2: climbing and the bouldering as well. They're just they're amazing

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Speaker 2: athletes and and like I was saying before about climbing,

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Speaker 2: it fits into my primal sport category. So my cave

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Speaker 2: could a caveman do it? Obviously the caveman wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: the harness and all of that kind of thing. But

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Speaker 2: I really like the sports that test kind of basic

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Speaker 2: human skills. So whether it's you know, whether it's run, jump, swim,

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Speaker 2: whether it's you know, whether it's throwing something really far,

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Speaker 2: or whether it's climbing, and I feel like that's.

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Speaker 3: The one for you. Yeah, I've got the one for you.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to see it back at the Olympic Tug

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Speaker 3: of war.

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Speaker 2: Why not? Why not see apparently.

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Speaker 3: War used to be in the Olympics. Yeah, in the

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Speaker 3: early days, and I don't understand why it's not there.

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Speaker 3: It would be a great great.

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Speaker 2: Spaces are really of the Olympics. I didn't know that,

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Speaker 2: and I mean, then, yeah, that is that is amazing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think nineteen twenty four and nineteen twenty There you go. Anyway, Kevin,

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Speaker 2: you've had a surprise this week. In between all of

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Speaker 2: the Olympic excitement, your local zoo has surprised you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was amused surprised by a news release from

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Speaker 3: Wellington Zoo on Thursday. It read let's all give a

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Speaker 3: warm welcome to Wellington Zoo's newest arrivals, Onyx and Beryl.

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Speaker 3: You might think this is the pre angle to the

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Speaker 3: arrival of a couple of baby Crimates or mother and

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Speaker 3: daughter Gerards, but no, there are a couple of Romney

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Speaker 3: Cross sheep the newest editions to the Zoo's Meet the

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Speaker 3: Locals section. Now my daughter's reaction that Wellington Zoo had

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Speaker 3: hit rock bottom I thought a little harsh. But if

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Speaker 3: we're being enticed to visit the zoo to seat some sheep,

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Speaker 3: it suggests times might be tougher for zoos than we thought.

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Speaker 3: On the other hand, and looking at it, things a

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Speaker 3: lot more positively, this may be the start of a

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Speaker 3: desirable trend. Instead of hauling rare animals out of their

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Speaker 3: home environments all over the world, zoos become places kids

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Speaker 3: go to see animals from their own backyard. And I

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Speaker 3: don't mean dogs, cats and goldfish, but maybe native deer

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Speaker 3: and goats, tar and shamois or chammy, maybe yellow eyed

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Speaker 3: penguins keewii and tuatara, and native birds like kira and carcapo,

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Speaker 3: maybe a royal albatroz. And then of course for the

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Speaker 3: city kids, you could have farm animals like horned Highland cattle,

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Speaker 3: big fluffy marinos remember Shrek. Yeah, you know, a Clydesdale

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Speaker 3: horse or two donkeys, old packers lamas. Then they go

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Speaker 3: there's the section where you go to see stoats. There

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Speaker 3: it's itchogs and bosom. I don't know, sure it's not

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Speaker 3: the exotic image of zoos come by, but maybe the

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Speaker 3: arrival of Wellington Zoo this week of Rodney Cross sheep,

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Speaker 3: it's a glimpse into the future of New Zealand zoos.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, maybe it's odd.

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Speaker 3: Thing, isn't that they have Romney Cross being announcers. New

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Speaker 3: arrivals at the zoo.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes and no. I mean I agree with you

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Speaker 2: that compared to a you know, compared to a lion

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Speaker 2: or a rhinoceros or something, it might not have that

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Speaker 2: kind of exoticism. But I suppose for a lot of

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Speaker 2: city kids, getting up close and personal with a sheep

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Speaker 2: that relatively close to a sheep might be kind of exciting.

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Speaker 3: And That's what I'm thinking, really it may be.

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Speaker 2: And from an animal wealthy perspective too, you know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're having all these problems with you know,

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Speaker 3: elephants and all this sort of stuff, getting the mirror

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Speaker 3: and finding him and then seeing them, and I'm just

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Speaker 3: wondering whether maybe there's something in it, yeah, where we

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Speaker 3: turn the zoos into just local animals that, as you say,

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Speaker 3: city kids never get to see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, we'll see Kevin. Yeah, yeah, it'll be

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Speaker 2: interesting to see what people think about that. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much, Kevin. Kevin on with us this morning. I've

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Speaker 2: looked up some of the old, crazy, old Olympic sports

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Speaker 2: that they used to have, So tug of war was

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Speaker 2: there for a few years, which is good pistol dueling,

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Speaker 2: And the thing with your pistol dueling is I mean

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Speaker 2: this sort of is no second place, is there? No

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Speaker 2: one's getting the silver medal and the pistol dueling. No.

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Speaker 2: I think they used non lethal rounds. I hope they

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Speaker 2: used non lethal rounds. And the nineteen hundred Olympics in

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Speaker 2: Paris they also did live pigeon shooting, so it was

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Speaker 2: just whoever could shoot the most most live pigeons. Again,

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Speaker 2: there's a TV spectacle, if ever there were one.

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