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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks'd be.

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Speaker 2: Peter on the email says Jack nailed it, and I

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Speaker 2: similarly feel a little bit nervous about having had a

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Speaker 2: week off and the team going across the Tasman for

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Speaker 2: the first league of the semi It'll all pay off

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Speaker 2: next week though, I sold out Go media. Yeah. True

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Speaker 2: Kevin Milner is here with us this morning, Calder.

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Speaker 3: Kevin Keern A question. If AFC do win, Yeah, will

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Speaker 3: they their players be opened up being poached from all

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Speaker 3: over the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, most of them have resigned for next season already.

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Speaker 2: Good question, very good question. So the majority of the

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Speaker 2: team has been re signed. And so we know, for

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Speaker 2: example that we are losing a like Alex Paulson, who's

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Speaker 2: the goalkeeper.

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Speaker 3: The go you stole off as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know have we stole them off Bournemouth, didn't we? Kevin? No, Look,

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Speaker 2: it's all in the interest of New Zealand Football at large.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Yes, and but he but he yes, he's He's

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Speaker 2: going to be gone. So that's a big loss for

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Speaker 2: the team, just as he was a big loss for you.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think most of the most of the

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Speaker 2: other players have signed for next season either, you know,

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Speaker 2: with Auckland FC, with a couple of exceptions. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: but it must be tricky, you know. And and I

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Speaker 2: don't know, I think a lot of them probably aren't

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Speaker 2: earning megabucks and so you know, you come into an

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Speaker 2: unfamiliar team, you're not earning megabucks, all of a sudden

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Speaker 2: you have an unexpectedly good season. You can imagine that

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Speaker 2: it would have been tricky round the negotiating table.

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Speaker 3: But yes, yeah, yeah, anyway they do when I might

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Speaker 3: be more of a Phoenix fan myself, but that's certainly

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Speaker 3: a FC really really exciting and and get the hopefully

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Speaker 3: get the whole country simple.

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Speaker 2: Oh totally po Yeah, Look, I actually love the things,

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Speaker 2: and when I'm in Wellington always or try and go along.

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Speaker 2: I love the things, and when they play in Auckland,

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Speaker 2: I always try and used to try and go along.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's got to be good for New Zealand

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Speaker 2: football anyway, Kenn, you want to remark on a special

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Speaker 2: Kiwi quality this week, Kiwi's generosity.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Two weeks ago, Linda and I spent the weekend

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Speaker 3: in christ Church with two of its remarkable citizens, doctors

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Speaker 3: Phil and doctor Sue Bagshaw. Phil Bagshaw's the surgeon, has

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Speaker 3: set up the groundbreaking Canterbury Charity Hospital. It just grows

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Speaker 3: and grows, and Sue's seeing her dream come true the

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Speaker 3: completion of the Hub, a superb, huge, brand new center

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Speaker 3: for teenagers looking for help and home. She's been working

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Speaker 3: on this for years. The couple's selflessness and energy is

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Speaker 3: just astonishing. Sue's now Dame Susan Bagshaw and her husband

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Speaker 3: Phil Well. He's just the companion of the New Zealand

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Speaker 3: Leader of Merit and a New Zealander of the Year.

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Speaker 3: You might recognize their surname. Their heroic son Andrew was

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Speaker 3: killed in Ukraine, a volunteer helping the locals shelter from bonds.

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Speaker 3: They will tell you that their impressive projects are the

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Speaker 3: result of extraordinary generosity from others with funds to spare.

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Speaker 3: The Canterbury Charity Hospital refuses to accept government money. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't want pipers calling the tune. Then how do you

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Speaker 3: get the millions? I asked, Phil replies, it's not that difficult. Actually,

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Speaker 3: lots of New Zealanders are extraordinarily generous. Now back home

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Speaker 3: here in carbody you go, called Vic at the gym

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Speaker 3: was telling me about a local fundraising project, the Rotary

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Speaker 3: Club and the Lions combining for the first time anywhere

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand. They want not just cash but expertise

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Speaker 3: to build a mini golf course here. It'll be a beauty.

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Speaker 3: I've send the pictures of it with bunkers and everything

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Speaker 3: like that, and once it's up and going, all proceeds

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Speaker 3: will go to our needy community about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand dollars a year according to projections. I asked it,

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Speaker 3: how's the fundraising going. Can't be easy, he replied, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: These are tough times, but we've already raised two hundred

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Speaker 3: thousand dollars. The Council's giving us the land mills Albert's

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Speaker 3: doing their contracting for free work starts in September. The generosity,

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Speaker 3: he said, of New Zealanders is phenomenal. I wish you

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Speaker 3: could talk about it on the radio. So here we are,

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Speaker 3: Jack talking about it on the radio Kiwi generosity. We're

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Speaker 3: a bloody good country, aren't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that's amazing, isn't it. When you hear those

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Speaker 2: kind of you hear those kind of stories and anecdotes

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Speaker 2: from people, you realize that there are so many Kiwis

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Speaker 2: who do dig deep despite these kind of trying times

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Speaker 2: and trying times. Yeah, that's good to hear.

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Speaker 3: A yeah it is. But at both levels, the corporate

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Speaker 3: level obviously that they have to kick in, yeah and

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Speaker 3: little and that there'd been more in the christ Church

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Speaker 3: situations here. But down here, up here in Carvity, you've

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Speaker 3: got lots of little businesses throwing money into it, and

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Speaker 3: lots of slightly bigger businesses saying, well, we'll actually do

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Speaker 3: a whole bunch of work for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's so good.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, an individuals giving money, I think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree with you. Kevin well said, Hey, thank

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Speaker 2: you Kevin Milner gave us this morning and thank you

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Speaker 2: for your feedback. Jack. Congratulations to Auckland FC. Most were

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Speaker 2: strangers to you at the start of the season, but

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Speaker 2: not to Wellington and or the Phoenix. So many of

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Speaker 2: the AFC players played for years in the Phoenix system

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Speaker 2: and then the guys with the check books came in

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Speaker 2: and stole them. Just remember the Wellington Phoenix keep me

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Speaker 2: ling football up there for twenty years. Is philt? You

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Speaker 2: know what, Phil fair call not going to dispute that,

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Speaker 2: and you know I would would say that. You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that Phoenix necessarily outbid for all of

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Speaker 2: for all of the AFC players, But you're so right,

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Speaker 2: like the Phoenix have for years chipped away and helped

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Speaker 2: to build New Zealand football resources and talent, and certainly

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Speaker 2: Auckland has benefited from that. So you know, I think

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Speaker 2: I think Phoenix fans and the Phoenix organization should get

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of credit and take a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of pride with what Auckland has achieved the season, which

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Speaker 2: I know might sound weird given they're supposed to be rivals,

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Speaker 2: but no, I think that's totally fair. Neil says Jack nicely.

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Speaker 2: Put this morning, it has been a great season for AFC.

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Speaker 2: I just hope they can keep the dream alive and

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Speaker 2: continue their winning ways, so I know they've got what

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Speaker 2: it takes. Thanks for that, Neil, If you are sending

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