1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: The Rural Report on Heather do for see Allen. 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 2: John Hi, host of the Countries with Us. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:09,639 Speaker 1: Hello Jamie, Hello Heather. I've got a bone to pick 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 1: with you. I've heard in my absence that you've been 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: shouting the odds about how Hamish Mackay my namesake and 6 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: film's a lot better on the radio than me. No. 7 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 2: Well, i've been flirting with him, is what's happened, and 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: so we've decided we're going. But no, I never said 9 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: that he's better than you. And if that's what he's 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: told you, then we also know another thing about Hamish, 11 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: which is that he tells a porky. But no, it's 12 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: lovely to have you back, just back from holiday. Go 13 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: on straight to Gisbane, have you? 14 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah. While I was in the Auckland office today 15 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: I had a brief family cuddle with yourself and cousin Barry, 16 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:43,959 Speaker 1: and then straight onto a plane for Gisbone. We're here 17 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: for the Can you believe this, Heather? The one hundred 18 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: and fiftieth Amp Show or Gisbone Show starts tomorrow. So 19 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: you've got to go back to my maths is right 20 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: eighteen seventy five and I'll just give a bit of 21 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: a shout it. I've just checked into the port Side Hope, 22 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: which is right by the waterfront here in Gisbon, and 23 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 1: I must say I haven't been in Gisbon for years. 24 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: What a beautiful town it is and the weather here 25 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: today is absolutely stunning. We've been down to the show. 26 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: We've set up at the Brand site. The Brand boys 27 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: are very excited to have us there tomorrow. I think 28 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: they're more excited that the Prime Minister Christopher Luxen's going 29 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: to kick off the show from the Brant site tomorrow, 30 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: which reminded me Heather of a story going back to 31 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: the two thousand and six. It might have been the 32 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: last time I was in Gisbon. I did a drought 33 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: farmer field day way up in the hills behind Gisbane, 34 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: and there was a bloke by the name of John 35 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: Key there who was the opposition leader at the time. 36 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: He went to the top of this hill or mountain 37 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: on the back of a quad four wheel that got 38 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: covered in dust and there was a helicopter there to 39 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: take him back I think, to Napier Airport to go back. 40 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: And there was four or five hundred farmers there for 41 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: this drout event and he said to his people, going 42 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: until I've been around every lener like big bales of hay, 43 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: and the farmers were having a beer, and he went 44 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: round and he worked. It wasn't a room. It was 45 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: a huge open paddock with all these farmers having a 46 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: stubby over a hayball. And I thought, this guy's got it. 47 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: He can really work a room. And of course a 48 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: couple of years later he was Prime Minister. So it'll 49 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: be interesting to see if Christopher Luxen can have that 50 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: effect in Gisbon tomorrow. 51 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, she SAT's a work ethic, isn't it. 52 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: Now? 53 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: What do you make of these emissions targets read the methane? 54 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 2: What do you make of this? 55 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: Well? I think it's good and sensible. It happened in 56 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,839 Speaker 1: my absence. I haven't fully caught up yet, but look, 57 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: I think what is at fourteen to twenty four rather 58 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: than twenty four to forty sevens just eminently sensible ag 59 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: not in the ets. And I know that the Greennies 60 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: and Green Peace all are jumping up and down about this, 61 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: but as an economy, we haven't got that much going 62 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 1: for us at the moment, so we just can't hamstring 63 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: our biggest industry at forty seven percent. As he Waker 64 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: echinoa and all that sort of nonsense was proposing it, 65 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: it just would have shut down twenty percent of our 66 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 1: sheep and beef farms and I think seven or eight 67 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: percent of our dairy farmers. So forget about this very 68 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: pragmatic approach from the government. I pat them on the back. 69 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 1: I tipped my hat to them for that one. Yeah. 70 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Jamie, look after yourself. It is so lovely to 71 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 2: have you back. I really mean that. We'll talk to 72 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,399 Speaker 2: you again on Tuesday. That's Jammie mackaie host of the Country. 73 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 74 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: news Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 75 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.