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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.

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Speaker 2: A'd be thank you for your messages, Jack, so many

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Speaker 2: memories for us. All of New Zealand had its finest cisling. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it is. It's always funny. You get kind

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Speaker 2: of nostalgic, don't you look back? I mean, just look,

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Speaker 2: just look at that. An eighty five square meter house

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Speaker 2: on a nine hundred and something square meter section. It is,

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Speaker 2: you know, that's what That's a true quarter acre, right.

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Speaker 2: I just remember as the kid, it was fast like

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Speaker 2: Grandad's section just felt so big you can kind of

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Speaker 2: get lost. It just meant that Hide and Seek was

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Speaker 2: always so much better, you know. Anyway, ninety two ninety two,

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Speaker 2: if you want to send us a messages this morning,

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Speaker 2: please do tell me. If you drive that stretches State

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Speaker 2: I One more regularly than I do between ash Vegas

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Speaker 2: and christ Church, tell me please assure me that the

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Speaker 2: potholes aren't usually as bad as they have been this week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there's been so much rain, right, so

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Speaker 2: those potholes are pretty enormous. But my goodness, I just

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Speaker 2: couldn't believe the state of the road. I could not believe.

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Speaker 2: I'll get to more of your feedback very shortly right now, though.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Milne is with us this morning. Calder, Kevin Jack.

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Speaker 3: I've got very warm memories of Ashburton as well. My

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Speaker 3: oldest sister lived there when she got married. Noturs to

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Speaker 3: go down to the state, but I tell you one

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Speaker 3: thing I remember so much that you were the me

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Speaker 3: envy me for I once went to the Ashburton Domain

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Speaker 3: to see the MCC cricket team. Wow.

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Speaker 2: Really, where was that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. They were playing some Canterbury side

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Speaker 3: with the MCC side with glittering names. Yes, touring New Zealand,

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Speaker 3: and Ashburton was one of the places that they are.

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Speaker 3: They played a test match at.

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Speaker 2: Least feature match.

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Speaker 3: Yeah four days or yeah, four day game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how good? The Ashburton Domain A, it's a it's

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Speaker 2: one of those, you know, like fantastic you know, sometimes

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Speaker 2: you get them in parts of regional New Zealand, like

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Speaker 2: really really amazing public space. I always loved the flying

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Speaker 2: fox at the esh Button Domain always had the flying fox,

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Speaker 2: you know, like one of those proper ones that probably

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Speaker 2: wouldn't pass a health and safety laws these days. But yeah, Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Hey Keven, you have been reflecting over the last twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours or so on the life and times of

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Speaker 2: SA Bob Jones.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Jack, As you know, when you work in television,

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Speaker 3: you've got to expect some criticism, some nasti reviews. But

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Speaker 3: the king of the Nazi review was SA Bob Jones,

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Speaker 3: who died yesterday. One review of a Fairgo story I'd

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Speaker 3: done I've kept. It's a bit of a classic. It

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Speaker 3: refers to one of the best stories I ever did

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Speaker 3: on Fairgo. Actually it ended up in the courts all

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Speaker 3: the way up to the Court of Appeal and Fairgo

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Speaker 3: won it that Bob didn't like it. Bob's review was

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Speaker 3: lengthy and here is just some of the lines from it.

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Speaker 3: It appeared in Wellington's Dominion newspaper headlined would you buy

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Speaker 3: a fair Go used car story? It begins one of

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Speaker 3: the worst examples of defamatory television journalism abuse I have

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Speaker 3: ever heard, shamelessly ignorant and grossly unfair. According to the

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Speaker 3: smug mediocrites who present this show, this was an example

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Speaker 3: of moral and ethical turpitude, demanding nationwide exposure. This bumptuous

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Speaker 3: shower at Fairgo knows nothing about commercial practice. According to

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Speaker 3: these buffoons, this was a one off revelation that they

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Speaker 3: had discovered. It was a disgrace. It was unjust, ignorant, unbalanced, defametry,

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Speaker 3: and in my view, a crime against decency. It was,

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Speaker 3: in one word, sleazy. The program has a lack of

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Speaker 3: balance and has witch hunting tendencies. So Bob ended that

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Speaker 3: with fairgoes a row of smug, supercilious and ignorant talking heads.

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Speaker 3: It's garbage and should be closed down smartly. Anyway, that

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Speaker 3: was way back in nineteen eighty eight, and Fago continued

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Speaker 3: successfully for another thirty six years. I later got to

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Speaker 3: know and quite enjoyed so but I had some once.

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Speaker 3: If he remembered the review, he said he didn't. But

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Speaker 3: Bob Jones will be remembered as a terrific writer. Jack

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Speaker 3: Wellington already feels all the more gray for his parting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny, I.

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Speaker 3: Can.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you that. Similarly, Bob Jones was no

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Speaker 2: great fan of mine. However I actually had. I actually

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Speaker 2: went and saw him a few years ago. It was

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Speaker 2: very interesting. It was just before COVID. It was like

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Speaker 2: literally about a week before the COVID lockdown in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: And that's when, you know, senior government officials were kind

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Speaker 2: of not really considering the prospect of lockdowns or anything

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Speaker 2: like that. And he said to me, you watched this.

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Speaker 2: This whole country is going to be locked down in

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Speaker 2: a week or two. The global economy is going to

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Speaker 2: be totally dis up, all of the supply chain is

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Speaker 2: going to be a massive issue. You just wait in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand. It's going to need to port from the

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Speaker 2: government all these things. And then, of course, about three

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Speaker 2: days later he just proved to be one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I know there are some people, you

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Speaker 2: know who have you been upset by comments he's made

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Speaker 2: over the years, And certainly he's he's not been a

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Speaker 2: shrinking violent when it comes to, you know, saying what

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Speaker 2: he really thinks.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's not about as long as it's not

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Speaker 3: about you, it can be most enjoyable reading some of

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Speaker 3: his pieces, you.

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Speaker 2: Sort of feel like this, you know, like he's such

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Speaker 2: a character. You know, you sort of feel like the

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Speaker 2: character like that couldn't quite exist in the modern age anymore,

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Speaker 2: you know, which is which is a bit of a shame.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I gave the speech at Barry soaper's seventieth birthday

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Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and we were chatting, Bob

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Speaker 3: and were chatting beforehand, and I give him a speech

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Speaker 3: and he suddenly he suddenly lets out with your bloody

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Speaker 3: ugly milk, and but you but you learn that he

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Speaker 3: didn't mean it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was just all

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Speaker 3: part of the pant Yeah.

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Speaker 2: All very good. Hey, thanks Givin. You have a good

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Speaker 2: weekend and we will catch again really soon. Kevin melm

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Speaker 2: with us this morning.

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