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Speaker 1: But can you believe that there's less than two weeks

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Speaker 1: to go until we're into the school holidays? Yay short

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Speaker 1: term one just nine weeks packed into that time has

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Speaker 1: been a school project for Year thirteen. Max Duncan, who

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Speaker 1: have managed to get on the blow of this morning? Mate?

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Speaker 1: Can you talk through what have you been tasked with

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Speaker 1: over the past couple of weeks?

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Speaker 2: For my social studies projects? I had to pick something

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Speaker 2: from Kiwyana that was important to New Zealand. Yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then I had to say like a bunch of facts

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 1: So what did you choose?

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Speaker 2: I chose the Energy the.

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Speaker 1: Energy drink, of all the Kiwi icons, of Fred Dagg,

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Speaker 1: of the gum boots, of country Calendar, YV drink.

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Speaker 2: The thing said, pick something you like because you're going

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Speaker 2: to have to write about it a lot. So I've

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Speaker 2: picked V.

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Speaker 1: A big fan of the energy drinks, eh. Yeah, to

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Speaker 1: be fair, they've fuelled Year thirteen since the dawn of time.

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Speaker 1: I remember my vice was the blue V. Are you

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Speaker 1: a fan of the blue or you're a traditional green guy?

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Speaker 2: I actually liked purple.

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Speaker 1: There's a purple one now what yeh? Oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: do you go sugar free.

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Speaker 2: No, I go full sugar.

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Speaker 1: Full cream and nothing else. I see that V's going

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Speaker 1: through somewhat of a resurgence because they've gone and back

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Speaker 1: to the Warriors for the season eight. Oh yeah, wasn't

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Speaker 1: too keen on all the green ponchos that they were

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Speaker 1: giving out as part of the promotion. At what was

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Speaker 1: it that first home game or the second game when

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Speaker 1: we were up against the Raiders, it looked like we

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Speaker 1: just had a Mount Smart stadium full of Raiders fans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's some fun stuff you've discovered about.

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Speaker 2: The I found out that they actually started in Mesing

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Speaker 2: because there was Mount hart Was nearby, and then a

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Speaker 2: lot of people went there to do like hiking, snowboarding, skiing,

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Speaker 2: and a bunch of extreme exports. Yeah, it started. It

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Speaker 2: would be a good idea to put an energy drink

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Speaker 2: there because a lot of the people needed energy.

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Speaker 1: Hold on a second, So you're telling me that this

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Speaker 1: now global energy drink was first launched in the humble

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Speaker 1: village of Mefin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: What so when did that happen? Talk us through your findings.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it started. They started in nineteen ninety seven August.

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Speaker 2: Over time, they started selling a lot more flavors and

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Speaker 2: expanded out to like eighteen countries.

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Speaker 1: I think can you tell us where in methin it

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Speaker 1: was first being stopped.

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Speaker 2: I think it actually started near the Blue Bubble, like

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Speaker 2: at the Blue Pub.

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Speaker 1: Oh gotcha. As I understand, mefhin was sort of like

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Speaker 1: a test market. It obviously went well for them. Have

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Speaker 1: you got any stats or something around that?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: They were, they.

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Speaker 2: Were like they were originally meant to rival Red Bull.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of crazy that the actually like had competition.

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Speaker 1: Of of course, because you know when you think about

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Speaker 1: Red Bull, they love to go and partner with all

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Speaker 1: those extreme sporty things. Ah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And in nineteen ninety nine it went to Australia

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Speaker 2: and now it's actually one of the most popular drinks there.

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Speaker 1: Jeez. Yeah, that's all right, and at school by the

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Speaker 1: sound of things too, although can you even buy it

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Speaker 1: at the school canteen? Na na drink allowed probably for

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Speaker 1: good reason. To be fair, you've got to smuggle that

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Speaker 1: contraband in through the gate and best not knowing what

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Speaker 1: the sugar content is. That's outside the scope of this research,

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Speaker 1: which is probably a good thing when it comes to

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Speaker 1: mum as well. Save all the lectures. Good on you,

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Speaker 1: Max Duncan. The more you know the energy first born

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Speaker 1: in mephin