December 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Tim Dangen, Hugh Jackson, Blair McLean, Jane Hunter, and Hamish McKay.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's The Country
Podcast with Jamie mckue. Thanks to Brent, You're specialist in
John Deere construction equipment.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There's no need to feel down. God, you're in a town.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
To gay and good afternoon, New Zealand. This is the Country.
I'm Jamie McKay. The show is brought to you by Brent.
I'm just warming up for the Boomers Disco. I'm running
at the Otago Golf Club tonight. Now, this is an
interesting song, y m c a. Some people love it,
some people hate it, and it's kind of had a
renaissance off the back of Donald Trump. Yes, I wonder
(01:01):
if there be any Trump dancing tonight at the Boomers Disco. Anyhow,
I digress. I'm going to kick the show off today
with Chris Brandolino, Friday's weather guy. Interestingly, a bit later
in the show, we've got Blair MacLean on and Jane
Hunter and we've got this is so good. We've got
cherries and bubbles to give away. But in prepping for
the and or teeing them up, he said they've had
(01:24):
quite a bit of rain in Marlborough, which is interesting
and I look on my knee woodrout or my Earth
Sciences n z rout index map and Marlbra's looking okay,
but the east coast of the North Island some issues
there and it's starting to get dried north to christ
Church and south of christ Church on the East coast.
Chris Brandolino on the Weather to kick it off Today's
(01:44):
Farmer panel, Hugh Jackson, Tim Dangin, both former Young Farmers
of the Year. As I said, Blair McLean Jane Hunter,
We've got cherries and bubbles to give away. Plus we're
going to announce the winner of the Rabobank thousand dollars
cash to your charity choice the final countdown to Christmas Prize.
Haimush mackay on sport, who's his egg Sportsperson of the
(02:07):
Year and Barry Soaper the week in politics, it's been
an interesting one. Nichola versus Ruth. Yeah, get the popcorn
out for that one. But we are going to kick
off the show. Worth this man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Whether on the country with farmlands helping to prevent parasite
outbreaks this summer.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Chris Brandolino has trump ruined the song for you or
is he? Are you more fond of the song.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'll try to stay politically neutral here.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, hey, Chris, I want to remind you that might
pay to stay politically neutral, because otherwise you won't be
able to go back home.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well, no, I hold two passports, so I mean I'm
a US born citizen. So I hopefully that has become
a problem. If it becomes a problem, boy, we're in deep,
do do well?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He might he might be checking out some of your comments.
You've made disparaging comments about President Trump on the country.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, well, first, I've never made disparaging comments.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh that might have been made anyhow.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah, sir, Well, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I look, I'm getting it from all sides. At the moment,
I had an American I'm not the only one. I
had an American climate change denial on the show midweek,
and I got accused of being a Labor Party member,
and then the far right accused me of something else.
You just can't win, but never mind. Luckily, luckily, I've
got a thick skin. More importantly, for the farmers listening,
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it's not unusual for the east coasts of both islands
to have summer dry periods. Is it getting worse or
there has been some relieving rain.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
There has been. In fact, we literally just issued our
hotspot report. I know we've talked about this before, but
that is probably the best and most comprehensive. It's a
five minute read, not even so you can read it,
you know, when you're on the toilet and with your phone,
not that I do that, of course, and and just
have a quick read and understand where the dryness is
and what the projections are. Now, look, if a short
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on time and maybe you don't have a chance to
read it, I can tell you that it's not gonna
rain much over the next five days, maybe probably not
till Tuesday. So over the next four to six days
it is going to be quite dry over pretty much
the entire North Island and the eastern southbound. There will
be ranging for the western South Island as another front
moves north that will make its way and probably impact
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the Waikato, Tedemaki, North London Auckland and in the lower
North Island too. Probably late Tuesday and especially Wednesday, but
that may be the only rain we see for a
little bit. We're going to We're gonna be watching later
in the period as you get into well the next week.
So this time next week the nineteenth, Jamie, we're gonna
be watching for a cutoff low. So a cutoff low
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basically is cut off from the main jet stream. And
when we get these cutoff lows, they can produce weather.
And depending where you are relative to that cutoff system,
you can find extended periods of settled weather or extended
periods of unsettled weather. We'll have to see what happens,
but there is a reality where we could see parts
of the of New Zealand getting into some extended unsettled
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weather late next week into early next weekend, and then
as we get toward Christmas, there are some indications that
will have a warm lean for much of the country.
It's really unclear if we're going to be in that
settled or unsettled period. It depends, Jamie, on what happens
with that cutoff low, because or cut off low is
because the modeling is all over the map. I'm not
gonna lie. There's a lot of uncertainty, but I do
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think there will be a warm lean, especially for the
North Island.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Okay, Chris, Well, let you go, and I'll not ply
away bit of Ymcay I just for your favorite president.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I'll tell you what I'm tell my favorite president. One
of my favorite presidents is Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, now I'm rid. Now I rid because I am
fascinated by American politics. Set of all the American presidents
and what Trump is this is he's number forty seven,
I think this time. Admittedly he's a repeat offender, but
of all the American presidents, Woodrow Wilson had the highest IQ.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah. He created the League of Nations, was a precursor
to the UN. Yeah, he was. He was a really
in Kennedy. I really like Kennedy. He thought he did
a good job navigating the Bay of Islands crisis, the
miss the Russian missile crisis. I should say, yeah, I
could talk on for everybody, won't here.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, I like Kennedy. I also liked Reagan. Didn't mind
Bill Clinton his personal issues aside, and I didn't mind
Obama either. But Reagan, Reagan, the Republican was the great communicator,
wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah he was. You know, I'm not a Reagan fan.
I don't believe in you know, and trickle down economy personally,
but he had a great, great line when it came
to the Soviets and I've used it for other facets
of late that and that is trust but verify, and
I think that something that I've used in my left.
You can trust someone. But you know what we're going
to follow up into double chest. You know, just keep
(07:04):
people on it. So that was his lane, and he
was an actor.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He was a B grade actor. As he famously said,
mister Gorbachev, tear down that wall. Got to go. Chris
Lovely to chat. Yeah, okay, see it. Chris Brandolino from Newa.
Up next, it is the Farmer Panel, Hugh Jackson and
Tim Dangin, both former Young Farmers of the Year, and
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we're going to announce who won the thousand dollars cash
from Rabobank to go to the charity or choice. I
was looked absolutely wrapped with the number of entries we had.
I thought we mightn't get as many as we did
for the Bunnings gift card or the Silver Fern Farms Meat.
But you did. You came in thick and fast, and
Rabobank selected a winner this morning. We'll tell you who
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that is after the Farmer Panel.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
They're up next, the Farmer Panel with the Isuzu Dmax,
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the Kiwi Ute built tough with truck DNA.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Today's Farmer panel features Tim Dangin twenty twenty two New
Zealand Young Farmer of the Year and Hugh Jackson twenty
twenty five Young Farmer of the Year. Tim's dairy farming
in Southland, Hugh is sheep and beef farming in tr Cow.
Opposite ends of the country and opposite farming sectors. Hugh Jackson,
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I might start with you the way sheep farming's going
and a bit of a drop on the price of
dairy farming. Maybe you're on the winning side of this deal.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yes, definitely, good time to be killing some lambs and
hopefully the schedule continues to hold up. It's hold up
bloody well so far. So yeah, who knows. Maybe some
dairy farms will get victor sheep fiming that it.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Might be a bit of a long shot.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We missed you last week because you were on the
hand piece. Hamoush Mackay was filling in for me, So
we've got you today. But you weren't our first choice,
sorry you. Our first choice was Emma Paul, which is
tim Or who is Tim's sister of course, younger sister,
but Tim we couldn't get Emma today because she has
had baby number three. So this woman is not only
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the Young Farmer of the Year, not only a vet,
not only running a couple of dairy farms. She's now
got three kids. Does she wonder woman or what?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yeah? You get Jamie get he here? She goes pretty
good to Ema, so it's pretty exciting for her and
christa welcome along the third all went well, there's so nice,
healthy baby girl and very exciting for the family. We're
looking forward to Christmas and catching up with everyone for
a bit of a break.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Then what is it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
About you dairy farmers? You're all good breeders.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I think Chris has got pretty tight pockets, so he'll
be looking at a future labor supply. Jamie there, I'd
say so, No, it's pretty neat. Press also comes from
a big family and ustandins on one of five, so
so two big families have combined. And so I don't
think Emma and Cryst walll stop at three, that's for sure.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
As I said, Tim, your dairy farming or sheer milking
down For Simon Hopcroft, who is also a former New
Zealand Young Farmer of the Year, down on South and
of course you had that terrible storm in late October,
and I was reading a piece from work Safe yesterday
and there's already been a couple of really bad accidents
with farmers trying to chop up some of these fallen
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trees themselves. It's a springbak thing. There's a lot of
unleashed tension when you're dealing with these trees, and I know,
as hard as it sounds, you've got to leave it
to the professionals.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Yes, certainly in some cases, Jamie. There's been some very
big trees go down, and Simon and I were pretty
careful when we were going around watching You're just the
weight on the on the routing of these trees when
you do chop through them in the spring. Bet that
they have it can you can send breap flying everywhere,
So got to be keep your wits about you. But
I think it's just fatigue at this time of the
year as well, Jamie. It's been a busy season and
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the storm sort of came right when everyone was trying
to have a break between carving and mating. So I
think at this time of the year, just got to
really make sure that you're giving yourself enough rest to
make good decisions. And it's sort of that grind to
the end of the year, isn't it. You can certainly
see it amongst staff and within the community. So everyone's
just got to make sure that they sort of look
out for those top two inches in your cells and
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makes youre getting plenty of rest because any of the
year is coming and that always feels like a bit
of a mental checkpoint.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I think.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Is Simon going to milk the cows on Christmas morning
give you a break?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
That's a bit of a long shot. He's enters right
there with Christmas off, so the team and I will
make sure we get everything done. We'll still be mating
then as well, so we'll hang out till mid January really,
and that's when we'll have our big break.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I reckon Simon Hopcroft could get his brother Bevan and
to milk the cows on Christmas morning because Be's a
big fan of dairy farming. Okay, what are you doing?
It's a bit easier, isn't it. Hugh Jackson twenty twenty
five Young Farmer of the Year. I know this because
there used to be one to get a bit of
a break or a bit of a breather at Christmas
time on a sheep farm.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, definitely is a little bit easier, Jamie.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
We do.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
We run a lot of balls here though, and well
the bulls are our main enterprise and they get pretty
cranky if they run out of water or the there's
a leak or two that springs up. So I'll be
keeping an eye on an at that we've got over
the sort of Christmas period and making sure that that's
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all up to date and giving the rest of the
team some time off and shift a few of the
bulls around and try and keep them all good and
watered whilst whilst a few of the other team members
have a world deserve break.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You got a Young Farmer's Christmas party at your place tonight,
no doubt on the wallshed, is it?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, not quite at my face, but just Alex stiff
Rose is basically he's a good self and then he's
doing but the contract milking up here just out and
there war here. So yeah, Hamilton Young Farmers Club, We're
going to go have a look around his farm and
have a barbecue and yeah, sort of the last event
of the year would be good.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, so I hope. I'm not speaking out of turn,
but he did tell me a few weeks ago that
you'd gone ahead and fixed some of your milk with Fonterra.
Your supply Fonterra at nine sixty or nine seventy or
something like that, that'll be looking pretty good now.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
It's amazing how quickly it can change, isn't it, Jamie.
We obviously did it from a risk perspective for us
coming down here for our first season, but yeah, we're
taking a long term approach with dairy farming, Jamie. We
know that we can't just dip in and out of
it and hope for the wins. So yeah, it's interesting
to see it fall away, and it's amazing to see
how quickly that world supply can pick up. But the
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quaker goes down, the quicker it comes up, I think,
and that, yeah, it's often in these these downturns that's
when the real opportunity pop up around stock and land ownership.
So it's not too worried about it. We're looking long term.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Fix the milk price, fix the interest rates as well.
They look like that like they've bottomed out and could
be heading back up. So it's all about risk mitigation. Well,
thank you very much. Tim Dangel twenty twenty two Young
Farmer of the Year. Congratulations to your sister Emma Paul
for having a baby or child number three, and Hugh Jackson.
You enjoy up in the Arcal There, Sheep and beef Farmer,
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you enjoy the Hamilton Young Farmer's Christmas Do tonight, Thanky,
Jerry Peers, Tom, Thanks guys. I wonder if the Hamilton
Young Farmers are playing any disco classics like we are
at the Boomer's Disco tonight, Michelle, Good afternoon afternoon.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
I do remember some young farmers Dos and Clinton playing
music like this way back.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
In the day.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Can't beat it. Geez, I'm getting a lot.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Of stick you from more angles too, aren't you really, Facebook?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh I'm just honestly, I yearned for the days when
I was just a simple farmer and the only time
I got abused was on Saturday if I missed a
kick in front of the post.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Hey, it just means you're famous, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Take that on.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
No, No, not really, not some of it anyhow. Jeremy Rook's
climate change denier himself is getting stuck into me for
calling Professor Will Happer a climate change denier. Now, look,
I enjoyed my chat with him. He's playing tomorrow morning
on the Best of the Country. You can't please all
of the people all the time. I got a lot
of stick about having a climate change denier on Professor
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will who was a lovely bloke. Likewise, I got it
from the other side saying I'm being tough on ground Swell. Now,
Bryce and Laurie are great blokes. It doesn't have put
it out there. The two guys who founded ground Swell,
Bryce McKenzie and Lourie Patterson, and I think, for what
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it's worth, they did a fantastic job at exactly the
right time. Federated far as the industry, good bodies were
losing a bit of their teeth. Groundswell came along, gave
them a kick in the pants, and they have done
a good job. From that point of view, I don't
agree with everything they do, but I think those two
have done a fantastic job. As in the case of
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Professor Will Happer, who was on was that Wednesday or yesterday?
I can't remember Wednesday. See, I agree with him on methane.
I mean, he's a university professor he's far smarter than me.
Obviously I agree with on that. But when he came
out and said, can you be the judge of this
that you just burn as much fossil fossil fuels as
you want celebrate it, it's not going to make a
(16:39):
jots difference. I don't buy that. I'm afraid I don't
buy that. But you make your mind up if you
want to hear it again. Listen to the Best of
the Country tomorrow morning, which is brought to you by Rabobank.
Talking about Rabobank Michelle, Yesterday was their final countdown to
Christmas Prize one thousand dollars cash to the charity or choice.
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We had hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of entries and you
had to send them all off the Rabobank. So don't
shoot the messenger here, because David Johnson and the team
at Rabobank made the decision. Okay they did.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
There's no way we could have decided. There were so
many amazing charities in there, and they ended up having
to choose, and honestly, it's like Sophie's choice. It was
too hard.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yep, they had and they chose the IHC, calf and
Rural scheme nominated by Sally Christiansen. So Sally, you your
nomination was the one that was picked out. You nominated
the IHC Calf and Rural Scheme. Great Calls are founded
of course by the great pine Tree meads, so they
will get the thousand dollars cash. But if you missed
out on prices in the countdown to Christmas, tis the
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season for giving up. Next we're going to give you
the chance to win some Christmas bubbles and some cherries.
How good would that be? So listen out next for
Blair MacLean and Jane Hunter from Hunter's Wine's the season
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for giving here on the country. We've already given away
the thousand dollars of Ravo Bank cash to that wonderful charity.
And I had nothing to do with this. I didn't
pick it. Remember the IHC Calf and Rural Scheme that
thousand dollars has found a great home. So let's continue
on with the generous theme because we are going to
give away some bubbles and some new seasoned cherries for Christmas.
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Let's welcome on to the country our viticulture correspondent Blair
Blizzard MacLean and of course a favorite winery owner Jane
Hunter from Hunters' Wines Ladies Before gentlemen, Jane, you've taken
time out of a busy day because you've been taking
a wine tour because you seller manager fell over and
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broke his or her arm.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Absolutely, so everyone's just taken off on the Christmas lunch.
And I've got these wonderful people from one of the
cruise ships here and we're doing some tastings and of
course starting with the beautiful Mirror Miru which is startling wine,
absolutely the wine for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes, And I neglected to mention that you two wonderful
people are based in Blenheim. Of course that is the
wine capital of the country. Blizzard MacLean Blair. When you're
not working for Fruit Fed Supplies supplying all the vineyards
and wineries in Marlborough with everything they need for all
your services and supplies, talk to Blizzard. You've got a
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wee side hustle. You've got a cherry orchard.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Yeah, Jamie, thank you, good Heed, there was thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Don't worry. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I know there will be cherries on the way, do you, Jamie?
And the macaiosa right, no, you, No, we're flat out
picking cherries here and sunny Marlborough. I wouldn't say it's
been the greatest of seasons. We've had regular rain events
with I think we're up to our ninth or tenth
helicopter flight over the orchard to dry the cherries, but
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we're Yeah, we're probably leading into sort of ten days
before Christmas and then we'll be done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I'm looking at minews, my drought index map from New
Earth Sciences and zen and yeah, there isn't much yellow
in the Blenham area, so I'm sure that the livestock
farmers will be welcoming that Blair.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Yeah they are, and the great guys are too. Really,
because rain after flowering and we've certainly finished flowering on
grapes isn't a bad thing. It sizes up erries nicely
and keeps everything growing. And we've got another forecasted fifty
odd mells next week, so that'll be great for the pasture.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Great for the pasture, not so good for the cherries. No,
do you run the risk? Do you get in and
pick them before they burst? How does it work?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Yeah? We do.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
We also have rain covers and we have friends at
Marlbra helicopters. They'll probably be in for the tenth time
this year, coming and drying the cherries as soon as
the rain stopped.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Well, you just send them a bell for that shameless plug,
Marlboro helicoppers for all your helicopter needs. Not many of
us need helicopters, Blair, But I guess it becomes very
expensive when you are running an orchard.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Yes, it is here, but that's just the way it is.
Otherwise you'll save the crop. But lots of summer fruit
coming right around the country. Jamie, Central Otago starting picking apricots, peaches, nectarias.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I had my first new season nectarene earlier in the
week and it is to die for. Central Otago does
beautiful stone for it, okay, Jane Hunter from Hunter's Wine.
Of course, this is bubbles and cherries. Mirror Mirror is
your bubbles of choice. But you do much more than that.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
We absolutely do.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I mean, so Blanc is our signature, but Mirror Mirror
is our biggest seller in the New Zealand market, so
of which we are very pleased. But Sauvignon Blanc remains
our biggest seller in our export markets, and it certainly
as I say, has been our signature wine since the
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mid eighties when we first started with it, and we've
just changed our labels. We've got really smart packaging and
yeah the wine some twenty twenty five vintage is outstanding,
great great fruit character, lovely balance and you know it
goes with all our local Marlborough produce, muscle, salmon, oysters, asparagus,
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you know all those things.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
That's great time for me to play Santa claus On.
Behalf of you. Two guys, Blizzard, McLean, Blair. What are
you got? You've got to match what Jane's got because
she's got in her fun pack one for the North,
one for the South to mirror mirror the best Christmas
bubbles you can get two seven blancs, two pino noirs.
What a great fun pack that is. What are you
going to give them a container load of cherries?
Speaker 7 (23:07):
I could give them a story of my tri scoring ability.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I think they prefer the cherries. What are you got?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Yeah, so we've got some export quality cherries, thirty two
mil beauties, one for the North, one for the South,
and they as soon as you give me the addresses, Jamie,
they'll be seen to a on Monday and right probably midweek,
and they are top quality, juicy, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Du beautiful. We're going to get them to you before Christmas,
we promise, and if we don't, Blizzard, You're going to
be shot. I can't say that, can I? Anyhow, I
know Jane'll fulfill her side of the bargain. So here
you go, folks, it's Christmas chair time. It's bubbles and cherries.
You need because we're going to make your work for
this awe. But you need You need to text the
following to five double O nine with your name and
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your courier address. Hunters Wines get the possessive of apostrophe
in the right place. We can afford to be fussy
because there'll be lots of entries. So Hunters Wines and
Cherry Bank that's the name of Blizzard's orchards. Thanks guys,
Thanks for being such wonderful contributors throughout twenty twenty five.
Catch you back for a prosperous new farming here in
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twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Thanks Shenmy and.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Best wishes to use the Christmas in the New Years.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Thanks guys. Twenty four away from one, What a great prize?
Are you coming in thick and fast. You better get
this right. So the text numbers five double oh nine.
You need to text Hunter's Wine. There is a we
possessive of Hunter's Wines? Should I say s on the
end of both of them, there's a we possessive apostrophe
and they're sorry. I'm a bit anal about stuff like that.
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And Cherry Bank. So Hunter's Wine and Cherry Bank to
five double o nine with your name and your courier address,
not your postal address, your courier address, because we're going
to chuck this in the courier to you. So thank
you very much, to Hunters Wines, and to Chery Bank.
Blizzard calls his orchard cherry Bank because he reckons the
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bank owns most of it. He's a good bloke, isn't he?
Up next, Michelle and the latest and rural news is
that another wicket. There's a bit of a calypso collapso
going on?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Michelle? Eighty eight for six? Oh goodness me. The Windy's
lead by fifteen. It's going to be all over today.
You would have to think at the Basin Reserve will
update that one for you. And sports news Michelle's are
next with Rural News. Nothing screams disco like l Freak
(25:49):
from chic How do I segue from that into Michelle Watt?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Let me try the Country's worldviews with Coup Cadet, New
Zealand's leading writer on lawn lower brands it steel.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Ford dot cott z for your locals Doggist.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And firstly, Michelle, apologies for not joining you and the
rest of the staff at our Christmas function this afternoon
this evening. I've got a prior commitment with the Boomers
disco at the golf Club.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Sorry about that, you know, I say it with feeling, Jamie.
I don't think that was very genuine.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Well, you've got to go. I mean, normally hate dress
ups and you've got to get dressed up for our one,
but you've got to get dressed up for the Boomers disco.
And I just want to say, if you're anyone, if
you're ever in the market for a John Travolta white
suit as I was, don't buy one from the costume
box and Sydney it's rubbish.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Didn't you have a denim matching disco suit in the
seventeen none?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I had a Steve Austin Denham suit in the seventies.
I was very proud of it, very proud of it.
I don't think i'd fit it now as unfortunately, but
I've got a very tacky John Travolta disco suit.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
I can't wait to see photos of this one.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Now there'll be no photos anyhow, Watson, have I played
the Rural News? What's in rural News?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
Well?
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Before we get into it, were talking about grund Swat earlier,
Jamie and the someone's accused you of being a lefty
on this Facebook post, which really shook me by surprise
that you've joined labor.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Apparently I must be doing that, must That's the best
news I've heard all day. Have been called a lefty
and a labor supporter.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
I can't wait to tell Damien this next week.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, well, Damien's on the show for his final argument
of twenty twenty five. Mind you. I don't mind Chippy.
He did a video for me for a friend's daughter's wedding.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
He actually Chippy is a nice bloke. Look this good peep.
There's some good people in labor. I'm just to worried
about the other two parties. But anyhow, let's leave the
politics aside. So what have you got on rural news?
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Real news? Just large areas of Auckland are now under
surveillance for Yarley hornets, so that they've expanded that monitoring zone.
It's been extended to eleven kilometers across the north shore
and beyond the Harbor Bridge. So now it now includes
Auckland's entire CBD and stretches east to Mission Bay. So
keep an eye out for those pieces. We're on the
MPO website about that. We might catch up with Ray
about that next week.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Indeed, Oh, just as I go to look at the
TV screen to update the cricket eighty nine for six
the Windys have collapsed, news of a lead by sixteen.
This game will be could be finished early afternoon, who knows.
So that's the cricket updated. Now the other thing that's happening.
And I'm not really a darts fan, but I do
(28:25):
love the World Darts Championship From Alexandra Palace, Ali Paley,
English arrowsmith Luke Littler's begun his World Darts Championship title
defense with a comfortable win on the opening night of
action at London's Alexandra Palace, the eighteen year old who's
nominated for World Sportsperson of the Year, saw off a
(28:47):
Lithuanian opponent three nil. He now believed it or not.
Michelle has ten days off great watching between Christmas, around
Christmas and New Year, that sort of time. The World
Darts Championships sounds like a.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
Great sport to be playing if you get ten days off.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, yeah. Anyhow, so there's did I play the sports
news liner? I didn't geez.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Sport on the country with AFCO we owned.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
That's rare.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You don't want Tom Young on my case. He can
be an angry man on occasions as well. We'll be
speaking to his mate Mark Delatour. I think next week
on the Country, We've got a whole lot of really
interesting people lined up for you, and they'll all be
contemplating their egg. Person of the Year will name ours
on Friday. I think Mike Peedterson's opened the batting. He's
(29:36):
gone with Craig Pigot from Alter, which was an interesting
and probably a pretty good choice to be fair up next,
who is Hamish McKay's AG Sportsperson of the Year. We're
heading to Harmy North to find out next on the country.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
McKay on sport with farm lands, prevent parisite outbreaks and
score a win this summer.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
So it's MacKaye on Mackay and one of them knows
a whole lot more about sport than the other one.
Hamish Mackay joins us from where are you today, PALMEI
north or fielding Hamish.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
The building live Stoff Center for about fifteen kilogram live
weight sale day.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yes, jeez, I know it's it's amazing and no doubt
you've had the cup of tea in the sky on.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
Yes, indeed, yep, stocks kfo no brilliant yet, No, we'll
good your beautiful day of the battle with two too.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I thought there was another wicket gone on the cricket,
but they've gone backwards on that one. Maybe they've appealed back.
Let me just have a quick look, sorry, Hamish, And
I thought there was another one gone. Someone's obviously appealed
and they haven't gone anyhow. That's going to be over
very very shortly. I want to talk to you. You
want to talk about your egg Sports Person of the
(31:02):
Year and I don't want to take the words out
of your mouth, but I bet you. I bet you
you're going to go with Jack Jordan.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
Oh or look I know, I well, I'm actually not.
I'm sort of so foreseeing the next five years now
that he's finally cracked through Toy Henderson, there you go.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, well he's And the amazing thing about him is
I think it's his dad who drives them everywhere around
the country, especially in the North Island. He drives in
the middle of the night to get to these sharing comps,
and he cleaned up both of them last year and
did very well with Jack Fagan representing us in Europe.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Yeah, exactly, and I reckon it will benefit hugely from
that time in Europe. I think when you might have
been in Perth and might have had him on the
show and yeah, I just like the cut of his
jib and just like what he had to say and
what he'd learned. And yeah, but hard to go past Jack. Actually,
to be fair, he is a bahemoth, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I mean, hell yeah, oh those are They're the absolute
peak of athleticism. Those sharers, especially the ones who are
attempting some of the sharing records, and we've got some
of those. I think Sarah here and his brother Simon Goss.
He's in your neck of the woods. I think he's
attempting one, isn't he.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
I think he will because I know he's done over
eight hundred, which just seems ridiculous, doesn't it. He's already
done an eight hundred. I think that wasn't a two
stand sort of attempt. So yeah, I'm not sure what
his next one is, but he goes real good.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, okay, unlike you at Business House Golf at Fielding
last night where you hit one all of three inches
off the t Hamish McKay. That would cost you a
stiff whiskey if you were playing at Bell McEwan. But
I want to move on. You want to talk about,
because I know you've done a lot of sports commentary
in your career. How good is this Sam Ruth, this
kid from Talonger, I think he is, isn't he?
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Well look he has to be.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
I mean it just he defies all kinds of logic
when it comes to a fifteen sixteen, sixteen year old
he is now running, you know, just dropping in a
one forty eight four hundred at that age and then
to just to trot home in three thirty eight by
himself in the fifteen hundred meters.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
How good is he?
Speaker 10 (33:16):
How if you were going to put if the TA
B were going to offer odds on him winning an
Olympic medal, it'd be.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
About a dollar five.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
I would have thought it all goes well as long
as injury doesn't get in the way.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
He's an absolute freak show.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, he's running faster than John Walker, Nick willis any
other any of any of our great middle distance runners.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
Yeah, And you know I'm a bit of I mean
track and field. You know, the door used to get
shut on me when it used to come up for
the Olympics, in common with games and things in the
old days at three. But track and field has always
probably been my deepest passion, which relates to you know,
to Quax Walker, you know Dixon in that era.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
But this is really special.
Speaker 10 (34:00):
It's just quite quite unbelievable what he's doing, and he
does it with such ease, and he seems so unaffected
by it. You know, That's what I like about it. Yeah,
I hear pretty more about him, and he's just going
to fly that flag for track of field too. Hopefully
they haven't been great at cashing in on that in
the past, hopefully they do.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Okay, well, look we've got to go. We've got to
go to Barry's Sooper. But I want you to think
we're going to talk about that all black schedule for
twenty twenty six next week. And I also want you
to think of you've given us your AG sports Person
of the Air. Next Friday, I want your AG Person
of the Year. Okayimus, can you do that?
Speaker 10 (34:37):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Good on you, mate. You enjoy the rest of your
day at the Fielding say yeah yeah. And if you're
ever passing through Fielding, lovely town. It's got a clock
tower on a Friday, you need to go down to
the Saleiards. They're right in the middle of the town.
It is so cool. Barry's Soper to wrap the country
next and before I forget because shells pointing at me vigorously.
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not answering his phone. Cousin, Barry, you have let me
down ninety five for six at the basin reserve the
Windy's lead by twenty two. This game will be over
sooner rather than later, or we would think and remember
it's your last chance. You've gone nuts, but you've got
to be in to win if you want to win.
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name and coreer address Michelle. Yes you're Barry Soaper. Now
who's going to win out of Nicola or Ruth. I
think Nikola Willis sall win this.
Speaker 9 (36:53):
I think she might take it out as well. Although
Ruth is a hard task master, she's been around a while.
She was in a hard government as well.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
She was a very hard government. She was responsible for
the Mother of all budgets.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
She was and got a lot of nicknames there. She
don't think Nichola Willis has had as many nicknames from
the media.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Well, Nicola Willis was a champion debater at Victoria University.
I think I've told you about my John Travolta suit
for the Boomers disco at the at the Otago Golf
Club tonight. You know, I'll be one of the younger
ones there.
Speaker 9 (37:27):
Isn't this like the boomer Macarina the wayamc A sort
of pretty much.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I tried to learn the Brooklyn shuffle slash hustle, and
honestly that no I know why I gave up dancing
about forty years ago. Two left feet, two left feet. Anyhow,
what are you dressed up?
Speaker 9 (37:46):
As I'm not allowed to say, I'm under complete secrecy.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Well you could go like you're dressed up now spoken
from Balcluthor. Yeah, he won't have to change at all.
I'm only joking, Michelle. Thanks for your support all this week.
We'll catch you all back next week for our final
week of the year.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Catch all the latest from the land. It's the Country
Podcast with Jamie McKay. Thanks to Brent Starkest of the
leading agriculture brands.
Catch all the latest from the land. It's The Country
Podcast with Jamie mckue. Thanks to Brent, You're specialist in
John Deere construction equipment.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There's no need to feel down. God, you're in a town.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
To gay and good afternoon, New Zealand. This is the Country.
I'm Jamie McKay. The show is brought to you by Brent.
I'm just warming up for the Boomers Disco. I'm running
at the Otago Golf Club tonight. Now, this is an
interesting song, y m c a. Some people love it,
some people hate it, and it's kind of had a
renaissance off the back of Donald Trump. Yes, I wonder
(01:01):
if there be any Trump dancing tonight at the Boomers Disco. Anyhow,
I digress. I'm going to kick the show off today
with Chris Brandolino, Friday's weather guy. Interestingly, a bit later
in the show, we've got Blair MacLean on and Jane
Hunter and we've got this is so good. We've got
cherries and bubbles to give away. But in prepping for
the and or teeing them up, he said they've had
(01:24):
quite a bit of rain in Marlborough, which is interesting
and I look on my knee woodrout or my Earth
Sciences n z rout index map and Marlbra's looking okay,
but the east coast of the North Island some issues
there and it's starting to get dried north to christ
Church and south of christ Church on the East coast.
Chris Brandolino on the Weather to kick it off Today's
(01:44):
Farmer panel, Hugh Jackson, Tim Dangin, both former Young Farmers
of the Year. As I said, Blair McLean Jane Hunter,
We've got cherries and bubbles to give away. Plus we're
going to announce the winner of the Rabobank thousand dollars
cash to your charity choice the final countdown to Christmas Prize.
Haimush mackay on sport, who's his egg Sportsperson of the
(02:07):
Year and Barry Soaper the week in politics, it's been
an interesting one. Nichola versus Ruth. Yeah, get the popcorn
out for that one. But we are going to kick
off the show. Worth this man.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Whether on the country with farmlands helping to prevent parasite
outbreaks this summer.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Chris Brandolino has trump ruined the song for you or
is he? Are you more fond of the song.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'll try to stay politically neutral here.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, hey, Chris, I want to remind you that might
pay to stay politically neutral, because otherwise you won't be
able to go back home.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well, no, I hold two passports, so I mean I'm
a US born citizen. So I hopefully that has become
a problem. If it becomes a problem, boy, we're in deep,
do do well?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
He might he might be checking out some of your comments.
You've made disparaging comments about President Trump on the country.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, well, first, I've never made disparaging comments.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh that might have been made anyhow.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, yeah, sir, Well, I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I look, I'm getting it from all sides. At the moment,
I had an American I'm not the only one. I
had an American climate change denial on the show midweek,
and I got accused of being a Labor Party member,
and then the far right accused me of something else.
You just can't win, but never mind. Luckily, luckily, I've
got a thick skin. More importantly, for the farmers listening,
(03:36):
it's not unusual for the east coasts of both islands
to have summer dry periods. Is it getting worse or
there has been some relieving rain.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
There has been. In fact, we literally just issued our
hotspot report. I know we've talked about this before, but
that is probably the best and most comprehensive. It's a
five minute read, not even so you can read it,
you know, when you're on the toilet and with your phone,
not that I do that, of course, and and just
have a quick read and understand where the dryness is
and what the projections are. Now, look, if a short
(04:09):
on time and maybe you don't have a chance to
read it, I can tell you that it's not gonna
rain much over the next five days, maybe probably not
till Tuesday. So over the next four to six days
it is going to be quite dry over pretty much
the entire North Island and the eastern southbound. There will
be ranging for the western South Island as another front
moves north that will make its way and probably impact
(04:31):
the Waikato, Tedemaki, North London Auckland and in the lower
North Island too. Probably late Tuesday and especially Wednesday, but
that may be the only rain we see for a
little bit. We're going to We're gonna be watching later
in the period as you get into well the next week.
So this time next week the nineteenth, Jamie, we're gonna
be watching for a cutoff low. So a cutoff low
(04:53):
basically is cut off from the main jet stream. And
when we get these cutoff lows, they can produce weather.
And depending where you are relative to that cutoff system,
you can find extended periods of settled weather or extended
periods of unsettled weather. We'll have to see what happens,
but there is a reality where we could see parts
of the of New Zealand getting into some extended unsettled
(05:17):
weather late next week into early next weekend, and then
as we get toward Christmas, there are some indications that
will have a warm lean for much of the country.
It's really unclear if we're going to be in that
settled or unsettled period. It depends, Jamie, on what happens
with that cutoff low, because or cut off low is
because the modeling is all over the map. I'm not
gonna lie. There's a lot of uncertainty, but I do
(05:38):
think there will be a warm lean, especially for the
North Island.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Okay, Chris, Well, let you go, and I'll not ply
away bit of Ymcay I just for your favorite president.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I'll tell you what I'm tell my favorite president. One
of my favorite presidents is Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, now I'm rid. Now I rid because I am
fascinated by American politics. Set of all the American presidents
and what Trump is this is he's number forty seven,
I think this time. Admittedly he's a repeat offender, but
of all the American presidents, Woodrow Wilson had the highest IQ.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yeah. He created the League of Nations, was a precursor
to the UN. Yeah, he was. He was a really
in Kennedy. I really like Kennedy. He thought he did
a good job navigating the Bay of Islands crisis, the
miss the Russian missile crisis. I should say, yeah, I
could talk on for everybody, won't here.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, I like Kennedy. I also liked Reagan. Didn't mind
Bill Clinton his personal issues aside, and I didn't mind
Obama either. But Reagan, Reagan, the Republican was the great communicator,
wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah he was. You know, I'm not a Reagan fan.
I don't believe in you know, and trickle down economy personally,
but he had a great, great line when it came
to the Soviets and I've used it for other facets
of late that and that is trust but verify, and
I think that something that I've used in my left.
You can trust someone. But you know what we're going
to follow up into double chest. You know, just keep
(07:04):
people on it. So that was his lane, and he
was an actor.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He was a B grade actor. As he famously said,
mister Gorbachev, tear down that wall. Got to go. Chris
Lovely to chat. Yeah, okay, see it. Chris Brandolino from Newa.
Up next, it is the Farmer Panel, Hugh Jackson and
Tim Dangin, both former Young Farmers of the Year, and
(07:30):
we're going to announce who won the thousand dollars cash
from Rabobank to go to the charity or choice. I
was looked absolutely wrapped with the number of entries we had.
I thought we mightn't get as many as we did
for the Bunnings gift card or the Silver Fern Farms Meat.
But you did. You came in thick and fast, and
Rabobank selected a winner this morning. We'll tell you who
(07:52):
that is after the Farmer Panel.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
They're up next, the Farmer Panel with the Isuzu Dmax,
(08:17):
the Kiwi Ute built tough with truck DNA.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Today's Farmer panel features Tim Dangin twenty twenty two New
Zealand Young Farmer of the Year and Hugh Jackson twenty
twenty five Young Farmer of the Year. Tim's dairy farming
in Southland, Hugh is sheep and beef farming in tr Cow.
Opposite ends of the country and opposite farming sectors. Hugh Jackson,
(08:40):
I might start with you the way sheep farming's going
and a bit of a drop on the price of
dairy farming. Maybe you're on the winning side of this deal.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yes, definitely, good time to be killing some lambs and
hopefully the schedule continues to hold up. It's hold up
bloody well so far. So yeah, who knows. Maybe some
dairy farms will get victor sheep fiming that it.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Might be a bit of a long shot.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
We missed you last week because you were on the
hand piece. Hamoush Mackay was filling in for me, So
we've got you today. But you weren't our first choice,
sorry you. Our first choice was Emma Paul, which is
tim Or who is Tim's sister of course, younger sister,
but Tim we couldn't get Emma today because she has
had baby number three. So this woman is not only
(09:29):
the Young Farmer of the Year, not only a vet,
not only running a couple of dairy farms. She's now
got three kids. Does she wonder woman or what?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yeah? You get Jamie get he here? She goes pretty
good to Ema, so it's pretty exciting for her and
christa welcome along the third all went well, there's so nice,
healthy baby girl and very exciting for the family. We're
looking forward to Christmas and catching up with everyone for
a bit of a break.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Then what is it.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
About you dairy farmers? You're all good breeders.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I think Chris has got pretty tight pockets, so he'll
be looking at a future labor supply. Jamie there, I'd
say so, No, it's pretty neat. Press also comes from
a big family and ustandins on one of five, so
so two big families have combined. And so I don't
think Emma and Cryst walll stop at three, that's for sure.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
As I said, Tim, your dairy farming or sheer milking
down For Simon Hopcroft, who is also a former New
Zealand Young Farmer of the Year, down on South and
of course you had that terrible storm in late October,
and I was reading a piece from work Safe yesterday
and there's already been a couple of really bad accidents
with farmers trying to chop up some of these fallen
(10:35):
trees themselves. It's a springbak thing. There's a lot of
unleashed tension when you're dealing with these trees, and I know,
as hard as it sounds, you've got to leave it
to the professionals.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Yes, certainly in some cases, Jamie. There's been some very
big trees go down, and Simon and I were pretty
careful when we were going around watching You're just the
weight on the on the routing of these trees when
you do chop through them in the spring. Bet that
they have it can you can send breap flying everywhere,
So got to be keep your wits about you. But
I think it's just fatigue at this time of the
year as well, Jamie. It's been a busy season and
(11:09):
the storm sort of came right when everyone was trying
to have a break between carving and mating. So I
think at this time of the year, just got to
really make sure that you're giving yourself enough rest to
make good decisions. And it's sort of that grind to
the end of the year, isn't it. You can certainly
see it amongst staff and within the community. So everyone's
just got to make sure that they sort of look
out for those top two inches in your cells and
(11:31):
makes youre getting plenty of rest because any of the
year is coming and that always feels like a bit
of a mental checkpoint.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I think.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Is Simon going to milk the cows on Christmas morning
give you a break?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
That's a bit of a long shot. He's enters right
there with Christmas off, so the team and I will
make sure we get everything done. We'll still be mating
then as well, so we'll hang out till mid January really,
and that's when we'll have our big break.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I reckon Simon Hopcroft could get his brother Bevan and
to milk the cows on Christmas morning because Be's a
big fan of dairy farming. Okay, what are you doing?
It's a bit easier, isn't it. Hugh Jackson twenty twenty
five Young Farmer of the Year. I know this because
there used to be one to get a bit of
a break or a bit of a breather at Christmas
time on a sheep farm.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yeah, definitely is a little bit easier, Jamie.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
We do.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
We run a lot of balls here though, and well
the bulls are our main enterprise and they get pretty
cranky if they run out of water or the there's
a leak or two that springs up. So I'll be
keeping an eye on an at that we've got over
the sort of Christmas period and making sure that that's
(12:40):
all up to date and giving the rest of the
team some time off and shift a few of the
bulls around and try and keep them all good and
watered whilst whilst a few of the other team members
have a world deserve break.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You got a Young Farmer's Christmas party at your place tonight,
no doubt on the wallshed, is it?
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Yeah, not quite at my face, but just Alex stiff
Rose is basically he's a good self and then he's
doing but the contract milking up here just out and
there war here. So yeah, Hamilton Young Farmers Club, We're
going to go have a look around his farm and
have a barbecue and yeah, sort of the last event
of the year would be good.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, so I hope. I'm not speaking out of turn,
but he did tell me a few weeks ago that
you'd gone ahead and fixed some of your milk with Fonterra.
Your supply Fonterra at nine sixty or nine seventy or
something like that, that'll be looking pretty good now.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
It's amazing how quickly it can change, isn't it, Jamie.
We obviously did it from a risk perspective for us
coming down here for our first season, but yeah, we're
taking a long term approach with dairy farming, Jamie. We
know that we can't just dip in and out of
it and hope for the wins. So yeah, it's interesting
to see it fall away, and it's amazing to see
how quickly that world supply can pick up. But the
(13:53):
quaker goes down, the quicker it comes up, I think,
and that, yeah, it's often in these these downturns that's
when the real opportunity pop up around stock and land ownership.
So it's not too worried about it. We're looking long term.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Fix the milk price, fix the interest rates as well.
They look like that like they've bottomed out and could
be heading back up. So it's all about risk mitigation. Well,
thank you very much. Tim Dangel twenty twenty two Young
Farmer of the Year. Congratulations to your sister Emma Paul
for having a baby or child number three, and Hugh Jackson.
You enjoy up in the Arcal There, Sheep and beef Farmer,
(14:27):
you enjoy the Hamilton Young Farmer's Christmas Do tonight, Thanky,
Jerry Peers, Tom, Thanks guys. I wonder if the Hamilton
Young Farmers are playing any disco classics like we are
at the Boomer's Disco tonight, Michelle, Good afternoon afternoon.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
I do remember some young farmers Dos and Clinton playing
music like this way back.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
In the day.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Can't beat it. Geez, I'm getting a lot.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Of stick you from more angles too, aren't you really, Facebook?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Oh I'm just honestly, I yearned for the days when
I was just a simple farmer and the only time
I got abused was on Saturday if I missed a
kick in front of the post.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Hey, it just means you're famous, Jamie.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Take that on.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
No, No, not really, not some of it anyhow. Jeremy Rook's
climate change denier himself is getting stuck into me for
calling Professor Will Happer a climate change denier. Now, look,
I enjoyed my chat with him. He's playing tomorrow morning
on the Best of the Country. You can't please all
of the people all the time. I got a lot
of stick about having a climate change denier on Professor
(15:34):
will who was a lovely bloke. Likewise, I got it
from the other side saying I'm being tough on ground Swell. Now,
Bryce and Laurie are great blokes. It doesn't have put
it out there. The two guys who founded ground Swell,
Bryce McKenzie and Lourie Patterson, and I think, for what
(15:55):
it's worth, they did a fantastic job at exactly the
right time. Federated far as the industry, good bodies were
losing a bit of their teeth. Groundswell came along, gave
them a kick in the pants, and they have done
a good job. From that point of view, I don't
agree with everything they do, but I think those two
have done a fantastic job. As in the case of
(16:18):
Professor Will Happer, who was on was that Wednesday or yesterday?
I can't remember Wednesday. See, I agree with him on methane.
I mean, he's a university professor he's far smarter than me.
Obviously I agree with on that. But when he came
out and said, can you be the judge of this
that you just burn as much fossil fossil fuels as
you want celebrate it, it's not going to make a
(16:39):
jots difference. I don't buy that. I'm afraid I don't
buy that. But you make your mind up if you
want to hear it again. Listen to the Best of
the Country tomorrow morning, which is brought to you by Rabobank.
Talking about Rabobank Michelle, Yesterday was their final countdown to
Christmas Prize one thousand dollars cash to the charity or choice.
(17:00):
We had hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of entries and you
had to send them all off the Rabobank. So don't
shoot the messenger here, because David Johnson and the team
at Rabobank made the decision. Okay they did.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
There's no way we could have decided. There were so
many amazing charities in there, and they ended up having
to choose, and honestly, it's like Sophie's choice. It was
too hard.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yep, they had and they chose the IHC, calf and
Rural scheme nominated by Sally Christiansen. So Sally, you your
nomination was the one that was picked out. You nominated
the IHC Calf and Rural Scheme. Great Calls are founded
of course by the great pine Tree meads, so they
will get the thousand dollars cash. But if you missed
out on prices in the countdown to Christmas, tis the
(17:43):
season for giving up. Next we're going to give you
the chance to win some Christmas bubbles and some cherries.
How good would that be? So listen out next for
Blair MacLean and Jane Hunter from Hunter's Wine's the season
(18:18):
for giving here on the country. We've already given away
the thousand dollars of Ravo Bank cash to that wonderful charity.
And I had nothing to do with this. I didn't
pick it. Remember the IHC Calf and Rural Scheme that
thousand dollars has found a great home. So let's continue
on with the generous theme because we are going to
give away some bubbles and some new seasoned cherries for Christmas.
(18:41):
Let's welcome on to the country our viticulture correspondent Blair
Blizzard MacLean and of course a favorite winery owner Jane
Hunter from Hunters' Wines Ladies Before gentlemen, Jane, you've taken
time out of a busy day because you've been taking
a wine tour because you seller manager fell over and
(19:02):
broke his or her arm.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Absolutely, so everyone's just taken off on the Christmas lunch.
And I've got these wonderful people from one of the
cruise ships here and we're doing some tastings and of
course starting with the beautiful Mirror Miru which is startling wine,
absolutely the wine for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes, And I neglected to mention that you two wonderful
people are based in Blenheim. Of course that is the
wine capital of the country. Blizzard MacLean Blair. When you're
not working for Fruit Fed Supplies supplying all the vineyards
and wineries in Marlborough with everything they need for all
your services and supplies, talk to Blizzard. You've got a
(19:47):
wee side hustle. You've got a cherry orchard.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Yeah, Jamie, thank you, good Heed, there was thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Don't worry. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I know there will be cherries on the way, do you, Jamie?
And the macaiosa right, no, you, No, we're flat out
picking cherries here and sunny Marlborough. I wouldn't say it's
been the greatest of seasons. We've had regular rain events
with I think we're up to our ninth or tenth
helicopter flight over the orchard to dry the cherries, but
(20:20):
we're Yeah, we're probably leading into sort of ten days
before Christmas and then we'll be done. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I'm looking at minews, my drought index map from New
Earth Sciences and zen and yeah, there isn't much yellow
in the Blenham area, so I'm sure that the livestock
farmers will be welcoming that Blair.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Yeah they are, and the great guys are too. Really,
because rain after flowering and we've certainly finished flowering on
grapes isn't a bad thing. It sizes up erries nicely
and keeps everything growing. And we've got another forecasted fifty
odd mells next week, so that'll be great for the pasture.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Great for the pasture, not so good for the cherries. No,
do you run the risk? Do you get in and
pick them before they burst? How does it work?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Yeah? We do.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
We also have rain covers and we have friends at
Marlbra helicopters. They'll probably be in for the tenth time
this year, coming and drying the cherries as soon as
the rain stopped.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Well, you just send them a bell for that shameless plug,
Marlboro helicoppers for all your helicopter needs. Not many of
us need helicopters, Blair, But I guess it becomes very
expensive when you are running an orchard.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Yes, it is here, but that's just the way it is.
Otherwise you'll save the crop. But lots of summer fruit
coming right around the country. Jamie, Central Otago starting picking apricots, peaches, nectarias.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I had my first new season nectarene earlier in the
week and it is to die for. Central Otago does
beautiful stone for it, okay, Jane Hunter from Hunter's Wine.
Of course, this is bubbles and cherries. Mirror Mirror is
your bubbles of choice. But you do much more than that.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
We absolutely do.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I mean, so Blanc is our signature, but Mirror Mirror
is our biggest seller in the New Zealand market, so
of which we are very pleased. But Sauvignon Blanc remains
our biggest seller in our export markets, and it certainly
as I say, has been our signature wine since the
(22:19):
mid eighties when we first started with it, and we've
just changed our labels. We've got really smart packaging and
yeah the wine some twenty twenty five vintage is outstanding,
great great fruit character, lovely balance and you know it
goes with all our local Marlborough produce, muscle, salmon, oysters, asparagus,
(22:43):
you know all those things.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
That's great time for me to play Santa claus On.
Behalf of you. Two guys, Blizzard, McLean, Blair. What are
you got? You've got to match what Jane's got because
she's got in her fun pack one for the North,
one for the South to mirror mirror the best Christmas
bubbles you can get two seven blancs, two pino noirs.
What a great fun pack that is. What are you
going to give them a container load of cherries?
Speaker 7 (23:07):
I could give them a story of my tri scoring ability.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I think they prefer the cherries. What are you got?
Speaker 7 (23:14):
Yeah, so we've got some export quality cherries, thirty two
mil beauties, one for the North, one for the South,
and they as soon as you give me the addresses, Jamie,
they'll be seen to a on Monday and right probably midweek,
and they are top quality, juicy, beautiful.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Du beautiful. We're going to get them to you before Christmas,
we promise, and if we don't, Blizzard, You're going to
be shot. I can't say that, can I? Anyhow, I
know Jane'll fulfill her side of the bargain. So here
you go, folks, it's Christmas chair time. It's bubbles and cherries.
You need because we're going to make your work for
this awe. But you need You need to text the
following to five double O nine with your name and
(23:51):
your courier address. Hunters Wines get the possessive of apostrophe
in the right place. We can afford to be fussy
because there'll be lots of entries. So Hunters Wines and
Cherry Bank that's the name of Blizzard's orchards. Thanks guys,
Thanks for being such wonderful contributors throughout twenty twenty five.
Catch you back for a prosperous new farming here in
(24:12):
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Thanks Shenmy and.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Best wishes to use the Christmas in the New Years.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Thanks guys. Twenty four away from one, What a great prize?
Are you coming in thick and fast. You better get
this right. So the text numbers five double oh nine.
You need to text Hunter's Wine. There is a we
possessive of Hunter's Wines? Should I say s on the
end of both of them, there's a we possessive apostrophe
and they're sorry. I'm a bit anal about stuff like that.
(24:40):
And Cherry Bank. So Hunter's Wine and Cherry Bank to
five double o nine with your name and your courier address,
not your postal address, your courier address, because we're going
to chuck this in the courier to you. So thank
you very much, to Hunters Wines, and to Chery Bank.
Blizzard calls his orchard cherry Bank because he reckons the
(25:03):
bank owns most of it. He's a good bloke, isn't he?
Up next, Michelle and the latest and rural news is
that another wicket. There's a bit of a calypso collapso
going on?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Michelle? Eighty eight for six? Oh goodness me. The Windy's
lead by fifteen. It's going to be all over today.
You would have to think at the Basin Reserve will
update that one for you. And sports news Michelle's are
next with Rural News. Nothing screams disco like l Freak
(25:49):
from chic How do I segue from that into Michelle Watt?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Let me try the Country's worldviews with Coup Cadet, New
Zealand's leading writer on lawn lower brands it steel.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Ford dot cott z for your locals Doggist.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And firstly, Michelle, apologies for not joining you and the
rest of the staff at our Christmas function this afternoon
this evening. I've got a prior commitment with the Boomers
disco at the golf Club.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
Sorry about that, you know, I say it with feeling, Jamie.
I don't think that was very genuine.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Well, you've got to go. I mean, normally hate dress
ups and you've got to get dressed up for our one,
but you've got to get dressed up for the Boomers disco.
And I just want to say, if you're anyone, if
you're ever in the market for a John Travolta white
suit as I was, don't buy one from the costume
box and Sydney it's rubbish.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Didn't you have a denim matching disco suit in the
seventeen none?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I had a Steve Austin Denham suit in the seventies.
I was very proud of it, very proud of it.
I don't think i'd fit it now as unfortunately, but
I've got a very tacky John Travolta disco suit.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
I can't wait to see photos of this one.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Now there'll be no photos anyhow, Watson, have I played
the Rural News? What's in rural News?
Speaker 10 (27:03):
Well?
Speaker 9 (27:03):
Before we get into it, were talking about grund Swat earlier,
Jamie and the someone's accused you of being a lefty
on this Facebook post, which really shook me by surprise
that you've joined labor.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Apparently I must be doing that, must That's the best
news I've heard all day. Have been called a lefty
and a labor supporter.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
I can't wait to tell Damien this next week.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, well, Damien's on the show for his final argument
of twenty twenty five. Mind you. I don't mind Chippy.
He did a video for me for a friend's daughter's wedding.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
He's a very nice guy.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
He actually Chippy is a nice bloke. Look this good peep.
There's some good people in labor. I'm just to worried
about the other two parties. But anyhow, let's leave the
politics aside. So what have you got on rural news?
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Real news? Just large areas of Auckland are now under
surveillance for Yarley hornets, so that they've expanded that monitoring zone.
It's been extended to eleven kilometers across the north shore
and beyond the Harbor Bridge. So now it now includes
Auckland's entire CBD and stretches east to Mission Bay. So
keep an eye out for those pieces. We're on the
MPO website about that. We might catch up with Ray
about that next week.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Indeed, Oh, just as I go to look at the
TV screen to update the cricket eighty nine for six
the Windys have collapsed, news of a lead by sixteen.
This game will be could be finished early afternoon, who knows.
So that's the cricket updated. Now the other thing that's happening.
And I'm not really a darts fan, but I do
(28:25):
love the World Darts Championship From Alexandra Palace, Ali Paley,
English arrowsmith Luke Littler's begun his World Darts Championship title
defense with a comfortable win on the opening night of
action at London's Alexandra Palace, the eighteen year old who's
nominated for World Sportsperson of the Year, saw off a
(28:47):
Lithuanian opponent three nil. He now believed it or not.
Michelle has ten days off great watching between Christmas, around
Christmas and New Year, that sort of time. The World
Darts Championships sounds like a.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
Great sport to be playing if you get ten days off.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, yeah. Anyhow, so there's did I play the sports
news liner? I didn't geez.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Sport on the country with AFCO we owned.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
That's rare.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
You don't want Tom Young on my case. He can
be an angry man on occasions as well. We'll be
speaking to his mate Mark Delatour. I think next week
on the Country, We've got a whole lot of really
interesting people lined up for you, and they'll all be
contemplating their egg. Person of the Year will name ours
on Friday. I think Mike Peedterson's opened the batting. He's
(29:36):
gone with Craig Pigot from Alter, which was an interesting
and probably a pretty good choice to be fair up next,
who is Hamish McKay's AG Sportsperson of the Year. We're
heading to Harmy North to find out next on the country.
Speaker 11 (30:04):
McKay on sport with farm lands, prevent parisite outbreaks and
score a win this summer.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
So it's MacKaye on Mackay and one of them knows
a whole lot more about sport than the other one.
Hamish Mackay joins us from where are you today, PALMEI
north or fielding Hamish.
Speaker 10 (30:23):
The building live Stoff Center for about fifteen kilogram live
weight sale day.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Yes, jeez, I know it's it's amazing and no doubt
you've had the cup of tea in the sky on.
Speaker 10 (30:35):
Yes, indeed, yep, stocks kfo no brilliant yet, No, we'll
good your beautiful day of the battle with two too.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I thought there was another wicket gone on the cricket,
but they've gone backwards on that one. Maybe they've appealed back.
Let me just have a quick look, sorry, Hamish, And
I thought there was another one gone. Someone's obviously appealed
and they haven't gone anyhow. That's going to be over
very very shortly. I want to talk to you. You
want to talk about your egg Sports Person of the
(31:02):
Year and I don't want to take the words out
of your mouth, but I bet you. I bet you
you're going to go with Jack Jordan.
Speaker 10 (31:10):
Oh or look I know, I well, I'm actually not.
I'm sort of so foreseeing the next five years now
that he's finally cracked through Toy Henderson, there you go.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah, well he's And the amazing thing about him is
I think it's his dad who drives them everywhere around
the country, especially in the North Island. He drives in
the middle of the night to get to these sharing comps,
and he cleaned up both of them last year and
did very well with Jack Fagan representing us in Europe.
Speaker 10 (31:43):
Yeah, exactly, and I reckon it will benefit hugely from
that time in Europe. I think when you might have
been in Perth and might have had him on the
show and yeah, I just like the cut of his
jib and just like what he had to say and
what he'd learned. And yeah, but hard to go past Jack. Actually,
to be fair, he is a bahemoth, isn't he.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I mean, hell yeah, oh those are They're the absolute
peak of athleticism. Those sharers, especially the ones who are
attempting some of the sharing records, and we've got some
of those. I think Sarah here and his brother Simon Goss.
He's in your neck of the woods. I think he's
attempting one, isn't he.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
I think he will because I know he's done over
eight hundred, which just seems ridiculous, doesn't it. He's already
done an eight hundred. I think that wasn't a two
stand sort of attempt. So yeah, I'm not sure what
his next one is, but he goes real good.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, okay, unlike you at Business House Golf at Fielding
last night where you hit one all of three inches
off the t Hamish McKay. That would cost you a
stiff whiskey if you were playing at Bell McEwan. But
I want to move on. You want to talk about,
because I know you've done a lot of sports commentary
in your career. How good is this Sam Ruth, this
kid from Talonger, I think he is, isn't he?
Speaker 8 (32:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Well look he has to be.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
I mean it just he defies all kinds of logic
when it comes to a fifteen sixteen, sixteen year old
he is now running, you know, just dropping in a
one forty eight four hundred at that age and then
to just to trot home in three thirty eight by
himself in the fifteen hundred meters.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
How good is he?
Speaker 10 (33:16):
How if you were going to put if the TA
B were going to offer odds on him winning an
Olympic medal, it'd be.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
About a dollar five.
Speaker 10 (33:26):
I would have thought it all goes well as long
as injury doesn't get in the way.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
He's an absolute freak show.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, he's running faster than John Walker, Nick willis any
other any of any of our great middle distance runners.
Speaker 10 (33:40):
Yeah, And you know I'm a bit of I mean
track and field. You know, the door used to get
shut on me when it used to come up for
the Olympics, in common with games and things in the
old days at three. But track and field has always
probably been my deepest passion, which relates to you know,
to Quax Walker, you know Dixon in that era.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
But this is really special.
Speaker 10 (34:00):
It's just quite quite unbelievable what he's doing, and he
does it with such ease, and he seems so unaffected
by it. You know, That's what I like about it. Yeah,
I hear pretty more about him, and he's just going
to fly that flag for track of field too. Hopefully
they haven't been great at cashing in on that in
the past, hopefully they do.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Okay, well, look we've got to go. We've got to
go to Barry's Sooper. But I want you to think
we're going to talk about that all black schedule for
twenty twenty six next week. And I also want you
to think of you've given us your AG sports Person
of the Air. Next Friday, I want your AG Person
of the Year. Okayimus, can you do that?
Speaker 10 (34:37):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Good on you, mate. You enjoy the rest of your
day at the Fielding say yeah yeah. And if you're
ever passing through Fielding, lovely town. It's got a clock
tower on a Friday, you need to go down to
the Saleiards. They're right in the middle of the town.
It is so cool. Barry's Soper to wrap the country
next and before I forget because shells pointing at me vigorously.
(35:02):
Thanks to this is from farm Strong. Thanks to all
the farmers, growers, their teams and families who've got behind
Farmstrong this year. Your support is making a big difference
to our rural communities. And special mention goes to the
farmers and growers who shared their stories on the country too.
And we had a great story yesterday from Hayes, Garland.
We love catching up with Farmstrong's champions from all over
(35:25):
New Zealand. Free tools and tips on how to stay
strip Farmstrong. You just need to head to farmstrong dot
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zed to live well and farm well. Barrysoaper wraps the
country next Welcome back to the country. Barry Soap is
(35:57):
not answering his phone. Cousin, Barry, you have let me
down ninety five for six at the basin reserve the
Windy's lead by twenty two. This game will be over
sooner rather than later, or we would think and remember
it's your last chance. You've gone nuts, but you've got
to be in to win if you want to win.
(36:19):
The Hunter's Wines fun pack two mirror Mirror bubbles, two
seven Yon Blancs, two Pino Noirs along with the box
of Cherry's Export Quality the big big Fat Juicy ones.
Text Hunter's Wines with the possessive apostrophe in the right
place and Cherrybank to five double O nine with your
(36:40):
name and coreer address Michelle. Yes you're Barry Soaper. Now
who's going to win out of Nicola or Ruth. I
think Nikola Willis sall win this.
Speaker 9 (36:53):
I think she might take it out as well. Although
Ruth is a hard task master, she's been around a while.
She was in a hard government as well.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
She was a very hard government. She was responsible for
the Mother of all budgets.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
She was and got a lot of nicknames there. She
don't think Nichola Willis has had as many nicknames from
the media.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Well, Nicola Willis was a champion debater at Victoria University.
I think I've told you about my John Travolta suit
for the Boomers disco at the at the Otago Golf
Club tonight. You know, I'll be one of the younger
ones there.
Speaker 9 (37:27):
Isn't this like the boomer Macarina the wayamc A sort
of pretty much.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I tried to learn the Brooklyn shuffle slash hustle, and
honestly that no I know why I gave up dancing
about forty years ago. Two left feet, two left feet. Anyhow,
what are you dressed up?
Speaker 9 (37:46):
As I'm not allowed to say, I'm under complete secrecy.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Well you could go like you're dressed up now spoken
from Balcluthor. Yeah, he won't have to change at all.
I'm only joking, Michelle. Thanks for your support all this week.
We'll catch you all back next week for our final
week of the year.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
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