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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Being the
Weekend Edition, first of Yesterday's News. I am Glenn Hart.
And because it's the weekend edition, you get two days
with the price of one, which is nothing, and two
days is and nothing. The price is nothing. Anyway, let's
move on. Scott Robertson's got his work cut out for him,
the busy All Black season ahead, so he popped them
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and take some calls on Jason Pine's show. It was
making Jason's job easy. I would have thought Scott Robinson
there to take the calls. Jeff Bezos and the wedding
and venice and a drama. They're making lotto harder to win,
because I often think to myself, it's so easy winning lotto.
I'm always winning lotto. And then Robert Muchamore, I think
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that's how you say his name. Anyway, he writes fiction
for young adults, and he came in to talk to
our favorite young adult, Jack Cane. Before any of that,
we've got some proposed sentencing reform and it's going to
make life really good for victims. Apparently.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Are you happy with so these changes kicking today? I understand?
Are you happy with where we are at? What did
you make of the reforms? A?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Look, I'm really happy in the direction that we're going.
You know, typical RUS is never going to be happy
until victims really are a party to the proceedings in
our heard fifty fifty in our system. We're not quite
there yet, but I'd have to say we are seeing
some really good progress with this and you know the
recent movement with the stalking legislation, with the name suppression legislation,
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we are absolutely hitting in a much better direction actually, just.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
On the victim having their say. How do we ensure
that we have a sort of consistency with outcomes? Because
there will be some victims who are incredibly unhappy with
the treatment that they've received in what's happened to them,
and there may be others who are more forgiving. So
are we ended up with justice sort of depending on
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how forgiving your victim is that? How do we have consistency?
Do you think?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Well? I mean there are still guidelines, you know, the
legislative framework provides guidelines for training around processes, provides guidelines
and at the end of the day, it is the
judge's court. So as much as and we are certainly
moving to the victims being more heard.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I've been a victim of crime, mostly just having things
nicked off my doorstep. I don't know that it's the
worst crime in the world, and I don't know that
it's really had a lasting impact on me. But what
I do know is that when it's happened, I've never
really wanted to confront my assailant or have my say
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about it. I just wanted to.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Think that news talk ze been I probably not saying
that I'm not.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
There talking about Hey, the All Black season is about
to get underway this weekend, very exciting. How excited is
Scott Robinson? And does he think you do a better
job than well last year?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
You mentioned before and it's well documented every test you
lost last year you let it halftime. So is that
finishing the last twenty minutes or whatever it might be.
Is that Has that been a real focus ahead of
twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yep. Yeah. You stage it into your trainings and you
make people aware of it, and what does it look
like and you know, how do we react to it,
and so you start training those daily habits part of it,
and just more important your mindset. You know, we'll probably
stop paying a little bit. Sometimes sometimes you overplayed, sometimes
the discipline wasn't great. So it's not just one thing,
but the awareness of it, and then you put it
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into training as much as you can, and all the
mental skill stuff as well.
Speaker 6 (04:02):
I mean you must sit there in the first half
of the year watching Super Rugby, watching the eighteen rounds
of it and then the fires and thing. Man, can
I just get my hands on these guys, and now
you have got them. We're less than a week out
from the first test. How are your emotions? How excited
are you to get the Test season started?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Look, my job is to take us away as many
distractions as possible so we're really clear and free in
mind so we can play. We've got incredibly tenanted group
that care deeply about it. So how do you set
them up in the game? How do you send them
off off the field so when they come under the roof,
we can play fast and showcase that and deal with
any adversity that comes along. So are you excited? Do
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you have all the plans in place, but you're still
got an a dept and adjust as you go along.
Test theories are different. You know, you don't often get
to play three to the same team three times in
a row, so their own narratives. You know, test series,
you know the French teams what it is, though they'll
be French. We'll just play who's in front of us.
We've majory of the focuses on us. We know how
they're going to play from the last few years, you know,
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and they'll bring.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
The fair He's the master of we're sort of functioning vibe,
isn't he, And so much so that you're sort of
on board with it. You go, oh yeah, as long
as everybody's just sort of feeling it, it'll be great.
Let's happen's great?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
You talk sidin.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Right, there's a lot of news going on at the moment.
I don't know, do you feel like there's more news
than usual? Is a bald gazillionaire crowding out Venice to
get married? Is that news?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Would you still go? I can confess to having visited
both Venice and Barcelona during backpacking trips I don't know,
fifteen odd years ago, but I'm not sure I would
return anytime soon, at least increasingly as I travel. I
don't know, I'm just I'm kind of It's more, I'm
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not just put off. I'm kind of repulsed by the
crowds at the absolute hottest spot, and I'm aware that,
like a driver complaining about a traffic jam, I'm very
much part of the problem. The Mirror of Venice, who
has so staunchly defended the Jeff Bezos wedding, says he's
embarrassed by the protests. The wedding is a great source
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of much needed revenue for the city, he said, and
italyst Tourism Ministry put out a report suggesting that it
could provide the city a tourism boost of more than
a billion dollars. It's a great way to put Venice
on the map. The thing is, I really don't think
Venice needs to be put.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
On the map.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
I don't know. Maybe I'm wired differently, but watching the
scenes in Venice as if anything, made me less likely
to go back.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I've got a thirtieth wedding anniversary next year. Both myself
and the domestic manager we share the anniversary, and we're
looking at going to Europe. But unfortunately we got married
right in the middle of the year and that seems
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to be when it's very busy in Europe, So we're
thinking of going a bit earlier. Is that still romantic
going a trip that's not actually on your anniversary to
celebrate your anniversary? Difficult question speaking of getting married and
going to crowded places in Europe. Not cheap, of course,
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So we were counting on a lotto win between now
and then to pay for it, But now it sounds
like it's going to be harder than ever to win Lotto.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
The jackpots rise to these crazy amounts, which would cause
a frenzy of ticket sales. So fifty million jackpots, it
sounds exciting, right, It's why so many people ignore the
odds and queue up to buy a ticket and the
hope of winning an unfathomable amount of money. So a
lot of New Zealand are likely be onto something here,
But it will also make it harder to win. I've
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always felt uncomfortable when the number gets above the twenty
million month. Yes, it is wonderful to think about all
the good you could do, but I also start thinking
about things like whether i'd tell anyone, How could you
keep it private? Would it impact my friendships, relationships with family?
How would it impact our kids and how they choose
to live their lives? Would it change priorities and values?
And yes, you could say it's a waste of energy
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overthinking something which I can say with confidence is not
going to happen. Even so, hearing about powerball winners and
there have been eleven overnight millionaires this year, including two
lucky punters who split thirty million Saturday last week, that
does see me buying the occasional ticket. So knowing it's
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even harder to win and there will be fewer winners
makes the lotto draw less appealing to me for the
two simple reasons. I don't think anyone needs to win
fifty million, and I'd much prefer more New Zealanders had
the life changing experience of waking up on a Sunday
a heck of a lot better off, rather than just
a few waking up filthy rich.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The weird thing to me is that you know they
do eventually get one of these prizes, don't they, And
you you know, sometimes you find out who it was
and sometimes you don't. But I don't know anybody who's won.
I think about ten or fifteen thousand dollars. I think
is the as the highest amount of money I personally
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know of somebody winning. You think somewhere along the way,
you go, ah, how did that guy end up with
all those jet skis outside his house? And they, oh, yeah,
he won lotto? But that never seems to happen. And
I still can't understand why it's only ever people who
buy tickets in the middle of nowhere who win, and
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it's never just from you know, the whippaws at Saint
Luke shopping mall. Is it? It never is? What's that about.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Us?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Talk?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
Has it been?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Here's one for the young adults out there. This guy
writes books just for you. I don't remember being a
young adult, but I do remember reading a lot of books.
I don't think he was around them, though it was
a very long time ago.
Speaker 7 (10:24):
We speak to some prolific authors from time to time
on this program. But Fury, Fire and Frost is the
ninth book in your robin Hood series, and you are
churning them out. So how much time do you spend
actually not writing?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
The funny thing is is that I do write reasonably
quickly I usually write a book in six to eight
weeks once it's all planned and worked out. And I
think it's really important when you work for kids, when
you write for children, because if I say to an adult,
you know, my next book's out in a year, that's okay.
If I say to a kid, you know, my book's
out in three months, it's like, oh god, that's such
a long time. So I think it's really important for
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children's authors to kind of keep feeding them and keep
kids interested because they grow up and they change so fast.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Yeah, there must be sort of adds a tricky dynamic, though,
doesn't it. That means you really have to have everything
sorted quite early in the process if you're trying to
serve the readers whom you first kept here with your
first book in a series.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
Yeah, that's right, that's absolutely right.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
So tell us about the decision to go with a
modern Robin Hood character for those of our listeners who
haven't read any of the books in the series yet,
obviously this is a modern reimedgling of the famous character.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
So what I wanted to do was I really liked
the idea of Robinhood. I've always been attracted to Robin
Hood's stories. But when I started researching in very often
when I'm researching, I was thinking about doing something.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Now.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
I look into lots of different things, but Robin Hood
really fascinated me because it's this very old I mean,
it was around in the sort of fourteenth fifteenth century,
as you know, stories passed on by word of mouth,
and it's progressed and every new format that's come along,
whether it's you know, poems, whether it's already plays as
a Shakespeare played with Robin Hood in. You know, it's
this kind of legend that's been around for so long
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and everyone gets to interpret it in their own way.
So my Robinhood lives in a very contemporary world. And
you know, the Sheriff of Nottingham is a kind of
I guess you'd say, a kind of trump light populist
kind of figure. And my version of Robin Hood is
a twelve thirteen year old boy who is very much
like most modern kids.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I am always impressed by these people who write very
long books and they seem to be able to bring
them out at least once a year. That's all I
can do to write all my emails of the day.
I don't write a whole book in a year every year.
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It actually takes me about that long to read one't.
To be honest, I'm very slow reader because I read
aloud in my head. Everybody has a boy kids of voice,
silly voice, so that slows things down. Of it. I
don't know why I have to be so performative. I
understand other people just read the words and it goes
into their brains. But as we pretty much firmly establish,
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my brains a bit faulty, and I'll be back with
more of its faults expressed out loud in this podcast tomorrow.
I'll see you then.
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