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E98 | Petra Bagust

Petra Bagust has worked in TV and radio for 30 years as a host, presenter and regular contributor. Today she's a popular podcast host of Grey Areas with Petra Bagust, and after a few minutes you'll see why. Petra is so smooth, with a perfect mix of genuine wisdom and good gags.

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E97 | Kendra Cocksedge

Kendra Cocksedge is the most capped Black Fern of all time and their record point scorer who recently announced her retirement from rugby after a stellar career. But she is NotDoneYet.

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E96 | Daniel Kereopa

Daniel Kereopa is a special person. You’ll hear it straight away. His messaging is subtle, captivating, and deep. He’s disarming with his humour and self-depreciation, but behind it is real authenticity and humility. And he’s got an incredible story to tell.

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E95 | Brad Smeele

Brad Smeele was a world champion wakeboarder at the top of his game. His life was an endless summer of travel, competing, modeling, building, and meeting women when a catastrophic accident changed his life and left him a quadriplegic in 2014.

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E94 | Dan Hooker

Dan Hooker has been a professional fighter for the last 13 years, forging a path to becoming one of the best UFC lightweight fighters in the world. He is refreshingly honest, open, unfiltered, and up for a laugh as he gives us an insight into the realities of fighting for a living and takes us behind the scenes of the UFC from signing his first contract in 2014 all the way up to his upcoming fight at UFC 281.

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E93 | Ross Taylor

Ross Taylor is one of New Zealand’s greatest ever cricketers! In a 16-year career with the Black Caps he made the most appearances, became the highest run scorer in ODIs and Tests, scored the most centuries and took the most catches. He has recently launched his book Black and White which covers these successes on the pitch as well as some of the challenges he faced over his life.

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E92 | Eliza McCartney

Eliza McCartney is one of the very best pole vaulters in the world. In fact, she is one of the best pole vaulters ever, taking home bronze from the Rio Olympics and going agonisingly close to the magical 5m mark with her personal best in 2018. But her career has stalled over the last four years with an unfortunate run of injuries which has led to an inspiring rebuild of her movement patterns that will hopefully see her return to her best form.

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E90 | Chris Moorman

Chris Moorman is one of the most successful poker players of all time. He has won over $42 million dollars playing cards and is widely considered to be the best online tournament player ever, but he’s also crossed over successfully into live tournaments as well. Hear some of the best (and worst) stories from his 15 years as a poker pro!

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E88 | Ric Salizzo

Ric Salizzo is New Zealand sports broadcasting royalty – journalist, television presenter and producer – turned rugby consultant in New York. After starting his career as a journalist he became the All Blacks’ first ever media liaison officer in 1992 before embarking on a TV career that saw him behind cult classics Sports Café and The Crowd Goes Wild.

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E87 | Hayley Sproull

Hayley Sproull is one of New Zealand’s top entertainers and definitely one of the busiest! Funny, smart, musical and driven, we were blown away by how good she is at so many different things!

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E86 | Grant Fox

We talk about Grant Fox’s relationship with his golfing superstar son Ryan Fox - and the best stories from being his caddy, his 40-year friendship with the late Martin Crowe – and the incredible bet they made at school, the best lessons learned as a father - and grandfather, what it’s really like to be an All Blacks selector and why he's walking away from it.

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E85 | Jono and Ben

This was such a cracker ep. We trace the path from ‘do stuff to Jono Fridays’ at the Rock, and Pulp Sport/Wanna-Ben, through to the primetime smash hit Jono and Ben Show - and beyond. We laughed, we cried, and we had a bloody good chat. Don't miss this one.

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E84 | Blair Tuke

Blair Tuke is one of New Zealand’s most successful sailors and best sportsmen. His love of the ocean has driven both his remarkable sailing career and his environmental mission to preserve it for future generations.

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E83 | Dame Susan Devoy

Dame Susan Devoy has lived an exceptional life. She was the best squash player in the world for a decade, a mother of four boys, NZ race relations commissioner for five years - and that's just scratching the surface. We cover all the most interesting parts of the journey.

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E82 | Dom Harvey

For twenty years, Dom held one of NZ’s highest profile radio jobs working The Edge radio station's nationwide breakfast show. We delve deep into the weird world of breakfast radio, the complexities of working with your wife, the on-air hits and misses, and what the future holds (the future is podcasts – yay).

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E81 | Mark Richardson

Mark Richardson was a Black Caps test opener, who has gone on to become one of New Zealand’s most sought after broadcasters. A complex, interesting, and entertaining character and we were able to showcase some of the ‘real’ Mark Richardson in this episode.

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E80 | Chris Cairns

Chris Cairns' last year has been brutal. In August he suffered a heart attack, underwent four open-heart surgeries and had a spinal stroke, which left him wheelchair-bound and paralysed in his legs. Then in February he was diagnosed with bowel cancer. His brush with death has given him a new lens on life, and made him open to talking about his High Court trial, and other things he wouldn't have in the past.

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E79 | Jack Tame

Hard to know where to start with this one - except to say it was one of our favourite eps. We talked to the exceptionally talented Jack Tame about Les Mills grit class with Lorde, “James” Tame and Winston Peters, Trump, flirting with Anne Hathaway, dancing with Beyonce, Mike Hosking, the art of the interview, the beauty of Q +A and everything in between!

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