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Good afternoon, Joe. I'm Andrew Dickens for Heather. Heather's doing the breakfast show. Uh Heather will be back next week. I'll be doing early edition. Uh actually, it's too difficult figuring out our roster. Whatever. I'm here for the next three hours. Boy, I'll tell you one thing about this Labour policy, it's got everybody talking and got everybody texting. A lot of people just just reflexively don't like it because it's Labour and it's spending and it's a handout. I get that. Sue writes, if everyone switches to public transport, the fuel tax take will be lower. So less in the fund. This is true. But Sue, do you really think everybody's going to switch to public transport? If you're sorted, you ain't. If you get a free car park from work, you ain't. Um, oh yeah, Rod. I admitted that I do like the raspberry chocolate fish. Uh, he does too. He's got a bad habit with them. He says they taste better than the strawberry, and that is so true. It's that little bite, it's a little tang. It's a little free song, as Mike Hosley might say. Someone asks, didn't Chris Hipkin say it didn't include Auckland Ferries? Okay, it includes the inner city Auckland ferries. That's Devonport, Bayeswater, etc., but not the bigger one. So half Moon Bay, don't know about that, but it probably should. And then of course the Waihickey ferry, that will be out of it. Uh the Days Bay uh ferry, whatever that's called down in Wellington across the harbour, that that'll be included in the whole thing. And Texas says very flippant remark about the people whose towns do not have public transport. Yes, we will be subsidizing your city trips. Thank you very much. And it's okay. We're also subsidizing stuff for you too. It's a bit of a cross subsidization thing happening. Hey, and here's the thing. I found out today that Parliament has a ghost tour. Uh, and you say apparently, because they're ghosts in in Parliament. And you get to tour around the place. Apparently, it's particularly spooky in the parliamentary library. You get to hear about the most famous ghost, which is the woman who used to be married to the guy who built Lanark Castle, and he went bonkers. I think he topped himself as well. And I said they go, Oh, that's interesting. Would you see the ghost of Jamie Lee Ross? You never saw Jamie there when he was an MP. He's probably still haunting the place. What is Jamie doing these days? Don't text me, I know. I don't need to hear that again. And then, of course, everyone in the newsroom joked, oh, you might get to see the ghost of Barry Soper who haunted that place for decades. Well.