Simon Barnett & James Daniels Afternoons Newstalk ZB

This week on The Highlight Reel a couple of topics that got the audience talking - should be we make all drugs legal and what are you making of Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump? 

Is enrolling to vote on Election Day a reasonable ask? This as it is revealed how much it slows the process down and leads to errors in the count. 

Rugby's rules have been updated and Elliott Smith joined Si and James to explain. 

Also badly behaved parents at kids' sport, the call to save power, and out of town tradies cruising in and stealing the locals' work. 

And don't miss James' manual car sound effects! 

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Matt Heath has lead a very colourful life.

He first gained infamy as guitarist and singer for band Deja Voodoo, and was one of the creators and stars of Back of the Y Masterpiece TV and the film The Devil Made me Do It.

He's also a producer, director of an animation studio, columnist, sports commentator with the ACC, radio breakfast host on Hauraki, and now published author.

He's just finished his book. "A Life Less Punishing" 13 ways to Love the Life You've Got. We'll talk about that soon.

He was Simon Barnett and James Daniels' guest for this weeks Six and a Song.

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Pukekohe firm TrailLite Campers is turning 70.

They sell $57 million of campervans (and some caravans) a year and its origins trace back to two cabinetmakers, Brian Penman and Jim Crotty who made furniture and caskets.

In the mid-1950s they made their first caravan which carried the TrailLite name and that’s stuck ever since.

The luxury motorhomes can sell for $460,000 - half the average house price in New Zealand - so the finished product has to be just right.

Joint managing director Shaun Newman joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels for a chat.

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Gareth Abdinor is an Employment, Workplace & Information Expert with Taylor Shaw Barristers & Solicitors.

He regularly joins Simon Barnett and James Daniels to answer listeners' employment related questions.

Today, being put 'on-call' at the weekends, tax anomalies, and being given successive temporary contracts, among other things.

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This week on The Highlight Reel James starts the week by bringing a gift for Simon and producer Tyler. 

Si and James ask which domestic airline is better these days - Air New Zealand or Jetstar? 

Staggering figures emerge about the value of the petcare industry and how much dog owners are spending on their fur-babies. 

Pay rises for politicians sure got the phones ringing, but where did Si & James sit on the issue? 

Other questions on the table: Should we resume the live animal export trade? Why are people queuing for Popeye's chicken? 

And what was James’s big office faux pas – what did he do that no man should? 

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On the eve of the start of the duck hunting season brave Simon Barnett popped his head above the maimai and asked if there is really any skill in shooting a duck?

Simon reckons there isn't as you have a big gun and you splatter your shot around.

How hard, he asks, is it to bag one?

A couple of keen hunters soon set him straight!

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