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Full Show Podcast: 07 September 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2: Good morning. It is six after five. Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company. National's first home buyer plan. Who does it
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Speaker 2: actually benefit? We'll look at that this morning. Gavin's in
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Speaker 2: the UK. For us, there's been a migration protest. Vicky
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Speaker 2: does the business. And who's going to pay for Harry
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Speaker 2: and Megan's security? All ahead. The agenda. Monday to the
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Speaker 2: 7th of September, Wyckoff and Kushner in Ukraine trying to
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Speaker 2: stop the war. This is their first time visiting Kyiv.
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Speaker 3: We came here and I feel good about what has
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Speaker 3: happened and the conversations in Moscow and now the conversations here.
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Speaker 3: I hope everybody understands that we take this very seriously
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Speaker 3: and it's a very, very important thing for us to
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Speaker 3: help to get resolved.
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Speaker 2: He has just come from Moscow and he is Putin's envoy.
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Speaker 4: The American representatives had prepared thoroughly for this trip. Not
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Speaker 4: only did they express their customary interest in bringing the
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Speaker 4: hostilities to an end as soon as possible, but they
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Speaker 4: also set out a number of ideas regarding possible avenues
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Speaker 4: for a settlement.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, said it was, quote, very good.
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Speaker 5: One thing Steve and I really thought would be productive
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Speaker 5: is to go back to the trilateral format, which we
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Speaker 5: were able to do about six months ago. And we've
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Speaker 5: spoken with both parties. And so hopefully we'll have progress
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Speaker 5: on that very soon. I think that's important to talk
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Speaker 5: about the big issues, obviously, but also some of the
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Speaker 5: de-escalatory issues that could be done as well.
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Speaker 2: Geez, they're clocking up a lot of air miles, aren't they,
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Speaker 2: with little success so far. Now let's go to Germany,
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Speaker 2: the AFD. This is the far right party everyone's worried
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Speaker 2: about there. Well, polls are closing. The party is expected
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Speaker 2: to win. It's expected to be a landslide, which would
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Speaker 2: make it the first time that a far-right party has
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Speaker 2: led a German state since the Second World War. They've
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Speaker 2: had to accept polls out already.
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Speaker 6: The far-right alternative for Germany, just through these exit polls,
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Speaker 6: looks a major step closer to actually being able to
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Speaker 6: form a government here alone, which would be quite something.
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Speaker 6: You have to go back more than a decade in
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Speaker 6: any other state to see anything near it.
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Speaker 2: But not all Germans are fans.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're ruining this country. So it's not good if
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Speaker 1: they're in power. Nobody here will be friendly anymore. The
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Speaker 1: people will start fighting over each other.
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Speaker 2: They are fascists, for instance, and I'm a teacher, and
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Speaker 2: they want to change their educational system.
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Speaker 7: The AfD, I think, is a fascist party, and that
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Speaker 7: it got so big is a symptom of the government
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Speaker 7: politics failing, actually.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Infantino is staring down his detractors. He's been caught
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Speaker 2: up by the media, caught up with him at a
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Speaker 2: Women's Under-20 World Cup in Poland, pestering him. Will you stand?
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Speaker 2: And the answer is yes.
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Speaker 8: There will be a lot to say, but there will
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Speaker 8: be a right place and the right time to say this.
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Speaker 8: It's not today, it's not here, but here and today
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Speaker 8: we are enjoying football.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on Early Edition with Spark for Business. Technology
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Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB. Nine after five. Great to have your company
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Speaker 2: this morning. I did some shopping on the weekend and
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Speaker 2: was started to pay attention to the prices because I
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Speaker 2: had seen that Chloe was doing Chloe Mart or whatever
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Speaker 2: it is, Kiwi Mart from the Green Party. How much
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Speaker 2: cheaper do you think milk is going to be under
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Speaker 2: Chloe Mart or Kiwi Mart? Do you think they have
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Speaker 2: any idea? One thing I did notice just when I
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Speaker 2: was listening to the news there, Neva was talking about
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Speaker 2: the price of meth. Now, meth in New Zealand is
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Speaker 2: cheaper than it's ever been, more available than it's ever been.
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Speaker 2: She's just told us in the news that there are
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Speaker 2: two million doses of methamphetamine every month. How is meth
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Speaker 2: so cheap and so plentiful and milk so expensive and
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Speaker 2: so scarce? Answer the question. What is it? Is it
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Speaker 2: the fact that there's regulation? Is it the fact that
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Speaker 2: there's competition? How can this be? Maybe something the Greens
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Speaker 2: could ponder. But a lot of it would have to do,
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Speaker 2: you'd have to say, with the fact that there's no
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Speaker 2: tax on it, right? And that is the big difference.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to your staple items, you go to Australia,
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Speaker 2: you go to the UK, you go to Ireland, they
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Speaker 2: don't have the 15% GST. So instead of dealing with
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Speaker 2: that and trying to get rid of tax, the Greens'
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Speaker 2: idea is is to set up a supermarket and to
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Speaker 2: force existing supermarkets to sell them stores and then to
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Speaker 2: set up two distribution centres at a cost of billions
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Speaker 2: of dollars. And at the end of all of that,
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Speaker 2: how much cheaper will a two-litre blue milk cost you?
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Speaker 2: Can they answer that question? Well, we'll find out today,
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Speaker 2: won't we? I mean, the whole thing seems mad to me.
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Speaker 2: We also had a couple of other announcements at the weekend.
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Speaker 2: One was from the ACT Party, which made more sense
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Speaker 2: than probably all of the others combined. And that was,
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Speaker 2: why do we as a country insist on closing down
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Speaker 2: local business for climate change reasons when other businesses around
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Speaker 2: the world are going to pick up the slack and
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Speaker 2: supply what we were anyway? what's the effect on global
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Speaker 2: emissions of us doing something good here? It's a very
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Speaker 2: important question to ask. The other was the National Party,
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Speaker 2: and they've got a first home buy policy. We'll deal
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Speaker 2: with that just before six. It is 11 after five.
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Speaker 2: So a big question out of the UK at the
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Speaker 2: moment is who's going to pay for the security for
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Speaker 2: Harry and Meghan? Because they've got a big homecoming, they're
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Speaker 2: done with Montecito, although apparently keeping their house but renting
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Speaker 2: it out there. Who's going to pay for that security? Well,
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Speaker 2: We have a man who might have the answer for
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Speaker 2: us next. Newstalk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB. Newstalk ZB 513 on your Monday morning. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. Very quickly, just another note on
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Speaker 2: the supermarkets. So you know how they talk about $ 1
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Speaker 2: million in excess profits per day that the supermarkets are
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Speaker 2: making in New Zealand? You go, oh, that sounds terrible. Well,
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Speaker 2: if you do the maths on that, It's about, so
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Speaker 2: break it down, 5 million people in New Zealand, that's
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Speaker 2: 20 cents per person per day. The average household, 2.7 people.
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Speaker 2: That's 54 cents per household per day. So even if
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Speaker 2: the Greens manage to erase all the so-called excess profits
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Speaker 2: that the supermarkets are making, you will save New Zealand
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Speaker 2: a grand total of $ 3. 78 per week per household. Now,
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Speaker 2: you then ask yourself the question, is it worth the
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Speaker 2: billions and billions that they are promising to spend just
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Speaker 2: to set this thing up? They haven't even talked about
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Speaker 2: the running costs of Chloe Marama yet, have they? 14
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Speaker 2: after five. So Harry and Meghan have landed back in
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Speaker 2: the UK to begin their new life. But the big
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Speaker 2: question remains, will the state pay for their security? It
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Speaker 2: seems to be an open question at the moment. The
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Speaker 2: Sussex's security arrangements still under review by the Home Office.
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Speaker 2: Scott Hammer is former Senior Royal Protection Officer joining us
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Speaker 2: live this morning. Scott, good morning.
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Speaker 9: Good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Great to have you on the programme. People are texting
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Speaker 2: and already saying, did they have, in America, did they
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Speaker 2: have security that was paid for? They didn't, did they?
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Speaker 2: They paid for their own there.
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Speaker 9: Yes, at the moment, the... The security is private, and
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Speaker 9: that's part of what the issue is as to whether
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Speaker 9: it should be paid for by the state.
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Speaker 2: So what do you think is going to happen in
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Speaker 2: the UK?
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Speaker 9: Well, I look at this objectively, and whatever people's thoughts
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Speaker 9: are on Prince Harry as an individual or as a personality,
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Speaker 9: it should never be on personality. It should only ever
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Speaker 9: be decided on the threats and risks to him and
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Speaker 9: his family. And if that's looked at objectively, then I
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Speaker 9: would argue that there's probably... you know, some reason for
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Speaker 9: the state to provide protection to him as it does
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Speaker 9: to other, you know, government figures and public figures.
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Speaker 2: But I agree with you, but isn't it, isn't the
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Speaker 2: fact that they're not doing royal duties, does that not
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Speaker 2: complicate it because they're not working?
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Speaker 9: Well, again, this non-working royal, you know, I would call
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Speaker 9: it category that's been invented relatively recently. We've had non-working
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Speaker 9: royals protected in the past. You know, the Queen Elizabeth,
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Speaker 9: the Queen Mother, when she retired, she was still protected
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Speaker 9: by the state, having been the Queen before. You know,
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Speaker 9: there's other members of the royal family who have not
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Speaker 9: been working but are still afforded protection. And you might
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Speaker 9: liken that as well to former prime ministers who aren't
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Speaker 9: working in the prime ministerial role anymore, but they still
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Speaker 9: get state protection because of the role they've performed and
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Speaker 9: because it's based on the existing threats and risks. Now,
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Speaker 9: my argument would be that irrespective of whether someone's working
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Speaker 9: or not, it should be purely on threat and risk.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a very good argument. Scott, what did you
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Speaker 2: do when you were a Senior Royal Protection Officer? Who
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Speaker 2: did you work for?
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Speaker 9: So I probably worked in the department for about 25
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Speaker 9: years on and off. And I spent the last five
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Speaker 9: years of my career working for His Majesty the King
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Speaker 9: when he was Prince of Wales. So yeah, I retired
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Speaker 9: in 2022. And what sort of work did you do?
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Speaker 9: So I was his personal protection officer. So I'd be
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Speaker 9: the person you'd see on his shoulder, along with a
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Speaker 9: number of other officers I used to work with. And,
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Speaker 9: you know, that's our job is essentially what I'd call
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Speaker 9: the last 10 feet. Once all the preparations, reconnaissance, all
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Speaker 9: the intelligence has been assessed, then, you know, you really
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Speaker 9: are that last line of defence when something goes wrong.
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Speaker 2: Is it like the Secret Service where you jump in
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Speaker 2: front of a bullet?
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Speaker 9: And we always try and avoid that um there's a
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Speaker 9: slight difference between the americans and the uk and the
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Speaker 9: new zealand australian versions of things is is that we
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Speaker 9: don't try to eradicate all the risks you know the
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Speaker 9: americans can throw lots of resources and money at things
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Speaker 9: and you know most countries around the world try and
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Speaker 9: manage the risk because again it's public money you've got
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Speaker 9: to you've got to spend that appropriately and you know
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Speaker 9: security does cost quite a bit of money so you
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Speaker 9: know it needs to be kept when the public are
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Speaker 9: paying to for the absolute necessary.
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Speaker 2: Minimum scott who do you think the biggest threats are
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Speaker 2: to the royal family is it some nut bar who
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Speaker 2: reads the tabloids and you know gets carried away is
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Speaker 2: it a foreign state.
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Speaker 9: Well, I mean, there's many different threats exist. Terrorism, it
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Speaker 9: could be internal aspects. You know, like you said, you've
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Speaker 9: already mentioned those individuals, you know, referred to as lone
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Speaker 9: wolves or lone actors who are sat in the bedroom
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Speaker 9: and they're designing a plot and nobody knows about it.
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Speaker 9: The intelligence services that might not know about it, you know,
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Speaker 9: the families might not know about it. And it's really,
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Speaker 9: really hard to catch that person, hence why you know,
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Speaker 9: security is important and a public figure like Prince Harry,
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Speaker 9: you know, he's going to have somebody like that who's
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Speaker 9: probably sat in his or her bedroom now plotting something
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Speaker 9: that the security services aren't aware of purely because, you know,
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Speaker 9: of his status. You know, he's the second son of
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Speaker 9: the king. He's done a high-profile role in Afghanistan. You know,
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Speaker 9: it's been widely reported and there are people who have
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Speaker 9: served prison sentences for trying to attack him and his family.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really fair point that you're making. What
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Speaker 2: was the scariest thing or scariest moment you ever had
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Speaker 2: in the job Scott? That's a good question.
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Speaker 10: I've not really thought about it.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I've worked in 50 countries across the world.
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Speaker 9: I've worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, places like that. I
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Speaker 9: think probably in Afghanistan. And what that did bring home
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Speaker 9: to me is the service that that everyone from the
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Speaker 9: combined countries, the US, you know, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand,
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Speaker 9: all those people who, you know, the soldiers who I
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Speaker 9: met out there, you know, the jobs they were doing
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Speaker 9: to try and keep the world safe, you know, we
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Speaker 9: should never forget that.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate your time, Scott. Thanks so much for being
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Speaker 2: with me. Scott Hammer, former Senior Royal Protection Officer and soldier,
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Speaker 2: of course, 20 after five, Newstalk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB is 22 minutes after five. Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company. Loads of text rolling in. I'll get to
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Speaker 2: those in just a second. But first, let's do the
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Speaker 2: business with Vicky Price. Vicky, good morning. Good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Uh chancellor healy to give a talk on the economy
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Speaker 2: also on the budget cost of servicing government debts all
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Speaker 2: going north.
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Speaker 7: I'm afraid so. So the budget is at the end
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Speaker 7: of October and everyone is beginning to worry about whether
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Speaker 7: it's going to have lots of tax increases, a bit
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Speaker 7: like what we've seen before under the previous Chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
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Speaker 7: So everyone is holding their breath in a way. But
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Speaker 7: of course, we have the issue of the Prime Minister,
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Speaker 7: Andy Burnham, being very sort of optimistic and wanting to
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Speaker 7: tackle the cost of living. And then we have the
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Speaker 7: Chancellor who is indeed, as you suggest, having to face
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Speaker 7: huge costs for servicing the debt. So he's got to
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Speaker 7: do something about this. He needs to find some money
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Speaker 7: for defence. needs also in fact to do something about
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Speaker 7: the the Iran war having reduced also growth in the
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Speaker 7: UK economy. So you've got the problems of sort of
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Speaker 7: tax revenues and the need to perhaps have a bit
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Speaker 7: more spending. That is going to be a difficult act
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Speaker 7: for him to balance in a way that satisfies the
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Speaker 7: markets in particular. Capital markets are looking at this very carefully,
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Speaker 7: but not just in the UK, of course, but also
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Speaker 7: across the globe.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now, what about job cuts at Jaguar Land Rover?
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Speaker 7: Yes, but that's an element of growth, which, of course, again,
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Speaker 7: the Chancellor would like to see happen so that you
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Speaker 7: get also all those tax revenues and things would be
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Speaker 7: much easier for him. But unfortunately, there are parts of
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Speaker 7: the economy that are not doing well, and one of
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Speaker 7: them is the car manufacturing sector, competition from China, tariffs increasing.
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Speaker 7: in the US, in fact, lower growth in China for
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Speaker 7: some of the JLR models. So what you've got is
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Speaker 7: the attempt to restructure cut costs. And what we're talking
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Speaker 7: about here is possibly 4,000 people out of 30,000 going.
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Speaker 7: And in fact, the minister in charge of business is
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Speaker 7: going to be having meetings this week with the company
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Speaker 7: to see what can be done to perhaps limit those cuts.
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Speaker 7: But it is a worry. It happens across Europe as well.
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Speaker 7: We've had other companies in great difficulty. Huge restructuring has
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Speaker 7: taken place. And the latest one is Volkswagen 2, which
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Speaker 7: has just had a meeting with a supervisory board and
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Speaker 7: agreed a way forward. They were threatening 100,000 job losses.
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Speaker 7: It is the biggest car manufacturing company in Europe. But
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Speaker 7: the sector is most definitely going through a very serious
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Speaker 7: sort of difficult time.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Thanks in no small part to China, Vicky. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: Vicky Price. Our Europe business correspondent. Time is 25 minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. Now, the super age is an interesting one,
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Speaker 2: isn't it? Andrew Bailey on his way out last week said,
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Speaker 2: hang on, just before I go, hold my drink, because
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Speaker 2: he had a few, didn't he? He said, hold my drink.
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Speaker 2: Under a scenario that he was proposing, eligibility for NZ
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Speaker 2: Super would go up from 65 years in one month
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Speaker 2: instalments starting in 2029. So 68 years and one month
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Speaker 2: by 2065. This is from a paper he was quoting. Now,
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Speaker 2: does that seem too fast? How fast is too fast?
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's going to happen at some point, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: It's going to happen. No matter how many foreigners Winston
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Speaker 2: tries to cut out of the pension... saving us about
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Speaker 2: $ 2 million or something a year. How fast is too
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Speaker 2: fast for raising the age of super? 9292. We'll check
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Speaker 2: in on the war next. Newstalk ZB, great to have
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Speaker 2: your company this morning. I told you when this whole
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Speaker 2: thing kicked off that it wouldn't end tomorrow, and it hasn't.
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Speaker 2: This is the war between the US and Iran. It
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Speaker 2: is still going on. The biggest problem was always going
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Speaker 2: to be the Strait of Hormuz, and the Strait of
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Speaker 2: Hormuz is not open. In fact, there were tankers going
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Speaker 2: through the other day in a shoulder that the US
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Speaker 2: said should be safe. And guess what? They weren't. Now,
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Speaker 2: over the weekend, we've had Leon Pineda. This is the
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Speaker 2: former US Defense Secretary. He was also CIA director under Obama.
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Speaker 2: He said, yeah, look, it's one of those things. It's
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Speaker 2: at risk now of becoming another forever war in the
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Speaker 2: Middle East, which is exactly what everybody doesn't want. We've
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Speaker 2: had these before. We've had many before. Iraq, Afghanistan, you
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Speaker 2: name it, he says the likelihood is this war is
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Speaker 2: going to continue for another six months without being resolved.
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Speaker 2: And at the same time, you've got chaos at the Pentagon.
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Speaker 2: You've got Hegseth going after and firing people left, right
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Speaker 2: and center or senior military commanders leaving their posts. And
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Speaker 2: just imagine if you were one of the frontline soldiers here,
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Speaker 2: if you were on some Navy frigate in the middle
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Speaker 2: of the Gulf, although they're having a wee holiday in
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Speaker 2: Thailand at the moment, of course. But if you were
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Speaker 2: on a Navy frigate in the middle of the Gulf
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Speaker 2: and you were reading updates on your phone or you're
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Speaker 2: reading updates from command going, oh, he's gone now. Oh,
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Speaker 2: who's in charge here? And what exactly are we doing?
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Speaker 2: Quite disconcerting. And I think Leon Pinesa makes that point
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Speaker 2: very well. This war is not going to end in
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Speaker 2: a hurry, certainly not in the next six months. 29
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Speaker 2: minutes after five. Always love hearing from you. Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: is out of the UK for us, and we'll look
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Speaker 2: at buying a home before six.
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Speaker 1: Before the news breaks, hear it first. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business, technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB. Good morning, welcome to Monday, 24 minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six. Great to have your company coming up. Who's
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Speaker 2: going to benefit from National's house plan? Immigration protests in
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Speaker 2: the UK. We'll go to Gavin Gray on that one. Also, Infantino,
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Speaker 2: so the election is going to be in March for
18:32
Speaker 2: a new president of FIFA. And this guy, he's not
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Speaker 2: going anywhere, is he? He's put his hand up again. Yep,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be standing. Of course, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: be standing and I'll be winning. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting what UEFA was going to do. because
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Speaker 2: they were going to try and have a vote of
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Speaker 2: no confidence and get him booted before then. They've given
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Speaker 2: up on that now because in order to get him out,
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Speaker 2: you'd need three quarters of the members, which is 150 odd,
18:57
Speaker 2: 159 votes. And that's now considered unrealistic. So what they're
19:02
Speaker 2: going to do is put up an alternative candidate. So
19:04
Speaker 2: if you know of anyone who'd be good running FIFA,
19:07
Speaker 2: all they need is 106 of the 211 FIFA member
19:09
Speaker 2: associations to back them. And then you have yourself a contest.
19:15
Speaker 2: And then basically whoever gets the most votes wins. So
19:20
Speaker 2: they're on the lookout. UEFA is pushing for some kind
19:22
Speaker 2: of candidate. Wouldn't David Beckham be a good one? Also
19:27
Speaker 2: this morning, your text. Ryan, does the Greens government-owned supermarket
19:31
Speaker 2: mean a checkout operator will become a public servant? Yes, basically,
19:37
Speaker 2: I think they would. This person goes on, isn't the
19:40
Speaker 2: average wage for a public servant more than $ 100, 000? You
19:43
Speaker 2: can see the problems here. Ryan, other royals, because we
19:47
Speaker 2: spoke to a former royal protection officer. other royals, Ryan,
19:52
Speaker 2: who don't have royal protection and haven't for decades, Princess Anne,
19:56
Speaker 2: the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, all of whom are
20:01
Speaker 2: in pretty close vicinity to the throne. Does Princess Anne
20:06
Speaker 2: not have security? I would have thought Princess Anne had security.
20:09
Speaker 2: He made a good point, I thought, that you shouldn't
20:12
Speaker 2: be about how much you like or hate this person.
20:14
Speaker 2: It's how big is the threat against them. Another person says, Ryan,
20:19
Speaker 2: some washed up royal security person on your show. David,
20:24
Speaker 2: the guy sat and stood at the right hand of
20:27
Speaker 2: the king for 10 years and before that served in Afghanistan.
20:31
Speaker 2: What have you done with your life?
20:34
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
20:35
Speaker 2: Right, it is 22 minutes away from.
20:38
Speaker 2: Hopefully not a lot. 22 minutes away from six. Rosie Leishman,
20:42
Speaker 2: Dunedin Rosie, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Ryan.
20:45
Speaker 2: What is the message to white baiters in Southland?
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Speaker 11: So officials are stepping up checks on white baiters throughout
20:51
Speaker 11: the region as the season gets underway. Environment Southland's compliance
20:56
Speaker 11: team will be out this week monitoring and educating white
20:59
Speaker 11: baiters across five key rivers. Compliance manager Donna Ferguson says
21:04
Speaker 11: it's a good time to make sure stands are in
21:06
Speaker 11: good repair, clearly identified and meet consent requirements. She says
21:10
Speaker 11: whitebaiting is an important Southland tradition, but compliance is about
21:14
Speaker 11: keeping rivers healthy and productive for seasons to come. Whitebaiters
21:19
Speaker 11: are also being reminded to.
21:20
Speaker 7: Put their safety first.
21:22
Speaker 2: OK, how's the weather?
21:24
Speaker 11: Mostly cloudy and patchy drizzles, but clearing in the afternoon
21:28
Speaker 11: as fine spells develop, light winds... and then afternoon north-easterlies
21:33
Speaker 11: and a high of 9 degrees.
21:34
Speaker 2: Nice one, Rosie. Thank you very much. Claire's in Christchurch. Morning, Claire.
21:38
Speaker 7: Good morning.
21:38
Speaker 2: Now, what do tennis, ice hockey and UFC all have
21:41
Speaker 2: in common?
21:42
Speaker 12: That was a bit clever, wasn't it? Well, they are
21:44
Speaker 12: among the several different sports that are on the cards
21:46
Speaker 12: for the new stadium. Newstalk's Ed Beacon today revealed that...
21:49
Speaker 12: Venues Ototahi is in active talks about hosting all of
21:52
Speaker 12: these sports they've rarely seen in a stadium venue. There's
21:56
Speaker 12: also boxing, basketball and e-sports also on the radar. This
21:59
Speaker 12: is after an admission from Chief Executive Caroline Harvey-Teer that
22:02
Speaker 12: there is some disappointment at the stadium bookings thus far,
22:05
Speaker 12: specifically the fact there's been only two international concerts locked in.
22:09
Speaker 12: But she says the stadium having a roof gives it
22:11
Speaker 12: the ability to operate like a big arena for many events.
22:14
Speaker 12: including sports like these. The only issue she sees is
22:18
Speaker 12: that fitting in the different sports is a bit of
22:19
Speaker 12: a scheduling game, particularly around rugby. Harvey Teer says keeping
22:23
Speaker 12: the stadium busy year-round makes commercial sense, but they're also
22:26
Speaker 12: looking at hosting a range of events as diverse sports
22:30
Speaker 12: ensures the community feels connected to the venue.
22:32
Speaker 2: Fantastic. How's your weather?
22:33
Speaker 12: Some patchy drizzle today should clear this afternoon. Southerlies turning
22:37
Speaker 12: north-easterly and a high of 11.
22:38
Speaker 2: Thank you, Clare. Max Wellington. Morning, Max. Keeps raining for you. Yeah,
22:43
Speaker 2: good morning, Ryan.
22:44
Speaker 13: It's been a very wet night in Wellington, and it'll
22:46
Speaker 13: be a very wet morning in the capital as well,
22:48
Speaker 13: at least until sort of lunchtime, early mid-afternoon. Commuters are
22:52
Speaker 13: being told to be aware there may be some surface flooding.
22:54
Speaker 13: We've still got some very strong winds, cooler temperatures, and
22:57
Speaker 13: we're just trying to find out at the moment whether
22:59
Speaker 13: there's been any serious flooding around the region. That was
23:02
Speaker 13: a bit of a fear yesterday. This is part of
23:05
Speaker 13: quite a sizable storm.
23:06
Speaker 2: Moving up the country.
23:07
Speaker 13: The rain's also been very heavy in parts of Whanganui, Manawatu, Wairarapa,
23:12
Speaker 13: The Tararoas and the Ruahines are under watches. The good news,
23:16
Speaker 13: I suppose, is the rest of the week after today
23:18
Speaker 13: doesn't look too bad. We're just getting one of those
23:20
Speaker 13: winter hangovers and today's high in Wellington, 11 degrees.
23:24
Speaker 2: Was it quite heavy on the roof last night as
23:27
Speaker 2: you were trying to sleep? Very heavy indeed. Windy, heavy.
23:30
Speaker 13: One of those stormy nights that makes it difficult to
23:33
Speaker 13: stay asleep.
23:34
Speaker 14: Okay.
23:34
Speaker 15: All right.
23:34
Speaker 2: How's the forecast? Well, rainy.
23:38
Speaker 13: Rainy this morning, clearing this afternoon. Yeah, just 11, the
23:42
Speaker 13: high in the city. Thanks very much, Max.
23:44
Speaker 2: Niamh, a good morning to you.
23:45
Speaker 16: Oh, he sounds miserable, doesn't he, with that weather?
23:47
Speaker 2: He does. You would, though. Tossing and turning last night
23:51
Speaker 2: in Bedpool, Max. Now, a rock garden in Auckland. What's
23:54
Speaker 2: this about?
23:55
Speaker 16: Yes, now it's in Hillsborough, and it's described by locals
23:59
Speaker 16: as ugly as, but the good news is it's being replaced.
24:02
Speaker 16: So what it is, it's an $ 8, 000 area of rock.
24:06
Speaker 16: It's been installed in concrete. Now, so people can picture this.
24:11
Speaker 16: It's near an intersection on the corner of Hillsborough Road
24:14
Speaker 16: and Margaret Griffin Park, and it was put there four
24:17
Speaker 16: years ago so that people wouldn't cross near an intersection.
24:22
Speaker 16: But now, you know, people have complained about it's been
24:24
Speaker 16: there for four years. Are you watching the video?
24:26
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the picture. It's actually eight. So it's
24:28
Speaker 2: just a footpath with a bunch of hideous rocks in it.
24:32
Speaker 2: They look like they've been painted too.
24:33
Speaker 16: Yeah, and they're just in there in concrete. But I
24:36
Speaker 16: suppose that's why it was there so that people wouldn't,
24:38
Speaker 16: you know, like. Dart across that, because that intersection, that
24:41
Speaker 16: roundabout is flipping busy.
24:42
Speaker 9: Right.
24:43
Speaker 2: So if you run across it, you'll trip over a
24:45
Speaker 2: rock before you hit a car. That's the idea.
24:47
Speaker 15: Well, that is it.
24:48
Speaker 16: Actually, you're quite right, because I was watching it this morning,
24:51
Speaker 16: and I thought the same thing.
24:51
Speaker 15: I thought, actually, that is a hazard.
24:53
Speaker 4: Stupid.
24:55
Speaker 16: I thought you wouldn't be wanting to run over it
24:57
Speaker 16: over in the middle of the night.
24:58
Speaker 2: So what are they going to put there instead?
24:59
Speaker 16: So apparently they're replacing it with a $ 26, 000 landscaped garden bed. Oh,
25:06
Speaker 16: for God's sakes.
25:07
Speaker 2: This is why the councils need a rates cap, isn't it?
25:10
Speaker 2: Do something dumb and pay for it later.
25:13
Speaker 16: That's right.
25:14
Speaker 2: How's our weather?
25:15
Speaker 16: Okay, and on that note, just to keep it, you know,
25:18
Speaker 16: light and bright, rain. Possibly heavy this morning in Auckland.
25:21
Speaker 16: High 18.
25:22
Speaker 10: Okay, warm.
25:22
Speaker 7: Warm.
25:23
Speaker 2: Wet and warm. Wet and warm, just how we like it, Niamh.
25:27
Speaker 2: 17 away from six here on Newstalk ZB. We'll get
25:30
Speaker 2: to Gavin in the UK next. There has been some
25:32
Speaker 2: complaints about police not doing enough for these immigration protests.
25:36
Speaker 2: Gavin will fill us in. ZB.
25:38
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with NZI Insurance. Peace of mind for New
25:42
Speaker 1: Zealand business.
25:44
Speaker 2: Here on Newstalk ZB, it's quarter to six. Very quickly,
25:47
Speaker 2: you know, when China has a few problems, when their
25:49
Speaker 2: economy has a few problems, or even the hint of
25:52
Speaker 2: a small problem The government steps in and does something
25:55
Speaker 2: about it. So they are injecting 54 billion US, 54
25:59
Speaker 2: billion US dollars into banks and insurance companies. They're basically
26:03
Speaker 2: going to give the investment in the stock market a
26:05
Speaker 2: bit of a tickle up. Thank you very much. Bit
26:07
Speaker 2: of stimulation, bit of a boost, keep them lending, keep
26:11
Speaker 2: businesses from falling over. That's called intervention and they do
26:14
Speaker 2: it well there. Let's go to the UK. It's Gavin
26:17
Speaker 2: Gray for us this morning. Gavin, good morning.
26:20
Speaker 10: Either or.
26:21
Speaker 2: Now, police have been accused of too slow, responding too
26:24
Speaker 2: slow to a protest.
26:27
Speaker 14: Yes, and it was a protest that brought a lot
26:30
Speaker 14: of people a bit of misery down in Dover, the
26:33
Speaker 14: port of Dover in southeast England, one of the main
26:36
Speaker 14: ferry and passenger hubs there. for going over onto the continent.
26:40
Speaker 14: It's one of the shortest distances between France and the UK.
26:44
Speaker 14: And it was brought to halt for several hours because
26:48
Speaker 14: of a protest by hundreds of men. Now, they were
26:52
Speaker 14: all dressed in black. They were many in balaclavas. They
26:55
Speaker 14: were all masked, protecting their identity. And they were chanting,
26:58
Speaker 14: stop the boats. And that, of course, refers to the
27:01
Speaker 14: illegal migration on small boats from northern France into southeast
27:05
Speaker 14: of England. But the roads were blocked. It caused many
27:08
Speaker 14: kilometers of tailbacks, preventing access to the port. Those trying
27:11
Speaker 14: to get on a ferry and those trying to get
27:13
Speaker 14: off couldn't get out of the port area. Now, the
27:18
Speaker 14: protest itself appears to have been actually peaceful. And none
27:21
Speaker 14: of the protesters were recorded saying anything to the media
27:24
Speaker 14: that I've seen. Instead, they were just saying, stop the boats.
27:27
Speaker 14: That's all they would say. So a pretty well-drilled organization.
27:31
Speaker 14: But the police appear to be less well-drilled in that
27:35
Speaker 14: it took them quite a time to respond, to escort
27:38
Speaker 14: the protest, then try to clear the blocked roads. And
27:42
Speaker 14: police and the council are saying to the police, look,
27:45
Speaker 14: why did it take you so long? You should have
27:47
Speaker 14: cleared this area earlier. Either way, migration, as we've been reporting,
27:52
Speaker 14: a key issue still here in the.
27:53
Speaker 2: U.K., Loving the story of Nigel Farage responding. So you've
27:57
Speaker 2: got an undercover reporter doing an investigation. You've got his
28:00
Speaker 2: former chief of staff and ex-head of policy together. And
28:03
Speaker 2: Farage is there and they're talking about dodgy stuff. And
28:06
Speaker 2: he says, oh, well, I wasn't listening.
28:09
Speaker 14: Yes, after an initial suggestion that he was going to
28:15
Speaker 14: look at who was involved in this. So it's quite
28:17
Speaker 14: complex in that under electoral law, donors to the UK
28:20
Speaker 14: political parties must be a UK registered voter or a
28:25
Speaker 14: company registered in the UK. In other words, no foreign donations. Now,
28:29
Speaker 14: the undercover reporters who were acting out their part basically
28:34
Speaker 14: made it sound like a rich American was going to
28:37
Speaker 14: give his son... who's based in the UK, some money
28:40
Speaker 14: in order to donate to Reform UK, Nigel Farage's party.
28:44
Speaker 14: That in itself would have been illegal because it can't
28:48
Speaker 14: have come from a foreign donor. However, Nigel Farage, who's
28:51
Speaker 14: currently got boost rid of his ex head of policy,
28:55
Speaker 14: James Orr, and his former chief of staff, Dan Dukes,
28:58
Speaker 14: they are both at the moment removed from their jobs
29:01
Speaker 14: pending the investigation into what they said. Nigel Farage has said, well,
29:06
Speaker 14: you know, I arrived at the meeting. I was in
29:08
Speaker 14: the middle of something else. I arrived. I frankly wasn't listening,
29:11
Speaker 14: is the quote. And, you know, I just sort of
29:14
Speaker 14: agreed with what was going on. This has been very damaging, Ryan,
29:18
Speaker 14: because it comes as a Reform UK party was supposed
29:21
Speaker 14: to be launching all their new initiatives this weekend.
29:24
Speaker 2: Love it. Gavin Gray, our UK-Europe correspondent. Time is 10
29:26
Speaker 2: away from 6. And National is promising to make it
29:32
Speaker 2: easier to get into your first home if it's re-elected.
29:34
Speaker 2: Plan is to give more people access to 5% deposits
29:37
Speaker 2: by doubling Kāinga Order's income cap to 300k.
29:41
Speaker 17: The income caps are just way too restrictive. And it
29:44
Speaker 17: means that right now, a junior doctor earning $ 100, 000 cannot
29:47
Speaker 17: access the scheme. Nor can a young couple made up
29:51
Speaker 17: of an electrician, say, earning $ 85, 000 and a teacher.
29:55
Speaker 2: On $ 78, 000. Joining me this morning, Kelvin Davidson, Cotality Chief
29:58
Speaker 2: Property Economist. Kelvin, good morning.
30:01
Speaker 9: Good morning.
30:02
Speaker 2: Make a big difference, this.
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Speaker 10: I don't think it's going to transform things. I mean,
30:06
Speaker 10: it's going to be great, obviously, for those individuals who
30:09
Speaker 10: were previously shut out because their income was just a
30:11
Speaker 10: bit high. They'll now be able to potentially get in
30:13
Speaker 10: under this loan scheme, but it's not going to flood
30:16
Speaker 10: the market. We already know first-time buyers are really strong anyway,
30:19
Speaker 10: and values are still pretty flat despite that demand. So
30:22
Speaker 10: good for those individuals, but I don't think it sort
30:24
Speaker 10: of transforms the housing market for sure.
30:26
Speaker 2: Does it have the, because we've spoken about this many times,
30:29
Speaker 2: but does it have the possibility to increase the prices
30:32
Speaker 2: at the lower end if there are more available, more
30:35
Speaker 2: buyers going to be available for competition?
30:38
Speaker 10: Potentially, potentially, but I think when you look across the
30:41
Speaker 10: housing market right now, there's just so many listings of
30:44
Speaker 10: all types and in all locations, there's still a lot
30:46
Speaker 10: of new builds coming through. So I think that's a
30:49
Speaker 10: pretty low risk. I think really here it's about helping
30:52
Speaker 10: those individuals into those properties and So, yeah, I think
30:56
Speaker 10: it politically obviously looks pretty good and, you know, won't
30:59
Speaker 10: necessarily sort of transform the housing market. As I say,
31:01
Speaker 10: we already know first-time buyers are really strong anyway, lots
31:04
Speaker 10: of choice. So I don't think too much of a
31:06
Speaker 10: price impact.
31:07
Speaker 2: At a time like this, is it a solution looking
31:10
Speaker 2: for a problem? Well, some might.
31:13
Speaker 10: Argue that, some might argue that. I'll stay pretty neutral
31:16
Speaker 10: on that. I mean, I just think there's things that
31:18
Speaker 10: obviously political parties want to do. It does seem like
31:24
Speaker 10: something that did need updated. They said the caps were
31:27
Speaker 10: set four or five years ago when the market was
31:29
Speaker 10: looking different and incomes were looking different. So it's probably
31:32
Speaker 10: just reflecting the current reality without necessarily transforming the housing
31:38
Speaker 10: market or putting up prices massively either.
31:42
Speaker 2: Good stuff. Good to have you on the show, Kelvin Davidson,
31:44
Speaker 2: Cotality Chief Property Economist. Time is eight to six. Newstalk ZB.
31:50
Speaker 1: And views you trust to start your day. It's early
31:54
Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business, technology that
31:58
Speaker 1: keeps business moving.
31:59
Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB. Newstalk ZB, six minutes away from six. You know,
32:03
Speaker 2: drones are taking over warfare. Like, who needs a battleship anymore?
32:06
Speaker 2: You just get a drone, you just get a speedboat.
32:08
Speaker 2: And I was reading at the weekend, interestingly, Colombia, where
32:11
Speaker 2: they've been warring with each other for ages over drugs,
32:14
Speaker 2: they are now using drones... to assault the Colombian army,
32:19
Speaker 2: this is the cartels and everything, in the bush. They're
32:22
Speaker 2: doing the drones and they are having quite, well, success
32:26
Speaker 2: in their eyes. At least three soldiers injured, four killed.
32:29
Speaker 2: This is in clashes just on one weekend. It is 5-2.
32:32
Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
32:34
Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. Great to see you, Ryan. Good weekend.
32:37
Speaker 2: Fabulous weekend. I re-gifted you wine.
32:40
Speaker 15: No, that's good. We were talking about that off-air. I'm
32:43
Speaker 15: not one of those people. I think there are people
32:45
Speaker 15: who find that a thing. And would be offended by it.
32:48
Speaker 15: I'm not remotely offended. You can do with it whatever
32:50
Speaker 15: you want.
32:50
Speaker 2: But what if you had– because it was a gift
32:53
Speaker 2: to you.
32:53
Speaker 15: It was a gift to me, and so I have
32:55
Speaker 15: no qualms about taking a gift and passing it on
32:58
Speaker 15: to somebody else who might appreciate it. And therefore, even
33:01
Speaker 15: if I'd paid for it with my hard-earned and then
33:04
Speaker 15: you'd gone and given it away, it's– what's that saying?
33:07
Speaker 2: There's a saying about– Indian giving?
33:10
Speaker 14: No.
33:13
Speaker 15: Once it's done, it's done. You no longer own it.
33:15
Speaker 15: Once I've given it to you, I have no control
33:17
Speaker 15: over it. Therefore, it's not my thing.
33:18
Speaker 2: It's mine. Exactly.
33:20
Speaker 15: And you can do with it what you want. So
33:22
Speaker 15: good luck to you. This morning you said the race
33:24
Speaker 15: this morning?
33:25
Speaker 2: Poor old Liam. Oh, where was it?
33:27
Speaker 15: It wasn't the best day out.
33:29
Speaker 2: Third, his mate got third and he got what?
33:31
Speaker 14: 14th.
33:31
Speaker 15: Yeah, he got 14th. And it was always, I mean,
33:34
Speaker 15: he started at the back of the field because they
33:35
Speaker 15: stuck a new engine in, which tends to be kind
33:37
Speaker 15: of problematic if you want to stick your new engine in.
33:40
Speaker 2: But anyway, the.
33:42
Speaker 15: Antonelli won it from 19.
33:45
Speaker 2: Did you hear his cockpit audio? Yeah. That was pretty great.
33:49
Speaker 15: He's a driver of a generation.
33:50
Speaker 14: Is he?
33:51
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. So when does this whole thing wrap up?
33:53
Speaker 2: When do we get an overall winner?
33:55
Speaker 10: The season?
33:55
Speaker 15: Oh, that's got weeks to go. Steady on.
33:58
Speaker 2: It goes to December. Okay. Buckle up.
34:01
Speaker 15: Goodness sake.
34:02
Speaker 2: So who do we think is going to win the
34:03
Speaker 2: whole thing? Antonelli is going to win the whole thing.
34:06
Speaker 15: Almost certainly he's going to win the whole thing.
34:07
Speaker 2: Well, I can only imagine how he's going to celebrate
34:09
Speaker 2: if he wins the whole thing. It would be fantastic.
34:12
Speaker 15: They did a poll. They said, would you rather a
34:14
Speaker 15: Ferrari wins, this being Italy, of course. Would you rather
34:16
Speaker 15: a Ferrari wins or Antonelli wins? And most people voted Ferrari.
34:20
Speaker 15: That's a poster for you.
34:21
Speaker 2: Interesting, isn't it?
34:22
Speaker 15: Anyway, none of that this morning.
34:23
Speaker 2: Got to celebrate the Warriors. Prime Minister's in. Fantastic. All
34:26
Speaker 2: the usual Mondays. Good stuff. Happy Monday.
34:29
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