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Full Show Podcast: 26 February 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 1: Earli initi with one roof love where you live News
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  Speaker 1: talks'd be good morning, it.
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  Speaker 2: Is six after five. Great to have your company on
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  Speaker 2: this Thursday. Have a glass of cold milk to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: our dairy farmers this morning. Some great numbers from them.
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  Speaker 2: We'll head to the US with our correspondent. Ohakya, a
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  Speaker 2: common sense decision on a backup airport and cash is king,
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  Speaker 2: but it'll cost us. Also, I have some very promising
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  Speaker 2: zero small business numbers I've just been handed. I'll get
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  Speaker 2: them to you shortly. The agenda Thursday, the twenty sixth
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  Speaker 2: of February, no sympathy for battlers in America and Trump's
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  Speaker 2: State of the Union address yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: A short time ago, we were a dead country.
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  Speaker 4: Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world,
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  Speaker 4: the hottest.
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  Speaker 2: So hot, so heart predictably went after the Dems on
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  Speaker 2: immigration and vot n.
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  Speaker 4: Act Serious penalties for public officials who block the removal
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  Speaker 4: of criminal lands in many cases, grew lords murrors all
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  Speaker 4: over our country. They're blocking the immoval of these people
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  Speaker 4: out of our country.
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  Speaker 3: And you should be ashamed of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Pois and let's go to the UK Mandelssohn you know
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  Speaker 2: he was arrested. Well, the UK House of Commons speakers
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  Speaker 2: is that he passed on information to police ahead of
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  Speaker 2: better arrest. He reckons that Mandalshon was a flight rist,
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  Speaker 2: that he was going to do a run into the
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  Speaker 2: Virgin Islands.
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  Speaker 5: To prevent any inaccurate speculation. I'd like to confirm the
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  Speaker 5: upon receipt of information that I felt it was relevant.
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  Speaker 5: I passed this on to the Metropolitan Police in good faith,
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  Speaker 5: as is my duty and responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: Staying in the house down are still feeling the heat.
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  Speaker 6: The Prime Minister has the cheek to talk about my
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  Speaker 6: party being smaller. His party is smaller too, including one
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  Speaker 6: MP who was arrested for child sex offenses. So perhaps
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  Speaker 6: before he gets on his high horse, he should ask
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  Speaker 6: why his backbenchers are saying that they're being the p
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  Speaker 6: DOO defender's party.
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  Speaker 4: Yet again, she's shown why she is so utterly irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: The bar's not high, is it?
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  Speaker 1: On your radio? And online? On iHeartRadio early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one Root Love Where You Live News Talks.
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  Speaker 2: Had been eight after five nine nine two. The number
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  Speaker 2: to text's interesting watching the State of the Union from
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  Speaker 2: Trump yesterday. He had that classic cost of living political
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  Speaker 2: equation that he had to do in his head ahead
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  Speaker 2: of the speech, and just Cinder adourn this case. She
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  Speaker 2: came to a crossroads on this basically same situation. You know,
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  Speaker 2: do you acknowledge that there is sort of a crisis
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  Speaker 2: going on, that people are feeling poor, that there is
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  Speaker 2: inflation all that stuff, or do you just blindly go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and say that everything's fine, which is the road
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  Speaker 2: he went down. But remember just Cinda went down that
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  Speaker 2: road and wouldn't call it a crisis. They called everything
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  Speaker 2: everything out of the sun was a crisis. According to Labor.
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  Speaker 2: Remember before they were elected, it was the health system,
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  Speaker 2: it was the education system, blah blah blah. And they
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  Speaker 2: get into power, people feel poor. Is there a cost
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  Speaker 2: of living crisis? No, I think what she said at
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  Speaker 2: the time was there is a cost of living crisis
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  Speaker 2: for some people, so people that within weeks she was
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  Speaker 2: taking the excise off petrol. That's how bad it went
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  Speaker 2: for her, right, And so Trump had a very similar
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  Speaker 2: equation that he had to do, do you acknowledge the anxiety?
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  Speaker 2: Do you say I feel your pain? And he said no,
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  Speaker 2: this is a turnaround for the ages. So he's his
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  Speaker 2: strategy is to go out there and basically convince people.
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  Speaker 2: I will convince you of how good and great we are,
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  Speaker 2: and then you will vote for me. That's the strategy
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  Speaker 2: for the midterms come November. It was in our forty
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  Speaker 2: eight minutes, by the way, the State of the Union address,
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  Speaker 2: and he keeps going on about the tariffs being here
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  Speaker 2: to stay.
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  Speaker 3: Any of the wars I settled was because of the
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  Speaker 3: threat of tariffs. I wouldn't have been able to settle
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  Speaker 3: him with a will remain in place under fully approved
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  Speaker 3: and tested alternative legal statues.
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  Speaker 2: Now, those statutes he's talking about own only allow the
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  Speaker 2: towers to stay in place for one hundred and fifty days,
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  Speaker 2: which is not permanent with it, but he keeps saying
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  Speaker 2: that they are. Anyway. Newstalk's heb just gone ten minutes
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  Speaker 2: after five. Coming up next, we'll talk about cash. If
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  Speaker 2: you love using cash, if you're a small business, and
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  Speaker 2: I think this is probably the argument that tips it over.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a small business and you're in a regional
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  Speaker 2: part of New Zealand and you're in a small town
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  Speaker 2: and you've got cash at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you going to put it? How far are
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  Speaker 2: you going to have to travel to get that to
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  Speaker 2: a bank? And is that fair? Clear? Matthew's friend of
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  Speaker 2: the show, Next News Talks, HEADB.
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  Speaker 1: News and Views you Trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and One Room Love Where
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  Speaker 1: You Live News Talks hed B five thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to Katie Fisher out of the US at
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  Speaker 2: about quarter two now zero. The Small Business Insights report
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  Speaker 2: that we get well good news forward December, both of
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  Speaker 2: the quarter and for the month itself. This is good data.
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  Speaker 2: Two one hundred and forty four thousand small Kiwi businesses
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  Speaker 2: use it and so that's where they've got the information
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  Speaker 2: from sales growth up four point eight percent year on
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  Speaker 2: year in the December quarter. That follows two point eight
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  Speaker 2: percent increase four September quarter. The month of December specifically,
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  Speaker 2: small business sales were up almost ten percent nine point
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  Speaker 2: eight percent year on year. That is way above the
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  Speaker 2: long urn averages six point two percent, the highest growth
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  Speaker 2: in three years. Bring that on, Bryan Bridge. The reserve
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  Speaker 2: banks wants retail banks. I should say to go pretty
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  Speaker 2: much bananas and bring back the talents They say, cash
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  Speaker 2: is still king, people still use it, small businesses need
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  Speaker 2: somewhere to deposit it. The demand one thousand extra ATMs
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  Speaker 2: or branches across the country, costing the banks one hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars a year to operate. Claire Matthews, professor at
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  Speaker 2: Massi University Business School, with us this morning. Clear, Good morning, Marina, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: so good to have you back. So, I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is very expensive for the banks. Do we actually need
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  Speaker 2: that many ATMs and branches?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely not convinced that we do. I think the cost
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  Speaker 7: is a side issue. I think it simply comes down
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  Speaker 7: to do we need them? And quite frankly, I don't
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  Speaker 7: understand where the Reserve Bank is coming from and suggesting
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  Speaker 7: that we do.
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  Speaker 2: What about if there's a natural disaster and everyone needs cash.
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  Speaker 2: We need to have some circulation going, don't we?
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  Speaker 7: Well, we do need to have So that's that part
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  Speaker 7: of the argument carries some water. But I think that
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  Speaker 7: the solution that they're providing is not the best solution
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  Speaker 7: because how often do we have a disaster? And yes,
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  Speaker 7: I know that happening more often, but they're quite isolated
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  Speaker 7: and it's not clear that cash has actually been lacking
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  Speaker 7: in most of those. I think the last time we
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  Speaker 7: really had a cash issue was around COVID, and let's
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  Speaker 7: hope we don't have anything like that in the near future.
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  Speaker 7: I think there is potentially an issue, but I just
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  Speaker 7: don't think the solution is the right solution.
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  Speaker 2: I was in Hawk's Bay for cyclone Gabrielle doing some
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  Speaker 2: reporting there, and it was there maybe twelve hours or
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours after it happened. There was no cash.
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  Speaker 2: The ATMs were empty. I mean, it was a problem
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  Speaker 2: is I think there is a genuine argument there. You're
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  Speaker 2: saying this is not necessarily.
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  Speaker 7: A solution, but you're saying that ATMs were there, they
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  Speaker 7: didn't have cash in them, And I think that is
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  Speaker 7: the problem in a disaster. It's no good. It's no
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  Speaker 7: good that there are cash, that there are branches or ATMs.
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  Speaker 7: They've got to have cash, and then a disaster, how
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  Speaker 7: are you going to get the cash to them? So
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  Speaker 7: I think that that actually illustrates quite clearly where there
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  Speaker 7: why the solution is lacking.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but if we had more ATMs, then we would
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  Speaker 2: have more cash, and you know, we would use it more,
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  Speaker 2: We'd be more likely to have it on us on
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  Speaker 2: our person. That sort of thing.
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  Speaker 7: I don't believe we would because we just don't generally
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  Speaker 7: use cash as a population. There are some people that
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  Speaker 7: use it a little bit, there are some that use
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  Speaker 7: it entirely, but that's a very small fraction of the population.
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  Speaker 7: For most of us, cash is something that we use
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  Speaker 7: because we happen to have it, but it's not what
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  Speaker 7: we want, and for small businesses it's not actually an
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  Speaker 7: advantage to them to have cash. Cash is unhygienic, unclean,
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  Speaker 7: and a real hussle to deal with, not just because
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  Speaker 7: of the hassles around getting it to a branch to
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  Speaker 7: ban there's just hassles and having to store it, and
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  Speaker 7: there's risk because it opens them up to robbery.
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  Speaker 2: Clear, appreciate your time. This one in Clear Matthews from
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  Speaker 2: Massi University. Time is sixteen after five. Would love to
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  Speaker 2: know what you think about that if you're a small
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  Speaker 2: business owner, it's unclean. Newstalk ZB the news.
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  Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love Where You
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  Speaker 2: In nineteen minutes after five. Ryan, your guest is very
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  Speaker 2: subjective with her cash views. This is for Linda Morning.
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  Speaker 2: Linda not very good. I wouldn't take that advice. I
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  Speaker 2: use cash er. I walk away, says Linda. You'd be
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  Speaker 2: walking away from a few places these days. I would
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  Speaker 2: have thought this. Texas says, good morning, Ryan. The State
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  Speaker 2: of the Union address was basically two hours of Trump
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  Speaker 2: telling everyone how great he is, which is what he
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  Speaker 2: does on a daily basis. Anyway, have a great day,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. I mean, it's not untrue, is it? Nineteen
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  Speaker 2: after five? Rich Control Tower at a Harkia air Base
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  Speaker 2: is soon going to operate twenty four to seven, making
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  Speaker 2: it the country's official back up airport right now. As
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  Speaker 2: you will know from listening to this show, long haul
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  Speaker 2: flights have to carry an extra six tons of fuel
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  Speaker 2: just in case Auckland Airport closes and they're forced to divert.
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  Speaker 2: Same with christ Church. Kath O'Brien bought of airline reps
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  Speaker 2: is with us this morning. Kath, Good morning, Good morning Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't long ago we were talking about this
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  Speaker 2: bit of common sense.
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  Speaker 8: Here, Ah, some great common sense here. Airlines are delighted
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  Speaker 8: to hear this news today from the minister, and it's
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  Speaker 8: really gonna unlock some some value for the aviation system
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  Speaker 8: in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: What happens I was thinking about this this morning. So
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  Speaker 2: if a plane diverts, has to divert to a harkier
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, what happens to all
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  Speaker 2: the passengers in the harky? Do they go stay in
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  Speaker 2: Bulls or what.
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  Speaker 8: It operates? It's what we call a gas and go destination,
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  Speaker 8: So that's in the name. So an aircraft will come in,
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  Speaker 8: it will be refueled and will then be able to
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  Speaker 8: continue on its way. And the reason that's important is
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  Speaker 8: because long haul airlines are operating, you know, obviously at
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  Speaker 8: a great distance when they come to New Zealand, and
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  Speaker 8: when they reach their destination, they really don't have a
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  Speaker 8: lot to go on. And so we have to have,
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  Speaker 8: you know, an airport that's capable of receiving that aircraft
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  Speaker 8: if it needs to desert away from its primary destination,
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  Speaker 8: and give it some gas and get it on its.
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  Speaker 2: Way, all right, So no one actually gets to stay
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  Speaker 2: in Bulls that I'm disappointed.
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  Speaker 8: It's certainly not the plan. No, we'll still get you,
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  Speaker 8: get you where you're going.
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  Speaker 2: And why do you what's taken so long? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you've been going on about this for a while now,
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  Speaker 2: haven't you.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I have spoken to you a
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  Speaker 8: few times about it, and it's certainly been something I've
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  Speaker 8: still spoken extensively to officials and to the Minister about.
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  Speaker 8: And really it was just about getting everybody to understand
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  Speaker 8: the importance and to find an arrangement that we could
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  Speaker 8: that we could get better air traffic control underway. And
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  Speaker 8: I'm really glad we have.
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  Speaker 2: When you say arrangement, it's all it's all funded by
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  Speaker 2: the government.
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  Speaker 8: Well, actually, airlines are fund nomination for hark here. So
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  Speaker 8: certainly airlines are already paying substantial cost to nominate a
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  Speaker 8: hark here and and those those funds do pay for
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  Speaker 8: seth control as well and for use of the base,
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  Speaker 8: and so certainally airlines are already contributing in a large part.
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  Speaker 8: And this is just the very last piece of the puzzle,
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  Speaker 8: if you like. For the for the overnight air traffic control,
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  Speaker 8: we're going to.
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  Speaker 2: Have the air traffic controllers to do it. I was
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  Speaker 2: speaking to a training the other day. Instead, we're sort
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  Speaker 2: of running short, we've got gaps.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, certainly that's a global problem, and I'm confident
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  Speaker 8: that Airways New Zealand will be able to manage this need.
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  Speaker 8: I understand they already have the training needs kind of
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  Speaker 8: in the in the plan, and they'll be able to
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  Speaker 8: deliver this. I'm mid twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Keth, appreciate your time this morning. Cath O'Brien
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  Speaker 2: bought a airline reps. Time is twenty two minutes after five.
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  Speaker 8: Ryan brick chee.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's fired up about cash. I'll get to those texts
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  Speaker 2: in just a second. First, maybe we're fired up because
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  Speaker 2: we're not drinking enough booze to come us down. We've
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  Speaker 2: got new numbers on that this morning. So alcohol consumption
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand is falling, in fact over the last year,
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  Speaker 2: down eight point three percent overall, lowest amount recorded in
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  Speaker 2: the fifteen years that stats ends that has been collecting
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  Speaker 2: the data. So we're drinking way less. Bear volume down
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  Speaker 2: ten percent to two hundred and sixty five million liters,
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  Speaker 2: wine down eleven percent to eighty five million liters. Spirits
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  Speaker 2: the volume up slightly to ninety three million liters, So
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  Speaker 2: we're drinking more spirits than we are drinking wine, though
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  Speaker 2: we're drinking a hell of a lot more beer. RTDs
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  Speaker 2: increase one point nine percent year on year there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Is this a cost of living thing? Like, are we
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  Speaker 2: just drinking less because we can't afford to drink as much?
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  Speaker 2: Or is this a cultural change that everyone goes on
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  Speaker 2: TikTok now and everyone has abs and there's like fitness
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  Speaker 2: influences and if you want to be beautiful, you need
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  Speaker 2: to be thin, and if you want to be thin,
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  Speaker 2: then you shouldn't drink. Nine two nine two twenty three
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  Speaker 2: after five the early.
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  Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, how It Bay News Talks, av.
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  Speaker 2: News Talks Their b it is twenty five minutes after five.
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  Speaker 2: There's a big puffy cloud of smoke hanging over the
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  Speaker 2: vaping versus cigarettes debate this week. You might have noticed this.
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  Speaker 2: It's all kicked off because the government's handing out free
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  Speaker 2: vapes to smokers to stop them getting what we know
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  Speaker 2: basically could be a death sentence, and they've done a
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  Speaker 2: deal to buy a bunch of them four half a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. Now. Between January last year and July they
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  Speaker 2: gave out three thousand vaping kits and hand them out
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  Speaker 2: to all the smokers, and nearly half of them stopped smoking,
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  Speaker 2: which ordinarily you would think would be a good news story.
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  Speaker 2: Not so for Cali Burrows Auckland University vaping receips. She
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  Speaker 2: said this on news Talk ZB. Basically, it's not well.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know if it's working, but I
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  Speaker 9: guess just the main point I think is that vaping
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  Speaker 9: is not a registered medicine for smoking testation. It's not
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  Speaker 9: been approved. It's not as stringently registered or regulated and
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  Speaker 9: tested as other smoking testation products that are already available.
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  Speaker 9: So to me, it seems quite crazy that they are
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  Speaker 9: giving these free vapes out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so yesterday I spoke to Robert Beegelhold, Yes the
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  Speaker 2: Robert beegel Hol former boss of the World Health Organization,
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  Speaker 2: public health expert. He said this about these anti vapists.
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  Speaker 10: It's a mystery, but clearly some of the search is.
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  Speaker 10: The one you refer to in particular, is a laboratory
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  Speaker 10: based scientist who has no epidemiological, no public health experience,
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  Speaker 10: doesn't have the big picture in mind. One of the
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  Speaker 10: other antagonists to this approach clearly doesn't comprehend the evidence.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, it's a mystery to why some someone we're
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  Speaker 10: to pose something It is much less harmful, helps people stop,
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  Speaker 10: and it's cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but to me, this feels
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  Speaker 2: a little bit like the COVID days, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: you had the so called experts piping up about the
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  Speaker 2: harms of a disease without taking a helicopter view of
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  Speaker 2: the best way that a society should actually manage the
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  Speaker 2: risk for the least overall harm. You know, you have
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  Speaker 2: your people who are your specialist in your wei area,
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  Speaker 2: and they say this is evil, and we're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we know that's bad. But what is the best way
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  Speaker 2: for a society to deal with it? That's a very
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  Speaker 2: different question, right. There's also a political element to this,
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  Speaker 2: I think, because we know there are certain politicians who
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  Speaker 2: were out there desperate to paint Casey Costello as some
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  Speaker 2: sort of big vape lobbyist in drag. But the choice, really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when individuals need to come and choose and
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  Speaker 2: decide if it's really a choice, and you can call
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  Speaker 2: it that, it seems to come down to the devil
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  Speaker 2: we know versus the devil we don't. Twenty eight minutes
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  Speaker 2: after five loving some of these texts this morning, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: If you want abs and stay sourced, spirits have fewer calories, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Nathan, Paul says Ryan. People on meth ten not
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  Speaker 2: to drink as much alcohol. So there are two inverse
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  Speaker 2: curves going on there. Not a bad point, not I
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  Speaker 2: mean a very depressing one, Paul. Jeez, we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: all the sins this morning too. We're vaping, smoking meth
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  Speaker 2: and alcohol. But here we are, Paul. It's a good
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  Speaker 2: point on cash, Ryan, I am over this BS about
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  Speaker 2: cash not being important. Cash is more important than ever
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  Speaker 2: when we get these big storms that wipe out the power,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: et cetera. You have full control control over your own cash.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: A hackable computer has full control over digital money, says Graham.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: And it is a fair enough point. In fact, if
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: you go to the Swedes, Norway, Finland, they're all bringing
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: cash back in a big way. They actually produced a
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: brochure warning about war with Russia, and one of the
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: bullet points on it was get yourself some cash. Make
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: sure you've got to stop pile under the bed, because
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: if the Russians come and hack us, then how you're
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: going to pay for your groceries? You know, which is
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: a fair point. Nine nine two is the number to text.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Great to have your company on this Tuesday, We'll head
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: to the US with Katie Fisher and then celebrate our
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: dairy farmers. Before six o'clock.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Your World.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Who the first word on the News of the Day
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roote Love Where
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: you Live? News Talk said, Balk.
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: Come.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Try grow away from the sex. News Talk said b
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: coming up, We'll head to the US. See how Trump
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: say that the union went down with voters, so they
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: were a bit lukewarm heading into it. It's fair to say, then,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: we'll it's more out of dairy. They certainly are. That's
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: before six this morning, Ryan, good morning. This is on drinking.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: While we are drinking less booze, Ryan, More people are
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: focused on fitness, sleep and mental health. Drinking less fits
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: into the lifestyle. Also, there's a shift towards wanting to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: feel present, sharp and in control, especially with work and relationships. Okay,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: but fair enough that this person says, cheers to that, Well,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: cheers to you if that's how you are feeling, Ryan.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: This is from Steve in The Cargo Airport is a
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: twenty four hour airport. It could do the job to
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Love your show. Is it in forcargol Airport of twenty
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: four I didn't know that, but Steve, I love that
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: you love the show and I love you too, but
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: it's too far to go. A Harkey is way more
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: convenient if you're Auckland and your Christians and you're diverting.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: That's why it has become our backup airport of choice.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: This morning, twenty three to six, Ja Leishman, Toneden, good morning,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Good morning. We've got recognition for a hero there.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, so, a man who rescued students from a deadly
• 19:04
  Speaker 11: stairwell crush in Dunedin is being honored for his bravery.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: Nineteen year old Sophia Christani died at the overcrowded student
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: flat party on Dundas Street in twenty nineteen. A coroner
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: later ruled her death was tragic but lightly preventable. Recommendations
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: included students taking better safety measures at large parties and
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: for Otago University to reconsider its disciplinary approach for events
• 19:28
  Speaker 11: that breach the Code of Student Conduct. Police say that
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: Sampson ATDAWA showed exceptional calm and courage as he helped
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: others escape the crush that night. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: will present a certificate of appreciation to Adawa today with
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: Christani's parents and leaders from the Otago University in attendance.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: All Right, how's the weather in Dunedin today?
• 19:51
  Speaker 11: There's a period of morning rain. Otherwise it's partly cardi
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: with some cool southwesterlies in a high of eighteen degrees.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Clear in christ this morning, Clear, good morning.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: You've got a school rebuild but some funding problems.
• 20:03
  Speaker 12: Yes, surprise, surprise. The first three learning hubs and auditorium
• 20:07
  Speaker 12: at Selwyn's Allesmere College are due to open within a
• 20:09
  Speaker 12: few months, but the rest of the project that includes
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: their gym, library and admin bloc is now officially on
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: hold awaiting approval. Principal Anthony French says the Ministry of
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: Educations instructed the school to use its maintenance budget to
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: keep its existing classrooms, which he says are both cold
• 20:27
  Speaker 12: and leaky. He says the student's staff and community deserve
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: a completed school instead of all of this waiting in limbo.
• 20:34
  Speaker 12: He does say it very much feels like they've been
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: put on the back burner, with the rebuild actually announced
• 20:39
  Speaker 12: seven years ago.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Right, And how's your weather?
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: Cloud increasing to a few showers developing It could turned
• 20:46
  Speaker 12: to heavy rain by this afternoon. Westerly's changing calls southerly
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: and a high of twenty two.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Thanks Claire Max and Wellington Morning Max, Good morning. Now.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed watching Andrew littlegoton. Well, this sounds weird going
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: swimming yesterday, only because I was sort of just waiting
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: for some big turd to chase him.
• 21:04
  Speaker 13: Dumb and sure, you know, yeah, yeah, I personally wouldn't
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: be getting in the water on the Southern coast right now.
• 21:10
  Speaker 13: But yeah, the mayor with quite an eye catching photo
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: up down at Lyle Bay yesterday going for a swim.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Apparently it is.
• 21:16
  Speaker 13: Safe enough ish to get back in the water on
• 21:20
  Speaker 13: our beaches. The risk apparently is low. You'd rather it
• 21:23
  Speaker 13: was nil, but there you go. You just have to
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: check the latest advice monitor guidelines that are constantly changing,
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: keep an eye on the latest testing, which I don't
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: think anyone's going to do. Yeah, I think we'll have
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: to do a health check up on Andrew Little later today.
• 21:37
  Speaker 13: Another story in keeping with this theme is a story
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: in The Herald. A Wellington contractor has described discovering a
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: mud slide of hell in an inner city elevator coated
• 21:50
  Speaker 13: with human feces yesterday, just meets away from that expensive
• 21:55
  Speaker 13: new light up public bathroom in the CBD doesn't seem
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: like someone could make.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: It in time.
• 22:01
  Speaker 13: Yeah, a month's lad from hell. Apparently in this very
• 22:03
  Speaker 13: well used public left by the Lesmils gym on Taranaki Street.
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: Authorities investigating well like it wasn't a sewerage leg it
• 22:12
  Speaker 13: was just one person going to town in a left.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: It definitely seems so.
• 22:16
  Speaker 13: In a very public, very well used public left in
• 22:19
  Speaker 13: the middle of town.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, might have been Andrew through a swim. That's the weather.
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: On his way to the gym. Clarly, the showers strong
• 22:27
  Speaker 13: norther least twenty Well, clearly he goes.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: We know that now maybe good morning, so much of
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I love it? I love it now. Tickets selling fast
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: for this four day Landon festival.
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: Yes, the Auckland four day annual Landin Festival. Now this
• 22:41
  Speaker 14: is at Monaco Sports Bowl. Apparently about one hundred and
• 22:45
  Speaker 14: fifty thousand people are expected, so it's just one of
• 22:48
  Speaker 14: many of the lunar New Year celebrations around the country.
• 22:50
  Speaker 14: Auckland Transports offering ticket holders free public transport from two
• 22:54
  Speaker 14: pm in special buses to and from the venue. Auckland
• 22:58
  Speaker 14: Unlimited JEBSU Bullies. Is it Saturday's festival that's already sold out,
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: so you know they're expecting quite a few people.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: Our news director just said to me, oh Ne, but
• 23:07
  Speaker 14: can you just ad that there's no Southern and Eastern
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: trains running this weekend? Of course not Yeah, they are
• 23:12
  Speaker 14: running today, so I can tell you that. You know
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: it's starting today, but this is the Southern and Eastern
• 23:18
  Speaker 14: trains this weekend and this is due to the CRL.
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: So I think that's just you know, trying to get
• 23:24
  Speaker 14: everything done before the latter half of the year.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Tell you what, once that CRL's here, they've got no excuse.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Better all be running exactly how.
• 23:33
  Speaker 14: Weather fine, fine, so maybe a good day just to
• 23:35
  Speaker 14: walk around a high twenty five here in Auckland.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Never, thank you, eighteen minutes away from six Bryan Bridge.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You know Wellington Water before the mile Point disaster. Do
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: you remember they had a procurement problem. We're paying an
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: arm and a leg for pipes and in some cases
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: they were paying like a third more for pipes and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: infrastructure than other cities were paying for the same thing
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: because they didn't have the financial controls. They weren't tendering proper,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: so they weren't going out to market. Well, Hamilton City
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Council has had an independent order done KPMG. They had
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: it done last year. It's come out significant areas of
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: concern have been identified. So council awarded two hundred and
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: forty million dollars in non tended contracts between twenty twenty
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: one and twenty twenty three. Two hundred and forty million
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: dollars A lot of money, right. Seventy five percent of
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: about twelve hundred active contracts during the three year period
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: were awarded without an open competitive process seventy five percent.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: So what was that? Lead to? Lots of spending? How
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: much are they spending? Well, the report says that in
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four so basically from last year, for
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the next ten years, expenditure is expected to grow seventy
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: three percent, increasing daily spend from one point seven million dollars.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: This is to one council daily spend one point seven
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: million dollars up to three million over a ten year period.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: So no wonder, I mean, when you're not tendering for stuff,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: this is what happens, isn't it? Is anyone surprised to
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: hear this? They do have procedures. They do have handbooks
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to tell you how to do things, but and I
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: quote them here, compliance is not enforced and repeated non
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: compliance occurs without consequences sixteen to six US.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Next International correspondence with endsit Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Fourteen to six flu Dari And a second here's Trump
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: on Iran in his State of the Union.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: We are in negotiations with him. They want to make
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: a deal, but we haven't heard those secret words. We
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: will never have a nuclear weapon now.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Big focus of the speech was on basically ging up
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Americans that the economy is turning around, one of the
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: greatest turnarounds in American history. So is it landing for shit?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Is?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Correspondent with us Katie, Good morning.
• 26:03
  Speaker 15: Good morning.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: We know voters were skeptical going in. How do you
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: think they are feeling after?
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: Well?
• 26:10
  Speaker 15: As you say, this was his kind of job in
• 26:12
  Speaker 15: this speech was to reassure the American people that even
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: though they may be feeling the pinch right now, things
• 26:19
  Speaker 15: are going to get better and that he understands their
• 26:23
  Speaker 15: anxiety about the rising cost of living.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: He did talk a lot about how brilliantly. The economy
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: is doing. It's the golden Age of America. The roaring
• 26:32
  Speaker 15: economy is roaring like never before. But if you look
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: at the polls everyday, Americans are not feeling that at
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: the moment. They are feeling just that their energy bills
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: are going up, their grocery bills are going up, their
• 26:43
  Speaker 15: housing costs are increasing. And there wasn't much in this
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: speech to suggest that the President has any empathy for
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: that or understands what Americans are going through. And I
• 26:55
  Speaker 15: think that means that it's unlikely to change much on
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: those poll numbers how the American people are feeling about
• 27:03
  Speaker 15: the president's job, about how he's doing, And that, of
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: course is a problem because in November they will head
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: to the polls and vote on many members of Congress,
• 27:14
  Speaker 15: and Donald Trump needs to keep the Republicans in power
• 27:17
  Speaker 15: in both chambers of Congress if he wants to get
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: anything done in his last two years as the president.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: So what's the strategy, Caddy? Is the strategy just repeated
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: ed nauseum and hope that eventually they believe that they
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: are in a good spot.
• 27:31
  Speaker 15: I think yes, that is one. It's also blaming Democrats
• 27:35
  Speaker 15: a lot of this speech was blaming, you know, blaming
• 27:38
  Speaker 15: the inherited economy that he says is the problem that
• 27:43
  Speaker 15: was causing any problems that still exist is something because
• 27:46
  Speaker 15: it was something done during the Joe Biden's time as president.
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: He also called Democrats crazy. He blamed them for everything
• 27:56
  Speaker 15: that everything that was basically not perfect in the US
• 28:00
  Speaker 15: right now, without really giving any evidence, and I think
• 28:04
  Speaker 15: so kind of blame, deflect talk about other things. So
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: he brought out the victorious US men's hockey team fresh
• 28:12
  Speaker 15: from Milan where they win the gold medal, really kind
• 28:15
  Speaker 15: of trying to show again associating that with America winning.
• 28:21
  Speaker 15: He says the country is winning as a whole, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 15: then showing the victorious team. It's a kind of distraction,
• 28:26
  Speaker 15: deflection and blaming it on somebody else rather than acknowledging
• 28:32
  Speaker 15: the feelings that the US as a whole has about
• 28:35
  Speaker 15: the cost of living and suggesting any policies to improve that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 15: There were a couple of policy announcements, but nothing that
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: you know, he can do immediately, and most of them
• 28:45
  Speaker 15: would involve having Congress approved them because they need to
• 28:48
  Speaker 15: be funded.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Katie, appreciate your time. Katie Fisher our US correspondence stateside
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: living away from six Bryan Bridge tixst here, says Ryan,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: it's a bit depressing when you hear about the wasteful
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: spinding going on at council, knowing wonder people are leaving
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the country and their drives. That's from John, John, I've
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: got reason for you to stay. This morning, Dairy and
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Zed State of the Dairy Nation Report twenty four to
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: twenty five season. They have produced the most milk ever
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: twenty one billion liters export earning's highest ever twenty seven billion.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Carl Den fed Farmer's dairy chair with us this morning Morning,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Carl Morning, Royan Worth celebrating.
• 29:25
  Speaker 16: Definitely worth celebrating. So that performance on dairy farms is
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: continuing to increase and by the looks of the report
• 29:34
  Speaker 16: also profitability which flows through to what this government needs,
• 29:38
  Speaker 16: which is tax revenue.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: The increase the production per cow is interesting. Can you
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: explain how we're getting more out of them?
• 29:49
  Speaker 16: So every year we get slightly better production per cow
• 29:53
  Speaker 16: just through due to genetics and due to the fact
• 29:58
  Speaker 16: that farmers are constantly refine, owning their practices and getting
• 30:02
  Speaker 16: the most that they can efficiency wise out of animals
• 30:06
  Speaker 16: and out of the grass while making sure they're not
• 30:09
  Speaker 16: using any more input inputs.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: So the herd testing, how important is that to making
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: sure that you know if you're testing the herd and
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: then you're mating with the right size.
• 30:20
  Speaker 16: So it's very important that farmers have the most data
• 30:23
  Speaker 16: possible to make those decisions. So the idea herd testing
• 30:26
  Speaker 16: is knowing exactly what the production of h cow is
• 30:30
  Speaker 16: and therefore being able to make that cow to the
• 30:32
  Speaker 16: best sire to make sure that you get the best offs.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: One makes sense. So this is genetics, this is data.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: How does our efficiency? How does your output per cow
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: compare to the rest of the world.
• 30:46
  Speaker 16: So our output per cow doesn't look great compared to
• 30:50
  Speaker 16: the rest of the world. Because we are one of
• 30:53
  Speaker 16: the only countries in the world that are on a
• 30:55
  Speaker 16: pasture based system and our only carve once a year
• 31:00
  Speaker 16: for that sort of system, we're doing very well. But
• 31:03
  Speaker 16: there's only about three countries in the world that really
• 31:06
  Speaker 16: do that well, and New Song's the leader of those.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: That's also why I milk so good though, right.
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: It is indeed why I'm milk is some of the
• 31:15
  Speaker 16: best in the world.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Cay, I appreciate your timing congratulations this morning Caldene fed
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Farmer's dairy chair. Time is eight to six. News Talk,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: said B.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof love where you live News.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Talks B six minutes away from six. A couple of
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: quick little bits for you this morning. You know the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: taka each of the new Japanese Prime minister who is
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: irking Beijing. Well, they're doing even more of that now.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: They're deploying surface to air missiles to this little island
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: that's near Taiwan, which China won't like. It's not a
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: surprise that they're doing it, but it's the first time
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that they've announced that there's a timeline for it. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: to John who said, is there a reason to stay
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: in New Zealand other than the dairy numbers I've just
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: given you. How about the fact that over in Australia
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: then flash and is still at three point eight percent,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: unchanged from December. Bridge makes in the studio, good morning,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: make meeting's Ryan. You'll be celebrating Derry. Who wouldn't Well,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I was listening yesterday to a Liam Dan you know
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: from the Herald a piece and there was a question
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: asked in this session about the fact that dairy farms
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: it is no longer just mum and dad dairy farms
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: or farms in general. In New Zealand. You've got these
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: kind of corporates taking over. So do the profits transfer
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: in the same way and flow into the economy in
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: the same way that they used to, or do.
• 32:34
  Speaker 17: They Well, because you're on farm, you're getting you're getting
• 32:37
  Speaker 17: the returns on farm, and on farm you need to
• 32:39
  Speaker 17: do a number of things. One paydown your debt and
• 32:42
  Speaker 17: then put some fences up, and then buy some new equipment.
• 32:45
  Speaker 17: Then go to town and buy a new mute.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it's not yes for if you're working on
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a farm. But the ownership structures are change. But all
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: of that that doesn't matter.
• 32:53
  Speaker 17: So the guy is sitting in Germany, he still needs
• 32:56
  Speaker 17: a new ut, he still needs a new fence, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 17: he still needs new equipment.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, but he's not going to go on holiday and
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: top No, that's true.
• 33:03
  Speaker 17: That's true. I mean, but there isn't that a good
• 33:05
  Speaker 17: example of how we worry about things that may not
• 33:09
  Speaker 17: need worrying about. Why don't we just simply a set
• 33:12
  Speaker 17: that things are quite good in the country and then
• 33:14
  Speaker 17: instead of going, well, hold on, what about you know
• 33:17
  Speaker 17: what I mean, it's I don't default moan position.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I don't think you and Liam Dan dragging. It's not
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: it's not when you might, I don't know.
• 33:28
  Speaker 17: Anyway, intellectual discussion is that Alex Kendall is a New Zealander.
• 33:33
  Speaker 17: So he's raised one and a half billion. He runs
• 33:36
  Speaker 17: a company called Wavy Yeah exactly, it's a related drive
• 33:42
  Speaker 17: self drive, and so he's on the verge of something
• 33:45
  Speaker 17: big and Mercedes are behind it in Stillantis and Thiss
• 33:48
  Speaker 17: and all that sort of stuff. So the big time
• 33:49
  Speaker 17: he's going to hook up with. So anyway, we got
• 33:51
  Speaker 17: him on the program this morning, and Scott McLaughlin but
• 33:55
  Speaker 17: I'm sorry to tell you as another sportsman, racing card driver,
• 33:58
  Speaker 17: well done, so Scott in these days then go then
• 34:01
  Speaker 17: go exactly.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: So anyway he's with us. Look forward to Mike. Have
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: a great morning, everyone, and see you tomorrow Friday.
• 34:11
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