Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 27 June 2025

Transcript

Full Show Podcast: 27 June 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

0:01
Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
0:05
Speaker 1: early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
0:09
Speaker 1: and try this winter.
0:10
Speaker 2: News Talk said, BE good morning, it is Friday. We've
0:14
Speaker 2: made it six minutes after five year on news Talk
0:16
Speaker 2: said B. Coming up before six there will be a
0:18
Speaker 2: by election after the sad passing of Tash Kemp from
0:21
Speaker 2: the party Mahori and this is going to be a
0:23
Speaker 2: crucial test of the party Mahori. Be labor. We'll look
0:27
Speaker 2: at that before six o'clock. Weight loss drugs are coming
0:30
Speaker 2: next week. Only thing bigger than the patients is the
0:33
Speaker 2: price tag. We'll talk about that. Update typical all contransport update.
0:38
Speaker 2: This is on the number of passengers for CURL. You'll
0:40
Speaker 2: love this. We'll get to it shortly. And Gavin Gray
0:42
Speaker 2: in the UK the agenda seven after five years talks,
0:48
Speaker 2: said B. Friday, the twenty seventh of June. And this
0:51
Speaker 2: morning we've had an update from the Pentagon on the
0:53
Speaker 2: strikes on Iran, Hegseth, saying that basically this presser is
0:58
Speaker 2: about attacking the press.
1:00
Speaker 3: The DEA that put that report out says this is
1:02
Speaker 3: a preliminary low confidence report and will continue to be
1:06
Speaker 3: refined as additional intelligence becomes available. How about the Israeli
1:11
Speaker 3: Atomic Energy Commission. The devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux destroyed
1:15
Speaker 3: the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.
1:21
Speaker 3: Have any of these quotes made their way into the
1:23
Speaker 3: New York Times or The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN.
1:27
Speaker 2: Around Supreme latest is the whole thing from the Pentagon
1:30
Speaker 2: as an exaggeration.
1:32
Speaker 4: The presidents of the United States exaggerated events in unusual ways,
1:37
Speaker 4: and it turns out he needed this exaggeration. Anyone who's
1:40
Speaker 4: heard these words has understood there is another truth behind them.
1:44
Speaker 4: The US has failed to take action and has not
1:47
Speaker 4: achieved their intended objective.
1:49
Speaker 2: The White House about to brief any moment now on
1:52
Speaker 2: the actual leak of that report that they're referring to.
1:56
Speaker 2: There Closing to New York City arguments today, in the
2:00
Speaker 2: Didy trial.
2:01
Speaker 5: There are ten so called predicate acts. The jury would
2:06
Speaker 5: have to unanimously agree that Colms and others conspired to
2:10
Speaker 5: commit two of them in order to find Coolm's guilty
2:13
Speaker 5: of racketeering. Conspiracy that could be kidnapping involving his former assistant,
2:18
Speaker 5: Capricorn Clark, it could be Parson involving kid Cuddy and
2:23
Speaker 5: his Porsche.
2:24
Speaker 2: And if you're following the Mushroom Ladies murder trial, well
2:27
Speaker 2: it's been deliberation delayed till Monday, so that'll going to
2:31
Speaker 2: a tenth week.
2:32
Speaker 6: Just as Christopher Bille finished off his third day of
2:35
Speaker 6: directions to the jury, today ballot will take place to
2:38
Speaker 6: select twelve of the remaining fourteen jurors who will decide.
2:43
Speaker 6: He said to them, it will be up to you
2:45
Speaker 6: and you alone, to come to a unanimous decision on
2:48
Speaker 6: whether the prosecution has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the
2:52
Speaker 6: mother of two is criminally responsible for fatally poisoning her
2:55
Speaker 6: in laws.
2:58
Speaker 1: Get ahead of the head headlines on early edition with
3:02
Speaker 1: Ryan Branch and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
3:06
Speaker 1: and dry. This winter news talk, sa'd be.
3:09
Speaker 2: Just gone nine after five. Lovely to have you with
3:11
Speaker 2: me on this Friday morning. How's the weather at your place?
3:14
Speaker 2: Bit of rain here in Auckland last night, Nothing too
3:17
Speaker 2: major though, And I just wonder and please let me
3:20
Speaker 2: know if it's really bad, because I just at this
3:22
Speaker 2: point I have had no update on exactly what's happening,
3:25
Speaker 2: particularly around Marlborough. But do you do we run the
3:28
Speaker 2: risk of the boy who cried wolf? I mean the
3:32
Speaker 2: warnings I from Met Service I can understand, because that's
3:34
Speaker 2: their job. They're meant to tell us that bad weather
3:36
Speaker 2: is coming. But what we do about it is a
3:38
Speaker 2: different question. And you know states of emergency being called
3:42
Speaker 2: out of an abundance of caution in advance of weather,
3:46
Speaker 2: you know, twelve hours before it hits. I don't know.
3:49
Speaker 2: Do you run the risk of being the boy who
3:51
Speaker 2: cried wolf? And you know, evacuations out of an abundance
3:54
Speaker 2: of caution. You know, they said you should evacuate by
3:57
Speaker 2: six am today, so you've got twelve hours to get out.
4:00
Speaker 2: I mean, how do you know what it's going to
4:02
Speaker 2: be like in twelve hours? I don't know. But anyway,
4:05
Speaker 2: if it is really bad, were you please let me
4:07
Speaker 2: know nine two nine two, we'd love to hear from
4:09
Speaker 2: you this morning. Yeah. I just wonder whether we sort
4:12
Speaker 2: of overcook it. Sometimes same goes with the harbor Bridge,
4:15
Speaker 2: and this is like you shouldn't do this as a
4:17
Speaker 2: broadcaster because if things go tits up then you look
4:20
Speaker 2: like a full But with the harbor Bridge closed all
4:23
Speaker 2: the time or at least down to a couple of
4:26
Speaker 2: lanes because it's windy. Really do we need to do
4:29
Speaker 2: that well? And why is it happening? Are we having
4:31
Speaker 2: more strong wind or are we just hearing about the
4:35
Speaker 2: bridge being closed more often because we have news all
4:38
Speaker 2: the time and we have social media. I don't know.
4:41
Speaker 2: You tell me, I don't know, but it feels like
4:45
Speaker 2: feels like to me it's happening more often, and not
4:48
Speaker 2: necessarily because it's justified the numbers six. It's just going
4:52
Speaker 2: to eleven minutes after five. Coming up next, we're gonna
4:54
Speaker 2: talk about way GOVI. So there's Ozempic, which is your
4:57
Speaker 2: Hollywood get skinny drug, Ozempic. And then there's waygov which
5:02
Speaker 2: is going to be here for you, not if you've
5:04
Speaker 2: got diabetes, but just for weight loss, and it's coming
5:07
Speaker 2: next week. We'll talk about the price tag, Neiquest, News
5:10
Speaker 2: and Views you Trust.
5:12
Speaker 1: To start your day, It's early edition with Ryan Bridge
5:15
Speaker 1: at Expowl Insulation Keeping, Kiwi, Holmes, Ward and Drey This
5:19
Speaker 1: Winter News Talks V.
5:21
Speaker 2: It has just gone thirteen minutes after five News Talks
5:24
Speaker 2: V nine two nine two The numbers text Now the
5:26
Speaker 2: drug that's made the Hollywood celebrities. Skinny and Looking Fabulous
5:30
Speaker 2: Again is coming to New Zealand. The ozempic style weight
5:33
Speaker 2: loss drug Waygov will be available here from Tuesday. To
5:37
Speaker 2: get it, though, you're going to need a prescription from
5:38
Speaker 2: your doctor. Sarah Kennedy is the CEO of Callo Curb
5:43
Speaker 2: and is at a US conference right now in Las Vegas,
5:46
Speaker 2: apparently for Ozimpic, and is with us on the phone. Sarah,
5:49
Speaker 2: good morning, Hi Ryan, how are you? I'm good things.
5:52
Speaker 2: What do you do at an ozempic conference? Do they
5:54
Speaker 2: feed you?
5:55
Speaker 7: Well, it's not actually a no Zimpic conference. It's the
5:59
Speaker 7: largest stish show in America, so out there they have
6:03
Speaker 7: everything there, but weight management is a key part of it.
6:07
Speaker 7: They have a lot of medi spars that go so yeah,
6:10
Speaker 7: we're part of that.
6:11
Speaker 2: Right. Is there much demand? Do you think there's going
6:14
Speaker 2: to be a lot of demand for waygov in New Zealand?
6:18
Speaker 7: Well, if it follows the US, yes, over twelve percent,
6:25
Speaker 7: over twelve percent of Americans have either been on or
6:28
Speaker 7: are on We're go v now, So it's massive growth
6:32
Speaker 7: here and yeah, it's a household name.
6:37
Speaker 2: Cost is also massive though apparently four hundred and forty
6:40
Speaker 2: dollars and six hundred dollars for a pack of five pens. Apparently,
6:45
Speaker 2: is this going to be a Is it going to
6:47
Speaker 2: be in reach for the people who might need it most?
6:52
Speaker 8: Well, it is expensive.
6:53
Speaker 7: And in fact, in the US for that pack it's
6:56
Speaker 7: about one thousand US dollars, so not quite as much
7:00
Speaker 7: in New Zealand, but yes, it will be between five
7:02
Speaker 7: or six hundred thousand I'm sorry, five hundred to six
7:05
Speaker 7: hundred dollars.
7:07
Speaker 8: I think people have to be aware of, you know,
7:09
Speaker 8: first of all, the cost, it is very expensive. I
7:13
Speaker 8: think secondly, the side effects. Over seventy percent of people
7:17
Speaker 8: will have gastro and testinal problems and that really can
7:22
Speaker 8: go from nausea to constipation to even diarrhea. But you know,
7:28
Speaker 8: so there are and when you're taking any drug, there
7:30
Speaker 8: are side effects, and these have significant gastro and testinal effects.
7:35
Speaker 8: And the third thing I think people have to be
7:37
Speaker 8: aware of is that over two thirds, so over seventy
7:42
Speaker 8: percent of people regain the weight in a year. So
7:46
Speaker 8: without lifestyle changes, that weight's just going to come straight
7:50
Speaker 8: back on.
7:51
Speaker 7: And it's not great weight when it comes on because
7:53
Speaker 7: you also, on we go you lose a lot of muscle.
7:57
Speaker 7: So you leave both fat and muscle in the way
8:00
Speaker 7: comes back on, you're going to get more fat. So
8:04
Speaker 7: you know you've got to remember that. So the lifestyle
8:07
Speaker 7: changes are important.
8:08
Speaker 2: You'd be skinny fat when you come back from it,
8:10
Speaker 2: which is not.
8:11
Speaker 7: It will be. It's just a longer, longer for me,
8:16
Speaker 7: yo yo darting. So while we're.
8:18
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, because you're I mean, this is what I'm
8:21
Speaker 2: about to says you would say this, wouldn't you because
8:23
Speaker 2: you're not you know, obviously you're going to go to
8:25
Speaker 2: your GP to get way over. But you're doing more
8:27
Speaker 2: natural stuff, aren't you. So that's what you're kind of
8:30
Speaker 2: trying to get people on.
8:31
Speaker 7: Is it.
8:33
Speaker 8: Well, it's a combination, you see.
8:35
Speaker 7: So calliclep does so we understand was developed by the
8:37
Speaker 7: New Zealand government.
8:39
Speaker 8: This is over fifteen.
8:40
Speaker 7: Years of research and thirty million dollars. So we actually
8:44
Speaker 7: discovered this and I'm sitting it here in the US.
8:47
Speaker 7: So how practitioners, So the conference we're going to as
8:51
Speaker 7: all doctors, they call them practitioners. Yeah, and how they're
8:55
Speaker 7: using it as they're using it as an alternative. You know,
8:58
Speaker 7: that's just what you said. The secondly, they're using it
9:01
Speaker 7: in combination so they can do what they can lower
9:05
Speaker 7: the dose of wegvy right down to its lowest level,
9:09
Speaker 7: which lowers its cost and lowers its lowers its cost
9:14
Speaker 7: and lowers its side effects. And the third way they're
9:17
Speaker 7: using it, which is an absolute must, is when people
9:20
Speaker 7: are coming off the drug right because when you tie
9:23
Speaker 7: trait off, you're natural. Because what we're govy is it's
9:27
Speaker 7: a synthetic version of our appetite suppressing foremonte, which is.
9:32
Speaker 2: What stops you wanting to step stuff food down your mouth,
9:35
Speaker 2: doesn't it. Sarah. We have to leave it there and
9:37
Speaker 2: we will let you get back to your conference of
9:38
Speaker 2: really appreciate your time. This morning, it's Sarah Kennedy, chief
9:40
Speaker 2: executive of Callow Curb in New Zealand. It's eighteen after
9:45
Speaker 2: five Newstalks B.
9:47
Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge on early edition with ex bowl insulation keeping
9:52
Speaker 1: Kiwi hose warm and dry.
9:54
Speaker 2: This winter News Talks B five News Talks. B. Just
9:57
Speaker 2: ask the question this morning whether we overcook the weather,
10:00
Speaker 2: not the warnings, but the reaction, you know, evacuating people
10:03
Speaker 2: before and events even happened, and like twelve hours or
10:07
Speaker 2: even twenty four hours before and events even happened. Is
10:09
Speaker 2: it a bit premature, that's the question. Good morning, Ryan,
10:13
Speaker 2: been listening overnight to all the calls around the country
10:15
Speaker 2: around the weather. I'm here in Hawks Bay currently fifteen degrees,
10:18
Speaker 2: no wind, no rain. Good luck to the rest of
10:20
Speaker 2: New Zealand, says Steve Ryan. Ketty Ketty, heavy rain blowing
10:25
Speaker 2: really hard here, but nothing major. And on the bridge.
10:28
Speaker 2: A lot of people saying the bridge in Auckland has
10:31
Speaker 2: closed more often since that truck. And remember there was
10:34
Speaker 2: the issue with the truck heaving a support beam after
10:37
Speaker 2: the wind blew. But have we overcorrected the other way?
10:41
Speaker 2: That's because it just it does seem like every time
10:44
Speaker 2: the wind blow and every time someone breathes in the
10:46
Speaker 2: direction of the Harbor Bridge, it's closed twenty one after five.
10:51
Speaker 7: Ryan Bridge.
10:52
Speaker 2: There's the number of commuters speaking of Auckland using Auckland's
10:55
Speaker 2: new city rail link from next year to travel in
10:57
Speaker 2: and out of the city could be much lower than
10:59
Speaker 2: first thought. It was meant to be twenty seven thousand
11:01
Speaker 2: a peak. Latest forecasts revised down now just nineteen thousand
11:06
Speaker 2: commutists expected for beck CEO Heart of the City with
11:09
Speaker 2: me this morning. Hey, Viv Hello, are you worried about
11:13
Speaker 2: the forecast coming down like that?
11:15
Speaker 7: Absolutely?
11:16
Speaker 9: I mean, seriously, it's a relief to be actually talking
11:19
Speaker 9: about opening. But the numbers are really concerning and on
11:22
Speaker 9: the face of it, this won't take us back to
11:24
Speaker 9: the numbers we had before construction started.
11:27
Speaker 2: So we've spent five point six billion dollars for.
11:30
Speaker 9: What well, I mean, I think people are positive about
11:35
Speaker 9: the CRL. It will bring people quicker and faster into
11:39
Speaker 9: potential city, all those things. However, talking about financial viability
11:43
Speaker 9: has to extend the people affected for the last decade.
11:48
Speaker 9: And also we've got to be sensible about how people
11:51
Speaker 9: get here. We need people to be able to get here.
11:53
Speaker 9: There's been an absolute obsession to remove cars. Taxis make
11:58
Speaker 9: it difficult on me many levels. And if these numbers
12:03
Speaker 9: are telling us, we're going to be weigh down and
12:05
Speaker 9: what was proposed and there's a major problem. There has
12:08
Speaker 9: to be accountability and there has to be a major
12:10
Speaker 9: change in how access and business impacts are managed in
12:14
Speaker 9: the city center.
12:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, because when they brought this out they said we
12:17
Speaker 2: would get twenty seven thousand at peak. To quote them,
12:20
Speaker 2: this is kiwiral. This is all part of the funding,
12:23
Speaker 2: all part of enabling the sour Our Day one capacity
12:26
Speaker 2: increased to twenty seven thousand passion trips. I mean they
12:30
Speaker 2: told us that number when they were wanting the money
12:33
Speaker 2: and the public support. Now that we're nearly finished, they
12:36
Speaker 2: are actually saying no, no, no, we don't want to oversupply.
12:39
Speaker 2: This has just been I mean, what is this.
12:43
Speaker 9: Oh, look, it's outrageous at fifty four thousand was the
12:46
Speaker 9: number that was first out, and I know a number
12:48
Speaker 9: of businesses remember that figure very very clearly, and there
12:52
Speaker 9: were changes made to get to the capacity. Now it
12:56
Speaker 9: clearly looked like we're going to have to grow into this.
12:58
Speaker 9: And you know, we're optimist looking out, but right here
13:01
Speaker 9: and now, the financial impact it has been as incredibly
13:05
Speaker 9: hard as I'm sure you will recall to get the
13:09
Speaker 9: financial impacts on the businesses effective even listened to, let
13:13
Speaker 9: alone any sort of decent support for them. So it's
13:16
Speaker 9: pretty rich to hear this now, and I do think
13:19
Speaker 9: there needs to be accountability. Look, we are really concerned
13:22
Speaker 9: with how access business impacts have been managed.
13:25
Speaker 7: For a very long time.
13:26
Speaker 9: Here we keep getting you know, it gets fobbed away
13:29
Speaker 9: as this is all going to come right when this
13:32
Speaker 9: thing opens.
13:33
Speaker 7: It's clearly going to.
13:34
Speaker 9: Take time to get to the numbers needed. And it's
13:37
Speaker 9: not okay that the effects they've had. I mean, the
13:40
Speaker 9: reality is you look at some of the streets. They've
13:42
Speaker 9: basically compromised access for people with nobility disabilities, need servicing, loading,
13:49
Speaker 9: and there's some extraordinarily bad decisions that have been made
13:52
Speaker 9: on the basis that by day one we need this
13:54
Speaker 9: thing perfect.
13:56
Speaker 2: They appreciate your time. This morning they've bet Heart of
13:58
Speaker 2: the City chief executive twenty four minutes after five, Bryan
14:01
Speaker 2: Bridge least that they'll be insulated from wind underground. I
14:04
Speaker 2: suppose we're talking to the Harbor Bridge too. Morning. Ryan
14:07
Speaker 2: just came across the Harbor Bridge and Auckland driving a
14:09
Speaker 2: truck and trailer. Electronic boards are all saying win wind
14:13
Speaker 2: gust speed reduced. It's hardly blowing. Total overkills is Jeremy
14:17
Speaker 2: and on way go v. This textas says, just stop eating,
14:20
Speaker 2: you fat asses. The thing is to be serious for
14:25
Speaker 2: a second. There are there are people who cannot help
14:29
Speaker 2: the weight that they are. There are people who take
14:31
Speaker 2: certain medications, There are people with thyroid issues. There are
14:34
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of reasons. But you have to say
14:37
Speaker 2: that on the whole the world is fatter because we're
14:40
Speaker 2: eating more and moving less. I mean that has to
14:43
Speaker 2: be true. Then we were, you know, thirty forty years ago,
14:46
Speaker 2: twenty five after five News Talk SEB.
14:49
Speaker 1: The early edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio Power
14:53
Speaker 1: by News Talks.
14:54
Speaker 2: IV News Talks he B. It is twenty seven minutes
14:57
Speaker 2: after five. If you have a health problem, if you've
15:00
Speaker 2: got a mental problem, if you can't sleep, if you're obese,
15:04
Speaker 2: don't worry, settle down. Everything will be fine. All your
15:08
Speaker 2: problems can be solved with a pill, with an injection,
15:11
Speaker 2: with a prescription, or even no prescription. That's the clear
15:14
Speaker 2: message that we've been getting this week from our regulators
15:16
Speaker 2: and from our government. From Tuesday, the Hollywood Weight Loss
15:20
Speaker 2: Drug WAG GOVI like ozempic, will be available here, not
15:23
Speaker 2: for diabetes, but to shift to weight. People aren't being
15:26
Speaker 2: told not to get obese. They're being told that once
15:29
Speaker 2: they do get too big, a drug will make them
15:32
Speaker 2: small again. Melatonin will now be available over the counter
15:36
Speaker 2: for those who can't sleep. Forget counting sheep or wearing
15:40
Speaker 2: yourself out with exercise, Pop a pill and off you go.
15:44
Speaker 2: No nice. You can now get an ADHD diagnosis from
15:49
Speaker 2: your GP or from a nurse practitioner. Usually you need
15:51
Speaker 2: to see a psychiatrist for this. We're prescribing ten times
15:55
Speaker 2: the amount of meds than we were fifteen odd years
15:57
Speaker 2: ago for ADHD in this country. We spoke to a
16:00
Speaker 2: guy this week on the Show with ADHD who said
16:02
Speaker 2: the law change is actually a good thing, but he
16:05
Speaker 2: also warned about TikTok because apparently lots of young people
16:09
Speaker 2: are getting diagnosed by TikTok and they're running around telling
16:13
Speaker 2: everyone they've got a neuro disorder, when actually they're just
16:16
Speaker 2: spending too much time on their phones and hunting for likes.
16:20
Speaker 2: The question is whether as a society, as a species,
16:23
Speaker 2: even all this pill popping, all this medication is evolution
16:29
Speaker 2: or insanity. Just the fact that we're wealthy enough to
16:33
Speaker 2: eat ourselves half to death then fix it all with
16:37
Speaker 2: a simple twice weekly injection a sign that we're incredibly
16:40
Speaker 2: smart or incredibly stupid. I genuinely don't know the answer
16:45
Speaker 2: to that question at this point. Twenty nine after five
16:49
Speaker 2: bread rich, great to have your company now. Jeff Bezos,
16:52
Speaker 2: Amazon billionaire getting married in Venice and everyone's turning up
16:57
Speaker 2: Oprah's there this morning Elton John's, their bilit gates is
17:00
Speaker 2: turned up and the protest is why because he's rich,
17:04
Speaker 2: and they're saying this is, you know, if you can
17:06
Speaker 2: afford to have this big, fancy wedding, then you can
17:08
Speaker 2: afford to pay more tax and they're protesting the wedding.
17:12
Speaker 2: Also this morning Gordon Brown formed British Prime Minister Helen
17:16
Speaker 2: Clark there in Italy as well, and they've released a
17:19
Speaker 2: statement saying that we should be fixing apparently doing more
17:22
Speaker 2: to fix the wealth inequality divide across the world. So
17:27
Speaker 2: there you go. Twenty nine minutes after five. Gavin Gray
17:31
Speaker 2: next The.
17:37
Speaker 1: News you Need this morning and the in depth analysis
17:40
Speaker 1: earlier edition with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl Insulation keeping
17:45
Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This Winter News Talks at B.
17:52
Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six News Talks at B. It
17:55
Speaker 2: is Friday morning. We're going to get to Gavin Gray
17:57
Speaker 2: out of the UK. A warning actually we've been speaking
18:00
Speaker 2: about the weight loss drugs. Are warning from a UK
18:03
Speaker 2: regulated they're investigating issues with the pancreas to do with
18:08
Speaker 2: his weight loss drugs. So we'll ask him about that.
18:10
Speaker 2: Just a quarter two, as we're about to make it
18:12
Speaker 2: legal for weight loss here in New Zealand from Tuesday,
18:15
Speaker 2: and Jason Wall's News Talks political editor joins us this,
18:18
Speaker 2: after the death of Taku Tai Tajh Kemp from t
18:21
Speaker 2: Party Mali, there will be a by election. Who will
18:24
Speaker 2: when that? I mean it'll be a toss up between
18:26
Speaker 2: Labor and to Party Maldi obviously, And I'm loving the
18:29
Speaker 2: text that we're getting on Jeff Bezos. This is the
18:31
Speaker 2: Amazon guy, billionaire. A lot of rich people in loafers
18:35
Speaker 2: walking through the streets of Venice today for the wedding
18:38
Speaker 2: of will be Venice's wedding of the year, presumably because
18:42
Speaker 2: of the price tag attached to it. He's marrying a
18:45
Speaker 2: former TV journalist, Sanchez is their name, Lauren Sanchez. She's
18:51
Speaker 2: young and beautiful, he's not, so that makes sense. And
18:57
Speaker 2: all of the aless celebrities are coming in from Los
19:00
Speaker 2: Angela's Oprah's there you know, you name it the glitterati,
19:04
Speaker 2: and they'll be there, bell Gates there, rich people and
19:07
Speaker 2: famous people all going. And Sue has just texted this morning,
19:12
Speaker 2: good morning. So all the stars flying in for this wedding,
19:15
Speaker 2: aren't they all? Climate Alamis. Here's me over in my
19:19
Speaker 2: neck of the woods, sorting and making sure I have
19:21
Speaker 2: correct items in my recycling bin. What a fool we
19:25
Speaker 2: all are, sir. It's twenty two to six Ryan reporters
19:29
Speaker 2: around the country this morning. Cullum and Dnedan Callum, Good
19:31
Speaker 2: morning morning. Right now Central Otago mayor, they're welcoming and
19:35
Speaker 2: new security budget.
19:38
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is specifically for local body politicians in Central Otago.
19:44
Speaker 10: This funding will see elected members. They are now getting
19:46
Speaker 10: four and a half thousand dollars each to cover their
19:48
Speaker 10: personal security systems, installation and monitoring. The mayor of Central
19:54
Speaker 10: Otago is Tama Ali, and Tamas says it's especially important
19:58
Speaker 10: in a large area likes Central Otaga, where help can
20:01
Speaker 10: be a long time coming. She says people should feel
20:04
Speaker 10: comfortable and safe in their job, but there has been
20:06
Speaker 10: a lot of concerning events recently for politicians there. She says,
20:11
Speaker 10: that includes derogatory leaflets left and mailboxes in person, threats.
20:16
Speaker 10: Some members even worried about the security of their families.
20:19
Speaker 2: And how's your weather, Callum.
20:21
Speaker 10: We've got a heavy rain warning here for Danneeda and
20:23
Speaker 10: coastal Kluther tonight, but it's cloudy at the moment southerly
20:27
Speaker 10: is today the high ten brilliant.
20:28
Speaker 2: Thank you cliar, good morning, good morning. Now christ Church,
20:32
Speaker 2: the cathedral restoration, you were paying a levy, but that's
20:35
Speaker 2: you no longer have to pay the levy, Is that right?
20:38
Speaker 11: That's right. So the city Council yesterday confirmed the annual plan,
20:41
Speaker 11: which after almost sixty last minute changes to the budget
20:46
Speaker 11: proposed by eleven counselors, was finally pushed through into in
20:50
Speaker 11: the second day. There will be a six point six
20:52
Speaker 11: percent rates rise for christ Church, so that's longer than
20:54
Speaker 11: the seven point five eight percent we originally proposed and
20:58
Speaker 11: works out for the average home to be around five dollars.
21:01
Speaker 11: One of the things that does make up that six
21:03
Speaker 11: point six percent rise is of course the new stadium
21:06
Speaker 11: Takaha that equates to about one point seventy five percent.
21:09
Speaker 11: But a big part of the savings is due to
21:11
Speaker 11: this pause on the cathedral Levie. Like you say, that
21:14
Speaker 11: was due to remain around for another three years, but
21:16
Speaker 11: as we know, the restoration of the cathedral is on hold.
21:20
Speaker 11: So the levee, which had been seeing households pay around
21:23
Speaker 11: six dollars fifty a year for restoration, is now gone.
21:27
Speaker 2: Well, that's good news. Clear, thank you. How's your weather?
21:30
Speaker 11: A bit of rain about today, southerneast developing then turning westerly.
21:33
Speaker 12: The high will be eleven.
21:35
Speaker 2: Nice. Have a good day in Max's and Wellington. Max,
21:37
Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. Now the mayor is keeping every
21:40
Speaker 2: door open. Yeah, so okay.
21:43
Speaker 13: Tori Fino says she will probably run for mayor again
21:46
Speaker 13: in twenty twenty eight, after allowing some time to recharge.
21:51
Speaker 13: This is in a post on social media. Somewhat cryptically,
21:54
Speaker 13: she says it's about the long game. She isn't running
21:58
Speaker 13: this year, of course, but will instead under the Greens
22:00
Speaker 13: banner and the Maudi ward for Council. In another interview
22:02
Speaker 13: this week, fun has also said she still has ambition
22:05
Speaker 13: to run for central government with the Green Party, and
22:08
Speaker 13: while she's talking now about recharging, we don't really have
22:11
Speaker 13: a definitive answer for why she is not running again
22:14
Speaker 13: for mayor this year. When she made her announcement that
22:16
Speaker 13: she was stepping aside, she said she wanted to clear
22:18
Speaker 13: the way for Andrew Little to become mayor and that
22:21
Speaker 13: she wanted to work with him, hopefully as deputy mayor.
22:24
Speaker 13: Little then turned around and said he had no desire
22:26
Speaker 13: for that to happen, So we asked some questions of
22:29
Speaker 13: course from the Mayor's office and got a closed door.
22:34
Speaker 2: Honestly, are we surprised the flip flops that we're flip
22:38
Speaker 2: flops we've seen from this particular mere just beyond reproach
22:43
Speaker 2: hous A weather in Wellington.
22:44
Speaker 13: Max rainy here as well. All day fifteen the high brilliant.
22:50
Speaker 2: Thank you and Neiva's and Auckland with us in the studio,
22:52
Speaker 2: Hay Andiva, good morning. Overloaded staff have revealed the reason
22:56
Speaker 2: that a rail maintenance machine plowed through an Auckland tunnel
23:00
Speaker 2: without tracks.
23:01
Speaker 12: That's right now. What's happened is that the Transport Accident
23:04
Speaker 12: Investigation Commission states that the crew they didn't know that
23:09
Speaker 12: the Puderwit tunnel tracks had been removed and they derailed.
23:13
Speaker 12: This happened in October twenty twenty three, leaving the vehicle
23:16
Speaker 12: badly damaged. So Luise Cook, she's the acting chief investigator
23:19
Speaker 12: of accident. She said that key staff they were unsupported
23:23
Speaker 12: while colleagues were on leave, leading to this work site miscommunication.
23:28
Speaker 12: She also says that stuff they were overburdened, overloaded, too
23:31
Speaker 12: busy to look after their own safety. So there's been
23:35
Speaker 12: a few recommendations to KIPI rail, you know, like improved
23:37
Speaker 12: work site movement authorization, safer workloads and stop barriers. It's
23:42
Speaker 12: kind of a theme, isn't it. Certainly, as soon as
23:44
Speaker 12: I read that, I thought, it's like that pylons, you know,
23:46
Speaker 12: the bolts, removing the bolts. It's right, yeah, anyway, there.
23:51
Speaker 2: We have it weather.
23:53
Speaker 12: So we've got rain heavy this morning, easing to showers
23:56
Speaker 12: early afternoon, but we've got that heavy wind as well.
23:59
Speaker 12: That Gail got ninety can meet us per hour and
24:01
Speaker 12: exposed places easy though by the afternoon. Eighteen is the
24:04
Speaker 12: high here in Auckland.
24:05
Speaker 2: Nice one. You know Jeff Bezos's soon to be wife, Yes,
24:08
Speaker 2: blarn Sanchez I just before said that she was young
24:12
Speaker 2: and beautiful and she's people are texting and she's actually
24:16
Speaker 2: fifty five really, but you wouldn't think it looking at her,
24:19
Speaker 2: would you. So no, she looks great.
24:21
Speaker 12: Well, she's probably had a lot of work done. That's
24:23
Speaker 12: that's also what people botox to the she's he's probably
24:27
Speaker 12: spent about fifty or a million dollars in her face.
24:30
Speaker 12: I mean, you know, look at us.
24:31
Speaker 2: We don't do that.
24:32
Speaker 12: Do we just be happy with who you are money
24:35
Speaker 12: or noboddy.
24:37
Speaker 2: They're actually just arriving I think at the venue in Venice.
24:40
Speaker 12: Do you know what this would be? I was just
24:42
Speaker 12: saying to Kensy, your producer, this would be the perfect
24:44
Speaker 12: place if you for pepparazzi in that because you can't
24:48
Speaker 12: go in a car or anywhere in Venice, so the
24:50
Speaker 12: canal you can go right past the canals and snap
24:53
Speaker 12: your photos right for.
24:54
Speaker 2: The protesters, yes, unfortunately for them, Nava, thank you very much,
24:58
Speaker 2: Neva in Auckland seventeen decent news talks. He'd be Gavin
25:01
Speaker 2: Gray and the UK next with a warning about some
25:03
Speaker 2: of those weight loss drugs will be taken from next
25:05
Speaker 2: week and then the by election for Tommackie Macodo the
25:11
Speaker 2: Maldi seat. That's all ahead before.
25:13
Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends inn Eye Insurance, Peace of
25:18
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
25:20
Speaker 2: Whose talks to be We'll get to Jason Walls on
25:22
Speaker 2: this by election shortly right now though, Gavin Gray are
25:25
Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent, Devin, Welcome to the show the weight
25:28
Speaker 2: loss jobs. We're getting sort of our rules loosened on
25:32
Speaker 2: weight loss jobs here as of next week, so interesting
25:35
Speaker 2: to hear that one of your regulators is looking closer
25:38
Speaker 2: into them.
25:40
Speaker 14: Yes, so the drug named manjaro, a, zepig and wegavi
25:44
Speaker 14: are barely out of the headlines here and indeed are
25:48
Speaker 14: the result of plenty of people who have seemed to
25:51
Speaker 14: have lost a lot of weight with them. They certainly
25:54
Speaker 14: have certainly been good for these shares of the pharmacy
25:57
Speaker 14: companies involved European in nature with that. Now, the thing
26:02
Speaker 14: is that some people, it's being reported, have actually reported
26:06
Speaker 14: adverse reaction and have been hospitalized with acute pancreatitis. And
26:12
Speaker 14: the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency the MHR and Genomics
26:17
Speaker 14: England are asking people on the weight loss drugs that
26:20
Speaker 14: have been hospitalized by acute pancreatitis to get in touch.
26:24
Speaker 14: There are reports hundreds have suffered acute and chronic pancreatitis
26:29
Speaker 14: and the authorities want to hear from any one aged
26:33
Speaker 14: eighteen and over and they're saying that they're then going
26:36
Speaker 14: to see if they will be willing to take part
26:38
Speaker 14: in a study to check whether some people are at
26:40
Speaker 14: higher genetic risk of this when they're taking these medicines. Now,
26:45
Speaker 14: according to the Yellow Card website, that's the people you
26:49
Speaker 14: contact if you're sick with a drug. They are supposed
26:53
Speaker 14: to include ten in which patients who were using weight
26:57
Speaker 14: loss drugs died from the effects of pancreatitis. But and
27:00
Speaker 14: I stress it's not clear whether any other factors or
27:04
Speaker 14: which factors played a part in this, and it's certainly
27:07
Speaker 14: impossible to know how many people in the UK are
27:09
Speaker 14: on these weight loss drugs. And as I said, there
27:12
Speaker 14: is absolutely at the moment no proven link between this
27:16
Speaker 14: and this particular side effect.
27:17
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, just one to keep an eye on. Then
27:20
Speaker 2: the former backplays boss. Given this is the one who
27:23
Speaker 2: was head of FRINT while he was mates with Epstein.
27:26
Speaker 2: Essentially he's challenging the ban on him working in top
27:31
Speaker 2: financial jobs.
27:33
Speaker 14: Yes, but he's lost that legal challenge against that ban.
27:37
Speaker 14: So his name is Jess Daily and Jess Daley was
27:40
Speaker 14: a massive figure in finance here in the UK up
27:44
Speaker 14: until roughly sort of twenty twenty one when he was
27:47
Speaker 14: forced out by the regulator having been found to fail
27:51
Speaker 14: to accurately disclose the nature and length of his relationship
27:55
Speaker 14: with the former disgraced financing Jeffrey Epstein. And it was
28:00
Speaker 14: said that he failed to disclose that to the Barclays board,
28:03
Speaker 14: but also to the Financial Conduct Authority. Now, Jess Staley
28:06
Speaker 14: really was after getting some of his reputation back here.
28:10
Speaker 14: He was a huge figure, well respected in the finance industry,
28:14
Speaker 14: and he'd said to the tribunal that he had no
28:16
Speaker 14: idea about Epstein's monstrous activities. Those were his words. He said,
28:20
Speaker 14: he was disappointed with the decision that he's lost this
28:23
Speaker 14: legal challenge today, but he has welcomed the tribunal accepting
28:27
Speaker 14: that he was not dishonest. His fine was reduced from
28:30
Speaker 14: three point six to two point two million New Zealand dollars.
28:34
Speaker 14: But I'm afraid the rest of it is bad reading
28:37
Speaker 14: for Jess Staley. What it all centered on was a
28:39
Speaker 14: letter sent by Barkley's to the Financial Conduct Authority, and
28:44
Speaker 14: that was said to contain two misleading statements. That Staley
28:48
Speaker 14: did not have a close relationship with Epstein and that
28:50
Speaker 14: their last contact was well before he joined Barclays in
28:54
Speaker 14: twenty fifteen. Well, a now famous chain of emails suggested
28:58
Speaker 14: that they weren't much friends than that, Epstein being described
29:02
Speaker 14: by Staley as a deepest and most cherished friend, Staley
29:07
Speaker 14: describing Epstein rather and also on one exchange, mister Staley
29:12
Speaker 14: remarking to Epstein that was fun say hi to snow White,
29:17
Speaker 14: to which Epstein replied what character would you like next,
29:20
Speaker 14: to which mister Staley responded, beauty and the beast. As
29:23
Speaker 14: I said, no indication as to exactly what was meant
29:26
Speaker 14: on that, but.
29:27
Speaker 2: Not good Newskevin, Thank you for that. Kevin Gray are
29:29
Speaker 2: UK you're correspondenting away from six Ryan Bridge. The Trademk
29:33
Speaker 2: news is today. You'll know this with the death of
29:35
Speaker 2: Depati Mardi imp Tack of Titash Kemp and now there
29:38
Speaker 2: will be a by election in his seat of Bummacky Mikodo,
29:41
Speaker 2: which she won by just forty two votes against Labor
29:43
Speaker 2: incumbent Penei Hennade at the last election. Jason Wall's political editor,
29:47
Speaker 2: Jason good morning.
29:49
Speaker 7: Good morning.
29:50
Speaker 2: So when is the BI election likely to be held?
29:52
Speaker 2: Do we know we all these details?
29:55
Speaker 15: We don't actually know. Yes, there was a couple of
29:57
Speaker 15: points yesterday where we tried to get some information that
30:00
Speaker 15: it was really just not the time to be asking
30:02
Speaker 15: those questions yesterday. Technically it's got to be the Governor
30:05
Speaker 15: General that the Well basically gives it though the green light.
30:09
Speaker 15: We know that this will happen because the seat is,
30:11
Speaker 15: as we know now vacant. That's the Tamaki Makoto Auckland
30:17
Speaker 15: Mary seat up there. So we're still waiting to get
30:19
Speaker 15: a few of those details at this stage, but it
30:21
Speaker 15: won't be very long.
30:23
Speaker 2: I would imagine, do you think Penny will run again?
30:25
Speaker 2: As he's obviously wouldn't have said anything, but do you
30:27
Speaker 2: think he will?
30:29
Speaker 15: I think he probably will. I think he's definitely the
30:31
Speaker 15: front runner in that seat, still only lose by forty
30:34
Speaker 15: two votes, and you know there was some controversy behind
30:39
Speaker 15: those votes, with the Manu Marai as well being in
30:42
Speaker 15: the headlines not so long ago. So I would say
30:45
Speaker 15: say that it's pretty I would say it's pretty likely
30:49
Speaker 15: to almost certain that Pinni Henade would run in that
30:51
Speaker 15: seat and would be likely to win. TEA Party. Mary
30:55
Speaker 15: would need to find a new candidate, but it would
30:57
Speaker 15: be hard to find somebody that would have better that
30:59
Speaker 15: name cognition than Penie Hennade.
31:03
Speaker 2: Unless John Tammaheady runs himself.
31:06
Speaker 15: I was just about to say there is one caveat
31:08
Speaker 15: to that that Tomahay does decide to run, but you
31:12
Speaker 15: know he is a you know he's he's a controversial figure.
31:15
Speaker 15: He is these days is more in the background, pulling
31:19
Speaker 15: the strings of the parties in being in in the limelights.
31:22
Speaker 15: But even then, you know, I think that Peni Hennaday,
31:25
Speaker 15: you know, he's he's been in there, he's been in
31:29
Speaker 15: the headlines. He's been a part of the Auckland marty
31:33
Speaker 15: scene for a long time. He's very well known. I
31:35
Speaker 15: think that he'd probably still have a very good, good
31:38
Speaker 15: chance in that case.
31:39
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, Jason, appreciate your time this morning. Jason Wall's
31:42
Speaker 2: News Talks biggest political editor. It's eight minutes to six.
31:46
Speaker 2: You're on News Talks B of course, and Mike is
31:49
Speaker 2: here with us.
31:50
Speaker 1: Next the first word on the News of the Day
31:53
Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping
31:57
Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This week to News Talk.
32:00
Speaker 14: Said, be.
32:04
Speaker 2: Good morning. It is survived away from six here on
32:06
Speaker 2: News Talks dB. And you'll have to excuse us playing
32:09
Speaker 2: this song to you, but this is what Trevor Mallard
32:11
Speaker 2: did to the protesters outside Parliament. And there's a story
32:15
Speaker 2: in the Herald this morning about a girl who is
32:18
Speaker 2: taking him to court facing High court case brought by
32:22
Speaker 2: a girl who was eleven at the time of the protests.
32:25
Speaker 2: She claims that Mallard blasting baby Shark and let it
32:29
Speaker 2: go while soaking her with a water weaponized songs that
32:33
Speaker 2: she liked, causing her mental anguish, humiliation, and distress. So
32:38
Speaker 2: she's taking a case. She's lawyered up. But what's really
32:41
Speaker 2: interesting about this story is the communications that have been
32:45
Speaker 2: uncovered between police and the Speaker's office. They were saying,
32:50
Speaker 2: do not do this. This is a terrible idea. It's
32:52
Speaker 2: going to make a bad situation worse than when he
32:54
Speaker 2: head and did it. Anyway, Anyway, that story in the
32:56
Speaker 2: Herald four to six, and Mike is here with us. Now, Hey, Mike,
32:59
Speaker 2: who's the lawyer? Who's the lawyer?
33:02
Speaker 16: And how are they being paid.
33:04
Speaker 2: Due to CLEE. Don't know the name. I never heard
33:07
Speaker 2: of the name either.
33:09
Speaker 16: We've got you on top of the scandal that's unfolded
33:12
Speaker 16: over this week. Have you gone into an email near
33:15
Speaker 16: yourself and looked at one twenty seven B.
33:18
Speaker 2: Yes, I've been a little bombarded. This is the Education
33:23
Speaker 2: Amendment changes.
33:24
Speaker 16: This is so this is either a scandal, which I
33:27
Speaker 16: suspected isn't or it's it comes from Hobson's choice, which
33:30
Speaker 16: is Don Brash. And so it's an interesting insight into
33:35
Speaker 16: I don't know what do you call it, citizen journalism
33:37
Speaker 16: or something like that.
33:38
Speaker 2: So I've picked up on a change that's been made
33:41
Speaker 2: where this government, which met perhaps wouldn't expect, is encouraging
33:45
Speaker 2: you know, Tea Kanger and today.
33:46
Speaker 16: Allegedly, and so this morning Erica Stanford to answer it once.
33:52
Speaker 7: And for all.
33:52
Speaker 2: She's coming on the show.
33:53
Speaker 16: She's coming on the show right now. I'm going to
33:56
Speaker 16: put the questions to her and look forward to get
33:59
Speaker 16: to the b We'll get to the bottom of it.
34:02
Speaker 2: And do have a read of that Herald story on
34:04
Speaker 2: malar to wrong Man for the time News Talks they'd been.
34:09
Speaker 1: For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge. Listen live
34:12
Speaker 1: to News Talks he'd be from five am weekdays, or
34:15
Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio