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Full Show Podcast: 14 September 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews, and the insight. Ryan Fridge on
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  Speaker 1: Early Edition with Spark for Business. Technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome to Monday, six after five. KiwiSaver, if
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  Speaker 2: you're an employer, if you're a boss, how much more
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  Speaker 2: and when? According to the politicians, we'll ask. Gavin's in
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  Speaker 2: the UK for us. The Russians have hit a train
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  Speaker 2: near the Polish-Ukraine border. Boris Johnson had just passed through
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  Speaker 2: the area. We will get an update on the Bank
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  Speaker 2: of England. They're making a rate call this week with
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  Speaker 2: Vicky Price and we'll take a small look at the CRL.
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  Speaker 3: The Agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Monday the 14th of September. OpenAI says it won't go
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  Speaker 2: public this year. Everyone thought they would.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Online safety. There's a guy who used to work for
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  Speaker 2: both Anthropic and OpenAI who's raising the alarm.
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  Speaker 5: It's not at all an exaggeration to say that the
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  Speaker 5: people who are involved with both founding these companies and
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  Speaker 5: building the tech believe there is a possibility of human extinction.
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  Speaker 5: And many of the people who are sort of deep
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  Speaker 5: in the weeds on actually coding the thing believe that
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  Speaker 5: there is like a greater than 10% chance, or even greater,
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  Speaker 5: some smaller, but they all have different numbers for a
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  Speaker 5: probability that humans might die. And they all keep this
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  Speaker 5: in their head on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: He says his number, by the way, is a greater than... 10% chance. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we'll come back to that in a second because there's
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  Speaker 2: two different things going on. Meanwhile, the More Trouble in
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  Speaker 2: Paradise for the Reform UK party, they received a record
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  Speaker 2: £ 72 million in donations over the weekend, two crypto billionaires
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  Speaker 2: putting in 36 mil apiece. Biggest single donation ever given
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  Speaker 2: to a political party in the United Kingdom and more
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  Speaker 2: than was given to all political parties in the last year.
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  Speaker 2: This is the crypto guys. UK Housing Secretary Angela Rayner's
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  Speaker 2: warning the money could still be capped.
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  Speaker 4: You can't buy your way into our democracy. And that's
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  Speaker 4: why the Rycroft Review was set up and we've already
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  Speaker 4: taken action against overseas donations, which will be backdated for
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  Speaker 4: when Rycroft published. Backdated?
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  Speaker 6: Does that mean.
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  Speaker 7: There could be a problem with these reform donations?
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  Speaker 4: As this bill goes through Parliament, we're really clear on
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  Speaker 4: overseas donators and also about those that have recently returned
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  Speaker 4: to the UK. that are also within the scope of
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  Speaker 4: the Rycroft review.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. But if they'd have given it to me,
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  Speaker 2: I'd have taken it probably. Trump's been visiting Ireland, talking
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  Speaker 2: up Irish reunification again. It would seem to me.
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  Speaker 7: That one of the naturals of all time is put
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  Speaker 7: them together.
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  Speaker 6: That's only my opinion.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, many people agree.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, good result for Liam Lawson overnight. He's
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  Speaker 2: come sixth at the Spanish Grand Prix, achieving his best
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  Speaker 2: result as a Red Bull driver.
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  Speaker 8: It's been good. I mean, obviously, the score points in
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  Speaker 8: a couple of races. I think the speed this weekend,
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  Speaker 8: especially in quali yesterday, was very strong. It's a shame
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  Speaker 8: we couldn't maximize Q3 because I think we had the
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  Speaker 8: potential to have both cars right up there in the
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  Speaker 8: top five. But, yeah, it's a good result from where
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  Speaker 8: we started, so I'm pretty happy.
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  Speaker 2: Antonelli came in first, Verstappen second, and Lando Norris followed.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on Early Edition with Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for Business, technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB, it is nine after five. Great to have
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  Speaker 2: your company, 9292, the number to text, and many of
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  Speaker 2: you already doing that. Well, Ryan, not a pip on
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  Speaker 2: the AB Springboks game at the weekend. Well, I did
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  Speaker 2: watch it, I'll have you know. I went to the
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  Speaker 2: Warriors on Saturday, went and had a look at that.
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  Speaker 2: It was great, good fun, apart from the score, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: at the end. Well, it sort of looked like we
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  Speaker 2: might be able to do something and then it fell apart.
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  Speaker 2: And the next one's at Eden Park. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a Warriors fan, you don't really like Eden Park,
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  Speaker 2: do you? Does that annoy everybody? I thought what they
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  Speaker 2: could have done, because I was speaking to a guy
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  Speaker 2: from the Warriors, I thought what they could have done
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  Speaker 2: is just charged everybody double for the tickets to keep
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  Speaker 2: it at Mount Smart. Like, if you're a Warriors fan,
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  Speaker 2: would you have preferred to pay double this weekend and
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  Speaker 2: keep it at Mount Smart? Or would you prefer to
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  Speaker 2: have more people at Eden Park and lose the sort
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  Speaker 2: of aura of your stadia? Because that's what's going to happen,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? Well, I mean, I don't know, but that's
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  Speaker 2: what people are worried about. All my friends who are
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  Speaker 2: Warriors fans are worried about that. The All Blacks on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning. Yes, dear listener, I did watch that too. And, well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what do you say? We lost the game.
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  Speaker 2: We lost the series. The tour, not great. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the highlights, losing comms and the game falling apart. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: singing Sweet Caroline. And they were going to start making
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  Speaker 2: phone calls from the sideline to the ref. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how that would have worked. But anyway, thankfully, they
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  Speaker 2: got their comms sorted again. Amazing to look at how
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  Speaker 2: much money they actually make. Apparently, each... The New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: Rugby Union and South Africa apparently make $ 9 million more
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  Speaker 2: out of a game in America than they do out
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  Speaker 2: of a game in South Africa. So no wonder, and
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  Speaker 2: we will see more and more of them doing this,
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  Speaker 2: which is probably a good thing for the game and
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  Speaker 2: definitely a good thing for the coffers, even if the
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  Speaker 2: scores at the weekend didn't go our way.
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  Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, powered by
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  Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB. Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business,
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  Speaker 1: technology that keeps business moving. Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 2: 5.13, Ryan. Chinese AI models are standalone, far cheaper and
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  Speaker 2: overtaking open AI and anthropic in the US. The US
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  Speaker 2: models have also run out of cash and are far
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  Speaker 2: from profitable. Quick, boys, pull up the handbrake on all
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  Speaker 2: AI and give the US a chance to catch up,
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  Speaker 2: says Richard. It's sort of interesting what you're saying, Richard,
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  Speaker 2: because I was reading at the weekend about they have
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  Speaker 2: this once a year, they have a big hoo-ha in
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  Speaker 2: Silicon Valley, and it's all hosted by Goldman Sachs, and
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  Speaker 2: they've had that in the last week. And on the
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  Speaker 2: back of all these warnings from the young, the 27-year-old
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  Speaker 2: open AI worker who's been beavering away on all of
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  Speaker 2: the models, who's saying humanity could end, At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: you've got people who, well, the guys with the money,
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  Speaker 2: who are saying, are they actually raising alarm bells, ringing
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  Speaker 2: alarm bells, or are they just trying to talk up
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  Speaker 2: the potential stock price after an IPO? And that's why
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  Speaker 2: it was interesting that we saw this morning that one
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  Speaker 2: of them has said, no, we're not doing an IPO
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  Speaker 2: this year. And this has got nothing to do with that.
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  Speaker 2: They are separate issues. But you have both Anthropic and
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  Speaker 2: OpenAI preparing for potentially record-setting IPOs. $ 1 trillion in value
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  Speaker 2: was the latest Anthropic, the latest capital-raised valuation. It's just
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  Speaker 2: gone 14 after 5. Ryan Bridge.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Ribbon has been cut on the CRL. 2, 1, thank you!
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  Speaker 2: National wants a dedicated Auckland Transport Police squad of 50
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  Speaker 2: if re-elected.
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  Speaker 6: No Aucklander should feel unsafe catching a train or a bus,
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  Speaker 6: whether they're heading to work in the morning, travelling home
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  Speaker 6: late at night, or simply moving about the city with
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  Speaker 6: their family.
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  Speaker 2: Auckland Councillor Alf Filipaina with me this morning. Alf, good morning.
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  Speaker 9: Ata mātia, Ryan. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Very well, thank you. Always good to have you on
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  Speaker 2: at Brighton Early, Alf. Tell me, I was speaking to
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  Speaker 2: someone yesterday who was out and about and one of
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  Speaker 2: the national candidates was doing the round and said that
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  Speaker 2: apparently one of the top three issues for central Aucklanders
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  Speaker 2: is safety on public transport.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, the interesting thing is that it's been around a
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  Speaker 9: couple of years, maybe longer, around getting the government involved
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  Speaker 9: to end up establishing the transport police and there was
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  Speaker 9: pushback from them and now they're going to do it.
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  Speaker 9: I think the police association chief executive sort of put
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  Speaker 9: it right when he mentioned that, look, yes, it'll be
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  Speaker 9: good if the 50x do in fact come in when
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  Speaker 9: the 500 have it. But I personally hope it does
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  Speaker 9: come in because I've been consistent in saying that we
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  Speaker 9: need to protect our community in particular within the CRL
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  Speaker 9: along with the transport officers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, worst thing for a CRL patronage is some sort
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  Speaker 2: of stabbing, I would have thought. Hey, how's it going?
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  Speaker 2: Have you been on the train yet?
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  Speaker 9: Well, yes, it did. Sorry, yes, I did. In the morning,
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  Speaker 9: I caught the train from Motahu, and then when we
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  Speaker 9: got to Waitematā, we then got asked to leave because
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  Speaker 9: of the electrical fire. So that was interesting, waiting outside
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  Speaker 9: until everything, when the fans came through to put the
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  Speaker 9: electrical fire out. But it was just so cool to
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  Speaker 9: travel in the first train, through to the town, so yeah,
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  Speaker 9: definitely been on there now, so that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Nice one. Al Filippino with us, Auckland Councillor, 17 after 5.
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  Speaker 2: Central bankers, we'll be watching them this week, the US, Japan,
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  Speaker 2: the UK, they are all looking at hiking interest rates.
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  Speaker 2: We hiked, of course, the European Central Bank hiked, both
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  Speaker 2: were expected. You've got bond markets burping, you've got oil
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  Speaker 2: prices on the march in the last week, And people
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  Speaker 2: will be watching, particularly America's quite closely, one, because it's
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  Speaker 2: the world's largest economy, but two, will Walsh bend and
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  Speaker 2: crack under the force of Donald Trump for a rate cut?
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  Speaker 2: Or will he persuade the other governors to actually increase
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  Speaker 2: rates on Wednesday? That is happening. So Trump's latest tweet,
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  Speaker 2: the Fed board with its great new leader must get smart,
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  Speaker 2: be patriots for a change, he says. Over in the UK,
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  Speaker 2: Bank of England, well, they're a bit calm, even though
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  Speaker 2: they are above target inflation at the moment. However, I
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  Speaker 2: did note that Andrew Bailey, who was the governor... said
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  Speaker 2: that their mortgage interest rates, which have been going up,
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  Speaker 2: have done some of the work that a rate rise
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  Speaker 2: would be doing anyway. They're expected to hold at 3.75.
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  Speaker 2: Your Bank of Japan, Friday this week, they're expected to
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  Speaker 2: go up a quarter of a point to 1.25%. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: they are historically very low. 19 after 5, Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in-depth analysis.
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  Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business. Technology
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  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving. Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 9: 5.20.
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  Speaker 2: Anne says, good morning, Ryan. Always thought it odd that
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  Speaker 2: employers fund KiwiSaver to pay for other people's retirement when
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: some of them can't even afford to pay into KiwiSaver
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  Speaker 2: for themselves. Anne, it's a very good point. We'll put
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  Speaker 2: it to Barbara Edmonds. She's on the show in about
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  Speaker 2: 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, let's go to Vicky Price, our business correspondent. Vicky,
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  Speaker 2: nice to have you. UK GDP doing better. You're up, what,
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  Speaker 2: 0.4 in July?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, that was quite a surprise. Most economists expected there
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  Speaker 7: would be absolutely no increase in GDP at all in
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  Speaker 7: the month. But what nobody had anticipated was that, in fact,
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  Speaker 7: there are some sectors that are doing better than forecast.
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  Speaker 7: And suddenly they've sort of sprung into life. And a
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  Speaker 7: lot of them have to do, I'm afraid, with AI.
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  Speaker 7: Quite a lot of investment going on in data centres.
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  Speaker 7: And then you've also had general scientific research. of research
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  Speaker 7: activities going on, all linked, if you like, to the
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  Speaker 7: technological developments that are happening all around us. So that
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  Speaker 7: seemed to have kept things going. And then one other factor,
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  Speaker 7: which has been, of course, the World Cup, but not
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  Speaker 7: so much in terms of people spending in pubs and restaurants,
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  Speaker 7: although there was a certain amount of that, but nothing
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  Speaker 7: like as much as expected, but more all the media
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  Speaker 7: around it. So a lot of advertising that, of course,
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  Speaker 7: was going on, people watching on television and And that
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  Speaker 7: has also boosted that sector quite significantly. So that's where
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  Speaker 7: we are. A bit of a surprise. And of course,
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  Speaker 7: it means quite a lot in terms of what the
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  Speaker 7: Bank of England may decide to do when they meet
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  Speaker 7: this week on interest rates, because faster growth may make
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  Speaker 7: them think, well, perhaps we need to raise rates, although
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  Speaker 7: the market generally does not expect them to do so.
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  Speaker 2: But they are expecting more this year, right? So does
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  Speaker 2: it bring the potential for that to come forward a
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  Speaker 2: little bit if you've got oil prices going up and
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  Speaker 2: you've got growth looking relatively better than you thought?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I think the likelihood of increases in interest rates
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  Speaker 7: have now gone up. So the market is pricing possibly
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  Speaker 7: increases by the end of the year and a few
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  Speaker 7: in 2027, I'm afraid, if things continue as they are,
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  Speaker 7: because there's no doubt that inflation is increasing. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: we've seen what's going on in other parts of the world.
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  Speaker 7: The ones very close to us, of course, the European
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  Speaker 7: Central Bank did raise inflation. interest rate just last week.
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  Speaker 7: And they did make it very clear that they expected
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  Speaker 7: inflation to be continuing its way up and that they're
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  Speaker 7: going to be thinking each time, you know, what is happening,
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  Speaker 7: data dependent, as they said, in terms.
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  Speaker 9: Of their decisions.
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  Speaker 7: But they are still quite low. So at 2.50%, the
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  Speaker 7: ECB is more than 1% below us.
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  Speaker 2: We are at 3.75%.
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  Speaker 7: And then, of course, you've got The Fed in the
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  Speaker 7: US making a decision this coming week, so in the
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  Speaker 7: next few days. So it's all happening at the same time.
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  Speaker 7: Whether the Bank of England will be able to resist
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  Speaker 7: raising rates will be very interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly will be. Vicky Price, business. Good to have you on,
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  Speaker 2: as always, for a Monday morning. It's 24 minutes after five.
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  Speaker 2: You've got voting happening in Sweden right now. This is
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  Speaker 2: a pretty high-stakes election because it's close. And does this
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  Speaker 2: sound familiar to you? Because we are essentially in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of an election campaign. It might have started in earnest,
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  Speaker 2: but it's definitely on. Their one has been marred by
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  Speaker 2: personal attacks between leaders. Tick. Accusations of misinformation. Tick. MAGA-inspired ads.
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  Speaker 3: Tick.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a little bit of that happening. There'll be
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  Speaker 2: more of that to come, I can assure you. It's
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  Speaker 2: a very tight race there over in Sweden. One of
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  Speaker 2: the polls showing just 0.3 percentage points between the left
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  Speaker 2: block and the right block. We'll find out results, early indications,
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  Speaker 2: preliminary vote count coming out later this morning, our time.
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  Speaker 2: And you will see whether they have the Sweden Democrats...
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  Speaker 2: Don't be fooled by the name. This is a far-right party,
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  Speaker 2: Sweden Democrats, entering government for the first time. 24 after 5,
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  Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB. Newstalk ZB, it is 26 minutes after 5.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason we talk a lot on this program,
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  Speaker 2: and we've been doing it a lot this morning, about
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  Speaker 2: bond markets, about growth, about central bank decisions, about wars
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  Speaker 2: in far-flung places, faraway places. There was, and probably still is,
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, a school of thought in this industry that
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  Speaker 2: I'm in that people either don't want or don't understand
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  Speaker 2: financial markets, currencies, and economics. I've always thought that was BS,
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  Speaker 2: and it's why we focus on them a lot. They're
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  Speaker 2: important because they tell a story about where we have been,
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  Speaker 2: and more importantly, what is potentially next for us. People
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  Speaker 2: aren't stupid. Most of the correspondence, the emails, the letters
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  Speaker 2: that I get are from people far smarter than me.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: though that is not really saying much about them, probably
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: more about me. This week, we're getting GDP for Q2.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: It's going to show we've gone either sideways or slightly forwards.
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  Speaker 2: If you listen to the Bank Economist, which is better
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: than backwards, which is where they were picking that we
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  Speaker 2: would go just a few months ago, where the RBNZ
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: was picking we would go. This is Stats NZ data
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  Speaker 2: and is, of course, itself backwards looking. It'll show us
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: where we've been. For a look at where we're going,
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  Speaker 2: we had the PMI. That's the manufacturing index on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: It was off slightly July to August, but still an
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  Speaker 2: expansion and still above the long-term average. This is a
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  Speaker 2: good thing. What's more, it tells us that Ford orders
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  Speaker 2: are looking good, which bodes well for Q3. As always,
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  Speaker 2: there is a reason to talk about the numbers, not
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  Speaker 2: just the ones that we will hear about this week,
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  Speaker 2: but the ones which give us the clues about where
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  Speaker 2: we are heading next.
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  Speaker 5: Ryan Bridge.
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  Speaker 2: 28 minutes after 5. 9292 is the number to text. Tesla's,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: while we're speaking of numbers, Tesla's got some interesting numbers out.
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  Speaker 2: So share of the US electric vehicle market, because you
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  Speaker 2: know Tesla's people started binning them because Elon Musk came
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  Speaker 2: along and it was no longer trendy. If you were
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: a lefty in California, it was no longer trendy to
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  Speaker 2: have a Tesla. You go and put it in the bin. Actually,
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: some of them, just to show the extreme level of
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  Speaker 2: wealth and sort of ignorance, had them carted away and
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  Speaker 2: videoed them being carted away on trucks. Oh, I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: possibly abide an Elon Musk car. It's like, that is
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  Speaker 2: an electric vehicle supposed to save the planet, and you're
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  Speaker 2: putting it in the bin? Anyway, Tesla's share of the
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  Speaker 2: EV market up to 52% in 2026 through to August.
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  Speaker 2: That's up from 43% a year earlier. But what's really
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  Speaker 2: happening here is that the EV market is just bottoming out.
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  Speaker 2: Tesla sales overall in the U.S. down 16%. The broader
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: EV market down 30%. So, yes, they have more, but
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: it's more of less, not necessarily because they are hot again.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: News Talks FB. We're in the U.K.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Next.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Hear it first.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business, technology
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: 24 away from 6 here on Newstalk ZB.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Great to have you coming this Monday morning. We'll have
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: a look at why Labour is not bringing back the
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: government contribution of 521 bucks a year to KiwiSaver. spoiler alert,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: they can't afford it. And they're finally admitting that there's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: just some things they can't afford. Also, they're going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: put a ban on total remuneration contracts. You know, when
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: you go for a job and it says, yeah, I'll
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: pay you 100k, but that 100k includes your KiwiSaver contribution,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: which at the moment I think is about three and
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: a half percent for an employer. They want to ban
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: those contracts. So what does that mean? That the contract
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: will just come with a lower headline price, or do
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: they think this is going to beef up contracts? Barbara
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Edmonds in a few minutes' time. It's 23 to 6.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Let's go to our reporters.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Emily Ansell, Dunedin. Emily, good morning.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: The coroner has a message for young people after a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: story of an Otago uni student.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: Yes, the coroner is warning young people not to let
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: drunk friends sleep it off. The 20-year-old became unconscious after
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: heavy drinking at a Dunedin party in 2023. The coroner
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: says he inhaled vomit and died of asphyxia. Party goers
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: tried clearing his throat, attempted CPR and called an ambulance,
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: but he couldn't be revived. The coroner says it's a
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: tragic illustration of the dangers of binge drinking and people
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: should call 111 when someone's unconscious after drinking.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather?
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: Fine with high cloud, light winds with a high of
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: 18 degrees.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Nice one, thank you. Claire's in Christchurch. Good morning, Claire.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Financial crisis at the zoo.
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah, big financial crisis around the park on Friday lifted
• 19:49
  Speaker 11: the lid on this dire financial situation. A $ 4. 1 million
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: funding shortfall. Their reserves are due to run out early
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: in the new year. They're now seeking some support from government, councils, businesses, community,
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: really anyone who can help them to stay afloat. This
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: follows those big investigations into allegations of animal deaths and
• 20:07
  Speaker 11: some unsafe practices at the zoo in 2024. But there's
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: confidence from the bosses that this financial crisis is not
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: a result of the reputational damage they suffered. Chief Executive
• 20:18
  Speaker 11: Rachel Hayden says some of the public were disappointed that
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: trust is being rebuilt. She says the team want better
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: for themselves and for the animals and they're up for
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: this challenge. Meanwhile, Mayor Phil Major says staff are preparing
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: a report for consideration at an upcoming council meeting.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: All right. How's your weather, Clare?
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: Should be fine today. A bit of high cloud at times. Otherwise,
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: north-easterlies for a bit this afternoon. The high will be 19.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: 19.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: You guys are getting warmer, aren't you? I was watching
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that last night.
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: Loving it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Good stuff, Clare. Thank you, Max from Wellington. Morning, Max.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: We're talking about trains up here, but you've got the buses.
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: There's been a proposal long in the works to turn
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: one of our, well, a few of our waterfront roads,
• 20:59
  Speaker 13: the Keys, Custom House and Jervis, as well as part
• 21:02
  Speaker 13: of Cable and Wakefield streets into dedicated bus lanes. So
• 21:06
  Speaker 13: siphoning off one lane, making it a dedicated bus lane.
• 21:09
  Speaker 13: It's sort of a golden mile light. It would cost
• 21:11
  Speaker 13: about $ 11 million. And it's got the backing of a
• 21:14
  Speaker 13: regional council committee. They're going to get a business case done.
• 21:17
  Speaker 13: A lot of concern about this. Councillor Diane Calvert, a
• 21:21
  Speaker 13: few days ago posted the very lengthy criticism saying it
• 21:24
  Speaker 13: shouldn't be a priority for anyone in the city right now.
• 21:26
  Speaker 13: And it won't actually help many bus users. For those
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: who use the main route, the 24, they don't want
• 21:33
  Speaker 13: it either. They'd rather go through the middle of the
• 21:35
  Speaker 13: city rather than around its edges, especially on rainy days
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: where they'll have to walk a few blocks without cover. Traffic,
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: you're going to get slower. The keys are often used,
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: for instance, people trying to get to the hospital. So
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: $ 11 million for what? A couple extra bus lanes. The
• 21:49
  Speaker 13: regional council And its explanation says it simply wants more
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: buses on the roads.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: That's their reasoning. Okay. I was thinking about if ever
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: there was a case for a city that needed an underground,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, the problem is you're not spread out enough,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: but it would be Wellington because the weather's so crap
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: above ground. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. With
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that wind and rain, who wants to cycle? Who wants
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: to walk? Exactly. How was your weather today?
• 22:13
  Speaker 13: Mostly fine with lighter winds, 15 the high.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks very much, Max. Have a great day.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Jacob Jones is at the CRL this morning. Jacob, good morning.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Morning, Mike.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: So what's going on? What are you doing?
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: Well, I've just got off the train at Avondale. I've
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: been riding it from Henderson. There's sort of a few
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: less people than yesterday. Obviously, that was a bit of
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: a test run, but today's the real test of the
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: city rail link with people catching it from work and school.
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: AT will sort of be wanting to avoid yesterday where
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: there was a small fire at the Waitematā station which
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: caused disruption. That obviously would have been a lot worse
• 22:51
  Speaker 12: today with people needing to get to work and school.
• 22:56
  Speaker 12: And 61,000 people came through yesterday. And, you know, today
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: it's not as maybe exciting, but this is what the
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: CRL is really for, to help people get to school
• 23:05
  Speaker 12: and work. And I spoke to a 76-year-old woman going
• 23:09
  Speaker 12: to work on the train, and she told me she
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: just loves it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's nice. She's going to work early?
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: So how full was each carriage, would you estimate, Jacob,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: at 5.40 in the morning?
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: It was pretty empty, but as we sort of got
• 23:26
  Speaker 12: through a few stations, it started to fill up a bit.
• 23:29
  Speaker 12: But yesterday, it was really pumping.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. Hey, good stuff, Jacob. Nice to– well,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: hang on. How's our weather? Have you had a look
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: at that?
• 23:37
  Speaker 12: Yes, cloudy with a few showers until the evening high
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: of 17.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff. Thanks very much. Jacob Jones with
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: us from the CRL. He's been on the train this morning,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: 19 away from 6. I went on the train myself
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: yesterday just to have a little look-see. And look, what
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: can I tell you? I spoke to a friend afterwards.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: He said, what was it like? And I said, it
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: was like going on a train. What more can I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: tell you? Yes, it looks nice. It looks like any
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: other subway system that you would go on around the world.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And you get down there. There's a sign that says
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Mind the Gap. You get on the train. The train moves.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You get off the train. You go to where you're going.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: You have lunch. You get back on the train. It's
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: all very simple. 18 away from six, Newstalk ZB. We'll
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: go to the UK next. Apparently, the Russians have hit
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: a train and they hit a track that Boris Johnson
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: had only moments ago travelled through.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: International Correspondence with NZI Insurance. Peace of mind for New
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Zealand business.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: Quarter to six, Newstalk ZB.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: We'll get to Barbara Edmonds from Labour on their KiwiSaver
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: plan in just a second. First, Gavin Gray's with us,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: UK-Europe correspondent. Gavin, always good to talk. though not in
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: these circumstances. So you've got a Russian hit on a
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: train near the Ukraine-Polish border.
• 24:54
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that's right, Ryan. And it was hit, this stationary train,
• 24:59
  Speaker 14: just a short while after the UK, former UK Prime
• 25:03
  Speaker 14: Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed
• 25:06
  Speaker 14: through that part of the track. Now, no casualties were reported.
• 25:10
  Speaker 14: All passengers were evacuated. But Boris Johnson and some of
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: Europe's most senior security advisers, including Jonathan Powell, who's a
• 25:18
  Speaker 14: very well-known figure around Europe, they passed along that same
• 25:21
  Speaker 14: line on their way back from a conference in the capital, Kiev. Indeed,
• 25:26
  Speaker 14: on board another train nearby was the CIA chief, former
• 25:30
  Speaker 14: CIA chief, David Petraeus. and also the former Swedish Prime Minister,
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: Carl Bildt, all passing along that track when this other
• 25:38
  Speaker 14: train was struck. Now, Boris Johnson hit out afterwards saying,
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow
• 25:45
  Speaker 14: up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning.
• 25:49
  Speaker 14: When are we going to give them the air defences
• 25:51
  Speaker 14: that they need? Well, others are beginning to wonder, is
• 25:54
  Speaker 14: this what Russia meant when they said UK supplying drone
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: and drone technology was going to lead to a response
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: from Russia? Either way, plenty of people speculating about what
• 26:05
  Speaker 14: the motives were, or was it just sheer coincidence? But
• 26:08
  Speaker 14: the gap in time between the strike and the train
• 26:10
  Speaker 14: passing containing our former prime minister was not very long, apparently.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Too close for comfort. Hey, what about the fact that
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: you've got the Europeans weaning themselves off Russian energy and
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: the energy shortage going to hit this winter?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: Big, big possibility that Europe will find itself with not
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: enough power to keep everyone warm. Now, I mentioned that
• 26:35
  Speaker 14: the UK national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, was on board
• 26:38
  Speaker 14: that train. Well, he had earlier given a fairly explosive
• 26:42
  Speaker 14: interview in which he effectively said that those living in
• 26:47
  Speaker 14: Europe must be ready to endure real hardship this winter.
• 26:51
  Speaker 14: if we're going to keep up the economic pressure on Russia.
• 26:54
  Speaker 14: Very rarely does he give any interviews. Very rarely are
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: his comments ever reported or made public. But he's basically
• 27:01
  Speaker 14: saying that, look, we are going to see Russia continuing
• 27:05
  Speaker 14: to target Ukrainian infrastructure. Europe is facing a severe energy
• 27:10
  Speaker 14: shortage this winter because, of course, Europe is drastically reducing
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: its dependence on Russian oil and gas. Indeed, at the moment,
• 27:17
  Speaker 14: they're just taking a set of 12% of gas imports
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: come from Russia, but the plan was to phase them
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: out completely by January. And that is 12% that they're
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: really going to struggle to make up elsewhere, particularly with
• 27:30
  Speaker 14: the Iran war. Labour built KiwiSaver, and now we're going
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: to strengthen it for the next generation.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: By 2032, employer contributions would rise to 6%, employees' default
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: rate would go to 4%. Barbara Edmonds, Labour's finance spokesperson
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: with me this morning. Barb, good morning.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, did you have to give Willie Jackson his ABCs
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and teach him how to count on after Friday's interview?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, you know, you and I both know Willie has
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: lots of strengths and talents, and one of them is
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: being combative and a bit of a scrapper. So the
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: boss did speak to him, and he could have been clearer.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: And he's my office neighbour, so I'll have a chat
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: to him later this week.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Are you saying counting and adding aren't his strengths, Bob?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: No, I'm saying being better than a scrapper is his strength.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: KiwiSaver, so can you just quickly run through, for an employer,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: what is different between your plan and National's?
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: There is no difference. They will still have to contribute
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: the 6% on the same track as the National Party.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: But one change that we have made for future employment
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: contracts will be banning the total remuneration ability. So that
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: means that If you're going to pay your employee, you're
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: going to pay them their salary, and any KiwiSaver's a
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: top-up on that. It's not covered with them, but base
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: salary and wages.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Does that just mean the base salary and wages will
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: be slightly lowered?
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Well, the incidents around KiwiSaver is always on the worker.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: It's still a negotiation for the employee and the employer.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: But ultimately, we're saying that those types of contracts should
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: be banned because that's actually not the way that KiwiSaver
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: was meant to develop when it was first developed in 2005.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: So there are about, from my calculations, a million not
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: currently contributing workers, not contributing, well, people, I should say,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: because two-thirds of them are either studying or they're parents
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: or they're not working. And then you've got the other
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: third who are working and not contributing, most of which
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: are part time workers. So will it be largely businesses
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: with part time workers who weren't paying previously who will
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: be paying under this?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: And you're right, there is about a million based on
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: the FMA report that came out last week, and that's
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: what they're saying, those working age members aren't contributing. They
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: still have to work the hours to be able to
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: get that contribution. They can't just not be working.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it's largely what I'm saying is for those
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: workers who currently aren't paying, for whom employers will be
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: paying under your plan, it will be largely employers of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: part-time workers who would be most affected or employers with
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: part-time workers?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, based on the numbers that you've just sort of
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: set out, yes, but they still have to be working.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: So they still have to have working hours for that
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: contribution from the employer to go through to their KiwiSaver.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Barbara, what's your expectation? What do you want to entail
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: employers this morning? Businesses this morning about minimum wage. What
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: expectations should they have? It went up something like 66%
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: under the last Labour government. Would you expect similar increases
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: under another?
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: I can't set out what the minimum wage will be
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: because there is sort of a formula and sort of
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: advice that is given by officials at the time and
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: obviously Cabinet makes a decision. But what's important for them
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to know is that that up to 6% contribution is
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: on the same track as the National Party. So they
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: would still have to plan for that as they normally
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: would because either if it's Labour or National, it's still 6%
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: up to 2032.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, get that. But on minimum wage, this is what
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: businesses say really hit them last time. On minimum wage,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: What's your vibe? Up, sideways, down?
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: And you won't know because it depends on inflation at
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: the time as well. So if you look at some
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: of the forecasts for inflation, it looks like it's going
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: to go up till mid next year and then it
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: comes back down within the bands. So that's why I
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: can't give you an actual answer to get up, down
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: or sideways because it does depend on inflation as well.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Barbara Edmonds, Labour's finance spokesperson, 8 to 6, Newstalk ZB.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day. Early
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business. Technology that
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: keeps business moving.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: News Talk ZB. Six to six and very excited to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: have Mike in the studio this morning. Good morning, Mike. Hey, why? Well,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I just felt like it was a nice thing to
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: say on a Monday. Okay. How was your weekend?
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: It was fantastic, actually.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: What was good about it?
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Well, I got a lot of stuff done.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: What were you doing?
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: Tommy came around and Tommy came around And he was
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: under the idea that he was going to be hanging two,
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: possibly three pictures.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Who's Tommy?
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Tommy runs his own hanging company.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: What does he look like? Because we had a picture hanging.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Is he sort of a scrawny guy?
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: No.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:34
  Speaker 14: No, no.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: He's fat.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: No, no, no. He's a good, healthy-looking lad.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Who came in with scales, brought scales in for the
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: heavier work. Bring the scales.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: How heavy? What are you hanging up?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Gold?
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: It's a very good gold. I think we got to
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: 20 kgs on one.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Wow. Oh, yeah. How big? How big are we talking?
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: Well, it's going to be a metre and a half
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: by a metre and a half, I guess. Yeah, but
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: so he brought his scales in. He had a little
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: mini ladder and he had all his bits and pieces. Anyway,
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: he came in under the guise that he was going
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: to be hanging two or three pictures.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: And so he'd slipped us in at the end of
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: the day. And my wife doesn't run things quite the
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: way you would expect. Anyway, it turned out to be 19.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: 19?
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: 19 in the end.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: And he stayed.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: The whole time, and it was pitch black by the
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: time he left.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Presumably you've got lights.
• 33:21
  Speaker 14: No.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Well, that was the next conversation. Whatever the lights were
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: that lit up the part of the house that he
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: was in, they weren't working properly. So Katie comes back,
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: and she's ropeable that Tommy's been in the dark, and
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: he can't put his stuff back in his van.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Well, props to Tommy. Did you give him a tip?
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: That was the next problem. Katie then spends the rest
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: of the night chewing my ear off, having literally caused
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: all the trouble. She goes, I feel so bad for Tommy.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: I think I should have given him something. And I said,
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: like what? He said he's sending a bill. And she goes,
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: maybe some lemons. I said, just because we got a
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: lot of citrus at the moment doesn't mean you want
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: to offload fruit to him.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: What about one of the pieces of art?
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: I don't know what it was. But anyway, Tommy... What
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: a legend. I thought so too.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, Tommy.
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  Speaker 6: But anyway, we paid the bill straight away.
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  Speaker 2: You fixed your lights?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 6: Or do you have.
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  Speaker 2: So much room and so many lights you actually don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to turn them all on?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what was going on. Anyway, so that
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  Speaker 6: was my weekend along with a bit of sport. So
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  Speaker 6: what have we got? We had Cameron George on this morning,
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  Speaker 6: Eden Park this weekend. We're excited about that and of
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  Speaker 6: course the PM.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic. Newstalk ZB, Mike Nex for your Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
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