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Full Show Podcast: 04 September 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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  Speaker 1: Early Edition with Spark for Business.
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  Speaker 2: Technology that keeps business moving. Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Six after five. Great to have your company.
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  Speaker 3: Almoa Dari-Lakai named in the test against South Africa this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Sean Fitzpatrick joins us live. We will go to Vincent
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  Speaker 3: McIverney in the UK. Race-based placements at medical school. What's
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  Speaker 3: going on with that and why is there a report
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  Speaker 3: that we can't see? Also this morning, J.D. Vance doing
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  Speaker 3: the White House briefing. First time he's done that since July.
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  Speaker 3: We'll take a look across at the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 3: Friday, 4th of September.
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  Speaker 4: U.N.
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  Speaker 3: Says El Nino. Look out, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: big one.
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  Speaker 5: There is a huge pool of very warm ocean waters
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  Speaker 5: that will fuel the intensity of El Niño. The VMAO
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  Speaker 5: update shows El Niño has strengthened and will continue as
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  Speaker 5: a very strong event, even exceptionally strong.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Last until at least February 2027, they reckon. Tories over
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  Speaker 3: in the UK promising another £ 10 billion of defence. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: they've been trying to get their percentages of GDP for
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  Speaker 3: NATO up. They reckon they'll hit 3% by 2930. They've
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  Speaker 3: got to win first. Of course, they also need to
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  Speaker 3: find cuts from somewhere, and those cuts are likely to
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  Speaker 3: come from benefits.
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  Speaker 4: There is no economic security if there's no national security.
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  Speaker 4: The unconventional warfare is already happening. If people take out
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  Speaker 4: our internet or communications infrastructure or take out our power,
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  Speaker 4: our economy is going to be in free fall. There's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be any economic security.
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  Speaker 3: Hoot and saber rattling, I'll tell you more about that
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  Speaker 3: in a second. Gloria Steinem, American feminist campaigner, journalist, big
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  Speaker 3: in the 60s and 70s in particular, dies at the
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  Speaker 3: age of 92. I, to.
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  Speaker 6: My amazement, passed right through all the tests and rehearsals
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  Speaker 6: and everything and ended up in this costume that was
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  Speaker 6: so tight that a man would have a cleavage and that,
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  Speaker 6: you know... But it is true that as old as
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  Speaker 6: I am, and I am seriously old, when anybody wants
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  Speaker 6: to put me.
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  Speaker 7: Down, they say, well, she was once a bunny.
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  Speaker 8: Still?
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  Speaker 2: You still get that?
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  Speaker 7: I still get that.
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  Speaker 3: Finally this morning, the internet has its panties in a twist,
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  Speaker 3: its knickers in a knot over a McDonald's ad that's
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  Speaker 3: being ditched after 20 years. When you play Monopoly at
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  Speaker 3: McDonald's and scan the game piece in the McDonald's app,
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  Speaker 3: you'll get a chance to win!
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  Speaker 7: But wait, there's more! There are digital game pieces when.
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  Speaker 1: You order select items in the app.
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  Speaker 3: Monopoly at McDonald's is back.
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  Speaker 7: Get your bag! Ba-da-ba-ba-ba!
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  Speaker 3: So Maccas usually launches the game in autumn. In the past,
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  Speaker 3: you've been able to win cash, cars, and even a holiday.
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  Speaker 3: McDonald's says it's looking for new ways to surprise and
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  Speaker 3: delight customers, but the internet says good luck topping Monopoly.
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  Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day. Early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business. Technology that
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  Speaker 1: keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB. Nine after five, 9292 is the number to text.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, my godfather... had set up,
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  Speaker 3: and this is a really good idea if you've got
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  Speaker 3: kids or if you've got young people in your life,
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  Speaker 3: set up a bank account and put a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of money into it each year for their birthday. And
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  Speaker 3: by the time they're 18, and you lock them out
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  Speaker 3: until they're 18 or whatever, and by the time they're 18,
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  Speaker 3: they'll be, well, a bit in the bank. It happened
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  Speaker 3: to me. I think I got, when I turned 18,
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  Speaker 3: there was, I don't know, $ 800 in there, which I
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  Speaker 3: thought was amazing. and went straight on university stuff rather
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  Speaker 3: than the pub, which is where I, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I was pretty sensible, but you can probably do what
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  Speaker 3: you like at that point. However, when I got the
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  Speaker 3: money out, over the last few years of the money
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  Speaker 3: being in the bank, it had been going backwards. There
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  Speaker 3: were fees on the account. So the money had actually
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  Speaker 3: got big. It wasn't earning enough interest. The money was
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  Speaker 3: going backwards. And I was reminded of that when I
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  Speaker 3: was reading a story yesterday from The Post, actually, And
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  Speaker 3: it's about Steve Yerkovich, you know, the Kiwi Bank chief executive.
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  Speaker 3: He's gone to MPs in Wellington and he's said these
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  Speaker 3: big Aussie banks, they need to tell us how much
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  Speaker 3: of their savers are actually missing out on interest because
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  Speaker 3: of the bonus saver accounts. You've had a bonus saver account.
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  Speaker 3: It's where you get a set amount of interest, but
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  Speaker 3: if you manage to save more each month and you
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  Speaker 3: manage to not withdraw in a month, you get extra
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  Speaker 3: bonus interest, right? So he's saying he reckons these are,
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  Speaker 3: he didn't say the word scam, but maybe a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a rort. So interest is 1.8% per annum with
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  Speaker 3: interest paid monthly. This is for ANZ Serious Saver. Now
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  Speaker 3: Kiwi Bank says Saver only gets the interest if they
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  Speaker 3: make no withdrawals, deposit $ 20 or more a month, and
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  Speaker 3: you have to do both to get the extra interest.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't do that, your interest rate is just 0.05%.
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  Speaker 3: So nothing. And over in Australia, they've looked into this
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  Speaker 3: and 70% of savers regularly missed out on getting the
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  Speaker 3: bonus rates on those accounts because it sounds, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: could get all that interest. But then are you actually
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  Speaker 3: in a position or are you disciplined enough to actually
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  Speaker 3: follow the rules? And if you're not, then you're probably
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  Speaker 3: worse off in those accounts. You see what I mean? Now,
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  Speaker 3: we are all adults. We are all human. We can
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  Speaker 3: read terms and conditions and we can do all that.
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  Speaker 3: But I would be interested to know as Steve Yukovich is,
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  Speaker 3: what percentage of New Zealand savers actually get the bonus interest?
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge.
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  Speaker 3: 11 minutes after 5, Newstalk ZB. Lots to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do the med school. Zach's got a new party.
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  Speaker 3: They say there is race-based placements going on at two
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  Speaker 3: of our universities to do with medicine. That's next, Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business.
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  Speaker 1: Technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 2: Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB. We'll get to all of your data in
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  Speaker 3: just a few seconds. But very quickly, someone says, Ryan, Colonel, 2.5%
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  Speaker 3: interest on savings. No gimmicks, no tricks. You're welcome. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you to Colonel's PR team that's listening to the show
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  Speaker 3: this morning. I was just talking to Patricia McKenzie who
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  Speaker 3: tells me that she has a savings account that pings her.
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  Speaker 3: If you take money out of your savings account more
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  Speaker 3: than once a month, is that right, Kenzie? You get
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  Speaker 3: one chance a month. Anything beyond that, you'll be charged
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  Speaker 3: $ 5 for doing it. The idea is that it will
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  Speaker 3: incentivize you or disincentivize you so that you keep your
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  Speaker 3: money in the bank. Now, that's all very well until
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  Speaker 3: the car breaks down or you actually need the money
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  Speaker 3: and then you're just getting charged $ 5 to get your
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  Speaker 3: own money. Mackenzie, I guess it depends what sort of
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  Speaker 3: person you are. If you're the type of person who
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  Speaker 3: is controlled and methodical and disciplined, then you can go
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  Speaker 3: probably without an account like that. But it sounds like
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  Speaker 3: Mackenzie needs a bit of mental and monetary manipulation. Self-manipulation.
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  Speaker 3: Quarter past five. Brian Bridge. The ACT Party calling for
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  Speaker 3: an end to race-specific placements at medical school. They say
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  Speaker 3: a review of affirmative action in medical schools shows discrimination
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  Speaker 3: toward non-Maori and Pasifika students. David Seymour wants to take
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  Speaker 3: the debate to the election. Warwick Bagg, Auckland University Dean
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  Speaker 3: of Medical School and Health Sciences with me this morning. Warwick,
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  Speaker 3: good morning. Good morning, Ron. How are you? Very well,
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  Speaker 3: but we have the unfortunate position of talking about something
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  Speaker 3: of which we know very little because no one's seen
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  Speaker 3: this report apart from the ACT Party apparently.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we'd be delighted for the government to release that
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  Speaker 9: report so that we can all talk about the facts
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  Speaker 9: rather than electioneering, which is pretty concerning from our perspective.
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  Speaker 9: I think there's a lot of misconception around what the
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  Speaker 9: Māori and Pacific admission scheme is. When it started back
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  Speaker 9: in 1972, we had one student that was a Māori student.
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  Speaker 9: In 2025, we had.
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  Speaker 9: One in six students who are Māori or Pacific students
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  Speaker 9: joining the program. We are desperately short of Māori and
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  Speaker 9: Pacific doctors. This is about taking Māori and Pacific students
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  Speaker 9: where the school system does not serve them well and
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  Speaker 9: ensuring that they meet the highest standards of success in
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  Speaker 9: our medical program and graduate as excellent doctors. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you said we are desperate for more Māori and
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  Speaker 3: Pacific students. Why? Because one of the things that they're
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  Speaker 3: looking at that David Seymour is testing, and he seems
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  Speaker 3: to think has been proven wrong, is that if you
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  Speaker 3: have more Māori and Pacific doctors, then you will have
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  Speaker 3: better health outcomes for patients. Do we know that to
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  Speaker 3: be demonstrably, verifiably, peer-reviewed truth?
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  Speaker 9: Well, there's international and local literature that shows two things, Ryan.
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  Speaker 9: The first is that there's evidence that there are better
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  Speaker 9: health outcomes because you will seek out earlier care. You
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  Speaker 9: will get earlier access to cervical cancer screening, something the
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  Speaker 9: government has prioritised. You'll get earlier cardiovascular screening.
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  Speaker 3: If it's a Māori doctor or a Pasifika doctor?
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  Speaker 9: If it's a Māori or Pasifika provider.
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  Speaker 3: But is that because the provider... is giving those things
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  Speaker 3: early based on race anyway. What I'm saying is, does
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  Speaker 3: it matter if when you go for your early cervical
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  Speaker 3: screening because you are Maori or Pacific or whatever, does
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  Speaker 3: it matter whether the doctor is white or brown?
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  Speaker 9: It does seem to have some impact.
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  Speaker 3: How much impact? Because that's the key. How much impact?
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  Speaker 3: And do we know, do we have a statistic? Because
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly the point that David Seymour is getting at
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  Speaker 3: in this piece.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, let's flip it around the other way, Ryan.
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  Speaker 9: What we know from very good data is that if
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  Speaker 9: you are Māori and Pacific and you engage with non-Māori,
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  Speaker 9: non-Pacific doctors in our system, you are much less likely
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  Speaker 9: to get offered cardiovascular screening and treatment. You're much less
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  Speaker 9: likely to get offered aggressive therapies, a full range of therapies.
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  Speaker 9: So it doesn't work well for Māori and Pacific patients
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  Speaker 9: When we have Māori and Pacific providers, when you can
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  Speaker 9: engage with a Māori provider, you're much more likely to
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  Speaker 9: take up things like vaccination, for example. You're much more
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  Speaker 9: likely to be offered those more advanced therapies. What we
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  Speaker 9: don't have is a line of evidence that says if
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  Speaker 9: you take a Māori student through the MATAS scheme and
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  Speaker 9: then you put them out into the world, that we
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  Speaker 9: can draw a direct line with an end-patient outcome. And
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  Speaker 9: part of that is because of the long length of
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  Speaker 9: time and the very small number of Māori and Pacific doctors,
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  Speaker 9: which is what I said at the start, we are
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  Speaker 9: desperate for these doctors. Of the 20,000 doctors that we
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  Speaker 9: have in New Zealand, we've just got up to just
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  Speaker 9: under 5% Just under 6% of them are Māori and
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  Speaker 9: only 3% of them are Pacific. So we don't get
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  Speaker 9: close to even matching them up demographically.
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  Speaker 3: What about the students who miss out? There was a
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  Speaker 3: parent who took a legal case. Their student had got 92%
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  Speaker 3: through medical school, well, trying to get into medical school
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  Speaker 3: and couldn't get in, yet others with lower scores did.
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  Speaker 3: Is that fair?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Ryan, the fundamental issue is that the government tells
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  Speaker 9: us how many medical students that we can take. And
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  Speaker 9: every year there are excellent students from a whole range
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  Speaker 9: of groups who do not get places in medical school.
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  Speaker 9: We are oversubscribed by three to one.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but should you take, like as a medical school,
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  Speaker 3: should you take the best?
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  Speaker 9: Well, we take the students who are academically capable. We
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  Speaker 9: are selecting for students who have the qualities that will
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  Speaker 9: make them good doctors as well. And we have a
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  Speaker 9: mission to improve the equity health outcomes for all people
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  Speaker 9: in New Zealand. And at the moment, we have a
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  Speaker 9: massive equity gap. It's our duty to ensure that we
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  Speaker 9: grow the Māori and Pacific medical workforce and other workforces
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  Speaker 9: to ensure we have equitable health outcomes.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Warwick, I really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so
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  Speaker 3: much for being with me. Warwick Bagg, Auckland University Dean
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  Speaker 3: of Medical and Health Sciences, 20 after 5.
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  Speaker 1: The Early Edition Pulse Show podcast on iHeartRadio, powered by
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  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB. 9292, we'll get to your text in a second.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the Americans are saying, well, Trump is saying,
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  Speaker 3: don't worry, the war won't go on too much longer.
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  Speaker 3: And the price of oil came down slightly now, around
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  Speaker 3: $ 95 a barrel. Let's go to housing. House prices continuing
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  Speaker 3: to fall. Fifth month in a row now, median price 1%,
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  Speaker 3: down 1%, I should say, for the year to August,
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  Speaker 3: sitting at $ 797, 000. Rawdon Christie, real estate agent with me
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  Speaker 3: live this morning. Rawdon, good morning. Hello, Ryan. How are
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  Speaker 3: you doing? Always well. Always the better for speaking to you, Rawdon.
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  Speaker 3: What sort of homes are people wanting to buy at
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  Speaker 3: the moment? How many of them are there?
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  Speaker 11: Well, there are a heap of homes for sale. We
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  Speaker 11: know that the stock's certainly very high, and that's probably
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  Speaker 11: what is continuing to suppress any potential house price rise
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  Speaker 11: is simply the amount of stock on the market. We're
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  Speaker 11: seeing particular activity, funny enough, in the two ends of
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  Speaker 11: the market. The first home buyer market, of course, is
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  Speaker 11: incredibly exciting at the moment because there are just so
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  Speaker 11: many opportunities. But also at the upper end of the market,
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  Speaker 11: we're seeing quite a lot of movement. And this could
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  Speaker 11: be people who have taken the option to trade up.
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  Speaker 11: But also it potentially shows that that's an area of
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  Speaker 11: the market where economic factions are slightly more immune to
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  Speaker 11: the concerns in the economic climate at the moment. But
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  Speaker 11: we saw a pretty healthy August, to be honest. And
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  Speaker 11: I think it's because a lot of vendors are just
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  Speaker 11: getting on now. and they've realized that there's not going
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  Speaker 11: to be any magic bullet.
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  Speaker 3: Meeting the market.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, they're meeting the market. We sold one place
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  Speaker 11: in August which had been on the market for over
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  Speaker 11: a year. That is a vendor who's just decided– well,
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  Speaker 11: things are not really going to change much. So we're
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  Speaker 11: not seeing a depressed market. We're seeing a very settled market,
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  Speaker 11: to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: And because, Pete, you were exactly right. People will go, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'll wait till summer. Don't worry, it'll turn around. Or
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  Speaker 3: I'll wait till after the election. And you've done that
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  Speaker 3: six times and you go, OK, maybe this is it.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, and the conversations we're having with new clients thinking
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  Speaker 11: of selling now are, why bother waiting? This bizarre concept
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  Speaker 11: we have in New Zealand of waiting till the election.
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  Speaker 11: And we literally say, what, the day after? After the
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  Speaker 11: coalition's formed, well, that's Christmas. So January, no, you don't
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  Speaker 11: want to sell that. So what are you actually waiting for?
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  Speaker 11: People have actually realized, hold on, let's potentially try and
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  Speaker 11: jump in early spring and beat the, no doubt, the
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  Speaker 11: swell of listings.
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  Speaker 3: Rod and Christy, real estate agent, always good to have
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  Speaker 3: you on the program. We're always waiting for a better day,
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  Speaker 3: aren't we? That's human nature. If you're not getting what
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  Speaker 3: you think you need or what you think you deserve,
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  Speaker 3: you wait for a better day. 25 after five, ZB.
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  Speaker 3: News Talk ZB, it's 27 minutes after five. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: don't mind confessing to you this morning, dear listener, that
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  Speaker 3: I don't read many books. I do listen to audio books.
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  Speaker 3: I do read on holiday. But who has the time
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  Speaker 3: to actually sit down and get stuck in properly to
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  Speaker 3: an entire book these days? People don't have time to
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: watch full movies anymore, do they? They're all three hours long.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got to pick up your phone every five seconds.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to get to your average one billion phone
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  Speaker 3: pickups per hour, don't you? So there's not a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time. But I did happen to stumble across one
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  Speaker 3: of the best reads and one of the best books,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, in New Zealand. Best reads I've had
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  Speaker 3: in a while. Best read I've had in a few years, actually,
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  Speaker 3: in Barry Crump's A Good Keen Man. It's unpretentious. It's funny.
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  Speaker 3: It's outrageous. And it paints a picture of New Zealand
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  Speaker 3: and New Zealanders that I think most of us can
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  Speaker 3: relate to and most of us aspire to. We generally
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  Speaker 3: get along with each other in New Zealand. We generally
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  Speaker 3: call a spade a spade. We like to joke around.
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  Speaker 3: We like to take the piss. We like to take
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  Speaker 3: the mickey. We don't like people who bullshit or cheat.
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  Speaker 3: We like a fair fight. We love the bush. We
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  Speaker 3: love the beach. We love the beautiful place that we
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  Speaker 3: get to call home every day. I've now finished two
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  Speaker 3: other Crump books, getting through an audio version of some
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  Speaker 3: short stories as well, and I'm just loving it. What
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  Speaker 3: an adventure. If you haven't read or listened to them,
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  Speaker 3: you should. In fact, they should be compulsory reading for
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  Speaker 3: anyone wanting to become a New Zealander, I reckon. I'm
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  Speaker 3: aware it's an election period that we're in right now.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of fighting going on, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of whinging going on. But really, if
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  Speaker 3: you take a step back, if you look at the
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: people around you, look at your neighbours, look at your mates,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: look at your country... We're not doing too bad, are we?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: We've got a lot to be grateful for, and Crumpy
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: was every day. You're on Newstalk ZB. It is 29
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: minutes after five. We get to Vincent McIverney in the
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: UK and Sean Fitzpatrick out of South Africa.
• 17:34
  Speaker 10: I don't mind, I quite like being on this line.
• 17:39
  Speaker 10: Call me up, call me twice, call me every time.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in-depth analysis.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business. Technology
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Good morning, it is 24 minutes away from sixth grade
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: to have your company, Sean Fitzpatrick with us live from
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: South Africa.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: We will get to Vincent McIverney out of the UK.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Lots to talk about. The King, the French President Macron
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: and Burnham have all gone somewhere for a little gala.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you where and I'll tell you why. Well,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Vincent will do that for us. Now, This weekend, Sunday morning,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: 3 a.m., you'll be fast asleep unless you like rugby,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: in which case you will probably be turning on Sky
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: and you will be watching the game or you will
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: be listening on the Newstalk ZB Sport app. And when
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you do that, it will be a decider. We are
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: one apiece for the greatest rivalry tour. There are technically
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: four games because there's one in Baltimore, which is the
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: one where they make all the money and kind of
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: expand the game to other places, etc., But this will
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: be the third test and final test in South Africa.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: So in that sense, it's being called a decider because
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: whoever wins this test wins the South African leg of
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the tour. So even if they end up two all,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: the bragging rights, the kudos, will go to who wins
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: this game. So she's pretty crucial. Sean Fitzpatrick with us shortly,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: 23 to 6. Brian Bridge. Michael Dunedin. Michael, good morning.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Good morning. What's Otago Uni researchers found about... genetic mystery.
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: Yes, a team of researchers have been studying 15 children
• 19:35
  Speaker 12: around the world and they've found changes in a particular gene,
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: this is called ELAVL2, can cause conditions including developmental delays
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: and intellectual disabilities. Our co-author Megan Mulligan says these families
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: that with these children can now get access to more
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: personal support and clinical care. She says often those living
• 19:56
  Speaker 12: with a rare disorder wait years to receive any form
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: of diagnosis. She's hoping the discovery leads to other people
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: with changes to the same gene getting a diagnosis much
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: sooner as well.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Fantastic. What about the weather?
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: Showers possibly heavy, squally thunderstorms possible later this afternoon and evening,
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: 16 the high.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Michael. Kate Christchurch, good morning, Kate.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: Morning, Ryan.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: What's the good news for Selwyn?
• 20:18
  Speaker 13: Yes, Claire's not here, but we're still talking about the
• 20:21
  Speaker 13: Selwyn economy. The economy in the country's fastest growing district
• 20:25
  Speaker 13: is growing at twice the national rate and local businesses
• 20:29
  Speaker 13: are finally feeling it. A Selwyn District Council survey of
• 20:32
  Speaker 13: more than 100 businesses shows profitability is up for the
• 20:36
  Speaker 13: first time since 2020, while sales have also risen. Now,
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: economist Benji Patterson says the recovery businesses have been waiting
• 20:44
  Speaker 13: two years for is finally here, but it's still weaker
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: than hoped. But, he adds, businesses continue to recruit and
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: invest despite increasing operating costs. It follows informetrics figures showing
• 20:55
  Speaker 13: Selwyn's economy grew 3% in.
• 20:57
  Speaker 14: The past year.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: All right, how's the weather?
• 20:59
  Speaker 13: Mostly cloudy with a few spots of rain clearing to
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: find this morning and a high of 19 degrees.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: You have a lovely day, Kate. Thank you very much.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Max is in Wellington. Good morning, Max. Good morning. The
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: parking scam has reached Wellington.
• 21:10
  Speaker 14: Yeah, this is something that's been a problem in Christchurch.
• 21:13
  Speaker 14: Drivers there were warned about it in July. What it
• 21:17
  Speaker 14: involves is these scumbags put up fake QR code stickers
• 21:21
  Speaker 14: around car parks. They say to scan the code, to
• 21:24
  Speaker 14: process the payment, to set the time, etc. So some
• 21:28
  Speaker 14: people have been punching in their financial details and getting robbed, essentially.
• 21:32
  Speaker 14: Even police say they look legitimate, these QR code stickers.
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: Council staff in Wellington the past few weeks have been
• 21:38
  Speaker 14: doing their best to rip them down where they can
• 21:41
  Speaker 14: And of course, it's the usual advice when it comes
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: to scams, especially in the era of AI. You have
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: to make sure something's legitimate, especially when you're giving up
• 21:49
  Speaker 14: personal information.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. How's your weather?
• 21:53
  Speaker 14: Rainy and stormy to start, but clearing to fine eventually.
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: Strong norwesterlies. 60 in the high.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Have a lovely weekend, Max. Thank you, Neva. Good morning.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: Good morning.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Auckland District Nurse says they've been instructed to give bronze
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: standard care to cope with the pressure.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 22:08
  Speaker 15: Look, several hundred North Shore based nurses, health workers, union delegates. Now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 15: they met with politicians in Northcote last night demanding system improvements.
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: You know, we all know that North Shore Hospital ED
• 22:19
  Speaker 15: overcrowding recently. saw staff declare a state of emergency. So
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: nurses organisation delegate, that's Leslie Book, says that their community
• 22:28
  Speaker 15: service is so stretched, upper management told them only bronze
• 22:32
  Speaker 15: standard care, not gold, is possible. So she says, look,
• 22:36
  Speaker 15: this isn't resonating well with her colleagues who want to
• 22:38
  Speaker 15: give the standard of care patients need, but You know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 15: it is what it is.
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: What else can they do?
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: That's not great.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: I wonder what bronze means. You know, what does bronze mean?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You don't get any food.
• 22:46
  Speaker 15: Well, that's right. Not premium, really, is it?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: No one rolls you over in beds so you don't
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: get bed sores. You know, what does it actually mean
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: in practice? That's what I want to know.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: You get wiped out.
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Someone going behind to wipe it. You know, take care
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: of business.
• 22:58
  Speaker 15: You know, I shouldn't be laughing because it's quite serious.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: No, it is serious. It is very serious. You wouldn't
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: want doctors to do bronze care, though, would you?
• 23:05
  Speaker 15: No, well, they don't have time, do they?
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: You know, we need to amputate your leg, but we'll
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: only do a third for now.
• 23:11
  Speaker 15: You're firing on all cylinders this Friday morning.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: How's the weather?
• 23:14
  Speaker 15: Cloudy northwest of these showers developing late morning. 18, the
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: high here in Auckland.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Good to see you this morning. Thank you very much.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: It is Friday, of course. 9292 is the number to text.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: You've been sending plenty of texts. In fact, a couple
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: very quickly on Barry Crump. Ryan, you're absolutely right. Try
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Bastards I Have Met. That's another of his books. Ryan,
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: every Barry Crump book that I have read is fantastic.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: And Ryan, we don't know how lucky we are. 19
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: to 6.
• 23:42
  Speaker 16: Joining us live this morning, 16 away from 6, is
• 23:50
  Speaker 16: Vincent McIverney, UK-Europe correspondent.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: The King, Macron and Burnham have all gone to what, Vincent?
• 23:58
  Speaker 17: The British Museum for the unveiling of the Bayeux Tapestry
• 24:03
  Speaker 17: back in the UK for the first time in almost
• 24:05
  Speaker 17: a thousand years. If you don't know what it is,
• 24:08
  Speaker 17: It is the most important object in British history, but
• 24:11
  Speaker 17: it actually resigns over in Normandy and it tells the
• 24:14
  Speaker 17: story of the Norman invasion and then the Norman conquest
• 24:19
  Speaker 17: of Britain in 1066. Because the museum is having to
• 24:22
  Speaker 17: be renovated in France, they've spent eight years negotiating for
• 24:25
  Speaker 17: it to come and stay here for a year. And
• 24:28
  Speaker 17: it's set to be the British Museum's biggest exhibit ever.
• 24:31
  Speaker 17: They think over a million people in the next year
• 24:33
  Speaker 17: will try to go and see it. But it's also
• 24:35
  Speaker 17: being seen as a bit of entendre cordiale, a bit
• 24:37
  Speaker 17: of resetting the relationship and the bonds between France and
• 24:41
  Speaker 17: the UK. And it really is the hot ticket here
• 24:43
  Speaker 17: in the UK now.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: We can get in a robo-taxi for the first time
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: in London this week. Yeah, that's right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 17: Uber has beaten others to the post. They are launching
• 24:54
  Speaker 17: initially just 15 automatic autonomous vehicles, which can operate in London.
• 25:00
  Speaker 17: For now, they've got to still have human safety drivers
• 25:03
  Speaker 17: because of delays with regulation. But we're expecting by Christmas
• 25:07
  Speaker 17: that there'll be a number of these companies up and running.
• 25:09
  Speaker 17: I actually went in one of these, a Waymo, sort
• 25:11
  Speaker 17: of two years ago in San Francisco. And once you
• 25:14
  Speaker 17: get past the sort of First two drives, it surprisingly
• 25:18
  Speaker 17: becomes incredibly normal. So people here are quite excited for that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 17: Apart from, of course, traditional London black cabbies, very unhappy
• 25:26
  Speaker 17: that they've got more competition on the roads.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: So you need a human driver there ready to take
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: over if something goes tits up. And also, it's not
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: going to save you any money having a robo taxi
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: at this point.
• 25:38
  Speaker 17: At this point, that's correct. So yeah, we will, we
• 25:41
  Speaker 17: think towards the end of the year, maybe not have
• 25:43
  Speaker 17: to have the human controller in the cab. So potentially
• 25:46
  Speaker 17: then we might see prices start to lower. When I
• 25:49
  Speaker 17: was in San Francisco two years ago and companies like
• 25:52
  Speaker 17: Waymo and Uber were operating these, they were just slightly
• 25:56
  Speaker 17: lower than the sort of traditional fares. I think there
• 25:59
  Speaker 17: is still a little bit of needing to get people
• 26:01
  Speaker 17: on board with the idea to kind of trust it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 17: And maybe when it's more of a critical mass, the
• 26:06
  Speaker 17: price is will come down if there's kind of a
• 26:08
  Speaker 17: couple of years of really stiff competition. But we'll see
• 26:11
  Speaker 17: whether or not they can kind of hold them down
• 26:13
  Speaker 17: without having the cost of a.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Driver on board. All right, Vincent McIverney, our UK-Europe correspondent.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Time is 13 minutes away from six. So we got
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: a team naming last night. This is for the series decided, well,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: the South Africa League decided, really, in the greatest rivalry
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: tour between the All Blacks and South Africa. The hooker
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Asafo Amor will start. Scrum seems to be sorted out,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: according to the box.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I spoke to Coach Don after the training
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: session and I asked him, Coach, if you have to
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: ask me anything about the scrums and he said, just answer.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: We sorted it out yesterday, so yeah, that's it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Joining us this morning is Sean Fitzpatrick, former All Black
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: captain in Johannesburg. Sean, nice to have you back. How
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: are you going?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Very good, thanks, Rowan.
• 26:55
  Speaker 18: It's nice to be back in Joburg after a wonderful
• 26:59
  Speaker 18: week down in Cape Town.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to ask, because I'm really enjoying our chats.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: We've been talking almost every week. How's it going there?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: It's been good.
• 27:09
  Speaker 18: We sort of, you know, obviously everyone was pretty excited
• 27:12
  Speaker 18: after the win at Alice Park, and then we headed
• 27:16
  Speaker 18: down and enjoyed the delights of Cape Town.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, coming up.
• 27:23
  Speaker 18: Against, as we knew, a very, you know, motivated South
• 27:27
  Speaker 18: African team who played really well in that first sort
• 27:29
  Speaker 18: of 20, 30 minutes. And then we sort of seemed
• 27:32
  Speaker 18: to be chasing the game a bit. But we knew
• 27:35
  Speaker 18: exactly what they were going to do, didn't we?
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: And.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and they deliver what are you actually doing there are
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: you just following around are you hanging around like a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: bad smell.
• 27:43
  Speaker 18: Fit yeah we're there's a number of us here at
• 27:49
  Speaker 18: the moment there's as ambassadors for new zealand rugby and
• 27:53
  Speaker 18: you know helping helping new zealand rugby you know support
• 27:56
  Speaker 18: their sponsors and you know we just had three or
• 27:59
  Speaker 18: four days in the bush with uh with a number
• 28:03
  Speaker 18: of the supporters' groups, which was fantastic. But, yeah, it's just, Ryan,
• 28:08
  Speaker 18: it's a really nice atmosphere here. Everyone is, you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 18: like this number of New Zealanders here is phenomenal. There's
• 28:14
  Speaker 18: over 2,000, they're sort of saying, which is just great.
• 28:19
  Speaker 18: Everyone's having a great time, being well looked after by
• 28:22
  Speaker 18: the South Africans, and just it's a really nice feel.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Have you been thinking about 1996 much?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I sort of get asked about it most days.
• 28:36
  Speaker 18: But, yeah, I think it's really sort of, I think
• 28:38
  Speaker 18: we spoke about it last week, it's sort of, it's
• 28:41
  Speaker 18: really moved on, I think, in terms of the way
• 28:43
  Speaker 18: they consume sort of rugby now. They're absolutely bonkers on
• 28:47
  Speaker 18: it in terms of, you know, the masses that are
• 28:50
  Speaker 18: watching rugby now, the fan zones, you know, especially in
• 28:53
  Speaker 18: Cape Town, you know, the stadium is a really good
• 28:57
  Speaker 18: part of town. Uh, so there was a lot going
• 29:00
  Speaker 18: on around the stadium. We're at Alice Park. It's sort of,
• 29:02
  Speaker 18: you've got to get into the stadium and then, and then,
• 29:05
  Speaker 18: and then you go home basically. But in Cape Town,
• 29:07
  Speaker 18: it was a, you know, a real festive feel about it. And,
• 29:11
  Speaker 18: you know, there's a lot. I know you're going to ask,
• 29:14
  Speaker 18: but everyone's turned into an aviation expert here.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: In terms of the flyover.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Honestly.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Which has now been cancelled for this week.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I saw that. Honestly, we've heard more about South African
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: aviation rules than we have rugby rules.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: In the last week.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, let's talk the team. So, Lakai, Dowie and Oumuamua.
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I think they've looked at it and they've, you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 18: they've thought, you know, a lot of these guys had
• 29:44
  Speaker 18: a lot of rugby. You know, Cody's had a lot
• 29:46
  Speaker 18: of rugby. You know, we've still got another two tests
• 29:50
  Speaker 18: to go. So, let's freshen.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: It up a bit.
• 29:55
  Speaker 18: I think probably just speaking to a few of the
• 29:57
  Speaker 18: guys that, you know, the key for us, which we
• 29:59
  Speaker 18: haven't done in either of the test matches, is we
• 30:02
  Speaker 18: haven't started well. So we've got to make sure that
• 30:05
  Speaker 18: we start well. We need to make sure our set
• 30:08
  Speaker 18: piece is solid. I think we sort of sorted out
• 30:11
  Speaker 18: the scrum, I think, in general. Our line-out was disappointing
• 30:15
  Speaker 18: last week, and, you know, everyone said that. So, you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 18: bringing in Sam Darian, who's a really smart rugby player.
• 30:21
  Speaker 18: He's had a great year, super rugby. He's played well
• 30:23
  Speaker 18: when he's been asked to for the All Blacks.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: And they're just giving Josh Lord, I think, another week off.
• 30:30
  Speaker 18: They just didn't feel he was quite ready from his concussion,
• 30:33
  Speaker 18: and the same with De Groot. But, yeah, I think it's,
• 30:37
  Speaker 18: you know, it's pretty bold, sort of some bold calls there. But,
• 30:41
  Speaker 18: you know, I sort of like what I see. They've
• 30:43
  Speaker 18: kept that sort of spine there, sort of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
• 30:48
  Speaker 18: has played all the Test matches.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: And on the plus side, there's brilliant moments and there's
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: brilliant rugby and we're not collapsing emotionally at the end
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: of the game.
• 31:01
  Speaker 18: No, no, which is, you know, we've scored, I think,
• 31:05
  Speaker 18: in the two Test matches and by second halves, we're
• 31:09
  Speaker 18: at 30 points to their sixth.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: So we're doing something right. We're finishing well. We're fit.
• 31:17
  Speaker 18: We just need those crucial moments in the first sort
• 31:20
  Speaker 18: of 20, 25 minutes. We've got to get those right.
• 31:23
  Speaker 18: We had a terrible start. They had a textbook training
• 31:29
  Speaker 18: ground plan that they scored that first try in the
• 31:32
  Speaker 18: first three minutes, which sort of set us back a bit.
• 31:35
  Speaker 18: But You know, we're in the fight and, as I
• 31:38
  Speaker 18: said to you sort of off-air, this is great preparation
• 31:41
  Speaker 18: for next year. You know, if you'd come away saying
• 31:44
  Speaker 18: that we won all after Cape Town, everyone would have gone,
• 31:48
  Speaker 18: that's pretty good. You know, we're playing the world champions,
• 31:51
  Speaker 18: their background, and we're one all going to the third test. So,
• 31:54
  Speaker 18: you know, it's all on for this week. It's a great,
• 31:57
  Speaker 18: great feel here.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Certainly, it's hopefully a great feeling after Sunday morning our
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: time too. Sean Fitzpatrick with us live from Johannesburg. We'll
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: probably speak to him again Monday morning. Newstalk ZB.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Hear it first.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for Business. Technology
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB. We had Q2 terms of trade numbers out yesterday.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: That's your export prices to your import prices. And it
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: was down 9%. And you go, and this is for
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: the quarter, you go, why is it down, what, 9%?
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: When the export volumes were up 6.4%, export prices were
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: up 3.5%, import volumes were down 2.1%. Oh, yeah, that's right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: It's the price that we are importing stuff at is
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: up 14%. Thank you very much to Fuel.
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: 5-2.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Mike.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: If you take out the oil, we had a surplus.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: That's what you got to say.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, that was self-evident.
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: I know, but the important point is I don't want
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: you to win the show on a down note at
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: a time when we must be looking to the positive.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I've done nothing but positivity all week.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Does Sean Fitzpatrick remind you of John Key?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: The way he talks?
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: No, in that kind of, he sounds interesting. He's got
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: interesting things to say. Every time you hear him, you say, yeah, no,
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: that makes sense. You're a bright guy.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Yes. There are certain people who have that effect on me.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: And Fitzpatrick is one of them. That's why I keep
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: getting him back every week.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: Can I offer a critique of Chris Penk? So Chris
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Pink is now clearly writing for Stuff.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Hang on. You've got some kind of fixation with Chris Pink.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: No.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: Well, I have now. Because last week he did a
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: column in which he said the elephant in the room,
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: as I said to you at the time. And then
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: said nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And said nothing.
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: So today he turns up again. So he's clearly now
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  Speaker 7: a columnist. And have a read of it. He's the
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  Speaker 7: most useless columnist you've ever had.
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  Speaker 3: What's he talking about?
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  Speaker 10: Nothing.
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  Speaker 7: That's the point.
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  Speaker 3: The elephant in the room.
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  Speaker 7: He says literally nothing. He tries to dabble in the
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: world of the Warriors.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: And he knows nothing about league or sport or the Warriors.
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: So he can't organise a coup and he can't write
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  Speaker 7: a column. I'd shut up.
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  Speaker 8: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know what not to read today.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: No, exactly.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: Anyway, Motu Tony. Fabian Holland, who's an All Black.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. He's awesome.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: He's massive.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's easy.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: And Motu Tony, who's a Warrior, ex-Warrior.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Fantastic.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: He was there last time we did one.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway. Oh, there we go. Fortuitous. Same with Fitzy.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah, same thing.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: See you.
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