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Full Show Podcast: 02 February 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier this show with One Route Love Where You Live,
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Speaker 1: News Talk SEBBI.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to your Monday. Just gone six after five.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at GPS doing ADHD today. Mark Mitchell, the
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Speaker 2: cops have finally finished at Mount Longanu. We'll talk to
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Speaker 2: him and we will get to Sport with Andrew and
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Speaker 2: we'll be in the US with our corry.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Monday the twenties. Sorry, Monday, the second of February.
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Speaker 2: The latest batch of Epstein files have been released by
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Speaker 2: the US Department of Justice, and Elon Musk, Bell, Gates, Trump,
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Speaker 2: and Lord Mandelson are all mentioned. A second woman is
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Speaker 2: now allegend she was sent to the UK by Jeffrey
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Speaker 2: Epstein for a sexual encounter with Andrew mount Batten winsor
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Speaker 2: this is now have listen. She even after a night
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Speaker 2: with Prince Andrew, had a tour of Buckingham Palace, apparently
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Speaker 2: got a cup of tea too. Starma's calling for Andrew
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Speaker 2: to testify before US Congress. Meanwhile, Trump sentered a deal
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Speaker 2: with Iran. He says they're in serious discussions. We do
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Speaker 2: have very.
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Speaker 1: Big, powerful ships heading in that direction as you, but
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Speaker 1: I hope they negotiates something that's acceptable.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, Husban, Yes, I'm wondering what the hell
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Speaker 2: is this? This is bad Boy Bunny and is a
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Speaker 2: popular young musician. He's the artist playing the halftime show
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Speaker 2: at the super Bowl. You might remember we told you
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Speaker 2: about that last week. He's also one of the favorites
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Speaker 2: expected to win Album of the Year at the Grammys,
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Speaker 2: which is happening later today. There's also rumor that himself
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Speaker 2: and Miley Cyrus are due to make a big announcement
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Speaker 2: because they're sitting right next to each other at the ceremony.
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Speaker 2: So what are we thinking, Kensey, like a proposal? Oh,
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Speaker 2: they'll do some collab. Oh okay, not marriage, No, okay,
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Speaker 2: marriage would be well, it'll be more interesting for us
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Speaker 2: with it. And that was your agenda.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One Root Love where you Live News Talks,
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Speaker 1: they'd be where.
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Speaker 2: Do you go with the epsteam thing?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 2: I see there was a photo with Andrew who looked
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Speaker 2: like it was on top of a woman on the ground.
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Speaker 2: Her face is blacked out, redacted, so you're not sure
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Speaker 2: who she is, You're not not sure how old she is.
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Speaker 2: It's all very grubby and now that you know, this
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Speaker 2: is the first time we've been told that anything happened
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Speaker 2: at a royal residence. This is at Royal Lodge. So
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Speaker 2: it's not a great look. But what do you do
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Speaker 2: about it? Do you? I mean, do you think the
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Speaker 2: guy and I would love to know from you this morning,
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Speaker 2: do you think the guy should just go to a court?
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Speaker 2: I mean, to be charged with what this woman was,
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Speaker 2: as I understand it was of age. Is it more
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Speaker 2: the trafficking that's the problem across borders? Is that what
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Speaker 2: they get in trouble for anyway? Nine two ninety two
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Speaker 2: is that I'm number to text. I would love to
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Speaker 2: hear from on that this morning. I'm sure that. And
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Speaker 2: as Starmer has said that he should be going to
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Speaker 2: the UK and fronting up to the US Congress and
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Speaker 2: it should be done that way. All right. Hey, the
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Speaker 2: other thing I was looking at the weekend was this
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Speaker 2: critical minerals deal. You know how Trump is mad, hot,
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Speaker 2: red hot mad about critical minerals. Apparently the negotiating or
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Speaker 2: the framework for one between New Zealand and America. Now,
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Speaker 2: can you just imagine think about Chloe swarbook for a second.
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Speaker 2: Think about the Greens. Just think about those people, how
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Speaker 2: much they hate us extracting minerals. Think also about how
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Speaker 2: how much they hate Donald Trump. The idea of doing
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Speaker 2: a deal to get you know, critical minerals out of
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Speaker 2: our earth so that we can hand them to Trump
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Speaker 2: would drive them insane. So I'm just very keen to
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Speaker 2: know more about this, and I plan to find out
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Speaker 2: more about it today. But you know, how how much
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Speaker 2: are they out there? Where are they located? How much
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Speaker 2: are they worth? What do we get in return all
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Speaker 2: of these questions? Does it need the White tang You
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Speaker 2: Tribunal is apparently looking into this, Do they have any
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Speaker 2: say nine two us the number to text you're on
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Speaker 2: news Talks there be and we'll get to Mark Mitchell next.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roof love where
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Speaker 1: you live news talks, that'd be.
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Speaker 2: Five point thirteen on news Talks, there'd be somebody has
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Speaker 2: texted in to say, what why is no one focusing
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Speaker 2: on Michelle Obama to do with Epstein? And I mean,
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Speaker 2: what that's nothing? I read this morning mentioned her name,
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Speaker 2: and maybe that's a mainstream media media conspiracy that we're
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Speaker 2: keeping Michelle Obama out of it. However, I do note
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Speaker 2: a Reuter's fact check of August twenty nine, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 2: in which they say that a fabricated screenshot purporting to
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Speaker 2: show an ex post from Michelle Obama referring to court
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Speaker 2: filings about Epstein is from a parody account and not
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Speaker 2: an authentic post from the former first Lady. So in
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Speaker 2: this you can produce for me some bona fide evidence,
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Speaker 2: then I would suggest we leave poor old Michelle alone.
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Speaker 2: It is fourteen after five ran Bridge. After eleven long days,
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Speaker 2: police have officially ended all recovery operations at the mount.
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Speaker 2: All six victims have formerly been identified. Cordon's remain in
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Speaker 2: place around the Adams Avenue and the mall and the
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Speaker 2: Marine parade. Mark Mitchell is the Emergency Management Minister, joins
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Speaker 2: us Now Mark, good morning, Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 4: So it's all over then, well at the moment, the
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Speaker 4: yes in terms of the scene. Thankfully the bodies have
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Speaker 4: been returned to their families, which means now they can
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Speaker 4: start making arrangements for journals and services. The USR teams
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Speaker 4: have have left our DVI Police DV teams have left,
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Speaker 4: so the scene now is still being corded and protected
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Speaker 4: by police. They will police will be taking the families
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Speaker 4: onto the site today, those that want to go. There's
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Speaker 4: been invitations sent out as a way to have a
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Speaker 4: service with them and then it'll be handed over to
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Speaker 4: back to the council.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, today will be hard for them, won't it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just been so difficult for the families because
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Speaker 4: as you can imagine, right right from the morning of
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Speaker 4: the tragedy happening, it's just been torturous for them because
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Speaker 4: the uncertainty.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know that we went.
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Speaker 4: In initially into a rescue phase, just the uncertainty. We
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Speaker 4: know how we would all feel if it was one
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Speaker 4: of our loved ones that was trapped under that that landslide,
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Speaker 4: and then obviously into the recovery phase and just the
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Speaker 4: challenging and difficult scene that it was. It took time,
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Speaker 4: so it's been very tough on the family. I mean,
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Speaker 4: the thing that I've been that's been lovely to see
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Speaker 4: is that the communities got behind them. Our police liaison
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Speaker 4: officers who quite something, they're just outstanding and have been
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Speaker 4: right alongside them. The whole time, and the families that
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Speaker 4: I've spent time with all commented on that and said
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Speaker 4: that they feel as police the aison officers are actually
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Speaker 4: part of their family now right through the country. You know,
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Speaker 4: the country got behind them. And the funny thing is
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Speaker 4: I went for Sarah and I went for a walk
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Speaker 4: on the beach a River beach and man Electric yesterday
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Speaker 4: and I spoke to a lot of people on the
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Speaker 4: beach and they have a connection to Mount Monganeri, whether
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Speaker 4: it be for a holiday or down the for saf
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Speaker 4: life saving or just passing through. So I think it's
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Speaker 4: had a big impact on the country, without a doubt.
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Speaker 2: What's your feeling mark about whether the mount will ever
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Speaker 2: open again.
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Speaker 4: That's a really good question and there's going to have
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Speaker 4: to be obviously a process that's going to have to
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Speaker 4: go through. In terms of that, the first concern is
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Speaker 4: just going to quite quite simply safety. You know that
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Speaker 4: the reality it is through this weather event, we had
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Speaker 4: over eight hundred slips, So that's something that obviously is
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Speaker 4: a priority for regardless of what council or yeah you are,
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Speaker 4: you going to be trying to do as much diffidence
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Speaker 4: as you can in terms of anticipating whether it's going
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Speaker 4: to be any other further slips with weather events that
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Speaker 4: we have, we're going to continue to have them.
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Speaker 2: Would you would you walk on it again or would
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Speaker 2: it feel.
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Speaker 4: Wrong if it was If it was if it was
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Speaker 4: opened again, I would walk around it and and I
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Speaker 4: think a lot of people are like keepers, would like
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Speaker 4: to have access to it again. I don't think that,
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Speaker 4: And I think that that would be a tie. It
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Speaker 4: would be somewhere that you reflect and you think about.
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Speaker 4: I'd like to see memorial, I think long I think
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Speaker 4: in the medium to long term, it definitely has to
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Speaker 4: be a memorial down there for us to be able
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Speaker 4: to remember the people that we lost. So yeah, but
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Speaker 4: that question is obviously one for the future.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Mark, I've been thinking about your health because in October
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Speaker 2: you were hospitalized, you had chess issues and there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of dust been around where the traps where you've
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Speaker 2: been lately holding up all right?
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Speaker 4: Well, thank you mate, I mean I appreciate that it's
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Speaker 4: not about me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I had when I was a young fellow at the
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Speaker 4: police doll caner over in Gisbone, we had an active
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Speaker 4: arsness that that I was tracking and he lit a
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Speaker 4: residential house on fire, and I had to go into
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Speaker 4: that to get the mum and he and his son
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Speaker 4: out and inhaled some toxic fumes that damaged my lungs.
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Speaker 4: But needs to get older. These sometimes come back and
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Speaker 4: cause your problems. But but look, it wasn't about me, mate.
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Speaker 4: I'm so proud of the you know, our firefighters, our
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Speaker 4: police officers, the first sponders, our contractors, you know, the
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Speaker 4: saber guys that are normally just out there moving dirt
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Speaker 4: away around and on houses that have been built and
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Speaker 4: slips and that they're in. They're in a very very
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Speaker 4: difficult environment trying to recover people, and so you know,
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Speaker 4: I just want to acknowledge them and just thank everyone
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Speaker 4: involved in that response. And of course the community got
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Speaker 4: hit very hard, and I went to a couple of
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Speaker 4: the visuals down there, which for me personally was really
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Speaker 4: it helped me a lot because just to be there
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Speaker 4: with the community, it's cathartic and sort of talk things
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Speaker 4: through and take a moment to breathe. The families. You know,
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Speaker 4: everyone's heart's breaking with the families, and everyone wishes that
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Speaker 4: somehow we could carry that weight with them, because you know,
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Speaker 4: it's just been so difficult on them and will continue
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Speaker 4: to be. And I think the big thing with.
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Speaker 5: That, Ryan is that is that they formed the.
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Speaker 4: Family group, formed a very very strong group together, a
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Speaker 4: very supported one another, and they had all agreed that
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Speaker 4: no one was leaving until we had the last personnel.
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Speaker 4: And they've had all that support around them, and the
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Speaker 4: other have to go to a phase where they're actually
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Speaker 4: having to leave that support, go back to their own
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Speaker 4: their own homes and think about funerals. And that's why
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Speaker 4: at that stage it's even more critical to make sure
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Speaker 4: that we continue to have supporter in them.
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Speaker 2: Hey, appreciate your time this morning, Minister Mark Mitchell, the
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Speaker 2: Emergency Management Minister. It is nineteen after five.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and one Roote Love
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Speaker 2: That'd be great to have your company. Andrew Alderson is
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Speaker 2: here with us for sport. It is twenty two minutes
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Speaker 2: after five. Here is Sam Ruth doing the business and
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Speaker 2: breaking Sir John Walker's record.
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Speaker 3: Very calm, Sam Routh, Oh my words, can you believe it?
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Speaker 3: There's sixteen year old in crazy with one under the
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Speaker 3: goal and bring it home.
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Speaker 5: Sam Ruth.
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Speaker 2: Some plieve it. This was at Boston University joining us
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Speaker 2: as Andrew and studio Okady Andrew Greeting's Ryan very cool.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it's pretty special. I think we're witnessing something special
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Speaker 6: here with Ruth. I mean it goes without saying, doesn't it,
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Speaker 6: to get into that echelon we're you're dealing with someone
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Speaker 6: like Sir John Walker, that those are really rare, as
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Speaker 6: rarefied here important to make the distinction, I think to
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Speaker 6: it's actually harder what he's done in the on the
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Speaker 6: indoor track competed to the outdoor track where Walker achieved
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Speaker 6: his feet in nineteen eighty two and oslow. But the
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Speaker 6: indoor track more turns two meters to compete to the
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Speaker 6: outdoor fuarder meters also can be more congested with fewer lanes.
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Speaker 6: But that's the overall mark now, I suppose. But it's
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Speaker 6: going to be fascinating to see if he can do
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Speaker 6: it outdoors, which is the standard track I guess that
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Speaker 6: we're used to. But this is the I mean, it's
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Speaker 6: just his style, it's his composure. It's just it's such
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Speaker 6: a rarity for someone of that age to have that
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Speaker 6: much talent where does he go next, well, potentially Comeworth Games,
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Speaker 6: but looks of it are they're talking that up as
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Speaker 6: an option. Craig Kirkwood, his coach, some discussions I think
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Speaker 6: also with Sam's parents on that as to whether he's
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Speaker 6: going to go. I mean, I don't think this is
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Speaker 6: just it's not out of control, it's just going. It's
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Speaker 6: just I guess, snowballing far further than they thought it
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Speaker 6: would this particular juncture, so, I mean, sixteen years old.
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Speaker 4: It's just it's just phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: Now the Ossie Open, we had the men's final and
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Speaker 2: Ol Charanth, we did Carlos Alkra.
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Speaker 6: There was going to be history either way either Novak
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Speaker 6: Chocolate was going to get twenty five Grand Slams, which
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Speaker 6: to be a record for men or women. But Alcrath
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Speaker 6: has won that in four sets and lost the first
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Speaker 6: one of the next three, and that means he's the
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Speaker 6: ninth mail to complete a career Grand Slam. So France, Australia,
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Speaker 6: England and in the States.
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Speaker 2: Can we take off the pervy Big brother cameras now
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Speaker 2: that this is over? I do you think that they'll
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Speaker 2: make a return?
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Speaker 6: I was uncomfortable with it last night, just seeing them
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Speaker 6: in and the changing and is getting warmed up, and
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Speaker 6: I think it's taking the step too farming. I think
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Speaker 6: you can't tell the whole issue with the Coco goff.
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Speaker 6: I mean that was she was a bit out of order.
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Speaker 6: I thought, doing that with the racket, et cetera. But
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Speaker 6: do we really need to see that. I don't think
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Speaker 6: we need to see it.
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Speaker 2: I don't need to see it.
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Speaker 6: Something crushing breath as he's stretching, I thought.
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Speaker 2: And lumbering up. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird. Give us
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Speaker 2: them on the court, which is what they're there to.
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Speaker 6: Do, and you have this big w W style walk
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Speaker 6: down the tunnel and see the tunnel, keep going for
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Speaker 6: the Hall of Mirrors.
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Speaker 7: But when are they going to get to the court?
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Speaker 2: Very quickly we have about two seconds. Yes, Winter Olympics
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Speaker 2: getting underweight.
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Speaker 6: Oh look, it's going to be so exciting once it's
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Speaker 6: February sixth to twenty second. He's had plenty of charts
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Speaker 6: as there. Ryan, you know, I guess leading the way, Zoe,
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Speaker 6: he's Adowski Senate. But others coming into the reckoning, Alice Robinson,
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Speaker 6: fin Melville, ives, Luca Harrington. It's going to be a
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Speaker 6: great watch even with the ice agents there for the States.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to it. Andrew Wilson the sport this morning.
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Speaker 2: It is five twenty seven. Great to have your company
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Speaker 2: this morning. Now, those opposing our FTA with India, I
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Speaker 2: think have got to be guilty of something quite serious
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Speaker 2: economic treason to New Zealand. We are a small trading nation.
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Speaker 2: Everyone knows that we've got lots of food and we
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Speaker 2: need to feed other people. And we've got red meat,
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Speaker 2: we need to get that to market. We got milk,
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Speaker 2: we need to get that to market. We got milk powder,
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Speaker 2: we need to get it to market. The closer the country,
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Speaker 2: the better, The higher value add the better and the sugar.
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Speaker 2: On top of all of all, the top of all
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Speaker 2: of this is tariff free access, so that our competitive advantage,
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Speaker 2: of which we do have one producing the world's best
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Speaker 2: dairy and sheep and beef and kiwi fruit can all
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Speaker 2: be admired and loved by the world at a reasonable price.
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Speaker 2: Now Helen Clark knew this well, so did phil goth
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Speaker 2: and they signed a deal to in Beijing in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and seven. Two Way trade then was eight billion dollars.
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Speaker 2: It's now forty one billion dollars. It's now our largest
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Speaker 2: trading partner. We're on the cusp of another bonanza, just
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Speaker 2: with a country much bigger and a middle class that's
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Speaker 2: about to crack open. It's the third going to be
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Speaker 2: the third largest economy in the world. It's very close. However,
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Speaker 2: some Kiwi politicians believe this is somehow a bad thing.
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Speaker 2: That's selling our best produce to other countries at cheaper prices,
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Speaker 2: unencumbered by another tax regime. How is that not a
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Speaker 2: good idea? Because we have to take an extra seventeen
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Speaker 2: hundred Indians on working visas to come here. So what
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Speaker 2: they work hard? Guess what they hustle? Guess what they
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Speaker 2: don't piss around fishing at the beach or sitting on
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Speaker 2: the couch when they should be working. Migrants do the
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Speaker 2: jobs that we Kiwis feel that they're too poshed to
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Speaker 2: do in society, don't they. It's hard work, it's honest work,
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Speaker 2: and it needs to be done. Why not let the
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Speaker 2: people who want to work work. This country should be
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Speaker 2: filled with ambitious people who want to make the most
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Speaker 2: of it, and that's what FDAs do. And I can't
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Speaker 2: understand people who don't.
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Speaker 2: It'd be great to have your company This Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, GPS are going to diagnose and treat ADHD.
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Speaker 2: Does that mean will have an outbreak of ADHD pierces
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Speaker 2: in the US for US, he's our correspondent, will talk
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Speaker 2: Epstein and also these ice protests that are going to
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Speaker 2: take plate wait place, wait for it at the Winter
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Speaker 2: Olympics in Milano, protesting against ice tactics in America. So
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Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes. First though, a couple of
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Speaker 2: texts on Mark Mitchell. A lot of love for Mark
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Speaker 2: Mitchell this morning. We had him on the show earlier
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Speaker 2: talking about the recovery that the cops have all finished
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Speaker 2: their operation essentially at mart Monginoway. Ryan. Mark Mitchell appears
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Speaker 2: to be such a caring, lovely man. I just hope
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Speaker 2: he does take care of himself, says Kirsten. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: he appreciates the concern. Ryan, Mark Mitchell a politician with
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Speaker 2: real substance. Pretty some of that can't be shared with others,
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Speaker 2: says Hayden. This one's not so nice about him. I
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Speaker 2: won't ruin your morning, Mark, but I think the point
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Speaker 2: is people quite like the cut of his jib. When
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Speaker 2: he's out there with the people and he's you know,
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Speaker 2: cleaning things up and sandbagging, he seems quite approachable, quite
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Speaker 2: key we do, you know what I mean? Quite a
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Speaker 2: key wet bloke. And I think probably people probably like
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Speaker 2: a bit of that, don't they. Nine two nine two
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Speaker 2: is the number.
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Speaker 1: To text, Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to our reporters now Callum and Dnedan Callum,
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Speaker 2: good morning, morning, Right, You've got the largest motorcycle rally
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Speaker 2: in the Southern Hemisphere is back.
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Speaker 8: It is and I've seen riders all weekend heading south
19:27
Speaker 8: all roads leading to inver Cargol for the Bert Monroe Challenge.
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Speaker 2: Ryan.
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Speaker 8: It kicks off Wednesday with seven events and competitions across
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Speaker 8: five days and it gets bigger every year. More than
19:38
Speaker 8: fifteen hundred riders expected there to participate in this year's events.
19:43
Speaker 8: Organizers say it brings a great vibe to in the cargol,
19:46
Speaker 8: The town becomes a real magnet for motorcycle lovers and
19:49
Speaker 8: attending has become a bucketless thing for many motorcyclists.
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Speaker 2: Right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 8: A few showers, period of afternoon rain and southwesterly is
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Speaker 8: strong at times twenty to high today.
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Speaker 2: Great and Rosy's with us? Hey Rosie? Good morning. What's
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Speaker 2: going on in christ Church? Right?
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Speaker 9: So, work is underway to recover a tourist boat that's
20:09
Speaker 9: been stranded just outside the Ukkador Heads, which has leaked
20:12
Speaker 9: marine diesel fuel into the sea. The black Cat cruise
20:16
Speaker 9: vessel ran aground on Saturday with thirty eight passengers and
20:20
Speaker 9: three crew on board, but none reported any injuries. Environment
20:24
Speaker 9: Canterbury says the boat will be moved to deeper water
20:27
Speaker 9: and submerged before being removed. Meanwhile, the Transport Accident Investigation
20:32
Speaker 9: Commission has opened an inquiry. Chief Investigator of Accidents Louise
20:36
Speaker 9: Cook says investigators have arrived on the scene. She says
20:40
Speaker 9: their focus is on collecting perishable evidence such as people's
20:43
Speaker 9: memories and electronic data.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 9: It's fine today here and then rain coming through tonight.
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Speaker 9: Northeasterly's turning northwesterly in the morning and then changing southerly
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Speaker 9: this evening.
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Speaker 2: Okay, great, nice one, Thanks Rosie. Let's go to Max
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Speaker 2: and Wellington. Hey Max, good morning. You got a new
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Speaker 2: charter school opening in the hat. Yeah.
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Speaker 10: This is the country's first dedicated sports school, a charter
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Speaker 10: school based on the Campus of Innovation and Sport in
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Speaker 10: Appahata for years eleven to thirteen, across a range of
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Speaker 10: different sporting codes. But I believe, at least initially it
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Speaker 10: will primarily be rugby and football training because that's what
21:18
Speaker 10: they've got there ready to go. It'll have a role
21:20
Speaker 10: of a one hundred aspiring student athletes apparently they are
21:24
Speaker 10: at the moment up to eighty, a climate controlled training studio,
21:28
Speaker 10: infrared saunas, hydrotherapy pools, state of the art gym, and
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Speaker 10: world class turf. It sounds like a ridge is not
21:35
Speaker 10: a school, but apparently it will still follow the NCEEA curriculum,
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Speaker 10: but with I imagine more time set aside for athletic training
21:43
Speaker 10: A good idea. Other countries do it now, we do
21:45
Speaker 10: it cool.
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Speaker 2: So do you have to pay more to go to
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Speaker 2: this school or do you just have to be really
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Speaker 2: good at sport?
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Speaker 10: Probably both, but I couldn't tell you for certain, but
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Speaker 10: probably both.
21:55
Speaker 2: Right, all right, interesting, how's your with there?
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Speaker 10: Cloudy period with some showers later stronger north least twenty
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Speaker 10: to Hay.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Max, thank you and Neva's and Auckland morning, Neva,
22:06
Speaker 2: good morning. Hopefully you know a bit more about your
22:08
Speaker 2: story than Max did.
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Speaker 11: Probably not.
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Speaker 2: No signs of relief on the horizon for Auckland's homeless
22:17
Speaker 2: and people trying to care for them.
22:19
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, this old chest not the homeless. Well, look
22:22
Speaker 11: the organizations that are helping, you know, the rough sleepers
22:26
Speaker 11: going into this year. I mean they're just saying, after
22:29
Speaker 11: facing all the surging homeless populations and funding cuts in
22:33
Speaker 11: twenty twenty five, yeah, they're very despondent, really just despondent
22:38
Speaker 11: A good words. No, it's not good. So life Wise
22:42
Speaker 11: our newsroom spoken to life Wise and they've said, look,
22:45
Speaker 11: this potential ban on rough sleepers in the city CBD.
22:49
Speaker 11: You know, it risks displacing people without addressing the root causes.
22:53
Speaker 11: Going down the track again, Can.
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Speaker 2: I just ask have has the newsroom ever called life
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Speaker 2: wise and they've been happy. No, you know what I mean?
23:01
Speaker 2: So I take everything that they say with a grain
23:04
Speaker 2: of salt. They do great work, They do great work,
23:06
Speaker 2: but you know it's always bad.
23:08
Speaker 11: Well, you're quite right. We want solutions, don't we.
23:11
Speaker 2: We do, And like you can't always be terrible. Sometimes
23:15
Speaker 2: it must be better than terrible, you know what I mean.
23:17
Speaker 11: Well, I'm just trying to take care of some little
23:19
Speaker 11: we lines. And the executive chair that they are life
23:21
Speaker 11: wise pair Malcus says it's a monster year ahead. Are
23:25
Speaker 11: they ready to take it on?
23:27
Speaker 2: The monsters are coming out? What on earth does that mean?
23:30
Speaker 2: And I'm talking to a friend of mine at the
23:32
Speaker 2: weekend and he traverses that area quite frequently, the pay
23:37
Speaker 2: roads tween streets, and he said, the real problem now
23:41
Speaker 2: is that the homeless people have dogs. Oh really, And
23:45
Speaker 2: he's noticed a reel up to and one of them
23:49
Speaker 2: had a litter And you think, well, you can't really
23:52
Speaker 2: be having that.
23:53
Speaker 11: No, you can't, you can't be having that. I haven't
23:56
Speaker 11: seen that, you see. If I saw, I'd be running
23:58
Speaker 11: the other way.
23:59
Speaker 7: But not that.
23:59
Speaker 11: I I'm traversing around that area in the middle of
24:02
Speaker 11: the night.
24:03
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's you's got to draw a line.
24:05
Speaker 11: You've gotta draw a line. Well, do you know what
24:07
Speaker 11: I was positive when I came in here? Not anymore?
24:11
Speaker 11: What about the weather?
24:12
Speaker 2: What's that going to be positive about? The monstrous yur head?
24:18
Speaker 11: Hot and sticky again Auckland twenty nine. It was pretty
24:22
Speaker 11: hot last night, very hot, and it's going to be
24:24
Speaker 11: hot tonight apparently, you know, like twenty two overnight, but
24:28
Speaker 11: up to twenty nine this morning.
24:30
Speaker 2: All right, Neva, thank you. Coming up next, we head
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Speaker 2: to Mike Pearce in the UK more on those epsteam
24:35
Speaker 2: files that have been released overnight news talks there'd be
24:38
Speaker 2: It is quarter to six. Now. You know this guy
24:41
Speaker 2: Tom Cruise, he has been in loads of movies and
24:45
Speaker 2: he's very very rich, and he has a house in
24:51
Speaker 2: London in Nightsbridge, which is a very fancy area now
24:56
Speaker 2: very upmarket. It's a basically a condo and apparently he
25:01
Speaker 2: has abruptly deserted the luxury apartment because the whole town
25:06
Speaker 2: has gone to the dogs. He says there is too
25:09
Speaker 2: much crime, too many kids on motorbikes speeding past and
25:13
Speaker 2: stealing your cell phones, doing smash and grabs, breaking into shops, left,
25:17
Speaker 2: right and center. So he has fled the previously safe
25:22
Speaker 2: neighborhood of Knightsbridge.
25:24
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance, peace of mind
25:28
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business Right.
25:30
Speaker 2: What's new in these Epstein files? What do we know?
25:33
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike pirs Our US sorry, UK europe correspondent, Mike,
25:38
Speaker 2: what's new here?
25:40
Speaker 12: All I can tell you is this his story is
25:42
Speaker 12: dominating the news in the UK in much of the world.
25:45
Speaker 12: It's also the US Department of Justice, of course, releasing
25:48
Speaker 12: more than three million pages from the Epstein files. The story,
25:51
Speaker 12: I tell you is in overdrive here, in particular the
25:54
Speaker 12: race of three photographs showing Andrew Mount Button whensor he
25:57
Speaker 12: of course the former Prince Andrew on all four over
26:00
Speaker 12: a woman lying on the floor. She is fully closed
26:03
Speaker 12: and it's not known who she is or when the
26:05
Speaker 12: photos were taken. Emails also refer to Epstein's relationships with
26:10
Speaker 12: the UKs Sir Richard Branson and Sarah Ferguson, who was
26:13
Speaker 12: Andrew's wife. Like many of exchanges, there's little contest context.
26:17
Speaker 12: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are also mentioned as well.
26:20
Speaker 12: An Epstein survivor says it's heart wrenching to hear the
26:23
Speaker 12: Department of Justice say it's not aware of any other
26:26
Speaker 12: men that were involved in the abuse of Epstein's victims.
26:29
Speaker 12: Now Andrew Mountbatten Windsor lost his role title over the issue.
26:33
Speaker 12: He's always denied any suggestions of wrongdoing. There's no suggestion
26:37
Speaker 12: that by appearing in these documents anybody is implied of
26:40
Speaker 12: wrongdoing in any way. In a new development of the
26:43
Speaker 12: UK's Prime Minister, Kiss Sarma says Andrew should go to
26:46
Speaker 12: the US Senate to explain himself. Meanwhile, get this one.
26:49
Speaker 12: A photo of former US ambassador Lord Peter Mandelsson from
26:52
Speaker 12: the UK has appeared with him in his pants. He
26:55
Speaker 12: says he can't remember anything about it.
26:59
Speaker 2: Goodness May What about these ice protests at the Olympics.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, one, Hundreds of protesters gathering in Milan, Italy to
27:06
Speaker 12: protest against the deployment of the US Immigration and Customs enforcement.
27:10
Speaker 12: That's what they called ice for short. They will be
27:13
Speaker 12: at the Winter Olympics. The opening ceremony is on Friday.
27:16
Speaker 2: Now.
27:17
Speaker 12: It follows the fatal shooting, of course of alex Pretty.
27:20
Speaker 12: Demonstrators gathered in a square named after Italy's liberation from
27:24
Speaker 12: the Nazis in nineteen forty five. In an echo of
27:27
Speaker 12: anti ICE protests in the US, they blew whistles and
27:29
Speaker 12: sang songs now. Earlier this week, the US State Department
27:33
Speaker 12: said several federal agencies, including ICE, would be deployed to
27:37
Speaker 12: help protect visiting Americans. They say they often send their
27:41
Speaker 12: office to officers to foreign events like this. The mayor
27:44
Speaker 12: of Milan said, this is a militia that kills. Of course,
27:48
Speaker 12: they're not welcome here. The Italian government responded in a
27:51
Speaker 12: statement by saying it's not like the Nazi ses are coming.
27:54
Speaker 12: They say all security operations at the Olympics are directed
27:58
Speaker 12: and managed exclusively by the Italian authorities. That lots of disquiet,
28:02
Speaker 12: I can tell you in Milan ahead of the opening
28:05
Speaker 12: this Friday of those Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 2: All right, appreciate your time, Thank you very much for that,
28:10
Speaker 2: Mike PS are you a UK europe correspondent? Time is
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Speaker 2: eleven away from six Bridge Rich. Changes to ADHD prescriptions
28:19
Speaker 2: have officially kicked in. Trained GPS and nurse practitioners can
28:23
Speaker 2: now diagnose and prescribe for adults eighteen and over. No
28:26
Speaker 2: specialist sign off will be needed. Doctor Angus Chambers. Is
28:30
Speaker 2: Jim pro Chaer with me this morning, doctor Angus, Good morning.
28:33
Speaker 5: Good morning.
28:34
Speaker 2: So what's the Will it reduce the backlogs? What do
28:37
Speaker 2: you expect to see straight away?
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Speaker 5: Not much straight away, I think, and take a long
28:43
Speaker 5: time to reduce backlogs. So you know, the GPS have
28:48
Speaker 5: been able to diagnose and treat ADHD for a long time.
28:50
Speaker 5: What's actually changed as the bureaucracy of creating and getting
28:54
Speaker 5: hold of the medication to treat it, which to prescribe
28:57
Speaker 5: the drugs, you have to have something called a special
29:01
Speaker 5: authority which you applied to pharmac for and GPS and
29:04
Speaker 5: nurse practitioners weren't allowed to do that up until now.
29:07
Speaker 5: So now are allowed to apply for that number, which
29:10
Speaker 5: gives you a gateway to treatment.
29:12
Speaker 2: Right, so normally you'd have to go through a specialist
29:14
Speaker 2: or something, would you and they could do it?
29:17
Speaker 5: Yeah, look at the moment only well, but just before this,
29:21
Speaker 5: only a psychiatrist or a pediatrician could apply for the number.
29:24
Speaker 5: Now nurse practitioner a GP can so yes, you don't
29:28
Speaker 5: have to go to a specialist anymore. But of course
29:31
Speaker 5: nobody he's been doing this a long time and even
29:35
Speaker 5: though we've got a working knowledge of ADHDV. The diagnosis
29:39
Speaker 5: is certainly quite echnical and takes some time. So this
29:42
Speaker 5: is what people are going to have to upskill, and
29:45
Speaker 5: there's a limited number of people going to be doing
29:47
Speaker 5: it to start with, at least.
29:48
Speaker 2: How do you know if someone's got ADHD and not
29:51
Speaker 2: just a bit odd or you know, something has a quirk.
29:54
Speaker 5: Well that's the tricky thing, isn't it. I mean, it's
29:56
Speaker 5: not like some medical conditions where a blood chester an
29:59
Speaker 5: extrass and we'll give you an answer. Mental health conditions
30:03
Speaker 5: are really complex. There's a lot of them to play
30:05
Speaker 5: between a whole lot of different factors. So it's you know,
30:09
Speaker 5: there is a there is a process of It involves
30:12
Speaker 5: taking of questionnaires, histories of people getting getting a collateral
30:17
Speaker 5: kind of information from parents or teachers or patterns or
30:21
Speaker 5: stuff like that, and you build up a picture over time.
30:24
Speaker 5: So it's quite a it's a fairly prolonged process. You
30:26
Speaker 5: have to dive quite deeply into people's people's lives.
30:30
Speaker 2: Angus I was told that if somebody listens to the
30:33
Speaker 2: same song like repeatedly for weeks or months on end
30:38
Speaker 2: and does and and that that is their pattern, and
30:40
Speaker 2: they have the next song they move on to and
30:42
Speaker 2: it's weeks or months on end that they have ADHD.
30:45
Speaker 2: These are the things you hear online. Is there any
30:47
Speaker 2: truth in this?
30:49
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I guess that's possible, you know, but
30:53
Speaker 5: it's it's really sound typical of ADHD, you know, attention
30:57
Speaker 5: deficit hyperactivity order. It's a lack of ability to apply
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Speaker 5: to a task, you know, the lack of attention, always
31:06
Speaker 5: on the move. So now after listening to a song
31:09
Speaker 5: over and over counts really.
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Speaker 2: Line appreciate your time this morning. Good luck with this,
31:13
Speaker 2: doctor Angus Chambers, gen Proach here. Time is eight to six.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love Where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B. Welcome back. It is six minutes away
31:33
Speaker 2: from six. You know how chezing Thing's done a lot
31:35
Speaker 2: of purghing in the army and now he's got rid
31:38
Speaker 2: of all his generals, even his old schoolmate. Got rid
31:41
Speaker 2: of his old schoolmate. He used to rain him in
31:43
Speaker 2: on Taiwan. So now he has carte blanche. He's in charge.
31:47
Speaker 2: He's the man, and what's he going to do with Taiwan?
31:50
Speaker 2: That's the big question. You got to watch because Trump's basically,
31:54
Speaker 2: according to the Chinese, not interested in Taiwan straight anymore.
31:57
Speaker 2: So if they go after Taiwan, which people say, like
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Speaker 2: Europe going after Russians going after Ukraine, are we going
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Speaker 2: to do anything about that? I highly doubt it. Ryan Bridge, morning, Mike.
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Speaker 7: You're a troublemaker, aren't you.
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Speaker 2: Ah, Hi sir, stirring the pod on the South China Sea. Yeah,
32:17
Speaker 2: why not? Well it needs a good stirring. I mean,
32:19
Speaker 2: let's face it, it's happening.
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Speaker 7: It's not happening, certainly, not certainly not this year. You
32:25
Speaker 7: want a dollar, you want dollar?
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Speaker 2: I want a fifty dollar. Okay, within the next three years, all.
32:30
Speaker 7: Three the different ballgame. Oh come, it's not because you
32:33
Speaker 7: get elections coming up. You know you've got Trump coming
32:35
Speaker 7: up twenty eight, so you got you've got a factor
32:37
Speaker 7: in that. So this year I'm happy to do the bet.
32:39
Speaker 7: Tell you what I won over the weekend. I want
32:42
Speaker 7: a dollar off my wife because not that you listen
32:44
Speaker 7: to my program, but after eight I said Springsteen was
32:47
Speaker 7: going to number one. She didn't think it was. It's
32:50
Speaker 7: number one, and twenty one country is fascinating and next
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Speaker 7: stop Brammy nomination. Okay, back to my one dollar. Okay
32:58
Speaker 7: for what you said, fifty, I'll do fifty over three years.
33:03
Speaker 7: What are you going to pay me off? Fifty over
33:04
Speaker 7: three years?
33:06
Speaker 2: If they if they blonde the quarantine invade Taiwan within
33:10
Speaker 2: the next three years, exact.
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Speaker 7: Actually, you know, I don't think I'm not checking you.
33:15
Speaker 7: Come on, hands and I'm not touching your hand.
33:17
Speaker 2: I haven't done anything foul mood this morning. I haven't
33:19
Speaker 2: done weird on the weekend.
33:21
Speaker 7: Just what you do? You see? You stayed up late?
33:23
Speaker 7: You're miserable. The first thing I walked on just everyone
33:25
Speaker 7: needs another So what's the matter with you? You guys? I
33:26
Speaker 7: stayed up late late watching a movie movie, another crappy met.
33:31
Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 7: I think the program has been affected by it, that's all.
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Speaker 2: It hasn't. I think it hasn't.
33:35
Speaker 7: It's certainly it's what they're saying out in the newsroom, mate,
33:38
Speaker 7: I mean, you.
33:38
Speaker 2: Don't talk to anyone out they might stop protecting.
33:41
Speaker 7: The chatter went on Ryan's office game.
33:44
Speaker 2: What are you doing today?
33:45
Speaker 7: Sam Ruth?
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Speaker 2: Very cool?
33:46
Speaker 7: Yep, No, he's exciting. So I don't know about the
33:49
Speaker 7: indoor the outdoor, whether it was pacing all that stuff.
33:51
Speaker 2: But he's he's a he's a frick.
33:52
Speaker 7: There's no question about it anyway.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Looking forward to it for your Monday morning Mike
33:57
Speaker 2: is next. See you tomorrow.
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