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Full Show Podcast: 20 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Vans and a play.
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Speaker 2: A store US Dogs.
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Speaker 3: It'd be good morning, Welcome the Tuesday, the twentieth of August.
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Speaker 3: Great to have your company. Nine two nine two is
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Speaker 3: the number to text this morning. Coming up on the program,
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Speaker 3: What is the worst time today to call an ambulance?
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Speaker 3: We've got the union on. They'll tell us the strike's
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Speaker 3: going on or it withdrawal as of labor is what
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Speaker 3: they're calling it. Also, we're live to Chicago in the
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Speaker 3: United States. The Democratic National Convention is happening. Crime is
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Speaker 3: down in Aucklands CBD. But do we believe the stats?
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Speaker 3: Vibeck is on the show and on in tomaow is
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Speaker 3: out of the US, sorry, out of Australia. At seven
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Speaker 3: after five the agenda, Tuesday, the twentieth August. One person
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Speaker 3: is dead, six are missing after a super yacht capsized
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Speaker 3: and sank off the coast of Sicily. Fifteen people, including
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Speaker 3: a key we have been rescued. It's understood ten crew
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Speaker 3: and twelve passengers were on board. The British flagged basin
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Speaker 3: which was moored when bad weather struck. After the storm
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Speaker 3: was all be noticed that the ship behind us was gone.
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Speaker 2: And then we saw a red flower went to the
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Speaker 2: position and we've phoned through this life right, Yeah, drifting
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Speaker 2: not but anything inside.
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Speaker 3: Fifteen people in so and so incredible story. Why just
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Speaker 3: that ship because there were plenty others in the harbor
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Speaker 3: at the time that this all went down. We'll talk
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Speaker 3: about that in a second. To the UK, more UK
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Speaker 3: rioters are being sentenced and the government has made emergency
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Speaker 3: moves to ease the prison overcrowding people waiting for sentencing
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Speaker 3: and parts of northern England are being kept in police
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Speaker 3: cells because of a lack of space and prisons. Get this.
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Speaker 3: Across England and Wales, there's room for eighty nine thousand
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Speaker 3: prisoners currently there are eighty eight back here. Seek job
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Speaker 3: ads were up three percent in July compared to June,
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Speaker 3: first sign of growth since last August. However, country manager
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Speaker 3: Rob Clark says the market is still down twenty nine
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Speaker 3: percent year on year. Different strokes for different folks depends
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Speaker 3: on where you're living. The main urban centers increased in
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Speaker 3: July by sort of low single digits and we saw
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Speaker 3: they have plenty see quite a nice spike of sixteen
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Speaker 3: percent months on month.
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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 Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 1: beds and a play at store news Talk sety.
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Speaker 3: Just gone nine after five. This poll out last night
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Speaker 3: from TV and Z. It shows basically that government support
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Speaker 3: is holding steady from the last poll in June. Sixty
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Speaker 3: four seats for the coalition. I wonder who we'll get
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Speaker 3: back in because normally you have this minor party drop
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Speaker 3: off after they've been in government. Would it be Act,
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Speaker 3: Would it be New Zealand first? Probably New Zealand first.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, it depends. I guess what happens with
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Speaker 3: Winston Peter. Anyway, Luxon is up five percent in the
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Speaker 3: preferred PM stakes to twenty eight percent. That would be
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Speaker 3: his best number, at least off the top of my head.
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Speaker 3: And interestingly, the poll was taken between the tenth and
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Speaker 3: the fourteenth of August, that's last week. The interesting part
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Speaker 3: about that, of course, is that it basically excludes the
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Speaker 3: Reserve banks cutting of interest rates last Wednesday, which you
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Speaker 3: would have to think would be good news for Luxon
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Speaker 3: because despite all the talk that's going on about what
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Speaker 3: the big issues are in terms of politics, at the moment,
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Speaker 3: it's always the economy, and the economy should pick up.
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Speaker 3: As rates start to ease, mortgage rates are coming down,
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Speaker 3: property values will recover somewhat, and most elections are one
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Speaker 3: all lost. On the economy, the right track wrong track
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Speaker 3: thing is very very important. So surely there's more good
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Speaker 3: news to come for Luxon on that front. And last
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Speaker 3: night you might have seen this in the news or
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Speaker 3: you might have seen it in the coverage yesterday, but
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Speaker 3: this is what Hipkins was talking about.
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Speaker 4: We seem to have a government at the moment who
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Speaker 4: have never encountered a red deck.
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Speaker 3: They don't want to scratch. Okay, that yacht that's sunk
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Speaker 3: in Italy off the coast of Sicily. There was a
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Speaker 3: Keiwi on board. He's been rescued. It's fifty six meter
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Speaker 3: Baysian charters for three hundred and fifty thousand New Zealand dollars.
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Speaker 3: It's a luxury yacht capsized and sank. Not really sure.
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Speaker 3: It was five o'clock local time, five in the morning
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Speaker 3: local time. Fifteen rescued on that rescue life raft, including
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Speaker 3: a one year old baby. Not really sure what happened.
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Speaker 3: There was bad weather, but there were fishing boats and
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Speaker 3: other vessels in the same harbor and they were okay.
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Speaker 3: There was a skipper of one of the fishing boats
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Speaker 3: who says there was a water spout in the harbor
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Speaker 3: just before this vessel went down. A waterspout's basically a
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Speaker 3: tornado over water instead of overland. So they're wondering has
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Speaker 3: that got something to do with it? Not quite sure
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Speaker 3: at this stage, but I'm sure there'll be more updates
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Speaker 3: throughout the morning in your news. It has just gone
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Speaker 3: eleven minutes after five here on news Talk said b
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Speaker 3: will talk ambulance withdrawls of labor coming up in the
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Speaker 3: next half hour. Also Vivbek on crime in the City on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a
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Speaker 1: flying Store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said be.
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Speaker 3: Thirteen after five, quick update on the situation in Ukraine,
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Speaker 3: or I should say Ukraine and Russia, because you've got
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Speaker 3: battles going on both fronts at the moment. In eastern Ukraine,
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Speaker 3: Russia is pushing into a part of the Donetsk region
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Speaker 3: that is quite important to the Ukrainians. They've actually ordered
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Speaker 3: the evacuation of a city there. It's a defensive stronghold
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Speaker 3: for them. So that is happening, while at the same
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Speaker 3: time in the cursed region of Russia, where Ukraine has
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Speaker 3: is pushing into themselves the Russians. We mentioned yesterday that
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Speaker 3: the Ukrainians have got those two bridges, while the Russians
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Speaker 3: have erected already erected pontoon bridges to try and restore
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Speaker 3: those vital supply lines for them. Right now, it is
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Speaker 3: fourteen after five and a glimmer of hope on the
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Speaker 3: crime front for our country's best known street, Queen Street
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Speaker 3: and the Auckland CBD. The latest police figures from April
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Speaker 3: to June this year show that theft and burglary and
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Speaker 3: the CBD are down thirty four percent on the same
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Speaker 3: period last year. The council is about to chuck some
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Speaker 3: more money through a targeted rate at safety. Do we
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Speaker 3: believe the stats? Some in the city say they don't.
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Speaker 3: Vivbeck is with Heart of the City Chief Executive. Good morning,
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Speaker 3: good morning, Good to have you on the show. Viv
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Speaker 3: Do you believe these stats? I mean is that what
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Speaker 3: you see when you walk around the CBD.
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Speaker 5: Oh, we definitely see improvement. I think the big thing
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Speaker 5: is we've been wanting to see a coordinated cross agency approach,
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Speaker 5: not as police but also the social development, health housing,
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Speaker 5: and that is the difference. We've actually got that happening now.
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Speaker 5: We've wanted to see it for about three years, and
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Speaker 5: the crime is tracking down. I know not everyone will
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Speaker 5: see it yet, but the reality is that has significantly improved,
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Speaker 5: and it's really there's some urgency and purpose to the
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Speaker 5: work and we're really pleased about that.
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Speaker 3: Some reckon, some local landlords reckon that people just aren't
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Speaker 3: even bothering to report the crime, and that's what's behind
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Speaker 3: the decrease.
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Speaker 5: I think there definitely has been that, and I think
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Speaker 5: people did get pretty disillusioned when police didn't come, particularly
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Speaker 5: in the worst of it through that COVID and post
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Speaker 5: COVID period, and there is likely to be still some
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Speaker 5: of that. We're encouraging people to report at all, whether
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Speaker 5: it's a criminal act or an antisocial or whatever it is,
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Speaker 5: it needs to be reported so there's clear data about
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Speaker 5: what's happening. But it is significantly improved. I know not
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Speaker 5: everyone and seeing it yet. But certainly what I'm seeing,
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Speaker 5: what I'm hearing from a lot of people has significantly improved.
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Speaker 3: I go to CBD quite a lot. I think you're right,
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Speaker 3: it has improved somewhat. But you still see these people
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Speaker 3: wandering around, you know, in broad daylight, just paying on
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Speaker 3: the street, or being a bit out grow or yelling
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Speaker 3: and shouting. I mean, so if it's down, where are
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Speaker 3: all these people going? Do you know?
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Speaker 5: That is the social side which really does still need
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Speaker 5: We still need more support, for example, on the mental health.
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Speaker 5: That's one of the things we've really been wanting to see.
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Speaker 5: So the health needs to really come to the party
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Speaker 5: here as well. Although people locally are doing everything they can,
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Speaker 5: there's effort going to housing people. I think there's also
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Speaker 5: a stronger focus on what's acceptable and what's not. You know,
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Speaker 5: COVID was pretty difficult all round.
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Speaker 3: Do you think we just got a bit loose with
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Speaker 3: acceptable behavior? We just thought, know, well, everyone's a bit nuts,
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Speaker 3: let's just put up with it.
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Speaker 5: Well, I don't think it was deliberate, but I think
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Speaker 5: obviously there was more crime. We didn't have enough police,
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Speaker 5: and we've wanted to make sure there were people who
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Speaker 5: were able to engage with people who need different forms
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Speaker 5: of support. So the three things we you identified three
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Speaker 5: and a half years ago was around mental health, addiction,
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Speaker 5: better management of housing, as well as the stronger police business.
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Speaker 5: So it's a combination of those things that is actually
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Speaker 5: going to really get on top of this. It's still
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Speaker 5: a way to go, but it is significantly better.
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Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much for that. Vive Beck,
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Speaker 3: Heart of the City in Auckland, just gone seventeen minutes,
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Speaker 3: half to five, Ray and Bridge. It is a big day,
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Speaker 3: well a big week actually for the Democrats. The DNC
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Speaker 3: is happening in Chicago and you can expect a lot
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Speaker 3: of this. Beyonce has given her official permission to the
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Speaker 3: Harris campaign to use this song Freedom, and she plays
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Speaker 3: it a lot at the rallies for anyone who watches them.
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Speaker 3: Fifty thousand people expected in Chicago for this convention, four
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Speaker 3: thousand delegates, and what a turnaround for Carmela Harris. Five weeks.
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Speaker 3: This is incredible when you think about a week's a
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Speaker 3: long time in politics. Five weeks since Trump was shot
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Speaker 3: at just five weeks, four weeks since Biden pulled out,
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Speaker 3: two weeks since she officially won the nomination through that
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Speaker 3: role call and ten weeks until the election day, and
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Speaker 3: she's at least even the playing field on current polling,
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Speaker 3: if not ahead of Trump in some key swing states.
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Speaker 3: So she's done pretty well in that regard, hasn't she?
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Speaker 3: Things to watch? Number one the Gaza protests which are
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Speaker 3: happening on the sidelines. Number two, it's Biden's day today.
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Speaker 3: Overnight He's going to endorse Harris. I mean he should
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Speaker 3: have been giving an acceptance speech. That's obviously not going
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Speaker 3: to happen. A Number three Trump's reaction that should be fun.
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Speaker 3: Nineteen after five.
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Speaker 2: News and Views you Trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 3: Zidby twenty one after five on your Tuesday morning. A
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Speaker 3: warning only call the ambulance today if you have life
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Speaker 3: threatening health issues. Saint John Ambulance staff are voted to
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Speaker 3: go ahead with a national withdrawal of labor after months
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Speaker 3: of foul pay negotiations. More than two and a half
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Speaker 3: thousand officers are staggering at four hour withdrawals of labor
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Speaker 3: until four am tomorrow, So this all kicked off in
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Speaker 3: well an hour and a half ago. Now this withdrawal
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Speaker 3: of labor. We're joined by Mark Quinn, who's with the
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Speaker 3: New Zealand Ambulance Association. Mark, good morning, good morning, thanks
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Speaker 3: for being with us. What is the worst time to
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Speaker 3: call an ambulance today? Do you have an idea?
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Speaker 6: No, I mean I think in every person's world there's
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Speaker 6: always never a good time to call an ambulance. Would
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Speaker 6: be the simple way to call it.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, they're saying this is Saint John have mentioned
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Speaker 3: between the hours of six and ten am and then
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Speaker 3: ten to six to ten pm tonight just because of
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Speaker 3: the way that shifts are structured and stuff.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so of course there is life preserving services across
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Speaker 6: but and particularly covering from six to ten would be
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Speaker 6: at a time and six till ten tonight as well.
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Speaker 6: That's where generally the shifts on these multiple times when
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Speaker 6: shifts are changing over and even in Auckland which has
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Speaker 6: an exception and it has what we call swing shifts,
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Speaker 6: so those shifts start at various times eight nine, ten
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Speaker 6: o'clock through the twelve o'clock. So again those just will
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Speaker 6: be incurring a late start of four hours.
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Speaker 3: And we'll be operating at seventy percent capacity. Is that
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Speaker 3: enough for the life preserving side of it?
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Speaker 6: Well, to be honest, that's what we run sometimes on
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Speaker 6: a daily basis. We've run lower than that at times
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Speaker 6: due to sick calls, particularly when we had COVID. So yeah,
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Speaker 6: some days in some areas. And it's the first interesting
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Speaker 6: FEEDBA we're getting back that some of the areas are
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Speaker 6: not noticing the difference because they're running that low that
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Speaker 6: sometimes with ambulances due to various reasons.
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Speaker 3: How low do we go?
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Speaker 5: Good question?
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Speaker 6: And this is the question we're asking, do you want
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Speaker 6: to have a third world run eminance service or at
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Speaker 6: first world eminance service which is well funded? And that's
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Speaker 6: the underlying issue.
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Speaker 3: Mark, what's the shortfall at the moment between what the
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Speaker 3: unions want and what ACC and Health New Zealand are
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Speaker 3: willing to fund. Saint John.
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Speaker 6: And actual percentages? You know, there's at least we haven't
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Speaker 6: got into the numbers, but we're probably well that offer
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Speaker 6: has been made below inflaciery pressures and we need to
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Speaker 6: get it up above a placer preod because we're playing
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Speaker 6: We're nine months into an agreement and it's all very
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Speaker 6: well for people just you know, politicians are particularly excited
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Speaker 6: in the coalition government to talk about allowing CPI. But
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Speaker 6: you know, we've been missing out and we had a
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Speaker 6: previous deal that was at six percent that Saint John
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Speaker 6: pulled out of where it was a sign seal settlement
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Speaker 6: and they pulled out of it. So this is that
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Speaker 6: this is our problem, expecting us to take a live
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Speaker 6: percentage on one that they had previously agreed to.
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Speaker 3: What are they what are they offering if not sex.
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Speaker 6: Well below CPI the at the moment, there's a two
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Speaker 6: in there.
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Speaker 3: What a two? It starts with a two? Yep, right,
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Speaker 3: So we've got a way to go, haven't we. And
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Speaker 3: more strike actions planned for Saturday for those who are interested. Mark,
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Speaker 3: thanks for your time. Mark Quendin is in an Ambulance Association.
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Speaker 3: Twenty five after five the early.
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Speaker 1: Talks it me.
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Speaker 3: It has just gone twenty seven to five. So ever
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Speaker 3: wondered what the funniest joke in the world is, Well,
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Speaker 3: I can tell you because the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has
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Speaker 3: declared the funniest joke It's a ship gag, a gag
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Speaker 3: about a ship, as in like a vessel that goes
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Speaker 3: a boat that goes in the ocean. And to be honest,
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Speaker 3: it's not that funny. And maybe I'm just getting older
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Speaker 3: and minjea about life. I don't know, maybe I don't
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Speaker 3: find things as funny anymore. Movies. Have you ever tried
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Speaker 3: to find a funny movie lately? Have you managed to
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Speaker 3: find one? No, because they don't make them anymore. They
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Speaker 3: certainly don't make jokes that are actually funny at the
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Speaker 3: Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And I should preface this by saying that, look,
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Speaker 3: I'm not funny, so you know, it is a hard
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Speaker 3: thing to do. I get it. But I just wonder
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Speaker 3: whether we're not being a little too safe with our comedy,
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Speaker 3: something Jerry Seinfeld spoke about when he was in New Zealand. Recently.
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Speaker 3: People can't push the boundaries anymore. Let me just read
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Speaker 3: you there's a few in the top ten funniest jokes
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Speaker 3: at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And actually you can try
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Speaker 3: and guess is this a joke, you know, is this
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Speaker 3: a comedy festival or is this from a Christmas Cracker?
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Speaker 3: Number one. I was going to sail around the globe
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Speaker 3: in the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it. That
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Speaker 3: was literally the funniest joke at the end Refringe Festival.
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Speaker 3: And maybe because I'm reading these from a story, maybe
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Speaker 3: it's the delivery that's funny. Maybe that's what's missing. But
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Speaker 3: I've been taking souls lessons for months, but I just
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Speaker 3: don't feel like I'm progressing. It's just one step forward,
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Speaker 3: two steps back. That was the second funniest joke. Number three.
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Speaker 3: Eight horse at a restaurant once wasn't great. Starter was
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Speaker 3: all right, but the main was dreadful. Do you want
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Speaker 3: to keep going? I sailed through my driving test, That's
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Speaker 3: why I failed. That's number four. These are not Christmas
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Speaker 3: Cracker jokes. These are from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Whatever
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Speaker 3: happened to the really good ones do? My favorite comedian
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Speaker 3: was Joan Rivers. She was rude and shocking and outrageous
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Speaker 3: and actually a real pioneer and a trailblazer for women
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Speaker 3: in her field as well. But you know, while she's
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Speaker 3: dead and so good jokes, it seems twenty nine after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk zidby.
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Speaker 3: Twenty four away from six new Salk ZB We're light
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Speaker 3: at the DNC in Chicago just before six this morning.
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Speaker 3: Find out who's speaking. Biden's going to talk, Barack Obama
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Speaker 3: is going to speak this week, Hillary Clinton speaking, and
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Speaker 3: of course Karmala Harris will give a press conference. She
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Speaker 3: still hasn't given a proper presser and she's been the
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Speaker 3: official nominee for a couple of weeks. It's been four
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Speaker 3: weeks since Biden said bye bye. So where is it
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Speaker 3: and where's even just an interview, just one sit down interview. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: We'll ask our reporter, who's at the DNC in Chicago
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Speaker 3: just before six this morning. Jokes, anyone got any good jokes?
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Speaker 3: Nine nine two is the number of text if you
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Speaker 3: can make us laugh this morning? Certainly not happening from
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Speaker 3: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was reading out that in
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Speaker 3: the top ten funniest jokes this year. Here's another one.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to know which came first, the chicken or
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Speaker 3: the egg. So I bought a chicken and then I
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Speaker 3: bought an egg, and I think I've cracked it. This
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Speaker 3: is serious stuff. This is probably the funniest of the ten.
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Speaker 3: The conspiracy theory about the moon being made of cheese
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Speaker 3: was started by the Illuminati, and that's as good as
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Speaker 3: it gets anyway. Nine two. If you've got a funny joke, Ryan,
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Speaker 3: the world is too afraid to offend itself. Of these
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Speaker 3: days we need another Billy T. James. That's Steve from
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Speaker 3: Deck Witty, and another here says you should be playing
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Speaker 3: the Rowan Atkinson, that's mister Bean. He has a good
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Speaker 3: rant on Tally. I think it's on YouTube as well
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Speaker 3: about free speech in the UK. A lot of the
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Speaker 3: jokes that he told even just a few years ago,
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Speaker 3: he's not allowed to tell now, or they wouldn't be
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Speaker 3: allowed on, certainly on mainstream television. Twenty two away from six,
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge, and we're going to Callen Proctor who's in Dunedin.
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Speaker 3: As we check in with our reporters around the country.
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Speaker 3: Calum calls for more caution when crossing coastal bars.
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Speaker 4: Morning, Ryan, Ye, this is from Water Safety in New Zealand.
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Speaker 4: They're urging skipper is here to take more responsibility following
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Speaker 4: two incidents in the South in the last three weeks,
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Speaker 4: and we certainly don't want any more three people died
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Speaker 4: when a boat capsized in Rivetson last month, while a
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Speaker 4: man died in similar circumstances in the Catlands on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Water Safety and is its chief executive as Daniel Girard.
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Speaker 4: He says coastal bars are unpredictable and are often character
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Speaker 4: by rapidly changing conditions. He says it's important that time's
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Speaker 4: taken to access conditions so any unnecessary risks are avoided.
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Speaker 4: And whether today come fine for janed and the chance
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Speaker 4: of his shower morning and evening, but otherwise fine but
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Speaker 4: still cold after the snow from yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Fresh wessel is and eleven the height got any good jokes?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Those ones that you've told so far are the flashes?
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Speaker 3: No, it's pretty disappointing, isn't it? Clear than christ Church? Thanks,
20:29
Speaker 3: come on clear. I won't ask you about that. I'll
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Speaker 3: ask you about the hospitality precinct and the CBD.
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Speaker 7: Far too early for joking, Ryan, Look. Yes, the device
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Speaker 7: of this ambitious hospitality precinct in christ Church is believed
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Speaker 7: to be reflective of the wider sector struggles. We said
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Speaker 7: yesterday that local businessman Darren Rainburd has confirmed voluntary liquidations
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Speaker 7: likely for his venture the Grand he'll lose his home
20:52
Speaker 7: as a result of that business. Canterbury Chief executively Anne
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Speaker 7: Watson has weighed in. She's acknowledging it's really tough for
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Speaker 7: all operators at the moment. Of course. She's also noted
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Speaker 7: the timing. This comes while the christ Church Cathedral is
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Speaker 7: facing likely mothballing after a funding blowout there as well.
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Speaker 7: She says it's very disappointing when any business and city
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Speaker 7: like christ Church finds themselves in this situation.
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Speaker 3: Thank you clear, how's the weather.
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Speaker 7: So cold to start today? So morning frost but will
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Speaker 7: clear to find westerlyes. The high is eleven.
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Speaker 3: Thank you MX Tollers and Wellington this morning. Max a
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Speaker 3: million bucks to protect some snails. Is this a joke?
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Speaker 8: Y're surprising costs of construction?
21:31
Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 8: A building of the new u Tachy to north of
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Speaker 8: Levin Road begins next year. It'll connect up with the
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Speaker 8: recently opened Pecapecka to au Tachy Expressway. All very handy
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Speaker 8: going up and down the Lower North Island. Ecological surveys
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Speaker 8: have been done along the stretch and they found the
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Speaker 8: presence of this threatened snails species called a Powella Fanta Traversi.
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Speaker 8: They're big, they come in different colors. They're at risk
21:57
Speaker 8: apparently and under the Wildlife Act, plans have got to
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Speaker 8: be drawn up to relocate them from up to one
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Speaker 8: point one million dollars and no delay in building the road.
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Speaker 8: But certainly a bit of a headache for the Transport agency.
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Speaker 8: Certainly is and we're the today max should we mainly
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Speaker 8: find Southerly's high of ten in the city. Thank you
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Speaker 8: Wendy Petrees in our Auckland studio this morning, rushing in.
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Speaker 8: That's all right, good morning, Hello, how are you good?
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Speaker 3: Thank you? And you're talking about this well, it was
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Speaker 3: terrible the shooting in Pakotranger. It was a posting career driver.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 9: It was an Auckland councilor says a fatal shooting in
22:34
Speaker 9: his part of town, Parkodrang are shattering their community. The
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Speaker 9: man died soon after being found inside the vehicle on
22:40
Speaker 9: Pakodranger's Marvin Downs av He was a courier driver shot
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Speaker 9: inside his van. Police have launched a homicide investigation. The
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Speaker 9: yet to track down any suspects and there will be
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Speaker 9: an increased police presence in the area in the following
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Speaker 9: days and it was a rush hour shooting that was
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Speaker 9: near a school. It was causing traffic congestion and people
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Speaker 9: are worried in Parkodrang Counselor Marris Williamson says, twenty years
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Speaker 9: ago something like this would never have even been contemplated.
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Speaker 3: You've got any good jokes?
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Speaker 9: Do you know? I heard you talking about jokes and
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Speaker 9: I just madly scrambled and looked and googled dad jokes
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Speaker 9: because that's you know, they might got to be clean,
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Speaker 9: don't they, or do they?
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Speaker 3: Well you tell dirty jokes? Somebody's just somebody's Do you
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Speaker 3: work in a subway? Because I just went from a
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Speaker 3: six inch to a foot long, So I don't know.
23:28
Speaker 3: I guess you're.
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Speaker 9: Coming out now you've opened the floodgates.
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Speaker 3: What's your dad joke on that way?
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Speaker 9: It's so bad, that's something about what would you call
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Speaker 9: a singing sheep? What lady barbar?
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Speaker 2: I mean?
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Speaker 3: Honestly, well, it's better than the top ten we had
23:44
Speaker 3: from the Ennerifferent Festival. Yeah, they were pretty bad with
23:48
Speaker 3: it today.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, well it's another cloudy day. Although you know, I
23:52
Speaker 9: always think there's got to be a few spine spells
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Speaker 9: in between a few isolated showers too fresh southwesterlies. They
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Speaker 9: will ease and we've got a higher four ten degrees.
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Speaker 3: Today, Thank you, Wendy. It seventeen away.
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Speaker 1: From six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace
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Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 3: It is quartered to six on Newstalk ZB We're live
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Speaker 3: to the DNC the Democrats convention in Chicago in just
24:17
Speaker 3: a second. Right now, though Donald demands with us our
24:19
Speaker 3: Australia correspondent tell us about this deal that's been reached.
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Speaker 3: This is the corruption and the biking infiltration into the
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Speaker 3: union there.
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Speaker 10: Well, this is a significant deal and it has been
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Speaker 10: reached between the major parties. The CFMAU is to be
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Speaker 10: forced into administration because these new laws will be supported
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Speaker 10: by both the Labor government and the coalition. Effectively, it
24:41
Speaker 10: means the laws allow them federal government to take over
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Speaker 10: control of this troubled construction union. It was reached after
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Speaker 10: amendments were made. For instance, the administrator can be grilled
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Speaker 10: every six months in Parliament. Now this term all erupted
24:57
Speaker 10: after what you mentioned, these allegations that outlaw biking gangs
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Speaker 10: had infiltrated this major union, some of its branches, even
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Speaker 10: bikis allegedly appointed as delegates on major projects. There were
25:10
Speaker 10: claims of bullying, intimidation, corrupt conduct. We now know that
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Speaker 10: after this bill was reached there will pois. Minister Murray
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Speaker 10: Watt has had to step up his security detail both
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Speaker 10: on the road and at home. The Construction Union says
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Speaker 10: it's planning to fight back and says these allegations remain
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Speaker 10: untested in the legal system.
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Speaker 3: Goodness May, are they worried about the biking gangs getting.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: All I know is that we have had a confirm
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Speaker 10: through the ABC that his security detail has been increased.
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Speaker 3: Goodness May all right, Hey, yeah, tell us about this
25:42
Speaker 3: Foxtael boss and the Nazi salute, an old Nazi salute.
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Speaker 2: I should say, yes, it's.
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Speaker 10: A photographer that has surfered surface that it was taken
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Speaker 10: about ten years ago. But Foxtel TV is a News
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Speaker 10: Corp owned streaming television company and look in a way
25:59
Speaker 10: it is a strife because it's boss. Patrick Delaney has
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Speaker 10: had to apologize this photo surface. It shows him and
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Speaker 10: as he put it, it's the similarity he was trying
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Speaker 10: to show. Sorry, the similarity between a gesture I e.
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Speaker 10: The Nazi salute and one used by some fans of
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Speaker 10: a Western Sydney soccer club. And now that photo was taken,
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Speaker 10: it's now surface and he's had to apologize. In his words,
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Speaker 10: he is very sorry. He put the apology in an
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Speaker 10: email to staff, an internal email, and he wrote that
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Speaker 10: regardless of the context, the fact that he demonstrated this
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Speaker 10: is offensive, and he called the salute offensive and it
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Speaker 10: was wrong. But he says that he was impersonating a
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Speaker 10: threatening gesture made by a group of sport fans and
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Speaker 10: the photo is completely inconsistent with his values, beliefs and
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Speaker 10: family collections and connections and condemns racism in all its forms. Now,
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Speaker 10: naturally the Jewish Council of Australia has condemned what they've seen.
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Speaker 10: Let's see if the apology is enough in a see
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Speaker 10: if Patrick Delaney actually keeps his job.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean hard to say from a photo,
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Speaker 3: wasn't it because you don't really know what was going
27:06
Speaker 3: It's not like it's a video. But yeah, as you say,
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Speaker 3: I suppose at least he's apologized for that. Donna demo
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Speaker 3: Our Australia correspondent it is twelve minutes away from six,
27:16
Speaker 3: Bryan Bridge, and it is day one of the Democratic
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Speaker 3: National Convention in Chicago. Today. Biden is going to be
27:23
Speaker 3: speaking later on our time. We've got Obama speaking Tuesday.
27:27
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton is speaking as well. You've got Waltz on Thursday,
27:31
Speaker 3: and then you've got Harris the main event on Friday,
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Speaker 3: our time. Simon Marx is with Feature Story News is
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Speaker 3: a correspondent. He's at the convention in Chicago and he's
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Speaker 3: with us now. Good morning. Well we'll get there in
27:46
Speaker 3: a second. It's a long way from here to Chicago.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Simon.
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Speaker 11: Good morning Ryan. Can you hear me?
27:52
Speaker 5: Okay?
27:52
Speaker 3: I got you just fine? Thank you for being with us.
27:55
Speaker 3: What's the main event? What's happening today?
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Speaker 11: Well, they're getting me awkward stuff out of the way
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Speaker 11: here today. We're beginning to see some delegates arriving here
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Speaker 11: at the United Center where this ninety six hour made
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Speaker 11: for TV spectacular will be playing out over the next
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Speaker 11: four days. And of course it's all about swooning over
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Speaker 11: Kamala Harris and propelling her on her less than eighty
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Speaker 11: day journey to elect the day, but to month about
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Speaker 11: swooning over President Joe Biden and paying fulsome tribute to him,
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Speaker 11: not least for his decision to drop out of his
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Speaker 11: re election campaign. So President Biden will be the main
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Speaker 11: speaker on the first night here, alongside First Lady Jill
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Speaker 11: Biden and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. In many ways,
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Speaker 11: the Democrats consigning some of the more uncomfortable moments of
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Speaker 11: this convention to the first night in order to get
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Speaker 11: them out of the way, to clear the decks, so
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Speaker 11: that Kamala Harris can then pivot away from her ongoing
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Speaker 11: need at the moment a tribute to Joe Biden and
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Speaker 11: to focus instead on the direction that she wants to
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Speaker 11: take this party, not just between now an election day,
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Speaker 11: but of course over the next four years if she wins.
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Speaker 3: Four weeks since Spiden pulled out of the right, two
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Speaker 3: weeks since Harris officially won the nomination through that role, call,
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Speaker 3: does is she going to given in? Have you has she?
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Speaker 3: Do you know? Have you heard whether she's doing a
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Speaker 3: one on one with anybody around the convention or is
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Speaker 3: there a press conference.
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Speaker 11: There's no indication of an interview or a press conference.
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Speaker 11: They certainly haven't announced that yet. And as you know,
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Speaker 11: she's been heavily criticized by former President Donald Trump for
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Speaker 11: her failure to give interviews. But I think that the
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Speaker 11: Harris team, you know, they've been thrust into this unexpectedly
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Speaker 11: behind the scenes, they're trying to figure out what all
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Speaker 11: of this means in terms of the party's platform. It's manifesto,
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Speaker 11: which will be officially adopted here because they've basically inherited
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Speaker 11: Joe Biden's manifesto. And you've got tens of thousands of
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Speaker 11: protesters airing down or threatening to bear down on the
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Speaker 11: convention site saying they want the platform to be rewritten
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Speaker 11: certainly as far as the Middle East is concerned and
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Speaker 11: the crisis in Gaza, and she wants this to go
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Speaker 11: absolutely flawlessly over the next four days. There is a
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Speaker 11: margin for error for her. She's had a huge fillip
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Speaker 11: here in the last couple of hours. A fresh Fox
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Speaker 11: News poll suggests that she has a six point lead
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Speaker 11: over Donald Trump among likely voters. And she'll be hoping
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Speaker 11: to get a big bump out of this convention when
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Speaker 11: it is over cementing that lead in place, and then
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Speaker 11: perhaps they will get to interviews, a forum in which
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Speaker 11: she has not always excelled in the past.
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Speaker 3: Interesting, isn't it. Simon Thanks for that, Simon Marx if
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Speaker 3: it's in correspondent at the DNC in Chicago which kicks
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Speaker 3: off today and Bridge Rich eight minutes away from six
30:53
Speaker 3: very quickly Mercury have their annual results out at eight
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Speaker 3: thirty this morning. I'm sure Mike will get to some
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Speaker 3: of the later on. You might have seen that the
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Speaker 3: Contact Energy result came out yesterday net profit two hundred
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Speaker 3: and thirty five million bucks, up from two hundred and eleven. Interestingly,
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Speaker 3: Contact not so affected by this spike in the electricity
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Speaker 3: price on the spot market that we have seen in
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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. Their customer is not as
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Speaker 3: exposed to the spot price market because most of their
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Speaker 3: deals are their customers are pre sold, so not as
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Speaker 3: exposed to that. And an interesting story in the Herald
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Speaker 3: this morning which I employ you to go and read
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Speaker 3: from Cape McNamara about Methnex to the Rescue again, this
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Speaker 3: time for a government gas supply contract basically to keep
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Speaker 2: The first the.
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Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 3: Five away from six on news Talk said, the DNC
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Speaker 3: happening in Chicago this week? Will you be watching this
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Speaker 3: mic as much?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: No, I do. I do.
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Speaker 12: The funny thing I was thinking yesterday is that if
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Speaker 12: you think about the Republican thing, it went fantastically. Forget
32:11
Speaker 12: the politics of it all that as far as the
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Speaker 12: convention went, it was to time.
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Speaker 3: Every day.
32:15
Speaker 12: They had great speeches, the crewdible whipped into a frenzy,
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Speaker 12: and yet ultimately it meant nothing. I don't think about it.
32:21
Speaker 12: You think about it now and go back a couple
32:23
Speaker 12: of weeks. They were fizzing, they were set to go,
32:24
Speaker 12: the race was over, it was all on. So unless
32:26
Speaker 12: you basically cock it up, then it doesn't count for much.
32:30
Speaker 12: So it's designed to whip the party into a bit
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Speaker 12: of a fizz.
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Speaker 3: Because some reckon that she'll get a honeymoon on top
32:35
Speaker 3: of a honeymoon from the convention. But it's crazy, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: Five weeks ago the shooting happened. It's right. Four weeks
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Speaker 3: ago Biden pulled out here we are today in the race,
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Speaker 3: it is completely different.
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Speaker 12: And that's the thing. I mean, when the day that
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Speaker 12: Trump got shot, that was the end of the race.
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Speaker 3: Apparently it was all over. It was his to loose.
32:53
Speaker 12: And now it's anybody's race. And so that's not to
32:56
Speaker 12: say that in the next couple of weeks it's going
32:58
Speaker 12: to twist again. And that's why you shouldn't be going, Oh,
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Speaker 12: I know, she get all the momentum. She's home free.
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Speaker 12: No one's home free. And so I'm so yes, is
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Speaker 12: the answer to the question. And not only will I
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Speaker 12: be watching, we'll be having some people on to talk
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Speaker 12: about it, and Prime Minister in today. By the way,
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Speaker 12: rainy old day on the Mariah long way to go
33:16
Speaker 12: to be insulted all day, wasn't it.
33:18
Speaker 3: But the polls are shining on him.
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Speaker 12: They are shining on they're shining on him, they're shining
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Speaker 12: ish on the government. And so he's got some good
33:25
Speaker 12: numbers to back him up. He'll be and the economy
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Speaker 12: I think is probably turning a wee bit too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that'll help him for the next one. Mike,
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Speaker 3: cost me with you next. That's it from me for today.
33:34
Speaker 3: I'll see tomorrow.
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