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Full Show Podcast: 01 August 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with ex Pole insulation, Keeping Kiwi Holmes warm
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Speaker 1: and try this winter news talk ZV.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to Friday. Just gone six after five.
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Speaker 2: Coming up on the show this morning, it's d day
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Speaker 2: for Trump and his tariffs. It's deadline time. Todd McClay
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Speaker 2: will be waiting by the letterbox for an envelope from Washington. Today.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at exactly what we think will happen, because
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Speaker 2: really no one actually knows. The government is publishing council's
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Speaker 2: financial performance metrics. Guess who's not happy about that. Gavin
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Speaker 2: Gray's in the UK for US this morning. We've got
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Speaker 2: China factory activity numbers cooling and what happens when you
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Speaker 2: get a WASP nest at a nuclear weapons facility radioactive
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Speaker 2: wasp nest Apparently. I'll tell you all about that story
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Speaker 2: out of the States this morning too. It is seven
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Speaker 2: after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Friday, August the first. Canada has joined Rance
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Speaker 2: and the UK to announce plans to recognize the Palestinian
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Speaker 2: state and it could affit their trade deal with Trump
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Speaker 2: over an eighth President Trump posted on social media that
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Speaker 2: Cannada's support for Palestinian statehood would make it very hard
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Speaker 2: for the US to make a trade deal with Canada.
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Speaker 2: Now on trade with just under twenty four hours ago,
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Speaker 2: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade negotiations are not
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Speaker 2: likely to conclude by the deadline, but faces tariff of
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Speaker 2: thirty five percent if the deal is not strike. Mexico
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Speaker 2: has got a stay of execution a further than ninety
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Speaker 2: days to Kiev now and twelve people have been killed
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Speaker 2: in overnight strikes that brought down an apartment lock.
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Speaker 3: In all, when it's standard, about two dozen locations in
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Speaker 3: the Ukrainian capital have been hit, including hospitals and schools.
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Speaker 3: In all, the Ukrainian air forces that Russia sent more
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Speaker 3: than three hundred attack drones.
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Speaker 2: And this is a fascinating story out of America. The
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Speaker 2: oldest baby in the world has been born. This is
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Speaker 2: from an embryo that was frozen in nineteen ninety four
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Speaker 2: and Ohio couple adopted the thirty one year old frozen
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Speaker 2: embryo and have welcomed a baby boy. It's believed to
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Speaker 2: be the longest an embryo has been frozen before resulting
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Speaker 2: in a successful birth. The previous record was a pair
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Speaker 2: of twins born from embryos that were thirty years old.
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Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it has just gone eight minutes after five. I
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Speaker 2: find this story absolutely fascinating. So just a a little
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Speaker 2: bit of background for you. So it's, yeah, technically the
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Speaker 2: oldest embryo in the world nineteen ninety four. So couple
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Speaker 2: wants a baby, they have to adopt an embryo because
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Speaker 2: they can't conceive themselves. Enter Linda. Now Linda is a
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Speaker 2: biological mother of this baby. Linda is sixty two years
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Speaker 2: old and she's got her own kids. She's got kids
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Speaker 2: in her thirties. So thirty years ago, Linda and her
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Speaker 2: then husband, so biological mum, biological dad, they need to
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Speaker 2: go through IVF because they struggled to get pregnant, etc.
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Speaker 2: And then in nineteen ninety four they had four embryos.
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Speaker 2: One was used to make their daughter, who's now in
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Speaker 2: their thirties. The rest were frozen, So you've got three
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Speaker 2: frozen embryos. And then sometime in the intervening thirty years,
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Speaker 2: Linda gets divorced from the biological father. So she then
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Speaker 2: in the custody battle, she wins the embryos after divorcing
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Speaker 2: the husband, and then she learns about this embryo adoption situation.
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Speaker 2: So apparently what happens in America, if you want to
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Speaker 2: go for embryo adoption, you've got embryos that fertilized eggs
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Speaker 2: that you can hand over to someone. Then you can
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Speaker 2: decide what type of people will get that embryo, And
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Speaker 2: in this case, Linda decides she's got a preference for
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Speaker 2: the child to be adopted by a white Christian married couple,
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Speaker 2: which just so happens to be your Ohio, Lindsay and
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Speaker 2: Tim Pearce. They now have a new baby that's whose
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Speaker 2: embryo was three decades old. Isn't that fascinating anyway? That's
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Speaker 2: how they do in America. A lot more difficult to
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Speaker 2: do that sort of stuff here. You can imagine ten
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Speaker 2: minutes after five. So, yes, we are talking about Trump today,
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Speaker 2: and we are talking about his tariffs. He's got us
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Speaker 2: right where he wants us, looking at him and listening
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Speaker 2: to him and waiting on his every word. Apparently we
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Speaker 2: will get a letter sometime in the next twenty four hours,
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Speaker 2: so we'll keep you across that, and we'll have someone
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Speaker 2: out of the States for you just before six this morning.
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Speaker 2: Also NCA, I want to try to fill you in
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Speaker 2: on this new briefing because it's we know it's not great,
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Speaker 2: but the more you hear about it, the more you
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Speaker 2: kind of start to pull your hair out. And how
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Speaker 2: fair is it on the kids who are still doing
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Speaker 2: NCA right now doesn't seem very fair to me. We
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Speaker 2: will talk about that just after the news at five
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Speaker 2: point thirty. Right now it's eleven after and next it's
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Speaker 2: your local councils. Have you seen the government's print out
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Speaker 2: of their financial metrics? Well, Campbell Barry has and he's upset.
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Speaker 2: He's here next.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Branch and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and
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Speaker 1: dry this winter, News Talk said be.
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Speaker 2: Just gone thirteen minutes after five on news Talk said,
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Speaker 2: b So the tariffs for Mexico, they have managed to
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Speaker 2: shinebum the Mexican president. She's managed to get a stay
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Speaker 2: of execution another ninety days. So the ninety days will
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Speaker 2: be at twenty five percent, which is the current sort
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Speaker 2: of de facto rate that will continue for another ninety days,
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Speaker 2: and that will help them avoid a higher rate of
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Speaker 2: thirty percent, so they're actually only squibbling over squabbling over
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Speaker 2: five percent. But there you go. They are got a
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Speaker 2: little delay there and another three months they've been on
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Speaker 2: the blower together, these two, and you start to think,
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Speaker 2: I wondered some of the plan here, Like the strategy
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Speaker 2: is just to lurch from deadline to deadline, try and
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Speaker 2: push this thing out as far as it can go,
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Speaker 2: you know, try and wear Trump out a little bit,
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Speaker 2: or maybe Chilli, he's only got three and a half
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Speaker 2: years left in office. Maybe they'll just push it, push
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Speaker 2: it out as far as they can get it. The
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Speaker 2: problem is that just because the Democrats might get an
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Speaker 2: after Trump leaves, and you know, obviously there could be
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Speaker 2: another Republican candidate. But if just because the Democrats get in,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that they will automatically cancel these teriffs.
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Speaker 2: Of course, because Biden didn't do that. For a lot
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Speaker 2: of what Trump brought in to do with China, Biden
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Speaker 2: didn't get on board with, Sorry, didn't cancel. So it
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Speaker 2: just because you change parties and presidents doesn't necessarily mean
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Speaker 2: that you change policies. Now, this is the story out
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Speaker 2: out of South Carolina. We're in America. This morning, quarter
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Speaker 2: past five, the US Department of Energy has discovered a
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Speaker 2: radioactive wasp nest. This is at one of their facilities
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Speaker 2: in South Carolina, involved in the production of parts for
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. Okay, so what you got is radioactive wasp
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Speaker 2: nest discovered at a nuclear waste storage facility, and obviously
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Speaker 2: everyone freaks out. They reckon, Actually, it's in the middle
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Speaker 2: of this massive facility and they can only go a
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Speaker 2: couple of hundred meters or something, so they're not going
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Speaker 2: to get out. Also, they reckon it was more than
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Speaker 2: nest than the actual wasps that were radioactive, so they're
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Speaker 2: not flying around, you know, stinging people and then sending
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Speaker 2: them radioactive too. But it's just fascinating the size of
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Speaker 2: this facility. They have twenty two underground carbon steel tanks here,
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Speaker 2: with each tank reportedly capable of holding two point eight
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Speaker 2: million to five million liters of radioactive waste. And the
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Speaker 2: twenty two of them just at this one site. Isn't
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Speaker 2: that fascinating. Savannah River is called built in the nearly
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Speaker 2: nineteen fifties and focused on the production of plutonium until
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Speaker 2: the end of the Cold War, and still there and
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Speaker 2: still going strong. Apparently enough to get the WASP nest involved.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen after five News Talks VB, we will talk about
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Speaker 2: those financial metrics for your councils in a few moments.
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Speaker 2: We will also just before six o'clock talk to a
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Speaker 2: guy out of the States. This is from the Federal
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Speaker 2: Tax Foundation about the deadline for Trump's trade tariffs. When
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Speaker 2: is it? Exactly? When will we find out our fate
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Speaker 2: and the rest of the world.
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Speaker 4: It's all ahead on your radio and online on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 4: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and x Fole Insulation keeping
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Speaker 4: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
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Speaker 1: This Winter News TALKSB.
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Speaker 2: Five nineteen on NEWSTALKSB Welcome back to the program. There
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Speaker 2: are concerns this morning about regulations of genetically modified fooddes
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Speaker 2: Minister for Food Safety Andrew Hoggart has quietly greenlit new
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Speaker 2: rules set by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand. The
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Speaker 2: changes have been genetically modified food without foreign DNA would
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Speaker 2: no longer need to be labeled as genetically modified in supermarkets.
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Speaker 2: John Karapia is gee Free New Zealand with us this morning. John,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Hello. What's wrong with that?
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Speaker 5: Well, the main problem is that the deal in New
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Speaker 5: Zealand has always been that whether you can support GMOs
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Speaker 5: or don't support GMOs, there'd be a right to choose,
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Speaker 5: so there'll be disclosure in the supermarkets. And we haven't
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Speaker 5: actually had many GMOs in New Zealand. There's some imported,
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Speaker 5: many imported as processed oils and other ingredients, but nothing
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Speaker 5: in New Zealand has grown. That's g of gew That's
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Speaker 5: about to change potentially with the gen Technology Bill going
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Speaker 5: through Parliament separately. But what has had and yesterday or
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Speaker 5: a couple of days ago, is that after many years
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Speaker 5: of consulting with the public saying do you want do
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Speaker 5: you really want to know it's a GMO, the answer
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Speaker 5: was yes from the public submissions to the food authorities,
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Speaker 5: but they completely ignore the public. They said that labeling
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Speaker 5: was out of scope and there isn't going to be
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Speaker 5: any and that decision is based on as you said,
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Speaker 5: it's based on if there's no foreign DNA, it's been
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Speaker 5: ginge edited, but it's not going to be labeled. And
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Speaker 5: that's a furthe a scientific furfee, obviously in the interests
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Speaker 5: of industry, because the real reason why there's not been
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Speaker 5: many GMOs in the New Zeum and it's not because
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Speaker 5: they've been a ban, because there hasn't been a ban,
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Speaker 5: but really the market has said they don't want it,
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Speaker 5: both locally and globally. So to jack it up, to
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Speaker 5: jack up the market, to have like essentially set up
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Speaker 5: market failure by you're not going to have a choice,
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Speaker 5: that's really wrong. And that's why it's really bad that
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Speaker 5: the ministers signed this off with the Australian ministers to
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Speaker 5: say you're not going to have a.
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Speaker 2: Choice, John Food Standards Australia New Zealand. They say, actually,
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Speaker 2: this is going to provide more clarity for consumers, for
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Speaker 2: your customers that the definition change they're talking about is
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Speaker 2: focusing on the change that's been made rather than the
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Speaker 2: process used to make the change.
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Speaker 5: That's right, And as I say that for scientific and
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Speaker 5: consumer furthy, because consumers care about how things are made.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if you think about like a free range
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Speaker 5: often there's not a big difference in the product, but
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Speaker 5: the way the animal was run, the way it was raised,
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Speaker 5: is important for consumers. And so whether it's a safety
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Speaker 5: issue or not, and it is a safety issue, by
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Speaker 5: the way, and I'll explain that shortly, but whether it's
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Speaker 5: a safety issue or not. The risk should not be
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Speaker 5: transferred onto the consumer because they don't know it's GMO.
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Speaker 5: And to take away that labeling is really as it
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Speaker 5: completely overturns the social contract because the risk has always
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Speaker 5: been been left with the public. But the labeling and
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Speaker 5: the traceability and the testing of these products was like
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Speaker 5: the counter to that bill takes away chaseability. There is
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Speaker 5: no labeling and there's no pre testing. And that's where
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Speaker 5: the Achilles heel of the food safety comes in, right,
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Speaker 5: because if you don't check what you've done, it doesn't
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Speaker 5: have to have foreign DNA to have unexpected changes through
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Speaker 5: gene editing. And John's why the choy should be there.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I appreciate you coming on the show. That bell
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Speaker 2: that you're talking about obviously hasn't been through yet, but
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Speaker 2: we were talking about changes that were announced yesterday by
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Speaker 2: Food Safety by the Andrew Hoggart, who's the Food Minister.
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Speaker 2: Just gone twenty three minutes after five year on News
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Speaker 2: News Talks MB twenty five minutes after five Trump's got
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Speaker 2: us all right where he wants us this morning, guessing
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Speaker 2: what his next move is going to be this giant
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Speaker 2: game of tariff chest that no one else in the
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Speaker 2: world wanted to play, but we kind of forced to
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Speaker 2: play because there's a bigger kid on the block who's
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Speaker 2: threatening everybody else play with me. We don't want to,
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Speaker 2: but you have to. Sometime in the next twenty four hours,
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Speaker 2: leaders from practically every country on Earth will get a
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Speaker 2: letter from the White House declaring what their tariff rate
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Speaker 2: will be. Behind the scenes, our diplomats are being told
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Speaker 2: that the base rate should stay at ten percent, which
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Speaker 2: is where it's sitting now. But as always, the final
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Speaker 2: decision maker is Donald J. Trump, and he's prone to
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Speaker 2: some pretty bold sudden one eighties, so it is possible
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Speaker 2: give him what he said the other day that we
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Speaker 2: could be hit today with a fifteen or even twenty
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Speaker 2: percent rate, and it means our wine and our meat,
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Speaker 2: everything we send in trade there gets more expensive. But
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Speaker 2: it is all relative, So as long as we get
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Speaker 2: the lowest possible rate, will be as worse off or
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Speaker 2: better off than other exporters that we compete with. For
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Speaker 2: a man customers, but it's still not great, and you
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Speaker 2: don't want to push the price too high, do you
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Speaker 2: should consumers avoid the product altogether. So far, thankfully, that
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Speaker 2: hasn't happened to us. In America. We've passed on the
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Speaker 2: tariff without dropping prices and without dropping volumes. But that
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Speaker 2: was at ten percent. Twenty percent could be a very
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Speaker 2: different story. So as the world awaits its fate, you
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Speaker 2: can't help it feel a bit mifted. America. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how you feel about this, but here we are
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Speaker 2: at the bottom of the Pacific, cutting ribbons on a
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Speaker 2: brain spanking new FBI office and playing secret squirrels at
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Speaker 2: the behest of Washington. And the very next day, how
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Speaker 2: do they repay us, our so called friends? A letter
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Speaker 2: in the mail whacking our exporters with basically a new tax.
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Speaker 2: Twenty seven minutes after five News Talk said b Now,
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Speaker 2: if you're just tuning in, we've been talking this morning
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Speaker 2: a little bit about the councils and their financial performance
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Speaker 2: or lack thereof. So the government's released all of these spreadsheets,
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Speaker 2: Which does that excite you? The government's giving you a spreadsheet?
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Speaker 2: Are you going to read it? I don't think anyone will.
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Speaker 2: But if you have it, go and have a look online,
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Speaker 2: because you can look up your council. And it's got
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Speaker 2: demographics for you accounts, So it's like a fact sheet
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Speaker 2: on how they're performing rates, revenue, It's got your debt,
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Speaker 2: it's got you know, debt net debt is a proportion
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Speaker 2: of revenue, your debt, headroom for the previous financial year,
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Speaker 2: You're operating expenditure. Have I got you excited yet? It's
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Speaker 2: got staff numbers, how many personnel they've got, how that's
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Speaker 2: changed over the last year. Capital expenditure, what exactly is
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Speaker 2: it going on? Wastewater, stormwater, all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: So they released these fact sheets which someone presumably has
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Speaker 2: had to compile that would have cost money. That's a job.
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Speaker 2: Is it worth it? N nine two is the number
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Speaker 2: of text Is it worth it? Personally? I don't think
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Speaker 2: anyone's going to read them. I don't think anyone's going
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Speaker 2: to go ooh. I love First of all, I love
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Speaker 2: voting in a local election, and second of all, I
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Speaker 2: love a spreadsheet. Let's go. So anyway, we will continue
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Speaker 2: talking about that this morning. We get to our reporters
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Speaker 2: around the country after the news at five point thirty.
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Speaker 2: A quick little update for you too on China. This
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Speaker 2: is their factory, their latest pmis released yesterday and this
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Speaker 2: is for July not so great. Their factory sector contracting
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Speaker 2: at a faster rate and their services sector expansion has
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Speaker 2: all but basically disappeared evaporated because they were on a
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Speaker 2: bit of a roll. They were feeling pretty good and
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Speaker 2: doing pretty well. But that hot start to the year
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Speaker 2: seems to be dissipating somewhat slightly. Not the end of
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Speaker 2: the world, not disastrous, but certainly something to keep an
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Speaker 2: eye on. And we will talk after. Vincent mcavinie is
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Speaker 2: our UK europe correspondent. We're going to get him on
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Speaker 2: after the News at five point thirty as well. And
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Speaker 2: the American singer pop star who's not happy with Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump and not happy with Ice about their deportations will
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Speaker 2: tell you why what song of hers the using to
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Speaker 2: promote deportations is most upset. It's all ahead here on
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Speaker 2: News Talk SIB twenty nine minutes after five. Happy is
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Speaker 2: your Home? I can see it telling aded so many
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Speaker 2: days til I.
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Speaker 1: Can see you working news and views you trust to
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Speaker 6: Good morning, it is twenty four away from Sexier on
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Speaker 2: This song is by Jess Glynn. Now you might recognize
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Speaker 2: this song if you have kids or grandkids who are
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Speaker 2: all over TikTok. This is what they do. This song
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Speaker 2: along with some words apparently an ad from the nineties
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Speaker 2: for Jet Blue, which is a jet two, which is
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Speaker 2: a holiday company booking flights and accommodation for you. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: the Whites so they commandeer this ad from the nineties,
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Speaker 2: a bit of a throwback reference, and then they put
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Speaker 2: disastrous holiday happenings on video of disastrous holiday happenings. Now
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Speaker 2: the White House has taken this viral meme and has
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Speaker 2: done one of their own and put handcuffed immigrants on
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Speaker 2: planes and footage of ice agents walking them onto planes
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Speaker 2: and deporting them from the country. With this song and
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Speaker 2: with the meme, Now this is upset many, as you
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Speaker 2: can imagine, because it's a lot of people say very
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Speaker 2: bad taste. And Jess Glynn, who's performed this song, says,
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Speaker 2: the post from the White House account makes me quite sick.
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Speaker 2: My music's about love, unity and spreading positivity, never about
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Speaker 2: division or hate. There I don't think there's anything She
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Speaker 2: can do about it, but she's not happy. Twenty three
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Speaker 2: to six Ray and Bridge shit to Vincent macaviny, a
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Speaker 2: UK europe correspondent, and more on those tariffs that we're
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Speaker 2: expecting to be announced today from the White House. Coming
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Speaker 2: up shortly first though, our reporters around the country. Michael
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Speaker 2: Sergle's got some Dunedin news for us this morning. Michael,
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Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning Southland residents. What are they saying
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Speaker 2: about tourism.
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Speaker 7: Yes, our Regional Development Agency Great South has been surveying
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Speaker 7: locals in the Deep South. It sounds many people feel
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Speaker 7: they're personally benefited from the tourism industry and want to
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Speaker 7: see it thrive for the Orderland residents. I obviously see
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Speaker 7: a lot of tourism in that part of the country.
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Speaker 7: They have the most concerns about tourism, but they're also
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Speaker 7: seeing the most benefits. So the agency says, people clearly
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Speaker 7: want to see tourism done right, so that the right
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Speaker 7: approach to tourism.
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Speaker 2: All right. How's our weather?
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Speaker 7: A few showers in the morning, than clearing to find
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Speaker 7: in the afternoon a bit warmer today, ten degrees.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant Michael, Thank you, have a great day. Clears in
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Speaker 2: christ Church this morning. Clear get a good morning. I
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Speaker 2: saw Matt Doocy having a big winge about I'm assuming
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Speaker 2: this is the same TA two lane that you're going
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Speaker 2: to talk about in Canterbury.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Look, Matt Doocey's had a problem with T two lanes
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Speaker 8: for some time, but now he's got a real problem
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Speaker 8: with the one on the y Mucker Eddy Bridge. So
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Speaker 8: the transit lane there was added in twenty twenty. The
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Speaker 8: whole idea, as you can imagine, is to ease congestion
20:25
Speaker 8: and encourage car pooling into public transport use, basically as
20:29
Speaker 8: that North Canterbury area just continues to get bigger and busier.
20:32
Speaker 8: But there have been concerns from local residents and Matt
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Speaker 8: Doocey about these T two lanes causing congestion as well
20:38
Speaker 8: as frustration and even safety risks. MP Matt Doocey says
20:43
Speaker 8: people fight to get on the bridge and then they
20:45
Speaker 8: look over to the left only to see this free
20:47
Speaker 8: lane sitting there that's not being used. They say, it's
20:49
Speaker 8: not unlocking the potential of the bridge. He's now wanting
20:53
Speaker 8: people to sign a petition. We've spoken with NZTA though,
20:56
Speaker 8: who of course put the lane in place. They say
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Speaker 8: they're happy with how it's forming, but they will conduct
21:01
Speaker 8: a comprehensive review of the effectiveness.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So how can they be happy it's with how
21:07
Speaker 2: it's working if they haven't conducted a comprehensive review of
21:09
Speaker 2: its effectiveness, you know, and that's.
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Speaker 8: Since twenty twenty exactly.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, all right.
21:14
Speaker 2: How's your weather? Clear?
21:16
Speaker 8: Partly cloudy, a few showers but should clear this afternoon,
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Speaker 8: south for westerlies and nine degrees.
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Speaker 2: Have a great day, Max and Wellington, Hey, Max, good
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Speaker 2: morning Wellington on applates kicking off? Is this the burgers
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Speaker 2: where you get the really nice the burgers?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the burgers are a part of it. This is
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Speaker 9: our annual food festival. You have restaurants, bars cafes offering
21:35
Speaker 9: a one off special dish for the month of August.
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Speaker 9: Burger Wellington perhaps a little better known. That gets underway
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Speaker 9: on Monday.
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Speaker 2: But you're also going to.
21:42
Speaker 9: Get special cocktails, desserts. Most hospitality spots right around the
21:47
Speaker 9: region take part in this. There are some ticketed events
21:49
Speaker 9: like cooking classes or cocktail making master classes, et cetera.
21:54
Speaker 9: Two hundred and ten restaurant. Coming back to the important
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Speaker 9: part two hundred and ten restaurants offering a special burger.
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Speaker 9: It used to be possible here to get through all
22:02
Speaker 9: of them. Now you'd have to be some sort of
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Speaker 9: mister Creoso to even come close. There is a theme
22:07
Speaker 9: this year. It's pretty lame and prosaic. Food is love
22:10
Speaker 9: is the theme this year. So that's part of the
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Speaker 9: assignment for restaurants. Good to get out to a few
22:14
Speaker 9: places this month. For Wellington on a plate. I'll certainly
22:17
Speaker 9: certainly be aiming for double digit burgers myself.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good on. You could send us some photos so
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Speaker 2: I love it even just looking at burgers. It makes
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Speaker 2: me heavy, that's right. They do you get a mere's discount?
22:28
Speaker 2: Will you?
22:28
Speaker 1: Just?
22:28
Speaker 9: I wish to be and you said I was reviewing
22:31
Speaker 9: and maybe I could.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather?
22:34
Speaker 9: Mostly overcast, stronger southerlyast ten the high central nice one.
22:38
Speaker 2: Neiva is an Auckland. Good morning, Niva morning. Now what's
22:41
Speaker 2: going on with this owner of a construction truck and
22:44
Speaker 2: the driver?
22:44
Speaker 10: Oh, this is a terrible story, quite right, the driver
22:47
Speaker 10: owner of a construction truck which has and killed a
22:50
Speaker 10: roadwork and now this happened in May. This person has
22:52
Speaker 10: pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Now I think people will remember
22:56
Speaker 10: that Jonathan Walters died. This is after break failure caused
22:59
Speaker 10: the over twenty ton truck to roll down Victoria Avenue.
23:02
Speaker 10: This was in remu Era, a Shek transport director. This
23:07
Speaker 10: is a Sheikh Ali. He then fled in the truck,
23:10
Speaker 10: which had several safety warnings dating back to twenty eighteen.
23:14
Speaker 10: So Herald reporter Craig Capatan, he's been on the case.
23:16
Speaker 10: He says that it was also get a loaded. This
23:19
Speaker 10: unregistered for two years, had no warrant of fitness for
23:22
Speaker 10: over three years. The Herald also says at some point
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Speaker 10: the fifty five year old decided to switch registration plates
23:28
Speaker 10: rather than stop using it. So he is going to
23:30
Speaker 10: be sentenced in November.
23:32
Speaker 2: Horrible, no, very bad, bad story. Indeed, somebody has been
23:37
Speaker 2: texting us this morning saying, Ryan, can you please just
23:40
Speaker 2: ask your newsroom to make the news more positive.
23:45
Speaker 10: Of literally what fake news?
23:48
Speaker 3: Hi?
23:48
Speaker 2: You know, But the thing is that the news is
23:50
Speaker 2: what it is. It is, you know what I mean.
23:53
Speaker 2: It's because sometimes it's Friday morning you want to go, hey, yes,
23:55
Speaker 2: you know, but actually the news is the news.
23:58
Speaker 10: The news is the news. But do you know what Friday.
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Speaker 10: I always I do say to the newsroom, what other
24:03
Speaker 10: news have we got here? Can we have a bit
24:04
Speaker 10: of a giggle?
24:05
Speaker 1: Can we have a laugh?
24:05
Speaker 10: Or should I wear a costume? And I'm dressed as
24:07
Speaker 10: a carrot? That'll make me feel better? But yes, point taken.
24:10
Speaker 10: What's that person's name, Roger.
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Speaker 2: Hang on, I'll find you. Do you want me to
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Speaker 2: find you as number?
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
24:15
Speaker 2: Find his number. Do you want to give me call?
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Speaker 11: Ye?
24:17
Speaker 10: I'll gi him a call it. I'll give him his personal.
24:19
Speaker 2: Happy news, happy news, Yeah, one on one. How's that weather?
24:23
Speaker 9: Happy?
24:24
Speaker 10: Fine call? And Chris high fourteen but do you know what?
24:27
Speaker 10: This is not going to be good? Wrap up warm
24:29
Speaker 10: because it's a lower four.
24:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, and tomorrow's zero. I saw in Auckland southerly.
24:34
Speaker 10: The southerlyes are whipping in.
24:35
Speaker 2: All right, Thank you Neva, Neva and Auckland seventeen the
24:38
Speaker 2: happy never seventeen away from six news Talk, said B.
24:41
Speaker 2: And we'll get to our Vincent mcaviny out of the UK.
24:44
Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
24:49
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
24:51
Speaker 2: Call it the sixth on news Talk, said B. We'll
24:53
Speaker 2: get to the States in taris in a second right now,
24:55
Speaker 2: Vincent mcavanny our UK europe correspondent, UK, France, Canada all
25:00
Speaker 2: going to recognize Palestine, Palestine as a state, but the
25:04
Speaker 2: question is actually can they legally do it? Vincent's with
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Speaker 2: us now, Hi, Vincent, Ah, Yes, that's right. Donald Trump
25:12
Speaker 2: has been in the UK today and after a meeting
25:14
Speaker 2: with him where he warned him in advance, the British
25:17
Speaker 2: Prime Minister Kirs Starmer announced that unless Israel agrees to
25:21
Speaker 2: a new ceasefire deal, the UK will look to recognize
25:25
Speaker 2: Palestine as a state in the September at the sort
25:29
Speaker 2: of unger meeting the UN in New York, when France
25:32
Speaker 2: is likely to do the same. But lawyers here in
25:34
Speaker 2: the UK have banded together, some of them and written
25:37
Speaker 2: a statement saying currently under the treaty obligations that the
25:40
Speaker 2: UK observes Palestine because of the fact it hasn't had elections,
25:44
Speaker 2: that there isn't a recognizable government, that the border is disputed,
25:47
Speaker 2: may not be able to be declared in an individual states.
25:51
Speaker 2: So that is now hanging over that decision that he
25:53
Speaker 2: has taken, a real change in British position about recognizing Palestine.
25:57
Speaker 2: This is something France has debated for a long time
26:00
Speaker 2: but hasn't quite been on the cards in Britain. What
26:02
Speaker 2: about This is a first downing story about Conor McGrigor
26:06
Speaker 2: and he's obviously the wannabe candidate for Irish president May fighter.
26:11
Speaker 2: What's he doing in court?
26:14
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right to Connor McGregor, the former MMA fighter
26:17
Speaker 12: has lost a civil jury appeal against the finding that
26:20
Speaker 12: he sexually assaulted a woman back in twenty eighteen. So
26:24
Speaker 12: in November he lost the initial case and he was
26:27
Speaker 12: ordered to pay two hundred and six thousand pounds in
26:31
Speaker 12: damages plus costs to Nikita Hand, who accused him of
26:34
Speaker 12: raping her in a hotel in Dublin six years ago,
26:38
Speaker 12: seven years ago now. So McGregor appealed on several grounds
26:42
Speaker 12: about how his lawyers had handled it and about information
26:44
Speaker 12: given to the jury about a police interview where he
26:47
Speaker 12: said no comment around one hundred times to questions he
26:50
Speaker 12: was asked. But that was all dismissed by the court
26:53
Speaker 12: and so that charge stands on him.
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Speaker 2: Vincent, thank you for that. Vincent mecavi Any, a UK
26:58
Speaker 2: europe correspondent just gone twelve minutes away.
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Speaker 1: Six News Talk, said it's August the fir.
27:04
Speaker 2: Yes, the deadline is here for Trump and his tariffs,
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Speaker 2: but the rest of the world and New Zealand will
27:10
Speaker 2: be waiting probably another twenty four hours before we get
27:13
Speaker 2: news from the White House and exactly what we will pay.
27:16
Speaker 2: The White House has already shaken hands with a few
27:18
Speaker 2: countries Japan, the EU, South Korea, Indonesia, the UK. They're
27:21
Speaker 2: all getting lower rates, but others are not so lucky.
27:24
Speaker 2: India you're looking at twenty five percent tariffs, Bangladesh thirty
27:27
Speaker 2: five percent, Brazilla whopping fifty. Canada have said they're unlikely
27:31
Speaker 2: to reach a deal before the deadline. Mexico Overnight has
27:35
Speaker 2: been extended. Alex Deronte is a federal tax economist at
27:39
Speaker 2: the Tax Foundation in the US and joins US now. Alex,
27:42
Speaker 2: Welcome to the program. Nice to have you.
27:43
Speaker 11: Here, Hi, thanks for having me.
27:46
Speaker 2: When do we find out? When does the world find
27:49
Speaker 2: out exactly what's going on and what that base rate
27:51
Speaker 2: might be?
27:54
Speaker 11: I think I think we're going to be staying up
27:56
Speaker 11: late and waiting until until midnight to see what actually happens.
28:00
Speaker 11: I mean over here as a tax foundation, it is
28:02
Speaker 11: quite unsorry even for us on what rate some of
28:05
Speaker 11: these countries are going to be facing. You know, right
28:08
Speaker 11: now most countries are facing a ten percent a universal
28:12
Speaker 11: baseline tariff that includes Australia and New Zealand. But the
28:16
Speaker 11: President has indicated sort of over the past month that
28:20
Speaker 11: he has interest, I think in moving that baseline tower
28:23
Speaker 11: higher to somewhere between fifteen and twenty percent. So I
28:28
Speaker 11: think altogether consumers and businesses should be bracing for higher
28:33
Speaker 11: tariffs and higher prices for sure going forward.
28:36
Speaker 2: Do you yet but higher than the team saint? Do
28:38
Speaker 2: you think he will up that vice right.
28:42
Speaker 11: Right now? I mean we're hearing as I said, this
28:46
Speaker 11: is all specultave, of course, but you know, somewhere either
28:49
Speaker 11: fifteen percent or twenty percent. If all of the reciprocal
28:54
Speaker 11: tariffs go into effect tomorrow as scheduled, that would move
28:59
Speaker 11: the average apply tariff rate to just go over twenty percent.
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Speaker 2: Which big countries, big trading patterners of Americas do you
29:08
Speaker 2: think should be most concerned?
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Speaker 11: Well, so let's see here, So the President was he
29:16
Speaker 11: had well, he is announced higher rates on Canada and Mexico.
29:20
Speaker 11: Both of those countries are currently paying or other our
29:24
Speaker 11: consumers who import those goods are paying a twenty five
29:27
Speaker 11: percent tariff, and the cadther rate is scheduled to rise
29:30
Speaker 11: by ten percentage points to thirty five percent tomorrow, and
29:34
Speaker 11: the Mexico tariff was scheduled to rise to thirty percent,
29:38
Speaker 11: but the President announced a ninety day pause on that
29:41
Speaker 11: increase in that tariff rate. Kevin, I would also add
29:44
Speaker 11: that we need to be concerned about the EU. The
29:48
Speaker 11: President did announce that he would be imposing a fifteen
29:52
Speaker 11: percent tariff on those imports as part of the of
29:56
Speaker 11: the deal that is being currently negotiated right now. And
30:00
Speaker 11: then finally, the highest of these paraff rates are the
30:04
Speaker 11: rates that we're opposing on Chinese imports, which August twelfth
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Speaker 11: are scheduled to rise to one hundred and twenty five percent.
30:14
Speaker 11: So really it's the EU, Mexico, Canada and China we should,
30:19
Speaker 11: you know, continue to be watching house.
30:21
Speaker 2: Americans are obviously watching this as closely as we are.
30:23
Speaker 2: What are they thinking about the fact that he's going
30:25
Speaker 2: to be potentially upping this and he's doing it to
30:28
Speaker 2: friends and allies and it doesn't seem to matter.
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Speaker 11: Right Well, I mean, I think, as I said earlier,
30:36
Speaker 11: you know, I think consumers have been so you know,
30:38
Speaker 11: businesses have been somewhat fortunate so far, although you know,
30:42
Speaker 11: we're although they're paying much higher tariffs than they did
30:45
Speaker 11: last year. You know, the President did delay you know,
30:49
Speaker 11: these reciprocal tariffs for for a few months, but unfortunately,
30:53
Speaker 11: you know, it does seem that the President is dead
30:55
Speaker 11: set on implementing a host of them tomorrow and that
30:59
Speaker 11: is going to likely have significant impacts on prices over
31:04
Speaker 11: over the coming month.
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Speaker 2: Alex, appreciate your time, Thanks so much for being with us.
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Speaker 2: That's Alex Deronte. He's the federal tax economist at the
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Speaker 2: Tax Foundation over in the United States, and so our gut,
31:14
Speaker 2: the word from our officials over in Washington is that
31:17
Speaker 2: that base ten percent will stay, but that Trump is
31:21
Speaker 2: the ultimate decision maker and he can do what he wants.
31:24
Speaker 2: And Alex is telling us there he's hearing it's going
31:26
Speaker 2: to fifteen or twenty. So basically, when none the wiser
31:29
Speaker 2: at this point in the in the day, eight minutes
31:32
Speaker 2: away from six News Talks, heb and Mike's in next.
31:36
Speaker 1: Brian Bridge on early edition with expol isulation, Keeping Chili
31:41
Speaker 1: homes warm and try this Winter News TALKSB six to six.
31:45
Speaker 2: On News talks. Heb where it worked at Mike's here
31:47
Speaker 2: where at worked today? Mike, unlike those counselors at Wayne
31:50
Speaker 2: Brown's meeting yesterday.
31:51
Speaker 13: Just see what I was disturbed about is he called
31:55
Speaker 13: them mountain good on them, and then some council will
31:57
Speaker 13: raised the is it right to call out white people
31:59
Speaker 13: out there?
32:00
Speaker 2: What people?
32:00
Speaker 13: There's a person who wasn't there because they've been run
32:02
Speaker 13: over by a car.
32:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's Michael Wood's wife.
32:06
Speaker 13: If you say so. There's another counselor who wasn't there
32:09
Speaker 13: because they've been in surgery. Yeah, there was another councilor
32:11
Speaker 13: who was there because they were ill. Your Morris been
32:13
Speaker 13: in surgery. There's another councilor there because they were ill.
32:15
Speaker 13: And I've just by the time you went through the
32:18
Speaker 13: collection of stuff, I mean, I mean right now, how
32:21
Speaker 13: many people do you know that have been run over
32:22
Speaker 13: by a car?
32:24
Speaker 2: Julie Faery?
32:25
Speaker 13: No, But apart from that, you don't know. How many
32:27
Speaker 13: people do you know who just out of surgery recovery Mars, Yeah,
32:30
Speaker 13: but no one do. It's just like, how is it
32:33
Speaker 13: you get this collection of counselors, all of whom are
32:36
Speaker 13: maimed and injured I also I watched what.
32:38
Speaker 2: Was because the psycho ways are so dangerous, of course,
32:42
Speaker 2: but the other person who wasn't there was there because
32:45
Speaker 2: they'd requested to just be via video super uncol so
32:50
Speaker 2: you can just say on the day on you know what.
32:52
Speaker 13: I think that was his point. I think you either
32:55
Speaker 13: want to do the job or you don't. This whole
32:57
Speaker 13: old phone.
32:59
Speaker 2: Don't don't, don't do it. Hey.
33:00
Speaker 13: By the way, just real quick, have you seen live
33:03
Speaker 13: itt today midnight four p in this afternoon for us?
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Speaker 2: Okay, good, four pm.
33:09
Speaker 13: Midnight there time?
33:10
Speaker 2: Other thing?
33:11
Speaker 13: Did you get your answer? I thought you raise a
33:12
Speaker 13: very good question. Yesterday it started to show about the
33:14
Speaker 13: earthquake and how come there's no tsunami?
33:16
Speaker 1: Yes?
33:16
Speaker 13: Did you get your answer?
33:17
Speaker 2: Yes? I did. We spoke to a scientist yesterday.
33:20
Speaker 13: Because I read the BBC did a very good piece.
33:22
Speaker 13: What I also monitored yesterday at length was global media
33:26
Speaker 13: as to how they dealt with it. And I can
33:28
Speaker 13: tell you I can tell you it's probably outlier. I
33:32
Speaker 13: can tell you there's one media outlet in the world
33:34
Speaker 13: or outlets in the world who took it just a
33:37
Speaker 13: little bit more seriously than the entire planet.
33:40
Speaker 2: New Zealand. No, yes it was. I tell you what.
33:44
Speaker 2: The funniest coverage was from out of Hawaii when it
33:47
Speaker 2: first started, because you got this kind of local reporters
33:50
Speaker 2: who are covering it and watching this live camera of
33:53
Speaker 2: nothing happening for you an hour and a half. Exactly
33:57
Speaker 2: hard thing to do.
33:57
Speaker 13: It's a weird business anyway, Top play by the way,
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Speaker 13: trade I can hopefully it's ten percent.
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Speaker 2: That's all. See tomorrow Monday.
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