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

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 1: News talks.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be good morning at a six hour and five.
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  Speaker 2: We'll speak to the why Tom or Fuel boss on
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  Speaker 2: the subsidy extension. Donald de Mayo in Australia for US
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Cameron Bagriy on consumer debt. It is down
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  Speaker 2: and building consents are up, but will the things get built?
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  Speaker 1: The agenda Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: The fourth of August. Great to have your company. Pressure
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  Speaker 2: mounting on Infantino this morning. So the English Football Association
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  Speaker 2: now joining Wales and Finland saying we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: support as reelection.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at his quite cute message on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: this is vincage Fatino. He talks about hear I hear you,
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  Speaker 3: as though this was one big consultation process and this
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  Speaker 3: all he was floating an idea and now he's now
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  Speaker 3: he's being missed the democracy and saying I hear you.
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  Speaker 3: So I think those are the sort of buttons will
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  Speaker 3: be pushy.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to walk away.
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  Speaker 4: He will fight this.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of floating ideas, Trump's talking about a peace deal
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  Speaker 2: with their arms again.
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  Speaker 5: We're all said to go. But when the Allies asked
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  Speaker 5: him to call it off, you got to sort of say, well,
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  Speaker 5: let's see. And the reason that they asked is they
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  Speaker 5: think there's a deal. There's a deal on hormoes, and
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  Speaker 5: then there will be a deal on the nuclear or
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  Speaker 5: you might call it the denuclearization of.
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  Speaker 2: A hormos, the straight of hormoes. It's not the Americans
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  Speaker 2: that the Iranians are talking to. It's a Marnal philliven
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  Speaker 2: in a second. Meanwhile, Trump's plan to compensate some capital
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  Speaker 2: right defendants has been scrapped. You know how he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do that give them a bunch of money. Acting
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Todd Blanche formally pulled the plug on this fund.
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  Speaker 2: This now clears the way for his confirmation in the Senate.
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  Speaker 6: Just like the decision by the President not to go
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  Speaker 6: ahead with military action in Irana. With the weekend, there
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  Speaker 6: is another climb down. And it is a sign I
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  Speaker 6: think that for all his pretensions to be all powerful,
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  Speaker 6: there are emerging some limits, at least politically, on the
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  Speaker 6: President's room for the maneuver.
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  Speaker 1: Views and views you trust. To start your it's early
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  Speaker 1: keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 2: Co Hughes talks a bit. It is eight minutes half
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  Speaker 2: to five. So yeah, Trump says a deal is close,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not his deal. The Iranians are not talking
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  Speaker 2: to the US. It's the golf states that are stepping up.
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  Speaker 2: We mentioned this yesterday, but you know, the Saudis were
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  Speaker 2: on the phone. Bin Samon was on the phone to
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  Speaker 2: Trump on the blower hours before he tweeted to say
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  Speaker 2: I'm backing down, I'm stepping back from attacks the UAE cut.
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  Speaker 2: They're basically on the same page, and it's a man
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  Speaker 2: that is now in the box seat. Over the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of hor Moos, the route that they want to take,
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  Speaker 2: there are two different routes. You can take the one
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  Speaker 2: that they are talking about doing a deal. Aman and
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  Speaker 2: Iran would have a voluntary toll instead of a told
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  Speaker 2: that everybody has to pay. It would just be an
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  Speaker 2: honesty box to get through the strait. They actually operate
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  Speaker 2: a similar system in the Strait of Malacca in Asia. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: these guys, these golf states, they've just had enough. They
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  Speaker 2: need to get the oil out, and when the oil
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get out, their economies are hurting. The Saudis have
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  Speaker 2: got this big economic vision fascinating what they're what been
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  Speaker 2: someone is trying to do, big twenty thirty vision of
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  Speaker 2: transforming their economy and transforming them from an oil dependent
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  Speaker 2: state to a tourist hub. All this kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that if someone's firing drones and missiles,
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  Speaker 2: that you can you. So they want peace, it's time
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  Speaker 2: to tap out. Inter Islander. Did anyone else find it
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  Speaker 2: a little strange yesterday that the inter Island of Fairies
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  Speaker 2: sailings were canceled by well, the inter Island ones are canceled,
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  Speaker 2: but not the Blue Bridge ones. Blue Bridge has I
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  Speaker 2: think this morning canceled some, But yesterday off the basis
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  Speaker 2: of a weather warning, the inter Island are canceled. And
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  Speaker 2: it was quite early yesterday afternoon that they made this decision,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought that seems a little premature. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's an orange warning. But yeah, interesting when one does
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  Speaker 2: and the other doesn't, you think is there something else
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  Speaker 2: going on there? Or or do they know more about the
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  Speaker 2: weather forecast and we do, which is entirely possible. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: most sailings, well, there's a couple still operating today early
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  Speaker 2: this morning, but then most sailings from the afternoon and
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  Speaker 2: Wellington are canceled. It is ten after five, Ryan Bridge,
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  Speaker 2: so we look at the building consense next day are up.
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  Speaker 2: But then the question becomes and a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: are townhouses, which people aren't especially in places like Auckland,
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  Speaker 2: running to buy at the moment. So will the houses
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  Speaker 2: get built? That's the question. Next.
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  Speaker 2: Five trave was Sure as Death and Texas is government waste.
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  Speaker 2: Government subsidies are generally bad ideas government generally doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: what it's doing, generally doesn't know the value of a dollar,
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  Speaker 2: throws money at a problem and usually gets wasted. Exhibit
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  Speaker 2: A ALI today. This is a report from the Australian
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  Speaker 2: So they set up a fund. This is a federal program,
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  Speaker 2: thirty two million bucks they chucked in it and it
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  Speaker 2: was to get long term unemployed people into work and
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  Speaker 2: the whole idea was workplace diversity. They said, we will
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  Speaker 2: pay you money to take on these beneficiaries and make
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  Speaker 2: your workplace more diverse, whatever that means, real jobs, real
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  Speaker 2: wages scheme it was called. Turns out the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: was a flop. Fifty five people placed in two years,
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  Speaker 2: the cost one hundred and ninety five thousand per job.
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  Speaker 1: Prying Bridge new.
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  Speaker 2: Home consents here at home of top forty thousand for
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  Speaker 2: the first time in three years. That's up nineteen percent
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  Speaker 2: on last year. More than half of those townhouses, apartments
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  Speaker 2: and other multi unit homes. Carl Taylor combined Building Suppliers
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  Speaker 2: Cooperative CEO with me this morning. Carl, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you very well? Thank you so you're seeing this?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the question really is whether an increasing con
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  Speaker 2: sense means that things will get built.
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  Speaker 4: It's certainly fantastic to see, you know, forty thousand homes consented,
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  Speaker 4: positive sign. I guess the real measures, But the real
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  Speaker 4: measure in list recovery is will we be seeing these
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  Speaker 4: projects turn into work on site? And that's probably the
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  Speaker 4: biggest relish at the moment here.
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  Speaker 2: And what are you thinking given that half of them
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  Speaker 2: are townhouses and you look and a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: in Auckland and Canterbreys up too. But you know, you
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  Speaker 2: look at the townhouses, how many are around for sale?
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  Speaker 2: The supply issue.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I mean, I said two markets. You obviously see Aukland,
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  Speaker 4: there's a huge amount of townhouses getting built. Same in
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  Speaker 4: christ Church. A lot of the builders and developers I
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  Speaker 4: talk to, particularly in christ Church, are telling me that
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the townhouses they are doing, they're just
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  Speaker 4: moving their stock just to cost, just to keep their
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  Speaker 4: boys employed. So it's almost open flated in that regard.
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  Speaker 4: But what I am seeing is quite a resurgence and
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  Speaker 4: just the normal three to four bedroom homes in the
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  Speaker 4: outer suburbs of christ Church, they just get snapped up
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  Speaker 4: really quick. So christ Church is abps humming. It's quite exciting.
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  Speaker 2: What about you? It is exciting. It's good to have
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  Speaker 2: exciting news. It always comes out of christ at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 2: Building supplies wise, resources wise, are the issues easing.
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  Speaker 4: Them in terms of building material costs? We have certainly
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  Speaker 4: seeing that starting to plat. I mean, obviously we've come
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  Speaker 4: out of COVID. The demand isn't quite there, but it's
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  Speaker 4: certainly a lot more controlled, which is what we've needed
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  Speaker 4: to see for a while. Obviously we cast in mind
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  Speaker 4: back to the JIB crisis not that long ago. We
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  Speaker 4: don't have that anymore. So getting materials is easy. Building
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  Speaker 4: costs are certainly up. I always say today is the
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  Speaker 4: best time to buy a build because tomorrow is always
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  Speaker 4: going to be expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carl, Thank you, Carl Taylor, Combined Building Supplies Coperitive CEO.
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  Speaker 2: It is called a past five bread bread. So thirty
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  Speaker 2: five percent was the seat number we gave you last week.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty five percent increase in demand for construction worker. This
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  Speaker 2: is job adds on a year ago, making construction the
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  Speaker 2: fastest owing industry for job advertisements at the moment. But
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  Speaker 2: it's coming off a very low base, isn't it.
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  Speaker 7: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: The fuel subsidy, so fifty bucks a week for certain families.
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  Speaker 2: This is under the Working for Families package. So Nicola
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  Speaker 2: Willis comes out yesterday and says, yeah, look, we're just
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  Speaker 2: going to keep this thing going, and really it could
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  Speaker 2: go for a year because the two sort of handbrakes
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  Speaker 2: on this subsidy. One is the one year mark. Two
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  Speaker 2: is the price of ninety one dropping below three bucks
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  Speaker 2: a lisa for four weeks. Now, that's already happened. They
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  Speaker 2: reached that measure in July, but they kept it going.
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  Speaker 2: So the thing is just going to keep going. Probably.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you get to this point and in
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  Speaker 2: an electoral cycle, what sort of incumbent government is going
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  Speaker 2: to cut a subsidy before they are asking for a vote.
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem, isn't it. Sixteen after five z B
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  Speaker 2: and Cameron Baggery. Next the Early.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be five eighteen great to have your company this morning.
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  Speaker 2: There was talk yesterday Mount Tartanaki was sort of bubbling
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  Speaker 2: away and with the seismologist or vulcanologists I should say,
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  Speaker 2: were quite worried about it, well quite worried. They were
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  Speaker 2: a touch worried about it. Can someone just confirm that
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  Speaker 2: there's nothing happening there today? When we please nine twine two.
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  Speaker 2: This is out of Italy and it's from the files
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  Speaker 2: of Are you surprised to hear this? Probably not, but
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  Speaker 2: still interesting. So they did a study into kids how
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  Speaker 2: they scored in tests maths, and reading tests at school
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  Speaker 2: those who had a cell phone from a young age
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  Speaker 2: and those who didn't have a cell phone with social
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  Speaker 2: media accounts open from a young age. Kids who opened
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  Speaker 2: their first social media account aged eleven to twelve scored
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  Speaker 2: lower in mass and reading tests than those who waited
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  Speaker 2: a few years. Scores at age sixteen differed between the
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  Speaker 2: two groups by about six months of learning. So they reckon,
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  Speaker 2: just and look, there are there will be other reasons
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  Speaker 2: going on. There'll be you know, control groups, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: This is the University of Milano in Italy. But they reckon.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot deny that your kid sitting there doom scrolling
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  Speaker 2: rather than studying, is impacting their education. Clearly it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's twenty after five. Ryan Bridge, country as a whole
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a bit less debt centric consumer credit shows
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  Speaker 2: arrears are at their lowest level since twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Personal loan hardship up thirty seven percent since last year.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Baggery Independent Economists with US this morning. Cameron, good morning.
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  Speaker 7: What am I?
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  Speaker 2: Is there a bit of a two stage thing happening here?
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  Speaker 7: Well, what we know is that there's still a bit
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  Speaker 7: of stress out across the eclomy. But we've got a
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  Speaker 7: bit of a two speed economy. You've got rural versus
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  Speaker 7: urban walk and Wellington, Ver's is sort of the rest
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  Speaker 7: of the country. The centric numbers tie, and we think
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  Speaker 7: non performing loans and guess what, banks are still doing
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  Speaker 7: pretty well, and non performing loans are pretty low zero
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  Speaker 7: point seven percent of total of loans. What's called non performing.
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  Speaker 7: That's a pretty low number. Housing, business, agribusiness, consumer debt
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  Speaker 7: and not out of control. Yes, these credit metrics are
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  Speaker 7: just some pretty simple indicators. It's yes, there's not a
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  Speaker 7: lot of stress out there. We know it might be
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  Speaker 7: an awful lot of personal stress because of the household
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  Speaker 7: living crisis, but the actual numbers are telling us the
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  Speaker 7: economy is not too bad show, which is.
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  Speaker 2: A good thing to hear. What about consumer credit demand
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  Speaker 2: that's still pretty subdued. I mean, we saw the numbers
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  Speaker 2: last week consumers sentiment coming up, but this is saying
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  Speaker 2: that the demand for credits still subdued.
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  Speaker 7: You've got this two stage economy once again. If you
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  Speaker 7: look at the business side of the equation, your businesses
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  Speaker 7: are becoming increasingly optimistic, which is a good sign. If
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  Speaker 7: you look at the consumers II, the buyers of the
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  Speaker 7: goods that businesses produced that they're still coursius. You know,
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  Speaker 7: why are they courtious? Well, they're not getting wage games.
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  Speaker 7: If you look at what's called wages, which is wages
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  Speaker 7: divided by inflation, well that's a negative number. Look at
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  Speaker 7: house prices. But outside of the Deep South house prices again,
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  Speaker 7: South people stood a little bit cautious about their job
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  Speaker 7: and so not a lot of good things going on
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  Speaker 7: in the consumer space, particularly when you overlad that with
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  Speaker 7: high petrol prices. So it's just another example of what's
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  Speaker 7: called that case shaped economy. We got one side. It's
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  Speaker 7: looking a little bit more positive than others.
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  Speaker 2: We've been in the zone for a long time. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when do we come out of that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we're slowly coming out of it. But this is
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  Speaker 7: a great transition, you know, right, we're actually fundamentally re plumbing,
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  Speaker 7: rewiring the whole news eclindment. For about twenty years, we
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  Speaker 7: had this economy where we sold more expensive houses to
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  Speaker 7: each other, We brought in a whole lot of migrants,
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  Speaker 7: We relied on tourism, we relied on cheap, abundant energy.
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  Speaker 7: Well that year is over. Now we've got to get
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  Speaker 7: back to a model that's built around business. Is the
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  Speaker 7: vesting for the future, your productivity growth, you have, the
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  Speaker 7: use of natural resources. Electrication is going to be word
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  Speaker 7: that's used an awful lot over the past and the
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  Speaker 7: next a few years. We need better economic policy to
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  Speaker 7: compliment that in regard to what we're going on within
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  Speaker 7: the business sector. But it's a fundamentally different economic model,
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  Speaker 7: and that sort of stuff takes time and it brings
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  Speaker 7: a little bit of grumpiness along all the way, but
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  Speaker 7: we're getting there. We're seeing an export led re quadric recovery,
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  Speaker 7: which I'll take any day of the week over what's
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  Speaker 7: called to borrow and spend. I Auckland property must have
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  Speaker 7: led recovery. But it just takes a little bit of
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  Speaker 7: time and these sort of transitions are awkward for the society.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Bagery good stuff independent economists. That is twenty three
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  Speaker 2: minutes after five. Speaking of what Cameron is talking about
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  Speaker 2: is what has been happening in Australia, which is a
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  Speaker 2: property market boom. Basically after COVID, Australia's property market kept
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  Speaker 2: going Ours came off, but these kept going up and
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  Speaker 2: up and up, and especially in places like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane. However,
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  Speaker 2: since the Charmer's Budget that we've spoken about a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times on the show back in May, they're coming
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  Speaker 2: off the boil and they reckon. The property values have
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  Speaker 2: fallen two hundred and thirty billion dollars they can now
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  Speaker 2: calling this a once in a generation housing slump or
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  Speaker 2: housing correction. Are one point eight percent, that's how much
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  Speaker 2: house prices have fallen since March. And off the back
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  Speaker 2: of Labour's property tax overhaul, the negative gearing stuff that
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  Speaker 2: they announced, nation's property markets sank and this is the
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  Speaker 2: kacker that even though you say two hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 2: billion sounds like a lot of money, the market total
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  Speaker 2: valuation twelve point seven seven trillion down to twelve point
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  Speaker 2: five four trillion in just four months. Now, that's not insignificant,
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  Speaker 2: but still very very expensive in a lot of places.
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  Speaker 2: If they did some modeling there was a ten percent
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  Speaker 2: fall and property prices in Australia then you have your
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  Speaker 2: median house price over there going from eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty nine k to seven hundred and sixty four thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Now the tax payer risk care for them is quite
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  Speaker 2: large because you know they give off of the five
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  Speaker 2: percent deposit scheme. Over in Australia, they reckon that the
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  Speaker 2: taxpayers now carry eleven billion dollars of liability on those
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  Speaker 2: low equity loans. Sixty percent of them are worth more
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  Speaker 2: than ninety four percent of the house price. So you
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  Speaker 2: do the math on that and basically you've got a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of highly leveraged first home buyers as prices
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  Speaker 2: fall and you're looking at negative equity. Twenty five after five,
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  Speaker 2: News Talks HEB, News Talks HEB twenty seven minutes after five.
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  Speaker 2: The battle for the right and center right vote, I
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  Speaker 2: think is the most interesting thing about the election, let's
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  Speaker 2: be honest, because it's the battle that's going to determine
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  Speaker 2: who wears the pants in the next government. I'm still
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  Speaker 2: of the view that the Coalition will be re elected.
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  Speaker 2: The makeup of the cabinet, though, is what they're now
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  Speaker 2: fighting for. That's why over the past week we've seen
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  Speaker 2: the biggest dust ups between the three parties currently sitting
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  Speaker 2: on the treasury benches. When was the last time you
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  Speaker 2: heard anything or from to party Mardi. The lefts being
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  Speaker 2: quite fascinated by and in top or oppertunities. They now
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  Speaker 2: call themselves. In some ways this is a function of
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  Speaker 2: the media oxygen fighting, albeit with gloves on, between coalition
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  Speaker 2: partners is quite newsworthy. Punch too hard and the thing
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  Speaker 2: could collapse before we make it through the next ninety
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  Speaker 2: five days. Punch too soft and you might not make
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  Speaker 2: it out the other side. On November seventh, the Right
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  Speaker 2: is battling for the same group of voters Luxe and
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  Speaker 2: ruling out Top was an attempt to pull some formally
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  Speaker 2: blue voters back to the mothership, but their polling is
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  Speaker 2: still at a point where they would lose some big
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  Speaker 2: names Goldsmith, Bishop potentially if things don't turn around. The
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  Speaker 2: fundamentals i e. The economy and how we feel about
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  Speaker 2: it won't change dramatically in the next few months, So
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  Speaker 2: this is now a battle of wills. Who has the stamina,
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  Speaker 2: who has the discipline not to blow it and go
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  Speaker 2: off course on the campaign. Will the Nats pull a
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Hail Mary Jacinda last moment move and roll Luxe for
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: fear that his foot and mouth disease strikes again and
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: they lose even more of that soft center. That is
• 17:06
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• 17:09
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• 17:14
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• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Just before six this morning, fuel subsidy is continuing, sticking
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: around what's going to happen to our prices? Some very
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: interesting news for Warner Brothers and the Barbie franchise, which
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: was one of the highest grossing films of all time.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I'll billy you went on that. Also a little more
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: on the price of oil. Overnight after Trump has been
• 17:38
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• 18:27
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• 18:29
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• 18:30
  Speaker 2: the petrol subsidy. That Subsidy's going to continue in a
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: second and in ten minutes. Pauline Hanson's banning media from
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: her press conferences. Donod Mos out of Australia for US.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: So Warner Brothers has a talent problem with this franchise.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: And it is a juggernaut. Eighteenth highest this movie eighteenth
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: highest grossing film in history. Two point five billion dollars
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: is what they took at the box office, highest grossing
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: live action comedy ever. The problem is the talent Margo Robbie,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Ryan Gosling and the co writer Greta Gerwig. They are
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: not agreeing on terms. They want more money and they're
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: holding out. And this is a problem for Warner Brothers
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: in America. All three of them are represented by the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: same talent agency Cuba. So the film rights are owned
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: by Mattel that's the company that manufactures the doll and
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: they expire. If you don't get a deal across the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: line with these big names, it will expire in December
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: and then they can go shopping elsewhere. And if they
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: go shopping elsewhere, guess what, none of the storyline from
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: the first film carries over and they cannot use any
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: of those same actors or writers. Fascinating, Hey, so pressures on.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Apparently Ryan Gosling wants twenty million American news talk seb
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Brian Bread and the time is twenty three minutes away
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: from six o'clock. Let's go to our reporters, starting with
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: calorm and Deneding Collum, Good morning, morning, right, let's talk amalgamation.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, look, Kurt decisions it's been made. Queenstown Lakes and
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: Denedan City Councils are working together on a proposal that
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: would create two unitary authorities here in the South of
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: Otago at least Anyway and Inland Otago authority for Queenstown
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: Lakes and Central Otago, and a coastal authority is proposed
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: for Danedan, Kluther and potentially White Tuckey. Queenstown Lakes District
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: Mayor John Glover has told us it's about ensuring the
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: district has a seat at the table, but it isn't
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: a final decision I. Meanwhile, James Stephenson Wallace has been
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: appointed the Queenstown Council's new chief executive. He comes from
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: previously leading land care research and the Electricity Authority Mery.
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: Glover says his background the lines closely with the issues
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: facing Queenstown Lakes at the moment.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: All right, callum, how's your weather.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: We've got snow in Dunedan's Hill suburbs this morning, Ryan,
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: So that's set to cause some disruptions to the city.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: State Highway one out of Dunedin is closed. Sleet or
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: snow showers forecast today a high of just seven.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks mate, Cliar and christ It morning, Claire,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: good morning. You're doing an amalgamation update for too.
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we're told we could have up to three days
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: of discussions here in christ Church as our council looks
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: too basically decide the same thing. They are considering four
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: options here. That includes remaining independent, merging with parts of
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: Selwyn and Why Marcadeddi, or combining with Selwyn Wy Markededi
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: and Hudunui. There's also the option to have an entire
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: cantory wide unitary authority now Christchurch meyor Film Major says
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: they are working from evidence based advice that's suggesting we
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: have to expand. He says he's ninety nine percent sure
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: counselors will push go on joining Headstart and he thinks
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: it'll come down to either staying as a christ Church
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: unitary authority, so that would be just christ Church City
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Council and Environment Canterbury, or option B, which is this
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: Greater christ Church Metro Unitary Authority merging Christchurch and e
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: Can with Selwyn and Ymac.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: How's your weather clear?
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: We're meant to have snow on the porthills today nothing
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: just yet. Very windy out there otherwise strong cold southwesterlies
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: hanging around and high of just seven nice.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: One clear, Thank you very much, Mexim going to morning
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: mechs Good morning Now the coroner's hearing the details of
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: this deuth on the waterfront.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: An inquest started yesterday into the death of a twenty
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: five year old primary school teacher, Isaac Levins, who a
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: couple of years ago showed up to a concert after
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: a few too many drinks, was kicked out, stumbled back
• 22:17
  Speaker 11: along the waterfront, passed Tippapa and at some point seemed
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: to accidentally fall in the water. In fact, CCTV footage
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: of his final few minutes was played at this hearing
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: at the Wellington District Court yesterday. His family had to
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: leave the room due to its harrowing nature. The area
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: was poorly lit no barriers. Barriers has become a bit
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: of a contentious point in the capital in recent years,
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: and then a ripples in this footage appear from the
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: water where he went. In every few years, something like
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: this happens. Occasionally it's someone's own stupidity, like jumping off
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: that tall boat that's moored in the harbor, But this
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: one not so it has echoes of a Sandy Calkin
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: who drowned in twenty twenty one. The coroner's report then
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: called for more safety, made criticize the council, So you'd
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: imagine you'd get something similar out of this inquest. Councilors, though,
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: have seemed loathed. Do we either spend the money or
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: put up some rather unappealing, uninviting barriers right along obviously
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: a popular destination.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: How's your way, Max?
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: A few showers, frequent and sleety this afternoon. Strong southerly
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: is a high of.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Eight all right, thank you? Oh hey, Max? Is it
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: really windy there at the moment because the fairies are
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: canceled today both Bluebridge and enter Ruanda are a lot of
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: them anyway.
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: Yes, strong southerly is nothing out of the ordinary in
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: terms of the strength of the wind. I think it's
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: just a combination of all the factors. The cold, even
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: possible snow down to three hundred meters today. I think
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: it's just a combination of the cold, the sleets, the rain,
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: the southerlyes. But disappointing to see those fairies cancels.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: It all sounds wonderful there. Thanks Max. Good morning, Neva,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: good morning. So we're gonna have to pay for parking
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: to go to Goat Island.
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: Well yes, I mean look, dorc is looking and aiming
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: to introduce paid parking right there at Goat on a
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: marine reserve, hopefully from December. This is their plan, so
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: Auckland Operations director Alex Rodgers says, obviously, you know Goat Island,
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: it's one of the most popular visitors sites in the North.
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: He says that more than three hundred thousand visitors annually.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: It's putting huge pressure on those car parks and toilet
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: blocks and changing block and the wider areas. So the
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: revenue from all the paid parking hopefully will be reinvested
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: into regional and national conservation areas. What they will do
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: is that they're going to have consultation with the local
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: community that will begin this month on all the pricing,
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: structure and annual permits.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Right, I mean, it's a no brainer from where I'm sitting,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: because they need to pay for it somehow exactly. That's
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: what I did too.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, he's the people going.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: How's that weather?
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Partly cloud a few showers clearing to fine in the afternoon.
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Quite balm me compared to the rest of the country.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Fifteen The high here in Auckland today.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Nice one never thank you very much. It is eighteen
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: minutes away from six Ryan. As long as mister Peters
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: this is from Graham, Morning Graham. As long as mister
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Peters keeps putting his foot in his mouth, I suspect
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that National and Act will be the two major parties,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And from my personal view, it would be a much
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: better if New Zealand first just fell over. Also, could
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: someone tell Karen mcinolty to stop his constant winding? He
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: sounds like a baby. Yeah, I did see him on
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: the news last night. He speaks really slowly, which sort
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: of doesn't help. Hey, Bezos is getting a bit richer
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: this morning. Amazon shares up five percent. The company is
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: now passed just a whisker past the three trillion dollar
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: market valuation point that would make it the fifth company
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: ever to reach the three trillion dollar club. Apple, Microsoft
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: and Video, and Alphabet all made it there now Bezos
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: worth about two hundred and seventy eight billion. Eighty five
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: percent of his worth is tied up in Amazon, so
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: he's doing well. When Amazon does well. There's still nowhere
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: near mask on six hundred and eighty billion. We're in Australia.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Next news talk ZMB. It is fourteen minutes away from
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: six Brent crude is up over sorry down Ovan and
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I should say five percent. So the number now eighty
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: three two point seven US dollars. This is thanks to
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: not the Americans doing a taur A deal or having
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: chats with Iran, but Oman having chats with Iran. That
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: is impacting the straight of Holl moves well, hopefully will
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: impact the stradia Holl moves and means that the price
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: should come down, so the futures are down ahead of
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: it. It is fourteen to two.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Six international correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance. Peace of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Why Palma boss time and param with them just well
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: us in just the second talk about the price. Here,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: let's go to Donald Mayo out of Australia. First, Honor,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: good morning to you.
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: Oh, good morning back.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Hey, Pauline Hanson's been banning only certain media from her
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: press conferences. Who doesn't she.
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: Like, Well, the thing is she had this press conference
• 26:41
  Speaker 12: yesterday and now seeing the first candidates for the upcoming
• 26:44
  Speaker 12: Victorian state election. But yeah, the headlines were ended up
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: being that she's announced she's going to ban the ABC
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: and the Guardian from attending her press conferences during the campaign,
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: and yesterday at that press conference it was reported that
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: the ABC and the Age were refused access. Now, she
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: did go on to announce that seven of the eight
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: candidates who will lead the Upper House tickets, So she
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: went on with all that, but when she was asked
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: if all media should have access in a democracy to
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: her press conferences, her response was in a democracy, well,
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: democracy doesn't happen on the ABC. It all was her quote.
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: But she also went on to say that she's not
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: putting up with the spin, the gotcha moments, everyone wanting
• 27:28
  Speaker 12: to have a go at her, and she said enough
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: is enough. We also heard from Warren Pickering, who is
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: One Nation's Victorian president, and he said any blatant character
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: assassination attempts based on fabrications of our candidates will be
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: met with swift legal action. Okay, we do know that
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: the latest polls are suggesting that between nineteen and twenty
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: seven percent of Victorians are considering voting for one nation.
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: So I cannot wait for this campaign.
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: It's going to be fascinating.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I can't wait either. How the federal inquiry into new
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: gambling ads, we've heard from a couple of rugby players
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and quite bombastic things or outrageous things have been said there.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: What's the deal with it? What is the outcome of
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: this going to be? Do you think? Well?
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: Interesting? So the inquiry today is going to hear from
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: some medical experts and some welfare charities, and we know
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: that we heard from Luke Bateman, who is a former
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: professional rugby league player, and he said that he was
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: being offered illicit drugs from some gambling company employees to
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: strengthen their relationship, as he put it, when he was
• 28:34
  Speaker 12: actually in the groups of a gambling addiction. And he
• 28:37
  Speaker 12: did give this evidence about his personal experience at the
• 28:40
  Speaker 12: Senate inquiry yesterday. Now, what they're doing is the federal
• 28:43
  Speaker 12: government is looking into restricting gambling ads, and so this
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: two day inquiry is underway just to have a look
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: at what will happen in regard.
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: To those new laws. So they're proposing restrictions on TV
• 28:56
  Speaker 13: gambling ads between six am and eight thirty pm and
• 28:59
  Speaker 13: also on radio during school pickup and drop off times.
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: So that's what they're aiming for, and they're just hearing
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: from people that have been severely impacted by the gambling industry.
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: And Luke Bateman was whatever he was about nineteen living
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: out his NRL dream, but his gambling addictions saw him
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: retire from sport with a two hundred and fifty thousand
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: dollars debt.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Because I appreciate your time this morning done at Mayo
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: our Australia correspondents. Interesting because you ba the ads or
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you stop the ads or reduce the ads. The ads
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: are paying the huge sums that the broadcasters are having
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to pay to the leagus. You know, rugby league for example,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: very expensive business, and the gambling ads are in part
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: funding it. R and Bridge. I just turned away from
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: six government keeping that fifty buck fuel relief for now.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: While New Zealand did experience four weeks of national average
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: prices falling below three dollars, we are.
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: Advised that they rose above that point again last.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Week, so it stays four now. The max is one year.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: The increased Milor's rates for support workers also sticks around.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Simon parms with me this morning, Why Toma Group, see Simon,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Good morning, morning Ryn. Do you think the subsidy needed
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: to stay?
• 30:10
  Speaker 14: Looking at the demand over the last month, especially with
• 30:13
  Speaker 14: prices increasing like fifty percent, it has softened, So that
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: tells me that duel prices are still a major pain
• 30:21
  Speaker 14: point for household So I think it's the right thing
• 30:23
  Speaker 14: to keep the substy off.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: We do because why Tomo has deals. Do you notice
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: and you know when you have your six cents off
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: a liter or whatever it is, do you notice that
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: more people come to your pumps when you are offering
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: those when the price is high? Oh?
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: Definitely. We were at the forefront of a discount day
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: on Thursday. They're now volume essentially doubles on that day.
• 30:44
  Speaker 14: So yeah, people are a lot more savvy these days,
• 30:47
  Speaker 14: are looking at fuel prices and they will come and
• 30:50
  Speaker 14: get the great deal.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: What are your prices looking like right now?
• 30:53
  Speaker 14: I would say our prices on average are about two
• 30:55
  Speaker 14: dollars ninety five for ninety one and about that two
• 30:59
  Speaker 14: dollars fifty four diesel, so we haven't hit that three
• 31:02
  Speaker 14: dollar market. All our sites, but you know, there's definitely
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: pressure on the upside and.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: It'll probably happen.
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: Yeah, well we hope not. Like prices had sort of
• 31:13
  Speaker 14: flattened in the last couple of days as the US
• 31:15
  Speaker 14: suspended strikes, and as you said earlier, there's mean some
• 31:18
  Speaker 14: mamani discussions, but there's still so much to your political
• 31:21
  Speaker 14: risk and tention priced in there that it's it is
• 31:24
  Speaker 14: a bit of a rocky road that we're traveling at
• 31:26
  Speaker 14: the moment.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Three dollars is such a psychological number, is it. Do
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: you notice that people, you know, when the price goes
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: over three dollars, you see a change in behavior that
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: probably outweighs the difference between two dollars ninety eight and
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: three dollars zero one for example.
• 31:40
  Speaker 14: Yes, definitely. You know you see people just topping up
• 31:43
  Speaker 14: instead of filling up. So those average transactions, well you've
• 31:47
  Speaker 14: still got the transactions coming through, they're just filling up
• 31:50
  Speaker 14: a little bit less, so they you know, every transaction
• 31:54
  Speaker 14: is a slightly less amount of fuel that's been purchased,
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: So you see them just managing their household budgets.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I think Simon, good to have you on Simon Parwy
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: toll More Group's CEO. Time is eight to six on
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: News Talk SEDB. The hosk is here next.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Before the news breaks Here at first, Ryan Bridge on
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology, The Keiths Business Movie,
• 32:16
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• 32:18
  Speaker 2: News Talks THEREB. It is six minutes away from six.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Ryan just got back from a visit to Ireland, says aident.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Petrel was one eighty euro per leader double that for
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: New Zealand. Dollar flat white five euros outrageous five to
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: six and mics in the studio morning Mac.
• 32:32
  Speaker 15: And serverceas are expensive. You be you've been there? You
• 32:36
  Speaker 15: you didn't go overseas? Did you? And come back?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Think?
• 32:38
  Speaker 15: Man, that was cheap?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: No, I did you?
• 32:40
  Speaker 15: No, you did not.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I went over seas. But actually we were talking over there.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Where should we go on our next holiday with our friends? Yes,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: as we were there with friends and we all agreed,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: probably somewhere in the developing world.
• 32:51
  Speaker 15: Like Vietnam, Cambodi, Cambodia.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 32:54
  Speaker 15: I got very good news for you this morning. We're
• 32:56
  Speaker 15: buying cars, new cars. So there, once again the commentary
• 32:58
  Speaker 15: doesn't match what's actually going on in the real world.
• 33:00
  Speaker 15: A lot of people buying new cars. So I mean,
• 33:02
  Speaker 15: how do you Yeah, well you had there were evs.
• 33:04
  Speaker 15: That's part of the story. But the main story is
• 33:06
  Speaker 15: we are buying new cars. You don't buy a new
• 33:08
  Speaker 15: car unless you're feeling bullish.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Do you know that's true?
• 33:10
  Speaker 15: You don't go out it's been thirty forty fifty sixty
• 33:11
  Speaker 15: seventy thousand dollars because you're on the bones of your
• 33:14
  Speaker 15: bum and you haven't got a job and everything's miserable
• 33:16
  Speaker 15: in the cost of living christis.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Eating you up.
• 33:19
  Speaker 15: Also, debt is encouraging, Yes it is. There are fewer
• 33:22
  Speaker 15: people owing money.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's great. Do you want more?
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  Speaker 9: Right?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: No? No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 15: The building con sense up this morning. I've made a
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  Speaker 15: big purchase. What you know we're talking about people a
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: robot vacuum cleaner. You didn't?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I did?
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  Speaker 15: Did you, big Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Tell you? Because I know you know you're big on
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: your darting in.
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  Speaker 15: Mind one hundred percent. I'm in shock. What did you
• 33:40
  Speaker 15: scope the market?
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  Speaker 2: The brand?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no I did. The brand is Dreamy or dream
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Oh.
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  Speaker 15: My god, did you? Were you watching morning television?
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  Speaker 2: But Dreamy?
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  Speaker 15: Now what do you get free? So's no, it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 15: How much six hundred bucks is that good? I'm not
• 33:57
  Speaker 15: sure whether that's a good.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: It's the cheaper end of town, right, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: need anything more than that. You could get one that
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: includes a mop, but now.
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  Speaker 15: I wouldn't go down that chat that anything eathing with water?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 15: And is it round?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Yes? It's round? And it has changed our lives? Have it?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Has it?
• 34:13
  Speaker 15: Have you done your townhouse yet with it?
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: It's you know, the dog here is everywhere? No dog here,
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  Speaker 2: no way?
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  Speaker 15: And how often do you have to empty it?
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Well, we haven't done it yet. It's been going for
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: three weeks.
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  Speaker 15: Has it got a light that says empty me?
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  Speaker 2: Now? It says it talks to you.
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  Speaker 15: You wouldn't docking, you wouldn't look back, charging you, never
• 34:32
  Speaker 15: looking back. Fantastic, You're a happy consumer.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Good. Mike is with you next.
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