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Ryan Bridge: Is the Mike King situation really a big deal? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Mike King. You cannot have it both ways with Mike King.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say you care about and want to hear
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  Speaker 1: from people with so called lived experience and then dismiss
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  Speaker 1: them when you don't like what they say. Everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have a PhD in mental health studies. Settled
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  Speaker 1: down sally, he looked to me to simply be riffing
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  Speaker 1: his opinion. So what props to the Mental Health Foundation
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  Speaker 1: and to the minister, who've both handled their responses pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon giving kudos to Mike for his incredible work
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  Speaker 1: with Kiwi kids while also pointing out the fact there's
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  Speaker 1: research out there that doesn't support his worldview. Is there
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  Speaker 1: really a big deal here outside of Labour trying to
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  Speaker 1: score a hit job because they're pissed that King bashed
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  Speaker 1: them at the last election. Also, what is really worse
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  Speaker 1: for mental health in this country Mike King going on
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  Speaker 1: a booze rant or Labor spending one point eight billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars in delivering not a single new acute mental health
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  Speaker 1: bed in five years? What's to use the terms that
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  Speaker 1: they love more dangerous for our vulnerable youth and Tamadiki.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Mike King that's for sure. We can have
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  Speaker 1: all the experts and the researchers and the academics and
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  Speaker 1: the politicians in the world writing essay after essay at
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  Speaker 1: great expense explaining our mental health problems, and it's fine
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  Speaker 1: that they do, but what they will never deliver is
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  Speaker 1: anything like the practical, grassroots counseling sessions and awareness that
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  Speaker 1: Mike King has for our kids for years. For more
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