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Ryan Bridge: Have we lost our Kiwi sense of humour? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Complaints, backlash, outrage, divisive, sad, strong reaction to the twoey
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  Speaker 1: billboards poking fun at old polky and not guilty of
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  Speaker 1: killing his wife. By the way the billboards read, if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't seen them back to being a respectable meth smoking,
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  Speaker 1: sex worker loving doctor, then you're right quite good. It's
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  Speaker 1: not breaking any rules, and I say good on them
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  Speaker 1: for getting back to this. We need good humor to.
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  Speaker 2: Cut through the crap that our society seems to be.
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  Speaker 2: That seems to proliferate our society at the moment. Kiwi's
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  Speaker 2: are straight talkers. We love taking the mickey out of people.
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  Speaker 2: We're not mean generally, we are fair, and I think
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  Speaker 2: we've lost our ability to laugh together. And these billboards,
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  Speaker 2: while pitched by some as divisive, I think will actually
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  Speaker 2: do the opposite. They should bring us closer together. And
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  Speaker 2: I was hardened to hear the dB marketing director Fraser
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  Speaker 2: Shrimpton's statement which he gave to the papers. He said,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't set out to offend anyone. We are happy
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  Speaker 2: to push the boundaries and say the things that we've
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  Speaker 2: all been thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Great. We need to talk about how we really feel,
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  Speaker 3: because when we share it especially with humor. We connect
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  Speaker 3: with one another as a society, don't we. We grow
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  Speaker 3: closer together, we are less divided. So long may the
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  Speaker 3: Twoy billboards last.
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