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Ryan Bridge: Happy Waitangi Day! · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Happy White Tangy Day. Everybody. You'll probably see and hear
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  Speaker 1: a bit of rgi bargie from up north today because
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  Speaker 1: the Polleys are getting welcomed onto the Treaty grounds. If
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  Speaker 1: you've ever been up there, or if you've never been
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  Speaker 1: up there, you should easily one of the best Kiwi
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  Speaker 1: weekends that you could experience. Sunshines, guarantee people of friendly grubs,
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  Speaker 1: good plenty of drinks to be had at the juke
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  Speaker 1: or or another watering hole, talking politics into the night.
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  Speaker 1: Great time. Protest is an important part of democracy. Lance's
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  Speaker 1: societies boils. It keeps powerful people in check, but it
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  Speaker 1: must be peaceful. The minute you start throwing fists, punching
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  Speaker 1: cops and shoving people around, you lose the room. And
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that happen at White Tangy several times. We
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  Speaker 1: all have seen it happen at many protests about a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of different issues. I might add, I hope
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't happen this year. There is apparently a group
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  Speaker 1: of twenty online who apparently say that they are ready
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  Speaker 1: to be arrested in the name of protests, and what
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  Speaker 1: a shame that would be. If there's one thing we've
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  Speaker 1: shown each other as a country over the past fortnight,
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  Speaker 1: with the storms and the floodings and the landslides and
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  Speaker 1: then the cleanup. It's that we are still quite a
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  Speaker 1: united and down to earth country, I reckon. The politicians
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  Speaker 1: might argue, the lobby groups hiss in raw, but at
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  Speaker 1: its heart New Zealand is mostly made up of decent
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  Speaker 1: people who look up for each other. We saw Maday
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  Speaker 1: house and feed and water their neighbors. I saw farmers
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  Speaker 1: being fed by cooyer on Madey. We saw farmers helping
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  Speaker 1: clear maldi own land of debris. We saw tradees and
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  Speaker 1: workers leaping to help terists trapped under rubble. They might
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  Speaker 1: fight about race and parliament, but the reality on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: as you and I both know well, is way more
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  Speaker 1: chill than they make out, much more chill than we
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  Speaker 1: in the media make out too. To be fair, we're
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  Speaker 1: basically a nation of hard working people of all different
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  Speaker 1: cultures and colors, who sometimes disagree but mostly get on
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  Speaker 1: with life and look after each other. Of course, there
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  Speaker 1: are exceptions, but that's exactly the point. There are exceptions,
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  Speaker 1: not the rule, and this white tangy day, especially given
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  Speaker 1: how badly some other democracies have gone to the dogs.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's something surely worth celebrating. So happy, Why tangy? Everybody?
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