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Full Show Podcast: 14 April 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens
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Speaker 1: on Early Edition with one roof make your Property search simple,
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Speaker 2: It'd be.
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Speaker 3: Well, good morning to you and welcome to your Monday,
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Speaker 3: and welcome today one of the school holidays, so good
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Speaker 3: luck and this is my final stint on Early Edition.
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Speaker 3: Lines back tomorrow on today's program. A new documentary on
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Speaker 3: the case of Philip Pokinghorn hit our screens this weekend
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Speaker 3: and it's riveting. We're going to talk to the producer
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Speaker 3: about the program and why she made it and also
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Speaker 3: Philip Pokinghorn's reaction to it. Andrew Ordison covers Sport in
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Speaker 3: ten minutes and we'll try not to talk about the Warriors.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about the national headache, which is
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Speaker 3: the Auckland Harbor Bridge and the government has come up
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Speaker 3: with a new system to make getting a driver's license
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Speaker 3: less prohibitively expensive. We're going to talk to the AA
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Speaker 3: just before six. We're talking to Gavin Gray out of
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Speaker 3: the UK. We're talking to correspondence from right around New
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Speaker 3: Zealand and we'll bring you news as it breaks and
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Speaker 3: you can have your stay by texting us ninety two
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Speaker 3: ninety two, A small charge applies. It's seven minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: It's Monday, the fourteenth of April. Ukraine's State emergency services.
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Speaker 3: At least thirty four people have been killed in Russian
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Speaker 3: strikes on the city of Sumi. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky
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Speaker 3: is accusing Putin of ignoring the USC's fire proposal, and
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Speaker 3: the strike comes after US Envoy Steve Wikoff met Russian
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Speaker 3: President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss a Ukrainian peace element.
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Speaker 4: There is still no agreement between Kiev and Washington over
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Speaker 4: a potential energy deal, which would see America invest in
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Speaker 4: Ukraine in exchange for continued military help. That deal is
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Speaker 4: no closer. Russia is continuing to whole firm on its
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Speaker 4: demands of the complete occupation of four Ukrainian provinces and
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Speaker 4: the political capitulation of Ukraine. And so if you are
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Speaker 4: a Ukrainian on a morning light today, that idea of
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Speaker 4: peace feels no closer.
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Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the United States has decided to exempt some electronics
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Speaker 3: like smartphones and computers from Trump's reciprocal tariffs. It includes
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Speaker 3: the one hundred and twenty five percent text on good
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Speaker 3: supporter from China. The move comes after concerns from US
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Speaker 3: tech companies that the price of devices could skyrocket because
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Speaker 3: many of them are made in China.
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Speaker 5: The total effective terriff breed on these exempted products, as
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Speaker 5: best as we can tell, is now back to about
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Speaker 5: twenty percent, So we're taking those reciprocal tariffs off. But
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Speaker 5: you know, it has been a very confusing week. You know,
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Speaker 5: these exemptions are going to affect companies like Nvidia and Dell,
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Speaker 5: but the big one that we've been watching is Apple.
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Speaker 3: And tens of thousands of festival goers braced the sweltering
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Speaker 3: heat for Coachella weekend in sunny California. The big Friday
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Speaker 3: night headliner was Lady Gaga, as choreographed by our very
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Speaker 3: own Paris Goobles. She delighted the crowds with many of
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Speaker 3: her top hits. But the performance everyone's talking about is
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Speaker 3: from Benson Boom, who brought out Brian May from Queen
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Speaker 3: to perform in Bohemian rapsody. Oh yes, doctor Brian May
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Speaker 3: sounding excellent, And you've got to say Benson Boom has
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Speaker 3: a great set of pipes.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Andrew Dickens and one roof make your property
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Speaker 1: search simple.
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Speaker 3: You talk sippy, it's stimulus for five. So wisdom Peters, wister.
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Speaker 3: Peters is a different person depending on where, when and
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Speaker 3: why you are talking to him. On the election trail.
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Speaker 3: He's anti immigration, he's anti globalism. He's a conservative populist.
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Speaker 3: But as Foreign Minister, he knows where our bread is buttered.
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Speaker 3: We are dependent on free trade and open borders to
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Speaker 3: sell as much food as we can. We are polished
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Speaker 3: subsidies and tariffs back in the seventies when we realize
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Speaker 3: that the world did not owe us favors and our
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Speaker 3: food products had to compete on their own, feat on taste,
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Speaker 3: quality and affordability. So his telling off of the Prime
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Speaker 3: Minister over the weekend I thought was warranted, as Christopher
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Speaker 3: Luxon courted public favor by trying to look aggressive in
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Speaker 3: his defense of New Zealand in the WTC that's the
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Speaker 3: World Trade crisis, Winston said, steady On, he's the one saying,
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Speaker 3: don't poke the American bear. He's the one saying we
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Speaker 3: don't know where this is going to shake out, and
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Speaker 3: he's the one who's right. He told the Prime Minister
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Speaker 3: to call him first, which must be a worry to
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Speaker 3: national As we move into the second half of the
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Speaker 3: electoral cycle, Winnie is no more compliant or tamed as
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Speaker 3: he's ever been. And have you noticed he always gets
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Speaker 3: stuck into his coalition partner when Luxon or himself is overseas. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: Tentative feel us of going out to Europe regarding the
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Speaker 3: mothball Transpacific partnership, and that's a good move too. We're
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Speaker 3: in the age of deals amongst friends, and if America
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Speaker 3: is no longer Europe or New Zealand's friend, then why
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Speaker 3: shouldn't we help each other? I Meanwhile, in a sad
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Speaker 3: example that the President of the United States did not
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Speaker 3: think things through, his administration has announced it will exclude
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Speaker 3: electronics like smart phones and laptops from reciprocal tariffs. He
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Speaker 3: knows now that the people will not stand for their
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Speaker 3: phones and their computers suddenly doubling in price. Now, he
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Speaker 3: may claim to be the man for American business, but
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Speaker 3: he did not realize that all business from the blue
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Speaker 3: collar to the white are dependent on phones and computers,
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Speaker 3: things that US manufacturers let China build because China can
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Speaker 3: build them cheaper. Now, as Anna Fifeld said on the
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Speaker 3: Telly yesterday, this is a global game of chicken, and
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Speaker 3: now Trump has blinked twice. And I don't know if
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Speaker 3: you've noticed this, but Trump doesn't do one on one
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Speaker 3: interviews except with Noaan Patsy's. Can you imagine the field
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Speaker 3: day that Mike Hoskin would have with him and back home.
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Speaker 3: The government wants to change up our driver's licensing system.
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Speaker 3: It's looking at a new proposal where new drivers will
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Speaker 3: only have to take one practical test instead of two.
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Speaker 3: Restricted drivers with defensive driving and a clean record will
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Speaker 3: automatically gain their full after twelve months, but there's a
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Speaker 3: bunch of conditions, including halving the number of demerit points
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Speaker 3: you can get, and there will be a zero percent
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Speaker 3: alcohol breath limit regardless of your age. They're trying to
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Speaker 3: take away the excessive cost that our new drivers face
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Speaker 3: to get a license, a license that is critical for
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Speaker 3: working life. But you see in doing so, they are
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Speaker 3: taking away the hours of supervised driving that the kids
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Speaker 3: have to do. And that is the trade off, and
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Speaker 3: that's where some people may have trouble with the new system.
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Speaker 3: Not as much supervised driving, but it is cheaper, so look,
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Speaker 3: we're going to talk to the AA about this just
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Speaker 3: before six. But next did you watch it? It's streaming
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Speaker 3: on three now, it's streaming, it's playing on Restural TV
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Speaker 3: on TV three. It's a new documentary about the poking
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Speaker 3: Horn trial. And it was a fascinating sunday for me.
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Speaker 3: Going to talk to the producer of that program Next
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Speaker 3: News Talks there, b it's fourteen after five on your radio.
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Speaker 1: And online on iHeartRadio Early edition with Andrew Dickens and
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Speaker 3: Youth Talk, said b as a sixteen minutes out of five.
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Speaker 3: So last night the new documentary on the poking Horn
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Speaker 3: trial was released, and you can take a listen right now.
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Speaker 6: For thirty odd years, I have been watching wealthy their control.
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Speaker 7: Women, but it usually doesn't end in dead.
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Speaker 2: Can't do a pop on the dot of glue.
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Speaker 1: Evidence is missing, But it didn't make sease.
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Speaker 3: I was thinking, his story keeps changing, very very odd.
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Speaker 8: It's just snowballing into this incredible spectacle that people just
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Speaker 8: couldn't look away from.
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Speaker 3: All right, Yes, The documentary received two hundred and twenty
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Speaker 3: eight grand from funding from New zeald on Air. It
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Speaker 3: follows the eight week trial of Philip Pokinghorn, who was
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Speaker 3: accused of killing his wife, Pauline Hannah back in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty one at Easter too. So this is what the
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Speaker 3: third anniversary, fourth anniversary. A jury ultimately found poking Horn
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Speaker 3: not guilty. He walked out of the Court of Free
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Speaker 3: Man telling a scrum of reporters to let Pauline rest
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Speaker 3: in peace. But that's not happening, is it? Because we've
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Speaker 3: got this new documentary and Polly Fryer is the producer
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Speaker 3: of it and joins us this morning, Good morning to
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Speaker 3: your Polly.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, how are you great?
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Speaker 3: It's a good watch. I have to say, why make it?
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Speaker 6: I think it's important to make these stories so that
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Speaker 6: people can hear particularly from two of the key witnesses
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Speaker 6: and participants in the case that we didn't hear form
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Speaker 6: in court, that's Madison Ashton and doctor Philip Polkinhorn himself,
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Speaker 6: So an opportunity to find out more from their perspective,
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Speaker 6: and that obviously wasn't presented through the judicial process.
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Speaker 3: I found it fascinating right from the get go, because
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Speaker 3: I saw the rope, and I saw the house, and
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Speaker 3: I saw the bed, and I I've got a fuller
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Speaker 3: picture of the story.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well, that's often the way that documentaries can do
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Speaker 6: that because we don't have the same you know, we're
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Speaker 6: obviously not there to prove his guilt or his innocence,
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Speaker 6: so we have the ability to be able to show
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Speaker 6: things in much more detail and with much more commentary
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Speaker 6: from more of the players, and give more detail to
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Speaker 6: a lot of elements of the case.
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Speaker 3: Now I've a poking horn later in the series. I've
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Speaker 3: not got to that point yet. I've only seen the
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Speaker 3: first one, but later, and this is making the headlines.
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Speaker 3: He blamed the COVID vaccine for Pauline's death. Is anyone
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Speaker 3: buying that?
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Speaker 6: I think it's clear to say that neither the defense
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Speaker 6: nor the prosecution mentioned or use the COVID vaccine theory
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Speaker 6: during the court case, So we can't comment any further
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Speaker 6: on it. But that's all that we know that it
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Speaker 6: was never raised as part of the trial.
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Speaker 3: Okay, he hasn't been found innocent, he was found not guilty.
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Speaker 3: That's the way the law works. However, you are in
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Speaker 3: a way relitigating it. Did you have concerns around defamation
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Speaker 3: while making this story?
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Speaker 6: I think that it's quite a balanced documentary, and obviously
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Speaker 6: there's a lot of Polkinghorn in there himself talking to
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Speaker 6: us and commenting on the situation. We did ask Ron
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Speaker 6: Mansfield to participate and doctor Pulkinhorn again after the initial interview,
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Speaker 6: but both declined, as did dozens of other acquaintances and
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Speaker 6: former colleagues of Polkinghorns who we approached. But I don't
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Speaker 6: think that really we're trying to re litigate it. I
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Speaker 6: think what we're trying to do is give more detail
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Speaker 6: on a fascinating subject in a case that is sort
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Speaker 6: of captured the nation and probably very interesting to others
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Speaker 6: abroad as well.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and you've got overseas becking as well. I mean,
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Speaker 3: what does that Sky News UK and Warner Brothers Discovery,
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Speaker 3: So is this going to play worldwide?
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Speaker 6: Nine in Australia have acquired the series, have Sky UK
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Speaker 6: and then we have a representation for rest of world.
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Speaker 6: So we'll see how that goes following the New Zealand release.
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Speaker 3: Especially because the interview with Pokinghorn happened nineteen months before
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Speaker 3: the trial, so obviously he's wanting to talk to you
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Speaker 3: and to convince you of his innocence. He has a
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Speaker 3: quote saying when you and Julia Hartley Moore approached him.
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Speaker 3: You said you'll be able to help him without any advice.
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Speaker 3: He trusted you both and what they said to me.
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Speaker 3: But now he's come out and described his own documentary
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Speaker 3: series as tabloid clickbait, and he claims he was misled.
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Speaker 3: What do you say to that.
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Speaker 6: Mark McNeil, the other executi producer, myself weren't on board
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Speaker 6: the project when Julia and Chris Cook did the interview
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Speaker 6: with Polkinhorn. Chris Cook has not been involved in the
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Speaker 6: documentary since the interview was held. Julia is an executive
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Speaker 6: producer on the series. I think it's been it's clear
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Speaker 6: even from the text messages in the stuff article that
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Speaker 6: we agreed to not air the documentary until after the trial,
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Speaker 6: So we were never going to be any part of
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Speaker 6: a judicial process that was questioning his guilt or not.
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Speaker 3: But is it tabloid clickbait as he says, After all,
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Speaker 3: it is a prilliant insight into a world of remiwerra
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Speaker 3: and hookers and murder and all sorts. I know, so
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Speaker 3: alleged murder.
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Speaker 2: That was his life.
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Speaker 6: We're only telling his life as he tells us in
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Speaker 6: those in his life including Madison Ashton tell it, I
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Speaker 6: don't think it's flick bait for that. I think it's probably,
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Speaker 6: you know, portraying a side of life that maybe we
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Speaker 6: don't see that often. And as Philip himself says, he's
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Speaker 6: not on trial for morality issues, and we're not trialing
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Speaker 6: for morality issues either. We're really saying what his life
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Speaker 6: was like and what Pauline's life was like in the
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Speaker 6: time leading up to her passing.
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Speaker 3: Well, good job is a good watch and I thank
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Speaker 3: you so much for your time today. That is Polly Fryer,
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Speaker 3: producer of the new Poking Horn documentary. You can see
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Speaker 3: it on three now, you can see it streaming, so
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Speaker 3: you can watch it whenever you like. And as I say,
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Speaker 3: it's got funding from Sky UK and the Nine Network,
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Speaker 3: support from New Zealand On and the government's screen production grant.
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Speaker 3: It is our five twenty one. So the Warriors forty
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Speaker 3: two to fourteen us against the Melbourne Storm, seventeen losses
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Speaker 3: in a row against the storm dating back to twenty fifteen.
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Speaker 3: A mention all this so I don't have to relive
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Speaker 3: the horror in a moment with Andrew Ordison, who joins
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Speaker 3: us next.
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Speaker 9: News and Views.
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Speaker 1: You Trust has Starne Your Day, It's Billy Edition with
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Speaker 3: Five twenty three Andrew Ordison come on in to you.
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Speaker 3: Greeting's Andrew and the golf kicks off at six point
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Speaker 3: thirty and it's McIlroy's to lose.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, and de Chambeau, it's going to be quite
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Speaker 10: the duel I Suspect Live versus PG. Two and it goes,
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Speaker 10: you can't write this stuff, can you? Oh, it's going
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Speaker 10: to be a beauty. I'm looking if I watched it,
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Speaker 10: well most of it yesterday, and well mackrol is just
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Speaker 10: he was superb. And I think that eagle on the
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Speaker 10: fifteenth was the one that got me. And just that
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Speaker 10: the quality of the stroke making all the shots that
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Speaker 10: they produce and a.
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Speaker 3: Front nine was amazing. Yeah. Yeah, what a killer course,
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Speaker 3: What a killer course to see. Lidia co said, I'm
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Speaker 3: so glad the women don't play this because brute. It's brute,
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Speaker 3: and I don't even think we see the words on television.
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Speaker 3: I think quite shows the contours as steepness of it
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Speaker 3: and in the in the I guess the level of
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Speaker 3: difficulty when you see that and just when you see
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Speaker 3: them I expose chipping onto the green or whatever, but
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Speaker 3: when when it expecting it's almost the two dimensional order,
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Speaker 3: but you're expecting it just to stop the ball. But
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Speaker 3: then you see a role and you think, oh.
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Speaker 10: Wow, that must be quite a killer slope and if
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Speaker 10: it goes, yes, indeed, we'll get forward to that.
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Speaker 3: Motor Racing V eight's first and miss Matt Pain's our
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Speaker 3: new Kiwi hero.
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Speaker 10: He is, He's coming on great, isn't he? And of
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Speaker 10: course Jason Richards's memorial trophy taking that out on top
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Speaker 10: four and yeah, good on him. He's he's really coming
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Speaker 10: into the realm.
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Speaker 3: It's just it's a I.
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Speaker 10: Know we had McLaren and Aimon and Denny Holm, but
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Speaker 10: this is another golden earth inw Zealand motivation drivers we'll
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Speaker 10: look back on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, except Liam had another bad day at the office.
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Speaker 3: Is Formula one? Can I just point out that he
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Speaker 3: finished thirteenth, Yes he did, but the cross the line
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Speaker 3: fifteen But the problem was he'd been driving aggressively and
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Speaker 3: he bumped into a couple of cars and he had
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of time penalties, which took him down
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Speaker 3: to seventeenth. That's right.
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Speaker 10: So it was fifteen seconds I think was added to
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Speaker 10: his tible of it, so that he hit a couple
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Speaker 10: of classes Nika Holkenberg and was deemed to have I've
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Speaker 10: been transgressed and so therefore, yeah, was pushed down the rankings.
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Speaker 3: Spore not good really because he was the last of
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Speaker 3: the Red Brall crew. Yeah, yeah, so that's bushed him down.
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Speaker 3: Oh look at this, we ran out of time to
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Speaker 3: talk about the warriors. Oh well, that's probably a very
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Speaker 3: good thing, exactly, Thank you, Andrew, and I've said five twenty.
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Speaker 3: News Talks B. I'm Andrew Dickins, five twenty seven. So
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Speaker 3: there was a letter to the editor of the Weekend
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Speaker 3: about the Auckland Harbor Bridge, which I thought made a
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Speaker 3: very good point. The writer remarked that the harbor Bridge
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Speaker 3: as the coat hangar shape it is because it needed
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Speaker 3: to let freighters in to get to the Chelsea sugar works,
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Speaker 3: and that is the only reason the bridge go go
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Speaker 3: up so much and down so much. What a pity
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Speaker 3: we didn't move the sugar industry in the fifties, but
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Speaker 3: mean built the bridge. What a pity. We compromise the
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Speaker 3: bridge for just one industry and we're going to end
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Speaker 3: out having to pay for that dearly. It's one of
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Speaker 3: those things we all forget when we start talking about
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Speaker 3: a second harbour crossing at a barbecue. Now at the moment,
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Speaker 3: orkaners will see barges doing geotech in the middle of
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Speaker 3: the harbor and what they're doing, why they're there. It's
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Speaker 3: for a two for two new three lane road tunnels.
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Speaker 3: A single light rail tunnel is also part of the plan. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: the existing bridge stays and gets lanes for buses and cycling. Now,
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Speaker 3: what I think we get wrong is that we really
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Speaker 3: should be talking about replacing the first crossing because it's
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Speaker 3: at the end of its life. It's time to go
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Speaker 3: move the sugar works and we could replace the bridge
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Speaker 3: with a flatter, wider version that would be wider and
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Speaker 3: stronger than we've got, giving it a longer life and
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Speaker 3: not having to do the tunneling, which could be very
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Speaker 3: expensive and very difficult. And I keep reminding people that
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Speaker 3: the real problem with the awkward motorway system is the
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Speaker 3: limits of spaghetti junction and the points at Northcote and
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Speaker 3: Green Lane Penrose, not the bridge. The bridge actually has
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Speaker 3: more capacity, but it has no structural strength. It's old
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Speaker 3: and bobbly. Now for all of you not in Auckland
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Speaker 3: wondering why I'm talking about this, it's simple. This will
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Speaker 3: be the biggest and most complex and most disruptive infrastructure
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Speaker 3: project this country will see, and we're all going to
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Speaker 3: have to pay for it, no matter which city we
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Speaker 3: live in.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens, All.
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Speaker 3: Right, Peter's wrong lucks and right, lots of reaction to that.
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Speaker 3: More on that to come after Gavin Gray in the UK,
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Speaker 3: and we'll talk about the new driver's license. This is
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Speaker 3: early edition and I'm Andrew Dickens.
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Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on Early Edition with one roof make your
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Speaker 1: Property Search Simple, youth Talk, zibby and.
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Speaker 3: No good on it to you. Welcome to your Monday.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for choosing us. My last and on early edition.
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Speaker 3: Ryan is back tomorrow. He's taking a long weekend. Heather
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Speaker 3: is back today at four o'clock. Mentioned at the beginning
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Speaker 3: wister Peter's telling off Christopher Luxe, and I said that,
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Speaker 3: you know Winster Peter's was right. Textas says no, Peter's wrong,
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Speaker 3: Lux and right. It's a succinct little text, Gary says Andrew.
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Speaker 3: Remember Winston did not phone or discuss with the Prime
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Speaker 3: Minister before he sacked our ambassador in London. Isn't this
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Speaker 3: exactly the same thing? Mister Peters thinks he is the
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Speaker 3: king and he is not. He is doing a fantastic job,
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Speaker 3: but needs to work as a team with all the
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Speaker 3: right parties. Thank you so much, Gary. Now, trust in
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Speaker 3: the news media in New Zealand. The latest aut an
18:45
Speaker 3: Your survey has come out and apparently it's stabilized all
18:48
Speaker 3: individual outlets recording improvements and trust. But the trust is
18:51
Speaker 3: still low. It's at thirty two percent, which is lower
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Speaker 3: than most other countries. By the way, pre COVID trust
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Speaker 3: in the New Zealand media fifty three percent, now thirty
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Speaker 3: two percent. Clear themes have emerged. Most felt they were
19:06
Speaker 3: overwhelmed by the news these days and felt it necessary
19:09
Speaker 3: to disengage from it for their mental health. Many sighted
19:12
Speaker 3: the overwhelmingly negative tone of news, constant bad news, fear
19:15
Speaker 3: based content, bit of sensationalism. That's why they avoid us.
19:19
Speaker 3: One responder was quoted as saying there's far too much
19:21
Speaker 3: news about American politics and about Palestine, which is depressing.
19:24
Speaker 3: Another said, I try to Trump talks as much as possible.
19:28
Speaker 3: There's a new word for you, trump talks. I find
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Speaker 3: a man utterly exhausting and devoid of assault, very disturbing energy.
19:35
Speaker 3: He's hard to escape currently, so I find myself going
19:39
Speaker 3: near to news generally less and less to avoid the crepe,
19:42
Speaker 3: to avoid the creep. Meanwhile, apparently we're confused about our
19:45
Speaker 3: alleged media bias. I'm saying it's too anti government. Some
19:48
Speaker 3: I'm saying it's too left leaning. Are the saying it's
19:50
Speaker 3: all right wing propaganda. All I want to say is
19:53
Speaker 3: that what I'm doing this job. I just try to
19:55
Speaker 3: play with a straight bat. It's twenty one to six
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Speaker 3: around the country. There we go Callum Proctor from Dunedin
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Speaker 3: and good morning Callum. Hello hello there. Now were you oming?
20:10
Speaker 3: Were you actually in full Nelson or something? Because big
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Speaker 3: yoga gathering in your parts here?
20:16
Speaker 11: There was a record gathering actually for a yoga class
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Speaker 11: here in Duneda yesterday a new New Zealand record was
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Speaker 11: well and truly set six hundred and twenty three taking
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Speaker 11: part in a one hour yoga session under the roof
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Speaker 11: at our Forsyth Bar Stadium here yesterday, so that's a
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Speaker 11: new national mark. The previous yoga records stood at three
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Speaker 11: hundred people. That was at Orphan Domain, so we've more
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Speaker 11: than doubled that. Got a way to go though to
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Speaker 11: beat the world record. That's a yoga class of nearly
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Speaker 11: one hundred and forty eight thousand, but six hundred and
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Speaker 11: twenty three was a good effort. It was part of
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Speaker 11: the Wild Dunedan Festival of Nature. The organizers say, look
20:51
Speaker 11: they're over the moon with the level of interest in
20:53
Speaker 11: this year's festival, with many of the events.
20:55
Speaker 3: Sold outlin Karma and were meditated just listening to you,
20:57
Speaker 3: how's your weather.
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Speaker 11: For a start, but some heavy rain develops around midday
21:02
Speaker 11: suddenly changed the heights today twenty two two.
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Speaker 3: Christi as we go clear sure, we're good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: Good morning and a record for you as well in
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Speaker 3: the christ Church Marathon.
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Speaker 8: That's the one record to the other. Well, we've had
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Speaker 8: over seven thousand people lace up their shoes across all
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Speaker 8: categories of the christ Church Marathon yesterday. The event director
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Speaker 8: Callum Nicholson says they are up forty percent on last
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Speaker 8: year's numbers, he says. While he's delighted, he's not surprised.
21:27
Speaker 8: He says, it's clear there's a growing reputation around christ
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Speaker 8: Church and specifically this event. The ten Kill me To
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Speaker 8: Loop course ran through the heart of the city for
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Speaker 8: a third straight year. There were some improvements this year
21:38
Speaker 8: to better the course. The half marathon was the largest event,
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Speaker 8: more than three thousand people in that category.
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Speaker 3: I had a big argument with my dad when he
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Speaker 3: turned forty and he said I'm going to run a marathon.
21:48
Speaker 3: And then this big debate about Roto Rua or christ Church.
21:51
Speaker 3: I said, christ Church flat, Rota Rua hilly, but he
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Speaker 3: did it Rotal ru So there you go. How's your weather.
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Speaker 8: I like someone who takes a challenge to Andrew look
21:59
Speaker 8: fairly fine. I'm here today a bit of high cloud
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Speaker 8: Ryan developing much later in the day. The high should
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Speaker 8: be twenty one.
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Speaker 3: He did it in the seventies. He did three hours
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Speaker 3: twenty six. I was very proud of him. Right, Oh,
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Speaker 3: Max Tool and Wellington, hellom X, good morning. So Wellington's
22:12
Speaker 3: ballsed up, moved to get orchids to move south. Yeah,
22:16
Speaker 3: So a good.
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Speaker 12: Story leading the post this morning. As Tom Hunter reports,
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Speaker 12: One of the mayor's first acts in the job was,
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Speaker 12: as you say, a bid to persuade auckland Is to
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Speaker 12: move to the capital. This has come out via official documents.
22:29
Speaker 12: Wellington and Z were commissioned to put an ad together
22:32
Speaker 12: that ran in the New Zealand Herald Kyoto Tamakimikoto. It read,
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Speaker 12: we understand a few of you maybe considering your career options.
22:39
Speaker 12: Just a note from us in te Funganuiatada. We're looking
22:42
Speaker 12: out for talented creative people to help grow our hero
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Speaker 12: as capital, signed toriy Fano. Needless to say, it was
22:49
Speaker 12: a bit of a bomb. Twelve emails in response in total.
22:54
Speaker 12: It doesn't look like anyone took up the offer, only
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Speaker 12: as Wellington and Z says positive consideration of working in Wellington.
23:01
Speaker 12: A counselor who sits on the Wellington and Z board
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Speaker 12: concedes it was a failure.
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Speaker 3: Maybe people just didn't understand Tory. Now, how's Wellington's weather?
23:10
Speaker 12: It should be fine today, cloudy high of nineteen All.
23:13
Speaker 3: Right to walkome we go neve rid to man who Hello,
23:15
Speaker 3: greetings so augand transport at love them. They're replacing trains
23:20
Speaker 3: with buses for most of the rest of the month.
23:22
Speaker 3: That is right.
23:22
Speaker 7: So what's happening is we've got the upgrades renewal projects
23:25
Speaker 7: happening right across the network here taking place for the
23:28
Speaker 7: next fortnight. Now this is to prepare services of obviously
23:31
Speaker 7: for next year's City rail Link opening and previous closures
23:35
Speaker 7: some customers they complained about, remember that the lack of capacity.
23:38
Speaker 7: The bus is going the wrong way and not turning
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Speaker 7: up on time. So fingers cross it. That will happen.
23:43
Speaker 7: You know, everything will be okay. AT did say that
23:46
Speaker 7: they're going to be monitoring the situation every day. Also,
23:49
Speaker 7: Andrew Auckland transport hiking parking prices by fifty cents an
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Speaker 7: hour that comes in from today. AT says that the
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Speaker 7: costs to maintain and service it network is increasing.
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Speaker 3: So the ever, I've always thought that Auckland one day
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Speaker 3: might be good if they ever finish it. Keep praying
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Speaker 3: for that one has. Aukcan's weather partly cloudy.
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Speaker 7: We've got the odd shower north of Harburbridge. Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 7: high the high today guess twenty one, twenty four, Oh
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Speaker 7: my lord, twenty.
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Speaker 3: Four made April okay, thank you so much. Now overseas
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Speaker 3: and a new CBS poll shows Americans views of the
24:23
Speaker 3: economy are still sour. Most say the President Trump has
24:26
Speaker 3: focused too much on tariffs, which they believe will end
24:29
Speaker 3: up raising prices, and that's the big thing. Lowering prices
24:33
Speaker 3: is by far their biggest concern. So the whole tariff
24:35
Speaker 3: thing runs country to that. It's all balanced out for
24:39
Speaker 3: mister Trump today by continued majority approval on his immigration
24:43
Speaker 3: stance and also his deportation program that comes especially, but
24:47
Speaker 3: not exclusively, from his Republican base, many who say that's
24:51
Speaker 3: just as important as the economy in their evaluations. That's
24:54
Speaker 3: on a CBS poll. We're going to talk overseas in
24:57
Speaker 3: just a few moments time with Gavin Gray from the
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Speaker 3: U And this sounds familiar. Apparently Scotland's got a ferry Fiesco.
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Speaker 3: Devin Gray, Good morning, Hi Andrew. So there's been allegations
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Speaker 3: that Russians have put sensors all around Great Britain in
26:25
Speaker 3: an attempt to track UK nuclear submarines. Now, what can
26:28
Speaker 3: you tell me about this story?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this was a story out of the Sunday
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Speaker 2: Times in which it was reported that British military discovered
26:36
Speaker 2: the existence of these devices and deemed them a potential
26:39
Speaker 2: threat to national security. It is believed that, if these
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Speaker 2: stories correct, these devices have been planted by Moscow in
26:46
Speaker 2: order to try to gather intelligence on the UK's nuclear
26:51
Speaker 2: defense or nuclear capabilities. They are based on four Vanguard
26:57
Speaker 2: submarines which carry these nuclear missiles. Now, if this is true,
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Speaker 2: then of course it would be deeply worrying if somebody
27:04
Speaker 2: knows precisely where they are. The devices have been characterized
27:09
Speaker 2: incidentally that effectively they could well be part of what's
27:12
Speaker 2: called a hybrid or gray zone war that Vladimir Putin
27:16
Speaker 2: might be plotting, in other words, doing damage to infrastructure
27:19
Speaker 2: assets as well, like energy pipelines could be being mapped. So,
27:23
Speaker 2: in an interview with the Russian ambassador to the UK today,
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Speaker 2: he was asked straight up, has this been happening? Have
27:30
Speaker 2: you been tracking British submarines And he said, well, I'm
27:33
Speaker 2: not going to deny it, but I wonder they really
27:36
Speaker 2: have an interest in following the British submarines because they're
27:39
Speaker 2: very old, outdated nuclear warheads and these threats are extremely exaggerated,
27:45
Speaker 2: and then said Russia poses no threat to the UK. Well,
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Speaker 2: I'm afraid at the moment that isn't the UK's assessment
27:52
Speaker 2: of the relationship with Russia.
27:54
Speaker 3: All Right, to Scotland we go, and they're having a
27:57
Speaker 3: very fies go much like New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: I gather that you two have had this perhaps the
28:02
Speaker 2: same people have been advising one another. This is about
28:06
Speaker 2: the daily journey on a ferry from the mainland of
28:10
Speaker 2: Scotland mainland of the UK to the Isle of Aaron. Now,
28:14
Speaker 2: believe it or not, these ferries were replacing a thirty
28:18
Speaker 2: year old service, a thirty year old ferry that was
28:21
Speaker 2: really getting out of date and becoming unreliable. So they
28:26
Speaker 2: ordered them and they were supposed to come into service
28:28
Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen. Only one has so far come into service,
28:33
Speaker 2: in other words, seven years late. The other still isn't ready.
28:35
Speaker 2: The original cost was two hundred million New Zealand dollars.
28:39
Speaker 2: It's now eight hundred million New Zealand dollars. And wait
28:42
Speaker 2: for it, they're too big to fit in the port
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Speaker 2: that they were supposed to dock at on the island.
28:48
Speaker 2: You couldn't make it up if you tried. In the meantime,
28:51
Speaker 2: it looks like they're going to divert the services to
28:54
Speaker 2: the coastal town or Truon, famous for golf. But guess
28:57
Speaker 2: what it now looks like. The Scottish government, in one
28:59
Speaker 2: of the big mismanagements ever I think, is now thinking
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Speaker 2: it might buy the original port that is too small
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Speaker 2: for the boats and upgraded with a rough one hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy pound investment. Honestly, Andrew, you couldn't make it up.
29:14
Speaker 3: Yes you can. It's exactly the same as here we
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Speaker 3: bought two ferries there were too big, we couldn't afford
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Speaker 3: to do the port work. And yeah you can, right, Gavin,
29:24
Speaker 3: and I thank you so much. Gavin Gray out of
29:26
Speaker 3: the UK. It's now nine minutes to six federal digginous
29:31
Speaker 3: right oh. The government wants to change up our driver's
29:33
Speaker 3: licensing system, as looking at a new proposal to new
29:35
Speaker 3: drivers will only have to take one practical test instead
29:38
Speaker 3: of two. Restricted drivers with defensive driving and clean records
29:41
Speaker 3: will automatically gain their full after twelve months. There's a
29:44
Speaker 3: bunch of conditions, including halving the number of demerit points,
29:47
Speaker 3: and there'll be a zero percent alcohol breath limit regardless
29:50
Speaker 3: of their age. So AA Road Safety spokesperson Dylan Thompson
29:55
Speaker 3: joins me, Now, good morning to you, Dylan.
29:57
Speaker 9: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: So this is good because it's cheaper, but it's bad
30:01
Speaker 3: because they get spend less time supervised driving.
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Speaker 9: Well, I think I'd say it's good in that the
30:08
Speaker 9: government is actually looking at making some significant changes and
30:12
Speaker 9: we're right on board with zero alcohol limit and more
30:15
Speaker 9: consequences for learner or restricted drivers breaking the rules. I
30:19
Speaker 9: think the way I put it is, we think it
30:21
Speaker 9: could be better if we looked to also make some
30:24
Speaker 9: changes that require learners to do a lot more practice
30:28
Speaker 9: and preparation and training than we currently do in New Zealand.
30:33
Speaker 9: So if we look overseas, a lot of the countries
30:35
Speaker 9: it has systems like this with just one on road test.
30:38
Speaker 9: They have a minimum number of hours of practice and
30:42
Speaker 9: incentives for people to do professional lessons and driving courses.
30:45
Speaker 3: Now, Chris Bishop actually talked about an app, an app
30:48
Speaker 3: to be your supervised driver. Do you trust that?
30:52
Speaker 9: Well, no, it's not an app to be your supervised driver.
30:55
Speaker 9: But a lot of an Australian states. What they have
30:59
Speaker 9: is when you're a learner, you can have an app
31:01
Speaker 9: that records all your practice hours of driving. And what
31:05
Speaker 9: that will do is if you're the supervising driver with
31:08
Speaker 9: that person, so that might be mum or dad or
31:10
Speaker 9: a grandparent or a friend full license, you get a
31:13
Speaker 9: message saying this person says they're about to do a
31:15
Speaker 9: practice drive with you. Is that true? You say yes.
31:18
Speaker 9: Then the app records the time, the distance and everything
31:21
Speaker 9: like that to make it easier.
31:22
Speaker 3: Fascinating. Will this make it cheap? But will it reduce
31:25
Speaker 3: the backlog?
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Speaker 9: Well, if we had only one test, it would definitely
31:30
Speaker 9: reduce costs and would mean that you know, there was
31:34
Speaker 9: more capacity in the system for focusing on that the
31:37
Speaker 9: restricted test if we if we saw this change. But
31:40
Speaker 9: I think that that key thing has really got to
31:42
Speaker 9: be focused on safety and are we doing things that
31:44
Speaker 9: are actually going to reduce a really high crash or
31:47
Speaker 9: a rate amongst young people in New Zealand.
31:51
Speaker 3: Well, Dylan good only, thank you for joining us. Dylan
31:53
Speaker 3: is the AA Road Safety spokesperson and this is News
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Speaker 1: The news this morning and the in depth Analysis early
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Speaker 3: Now on the on trust of the media. Bruce is angry.
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Speaker 3: He says, in a country of great marathon runners, where
32:14
Speaker 3: was the news in your report about the christ Church Marathon?
32:16
Speaker 3: Who were the winners? What were the times? Good point?
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Speaker 3: We reported that it was a record field of sevenenty fifteen,
32:21
Speaker 3: but the winners were Oscar Inkster Banes and two hours
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Speaker 3: and twenty minutes and twenty seconds and ingod Cree in
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Speaker 3: two hours forty six thirty. And the thing about Oscar,
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Speaker 3: he is thirty three years old, first person to win
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Speaker 3: every christ Church Marathon event distance that's the ten k,
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Speaker 3: the half marathon and the full marathon. And he's done
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Speaker 3: that twice. So there you go, Bruce, Mike Hoskin, good
32:42
Speaker 3: morning to you, very good morning.
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Speaker 13: That's exciting prime ministers in this morning they read about
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Speaker 13: the Winston Peters. Is Winston Peter's attacking the prime minister.
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Speaker 3: I think he is?
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Speaker 4: Is?
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Speaker 3: He yes, he is.
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Speaker 13: I just wanted if it's a bit more broad based
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Speaker 13: than that, like he's attacking people generally about you know,
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Speaker 13: getting hysterical.
32:55
Speaker 3: Well, I think, and this is what told Thomas says
32:58
Speaker 3: as well, that you know he's about to come the
32:59
Speaker 3: dep He's got eighteen months to the next election. He's
33:03
Speaker 3: now going to be very much New Zealand first, rather
33:05
Speaker 3: than the foreign minister.
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Speaker 13: For all, I suppose I suppose that was always going
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Speaker 13: to happen, wasn't it. Yeah, we're talk He's not tamed,
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Speaker 13: that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: No, that is true.
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Speaker 13: And tod eighty years old, fantastic. You know, I got
33:14
Speaker 13: insight into groceries this morning. We seem to have that
33:17
Speaker 13: under control cost of living. We'll talk about that trust
33:19
Speaker 13: and that trust in the media thing that's as dodgy
33:22
Speaker 13: as well. Think about first of well, you got a
33:24
Speaker 13: thousand people, right, and fifty six as the most I
33:27
Speaker 13: think was about sixty percent dipped into a couple of
33:30
Speaker 13: the bigger players in the market. So if you've only
33:33
Speaker 13: got six out of ten to start with, by the
33:34
Speaker 13: time you get down to the tiny players, the number
33:37
Speaker 13: of people who actually used it would be infinitesimally small.
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Speaker 13: So how to you know, are these numbers even you
33:42
Speaker 13: know what I mean?
33:43
Speaker 3: I know it's a vibe, it's a vibe. They don't.
33:46
Speaker 3: And I'm getting texts they don't trust us, mat.
33:48
Speaker 13: No, and they don't and and rightly side.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't trust. I don't trust, and
33:54
Speaker 3: you don't trust. I don't trust. After them, oh I know.
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Speaker 3: Oh good, thank you so much. So I'm Andrew Becons.
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