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Full Show Podcast: 18 August 2025 · 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: earli Ereditionhow with one roof Love Where You Live? News
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome to your Monday, just gone six after five.
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Speaker 2: Coming up on the show this morning before six, the
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Speaker 2: New Zealand debt on track to hit one trillion dollars
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Speaker 2: in the next three years. Brad Olsen on the show.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray a UK Europe for us, every leader on
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Speaker 2: the continent and the UK basically packing a toothbrush and
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Speaker 2: an overnight bag to go and see Trump. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: about that. This is over Ukraine, of course we'll talk
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Speaker 2: AB's with Andrew and foodstuffs has a different number on
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Speaker 2: price inflation. Are they spinning us or what. We'll look
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Speaker 2: at that too. News Talk SEBB the Agenda, Monday, the
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Speaker 2: eighteenth of August. Here's the latest Trump sky handling Russia talks.
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Speaker 2: This is Steve Whitcoff. He's gone on CNN. Reckons. Putin's
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Speaker 2: agreed to security guarantees for Ukraine, which is pretty massive,
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Speaker 2: including a possible NATO Article five style defense.
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Speaker 3: We agreed to robust security guarantees that I would describe
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Speaker 3: as game changing. We didn't think that we were anywhere
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Speaker 3: close to agreeing to Article five protection from the United
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Speaker 3: States in legislative enshrinement within the Russian Federation not to
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Speaker 3: go after any other territory.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, it'll be standing room only in the Oval office tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: You've got starmer Machron Mertz from Germany. You got vonder
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Speaker 2: lyon she's in the RATA, the NAITO Secretary General are
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Speaker 2: all going.
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Speaker 4: It's necessary to cease fire and work quickly on a
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Speaker 4: final deal.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it in Washington.
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Speaker 4: Putin does not want to stop the killing, but he
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Speaker 4: must do it. Second, we need real negotiations, which means
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Speaker 4: they can start where the front line is now.
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Speaker 2: You've seen that flash flighting in Pakistan. It's ferocious. More
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Speaker 2: than three hundred people have been killed, including a risk
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Speaker 2: your helicopter crashing during operations. Five of the crew died.
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Speaker 5: Twenty five people from our family have died fighting the floods.
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Speaker 5: My nephew was coming from Malaysia, so one of my
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Speaker 5: brothers went to pick him up and I was at school,
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Speaker 5: so we survived.
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Speaker 2: Thousands have fled Gaza City of Vietnam. This is a
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Speaker 2: neighborhood in Gaza. After days of heavy Israeli bombard bombardment
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Speaker 2: Gaza officials say at least forty were killed on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Israel will allow tents back in the plans to force
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Speaker 2: a million people south into camps underground.
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Speaker 6: Israeli metropriation is ongoing in several areas before controlling the
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Speaker 6: whole of Gaza City, according to the plan of mister Natania,
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Speaker 6: who to see the whole Gaza and Segaza all in
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Speaker 6: all at the end to destroy, as he says, the
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Speaker 6: two remaining stronghold of Hamas in Mawassi and in Gaza City.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route Love where You Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks at B News Talk said, b it is
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Speaker 2: nine minutes after five. I was thinking watching a bit
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Speaker 2: of the rugby on Sunday morning and thinking, do these
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Speaker 2: guys still go out and get on the hammer after
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Speaker 2: winning a game of rugby? When you're in Argentina and
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Speaker 2: these beautiful people around. It's a beautiful country. It's a
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Speaker 2: bars and restaurants. Do they still go out and do that?
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Speaker 2: Or is that a bit too old school now? Anyway,
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Speaker 2: we might ask Andrew Ortison about that shortly big week
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Speaker 2: for us here in New Zealand. It's ocr week this
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Speaker 2: week Wednesdays to day. Is the economy cracking? Is it
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Speaker 2: in shape? You know, obviously we've had a hiatus post
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Speaker 2: Liberation Day, but are people slowly getting out and spending more.
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Speaker 2: We've had some semi positive card data, the high frequency
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Speaker 2: data they like to call it, over the last week
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Speaker 2: or two. On the weekend, I was out, People were spending,
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Speaker 2: people were busy. It looked to be Things looked to
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Speaker 2: be okay where I was looking. Anyway, here's the thing.
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Speaker 2: We've been relying on the Reserve Bank to do the
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Speaker 2: heavy lifting. You know that Treasury report that we had
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Speaker 2: that looked at COVID, it said basically, leave the heavy
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Speaker 2: lifting to the Reserve Bank. Don't get you to the government,
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Speaker 2: don't get your mits too dirty. If we get a
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Speaker 2: twenty five point cut on Wednesday, down to three percent,
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Speaker 2: that will mean two hundred and fifty basis points since
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Speaker 2: we started cutting, which was a year ago in August
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four started cutting. So if we get
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Speaker 2: twenty five that would mean we would have had two
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty basis points over the last year. That
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Speaker 2: was ostally. Our started at five point five come down
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Speaker 2: to three. Cutting cycle began a year ago, and that
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Speaker 2: time lag is what's killing us. It's the thing that
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Speaker 2: is frustrating lux And if he had here, he'd be
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Speaker 2: pulling it out. It can take twelve to eighteen months
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Speaker 2: for that to flow through to us, the real people
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Speaker 2: who were coming off their fixed mortgages, et cetera. So
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Speaker 2: basically we're only just starting to get the benefits now
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Speaker 2: of the first cut we got a whole year ago.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday's cut won't fully flow through until next August. I know,
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Speaker 2: it's like the Panteen pro v ad. It may not
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Speaker 2: happen overnight, but it will happen. So the political debate
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Speaker 2: in the meantime is should the government have stepped in,
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Speaker 2: like you know, in Akinesian style economics, stepped in and
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Speaker 2: propped it up in the meantime? You know, do you
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Speaker 2: keep building for the sake of the construction sector? Do
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Speaker 2: you keep building state houses even though there might be
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Speaker 2: the wrong size and in the wrong place, just to
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Speaker 2: keep the sector going. That's the debate that we're having
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Speaker 2: it at the moment, and that debate will continue. But
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Speaker 2: Wednesday is not going to solve everything, And it's certainly
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Speaker 2: not going to solve everything immediately. Ran said, nine ninety
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Speaker 2: two is the number to text. You'd love to hear
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Speaker 2: your thoughts. This morning, we'll get to the supermarket. So
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Speaker 2: we have the numbers out on Friday about food price inflation,
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Speaker 2: and then food Stuff comes out with their own release
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Speaker 2: saying actually this is the real if you go to
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Speaker 2: our supermarkets, this is the real increase in food prices.
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Speaker 2: So checkwin on that.
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Speaker 1: Next get ahead of the headlines on early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News Talks,
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Speaker 1: that'd be.
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Speaker 2: Five poin fourteen on news Talks, there'd be to see
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Speaker 2: the footage of Luxeen and Chippy dancing on Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: Oh I know, I know it makes you cringe, but
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Speaker 2: it's it is in a way nice to see that happening,
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Speaker 2: isn't it, because it shows that they're both actually just
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Speaker 2: human beings. They're not some you know, weird dart boards
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Speaker 2: that we throw darts at. I mean they are that too,
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Speaker 2: but they're also human beings who danced better. That's my
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Speaker 2: question for you. Nine to two nine two. None were outstanding.
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Speaker 2: You wouldn't put any of them on the world stage.
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Speaker 2: You know at the Dance Champs, but in your humble opinion,
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Speaker 2: who had the better moves? And why is it that? Well,
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Speaker 2: it's men can't move their hips. Don't just point the
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Speaker 2: sky is not dancing, you know what I mean. And
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Speaker 2: when they get really nervous they start clapping. That's not
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Speaker 2: dancing either. Move your hips, people. Nine nineteen the number
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Speaker 2: just gone quarter past five ran off the back of
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Speaker 2: the food inflation figures on Friday, food Stuffs has come
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Speaker 2: up with an interesting comparison. A stats in Z reported
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Speaker 2: five percent increase in the edit to July. I know,
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Speaker 2: hard to swallow, hard to say, but food Stuffs is
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Speaker 2: reporting a three point four percent increase year on year.
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Speaker 2: They argue they have a clearer grasp on grocery prices.
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Speaker 2: They say statsun Z is including restaurant and takeaways in
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Speaker 2: their reporting. Sue chetwyn is with the Grocery Action Group,
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Speaker 2: which's with us this morning. Hey, Sue, good morning. What
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Speaker 2: do you reckon spin or do they have some merit
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Speaker 2: and what they're saying?
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Speaker 7: Look, I think that it's interesting statistics and you know,
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Speaker 7: it's it's good to have them, but to me, it
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Speaker 7: really is spin stats. New Zealand your I've been doing
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Speaker 7: these figures for a very long time, and food Stus
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Speaker 7: is producing them when they think that they might benefit them.
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Speaker 7: You know, they are under the gun at the moment
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Speaker 7: because of the very high prices that tee we's are
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Speaker 7: paying for groceries, and so they come out with statistics
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Speaker 7: like this, And of course, you know you have to
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Speaker 7: say that gst is on is on food in New
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Speaker 7: Zealand and isn't in some of the other comparison countries
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Speaker 7: like the UK and Australia. But you know, there's research
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Speaker 7: around that shows that even taking that into account, that
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Speaker 7: we are still paying too much for groceries here. So
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Speaker 7: I don't think it. I don't think it does food
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Speaker 7: stuff so much good to do stuff like this in
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Speaker 7: some respects because I just don't think I think here
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Speaker 7: is more sensible than that, And they probably don't believe it.
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 8: Do you.
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Speaker 2: But to be fair to them, I mean, they get
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Speaker 2: hammered day in day out. These guys are the reason
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Speaker 2: I can't afford to feed my family. And they'd make
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Speaker 2: some just reasonable points about you know, a harsher winter
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Speaker 2: and shopping seasonally, and as you say, the gest I mean,
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Speaker 2: these are valid things.
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Speaker 7: Oh look, absolutely, you know there has been a harsh winter,
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Speaker 7: stops seasonally. All of those things are correct. But the
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Speaker 7: reality is that we still have, you know, a duopoly
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Speaker 7: in New Zealand. We have food stuff which is increasing
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Speaker 7: its hold actually, and we have two reports from the
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Speaker 7: Grocery Commissioner showing that things are toss. The barrier to
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Speaker 7: entry for us a competing supermarket is probably too high,
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Speaker 7: and that's why we don't have competition here, and that's
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Speaker 7: why we have high prices. It's not much more difficult
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Speaker 7: than that. And food stuff might be giving us all
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Speaker 7: this advice, but the fact of the matter is making
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Speaker 7: excess of profits. So if they bought the price had
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Speaker 7: said for food down a little bit, they would still
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Speaker 7: be making both.
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Speaker 2: Profits, spend a little less on pr maybe you reckon
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Speaker 2: soe hey, thanks right, thanks for your time, sir, Shepwyin
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Speaker 2: Who's for their Growth Reaction Group this morning. It is
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Speaker 2: eighteen minutes after five AB's with Andrew Ordison. Next on
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love where you Live, News.
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Speaker 2: Talks EDB, News TALKSB after the News at five point
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Speaker 2: thirty will talk about the plant.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 2: The media is talking about whether Hepkins would be rolled
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Speaker 2: before the election because he's tainted by COVID, and whether
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Speaker 2: the Luxe and should be rolled before the election because
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Speaker 2: he's tainted by well himself. Both of these things are
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Speaker 2: not going to happen. I'll tell you why after five thirty.
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Speaker 2: We'll also talk about the latest on Ukraine. Right now,
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Speaker 2: it's sport. Andrew Orison's here, Good morning, Greeting's Ryan, Good
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Speaker 2: to see you. Now, what do you make of that
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Speaker 2: AB's game?
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Speaker 9: I thought it was well, not convincing, but I thought
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Speaker 9: that it was a decent showing and they showed plenty
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Speaker 9: of tenacity good round the set piece. For the most part.
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Speaker 10: I thought a.
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Speaker 9: Couple of things that sprung to mind was just that
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Speaker 9: driving power well through the mall but also just through
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Speaker 9: individuals like Tokyaho to Purvey and also Ardie Savia. Just
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Speaker 9: a little bit of an accuracy and erarors over the
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Speaker 9: course of that game, but I thought they were It
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Speaker 9: was a good, good starting out for the for the
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Speaker 9: Rugby Championship and looking to move on from from the
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Speaker 9: victories over France.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, great mares, but few problems in the air like
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Speaker 2: catching things.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, there's a few eras and a few just
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Speaker 9: I think just need a bit more polish there. Another
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Speaker 9: example of just someone is really we're watching one of
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Speaker 9: the you know, one of the best and recent times,
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Speaker 9: you know, and Will Jordan as well. I just think
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Speaker 9: he offers a lot on attack and just it's great
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Speaker 9: to have him in there and and dictating player as
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Speaker 9: well on various occasions. So yeah, good to get one
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Speaker 9: there and in the Argentine I mean, I suppose the
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Speaker 9: other the more remarkable result was the Wallabies beating South
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Speaker 9: Africa at Allis Park in Johannesburg and last nineteen sixty
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Speaker 9: three two minutes. It's a remarkable effort from the Wallabies
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Speaker 9: to turn that round and in Jo Schmitt clearly having
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Speaker 9: an influence the I mean, and it puts into perspective
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Speaker 9: that line series as well.
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Speaker 2: And I think the comment from the spring Box coach
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Speaker 2: was we played like dog shit. There's nothing lower than that.
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Speaker 2: Is that correctly, that's the bottom line. Yeah, just just
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Speaker 2: squelching into your shoe and move on. Chris Wood, Well,
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Speaker 2: the certainly did. Chris Wood scoring two goals in the
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Speaker 2: opening Premier League match of the season for not inam Forest.
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Speaker 9: Strong opening shine from Chris Wood and I think one
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Speaker 9: in the fifth minute, one just in the latter stages
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Speaker 9: of stoppage time in the first half, so pretty much
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Speaker 9: picking up where he left off last season. And they've
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Speaker 9: picked up that early home win three to one over Brentford.
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Speaker 9: So yeah, yeah, amazing that christ Wood continues to have
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Speaker 9: the success at the very top.
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Speaker 1: Of the game.
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Speaker 2: And Dance Littler.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the Luke the Nuke, he's beaten cool Hand Luke,
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Speaker 9: Luke Humphrees, the world Umble one, the World champions beating
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Speaker 9: the world number one in Auckland, the Darts Masters. Did
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Speaker 9: you get long at all or.
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Speaker 1: Did you know?
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Speaker 2: I was interviewed one of the guys on Friday and
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Speaker 2: they said, come along with just a little bit busy.
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Speaker 2: I've always found it.
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Speaker 9: Have you gone to a darts You seen in Alexandra Pallace,
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Speaker 9: you know, the World Championship over Christmas time. It just
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Speaker 9: looks that the atmosphere looks amazing, albeit possibly touch feral,
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Speaker 9: but yeah, you.
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Speaker 2: Take that the fun. The thing I've always found out
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Speaker 2: about darts, just at an amateur level is you've got
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Speaker 2: people consuming large quantities of alcohol and then throwing sharp
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Speaker 2: things across the room just never made sense to me.
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Speaker 2: It's the very nature of arrows, isn't it.
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Speaker 9: But honestly, the accuracy of those guys is phenomenal, you
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Speaker 9: know when you think about I mean, maybe I'm just
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Speaker 9: really unco or something, but just what they're able to
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Speaker 9: achieve in that small space to get those one hundred
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Speaker 9: and eighties, et cetera, is a good watch.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thanks Abo update, Love to see you. Andrew Ortison
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Speaker 2: was sport twenty four minutes alfter five, Y're on News Talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be coming up next the gen Z Steer. Have
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Speaker 2: you heard of this? The gen Z Steer?
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Speaker 1: Next the early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio. How
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Speaker 1: it by News Talks?
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Speaker 2: It be News Talks? There be twenty six minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: I went out for lunch to a cafe the other
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Speaker 2: day and our table was served by a couple of waiters,
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Speaker 2: different waiters who all seem to have a similar vibe
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Speaker 2: about them. They just did not seem to care. No smiling,
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Speaker 2: no banter, no small talk, no polite conversation, just this
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Speaker 2: blank look on their faces. And you sit there and
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Speaker 2: you think, did they hear me. When you know what
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Speaker 2: did they you ever so politely repeat yourself in case
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Speaker 2: they didn't, But they did, They got it. There's just
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Speaker 2: not really any engagement face colder than a witch's tit,
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Speaker 2: you know, riching bee faced? Call it no refills on
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Speaker 2: your water? No, would you like another coffee? That sort
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Speaker 2: of thing like, hello, is anybody in there? Is anyone home?
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Speaker 2: Why is everyone moving around so slowly? Shouldn't you be
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Speaker 2: rushing around the joint taking orders and filling coffees? When
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Speaker 2: I was young, it was drilled into us. When you're
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Speaker 2: waiting tables and you're taking orders. You work your way
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Speaker 2: from I was the dish peg out the back. You
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Speaker 2: work your way up to your front of house. You
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Speaker 2: feel pretty good about yourself, and you basically run around,
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Speaker 2: busy as a bee, trying to impress your boss, trying
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Speaker 2: to win your guests over, taking wages on who might
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Speaker 2: get the tip? Can I help you, sir? What more
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Speaker 2: can I get you? You would help the elderly into
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Speaker 2: their seats. You'd bend over backwards basically to make everyone happy.
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Speaker 2: And these guys are getting well at least twenty three
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Speaker 2: dollars an hour. And I know what you're thinking, maybe
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Speaker 2: I'm the a hole, right, Maybe I've forgotten Mum's many
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Speaker 2: sermons on good manners and etiquette. So I asked the
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Speaker 2: people that I was out to lunch with eve they
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Speaker 2: all thought the same thing. I ask friends who are teachers.
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Speaker 2: I asked parents with kids around that age, and guess what,
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Speaker 2: they all noticed the same thing. How There's even a
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Speaker 2: TikTok trend called the gen z Stare, which describes basically
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Speaker 2: what I saw at the cafe, the vacant look and
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Speaker 2: a gen za that they give you in response to
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Speaker 2: a question or a statement. And so if it's on TikTok,
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Speaker 2: obviously it's a real thing, right. So the question is,
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Speaker 2: why was it covid? Was it everyone wearing masks? So
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Speaker 2: much of how we communicate is through facial expressions. Maybe
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Speaker 2: they've missed out on years of social cues and social norms.
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Speaker 2: And then you think, well, is it smartphones? You know,
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Speaker 2: they people don't really know how to interact anymore, or
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Speaker 2: is it both? Or maybe just maybe they just don't
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Speaker 2: give a shit, you know, maybe they just don't care.
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Speaker 2: Maybe we have on our hands a generation of young
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Speaker 2: people who don't really think they need to be bothering
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Speaker 2: with mundane things like work. Quick disclaimer for you before
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Speaker 2: that gen Z has come for me obviously, not an
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Speaker 2: entire generation of young people. There are great young people
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Speaker 2: out there and not every cafe experience is the same.
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Speaker 2: There are good ones too, but you know, is this
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Speaker 2: a thing you have noticed? Nine nine two twenty nine
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Speaker 2: minutes after five Now News Talks.
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Speaker 1: He'd be We'll talk Ryan Bridge, Talk.
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Speaker 2: Ukraine with Gavin Gray, UK Europe Correspondent.
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Speaker 1: After News, News and Views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge and one roof
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Speaker 2: Good morning, twenty four away from six eur on News
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Speaker 2: TALKS'DB Welcome to your Monday. Coming up before six o'clock.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand is going to hit one trillion dollars in debt.
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Speaker 2: We look at this. Plus we're in London as Lenski
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Speaker 2: and Starmer and co Ge're up to head to Washington
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Speaker 2: over Ukraine. We've been talking about the gen Z steer
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Speaker 2: this morning. This is when young people, you know, you
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Speaker 2: go to a cafe or wherever you might go shopping
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Speaker 2: and you will encounter a young person who you talk
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Speaker 2: to them, and they just look at you like you're
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Speaker 2: insane for even speaking to them. Ryan, I strike that
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Speaker 2: add loads of text on this as you can imagine, right,
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Speaker 2: and it's not all of them. I hope I'm not
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Speaker 2: turning into a grumpy old man, Ryan. I strike that
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Speaker 2: attitude every day at work, even repeating the same tasks.
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Speaker 2: They ask what's next? Ryan, I have definitely noticed the
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Speaker 2: gen Z stair, especially in clothing stores, says Jane. When
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Speaker 2: trying to banter with them at the paid desk, they
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Speaker 2: barely smile. They pretty much look at you like you're
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Speaker 2: an alien, says Jane. This has happened a few times
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Speaker 2: to me. Not everywhere, though, of course, and I think
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Speaker 2: that's the point. Not more everyone is like this. But
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Speaker 2: is there a phenomenon going on here? Ryan? It's not
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Speaker 2: just cafes, says this texter. I work as a relief
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Speaker 2: teacher in schools. I have been amazed at the number
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Speaker 2: of teachers who won't acknowledge acknowledge you, look away when
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Speaker 2: you walk past, and don't respond to greetings. This generation
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Speaker 2: is entitled lacking social skills and lacking and knowledge twenty
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Speaker 2: three Away from six Bread Read nine two ninety two.
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Speaker 2: Is the number to text color proctors with us this
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Speaker 2: morning color good morning morning. Right, so you could be
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Speaker 2: giving me the gen z stare right now, but as
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Speaker 2: radio so we don't know. Rest assured, I'm not right.
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Speaker 2: We'll take your word for it. What's happening with this
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Speaker 2: landmark on the Tago Peninsula. Well, look, this is.
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Speaker 11: The headerwicker Harbor cone landmark we're talking about. This is
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Speaker 11: the last day for public to give their feedback on
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Speaker 11: its future. The city council looking to better handle its
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Speaker 11: management over the coming years. It is a distinctive part
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Speaker 11: of the peninsula, three hundred and twenty eight hectes of
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Speaker 11: land recognized for its landscape, ecological heritage, and cultural values.
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Speaker 11: It includes a hiking track as well, and the looking
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Speaker 11: to update this management plan, which was last updated twenty twelve.
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Speaker 11: They want to better reflect changes, challenges and opportunities that
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Speaker 11: have emerged over the past decade. And it's your last
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Speaker 11: chance today to have your say. Already, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: We got rain this morning, running already becoming more persistent
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Speaker 11: this morning, but eazing this evening for Daned and sou
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Speaker 11: Westeries and nine the High Claire.
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Speaker 2: Than christ Church, Hey Claire, clear. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: We've still got a scene guard in place at that
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Speaker 2: double police shooting in christ Church.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, this was late on Wednesday, as you remember, Ryan,
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Speaker 12: when armed police were called to deal with a man
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Speaker 12: who was threatening himself and his partner with what we
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Speaker 12: learned was a hunting knife. Now, an officer shot and
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Speaker 12: injured the man, then quickly shot and fatally hurt the woman.
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Speaker 12: She had then picked up the knife and was threatening
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Speaker 12: officers with it. Now police in the last few days
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Speaker 12: have named the woman. She was fifty three year old
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Speaker 12: Tiato Hanui Pohio, while a forty seven year old man
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Speaker 12: has had surgery and is still considered in a serious
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Speaker 12: condition by his stable and hospital. Multiple investigations into the
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Speaker 12: circumstances the scene and the shooting are in train.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's the weather clear?
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Speaker 12: Frosty again today, cloudy to start, then some rain developing
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Speaker 12: by evening northeasterlys at the high will be twelve degree
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Speaker 12: all right.
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Speaker 2: And we have Max back on board this morning. Max.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, great to have you here, and
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Speaker 2: you've got you've been unwell, so I'm pleased get your back.
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Speaker 2: Tell us about the homeless problem in Newtown.
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Speaker 10: Yes, a story in the post about Newtown. That's for
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Speaker 10: those not familiar with Wellington suburbs south of the city.
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Speaker 10: It's where the main hospital is a lot of young people,
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Speaker 10: the young professionals. It's become quite gentrified, having been working
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Speaker 10: class in the past. There's been a massive, very noticeable
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Speaker 10: spike recently in people living rough. On top of that, drunk,
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Speaker 10: drugged up people causing trouble, increased police reports, worsening homelessness.
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Speaker 10: Look is obviously a national issue as well, but in
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Speaker 10: Newtown the local Salvation Army says there's been anywhere from
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Speaker 10: fifty percent to a doubling in the issue just this year.
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Speaker 10: I assume they account for people showing up needing support
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Speaker 10: what they've noticed visually on the streets, people being accosted
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Speaker 10: at ATM's, drug paraphernalia being found at bus stops and
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Speaker 10: near schools. Anyway, an open letter has been signed by
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Speaker 10: a group of businesses and local politicians calling for central
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Speaker 10: government action. Yet the Sullies says this is a societal issue,
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Speaker 10: not a political one. We need community supporting community.
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Speaker 2: All right. How's your weather? Max?
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Speaker 10: Mostly fine today? Northerlys fourteen the high Central Nice.
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Speaker 2: One, thank you, Good morning, good morning, Happy Monday.
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Speaker 13: Happy Monday.
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Speaker 2: Nurses in the Upper North Island beginning local industry election today.
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Speaker 13: That's right. Look, the NEWSES organizations is that their concerns
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Speaker 13: about the staff shortages they continue to go unaddressed. This
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Speaker 13: is following that twenty four hour nationwide strike which happened
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Speaker 13: last month. So North Shore District Nursing Service nurses, they
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Speaker 13: are going to carry out a week long uniform strike.
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Speaker 13: They're going to be wearing T shirts saying not enough nurses.
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Speaker 13: Auckland Hospitals Cardiothoracic and Vascular intensive Care and also Fungeeday
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Speaker 13: Hospitals Acute surgical services nurses. They will undertake a redeployment strike.
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Speaker 13: Now they're usually sent to short staffed areas when required,
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Speaker 13: but instead what they're going to do they're going to
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Speaker 13: remain in the awards only going for life preserving reasons.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's our weather?
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Speaker 13: Well, yeah, not good. Showers, possible thunderstorms and hail easing
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Speaker 13: later northwesterlies, gusts, gale, you know, and then in thunderstorms
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Speaker 13: tonight just not a good day.
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Speaker 2: You can come it down, great day. Do you know
23:38
Speaker 2: what the gen Z steirs. No, this is when you
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Speaker 2: go into a restaurant or a cafe, or maybe a
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Speaker 2: clothing shop or just on the street and younger people
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Speaker 2: you sort of and try and interact with them, and
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Speaker 2: they just give you this blank look like you're an alien. Oh,
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Speaker 2: it's apparently a thing. And people who text loads of
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Speaker 2: people texting and saying that they've experienced it. You haven't
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Speaker 2: experienced this.
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Speaker 13: No, I don't go into shops what prom long and
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Speaker 13: I don't I will you know what this could be
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Speaker 13: because I don't engage with the youth of today. True,
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Speaker 13: I'll just say.
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Speaker 2: You're a bad day, you're a bad example. But I
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Speaker 2: wonder because you understand them, evil old witch. But when
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Speaker 2: we were growing up, well, my mum would you know,
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Speaker 2: would basically beat you to a pulp if you didn't
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Speaker 2: smile at everyone that walked past, say hello and them
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Speaker 2: in the eye.
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Speaker 13: And you're right and in the cargo you know. Look,
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Speaker 13: I'm not saying that it doesn't happen in the North Island,
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Speaker 13: but because I'm from in Vercago, when I moved up
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Speaker 13: to Auckland, you know, and spent years and years in Auckland,
24:37
Speaker 13: and even now when I go home to Vcago. People
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Speaker 13: are friendly young people, old people, and they actually engage.
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Speaker 13: And I find it like I think, oh my gosh,
24:46
Speaker 13: how are you are you from? And they asked me
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Speaker 13: like fifty thousand questions. My inside voice is going, you
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Speaker 13: knows the old back to or your nosy young bat.
24:54
Speaker 13: But it's actually quite notice.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what you are? You are a I
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Speaker 2: don't want to say how old. You're an older person
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Speaker 2: trapped in a gen Z. You're a gen Z person
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Speaker 2: trapped in an older person's body. That's for you. That's
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Speaker 2: what I am. At your core, your a gen Z.
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Speaker 13: Okay, I'm going to be really nice. I'm going to
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Speaker 13: do you know what, though I thought maybe you two,
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Speaker 13: I mean you and I are hanging around my hosting
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Speaker 13: too long because you know, he doesn't engage with anyone.
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Speaker 13: Maybe that's what it is.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think about that. But he's actually a gen
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Speaker 2: Z and an old man's body.
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Speaker 13: Oh yeah, an elderly person's body.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: You're on news talk to you, but it's twelve to six.
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Speaker 2: Half the leaders of Europe are heading two Washington with
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Speaker 2: Zolensky this for a meeting with Trump over Ukraine. And
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray is our UK europe correspondent. What are we
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Speaker 2: hearing from Zelenski?
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Speaker 14: Well, at the moment that I think he's pretty pleased
27:16
Speaker 14: that they are going to be joining him. The fear
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Speaker 14: I think all of the European leaders have, and President
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Speaker 14: Zelenski as well, is that in some way the press
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Speaker 14: conference might be ambushed, as he was ambushed before at
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Speaker 14: the White House when it led to that really unpleasant
27:32
Speaker 14: scene of him being criticized for what he was wearing,
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Speaker 14: being told he didn't have the cards, and really being
27:37
Speaker 14: male to look very very small in that room. And
27:39
Speaker 14: I think you're really saying, look, we are there with you.
27:42
Speaker 14: We're going to show solidarity whatever happens. As a result
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Speaker 14: of these negotiations with Russia. But what's incredible is this
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Speaker 14: isn't just you know, the European Commission meeting along with
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Speaker 14: President Zelenski. This is a number of European leaders going.
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Speaker 14: It's almost quicker to tell you who isn't going, but
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Speaker 14: it's the UK Prime Minister Sirkir Starmer, the French President
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Speaker 14: Emanual Matt Crant, German Chancellor Fredi Muz There's all sours
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Speaker 14: going along with the European Commissioned President Ursula Vonderline, and
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Speaker 14: I think they all want to try and show that
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Speaker 14: they are part of the process. Ukraine is on Europe's
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Speaker 14: border and they want to try and protect it. The
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Speaker 14: question is will Vladimir Putin be listening, will Donald Trump
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Speaker 14: be listening? And what effect will it have on this process?
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Speaker 2: Keevin appreciate that, thanks for the update. That meeting taking
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Speaker 2: place tomorrow morning our time. It's just going to living
28:31
Speaker 2: away from six now, Ryan Bridge, someone hit the alarm bell.
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Speaker 2: Will your new data shows we're on track to hit
28:37
Speaker 2: one trillion in national debt within three years. Current debt
28:41
Speaker 2: stands at eight hundred and seventy billion. This is across
28:43
Speaker 2: the both private and public on average, that's about one
28:46
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three thousand per KIWI. Brad Olsen is
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Speaker 2: Infametric's principle economist with us this morning, bread, good morning,
28:53
Speaker 2: Good morning. It's I mean, it sounds an alarming figure,
28:56
Speaker 2: is it.
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Speaker 8: I mean, it always feels alarming when you're sort of
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Speaker 8: talking in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and it is.
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Speaker 8: But I think as well, this is the money that
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Speaker 8: we often are using for a lot of quite important purposes.
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Speaker 8: This is what people are using when they get a
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Speaker 8: mortgage to buy a house. It's what the government uses
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Speaker 8: to invest in critical infrastructure. It's what businesses use to
29:20
Speaker 8: invest in new plant and equipment. So it does sound
29:23
Speaker 8: like a scary number, but it is important in many ways.
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Speaker 8: The challenges is our debt sustainable, not necessarily if it's
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Speaker 8: big or small or anything else. And I guess on
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Speaker 8: that metric, it's fascinating to see that. You know, yes,
29:37
Speaker 8: we've continued to see it grow, but in recent times
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Speaker 8: it has been growing at a slower pace. And I
29:42
Speaker 8: think that that's part of this or almost sort of
29:45
Speaker 8: economic right sizing that we're seeing at the moment as
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Speaker 8: we go through that sort of post COVID hangover period
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Speaker 8: for government, for businesses, for households, everyone's going just how
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Speaker 8: much debt do I need? How much can I afford?
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Speaker 8: And what does that all mean? Coming up other side.
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Speaker 2: Also, we've had house prices that are either falling or flat,
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Speaker 2: which means you're not borrowing as much, which makes up
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Speaker 2: a lot of this right.
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Speaker 8: Yes, that's definitely true, and I think that's why you've
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Speaker 8: seen for some of the household figures that things haven't
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Speaker 8: gotten quite as intense in terms of further growth as
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Speaker 8: we've seen a couple of years back. You look at
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Speaker 8: the likes of house prices at the moment still sitting oh,
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Speaker 8: what's seventeen twenty percent below their peak.
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Speaker 2: We know as well that.
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Speaker 8: You know, in recent times, people haven't been quite as
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Speaker 8: keen to get out and buy. Yes, there's been a
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Speaker 8: lift in sales over the last year, but with those
30:36
Speaker 8: lower prices again people just trying to sort of find
30:39
Speaker 8: the new goldilock zone for how much they're willing to invest.
30:43
Speaker 8: And I think that the area that I found most
30:44
Speaker 8: interesting was you look into some of those sort of
30:47
Speaker 8: business investment figures, and that's an area where you do
30:50
Speaker 8: generally actually want a bit more growth. You don't want
30:53
Speaker 8: it to be completely unstoppable, but you want to know
30:55
Speaker 8: that businesses are comfortable have access to capital so they
30:59
Speaker 8: can invest, you know, in new manufacturing techniques and new
31:02
Speaker 8: technology so that we can get more productive over time.
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Speaker 8: So some concerning numbers in the data, some optimistic numbers
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Speaker 8: in other places, but overall, yes, the debt pile is
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Speaker 8: getting bigger, but not at the same pace it was before.
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Speaker 8: And that's probably not a bad position to be.
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Speaker 2: In, in a word, because we are at a time, Brad,
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Speaker 2: but how do we compare with the rest of the world? Good, bad, ugly, better,
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Speaker 2: but still not comfortable. Appreciate your time, Brad Olson, Infametrics,
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Speaker 2: Principal Economist. Eight to six News Talk SBB Mike Hosking
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Speaker 2: here next the news.
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Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis early
31:39
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Speaker 2: There'd be talking to your Monday. It's just gone six
31:45
Speaker 2: away from six. If you didn't see it. At the weekend,
31:47
Speaker 2: there was a dance off between Christopher Luxe and Chris Hipkins,
31:50
Speaker 2: and I think Luxon. You'd have to give it to
31:53
Speaker 2: Luxeon because purely out of enthusiasm. But pointing your fingers
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Speaker 2: in the air and clapping does not a dance, mate,
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Speaker 2: I don't think you can't call it dancing, but I
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Speaker 2: suppose at least they were trying Mike's in the studio
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Speaker 2: with us. Mike, who would you give it to?
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Speaker 15: I gave it to. I read Stuff's account and that
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Speaker 15: tells you everything you need to know about them. Overtly
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Speaker 15: left leaning because they suggested Hipkins was the better dancer.
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Speaker 2: You can't. They were wrong.
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Speaker 15: They were wrong.
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Speaker 2: He was barely moving, He didn't go to the front
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Speaker 2: of the stage when he was invited. They got it
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Speaker 2: more reserved that that doesn't make you a better dance
32:30
Speaker 2: What is up with it's men? When you when someone
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Speaker 2: says dance, don't move your hands, move your hips.
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Speaker 15: It's a generational thing that there's an entire generation of
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Speaker 15: white New Zealand males who can't, who simply can't dance.
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Speaker 2: Can you, of course not? Did you do folk dancing?
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Speaker 15: We did folk dancing at school and that was you know,
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Speaker 15: like the doc do and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: We did a bit of hip hop and R and B. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we did, we did.
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Speaker 15: We did disco hip hop R and B, and we
32:58
Speaker 15: all say, like the school disco was the world's most
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Speaker 15: embarrassing thing because not even as a kid, you couldn't dance,
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Speaker 15: and you didn't want to dance, and the girls sort
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Speaker 15: of could, but you couldn't, and the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: I've always been quite proud of the fact that I
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Speaker 2: can move my hips as a as a as a
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Speaker 2: white talking to zealand taking it up. I can move
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Speaker 2: my hips, which seems to be everybody else seems to
33:19
Speaker 2: be paralyzed from the belly button down. All you need to.
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Speaker 15: Do is stand in front of video camera, put it
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Speaker 15: out there and let's see.
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Speaker 2: Let's see there's actually one in the studio here, Mike,
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Speaker 2: do you want to see No, I would you like
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Speaker 2: me to gyrate for you on a Monday morning?
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Speaker 15: No, No, Monday would have been Thursday, maybe into a Friday,
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Speaker 15: maybe Monday. It's too much. Christopher Luxen in the studio.
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Speaker 2: See what you can make happen? Looking forward to that.
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Speaker 2: Mike Hosking is next four to six fell.
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Speaker 2: Mister Lue.
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