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Full Show Podcast: 17 July 2026 · 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 2: They'd be very.
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Speaker 3: Good morning to you to six, half to five, Welcome
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Speaker 3: to Friday. Coming up, we look at the beneficiary numbers
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Speaker 3: at the top of the vin since in the UK,
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Speaker 3: for US, the Falkland Islands are ours. Is the UK
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Speaker 3: government after they lost the football Elliott Smith on the
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Speaker 3: ABS and ASB on our economic bounce.
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Speaker 1: Back the agenda.
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Speaker 3: Let's Friday the seventheenth of July. So Rans now asked
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Speaker 3: the Hohofys you know, their allies, their friends, to shut
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Speaker 3: the Red Sea route if the US targets any power infrastructure. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: the US is now its fifth straight nighted strikes.
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Speaker 2: And we're doing really well with Iran.
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Speaker 4: The Islamic Republic of Iran is not happy right now.
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Speaker 5: They want to settle so badly.
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Speaker 2: They don't like what we're doing and they do want
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Speaker 2: to settle.
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Speaker 4: We'll find out whether or not we settle with them
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Speaker 4: or we just finish it off.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember the very start of all this there
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Speaker 3: was a bombing of a school in a row. Well,
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Speaker 3: this military insider reckons the fact that the US initially
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Speaker 3: denied there was a bombing is making it very hard
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Speaker 3: to find out actually what the hell went on.
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Speaker 6: Is Denials and exchanges with journalists ultimately undermines our efforts
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Speaker 6: to follow the established process and push behind the scenes
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Speaker 6: for total transparency. And yet the president keeps doubling down.
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Speaker 3: Starmer's doing his farewell tour. It includes Ukraine. He's been
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Speaker 3: there in the last twenty four hours with a bunch
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Speaker 3: of more money.
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Speaker 7: I say very clearly the UK support for Ukraine will
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Speaker 7: not waver because it has not wavered since the outbreak
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Speaker 7: of this conflict. The British people understand what is being
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Speaker 7: fought for here, our freedom and democracy values that we
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Speaker 7: will never take for granted.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of taking well, the Falkland Islands are definitely back
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Speaker 3: in contentent this morning, so a bit of controversy after
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Speaker 3: that loss to Argentina of course for the English, so
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Speaker 3: their players from Argentina now might get a fine for
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Speaker 3: unfiling the banner that claim the Falkland Islands belonged to them.
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Speaker 1: We know that.
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Speaker 8: Political messaging and slogans are banned by FIFA, so they
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Speaker 8: absolutely should investigate. It was a very silly banner. The
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Speaker 8: fact is the Falkland Islands are British. Winning a football
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Speaker 8: match Argentinians does not mean you can have the Falklands.
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Speaker 1: Still hams off Hewrett first, Ryan Bridge on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Spark for business Technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 3: News talk z'd be nine two nine two is the
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Speaker 3: number of text would love to hear from you this morning.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if you went into a pub yesterday and
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Speaker 3: said to your average British punter if you could have
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Speaker 3: the Falkland Islands or a FIFA World Cup win, which
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Speaker 3: one they would take? I would hazard a guess that
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Speaker 3: would be the latter. Now, a couple of you know
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Speaker 3: we've got so many new Zealanders that move to Australia.
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Speaker 3: Well we now I'm going to do a regular segment
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Speaker 3: on Kiwis and Oz on the GC wherever they are.
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Speaker 3: This one is Mike Bush. You will know the name.
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Speaker 3: He was the top cop because silver here, brill cream back.
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Speaker 3: Quite a slick looking guy, talk slowly. He was in
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Speaker 3: charge March fifteen. So there's a story from the ABC
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Speaker 3: about him. Overnight. He's now the Victoria Police chief over
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Speaker 3: there is the top police boss in Victoria and he
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Speaker 3: was driving into the city on Wednesday in Melbourne, sees
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Speaker 3: a man running from police officers. They were trying to
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Speaker 3: arrest him. They tried to taz the room. He was
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Speaker 3: apparently carrying a knife. Turns out it was a chisel,
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Speaker 3: but that's by the bye. Anyway, he leaps out of
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Speaker 3: his car on the way to work and arrests the
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Speaker 3: man himself. So he's been praised quite highly in the
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Speaker 3: media this morning. Now our other key we export just
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Speaker 3: Cinder Adurn, causing controversy because Ossie taxpayers are footing the
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Speaker 3: bill eighty thousand dollars bill for tickets for bureaucrats to
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Speaker 3: go and see just Cinder a Durn speak. Do you
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Speaker 3: want me to say that again? Eighty thousand dollars. I
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Speaker 3: know it's crazy. So this is tickets. It's a women's
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Speaker 3: leadership so, headlined by the former New Zealand Prime minister,
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Speaker 3: five agencies paid between ten and twenty eight grand each
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Speaker 3: on tickets for this woman Unlimited Leadership Summit. It's happening
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Speaker 3: in August. Passes retail for four four hundred and ninety
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Speaker 3: nine dollars for a ticket. That's more than Taylor Swift's
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Speaker 3: VIP Australian tickets, I'm told, but hang on, I'll get
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Speaker 3: to the detail in the second. But this all comes
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Speaker 3: of course. You know, we spoke about Jim Chalmers and
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Speaker 3: his budget that he passed recently, and government spending at
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Speaker 3: the moment is forty years high in Australia. So he
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Speaker 3: said to the government departments, hey, time to tighten your belts.
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Speaker 3: Does this sound like belt tightening to you? Department of
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Speaker 3: Climate Change, Energy and the Environment and Water a lot
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Speaker 3: on their plate, fifteen thousand dollars on tickets, the Australian
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Speaker 3: Taxation Office really just to stick the knife in ten
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Speaker 3: thousand dollars on tickets. A lot of defense and cyber
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Speaker 3: intelligence and intelligence community going as well. It's build as
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Speaker 3: two days of insights and strategies led by Dame Decinder
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Speaker 3: Adern and other inspiring minds in leadership, followed by two
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Speaker 3: post summit online seminars that form a three month extended
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Speaker 3: learning journey. Now, the best part of the story is
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Speaker 3: what happens when you're there. Participants will take part in
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Speaker 3: networking bingo and while you are listening to sinder Adern
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Speaker 3: as lecture or speech or sit down fireside chat, there
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Speaker 3: will be Power pauses to reflect on key takeaways. So
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Speaker 3: the tickets ranging from twenty seven hundred the four and
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Speaker 3: a half grand one that they bought plus gist is
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Speaker 3: for VIP seating. So there you go. There's your kiwis
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Speaker 3: and ods today Bryan Bridge the Good and the Bad
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Speaker 3: twelve after five News Talks b We'll look at our
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Speaker 3: economy next.
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Speaker 3: There'd be five fourteen Ryan Jasindra Doom was our greatest
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Speaker 3: prime minister ever, So money well spent. I would say,
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Speaker 3: come on, I mean, I'm not arguing with you about
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Speaker 3: the merits or otherwise of just Sinda done as a
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Speaker 3: prime minister, but paying four and a half grand in
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Speaker 3: tax payer money. This is the Australians, by the way,
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Speaker 3: if you're just turning in and freaking out Australian bureaucrats
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Speaker 3: four and a half grand for VIP tickets to go
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Speaker 3: and hear our former prime minister speak is part of
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Speaker 3: a woman leadership series. That is a lot of money.
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Speaker 3: As I said, more than Taylor Swift and Taylor Swift
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Speaker 3: she can sing, you know, she's amazing. Hey, very quickly,
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is going to do a speech. It's one
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Speaker 3: pm our time this afternoon, so after you've had your lunch,
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Speaker 3: you better sit down and watch Trump talk for about
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Speaker 3: four hours. He's going to talk about the elections. He's
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Speaker 3: going to talk about quote a couple of other things.
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Speaker 3: So maybe we'll hear about Iran as well. It is
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Speaker 3: quarter past five, Ryan Bridge, Right, he's zeeling on the
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Speaker 3: husp of an economic recovery if fuel prices stayed down.
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Speaker 3: It's according to a new report out this morning from Informetrics,
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Speaker 3: it's forecasting GDP to hit four year high two point
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Speaker 3: seven percent by mid next year, the OCR up to
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Speaker 3: three and a half percenter's conditions improved. Nick Tuffy asb
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Speaker 3: chief economists for the this morning. Hey, Nick, good morning. So
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Speaker 3: about on the money.
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Speaker 9: Well, when we think of an annualized pace, you could
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Speaker 9: get growth up to about a bit over three percent
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Speaker 9: through the middle of next year, but you know, hitting
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Speaker 9: near for the full year next year growth just under
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Speaker 9: three percent, So that's fingers crossed. We do get a
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Speaker 9: bit of a decent rebound coming through in the second
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Speaker 9: half of this year.
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Speaker 3: What about price to fuel or seeing all these stories
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Speaker 3: about go and fill up now because the price is
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Speaker 3: going to go up soon.
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Speaker 9: Well, there's definitely that risk that they do go up
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Speaker 9: a little bit. When you look at the wholesale market,
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Speaker 9: it's at least so far the price of ale use
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Speaker 9: it's gone up a little bit, and refinery margins have
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Speaker 9: gone up a bit, But no we near the sorts
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Speaker 9: of moves that we saw early on in the war
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Speaker 9: hit and there was a lot of stress on there.
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Speaker 9: So I'm very hopeful that we're not going to see
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Speaker 9: anywhere near the sorts of lifts of fuel prices that
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Speaker 9: we saw, and they're going to remain substantially off their lows.
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Speaker 9: And particularly that price of diesel is the important one
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Speaker 9: because that's moving around so much of our goods and
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Speaker 9: that's where a lot of the cost pressure we've been
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Speaker 9: coming from. Earlier on in the air.
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Speaker 3: We had beneficiary numbers out yesterday. They're up again. Unsurprisingly
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Speaker 3: given the state of things. It's although slightly I think
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Speaker 3: it was one percent quarter on quarter, But where is
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Speaker 3: that going to go? And if we get a coalition
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Speaker 3: government and again we're likely to get another round of
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Speaker 3: job cuts from the public service. What does that do well.
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Speaker 9: We think we'll see unemployment in the short term, so
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Speaker 9: sitting around there sort of five point three five point
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Speaker 9: four percent mark. So just in the short term, you know,
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Speaker 9: employment itself being relatively soggy, but also you've got the
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Speaker 9: immigration picking up. As we head over next year, we
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Speaker 9: expect that unemployment will gradually gradually fall and we'll be
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Speaker 9: back below five percent whilst we're tracking through to the
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Speaker 9: end of next year. So I look gradual turnaround on
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Speaker 9: that front, but as resumption of growth, resumption of employment,
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Speaker 9: which is going to help strengthen things on that front.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic. That's what we like to hear, although I didn't
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Speaker 3: like to hear the word soggy from your neck, thank you.
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Speaker 9: Nick.
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Speaker 3: Tayn is seventeen after five bit soggy that unemployment number.
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Speaker 3: But Kathy says, morning, Ryan. Have you had KFC yet, Kathy, No,
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Speaker 3: I haven't. This is after the H five flu thing yesterday,
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Speaker 3: the bird flu thing. We've got one sick bird. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't mean we won't have a million sick birds, but
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Speaker 3: let's not freak out too really, And no, I haven't Kathy,
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Speaker 3: I have not had CAVEC yet because Andrew Hoggard said
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Speaker 3: to me, you say you can still at cave C.
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Speaker 3: People were asking you about that. Of course, maybe I
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Speaker 3: will this weekend, Kathy, we'll get to a little bit more,
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Speaker 3: a little few more tidbits from Trump on what he's
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Speaker 3: going to say. When has the speech this up? And and
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Speaker 3: also an update from the Pacific Islands Forum. You know,
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Speaker 3: China fired the missile and then Winston said, well, PIFF,
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Speaker 3: which is the Pacific Islands Forum, PIF will come back
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Speaker 3: with a statement. We haven't got one yet, but a
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Speaker 3: few clues on what they might be saying. Eighteen after
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Speaker 3: News Talks AB three past five Caroline Levers giving a
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Speaker 3: briefing at the White House at the moment. This is
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Speaker 3: ahead of Trump's speech at one o'clock today, and they're
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Speaker 3: looking at expanding what they're doing in a row because
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Speaker 3: they kind of have to do something. I mean, the
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Speaker 3: Strait isn't exactly free and flowing, is it, despite what
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Speaker 3: he might be telling you. And it was never going
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Speaker 3: to be easy, and this is the problem, and you
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Speaker 3: have to commit a whole bunch more assets, a whole
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Speaker 3: bunch more potentially troops, certainly a lot more because the Iranians,
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Speaker 3: for you know, apparently obliterated, I think was the word
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Speaker 3: that Trump used initially. Well, they're still firing cruise missiles,
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Speaker 3: they're still doing drones. They've killed nearly a dozen in
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Speaker 3: the straight in the last week, So maybe that'll be
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Speaker 3: something he can address. Certainly. Caroline Levetta Is I thought
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Speaker 3: she was going on maternity leaves. She back already. I'll
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Speaker 3: have to figure that out for you and let you know.
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Speaker 3: It is twenty one after five Bridge. We've got the
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Speaker 3: Abs and the Irish at Eden Park this weekend. Reddy's
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Speaker 3: made a few changes ahead of the sold out game
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Speaker 3: or is it sold out? Josh Morby, who had a
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Speaker 3: fine debut last weekend, is then to start on the
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Speaker 3: left wing.
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Speaker 10: Josh is very good defensively. I had a really good
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Speaker 10: understanding of how we want to defend. For him to
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Speaker 10: come on quite early and play with that sort of
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Speaker 10: confidence was awesome, So it gives that's a lot of
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Speaker 10: confidence to throw them out here.
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Speaker 3: Alit Smith News Talks he'd be Voice of Rugby with
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Speaker 3: us this morning, ol Good morning morning Ryan. So the
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Speaker 3: unbeaten record is going to hold.
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Speaker 11: I think it probably will hold in the end. Look,
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Speaker 11: it's been under three. It's most famously from South Africa
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Speaker 11: last year and they came down and the All Blacks
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Speaker 11: managed to hold on there. This Irish team, I think
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Speaker 11: always will put the frighteners up in New zealand give
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Speaker 11: them what they did the last time they toured here
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Speaker 11: in twenty twenty two. But it's probably worth remembering that
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Speaker 11: the All Blacks haven't lost to Ireland since the end
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Speaker 11: of that tour. Beat them in twenty three at the
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Speaker 11: World Cup, beat them in twenty four in Dublin, beat
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Speaker 11: them in twenty five in Chicago. So the All Blacks
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Speaker 11: have managed to get on top of this Irish team
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Speaker 11: over the last couple of years, and that's with a
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Speaker 11: coach that was discarded for not being on the right trajectory.
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Speaker 11: So I think this All Blacks team should be too
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Speaker 11: good for at Irish team, which is probably on the
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Speaker 11: come down from where they were in twenty twenty two
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Speaker 11: to twenty twenty three, when they were considered one of,
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Speaker 11: if not the best team in the world. So look,
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Speaker 11: I think the All Blacks should be too good tomorrow night.
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Speaker 11: But I think it'll be close. Good lineup, yeah, I
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Speaker 11: think so, look at it. The All Blacks have made
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Speaker 11: a couple of changes. I'm unconvinced by Tubo I moving
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Speaker 11: to blind soide flankard. They've really wants a bit more
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Speaker 11: size there. It's never quite worked in the opportunities that
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Speaker 11: he's been given there previously. You're moving a lock to
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Speaker 11: fly on the blind side and it doesn't come exactly naturally.
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Speaker 11: But I can see why they want to do it.
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Speaker 11: They want to combat and try and pick off the
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Speaker 11: Irish lineout and give them a bit more size and
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Speaker 11: options there on either the Bull or the Irish Bull.
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Speaker 11: And Josh Morby, as we heard from there with Dave Rennie,
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Speaker 11: very very good last week. He's good under the high ball.
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Speaker 11: Doesn't mean Caleb Clarke on his home turf means you
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Speaker 11: have come off the bench and had a bit of
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Speaker 11: impact later. But Josh Moilby was undeniable last week. I
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Speaker 11: thought against against the Italian so worthy of an opportunity. Otherwise,
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Speaker 11: a pretty much a full strength team by and large
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Speaker 11: from Dave Rennie for this game against Island who I'm
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Speaker 11: missing a couple of players themselves, But look, I think
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Speaker 11: by and large the All Blacks have picked a pretty
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Speaker 11: strong side for this one.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Raising used to have a bit of a problem
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Speaker 3: with the end bit of the game, Rennie, seems to
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Speaker 3: be the first bit of the game. Are we going
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Speaker 3: to sort that out? Thank you?
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Speaker 11: Would be good, wouldn't it. First two weeks of Dave
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Speaker 11: Rine's Senior considered an early try in the first two
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Speaker 11: or three minutes. I sought that out along with the
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Speaker 11: TMO as you mentioned earlier in the week, Ryan, and
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Speaker 11: we might be flying from the All Blacks. So look,
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Speaker 11: there's been positive signs in the first couple of weeks.
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Speaker 11: Last it was maybe a tiny we step backwards from
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Speaker 11: France and christ Church, but I think bill Blacks will click.
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Speaker 11: They really love playing at Eden Park and try to
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Speaker 11: make it, you know, not the fear of losing the record,
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Speaker 11: but embracing what it means to play there. They get
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Speaker 11: everything right, it clicks. Hopefully the All Blacks win and
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Speaker 11: will well to my night.
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Speaker 3: Good stuff, Elliott Elliot Smith, News Talk, zeb's Voice of Rugby.
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Speaker 3: That's on ZB Saturday. It is twenty four after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: I tried to actually look for tickets because I said,
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Speaker 3: Eden Park, it's just down the road. Could go along
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Speaker 3: on Saturday night. It's not technically sold out. I don't
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Speaker 3: know how full it has to get before they say
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Speaker 3: it's sold out. But it's not one hundred percent because
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Speaker 3: you go on there and there are still tickets Availablely,
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Speaker 3: you have to be on your own in certain parts
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Speaker 3: of the stadium, or you can pay one. There were
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Speaker 3: two tickets next to each other still for sale. I thought, oh,
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Speaker 3: how much are they? Three hundred and thirty dollars Speaking
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Speaker 3: of ticket prices this morning, three hundred and thirty dollars
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Speaker 3: per ticket. It was a VIP package, but you had
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Speaker 3: something obstructing your view, presumably some sort of column or pillar,
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Speaker 3: which there's a lot of money for potentially seeing not much.
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Speaker 3: Twenty five after five, twenty seven after five news talks,
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Speaker 3: there'd be welcome to New Zealand, land of earthquakes, stormy
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Speaker 3: weather and absolute natural beauty. Another reminder overnight of just
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Speaker 3: how shaky these aisles can be. I hope everyone's all
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Speaker 3: right this morning. It's always a bit hard to get
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Speaker 3: back to sleep after you get a decent jolt, and
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Speaker 3: it sounds like you had a decent jolt in the
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Speaker 3: Deep South last night. We've always had storms, of course
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Speaker 3: damage from storms in this country, but of late we've
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Speaker 3: had more, more often doing more damage. That's according to
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Speaker 3: the insurance companies. All right, they came out and said that,
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Speaker 3: and it's costing more. We've got a bird sick and
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Speaker 3: patoni and people are freaking out. It's not yet clear
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Speaker 3: how that situ situation is going to play out poultry wise,
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Speaker 3: but it is again another reminder of threats to industry
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Speaker 3: that you cannot control, like foot and mouth, which if
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Speaker 3: it took hold here would be stating. All of this
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Speaker 3: is to say there are a lot of things that
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Speaker 3: can go wrong in this country and do go wrong
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Speaker 3: in this country, and often enough that it's actually quite predictable.
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Speaker 3: You know, we are in the top ten countries for
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Speaker 3: earthquakes around the world, so it's not surprising, although it
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Speaker 3: is still shocking when it happens. So we need a buffer,
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Speaker 3: we need headroom, we need room for borrowing. And this
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Speaker 3: comes to the point about debt, and the political parties
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Speaker 3: haven't yet told us where they are at with debt. Okay,
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Speaker 3: National has set out the trajectory as part of a government.
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Speaker 3: But when are we going to hear from labor about
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Speaker 3: their borrowing limits? When are we going to hear from
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Speaker 3: New Zealand first about how much they think we can handle?
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Speaker 3: Because debt servicing, this is paying for the interest on
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Speaker 3: the debt is now the fourth largest line item on
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Speaker 3: the government's books according to Treasury, and the interest bill
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Speaker 3: has gone from three point six billion dollars a year
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Speaker 3: in twenty fourteen to now nearing ten billion dollars a year.
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Speaker 3: That's just servicing the interest. It's more than we pay
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Speaker 3: for police, for corrections, for Ministry of Justice, for customs,
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Speaker 3: and defense combined defense included. So I think it's high
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Speaker 3: time and last night was a good reminder that the
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Speaker 3: political parties come out and tell us exactly how much
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Speaker 3: they think we should be borrowing and when we should
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Speaker 3: be paying it back.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge, if.
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Speaker 3: Every nine after folk. Caroline Leavitt, by the way, Kinsey's
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Speaker 3: just told me, is back from her maternity leave already,
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Speaker 3: which she left late April, so she's had two and
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Speaker 3: a half three months. Will that be normal? I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I've never had it and I never will. News Talk
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Speaker 3: Four away from six year on News talks 'b Why
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Speaker 3: on Earth? I'll be playing this April Levende song to you.
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Speaker 3: This is skater Boy. You might remember it from the
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Speaker 3: early two thousands, early to mid two thousands. Apparently she
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Speaker 3: sung this avel. Evended at Taylor Swift's wedding to Travis
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Speaker 3: Kelcey at Madison Square Garden just a few weeks ago. Now,
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Speaker 3: Stevie Nicks was there. Stevie Nicks played too. It's a
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Speaker 3: bit of a banger if you're of the right generation, right,
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Speaker 3: if you were interested in the football yesterday, and I think,
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Speaker 3: well globally a lot of interests in New Zealand. Yep,
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Speaker 3: it's a bit of interest here too. Goldman Sachs correctly
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Speaker 3: predicted because everyone thought it was going to be France
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Speaker 3: that go through to the final and then France would win.
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Speaker 3: Goldman Sachs correctly predicted more than a month ago that
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Speaker 3: we would have an Argentina Spain final. So they're onto something.
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Speaker 3: They have a model that they have been using and
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Speaker 3: they've refined since twenty fourteen. They look at a team's
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Speaker 3: past performance, they look at the scoring talent, they look
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Speaker 3: at the momentum, and they also look at the geography
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Speaker 3: because teams tend to perform better when they are closer
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Speaker 3: to home. So they put all of those things together
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Speaker 3: and they correctly predicted three of the four semi finals,
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Speaker 3: and they correctly predicted who would be in the final,
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Speaker 3: and they think Spain. Wireman, there you go, twenty three.
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Speaker 1: To six, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: We'll get to the UK in about ten minutes time,
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Speaker 3: by the way, and we'll talk about the beneficiary numbers
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Speaker 3: just before six. But now it's to go to our
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Speaker 3: reporters around the country. Clum and Eden Morning Callum, Morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 3: How was that quake for you?
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Speaker 12: I think I'm the only one in the South Island
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Speaker 12: that didn't feel it.
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Speaker 3: In my sleeper.
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Speaker 13: Well, I was up walking about at the time and
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Speaker 13: then the dog jumped on me.
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Speaker 3: Right at that moment.
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Speaker 12: I said to the wife that it was just the dog.
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Speaker 12: She says, no, no, no, it was more than the dog.
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Speaker 3: It was.
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Speaker 13: It was an earthquake, and in fact it was confirmed
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Speaker 13: as such, and it's been locked in at a six
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Speaker 13: point three magnitude earthquake.
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Speaker 2: Ryan.
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Speaker 13: It was downgraded initially to five point nine, but it
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Speaker 13: looks to have been confirmed now six point three.
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Speaker 12: It was struck about nine point fifteen last night.
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Speaker 13: It was centered forty k's north of Tiano at a
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Speaker 13: depth of fifty one kilometers. Civil Defense briefly announced the
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Speaker 13: tsunami warning for the southern West coast from Milford Sound
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Speaker 13: Down before downgrading that alert. The Geonette website suggests more
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Speaker 13: than eighteen and a half thousand reported feeling the quake
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Speaker 13: from as far away as in the Cargo. Also, Omaru
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Speaker 13: callers to newstalk's He'd Beat described ladders, shaking, clock, pendulum swinging.
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Speaker 13: The districts south and district council says some houses have cracks.
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Speaker 12: But it seems like everyone's most of the okay.
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Speaker 3: That is good news. How's your weather?
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Speaker 12: It's fine, heyrees today, light winds fourteen the high nice one.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Callum and Clears and Christ. Its morning, Claire, good morning.
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Speaker 3: You've got a merger between Selwyn and christ Church councils potentially.
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Speaker 14: Well look here, it's certainly not off the table, but
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Speaker 14: it's not a front runner either. Selwyn District Council is
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Speaker 14: consulting residents over the next ten days on three options.
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Speaker 14: That is to become a standalone unitary authority, to merge
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Speaker 14: South with Ashburton, or join christ Church and Wymukededdi. Now
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Speaker 14: most Selwyn councilors favor the first two options. Meyor Lydia
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Speaker 14: Gliddon tells us she hears concerns about a christ Church
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Speaker 14: merger from residents daily. She says they wanted to put
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Speaker 14: an option up to test the sediment within the community,
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Speaker 14: even though it is not necessarily a preferred option. Christ
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Speaker 14: Church is considering staying by itself or potentially combining with
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Speaker 14: either Selwyn or North to Way. Mukdeddi Film Major says
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Speaker 14: the merger could work. Varci hasn't campaigned too hard.
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Speaker 8: On the idea.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather, but frosty out there this morning.
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Speaker 14: She'd clear to find light winds and thirteen degrees.
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Speaker 3: One, thank you and Tobias and Wellington has good morning rhyme,
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Speaker 3: what's happening with the headstones and Potida.
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Speaker 4: Well, this is a warning that's been put out by
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Speaker 4: city council. So it says it's been made aware of
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Speaker 4: certain people engaging with a family to arrange a headstone
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Speaker 4: for their late mother in one of the city cemeteries.
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Speaker 4: This morning. Family has now unfortunately been left substantiously substantially
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Speaker 4: out of pocket after dealing with what they're calling a
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Speaker 4: suspicious headstone provider. We've seen similar The four families paid
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Speaker 4: thousands of dollars last year to a Hamilton based company
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Speaker 4: for headstones that were just never delivered. The council says
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Speaker 4: police may now be involved as the family paid money
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Speaker 4: and have no headstone to show for it. The Council's
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Speaker 4: urging people to be vigilant and ensure those being dealt
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Speaker 4: with are part of a registered monumental mason company.
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Speaker 3: What a terrible thing to do. How's your weather?
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Speaker 4: It's going to be an all around fine day here
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Speaker 4: in the capital. Few northeries but otherwise suns out and
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Speaker 4: thirteen degrees the high.
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Speaker 3: Thanks to birds. Have a good day mate. Wendy's in Auckland.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Wendowing morning. Always love you to see you.
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Speaker 3: Does man need a bit of security?
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Speaker 5: Do you reckon Auklandia Wayne Brown says he is exploring
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Speaker 5: additional security measures after a dunkin man took a swing
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Speaker 5: at him at a National Party fundraiser dinner last month.
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Speaker 5: The mayor's account conflicts with the other descriptions of a spat,
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Speaker 5: which describes sharp words and broken glass, but no attempted violence.
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Speaker 5: A statement from Brown's office link the incident to what
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Speaker 5: he's called a threatening sentiment stirred up by lobby groups
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Speaker 5: like the Auckland rate Payers Alliance. In response, the alliances,
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Speaker 5: the idea that groups calling out the mayor for his
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Speaker 5: record high rates rise and behavior at council meetings is
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Speaker 5: somehow provoking violence is bizarre.
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Speaker 3: Again, he would have been on his crutches then, to
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Speaker 3: remember he got his hip or his knee, But I
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Speaker 3: always forget which one done. So that you shouldn't have
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Speaker 3: had a man like that. Should we shouldn't hit a man? Ever?
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Speaker 3: How's that weather?
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Speaker 5: Well, God, it's been lovely, hasn't it?
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Speaker 15: So?
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Speaker 5: Some cloudy parents the odd shower this morning, then it's fine, southwesterlies,
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Speaker 5: a high of sixteen degrees and just a tip. It
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Speaker 5: looks like the weekend is looking good too.
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Speaker 3: Dvine Wendy Vine good news, good news, eighteen minutes away
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Speaker 3: from six year on news talks. He'd be Britain by
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Speaker 3: the way. We'll get its new prime minister next week,
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Speaker 3: Andy Burnham coming into office and he will be happy
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Speaker 3: with the GED as happy as you can be. GDP
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Speaker 3: grew byero point one percent in May, but it did
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Speaker 3: shrink by point one in April. For the quarter January
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Speaker 3: to March it was up point six, so I mean
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Speaker 3: at least it's going somewhat even a little bit in
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Speaker 3: the right direction. Before he takes office and takes over
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Speaker 3: from Starmer who's been in Ukraine, it is eighteen two six.
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Speaker 3: Now we'll get to the UK next and we will
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Speaker 3: hear about this. This is King Charles pouring a pint
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Speaker 3: after England lost the football.
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Speaker 5: Maybe it's a good day to drag a few sorrows.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, we're in the UK next International correspondence with ends
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Speaker 3: and eye insurance, peace of mind for New Zealand Business
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Speaker 3: quarter to six will talk unemployment in the second. First
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Speaker 3: it's going to our UK correspond to Vincent macavn e.
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Speaker 3: Vincent Starma's been in Ukraine with more money.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, that's right. His final visit as Prime Minister. He
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Speaker 16: thought he might have been going to the World Cup
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Speaker 16: final on Sunday, but no. His final visit is to Ukraine,
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Speaker 16: where he's announced around a quarter of a billion pounds
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Speaker 16: fresh funding for Ukraine and its battle against Russia and
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Speaker 16: including sixteen new advanced aircraft. And whilst he was there,
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Speaker 16: he was awarded a medal an Order of Freedom by
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Speaker 16: President Vladimir Zelensky, the highest civilian honor of Ukraine, for
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Speaker 16: his unwavering support. It's something that Salmas sort of touched
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Speaker 16: on yesterday when he was at PMQ's saying it was
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Speaker 16: lasked about his sort of proudest moment and he said
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Speaker 16: that it was for the country. He said, the moment
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Speaker 16: when Zelenski came to the UK after that awful meeting
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Speaker 16: in the Oval Office and he was greeted by rapture
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Speaker 16: of s applause by people who just came out to
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Speaker 16: Downing Street to see him, and the sort of way
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Speaker 16: that the UK has supported them with the rest of
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Speaker 16: Europe and the Trump administration. So a big day for
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Speaker 16: him in Kiev today, and.
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Speaker 3: The UK government not happy about that after they lost
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Speaker 3: the football we use today.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, very unhappy this banner, which read last Malvinas on Argentinas.
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Speaker 16: Last Malvinas is the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands.
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Speaker 16: Of course, the war that was fought between the nations
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Speaker 16: over the islands in the early nineteen eighties is a
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Speaker 16: sore point for the Argentinians. The UK government has said
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Speaker 16: the World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland
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Speaker 16: Islands definitely are, and when asked the Prime Minister spokesperson
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Speaker 16: about his thoughts on the final he said, we're cheering
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Speaker 16: on the teams, especially Spain, so that is the mood
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Speaker 16: from Downing Street. There is the prospect of disciplining action
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Speaker 16: from FIFA because of holding that banner, and there are
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Speaker 16: strong calls from UK politicians for FIFA to do so
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Speaker 16: because there was an incident a couple of years ago
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Speaker 16: where FIFA took huge issue with UK teams having a
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Speaker 16: poppy on their shirts during Remember and Sunday period and
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Speaker 16: saying it was a political symbol and that wasn't appropriate,
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Speaker 16: and there was a huge backlash in the UK saying
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Speaker 16: this is sort of beyond the political symbol in this country.
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Speaker 16: It's about remembrance and FIFA were very difficult in that issue.
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Speaker 16: So there is hope now that they'll take some action
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Speaker 16: against Argentina over this.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, how good to have you, Vincent Macavini are UK
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Speaker 3: europe correspondent. It is twelve minutes away from six Bridge.
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Speaker 3: You talk said. The number of beneficiaries on job seeker
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Speaker 3: went up at percent over the last quarter. Two hundred
27:23
Speaker 3: and eighteen thousand people right now are receiving a benefit
27:27
Speaker 3: because they can't find a job. The target by this
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Speaker 3: government is one hundred and forty thousand that needs to
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Speaker 3: happen by twenty thirty. Government reckons eighty six thousand people
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Speaker 3: found work and stop their benefit in the year to June,
27:39
Speaker 3: up six thousand on the previous year. However, clearly there
27:42
Speaker 3: have been more people going on as well. Labor left
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Speaker 3: office with about one hundred and ninety thousand on this.
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Speaker 3: Will Ogen Prime is a Labour's Social Development employment spokesperson
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Speaker 3: Will e Egen. Good morning, Good morning, Brian. What do
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Speaker 3: you put that down to the fact that people are
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Speaker 3: more people are going on the benefit.
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Speaker 2: Up?
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Speaker 15: That down to the failed promise of Christopher Luxin to
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Speaker 15: improve the cost of living to fix the economy and
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Speaker 15: their promise.
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Speaker 2: Of reducing job seeker beneficiaries down by fifty thousand.
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Speaker 11: What we have seen.
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Speaker 2: International is an increase by almost more than twenty eight thousand.
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Speaker 15: Moving on to job seeker support.
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Speaker 3: The economy, isn't that like if you don't fix there,
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Speaker 3: because you don't have a good economy, there aren't the
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Speaker 3: jobs people, then they won't be able to go and
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Speaker 3: get the jobs.
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Speaker 2: That's right, and Chrystopher Leuxen when coming into government, promised
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Speaker 2: that he would fix the economy. But instead what we've
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Speaker 2: seen is more go on to job seeker benefit and
28:39
Speaker 2: also unemployment numbers are higher under this government. We've seen
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Speaker 2: this government make investment decisions into the wrong things like
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Speaker 2: tobacco companies and landlords, and the cut and delaid infrastructure
28:54
Speaker 2: projects which in building and construction led to a loss
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Speaker 2: of twenty thousand jobs are in that sector alone.
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Speaker 3: Some of the projects were done though, what about so
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Speaker 3: I mean you've agreed it's the economy. So if labor
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Speaker 3: was in government, are you saying that we would have
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Speaker 3: more economic growth than we currently have and therefore there
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Speaker 3: would be more jobs.
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Speaker 2: So Labor is committed to a long term investment and infrastructure,
29:21
Speaker 2: making sure that we are building the road, the hospitals
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Speaker 2: that we need.
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Speaker 3: But what I'm asking because you said it's national fault,
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Speaker 3: because if it's nationals in government and we don't have
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Speaker 3: the economy to support the jobs. So are you saying
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Speaker 3: if labor was in power right now, we would have
29:35
Speaker 3: more growth than we are currently experiencing.
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Speaker 2: So what we're dealing with is what the government promised
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Speaker 2: they would deliver and the fact we don't know through
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Speaker 2: this report.
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Speaker 3: You said that, But what I'm asking you is if
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Speaker 3: we had voted for you, would it be different.
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Speaker 2: So if well that the fact is that that didn't happen,
29:57
Speaker 2: and we have the government making a promise and then
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Speaker 2: say failing to deliver on their promise. What Labor is
30:02
Speaker 2: saying coming into this election is that we will do
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Speaker 2: things like we will expand the apprenticeship boost out to
30:10
Speaker 2: two years and to more areas in the trades, and
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Speaker 2: that will create real pathways to employment, to qualifications and
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Speaker 2: higher wages for people.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what growth was for the March quarter.
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Speaker 2: I don't have that figure on me, but what I
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Speaker 2: know is that the job seeker numbers grew.
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Speaker 3: Do you know what it was for the last three.
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Speaker 2: Thousand and so the job second numbers grew by three
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Speaker 2: thousand to March nine thousand this time last twenty eight
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Speaker 2: thousand under this government.
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Speaker 3: You know what growth was for the year, even.
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Speaker 15: I don't have that forgerumby Ryan, do you yeah, I do.
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Speaker 3: It was a one and a half percent to March.
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Speaker 3: This was the most recent number we got. Of course,
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Speaker 3: we don't get Jones until September. But the point is
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Speaker 3: you've come on here and you've told me that all
30:57
Speaker 3: of those problems you're outlining about jobs to do with
31:00
Speaker 3: the economy. However, you don't know how much the economy
31:03
Speaker 3: is growing by or whether you were doing better. You
31:05
Speaker 3: know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Dis government, which dis government Ryan promised that they would fix.
31:10
Speaker 2: And what I am hearing and what I am seeing
31:13
Speaker 2: is that our communities are in a world of pain.
31:16
Speaker 2: This week we had in Katayah, for example, one of
31:18
Speaker 2: the two mills announcing that it will be closing. I
31:21
Speaker 2: stood with those families. They are worried about those closures,
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Speaker 2: the loss of jobs, the impact of that on their families,
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Speaker 2: and the fact that there aren't more jobs for them
31:32
Speaker 2: to go into.
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Speaker 15: What they are facing is the real possibility of having
31:36
Speaker 15: to go to Australia like record numbers of news having
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Speaker 15: to do totally discovernment.
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Speaker 3: Totally agree with you. It's awful and you're right. They
31:44
Speaker 3: have broken a promise. They said they would get more
31:46
Speaker 3: people off of the benefit. They haven't. It's gone the
31:48
Speaker 3: other way. But I guess the question is what is
31:51
Speaker 3: the alternative? Willa Jene Prime from labor it is eight
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Speaker 3: to six News Talk, sev B.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning, and the in depth
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Speaker 3: News talks. It'd be speaks away from six news Talks.
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Speaker 3: There'd be Mike's in the studio, Good morning, Mike, Joy
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Speaker 3: to see you. Ryan, plans for that? Are you gonna
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Speaker 3: watch Trump speaks this after.
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Speaker 17: And it's a bit so. I'm concerning the Republican Party
32:19
Speaker 17: about and relitigating old stuff on endlessly about what's going wrong.
32:23
Speaker 17: I'm just looking at Carolyn Leabet, who's back this morning
32:25
Speaker 17: doing her thing, and I'm just you're sitting at home
32:27
Speaker 17: maternity leave, and you're watching the present, You're watching the war,
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Speaker 17: You're watching the things bubbling away.
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Speaker 12: You're thinking to.
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Speaker 17: Yourself, probably better off at home, aren't I You know
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Speaker 17: what I mean, Yeah, it's not it's not quite the
32:37
Speaker 17: cissan that it once was, is it.
32:39
Speaker 3: No? But so she was gone. We were calculating this,
32:42
Speaker 3: Kenzy know this morning not long? Two and a half,
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Speaker 3: three months?
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Speaker 15: Not long?
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Speaker 3: Is that? Is that how long people normally take women normal? Well,
32:49
Speaker 3: that's me.
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Speaker 17: That's that's a that's a Pandora's box that you ask
32:53
Speaker 17: at this hour of the morning. The answer, the answer
32:55
Speaker 17: is depending who you're talking about. Obviously, I mean it's
32:58
Speaker 17: it's I would argue, and we're on very delicate ground
33:01
Speaker 17: here being two men talking about women's issues. But I
33:03
Speaker 17: would argue an exceedingly short and unusually an unusually.
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Speaker 3: Short period of time. Friend is just well, she's had
33:10
Speaker 3: a babies now six months old, but she's had having
33:14
Speaker 3: a year off work, some of which will be paid,
33:15
Speaker 3: of course, something which.
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Speaker 17: I personally would argue a year would be at the
33:19
Speaker 17: longer end of it. I would argue, at a guess,
33:22
Speaker 17: the average would be somewhere between six months to a year.
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Speaker 3: So she's thinking last night about having a baby.
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Speaker 17: Not that it's easy, No, And there was just the
33:31
Speaker 17: thing you do on like a Thursday night.
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Speaker 3: It's just one of those going off to sleep. I'd
33:36
Speaker 3: like to take a year minimum.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, easy, Well you'd be I know older gentlemen who
33:41
Speaker 17: have been into the parenting business later in life, and
33:43
Speaker 17: they do tend to immerse themselves in the process.
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Speaker 3: What are you saying, I'm an older.
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Speaker 17: Jen, it was a parent.
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Speaker 3: How old are you? Thirty one, thirty six? That's up there.
33:52
Speaker 3: It's getting up theatric.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, well, not geriatric, but certainly older. You don't want
33:56
Speaker 17: to be so old that you're physically incapable. I know
33:58
Speaker 17: a couple who had kids in there, like early fifties,
34:01
Speaker 17: and you think about your kids. So if you have food,
34:04
Speaker 17: I mean berry soapie, you living bringing the example with cars,
34:06
Speaker 17: but I mean if you if your kid at fifty
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Speaker 17: five or whatever, and your kids by the time the
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Speaker 17: twenty seventy five, so you want to be a participant
34:13
Speaker 17: in your child's life physically.
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Speaker 3: And you wret about to pick them up as a
34:16
Speaker 3: toddler too, don't you? Great? Chat? Right, excellent, Have a
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