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Full Show Podcast: 02 October 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: earlier ship with one roof Love, where you Live, news talks,
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Speaker 1: there'd be good morning Thursday.
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Speaker 2: Mitch McCann's stateside for US. This morning, we've got reaction
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Speaker 2: to the energy plan, will talk, Nigel latter House price
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Speaker 2: update for you, a warning from Europe on Russia, and
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Speaker 2: the hot new actress who's never acted a day in
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Speaker 2: her life. The agenda Thursday to second of October. The
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Speaker 2: U has shut down. Everyone's blaming everyone else.
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Speaker 3: Democrats want to.
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Speaker 4: Play political games with the lives and the lablihoods of Americans.
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Speaker 4: The simple truth is Democrats in Congress have dragged our
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Speaker 4: country into another reckless shutdown to satisfy their far left beast.
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Speaker 2: Thousands of work is going to get furloughed, unpaid leave.
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Speaker 5: They're taking a risk by having a shutdown. Because of
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Speaker 5: the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways,
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Speaker 5: including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people, and
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Speaker 5: we don't want to do that, but we don't want
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Speaker 5: fraud waste.
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Speaker 2: Interviews Mitch mccannon on that later and show. We're tracking
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Speaker 2: Greta Thunberg's flotilla this morning. Yesterday they entered a high
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Speaker 2: risk zone now though they are being accompanied by Spanish
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Speaker 2: and Italian naval vessels, and you know what that means,
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Speaker 2: don't you? Burning fossil fuels to get there.
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Speaker 6: Israel has already made clear they are not going to
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Speaker 6: allow this flotilla of some forty civilian ships, five hundred
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Speaker 6: people and palettes of ad to actually make it to
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Speaker 6: the Gaza Strip. And we know in the past that
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Speaker 6: they have used force to prevent that from happening.
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Speaker 2: But at late night, on late Night, Jimmy Kimmel went
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Speaker 2: and saw Stephen Colbert talk to him about the moment
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Speaker 2: he was pulled off here. Meanwhile, there's the whole audience.
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Speaker 2: They're in their seats.
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Speaker 7: Well wait, I didn't know that your audience was already loaded.
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Speaker 1: They are loaded and in their seats, ready for the show.
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Speaker 2: The news you need.
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Speaker 1: This morning and the in depth analysis early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love, where you live.
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Speaker 2: News talks at be great to have your company. Eight
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Speaker 2: after five now N nine two is the number to
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Speaker 2: TIXS would love to hear from you. Most interesting thing
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Speaker 2: I think to come out of that Frontier report yesterday
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Speaker 2: was about contact energy, so big issue they laid it
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Speaker 2: out on the table yesterday. Is getting these energy companies
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Speaker 2: to invest in new generation, more supply, brings prices down,
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Speaker 2: keeps the country running, helps prevent the shortages, et cetera,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. And everyone's saying, oh, well, we need to
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Speaker 2: renationalize them, you know, otherwise they have no incentive to
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Speaker 2: build new generations so they can keep prices higher. The
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Speaker 2: Greens have said this. New Zealand first bangs its drum
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Speaker 2: about this, let's buy back the remainder and renationalize these
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Speaker 2: energy companies. Corporate greed will do bad things to a business.
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Speaker 2: But what this report proves is that they're wrong. Contact
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Speaker 2: is privately owned. This report tells us that Contact Energy
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Speaker 2: has built more generation at a faster rate than the
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Speaker 2: ones the government controls. So you've got to ask yourself,
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Speaker 2: if the only private company in the mix is doing
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Speaker 2: more to benefit the whole country than the three we
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Speaker 2: do own, why on God's green Earth do we own them,
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Speaker 2: let alone want to own more of them? Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: two the number to text coming up next. There's a
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Speaker 2: small change, And when I say small, I mean zero
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Speaker 2: point one percent in property prices and values. Do we know?
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Speaker 2: Is that something we're celebrating. We'll look at that next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis Earl edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Love
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Speaker 1: where you Live news talks.
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Speaker 2: I'd be five eleven. I spent a bit of time
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Speaker 2: yesterday going to the doctor to get a prescription, then
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Speaker 2: going to the pharmacy to pick up the prescription. It
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Speaker 2: was for a thing called malatonin, which helps you sleep.
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Speaker 2: And if you work wet hours, or if you're really
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Speaker 2: old and you can't sleep, then malatonin is quite good
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Speaker 2: for you. And then five o'clock this morning there's an
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Speaker 2: embargoed release that comes in. I have it for you.
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Speaker 2: It's now going to be available over the counter. So
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Speaker 2: from so, I could have just said a whole lot
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Speaker 2: of time yesterday anyway. The one that the brand that
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Speaker 2: they are putting out their Vigitism, I think is how
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Speaker 2: you say it. Unlike immediate release malotone and medications, Vigism
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Speaker 2: allows for malatonin to be released gradually over eight to
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Speaker 2: ten hours, mimicking your body's natural malotonein action, providing coverage
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Speaker 2: throughout the night rather than just knocking you out cold
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Speaker 2: and then you're waking up again in three hours. This
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Speaker 2: will keep you asleep. Twelve after five r and Bridge
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Speaker 2: speaking of a sleep, that's what the property market's been lately.
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Speaker 2: But jeep, we're celebrating this morning because, wait for it,
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Speaker 2: September property prices, according to Cotality showed some increase zero
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Speaker 2: point one percent. This brings an end to five straight
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Speaker 2: months of waning property values. Joining me this morning, Nick Touff,
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Speaker 2: the asbchief E, condoms Nick, good morning.
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Speaker 8: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you on. Is this? I mean, look,
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Speaker 2: it's monthly data. It's zero point one percent. Will the
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Speaker 2: real estate agents be cracking out the champagne? Do we think?
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Speaker 8: Oh? Well, at the moment, we've been looking for any
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Speaker 8: excuse we could. When it comes to the housing market,
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Speaker 8: it is one tenth percent. But when you look at
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Speaker 8: various housing measures we did have, you know, a bit
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Speaker 8: of a burst of activity where prices were lifting slightly
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Speaker 8: late last year early this year, and things didn't look
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Speaker 8: like they petered out. So if we do start to
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Speaker 8: see the property market picking up, it's just one of
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Speaker 8: those economic signs that people are starting to get out
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Speaker 8: of the infrastrate hibernation that they've been in for a while.
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Speaker 2: The regions doing well Totong a Bay of Plenty? What
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Speaker 2: do you put that down to?
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Speaker 8: Well, when we did our ASB Regional School, we actually
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Speaker 8: had the Bay of Plenty at the top. And one
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Speaker 8: thing that when you're looking around the country at the moment,
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Speaker 8: you tend to see areas that have had good, good
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Speaker 8: export incomes or tourism have done well. And that's the
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Speaker 8: pending example with two bumper seasons of ki freed exports.
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Speaker 2: For example, are people buying you mentioned tourism, are people
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Speaker 2: buying homes there to rent for tourism like airbnb?
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Speaker 8: Well, with Torong, it's probably more around the income that's
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Speaker 8: come through. We've seen jobs lifting up, spending lifting up there.
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Speaker 8: For example, the bottom of the South Island had a
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Speaker 8: really great run. And one thing I'd put that down
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Speaker 8: to is around the Central Lakes and the spillover effects
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Speaker 8: around the region would be that tourism, it's not just
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Speaker 8: the people coming and wanted to buy properties, but also
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Speaker 8: the need for workers as well. So that's something in
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Speaker 8: recent years where the Lakes district, even though it's come
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Speaker 8: off the boill this time now it's hit that population
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Speaker 8: pressure and that needs for housing.
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Speaker 2: Nick, what's the lag everyone in the big cities. This
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Speaker 2: morning I'll be thinking, well, that's great for Toling, a
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Speaker 2: great for Southland. But what's the lag between Because normally
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Speaker 2: it's the other way around. Auckland would lead a property
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Speaker 2: price resurgence and then the regions would follow. This time,
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Speaker 2: it seems like it's in verse. When will the city
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Speaker 2: start to see something?
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Speaker 8: We will start to see something, I think over time. Look,
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Speaker 8: one challenge with Auckland and particularly Wellington, as they've gone through,
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Speaker 8: they went through big booms, they went through big, big busts.
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Speaker 8: One challenge that we do have a number of markets
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Speaker 8: is actually a lot of stock sitting on the market,
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Speaker 8: so we actually need more activity. We need the sales
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Speaker 8: activity to pick up start eating into that stock on
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Speaker 8: the market doesn't really get some sort of more noticeable
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Speaker 8: lists and prices, so supply versus demand, there's a lot
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Speaker 8: of supply. People are still being a little bit cautious
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Speaker 8: and we've seen that in house sales recently they've actually
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Speaker 8: edged back down, so people haven't sort of quite got
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Speaker 8: out and embraced a sort of buying cremzy at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Be fair to say, Nick, appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: Nick Tuffley asb Chief Economist. It's quarter past five News Talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be up next Nigel Latter and his Gut Health Mission.
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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 roof Love where You
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be five eighteen coming up before the news at
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Speaker 2: five point thirty. I'll tell you why what happened yesterday
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Speaker 2: is probably actually more our fault than the governments or
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Speaker 2: the coalition governments. I should say, more money out the door,
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Speaker 2: staying with them for a second. This is after the
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Speaker 2: quarter two reality check on the economy. Money on the
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Speaker 2: line at least, maybe not so much out the door.
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Speaker 2: This is a boost for construction. The government announcing the
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Speaker 2: end production of a new loan guarantee scheme. This is
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Speaker 2: for community housing providers. Two thousand new social homes will
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Speaker 2: be delivered and the Crown will guarantee eighty percent of
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Speaker 2: the loans through banks Ryan Bridge. After a battle with
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Speaker 2: lung cancer, Nigel Latter has died at the age of
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Speaker 2: fifty eight. He was an author, a psychologist, a broadcaster.
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Speaker 2: People loved him. He was interparenting and healthy eating. Also
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Speaker 2: became a campaigner for the Gut Cancer Foundation. The Foundation's
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Speaker 2: chief executive Liam Walls. Willis rather is with me now, Liam,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Miner. Very sad lost. There will
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Speaker 2: be a lot of people are listening to this show
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Speaker 2: who know Nigel well, who've heard him on the radio,
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Speaker 2: on the seen him on the TV over the Year's
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Speaker 2: very sad day.
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Speaker 3: It's a really subd rine. Yeah, and look of first
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Speaker 3: to foremost star hot Scotch at Nigel's family, to Nutley's
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Speaker 3: wife and his children, who are obviously the hardest by
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Speaker 3: this loss. But Nigel was a huge character for New
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Speaker 3: Zealand and I think the whole country will bid morning.
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Speaker 2: Is lost to what drove him to be He was
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Speaker 2: very passionate and he was very determined what was behind that.
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Speaker 3: I think Nigel had an incredible positivity to everything that
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Speaker 3: he did and he really brought that to his challenge
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Speaker 3: that he faces with his face with his stomach cancer
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Speaker 3: diagnosis as well, and he wanted to use the challenge
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Speaker 3: that he faced to make sure that he could help
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Speaker 3: up us. I think that's what really drove him in
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Speaker 3: this last year after his diagnosis particular, and he was
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Speaker 3: really really keen to ensure that we could raise the
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Speaker 3: profile of stomach cancer and make sure that people were
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Speaker 3: aware of those symptoms and risk factors and make sure
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Speaker 3: that people were getting access to the treatment that they
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Speaker 3: needed as well. So I think that's what really drove him.
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Speaker 2: The GAT Cancer Foundation. What exactly do you do?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So at the Gut Cancer Foundation, we support patients,
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Speaker 3: we fund research, we raise awareness into cancers of the
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Speaker 3: digestive system. So that includes stomach cancer, which was what
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Speaker 3: Nigel was diagnosed with, but also pancreas cancer, liver cancer,
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Speaker 3: bowel cancer, a sophageal cancer as well. So there's about
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Speaker 3: six thousand patient and say every year that a diagnosed
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Speaker 3: with one of these cancers, and unfortunately, for particularly for
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Speaker 3: cancers of the other digestive system, that the outlook in
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Speaker 3: the prognosis is really poor. So it's really important that
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Speaker 3: we play a role as a voice for that community
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Speaker 3: and advocate. But it's also incredibly important when somebody is
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Speaker 3: such profile as Nigel is so open about his journey
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Speaker 3: as well, because it really does help us to bring
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Speaker 3: better awareness and profile to these cancers that often aren't
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Speaker 3: talked about.
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Speaker 2: Are these cancers preventable? What should we you know? What
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Speaker 2: if there's one thing we can take away today that
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Speaker 2: we should be doing that we weren't doing yesterday.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Look, I mean a lot of these cancers can be preventable.
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Speaker 3: That there are some lifestyle factors that go into the
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Speaker 3: these cancers. But I think what's really really important is
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Speaker 3: to understand your body and to know what's You understand
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Speaker 3: your body and you know when things aren't quite right. So,
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Speaker 3: for example, the stomach cancer, if you get full after eating,
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Speaker 3: if you're unexpected weight loss, if you've got an naisier
11:18
Speaker 3: or bloating in your stomach that's unusual. What's really important
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Speaker 3: is we listen to our bodies and we go and
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Speaker 3: get it checked out. Because what we know above anything
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Speaker 3: is early detection is key. And with a lot of
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Speaker 3: these cancers, the reason that that the prognosis is so
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Speaker 3: poor is because the detector is so late. So the
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Speaker 3: earlier we can get these cancers detected, and that means
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Speaker 3: getting the symptoms checked out at your GP and getting
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Speaker 3: those tests thats needed, then the better the chances that
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Speaker 3: we can treat the cancer.
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Speaker 2: Liam, appreciate your time this morning, Thanks for being with me.
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Speaker 2: That is Liam Willis, who's the chief executive of the
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Speaker 2: Gut Cancer Foundation. Nigel Lader died of guesstric cancer. He
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Speaker 2: was just fifty eight. You've got to feel for his wife, Natalie.
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Speaker 1: The earlier this full show podcast on IHARM Radio, Power
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Speaker 1: It by News Talks at Me.
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Speaker 2: Five point twenty four. So September's numbers, this is for
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Speaker 2: US jobs, this is private sector jobs. They've got a
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Speaker 2: number out overnight, so they've shared thirty two thousand private
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Speaker 2: sector jobs for September. They lost three thousand in August,
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Speaker 2: and the pundits were expecting that for this month they
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Speaker 2: would gain forty five thousand jobs. So you're off by
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Speaker 2: about seventy five thousand, and not in a good way.
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Speaker 2: This is a problem because it's a sign that the
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Speaker 2: labor market there is a bit shaky, and we've been
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Speaker 2: seeing signs of that lately. Unemployment is not yet ticking out.
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Speaker 2: But what you have is a whole bunch of people
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Speaker 2: as hiring is slowing down. You've got a whole bunch
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Speaker 2: of people in jobs that were starting to worry a
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Speaker 2: little bit about job security. And that's not good because
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Speaker 2: the Americans have got very resilient consumers and they keep
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Speaker 2: the country going, the domestic economy going. So what does
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Speaker 2: all this mean well, probably just means more cuts from
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Speaker 2: the FED in the near future of twenty five after five.
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Speaker 2: Brian Bridgley, yesterday was MMP in action. It was exhibit
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Speaker 2: a of a coalition government without a single party with
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Speaker 2: a clear mandate, You end up with piecemeal positions. You
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Speaker 2: get a report done, then your cherry pick which options
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Speaker 2: are palatable to everybody and effective for nobody. In this case,
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Speaker 2: they picked just two of the ten options in the report,
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Speaker 2: which they ordered two. Imagine ordering a pizza and eating
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Speaker 2: two slices. Waste of money. Seewar would have liked, of course,
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Speaker 2: the option of flogging off the fifty one percent of
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Speaker 2: the energy companies that we do own. But on the
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Speaker 2: other hand, Martua Shane wanted to buy the rest back.
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Speaker 2: It's what we call a political halfway house. Critics on
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Speaker 2: this side say we needed more intervention, Critics on that
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Speaker 2: side say we need less. What we voters need to
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Speaker 2: decide is whether this country needs bold action or incrementalism.
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Speaker 2: Do we need radical or do we want compromise. In
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty, Jacinda Adjourns scored the first single party majority
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Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety three, first under MMP and then burn
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Speaker 2: the reputation of absolute power. Basically, let's be real, nobody
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Speaker 2: going to give national carte blanche come twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: So if the polls and the moods of the boardrooms
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Speaker 2: and the talk on the streets actually reflect reality, then
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Speaker 2: we need to decide which side we want national pull
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Speaker 2: towards economic nationalism in New Zealand first or free market
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Speaker 2: libertarianism and act. And until then we'll get more reports
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Speaker 2: firing out blank recommendations, more decisions that appease everyone but
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Speaker 2: fix nothing. This decision basically went down like any three
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Speaker 2: way messy, hard work took ages, and no one really
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Speaker 2: leaves completely satisfied. Six after five, let's go to Europe
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Speaker 2: because there's a big EU summit happening in Copenhagen and
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Speaker 2: Meta Fredericson, who's the Danish Prime minister, has said world
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Speaker 2: War II Europe is basically as dangerous now as it
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Speaker 2: was at the end of World War Two.
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Speaker 9: So if you look at Ukraine from a European perspective
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Speaker 9: instead of a national perspective, if you look at Russia
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Speaker 9: and hybrid war from a European perspective instead of from
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Speaker 9: your own national perspective, then I think everybody has to
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Speaker 9: be on the same peach that we have to rearm
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Speaker 9: all of us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and basically we need to get the guns out,
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Speaker 2: get the planes in the air, try and stop the drones.
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Speaker 2: So they're having a meeting about that today and they'll
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Speaker 2: see what they can do. Snapchat, which this is a
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Speaker 2: weird story because I always thought Snapchat was something. The
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Speaker 2: point of it. It's one of the social media apps,
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Speaker 2: by the way young people use it. I thought the
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Speaker 2: point of Snapchat was that you send somebody a photo
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Speaker 2: and it has a countdown timer on it, and so
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Speaker 2: the photo will only appear for so long and then
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Speaker 2: it disappears. So you can imagine what people I mean,
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Speaker 2: I assume what people send each other. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: don't really know why you would want to disappearing photo,
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Speaker 2: but anyway, that's what people have. Apparently it's not apparently
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Speaker 2: there are Most users have stored thousands and thousands of
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Speaker 2: photos and videos that they have been sent or that
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Speaker 2: they have taken and shared onto the app, and until
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Speaker 2: now that has been a free thing to do. And
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Speaker 2: these companies, I mean, you get these businesses and they've
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Speaker 2: got huge reach, everyone's using them, but are they actually
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Speaker 2: monetizing them. You know, that's always been their problem. Well,
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Speaker 2: Snapchat has come out and said we will start charging
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Speaker 2: you for the storage. So it's going to be priced
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Speaker 2: at a dollar ninety nine. This is us I'm sorry,
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Speaker 2: dollar ninety nine per month, with two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: gigabytes included in the three dollar ninety nine a month.
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Speaker 2: This is for the Snapchat Plus subscription. Now this is ang.
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Speaker 2: You know, all of the young ones are up in
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Speaker 2: arms about this because they didn't know going in that
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Speaker 2: they were going to be charged to store all their
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Speaker 2: photos and videos, and now all of a sudden they're
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Speaker 2: turning around and they're being charged for storing all the
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Speaker 2: photos and videos. Presumably it costs Snapchat to store them,
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Speaker 2: so I don't know. It sounds like it's probably reasonable
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Speaker 2: to me. But there you go. If you have Snapchat,
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Speaker 2: you'll be paying for the privilege. You're on News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 2: A little update for you on farmers whether they'll go
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Speaker 2: and splash that cash we've all been talking about. Plus
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Speaker 2: we'll get to Mitch McCann Stateside and Electric Keyweek on
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Speaker 2: the energy changes before Top of the Art News Talks B.
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Speaker 7: Waiting for the.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live, News
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Speaker 11: performance that comes with a catch. It's AI generated. Tilli
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Speaker 11: Norwood has caught the attention of into agents, but real
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Speaker 11: life stars have raised a number of.
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Speaker 2: Concerns, including where we didn't hear from her in there,
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Speaker 2: but she basically looks and sounds completely real to me.
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Speaker 2: Not an actor. It's a computer generated AI actor and
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Speaker 2: all of them. I mean, you can imagine the screen
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Speaker 2: actors that orders come out. They've said, it's not an actor.
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Speaker 2: You can't do this. You put in countless professional performers
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Speaker 2: out of work. Emily blunts come out overnight. She said,
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Speaker 2: it's really really scary. She's encouraging the agencies do not
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Speaker 2: do it. Don't take away human connection, all that sort
19:35
Speaker 2: of stuff. The thing is, I was thinking about it
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Speaker 2: this morning. When I go to the movies these days,
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Speaker 2: and I'm I'm just like, I'm old, I'm just sort
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Speaker 2: of middle aged. But when I go to the movies
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Speaker 2: these days, I couldn't tell you half of the actors
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Speaker 2: that are acting. So if I don't know who they
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Speaker 2: are to begin with, does it matter whether the AI
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Speaker 2: or not? And if that makes the movie cheaper. That's
19:55
Speaker 2: the world we're living in, isn't it. Twenty two minutes
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Speaker 2: away from six Ryan Bridge, Shelen City hold It results
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Speaker 2: out and Callum Proctor has them for us. Collum, good morning, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: morning Ryan.
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Speaker 12: It's good news. For the third consecutive year they're posted
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Speaker 12: a profit. Deneeda City Holdings. This is the group owned
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Speaker 12: by the city council. It includes Aurora Energy and deneed
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Speaker 12: An Airport. So they've reported a net profit of nineteen
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Speaker 12: point four million for the year ended June thirtieth, a
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Speaker 12: third year in a row. It's seven and a half
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Speaker 12: million above budgets. Seventeen million dollars gets distributed to council.
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Speaker 12: The chairman is Tim Loan. He says, look, it's another
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Speaker 12: positive result which helps mitigate pressure on ratepayers. Here he
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Speaker 12: says the result though, needs to be balanced with reinvesting
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Speaker 12: to protect the value of their companies for future generations.
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Speaker 2: And Ryan.
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Speaker 12: It comes as the council's latest opinion surveys also been published.
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Speaker 12: It reveals eighty two percent of residents are satisfied with
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Speaker 12: the city's reserves.
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Speaker 2: Great, how's your weather morning?
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Speaker 12: Frosts about this morning so mainly find to start with
20:54
Speaker 12: chance for shower later in the day.
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Speaker 2: The high today just eleven cheers Cortney christ Church, Good morning, Courtney.
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Speaker 13: Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: This who's behind this big overseas donation to full Balies.
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Speaker 13: So that's the grund Foss Foundation and they've donated seventy
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Speaker 13: five thousand dollars to full Ballys to help them deliver
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Speaker 13: twelve hundred lunches to six hundred kids across twenty five
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Speaker 13: Canterbury schools every week. Charity program manager Taylor Neil says
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Speaker 13: there's always more kids to feed, so this will help hugely.
21:23
Speaker 13: She says Full balis cost thirty thousand dollars to run
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Speaker 13: every month, so this donation will go straight to helping
21:30
Speaker 13: the kids. Neil sees the lunches help the kids turn
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Speaker 13: up to school, participate, engage and socialize while eating with
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Speaker 13: their pears.
21:37
Speaker 2: How's our weather?
21:38
Speaker 13: Also morning frost down here as well, some rain developing
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Speaker 13: northeasterlies high of eleven.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, thanks Courtney, Max and Wellington morning Max, good morning. Hey.
21:47
Speaker 2: I saw that you know the earthquake law changes that
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Speaker 2: were made. We didn't talk about this the other day,
21:51
Speaker 2: but the city to Sunbridge thing that's probably going to
21:54
Speaker 2: stay now that the rules are being changed.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly, which makes it all the more ridiculous right
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Speaker 10: that the council trying to rush through the demolition of
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Speaker 10: it when we knew that this review was taking place.
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Speaker 10: So good news for advocates of that landmark in Wellington.
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Speaker 2: Yeah all right, hey, what you've got more detail on
22:09
Speaker 2: the scary home invasion on Sunday? Yeah, terrifying.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Monday we told you about this terrifying break in
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Speaker 10: in Wade'stown at about midday on Sunday which ended in
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Speaker 10: a man being shot by police. The dog team called
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Speaker 10: out pepper, spray tases, etc. All the mod cons used
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Speaker 10: toward this guy. We learned last night that this fifty
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Speaker 10: four year old har Samurai sword broke into a property,
22:30
Speaker 10: threatened the homeowner with the sword and demanded he give
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Speaker 10: him the keys to his Porsche outside. The guy was
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Speaker 10: of rightly terrified apparently, though refused to give him the keys.
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Speaker 2: Police arrived.
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Speaker 10: That's when the home invader started damaging things inside the
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Speaker 10: house barricaded himself in a room in this multi million
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Speaker 10: dollar home. It should be said the defendant shot in
22:52
Speaker 10: the shoulder, eventually bitten by a police dog. He's still
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Speaker 10: in hospital but is due to appear in court today.
22:57
Speaker 10: No update on the Porsche, the owner terrified but mostly
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Speaker 10: unscathed as well, thankfully.
23:03
Speaker 2: How's your weather?
23:04
Speaker 10: A frosty start, the bit of rain late morning thirteen.
23:06
Speaker 10: Today's hey all.
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Speaker 2: Right, cheers Max, Hey Neva, good morning. You've got two
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Speaker 2: blazes early this morning in Auckland.
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Speaker 14: Yes, look, happening within minutes of each other, so fire
23:14
Speaker 14: and emergency. They were called to a house fire. This
23:16
Speaker 14: happened in Buckland's Beach just after two thirty this morning.
23:21
Speaker 14: It's since been contained. A fire investigator will attend, and
23:24
Speaker 14: I can tell you there's also been a blaze at
23:26
Speaker 14: a commercial building. This is on Papa Toytoy's Namby Drive
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Speaker 14: that happened around about the same time, and that's just
23:31
Speaker 14: been put out as well. And before I go, I've
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Speaker 14: just got to mention this, Ryan, You're a heart throb.
23:37
Speaker 14: So apparently if people have missed it, there was a
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Speaker 14: news video of you on TikTok and it was that
23:43
Speaker 14: was a herald now and it's received over nine hundred
23:45
Speaker 14: thousand views and climbing globally and people have looked at
23:48
Speaker 14: you and said, who's the hot dude?
23:53
Speaker 9: Who?
23:57
Speaker 2: Humans are only human? You know what I mean? It's
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Speaker 2: new Zealand.
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Speaker 14: Where have you been hiding this post slash presenter?
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Speaker 2: It does some of the comments. If you go and
24:07
Speaker 2: read some of the comments, which I may have done,
24:09
Speaker 2: you're at what they are absolutely filthy, really a bunch
24:13
Speaker 2: of very horny American women people. Women. It's women. Yeah, no,
24:18
Speaker 2: it's women. And they say, people say, don't you know
24:20
Speaker 2: he's from New Zealand and he's got a husband, And
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Speaker 2: these women say, well, the husband needs to learn to share?
24:27
Speaker 2: Or do you have it?
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Speaker 14: How you better be staying here in New Zealand. I thought, Nick, minute,
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Speaker 14: it'll be going.
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Speaker 2: Over to the US soon as I bring all these jobs.
24:34
Speaker 2: As soon as I get the visa, I'm out.
24:36
Speaker 14: How have we the never cloudy peachy drizzle tuned into
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Speaker 14: scattered showers from late morning?
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Speaker 2: Ah, I have twenty brilliant thank you seventeen minutes away
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25:52
Speaker 2: Mitch mccan's a US corresponded, Mitch, welcome to the show, Ryan,
25:56
Speaker 2: good morning, how are you very well? Thank you? How's
25:58
Speaker 2: that shutdown going?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, twelve hours into the shutdown here in the United
26:02
Speaker 15: States and no sign of Democrats and Republicans coming together. Essentially,
26:06
Speaker 15: the shutdown is when the government has to pass a
26:08
Speaker 15: spending bill in terms of designing what they're going to
26:11
Speaker 15: spend their money on for the next four to twelve months,
26:14
Speaker 15: and they haven't been able to come to agreement. That's
26:17
Speaker 15: because they need sixty They need sixty votes in the
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Speaker 15: Senate for this to happen, but it hasn't been agreed upon.
26:23
Speaker 15: And the reason that they can't agree to something here
26:26
Speaker 15: is because Democrats are arguing before they sign on to
26:29
Speaker 15: a spending bill, they need guarantees around tax credits so
26:32
Speaker 15: more Americans can afford healthcare. But Republicans say that's something
26:36
Speaker 15: that needs to be debated later in the year, and
26:39
Speaker 15: they are really going on the attack blaming the Democrats
26:41
Speaker 15: for this. But at this stage, the prediction markets ryan
26:45
Speaker 15: expect us to go on for about eleven to twelve days.
26:47
Speaker 15: So in the meantime, park rangers aren't being paid, TSA
26:51
Speaker 15: airport staff aren't being paid, but they are expected to
26:54
Speaker 15: turn up to work for free.
26:56
Speaker 2: And there are, as you say, some who have to
26:58
Speaker 2: work who are essential and don't get paid. Others don't
27:01
Speaker 2: get paid but don't have to go to work. The
27:03
Speaker 2: last one I think under Trump was thirty four days long,
27:06
Speaker 2: so this looks like it'd be a bit shorter, which
27:08
Speaker 2: is a good thing. Hey, what's going on with this
27:10
Speaker 2: New York high rise collapse? Yeah, this is bizarre. This
27:14
Speaker 2: is a twenty story public housing building. It's in the
27:16
Speaker 2: Bronx here in New York, and it partially collapsed this
27:20
Speaker 2: morning as if half the building has fallen off.
27:23
Speaker 15: It turned out it was related to a chimney explosion.
27:27
Speaker 15: Inside this building, three four hundred people live, so you
27:30
Speaker 15: can imagine how big it is. And according to reports,
27:33
Speaker 15: not one person has been injured in this building partially collapsing. Miraculous,
27:38
Speaker 15: but you can bet there's going to be a long
27:39
Speaker 15: into investigation into what exactly happened here.
27:42
Speaker 2: Mitch, appreciate your time. Mitch McCann our, US correspondent, twelve
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Speaker 2: to six, Ryan disappointing, A damp squib, a real concern.
27:50
Speaker 2: This is what the sector is saying about yesterday's big
27:52
Speaker 2: energy announcement. The Big four gentator stock price shot up
27:55
Speaker 2: when the market's opened, But what about the little guys?
27:57
Speaker 2: Who are e Berts with Electric Kiwi the chief executive who.
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Speaker 8: Morning, good morning.
28:02
Speaker 2: At most all going to plan, we'll be saving what
28:06
Speaker 2: a few bucks off of four hundred dollars a month
28:08
Speaker 2: power bill?
28:11
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: Well, the one of the key numbers that came out
28:16
Speaker 16: yesterday was that there was the potential for the wholesale
28:22
Speaker 16: energy prices to come down by around two percent per
28:26
Speaker 16: annums with the reforms that were announced. And that really
28:29
Speaker 16: does amount to a few dollars off your power bill,
28:34
Speaker 16: whereas Bold reform would be talking about hundreds of dollars
28:39
Speaker 16: per year. And that's just what's so disappointing for households
28:43
Speaker 16: and businesses.
28:44
Speaker 2: The big problem is the new generation, right, getting these
28:47
Speaker 2: companies to invest in new generation, and they've kind of
28:51
Speaker 2: trying to address that by the government getting involved. But
28:56
Speaker 2: how do you explain Contact, which is completely privately owned,
29:00
Speaker 2: built more generation and faster than the partially stayed owned ones.
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Speaker 16: Well it comes down to incentives really, and you know,
29:12
Speaker 16: each of these each of these companies they've got government
29:17
Speaker 16: ownership and they're really incentivized to you know, pay out
29:22
Speaker 16: those those good steadies every year, and Contact does as well.
29:29
Speaker 16: But the most commercially rational thing for these companies to
29:35
Speaker 16: do is really to keep the market, you know, relatively undersupplied.
29:40
Speaker 16: Because they've got market power, they can keep competition out,
29:44
Speaker 16: prices can remain high, and then really that's that's the
29:50
Speaker 16: best way for them to operate. So this incremental reform
29:54
Speaker 16: yesterday that was beneficial to the share price of those
29:59
Speaker 16: companies because it was saying, hey, it's actually the fattest quo.
30:02
Speaker 16: Nothing's going to change here. You know, still record profits,
30:06
Speaker 16: still lots of dividends and you know, unfortunately not the
30:11
Speaker 16: affordable abundance energy future that New Zealand needs.
30:15
Speaker 2: Who we appreciate your time? Whoe your Bert? Who's the
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Speaker 2: electric key? We CEO? Time is nine to six News Talk,
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Brian Bridge and one roof love where
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Speaker 1: you live News Talks ed b.
30:31
Speaker 2: He's gone seven minutes away from six. If you've seen
30:33
Speaker 2: a few new utes, brand new, nice shiny looking utes
30:36
Speaker 2: on the road lately. While there was a surge in
30:38
Speaker 2: new car sales to ten three hundred and sixty two
30:41
Speaker 2: for September, that is the best for a September month
30:43
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty two. Used car imports at the same
30:46
Speaker 2: time fall into a level not seen since twenty twelve.
30:50
Speaker 2: So we're buying new and not as much secondhand. Could
30:53
Speaker 2: that be investment boost? Is that what's going on?
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Speaker 3: There?
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Speaker 2: Ten percent of the new ones. By the way, we're
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Speaker 2: EV's it's just gone six to two now on news talks,
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Speaker 2: here'd be and Mike's here. Good morning, Mike, Good.
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Speaker 7: Morning, Good to see you and you Ryan.
31:06
Speaker 2: What do you want to talk about? Oh? Have you prepared?
31:08
Speaker 7: Nothing?
31:09
Speaker 2: No, I do, I've got I've got give me a
31:12
Speaker 2: b shot. Then, So there's an AI well, actress Tilly.
31:16
Speaker 2: Did you see her?
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Speaker 7: You I've seen. I don't want to sound like a
31:20
Speaker 7: show off, but everything I've seen on AI so far,
31:24
Speaker 7: to my eye and the ear, is disappointing and quite
31:27
Speaker 7: obviously not real.
31:30
Speaker 2: But have you seen Tilly's I've seen till well.
31:32
Speaker 7: I don't know if it was her Instagram, but I've
31:34
Speaker 7: seen her move and talk and I feel I've got
31:37
Speaker 7: family vibes or home vibes or whatever she's talking about.
31:40
Speaker 2: I've seen.
31:40
Speaker 7: I'm seeing all the upset, the usual stuff, but I
31:43
Speaker 7: just I don't see it needs to be a lot
31:45
Speaker 7: better than what it is see.
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Speaker 2: I looked at that and thought, I mean, Hollywood is
31:50
Speaker 2: so filled with botox and filler anyway, Like half of
31:54
Speaker 2: them look fake. So I honestly looked at that and thought,
31:57
Speaker 2: you couldn't tell. I couldn't tell.
31:58
Speaker 7: There's one floating around this on there's a sports presenter
32:01
Speaker 7: that they they eyed up as well, and they sort
32:04
Speaker 7: of did the two photos which one do you think?
32:06
Speaker 7: And I was looking at that and I thought, yeah,
32:07
Speaker 7: I could probably be fooled into either one and not
32:09
Speaker 7: really know. But I mean, in all honesty, I've not
32:12
Speaker 7: seen anything that's you.
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Speaker 2: Know, that's believable. You look at Eugene Levy.
32:15
Speaker 7: Have you seen that pro? Have you seen the season
32:17
Speaker 7: three so far? Am the Reluctant Traveler. You've got to watch.
32:19
Speaker 7: That's brilliant. So he's seventy eight and he's he's just
32:23
Speaker 7: absolutely magnificent to watch. He's got Prince William on and
32:26
Speaker 7: this is You've got to watch the episode. There's a
32:28
Speaker 7: whole lot of episodes.
32:29
Speaker 2: Have you never seen the series at all? Well, I now,
32:31
Speaker 2: I'm thinking I saw an interview between the two of
32:34
Speaker 2: them the other day, so that must have been from
32:35
Speaker 2: the show.
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Speaker 7: That's what they're promoting, so the latest season is and
32:39
Speaker 7: see what I'm saying is he will never be replaced.
32:41
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. But that's different too. Okay,
32:43
Speaker 2: you've got an action movie with a bunch of guys
32:46
Speaker 2: running around shooting guns and jumping off skyscrapes. They're a
32:48
Speaker 2: bit of that already, well they're a bit of cgi.
32:51
Speaker 2: But to actually get rid of the actors, how much
32:54
Speaker 2: you would save? And the other thing is if you
32:56
Speaker 2: go to the movies least when when j you Alaska
32:58
Speaker 2: to the movies?
32:59
Speaker 7: They do nineteen eighty two?
33:01
Speaker 2: So I went a couple of weeks ago, right, and
33:04
Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you the names of half of the actors,
33:06
Speaker 2: especially the younger, you know, the new young What was
33:09
Speaker 2: the movie? It was one with?
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Speaker 7: So you can't even tell me the name of the movie.
33:14
Speaker 7: I can't tell me who was? Can't tell me what
33:16
Speaker 7: you want to see? Were you actually at the movies?
33:18
Speaker 2: You know what? Do you know what happened? As I
33:20
Speaker 2: fell asleep?
33:21
Speaker 7: So you went to the movies to fall away on melotone?
33:23
Speaker 2: And then well that's the thing, it's the time of
33:26
Speaker 2: when I can fall as for goodness, anyway, A psychiatrist.
33:30
Speaker 2: That's what you're for anyway, So I go, you go
33:33
Speaker 2: to the movies, don't know who the actors are, so
33:34
Speaker 2: who cares that they're AI?
33:36
Speaker 7: There's an element of that, but I mean, if you
33:37
Speaker 7: worry about AI, you got all the writing and the
33:39
Speaker 7: background stuff as well to worry about. Heaven you anyone.
33:43
Speaker 7: We're going to meet the new head of farming. Who
33:45
Speaker 7: is another one, you know, the lady from the Reserve
33:47
Speaker 7: Bank who came and to the other side of the
33:49
Speaker 7: World War because Canadian exactly Alberta exactly exactly, so many
33:53
Speaker 7: way you called the hoods.
33:54
Speaker 2: Very good, Have a fantastic day, everybody. Mike is with
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Speaker 2: you next here on News Talks.
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