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Full Show Podcast: 05 August 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 1: early edition with funks for business technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks, they'd be you'd.
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Speaker 2: Wanting sex up the five great to have your company.
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Speaker 2: We'll look at the employment number. It's coming out today,
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Speaker 2: the unemployment number, I should say. Gavin Gray's in the
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Speaker 2: UK for US. A big meeting among the EU leaders
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Speaker 2: over the boat people, the migrants of red meat.
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Speaker 3: Great news story for our exporters.
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Speaker 2: And the cops are charging more shoplifters, which is a
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Speaker 2: good thing.
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Speaker 3: It's all ahead the agenda Wednesday, the first of August.
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Speaker 2: Oil is still falling this morning. Brink crud at seventy six.
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Speaker 2: Remember yesterday it was at around acy Treasury sectorc Scott.
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Speaker 3: Business's been talking and that I.
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Speaker 1: Want there is a chance we may have a deal
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Speaker 1: today or tomorrow to open the street and move towards
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Speaker 1: a more normalized position.
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Speaker 3: So it's got to Russia.
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Speaker 2: There's been a drone appears to hunt down a street
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Speaker 2: vendor and then explodes on him, and Russia is now
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Speaker 2: facing war crime claims.
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Speaker 4: They came flying out somewhere behind the market where the
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Speaker 4: bushes are and flew so low. My wife started running
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Speaker 4: away and it started swinging at the car. I pointed
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Speaker 4: it out to him, Look, it's just vegetables. Then it
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Speaker 4: started coming at me, so I started running away. The
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Speaker 4: jow named at the car and I was right next
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Speaker 4: to it. It hit it and I fell down.
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Speaker 2: Luckily he escaped, now in hospital recovering. Meanwhile, Moscow heading
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Speaker 2: back accusing Ukraine is killing seven people after that drone.
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Speaker 2: You might have seen the footage crashed into a beach.
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Speaker 2: Result in southern Russia.
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Speaker 5: People who deliberately target civilian infrastructure, beaches where children are present,
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Speaker 5: vocational schools where children are studying and students are living,
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Speaker 5: and vacation resorts can no longer be killed human beings.
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Speaker 2: Over in the UK, you know and excuse me, Andy Burnham,
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Speaker 2: and the prisoner releases that they the previous leader had endorsed.
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Speaker 2: Well he's now saying, yeah, I'm going to do them too,
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Speaker 2: but he's taking six spins.
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Speaker 6: The killers of Andrew have shown no remorse. They've robbed
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Speaker 6: us of our future. They are vile criminals and should
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Speaker 6: remain in jail. To release them early from them already
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Speaker 6: pitiful sentences is an affront to justice.
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Speaker 3: Here's the justice Secretory Alex Norris. When we came to.
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Speaker 7: Government two years ago, we were days away from prison
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Speaker 7: places running out. That would have meant people being arrested
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Speaker 7: but then failed straight home and not being able to
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Speaker 7: go to prison for crimes they committed. Victims unsurvivors have
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Speaker 7: raised with his concerns. New Prime Minister Andy myself.
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Speaker 3: Have looked at this.
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Speaker 7: We paused this briefly and have made important changes so
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Speaker 7: that now those who have been in prison for rape,
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Speaker 7: for child sexual offenses, they won't be in scope. We'd
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Speaker 7: like to have gone further than that, but that's an
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Speaker 7: important step forward.
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Speaker 1: News talk hib.
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Speaker 2: Whose talks it b It is nine after five nine
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Speaker 2: nine two is the number to text. I always love
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Speaker 2: to hear from you. Have you ever I just was
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Speaker 2: listening to the news Neva was reading there about the
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Speaker 2: public service. They just don't care, do they. There's a
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Speaker 2: new government come new sheriff in town, new government comes
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Speaker 2: in and the public service just flips the bird and says,
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Speaker 2: don't care, Actually, don't care what your goals are, don't
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Speaker 2: care what your priorities are don't care what you've told us.
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Speaker 2: We'll discover ahead and keep doing what we've always been doing.
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Speaker 2: Case in point nine million dollars to give, amongst other things,
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Speaker 2: prisoners massages. I mean, what on earth? And so a
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Speaker 2: poor old corrections minister has had to come in. Mark
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Speaker 2: Mitchell gets in there and says, maybe don't spend nine
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Speaker 2: million dollars on this. Other things included spiritual healing, herbal remedies,
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Speaker 2: and then physical therapies.
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Speaker 3: So they just don't care, do they. They just don't care.
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Speaker 2: Look what happened last week when the union started handing
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Speaker 2: out brochures that said change the government. This is our
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Speaker 2: politically neutral public service. And the union says, we're just
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Speaker 2: going to keep doing it. And there's not really much
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Speaker 2: that the Public Service commissioner can do. He says he
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Speaker 2: liked to fire them, but that would be a bit
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Speaker 2: over zealous.
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Speaker 3: And over egged. What do you do about that? How
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Speaker 3: do you fit that problem?
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Speaker 2: Remember acc ACC staff were working in the office two
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Speaker 2: days a week, the equivalent of a weekend in the office,
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Speaker 2: and the rest of the time was at home. And
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Speaker 2: the ACC bosses said, we're lower productivity, We're not getting
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Speaker 2: the engagement with the staff.
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Speaker 3: They're not training, they're.
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Speaker 2: Not as good as they were, they're not as productive,
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Speaker 2: and the union said so what, and the acc bosses
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Speaker 2: backed down. So how do you actually wrangle a public
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Speaker 2: service that seems impervious to wrangling because giving the middle
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Speaker 2: finger to the government is basically them giving the middle
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Speaker 2: finger to democracy, isn't it, Because at the end of
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Speaker 2: the day, we voted for a particular government to get
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Speaker 2: into power, whether you voted for them or not. That's
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Speaker 2: how democracy works. And once they're in, if you don't
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Speaker 2: do what they say, it's flagrant disregard for the democratic process.
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Speaker 3: Would have thought eleven.
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Speaker 2: After five, Ryan Bridge, the number of text right, we
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Speaker 2: will get next to Well, we're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: red meat, but we're also going to talk next about
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Speaker 2: the shoplifting numbers. Now the rate is high, but that
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Speaker 2: is because they are catching more and more is being reported,
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Speaker 2: more a being caught, and the cops are taking more
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Speaker 2: charges and putting them through the courts.
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Speaker 2: It's thirteen minutes after five Ryan unions run this country
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Speaker 2: and they need to be stopped.
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Speaker 3: That's the problem.
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Speaker 2: Which is interesting, isn't it, considering that how many people
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, now I'm in comparison, we're not in
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Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties anymore, how many people are actually members
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Speaker 2: of unions. The other thing I want to talk about
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Speaker 2: this morning was Auckland. So there are rumors now well
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Speaker 2: they're basically more than rumors. They're all most confirmed and
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Speaker 2: almost confirmed.
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Speaker 3: Rooman.
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Speaker 2: What does that make It's still not entirely true. Sunday,
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Speaker 2: September thirteenth they reckon as the date the CRL is
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Speaker 2: going to open in Auckland. Yesterday I was listening ahead
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Speaker 2: of the launch. I was listening to a council meeting
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Speaker 2: and don't ever do it, don't ever do it. But
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Speaker 2: I was listening to a council meeting Wayne Brown because
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Speaker 2: he's done a reshuffle and everyone, all the other councilors
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Speaker 2: are upset because oh I missed out on my job
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Speaker 2: anyway that they had to crack.
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Speaker 3: This is Mike Leon Brown.
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Speaker 8: Voting not the way you want, but voting the way
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Speaker 8: their electorate wants, and you find that intolerable, and I
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Speaker 8: think that's particularly unhealthy for yourself and for this organization.
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Speaker 8: You need to tolerate some descent. Mister mayor, you're a mayor.
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Speaker 8: That's it.
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Speaker 3: You're nothing else.
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Speaker 8: You're like king or a prince. We're meant to be
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Speaker 8: a democratic organization and you need to be more tolerant
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Speaker 8: of decent.
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Speaker 2: He was also called a dictator, he was called autocratic.
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Speaker 2: This all over a couple of lost portfolios. I mean,
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Speaker 2: did him's quarter past five prime bred shoplifting. It's highest
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Speaker 2: rate in fifteen years. But police are laying more charges
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Speaker 2: thirty six thousand charges. That is the most since two
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Speaker 2: thousand and nine. And they're not stealing because cost of
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Speaker 2: living necessity. Mostly it's on selling on Facebook. Denise Garland,
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Speaker 2: Retail in Z advocacy manager, with me this morning.
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Speaker 3: Denise, Good morning, Chilter, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel that that the cops are doing more?
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Speaker 2: They've got their retail crime unit, They're cracking down on this.
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Speaker 9: There's two sides to this. It's great that these retail
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Speaker 9: crime units have been stood up in every police district
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Speaker 9: around the country now, and it does seem to be
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Speaker 9: this real focus on retail crime. But we do know
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Speaker 9: that shoplifting in particular is under reported by retailers. Our
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Speaker 9: twenty twenty four crime reports found only twenty seven percent
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Speaker 9: of retailer report all shoplifting incidents to police, and so
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Speaker 9: we do know that this is a massive issue and
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Speaker 9: actually demonstrates the level of retail crime we're experiencing in
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Speaker 9: our stores.
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Speaker 2: Is the violence in the all of that, Argibardi're gone, well,
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Speaker 2: not gone, but has that come down and it's now
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Speaker 2: just people who are flogging something and are sticking it
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Speaker 2: down their pants and walking out.
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Speaker 9: Unfortunately not, We're still seeing those rates of violent and
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Speaker 9: aggressive crime increase, even though we are seeing overall rates
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Speaker 9: of retail crime sort of come down slightly.
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Speaker 2: When you denise, when you ring the police and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: someone's just coming and assaulted me. Are they turning up?
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Speaker 2: Are they doing something?
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Speaker 9: I mean, we know police are really stretched. There is
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Speaker 9: this focus on retail crime, and they will attend when
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Speaker 9: there is harm and threats threatening happening. It is it
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Speaker 9: tends to be these sort of lower levels of crime,
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Speaker 9: retail crime like shoplifting, that they may not be able
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Speaker 9: to attend. However, with the rising levels of violence and
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Speaker 9: a stretch police force, there will be incidents that where
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Speaker 9: they just cannot attend in a timely manner.
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Speaker 2: Given that, Denise, because you guys are anti the citizen
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Speaker 2: arrest situation, but given that police will never get to everything.
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Speaker 2: If the rates are as high you as you're saying
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Speaker 2: that they are, and the numbers suggest that they are,
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Speaker 2: why not give people the right even if it's not
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Speaker 2: your store, whether the work is or the staff, but
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Speaker 2: other people in the store to actually do something about it.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise we will keep being taken for a ride.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we're just really concerned. Our retailers are really concerned
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Speaker 9: that this will just increase rates of harm in our
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Speaker 9: stores and make these stores unsafer. We're not trained like
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Speaker 9: police to deal with people who are aggressive. We find
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Speaker 9: that in our retail tailers find that de escalation techniques
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Speaker 9: and being hands off is much more safer for the
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Speaker 9: customers and the staff and stores. And if we see
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Speaker 9: citizens arrest happening in our stores, we're really concerned that
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Speaker 9: there will just increase the numbers of injuries. Offenders may
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Speaker 9: arm up proactively going into stores knowing that somebody may
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Speaker 9: attempt to citizens arrest on them, and we just don't
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Speaker 9: want to see that in our.
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Speaker 2: Community, all right, Denise Garland, retail and Zate Advocacy Manager.
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Speaker 2: It's eighteen minutes after.
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Speaker 3: Five, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: We will do the beef next and the land. This
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Speaker 2: is the Meat Industry Association. Red meat exports for June
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Speaker 2: are whopping fifty percent on June last year, and things
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Speaker 2: could get even better for us because what's happening with
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Speaker 2: supply around the rest of the world.
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Speaker 3: That's next. News Talk Set Big.
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Speaker 3: News Talk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one after five. So lots of texts coming in
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Speaker 2: on ACC in particular. You know they're working from home
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Speaker 2: plan Ryan, you need to take your TV three cameras
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Speaker 2: down to the one the new ACC office in Hamilton. Gosh,
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Speaker 2: it's luxurious, unbelievable luxury, says this text. Massive office building
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Speaker 2: built on tayannuy Land, huge, out of this world rent
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Speaker 2: and everyone working from home. This is just one of
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Speaker 2: several built around New Zealand. The fit outs have cost millions.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a good idea to get a camera there
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Speaker 2: twenty one after five Bridge, they'd love for red meat.
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Speaker 2: June one point three seven billion worth of red meat exports.
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Speaker 2: That's up fifty percent on June last year, biggest June
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Speaker 2: on record, but the annuals up to Nick Beebe Meat
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Speaker 2: Industry Association CEO with me this.
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Speaker 3: Morning, get a Nick Gooday, Ern how are you? Yeah? Good,
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Speaker 3: thanks mate. So price is higher but also volumes up.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. Look, it's another really good for the red meat sector,
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Speaker 10: something we're incredibly proud of.
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Speaker 2: And what about supply going forward because I've been looking
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Speaker 2: the Europe, the UK, in particular, the US, Australia, the
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Speaker 2: cattle numbers are coming down.
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Speaker 3: That's a good thing for us.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Globally we're looking at a period of pretty tight
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Speaker 10: supply from many of our competing countries. But it's something
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Speaker 10: we have to keep our finger on the pulse on
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Speaker 10: all the time because even though the trend might be
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Speaker 10: for slightly constrained supplies, we will see some volatility. The
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Speaker 10: global climate is pushing that.
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Speaker 2: What about the value, you know, cost of living pressures
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Speaker 2: in the markets, We're selling to buyers consumers going for
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Speaker 2: lower value protein.
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Speaker 10: That's another thing that we're watching really closely. Ryan, Absolutely,
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Speaker 10: the prices have been really strong, but we know that
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Speaker 10: the cost of living pressures is something that impacts all
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Speaker 10: ours and customers around the world. But it's not just
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Speaker 10: fustered living pressure. There's a number of other you'd say
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Speaker 10: issues that we face and the exporters face.
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Speaker 3: Every day, like what tariffs, it could.
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Speaker 10: Be tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty, wars, logistics disruptions. There's a number
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Speaker 10: of things that the meatia exploring companies have to deal
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Speaker 10: with on a daily basis.
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Speaker 3: How hard is it?
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Speaker 2: You know the government wants to increase export or I
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Speaker 2: think double it over the next few years.
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Speaker 3: We easier.
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Speaker 2: Is it easier to send more to countries we're already
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Speaker 2: exporting too because we have relationships, or try and crack
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Speaker 2: new ones. I suppose you've got to do a bit
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Speaker 2: of both at the same time, walking true gum.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you've got to do a bit of both. Definitely
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Speaker 10: easier to increase exports into countries that you have those
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Speaker 10: relationships with. But New Zealand for a longumber.
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Speaker 11: Of years has had a very diversified trades strategy, and
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Speaker 11: that's something that we need to maintain because that diversity
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Speaker 11: provides companies great options when some markets get get titled
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Speaker 11: all demand wayans.
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Speaker 3: Nick. Good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: Nick Bebe, Meat Industry Association CEO with me this morning,
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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bread.
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Speaker 3: And when they do well, they pay tax.
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Speaker 2: And when they pay tax, it pays for things like hospitals,
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Speaker 2: roads and education. By the way, here are some numbers
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Speaker 2: for you. This is out the US. That's our number
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Speaker 2: one largest overall market for red meat exports three point
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Speaker 2: eight billion. That's up twenty one percent. China second two
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Speaker 2: point seven up seven percent, European Union one point nine
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Speaker 2: up twenty five percent. News Talk CB News Talks, heb
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Speaker 2: It is twenty six minutes after five. I've spent a
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Speaker 2: fur bit of time lately in hardware stores. It's great fun.
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Speaker 2: They let you take your dog. The reason I did
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Speaker 2: this in winter is well, I've got things I needed
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Speaker 2: to get done, but they let you take your dog
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Speaker 2: in and you can basically do a walk with the
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Speaker 2: dog inside the hardware store and not get rained on
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Speaker 2: great excellent Anyway, last week I was in the shop
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Speaker 2: looking for a sealer for limestone tiles. Now, I have
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Speaker 2: no idea about sealers, and I don't know much about
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Speaker 2: limestone tiles either, if I'm being honest with you. But
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Speaker 2: this is why you go to Bunning's, this is why
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Speaker 2: you go to mine to ten right, So there I am.
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Speaker 2: There'll be someone here who knows about this stuff. Surely
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Speaker 2: well ten minutes trying to track someone down in a
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Speaker 2: red shirt and overalls, and.
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Speaker 3: Then they had no idea.
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Speaker 2: One young person suggested I use AI to find the
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Speaker 2: product in the store. I know, shocking, which is what
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Speaker 2: I did, And then they didn't know where the product
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Speaker 2: lived in their store.
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Speaker 3: Once I found it.
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Speaker 2: Here we are, you know, fifteen twenty minutes and still
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Speaker 2: haven't got my sealer for my limestone tile. So I
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Speaker 2: did what any reasonable person would do. I began discriminating
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Speaker 2: against the staff based on their age. Where have all
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Speaker 2: the wise older folks gone from hardware stores? You know,
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Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. You'll find so bloke,
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Speaker 2: gray hair, long in the tooth, gruff sort of disposition
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Speaker 2: in the paint section or the part where they keep
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Speaker 2: the power tools.
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Speaker 3: They know their way around.
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Speaker 2: A screwdriver used to be a carpenter, probably retired for
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Speaker 2: a job inside indoors, you.
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Speaker 3: Know the sort I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: You go outside to the plant section, You go outside
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Speaker 2: to the nursery and there's a lovely lady there who
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Speaker 2: knows the hydrangers. We'll tell you which trees, which plants
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Speaker 2: are deciduous. You know, I have no idea anyway, end
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Speaker 2: up calling Mum, end up calling Grandma. How do I
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Speaker 2: get to the bottom of this? Where have all the
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Speaker 2: wise old owls gone?
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Speaker 3: Is it just me? There was like this is a
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Speaker 3: true story.
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Speaker 2: Last week there was a woman in the store who
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Speaker 2: obviously had the exact same idea as me, and was
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Speaker 2: goose guarding. There was one old old fella who was
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Speaker 2: on the tools, goose guarding him. Wait waiting, I'm getting
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Speaker 2: him next, you know, So where have they gone? And
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Speaker 2: it's not to say that young people don't know what
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Speaker 2: they're doing, but if you've I've been round the block
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Speaker 2: a few times, you're more likely to, aren't you? Twenty
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Speaker 2: nine after.
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Speaker 3: Five Ryan Bridge?
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Speaker 2: Nine two is the number two ticks? Someone says that
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Speaker 2: at might a ten. I know I went I went
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Speaker 2: to night to ten as well, sing, I must say
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Speaker 2: on the whole mighty ten better than Bunning's at that
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Speaker 2: just in the most recent trips that I've done. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: nineteen nine two is the number two ticks. Maybe you're
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Speaker 2: one of those wise old owls. Are they paying you enough?
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Speaker 2: Is that the problem? Are the hours bad? What's going on?
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB. We're in the UK with Gavin Gray.
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Speaker 1: Next the early edition Full the Show podcast on iHeartRadio
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Speaker 3: News Talks ed B.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six Yer on News Talks, it'd
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Speaker 2: be we have the unemployment number coming out today, as
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Speaker 2: we've seen your economist Mark Smith with Smith with me.
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray's out of the UK for us, the migrant
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Speaker 2: cristis really well upset about it and doing something about
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Speaker 2: it too, by the looks here. Global dairy trade auction
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Speaker 2: numbers are out. Remember last auction was up slightly, but
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Speaker 2: before that we had the two bad auctions, quite bad
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Speaker 2: and then bad.
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Speaker 3: Well today we're basically flat.
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Speaker 2: So the latest auction last night up point one percent
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Speaker 2: overall whole milk powder.
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Speaker 3: These are the two we really care about.
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Speaker 2: Whole milk powder up point two percent, skim milk powder
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Speaker 2: up one point two percent, So as you can see,
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Speaker 2: pretty flat Cheddar three point eight but are down two
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Speaker 2: point three. Mozzarella up one. Your texts are very funny
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Speaker 2: on hardware stores. I'll get to those in just a second.
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Speaker 2: Ryan twenty Freeway from six colum and to need morning column.
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Speaker 3: Ryan, how's your weather better today? Thankfully?
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Speaker 12: Carnage on the roads and the city's hill suburbs yesterday
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Speaker 12: due to the snow, but thankfully doesn't look like we're
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Speaker 12: going to get a repeat of that today as was feared.
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Speaker 12: The sleety showers cleared late yesterday and the roads haven't
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Speaker 12: iced over as predicted this morning, So the council this
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Speaker 12: morning only warning of some isolated areas of black ice. Yesterday,
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Speaker 12: Police and council. We're asking residents to avoid travel when
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Speaker 12: that snow hit. There were about twenty police call outs
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Speaker 12: due to accidents. Police say drivers losing control, hitting barriers, vehicles,
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Speaker 12: fences and other objects. Thankfully no one was injured. All
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Speaker 12: schools were shut here, Iron bus services canceled, Key roads closed,
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Speaker 12: but it looks as if normal service will resume here
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Speaker 12: this morning. The weare the clearing to find today lights
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Speaker 12: sou easterly in.
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Speaker 3: A high eight.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Callum Clears and christ Its morning, Claire,
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Speaker 2: good morning, malgamation Meyer's got some thoughts.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Well, the mayor film Major has sort of put
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Speaker 13: it out there now officially that he does want christ
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Speaker 13: Church City to merge with Selwyn and Wymaked Diddi's urban
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Speaker 13: areas as part of this local government reform. Counselors met
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Speaker 13: yesterday for the first day of several days of discussions.
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Speaker 13: They did vote unanimously to join Headstart. That's despite concerns
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Speaker 13: from many of them about the process, the likes of
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Speaker 13: councilor Tim Scander It said, it very much feels like
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Speaker 13: a gun to the head and you either jump in
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Speaker 13: and do it or it will be done to you.
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Speaker 13: But at least he thinks joining by choice gives them
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Speaker 13: some control over the process. Today the counselors will decide
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Speaker 13: on the four possible futures for us. The options that
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Speaker 13: seem to be sort of us ahead at the moment
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Speaker 13: is option A, which is to stay effectively as is
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Speaker 13: a christ Church Authority, or B, which would be that
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Speaker 13: merge with Selwyn and Wymack. The Men says council should
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Speaker 13: go with the merger because and the Deputy Mayor agrees
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Speaker 13: with the preference based off evidence. Selwyn, though has already
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Speaker 13: voted to remain independent, and Wymack is due to make
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Speaker 13: a decision later this week.
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Speaker 3: All right, how's your weather, Claire?
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Speaker 13: Cloudy periods We could see more sleety snow showers today,
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Speaker 13: a frost by evening, southwesterlies and nine degrees.
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Speaker 2: If you very much mex and willing to morning mix,
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Speaker 2: Good morning. Did you run outside into a snow Angelies today? No,
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Speaker 2: there wasn't. It wasn't enough of that. It wasn't enough
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Speaker 2: snow to do that, fortunately I think. But look, the
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Speaker 2: wintry conditions are set to continue here, possible hail, sleet
21:16
Speaker 2: and indeed possible snow this morning as well. After we
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Speaker 2: got that small white dusting yesterday afternoon a very rare
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Speaker 2: snow flurry. Indeed, in some suburbs, a met Service says
21:27
Speaker 2: it felt as cold as minus five. There were some
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Speaker 2: minor road closures yesterday, but everything seems open for now.
21:34
Speaker 2: But some warnings also in place, including Farimutaka Hill Road,
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Speaker 2: so check the advice before you head out this morning.
21:41
Speaker 2: A warning as well for anyone foolish enough to take
21:43
Speaker 2: on the shared path. The walking and cycling path from
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Speaker 2: Nounger to Patoni could get some very large waves coming
21:50
Speaker 2: over and some cold sea spray gales southerly this morning,
21:53
Speaker 2: but the forecast is for everything to slowly ease this
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Speaker 2: afternoon into tomorrow and a welcome northerly change tomorrow afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Today's high about eight degrees.
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Speaker 3: Enjoy that, Max, thank you and Neva, good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: You got a forty year old family recipe for bacon
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Speaker 2: and egg pie winning a top prize.
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Speaker 14: That's right, this is the Bakals New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards.
22:15
Speaker 14: Now blow me down with a feather. You'll remember the
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Speaker 14: pie from Leveine Bakery in Auckland's Blockhouse Bay took out
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Speaker 14: the award last night. Now you remember about this bakery
22:25
Speaker 14: because it was in the news last month and this
22:29
Speaker 14: is when it was forced to close. This was over
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Speaker 14: a cockroach infestation. They had to close down because of
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Speaker 14: low rating. And then I think they said that they
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Speaker 14: put a note on the door saying they're closing down
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Speaker 14: for family reasons. Then they had to come clean and
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Speaker 14: say oh no, no, no, and we had it then.
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Speaker 14: But the good news is, isn't this amazing because it
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Speaker 14: had it did win. I think Levene's did win back
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Speaker 14: in twenty twenty four, and now they've won again. So
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Speaker 14: they've been praised for their bacon and egg pie, the
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Speaker 14: smoky slices, heat core of bacon, generous amounts of whole eggs,
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Speaker 14: and the signature light creamy sauce with a delicate hint
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Speaker 14: of cheese.
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Speaker 3: Hang on, So this is a bakery that was, yes,
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Speaker 3: shut down.
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Speaker 14: I think yes, I think you and I talked about
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Speaker 14: this only about a month and a half ago.
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Speaker 3: Yes, what did they have rats or something?
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Speaker 14: Cockroaches? You did think that it was rats, I said, cockroaches.
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Speaker 14: We had a bet and I won, and so these
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Speaker 14: they had a cockroach infestation.
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Speaker 3: And now they won an a water And now they
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Speaker 3: won an a water.
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Speaker 14: They had to close out exactly and then they reopened
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Speaker 14: and now they've won this award for their bacon and
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Speaker 14: eat pie. And I'm going to go there today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but then you bunt to the pine. You think,
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Speaker 3: what is that? Well, that bacon?
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Speaker 14: Well, what the news was saying, what is there that
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Speaker 14: creamy sauce? What's their family recipe. Oh Levain, sorry, I will.
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Speaker 3: Be here today. Sounds great and got on you love
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Speaker 3: a comeback story.
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Speaker 14: Has its fine evening frost. And I've got to say
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Speaker 14: this a hive eleven. This is the first time in
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Speaker 14: a very long time that I've actually said from the
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Speaker 14: met service a minimum the overnight low is one degree
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Speaker 14: here in Auckland. That I cannot remember last time I
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Speaker 14: said that.
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Speaker 15: Shock me to the core.
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Speaker 3: Hold your corn flex.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Neva, eighteen minutes away from six, so getting to
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Speaker 2: your messages. This is on all the wise old owls
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Speaker 2: like Neva. Neva's a wise old ol.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 2: Actually somebody has said you don't know what it's like
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Speaker 2: to be discriminated over the age of fifty in a job. Well,
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at Neva, She's.
24:23
Speaker 3: She's still going strong. Ryan.
24:25
Speaker 2: What you need is aqua mixed sealer's choice, gold brand.
24:29
Speaker 2: Cheers John grumpy old tile shop owner. He says dogs
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Speaker 2: are welcome there. This one says Ryan, single older lady here.
24:37
Speaker 2: I hear you about Bunnings and man to ten. I
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Speaker 2: find the staff is so much more knowledgeable and helpful
24:41
Speaker 2: at nighty ten over Bunnings, Ryan, I struck the same
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Speaker 2: problem that you had at Odoring's Nursery in christ Church
24:48
Speaker 2: and at might A ten. Both times it was young people.
24:50
Speaker 2: They were very nice, but both times they were doing
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Speaker 2: things on AI trying to answer questions, says John. David says,
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Speaker 2: seems the weekend staff tend to be younger, so you
25:00
Speaker 2: go during the weekdays to get your wise old al's
25:02
Speaker 2: and this one from mus Morning. Muzz always love a
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Speaker 2: bit of feedback from you.
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Speaker 4: Ryan.
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Speaker 2: You're an absolute muppet. I'm a tyler. You should have
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Speaker 2: gone to a tile shop. There's a million different types
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Speaker 2: of sellers. You are the idiot, not the stuff at Bunnings.
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Speaker 16: Think you.
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Speaker 2: Muzz can always count on you. Nineteen ninety two The
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Speaker 2: numbers to text seventeen away from six. We're in the UK.
25:22
Speaker 2: Next News Talks MB It is fourteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six big EU.
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Speaker 3: Meeting overnight to talk about migrants.
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Speaker 2: How the hell do you stop them when they're getting
25:30
Speaker 2: into Spain via the tip of Horn of Africa. Let's
25:34
Speaker 2: go to Nigel Faraj. He reckons that the UK, for
25:37
Speaker 2: its part, should get the Navy involved.
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Speaker 17: It will help the French and fulfilling their job of
25:42
Speaker 17: stopping the boats, and it will save a huge amount
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Speaker 17: of money. We are very confident that our policy of
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Speaker 17: securely picking people up and safely taking them back to France,
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Speaker 17: we are entirely confident that within other conventions of international law.
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Speaker 2: So let's go to Gavin gray are UK. You're a
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Speaker 2: correspondent now, given nice heavy on the program. There's been
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Speaker 2: more problems. One hundred and fifty migrants rescued after a
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Speaker 2: boat caught fire and the channel.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean migration, and the subject of that is
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Speaker 15: absolutely all over our headlines at the moment. As you said,
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Speaker 15: we had Sweater, the North African enclave that belongs to
26:25
Speaker 15: Spain being suddenly subjected to sixty thousand people trying to
26:29
Speaker 15: swarm in. Then Nigel Faraj's comments, which incidentally France turned
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Speaker 15: around and said if you dump those people on our coast,
26:35
Speaker 15: that'll be violation of international law and French sovereignty. And
26:39
Speaker 15: then today one hundred and seventy migrants have been rescued
26:43
Speaker 15: after the boat they were using to cross from France
26:46
Speaker 15: to England caught fire. All are going to be returned
26:50
Speaker 15: to France. Eleven received minor injuries. It was total one
26:54
Speaker 15: hundred and seventy three in one boat, and that seems
26:57
Speaker 15: to be the latest tactic Ryan, much bigger boats looking
27:02
Speaker 15: to get people across the channel. French prosecutors have now
27:05
Speaker 15: opened an investigation and Egyptian national has been taken into
27:09
Speaker 15: police custody. Now the government here is saying, look, we
27:13
Speaker 15: you know our measures are working. The numbers are actually
27:16
Speaker 15: not as high as they were last year. But just
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Speaker 15: since Andy Burnham became our new prime minister a fortnight ago,
27:22
Speaker 15: we've had more than two thousand cross the channel successfully.
27:26
Speaker 15: So others are saying, including of course Nigel Faraja Reform UK.
27:30
Speaker 15: Enough is enough. We've had enough of this. These measures
27:33
Speaker 15: are not working and it's getting going to get worse,
27:36
Speaker 15: not better. But very interesting to see where this row
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Speaker 15: goes about him saying it's within the international law, France
27:42
Speaker 15: saying it would break international law and can you just
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Speaker 15: pull up a moor boat and just dump people on
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Speaker 15: a beach at the other side of these questions remain unanswered.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting because they always talk about that down forty percent,
27:54
Speaker 2: but that was off a record high, and there was
27:57
Speaker 2: you get the name of the minister Gevin. But back
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Speaker 2: in the day this was just kicking off. There was
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Speaker 2: something like two hundred people crossing in a year and
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Speaker 2: some minister came home from holiday.
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Speaker 3: You know, it was a scandal. And here we are.
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Speaker 3: What about BP profits up on the back of.
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Speaker 15: The war, a massive, massive, massive profits. So the oil
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Speaker 15: giant British Petroleum or BP has announced quarterly profits the
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Speaker 15: highest since the twenty twenty two figure after the war
28:25
Speaker 15: in the Middle East pushed up oil prices. So between
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Speaker 15: April and June, just those three months, Ryan BP has
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Speaker 15: announced profits of nine billion New Zealand dollars, more than
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Speaker 15: double made a year earlier, and the highest quarterly profit,
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Speaker 15: as I said since twenty twenty two. And incidentally I
28:43
Speaker 15: mentioned that because that's when the Russia Ukraine war began.
28:47
Speaker 15: The price of crude of costs has jumped massively since
28:49
Speaker 15: the outbreak of war in Irano has gone down today
28:52
Speaker 15: over speculation that these straid worn news might be reopened.
28:56
Speaker 15: And what are people saying, Well, it's interesting. In America,
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Speaker 15: Donald Trump has criticized the American oil firms Exon Mobile
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Speaker 15: and cheval to making too much money. Of course, price
29:05
Speaker 15: is there rocketed, leading to unpopularity for Donald Trump. But
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Speaker 15: despite the big rising profits, the BP chief executive says
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Speaker 15: the company is not reaching its full potential.
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Speaker 4: And I say.
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Speaker 15: Again that was just a quarterly profit figure. Here in
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Speaker 15: the UK we do have a winfall tax, but that
29:23
Speaker 15: was introduced twenty twenty two, but it only applies to
29:26
Speaker 15: profits made from extracting oil and gas in the UK,
29:29
Speaker 15: and critics today are saying BP should be paying much
29:32
Speaker 15: more tax on profits that makes around the world.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Gray are UK your correspondent. Time has tin away
29:37
Speaker 2: from six Ryan Bridge, right, we jobbed out of today.
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Speaker 2: This is the quarter two unemployment expected to edge up
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Speaker 2: slightly from five point three to potentially five point five.
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Speaker 2: Mark Smith, asb Senior economs with me, Mark, why do
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Speaker 2: you rickon five point five?
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Speaker 16: Good morning? Ryan Brieve that the major reason really is
29:54
Speaker 16: the demand for labor has remained. Sluggersh to compit an idea.
29:57
Speaker 16: Employment were still expected to be about twenty t late
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Speaker 16: twenty twenty three peaks. So while employment is picking up,
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Speaker 16: there's only gradually.
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Speaker 3: When do you think we will return to business as
30:08
Speaker 3: usual unemployment?
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Speaker 16: A very good question. Now we've been a number of events,
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Speaker 16: the Middle East Conference being the main one where firms
30:17
Speaker 16: are really looking at and saying it's pretty difficult to
30:20
Speaker 16: make a conclusive employment decision to put these things on hold.
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Speaker 16: Potentially they could be next year.
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Speaker 2: What about who's most affected? You know we always talk
30:31
Speaker 2: about the young people, eighteen to twenty five year old's
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Speaker 2: most impacted.
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Speaker 3: Will we see the same?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, lots of differences here. You know, for example, there
30:39
Speaker 16: are unemployment rates probably more than fifteen percent. You know,
30:42
Speaker 16: it's been very, very tough for them. Looking at regional areas,
30:46
Speaker 16: you know, unemployments like to be a lot lower in
30:49
Speaker 16: the South Island, probably a bit higher than the headline
30:52
Speaker 16: figures for Auckland and Wellington. And also looking at the sectors,
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Speaker 16: you know, the good sector for example, construction job loss
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Speaker 16: pretty strong there, Manufacturing as well. For services, reasonably mixed,
31:05
Speaker 16: but very strong for the primary.
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Speaker 2: Sector given where you thought we would be in terms
31:10
Speaker 2: of this recovery. I know we've had a bit of
31:12
Speaker 2: topsy turvy thanks to the Iran and thanks to Trump.
31:15
Speaker 3: But how's it tracking? Consumer confidence?
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Speaker 2: Look was up in the last survey, Business confidence up
31:20
Speaker 2: in the last survey, Manufacturing doing well. Services coming back.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: I think what the sort of mid less events has
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Speaker 16: done is pretty much delayed, rather than totally destroyed the recovery.
31:31
Speaker 16: But the labor market is teams of labor cycles. So
31:34
Speaker 16: we had expected at the start of the year for
31:36
Speaker 16: the labor mark to really kick on in the second
31:39
Speaker 16: half of this year. Now it's looking more to be
31:42
Speaker 16: early twenty twenty seven story.
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Speaker 2: Mark Smith, ASB Senior Economist. It is eight minutes away
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Speaker 2: from six.
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Speaker 3: Brand Bridge going back.
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Speaker 2: To what we were talking about with Gavin Gray and
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Speaker 2: the BP profit, Saudi a Ramco has also announced there
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Speaker 2: This is quarter to profit thirty two billion for the quarter.
31:58
Speaker 2: That's up forty four percent on the year before and
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Speaker 2: no surprises as to why it's the war.
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Speaker 3: Seven to.
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Speaker 2: are you watching Michigan? Are you watching the Senate? The
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Speaker 2: boat today is very exciting. Well had left this.
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Speaker 18: Is exciting or worrying.
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Speaker 3: It's certainly interesting.
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Speaker 19: And the guy Abdul yes, the doctor, very good looking,
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Speaker 19: well well built, well built, No well built it well built,
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Speaker 19: some good looking and very articulate.
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Speaker 18: The woman, if you followed her, she's got this, she's
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Speaker 18: got that. Really, Michigan I got again, you know, it's
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Speaker 18: got that. It's like the personalities involved a fascinating.
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Speaker 2: She's the establishment one and he's the radical one. He's
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Speaker 2: the socialist. Basically, yes, he is.
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Speaker 3: He's the mindami of Michigan.
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Speaker 2: And the thing because they need to hold the seats
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Speaker 2: as the Democrats and then flip four and so they
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Speaker 2: need to must win.
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Speaker 18: So the point being, whoever they picked today needs to
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Speaker 18: go on to win hold it the seat. So they
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Speaker 18: voted for Trump last time in the presidential race, but
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Speaker 18: Biden the time before. It's that classic sweet scenario, which
33:19
Speaker 18: is why we're excited about it, right excited And I'm
33:22
Speaker 18: so glad you're talking about that because I just said
33:25
Speaker 18: to Sam out there, I see it. Is it a
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Speaker 18: good thing or a bad thing in this country that
33:30
Speaker 18: a small flurry of snow is good thing? Do you
33:35
Speaker 18: think it's so that we're such a small, tiny and
33:38
Speaker 18: significant nation that a little bit of snow is the leads?
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Speaker 3: It hasn't.
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Speaker 2: The thing is it has an outside impact on us
33:44
Speaker 2: because we're in the news business, right, So yes.
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Speaker 3: Because we go oh god, this is pathetic.
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Speaker 2: But actually, if you live here and people come from
33:53
Speaker 2: overseas and Americans come here and go, isn't that so
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Speaker 2: funny and so sweet?
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Speaker 3: They're talking about the snow. It's like it's cute, so
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Speaker 3: we're cute. As what you say. We couldn't work out
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Speaker 3: whether it's good or bad. I think it's bad. Better
34:08
Speaker 3: snow than drones and bombs.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, that is that's a that's a fair point.
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Speaker 19: Anyway, we won't be talking about the weather.
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