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Full Show Podcast: 11 June 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with ex Pole insulation keeping Kimi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and dry.
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Speaker 2: This winter news talk z'd.
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Speaker 3: Be good morning, Welcome to Wednesday at six a half
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Speaker 3: to five. Winston Peter's issues, a travel band for two
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Speaker 3: of Netanya Who's senior ministers this morning, Gavin Gray's Live
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Speaker 3: in the UK for us because they're doing it too,
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Speaker 3: along with Norway, Canada, a bunch of others. Drugs overdose
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Speaker 3: deaths apparently have doubled since twenty sixteen. We'll have the
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Speaker 3: numbers for you later in the show. We'll head to
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Speaker 3: field days. How many tractors they're going to sell this year,
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Speaker 3: the group trying to electrify Queenstown and the thing you
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Speaker 3: do with your feet that can reveal the age of
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Speaker 3: your brain. All ahead on your early edition for Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Morning the Agenda.
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Speaker 3: Eleven people have died in a shooting at a secondary
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Speaker 3: school in Austria, a twenty one year old former pupil.
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Speaker 3: Allegedly the gunman acted alone. Here's the Chancellor.
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Speaker 4: A school is more than just to please. It is
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Speaker 4: a space for trust, for feeling comfortable and for having
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Speaker 4: a future. It is a safe space and triply a
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Speaker 4: safe space, and this safe space has been violated, which
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Speaker 4: makes us feel powerless. In moments like this, we have
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Speaker 4: to show unity.
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Speaker 3: Hi seth over in the US is and lockstep with
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Speaker 3: Trump on sending the Marines and the National Guard to
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Speaker 3: Los Angeles that he says they're going to be there
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Speaker 3: for about sixty days.
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Speaker 5: We believe that ICE has the right to safely conduct
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Speaker 5: operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country,
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Speaker 5: especially after twenty one million illegals have crossed our border
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Speaker 5: under the previous administration.
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Speaker 2: We will art be able to do its job.
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Speaker 5: We have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect
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Speaker 5: them in the execution of their duties.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, Pete, we will have more on these sanctions imposed
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Speaker 3: on the too far right Israeli ministers and I'll tell
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Speaker 3: you exactly what they have said as well that warrants
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Speaker 3: such a sanctioning the UK, Norway, Australia, Canada and New
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Speaker 3: Zealand were all signed up. Greta is back in Europe
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Speaker 3: after her summer Vaca through the med ending in Israel.
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Speaker 3: She's now in France.
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Speaker 4: They did an illegal act by kidnapping us on international
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Speaker 4: waters and against our will, bringing us to Israel, keeping us.
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Speaker 3: In the bottom of the thought love, letting us for getting.
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Speaker 6: Ours and so on.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning, and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl installation,
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Speaker 1: keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry this winter.
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Speaker 2: News talks at.
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Speaker 3: B eight after five News Talks at B So the
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Speaker 3: two ministers that are being sanctioned by our government and
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Speaker 3: by a bunch of others, the National Security Minister and
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Speaker 3: the Finance Minister. Now both of those are from a
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Speaker 3: different party to Netanya, who's a more extreme settler party,
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Speaker 3: but both of them are part of his cabinet, part
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Speaker 3: of his government, and so the action is not one
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Speaker 3: taken lightly. These guys have said. And I went back
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Speaker 3: and had a look at stuff that they've said. Back
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, they were getting heat from even
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Speaker 3: the US, although it was under Biden, but getting heat
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Speaker 3: for things that they had said about wiping out entire
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Speaker 3: Palestinian villages in the West Bank. The Finance minister said that,
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Speaker 3: he said, I think it should be wiped off the
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Speaker 3: face of the planet, and so you know, and they've
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Speaker 3: been saying stuff like this for a while. So our
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Speaker 3: government has come out and said in Winston Peters is
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Speaker 3: in Rome at the moment. He's just been in France
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Speaker 3: doing other business, but he's in Rome for a bilateral
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Speaker 3: He's come out and said this morning, along with other
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Speaker 3: countries including Norway and Australia, that we will stand for
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Speaker 3: a two state solution. These guys have severely and deliberately
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Speaker 3: undermined that by personally advocating for the annexation of Palestinian
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Speaker 3: land and the expansion of the illegal settlements while inciting
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Speaker 3: violence and force displacement. He says, we have a history
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Speaker 3: of doing this to people who say stuff like this.
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Speaker 3: We did it to the Russians, did it to the Belarussians,
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Speaker 3: we did it in Myanmar, and we are doing it here.
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Speaker 3: So there's Winston Peters for you this morning, coming out
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Speaker 3: quite strong. I think the tide I mean, you see
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Speaker 3: the images coming out of Gaza. If you're a human being,
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Speaker 3: you feel disgusted, you know, you feel helpless, you feel like,
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Speaker 3: you know, this has got to be sorted. So maybe
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Speaker 3: the tide is starting to turn because these guys have been,
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Speaker 3: you know, saying awful crap for a long time. So
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Speaker 3: maybe this is just part of you know, the international
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Speaker 3: community starting to realize that perhaps those images of starving
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Speaker 3: children in Gaza are turning public sentiment. It's just gone
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Speaker 3: ten after eleven after five year. On news Talk said
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Speaker 3: B we're off to field Days. We'll get there next.
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Speaker 2: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge and ex Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and
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Speaker 2: dry this winter, News Talk said, be.
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Speaker 3: Five point thirteen on news Talk said, B, high frequency
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Speaker 3: data for you this morning. This is from A and Z.
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Speaker 3: This is their card spending. So it's fallen point one
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Speaker 3: percent in May from April. This is seasonally adjusted spending
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Speaker 3: up one point one percent compared to the same time
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Speaker 3: last year. So it's fallen month on month, but up
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Speaker 3: year on year. Durables spending is recovering. It's yeah, hospitality
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Speaker 3: remains soft, apparel still a problem, but the decline is
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Speaker 3: easing for most categories, which is I suppose a good
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Speaker 3: thing in the long run, but in the short run
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Speaker 3: it's down. It's sitting up to five. Hopefully they'll have
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Speaker 3: a different experience field Days this year. Thousands of visitors
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Speaker 3: are expected in Hamilton today, attracting a big international crowd
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Speaker 3: this year. The Germans are coming for the first time apparently.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure there have been one or two Germans who
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Speaker 3: have attended before, but there is some contingent coming. Former
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Speaker 3: sheep farmer Reece Gardner is going to be at the
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Speaker 3: event with his VR driving simulation company and he's with us. Now, Hey, rees,
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Speaker 3: how are you good? Thank you? You excited about today?
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Speaker 3: What do you think the farmers will have their wallets out?
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Speaker 7: I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure. There's a lot
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Speaker 7: of rain overnight, so maybe maybe everyone's keen to sort
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Speaker 7: of get cracking this morning and get into it.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure. What is the you've obviously there now?
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Speaker 3: Is the weather being quite bad? How bad overnight? How
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Speaker 3: much rain? We're talking lots.
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Speaker 7: I drove down from Workland last night and kind of
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Speaker 7: a monsoon, it seems, so, I don't know, it's probably
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Speaker 7: it felt like sort of Gimbridge kind of weather last night.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, I'm not sure. It seems to happen some years,
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Speaker 7: doesn't it. It just gets it just gets really wet here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you offering at field Days this year?
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Speaker 7: So we're bringing some of the some of the vitality
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Speaker 7: stuff that we've been doing in the States with ATVs.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and what it to explain what that is?
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Speaker 7: I guess sort of virtuality is a way that you
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Speaker 7: can that you make mistakes and not get hurt. I'm
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Speaker 7: one of those sort of people that struggles to learn
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Speaker 7: from people telling me what to do. I kind of
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Speaker 7: need to do it myself. Often I'll be told what
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Speaker 7: to do and then and then kind of do the
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Speaker 7: opposite and then realize what I was supposed to do,
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Speaker 7: what the sort of expert or the experienced person is suggesting.
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Speaker 3: You learn by doing so. You're I think I've seen
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Speaker 3: you in one of your exhibitions. Your virtual reality headsets
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Speaker 3: basically allow you to do the driving the truck or
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Speaker 3: the tractor or whatever it is in a controlled environment
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Speaker 3: and then hopefully go out and do it better in
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Speaker 3: the real world. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: What we're doing now is recreating sort of actual accidents
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Speaker 7: or near misses and actual locations and putting those together
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Speaker 7: into scenarios where someone sort of makes it decision or
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Speaker 7: presents the situation and gives them a chance to make
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Speaker 7: a decision and then experience the outcomes of that.
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Speaker 3: What is the experiencing the outcomes feel like? Obviously not
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Speaker 3: like a real accident, but does it simulate that.
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Speaker 7: What we do is you make the decision from the
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Speaker 7: in the cab of the vehicle or whatever that vehicle
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Speaker 7: happens to be, and then sometimes we'll shift you outside
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Speaker 7: that vehicle so that you can see how that decision
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Speaker 7: is going to play out.
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Speaker 3: Interesting stuff, Reese. I appreciate your time this morning. I
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Speaker 3: have a great day a field days. It's Res Garden,
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Speaker 3: a former sheep farmer, co founder of g Factor Edge.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like it's been raining a lot there. Sixteen
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Speaker 3: after five news talks, you'd be We're going to talk
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Speaker 3: about Queenstown. There's a group and I want to find
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Speaker 3: out who's funding them, but there's a group that wants
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Speaker 3: to electrify Queenstown, well the whole country, but Queenstown in particular.
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Speaker 3: We'll find out way next.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio, Belly edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and ex full installation Keeping Kiey Holmes Warm
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Speaker 1: and Dry this winter news Talk, saidb.
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Speaker 3: There's five nineteen on news Talk ZIBB Winston Peters's band. Well,
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Speaker 3: the government here has banned a couple of Israeli ministers
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Speaker 3: from ever traveling here. While traveling here, while they're on
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Speaker 3: a sanctioned list and the UK is drawing this action.
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Speaker 3: Winston Peters, I've just been told he's in Rome right now,
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Speaker 3: not doing any media on this, but Gavin gray is
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Speaker 3: he's our UK europe correspondence, so we'll speak to him
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Speaker 3: just before six. Right. It is now nineteen after five.
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Speaker 3: Bryan Bridge with a group called Rewiring Altiera. They're posing
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Speaker 3: a serious challenge to the residents of Queenstown. They want
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Speaker 3: to see the city become the world's most electrified destination.
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Speaker 3: To help with this, they've launched the Queenstown Electrification Accelerator
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Speaker 3: to help homes and businesses save money while switching to electric.
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Speaker 3: Mike Case is the CEO with me this morning. Get
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Speaker 3: a Mike, Good morning, Ryan. How are you very well?
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Speaker 3: Thank you, good to have you on the program. First
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Speaker 3: of all, your group Rewiring al Here. Why have you
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Speaker 3: started this group? Where do you get your funding? What's
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Speaker 3: going on with it? Yeah?
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Speaker 8: So, I'm an originally electric cherry farmer from central Otago.
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Speaker 8: So I electrified my entire farm twenty one electric machines
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Speaker 8: and started jumping up and down about the savings opportunities
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Speaker 8: on farm and eventually expanded into creating or helping to
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Speaker 8: create an NGO that is funded by a lot of
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Speaker 8: philanthropers in New Zealand now, which is all about helping
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Speaker 8: the rest of New Zealand to sort of realize the
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Speaker 8: huge savings potential from converting off Saudi Arabian molecules and
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Speaker 8: onto New Zealand homegrown electrons.
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Speaker 3: Why have you picked Queenstown? Why are you picking on Queenstown.
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Speaker 8: I We're not picking on Queenstown. We think Queenstown is
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Speaker 8: possibly the best opportunity we have to start doing the
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Speaker 8: real world action to start trying out all the things
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Speaker 8: that need to happen to massively or quickly electrify a
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Speaker 8: particular place. We think the business community is really aligned
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Speaker 8: under their carbon zero twenty thirty targets that were set
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Speaker 8: by the council. The councilor is really aligned and we
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Speaker 8: have a lot of very active community members in the
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Speaker 8: space that are super excited about the opportunity that's available.
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Speaker 8: Queenstown has some of the highest energy prices in New Zealand,
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Speaker 8: so it's a really good place to start. And also
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Speaker 8: it's got a lot of problems with potential resilience issues
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Speaker 8: from things like the Southern Alpine fault. So having Queenstown
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Speaker 8: generate and store a lot of its energy itself and
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Speaker 8: having machine the Queenstown that can use the energy that
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Speaker 8: it can generate and store itself is pretty good stuff.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like a great idea. The only problem is
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Speaker 3: how much it costs to actually do that, right, I mean,
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Speaker 3: otherwise we'd all have solar panels on our roofs totally.
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Speaker 8: And so this is one of the key things about
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Speaker 8: why we're focusing very closely now on a particular community
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Speaker 8: is we want to make sure that everything from group
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Speaker 8: buying deals are set up to going and negotiating on
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Speaker 8: behalf of the community for things like financing deals. One
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Speaker 8: of the biggest barriers to overcome is that upfront capital
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Speaker 8: cost of say putting solt panels on your roof and
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Speaker 8: a battery in your garage and getting gas out of
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Speaker 8: the home. But we're now at a position, especially in
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Speaker 8: places like Queenstown, where the capital repayments and the interest
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Speaker 8: repayments on financing new electric technology may end up actually
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Speaker 8: being cheaper than your current energy costs. So it means
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Speaker 8: people can save money from day one.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that because I've looked at doing this
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Speaker 3: myself in Auckland. But do you think people just maybe
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Speaker 3: aren't aware of that fact yet and once you tell
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Speaker 3: them they will do something.
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Speaker 8: Well, I've got to challenge to you. My secret goal
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Speaker 8: has been to get solar panels on like Hoskin's roof.
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Speaker 8: But maybe I should change that to riot and we'll
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Speaker 8: sit down together and I will run you through the details,
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Speaker 8: and I reckon within half an hour to forty five minutes,
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Speaker 8: we can convince you of the economics of it. And yes,
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Speaker 8: did John your wade?
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Speaker 3: Do you know what? It would be easy to get
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Speaker 3: me across the line and someone hopefully will throw in
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Speaker 3: something free and I'll do it. I'll do it tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Hosking is a different kettle of fish because I don't know,
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Speaker 3: I feel like putting solar panels on his roof would
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Speaker 3: be some sort of existential crisis for him.
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Speaker 8: You know, I think at the end of the day,
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Speaker 8: I'm doing a lot of this with farmers of New Zealand.
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Speaker 8: And you know, there's a lot of people who you know,
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Speaker 8: might approach this with a level of suspicion, and I
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Speaker 8: think rightly so, because there has been a lot of
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Speaker 8: virtue signaling in this space for a long time. But
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Speaker 8: even now I reckon you know, you give him a
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Speaker 8: spreadsheet and he looks at it, He'll be like, Okay,
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Speaker 8: I can see the value in doing this. Well, so does.
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Speaker 3: The other problem we've had, I think with climate change
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Speaker 3: and with with renewable energy in general, is just that
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Speaker 3: there's there's people who just come across as tosses who
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Speaker 3: espouse it. Now I'm not there's not you might obviously,
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Speaker 3: but I'm just saying it's it's had a bad rap
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Speaker 3: I think with Middle New Zealand. Is that fair to say.
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Speaker 8: I think that's one hundred percent fair to say. And
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Speaker 8: I've caught my fierce air of flack as a result
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Speaker 8: of that. You know, you kind of get tired with
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Speaker 8: the same brush. But when you start to, you know,
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Speaker 8: talk about economics rather than emissions, and start talking about,
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Speaker 8: you know, the benefits to the actual individual from doing
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Speaker 8: this rather than the you know so much about, say
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Speaker 8: climate and the emissions associated with it, you start to
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Speaker 8: win people over. And I've been doing it, one farmer
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Speaker 8: at a time on farm. I'm off the field days
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Speaker 8: today very excited because there's some major packages that are
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Speaker 8: being announced for solar and electrification of farms in general.
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Speaker 8: And yeah, now it's about doing it at the same
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Speaker 8: thing at the residential levels, starting in Queenstown.
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Speaker 3: Good on you, Mike, and I think that nothing ventured,
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Speaker 3: nothing gained, and what's the harm. You know, someone wants
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Speaker 3: to put a solar panel on there, who cares? They're
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Speaker 3: not paying for it, and that I think is the
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Speaker 3: important message and all of this. Mike, thank you very
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Speaker 3: much for coming on the program. They're enthusiastic about field days,
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Speaker 3: was Mike, and that is great to hear. Mike Casey
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Speaker 3: rewiring Alto's CEO. Just go one twenty four minutes after
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Speaker 3: five year on news talk ship. There has been some
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Speaker 3: funny texts about our previous kiss rees and Reeson. If
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Speaker 3: of people who just said that poor old Reesa un
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Speaker 3: like he'd just woken up. Maybe he wasn't ready for
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Speaker 3: the for the experience. Paul and Ross and John and Sally,
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Speaker 3: I hear you. Thank you. Twenty five minutes after find
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Speaker 3: via on news talk ship. Coming up next, talk about
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Speaker 3: the councils and their rates. You know, your house value dropping,
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Speaker 3: not your CV, because that's not real, but your real
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Speaker 3: house value dropping and your rate's going up. What's up
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Speaker 3: with that?
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Speaker 3: If you're in Auckland and waking up this morning feeling poorer,
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Speaker 3: it's because you are. It's because we all are. Cvs
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Speaker 3: down nine percent, rates up six percent at the start
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Speaker 3: of the month. That's an extra two hundred and twenty
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Speaker 3: three bucks a year.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 3: The cvs aren't the market value, obviously, but the market
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Speaker 3: value of our houses has also dropped, and so it's
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Speaker 3: right that we feel poorer. We are. But SPIRITHO for Wellington,
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Speaker 3: cvs down twenty four percent, rates up seventeen percent. No
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Speaker 3: thank you. Everyone's asking why are we paying more when
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Speaker 3: our houses are worthless. The answer is just because it's
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Speaker 3: how councils collect money and they have few options to
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Speaker 3: do it any other way. I saw a graph yesterday
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Speaker 3: in defensive councils. This is a tax as a percentage
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Speaker 3: of GDP since for over the last one hundred and
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Speaker 3: thirty years, since the eighteen hundreds, the blue line was
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Speaker 3: central government. They tax us through income you know, spending
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Speaker 3: by a GST a whole bunch of stuff was up
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Speaker 3: around thirty percent, peaked at about thirty five percent of GDP. Greedy, disgraceful,
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Speaker 3: poor old in Orange. Your councils basically flatlining for the
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Speaker 3: last seventy years at two percent of GDP. This is
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Speaker 3: why they want more options to make money, like charging
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Speaker 3: rates on government buildings in their districts, because yes, the
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Speaker 3: government doesn't pay rates at present. But rude, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: We have to. It's why Wayne Brown wants other leavers
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Speaker 3: to pull like bed taxes. But here's the problem. They
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Speaker 3: have a good argument for more funding streams, but they
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Speaker 3: keep blowing up their sympathy with dumb, expensive, useless stuff
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Speaker 3: like cycle ways and raised estring crossings and road coming
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Speaker 3: measures and food scrap bins we have to pay for.
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Speaker 3: The list goes on. The problem councils have is that
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Speaker 3: nobody wants to give more money to somebody who wastes it.
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Speaker 3: For as long as that keeps happening, their sympathy tank
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Speaker 3: is on empty.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge Talk said b twenty.
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Speaker 3: Nine minutes after five our reporters around the country. Next
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Speaker 3: and Gavin Gray on the United Front against these Israeli ministers.
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Speaker 3: Here all ahead on news Talk said, byam.
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Speaker 9: For you person over again.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Ryan Bridge at Expol Insulation Keeping, Kiwi, Holmes,
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Speaker 1: Warm and Drey this winter. News Talk said, b't you
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Speaker 3: America E two prting twenty four away from six zero
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Speaker 3: on news Talk said be happy Field Days everybody to
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Speaker 3: whoever's heading there morning, Ryan and Hamilton says Peter. There's
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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy seven thousand customers paying rates to
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Speaker 3: the council. They still can't live within their means. It's
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Speaker 3: the only business in the world where you give more money,
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Speaker 3: you pay thousands of dollars more and they still can't
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Speaker 3: live within their means. It just keeps expanding. Best business
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Speaker 3: in the world. Yeah, I understand that, and I think
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Speaker 3: problem for them is they spend money on dumb stuff.
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Speaker 3: And I mean in Hamilton, what about those those cones
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Speaker 3: they put in the middle of the road. They have
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Speaker 3: a funny name like Checrone or something. Their new traffic
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Speaker 3: calming measures. I've been reading about those in the last week.
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Speaker 3: They put put them up in three different places, one
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Speaker 3: in Tamaheiti. Just dumb places and locals don't want them.
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Speaker 3: Locals tried to pull them out, rip them out themselves
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Speaker 3: at night. That's how much they hated them. Anyway, the
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Speaker 3: councils now remove them. How much did that cost?
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 3: Just stop doing dumb stuff, thank you very much. Twenty
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Speaker 3: three away from six. Just get to our reporters around
18:58
Speaker 3: the country, cullumproc and needing for us this morning. Come
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Speaker 3: good morning. You've got a plea from firefighters at the
19:04
Speaker 3: South Yeah, morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 10: They're urging the public here to take more care when
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Speaker 10: driving around accident scenes amid arise and staff being put
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Speaker 10: in unsafe positions.
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Speaker 3: Fire and emergencies say.
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Speaker 10: It's a big problem across the country, but particularly here
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Speaker 10: in Otago and Southland. They say recent incidents include a
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Speaker 10: car speeding through a traffic accident site near Clyde, showing
19:26
Speaker 10: no regard for the safety of emergency service personnel there
19:29
Speaker 10: and listen to. This is also a case of a
19:31
Speaker 10: member of the public driving on the wrong side of
19:33
Speaker 10: the road past firefighters managing traffic before a confrontation where
19:37
Speaker 10: a man attempted to pull a firefighter out of the
19:40
Speaker 10: cab of a fire truck. So Fians are saying, look,
19:43
Speaker 10: these people are endangering themselves, motorists, emergency services and of
19:46
Speaker 10: course the people involved in the emergency.
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Speaker 3: They're responding to goodness me, they don't touch a fireman.
19:53
Speaker 10: How's the weather they're colum showers turned to rain today
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Speaker 10: here strong easterly as the highest ten.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant, Thank you please. In christ Church, hey clear, good morning,
20:01
Speaker 3: good morning. Now you've got a new alcohol well talking
20:05
Speaker 3: about a new alcohol.
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Speaker 11: Policy there, Yeah, Christchurch City Counselors are going to be
20:09
Speaker 11: talking this local alcohol policy today. It's part of our
20:12
Speaker 11: draft annual plan. This would set the rules around the number,
20:16
Speaker 11: location and opening hours of any licensed premises, as well
20:20
Speaker 11: as some other regulations. There are three proposals that they
20:23
Speaker 11: are considering. They include limiting the trading hours of off
20:27
Speaker 11: licenses to nine pm, freezing new off licenses in high
20:32
Speaker 11: deprivation areas, and there's also one which would restrict bottle
20:35
Speaker 11: stores near sensitive sites so those sites are the likes
20:38
Speaker 11: of addiction centers or schools. Thirty groups and individuals who
20:43
Speaker 11: have had their say during submissions will be heard at
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Speaker 11: Council today. Council will then consider that feedback alongside recommendations
20:49
Speaker 11: from the likes of police and health officials, with a
20:52
Speaker 11: final decision due in August.
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Speaker 3: Okay, how's your weather clip?
20:56
Speaker 12: More rain for.
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Speaker 11: Christ Church today, easterly strengthening too and a high of
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Speaker 11: nine degrees.
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Speaker 3: I'm interested in this idea that Clears just mentioned that
21:03
Speaker 3: you hide things from people. You know, if you don't
21:05
Speaker 3: put an alcohol store near a school, then kids won't
21:07
Speaker 3: want to drink alcohol. I was talking to my dairy
21:10
Speaker 3: only you say. She said that we have to hide
21:12
Speaker 3: the vapes from the streets. Soon when they in a
21:14
Speaker 3: couple of weeks, they're going to have to. If you
21:17
Speaker 3: can see a vape from the street, you'll be arrested
21:21
Speaker 3: and thrown in jail. So she does that stop you?
21:26
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're somebody who likes to smoke or
21:28
Speaker 3: vapor drink, the fact that it's hidden behind a curtion,
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Speaker 3: is that going to really think?
21:33
Speaker 4: So?
21:33
Speaker 3: Anyway? Max Is and Wellington, Good morning, Max, good morning.
21:37
Speaker 3: Now you've had quite a tragic case in the capital
21:41
Speaker 3: and questions about safety now on the waterfront.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so this was last year Jareth Calhoun. He died
21:48
Speaker 6: after jumping from the thirty eight meters floating crane that's
21:52
Speaker 6: permanently moored in the harbor of the Hicky Tea. It
21:55
Speaker 6: doesn't look very high from the harbour side, but it's
21:58
Speaker 6: the equivalent of a twelve story building. This guy was
22:02
Speaker 6: He had meth and alcohol in his system, which a
22:04
Speaker 6: coroner has now found was ultimately the reason he died,
22:07
Speaker 6: but he hit the water at an estimated one hundred
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Speaker 6: kilometers an hour. Quite a few people around it was
22:12
Speaker 6: the MANU World Championships that day, which I'm sure probably
22:16
Speaker 6: spurred him to get up there as well and try
22:18
Speaker 6: to emulate that. A coroner blaming that substance abuse as well.
22:24
Speaker 6: The coldness of the water also a factor in the death,
22:27
Speaker 6: not for the first time. The lack of safety measures
22:29
Speaker 6: around the waterfront has also been criticized. That is being
22:32
Speaker 6: looked down at the council at the moment. Fencing's gone
22:34
Speaker 6: up and they're looking at other measures as well.
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Speaker 3: You can it is tragic, but I mean, if somebody
22:39
Speaker 3: has got myth and booze in their system and is
22:42
Speaker 3: jumping off a twelve story thing could be anything, couldn't it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a sign up at the time that said,
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Speaker 6: you know, cautioned warning, don't come aboard. Basically, don't climb
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Speaker 6: the crane, but the coroner did say that other safety
22:55
Speaker 6: measures were probably necessary as well.
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Speaker 3: Okay, as you're with her.
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Speaker 6: For much of the day. Thunderstorms possible fifteen the high Central.
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Speaker 3: Enjoy that, Max Neighvas and Auckland. Hey, Neva, good morning.
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Speaker 13: Did you spill more water? Because you've got a raft
23:08
Speaker 13: of papers on your desk. Here's about fifty pieces of paper.
23:11
Speaker 13: And I thought the only time you have a lot
23:12
Speaker 13: of papers is when you've spilled. You've spiled something.
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Speaker 3: I have a lot of papers every morning.
23:16
Speaker 13: Oh you're channeling Mike.
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Speaker 4: I don't.
23:19
Speaker 3: I don't come in just this smart, I need support, right,
23:25
Speaker 3: I forgot right. What it is is that I've got
23:29
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of these are from the last few
23:31
Speaker 3: days and quite messily put together because they were late
23:35
Speaker 3: my little man bag, right, so they look scruffy. They
23:38
Speaker 3: do probably just making the situation.
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Speaker 13: Look, oh, you look really smart, like it's all over
23:43
Speaker 13: the show, and leave it there, because you know how
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Speaker 13: Mike will come in and he'll go get a folder.
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Speaker 3: Put them nicely. He has his own little bag, yes,
23:52
Speaker 3: but also his papers are all very neat.
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Speaker 13: Yes, look at the your papers need to be iron
23:59
Speaker 13: It's something you'd looks like something big driven over. I
24:03
Speaker 13: was just about to say that something that's kind of
24:05
Speaker 13: like lasted a thunderstorm outside.
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Speaker 3: Nev You've talked so much we can't get to your story.
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Speaker 13: Okay, what about the weather.
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Speaker 3: It's to that.
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Speaker 13: Fine fine of uprom isolated showers confined to the western
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Speaker 13: mid day.
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Speaker 3: This is too funny.
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Speaker 13: So warm nineteen is a high happy Auckland days.
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Speaker 3: Was that fine as in the weather's final fine? As
24:23
Speaker 3: in you were being sasy fine, I was being sexy.
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Speaker 8: Good.
24:29
Speaker 3: That is Neva in Auckland for US seventeen away from
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Speaker 3: six News. Talk to Big Gavin Gray in the UK.
24:33
Speaker 3: Next the government moving to ban these two extremists. Their
24:37
Speaker 3: words Israeli ministers straight.
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Speaker 1: Ahead, international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
24:43
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
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Speaker 3: You talk to Big Gavin Gray is our UK. You're
24:48
Speaker 3: correspondent with me this morning. Gavin, Good morning, Hi, there
24:51
Speaker 3: are and eleven people have died following this shooting. It's
24:54
Speaker 3: had a secondary school in Austria. What more do we know?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the second largest city in our Austria. Gratz happened
25:01
Speaker 9: at ten am local time, and in the last ninety
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Speaker 9: minutes that death toll has risen in total to eleven.
25:07
Speaker 9: That's ten victims plus the suspect. It is believed that
25:11
Speaker 9: the killer was twenty one years old, lived in the
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Speaker 9: city and he killed himself in the toilet of the school,
25:18
Speaker 9: having used two guns which he legally owned. Now we
25:21
Speaker 9: don't know yet his name, but we do know he
25:24
Speaker 9: was a former student. He'd never finished his studies there
25:27
Speaker 9: and apparently the local media are reporting he left a
25:30
Speaker 9: message at his home. We don't know a great deal
25:33
Speaker 9: about the victims so far, but the death toll was increased,
25:37
Speaker 9: it's said by the death of an adult in hospital.
25:40
Speaker 9: Another adult has critical injuries. It is thought those were
25:43
Speaker 9: staff members, possibly teachers. Three hundred police officers attended the
25:48
Speaker 9: scene after the shooting to ensure that the school was
25:51
Speaker 9: evacuated and it looks like Austria is going to be
25:54
Speaker 9: having three days of morning over the coming few days.
25:57
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, the UK has joined us, the Australian, the Canadians
26:00
Speaker 3: of the Norwegians and placing travel bands on these two
26:03
Speaker 3: extremist Israeli politicians.
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Speaker 9: Yes so it Ama Bengivier and Bezalal Smartrik are both
26:11
Speaker 9: being banned from entering the countries named and will have
26:14
Speaker 9: any assets in those countries frozen. They are the National
26:18
Speaker 9: Security Minister and the Finance Minister of the Israeli government respectively,
26:24
Speaker 9: and both the according to the Group of Nations in
26:27
Speaker 9: this gathering, that is New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Norway and
26:31
Speaker 9: the UK. Both are saying that they have incited extremist
26:35
Speaker 9: violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights. Both ministers
26:40
Speaker 9: oppose allowing aid into Gaza, and they both called for
26:44
Speaker 9: Palestinians there to be resettled outside the territory. Now in
26:49
Speaker 9: response to this, Israel is fuming. They are saying it's
26:52
Speaker 9: outrageous that elected representatives and members of the government are
26:56
Speaker 9: subjected to these kinds of measures. But let's not forget
26:59
Speaker 9: within the Israeli government, it is a coalition and these
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Speaker 9: ministers led ultra nationalist parties in the governing coalition, holding
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Speaker 9: a total of some thirteen seats between them.
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Speaker 3: Gavin, appreciate your analysis this morning. As always, Gavin Gray
27:13
Speaker 3: are UK europe Correspondent twelve away from six Ryan Bridge.
27:17
Speaker 3: Back home. You report out this morning from the Mental
27:19
Speaker 3: Health and Wellbeing commissioned. Drug overdose deaths here have almost
27:23
Speaker 3: doubled in under a decade, and the amount of people
27:26
Speaker 3: accessing specialist mental health and addiction intervention, in other words, help,
27:31
Speaker 3: is continuing to trend downward. So what's up with that?
27:33
Speaker 3: Sarah Helm, the NZID Drug Foundation Executive Director, with me
27:36
Speaker 3: this morning.
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Speaker 2: Sarah, good morning, Good morning.
27:39
Speaker 3: How do those two things compute? You've got more death
27:42
Speaker 3: and you've got less help.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, actually that's true across a couple of different areas.
27:48
Speaker 14: So we've had a really concern and growth of overdose
27:51
Speaker 14: fatalities over a number of years now, and we lose
27:56
Speaker 14: three New Zealanders every week to entirely prevent accidental drug overdose.
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Speaker 14: Alongside that, we know that there's a certain part of
28:06
Speaker 14: the population, particularly middle aged people, who if they experience
28:10
Speaker 14: and overdose, aren't seeking help, they aren't turning up to hospital.
28:15
Speaker 14: And also we've had a decline and access to addiction services,
28:21
Speaker 14: so that really spells some problems for our community.
28:25
Speaker 3: So how many people dive overdose in a year.
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Speaker 14: One hundred and eighty eight in twenty twenty three, and
28:34
Speaker 14: now just for comparison, that's over half the road toll
28:38
Speaker 14: and more than twice the number of people that we
28:42
Speaker 14: lose to drowning, and that compares about the same over
28:45
Speaker 14: a number of years now.
28:47
Speaker 3: And how does that compare to other countries.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, well, we've historically been so lucky compared to other
28:55
Speaker 14: countries that I think that we just haven't really paid
28:58
Speaker 14: attention to this. So our organization over a few years
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Speaker 14: now have been compiling statistics ourselves out of coronial data
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Speaker 14: and out of hospitalizations, and it's really showing that we
29:12
Speaker 14: need to be genuinely concerned about this. And we know
29:15
Speaker 14: that we also are at risk and do have already
29:17
Speaker 14: some of the potent opioids that are causing the problems
29:21
Speaker 14: in North America. We need to act to make sure
29:25
Speaker 14: that we don't continue to exacerbate this.
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Speaker 3: What drug are they taking to odeon? Generally? What is it? Heroin?
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Speaker 14: The leading types of substances so often is more than
29:38
Speaker 14: one two thirds of cases of medicine is involved. We're
29:42
Speaker 14: talking opioids. Alcohol and benzodiazepines are the main culprits. That
29:48
Speaker 14: might be anything from tramadol to you morphine in the mix,
29:54
Speaker 14: so legal stuff.
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Speaker 3: Interesting. Sarah, appreciate your time. This morning. Thanks so much
29:58
Speaker 3: for coming on. Sarah, how means in Drug FUNDA an
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Speaker 3: executive director That report out this morning from the Mental
30:02
Speaker 3: Health and Well Being Commissioned nine away from six on
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Speaker 3: News Talk ZB. Coming up next, I'll tell you about
30:08
Speaker 3: Michael be here obviously, but I'll tell you about the
30:11
Speaker 3: what the speed at which you walk can tell you
30:13
Speaker 3: about your brain.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on earlier issue with ex pole insulation keeping
30:20
Speaker 1: Kiwi homes warm and try this winter news.
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Speaker 3: Talks IB it is seven away from six. Ryan, the
30:26
Speaker 3: problem with vape sellers because I was saying earlier my
30:28
Speaker 3: local dairy owner. She's complaining because the regulations are changing.
30:33
Speaker 3: So at the moment if you walk past the dairy
30:35
Speaker 3: you can look in and see a vape for sale,
30:38
Speaker 3: it will change. So they have to basically put curtains
30:41
Speaker 3: up or a big wall or something you cannot see
30:44
Speaker 3: it from the road. Ryan, problem with vape sellers is
30:47
Speaker 3: you now have shops with really bright lights and the
30:49
Speaker 3: demeanor of the shop is obviously to attract customers. Vaping
30:53
Speaker 3: is obviously just another poison and they should be hidden
30:56
Speaker 3: from view. But will that stop people from using them?
30:59
Speaker 3: You know, hiding alcohol behind a curtain stop people from
31:03
Speaker 3: wanting it. I didn't think it would.
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Speaker 2: Six to six Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: Mike's here, Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 12: That's what they do in supermarkets. You realize on certain days,
31:11
Speaker 12: like an Easter, they hide the booze behind them.
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Speaker 3: But that's because you can't buy it.
31:15
Speaker 12: No, that's what I'm saying. But I mean, and answering
31:18
Speaker 12: to your question, if it's hidden behind a curtain on
31:21
Speaker 12: Easter Sunday, do you suddenly go cool, I'll give up drinking.
31:23
Speaker 12: Of course you don't.
31:24
Speaker 3: No, No, that's right, No, you don't.
31:26
Speaker 12: What franchise if you were going to buy a franchise?
31:29
Speaker 12: What franchise would you buy? I'm sorry, this is what
31:32
Speaker 12: I do. Come and don't give.
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Speaker 2: Me your arm.
31:36
Speaker 3: Here's another weird from Mike.
31:39
Speaker 12: So what what franchise would you buy? Are you interested
31:44
Speaker 12: in buying franchise at all?
31:46
Speaker 3: Just generally?
31:46
Speaker 12: Yeah, just generally.
31:47
Speaker 3: Are you Robert Wayne or something exactly?
31:50
Speaker 12: Are you an entrepreneur?
31:53
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think I would be here if I was.
31:56
Speaker 12: Okay, So if you were, then so say they lay
32:00
Speaker 12: you off here? So things don't go that well. And
32:02
Speaker 12: I wouldn't listen to the rumors at the moment.
32:04
Speaker 3: Just stick with it. But if you intended up in
32:07
Speaker 3: the market for a franchise, yes, what would you buy? Yeah,
32:11
Speaker 3: maybe a hair salon a franchise like Rodney Wayne. So
32:16
Speaker 3: I know. I think what I do is because people
32:18
Speaker 3: talk about laundromats been quite good little money spinners. Yeah.
32:22
Speaker 3: So and I've got a friend who owns a bunch
32:25
Speaker 3: of laundromats and he's quite rich. So maybe I'd do
32:27
Speaker 3: a laund WELLNIMM minimal effort. Minimal eff My answer, they
32:31
Speaker 3: do themselves and bring in the cash.
32:33
Speaker 12: You'd have a little bit of maintenance and stuff like
32:35
Speaker 12: that because you go on you know, number sevens broken,
32:37
Speaker 12: so you have to do something about that. People for that,
32:40
Speaker 12: I would that's a that's a better answer tonight. I'd
32:42
Speaker 12: go practical like Jim's mowing, so we can all mow,
32:46
Speaker 12: we can all do line.
32:47
Speaker 3: So labor intensive.
32:49
Speaker 12: Fitness outdoors and keeps you happy. Whereas your laundry thing,
32:53
Speaker 12: I think is better.
32:53
Speaker 3: But do you mow your lawns now?
32:55
Speaker 2: Of course I don't.
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Speaker 12: So why because well, because it's people buying a franchise.
33:01
Speaker 12: Why would you buy a franchise? Which is the next
33:03
Speaker 12: interesting thing? Are you naturally an entrepreneur or are you're
33:05
Speaker 12: finding yourself given the economic circumstances out of work and
33:08
Speaker 12: you think.
33:09
Speaker 3: I might the latter people, it's like the Avon people
33:13
Speaker 3: become Avon ladies.
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Speaker 12: There's no such thing as an a lady, No they do.
33:16
Speaker 3: They just such.
33:17
Speaker 12: There's no such thing as tupple weir, and there's no
33:19
Speaker 12: such thing as.
33:19
Speaker 3: A well they did exist.
33:21
Speaker 4: Well.
33:21
Speaker 3: I think it's people who want to do something different. Yeah. Second,
33:24
Speaker 3: having a boss, and this is sort of a middle step.
33:27
Speaker 12: You see a lot of it in the corporate cab
33:29
Speaker 12: world and they go, I used to work at X
33:31
Speaker 12: for forty years and I got sick of it.
33:33
Speaker 3: Now I drive a corporate cab. You see a lot
33:34
Speaker 3: of it. I wanted to talk to you about something
33:37
Speaker 3: to do with age and you should have got a ship.
33:40
Speaker 12: Well mine's big and I'm old. So there you go.
33:43
Speaker 12: That covers it, doesn't it. You look like you want
33:45
Speaker 12: to get out of here.
33:47
Speaker 3: Every day or just today. Just Mike is here next
33:50
Speaker 3: the lawn mower with the motor mouth. I'll see tomorrow.
34:04
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