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Full Show Podcast: 20 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 smark for business technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving news talks, there'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Welcome at Thursday six minutes up for five
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Speaker 2: coming up? What does accountability actually mean? And look like
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Speaker 2: we'll look at the mount landslide report. Mitch McCann stateside
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Speaker 2: for US a run so apparently planning to target some
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Speaker 2: European military basis. Queenstown is booming. We've got new numbers
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Speaker 2: and details on the government's freshwater plans for farms. The
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Speaker 2: agenda Thursday, the twentieth of August. The Israeli military now
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Speaker 2: confirming it did open fire on a car carrying a
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Speaker 2: five year old. That's been in the.
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Speaker 3: News of late and all my time of working, I've
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Speaker 3: not cried as much as that day. I know, hence
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Speaker 3: not the only story. I believe there are many stories
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Speaker 3: more distressing than this and Rasa, but it was difficult
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Speaker 3: because I was the one handling it.
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Speaker 2: So this was two years ago. The Israeli Army now
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Speaker 2: says the criminal investigation is going to happen. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to the US. Trump saying the tariffs on Canada three
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Speaker 2: day reprieve. Remember he wanted to slap fifty percent on
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Speaker 2: twenty billion bucks worth of Canadian goods. Well hours before
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Speaker 2: it came in he said no, no, nah ty hope.
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Speaker 4: Now, so subject to the finalization of documents, we have
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Speaker 4: a deal with Canada and I think it's a very
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Speaker 4: good deal for both both parties.
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Speaker 2: It's great for our farmers.
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Speaker 5: Our farmers will no longer be held out because they
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Speaker 5: were being hoped very badly.
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Speaker 2: This's got to this big scandal across the ditch. Five
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Speaker 2: Sydney Swan's players saying sorry after they were suspended for
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Speaker 2: the rest of the AFL season for late night drinking
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Speaker 2: and inviting women to a hotel. Police investigation alleged sexual
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Speaker 2: assault at the hotel where they were staying. The only
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Speaker 2: way we can.
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Speaker 6: Deal with it is to put our foot down incredibly hard,
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Speaker 6: which we've done as a football club. That is our business,
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Speaker 6: and to effectively torpedo our season by making decisions such
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Speaker 6: as it just tells you how seriously.
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Speaker 2: We'll take so details still a little scanned at this point,
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Speaker 2: but the players put a statement out saying deeply sorry
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Speaker 2: everyone involved except the club's sanction.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the news of the day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be eight after five. We spoke about the bond
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Speaker 2: sell off yesterday and Scott Best and Treasury Sectories had
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Speaker 2: done some things about that over and I will tell
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Speaker 2: you about that in a minute. But what do people
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Speaker 2: want from Todonger City Council? What do you want from
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Speaker 2: Mahu Dreisdal? What do you want from the CEO Marty Grenfeld?
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Speaker 2: Did you see them on the news last night doing
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Speaker 2: the old mayor Koppa sitting there with you know that
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Speaker 2: they would have had communications staff telling them to say
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Speaker 2: it this way. Your tone needs to be like this,
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Speaker 2: you need to be respectful all those things, and I'm
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Speaker 2: sure they are. I don't think anyone is a bad
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Speaker 2: person or anyone intentionally does nefarious things at councils, But
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Speaker 2: there are twenty five years worth of reports sitting there
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Speaker 2: and apparently no one thought to bump it up to
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Speaker 2: senior management. Two of these technical reports saying there was
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Speaker 2: a risk to life were commissioned in the last few years,
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Speaker 2: one December twenty three, one June twenty five. So what
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Speaker 2: I mean, what do people want the families from what
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Speaker 2: I have seen so far. The families of those who
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Speaker 2: actually died in this incident have not said that much
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Speaker 2: of late, and I haven't seen any major response from
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Speaker 2: them to this report. But what do you want? Do
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Speaker 2: you want the CEO to resign? Being this is twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 2: do you want Mahu Drysdale to resign? I mean you
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Speaker 2: kind of have to trust that they didn't know what
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Speaker 2: they say they didn't know, and that no one thought
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Speaker 2: to bump it up. But what's the point in getting
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Speaker 2: geotech reports if no one acts on them. What's the
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Speaker 2: point in middle management if it doesn't talk to senior management?
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Speaker 2: You know, what's the point in the whole thing? And
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Speaker 2: what exactly is accountability? Is it making a change or
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Speaker 2: is it heads rolling? After five, Bryan Bridge, I talk
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Speaker 2: to fit Farms next. We've got some few more details
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Speaker 2: from the government on their freshwater plans for farms, some happy,
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Speaker 2: some not. And we'll also look at the oil that's
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Speaker 2: coming out of her moves as well. There's a nifty
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Speaker 2: wee trick that they're using to get it out and
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Speaker 2: it is of benefit to the golf States. All ahead,
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Speaker 2: ten after five the.
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Speaker 1: Early edition for All the Show Podcast on iHeartRadio powered
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Speaker 1: by Newstalks, AB News and Views you Trust to start
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Speaker 1: your day. It's early edition with Bryan Bridge and Spark
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Speaker 1: for Business Technology that keeps Business moving US talks.
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Speaker 2: AB twelve minutes a half to five. Ryan says, Roger.
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Speaker 2: Are you aware the ongoing twenty four hours secure it
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Speaker 2: at the Mount's slip cord and is costing the rate
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Speaker 2: payer thirty five thousand dollars a week? Weder No, I
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Speaker 2: wasn't aware of that, although I was actually thinking about
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Speaker 2: the security companies this morning, because there's a yarn out
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Speaker 2: yesterday about I think it's from the post about security
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Speaker 2: at hospitals that the Health dhb's well now old dhb's
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Speaker 2: Health New Zealand putting a contract out for one hundred
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Speaker 2: million dollars over several years for security at hospitals. These
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Speaker 2: security companies must be doing quite well, not that we are.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Scott Besson. This is Treasury Secretary. We
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Speaker 2: spoke yesterday about the bond market and there's a really
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Speaker 2: interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about this. So
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Speaker 2: he's saying that they're basically saying he's trying to play
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Speaker 2: the bond market like they have been playing the oil market.
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Speaker 2: You know, when the price of oil gets too high,
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Speaker 2: the White House comes out with a quite well timed
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Speaker 2: message predicting imminent peace deals, and then the price of
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Speaker 2: oil comes down. That's what they reckon. He's trying to
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Speaker 2: do with the bond market. So the US Treasury has
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Speaker 2: come out this morning and they have said we're going
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Speaker 2: to double our repurchase of the longer dated treasury bonds
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Speaker 2: because the yields are going up. When the yields go up,
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Speaker 2: that means the cost of borrowing two governments goes up.
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Speaker 2: Taken a dive after this, the thirty year Treasury bond
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Speaker 2: is down almost a percentage point to five point two. However,
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Speaker 2: as this article points out, you are doubling it. It's
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Speaker 2: a minuscule amount. You're doubbling it from two billion to
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Speaker 2: four billion. If you look at the federal budget deficit,
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Speaker 2: it's four hundred and thirty two billion dollars. And when
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Speaker 2: you buy back, you are borrowing to buy back, and
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Speaker 2: so you are basically only using debt to get more debt.
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Speaker 2: To reduce this, you actually, you know, the prober way
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Speaker 2: to fix it is to reduce the deficit, which probably
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Speaker 2: won't happen anytime soon. Fourteen after five, cry and Bridge's
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Speaker 2: revealed what it's going to do about the new freshwater
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Speaker 2: farm plans. This is the replacement for the resource consenting.
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Speaker 2: Now certification will only be required for farms where high
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Speaker 2: risk activity occurs. That's things like dairy farming, grazing pigs
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Speaker 2: and commercial veggie growing. Colin Hurst, fed Farmer's President with
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Speaker 2: me this morning.
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Speaker 7: Hey Coln, Yeah, good morning Colin here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good to have you on the shotow Colin, Hey,
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Speaker 2: do you tell me what's actually changed here?
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Speaker 7: Well, essentially what's happened is the game have come out
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Speaker 7: with these new settings. Essentially, these thresholder farm plans are
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Speaker 7: going to replace resource contents of farming. So this is
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Speaker 7: something the industry has been working on for quite a
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Speaker 7: number of years and it's essentially it's all about reducing
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Speaker 7: regulation for farmers and making sure these plans are proportionate
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Speaker 7: to what's actually going on on the farm. So that
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Speaker 7: type of thing.
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Speaker 2: What's the how do you know what's a high risk activity?
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Speaker 2: What's the where's the threshold?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well it seems like raising with in the winter.
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Speaker 7: You know, that's because we grow the feed and there's
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Speaker 7: quite a lot of feed and that can be really
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Speaker 7: problematic if it's done poorly, So making sure that farmers
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Speaker 7: undertaking those practices properly and appropriately. Irrigation tends to lead
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Speaker 7: to intensification, So just making sure that you've got a
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Speaker 7: farm like that in dairy farming is the other one.
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Speaker 7: That there's quite a lot of focus on dairy farming,
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Speaker 7: so just making sure that there's a more oversight on
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Speaker 7: those activities on farms.
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Speaker 2: The cost was always the problem, speaking to farmers at well,
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Speaker 2: the complication and the cost of doing farm plans and
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Speaker 2: freshwater farm plans. Do you know what the difference would
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Speaker 2: be between the old system what was proposed and this
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Speaker 2: one in terms of cost of farms.
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Speaker 7: Yes, well, the previous system it was every farm across
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Speaker 7: the country over betweeny height years. Now it's only the
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Speaker 7: farms that actually that haven't potentially have an impact on
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Speaker 7: the environment. So that's that's a huge reduction there. Farmers
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Speaker 7: will better undertake the farm cleaning requirements a lot more
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Speaker 7: themselves to try and work for it with locks of
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Speaker 7: a consultant and that type of thing, and we expect
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Speaker 7: industry to help help a lot.
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Speaker 8: Well.
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Speaker 7: The other key part to this Ryan is it's always
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Speaker 7: utilizing existing plans that are already in existence, like FMPIRA
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Speaker 7: farmers have their to Hockey plan, So I think there's
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Speaker 7: activity going on there to try and work out how
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Speaker 7: they can move the two systems together. Some regional councils
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Speaker 7: already have a farm environmental planning system, so just making
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Speaker 7: sure we only have one across the country is probably
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Speaker 7: the key one there. So it's getting rid of duplication
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Speaker 7: of different activities like that. So yeah, we're really welcoming
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Speaker 7: this different approach. It's quite refreshing and yeah, farmers have
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Speaker 7: five years to get these farm plans up and up
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Speaker 7: to speed and get in existence, so we're saying the
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Speaker 7: costs will be quite sicently lower than the previous system.
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Speaker 2: Colin, good to have your views. Colin Hurst, Fed Farmer's
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Speaker 2: President time is eighteen after five. The farm costs going up.
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Speaker 2: The fuel the big driver here, but this is for
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Speaker 2: the gun quarter. We had numbers out yesterday, so fuel
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Speaker 2: you won't be surprised up fifty two percent from a
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Speaker 2: year ago, Fertilizer up eighteen, electricity six point two, local
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Speaker 2: central government rates and fees twelve point seven percent. On
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Speaker 2: the same time, a year ago and outside of the pandemic,
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Speaker 2: those costs for on farm the largest jump since the
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Speaker 2: jf SEE except for dairy farms and horticulture the worse off.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen after five News Talks EDB the early edition.
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Speaker 1: For the show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by Newstalks at
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Speaker 1: b Ryan Bridge. On early edition with sparks for business
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Speaker 1: technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB for Sam Uffindal will be totaling at
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Speaker 2: MP just before six this morning on that landslide report.
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Speaker 2: Right now, let's go to Queenstown where business is booming
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Speaker 2: at the airport. Nearly three million passengers this financial year,
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Speaker 2: thirty four million dollar profit for the year to June,
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Speaker 2: which means they can now just shout about twenty million
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Speaker 2: dollars in dividends, including fifteen million to the council. That's
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Speaker 2: about four hundred and seven bucks per Queenstown resident. SHANEA
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Speaker 2: Here is Queenstown Airport's CEO of me this morning, Shane,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning, Ran, Good to be with you,
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Speaker 2: Good to be with you too. This is just proof
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Speaker 2: that Queenstown's been doing what we've been saying it's been doing,
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Speaker 2: which is pretty well right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Look Queenstown is it's the international jewel of the
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Speaker 5: crown from a tourism perspective, and that's clearly, as you
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Speaker 5: just mentioned, reflected in the results that are coming through
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Speaker 5: this year, and it looks like that growth is continuing.
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Speaker 2: Where are the travelers coming from? Is it mainly international?
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Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: The split is twenty percent of our which is it's
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Speaker 5: a big split of international, twenty percent trans tasmin mostly
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Speaker 5: plus on bound inbound passengers coming into Australia and onwards
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Speaker 5: twenty per centers domestic and then the sorry forty percent
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Speaker 5: domestic and then the other twenty percenters are just local,
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Speaker 5: local travel. So it's a big, big proportion as international.
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Speaker 2: One of the problems you get on the plane, say
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Speaker 2: you're coming from Auckland and then you spend probably about
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Speaker 2: the same amount of time that you did in the
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Speaker 2: year trying to get into Queenstown and a car. What
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Speaker 2: do you guys think about the congestion and what do
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Speaker 2: you think about the gondola.
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Speaker 5: Look, any destination that's growing as quickly as Queenstown is
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Speaker 5: going to have growth pains and letter is like a
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Speaker 5: gold coast. A lot of places off shore have a
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Speaker 5: lot of these similar issues. It's very important that the
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Speaker 5: community works exceptionally well together with the local council. We
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Speaker 5: have some very very solid tour operators here. You've got
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Speaker 5: Skyline or your ski fields, your aj Hackett's, your Reel
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Speaker 5: m Z's and of course the gateway to Milford, so
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Speaker 5: it's really important we work together. There are some traffic
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Speaker 5: and infrastructure issues. We're also working with central government and
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Speaker 5: Airport taking a lead to make sure that we are
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Speaker 5: fit for growth, and of course the airport is investing
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Speaker 5: significantly in an infrastructure as we move forward. The gondola
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Speaker 5: is a real project and we're working very closely with
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Speaker 5: Ross Copelands and sil on that project. And there are
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Speaker 5: other solutions being put forward at the moment, including another
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Speaker 5: alternative that could be working concurrently with the gondola called
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Speaker 5: Wash and there are other options as well. So it's
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Speaker 5: a conundrum. It's difficult, but we're working very closely to
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Speaker 5: make sure that we keep this as one of the
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Speaker 5: leading tourizen destinations on the planet. What's wash Sosh is
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Speaker 5: a uber like gondola if you like, it's an on
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Speaker 5: call gondola.
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Speaker 8: It has multiple.
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Speaker 5: Stopover points, so unlike the gondola, which is like a
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Speaker 5: one way rail network if you like, from the airport
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Speaker 5: all the way through to town Bush has multiple stopover
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Speaker 5: options so that you can call it up and then
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Speaker 5: it stops at multiple places and you can actually book
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Speaker 5: it for your own for your own news as such.
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Speaker 5: So it's quite new technology as a company in christ
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Speaker 5: Church working on that and we're working with those investors
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Speaker 5: to see what can be done to bring it to.
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Speaker 2: Life and would that set on a separate track from
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Speaker 2: the other gondola proposal.
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Speaker 5: See it is, yeah, yeah, it's a completely separate setup
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Speaker 5: and so that would potentially have a complementary network to
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Speaker 5: the gondola service here.
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Speaker 2: Queen Stanley, Report's CEO. Fascinating stuff. Good to have you
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Speaker 2: on the show. Twenty four minutes after five Ryan Golf
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Speaker 2: exports Oily exports basically half pre war rate. Now we've
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Speaker 2: got nine point two million barrels per day so far
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Speaker 2: this month. Coming out of the July it was twelve million.
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Speaker 2: Pre war it was eighteen million. It's interesting though what
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Speaker 2: they're doing. So obviously they've been using pipelines to get
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Speaker 2: the stuff the crewed through to the Persian Gulf, but
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Speaker 2: they're also using shuttle ships. So you put the crude
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Speaker 2: onto and other petroleum products, you put them onto a
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Speaker 2: smaller boat. You ferry it through the straight, You blitz
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Speaker 2: it through the strait to avoid all the little speedboats
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Speaker 2: and the little drones, and then you offload into the
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Speaker 2: tankers that are waiting outside the strait, and you keep
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Speaker 2: your oil pumping and exported. Twenty five after five, z'd
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Speaker 2: beb twenty seven after five. You've probably noticed a few people.
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Speaker 2: Now there are loads of them out there on the
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Speaker 2: jab and looking quite skinny, thank you very much. This
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Speaker 2: is the weight loss miracle drugs, meaning people eat less,
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Speaker 2: less food less often fewer cravings. That means that demand
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Speaker 2: for fatty, deep fried food and lots of sugary drinks
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Speaker 2: and sugary food is shrinking about as quick as people's
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Speaker 2: waistlines they reckon. This is just crazy to think about
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent of Americans will be on these drugs. Within
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Speaker 2: a day, calorie intake will drop twenty percent. Crazy. This
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Speaker 2: is a problem if you're a company that makes fatty,
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Speaker 2: high sugar food. The drugs are basically killing your demand.
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Speaker 2: They're stealing your customer. And the ready made companies and
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Speaker 2: the fast food companies are now scheming up ways to
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Speaker 2: change their products to appeal to the Wagovi diet. There's
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Speaker 2: a piece in the Wall Street Journal about this this morning.
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Speaker 2: They're basically going for high protein, lean meat options. The
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Speaker 2: weight loss drugs attack your muscle as well as you're fat,
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Speaker 2: so you need more protein otherwise you fall over and
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Speaker 2: break leg, which basically tells you. I think that for
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Speaker 2: a lot of humans, there's no control over your diet,
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Speaker 2: but there's also no longer a need for control over
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Speaker 2: your diet. If you think about it, what is the
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Speaker 2: incentive to eat a healthy, balanced diet when you can
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Speaker 2: just jab jab jab erase all the downsides and bobs
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Speaker 2: your uncle, and the jab basically corrects your cravings, and
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Speaker 2: then companies will give you what your body actually needed
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Speaker 2: in the first place, which is lean meat, a bit
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Speaker 2: of fat, just a little bit, and some veggies. Where's
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Speaker 2: the incentive, Ryan Bridge? Maybe we don't need it. Maybe
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Speaker 2: that's the point. Maybe that's just where human evolution takes us.
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Speaker 2: Twenty nine minutes after five News talks, there'd be Mitch
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Speaker 2: McCann's stateside for US. There's chat that Iran might be
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Speaker 2: looking at some European targets, military based targets. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: about that with Mitch and Sam Uffendale, the Totonger MP
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Speaker 2: on landslide report from yesterday. All ahead here on early edition.
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Speaker 4: Very stupor Sun could say.
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Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, how it
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Speaker 8: The news you need.
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Speaker 1: This morning and the in depth analysis early edition with
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
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Speaker 1: moving News Talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd bey Broadway from six News Talks. It'd be great
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Speaker 2: to have your company this Thursday morning. Coming up, we'll
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Speaker 2: talk to Sam Muffindale Toto on a MP about the
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Speaker 2: landslide report. Does he reckon the boss of the council
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Speaker 2: should resign as many of you do on the text
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Speaker 2: machine this morning, and we'll look at the Meta trial
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Speaker 2: with Mitch McCann. Out of the US, so twenty nine
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Speaker 2: states have brought this. It's in California. If META losers
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Speaker 2: do they actually change their behavior? Does anyone believe that?
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Speaker 8: Well?
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Speaker 2: Ask Mitch right some of your techs on the Weight
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Speaker 2: loss Drugs Morning, Ryan, I recently started intermittent fasting, eating
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Speaker 2: two meals a day plus fruit snacks and six months
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Speaker 2: I've dropped twelve kilos and changing nothing really just doing it.
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Speaker 2: Less good on you, Ryan. This is from Mike. He
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Speaker 2: says that the twenty percent are up to twenty percent
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Speaker 2: of Americans who are going to be on way goo
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Speaker 2: vi and therefore cutting twenty percent of their calorie intake,
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Speaker 2: which is what they reckon is going to happen, and
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Speaker 2: then eating a whole bunch more lean meat is going
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Speaker 2: to be great for New Zealand's agriculture. Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: All this talk about weight loss drugs makes me laugh.
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Speaker 2: I'm just smashing back a steak and cheese pie which
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Speaker 2: I'll count cancel out, says Thomas with a zero sugar monster.
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Speaker 2: Oh right, it is twenty three to six, Rich. Just
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Speaker 2: go to Colum and Toned morning column. Right, You've got
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Speaker 2: a new Otago Uni course on rural healthcare here.
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Speaker 9: This is New Zealand's first procedural sedation course which is
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Speaker 9: launching here at the university and it's hoped it will
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Speaker 9: build confidence among rural health workers and help patients get
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Speaker 9: care much closer to home. So procedural sedation can avoid
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Speaker 9: the need for general anesthetic, which is usually delivered by
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Speaker 9: specialist anisthetists and operating theaters. The course director hears Dr
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Speaker 9: Jock Heyward. Jack Heyward, He says, smaller rural hospitals off
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Speaker 9: and don't have these specialists forcing patients to travel long
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Speaker 9: distances for my procedures.
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Speaker 2: He says.
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Speaker 9: The course will help rural doctors gain confidence and a
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Speaker 9: skill that's often learned informally through experience, which will.
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Speaker 2: Save patients time, money and stress. Good stuff. How's your weather,
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Speaker 2: clais to find here today? Sou westerly dies out later
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Speaker 2: the high fourteenth, Nice one, Thank you, clear than christ
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Speaker 2: this morning, Claire, good morning. You got another fast track
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Speaker 2: yarn for us.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, this is the Pegasus golf course one of course.
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Speaker 10: Wolfbrook Properties, big property developer down here, aiming to turn
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Speaker 10: that former golf course into one thousand homes. Late yesterday
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Speaker 10: the news came through that the Minister had hit backed
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Speaker 10: that application and had officially declined it through the fast
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Speaker 10: track process. Now, the proposal had faced opposition from the
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Speaker 10: get go, particularly from the Pegasus Residence Group, which had
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Speaker 10: presented a sixteen thousand signature petition to Parliament. They argued
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Speaker 10: that the course is core to the town's identity infrastructure.
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Speaker 10: Minister Chris Bishop has declined the referrals, saying there are
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Speaker 10: some issues that need to be dealt with, but they
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Speaker 10: would be more appropriately dealt with under other legislation. The
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Speaker 10: local MPDMA Dooce says he welcomes the decision and is
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Speaker 10: congratulating the Residence Group on its campaign.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, how's you will it?
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Speaker 10: Cloudly? There are a few showers about today, but fine
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Speaker 10: spells developing later southwesterlies and the high will be twelve.
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Speaker 2: Thank you clear MEXI and Wellington heimex. Good morning, Paul
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Speaker 2: Eagles got a payout. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: So.
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Speaker 11: The former Labor MP and Wellington Deputy mayor, after being
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Speaker 11: beaten by Tory Fino to mayor a few years ago,
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Speaker 11: ended up at the Chatham Islands Council as Chief Executive
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Speaker 11: and fairly swiftly the subject of an Auditor General probe
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Speaker 11: into his spending, which found he oversaw major increases in
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Speaker 11: spending on his own council accommodation. He added another person's
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Speaker 11: signature to documents, edited and created contracts provided to the
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Speaker 11: Auditor General, spent almost one thousand bucks on food over
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Speaker 11: five days, treating the per diem limit. I'm sure very
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Speaker 11: liberally all dodgy stuff, so that job.
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Speaker 2: Didn't last long.
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Speaker 11: His salary as chief executive, by the way, was more
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Speaker 11: than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Chatam Islands
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Speaker 11: has a population of just over six hundred people. So
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Speaker 11: now been revealed is he got a one hundred thousand
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Speaker 11: dollars payout when he abruptly resigned, as well as three
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Speaker 11: months pay What's a bit stink is that when our
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Speaker 11: newsroom asked in February when he resigned whether he would
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Speaker 11: get a payout, the council told us he wouldn't, so
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Speaker 11: we had to go to the ombudsman for that one.
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Speaker 2: So that's that's like not annual leave and stuff. That's
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Speaker 2: an actual golden handshake of one hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 11: Absolutely all right, how's your weather, partler cloudy with Southerley's
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Speaker 11: twelve Nice time.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Max Sneevers an Aukland Morning New Good morning.
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Speaker 2: We've got a new place to play in Auckland.
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Speaker 12: Yes, at Devenport and a lot of Aucklanders will know
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Speaker 12: this space. You know, only Devenport's largest volcano. So it's
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Speaker 12: the old tennis courts near Mount Victoria. Now they have
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Speaker 12: been tuned into this new space. There's a shared tennis
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Speaker 12: and basketball court. We've got seating, drinking founders, native planting art.
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Speaker 12: It's got the best views there. It's great, you've been
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Speaker 12: up there.
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Speaker 2: So stunning, stunning.
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Speaker 12: And they've also put in rain gardens so they've been
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Speaker 12: installed to filter and absorbed. The stormwater runoff project was
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Speaker 12: created by the Tupuna Munga Authority, you know, designed to
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Speaker 12: just welcome everyone, people, terrorists to the mountain, reflect on
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Speaker 12: what makes it so.
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Speaker 2: Special, fantastic? How's our weather?
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Speaker 4: Okay?
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Speaker 12: Fine to start with areas of morning frosting cloud but
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Speaker 12: isolated chils developing by afternoon fifteen the high here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Nice one never, thank you very much. Nineteen away from six,
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Speaker 2: you know, David Farracuria market research, the National Party, what
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Speaker 2: does polling for the National Party, not the National Party
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Speaker 2: Polster So seventy one electorate seats up for grabs at
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Speaker 2: this election, forty nine list. It's actually one fewer you
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Speaker 2: might normally with seventy two electric seats. Anyway, it's gone
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Speaker 2: down to seventy one, and he's saying about a third
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Speaker 2: of the electorate seats will be in play or competitive
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Speaker 2: this time round in the points, in particular to Mount Albert,
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Speaker 2: because you've got Helen White there, which is the labor incumbent.
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Speaker 2: She won by about twenty votes last time I remember,
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Speaker 2: it was just a sliver. Melissa Lee, she's been there
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Speaker 2: running in that seat for about six terms now greening
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Speaker 2: the MP Riccardom in India's March he's running and of
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Speaker 2: course Qla Wong, opportunity leader is running there as well.
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Speaker 2: So what you could see happen potentially, and why it's
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Speaker 2: interesting is the vote on the left could be split.
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Speaker 2: So you've got Helen, you've got Riccardo, and you've got
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Speaker 2: Qula and then Melissaly Boom comes through on the right potentially.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen away from six News Talk c B where Live
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Speaker 2: to the States.
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Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: Quarter to fix, we'll look at the landslide report out
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Speaker 2: of totaling On. Just to set first. Mitch McCann is
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Speaker 2: our US correspondent. Much nice to have you on the
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Speaker 2: program this morning. So what's the run Duranians apparently considering
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Speaker 2: targets in Europe?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ryan, good morning. Where at this sort of unknown
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Speaker 4: moment in the war. At the moment, the sixty day
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Speaker 4: deadline to end the conflict is now passed and the
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Speaker 4: US in a run locked in. I guess you could
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Speaker 4: describe it as a war of words in the meantime,
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Speaker 4: but the financial time. SAMES is reporting now that Iranian
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Speaker 4: officials have considered what would be an extraordinary move. The
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Speaker 4: FT has interviewed sources close to the regime who say
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Speaker 4: that Iran has looked at striking US bases in Europe,
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Speaker 4: including in Cyprus, if Donald Trump escalates the war now.
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Speaker 4: The report says that Iran is also considered attacking underwater
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Speaker 4: fiber optic cables in the strain of hor moves Now.
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Speaker 4: Experts say that if Iran wanted to, it could deploy
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Speaker 4: medium range ballistic missiles to southern Europe, but probably not
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Speaker 4: much further than that. But I think it really reflects that,
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Speaker 4: I guess, the defiant mood of the Iranians at the
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Speaker 4: moment Ryan who seemed to be refusing to be beaten
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Speaker 4: into submission. And it comes as Donald Trump's approval rating
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Speaker 4: here in the US is down to thirty three percent,
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Speaker 4: the lowest of his second term, and much of that
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Speaker 4: is related to this war in Iran, the.
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Speaker 2: Meta trial, what are the chances of anything actually changing
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Speaker 2: if Meta was to lose, Well.
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Speaker 4: It's very possible. This is federal court in his twenty
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Speaker 4: nine states, So this is extremely curious for Meta. What
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Speaker 4: the twenty nine states that are suing the owner of
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Speaker 4: Instagram and Facebook want is a number of things. It's
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Speaker 4: possibly a trillion dollar fine if the court were to
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Speaker 4: roll something extraordinary like that. But they also want to
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Speaker 4: end auto play video content on Instagram, they want to
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Speaker 4: prohibit the creation of multiple accounts, and they want Instagram
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Speaker 4: stories to be stopped. They say these are all things
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Speaker 4: that have young children addicted to social media. And they
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Speaker 4: say that Meta has known this for some time and
26:31
Speaker 4: really hasn't done enough to do anything about it.
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Speaker 2: Mitch, thank you very much for that. Mitch Mcano, US correspondent,
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Speaker 2: thirteen minutes away from six. By the way, the UAE
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Speaker 2: has suspended little trade with the RAM. This has happened overnight.
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Speaker 2: They say this is the UAE recons ballistic missile fires
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Speaker 2: incoming to Rancys. It wasn't asked. The UA clearly doesn't
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Speaker 2: believe it. It's interesting. There is still a lot of
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Speaker 2: trade that happens between these two countries, even though you've
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Speaker 2: got one firing drones and sending drones off to the other.
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Speaker 2: The produces about one third of Iran's imports, but also
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Speaker 2: a lot of the Iranian goods that they need to
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Speaker 2: get out into the world will go through the UAE,
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Speaker 2: and goods from third countries come through the UAE to
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Speaker 2: get into Iran. Time is twelve away from six Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: So pretty damning findings, you'd have to say. From the
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Speaker 2: fatal Mount Monganui Landslade inquiry that we heard about yesterday,
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Speaker 2: todong A City council worn repeatedly for more than twenty
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Speaker 2: five years but failed to act.
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Speaker 13: This tragedy was in the end preventable. In my view,
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Speaker 13: the hazard was known that an effective and an expensive
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Speaker 13: means of managing the risk mitigating the risk composed had
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Speaker 13: twice been recommended, and the council that had every opportunity
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Speaker 13: to put it in place.
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Speaker 2: Sam Uffindale is MP for Totong It joins me live
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Speaker 2: this morning. Sam, Good morning, Good morning Ryan. What does
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Speaker 2: accountability look like to you? I mean a lot of
27:54
Speaker 2: people texting the show this morning saying that CEO he's
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Speaker 2: got to go.
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Speaker 8: What do you think, Well, I think that that remains
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Speaker 8: an open question right at the moment of police and
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Speaker 8: cronial process is underway alongside the government's inquiry. You know
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Speaker 8: it's wrong to premp those processes, but the reports findings
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Speaker 8: are deeply concerning, and right now my focus is on
28:14
Speaker 8: understanding the find things, ensuring accountability where it belongs, and
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Speaker 8: making sure the implementations the recommendations are implemented.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty bad these geo tech reports saying you know,
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Speaker 2: risks to life. I mean two of them commissioned in
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Speaker 2: the last few years, one December twenty three, one June
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Speaker 2: twenty five. So is there are there any other reports
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Speaker 2: that you know, we're aware of that have got risk
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Speaker 2: to life written on them that haven't been bumped up
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Speaker 2: the food chain at this council or any other council.
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Speaker 8: No. Look, it's unforgivable, really right, and it shows it
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Speaker 8: shows a cultural and systemic failure at totong A City
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Speaker 8: Council and they need to be having a really good
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Speaker 8: look at themselves, including their personnel. It's very challenging and
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Speaker 8: thoughts have to go first and foremost to the victims
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Speaker 8: and their loved ones because they will be doing it
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Speaker 8: extremely tough right now. And the judge was quite clear
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Speaker 8: this was preventable. This was a preventable tragedy and six
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Speaker 8: people should still be here today and they're not, and
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Speaker 8: that's tragic.
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Speaker 2: Who do you think is ultimately responsible? Because you know
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Speaker 2: when a minister does something well, when a ministry does
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Speaker 2: something wrong, ultimately the minister takes responsibility for it. That's
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Speaker 2: how it works in central government. What about local de reckon?
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Speaker 8: Well, in this case, it's the organization and the head
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Speaker 8: of the organization, it's the CEO.
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Speaker 2: You think you should go like, I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: I know what you want me to say, right and well,
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Speaker 2: I don't want you to say anything. I'm just curious
29:43
Speaker 2: what you think because I mean, everyone has an opinion
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Speaker 2: in total and they're texting me right now.
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Speaker 8: I've been I've been critical of the CEO for a
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Speaker 8: long time on a number of local issues. And this
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Speaker 8: is a massive problem. We've got a very tragic situation
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Speaker 8: where six people have lost their lives in a preventable
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Speaker 8: situation due to systemic failure within the organization and a
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Speaker 8: huge question mark has to hang over the CEO. But
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Speaker 8: right now, the reports come out. I haven't read through
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Speaker 8: the whole report. It's over two hundred pages. There's a
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Speaker 8: number of other reports underway, including a government inquiry, and
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Speaker 8: I don't want to preempt those processes. I want to
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Speaker 8: understand all the findings and ensure accountability.
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Speaker 2: It belongs here enough. Hey, what about the businesses that
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Speaker 2: you know any idea when the thing's going to reopen?
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Speaker 2: Was speaking to our pizzeria yesterday is looking at closing.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well I understood that they were closing. And there's
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Speaker 8: the two four that's down there that's got ninety percent
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Speaker 8: patronage down I've gone and talked to a lot of
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Speaker 8: those businesses around there, and it's very sad. You know,
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Speaker 8: all of them have the same story. They all feel
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Speaker 8: let down by the council. They feel that, you know,
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Speaker 8: that their businesses are suffering. There hasn't been any rates relief,
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Speaker 8: with rates being based on what the income they might
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Speaker 8: have coming out. You're going to lose some of those businesses.
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Speaker 8: It's very very sad for for them and for the
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Speaker 8: local community and for and for everybody else. But I mean,
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Speaker 8: let's not let's not get away from what the the
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Speaker 8: tragedy is here, and that's that six people have lost
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Speaker 8: their lives and their families will be heavily grieving.
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Speaker 2: Sam, appreciate your time this morning, Sam uf and thell
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Speaker 2: MP for Total on It. It's eight to six News Talks.
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Speaker 1: B Herett first, Bryan Bridge on early edition with Buck
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Speaker 1: for Business Technology that keeps Business Moving.
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Speaker 2: News Talks B six to six. Mike's here morning, Mike morning.
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Speaker 2: Did you notice it's a little warmer in here today?
31:48
Speaker 2: I've kept the temperature.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, and so it's very nice of you to do so.
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Speaker 14: I don't know why you want to take your right Yeah,
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Speaker 14: I know it's Is that linen this morning?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
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Speaker 14: It's a little cheap cotton or is it little bit
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Speaker 14: of linen in it? Difficult to know, isn't it. Do
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Speaker 14: you pick that up off the floor when you put
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Speaker 14: it on one?
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Speaker 2: No, it's iron, it's iron. That's not with what He
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Speaker 2: didn't Katie say that I was the best dressed.
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Speaker 14: On that night, indisputably, But every other day, every every
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Speaker 14: other day. I think that's probably part of the it's
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Speaker 14: the psychological thing. You're not expecting much when you turn
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Speaker 14: up well dressed him and goes wow, make an effort
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Speaker 14: look in a suit exactly. How are you excited about Liam?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I wanted to ask you about this what's
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Speaker 2: going on? So yeah, no, no, no, no no.
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Speaker 14: See that's that's the interesting thing that that I hope
32:39
Speaker 14: puts to bed the rumors that he's that he's losing
32:43
Speaker 14: a seat because he's not. Because so you've got to
32:44
Speaker 14: understand a couple of things. Headgears injured his hand. So
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Speaker 14: instead of going to the reserve driver, which is Yuki Sonoda,
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Speaker 14: they've not gone to him. They've gone to Liam and
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Speaker 14: they've gone lim jump back in the old Red Bull,
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Speaker 14: which is interesting because I don't know that he'd want
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Speaker 14: to do it. I mean, yes, you want to do
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Speaker 14: it for the team because it's an internal promotion and stuff.
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Speaker 14: But it's a ropey car, right, it's a ropey car.
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Speaker 14: You're happy in your car at racing balls, you're doing
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Speaker 14: well this weekend's track that it suits your car. They'd
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Speaker 14: be looking to do quite well. They're on a roll,
33:14
Speaker 14: so suddenly they go, you know, drive this car over there.
33:18
Speaker 14: That may or may not work well for you, So
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Speaker 14: we'll see. So anyway, you don't go to Liam to
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Speaker 14: promote him over your reserve driver Sonoda. Unless you love
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Speaker 14: the guy. That's what it boils down to. So this hole,
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Speaker 14: we're going to drop him at the end of the season.
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Speaker 2: It's hot and cold for the Liam, isn't that? It's
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Speaker 2: like he is a fun figuring out what they want
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Speaker 2: and what they're thinking. He's getting into a flash car
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Speaker 2: because Hedjar did his hand. How did he get into
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Speaker 2: the flash car in the first place?
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Speaker 14: Zanford? Two years ago, Daniel Ricardo hurt his hand, same track,
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Speaker 14: two hands.
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Speaker 2: How are they hurting their hands?
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Speaker 14: Well, Ricardo drove into the wall, but Headjar head Jar
33:55
Speaker 14: was on holiday, So I don't know what they do,
33:57
Speaker 14: but I've always found it interesting these guys go do
33:59
Speaker 14: weird random and stuff like skiing and paragliding and stuff.
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Speaker 14: Should be sitting down and sitting down and just taking
34:04
Speaker 14: it easy as why anyway, we've got we've got something
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Speaker 14: on that this morning. That's that GDP thing two point six.
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Speaker 2: I mean, how good is that? A very good women?
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Speaker 2: Good Mica is with your next news Talks see tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Thank you NAST.
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