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Full Show Podcast: 31 July 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
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  Speaker 1: moving News talks.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be well, good boding to you and welcome into
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  Speaker 2: the show for the very last day of July. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what we've got for you. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: good news show. It's going to get cheaper to install solar.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about this in five minutes. We'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: how with Mike Casey and A and zaid business survey
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  Speaker 2: has found more green shoots in the economy. We'll look
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  Speaker 2: at this with the ASB economists. And just before six
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the extension of State Highway
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  Speaker 2: one from Walkworth to the very doorstep of Northland and
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  Speaker 2: the truckers are very happy. We're going to talk to
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  Speaker 2: Roague carriers as well, plas vins of McAvennie. Out of
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  Speaker 2: Europe is Europe, Boycott's FIFA's grand new idea. Well that
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  Speaker 2: correspondence run around New Zealand news breaks and you can
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  Speaker 2: have your say using the text. Ninety two. Ninety two
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  Speaker 2: is the number.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: YEP. It's Friday, the thirty first of July and here
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  Speaker 2: we go World Cup chaos could be brewing. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: chaos all the way through the year. European nations are
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  Speaker 2: threatening to boycott any FIFA tournament if FIFA presses ahead
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  Speaker 2: with plans to sell a stake to private investors. The
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  Speaker 2: stand up comes after an emergency. You wait for meeting,
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  Speaker 2: the Europeans all meeting together. Here is FIFA ahead, Jianni
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  Speaker 2: Infentino earlier. He's still defending his plan.
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  Speaker 3: It is an opportunity, but not an obligation. Strengthening the
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  Speaker 3: commercial side of the game is the natural next step
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  Speaker 3: in this evolution. We believe that the FFE proposal would
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  Speaker 3: unlock the sport's potential in every corner of the world.
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  Speaker 2: But known to you, Gianni, I'm afraid you need teams
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  Speaker 2: to actually play a Cup. Now. The US and Iran
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  Speaker 2: are trading fresh threats. Trump says America will hit Run
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  Speaker 2: hard after missiles were fired at US targets. This time
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  Speaker 2: in Jordan, We're going to be hitting them very hard
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  Speaker 2: because it's our term to hit them. They know it's coming.
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  Speaker 4: For Ascan is not to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they tried shooting it last night. So we
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  Speaker 2: had five rockets shot going eighty five hundred miles an
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  Speaker 2: hour and all five rockets were knocked down to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: He has some interesting language, doesn't he. Yes. The US
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  Speaker 2: says it shot down the attack with no American casualties,
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  Speaker 2: while Tehran is warning of morticarne. Meanwhile, the King of
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  Speaker 2: the North from the UK, Andy Burnham's, appeared to confirm
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  Speaker 2: this claim from Trump. He said he's going to open
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  Speaker 2: up north Sea oil. If he does that, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be a wealthy country if it does it reasonably.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he says. Speaking to reporters, Burnham signaled a
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  Speaker 2: more pragmatic approach to North Sea oil and gas, saying
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  Speaker 2: there's a resource there that you cannot ignore while people
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  Speaker 2: are struggling. Meanwhile, in Europe, the wildfire crisis is far
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  Speaker 2: from over. George Coney and his wife Amao have left
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  Speaker 2: their home. They live in the south of France. These
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  Speaker 2: days that wildfires are ravaging their region and there's even
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  Speaker 2: a major blaze in England on the Suffolk coast.
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  Speaker 4: Half eleven, there was a bang on the door and
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  Speaker 4: we were told to leave, no time to pick up anything,
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  Speaker 4: just get out straight away. So we did. We did
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  Speaker 4: get into our car and we drove here, which is
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  Speaker 4: about two and a half miles and we've been here
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  Speaker 4: all night.
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  Speaker 2: Wow is putting just a few miles from the nuclear
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  Speaker 2: power station. Officials said there's no immediate risk to the
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  Speaker 2: power station. My boy's just been in Sterling in Scotland.
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  Speaker 2: He says. There's even wildfires in Scotland. It is ten
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  Speaker 2: alf to five.
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  Speaker 1: Before the news breaks here at first. Andrew Dickens on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
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  Speaker 1: moving News talkst B.
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  Speaker 2: The NPC is back fiftieth anniversary good piece on the
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  Speaker 2: Telly last night showing that incredible Cannibury Auckland game. Fifty
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  Speaker 2: three thousand people turned up to that game. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine that anyway? NPC also returned to free to air
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  Speaker 2: TV for the first time in nearly thirty years. Last
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  Speaker 2: night they plenty played back at it. So this year
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  Speaker 2: every match streams free on TV in zet plus there's
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  Speaker 2: three week games a week on TV in zet one
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  Speaker 2: if you still use the old old way of watching
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  Speaker 2: the Telly. But they also screen on Sky, which is
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  Speaker 2: where I watched it last night. Now it's a new
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  Speaker 2: arrangement and I have high hopes that this is going
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  Speaker 2: to actually do good things for rugby. It dramatically increases
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  Speaker 2: reach because there are many households that don't pay for
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  Speaker 2: Sky's sport, and that can only create more fans and
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  Speaker 2: inspire the next generation. Hopefully it's going to kick in
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  Speaker 2: the provincial rivalries that we used to have, we used
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  Speaker 2: to love and the crowds that come with them, like
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  Speaker 2: that Auckland Cannery game back in the eighties, the greatest
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  Speaker 2: game of the century. It is no coincidence that last
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  Speaker 2: night's game was called the Battle of the Kaimeis by
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  Speaker 2: players in media coming before the game. They've been well briefed.
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  Speaker 2: They want to build this hall up, so stand by
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  Speaker 2: for the Battle of the Bays, the Battle of the Bridge,
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  Speaker 2: and of course Stagg Day is coming. They're gonna hope
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  Speaker 2: that this all creates loyalty to the province like it
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  Speaker 2: does to a club, the sort of thing that Aucan,
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  Speaker 2: the f C and the Wars have been so good
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  Speaker 2: at while rugby has not. And if all that works
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  Speaker 2: and provinces ramp up the game experiences and kick prices
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  Speaker 2: low and play more daytime rugby, it might just bring
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  Speaker 2: the punters back to the ground. And we need this
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  Speaker 2: comp MPC is where future all blacks and black ferns
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  Speaker 2: first emerge. And this past week we've heard players saying
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  Speaker 2: that if it wasn't there, the gulf between club rugby
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  Speaker 2: and super rugby is far too much, which is also
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  Speaker 2: like league and football. They have academy teams and lesser
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  Speaker 2: competitions racking up miles of miles and experience and that's
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  Speaker 2: how you form a good club. So all in all,
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  Speaker 2: I reckon a pretty good move. News Talk said, be
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Yeah, the Mulus beat the Steamers last
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  Speaker 2: night game and two halves Bay waking up in the
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  Speaker 2: second half. The football was actually really good to watch.
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  Speaker 2: To be fair, tickets fifteen dollars an adult, five dollars
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  Speaker 2: for a student, kids free. Apparently Whitecattter was offering a
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  Speaker 2: season pass for fifty dollars. Every game for fifty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: But just briefly it looked bad on the telly because
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  Speaker 2: the crowd was all seated in the West stand, but
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  Speaker 2: the cameras are also in the West stand, so what
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  Speaker 2: we saw was an empty East stand all night. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know and meanwhy I might talk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later about the fashion stakes because collars
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  Speaker 2: are back on rugby jerseys and which is selling out?
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  Speaker 2: But that comes later. Next. Mike Casey is a happy
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  Speaker 2: man today. Finally regulations have been ease regarding installing solo.
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  Speaker 2: Will tell you how and what and when with Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Talks at B. It's a quarter after five, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Ryan's back on Monday. So we've all been looking for
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  Speaker 2: alternatives for power, and we want to make power cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: and here we go. The Ministry of Regulation wants to
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  Speaker 2: make solar cheaper and easier to install, So it's back
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  Speaker 2: changes to allow plug in solar and let a credited
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  Speaker 2: installers sign off jobs without an inspection. Approvals could drop
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  Speaker 2: from three months to just six days, and this could
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  Speaker 2: cut the costs by around six hundred and forty dollars
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  Speaker 2: down to two hundred bucks. Mike Casey is the CEO
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  Speaker 2: of Rewiring Altra, and you'd be a happy man to
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  Speaker 2: hear a little bit of common sense, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 5: Mike, Oh, Andrew, I was over the moon yesterday. We've
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  Speaker 5: been anticipating this report for quite some time. It came
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  Speaker 5: out and it basically, yeah, accepted a lot of the
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  Speaker 5: recommendations we were hoping to get in to just make
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  Speaker 5: things way more affrigiant and lower costs. Yonders so thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've going to just come to town to plug
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  Speaker 2: in solar. It was illegal? Why was it illegal? And
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  Speaker 2: I know the safety concerns and what are the safety
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  Speaker 2: concerns and should we worry about that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's essentially a while back now. I think it
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  Speaker 5: was twenty twelve that was made illegal, and that was
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  Speaker 5: because the technology at the time simply wasn't really that safe.
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  Speaker 5: But technology has come a long way now. We now
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  Speaker 5: have the Germans that have stilled five hundred the sorry
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  Speaker 5: five million of these systems. The technology has moved on
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  Speaker 5: and it has become a lot safer. The primary concern
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  Speaker 5: really was that it would feedback power into the grid
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  Speaker 5: when there was a power cut, which could cause all
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  Speaker 5: sorts of issues for lines been working on lines who
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  Speaker 5: thought they would be you know, they wouldn't be live more.
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  Speaker 5: But that technology has been improved to the point now
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  Speaker 5: where these things just attack when there's a power cut
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  Speaker 5: and switch themselves off.
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  Speaker 2: Very good add do where if you buy a plugin system,
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  Speaker 2: because I know that renters like to buy a plug
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  Speaker 2: in systems and then landlords freak out because what are
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  Speaker 2: the renters doing to my power supply? But when you
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  Speaker 2: buy a plugin system, can you install it yourself or
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  Speaker 2: you still have to get an installer.
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  Speaker 5: No, you can literally just plug it into a ten
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  Speaker 5: amp socket a normal wall soccer in your home and
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  Speaker 5: it starts starts pushing power back into your home and
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  Speaker 5: those electrons are then used by your fridge and your
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  Speaker 5: freezer in your hot water system. Brings down your power
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  Speaker 5: bill by about seven to fifteen percent, and we've seen
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  Speaker 5: examples of those that are really hot on wanting to
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  Speaker 5: save money, they can get that up to about thirty percent.
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  Speaker 5: So it's pretty remarkable and a great opportunity. Are the
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  Speaker 5: great thing for the renters. They can pick it up
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  Speaker 5: and take it with them when they move.
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  Speaker 2: Home, and good for the nation because we want to
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  Speaker 2: save as much electricity as we want. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, how much do one of these
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  Speaker 2: plug ins soul of things cost.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure exactly what it's on a land in
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  Speaker 5: New Zealand at the moment them. But what we've seen
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  Speaker 5: in Europe, if you just translate those prices over, it's
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  Speaker 5: anywhere between a few one hundred bucks to probably fifteen
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  Speaker 5: hundred bucks. Wow, and that is just one panel to
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  Speaker 5: two panels. They come with mounting systems so they can
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  Speaker 5: go on bok and ease different ratings on the panels,
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  Speaker 5: so on and so forth. But it's a really easy
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  Speaker 5: price point because you're probably spending ten to twenty thousand
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  Speaker 5: dollars to stick something on your roof. You still get
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  Speaker 5: the solar rapp and many many cases there have been
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  Speaker 5: new Zealanders that might own their own homes that will
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  Speaker 5: buy one for the first time, realize that it works,
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  Speaker 5: and they might invest in a bigger, more formal system.
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  Speaker 5: And we must rest at the ROI on a proper
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  Speaker 5: system on your rooftop is greater than rooftop solar. But
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  Speaker 5: at the same time that the price point is so
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  Speaker 5: much more expensive to get done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right, And it's the renters, it's at right.
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  Speaker 2: There's the renters who are really going to appeal to it,
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  Speaker 2: and people like me who go, oh, yeah, fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: bucks that would be a bit of fun and I
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much, Mike, and thank Heavens. And now
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  Speaker 2: we just ask for some speed to make sure this
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  Speaker 2: is all in place quickly as possible. It is nineteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes after.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I told you it was a good news day.
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  Speaker 2: Still to come. The new road from Walkworth to Tehanna
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  Speaker 2: that was approved. This is New Zealand's most expensive road
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  Speaker 2: was approved. We'll talk about that a bit later on,
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  Speaker 2: but right now, the latest A and Z Business Outlook
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  Speaker 2: surveys out things are looking positive. Confidence is continuing to
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  Speaker 2: trend upwards, jumping nineteen points in July to a total
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  Speaker 2: of fifty six. This puts the number above the fifty
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  Speaker 2: percent threshold needed to say that the industry is largely confident.
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  Speaker 2: So Kim Mundy is the asb's acting chief economist and
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  Speaker 2: joins me, Now, so what's driving all of this? Kim?
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  Speaker 6: I do think we've just seen a little bit of
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  Speaker 6: the met coming through the figures which is very welcome
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  Speaker 6: to see given that it has been an incredibly volatile
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  Speaker 6: environment and potentially just a little bit of people wanting
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  Speaker 6: to get on with things.
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  Speaker 2: Are we just ignoring oil? I mean, what's driven me
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  Speaker 2: crazy over the last six months as people talking about
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  Speaker 2: the oil price continually when we should just be looking
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  Speaker 2: at your basics and it is what it is, isn't it.
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  Speaker 6: To a degree? But I think when that flows through
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  Speaker 6: into prices of petrol and diesel, it is very much
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  Speaker 6: in your face in terms of you are feeling these
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  Speaker 6: effects quite you know, it has a really big impact
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  Speaker 6: on your life. And so I think with that that
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  Speaker 6: the memoryum of understanding had broken down, it did take
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  Speaker 6: a while for that to flow through into retail petrol
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  Speaker 6: prices here in New Zealand, So potentially the August figures
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  Speaker 6: might not be as roach.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think we've actually coped with much
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  Speaker 2: better than I ever expected. So this is good and
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing some positive moves differences from sector to sector.
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  Speaker 2: But what I'm really like, and I've seen this in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of figures, manufacturing and construction are both.
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  Speaker 6: Up exactly, and I think the construction one was really
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  Speaker 6: welcome because obviously the industry has been struggling for a while,
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  Speaker 6: and particularly residential construction lifted, and the fact that we're
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  Speaker 6: seeing residential consens rising so much, we had been expecting
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  Speaker 6: at some stage that to translate through the activity. So
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  Speaker 6: it's just another sign that we might be getting closer
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  Speaker 6: to a bit of a turnaround in that sector.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And do you think because there are confidence is
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  Speaker 2: going up, and there are positive signs, and we're all
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  Speaker 2: looking for a green shoot, particularly here in politics because
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  Speaker 2: that you can sell it at the hustings, but do
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  Speaker 2: you think that this just shows that people just want
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  Speaker 2: to get on with stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I think we do need to remember that this was
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  Speaker 6: a snapshot in time. So if you look at when
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  Speaker 6: the responses came in over the month, they did deteriorate
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  Speaker 6: as we got towards the end of July. So that
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  Speaker 6: is just something to keep in mind. Oil prices as
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  Speaker 6: you back up around that ninety dollars a barrel at
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  Speaker 6: the moment, that has flowed through into petrol prices. But
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  Speaker 6: as you said, you know, so far activity has held
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  Speaker 6: out better than we are expecting, So there is that
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  Speaker 6: risk that the activity side of things might not be
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  Speaker 6: as bad, but it does mean that there's that lingering
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  Speaker 6: inflation risk, and when there's lingering inflation, there is a
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  Speaker 6: banks required to act.
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  Speaker 2: Kim, thank you so much. Kim is asb's acting chief economists,
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  Speaker 2: and that lingering inflation thing, and that forty seven percent
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  Speaker 2: of firms in the survey now expect to raise their
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  Speaker 2: prices over the next three months. Just have a hymn
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  Speaker 2: about that, please, if you don't mind. It's five twenty
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  Speaker 2: four new subby five twenty six. I'm Andrew Dick and
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  Speaker 2: so Winston Peters Winston Peter's escaped censure yesterday from the
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  Speaker 2: speaker after his little outburst against a Green MP, who,
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  Speaker 2: let's face it, that Green MP was a yeppy little
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  Speaker 2: interrupter in the house and he obviously got Winston's goat in.
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  Speaker 2: Winston then let his mouth off, but his escape center
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  Speaker 2: from the speed However, he's still being judged in the
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  Speaker 2: court of public opinion. We had Carmel Sepaloni from Labor
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  Speaker 2: jumping up and down, demanding he resigned or be sacritous,
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  Speaker 2: go away, which is not going to happen. He's just
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  Speaker 2: playing the politics. And then we had China complaining to
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  Speaker 2: m fat you got to hand it to China. They
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  Speaker 2: play a subtle ball. They know how to do this
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  Speaker 2: sort of you know this, you know this conversation between nations.
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  Speaker 2: They never mentioned Winston by name. They called him a
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  Speaker 2: certain politician in their talks with m fat and on
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  Speaker 2: social media, and then the ambassador gave this little zinger
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  Speaker 2: on the social media. The ambassador said about Winston, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: a statement says more about the person than makes it.
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  Speaker 2: That makes it than anything or anybody else. That was subtle,
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  Speaker 2: dig wasn't it. All of this did not deter Winston,
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  Speaker 2: who doubled down and said he was defending democracy, which
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  Speaker 2: is fine. As I said before, the Green MP was
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  Speaker 2: being very interrupting in the House, and you can do that.
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  Speaker 2: Without that, you get you can actually defend democracy. Though
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  Speaker 2: Winston without sounding like an ignorant, rint grumpy old man,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what I think should be most ashamed of.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have a clue about this MP. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: know this MP's been in New Zealand's since he was eight,
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  Speaker 2: that he's grown up in New Zealand. He's been educated
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand. He knows in New Zealand all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. He doesn't want to go back to where
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  Speaker 2: he came from, because as far as he's concerned, he
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  Speaker 2: comes from here. So that was just an ignorant dig
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  Speaker 2: And it's up there with Paul Henry who asked for
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  Speaker 2: a more New Zealand Governor general when the governor general
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  Speaker 2: he was talking about onion such an Nan was born
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  Speaker 2: and raised here, had the most amazing broad Kiwi accent,
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  Speaker 2: and had even been the president of rugby League. You
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  Speaker 2: can't get more New Zealand than that, Paul. And for
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  Speaker 2: both of these men, all they did was look at
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  Speaker 2: the color of the face and make a terrible assumption.
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  Speaker 2: And there is a word for that which I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to use. And the thing is they should have
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  Speaker 2: been better prepped before they opened their big mouth and
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  Speaker 2: then stuck their foot in it. News Talk said, be
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  Speaker 2: I tell you, the thing that's been sort of bubbling
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  Speaker 2: under for me all week long is that New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: first tricks are getting so playing these days. Ryan caught
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  Speaker 2: Shane Jones this week ended out in the promo. Did
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: to hear it when he pointed out that New Zealand
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: first were at the table when the oil and gas
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: band came in. But Shane, you know he's oh, it's
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: all just blame just Sinda and Meghan, But in fact
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: he was at the table when the oil and gas
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: band came in, when New Zealand first, were at the
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: table when the vaccines came in. New Zealand First, was
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: at the table when the mandates came in. New Zealand First,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: were at the table when MiQ came in. But at
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: the moment they they pretend us, no, we've done a
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: complete one eighty. Winston tries to say he's anti globalist.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: He was the one who words laboring to a free
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: trade deal with Russia. Always remember that New Zealand First
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: chose to Cinder Dun's Labor Party in the first place.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And so you know, how can a party that will
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: say anything depending on where the power lies have any
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: credibility at all. Supporters say New Zealand First says it
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: like it is, but at the same time they've changed
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: what they've said so many times. I don't know what
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: they really believe in. Vincent mcaveni's joining us in a
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: few moments time because Europe is revolting about this FIFA
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: idea from Gianni Infantino, which I find disgusting as well,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the new roads to Taharat
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: State Highway one. It's going to be extended, New Zealand's
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: most expensive road. We'll talk to the road carriers who
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: are very happy about this. News and sporters.
• 17:21
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• 17:57
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• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So welcome back to the program. My name is Andrew
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Dickinson for Ryan Bridge, who's been doing the Drive Show
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: because Heather is away. But Ryan's coming back to do
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Early Edition next Monday. On Monday, so this is my
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: last day. Love being with you guys. Loved it in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the show. It's been fantastic. Boy talking about Wis and
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Peter's got you going Texas says he cemented. My vote
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Kiwi born only in polianment. No country in the world
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: would have foreigners voting, let alone changing laws. Excuse me.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: I was born in the UK and I came out
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: here when Imus two, and I've now spent sixty one
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: years being a taxpayer. I've been educated and if you
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: can't tell, I've got a Kiwi accident. I am New Zealand,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: absolutely one hundred percent New Zealand. So you're saying to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: me that I can't actually get into Parliament, You've got
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to be joking. We're an immigrant nation, okay, Bob says
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Wisi Peters has developed into a cantankris cranky old man,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: always full of his own self importance, and a man
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: that history will record that cannot be trusted. He also
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: points out that he may be missing the fact that
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: twenty first century New Zealand has become far less British
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: than Maori, and these other races are now calling New
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Zealand New Zealand their home, and of course they are,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: of course they are. And of course Nick points out
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the obvious it's election time. Get your name out there.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Don't you realize that Peter's has been around long enough
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: to know just how far to push the button for
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: a bit of attention he gets into the media. He
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: never goes too far, and that's true because he escaped
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: censure from the Speaker, did he not? And at least,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: knowing he can't legally be got rid of he knows
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that as well, because he's a lawyer. As he keeps
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: on telling us ad nauseum. But you're quite right neck.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, as I said last about
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: ten minutes ago, we're getting a little tired of New
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Zealand first tricks. I mean he's been playing these tricks
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: for forty years. He can hear them coming like a
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: train down a tunnel right around the country. We go
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Callum proct is and dneedan good morning to your Calum
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Morning Andrew. The continuing saga of the flooding of South Dunedin.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: What's the latest plan?
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, the City Council here have released their their revised
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: plan to what they announced in June. The area's flood
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: future is now being split into two work streams, as
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: they're calling it immediate fixes and longer term climate planning
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: for South do Need. In the next phase of the
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: South to Need and Future program will focus on a
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: thirty year infrastructure plan including priority flood protection projects for
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: the next five to ten years, and at the same
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: time councilors will look at longer term adaptation options, which
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: is beyond that time frame. Our mis Sophie Barker says
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: this will allow work to reduce flood risks or reduce
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: flood risks to continue while longer term solutions are assessed.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: The infrastructure package is expected to be considered by Counselors
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: in December.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Great stuff, how's your weather?
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: I got a strong win watch here. Gusty southwest is
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: one hundred k gusts this afternoon with rain developing the
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: high today eleven.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Has it snowed on the mountains yet in Dunedin? Not
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: here yet, not this week, It's coming. Thank you. Claire
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Sherwin from Christians, Good morning to you. Good morning. Apparently
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: it's going to snow on the Port Hill.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: Today or we're watching down to five hundred meters they reckon.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's quite cool now. Christ Church Hospital, the emergency
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: department they say they're facing their worst winter ever.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah they do. There's a bit of a war of
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: words erupting here. Actually we've got Christchurch Hospital's emergency department
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: saying it is the worst winter ever. They reckon. Pressure
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: there has reached breaking point. We've heard concerns around the
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: seventy bed department regularly operating at three times its capacity.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: It's been worsening over recent years. Interestingly, yesterday was the
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: first we heard from Health Minister Simeon Brown this winter
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: about it. He says, Look, it's always challenging in winter,
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: but these concerns are fear muggering. He says. The government
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: has set a target of ninety five percent of ED
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: patients being admitted all discharged within six hours of arrival.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: He says, that's what they've done to ensure that there
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: is year on year improvements and that is what the
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: data he's seeing is showing. But we've spoken now with
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: Nurses Organization Delegate Isaac Compton to see what it's like
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: from the nurses perspective as opposed to doctors, and he
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: says the government needs to be transparent if what Simeon
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: saying is the case. Compton says that the data around
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: the six hour discharge targets needs to be shared as
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: well as along with some comparisons from last year.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: All right, so how is your weather other than the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: snow down to five hundred meters.
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: Yeah, in the city, it'll be a bit of rain
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: this afternoon. Northwesterly is changing busily cold southerly later in
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: a strong wind watch in place. The high will be fifteen.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Next Toll joins us from Wellington. Good morning to your
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Max good and Morgan and a silly favorite Goodson Morgan.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: And they see we're all immigrants here Goodton Morgan, So
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: a silly favorite returns. I'm talking about Wellington on a Plate.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You guys are eating up.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Hundreds of wild and wonderful dishes are set to take
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: center stage for this year's Wellington on a Plate Festival.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: It gets underway tomorrow, the month long festival. Hundreds of
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: local venues getting involved. The theme is word of mouth,
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: whatever that is interpreted to mean. Organizers say, the city
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: is excited. The event always encourages people to get out
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: and try something new. You've got two hundred ticketed events
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: like taco making. The one that caught my eye was
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: a hot Wings challenge. Of course, a few hundred burghers
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: as well. From next week, Burger Wellington for a couple
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: of weeks gets underway. Something for everyone. Director Beth Rush says,
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: including some of the more odd experimental picks. It's about
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: getting people out of the house the last month of winter.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing's happening in Auckland. There's a whole heap
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: of thirty and fifty and eighty dollars menus and they
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: sound pretty good. So there we go. How's your weather?
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: Absolutely early showers clearing, Gustine nor Westerly's a high thirteen.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Never read of mine? Who joins us from Wukanhella and Eva?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Good morning. So we've got a Guinness World record happening
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: at Rungy Todto College.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: That's right, happening today, this attempt. So what run you
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: Total College is doing. It's shooting for the most can
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: you believe this? Andrew official high fives completed by an
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: individual in one hour apparently currently two five hundred and fourteen.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: I think that's what it is at the moment. And
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: no low fives, they don't count prefect in Armitage's is
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: it after one pm? The college should be home. She's
• 24:02
  Speaker 11: pretty confident that they're going to become a piece of history.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: So define a high five? I mean, well, because I
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: know I know that, But what I'm saying is normally
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: you go high five and you go skimacha. Yeah, but
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: are they going to go na?
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: Well, I don't know, no, oh no no.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: But then I could do a two and a half
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: hours it's got to.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: Be a decent one. Apparently there's nearly four thy two
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: hundred students, so they'll be waiting in line. But what
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: I was thinking of with this flu season, I hope.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: None of them are going to be sneezing in their head.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: There can be a high five.
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: They goit to be hand sanitizer the year, don't you think?
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, how's Orkin's with that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: Thirty periods few showers sixteen as a high Here and
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: autant on a Friday.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Text through Andrew love Winston. I love Winston too. I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like it when he's just doing the job straight. I
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: don't like it when he's electioneering. Someone else says, do
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: your do? People realize that Michael Savage was an immigrant.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: That is true. Michael Savage was born in Victoria, Australia.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: But under some people's ideas, he would not be able
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: to be in our parliament, and yet he was, you
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: know it, became the Prime minister in nineteen thirty five.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: He moved to New Zealand back in nineteen oh seven,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and he was an adult when he did that, and
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: he became a prime minister. So there you go. Hey,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: here's another one, just to get you going from the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: bleeding obvious phile English is poised to become the official
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: language of New Zealand. The bill has now passed its
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: third reading. By the way, fun fact, did you know
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that English is not the official language of the United Kingdom.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: In fact, it's not even the official language of England.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: It's the same as we've been forever. It's considered the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: de facto official language in the UK. Welsh is the
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: only legalized recognized language, but that's only in Wales, Scotts
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: and Scottish. Gaelic recognized, but that's only under the European
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Charter for Regional or Minority languages, but not in law
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: or regulations in the UK. Irish and Ulster Scots acknowledged,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Cornish acknowledged. But yeah, English not the official language of
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the UK, but we're changing it. In fact, another fun fact,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the top three languages spoken in the UK are English Polish.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: But my point here is that this whole English is
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: and Official language of New Zealand has been a politically
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: great waste of time in the Parliament, but it does
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: no harm and it's a bit of fun. And we're
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: off to Europe in a few moments time with Vincent Mecavinni.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: International correspondence with insin Eye Insurance Peace of Mind for
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: New Zealand Business.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Thirteen to six. And to Europe we go Vincent Mecavini,
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: good morning to you, Good morning. So Europe's revolting at
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: this Infantino idea about FIFA.
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right. An emergency meetings day of UEFA, which
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: represents the fifty five European nations that play football. They
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: have put out a damning statement of FIFA, effectively saying
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: they will boycott all international tournaments and the World Cup
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: if they not only if they move ahead with this
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: plan that has private finance connected to the Kushner family,
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: of course connected to the Trump family buying a steak
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: in FIFA an into national tournaments. They have said, not
• 27:01
  Speaker 12: only do these plans need to be stopped walked back from,
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: there has to be guarantees given that nothing like this
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: will ever be put down again. They say they will
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: walk away and there could potentially be a breakaway World
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: Cup formed.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, and in fact are they saying also that there
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: are all FIFA competitions that are coming up over the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: foreseeable future. They won't go to women's World Cups, you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Intercontinental Cups or FIFA competitions.
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: That's right, all of them, the Club World Cup, the
• 27:29
  Speaker 12: new thing that they've launched as well everything they will
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: back away from it all. So this is a huge
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: move and we'll see whether or not any other international
• 27:37
  Speaker 12: regional continental federations follow suits.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: We've seen a lot of pictures of the wildfires of
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: course in Europe, particularly over France and Spain, and worries
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: that there's another heat wave coming, but it's been happening
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: in England as well. Yeah, that's right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: I've been in France this week, absolutely huge wildfires there.
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: It's been described as one of the worst disasters since
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: the Second World wore vast waves of the country. Well
• 28:01
  Speaker 12: having to go out some sort of patrol forested areas
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: around their properties to make sure that fires aren't starting.
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: Similar scenes in Spain, and then today in England as
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: well in the South coast in Sussex there's been a
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: huge fire not too far from a nuclear power plant.
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: There are huge drop warnings in place across much of
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: England and Wales now, hose pipe bands in place as well,
• 28:21
  Speaker 12: and many people pointing the blame for a lot of
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: this actually at the water companies because they've not been
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: operating well for the past twenty years, but large parts
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: of Europe now are starting to cool down, thankfully after
• 28:32
  Speaker 12: a sort of third successive heat wave. But this could
• 28:35
  Speaker 12: be a growing problem in the future.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Good stuff to mecaviny I, thank you very much. There's
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: now eleven minutes to six as it be. My goodness me,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: it's actually happening. They're going to extend that Northern Expressway.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The government has signed a PEP with the Northland Consortium
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: to get the first part of the Northern Expressway built
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: now that is between walk With and Tahrma. So they've
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: got that what they called the whole day Highway up
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: to walk With. Now they're going to go to This
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: is the largest public private partnership in New Zealand's history.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: The final cost has a net value of three point
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: six billion dollars. So I'm joined now by James Smith,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: the general manager of Policy and Advocacy at the National
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Road Carrieres. Hello, James, greeting Xandrew. You'll be very happy
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: we are.
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: It's good to see the sound of political flip flopping
• 29:24
  Speaker 13: and waffling being replaced by the sound of machinery actually
• 29:27
  Speaker 13: doing something.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing this road is going to Tahana.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: That's obviously you get this start of the Dowans. In fact,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: it's not even the start of the Brindurwans. It's short
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Kaiwoker is so that, of course the brin Durwans will
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: be the wildly expensive part of the whole road to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: fung Ray. And do you worry that, in fact, this
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: project might just get mind at the Brindwans And that's
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the bit that we really need to fix.
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Well, the Brittain Dowins is on a basically it's
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: on a bit of a time time limit. Anyway, it
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: needs a replacement high wa The work that was done
• 30:01
  Speaker 13: recently is really just keeping it together, but it is
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: it is needs to be replaced. There is project underway.
• 30:10
  Speaker 13: What we would like to see is the work to
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: continue through until that highway is completed.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that hasn't in place at the moment. And
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: of course this is this is going to take quite
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: some time though, So when now are you going to
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: start getting the benefits? And what sort of benefits do
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you think road carriers will see?
• 30:27
  Speaker 13: Well, we won't see the full benefit, of course until
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: the thing's finished. And first thing that's right, and the
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: thing can only get finished if it gets if it
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: actually starts. So we celebrate every win. As the rain
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: pours down around us, there's that the We're just celebrating
• 30:47
  Speaker 13: every win. So what we do want to see though,
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: is we want to see productive, resilient and safe highway network.
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: We need facilities on that network for vehicles to pull
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: over safely. We need stock in fluent facilities, those sorts
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: of things, and those are best on our state, our way.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, James, well, look happy trucking and thank you for
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: joining us today. But yeah, absolutely, we've got North bought
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: up there. We've got fucking Ray up there, We've got
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: all of North and we know the economic problems there.
• 31:17
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: In fact, we want good road, rail and sea connections
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: for freight everywhere, because it's not good other than the
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Golden Triangle, if you know what I'm talking about, And
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: because when New Zealand. You're quite right he mentioned at
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: stock effluent disposal. That's quite a big thing. It's going
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: to be a big road and I hope it goes well.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: I certainly hope it goes better than that last PPP
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: into Wellington, and now it is coming up seven minutes
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: to six.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Belly Edition with
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and Spark for business Technology that keeps business moving,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: News talks that'd.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Be it's coming up five to six Mike Hosking of course, Friday. Congratulations.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I just say, can I congratulate you on your interview
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: with Nick Bryant yesterday at eight o'clock in the wasn't it?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: He's always good and I love the way you did.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: The first half was about Trump and you thought, oh
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: my goodness me, and you checked everything afterwards, oh my
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: goodness me, what's he up to? And then of course
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: second half it was about the Democrats. You go, what
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: the hell are they doing when they should be going
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: for broke? It was a great interview. No, thank you.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: He's one of my favorite people on the whole, Wilnick
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: and I met him for the first time. Well I've
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: dealt with them for years, but met him in twenty
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  Speaker 8: sixteen on the night that Hillary lost face to face
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  Speaker 8: face to face for the first time, and so also
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: met Melanie Griffith that night and share both of whom,
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  Speaker 8: interestingly enough, it was a place called the Jebbett Center,
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  Speaker 8: which is in Manhattan, and we couldn't get into the
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: Trump hit.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I remember the complaining and the bitching in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: but whatever.
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  Speaker 8: Hen't he wouldn't do. Yeah, but they were in tears.
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  Speaker 8: They weren't really that happy, and they and all seriousness that.
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  Speaker 8: It was one of those weirdest nights you could see
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  Speaker 8: as an outsider that Hillary wasn't going to win. You
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  Speaker 8: could just look at the map. They had a massive
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  Speaker 8: screen of the American map and you could just see
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  Speaker 8: it was all turning to you know what. But none
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  Speaker 8: of them in the room could see it or wanted
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  Speaker 8: to see it until the very end. And then that's
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  Speaker 8: when Sharon, Melanie Griffith and co. Came down the stairs
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  Speaker 8: and tea isn't It was all over? And we all
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  Speaker 8: then stood waiting till two or three in the morning
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  Speaker 8: for her to come out, Hillary to come out, And
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  Speaker 8: of course she never did come out. She couldn't see
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  Speaker 8: it either, mate, she was back at the peninsula in tears.
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  Speaker 8: What's you doing today? Well, not that anyway, we'll do
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  Speaker 8: the song. Is the Solar a thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's a very big thing in Germany. Over five
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: all them units went into Germany. It's very big for renters.
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  Speaker 2: It's about fifteen hundred dollars to do the thing with you.
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  Speaker 8: I mean it comes well when I say why not,
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  Speaker 8: you've got to put it somewhere. Then you've got to
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  Speaker 8: take it with you and unplug it down, lock it
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: and unscrew.
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  Speaker 2: And more renters you know, who are going to be
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: renting for the whole of their lives and they can
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: take along some power disclients foot with them. The question
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: is will the unit last? There's two hours.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so you think it's a game changing.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's great.
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  Speaker 8: Anyway we're dealing with that matters.
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  Speaker 2: It's great. A great weekend. Thank you, it's been a
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  Speaker 2: good week. Thank you to producer Kenzie. Thank you to
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: set up producer Locke and producer Sam who I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where he's gone now. And I'm Andrew Dickins and
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Ryan's back on Monday.
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