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Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast: 19 August 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the Inside Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture bands and applay at stores.
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Speaker 2: Us Dogs. It'd be good morning. It is six after
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Speaker 2: five Monday, the nineteenth of August. Great to have your
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Speaker 2: company across New Zealand this morning. Nick Tuffley will be
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Speaker 2: with us shortly. This new quarterly report from asb Adri Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Adam Cooper is with us. The new South Africa Challenge
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Speaker 2: for the All Blacks. Chris Cartle is here just before
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Speaker 2: six this morning. This is the boy racers crashing into
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Speaker 2: the police cars in Hamilton. Absolutely overwhelmed at the weekend,
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Speaker 2: plus the extra bread tests that they want our cops
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Speaker 2: to do. Gavin Gray is in the UK the agenda
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Speaker 2: and it is Monday, the nineteenth of August. Ukrainian officials
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Speaker 2: say they've destroyed a second key bridge inside Russian territory
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Speaker 2: as part of their incursion into the Kursk and Blgarod regions.
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Speaker 2: The incursion is now into its second President Vodimir Zelenski
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Speaker 2: has asked Western leaders to lift restrictions on weapons to
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Speaker 2: allow Ukraine to strike deeper into Russian territory. Ukrainian Army
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Speaker 2: Major Colonel Vladimir Amelian says there are limitations to how
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Speaker 2: far the incursion can go.
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Speaker 3: We controls this territory, we called it and we progress definitely.
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Speaker 2: We cannot marsh to Moscow as prebosion tripe to do.
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Speaker 2: Russia say they have struck down four Ukrainian drones which
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Speaker 2: we're targeting the regions. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinkern
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Speaker 2: is traveling to Israel to push for a ceasefire deal
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Speaker 2: with Kamas. The CIA's director, William J. Burns, put a
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Speaker 2: proposal to both science last week, saying he hopes to
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Speaker 2: conclude negotiations this week very optimistic. That would include a
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Speaker 2: six week ceasepire deal. Also, the key issue is where
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Speaker 2: the IDF troops can remain inside Gaza after a deal
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Speaker 2: is signed. A report from the Helling Clark Foundation recommends
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Speaker 2: more transparency and stricter rules around political lobbyists and donations.
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Speaker 2: Health Coalition ALTED wants a public register of lobbyists, meetings
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Speaker 2: with decision makers, and a code of conduct made mandatory.
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Speaker 2: Public Health Infrastructure Committee current here David Gallas says they
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Speaker 2: currently rely on ministerial diaries.
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Speaker 4: And they do not provide the breadth or depth or
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Speaker 4: detail of information that is required to reassure people.
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Speaker 3: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge You for twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 3: furniture beds and a play at store News.
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Speaker 2: Talk said, be it sounds like Blincoln's going to have
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Speaker 2: a hard time trying to get a ceasefire deal in
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Speaker 2: the next week. This is his ninth trips since October seven,
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Speaker 2: and the talks are basically a standstill over whether the
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Speaker 2: IDEF can stay or must withdraw completely from the Gaza
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Speaker 2: strip or not. Talks are happening in Doha, wrapped up
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Speaker 2: at the weekend, and Hamas says any talk of progress
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Speaker 2: is just an illusion. So there you go. Also, this
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Speaker 2: morning there's a new health and safety report out and
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Speaker 2: I know how excited you get about health and safe safety,
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Speaker 2: but there's some numbers in here for you which I
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Speaker 2: thought were interesting. This is a report from the Business
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Speaker 2: Leaders Health and Safety Forum. The fatality rate in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: this is workplace accidents is sixty percent higher than in
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Speaker 2: Australia and five hundred percent higher than in the UK.
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Speaker 2: Apparently we have quite similar legislative settings, as they like
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Speaker 2: to call them what we have fewer inspectors and we're
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Speaker 2: less proactive with what we do. Brook van Velden's reviewing
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Speaker 2: our health and safety laws at the moment. But I
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Speaker 2: would have thought that a lot of that would come
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Speaker 2: down to the higher risk injuries that we have. Industries
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Speaker 2: we have in New Zealand, like forestry and farming. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's always a quad bike accident. Terrible as they are,
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Speaker 2: you know, they are rural. There are more variables, less
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Speaker 2: things you can control in a forestry setting or a
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Speaker 2: farming setting compared to a factory. I would have thought,
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Speaker 2: and I think those numbers are played out when you
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Speaker 2: look at the graph by region the worst Gisbon, Southland, Otago, Canterbury.
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Speaker 2: The best Auckland and Wellington, which are obviously you know,
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Speaker 2: easier to control, easier environments to control. Ten after five.
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Speaker 2: Also this morning, guess what is happening this week? It's
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Speaker 2: the Democrats convention in Chicago. Karmala Harris is going to
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Speaker 2: be well. It's her first official convention as the official nominee.
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Speaker 2: Thousands of anti Israeli protesters or pro Palestinian protesters, whatever
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Speaker 2: you want, to call them are going to be there
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Speaker 2: and also going drum roll, please Cindra A Durn Yes,
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Speaker 2: a spokesperson has confirmed just Cinda Adern is going to
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Speaker 2: attend the conference, participating in a panel for the Center
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Speaker 2: for American Progress Action Fund, which is a left wing
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Speaker 2: think tank, and the topic this is interesting how to
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Speaker 2: address the anxiety of our times, advanced social policy to
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Speaker 2: solve problems at af fect everyday life and begin to
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Speaker 2: heal our nation. Eleven after five back with the ASB
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Speaker 2: quarterly Survey.
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Speaker 3: Next news and views you trust to start your day
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Speaker 3: is Billy Edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 3: Zealand's Furniture Beds and a flying store News talk zid be.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Monday morning. Just gone thirteen after five. In
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Speaker 2: the UK, they are banning, well not banning, but they're
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Speaker 2: adding misogyny to a list of extreme ideologies. Extreme misogyny
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Speaker 2: will be treated as a form of extremism on a
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Speaker 2: new government plans. That's according to the Home Office. We're
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Speaker 2: going to go to Gavin Gray just b four just
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Speaker 2: after the five thirty news. Right now we're seeing early
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Speaker 2: signs of a turnaround for the economy. Asb's quarterly forecast
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Speaker 2: shows signs in fation will fall below three percent over
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Speaker 2: the second half of this year and remain well contained
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Speaker 2: beyond twenty twenty four. It comes after, of course, the
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Speaker 2: ocr was dropped slightly last week. Nick Tuffley's The ASB
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Speaker 2: Chief Economists, good morning, Thanks morning, Good to have you
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Speaker 2: on the show. Most importantly, I think because people now
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Speaker 2: feel like something is turning a corner household spending, when
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Speaker 2: are we going to see it start ramping up? Is
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Speaker 2: it straight away? Is it you know, in six months?
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Speaker 2: Is it Christmas?
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Speaker 5: It's still going to take some time. I think we'll
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Speaker 5: start to see some early signs trickling through. What we've
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Speaker 5: got really is a number of people who will still
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Speaker 5: be under pressure for some time, because even though mortgage
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Speaker 5: rates have started to come down, there will still be
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Speaker 5: some people where it will take a little bit until
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Speaker 5: they actually do see a change in their own own
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Speaker 5: pay packet. Fortunately, what we're seeing is is that a
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Speaker 5: lot of people when their mortgages come up for renewal,
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Speaker 5: they've tended to opt for a short term like six
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Speaker 5: months or twelve months. So the benefits will start to
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Speaker 5: flow through, but we just need to take be a
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Speaker 5: little bit patient.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the time leg should be quicker at this end
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Speaker 2: of the cycle rather than the other end coming in right.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we've had a lot of people who have been
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Speaker 5: sitting there so hope, hopefully waiting for interest rates to
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Speaker 5: come down. And had a very early Christmas present last
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Speaker 5: week with rapes coming down, so that look it will help.
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Speaker 5: And the other thing is just the mood as well,
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Speaker 5: Like it's been evident for a lot of this year,
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Speaker 5: just how many people have just been holding out a
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Speaker 5: question of and asked so much as of when's my
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Speaker 5: mortgage rate coming down? And now people know. Businesses also
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Speaker 5: know as well that their customers will be seeing their
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Speaker 5: own financial pressures at ease over time too.
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Speaker 2: I went to visit a business on Friday. It's somebody
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Speaker 2: who I do work with. They're like a creative sort
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Speaker 2: of talent talent agency type place and they relyant on
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Speaker 2: ad spend and they have walked into the office and
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Speaker 2: they looked very busy, which I didn't quite expect. They
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Speaker 2: were hiring two new staff and they said they're one
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Speaker 2: of the first industries. You know, everyone sort of cuts
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Speaker 2: advertising as then as there's a recession, they're one of
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Speaker 2: the first to feel it when it goes down, but
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Speaker 2: also the first to feel it when it's on the
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Speaker 2: way back up, which I thought was interesting.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and there's going to be lots of industries like that.
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Speaker 5: And I think the next story you're talking about is, look,
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Speaker 5: we've noticed over the last month or so, since there
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Speaker 5: was speculation and interest rates would fall fairly quickly, that
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Speaker 5: there has been a bit of a change in move
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Speaker 5: and you will see those various sectors that depend on
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Speaker 5: where they are and the whole sequence of events, like
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Speaker 5: say the housing market is one where confidence comes back
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Speaker 5: fairly quickly, as well as one example of an industry
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Speaker 5: that will turn around a bit quicker.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for that, Nick Tuffy with us the
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Speaker 2: ASP Chief Economists, just gone sixteen minutes seventeen minutes after
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Speaker 2: five on your Monday morning. We're going to talk later
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Speaker 2: to Chris Cahill from the Police Association. This is the
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Speaker 2: report you would have seen at the weekend. The government
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Speaker 2: wants our police to be doing more breath tests. They're
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Speaker 2: going to start doing drugs saliva tests and they want
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand of those done a year, two hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: extra breath tests. It was interesting looking at the stats
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Speaker 2: in the report about what's causing our accidents, our high
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Speaker 2: risk and death accidents, alcohol a contributing factor in thirteen
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Speaker 2: percent of them, speed twenty four percent, restraints twenty one
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Speaker 2: percent of those who died or were seriously injured were unrestrained.
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Speaker 2: In other words, no seat belt twenty one percent. And
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Speaker 2: I wonder because the emphasis I think here is on
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Speaker 2: contributing factor, right, it's not the reason. It's a contributing factor.
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Speaker 2: And are you more likely to speed if you're drunk? Probably?
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Speaker 2: Are you less inclined to wear a seatbelt if you're drunk, probably?
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 2: I guess killing one of those but bad turn a phrase,
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Speaker 2: But dealing with one of those might help deal with
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Speaker 2: some of the others too, anyway. Chris Carhill on that
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Speaker 2: just before six.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge New for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 3: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and a Playing Store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk SI, they.
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Speaker 2: Five twenty lots of focus this week will go on
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Speaker 2: the Democrats convention in Chicago, but also still a lot
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Speaker 2: of focus on Trump, not what he's scripted to say,
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Speaker 2: but what he says when he goes off script. And
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Speaker 2: a lot of people criticize him for this because they say, well,
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Speaker 2: you should stay on message, but that's not really what
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Speaker 2: he's known for, is it. And if you're one of
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Speaker 2: the supporters, Republican supporters going to one of these rallies,
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Speaker 2: you want to see a bit of off the cuff,
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Speaker 2: and he certainly did that yesterday.
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Speaker 7: People say, be nice.
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Speaker 2: Have you heard her laugh?
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Speaker 7: That is the laugh of a crazy person. That is
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Speaker 7: the laugh of a crazy It's a laugh of a lunatic.
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Speaker 3: Have you heard.
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Speaker 2: There? You go? I don't think he's going to stop
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Speaker 2: doing that anytime soon, and those who try probably wasting
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Speaker 2: their time. I would think. Twenty one minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge, Sport, We're going to go this morning to
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Speaker 2: Adam Cooper who's in Wellington. Adam, good morning morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 2: How are you very well? Thank you? So we won
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Speaker 2: against Argentina. That was a good go. Well, it got
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Speaker 2: a little bit boring towards the end, but that's because
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Speaker 2: we knew we were going to win well exactly. And
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Speaker 2: isn't that a nice per to be?
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Speaker 8: And as an All Blacks fan, I guess, especially after
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Speaker 8: the real disappointment of Test one against Argentina just a
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Speaker 8: week prior it was hard to believe that only seven
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Speaker 8: days separated what we saw from the All Blacks. I
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Speaker 8: thought that that clearly just I thought gone back to
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Speaker 8: the basics, that they knutted down exactly what they'd planned
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Speaker 8: to do in the first Test in Wellington, but just
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Speaker 8: weren't able to execute. So personally, I just think you've
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Speaker 8: got a credit that the forward pack, and especially the
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Speaker 8: leaders of the forward pack, the likes of Artis sav
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Speaker 8: They just Jeff from the get go, you could just
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Speaker 8: tell that they were going to be physically dominant during
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Speaker 8: this game. They got on the scoreboard very early on,
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Speaker 8: and I think a lot of the disappointments we were
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Speaker 8: talking about this time last week were overcome forty to
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Speaker 8: ten to sort of, you know, go back against that.
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Speaker 8: The result they had last week was really impressive, and
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Speaker 8: across the park, a lot of the people who had
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Speaker 8: question marks around their performances from the week before, the
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Speaker 8: likes of TJ. Peninata and Damian McKenzie in the back line,
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Speaker 8: I thought they certainly played themselves into continuing on with
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Speaker 8: those roles as they head now to South Africa. But
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Speaker 8: also Ryan obviously impressive that this thirty year unbeaten run
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Speaker 8: at eden Park continues. It's amazing that the fortress that
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Speaker 8: the main stadium in New Zealand provides to the national team.
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Speaker 8: So yeah, a lot of happy faces, but it does
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Speaker 8: get tough. Now they can get this one against Argentina,
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Speaker 8: but it all goes on the line again when they
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Speaker 8: had to two tough, brutal tests in South Africa in
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Speaker 8: a couple of weeks time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel whenever people talk about this winning streak
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Speaker 2: at eden Park, I just get nervous for whoever loses,
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Speaker 2: because it will happen one day and I would just
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Speaker 2: hate to be that coach, hate to be that team.
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Speaker 2: Adam Israel Adisonia's the UFC losses. It's a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Is he going to retire, Well, he's.
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Speaker 8: Very emphatically sort of talking down that retirement chat at
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Speaker 8: the moment, but it is you know, once people do
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Speaker 8: start to have uncharacteristic uncharacteristic trends or features, it's always
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Speaker 8: a question that pops up. I mean, he's now had
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Speaker 8: two losses in a row for the first time in
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Speaker 8: his career. It was the first time he lost in submission,
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Speaker 8: so that was, you know, quite a surprise in terms
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Speaker 8: of the way things panned out to Dreka's duplas in
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Speaker 8: the UFC middleweight title fight yesterday. But I think we
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Speaker 8: all know and we've come to know Israel utisign you
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Speaker 8: quite well over the years, how you know, headstrong years
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Speaker 8: in terms of just wanting to go back and work hard.
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Speaker 8: And he made that comment right after the fight in
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Speaker 8: Perth yesterday. He sort of followed up his opponents who said, hey,
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Speaker 8: it might be time out of sun your retires, But
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Speaker 8: is he just going to head straight back to Auckland,
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Speaker 8: straight back to the gym and get his career back
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Speaker 8: on track. So I do not think we will see
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Speaker 8: him even ponder the question of retirement anytime soon, and
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Speaker 8: wanting to get back to the top and add to
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Speaker 8: those two titles he has.
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Speaker 2: Anthony has checked the show to say, Hi, ask Adam
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Speaker 2: to add yesterday's NPC rugby scores into the sports news.
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Speaker 8: Please there in the sports news, and I can tell
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Speaker 8: you Wellington had a good win yesterday and I can
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Speaker 8: tell you why cat I had a good one over Counties.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, brilliant. I was wondering whether I'd be
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Speaker 2: putting you on the spot there, but you're all acrosst Adam,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much. Adam Cooper Zebe's Sport out of
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Speaker 2: our Wellington office this morning, twenty four minutes after five
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Speaker 2: when we come back, actually just after the news at
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Speaker 2: five point thirty, we've got Gavin Gray out of the UK.
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Speaker 2: Also Chris Carhill coming your way from the Police Association.
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Speaker 2: Did you see the video of the guy and the
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Speaker 2: girl in the ute in Hamilton just ramming the back
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Speaker 2: of a police car and there were police officers trying
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Speaker 2: to get into it. Have a listen to this jumping
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Speaker 2: out of the way. Is this idiot? The reverses into
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Speaker 2: a police car. Absolute scenes in Hamilton. We'll ask Chris
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Speaker 2: Carle about that. Twenty five after five.
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Speaker 2: Talks at me outrage at the weekend over the Human
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Speaker 2: Rights Commission. This is from some corners at least. The
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Speaker 2: chief Human Rights Commissioner has been announced as doctor Stephen Rainbow.
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Speaker 2: And he was once accused a q of being transphobic
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Speaker 2: or anti trans And it's one of those terms that
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Speaker 2: can quickly change the tone or the perception of an
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Speaker 2: article that you're reading. And I remember this from the
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Speaker 2: University College campus protests over in the States. You would
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Speaker 2: read the CNN copy on the story and it would
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Speaker 2: say they were pro Palestinian protesters. You would read the
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Speaker 2: Fox News version and it would say that anti Israel.
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Speaker 2: Who decides what you are? If you're pro one thing,
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Speaker 2: does it automatically make you anti the other? Women's rights campaigners?
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Speaker 2: And this was the point that I think was being
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Speaker 2: made about doctor Stephen Rainbow the women's rights campaigners. Do
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Speaker 2: they hate or are they anti trans people? Or are
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Speaker 2: they just pro women's rights as they would claim that
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Speaker 2: they are. And equally, just because you want to cease
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Speaker 2: fire in Gaza, it doesn't mean you're antisemitic, does it.
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Speaker 2: There seems to be a polarization happening here. You're this
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Speaker 2: or you're that, or you're all of your or your
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Speaker 2: nothing or it's black and white, And we do it
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Speaker 2: in the media all the time. We're probably the most
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Speaker 2: guilty of it, I have to say. And whoever is
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Speaker 2: shouting the loudest, I think tends to get dominate the
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Speaker 2: news cycle. But then again, what's that based on? Like tweets?
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Speaker 2: Is that really how you decide or define what someone
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Speaker 2: feels about an issue? I always found it odd when
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Speaker 2: it came to abortion, which is a very divisive issue. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: people feel very personally about this issue. Are you pro
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Speaker 2: life or anti abortion? Are you women's choice or pro abortion?
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Speaker 2: Is anybody really pro abortion? You know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: You might want women to choose, but surely nobody's actually
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Speaker 2: pro abortion. I've really got no idea how to resolve
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Speaker 2: this problem of labeling in the media other than when
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Speaker 2: somebody's labeled anti something. Nowadays, I'm inclined to find out why,
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Speaker 2: how and if, to my mind at least their motivations
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Speaker 2: aren't just pro something else. Twenty nine after five Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge shut car Hills Head Just before sex, we'll ask
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Speaker 2: him about that boy racer business in Hamilton over the weekend. Also,
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Speaker 2: they want two hundred thousand extra breath tests out of
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Speaker 2: the police each year. Can they really achieve it? We'll
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Speaker 2: ask them just before sex.
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Speaker 5: Is swey?
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Speaker 2: That's the beasts.
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Speaker 3: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 3: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City New
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Speaker 3: Zealand's furniture bids and a playing store news talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be.
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Speaker 9: Day let that can thanks Jun myself every week.
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Speaker 2: Care if you don't tell they said to you more.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six.
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Speaker 2: This IS's favorite song, apparently Leo. Every time after five
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Speaker 2: point thirty it's country. It's the Country half hour with Leo. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: It's quite a good song, isn't it good? Happy one
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Speaker 2: for a Monday morning? Because we are happy on a Monday,
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Speaker 2: aren't we. Lots of people texting in about the boy
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Speaker 2: Races in Hamilton, Ryan, Every news report tells us what
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Speaker 2: the boy racers did, but we don't hear whether any
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Speaker 2: of these delinquents got arrested. I'll have an update on
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Speaker 2: that for you shortly. We're gonna speak to Chris Carhill
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Speaker 2: just before six. Ryan. This is from Larry. If the
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Speaker 2: cops were packing side guns when the bill says, if
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Speaker 2: the cops were packing side guns when the wanker is
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Speaker 2: backed into their car, they could have blown the escapees
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Speaker 2: tires out, all right, Bill twenty three to six, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: We're going to our reporters around the country this morning,
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Speaker 2: and we are starting in Dunedin with Callum Cullum Proctor.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, You've got an update on this man who
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Speaker 2: died in a boating tragedy column.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, morning, Ryan, This is Gareth Pearson, who died after
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Speaker 9: a boat capsized near Jack's Bay in the Catlands on Saturday.
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Speaker 9: A search was launched shortly before noon after police were
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Speaker 9: alerted at around ten forty am. Another man was rescued
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Speaker 9: on some nearby rocks alongside a dog. They were celebrating
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Speaker 9: his sixtieth birthday. He's being remembered for his big personality.
19:26
Speaker 9: His partner Jenny Lorman's posted a tribute online saying he
19:30
Speaker 9: was loved by many and had lived with her for
19:33
Speaker 9: many years in Australia. And this tragedy comes just two
19:36
Speaker 9: weeks after three died when a boat capsized in Southlands Riverton.
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Speaker 2: How's the weather today, Chile.
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Speaker 9: Yeah it is and we have a snowfall warning for
19:45
Speaker 9: our northern motorway so we're waiting for that. Occasional showers
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Speaker 9: snowed near sea level today for US. Ryan Strong Southwesters
19:51
Speaker 9: and six the High Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Claire Edwards in christ Church this morning. Claire, good morning.
19:56
Speaker 2: I hope you've had a good weekend. Tell me about
19:58
Speaker 2: this another set back for the Cathedral Square.
20:02
Speaker 10: Another Ryan Look, the businessman behind the ambitious hospitality project
20:06
Speaker 10: The Grand which was hoped to be a big part
20:09
Speaker 10: of revitalizing the square is now facing liquidation after failing
20:13
Speaker 10: to meet a funding hurdle. Darren Rainbird had planned to
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Speaker 10: open the ground in the old Chief Post Office building
20:19
Speaker 10: in twenty twenty one. Had used crowdfunding to raise a
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Speaker 10: lot of the needed funds in return for company shares.
20:25
Speaker 10: Plans have been pushed back multiple times before. That was
20:28
Speaker 10: because of COVID, rising costs and issues with securing funding
20:32
Speaker 10: along the way. He's now written to shareholders saying his
20:35
Speaker 10: own home will be sold and a move to voluntary
20:38
Speaker 10: liquidation is likely this Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: That's not good for progress, is it. How's the weather clear?
20:44
Speaker 10: Well, it's rainy here in christ Church, been snow elsewhere
20:47
Speaker 10: in North Canterbury etc. Overnight snow will fall today to
20:50
Speaker 10: about five hundred meters. Southwesterlies strong, the high only nine
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Speaker 10: with minus four overnight.
20:56
Speaker 2: Thank you Maxis and Wellington Hamax. What's cr what's the
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Speaker 2: go with your public transport?
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Speaker 4: So Metlink has done their annual survey assessing how happy
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Speaker 4: people are with how things are running, and while the
21:09
Speaker 4: trains may not run on weekends, the ferries seem to
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Speaker 4: be a catastrophe waiting to happen. This shows that ninety
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Speaker 4: two percent of Wellingtonians are actually pretty happy with how
21:19
Speaker 4: things are going. That's out of three thousand respondents, down
21:22
Speaker 4: a single percent on last year, but still high. The
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Speaker 4: Johnsonville line getting the best response. The Stark exception widered APPA,
21:30
Speaker 4: which recently laid new tracks that turned out to be
21:32
Speaker 4: too narrow, so the trains had to slow down, meaning
21:35
Speaker 4: every journey arrived late. Only eight percent of wider Appens
21:38
Speaker 4: satisfied with their line. Also, interestingly, twenty percent fall in satisfaction.
21:44
Speaker 4: We're regarding fair value for money that coinciding with the
21:48
Speaker 4: fair subsidies coming to an end.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and also I guess cost a living too. The
21:52
Speaker 2: wided Apper line is a mess because although it's probably
21:56
Speaker 2: saved by the fact because I've done that line a
21:58
Speaker 2: couple of times and you just you're right, you come
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Speaker 2: over the room attackers and well under the room attackers
22:03
Speaker 2: and then you just slow right down. But it's probably
22:05
Speaker 2: saved by the road, which, now that they've dropped the
22:08
Speaker 2: speed limit, takes ages to get to Masterton. So that's
22:11
Speaker 2: right anyway. Weather today max.
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Speaker 4: More stormy weather, rain heavy at times, thunderstorms possible for
22:18
Speaker 4: most of the day's strong Southerly's twelve the High Central.
22:21
Speaker 2: Thank you, Wendy Petres in Auckland this morning. Good morning,
22:23
Speaker 2: not Anna, good to see you again. One of the
22:26
Speaker 2: country's biggest schools clamping down on zone fraud.
22:28
Speaker 6: Yes, nine students have been kicked out of one of
22:31
Speaker 6: New Zealand's biggest schools after zone fraud. Enrollment fraud as
22:35
Speaker 6: spiked a schools deal with ballooning roles amid increasing immigration
22:38
Speaker 6: and info housing. Auckland's McLean's College requires parents to prove
22:42
Speaker 6: they live in zone when enrolling their children. Last year,
22:45
Speaker 6: it had to kick nine pupils out after discovering they
22:48
Speaker 6: were fraudulently enrolled. Four were re enrolled after their families
22:51
Speaker 6: then moved into the school zone. The school did a
22:54
Speaker 6: blanket request for power bills proving the addresses of the
22:57
Speaker 6: roughly seven hundred pupils enrolled since July last year.
23:01
Speaker 2: Wow, so you need to give a bill or like
23:04
Speaker 2: a bank or what is to say? Can you not
23:07
Speaker 2: just ring up the power company and say I live
23:09
Speaker 2: at this address when you don't? Good point rules like
23:12
Speaker 2: well exactly, maybe that's why there's so much fraud house
23:15
Speaker 2: weather today.
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Speaker 6: Wendy, Well, yes, you know it's been a bit like
23:18
Speaker 6: a weekend day. Occasional showers frequent this afternoon, squarely thunderstorms possible,
23:23
Speaker 6: strong southwesterlyes and a fifteen degree high.
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Speaker 2: Our UK Europe correspondents. Gavin Gray with US Live this
24:32
Speaker 2: morning at quarter to six. Gavin, a British Foreign Office official,
24:36
Speaker 2: has resigned.
24:38
Speaker 11: Indeed our protest. What he says is basically the UK
24:43
Speaker 11: government potentially being complicit in war crimes. He's talking about
24:47
Speaker 11: arms sales to Israel.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 11: Mark Smith, who is believed to be a relatively judia
24:53
Speaker 11: member staff based at the British Embassy in Dublin, has
24:57
Speaker 11: made his resignation letter very open, sending it to a
25:01
Speaker 11: lot of different government officials hundreds in total, Embassy staff,
25:05
Speaker 11: special advisor to Foreign Office ministers too, saying that each
25:09
Speaker 11: day colleagues were witnessing quote clear and unquestionable examples of
25:14
Speaker 11: war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law by Israel
25:18
Speaker 11: in Gaza, something incidentally, of course, which Israel completely denies.
25:23
Speaker 11: He said, there really is no justification for the UK's
25:26
Speaker 11: continued arm sales to Israel. This is a little tricky,
25:30
Speaker 11: a little embarrassing for the government, which won't like the
25:33
Speaker 11: fact that this has been publicized so much. And while hundreds
25:36
Speaker 11: of officials in the UK and Europe have registered unprecedented
25:40
Speaker 11: levels of dissent at policies towards Israel because of Gaza
25:44
Speaker 11: and the war there, of course, there have been very
25:47
Speaker 11: few cases of what you might call principled resignations and
25:50
Speaker 11: so therefore this is rare and embarrassing for the British government. Now,
25:55
Speaker 11: if you're wondering how much is paid and sent, well,
25:58
Speaker 11: the UK granted licenses weapons exports to Israel worth about
26:03
Speaker 11: a billion New Zealand dollars since two thousand and eight,
26:06
Speaker 11: the UK government really playing the scale of the supply down,
26:09
Speaker 11: saying it's relatively small, at about ninety million New Zealand
26:13
Speaker 11: dollars back in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 2: All right, Kevin, very quickly, we've got time for this
26:18
Speaker 2: fishing competition of sorts in Switzerland.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, so apparently. I mean, you know, when you see
26:24
Speaker 11: the lakes in Switzerland, they are stunningly beausible. But the
26:27
Speaker 11: waters conceal a hidden truth, and that is that for
26:30
Speaker 11: many years they were used as a dumping ground by
26:33
Speaker 11: the Swiss authorities and the Swiss military. They were dumping
26:37
Speaker 11: grounds for old munitions, and that really was because they
26:40
Speaker 11: thought they could be safely stored there. Thousands of tons
26:44
Speaker 11: of munitions are stored in the different waters of the
26:46
Speaker 11: different lakes, some just six meters below the surface, others
26:50
Speaker 11: more than two hundred meters below the surface. And now
26:53
Speaker 11: the Swiss government's offering money to come up with the
26:56
Speaker 11: best solution to get them out. The fear is they
26:58
Speaker 11: could explode, but the fear as well they may leach
27:01
Speaker 11: out PNT, which is very toxic to the environment. So
27:04
Speaker 11: the Swiss Events Department is offering roughly ninety thousand New
27:08
Speaker 11: Zealand dollars for the best idea to get it out.
27:10
Speaker 11: Ryan get their application for men.
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Speaker 2: Gavin. Thank you Gavin Gray UK. You're correspondent with us
27:17
Speaker 2: this morning, just gone twelve minutes away from six Bryan Bridge.
27:20
Speaker 2: So the government wants police to do an extra two
27:23
Speaker 2: hundred thousand breath tests per year and also to start
27:27
Speaker 2: drug saliva testing. They want fifty thousand of those done
27:31
Speaker 2: every year. It comes after yesterday, well actually at the weekend,
27:35
Speaker 2: boy races over seemingly overwhelming police in Hamilton and one
27:41
Speaker 2: of them ramming a cop car. Have listen pretty frightening
27:55
Speaker 2: and the police officers were standing at look like standing
27:58
Speaker 2: at the door of their car, had a jump out
28:00
Speaker 2: of the way. Very dangerous stuff. Chris Carhill's the Police
28:02
Speaker 2: Association president. He is with US Live this morning. Good morning,
28:06
Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan. First, what did you think watching that video?
28:10
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's pretty horrific, isn't it? And that's through these
28:13
Speaker 12: events seem to have made a dramatic change. They were
28:16
Speaker 12: driving events that were bad and incredibly annoying and at
28:20
Speaker 12: times a bit dangerous. Now they seem to be disorder
28:23
Speaker 12: offenses where people are there to almost bake the police,
28:27
Speaker 12: take on the police, and it sees who to do
28:29
Speaker 12: the craziest thing there and get the biggest video is
28:32
Speaker 12: the winner. And it's pretty concerning. I mean, those officers
28:35
Speaker 12: could have been seriously hurt. It's very marginal.
28:38
Speaker 2: What do you do about that? If they're filming it
28:40
Speaker 2: and it's almost becomes a sport in and of itself,
28:43
Speaker 2: do you just not turn up to these events?
28:45
Speaker 12: Well? I think they because they're already doing I mean
28:48
Speaker 12: we're having even when out when the police aren't there.
28:50
Speaker 12: People have been put at risk people injured as well. Look,
28:55
Speaker 12: I think there has to be some penalty for those
28:57
Speaker 12: that are actually posting this stuff, and certainly the ones
29:00
Speaker 12: that are inciting on those posts. You know, it's telling
29:03
Speaker 12: police to people to turn up, telling people to throw
29:05
Speaker 12: things at the police, these sorts of things. I think
29:08
Speaker 12: there has to be something that's cracked down on as
29:11
Speaker 12: well as not just sitting up at the event.
29:13
Speaker 2: Sim In Brown wants police doing more breath tests. They
29:16
Speaker 2: also want to start that drug saliva test and let's
29:18
Speaker 2: start with the breath test for a start extra two
29:20
Speaker 2: hundred thousand a year up to I think it's three
29:23
Speaker 2: point four million, sorry, three point three million now up
29:27
Speaker 2: from three point one million roadside alcohol breath tests. Is
29:30
Speaker 2: that a reasonable ask?
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Speaker 12: Well, it's a bigger ask. I mean, you know, we
29:35
Speaker 12: currently have a target of around that three million, but
29:39
Speaker 12: I think police have only men has hit it twice
29:41
Speaker 12: in the last ten years. And that just gives you
29:43
Speaker 12: an idea how the police are. There's a lot of
29:45
Speaker 12: other work going on out there, and you know something
29:48
Speaker 12: you'll have to give. I think there again, pat stuff,
29:51
Speaker 12: you are police from the beat, You've got the retail crime,
29:54
Speaker 12: and we still have them down with the issue of
29:57
Speaker 12: family harm and mental health. So let's go to be
30:00
Speaker 12: a big stretch for police to be able to achieve this, and.
30:02
Speaker 2: They're doing one and the other with the drug testing.
30:05
Speaker 2: How long? What is the process for the drug testing?
30:08
Speaker 2: Is that as easy as a breath test?
30:11
Speaker 12: Now that's not I mean at this the proposals you'll
30:14
Speaker 12: do two mouth swabs, so and then there's variations of
30:20
Speaker 12: that depending on what the results are and what the
30:22
Speaker 12: person lecks to do. But I would have thought that's
30:25
Speaker 12: going to take a minimum sort of fifteen minutes, maybe longer.
30:29
Speaker 12: And so you work out fifty thousand, that's about twelve
30:32
Speaker 12: and a half thousand officer as a year. So that's
30:35
Speaker 12: an incredibly increase. And we're at the police as well,
30:39
Speaker 12: so it's going to be a real challenge. And I
30:41
Speaker 12: think the question that I'll be asking the minister at
30:43
Speaker 12: plice what's going to give Where do you want them
30:45
Speaker 12: to stop doing? Because you can't just keep adding more on?
30:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Chris, thanks so much for your time. Chris,
30:50
Speaker 2: can't hooldy police Assacia. Oh actually, just before you go, Chris,
30:53
Speaker 2: we've had a text come in from someone who works
30:55
Speaker 2: at Police saying that there's some redundancies apparently going to
30:58
Speaker 2: be announced today or tomorrow. Are you aware of thotse Yeah.
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Speaker 12: There will be a big announcement I think probably tomorrow's
31:06
Speaker 12: staff for getting effects in the next twenty four hours
31:09
Speaker 12: sort of thing. So I don't want to say two much,
31:11
Speaker 12: but here there's certainly a proposal that we're going to
31:14
Speaker 12: get all the details of in the next couple of days,
31:17
Speaker 12: which we'll be watching closely. They will be police employees
31:21
Speaker 12: or non sworn staff, not sworn police officers, but a
31:24
Speaker 12: lot of those staff are what actually enabled police officers
31:27
Speaker 12: to go out and do their job every day, so
31:29
Speaker 12: we'll be watching that very closely.
31:31
Speaker 2: Any idea of numbers at the stage, Chris, Look, the.
31:35
Speaker 12: Figure that was bended around at the start was in
31:37
Speaker 12: their one hundred and seventy five range. But we just
31:39
Speaker 12: want to see what has actually been settled on now
31:42
Speaker 12: that they've gone through a process.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for your tom really appreciated, Chris Carhel,
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Speaker 2: Police Association President, eight two six.
31:51
Speaker 3: The first word on the News of the Day earlier
31:54
Speaker 3: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith, City New Zealand's furniture
31:58
Speaker 3: beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: City youay, it's Monday morning, five away from six. So
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Speaker 2: Chris Khill the Police Association, just revealing there that he
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Speaker 2: expects about one hundred and seventy odd jobs to go
32:10
Speaker 2: at police, not in frontline officers, but more back off
32:15
Speaker 2: of stuff. I'm sure we'll have more on that in
32:17
Speaker 2: the next couple of days, won't we. Mike Costkins here,
32:20
Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. Goodnes See.
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Speaker 7: When was the last time you were pulled over for
32:23
Speaker 7: the you know, the drinking? I couldn't tell you, See,
32:26
Speaker 7: I don't think I can't. I honestly can't remember. Its staircase.
32:29
Speaker 7: We're we're on the road every weekend up into the country,
32:32
Speaker 7: so we go like an hour north in our back,
32:34
Speaker 7: so we're there for a couple of hours literally every week.
32:37
Speaker 7: And I did this whole thing of you know, we're
32:39
Speaker 7: going to have three point three million of this, and
32:41
Speaker 7: I just can't work out where the resources. When was
32:44
Speaker 7: the last time you saw a cop? When was the
32:46
Speaker 7: last time you were ever pulled over? You know what
32:48
Speaker 7: I mean?
32:48
Speaker 2: It's just what time are you driving there? Though?
32:50
Speaker 12: Well?
32:50
Speaker 7: Yeah, during that's that'll be their argument.
32:52
Speaker 2: You know, most of it's done at high risk times.
32:55
Speaker 7: Was that is that I mean. Now, is that two o'clock,
32:57
Speaker 7: five o'clock, nine o'clock, ten o'clock.
32:59
Speaker 2: Is it suburb?
33:00
Speaker 7: Is it the middle of nowhere?
33:01
Speaker 2: If I was going to drink drive, I would probably go,
33:06
Speaker 2: you know, lunchtime.
33:08
Speaker 7: Would you or you know, I'll see Friday afternoons. That
33:12
Speaker 7: what we're saying. So Friday afternoon two thirty, Friday afternoon.
33:15
Speaker 7: Probably wouldn't mind yourself.
33:16
Speaker 6: You know.
33:17
Speaker 7: It's just I mean, good luck to them. Let's hope
33:19
Speaker 7: they get lots of people if it's a problem, all
33:21
Speaker 7: of that sort of thing. I just all I know
33:23
Speaker 7: is I haven't been pulled over for twenty or thirty years.
33:26
Speaker 2: Literally have not been pulled over.
33:27
Speaker 7: I honestly cannot remember the last time or anything.
33:30
Speaker 2: For anything.
33:31
Speaker 7: If I got pulled over at the very start of
33:33
Speaker 7: this job sixteen years ago, I got pulled over by
33:35
Speaker 7: a cop who wanted to look at the engine of
33:37
Speaker 7: my car because he saw it was a cool car.
33:39
Speaker 7: And apart from that, that's it.
33:42
Speaker 2: Consider yourself lucky. Anyway, we'll talk.
33:44
Speaker 7: Tom Brown about all of this after seven o'clock.
33:47
Speaker 2: Have a great day. I will catch you tomorrow. Mike's
33:49
Speaker 2: here next.
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