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Full Show Podcast: 14 April 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving,
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  Speaker 1: news talks.
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  Speaker 2: They'd be Good Morning at six half to five coming
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  Speaker 2: up on the show. Henry Olsen, Washington Post columnist, joins
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  Speaker 2: us from Buddapest. We're talking the blockade, but also the
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  Speaker 2: Hungarian election result. Donors in Australia for US, the Navy,
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  Speaker 2: they're ready to take action in the Middle East should
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  Speaker 2: they need to. Good news on cancer infusions, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got cheap illegal duuries, which is probably bad news ultimately
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  Speaker 2: for all of us. The agenda here's that the falling
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  Speaker 2: of April the blockade is the go go, but Iran
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  Speaker 2: is not backing down, at least in Russia.
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  Speaker 3: The Rana's in very bad shed. I think they're very desperate.
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  Speaker 3: We had a meeting that less than twenty one hours.
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  Speaker 3: We understand the situation better than anybody, and Iran's in
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  Speaker 3: very bad check.
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  Speaker 2: Starmer's doing what Starmer has done since the beginning, calling
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  Speaker 2: for the Strait to open without conditions, without providing any
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  Speaker 2: means for that to happen.
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  Speaker 4: All of the leaders that I met were clear the
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  Speaker 4: freedom of navigation is vital and must be restored, no conditions,
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  Speaker 4: no tolls, and no tolerance of around holding the world's
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  Speaker 4: economy to ransom.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Pope Leo is at war with Jesus Aka Trump.
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  Speaker 3: He's a man that doesn't think that we should be
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  Speaker 3: doing with a country that once a nuclear weapons so
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  Speaker 3: they can blow up the world. I'm not a fan
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  Speaker 3: of Bubblio.
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  Speaker 5: Not wanting into it to meet with him, and I
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  Speaker 5: will continue to speak up love against war, looking to
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  Speaker 5: the shore, peace, promoting dialogue and multi lateral relationships among
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  Speaker 5: the states, to look for just solutions and crumps. Too
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  Speaker 5: many people are suffering in the world today.
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  Speaker 2: He says he doesn't here or doesn't fear Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that at twenty five after five this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Hungary. Now it's auburn out and Maya.
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  Speaker 6: In Hungary's place is was is and will be in Europe.
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  Speaker 6: Millions of Hungarians have proven yesterday that's the Hungarian history
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  Speaker 6: is written by Hungarians. History is not written in Moscow,
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  Speaker 6: or in Brussels or in Washington. It is written on
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  Speaker 6: the Hungarians, streets, Hungarian squas and by Hungarians, to whom
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  Speaker 6: I'm very grateful that they proved.
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  Speaker 2: This it is, but it is finally this morning, well
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  Speaker 2: she's done it again. More trouble for Britney spears. She's
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  Speaker 2: taken to rehab. This is you remember we talked about
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  Speaker 2: her do U I arrest or. She's now in rehab
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  Speaker 2: entered treatment voluntarily. We're tolds weeks before she's due in
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  Speaker 2: courts in California.
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  Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Belly Edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
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  Speaker 1: moving news talks that'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be poor Brittany, Poor Brittany. Nine two nine two is
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  Speaker 2: the number six, just gone nine minutes after five, So
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  Speaker 2: you US Central Command, they're the ones who are in
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  Speaker 2: charge of what happens in the Middle East for Trump.
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  Speaker 2: They've put out a tweet overnight saying that the forces
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  Speaker 2: will begin their blockade of all maritime traffic entering and
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  Speaker 2: exiting Iranian ports. So the specifics of it against Iranian
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  Speaker 2: against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports
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  Speaker 2: and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian
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  Speaker 2: Gulf and the Gulf of Oman forces will not impede
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  Speaker 2: freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait to and
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  Speaker 2: from non Iranian ports. So if you're going through an
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  Speaker 2: Iranian plant, it's a blockade of the port. Basically, anyone
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  Speaker 2: else will be fine, though no one else is going
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  Speaker 2: to go through there, are they Now? The US has
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  Speaker 2: an aircraft carrier there, They've got some guided missile destroyers there.
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  Speaker 2: They've got amphibious assault ships there. They've got several warships
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  Speaker 2: gathered in the Middle East, and they have the ability
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  Speaker 2: to get the choppers up in the sky and bored
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  Speaker 2: other vessels should they need to do that. They can
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  Speaker 2: marshall commercial vessels. They've got all this capability there, but
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  Speaker 2: it will take time to do. The navy build up
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  Speaker 2: they reckon. It's going to take some time. Blockades take
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  Speaker 2: time to have an impact the warships. This is according
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  Speaker 2: to a retired Navy Vice Admiral Kevin Donogan. He says
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  Speaker 2: the warships will likely operate outside the strait because, of
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  Speaker 2: course their Iranians have got their drones and they've got
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  Speaker 2: their speedboats in the strait, and you don't want them
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  Speaker 2: to get in. You don't want to get in the
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  Speaker 2: way of them, or get within shot within coobi of them.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of other little things for you this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So you know about how much fuel we have, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not a cause to panic right now, but it's
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  Speaker 2: interesting looking at what is to come, particularly after the
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  Speaker 2: end of this month. So according to this economist. To
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  Speaker 2: Macquarie University economist Lurian Demello, he tracks how many vessels
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  Speaker 2: are on the water. Ten fuel ships are on their
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  Speaker 2: way to New Zealand at the moment. The last one
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  Speaker 2: is due to arrive here in ten days. After that.
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  Speaker 2: There are no more scheduled at this point. Now the
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  Speaker 2: government says, don't worry, chill out, We're all good. You
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  Speaker 2: don't need to worry about this. We've got it, so okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll believe that. However, he does make the point that
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  Speaker 2: forty eight ships in that same time period are heading
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  Speaker 2: to Australia with refined fuel, and they're getting there from
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  Speaker 2: a wider variety of places. Now, you could argue that
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  Speaker 2: that's because they don't have as much right now as
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  Speaker 2: we do, so they're in more of a dire position.
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  Speaker 2: But we actually don't know beyond May how many ships
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get and where they're going to come from.
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  Speaker 2: That's the gist of it. Twelve minutes after five, Cryan Bridge,
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  Speaker 2: show me up next, illegal tobacco. So it's up to
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent of people who are smoking cigarettes in New
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  Speaker 2: Zealand right now smoking illegal tobacco and not paying taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Retailing z upset. That's next. News talk ZEB.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with spot for business Technology
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  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving newstalksbb.
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  Speaker 2: Is fourteen minutes after five. The services sector data out yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: This is the ben Z Business New Zealand Performance of
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  Speaker 2: Services Index, the PSI ten month low. It's going backwards,
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  Speaker 2: third consecutive March backwards for this particular index, and that
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  Speaker 2: basically if services are seventy percent of our economy and
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  Speaker 2: so it's in contraction slump and New Waters is to
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  Speaker 2: blame and the service is down to quite a contrast
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  Speaker 2: to the PMI, which is all the factories, which is
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  Speaker 2: an expansion in New Zealand for the month of March,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, it was fifty three point two and remember
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  Speaker 2: anything over fifty is in positive territory. It went down
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  Speaker 2: slightly from February, but so factory is doing well, service
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  Speaker 2: is not doing so well, and the risk is all
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  Speaker 2: the fairers. According to BNZ, that the services the What
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  Speaker 2: we're doing well with the factories will undercut what we're
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  Speaker 2: doing with will be undercut by what's happening with the
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  Speaker 2: services sector and will lead to economic contraction. It's quarter
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  Speaker 2: past five. Retail in Z sounding the alarm on illegal tobacco.
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  Speaker 2: A new report has found as much as twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: percent of tobacco consumed here is illegally imported and not
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  Speaker 2: being taxed. There's a warning as well, the black market
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  Speaker 2: could turn violent, just like we've seen in Australia. Carolyn Young,
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  Speaker 2: Retail in Z Chief executive with me this morning. Hey Carolyn, Carolyn,
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  Speaker 2: good to hear from you. Good morning, Yeah, good morning. Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Why have you guys decided to do a report on
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  Speaker 2: illegal tobacco.
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  Speaker 7: Look, it's such a major issue in Australia with international
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  Speaker 7: organized crime groups running the tobacco market in Australia. We
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  Speaker 7: see you over one hundred fire bombs that have occurred
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  Speaker 7: in the state of Victoria alone, and organized crime on
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  Speaker 7: an international scale brings with it a lot of other things.
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  Speaker 7: We obviously support retailers, we support legitimate bussiness is doing
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  Speaker 7: providing great services to our communities. As soon as you
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  Speaker 7: start looking at organized crime infiltrating into a legitimate market.
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  Speaker 7: It changes the landscape brings with it more crime that
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  Speaker 7: we already know is difficult in New Zealand to manage
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  Speaker 7: retail crime, and we believe that we need to act
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  Speaker 7: now while we've got this window opportunity before we reach
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  Speaker 7: the stages that it's at in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Retailers, some retailers are part of the problem here, aren't they.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw that there was a case study in
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  Speaker 2: your piece about a retailer who was selling illegal tobacco products.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, and I think for that particular store, we did
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  Speaker 7: that case study. And I would use the term retailer
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  Speaker 7: loosely because you know that store is only illicit product
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  Speaker 7: and we believe is run by an organized crime group.
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  Speaker 2: It's a car boot situation. Our retailer's idea dairies selling
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  Speaker 2: illegal tobacco.
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  Speaker 7: There will be some that will be selling it under
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  Speaker 7: the count to illegal. That's correct and model happened. What
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  Speaker 7: happened in Australia is the explosion where we've got to.
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  Speaker 7: Now we're nearly eighty percent of sales in Australia are illicit.
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  Speaker 7: You know, basically the international gangs come in and they
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  Speaker 7: run a lot of out of the Middle East and
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  Speaker 7: out of China. They're running these illicit tobacco stores and
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  Speaker 7: then they're setting them up quite close to other businesses
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  Speaker 7: like a superresse or like a dairy, or like a
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  Speaker 7: vape store. And then what happens is that those stores
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  Speaker 7: their business just to clines, so they pressued into selling
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  Speaker 7: the illicit tobacco as well.
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  Speaker 2: You're wanting to it. There's a whole bunch of stuff
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  Speaker 2: if you've asked for, including a working group and some
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  Speaker 2: money and stuff. But it's like drugs. You'll never stop
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  Speaker 2: at all, will you end in. The reason it's happening
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  Speaker 2: is because of the price the tax on them. They're
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  Speaker 2: like fifty bucks for a packet of twenty, so people
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  Speaker 2: are going to go to the black market.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: There's an opportunity there for a black market to infiltration.
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  Speaker 7: In Australia the exercises even higher, which is why it's
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  Speaker 7: really taken off. And in Australia they're trying to close
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  Speaker 7: the gate after the horse has already bolted because it's
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  Speaker 7: so far at head and they didn't acknowledge there was
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  Speaker 7: an issue. We have spoken to the Minister she's aware
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  Speaker 7: of the issue and wants to take action. And so
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  Speaker 7: you know, this report ready outlines some immediate things that
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  Speaker 7: should be done, and you know the need to get
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  Speaker 7: together around table of all of the interested parties, your customs,
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  Speaker 7: health police, ourselves to sit down and investigate further some
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  Speaker 7: of these recommendations we've made because we don't have all
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  Speaker 7: the answers, but what we do know is that something
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  Speaker 7: needs to be done and we need to act now.
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  Speaker 2: Carolyn Young Retailing is their chief executive. Nice to have
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  Speaker 2: you on the programs always. Nineteen minutes after five year
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  Speaker 2: on News Talks EDB. Next, we have some good news
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  Speaker 2: on cancer infusions, especially if you're needing to travel with
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  Speaker 2: petrol being the way it is at the moment to
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  Speaker 2: get those services. News Talks EDB.
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  Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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  Speaker 1: analysis earlier edition with Ryan Bridge Spark for business Technology
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  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 2: News Talk Z by one after five. I'm calling BS
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  Speaker 2: on the A and Z report out yesterday from the economists,
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  Speaker 2: saying that we'll get three consecutive twenty five basis point
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  Speaker 2: heights to the OC July, September or October. That'd take
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  Speaker 2: us to three percent because we're at two point twenty
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  Speaker 2: five at the moment. The Reserve Bank said we will
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  Speaker 2: look through short term inflation, and we had Paul Conway
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  Speaker 2: on the show, and I said, what four five, six percent,
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  Speaker 2: seven percent?
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  Speaker 7: Year?
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  Speaker 2: Sweet, we'll look through it because it's short term. It's
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  Speaker 2: only the second wave of inflationary effects that we would
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  Speaker 2: take notice of. So I think we can probably put
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  Speaker 2: that to one side at the moment. Even they say, look,
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  Speaker 2: it's just crystal ball gazing at this point twenty two
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  Speaker 2: after five, Bryan Bridge, more cancer infusions happening in more places.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting fourteen new centers, fourteen upgraded centers, thirteen thousand
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  Speaker 2: extra infusions. A. Yeah, this is all good stuff. That's
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  Speaker 2: a twelve percent increase backed by two hundred and ten
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  Speaker 2: million dollars in funding that set aside in the budget.
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  Speaker 2: Nicola Coomb, chief executive at Cancer Society, with me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: NiCl good morning, Good morning, Ryan. You're welcoming this. I'm
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  Speaker 2: assuming good news.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely. Yeah, this is an announcement that means that cancer
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  Speaker 9: patients can access their treatment faster and much closer to home.
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  Speaker 9: So yeah, we're certainly welcoming this. It's a step towards
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  Speaker 9: rolling out those new medicines that the government announced back
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  Speaker 9: in twenty twenty four. So without this new infrastructure in
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  Speaker 9: clinical capacity, those medicines wouldn't get to those patients. So
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  Speaker 9: this is a good step. It reduces travel time for
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  Speaker 9: these families, and in today's environment where the cost of
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  Speaker 9: travel with the extra fuel prices, that hits really hard.
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  Speaker 9: So anything that reduces that travel time is a win.
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  Speaker 9: And it also puts treatments closer to rural communities, and
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  Speaker 9: then it frees up critical capacity in our major tertiary
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  Speaker 9: hospitals so that they can be focusing on the acute cases.
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  Speaker 9: So a win for families, win for our communities, and
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  Speaker 9: definitely a win for for the system overall.
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  Speaker 2: Are you saying that we've got a government who bought
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  Speaker 2: new cancer medicines, brought online new cancer medicines, and then
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  Speaker 2: actually provides the infrastructures for which to deliver them.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, yes we are, we are. Look we are. While
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  Speaker 9: we celebrated that investment of six hundred and four million
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  Speaker 9: in new medicines when the last budget was delivered, we
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  Speaker 9: were a little critical at the time and said, look,
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  Speaker 9: it's great to be funding these medicines, but the reality
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  Speaker 9: is there's going to be challenges getting them to patients,
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  Speaker 9: and those challenges is exactly what's been addressed in this
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  Speaker 9: announcement yesterday, which is the infrastructure, so the location and
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  Speaker 9: a place and essentially the chairs for those patients to
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  Speaker 9: sit in to have their infusions, and the workforce to
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  Speaker 9: deliver their infusions. So this gives us the complete package
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  Speaker 9: of rolling those new medicines out.
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  Speaker 2: Is it enough to meet demand because demand is increasing,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 9: Oh? Absolutely? Is it enough to meet demand?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 9: Probably not. The demand is coming at us at pace.
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  Speaker 9: And look, what we'd really love to see is government
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  Speaker 9: starting to look a little upstream, rather than investing in
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  Speaker 9: our three year political cycles, looking at actually what can
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  Speaker 9: we invest in to prevent cancers In the first place,
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  Speaker 9: we know that one in three cancers are preventable, so
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  Speaker 9: we'd like to see some new investment in the next
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  Speaker 9: budget looking at cancer prevention. But this credit to the government,
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  Speaker 9: this is a good step.
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  Speaker 2: Nikola Cone, Chief Executive Cancer Citing New Zealand, appreciate your time,
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  Speaker 2: sprning twenty five minutes after five. Don't look a gift
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  Speaker 2: purse in the mouth, is what you say. Now the
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  Speaker 2: numbers to the end of December last year. This is
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  Speaker 2: the most recent data. Eighty seven percent of patients are
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  Speaker 2: receiving treatment in that period now. That is up from
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  Speaker 2: eighty five point nine percent in the same quarter of
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  Speaker 2: the previous year. News Talk said b the.
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  Speaker 1: Early edition for all the show podcast I Am Radio
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  Speaker 1: how It by News.
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  Speaker 6: Talks V.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty seven after five News Talks V. Trump's at war
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  Speaker 2: with the pope again, this time over Iran. Last time
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  Speaker 2: it was Gaza. Usually the pontiff is a bit more
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  Speaker 2: low key, you know, just cruising around, praying, kissing babies
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  Speaker 2: in the white Robin, the popemobile, but like Batman, but
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  Speaker 2: less cool. Not Leo, no our Leo has spoken out
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  Speaker 2: telling Trump to end the war and saying he does
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  Speaker 2: not fear the president. This is a humanitarian appeal, no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about it, but its delivery is a little more
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  Speaker 2: political than past statements because of the way the US
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  Speaker 2: President has been name checked personally. There's nothing newsworthy about
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  Speaker 2: a pope calling for peace. Pope's gone do what Pope's
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  Speaker 2: gone do, and we all want peace, but religious leaders
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  Speaker 2: are doing more of this getting political. We've had Vickers
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  Speaker 2: and nappies chaining themselves to Nicola Willis's electric office. Remember
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  Speaker 2: that we've had priests supposing Axe treaty bill. Ten church
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  Speaker 2: groups held in all vigil at Saint Paul's Cathedral to
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  Speaker 2: protest the Coalition government's move on orders. Deborah Coddington, former
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  Speaker 2: Acting p made quite a relevant observation about this in
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  Speaker 2: the spin off last week. She said, instead of showboating
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  Speaker 2: and hand ringing and virtue signaling, churches should start paying
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  Speaker 2: rates to local bodies, sell some of those very valuable
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  Speaker 2: assets that they currently rent out. That it raised enough
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  Speaker 2: money to house the homers who sleep on the streets
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  Speaker 2: right now, problem solved. So why don't they do that
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  Speaker 2: the Vatican because it's got a small population. You see
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  Speaker 2: the Vatican huge tithings, eighteenth wealthiest nation in the world
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  Speaker 2: per capita, huge real estate portfolio. In fact, media reports vary,
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  Speaker 2: but anywhere between seventy three and two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars worth of real estate, thank you, very much,
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  Speaker 2: more than the combined wealth of all the billionaires of
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  Speaker 2: this country has ever known, that's for sure. And you
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  Speaker 2: can see how this starts to look if they start
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  Speaker 2: to get too political hypocritical like the Salvation Army, Amnesty International.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when they go beyond just calling out poverty
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  Speaker 2: and start advocating for things like wealth taxes, it just
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  Speaker 2: rubs people the wrong way. Personally, I think the less
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  Speaker 2: politically religious leader, the more effective their message. Is nothing
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  Speaker 2: sacred anymore, it seems not not in Pope Leo's world.
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  Speaker 2: It is half past five year. On News Talks EDB,
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  Speaker 2: we're to Australia and Hungry next one.
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  Speaker 1: Time the first word on the News of the Day
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology
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  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving. News Talk ZEDB.
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  Speaker 2: Sixth, Great to have your company. We'll head to Henry Olsen,
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post columnists. We'll talk about the blockade. He is
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  Speaker 2: in Budapest and it's been covering the Hungry elections, so
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: we'll talk from about that. Plus Donnors in Australia for
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  Speaker 2: US the Navy. They're ready to get into some action
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  Speaker 2: in the straight upfor moves should they need to. Loads
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  Speaker 2: of texts this morning on illegal elicit tobacco retailing. Z's
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  Speaker 2: put out a report on this this morning. We've been
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  Speaker 2: speaking to them. Ryan, I say good on smokers for
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  Speaker 2: buying illicit tobacco. The tax is outrageous, says Sue. Ryan.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: The government's been ripping smokers off for years. They are
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: not cheap. Go figure, says Randall. Good morning Randall obviously
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: having a durry with your coffee this morning and Ryan
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: clamp down on elicit tobacco products. This is from Nick.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Makes me laugh. How long have we been trying to
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: get rid of cannabis? Yeah? I thought the same thing,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: exactly the same thing as you, Nick. Very quickly. An
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: update on border problems in Europe. If you're heading there
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and you're not going through the Middle East, then you
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: will get there this winter the summer, British travelers been
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: having big problems, long delays because they've got that new
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: entry exit system. So when you go into the EU,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and this will apply to us if we go into
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the EU, they need to do your fingerprints. They need
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to scan your fingerprints and then take photos of you
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: when you first enter. Even if you've got a the
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: visa free ninety day thing, still need to get this done.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Can take hours for them to do it. The queues
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: are out the door. Geneva, Lisbon, Malta all facing problems
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and at one particular airport. One hundred easy Jet customers
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: were abandoned. Now, whether you'd actually want to get on
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: an easy Jet flight is another question, but actually getting
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: on the plane has proven to be quite a problem.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: They left one hundred passengers behind because they are still
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: all waiting in the queue.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge, Oh.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Good luck with that one. Right, Let's go to Colum
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: in Dunedin Morning. Collum wanting right, the full South bar
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: boss that's resigning. Is this because of the event's situation
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: there or what? Yeah?
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: Well, he says it's because he has another international opportunity
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: which he's taking up. He says he's proud of his
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: time here in Dunedin, but he wasn't here for long,
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: that's for sure. The Dunedin Venue's chief executive, Paul Dawn,
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: is leaving, exiting the job less than two years into
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  Speaker 10: the role and this comes a mida a tough events
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: market that has to be said, particularly here in the South.
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: Dawn was appointed to the job in October twenty four
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: following his redundancy as chief of Ossie rugby franchise the Waratahs.
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: The board says he leaves the organization in a strong
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: position despite a quiet calendar for non rugby events at
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: Forsyth Bars Stadium. The last major concert there was more
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: than two years ago, and of course this comes as
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: christ Church's new stadium is set to open, Paul Dawn
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: leaving the job after less than two years.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather? Call it?
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: It's mainly fine afternoon and evening showers, possibly heavy and thundery.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: With hail though later to the heighth today sixteenth clear
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: on christ Church morning. Claire, good morning. You Ca'm not
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: happy about transport funding there, Yeah, that's right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: Environment Canterbury's chair is accusing the government of underfunding South
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: Island transport, warning of a growing crisis behind the scenes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: Canterbury generates twelve percent of national GDP, but it's receiving
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: five percent of the National Land Transport fund. Similarly, the
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: South Island gets twelve percent of the funding despite producing
• 21:03
  Speaker 11: twenty two percent of the GDP. So Dion Swiggs says
• 21:07
  Speaker 11: that gap is purely political. He points out to a
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: limited South Island Cabinet representation and he wants the councils
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: here to unite against it. He says existing infrastructure needs
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: to be protected and upgraded, particularly State Highway One, as
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: there are several bridges that are one lane and should
• 21:23
  Speaker 11: actually be two, while there are others that are more
• 21:25
  Speaker 11: than eighty years old. That said, Transport Minister Chris Bishop
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: says one point eight billion dollars has been committed to
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: Canterbury alone through to next year. That's up fifty percent
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: on the previous periods. As you really, Claire, I should
• 21:38
  Speaker 11: be mainly find a bit of passing afternoon and evening
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: cloud northwesterlies and twenty degrees.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you very much. By the way, Christchurch
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Airport doing very well. I saw yesterday nearly two hundred
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and eighty seven thousand international visitors passing through between November
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and March. That's a twenty two percent jump on the
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: same time last year. And they of course had their
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: lift net profit twenty four percent two nine point five
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: million dollars. So doing very well. Christ Church Airport, well
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: done to be. It's Macintosh and Wellington to best good morning,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: gooday Ryan. The mayor is not happy about the pay
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: for the new water entity.
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, how's this. Board members for Tiaku Way are going
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: to nearly double the Wellington Water predecessors. So currently Wellington
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: Water's chair has paid sixty thousand dollars at Tiaki Why
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: that rises to one hundred and ten thousand. The change
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: comes as residents prepare for water charges averaging nearly twenty
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: five hundred dollars per household from July. Andrew Little says
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: it's disappointing that Tiaku y needs to remember it's essentially
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: part of the public service. Tiaku Why chief executive Michael
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: Brewsters he's defending the increase, saying, well, it will be
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: a very different business to Wellington Water.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you'd hope so, wouldn't you. Jesus couldn't get any worse.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: How's your weather.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: To bears, Yeah, mostly fine. The odds shower early this morning,
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: strong northwesterly is getting us through the day. In seventeen
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: the high here in Wellington.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Have a great day neither Good morning, Good morning. Now
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Mount Albert. The Carrington Project, this is where they're going
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: to build a bunch of new houses. But there's a
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: bit of a problem quite right.
• 23:15
  Speaker 12: It's on hold actually due to legal action.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: This is the forty five hundred home Carrington project, which
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: is obviously on former Unitech land. It's been taken to
• 23:23
  Speaker 12: the Environment Court. So it's been argued that these apartments
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: had been too high lex sufficient parking, they would affect
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: the environment, they'd affect the local heritage. And among those
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: plan against the plan that's Gledstone Primary School, Auckland Transport,
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: the Tree Council and a lot of other community groups apparently,
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: but developer Ockham Residential says these plans were approved after
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: an extensive public hearing process.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: So it's now on hold on one and a half
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: thousand homes that Auckland probably needs, yes correct, and the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Tree Council has a say exactly, Lord help us, where's
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: the Pope when you need him? House are weather.
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: Neva isolated showers becoming widespread, heavier for a time in
• 24:04
  Speaker 12: the afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Possible. Possible is a keywordy
• 24:08
  Speaker 12: A twenty zeig.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Nice, I never thank you. Eighteen minutes away from six
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: C this is where Luxon has, you know, say what
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: you want about Luxon, and the media says a lot
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: about Luxon and his performance, but actually in terms of
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the issues that you're hitting, the notes that you're hitting
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: right on message. Look at that four and a half
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: thousand houses and we go into the Environment Court and
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: all construction is halted while we talk about some trees,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, for goodness sex seventeen away from six Newstalk
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: ZB will head to Australia next quarter. Six News Talks
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: ZB Mark Carney over in Canada could be about to
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: get a whole lot more powerful. So the Liberals there
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: have well they're just shy one shy of a technical
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: majority in the House of Commons. Of course, you want
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: a majority because then you can get more stuff done.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: You don't have to rely on opposition parties to get
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: that stuff done. And there are three local elecctions happening,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: by elections happening, and they reckon that tour in one
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: sorry is in Montreal, and two in Toronto. The two
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: in Toronto, they reckon that the Liberals will win. The
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: one in montreal's a bit of a toss up, but
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: they've had some defections from the opposition and they are
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: about to win at least two of the three by elections,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: so they will likely get over one hundred and seventy
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: one seats out of the three hundred and forty seat
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: parliament at the moment, likely get over and have a
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: technical majority. So a politician at a time like this, consolidating.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Power international correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Business News Talk said, be so let's go and talk
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: about the coalition's trumpy in the style immigration policy unveiled
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in Australia yesterday. Donald Demas with us done a good morning,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Oh good morning.
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: Well yes we've heard a little bit. So some of
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: the details have been given to the ABC actually and
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: that's how we've heard about it. But the actual speech
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: is going to happen later today where we do believe
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: the federal opposition is going to detail its immigration policy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: So this is what the coalition wants and under the plan,
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: according to Opposition leader Angus Taylor, there's going to be
• 26:13
  Speaker 13: this so well, social media checks will be introduced on
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: all visa applications.
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: And we've heard that before, haven't we.
• 26:20
  Speaker 15: With that sounds very similar to the policy that was
• 26:22
  Speaker 15: rolled out in the US sir a little while ago. Also,
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: there are plans to deport those who breach Australian values.
• 26:31
  Speaker 15: Now it's expected that mister Detailer will also say that
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: Australians are fed up with politically correct preaching on immigration
• 26:38
  Speaker 15: and there's going to be a enhanced Screening Coordination Center
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: that will have all these new screening and enforcement capabilities,
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: and it's believed that he thinks the center will stop radicals,
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: extremists and terrorists from entering the country, and that these
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: social media checks they're not going to be occasional by
• 26:59
  Speaker 15: no means, so they are going to be a standard
• 27:01
  Speaker 15: feature of the vetting. Now you might ask, what are
• 27:04
  Speaker 15: these Australian values that they're talking about. It means that
• 27:08
  Speaker 15: you'll have to sign up to agreeing to respecting individual dignity,
• 27:13
  Speaker 15: religious freedom, commitment to the rule of law and a
• 27:17
  Speaker 15: fair go for all.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Do you think how much of this is to do
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: with the rise of one nation in Pauline Hanson?
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: Oh so interesting, so interesting, you should say that I
• 27:28
  Speaker 14: think there may very well be a very strong can
• 27:32
  Speaker 14: I put to say it like this underlying link?
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, Dona, good to have you on the show as always.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Donad Maroun Australia correspondent. Time as twelve minutes away from six,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the US blockade of Iran's ports underway in the Straight
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of Horn moves, although the US Navy won't enter. This
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: is according to a former defense official, won't enter these
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Straight of Horn moves because they might get lobbed with
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: grenades and all sorts of minds from speedboats. But they
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: are going to blockade the ports in Iran, and any
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Iranian fast attacks ship caught trying to approach the blockade
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: will be immediately eliminated. That's the latest from Trump. Henry Els,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: an American polster in Washington Post columnist, joins us this morning, Henry, good, a.
• 28:14
  Speaker 16: Good day.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: It's a bit of It's a bit of a whack
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: a mole job, isn't it when you've got all those speedboats,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: sixty percent of the fast boat capability of Iran still
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: in play.
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, but then you've got the question of
• 28:28
  Speaker 16: the American aircraft carrier that the You know, you've got
• 28:31
  Speaker 16: forty eight planes and a lot of helicopters that can
• 28:34
  Speaker 16: help do that over time. If they really do try
• 28:37
  Speaker 16: and challenge the Americans with that, they'll find that the
• 28:41
  Speaker 16: Navy that's in the area can sink those ships pretty quickly.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: What do you think the chances are of these peace
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: talks getting back on track?
• 28:51
  Speaker 16: Not very high. The fact is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
• 28:55
  Speaker 16: Corps is in charge of Iran, and there's a reason
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: word revolutionary is in their title. These are people who
• 29:03
  Speaker 16: are committed to the expansionary goals of the regime, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 16: if they were going to satisfy Trump's bottom line condition
• 29:11
  Speaker 16: for no nuclear program removal of the enriched uranium, they
• 29:15
  Speaker 16: probably would already have done it. I think Trump's going
• 29:18
  Speaker 16: to have to rely on the continued pressure on around
• 29:22
  Speaker 16: both military and economically through the blockade to force some
• 29:26
  Speaker 16: sort of reduction in power by the IRGC before he
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: gets anywhere with the negotiations.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: What a voter is in the US thinking, well, we
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: know what they're thinking about the war and how they're
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: feeling about it. Does that restrict Trump's military options? Does
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: he go back to bombing?
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: I think Trump may eventually have to go back to bombing.
• 29:46
  Speaker 16: The fact is that while prices, Trump has already committed
• 29:54
  Speaker 16: or in prestige and his personal prestige to the ending
• 29:57
  Speaker 16: of the nuclear program. He's been very clear about this
• 30:00
  Speaker 16: in this campaign years before. You can find tapes of
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: him going back forty years. Donald Trump always signals what
• 30:08
  Speaker 16: he wants out of a negotiation, and if you accept
• 30:12
  Speaker 16: that then there's always good terms. But what he wants
• 30:15
  Speaker 16: is an end to the nuclear program permanently, and he
• 30:19
  Speaker 16: gets it he's going to continue what's at his disposal,
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: and that does include potentially a Land's invasion.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: How comprehensive was albans Alban's loss, I should say in
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Hungary you've been covering it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 16: It was massive, I mean, and it is from having
• 30:39
  Speaker 16: two thirds control to having under one third of the parliament.
• 30:43
  Speaker 16: They've lost virtually every constituency in the country, places that
• 30:47
  Speaker 16: they never thought they would lose. You know, it's hard
• 30:50
  Speaker 16: for me to think of a New Zealand parallel. It
• 30:53
  Speaker 16: would be akin to I suppose Judith Collins being wiped
• 30:58
  Speaker 16: out in twenty twenty, the redmower being able to change
• 31:03
  Speaker 16: the constitution. Yeah, on this case, it was a It
• 31:08
  Speaker 16: was a green and red tsunami. Those are the colors
• 31:11
  Speaker 16: of peace at the opposition for it.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Good to have you on as always, Henry Elson, who
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: is an American columnist and polster. It is in Hungary
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: for us this morning, eight minutes away from six News
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Talks MB.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps Business Moving,
• 31:31
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• 31:33
  Speaker 2: On News Talks MB, Mike's in the studio, He's with
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: you next, Good morning, Mike Thrill the ce Ryan. Have
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you seen the presidential election over in Brazil happening later
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: this year? Did you see the posts that have gone online?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Not Okay, Sod Silver, who's in his eighties. He's put
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: up videos of him doing workouts, doing squats like he's
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: in really good shape. And his wife has posted these
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: videos saying he's up at six am every morning, he's
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: already doing forty five minutes on the treadmill and then
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: into the waits and his opponent is somebody half his age,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: so he's trying to show, you know.
• 32:08
  Speaker 17: The k in his ability to He's.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Looking pretty good, especially for his age and his opponents
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: half his age, so he's trying to say the magic
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: of longevity is the key to all of this.
• 32:20
  Speaker 17: They have you heard of Viva Dirt League?
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: No?
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, yes. Why have you heard of them?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Because I've interviewed them before years ago. They're like a
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: New Zealand online gaming sort of outfit and they do
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: very very good numbers.
• 32:36
  Speaker 17: This, yeah exactly, So they're coming in today. So I'd
• 32:39
  Speaker 17: never heard of them, and they they should have been
• 32:42
  Speaker 17: paying attention to my Yeah, but that's the thing that
• 32:46
  Speaker 17: it seems to me that they're a great success story.
• 32:48
  Speaker 17: So there's one thing to be a collective, which is
• 32:51
  Speaker 17: what they were. So this started one of the guys
• 32:52
  Speaker 17: used to work here.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Apparently that one of them, we used to be on
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Shortened Street too. I think he was an at.
• 32:57
  Speaker 17: Everyone's been anyway. So I start watching them yesterday and
• 33:02
  Speaker 17: they're they're really good. I mean there as genuinely talented
• 33:06
  Speaker 17: and so the interesting thing. So it starts off in
• 33:08
  Speaker 17: twenty eleven and it's just a collective of people seeing
• 33:11
  Speaker 17: round on a sofa, going, hey, let's make some content. Anyway,
• 33:14
  Speaker 17: these days it's multi it's multi billions in terms of
• 33:17
  Speaker 17: streams and multi millions in terms of money.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And YouTube is a big case.
• 33:23
  Speaker 17: So what interests me about this is you can you
• 33:26
  Speaker 17: can exist in this this I don't know ecosphere and
• 33:30
  Speaker 17: have so many people in the world never having heard
• 33:32
  Speaker 17: of you, and yet you are a.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Massive star exactly to the people who do what to
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: listen to you.
• 33:36
  Speaker 17: So they started with these three guys, two of whom
• 33:39
  Speaker 17: are coming in anyway. They're employing twenty five these days,
• 33:41
  Speaker 17: so it's a business. It's an industry that they're going
• 33:43
  Speaker 17: And I thinking like you're making all of this stuff
• 33:47
  Speaker 17: and how many people know about it versus don't know
• 33:48
  Speaker 17: about it? You know it's got this delineation.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well a lot of people in a few places.
• 33:54
  Speaker 17: I think that's what it's about anyway there where. It's
• 33:56
  Speaker 17: after eight o'clock this morning, so I'm looking forward to
• 33:58
  Speaker 17: the chat.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Nice one. Oh, we have a great day to see tomorrow.
• 34:09
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