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Full Show Podcast: 30 June 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Bryan Bridge on
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Speaker 2: There'd be good morning, six after five. Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company. This morning we will get to Shane Jones
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Speaker 2: on infrastructure spokesperson that is for New Zealand. First we'll
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Speaker 2: get Shane Jones to talk about fast Track, just how
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Speaker 2: fast is it and why aren't there enough mining projects
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Speaker 2: on board Donald tomorrow in Australia for us. This morning
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Speaker 2: we'll do the public service jobs that I've been growing,
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Speaker 2: and we'll talk also about merging councils. The agenda thirtieth
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Speaker 2: of June setting up camps. They are now for survivors
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Speaker 2: in Venezuela.
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Speaker 3: We are setting up a task force to establish temporary
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Speaker 3: camps for those who have lost their homes and to
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Speaker 3: draw up and plum projects that will enable housing to
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Speaker 3: be built within a very short time frame.
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Speaker 2: So about fifteen hundred dead, they're expecting up to fifty thousand.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the UK. Andy Burnham set out as
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Speaker 2: he's done as speech. We told you we wants to
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Speaker 2: move number ten basically north with a Prime Minister's office
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Speaker 2: based in Manchester.
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Speaker 4: The change will be driven through the Prime Minister's Office
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Speaker 4: in an extended operation based here in Manchester. It will
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Speaker 4: only be based here. The job of Number ten North
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Speaker 4: will be to make power flow into the Midlands, into
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Speaker 4: the Southwest, into the East of England, and yes, into London,
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Speaker 4: as I said before, as much as into the northeast, Yorkshire,
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Speaker 4: in the Humber and here in the Northwest.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to have two officers. That's all he's announced.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you more about that shortly. Opposition warning of
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Speaker 2: the summer of chaos.
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Speaker 5: That's what MP's are for. MP's are there to represent
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Speaker 5: their constituencies with the government. A devolved mayor can't lower
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Speaker 5: energy costs. A devolved mayor cannot change regulations and laws.
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Speaker 5: A devolved mayor can't really cut any taxes apart from
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Speaker 5: Navy council tax, which is not one of the things
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Speaker 5: that business is complaining about. It is business that creates growth,
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Speaker 5: not more and more piticians.
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Speaker 2: Just finally on this Rishi Sunac he was an aid, sorry,
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Speaker 2: an aid to Rishi Sunac pleaded guilty over the beating scandal.
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Speaker 2: You might remember the story. Craig Williams is his name.
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Speaker 2: He has admitted to placing a one hundred pound bet
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Speaker 2: on the date of the twenty twenty four election. That
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Speaker 2: was days before it was announced, so he had insider
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Speaker 2: information basically and used it. My question is why would
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Speaker 2: you have only put one hundred pound down fall. Finally,
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Speaker 2: this morning, I'm not good goot.
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Speaker 1: I am so sorry for listen no no, I.
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Speaker 2: Like goots, drink.
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Speaker 5: Doors Janet.
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Speaker 2: The Good Life star Dame Penelope Keith has passed away
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Speaker 2: at the age of eighty six. Her family says she
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Speaker 2: died peacefully whilst living with cancer added home in Surrey.
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Speaker 2: She famously played snobbish suburban neighbor Margo Ledbetter in British
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Speaker 2: sitcom The Good.
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Speaker 1: Life on your Radio and online on iHeartRadio Belly Edition
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Speaker 1: with Ray and Bridge and Spark for business Technology that
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Speaker 2: Be great to have nine two nine too great to
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Speaker 2: have your company? This morning, I just heard in the
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Speaker 2: news about the Michelin Star Awards coming tonight and did
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Speaker 2: you have a little part of you go hmm hmmm.
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Speaker 2: We paid for those to come here, So does that
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Speaker 2: take the shine off for you? Does that mean that
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Speaker 2: there was I mean no doubt whoever gets an award
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Speaker 2: or gets a ward today Michelin star r. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how many stars you get, all the stars in
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Speaker 2: the sky. You will be a good restaurant. Like you'll
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Speaker 2: have good food. There's no doubt about that. I'm not
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Speaker 2: saying that anyone is crap, But does it take the
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Speaker 2: shine off knowing that it's been paid for that we
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Speaker 2: the taxpayer, have paid them to come here to do
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Speaker 2: the judging in the first place. Like, if we had
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Speaker 2: restaurants that were that great, surely Michelin would fly to
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Speaker 2: the end of the four corners of the earth and
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Speaker 2: find out where they were. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: If though, yeah, and I was just thinking in the
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Speaker 2: ad break, does that sound a bit mingy and grumpy
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Speaker 2: and you know, a bit negative about the whole thing?
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Speaker 2: If you look at sport generally, if you look at football,
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Speaker 2: for example, look what's happening right now with football. You
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Speaker 2: have wealthy countries or countries that are wealthier performing better
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Speaker 2: because they have more resources, they can travel further, they
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Speaker 2: can train more, and they can get the equipment. So
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Speaker 2: no matter what field you're in, money talks, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: So really should we care whether a few bucks were
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Speaker 2: thrown in by the taxpayer to fly these snobs over
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Speaker 2: here for dinner. Ryan Bridge n N two ten after five.
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Speaker 2: Will the councils next?
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Speaker 2: I will tell you where all the jobs are this morning.
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Speaker 2: So we got the stats n ZIR job numbers out
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Speaker 2: yesterday two point three five million actual filled jobs in May.
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Speaker 2: That was up fifteen thound zero point seven percent. So
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Speaker 2: this is good news considering what everyone's been saying about
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Speaker 2: the economy re the Middle East. For those aged thirty
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Speaker 2: five and older, even better news, twenty six thousand new
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Speaker 2: jobs if you're under thirty five, well down ten thousand,
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Speaker 2: hence the net fifteen gain. Where are you wanting to be?
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Speaker 2: Canterbury had seven thousand, six hundred extra jobs, Auckland three thousand,
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Speaker 2: three hundred extra jobs, Wycutter three thousand, two hundred. So
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Speaker 2: almost as many net positive jobs in Wycutter as they
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Speaker 2: as they were in Auckland. Isn't that interesting. I spoke
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Speaker 2: to a guy from Gallagher that sort of it security,
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Speaker 2: a tech firm really out of Hamilton, and they're looking
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Speaker 2: right now to hire one hundred people. So there are
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Speaker 2: jobs out there and it depends where you are and
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Speaker 2: what you're doing. Largely these jobs the public sector up
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Speaker 2: fifteen thousand, down in professional down in science and down
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Speaker 2: in technical services. Brian Bread, an expert, says merging councils
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Speaker 2: might not be the golden solution to our local government problems.
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Speaker 2: This isn't a report out today from the New Zealand Initiative.
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Speaker 2: Nick Clark, New Zealand Initiative Senior fellow with us Nick, good.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: So we want more localism or less localism.
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Speaker 6: We should have more localism, not less localism. Unfortunately the
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Speaker 6: government's head start approach, which is where it's sort of
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Speaker 6: urging councils to merge, if it's not done properly, it
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Speaker 6: will result of less localism.
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Speaker 2: Right, So you want to you want to be andy
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Speaker 2: Burnham this morning. Basically you want us to bring back local.
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Speaker 6: Well, I mean it's not just andy burn and there's
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Speaker 6: a lot of countries around the world that do it
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Speaker 6: this way. We're one of the most centralized countries in
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Speaker 6: the developed world. You know, our local government is very constrained,
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Speaker 6: it is. We have they're big, they're big by international standards,
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Speaker 6: especially for countries of our side. And you know, if
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Speaker 6: a bigger is better, then we would see a lot
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Speaker 6: better results, and we're not seeing a lot better results.
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Speaker 6: You know, rates have continued to arise rapidly. You know,
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Speaker 6: we've got dysfunction in councils, we've got disengagement with voters.
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Speaker 6: So you know, going to a more local approach, a
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Speaker 6: localist approach is wood by the international evidence, and indeed,
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Speaker 6: in New Zealand, where smaller councils tend to have high
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Speaker 6: levels of engagement with their communities, is a better approach
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Speaker 6: than just merging.
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Speaker 2: But I see, I'm confused because we've got like seventy
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Speaker 2: eight local and territorial authorities. But in New Zeland is
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Speaker 2: a small country. I've always thought it's too many. Are
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Speaker 2: you saying it's more about the size of them? Have more,
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Speaker 2: You can have more of them, but they need to
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Speaker 2: have like a little area that they look after.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, look, we used to have We used
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Speaker 6: to have a lot more than seventy eight and if
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Speaker 6: you look at countries like Switzerland, for example, they have
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Speaker 6: four thousand what you call territorial authorities, similar to our
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Speaker 6: territorial authorities for nine million people. You know, Germany has
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Speaker 6: tens ten thousand. You know, We're seventy eight. Might sound
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Speaker 6: like a lot, but in the country is diverse and
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Speaker 6: as large geographically as New Zealand. Then you know, and
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Speaker 6: some of these councils cover very large areas tens of
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Speaker 6: thousands of square kilometers and also have large numbers of people,
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Speaker 6: about seventy nine thousand people per council in New Zealand
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Speaker 6: that is large by international standards.
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Speaker 2: Really, Nick Wood, in my mind, this would just mean
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Speaker 2: more councils would mean more rules, more time to make rules,
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Speaker 2: more people making rules, more stuff not getting done.
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Speaker 6: I've actually think it's more likely the opposite. And the
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Speaker 6: Infrastructure Commission did some work five years ago that looked
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Speaker 6: at that asked the question as bigger better and it
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Speaker 6: actually said no, it doesn't. There's no relationship that they
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Speaker 6: could find. But most of council services that said that
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Speaker 6: bigger councils are more efficient than smaller councils. Auckland super
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Speaker 6: City it was a lot of savings were promised, they
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Speaker 6: weren't necessarily as delivered to the extent that people expected.
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Speaker 6: There was no post implementation reviewed ever done. It was promised,
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Speaker 6: but it was never done. So the savings that were
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Speaker 6: promised at the time in twenty ten were never tested.
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Speaker 6: But yet so spinning us up rates us up. You know,
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Speaker 6: the voter turnout in Auckland was dismal the last elections,
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Speaker 6: so you know, they just to say that things are
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Speaker 6: going to you've got to have bigger to be better,
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Speaker 6: is just not backed up.
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Speaker 2: By the evidence. That's interesting stuff. Nick Clark, New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: unless they've seen you, fellow with a different take this
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Speaker 2: morning seventeen minutes after five back to Burnham for a second.
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Speaker 2: So he turns up to the speech. He's doing it
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Speaker 2: in Manchester because it's a friendly crowd, and this is
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Speaker 2: how he starts, Thanks.
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Speaker 4: Very much everyone. Wow, well, are welcome in everybody? Are
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Speaker 4: you ready for this? I'm sounding like I used to
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Speaker 4: say when I used to DJ across this this great city,
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Speaker 4: and I'm probably doing that because I'm missing it so much.
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Speaker 4: I'm missing all of it.
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Speaker 2: So there he is, there's Burnham and very jubilant crowd,
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Speaker 2: very friendly crowd. How It went on to say very little.
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Speaker 2: He said that the North will become the nerve center
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Speaker 2: of a rewired Britain, but didn't really say how he
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Speaker 2: was going to do that and make that happen. The
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Speaker 2: big questions you've got to ask, are we going to
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Speaker 2: be taxed more? That's what Brits want to know come
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Speaker 2: autumn to pay for Well, you want to nationalize some utilities, Well,
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Speaker 2: how are you going to afford that? You want to
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Speaker 2: do more on infrastructure, Well, how are you going to
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Speaker 2: afford that? I mean, all of his predecessors, let's not forget,
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Speaker 2: have had a ten year plan like the one he
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Speaker 2: put out there in the last twenty four hours, and
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Speaker 2: look where they've ended up.
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Speaker 2: Talks on after five. Trump's had some wins and he's
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Speaker 2: had some losses with the Supreme Court in the United States.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in about ten minutes time. First,
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Speaker 2: a bit of good news on the jobs front. The
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Speaker 2: employment markets showing slight signs of life field jobs uper
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Speaker 2: point three percent in May. This is according to Stats
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Speaker 2: and z Verse April. Ironically, the biggest gains over the
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Speaker 2: past year public sector, public administration, healthcare, education, financial services
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Speaker 2: leading the way. Rob Hayes Infimentric's consulting with me this morning,
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Speaker 2: Rob Gida.
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Speaker 7: Mon In Rayan.
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Speaker 2: So, trends are good, it's looking good.
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Speaker 7: It's it's very early days. I'm not ready to say
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Speaker 7: we're out of the woods yet in terms of a
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Speaker 7: labor market recovery, but I think at this stage any
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Speaker 7: good news is great. Given the last few months and
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Speaker 7: fuel prices, et cetera.
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Speaker 2: Fair to say that the you know, we had the
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Speaker 2: terrible employee confidence or employment confidence about the other day
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Speaker 2: fear to say that the you know, the fear is
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Speaker 2: more than well, the bark of this is more than
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Speaker 2: the bite.
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Speaker 7: I think. So our current analysis is that fuel prices
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Speaker 7: didn't go quite as high as we thought they would,
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Speaker 7: and then they've not stayed as high for as long
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Speaker 7: and a lot of that has to do with the
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Speaker 7: cessation of conflict in the Middle East. So, yeah, it's
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Speaker 7: not as bad as we thought he was going to
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Speaker 7: be a few months ago.
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Speaker 2: Would the public sector jobs that have been taken up
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Speaker 2: mainly to fill shortages. What teachers, healthcare?
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Speaker 7: What is it when we talk about public sector public
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Speaker 7: administration in the data release, we're talking more about kind
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Speaker 7: of central and local government. So we kind of cross
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Speaker 7: check that against some of the figures of the Public
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Speaker 7: Service Commission puts out and they're looking at ird, Ministry
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Speaker 7: of Education, Departments of Corrections or angered Hamariki. They're they're
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Speaker 7: all showing growth in job numbers. Education and health care
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Speaker 7: treated as separate industries in the numbers. But yeah, they're
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Speaker 7: seeing job growth as.
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Speaker 2: Well, all right, and there of course been a revision
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Speaker 2: down which has often happens that Thank you Rob Rob
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Speaker 2: Hayesen for Metrics Consultant. So stats insdfigures show because they
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Speaker 2: keep revising them. They are such a regular update that
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Speaker 2: they then have to revise them because the numbers are
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Speaker 2: often just out as they work. For April point two
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Speaker 2: percent rise now one point two percent four fulfilled job numbers,
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Speaker 2: which they say is seasonally adjusted. Time is twenty three
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Speaker 2: minutes after five Bridge. A couple of things for you,
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Speaker 2: very long awaited packed between Australia and Vanuatu. Have you
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Speaker 2: been to Vanuatu before? If you haven't, I implore you
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Speaker 2: to go. It's fantastic place to visit. Go to Portville
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Speaker 2: and then go to some of the island's north. You
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Speaker 2: can climb volcanoes. It's white, sandy beaches. People speak French.
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Speaker 2: The food's delicious. Anyway, they have signed a pack the
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Speaker 2: Aussies and Vanuhatu and it prevents the Chinese from creating
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Speaker 2: a military base in or around the island. That is
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Speaker 2: a good thing, because boy have they been trying. Also,
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Speaker 2: you know how a lot of our hospitals are run
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Speaker 2: on and you'll hear politicians talk about this from time
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Speaker 2: to time, hospitals that run on coal. You know, coal
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Speaker 2: fueled boilers in our hospitals. Well, we've actually only got
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Speaker 2: one left now. There were thirteen just a little while
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Speaker 2: ago across eight Health New Zealand campuses, and we are
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Speaker 2: down now to just one. It's the Tiniko Graymouth Hospital
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Speaker 2: is the last coal fuelled hospital in New Zealand. And
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Speaker 2: on Friday that will change. So don't ever say we
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Speaker 2: do nothing for climate change. Okay, if you're in France
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Speaker 2: right now, in sweating, trying to get some sleep, well
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Speaker 2: we're getting rid of our coal fueled hospitals, so don't
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Speaker 2: blame us. Twenty five up to five News Talk said,
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Speaker 2: be We'll talk about Instagram politicians nextb It's twenty seven
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Speaker 2: minutes after five. There's a perception out there that some
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Speaker 2: of our younger MPs either don't know what they're doing
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Speaker 2: in Parliament or just doing stuff for social media.
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Speaker 1: Likes us be so for.
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Speaker 8: Real right now.
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Speaker 5: Things kind of suck at the moment.
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Speaker 3: We're doing everything you can to make ends meet, but
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Speaker 3: bills are through the room. Essentials like milk and bread,
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Speaker 3: keeating your home feel like luxuries.
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Speaker 9: It's because the super rich are getting richer and mega
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Speaker 9: corporations are raking in.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to be so real with you right
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Speaker 2: now too. Some of this is actually true. Stuff is
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Speaker 2: running a bunch of stories at the moment about Hannah
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Speaker 2: Lafferty MP Clark at the Depati Maldi MP newest one
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Speaker 2: is about photos of her with the Minister for Women,
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Speaker 2: Nikola Grigg, and I'll come back to that one in
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Speaker 2: a second. But what they found out is that Clark
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Speaker 2: was boasting on social media that she spent sixty five
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Speaker 2: percent of her time advocating for and visiting young people
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Speaker 2: in prisons and OT facilities. It sounds very laudable. The
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Speaker 2: only problem official records show she's only visited prison once
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Speaker 2: since she became an MP. And as for the OT facilities, well,
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Speaker 2: the Minister Karen Saw confirms no visits ever. She says
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Speaker 2: Clark must be quote telling porkies. Now at this point
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Speaker 2: I feel a bit bad for Clark, right, maybe she
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Speaker 2: misspoke or hasn't been understood or something like that. But
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Speaker 2: they ask her questions the journalist and no answer. Post
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Speaker 2: gets deleted. Apparently all looks a bit shady anyway. Then
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Speaker 2: there's this new photo with Nikola Gregg a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: Lovely photo gets posted by Clark with Gregg smiles beaming.
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Speaker 2: Caption says she had been quote supporting the Minister for
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Speaker 2: Women and extending fully funded breast screening from age sixty
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Speaker 2: nine to seventy four. Problem. Griggs says they never spoke
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Speaker 2: about it. Gregg says she was asked to come down
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Speaker 2: to Parliament on a lower floor because Clark won to
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Speaker 2: the photo with the minister didn't say why. Now, how
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Speaker 2: odd is that? How strange is that? How unusual is that?
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Speaker 2: Especially when you consider what the hunter might be Clark
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Speaker 2: thinks of an evil colonizer, presumably like a national MP.
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Speaker 2: Why would you get the photo, why would you post
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Speaker 2: and why would you say something that, on the face
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Speaker 2: of it doesn't appear to have been true? News Talks
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Speaker 2: he'd be twenty nine five. We're an Aussie.
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Speaker 2: this morning. Shane Jones is keeping the limo waiting, so
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Speaker 2: we won't waste time getting to him this morning. We
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Speaker 2: he'll be with us in about fifteen minutes time, talking
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Speaker 2: fast traight, we'll get to Australia as well. Over in
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Speaker 2: the US, it's been Trump the the Supreme Court on
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of stuff and they have cided. The
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Speaker 2: Court has sided against him on voting, against the Republicans
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Speaker 2: on voting. You know the mail and ballot situation that
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Speaker 2: we've been talking about, Well, it was a big fat
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Speaker 2: no from the Supreme Court on that one on whether
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Speaker 2: he could and should have fired the Fed Reserve Governor
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Speaker 2: Lisa Cook. Unconstitutional, Thank you very much. You can't do that.
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Speaker 2: That's quite a landmark ruling president's authority over the Central
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Speaker 2: Bank as it should be quite sacricant because they're meant
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Speaker 2: to be independent. Remember they're the ones that set the
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Speaker 2: interest rates. You need a good cause to fire them.
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Speaker 2: That's basically way. But then there's a separate case just
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Speaker 2: to put a fly in the ointment where they ruled
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Speaker 2: that Trump can fire and leaders of independent agencies or
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Speaker 2: commissions ending ninety years of court president that curbed executive power.
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Speaker 2: So what is it? Can you fire them or can
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Speaker 2: you not fire them? Well, it depends whether it's the
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Speaker 2: Central Bank or whether it's In this case, it was
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Speaker 2: a woman who was fired from the Federal Trade Commission,
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Speaker 2: obviously less important. Twenty three away from six Now cullumandneed
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Speaker 2: mordn cullum. All right, So what's going on with fuel
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Speaker 2: and thievery in central Otagoye.
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Speaker 10: Look a huge fuel theft in Tarrace that's near Cromwell
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Speaker 10: and Cromwell police are hunting for more information about this.
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Speaker 10: About one thousand liters of fuel was taken police. A
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Speaker 10: commercial premis on Jolly's and Deep Creek Roads was burgled
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Speaker 10: in Terrace between the evening of Friday, June nineteen and
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Speaker 10: seven am the following Monday. They say vital items for
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Speaker 10: day to day operations will all so stolen in this raid.
20:02
Speaker 10: Police say if these offenses are extremely frustrating for the
20:04
Speaker 10: business owners, they're urging anyone with information, CCTV or dash
20:08
Speaker 10: cam footage to get in.
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Speaker 2: Touch with them. How's Deneen's weather patchy.
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Speaker 10: Morning, fog and frost some spots, but fine today like
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Speaker 10: wednes and eleven.
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Speaker 2: Nice one Cheerscallum clear in christ it this morning.
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Speaker 11: Claire, good morning.
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Speaker 2: What's the Regional Council saying about Labour's bus policy?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, this is e CAN and local democracies reporting that
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Speaker 12: environment Can to rebelieves that this proposal to cap at
20:30
Speaker 12: bus fares at twenty dollars a week might save commuters money.
20:33
Speaker 12: But the issue here is that several of our bus
20:35
Speaker 12: routes are already at capacity. E CAN has boosted services,
20:38
Speaker 12: including ones like a Nungi Order to Cashmere and the
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Speaker 12: Rolliston to New Brighton route, but the chair Doctor Dion Swigg,
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Speaker 12: says students and Community Service cardholders are already seeing capped fares.
20:49
Speaker 12: They're capped at fifteen dollars a week, with adults paying
20:52
Speaker 12: no more than thirty. He says. The reality is a
20:55
Speaker 12: funding more dedicated bus lanes and infrastructure is what would
20:58
Speaker 12: help get commuters where they need to be on time,
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Speaker 12: and that is more urgent than capping fares. Wever clear,
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Speaker 12: mostly fine, A bit of fog about this morning, but
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Speaker 12: otherwise drizzly northeasterlies at a high ten degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you to be as Wellington. Good morning morning, Ryan.
21:12
Speaker 2: Now the suspected overdose. This is this weird mansion in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is another overdose in what's sort of becoming
21:20
Speaker 8: a series of suspected GHB or GBL overdoses. These substances
21:26
Speaker 8: are also known around as fantasy or liquid ecstasy. Please
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Speaker 8: say it happened overnight yesterday in Winoia Mata over in
21:34
Speaker 8: Lower Hut. The person is in a serious condition and
21:36
Speaker 8: remains in hospital. It brings the total number of suspected
21:40
Speaker 8: overdoses to six. This is since Friday, with one person
21:43
Speaker 8: unfortunately dead. These have actually occurred across the wider Wellington area,
21:48
Speaker 8: including Miramar, Brooklyn, Johnsonville when upper hut. The drugs are
21:52
Speaker 8: said to produce a euphoric, relaxed high, but just some
21:56
Speaker 8: of the long list of negative side effects I could
21:58
Speaker 8: see include memory line los panic attacks, heart palpitations, and
22:02
Speaker 8: loss of consciousness. Please say they're working to identify if
22:05
Speaker 8: the cases are connected and find out where the supply
22:08
Speaker 8: has originated.
22:09
Speaker 2: How's your weather? Ta Beth sunset to.
22:11
Speaker 8: Come out today in Wellington for a fine day light,
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Speaker 8: winds twelve degrees our high.
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Speaker 2: Great stuff and joy. Neither in Auckland the weather that
22:18
Speaker 2: is not the GHB neither. Good morning, good morning. Hey,
22:23
Speaker 2: we got the big Michelin awards tonight.
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Speaker 13: I know everyone's so excited. Of course, a very very
22:27
Speaker 13: exciting news. So what's going to happen is that our
22:31
Speaker 13: finest dining is going to be world class certified. Yes,
22:35
Speaker 13: of course, our first Michelin Stars awarded in Auckland tonight.
22:38
Speaker 13: So restaurants from Auckland, Wellington, christ Church in Queenstown they're
22:42
Speaker 13: up for this first star star ranking from the judges
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Speaker 13: who've been dining secretly, secretly dining here for more than
22:49
Speaker 13: a year now. Tourism ministers upstain saying that this Michelin guide,
22:54
Speaker 13: this should and could attract an extra thirty six thousand
22:57
Speaker 13: international visitors a year. Nick Hill, he's the Auckland Unlimited
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Speaker 13: Chief executive, he says, Look, this should create, you know,
23:04
Speaker 13: a stronger image for our restaurant scene.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic, look forward to it.
23:07
Speaker 13: We should know by the end of tonight's great how's
23:10
Speaker 13: our weather? Fine? Call and crisp are high of fifteen
23:14
Speaker 13: here in Auckland.
23:16
Speaker 2: And the time is nineteen minutes away from six. Thank you, Neva.
23:19
Speaker 2: Jared in the Valley. This is going to be our
23:21
Speaker 2: new ambassador to New Zealand from the United States, and
23:25
Speaker 2: he is going to present his credentials to a governor
23:27
Speaker 2: general and a formal ceremony. We're told in Wellington on Wednesday.
23:30
Speaker 2: This is Trump's guy, Trump's guy in Wellington. How long
23:34
Speaker 2: will he stay in Wellington and how much time will
23:36
Speaker 2: he spend in Queenstown as opposed to Wellington. I don't know.
23:40
Speaker 2: He is a billionaire. I'm told he's a businessman. He's
23:43
Speaker 2: actually the son of a Republican donor. His dad is
23:46
Speaker 2: in a bit of an oil baron. Paul Tony the
23:48
Speaker 2: Valley property sports investor, big share owner and Australian basketball team,
23:54
Speaker 2: the Elawarra Hawks. You might have heard that reported before anyway,
23:57
Speaker 2: credentials being presented on Wednesday, and just before we get
24:01
Speaker 2: to break, member Shane Jones' is with us shortly and
24:03
Speaker 2: the limo's waiting, so we won't know. I won't make around.
24:06
Speaker 2: But Japan keeps doing some really good things like spending money.
24:11
Speaker 2: Retail sales in Japan up five point three percent in
24:14
Speaker 2: May from a year ago. It is the strongest growth
24:17
Speaker 2: since November of twenty three for them, higher than the
24:20
Speaker 2: three point two percent expected broad based new car sales
24:24
Speaker 2: you name it. And no it's not fuel because fuel
24:26
Speaker 2: went down in price for the month. And the Japanese
24:29
Speaker 2: just keep doing good stuff just lately, don't they. Maybe
24:32
Speaker 2: it's the new leader. I don't know, but it's not
24:35
Speaker 2: like this country. They've got a lot of problems. They've
24:37
Speaker 2: got debt, they've got an aging population, but it's not
24:40
Speaker 2: like they have runaway GDP. It's averaged sort of at
24:45
Speaker 2: one to one percent for like the last two decades.
24:48
Speaker 2: But they're always happy, you know, like the standard of
24:52
Speaker 2: living is high in Japan. People seem to be happy
24:54
Speaker 2: that they're not endlessly chasing GDP, but they sort of
24:59
Speaker 2: don't need to. I don't know. They're a bit of
25:00
Speaker 2: a mythical beast. Japan. Seventeen minutes away from six. Shane
25:04
Speaker 2: Jones with US lived to Australia.
25:05
Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of
25:10
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business bobs.
25:12
Speaker 2: There's Ryan Andy Burnham already showing way he shouldn't be PM.
25:15
Speaker 2: I don't know. We've got to give them time, don't
25:17
Speaker 2: we Not even PM yet? Fourteen minutes away from six,
25:20
Speaker 2: it's go to Australia. Donald de Mayo with US done
25:22
Speaker 2: a good morning, Good morning to you. You've got a
25:24
Speaker 2: bit of a brain injury crisis with sporting heroes over there.
25:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:29
Speaker 9: It has just been revealed on the four Corners program
25:32
Speaker 9: last night on the ABC thirty three. Australian rules footballers
25:36
Speaker 9: have been diagnosed with CTE, a degenerative brain disease. Global
25:41
Speaker 9: neuroscience experts have been asked what they think about this,
25:45
Speaker 9: and they say the statistics are alarming and need to
25:48
Speaker 9: be urgently addressed by the Australian Football's League. Now nineteen
25:53
Speaker 9: of the football as a professional or semi professional and
25:57
Speaker 9: we know that amongst those impacted, you know, there's quite
26:00
Speaker 9: a number of high profile people. These are people who
26:03
Speaker 9: died in their twenties, thirties and forties. Now, up until now,
26:06
Speaker 9: there'd only been about five known cases that.
26:09
Speaker 5: Have been diagnosed.
26:11
Speaker 9: Amongst professional AFL players. Now, the AFL is facing massive
26:16
Speaker 9: criticism over this from experts who say that the culture
26:19
Speaker 9: of denial is putting these players at risk, and they
26:22
Speaker 9: say that this type of brain injury is preventable, and
26:26
Speaker 9: one professor even claiming the AFL has blood on its hands. Now,
26:30
Speaker 9: the findings show that there is a huge problem and
26:33
Speaker 9: that players you know, obviously they're playing contact and collision sports.
26:38
Speaker 9: You know, there's a lot of repeated head injuries and
26:41
Speaker 9: this leads you to have a risk of CD later
26:44
Speaker 9: in life. The AFL says, no, we do actually inform
26:49
Speaker 9: players of the risks. Now experts are saying, well, more
26:52
Speaker 9: steps need to be taken.
26:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't sound great. Does that now tell us
26:55
Speaker 2: who's stealing all the copper?
26:57
Speaker 8: This is huge.
26:59
Speaker 9: Eight tons of tug boat propellers have been stolen from
27:03
Speaker 9: an industrial yard in WA's northern north. And you know
27:07
Speaker 9: these are huge propellers.
27:09
Speaker 2: I mean they're.
27:09
Speaker 9: About three meters long and way several tons each. They're
27:14
Speaker 9: worth about two million dollars. Well, police are absolutely stumped
27:17
Speaker 9: how these people got these propellers out of this yard.
27:21
Speaker 9: Now they've got their eyes on the industrial scrapyards, as
27:23
Speaker 9: you can imagine, because as we said, you know, copper
27:25
Speaker 9: theft is a growing problem here and they're really baffled
27:29
Speaker 9: how they even got the propellers out of that place.
27:32
Speaker 2: Exactly my question, how do you get something that messive?
27:35
Speaker 2: And surely you'd have to have some kind of inside
27:37
Speaker 2: knowledge that they were there. You know, you always wonder.
27:40
Speaker 9: Who knows, but I would dare say heavy machinery was
27:43
Speaker 9: used to Donna.
27:45
Speaker 2: Thank you always good to check don on tomorrow. Our
27:46
Speaker 2: Australia correspondent across the testmanent this morning. It is twelve
27:49
Speaker 2: minutes away from six Bridge, so don't worry. Advance to
27:53
Speaker 2: the rescue. On gas prices said year they're high, but
27:55
Speaker 2: they're coming down. I can't hear Avance there for some reason.
28:03
Speaker 2: This is get you Jdvan. There we go here he is,
28:06
Speaker 2: here's Jady Vane.
28:07
Speaker 14: Gas prices are up and we know they're up, and
28:09
Speaker 14: we know that people are hurting because of it, and
28:11
Speaker 14: we're doing everything that we can to ensure that they
28:14
Speaker 14: stay lower. It's not going to last forever. We're going
28:16
Speaker 14: to take care of business. We're going to come back home,
28:18
Speaker 14: and when that happens, you're to see energy prices come
28:21
Speaker 14: back down to reality.
28:22
Speaker 4: Now.
28:22
Speaker 2: That is somewhat comforting, isn't it. And we've heard this
28:24
Speaker 2: morning on the news, of course, that gas prices of
28:27
Speaker 2: all petrol prices here are coming down at the pump,
28:29
Speaker 2: diesel prices here are coming down at the pump. But
28:31
Speaker 2: go to California, you are about to pay more because
28:34
Speaker 2: taxes are going up, gas tax increases, and this is newsome.
28:38
Speaker 2: This is the guy wants to be the Democratic president
28:41
Speaker 2: of the United States, and they're saying, please, please, don't
28:45
Speaker 2: whack another tax on us. So it's coming in on
28:48
Speaker 2: Wednesday there, which would raise the state's excise gas tax
28:52
Speaker 2: to sixty three point four cents per gallon. That figure
28:56
Speaker 2: doesn't include the States sales tax and other local fees.
29:00
Speaker 2: That brings the total surcharge burden to about a dollar
29:03
Speaker 2: fifteen per gallon. This is just California, which is highest
29:06
Speaker 2: in the country, and according to the Triple A, the
29:09
Speaker 2: average price of gasoline in California currently five dollars fifty
29:13
Speaker 2: eight per gallon, the highest in the nation. That is
29:17
Speaker 2: one dollar sixty five above the national average. And the
29:22
Speaker 2: reason mostly is tax time is twenty minutes away from
29:27
Speaker 2: six o'clock. We were going to speak to Shane Jones,
29:30
Speaker 2: but Shane Jones is not picking up his phone. Clearly
29:33
Speaker 2: he's in There's no phone in the limo for Shane Jones. Anyway,
29:36
Speaker 2: We'll come to him if we can. But I do
29:38
Speaker 2: want to talk to you about the you know, the
29:40
Speaker 2: MoU that's been signed with Tehran. So Trump has done
29:46
Speaker 2: another thing last week which might have missed. You know,
29:48
Speaker 2: you might not have seen it in the headlines, but
29:50
Speaker 2: their administration has waved last week, waved the right for
29:55
Speaker 2: Iran to sell oil and received dollar payments for it
29:59
Speaker 2: and starting to earn them some money. So the Iranians
30:02
Speaker 2: are earning foreign currency they reckon despite all the fighting
30:06
Speaker 2: that's been going on. By the way, in the last
30:07
Speaker 2: couple of weeks they reckon as much as ten billion
30:10
Speaker 2: in the next two months from oil sales. Okay, great
30:13
Speaker 2: for Iran in the short term. This is a windfall,
30:17
Speaker 2: but it's not enough to really kickstart the economy, because
30:21
Speaker 2: if you look at all of the bridges, all of
30:23
Speaker 2: the roads, all of the infrastructure that has been blown
30:27
Speaker 2: to pieces by the Americans over the last couple of months.
30:30
Speaker 2: Any boost to the economy that the economy is basically broken.
30:33
Speaker 2: So any boost, where does it go. You're not going
30:36
Speaker 2: to spread it out across the country very quickly. So
30:39
Speaker 2: this thing is going to be a long repair job.
30:42
Speaker 2: But what they reckon the analyst in the meantime is
30:44
Speaker 2: this That is exactly why Tehran and the Iranians will
30:49
Speaker 2: stay trying to negotiate a deal because they now are
30:52
Speaker 2: basically have no choice. Their long term future is hanging
30:56
Speaker 2: in the balance.
30:58
Speaker 1: Eight to six Get it head of the headlines on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spuck for Business Technology
31:06
Speaker 1: that Keeps Business Moving US Talk ZB.
31:09
Speaker 2: It is six away from six News talks 'b. So
31:11
Speaker 2: no Shane Jones this morning, which is a shame because
31:13
Speaker 2: I was we're going to talk from about fast track
31:15
Speaker 2: and I spoke to the boss of Santana Minerals yesterday.
31:17
Speaker 2: They are doing the gold mine, well potentially doing the
31:20
Speaker 2: gold mine down in Otago and you should have heard
31:23
Speaker 2: the stuff that Damian O'Connor labor West Coast Mining should
31:26
Speaker 2: know better, was saying about this mine at a public
31:28
Speaker 2: rally in Tarras. He was saying, Oh, they'll be all
31:31
Speaker 2: fly and fly out workers. The money won't come to
31:35
Speaker 2: the regions like this. The idea this will become some
31:38
Speaker 2: kind of nirvana is nonsense. I think he called it literally,
31:42
Speaker 2: said bs. And of course the boss of Santana Minerals
31:47
Speaker 2: yesterday I said, no, that's completely misinformed. What is he
31:49
Speaker 2: talking about. But anyway, they've put their application on pause
31:52
Speaker 2: for the gold mine at the moment because they'd be
31:54
Speaker 2: asked a bunch of questions about who pays if something
31:56
Speaker 2: goes wrong. So it's fast, but not like super fast,
31:59
Speaker 2: is it? It is? Mike, good morning.
32:03
Speaker 11: The interesting thing about Damian o'connery is he's not from
32:06
Speaker 11: the West Coast anymore because he found love and moved
32:09
Speaker 11: to Dunedin. Yes, but you sure speak of a region. No,
32:13
Speaker 11: he deserted the region and he found love. Now we're
32:16
Speaker 11: having an argument out there. So tonight's the Michelin star, right,
32:21
Speaker 11: So so Sam, who's the producer. He's into his fine dining,
32:26
Speaker 11: so he's yes, he is exactly you wouldn't know.
32:28
Speaker 2: He doesn't give me that sort of He says he's into.
32:32
Speaker 11: His fine dining. So I'm saying to him, he said
32:35
Speaker 11: that this is what I deal with every day.
32:37
Speaker 2: So I say this, yes, muppet, yes and idiot. So
32:41
Speaker 2: this is the thing.
32:43
Speaker 11: So there's no way the government spent six million dollars
32:45
Speaker 11: to get the Micheline people here to have a ceremony
32:48
Speaker 11: tonight to not hand out any Michelin stars. Sam goes,
32:51
Speaker 11: I wouldn't be surprised if this nun and serious. There's
32:56
Speaker 11: no way that He said, well, they might hand out
32:58
Speaker 11: their bibs and recommend it, and I.
32:59
Speaker 2: Went no, No, he's completely ridicted. That's ridiculous. So is
33:04
Speaker 2: your question, because I asked the listeners this morning, you know,
33:07
Speaker 2: does it undercut it? Does it undermine it? If there's
33:09
Speaker 2: been taxpayer money going into Brandon.
33:11
Speaker 11: It doesn't undermine it. But the problem with the Michelin stars,
33:14
Speaker 11: and having been to a number of Michelin stars in
33:16
Speaker 11: my life.
33:17
Speaker 2: Of course, it's it's now got to.
33:19
Speaker 11: The point where there are restaurants that you go, Nah,
33:22
Speaker 11: you're taking them, you know what.
33:24
Speaker 2: It's not what it was Sam going to go to.
33:27
Speaker 2: He's going to not going to the award to get
33:30
Speaker 2: a free ticket and presumably, but who's going to cater
33:33
Speaker 2: the awards? That would be my very very good question.
33:36
Speaker 2: And the other thing is if they say some pub
33:39
Speaker 2: and some you know, some far away pub on the
33:41
Speaker 2: West coast is a Michelin one, will he go to
33:43
Speaker 2: the visit?
33:44
Speaker 5: That is it?
33:45
Speaker 11: Well, that's part of it, isn't it. You know you're
33:47
Speaker 11: on the coast. Do you think you wish like, oh
33:49
Speaker 11: Michelin star jeesez, I didn't realize there you go. I
33:51
Speaker 11: think that's part of what it's about. Anyway, it'll be
33:54
Speaker 11: interesting where we're doing something on this this morning?
33:56
Speaker 2: Great, so how I'm quite low brow? How I how
34:00
Speaker 2: many stars are there? Do you get just one?
34:03
Speaker 6: Okay?
34:04
Speaker 11: So the top you can get a three star alanded
34:08
Speaker 11: casts ram get a whole bunch of three stars, multiple
34:12
Speaker 11: three stars at three stars at serious business.
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Speaker 2: Sky's the limit. Enjoy your day, Michelin. Tonight News Talks.
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Speaker 6: It be.
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