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Full Show Podcast: 10 April 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: This is the issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge on early editions with Spark for business technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be good.
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Speaker 3: Morning, It's Friday, six after five. Great to have your company.
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Speaker 3: We'll head to Jerusalem for the latest in the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: Vincent's in the UK for us this morning. We'll talk
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Speaker 3: about motorsport heading to Topoor and the CEO of Early
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Speaker 3: Childhood Council is on the show because half of our
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Speaker 3: ecees in New Zealand aren't up to standard. But what
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Speaker 3: does that actually mean? And should you be worried about
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Speaker 3: your kid if they're spending too much time there? All
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Speaker 3: ahead for your Friday morning. The agenda tenth of April.
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Speaker 3: Netanyahu last man standing in the way of the ceasefire,
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Speaker 3: holding what.
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Speaker 2: We can't do anything.
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Speaker 4: I wish I was a born so that I can
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Speaker 4: braw up whoever is responsible for this.
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Speaker 5: The enemy doesn't have mercy.
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Speaker 3: This is Lebanon where they are still whacking haz Bula,
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Speaker 3: although I note the last hour Nityahu has said they
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Speaker 3: will start direct talks with Lebanon to try and stop
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Speaker 3: all this from happening. And in breaking news that is
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Speaker 3: not breaking and not surprising. The straight upfor Moos is
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Speaker 3: not open.
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Speaker 4: It was a grade violation, intentional grade violation. You cannot
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Speaker 4: ask for a ceasefire and then accept terms and conditions,
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Speaker 4: accept in all the areas that you know ceasfire is
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Speaker 4: applied to and name Lebanon exactly, Lebanon in that and
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Speaker 4: then your ally just start a massacre. Actually it was
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Speaker 4: a sort of genocide, you know, by the regime of
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Speaker 4: Israeli in Lebanon, just immediately after the ceasfire was accepted.
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Speaker 3: We've got some numbers for you on petrel and diesel
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Speaker 3: prices here and when they might start to change. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: Mark Rutta, this is the NATO boss. He's been speaking
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Speaker 3: in Washington after he had tints meeting with Trump.
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Speaker 2: Let me be clear, this alliance is not whistling past
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Speaker 2: the graveyard. Alice recognize and I recognize. We are in
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Speaker 2: a period of profound change in the Transatlantic Alights. Europe
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Speaker 2: is assuming a creator and fair share of the task
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Speaker 2: of providing for its conventional defense.
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Speaker 3: To La the ketamine Queen. This is Matthew Perry sold
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Speaker 3: them all the drugs. Friends, actor fifteen years behind bars.
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Speaker 6: If you don't feel some sense of shame or sorrow
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Speaker 6: and you're not even humor.
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Speaker 3: Finally, this morning, a London thief easy cash he was
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Speaker 3: after and steals a handbag and a pub jailed for
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Speaker 3: two years. Seems like quite a half sentence. Well here's why.
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Speaker 3: Turns out there was a five point three million dollar
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Speaker 3: egg and watch set inside the handbag, which are both
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Speaker 3: still missing now the egg and watch set for Bergier.
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Speaker 3: I think that's how you say it, Michael, No, of course,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, very expensive and still nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark for business technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 3: Used nine after five nine two is the number to text.
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Speaker 3: Do you put your kids in childcare? In daycare is?
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Speaker 3: And do you worry what it's doing to their brains?
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Speaker 3: So much time in spend in childcare. It's the generation
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Speaker 3: childcare basically any kid that's been raised at the moment.
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Speaker 3: This is just a reality. And there's a study out
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Speaker 3: of Australia which I think parents should probably pay attention to.
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Speaker 3: And maybe you have seen this already. It came out
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Speaker 3: just a couple of days ago. So children who spend
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Speaker 3: long hours in childcare have a higher risk of emotional development. Issues,
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Speaker 3: learning problems. Forty hours a week. You got problems basically,
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Speaker 3: And whose child is in daycare childcare forty hours a week,
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Speaker 3: well quite a few of them actually, So this is
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Speaker 3: a government study. They looked at almost three hundred thousand
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Speaker 3: kids from birth to their first year at school. Social
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Speaker 3: competence problems, emotional maturity problems, biggest impact when compared to
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Speaker 3: children who had no formal childcare whatsoever. One of the
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Speaker 3: reasons they reckon is well, it's quite a simple one.
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Speaker 3: And if you're a parent, you will know this. That
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Speaker 3: children's brains develop and they thrive being developed on relationships
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Speaker 3: with one or two adults. So they need a secure
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Speaker 3: sense of attachment between adult and child. And if you
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Speaker 3: have lots of staff turning over and churning over in
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Speaker 3: a childcare center, then the kid is not getting the
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Speaker 3: one on one time that they need, and so you
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Speaker 3: have problems. So what do you do with this information?
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Speaker 3: Because if you are a two parent family, likely you
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Speaker 3: are both working and you need to in order to
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Speaker 3: pay the bills. So what the hell do you do
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Speaker 3: about it? I mean, you can't go back to the
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Speaker 3: good old days where moms stayed at home and looked
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Speaker 3: after the kids and you probably can't say that anymore
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Speaker 3: or dad stayed at home and looked after the kids.
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Speaker 3: How do you afford to do that? But at the
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Speaker 3: same time, how do you not make your kid end
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Speaker 3: up with development problems and learning issues? Eleven after five
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Speaker 3: talk about ecees here in New Zealand. Next, also I'll
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Speaker 3: give you those numbers on petrol News Talk sat B.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that
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Speaker 1: keeps Business Moving.
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Speaker 3: News Talk SEB. For Bursha, thank you, dear Textern. Nine two.
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Speaker 3: The number for Bursha is the egg and the egg
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Speaker 3: set that was worth more than just bloody expensive. Is
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Speaker 3: what it is? Five million dollars SOLN in a handbag
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Speaker 3: in London. Guy got two years right, five point thirteen.
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Speaker 3: So average diesel price right now in New Zealand is
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Speaker 3: three eighty eight. This is according to gas B ninety
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Speaker 3: one is three dollars forty eight. Now. The Commerce Commission,
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Speaker 3: they've been doing a weekly update to see whether we're
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Speaker 3: getting price gougised when we fill up, and they put
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Speaker 3: their latest report out yesterday, so with ninety one they've
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Speaker 3: said it is now only up fifty four cents a
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Speaker 3: liter on its pre war price, but the average that
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Speaker 3: that's what the importers are paying, but the average retail
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Speaker 3: price is still up ninety three cents, so there's a
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Speaker 3: gap emerging. When are we going to close the gap
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Speaker 3: is the question. For refined diesel that was a dollar
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Speaker 3: thirteen a liter higher than it was in February twenty eight,
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Speaker 3: which was before the war, the retail price a dollar
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Speaker 3: ninety two higher. So the question then becomes when are
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Speaker 3: they going to drop the prices at the pump. The
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Speaker 3: Commerce Commission has said there's no evidence of price gouging
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Speaker 3: at this point. I mean oil overnight was back up
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Speaker 3: over one hundred dollars a barrel for US volatile prices,
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Speaker 3: so it will take some time before they settle down.
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Speaker 3: But how much time I hope that the AA in
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Speaker 3: the UK this morning has said they expect to see
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Speaker 3: prices coming down should the cease fire hold in two weeks.
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Speaker 3: Bridge Almost half of early childhood centers arned up to scratch.
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Speaker 3: This is according to a new review from Erro. Forty
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Speaker 3: seven percent of standalone services were below the quality threshold
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Speaker 3: for twenty four to two. But that's actually an improvement
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Speaker 3: from sixty four percent that weren't up scratched last time.
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Speaker 3: Obviously still not great. Simon Loeber is with US CEO
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Speaker 3: of Early Childhood Counsel Simon, good morning, Good morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 3: Good to have you on the program. So is this
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Speaker 3: something we should be really concerned about, like what types
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Speaker 3: of standards are they not meeting?
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Speaker 7: Not really, No, I wouldn't be concerned about this. It
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Speaker 7: is the Education Review Office doing their job and what
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Speaker 7: we're seeing is a significant improvement from just one year.
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Speaker 7: And whilst I know it does sound like a low percentage,
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Speaker 7: it shows the sensitivity of the reviews that they're doing
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Speaker 7: that they do. They do try and look at a
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Speaker 7: lot of things, and if they see something slightly out
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Speaker 7: of place, it's going to be appearing on your review
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Speaker 7: and so you will end up with pretty much everyone
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Speaker 7: getting found with something somewhere that's not quite right. And yeah,
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Speaker 7: it's it is concerning, but it is why you have
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Speaker 7: the reviews, so that you have the early chartered services
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Speaker 7: focused on improvement. And if we look at those areas
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Speaker 7: that made up that fifty three percent, the best performing
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Speaker 7: area was around learners and their learning, which was sixty
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Speaker 7: five percent, So that were above, so that was really good.
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Speaker 7: The weakest area was actually in professional learning and development,
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Speaker 7: which tallies with what we're hearing of a workforce is
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Speaker 7: under massive pressure with not a lot of help.
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Speaker 3: But that still leaves an on the learning thirty five
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Speaker 3: percent that are below the standard. Presumably, I mean that's
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Speaker 3: not great.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's it is what it is, ryan that is
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Speaker 7: and it's an improvement on the year before. So yeah,
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Speaker 7: if people don't like to see it, but that is
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Speaker 7: the state of our early childhood provision and that's this
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Speaker 7: independent of it evaluation team that showed us every year
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Speaker 7: and it's actually a massive improvement. There was seventeen percent
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Speaker 7: lower the previous year.
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Speaker 3: How do you get if you're a parent, how do
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Speaker 3: you get a good one?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 3: You know, how do you know who's good?
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Speaker 7: Well, that's that's a different question altogether, isn't it. It's
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Speaker 7: a bit like as that cake done. Like personally, you know,
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Speaker 7: you've got to you've got to find the right service
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Speaker 7: for your child, and every child is different and there
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Speaker 7: are quite a lot of different options out there. So
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Speaker 7: if you're going into centers and you need long hours
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Speaker 7: of care for a day, then you definitely need to
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Speaker 7: go and visit a few different centers, and it's a
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Speaker 7: bit like looking at properties you've it's only by looking
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Speaker 7: at a few that you start to build up a
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Speaker 7: sense yourself about you know, what is it we are
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Speaker 7: looking for for our child? And you might get it
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Speaker 7: wrong as well. You could find one that you think
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Speaker 7: looks really good, but actually you're doesn't settle comfortably and
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Speaker 7: that's important too.
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Speaker 3: Simon good to be on the program. Thank you, Simon
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Speaker 3: Labor's CEO of Early Childhood Counsel. It's eighteen minutes after
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Speaker 3: five Ryan Bridge. So how do you given that information?
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Speaker 3: How do you pick? How do you know what's good?
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Speaker 3: You know? Do you ask your kid? How was that?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: No, that was the quality of the education was excellent.
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Speaker 3: I will go back. How do you how are you
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Speaker 3: to decide? Eighteen minutes after five News TALKSB we'll talk
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Speaker 3: about the motorsport in Topel Next.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps Business Moving
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Speaker 1: News TALKSB.
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Speaker 3: News Talk SIB it is five twenty. Great to have
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Speaker 3: your company this morning. Loads of texts coming on this
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Speaker 3: one from Brian says Ryan, I think your information on
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Speaker 3: diesel prices way off currently paying over four dollars a liter. Yes, Brian,
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Speaker 3: you will be at your pump. The number I gave
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Speaker 3: three out of eight was the average for New Zealand.
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Speaker 3: But there definitely are some stations that are charging you
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Speaker 3: north north of four dollars a liter. Another here is Ryan.
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Speaker 3: My missus and I haven't heard that one in a while.
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Speaker 3: Have a sun due in July. We are moving back
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Speaker 3: to Australia es since you're going to double my income,
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Speaker 3: a big reason being that she will not have to
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Speaker 3: work and we can avoid childcare, which is actually the
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Speaker 3: way to go. Because a friend of mine is moving
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Speaker 3: while considering a move to Perth at the moment, and
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Speaker 3: she's got two kids, two young kids, and she said
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Speaker 3: the price of childcare, the cost of childcare over there
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Speaker 3: is actually double what they would be paying for it here.
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Speaker 3: And whether that's because twenty hours free or what, I
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Speaker 3: don't know, or maybe the quality is better over there,
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Speaker 3: though they've had some pretty dodgy stories on childcare and
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Speaker 3: Australia lately. For whatever reason, it is twice the price
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Speaker 3: off here. But as you say, if your wages are
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Speaker 3: doubling two then maybe one of you can afford to
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Speaker 3: stay home.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to the UK. Very interesting press conference overnight.
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Speaker 3: So three Russian subs spend a month trying to spy
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Speaker 3: on and survey the Britain undersea cables and pipelines. A
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Speaker 3: whole month. This is while the whole world was watching Iran.
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Speaker 3: The sneaky Russian subs were very busy inside the UK
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Speaker 3: Exclusive Economic Zone. Here's John Healey, he's the Defense Minister.
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Speaker 3: We've spoken about him previously.
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Speaker 8: The President putin, I see, we see you, We see
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Speaker 8: your activity over our cables and our pipelines, and you
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Speaker 8: should know that any attempt to damage them will not
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Speaker 8: be tolerated and will have serious consequences.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So what exactly would they do to them? As
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Speaker 3: the good five hundred UK military personnel involved in watching
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Speaker 3: them watching the cables. By the way, this is what
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Speaker 3: they've revealed overnight. And once the Russians realized they were
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Speaker 3: being watched, they scarf it apparently. But the cables have
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Speaker 3: been cut or damaged in the Baltic Sea. In Taiwan,
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Speaker 3: they reckon and it fixed internet traffic basically, and they reckon.
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Speaker 3: It's what you do or what you would try and
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Speaker 3: do before you go to war with someone. I'm not
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Speaker 3: suggesting that Ruster is going to go to war, but
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Speaker 3: they are certainly watching them very closely and quite concerned
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Speaker 3: about the whole thing. So they had a Royal Navy
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Speaker 3: warship and a Royal Air Force pight aircraft alongside allies interestingly,
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Speaker 3: and they were watching them, monitoring them twenty four seven
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Speaker 3: and have told them basically, we see you don't come back.
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Speaker 3: Bugger off. Twenty three after five the early.
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Speaker 3: News TALKSB. It's five twenty five. So Mark Rutter, the
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Speaker 3: NATO bosses I mentioned earlier he was meeting with Trump,
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Speaker 3: and he spoke a little bit on CNN just in
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Speaker 3: the last week while about how the meeting went. They
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Speaker 3: were talking obviously about Iran and the Strait and the
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Speaker 3: fact that Trump's not happy that the Europeans haven't been
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Speaker 3: helping him as much as he would have liked.
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Speaker 2: Let me be absolutely clear, he is clearly disappointed and
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Speaker 2: with the many natural allies, and I can see his point.
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Speaker 2: But at the same time I was also able to
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Speaker 2: appointed to the fact that the large majority of European
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Speaker 2: Nations has been helpful with basing, with logestics, with UFRA flights,
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Speaker 2: with making sure that they lift up to the commitments.
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Speaker 2: And there is also right splasts support for the fact
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Speaker 2: that degrading the nuclear and the ballistic missholl capacity from
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Speaker 2: Iran was really kuschel and that only the US was
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Speaker 2: able at this point.
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Speaker 3: To do that. We're going to get to our UK
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Speaker 3: correspondent on that at quarter to six this morning, Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 3: Energy security is shaping up to be the hottest item
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Speaker 3: on this year's election agenda. I reckon, and there's a
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Speaker 3: good reason for that too. Ask any business right now
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Speaker 3: who is about to renew or trying to renew an
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Speaker 3: energy contract. Ask any transport business who's battling the price
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Speaker 3: of diesel, or any factory or mill thinking about considering
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Speaker 3: mass layoffs as they are in Kaitai right now and
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Speaker 3: shutting up shop in Hawke's Bay. The CEOs there have
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Speaker 3: got together. They are organizing an energy summit in June.
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Speaker 3: Their business leaders voted energy their number one concern. And
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Speaker 3: when business says something like this, you listen. Bombing in
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Speaker 3: the Middle East might be on pause Barbe Route, but
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Speaker 3: the energy price battle is far from one, and it's
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Speaker 3: time for our politicians, I think, to put their swords
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Speaker 3: down and just agree kumbai R on a long term
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Speaker 3: energy strategy that addresses the new world and the new
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Speaker 3: reality that we're living in. Post ceasefire, oil is still
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Speaker 3: more than thirty percent more expensive than it was before
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Speaker 3: the war. Gas forty percent higher. There's a piece in
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Speaker 3: the Economist well worth the read that sets out the
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Speaker 3: problem quite well. The infrastructures being damaged in the golf
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Speaker 3: takes time to repair. When the tankers start moving, the
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Speaker 3: insurance premiums will cost an arm in a leg. That's
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Speaker 3: before ships take the risk of actually sailing back in
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Speaker 3: the opposite direction back into the golf again. While this
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Speaker 3: shaky ceasefire is still in play, We've now all learnt
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Speaker 3: the hard way that it takes just a few drones
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Speaker 3: and a few terrorists with some speedboats to choke supply.
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Speaker 3: Not all the supply. Sure oil will find a way
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Speaker 3: from other red jens overland by pipes, but all this
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Speaker 3: takes time and costs money. I had Chloe Swarbrick and
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Speaker 3: David Seymour on my show yesterday and they both disagreed
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Speaker 3: unsurprisingly with each other over what mix of energy solutions
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Speaker 3: that we need to keep the trucks, the factories and
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Speaker 3: the businesses moving. But the fact is they both had
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Speaker 3: some valid points and all parties, i think ought to
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Speaker 3: compromise and agree on an energy plan that we can
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Speaker 3: all well agree on, whether it's al ingng and the
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Speaker 3: government's under an art about that, whether it's overbuilding renewables,
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Speaker 3: as Sir Rodrury has argued, more drill, baby drill, Uncle
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Speaker 3: Shane tanks at Marsden point, coal for Huntley or a
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Speaker 3: combination of all of the above. Political consensus is the
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Speaker 3: missing ingredient to ensure that nz Inc can keep the
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Speaker 3: bloody lights on in mo minutes after five News Talk
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Speaker 3: said b I'll tell you about the winners, because we've
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Speaker 3: had lots of losers from the war, but there have
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Speaker 3: been some winners. Our friends across the Tasman they are
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Speaker 3: certain weld charmers. The Treasurer he's got a budget May twelfth.
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Speaker 3: They've got a structural deficit like us. They reckon the
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Speaker 3: windfall from the Iran war that will fill his coffers
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Speaker 3: eight point one billion dollars in extra tax revenues. That
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Speaker 3: is thank you to coal, thank you to iron Ore,
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Speaker 3: and a little bit thank you to gold which has
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Speaker 3: had a good run over the last twelve months. So
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Speaker 3: the lucky country continues. Is it luck or is it
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Speaker 3: just that they dig for their resources out of the ground?
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 3: News Talk ZB you said my Heart from the FEEDO.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving.
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Speaker 3: News Talk ZEDB twenty far away from six zero on
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Speaker 3: News Talks they be We'll get to Reuter's senior Middle
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Speaker 3: East correspondent before six o'clock. Vincent's in the UK for us.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about the Russian submission and the British undersea cables.
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Speaker 3: We're talking winners from the Iran War, and I mean
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Speaker 3: there have been lots of losers, so we're doing winners.
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Speaker 3: We've just spoken about Australia. They're obviously minerals are obviously
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Speaker 3: iron Or doing well off the back of that because
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Speaker 3: prices are up. Let's go to Scandinavia and let's go
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Speaker 3: to Norway, the oil exporting country, big winner. The main
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Speaker 3: stock index there, the oslo OBX, is jumped more than
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Speaker 3: eight percent since the beginning of the war. And that's
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Speaker 3: no surprise because it is dominated by big energy companies.
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Speaker 3: In fact, Equinor, which is their largest energy company. Their
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Speaker 3: stocks are up thirty percent on the beginning of the war,
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Speaker 3: as is var Energy, another big one there for them.
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Speaker 3: It's one of the only countries that is seeing stock
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Speaker 3: index rises, of the stock index rise. This is as
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Speaker 3: hopes of the stables fire were fading. Yes, today these
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Speaker 3: guys were going back up again. So there are some winners.
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Speaker 3: And basically if you're in the business of oil, or
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Speaker 3: if you're in the business of minerals, then you're doing
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Speaker 3: quite well, thank you very much. Twenty three away from
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Speaker 3: six Ryan Bridge to our reporters, Colum and need morning,
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Speaker 3: Culum morning. Right, what's the latest with us by election?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look, I mean technically it's underway from today. Voting
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Speaker 9: papers start arriving in mailboxes today for this vacant seat
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Speaker 9: on our council. Fourteen candidates vying to replace a councilor
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Speaker 9: and former mayor Jills Raddick, who died unexpectedly earlier this year.
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Speaker 9: Among those is Aaron Hawkins. He served nine years on
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Speaker 9: the council three is mayor before losing to Radick in
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Speaker 9: twenty twenty two. Number of former councilors are in the race,
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Speaker 9: Andrew Wiley, Carmen Hulhang among them. Deputy election officer Robin
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Speaker 9: Dillon says videos of most candidates are online, so that
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Speaker 9: will give voters the info they need, which is a
19:53
Speaker 9: common reason why many don't vote. Voting papers are getting
19:57
Speaker 9: sent out between now in April twenty third.
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Speaker 3: The as close Ryan on May twelve is Aaron Hawkins,
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Speaker 3: the guy with the sort of gray streaking us here.
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Speaker 3: It used to be meyor yeah, okay, you know he's
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Speaker 3: the one here. Didn't he cry in a council meeting
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Speaker 3: about climate change? Do you remember that?
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Speaker 9: You've got a good memory. I think you're correct here.
20:15
Speaker 9: You're also responsible for the dots up our main street during.
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Speaker 3: COVID excellent legacy. How's the weather.
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Speaker 9: Mainly fine here today and north easterly this afternoon? The
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Speaker 9: high sixteenth cheers Callum clear.
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Speaker 3: On christ Church morning, Clear, good morning. What's driving the
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Speaker 3: marathon growth? There?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, christ Church Marathon. So it's exploded in size. We've
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Speaker 10: heard this year that it has doubled the participants over
20:39
Speaker 10: the past three years. We've got more than eight thousand joggers,
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Speaker 10: walkers and runners flooding the central city for it on Sunday.
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Speaker 11: Now.
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Speaker 10: It is expected to inject more than three million dollars
20:48
Speaker 10: to our local economy. Forty percent of people who run
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Speaker 10: the christ Church Marathon are from outside christ Church.
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Speaker 11: Now.
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Speaker 10: Race director Chris Cox says the reason the course is
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Speaker 10: so popular is that it attracts runners alongside everything the
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Speaker 10: city has to offer. The course, for those who don't know,
21:03
Speaker 10: goes around Hagley Park. It's also very flat being in
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Speaker 10: christ Church, so it is known as one of New
21:08
Speaker 10: Zealand's fastest and flattest. He says, though the course will
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Speaker 10: need a bit of a tweak next year in order
21:13
Speaker 10: to handle this growth, because while it needs to be
21:16
Speaker 10: the same course, it has to have a few changes
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Speaker 10: in a few different streets in order to cope with
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Speaker 10: more runners. Flatter sounds easier, allegedly, I mean, I'm no runner,
21:26
Speaker 10: Ryan has you weally clear? Mostly fine today? A bit
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Speaker 10: of morning and evening cloud about southwesterly is turning northeast
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Speaker 10: and the high should be eighteen.
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Speaker 3: Nice. I thank you Max and Wellington Heymax. Good morning.
21:37
Speaker 3: Property sales delay because of limb reports.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, house sales in Wellington being held up by the
21:43
Speaker 5: City Council's apparent growing backlog of property reports or limbs
21:48
Speaker 5: land information memorandums. The current average processing time here is
21:52
Speaker 5: twenty eight working days, so effectively over a month, that's
21:56
Speaker 5: almost triple apparently the legally required time frame, costing five
22:00
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty bucks a pop. One real estate director
22:03
Speaker 5: says it's the worst delays he's seen in twenty six
22:06
Speaker 5: years in Wellington. The property market here is hardly all
22:09
Speaker 5: guns blazing at the moment as well. Slow property reports,
22:13
Speaker 5: of course, can course cause more anxiety, even jeopardizing potential
22:17
Speaker 5: offers or sales. That's happening here. The Wellington City Council
22:21
Speaker 5: says demand is higher than it planned for an excuse
22:25
Speaker 5: which doesn't seem to hold much water. It's having to
22:27
Speaker 5: put on more stuff, which suggests that was the real
22:30
Speaker 5: problem in the first place. But it is optimistic things
22:33
Speaker 5: will ease soon.
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Speaker 3: It's hard enough to stell your house and we only
22:35
Speaker 3: thing at the moment is it is I thought you
22:37
Speaker 3: were going to talk about the electronic festival that's on
22:39
Speaker 3: this weekend.
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Speaker 5: Not my not my forte. The electronic DJ festival.
22:45
Speaker 3: No Okay, how's you with her?
22:48
Speaker 2: Fine?
22:48
Speaker 5: A far from some cloudy periods, A high of seventeen.
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Speaker 3: Thank you morning, Neva.
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Speaker 12: Could you imagine Mixes a DJ.
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Speaker 3: To be honest, I can't imagine mix doing anything other
22:58
Speaker 3: than just sort of being grumpy in playing golf. You
23:01
Speaker 3: know that's the vibe. So what are we talking about
23:05
Speaker 3: this morning? Restoration of the Saint James.
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Speaker 12: Yes, look, the builders of unearthed this new opportunity. This
23:11
Speaker 12: has been during the restoration of Saint James Theatre in Auckland.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 12: The theater first opened back in nineteen twenty eight. It
23:18
Speaker 12: was closed because of a fire that happened in two
23:20
Speaker 12: thousand and seven. It's being restored with an aim to
23:23
Speaker 12: have it open by twenty twenty eight. Now, apparently during
23:27
Speaker 12: the work, the teams figured out that it would be
23:29
Speaker 12: cheaper to turn two existing basements into one by just
23:33
Speaker 12: you know, knocking down the walls, removing them between them.
23:36
Speaker 12: Saint James Holdings director that Steve Bilby says it's a
23:40
Speaker 12: great space. He says, look, they can use it, you know,
23:43
Speaker 12: having this biggest space downstairs as a venue for things
23:46
Speaker 12: like rehearsals and black box performances. So they're quite excited
23:50
Speaker 12: about that.
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Speaker 6: It was a good little wee fine fantastic.
23:52
Speaker 3: How's our weather party?
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Speaker 2: Cloudy?
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Speaker 12: Isolated showers, still warm? Twenty four is the high?
23:58
Speaker 3: Oh wow?
23:58
Speaker 12: Yes, it was hot yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Before the end of the world on Sunday.
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Speaker 12: What I'm just going to say this quickly. I'm supposed
24:05
Speaker 12: to be having branch with some friends on Sunday morning,
24:07
Speaker 12: and I say, let's go at nine am, and everyone's
24:10
Speaker 12: got should we cancel? Shall we cancel?
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Speaker 6: The storms coming?
24:13
Speaker 3: Cancel brunch?
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Speaker 11: No, we are going.
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Speaker 6: You do not tune up.
24:17
Speaker 12: I will never speak to you again.
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Speaker 10: The bridge will be closed, shall we won't be able
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Speaker 10: to walk?
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Speaker 12: I see that's all impossibly.
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Speaker 3: For goodness sake, you'll be fine, honestly, what's wrong with people?
24:28
Speaker 3: Seventeen away from Sex News Talk zib we're live to
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Speaker 3: the UK.
24:31
Speaker 1: Next International correspondence with ins inn Eye Insurance peace of
24:35
Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business whose talks.
24:38
Speaker 3: Will be it is accorded to six. Let's go to
24:41
Speaker 3: Vinto meccaviny a UK europe correspondents and tell us about
24:44
Speaker 3: these three Russian subs.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is a story that's come out because the
24:49
Speaker 11: British government quite unusually frank about this. The Defense Secretary
24:52
Speaker 11: came out this morning and explained that over a month
24:55
Speaker 11: long operation, multiple British ships, national ships and aircraft were
25:01
Speaker 11: involved in the sort of cat and mouse game with
25:03
Speaker 11: three Russian subs. One of them was an attack sub
25:06
Speaker 11: and two were robotic research subs that were basically going
25:10
Speaker 11: around the North Atlantic. Examining it seems the UK's cable
25:13
Speaker 11: infrastructure that brings around about ninety percent of our Internet
25:17
Speaker 11: and then on passes it to the United States to
25:19
Speaker 11: the Europe as well, and many of our energy cables.
25:23
Speaker 11: There are about sixty of those around the country. So
25:26
Speaker 11: basically this was a message to Russia saying that we
25:28
Speaker 11: know that a lot's going on in the least, but
25:30
Speaker 11: we're not distracted. We see what you're doing and we've
25:32
Speaker 11: scared you away and we'll continue to watch.
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Speaker 3: Tell us about the new exhibition at the King's Gallery
25:37
Speaker 3: Buckingham Palace, Well.
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Speaker 11: This is the summer exhibition at Buckingham Palace, so if
25:42
Speaker 11: any of the listeners are up in London over the summer,
25:45
Speaker 11: it's well worth checking out because you see not only
25:47
Speaker 11: the kind of grand state rooms in Buckingham Palace, but
25:50
Speaker 11: they always put on a special exhibit, and this one
25:52
Speaker 11: is to mark one hundred years since the late Queen
25:55
Speaker 11: Queen Elizabeth Sid's birth and it has over two hundred
25:58
Speaker 11: pieces include in clothing, jewelry, hat, shoes, accessories that she
26:02
Speaker 11: wore during the decades of her reign. So it will
26:06
Speaker 11: be quite a walk through history through fashion in the
26:09
Speaker 11: twentieth century. And you know, I covered royal events for
26:12
Speaker 11: many years while she was still alive, and she had
26:14
Speaker 11: a saying which was, you know, I have to be
26:16
Speaker 11: seen to be believed, and she would always turn up
26:19
Speaker 11: in some very bright, eye catching outfits and so I
26:22
Speaker 11: think there'll be quite a lot here to check out.
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Speaker 3: Nice one. Vincent Vince Mecavinio, UK europe correspondent thirteen away
26:28
Speaker 3: from six Ryan Bridge. Nittya, who's now talking about talks
26:32
Speaker 3: over Lebanon, Iran, says the strait is going to stay
26:35
Speaker 3: closed and we will only reopen it if the US
26:39
Speaker 3: Beck's off the quote aggression.
26:41
Speaker 4: You cannot have a chick and Ea did. At the
26:43
Speaker 4: same time. That was the message that Roon send the
26:46
Speaker 4: quite clearly, crystal clearly to Washington and to the Oral Office.
26:50
Speaker 3: Last night, Alexander Cornwall with US Reuter's senior Middle East
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Speaker 3: correspondent in Jerusalem, Alexander, Nice to have you back on
26:56
Speaker 3: the show. Thanks for being with me. What about Nita Yahoo,
26:59
Speaker 3: what's the what's the game plan here? Do you think
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Speaker 3: to try?
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Speaker 13: I mean, the announcement comes just, you know, a day
27:06
Speaker 13: after those huge strikes on Lebanon that has you know,
27:09
Speaker 13: now killed more than three hundred people. We don't have
27:13
Speaker 13: an official date for these talks that will take place
27:17
Speaker 13: with the Lebanese now. One thing to keep in mind
27:20
Speaker 13: is that Lebanon, for the past month, the Lebanese government
27:23
Speaker 13: that has been pushing for direct talks with Israel and
27:26
Speaker 13: Nana who had rebuffed him this whole time. One thing
27:30
Speaker 13: also to consider is that the US Vice President yesterday
27:35
Speaker 13: and Budapest said that Israel had sort of decided to
27:38
Speaker 13: check themselves, as the way he phrased it, after those
27:40
Speaker 13: strikes in Lebanon. So we'll have to wait and see
27:43
Speaker 13: when and if those talks will happen. Iran has been
27:47
Speaker 13: adamant that the ceasefire also include Lebanon, and we've also
27:50
Speaker 13: seen a number of European states come out to say
27:53
Speaker 13: and say Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire as well.
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Speaker 3: Ninnya, who's wanted for a long time the Lebanese government
27:58
Speaker 3: to go after his bulloods. Is there any chance of that? Heavening?
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Speaker 13: I mean, the Lebanese government and the Lebanese Armed Forces
28:07
Speaker 13: were supposed to do that following a twenty twenty four
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Speaker 13: agreement that was essentially a ceasefire between Hesbla and Israel,
28:15
Speaker 13: and the armed Forces said that they the Lebanese Armed
28:18
Speaker 13: Forces said they did take over areas of the south. However,
28:23
Speaker 13: you know, we did see Hesba open fire in March
28:27
Speaker 13: following the attacks on Iran against Israel, so it's very
28:32
Speaker 13: unclear what capabilities they have. The Lebanese Army had been
28:36
Speaker 13: withdrawing from some areas of Lebanon as the Israeli military
28:39
Speaker 13: advance and continued its bombardment. So it's, you know, if
28:43
Speaker 13: these talks happened, with these big ifs, it's you know,
28:46
Speaker 13: there's got to be some kind of mechanism here, some
28:49
Speaker 13: kind of guarantee that probably has to come from outside
28:51
Speaker 13: of Lebanon and outside of Israel, possibly the United States,
28:54
Speaker 13: possibly the French or always keen to play a role
28:56
Speaker 13: in Lebanon.
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Speaker 3: And as terms of why NITNYA who's now saying let's
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Speaker 3: talk about talks. It's pressure from the US, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: I was looking at poles that were polling Republican voters
29:08
Speaker 3: on their support for Israel and its many wars, and
29:13
Speaker 3: that has been slowly dropping through Iran.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, well again, we saw these huge coordinated
29:19
Speaker 13: strikes by Israel yesday. These strikes now, Israel has traditionally
29:23
Speaker 13: targeted areas of southern Lebanon, of southern be areas that
29:27
Speaker 13: are Shia Muslim areas where is known to have a presence,
29:32
Speaker 13: that are strongholds. Many of the areas that attacked, Yes,
29:34
Speaker 13: they were in mixed religious areas, so Sunni, Muslim and
29:37
Speaker 13: Christian areas that many Lebanese had thought were safe and
29:41
Speaker 13: away from Hesbulah. And just the toll, the scale attacks
29:45
Speaker 13: has really panicked many this everyday people in Lebanon. Over
29:50
Speaker 13: a million people in Lebanon are displaced by have been
29:53
Speaker 13: displaced by the Israeli military. Over a thousand people have
29:56
Speaker 13: been killed before yesterday's attacks, and Iran said this ceasefire
30:01
Speaker 13: includes Lebanon and that there's no point having negotiations with
30:06
Speaker 13: the Americans if it's not so there was there has
30:09
Speaker 13: been some question here as to whether the ceasefire, the
30:11
Speaker 13: American arrange seas I would even hold and if those
30:15
Speaker 13: Israeli strikes us, they had jeopardized the whole truth.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate your time and your analysis. Alexander Cornwell Reutter has
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Speaker 3: seen the Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem for US this morning.
30:24
Speaker 3: It's nine minutes away from six.
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Speaker 7: Ryan.
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Speaker 3: Also, I note overnight the head of WW state owned
30:29
Speaker 3: oil company, he's a sultant. He has come out and said, yeah,
30:32
Speaker 3: the Strait is closed, despite what the headlines might have
30:35
Speaker 3: said yesterday, and they are currently running reduced oil production
30:39
Speaker 3: because there's storage capacity problems. Obviously storage is filled up
30:42
Speaker 3: there and the last cargoes that got through the Strait
30:48
Speaker 3: before the war are only now just arriving at their
30:52
Speaker 3: final destination. So it takes a week. While eight to six.
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Speaker 3: with you next morning, Mike, Joy to see you.
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Speaker 10: Ryan.
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Speaker 3: I drove a Volvo yesterday, a luxury yes and a
31:17
Speaker 3: one yes. And it was the single pedal, very very
31:21
Speaker 3: very well reviewed, all very smooth ride.
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Speaker 6: Term how much was it?
31:26
Speaker 3: Good question?
31:27
Speaker 6: When you say the single pedal, what do you mean,
31:29
Speaker 6: like you put your foot on the regenerative regenerative so
31:34
Speaker 6: you can can you set the regeneration on it?
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Speaker 3: Is it one of those I don't know. It was
31:37
Speaker 3: on and I was using it because the BAK.
31:40
Speaker 6: I find that really, I find it quite fun when
31:44
Speaker 6: you set regeneration. So some cars you set a regeneration.
31:46
Speaker 6: Some you can do without it, so it just drifts
31:49
Speaker 6: like a normal carbon generation.
31:50
Speaker 3: I can turn it off, can you.
31:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we'll wind it up all down. But I reckon,
31:54
Speaker 6: It's I reckon. It's a fun thing.
31:56
Speaker 3: It takes a while to get used to though, because
31:57
Speaker 3: your instinct is to slam the brake on. You don't
32:00
Speaker 3: need to you do.
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Speaker 6: And did it have a big boot?
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Speaker 10: Do?
32:03
Speaker 2: I mean?
32:03
Speaker 6: I think it was a wagon.
32:04
Speaker 3: I don't know.
32:05
Speaker 6: If you're a big you're a big wagon.
32:06
Speaker 3: This suv suv. It actually had the two seats in
32:11
Speaker 3: the back, which obviously I would never need because seven seats,
32:13
Speaker 3: seven seats. It's a seven two in the boot, Yes,
32:16
Speaker 3: seven seater.
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Speaker 6: So what sort of literage did you get in the
32:18
Speaker 6: boot if you folded both sets of seeds?
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Speaker 9: Was it?
32:21
Speaker 6: I get the dog fifteen hundred If you're talking over
32:24
Speaker 6: fifteen hundred liters, that's a useful car, right.
32:26
Speaker 3: I mean the thing is, I'd never use those two
32:28
Speaker 3: seats in the boot because I don't need to need children.
32:31
Speaker 6: What's the what's the recharge time on that?
32:35
Speaker 3: Well depends, so twenty minutes if you're on the fast
32:38
Speaker 3: charge at the charging net.
32:39
Speaker 6: Station ten to eighty for twenty minutes. Yeah, you don't know.
32:44
Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
32:46
Speaker 3: But twenty minutes. I mean that doesn't seem like it's
32:47
Speaker 3: that long ago and getting to you.
32:49
Speaker 6: No, it's twenty too long. You sound like a retired person.
32:51
Speaker 6: I had this discussion with a number of retired people
32:53
Speaker 6: who's got twenty minutes to refuel their car. Nobody. Well,
32:58
Speaker 6: I mean you're doing nothing.
32:59
Speaker 3: By the time you wait for the petrol pump and
33:02
Speaker 3: then get to your petrol and then go in and
33:05
Speaker 3: get your coffee. I mean there's twenty minutes your coffee.
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Speaker 6: You do it, you do it remotely. By d this morning,
33:10
Speaker 6: have released a co lab in China with Kentucky Fried Chicken.
33:15
Speaker 3: So so there will be a classy.
33:17
Speaker 6: There will be a charging station at a Kentucky Fried
33:19
Speaker 6: Chicken and you can audit your Kentucky Fried Chicken from
33:23
Speaker 6: your BYD because it's it's built into the car. You
33:27
Speaker 6: just hit the Kentucky Fried Chicken button. Audio Chicken.
33:30
Speaker 3: It's b YD paying you something. You've spoken about them
33:33
Speaker 3: a lot now.
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Speaker 6: No, No, it's just that this is the this is
33:35
Speaker 6: the future. Let's fresh fried chicken and a car.
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Speaker 3: What more do you want?
33:39
Speaker 6: For goodness sake? Anyway, you're going to buy the.
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Speaker 3: Bulbo ah, go on on them not buying the Volvo.
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Speaker 6: What you're driving it for?
33:47
Speaker 3: You're a taking well people. There may be there may
33:50
Speaker 3: be some sponsorship going on.
33:53
Speaker 6: What a sell out? What go to the dark side?
33:58
Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 6: Do you buy the sweets?
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Speaker 3: Have a great day?
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