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Full Show Podcast: 24 July 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews, and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for business Technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: news talks, there'd be.
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Speaker 2: A body welcome of Friday, six after five. The Wall
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Speaker 2: Street Journal this morning is reporting that the US is
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Speaker 2: sending more forces, more medics, more weapons to the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: Also reports Trump weighing up bigger strikes than epic fury.
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Speaker 2: Oil up over one hundred dollars a barrel overnight. That's
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Speaker 2: six percent. Job adds here at home are up, which
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Speaker 2: is good news. There is a silver lining here. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to all of those stories this morning. The agenda
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Speaker 2: Friday to twenty fourth of July. This US Saudi nuclear
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Speaker 2: deal we spoke about yesterday. Trump says there'll be no
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Speaker 2: uranium enrichment, so that's caused. One, however, depends on the
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Speaker 2: Saudis joining the Abraham and calls that's basically recognizing Israel.
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Speaker 3: It continues to be a long term goal of his
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Speaker 3: to expand those accords to ultimately come to a place
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Speaker 3: where the Middle East can be a peaceful and stable region.
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Speaker 3: And yes, this deal with Saudi Arabia, the energy deal
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Speaker 3: is contingent on this condition.
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Speaker 2: To the UK, Andy Burnham's kept the policy announcements coming.
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Speaker 2: He's cut rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues
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Speaker 2: by twenty percent from next April. This is funded from
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Speaker 2: within a change to business rates because you.
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Speaker 1: Know you can't see all businesses the same.
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Speaker 2: Some do real good in the community. He says. This
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Speaker 2: is to keep the working class culture alive. More on
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Speaker 2: that than a second. Plus we told you about that
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Speaker 2: early prisoner release scheme. He's put the kaibosh on that. Finally,
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Speaker 2: this morning, remember Reagan representing Australia.
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Speaker 1: Reagan, you were was questioned why she was chosen.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Rachel didn't get a point.
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Speaker 4: You've seen you.
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Speaker 2: All want to talk about it. Half wet from Non London.
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Speaker 1: Everyone is talking about and sure to be this year's
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Speaker 1: most popular Halloween class. Reagan had a It was very cringey.
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Speaker 5: She is the best breakdancer female.
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Speaker 6: That we have for Australia has frankly been pretty devastating.
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Speaker 2: So she is. This is the twenty twenty four Paris
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Speaker 2: then reinvention of raygun.
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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 2: News talk zb the Calm Games opening ceremony this morning
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Speaker 2: as well. We'll get to Andrew Ordison on that, and
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Speaker 2: Brad Olsen will talk to us about well, probably oil,
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Speaker 2: but also the inflation report we're going to get monthly
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Speaker 2: instead of quarterly, which is so very exciting for everybody.
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Speaker 2: Now nine nine two is the number to text. The
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Speaker 2: interesting thing about what's going on in the Middle East overnight, well,
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Speaker 2: actually it's been the last couple of days. Is you know,
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Speaker 2: the hoothies are kicking off in Yemen and the Red
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Speaker 2: Sea is an area that we've had an interest in previously,
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Speaker 2: our defense forces had an interest in previously for good reason.
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Speaker 2: It's sort of the B route when the straight up
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Speaker 2: Hoor moves is but choked up. You go through the
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Speaker 2: Red Sea, you go through the Bab al Mandeb passing
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Speaker 2: or crossing, and if you I was reading this morning,
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Speaker 2: if you choke that so horn Moses choked, then you
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Speaker 2: choke the Red Sea and then the Saudis have to
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Speaker 2: go basically all the way around Africa to get to
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Speaker 2: the Indian Ocean, so the long way, and that adds
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Speaker 2: ten to fifteen days to the journey. That's a problem
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Speaker 2: because then it's going to cost you more to get
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Speaker 2: it there. You shipping costs go up. And the super
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Speaker 2: tank is the really big boys that carry the crude
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Speaker 2: from the Middle East. From Saudi Arabia, they have to
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Speaker 2: get through the Seuez. It's a lot shallower, so they
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Speaker 2: have to take less crude on board. Therefore it is
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Speaker 2: less efficient. You take a partial load, your capacity gets
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Speaker 2: tied up, your shipping takes longer, your costs go up
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Speaker 2: for your Asian refineries, and that affects what we pay
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Speaker 2: at the pump here in New Zealand. So that's why
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Speaker 2: everybody's sort of in a half up six brent crude
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Speaker 2: overnight it is ten after.
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Speaker 1: Five Brian Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Also, it's just crazy to me how lawmakers in the
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Speaker 2: US say one thing and do another. So on the
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Speaker 2: House over there yesterday for the second time now has
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Speaker 2: passed a war Powers resolution that's to say to Donald Trump,
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Speaker 2: get our troops out of Iran and they're out of
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Speaker 2: the conflict with Iran, please. That passed twenty two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fourteen votes to two hundred and eight four Republicans
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Speaker 2: joined the Democrats to do that. But at the same
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Speaker 2: time they have the Republicans. That is, they've granted more money,
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Speaker 2: so they've advanced a budget with more than a trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars worth a defense spending, a lot of which is
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Speaker 2: going to go to the war with Iran. So Trump
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Speaker 2: can just ignore this as he did last time. Last
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Speaker 2: time that the House approved this resolution and then the
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Speaker 2: Senate backed it up. But he can just because he's
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Speaker 2: commander in chief, he has power. He can say this
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Speaker 2: it's unconstitutional, and he can just carry on doing what
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Speaker 2: he's doing. He runs out of money and they keep
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Speaker 2: giving him money, so quite symbolic. Eleven after five, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to Brad Olson. Next. News TALKSB the Early.
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Speaker 2: News Talks MB. We will talk about Andrew Bailey. He's
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Speaker 2: the MP on the way out. There are a few
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Speaker 2: of those at the moment, but MP on the way
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Speaker 2: Out he's not going to stand again at the selection. However,
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Speaker 2: he's just had a members bill plucked from the ballot.
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Speaker 2: It's about child abuse, talking about that, but also about
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Speaker 2: you know, he's one of those of how would you
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Speaker 2: describe him? Colorful characters of politics who is leaving because
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Speaker 2: of opening his mouth. And we'll ask Hi about Stuart
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Speaker 2: Nash A bunch of other stuff. Twteen and after five
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Speaker 2: Bridge Rich, So let's talk about the price of petrol,
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Speaker 2: price of diesel this morning, Callia cold recons we could
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Speaker 2: see the price of ninety one going and back up
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Speaker 2: to around three dollars thirty per liter. Average at the moment,
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Speaker 2: according to Gaspy is two eighty nine. This is after
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Speaker 2: what's happening in the Strait, but also now the Red
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Speaker 2: Sea comes as we will get an inflation read as
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Speaker 2: of next year monthly instead of quarterly. Brad Elson, chief
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Speaker 2: executive principal economists that Informetrics with us this morning, Brad
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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. So thoughts on what's happened overnight?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, certainly not what anyone was hoping for,
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Speaker 7: but also let's be quite realistic. I mean things have
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Speaker 7: clearly been tracking this way the last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 7: given the renewed conflict, and you know, missiles and an
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Speaker 7: explosive that been going through across the straight upall moves,
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Speaker 7: and now you're seeing the spread into the Red Sea.
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Speaker 7: I mean, the reason, of course that oil prices go
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Speaker 7: up is because there is that worry around supply, and
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Speaker 7: clearly there's a lot more worry coming through. Hitting that
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Speaker 7: psychological barrier of one hundred dollars a barrel is concerning.
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Speaker 7: We've seen it there the last couple of days, and
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Speaker 7: I think Kelly is probably pretty bang on with that
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Speaker 7: three dollars thirty expectation. The question will be how quickly
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Speaker 7: that comes.
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Speaker 2: Back, indeed, and will the fact that we're going to
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Speaker 2: get an inflation read monthly instead of quarterly change anything meaningful.
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Speaker 7: It certainly gives us a lot more information, a whole
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Speaker 7: lot quicker, I mean at the moment, right we got
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Speaker 7: the quarterly inflation figures last week, sorry this week, for
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Speaker 7: the previous quarter. But of course that's sort of like
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Speaker 7: the average over the three months to June, so we're
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Speaker 7: not quite sure sort of how things progressed in April,
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Speaker 7: May and June separately. We only know that sort of
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Speaker 7: collective view. So from July next year we'll have this
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Speaker 7: much more direct monthly read that's certainly going to be
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Speaker 7: helpful just to give us a lot more information. As
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Speaker 7: we've progressed through we are going to have to be
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Speaker 7: careful that we don't sort of read too much into
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Speaker 7: any one monthly increase, decrease, whatever it might be, and
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Speaker 7: start jumping at shadows. We want to look a lot
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Speaker 7: more for the signal rather than than noise. But this
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Speaker 7: is a step in the right direction given that New
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Speaker 7: Zealand is now the only OECD country that doesn't have
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Speaker 7: a monthly inflation measure. Now we will from about midext year.
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Speaker 2: Brad Nice to be on the show is always Brad Elson,
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Speaker 2: chief executive principal economist at Informatrics. Time is sixteen minutes
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Speaker 2: half to five, Ryan Bridge. Dubai obviously been hit by
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Speaker 2: what's happened in the Middle East and the fact that
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Speaker 2: no one wants to go will tourists are steering clear,
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Speaker 2: also airlines steering clear. So in twenty twenty five Dubai
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Speaker 2: had twenty million tourists visit, which you know as a
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Speaker 2: hub sort of a travel hub. You can imagine. However,
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Speaker 2: half of the airlines operating at Dubai airports have their
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Speaker 2: number have halved since then, so you've got half as
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Speaker 2: many airlines going in. Hotel vacancies revenues for some business
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Speaker 2: is particularly exposed to tororism down by more than fifty percent,
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Speaker 2: so as a result they are paying their residents to
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Speaker 2: their friends and family to come visit. Apparently, you get
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Speaker 2: thirteen hundred dollars worth of a benefits package which could
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Speaker 2: include hotels, stays, dining deals and attraction tickets. So if
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Speaker 2: you if you live and do buy your resident there,
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Speaker 2: you can invite non residents this year and the holiday
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Speaker 2: will basically be well. A lot of the costs will
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Speaker 2: be covered for you. Seventeen after five News Talks VB.
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Speaker 2: It is five nineteen. Owen says, good morning, Ryan, Good morning, Owen,
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Speaker 2: must have you with the show this morning. That mouth
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Speaker 2: Not a bad point, Owen. We will talk about that
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Speaker 2: with Andrew Barley. Just before six this morning, it is
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Speaker 2: twenty half to five. The Calm Games it almost didn't
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Speaker 2: happen underway in Glasgow, one hundred and fourteen KWI athletes,
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Speaker 2: ten sports opening. The ceremony kicks off this morning. Last
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Speaker 2: night we started with lawn bowls.
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Speaker 8: It was originally an opening ceremony birthday and now it's
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Speaker 8: a game one birthday. So no, I think that's a
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Speaker 8: pretty cool way to spend a birthday, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Clearly the birthday of New Zealand, Bowl of Selena Goddarden,
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Speaker 2: Glasgow Andrew all of in Newstalks. There be sports readers
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Speaker 2: with us this morning, Andrew, good morning, Greeting's Ryan. So
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Speaker 2: how did we go with the bowls of solid start?
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Speaker 5: I think with Selena Goddard and Kitlynch they eventually won
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Speaker 5: a tie break against Kenya. So first round win for them,
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Speaker 5: and also Shannon McElroy with leading off at the indoor
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Speaker 5: bowls rink and picking up a wed over Liam Hill
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Speaker 5: from Tong. So there's New Zealand's opening a gam But
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Speaker 5: if you like it. The Comwealth Games probably understated Comwealth
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Speaker 5: Games in many ways in Glasgow, but then they would
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Speaker 5: have happened if Glazo hadn't stepped in and continued this
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Speaker 5: tradition dating back to nineteen thirty and Dasko stepping in
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Speaker 5: of course twenty fourteen hosts of the events, and I
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Speaker 5: guess had the infrastructure still in place from twelve years
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Speaker 5: ago to be able to do it. So yeah, it's
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Speaker 5: low key though, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: That is a bit low key low key start? I'm
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Speaker 2: the thing that's got me excited is Kerr and the
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Speaker 2: high jump and whether he'll jump or not because he hasn't.
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Speaker 2: He's sort of going to make up his mind at
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Speaker 2: the eleventh hour, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, it'd be great to see him in action
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Speaker 5: with Harish Kerr and just something just with the CV
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Speaker 5: that he's built over the last few years. And yeah,
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Speaker 5: hopefully at least for the Games and for I guess
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Speaker 5: the profile of the event, if you like, and for
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Speaker 5: New Zealand, will that will capture hearts and minds and imaginations,
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Speaker 5: and I think that's that's probably key to it to
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Speaker 5: be able to keep this event going.
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Speaker 2: We are we going to win lots of golds.
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Speaker 5: I think it'll be limited this time because the sports
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Speaker 5: are so rejectedly. You've got your or what athletic cycling
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Speaker 5: in swimming, and then a few others edit in we
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Speaker 5: haven't got the traditional the I guess, the some of
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Speaker 5: the favorites of hockey, sevens, et cetera. It's still got
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Speaker 5: netball and bowls, I think importantly with the comwalth games,
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Speaker 5: netball and bowls, it's a pinnacle event for them to
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Speaker 5: some degree, and therefore that's that's where the comic game
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Speaker 5: still has a place. Otherwise, I think some of it
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Speaker 5: has diluted these days. I mean from from I guess
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Speaker 5: the heyday of yester year. But yeah, with the I
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Speaker 5: guess world championships every year, a lot of sports now
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Speaker 5: increased travelers. Once upon a time it was a proper
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Speaker 5: adventure to be able to go across and you know,
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Speaker 5: it was just sort of second to the Olympics. But
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Speaker 5: now there's so many other other events that that I
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Speaker 5: guess are in between that it's it's more of a jamboree.
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Speaker 2: I suppose. Yeah, and you've got to save you That's
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Speaker 2: what Hamishku saying, isn't it. He'll either do it, compete
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Speaker 2: here or not compete here and save himself for September.
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Speaker 2: I think it is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So okay, so there we go. I mean it's
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Speaker 5: under way at seven am. We've got David Letti, a
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Speaker 5: veteran weightlifter, and more Devilliers Judoka are going to be
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Speaker 5: New Zealand's flag bearers.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Andrew Ordison was sport this morning and the game's
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Speaker 2: kick off for the opening ceremony kicking off in a
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Speaker 2: couple of hours twenty three minutes after five News talks Hebb,
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Speaker 2: we will get to Vincent mcaveni, who's in the UK
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Speaker 2: for US. So I told you earlier about Andy Burnham
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Speaker 2: and his prisoner release scheme, Well yesterday we spoke about that.
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Speaker 2: So it was a starmer plan and now Burnham has
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Speaker 2: paused it. This is the plan to release early release
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Speaker 2: five thousand prisoners from jail as of September including and
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Speaker 2: this is what Tip has tipped him over the edge,
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Speaker 2: as in Burnham two who were done for Man's sort
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Speaker 2: of a police officer. There was outrage, so that plan
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Speaker 2: is now on pause. News Talk SeeDB five twenty five
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Speaker 2: News Talk Saib It's possible that our Defense force could
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Speaker 2: send personnel to the Middle East to help stop the Houthis.
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Speaker 2: They're the group in Yemen. We've spoken about them before.
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Speaker 2: They are back by Iran, the other one currently firing
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Speaker 2: drones and cruise missiles at Saudi tankers. They are the ones,
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Speaker 2: along with the Revolutionary Garden Iran, pushing up the price
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Speaker 2: of oil this morning. The are the ones blocking the
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Speaker 2: B route for getting crude out of the Gulf. The
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Speaker 2: other reason we'll probably pay more to fill up our
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Speaker 2: cars and trucks next week. Like most other Western countries,
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Speaker 2: we haven't really touched Trump's war in a military sense,
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Speaker 2: done anything really about the Strait of Hormuz. But the
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Speaker 2: Red Sea is different because we've been there before. Two
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Speaker 2: years ago. You might remember this, Judith Collins sent six
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Speaker 2: MZDF personnel specifically to help the US lead coalition that
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Speaker 2: was trying to stop these exact type of attacks. Winston
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Speaker 2: Peters said at the time their tacks were illegal against
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Speaker 2: our values. We want freedom of navigation, all that good
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Speaker 2: stuff and quote continue to affect New Zealand's economy. You
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Speaker 2: would have to say, given what we're witnessing this week
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Speaker 2: and in the last twenty four hours, that nothing's changed.
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Speaker 2: That deployment was scheduled to end at the beginning of
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. After it was extended in June, we
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Speaker 2: had Chris penk who's the new defenseman, is to come
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Speaker 2: out and extend a deployment to the Middle East by
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Speaker 2: at least two years of up to fourteen personnel for
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Speaker 2: quote maritime security. The question now is whether we will
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Speaker 2: be sending more and doing more Brian Breads twenty seven
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Speaker 2: after five Ryan, imagine if labor and the Greens were
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Speaker 2: running the country in this latest oil crisis. We now
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Speaker 2: have extra capacity and a backup of resources due to
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Speaker 2: planning and sensible governance, says Ray. Yes, I mean there
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Speaker 2: are a couple of points well made there, Ray, including
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Speaker 2: the fact that we now have extra capacity at Marsden
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Speaker 2: point google over. We'll talk about what's happened in the
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Speaker 2: stock market overnight in a second. But the European Commission
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Speaker 2: they have fined I've done a couple of big fines now,
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Speaker 2: but find Google one point seven billion New Zealand dollars.
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Speaker 2: They are using the Digital Markets Act over there because Google,
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Speaker 2: when you go and search for something on good Google
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Speaker 2: in Europe, well pretty much anywhere, they will put their business.
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Speaker 2: If you search whatever product you want, they'll put their
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Speaker 2: businesses or businesses that they endorse or own ahead of
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Speaker 2: their competition. So the Digital Markets Act is supposed to
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Speaker 2: help smaller firms compete with the big digital giants, and
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Speaker 2: so Google giving greater prominence to its own services and
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Speaker 2: search results has resulted in a one point seven billion
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Speaker 2: dollar fine. Question is whether they'll pay any attention to it.
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Speaker 2: I suppose, But overnight, I mean, there's more talk that
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Speaker 2: the whole AI thing is crashing. But overnight we've had
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Speaker 2: shares down, We've had the Nasdaq down. This is after
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Speaker 2: Tesla and Alphabet, which owns Google reported results and this
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Speaker 2: amount of money they are throwing at AI has got
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Speaker 2: the markets a little bit jittery because if you're throwing
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Speaker 2: that much money at AI, can you justify it is
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Speaker 2: the whole thing about to pop?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 2: That's sort of the fear that people have got so
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Speaker 2: shares and Alphabet were down when I checked just before
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Speaker 2: coming on are seven percent overnight. Tesla's were down about
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Speaker 2: fourteen percent overnight. They've got a problem with cash flow. Finally,
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Speaker 2: and this is a bit of an odd one, but
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Speaker 2: you know in Austria that's obviously where Hitler was born.
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Speaker 2: There's a particular house where he was born and people
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Speaker 2: go and visit it, and they were worried that some
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Speaker 2: Nazis were going to go and hold sort of rallies there,
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Speaker 2: so they've turned it into a police station and now
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Speaker 2: hoping that's going to put people off. You can actually
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Speaker 2: go and I've been to in Berlin and you can
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Speaker 2: go to it's a car park now but underground where
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Speaker 2: Hitler died and there's all these apartments around it, and
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Speaker 2: you think, imagine waking up, eating your breakfast and knowing,
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Speaker 2: you know, very strange. Anyway, they hope the cops will
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Speaker 2: put them off.
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Speaker 2: News Talks at b pretty far away from six News talks,
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Speaker 2: there'd be oil heading up over one hundred dollars a
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Speaker 2: barrel overnight, and here ninety one. This is according to Kelly,
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Speaker 2: you're cold at WESPAC and Kelly has been good on
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Speaker 2: this in the past, quite fortuitous. He says, you could
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Speaker 2: get back to May prices for a leader of ninety
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Speaker 2: one three dollars thirty on the cards. In fact, it
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Speaker 2: went higher than that in May, but that was the
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Speaker 2: last time it was that high. However, you would need
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Speaker 2: to see and this is all because of them, what's
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Speaker 2: happening in the Strait, but also now what's happening with
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Speaker 2: the hoot, The's and Yemen and the Red Sea. You
18:48
Speaker 2: could in order for the three dollars thirty thing to happen,
18:51
Speaker 2: you'd have to see the price of oil where it
18:53
Speaker 2: is now for another couple of weeks. So it would
18:55
Speaker 2: have to stay this bad for two more weeks at
18:58
Speaker 2: least before you see the price at the pump change.
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Speaker 2: Vincent mcavini will talk to us about the price of
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Speaker 2: world overnight. What's happening in the Middle East also, that's
19:04
Speaker 2: coming up in about fifteen minutes time, and twenty minutes time.
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Speaker 2: Andrew Bailey on his New Members Bill, here's from yesterday.
19:10
Speaker 2: This is the Paul Henry thing to shoot Mary, shoot
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Speaker 2: Mary Shag. That's what we're calling it. Your shoot Mary Shag.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know you've got to shoot Hipkins, haven't you. Yeah,
19:20
Speaker 2: I'm shagging Winston Am. You're marrying markson.
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Speaker 9: You know they say no publicity is bad public that
19:26
Speaker 9: I might not come back here now.
19:28
Speaker 2: Ei chaviral on Nick Mills on ZB Yes, they didn't
19:31
Speaker 2: like that.
19:31
Speaker 4: I'm meant for them and I'll be watching them. Clearly,
19:34
Speaker 4: they travel a long way. They're going to represent the
19:35
Speaker 4: country brilliantly. We may top with the metal tally and
19:39
Speaker 4: I just hope people back home are watching now.
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Speaker 2: That was about the Commonwealth Games, obviously, but I Shaviril
19:43
Speaker 2: yesterday Nick Mills said it was a death threat. Here
19:47
Speaker 2: was Hipkins, who did a similar game on the Project
19:50
Speaker 2: on TV three, similar but not similar. Have listen, let's
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Speaker 2: a kick, David Sema.
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Speaker 1: That's really a no brainer, ks, Christopher Luxan, because you
20:01
Speaker 1: want it over and done with quite quickly.
20:03
Speaker 2: Send you one sec of this year. I am twenty
20:05
Speaker 2: two away from six gray Bridge. It shut out in
20:07
Speaker 2: need and colors with us. Come, good morning morning, Ryan,
20:10
Speaker 2: you've got a I mean it's actually I just checked
20:12
Speaker 2: the same temperature where you are as where I am
20:14
Speaker 2: right now ten degrees in Dunedin and Auckland. But you
20:17
Speaker 2: do have a chilly front coming, Yeah, we do.
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Speaker 8: I mean, this is what happens usually it's preceded by
20:23
Speaker 8: unusually warm kind of mornings. Doesn't usually get to ten
20:26
Speaker 8: this time of the morning. So something's on its way
20:28
Speaker 8: and that's what's forecast. So few extra layers we needed
20:31
Speaker 8: here as we await another pole of blast for south
20:34
Speaker 8: and Inland Otago over the next couple of days, temperatures
20:37
Speaker 8: will drop significantly, parts of the Mackenzie District reaching as
20:41
Speaker 8: low as minus seven. Mount Cook set for minus eleven
20:44
Speaker 8: with snow to three hundred meters Ryan for parts of
20:47
Speaker 8: South Otago that includes Bellcluther and there's roads snowfall warnings
20:51
Speaker 8: for Milford Road and Crown Range. Mcta's warning disruptions on
20:54
Speaker 8: roads are likely around the region this weekend, especially inland routes,
20:58
Speaker 8: so just keep a check on them.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the Oh you've given us the forecast, Colum,
21:03
Speaker 2: haven't you? I appreciate your update. It's got to hand
21:05
Speaker 2: affacking christ Church Hannah. Good morning, morning Ryan.
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Speaker 9: How are you going very well?
21:09
Speaker 2: Thank you, Good to have you on the show. So
21:10
Speaker 2: the christ Church Convention Center, what's it doing?
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: So. Events at the PIE Convention Center have injected almost
21:17
Speaker 6: seventy four million into the local economy in the year
21:19
Speaker 6: to June, including more than sixty million directly to Canterbury.
21:23
Speaker 6: The venue hosted fifty six conventions, supporting more than eight
21:27
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty jobs, alongside another one hundred and thirty
21:30
Speaker 6: three events including exhibitions, banquets and meetings. The facility has
21:34
Speaker 6: now been opened for four years and has hosted a
21:37
Speaker 6: total of eight hundred and sixty five events attended by
21:40
Speaker 6: more than four hundred and twenty thousand people. More than
21:44
Speaker 6: thirty eight rather thousand people attended their art and banks
21:47
Speaker 6: exhibit over the summer alone. General manager Ross Steel says
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Speaker 6: to PIE is helping cement christ Church as a leading
21:53
Speaker 6: business events destination, with a strong pipeline of events already
21:56
Speaker 6: confirmed for the year ahead.
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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Hannah. How's your weather?
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Speaker 6: Mostly clouding with odds shower north least turning southwesterly late
22:03
Speaker 6: in a Barmie High seventeen.
22:05
Speaker 2: Nice thank you Mex and Wellington Morning mechs good morning
22:09
Speaker 2: yeah new water Enterry's got some new spin doctors, is
22:11
Speaker 2: it yeah?
22:12
Speaker 10: Story in the post. This is TQI the new and
22:15
Speaker 10: improved Wellington Water or is it? More than twenty two
22:19
Speaker 10: full time equivalent communications staff are being hired just for example,
22:24
Speaker 10: a regular communications and engagement advisor cann up to one
22:27
Speaker 10: hundred and thirteen thousand a year, all paid, of course,
22:29
Speaker 10: to boost and enhance tiaqwise reputation. A few contractors as
22:35
Speaker 10: well included in that twenty two number. For context, In
22:38
Speaker 10: just twenty twenty one, Wellington Water had three full time
22:42
Speaker 10: communications staff with a handful of contractors. That grew to
22:46
Speaker 10: fourteen by last year, which cost Wellington Water almost a
22:50
Speaker 10: million bucks. Tqwise Communications team twenty two now bigger than
22:54
Speaker 10: all but seven of the seventy eight councils in New Zealand.
22:58
Speaker 10: For context, we are in the era of spin to
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Speaker 10: the qy. Of course, in a few weeks will be
23:03
Speaker 10: sending standalone water bills to Wellington homes, which may come
23:06
Speaker 10: as a bit of a shock to some people. It
23:08
Speaker 10: is still counsel oaned and it can borrow heavily.
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Speaker 2: Shoot, that's a lot. Have they said anything, have they
23:13
Speaker 2: tried to justify it or I mean they've got the
23:16
Speaker 2: comm staff to try it.
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Speaker 10: Yes, you would think you'd get some you know, well
23:22
Speaker 10: written response, but it seems like it's sort of the blanket. Well,
23:25
Speaker 10: you know, a new entity, we need to enhance our reputation,
23:29
Speaker 10: and you're sending out clear communications to the public with
23:32
Speaker 10: it just starting up.
23:34
Speaker 2: Now, all right, how's your winner?
23:36
Speaker 10: Cloudy with periods of rain some quite strong northeries today
23:39
Speaker 10: thirteen nice one.
23:40
Speaker 2: Thank you, Good morning, Good morning. I love this story.
23:43
Speaker 2: The food show is opening in Auckland today.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, so are you going?
23:46
Speaker 2: No? Well, now that I know it's on, I might well.
23:49
Speaker 11: Look the organizers. They're expecting a very very busy show
23:54
Speaker 11: over the next three days. Aucklanders know this is you
23:57
Speaker 11: know at the show grounds. They're reporting and I presented advance,
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Speaker 11: you know number of ticket sales. Are not sure actually
24:04
Speaker 11: what that number is, but they're all quite excited. The organizers,
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Speaker 11: Colin and Mane, who from my Kitchen Rules, are going
24:09
Speaker 11: to be in the Cooking theater and that will be
24:11
Speaker 11: alongside about two hundred and fifty exhibitors. You know, they'll
24:15
Speaker 11: be offering all the specials and the samples across a
24:17
Speaker 11: range of products.
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Speaker 2: Do you do that?
24:20
Speaker 9: Do you go along?
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Speaker 12: Just as you're.
24:21
Speaker 2: Talking about it? It's like, you know, we've spoken before
24:24
Speaker 2: about eating in the mall. Yes, and that's a bit
24:26
Speaker 2: just when you have large groups of people and eating together.
24:30
Speaker 2: It's just something unattractive about that to me.
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Speaker 11: Have you never even eaten in the mall?
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Speaker 2: No? I have the food court, yeah, but I just
24:39
Speaker 2: find I think the food court is quite a grubby place.
24:42
Speaker 2: Oh don't you reckon?
24:43
Speaker 6: Yeah?
24:43
Speaker 11: Well I don't.
24:44
Speaker 2: Everyone looks if you or you know your kids, you
24:50
Speaker 2: they love them to the movies and eve in the dark.
24:52
Speaker 2: But when everyone's looking at you know you've got those
24:54
Speaker 2: big spotlights on. Everyone's looking at you.
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Speaker 1: Eat all right?
24:59
Speaker 2: You know why do want to do that?
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Speaker 11: How do you eat? Don't tell me you're not using utensils?
25:04
Speaker 5: Do you just food in your goal?
25:07
Speaker 2: Hey? How's our weather?
25:08
Speaker 7: Okay?
25:08
Speaker 2: Partley?
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Speaker 11: Cloudy areas of early filed periods have rained from afternoon
25:11
Speaker 11: possibly heavy. Sixteen is a high here in Auckland.
25:14
Speaker 2: Fantastic ney, but thank you. It is seventeen minutes away
25:16
Speaker 2: from six. I have great news on the jobs front.
25:18
Speaker 2: We'll share that with your next and here to the
25:19
Speaker 2: UK News Talks. Here'b fourteen minutes away from six. So
25:22
Speaker 2: this year I played you the audio earlier of Paul
25:24
Speaker 2: Henry playing the game on radio, hadarchy of shoot Shag
25:28
Speaker 2: Marry with the politicians and he said he would shoot hipkins.
25:31
Speaker 2: It was all meant to be a bit of a joke,
25:33
Speaker 2: light hearted. This was our chavil with Nick Mills yesterday.
25:36
Speaker 2: That is absolutely inappropriate and these things do have to
25:39
Speaker 2: be called out because we can't just let death threats go.
25:45
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, read into that what you will.
25:47
Speaker 2: We'll get to the UK in a second for the
25:49
Speaker 2: price of oil going up over one hundred dollars a
25:51
Speaker 2: barrel overnight. We'll also talk to Andrew Bailey. But I
25:53
Speaker 2: wanted to give you the jobs numbers six Employment report.
25:56
Speaker 2: This is for June, so volumes are up for June
25:59
Speaker 2: point two percent, sure, but for the year almost eleven percent.
26:04
Speaker 2: Our job adds are up on where we were a
26:05
Speaker 2: year ago. Slow and Steady wins the race. The official number,
26:10
Speaker 2: of course, labor market numbers came out for March quarter
26:13
Speaker 2: from Stats n Z unemployment was five point three that
26:16
Speaker 2: was down from five point four in December quarter. We
26:18
Speaker 2: will get June quarter labor market numbers August fifth, so
26:24
Speaker 2: very soon. The monthly increases across most increases across most industries,
26:30
Speaker 2: I should say, industrial construction, all up parts of the
26:33
Speaker 2: public sector. You will be interested to know up and
26:37
Speaker 2: regional still outperforming cities Southland and Otaga. You're up over
26:41
Speaker 2: twenty percent year on year. Congratulations to your construction up
26:44
Speaker 2: nearly thirty five percent year on year.
26:48
Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
26:52
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
26:55
Speaker 2: Fintermacavini, a UK europe correspondent joins US now where the
26:59
Speaker 2: price of oils. This has bring crude up over one
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars a barrel overnight, shifting around somewhat on news
27:05
Speaker 2: of what's tippening, not only in the straight upor moves,
27:07
Speaker 2: but the rid see been somewhat so the lightest here. Yeah,
27:11
Speaker 2: that's right.
27:12
Speaker 4: I think the spike is really because it just seems
27:14
Speaker 4: that there is no plan coming out of the US
27:17
Speaker 4: at the moment we are into I think the sort
27:19
Speaker 4: of twelve or thirteenth night of these strikes. Now Donald
27:22
Speaker 4: Trump is not clear what his war objectives are, and
27:24
Speaker 4: Pete Hexseth had a pretty bad roasting in front of
27:27
Speaker 4: the Senate the other day talking about how the war
27:30
Speaker 4: has gone, demanding more money for it. So in all
27:32
Speaker 4: that confusion, the price has spikes. Now the impact here,
27:35
Speaker 4: of course is that you do feel it at the pumps.
27:38
Speaker 4: But interestingly there has been a huge spike in interest
27:42
Speaker 4: and sales of electric vehicles.
27:44
Speaker 12: Here.
27:45
Speaker 4: We have some schemes which encourage you to purchase certain
27:48
Speaker 4: British and European made cars that meet certain standards. But
27:52
Speaker 4: also the new government of Andy Byrn and one of
27:54
Speaker 4: their new policies is that they're going to take VAT,
27:57
Speaker 4: which is a twenty percent tax off of domes stick energy,
28:00
Speaker 4: so your home energy. And that's meant that in the
28:02
Speaker 4: past week a lot of people have been thinking, well,
28:04
Speaker 4: if I'm not going to have to pay that twenty
28:06
Speaker 4: percent tax to charge my car at home, maybe now
28:09
Speaker 4: as the moment to switch over to evs, we weren't
28:11
Speaker 4: meant to be doing it entirely as a nation by
28:14
Speaker 4: twenty thirty That was a target from the last Conservative
28:17
Speaker 4: government that was pushed back to twenty thirty five, but
28:19
Speaker 4: it now seems that people are more interested in making
28:22
Speaker 4: the swap given the unpredictability of that oil price.
28:25
Speaker 2: He's also done in the little U turn or a pause,
28:29
Speaker 2: I should say, on the prisoner release scheme.
28:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. This prisoner release scheme, it is a
28:35
Speaker 4: sort of long running issue. There haven't been new prisons
28:38
Speaker 4: built in the UK in a very long time. They're
28:40
Speaker 4: constantly at capacity, and so instead of people doing what
28:44
Speaker 4: normally happens here of their sort of non violent offenders
28:46
Speaker 4: getting out at about the halfway point of their sentence
28:49
Speaker 4: on good behavior, we're having to release them in these
28:52
Speaker 4: sort of sort of release valve sessions every couple of months.
28:57
Speaker 4: Some of them people in that have only done about
28:59
Speaker 4: a third of their sentence. But there's been a significant
29:02
Speaker 4: backlash to this. It is in part due to the
29:06
Speaker 4: murder of a policemen over a decade ago. His Two
29:11
Speaker 4: of the people involved in that crime were due to
29:14
Speaker 4: come up for potential parole in the sort of back
29:18
Speaker 4: end of this year, and the family and the widow
29:21
Speaker 4: of that police officer have come out and said that
29:23
Speaker 4: this policy just needs to stop if people like this
29:25
Speaker 4: are getting out. So there's a lot of controversy around it.
29:28
Speaker 4: Annie Burnham says it needs to be paused and reviewed.
29:30
Speaker 4: But the difficult choices. No one wants to really spend
29:33
Speaker 4: significant money on the prison estate. A lot of it
29:36
Speaker 4: is old and Victorian and not fit for purpose, and
29:38
Speaker 4: to build those prisons requires funding when people think that
29:41
Speaker 4: should go elsewhere at the moment. But if we don't
29:43
Speaker 4: put the money in, then we'll need to have more
29:45
Speaker 4: releases like these.
29:46
Speaker 2: Vincent Meka of any Ow UK Europe correspondent team to
29:48
Speaker 2: six ran A build members built topening up. Child abuse
29:52
Speaker 2: reporting has been pulled from the Biscuit tin at Parliament.
29:55
Speaker 2: It make it compulsory to report no one or suspected
29:57
Speaker 2: child abuse to police. Andrew Bareley, I can't do MP
30:00
Speaker 2: with us this morning. It's his bill. Hey Andrew, how
30:04
Speaker 2: are you? Ron? Yeah? Really good, thank you?
30:05
Speaker 7: Does it?
30:06
Speaker 2: I mean we hear cases, baby rue, We hear of
30:08
Speaker 2: cases where there's it's suspected that people know what's going
30:11
Speaker 2: on but they don't talk to police. Is this what
30:13
Speaker 2: it's trying to fix exactly?
30:16
Speaker 12: So under this arrangement, there is no legal requirement for
30:20
Speaker 12: people to report are sold against children. So in those
30:25
Speaker 12: cases this will give the police the opportunity to say, look,
30:28
Speaker 12: if I can prove that you were there, you didn't
30:30
Speaker 12: report it. And in that situation where people don't want
30:33
Speaker 12: to incriminate themselves, they would end up going to jail
30:36
Speaker 12: for three years at least.
30:38
Speaker 2: Sounds like it would put an end to it. Have
30:39
Speaker 2: you had any support or idea of support from you.
30:43
Speaker 12: I'm pretty certain there'd be current widespread support about it.
30:48
Speaker 12: The big issue is there's a requirement for people to
30:51
Speaker 12: report it's aspected AsSalt. So we just need to make
30:54
Speaker 12: sure we've got tight enough definition around that and the
30:57
Speaker 12: Slip Committee will stage for book. It's through, But Australia
31:01
Speaker 12: adopted similar legislation. And just to put this in context,
31:04
Speaker 12: Ryan over, since nineteen ninety two, there's two hundred and
31:08
Speaker 12: sixty children in New Zealand they've lost their lives because
31:11
Speaker 12: of abuse by their parents or guardians.
31:14
Speaker 2: Hey, you nearly out to politics, aren't you?
31:17
Speaker 12: I am?
31:18
Speaker 2: How's it feel? What did you think of Stuart Nash?
31:21
Speaker 2: I mean, well, Stuart Nash and Paul here. You know
31:23
Speaker 2: you're a bit of a colorful character yourself. Andrew, what
31:26
Speaker 2: do you think when you see scandals like that news?
31:30
Speaker 12: Well, I thought Stuart Nash's comments were inappropriate, but it is.
31:37
Speaker 12: We're now getting into the political season and anything's going
31:41
Speaker 12: to get reported and used against people. But I'd just
31:46
Speaker 12: hope that as we go through we focus probably more
31:50
Speaker 12: on the important things that New Zone needs to talk about,
31:52
Speaker 12: and we don't seem you're talking about that enough at
31:54
Speaker 12: the moment.
31:55
Speaker 2: Andrew Bailey put one cutto MP with us this morning.
31:57
Speaker 2: It is eight minutes away from six.
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Speaker 1: Currett the first Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark
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Speaker 1: for business Technology that keeps business moving News talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be six to six Friday morning. Mike's here Morning, Mike,
32:10
Speaker 2: Morning ride.
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Speaker 9: Once you got coming up the small I got a
32:13
Speaker 9: variety of stuff for you. Feed are pulling out of
32:15
Speaker 9: the country. By the way, who fee it?
32:17
Speaker 6: Oh?
32:18
Speaker 2: I saw that yesterday.
32:19
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, you're obviously not upset, but you've never
32:21
Speaker 9: driven a chink with Chente.
32:22
Speaker 2: I have actually, well, because you could drive around anywhere
32:25
Speaker 2: in France and you need to be an attorney. Little
32:27
Speaker 2: f very good other words and our I was thinking
32:29
Speaker 2: about this yesterday that we don't Yes, we have small
32:32
Speaker 2: roads like they do in France, but you sort of
32:35
Speaker 2: need more a bit more grunt, don't you.
32:37
Speaker 9: Well, for a big guy like you, Yere, i'd like
32:39
Speaker 9: to see you in a chink with cha five hundred.
32:43
Speaker 9: But you know, it's it's it's, it's it's it's the
32:44
Speaker 9: Chinese box thing. So they're leaving Australia anyway, we do that.
32:47
Speaker 9: Nigel Avery, who's the come nunch, he's the shift of
32:51
Speaker 9: mission and so he's he's up at the Commonwealth Games.
32:54
Speaker 9: How hard do you want to go in the Commonwealth Games?
32:55
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, is semi hard.
32:57
Speaker 9: It's well, it's I mean, what is ten sports?
33:01
Speaker 2: Ye lawn bowls, big netball, big judo. The thing I
33:07
Speaker 2: am interested in is Hamish Kirk because he's not decided
33:09
Speaker 2: yet whether he's actually going to jump or not, and
33:11
Speaker 2: he's not going to decide potentially until hours before the event.
33:15
Speaker 2: That makes me the problem with the Conwealth Games.
33:17
Speaker 9: You've got the odd sport with a truly international athlete
33:21
Speaker 9: in a regional competition and it looks all a bit.
33:24
Speaker 2: Weird, doesn't and they are the reason he's just not
33:27
Speaker 2: deciding whether he's going to plan to do anything yet
33:29
Speaker 2: is because he will hold out for the you know,
33:32
Speaker 2: the World Champs, which is in septem one hundred percent.
33:33
Speaker 9: And the other thing is what would you do so
33:36
Speaker 9: you know you're better than everybody else? Do you hold
33:38
Speaker 9: out for the you know you're just not jumping the
33:39
Speaker 9: low jumps, you go, I don't jump load jumps. I'll
33:41
Speaker 9: just wait till the really high jump and freak you
33:44
Speaker 9: all out and then psych you all out anyway, Nigel
33:46
Speaker 9: Avery on that. So you know that on nitball the
33:49
Speaker 9: chairman of Knitball, by the way, who happens to be
33:52
Speaker 9: in Glasgow. You watching unknown anyway, we're watching the part
33:55
Speaker 9: of the game that does appear to be going all right.
33:58
Speaker 9: They're losing three and a half million dollars and July
34:01
Speaker 9: is coming up. The end of July is coming up,
34:03
Speaker 9: and they got players with no contracts. They don't know
34:06
Speaker 9: where the hell they go and.
34:07
Speaker 2: Reckon they flew business over there.
34:09
Speaker 9: It's a good question, I ask them that?
34:10
Speaker 2: Or is it just is that just a bit trust
34:14
Speaker 2: the night? Okay?
34:15
Speaker 9: Now, do you want to play shag Mary quickly or not?
34:17
Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 1: Go on?
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Speaker 10: You will.
34:20
Speaker 2: Kick The only person you should shag is your spouse.
34:25
Speaker 2: There's good advice to your Friday Marke's next news talks.
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Speaker 10: Ever, after all, this time.
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