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Full Show Podcast: 20 November 2025 · 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 2: It'd be good morning. Great to be back with you.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday. Coming up on the show Fairy Costs with
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Speaker 2: Fiery Holdings, We'll go to the US to the latest
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Speaker 2: on EPSTEIN. The files. That is, it turns out the
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Speaker 2: phone band here in New Zealand and schools is working
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Speaker 2: interesting numbers on that and the puberty blockers' look at
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Speaker 2: that two six after five The agenda Thursday, the twenty
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Speaker 2: third November. Epstein Bill noun Trump's hands SUT's passed through
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Speaker 2: both Houses of Congress.
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Speaker 3: This is an issue that the President wants to move
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Speaker 3: off of his table as quickly as possible, especially seeing
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Speaker 3: as how in some recent tweets on social media and
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Speaker 3: messages he's put out in the media that he wants
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Speaker 3: Republicans to really focus on what he sees as legis
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Speaker 3: leader of accomplishments and on getting prices down. And so
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Speaker 3: presumably the White House could push this thing to the
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Speaker 3: next phase as quickly as passed.
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Speaker 2: And did you hear what happened in the White house yesterday.
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Speaker 2: You had been Salmon there from the Saudi Crown Prince
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Speaker 2: and they were talking about Jamal Kashoji, who obviously was killed,
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Speaker 2: and the US intelligence said it may or may not
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Speaker 2: have been at the direction of Ben Salmon.
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Speaker 4: Who you were. You're with fake NEWSBCU, fake news, one
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Speaker 4: of them. As far as this gentleman is concerned, he's
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Speaker 4: done a phenomenal job. You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.
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Speaker 4: A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're
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Speaker 4: talking about, whether you like him or didn't like him.
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Speaker 4: Things happened, but he knew nothing about it, and we
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Speaker 4: can leave it at that. You don't have to embarrass
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Speaker 4: our guests by asking a question like that.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the UK. So this is on the
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Speaker 2: border of UK waters, on the edge of UK waters.
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Speaker 2: The Russians are firing lasers at RAF pilots who are
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Speaker 2: monitoring their activities. This is on the Yanta entered UK
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Speaker 2: waters for the second time this year.
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Speaker 1: So our message to Russia and to put In is this,
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Speaker 1: we see you, we know what you're doing, and if
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Speaker 1: the Jantar troubles south this.
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Speaker 5: Week, we are ready.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day Early
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Speaker 2: You that sounded ominous, didn't it? What exactly are they
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Speaker 2: ready for? What are they going to do? What does
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Speaker 2: that threat mean? Nine two and number text just gone
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Speaker 2: eight minutes after five. Now we've had a couple of
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Speaker 2: awards in the last few days, which to me don't
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Speaker 2: make a lot of sense. I mean, unless you accept
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Speaker 2: that they're basically just They're not really awards, they're just
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Speaker 2: gimmick gongs, which is probably what they are. One of
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Speaker 2: them was for smoking, and one of them was for
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Speaker 2: climate change, you know, at the meeting at cop Over
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Speaker 2: in Brazil where fifty thousand wannabes jump on a plane
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Speaker 2: and use adgas to fly to or a place to
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Speaker 2: talk about climate change and then achieve nothing. That thing
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Speaker 2: they gave us the Fossil of the Day award. Now,
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Speaker 2: this is interesting because wouldn't someone like Trump get it,
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Speaker 2: or China or India or one of the bigger missions. No,
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Speaker 2: we got it, apparently, and because of our methane changes.
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Speaker 2: But if you look at our numbers, our emissions for
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Speaker 2: New Zealand have gone down in the last year. So
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Speaker 2: why are we getting a fossil award? Because they don't
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Speaker 2: like the coalition government. That's why another one we got yesterday,
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Speaker 2: This is the ash Tray of the Dirty ash Tray award.
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Speaker 2: And who did we get this award from? Well, a
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Speaker 2: meeting of parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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Speaker 2: in Geneva. Honestly how boring. But this again flies in
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Speaker 2: the face of the numbers. Smoking rates have reduced to
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Speaker 2: six point eight percent. Smoking rates for fifteen to twenty
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Speaker 2: four year olds is three point two percent. That's down
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Speaker 2: from nearly twenty about thirteen years ago. Casey Costelli put
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Speaker 2: a thing out on this yesterday and the third lowest
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Speaker 2: smoking rate in the OECD. So why do we get
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Speaker 2: this award? Why do we get this gimmick gong. Well,
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Speaker 2: because they don't like the Coalition government and that there's
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Speaker 2: been headlines and I think this is what these awards
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Speaker 2: go on, is just headlines and vibes and fuels those
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Speaker 2: changes that they made to tax breaks for headed to
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Speaker 2: tobacco products. The headline is subsidy for tobacco industry. Well, actually,
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Speaker 2: what it's doing is getting people off darts and darts
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Speaker 2: are worse than vapes, and darts are worse than anything
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Speaker 2: else that you could put in your mouth, basically when
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Speaker 2: it comes to smoking products. So I don't know. Do
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Speaker 2: we listen to these awards? No, we don't. Ten minutes
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Speaker 2: after five, Bryan Bredge Now the cook Straight Fairies a
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Speaker 2: couple of questions for ferry holdings this morning. They're on
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Speaker 2: the show just before six o'clock. So they've put in
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Speaker 2: here some costs for upgrading. So the ships are five
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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety six million dollars, thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: The picked in works they say will cost five hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty one million dollars and the Wellington side will
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Speaker 2: be three hundred and twenty five million dollars. How have
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Speaker 2: they come up with those? Because that's this part of it.
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Speaker 2: Remember the costs blowout the eighty percent that was on
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Speaker 2: the land side infrastructure, the port, not the fairies themselves.
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Speaker 2: So how they got these numbers? Are we confident in
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Speaker 2: these numbers? And who's going to do the contract. We'll
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Speaker 2: look at puberty blockers. Next, news talk semb.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early Edition
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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore r V
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Speaker 2: Five thirteen at five twenty five, I have more on
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Speaker 2: the new numbers on the economy out this morning. Confidence up.
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Speaker 2: This is asb's investor confidence survey for quarter three. Confidences
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Speaker 2: up nine percent. Net investor confidence now ten percent. That's
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Speaker 2: up from one percent last quarter. Big pickup. Auckland up
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Speaker 2: to sixteen percent. And it's interesting what's happening with the
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Speaker 2: perceptions of what's a good investment, what's not a good investment.
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Speaker 2: People used to say property one hundred percent, yap, let's
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Speaker 2: go for it, and sure that is still the number one,
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Speaker 2: but it's now property. The perception of property as a reliable,
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Speaker 2: you know, return on investment is now its lowest point
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Speaker 2: since twenty fifteen, which I think reflects the fact that
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Speaker 2: house prices haven't been going anywhere or going south, while
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Speaker 2: stock markets have been going up. And young people wait
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Speaker 2: for this under thirty surveyed very focused on the stock markets.
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Speaker 2: Confidence has lifted significantly over the pass quarter, jumping to
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Speaker 2: twenty one percent compared to thirteen percent in the previous quarter.
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Speaker 2: Gen Z loves the stock, loves the shears. It's fourteen
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Speaker 2: after five yan Bridge governments banned puberty block abscriptions for
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Speaker 2: new patients. It's under eighteen's those who are transgender. Ban
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Speaker 2: comes into effect from the nineteenth and December last until
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Speaker 2: the UK finishes clinical trials into the drugs. They say
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Speaker 2: this is about safety. Dame Sue Bagshaw is School of Medicine,
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Speaker 2: University of Otago, christ Church. Dame Sue, good morning, Good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good to have you on the show. Are these drugs safe?
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Speaker 6: Well, the experience we've had so far of the last
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Speaker 6: ten twenty years has been that they're very safe, They're reversible,
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Speaker 6: and I think obviously we always need to be aware
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Speaker 6: of safety. We always need to be aware of the
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Speaker 6: pros and cons of any medicine we've prescribed. But it
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Speaker 6: seems sad that politicians get involved in something that really
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Speaker 6: should be a health issue.
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Speaker 2: Is the health issue being sorted though? I mean, are
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Speaker 2: we giving out drugs that aren't safe? Why it was
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Speaker 2: the UK doing this study into the safety of them.
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Speaker 2: Why are our bureaucrats saying we can't say that they
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Speaker 2: are safe.
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Speaker 6: That's a very good question and I wondered about myself
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Speaker 6: because we have no evidence either way. What we do
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Speaker 6: we have some evidence so that they're pretty safe and
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Speaker 6: we have had no disasters so far, compared with things
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Speaker 6: like aspirin, which is pretty unsafe and you can buy
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Speaker 6: that over the counter. So, you know, I think it's
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Speaker 6: a it's a worry that we're getting political influences on
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Speaker 6: what could be a very life saving medicine.
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Speaker 2: So the Ministry of Education, the sorry, the Ministry of
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Speaker 2: Health here in New Zealand, the UK, you know, the NHS.
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Speaker 2: The concerns that have been raised by government bureaucrats around
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Speaker 2: the world. You're saying they're being politicized.
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Speaker 6: I do gender is a social construct and I think
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Speaker 6: social influences are being brought to there names.
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Speaker 2: Sue Bergshaw, appreciate your time. This morning, School of Medicine
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Speaker 2: at the University of Antigo, christ Church. It's sixteen after
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Speaker 2: five News talks are.
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Speaker 1: It's earlyer this ship with Brian Bridge and are the
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Speaker 2: Y Kirston, Good morning to you. Kirston disagrees with what
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Speaker 2: Sue Bagshaw just told us. Ryan children shouldn't be given
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Speaker 2: puberty blockers. I agree with the government on this one.
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Speaker 2: They aren't saying they won't be available just when these
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Speaker 2: kids are eighteen or over. In fact, they're not even
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Speaker 2: saying that. They're saying they will be available if proven
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Speaker 2: safe by this UK study to those under the age
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Speaker 2: of eighteen. So it's not even as bad as perhaps
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Speaker 2: you thought. Now nineteen minutes after five, brad Olsen Informetrics
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Speaker 2: have released their quarterly economic monitor. This is for the
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Speaker 2: regions and shows you which regions are doing well, which
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Speaker 2: regions aren't doing well. Activity overall up point nine percent
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Speaker 2: they reckon for September, but down half a percent over
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Speaker 2: the twelve months to September twenty twenty five. All regions
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Speaker 2: of the South Island are growing faster than the national
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Speaker 2: average primary sector thank you. Metro areas are starting to
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Speaker 2: recover as well. This is the story you want to hear,
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Speaker 2: collectively gaining zero point seven percent dent annually for the
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Speaker 2: September quarter, It's twenty up to five.
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Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Bullying is down, classroom learning is up and who do
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Speaker 2: we have to think? What do we have to think?
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Speaker 2: Banning the cell phones? The ERA report out today shows
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Speaker 2: the cell phone ban is working. However, it also found
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Speaker 2: half of high school students aren't following the rules. Steve
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Speaker 2: mccrack and fung up to a college principal and before
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Speaker 2: sixteen expert advisory panel. Mement joins me, Now, Steve, good morning,
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Speaker 2: good morning, right, good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: So this is working?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely. I mean we saw an instant I suppose
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Speaker 5: you call it from our students as we implemented the ban.
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Speaker 5: It changed things in our school overnight. And it's glad
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Speaker 5: to see the reports highlighted that as well in.
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Speaker 2: Your school because it talks in the report about teachers
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Speaker 2: not enforcing the ban and if the best thing you
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Speaker 2: can do to have the band be effective is to
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Speaker 2: enforce it, do you have teachers who don't enforce it.
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Speaker 5: We look, our staff are amazing in terms of being
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Speaker 5: able to force things, and I think that comes down
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Speaker 5: to having solid systems in place for each school. I
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Speaker 5: know that teachers have individual opinions and things, but this
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Speaker 5: is a mandated thing from our government and you see
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Speaker 5: from the report that it's working as.
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Speaker 2: Well, Steve, is what happens is it just in the
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Speaker 2: classroom and the learning where behavior is getting better, or
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Speaker 2: does it spill over into other you know, into the playground.
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Speaker 5: It schools over everywhere. I mean you've phone free from
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Speaker 5: the time you enter the school gate to the time
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Speaker 5: you leave. So yeah, everything's improved in terms of this
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Speaker 5: particular initiative from the government, and it's been really positive rightan,
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Speaker 5: But I'm supposed the biggest concern that we see is,
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Speaker 5: you know, at the end of each school day in
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Speaker 5: across any school in the country, as you're driving past,
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Speaker 5: I'm sure you'll be able to see them automatically reach
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Speaker 5: down and try and get that instant social media or
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Speaker 5: phone facts as they're walking out the school gate at
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Speaker 5: three thirty every day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, which I mean is going to happen the smart watches.
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Speaker 2: When did this happen? Everyone was like, oh, they'll just
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Speaker 2: get smart watches and they'll get laptops and they'll do
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Speaker 2: is that way? Are you seeing that? Yeah?
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Speaker 5: And I think that's come through in the report as well,
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Speaker 5: hasn't it. It's that's possibly the next iteration where you know,
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Speaker 5: students aren't stupid and they really do want to stay connected,
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Speaker 5: and I get that, but yeah, the smart watches, the
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Speaker 5: ability to connect via their laptops or chromebox or whatever,
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Speaker 5: it is still a possible issue that schools are facing
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Speaker 5: as well.
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Speaker 2: And Steve, when you know, when it comes to why
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Speaker 2: who they're messaging? Are they messaging each other? Because it
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Speaker 2: says in the report a lot of the kids reckon
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Speaker 2: they're messaging their family. Do you reckon that's just to
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Speaker 2: be as you know, I'm messaging my mom like it's
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Speaker 2: a lie? Or are they actually in which case, what
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Speaker 2: are the parents doing?
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Speaker 5: Well, that's a fantastic question, Ryan, But I think that
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Speaker 5: the students are pretty honest and the one and from
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Speaker 5: what I understand it is a bit of parent education
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Speaker 5: needed as well just around. You know, kids are safe
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Speaker 5: at school and they're doing pretty well at school, as
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Speaker 5: the report finds as well, and you know, there is
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Speaker 5: some education needed possibly around on how to connect or
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Speaker 5: communicate with their students during the school day. But I
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Speaker 5: mean most schools, I think all the schools that I've
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Speaker 5: spoken to in particular, have solid systems in place where
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Speaker 5: if a parent needs to contact the student during the day,
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Speaker 5: they call the office and the message goes through to them.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's still a need I suppose for parents
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Speaker 5: in the report that says we still want to connect
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Speaker 5: with our kids. But yeah, the phone free during the day.
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Speaker 5: You're seeing your kid up to fail if that happens.
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Speaker 2: Steve mccrack and Fungapo College principle, appreciate your time this
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Speaker 2: morning twenty three after five, Bryan Bridge, just do you
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Speaker 2: need to have constant contact with your children? Just leave
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Speaker 2: them alone? Are there to learn and you can see
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Speaker 2: them after school? What is wrong with people? Very quickly,
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Speaker 2: this is mam Nami over in New York. He's now
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Speaker 2: fundraising because he's finished the campaign. Obviously he's won, he's
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Speaker 2: the mayor of New York City, but he still wants
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Speaker 2: more money. Wants four million American dollars.
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Speaker 7: A lot of these things are here. One of them
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Speaker 7: is pretty odd funds. Well, why are we find raising? Well,
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Speaker 7: we have less than fifty d's until we take We
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Speaker 7: have a lot to do. We have to vet the
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Speaker 7: fifty thousand resumes we've received, thank you. We have to
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Speaker 7: keep paying our incredible team, thank you, and we have
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Speaker 7: to plan not to start inauguration. But our policy implementation now,
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Speaker 7: unlike the campaign, transitions do not get public matching funds
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Speaker 7: from the city. So that eight to one match gone.
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Speaker 7: It's up to us to resume money.
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Speaker 2: Ye, So he wants four million dollars for goodness to
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Speaker 2: go through a bunch of resumes. I mean, honestly, I
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Speaker 2: thought this was about public service. Twenty four after five
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Speaker 2: Five twenty six on your Thursday morning. We've got a
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Speaker 2: bunch of new economic numbers this morning. Recovery is underway finally.
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Speaker 2: We've had a few false storms before, as you know,
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Speaker 2: so I'm not going to overcook this, but things are
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Speaker 2: moving in the right direction. Investor confidence is up for
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Speaker 2: quarter three. Most regions are now getting a slice of
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Speaker 2: the recovery action, not just the provinces. This is according
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Speaker 2: to Informetrics this morning. What's most interesting is investor confidence
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Speaker 2: led by Auckland there is up quite a bit, and
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Speaker 2: they're not worrying so much about all the dramatic headlines
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Speaker 2: from Trump. They're basically shrugging them off. And our attitudes
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Speaker 2: to different types of investments are changing. The proportion of
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Speaker 2: us who see owning your own home as the best
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Speaker 2: investment is now at its lowest level since twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 2: and young people are loving the stocks, which is no surprise.
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Speaker 2: The SMP's up almost fourteen percent this year. House prices
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Speaker 2: are falling off flat, which might help explain why the
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Speaker 2: mood on capital gains seems to have shifted a little bit.
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Speaker 2: But here's the thing with the capital gains. It will
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Speaker 2: not lower house prices. It will not fix the structural deficit. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it will provide tax revenue for doctor's visits. Sure, but
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Speaker 2: can those doctors' visits be delivered or just advertised in
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Speaker 2: some brochure like key we build? And to those who
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Speaker 2: are enjoying success with stocks, congratulations, your gains aren't taxed? Property?
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Speaker 2: Is the Canarian the coal mine? Surely it's a warning
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Speaker 2: of more to come. Give a politician an inch and
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Speaker 2: they will take a mile. Look at the fundamentals of this.
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Speaker 2: The capital gains tax won't fix the stuff you would
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Speaker 2: expect it to fix, and still leaves the state short
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Speaker 2: of revenue. So they will eventually, sure, as night follows day,
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Speaker 2: come for something else, and that's something else will be
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Speaker 2: whatever's popular in this case today, stocks bread rich News
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Speaker 2: Talk twenty eight minutes after five. Did you hear Trump
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Speaker 2: yesterday in the House, sorry, in the Oval office talking
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Speaker 2: to reporters and he called one of them piggy. Quiet. Now,
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Speaker 2: I'll just play that one more time in case you
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Speaker 2: didn't get it, give you a second. Quiet Quiet is quiet?
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Speaker 2: Quiet Peggy? Now the woman. I haven't actually googled the
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Speaker 2: woman he was talking to, but I'm assuming it's a
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Speaker 2: Bloomberg reporter. But I'm assuming that they were maybe a
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Speaker 2: little on the heavy aside. I'm oh, she's not McKenzie
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Speaker 2: say terrible or something. She's hot, says okay, so she's not.
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Speaker 2: So why was he calling her piggy in the first place? Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 2: this is great updates from Kensey. In my ear, he
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Speaker 2: was going at her, But why piggy particular? Anyway, people
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Speaker 2: are saying it's a sexist thing. And if you go
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Speaker 2: back and look at his especially on the campaign trail,
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Speaker 2: he used to call men piggies all the time, lazy
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Speaker 2: pigs lying on the couch. He'd say to the wives,
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Speaker 2: get your lazy peg husbands off the couch and out
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Speaker 2: to vote. So is it a sexist thing? Well, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Disney Mason like it was an accurate insult.
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Speaker 2: Whose talks a Big.
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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes away from six on News Talks, they'd
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Speaker 2: be fairy holdings on the cost of those ferries across
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Speaker 2: the cook Straight before six, we'll head to the US
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Speaker 2: as well for the latest on Epstein and Nicki Minaj.
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Speaker 2: This is the singer of this song, singer, rapper, rapper,
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Speaker 2: singer whatever. She has come out in support of Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump because he you know, he's made all these allegations
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Speaker 2: about Christians facing persecution, being murdered at the hands of
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Speaker 2: g Hardy's in Nigeria. Well, Nicki Minaj is all over
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Speaker 2: it too.
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Speaker 8: In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted, driven from their homes
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Speaker 8: and killed. Churches have been burned, families have been torn apart,
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Speaker 8: and entire communities live in fair constantly simply because of
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Speaker 8: how they pray.
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Speaker 2: Tony Waterman's our US correspondent, will speak to Tony at
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Speaker 9: burn Cottage, Moonlight Race, Peno Noir as one of its
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Speaker 9: top one hundred in the world. It's coming at number
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Speaker 9: forty four. Are the selected wines chosen from over ten
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Speaker 9: thousand options and they were all reviewed in blind tastings.
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Speaker 9: So burn Cottage from Central Otago. It's a family owned winery.
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Speaker 9: It began in two thousand and two. They say the
19:38
Speaker 9: stoked to be back on this coveted list for the
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Speaker 9: second year in a row. They say it's humbling to
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Speaker 9: gain such highly acclaimed recognition.
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Speaker 2: Good on them. How's your weather.
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Speaker 9: It's pretty good fine again today high cloud increasing nor
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Speaker 9: easterly is twenty three.
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Speaker 2: The high cheers callum and clear and christ Church clear,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning. You got the Buscus Festival.
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Speaker 10: Yes, well, it's a pretty here in christ Church to
20:01
Speaker 10: have the World Baskets Festival, and we had the new
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Speaker 10: season of it launched yesterday. January will mark thirty three
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Speaker 10: years of street performers here in christ Church. There are
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Speaker 10: ten days of entertainment coming that come right into the
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Speaker 10: heart of the city for the christ Church gen Z Organization.
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Speaker 10: Head of Major Events Karina Finney, says this festival brings vibrancy,
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Speaker 10: fun creativity to what is really a sport focused calendar year. Here,
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Speaker 10: she says, they are expecting to entertain more than one
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Speaker 10: hundred thousand people and it will generate six hundred thousand
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Speaker 10: dollars in visitor spend.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how's your weather?
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Speaker 10: Scattered showers should clear as anytime now then we'll be fine. Southwesterly,
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Speaker 10: turning northeast at a high twenty six last one clear.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Max and Wellington hamaxod morning. Tory Faro's off
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Speaker 2: to Melbourne. Yeah, just a quick note. Thanks for the memories.
20:49
Speaker 11: You're on your own. Tory Fino, one term mayor of Wellington,
20:52
Speaker 11: failed council candidates this year, clearly loves the city so
20:56
Speaker 11: much she's leaving practically immediately after the end of her tenure.
20:59
Speaker 11: She did flag this to our newsroom that she might
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Speaker 11: leave last month and told us in pretty straight terms
21:05
Speaker 11: that she reckoned she could make more money in ours.
21:06
Speaker 11: That'd be easier to find a job. She can put
21:09
Speaker 11: her extensive political ambitions on ice for now, but in
21:12
Speaker 11: a new LinkedIn post, she's more so blaming the intensity
21:16
Speaker 11: of political life in New Zealand as the reason she's moving,
21:19
Speaker 11: also blaming the government's public sector cuts one final indirect
21:23
Speaker 11: crack at the media as well, who I think she'll
21:26
Speaker 11: always harbor a deep seated blame for regarding her plummeting reputation.
21:30
Speaker 11: So she's off to Melbourne probably early next year. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 11: the city Council meets properly for the first time today,
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Speaker 11: their first meeting. They've all been putting on happy faces,
21:40
Speaker 11: so we'll see how.
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Speaker 2: Long that lasts. All right, mix, how's your weather in.
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Speaker 11: A morning cloud, isolated showers, otherwise mainly fine, twenty the high.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you. Inneva and Auknava, good morning, Good morning.
21:50
Speaker 2: So tell me about I was reading the story yesterday
21:52
Speaker 2: and just getting angrier and angrier about all contransport.
21:56
Speaker 12: I knew you would, Yeah, because you've had your own
21:58
Speaker 12: little wee woes, haven't you.
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Speaker 2: I have it with with a parking fine and the
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Speaker 2: parking fine.
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Speaker 12: So look, this is a victory. So this is this
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Speaker 12: Auckland driver fine for following police orders and he's got
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Speaker 12: a refund. So that's the good news. So what's happened
22:12
Speaker 12: is that he began fighting aucland Transport. This is to
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Speaker 12: waive a one hundred and fifty dollars fine for driving
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Speaker 12: in a bus lane. Police told him to do this
22:20
Speaker 12: because what had happened was at last month's police they
22:23
Speaker 12: were redirecting traffic not far from here, actually in the CBD,
22:27
Speaker 12: there was a three vehicle crash last month resulted in
22:30
Speaker 12: the closure of Victoria Street West. So Raoul the motorist,
22:34
Speaker 12: he was driving away and then police were redirecting people
22:37
Speaker 12: and then they see to him, look rush hour off,
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Speaker 12: you go, you can go through this, you know, bus lane.
22:43
Speaker 12: And he did that. He got a fine. And so
22:46
Speaker 12: what he did was that he provided the police incident
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Speaker 12: number when he was disputing it, and then at rejected
22:52
Speaker 12: the disputancy. They didn't give a clear reason why, but
22:54
Speaker 12: w no, you've got to pay. You've got to pay
22:58
Speaker 12: one hundred and fifty dollars.
22:59
Speaker 2: And then only where the media gets involved, yes, the media,
23:03
Speaker 2: the Herald got bugs. And also but even once they
23:08
Speaker 2: did reverse it eventually, once the Herald got involved, they
23:10
Speaker 2: still put in the statement. They said, well, yes he
23:13
Speaker 2: did go and he went in the bus lane, and
23:15
Speaker 2: it was because of the police. But there was an
23:17
Speaker 2: opportunity for him to turn out of the bus lane
23:20
Speaker 2: earlier than he did. Honestly, he didn't. He didn't plan
23:23
Speaker 2: to go down there. The police send him down there.
23:25
Speaker 2: There was an accident. Just get off his case.
23:29
Speaker 12: A bunch of yes really ripped your ninety A weather okay, party,
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Speaker 12: cloudy hive have twenty two.
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Speaker 2: the city of Sales twenty sorry, eighteen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: we'll get those results today world's biggest company of course
23:50
Speaker 2: by market cap. And we will also tonight our time,
23:53
Speaker 2: get that September jobs report out of the US after
23:56
Speaker 2: the shutdown, while they're open again. The bureaucrats are back,
23:58
Speaker 2: the bean counters are back. That'll happen tonight. We're in
24:01
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25:02
Speaker 2: You know the Natural Hazards levy. That's part of when
25:04
Speaker 2: you pay your insurance premiums. Part of that is for
25:07
Speaker 2: the natural hazards levy. It covers you if there's a
25:10
Speaker 2: natural disaster in theory for your land now that needs
25:15
Speaker 2: to go up. There's not enough in the kitty to
25:17
Speaker 2: cover the costs. And they were talking earlier this year
25:20
Speaker 2: about the government about maybe putting it up to from
25:22
Speaker 2: four to eighty at the moment to maybe seven fifty
25:25
Speaker 2: a year. Well, Nikola Willis has stepped in and said,
25:28
Speaker 2: actually costed living, We needed to be elected next year.
25:32
Speaker 2: Let's delay this decision.
25:33
Speaker 1: So they have international correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance,
25:38
Speaker 1: peace of mind for New Zealand business.
25:41
Speaker 2: Go the UITs with Tony Waterman are US correspondence Tony.
25:44
Speaker 2: The ball on the Epstein files now in Trump's court.
25:48
Speaker 13: Yeah, So the Senate earlier today has sent this so
25:53
Speaker 13: called Epstein Transparency Act to the White House, and officials
25:56
Speaker 13: there are saying that the President is going to sign
25:58
Speaker 13: it as soon as it hits it. So we are
26:00
Speaker 13: expecting that this is going to become law today. But
26:03
Speaker 13: what is not known at this point is just how
26:06
Speaker 13: quickly the Justice Department will release the documents. They have
26:10
Speaker 13: this thirty day window from when Trump signs the bill,
26:13
Speaker 13: but Democrats certainly want these documents released immediately, and there's
26:18
Speaker 13: a lot of questions on what these files are going
26:21
Speaker 13: to actually look like, how much information is going to
26:24
Speaker 13: be included, which names are going to be included, how
26:27
Speaker 13: much is it going to be redacted? Will everything be
26:30
Speaker 13: released or is the DOJ going to say that certain
26:35
Speaker 13: files can't be made public due to ongoing investigations. President
26:40
Speaker 13: Trump just the other week had called for the DOJ
26:42
Speaker 13: to investigate democrats linked to Jeffrey Epstein like former President
26:48
Speaker 13: Bill Clinton.
26:49
Speaker 2: Now Nicki Mina asked very quickly, why is she getting
26:52
Speaker 2: involved with the Nigeria situation.
26:56
Speaker 13: Yeah, so she was at the United Nations the other
26:59
Speaker 13: day or yesterday actually speaking on this issue, sort of
27:05
Speaker 13: repeating President Trump's contested claims that Christians are being systematically
27:10
Speaker 13: persecuted in Nigeria. She gave this five minute speech and
27:13
Speaker 13: in this speech she really warned of deadly threats faced
27:18
Speaker 13: by Christians in the country. And she also praised President
27:21
Speaker 13: Trump for highlighting this issue because earlier this month, Trump
27:25
Speaker 13: threatened to deploy US troops to Nigeria, in his words,
27:29
Speaker 13: guns ablazing to end what he is claiming is this
27:33
Speaker 13: mass slaughter of Christians at the hands of Islamist insurgents,
27:37
Speaker 13: I mean Nigeria has been fighting the sixteen year war
27:40
Speaker 13: against Bokoharam and Islamic State and tens of thousands of
27:44
Speaker 13: people have been killed. But the independent Conflict Monitoring Group
27:50
Speaker 13: AKHLED says that only a small percentage of the attacks
27:53
Speaker 13: have been religiously motivated and that both Christians and Muslims
27:57
Speaker 13: have been targeted in these attacks. But she is coming
27:59
Speaker 13: out out saying that she wants Christians to be defended,
28:04
Speaker 13: to be protected in Nigeria.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time. Tony Wadom and our US correspondent eleven
28:09
Speaker 2: away from six Chairry announcement. Bit light on detail about
28:13
Speaker 2: the land side construction costs. That's the part that blew
28:16
Speaker 2: out acourse some of the original Irex project. Not the
28:19
Speaker 2: cost of the vessels themselves. Winston Peters reckons overall will
28:22
Speaker 2: save two point three billion bucks or thereabouts. Chris McKenzie
28:26
Speaker 2: is chair of Ferry Holdings Limited with me this morning. Chris,
28:28
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. So do we have any where
28:32
Speaker 2: have those estimates come from for the infrastry, you know,
28:34
Speaker 2: the land side infrastructure.
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Speaker 14: We have done a considerable amount of work with both
28:40
Speaker 14: Picton and Wellington. We have identified as as probably you've
28:45
Speaker 14: seen the chart no doubt of the drawing to the
28:48
Speaker 14: two ports. We have determined the cost of the wharf
28:53
Speaker 14: that's being demolished and then replaced in Pecton, so we
28:58
Speaker 14: have a rough costing of that. We have a rough
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Speaker 14: costing now of the other what's called the nesting structure
29:05
Speaker 14: where the fairies are reverse into and we are going
29:11
Speaker 14: out shortly again with a rough costing on the link
29:16
Speaker 14: spans both in Wellington and Picton, and just as an aside,
29:20
Speaker 14: that's one of the ways in which we are making
29:22
Speaker 14: some savings. We're now going to have link spans in
29:25
Speaker 14: Wellington and Picton which are essentially the same, whereas previously
29:29
Speaker 14: under IRAQX there's a link span being built for Picton
29:33
Speaker 14: and there's a link spand being built for Wellington. So
29:36
Speaker 14: we are saving some money by getting identical link spans
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Speaker 14: in both Victon and Wellington.
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Speaker 2: It's all of it boo tricky, But the cost of them,
29:45
Speaker 2: I mean you're saying rough costs and people at home
29:47
Speaker 2: will be going, oh, well, I've heard this before, because
29:49
Speaker 2: remember how much this project was meant to cost to
29:52
Speaker 2: begin with, and then what it was going to end
29:53
Speaker 2: up costing, and most of that was landside of eighty
29:56
Speaker 2: percent of it was chewed up by land side. So
29:58
Speaker 2: how you know, how come and how we look.
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Speaker 14: I think I am more confident than we were with Irax.
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Speaker 14: And the reason I can say that is we have
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Speaker 14: identified exactly what is the work we are doing in
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Speaker 14: both Wellington and Pickton. The ports have agreed with that work.
30:18
Speaker 14: And therefore one of IREX's issues was we're going to
30:23
Speaker 14: put a temporary wolf here. Oh, we'll need to do
30:26
Speaker 14: this in roading, and we'll have to shift the rail
30:28
Speaker 14: yard here and there and so forth. In this project,
30:32
Speaker 14: because we're using a maximum reuse, we don't have to
30:37
Speaker 14: shift railway yards, we don't have to shift roading. All
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Speaker 14: we are doing is building the structure for the wharves
30:44
Speaker 14: that the vessels will come in the existing rail yards,
30:48
Speaker 14: and Pickton and Wellington will need to be just tweaked
30:51
Speaker 14: where they connect with the new vessels, and apart from that,
30:55
Speaker 14: we're not diverging from that at all. So we have
30:59
Speaker 14: a set engineering project in both Wellington and Pickton, and
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Speaker 14: as a board we are not going to deviate from that.
31:09
Speaker 14: You still be people who say, oh, yeah, but if
31:11
Speaker 14: we put this over here, we could do such and such.
31:14
Speaker 14: We are not going down that track. We are going
31:17
Speaker 14: exactly as the plans that were in that release yesterday
31:21
Speaker 14: and nothing else.
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Speaker 2: Chris appreciate it and hopefully we will see this thing
31:25
Speaker 2: getting off the ground soon. The Ferry's not coming till
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty nine, Chris McKenzie, Chair of Ferry Holdings Limited.
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Speaker 2: It's eight to six News Talks here b. Mike's here, next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis early edition with Ryan Bridge and r V supersetor
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Speaker 2: Fall than one News Talks' B sixty six was interesting
31:47
Speaker 2: listening to Faerry Holding's share just then about what the
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Speaker 2: costs are going, well, what they think the cost will
31:52
Speaker 2: be do they actually know? Though lots of text on
31:55
Speaker 2: this Andy says run A lot of the piling in
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Speaker 2: Wellington won't now be needed to be done for the
31:59
Speaker 2: new birth because the ships are much smaller, which is true,
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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of earthquake stuff that had to
32:03
Speaker 2: be done because they were bigger ships, and now we
32:05
Speaker 2: have smaller ships. Even though they're more expensive, smaller ships,
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Speaker 2: they will be cheaper to park. Five to six now
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Speaker 2: and Mike's here for the coming three hours. Mike, good morning.
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Speaker 15: Have you been at this game? So he's here for
32:22
Speaker 15: the the same every day. Ryan, that's the breakfast show
32:25
Speaker 15: six or one.
32:26
Speaker 2: You look, you look quite depressed. Three hours. It's just this.
32:30
Speaker 15: One of the things that holds us back in this
32:32
Speaker 15: country is this myopic obsession we have with with with
32:37
Speaker 15: sort of detail. I mean, so what happened was he's
32:40
Speaker 15: gone and got two ships. Problem solved. He saved us
32:42
Speaker 15: some money beginning middle an end, right. The ships are
32:46
Speaker 15: bigger than the ones we have currently.
32:48
Speaker 2: But not bigger than the ones we were going to get.
32:50
Speaker 2: We never got those. No, we never got that.
32:52
Speaker 15: It's like saying, look, I was going to bring in
32:54
Speaker 15: sixteen Titanics.
32:55
Speaker 2: Never happened. What's the point.
32:57
Speaker 15: Yeah, but it's what never happened doesn't matter the problem.
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Speaker 2: I don't care about any of that. The only thing
33:02
Speaker 2: I care about is they've said it's going to cost
33:05
Speaker 2: X y Z for them. That's saying for everything, no exactly,
33:08
Speaker 2: which has buildings. But that's how we got in the
33:10
Speaker 2: situation in the first place. It wasn't the cost of
33:12
Speaker 2: the ferries. That's not the point. The point is the infrastructure.
33:15
Speaker 2: They believe the cost.
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Speaker 15: I don't believe the cost that they say in this
33:20
Speaker 15: country at the start of a project on anything, because
33:24
Speaker 15: the record shows that there are very few, if any
33:27
Speaker 15: projects that we've ever entered to see r Els classic example,
33:30
Speaker 15: up at six billions started.
33:31
Speaker 2: At two and a half. So if this project ends
33:33
Speaker 2: up costing more than the I REX project, that would
33:36
Speaker 2: be hugely embarrassing.
33:37
Speaker 15: No, because the I REX project, because it never happened.
33:40
Speaker 15: You don't know it got to four point two on
33:43
Speaker 15: the est what would it have been. Don't know what
33:46
Speaker 15: I'm saying. I'm not enjoying you, Ryan, I'm not enjoying
33:49
Speaker 15: you this morning. We'll talk a bit about that the way.
33:52
Speaker 15: The other question is all the vaping and the smoking.
33:55
Speaker 15: Why is the government involved in that? You know, when
33:57
Speaker 15: we go, if you decide to smoke, called bath, isn't
34:01
Speaker 15: that your choice?
34:01
Speaker 2: Is your tice? You know what I'm saying, It is
34:03
Speaker 2: your truth. And there's bugger all left are doing it?
34:06
Speaker 2: Six point eight percent. All right, I've got to breakfast
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Speaker 2: show start. Hopefully you'll enjoy me tomorrow. Have a great
34:11
Speaker 2: day everyone.
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