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Full Show Podcast: 04 December 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 1: Earli Ereditia with r V Supercenter explore r V successories
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Speaker 1: and servicing all than one news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning, Welcome to Thursday. We'll look at
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Speaker 2: the cost of payer for three months. Basically that's before
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Speaker 2: six Mitch, we can in the US for US the
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Speaker 2: IICRE traffic jam. Could this actually be a physit? Dave
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Speaker 2: Higgins on the first christ Stadium gig and I've got
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Speaker 2: numbers on the economy which you will like.
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Speaker 3: The agenda to stay.
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Speaker 4: The fourth of.
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Speaker 2: December, Ukraine talks of stall again. Putin doesn't like bits
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Speaker 2: of the deal. The EU has announced an end to
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Speaker 2: Russian gash and imports. They reckon by twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 5: We're turning that peage and we're turning it for good.
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Speaker 5: This is the dawn of a new era, the era
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Speaker 5: of Europe's full energy independence from Russia.
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Speaker 2: Plus we're checking fifteen million bucks into a fund to
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Speaker 2: get the Ukrainians more weapons. Here's Russia than Ato, Boss.
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Speaker 6: You heard from Australia and New Zealand who will also
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Speaker 6: come tribute to Pearl the first Natal partners to do
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Speaker 6: shop and this means the Dallas and partners have already
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Speaker 6: committed now really over four billion dollars two pearl getting
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Speaker 6: us on the track to the five billion for the
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Speaker 6: full year.
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Speaker 2: They budget fireworks just keep going off. Over in the UK,
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Speaker 2: he is bad knock again, calling four raves to go.
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Speaker 7: We know that there were endless Treasury briefings to justify
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Speaker 7: raising taxes on hard working people to pay for benefits,
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Speaker 7: and those briefings had real world consequences. Hundreds of thousands
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Speaker 7: of people drew down their pension, an irreversible act. So
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Speaker 7: the Prime Minister play tribute to the head of the OBR.
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Speaker 7: If the head of the OBR had to resign over
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Speaker 7: market sensitive leaks, why is the Chancellor still.
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Speaker 4: In her job?
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Speaker 2: Well, here's Starmer clapping back. Past year.
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Speaker 7: They left us with a twenty two billion pound black
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Speaker 7: hole this year.
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Speaker 6: This year the beginning of the process.
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Speaker 8: The OBR did a productivity review.
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Speaker 3: On their recording office.
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Speaker 7: On that cost for additional well sixteen billion pound.
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Speaker 2: Just a bit of a heads up for you this
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore r these accessories
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Speaker 1: and servicing more than one news talks?
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Speaker 2: They'd be news talks. There'd be nine two nine two,
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Speaker 2: the number six eight minutes after five. The media narrative
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Speaker 2: has turned very south on the Government's all happened rather quickly.
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Speaker 2: Some of it it has deserved. Most of it, I
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Speaker 2: think is not. The journo's chomping at the bit for
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Speaker 2: a scandal, even where there is none, too quick to
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Speaker 2: buy one narrative over well, you know the truth. The
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Speaker 2: school lunch story is but one example this week. Smoking
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Speaker 2: is another Casey Costello's been coppying it in scrutiny week.
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Speaker 2: If you've been paying attention, The smoke's largely been coming
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Speaker 2: out of the fuming years of opposition MPs hell bent
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Speaker 2: on making her the evil tobacco lobbyist queen. When she's
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Speaker 2: managed to oversee another drop in smoking and vaping rates. Yes,
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Speaker 2: a drop, Rob beagle Hole, Professor Rob beagle Hole told
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Speaker 2: me this week that we effectively now have a smoke
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Speaker 2: free generation, which is what everybody wanted. That ought to
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Speaker 2: be celebrated. So why isn't it Erica Stamford painted as
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Speaker 2: a racist rather than rescuer of student achievement. Those results
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Speaker 2: speak for themselves. Same with Paul Goldsmith. Despite there being
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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand fewer mildy victims of crime in the
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Speaker 2: latest numbers. Chris Bishop coppying it too again. The latest
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Speaker 2: numbers show six percent more renters see ownership as a
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Speaker 2: real prospect this year compared to last. Rent tore the
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Speaker 2: cheapest they've been in years. Some tenants a knocking one
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks a week off. That's great news. How often
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Speaker 2: do you hear about that? Pacifica education leaders, Malori education providers.
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Speaker 2: They are excited about charter schools, but unions and labor
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Speaker 2: hate them. So what's the narrative? Well, it's not good.
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Speaker 2: This is not to say this government is perfect by
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Speaker 2: no means. They have failed to find out the economy
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Speaker 2: like they promised they would. They have failed on growth,
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Speaker 2: They have failed on jobs. You cannot deny that. But
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Speaker 2: the bad press doesn't match reality, which is part of
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Speaker 2: the reason no one trusts the press.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Bridge talks them B.
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Speaker 2: Now we will get to Dave Higgins shortly on this,
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Speaker 2: and I'm very excited about the new concert that's coming
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Speaker 2: to Kenzie. You're going to go to that gig in
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Speaker 2: christ Church. She's a maybe, she's a maybe. I'm a definite.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna lock it in. I want to check out
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Speaker 2: the new stadium. There's a buzz about christ Church. The
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Speaker 2: Symphony's great. Been to them in Auckland before. It's like sixties. Great,
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Speaker 2: gonna be a fen thirty seven thousand people. Why wouldn't
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Speaker 2: you go? Dave Higgins live on that Next.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on Early Edition with r VS Supercenter explore
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Speaker 1: RV's eccessories and servicing all in one talk five.
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Speaker 2: Point thirteen on News TALKSB. This is how they're going
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Speaker 2: to fund the war against Putin for the next two years.
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Speaker 2: The Ukrainians need one hundred and eighty billion dollars that's
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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars over the next two years. It's going
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Speaker 2: to be funded through the EU, borrowing money, raising money
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Speaker 2: on the capital markets. Then they will also use the
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Speaker 2: cash balances from those frozen Russian assets that we talk about.
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Speaker 2: So you take some money from the Russians, you borrow
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Speaker 2: some money off the EU, and then you give that
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Speaker 2: basically the cash to Ukraine as a loan, and then
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Speaker 2: Ukraine has to pay this loan back if and when
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Speaker 2: Russia is paying reparation. So ultimately the goal is to
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Speaker 2: get Russia to pay for the war against itself, and
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Speaker 2: we're putting fifteen million dollars into this effort. We've announced
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Speaker 2: that overnight from Collins and from Peters. Most of the
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Speaker 2: money will end up being spent on military hardware that
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Speaker 2: comes ironically from Europe in the first place.
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Speaker 3: Brian brigs see.
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Speaker 2: Five fourteen. And the first live show for the new
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Speaker 2: Christchurch Stadium has been revealed none other than these guys
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Speaker 2: iconic here we Ban. Six sixty Symphony is also going
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Speaker 2: to be performing alongside the May sixteenth is the date
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Speaker 2: with the doublehead of receiving funding through the government's Events
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Speaker 2: Boost fund. David Higgins is DUCO Events promoted with us
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Speaker 2: this morning. Good morning, Dave, Good morning, Ron Hey, no brainer.
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Speaker 2: The book six.
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Speaker 9: Sixty, Yeah, it was sort of serendipitous. So I've been
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Speaker 9: talking to Brent eccles for while since I got into
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Speaker 9: music with the symphony, and we've become friendly, and then
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Speaker 9: we were talking about some sort of collaboration. The government
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Speaker 9: funding came along the stadium. It was one of those
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Speaker 9: things where all the stars aligned and we've ended up
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Speaker 9: with what I think is a magic occasion with the
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Speaker 9: two biggest bands in the country. One is Electronic Dance
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Speaker 9: with Orchestra, the other being six sixty, the biggest band
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Speaker 9: in the country together all sponsored by Minuca Fuel of
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Speaker 9: course and kiwibank. So they're delighted.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to convince me I'm coming. But how
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Speaker 2: much did you get from the government fund?
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Speaker 9: Well, I'm not to be honest, I'm not sure what
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Speaker 9: the rules are around whether I'm allowed to tell you
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Speaker 9: or not. So what I will say is what I
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Speaker 9: say is most AUSSI states will spend this sort of
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Speaker 9: money annually and have done for a long time. And
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Speaker 9: what it does is it creates visitor night's GDP into
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Speaker 9: the economy, spend, restaurant spas are full, hotels ripple effect.
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Speaker 9: Plus young people want to go live there. You know,
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Speaker 9: you talk about the brain drain. If or New Zealand
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Speaker 9: and Auckland spend nothing on events and then all the
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Speaker 9: other states are spending fifty million a year, the brain
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Speaker 9: drain is going to accelerate big time, isn't it rain?
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Speaker 2: I don't disagree. Does would something like this happen without
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Speaker 2: that money?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 9: I personally wouldn't have put Synthony into this without the money.
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Speaker 9: These events are very expensive put on. It's a multimillion
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Speaker 9: dollar production. Secondly, you're making a risk return judgment if
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Speaker 9: it's your own neck on the line, your own house.
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Speaker 4: And when New Zealand.
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Speaker 9: Promoters New Zealand owned, we're deciding, hey, can we sell
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Speaker 9: enough to gets in this market. So having support from
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Speaker 9: sponsors like Nuca Fuel, Kerry Bang and government is very
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Speaker 9: helpful and it enables us to confidently go big and
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Speaker 9: put on massive rasumtaz shows that otherwise might not happen.
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Speaker 9: And it makes New Zealand a nice place to live.
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Speaker 9: And I think the overall money is a drop in
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Speaker 9: the ocean of what the government's spending. When as a kid,
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Speaker 9: I might have thought spending fifty seventy million a year
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Speaker 9: on of interaction was a lot of money. And then
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Speaker 9: they spend fifty billion on COVID or whatever it was.
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Speaker 9: And then I realized, how we you know, imagine if feel.
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Speaker 2: It's exactly pay jump very quickly. But Takahas Stadium is
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Speaker 2: it expensive to put gigs on there? I mean this
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Speaker 2: is abviously the first one that's been put on. And
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Speaker 2: how does that compare to say an Eden Park?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, good question. Every dealer is different. Every stadium has
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Speaker 9: a different border, different CEO. Some are not for profit,
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Speaker 9: some are losing money, some are very profitable. I've done
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Speaker 9: deals with some Corps Stadium, Brisbane, Eden Park. This deal,
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Speaker 9: you know, I think they were firm but fair, like
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Speaker 9: they wanted an exciting product for their first event. Where
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Speaker 9: good negotiators. I think we'd land in a place that
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Speaker 9: was fear to them and fear to us. But big
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Speaker 9: stadiums are always expensive. It's not just the rental. You've
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Speaker 9: got to pay for generators and ambulance staff, and security
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Speaker 9: and ushers and you know, just traffic management and about
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Speaker 9: one hundred budget lines the public would not think about
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Speaker 9: on top of the rental.
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Speaker 2: Dave, appreciate your time this morning, looking forward to the gig.
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Speaker 2: Dave Higgins Duco Events promoter time is eighteen minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be next the IKA thing? Will it
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Speaker 2: be potentially in a good way? Bit of a physicist?
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Speaker 2: Car park traffic problem, that's next.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier edition with Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter
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Speaker 2: One News Talks AV five twenty So some numbers for
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Speaker 2: you on the economic outlook, which is looking good. Business
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Speaker 2: New Zealand's forecasts they reckon we will grow it just
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Speaker 2: under three percent a year out twenty twenty seven. This
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Speaker 2: is their Economic Conditions Index. Economic Indicators stands at plus
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Speaker 2: or positive thirteen for the December twenty twenty five quarter.
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Speaker 2: That's up nine points from the previous quarter, two points
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Speaker 2: higher than a year ago. Above zero. We're on the up,
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Speaker 2: so that's good news. And we will go faster next year.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, you have to believe the forecast to believe this,
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Speaker 2: but we will grow faster next year than the Australians,
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Speaker 2: than the Brits, than the Americans. We will grow faster
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Speaker 2: next year and the following year than most developed countries.
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Speaker 2: And I think for the government they need to say
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Speaker 2: when the timing is right. Can't do it now because
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Speaker 2: people are still struggling to pay for meat and butter.
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Speaker 2: But when the time is right, you say, don't put
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Speaker 2: that all at risk. With a labor government. They are
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Speaker 2: on track for six of their nine targets that they
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Speaker 2: set at the last election, so there's room to move.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one after five, Ryan Bridge. Today IQ is big
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Speaker 2: opening eleven o'clock, the car park opening eight point thirty
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Speaker 2: this morning. Apparently Auckland Transports warned of forty minute ques
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Speaker 2: to exit the motor Mount Wellington cues of up to
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Speaker 2: an hour to enter the shop's car parks. Chris Wilkinson
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Speaker 2: is with us this morning from Retail First Retail Group.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Chris, Good morning Ryan. Do you reckon this
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Speaker 2: could be a phizzit because we haven't seen the type
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Speaker 2: of interest in retail just over the last wee while
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Speaker 2: that we would like to have seen.
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Speaker 4: No, definitely not. This is probably the most anticipated retail
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Speaker 4: opening New Zealand scene.
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Speaker 2: Do you reckon people will travel from around the country
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Speaker 2: for this?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we already know they are, and you know it's
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Speaker 4: developed a phenomenal following.
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Speaker 2: What do people like like?
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Speaker 4: Difference? They like something that's unique. We hadn't seen anyone
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Speaker 4: knows about Ikea in New Zealander is well traveled, but
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Speaker 4: we haven't had that within reach, and now we've finally
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Speaker 4: come of age.
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Speaker 2: Essentially, how does it perform Ikea in countries like it,
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Speaker 2: like Australia.
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Speaker 4: Oh, extremely well, it's it's been very popular. They continue
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Speaker 4: to put stores in and and that demand continues to grow.
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Speaker 2: I'm told they have five hundred car parks at I Care.
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Speaker 2: Does that sound like enough to you? Does that sound
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Speaker 2: like the right number of car parks for the size
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Speaker 2: of the store?
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Speaker 4: Good point. But in the old days, of course, people
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Speaker 4: traveled to ikeas. Now more and more we've seeing people
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Speaker 4: shopping online. And of course there's great rail and transport
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Speaker 4: connections to Sylvia Park, and that's a key reason of
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Speaker 4: chosen that site is.
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Speaker 2: Just generally with retail. How important these days is parking
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Speaker 2: because you know, we've had this idea that you rip
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Speaker 2: up car parks and you put in cycle ways, and
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Speaker 2: you put in bus lanes and stuff like that, which
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Speaker 2: drives people nuts. But the idea is that you will
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Speaker 2: actually get more foot traffic into these areas. You'll get
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Speaker 2: more people into these areas. Does that work? Is that working?
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Speaker 4: Getting a balance right is important in many cases. You know,
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Speaker 4: if you've got good public transport connections, leverage them. City centers,
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Speaker 4: we need to slow people down and better engage them
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Speaker 4: with their retail and hospitality environments. But in provincial areas,
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Speaker 4: you know where you really need that connection to that
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Speaker 4: wide attachment. Absolutely you need parking.
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Speaker 2: Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group, appreciate your time this morning,
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Speaker 2: five twenty three, Ryan Bred Mike says, Hey, Ryan, have
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Speaker 2: you seen how small the car park outside is. It's
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Speaker 2: incredibly small. Yeah, but doesn't sound like a lot to me.
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Speaker 2: Five hundred covered car parks. Maybe there's uncovered parks that
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Speaker 2: they're not talking about, but I'm sure they would have
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Speaker 2: told us about uncovered and covered. So there's five hundred
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Speaker 2: car parks. Good luck, everybody, Good luck. We've got your
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Speaker 2: twenty five. Also, we've got higher timber prices that's starting
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Speaker 2: to hit residential construction costs. This is a qv cost
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Speaker 2: builder data out. Construction costs starting to get on the
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Speaker 2: march again. They've been you know, we've been talking about
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Speaker 2: this falling off flat for a while.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Average cost of building a standard home in the main
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Speaker 2: centre is up half a percent over the three months
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Speaker 2: to the end of November, but up just over one
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Speaker 2: percent over the year to the end of November. What's up, well,
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Speaker 2: Timber five point two percent, cladding five percent, concrete four
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Speaker 2: and a half percent, diesel three percent. Then you're painting
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Speaker 2: two point three percent. Not a surge, you know, it
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Speaker 2: is not a broad based increase, and some costs have
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Speaker 2: actually come down, But timber the one to watch, obviously,
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Speaker 2: because that's what we make our houses out of. It
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Speaker 2: is five twenty four News TALKSVB, the early.
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Speaker 3: Edition for all the show podcast on Ihar Radio. How
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Speaker 2: Five twenty six Andrew cost Is three weeks of silence
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Speaker 2: and negotiating, I think speaks volumes about the sincerity of
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Speaker 2: the apology we got yesterday. If you really felt that way,
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Speaker 2: if you hadn't until yesterday realized what had gone on,
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Speaker 2: which he had, of course, because he saw the report
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Speaker 2: long before any of us did, then surely you would
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Speaker 2: have come straight out the starting blocks with an apology
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Speaker 2: to miss z and the front line officers, by the way,
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Speaker 2: who've been copping flak. Wouldn't that be a bit more credible.
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Speaker 2: As for the government, they've obviously been trying to get
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Speaker 2: him out without paying him too much. The bill is
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Speaker 2: three months paid out essentially gardening leave and crucially a
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Speaker 2: statement from the government that there was no cover up.
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Speaker 2: Roach said, no collusion of officers. That's despite the IPCA
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Speaker 2: report having the strong whiff of one or as Judith
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Speaker 2: Collins put it, the walk talk and quack of one.
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Speaker 2: Cost has obviously done the CLCS in his head on
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Speaker 2: this and the longer you stay on and fight the
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Speaker 2: mess here it gets reputation wise. He'll be thinking about
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Speaker 2: the next job, of course, whatever and wherever that may be.
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Speaker 2: He strikes me as the sort of guy with a
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Speaker 2: plan to maybe one day go into politics, you know,
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Speaker 2: local cop boss, top cop boss, new modern approach to
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Speaker 2: police scis, champion of progressive policing. That sort of resume
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Speaker 2: would get you pretty close to the top of a
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Speaker 2: left landing party pretty quickly. I would have thought he's
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Speaker 2: not stupid, But this scandal will rule him out of
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Speaker 2: politics and pretty much all top public sector jobs in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand pretty much for life. As for the Police Association,
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Speaker 2: while the boss there told us yesterday on this program
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Speaker 2: that frontline officers are being taunted over this association with
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Speaker 2: that sort of damage doesn't evaporate quickly. And the mayor
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Speaker 2: Kupper the sorry wasn't quick enough. Five eight. Speaking of Sory's,
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Speaker 2: we're going to need one from Ingud Larry over. Did
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Speaker 2: you see one news last night? She's using not that
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Speaker 2: she will admit it to you, Chat GPT to come
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Speaker 2: up with questions for ministers.
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Speaker 10: I do not directly use chat GTP to ask questions.
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Speaker 3: To use AI to help generate questions.
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Speaker 10: I use AI to help me analyze documents.
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Speaker 5: I formulate my own questions.
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Speaker 2: Ingrid, you got caught red handed pants down and you
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Speaker 2: just didn't own up to it. Did you question a
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Speaker 2: number of times? I didn't say no, I didn't do that.
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Speaker 2: Didn't I might have to talk to my staff, and
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Speaker 2: then later comes back and says, actually, yet it was me.
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Speaker 2: It was me sending this email accidentally with AI generated
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Speaker 2: questions at eleven o'clock at night. What are you doing
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Speaker 2: you've got emails you've sent? Hm hm us talk said
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Speaker 2: searched how to make butter. We searched how to invest
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Speaker 2: money in shares, which has actually got to be a
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Speaker 2: good thing and revenge saving this financial trend and this
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Speaker 2: sort of I think will be the story of the
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Speaker 2: next couple of years. You've got a whole bunch of
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Speaker 2: young people. We've got people my age. You've got people
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Speaker 2: younger who haven't been through an inflationary period before, who
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Speaker 2: haven't felt the grinch that is inflation, the thief that
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Speaker 2: is inflation before, and they'll be trying to invest money.
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Speaker 2: They'll be trying to be a bit more prudent with
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Speaker 2: their finances in the years to come. Minecraft movie was
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Speaker 3: Bryan Bridge, you've.
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Speaker 2: Got to Clum Procter and Dnedan Cullum. Good morning morning, ryots.
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Speaker 2: Now at gorse of the Sea, you've got a new
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Speaker 2: sort of approach to managing the seaweed.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Look, it's cool to undaria, this invasive seaweed and it's
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Speaker 11: prominent in fieldland, marine areas, environments south and dock and
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Speaker 11: biosecurity in New Zealand have been working to try and
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Speaker 11: contain it since it was first detected in Fieldland in
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Speaker 11: twenty seventeen. Now new populations of it have been discovered
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Speaker 11: in break Sea Sound, also in Dusky Sound, and sadly
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Speaker 11: the experts say, look, it's no longer possible to contain
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Speaker 11: the weed with the current resources we have, so their
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Speaker 11: focus is now on just stopping its spreading, targeting high
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Speaker 11: risk areas like key anchorages and moorings, and also increasing
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Speaker 11: their surveillance.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: I find but partly cloudy mate this afternoon here at
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Speaker 11: eighteen the high nice one.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Calum and Clears and christ Church clear good morning,
20:22
Speaker 2: Good morning. Are you going to go to that concert
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Speaker 2: next year?
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Speaker 12: Oh you bet, I'll see you there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds awesome. You've got a new lane way, Oh yes.
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Speaker 12: How fancy. This is actually just up the road from
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Speaker 12: end me christ Church, a new laneway that will connect
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Speaker 12: Avon River with the favorite at christ Church location, which
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Speaker 12: is New Regent Street. Christchurch City Council have confirmed they've
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Speaker 12: purchased a piece of land directly opposite New Regent from
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Speaker 12: the Catholic Diocese. The diocese has been holding onto this
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Speaker 12: plot effectively trying to decide where to build their new cathedral.
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Speaker 12: That decision's made. It's returning to Barbados Street. So now
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Speaker 12: they've offered a twelve meter wide lot to council to
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Speaker 12: connect effectively New Regent with the Avon River the Merefield.
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Speaker 12: Major says New Regent Streets already a hive of activity.
21:08
Speaker 12: There's lots of eateries there. It's also near the Performing
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Speaker 12: Arts Precinct and the Margaret Mayhew Playground. He says this
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Speaker 12: investment will be a starting point for some further development
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Speaker 12: to come to the area. And you already know this, Ryan,
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Speaker 12: But he says, christ Church is already the country's coolest
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Speaker 12: city and we're just getting started.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to argue with that. I think you're right.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather fine?
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Speaker 12: Aside from some areas of early morning cloud, southwesterly is
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Speaker 12: easing and the high will be twenty from the heights of.
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Speaker 2: The mountaintops to the bottom of a ditch. Here's Max
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Speaker 2: and Wellington. Good morning, mor morning. And your tunnel project's delayed.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Look, we have something of a time frame now
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Speaker 13: for this second Mount Victoria tunnel. The State Highway one
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Speaker 13: stuff as well, the terrace tunnel. Six to eight years
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Speaker 13: is the estimate of work and touch wood it doesn't
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Speaker 13: turn into a transmission gully type shamozzle, which for all
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Speaker 13: merit hasn't even finished yet, so that's a lot of
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Speaker 13: disruption which is expected. Main construction won't start until twenty
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Speaker 13: twenty nine either. Also worth mentioning, a new survey has
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Speaker 13: found two thirds of us Wellingtonians are keen to see
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Speaker 13: that second month Victoria Tunnel be built, which is a
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Speaker 13: pretty good result for the government. Three quarters also supporting
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Speaker 13: the plan to improve the roading around the Basin Reserve.
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Speaker 13: That's a survey commissioned by Wellington Airport. It's a CEO
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Speaker 13: says trips to and from the airport right now just
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Speaker 13: take a little too long. So we do want this thing.
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Speaker 13: Hopefully everyone remembers that when they're being diverted at a
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Speaker 13: crawl around the waterfront for about a decade.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be tough. Fe six to eight years
22:39
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like the end of the world. The curl
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Speaker 2: which they're going to open here next year, second half
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Speaker 2: of next year. The actually started I didn't realize, but
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Speaker 2: way back in twenty sixteen, so by then it'll be
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Speaker 2: eleven years to drill underground anyway, how's you wear the max?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's just how long these things take. Early showers,
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Speaker 13: strong Southerly's clearing later sixteen the High.
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Speaker 2: Great Day Neva's and Auckland Hay Neva Greetings, nearly half drivers.
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Speaker 2: These are the ones who failed or who have to
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Speaker 2: reset the practical test after that bribery scandal. What's happened
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Speaker 2: with you?
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Speaker 10: Yes, that's right, that's at Auckland VT and Z bribery scandal.
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Speaker 10: So earlier in the year we knew that staff. This
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Speaker 10: was at the High Brook branch. Now they took money
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Speaker 10: to pass driving applicants from at least twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 10: So five employ years have since been sacked. More than
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Speaker 10: three hundred people have been required to reset practical driving
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Speaker 10: tests and this is by next Friday. So NZTA says
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Speaker 10: two hundred and twenty drivers have been retested so far,
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Speaker 10: ninety one failing.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's not great.
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Speaker 9: I know.
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Speaker 10: So what police have done? You know they've now showved
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Speaker 10: their investigation into this branch because it's now been handled
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Speaker 10: by the Series Fraud Office.
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Speaker 2: My goodness, I mean, so that proves that they did
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Speaker 2: need to bribe, didn't they well, did say we're going
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Speaker 2: to fail anyway?
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Speaker 10: I know, And I was saying to the ones out
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Speaker 10: here in the newsroom, I remember, you know, like when
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Speaker 10: we all when we had to sit our drivers test
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Speaker 10: in out of the practice see, because back in the
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Speaker 10: day in nineteen twenty, I was I got my license
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Speaker 10: in a the cargo and of course you know they
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Speaker 10: had the wide streets and you had to do your
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Speaker 10: three point two, you know, your turn and your easy
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Speaker 10: isat it was easy pasy.
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Speaker 2: Do you know when I sat my SRIP for the
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Speaker 2: full license, my practical driving test because I was going
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Speaker 2: away that New Year's with my friends on a road
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Speaker 2: trip and I really wanted to get it, and I
24:23
Speaker 2: was driving my dad's car and I backed. You had
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Speaker 2: to back into a car park, and I scraped the
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Speaker 2: side of the car against defense and I passed. Had
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Speaker 2: you passed? The guy goes. The guy goes, oh, oh,
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Speaker 2: well that's not great, and he said is there any damage?
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Speaker 2: And I opened the door. There was a big straight
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Speaker 2: and I said, no, no, it's fine. Anyway, what did
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Speaker 2: your dad say? Oh he was gussy. Made me pay
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Speaker 2: for it, and how's that?
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Speaker 10: We a Neva cloudy showers clearing though in the afternoon
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Speaker 10: we've got increasing fine spells, but there will be a
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Speaker 10: bit of winter today. I can tell you twenty one
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Speaker 10: is high here in Auckland, brilliant.
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Speaker 2: Seventeen away from six News talks they'd be and says Ryan,
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Speaker 2: Talk to an employment law about cost in a second.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the US. Note now, though, where Trump's
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Speaker 2: facing just as much pressure from the Republicans as he
26:16
Speaker 2: is the Democrats. This is on Venezuela. Mitch McCanns man
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Speaker 2: in the US, Mitch, what's se copping? What's the heat
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Speaker 2: he is copping?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 8: Lawmakers on both sides are actually growing increasingly concerned by
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Speaker 8: his actions in the Caribbean and toward Venezuela. Of course,
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Speaker 8: eighty three people have been killed in around twenty one
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Speaker 8: strikes in recent months, and it's possible that Donald Trump's
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Speaker 8: going to look to land strikes in Venezuela in the
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Speaker 8: coming days or weeks, and there are still question marks.
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Speaker 2: Around what the end goal is here.
26:45
Speaker 8: Is it to stop the flow of drugs, is it
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Speaker 8: oil or is it something else altogether. Now, two senators
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Speaker 8: from opposing party say that if Donald Trump launches any
26:53
Speaker 8: type of strike on land, they'll introduce a resolution where
26:57
Speaker 8: lawmakers will vote in the Senate to try and stop
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Speaker 8: any further attacks, And in the House of Representatives, different
27:03
Speaker 8: officials are already trying to do the same. So I
27:05
Speaker 8: think there's growing alarm across both Republicans and Democrats and
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Speaker 8: increase concern over where the innocent people are being killed
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Speaker 8: in these strikes on the sea.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we don't have much progress in stopping the other
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Speaker 2: wall that's in Ukraine. Putins just putting his foot down again.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's right. Donald Trump's peace envoy, Steve Witkoff,
27:23
Speaker 8: met with Putin yesterday in Moscow for more than five
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Speaker 8: hours to discuss the latest iteration of this US backed
27:30
Speaker 8: Ukrainian peace plan. In the end, they haven't been able
27:33
Speaker 8: to reach an agreement. This is a proposal Russia initially
27:36
Speaker 8: had input on, then Ukraine had it say as well,
27:39
Speaker 8: Now it's back to Moscow. The Kremlin says there are
27:41
Speaker 8: points that accepts and others it doesn't. It's likely those
27:46
Speaker 8: to do with seeding territory or Ukraine not wanting to
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Speaker 8: seed territory. But at the moment they're not revealing exactly
27:52
Speaker 8: which points they don't agree on.
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Speaker 2: All right, much appreciate that, Thanks so much for your time.
27:56
Speaker 2: Mitch McCann our, US correspondent. It's eleven to six lare
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Speaker 2: On News Talks. There be Airbus the latest more plane
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Speaker 2: delivery problems. Basically this time it's the Airbus, but we've
28:06
Speaker 2: had some from Boeing of course you know about those.
28:08
Speaker 2: We've got our Rolls Royce engine issues. So Airbus overnight
28:12
Speaker 2: has announced that they have a problem with their fuselage panels.
28:17
Speaker 2: And this is their A three twenties, which is their
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Speaker 2: best selling aircraft, the aircraft most of us will fly
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Speaker 2: on when we're traveling internationally. Now they are cutting their
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Speaker 2: plane delivery forecast for this year. They were going to
28:28
Speaker 2: deliver around eight hundred and twenty of these planes. Now
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Speaker 2: they think it will be thirty less at seven hundred
28:34
Speaker 2: and ninety, which is not great. Is it getting harder
28:37
Speaker 2: and harder to keep yourself in the air back home.
28:40
Speaker 2: Did you see this yesterday from Scrutiny Week. So there's
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Speaker 2: a you know, you get your alcohol excise, so when
28:47
Speaker 2: you buy a pack of beer, when you buy a
28:49
Speaker 2: bottle of wine or whatever, you're paying excise on the booze. Well,
28:53
Speaker 2: there's also a portion that is called a levy in
28:56
Speaker 2: an alcohol levee and that money goes towards ad campaigns
29:01
Speaker 2: and you know, harm minimization all that kind of stuff. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: that went up last year from about eleven million to
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Speaker 2: sixteen million, and they reckon it should be more like
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Speaker 2: forty million. And the Greens were asking Doosey about it,
29:12
Speaker 2: and it sounds like Doocey's going to put this up. Now,
29:15
Speaker 2: that's not the main thrust of the tax take that
29:18
Speaker 2: you get on your booze that you buy on a
29:20
Speaker 2: Friday evening of hopefully just a Friday evening. You know,
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Speaker 2: that's about one point three billion dollars actually excise. But
29:27
Speaker 2: they reckon the harm from booze is nine billion a year,
29:32
Speaker 2: probably because there's a lot more people doing that than
29:35
Speaker 2: there are doing other things. But booze is not like
29:38
Speaker 2: cigarettes or like food when it comes to taxing stuff.
29:42
Speaker 2: It's harder to tax. You know. Some people drink a
29:45
Speaker 2: few red wines and it's fine. In fact, it's probably
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Speaker 2: good for them. Some people eat a few bits of
29:50
Speaker 2: chocolate and it's fine. It's probably good for them. Whereas smoking,
29:54
Speaker 2: No amount of smoking is okay, is it? No amount
29:56
Speaker 2: of smoking is good for you. So it's a different
29:58
Speaker 2: kettle of fish when it comes to taxi anyway, Costa
30:02
Speaker 2: it's about three months that they're paying out, basically his
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Speaker 2: notice period. Three months, we're paying out and he's gone.
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Speaker 2: So the story is kind of basically over now, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Nine minutes away from Sex News Talks, there'd be Mike next.
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Speaker 3: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Brian
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Speaker 2: Seven to six on news Talks. He'd be great to
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Speaker 2: have your company this morning. So we've given you the
30:30
Speaker 2: good economic news, but Mike is going to have more
30:32
Speaker 2: of it for you later this morning. Actually, there's a
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Speaker 2: text that's coming Mike. Good morning, greetings, Mike. This is
30:38
Speaker 2: addressed to you, though it's coming a little bit early,
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Speaker 2: and it's not sent from my mum. Ryan. Please let Mike,
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Speaker 2: please let Ryan know that I'm not happy with him.
30:46
Speaker 2: I'm having to get up an hour early to catch
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Speaker 2: his show as it's very good. Just thought it passed
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Speaker 2: that on for me. It's to you to let you know.
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Speaker 14: Gets up because you're so entertaining and gripping and you're
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Speaker 14: excited by that, because that's the first text of that
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Speaker 14: nature you've ever seen.
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Speaker 2: You know, I get lots of those made. I'm too
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Speaker 2: demure to is that what it is?
31:11
Speaker 14: We've done the good economic thing. Lamb got some stats
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Speaker 14: on land, which is good. We've done a deal with
31:17
Speaker 14: the Chinese skiers. Do you think of Chinese as skis?
31:20
Speaker 2: No? But although I have skied in China, no way.
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Speaker 14: You just get more interesting every day up early Exactly.
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Speaker 2: I was skied in China and it was a terrible
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Speaker 2: experience because it wasn't because you're not very good. No, no, no,
31:33
Speaker 2: I can ski, but not fantast to what level? Well,
31:36
Speaker 2: I would say intermediate. Okay, so you're on the pomber, yeah,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not falling over.
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Speaker 14: I'm not still do that.
31:44
Speaker 2: You're going down memory lane.
31:45
Speaker 14: Here, memory that wreaked that story wreaked of memory lane.
31:50
Speaker 2: But what the problem was in China when you're lining
31:52
Speaker 2: up for things because I lived there for a while,
31:55
Speaker 2: when they don't do lines, so you're lining up for
31:57
Speaker 2: your ski poles and your boots and all that kind
31:59
Speaker 2: of stuff, and you could be there all day unless
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Speaker 2: you get pushy. That was the biggest problem.
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Speaker 14: It's it's a trait with the Chinese, isn't it. There's
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Speaker 14: a there's a certain level of aggression in their desire
32:09
Speaker 14: to get stuff done, isn't that.
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Speaker 2: Well, they just don't have the same well, I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is going to probably sound terrible, but they just
32:15
Speaker 2: don't have the same sort.
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Speaker 14: Of they're doing the Palm's queue Chinese nunte.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
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Speaker 14: The interesting thing that the other thirteen million, of course
32:23
Speaker 14: there's not that's not many. If you think about the
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Speaker 14: population one point two billion, it's like next to no
32:28
Speaker 14: one's ski.
32:28
Speaker 2: This is the ski deal.
32:29
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, and so anyway, so we've done that and
32:31
Speaker 14: that's nice for tourists. What sort of field was it
32:33
Speaker 14: do they have a like, is it a sophisticated field
32:35
Speaker 14: that they're chairs? Just there was chairs a little club
32:38
Speaker 14: field or a.
32:39
Speaker 2: Remember they had the winter Games. Did they Winter Olympics
32:42
Speaker 2: just outside of Beijing, which is where I went skiing?
32:45
Speaker 2: But before they had that were you and the Olympics?
32:48
Speaker 14: I just can't remember? So right right, Bridge went up
32:53
Speaker 14: the Pomber to win the bronze.
32:57
Speaker 2: And just came home moaning about the queues we also
33:00
Speaker 2: speaking of before.
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Speaker 14: We've got the drawer on the Rugby World couple of
33:02
Speaker 14: years made in Sydney last night, and we seem to
33:05
Speaker 14: be in what I would loosely call the worst group
33:08
Speaker 14: because of all the groups, there's no competitions. There's one
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Speaker 14: decent side and a whole lot of useless sides. We've
33:15
Speaker 14: got Australia. Yes, so that which could be the opening game,
33:18
Speaker 14: which apparently we're excited about as an opening game is
33:21
Speaker 14: a big thrill. But apart from that, that sort of
33:23
Speaker 14: then gets into the problem what do we lose to
33:25
Speaker 14: Australia and therefore we've got it, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we won't when we lose to Australia, well,
33:30
Speaker 2: and then we do South Africa after that do we
33:32
Speaker 2: in the final?
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Speaker 14: In theory we go to South Africa in the in
33:35
Speaker 14: the quarterfinal, which makes it, But that's twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 14: We've got other stuff to worry about in the ensuing period.
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Speaker 2: A lot of stuff. Although hey, next year we're going
33:42
Speaker 2: to grow faster than the Aussiest, than the Brits and
33:44
Speaker 2: the Americans.
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Speaker 14: Had time, I'd text you and say how it's been
33:48
Speaker 14: really worth getting up earlier to listen to this.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Mike has lived in the next Newstalk senb.
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