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Full Show Podcast: 25 July 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture beds and a play at store.
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Speaker 2: News Talks.
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Speaker 3: He'd be good morning, it is six after five. You're
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Speaker 3: on News Talks. He'd be with me, Ryan Bridge. Great
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Speaker 3: to have your company this morning. Welcome to your Thursday
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Speaker 3: coming up on the show. How much time will those
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Speaker 3: raised pedestrian crossings in Wellington add to your ambulance journey?
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Speaker 3: You don't want that to be too long to you
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Speaker 3: Callan Clark has penned an opinion piece for the Telegraph
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Speaker 3: in the UK. It's an odd pairing for her. Elton
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Speaker 3: John is the co author of this opheed. We'll tell
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Speaker 3: you more about that soon. Plus two bizarre stories today.
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Speaker 3: One a plane crash in Nepal, eighteen dead, one survives
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Speaker 3: spoiler alert, it's the pilot. Also a shark attack in Australia.
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Speaker 3: All to come seven after five.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 3: Who's say the fifth of July? A fresh update on
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Speaker 3: those spying allegations at the Olympics. Canada's football team has
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Speaker 3: sent its assistant coach and an analyst home after using
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Speaker 3: a drone to spy on the Kiwi team twice. The
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Speaker 3: head coach has also removed herself from coaching the game
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Speaker 3: between New Zealand and Canada on Friday morning. Come on,
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Speaker 3: you can't see that footage? Is that fair? And did
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Speaker 3: the team see it too? Anyway? Meanwhile, the Kiwi football team,
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Speaker 3: Theyolli Whites, have taken on Guinea in their first Olympic games.
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Speaker 1: Garbett breaking forward and latching onto a pass malthew garbagecores
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Speaker 1: for New Zealand a minute.
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Speaker 4: After missing from the penalty spot.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant game and I can tell you that we won
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Speaker 3: two to one in the last few minutes. We've also
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Speaker 3: in the sevens, the men's sevens beaten Japan forty twelve
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Speaker 3: and we'll play South Africa at seven thirty this morning
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Speaker 3: to the US. Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Natanya, who
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Speaker 3: is in Washington, d C. Said to give a speech
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Speaker 3: to Congress at six am our time. Eighty House Democrats
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Speaker 3: and six Senators aren't attending the speech, including Vice President
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Speaker 3: Karmala Harris. Harris, I should say, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going because Benjamin Natanyahoo has led that region
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Speaker 5: into a complete humanitarian disaster.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture,
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Speaker 1: Beds and a playing Store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk Sidy now eight up to five. Karmala Harris
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Speaker 3: is talking to a college, a traditional black college in
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Speaker 3: the United States right now. Actually she's giving an address
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Speaker 3: to them. I'm wondering whether she's going to change up
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Speaker 3: her speeches. You might have noticed she did the exact
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Speaker 3: same speech yesterday that she did the day before. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I know it's early days in the campaign, but here
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Speaker 3: in New Zealand, small businesses are holding on for dear life.
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Speaker 3: And you can see it when you, I mean you
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Speaker 3: will know this. You walk down the street. You know
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Speaker 3: how bad it is. There's a magazine shop I was
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Speaker 3: reading about yes which is just up the road from me. Normally,
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Speaker 3: well this is you know, and when we weren't in
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Speaker 3: a cost of living crisis and being squeezed by interest rates,
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Speaker 3: they would have seventy to eighty people a day through
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Speaker 3: this through the shop and a conversion rate of sixty
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Speaker 3: to seventy percent, So sixty to seventy percent of those
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Speaker 3: people would buy something. Now they're lucky to get fifteen
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Speaker 3: people a day in the shop, and they reckon turn
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Speaker 3: over is thirty percent of what it was eight years ago.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's devastating, isn't it? And so how long
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Speaker 3: can small businesses hold on? Interesting new numbers this morning
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Speaker 3: Zero's Small Business Insights reporters out for GOM quarter sales
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Speaker 3: are down one and a half percent year on year,
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Speaker 3: No surprise there. For May it was two zero point
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Speaker 3: four percent, a June was eight point three percent. So
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Speaker 3: you've now had three consecutive months of falls. However, jobs
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Speaker 3: are up and wages are up as well, so they
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Speaker 3: think this is a sign that businesses are slightly optimistic
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Speaker 3: about conditions getting better. But the sales are dropping, and
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Speaker 3: if they continue to drop, the question then becomes how
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Speaker 3: long can they actually hold on? Ray and Bridge ten
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Speaker 3: after five. So this plane crash in the pool. I mean,
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Speaker 3: usually no one survives a plane crash. It's pretty devastating,
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Speaker 3: is that in terms of loss of life. However, this
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Speaker 3: plane takes off from the airport, hits the ground soon
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Speaker 3: after take off, burst into flames. Eighteen people dead. This
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Speaker 3: is just in the last to twenty four hours. Eighteen
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Speaker 3: people dead, but one person survives, it's the pilot. Can
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Speaker 3: you imagine the survivor's guilt that this pilot is going
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Speaker 3: to be going through. So the plane takes off, apparently
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Speaker 3: turns the wrong way when it took off, was meant
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Speaker 3: to go left and went right instead. Falls to that
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Speaker 3: the crashes into the ground, burst into flames. The pilot
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Speaker 3: is rescued from this burning wreckage. He's got non fatal injuries.
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Speaker 3: He's going to be okay. But the other eighteen on
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Speaker 3: board all dead, devastating the airport. Interestingly, because you know
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Speaker 3: this airport's in Nepal are quite notorious for plane crashes.
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Speaker 3: This is this is not particularly unusual. But what I
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Speaker 3: found interesting is the airport closed for a few hours
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Speaker 3: to the story and then reopen. Just got eleven after
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Speaker 3: five year on news Talk said be.
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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 Smith City New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
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Speaker 1: applying store News Talk said be.
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Speaker 3: Thirsting after five great to have your company this morning.
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Speaker 3: The Transport Coalition is calling for Wellington Council to rethink
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Speaker 3: the raised crossings that they're proposing for Thornton Key that
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Speaker 3: get this five raised crossings in a one point seven
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Speaker 3: kilometer stretch of road. The coalition says that the crossings
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Speaker 3: can cause damage to large passenger vehicles and freight vehicles
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Speaker 3: and an increased risk for delays and disruptions for your
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Speaker 3: emergency services. That's your ambulances and your fire service. Dom
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Speaker 3: Klasi is the interim CEO of Transporting New Zealand, they
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Speaker 3: look after road freight. He's with me this morning. Dom.
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Speaker 3: How slow would a truck have to have to slow
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Speaker 3: down to to get over one of these things?
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Speaker 6: What city council is saying is they want vehicles to
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Speaker 6: slow down to about thirty kilometers an hour. They're actually
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Speaker 6: going to put signs up to sew there.
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Speaker 3: Right and will trucks have to go even slower than that,
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Speaker 3: you know big ones?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Look, particularly if they've got fragile cargo on board.
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Speaker 6: You know, every time you go over a sharp bump
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Speaker 6: then you do need to slow down otherwise you can
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Speaker 6: damage the cargo.
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Speaker 3: So we're talking like five crossings, five raised crossings. You'd
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Speaker 3: be going ten k's over these crossings or something like that.
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Speaker 6: If you've got that would make it comfortable. And we're
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Speaker 6: just carrying freight think about all the people and buses
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Speaker 6: and ambulances and ambulances. You know, people could be on
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Speaker 6: their way to hospital and they're going over these bumps.
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Speaker 6: It's not very nice.
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Speaker 3: No, And also, I mean foreign emergency is said that
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Speaker 3: it could add fifty to sixty seconds delayed to their
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Speaker 3: response time, which may not sound like much, but in
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Speaker 3: a life or death situation, and you're tak into account
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Speaker 3: that their target is eight minutes to get to an event.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely end. I think you might be aware fends they
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Speaker 6: get involved in providing CPR when ambulance can't, so you
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Speaker 6: know that's even more critical.
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Speaker 3: Is this in terms of FRAID, because that's your area
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Speaker 3: of expertise. Is this a busy road?
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Speaker 7: It is?
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Speaker 6: And look, if I understand the typically there's about eleven
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Speaker 6: thousand vehicles going down there each day, and I suspect
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Speaker 6: about sixteen percent of those, so it's somewhere around the
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Speaker 6: eighteen hundred vehicles a day are freight vehicles that would
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Speaker 6: have to slow down five times, regardless of whether they've
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Speaker 6: got right of way through the site, very through the signals.
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Speaker 3: Is counsel listening to you, guys, Do you think that
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Speaker 3: there's a chance they'll change things.
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Speaker 6: Well, we're spoked. Actually, the mayor wrote to our coalition
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Speaker 6: yesterday acknowledging that there needs to be a balance of
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Speaker 6: all factors when considering these sorts of thing. So we're
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Speaker 6: looking forward to that discussion.
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Speaker 3: Better late than never, I suppose, Don, thank you very
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Speaker 3: much for your time. That's Don Caliesi who with the
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Speaker 3: Transport group, sorry, the coalition, i should say, group of
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Speaker 3: transport representatives who aren't basically saying this is going to
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Speaker 3: slow us down too much. He's in from CEO of
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Speaker 3: Transporting New Zealand. It's just gone sixteen o five listening.
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Speaker 3: At least they're listening. That's good news. Hey, you remember
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Speaker 3: the crowd strike global tech meltdown from last Friday. They
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Speaker 3: have finally identified fingered, you could say, what caused the
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Speaker 3: outages for all of those Microsoft Windows users. It was
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Speaker 3: a bug. This is the official It's a bug in
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Speaker 3: a quality control tool it uses to check system updates
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Speaker 3: for mistakes allowed, which allowed the critical flaw to be
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Speaker 3: pushed to users machines. Honestly, that means nothing to me.
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Speaker 3: You know you sort of you just ring it, don't you,
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Speaker 3: and they tell you to turn it back on, turn
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Speaker 3: it off and turn it on. It means nothing to me.
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Speaker 3: But basically they had a whoopsie and they figured out
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Speaker 3: what the whoopsie was. Interesting. So it's tens of thousands
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Speaker 3: of flights were affected, delayed or canceled. It affected businesses,
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Speaker 3: It affixed financial institutions, it affix government agencies. It affects
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Speaker 3: medical centers, school districts all over the world. And the
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Speaker 3: CEO has now been summoned to test FI in front
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Speaker 3: of lawmakers in the States. And you saw what happened
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Speaker 3: to the Secret Service lady. She got well, she didn't
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Speaker 3: get fired, but she was forced to resign. So good luck, buddy.
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Speaker 3: It is seventeen after five.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: furniture beds and a flying store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said, be nineteen after five this morning. Great
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Speaker 3: to have you with me if you're just joining the program.
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Speaker 3: Tesla stocks are down there have fallen eight percent on
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Speaker 3: poor quarter two numbers. I'll have more detail on that.
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Speaker 3: Plus also his this is Elon Musk, the you know,
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Speaker 3: the man who owns the company. His promise to give
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Speaker 3: forty five million dollars Trump per month. Fake news. I'll
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Speaker 3: tell you more about that in a second. Right now,
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Speaker 3: we have the all Blacks, but have you heard of
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Speaker 3: the e Blacks? Here we e sports athletes are going
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Speaker 3: to be heading to Saudi Arabia next year to compete
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Speaker 3: in the first ever Olympic Esports Games. The International Olympic
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Speaker 3: Committee voted unanimously for Saudi Arabia to host them. The
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Speaker 3: decision comes as Read hosts the Esports World Cup, a
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Speaker 3: two month event drawing two and a half thousand gamers competing.
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Speaker 3: Forget this, one hundred million New Zealand dollars in prize money.
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Speaker 3: It's massive. Connor English is the president of New Zealand
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Speaker 3: Esports and he's with me now, Connor, good morning, a
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Speaker 3: good So is this going to be like an official
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Speaker 3: Olympics endorsed thing.
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Speaker 8: Yes it is.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a whole new Olympic competition that's been created.
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Speaker 7: So you'll have the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and
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Speaker 7: then the Esports Olympics and they're likely to be in
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Speaker 7: rotation over the four years.
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Speaker 3: What do we like at esports? How many you know,
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Speaker 3: full time athletes do we have? If any?
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Speaker 8: We don't have a lot of full time athletes, but
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Speaker 8: we do have some very good athletes. Esports as a
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Speaker 8: sort of structured sport if you like, is you know,
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Speaker 8: it's a growing area of sports in New Zealand and
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Speaker 8: we're getting as the New Zealand Esports Federation. We've been
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Speaker 8: putting in frames, for example, across the schools to help
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Speaker 8: have integrity and the competitions and to build pathways for
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Speaker 8: athletes to progress. And now that we've got this Olympic
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Speaker 8: Games opportunity, then we'll be looking at how we build
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Speaker 8: pathways towards the Olympic Games for athletes.
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Speaker 3: It must be one of the sports that has flushed
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Speaker 3: with money, is it. I mean, it just seems every
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Speaker 3: time we talk about esports, it's always something one hundred
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Speaker 3: million dollars.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, I think what we know is that, you know,
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Speaker 7: gaining in esports has really grown, and you're seeing a
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Speaker 7: lot of movies now turning into esports games and often
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Speaker 7: there's more money in the gaming than what there is
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Speaker 7: in the movies, So there is a lot of money
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Speaker 7: in the sector. We also know that the participation rates
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Speaker 7: are growing very substantially and very quickly. If you talk
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Speaker 7: to anyone younger than you and I Ryan. A lot
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Speaker 7: of those people have been playing gaming in some shape
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Speaker 7: or form, so participation is very high. And now we're
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Speaker 7: just moving through to having more structured competitions, so there
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Speaker 7: is a lot of money in that, because there is
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Speaker 7: a lot of money in gaming.
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Speaker 3: Connor, thanks for your time this morning, and good luck
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Speaker 3: with the Olympics. That's kind of English. President of New
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Speaker 3: Zealand Esports twenty two after five. Coming up next, Well,
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Speaker 3: we've still got Mitch McCann to get through before six
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Speaker 3: o'clock this morning. He's out of the States with the
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Speaker 3: latest on the race for president. Also, Jason Walls will
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Speaker 3: run us through what the government is preparing in its
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Speaker 3: response to that report. Yesterday, the Royal Commission into Abuse
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Speaker 3: steak here all.
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Speaker 1: Ahead, separating the fact from the fiction. Kid's Filly edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and Appliant store.
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Speaker 3: News Talk said b twenty five after five, News Talk said,
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Speaker 3: be shock, horror and online hate this week for that
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Speaker 3: American who came here, the reality TV show contestant who
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Speaker 3: came here and murdered one of our native birds and
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Speaker 3: then ate it. I have a confession for you. It
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Speaker 3: was a weker that he did, that he killed and ate.
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Speaker 3: I have a confession, I too have killed and eaten weker. Yes,
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Speaker 3: but it was buff wecker on the Chatteram Islands and
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Speaker 3: you're allowed to. It's the only place you can do
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Speaker 3: it in New Zealand. And it's delicious, I have to confess.
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Speaker 3: It tasted like a cross between chicken and pork, quite greasy,
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Speaker 3: but really delicious. And you go over there. I went
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Speaker 3: there to film for a TV show. You sit in
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Speaker 3: the ute in the evening drinking whiskey with the local guys.
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Speaker 3: The dogs go out, get them, bring them to the
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Speaker 3: window of the ute, they snap the neck, throw them
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Speaker 3: on the back of the tray. They said that sometimes
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Speaker 3: they could get hundreds in a night, and they're a
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Speaker 3: pest over there, so they would run rampant and take
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Speaker 3: over the island. And the other thing is they eat
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Speaker 3: native bird eggs, so they're double bad anyway. So there
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Speaker 3: we are over there eating weicker, having a great time.
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Speaker 3: And Roger Beatty is a conservationist and an entrepreneur who
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Speaker 3: was there with us, and he reckons we should farm
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Speaker 3: worker on the mainland. He says, no farmed species has
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Speaker 3: ever died out. Currently it's illegal to sell weicker, so
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Speaker 3: you can't in New Zealand. Doc is dead against it.
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Speaker 3: But Roger says, we farm plenty of other species in
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Speaker 3: New Zealand, shellfish trees, so why not birds. It's an
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Speaker 3: interesting take. He's a bit of a radical, this guy.
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Speaker 3: Doc says that predator free sanctuaries are the way to go,
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Speaker 3: and they're working. I mean they are working. You look
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Speaker 3: at Wellington for example, that is working and they're dead
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Speaker 3: against farming of any speed. But I kind of think
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Speaker 3: all options should be on the table. Eighty two percent
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Speaker 3: of bird species are currently threatened with extinction or at
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Speaker 3: risk of becoming threatened. So can we really be that
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Speaker 3: picky or fussy If we're serious about saving them, it's
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Speaker 3: at least worth a wee. Look see, I would have
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Speaker 3: thought twenty seven after five Bray.
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Speaker 9: And Bridge twenty seven half to five.
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Speaker 3: So why are we playing? Alton John Well He has penned,
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Speaker 3: co authored and op ed in the Telegraph with none
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Speaker 3: other than New Zealand's Helen Clark. They've penned an article
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Speaker 3: about condemning the war on drugs. Basically, Helen Clark is
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Speaker 3: obviously the chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy,
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Speaker 3: and Elton John Well I still has had some experience
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Speaker 3: with drugs in his use. So they've written an article
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Speaker 3: together in the Telegraph basically saying the war on drugs
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Speaker 3: hasn't worked and we need a health approach rather than
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Speaker 3: a criminal approach to those who are addicted to drugs. Gosh,
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Speaker 3: strange week, couple of weeks for Halling Clark. Isn't it
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Speaker 3: to go from co authoring an opied with Don Brash
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Speaker 3: to co authoring a opied with Elton John I mean
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Speaker 3: you couldn't get You couldn't get further ends of the
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Speaker 3: spectrum in terms of males, could you? Anyway there would go?
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Speaker 3: It's on the Telegraph in the UK today twenty eight
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Speaker 3: minutes after five. Mitch McCann is with us just before
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Speaker 3: six o'clock with news out of the States. Jason Walls
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Speaker 3: will be closer to six and more on Elon Musk.
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Speaker 3: His stocks and Tesla are down eight percent on poor numbers,
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Speaker 3: but also that donation forty five million dollars a month
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Speaker 3: that he was rumored to be giving to Trump's campaign
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Speaker 3: apparently fake news. More on that soon as well. Are
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Speaker 3: twenty nine after five.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four on early edition
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Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Bids and Appliance Store
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Speaker 1: News Talk Sidby.
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Speaker 3: Good Morning New Zealand, twenty four minutes away from six
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Speaker 3: yer on News Talk sai'd be I'm Rhyan Bridge. Great
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Speaker 3: to have you with me this morning. In the Diary today,
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden is going to speak for the first time
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Speaker 3: publicly for the first time from the podium at the
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Speaker 3: White House to address why he quit the race. He
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Speaker 3: also needs to prove that he can actually run the
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Speaker 3: joint till January. As well the Olympics. We've got the
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Speaker 3: men's sevens in contention this morning versus South Africa at
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Speaker 3: seven thirty am. Benjamin Netanya, who is speaking at six
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Speaker 3: am our time in Congress. Over in the States, Karmala
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Speaker 3: Hallis Harris, I should say, speaking at a rally as well.
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Speaker 3: So lot's happening, which Mike will keep you updated with
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Speaker 3: throughout his show this morning as well. Tesla stocks are
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Speaker 3: down slightly on quarter two numbers. That's news out of
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Speaker 3: the States. And I always found it strange that Elon
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Speaker 3: Musk was reportedly going to give forty five million dollars
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Speaker 3: a month to Donald Trump's campaign. Given what Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: says about EV's he hates them, you know, why would
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Speaker 3: you pay? It turns out it was fake news. Elon
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Speaker 3: Musk has moved to clarify. He says he won't be
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Speaker 3: donating forty five million dollars, nothing near forty five million
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Speaker 3: dollars a month. He will donate some money to Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump's Pack Super Pack campaign. Just gone twenty three away
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Speaker 3: from six Cranbridge and we'll get to that surface story
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Speaker 3: out of Australia shortly. It's incredible. First though, Come and
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Speaker 3: Proctor is with us in the need and gang tensions
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Speaker 3: at Otago Prison. Come, yeah, morning, Ryan.
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Speaker 10: It's certainly the case. Has been recent attacks on staff
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Speaker 10: at the prison near Milson. The Department of Corrections confirming
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Speaker 10: a prisoner struck a staff member on the head at
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Speaker 10: the facility on Monday. That staff member needed hospital treatment.
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Speaker 10: It's the third attack on an Otago prison officer since April.
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Speaker 10: We've spoken with the general manager, Dave Miller. He says
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Speaker 10: the perpetrators were from the same gang, but there's no
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Speaker 10: evidence to suggest the assaults are linked. Says gaging tensions
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Speaker 10: are constantly monitored there, and Corrections has invested in tools
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Speaker 10: to keep their staff safe. All right, Colen did it
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Speaker 10: in weather today you find for danneed and today Ryan
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Speaker 10: apart from morning cloud nor westerlies and sixteen the high brilliant.
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Speaker 10: Thank you, Blake, Benny's and christ Church for us an
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Speaker 10: update on those welfare issues that are ran a wildlife park.
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Speaker 11: Yes, while there's plans to move forward at the christ
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Speaker 11: Church Zoo following the investigation into poor welfare claims. As
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Speaker 11: previously reported, more than twenty current and former staffers detailed
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Speaker 11: multiple animal deaths to One News earlier this week. Now
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Speaker 11: MPI has confirmed found no immediate signs of any animal
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Speaker 11: welfare or staffing issues and a rapid assessment over two
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Speaker 11: days in which every animal was checked. Board member Ken
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Speaker 11: Huey is confident in the zoo will bounce back from
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Speaker 11: the allegations and headlines. He acknowledges IRANA is not perfect,
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Speaker 11: but it works hard to remain transparent and investigates any
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Speaker 11: concerns that are raised.
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Speaker 3: Blake, how's the weather today.
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Speaker 11: Be a nice clear day in christ Church with some
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Speaker 11: light wins and a higher fifteen brilliant.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Mex tools and Wellington. An update on the
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Speaker 3: additiery the theory.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so obviously this is the inter island the ferry
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Speaker 4: that ran aground near pickt In just over a month ago.
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Speaker 4: It has been gradually returning to service freight first. The
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Speaker 4: biggest step now confirmed within a few days the Aditi
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Speaker 4: will be taking passengers again. The reason at ran aground
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Speaker 4: we still don't exactly know why, not a picture book
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Speaker 4: of transparency into island or KiwiRail. It took New Zealand
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Speaker 4: first publicly posting its own theory to eventually reveal a
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Speaker 4: leaked memo that stated the autopilot had been mistakenly turned
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Speaker 4: on and couldn't be turned off. But we still don't
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Speaker 4: know exactly why that happened, if it's even true, was
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Speaker 4: it mechanical? And yet on Sunday several hundred passengers crew
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Speaker 4: brave souls will hop on board and venture across the
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Speaker 4: Cook Strait.
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Speaker 3: That's mate. It is annoying, isn't it that they don't
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Speaker 3: tell us exactly what's happening and we have to wait
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Speaker 3: for a report and by then no one cares. And
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Speaker 3: mex with the weather today in the Capitol.
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Speaker 4: Mainly fine after a cold start for team the High Central.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Neither Riddy Marne was with me in Auckland.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 12: Sorry, I just walked in. I was too busy chit
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Speaker 12: chading to your producer. Well, I was having a bit
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Speaker 12: of a laugh. I know it was very slack. I thought,
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Speaker 12: what is my job? But I was just saying that overnight.
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Speaker 12: You know, Tim Beveridge was on and you know, obviously
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Speaker 12: with the Olympics now starting, he had the TV channel
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Speaker 12: on the well, it was on the wrong TV channel
22:22
Speaker 12: when he was watching the football, the live football giving
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Speaker 12: the update no New Zealand playing Guineing and obviously we
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Speaker 12: won two one, but it was the delayed coverage. So
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Speaker 12: just before you came on, just before five years go oh,
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Speaker 12: and it was only like half time when it was
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Speaker 12: really finishing. You know, I was waving going, he was saying,
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Speaker 12: it's one all, but it was the game was over
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Speaker 12: and we won.
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Speaker 3: Do you know when I worked on that morning TV show,
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Speaker 3: people would watch the hour delayed you know, the Plus
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Speaker 3: one channel, Yes, and they wouldn't know they were watching it.
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Speaker 3: And the biggest complaint we would get on that program
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Speaker 3: was you guys are channing the wrong time. It's like
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Speaker 3: it's not us, it's you. Anyway, we digress the heritage buildings.
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Speaker 12: This is great. Now Auckland Council's locked in earthquake strengthening
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Speaker 12: for four heritage buildings. So that's the Nathan Homestead and Mondal.
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Speaker 12: There were the Remuera building. Oh, the library I should
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Speaker 12: say rather tetid only War Memorial Hall and library and
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Speaker 12: the Lee's Institute Library and gymnasium. Now those four buildings
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Speaker 12: that's going to cost about twenty two million dollars. Funding
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Speaker 12: package that's expected to be approved at the Council's Planning
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Speaker 12: Environment in Parks Committee, which is happening their meeting today.
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Speaker 3: Brilliant. Neither of the weather in Auckland cloudy.
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Speaker 12: We've got isolated showers this morning, clearing though this evening
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Speaker 12: a little bit warmer for us sixteens to high have lots.
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Speaker 3: Of rain showers, such sunshowers. Sunshowers, I should say at
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Speaker 3: the moment, I don't like those. I'd like it to
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Speaker 3: be pick a sidon, stick.
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Speaker 12: To it exactly. That's when we've got to take our brawlly,
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Speaker 12: you know, just in case.
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Speaker 3: All Right, eighteen minutes away from six still to come.
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Speaker 3: The incredible surfer shark story out of Australia, which we'll
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Speaker 3: get to next though Mitch McCann is in the US.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: furniture beds and a playing store. News Talk said be.
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Speaker 3: Mitch McCann standing by in the US will be with
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Speaker 3: him in a second. First though, this incredible and bizarre
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Speaker 3: story out of Australia. So a twenty three year old
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Speaker 3: surfer is having a great time catching waves. This is
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Speaker 3: in Port mcquarie, and then a shark attacks and he
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Speaker 3: tries to fight off the shark. He sort of half
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Speaker 3: does that, but severs his right leg off completely and
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Speaker 3: he's bleeding heavily. Amazingly, he manages to catch a wave
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Speaker 3: while he's bleeding profusely catches a wave back into the beach.
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Speaker 3: Retired cop on the beach gets his dog lead, does
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Speaker 3: a torniquet around the leg, gets him to hospital. Then
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Speaker 3: this is where it gets really weird. The leg washes
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Speaker 3: up on a way the leg surfs to the beach,
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Speaker 3: so he's been rushed to hospital. The people who are
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Speaker 3: left on the beach see this leg washed up in
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Speaker 3: the wave and put it on ice and rush that
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Speaker 3: to the hospital hoping they can reattach it anyway. This
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Speaker 3: poor guy. He's in a stable condition now, which is
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Speaker 3: really good. No update on what has happened with the leg,
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Speaker 3: but some very quick acting members of the public there
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Speaker 3: who were there to help. Just gone fourteen minutes away from.
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Speaker 1: Six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 3: Mitch McCants with us this morning. Benjamin Nittanya, who's going
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Speaker 3: to speak to Congress.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Ryan, Good morning, Ryan. Benjaminina who is in
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Speaker 2: Washington today. He's addressing Congress on the ongoing war in
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Speaker 2: Gaza and the waning support for Israel in parts of
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Speaker 2: the US. NTNA who was invited the Speaker of the House,
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Speaker 2: Mike Johnson, and on the plane over to America he
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Speaker 2: wore a hat with the words total victory emblazoned across
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Speaker 2: the top of it. And despite that invitation from the Speaker,
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Speaker 2: at least thirty Democratic lawmakers will not be attending, including
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Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders, Ryan who described ETNA who as a war criminal,
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Speaker 2: presiding over an extreme white ring, right winging government and
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Speaker 2: We've also seen large protests across Washington, DC today, with
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Speaker 2: an estimated five thousand people taking to the streets.
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Speaker 3: That's so he's inter provoking them too with that hat.
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Speaker 3: By the sounds of it, Biden is going to address
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Speaker 3: the country for the first time about his decision not
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Speaker 3: to run for reelection.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 3: Obviously.
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Speaker 2: That decision came on the weekend, after weeks of escalating
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Speaker 2: pressure after that June debate. A social media message he posted,
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden conceded it was in his parties and the
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Speaker 2: country's best interests for him not to seek reelection, and
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Speaker 2: the same message he said he would speak in greater
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Speaker 2: detail later in the week. Now that's happening today around
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Speaker 2: two pm New Zealand time. It's taking place in the
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Speaker 2: Oval Office of the White House. These are rare presidential addresses,
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Speaker 2: but it's actually the second one he's made in a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. The first one was, of course, after
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Speaker 2: the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. It's reported that Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden and a close aid began writing this speech almost
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Speaker 2: immediately after his decision was made public. As well as
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Speaker 2: explaining his reasoning, Joe Biden is expected to detail what
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Speaker 2: his priorities are for the remainder of his term just
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Speaker 2: a few months.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I guess the other thing, Mitch is he
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Speaker 3: has to show that he's up to doing the job
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Speaker 3: through till January. Mitch, thank you very much for your time.
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Speaker 3: Mitch mccannon, our US correspondent. It's just gone twelve minutes
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Speaker 3: away from six Ryan Bridge. The government's preparing its response
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Speaker 3: to the Royal Commission into Abuse in State Care report,
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Speaker 3: which was released yesterday. You would have heard about this
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Speaker 3: more than its six hundred thousand in care. Two hundred
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Speaker 3: thousand were abused. That's one in three. There are one
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Speaker 3: hundred and thirty eight recommendations in this report, so a
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Speaker 3: lot to respond to. News talks here be Political editor
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Speaker 3: Jason Walls is with us this morning. Good morning, Derek
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Speaker 3: Chang and the Hill did a great peace on this.
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Speaker 3: Many of these recommendations seem to fly in the face
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Speaker 3: of the government's policy platform or agenda.
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Speaker 13: Yes, good morning. There are a number of things that
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Speaker 13: were recommended in the report that do overlap in some
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Speaker 13: ways with what the government is doing today in terms
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Speaker 13: of what its policy agenda is. For example, I mean
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Speaker 13: a few people have made the point that the abuse
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Speaker 13: in state care, you know, it outlines a number of
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Speaker 13: what happens in state care. And then this weekend the
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Speaker 13: government is launching its military youth academies, which some people
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Speaker 13: have actually drawn a comparison to, and other things to
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Speaker 13: do with the Treaty of Waitangi and whatnot. So it's
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Speaker 13: an interesting piece. I would say that, yes, you can
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Speaker 13: see why some people might be making these arguments, but
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Speaker 13: at the same time, I mean arguments around gangs. I
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Speaker 13: think that it's a hard comparison to make at the
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Speaker 13: best time there. But in terms of the for example,
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Speaker 13: this weekend, in terms of the the military academy, I
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Speaker 13: think the government will be arguing that they'll be using
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Speaker 13: the report to learn lessons about what happened in the past,
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Speaker 13: so it can't happen again. They've made the case for
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Speaker 13: these academies quite clearly, and I don't think because of
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Speaker 13: the report that they're going to go away. So you
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Speaker 13: can understand why some people are making these comparisons, and
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Speaker 13: I do think that that's why some people that were
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Speaker 13: in the public garalery yesterday yelled shame as Karen Shaw
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Speaker 13: started talking in the House yesterday during her speech.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that many gang members were in state here.
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Speaker 3: Not all of them, and not everyone who was in
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Speaker 3: state here went on to be a gang member, but
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Speaker 3: many gang members were in state here. Is it going
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Speaker 3: to be politically difficult for the government to pay compensation
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Speaker 3: to people if they are currently in a gang.
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Speaker 13: I think there are a number of hoops that the
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Speaker 13: government has to jump through here and it's not going
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Speaker 13: to be easy by any means. It was hard to
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Speaker 13: pin the Prime Minister down on this question yesterday in
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Speaker 13: terms of the financial compensation. Obviously it's going to cost
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Speaker 13: a lot of money. He didn't have an estimate on
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Speaker 13: how much, and he said, frankly, it doesn't matter at
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Speaker 13: this stage. The government was willing to do that. But
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Speaker 13: the idea of doing that, I mean, I think that
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Speaker 13: the government will be able to separate the person from
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Speaker 13: the gang when it comes to the sort of situation
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Speaker 13: and be able to look at what happened in the
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Speaker 13: past and be able to move forward in a way.
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Speaker 3: Jason, thank you for that. Jason Walls News Talks eb's
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Speaker 3: political editor out of Wellington this morning, just gone nine
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Speaker 3: minutes away from six still to come. Where you will
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Speaker 3: look at some new data out of Australia on air fares.
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Speaker 3: Airfares are falling international affairs. That is you might notice
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Speaker 3: if you daydream like I do sometimes and go online,
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Speaker 3: it's cheaper to flighter London than it is to christ Church.
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Speaker 3: I exaggerate, but you know what I mean. Nine nine
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Speaker 3: two is the number to text great to have your
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Speaker 3: company this morning. We'll be back in just a second.
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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 fis City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's Furniture Beds and apply Store.
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Speaker 3: News Talks. Sai'd be six away from six on news
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Speaker 3: Talk said, being new data out of Australia. This is
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Speaker 3: about from Flight Center on international prices. Airfares in the
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Speaker 3: first six months of the year, they were down six percent,
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Speaker 3: that's the prices of the affairs, and in Australia in
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Speaker 3: particular they were down double that thirteen percent. International affairs
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Speaker 3: reduced in the last six months and the volumes went up,
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Speaker 3: so obviously that compensates for the dropping price for people
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Speaker 3: like quantas. But it's interesting that people are still traveling
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Speaker 3: even though we have a cost of living crisis that
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Speaker 3: Australia has the same cost of living crisis well similar,
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Speaker 3: and people are still traveling. And we were talking. I
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Speaker 3: was talking about this yesterday with my partner. We have
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Speaker 3: friends who are going to Europe in the winter, and
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Speaker 3: basically you will eat cardboard until you go. You know,
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Speaker 3: like you spend, You stop going to restaurants, you stop
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Speaker 3: getting coffees out at the cafe because you know you've
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Speaker 3: got this holiday coming. So I think people prioritize those
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Speaker 3: trips over you know, the odd restaurant meal or the
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Speaker 3: odd coffee out. It's five minutes away from six and
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Speaker 3: Mike Costing gets next he with us.
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Speaker 14: Do you know the hardest seek to get on a
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Speaker 14: plane these days? Business front of the plane really can't
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Speaker 14: get on because everyone's got well why is every well?
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Speaker 14: Because rich people still have money. Because if you don't
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Speaker 14: have debt. I think the thing we've learned out of
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Speaker 14: all of this, if you don't have debt, then you
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Speaker 14: find because most people have got a job, and if
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Speaker 14: you've got a job plus you don't have debt, that's
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Speaker 14: why you're in Europe in July. See, I could name you,
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Speaker 14: I could name you, and I don't hang out with
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Speaker 14: the wealthy people per se, but I could name you. Well,
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Speaker 14: my daughter's in Tuscany as we speak, at a wine
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Speaker 14: tasting dinner. She's twenty three years old, So you know,
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Speaker 14: go figure, and you and I are sitting here working
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Speaker 14: out exactly Lester leave you this morning for you Lester
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Speaker 14: live in that what's interesting about this whole health thing
32:51
Speaker 14: is there is an accusation Will suggesting this morning that
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Speaker 14: this blowout one hundred and thirty million dollars a month
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Speaker 14: is largely due to the fact that they've been fan
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Speaker 14: fantastically successful in hiring nurses. So the impression you got
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Speaker 14: from Shane Retty the other day is out of nowhere,
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Speaker 14: it's a billion dollars plus a year, and oh my god,
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Speaker 14: we didn't see this coming and what a disaster and
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Speaker 14: what we're going to have to do about it. So
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Speaker 14: we'll sack the board and put Lester in. But the
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Speaker 14: new suggestion is that they went to recruit all the
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Speaker 14: nurses which we need, which is frontline as opposed to
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Speaker 14: back office, and they got so many nurses and they
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Speaker 14: have to pay these people, of course, and all of
33:22
Speaker 14: a sudden, you know, you're spending more money than your thoughts.
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Speaker 14: So I can't quite work out what's going on here?
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Speaker 3: Were they not meant to cut the back office? Well
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Speaker 3: that was the theory.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, there doesn't seem And then there's another there's another
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Speaker 14: article in the Herald this morning with Andrew Little of
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Speaker 14: all people, irony of irony, saying that this shouldn't be
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Speaker 14: as hard as it is. Yet he would, you could argue,
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Speaker 14: was the person who cocked it up in the first place.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, we'll try and weighe our way through.
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Speaker 14: All this with Les Leby, and we'll also of course
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Speaker 14: look at yesterday's Royal Commissioner. How hell you unravel that
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Speaker 14: and what the bill for that is?
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Speaker 3: I don't know exactly. Mike Costing with you next. Great
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Speaker 3: to have you with me this morning. Thank you for
33:57
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