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Full Show Podcast: 06 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an earlier edition with one roof love where you live
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Speaker 1: news talks, there'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good Morning six after five, A big of a boost
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Speaker 2: this morning for the social media band. Gavin Gray in
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Speaker 2: the UK for US, people are queuing for petrol in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand. Alex Powell from the Heralds on the one
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Speaker 2: in Melbourne for us this morning, and David Seymour wants
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Speaker 2: us to be exporting more wacky Becky the Agenda Righter
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Speaker 2: the sixth of March some has given another update on Iran.
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Speaker 3: I can announce today that we're sending four additional Typhoon
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Speaker 3: jets to join our squadron in Cutter to strengthen our
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Speaker 3: defensive operations in Cutter.
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Speaker 4: And across the region.
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Speaker 3: Wildcat helicopters with anti drone capabilities are arriving in Cypress tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: The Defense Secretary is on the ground in Cypress right now.
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Speaker 2: A bit of an embarrassment for him. The only thing
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Speaker 2: getting hit harder at least than around right now is Starma.
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Speaker 2: Other European countries they're having to step in to help
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Speaker 2: protect their own base in Cyprus because they still haven't
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Speaker 2: managed to get their warship. There comes after the High
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Speaker 2: Commission in cypress criticize them. The people are disappointed that
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Speaker 2: people are scared. The people could expect more. Meanwhile, to Spain,
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Speaker 2: which Trump hates, the White Houses have actually shifted their
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Speaker 2: position on the wall.
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Speaker 5: With respect to Spain. I think they heard the President's
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Speaker 5: message yesterday loud and clear, and it's my understanding. Over
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Speaker 5: the past several hours they've agreed to cooperate with the
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Speaker 5: US military, and so I know that the US military
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Speaker 5: is coordinating with their counterparts in Spain.
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Speaker 2: Spain says, no, we haven't. Gavin Gray on that shortly. Finally,
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Speaker 2: China's cut its growth target to the lowest level since
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Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one.
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Speaker 6: Decision makers realize that we are in a very turbulent
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Speaker 6: MS and it is most important for the Chinese economy
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Speaker 6: to stay put rather than to pursue a rapid very
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Speaker 6: rapid so a.
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Speaker 2: You target between four and a half and five percent.
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Speaker 2: It has been five percent and twenty twenty two member
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Speaker 2: it used to be up around seven.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on an early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Branch and one roof Love where you live us.
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Speaker 2: Talks, that'd be eight after five. Great to have your
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Speaker 2: company on this Friday morning. Flick me Text nine two
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Speaker 2: ninety two. There are times when you've got a you've
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Speaker 2: got a bunch of policies, and you draft these policies
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Speaker 2: when conditions are a certain way, and then things change,
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Speaker 2: and it's probably important that you review and make sure
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Speaker 2: that your policy is aligned with the times in which
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Speaker 2: you are living. Two examples of this. One is agriculture.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look, where would we be without farmers? Where
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Speaker 2: would we be without the backbone of our economy, which
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Speaker 2: is the agricultural sector. We told you ad nauseum this
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Speaker 2: week about the export numbers. Look at dairy, look at
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Speaker 2: meat was up twenty one percent, crazy numbers. In fact,
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Speaker 2: yesterday I was reading a record high seventy percent of
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Speaker 2: far responding to the Fed Farmer's Confidence Survey. That's twice
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Speaker 2: a year, record number of seventy percent currently profitable. Fantastic, excellent, great,
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Speaker 2: we will feel the benefits of that. And then you
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Speaker 2: have a Labor Party, which when they were last in power,
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Speaker 2: remember hammered the hell out of these guys to the
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Speaker 2: point where confidence was falling through the floor. So if
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Speaker 2: you're the Labor Party today and you're going into an election,
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Speaker 2: an election in a country which is basically being held
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Speaker 2: up by agriculture and being held up by farming, then
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Speaker 2: what sort of policies do you aim and direct at them.
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Speaker 2: Labor might be listening because they are reviewing all of
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Speaker 2: their agricultural policies. In fact, I spoke to Hipkins a
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Speaker 2: couple of months ago about this. He said, putting you know,
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Speaker 2: they'd want to put farmers into the etes. He said,
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Speaker 2: that is up for review, up for discussion as well,
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Speaker 2: we may not do that, So maybe they're listening anyway.
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Speaker 2: That review underway at the moment. The other one is
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Speaker 2: the NATS and Welfare. Now, there's nothing wrong with having
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Speaker 2: a traffic light system, there's nothing wrong with having penal tees,
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Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with having more punishments. But fundamentally and
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Speaker 2: going on about it, but fundamentally for welfare to work,
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Speaker 2: which is their slogan, you've actually got to have jobs,
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Speaker 2: don't you. You've got to have some way for people
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Speaker 2: to go. So it might be your right to do
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Speaker 2: all that stuff, but you cannot claim it as a
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Speaker 2: victory until someone is sitting at a desk working Bryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge or under a cow milking, whatever it might be.
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Speaker 2: Ten minutes after five news Talks, there'd be will Talk
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Speaker 2: Weed next.
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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 one Root Love where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks had been five twelve. Brent crudes was up
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Speaker 2: to eighty four dollars a barrel over night. Of course,
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Speaker 2: the straitstill's closed and the golf producers are slashing their output.
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Speaker 2: And as we were talking about yesterday, the Asian refineries
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Speaker 2: that take that oil from the golf and refine it
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Speaker 2: Varna having to look for alternative supplies, so they are
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Speaker 2: cutting back on what they're doing as well. What is
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Speaker 2: all of this mean. Well, at the moment the price
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Speaker 2: of a barrel of oil is going up. But also
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Speaker 2: in New Zealand people are queuing at the petrol station.
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Speaker 2: Story out this morning on the Herald. This is why
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Speaker 2: tomill you know the petrol station. They say that they're
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Speaker 2: the Qes and Wellington that were videoed and put online
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Speaker 2: yesterday are being reflected around the country. They say demand
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Speaker 2: is up, sales are increasing ten to fifteen percent this week.
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Speaker 2: Bridge by thirteen. David Seymour thinks the medicinal cannabis industry
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Speaker 2: could be an untapped gold mine export levels similar to
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Speaker 2: our wine industry. In twenty twenty four we sent over
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Speaker 2: a ton of locally grown cannabis for our overseas, which
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Speaker 2: is more than double the year before that. Dr Jassim
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Speaker 2: Elvesa here is with US Cannabis Clinics CEO. Good morning
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Speaker 2: in modern Line, Good for having me, Good to have
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Speaker 2: you on the show. So what's holding us back from
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Speaker 2: growing this even further?
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Speaker 7: What's holding us back here is not being able to
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Speaker 7: use the products that are grown in New Zealand locally.
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Speaker 6: Ryan.
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Speaker 7: We've got a lot of cannabis companies growing cannabis here
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Speaker 7: locally extracting it. That product is being sent offshore to Australia,
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Speaker 7: UK and other places and forms that we can't even
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Speaker 7: get here in New Zealand. And as prescribers here in
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Speaker 7: the country, we're faced with this dilemma where we have
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Speaker 7: the product in our own backyard, but we can't prescribe
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Speaker 7: it because of regulatory hurdles that Kiwis can't meet. These
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Speaker 7: ki companies can't meet, which is incredibly disappointing because it's a.
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Speaker 2: High threshold for a pharmaceutical grade isn't it, that's the problem.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, And I think the regulations here in New
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Speaker 7: Zealand are out of line with where we are internationally.
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Speaker 7: So I've had people with Kiwi products from Australia fly
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Speaker 7: over to New Zealand and show me their medicines. And
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Speaker 7: we've got thirty plus doctors here who wants to prescribe
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Speaker 7: cannabis but are restricted. They can't prescribe that product. And
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Speaker 7: it's locally grown here in our own backyard. And it's
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Speaker 7: really a calling for us from the regulatory point of view,
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Speaker 7: to keep up with what people actually need here in
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Speaker 7: New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Who are you prescribing it too? And how many people
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Speaker 2: are using it in New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: At the moment, there's about one hundred and twenty two
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Speaker 7: hundred and fifty thousand people in New Zealand have been
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Speaker 7: prescribed cannabis. And honestly, right, it's all walks of life.
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Speaker 7: It's you know, you name it, pain, anxiety, sleeping issues,
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Speaker 7: younger people, middle age, older, anybody who was looking to
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Speaker 7: improve the quality of life. Where As a condition that
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Speaker 7: hasn't been improved with conventional treatment comes to us seeking alternatives.
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Speaker 7: And we live in a day and age where there's
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Speaker 7: so many chronic conditions and so many people suffering that
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Speaker 7: people are looking for natural options, something plant based, something
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Speaker 7: that has worked for thousands of years in human history
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Speaker 7: and now is accessible via doctors. So it makes sense.
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Speaker 7: And we do have products. I mean, we are prescribing
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Speaker 7: here in New Zealand. We've got about sixty products that
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Speaker 7: are available. But it's growing very slowly, and I think
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Speaker 7: although it is growing, it has been a success bringing
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Speaker 7: the medicinal cannabis to New Zealand. There's so much more.
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Speaker 7: We could be doing so much more in terms of
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Speaker 7: bringing these Kiwi products in the hands of patients some
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Speaker 7: of I was down at Puro and Blenheim just a
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Speaker 7: month back and we were standing in the middle of
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Speaker 7: these fields of cannabis that's been grown outdoors, just beautiful plants,
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Speaker 7: all being sported overseas because they are not able to
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Speaker 7: create the product there requirements.
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Speaker 2: Can't pass the red box. Appreciate your time this morning,
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Speaker 2: Dr sim Elzahir, Cannabis connects CEO TIMEUS sixteen minutes after
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Speaker 2: five number six. Does anyone use it or tried it?
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Speaker 7: For? What?
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Speaker 2: Did he say? For pain? For anxiety, for sleep? All
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Speaker 2: those sorts of things. It is odd. I think if
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Speaker 2: you look at the regulations going having to send your
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Speaker 2: product to Canada or to Australia to then go through
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Speaker 2: some kind of manufacturing process and then come back to
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and the cost of that involves does seem
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Speaker 2: a little bit old, doesn't. I mean, if you're going
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Speaker 2: to do it and it's going to be legal and
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Speaker 2: all that sort of thing, then why not make it simpler?
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Speaker 2: Seventeen after five News Talk dB Views.
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Speaker 1: And Views You Trust to start your day. It's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and One Room Love Where You Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks d B five nineteen on newstalks 'b Just
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Speaker 2: coming back to the fuel price for a second, so
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Speaker 2: why Tomo. There were reports of people queuing up, particularly
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Speaker 2: on Tinacorey Road in Wellington, but other parts of New
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Speaker 2: Zealand as well. There'll be a story out in the
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Speaker 2: Herald about that today. But apparently some people brought fuel
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Speaker 2: containers to take advantage of the fuel prices, and they
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Speaker 2: were advising against using unsafe vessels such as milk or
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Speaker 2: fizzy drink bottles. For goodness sake, now somebody has text
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Speaker 2: in quite right, Graham, Ryan. There are cues of petrol
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Speaker 2: pumps every third Tuesday. That's the day the petrol has
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Speaker 2: discounted at this at White Tima. Yes, you're correct, but
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Speaker 2: that is not why the q was so big as
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Speaker 2: what was being said yesterday. Their sales were ten to
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Speaker 2: fifteen percent higher than they usually would be even though
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Speaker 2: it's discount day. Ryan Bridge Formula one twenty twenty six
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Speaker 2: season kicks off in Melbourne today. Liam Lawson, Well, he'll
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Speaker 2: be hoping for a change in favor after the same
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Speaker 2: race last season saw and finished well. Last I learned
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Speaker 2: a lot.
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Speaker 8: Last year was a very important season for me, especially
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Speaker 8: to survive it. I think that's been something that I've
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Speaker 8: learned a lot from so on that side, I'm grateful
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Speaker 8: to have done that and feel a lot better going
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Speaker 8: into this year.
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Speaker 2: Alex Powell, HEROLD Sports reporter in Melbourne this weekend. Alex,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good to have you on the show.
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Speaker 9: Thank you mate.
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Speaker 2: How's it looking.
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Speaker 9: It's actually been a really tricky start to the year
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Speaker 9: for everyone. I mean there's new cars, there's new regulations
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Speaker 9: that stctated how you can build them, so no one
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Speaker 9: really knows how it's going to go. Today, it's going
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Speaker 9: to be the first time we actually see these cars
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Speaker 9: and sort of race situation on track. So I think
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Speaker 9: we're all just waiting with data breath to see how
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Speaker 9: they'll go.
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Speaker 2: I was reading this day about Aston Martin only able
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Speaker 2: to do twenty five laps because of vibration issues.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Aston Martin has been a real sort of head case
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Speaker 9: all pre season. They've completely changed their engine manufacturer, so
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Speaker 9: they're now with Honda. They've just had an issue after
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Speaker 9: a show after issue, they's suggested that they might just
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Speaker 9: do the formation that in Melbourne and then retire, which
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Speaker 9: would be crazy to not even professionally start the race.
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Speaker 9: So it's again, it's another one of those things that
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Speaker 9: we're just waiting and seeing how it's actually going to
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Speaker 9: go once racing begins later this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: So what is that? How do you get into that position?
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Speaker 2: How long did they have to make the cars fit
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Speaker 2: the regulations?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so we knew they've been coming in for a
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Speaker 9: couple of years. But basically teams have to balance last year.
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Speaker 9: Do they want to be competitive and went into twenty
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Speaker 9: five and put everything into between twenty six or go
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Speaker 9: the other way around and try and compete in twenty
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Speaker 9: twenty five that's right. Yeah, just hold themselves off for
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Speaker 9: this year, as Martain kind of did neither. So they
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Speaker 9: were a bit competitive last year, and then now they've
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Speaker 9: sort of just given everything away. Ferandel Alonso, who's their
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Speaker 9: senior driver, a two time world champion, he just looks
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Speaker 9: absolutely devastated whenever he does anything with the media because
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Speaker 9: he knows they just don't have a car it's going
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Speaker 9: to be able to compete at all.
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Speaker 2: From what you've seen, and I know you've been talking
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Speaker 2: to him, is Liam looking sound and confident.
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Speaker 9: Liam's a very confident guy just just by who he is.
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Speaker 9: That does come across as arrogance to some people, but
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Speaker 9: he is just He's one of the most self believing
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Speaker 9: people I've ever met. I think he has personally everything
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Speaker 9: he needs to have a really good season. So again,
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Speaker 9: it's all going to come down to the car. Like
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Speaker 9: that is just the repeat message you're getting from not
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Speaker 9: just Liam but all the drivers. We don't know what
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Speaker 9: the car is going to be like in comparison to
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Speaker 9: everyone else.
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Speaker 2: I guess that makes it more exciting, does that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's why they've done it. I Mean, there was
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Speaker 9: so much criticism over the last few years about Formula
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Speaker 9: One and being so predictable, no one really overtakes anyone
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Speaker 9: on track. We had breakfast out at Mercedes yesterday and
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Speaker 9: Kimi INSIDEI, who is about nineteen years old, was saying,
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Speaker 9: what they've done with the new regulation changes is you're
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Speaker 9: going to get more overtaken in areas of tracks that
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Speaker 9: you just didn't in the past. And so from a
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Speaker 9: fans point of view, that's great, but there are a
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Speaker 9: lot of traditionalists who are really anti it because it's
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Speaker 9: just not the racing beer used to. So I mean
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Speaker 9: it's it's going to be really good for neutrals.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Alex. Go back to bed.
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Speaker 2: Alex Powell, the Herald Sports supporter in Melbourne for us
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Speaker 2: IF one kicking off today twenty three after five Graham Bridge,
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Speaker 2: Aserbaijan borders a run to the north. They have been
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Speaker 2: hit by drones and the Azerbaijani's reckon it's from Iran,
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Speaker 2: but Iran and said no, it's Israel, so they're unsure
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Speaker 2: on that. But here's the list of countries now that
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Speaker 2: have been drawn into this that have been hit by
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Speaker 2: missiles or drones since this thing kicked off. Bahrain Cypress, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Katar,
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Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and the UAE. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: list gets longer, and that doesn't count. Remember the other
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Speaker 2: day we had the torpedo from the American submarine that
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Speaker 2: hit the Iranian ship that was an in some international waters,
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Speaker 2: that was near Sri Lanka. So the thing just keeps
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Speaker 2: getting bigger and bigger and bigger, doesn't it. And you've
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Speaker 2: got the Europeans sending over help to the Brits and Cypress.
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Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Gavin Gray about all of this,
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Speaker 2: of course at quarter two News Talks.
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Speaker 1: VB, the early edition full show podcast on IHARM Radio
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Speaker 1: Power by NEWSTALKSB News.
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Speaker 2: Talks B twenty six after five. I don't mind paying,
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Speaker 2: if I'm being honest with you, completely honest with you.
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Speaker 2: I don't mind paying the train tax in Auckland, even
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Speaker 2: though I won't be using the damn thing. Rates are
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Speaker 2: going up. If you didn't see this yesterday, rates are
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Speaker 2: going up seven point nine percent next year. Now, let's
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Speaker 2: be honest. It's like wool was selling butt of a
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Speaker 2: seven ninety nine. It's eight percent, all right, We're talking
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Speaker 2: about eight percent. Wayne Brown is the eight percent man,
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Speaker 2: mister fix it is hitting us in the pocket, and
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Speaker 2: it will hurt an extra three hundred and twenty dollars
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Speaker 2: for your average rate payer. The average rate goes from
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Speaker 2: four thousand and fifty five to four thousand, three hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy five. If you didn't have to subsidize the
15:18
Speaker 2: city rail links operations, that would be zero, a zero
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Speaker 2: percent rate increase. Now, usually something like this would get
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Speaker 2: me angry. I would come in and I would sort
15:29
Speaker 2: of get random, and my blood pressure would go up,
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Speaker 2: and I'd get a bit stressed. I'd be tempted to
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Speaker 2: go tag the side of a locomotive in the middle
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Speaker 2: of the night with the cartoon of Wayne Brown, you know,
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Speaker 2: saying something like, let's f auckland just take off the
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Speaker 2: IX from his campaign slogan. But I'm not doing that.
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Speaker 2: I'm calming myself down and remembering I don't generally use
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Speaker 2: public transport. It's just not convenient for me to do
15:53
Speaker 2: so because of timing and location. We're basically paying for
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Speaker 2: a service for commuters for or less than the cost
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Speaker 2: that it is to operate it. Right. But if we
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Speaker 2: don't do that, then it won't get used. And if
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Speaker 2: it doesn't get used, then the roads will stay just
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Speaker 2: as clogged as they are now. If the roads stage
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Speaker 2: just as clogged as they are now, then that's time
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Speaker 2: and money down the drain. And we've been talking about
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Speaker 2: the fact we need to do something about this. Well
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Speaker 2: something has been done, so aren't we best to just
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Speaker 2: make use of it if the thing does what it
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Speaker 2: says on the label. And we haven't actually seen that
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Speaker 2: yet of course, because the bloody thing hasn't open. But
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Speaker 2: if that happens, it'll be worth the extra three hundred
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Speaker 2: bucks a year to me via other gains. This might
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Speaker 2: be naive, it might be a touch too hopeful for
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Speaker 2: you this morning, but if this thing works then I
16:43
Speaker 2: don't mind paying the train tax. Bread rich us talk
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Speaker 2: said be so you know Pumji Palma the ACTMP. She
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Speaker 2: kicked off a review or an inquiry into social media
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Speaker 2: and young people, saying well, we need to look into
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Speaker 2: this because of the harm and now not happy with
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Speaker 2: the outcome in which you can't do I mean, you
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Speaker 2: can't ask a question you don't know the answer to.
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Speaker 2: The review in the committee has come out and said
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Speaker 2: online harm is serious and widespread. It can affect mental health,
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Speaker 2: well being, development, stuff that you already know and your
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Speaker 2: kids already know. And they're saying let's go ahead with
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Speaker 2: the band, a social media band for young people. PALMJ
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Speaker 2: not happy with that and tweeting furiously about it ironically.
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Speaker 2: On the show just before six, we'll also head to
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Speaker 2: the UK with Gavin gram News Talks ab Oh.
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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 One Route Love
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Speaker 10: B twenty four minutes away from six, y're on newsbooks.
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Speaker 2: I did tell Kensey, I said, Kenzy, give us something
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Speaker 2: you know to liven us up after the five thirty
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Speaker 2: news each morning, and so I can't blame you for
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Speaker 2: doing this.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 2: Coming up this morning, Gavin Gray's in the UK for us,
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Speaker 2: We've got this new report out from Parliament on social
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Speaker 2: media saying basically ban it on the trains, Ryan, nobody
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Speaker 2: is catching trains. What are you talking about? Businesses have
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Speaker 2: moved away. But also there is far less chance this
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Speaker 2: is from Paul, far less chance of being accosted by
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Speaker 2: some random crackhead in your car. I think that is
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Speaker 2: a problem. People, go do I want to get the
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Speaker 2: train or will I be stabbed? Hey out of the UK.
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Speaker 2: I just want to quick to go to this before
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Speaker 2: we get to our reporters. This is from that They
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Speaker 2: must be joking right files the government there Labor Government
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Speaker 2: new guidelines for British businesses advising employers to strip stereotypically
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Speaker 2: masculine language, including terms like competitive and ambitious from job advertisements.
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Speaker 2: How condescending is that the guidance has come from the
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Speaker 2: Office for Equality and Opportunity. It suggests that as subconsciously
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Speaker 2: you are deterring women from applying for roles, particularly in
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Speaker 2: mid to senior management. They say this is evidence informed strategy.
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Speaker 2: What on earth are they talking about? Would you like
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Speaker 2: to go and tell I don't know, Dame Lisa Carrington
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Speaker 2: to stop being competitive? Would you like to go and
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Speaker 2: tell I don't know Dame Vale that she's too ambitious
19:39
Speaker 2: and that's not very lady like? On what planet is
19:42
Speaker 2: this normal? Well, an Ireland, that is the UK twenty
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Speaker 2: two away from six let's set to our reporters. Jacob
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Speaker 2: Jones de Needin, good morning.
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Speaker 11: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: What's going on with the carbon zero target in Queenstown?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is the keystone projet You've launched in twenty
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Speaker 11: twenty two, aiming to make Queenstown the first tourist destination
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Speaker 11: in the world with a completely carbon zero visitor economy
20:08
Speaker 11: by twenty thirty. CEO Mattwood says they set the extra
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Speaker 11: ambitious goal to encourage people to make urgent change. He
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Speaker 11: says progress is being made. He says halfway through, some
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Speaker 11: amazing things are happening to ensure the visitor economy can
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Speaker 11: give back more than it takes. But there's always more
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Speaker 11: they can do. He says, they're realistic. The goal may
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Speaker 11: not be achieved, but they're proud they'll have at least
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Speaker 11: moved the needle in the right direction.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic. How's den Edin's weather.
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Speaker 11: Fine and warm, then cloudy with a few spots of
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Speaker 11: rain in the afternoon and early evening.
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Speaker 2: Cheers Jacob Clais and christ this morning, Claire, Good morning.
20:39
Speaker 2: A bit of a birthday for the Student Volunteer Army.
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Speaker 12: I know many will remember hundreds, if not thousands, of
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Speaker 12: university students taking to the streets and to all of
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Speaker 12: the Red Zone at the time of the earthquake. Well,
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Speaker 12: this weekend they're getting back together and doing exactly that.
20:54
Speaker 12: There should be hundreds of students who will return to
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Speaker 12: the red zone today and tomorrow for what they've called
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Speaker 12: the Big Give. It's so they can mark fifteen years
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Speaker 12: since the quake that sparked the SVA movement. Many students
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Speaker 12: at the moment with children at the time, some of
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Speaker 12: them weren't even born. But the SVA movement lives on.
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Speaker 12: Founder Sam Johnson, who we know very well, says what
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Speaker 12: began is a spontaneous response in twenty eleven mobilizing eleven
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Speaker 12: thousand students to shovel liquefaction has grown to a national
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Speaker 12: volunteer network. There's more than sixty thousand people in the
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Speaker 12: army nationwide. He says, when the worst things happened, it
21:30
Speaker 12: is amazing to see what students can stand up and do.
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Speaker 12: He says, when you give them the means to help,
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Speaker 12: what they will achieve is utterly remarkable. And he says
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Speaker 12: disasters in New Zealand are only getting more frequent, so
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Speaker 12: he's urging yet more people to think about volunteering.
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Speaker 2: Very cool thing that he did in a fantastic achievement.
21:46
Speaker 2: How's the weather today clear?
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Speaker 12: It should be good for them. It's a fog clearing
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Speaker 12: to a beautiful day, fine northerlies and twenty seven all right.
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Speaker 2: Max and Wellington Morning Max, Good morning. Got a rates update?
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Speaker 13: Well, yes, The City until about midday today is to
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Speaker 13: release its latest budget paper and there are some rumors
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Speaker 13: about what's in it. Apparently there may be some job
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Speaker 13: cuts at the City Council, which is kicking up a
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Speaker 13: face at the Union of course and among a small
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Speaker 13: group of councilors. But you've got to get rates down.
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Speaker 13: Some projects are being shelved. We already know about cycle
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Speaker 13: ways the Golden Mile. Some aspects around emissions reductions and
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Speaker 13: measures around bringing down emissions have also been wound back.
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Speaker 13: Apparently fifty recommendations in this budget paper. Obviously a lot
22:29
Speaker 13: of money is going to be needed to be spent
22:31
Speaker 13: on more point in the next few months. Deputy Mayor
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Speaker 13: Ben McNulty's behind this. This year's planned rates rise had
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Speaker 13: already come down from twelve point seven percent to nine
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Speaker 13: point four percent, so apparently we may get more favorable
22:44
Speaker 13: news today as well. That's the rumor cuts, that's the
22:47
Speaker 13: word du jour in the capital today.
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Speaker 2: All they could do with a few of those.
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Speaker 13: How's the weather, Yeah, mostly fine, Today's strong Northerlyies nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Good on your Max, have a good weekend. Good morning, yavor,
22:55
Speaker 2: good morning. Last month a big one for Auckland. How
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Speaker 2: many hotels almost fall to the broom?
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Speaker 14: Yes, yes, this is pretty good. Actually, so the city's
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Speaker 14: accommodation more than ninety percent full for more than a
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Speaker 14: third of February, so the occupation occupation occupancy, I should say,
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Speaker 14: reached ninety five percent. This was the weekend of the
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Speaker 14: sale GP Valentine's Day and then the weekend after which
23:20
Speaker 14: was obviously the Royal Edinburgh Military tattoo at Eden Park.
23:23
Speaker 14: So yeah, we can attribute it to all of that.
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Speaker 14: Auckland un Limited says that we actually haven't had a
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Speaker 14: feb as busy exist since before COVID nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Ah, great, it felt like that it did.
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Speaker 14: And look, I've got to tell you because we're preparing
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Speaker 14: for a sporting frenzy this weekend next four days because
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Speaker 14: we've got the Warriors Blues racing at Ellesleie Auckland FC
23:42
Speaker 14: on Sunday, so that's going to be a big one.
23:44
Speaker 14: And let's hope that the trains are operating.
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Speaker 2: Yeah's a combined forces. Apparently it's like foot they're doing
23:51
Speaker 2: that's right a joint marketing campaign.
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Speaker 14: Andrew said that you know, like to go to all four.
23:55
Speaker 14: It's it's like over about one hundred dollars, but that's
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Speaker 14: really really good. So yeah, how's our weather, morning cloud,
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Speaker 14: afternoon cloud otherwise fine twenty two is high here in
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Speaker 14: Auckland and it's going to be stunning Saturday Sunday.
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Speaker 11: No rains.
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Speaker 14: It's going to be great for our football flies. Blah
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Speaker 14: blah blah.
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Speaker 2: Weekend brilliant e the blah blah blah weekend eighteen away.
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Speaker 1: From six Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Our little update investor is over in Wall Street dialing back.
24:18
Speaker 2: The chance of a FED rate cut not surprising given
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Speaker 2: the fact that you've actually had some quite solid economic
24:23
Speaker 2: data coming out of the US. But then you also
24:25
Speaker 2: now have concerns about the energy prices, and one of
24:27
Speaker 2: that due to inflation, where you're hardly going to go
24:29
Speaker 2: cut your rates at the point like that. So there
24:32
Speaker 2: is now a fifty to fifty chance of two cuts
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. That compares to an eighty percent
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Speaker 2: chance that the markets were pricing in last week seventeen
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Speaker 2: to six. We're in London next News.
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Speaker 1: Talk SEBB International correspondence with ends and eye insurance Peace
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Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand Business News.
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Speaker 2: Talk to b it is quarter to six on your
24:52
Speaker 2: Friday morning. Let's go to Gavin Gray, a UK europe correspondent.
24:55
Speaker 2: Gavin Starars just spoken sending some more finer jets to Cutter.
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Speaker 15: Yes for typhoon jets, but I'm afraid he's still being
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Speaker 15: accused widely of having completely misjudged this whole requirement to
25:10
Speaker 15: put defenses into cypress cypresses where Britain has an raf
25:15
Speaker 15: based Arif Acreteri, which had a drone attack which damaged
25:19
Speaker 15: the runway earlier in the week. Now the UK is
25:22
Speaker 15: sending a frigate a ship, but it won't be ready
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Speaker 15: until next week and that means that it won't get
25:28
Speaker 15: there for probably a week from now. Other European nations, though,
25:32
Speaker 15: are very quickly jumping into this void Italy, France, Spain,
25:36
Speaker 15: the Netherlands or sending naval assets Greece as well joining
25:40
Speaker 15: in with anti drone materials and frankly many people think
25:43
Speaker 15: Kirstar has been caught rather napping on this, plus the fact,
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Speaker 15: rather embarrassingly for him, the first flight that was the
25:51
Speaker 15: government chartered flight out of the Middle East for people
25:54
Speaker 15: who were stuck there. Had been delayed for some engineering problems.
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Speaker 15: It has now taken off, but I think Sir Kirstam
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Speaker 15: has got an uphill battle to convince people he's doing
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Speaker 15: the right thing.
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Speaker 2: Kevin Spain, Caroline leave at US today.
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Speaker 5: With respect to Spain, I think they heard the President's
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Speaker 5: message yesterday loud and clear, and it's my understanding over
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Speaker 5: the past several hours they've agreed to cooperate with the
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Speaker 5: US military, and so I know that the US military
26:21
Speaker 5: is coordinating with their counterparts in Spain.
26:23
Speaker 2: Now, the Spanish made something to say about that, haven't they.
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Speaker 15: They sure have. They've categorically rejected that. They said that
26:31
Speaker 15: our opinion opposition has not changed at all. So is
26:35
Speaker 15: this another misspeak from the Trump administration and it's spokespeople, Well,
26:40
Speaker 15: Spain says it absolutely is. They're completely dismissing Caroline Levitt's
26:45
Speaker 15: words there. Pedro Sanchez, the Prime Minister of Spain, has
26:49
Speaker 15: been very quick to say no to war. This is
26:52
Speaker 15: a disaster in the Middle East, it'll be a disaster
26:55
Speaker 15: for the wider world. President Trump has had a real
26:58
Speaker 15: go at him, saying they're going to advertise with Spain.
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Speaker 15: But incidentally, it's very interesting that our Aansha Ganzale is
27:05
Speaker 15: the former Foreign Minister of Spain, saying, you know what
27:07
Speaker 15: is interesting that Trump has attacked the British Prime Minister,
27:10
Speaker 15: the Ukrainian president, Denmark's Metafredicson and now the Spanish Prime minister.
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Speaker 15: Why well, they've all got in common the fact they've
27:17
Speaker 15: said no to him, and I think a great deal
27:20
Speaker 15: of European sentiment now going the way that we need
27:22
Speaker 15: to look after ourselves and not worry too much about
27:25
Speaker 15: what Donald Trump is saying about our leaders.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, an insult from Trump no longer carries the same weight,
27:30
Speaker 2: does it? Appreciate your time? Gavin gray Ow, UK europe
27:32
Speaker 2: Correspondent twelve to six Bridge, the MP who kicked off
27:36
Speaker 2: an inquiry into social media harm for kids, doesn't like
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Speaker 2: the outcome the Education Committee's final reports is basically been
27:42
Speaker 2: under sixteens from TikTok, Facebook other platforms is doing them damage.
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Speaker 2: Dr Palmji Palmer, represents ACT on the Education Workforce Committee,
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Speaker 2: joins me this morning, good morning.
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Speaker 4: Hello, good morning.
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Speaker 2: So you didn't like the outcome of the inquiry. Why not?
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Speaker 4: I'm actually quitted pointed to see the outcome, because the
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Speaker 4: idea was to go with an open mind, not just
28:04
Speaker 4: copy and paste of what others have done without actually
28:08
Speaker 4: examining everything. I don't like it because banning social media
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Speaker 4: funder sixteen is one of the recommendations, and this issue
28:15
Speaker 4: was actually central to the reason for the inquiry. And
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Speaker 4: you will note in the advice that was provided by
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Speaker 4: the advisors, the advisors didn't provide full advice on this
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Speaker 4: issue this intervention, and I wrote to the Select Committee
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Speaker 4: urging the Select Committee to seek advice on this particular intervention,
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Speaker 4: and the Select Committee members, by maturity, decided not to proceed.
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Speaker 4: So my view is that they took a predetermined approach,
28:43
Speaker 4: and in my view, this is a very serious issue,
28:46
Speaker 4: and so they didn't really undermine the Select Committe's rule.
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Speaker 2: Didn't get the evidence, didn't get the evidence. They just
28:52
Speaker 2: go on ahead with a sort of headline grabbing decision.
28:55
Speaker 2: But you, I mean, you can't say, Pumpjack Kennedy. You
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Speaker 2: can't sit there and tell us that it's not bad
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Speaker 2: for kids. I mean, look at them, so we know.
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Speaker 4: And I must say that concerns about young people online
29:08
Speaker 4: are real and we need to find real solutions for them.
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Speaker 4: So this is a complex issue, and what I'm saying
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Speaker 4: is that it was not dealt with the seriousness that
29:18
Speaker 4: parents and young people deserve. And our issue here is
29:21
Speaker 4: this that with this approach, what will happen is that
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Speaker 4: all New Zealanders will be required to upload their IDs digitally.
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Speaker 4: And this is not just about the physical part of it.
29:31
Speaker 4: So if you consider the scale of data these platforms
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Speaker 4: would command, so this is your identity, your online behavior,
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Speaker 4: your networks, your past and current behaviors online. So in
29:43
Speaker 4: my view, this isn't just information, it's actually powerful.
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Speaker 2: It's fair pavility, that is fair. But you can choose,
29:49
Speaker 2: like we live in a free society, you do not
29:51
Speaker 2: have to sign up to a social media platform. You
29:53
Speaker 2: can choose not to. If I go buy alcohol, then
29:57
Speaker 2: I need to show my ID.
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Speaker 4: You don't leave your ID with them here. You will
30:02
Speaker 4: be required to upload your ID to these platforms, and
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Speaker 4: that is where we have concerns. We don't want to
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Speaker 4: see New Zealanders, so don't you compromise for their property.
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Speaker 4: But what I wanted the Electimittee to do was orrow
30:15
Speaker 4: work to see how we could mitigate this. But that
30:17
Speaker 4: didn't happen because we didn't get the advice on this
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Speaker 4: intervention from the advisors, and the Selectimitty then went ahead
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Speaker 4: and made this as a recommendation, one of the recommenda.
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Speaker 2: All right, but let's be honest. If you force under
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Speaker 2: sixteen year olds to prove their age, that doesn't mean
30:32
Speaker 2: that everyone over sixteen has to give an idea, does it?
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Speaker 4: So that will be the case because when it is
30:39
Speaker 4: going to be based on age, age verification will be required.
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Speaker 4: So in many many cases it may not be possible
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Speaker 4: for even if it's biometrics or some other ways used
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Speaker 4: to just look at the image and say the person
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Speaker 4: is sixteen? Right doing so the shoe here is this.
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Speaker 4: We had the opportunity to learn from them, and YouTube
31:04
Speaker 4: also wrote to the Select Comittee this is when we
31:06
Speaker 4: were doing the second report, to share their experiences, but
31:09
Speaker 4: Selectimittee turned down that request as well.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Pumji, appreciate your time this morning. Acting
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Speaker 2: p Palm Jeck Palmer not happy with the inquiry. Eight
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Speaker 2: minutes away from sixth.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be away from six News talks, he'd be and
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Speaker 2: amongst all of the war and the social media bands
31:33
Speaker 2: and everything we've been discussing. This morning, Britney Spears has
31:36
Speaker 2: been arrested again. Happened at three am local time a
31:38
Speaker 2: couple of days ago, apparently, according to CNN Mike's in
31:42
Speaker 2: the studio, Good morning, Mike.
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Speaker 16: Is there a person who's achieved great success at a
31:48
Speaker 16: very young age who's gone on to live a productive
31:51
Speaker 16: and successful life.
31:52
Speaker 2: In adulthood justin Timberlake?
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Speaker 16: Well, I dispute that because he was pulled over, not
31:57
Speaker 16: so what was it last year? Pulled out with a
31:58
Speaker 16: few details and yeah it was slightly over.
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Speaker 2: Oh is that acceptable?
32:03
Speaker 4: Now?
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Speaker 9: Is it right?
32:04
Speaker 2: It's not the end of the world. I'm going to say,
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Speaker 2: it's not the end of the work. Well, when you
32:08
Speaker 2: compare it to the meltdowns that you see from the
32:10
Speaker 2: other Disney stars.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, but you're you're off a low bar. See I'm
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Speaker 16: thinking of Robbie Williams. So Robbie Williams remains wildly successful,
32:18
Speaker 16: but yet it's still troubled. So so you can't care.
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Speaker 16: I wouldn't count that. I'd say, yes, he's successful, but
32:24
Speaker 16: he's remained troubles. He's had a hell of a pathway.
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Speaker 2: Would you say that these are necessarily people who are
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Speaker 2: popular and famous young or just famous people who are troubled.
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Speaker 2: Generally you'll never know.
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Speaker 16: But if you start when you're seven or eight years old,
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Speaker 16: were you always going to end up trouble?
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Speaker 10: See?
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Speaker 16: I think of poor old Britney. So she sold her
32:43
Speaker 16: catalog the other day, so she's got she's got all
32:45
Speaker 16: the money in the world. She doesn't need to work again.
32:48
Speaker 16: So she's essentially bored, witless.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and troubled. What's your purpose? So how's that?
32:53
Speaker 16: How's that going to end up for you?
32:54
Speaker 2: Other than poorly? Jason Bateman, Shirley Temple has had trouble.
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Speaker 16: He was on the pills and the potions and the
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Speaker 16: trog Do you see let them in? And Bateman?
33:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did see that. That was good. They're all
33:05
Speaker 2: that's Hollywood. They're all on the pills in the posh
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Speaker 2: Well not all of them are, are they?
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Speaker 16: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There's a few maybe that are. There's very few.
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Speaker 16: People who go, you know, start off young and do well. Hey,
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Speaker 16: by the way, congratulations to you on your interview this
33:17
Speaker 16: morning on the F one. I know how hard that
33:20
Speaker 16: must have been research wise for you to come up.
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Speaker 2: With most of the probing. Well, I find that Aston
33:26
Speaker 2: Martin thing.
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Speaker 16: It's very very interesting.
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Speaker 2: I wanted to ask about it. Twenty five so they're
33:30
Speaker 2: going to do twenty five laps out of fifty.
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Speaker 16: So they say the problem is knwi who's the genius.
33:36
Speaker 16: The design genius is a perfectionist. And if you're really interested,
33:39
Speaker 16: you want to watch a guy called Windsor who used
33:41
Speaker 16: to work for Ferrari and Williams. He says, because he's perfectionist,
33:44
Speaker 16: putting this car together at this point, because they started late,
33:48
Speaker 16: is nigh on impossible, hence their problems. It will come
33:52
Speaker 16: right during the season.
33:53
Speaker 2: But is that the equivalent of playing half a game
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Speaker 2: of rugby?
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Speaker 16: Oh you can't. I find it hard to believe that happened.
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Speaker 16: But if they turn up for twenty five laps. Alonzo
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Speaker 16: yesterday is saying the shaking is so bad it's got nerves.
34:06
Speaker 2: He fears nerve damage in his hands. So that's true.
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Speaker 2: It's on Honda.
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Speaker 16: Know he's blaming Honda.
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Speaker 2: I know where you'll be this weekend on the count.
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Speaker 16: I'm going to be on the couch right on the
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Speaker 16: Palatine away.
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday everyone, See you Monday.
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