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Full Show Podcast: 21 November 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 Vans and a play at store US Dogs.
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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning, welcome to your Thursday six after five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company coming up in our lead
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Speaker 2: interview before six this morning, Police on how many gang
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Speaker 2: patches they've picked up in the last waters have been
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Speaker 2: now five hours since the stroke of midnight. We're also
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Speaker 2: going to Mitch McCanns Stateside JD Varnce at Capitol Hill
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Speaker 2: trying to get Trump's cabinet confirmed. We'll have the latest
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Speaker 2: on Ukraine and also the three quarters of a billion
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Speaker 2: dollar bitter pill that we're all swallowing on road cones.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Thursday to twenty first of November. So the
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Speaker 2: United States has closed its Kiv embassy after a specific
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Speaker 2: information of a potential significant air attack from the Russians.
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Speaker 3: Tell of ordinary residents of the capital here about that
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Speaker 3: they had two and a half hour air a siren
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Speaker 3: this morning, another forty five minute one early in the
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Speaker 3: early hours of the morning too, so very used to
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Speaker 3: incoming attacks. It's a nightly thing here, but it is
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Speaker 3: highly abnormal for essentially American diplomat to be told to
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Speaker 3: shelter away and stay away from their place of work.
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Speaker 2: Well, I suppose that's what happens when you give them
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Speaker 2: bombs that can go be shot far into Russia. Anyway.
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Speaker 2: Italy and Greece have temporarily closed these as well. Ukraine says,
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Speaker 2: don't worry, this is just psychological warfare. More on what
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Speaker 2: Biden's given them, because there is more to Camman. A second.
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Speaker 2: In the UK, inflation has jumped two point three percent,
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Speaker 2: largely being put down to energy prices. It had been
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Speaker 2: sitting at one point seven for September. It's more than
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Speaker 2: the Bank of England was expecting. They thought it'd get
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Speaker 2: to two point two, but it's gone two point three.
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Speaker 2: This means for them the cost of living crisis is
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Speaker 2: not over, and not great news for labor ivor either,
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Speaker 2: who's just done a big text and spend budget. The
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Speaker 2: Ossies are doing it and now the UK might as well.
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Speaker 2: The Technology Secretary they are saying it's possible a social
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Speaker 2: media ban for under sixteen's is on the table.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to go to things like blanket bands
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Speaker 4: because I want people to benefit from all of the
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Speaker 4: opportunities presented by modern technology, but where there are harms,
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Speaker 4: I will keep everything on the table.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to do this, but I don't want
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Speaker 2: to do that, So what really am I going to do?
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Speaker 2: The Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is proposing changes to name
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Speaker 2: suppression laws. He wants to stop courts from issuing a
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Speaker 2: permanent name suppression order for an adult convicted of a
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Speaker 2: sexual offense unless the victim agrees to it. The proposed
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Speaker 2: changes would also see victims of intimate recordings being given
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Speaker 2: automatic name suppression. That seems fair enough. If somebody's film
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Speaker 2: during you didn't know what was happening, and you're a victim,
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Speaker 2: why should you be named in court something that doesn't
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Speaker 2: happen under the current rules.
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Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day in
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and fith City, New Zealand's.
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Speaker 2: Fo to bed and a plan Store, you talk say
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Speaker 2: name suppression. I've always thought it weird that you would
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Speaker 2: be accused of a crime. Someone can point the finger
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Speaker 2: and say that guy stole a car, or that guy
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Speaker 2: did that or whatever, and you're named publicly for that
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Speaker 2: before you've actually faced trial or been before a judge.
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Speaker 2: Does that not strike you as odd?
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Speaker 5: Shouldn't?
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't you? Like, sure, if you're found guilty of a crime,
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Speaker 2: name and shame, But until that point, nothing's been proven,
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Speaker 2: So why should your name be out there? I don't know,
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Speaker 2: It's always seemed a little bit weird to me. Maybe
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Speaker 2: you have a different view. Nine two ninety two is
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Speaker 2: the number to text Regional Economy. We've got an update
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Speaker 2: for you this morning. This one is the September quarter
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Speaker 2: from Informtrics. It's an early report actually from them, just
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Speaker 2: indicative numbers at the stage activity flat surprise, surprise. The
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Speaker 2: provinces and rural areas doing really tough, down point three
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Speaker 2: point four percent. That's a year to September nine, metro
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Speaker 2: areas up point one percent. I mean, it's all pretty sad,
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Speaker 2: isn't it? A bit lackluster tax cuts now, they came
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Speaker 2: in in September. During this September quarter, we've also had
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Speaker 2: lower interest rates, and what have we done with them? Nothing.
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Speaker 2: There's been no significant boost in the September quarter from
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Speaker 2: either our personal income tax cuts or from the lowering
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Speaker 2: interest rates. So what are we doing with our money? Well,
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Speaker 2: probably paying off bills, I imagine or maybe you're saving
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Speaker 2: to you spend it at Christmas hopefully nine two nine two,
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Speaker 2: if you can answer that one. On the upside, dairy
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Speaker 2: and meat prices are recovering. They're starting to rebound, and
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Speaker 2: actually will to talk more about dairy prices as well,
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Speaker 2: because we've got another bank coming out saying ten bucks
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Speaker 2: eleven after five. You're on News Talks there, b this
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Speaker 2: is your Thursday morning Brian Bridge. Oh, just by the way,
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Speaker 2: if ever there was a time that you wanted your
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Speaker 2: phone charged, your bills, pay a clear signal on your
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Speaker 2: Wi Fi, it's during the threat of a nuclear wall
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Speaker 2: with your worst enemy. Right, yes, we can all agree
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Speaker 2: on that. We'll get this. The hotline that is set
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Speaker 2: up to diffuse crises between the Kremlin and the White
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Speaker 2: House is not currently in use. Good luck everybody.
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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 Youth Talks.
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Speaker 2: B two is the number to text. We'll talk why
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Speaker 2: your electricity bills going up next year and every year
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Speaker 2: for the next five years. And that's just to look
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Speaker 2: after the lines, not even to do with supply demand.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that next. Also, just before six, the
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Speaker 2: gang patch ban is in place. How many patches have
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Speaker 2: they picked up in the last five hours and fourteen minutes.
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Speaker 2: We'll let you know. We've got the cops on just
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Speaker 2: really quickly. We were talking about that hotline between the
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Speaker 2: US and the Kremlin. It was set up during the
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Speaker 2: Cold War because what they used to have to do
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Speaker 2: during the Cold War. I was listening to a podcast
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Speaker 2: about this the other day. They had to use the
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Speaker 2: Western Union. They would have delivery boys on bikes for
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Speaker 2: the Western Union that would literally have to hand deliver
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Speaker 2: messages from President Kennedy. Jump on a bike, go round
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Speaker 2: to the Russian embassy, deliver the message. That's how they
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Speaker 2: were communicating. So anyway, they said the idea was, let's
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Speaker 2: make it faster. They set up a hotline. They've got
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Speaker 2: the hot line now in the middle of this shite show.
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Speaker 2: It's not working. Spray and Bridge qut A past five.
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Speaker 2: Great to have your company this morning. So NZTA spent
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Speaker 2: an eyewater and get this, three quarters of a billion
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Speaker 2: bucks of taxpayers money on road cones and temporary traffic
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Speaker 2: management in the past three years. And that doesn't include
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Speaker 2: spending on local councils and contract what does. The Minister
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Speaker 2: of Transport, Siman Brown says the cost is eye watering
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Speaker 2: and excessive. Dave Tilton is the former chair of the
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Speaker 2: Temporary Traffic Management Industry Staring Group. He's with me this morning, Dave,
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Speaker 2: Good morning, morning r Now, Unfortunately, I think there is
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Speaker 2: a direct correlation between the length of somebody's job title
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Speaker 2: and their productivity. So I'm not I'm not holding out
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Speaker 2: hope for this. Okay, Dave tell me is he right?
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Speaker 2: Does he have a point? Are we spending too much?
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Speaker 6: I think generally the answer would be yes. Is the
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Speaker 6: waste in the system?
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Speaker 7: Without question?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I suppose how much?
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Speaker 7: Is it wasteful?
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Speaker 6: That's there isn't a direct answer to that question yet.
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Speaker 2: I don't think whose fault is the waste? Is it
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Speaker 2: the industry that you're representing, or is it the government
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Speaker 2: regulation or both?
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Speaker 6: I think historically it would be the system that's constructed
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Speaker 6: around it, how the decisions get made as to how
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Speaker 6: much TTAM gets deployed. So historically it's been a very
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Speaker 6: prescriptive system and that hasn't given a lot of room
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Speaker 6: for more pragmatic or site specific considerations. So systemically it
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Speaker 6: hasn't it isn't designed to generate the right amount if
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Speaker 6: you like.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so the system because the government has just changed
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Speaker 2: the system, so it's less Intense's.
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Speaker 6: Probably changed about twenty twenty one was where that spun up,
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Speaker 6: So that certainly predates the current government.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So is that where they made it more
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Speaker 2: intense or less intense?
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Speaker 7: I wouldn't say.
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Speaker 6: Probably intensity is probably the word I use, isn't quite right,
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Speaker 6: but more flexible.
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Speaker 2: Call it that.
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Speaker 6: And that's where that risk based system started to get designed,
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Speaker 6: and it just this year it started to implement. But
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Speaker 6: of course it predates in terms of its design and concept,
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Speaker 6: and now it's starting to hit the ground.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so the risk based system is cheaper.
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Speaker 6: It can be, yes, I mean, there is a percentage
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Speaker 6: of waste in the system, and this method should engineer
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Speaker 6: out that waste better than the old method. But it's
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Speaker 6: very dependent on how people do it and how people
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Speaker 6: use it, and certainly the capability in the system to
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Speaker 6: do that, which is probably the piece that's lacking. We've
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Speaker 6: got twenty five plus years of prescriptive thinking that's going
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Speaker 6: to take it while to get out there's a lot
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Speaker 6: of inertia that comes.
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Speaker 2: With that, right, So what percentage of a big voting
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Speaker 2: project should be on traffic management? Typically?
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Speaker 6: Well, that seven or on six million is nine point
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Speaker 6: three percent of their total spend out of almost eight
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Speaker 6: and a half billion. So it's actually pretty small when
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Speaker 6: you think of as a that's a very big number,
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Speaker 6: not diminishing that, but certainly as a percentage, it's actually
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Speaker 6: quite small. How I've been involved in projects that are
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Speaker 6: more than that, and if it was half that, that'd
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Speaker 6: be amazing, But I you know, there is a limit
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Speaker 6: on how low that can be in terms of getting
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Speaker 6: worked done.
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Speaker 2: How does that compare to overseas?
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Speaker 6: There isn't a huge amount of data on that, but
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Speaker 6: it's not double. Put it that way, it would be
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Speaker 6: within five seen either way, certainly.
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Speaker 2: Okay, which is still significant. What about for like local councils.
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Speaker 2: There was a traffic light that has been installed in
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Speaker 2: a crossing in Auckland and they reckon that the TTM
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Speaker 2: was twenty five to thirty five percent of the cost.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got a small suburban street, I've seen
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Speaker 2: it happen, and you've got not only these temporary traffic
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Speaker 2: light things. But you've got someone with a stop ghost
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Speaker 2: sign standing next to the traffic light, I mean, what
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Speaker 2: the hell's going on there?
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Speaker 6: And like, I don't know specific examples, but those are
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Speaker 6: the kind of situations where that flexible approach might lead
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Speaker 6: to a much more pragmatic outcome. So there isn't you
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Speaker 6: know when you when you look, I mean, it's clearly
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Speaker 6: lots of prescription that's happening now, you know. Yeah, correct,
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Speaker 6: So when you load something that was you know a
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Speaker 6: certain about a prescription where someone goes a lot. These
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Speaker 6: are the rules I have to follow and you know,
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Speaker 6: I've got no other way to do it, and that's
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Speaker 6: how the system's constructed around them. Then yeah, you're going
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Speaker 6: to eat that with some some mismatches of environment versus
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Speaker 6: risk versus treatments.
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Speaker 2: Okay, someone is someone have we saved lives with the
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Speaker 2: more prescriptive method. Was a fewer deaths than there are now? No,
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Speaker 2: actually the opposite.
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Speaker 6: So death and serious injuries from TTM has climbed pretty
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Speaker 6: considerably over the last twenty years, which, to be honest,
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Speaker 6: was the original trigger for the rest based approach being explored.
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Speaker 6: So you know, ultimately the method hasn't really worked, although
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Speaker 6: it's not to say that, you know, it was a
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Speaker 6: bad idea. That's how the world works, that's how every
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Speaker 6: other country does it. This rest based approach from New
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Speaker 6: Zealand is world first. Really, no one else is really
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Speaker 6: doing it this.
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Speaker 2: Way, all right, Dave, thanks very much for your time.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Dave Tilton, who's the former chair of the
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Speaker 2: Temporary Traffic Management Industry Steering Group, saying that basically we
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Speaker 2: tried to do it in a prescriptive way. It cost
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Speaker 2: us a hell of a lot of money and it
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Speaker 2: didn't even work.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust has done your day's earlier
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Speaker 1: this 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 2: News Talk said, b Or, if you've got a good
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Speaker 2: traffic cone story, I would love to hear it. There's
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Speaker 2: one round around the corner from my street, and honestly,
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Speaker 2: it's a whole the size of my foot in the
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Speaker 2: side of the road with a truck next to it,
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Speaker 2: a van next to that, and then one hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: people doing traffic management and it's been there for more
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Speaker 2: than a week and sometimes they're not even working on it.
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Speaker 2: I just don't I don't understand. Twenty two minutes after
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Speaker 2: five News Talk, said b Ryan Bridge, show, and look
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Speaker 2: at your power bills for the next few years, people,
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Speaker 2: they're going to get a bit ugly. It's because the
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Speaker 2: Commerce Commission has given permission to Transpower and the local
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Speaker 2: lines companies to up their charges. They're doing this because
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Speaker 2: they need to upgrade the network, is weather issues coming,
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Speaker 2: More of us are using evs and not enough gas,
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Speaker 2: et cetera, putting more pressure on the network. John John
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Speaker 2: Hubbard is the Major Electricity Users Group chairing. He's with
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Speaker 2: us this morning. John, Good morning. What impact will this,
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Speaker 2: if any, have on business?
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Speaker 7: Look, I think it's it's important to note that the
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Speaker 7: impact on Certney, large sort of industrial manufacturers will be
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Speaker 7: more significant than what's going to impact households. And that's
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Speaker 7: because those large businesses don't buy their electricity from retailers,
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Speaker 7: so the percentage of their bill that comes from transmission
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Speaker 7: and distribution is higher. So what we're going to see
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Speaker 7: is those large employers, many of whom are already struggling,
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Speaker 7: their electricity bills are going to go up considerably more
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Speaker 7: than about the five percent increase that households are looking at.
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Speaker 2: What percent are we're talking, Well, it's.
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Speaker 7: Going to vary by businesses. So you get some very
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Speaker 7: large users like the Alu Medium smells at ty, who
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Speaker 7: buy their electricity direct from the national grid. Others will
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Speaker 7: be going through their lines company, so it varies by
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Speaker 7: the businesses.
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Speaker 2: What's the max.
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Speaker 7: Well, some of them buy oh I think you're looking
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Speaker 7: at you know, well over two percent of their bills
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Speaker 7: for transmission, transmission and distribution year.
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Speaker 2: And they'll be going up by do you know and
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Speaker 2: sort of a range.
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Speaker 7: It's very hard to say. The Commission very consciously didn't
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Speaker 7: provide any estimates, and that's just because of the variability
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Speaker 7: of the nature of the businesses we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, do you think it's going to be enough
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Speaker 2: significant enough to put some of them out of business?
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Speaker 2: We have seen that in the last couple of months
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Speaker 2: with spot prices.
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Speaker 7: Not in and of itself, but it's important to note,
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Speaker 7: and this applies to households as well, is what the
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Speaker 7: Commission has approved is just increases in transmission and distribution.
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Speaker 7: So generators, for instance, are planning to spend billions of
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Speaker 7: dollars on new generation, which we need, so that price
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Speaker 7: impact will come through as well, and also any increases
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Speaker 7: that electricity retailers make so household bills are going to
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Speaker 7: go up by more than the ten dollars a month
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Speaker 7: that the Commission's flag.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, John, thank you very much for that. Appreciate
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Speaker 2: your time, John Harbored Major Electricity US. This group they're
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Speaker 2: saying that as a percentage, big businesses, big news is
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Speaker 2: will pay more because they pay more for the transmission
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Speaker 2: as a percentage of their outgoings. Just so that you know,
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Speaker 2: for consumers, it's approximately ten dollars a month or one
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty dollars annually for the first year, and
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Speaker 2: then it is five dollars a month or fifty five
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Speaker 2: dollars annually for it for the year, every every for
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Speaker 2: the next four years, I should say, And that would
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Speaker 2: bring your total to around three hundred and forty dollars
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Speaker 2: per year extra on your power bills within five years.
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Speaker 2: Talks ITV News Talks B twenty eight after five. Everyone
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Speaker 2: hates gangs unless you're in them. You hate them because
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Speaker 2: they intimidate, they cause misery, they beat their wives, they
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Speaker 2: do all sorts of awful things. But I just worry
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Speaker 2: that the gang patch ban in and of itself, it's
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Speaker 2: not really going to solve the underlying causes of it,
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Speaker 2: is it? And what I worry about is the waste
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Speaker 2: that could go into this, the waste of time, police
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Speaker 2: energy and resources running after you. Every time Betty sees
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Speaker 2: a gang patch, she rings in one one one, Oh,
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Speaker 2: I've seen the Magro mob, which is fine because I
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Speaker 2: know it's intimidating. I'm just I'm not being disparaging of Betty. However,
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Speaker 2: that is going to tie up some police time which
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Speaker 2: could be better spent solving an actual crime. The other
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Speaker 2: problem here is the design of the insignia the gang patch.
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Speaker 2: So at the moment the police know the designs of
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Speaker 2: each of the patches or mobs patches, what they're apparently
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Speaker 2: doing is going down through and making subtle changes, adding
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Speaker 2: words like manifenua or changing this logo or that logo.
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Speaker 2: So sure, you will take the patch, you will collect
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Speaker 2: it as evidence, you will take it to court, and
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Speaker 2: the lawyers will argue it's different mean and where are
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Speaker 2: we now with our legal bills and our legal aid
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Speaker 2: bills and what have we actually achieved in doing that?
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Speaker 2: Have we reduced crime or have we increased the cost
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Speaker 2: of administering administering a fashion police policy. You know, that's
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Speaker 2: my only concern. Twenty nine after five News Talks to B,
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Speaker 2: we'll check in with the police on the first five
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Speaker 2: hours of the ban.
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Speaker 1: Just before six, Ryan Bridge you for twenty twenty four
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Speaker 1: on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds
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Speaker 1: and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk ZIB, Good morning New Zealand. It is twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes away from six year on News TALKSB, which
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Speaker 2: means we're five hours and twenty four minutes into our
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Speaker 2: gang patch band. We're going to catch up with Paul Basham.
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Speaker 2: He's the police assays and commissioner in charge of this band.
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Speaker 2: How many have they caught so far? He's with us
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Speaker 2: just before six this morning. Also, the US embassy in
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Speaker 2: Kiev has been closed. This is in Ukraine and this
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Speaker 2: is for faars that Russia is going to retaliate after
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Speaker 2: what we've spoke about yesterday the long range missiles. Calm
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Speaker 2: down everyone. Ukraine says this is just psychological warfare. They're
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Speaker 2: trying to freak them out. But anyway, the US embassy
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Speaker 2: there has been cleared for the day, along with a
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Speaker 2: the country. Columns in dunedan calum confirmation that younger dairy
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Speaker 2: cattle produce almost half the greenhouse gases of older ones.
19:26
Speaker 2: Ye Morning Ride. This is an agg research study.
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Speaker 9: It was commissioned by Meati, which is an Omaru based company,
19:32
Speaker 9: and it's found that cattle raised to ten to eighteen
19:34
Speaker 9: months has forty eight percent lower carbon footprint than average
19:38
Speaker 9: mixed beef cattle.
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Speaker 2: So it's hoped that this research will.
19:41
Speaker 9: Change how farmers treat young bobby calves, as almost two
19:43
Speaker 9: million are considered a waste.
19:45
Speaker 2: Product and killed each year.
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Speaker 9: Meati says that the studies results are not surprising, but
19:51
Speaker 9: they're hoping to inspire people here to think of what
19:53
Speaker 9: could add value to the red meat industry.
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Speaker 2: Interesting. All right, how's the weather?
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Speaker 9: A few showers for toned in fresh sol West. He's
20:00
Speaker 9: easing in twelve today.
20:02
Speaker 2: Thank you. Clear the smell is finding a go away.
20:05
Speaker 2: This is in Bromley.
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Speaker 10: Oh, this is the smell that's just gone on and
20:08
Speaker 10: on and on rhinan and it is finally going to
20:10
Speaker 10: go away. We have confirmation that the demolition of part
20:14
Speaker 10: of the wastewater treatment plant at Bromley is starting today.
20:18
Speaker 10: As you say, the city's east especially has been plagued
20:20
Speaker 10: by the cench, but this went right across the city
20:23
Speaker 10: for several months, if not years, after a big fire
20:26
Speaker 10: ripped through the trickling filters back in twenty twenty one.
20:30
Speaker 10: Demolition starts today. It should take around four months to
20:33
Speaker 10: be complete. Head of Three Waters, Gavin Hutchinson says council's
20:37
Speaker 10: been working really hard in order to get contractors on
20:40
Speaker 10: the ground as quickly as possible. He says the sites
20:43
Speaker 10: isolated from the rest of the plants, so some of
20:46
Speaker 10: the day to day operations can still continue while the
20:49
Speaker 10: demo happens.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's good house.
20:51
Speaker 10: The weather a few showers, possibly heavy and thundery with hail,
20:55
Speaker 10: but easing by evening. Southwesterly is easing to only fifteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Mexis and Wellington, mex there's a missing bird.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is actually quite an upsetting story. At the
21:06
Speaker 11: beginning of the week, Pepper, a six year old cocker two,
21:10
Speaker 11: was apparently stolen from the Staglands Wildlife Reserve in Appah.
21:14
Speaker 11: Stagland's a popular place for kids. You can pet animals
21:17
Speaker 11: the bird enclosure. You can't miss Pepper. She's a brilliant
21:20
Speaker 11: white can talk, say a few phrases, and sports what
21:23
Speaker 11: appears to be quite a flamboyant quiff on her head.
21:26
Speaker 11: Quite how she was stolen, no one really knows. Staglands
21:29
Speaker 11: reckons by someone who knew what they were doing, possibly
21:33
Speaker 11: stuffed into a backpack or something. Perhaps there's an act
21:36
Speaker 11: of vengeance from someone who's been nipped by her in
21:38
Speaker 11: the past or something. Staff very upset. Please if you've
21:41
Speaker 11: noticed someone come home with a brand new talking cocker
21:44
Speaker 11: two with a few claws missing on her feet, get
21:47
Speaker 11: in touch with police or staglands themselves. They say they
21:50
Speaker 11: will not press charges.
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Speaker 2: What does she say?
21:54
Speaker 11: She can say hello, darling and hallo pepper, which the
21:57
Speaker 11: second one doesn't quite make sense, but she can say.
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Speaker 2: Name ah oh, So anyone who's come home with a
22:03
Speaker 2: cock or two get in touch. How's the web, how's
22:07
Speaker 2: the weather?
22:08
Speaker 11: Some heavy rain around mid day?
22:10
Speaker 2: The high seventeen? Thank you neither good morning?
22:12
Speaker 1: Good morning?
22:13
Speaker 2: So dozens of watercare staff have portally been called into
22:16
Speaker 2: an urgent meaning what's that about?
22:18
Speaker 12: Yes, now, look this is off the beck of Wayne Brown,
22:20
Speaker 12: Auckland's meor's cost cutting plan. So Brown's proposing the shakeup
22:24
Speaker 12: of the council controlled organizations. Now this includes Eki Panuku Tatuki,
22:28
Speaker 12: Auckland Unlimited and Auckland Transport. But what we know is
22:31
Speaker 12: that water Care didn't feature in the proposal. But the
22:34
Speaker 12: Mayor's recommending all CEOs they speed up their back office
22:37
Speaker 12: functions to save money. Now, a water Care source has
22:40
Speaker 12: told our newsroom that potentially affected staff they were pulled
22:44
Speaker 12: into meetings. This is within half an hour of Brown's
22:46
Speaker 12: plans that were announced on Tuesday. So chief executive there
22:50
Speaker 12: of water Care, Dave Chambers, he's declined to say how
22:53
Speaker 12: many of his thirteen hundred staff could be impacted. So
22:57
Speaker 12: that's all we know at this stage for those guys.
22:59
Speaker 2: Never nice thing to happen around Christmas time, is it.
23:02
Speaker 2: How's the weather, Neva.
23:03
Speaker 12: We got scattered showers but they will clear this afternoon. Southwesterly,
23:06
Speaker 12: strong in it'sposed places. Nineteen is the high here in Auckland.
23:09
Speaker 2: Brilliant, our wonderful Neva in Auckland, Bryan Bridge, Lots of
23:13
Speaker 2: your texts coming in this morning on and I want
23:15
Speaker 2: to get to them very quickly on the gang patch
23:17
Speaker 2: ban and also on the traffic management because we heard
23:20
Speaker 2: earlier we've gone down this huge experimental road of overly
23:24
Speaker 2: prescriptive traffic management and guess what deaths of road workers
23:29
Speaker 2: went up. It was a failure. This is from one
23:33
Speaker 2: of our listeners this morning, Mark, Good morning Ryan. We
23:36
Speaker 2: had a stop go person outside our house doing roadworks
23:40
Speaker 2: and he fell asleep under a tree. My wife thought
23:42
Speaker 2: he was dead, walked over and woke him up. I mean,
23:46
Speaker 2: you would fall asleep, wouldn't you, because you're just sitting
23:48
Speaker 2: there doing nothing. And now they've got those traffic lights
23:50
Speaker 2: that do the stop go job for you. So what
23:52
Speaker 2: are they doing there? I don't know. Anyway, it's apparently
23:55
Speaker 2: we're going to change.
23:56
Speaker 5: Ryan.
23:56
Speaker 2: I live in a small provincial town in the North Island.
23:59
Speaker 2: For more than three months before work started on repairing
24:02
Speaker 2: the roads State Highway Too, there were hundreds of road
24:05
Speaker 2: cones blocking off a passing lane with no indication of
24:08
Speaker 2: what for and for how long. That's the other big
24:12
Speaker 2: complaint is that they finished the job and leave the
24:15
Speaker 2: cones behind.
24:17
Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
24:21
Speaker 1: for New Zealand business just go on quarter to six.
24:24
Speaker 2: Paul Basham, the Police Assistant Commissioner, with us in just
24:26
Speaker 2: a few moments. Right now, Mitch McCann is stateside. Mitch,
24:29
Speaker 2: a very tricky task on Capital Hell jd Vance is there.
24:33
Speaker 2: They're trying to get Trump's cabinet confirmed.
24:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's Ryan, Good morning, Ryan.
24:37
Speaker 13: It's no secret Donald Trump has chosen some controversial choices.
24:41
Speaker 13: I think is fair to say for his cabinet, people
24:44
Speaker 13: like Robert F. Kennedy Junior. He's accused of being an
24:46
Speaker 13: anti vaxer. Pete Higseth, he's a TV host on Fox News.
24:50
Speaker 13: He's been accused in the past of sexual assault. But
24:53
Speaker 13: perhaps the most controversial here is the now former Florida
24:57
Speaker 13: Congressman Matt Gates, who Donald Trump is lined up to
24:59
Speaker 13: be his attorney general now. He was investigated by the
25:02
Speaker 13: FBI over six trafficking allegations, including that he had six
25:07
Speaker 13: with a seventeen year old girl. He denies this and
25:10
Speaker 13: wasn't charged, but a new report from lawmakers investigate his
25:14
Speaker 13: conduct is being kept under wraps for now.
25:17
Speaker 5: Gates is on Capitol Hill today with JD.
25:19
Speaker 13: Vance as they try and convince lawmakers or senators that
25:22
Speaker 13: are going to have to confirm his appointment that he
25:24
Speaker 13: is good enough or he's credible enough for that job.
25:27
Speaker 13: It's going to be a tall order because people have
25:29
Speaker 13: already spoken out against him, but it would be quite
25:32
Speaker 13: the defeat for Donald Trump if he does get rejected.
25:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, how's the cyclone the bomb cycclone that's cutting power
25:38
Speaker 2: to thousands going?
25:40
Speaker 13: Yeah, so womans did hundreds of thousands of people are
25:43
Speaker 13: without power this morning in the northwest of the US
25:45
Speaker 13: because of this bomb cyclone. This morning, more than six
25:48
Speaker 13: hundred thousand homes in Washington we're without power, and around
25:52
Speaker 13: fifteen thousand customers were experiencing outages in California. Most of
25:56
Speaker 13: the storm is going to pass later today, but there
25:59
Speaker 13: is going to be stream rainfall four parts of California.
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Speaker 2: Do you see many gang patches where you are in
26:05
Speaker 2: New York?
26:06
Speaker 5: No?
26:07
Speaker 13: Actually, And I was explaining to an American friend the
26:09
Speaker 13: other day or a British friend that I work with,
26:10
Speaker 13: about gang patches and they didn't even know what they were.
26:14
Speaker 13: And when I Google game patches, New Zealand was the
26:16
Speaker 13: first thing that came up.
26:17
Speaker 5: So I'm not sure it's something we want to be
26:19
Speaker 5: known for overseas.
26:20
Speaker 2: No, it's not, but it is something that's sort of
26:22
Speaker 2: quite It is quite uniquely US, and the Aussies as
26:24
Speaker 2: well have a big problem with it. Mitch, thank you.
26:26
Speaker 2: Way out of your purview now, aren't we. Mitch McCann,
26:29
Speaker 2: who's our US correspondent with US from New York City,
26:32
Speaker 2: just gone thirteen away from six rich So the gang
26:36
Speaker 2: patch ban, Will we soon become like New York and
26:39
Speaker 2: no longer see them on the streets. The force of
26:42
Speaker 2: the band is now in force. Police have been preparing
26:45
Speaker 2: for the new rules for six months and say they
26:48
Speaker 2: are ready to enforce them. It's not just rules around
26:51
Speaker 2: signia changing today though, Police will be able to issue
26:53
Speaker 2: non consulting audios to stop consulting audios orders, I should say,
26:57
Speaker 2: to stop them talking to each other and associating with
26:59
Speaker 2: each other. Paul Basham is the police Assistant Commissioner. He's
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Speaker 2: with me live this morning. Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
27:06
Speaker 2: Have you had any taken in yet? Have you got
27:08
Speaker 2: any patches?
27:10
Speaker 8: No, not this far. We have noticed an increase in reporting,
27:16
Speaker 8: but the increased reporting, that is to say, sighting of
27:18
Speaker 8: gang members out and about in public, occurred before midnight
27:25
Speaker 8: last night, as it were, And so of course the
27:26
Speaker 8: legislation hasn't come live until midnight last night. So as
27:31
Speaker 8: I talk to you now on the information that I've
27:34
Speaker 8: got and we are still collating events from overnight, we
27:38
Speaker 8: actually haven't issued a prosecution at this point, although we
27:43
Speaker 8: have had the odd increase in reporting where we've dealt
27:47
Speaker 8: with gang members as we normally would for different.
27:50
Speaker 2: Things, and were they wearing their patches when you dealt
27:52
Speaker 2: with them.
27:54
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, we've definitely noticed in the last twenty four
27:58
Speaker 8: hours or sort of hours proceeding midnight, that there were
28:03
Speaker 8: a more overt display of or more presence of gang
28:07
Speaker 8: members wearing gang patches and public or you know.
28:10
Speaker 2: One last rah, sorry, one last hurrah before midnight.
28:16
Speaker 8: Well that might be from their perspective. You know, we
28:19
Speaker 8: we we're dealing with gang members and their behavior up
28:22
Speaker 8: and down the country every day, so we get reporting
28:25
Speaker 8: about criminal behavior all the time. So the reporting that
28:29
Speaker 8: I'm talking to you about this morning is that plus
28:33
Speaker 8: what I would see is sort of just a heightened
28:36
Speaker 8: awareness from the public, you know, reporting and other things
28:40
Speaker 8: that of course weren't triggered by the legislation until.
28:42
Speaker 2: Last night, right And so after midnight, did you has
28:47
Speaker 2: police had any interactions with gang members and if so,
28:50
Speaker 2: were they were in their patches? You don't know?
28:53
Speaker 8: Oh, look, it's truly really and we're collating things from overnight.
28:56
Speaker 8: I mean, I know we've, as I said, you know,
28:58
Speaker 8: we deal with gang members and their behavior, things like
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Speaker 8: domestic violence and other stuff. So we would have been
29:03
Speaker 8: doing that out last night as we normally do. But
29:06
Speaker 8: if they're wearing their patches in their own homes. It's
29:09
Speaker 8: not an offence that sort of thing. So I think
29:13
Speaker 8: it's what's in front of us today, through this weekend,
29:16
Speaker 8: in the next few weeks, which will be telling us.
29:19
Speaker 2: You said your people have been phoning in with the
29:21
Speaker 2: you know, I've seen them someone with a game patch.
29:23
Speaker 2: What number do people call if I see a person
29:26
Speaker 2: with a gang patch? Do I call one one one
29:27
Speaker 2: or do I call one oh five?
29:30
Speaker 8: It's a really good question. I think the same rule supply,
29:33
Speaker 8: you know common teen supplies that people are frightened or scared,
29:36
Speaker 8: you know, intimidated, or they're seeing something in front of them,
29:39
Speaker 8: like a like an assault or something that has some
29:42
Speaker 8: sort of violence and threat to life, then it's always
29:45
Speaker 8: you know, one one one, as you normally would in
29:47
Speaker 8: any situation where you were scared or felt threatened.
29:49
Speaker 2: But if it's a game member picking up broccoli at countdown,
29:53
Speaker 2: then one oh five.
29:55
Speaker 8: Yeah, one IFI is probably been. And if it's something
29:57
Speaker 8: that's historical, even online, you know, we've got to cope
30:01
Speaker 8: with all sorts of demand and this is on top
30:03
Speaker 8: of that. So it's just how we manage that. But
30:05
Speaker 8: you know, the messages of people are frightened or scared
30:07
Speaker 8: or they're seeing something that's you know, like physical harm,
30:11
Speaker 8: then absolutely one one.
30:12
Speaker 2: One is it do you have extra staff? Know how
30:16
Speaker 2: many extra staff whose specific job it is to deal
30:19
Speaker 2: with the game patch band? Do you have?
30:23
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, we said the Celestial Gang Unit back in
30:26
Speaker 8: July I think it was. That's circa twenty five staff,
30:30
Speaker 8: sort of like a support engine here in Wellington, and
30:32
Speaker 8: then across the country there's in a distant seventy seven
30:36
Speaker 8: positions that have been established. That's on top of you know,
30:39
Speaker 8: other units like technical crime units and other units that
30:43
Speaker 8: are sort of doing this sort of work. And you know,
30:46
Speaker 8: we're you know, constavory work for a force of circer
30:49
Speaker 8: ten thousands, and so we don't sort of see it
30:51
Speaker 8: in sort of silos. We kind of would print of
30:54
Speaker 8: view that we're seeing you approach.
30:56
Speaker 2: In terms of priority. I mean, if you know you've
30:58
Speaker 2: got murders, robberies and drug deals and whatever committed by gangs,
31:02
Speaker 2: they're going to take priority over prosecutions for wearing a patch, right.
31:08
Speaker 8: Well, we have to prioritize our demand every day, our
31:11
Speaker 8: staff and our sergeancy team leaders and do that in
31:14
Speaker 8: the course of a shift multiple times depending on what's
31:17
Speaker 8: in front of them, you know, plasing situational. It's hard
31:20
Speaker 8: to predict sometimes what the shift will look like. And
31:23
Speaker 8: you know, our people are really good at making those
31:25
Speaker 8: sorts of decisions, prioritizing, making the odd trade off where
31:29
Speaker 8: they need to. But I would say that, you know,
31:33
Speaker 8: from a crime science point of view, if you police
31:36
Speaker 8: a small cohort that are proportionately like to cause more
31:40
Speaker 8: damage and violence in communities, then you get a disproportional benefit.
31:44
Speaker 8: It's the sort of twenty eight year old in crime science,
31:48
Speaker 8: and so to the extent that gang members are often
31:52
Speaker 8: associated with violent and other forms of criminal behavior using
31:58
Speaker 8: this legislation.
31:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, it a compounding interest effect on it. Yeah, I
32:02
Speaker 2: appreciate what you're saying there, Paul, Thank you very much
32:04
Speaker 2: for your time. Paul Bash and Police Assistant Commissioner just
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Speaker 2: gone seven minutes away from six patches off today.
32:10
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Speaker 14: Do you know how fast those missiles can fly?
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Speaker 2: I know how far they can go? Three hundred kilometers,
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Speaker 2: word of the year is for the Cambridge Dictionary this year?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 14: Cambridge. I saw the Australian one, which was Colesworth.
33:07
Speaker 2: So what's Cambridge manifesting? Why? You know the celebrities they say,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to manifest this enough like Colesworth better than
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33:18
Speaker 2: Because people got so angsty about supermarkets and their problems,
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Speaker 2: they call it cold. I thought that was quite good,
33:24
Speaker 2: but manifesting is a bit annoying. I'm manifesting this and
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Speaker 2: it's going to happen. I mean, in some ways it's
33:29
Speaker 2: I guess it's just like dreaming, isn't it. You have
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Speaker 2: a dream and you think about it.
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Speaker 14: No, manifesting is making it happen. Manifesting is it happens.
33:36
Speaker 14: Dreaming is thinking. Manifesting is different than dreaming. Don't misleave
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Speaker 14: the audience.
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Speaker 8: Is like.
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Speaker 2: Meaning moving something into existence.
33:45
Speaker 14: Yes, you're going to manifest it, to manifest us to do.
33:48
Speaker 14: If I'm going to manifest a program that's actually going
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Speaker 14: to happen, I'm dreaming of doing the program means it
33:53
Speaker 14: may or may not happen.
33:53
Speaker 2: I'm going to manifest that the mine ends.
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Speaker 14: Well, No, that's that's really but by.
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