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Full Show Podcast: 29 October 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: early edition with r V Supercenter explore r V successories
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Speaker 2: There'd be Wednesday, Good morning. Great to have your company
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Speaker 2: coming up on the program. We'll talk about this new
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Speaker 2: curriculum for primary kids. Gavin Gray in the UK. For
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Speaker 2: US this morning, there's a guy on who reckons we
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Speaker 2: need one hundred and seventy MPs because one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty just eight enough. And we'll talk about this capital
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Speaker 2: gains text to barcle Shall we.
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Speaker 1: The agenda Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: The twenty ninth of October. Gee, you can't say they're
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Speaker 2: not taking this hurricane Melissa seriously in Jamaica.
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Speaker 3: It will cause catastrophic damage, life threatening damage. There is
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Speaker 3: very little that can stop our category fave hurricane. And
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Speaker 3: regardless of the where you are in the parish of
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Speaker 3: Westminland or Sat Elizabeth, if you are under the impact
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Speaker 3: of those Category fave hurricane for US wins, you will
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Speaker 3: be having Sidney difficulty.
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Speaker 2: Another day, another rare earth deal for Trump. This is
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Speaker 2: in Japan. He gets the tariff rate to fifteen percent,
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Speaker 2: same as ours. By the way, quite excited about Meeking
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Speaker 2: meeting Takichi for the first time too.
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Speaker 4: I have sex.
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Speaker 5: Respects for Japan in the country, and now I have
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Speaker 5: a really great respect for the new and incredible Prime Minister.
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Speaker 5: I have to say this the first female prime Minister
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Speaker 5: in the history of Japan and fadom Prime Minister.
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Speaker 2: It's another Epstein Andrew update. Unfortunately this time it's a photo.
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Speaker 2: So you've got Epstein, You've got Gallain, Maxwell and drum
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Speaker 2: roll please, Harvey Weinstein, all lined up at Prince Andrew's
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Speaker 2: private home. This is the Royal Lodge who he's still living.
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Speaker 2: This is for Princess Beatrice's eighteenth birthday in two thousand
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Speaker 2: and six. Now, just a couple of weeks after the
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Speaker 2: photo's taken, Epstein's arrested for sexual assault of a minor.
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Speaker 2: Until now, everyone thought they just went to Winsor Castle.
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Speaker 2: Turns out they went for a re shy at Andrew's
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Speaker 2: beforehand was in.
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Speaker 6: The Great Windsor Estate, which is obviously owned by the
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Speaker 6: monarch at that time. So ultimately, when Prasu calls something
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Speaker 6: needs to be done, there are conversations absolutely happening in
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Speaker 6: the palace right now to try and move the narrative
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Speaker 6: on from the problem of Prince Andrew. So keep an
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Speaker 6: eye on the next few days. I imagine something will
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Speaker 6: have to have be done.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with r v's SuperStor Explore
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Speaker 1: r v's Accessories and Servicing all in one news talks.
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Speaker 2: It'd be I wonder what people here think about that
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Speaker 2: nine two ninety two, because I spoke to a royal
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Speaker 2: biographer yesterday who wrote The Rise and Fall of the
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Speaker 2: House of York, and he says it's only a matter
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Speaker 2: of time before they completely cut them loose. He is,
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Speaker 2: by law entitled to live in that house, so you know,
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Speaker 2: the one where he pays a peppercorn rent and it's
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Speaker 2: like a pound a year or something ridiculous. But he
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Speaker 2: paid initially for a bunch of renovations that cost couple
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Speaker 2: of million pounds. So this royal biography says, now, I
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Speaker 2: reckon that's going to be over soon and the King
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Speaker 2: will force him out, whether that be to Harry and
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Speaker 2: Meghan's old digs or somewhere you know under a bridge
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Speaker 2: who cares just hide him because he's a problem. But
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Speaker 2: I don't really hear people talking about it here, like
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Speaker 2: no one. It doesn't seem to be a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you have different views. Nine two nine two. This
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Speaker 2: capital gains tax, where do you start? There's nothing? And look,
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of economists in this country who
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Speaker 2: say this is exactly what we need. A capital gains tax,
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Speaker 2: probably one more comprehensive than this, but at least it's
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Speaker 2: a start, right. What the problem I have is what
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Speaker 2: do they now do labor with interest deductibility? Because if
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Speaker 2: you're a young couple, young family, got kids, saving for
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Speaker 2: your future, saving for retirement, whatever it might be, and
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Speaker 2: you buy a rental property, if labor gets back in,
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Speaker 2: do they they revert back to the previous policy of
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Speaker 2: not allowing interest deductibility and thereby kneecap your business, then
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Speaker 2: also introduce a tax on the capital you might earn
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Speaker 2: from selling that property. Is it going to be a
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Speaker 2: double whammy or are they one and done with the
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Speaker 2: capital gains tax for investors? Is this as far as
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Speaker 2: it goes? I think that's an important question for them.
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Speaker 2: The other problem you've got from what I could see
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Speaker 2: just listening to some of the reaction yesterday from GPS,
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Speaker 2: couple of GP outfits, General Practice Owners Association, Royal College
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Speaker 2: of GPS. They say, yeah, yeah, yeah, a good or
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Speaker 2: good sounds nice, but we don't have the capacity to
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Speaker 2: deal with the demand we have right now. So has
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Speaker 2: anyone heard in the last twenty four hours anything about
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Speaker 2: how you might address that problem? Because if you're giving
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Speaker 2: everyone three free doctors visits and eighty percent of them
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Speaker 2: don't need them right now or have no problem paying
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Speaker 2: for them right now, then what you're going to do
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Speaker 2: is create a whole lot of demand for a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff that you probably you know, Oh I've got
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Speaker 2: my fingers a little bent, or I'm stub my toe,
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Speaker 2: so go to the doctor because I got to use
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Speaker 2: one of my free things. Do you need to be there?
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Speaker 2: Is that going to save time in an emergency department?
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Speaker 2: Probably not. If you can afford to go to the doctor,
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Speaker 2: let's be real, you'll be going for any nickels you
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Speaker 2: might have. So are you creating demand in areas where
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Speaker 2: you shouldn't be creating demand and thereby distorting a system
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Speaker 2: that's otherwise broken anyway, Bryan Bridge, It's five eleven on
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Speaker 2: news Talk, said b nineteen nineteen number to text talk
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Speaker 2: to feel GoF about this?
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Speaker 1: Next the first Word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Bryan Bridge and r V Supercenter explore
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Speaker 2: Said by fourteen on news Talk said b labor market
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Speaker 2: a couple more signs that it might be just turning
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Speaker 2: that corner. Stats in ZED monthly employment indicators out yesterday
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Speaker 2: is zero point three per cent rise and PHIL jobs
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Speaker 2: for September. Now, this is the one that always gets revised,
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Speaker 2: and it was again revised for the previous month in August,
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Speaker 2: so a gain of zero point two percent in filled
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Speaker 2: jobs was revised down. At least it remains positive an
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Speaker 2: increase of zero point one percent. So, yes, it feels
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Speaker 2: a little like we're clutching at straws here, doesn't it. However,
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Speaker 2: we will get full unemployment numbers from statsune ed next week,
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Speaker 2: that is Wednesday, Bright and bread Rich just took at
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Speaker 2: this capital gains tax from Labour show. We former labor
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Speaker 2: leader of Phil GoF is with me this morning. Fel
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Ryan. Do you think, and
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Speaker 2: I know you're a fan of this and we've spoken
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Speaker 2: about this, do you think if this goes well, you
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Speaker 2: then look to extend it because it is quite narrow
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Speaker 2: and focused.
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Speaker 4: Now, yeah, I think the undertaking by Chris Sippins was
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Speaker 4: that the texts would be introduced as set out and
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Speaker 4: would not be changed before the next election, which means
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Speaker 4: that you know, look, you always changed policy over time,
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Speaker 4: but you need a mandate for that policy, and that's
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Speaker 4: what he's saying that he'd be seeking. So nothing going
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Speaker 4: to be sprung according to what they're telling us in
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Speaker 4: the in the first term. And you know, I've been
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Speaker 4: interested to see the reaction to the tax and by
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Speaker 4: a number of people. I think some people say, look,
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Speaker 4: it could be broader, but generally a sense of relief
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Speaker 4: that finally, after years and years of Treasury advocating and
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Speaker 4: the OECD saying you're the only country in the western
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Speaker 4: world that doesn't have such a tax, you need one,
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Speaker 4: that somebody's finally had the courage to say, we're going
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Speaker 4: to put one in place for the sake of fairness
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Speaker 4: and for the sake of making sure we don't distort
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Speaker 4: investment decisions by making one area of investment tax free.
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Speaker 2: Do you think, how do you how do you when
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Speaker 2: you got your capital gains tax through your caucus, how
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Speaker 2: did with it was the people who wanted you to
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Speaker 2: go further? How do you stop them from linking and
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Speaker 2: disunity in the party.
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Speaker 4: Look, I don't think I think that has been exaggerated
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Speaker 4: in terms of the differences that might exist. Now, there
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Speaker 4: are always differences in caucus. I've never known a caucus
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Speaker 4: to be totally of one mind on controversial topics. I
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Speaker 4: think the greater nervousness at my time was that people
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Speaker 4: had always been frightened to bring in a capital gains tax.
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Speaker 4: It had been recommended, it was regarded as sensible, but
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Speaker 4: it was regarded as politically damaging. And you know, somebody
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Speaker 4: described it as a suicide note not within caucused it
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Speaker 4: from outside. So I think that you know, there would
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Speaker 4: be some pressure to, say a wealth tax. I'm glad
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Speaker 4: they didn't go with a wealth tax because a wealth
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Speaker 4: tax is as yet reasonably unproven, and as Barbara Edmonds said,
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Speaker 4: I think quite frankly in her press conference yesterday, that
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Speaker 4: would be the one thing that would create a differentiation
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Speaker 4: with Australia and might encourage investment to go to Australia.
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Speaker 4: Nobody's going to have say, investments going to Australia because
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Speaker 4: of a capital gains tax, because they actually have one already.
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Speaker 4: They've had one since the nineteen eighties, and it's a
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Speaker 4: tougher capital GAINST text and what we're implementing here. So look,
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Speaker 4: I think by and large the caucus will say this
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Speaker 4: is our policy and we're going to get behind it.
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Speaker 4: There is an unanswered question that somebody leaked it. That
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Speaker 4: happens from time to time, which hunts are pretty fruitless usually,
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Speaker 4: and I think Hipkins is right to say, well, you know,
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Speaker 4: if you found a person that maliciously leaked something would
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Speaker 4: be gone. But they're not going to exert a lot
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Speaker 4: of time and effort trying to track down who might
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Speaker 4: have leaked it if indeed it was leaked maliciously.
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Speaker 2: All right, appreciate your time, Phil GoF Former Labor at
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Speaker 2: a time now is eighteen minutes after five, Ryan Glene,
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Speaker 2: I've worked and funded healthcare, but claim after paying for
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Speaker 2: a visit, I just won't by the processing the claim
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Speaker 2: if the visit becomes free, So this allowance will end
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Speaker 2: up subsidizing healthcare providers. Ryan taxed just one thing to
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Speaker 2: say GST was ten percent. End of argument. Game set match.
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Speaker 2: Rick wants it basically to be a whole lot easier
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Speaker 2: than what because the problem is you've got this valuation
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Speaker 2: issue as well on valuation Day. Here's the thing, here's
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Speaker 2: a little secret. None of this is going to happen because,
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Speaker 2: in my opinion, Labor doesn't have a hope in hell
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Speaker 2: of winning the next election. Look at t Pati Mardi.
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Speaker 2: I spoke to Winston yesterday, very very very far off
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Speaker 2: doing a deal, has ruled one out with Hipkins himself,
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Speaker 2: where do they go the Greens? What do they want?
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Speaker 2: Wealth tax?
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Speaker 3: Here?
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Speaker 2: We aren't going to go for it, but just not
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Speaker 2: five nineteen.
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Speaker 2: That'd be great story out of the UK. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to Gavin Gray, he's with us after News at five
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Speaker 2: point thirty this morning. The government over there is taking
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Speaker 2: a look at led headlamps on new cars. You know,
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Speaker 2: when you get a new current, it's got really bright
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Speaker 2: flash lights and if you're coming towards one, the hell
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Speaker 2: I drive up every morning is a hell and so
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Speaker 2: that means someone's coming over the ridge at the top,
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Speaker 2: coming down at me and the headlights go bamm straight
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Speaker 2: in my eyes and I can no longer see anything,
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Speaker 2: and this is apparently a major problem. Three quarters of
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Speaker 2: Brits have responded to a survey saying that driving at
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Speaker 2: night is getting more difficult, ironically because of brighter lights.
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Speaker 2: So they're doing an investigation there. I'll watch with interest
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Speaker 2: Gavin Gray on that later. It's five twenty one. Can
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Speaker 2: you report out this morning? This from the New Zealand
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Speaker 2: Initiative reckons our MMP system needs a four year term
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Speaker 2: and get this fifty more MPs. It says parliament's about
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Speaker 2: thirty percent smaller than other countries. We need more. Nick Clark,
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Speaker 2: is author and senior fellow at the initiative, joins me
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Speaker 2: Now morning Nick, morning, Ryan, are you are you good?
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Speaker 2: Are you trolling us?
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Speaker 4: Nick?
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Speaker 7: No, No, it's actually quite serious. The four year term
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Speaker 7: is something which has been debated and is under considered
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Speaker 7: right now. It's not a radical.
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Speaker 2: That's fine, but what can one hundred and seventy MPs
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Speaker 2: do that one hundred and twenty can't.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a very small parliament by international standards.
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Speaker 7: Most countries of certain European countries around about our size,
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Speaker 7: and that are very successful countries. The Scandinavians, Ireland et cetera.
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Speaker 7: They all have between around one hundred and seventy and
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Speaker 7: two hundred MPs all around the same side you see
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Speaker 7: on intense population. Now, the reason why, to answer your
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Speaker 7: question is why do we need more here in New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: I think it's probably fair to say that we have
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Speaker 7: difficulty with select committees in terms of the ability for
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Speaker 7: them to properly scrutinize legislation. And that's partly because the
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Speaker 7: MPs that we do have available are so thinly stretched.
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Speaker 7: We have MPs that end up on city on multiple committees.
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Speaker 7: They can't get a good handle on what's going on
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Speaker 7: as much as they perhaps should. They get inundated with submissions.
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Speaker 7: It's a good idea, I think, to just spread the
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Speaker 7: law a bit more by having some more MPs. Also,
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Speaker 7: the electorates that we have are very large, both geographically
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Speaker 7: and in population terms, and they're becoming increasingly difficult for
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Speaker 7: MP to service the rather complex and intense needs.
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Speaker 2: These extrememps will be electric MPCE, not this one.
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Speaker 7: Some of them will be yep, yep, yep. We'd be
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Speaker 7: looking at the fifty fifty.
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Speaker 4: Look.
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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's going to go for this. Nick
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Speaker 2: but I do like your idea of getting cabinet down
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Speaker 2: from fifteen twenty to fifteen ministers. We also have something
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Speaker 2: like eighty portfolios. It's like the Grand Central Station trying
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Speaker 2: to wrangle these portfolio ministers. It's outrageous.
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Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely, And you know we put out a report
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Speaker 7: a few weeks ago, a couple months ago maybe that
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Speaker 7: talked about this in more detail. But we have a bloated,
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Speaker 7: fragmented executive. It's really hard to tell who's responsible for what.
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Speaker 7: We need to get that executive down in size. That
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Speaker 7: they also dominate the government parties, so it means it
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Speaker 7: effect is a great way to control a caucus by
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Speaker 7: having more executive members. It's also a great on divvy
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Speaker 7: up the spoils of war Atron Alexa with Coulish and partners.
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Speaker 4: Nick.
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Speaker 2: Nick, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, author and
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Speaker 2: senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. With one good
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Speaker 2: idea and one bad one. Twenty four minutes after five,
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Speaker 2: you're on News Talks EDB.
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Speaker 2: NEWSTALKSB News Talks HEB. It is twenty six minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: Did you see the comments yesterday from Malaysia's deputy Prime minister.
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Speaker 2: If you didn't, he was talking to a Kiwi delegation
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Speaker 2: often Carla Olympa for Arsian, this will be your new
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Speaker 2: market and we welcome any halal product from New Zealand great.
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Speaker 2: I've always been pretty skeptical about these trade missions, if
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Speaker 2: I'm being honest with you, whether they actually do anything,
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Speaker 2: whether they actually achieve anything, or is it one big
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Speaker 2: giant junket. Truth is they're a little bit of both.
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Speaker 2: On a trip to ladder Ostok and Russia back in
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Speaker 2: twenty eleven, our Prime minister was in John Key. You
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Speaker 2: got to sit down with Vladimir Putin. Putin turned up late.
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Speaker 2: We the journals were out waiting in the rain for hours.
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Speaker 2: He came and he sat down, he spoke in Russian
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Speaker 2: and then he booted us out with his bodyguards. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: he and Key spoke for about an hour. And at
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Speaker 2: the time New Zealand was trying to cut a free
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Speaker 2: trade deal with Russia, including a bunch of other like Belarus, Kazakhstan,
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Speaker 2: and you don't get that sort of access every day.
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Speaker 2: Of course, you wouldn't be doing that until a deal today,
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Speaker 2: and we ended up suspending talks with the Russians in
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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen after they went into Ukraine. So it was
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Speaker 2: all a waste of time anyway. But I grew to
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Speaker 2: accept that these meetings actually do achieve something. Besides the
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Speaker 2: hotels and the accommodation. They're not actually what you think
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Speaker 2: that might be cracked up to be. The schedules pretty graweling,
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Speaker 2: and the flight over is a bit crap too. They're
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Speaker 2: not always glamorous, is the point. Great fun though, back
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Speaker 2: to the Malaysian Deputy Prime minister. If a Kiwi politician
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Speaker 2: said that to a foreign company wanting to export here,
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Speaker 2: for example, it wouldn't mean much too importers here, but
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Speaker 2: there it's different. There's anything I learned about Asia, it's
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Speaker 2: that politicians have sway. They often control large contracts, have
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Speaker 2: close relationships or control over parts of the economy that
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't see in a more Western style democracy. So
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Speaker 2: when a leader in a country of thirty five million
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Speaker 2: people in a region with seven hundred million people says
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Speaker 2: something like that, it's probably worth the trip. Ran twenty
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Speaker 2: eight minutes after five news talks, there'd be Amazon just
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Speaker 2: to catch you up. Overnight they announced another fourteen thousand
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Speaker 2: job cuts. This is job cuts, this is globally takes
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Speaker 2: their total cut to thirty thousand corporate jobs. This is
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Speaker 2: hr cloud computing jobs. That's ten percent of their corporate
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Speaker 2: workforce that they are getting rid of. Why AI But also,
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Speaker 2: and this is very much like our government and bureaucrats
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Speaker 2: in Wellington, they went on a pandemic hiring spree and
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Speaker 2: they still haven't come down from those highs. And I
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Speaker 2: checked this morning the buiocracy still is around sixty four thousand.
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Speaker 2: That's fifteen thousand more than twenty seventeen pre COVID, So
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Speaker 2: that forty percent growth that we saw over COVID still there.
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Speaker 2: Can't get rid of it. It's like one of those
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Speaker 2: chips that once you pop, you can't stop pringles.
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Speaker 1: Like that.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from the six year on News Talks,
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Speaker 2: it'd be great to have your company. We'll look at
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Speaker 2: this new curriculum for primary kids. Before six o'clock we'll
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Speaker 2: get to Gavin Gray in the UK, they're using army
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Speaker 2: bases now in seid of migrant hotels. Things are that
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Speaker 2: bad over there. Speaking of in Australia, they've kicked off.
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Speaker 2: Remember they did this deal with NARU, the Pacific Island
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Speaker 2: to take some of their detainees. Well, it's happening, it's
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Speaker 2: already started and this is in the last twenty four hours.
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Speaker 2: They won't tell you how many, They won't tell you
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Speaker 2: actually much about the deal at all. But what we
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Speaker 2: do know is that there were three hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: odd people criminals in jail being detained in Australia, and
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Speaker 2: the courts said, na, you can't detain them indefinitely, so
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Speaker 2: you're basically going to have to release them. And the
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Speaker 2: Australian government obviously didn't want to release them because they
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Speaker 2: have been convicted of crimes. So instead of releasing them
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Speaker 2: into their own populations, which is probably what the Brits
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Speaker 2: would have done, they are sending them to Naruna's all
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Speaker 2: kicking off and all happening now. Time is twenty three
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Speaker 2: away from.
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Speaker 9: Staff at those locations have received guidance on how to
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Speaker 9: respond appropriately, and the initiatives are part of work by
19:16
Speaker 9: the Central City Safety Advisory Group, set up after concerns
19:20
Speaker 9: about safety around the city's bus hub, where sixteen year
19:23
Speaker 9: old was fatally stabbed last year.
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Speaker 2: Oh so it's like a you can go in there
19:28
Speaker 2: if someone's harassing you or something like that. Is that
19:30
Speaker 2: what it means? Yeah, yeah, it does.
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Speaker 9: It's just a safe spot you can go and know
19:35
Speaker 9: it's all right safe.
19:36
Speaker 2: Okay. How's your weather, Rosie?
19:38
Speaker 9: The old showers at first, and then it's turning to
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Speaker 9: fine with some high cloud in the afternoon and evening
19:43
Speaker 9: and westerlies and a high of fifteen degrees.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant. Thanks Rosie. Have a good day, Clears and christ
19:48
Speaker 2: Church morning.
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Speaker 10: Claire, Good morning.
19:50
Speaker 2: A busy summer for the airport.
19:52
Speaker 11: Yes, and only going to get busier. Ryan. So the
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Speaker 11: first flight from Adelaide to christ Church touchdown yesterday afternoon
20:00
Speaker 11: off our summer season. There's about two hundred and fifty
20:03
Speaker 11: thousand more seats into Christchurch than this time last year.
20:07
Speaker 11: International arrivals are expected to rise fourteen percent on last year.
20:11
Speaker 11: Domestic will be up about ten percent. The Christchurch Airport
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Speaker 11: Aero Development Manager Gordon Bevin says planning is already underway
20:19
Speaker 11: for some more growth with future markets on the radar.
20:23
Speaker 11: He says the airport has the largest domestic network ever
20:26
Speaker 11: and he expects the new stadium to drive that even further.
20:30
Speaker 11: He says, to buy convention Center and christ Church has
20:32
Speaker 11: had an impact equivalent of three jets from Australia per week.
20:36
Speaker 11: So they're unsure what to think the stadium and the
20:40
Speaker 11: new Metro Sports Center could do.
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Speaker 2: If you mentioned to Pie the convention Center one more time, clear,
20:46
Speaker 2: it's like I should get a Bingo card every time
20:48
Speaker 2: you mentioned the stadium and the convention Center. Honestly I
20:52
Speaker 2: should get a prize.
20:53
Speaker 11: Well, you should come and visit them.
20:55
Speaker 2: No, do you know what? I actually already have plans
20:57
Speaker 2: to do that. I've heard of an event that's at
21:00
Speaker 2: the new stadium and listen to you go. I'm getting
21:03
Speaker 2: myself in there for next year.
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Speaker 11: Which be sure you're and Mike asking big fans of
21:07
Speaker 11: christ Church.
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Speaker 2: I'm a convert, thanks to you. Clear, let's put it
21:13
Speaker 2: that way. Hey, how's your weather?
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Speaker 11: Oh well, pretty fine today if you isolated showers. Westerly's
21:18
Speaker 11: turning northeasterly and the high will be seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, Thank you, Max and Wellington Morning Max, good morning.
21:25
Speaker 2: Massive demand for just one part time job. What is it?
21:28
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is a story picked up by our newsroom,
21:31
Speaker 8: Wellie Putt. It's an indoor mini golf business in the CBD.
21:35
Speaker 8: They put up an ad for a part time job
21:37
Speaker 8: over the summer, just running the desk for up to
21:39
Speaker 8: fifteen hours a week. It doesn't pay particularly well, it's
21:41
Speaker 8: pretty dull work. More than six hundred people have so
21:44
Speaker 8: far applied and the job still doesn't close until the
21:47
Speaker 8: end of the week, an astonishing number. The owner says
21:50
Speaker 8: it's not just students either, chucking in an application. He's
21:53
Speaker 8: been surprised by the number of overqualified people. He's also well.
21:58
Speaker 8: He also seems like a bit of a masochist. He's
22:00
Speaker 8: determined to give everyone a fair go. So he's sorting
22:02
Speaker 8: through every application one by one, reading them, contacting them back. Meanwhile,
22:07
Speaker 8: Whennington's unemployment rates has risen from two point eight to
22:10
Speaker 8: four point eight percent over the year to June twenty.
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Speaker 2: Five, goodness three. I love that you declared it dull work,
22:16
Speaker 2: having not done it yourself.
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Speaker 8: Well, I've been there, I've played that mini golf course.
22:19
Speaker 8: And all you do is sit at the desk and
22:21
Speaker 8: welcome people and give them the you know, putters and
22:24
Speaker 8: send them on their way.
22:26
Speaker 2: It's meaningful for somebody next, well more than six hundred people. Yes, right,
22:33
Speaker 2: how's your weather.
22:34
Speaker 8: Should be fine today with northern He's sixteen the high
22:37
Speaker 8: mix mornings.
22:39
Speaker 2: We love it time.
22:41
Speaker 12: But you're right, it is meaningful to someone.
22:43
Speaker 2: And the thing is job, but job, job, And you
22:46
Speaker 2: can read a book while you do that, you know
22:48
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like I would not.
22:50
Speaker 9: You've got to focus.
22:52
Speaker 2: Well, I mean yeah, but there'll be times when no
22:53
Speaker 2: one's coming in and you can sit there and read
22:55
Speaker 2: your book.
22:56
Speaker 11: Who reads books these days?
22:58
Speaker 1: Folks?
22:58
Speaker 2: I just started reading a book to day. Oh hey,
23:02
Speaker 2: the underground that you and I are going to go
23:04
Speaker 2: on in Auckland. Correct, we're going to be able to
23:06
Speaker 2: use our phones under there.
23:07
Speaker 12: That's right, five G phone connection. I thought that that
23:10
Speaker 12: would have been sorted out anyway when I saw the
23:12
Speaker 12: story and.
23:13
Speaker 2: What's going on.
23:14
Speaker 11: So Telco's including one ins in Spark two degrees.
23:17
Speaker 12: They have begun installing the high speed mobile connectivity.
23:21
Speaker 2: And this is an announcement. Yes you can use your phone. Well,
23:24
Speaker 2: what's next. There'll be oxygen you know, you can breathe freely.
23:31
Speaker 2: I thought what I saw this, and I mean I
23:33
Speaker 2: said to the newsroom, I shall be using this story.
23:35
Speaker 11: This is like breaking news. We can use our phones underground.
23:39
Speaker 2: God. Okay, well that's the end of my story. Okay, no,
23:41
Speaker 2: thank you. How's our weather? Healdy isolated showers?
23:46
Speaker 8: Oh?
23:46
Speaker 6: Happy hump Day?
23:47
Speaker 12: Eighteen is a high.
23:48
Speaker 2: It won't matter when you're underground.
23:50
Speaker 12: That's right, Glean twenty and off I go.
23:53
Speaker 2: Thanks Neva. Good to see hey. Lots of people are
23:56
Speaker 2: texting in about the LED headlights.
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Speaker 1: Ryan.
23:58
Speaker 2: This is from James Morning, James. The LED headlights are
24:01
Speaker 2: now not used in mind sights in Australia for the
24:06
Speaker 2: very reason that you travel on undulating ground and they
24:10
Speaker 2: become dazzling. This is the people who are coming towards
24:13
Speaker 2: you with led lights. The old school halogen ones are
24:16
Speaker 2: becoming more popular. Back in the minds, this is the
24:18
Speaker 2: Brits trying to sort out how bright the car lights are.
24:22
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Gavin Gray next. You probably heard me
24:25
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24:32
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25:39
Speaker 2: Right, let's go to Gavin gray are UK europe correspondent
25:41
Speaker 2: now at fourteen minutes away from six Kevin, Welcome to
25:43
Speaker 2: the show. Either. So you've got asylum seekers and the
25:47
Speaker 2: hotels has obviously been a big problem. Now we're looking
25:50
Speaker 2: at what military sites.
25:52
Speaker 12: Yes, that's right. The government has had some embarrassment over
25:56
Speaker 12: just how much it's costing to put up these asylum
26:00
Speaker 12: seekers into hotels. And it's also some embarrassment that a
26:05
Speaker 12: recent report actually said that the whole system had seen
26:09
Speaker 12: taxpayers money squandered on asylum accommodation, where the hotels are
26:13
Speaker 12: seen as a go to solution rather than a stopgap one.
26:17
Speaker 12: And so consequently, now with thirty two thousand asylum seekers
26:21
Speaker 12: being accommodated in hotels at the moment and costing several
26:25
Speaker 12: million dollars every single day. The government's looking at making
26:29
Speaker 12: things a bit cheaper, so it's looking at two sites,
26:31
Speaker 12: one in Inverness in Scotland, the other down in East
26:34
Speaker 12: Sussex at Crobra. Interesting of course, local opposition to both.
26:39
Speaker 12: The combined total could see nine hundred single men being
26:42
Speaker 12: taken out of hotels and housed in these Rather interestingly,
26:46
Speaker 12: they're the National Audit Office the sort of money surveying
26:49
Speaker 12: people with the government said that large sites such as
26:52
Speaker 12: military bases will cost more than hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.
26:57
Speaker 2: In of course, the problem just gets with from with,
26:59
Speaker 2: doesn't it. Hey, this modern car lights story has really
27:01
Speaker 2: got our listeners going. This morning, someone says led car
27:04
Speaker 2: lights are all four especially when driving and you've got
27:07
Speaker 2: someone behind you on full beam. Your government might be
27:10
Speaker 2: doing something about it.
27:12
Speaker 12: Yes, it's actually starting to assess the brightness and indeed
27:16
Speaker 12: how high the lights are going. So it's interesting that,
27:19
Speaker 12: of course, as people get older, their eyesight's not quite
27:22
Speaker 12: as good, and indeed it takes around nine seconds to
27:25
Speaker 12: recover from glare for an older person compared to one
27:29
Speaker 12: second for a sixteen year old so that's the problem. Often,
27:31
Speaker 12: as you said, you get glare from the lights and
27:33
Speaker 12: it takes you a little while for your eyes to adjust,
27:36
Speaker 12: and the older you are, the worse it gets. So
27:38
Speaker 12: after lots of complaints, the government is looking at these
27:42
Speaker 12: because it's saying these led headlamps are increasingly common in
27:45
Speaker 12: new vehicles and are causing big problems, making it much
27:49
Speaker 12: harder to drive at night. All this, of course coincides
27:52
Speaker 12: with our clocks going back. So it's just before five
27:54
Speaker 12: o'clock here in the evening and it is dark already
27:57
Speaker 12: here in the UK, So that's why we're dazzling head lights.
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Speaker 12: Cited as a factor in two hundred and fifty accidents
28:03
Speaker 12: a year here in the UK. There is no evidence
28:05
Speaker 12: brighter lights are causing more collisions than previously, according to
28:09
Speaker 12: one industry group, but the government says, well, we're still
28:12
Speaker 12: going to look at this.
28:13
Speaker 2: All right, hey Gavin, very quickly, the spotlight is on
28:15
Speaker 2: Andrew again. Do you think we will see any change here?
28:19
Speaker 2: Is he going to have to move house? Yes?
28:21
Speaker 12: I think there's all sorts of talk now, particularly with
28:24
Speaker 12: Prince William behind this. It is rumored that he said
28:27
Speaker 12: to his Duke of York's two daughters, Eugenie and Beatrice. Well,
28:32
Speaker 12: you might not be able to keep your titles if
28:35
Speaker 12: you don't convince your dad to move out. That is
28:37
Speaker 12: pure speculation. I very much doubt it was put quite
28:40
Speaker 12: so bluntly, but they are massively keen to get him
28:43
Speaker 12: out of Royal Lodge. It is a taxpayer funded home.
28:46
Speaker 12: And what is the latest photo show, Ryan Oh, Jeffrey Epstein,
28:51
Speaker 12: Gilaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein all of the Royal Lord
28:55
Speaker 12: Prince Andrew's home together.
28:58
Speaker 2: Believable drinking a shit campaign. Gavin, Thank you, Gavin Grayer,
29:01
Speaker 2: you're correspondent. It's ten to six Bridge, So the government's
29:06
Speaker 2: unveiled its new school curriculum. This is years one to ten,
29:09
Speaker 2: so your primary big change is more focused on New
29:11
Speaker 2: Zealand history, civics, financial education. From year three consent education
29:16
Speaker 2: becomes compulsory. Carl Briton is the immediate past president of
29:20
Speaker 2: the Auckland Primary Principals Association with me this morning, Carl,
29:22
Speaker 2: Good morning.
29:23
Speaker 13: Good morning, Ryan.
29:24
Speaker 2: What do you reckon? Wells?
29:27
Speaker 13: Very early days, we can only actually see other than
29:31
Speaker 13: the English and maths. We can only actually see the
29:33
Speaker 13: science and the physical health and Educations full documents at
29:36
Speaker 13: the moment, the rest of it hasn't quite been uploaded yet.
29:38
Speaker 2: No, so there's still a bit of a technical delay there.
29:41
Speaker 2: You haven't seen Social Sciences yet because that'll be one
29:44
Speaker 2: of the more contentious ones, right, Okay.
29:46
Speaker 13: I imagine, so you imagine sory. But no, we can't
29:48
Speaker 13: see the full document yet.
29:50
Speaker 2: Okay, So when are you going to see the full document?
29:53
Speaker 1: I imagine it'll be today.
29:54
Speaker 13: All it was all uploaded yesterday, and it's just the
29:56
Speaker 13: case of the system. It's half updating them. Ironically last
30:00
Speaker 13: week it updated early.
30:01
Speaker 2: So from what you from what you have seen, Kyle,
30:04
Speaker 2: what do you think it looks like there's a lot.
30:08
Speaker 13: I think that's the immediate reaction.
30:10
Speaker 2: There's an awful lot.
30:12
Speaker 13: Particularly the science has got a quite a significant increase
30:16
Speaker 13: in the actual content. So the onus is going to
30:19
Speaker 13: be on schools and school leaders to take a real
30:22
Speaker 13: deep dive into that end to make sure that we
30:24
Speaker 13: do feedback. We've got a six month window to give
30:26
Speaker 13: feedback to the ministry around what our impressions are and
30:29
Speaker 13: what we think is doable and what's achievable and what's
30:31
Speaker 13: relevant and so on. Is it the onus, as I say,
30:34
Speaker 13: is really honest to make sure we give that feedback.
30:36
Speaker 2: Is it harder stuff or is it just more stuff?
30:40
Speaker 2: A bit of both?
30:40
Speaker 13: Actually, yeah, I mean it's again we've had it for
30:43
Speaker 13: oh gosh about what twelve hours so earlily days. But yeah,
30:48
Speaker 13: the initial reaction is it would be fair to say,
30:50
Speaker 13: particularly again in the science, there's some things in there
30:53
Speaker 13: that creep in quite early that otherwise we haven't seen
30:56
Speaker 13: in the past, and then just yet to share volume
30:58
Speaker 13: of what's in there is quite significant. And being that
31:01
Speaker 13: that's only other than English and mass only two areas
31:04
Speaker 13: so far, it's clearly going to be quite extensive in
31:07
Speaker 13: terms of what's expected in the school day.
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Speaker 2: All right, we might forget you back once computers uploaded
31:12
Speaker 2: eight minutes away from Sex. That's Carl Broughton from formerly
31:15
Speaker 2: of the Primary Principals Association in Auckland.
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Speaker 1: News talkst B Views and Views you Trust to start
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Speaker 1: your day. It's earlier edition with Ryan Bridge and are
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Speaker 1: the super Center explore r VS accessories and servicing Fall
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Speaker 1: than one News Talks balks.
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Speaker 2: Just gone six minutes away from six Ryan, I no
31:34
Speaker 2: longer this is from Neville. I no longer drive at
31:36
Speaker 2: nighttime because of the oncoming lights, the LED lights far
31:39
Speaker 2: too bright. This is the Brits are going to do
31:41
Speaker 2: something about it. Some MPs are looking into it. They
31:43
Speaker 2: might end up banning them. Over there, Mike's in the
31:46
Speaker 2: studio this morning. Good morning, Mike.
31:47
Speaker 10: Great to see you.
31:48
Speaker 2: Great to see you. As always.
31:50
Speaker 10: I discovered in one of my cars one of the
31:52
Speaker 10: greatest inventions. I think back to cars, AB love it
31:55
Speaker 10: one of the cars. Well, how many have we got? No, No,
32:00
Speaker 10: I couldn't mean it like that. I discovered this thing
32:02
Speaker 10: where you know, you get your upbeam down beam automatic.
32:05
Speaker 10: You know, it does it in the country become quite sophisticated.
32:08
Speaker 10: Now in the first I didn't realize that because I
32:09
Speaker 10: don't drive much at night, and so the first time
32:12
Speaker 10: I discovered it, when it does it automatically, that's one
32:14
Speaker 10: of the great inventions of all time, as far.
32:16
Speaker 2: As around even I've got that.
32:17
Speaker 10: Do you think so maybe maybe it is? Maybe I
32:20
Speaker 10: discovered it. It was ABS. If you go back to
32:22
Speaker 10: ABS breaking, that's one of the greatest inventions of all time.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I've even not driven a car.
32:28
Speaker 10: See this is this is interesting. If you go back
32:30
Speaker 10: far enough. See, I've got a car that's got a
32:33
Speaker 10: it's five speed manual and the fifth was the luxury option,
32:38
Speaker 10: so you had four and the fifth one if you
32:40
Speaker 10: paid a bit extra for the car that was like
32:41
Speaker 10: you got a five speed. And then so that hasn't
32:44
Speaker 10: got a BS so you put the brakes on it
32:46
Speaker 10: just it just slides.
32:49
Speaker 2: Just be careful. W you're gone back to ninety three?
32:52
Speaker 2: Back to how many cars.
32:53
Speaker 13: Have you gone?
32:53
Speaker 2: Oh?
32:53
Speaker 10: You know how it goes?
32:55
Speaker 2: How many fingers have you got on one head? It
32:57
Speaker 2: does it?
32:57
Speaker 10: There's a lot of admind, that's all I know. It's
32:59
Speaker 10: a lot of a lot of warrant of fitnesses.
33:01
Speaker 2: All that say, I had to get my license fronear
33:03
Speaker 2: the other day. Did you yes? And then did your failure?
33:07
Speaker 2: I test? What happened? I've got the photo here I
33:09
Speaker 2: can show you. Is it a bad photo? I look
33:12
Speaker 2: like a criminal? Mic? Did you not realize that? My
33:14
Speaker 2: husband told me that.
33:15
Speaker 10: Don't you realize that. Let's have a look at it.
33:17
Speaker 2: Oh my god, terrible doing? Is that a self? Did
33:21
Speaker 2: you take that yourself? No? They took it. Why are
33:25
Speaker 2: you looking like that? I don't know what's I don't
33:28
Speaker 2: know what I looked normal, don't you go?
33:32
Speaker 10: Can I just check that before you print it off?
33:34
Speaker 2: You remember Anthony Dixon, that criminal, Yes, exactly exactly the same,
33:39
Speaker 2: looks like exactly the same.
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Speaker 10: Oh my god, Hell, that's like ten years.
33:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's ten years now. Oh, what a cock.
33:46
Speaker 10: Up, What a disaster. Peter Beck, by the way, he
33:51
Speaker 10: celebrated twenty years of rocket lag today, so he's joining us.
33:54
Speaker 2: What a great success story. Have a great day. Run
33:59
Speaker 2: See tomorrow.
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