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Full Show Podcast: 26 August 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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  Speaker 1: Early Edition with Spark for Business. Technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 1: Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Six after five Wednesday. Great to have your company. Coming up,
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  Speaker 3: we'll look at the rates cap. The mayors are fuming.
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Gray's in the UK. For us, the Russians are
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  Speaker 3: talking about a semi-military action against the Brits. What exactly
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  Speaker 3: does that mean? Labour is back to its smoking ban.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll look at the Auckland City report. The Agenda.
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday the 26th of August. Guess who's not happy with
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  Speaker 3: Scott Besant's sanctions on Iran's mates? China.
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  Speaker 4: China's cooperation with Iran is conducted within the framework of
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  Speaker 4: international law and should not be disrupted. China is closely
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  Speaker 4: following the developments. We will take all measures to safeguard
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  Speaker 4: our interests.
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  Speaker 3: Qatar, who you might think would be on board with it,
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  Speaker 3: while they prefer a more diplomatic solution.
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  Speaker 5: We are urging the parties to engage fully in the
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  Speaker 5: talks and the mediation that is led by Qatar and Pakistan.
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  Speaker 5: and the other regional players, and we find that to
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  Speaker 5: be the only way out of this crisis, and we
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  Speaker 5: are encouraging, again, all the parties to engage in good faith.
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  Speaker 3: Trump and Carney, the tit-for-tat continues. I've got some interesting
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  Speaker 3: numbers for you, actually, because it looks like a one-sided war,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a few reasons to think otherwise. Anyway, Canada's
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  Speaker 3: now announced $ 20 billion of retaliatory tariffs on U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Goods.
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  Speaker 7: This is a non-precedented challenge imposed on Canada. But Canada
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  Speaker 7: will meet the moment. Canadians will meet the moment. We
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  Speaker 7: will meet the moment together. And as the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 7: has said, we will support our workers, our businesses and
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  Speaker 7: our industry with whatever it takes for as long as
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  Speaker 7: it takes.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to meet the moment. So this comes, of course,
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  Speaker 3: after Trump yesterday threatened to hike tariffs on Canadian vehicles.
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  Speaker 8: There is a mutually beneficial deal possible here, but it
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  Speaker 8: has to be one that respects Canada's sovereignty. that respects
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  Speaker 8: our independence, that uses our complementary strengths to build something better,
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  Speaker 8: not tear apart for short-term gain. That's the offer. When
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  Speaker 8: the Americans go to the negotiation table first with the
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  Speaker 8: right attitude towards our industries and a true partnership, of
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  Speaker 8: course we'll come to the negotiating table.
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  Speaker 3: The dates are important here because at the moment we
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of hot air and rhetoric on the
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  Speaker 3: trade war, but none of the, well, the first initial
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  Speaker 3: ones have kicked in. The rest haven't kicked in yet
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  Speaker 3: and some of them won't until January. So will they
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  Speaker 3: ever happen or is it more bluster? That's the question.
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  Speaker 3: Finally this morning.
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  Speaker 1: How to lose a guy in 10 days.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, go.
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  Speaker 10: Bart, what's new in the shoe?
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  Speaker 11: Wait, wait, Lana, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: Why ten days?
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  Speaker 10: Five days is too short and we go to press
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  Speaker 10: in eleven.
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  Speaker 12: And other girls dream that they'd be Ben's partner.
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  Speaker 11: They'd be Ben's partner.
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  Speaker 12: You did your job, Noah.
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  Speaker 3: You weren't to lose a guy in ten days.
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  Speaker 6: Congratulations. You did it.
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  Speaker 12: You just..
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  Speaker 3: You might recognise this movie. It's been two decades since
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  Speaker 3: Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey starred in the big hit
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  Speaker 3: that was How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days,
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  Speaker 3: and now a sequel is coming. The film made nearly
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  Speaker 3: $ 180 million worldwide at the box office in 2003. Kate
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  Speaker 3: Hudson will be one of the producers on the new film.
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  Speaker 1: News and views you trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business. Technology
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  Speaker 1: that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 4: Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 3: 9292 is the number to text. Just gone nine minutes
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  Speaker 3: after five. $ 2. 79 a month. That's how much we're going
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  Speaker 3: to save. Your average household is going to save from
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  Speaker 3: the rates cap. $ 2. 79. Wayne Brown's holding up a can
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  Speaker 3: of baked beans saying basically that's what you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get per month for your rates cap. So what do
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  Speaker 3: we think about this? Is it worth doing? Part of
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  Speaker 3: me goes, yeah, of course it is, because you just
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  Speaker 3: need to put the pressure on these guys, on the councils,
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  Speaker 3: and just basically keep your foot on them until they
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  Speaker 3: sort themselves out. But then you read things like 10%
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  Speaker 3: of council spending. And, you know, do you believe this? 10%
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  Speaker 3: of council spending. Well, it's according to Staten Paws. They've
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  Speaker 3: looked at this. is on the nice-to-haves. The rest of
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  Speaker 3: it is on stuff that you actually need, like roads
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  Speaker 3: and getting roads upgraded and fixed. And if you take
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  Speaker 3: away their ability to raise revenue through rates, where are
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  Speaker 3: they going to hit you? With the fees and registering
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  Speaker 3: your dog or going to the pool or getting a
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  Speaker 3: building consent. All these things are going to go up, up,
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  Speaker 3: up as a result because they need to fund themselves somehow.
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  Speaker 3: And does the cost of borrowing for a council go up?
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  Speaker 3: That's the other thing that S & P has been
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  Speaker 3: worried about as well. So the thing that caught my
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  Speaker 3: eye was actually a great article in Newsroom yesterday about this.
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  Speaker 3: And the mayor of central Otago said, we actually might
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  Speaker 3: have to reassess if we can afford to maintain or
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  Speaker 3: keep all of our road bridges. They've got 187 road
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  Speaker 3: bridges across central Otago. And the mayor says, well, Pretty
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  Speaker 3: difficult to take your sheep, you know, 10 or 15
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  Speaker 3: k's around them if you need to get them picked
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  Speaker 3: up or your milk picked up or your wool picked
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  Speaker 3: up or horticultural supplies brought in from town. She says,
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  Speaker 3: God forbid we have to drive the wine too far
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  Speaker 3: around to get it to the nearest port to export.
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  Speaker 3: These are the types of big conversations that are coming.
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  Speaker 3: So you put the squeeze on councils and you will
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  Speaker 3: get less services, a reduction in services, and you will
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  Speaker 3: also get higher fees and charges. Now, how would you
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  Speaker 3: prefer to cut the cake?
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  Speaker 12: 9292.
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  Speaker 3: Because part of me goes, yeah, there's sense in having,
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  Speaker 3: let's do user pays. So if you want to build
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  Speaker 3: a house or you want to subdivide, you will pay
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  Speaker 3: more for the privilege. And then my general rates bill
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  Speaker 3: will come down. That kind of makes sense. But can
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  Speaker 3: you squeeze them too hard, I guess, is the question
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  Speaker 3: on local government. And if you do, what happens to
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  Speaker 3: your road bridges? 12 after 5, 9292 is the number
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  Speaker 3: to text. Plenty more to come. Also, I mentioned the
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  Speaker 3: Russia situation. So they're talking about limited military action against
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  Speaker 3: the Brits after Burnham went to the UK. We'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about that after 5.30pm. Good news for the Germans on
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  Speaker 3: their economy too. All ahead, Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB. 5.14 on Newstalk ZB. Loads of text coming
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  Speaker 3: in on rates caps. We'll get to that in a second.
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of people are texting in about the rugby,
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  Speaker 3: the All Blacks and the Lions over in South Africa,
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  Speaker 3: saying that Sky... And I don't know, maybe... But then
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  Speaker 3: there's lots of people texting in, so we're checking it
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  Speaker 3: at the moment. But lots of people saying Sky Sport
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  Speaker 3: was incorrectly playing European or running European cycling rather than
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  Speaker 3: the rugby. People are tuning in to watch the rugby
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  Speaker 3: and it wasn't there. Although this person says, Ryan... Just
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  Speaker 3: checking if people are reporting the fact that Sky Sport
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  Speaker 3: now seems to have fixed the fault. Or no, now
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  Speaker 3: seems to have another fault. Again, the European cycling has
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  Speaker 3: come on when we were watching the rugby. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. We'll get a little update for you and
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  Speaker 3: we'll get a score update for you as well. That
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  Speaker 3: is quarter past five. New report shows Auckland quickly becoming
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  Speaker 3: a world-class city once again, as it should be. This
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  Speaker 3: is a State of the City report by the Committee
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  Speaker 3: for Auckland. They say our private investment is up. International
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  Speaker 3: events are up. But we've got a bit of work
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  Speaker 3: to do when it comes to intensification, getting more people
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  Speaker 3: living closer together. Viv Beck, Heart of the City CEO
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  Speaker 3: with me this morning. Hi, Viv. Hello. Are these reports
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  Speaker 3: even worth the time? I mean, they give you some
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  Speaker 3: headline numbers around international students, visitor numbers that we already knew.
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  Speaker 3: What are we learning here?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think what's particularly exciting right now is that
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  Speaker 6: we are genuinely heading into a new era. It's pointing
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  Speaker 6: out the importance of of the city centre for example
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  Speaker 6: with the city rail link about to open the convention
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  Speaker 6: centre now open and quite a lot of in fact
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  Speaker 6: billions of dollars of public and private investment that's been
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  Speaker 6: happening all through this period We've got that opportunity now
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  Speaker 6: to leverage this investment to drive that density, the growth,
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  Speaker 6: the vibrancy. So I think this one is really saying,
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  Speaker 6: it's highlighting things that's highlighted before but in a slightly
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  Speaker 6: different way. And I think what we've got to do
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  Speaker 6: now is drive that growth and density. And the opportunity
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  Speaker 6: is definitely there. So I'm actually finding it pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 6: We've really been working towards this year where we see
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  Speaker 6: these major pieces of infrastructure come on stream. and it's
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  Speaker 6: now a case of how we really drive them and
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  Speaker 6: leverage them.
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  Speaker 3: How much of that $ 6 billion that's being invested in
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  Speaker 3: the city centre is to do with construction around or
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  Speaker 3: related to the city rail link?
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  Speaker 6: Well, actually, in that midtown area, JLL did a study
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  Speaker 6: earlier in the year and said there's about $ 10 billion
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  Speaker 6: of investment that's happened there, and it's across all the
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  Speaker 6: things that are going to drive demand. So, for example,
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  Speaker 6: there's construction hotels, new hotels, refurbished hotels. There is investment
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  Speaker 6: in office accommodation with different styles of working. For example,
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  Speaker 6: the formery right by the news station is virtually full.
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  Speaker 6: More purchasing of big buildings in that area. Private investment,
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  Speaker 6: recognising that opportunity for people to be able to get
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  Speaker 6: in and out much more easy. The student accommodation is
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  Speaker 6: a great news story. We're back to pre-COVID levels. Lots
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  Speaker 6: of good investment there. They drive growth as well. And then,
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  Speaker 6: of course, is the ability to connect all the various
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  Speaker 6: things like, for example, the tech, the innovation. And having
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  Speaker 6: people being able to move in and out much more
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  Speaker 6: freely is actually a real opportunity now that we can
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  Speaker 6: actually see happening. I mean, you can see it in
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  Speaker 6: the downtown area where there's been the drive to great
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  Speaker 6: new office premises, for example. But we've really got the
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  Speaker 6: opportunity now in midtown. And you can see it happening, actually.
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  Speaker 6: So it is real.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Oh, someone's just texted in. Midtown, no parking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you've got to get the city rail link. Mark, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to get on the train. 9292, the number to text.
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  Speaker 3: We'll deal with some of your messages in just a second.
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  Speaker 3: You're on Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on Early Edition with Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Bridge and Spark for Business, technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 1: News Talk ZB.
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  Speaker 3: 21 after 5, bit of a Sky Sport drama happening
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  Speaker 3: right now. Apparently, if you're trying to watch the rugby,
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  Speaker 3: this is the All Blacks and the Lions over in
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  Speaker 3: South Africa. Ryan, it's Sky Sport now that's not working.
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  Speaker 3: So people who are watching on Sky 1, Sky Sport 1,
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  Speaker 3: you are OK. But then apparently, if you're on Sky
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  Speaker 3: Sport now, according to these texters, The Sport app we
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  Speaker 3: pay $ 60 a month for. Expletive, expletive, says this viewer.
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  Speaker 3: This listener, I should say, would-be viewer. I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you if you want to listen to the game, you
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  Speaker 3: can do that on iHeart. There's a ZB channel on iHeart,
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  Speaker 3: or you can do it on Newstalk ZB Sport. It
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  Speaker 3: is 22 after 5. Right, Labour Party saying they'd bring
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  Speaker 3: back our smoke-free generation goals if they get back into government.
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  Speaker 3: They also want to get rid of the reduction in excise,
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  Speaker 3: the tax for heated tobacco products. Ben Uden is Action
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  Speaker 3: for Smoke-Free 2025. Director joins me this morning. Hey, Ben.
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  Speaker 12: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: So is this the one where they said they would
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  Speaker 3: stop selling cigarettes to anyone who is 18 from today
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  Speaker 3: onwards sort of thing?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, so anybody who was born after a particular date,
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  Speaker 12: so meaning that essentially the age at which you'd be
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  Speaker 12: allowed to purchase cigarettes would get older every single year,
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  Speaker 12: sort of ageing out the potentially incoming smoking population.
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  Speaker 3: Is how many 18-year-olds right now picking up fags?
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  Speaker 12: Well, we've actually got very low smoking amongst young people,
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  Speaker 12: so around about sort of a percent of 14, 15-year-olds
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  Speaker 12: and probably around sort So one or two to three percent.
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  Speaker 12: If we banned them from being able to buy cigarettes,
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  Speaker 12: they would just go and buy the black market ones,
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  Speaker 12: wouldn't they, if they really wanted to? Well, I think
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  Speaker 12: the issue is that, I mean, as a policy, it's
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  Speaker 12: one that sounds like a really great idea. And I
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  Speaker 12: can see it's politically popular. They've done it in the UK.
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  Speaker 12: But it's not one that's going to make a huge
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  Speaker 12: difference in terms of reducing smoking. It's a policy that
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  Speaker 12: will potentially sustain low smoking rates in the cohort of
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  Speaker 12: young people who aren't smoking anymore. But what it doesn't do,
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  Speaker 12: it's not addressing the 250,000 largely older adults who are
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  Speaker 12: still smoking, who have smoked for a long time, who
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  Speaker 12: are most likely to be the ones who are getting
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  Speaker 12: lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory diseases in the next 5, 10,
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  Speaker 12: 15 years. So that's where we've still got the urgent
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  Speaker 12: issue around the burden of smoking.
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  Speaker 3: And if these people are paying more than 50 bucks
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  Speaker 3: for a packet of cigarettes and are still smoking, they
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  Speaker 3: are your hardcore friends. I'm not giving up, leave me
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  Speaker 3: alone types, aren't they? I mean, how are you ever
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  Speaker 3: going to stop them smoking?
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  Speaker 12: Well, there'll be some who are. And when New Zealand
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  Speaker 12: adopted the goal to be smoke-free 15-odd years ago, it
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  Speaker 12: was always with the understanding that that meant below 5%
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  Speaker 12: of people smoking in New Zealand, knowing that there would
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  Speaker 12: always be those who just simply would never stop for
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  Speaker 12: whatever reason.
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  Speaker 3: And we're there, aren't we, basically, with 5%?
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  Speaker 12: We're almost there, but we're not there for everybody. So
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  Speaker 12: we're around about 6.8% smoking at the moment, but we
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  Speaker 12: still have much, much higher smoking rates in particular populations.
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  Speaker 12: So those who lived in the most deprived neighborhoods still
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  Speaker 12: got much higher smoking rates for Maldi and Pacific, and
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  Speaker 12: also very much concentrated now in middle and older age,
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  Speaker 12: whereas a decade ago, It was the kids.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Ben, we've got to leave it there. Ben, you
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  Speaker 3: had an action for Smokefree 2025 director with us talking
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  Speaker 3: about that policy from Labour yesterday. 25 minutes after five,
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  Speaker 3: you're on Newstalk ZB. We'll look at just Parliament and
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  Speaker 3: its logjam of bills that they're not passing pre-election next.
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  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB, 27 minutes after five. This past week is proof,
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  Speaker 3: I think, a four-year parliamentary term is probably a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: Let's forget for a second that elections disrupt things like
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  Speaker 3: the housing market. People get scared off buying for fear
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  Speaker 3: of the unknown. Who knows what government will get in
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  Speaker 3: and what they will do to the price of a house.
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  Speaker 3: Same goes for business decisions. Should I buy that extra
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  Speaker 3: tractor if some pro-regulation party gets around the cabinet table?
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  Speaker 3: It stymies investment. But the bigger problem, and we've seen
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  Speaker 3: it with this, quite frankly, farcical social media ban announcement
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  Speaker 3: this week, is legislation. The Nats called Labour's bluff and
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  Speaker 3: announced this bill. Then Labour called the Nats' bluff yesterday
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  Speaker 3: and said they'd support a first reading before the election,
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  Speaker 3: only for the Nats to turn around and say, oh no,
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  Speaker 3: we actually don't have time this term. There is right
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  Speaker 3: now a 100-bill logjam before Parliament. Potential new laws waiting
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  Speaker 3: to get debated, sitting there in Parliament, collecting dust. It's
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  Speaker 3: like the Southern Motorway on pretty much any day of
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  Speaker 3: the week at any time. She's backed up like a
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  Speaker 3: dump truck. RMA reform is a priority for the government.
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  Speaker 3: They've said that. But outside that, she's a pretty ropey
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  Speaker 3: agenda heading into election time. Politics at election time actually
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  Speaker 3: gets in the way of what Parliament is supposed to do,
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  Speaker 3: which is debate and then pass laws. City deals get
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  Speaker 3: ripped up on the fly during campaigns. Mayors across the
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  Speaker 3: country get butthurt. This is not to say elections are
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  Speaker 3: bad for democracy. They are the basis of it. But
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  Speaker 3: too many, too often, probably doing more harm than good.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
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  Speaker 3: 29 after five. I mean, look at the Brits, five years.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the Americans, four years. What's wrong with us? Hey, Germany,
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned them earlier. They've been having problems, as you know,
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  Speaker 3: with cars, manufacturing, energy costs. Well, they've had some pretty
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  Speaker 3: solid GDP results revised up 0.3% for quarter two. That
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  Speaker 3: is the third consecutive positive month for them. Manufacturing looking good.
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  Speaker 3: Business sentiment looking up. And exports up too. So good
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  Speaker 3: on you, Germany. You're on Newstalk ZB. We are live
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  Speaker 3: to London next.
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  Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio. Early edition with
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business. Technology that keeps business moving.
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  Speaker 4: Newstalk ZB.
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  Speaker 3: Three, four away from six, this is Newstalk ZB coming
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  Speaker 3: up before top of the hour this morning. We'll look
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  Speaker 3: at the council fees and charges. They're going to go up.
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  Speaker 3: It's a reality because of the rates cap by how
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  Speaker 3: much is the question. Also this morning, Kremlin talking semi-military
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  Speaker 3: response to the Brits over their weapons deal that we
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  Speaker 3: told you about yesterday. Gavin Gray is in the UK
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  Speaker 3: for us. This is a little update for you on
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  Speaker 3: the trade war. At the moment, it is a war
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: of words because I think the first round of tariffs
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  Speaker 3: have kicked in. The rest of them, the entry dates
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: are September or even January. So will they even happen
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: or is this just bluster? Anyway, question is how one-sided
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: this trade war is. And you would probably think, given
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the US is the world's biggest economy, given the fact
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: that 70% of Canada's exports go to the US, that
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Trump has the upper hand. However, Carney is not without leverage.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Canada is the top customer for 26 US states. So
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: 26 US states, their biggest customer for exports is Canada. Now, crucially...
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: These include states like Michigan and Wisconsin, which are swing states,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: and they are very important to Donald Trump. So if
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Canada starts pissing off people in Wisconsin and Michigan, people
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: then potentially in Wisconsin and Michigan become pissed off with
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, and that could affect them in the midterms.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: That's called leverage. The other interesting number here is that
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: the top three export destinations, Canada is in the top
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: three for 45 of the 50 states. Again, Kearney, not
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: without leverage. Right, we'll give you an update on the
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: rugby score in just a second. And still people are
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: texting in about it. the Sky Sport Now. This is
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: the streaming app. Ryan, this is really messed up this morning.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Mark says, I've gone to watch the rugby. Can't watch
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: the rugby because they're playing the cycling where the rugby
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: should be. So I went to watch the IndyCars and
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: they're showing West Indian cricket. Mark, I've actually texted someone
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: at Sky to find out what's going on, so we'll
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: keep you updated. Right, 22 away from 6, let's go
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: to Hannah Feck in Dunedin. Hannah, good morning.
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Ryan.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: We will go to Oamaru, though, because they're getting some
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: shine on from this new Netflix series, East of Eden.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah, there's some exciting stuff happening there. Netflix's new East
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: of Eden series is going to put Oamaru's iconic heritage
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: precinct on the world stage this October. Some of the
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: seven-part adaption of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel were actually filmed
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: in Oamaru last January, using its iconic Victorian streetscapes to
• 20:42
  Speaker 11: stand in for period California. Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust property
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: manager Jacob Barrick says the crew was amazed by the precinct,
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: telling locals there's nowhere quite like it. Businesses in the
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: Heritage Precinct already bring in an estimated $ 10. 6 million to
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: the local economy each year.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: How's your weather?
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: Rain developing this morning, heavy at times, before easing this
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: afternoon and a high of 11.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Nice one, Hannah. Thank you. Claire's in Christchurch. Morning, Claire.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Good morning. Wheels are turning on plans for a new cycleway.
• 21:14
  Speaker 13: Yeah, this is a $ 31. 8 million project, Poare Kete Karoro.
• 21:18
  Speaker 13: It's formerly known as the Avon Otakaro Route. It would
• 21:21
  Speaker 13: run from Fitzgerald Avenue to New Brighton to Marine Parade
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: on the east side of and would also link with
• 21:27
  Speaker 13: the Rapa Nui Shag Rock and.
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: The City to Sea Cycleways as well.
• 21:31
  Speaker 13: City Council Planning and Delivery Manager Jacob Bradbury says this
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: will give cyclists a safer, more convenient route out east.
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: Rapid rollout is also being considered. They're thinking about using
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: temporary lower-cost infrastructure, including plastic bollards. Council staff are set
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: to report back before it's put up for public consultation.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: How's your weather, Clare?
• 21:51
  Speaker 12: Cloudy.
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: We do have lots of rain expected around today. Snow
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: down to 700 metres. Northwesterly is turning strong. Southerly later,
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: the high will be 18.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: All right. Claire, thank you very much. Max in Wellington. Morning, Max.
• 22:04
  Speaker 14: Good morning.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: You've got a deadline looming for regional flights.
• 22:08
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Origin Air is still hoping for another lifeline to
• 22:11
  Speaker 14: keep these Wellington Westport flights going. Current support arrangements end
• 22:16
  Speaker 14: at the end of the week, so this really could
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: be the final few days of direct flights between wellington
• 22:20
  Speaker 14: and westport development west coast has been helping keep the
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: engines running even offering free return flights to wellington but
• 22:28
  Speaker 14: fuel is obviously pricey and i think it's now a
• 22:31
  Speaker 14: case of the government or nothing stepping in the service
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: is apparently costing origin air shareholders about 500 grand a
• 22:38
  Speaker 14: year the boss of the airline says you've got real
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: growth happening on the west coast the economy is outperforming
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: the country relative so losing a regional service could mean
• 22:47
  Speaker 14: a real step backwards How's your weather? Clouding over and
• 22:51
  Speaker 14: showers later. Gusty norwesterlies 15.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Max. Neva in Auckland. Morning, Neva.
• 22:56
  Speaker 15: Good morning.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: So this big northwest busway is going to get fast
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: track or provisional fast track approval.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Yep, correct.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: 4.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: 9 billion.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: So this 18 kilometre rapid transit corridor from Brigham Creek
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: to Auckland City Centre, it's aiming to help, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: all that choked traffic on the congested northwestern motorway. So
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Hundreds of privately owned properties, they lie in the busway's path,
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: affected owners facing compulsory acquisition and displacement. The busway will
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: create apparently seven new stations with delivery staged over in
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: about 20 years construction beginning next year.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I thought the city rail link was going to help
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: with the train. Like, why don't people get the train?
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, you know.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Got a train, got a bus. Got a train, got
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: a bus.
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: There's always something, eh?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: There's a cycleway too along there, isn't there, along the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: North Western?
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: It's actually one of the better ones.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: Have you seen many people cycling there?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: It's one of the best cycleways in the city. I mean,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the list are very short.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Good cycleways. But that's a really good one.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: And also too for runners.
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: I used to run along there.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Did you?
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, look at you. You're looking like liar, liar, pants
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: on fire.
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: I know you're right, Rich.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: No, because I remember I went to buy new shoes
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: at the shoe clinic and the guy said, oh, Neva, very,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: very experienced runner.
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: One of my trainers.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Experienced.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I love that. Singing your praises.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Veteran.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: How's our weather?
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: Partly cloudy, isolated showers.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Warm.
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: 18 the high here in Auckland.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Beautiful, Neva.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you. 17 away from six. Don't worry. I'm seeing
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: your text about Sky. It's all anyone is interested in.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Sky Sport now, there's something wrong with the rugby. We'll
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: get to that in a second. By the way, we
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: will get to Gavin Gray, who's our UK Europe correspondent
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: in a second, to talk about the Russians and how
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: they're feeling about the Brits. But get a load of this.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: The head of the CIA, big deal. John Ratcliffe, big job,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: top spy. He has travelled to Moscow. How do we
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: know this? He's in Moscow right now. So flight tracking data,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: when people went online and followed this.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Is big.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Usc 17 transport plane flies into an airport in moscow
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: everyone goes via latvia everyone tracks it this was tuesday
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: night local time and someone actually got cell phone footage
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: and put it online so it's been confirmed by cbs
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: they have got confirmation that the head of the u.s
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: central intelligence agency is in moscow right now what are
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: they talking about we don't know they've done prisoner swaps
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: and stuff before but at this point it's tbc news
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• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Right, it is 13 minutes away from six. We will
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: get to Gavin in the UK in just a second,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: but very quickly, Ryan, Martin says, it's all okay now.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I've got the rugby commentary with the cycling pictures. This
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: is on Sky Sport now. This is the streaming app.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: So if you're on Sky Sport 1, then you're fine,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: but people are texting and saying they're having problems this morning.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I have texted someone at Sky to find out what's
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: going on and give you an update. In the meantime,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: if you want to listen to the commentary... Go to
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio and the Newstalk ZB Sport app will help you out.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Block your ears if you don't want the score. Keep
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: them open if you do. It's halftime. The Lions still
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: ahead 21-17. An advisor to the Kremlin says there might
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: be a semi-military response against the UK and the fact
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: they have done a weapons deal with Ukraine. Gavin Gray
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: is our UK-Europe correspondent. Gavin, what are they saying exactly?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, the former Russian deputy foreign minister says that
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: basically the UK drone factories are supplying Ukraine with drones
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: that are hitting in Russia and are looking to give
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: the Ukrainians the details of how to make their own
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: missiles to fire into Russia. and that makes them an
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: active participant. So what does this man mean by semi-military? Well,
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Andrei Fedorov refused really to elaborate, but did say this
• 27:52
  Speaker 10: wouldn't be Russia's hand, as it were, directly on these activities,
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: but it would be those perhaps linked to Russia. And
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: asked where the pressure is coming from them to do
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: these things, he said, well, from journalists, public opinion polls,
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: mass media, etc., With regards to the semi-military, he said
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: it could take some form of something might happen with enterprises,
• 28:16
  Speaker 10: with factories that are producing drones for Ukraine.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: They could be.
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: Attacked not by Russia, but by unknown sources. Well, this
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: is not really, of course, anything that the prime minister
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: here is putting much store by. He's saying that we
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: are doing the right thing. We are acting on behalf
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: of Ukraine and it's Ukraine that has been attacked and
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: Russia that started this fire, not the UK and not Ukraine.
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: And indeed, he's now looking, it's said, next month. to
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: travel to the U.S. with European leaders to lobby the
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: President Donald Trump on Ukraine's defense needs, namely, of course,
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: these missiles that shoot down, Patriot missiles that shoot down
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: some of the drones and other weapons on their way. But,
• 28:59
  Speaker 10: of course, these things are incredibly expensive. They're in short
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: supply because the U.S. has used so many against Iran. And, well,
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: we're going to have to see what success they have
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: on this. But deep concern about these threats to the UK.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, certainly there would be. Gavin, thank you. Gavin Gray,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: our UK-Europe correspondent. Time is 10 away from six. Right,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: back home now. Government's pushing ahead with a rates cap
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: max 4% per year.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: All Kiwi households and businesses right here, right now are
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: needing to tighten their belt and local government must do
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: the same.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Excludes water charges, which is quite crucial if you're in
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: a place like Wellington right now and getting a bill
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: from 2029, this will kick in. The rates rises between 2%
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: and 4%. Andrew Little is Wellington's mayor joining us this morning. Hey, Andrew.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: Come on, Ryan.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Now, the government says this will mean fewer services the
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: council is able to provide, and also it'll mean that
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: your fees and your charges will go up. Do we
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: have any idea what kind of increase we would see
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: to fees and charges as a result of something like this?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Really hard to say because season charges are a component
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: of council review, but it's spread across a whole bunch
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: of different things. It could be your parking charges, could
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: be your library book charges, all that sort of stuff.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So you can't pick that. But the really hard bit
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: is going to be things like for a city like
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Wellington where we have a big programme to make ourselves
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: resilient because we have a whole heap of slips and stuff,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: potential slips that we have to shore up against. The
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: spending on that potentially falls, and that goes against an
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: instruction we got from the government recently, which is make
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: sure that you're climate resilient. So it's going to require
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: a lot of juggling to get this right. Of course,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: council's got to be responsible for keep rates rising as
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: low as possible. But the pressures on councils right now
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: to get cities right and fit is just a big challenge.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like you absolutely hate the idea, Andrew.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: You're talking about juggling, you're talking about reprioritisation, which I
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: think is probably what the government wants too.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that's what, if I look around,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: certainly this year, councils in Wellington and neighbouring councils, most
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: of us are actually, we get the message, we've all
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: got the message in the election campaign last year that
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: ratepayers have had enough of significant rates increases. So everybody's
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: got that message and doing their best. But the sort
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: of things that councils have to spend money on, which
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: involves a lot of civil works, construction, that sort of thing,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: inflation costs in those sectors have gone up quite significantly,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: and councils have to wear those costs. Everybody wants and
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: expects and should expect councils to be responsible with the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: way they spend money, but the cost pressures are significant.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: All right, Andrew Little, Wellington Mayor, good to have you
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: on the show this morning. 8 to 6, Newstalk ZB.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Before the news breaks, hear it first. Ryan Bridge on
• 31:48
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• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Newstalk ZB. 6 to 6, so the government has apparently
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: just quietly shelved the plans that were in place for
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: a PVC and polystyrene ban. You know how they did
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: the plastic bag ban, so when you go to the
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: supermarket you have to pay for an expensive one now.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: they were going to do one for PVC and polystyrene.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: That has apparently, was due to come into force in 2025.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: It was sort of paused. Now it's basically been dumped
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: by the sound of it. Government has other priorities. In 2018,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: they brought the plastic bag ban in. Is there less
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: plastic in the ocean now? Five to six.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Morning, Mike.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Good to see you, Ryan. Now, Sky's having trouble with
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: their Sky Sport Goat.
• 32:35
  Speaker 15: No one gives them monkeys.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I can tell you there are a great many people
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: who give them monkeys. That's not your problem. Get on
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: with your life.
• 32:41
  Speaker 15: I'm watching this unfold. This is ZB when I'm not here.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, calm down. You've killed the clock. I changed the
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: channel and the clock's gone. So you've ended up with
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Maori television. You've ended up with Maori TV and no clock.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: And Sky. What was the point of that? Can I
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: just say, there's one, two, three, four clocks in front
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: of me. Why do you need a fifth? Because it's
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: the big boy. It's the big boy, right? How many
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: times do you need to tell the time of the morning, Mike?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Very important time. How long have we got? So you
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: can't tell. You can't tell, can you? One minute 15. Now,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: here's the thing.
• 33:23
  Speaker 15: So this morning we're talking about, have you read the
• 33:24
  Speaker 15: wine report? The wine report that came out. There were
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: two wine reports. One came out yesterday about Australian wine.
• 33:29
  Speaker 15: One came out about New Zealand wine.
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 33:31
  Speaker 15: So the Australian wine industry is tanking.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Tanking.
• 33:34
  Speaker 15: The lowest export volume in years.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Why? What's the difference?
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: Because it's crap. And so internationally, we're out there. We're
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: holding our own because, of course, there's a whole movement
• 33:44
  Speaker 15: globally of people drinking less alcohol. So there's that plus
• 33:46
  Speaker 15: the cost of living. But nevertheless, we are holding our
• 33:49
  Speaker 15: own on the international stage. All Australia tanks.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: There's a really good, you know, what's champagne outside of champagne?
• 33:57
  Speaker 15: Methode Champenoise.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: There's a really good one. What have you got, a
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: little Jacob's Creek at 7.99? No, it's not a Jacob's Creek.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: It's really, really good. Is it so good? One of
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: the best New Zealand ones I've ever had. And what
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: is it? That's the question. You don't know? So you're
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: telling me about the wine you can't even remember. You
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: can't remember that.
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: The clock's cocked up, you've got Maori television on, you
• 34:17
  Speaker 15: can't remember the wine.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: God, you're useless. I was put together as Sky Sport
• 34:21
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• 34:24
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