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Full Show Podcast: 16 February 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 one roof love, where you Live News Talk,
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  Speaker 1: sa'd be good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Welcome to Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Just gone six after five, we'll talk to sorry Helen
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  Speaker 3: Eden Parker is getting new concert permissions. We'll speak to
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  Speaker 3: them and about that. Just before six this morning, Gavin
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  Speaker 3: Gray in the UK for US beef and lamb on
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  Speaker 3: India's FDA, the progress or lack thereof in getting this
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  Speaker 3: deal done. We'll talk about labor and what they've had
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  Speaker 3: to say at the weekend. Andrew is here with sports.
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  Speaker 3: So much more to come. Good morning, Welcome to your new.
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  Speaker 1: Week the agenda.
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  Speaker 3: It's Monday to sixteenth of February. Marji Touchard Rabuanshi, he's
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  Speaker 3: the Irani Iranian foreign minister, says, I runs ready for
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  Speaker 3: a deal with the US, some sort of nuclear deal.
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  Speaker 4: The body is an America's court. I mean they have
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  Speaker 4: to prove that they want to have a deal with US,
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  Speaker 4: and if there is a sincerity, if we see a
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  Speaker 4: sincerity on therefore, I'm sure that vald on a road
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  Speaker 4: to five and agree we are ready to discuss this
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  Speaker 4: and other issues related to our program, provided that they
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  Speaker 4: are ready also to talk about the sanctions.
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  Speaker 3: Big euro meeting going on in Munich at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: This is the one that Jadi Vance spoke at last
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  Speaker 3: year and gave them all a blasting. Not much hope
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  Speaker 3: for a Ukraine deal coming out of this one. Here's
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  Speaker 3: the Latvian president.
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  Speaker 5: Can't imagine at this point that we are going to
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  Speaker 5: have a deal in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 6: If I'm wrong, I will be gladly admitting that everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom is there because he's trying to be president,
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  Speaker 3: and he's turning up at every European meeting that you
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  Speaker 3: can shake a stick at. He's taken another swipe at Trump.
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  Speaker 7: Donald Trump is temporary. He'll be gone in three years.
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  Speaker 7: California is a stable and reliable partner in this space,
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  Speaker 7: and it's important for folks to understand the temporary nature
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  Speaker 7: of this current administration in relationship to the issue of
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  Speaker 7: climate change and climate policy.
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  Speaker 3: Finally, this morning, King Charles's mate, his biographer, has said
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  Speaker 3: that he won his brother to testify over Epstein. He
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  Speaker 3: just can't really say that out loud.
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  Speaker 8: I would strongly believe that he would very much like
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  Speaker 8: him to testify, but knows that the stand up and
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  Speaker 8: say that is a hiding to nothing. And I suspect
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  Speaker 8: now that he's, as it were, banished to the sort
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  Speaker 8: of open prison somewhere on the Sandring and the state,
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  Speaker 8: he will be sensing the need to give duty of care.
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  Speaker 8: This man is a broken, finished man at best.
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  Speaker 2: The poor Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Views and Views you trust to start your day in
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Bryan Bridge and one roof Love, where
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  Speaker 1: you Live, News Talks.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be n two.
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  Speaker 3: The number six has gone nine after five. How's the
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  Speaker 3: weather at your place? By the way, I'm excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: conscious that the weather has been well, is forecast to
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  Speaker 3: be very bad, particularly around the month or two regions.
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  Speaker 3: Say if it's bad at your place, flip near text
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  Speaker 3: nine two nine and two. Now speaking of Gevin Newsome,
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  Speaker 3: actually I was listening to a podcast at the weekend
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  Speaker 3: and it was all about him and all about California,
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  Speaker 3: because there is a proposal, a ballot initiative over there,
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  Speaker 3: which is actually very hard to get done. But it's
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  Speaker 3: an initiative put forward by the left of the left,
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  Speaker 3: and they want a one time five percent tax on
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  Speaker 3: billionaire's assets payment due over five years, so they would
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  Speaker 3: be taxing unrealized gains, which is obviously not something that
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  Speaker 3: the tax department does. At the moment, in California, they've
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  Speaker 3: got two hundred and fifty billionaires and wait for it,
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  Speaker 3: more than one third of their tax revenue comes from
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  Speaker 3: the top one percent one third, And so even Gavin
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  Speaker 3: Newsom is saying, no, this is a bit nuts. Even
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  Speaker 3: though it's a one off tax, they reckon they'll raise
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  Speaker 3: one hundred billion dollars and do god knows what with it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they say it's to fund healthcare, but who knows.
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  Speaker 3: Even Gavin Newsom has come out against it, and he's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's the Democrat wants to be the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: candidate for president. Right, He's come out and says, no,
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  Speaker 3: if they will threaten to leave, and if even a
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  Speaker 3: few of them leave, you'll probably do more damage to
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  Speaker 3: your tax deficit than good. So let's leave it alone.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing, of course, is that he's funded and
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  Speaker 3: donations from a whole bunch of billionaires, including Hollywood types
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  Speaker 3: and Silicon Valley types.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go. Probably not going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: While we're on the topic of billionaires, can we just
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  Speaker 3: say a little round of applause for Erica Stanford and
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  Speaker 3: her Golden visa. And I don't know whether you're a
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  Speaker 3: fan of these, but how could you not be. So
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  Speaker 3: this is the one where you need to invest five
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  Speaker 3: million or ten million dollars over different time periods your
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  Speaker 3: active investor plus visa and then they can build or
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  Speaker 3: buy a five million dollar plus house from March. So
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  Speaker 3: coming up soon you'll see big mansions going up next
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  Speaker 3: door to you, depending on where you live. And they
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  Speaker 3: basically exempt from the foreign buyer band. That's the deal. Now,
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend there was a story about a hospitality
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  Speaker 3: group in Queenstown getting forty million bucks for a sale
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  Speaker 3: to an international group. Great, they reckon. One billion dollars
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  Speaker 3: has been committed so far from these investors and the
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  Speaker 3: minimum potential from those who've applied is three point thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine billion. So so you add those together, we're talking almost
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  Speaker 3: five billion dollars. That's not to be scoffed at. So
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  Speaker 3: on the face of it, you would say, rundo, applause,
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  Speaker 3: well done, Erica Stanford, Ryan Bread.
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  Speaker 2: Even after five.
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  Speaker 3: News talks MB, we've got eden Park news coming for
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  Speaker 3: you before six a little ocr update of course, we've
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  Speaker 3: got the review this week next though, we are talking
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  Speaker 3: about this FTA labour's demands to get it across the line.
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  Speaker 1: News Talks VB, The News You Need this Morning and
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  Speaker 1: the in depth Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and
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  Speaker 1: one Roote Love Where You Live. News Talks FB.
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  Speaker 2: Five fourteen Great to have you company.
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  Speaker 3: This morning Wednesday, we get in our first for twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six OCR review from the Monetary Policy Committee. It's
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  Speaker 3: due to stay well, expected to stay at two point
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  Speaker 3: twenty five percent, so not much in the way of
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  Speaker 3: a change. But according to the markets, they're pricing in
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  Speaker 3: a twenty five basis point rise September this year. As
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  Speaker 3: we spoke about last week September, most of them think
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  Speaker 3: we will go up twenty five basis points. And what
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  Speaker 3: is interesting is the last time we had in November
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  Speaker 3: a monetary policy statement issued, they said the Reserve Bank
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  Speaker 3: said there'd be a twenty percent chance of another cut
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  Speaker 3: to the OCR early this year. It's probably not going
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  Speaker 3: to happen, and the first rise in the OCR they
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  Speaker 3: projected would happen probably in the second quarter of next year,
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  Speaker 3: and what the markets are now saying is that it'll
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  Speaker 3: be the second quarter of this year. So in an entire
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  Speaker 3: year early, and so they reckon the bank is going
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  Speaker 3: to be very cautious about this because if the bank
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  Speaker 3: says twenty twenty six, the markets will say twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so they're going to have to be careful.
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  Speaker 3: How they that One, it's quart a past Bryan Bridge
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  Speaker 3: more delays on the India FTA labors laying down conditions.
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  Speaker 3: They want requirements around migrant work of protections, one on education.
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  Speaker 3: They are also worried about the thirty three billion bucks
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  Speaker 3: of private investment that'll have to go into India from
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  Speaker 3: here over the next fifteen years. Kate Ackland is beef
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  Speaker 3: and nambed here with me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Morning.
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  Speaker 3: Kate Moring right, first two I think likely to be
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  Speaker 3: dealt with. I think we can cross them off. But
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  Speaker 3: this investment, the thirty three billion, have you asked about that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, are you worried about that? Happens quite a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money.
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  Speaker 9: Look, obviously I'm not across the details of what's in
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  Speaker 9: the agreement other than what we've all heard, But look,
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  Speaker 9: it is really important that we get the details right.
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  Speaker 9: But look, these agreements are so critical for New Zealand
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  Speaker 9: and in an uncertain world, we actually need to lock
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  Speaker 9: in all the market access where we can. So it
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  Speaker 9: is important that the party's work together and get this sorted.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, but it does seem like
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  Speaker 3: an incredible amount of money, doesn't it over fifteen years?
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  Speaker 3: Like it's way more than what New Zealand invested into
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  Speaker 3: China in the fifteen years after the New Zealand China FTA,
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  Speaker 3: and that included dairy and a lot of that investment
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  Speaker 3: was dairy. So you do kind of scratch ahead and
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  Speaker 3: think how although McClay seems to say that it's more
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  Speaker 3: of a target than a hard and fast rule, so
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  Speaker 3: I suppose that's something.
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  Speaker 9: We absolutely and potentially this agreement could be as important
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  Speaker 9: as the China deal, but getting those details right and
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  Speaker 9: thought it is important.
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  Speaker 2: Kate. Have you heard from Labor on this.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, We've been talking broadly across government and look, I
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  Speaker 9: think traditionally a real strength of New Zealand trade has
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  Speaker 9: been that by part of the support for these deals.
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  Speaker 9: So I think there is a willingness.
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  Speaker 3: There that has Labor approached you and said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at whether we support this deal.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what do you guys think, or anything like that.
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  Speaker 9: No, they haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: But McLay has been in touch for all the government's
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  Speaker 3: been in touch with you guys.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, look, and we've been very open about how important
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  Speaker 9: these agreements are. We need to actually this is one
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  Speaker 9: more option in a really troubled world, so we need
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  Speaker 9: to be locking this agreement. And well, we can.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Kate. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Kate Eckland a beef and lamb chair with us this morning. Oh, Kate,
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  Speaker 3: any word from farmers yet over that We've had obviously
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  Speaker 3: some pretty bad weather over the last few days.
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  Speaker 2: What have have you had any reports?
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  Speaker 9: Look, there are some farmers who are just bearing the
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  Speaker 9: brunt obvious weather again, particularly up central North Island in
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  Speaker 9: the East coast. So look, I think that will tell
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  Speaker 9: how how serious that damage is. But look, yeah, absolutely
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  Speaker 9: concerning Kate.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate your time, Kate Eckland, Beef and lamb chair.
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  Speaker 3: It is five eighteen. You're on news Talk to there
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  Speaker 3: be Andrew here was support next.
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  Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
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  Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Roote Love Where you live
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  Speaker 1: News talks'd be five twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Jack says McClay says, this is an aspirational target. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's what That was my understanding of what he said
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  Speaker 3: at the weekend about the amount that New Zealand will
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  Speaker 3: have to invest into India to make this deal work.
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  Speaker 3: Mary says, Ryan, I'm afraid Wellington is very windy. The
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  Speaker 3: wind down here is highly exaggerated by the Auckland media.
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  Speaker 3: But we do which you know, which the Auklad media
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  Speaker 3: tends to do from time to time, But we do
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  Speaker 3: get strong wind from time to time and today is
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  Speaker 3: one of those days. Good morning to you, Mary, and
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  Speaker 3: just don't go out in the wind because remember what's
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 7: The public health advice we had is that seas break
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  Speaker 7: has the potential to carry you in a contaminated water,
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  Speaker 7: so you just have to be really careful.
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  Speaker 2: That great day to be in the capital. Twenty one
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  Speaker 2: after five.
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  Speaker 3: Was fort morning, Andrew, greetings Ryan on that chaper note. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: it's a beautiful weekend to be in Auckland. I was
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  Speaker 3: down at sale GP. Just so cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's a great event, is it, But of course this
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  Speaker 5: terrible excellent though. I mean it's high octane stuff and
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  Speaker 5: it's the price you payers. And hopefully Lewis Sinkley and
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  Speaker 5: the New Zealand team Sailor is going to be all
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  Speaker 5: right with this fractured leg et cetera after the accident
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  Speaker 5: with France. Curiously, given that they're not one of the
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  Speaker 5: privately owned teams in New Zealander, so the salty people
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  Speaker 5: will be footing the bill. Russell's probably not too happy
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  Speaker 5: with that, but there you go.
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  Speaker 2: So do you what do we think?
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  Speaker 3: Are they going to tighten the rules that I know
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  Speaker 3: they went to the sort of the splitting the boats
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  Speaker 3: up for the second day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was that's their ambition. I think for next season.
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  Speaker 5: It's stood if you have I think at fourteen teams
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  Speaker 5: you go seven and seven, which because it gets pretty
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  Speaker 5: congested out there. I mean, that is a real lottery
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  Speaker 5: it again, and that's.
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  Speaker 2: The that's part of the thrill as well.
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  Speaker 5: It is it is, that's why people are there on
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  Speaker 5: the waterfront. I mean, it's just such a great event,
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  Speaker 5: you know, over overall, I think, yeah, you take these
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  Speaker 5: accidents out of the equation, but they've really got something there.
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  Speaker 5: Especially if you're an America's Cup you'd be worried, wouldn't you,
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  Speaker 5: that this is really the it becomes the pre eminent
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  Speaker 5: event for my mind.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred agree the Winter Olympics, we had Alice Robinson.
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  Speaker 5: Overnight, we did Alice Robinson eighth in the Giant slalom.
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  Speaker 5: Frederica Brignoni, the Italian Queen of the Dolomites. She has
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  Speaker 5: been referred to now she's got the Super g and
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  Speaker 5: the Giant Slalom titles. But the best New Zealand News
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  Speaker 5: overnight Dame Menzies is top of snowboard slopestyle in the
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  Speaker 5: qualifying so he'll go into Thursday. He's final as a well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, potential medalist again.
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  Speaker 3: Britiant and we have India Pakistan in action at the
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  Speaker 3: two twenty World Cup.
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  Speaker 5: We do this is this is the biggest game in
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  Speaker 5: all of cricket, if not one of the world sports
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  Speaker 5: biggest games, just because of the sheer price tag that
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  Speaker 5: comes with what broadcasters will pay to broadcast this game
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  Speaker 5: in India. It cent around beyond and it means that
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  Speaker 5: the whole world of cricket benefits from the trickle down
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  Speaker 5: effect as a result of that India dominating at the
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  Speaker 5: moment those seventy eight for seven, I think they had Pakistan,
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  Speaker 5: Pakistan chasing one seventy six, but that was in the
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  Speaker 5: thirteenth overs India dominant.
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  Speaker 3: Brilliant Andrew, Thank you Andrew Wilson. He was sport appreciating
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  Speaker 3: time twenty three minutes after five news talks.
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  Speaker 2: They'd been brand now.
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  Speaker 3: You might have seen it the week in the Act
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  Speaker 3: Party had their little you know, election year rack up
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  Speaker 3: for the troops, and I have to say I very
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  Speaker 3: much agreed with the sentiment that David Seymour was trying
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  Speaker 3: to get across about the size of government and the
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  Speaker 3: number of portfolios. I mean, he was talking about how
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  Speaker 3: many people on cabinet, but we have eighty one portfolios
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  Speaker 3: in this country. Ireland, Norway, Singapore and Finland they all
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  Speaker 3: have fewer than twenty. The UK, Canada, the US, Korea,
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  Speaker 3: go have a look at them. They've got fewer than thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Why do we have eighty one? It's absolutely ridiculous. I
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  Speaker 3: actually went back and look William Massey he was PM,
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  Speaker 3: well he was until his death in office in ninety twenties.
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  Speaker 3: He had a cabinet of ten ministers and a little
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  Speaker 3: over thirty portfolios. So it can be done in this country.
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  Speaker 3: Why do we need eighty one portfolios?
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  Speaker 2: It's outrageous.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a minister for everything, three children's ministers, and
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  Speaker 3: that tells you why you have ministers. It's because it's
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  Speaker 3: a pr game, isn't it. Everyone feels sorry for children,
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  Speaker 3: so you have three ministers for them. Like that's going
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  Speaker 3: to change anything. Do we have fewer child death no
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  Speaker 3: more children out of poverty?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just absurd. And in the meantime, you're
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  Speaker 3: throwing all this money and resource at what and for
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  Speaker 3: the government departments. I heard the Union on earlier complaining
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  Speaker 3: about this. I think it would actually make life easier
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  Speaker 3: for bureaucrats if you had fewer ministers to and ministerial
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  Speaker 3: portfolios to report to. Twenty five after five the.
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  Speaker 2: Dogs at Me.
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  Speaker 3: Five twenty seven on your Monday morning. Full credit to
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  Speaker 3: Tom Slingsby in the Aussies on their victory over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously didn't hurt that the black foils and burling and
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  Speaker 3: the French for that matter, crashed out, which was brutal
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  Speaker 3: to watch. I had the pleasure of being there on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday in the grandstand and you get a sense of
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  Speaker 3: how fast these boats are going, and how close to
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  Speaker 3: one another they are is frightening. But that's what makes
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  Speaker 3: it such a thrill, isn't it. You're not meant to
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  Speaker 3: say that, but everybody there on Saturday was pretty much
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  Speaker 3: as hyped about the near misses and the close calls
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  Speaker 3: as they were about the results in the actual racing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's just human nature. You can't look
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  Speaker 3: away from a car crash, can you. It's the same
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  Speaker 3: reason UFC is nipping at the heels of boxing and
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  Speaker 3: we've got run it straight. You know, they're actually making money.
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  Speaker 3: People have been paid now to run into each other
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  Speaker 3: for sport. We like the excitement of somebody possibly getting
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  Speaker 3: hurt or injured. I know it's sick, but it's true,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it. Throw in the fact that athletes take the risks,
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  Speaker 3: hopefully calculated ones, and come out victorious, and you have
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  Speaker 3: yourself an afternoon of entertainment. There's skill and talent and
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  Speaker 3: technology involved, no doubt about it. But you wouldn't turn
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  Speaker 3: up to watch a sale GP boat race itself, would you.
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  Speaker 3: The question is where the people would still be thrilled
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  Speaker 3: by this split feet format with fewer boats justlying for position.
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  Speaker 3: Which is a move that apparently was on the cards anyway.
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  Speaker 3: And if this is the first of many safety improvements,
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  Speaker 3: how different would the competition look and feel. Look at
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  Speaker 3: what happened to Rugby Union when safety overtook entertainment. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't give people action, they just go find it elsewhere. Now,
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  Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I want crashes
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  Speaker 3: galore and let's throw caution to the wind and create
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  Speaker 3: the equivalent of bumper cars on water. But it must
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: surely be something that the organizers will be thinking about
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: and toying with. And as for Burling, on the day,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: people were saying, oh, did he push.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: It too far?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: If he executed the exact same race in one without crashing,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: nobody would be complaining, would they. But that's the thing
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: about this competition. It's fractions of technology, weather conditions that
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: make a difference. There's talk that has Rudder failed him?
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Was that driver induced failure or just bad luck? No
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: one wins playing safe and people don't watch sport for
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: safety features. But at the same time, to win a race,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: you've got to finish it, and that lesson more than
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: any change to the rules might be. What Slow's drivers
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: like burling down.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: A touch in the future. News Talk said b.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof love where you Live. News Talk
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: said by quarter Sex.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: News Talk said b Eden Park's getting more concerts.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Will look at that before six will be in the
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: UK with Gavin Gravery shortly over in the US.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I was reading it the weekend.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: You know Kirsty Gnome, who's the Department of Homeland Security.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Boss or administration, so they're equivalent.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: She's the one that's she's quite pretty and she's always
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: got to hear very well done for the press conferences.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: They always accuse her and the reason I mentioned is
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: that they always accuse her of just being there for
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: the press and you're kind of stealing all the limelight
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: but not actually being very effective. What she does is
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: fire people. She loves to get rid of staff. So
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: since she started, she fired or demoted eighty percent of
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: the ice field Agent leadership team. This is lots of people.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Eighty percent of the Korea ice Field Leadership team was
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: either fired or demoted since she started. And this thing
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: came out at the weekend about her. They call it
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: blanket gait. So she's on a private plane because that's
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: how you get flown around when you're that you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: high up in their cabinet. She's flying around and she's
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: had to switch planes because there was a maintenance. As
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: she with her first plane, it's cold, so she's got
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: a blanket now, her blanket wasn't moved from the first
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: plane to the second plane. And there was a coastguard
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: pilot who was apparently that's also his job, like, not
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: only you meant to fly a plane, but you're also
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: meant to look after kursting noam's blanket. They fire this
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: guy forginning to take a blanket from one plane to
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the other. However, and so they say, go and take
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: a commercial flight home from wherever they were. Once they
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: reached their destination, they eventually had to reinstate them because
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: no one else was available to fly them home.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: How I'm said, you can take things too far Bridge
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: when he took away from the Sex.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: It's going to our reporters, Colums and den Hey cullum morning, right,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: so we've had flow week and we know what that is.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Now it's it's time for O.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Week's time for the actual O week Orientation week and
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: the celebrations kickoff in the need and this week, although
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: they have already begun. Absolute scenes in Castle Street on
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: Saturday night if you want to look up the videos
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: of the parties there like we've never seen before. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: there's a full calendar for the student's first week this week,
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: both day and nighttime events of course, including the renowned
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: Toga party there, DJs everywhere, movie nights and International Food Festival.
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: It's all laid on for them. The Student Association president,
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: this is Daniel Lemi. He's advising students not to go
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: too hard, too early. It's a big week, he says,
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: coming to university, especially since most of from out of town,
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: and he's urging them to look after each other. Police
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: it's the same message this week, Ryan. They're urging students
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: not to engage in risky behaviors, stay off buildings and
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: throwing bottles, and they will be out in numbers this week.
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: They're promising to make sure all students stay safe.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, just pace yourselves, pace yourselves. How's your weather?
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: Occasional rain for us here southerly is today fourteen.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks Callum cleis in christ this morning.
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: Claire, good morning.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I saw this out east of the boil water notice
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: and some people not sure initially why it was issued
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: that just said boil water.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 12: So while I was one of the residents that got
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: to the mobile emergency alert on Saturday and when this happened,
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: it came to completely out of the blue, residents on
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: lots of the eastern side of Christchurch, but more specifically
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: suburbs like New Brighton, Burwood, Wine nor Artanui and South
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: Shore were told they needed to immediately begin boiling water.
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: They were given instructions around how long to boil it
• 21:14
  Speaker 12: to ensure that it was safe. There was very little
• 21:17
  Speaker 12: detail other than that, and when you clicked on the
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: link to go through to the council website to find
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: more information, you couldn't get there. So residents obviously went
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: into panic. Within minutes, there were local supermarkets selling out
• 21:27
  Speaker 12: of bottled water. It was very much like COVID times.
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: City Council says there is some bacteria found in the
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: RFT water zone. They say yesterday that the wider results
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: are starting to look good, but they do need three
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: days of good results in order to satisfy Toma to
• 21:43
  Speaker 12: Adoway and be able to lift the notice. There's some
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: concern around the communication around this. Linwood councilor Yanni Johansson
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: says people need to know a bit more detail. They
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: need to know exactly what streets are affected, how they
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: can get water, if supermarkets are sold out, and how
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: schools are going to this morning. He says people on
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: the East are simply at their wits end having to
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: deal with the Bromley stench that we talk about here
• 22:06
  Speaker 12: all the time, and they do need more clarity around
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: why this is happening.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. You can't breathe, you can't drink. I mean,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: what do you meant to do? Clear? How's your weather?
• 22:17
  Speaker 12: Well, miserable weather to go with it today, we've got
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: a heavy rain morning in place for Banks Peninsula and
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: North Canterbury up to Caikoda. There's also a watch in
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: place for the Canterbury Plains. Southwesterly is becoming strong and
• 22:28
  Speaker 12: for christt City fifteen degrees.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks cleiar. A big storm near Max? Hey Max,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: good morning, how's it going? Yeah?
• 22:35
  Speaker 13: Well, I don't think I can do justice quite how
• 22:38
  Speaker 13: strong these winds have been here in Wellington overnight. Literally
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: just leaving my home this morning, a very large tree
• 22:44
  Speaker 13: had come down right next to my car. Thankfully it
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: didn't have hit my car, but just driving to work,
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: trees down everywhere, rubbish strewn across the streets, gusting well
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: over one hundred up to one hundred and thirty one
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: hundred and forty. It appears as if power has gone
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: out for thousands of homes across Wellington. Wellington Electricity reporting
• 23:04
  Speaker 13: well over twelve thousand outages virtually in every suburb of
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: the region. Nothing is really taking off or landing at
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: Wellington Airport. All train services have been canceled just in
• 23:15
  Speaker 13: the past hour or so until at least ten a m.
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: No ferry crossings either. It is as intense, I think,
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: as I've ever seen the wind, and that's saying something.
• 23:24
  Speaker 13: Everything's shaking, everything's creaking. Manu Wa two really badly hit
• 23:28
  Speaker 13: as well. Evacuations and power cuts. They're over fourteen thousand
• 23:31
  Speaker 13: power cuts across the region, a risk of flooding. Parts
• 23:35
  Speaker 13: of Ashurst near Palmerston North evacuated. State Highway One is
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: closed in parts between Tai Happe and Ohingaiti and at Foxton.
• 23:43
  Speaker 13: I think the message is to take care if you
• 23:46
  Speaker 13: are leaving home this morning. And we'll keep you updated.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm glad you said that, because someone ticks
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: an earliest saying are you Auckland media hyping up the
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: wind and Wellington?
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: No, I'll be you know, look, we'll be reporting on this.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: I think all morning, and I think which is going
• 24:00
  Speaker 13: to be quite expensive.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: All right, next think you take care, get stay inside,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: stay safe. Neva's nor can hey Neva, good morning. So
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: we've got Shane Jones taking action on the rock pools.
• 24:11
  Speaker 14: Yes, and look it's hoped that more vulnerable marine ecosystems
• 24:15
  Speaker 14: can be protected yet quite right as the government steps
• 24:18
  Speaker 14: into safeguard one of them. So what we know is
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: that there's going to be a two year ban on
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: the taking of a range of invertebrate in seaweed species
• 24:26
  Speaker 14: from rock pools at funger Padole. We're peninsulas. So Mark Lenton,
• 24:30
  Speaker 14: he's the founder of Protect fung of Pedol Rock Pools group.
• 24:33
  Speaker 14: He says this shouldn't be a one off. Ideally, he's
• 24:36
  Speaker 14: saying that this is a blueprint for the entire country.
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: And you know what, if you stand up and make
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: enough noise can make a difference.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm very good and just I think when you're
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: approaching people, because there's a lot of racial undertones to
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: all of this stuff. Just don't be aggressive, just be
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: normal and just call the fisheries officers if you've got concerns.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: That's what people should do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 14: Just you know, take it easy, take it easy, don't
• 25:01
  Speaker 14: you violent? You're quite right.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, how's our wither?
• 25:04
  Speaker 15: Okay?
• 25:04
  Speaker 14: Partly cloudy, was isolated, showers strong Southwesterli is easing this afternoon.
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: Twenty two is the high here in Auckland.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: All right, Nev, thank you very much. Coming up the Navealni,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: you know, the Russian opposition leader that was killed, a
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: lot of Europeans saying it was by the Kremlin and
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: by a frog. We'll talk about that with our UK correspondent.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Next international correspondence with insign Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Fourteen of sex will go to our UK correspondent, Gavin Gray. Gavin,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: good morning, Hi there, Right, so we've got the Kremlin
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: accused of assassinating the opposition leader Novealni with a.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Frog, yes, believe it or not, with the poison from
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: quite a rare frog. Now Alexi Navali had of course
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: died in a penal collar colon Lee in Siberia about
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: two years ago, and now Britain has blamed the Kremlin
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: for basically killing him. Navali was an anti corruption campaigner,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Russia's most vociferous opposition leader, and he died suddenly in
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: jail back in February twenty twenty four at the age
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: of just forty seven. Earlier, he'd been poisoned with a
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Novichok nerve agent. He underwent treatment in Germany but then
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: said I've got to go back to Russia because that
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: is my country and I want to see better days there.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: But he was quickly arrested and then imprisoned, and it
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: was there that he mysteriously died well. According to samples
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: of tissues taken from his body, the UK, in conjunction
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: with Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands say he was
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: actually killed using a poison developed from the dart frog toxin.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: And apparently this is a special type of frog from
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: South America. And they're saying, look that frog is not
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: alive and in the wild in Russia, it's too cold
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: in Russia. So Russia, they believe, they're claiming, must have
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: a laboratory we're basically breathing these frogs in order to
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: extract the poison. The Kremlin is saying this is all nonsense.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Goodness mate, right now, tell us about the latest problem
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: for the Loop.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: You know, it's just seems so long ago, doesn't it,
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: since the French Crown Jewels were taken. But since then
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: we've had one hallway flooding which has led to damage
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: to hundreds of books. We then had a couple of
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: galleries closed because a structure of damage, and believe it
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: or not, here we go again. There's been another leak
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: at the Louver which has damaged a nineteenth century ceiling painting,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: and it was room seven oh seven. It was a
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: heating pipe which ruptured, the water was flowing down for
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: more than forty minutes, and bits of the painting have
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: lifted away from their course. So it's going to be
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: a very difficult job to reinstate this particular artwork. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: of course one must remember that in the report about
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: that French heist in daylight of the French Crown Jewels,
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: the report afterwards said, you know that the trustees of
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: the museum have spent more time and effort buying new
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: artifacts than preserve those that we have. So a very
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: embarrassing week for the Loover, particularly as it's also reported
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: from the police in France that nine people have been detained,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: including two museum staff, over a suspected ticket fraud scheme.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid it doesn't get any better for one of
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: the world's most visited galleries.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Certainly doesn't Gavin appreciate that? Thank you, Devin Gray are
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: UK you're correspondent. It is eleven to six Bryan Bridge.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Good news on the events front, well, unless you're helling Clark,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I suppose living nearby Eden Park. The government's allowing them
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: to host twelve large and twenty medium sized concerts a year,
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: any day of the week, no need for a resource consent.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Currently they're only allowed twelve concerts a year total. VIVBG
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Heart of the City, Good morning, good morning, hey, before
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: we get to that great weekend over in Auckland.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: This weekend, wasn't it with sale gp we.
• 28:52
  Speaker 15: H the Valentine's Day cruise ship in town?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: It was brilliant, It was pet wasn't it?
• 28:57
  Speaker 15: Absolutely yeah? Great?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: So are we going to be pecked again for more
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: nights and on more occasions with this announcement.
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: Well, look, I haven't seen the detail, but it does
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: look like good news. For the central city. We do
• 29:09
  Speaker 15: benefit from major events, so yeah, I know it looks
• 29:13
  Speaker 15: like good news. I mean, I think back to Metallica
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: just before Christmas. That was absolutely brilliant. The fans stayed
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: around for days. I'm queuing around a block for merchandise
• 29:23
  Speaker 15: sales in the Central city. That was a really great,
• 29:28
  Speaker 15: major event. So yes, no, it does look like good news.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I went for a drive on Saturday night and just
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to check out the city, and it was about nine
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: o'clock at eight o'clock, nine o'clock, took my parents in
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: law around for a drive around Auckland and we're you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Viaduct pumping, Ponsonby Road pumping. It's all looking great. Restaurants
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: are full, bars are for k Road. Still a problem,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: isn't it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 15: Yeah, that's not our area. But so I wouldn't want
• 29:56
  Speaker 15: to speak for it, but that you know, you can
• 29:59
  Speaker 15: have a chat to about that. But I think twenty
• 30:01
  Speaker 15: twenty six from our perspective, it's a major turnaround. As
• 30:04
  Speaker 15: you know, we've talked many times we've had a tough
• 30:07
  Speaker 15: decad but this is a year that we're anticipating the
• 30:10
  Speaker 15: begin around. We saw the convention tender open last week.
• 30:14
  Speaker 15: That's going to be a game changer for that midtown
• 30:17
  Speaker 15: area and really help us drive that growth in the business.
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: Events which are also a major driver of economic value.
• 30:24
  Speaker 15: They attract jobs, high value visitors, international event investment, and exposure.
• 30:30
  Speaker 15: This is the big turnaround that we've been waiting for
• 30:33
  Speaker 15: and we're really excited about that.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that's good. And the city rail link to
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: all the stations are all well.
• 30:38
  Speaker 15: That's a part of it, predet part of it.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, leave it there.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you for beck Heart of the City with us
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: this morning. K Road is a bit like K Road
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: is to open what Wellington is to New Zealand at
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the moment. I think eight to six.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof where you Live News Talk
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: said be six.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Sixth, great to have your company this morning morning. Ryan's
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: his camera and the sale GP crash.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I look at it like the F one. They all
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: want to be leading going.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: Into the first turn, and so they all just crank
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: it and go helleful Leather. It's not really what you
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: want to see. But then it is sort of what
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: you want to see because it's exciting, but you just
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: don't want it to end the way that it ended
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, I suppose certainly Peter Burling
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: didn't want to see it in that way. Six to
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: six now and Mike's in the studio morning.
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: Mike calling gives you a good insight into you realize
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: the boats are sent back. There's a base in England. Yes,
• 31:36
  Speaker 11: so the boats are sent back to England. And so
• 31:38
  Speaker 11: if you look at F one, which is what this
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: essentially is, You've never seen a car crash and not
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: be available for the next meeting. If you think about
• 31:46
  Speaker 11: in fact Offen they crash and qualifying and they're available
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: for the.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Race, do they fix them in that short amount of
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: time or do they have spears that they expect?
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: So the whole thing falls apart and you just clip
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: on a new one. Basically, it's what it boils down to.
• 31:57
  Speaker 11: So it's interesting because I mean, you know, it's one
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: thing to crack, but you can't turn up for the
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: next week.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: That's the problem, you know what I mean.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: It's good to be fast and good to be first,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: but you've actually got to finish to win.
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: It's a funny thing because I talked to somebody about it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: I can't remember who it was, but the point being
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: you locked into a system whereby you have to foot
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: the bill for your damage, which is fine because it's
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: your damage, but the rules are because you've signed up
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: to a contest where the repair shops on the other
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: side of the world.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: So yeah, but the league is paying for the black
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Foils the sponsor. The other teams, their sponsors are paying.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Apparently the League is having to foot the bill for
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: this boat you pay to enter though it's the point
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: so you don't.
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: In other words, you're not able to run your business
• 32:40
  Speaker 11: the way you would want it, which is presumably down
• 32:42
  Speaker 11: here at the you know, on the waterfront of Auckland.
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: You could stitch the whole thing together and be in
• 32:46
  Speaker 11: Sitney here in a couple of weeks time.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying. It's a bit frustrating. I guess,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: did you watch it?
• 32:51
  Speaker 11: It's sort of yes and no. But the funny thing
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: was Sam, the producer, my producer, was there.
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  Speaker 3: He was.
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  Speaker 11: Having a fox to taken with the crash app with
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  Speaker 11: the Prime Minister facing the wrong way as happened.
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  Speaker 2: When the crash happened, I was getting a beer. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I did anyone see the crash? I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 11: I just everyone literally missed it. I just said it
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  Speaker 11: was just in the corporate hospitality tense. Prime Minister's with
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  Speaker 11: us this morning. By the way, we're into the weird
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  Speaker 11: season whereby we say stuff, small parties say stuff that
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  Speaker 11: you know full well will never come to pass.
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  Speaker 2: So sort of go getting rid of all those portfolios.
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  Speaker 11: Maori maori seats, portfolios, government departments. Is it ever going
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  Speaker 11: to come to you know, what's the point? Doesn't swing
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  Speaker 11: your vote? We don't need eighty one portfolios. We certainly
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  Speaker 11: do not, there's no question about that. But anyway, we'll
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  Speaker 11: talk to the Prime Minister about that in other matters.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant. All right, have a great morning everyone. See tomorrow.
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