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Full Show Podcast: 19 July 2024 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four. On the early edition with Smith City,
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Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture Beds and a play a store.
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Speaker 2: US Talk said, be good morning. It is six after five.
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Speaker 2: Year on news Talk said, be welcome to your Friday morning.
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Speaker 2: We're nearly there. Everybody coming up on the show this morning.
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Speaker 2: Trump's first speech since that assassination attempts it's taking place today.
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Speaker 2: Should we be worried about all the America First rhetoric
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Speaker 2: that we're hearing from the RNC convention in Milwaukee. Marco
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Speaker 2: Rubio's former chief of staff, is with us just before
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Speaker 2: six to break that down. Also this morning, what's more
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Speaker 2: important stopping adults smoking cigarettes or preventing kids from starting
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Speaker 2: to vape? That's the question for you just before six thirty.
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Speaker 2: Right now it is seven after five, the agenda. It
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Speaker 2: is Friday, the nineteenth of July. SEEK Job data is
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Speaker 2: out showing the number of job ads dropped by eight
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Speaker 2: percent in June and thirty five percent year on year.
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Speaker 2: Country manager Rob Clark says the fall and job ads
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Speaker 2: is in line with the current economic climate and the
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Speaker 2: growing unemployment rate.
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Speaker 3: It's pretty widespread, and you know, the Preserve Bank still
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Speaker 3: predicts unemployment to rise. A lot of the consumer and
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Speaker 3: business confidence measures are low.
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Speaker 2: Ursula Vondalane will serve another five years as President of
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Speaker 2: the European Commission following a vote among members of the
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Speaker 2: European Parliament. Four hundred and one members voted to keep
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Speaker 2: her in the role, forty one more than needed. So
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Speaker 2: you can imagine this is a very emotional and special
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Speaker 2: moment for me.
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Speaker 4: Now, I am grateful for.
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Speaker 5: The trust and the confidence of the majority of the
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Speaker 5: European Parliament.
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Speaker 2: She's from the center right European People's Party and was
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Speaker 2: first elected in twenty nineteen, so that's still be two
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Speaker 2: terms for her. And interestingly to get her across the line,
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Speaker 2: she needed the Green means the far right doesn't like
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Speaker 2: her to the UK. Now, five climate protesters who blocked
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Speaker 2: the major M twenty five motorway for four days have
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Speaker 2: been jailed. Forty five protesters from Just Stop Oil blocked
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Speaker 2: the road in November twenty twenty two, causing major gridlock
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Speaker 2: across southern England. Of the five get this, one was
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Speaker 2: sentenced to five years in prison. The others got four years.
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Speaker 2: That is how you stop a protest. It's eight after five.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you Trust to start your day's early
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Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture
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Speaker 1: Beds and a flying store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be you couldn't get a stark contrast
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Speaker 2: between Biden and Trump at the moment, could you. There's
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Speaker 2: Biden clenching his first bloodied face, defiant in the face
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Speaker 2: of a bullet. I mean, you want to hear what
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Speaker 2: they're saying at this RNC. Let's call it a rally,
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Speaker 2: because the number of times they shout Usa, USA, I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't know how they have the stamina for it.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, you couldn't have a stark contract between Trump,
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Speaker 2: who looks to be strong, and Biden, who is now
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Speaker 2: isolating at his beach house because he's got COVID and
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Speaker 2: I just wanted to And also Pelosi's breathing down his
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Speaker 2: neck again. Apparently they had a private call and she's
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Speaker 2: trying to get him off the ticket and trying to
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Speaker 2: convince him to leave, and he's getting angry and saying no.
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Speaker 2: So he's at home at the beach house with his
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Speaker 2: feet up with COVID at the moment. But have a
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Speaker 2: listen to this. This was a new interview that's on YouTube.
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Speaker 2: He was asked a couple of questions which he stumbled on.
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Speaker 2: The first was his answer to a question about when
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Speaker 2: Obama tapped him to be his VP.
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Speaker 6: Listen, I didn't plan him because when I in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 6: when broadcasted me vice president, I joined him, which is
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Speaker 6: a great.
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Speaker 2: Honor in twenty twenty, it was actually two thousand and
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Speaker 2: eight that Obama tapped him on the shoulder to be
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Speaker 2: his vice president. He was also asked about Trump's moves
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Speaker 2: to get black voters on board, and this is what
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Speaker 2: he said every.
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Speaker 6: Time every election that I ran and where it was
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Speaker 6: a nine year off here, I got over ninety seven
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Speaker 6: of the blackfoot and the number of folks participating didn't
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Speaker 6: slow down because it didn't reduce. So look, I you
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Speaker 6: know Trump.
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Speaker 2: Action, what what is he even saying? So it's not
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Speaker 2: a not a great time for the Democrats at the moment. Interestingly,
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Speaker 2: we're going to speak to Marco Rubio's chief precator, chief
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Speaker 2: press secretary later in the show, and he said, Marco Rubio,
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Speaker 2: that is he tweeted, why is it if you're a
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Speaker 2: Democrat and you don't believe that Trump, sorry, that Biden
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Speaker 2: can be a candidate for president. Why is he fit
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Speaker 2: to even be the president right now? So we're going
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Speaker 2: to talk to him about that later on. The Democrats,
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Speaker 2: they tried to have this vote to this procedural vote before
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Speaker 2: the nomination takes place at their convention next month. That
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Speaker 2: has failed. So it's the fundraising apparently has stalled because
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Speaker 2: of Biden's performance. So things aren't looking good for the Democrats.
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Speaker 2: You'd have to say, the question is when can you
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Speaker 2: actually get rid of it, rid of him if that's
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Speaker 2: what you want to do. The convention is in Chicago,
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Speaker 2: that's midway through next month. If he doesn't stand aside
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Speaker 2: by then it starts to get very very difficult, very
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Speaker 2: difficult to change the candidate. And what if he freezes
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Speaker 2: up on camera again? What do you do then then?
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Speaker 2: And you know, then the elections weeks away. It's far
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Speaker 2: too late to change a candidate. Then we'll talk about
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Speaker 2: all of this just before six, right now, eleven after five.
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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we are debating vaping, heated tobacco products
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Speaker 2: versus cigarettes.
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Speaker 1: The News you Need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: Analysis Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New
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Speaker 1: Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
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Speaker 2: News Talk sai'd be fourteen after five. The government has
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Speaker 2: quietly cut excise tax on heated tobacco products by fifty percent.
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Speaker 2: A spokesperson for the Associate Health Minister, Casey Costello, says
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Speaker 2: the move was made to encourage smokers to switch to
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Speaker 2: safer alternatives. However, critics say there is no evidence at
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Speaker 2: will work, saying that they have opened a pathway for
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Speaker 2: youth nicotine addiction. Chris Bollin is with the Health Coalition
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Speaker 2: Altered Aron is with me this morning. Chris, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Are these heated tobacco products safer than smoking?
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Speaker 3: Well, they probably are a little safer, but we don't
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Speaker 3: have a huge amount of independent research information on these products.
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Speaker 3: Most of the data we have on them is from
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Speaker 3: tobacco industry commissioned research, so there is a question mark.
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Speaker 3: But to say, I guess the important point is do
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Speaker 3: they work to help people quit smoking? Which seems to
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Speaker 3: be what the minister is interested in using them for,
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Speaker 3: and there's absolutely no independent research about that side of
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Speaker 3: these products.
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Speaker 2: Is there arristic kids will start using them? Is there
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Speaker 2: evidence that kids start using them they have never smoked
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Speaker 2: or vaped before.
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Speaker 3: The kids use one is an interesting one. There's limited evidence,
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Speaker 3: but what we know is that once the price is reduced,
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Speaker 3: then new, interesting, novel products to become interesting, more accessible
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Speaker 3: to young people who have limited dispos of disposable income. So,
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Speaker 3: considering their price point now, which is quite high, this
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Speaker 3: removal of fifty percent of the tax will make them
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Speaker 3: much more affordable. And therefore there is a risk.
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Speaker 2: When you say young people, we don't mean teenagers do
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Speaker 2: because they're not allowed to buy any of this stuffeat well.
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Speaker 3: Strictly speaking, they're not allowed to if they are under eighteen,
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Speaker 3: that's correct, but we're talking about eighteen to thirty year olds,
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Speaker 3: and that's really a generation that has the opportunity to
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Speaker 3: not get involved with nicotine or tobacco dependence and save
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Speaker 3: themselves a lot of misery later in life.
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Speaker 2: Chris, what's more important, because that seems to me you
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Speaker 2: can't have your cake and eat it too. What's more
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Speaker 2: important stopping adults from smoking cigarettes or preventing kids from
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Speaker 2: starting a vape or a heated tobacco product.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't think it's quite as sort of clear
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Speaker 3: cut and dichotomis as that the fact is for adults
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Speaker 3: who are currently smoking, they've got real and present threat
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Speaker 3: their life expectancy. They're risk at having a heart attack
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Speaker 3: or cancers is very high, and so it's important that
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Speaker 3: we get that almost a quarter of a million New
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Speaker 3: Zealanders who are currently still smoking to quit smoking as
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Speaker 3: soon as possible. So there is a sense of urgency here. However,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's a sort of there is a risk
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Speaker 3: that with introducing new products that are untested that and
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Speaker 3: are supported by a huge marketing effort from the industries
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Speaker 3: behind them, that we will see a large number of
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Speaker 3: young people taking up the products who've never smoked. And
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Speaker 3: that's been the problem with vping, where you've got a
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Speaker 3: good product in the case of vaping that's been tested
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Speaker 3: in trials in Charine, they effective, but the regulation has
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Speaker 3: not been enforced in the marketing to been free rein
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Speaker 3: So we don't want that to happen with these new products. Chris,
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Speaker 3: I think that's a real risk.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you very much for your time. Appreciate
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Speaker 2: it this morning. That's crispull And who's the Health Coalition
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Speaker 2: alted our spokesperson, just gone seventeen minutes after five here
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Speaker 2: on news Talks, he'd be, I don't know. I think
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Speaker 2: if you're if you're a smoker, still a smoker now
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Speaker 2: you're paying but somewhere between forty and fifty dollars for
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Speaker 2: a pack of twenty cigarettes, if you're still smoking when
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Speaker 2: cigarettes are that expensive, and supposedly there's a lower income
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Speaker 2: households that are that are still smoking. I mean, how
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Speaker 2: do you even do that? How do you even afford that?
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Speaker 2: If you're still doing it now, you must be so
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Speaker 2: stubborn or addicted that you know, is anything really going
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Speaker 2: to change? I don't know. Just got eighteen after five
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Speaker 2: here on news Talks. Here be new benefit numbers out,
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Speaker 2: will have those few 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 Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
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Speaker 1: Beds and a play at store news Talk set'd be it's.
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Speaker 2: Gone twenty past five. Text here from Shan says, I
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Speaker 2: can remember when vaping first entered the market, the anti
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Speaker 2: smoking lobby were dead for it. They said it would
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Speaker 2: stop people smoking cigarettes. Now they're turning around and attacking
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Speaker 2: that and the heated tobacco products. Right, it is a
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Speaker 2: twenty aufter five of us. As I say, the number
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Speaker 2: of people on a benefit has risen to a new
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Speaker 2: record for the June quarter. That's three hundred and eighty
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Speaker 2: one thousand people, an increase of twenty nine thousand from
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Speaker 2: the same time last year. And get this, this is
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Speaker 2: the job seeker numbers, those are ready for work, one
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen thousand people, up nearly fifteen percent year
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Speaker 2: on year. The number of benefit sanctions issued by the
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Speaker 2: Ministry of Social Development is also up fifty percent on
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Speaker 2: the same time last year. Craig Rennie is an economist
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Speaker 2: and policy director for the Council of Trade Unions. He's
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Speaker 2: with me this morning. Craig, good morning to you. Good morning.
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Speaker 2: First of all, what's your reaction to the numbers. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's going to keep going up, the number of people
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Speaker 2: on the jobs you could benefit, right, because of the
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Speaker 2: state of the economy.
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Speaker 7: You're absolutely right, And the number of people on the
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Speaker 7: topic of benefit is going to keep rising. The Treasury
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Speaker 7: forecasts that the number of people who were unemployed will
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Speaker 7: rise by about forty seven thousand since the Discoverment has
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Speaker 7: taken office, just because of the changing economic background, but
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Speaker 7: also we had record low unemployment until very recently, and
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Speaker 7: so it's heading back into more normal territory.
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Speaker 2: So is this a necessarily a bad thing? We kind
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Speaker 2: of need We kind of need this, don't we in
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Speaker 2: some ways to rebalance the economy and get the interest
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Speaker 2: rates down.
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Speaker 7: Unemployment is always a bad thing. The more people who
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Speaker 7: are in work, there are more households with more money
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Speaker 7: in their pockets, and poverty falls. People are better off.
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Speaker 7: Unemployment is never a thing that you're trying to aim.
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Speaker 7: It's always thing you should be trying to avoid. And
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Speaker 7: the best evidence from New Zealand is that the impact
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Speaker 7: of unemployment is felt far more than the impact of
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Speaker 7: the cost of living on the households.
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Speaker 2: I guess if you're the government, you're looking at you know,
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Speaker 2: let's take for example, the public service cuts. You're better off,
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Speaker 2: aren't you having people and jobs that don't produce outcomes?
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Speaker 2: You're better off having them on a benefit. You know,
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Speaker 2: what's the point in having somebody in a job if
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Speaker 2: there's no good outcome in terms of public service delivery,
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Speaker 2: just for the sake of it.
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Speaker 7: That may be too, but we don't have any evidence
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Speaker 7: that those workers who are sitting there dost being fucked
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Speaker 7: weren't actually delivering anything. We have quite the opposite. We
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Speaker 7: have lots of evidence that those who are losing their
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Speaker 7: jobs were doing front lane, often front lane work in
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Speaker 7: New Zealand, and there are actually many of the people
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Speaker 7: we need to have in the country. We're losing skills
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Speaker 7: rapidly to offseas, precisely because we're cutting jobs in some
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Speaker 7: of these areas, and we're going to make it much
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Speaker 7: more difficult to deliver the claims of public services we
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Speaker 7: want to see in New Zealand if we lose many
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Speaker 7: of these people. So there's no evidence to support the
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Speaker 7: allegation at least that the people aren't doing anything. There
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Speaker 7: aren't contributing anything to New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Craig the sanctions on particularly those under twenty five. A
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Speaker 2: lot of who are about this yesterday, people saying it's terrible,
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Speaker 2: you know, particularly for the under twenty five. Isn't it
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Speaker 2: important that they have clear expectations and consequences if they
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Speaker 2: don't meet them.
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Speaker 7: It's very important that there's clear expectations and that there's
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Speaker 7: expectations work both ways. That people are very clear as
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Speaker 7: to what they should be able to access, how they
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Speaker 7: should be able to get support, but there's also very
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Speaker 7: clear that there use that there are rules that people
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Speaker 7: have to obade by. But when we look at the data,
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Speaker 7: there does seem to have been a really big shift
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Speaker 7: in the number of assumptions that have been delivered, particularly
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Speaker 7: in this last quarter, and ext questions of what's different
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Speaker 7: now with what was happening three months ago.
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Speaker 2: Craig, thanks very much for your time. That's Craig Rennie
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Speaker 2: who's with the Council of Trade Unions. Just gone twenty
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Speaker 2: four minutes after five. We're back in just a second
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Speaker 2: talking about school attendance.
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Speaker 1: Separating the fact from the section Kids Billy edition with
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Speaker 1: Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and Appliant Store News
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Speaker 1: Talk z'd.
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Speaker 2: Be twenty six after five. More than a quarter of
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Speaker 2: students skipped school the friday before King's Birthday weekend. More
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Speaker 2: than a quarter of our kids didn't show up to
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Speaker 2: class because they wanted a four day weekend. The question
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Speaker 2: is were they wagging or did Mum and Dad take
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Speaker 2: them on holiday wee weekend batch or a few days fishing.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps when I was at school, Mum would never have
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Speaker 2: allowed us to take a day off school for anything.
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Speaker 2: Really other than sickness, and only if it was serious.
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Speaker 2: We definitely weren't taken out of school for a holiday.
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Speaker 2: So why are parents allowing this to happen? Do you
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Speaker 2: think surely as a mum or a dad, as a parent,
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Speaker 2: a caregiver, you want the best for your kids, and
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Speaker 2: the evidence shows the more that at school learning, the
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Speaker 2: better off they'll be. The government is celebrating a slight
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Speaker 2: uptick in school attendance at the moment. The Ministry of
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Speaker 2: Education figures shows fifty three point one percent of students
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Speaker 2: attended regularly at school for term two. That's compared to
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Speaker 2: forty seven percent during the same time last year. So
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Speaker 2: a slight uptick, and I mean you've got to take
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Speaker 2: the wins where you can get them right. Other data
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Speaker 2: appears to show that term time trips to Fiji, for example,
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Speaker 2: are becoming a thing of the past. This is Flight
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Speaker 2: Center data showing that travel during the school term has
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Speaker 2: dropped thirty percent and they are going in the holidays
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Speaker 2: instead when it's more expensive. I suppose the question for
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Speaker 2: Seymour et l. Is whether the kids who are skipping
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Speaker 2: school because mum and dad want to take them skiing
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Speaker 2: would have ended up ram rating a dairy for example.
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Speaker 2: Because Seymour's argument is that if you're out of school,
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Speaker 2: you'll be committing crime. That you know, today's truancy crisis
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Speaker 2: is tomorrow's crime crisis. The question is whether that is
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Speaker 2: the case, or whether kids either wagging or skipping school
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Speaker 2: because their parents don't care is the bigger problem. It's
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Speaker 2: just gone twenty eight minutes after five.
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Speaker 8: Ryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Now there's a very bizarre story out of Italy, the
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Speaker 2: Italian journalist who's been ordered to pay five thousand euros
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Speaker 2: and damages because he did a Twitter post about the
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Speaker 2: prime minister, the Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney. He put
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Speaker 2: a picture up where he'd photoshopped her next to Mussolini,
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Speaker 2: the dictator, and I would have thought that is what
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Speaker 2: she would have been sewing for. But no, Actually the
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Speaker 2: reason that he got the fine is because he referred
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Speaker 2: to her as a little woman. He said, quote, you
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Speaker 2: don't scare me, you little woman. You're only four foot tall.
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Speaker 2: I can't even see you. And the court decided, actually, no,
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Speaker 2: we're okay with the Mussolini photoshop, but we're not okay
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Speaker 2: with what they called body shaming. So there you go.
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Speaker 2: He's been ordered to pay five thousand euros nine thousand
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Speaker 2: New Zealand dollars as a result of that, this journalist,
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Speaker 2: and she says is going to donate it to charity,
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Speaker 2: which is very nice of her. Yeah, according to various
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Speaker 2: Italian news outlets, she's actually one point sixty three meters
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Speaker 2: tool or five foot three. So I guess on that
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Speaker 2: basis it is defamation, you know. He he's making things up
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Speaker 2: about her height. Twenty nine minutes after five, News is
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Speaker 2: next and we are live to the Republican National Convention.
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Speaker 2: Just before six.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 1: furniture bids and a player store News talk zid be.
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Speaker 2: Good more. I twenty four away from six on news talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be lots of text coming in about education. I
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Speaker 2: sort of asked a question, why would you allow your
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Speaker 2: kid to take a quarter of all kids attending school
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Speaker 2: took the friday off before the long weekend, the King's
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Speaker 2: Birthday weekend? And I said, why would you do that?
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you rather your kids at school? Andy says the
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Speaker 2: key is the statement in school learning every parent and
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Speaker 2: kid knows these days that half the time spent at
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Speaker 2: school is doing bugger all. But that's the polite way
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Speaker 2: of putting it. And between all of the teachers only days,
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Speaker 2: the teacher development days, the union meetings, the kids are
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Speaker 2: at school more than the staff anyway, Andy, thanks for
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Speaker 2: your text. Another from one of our listeners, his morning, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: do you think the reason for people taking the Friday
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Speaker 2: off is because they've lost confidence in the schooling system altogether?
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Speaker 2: It's a very valid point. Twenty three minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six now. Yesterday the Republican National Convention. JD Vance was
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Speaker 2: obviously the headline act Trump's running mate, but actually I
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Speaker 2: thought the real star of the show was Kai Trump.
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Speaker 2: This is Donald Trump's seventeen year old granddaughter. She did
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Speaker 2: an address to the crowd which was very well received,
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Speaker 2: and apparently he's doing quite well on TikTok. And she
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Speaker 2: spoke about as she calls him Grandpa, spoke about Grandpa
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Speaker 2: calling her at school to talk about his golf game.
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Speaker 9: We played golf together. If I'm nine, as tim, he'll
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Speaker 9: try again. Inside of my head, I know, and he's
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Speaker 9: always surprised. I don't let him get to me. But
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Speaker 9: I have to remind him I'm a Trump two.
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Speaker 2: So let me go away from six. On news Talk ZEVB,
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Speaker 2: We're going to Emily Ansel, who's in Dunedin. Now, EMI controversy, controversy,
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Speaker 2: I should say, over the McDonald's Golden Arches and Wanica.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: The first public submissions to the Queenstown Lakes District Council
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Speaker 10: show the majority opposed granting consent for the restaurant to
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Speaker 10: open in the tourist town. Concerns include food waste pou
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Speaker 10: and local outlets losing business. Although Auckland University planning expert
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Speaker 10: Bell McKay says there's no mandate for submissions to influence
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Speaker 10: counsel's decision, he says it's likely it will be approved,
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Speaker 10: but with conditions like reducing hours or signage or altering
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Speaker 10: the color scheme.
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Speaker 2: Weather today Emily morning, low.
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Speaker 10: Cloud or fog, then fine with increasing high cloud northeasterlyes
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Speaker 10: with a high of eleven.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much. It's got to clear sherwood in christ Church. Clear.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe that it's actually already been a year
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Speaker 2: since the disappearance of Yan Fayebao.
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Speaker 11: Yes, Ryan, we can't believe it either. A search, of course,
20:38
Speaker 11: was sparked at twelve months ago today for the forty
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Speaker 11: four year old after she failed to pick up her
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Speaker 11: young daughter from after school care ting. Junkow will stand
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Speaker 11: trial for yan Feyboo's murder in October, although no body
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Speaker 11: has been found. Last year's search teams had focused around
20:53
Speaker 11: the Horswell River as well as Lake Alismere. Detective Inspector
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Speaker 11: Nikola Reeves is confirming that they're still looking. In a
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Speaker 11: recent search effort which saw them return to the Green
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Speaker 11: Park area that's near Lake Alismere, Reeve says they still
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Speaker 11: haven't found some items that formed part of a public
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Speaker 11: appeal last year, including clothing and fase, handbag contents and
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Speaker 11: a shovel.
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Speaker 2: Such a mystery, isn't it there? Weather today clear, low.
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Speaker 11: Cloud and patch night was a real clear to find
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Speaker 11: this afternoon before a few spots of rain again later
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Speaker 11: northeasterlies are high of twelve and six overnight.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Azaria House and Wellington. The art gallery in
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Speaker 2: the Capital that might have to close.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, so it's actually facing a lifeline. So the Capital
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Speaker 12: City Gallery was forced to close last month until twenty
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Speaker 12: twenty six, So quite a decent chunk of time due
21:44
Speaker 12: to disruptive construction in Civic Square. The Civic administration buildings
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Speaker 12: being demolished by the Council in some streets are closed
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Speaker 12: to traffic. A big crane also up their development of
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Speaker 12: a new building will take place once the demolition's done.
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Speaker 12: The council seeking to restore the civic heart of the city,
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Speaker 12: as it says other businesses near the site have previously
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Speaker 12: been considering taking legal action against the Wellington City Council,
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Speaker 12: suggesting the development is driving people out of the area.
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Speaker 12: Now City Gallery has announced its partnering with the National
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Speaker 12: Library to display some of its exhibitions while it is
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Speaker 12: out of action as that construction work goes on. Experience
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Speaker 12: Wellington's Diana Marsh says it's an exciting opportunity that allows
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Speaker 12: the galleries work to continue.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, thank you for that weather today.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it appears Auckland's fog has made its way to Wellington.
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Speaker 12: Quite a foggy morning today. Today's weather fine apart from
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Speaker 12: areas of morning fog, low cloud becoming mostly cloudy with
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Speaker 12: the odd evening shower high of fifteen today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Never regymind is with us in Auckland.
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Speaker 5: So that's where our FOG's gone. Good, well, last fog
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Speaker 5: here in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: This is fog watch with meither last night? Did you
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Speaker 2: there was foggy time the afternoon. I've never seen fog in.
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Speaker 4: The afternoon, I must admit.
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Speaker 5: On the met Service, you know, they did say, you know,
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Speaker 5: the fog, it will dissipate at midday.
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Speaker 4: And then it's going to roll back in the evening.
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Speaker 5: And I was reading it, I thought, oh, yeah, sure, right,
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Speaker 5: and I was at home, had the windows open and everything.
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Speaker 4: I thought, there's that fog they were talking about rolling
23:19
Speaker 4: in next minute. That's right. Hey, you've got a serious
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Speaker 4: question for you.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 5: I am going to my first ninetieth birthday. Oh I've
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Speaker 5: been invited Kent.
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Speaker 2: It's cool, and it's it's not.
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Speaker 5: Someone that I'm related to, because I don't know anyone
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Speaker 5: who's lived to that ripe old age. So it's a
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Speaker 5: friend's auntie.
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Speaker 4: But what do you take? What like a present?
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Speaker 5: I was thinking, I don't want to get flowers. It's
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Speaker 5: kind of like an experience. And I thought, if I
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Speaker 5: live to be ninety, what do I want?
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Speaker 2: What would I like to know? Some fudge or something.
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Speaker 5: Oh, fudge.
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Speaker 4: I was thinking like a bungee jump or a you know,
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Speaker 4: like go out.
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Speaker 2: You know what would you want to be doing that?
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Speaker 2: You'd want them to make ninety one?
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Speaker 8: You correct me?
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Speaker 9: Up?
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Speaker 2: Hey speaking, Do you know what I was laughing yesterday
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Speaker 2: watching that RNC convention? Oh? Yes, And did you see
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Speaker 2: that all of Trump's supporters had air patches on?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 8: Did that?
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Speaker 2: And support?
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I wish i'd seen that.
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Speaker 2: I did look at it Siday, but I did wonder also,
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Speaker 2: I wonder what Biden's lot will wear to be in
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Speaker 2: support of him. Would they wear diapers? They might?
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Speaker 4: Were watching?
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Speaker 5: What's the weather like Todaynoka, Well the weather is I
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Speaker 5: said earlier, no folk, So we've got isolated showers turning
24:29
Speaker 5: to rain, late morning heavy falls possible. It was actually
24:32
Speaker 5: going to be raining all weekend. Temperatures a little bit
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Speaker 5: warmer for US. Sixteen is the high today.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Never enjoy that ninetieth birthday party.
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Speaker 4: I shall report back on Monday.
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Speaker 2: Brilliant seventeen away from six here on news Talk, said
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Speaker 2: b And we are live to just before six o'clock.
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Speaker 2: We're live to the convention that we've been talking about.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump due to give his keynote address.
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Speaker 1: Today International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance Peace of
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Speaker 1: mind for News Island business.
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Speaker 2: In just a few moments of the lied to met Tyrrel,
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Speaker 2: who's Marco Rubio's former chief of staff, and that's state
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Speaker 2: Florida Senator. Right now though, we're going to Vincent McVinnie,
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Speaker 2: who is our UK and Europe correspondent. The European political
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Speaker 2: community has met, including President Zelinski.
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Speaker 13: Good morning, Ryan, Yes, that is right. So this is
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Speaker 13: a new invention actually of French President Emmanuel Macron, and
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Speaker 13: it's meant to try and unite Europe in the wake
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Speaker 13: of the Ukraine War beyond just the nations that are
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Speaker 13: in the EU and NATO. So for instance, why the UK,
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Speaker 13: which is no longer in the EU, plays a part
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Speaker 13: in it. It was held today at Blenham Palace, the
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Speaker 13: birthplace of Winston Churchill, and dozens of European leaders got
25:41
Speaker 13: together to discuss the challenges facing the continent. Now, this
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Speaker 13: was a big opportunity for our new Prime Minister, so
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Speaker 13: Keas Starmer, to try and reset the relationship with Europe.
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Speaker 13: It was a bit of a gift actually him having
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Speaker 13: the election and then this meeting just two weeks later
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Speaker 13: by former Prime Minister Richie sunek so so Kios star
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Speaker 13: has been meeting all his fellow European leaders. He said
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Speaker 13: that he wants to reset in relations with the European Union.
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Speaker 13: He's not saying that the UK is going to rejoin
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Speaker 13: or he wants us to rejoin any time soon, but
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Speaker 13: he thinks that a better deal could be struck, particularly
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Speaker 13: on a key issue facing all nations in Europe now,
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Speaker 13: and that is a legal migration. He wants countries to
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Speaker 13: work closer, more cooperation on smashing gangs which are involved
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Speaker 13: in human trafficking, and particularly a better deal with the
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Speaker 13: French because of the passage through the channel, with the
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Speaker 13: UK currently paying millions to the French to try and
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Speaker 13: stop that, but the numbers growing every single year. He's
26:37
Speaker 13: admitted to Keir Starmer that it's a hard challenge, but
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Speaker 13: he's trying to lead by from the front by announcing
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Speaker 13: about eighty four million pounds worth of UK aid to
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Speaker 13: fund projects in Africa and the Middle East to try
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Speaker 13: and stop the illegal migration at its source and from
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Speaker 13: people traveling up to Europe.
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Speaker 2: Vincent, thank you for that. That's Vincent mcavinny, our UK
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Speaker 2: and europe correspondent A twelve away from six. That's It's
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Speaker 2: the last day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin today and the Republican nominee, Donald Trump will take
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Speaker 2: to the stage to accept the party's nomination. It'll also
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Speaker 2: be his first speaking gig, his first speaking event since
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Speaker 2: he was shot in an assassination attempt just over a
27:16
Speaker 2: week ago. The managing partner of Firehouse Strategies and Marco
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Speaker 2: Rubio's former chief of staff, Matt Terrell, is with us. Matt,
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Speaker 2: thank you for being on the program. What are you
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Speaker 2: expecting from Trump's speech today?
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Speaker 8: I great to be with you. In terms of the
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Speaker 8: speech todight, you know, look, I think the tone of
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Speaker 8: that speech will be one that's going to be talking
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Speaker 8: about unity. I think it's be a big theme that
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Speaker 8: we've seen, of course throughout this convention. I think will
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Speaker 8: be a big theme it's tonight's speech, and not just
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Speaker 8: unity for the Republican Party, but unity for the country.
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Speaker 8: And certainly I think you'll touch on the key issues
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Speaker 8: that American stationwide are focused in on this election, including
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Speaker 8: the can and the inflation, immigration and crime, among other issues.
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Speaker 8: Of course, but those will be the core issues you'll
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Speaker 8: likely narrow in on during this speech as well. So
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Speaker 8: we'll see what he does tonight during the speech, but
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Speaker 8: I think that's a part of what we'll see in
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Speaker 8: the speech this evening.
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Speaker 2: Do you think he'll talk about Biden much? Do you
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Speaker 2: think he'll talk about the facties at home, you know,
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Speaker 2: on the bag chest with COVID.
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Speaker 8: Well, certainly, elections are a referendum on the company and office,
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Speaker 8: and right now the company is as we he President
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Speaker 8: Joe Biden. And look, I think a big part of
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Speaker 8: this speech is going to be drawing contrast not just
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Speaker 8: between former President Trump and President Biden, but former President
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Speaker 8: Trump and Democratic policies. You know, given that there have
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Speaker 8: been reports and we're hearing for the reports coming out
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Speaker 8: this week about discussions around President Biden's candidacy and who
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Speaker 8: the Democrat nominee will or will not be for president.
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Speaker 8: Leave that to the Democrat Party to discuss. But you know,
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Speaker 8: the bottom line is, I think this speech is just
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Speaker 8: going to be focused on President Biden, but also the
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Speaker 8: Vice president, and then obviously on Democrat policies as well,
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Speaker 8: trying those contrasts that can be some PLC as well.
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Speaker 2: Yes, speaking of that policy. A lot of the talk
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Speaker 2: obviously is about America first, you know, protectionism, less king
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Speaker 2: on free trade deals, particularly if they result in job losses.
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Speaker 2: In Russbecket's rough spelt states, what what's how worried should
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Speaker 2: a small trading nation like New Zealand be about this
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Speaker 2: America first strategy? Is it? Is it going to have
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Speaker 2: a big impact on the rest of us? Do you think?
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Speaker 8: Well? Look, i' let four person Trump speak for himself
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Speaker 8: in terms of his policies, whether it's on domestic or
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Speaker 8: international issues. I can just tell you, you know, I
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Speaker 8: think many Americans will look at what he did over
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Speaker 8: the past four years or excuse me, the four years that
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Speaker 8: he was president and essentially say, look, you know, did
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Speaker 8: did they like those four years of the four president
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Speaker 8: Trump era, whether it's on trade or other issues, or
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Speaker 8: do they not like it? And they're going to compare
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Speaker 8: a trast that record to present Biden's four years in office.
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Speaker 8: So I think, you know, as voters unpack that, you know,
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Speaker 8: I think they're going to look at, you know, how
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Speaker 8: they feel about it and say, you know, as we
30:02
Speaker 8: go over the next four years into the future, you
30:05
Speaker 8: know now what's in the best interest of the United States,
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Speaker 8: and ultimately, obviously we live in a global society here.
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Speaker 8: You know, what's good for the United States often is
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Speaker 8: good in terms of international dynamics and making sure we
30:16
Speaker 8: have good partnerships around the world as well. So look,
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Speaker 8: all of four, President Trump dive into his policies and
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Speaker 8: it takes shape your particulars. I think you'll see in
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Speaker 8: this speech tonight. But certainly that's what that Nurkas are
30:26
Speaker 8: focused on in particularly relates to our economy. You know,
30:29
Speaker 8: the economy, inflation. Those are vital issues right now, top
30:32
Speaker 8: tier issues that voters are focused in on here.
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Speaker 2: All right, Matt thinks very much for your time. That's
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Speaker 2: Matt Tyrell, Marco Rubio's former chief of staff, with US
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Speaker 2: live from these states this morning, just gone nine away
30:43
Speaker 2: from six o'clock. We're going to talk to Mike Hoskin next. Interestingly,
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Speaker 2: the if your vice president, you cannot live in the
30:50
Speaker 2: same state as the president. You can't have two people
30:53
Speaker 2: living in the same state on the same ticket, which
30:55
Speaker 2: some people thought might be why Marco Rubio didn't get
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Speaker 2: didn't get the nomination. I don't think that that's why
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Speaker 2: he didn't get the nomination. It has just gone eight
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Speaker 2: away from Sex. Back at a Second.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's Furniture Bids and
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Speaker 2: News Talk said, be sex Away from Sex. Mike hostings
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Speaker 2: with us next. Watching that RNC the convention. They're like
31:23
Speaker 2: a royal family over there, now, aren't they? The Trumps?
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Speaker 14: And it's moazing to watch. I thought yesterday the start
31:28
Speaker 14: the whole week I found I don't know how many
31:31
Speaker 14: hours I've watched, but most of them, but just to
31:34
Speaker 14: watch the Kai Trump, who's the daughter of Donald Jor,
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Speaker 14: I thought she was magnificent. Just forget all the politics
31:42
Speaker 14: for a moment, and you know, whether you'd ever vote
31:43
Speaker 14: for them or like them or whatever the case may be,
31:45
Speaker 14: I thought she was spectacular. And if you're looking for images,
31:49
Speaker 14: there was some beautiful pictures yesterday. He had his grandkids there,
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Speaker 14: at least half a dozen of them as far as
31:53
Speaker 14: I could count, And.
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Speaker 2: He looked normal.
31:56
Speaker 14: He looked like, you know, he had his arm around
31:57
Speaker 14: one of them and they were hugging him and stuff.
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Speaker 14: If you're running that and looking to put pictures out
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Speaker 14: to the world that sort of portrayed this bloke as
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Speaker 14: being normal and you know, someone you can relate to,
32:07
Speaker 14: you can't go wrong.
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Speaker 2: And JD.
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Speaker 14: Varance yesterday I thought he's no orator.
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Speaker 2: No, he wasn't an orrator.
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Speaker 14: Bit flat, but he told he told a good story
32:14
Speaker 14: because he's got to get he's got the story. He's
32:16
Speaker 14: got a good story to tell. So, I mean, so
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Speaker 14: the week's been fascinating. The big big thing this morning
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Speaker 14: is I think Bline's going to go by the weekend.
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Speaker 14: The reporters he's out and Obama's talked to him now,
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Speaker 14: Schumer and Pelosi talked to him yesterday, and that's where
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Speaker 14: these comments. He's more receptive to going now apparently. But
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Speaker 14: if you look at him get up the steps to
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Speaker 14: the plane yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It was it was pathetic. And how can you, I
32:37
Speaker 2: mean imagine if he had another one of those brain fades,
32:40
Speaker 2: you know two weeks out from there.
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Speaker 14: Well you played that clipse those interviews that he's pre recorded.
32:45
Speaker 14: He goes out to prove he's sharp and does the
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Speaker 14: opposite in the week that Trump did what Trump has done.
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Speaker 14: I mean, you can't you can't write this stuff. I mean,
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Speaker 14: it's been really fit. Once again, even if you don't
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Speaker 14: follow this, it's been the extraordinary week and affixed us all.
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Speaker 14: Say what you want about American politics and Trump and
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Speaker 14: presidential elections, it affects each and every one of us
33:08
Speaker 14: because America's the most powerful country in the world.
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Speaker 2: In the prison and especially the number of times they
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Speaker 2: said America first at that convention, which which is probably
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Speaker 2: the best the best impact.
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Speaker 14: There's sort of the yeah, I mean, ultimately, it's not good.
33:19
Speaker 14: I mean, it's not good for Ukraine, it's not good
33:22
Speaker 14: for China, it's not good for us. I mean, they're
33:24
Speaker 14: all isolationists essentially, So if you want to extrapolate it
33:27
Speaker 14: out to that, and in that sense, that'll be a story.
33:29
Speaker 14: But if you look at it this even people like
33:31
Speaker 14: if you watch CNN, even people like John King, who's
33:34
Speaker 14: I think a very very you know, down the middle commentator,
33:38
Speaker 14: he said, if this election was held tomorrow, they would
33:40
Speaker 14: romp home in a way that you haven't seen, which
33:42
Speaker 14: is why Schumer and Pelosi are.
33:43
Speaker 2: So desperate to get Trump.
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Speaker 14: But if that happens this weekend and you're presented with
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Speaker 14: Kamela Harris, you've got to ask the question, has anything
33:53
Speaker 14: really changed and that's their problem.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 2: Like everybody, Mike hosting with you next here on News Talks,
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Speaker 2: you'd be thank you for being with me this week
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Speaker 2: and this morning. Really appreciate it. I'll be back on Monday.
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