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Full Show Podcast: 18 July 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew Dickens on
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Speaker 1: an early edition with ex pole insulation, keeping kie Wei
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and try this winter news talk.
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Speaker 2: Sa'd be welcome Onrding to you and welcome to your Friday.
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Speaker 2: You made it. I'm Andrew Dickens and I'm here until
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Speaker 2: six and coming up on the show. Food prices are
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Speaker 2: up a butter prices are insane? What is all about?
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Speaker 2: When we make the world's best? But it shouldn't it
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Speaker 2: be the cheapest? That story in about ten minutes time.
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Speaker 2: It's the last French test this weekend and both signs
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Speaker 2: have made wholesale changes, so what can we expect. Tony
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Speaker 2: Johnson's joining me in fifteen. I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 2: why you should put your boy and acquire It's not
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Speaker 2: for sissies. And later more beneficiaries get jobs, but the
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Speaker 2: benefit numbers go up. So what's happening there? That story?
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Speaker 2: Just before six, We're going to have Vincent mcavenni from
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Speaker 2: the UK talking to us over the course of the morning,
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Speaker 2: correspondents from right around New Zealand and news as it breaks,
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Speaker 2: and you can have yours say by sending me a text.
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Speaker 2: Ninety two ninety two. Small charge applies. It's eight after five,
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the eighteenth of July. Syria's presidency is protecting
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Speaker 2: that Druze community is a top priority in the south
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Speaker 2: of his country. More than five hundred people have been
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Speaker 2: reported killed in sectarian clashes between Dru's militias and Bedouin tribes.
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Speaker 2: Ahmed al Charra spoke after Israeli strikes on Damascus, warning
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Speaker 2: Syrians are not afraid of war.
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Speaker 3: The Israeli entity resorted to a wide scale targeting of
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Speaker 3: civilian and government facilities to undermine these efforts, which greatly
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Speaker 3: complicated the situation and would have pushed things to a
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Speaker 3: wide scale escalation without the effective intervention of American, Arab
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Speaker 3: and Turkish mediations, which save the region from an unknown fate.
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Speaker 2: So to Belgium, and tens of thousands of festivalgoers have
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Speaker 2: arrived in Belgium for a festival called tomorrow Land. But
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Speaker 2: the festival's main stage has been completely destroyed by fire.
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Speaker 4: It left nothing for the artists to now perform on,
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Speaker 4: so of course, some of the big headline names David Getett,
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Speaker 4: Martin Garrick's Swedish House Mafia, Steve Aoki several other DJs
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Speaker 4: and other stars were set to perform.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's video footage all over the internet right now.
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Speaker 2: It was a hell of a stage and it was
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Speaker 2: a hell of a fire. Organizers and says the show
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Speaker 2: must go on, and they say they focused on finding
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Speaker 2: solutions for the festival to take place without a stage.
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Speaker 2: And in the UK, the government has lowered the legal
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Speaker 2: voting age two sixteen. They did it hoping to have
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Speaker 2: the law in place by the next selection.
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Speaker 1: When you're sixteen, you can join the armed forces.
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Speaker 5: You know, you can have a.
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Speaker 1: Job, you can pay taxes.
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Speaker 6: But it just seems not right that they don't have
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Speaker 6: the right to vote.
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Speaker 7: I feel like more could be done to ensure that
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Speaker 7: we know exactly what parties are about.
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Speaker 2: Bless it is nine after five views and views you
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Speaker 2: trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's earlier this ship with Andrew Dickins at Expol Insulation Keeping,
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Speaker 1: Kiwi homes Ward and Dry Sweater News.
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Speaker 2: Talk sa'd be. It's Friday, so I'm going to be
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Speaker 2: a bit loose. Today's the last time I'm doing the
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Speaker 2: show for a while. Ryan's back next week, so I'm
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Speaker 2: going to start off by talking about only fans that's right,
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Speaker 2: only fans at ten after five in the morning, you know,
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Speaker 2: only fans the X rated subscription service that hosts soft
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Speaker 2: and hard poorn from content creators. Well, this week an
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Speaker 2: article in the United States talked about the astounding number
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Speaker 2: of these creators. There are four million content creators worldwide,
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Speaker 2: all making slinky stuff with their phones and then posting
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Speaker 2: it online. Even more astounding the figures out of America,
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Speaker 2: which has one point four million creators, mostly age in
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Speaker 2: their twenties and thirties, and the article states, nearly ten
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Speaker 2: percent of American millennials, mostly women, are getting their kid
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Speaker 2: off for cash. Isn't that the most remarkable statistic. It's
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Speaker 2: sort of like Fall of Rome stuff, you know, the
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Speaker 2: world dissolving into chaos and the people turn to the
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Speaker 2: pleasure of the flashes at the beginning of the end
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Speaker 2: of days, a harbinger of the anarchy to come. It's
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Speaker 2: just remarkable ten percent of the millennials in America doing
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Speaker 2: this now. Obviously it's coming to New Zealand. It already has.
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Speaker 2: One Wellington woman is earning two hundred and fifty grand
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Speaker 2: a year making porn with her husband. And there's a
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Speaker 2: guy in Orkland doing it. Who drives around in a
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Speaker 2: Lamborghinea because he's made so much money, he's so famous,
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Speaker 2: his car gets keyed all the time. So why am
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Speaker 2: I saying this? Because you need to know about it.
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Speaker 2: And here is a warning for you, and a warning
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Speaker 2: for your kids, and an issue you may have to consider.
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Speaker 2: The millennials are getting into this because you know, it's
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Speaker 2: the collapse of traditional employment. It's a statement of their
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Speaker 2: self determination, and of course it's a bit of cash
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Speaker 2: and hard times. But if anyone in your family is
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Speaker 2: considering this, it may be a career that you're relatively
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Speaker 2: proud of. You have no problem with when you're young.
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Speaker 2: But the Internet is forever and one day you might
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Speaker 2: want to stand for council and before you know it,
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Speaker 2: Ray Chung is flashing all your adult content all over
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Speaker 2: the mainstream media. That's not good. So if you ever
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Speaker 2: consider only fans, please have a hymn, because it's not
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Speaker 2: without consequence. Z. We're all talking about Butter, aren't we
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Speaker 2: experts say we're going to have to get used to
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Speaker 2: paying more for Butter. New figure show prices have almost
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Speaker 2: doubled in the past fourteen months, latest data from Stat's
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Speaker 2: New Zealand shows the average five hundred grand block of
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Speaker 2: butter will now send you set you back eight dollars
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Speaker 2: and sixty cents. Look, I've seen a ten dollars block
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Speaker 2: in my supermarket. It's insane. We make this stuff. Why
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Speaker 2: are we paying so much? Well, that's a good story
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Speaker 2: and so we'll cover this in a few moments time
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Speaker 2: with the Federated Farmer's Dairy Chair. His name's Karl, and
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Speaker 2: this is news talks here b It's twelve after five.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Andrew Dickens and x full
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Speaker 2: This Twitter news talks in me it's five fourteen. Of course,
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Speaker 2: I'm getting a whole lot of very interesting text, and
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Speaker 2: none of which I'm going to read out on air,
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Speaker 2: because get your get your minds out of the gutters people, right. Oh,
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Speaker 2: Dairy prices around the globe are soaring, but we are
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Speaker 2: also footing the bill here in New Zealand stats New
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Speaker 2: Zealand food price figure so cheese is up thirty percent
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Speaker 2: on last year, butter prices are up forty six point
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Speaker 2: five percent for the year. Eight dollars sixty the average
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Speaker 2: price for a block. That's up five bucks over the
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Speaker 2: last decade. So Carl Dean is up early for us,
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Speaker 2: and that's no surprise because he is the Dairy Group
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Speaker 2: chair for Federated Farmers. Morning to your Carl, morning, new
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Speaker 2: gig for you, is it?
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Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, for three weeks in the role here, so
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Speaker 8: I'm definitely getting slowly getting the hang of it.
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Speaker 2: Now, this butter thing, I know, it's good for farmers,
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Speaker 2: but it's bad for inflation. So what do you have
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Speaker 2: to say about it?
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Speaker 8: So it's sort of an accumulation of effects. There seems
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Speaker 8: to have been a global trend towards more consumption of butter,
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Speaker 8: especially in the last five years, but especially in the
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Speaker 8: last twelve months. You know, there's been just a huge
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Speaker 8: We've just got a huge difference in the price that
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Speaker 8: we have.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 8: You know, we normally have a high payout.
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Speaker 2: Well the question we have a high payout.
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Speaker 8: It's because of a very you know, the last time
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Speaker 8: we had high pouts because we had a good list
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Speaker 8: and the commodities across the board. And at the moment,
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Speaker 8: two of the commodities are standing out really well, which
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Speaker 8: is look fat and butter.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, you know the question, the question
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Speaker 2: that everybody says when they go to the supermarket is Okay,
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Speaker 2: we understand the high international export prices. We think that's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Go the farmers. Yes, you are the backbone over our economy.
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Speaker 2: We know where our food is made. This is just great. However,
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Speaker 2: at the same time, we make this stuff, and so
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Speaker 2: why do we have to pay the export price?
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Speaker 8: Well that's a very good question, but unfortunately for New
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Speaker 8: Zealand's consumes, the trend for butter is a relatively new
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Speaker 8: one in terms of globally. You know, if you think
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Speaker 8: that's fifteen years ago when a lot of New Zealand's
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Speaker 8: dairy boom happened. Twenty years ago, milk powder plants were
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Speaker 8: built because they were the most efficient to make a
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Speaker 8: exportable product of raw milk. A butter plant takes a
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Speaker 8: lot of time, a lot of money to build and develop,
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Speaker 8: and you would have to wonder whether globally we are
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Speaker 8: actually had a shortage of butter and cheese processing plants.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so is this a butter bubble? And if so,
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Speaker 2: if it is a butter bubble, will it burst or
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Speaker 2: can we get well, do we have to get used
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Speaker 2: to high butter prices going forward.
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Speaker 8: Well, I would say, unfortunately for dairy farmers and probably
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Speaker 8: fortunately for conciers, what goes up will normally come back down. Now,
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Speaker 8: if we look in the past, normally these bubbles do
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Speaker 8: go up and then they come down down. And the
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Speaker 8: question normally is as consumed myself, I still STI buy butter.
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Speaker 8: The question is do we see how quickly do the
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Speaker 8: supermarkets or the wholesalers pass those drops on? Because of
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Speaker 8: the butter price drops, we all want to see that
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Speaker 8: supermarket drop least, you know for theme sent at.
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Speaker 2: Least, Yeah, and we're going to see it in quick
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Speaker 2: time as well. And should we warn farmers to be
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Speaker 2: a bit cautious because they've had a couple of windfalls
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Speaker 2: in a row. They can't expect this to be going
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Speaker 2: forward consistently as well. They have to make smart financial decisions,
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Speaker 2: don't they.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I mean the current hats are really built on
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Speaker 8: a loan news on door at the moment, and literally
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Speaker 8: when I look at the grafts right now, it is
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Speaker 8: literally due to butter and cheese and nook set holding
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Speaker 8: up the payout. So if those two drop way, the
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Speaker 8: payout will drop rather quickly, and we'll go back into
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Speaker 8: the eight dollar marks.
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Speaker 2: So what goes eight dollars and back the eight dollars? Mate,
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Speaker 2: we won them back to the five dollars sixty paums
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Speaker 2: if you don't mind, I.
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Speaker 8: Mean, I'm meaning for the dairy payout.
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Speaker 2: I go to, I go to.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, when we're a getting paid eight dollars, I think
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Speaker 8: butter was downing around. Put that five dollar Marc.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, all right, Carl, I thank you
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Speaker 2: so much for getting up earlier. Carl is the brand
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Speaker 2: new dairy chair for Federated Farmers. By the way, we've
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Speaker 2: got to deal with Canada. Canada is to honor our
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Speaker 2: dairy access now under the CPTPP dispute agreement. And according
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Speaker 2: to Todd McLay, getting this agreement means one hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty seven million dollars more per year and export value
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Speaker 2: for New zealandery exporters. So there we go. Hey, so
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Speaker 2: we've got a test tomorrow and it's quite funny really
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Speaker 2: because the French are thrown like everybody that who haven't played,
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Speaker 2: and now the All Backs are as well. So what's
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Speaker 2: going to happen in this game? Tony Johnson's 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 Andrew Dickins and x Pole Insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talks at b.
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Speaker 2: It's a big weekend for rugby. We've got Takapuna against
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Speaker 2: North Shore in the North Harbor prem Final. It's happening
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Speaker 2: Atvauxhall Domain two forty five pm. You'll find me there,
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Speaker 2: two thousand people going. Oh, there's another game in Hamilton
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Speaker 2: as well, the final All Blacks Test against the French.
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Speaker 2: I said FMG Razors made some major changes to the
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Speaker 2: starting side. The Barrett brothers are outvoted and Scott are
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Speaker 2: off with injuries. Jeordie's being rested, Damien Mackenzie will start
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Speaker 2: at the number ten Jersey Rubin Love will play at
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Speaker 2: fullback at his second test. Meanwhile, the French are bringing
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Speaker 2: out all their spears that they had spare. Rubby commentator
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Speaker 2: Tony Johnson joins me. Now, good morning to you.
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Speaker 9: Tony, Good morning Andrew.
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Speaker 2: So who's going to win Takapuna or North Share.
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Speaker 9: Well, I'm a north Cote man, so it doesn't really
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Speaker 9: matter to me quite so much as it to you.
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Speaker 2: Nor is going for the three piece, so there we go.
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Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and they'll be tough to be of.
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Speaker 2: Course, of course wholesale changes on both sides. Is this
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Speaker 2: Test going to be a bit loose?
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Speaker 9: Well? The All Black selectors or Scott Robertson certainly promised
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Speaker 9: to be more bold this year and they've been bold
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Speaker 9: with their selection. But with that comes I think a
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Speaker 9: considerable risk against the France team that still feel that
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Speaker 9: they can take something out of the series. They've come
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Speaker 9: here with a depleted squad and if they can go
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Speaker 9: home winning one of the three Tests, I think they'll
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Speaker 9: have something to go back and say, hey, look we've
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Speaker 9: achieved something here, so they will be the toughest to bowl.
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Speaker 9: I think of the three Test matches New Zealand, with
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Speaker 9: the risks they've taken, as you mentioned the first time,
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Speaker 9: I think it's only the third time in the last
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Speaker 9: one hundred and one tests that there are no barretts
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Speaker 9: in the All Black teams. There's a bunch of leadership
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Speaker 9: gone and they don't have any specialist cover at Locke
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Speaker 9: when you're going in against a giant, giant French team.
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Speaker 9: I think that the All Blacks have taken some risks here,
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Speaker 9: but they're honoring the commitment to give everyone a go
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Speaker 9: and to be bold.
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Speaker 2: Who the hell's going to be our backup first five?
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I can't keep up.
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Speaker 9: Well, it'll be Ruben Love, Damien McKenzie's obviously. They hope
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Speaker 9: he'll be there to run the cutter for the whole game.
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Speaker 9: Ruben Love at fullback, and that's the way they've been
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Speaker 9: selecting the team. They've been name and cover within the
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Speaker 9: starting fifteen. They're looking for flexibility, for versatility, and so
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Speaker 9: it's going to be a big night for Ruben Love.
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Speaker 9: But he's a talented player. He's a very brave player.
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Speaker 9: I've got no doubts about it, mackenzie. This is an
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Speaker 9: opportunity for him again to prove that he is the
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Speaker 9: guy that can run the show and be reliable as
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Speaker 9: well as his normal brilliant self in a test match.
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Speaker 9: He's got the ideal place to do it, at home,
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Speaker 9: in front of a packed out stadium, and he's got
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Speaker 9: a lot of his Chiefs teammates around him. I think
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Speaker 9: that there's six of them and seven of them in
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Speaker 9: the squad, which is a record for White Cottle certainly
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Speaker 9: Whitettle players. That's a key area of the game as well.
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Speaker 9: But look, I think people are excited about Reuben Love
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Speaker 9: getting the opportunity because here's such a talent.
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Speaker 2: I'm excited about the game. I think is going to
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Speaker 2: be entertaining, but how.
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Speaker 9: Well that element of I suppose slight mystery or uncertainty
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Speaker 9: about it, although I think a lot of the old
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Speaker 9: stages would rather say, why aren't we putting our number
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Speaker 9: one team out there to complete a clean sweep? Because
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Speaker 9: they expect the Orbles to win every single game. As
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Speaker 9: I say, he's honoring a commitment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and how important does this game really on the
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Speaker 2: luge scale of things or is it just sort of
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Speaker 2: like a science experiment.
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Speaker 9: Oh you hush your mouth. Every test match is important,
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Speaker 9: isn't it In New Zealand?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, are you going to remember there's a World
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Speaker 2: Cup coming up and you need some depth.
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Speaker 9: Well, there's also a massive Rugby Championship coming up where
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Speaker 9: they've got two tests against the spring Box in New Zealand,
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Speaker 9: so they want to make sure that their players have
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Speaker 9: all had a taste of it so far and bringing
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Speaker 9: you know, they've bought successfully some new players and I
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Speaker 9: think Fabian Holland to me has probably been the most
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Speaker 9: exciting or encouraging development that we've seen so far in
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Speaker 9: this season because he's just taken to Test rugby like
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Speaker 9: a duck to water. Just got to hope he let
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Speaker 9: goes the eighty minutes. But no, every Test match is
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Speaker 9: considered important. Maybe not so much to France the way
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Speaker 9: they've treated this tour, but don't worry, they will be.
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Speaker 9: They will see this as an opportunity to take something
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Speaker 9: from the series, to end on a positive note, go
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Speaker 9: back with something to show for it. And so that
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Speaker 9: makes it me quite a compelling match.
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Speaker 2: Got to go, you know the game, and I thank
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Speaker 2: you so much. Tony Johnston from Sky.
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Speaker 2: Well, good on you what I'm to your Friday. This
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Speaker 2: is the last say that I'm doing an early edition
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Speaker 2: and this it will stint because we're back to normal
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Speaker 2: next week with Ryan coming back to the show, Mike
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Speaker 2: will be back, and Heather we'll go back to the
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Speaker 2: drivetime show. But here I am right now today in
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Speaker 2: the hot seat doing the early early breakfast show, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of people during the week, a lot of
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Speaker 2: people in my life go, oh, how on earth did
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Speaker 2: you get into this lark? And sometimes I think, how
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Speaker 2: the hell did I get into the situation? Sitting here
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Speaker 2: talking to you like this, and I blame my parents.
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Speaker 2: When I was eight years old, they shipped me off
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Speaker 2: thirty strong group of boy chorister's, sweet, sweet voices. I
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Speaker 2: stayed with the choir for nearly five years until my
18:34
Speaker 2: voice broke, and even then I stayed a little bit longer.
18:36
Speaker 2: I sang the alto parts in a very good falsetto,
18:39
Speaker 2: if I do say so myself. But anyway, I loved
18:41
Speaker 2: the Orkham Boys Choir. It was a gang. It was
18:45
Speaker 2: like a sports team, but it wasn't sport. We sang
18:49
Speaker 2: all over town. We sang with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
18:51
Speaker 2: We sang with Dame Jones Sutherland. We sang in Benjamin
18:55
Speaker 2: Brittain's War Requiem. And we went on tour around New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: being billeted up and down the country, seeing how other
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Speaker 2: people lived. Later the choir actually toured America. I was
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Speaker 2: staying in a hotel in Hamilton. The Knight, Norman Kirk
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Speaker 2: died and I was like ten no parents. The Orkham
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Speaker 2: Boys Choir was great for me, and of course I
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Speaker 2: got into you know, drama. I got into performing, so
19:22
Speaker 2: when my voice broke, I got into drama musicals and
19:25
Speaker 2: then one day I walked into Radio b at Orkland University.
19:27
Speaker 2: I thought, hey, here I can perform and I might
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Speaker 2: even get paid. And forty years later here I still am. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: the Orkham Boys Choir was great for me, and I
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Speaker 2: might say it could be great for your boy. And
19:37
Speaker 2: I say all of this because the Orkham Boys Choir
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Speaker 2: is now auditioning for boys age between eight and thirteen.
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Speaker 2: Rehearsals are Mondays at Saint George's Hall, Ramfilly Road in Epsom.
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Speaker 2: Orkan's Boys Choir also runs annual camps, they do regional tours.
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Speaker 2: They put on performances every term and it's a load
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Speaker 2: of fun. And don't worry, it's not for sissies. It
19:57
Speaker 2: was a tough little gang. I can tell you the
19:58
Speaker 2: hazing was horrendous. Anyway, you want to get your kid
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Speaker 2: into this, it is great. If they're not into sport,
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Speaker 2: how about try and acquire email manager at Orkhamboys Choir
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Speaker 2: dot org dot and zen for an audition that's happening
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Speaker 2: in August. Or you can visit their website which is
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Speaker 2: Ukhamboys choir all the one word dot, org dot and
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Speaker 2: zend and don't ask me to sing it. It's twenty
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Speaker 2: one to six zed be well in the country. We
20:24
Speaker 2: go Callen Proctor from Otaga, good morning to you morning Andrew.
20:27
Speaker 11: I was going to ask for a few lines, but.
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Speaker 2: No, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen.
20:32
Speaker 2: So earthquake emergency readiness in Milford Sound, what's happening there?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Well, one cruise operator is stepping up their preparations
20:41
Speaker 11: in the Sound. Southern Discoveries have become the region's first
20:46
Speaker 11: tourism operator to equip its fleet with survival gear, which
20:50
Speaker 11: will last them up to four days in the events
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Speaker 11: of an alpine fault. Of course, given their remoteness in
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Speaker 11: Milford Sound, I've decided to equip five coaches eating up
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Speaker 11: to two hundred and fifty people, with food, tools and
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Speaker 11: shelter gear for survival. Southern Discovery says the area as
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Speaker 11: well over due for a major event, so it's about
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Speaker 11: keeping guests and stuff safe. The CEO, Kerrie Walkers, says
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Speaker 11: being so remote means they're at higher risk of being
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Speaker 11: too far away from emergency services, so they're preparing for
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Speaker 11: that one percent chance of something big, and she says
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Speaker 11: other operators.
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Speaker 2: Need to do the same. All right, how's your weather.
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Speaker 11: It's minus three at our airport this morning, so it's
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Speaker 11: frosty and cold. Fine today, the high twelve.
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Speaker 2: Great to do. I'm making conditions for the central Targo skifield.
21:33
Speaker 2: So this is all good news tonight. Thank you. Cleia
21:35
Speaker 2: Sherwoo from christ Churchello.
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Speaker 10: Good morning.
21:37
Speaker 2: So tram Almos ran into a bollard.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, and these bollards they you'll know them if you've
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Speaker 12: been to what the area known as the Terrace or
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Speaker 12: riverside in christ Church. They are effectively there to block
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Speaker 12: any cars going up and down the terrace, but they
21:50
Speaker 12: can drop down automatically at set times throughout the day
21:54
Speaker 12: in order to allow delivery vehicles to take food and
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Speaker 12: the sorts into the restaurants there. Emergency services can also
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Speaker 12: put them down when they need to, but importantly they're
22:04
Speaker 12: on a schedule to allow them to drop down when
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Speaker 12: our trams go through the area. As we know, we
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Speaker 12: have lots of trams that take tourists around every day.
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Speaker 12: Now yesterday, we understand that the billiards automatically lifted too
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Speaker 12: soon and almost hit one of those trams. A representative
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Speaker 12: of the tram has actually described that to us in
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Speaker 12: our newsroom as a potentially catastrophic near miss. We've been
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Speaker 12: in touch with council. I've spoken with Transport Operations manager
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Speaker 12: Stephen Wright, who's confirmed those bollards have malfunctioned. They've been
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Speaker 12: locked in the down position for now because of the
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Speaker 12: lift too quickly after the tram passed. Some rapeers are
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Speaker 12: underway and we'll update you when we know.
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Speaker 10: That they're back.
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Speaker 2: How's your weather fine?
22:44
Speaker 12: With some cloud and frosts today. Northeasterly is expected this afternoon.
22:48
Speaker 2: A high eleven Max told joins you from Wellington, Hellimax,
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Speaker 2: good morning. So you've got some do going for the
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Speaker 2: mayoralty who doesn't pay taxes.
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Speaker 13: They're the way things are shaping. Andrew Little maybe moonwalking
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Speaker 13: into the Maryalty here. Yes, So this is Graham Bloxham.
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Speaker 13: He's known for buying a popular community Facebook page, Wellington Live.
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Speaker 13: He's been censored by the ERA for failing to pay
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Speaker 13: more than a five thousand dollars in tax deducted from
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Speaker 13: the wages of one of his employees. His employee also
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Speaker 13: making other serious allegations which Blocksham denies not explored by
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Speaker 13: the authority Elsewhere. Ray Chung loses another two candidates from
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Speaker 13: his council campaign team three gone six left at our account,
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Speaker 13: of course, after his salacious email about the woman he
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Speaker 13: seeks to succeed. His political group Independent Together for Now
23:38
Speaker 13: stands by him. Nominations are still open for the mayoralty
23:41
Speaker 13: if anyone believes they have the answers in the capitol.
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Speaker 2: Okay, sure I do it. No, no, thank you. How's
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Speaker 2: your realer?
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Speaker 13: Mostly fine?
23:51
Speaker 2: Southerly's eleven high Neva written man who joins us from
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Speaker 2: walk on Hell and Eva.
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Speaker 6: Happy Friday.
23:55
Speaker 2: So we got the city rail links. It was on
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Speaker 2: they'll tell you last night seven sharp was showing pictures.
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Speaker 2: It's looking like some amazing stations. But you've got some
24:03
Speaker 2: news on this.
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Speaker 6: Yes, well look Awk and Transports U turn. You're quite
24:06
Speaker 6: right on this city rail link. It's been warmly welcomed,
24:11
Speaker 6: apparently the design for the area surrounding now this is
24:13
Speaker 6: the kardannga Ahabi station. It received strong feedback from the
24:17
Speaker 6: community who wanted it to reinstate, you know, like certain features.
24:21
Speaker 6: So it means Mercury Lane will operate as a pedestrian space.
24:25
Speaker 6: Cross streets will have a boardwalk pathway while retaining loading
24:29
Speaker 6: spaces for local businesses. Council of Richard Hills he's come out.
24:33
Speaker 6: He says this should create an accessible and walkable neighborhood. Obviously,
24:38
Speaker 6: he said, not everyone's going to be pleased about this,
24:41
Speaker 6: but it's the best outcome for most people.
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Speaker 2: They wanted to pedestrianize the whole area, but I know
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Speaker 2: that people who live in the area wire going, well,
24:48
Speaker 2: that's going to attract undesirables and night night sleepers.
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Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, So they still need those businesses still
24:57
Speaker 6: need loading zones and drop offs and things like that,
25:00
Speaker 6: don't they. How's Awkin's withather cloudy, scattered rain clearing around
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Speaker 6: midday to fine fifteen is a high here in Auckland today.
25:07
Speaker 2: And I've got some good news for Northland that the
25:08
Speaker 2: international travel website world Atlas has named Russell is the
25:11
Speaker 2: prettiest downtown strip in New Zealand. Russell is also the
25:14
Speaker 2: top town for weekend getaways and Kerry Kenny has been
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Speaker 2: named as the best place to retire in New Zealand.
25:20
Speaker 2: Good news. Certainly, you hope the place lives up to
25:22
Speaker 2: its name. They call it the winterless North. Boy, I'd
25:26
Speaker 2: like to go to a winterless North right now? This
25:28
Speaker 2: is certainly what they call the depth of winter, is
25:30
Speaker 2: it not? Now on the way, Yes, the UK has
25:32
Speaker 2: lowered their voting age to sixteen. They actually did it.
25:35
Speaker 2: Details with Vincent macavennie and we're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: the job seeker benefit numbers. They continue to climb, but
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Speaker 2: the government says eighty thousand beneficiaries found work. So what's
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Speaker 2: really happening there. That's still to come on early edition.
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Speaker 2: Here on News Talks, HEBS sixteen to.
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Speaker 1: Six International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of
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Speaker 1: Mind for New Zealand Business.
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Speaker 2: It is a thirteen to six and after the UK
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Speaker 2: we go Vincent McAvennie, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 14: Good morning.
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Speaker 2: So THERE'SFGEN data bridge. What's the latest on this?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, this has been rumbling on for a few days now.
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Speaker 14: It's been revealed after a superinjunction, a very rare legal
26:13
Speaker 14: procedure was lifted that a data breach detailing some Afghan
26:20
Speaker 14: citizens who had aided British troops and other forces during
26:24
Speaker 14: the many years that they were there doing things like
26:27
Speaker 14: translation and working with them well. Their personal details and
26:31
Speaker 14: details of their family were leaked out, putting them at risk,
26:33
Speaker 14: and so there has been this secret scheme which has
26:36
Speaker 14: resettled many of them here in the UK. But this
26:39
Speaker 14: afternoon it's been discovered that the names are around one
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Speaker 14: hundred British nationals, including spies working for intelligence agencies like
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Speaker 14: MI six and members of the Special Forces, the SAS
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Speaker 14: and SBS. Their details were also on this spreadsheet, compromising
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Speaker 14: them because it's unclear whether or not this leak stayed
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Speaker 14: in Afghanistan or with other powers such as China or
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Speaker 14: Russia were able to get their hands on it, and
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Speaker 14: that would have identified some people whose identities should have
27:05
Speaker 14: really remained protected.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, you've actually done it. Sixteen year olds will vote
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Speaker 2: at the nixt general election in twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's right, the first general election where we'll see
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Speaker 14: sixteen and seventeen year olds getting to vote. It was
27:21
Speaker 14: something that Labor had promised in their manifesto, but it
27:24
Speaker 14: wasn't clear when they were actually going to introduce this.
27:27
Speaker 14: There's a bit of thinking in the party that younger
27:29
Speaker 14: people tend to be more left leaning and so that
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Speaker 14: they could support them, but more generally a lot of
27:34
Speaker 14: people welcoming this proposal because it does seem like a
27:38
Speaker 14: lot of people, particularly older voters, are the ones only
27:41
Speaker 14: being catered to buy the parties when it comes to elections.
27:45
Speaker 14: Things here in the UK with what we call the
27:47
Speaker 14: triple lock, which is a freeze on sort of changing
27:51
Speaker 14: pension rules mean that they're pretty well protected in terms
27:55
Speaker 14: of how they provide out the sort of recent times
27:57
Speaker 14: in the economy, but services for young people being cut,
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Speaker 14: more student fees at being increased, all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 14: People are thinking this might try to rebalance somewhat the
28:06
Speaker 14: generational divide that we're seeing here in the UK.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, going to come up. There's going to be some
28:10
Speaker 2: left leading parties are going to come up with some
28:12
Speaker 2: pretty wacky policies. I mean, like you know, free minecraft
28:16
Speaker 2: and upgrades for every kid because they think they might
28:18
Speaker 2: actually get them some votes. So good luck. Do you
28:20
Speaker 2: have a great weekend. Vincent mcavini, and I thank you
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Speaker 2: for your time today. It is now eleven to.
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Speaker 1: Six News Talks.
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Speaker 13: It'd be the job.
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Speaker 2: Seeker benefit numbers are out, So the benefit numbers are
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Speaker 2: going up. We're getting more beneficiaries, but most figures show
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Speaker 2: that eighty thousand beneficiaries have found new work, yet the
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Speaker 2: number of people at the main benefit has risen six
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Speaker 2: point six percent. Is there a disconnect there? What's that about?
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Speaker 2: It currently means there's over four hundred thousand people in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand on a main benefit, twelve percent of the
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Speaker 2: working age population as paid by the state. Pill O'Reilly
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Speaker 2: as a former member of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group
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Speaker 2: and joins me now for your fill good morning. What's
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Speaker 2: happening here?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's a bit like you're emptying your bath and
29:05
Speaker 5: there's water coming out to bath, but someone's pouring a
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Speaker 5: big bucket at the front end, so the bath keeps
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Speaker 5: on rising even though some water's going at the back end.
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Speaker 5: So what's happening is that eighty thousand people have found work,
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Speaker 5: but more than that have come through the other end
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Speaker 5: to apply for unemployment benefits. And if you look at
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Speaker 5: the numbers, as usual, you see young people over represented.
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Speaker 5: They're aiding to twenty four year olds. That's the same
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Speaker 5: in New Zealand everywhere else in the world. As you
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Speaker 5: get these unemployment events, those who've got no experience, of course,
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Speaker 5: of our little experience are the most impacted because you know,
29:33
Speaker 5: why would you hire them if you could hire an
29:34
Speaker 5: experienced person in this labor market. So that's really what's
29:37
Speaker 5: going on. And the government's arguing that their sanctions regime
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Speaker 5: has meant that if they're for hadn't then there more
29:44
Speaker 5: people would have been on the doll or on these
29:46
Speaker 5: benefits than otherwise would be the case. And I kind
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Speaker 5: of buy that in the circumstance, so that they're probably
29:51
Speaker 5: doing much the right thing in the sense of trying
29:53
Speaker 5: to get more people back into work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but to get people back into work, you don't
29:57
Speaker 2: need sanctions. You need jobs. And to get job To
30:00
Speaker 2: get jobs, you need a good economy. And do we
30:03
Speaker 2: have a good economy right now.
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Speaker 5: Well no. In fact, one of the reasons why those
30:07
Speaker 5: numbers are leaking up is because the tough times have
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Speaker 5: gone for so long. Employers would tend to try to
30:13
Speaker 5: hold onto people for a whole bunch of good reasons,
30:14
Speaker 5: including the cost of replacing them when the time comes,
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Speaker 5: And the fact that these numbers are increasing suggest that
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Speaker 5: employers are just finding it too tough to do that
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Speaker 5: and are letting people go, and that's they wouldn't have
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Speaker 5: been doing that if the economy had turned around sooner.
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Speaker 5: So really this is a question about the government getting
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Speaker 5: on and reinvigorating growth through kind of some public spending,
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Speaker 5: for example, some new roads and so on, trying to
30:36
Speaker 5: reinvigorate the construction sector's seventeen hoursand jobs lost out of
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Speaker 5: the construction sector in the last eighty months, and really
30:43
Speaker 5: working with business to make sure that happens faster rather
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Speaker 5: than slower.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I saw that the government just summarily stopped two
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Speaker 2: hundred and twelve clay or A building projects which was
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Speaker 2: going to create what was that about two and a
30:55
Speaker 2: half thousand houses and guess who makes the houses. That's
30:57
Speaker 2: builders and the construction industry. So there are no jobs.
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Speaker 2: And I've always said if the government doesn't want to
31:03
Speaker 2: invest in New Zealand, why should anybody overseas do it.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's right. There's been a lot of promises made
31:08
Speaker 5: to the construction sector, not just the housing sector, but
31:10
Speaker 5: also the roading sector and infrastructure sector to say these
31:13
Speaker 5: things are coming. But the complaints out of the sector
31:16
Speaker 5: are that they have taken a long time, and goodwill,
31:19
Speaker 5: that's fantastic, but you know, let's get on. Some of
31:21
Speaker 5: them are starting to unwind now, but of course they
31:24
Speaker 5: don't have a job's impactful little while. Even if you're
31:26
Speaker 5: about to start a road, are about to start a
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Speaker 5: housing project, the jobs aren't there yet, which all demonstrates
31:31
Speaker 5: that we're going to see a recovery, hopefully later this year,
31:34
Speaker 5: maybe early next year, but it's a long time between
31:36
Speaker 5: drinks for employers and of course those who are sitting
31:38
Speaker 5: on that unemployment benefit.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, you've been brilliant. Thank you for being
31:42
Speaker 2: very awakened, very alert, and very lucid. And I love it.
31:44
Speaker 2: And it's seven minutes to six, and here there's next
31:46
Speaker 2: here on News Talks.
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Speaker 1: EDDB, on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
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Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and ex Fole Insulation keeping kigh we
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry this winter News Talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be a little bit of semi breaking news. Have
32:02
Speaker 2: just seen that the White House has said that President
32:04
Speaker 2: Donald J. Trump is being medically checked for his swelling ankles.
32:08
Speaker 2: And I know that there's a whole lot of people
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Speaker 2: on the left have been going crazy about Donald's health condition,
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Speaker 2: his swelling ankles and other signs that he might be
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Speaker 2: getting congenital heart failure. But they wish they.
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Speaker 10: Sign, isn't it It's a sign that your heart is
32:21
Speaker 10: a bit dodgy things. Actually, it could be pregnant.
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Speaker 2: He could do anything, mat Heather, I've enjoyed working with Andrew.
32:32
Speaker 2: You're good And this sounds like an obituary.
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Speaker 9: Man.
32:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'm going Ryan's back next week, and you're
32:38
Speaker 2: back to your normal show next week. So here I
32:40
Speaker 2: walk in this morning and Heather's got a netball and
32:42
Speaker 2: she's been given a net volleyball, okay, and she's been
32:45
Speaker 2: given it as a promo for a TV program and
32:47
Speaker 2: she goes, smell this, and so we smelled it, and
32:51
Speaker 2: new ball's new sporting equipment just smells. I've been trying to.
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Speaker 7: Think why it is that a ball, a leather ball,
32:58
Speaker 7: smells delicious. And I think it's because it reminds you
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Speaker 7: of your childhood.
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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and it's just so new.
33:04
Speaker 2: Because I started thinking about when you buy a new
33:06
Speaker 2: piece of electronic equipment and you open up the box
33:08
Speaker 2: and it's so beautifully hermetically sealed, and you open up
33:12
Speaker 2: and then and then you smell it. And I walked
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Speaker 2: into a library yesterday and I walked in, I went
33:15
Speaker 2: I can smell books and the old factory. The old
33:18
Speaker 2: factory thing is under reestimated. It's really really brings up
33:21
Speaker 2: some memory.
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Speaker 7: Actually, I hope my neighbor doesn't listen to news talk.
33:24
Speaker 7: He's American, so he may not. But he's got a
33:26
Speaker 7: candle in his house that is so powerful that.
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Speaker 10: This is without a word of a lie.
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Speaker 7: You can smell it down the road like you can
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Speaker 7: smell it from probably about fifteen meters away.
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Speaker 10: That's that's that comes into my house.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot. You can't talk to him about that
33:41
Speaker 2: because he'll invite you around and say, let's start meditating. Hey,
33:44
Speaker 2: look here's the music. What are you doing?
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Speaker 10: Welfare? Four hundred thousand of us are on the.
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Speaker 2: Dull twelve percent of our popular.
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Speaker 10: Until we're going to talk to the ministry.
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Speaker 2: Economy stupid. Love your work, Love.
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Speaker 10: Your work, you too, Andrew Nice.
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Speaker 2: Oh I'm Cary. Next week, by the way, Bonza.
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