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Full Show Podcast: 19 January 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickots on
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  Speaker 1: earlier this show with one roof love where you live,
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  Speaker 1: News Talks it'd be and good morning.
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  Speaker 2: To you and welcome to the program. Thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for choosing us today. Coming up at the next
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  Speaker 2: down debate as to where the Farm Action Fund weight
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  Speaker 2: layers bloss strokes. Would this be wasteful spending or a
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  Speaker 2: silver bullet against obig city. Andrew Watterson on the weekend
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  Speaker 2: Sport as the black Caps make history and beat India
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  Speaker 2: in a series, AUKANFC stumble and the Australian Open starts.
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  Speaker 2: It's Christopher leuxon the State of the Nation Day. What
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  Speaker 2: does Simon Bridges want to hear? We've got reporters from
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  Speaker 2: around New Zealand and Kevin Grat from the UK and
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  Speaker 2: News as it breaks and you can have your say.
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  Speaker 2: The number is ninety two ninety two. Small charge applies
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  Speaker 2: seven after five.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday, the nineteenth of January. Denmark's Prime Minister met
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  Speaker 2: Fredrickson says Europe will not be bullied. It comes as
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  Speaker 2: Trump threatens tariffs of up to twenty five percent on
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  Speaker 2: eight NATO allies over Greenland, and they're calling it a
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  Speaker 2: dangerous slide.
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  Speaker 3: So they want us to spend hundreds of billions of
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  Speaker 3: dollars defending a territory for them that is twenty five
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  Speaker 3: percent bigger than Alaska at one hundred percent American expense.
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  Speaker 3: But they say, well, we do this, it belongs one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent to Denmark.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, thousands have been protesting against Trump's plans.
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  Speaker 4: Grinn that is not for sale. We want to have
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  Speaker 4: our own country.
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  Speaker 1: I strongly believe that Europe and Denmark is a great
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  Speaker 1: and very important.
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  Speaker 4: Alliance for Greenland.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, a u wised defense officials says fifteen hundred soldiers
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  Speaker 2: in Alaska on on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 2: If President Trump uses active duty military and ongoing anti
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  Speaker 2: ice demonstrations. It comes with state official zooge protests to
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  Speaker 2: stay peaceful after the death of Rene Good and the
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  Speaker 2: confrontation with Ice that has now sparked widespread on race.
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  Speaker 5: We have the legal right to drive on the streets
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  Speaker 5: of our own city, and we have the legal right
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  Speaker 5: to observe them. But they seem to have forgotten.
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  Speaker 2: That no final decision has been made on whether the
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  Speaker 2: troops will actually deploy. And finally, Prince Harry's war with
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  Speaker 2: the press is back in court. The case against The
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  Speaker 2: Daily Mail's publisher begins tomorrow. It's his third major court
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  Speaker 2: battle accusing newspaper groups of unlawful behavior. Publishers reject the
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  Speaker 2: allegations as preposterous and are ready for a strong defense
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  Speaker 2: of their journalism.
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  Speaker 1: Views and views you Trust. To start your day, it's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickins and one roof Love, Where
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  Speaker 1: You Live, Well, Use Talks the'd be.
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  Speaker 2: It's none after five. It's hard to keep up with
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  Speaker 2: the United States as they flip from one to year
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  Speaker 2: political crisis to another. One moment's Venezuela, then it's Cuba,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's Ukraine, and then it's a Run, and
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  Speaker 2: then it's Minneapolis, and then it's Columbia, and then it's
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  Speaker 2: back to Venezuela again. But this weekend it was all
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  Speaker 2: about Greenland, with Donald Trump threatening a twenty five percent
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  Speaker 2: tariff on a slew of European countries, including den Mark, Germany,
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  Speaker 2: France and the UK, until the United States is allowed
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  Speaker 2: to purchase Greenland. The States really don't seem to understand
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  Speaker 2: the word no Greenland doesn't want it, dem Mak doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want it, and because of NATO, Europe doesn't want it.
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  Speaker 2: But America thinks they can bend reality to their desires.
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  Speaker 2: But now Europe is starting to get their cajones back.
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  Speaker 2: Germany is starting to talk about a World Cup boycott Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Allies in Europe like Nigel Farage are starting to say
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  Speaker 2: the idea is stupid. Even Republicans like Tom Tillis, a
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  Speaker 2: US Senator from North Carolina, are starting to grumble. He
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  Speaker 2: called the whole idea beyond stupid and great news for
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  Speaker 2: Putin and g Fewer than one in five of Americans
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  Speaker 2: approve of America's efforts to acquire Greenland. Only four percent
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  Speaker 2: of Americans think the United States should take Greenland using
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  Speaker 2: military force. And there were some pretty fanciful editorials in
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  Speaker 2: Europe over the weekend. One said that if the States
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  Speaker 2: loses patients and decides to seize Greenland with boots on
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  Speaker 2: the ground, then that invokes Article five, which says attack
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  Speaker 2: against one native member is considered an attack against all,
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  Speaker 2: and then Europe will be in direct conflict with the
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  Speaker 2: United States. And this editorial said, then US paces in
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  Speaker 2: Europe will be seized like Ramstein, US nuclear weapons confiscated
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  Speaker 2: European debt, money in America called in and trade ceasing,
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  Speaker 2: leaving America alone and isolated with no one to trade
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  Speaker 2: with except the supposed bad guys. Now, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that fevered dream is actually going to happen, but I
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  Speaker 2: do think it's good that Europe is starting to stand
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  Speaker 2: up for itself after a year of cow towing and
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  Speaker 2: appeasement in the face of what often ends out to
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  Speaker 2: be empty threats.
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  Speaker 1: News Talk said, be well, here.
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  Speaker 2: We are nearly back to normal. Ryan is doing drive
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  Speaker 2: today because Heather's still on holiday. Is a fella called
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  Speaker 2: mic is going to here after sex, and the breakfast
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  Speaker 2: show is back all bells and whistles. So I'm here
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  Speaker 2: for a week and at the end of the week
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  Speaker 2: everything is going to be just like it normally is.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's a bit of a debate about where the
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  Speaker 2: Farmacts should actually fund weight loss medications. Who may remember
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  Speaker 2: on the summer breakfast I was talking about this with
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  Speaker 2: some scientists who said the problem with weight loss medications
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  Speaker 2: is that they work, but as soon as you come
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  Speaker 2: off them, you put the weight back on. So is
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  Speaker 2: this wasteful spending? Is this a good idea. We'll discuss
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  Speaker 2: this next on News Talks.
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  Speaker 1: Views and Views You Trust to start your day. It's
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  Speaker 1: early edition with Andrew Dickins and one roof Love Where
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  Speaker 1: you Live News Talks that'd be by fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: The text numbers ninety two ninety two. We're here, Where
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  Speaker 2: are you right? Farmacs seeking advice on whether to fund
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  Speaker 2: weight loss medications. That's you know your govies and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand has the third highest adult obesity rate in
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  Speaker 2: the OECD. One in three adults and one in eight
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  Speaker 2: kids are classified as a beest. So is there a
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  Speaker 2: need for this? Peter Shepherd is a molecular medicine professor
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  Speaker 2: at the University of Auckland and joys me now, good
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  Speaker 2: morning to your pizza morning Andrew. How useful do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: These drugs are?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: They are really effective drugs that are lowering weight and
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  Speaker 4: improving the health outcomes that are associated with being overweight.
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  Speaker 2: And with those figures which are quite horrific, third highest
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  Speaker 2: adult obesity rate in the OECD, that means that needed.
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  Speaker 4: I think there really needs to be a solution that
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  Speaker 4: actually works.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, now, we talked about in the summer Breakfast and
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  Speaker 2: studies over the summer suggest the efficacy of this drugs
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  Speaker 2: are short term. In other words, you take them, you
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  Speaker 2: lose some weight. As soon as you go off them,
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  Speaker 2: the hunger comes back and the way comes on. So
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  Speaker 2: as a short term solution, would that be wasteful farmac spending?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's all we do with all our other drugs,
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  Speaker 4: Andrew think about it. There will be a lot of
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  Speaker 4: your listeners out there taking statins or you know, other
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  Speaker 4: medications for their heart disease and for their blood pressure.
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  Speaker 4: As soon as they go off them, they lose their
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  Speaker 4: effect as well. But we use those, don't we. So
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  Speaker 4: it's just the same thing in my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. In Australia they've announced that with Goovi will be subsidized.
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  Speaker 2: Would it makes sense for us to follow sweet suit
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  Speaker 2: or are we different places?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it'll depend on the cost, and that'll be the
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  Speaker 4: kicker here. At the moment, I think it's probably a
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  Speaker 4: little bit too expensive, but there are a whole lot
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  Speaker 4: of generic versions or or much cheaper versions coming down
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  Speaker 4: the line from China and other places. So by this
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  Speaker 4: time next year, I think we'll be in a position
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  Speaker 4: where it is an affordable way to treat obesity.
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  Speaker 2: Would it be a better solution to actually fund bariatric
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  Speaker 2: surgery instead of these short term drugs so that the
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  Speaker 2: most affected get treated.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I fully agree with you on that one. We
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  Speaker 4: do lots of surgery in this country for things like
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  Speaker 4: knee and hap operation, and that's a wonderful way to
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  Speaker 4: spend money because it really helps people long term live
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  Speaker 4: much healthier, more productive lives. We do twenty thirty thousand
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  Speaker 4: of those a year in this country, but we only
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  Speaker 4: do a few hundred bariatric surgeries because of the sort
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  Speaker 4: of preconceptions and prejudice is against obesity. So yes, more
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  Speaker 4: bariatric surgery would also be a good investment.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Peter, I thank you for your time. Peter
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  Speaker 2: is a molecular medicine professor at the University of Auckland.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if I agree or not because
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  Speaker 2: of the interviews I did over summer which said it's
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  Speaker 2: short term. The difference with status. Of course, you start
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  Speaker 2: taking status, you stay on status, but this will GOVI stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you can't stay on it long term. So it really
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  Speaker 2: the best way to spend out very limited health budget.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think ninety two ninety two is the
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  Speaker 2: text number oh history made this morning, came into work
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  Speaker 2: and I went, oh, yeah, there we go. Coley's on
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  Speaker 2: a century and then wouldn't you know it, we came
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  Speaker 2: through in the end and it's now a historic series
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  Speaker 2: win against India and cricket this is the first time
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  Speaker 2: in the last eight tours good stuff. Remember we beat
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  Speaker 2: them in a Test series the other year as well.
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  Speaker 2: So New Zealand on fire and cricket tragic. Is Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Olderson who joins me next to seventeen after five.
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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 Dickens and one Route Love where You
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  Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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  Speaker 2: The'd be five nineteen orders bounced into the studio with
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  Speaker 2: as spring in this step because we've had a series
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  Speaker 2: win against India and ODIs that's right, so not.
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  Speaker 6: Only the Test victory and in twenty twenty four, but
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  Speaker 6: this is the first one in eight attempts in the
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  Speaker 6: fifty over format to Andrew, and they are jubilant as well.
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  Speaker 6: The news there's and rightfully so, I mean they've well
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  Speaker 6: they've posted three, three, seven for eight and they've dismissed
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  Speaker 6: India for two ninety six. Coally getting too one twenty four,
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  Speaker 6: but Darren Mitchell one thirty seven, Glen Phillips one hundred
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  Speaker 6: and six, and they've come from behind in the series.
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  Speaker 2: Well done. And the thing I feel the person I
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  Speaker 2: feel the most for is Darryl Mitchell who was actually oversaw.
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  Speaker 2: They oversaw him when it came to the APL and
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  Speaker 2: he's come back to India and thrashed them all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. Is that three centuries in a row?
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  Speaker 6: That's that's some serious utu and he has delivered, yes Mitchell, Wow,
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  Speaker 6: and just just brings some authority with the bat and
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  Speaker 6: the Lord is so secure, so solid, Daryl Mitchell.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah he's he's named it new Golden Age and
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  Speaker 2: a World Cup on the way, so that.
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  Speaker 6: Solid side they're looking you know, I mean fifty over particular.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, there's a real new generation coming through there.
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  Speaker 6: I think New Zealand cricket can be pretty happy with.
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  Speaker 2: And remember how many people weren't there and we've got
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  Speaker 2: this right, We've got a lot of people missing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: exactly right, so real Philip as well for Rob Walter's
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  Speaker 2: new coach now Daniel Hilliar the golfer gets a casual
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  Speaker 2: half million. He's doing this very regularly there.
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  Speaker 6: This is tremendous and Daniel hill In just Missinguel on
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  Speaker 6: the PGA too last year, but he's come second in
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  Speaker 6: Dubai in this European Tour event finishing he was the
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  Speaker 6: clubhouse leader for a while I think with a booty
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  Speaker 6: I think on the fifteenth and then he came through
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  Speaker 6: strongly at the end, just really consistent golf and six
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  Speaker 6: under sixty five in that final round. I think Ryan
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  Speaker 6: Fox year of twenty seventh, but Hillia just finishing second
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  Speaker 6: behind Nacho Alvera.
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  Speaker 2: Spend the day yesterday watching the Australian Open looking for
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  Speaker 2: my family because did you find them?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I thought I did and I sent a photograph it up,
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  Speaker 2: it was the wrong woman. Helen went over to see
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  Speaker 2: us son careful with that one there, went over to
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  Speaker 2: see our so Ben who's having a crack at Melbourne
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  Speaker 2: and so they went to the guys to open and
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  Speaker 2: they've reported it is absolutely amazing but teaming big cues.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, great event though when you're there it's impossible not
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  Speaker 6: to get caught up in the vibe and the hype
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  Speaker 6: of the Australian Open when you're wandering around that Melbourne
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  Speaker 6: Park recinc and yeah, just overnight top seeds are in
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  Speaker 6: Sabolinka and Carlos Alcharrat through to the Sea Ground. Venus
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  Speaker 6: Williams close to get him through at forty five years
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  Speaker 6: of age, but eventually losing to Olga Danilovitch. She was
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  Speaker 6: up for love though on the decider Andrew, so just
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  Speaker 6: mister gold opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw Elena s Fitzalina play a very good match.
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  Speaker 2: And of course if you're proud because you go, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's the woman who learned her chops at awkward. Ye,
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  Speaker 2: we're quite off a guilty that, aren't we.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we'll see how Yakov Minshi goes as well after
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  Speaker 6: taking out that ASP Classic Men's final as well. In Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: there's an element of yeah we own them, don't we
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  Speaker 6: to a degree of course they've been on if they've
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  Speaker 6: triumph at Stanley Street, Yeah, exactly right, they should go
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  Speaker 6: all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew, thank you so much, lovely Ederick. It is five
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  Speaker 2: twenty two. It's News Talks MB.
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  Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by
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  Speaker 2: News Talks MB it is now five twenty four. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Andrew dickens so on Friday, just before most of us
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  Speaker 2: came back to work, at Casually announced that public transport
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  Speaker 2: fairs in Auckland are on the rise from February to
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  Speaker 2: first and I don't think they're the only ones in
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand. I think many regional authorities and councils are
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  Speaker 2: about to jack up the transport costs that you have
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  Speaker 2: to pay to get to work. So in Auckland they're
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  Speaker 2: going up by five point one percent, which is higher
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  Speaker 2: than inflation, but they claim transport costs have risen by
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  Speaker 2: up to sixteen percent, so they tried to make us
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  Speaker 2: feel as though they were doing a good job. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: parking costs in eighty controlled buildings and areas are going
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  Speaker 2: up by fifty cents an hour. For adult commuters, this
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  Speaker 2: means a ten to twenty five per cent increase per
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  Speaker 2: bus or train trip. But if you're like me and
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  Speaker 2: you take ferries, it's an extra forty to sixty cents
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  Speaker 2: per ferry journey.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I understand prices go up, but I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 2: AIGHT and other public transport operators around New Zealand realize
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  Speaker 2: the consequences of raising the prices.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I use a ferry and in fact I use
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  Speaker 2: one on Saturday to go to a sale GP watching party.
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  Speaker 2: That meant I spent fifteen dollars return. It's basically seven
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  Speaker 2: dollars forty one way and seven dollars forty b. It's
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  Speaker 2: basically fifteen bucks from February the first it'll be sixteen bucks.
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  Speaker 2: That was fine because it was just me, But if
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  Speaker 2: I took my partner, that would be thirty two dollars
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  Speaker 2: return to go from Devonport to Newmarket and Auckland. And
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  Speaker 2: that's getting very close to a price point that says
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  Speaker 2: I can't justify using PT. And if there were three
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  Speaker 2: of us, if I took a son, I might as
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  Speaker 2: well just get an uber. And that defeats the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of public transport, which is to get cars off the road,
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  Speaker 2: to make public transports so efficient that you decided to
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  Speaker 2: take it because it's good on price and it's good
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  Speaker 2: and convenience. I have no complaints about the journey. I
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  Speaker 2: was there in half an hour. I also wondered what
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  Speaker 2: the thinking was that meant that the Southern line from
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  Speaker 2: town to ed Sheeran was closed for maintenance. This was
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  Speaker 2: a chance to let people experience alternative transport options. Why
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  Speaker 2: didn't they just open it up one line. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: have to open up the Western or whatever or the eastern.
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  Speaker 2: Just open up that one and people could go from
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  Speaker 2: town to ed shearm. But no, instead people ended out
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  Speaker 2: in buses, clogging up the motorway, and some north Shore
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  Speaker 2: residents were still trying to get home at two am.
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  Speaker 2: And it reinforced the idea that not just trains are unreliable,
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  Speaker 2: all public transport is and it's getting expensive. So Augan
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  Speaker 2: Transport and all her transport operators get a load of
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  Speaker 2: bad press, but it's not helped if they keep shooting
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  Speaker 2: themselves in the foot with their decision making.
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  Speaker 1: News Talk said, be.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna play your singer right now. I'm gonna play
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  Speaker 2: the singer right now. Let's let's play the singer right now.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Sienna Rose, and she is on fire,
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  Speaker 2: and she's got three of her dusky jazz and few
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  Speaker 2: soul songs and Spotify's viral top fiftee.
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  Speaker 7: The world gross heavy on my shirt, your arm, your mommy.
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  Speaker 2: Cost, a little bit of the Olivia Dean and there
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of the in there space. Sienna Rose
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  Speaker 2: is her name. She could become one of the year's
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  Speaker 2: hottest news stars. But the only problem is people think
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  Speaker 2: she's not real. They've been having a look at her.
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  Speaker 2: Ciena Rose has absolutely no social media presence and never has.
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  Speaker 2: She's never paid a gig, she has no videos, and
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  Speaker 2: she's released an improbable number of songs in a short
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  Speaker 2: space of time. So it's thought she uploaded forty five
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  Speaker 2: tracks between September and December. I mean that's insane. And
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  Speaker 2: so people are starting to say, no, well she's AI,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't know because it's not been announced, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a crime. You should announce this, don't
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  Speaker 2: try and pull the wall over our eyes. I watched
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  Speaker 2: the TV these days and I can tell which ads
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  Speaker 2: be made with AI. And I know that's cheaper for
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  Speaker 2: the advertisers and the advertising agency, but I'm a human
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  Speaker 2: and I want to see the creativity of humans. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to see someone doing a prompt into a
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  Speaker 2: computer program and coming up with an artist. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's just I think that's just wrong, don't you. And
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  Speaker 2: certainly everything in AI, when it comes to music or
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  Speaker 2: videos should have a little sign on the bottom created
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: by a computer so we know exactly where it came from.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Do you agree? Ninety two ninety two is the text
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: number Gavin Gray out of the UK. All of Europe's
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: freaking out a little bit because of the whole Greenland
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: thing and the whole tariff thing, and they're saying some
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: pretty strong stuff. And right now they're having a meeting
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: about the challenge to Greenland. And as I said at
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the show, if they take Greenland against
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Greenland's will, that is actually against Article five of the
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: NATO Agreement, which says, if you hassle one of us,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: you hassle all of us, and that puts Europe up
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: against America. So let's go to Gavin Gray in the
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: UK and find out exactly what the situation is and
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: what the meeting's all about and what they're starting to say.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: There was some pretty strong stuff from Keirs Starmer over
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: the course of the weekend, and before the programmer has finished,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: we will be talking to Simon Bridges, who you may
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: remember could have been a National Party leader, could have
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: been a Prime minister, but he got the flick for
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: mister christpher lex and mister Christopher Leuxen is doing to
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: the nation's speech today and the International Convention Center is
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: just the first big international convention center thing. I don't know,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: but we'll talk to Simon Bridges about what he wants
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: to hear, what Christopher Luxen needs to do over the
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: next year, and what businesses want. Let's sort of come
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: on Early Edition with Andrew Dickins here on News Talks
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: at Beak.
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  Speaker 5: Now, please say lar me you information now.
• 17:21
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• 17:25
  Speaker 5: He say larmie you in for me. Now say a
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  Speaker 5: Larnie for me soon.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Now get ahead of the headlines on Early Edition with
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and one roof Love where You Live Used
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Talks at Bile.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Hey, goodbody, Welcome to the program. I'm Andrew Dickinson for
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Ryan Bridge. He's doing the drive show today, Mike is
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: back today, Heather's on holiday. One week to go and
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: then we're all back to normal.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I want to just do a quick shout out to
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the people of Northland after a very wet weekend, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: particularly the people of Fananaki because for ten years I
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: used to camp at Fananaki at Mota Tara Farm and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I'd been there when the rainfalls and when the rainfalls
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: at Fananak Get Falls. I know how miserable it can be.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: So I'm sorry about your holiday and good luck with
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the cleanup. Should be done by Wednesday, they're saying. Now.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Over the weekend we got some sad news that Grant Betty,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: the All Black from the seventies, had died in Australia
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: at the age of seventy four. I loved Grant Betty.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: He was only five 't five and he only weighed
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: seventy kg. He was an all back. He could take
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the big players on. He was electrifyingly fast. His little
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: legs would just reach warp speed and he was gone.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: And I met Grant Betty. And it was in nineteen
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: seventy four and I was eleven, and my father and
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I were heading down to Christiers to go to the
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Commonwealth Games. And dead being dead, he decided we should
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: get to Wellington on trains and ferries, so we got
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: on the Silver Star. Do you remember the Silver Star?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: That was the luxury overnight train that we used to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: have called the Hotel on wheels. So I'm on the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Silver Star and about nine o'clock at later, I went
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: to the bathroom to brush my teeth, and who should
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I see but Grant Batty, who wasn't much taller than me,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and I was eleven, and I wanted his autograph, but
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: all I had on me was my silver Star ticket.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: But luckily Grant had a pen, so he signed that.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: And while I was talking to him and reminding you
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I was eleven, I said, mister Beatty, why are you
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: so grumpy? And he laughed as big old belly laughing.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I said, I'm not grumpy, man, but you've got to
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: stand up for yourself even when everyone is bigger than you.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: How good is that advice? Grant Beatty, What a good bloke.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I've still got that ticket, it's under the house and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a box of memorabilia, and I think I'm going to
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: dig it out today. It is twenty two to six.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Right around the country. We go Calm Proctor from Dneed
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and good morning to you morning, Andrew so Otaga University
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: is doing some awesome work on brain health.
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: Yes it has yet. The university here has been named
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: as the New Zealand host in fact of a Europe
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: of a Horizon Europe Brain Health Partnership. This is going
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: to bring together transdisciplinary teams to improve brain health research
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: and treatment. The Professor Louise par Brownley as co lead
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: of this partnership. She's told us that neurological and mental
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: health disorders are leading causes of disability and mortality globally,
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: and so she says this tenure partnership is an investment
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: in the future of brain research in New Zealand and
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: this will help improve quality of life for all.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Kiwis your brain's on fire? If you can say transisciplinary
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: just like that fantastic work like.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: I struggled somewhat.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: But it's day one, very good, Yes it is. Welcome back,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Happy holidays and how's your weather find today?
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Some evening clout northeasterly is the high nineteenth.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: To crat as we go, Claire, Sure, we're good morning
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: and welcome back.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: Good morning.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: So Kaiko is a new independent supermarket that made a
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: bit of a fast how's it going in chray Search, Yeah, well.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: It's certainly been well received here. This is the new supermarket.
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: It's open at Northwood which is near Belfast on the
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: northern edge of the city. Kai Ko, of course the
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: brainchild of thirty two year old Ethan Vickery and his
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: dad Shane. Now the cool thing about this is the
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: success of Kaiko is thought to be an example of
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: how Christchurch is becoming the innovation hub of New Zealand.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: The plan for the two of them is to give
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: shop as an alternative to the big supermarkets and the
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: duopoly business. Canterbury's head of Advocacy and Strategy, Tate Dench,
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: says christ Church is a strong testing bed for innovative
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: business models and that's boosting the local economy here too.
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: He says Canterbury's high net migration is fueling innovation and
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: Cantabrian's obviously love supporting local as businesses are being created
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: at twice the national average.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: How's Canterbury's weather today?
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: A few morning clouds about otherwise should be fine. Easterly
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: is developing and hive eighteen and.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: To Wellington we go, Emily, and so good morning to you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: So this is a worry over the holidays. Somebody found
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a military practice bomb in a passenger's bag at the airport.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: That's right, So well Wellington Airport called in the defense force,
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: but I didn't evacuate staff all the public when a
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: military practice bomb was found in a passenger's bag during
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: the holiday period. A worker alleges bosses ignored safety procedures,
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: while the airport and Civil Aviation Authority are standing by
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: how they handled the incident. Police were notified of an
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: item of concern in a checked bag on December twenty seventh.
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: It was cleared by experts and confiscated nearly two hours later.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: The device is a non explosive dummy designed as a
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: replica for training scenarios and is banned on commercial aircraft.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Very good house, welling since weather.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Today partly cloudy, find spells increasing in the afternoon, southeasterly,
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: strong and exposed places with a high of seventeen degrees.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I know, thank you very much, and the legend is
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: back with her golden tonsils.
• 22:45
  Speaker 11: Golden tonsils. I don't know whether they've been working very
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: well this morning after five weeks.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I've been great. Never Retaman, good morning, Good morning Andrew.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: So finally some trains on tracks.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: Well, I've got to say, I'm just looking at this
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: spe line and what I should be saying is that
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: most of the train network most will stay closed today.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: There are some trains going. So the trains will operate
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: on the Onihung line between Onihong and New Market. The
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: Southern Line YA between new Market and Monaco.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: They're going to be open.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: But at rail services is that the rest of the
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: network is going to be replaced by buses, so those
• 23:25
  Speaker 11: sections are going to be closed for longer because guess what,
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: more extensive work needs to be done.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I know, because they didn't do it in the past.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: We didn't do it in the past. Right, But at
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the same time, it might help if they work twenty
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: four hours a day. You know, they don't work at nights.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: No, they don't. No, you're quite right, I know.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And then then you see that at late on Fridays
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: said casually, oh you, by the way, fairs are going
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: up five point one percent, and I'm sorry you're going
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to be hit with another fifty cents to go on
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: a train that doesn't even exist exactly.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: Well, look, even this morning there was road works at
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: about midnight. I woke up about midnight and I looked
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: out the window and there they were. I mean, they've
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: got to work. It didn't go on to me really
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: because I knew, well, hey, I'll be getting up in
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: the next couple of hours. But I think everyone else
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: in the apartment building like, what the hell's going on?
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Down there.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Well, as long as when this bloody rail thing opens,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: that we don't close down anymore. I think we might
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: forget this now house orcan's with it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: On a positive note, cloudy isolated childs this morning, more
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: frequent and possibly heavy at night. But positivity twenty four
• 24:26
  Speaker 11: is the high.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: I think you never read a matter was back at
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a seventeen to six. By the way, big moves in
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the hotel sector. Auckland's QT Hotel has been sold for
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: eighty seven point five million to some Australians. Meanwhile, the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: base Backpackers in Queenstown, famous old venue that's been sold
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to a Hong Kong guy for over thirty million dollars.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: There's been over seven hundred million dollars worth of sales
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: of hotels over the past year and it's seen as
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: a good sign for the industry and they say it's
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: all been bolstered by the low interest environment. I think
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: we could say that's a green shoot, can't you? Okay?
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Greenland Europe and there's a big old meeting happening right now,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: an emergency meeting with twenty seven countries in Europe, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Gavin Great has the details.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: NIXT International correspondence with ensign Eye Insurance. Peace of mind
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: In time of now is thirteen to six. Sondri adicts
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: to the UK we go Gavin Greig of mourning to.
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: You either Andrew.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: So the European Union's twenty seven ambsseds all having a
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: tinware to discuss America's desire for Greenland.
• 25:29
  Speaker 12: Yeah, there's a lot of anger, I think reading between
• 25:32
  Speaker 12: the lines, there's also a great deal of apprehension. So Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
• 25:38
  Speaker 12: the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom all putting
• 25:41
  Speaker 12: out a joint statement. They said that tariff threats undermine
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. So of
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: course this is in response to Donald Trump, the US President,
• 25:53
  Speaker 12: announcing that those countries that support Greenland and disagree with
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: American and the stempts to either buy it or take
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: it over militarily or take it over diplomatically, that those
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: countries would face tariffs for ten percent from the first
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: rising to twenty five percent in June. And there have
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: been thousands of people protesting on the streets of Denmark.
• 26:15
  Speaker 12: Greenland that comes under the Kingdom of Denmark and thousands
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: of people as well in Greenland protesting against this, and
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: France threatening something called the Anti Coercion Instrument. It's never
• 26:27
  Speaker 12: been used by the EU, but it basically would give
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: them the power to really enhance and retaliate their action
• 26:34
  Speaker 12: within international law. We really don't quite know what it
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: means because it's never been used, but Andrew thinks are
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: very very serious.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: This is true and good on Europe for no longer
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: cowtelling and apeating. They're they're actually trying to They're actually
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: finding the gats a little bit here meanwhiles to Tony Blair,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: the former UK Prime Minister has got his fingers into
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the Middle East.
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: Gain yes, fingers in yet another pie. So this is
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: the so called Board of Peace, which of course the
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: Trump administration is setting up, and it has asked the
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: former UK Prime Minister, so Tony Blair, to be a
• 27:08
  Speaker 12: founding executive member of that boarder piece, alongside the U
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: S Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Now it is said
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: that although Donald Trump will act as chair of the Board,
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: it's part of his twenty point peace plan to end
• 27:20
  Speaker 12: the war course between Israel and Gaza. Tony Blair, of
• 27:24
  Speaker 12: course famously Prime Minister here from nineteen ninety seven to
• 27:27
  Speaker 12: two thousand and seven, but famously took the UK into
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: the Iraq War in two thousand and three and has
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: since been serving as the Middle East end boy for
• 27:36
  Speaker 12: the quartet of international powers that is America, European Union,
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: Russia and the United Nations. Now, plenty of people are saying, well,
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: hang on a minute, this is all well and good,
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: but where are the Palestine? Where are the Palestinians in
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: this particular board. And you know, Tony Blair not the
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: best record, one might argue, with his record of going
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: to war with Iraq. So yeah, plenty of people questioning
• 27:58
  Speaker 12: those posts currently being unbailed.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, no, he's not Muslim's favorite person. Gavin Gray from
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the UK, I thank you very much. News Talks it
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: b Andrew. How about all the unsafe beaches that we
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: couldn't swim in over the course of the weekend. Yes,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I know, would be nice if we had some decent
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: wastewater A. It is eleven to.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Six News Talk Sebb.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: All right, if you haven't noticed, we're in twenty twenty six,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a selection year, and Christopher luxemwill deliver his state of
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the Nation's speech this afternoon at the International Convention Center
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: in Auckland. Now we're not expecting any new policy announcements,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: but here we talking about the focuses around fixing the basics,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: safeguarding the economy or can Business Chamber CEO Simon Bridges
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: joins me. Now, Happy New Year, Simon, Hello.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Ai, Happy New Year. Andrew good be on your first show.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Are you going?
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Really? Good year always starts world, doesn't it. You
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: know you come back from holiday feeling good?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: No?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no same Simon summon, As are you going?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Are you going to Christopher's speech?
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Actually did? How are you going? Well? Am I going?
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: You bet? I'm going? And you know it's we're putting
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: on the event with the yanes at iccing Kiwi Bank.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: I mean you said it. I've got no inside word
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: on what precisely the primis is saying, but it's the
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: sort of basics, focus on the results they've achieved. Well
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: after that, I've got twenty minutes with him, Oh, you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: a chat on stage, so you know, i'd expect hopefully
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: we'll get a bit of reflection on the last couple
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: of years. You know, maybe what he's learned what he's
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: learned around coalition politics, talk the economy, maybe housing intensification.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Auckland obviously, I mean that's where they won last time
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: and they'll need to win it again and what's going
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: on there. And then I think, look, you know, we
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: haven't heard the Prime minister yet on a lot of
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: the international stuff that you've just been talking about. You know,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: clear lot's been happening. So you know, events, dear boy, events,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: they get in the way of things, and it be
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: good to sort of have a discussion about some of
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: that as well. And we're out on that.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: So here's some questions. We're after two heavy years with
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the recession and austerity combining. Will it be difficult for
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Christopher Laxon to sell the green shoots that are appearing?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Will he get the credit for the two and around?
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I think that's a good question. I mean, I think, firstly,
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: you know what we are seeing, you know, what is
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: the last three four months. It's a lot of these.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: You know, I hate the weird green shoot, but I
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: know they explain it well. The green shoots, the various
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: indicators that do show that we're back on a path
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: from growth. So, as you say, from tough times to grow.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: And one of the questions I intend to ask them is,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: you know what extent really what you said? Do they
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: deserve the credit for this? Well? Is this simply cyclical
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: things that were kind of happening anyway, or what is
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: it that the government's done to be a part of that?
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: And I think the other valid question is is it
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: going to continue? What's the government got that's new, that's fresh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: that's there for business. It's going to give them continued
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: on going confidence over the course of this year, and
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: indeed beyond what are the economic plans of Christopher Luxon's
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: privileged to get another three year term.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Good stuff, simon, enjoy your day to day, enjoyed the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: new facility. This is the International Convention Center, the one
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: that burst into flames and got delayed by about three years.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: And this is the first big event in the theater,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: and I understand the theatre there is actually quite something.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: It's quite a big theater and it's absolutely brand spiffing new.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: So I'll actually be even more interested to see the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: theater than to hear what Christopher Luxon says. And what
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: an interesting year it's going to be. I think over
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the weekend. Just looking at some of the stuff. It
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: seems obvious to everyone that Chris Bishop and the Prime
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Minister have quite different ideas on the way forward. And
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: we know that there was a bit of a challenge
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: last year from the Libertarians against the more conservative people,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: which is Luxe and versus Bishop. So it'll be interesting
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to see what happens. Election years are always great. Mike
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: loves him and guess what, Mike is back and he's here.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: with Andrew Dickens and one roof Love where you Live
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: News Talk said be.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Still was shocking to me this morning because the teams
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: come in and I'm looking at producer Glenn who's lost
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  Speaker 2: his studio power and is actually looking quite tanned and
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  Speaker 2: healthy and looking great. Meanwhile looking elegant as always, Mike
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  Speaker 2: asking welcome home.
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  Speaker 8: Rightful to see you back, just through I don't know
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  Speaker 8: if you're aware of this. I'm back two weeks early.
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  Speaker 8: I am, and it was I decided this, and the
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't due back until the second of February, I know,
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  Speaker 8: and then in the first week of leave. So you're
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  Speaker 8: going back to the beginning of December, I thought this
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  Speaker 8: is this is absurd. I thought this eight weeks is
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  Speaker 8: just nuts. And so I wrote to Jason, who's the
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  Speaker 8: bigger boss, and I said, good news, I'm coming back
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  Speaker 8: early because it's a big year and we need to
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: get into this. And instead of I mean, the response
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  Speaker 8: I got wasn't what I was expecting. He started complaining
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  Speaker 8: about the administration and he said.
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  Speaker 2: He do things to unpick me and said, because I
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: was going to go all the long, were you were
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: you affected by it?
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  Speaker 1: Are you?
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  Speaker 8: Are you aggrieved?
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  Speaker 2: Now I've got to do Ryan because you know Heathers
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: on holiday. You know these holidays are just you know,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: fluttering one.
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  Speaker 8: It's too long. What I've discovered is that there's been
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  Speaker 8: a material change in the country. I can't out with
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  Speaker 8: a lot of people, for example, without boring the rest
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  Speaker 8: of the country. I don't know whether a lot of
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: people have come to Auckland or whether a lot of
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: people used to leave Auckland and didn't. But it's it's
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  Speaker 8: normal now. It's been normal for over a week. You know,
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  Speaker 8: in the days you used to wander around here in
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  Speaker 8: the middle of January, no one was. It's all different. Everything.
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  Speaker 2: I went to a sow GP party on Saturday. None
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  Speaker 2: of the part in our townis cup and I had
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  Speaker 2: to come through the q E two Square, which is
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  Speaker 2: now called Kotahitanga or something. I don't know q it's
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: called que two Square and the place was absolutely packed
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: and there was a demonstration of summer wrestling, oh okay
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: and that which was a due join in, look at me,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: look at me.
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  Speaker 8: So anyway, it's all worked out well. Prime Minister this morning,
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  Speaker 8: so he's, as you mentioned, launches the year and so
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: he'll before he does that, join us and you know,
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  Speaker 8: work for work for you, a few things, see how
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  Speaker 8: we're feeling and vibing and set.
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  Speaker 2: The go and make cost He is back my thanks
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  Speaker 2: to producer Kenzie. I'll be here for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the week. Ryan's doing Drive, have yourself a great day.
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