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Full Show Podcast: 29 August 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlier ishow with one roof Love where You Live News
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Speaker 1: Talk said.
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Speaker 2: Good morning in a six half to five, Welcome to Friday.
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Speaker 2: We look at the boozelord tweeks before six this morning,
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Speaker 2: Vincent mcavinie's in the UK. For US, Chinese investment in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand is flattening off. We ask why and what
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Speaker 2: can we do about it? And we speak to the
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Speaker 2: Black Ferns camp ahead of their Japan match on Well
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Speaker 2: it's Sunday their time, one o'clock Monday morning for US.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Friday, the twenty ninth of August. Russia has
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Speaker 2: gone NATO on Kiev six hundred bombs and drones overnight,
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Speaker 2: one of their biggest attacks ever.
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Speaker 3: Every time you think it won't be your house, that's here.
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Speaker 2: Evnchelle is all the heated you never expected. The Brits
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Speaker 2: and the EU have been caught up in this. I'll
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Speaker 2: explain that to you in a second. Obviously, the White
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Speaker 2: House is not happy.
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Speaker 4: Couldn't stopped shooting the capital. He does this and then
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Speaker 4: after all the European and the Americans left. He authorized
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Speaker 4: some of the harshest strokes we've seen since the beginning
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Speaker 4: of the war.
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Speaker 2: Still no motive in the US on that Catholic school shooting.
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Speaker 2: The police have named the gunman as twenty three year
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Speaker 2: old Robin Westman. Kids at the mass who were there
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Speaker 2: when it happened have been speaking about the moment.
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Speaker 5: My friend Victor like Sieve Meso because he laid on
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Speaker 5: top of me, but he got.
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Speaker 2: Hit in the back. Finally, this morning, a University of
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Speaker 2: Tennessee professor has gone viral for faking a class cancelation
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Speaker 2: over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's engagement.
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Speaker 1: Taylor and Travis just got engaged due to this information,
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Speaker 1: I giveus locus classes canceled, get out of here.
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Speaker 2: We turned out to be a pr lesson, apparently showing
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Speaker 2: how big cultural moments go viral and maximize impact a
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Speaker 2: little bit like Taytay's timed announcement there was just ahead
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Speaker 2: conveniently of the NFL season and quite near the release
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Speaker 2: of her album too.
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Speaker 1: Eight after five the first word on the News of
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Speaker 1: the Day early edition with Ryan Bridge and One Route
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Speaker 1: Love where You Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it looks like that meeting between Trump and
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Speaker 2: Putin didn't achieve much at all. If you look at
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Speaker 2: what's happened in Ukraine overnight, we've got more deaths. Eighteen
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Speaker 2: people have died, one of the biggest attacks from Russia
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Speaker 2: thus far in the war. And they either missed their
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Speaker 2: target or they are deliberately provoking a firestorm because they've
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Speaker 2: hit the British Council offices and the EU officers Ukraine
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Speaker 2: says six hundred and twenty nine missiles and drones struck
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Speaker 2: overnight there kme. The EU, as you can imagine, are
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Speaker 2: very angry about this, and they have called in the
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Speaker 2: Russian envoy, first time during this war that a British
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Speaker 2: government office has been caught up in it. So there's
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Speaker 2: a bit of frakka going on, a diplomatic frakar going
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Speaker 2: on over that. At the moment, we'll see what comes
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Speaker 2: of it. This morning, it is nine minutes after five up.
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Speaker 2: Next it's Chinese and investment in New Zealand when you
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Speaker 2: wouldn't say gangbusters, but nine percent a year on average
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Speaker 2: for twenty fourteen to twenty nineteen COVID hits and then
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Speaker 2: it starts to flatten off or even decline. We look
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Speaker 2: at that, we ask why that is at five twenty
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Speaker 2: this morning. Next we're at the Black Ferns camp here
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Speaker 2: on News Talks YB.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one Roofe Love Where you Live News TALKSB.
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Speaker 2: Five eleven on News Talk IBB. Interesting the timeline, you know,
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Speaker 2: the FBI office. There was a big hooha about this
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Speaker 2: FBI office being set up in Wellington. It just really interesting.
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Speaker 2: The hero's got a piece on the timeline of who
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Speaker 2: knew what and when. Judith Collins knew about this base
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Speaker 2: being established seventy eight days before Luxon was told. I
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Speaker 2: find the whole thing a bit curious. Neither of them
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Speaker 2: has come out and explained why such a delay took place.
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Speaker 2: So Luxon finds out just six days before cash Battel
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Speaker 2: came and the ZB reported down at Parliament, noticed him,
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Speaker 2: saw him and then reported it to us. All Mark
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Speaker 2: Mitchell he was told July seventh, Winston Peter's July eighth.
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Speaker 2: Luxon not told until July twenty fourth. Todd mister Trade
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Speaker 2: he didn't know until the day of which is I
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Speaker 2: don't find that unusual, but the rest of it I do.
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Speaker 2: We've had a pseudo office here for years now. We've
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Speaker 2: had a staff member or staff members here, but an
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Speaker 2: actual official office, a base if you will for the FBI.
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Speaker 2: Bits strange that the Prime Minister was kept at such
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Speaker 2: arm's length for such a long period of time, and
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Speaker 2: that they're not saying why that is the case. Are
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Speaker 2: they keeping him in the dark? On purpose twelve past.
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Speaker 1: Five Bryan Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Injury update for the Black Ferns. This morning they crushed
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Speaker 2: Spain of course, forty five eighths. It was the wind
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Speaker 2: to start the week. Next up they take on Japan
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Speaker 2: at Sandy Park and England. That's one am our time,
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Speaker 2: Monday morning. Ricky Fouti is a Black Fern's Backs and
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Speaker 2: Skills coach and joins me this morning. Ricky, good morning here.
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Speaker 6: Come on Ryan. How are you doing you will?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Really well? How are your girls doing? How the
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Speaker 2: injury is looking?
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Speaker 6: No, our ladies are good, mate, As you were seen.
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Speaker 6: We had a couple of nibbles throughout the game there
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Speaker 6: with Kaipoetia and Dups picking up a little injuries. But
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Speaker 6: they all really need further assessment on their return to
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Speaker 6: play and they're in great hands of our medical staff.
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Speaker 6: But we're really confident that they are going to be
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Speaker 6: available next week actually.
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Speaker 2: So they'll be there for Ireland.
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Speaker 6: Well, they'll be available for selection, that's what we're hoping,
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Speaker 6: but we'll get that. We'll get that information over the
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Speaker 6: next couple of days from our medics.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's downplaying the significance of the Japan game. You guys
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Speaker 2: aren't what's the what's the challenges there? What are you
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Speaker 2: what are you strategizing focusing on?
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Speaker 6: No, Hey, just like Spain, really we're not. We're not
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Speaker 6: taking Japan lightly at all. We're respecting them. You know,
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Speaker 6: it's it's a Rugby World Cup. You know, Japan well
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Speaker 6: coached and their hard working team. They've got they've got
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Speaker 6: threats throughout their team. But we're really confident with the
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Speaker 6: team that we're going with, you know that that that
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Speaker 6: we can beat this this Japan team. So yeah, that
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Speaker 6: they've got. Hey, their game, from what we've seen, they've
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Speaker 6: got really good set piece, they've got a good kicking game.
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Speaker 6: They vary their kicking game. And the other part is
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Speaker 6: they're one of the top steps around turnover balls, so
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Speaker 6: really good tacklers and they're always looking at turning the
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Speaker 6: ball over. So a couple of things that we're aware
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Speaker 6: of in their game. But you know, we're going into
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Speaker 6: this game more focusing on on us and and and
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Speaker 6: how we needed to improve off the back of our
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Speaker 6: Spain performance. Spain, as I mentioned, they showed a lot
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Speaker 6: of heart and a lot of passion in their game
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Speaker 6: and put us under pressure and put our skill sets
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Speaker 6: under pressure. So we were a little bit clunky and
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Speaker 6: our timing was often a lot of parts of our
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Speaker 6: game and having an area raiate of around twenty two.
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Speaker 6: You know, we're going into this game making sure that
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Speaker 6: we're a lot more clinical than our Spain performance.
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Speaker 2: Ricky, what's the vibe like, what are the crowds like,
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Speaker 2: what's the atmosphere like?
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Speaker 5: Then?
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Speaker 6: Ah, hey, they the English have done a fantastic job
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Speaker 6: and Will Rugby done a fantastic job around promoting the
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Speaker 6: World Cup here in England. When we're up York, throughout
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Speaker 6: that whole week leading into our Spain game, just the
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Speaker 6: city had an awesome vibe around it. You know, a
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Speaker 6: lot of locals all knew that the World Cup was there,
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Speaker 6: you could tell with the energy that was around the city.
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Speaker 6: And then heading to the game against Spain, and hey,
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Speaker 6: it was it was It was pretty Lectrine the crowd
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Speaker 6: was into it and that was an awesome, awesome vibe
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Speaker 6: and I think the girls loved it and I'm sure
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Speaker 6: as the pool games move on and get into the playoffs,
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Speaker 6: that energy and is going to be something awesome. Good
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Speaker 6: luck for this weekend, Ricky, awesome, Thank you very much,
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Speaker 6: appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: That's Ricky Fluty, Black Ferns Backs and Skills coach with
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Speaker 2: us on Black Fans Camp over in the UK. It
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Speaker 2: is sixteen minutes after five. You're on News Talk SEBB.
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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we'll look at Chinese direct investment into
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and vice versa. We've got a new report
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Speaker 2: on that this morning and it's interesting the comparison pre
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Speaker 2: COVID and post COVID.
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Speaker 1: you Live News talks'd B five nineteen nine nine two
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Speaker 1: is the number to text. I'm feeling a little bit
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Speaker 1: off this morning.
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Speaker 2: Physically played a game netball last night, which is not
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Speaker 2: something you should do if you don't normally play netball
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Speaker 2: or anything particularly physically demanding. It was for charity, so
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Speaker 2: it was a really good cause. Tony Streep from Coast
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Speaker 2: Radio roped me into it. Lisa Carrington was on our team. Man,
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Speaker 2: she's impressive, and Vonn Willaring was coaching us, directing us.
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Speaker 2: They call her the General for a reason. Anyway, during
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Speaker 2: the break in this netball game, we're playing some ex
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Speaker 2: silver ferns, so it was fierce competition, stiff competition, which
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Speaker 2: is how my legs are feeling right now. Anyway, Lisa
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Speaker 2: Carrington goes that halftime, now, what are your tips? How
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Speaker 2: can I get better? How can I improve? And I'm like, man,
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Speaker 2: that's the attitude of an absolute champion. Willering looked at
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Speaker 2: me after she subbed me onto the bench for the
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Speaker 2: first time. There were a couple of them. She said,
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Speaker 2: where do you want to go next? And I said home?
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Speaker 2: And I wasn't lying anyway. It was good fun. And
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Speaker 2: really good cause. Twenty after five. Chinese investment in New
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Speaker 2: Zealand isn't as robust as you might think it is,
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Speaker 2: but it is growing sort of. A new report from
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Speaker 2: the Chinese Business Council and insid IR shows China ranks
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Speaker 2: twelfth for direct foreign investment to New Zealand. Growth averaged
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Speaker 2: about nine percent a year over the past decade, but
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Speaker 2: it has been flattening or declining since COVID. Chris Nixon
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Speaker 2: is principal economist. It's ensiediar and with me this morning, Morning, Chris,
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Speaker 2: good morning. The fact investments slowing is them not us, right,
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Speaker 2: like they're not investing as much globally.
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Speaker 7: I think that's right. But our investment with China is
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Speaker 7: also growing rather slowly as well that our trade numbers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are our largest trading partner, but then only
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Speaker 2: twelfth on investment. Is there is normally a longer relationship
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Speaker 2: between the two.
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Speaker 7: Well, I mean the problem here is that investment is
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Speaker 7: a long term game, and with other countries who have
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Speaker 7: traded with for Australia, for example, for over one hundred
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Speaker 7: and fifty years, they have a much greater advantage than
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Speaker 7: the Chinese because we've only really been training trading with
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Speaker 7: the Chinese for the last twenty years, so you would
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Speaker 7: expect that it will take time for the relation to ship.
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Speaker 2: To build Chris, what do they want to invest in?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think they if you look at the spread
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Speaker 7: of investments so far, they are investing it in almost everything.
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Speaker 7: I think there are going to be opportunities for New
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Speaker 7: Zealand to invest in China and China to invest in
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Speaker 7: New Zealand in all sorts of things like what Well,
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Speaker 7: for example, New Zealand has invested in dairy in China,
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Speaker 7: also in things such as pet food in New Zealand.
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Speaker 7: It's pretty clear that I've invested in consumer goods given
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Speaker 7: that twenty one percent of our trade comes from China.
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Speaker 2: John McKinnon says we're entering a no stone unturned period
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Speaker 2: of investment attraction here and we've seen announcement after announcement
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Speaker 2: from the government on you know, basically come here, invest, emigrate, spend,
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Speaker 2: We're open for business. Do you think the message is
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Speaker 2: getting through?
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Speaker 7: Well, look, I mean I'm not really that focused on
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Speaker 7: the short term. I want consistency over the long term.
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Speaker 7: We need because it's a long term business. We want
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Speaker 7: consistency between as governments change in New Zealand. So our
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Speaker 7: bipartisan approach is really important and are consistent by bipartisan approach.
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Speaker 2: Do you think we'll get that well, time will tell.
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Speaker 7: But I mean it's my advice as an economist to
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Speaker 7: point this out.
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Speaker 2: Message heard loud and clear. Chris Nixon, thanks for your
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Speaker 2: time this morning, principal economist at NZIAR and those new
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Speaker 2: numbers this morning time there's twenty three minutes after five.
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Speaker 2: You're on news talks hereb. Next we'll look at Air
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Speaker 2: New Zealand and they obviously had their results yesterday. Bit
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Speaker 2: depressing from Air New Zealand. How long till they're back
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Speaker 2: to full capacity, until they have all the planes that
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Speaker 2: they had pre engine issues and they can start flying
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Speaker 2: us where we need to get to. That's next the early.
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Speaker 2: HEB twenty six minutes after five reading the In New
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Speaker 2: Zealand results yesterday? Did you see those? Bit depressing? Even
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Speaker 2: more so was the commentary afterwards, Profit down, demand down,
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Speaker 2: costs on the March. Capacity is still buggered by those
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Speaker 2: engine problems and the real punch in the guts for
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Speaker 2: our national carrier. They won't be back to full capacity
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Speaker 2: for the best part of two more years. FORURN confirmed
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Speaker 2: that last night, which is sad. It looks like a
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Speaker 2: bit of a wounded, bruised, not in full health national carrier,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it. And there's something about your national carrier that
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Speaker 2: should make you feel a little bit proud. You know,
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Speaker 2: when you've been overseas and you've traveled the world and
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Speaker 2: you've not seen a fellow New Zealander in ages a
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Speaker 2: long time, jumping on board that last league home. Hearing
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Speaker 2: the accent the comfort of Kiwi service makes you feel
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Speaker 2: a bit proud. So you should be proud of your
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Speaker 2: national carrier. Foreun has had a rough time in the job,
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Speaker 2: there's no doubt about that. Border closures, lockdowns. Is there
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Speaker 2: anything worse for the new boss of a global airline?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. The Rolls Royce, the other engine issues,
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Speaker 2: again not really his fault. You can plan around that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But even those plans have had to change because the
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Speaker 2: engine makers. There are timelines for the fix it jobs.
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Speaker 2: They've been pushed out. And then there's the prices. All
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Speaker 2: we love to whine about the prices, including me, and
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Speaker 2: I'll get one on record. Return weekend flight from Auckland
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Speaker 2: to Wellington for the middle of next month will cost
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Speaker 2: you close to eight hundred bucks return Auckland Wellington. I
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Speaker 2: mean to be fair, it's only a couple of weeks away. Still,
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Speaker 2: let's wine and guess what. There's going to be more
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Speaker 2: of this to come, an extra five percent in the
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Speaker 2: near future of price increases and as forum hits the
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Speaker 2: departure allounged to make way for a new captain of
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Speaker 2: our national treasure. If we'd still call it that. The
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Speaker 2: question is what would or should he have done differently?
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Speaker 2: Look at Quantis, that's a bit of a mess I'd
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Speaker 2: probably take in New Zealand over Quantas right now, for
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Speaker 2: all the faults and all the complaints and all the
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Speaker 2: price hikes, is there anything anyone has suggested that could
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Speaker 2: have fixed these problems while not simultaneously sinking the business
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Speaker 2: or worse, forcing it to go once again cap in
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Speaker 2: hand to the government for another handout.
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Speaker 6: Ryan twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: Minutes after five year on news Talk said, b interesting
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Speaker 2: numbers from on green loans. Has anyone actually got one
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Speaker 2: of these green loans? I haven't had one myself. We've
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Speaker 2: looked at it, but it's never really made sense for
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Speaker 2: what we're wanting to do. But this has reached a
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Speaker 2: billion dollars now from all the major banks since they
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Speaker 2: launched in twenty twenty two. It's for stuff like heat
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Speaker 2: pumps and a new tesla and insulation. The rates are
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Speaker 2: really good. West Pax is a max of fifty thousand
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Speaker 2: interests free for up to five years. AMZB and z
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Speaker 2: ASB they're eighty thousand on one percent for a period
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Speaker 2: of up to three years. And at those rates, it's
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Speaker 2: kind of like, why wouldn't you. I guess it has
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Speaker 2: to make sense. Probably has to be something that you
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Speaker 2: are going to do anyway, and then you happen to
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Speaker 2: get a really good rate, so you maybe do it quicker.
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Speaker 2: But it's interesting looking at what we're actually spending it
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Speaker 2: on and the trends. EV was a big one to
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Speaker 2: begin with, but that's waning now. Insulation is strong, heat
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Speaker 2: pumps are strong. I mean those are bread and butter
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Speaker 2: and solar solar. Although apparently inquiries are picking up, so
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Speaker 2: it looks like we like a good green deal to
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Speaker 2: the tune of a billion dollars. News Talk said b
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Speaker 2: We're live to the UK next and our reporters are
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Speaker 2: around the country.
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Speaker 1: Views and views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: earlier this ship with Bryan Bridge and one Roofe Love.
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Speaker 7: Where you Live?
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Speaker 1: News Talks at Brett.
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Speaker 2: Far Away from six On News Talks, Ryan Born should
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Speaker 2: will go his salary and bonuses and his retirement handout,
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Speaker 2: cut the domestic flight costs and fill the planes up.
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Speaker 2: That is easier said than done, isn't it. How do
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Speaker 2: you make a profit with a strategy like that? Would
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Speaker 2: be my question?
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Speaker 1: Ryan?
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Speaker 2: Did you see the Quantust profits yesterday? Yes, Quantus Group
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Speaker 2: made one point seven eight billion dollar profit that compares
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Speaker 2: to our net profit of one hundred and twenty six
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Speaker 2: million for Air New Zealand. Theirs was up twenty eight
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Speaker 2: percent on the previous year, So yeah, they're doing really
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Speaker 2: well a sign like financially, I mean, I think in
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Speaker 2: terms of service, would you rather get on a Quantus
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Speaker 2: fighter in New New Zealand flight? Personally, I've always found
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Speaker 2: the experience to be better on in the New Zealand
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Speaker 2: flight so really strong. It's kind of a sign of
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Speaker 2: where our economies are at. Air New Zealand's performance via
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Speaker 2: Quantus obviously not in a great space at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Their domestic demand has increased, their business travelers rebounding in
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Speaker 2: Australia and Jetstar was a real standout for them twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent more customers internationally from Australia than in the
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Speaker 2: year prior. Big moves for Japan, Highland in South Korea
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Speaker 2: twenty three away from six Ryan Bridge, Colum Procter and
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Speaker 2: Jneedin for US this morning, calm, good morning, all right,
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Speaker 2: So population there is growing quite quickly. It is in
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Speaker 2: Central Otago, that's for sure.
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Speaker 8: The District Council's latest reports revealed that Central Otago is
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Speaker 8: one of the fastest expanding regions in this country. It's
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Speaker 8: forecast for a sixty three percent population growth in the
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Speaker 8: next ten years. So that's good and bad news for
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Speaker 8: the area. The mayor, tama Ali tells us, Look, we've
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Speaker 8: seen what has happened when growth outpaces infrastructure in neighboring regions,
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Speaker 8: and Otago certainly doesn't want that. She says, growth carries
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Speaker 8: significant infrastructure risks if they are not ahead of the game,
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Speaker 8: and so she wants to ensure that when the area
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Speaker 8: does grow, it keeps in line with the reason why
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Speaker 8: people move there in the first place.
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Speaker 9: Year's festival that's coming to christ Church this year. After
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Speaker 9: being at why Pitter, christ Church City Council's Head of
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Speaker 9: Planning into Consents, Mark Stephenson, says the resours consent for
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Speaker 9: Rolling Medals is on hold at the moment. Council's waiting
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Speaker 9: for some more information. The stuff they're looking for is
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Speaker 9: about some plans to reorient the stages and also build
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Speaker 9: some walls on the site to direct the noise away
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Speaker 9: from the residential areas of Spencerville and Spencer Park and
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Speaker 9: towards the sea.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 9: Council records show the festivals actually submitted four applications for
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Speaker 9: consent since March. The most recent one asks for consent
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Speaker 9: for three years instead of the original ten. And we've
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Speaker 9: gone to the festival organizers. They've given a statement. It's
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Speaker 9: pretty brief. It really only says that they're navigating a
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Speaker 9: very lengthy and drawn out consent process. They do think
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Speaker 9: that council has enough to just get it done. That said,
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Speaker 9: thirty percent of tickets have already being reserved via pre
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Speaker 9: sale and they're pushing ahead with their lineup announcement on Monday.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's ambitious. How's your weather at cloudy periods?
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Speaker 9: It could be a shower this afternoon. Westerlies and a
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Speaker 9: high of seventeen.
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Speaker 2: Thanks clear and Troy and Mex's and Wellington Heymex. Good morning.
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Speaker 2: Our first week of it Lothus Lodge trial is drawing
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Speaker 2: to a close.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been quite difficult this week. Some very harrowing
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Speaker 3: evidence presented in court. One on one calls from people
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Speaker 3: inside the building, calls from the roof where people had
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Speaker 3: escaped the fire too. Video yesterday played in court of
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Speaker 3: residents discovering that fire, initially a fire that would kill
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Speaker 3: five people. A call from a man trapped in his
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Speaker 3: smoke filled room thirty minutes he was on the line
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Speaker 3: with one one one. The man who made that call
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Speaker 3: was in court. He had to be helped out of
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Speaker 3: the room. He became so emotional. A video of a
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Speaker 3: guy jumping out of his fourth floor window onto another
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Speaker 3: building's roof.
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Speaker 2: As for the murder.
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Speaker 3: Accused, he still has named suppression. He has tried to
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Speaker 3: plea insanity, but that was not accepted initially. He may
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Speaker 3: try again. Apparently he doesn't dispute lighting the fire in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. A long way to go though in
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Speaker 3: this trial, likely another month.
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Speaker 2: All right, And how's your weather?
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Speaker 3: Cloudy today with some showers fourteen the high Central.
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Speaker 2: Thank you neighbors with us this morning in Auckland. Hey Neva,
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Speaker 2: Happy Friday, Happy Friday. Yes hey, bit of a feisty
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Speaker 2: meeting in Mount Eden last night.
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Speaker 6: I no, I love it.
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Speaker 10: See this is what public meetings should be about, you know,
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Speaker 10: four against fight, regardless of what's going to and what's happening. So, yes,
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Speaker 10: you're quite right, this happened in Mount Eden. So this
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Speaker 10: is over the concerns about high rise apartments in the
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Speaker 10: wider neighborhood and the worries about the loss of special
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Speaker 10: character status for hundreds of villas and bungalows in Mount Eden.
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Speaker 10: So you can just imagine just how yes heated it was.
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Speaker 10: We've had the herald, they were there and they reported
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Speaker 10: on it. Hundreds turned out there was a student in there.
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Speaker 10: There's a lot of four and against you know, one
22:56
Speaker 10: of the students got up and said, look, I live
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Speaker 10: in a damp flat, your special character area. These older people,
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Speaker 10: they're preventing change we needed. And then he was shouted down,
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Speaker 10: you know from one of the local board members, you know,
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Speaker 10: shouting him down. And Paul Goldsmith was there, Christine Fletcher,
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Speaker 10: all the big names. So it was I think it
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Speaker 10: was actually quite good. I'm glad, you know, you get
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Speaker 10: a bit of mixture in there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a bit of airing of the view because they
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Speaker 2: want to basically get rid of everyone's on about their
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Speaker 2: view shafts, aren't they, mart Eden. Everyone wants to about
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Speaker 2: to see the mass a.
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Speaker 10: Special character areas yet they don't want the high rises
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Speaker 10: on there.
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Speaker 2: But they've got to go in at some point exactly.
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Speaker 10: But look, more to the point, the Auckland story of
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Speaker 10: the day has to be about you. And this was
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Speaker 10: the Coast Charity netball clash yesterday, Tony Street, and I
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Speaker 10: heard that you were fantastic because Jenny Woods and Andrew
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Speaker 10: Ortison they were the commentators.
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Speaker 2: Yeah they I think they're being nice. Well yeah, I
23:49
Speaker 2: think they're being overly nice about that well position. I
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Speaker 2: played gold Keep for a little bit. Idea.
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Speaker 10: Oh you would have been a great defense.
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Speaker 2: I know it wasn't really. I googled before I went
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Speaker 2: what's the easy netball position? And it said goalkeep? So
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Speaker 2: I suggested to Von that. I said, hey, what about goalkeep?
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Speaker 2: And she said all right, But then then she put
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Speaker 2: me in a different way. I think I can't remember
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Speaker 2: what it is in the middle of the court. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: it was hard. They're bloody tough, and they're so physical
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Speaker 2: and they're really quick. By the time I turned, you know,
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Speaker 2: I would stand there, turn around and they'd moved three
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Speaker 2: places by then.
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Speaker 10: Oh, for goodness sake, because I thought you look quite athletic.
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Speaker 2: Looks can be deceiving, but it's for a great cause.
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Speaker 2: It was for deafital Day, which is today, so people
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Speaker 2: can donate to the Cancer Society today, please right, yes?
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Speaker 10: And plus I think we've got here at ENZ and
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Speaker 10: me and the iHeart Lounge. They're going to have you know,
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Speaker 10: everyone's baking and all of that, so there will go
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Speaker 10: for that. I didn't bring anything, but I thought I
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Speaker 10: mon't go down and get some registic clear muffins and
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Speaker 10: that will be well, you know, it'll be our contribution
24:50
Speaker 10: on behalf of you.
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Speaker 2: And can I just say I'm absolutely shattered. Well, do
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Speaker 2: you know what funny you should say?
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Speaker 10: Because I've had four coffees and I'm just like a
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Speaker 10: live why And this is the first time I've got
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Speaker 10: to say. You're very very quiet, You're like hi never
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Speaker 10: and that's not like, that's not like Ryan people and I.
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Speaker 2: Saw m shadow.
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Speaker 10: Do you go yeah, oh my god, nep, We'll play it. Okay,
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Speaker 10: showers possibly scoredy, thunderstorms and hail. Westerly's gusting to ninety
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Speaker 10: kilometers per hour. Seventeen is high here.
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Speaker 2: You've had coffees for me too, all right, It's Friday morning.
25:23
Speaker 2: On News Talks, there'll be seventeen minutes away from six,
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Speaker 2: we'll look at Nicole McKee and who changes to alcohol
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Speaker 2: laws some people for some people Again, we'll look at
25:31
Speaker 2: that before six and Vincent mcavannie and the UK.
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Speaker 1: Next 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: Fourteen away from six on News Talks, people get to
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Speaker 2: your text shortly right now. Vincent mcavannie is our UK
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Speaker 2: europe correspondent. Vincent's Ukraine suffered its worst night of strikes
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Speaker 2: in months. Nineteen people have been killed. In these strikes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 11: Nineteen people, including four children kill, the youngest of which
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Speaker 11: just two years old. Dozens more injured in this massive bombardment,
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Speaker 11: which was missiles and drones. It it hit several residential
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Speaker 11: buildings in capital Yukiv and also managed to hit the
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Speaker 11: EU's officers and the British Council's offices. That has meant
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Speaker 11: that the Russian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign
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Speaker 11: Office today for addressing down the EU and Britain taking
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Speaker 11: it as a sort of attack basically on their presence there,
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Speaker 11: and President Zelenski saying that all of this is evidence
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Speaker 11: that Putin's not serious about wanting to go to the
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Speaker 11: negotiating table for a peace settlement.
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Speaker 2: Have we heard anything from the Kremlin about whether this
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Speaker 2: was a mistake or whether they are playing with fire.
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Speaker 11: So far we haven't heard anything about that, whether it
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Speaker 11: was a target or in discriminate, But you really sort
26:44
Speaker 11: of can't trust anything that they would say, whether it
26:46
Speaker 11: was a targeted attack.
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Speaker 2: Down to airby that everyone's going on about this option auction,
26:51
Speaker 2: I should say this props and costumes and pieces from
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Speaker 2: the all sorts of stuff, and there's going to be
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Speaker 2: a third release. Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 11: The third and final film comes out in the next
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Speaker 11: month of the much beloved TV show, And because it
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Speaker 11: is now the very end, they are auctioning off the
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Speaker 11: props from the last fifteen years. So if you go
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Speaker 11: on the website, it's everything from the car the family
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Speaker 11: drove to the wedding dress that Lady Mary wore, things
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Speaker 11: like the trays that the servants use, pieces of furniture.
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Speaker 11: It's all on there and the bidding is on until
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Speaker 11: the fifteenth of September. It's all for a charity which
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Speaker 11: supports those who have medical illnesses children. It's called Together
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Speaker 11: for Short Lives, the charity sports and children with life
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Speaker 11: limiting conditions and their families. So you can go on
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Speaker 11: to the website and just have the brows there and
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Speaker 11: a real sort of treasure trove of early twentieth century
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Speaker 11: furniture and clothing which is all used in that show.
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Speaker 2: Vincent, Thank you Vincent making any a UK. You're a correspondent.
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Speaker 2: Time now twelve to six. It'd be good news for
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Speaker 2: the sports fans this morning. It's so going to be
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Speaker 2: easier to go to the pub for a big overseas match.
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Speaker 2: Changes to the Alcohol Relation Laws, ministers can grant one
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Speaker 2: off special trading hours for businesses that stream major events.
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Speaker 2: Steve Gillett is owner of the Kingsland, a pub in
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Speaker 2: Auckland and is with me this morning. Steve, Good morning mate,
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Speaker 2: how are we a good thank you? Is this good news?
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Speaker 2: Is this going to make a difference?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 5: I think it's just positive for the hospitality industry. It's
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Speaker 5: been pretty pretty tough out there at the moment, and
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Speaker 5: I think it's just an opportunity to get extra revenue streams,
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Speaker 5: to increase your top your total sales at the end
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Speaker 5: of the day. So it give us a guys opportunity
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Speaker 5: to open and let the community come in and watch
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Speaker 5: these games and support the local rugby games for sure.
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Speaker 2: Is it a major events they're talking about multiple a
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Speaker 2: year or is it just a very special occasion or
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Speaker 2: do we just have to wait and see that. It's
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Speaker 2: up to the minister's discretion.
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Speaker 6: I suppose, I guess.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, coming up, we've got the end
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Speaker 5: of view two of England Scotland Wales that could be
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Speaker 5: an option there four o'clock am games, and then we've
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Speaker 5: got the Soccer World Cup next year, so definitely opportunities
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Speaker 5: there to open for those games.
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Speaker 2: There's people who say, and some might call them wellsers,
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Speaker 2: but people who say, well, is you know if if
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Speaker 2: someone's just lost a football match and they're wasted drunk
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Speaker 2: and we're sending them out onto the street at nine am,
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Speaker 2: is that a sensible thing?
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean, that's the thing where they are licensed
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Speaker 5: premises and we are regulated to keep peopone that's you know,
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Speaker 5: not intoxicated within the bar. So those guys can't be
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Speaker 5: in those in the premises. They have to be restricted
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Speaker 5: and not allowed in there. So you know, if everyone's
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Speaker 5: keeping to those of rules, those people shouldn't be in
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Speaker 5: those premises anyway. But you know, we've done it before.
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Speaker 5: We've done it for the soccer, for the Rugby World Cup,
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Speaker 5: Cricket World Cup, and done it quite well. Not had
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Speaker 5: had those problems and nothing's really come back and bid
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Speaker 5: us in the in the residual you can say.
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Speaker 2: Steve the There's also some changes to supermarkets and bottle
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Speaker 2: stores and stuff like that, which I know governments of
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Speaker 2: all creeds have changed over the years. What is there
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Speaker 2: much do you notice a difference when they restrict in
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Speaker 2: Auckland as they have the hours for supermarkets and bottle stores.
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Speaker 2: Does it have much of an effect on the pub?
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Speaker 5: I don't think so. I think people, you know, will
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Speaker 5: just work with what's happening. You know, there's a certain
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Speaker 5: how you're going to buy alcohol, they'll go out and
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Speaker 5: do that and pre buy it and do that, and
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Speaker 5: then we know when it comes to the bars, we'll
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Speaker 5: just tap the bars when they're open, and you know,
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Speaker 5: just as it is.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, appreciate your time, Steve Steve Gett, owner of
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Speaker 2: the Kingsland Pub in Auckland. It is nine away from
30:41
Speaker 2: six News Talks, the b the news.
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Speaker 1: You need this morning and the in depth analysis Early
30:47
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Speaker 1: Live News Talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be seven away from six on News Talks. There'd
30:54
Speaker 2: be Nicole McKee's point yesterday, and I thought it was
30:57
Speaker 2: funny that she spoke at the Lula Inn, which is
30:59
Speaker 2: a bar that I only know because they used to
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Speaker 2: do a bottomless brunch and friends of mine went Mike's
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Speaker 2: here in the studio, absolutely scoffing, but they used to
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Speaker 2: go to the bottomless Brunch and then crawl home because
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Speaker 2: they basically disgusting.
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Speaker 12: It's funny you should mention that because as a place
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Speaker 12: we were thinking of going to four lunch or dinner
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Speaker 12: this weekend, and we bet we're sort of semi regular,
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Speaker 12: but they've started a bottomless and that was the end
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Speaker 12: of that. Yeah, it's it's just ruinous.
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Speaker 2: So you were hang on, you wouldn't go there for
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Speaker 2: dinner on the basis that they were having a bottomless brunch? No, no, no,
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Speaker 2: either way.
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Speaker 12: I can't remember where we were going, but when we
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Speaker 12: were going to go there, it was.
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Speaker 2: A bottomless side at yes time.
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Speaker 12: And we walked in once to another place we quite
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Speaker 12: often go, and they'd start at the bottomless lunch and
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Speaker 12: it's just it's just the low rent not it's just disgusting.
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Speaker 12: The only reason you are there is to get pissed,
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Speaker 12: isn't it. That's all it's about. It's not about food,
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Speaker 12: it's not about anything else. It's just about making a
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Speaker 12: complete sit of yourself and then staggering out the door
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Speaker 12: while the rest of us try and you know, get
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Speaker 12: on with you.
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Speaker 2: And I probably shouldn't go out to get it there?
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Speaker 2: Are you? Are you into that?
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Speaker 12: Have you done bottomless?
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Speaker 2: I've been to bottomless brunch? Yeah, I went to one
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Speaker 2: in the UK and it was very messy. Yes, it
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Speaker 2: was very messy. He's sort of yeah, climbing to bed
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Speaker 2: at three pm, just feeling like absolute fantastic. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's the point of the manky is is people go,
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Speaker 2: girlfriends go and you know, four champagnes and then leave it.
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Speaker 12: It's not champagne, is it. And that's the point. It's
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Speaker 12: it's jugs of you know, swill and just have another
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Speaker 12: glass to swell.
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Speaker 2: And it's just like, God is scrumpy.
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Speaker 12: God, we sound well, you don't I do? I sound
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Speaker 12: like a curmudgeonally old you do?
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Speaker 2: Don't die?
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Speaker 12: I mean anyway, they're resurfacing Transmission Gully, which is not
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Speaker 12: it was not a moment before time because it's three
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Speaker 12: and a half years old. For the sake, it really
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Speaker 12: really needs but it's an amazing Have you driven on
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Speaker 12: transmission of course I have millions times amazing, amazing road
32:57
Speaker 12: because I grew up around there and it's totally transformed.
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Speaker 2: Saying this is like, this is all you need.
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Speaker 12: And I keep binging on about the road north of
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Speaker 12: Auckland those that's a road, the White Kattow Expressway, aok
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Speaker 12: that you know they are transformative. You know when you
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Speaker 12: put them in for all the Greenes and the bus lovers,
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Speaker 12: when you put a good road in, it's amazing.
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Speaker 2: What have you tunnel? What have you time? What you
33:18
Speaker 2: used to have to do to get it from the
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Speaker 2: airport to the city. And that's happened in my.
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Speaker 13: Since I've moved up to Auckland's stilling to address yesterday,
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Speaker 13: he said, because he's downtown, he seems to think that
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Speaker 13: the you know, like the Great Hope is the CRL thing,
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Speaker 13: if it ever opens, will be equally as transformative.
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Speaker 2: I was talking to Ian Jones last night. He's the
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Speaker 2: all black experience in the city. He said the same thing.
33:38
Speaker 2: He's really hoping. But they've got to make sure from
33:41
Speaker 2: day one that there's a there's a regular service. Couldn't
33:44
Speaker 2: agree on and it's relying the trains work exactly. But
33:46
Speaker 2: you get one chance of that star to build it
33:48
Speaker 2: and they'll come. I couldn't agree with you more.
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Speaker 12: Greg Foruran, who is running an airline with not a
33:53
Speaker 12: lot of planes and a very bad economy at the moment,
33:55
Speaker 12: and that's probably why his quickness leaving the country. But anyway,
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Speaker 12: before he goes, he after seven said all right, Have
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Speaker 12: a great Friday everyone.
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Speaker 2: Oh I'm away next week Another scoff from mine, See
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Speaker 2: you later.
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