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Full Show Podcast: 25 June 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: an early edition with ex pole insulation. Keeping Kimi Holmes
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Speaker 1: warm and try this winter news talks.
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Speaker 2: That'd be good morning. It is six a half to five.
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Speaker 2: Nice to have your company this morning. We'll go to
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Speaker 2: Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen before six. They're worried about
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Speaker 2: the potential terror attacks on US soil after all this
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Speaker 2: news out of the Middle East. Gavin Graham the UK
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Speaker 2: for US this morning. A great story actually about a
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Speaker 2: Cinderella crook. That's what the tabloids are calling him. He's
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Speaker 2: been caught phone thief and they never catch these guys.
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Speaker 2: Bone thief lost his shoe in the robbery. DNA has
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Speaker 2: tracked him down here in New Zealand. Five hundred kids
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Speaker 2: last year brought weapons to school. How do we define
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Speaker 2: a weapon? And ADHD GPS can now diagnose it? Why
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Speaker 2: is everyone suddenly getting ADHD? What's up with that? We'll
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Speaker 2: asked that question shortly. It's seven after five. The agenda
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Speaker 2: and Wednesday, the twenty fifty June. Trump not happy with
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Speaker 2: a run in Israel. He's accused them both of reaching
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Speaker 2: the ceasefire.
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Speaker 3: I'm not happy with Israel. I'm not happy with the
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Speaker 3: run either.
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Speaker 1: We have two countries that have been fighting so long
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Speaker 1: and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, the ceasefire is back on, thankfully, after a brief interlude. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter seems to be buttering
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Speaker 2: up Trump ahead of his arrival in the Hague for
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Speaker 2: this year's NATO summit. Trump shared a screenshot of a
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Speaker 2: message that he claims came from Rutta.
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Speaker 4: Sir Donald, congratulations and thank you for your decisive action
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Speaker 4: in Iran. That was truly extraordinary and something no one
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Speaker 4: else dared to do. It makes us all safer. You're
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Speaker 4: flying into another big success in the Hague, the Segney.
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Speaker 4: It was not easy. We've got them all signed onto
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Speaker 4: five percent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So whether that text was actually from him or not,
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Speaker 2: we'll find out. I suppose once somebody asked them. Rutteris's
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Speaker 2: NATO allies have agreed to spend five percent on GDP
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Speaker 2: on defense, something Trump's been pushing for.
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Speaker 5: African General stelling me place not yes, that I'm right,
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Speaker 5: that's still that has come to war. Affare the beast
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Speaker 5: is stock bowls of ammunition, ammunition, ammunition, and yes there
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Speaker 5: we also need, of course the drones and AI and
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Speaker 5: all the new technology.
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Speaker 2: There you go, Trump Juda land there in a couple
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Speaker 2: of hours. It's two after Sorry, I'm eight minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge at expol Insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: homes warm and dry.
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Speaker 2: This winter news talk, sa'd be so basically great start
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Speaker 2: to your morning. Trump's fixed everything while we were sleeping,
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Speaker 2: isn't that fantastic? Middle East is great again. The ceasefire
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Speaker 2: broke for a little bit, but back together nitt Ya
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Speaker 2: who even turned some planes around. Trump was on the
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Speaker 2: flower to him and he's now on his way to NATO.
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Speaker 2: As I mentioned, he's made NATO great again. You know,
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Speaker 2: five percent is the new three percent. We thought we
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Speaker 2: were doing our bit with getting our defense spending to
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Speaker 2: two percent. I know we're not in NATO, but five
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Speaker 2: is the new three, which was the new two. So
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Speaker 2: we're way behind anyway, all of this happening around the world.
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Speaker 2: In America, all they're talking about actually is a heat
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Speaker 2: wave in New York City right now. It is thirty
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Speaker 2: eight degrees feels like forty one degrees, so you can
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Speaker 2: understand why they're talking about that and not much anything else.
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Speaker 2: They're running out of electricity because of the ac luxein's
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Speaker 2: in the Hague. He's met with Dick Schuff, which is
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Speaker 2: a mouthful, the last name, not the first part. That's
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Speaker 2: the Dutch prime minister. Had a little croissant with him,
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Speaker 2: had a little bun with him, had a little musely
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Speaker 2: with him last night. So breakfast their time. And if
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Speaker 2: Luxan does get a meeting with Trump at the NATO summit,
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Speaker 2: it'll be a big deal. They haven't had a meeting
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Speaker 2: in person yet the IP four they call them, which
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Speaker 2: is the end of Pacific four. That chat was supposed
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Speaker 2: to happen, but then we've seen, as I mentioned yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Albanese is not going, Japan's prime minister not going, so
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Speaker 2: Luxon's the only one there. So would the meeting happen
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Speaker 2: if it was just him, probably not, But if he
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Speaker 2: gets it, it'll be a big deal. Here we will
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Speaker 2: continue arguing. I'm sure about Iran, but is anyone actually
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Speaker 2: listening to us and our parliamentarians probably not. Just gone
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Speaker 2: ten minutes after five good Ryan Bridge on News Talk
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Speaker 2: said B Coming up next, we're going to talk about
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Speaker 2: well X five twenty. We're going to talk to the
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Speaker 2: PPTA because kids are bringing weapons to school and the
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Speaker 2: numbers sound really alarming, like five hundred kids a year
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Speaker 2: are bringing weapons to school? What exactly do they mean
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Speaker 2: by weapons? Next, it's ADHD and are we over diagnosing
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Speaker 2: and going to make that problem worse by letting nurse
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Speaker 2: practitioners do the diagnosing.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 1: analysis earlier this year with Ryan Bridge and ex Bowl
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Speaker 1: Insulation keeping Kiwi homes warm and dry this winter news talks,
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Speaker 1: he'd be.
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Speaker 2: Five point thirteen on News Talk SEB. We've got the
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Speaker 2: SEKH Employment report for May. Basically demands up, the job
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Speaker 2: suppliers down, lot of competition out there, job ads falling
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Speaker 2: five percent for the month. That's thirty percent lower year
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Speaker 2: on year as well. This is after the seventh consecutive
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Speaker 2: month of demand increasing steadily increasing four jobs that's the
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Speaker 2: number of applications per job. Regions Tartanaki one of the
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Speaker 2: only ones to record a rise three percent. The West
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Speaker 2: Coast thirty nine percent increase in job ads, so they
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Speaker 2: must have been from a low base. Industries down construction sector,
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Speaker 2: not surprising, engineering roles leading the drop twelve percent month
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Speaker 2: on month, up call centers two percent and sales one
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Speaker 2: percent thirteen After five ban from February, GPS and nurse
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Speaker 2: practitioners will be able to diagnose and treat eighty HD.
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Speaker 2: So should save people one hundreds of dollars and clear
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Speaker 2: a backlog of waiting to see a psychiatrist to get
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Speaker 2: that diagnosis. But the question is do you run the
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Speaker 2: risk of over diagnosing ADHD. Darren Bill is the ADHD
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Speaker 2: New Zealand spokesperson on us this morning. Darren, good morning, good.
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Speaker 6: Morning, How are you doing good?
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Speaker 2: Thank you? So how long is the backlog? How long
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Speaker 2: does it take to see a psychiatrist to get your diagnosis?
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Speaker 6: At the moment, it depends where you live in New Zealand.
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Speaker 6: We've had reports anywhere for six months in Auckland to
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Speaker 6: eighteen months in the South Islands. But it very much
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Speaker 6: depends where you live.
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Speaker 2: And the people going to a psychiatrist saying I think
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Speaker 2: I've got ADHD. Can you diagnose me?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Sometimes that is the starting of the conversation. Other times
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Speaker 6: is broader mental health issues or other issues they want
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Speaker 6: to seek helpful.
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Speaker 2: Do you think this will mean more people get ADHD medication?
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Speaker 2: I suppose that'll be the logical outcome.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it is the logical outcome. Access for our community
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Speaker 6: to get the help and the support will mean that
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Speaker 6: some will get more medication and it'll be a greater
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Speaker 6: access to medication. But putting in context though, the number
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Speaker 6: of people who have been diagnosed in New Zealand compared
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Speaker 6: to OC standards, according to a Tiger University last year,
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Speaker 6: is at least half. So we have a massive undiagnosis
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Speaker 6: issue here.
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Speaker 2: What's what's the percentage of the population overseas that has
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Speaker 2: ADHD or has been diagnosed with ADHD.
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Speaker 6: Statistically and I'm rounding, it's you know, four to five
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Speaker 6: percent and in New Zealand it's around two to two
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Speaker 6: point two percent of the population.
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Speaker 2: Okay. And the fact that we've had a tenfold increase
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Speaker 2: in prescriptions over fifteen odd years is that because people
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Speaker 2: weren't diagnosed or have we got a whole bunch of
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Speaker 2: people who are now suddenly ADHD got ADHD? Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Look, that's a question I asked most often. It is
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Speaker 6: the tenfold increase is to be celebrated because it means
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Speaker 6: people who have ADHD are getting their assistance and care
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Speaker 6: that they need. In addition, the science around ADHD has
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Speaker 6: improved remarkably. You know, if you go back, you know,
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Speaker 6: even fifteen years ago, iheard of that females to get ADHD,
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Speaker 6: for example, and yet they are exactly they are disposed
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Speaker 6: or predisposed to ADHD like anybody else in terms of
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Speaker 6: percentage of population.
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Speaker 2: What do you say to people who think this is
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Speaker 2: all a bit of a myth, you know, people who
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Speaker 2: say I'm a little bit ADHD and they then they
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Speaker 2: get it, you know, get it medication, and it's like
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Speaker 2: you do you actually have ADHD? You know, I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, ADHD is not as easy as that. It is
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Speaker 6: a complicated diagnosis, which is why trained medical professionals are
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Speaker 6: required to do it and not TikTok or not a
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Speaker 6: quick online survey. And it has a lot of comorbidity
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Speaker 6: such as learning disorders, social anxiety and things like that,
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Speaker 6: so it's not just a simple diagnosis.
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Speaker 2: Is it kind of annoying that you have all those
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Speaker 2: TikTok kids going I've got ADHD and they have no prescription,
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Speaker 2: no diagnosis, and they're just trying to be I don't know,
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Speaker 2: it's almost trendy to be you know this touch of that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well if I find TikTok annoying full stop. But
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Speaker 6: it is really annoying and it is also dangerous because
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Speaker 6: it creates a trend and overseas highlights. Research in the
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Speaker 6: US highlights how dangerous that can be.
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Speaker 2: Darren, appreciate your time this morning, Darren Ball ADHD, New
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Speaker 2: Zealand Spokesperson seventeen after five news talks, there'd be kids
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Speaker 2: and weapons at school.
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Speaker 1: Next, the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and x Bowl Insulation keeping
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Speaker 1: Kiwi Holmes warm and dry. This winter news talk sa'd.
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Speaker 2: Be Henry Olsen, the Washington Post colonists is very good
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Speaker 2: on the show. Just before six. How's the politics of
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Speaker 2: what's happening in the Middle East affecting Trump in the
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Speaker 2: United States? We'll ask that question Ryan. What rubbish this
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Speaker 2: is on ADHD. This is from Kirston because now GPS
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Speaker 2: and nurse practitioners can diagnose it. Almost anyone, says Kirsten,
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Speaker 2: with anything hard going on in their lives is getting
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Speaker 2: di nose with ADHD. It's definitely the new trendy thing
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Speaker 2: to have. Yeah. I think that's true. But they think
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Speaker 2: there are also people with a genuine ADHD who probably
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Speaker 2: are on the same waiting list as the trendy ones
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Speaker 2: who aren't getting seen to Ryan. And this is from Christian,
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Speaker 2: So Kirsten and Christian Ryan. How's that if you've got ADHD?
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Speaker 2: Probably quite difficult. Ryan ask if the pills are good
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Speaker 2: for ADHD please or aren't they a bit like taking meth? Well,
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Speaker 2: I don't really know. I don't take ADHD medication, but
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Speaker 2: one would assume it's it's not meth I think we
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Speaker 2: can safely say that it's five twenty news talks. He'd
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Speaker 2: be Bryan Bridge. So, kids and weapons coming to classrooms.
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Speaker 2: This is new information from their official information at request.
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Speaker 2: The Herald's got its hands on it. Five hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty six students have been stood down, suspended or excluded
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Speaker 2: for having a weapon at school, an eighty percent increase
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Speaker 2: on numbers recorded in twenty eighteen. A third from Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Sixty from Hamilton. Chris Abercrombie, the PPTA president, with me
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Speaker 2: this morning. Chris, good morning, good morning. No definition of
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Speaker 2: what a weapon is? What are we talking about?
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Speaker 3: I mean it could be anything. From a knife or
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Speaker 3: cases like bbguns, those kinds of things there. But you say,
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Speaker 3: there's there's no definition for the ministry about what a
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Speaker 3: weapon is, so it's left that big school to decide what.
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Speaker 2: Are we talking serious? Like BB guns, knives, what guns?
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Speaker 3: So my understanding, there's been no guns, but there's definitely
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Speaker 3: been knives, bbguns, those kinds of things.
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Speaker 8: There.
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Speaker 3: Could be bringing a chain to school, you know, like
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Speaker 3: a proper chain, you know, So there's lots of there's
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Speaker 3: lots of things that could be no definition of what
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Speaker 3: a weapon.
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Speaker 2: Is, or knuckle dusters kids used to bring to school.
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Speaker 3: It could absolutely be those kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so are we how are we finding them? Are
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Speaker 2: kids braindishing them or are people searching bags? Teach of
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Speaker 2: what's going on.
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Speaker 3: Most times, from our experience, what we've been told and
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Speaker 3: personal experiences other students tell us that so and so
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Speaker 3: has got a knife, you know, so and so bought
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Speaker 3: something there tends to be the experience of most people
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Speaker 3: find in it or a teacher sees it. But it's
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Speaker 3: very very rare that it's a bag surch or anything
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Speaker 3: like that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we got five h and twenty six students last
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Speaker 2: year that's an eighty percent increase on five years prior.
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Speaker 2: I mean we will have had population increase as well.
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Speaker 2: Kids aren't exactly getting stabbed at school or shot at school?
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Speaker 2: Is this Did the numbers sound more alarming than they,
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Speaker 2: you know, than the reality.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it is a concern. It is a real
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Speaker 3: concern because you never know what's going to happen. So
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Speaker 3: people aren't getting sad. You know, it's very rare. It's
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Speaker 3: wolf shot and it's incredibly rare. But it is a
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Speaker 3: concern that these things are happening, you know, and it's
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Speaker 3: definitely an increasing trend. We hear this from teachers and
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Speaker 3: principles all the time.
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Speaker 2: Chris. Great to Havevy on the show as always. Chris Abercrombie,
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Speaker 2: the PPTA president, on kids bringing weapons to school. When
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Speaker 2: I was at school there, it was knuckle dusters, was
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Speaker 2: a kind of trendy thing, and never saw a kid
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Speaker 2: with a gun. You'll be pleased to know. But then
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Speaker 2: I don't think any student in New Zealand would have
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Speaker 2: seen a kid bring a gun to school. Would they
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Speaker 2: maybe a pocket knife? But I don't know. To me,
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Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds alarming, doesn't it. It sounds alarming, but
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Speaker 2: I just don't know that it necessarily means that kids
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Speaker 2: are in any greater danger than they were yesterday. Twenty
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Speaker 2: three minutes after five. You're on news Talk, so be
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Speaker 2: coming up next. Just a few things that are outraging
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Speaker 2: people in New Zealand got everyone quite exercised over the
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Speaker 2: last week. We'll talk about those next. Also Gavin Gray
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Speaker 2: in the UK, so we'll get to our reporters after
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Speaker 2: news at five point thirty and Gavin Gray in the
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Speaker 2: UK on a great little well. He'll talk about NATO.
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Speaker 2: All the leaders are arriving en mass as we speak.
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Speaker 2: Luxeon's already there. Trump's on his way obviously, got Wi
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Speaker 2: Fi on Air Force one because he's tweeting up a storm.
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Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Gavin Gray out of the UK
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Speaker 2: and what's happening at NATO, but also the story about
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Speaker 2: the cinder Ralla thief in London.
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Speaker 2: News Talks MB twenty six minutes after five. It's just
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Speaker 2: amazing the sheer breadth and diversity of things that people
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Speaker 2: get outraged by in any given week in New Zealand.
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Speaker 2: Brian tammocky at the weekend, who, after literally decades taking
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Speaker 2: to the streets and stirring the pot nobody should be
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Speaker 2: outraged by. But here we are. Yesterday it was a
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Speaker 2: bunch of chicks in bikinis rolling around in cow's milk,
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Speaker 2: trying to make a buck on OnlyFans. Did you see
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Speaker 2: this story? The police were called. Somebody called the police. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I kid you not. Couple of lasses bikini clad making
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Speaker 2: some wholesome down on the farm country style content and
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Speaker 2: safe gets involved. There's your first problem. Then MPI gets
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Speaker 2: involved and MPI contacts police. What on earth are the
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Speaker 2: police going to do with two girls one cow? Who
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Speaker 2: on earth would they arrest anyway? Some might say the
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Speaker 2: cow was lucky to be milked. Besides, what is more indecent,
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Speaker 2: girls in bikinis or the naked cow? The answer, of course,
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Speaker 2: is rather simple. Police will do nothing. MPI will do
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Speaker 2: nothing because there's actually nothing to do anything about. Same
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Speaker 2: goes for Brian and his gang of thugs to be
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Speaker 2: fear to him and to them. I didn't pay much
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Speaker 2: attention and fat didn't pay any attention to them at
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Speaker 2: the weekend because I was enjoying my long weekend too
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Speaker 2: busy having a good time. But from what I've read,
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Speaker 2: we had some flags burnt, we had signs waved about.
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Speaker 2: People are calling for hate speech, laws and restrictions on speech,
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Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff. Guess what. That also won't happen,
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Speaker 2: and nor should it. The bar for criminal charges is
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Speaker 2: rightly high in a situation like this. People must be
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Speaker 2: free to air the views, no matter how distasteful or
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Speaker 2: wrong they might be. Boils must be lanced, so long
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Speaker 2: as they lanced peacefully. Besides, you don't have to look
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Speaker 2: far into the World section of your newspaper this morning
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Speaker 2: for a glimpse of why we should value freedom of expression. Russia, Iran, anybody.
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Speaker 2: As for the other story, as long as as the
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Speaker 2: cows not being misteated, I'm here for it and bread
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Speaker 2: bred blighter bomb twenty eight minutes after five and talk send.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to our reporters around the country shortly,
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Speaker 2: and we will also speak to Gavin Gray, who's in
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Speaker 2: the UK for US, and we'll speak to our Washington
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Speaker 2: Post columnist Henry Olsen. We've had him on the show before.
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Speaker 2: He is quite good, has some pretty good insights into
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Speaker 2: what's happening in American politics. Are they actually paying attention?
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Speaker 2: Do they care what's going on in the Middle East?
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Speaker 2: Because I turned on a couple of networks this morning,
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Speaker 2: American networks, and they're talking about the weather. To be fair,
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Speaker 2: there is a heat wave. It is hot there, but
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Speaker 2: they're not so much talking well, certainly not talking as
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Speaker 2: much about it. What's happening in the Middle East as
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Speaker 2: we have been over the last couple of days. And
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Speaker 2: the toilet and Wellington. We spoke about this briefly yesterday,
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Speaker 2: but two point three million dollars and people wonder why
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Speaker 2: Wellington is the laughing stock of New Zealand right now?
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Speaker 2: Two point three million dollars for a toilet. Go and
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Speaker 2: have a look at the Herald today and you can
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Speaker 2: see the photo. Is it worth it? Apparently this is
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Speaker 2: being designed by an architect. It looks like a box
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Speaker 2: to me, a box somewhere you go and do your
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Speaker 2: business like any old toilet. Us talk ZIB.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and Expole Insulation keeping Kiwi Holmes warm and dry.
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Speaker 1: This Winter News Talks AB.
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Speaker 2: Ten seven True Nobody Knows.
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Speaker 9: Good Morning twenty four Away from six News Talks AB
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Speaker 9: We're going to get to a Washington Post on the
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Speaker 9: Henry Olsten before six this morning. Gavin Gray out of
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Speaker 9: the UK for US as NATO kicks off. Trump on
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Speaker 9: his way there right now.
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Speaker 2: By the way, the price of oil continuing to drop,
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Speaker 2: and S and P five hundred now approaching a record high.
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Speaker 2: So stocks are back, baby. How quickly we get over
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Speaker 2: things while investors get over things, I should say. And
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Speaker 2: maybe we're used to stuff, you know now in the
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Speaker 2: Trump era where everything is up and then it's down,
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Speaker 2: and it's sideways and then it's you don't know which
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Speaker 2: way is up. You know, the fate of the world
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Speaker 2: hangs on every tweet or truth social post. Maybe there's
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Speaker 2: a bit of resilience, a bit of tolerance in the
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Speaker 2: markets because they bounce back pretty quickly. They did after
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Speaker 2: the tariff tariff wars, trade wars, which by the way,
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Speaker 2: is still happening apparently, and they have a matter of
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Speaker 2: hours after ceasefire in the Middle East which is still
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Speaker 2: holding despite a few incursions here and there. Twenty three
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Speaker 2: away from six Ryan Bred reporters around the country, and
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Speaker 2: we're starting to need this morning with Colum Colum Good
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Speaker 2: morning morning, right now You've got a couple of changes
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Speaker 2: to public transport there.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, look, changes that are proposed by the regional Council.
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Speaker 10: They'll decide today whether to discontinue free children's bus fares,
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Speaker 10: increase adult fares, amongst other changes at a meeting today.
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Speaker 10: This report by a hearings panel recommends raising the adult
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Speaker 10: fair from two dollars to two dollars fifty. Council will
19:25
Speaker 10: also consider adding new services connecting Wonica and Upper Klufa,
19:28
Speaker 10: Wonica and Queenstown, Omoru and Dunedin, but despite community interest
19:33
Speaker 10: in rail solutions, the panels decided there's not enough evidence
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Speaker 10: to include rail in this plan, and any changes to
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Speaker 10: public transport in the region will be implemented in September.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather column?
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Speaker 10: Frosty start for some sheltered places again this morning, but
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Speaker 10: fine today, cloud increasing and sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Today A nice to have a good one, Collum, Thank you,
19:53
Speaker 2: clais Than christ Church clear, good morning, Good morning Selwyn district,
19:57
Speaker 2: go and grow and growing and growing quite from. Strated
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Speaker 2: with the government over lack of money for infrastructure.
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Speaker 7: Yeah well.
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Speaker 11: Mayor Sam Broughton says a lack of health funding is
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Speaker 11: the biggest challenge for the region. The population of Salwyn
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Speaker 11: is about eighty five thousand, although that's expected to double
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Speaker 11: within the next thirty years. Sam Broughton says the recent
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Speaker 11: one hundred and eight million dollars boost for schools in
20:18
Speaker 11: the area is really good, but they do need more investment,
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Speaker 11: particularly in areas like healthcare. He says, for example, thirty
20:24
Speaker 11: percent of Salwyn residents have to travel outside of the
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Speaker 11: district for a GP. He thinks people should be able
20:30
Speaker 11: to see a GP in their own township, but the
20:32
Speaker 11: weightlists are in the hundreds and sometimes the weightlists wait
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Speaker 11: times rather are weeks. Transport's also failing to keep pace
20:39
Speaker 11: with the growth there.
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Speaker 3: He says.
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Speaker 11: The recent one hundred and twenty five million dollars for
20:43
Speaker 11: State Highway one through Rolliston is just simply not enough.
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Speaker 11: He says they were counting on NZTA to co fund
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Speaker 11: some other projects as well, and wants the thirty million
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Speaker 11: dollars to be reinvested there.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather fine?
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Speaker 11: With high cloud today northeasterly strengthening those seventeen degrees roy.
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Speaker 2: Clear, Thank you mix and Wellington home X. Good morning
21:04
Speaker 2: now at Faro Bay, this bones or body that was
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Speaker 2: remains discovered in someone's backyard.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, rather shocking discovery in or feed or bay in
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Speaker 8: the last few days. That's the suburb close to the
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Speaker 8: Southern coast along the well rather ironically named Happy Valley Road.
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Speaker 8: On a Sunday, the homeowner doing a bit of gardening
21:25
Speaker 8: clearly made something of a concerning discovery. Bones you'd assume
21:28
Speaker 8: police were called in on Monday. Forensic experts were digging
21:31
Speaker 8: up the soil. A lot of people driving past noticed this,
21:35
Speaker 8: and a word began to spread. A little a week
21:38
Speaker 8: called wind, called police, and then by lunchtime yesterday it
21:41
Speaker 8: was confirmed as human remains. How old they are, who why,
21:44
Speaker 8: we don't know yet. They could have been there one
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Speaker 8: hundred years or ten. The locals we've spoken to, though,
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Speaker 8: are understandably shocked and just have questions at the moment, Hey, did.
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Speaker 2: You go and use the toilet? You know, the two
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Speaker 2: point three million dollar toilet? Did you go and check
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Speaker 2: it out?
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Speaker 8: Mix a nice conversation start. I've will past them. I
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Speaker 8: haven't been in, thankfully, I suppose. But the light show
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Speaker 8: is rather flashy.
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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, you'd want the light show being the flashy
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Speaker 2: thing at the toilet's putting you.
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Speaker 8: Want attention drawn to you as you go use the facilities.
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Speaker 2: Can you just pop in there, have a little just
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Speaker 2: check it out, make sure they're clean, and just report
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Speaker 2: back to us tomorrow or the next They're like Hunter S.
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Speaker 8: Thompson, Sure, yeah, cool, thank you.
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Speaker 2: How's you with them?
22:29
Speaker 8: But cloudy with drizzle, drizzle and strong winds today fourteen
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Speaker 8: the high central.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, thank you, have a good day. And NIVA's
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Speaker 2: here in Auckland. Hey, Neva, good morning. Now the Ikea
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Speaker 2: store that is coming here? When is it coming? Must
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Speaker 2: be so nice?
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Speaker 12: Well, yes, it's apparently it's going to be opening later
22:45
Speaker 12: this year. They see late twenty twenty five, so yeah,
22:48
Speaker 12: sometime soon.
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Speaker 2: And lots of jobs, lots of jobs.
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Speaker 12: Look, fifteen thousand people applied for jobs. Now this is
22:54
Speaker 12: the first store in New Zealand Ikea Sylvia Park. Ikea
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Speaker 12: is now hiring five hundred stuff So the Swedish retailer
23:03
Speaker 12: originally planned to hire four hundred workers, but that's now
23:07
Speaker 12: going to be expanded. Yeah, that's what they're saying. Is
23:10
Speaker 12: going to be open later this year. So far they've
23:12
Speaker 12: employed sixty six people. Fifteen thousand applicants. Mind you that's
23:17
Speaker 12: not a surprise, so.
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Speaker 2: Really given, no, not when you're many people and people
23:21
Speaker 2: do like the brand, yes, and the job market the
23:24
Speaker 2: way it is at the moment. You know, we saw
23:26
Speaker 2: those sick numbers this morning, so that kind of tallies up,
23:28
Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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Speaker 12: Absolutely? And look, employees, they will have access to fifteen
23:32
Speaker 12: percent discount on Ikea products and get a load of
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Speaker 12: this five weeks of paid and you'll leave.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty good. That is really good in a way.
23:40
Speaker 2: When it's built. We all work for IQA, don't we.
23:43
Speaker 2: Because you have to pull your stuff together yourself.
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Speaker 12: I used to go overseas, this is years ago, and
23:51
Speaker 12: I'd bring back, you know, the flat packs and things
23:54
Speaker 12: like that and my suitcase. Yes, and then I would,
23:58
Speaker 12: you know, like have drinks at my and then I
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Speaker 12: just you know, say to my friends, come over, come over,
24:03
Speaker 12: come and have some drinks. And then they turn up
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Speaker 12: and then I'd say, look at these flat packs, come
24:07
Speaker 12: and join me, Come and pull up some of these
24:10
Speaker 12: things for me.
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Speaker 2: And they did.
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Speaker 12: Mind you over a few drinks.
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Speaker 2: You know, it can be fun. It can be fun. Yes,
24:16
Speaker 2: So to the fourteen and a half thousand people about
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Speaker 2: to miss out on a job, at Aikia. Don't worry.
24:21
Speaker 2: Neva's got one for you. How's our weather?
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Speaker 12: Here is a morning foul good news. So there's going
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Speaker 12: to clear rap to fine spell seventeen the high here
24:29
Speaker 12: in Auckland.
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Speaker 2: Nice one, thanks Neva. It is seventeen minutes away from
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Speaker 2: six News Talks. Here'd be Gavin Gray and the UK
24:35
Speaker 2: for US. Next the Cinderella thief story, which I quite
24:39
Speaker 2: like out of London because everyone you know in London
24:41
Speaker 2: they steal your phones. The thieves run along, grab your
24:45
Speaker 2: phone and then run off and normally no one catches them.
24:48
Speaker 2: Well someone's been caught.
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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with ends and eye insurance, Peace of mind
24:54
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business New Talks.
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Speaker 2: There'll be fourteen minutes away from six and in Amsterdam
24:59
Speaker 2: Air Force one and just touchdown. Trump about to stiff
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Speaker 2: out of the plane and hit to NATO. It's a
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Speaker 2: historic medding course. A lot on the agenda. You've got
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Speaker 2: defense spending. They're up on debts, Ukraine, Gaza, Israel around,
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Speaker 2: I mean, you name it, it's on the list. Kevin
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Speaker 2: Gray are UK Europe correspondent. Gavin Goods. Morning, good evening
25:15
Speaker 2: to you, hither Rod.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's certainly going to be an important meeting. It's
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Speaker 13: the first Trump NATO summit since twenty nineteen, and he's
25:24
Speaker 13: going to be delighted, I think, with what he sees
25:26
Speaker 13: because it looks like all thirty two leaders are set
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Speaker 13: to commit to spending five percent of national output on
25:32
Speaker 13: defense and related infrastructure. At least that is the hope,
25:36
Speaker 13: because there are some that are going to really try
25:38
Speaker 13: and wriggle out of this. Spain incidentally one of them.
25:41
Speaker 13: Spain spends very little of its gross domestic product. It's
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Speaker 13: at the bottom of the list when it comes to
25:47
Speaker 13: defense spending, and it's trying to wiggle out, saying, well,
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Speaker 13: it can't afford it. It'll have to cut back on
25:52
Speaker 13: pensions and benefits as well. But there's definitely pressure on
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Speaker 13: Spain to get back in, and Belgium too, apparently showing
25:59
Speaker 13: some regal room with that, but also ringing Donald Trump's
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Speaker 13: ears or well not quite, because it was posted by
26:06
Speaker 13: Donald Trump. Is a private message that the NATO Secretary
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Speaker 13: General Mark Rutter has sent him in a pre summit
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Speaker 13: message lavishing praise on his handling of the Western Alliance,
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Speaker 13: and it says, and I quote, you're flying into another
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Speaker 13: big success in the Hague this evening. It was not easy,
26:21
Speaker 13: but we got them all signed up to five percent.
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Speaker 13: He's congratulated Trump on his quote decisive action in Iran
26:27
Speaker 13: that was truly extraordinary in something no one else dared
26:30
Speaker 13: to do. It makes us safer. Asked whether he was
26:33
Speaker 13: embarrassed at this private message had been made public, he
26:36
Speaker 13: said not at all. Other people will be deeply embarrassed.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you've got if you're going to send the
26:43
Speaker 2: ticks to Donald Trump, you've got to expect that it's
26:45
Speaker 2: gonna end up or potentially end up on the public domain.
26:48
Speaker 2: Don't you say you can't be too surprised. Hey, I
26:50
Speaker 2: love the story the Cinderella crooking in the UK.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, an amazing story. This so a man who was
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Speaker 13: basic cle riding on an e bike suddenly snatched the
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Speaker 13: phone out of somebody's hand in East London on la
27:07
Speaker 13: Gate Hill back in August of last year. Now he
27:11
Speaker 13: was tackled by members of the public, having stolen the
27:14
Speaker 13: handset from the victim's hand, and in the struggle to
27:17
Speaker 13: get back on the bike, this man, a twenty eight
27:20
Speaker 13: year old, lost a trainer one of his shoes. Now
27:23
Speaker 13: he continued, however, wearing one shoe and managed to get away. However, yes,
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Speaker 13: you guessed it. DNA analysis now looked at the single shoe,
27:33
Speaker 13: the so called Cinderella shoe, and matched the DNA on it.
27:37
Speaker 13: They found there was just enough DNA on the shoe.
27:40
Speaker 13: Found there was just enough to match it to an
27:43
Speaker 13: existing profile of a thief on the national database. And
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Speaker 13: a twenty eight year old man has now been found
27:51
Speaker 13: guilty at that and he's now going to be sentenced
27:54
Speaker 13: in a couple of months time. The forensic marinager of
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Speaker 13: the City of London Police said, this really is a
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Speaker 13: Cinderella story. This slipper fitted our Cinderella and we produced
28:04
Speaker 13: a hit to a man who has profile had previously
28:08
Speaker 13: been up to loaded with those in criminal activity.
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Speaker 2: Good good, it's good to hear that one of them
28:14
Speaker 2: is finally being courts. Thanks so much for that, Kevin
28:16
Speaker 2: grat UK, you're correspondent. It's eleven away from six Bryan Bridge.
28:22
Speaker 2: So the ceasefire that Trump declared the creed is currently holding,
28:27
Speaker 2: but was broken for a moment while we slept last
28:31
Speaker 2: night and led to this outburst from Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: I'm not happy with Israel. I'm not happy with the
28:36
Speaker 3: run either.
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Speaker 9: We have two countries that have been.
28:39
Speaker 1: Fighting so long and so hard that they.
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Speaker 3: Don't know what the they're doing.
28:44
Speaker 2: So since then Nitnya, who was sending warplanes, they've been
28:48
Speaker 2: turned around. There were a few bombs dropped, but it
28:52
Speaker 2: seems that they've come back from the brink. So as
28:54
Speaker 2: Trump is about to step out of Air Force one
28:57
Speaker 2: at Amsterdam Airport and go to Nate, he does he
29:01
Speaker 2: have the wind that his backside to speak. Henry Elsen
29:04
Speaker 2: is a columnist in the United States and is with
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Speaker 2: us this morning. Henry, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 7: We thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 2: How do Americans feel about Trump getting involved? You know,
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Speaker 2: are they paying attention to this in the way that
29:17
Speaker 2: the rest of the world is.
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Speaker 7: He's paying a lot of attention to it, you know.
29:23
Speaker 7: The pole suggests that the people who didn't like Trump
29:25
Speaker 7: coming in don't approve of his action with respect to Iran,
29:30
Speaker 7: but his base does, and his party does. The fact
29:32
Speaker 7: is that Republicans and people who voted for him overwhelmingly
29:35
Speaker 7: support him, and that's really what he needs. He also
29:38
Speaker 7: has a lot of understanding and praise for at least
29:43
Speaker 7: brokering a ceasefire and for ending what every administration going
29:46
Speaker 7: back thirty years has said is an unacceptable threat that
29:50
Speaker 7: Iron holds nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 2: If you, I suppose that you can come away with
29:54
Speaker 2: setting the nuclear program back a couple of years, if
29:58
Speaker 2: you can come away with Israel feeling got about themselves
30:01
Speaker 2: and with no further US involvement in the region, then
30:06
Speaker 2: that is a massive win for US president, right, It would.
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Speaker 7: Be a massive win. The question, though, is if all
30:13
Speaker 7: you do is kick the program back a couple of years,
30:17
Speaker 7: then you still have a question that it's unacceptable to
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Speaker 7: the United States that are on possess a nuclear weapon.
30:23
Speaker 7: If all you do is kick the nuclear program into
30:27
Speaker 7: low gear, then the next president is going to have
30:30
Speaker 7: to make a difficult decision as to what to do,
30:33
Speaker 7: and may have to make the same decision the President
30:36
Speaker 7: Trump did. But at the at least in the medium
30:39
Speaker 7: in short term, this appears to be a huge win
30:42
Speaker 7: both the United States sent to the President.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Henry, big heat wave heading the States. At the
30:45
Speaker 2: moment I was looking in New York, it was felt
30:48
Speaker 2: like forty one degrees celsius to us.
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Speaker 7: Very hot for you guys, very and it's a primary
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Speaker 7: election day. For the New York Democratic mayoral primary. We'll
31:01
Speaker 7: see whether enough people decide to stay home rather than
31:04
Speaker 7: go out in such a heat, hot and humid weather.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens with Kumo
31:09
Speaker 2: having a second bite of the cherry. Eight minutes away
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Speaker 2: from eight. That's Henry Olsen, who's an American columnist with
31:16
Speaker 2: us this morning Trump. By the way, he's just got
31:19
Speaker 2: off his plane off Air Force One. He's wearing a
31:22
Speaker 2: cap that's his USA, and he's getting into his what
31:25
Speaker 2: do they call it, the monster, his his limo and
31:28
Speaker 2: heading to NATO. Now, it's eight minutes to six NEWSTALKSB.
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Speaker 1: Mike Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early
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Speaker 1: Edition with Ryan Bridge and x Fole Insulation keeping Kiwi
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Speaker 1: Holmes warm and dry this Winter News TALKSB.
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Speaker 2: Six away from Sex News Talk B, and Mike is
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Speaker 2: in the studio. He's with us next, Mike, Good morning.
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Speaker 14: So I took to school. My granddad used to work
31:56
Speaker 14: for farmers co Op back when it was a grain
31:59
Speaker 14: and seed thing.
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Speaker 2: And God, they're going back we are.
32:03
Speaker 14: They used to travel to far flung places in the
32:06
Speaker 14: days when traveling to far flong places was like you know,
32:09
Speaker 14: you just Australia was like as good as it got.
32:12
Speaker 14: But my granddaddy went to like Mongolia and China and Mauritius.
32:18
Speaker 14: And each time they'd go away, they go, what would
32:20
Speaker 14: you like us to bring you back as a gift?
32:23
Speaker 14: And so I came up with increasingly random things. And
32:27
Speaker 14: so one year they were going to Finland, and so
32:29
Speaker 14: I looked up what does Finland do that they could bring?
32:32
Speaker 14: And I see, get me a sheath knife. And you
32:35
Speaker 14: took it to school and I took it to school.
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Speaker 2: Did you get in trouble?
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Speaker 14: Not particularly?
32:41
Speaker 2: Do you think kids are taking I mean when they
32:43
Speaker 2: say weapons, I'm a little That's what I'm saying a
32:46
Speaker 2: little skeptical of the story this morning. If you're just
32:48
Speaker 2: catching up an eighty percent increase, gosh, it sounds shocking.
32:52
Speaker 2: But since twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 14: Exactly, it's over a long period of time. There's a
32:55
Speaker 14: couple of hundred cases. And there's probably some kids whose
32:58
Speaker 14: grandparents went to Finland and they said, here's your sheath knife,
33:02
Speaker 14: and you take it along to school and you go, look, guys,
33:04
Speaker 14: look what I've got.
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Speaker 3: Now.
33:05
Speaker 14: There was no intent, there was no drama, there was
33:07
Speaker 14: no nothing.
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Speaker 2: Well, no one's been stabbed, are they. We're not getting
33:10
Speaker 2: here nines about kids being stabbed at school. But when
33:13
Speaker 2: I was a kid, it was knuckle dusters. Did you
33:14
Speaker 2: have those?
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Speaker 14: Oh yeah, yeah, Well I didn't personally have no knuckle dusters,
33:18
Speaker 14: but you had the knuckle dusters and the other thing.
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Speaker 14: I mean, in all seriousness, the worst case of it.
33:22
Speaker 14: It was a primary school. A kid attacked another kid
33:24
Speaker 14: with a hammer.
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Speaker 2: So this is a.
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Speaker 14: Woodwork So when after with a hammer got them in
33:28
Speaker 14: the head and primary school it's at Alban's primary so
33:32
Speaker 14: the ambulance was called, the police were involved. We were
33:35
Speaker 14: like ten year olds. We'd never seen anything like it.
33:37
Speaker 14: The kid we never saw them again. But I mean,
33:38
Speaker 14: you know, they was in the woodwork class, for goodness sake, So.
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Speaker 2: Which goes to show that anything can be a weapon too.
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Speaker 14: Everything anything can be what you don't want is nutty kids,
33:47
Speaker 14: No exactly. So I mean, do we have a story
33:49
Speaker 14: here this morning or what is it a sheath knife?
33:51
Speaker 14: Is it a hammer?
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Speaker 2: I think it's a non starter. We'll see your next
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Speaker 2: Mike and see you tomorrow. I'm don't away got no
34:02
Speaker 2: reason not to celebrate it, baby, I'm just learn away.
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