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Full Show Podcast: 25 May 2026 · 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 Spark for business technology that keeps
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Speaker 1: business moving, news talks.
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Speaker 2: There'd be good morning.
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Speaker 3: It is Monday. Great to have your company. It is
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Speaker 3: six after five. We'll head to Washington this morning, we'll
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Speaker 3: head to London. We'll do business with VICKI and an
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Speaker 3: update on the Wilding Pines over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It is Monday, the twenty fifth of May.
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Speaker 3: So the Secret Service knew the guy that they shot
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Speaker 3: dead outside the White Houses. Reporters duck for cover remain
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Speaker 3: four o'pock. They said he had a gun, so they
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Speaker 3: shot him. Now Trump says a deal as close.
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Speaker 2: See.
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Speaker 3: On the one hand, he says a deal as close.
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Speaker 3: On the other hand, he says, there's no rush.
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Speaker 2: This is on a run.
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Speaker 4: He wrote.
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Speaker 5: Both sides must take their time and gets it rights.
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Speaker 5: There can be no mistakes. He added, the US blockade
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Speaker 5: of Iranian ships and the straight performers would remain in
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Speaker 5: full force until an agreement.
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Speaker 2: Is more on that na Jiffy Rubio quite upbeat.
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Speaker 6: As I said, there's been some progress done, some progress made.
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Speaker 6: Even as I speak to you now, there's some work
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Speaker 6: being done. There is a chance that whether it's later today, tomorrow,
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Speaker 6: in a couple of days, we may have something to say.
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Speaker 6: But decision needs to be solved, as the President said,
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Speaker 6: one way or the other.
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Speaker 3: Arishnik that's the name of the hypersonic ballistic missile that
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Speaker 3: Putin is now using again on Kiev.
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Speaker 7: In the morning, Kiev was counting the cost emergency services
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Speaker 7: still putting out fires and people once again having to
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Speaker 7: pick up the.
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Speaker 3: Pieces, all kicking off in the Congo.
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Speaker 2: This is the Ebola outbreak.
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Speaker 3: So you had eighteen patients, all suspected patients, escaping a
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Speaker 3: containment facility because some angry mobs set fire to the
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Speaker 3: quarantine place.
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Speaker 8: Their friend and relative, Eli died from ibola and they
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Speaker 8: wanted to reclean his body so they could bury him.
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Speaker 8: The bodies of those infected remain highly contigious. When the
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Speaker 8: hospital personnel said the body could not be taken away,
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Speaker 8: the situation quickly escalated.
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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Belly Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology, the Chief's Business
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Speaker 1: Moving News Talks.
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Speaker 3: That'd be time is eight rter five. Great to have
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Speaker 3: you company this morning. Now, a couple of things to
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Speaker 3: run you through. One is the ocr announcement will get
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Speaker 3: on Wednesday from the Reserve Bank. Don't fretch, not likely
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Speaker 3: to change yet. Most of the bankers reckoned. This is
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Speaker 3: the bank. Economists reckon that it'll probably be July before
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Speaker 3: they move anywhere. Remember Wednesdays the day before Thursday, and
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Speaker 3: Thursday's budget day, so they're unlikely to do anything drastic
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Speaker 3: the day before the budget. But also they said, remember
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Speaker 3: when they first started talking about Iran, this is the
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Speaker 3: Reserve Bank, we will look through the first round of inflation.
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Speaker 3: Well we're not even at the second round of inflation.
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Speaker 3: Yets of you know, price hikes, which is your wage
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Speaker 3: in your general prices just oil at the moment, just
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Speaker 3: the price of what we're putting into our cars every week.
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Speaker 3: So basically nothing to see there on Wednesday. Also this morning,
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Speaker 3: this peace deal, and I'm just cognizant of the fact
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Speaker 3: that every week we get a new story about the
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Speaker 3: war and Trump and a deal, and some of it
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Speaker 3: is the art of the deal. He's going, I am
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Speaker 3: We're going to bomb the hell out of them, or
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Speaker 3: we're close to a deal. It's all just tactics and negotiating, right,
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Speaker 3: So let's keep some perspective here on what he has
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Speaker 3: actually said. What he has said is that there is
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Speaker 3: a memorandum of understanding, so not a deal an MoU
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Speaker 3: that has quote been largely negotiated. Now, Iran told rouces
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Speaker 3: yesterday that they have not agreed to hand over any
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Speaker 3: of their enriched uranium. So there you go the speculation,
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Speaker 3: if you want the quick and dirty speculation. They reckon
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Speaker 3: sixty day cease fire extension because obviously that's going to
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Speaker 3: expire straight of hor moves reopens Iran and sal oil
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Speaker 3: freely limiting the nuclear program. While those talks put off
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Speaker 3: for another day. In any case, nothing's really changed at
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Speaker 3: this point to what it had yesterday. Bryan Bridge, ten
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Speaker 3: after five. Over the weekend, I was emptying a couple
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Speaker 3: of boxes in my storage area, and I realized just
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Speaker 3: how much crap I have in my house. And I
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Speaker 3: was sort of wondering whether you, dear listener, have crap
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Speaker 3: in your house too. I have a box. I didn't
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Speaker 3: know this until I opened the box, but I have
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Speaker 3: a box that is filled with school reports from when
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Speaker 3: I was fifteen years old. What use is that to me?
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Speaker 3: Do you have just junk in your house? And does
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Speaker 3: that make me a hoarder. Samuel's nodding, this is our producer, Samuel,
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Speaker 3: and Michael's nodding too. Am I a hoarder? Because and
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Speaker 3: I'm loathed and I know this, and I know I
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Speaker 3: need to downsize, and I know I need to dig clutter,
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Speaker 3: and I know that it's better for me. And I've
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Speaker 3: got other things I need to put in this place.
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Speaker 3: I just can't get rid of it.
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Speaker 2: Nine two nine two.
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Speaker 3: It is eleven after five year old News talk zeb
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Speaker 3: coming up next to Wilding Pines fed Farmers on the
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Speaker 3: West Coast.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on early edition with sparks for business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps Business Moving News talk ZB.
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Speaker 2: Five thirteen News talk zib So Yeah.
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Speaker 3: This Irishnik ballistic missile hypersonic missile. The reason that everyone's
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Speaker 3: talking about it is because, according to Putin, it travels
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Speaker 3: at mac ten that's two and a half to three
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Speaker 3: kilometers at second, ten times the speed of sound. There
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Speaker 3: are currently this is according to the Kremlin, no ways
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Speaker 3: of countering or counteracting the weapon. What is interesting about
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Speaker 3: the fact that they're using this weapon, which they have
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Speaker 3: done a Kiev over the weekend, is the fact that
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Speaker 3: they have to because eighty percent. And just think about
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Speaker 3: the size of Ukraine, the strength of Ukraine pre war,
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Speaker 3: and where they are at right now, and how they
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Speaker 3: are holding the line against the Russians. Eighty percent of
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Speaker 3: the missiles that Russia has fired at Ukraine are in
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Speaker 3: accepted bridge you're on news talks thereb wilding pines. An
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Speaker 3: extra seventy nine million bucks over the next three years.
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Speaker 3: This is from the government. Total commitment now more than
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Speaker 3: one hundred billion. The thing is getting out of hand,
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Speaker 3: increasing five percent a year.
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Speaker 7: These are self seeding, fast growing, rapidly spreading plants, and
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Speaker 7: I got to tell you they are a total environmental disaster.
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Speaker 7: You know, they overtake productive farm land, they suck up
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Speaker 7: huge amounts of water, they wreck our iconic landscape, and
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Speaker 7: they also pose a really serious virus.
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Speaker 3: So that's now one hundred million a year is the kitty.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to Simon Cameron, fed Farmer's West Coast President.
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Speaker 3: Simon good morning, A yeah, good thank you. Are you
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Speaker 3: happy with that?
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Speaker 9: Yeah totally. Yeah, looks a great day for the landowners
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Speaker 9: around the country. And yeah there pine tree.
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Speaker 2: Will it be enough? Like will it make a difference?
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Speaker 9: Huge difference for sure. It's Yeah, it's a pretty major problem.
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Speaker 9: So this is sort of a huge step in the
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Speaker 9: right direction that actually start getting on top of the
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Speaker 9: sea sources. Up until this announcement is there shou'd been
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Speaker 9: seed sources that haven't had committed funding to them, So
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Speaker 9: one of those being a branch Leason up in Marlbury
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Speaker 9: that's now got committed funding to it. So we can
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Speaker 9: actually start pushing the problem back and looking at more
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Speaker 9: enduring solutions. And I think the money is one thing,
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Speaker 9: but the fact that they're committing to developing a national
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Speaker 9: pest plan that will ensure that going forward is adequate
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Speaker 9: funding for the problem.
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Speaker 3: Where did these things come from?
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Speaker 9: Well, in a lot of cases the wildings were planted
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Speaker 9: by the Crown to stop erosion, which was the case
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Speaker 9: for the likes of the branch Leason in Barbara. So yeah,
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Speaker 9: the New Zealand Forest Service plans a lot of them
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Speaker 9: to control erosion. But yeah, obviously it's gotten the out
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Speaker 9: of hand. Nobody's seen this coming, that they would thread
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Speaker 9: the farthest quick and become such an aggressive weed A.
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Speaker 2: Bit of a w c A.
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Speaker 3: Yes, what what about so Wanica and Marlborough getting it
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Speaker 3: looks to me like the lions share of this. Are
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Speaker 3: we at risk of ignoring other areas or are we
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Speaker 3: just going where it's hardest hat.
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Speaker 9: No, there's yeah, I haven't seen that exactly where it's
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Speaker 9: the finer details where it's all intended to go. But
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Speaker 9: these main infestations up up and down the country are
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Speaker 9: in the central Plataum and Lows Island, the Walkertety Basin
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Speaker 9: for example. Yeah, these main areas are certainly where they're
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Speaker 9: concentrating it, but it's it's the nationwide So like I say,
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Speaker 9: it's there's never been committed funding for the works of
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Speaker 9: the branch Leathan, which is probably the worst of them.
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Speaker 9: So there is funding for that now. It's a huge one.
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Speaker 2: Nice one.
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Speaker 3: Simon good TV On the show this morning, Simon Cameron
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Speaker 3: fed Farmer's West Coast President. Time is sixteen minutes after
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Speaker 3: five Bridge. Something I didn't realize about wilding pines is
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Speaker 3: the impact that it has on our energy generation, our
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Speaker 3: power generation the hydro lakes because the pines fall and
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Speaker 3: then they absorb water and then therefore there's less water
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Speaker 3: going into the lakes and less water for the hydro
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Speaker 3: so it affects the energy price. Seventeen after five News
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Speaker 3: talks there be Business next, the.
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Speaker 1: News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and Spark for business Technology
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Speaker 1: that keeps business moving News talks that'd be five nineteen.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad our listeners this morning have decided to have declared.
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Speaker 2: That I am not a hoarder.
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Speaker 3: Ryan wanting to keep hold of a few sentimental items,
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Speaker 3: that your place doesn't make you a hoarder, it makes
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Speaker 3: you human. I guess the question is how how many
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Speaker 3: sentimental items does it take before you turn into a
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Speaker 3: crazy person. I mean, you can probably see if you're
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Speaker 3: tripping over a box in the hallway, you've got problems.
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Speaker 3: I have a few things from you know, when I
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Speaker 3: was a teenager in a box in a storage area.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's not so bad.
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Speaker 3: Another seas that feels very good to be cleaned and organized, organized, organized, organized.
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Speaker 3: You sound like someone I live with. It is twenty
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Speaker 3: after five, Brian Bridge, thirty Business. VICKI prices with us
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Speaker 3: our business correspondent Vicky. Good morning, So tell us that
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Speaker 3: what's going on with the unemployment right? So unexpectedly rises
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Speaker 3: to five percent in the UK.
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Speaker 4: Yes, well, it looked like things were improving a little bit,
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Speaker 4: but we are a little bit skeptical in the UK
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Speaker 4: about whether our statistics are correct at all. So the
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Speaker 4: latest data for up to the end of March showed
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Speaker 4: that unemployment is rising again. So it was five percent
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Speaker 4: for the three months to the end of the first
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Speaker 4: quarter of twenty twenty six. But in reality, if you
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Speaker 4: look at the data from a monthly basis, the March
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Speaker 4: figure was five point five percent and that is a
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Speaker 4: real worry. We haven't seen those rates for quite some time,
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Speaker 4: and loads of young people are unemployed. So we hear
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Speaker 4: from all sorts of countries that AI possibly is affecting recruitment.
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Speaker 4: But while we're finding is also that at the cheaper
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Speaker 4: end of the market if you like, where people are
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Speaker 4: joining for the first time to work. Quite a lot
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Speaker 4: of the changes that have taken place in terms of
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Speaker 4: taxes on businesses and so on, and minimum wage going
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Speaker 4: up have made it harder for firms to employ young people,
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Speaker 4: particularly smaller firms which are looking at their cost going
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Speaker 4: up because of everything else that's going on Iran. You
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Speaker 4: know what the latest thing may of course mean that
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Speaker 4: maybe oil price aren't going to be rising so much.
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Speaker 4: Well for the moment, they have done, and everyone is suffering.
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Speaker 4: So I'm afraid people looking for jobs are not finding
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Speaker 4: them easily and vacancies have gone down again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, how much of it is AI in reality and
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Speaker 3: how much of it is exactly what you said? Minimum
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Speaker 3: wage changes, more regulation for business, also insurances that their
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Speaker 3: businesses must pay on behalf of the workers.
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Speaker 4: There's all that, I'm afraid, and disentangling that is quite difficult.
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Speaker 4: So what unfortunately then to happen, Because of course taxes
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Speaker 4: have gone up. What you have to pay for each
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Speaker 4: person you employ above the age of twenty one has
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Speaker 4: gone up, and the threshold from when you start paying
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Speaker 4: that extra charge has been reduced very significantly, So people
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Speaker 4: who want the first jobs and want to work part
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Speaker 4: time and you know, mothers for example, and it's hitting
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Speaker 4: the lower end of the market and therefore those entry
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Speaker 4: points are not there. So that's one thing. Minimum wage, yes,
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Speaker 4: in matters a lot has been going up. Of course
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Speaker 4: the government wants to get it as close to the
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Speaker 4: medium wage as possible, and of course the younger generation
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Speaker 4: is also seeing the minimum wage go up. There is
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Speaker 4: an intention to equalize it so that every one has
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Speaker 4: even when you first start work gets the same minimum wage,
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Speaker 4: whilst employers are screaming obviously because that means a lot
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Speaker 4: of extra cost for them, but there is a disincentive
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Speaker 4: to employ them. The AI issue is a really interesting
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Speaker 4: one because what tends to happen, particularly for smaller firms,
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Speaker 4: is that they want to cut costs and they use
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Speaker 4: AI for entry level costs that they would have had otherwise.
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Speaker 4: So then blow a few people. Cash desks are no
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Speaker 4: longer manned by anyone and things like that, and that
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Speaker 4: is cutting demand. It's really only the big firms that
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Speaker 4: use AI to really invest and expand, and even in
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Speaker 4: those firms you're seeing now there is a bit of
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Speaker 4: a cutting of jobs too, So I'm afraid it's becoming
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Speaker 4: much more important. Is an issue?
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Speaker 3: Interesting stuff. Vicky Price, our business correspondent, time is twenty
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Speaker 3: three minutes after five. A friend of mine is in
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Speaker 3: the surveying business engineering business, and he said, using Claude,
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Speaker 3: they used to use just a chat GPT type chatbot thing,
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Speaker 3: and now they're using Claude. He said there are jobs
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Speaker 3: that would take him two weeks that he can now
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Speaker 3: do in an hour, which is I mean, that's efficiency,
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Speaker 3: isn't it. So they are making some real gains and headway,
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Speaker 3: but it's not the same for every industry. By the way,
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Speaker 3: just talking about young people and getting ahead, Albinizi is
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Speaker 3: having a lot of trouble. We've been talking about this
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Speaker 3: after his budget. Charmer's budget fifth budget introduced the capital
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Speaker 3: gains tax stuff the negative gearing less, so the negative
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Speaker 3: gearing more the capital gains because it's heading not just
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Speaker 3: property but everything every business right including the tech sector.
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Speaker 3: So this week Albanezy is going to lay out. You've
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Speaker 3: got gena Ryan Harts, she's jumping up and down now
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Speaker 3: saying business investment is going to move offshore. You've got
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Speaker 3: startups coming out saying there's going to be This week
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Speaker 3: they introduced the legislation to Parliament for the capital gains
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Speaker 3: tax and they reckon there'll be a concession for startups,
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Speaker 3: but only tech startups. And now he's got comedians coming out,
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Speaker 3: but also fellow labor MP's coming out saying why just
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Speaker 3: tech startups? What about all startups?
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Speaker 2: Anyway?
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Speaker 3: This is Hughesy, who you might remember from Rove Live
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Speaker 3: Rope McManus over in Australia. He's a I mean, he's
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Speaker 3: an artist, he's a lefty and this was his take
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Speaker 3: on Charmer's budget the.
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Speaker 10: Capital gains tax. If I have known they were going
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Speaker 10: to do that, I wouldn't have voted for them. I
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Speaker 10: voted for Elbow and Charmers. The bumbling, fumbling, idiotic respect
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Speaker 10: one question this week by both Elbow and Chalmers and
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Speaker 10: every other minutes doing that stupid government just solidify the
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Speaker 10: fact we need another election.
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Speaker 2: So there you go.
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Speaker 3: When you've lost, Hughsey, you've lost the room. It is
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Speaker 3: twenty five after five News Talk zibb Yukland FC.
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Speaker 1: Next the early edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio power
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Speaker 3: Five twenty seven News Talk zib Even if you're not
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Speaker 3: into football, it is hard not to be excited about
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Speaker 3: a local franchise winning the A League final. That you
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Speaker 3: have to be a real grinch not to get a
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Speaker 3: smile on your face. Congratulations to all the players, to
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Speaker 3: Steve the coach, to Nick Becker the CEO, and the
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Speaker 3: well healed who backed them from the beginning. I might add,
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Speaker 3: these guys have what you call momentum, something you can't bottle.
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Speaker 3: They've created a winning buzz. There are two things that
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Speaker 3: leap to mind as the AFC party bus snaked its
15:50
Speaker 3: way through Queen Street yesterday one. This is part of
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Speaker 3: a wider story about the rise of football, which now
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Speaker 3: boasts more Keiwi players than rugby union. A big part
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Speaker 3: of that is to do with Auckland. Rugby has an
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Speaker 3: Auckland problem which football and league are exploiting. Unlike the Blues,
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Speaker 3: the Wars and Auckland FC regularly fill stadiums.
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Speaker 2: It's not come out of nowhere, of course.
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Speaker 3: Twenty fourteen there was a council survey found rugby was
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Speaker 3: the twentieth most popular sport amongst Aucklanders in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Of the one hundred and fifty thousand registered union players
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Speaker 3: in New Zealand, just forty thousand came from this region.
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Speaker 3: That was less than three percent of Aucklanders. So the
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Speaker 3: numbers haven't been great for a while. They launched a
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Speaker 3: strategy to turn it around, have they. Rugby is stronger
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Speaker 3: in the provinces, but if getting young players on the
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Speaker 3: field is the aim of the game, then Auckland is king.
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Speaker 3: Same story goes in politics. You know you can win
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Speaker 3: an election, you can't win an election if you lose Auckland.
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Speaker 3: You've got to have Auckland to win. I mean, it's
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Speaker 3: just a pure numbers game. A population issue, right Labor
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Speaker 3: found that out back in twenty twenty three. Second thing,
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Speaker 3: fans don't really care if the players, the coaches, or
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Speaker 3: even the owner and Bill Foley are Aucklanders or even Kiwis.
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Speaker 3: They just care that it's a football and b they're
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Speaker 3: winning in that order. Another lesson perhaps for other codes
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Speaker 3: with sticky rules and criteria issues. Maybe in the end
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Speaker 3: none of this really matters. What really matters is that
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Speaker 3: kids are playing sport. And as long as they're playing something.
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Speaker 3: You know, what's the old saying, a kid in sport
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Speaker 3: is a kid out of court. Bryan Bread, Oh that's
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Speaker 3: got to be good, doesn't it. Here is the moment,
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Speaker 3: by the way, we got time for this.
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Speaker 2: Here we go back in.
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Speaker 11: It comes on the body harm center that.
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Speaker 3: It's scrappy, but that one mind call beautiful stuff.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful stuff. Back afternoons.
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Speaker 1: Here at first Ryan Bridge on early edition with Spark
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Speaker 1: for Business Technology that keeps Business moving, News Talks.
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Speaker 3: B Good Morning, twenty four minutes away from six Yer
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Speaker 3: on news Talk, said bpre Monday morning, we'll hear to
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Speaker 3: DC for the latest on the deal, well, no deal
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Speaker 3: on Iran.
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Speaker 2: Also to London, there's a Brixit update there.
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Speaker 3: As for Labor and this weird question about they had
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Speaker 3: some kind of mock debate going on, and Barbara Edmonds
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Speaker 3: was one of those who was asked a question about
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Speaker 3: would you rather And I don't know why they're asking
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Speaker 3: these questions, Presumably it's just a silly prompt, something random
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Speaker 3: to get this. The Labor MPs debating each other and
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Speaker 3: trying to emulate what a live debate might look like.
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Speaker 3: One of the questions they were asked is would you
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Speaker 3: rather fight? What is it fight? One hundred ducks a
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Speaker 3: one hundred duck sized horses or one ducks?
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Speaker 2: Or yeah, one hundred.
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Speaker 3: One hundred duck sized horses, one hundred duck sized horses
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Speaker 3: or one horse sized duck.
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Speaker 2: There it is. This was got Barbara Edmonds replied, but I've.
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Speaker 4: Actually got some Chinese in me and we love duck.
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Speaker 4: But every week I have to stand up in the
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Speaker 4: house and ask duck faced horses.
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Speaker 1: Did I get that right?
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Speaker 12: Questions every single week, and I have the glory of being.
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Speaker 4: Able to question her, debate her and debates.
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Speaker 1: And to talk through media.
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Speaker 10: You got my joke.
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So it's all a bit lame. It's
19:29
Speaker 3: all a bit weird, to be honest with you. The
19:30
Speaker 3: question I have is who lickd the audio? And that's
19:33
Speaker 3: the interesting part. It's all over the media. I asked
19:36
Speaker 3: a friend of mine yesterday, you know what would what
19:38
Speaker 3: would be one hundred duck face duck sized horses or whatever?
19:41
Speaker 3: And he said, well, actually I'd go for the I'd
19:44
Speaker 3: go for the duck sized horse. There's one of them.
19:49
Speaker 3: You only need a couple of bullets, assuming you can
19:53
Speaker 3: take a gun to the fight.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. It is twenty two away from six.
19:58
Speaker 3: Brian bred reporters and dned morning Collum morning right. I
20:02
Speaker 3: saw this in the news about Kluth and breaking their
20:05
Speaker 3: self imposed rates cap.
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Speaker 2: What's that about?
20:08
Speaker 9: Here?
20:09
Speaker 2: Will Cloth?
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Speaker 12: The district residents are facing an average rates increase of
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Speaker 12: more than twenty percent, which is over the cap that
20:15
Speaker 12: the council had set itself. The council's draft annual Plan
20:18
Speaker 12: proposes a twenty point five to four percent height to
20:22
Speaker 12: be exact. And this was after council has spent a
20:24
Speaker 12: couple of days were visiting earlier funding decisions and making cuts,
20:27
Speaker 12: including deciding not to operate the Milton Pool this upcoming season.
20:31
Speaker 12: But despite that, the rise is still in place. Mayor
20:34
Speaker 12: Jock Martin says, despite these tough conversations and if it's
20:36
Speaker 12: to trim costs, they just couldn't get the increase below
20:39
Speaker 12: the twenty percent target, and he acknowledges that this will
20:42
Speaker 12: put pressure on or added pressure on households. They only
20:46
Speaker 12: approved less than half of the requested community grants, totaling
20:49
Speaker 12: a million dollars as part of their cost cutting measures.
20:52
Speaker 2: How's your weather?
20:54
Speaker 12: A bit of morning fog about here in the south
20:55
Speaker 12: this morning in Frost's but then fine with cloudy periods
20:58
Speaker 12: thirteen today.
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Speaker 3: Jean Callum, thank you you clear in Christ this morning, Claire,
21:01
Speaker 3: good morning.
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Speaker 2: So this councilor who.
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Speaker 3: Wants an ice rink in Cathedral Square? Is this a
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Speaker 3: serious plan? Is it potentially going to happen?
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Speaker 13: Well, City councilor Aaron Kewan comes up with some colorful plans,
21:11
Speaker 13: I'll tell you that much, Ryan, and he's done so
21:13
Speaker 13: for a long time. This latest one is a two
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Speaker 13: hundred thousand dollar plan to bring an ice rink into
21:17
Speaker 13: Cathedral Square. Now, as we know, it's been an iceore
21:20
Speaker 13: for many years since the quake. The council's been focusing
21:24
Speaker 13: until now on things like footpaths and paving and landscaping upgrades.
21:28
Speaker 13: There's now five shortlisted ideas that would cost up to
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Speaker 13: twenty eight point five million dollars to basically revitalize the area.
21:36
Speaker 13: Now mail Film Major wants some of that cash to
21:38
Speaker 13: go to the cathedral restoration itself, which as we know,
21:41
Speaker 13: still needs a hell of a lot of money. Qan,
21:43
Speaker 13: though agrees we don't need to spend the whole amount.
21:46
Speaker 13: He's keen to just see a small amount of two
21:47
Speaker 13: hundred thousand dollars amount spent on this ice rink. He says, Look,
21:51
Speaker 13: things like tiles and planter boxes aren't going to bring
21:54
Speaker 13: people into the square, but an ice rink certainly will.
21:57
Speaker 13: He then went as far as talking about New York's
21:59
Speaker 13: Rockefellace in winter and their ice drink and saying we
22:02
Speaker 13: could beat the Rockefeller of the South.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not a bad idea. I've heard worse ideas,
22:08
Speaker 3: but a two hundred thousand dollars in the grand scheme
22:10
Speaker 3: of things is not massive. But is that something you
22:12
Speaker 3: would go back to multiple times? Clear, that's the question.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it. You know, with your kids, would you go
22:17
Speaker 2: back more than once?
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Speaker 13: I think it's a one and done kind of situation,
22:21
Speaker 13: isn't it. I guess the hope is that we capitalize
22:23
Speaker 13: on all of those tourists coming in and just make
22:25
Speaker 13: one and done cash over and over again.
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Speaker 14: But I don't know.
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Speaker 13: There are crazier ideas out there. I agree two hundred
22:30
Speaker 13: thousand dollars doesn't seem a lot compared to twenty eight
22:32
Speaker 13: point five million.
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Speaker 2: I guess how does she wear?
22:34
Speaker 3: The clear forggy to start?
22:36
Speaker 13: Should clear to find today? Some height wind a bit
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Speaker 13: later and fourteen degrees.
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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Wellington, Adam Cooper, morning, Adam, morning, Royn.
22:43
Speaker 3: The ambulance didn't show up for this guy collapsed here.
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Speaker 15: This will happened last Saturday afternoon on Cubis Street in Town.
22:49
Speaker 15: The Post reports an elderly man collapsed unconscious a few
22:52
Speaker 15: passes by cane to help. Witness David Cormacks is he
22:55
Speaker 15: overheard the one one one call and was quite taken
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Speaker 15: aback so he could hear. The operators apparently asked strange
23:00
Speaker 15: questions trying to find out the guy's name. They got
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Speaker 15: it from him when he briefly regained consciousness. Supposedly then
23:07
Speaker 15: the ambulance call seen to staff recognized him from previous
23:10
Speaker 15: contact with emergency services. They said he'd actually had an
23:13
Speaker 15: ambulance called out that morning and that he was fine,
23:15
Speaker 15: but a crowd's gathered showing fair bit of concern for
23:18
Speaker 15: this collapsed man. Police even showed up straight away and
23:21
Speaker 15: offers a radio for an ambulance right away, and that
23:23
Speaker 15: was when they eventually dispatched one and took the guy
23:26
Speaker 15: to hospital. Now Wellington Free Ambulance says dispatching an ambulance
23:29
Speaker 15: isn't always the best response. They've reviewed this incident. They
23:33
Speaker 15: stand by the response, provided it was pretty worrying for
23:36
Speaker 15: those there by the sounds call. Maack says, it's horrifying
23:38
Speaker 15: that there's a mechanism by which the ambulance service can
23:40
Speaker 15: simply say no. And it's concerning how emergency services respond
23:44
Speaker 15: to these so called frequent callers.
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Speaker 3: And interesting, so is it like a serial collapser or
23:49
Speaker 3: something and they might have got a whiff of it.
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Speaker 15: Well, yeah, they obviously know this person and weren't keen
23:55
Speaker 15: to send another one out, but he went to hospital,
23:57
Speaker 15: so yeah, it's interesting. How's your weather fine today, cloudy
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Speaker 15: this afternoon and fifteen.
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Speaker 3: Nice one, thank your Never is an Auckland morning, never,
24:04
Speaker 3: good morning. Why is this bakery closing down? Everyone's talking
24:07
Speaker 3: about this bakery.
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Speaker 14: Yes, now, look it's temporarily closed.
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Speaker 16: Now.
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Speaker 14: This is after receiving the lowest possible food safety rating E.
24:17
Speaker 14: E got an E for a pest control related risk.
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Speaker 14: That's what we know, pest control related risk.
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Speaker 16: There you have it.
24:23
Speaker 14: So it's in Brockhouse Bay. It's called Levaughn. It had
24:27
Speaker 14: originally said. This is the owner saying that the store
24:29
Speaker 14: was shut due to family reasons, and then Auckland Councils
24:33
Speaker 14: Ronica Lee Thompson says that the business is going to
24:35
Speaker 14: be remain closed until mitigating measures are finished. Now, the
24:39
Speaker 14: bakery co owner, Sean Vowe says that he lied about
24:41
Speaker 14: the reason. This is out of fear and shame and
24:44
Speaker 14: desire to protect his family and stuff from judgment. But
24:47
Speaker 14: he says, you know lot the food safety ruling painful
24:50
Speaker 14: wake up call for them.
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Speaker 2: Family of rats. That was the problem. Your family reason.
24:55
Speaker 14: You're thinking of rats, cockro.
24:57
Speaker 2: I thought first thing, you cockroach.
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Speaker 14: But yeah, whatever it is is not good.
25:01
Speaker 2: That's my speculation.
25:02
Speaker 3: But yeah, clean it up mate, and then you can open.
25:06
Speaker 3: The problem is will you ever go back there? You
25:08
Speaker 3: know now that you know that there's been an e.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, well exactly and they won, you know, like best
25:14
Speaker 14: pie or do they want a big pie competition last year?
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Speaker 16: Oh no?
25:18
Speaker 2: So what was in the mints? That's what you think? Well,
25:23
Speaker 2: that's what you think.
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Speaker 14: Hey, look, once they've been fumigated, it will be the
25:27
Speaker 14: cleanest bakery in the whole country.
25:29
Speaker 3: Do you know what's interesting about the grading system too,
25:31
Speaker 3: you know the government's been changing the NCA stuff, is
25:34
Speaker 3: that we.
25:35
Speaker 2: All immediately know a B C D is not great.
25:39
Speaker 2: It is not great.
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Speaker 14: That's what's what. What's the lettering there?
25:43
Speaker 3: Is it a scene?
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Speaker 11: I mean?
25:45
Speaker 2: How's our weather?
25:46
Speaker 11: Okay?
25:47
Speaker 14: Well yeah mainly fine, it's going to be Oh we've
25:50
Speaker 14: got a bit of morning cloud but mainly find no
25:52
Speaker 14: rate eighteen still warm eighteen the high here and Auckland nice.
25:55
Speaker 2: One never thank you very much. We're in d C.
25:57
Speaker 3: We're in London, coming up Ryan your wrongs says this texture.
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Speaker 3: Soccer is the worst overrated game. I tried to watch
26:04
Speaker 3: a bit of the final and how boring They just
26:06
Speaker 3: kick it back and forth. With nothing happening. Stupid game.
26:09
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Speaker 3: It is twelve to six. Gavin Gray, UK, Europe. Good morning, Gavin,
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Speaker 3: Nice to have you back. Reported that UK officials are
27:39
Speaker 3: looking at a single market for goods trade in the EU.
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Speaker 3: Are we unbrexiting here?
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Speaker 11: Well, the vote on the twenty third of June twenty
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Speaker 11: sixteen was by a small percentage fifty one point eight
27:51
Speaker 11: nine percent against forty eight point one in favor of
27:54
Speaker 11: leaving the European Union. Now you might think, therefore that
27:58
Speaker 11: news that officials believe the best way for Britain to
28:01
Speaker 11: go forward with trade is to push for a single
28:04
Speaker 11: market for goods trade with the EU as rather turning
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Speaker 11: its back on the vote of Brexit. But industry figures
28:10
Speaker 11: have been briefed on this move, though the idea has
28:12
Speaker 11: apparently not been taken forward at this point, and that
28:17
Speaker 11: is predominantly I think because of skepticism among the general
28:19
Speaker 11: public about how this would work. And here's the problem, Ryan.
28:23
Speaker 11: If the EU say yeah, sure, let's have a single
28:25
Speaker 11: market for goods trade, they are going to want something back.
28:28
Speaker 11: And in the past that's always been money. And we're
28:31
Speaker 11: not talking a few dollars. We're talking probably tens of
28:34
Speaker 11: millions of New Zealand dollars every few months or so.
28:38
Speaker 11: And that's why some are so against what might be
28:43
Speaker 11: being planned. Of course, we're looking potentially for a change
28:45
Speaker 11: of leader as well coming up. But both the candidates
28:48
Speaker 11: who might throw the hat into the ring to take
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Speaker 11: over from our Prime Minister, Secure Starmer, have both effectively
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Speaker 11: shown they are much more eurofile than Secure Starmer when
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Speaker 11: it comes to actually trying to do business with the
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Speaker 11: EU and not shy away from that decision to reverse Brexit.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is an interesting one to watch. That is
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Speaker 3: a seven Gray are UK europe correspondent for your Monday morning.
29:09
Speaker 3: It's ten to six in Bridge Rich. So even Iran
29:13
Speaker 3: apparently says progress has been made on a piece deal
29:16
Speaker 3: or an extension of a ceasefire. At least Rubio says
29:19
Speaker 3: that don't worry, the Americans aren't selling out.
29:21
Speaker 17: And the idea that somehow, as president, given everything he's
29:25
Speaker 17: already proved he's willing to do, it's going to somehow
29:28
Speaker 17: agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting I
29:30
Speaker 17: Ran in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions.
29:33
Speaker 3: Served David Smith, Washington Bureau chief for The Guardian, with
29:36
Speaker 3: Me Live this morning. David, Nice to have you on
29:37
Speaker 3: the program. Is is there a bit of a I
29:40
Speaker 3: feel like there's a bit of a boy who cried wolf.
29:42
Speaker 3: We're nearly going a deal.
29:43
Speaker 2: We've got a deal. Where are we at?
29:47
Speaker 16: Yes, that's right. We've been here so many times before,
29:49
Speaker 16: haven't we. This one seems to be more optimistic than normal,
29:55
Speaker 16: although Donald Trump has been staying on social media. Both
29:59
Speaker 16: sides must take the time and get it right. There
30:01
Speaker 16: can be no mistakes, and he's urging his representatives not
30:05
Speaker 16: to rush into a deal right now. The situation appears
30:09
Speaker 16: to be the US and Iran have some sort of
30:11
Speaker 16: agreement in principle to end this war. It would mean
30:16
Speaker 16: reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which of course has been
30:19
Speaker 16: that choke point that Iran has used as leverage for
30:22
Speaker 16: so long. In the turn, Iran would commit to dispose
30:27
Speaker 16: of its highly enriched Uranian because of course, the US
30:30
Speaker 16: says this is really all about curbing Iran's nuclear program,
30:36
Speaker 16: And what I just said has been briefed by a
30:40
Speaker 16: US official talking to reporters. We seem to have rather
30:46
Speaker 16: less detail on Iran support for proxies in the region,
30:53
Speaker 16: some as the other ongoing issues here. And it's again
30:58
Speaker 16: we're in a kind of wait and see fosture. Certainly,
31:01
Speaker 16: when you started to emerge yesterday, lots of commentators and
31:05
Speaker 16: politicians were we're jumping on it. And you know, either
31:08
Speaker 16: Donald Trump was a great hero or according to Iran hawks,
31:11
Speaker 16: this was a sort of terrible sellout and Israel will
31:14
Speaker 16: be horrified as well. But it does seem a little
31:16
Speaker 16: early to jump to any conclusions.
31:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, as it always says, what about this guy that
31:21
Speaker 3: was shot by Secret Service?
31:23
Speaker 2: They knew who he was?
31:24
Speaker 3: Does that mean he was a bit of a troublemaker
31:25
Speaker 3: or they haven't seen much about him yet?
31:29
Speaker 16: Well, yes, this incident happened outside the White House yesterday.
31:35
Speaker 16: A man approached the security checkpoint a place I know
31:41
Speaker 16: well going to the White House and opened fire and
31:46
Speaker 16: then he was shot by federal agents and he was
31:49
Speaker 16: already known to the Secret Service. According to court records,
31:52
Speaker 16: he's twenty one years old. He had been involved in
31:57
Speaker 16: a previous incident near the White House, and in that exchange,
32:04
Speaker 16: a bystander was also struck. It's unclear whether they were
32:09
Speaker 16: struck by the suspect or shot by the officers. Trump
32:12
Speaker 16: at the time was in the White House but in
32:16
Speaker 16: no imminent danger. He's claimed that the gunman had a
32:22
Speaker 16: violent history and a possible obsession with the White House.
32:25
Speaker 16: But we await to other details on that.
32:27
Speaker 3: Okay, David, appreciate the update. David Smith, Washington bureau chief
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Speaker 18: Ryan, How fun does that labor party thing sound? I mean, honestly, cringe,
32:54
Speaker 18: isn't that there's a corporate world out there that fortunately
32:57
Speaker 18: neither of us are in Bolden. Yes, that were they
33:00
Speaker 18: the group gatherings and they going. We've invited Brian along today,
33:03
Speaker 18: so we can play some games together.
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Speaker 3: And team building activities and you rather shoot yourself, yeah
33:09
Speaker 3: I would. I'd rather poke horrible rusty nails into my eyeballs.
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Speaker 2: And you reckon. They were really enjoy it.
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Speaker 18: And when the person says, I don't know who the
33:16
Speaker 18: person was, the moderator, but when they go, you know,
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Speaker 18: duck faced horse, horse faker? Do you mean honestly you
33:22
Speaker 18: see there going I'm an MP, I was a cabinet minister.
33:26
Speaker 18: I was in charge of some stuff once I was
33:28
Speaker 18: actually running this country and here I am talking to
33:31
Speaker 18: these clowns about ducks and horns, honestly. And then and then,
33:35
Speaker 18: as you quite rightly said, how that get licked?
33:38
Speaker 2: Exactly? Who did? Who did that? To everybody?
33:41
Speaker 18: Anyway, we'll we'll do.
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Speaker 2: Do you have him?
33:43
Speaker 18: Said that I will ask Luxem this morning when he
33:45
Speaker 18: comes in. So he's up in the hills of Queenstown
33:48
Speaker 18: yesterday was what do you reckon? They flew from Auckland
33:50
Speaker 18: to Queenstown, stood on a hill said, you know, fire
33:54
Speaker 18: up the old chainsaw and then fly back towards.
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Speaker 2: I do it's a waste of time. And David Seam
33:59
Speaker 2: will on my show today and he is in the studio.
34:02
Speaker 2: So he's flowing back last night.
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Speaker 18: So he's come back all the way because queenstown's a
34:05
Speaker 18: couple of hours, so it's four hours flying plus an
34:08
Speaker 18: hour or two on the ground. That's your entire day
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Speaker 18: to stand on the hill and go, I tell you what,
34:12
Speaker 18: those wilding pins.
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Speaker 2: And they didn't even use the chains for it. It's
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Speaker 2: too weird anyway. More shortly, nice stuff. Enjoy your Monday.
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Speaker 2: See Tom.
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