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Full Show Podcast: 23 July 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: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business moving,
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Speaker 1: News talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be very good morning to you. Six half to five.
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Speaker 2: We're looking at netball, the am Z premiership up in
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Speaker 2: the air at the moment. Mitch mchannas stateside for US
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Speaker 2: this morning. Half of teen's past. The NCAA math exam
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Speaker 2: not great. Climate Change Commission report reckons our emissions are
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Speaker 2: going down, but guess what the world's are going up?
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Speaker 2: The agenda it is those day of twenty third of
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Speaker 2: July reports this morning. The US is going to help
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Speaker 2: the Saudis get in nuclear power plants, maybe even let
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Speaker 2: them enrich uranium.
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Speaker 3: I can quite see why the Saudis want clean equial
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Speaker 3: of fuel and all you've been talking about problems in
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Speaker 3: the Straits for news at the moment and oil generally.
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Speaker 3: You can see why people want to go to that.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure tran it would go down badly. And as
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Speaker 3: we're saying, their threats going all round at the moment.
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Speaker 2: On a run, Trump says revery ship the Iranians don't
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Speaker 2: let through the straight, he will bomb a power plant
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Speaker 2: in Tehran. Marco Rubio is still hoping for a deal, as.
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Speaker 4: It always prefers to negotiate and reach a deal on
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Speaker 4: these things, and we prepare willing to do that. We've
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Speaker 4: tried to do that now for a year and a hour.
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Speaker 4: But we're also not going to sit by and let
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Speaker 4: ships be blown up.
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Speaker 2: So let's go to Burnham. He's taking a leaf out
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Speaker 2: of Albanesi's book. He wants cheaper public transport. So the
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Speaker 2: plan is, let's cap bus fears at two pounds from January.
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Speaker 2: How much will that cost them? Five hundred million pounds.
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Speaker 5: We're taking a difficult look at some of the things
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Speaker 5: that the government was committed to, digital ID being one.
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Speaker 6: Example, and reprioritizing and I think that's what people would
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Speaker 6: expect me to do.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, our worst fear may have come true.
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Speaker 2: OpenAIS is one of its models went robe during a
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Speaker 2: security test and hacked a startup business after it lost
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Speaker 2: control of.
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Speaker 7: The AI is a bit more relentless. It has a
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Speaker 7: task to do and it will find every way possible.
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Speaker 6: To do it.
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Speaker 7: And because it's not a human, it doesn't get tired.
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Speaker 7: It just keeps going at it until it away. So
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Speaker 7: I think it really just shows how the AI can
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Speaker 7: find vulnerabilities and exploit them to meet it subjective before.
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Speaker 1: The news breaks. Here it first Bryan Bridge on early
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Speaker 2: There'd be comforting to know there's little worker bees out
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Speaker 2: there doing something at all hours of the day, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Nine two ninety two is the number to text. How
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Speaker 2: do you talk about maternity leave without getting called sexist?
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Speaker 2: That's the question this morning. How long is too long?
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Speaker 2: Can you even say too long?
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Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 2: I mean in an ideal world and Stuart Nash has
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Speaker 2: resigned if you're dis joining us in an ideal world,
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Speaker 2: women and men like it's not it's not doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 2: have to be a six thing because men can take
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Speaker 2: paternity leave, you know, So men could have that, women
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Speaker 2: could have the baby obviously, and then the man could
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Speaker 2: take the however long off in certain number of months.
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Speaker 2: Here paper rental leave is six months by the way,
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Speaker 2: twenty six weeks and you get about eight hundred bucks
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Speaker 2: a week, So six months how long you're paid for
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Speaker 2: by the government or they cover that much for you.
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Speaker 2: But you know, if it was me and I was
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Speaker 2: having a child. I don't want to have a year off,
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Speaker 2: you know, but would it would mine? Would that be
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Speaker 2: good for my employment? I don't know, probably not. Would
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Speaker 2: my employer be happy with I mean, they would swallow
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Speaker 2: it because that, you know, what choice do you have?
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Speaker 2: You look a bit draconian if you don't. But I
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Speaker 2: guess the question is if you're depending on what kind
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Speaker 2: of job you do as well, if you're doing a
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Speaker 2: job that is, you know, you're the CEO of a company,
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Speaker 2: does that make a difference to how long you would
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Speaker 2: take off? Nine two nine two? You tell me, I'm
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Speaker 2: not telling you. I'm not getting I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: nash myself this morning, but I am interested to know
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Speaker 2: how long people think is too long, and if too
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Speaker 2: long is even a question we should be asking, because
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Speaker 2: let's remember that the first thousand days of a child's
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Speaker 2: life of the most important days in any human being's life.
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Speaker 2: So most of what we do as adults is formed
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Speaker 2: and shaped by what happens in the first thousand days.
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Speaker 2: And the most important thing for a baby and for
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Speaker 2: a toddler is having one on one contact. So when
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Speaker 2: people stick their kids in daycare centers and stuff, and
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Speaker 2: I'm not. I understand why it happens, but when you
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Speaker 2: do that, it's actually not the best thing for the
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Speaker 2: child because they have multiple sets of eyeballs and faces
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Speaker 2: that they're trying to recognize, and the best thing for
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Speaker 2: them is to have one. And whether that's mum or dad,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter whether it's an auntie. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's just a single person. So actually, in an ideal world,
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Speaker 2: you would have three years off, you know, if you
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Speaker 2: had a baby, three years stay at home, look after
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Speaker 2: the bat, if that's what you wanted. Of course you
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Speaker 2: hear now I'm getting into trouble again. Anyway, you tell
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Speaker 2: me all right, I said nothing eleven after five, Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge'd be we will talk about netball just before six
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Speaker 2: o'clock because it sounds like it's all kicking off with
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Speaker 2: the premiership or quite the opposite. Also, we'll get to
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Speaker 2: the Climate Change Commission report and don't roll your eyes
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Speaker 2: at me. It's interesting because every year, and you wouldn't
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Speaker 2: believe this, but every year since twenty nineteen, our emissions,
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Speaker 2: our greenhouse gas emissions have been coming down. So why
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Speaker 2: the big fuss? That's next The Early.
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Speaker 2: B five thirteen. So you know that we had our
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Speaker 2: inflation number out this week. It was four point one
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Speaker 2: percent in the year two June, and the Brits have
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Speaker 2: just had theirs. Their rates actually fallen to two point
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Speaker 2: six percent for the junior that's down from two point
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Speaker 2: eight percent for the May year. This is their lowest
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Speaker 2: level in fifteen months. Of course, has been a lull
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Speaker 2: in the war, so that pushed the price of fuel
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Speaker 2: down which helped them, and there is going to be
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Speaker 2: a rate decision for them July thirtieth is so next
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Speaker 2: week is their next OCR call. Obviously, the wall's heated
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Speaker 2: back up again, so how relevant that number will be
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Speaker 2: to them when they make that call, as anyone's get well,
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Speaker 2: it's pretty obvious actually. Fourteen after five Bryan Climate Change
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Speaker 2: Commission says our rate of emissions reduction needs to more
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Speaker 2: than double over the next few years. However, they do
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Speaker 2: say that our rate of our emissions in total have
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Speaker 2: been coming down. Sebastian losing It is aut professor and
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Speaker 2: planned to cologists with me this morning. Sebastian, good morning, yeah,
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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 9: Once.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting reading this the bits that I did read.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend I read the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: The Greenhouse get you haven't either. Good, I'm glad that
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Speaker 2: I'm not there on the pages.
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Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, yeah, I got it. He claim up yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Now, Greenhouse gases down every year since twenty nineteen, so
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Speaker 2: down two point three percent per anum from twenty nineteen
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Speaker 2: to twenty twenty three. Then we came down in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four. We are likely to go down two point
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Speaker 2: three again in twenty twenty five. Where's this the headlines
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Speaker 2: of celebration.
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Speaker 9: Well yeah, I was thinking that too, so some might
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Speaker 9: take of the reporters. So it's a little bit sort
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Speaker 9: of tinted it with the with the negative well view,
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Speaker 9: and that's probably justified, but without tracking that badly. So
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Speaker 9: compared to other OECD countries, for example, we're in the midfield,
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Speaker 9: so it's not it's not you know, it's not a
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Speaker 9: a C. It's probably somewhere in in the B range.
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Speaker 9: And if we were to mark this, I think there's
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Speaker 9: a there's there's a bit to go, but we're definitely
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Speaker 9: we're tracking.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I think great. And is it a concern that
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Speaker 2: the world because our number is coming down but the
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Speaker 2: global numbers still going up, so you know what, what's
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Speaker 2: the point Sebastian.
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Speaker 9: Oh, No, it is a concern. It is a concern,
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Speaker 9: and in New Zealand were placed with a bit special
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Speaker 9: So our issue is the is agriculture right, And that's
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Speaker 9: just that's a hard one to tackle really because it's
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Speaker 9: about fifty percent of our mess, mainly via me sane,
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Speaker 9: so we've got to look at the other side and
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Speaker 9: there's this forest ray. We can definitely do more there.
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Speaker 9: But again we're doing the right thing and the other
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Speaker 9: thing is just reductions. And I mean the report points
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Speaker 9: out quite nicely that evs are not cheap as the
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Speaker 9: run for example, and transport is our one big other
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Speaker 9: crporate and I think you know, there'll be an easy
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Speaker 9: one to tackle, and decentralizing power for example, we could
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Speaker 9: we could do more in solar heat pumps. The report
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Speaker 9: points that out quite nicely as well. Yeah, agriculture is
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Speaker 9: a hard one. I don't think we can. You know,
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Speaker 9: the farms are the one at least part of our
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Speaker 9: economic spine, so we can't really do that much there.
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Speaker 9: You can do best practice, but I don't think we've
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Speaker 9: got in this job there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting tag Sebastian, and I agree with you because
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Speaker 2: agriculture is one of those ones where this is Sebastian
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Speaker 2: losing and by the way, aut professor and Plant to
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Speaker 2: College saying we're doing okay and it's about a be Mark.
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Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the program, But agriculture is
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Speaker 2: the interesting one because yeah, what do you do? Do
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Speaker 2: you let the because people aren't going to stop eating meat,
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Speaker 2: red meat, They're not going to stop consuming milk or
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Speaker 2: dairy or buying milk powder. So is it better we
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Speaker 2: produce it or is it better someone else who's less
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Speaker 2: efficient produces it, you know, and so are we're not
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Speaker 2: shooting ourselves in the foot if we try and kill
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Speaker 2: off that industry or kneecap it. Five seventeen. News Talks EBB,
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Speaker 2: News Talks EDB five twenty on the paid perntal leave thing,
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Speaker 2: Nadine says Ryan. Parents do not get eight hundred bucks
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Speaker 2: a week in pai perntal leave. That is pre tax.
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Speaker 2: That is a good point. It was a pre tax number.
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Speaker 2: So eight hundred a week, eight hundred and eleven dollars
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Speaker 2: or something a week is pre tax, Ryan, how about
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Speaker 2: as much paternity leave as you like, but without pay,
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Speaker 2: says Paul, maybe people would stop having kids they can't afford,
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Speaker 2: and the country would become more productive and less of
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Speaker 2: a drain on finite resources. Well, yeah, look, I might
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Speaker 2: I agree with you to an extent, but then we
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Speaker 2: need people. We need kids, We need babies. We need
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Speaker 2: the babies to pay for the superannuation. We need the workers. Ryan,
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Speaker 2: it's the taxpayer who pays for print to leave no payment
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Speaker 2: whatsoever back in the seventies and beyond. But back then,
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Speaker 2: you didn't need both parents working just to keep yourselves
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Speaker 2: afloat and your heads above water, did you. So I
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Speaker 2: do know. It's one of those questions that probably has
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Speaker 2: a thousand answers, and all of them are a little
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Speaker 2: bit right. Ran five twenty. Let's go to school. Barely half,
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Speaker 2: just fifty two percent of students past the NCAA numerous
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Speaker 2: the exam this year. It's down from fifty seven percent
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Speaker 2: last year. But better news on truancy, sixty four percent
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Speaker 2: of kids attended school regular in Turn two. That's the
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Speaker 2: highest level since twenty sixteen. Andy England, Darfield High School,
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Speaker 2: principle of me this morning, Andy, good morning. We ran
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Speaker 2: how can we be going to school more and getting
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Speaker 2: wish results?
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Speaker 8: What I'm expecting that question, Ryan, it's actually not little
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Speaker 8: a relationship to quite a numeracy term, but with a
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Speaker 8: mass one. With the numeracy one, I believe that the
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Speaker 8: curriculum that we're now teaching is not quite so aligned
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Speaker 8: with those cias the corec exams that were the students
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Speaker 8: have just been taking. And I actually don't think we
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Speaker 8: should read too much into that bit of a drop.
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Speaker 8: Improvements are happening across the country and in the teaching
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Speaker 8: of maths, and standards are lifting, but it's not easy
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Speaker 8: and we've got a long way to go in terms
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Speaker 8: of raising those standards. And yeah, I think we've got
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Speaker 8: a bit of a depth. But the general trajectory is up.
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Speaker 2: Okay, even though the numbers down.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, the general trajectory, I'd be surprised if next year
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Speaker 8: it's still down further. Put it that way. I remember,
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Speaker 8: this is the first exam that year ten students are taking.
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Speaker 8: They've got another one towards the end of this. In
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Speaker 8: most cases it's year ten students, not year eleven, and
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Speaker 8: they actually don't need this until they're in year eleven
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Speaker 8: either or even year twelve, and they just have to
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Speaker 8: pass this to past NCA. So they've got another crack
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Speaker 8: at it in September. They've got another crack next year
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Speaker 8: in most cases, and another crack at the end of that.
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Speaker 8: Whether it's a good tool or not, that's a different question,
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Speaker 8: but it's what we have for this year and next year.
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Speaker 2: Andy, What about reading and writing at your school? What
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Speaker 2: are you seeing?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I usually just had a big congratulations Eshion yesterday.
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Speaker 8: With our team. We've seen really big lifts in both
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Speaker 8: of those as well as numerously. So, yeah, the writing
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Speaker 8: has always been the hard one. Reading has generally been
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Speaker 8: reasonably good, but we saw a really big lift in
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Speaker 8: our writing stats around about the same sort of sixty
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Speaker 8: seven percent initially, What.
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Speaker 2: Specifically, Andy, are you putting that down to. Is it
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Speaker 2: just now that we have a focus on it and
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Speaker 2: there's a bit of a vibe shift and people are saying, up,
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Speaker 2: fix it, that it can change.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: I mean, Ryan, you know, I can be a critic
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Speaker 8: of quite a few things that are happening, but actually
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Speaker 8: I think this is a really good stuff happening in
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Speaker 8: terms of just attention on the need to achieve the
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Speaker 8: need to attend school. They are linked and it is
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Speaker 8: making communities students take school more seriously. So I think
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Speaker 8: that helps. But there's a lot of additional work going in,
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Speaker 8: particularly in not reading a writing space. We've employed an
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Speaker 8: additional teacher just to focus on that and she's having
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Speaker 8: an amazing effect. English and our social science departments are
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Speaker 8: working together so that students get this regular, very clear
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Speaker 8: teaching about sentence structures and what literacy actually is. So
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Speaker 8: that sort of explicit teaching is having an impact.
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Speaker 2: Excellent stuff, Andy Englan Darfield High School principle good to
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Speaker 2: hear twenty four minutes after five grants is Ryan. It
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Speaker 2: will take a few years for the results to get better,
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Speaker 2: which is pretty much what Andy said too. Probably will
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Speaker 2: see them get a little bit worse before they get
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Speaker 2: much better. However, they are seeing progress, and the first
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Speaker 2: person to see progress would be well, first will be
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Speaker 2: a teacher then it would be principal, wouldn't it. So
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Speaker 2: that's interesting now speaking of life with no consequences, which
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Speaker 2: is what what every national MP will tell you. It
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Speaker 2: was like under Labor, well labor in the UK and
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Speaker 2: Andy Burnham having his first telling off of ministers because
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Speaker 2: they have been caught on a hot mite making jokes.
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Speaker 2: I was going to play the audio, but the audio
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Speaker 2: is a bit crap, but I'll tell you what happened.
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Speaker 2: So Shabbanna Mutmood, this is the Home Secretary he's just appointed,
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Speaker 2: was in a room with all the media there, shaking
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Speaker 2: hands and grinning and fake laughing with all the other
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Speaker 2: cabinet ministers, a bit of a meat the press type situation,
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Speaker 2: and she was caught on a microphone making a joke
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Speaker 2: about their policy, which is similar to our previous labor government,
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Speaker 2: which is releasing prisoners. So from under the Sentencing Act
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Speaker 2: come September, six thousand criminals are going to be released
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Speaker 2: under the prisoner early release scheme. Now Andy is saying sorry,
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Speaker 2: giving them a telling off for making a joke and
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Speaker 2: making light of this situation, saying sorry and also reviewing
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Speaker 2: this policy because it turns out these two guys that
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Speaker 2: convicted of killing a cop are among those who could
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Speaker 2: be released early. So not great, not a great start
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Speaker 2: getting your feet under the desk. Twenty five after five,
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Speaker 2: we'll look at the AI terminator situation. Next, news Talk
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Speaker 2: said B. Five twenty seven news Talk said B. The
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Speaker 2: more you read about these AI hacks, the less you
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Speaker 2: want to know about them. They're so Basically, the short
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Speaker 2: story is there was an AI bot out there went
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Speaker 2: full terminator, hacked into another system, another AI system, without
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Speaker 2: being told to do so so just of its own volition.
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Speaker 2: It was an open AI model that the escaped where
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Speaker 2: it was supposed to be, went online, stole the login
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Speaker 2: details for hugging face, which is the other platform. Right.
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Speaker 2: Interesting thing is what hugging Face So the victim here
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Speaker 2: did about it? They said that because normally you would
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Speaker 2: get another AI bot to go and attack the attacking
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Speaker 2: AIA and they would have some kind of war, and
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Speaker 2: they turned to a Chinese bot to do it. Why
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Speaker 2: the American bot didn't had so many guard rails on
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Speaker 2: it basically rendered itself useless. It wasn't good enough to
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Speaker 2: defend their system, so they went for a Chinese one. Fascinating,
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Speaker 2: So you have basically robots at war with other robots
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Speaker 2: and now no control over what they might do next.
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Speaker 2: And we've seen that this is a clear cut example
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Speaker 2: of it, and it's not the first one. AI Open
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Speaker 2: AI has said they've had issues before. Apparently they've previously
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Speaker 2: admitted that their robots autonomously for extended periods, took unwanted
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Speaker 2: actions to achieve their goals, including looking for ways to
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Speaker 2: act outside of its sandbox. Well, that doesn't sound very
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Speaker 2: good for us, does it. My question is, if you
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Speaker 2: have robots attacking robots, and Chinese robots attacking American robots
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Speaker 2: and robots doing what they want, how safe is any
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Speaker 2: of our information every time you log into a platform?
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Speaker 2: How safe is any of that information? And therefore, what
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Speaker 2: are you willing to give? What information are you willing
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Speaker 2: to give to those platforms? Twenty nine after five, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: you're on News Talks b Mitch mccannon's state side for
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Speaker 2: us this morning. We'll get to him after the News
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Speaker 2: at five point thirty and we will get to the
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Speaker 2: Nepal situation. What's happening with the A and Z premiership
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Speaker 2: contracts to be signed not being signed. That's all ahead
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Speaker 2: here on News Talks HEB.
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Speaker 2: one hundred bucks and it pays for things like you know,
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Speaker 2: the Michelin Star Think competition that we had come here,
18:25
Speaker 2: that was paid for through the visitor levy, through the
18:28
Speaker 2: tourist tax. And Louise Upstince put out a release this
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Speaker 2: morning telling us what else they're spending that money on.
18:35
Speaker 2: Three point eight million dollars going on toilets in just
18:39
Speaker 2: two areas, Mackenzie and Queenstown Lakes. Mackenzie District has a
18:43
Speaker 2: million tourists a year, Queenstown three million, So that's a
18:47
Speaker 2: lot of number ones and number twos from tourists, and
18:50
Speaker 2: tourists don't have anywhere, you know, It's not like they
18:52
Speaker 2: can run home and go to the loop because they
18:54
Speaker 2: don't live here, do they. So you kind of need facilities.
18:57
Speaker 2: And it's good because normally councils will be paying for
18:59
Speaker 2: this stuff. But as you read down you discover what's
19:02
Speaker 2: really going on here, and what's really going on here
19:06
Speaker 2: is they want the tourists to pay to pay. They
19:10
Speaker 2: are converting this is not necessarily new blocks of toilets,
19:13
Speaker 2: so some of them will be, but it's converting existing
19:16
Speaker 2: blocks of toilets into user pays. So, for example Mackenzie,
19:23
Speaker 2: two and a half million dollars of this money will
19:24
Speaker 2: convert key toilet blocks to a user pays model and
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Speaker 2: replace the main public toilet at Techapool. One point three
19:31
Speaker 2: million will go to Queenstown. This is to install new
19:33
Speaker 2: public toilets with user pays systems. So from and I
19:37
Speaker 2: would love to know. They don't say how many toilets,
19:40
Speaker 2: by the way, we're getting for three point eight million dollars.
19:42
Speaker 2: They also don't tell us how much you pay, but
19:45
Speaker 2: you've been overseas if you know, if you need to go,
19:48
Speaker 2: you're willing to pay pretty much anything to do it,
19:51
Speaker 2: so it kind of makes sense. Twenty two away from
19:53
Speaker 2: six crand Bridge, Shullum, Procter and Needin Cullum. You'll be
19:57
Speaker 2: happy with this, But I mean, I guess that means
19:59
Speaker 2: if you live there in you need to use the
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Speaker 2: public toilet, you'll have to pay too. It's not you're
20:02
Speaker 2: going to show your passport, is it. Yeah, well, well
20:06
Speaker 2: we yet to know how this is all going to work.
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Speaker 10: It doesn't affect a need and exactly but our two
20:11
Speaker 10: you know, a couple of tourism hotspots here in the south.
20:13
Speaker 10: These new toilets being paid for out of the government's
20:16
Speaker 10: International Visitor at Levy fund, So three point eight million
20:20
Speaker 10: dollars being invested in these new lows in the McKenzie
20:23
Speaker 10: and Queenstown Lakes districts specifically, and that includes a Techa
20:27
Speaker 10: pos's main public toilets and like you say, these new
20:30
Speaker 10: user pays facilities in Queenstown. The Tourism Minister Louis upstances
20:35
Speaker 10: both districts see large number of visitors. It can place
20:38
Speaker 10: pressure on the infrastructure normally funded by ratepayers. She argues
20:43
Speaker 10: that you know they shouldn't be left to carry the
20:45
Speaker 10: full cost of these toilets.
20:46
Speaker 2: How's your weather in Dunedin Cullum a cloudy period, spot
20:50
Speaker 2: of evening rain. Later today, northerleies and fourteen. Nice one.
20:53
Speaker 2: Thank you Claire and christ this morning, Claire.
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Speaker 11: Good morning.
20:56
Speaker 2: What's next for your new stadium?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, well it's about to get dirty in zed stadium,
21:00
Speaker 11: we're told, with Supercross set to transform it into a
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Speaker 11: dirt bike track. So this is the FAEM World Supercross Championship.
21:08
Speaker 11: It will make a New Zealand debut at the venue
21:10
Speaker 11: this December. That's after it's been at six other countries,
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Speaker 11: so this will become its final stop on the championship.
21:16
Speaker 11: And it's hard to imagine.
21:17
Speaker 12: I certainly can't imagine it.
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Speaker 11: But Venues Auto TAHI Chief executive Caroline Harvey Tier tells
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Speaker 11: us that this is an event that will showcase just
21:24
Speaker 11: how versatile the stadium is. It will transition from the
21:27
Speaker 11: Robbie Williams concert to this dirt track in just a week.
21:31
Speaker 11: She says, operation staff have been working very closely with
21:34
Speaker 11: the turf team to ensure that neither event will damage
21:37
Speaker 11: the playing surface underneath.
21:39
Speaker 2: How's your weather?
21:41
Speaker 12: A bit of frost about.
21:42
Speaker 11: Again today, low cloud otherwise that cloudy with showers developing
21:45
Speaker 11: by night northeasterlies and the high will be fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Claire and drumall, please because Max is back
21:51
Speaker 2: in Wellington. Heymax, good morning. How was your trip?
21:54
Speaker 5: Oh, phenomenal, phenomenal the whole North America. I was in
21:58
Speaker 5: Vancouver mostly was completely behind the tournament. Lots of kiwis around,
22:02
Speaker 5: sensational and I can say it's very reassuring to come
22:04
Speaker 5: back after several weeks. And the christ Church story be
22:08
Speaker 5: about the stadium. It's sort of a twilight zone feel
22:10
Speaker 5: about it.
22:10
Speaker 2: Something's never changed and you're going to talk about how
22:14
Speaker 2: bad Wellington is.
22:17
Speaker 5: Yes, this was more thrust upon me. The Victoria University
22:20
Speaker 5: Student Association has been polling its membership and found that
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Speaker 5: more than two thirds of students have skipped a meal
22:27
Speaker 5: recently because they don't have enough money. More and more
22:30
Speaker 5: skipping fresh foods at the supermarket. Public transport is deer,
22:34
Speaker 5: so more and more skipping classes on certain days as well.
22:37
Speaker 5: I think the only really telling statistic in this survey, though,
22:40
Speaker 5: that is kind of interesting, is seventy percent of students
22:43
Speaker 5: in Wellington and Victoria considering or have considered moving overseas
22:49
Speaker 5: for greater work opportunity seventy percent.
22:52
Speaker 2: Ah, so long as they pay their lines back then Yes,
22:55
Speaker 2: that's the choice, isn't it. How's your wither? Yes? Partly cloudy?
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Speaker 5: Is some stronger northern East fourteen?
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Speaker 2: Nice one. Good to have you back. Max and Neva
23:02
Speaker 2: is with us in Auckland. Good morning, good morning? How
23:06
Speaker 2: are they?
23:06
Speaker 12: Yes? God, I was so lovely to hear mixes, dolphs
23:09
Speaker 12: and tones, but it's.
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Speaker 2: Small to my face miserable. Max is back. This is
23:13
Speaker 2: the happiest Max. This is the happiest you'll get him
23:16
Speaker 2: because he's just returned from Hollood.
23:18
Speaker 12: Funny, I wass say that to produce some kinzy I said,
23:20
Speaker 12: recall that a happy Max that all last for five hours.
23:23
Speaker 2: Now EWIE leaders are throwing their support behind legal action
23:26
Speaker 2: over a power out. This is from twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Is this the one up north?
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Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 12: You'll remember this one. I think everyone will.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
23:32
Speaker 12: This was caused when an inexperienced worker removed nuts from
23:35
Speaker 12: the three leagues of a pylon. And this happened at
23:37
Speaker 12: Glorid This is between Auckland and Welsford, causing it to
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Speaker 12: topple back in twenty twenty four. Now the update an
23:43
Speaker 12: opt out class action against Transpower and its line's maintenance
23:47
Speaker 12: contractor is progressing through the courts. This is on behalf
23:49
Speaker 12: of roughly about twenty thousand affected businesses. So Nati fatua
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Speaker 12: Ewe's Dame Nader Glavish. She says there's gotta be Queen's consequences,
23:58
Speaker 12: rather that it doesn't happen again. She wants accountability. So yes,
24:02
Speaker 12: you're quite right. They're backing, throwing their support behind this
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Speaker 12: legal action. Good stuff has your weather partly cloudy areas
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Speaker 12: of fog Shallers this morning as well. Auckland to hire fifteen.
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24:13
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Speaker 2: very quickly. This is in Nicaragua, Central America. Beautiful country
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24:24
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24:27
Speaker 2: the rebels, guns when they shouldn't have had guns, or
24:29
Speaker 2: at least the Congress wouldn't allow the President to give
24:31
Speaker 2: them guns, but they gave them guns. Great documentaries about
24:34
Speaker 2: this actually because they used there was shipments of cocaine
24:37
Speaker 2: that would go out and then they would fill the
24:39
Speaker 2: planes with guns and send them back. Anyway, Nikaraigua's Congress
24:44
Speaker 2: has just announced and signed off a work plan to
24:48
Speaker 2: implement the leader's order, which is that they should no
24:51
Speaker 2: longer have elections. Imagine releasing a work plan about canceling democracy,
24:56
Speaker 2: and that's exactly what they've done. By the way, this
24:58
Speaker 2: is Ltigue. He's the president, been in power for donkeys
25:03
Speaker 2: years since twenty two thousand and seven. He actually governs
25:06
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Speaker 2: Trump says, I'll had a bridge forever your ship. You
26:26
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26:28
Speaker 2: this morning and Mitch McCanns stateside for us much Good morning,
26:31
Speaker 2: Good morning, Ryan. How are you doing? Yeah, very well.
26:33
Speaker 2: So what's he saying now?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Look, we had this MLU in recent weeks, there's
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Speaker 13: been all these diplomatic meetings across Europe in the Middle East,
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Speaker 13: and this war is now raging. For the last eleven days,
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Speaker 13: the US has been bombarding Iran. Washington's biggest frustration here
26:47
Speaker 13: is that I Runs continues to attempt to control the
26:50
Speaker 13: Strait of Horn Moves. Now, Donald Trump has got on
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Speaker 13: true social as he often does this morning, and he's
26:55
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26:57
Speaker 13: the strait, the US is going to bomb and destroy
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Speaker 13: one bridge or power plant, including those located next to
27:04
Speaker 13: or in the capital city of Tehran.
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Speaker 2: Now it's likely Ryan.
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Speaker 13: That his advisors are going to urge caution here because
27:10
Speaker 13: to targeting civilian infrastructure could be considered a war crime.
27:15
Speaker 2: So it's probably not something that the President wants to
27:17
Speaker 2: be accused of at this point, right, So let's move
27:20
Speaker 2: on to Infentina. This is the fiefa boss and Trump
27:23
Speaker 2: saying he should be the Secretary General of the United
27:26
Speaker 2: Nations match one of the more bizarre stories of the day.
27:30
Speaker 2: Ryan the New York Poster is reporting that Trump would
27:33
Speaker 2: quite like to see Infantino as the Secretary General here
27:36
Speaker 2: at the UN. He feels he is respected.
27:38
Speaker 13: By everyone around the world and recognizes he has a
27:41
Speaker 13: special ability to bring people together. This comes as the
27:45
Speaker 13: process for selecting the Secretary General as underway. It remains
27:48
Speaker 13: to be seen how serious this is, whether any other
27:51
Speaker 13: country would support a bed or even if Infantino would
27:55
Speaker 13: entertain the idea himself.
27:58
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem that it's whether he on it or not.
28:00
Speaker 2: It seems like some's going to give it to them.
28:02
Speaker 2: I appreciate your time, Mitch mcan Our, us correspondent this morning.
28:05
Speaker 2: By the way, the Americans are doing a deal with
28:07
Speaker 2: the Saudis to let them have power plant. This is
28:10
Speaker 2: nuclear power plants, civilian only, although they may allow them
28:14
Speaker 2: to enrich uranium as well. We yet to see the
28:16
Speaker 2: detail on that. There is only one other power plant,
28:19
Speaker 2: nuclear power plant in the Gulf at the moment, and
28:21
Speaker 2: that belongs to the UAE. It's s eleven to two Ryan.
28:25
Speaker 2: More speculation over the future of an z premiership This morning.
28:28
Speaker 2: Staff at three of the franchises that the Netball New
28:32
Speaker 2: Zealand owns have been told their contracts will not be renewed.
28:35
Speaker 2: This is after they expire at the end of the month.
28:37
Speaker 2: Northern Stars, The Magic That's Why Cutubey Plenty and Mainland
28:41
Speaker 2: Tactics The Stars GM Jane Bennett has spoken out about
28:46
Speaker 2: this and Nathan Limb has the details for us this morning. Nathan,
28:49
Speaker 2: good morning. This is that, by the way, the Herald's
28:52
Speaker 2: netball correspondent, Nathan, what do we know?
28:55
Speaker 14: Yeah, So basically, Neple Neil's interim CEO J Patterson has
29:00
Speaker 14: emailed at the start of those three franchises and basically said, look,
29:05
Speaker 14: your contracts are going to end on July thirty one
29:08
Speaker 14: and at this stage we cannot guarantee that there is
29:10
Speaker 14: going to be a contract for you next year. Now
29:13
Speaker 14: the contract ending on July thirty first, that is very normal.
29:16
Speaker 14: These are staff that are contracted part time. They go
29:20
Speaker 14: to and do other jobs that they fall back on
29:22
Speaker 14: when netball is not in season, and they come back
29:25
Speaker 14: to the sport in the following year when the competition's
29:28
Speaker 14: back underway. So the fact that contracts are ending, that's
29:31
Speaker 14: pretty normal. It's the fact that we've got to this
29:33
Speaker 14: point of the year and Netble New Zealand have still
29:35
Speaker 14: not confirmed the competition for next year. Everything is still
29:39
Speaker 14: in limbo. That's the unusual part about this.
29:41
Speaker 2: Has Netblere New Zealand said anything about that, I know.
29:45
Speaker 14: They have remained tight lipped. As per usual, and it's
29:49
Speaker 14: really really worrying. Ryan. This is something that we saw
29:54
Speaker 14: with netblen New Zealand last year when they were under
29:57
Speaker 14: different leadership, is that they basically wouldn't say any And
30:00
Speaker 14: I'm not sure when Netball New Zealand's going to realize
30:03
Speaker 14: that saying nothing is not a good pr strategy because
30:06
Speaker 14: every time we hear anything, it's through leaks and through rumors.
30:10
Speaker 14: And I managed to get hold of that email yesterday,
30:15
Speaker 14: but there has not been a consistent voice from Netball
30:18
Speaker 14: New Zealand. The other concerning thing I suppose is that
30:21
Speaker 14: the interim CEO, Jane Patterson, her tenure finishes after the
30:25
Speaker 14: Commonwealth Games, and just she is currently traveling to the
30:29
Speaker 14: Commonwealth Games and she actually hasn't been able to announce
30:33
Speaker 14: anything during her tenure bar appointing Brian e Apel as
30:36
Speaker 14: assistant coach. The board chair is also on their way over.
30:40
Speaker 14: So it is a bit of a head scratcher that
30:42
Speaker 14: a organization that is a bit strapped for cash is
30:45
Speaker 14: now sending over at senior leadership teams to go and
30:48
Speaker 14: enjoy the Commonwealth Games when they had the houses on
30:51
Speaker 14: fire back home.
30:52
Speaker 2: Nathan Lehn from the Herald. That's Netball eight minutes away
30:56
Speaker 2: from six. I spoke to Dame Noling Toto yesterday and
31:00
Speaker 2: obviously they will be quite aware of what's going on
31:02
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. But as Nathan says, not a great lock.
31:06
Speaker 2: Hey over in New York, we've spoken about this before
31:08
Speaker 2: the fact that there are rent freezes coming. And this
31:11
Speaker 2: is Mamdami, the new mayor, who's a socialist or sudden
31:15
Speaker 2: Trump calls them a communist whatever, but he is putting
31:18
Speaker 2: rent freezes in so zero rent increases on one in
31:21
Speaker 2: two year leases. They've voted seven to one to go
31:25
Speaker 2: ahead with this, and now the landlords and the rich
31:27
Speaker 2: folks are fighting back. They've about to take legal action
31:31
Speaker 2: and sue the guy. Eight to six.
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Speaker 2: Six to six News Talks B. Mike's here. Good morning, Mike, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: good to see you. Do you give the Saudis or
31:50
Speaker 2: do you let the Saudis have a nuclear power or
31:52
Speaker 2: do you for what purpose? What's the thinking behind the power,
31:57
Speaker 2: like literally electricity? But you know then apparently it was
32:02
Speaker 2: a Biden thing. He wanted to do it, but he
32:04
Speaker 2: wanted the Saudis to shake hands with the Israelis before
32:07
Speaker 2: they would let them do it. And apparently Trump's going
32:09
Speaker 2: to let them do it. Anyway, Once upon.
32:10
Speaker 6: A time, you'd like to think that there was a
32:12
Speaker 6: bigger picture behind it, and you know, and Trump had
32:13
Speaker 6: a plan and he was sort of normal. But I
32:17
Speaker 6: sort of the evidence mounts almost on a daily basis
32:20
Speaker 6: now that Trump's completely lost the plot and doesn't have
32:23
Speaker 6: the slightest idea what was going on?
32:26
Speaker 2: Hodgepodges.
32:27
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, the Maya Wilson, who is a netballer in one
32:31
Speaker 6: of the teams, that isn't effective. Although having said that,
32:33
Speaker 6: if you're on a team that's already privately owned or
32:35
Speaker 6: sponsored and therefore you're not as reliant on netball New Zealand,
32:40
Speaker 6: what sort of competition is there in a minimal competition anyway,
32:45
Speaker 6: if three of the teams can't get the dough together,
32:47
Speaker 6: and I mean, what do you as a player, what
32:49
Speaker 6: do you do? I mean, here you are in the
32:51
Speaker 6: middle of July and your contracts up at.
32:53
Speaker 2: The end of July, and there's no confirmation and there's
32:57
Speaker 2: no nothing, and everyone's baggering off to Australia because they
33:00
Speaker 2: are getting exemptions left front and center, and.
33:02
Speaker 6: Why wouldn't you Anyway, we'll talk to her about that
33:04
Speaker 6: this morning, Old Nickel from me New Zealand's on to
33:07
Speaker 6: give us an update on the airline. So the engines
33:09
Speaker 6: are fixed. Great, the delayed the plane you made that
33:13
Speaker 6: announcement the other day. Two planes they've delayed, but the
33:16
Speaker 6: engines affixed, so things might be coming right. So we
33:19
Speaker 6: hope that things are coming right.
33:20
Speaker 2: You know how I go online? Sometimes it must have
33:21
Speaker 2: been my algorithm. Now and on YouTube you can watch
33:25
Speaker 2: who's got the best business class seats or who's got
33:27
Speaker 2: the best there's one apparently a first class Emirates. You've
33:31
Speaker 2: probably been on their edge. Game changer.
33:33
Speaker 6: In the game change, the game Changer.
33:35
Speaker 2: You have got fake windows like feel like you're on
33:38
Speaker 2: the aisle.
33:38
Speaker 6: It's called the game Changer.
33:39
Speaker 2: Sweet.
33:39
Speaker 6: You find it on the Triple seven, not the A
33:41
Speaker 6: three eighty. So on the Triple seven it's the one
33:43
Speaker 6: that flies. For example, if you wanted to go from Melbourne,
33:46
Speaker 6: you've got to get it out of Melbourne to go
33:48
Speaker 6: to Dubai.
33:49
Speaker 2: Is it nice?
33:49
Speaker 6: It's superb?
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Speaker 2: The game The game. The game.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's why they call it the game changer, don't they.
33:56
Speaker 6: They called it the game Changer and you got on
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Speaker 6: but crap then, So there's Aviation News Week.
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Speaker 2: Good to know, all right, Mike, With your next News
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