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Full Show Podcast: 23 April 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, they'd be.
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Speaker 2: Good morning at a six after five. Great to have
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Speaker 2: your company is always coming up this morning infracom gets well,
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Speaker 2: it takes the rains really from Treasury on some mega projects.
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Speaker 2: We've got the details for you, Mitch mccanna's state side
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Speaker 2: for us. We've got some mid term polls. Vitamin pills
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Speaker 2: do you take them? Well, maybe you shouldn't. And the
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Speaker 2: military's twelve billion dollar spend that maybe they actually can't handle.
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Speaker 2: The agenda Thursday to twenty third of April, Trumps ceasefire extension.
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Speaker 2: The pressure now basically taken off the Iranians to get
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Speaker 2: a peace steel done.
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Speaker 3: It always seemed like that under the ceasefire was going
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Speaker 3: to be essentially that shadow, that cloud over the Iranians
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Speaker 3: had that this was going to be pressure points on
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Speaker 3: them in any talks. Now that is the thing that
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Speaker 3: President Trump's sensor have removed. In the equation here.
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Speaker 2: And over on the other war in Ukraine, Zalenski is
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Speaker 2: now saying that they're joining the back of the queue
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Speaker 2: behind Iran when getting a piece deal.
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Speaker 4: I don't see now the opportunity to meet today or
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Speaker 4: tomorrow until the question the case of Iran will not
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Speaker 4: be close or some fundamentals is far something.
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Speaker 2: The midterms. Voters in Virginia have approved a new congressional
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Speaker 2: map that could move the balance towards the Dems in
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Speaker 2: the state. This is for the midterm elections. Here's the
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Speaker 2: Democrat leader, Hakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 5: Well, we're going to continue to run through the finish
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Speaker 5: line and this effort in Virginia, which was a big
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Speaker 5: victory for the people of the Commonwealth, a big victory
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Speaker 5: for the country and free and fair elections and ensuring
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Speaker 5: that there's a competitive, fair national congressional map, and it
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Speaker 5: was a big win for our democracy to Europe.
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Speaker 2: Now, LAFUNSA has cut twenty thousand short haul flights from
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Speaker 2: its summer schedule. The UK Secretary of State for Work
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Speaker 2: Pack Fadden defending it, saying, actually, sort of their decision.
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Speaker 6: These are the ripple of acts, such a sake of
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Speaker 6: something that we were not part of, we didn't choose
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Speaker 6: to be part of. But again, to come back to
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Speaker 6: my point about leveling with the viewers, we can't escape
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Speaker 6: the consequence.
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Speaker 2: System and to the movies, the long awaited Michael Jackson
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Speaker 2: biopickers hit cinemas. It is projected to be potentially the
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Speaker 2: largest ever opening for a music biopex, some predicting opening
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Speaker 2: weekend takings of north of eighty million dollars. Ryan Bridge
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Speaker 2: and your News talks. He be great to have you
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Speaker 2: come here this morning. Nine two nine two is the
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Speaker 2: number to text good morning to you. Graham has already
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Speaker 2: texted to say, Ryan, listening to you from North Shaw
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Speaker 2: Hospital having some elective surgery. Wanted to say conditions and
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Speaker 2: morale seem to have improved since my last visit two
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Speaker 2: years ago. Raimon'm pleased to hear it. A couple of
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Speaker 2: things to conditions haven't approved in the straight upform moves,
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Speaker 2: but we knew that they wouldn't. So what's happened overnight
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Speaker 2: is there have been three ships that have been attacked
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Speaker 2: by the Iranians, two cargo vessels that apparently they have seized,
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Speaker 2: although one of them is a Greek cargo vessel, and
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Speaker 2: the Greek government has come out and said no, it's
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Speaker 2: not been seized, like it was damaged but not seized.
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Speaker 2: So TBC on that one. One was in northeast of iman,
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Speaker 2: second one was off the coast of Iran, and then
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Speaker 2: the Revolutionary Guard apparently fired on a third ship. So
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Speaker 2: all of this sort of coming out. Trump said, I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to get into peace talks or do peace
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Speaker 2: talks until they have given up the straight sent the blockade,
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Speaker 2: and and now the Iranians are saying, well, we're not
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Speaker 2: going to talk to you about peace until you get
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Speaker 2: rid of your blockade. Just another stupid stalemate that continues. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 2: of the price of things is going up, and one
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Speaker 2: of the things that's going up is the price I
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Speaker 2: mean PVC piping. You know that the plumbers are upset
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Speaker 2: about it. At the price of diesel obviously, but overnight
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Speaker 2: condoms that one of the world's leading condom Manu facturers,
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Speaker 2: has come out and said that they are going to
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Speaker 2: have to put their prices up twenty to thirty percent
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Speaker 2: because you know what they're made of, don't you. Right,
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Speaker 2: let's go to Russia. So the Dutch military's intelligence service,
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Speaker 2: that the Dutch spies have come out and said that
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Speaker 2: Russia could be ready. They do an annual report and
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Speaker 2: I've had a read of it. Russia could be ready
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Speaker 2: to start a regional conflict with NATO within a year
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Speaker 2: after they end the war with Ukraine. So so long
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Speaker 2: as they're at war with Ukraine, nothing happens. As soon
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Speaker 2: as that war ends, god willing it does within a
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Speaker 2: year of that, they reckon they'd be ready to go again.
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Speaker 2: And they're not going to take on NATO and expect
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Speaker 2: to win. What they're going to do is just pick
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Speaker 2: little bits of territory off from NATO countries with the
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Speaker 2: aim of creating division within the Alliance. And it's already
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Speaker 2: quite splintered, isn't it. Thank you Trump. That is the
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Speaker 2: goal apparently, And so they are just doing a little report,
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Speaker 2: just a little warning that when the war with Ukraine
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Speaker 2: is over, it'll be all on for young and old.
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Speaker 2: Eleven after five on News TALKSB. Back Home. Our military
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Speaker 2: is going to spend billions and twelve billion dollars actually
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Speaker 2: to revamp themselves, reinvent themselves and actually get some barracks
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Speaker 2: that aren't covered in mold. But there's a warning about
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Speaker 2: how they do it and when they do it.
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Speaker 1: That's next Ryan Bridge on Early edition with Spark for
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Speaker 2: It is five point thirteen of the war prices affecting
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Speaker 2: the UK. Of course, we had our inflation number out
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Speaker 2: for the first quarter of this year at three point
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Speaker 2: one percent yesterday, and now the Brits have got theirs
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Speaker 2: three point three percent for the year to March, but
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Speaker 2: it's a quarterly number, so largely due to the increase
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Speaker 2: in fuel prices. Unsurprisingly, they reckon inflation over in the
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Speaker 2: UK will peak at about four percent, between three and
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Speaker 2: a half and four percent, we will peak it. They
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Speaker 2: reckon about four and a half percent. And I guess
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Speaker 2: the question I had is why does it need to
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Speaker 2: Why does inflation stick around for so long? Why is
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Speaker 2: it so persistent? And it's going to stay above in
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Speaker 2: New Zealand above three percent until midway through next year.
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Speaker 2: And the reason is quite simple and it's laid at
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Speaker 2: bare in the stats out of the UK as well.
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Speaker 2: It takes around seven to thirteen months for the cost
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Speaker 2: increases to the food supply chain. So as the oil
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Speaker 2: goes up, as the diesel goes up, as the trucks
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Speaker 2: costs more, it takes seven to thirteen months for that
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Speaker 2: to actually flow through into what you see on the
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Speaker 2: supermarket shelf pricing hence the lag fourteen after five the
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Speaker 2: New Zealand Initiatives warning the government that it's twelve billion
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Speaker 2: dollar defense splash might not go far enough without a
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Speaker 2: big system overhaul. This is the government's defense capability plan
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Speaker 2: four years, being nine billion in new cash. They are
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Speaker 2: calling the initiative for a ninety day review faster intelligence
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Speaker 2: of investment. This is a report by the retired Major
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Speaker 2: General John Howard. John battersby Massi University Center for Defense
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Speaker 2: and Security Studies with me this morning. John, Good morning,
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Do you agree with it?
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Speaker 7: Yes, broadly, we haven't seen the whole thing, but the
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Speaker 7: summary that has been made available to me year. Look,
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Speaker 7: in general terms, I think absolutely buacating organizations do become
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Speaker 7: a little bit set in their ways. The world's changing.
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Speaker 7: You've just had some commentary about some of the changes
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Speaker 7: going on in Middle East and how that's going to impact.
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Speaker 7: So the world is changing, our regional environment is changing,
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Speaker 7: and we do need to ask the question whether in
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Speaker 7: fact we are set up to make the best out
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Speaker 7: of the limited amount of funding we get, and if
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Speaker 7: we're getting an extra burst into say defense capability. We
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Speaker 7: really do need to be sensible to look at what
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Speaker 7: we need to do in twenty twenty six onwards to
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Speaker 7: make the best value out of that.
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Speaker 2: The military is obviously very used to buying ships and aircraft.
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Speaker 2: Do we need to be buying drones and speedboats instead?
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Speaker 7: I think if you asked a number of people in
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Speaker 7: the military, they would say absolutely. We probably still need
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Speaker 7: to look at the capabilities that we've traditionally had to see.
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Speaker 7: Drones can't do everything, but they can do an awful
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Speaker 7: lot at a much less cost, a much less maintenance
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Speaker 7: cost and operating cost as well. We've got a huge
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Speaker 7: economic zone, We've got changing regional security priorities, We've got
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Speaker 7: We're not sure what the US is going to do
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Speaker 7: in the Pacific. We are looking at a much more
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Speaker 7: set of China in the Pacific. What does that mean
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Speaker 7: for any of us? So, yeah, we've got a number
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Speaker 7: of things that we need to be conscious of and
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Speaker 7: if there is a much better or cheaper, easier, more
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Speaker 7: efficient way to do it, let's do it. The the
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Speaker 7: Ukraine War has been a petri dish for the development
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Speaker 7: of drone technology. Let's take some lessons out of it.
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Speaker 2: What do we do about generally about asymmetric warfare? Small guys,
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Speaker 2: small players. Terrorists who have a couple of drones couple
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Speaker 2: of speedboats can hold the world to ransom and your
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Speaker 2: conventional power doesn't really matter anymore. What do we do
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Speaker 2: about that?
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Speaker 7: Well, see, there's two things that small player So we've
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Speaker 7: got to be able to make the most of the
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Speaker 7: of the capability that's out there and get the most
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Speaker 7: efficient use out of it. So to a certain extent,
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Speaker 7: we've got to look to what are the advantages of
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Speaker 7: being in an asymmetric player, what can we do as
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Speaker 7: a small state. So there's that one. The second one again,
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Speaker 7: Ukraine's a petri dish for anti drone technology and drone
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Speaker 7: detection technology, and you're absolutely right. Criminals and terrorists extremists
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Speaker 7: can also start looking at what's going on and adapt
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Speaker 7: these things for them. So yeah, we've got to look
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Speaker 7: at how we can use those positively in the defense
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Speaker 7: of New Zealand's interests. But we've also got to look
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Speaker 7: at how we defend ourselves from the threats that can emerge,
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Speaker 7: and the ones you've mentioned are included in that.
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Speaker 2: John Battersbee Massive University Center of Defense and Security Studies,
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Speaker 2: it's great to have you on the show. This Morning,
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Speaker 2: eighteen after five Brian bred So, Treasury nill INFRACOM one.
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Speaker 2: The Independent Infrastructure Commission is going to take over a
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Speaker 2: couple of jobs to do with big mega projects, the
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Speaker 2: billion dollar ones, stuff like monitoring them, assessing them, coming
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Speaker 2: up with the plans. Basically the government reckons and this
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Speaker 2: includes big n ZTA projects, ones that are funded outside
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Speaker 2: the National Land Transport Fund, the big boys. It includes
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Speaker 2: things like your fairies, yeah, duneed and hospital. You know,
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Speaker 2: stuff that was priced too high and then a subsequent
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Speaker 2: government has to come in and chop it down. Still
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Speaker 2: get the job done, but chop it down. The government says,
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Speaker 2: the information that they are getting before they make big
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Speaker 2: decisions like this is actually a bit crap. And Chris
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Speaker 2: Busship's on a wall path, so he's going to give
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Speaker 2: a big speech today about this. I'll have details for you,
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Speaker 2: respect and leg it about it just before six News talksb.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: Twenty one after five. We'll get to your text in
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Speaker 2: a second. You know that half cooked tower, the massive
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Speaker 2: one by Brita Mark down in Auckland City. It's going
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Speaker 2: to be well was supposed to be New Zealand's tallest
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Speaker 2: residential building at one hundred and ninety meters high, but
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Speaker 2: then two years ago construction stopped. There was a fight
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Speaker 2: between the Indian developer and the Chinese builder. It's basically sat,
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Speaker 2: vacant and half finished. It's now for sale if you
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Speaker 2: want to buy it. I don't know how much it's
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Speaker 2: going to cost. The project was originally three hundred million dollars,
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Speaker 2: meant to be finished in twenty twenty one, but of
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Speaker 2: course we had COVID, we had delays and they walked away.
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Speaker 2: So we had this big ugly I saw which someone
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Speaker 2: can now buy.
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Speaker 1: Crayon Bridge.
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Speaker 2: Your daily multi vitamin might be doing actually nothing to
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Speaker 2: help you. A British GP and medical journalist is slammed
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Speaker 2: the industry and a piece in the Telegraph over in
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Speaker 2: the UK, he says the only benefit the pills provide
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Speaker 2: is very expensive urine and can I add very smelly too.
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Speaker 2: And Nicky Heart is a nutritionist and joins US Live
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Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 8: Hey Nikki, Hey morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Is it snake oil or does it work only in
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Speaker 2: certain circumstances.
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Speaker 9: Well, there are some groups in our population that might
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Speaker 9: need some vitamins minerals, and we're talking things like say,
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Speaker 9: if a woman is planning to be pregnant or is pregnant,
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Speaker 9: she might need some extra iron, she might need folic acid,
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Speaker 9: that kind of thing, but that needs to be monitored
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Speaker 9: by her maternity caregiver. For the general person, though, if
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Speaker 9: they're eating a balanced diet, they really shouldn't need a
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Speaker 9: multi vitamin.
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Speaker 2: What about people who are iron deficient?
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Speaker 9: Okay, so that needs to be tested for because you know,
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Speaker 9: what tends to happen is people's kind of self medicate.
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Speaker 9: They go, oh, look, I'm feeling tired. I'm going to
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Speaker 9: pop down and grab some iron. But what can actually
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Speaker 9: happen is you could have a thing called hemochromatosis, which
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Speaker 9: is iron overload, and you might not know you have
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Speaker 9: that genetic predisposition. So if you took iron and you
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Speaker 9: will already iron overloaded, you could actually be making the situation.
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Speaker 2: With Okay, it's really important not to do that side
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Speaker 2: of iron, Like if I feel if I feel like
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Speaker 2: I could do with a few vitamins, is their harm?
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Speaker 2: And you know, and you've got loads of money. Is
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Speaker 2: there harm in taking them?
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Speaker 9: Well, there's two types of vitamins. There's water soluble and
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Speaker 9: there's non water salt soluble vitamins and minerals. Now what
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Speaker 9: that means is some can actually pass through the urine
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Speaker 9: because they go through the water. But some of them
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Speaker 9: are fat soluble vitamins, which means they can't. So A, D,
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Speaker 9: E and K are fat soluble and they go through
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Speaker 9: your liver and they can't pass through the ur urine.
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Speaker 9: So look, it's really it's a food first philosophy. I
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Speaker 9: reckon you can't get any harm eating food, but there
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Speaker 9: could be harm in taking copious quantities of vitamins and
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Speaker 9: minerals that you simply don't know.
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Speaker 2: How often would I need to eat oranges to get
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Speaker 2: my vitamin C?
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Speaker 9: Well, you know, like that's the thing at this time
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Speaker 9: of the year is wintery time, right, so everybody goes, oh,
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Speaker 9: I need to boost my vitamin C. If you just
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Speaker 9: had an orange or akiwi fruit, most days you'd have
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Speaker 9: probably ample VITAMINCY in your diet because you're going to
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Speaker 9: get it from other things as well. So I don't
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Speaker 9: think we need to go about busily doing all sorts
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Speaker 9: of bits and pieces and going down to your pharmacy
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Speaker 9: to grab or whatever you think you need. Well, in fact,
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Speaker 9: I actually just eat an orange. It'd be so much
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Speaker 9: easier cheap.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Test, and it's good to have you on
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Speaker 2: the Show's always twenty four minutes after five, Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: I must say that because I have about seven of
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Speaker 2: these pells that I take, and I take them every day,
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Speaker 2: and if I take them on an empty stomach, I
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Speaker 2: start to feel sick, my guts go weird, and I
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Speaker 2: do think is this good for me? But you know,
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Speaker 2: you get in the habit of taking something and you
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Speaker 2: don't really question why. Ryan. There's few minerals left in
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Speaker 2: our soil, so there's little in our food. That's why
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Speaker 2: I take. So people have their own theories. I mean,
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Speaker 2: is anyone going to listen to Nikki she gives good advice.
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Speaker 2: Is anyone going to listen to it? This morning two
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Speaker 2: Twenty seven after five News TALKSB. You heard the news
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Speaker 2: about this AI hacking beast called Mythos is a bit scary,
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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, and what's reported to have
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Speaker 2: happened with it in the last seven hours is even scarier.
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Speaker 2: It's basically a big AI powered cyber hacking machine. It
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Speaker 2: can spot flaws and operating systems, stuff that we use,
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Speaker 2: email accounts, all sorts of stuff. Once it spots the floors,
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Speaker 2: it could open the back door for bad people to
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Speaker 2: get in. That's what hacking is about. In some tests,
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Speaker 2: it is better at doing this than human hackers. Okay, worrying.
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Speaker 2: Central banks are worried, retail banks are worried, governments are worried,
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Speaker 2: and we should be too. Even anthrop It, which owns it,
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Speaker 2: is worried. They haven't released it to the public for
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Speaker 2: this reason and the wrong hands. It's that dangerous. But
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Speaker 2: what they did do was release it to a small
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Speaker 2: little group of companies, including Google, including gold Sacks, for testing.
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Speaker 2: Now the problem is Bloomberg is reporting a small number
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Speaker 2: of unauthorized users have gained access to it. I know,
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Speaker 2: like ding ding ding ding, alarm bell time. Hello. You
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Speaker 2: had one job keep this thing under wraps. If it's
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Speaker 2: as good as they say it is, then it's bad
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Speaker 2: for the world. It could mean more of what they
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Speaker 2: call asymmetrical warfare. That's where smaller players with fewer resources
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Speaker 2: than the big powers are able to wage war and
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Speaker 2: hold the world to ransom. Think the Revolution regard their
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Speaker 2: speedboats in the strait of horll moves right now in
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Speaker 2: the wrong hands, this thing could do the same in cyberspace.
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Speaker 2: Hack into hospitals, water supplies, energy, infrastructure, all that important
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Speaker 2: stuff that you know keeps society from falling apart. Quite important.
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Speaker 2: What happens to the world when you only need a speedboat,
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Speaker 2: a few drones, and you know, ANAI hacking app on
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Speaker 2: your phone to bring the world to its knees. It
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Speaker 2: sounds overly dramatic, doesn't it, And that's because well it is.
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Speaker 2: And like most things on the Internet, once the horse
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Speaker 2: is out of the stables, she tends to bolt and
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Speaker 2: run and no one can ever really catch up. Ryan
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Speaker 2: Bridge twenty nine minutes after five some poles coming out
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Speaker 2: of the US not good for Trump ahead of the
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Speaker 2: midterms six months to go, and the three Poles haven
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Speaker 2: down in the thirties in terms of approval ratings. And
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Speaker 2: guess how many Americans think that America is heading in
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Speaker 2: the right direction. You're down in the twenties, seventy plus percent.
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Speaker 2: Think it's heading south. Talk to Mitch mccannon stateside right
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Speaker 2: after News News Talks.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six year on News Talks, there'd
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Speaker 2: be for your Thursday morning coming up, the full six
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Speaker 2: Treasury getting the boot from some of the big infrastructure
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Speaker 2: projects that we do with in this country. And Mitch
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Speaker 2: mccannon's staysited for us the midterms and the ceasefires. Will
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Speaker 2: talk about it all we have already this one. I've
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Speaker 2: been talking about NATO Russia. We've been talking about drones,
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Speaker 2: we've been talking about cyber crime and cyber warfare, a
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of stuff. And loads of your texts have
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Speaker 2: come in on this, but this one from Kate stuck
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Speaker 2: out at me, jumped out at me. I should say, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: bless your heart, love your show, but could we please
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Speaker 2: have some nice news. It's a fair point, Kate. Okay,
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Speaker 2: it has been a rather depressing half hour. Okay, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to be honest with you. So what am I
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Speaker 2: going to give you this? And I was thinking that
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Speaker 2: just having a look around thinking what have I got here?
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Speaker 2: That's good and there's not much to be honest with you.
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Speaker 2: But what I have found just in the last few
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Speaker 2: minutes is that someone has won Lotto last night five
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Speaker 2: point five million dollars in the power ball draw. The
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Speaker 2: problem and you won't like this if you're in Gore
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Speaker 2: this morning. It's a jaff that's won it. Last week
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Speaker 2: someone won fourteen million dollars. See look, news is subjective.
19:06
Speaker 2: Take from it what you will. Someone wins five million dollars,
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Speaker 2: loads of people, don't you know? Bad news. So look
19:12
Speaker 2: at the bright side of warfare. Look at it, you know,
19:16
Speaker 2: Look at the share price of the defense companies, look
19:19
Speaker 2: at the oil price, look at what's happening to BP.
19:21
Speaker 2: There's always an upside, isn't there. B Cherry twenty three
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Speaker 2: away from six Bryan Bridge. Let's go to clum intned callum,
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Speaker 2: good morning. All right, what's going on with Port Otago.
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Speaker 10: Well, they have been told they need to improve their
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Speaker 10: practices after what could have been a much bigger accident
19:37
Speaker 10: than what it was last year. The Transport Accidents Investigation
19:40
Speaker 10: Commissions urging key we Rail to change culture at the
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Speaker 10: Dunedin Port it's training for shunt staff and its remote
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Speaker 10: control equipment. It's after two rail workers narrowly avoided injury
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Speaker 10: when nine unsecured wagons rolled down a slope and hit
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Speaker 10: a locomotive in January last year. No one was hurt
19:59
Speaker 10: but was moderate damage. Investigators found the wagons weren't properly secured,
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Speaker 10: tasks weren't clearly completed, and training gaps contributed to this accident.
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Speaker 10: So they say unsafe practices had become normalized. Incidents weren't
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Speaker 10: always reported, though, urging now better training is made, stronger
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Speaker 10: safety cultures implemented to prevent similar incidents.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's did them wear their callum? Mainly fine today? Fourteen?
20:24
Speaker 2: Nice one? Thank you? Clear in christ Which morning, Claire,
20:26
Speaker 2: good morning. You've got a meeting with Selwyn reasons. They're
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Speaker 2: worried about two different hospital closures.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, this has been ongoing for those in the Slowyn area.
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Speaker 11: A while ago we lost at Lincoln Maternity Hospital, which
20:38
Speaker 11: was one that was very well known, and now further
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Speaker 11: changes and concerns. Obviously, as the population grows, it is
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Speaker 11: the fastest growing district. The residents they're calling for clarity
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Speaker 11: on their future of healthcare. Services. So how New Zealand
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Speaker 11: is holding a public meeting tonight in Darfield. This is
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Speaker 11: specifically around the Alaesmere Hospital and Darfield Hospitals, which could
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Speaker 11: both be closed. There's a step meeting they've committed to
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Speaker 11: do in least In at the start of May.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 11: Health INZED says it will outline house services are currently
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Speaker 11: delivered locally, as well as its plans for the future.
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Speaker 11: Local mp Nicola Grigg and Mea Lydia Glidden say they've
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Speaker 11: raised concerns directly with Health end ZED. Gregg says uncertainty
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Speaker 11: around the hospitals is causing anxiety for residents as access
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Speaker 11: to healthcare remains a key issue for them.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's it weather clear?
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Speaker 11: Party claardly if you isolated showers about, but then should
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Speaker 11: be mainly fine. Southwesterly is easing and the high will
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Speaker 11: be fifteen.
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Speaker 2: Have a great day, Max toll And new measles case.
21:34
Speaker 2: Well you haven't got measles, Max, but there is a
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Speaker 2: new measles case in Ellington. Yeah, touch would a new case.
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Speaker 12: This person sees who have been to quite a few
21:42
Speaker 12: places that now have warnings as well, not linked yet
21:44
Speaker 12: to anyone else with an infection not been overseas as well,
21:48
Speaker 12: so perhaps a little more concerning than usual. Some of
21:51
Speaker 12: those locations of interest to ECOD one Bowen Street and
21:53
Speaker 12: the Machas in Manor on April fifteen, work and dinner,
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Speaker 12: Westpac Corporate Headquarters April sixteen, Harkina the day after perhaps
22:02
Speaker 12: a school holidays visit, Reburger and Palm April eighteen. Mediterranean
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Speaker 12: foods in Newtown April nineteen. Clearly eating well possible. Apparently
22:10
Speaker 12: they were also exposed to measles at the war Birds
22:12
Speaker 12: over Wanaka air Show. Ultimately, of course, check these locations
22:16
Speaker 12: if you have symptoms. Checked for symptoms in the first place. Obviously,
22:20
Speaker 12: vaccination is still the best answer. This is a cross
22:23
Speaker 12: your fingers that it doesn't spread more widely.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather? Clearly?
22:28
Speaker 12: Period's the odd shower, gusty, southerly's easing?
22:30
Speaker 2: Thirteen, Hey, it's a month tour? Is it a month
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Speaker 2: and til or fifty days or something? Toll the soccerborll cup.
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Speaker 2: When are you leaving? Yes, mid June June eighteenth, I
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Speaker 2: think very good. And how long will you be gone?
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Speaker 12: Four and a half five weeks quite a long time. Yes,
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Speaker 12: everyone's favorite redhead to beers. I'm sure we'll be filling
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Speaker 12: in plenty for me.
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Speaker 2: Good on to beers, all right. Next, thank you neighbors here.
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Speaker 13: Hey Neva, everyone's going wor on holiday?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I nice for me a loser. Are you going
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Speaker 2: to State? I'm going away for three weeks in June.
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Speaker 13: Where are you going?
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Speaker 2: France?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Stop it right.
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Speaker 2: Now, Lord. We don't go away much. And a friend
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Speaker 2: of mine's turning fifty. She's having a big party at
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Speaker 2: a villa over there and she's invited us, and I.
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Speaker 13: Said, well, you were going to have the bestest time.
23:18
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Now. Emergency testing going on for the City Rail Link.
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Speaker 13: Yes, and I shall be here for that because it's
23:25
Speaker 13: happening around about June. So yes, the City Rail Link
23:29
Speaker 13: stations now today those emergency services of police, fire, Saint John,
23:34
Speaker 13: they're going to be involved. And obviously this is to
23:36
Speaker 13: ensure that the CRL is going to be safe and
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Speaker 13: reliable when it opens later this year. Still no time,
23:41
Speaker 13: but we know it's going to be open, you know,
23:44
Speaker 13: in the last quarter of the year. So what you'll
23:46
Speaker 13: hear if you live in the k Road area that
23:49
Speaker 13: Munga Fo which is Mount Eton, Midtown area and the
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Speaker 13: Brito Mount Station area. You're going to hear alarms, you'll
23:56
Speaker 13: see all the emergency vehicles near these stations, and you'll
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Speaker 13: see these simulated evacuations. So don't be perturbed. It's all
24:04
Speaker 13: an exercise. And what I've got to say though, it's
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Speaker 13: going to run until early June, and it's also going
24:09
Speaker 13: to include some practices during the weekends involving hundreds of volunteers.
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Speaker 13: So just a heads up, because you know what happens, Ryan,
24:15
Speaker 13: everyone will bring newsrooms and.
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Speaker 2: Go what's going on Instagram? How's that weather? Fine?
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Speaker 13: Apart from warning cloud a few late evening showers, today's
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Speaker 13: high sixteen.
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Speaker 2: Neither thank you, don't go Bridge Rich eighteen minutes away
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Speaker 2: some six Hey, Ryan, Bridge, there's two very quickly for
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Speaker 2: you this morning. This is a text that's coming from
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24:39
Speaker 2: about the lag with inflation. So you know, once the
24:41
Speaker 2: oil price goes up, once the diesel price goes up,
24:44
Speaker 2: it takes sometimes up to a year for the price
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Speaker 2: that you pay for a food item at the grocery
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Speaker 2: store to go up in price is a lag, he says.
24:52
Speaker 2: The problem is the lag becomes. It might lag, but
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Speaker 2: it becomes a permanent price. And you're right, I mean
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Speaker 2: inflation where we have at the inflation rate might come down.
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Speaker 2: We have disinflation, but we never have deflation, do we.
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Speaker 2: The price doesn't actually go down, it just goes up
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Speaker 2: Thirteen to six. US correspondents. Mitch mccam. We'll talk infrastructure
26:21
Speaker 2: on a second, but mitches with US. Now, Mitch, what's
26:23
Speaker 2: the latest with the ceasefire. There's been an extension.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, this certainly has Good morning, Ryan jd Vance, the
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Speaker 14: Vice President was meant to be heading to Pakistan today
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Speaker 14: to negotiate with Iranian leaders on a deal to end
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Speaker 14: the conflict, but he hasn't left Washington. And part of
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Speaker 14: the reason for that is that Donald Trump says, Iran's
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Speaker 14: leaders can't come up with a unified proposal here and
26:45
Speaker 14: that is a mad reports of infighting between what's left
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Speaker 14: of Iran's government and it's military the IRCG. Now, Ryan,
26:52
Speaker 14: there's been a few developments overnight. Pakistan has thanked Donald
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Speaker 14: Trump for extending the ceasefire because it requested one er one.
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Speaker 14: He says it sees two container ships in the strain
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Speaker 14: of Hormuz overnight and tomorrow. This is interesting. Officials from
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Speaker 14: Israel and Lebanon are going to be meeting in Washington
27:11
Speaker 14: as they near the end of their ten day cease fire.
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Speaker 14: So a lot hanging in the balance at the moment.
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Speaker 14: It seems Donald Trump wants this over as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we'll talk about the midterms now. And there's been
27:21
Speaker 2: a couple of pots, the Virginia thing in a second,
27:23
Speaker 2: but the couple of poles I've seen overnight not great
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Speaker 2: for Trump.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's not looking good for Donald Trump. I mean
27:29
Speaker 14: across the board. I think his approval rating at the
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Speaker 14: moments around thirty six percent. There was a new poll
27:34
Speaker 14: out yesterday that showed two thirds or sixty seven percent
27:38
Speaker 14: of people disapprove of his handling of the war. So
27:41
Speaker 14: he's in a lot of trouble. It has to be said,
27:43
Speaker 14: six months out from the midterms, and there are early
27:45
Speaker 14: signs ryan of what the midterm elections might be looking
27:49
Speaker 14: like for the Republicans. Now, remember these are the elections
27:52
Speaker 14: that decide who controls the House and the Senate, and
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Speaker 14: in many ways they decide how much power Donald Trump
27:57
Speaker 14: will have for his final two years in office. Now,
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Speaker 14: throughout the country, Republicans and demor Democrats have been battling
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Speaker 14: over our district maps in each state, trying to redraw
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Speaker 14: the voting boundaries in favor of their own parties. And
28:09
Speaker 14: last night in Virginia, the Democrats scored a major victory.
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Speaker 14: Voters choose are chose to favor the Democrat drawn map
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Speaker 14: that could see them pick up four more seats in November.
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Speaker 14: Now that's important because the Republican majority in the House
28:22
Speaker 14: is very slim and four more seats could tip the
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Speaker 14: Democrats into power, which would be very bad news for
28:28
Speaker 14: Donald Trump. So I think it's possibly a sign of
28:32
Speaker 14: things to come. People starting to turn against the Republicans
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Speaker 14: and the President.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as you say, only needs to flip three seats
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Speaker 2: in the House, and they've got it and saw the
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Speaker 2: economist yesterday was putting them about a ninety five percent
28:42
Speaker 2: chance of them doing that. The Senate's a bit harder,
28:44
Speaker 2: as you say, eleven minutes away from six best. Miss
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Speaker 2: McCann state side for us in a nick Legate Now
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Speaker 2: Infrastructure New Zealand CEO, because big change is on the
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Speaker 2: way to how we do infrastructure oversight of the big
28:55
Speaker 2: mega projects, the billion dollar mega projects. Treasury is out,
28:59
Speaker 2: the Infrastruction Actual Commission is then Nick leg gets here
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Speaker 2: this morning. Get a Nick.
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Speaker 15: Well, you make it sound very interesting, Ryan, It is
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Speaker 15: interesting to those of.
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Speaker 8: Us that follow infrastructure. And but it's not a big
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Speaker 8: bang reform. It's one of those really important, thoughtful changes
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Speaker 8: that Chris Bishop has done over time in his in
29:21
Speaker 8: his tenure as Minister for Infrastructure.
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Speaker 15: And as you say, it.
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Speaker 8: Takes the assurance function. So why are we building these
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Speaker 8: big projects? But more importantly how we're building them? Are
29:32
Speaker 8: they are these Crown funded projects done right? Do they
29:36
Speaker 8: have the right business cases? Is the advice the ministers
29:40
Speaker 8: what they need? And I was at the Infrastructure Commission
29:44
Speaker 8: symposium is today where Chris Bishop announced this, and he
29:49
Speaker 8: said that ministers could get thousands of pages, but it
29:52
Speaker 8: doesn't actually out of information.
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Speaker 15: But that doesn't actually tell them what they need to know.
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Speaker 8: So the Infrastructure Commission's been around now for five years.
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Speaker 8: It's done a lot of them, a lot of assessments
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Speaker 8: of our infrastructure challenges, that gap we've got between what
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Speaker 8: we need and how much we invest.
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Speaker 15: It's now got some real teeth that's going.
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Speaker 2: To be able to assess the product. It sounds great,
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Speaker 2: but why are we to trust Boffins at a new
30:18
Speaker 2: infrastructure Commission if we can't trust them at Treasury. I
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Speaker 2: mean it, Boffin's not just Boffins.
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Speaker 8: Well, if you think about it, the clues in the
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Speaker 8: name right Infrastructure Commission. Its focus is on infrastructure, maintaining
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Speaker 8: what we've already got and the expertise that they've built
30:37
Speaker 8: up there across infrastructure and understanding what New Zealand needs
30:43
Speaker 8: from it. Now, we pay too much for infrastructure. The
30:47
Speaker 8: value we get from every dollar we spend isn't about
30:49
Speaker 8: the bottom ten percent of the world, which is horrific when.
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Speaker 15: You think about it.
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Speaker 8: Because we're a small country. We spend enough, but we
30:57
Speaker 8: don't have an efficient spend and that is partly because
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Speaker 8: we of every part of the infrastructure process.
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Speaker 15: And it starts with the people that decide, you know,
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Speaker 15: what we're going.
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Speaker 8: To build and how much we're going to spend and
31:13
Speaker 8: how we're going to find it.
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Speaker 15: And that's you know that those people across government. So
31:16
Speaker 15: this is really significant.
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Speaker 8: It's a it's a long term sort of drive to
31:23
Speaker 8: get a better result from how much we spend and
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Speaker 8: what we spend it on?
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Speaker 2: All right, Nick Legget Infrastruction, Zeen and CEO. Time is
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Speaker 2: eight to six news Talks THEREB right next get ahead.
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Speaker 1: Of the headlines on early edition with Ryan Bridge and
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Speaker 2: new Zellen company, of course. And Mike is in the studio.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike, Greetings Ryan. Do you know what I
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Speaker 2: haven't mentioned once this morning?
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Speaker 14: Me?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Second thing I haven't mentioned once this morning what
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Speaker 2: the National Party and chamozzle?
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Speaker 16: Well that was the plan, wasn't The plan was that
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Speaker 16: Luxeon put it to bed. And I was very pleased
32:21
Speaker 16: to see him yesterday saying if you have these are
32:23
Speaker 16: the only questions you got, I'm moving on and walked
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Speaker 16: away and good on. Do you know no one handles
32:28
Speaker 16: the media better than Donald Trump in terms of walking away.
32:31
Speaker 16: So lux and should look at that and go, you
32:33
Speaker 16: don't want to bye.
32:34
Speaker 2: Bye and just keep walking. And so does Winston one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent. That's true. So are you going to talk
32:39
Speaker 2: about it today? Have you merilled yourself?
32:45
Speaker 15: No?
32:46
Speaker 2: That's like, Joseph, are you going? Who are you going
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Speaker 2: to to fame today? I'm not haven't famed you? Just
32:53
Speaker 2: to famed me. I hadn't famed anybody. I Joseph mooney,
32:58
Speaker 2: are you going to talk to him? He wants a word? Well,
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Speaker 2: they all we invited them all on the program. Oh
33:02
Speaker 2: so that wasn't true. They said they are where they
33:05
Speaker 2: never asked. We invited them all on the program.
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Speaker 16: They well wrote back and they said don't want to
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Speaker 16: come on and got nothing more to say, which is fine.
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Speaker 16: They don't have to, you know, and bye to them
33:11
Speaker 16: again yesterday and they all said, no, I don't want
33:13
Speaker 16: to talk. I don't care anyway. So Joseph's goes he
33:16
Speaker 16: does want a word. Oh good, But then he rang
33:18
Speaker 16: up last night and said I don't want a word.
33:20
Speaker 16: Oh no, and so but then apparently old Andy convinced
33:23
Speaker 16: him to have a word. So he's coming on this morning,
33:25
Speaker 16: so maybe he comes on, maybe he doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Good Old and Andy's does a great job. Andy's a
33:28
Speaker 2: great okay, So so he'll be and he'll be on today.
33:31
Speaker 2: He'll be on today. Good allegate. Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He rang up last night. I didn't want to be on.
33:35
Speaker 2: So I don't know what the matter with these people is,
33:36
Speaker 2: never want to come on or they don't want to
33:38
Speaker 2: come on. Don't complain and they're not come on.
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Speaker 16: Couldn't agree more. I'm more than happy to have a
33:41
Speaker 16: word with them. So anyway, it could be could be
33:44
Speaker 16: Mooney and hosking at dawn with Diggers.
33:46
Speaker 2: I don't know. And if he doesn't turn up, just
33:49
Speaker 2: to fame him, no, you see, well what would you do? See,
33:54
Speaker 2: I've got my sources right, and so I guess I
33:57
Speaker 2: could go my sources are you're sounding dangerously like a journalists.
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Speaker 16: My sources, but my sources, I could go. These are
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Speaker 16: my sources. And at this point people are going SEEZ
34:07
Speaker 16: you know, So I don't know what to do. I'm
34:09
Speaker 16: eating the sandwich Riley sauce. I like barbecue and tomato.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, so it could be fun this morning, fantastic have
34:15
Speaker 2: a great day to see tomorrow.
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