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Full Show Podcast: 02 December 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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  Speaker 1: early edition with our the Supercenter explore our the successories
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  Speaker 1: and servicing more than one news talks. They'd be good morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, six after five. We'll look at the rates
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  Speaker 2: cap before six this morning. Leslie's in Australia for US
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  Speaker 2: the International Convention Center. Just how international is it really?
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  Speaker 2: We'll ask the question plus more Key Wes reckon they
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  Speaker 2: can buy a house than they did a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: But where.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda?
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  Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, the two of December. The UK Budget
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  Speaker 2: Office about as dumb as the budget that they accidentally
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  Speaker 2: released last week.
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  Speaker 3: It was to do with using atensially a piece of
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  Speaker 3: software and I think the analogy is drawn here that
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  Speaker 3: would be more suitable for a small or medium sized
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  Speaker 3: enterprise than a major government that may have made some
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  Speaker 3: sense in termas of your independence, but made little sense
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  Speaker 3: and centers. The critical security of the data involves.
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  Speaker 2: Whoop see Meanwhile, Starmer's been accused of hyping up a
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  Speaker 2: fiscal crisis to pay for new welfare programs, blaming a
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  Speaker 2: black hole that actually didn't really exist.
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  Speaker 4: There was no br productivity review. The result of that
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  Speaker 4: was there was sixteen billion pounds less than we might
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  Speaker 4: otherwise have had. So we had, on the one hand,
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  Speaker 4: sixteen billion pounds less than we might otherwise have had.
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  Speaker 4: We had clear commitments that we'd made throughout the process
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  Speaker 4: as to what it was we were going to achieve. Therefore,
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  Speaker 4: against that backdrop, it was inevitable that we would always
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  Speaker 4: have to raise revenue. So there's no misleading.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we get, we get. We get explaining as losing
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  Speaker 2: in politics. And that sounded a hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: like explaining, didn't it. Let's go to the US where
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  Speaker 2: lawmakers demanding answers this over the strikes on the Venezuelan
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  Speaker 2: drug votes. Washington Post reported that there was a follow
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  Speaker 2: up strike ordered to kill the survivors of an initial strike.
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  Speaker 5: He said he.
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  Speaker 1: Did not want them.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't even know what people were talking about. So
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  Speaker 5: we'll look at we'll look into it. But no, I
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't have wanted that a second strike. The first strike
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  Speaker 5: is very lethal.
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  Speaker 2: It was fine to the movies. Disney's Zootopia two has
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  Speaker 2: gone gang buses at the box office, proof we still
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  Speaker 2: love the cinema.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, do you think we're a good ten?
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  Speaker 6: Of course, az.
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  Speaker 7: I just wish I knew what we had to do
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  Speaker 7: to prove it to everyone else.
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  Speaker 2: Betured the perimeter, snoop a little behind.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, bebout no snake? Has that put in Utopia in
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  Speaker 1: for Raver?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Massive? So five hundred and half a billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: worldwide since opening, the biggest international opening for an animated
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  Speaker 2: film ever and the fourth biggest global debut of any movie.
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  Speaker 2: Who would have.
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  Speaker 1: Thought Ryan Bridge on earlier edition with r VS Supercenter
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  Speaker 1: explore r V successor Reason servicing all in one news talks.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be used talks. Heb it's nine minutes after five,
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  Speaker 2: nine ninety two is the numbered text. Great to have
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  Speaker 2: your company this morning. Do flip me a message, love
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  Speaker 2: to hear from you. I'll get to the Mackenzie has
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  Speaker 2: just handed me the most ridiculous story about Bacon. I'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that in a second. I can't resist. But
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  Speaker 2: housing and buying your first house, getting on the property ladder.
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  Speaker 2: We had a report from ASB yesterday. We've got another
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  Speaker 2: one today. This one's from Kiwi Bank, basically saying the
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  Speaker 2: Kiwi dream of owning a property is alive and well
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  Speaker 2: and there's no surprise in that. But what is interesting
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  Speaker 2: is the number of kiwi's of renters who now feel
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  Speaker 2: that they are able to get on too, or at
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  Speaker 2: least that they're not locked out of the property market,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's not an impossible thing. Hard, yes, impossible. No,
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  Speaker 2: So fifty seven percent of non owners feel locked out
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  Speaker 2: of the property market, and that still sounds a bit bad,
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  Speaker 2: but it's actually an improvement of six percent on last year.
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  Speaker 2: And this stands to reason prices are coming down. People
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  Speaker 2: feel that they can afford a house, which is actually
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  Speaker 2: a good thing because in society, and here I sound
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  Speaker 2: like I'm lecturing you, but this this is true of
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  Speaker 2: any society if people don't feel like they can have
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  Speaker 2: a stake in it, if they Judith Collins talks quite
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  Speaker 2: eloquently about this, more eloquently than I could. If you
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  Speaker 2: don't feel like you can get on the property ladder,
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  Speaker 2: like you can buy a piece of the land and
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  Speaker 2: the society you live in, then you go to hell
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  Speaker 2: in a hand basket. No one has buy and you
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  Speaker 2: basically end up worth the guillotines. Right. So this is important,
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  Speaker 2: and what this tells us is that price is coming
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  Speaker 2: down means that people feel like they can get on
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  Speaker 2: the ladder. They have a shot, they have a chance,
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  Speaker 2: and more people this year feel they have a shot
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  Speaker 2: than last year. That's a good thing. That's a great thing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what is interesting about these numbers that have come out
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  Speaker 2: this morning is the fact that people are willing to
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  Speaker 2: give up a few things in order to buy buy
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  Speaker 2: a house. Yes, I'm willing to cut my cloth. I'm
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  Speaker 2: willing to cut some expenses. Seventy percent of people said
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  Speaker 2: they were willing to move to a different area to
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  Speaker 2: buy a house, which I think is fascinating. If you're
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  Speaker 2: a first home buyer, you're willing to move town or
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  Speaker 2: city to buy a house or buy a house in
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  Speaker 2: another town is city which maybe you don't live in.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that is a good sign. It
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  Speaker 2: is a healthy sign. It means people. The only thing
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  Speaker 2: in this that I think is bad is that people
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  Speaker 2: aren't willing to compromise on size. Now, when I bought
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  Speaker 2: my first house, it was tiny. I'm talking teeny tiny,
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  Speaker 2: like forty something square meters. I mean I could barely
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  Speaker 2: fit in it. I'm quite a tall person, and I
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  Speaker 2: could probably from head to toe, lie down in the
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  Speaker 2: floor in the bedroom and go from wall to wall
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  Speaker 2: that's how small it was. But you've got to do
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  Speaker 2: these things. That's just what you've got to do. If you,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you want where there's a world, there's
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  Speaker 2: a way, I think is the point. And if you
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  Speaker 2: really want to get something, if you're really determined and
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  Speaker 2: it is your dream and it is your goal, you
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  Speaker 2: can make it happen. Bright and Bread read five twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Now the bacon story. We've got to get to this.
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  Speaker 2: So smelling bacon. This is embargoed until five am, so
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  Speaker 2: we're twelve minutes into being able to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: I know, smelling bacon in the womb is lenked to
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  Speaker 2: a high risk of adult obesity. Is this for real?
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  Speaker 2: It's a study. According a study on mice, the smell
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  Speaker 2: of fatty foods during pregnancy might put babies at higher
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  Speaker 2: risk of obesity later in life. This is according to
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  Speaker 2: overseas research. Scientists fed two groups of pregnant mice the
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  Speaker 2: same healthy diet, but added artificial bacon flavor to the
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  Speaker 2: food of one group, knowing that the bacon smell molecules
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  Speaker 2: would reach the pups through the liquid in the womb.
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  Speaker 2: The mice that were exposed to fatty food fatty smells
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  Speaker 2: of foods, used up less energy, gain more weight, showed
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  Speaker 2: signs of diabetes, and had brain changes linked to obesity.
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  Speaker 2: So be careful what you're cooking around a pregnant woman.
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  Speaker 2: Is the moral of the story. I suppose if we
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  Speaker 2: two believe it. Thirteen after five, we'll took to squirrel
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  Speaker 2: on home ownership.
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  Speaker 1: Next the first word on the News of the Day,
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  Speaker 1: Fairly editioned with Ryan Rich and r V Super Center
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  Speaker 1: explore RV's accessories and servicing more than one, News Talks AB.
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  Speaker 2: Quarter past five and News Talks B. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: how you might be able to save some money on
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  Speaker 2: your car insurance bill. It's a really weird little trick,
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  Speaker 2: but I will tell you just after five point thirty
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Now, building residential building consents, and I stress
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  Speaker 2: residential because non residential ain't looking so good. But residential
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  Speaker 2: building consents we're on the rise for October, especially townhouses.
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  Speaker 2: Non residential consents unfortunately in decline, and they reckon building
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  Speaker 2: can work. Residential building will pick up next year, which
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  Speaker 2: is long overdue, isn't it. It's quarter past five, Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Bridge More renters reckon they have a shot at buying
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  Speaker 2: a home of their own. Kibank's latest housing report out
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  Speaker 2: this morning, fifty seven percent of non owners feel lockdown
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  Speaker 2: of the market, which still sounds bad, but actually an
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  Speaker 2: improvement of six percent on last year. The key we
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  Speaker 2: property dream seems to be alive and well. David Cunningham
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  Speaker 2: is with us Chief Squirrel at Squirrel Mortgages. David, good morning, Hi, Ryan,
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  Speaker 2: good good. More that more renters think it's possible.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I think we've got this Goldie locks condition
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  Speaker 8: really for first home Bars and interest strats are down,
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  Speaker 8: so that makes renters think it's better. You know, rents
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  Speaker 8: have come down a little bit, so maybe they're able
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  Speaker 8: to save a bit more if they're getting the benefit
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  Speaker 8: of a lower rent. You know, your key with Saber
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  Speaker 8: balance has gone up quite a bit, so your deposits
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  Speaker 8: getting easier. There's heats of choice out there, properly price
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  Speaker 8: to fullum. There's heats of choice and there's not a
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  Speaker 8: lot of competition, So we call it a Goldilocks time
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  Speaker 8: for first time buys. It's been that way for a
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  Speaker 8: year and it's you know, it looks like at least
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  Speaker 8: another year of that where there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 8: competition for first time by so I'm not surprised to
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  Speaker 8: see more people saying that it's possible. But there is
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  Speaker 8: this cohort of New Zealanders for whom it's sort of
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  Speaker 8: the dream that's probably not going to happen, you know,
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  Speaker 8: generally related to much lower income.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but that that problem has always existed, hasn't it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's certainly gotten worse over the last decade
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  Speaker 2: or two, but it's a yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean there's always been about
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  Speaker 8: sixty five percent home ownership in New Zealander. You know,
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  Speaker 8: it's going up and down a little bit over time,
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  Speaker 8: but it's generally about two thirds of New Zealanders get
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  Speaker 8: to own their own home, and it's been that way
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  Speaker 8: for fifty to seventy five years. To be honest, what.
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  Speaker 2: Did you say, Because you're obviously at Squirrel Mortgage is
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a lot of first home buyers, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of home buyers. This textas says Ryan, No, you're wrong
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  Speaker 2: about half of under thirties in this country will never
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  Speaker 2: own a house. The bird has flowing. Talking it up
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  Speaker 2: won't help them. I'm afraid how much of this do
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  Speaker 2: you think just personally comes down to like attitude. I
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  Speaker 2: know that sounds almost like gas lighting. Because some people
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  Speaker 2: can't afford to buy a house. I get that, But
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  Speaker 2: for others they can, they just don't think they can.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, look to the honest. I respect you know what
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  Speaker 8: your listeners said. But to be honest, it is easier
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  Speaker 8: now than it was. When I bought my house in
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  Speaker 8: nineteen ninety. I paid one hundred and fifty thousand. I
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  Speaker 8: had say, fifteen thousand, which was at that time a
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  Speaker 8: lot of mone the bank of Mom and Dad good
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  Speaker 8: our banker. Mom and Dad chipped in fifteen thousand, and
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  Speaker 8: my payments were seven hundred bucks a week. Today that
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  Speaker 8: would be two thousand, two hundred bucks. But today that
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  Speaker 8: same average mortgage seven hundred thousand dollar house one hundred
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  Speaker 8: and forty thousand dollars mortgage is the equivalent is a
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  Speaker 8: one thousand and four to three six. So you know,
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  Speaker 8: it's actually significantly cheaper now than it has been for
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  Speaker 8: a long Cynaney compared back then. So you know, us
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  Speaker 8: old guy said it tough, you know, you could say,
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  Speaker 8: but in reality, if you've got the motivation, you've got Kiwisaver,
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  Speaker 8: which has been an absolute game changer almost every first
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  Speaker 8: term by uses kiwisaver, they wouldcraw forty three thousand dollars
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  Speaker 8: per person. Last year there were forty thousand people that
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  Speaker 8: did that, so it's it's actually been the enabler. So
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  Speaker 8: it is within the reach of more people, perhaps than
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  Speaker 8: so a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: David, appreciate your time this morning. David Cunningham from Squirrel
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  Speaker 2: mortgagees time is five nineteen News Talk.
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  Speaker 1: Said big get ahead of the headlines on early edition
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  Speaker 1: with Brian Bridge and are the super explore our VSE,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be five twenty one. We'll get to Australia with
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  Speaker 2: our correspondent just after five thirty this morning. Here, after
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  Speaker 2: years of building delays and one raging fire, finally we've
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  Speaker 2: got an opening date for the new International Convention Center
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  Speaker 2: in Auckland, eleventh February. Doors will open. Preue Deally, is
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  Speaker 2: general manager for the convention Center, joins me this morning. Morning.
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  Speaker 9: Preue, Good morning Ryan, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you. One hundred and twenty one events
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  Speaker 2: already for twenty twenty six on the on the calendar.
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  Speaker 2: What interested to know what proportion of those are local?
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  Speaker 2: Versus international.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, so we estimate that you know, each year, about
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  Speaker 9: thirty percent of the number of events that we're going
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  Speaker 9: to do will be international. We're hoping that it'll be more,
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  Speaker 9: but as you can imagine, we've still got lots of
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  Speaker 9: events coming in and the team we're working on converting
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  Speaker 9: those every single day. So for us at the moment,
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  Speaker 9: where we're looking toward targeting about thirty percent and that
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  Speaker 9: will equate to about thirty three thousand new international visitors
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  Speaker 9: that will is it.
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  Speaker 8: We'll visit New.
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  Speaker 9: Zealand and Auckland every year and that will look to
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  Speaker 9: bring about ninety million dollars of economic impact to the
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  Speaker 9: city and the country.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what you're forecasting. And is that what you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing with the events that you've got booked so far?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah? Absolutely, I mean for twenty twenty six out of
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  Speaker 9: one hundred and twenty one, we do have some great
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  Speaker 9: international congresses already concerned. A good example of one of
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  Speaker 9: those is the Coral Reef Symposium, which is coming in July.
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  Speaker 9: That's seeing two thousand people come for a conference for
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  Speaker 9: four days. That alone is around five million dollars of
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  Speaker 9: economic impact. And that's just one of the ones that
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  Speaker 9: we've got coming for next year, and a few more
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  Speaker 9: to announce shortly, seeing too.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, brilliant How many are coming here specifically because of
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  Speaker 2: the venue, like they would you know that they wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have happened anyway, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, I mean that's all that international business Ryan.
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  Speaker 9: You know, a lot of them wouldn't have been able
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  Speaker 9: to come to New Zealand without this convention center of
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  Speaker 9: scale and being able to who you know, hold these
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  Speaker 9: conferences as sort of fifteen hundred and two thousand people.
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  Speaker 9: So at the moment, you know, we've got a handful
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  Speaker 9: of those that are sitting around those numbers for the
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  Speaker 9: next few years, and quite a solid pipeline that we're
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  Speaker 9: working on to convert because we've got inquiries all the
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  Speaker 9: way out unto twenty thirty two at the moment for
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  Speaker 9: these big congresses. So the team are working really hard
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  Speaker 9: on making sure that we can we can bring them
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  Speaker 9: to the country.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people out there listening who
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  Speaker 2: need a job. Job market's been tough. How many jobs
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  Speaker 2: are you looking to put on and the next we are.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, good question. We are actually soon to be going
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  Speaker 9: out with a recruitment drive for our casual workforce. So
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  Speaker 9: these are our people on the ground that will be
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  Speaker 9: welcoming our visitors into the building. It might be showing
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  Speaker 9: them to their seats in the theater, it might be
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  Speaker 9: serving them a cup of coffee or their morning tea.
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  Speaker 9: We're going to kick off with about three hundred people
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  Speaker 9: that we need to find for positions, and then once
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  Speaker 9: we get up and firing, we estimate that that could
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  Speaker 9: go up to about five hundred people. So we are
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  Speaker 9: on the hunts for great kiwis to come and help us,
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  Speaker 9: you know, showcase this building to the world.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant prude, nice to have you on the show. Proudally
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  Speaker 2: general manager for the International Convention Center. So we need
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  Speaker 2: some nice, smiley, happy welcoming people. No ninja's need apply.
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  Speaker 1: The early edition full show podcast on IHART Radio. How
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  Speaker 2: News TALKSB it is five twenty six. This rates cap
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  Speaker 2: popular politics, no doubt about it, and local government needs
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  Speaker 2: a good cack in the pants. We all know that.
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  Speaker 2: also in some places. And the reality is, I think
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  Speaker 2: that no ratepayer will feel like they're getting a better
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: deal post cap band. The question is whether this is
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: a reason not to do it, of course, and the
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: answer is probably not. But it should come with tempered
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: expectations that we won't feel fleeced when the council emails
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: those pesky quarterly rates bills to us, or worse, still
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: charges you for sending a hard copy by.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Snale mail by.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Eight minutes after five News Talk ZVB. We'll talk to
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Andrew a little about that. Actually I can tell you
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: because it's all about Andrew and it's all about Wellington.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: The press conference yesterday, have a listened to this, think
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: about some.
• 16:50
  Speaker 9: Of the dumb stuff that's happened here in Wellington.
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: We've had a classic, you know, a two million.
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: Dollar plus public toilet block with a light show for
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: goodness sake, I mean we have jumped the shark at
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: that point in time.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: The disco Lewin Wellington got a lot of attention in
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the press conference. Yes, today we'll talk to Andrew Little
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: about that and what are they going to do with
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: their little sneaky fees. That's coming up before six this morning.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Leslie Yeoman is in Australia. By the way, in Australia,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: they had a terrible time on the AAX, quite an
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: embarrassing outage. You think the UK government budget blunder was bad.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: They obviously released quite sensitive information while they've had to
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: stop that because of an outage and it's affecting New Zealand. Two.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: More on that.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter explore are these
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: accessories and servicing? Paul than One News Talk said, be.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Twenty four away six on news Talk Sai'd be great
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: to have you on this Tuesday morning. Coming up before six,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: the rates cap. How's poor old Wellington and cope without
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: more disco dunnies, you know, the toilets that light up
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: like Christmas trees. Will ask the mayor. Also, we'll go
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: to Australia correspondent lots to talk about the AX had
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: a glitch yesterday, a technical problem, and fifty companies had
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: to be put in a trading hole. There are sensitive information,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: you know, market information that they released couldn't get out
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: because of this technical problem, and the investors called it
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: a very embarrassing mistake, one that's been plaguing them for
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a while. And the big problem is that if you
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: had dual listed companies on the z X and the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: ASEX and they were releasing information, they still have to
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: release it in New Zealand, but couldn't necessarily release it
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: in Australia. So that causes a big problem, big headache
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: for them. Now I told you I would give you
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a little hot tip on how you can save money
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: on your car insurance. And this is again this has
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: come from Australia. It feels a little bit like we're
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: doing Australian news today, but here it is. So an
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Aussie driver gets finds a bit of a loophole, goes
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: for insurance with NRMA, which is an insurance company over there,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and just for fun, techs this guy's ben is twenty
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: two years old, puts his details in and just for fun,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: just to see what happens, ticks non binary instead of
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: mail when it comes to gender, and the car insurance
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: quote drops by eight hundred bucks a year if you
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: tick the non binary box. So the question is our
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: non binary driver is safer and the answer is, well,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: there's no evidence to say that they are or they aren't.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: This is interesting because then a radio station picks it
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: up over there two GBBN Fordham and Sydney and says, look,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: this is a bit ridiculous, asks the insurance company, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: they say, well, it's not discrimination against males or because
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: it's also non binary cheaper than female. So the non
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: binary was cheaper than male and female drivers. They say,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: we're not discriminating against anybody, it's just our policies. So
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you'd pay two and a half grand for a male,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: you pay two thousand odds for a female, and you'd
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: pay seventeen hundred bucks for a non binary. How does
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: that work? They say, we consider there are a number
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: of factors when determining the premium for car insurance. Okay,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: there you go. So next time you're taking boxes and
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: you're paying for stuff, who's to know? Crayan Bridge twenty
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: two away from six our reporters now come and Toned
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and Collen. Good morning wedding. Right you've got to clean
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: up commitment at t y point.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. So Rio Tinto is putting fifteen million
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: dollars into its new facility or a new facility that
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: will process spent cell liner. This is the hazardous by
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: product of aluminium production there. So this marks a bit
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: of a major milestone in their cleanup commitments. Remember Rio
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Tinto's twenty twenty one apology over how smelter waste was managed.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: The acting general manager, Matt Blax told the ODT here
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: processing the material on site is a milestone for.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Them delivering on their remediation commitments.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: He says it means less waste, better environmental outcomes, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: say for handling the projects expected to create twenty construction
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: jobs and six permanent roles.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather.
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: It's a weekday here today, rain the shells this afternoon,
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: some possibly heavy the high fifty.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you by the way. Over in the UK, the
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Office of Budget Responsibility Chair has just resigned over that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: blunder with the budget. Clear Shewoard in christ Church. Clear,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: good morning, Good morning. So speaking of blunders, a couple
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of dodgy school lunches, is anyone sick?
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: A couple of dodgy school lunches. Some dodgy school lunches
• 21:24
  Speaker 12: indeed handed out at Highata Community Campus yesterday, Ryan. This
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: is the school that was previously known as Danui Hi.
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: For those who are wondering, basically what happened is the
• 21:34
  Speaker 12: school lunches arrived, they were boxed up, they were handed
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: out to kids who then went and sat down. It
• 21:38
  Speaker 12: was a teacher who then went to tuck into one
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: of the leftovers, remembering that the government wants the leftovers eaten,
• 21:43
  Speaker 12: and they found that it was furry with mild It
• 21:46
  Speaker 12: was liquefied and many children had already consumed this by
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: the time the school called them back. Now, while the principal,
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: Peeky Burrow, says they have had issues with lunches before,
• 21:56
  Speaker 12: she describes this as catastrophic, totally unacceptable. It says they
• 22:00
  Speaker 12: have no six children at the moment, but they are
• 22:03
  Speaker 12: watching and sending warnings home to families about the signs
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: of food poisoning. The school Lunch Collective says it's now
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: working with High UNTA and the MPI following this incident.
• 22:13
  Speaker 12: It says it takes pride in food quality and knows
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: this is something that can't be compromised. It will provide
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: more details as they come to hand.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Did she really describe it as catastrophic?
• 22:23
  Speaker 12: She said catastrophic indeed, But no one's sick yet.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: But it's not yet, all right. How's the weather?
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: First I of the cricket at Hagley Oval and we're
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: hoping that scattered rain will be minimal if anything. Easterly
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: is turning southwest and a high of twenty.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you, Clear Max and Wellington Morning Max Morning.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: The pull up record being set by a council staffer.
• 22:44
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so a bit of a heartwarming story here. You
• 22:47
  Speaker 13: wouldn't have pegged the Wellington City Council team manager as
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: a potential world record holder fitness freak, but yeah, Josh
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: Harding decided at the start of the year he wanted
• 22:56
  Speaker 13: to beat four thousand odd pull ups in seventeen hours.
• 23:00
  Speaker 13: Pull Ups, I'm sure everyone knows what they are. You
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: grab a horizontal bar above your head and lift up
• 23:04
  Speaker 13: and down. So at his local gym at Potty Doo,
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: he set about to the task of the weekend. His
• 23:11
  Speaker 13: goal was sort of get through the first two thousand
• 23:14
  Speaker 13: or so by doing one every five seconds, and then
• 23:17
  Speaker 13: naturally slowed down a little bit, got a little tougher,
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: a little tougher. This is a guy who gets up
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: at four am to do three hours of this stuff
• 23:23
  Speaker 13: in the morning before work the gym again seven pm
• 23:27
  Speaker 13: till eleven. Not every day. I'm sure he has a
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: seven year old son. Anyway, over the weekend, the forty
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: one year old five am till nine pm, he did
• 23:34
  Speaker 13: manage the target in fifteen and a half hours, four
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: thousand pull ups. His son was there, his girlfriend apparently
• 23:40
  Speaker 13: he almost fainted later. Now he only has vague memories
• 23:43
  Speaker 13: of the day, like he was really drunk or something.
• 23:46
  Speaker 13: His whole body went numb. Anyway, he's raised thousands for November.
• 23:50
  Speaker 13: No plans though to repeat the record or the top.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It good on him, I thought when I saw the photo,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: because I looked at the photo of him, and I thought,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I think she thought he would have been more ripped.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: To be honest, a disappointing physique.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Hey how's your weather clearing to find strong northerlies? Nineteen
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: thank you and Neva's good morning, Neva.
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Grape mind thinker like I didn't see that photo, and
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: as Mix was telling the story, I thought, this guy
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: must be ripped.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: And Adonis, you were passing. Now, good on in those
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: raise some money for amazing, isn't it? It is? But
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: imagine spending three hours every morning, I mean, no one
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of the council workers get nothing done, no exhausted.
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: You should be listening to us. And could he stop
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: for breakes to eat or not?
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Really?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: You know he did?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: He did. He had stopped and carbo loaded and had
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: some sugar and stuff like that. Hey in Auckland there
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: seven point nine rates rise next year.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so this would re united.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yell for a train we won't use.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: That's right there, five point five billion dollar city rail
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: link when it opens with passengers. And remember last week
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: when they said that it's not it's going to be opening.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: You know later we knew that would happen, like in
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: the second half of the year. I thought, shivers, we
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: won't even be around.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Will we.
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: So the increase will cover the two hundred and thirty
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: five million dollar operating cost of this rail service underground
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: rail service. And this is the largest rate rise since
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: Aalkland Council was formed in twenty ten. So this means
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: that the annual rates for the average household there go
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: to climb from around four thousand dollars to more than
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: four thousand, three hundred, so it's the weekly cost of
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: eighty three dollars and then after next year rates is
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: set to rise by three point five percent each year.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: As we know, how's our Christmas?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas? How's our weather?
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Never butley cloudy shower is possibly heavy? What else could
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: go right for us? I have twenty five though, thank you.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Sixteen away from Sex News Talk SEB Morning.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Ryan.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: My theory on house prices this is on the council
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: rating is that they will just change the way so
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: they can't cap the increase. They'll just change the way
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that they charge you. They'll increase your values and get
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: you that way. That's a question for the government this morning,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: isn't it. It's sixteen to two Sex News Talk SEBB
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: thirteen to six. We'll get to Andrew Little on the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: rates cap in just a second. But a little update
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: for you. This is the Centrics credit indicator and sow
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: some encouraging signs. This is for November. We are as
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: consumers demanding more credit. That means we're going to spend more.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: That is a good thing. So consumer credit demand is
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: up four point eight percent year on year. Personal loan
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: demand is up. This is ahead of Black Friday as well.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: New household lending up thirteen point two percent year on year.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Consumer arears that is trending in the right direction. Only
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: eleven point eighty three percent of the credit active population
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: in areas. That is the lowest level in two years.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: The only thing to watch here as company liquidations. They
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: are up. In fact that October was the highest monthly
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: number of liquidation since twenty eleven. That is always one
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: of the lagging indicators, isn't It's thirteen away from.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Six International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: There's the yeomens Our Australia correspondent joins us this morning, Lizida,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Good morning, morning Ryan. Four people arrested in Sydney. This
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: is a accused of being involved in a satanic child
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: six abuse ring.
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah, really unpleasant story. These four people, including a former
• 27:12
  Speaker 14: swim coach and another person who describes himself as an
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: independent journalist. They were arrested across Sydney late last week.
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: They've appeared in jail in court rather and are in
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: prison awaiting a trial in January when they'll next appear.
• 27:32
  Speaker 14: Now what happened was they're accused of having this material
• 27:37
  Speaker 14: and distributing it, but they're not actually accused of making
• 27:42
  Speaker 14: it or producing it. Three of the people are aged
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: between thirty nine and forty six. The fourth one who
• 27:48
  Speaker 14: describes himself as a journalist, he's a twenty six year
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: old man by the name of Landon Graminata Mills, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: he's said to be the leader of this group. His
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: basically his media or website is called the Underground Media Network.
• 28:08
  Speaker 14: Now I've never heard about it, and I think a
• 28:10
  Speaker 14: lot of other people haven't, but he's the one that's
• 28:14
  Speaker 14: been accused of being the leader of this group and
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: of distributing and disseminating this very unpleasant material.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: That's horrific. Leslie, thanks for that update, Leslie Yeomans, who's
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: our Australia correspondent. It is eleven away.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: From six Bryan Bridge.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: No more discolues for Wellington or any council. Actually this
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: is what's the rates cap is coming.
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: I want to be clear with counsels that they should
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: not wait for the enactment of the rates capping model
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: before controlling rates increases to their constituents.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The band two to four percent unless you get sign
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: off from a government regulator not included water and other fees.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Andrew Little, as the Wellington mayor joining us this morning,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Good morning Andrew, no more disco lose in the future.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Will you live with that?
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: I thought, well, right now our council is doing the
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: very thing, and the government talked about the line by
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: line review. We're inter the city Council, no doubt, like
• 29:14
  Speaker 11: many others, has to get its financial controls in order
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: and getting spending under control, and that's what we're doing.
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: But in terms of the specialized disabled toilets in Courtney Place,
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: there's a facility that is aimed at providing a facility
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: for some of the most profoundly disabled people who do
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: go to Courtney Plass occasionally.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: So your the cost is this whole thing just misnoma
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: that the cost of it, how much of it was
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: on the lights and the design as opposed to practical
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: things like disability access.
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: Look, I don't know, I wasn't involved in the project.
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: I've inherited it. It's there now. But two things that
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: they were it was aimed to do when was more
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: secure toilets because the ones that were there previously we're
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: the scene of Well it was pretty insecure, pretty unsafe,
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: but also a facility for particularly highly a mobile and
• 30:09
  Speaker 11: disabled people to get extraitute that one of the toilets
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: got a hoist in it, another toilet's got a shower
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: in it when accidents happened. So it provides those facilities
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: very expensive. That is correct, And I don't know why
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: it's got the light show on the front of it,
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: but that's what the previous council approved.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Will there be no more light shows under Andrew level?
• 30:29
  Speaker 11: Well, we're cutting spending and we'll do It's not a no.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: There's not a no.
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: Come on, We're not putting light shows on toilet all right?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Very good and is two to four percent reasonable.
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: The problem with things like that is a lot of
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: a lot of the rates increases in the last few
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: years have been because of decades of underspending or under
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: waiting residents to look after infrastructure. Sits under the ground
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: and that's reality Wellington to the chuncil's borrowed to do
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: a lot of infrastructure, infrastructure upgrades. The reality a lot
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: of that is water that gets shifted off to water
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: entities don not covered by the restriction. So I'll see
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: that how that happens. I think that the main thing
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: is what the governments tapped into is a justified consume
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: with a lot of people seeing their rates going up
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: at an astronomical rate at the same time as only
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: costs as well about rates for counselors. That should do
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: a bit of job at keeping the spinning out of control,
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: and we need to do that, isn't that Christopher?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: All right? We will see how you go. Andrew little
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Wellington Mere. It is eight six News Talk sad been.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Views and Views you trust to start your day. It's
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: early in this ship with Ryan Bridge and are the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: super Center explore are these accessories and servicing fall and
• 31:46
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• 31:47
  Speaker 2: That'd be it's the six News Talks. He'd be Mike
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: in the studio for your Tuesday morning morning. Mike, Greetings
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: Ryan.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Do you think that people will feel like they're not
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: being fleeced by counsels because there's a rates band cap coming.
• 32:00
  Speaker 15: Surprised a bit ever happens to be honest with you,
• 32:02
  Speaker 15: because with something that's announced yesterday, this government has got
• 32:05
  Speaker 15: a pretty election for announcing things that are a little
• 32:08
  Speaker 15: bit further down the track than you might actually want.
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: So the foreign buyer thing, I don't think most people
• 32:13
  Speaker 15: understood that when they announced that that legislation isn't coming
• 32:16
  Speaker 15: to pass until next year. So this isn't coming until
• 32:19
  Speaker 15: twenty twenty nine. Yes, so think about that. That's two
• 32:22
  Speaker 15: elections away. So they've got to win next year and
• 32:25
  Speaker 15: they got to win the following one. So I mean really,
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: and we already know that labor aren't So would you
• 32:30
  Speaker 15: say this is a government that's good for three terms? Possibly?
• 32:34
  Speaker 15: And I suppose one of those things that once you
• 32:35
  Speaker 15: get it and you probably never go back.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: No, you wouldn't, because it's popular.
• 32:40
  Speaker 15: Yeah, but this idea that old old watsae yesterday was
• 32:43
  Speaker 15: going and I want you to start straight away not
• 32:46
  Speaker 15: putting it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And I thought, mate, come on, well, within hours, Wayne
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Brown comes out with almost eight percent.
• 32:50
  Speaker 15: It's not going to work and so that's it, you know,
• 32:52
  Speaker 15: So you got this pushback thing it's kind of interesting
• 32:54
  Speaker 15: with the schools at the moment you see thety thing
• 32:57
  Speaker 15: and all the schools are going, well, you can say
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  Speaker 15: whatever you want, we're not going to do it, and
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  Speaker 15: you'll get the same with councils until they're forced into it.
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  Speaker 2: Same with the bureaucrats.
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  Speaker 15: And the aspect of it is that we don't care
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  Speaker 15: about local body politics. We don't turn up. We've just
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  Speaker 15: had an election, no and turned up. No one can
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  Speaker 15: be involved.
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  Speaker 2: So it's I just think there's so many other levers
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  Speaker 2: they can pull that you can cap them on their
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  Speaker 2: general rates, but then they'll just go, don't do the water,
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  Speaker 2: they'll do the fees. Your dog, Red Joe.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, to be fair to that, that's a that's more
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  Speaker 15: a classic National Party type operation, which is you use
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  Speaker 15: a pay so you'll pay more for your dog if
• 33:28
  Speaker 15: you've got a dog, and you know so if you
• 33:29
  Speaker 15: don't have a dog, you'll have two to four percent
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  Speaker 15: rates caps. So look, well we'll talk to the minister
• 33:33
  Speaker 15: about that this morning. But to be perfect the Frank,
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  Speaker 15: I'm more interested in the netball coup you heard about
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  Speaker 15: the Yes I have the zones The zones are angry,
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  Speaker 15: are turning on turning Old Jenny and Jenny and the boats,
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  Speaker 15: so we'll talk about that as well. And David Williams,
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  Speaker 15: by the way, you love.
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  Speaker 2: You've had him on quite a lot, but he's a regular.
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  Speaker 2: Is he in the country or is he on the line?
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  Speaker 2: Down the line?
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  Speaker 15: Bring them at home. We'll give him a call after eight.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant, great day everyone, See tomorrow.
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