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Full Show Podcast: 10 February 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The issues is the interviews and the insight. Andrew dickens
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  Speaker 1: on the early edition with one roof make your property
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  Speaker 1: search simple, Use Talks.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome morning to you, Welcome to your Monday, Welcome to
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  Speaker 3: the first full five day week of the year. To
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  Speaker 3: brace yourself and the year really starts now on this program.
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  Speaker 3: In the next hour. At a moment, we're off to
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  Speaker 3: America as the Super Bowl takes over New Orleans. It's
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  Speaker 3: Fatifs versus the Eagles. We'll talk about the security, the entertainment,
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  Speaker 3: the halftime adds, and we might even talk about the
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  Speaker 3: game as well. Later, speaking about sport, Andrew Ordison reviews
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  Speaker 3: the sporting weekend, including a new sprinting star making his
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  Speaker 3: entrance and visa changes are on the way to entice
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  Speaker 3: wealthy overseas investors, but will they really work? And this
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  Speaker 3: is enough. Simon Bridges from the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.
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  Speaker 3: Just before six, we'll have correspondence from right around the
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  Speaker 3: world and New Zealand and news as it breaks. You
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  Speaker 3: can text me on ninety two to ninety two. Small
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  Speaker 3: charge applies. You can email sis at News Talks here
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  Speaker 3: b dot co dot nz.
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  Speaker 1: It the agenda.
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  Speaker 3: It's Monday, the tenth of February. It is seven minutes
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  Speaker 3: near the eight minutes after five to the Middle Eastern
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  Speaker 3: Israel and Hamas have followed through with their fifth hostage
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  Speaker 3: and prisoner exchange since the seikxfire agreement went into effect.
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  Speaker 3: One hundred and eighty three Palestinian prisoners were released, while
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  Speaker 3: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed shock at the condition
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  Speaker 3: of the three hostages that were released by Hamas. Israel
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  Speaker 3: says that sending a delegation to Doha for the next
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  Speaker 3: phase of six fire talks the problem.
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  Speaker 4: The court says that all the heart issues between Israel's
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  Speaker 4: and Palestinians were pushed off into Phase two and phase three.
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  Speaker 4: And the key question, the hardest question, really is will
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  Speaker 4: the IDF withdraw its forces fully from Gaza.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Donald Trump keeps making news the US President has
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  Speaker 3: signed an executive order freezing financial aid to South Africa.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump says he's bringing in the order because of
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  Speaker 3: South Africa's new land law, which he sees is violating
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  Speaker 3: people's rights, and because of its international court case which
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  Speaker 3: has accused Israel of genocide.
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  Speaker 5: We will not be deterred.
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  Speaker 2: We are as South Africans are resilient people and we
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  Speaker 2: will not be bullied.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, still in America, thousands of employees from the US
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  Speaker 3: Agency for International Development, the AID Agency, will have your
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  Speaker 3: jobs reinstated temporarily after a judge blocked Trump from placing
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  Speaker 3: the workers on paid leave. The judge has ssued a
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  Speaker 3: limited restraining order in response to a last minute lawsuit
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  Speaker 3: filed by two unions trying to save the agency. The
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  Speaker 3: order will remain in place until Valentine's Day, February fourteen.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, a US federal judge has blocked Elon Musk's
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  Speaker 3: Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the personal financial data
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  Speaker 3: of millions of Americans in the Treasury Department records.
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  Speaker 6: Terms that are very sensitive, that are typically controlled by
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  Speaker 6: nonpartisan career bureaucrats, and for good reason, because especially with Treasury,
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  Speaker 6: you know, the consequences here could potentially be vast for
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  Speaker 6: management of the national debt of America defaulting on its debt.
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  Speaker 3: And that takes us to ten after five.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens on affili Edition with one roof Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Property Search Simple, Youth Talk Zibby.
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  Speaker 3: Well the Cook Islands crisis rumbles on, with the Foreign
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  Speaker 3: Minister becoming ever more strident and the Cook Islands Prime
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  Speaker 3: Minister keeping all the details of his China deal close
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  Speaker 3: to his chest, infuriating both Winston Peters and his own people,
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  Speaker 3: the Cook Island people, who are now planning a protest
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  Speaker 3: and asking what on earth are we getting the country
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  Speaker 3: into with China. I had a passing moment of sympathy
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  Speaker 3: for Matt Brown, the Cook Island leader, over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: but it passed rather quickly. He was quoted as saying
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  Speaker 3: that New Zealand never asks the Cook Islands for advice
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  Speaker 3: when we do deals with China, so why should they?
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  Speaker 3: And fairpoint sovereignty in all that, but I think it
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  Speaker 3: ignores the cold hard reality of the Cook Islands position.
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  Speaker 3: They are tiny and they need us. The claim that
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  Speaker 3: they contribute one billion dollars to our economy is fanciful.
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  Speaker 3: They are dependent on New Zealand and Australian tourists. That's
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  Speaker 3: their bread and butter, and we are also the supplier
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  Speaker 3: of their food and services. So when China comes swaggering
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  Speaker 3: in with their gigantic wallets, promising ferries and all sorts
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  Speaker 3: of treasure, it must be very tempting to have some
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  Speaker 3: independence from the meddlesome parents they see us as. But remember,
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  Speaker 3: no gifts ever come for free, and China's aspirations are
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  Speaker 3: very clear, and they play a long game. And when
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  Speaker 3: it comes time for China to collect its chips, they
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  Speaker 3: have a history of collecting them hard. Just Sri Lanka
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  Speaker 3: about their Chinese built ports. And it's also a matter
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  Speaker 3: of timing because while all this is happening, there's news
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  Speaker 3: out of America. President Trump has declared it's time to
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  Speaker 3: take an axe to their international aid grants.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Critics of that move around the world have warned that
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  Speaker 3: China is ready and willing and able to replace that
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  Speaker 3: aid to gain even more influence in the world, and
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  Speaker 3: that Donald Trump is giving them the keys. So maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm being a little paranoid, but China giving substantial aid
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  Speaker 3: to a Pacific island right now, at a time when
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  Speaker 3: America seems to be withdrawing into itself, seems a tad
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  Speaker 3: opportunistic and concerning. Do they really have the Cook Islands
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  Speaker 3: benefit at heart? And so my advice to Mark Brown
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  Speaker 3: is look the Chinese horse in the mouth and maybe
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  Speaker 3: just settle for being the awesome you already are, because
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  Speaker 3: China is nobody's friend. Andrew Dickens, twelve after five. The
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  Speaker 3: other big story, of course, is the changes to the
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  Speaker 3: visas and their quest to restart capital growth. The government
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  Speaker 3: has pushed the immigrant door a little wider open, so
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  Speaker 3: they wish to attract wealthy foreigners to our shores, to
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  Speaker 3: invest in our businesses, to provide more capital in our system,
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  Speaker 3: to fund good ideas and to make them grow. So
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  Speaker 3: from the first of April there be changes to the
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  Speaker 3: active investor plus visa program. Remember these names, we'll be
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  Speaker 3: talking about them all day. There'll be two types of
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  Speaker 3: visas available, one for a higher risk investor and another
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  Speaker 3: for a balanced investor. The higher risk guys need to
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  Speaker 3: invest at least five million dollars for at least three years,
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  Speaker 3: and they have to live in New Zealand for at
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  Speaker 3: least three weeks a year twenty one days. The balance guys, well,
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  Speaker 3: they need to spend ten million over five years. They
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  Speaker 3: need to live here for at least one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: five days a year. Having to learn English is no
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  Speaker 3: longer a requirement but one of the impediments. As you
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  Speaker 3: heard Katherine Richard, the news side to the whole thing
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  Speaker 3: working is the inability of these guys to buy a
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  Speaker 3: house here. So where are they going to live? And
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to change with when some Peter's still
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  Speaker 3: in the whaka. So look, I'm not going to criticize
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  Speaker 3: the scheme right now. Why would I. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: a gift horse, but you need to look at it
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  Speaker 3: in the mouth. As I've said before, the government does
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  Speaker 3: seem overly optimistic that foreign capital is going to stream
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  Speaker 3: in and energize our economy. But we're talking for five
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  Speaker 3: or ten million dollars here. Our economy, meanwhile, has plenty
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  Speaker 3: of high wealth individuals right here New Zealanders, and they
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  Speaker 3: have a spare ten million already, but their money is
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  Speaker 3: not being used to spur productivity and entrepreneurship and invention.
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  Speaker 3: Their money is packed in boats and batches and lifestyle
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  Speaker 3: and capital assets that have always been a pathway in
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  Speaker 3: New Zealand to personal wealth generation. It's not the money
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  Speaker 3: that's the issue, it's the investment opportunities that that money
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  Speaker 3: has to go to. Where are the new Zeros, Where
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  Speaker 3: are the New Fisher and Pikeal health cares? Where are
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  Speaker 3: they getting help right from the ground level to actually start,
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  Speaker 3: and for companies like that to get off the launch
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  Speaker 3: pad needs structural help in our tax system. We've been
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  Speaker 3: talking about that for a couple of weeks with Nikola Willis.
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  Speaker 3: In our R and D funding, which we're cutting. This
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  Speaker 3: scheme doesn't help any of that at all. It's about
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  Speaker 3: the money, but not about the investments. And it also
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  Speaker 3: keeps the government in the business of picking winners, which
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  Speaker 3: something bureaucrats have never got the hang off. So what
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  Speaker 3: do you think you can text me ninety two ninety two?
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  Speaker 3: Is this the new El Dorado. We'll talk about this
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  Speaker 3: with Simon Bridges just before six, But next we're off
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  Speaker 3: to salt to an American broadcaster from Sirius XEM who's
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  Speaker 3: in New Orleans to see the Super Bowl. The full
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  Speaker 3: hype is next on zeb B.
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  Speaker 1: The First Word on the News of the Day Early
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  Speaker 1: Edition with Andrew Dickens and One Room to Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Property Surge and symbol You Talk Zibby.
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  Speaker 3: It's seventeen minutes after five. It's Super Bowl Sunday in
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  Speaker 3: the US. That's Super Bowl Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 3: It all gets underway on TV and ZEB and TV
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  Speaker 3: and ZEB Plus from midday today. The bars are getting
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  Speaker 3: ready for an influx. We love this thing. We've got
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  Speaker 3: the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia Eagles at
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  Speaker 3: Louisiana's super Dome and New Orleans they actually played once
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  Speaker 3: before twenty twenty three. They played the Super Bowl as well,
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  Speaker 3: So one guy wants to keep on winning and the
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  Speaker 3: others want some redemption. As for the highly anticipated halftime show,
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  Speaker 3: it'll be US rap Kendrick Lamar taking the stage fresh
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  Speaker 3: from winning a whole heap of Grammys. And we've got
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  Speaker 3: with me now Ben Harlem. Now Ben as a host
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  Speaker 3: on Syrium x AM, which is a radio service in
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  Speaker 3: the United States. Hollo, Ben, you're a New Orleans.
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  Speaker 7: I am Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: How are you this morning?
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  Speaker 3: I'm really good. What's New Orleans like? It looks like
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  Speaker 3: it's in lockdown. The security is insane.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really crazy. Obviously after what happens here on
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  Speaker 7: New Year's Eve. They've shipped in. There's about three thousand
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  Speaker 7: different officers from police, from Homeland Security. There's helicopters always
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  Speaker 7: going around. With the amount of celebrities. Donald Trump's going
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  Speaker 7: to be here for the game, Like.
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  Speaker 3: Roads are closed.
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  Speaker 7: It's quite crazy in that aspect. It's also very crazy
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  Speaker 7: in terms of the amount of people that are here,
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  Speaker 7: whether they're just for the game, just for a party,
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  Speaker 7: just to try and get in. It's a very different atmosphere.
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  Speaker 7: But people are getting very excited in the last couple
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  Speaker 7: of days, which is good.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can imagine that if I was in America
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  Speaker 3: and New Orleans was only a couple of hours away,
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  Speaker 3: and even if I didn't have a ticket, you just
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  Speaker 3: knew that Bourbon Street was going to go off.
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  Speaker 7: Oh absolutely. I mean every second bar that you look at,
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  Speaker 7: there's a different company putting on a party. There's celebrities
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  Speaker 7: that are going in and out. They say that it
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  Speaker 7: will be about one hundred and twenty five thousand visitors
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  Speaker 7: to New Orleans this week. The hotel demand is up
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  Speaker 7: six hundred percent, which if you consider, like this is
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  Speaker 7: the home of Mardi Gras, this is like a party city,
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  Speaker 7: so for there to be so much extra demand, like
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  Speaker 7: the city is going off this week.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, apparently there's a football game.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, funny that I know.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the hype about the whole thing. If the
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs win, it'll be their third and three years. As
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned before, these guys met in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot on the line.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, Like this is all about redemption. There's so
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  Speaker 7: many different storylines. Like you don't see teams go three
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  Speaker 7: in a row like they do here. It's supposed to
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  Speaker 7: be you know, it's supposed to be party. They'supposed to
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  Speaker 7: be different teams every time.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of.
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  Speaker 7: Those Eagles players that were there a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 7: they are playing here again today, and well you know
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  Speaker 7: that they're publicly trying to keep calm and say it's
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  Speaker 7: just another game. You just know in the back of
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  Speaker 7: their minds that a couple of years ago is really
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  Speaker 7: sort of eating at them. So this is their chance
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  Speaker 7: for a redemption.
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  Speaker 3: As you said, what team are you picking?
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  Speaker 7: Look, I want it to be a close game just
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  Speaker 7: for my own you know, being there and being able
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  Speaker 7: to watch the game. But I mean to be able
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  Speaker 7: to go against Mahomes. But who does that? The Chiefs,
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  Speaker 7: I think probably will win and get that three in
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  Speaker 7: a row.
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  Speaker 3: And the halftime show. Of course, we've got the ads
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  Speaker 3: on the telly, but we've also got Kendrick Laman. Now Kendricks,
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  Speaker 3: He's he's quite a prickly little character. It's not like
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  Speaker 3: Prince or Coldplay or Tom Pitty, is it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh No, it's very different. I met Kendrick Lama once
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  Speaker 7: about ten years ago. He told me that I look
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  Speaker 7: like Chucky from the horror film and that Chucky used
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  Speaker 7: to scare him when he was growing up. So that
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  Speaker 7: was my introduction to Kendrick Lamar. It's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a great halftime show. The rumors are always you know
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  Speaker 7: what's special guests are going to be coming in. This
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  Speaker 7: year is all about his feud with Drake, who's been
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  Speaker 7: in Australia and performing, so he he's left the country.
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  Speaker 7: He doesn't want to see anything about it. But the
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  Speaker 7: thing is, Drake has sued his record label and sued
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  Speaker 7: Kendrick about this this disc track that he won all
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  Speaker 7: the Grammys for, and there were rumors that maybe it
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  Speaker 7: might not be on the set list today, but people
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  Speaker 7: have seen the set list and they have confirmed that
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  Speaker 7: that particular song is going.
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  Speaker 2: To be there.
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  Speaker 7: And now all eyes are going to be on any
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  Speaker 7: special guests.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a big, big hit. And Ben Harlem from
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  Speaker 3: Syrium XM. By the way, give my love to Howard Stern.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us today. It's five
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  Speaker 3: to many one. Can we play a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: Kendrick just briefly now if you don't know this artist,
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  Speaker 3: this is the artist. It's halftime to Evolve New Orleans
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  Speaker 3: and the Superdome with scissors felt z A, all right,
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  Speaker 3: we'll find out one that slag up from midday to
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  Speaker 3: day as I say, TV TV and said plus more Sport.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a text through from Terry actually who says?
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  Speaker 3: Could you please ask Andrew Ordison how on earth is
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  Speaker 3: Warren Gatland still in the job Terry. I'll do that
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  Speaker 3: in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition Andrew Dickens
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  Speaker 3: Be five twenty four Andrew Ordison on Sport. Hello Matte,
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  Speaker 3: greetings Andrew. Ireland seventeen Scotland eight transmission as usual. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well it's such a strong side Ireland. Are they in Scotland?
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  Speaker 8: Troney the best Murray Fields in Edinburgh. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 8: looks like Ireland have the advantage at least at this point.
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  Speaker 8: They're controlling that one.
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  Speaker 3: But the big story over the weekend other than you know,
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  Speaker 3: England France. What a great game to watch I loved it,
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  Speaker 3: loved it was lots of fun, just good old right.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't good rugby, but it was fun rugby
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  Speaker 3: to watch. But the big question was actually tries is
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  Speaker 3: posed by Terry who texted me at ten minutes past
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  Speaker 3: five this morning and said, could you please ask Andrew
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  Speaker 3: Ordison how does Warren get and still in a job.
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  Speaker 8: Well, he's got to be struggling when you lose to Italy.
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  Speaker 8: It's in two years running in a fourteenth straight defeat
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  Speaker 8: for Whales, so it's not working out for Warren Gatland's
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  Speaker 8: second time round. And obviously he's had the success with
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  Speaker 8: the Lions or relative success, you know, leveling the series
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  Speaker 8: in New Zealand back in twenty seventeen ago, long time ago.
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  Speaker 8: And yeah, it's the clock sticking here. Rumors are swirling,
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  Speaker 8: so we'll see what see what happened?
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  Speaker 3: What do they call him the great Redeemer or that
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  Speaker 3: there was Graham Henry Graham Henry with a long line
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  Speaker 3: and he's the on coach you can't take away.
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  Speaker 8: Warren Gatland's had a terrific coaching Korea, but those results
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  Speaker 8: are starting to stack up and well fourteen of them.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me about Tian Welton.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well Christ it's ctterist sprinter Tian Weldon broke the
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  Speaker 8: sixty meter record for New Zealand thinks sitting six point
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  Speaker 8: five just a few weeks ago, and now he's run
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  Speaker 8: the second fastest one hundred meters ten point one to
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  Speaker 8: oh so just point two of a second outside that
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  Speaker 8: record set by Eddie. I was saying Keith back in
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  Speaker 8: twenty twenty two, who took it over from his father
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  Speaker 8: Gus Net record was there for years ten point one one.
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  Speaker 3: I remember being at school when Gary Henley Smith said
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  Speaker 3: at ten point four, so we're getting sort of getting
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  Speaker 3: down there. He was a school boy, was it?
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to age you here, was it?
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  Speaker 3: Is it the seventies? Yeah, yes, yeah, I'm not laughing.
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  Speaker 3: Of the generation it was the Begley brothers and Gary
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  Speaker 3: Henley Smith for by one hundred or Congrammar took it
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  Speaker 3: down every single time anyway. He was quite handy at
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  Speaker 3: didn't go to the Conworth Games. Yeah yea yeah, but
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  Speaker 3: good on jan and we're getting here. We're getting dynasty
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  Speaker 3: with sprinters now final Zoe Hobbes as well. So it's it's.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a remarkable how these things swings roundabouts and
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  Speaker 8: we had of course with throws now and also I
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  Speaker 8: mean you have Eliza McCartney in the pole vault over
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  Speaker 8: the years. Yeah, just different ones that come up at
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  Speaker 8: different times. But yeah, good good work from her, good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Ordison with Sports News five twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Talks of b seventeen eleven. Now as Scotland comes back now,
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  Speaker 3: I like to take the time to applaud the outbreak
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  Speaker 3: of common sense exhibited by Chris Bishop, the new Minister
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  Speaker 3: of Transport. He has decided to revisit some of the
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  Speaker 3: blankets speed limits imposed by his government in the wake
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  Speaker 3: of concerns by locals. Can I just say it's his
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  Speaker 3: government that does the blanket speed limits. They are the
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  Speaker 3: ones who said fifty one hundred or one ten over
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  Speaker 3: all roads, no matter the condition of the roads or
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  Speaker 3: their usage. And they use the blanket speed limit phrase
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: as a vote catcher at the election. But the old
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: government actually left most speed limits in the hands of
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: local authorities, their roads, their rules. The Labor government issued
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: a schedule of over three hundred sections of road on
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: the State Highway network, which are the only roads they control.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: So yeah, there were those, but that schedule was put
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: in place over dangerous roads, mainly around rural schools who
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: are concerned at motors screaming pass at pickup time at
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: one hundred k. Now, Chris Bishop has come out and
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: indicated he's going to listen to local concerns, which is
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: a good thing because until you use a road, you
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: don't know what an appropriate limit is. There's no way
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: a central government bureaucrat locked up in Wellington has any
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: idea of the local reality. Ask the people about how
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: they feel about the roads. And that's what Chris is doing,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: which is smart and that's a good thing. Congratulations Chris.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: It's coming up, how past we have the latest of
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: news remember just before sex Simon Bridges on the new
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: visa changes and we're right around the country in a
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: moment here on News Talks there b oh, and I'll
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: tell you about the dudes playing live in coramandle.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early edition with
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew Dickens and One Roof to make your Property Search
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Simple Youth Talks.
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: It be.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the program for the tenth of February.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I'm Andrew Dickens and for Ryan Bridge. So on Friday
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: I told you I was off to the Coromandel Sea.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: She had at the Kickdown Motorcycle Festival, and I was
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: a bit worried about going to a metal band and
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: that sort of environment. Turns out the event was an
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: absolute delight, balmy summer's evening, civilized food filled good times,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: no public drunkenness, no public drunkenness, burnouts by supercharge Harley Davidson's.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: They were great fun. We had dirt bike jumping and
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: we had this band, the Dudes. I hadn't seen this
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: band in ten years, so I found myself surrounded by
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: twenty somethings. I thought, well they know the song? Boy?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Did they know the song? They were singing along. It
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: was great. Maybe six thousand people there, and Peter Reurliz,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: lead singer, blew his knee earlier in the tourist, so
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: he's got a big old table there that he's leaning
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: against and just singing along. It was hilarious. It was
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: great fun. And then we had the main act, she
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Hard and John Too good. Wow, they were technically amazing.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: They were grunted. I had some sixty year old companions
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: with me who'd never seen them before. They couldn't believe it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: They are just brilliant. And there are only a couple
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of concerts left in the Fareweld tour, including the Big
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Goodbye at Auklands Park Arena. And I urge you to
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: get along, if not to see the dunes, but also
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to see She Had and D four. It was a superb,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: superb night. It was everything that makes New zeal the magnificent.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: So as twenty two to six seconds, it's time to
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: go around the country. Callum Proctor joins me from Dunedin.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Hello Callum YoY, morning Andrew. So what's happening with the
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: McDonald's and Wonnica.
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: Well, well know, by the end of this week. Apparently
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: that's when the decision is due. The Queenstown Lakes District
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: Council's reviewed this resource consent application for McDonald's restaurant open
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: next to the Mounta high and Roundabout on the way
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: into Wanica. The Commissioning panel's final decision was supposed to
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: be late January, but in minutes released two weeks ago,
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: they stated it will be by the end of this week.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: So McDonald's have made numerous concessions here. They're proposing new
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: opening hours of six am to eleven pm, so not
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: a twenty four hours restaurant. They've also agreed to reduce
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: the height of of their logo sign But more than
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: ninety percent of submitters are opposed to this opening. Protest
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: petition attracted more than six thousand signatures, so we'll wait
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: and see. Very good, how's your weather drizzle this morning?
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: Monitor shells This afternoon at eighteen.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Claire Sherwood joins us from christis Hello Claire, Hello, good morning,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: very good. You've got another charter school opening today.
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: Yes, christ Church North College is the one to open today.
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: This is the second of the new charter schools down here, Andrew.
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: This one recognizes that some students face more obstacles to
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: their learning than others, and they say they aim to
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: put those obstacles aside by individualizing education. This school is
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: located in Burnside. It's one of seven new charter schools
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: opening across the country throughout this month. Former chisnel Wood
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: Intermediate principal Justin Fields is leading this college, which aims
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: to grow to a roll of fifty students within three years. Now,
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: Mastery schools is another one in Hillsborough here in christ Church,
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: as well as four schools in Auckland and the far
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: North welcome to students. Last week Northwest College also opens
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: a temporary campus in Auckland's Henderson.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Today. How's Canterbury's weather?
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: A bit cloudy this morning, possible drizzle too, turning to
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: rain by evening, easterlies easing and a high of twenty.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Max toll from Wellington. Good morning, Good morning, Your mayor
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: has gone even more green?
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Well an interesting comment by Torri Farno in an interview
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: with our newsroom. Her historic Green Party allegiances, as you say,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: no secret, but at the year twenty twenty two local
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: elections she ran as an independent candidate. She even gave
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: up her party membership because she said she wanted to
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: be a mayor for everyone. She wanted to afford strong
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: independent relationships with everyone at the council table. That obviously
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: has not happened in her current term, so throw that
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: out the window. What's also interesting is the Greens haven't
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: actually definitively said either way who they're endorsing, if anyone,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: but you would have to think that Farno would have
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: strong assurances for her to say that to us, but
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: I suppose you never know with her. She restarted her
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Green Party membership in April, acknowledging at the time that
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: should upset her base by pushing for asset sales like
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: the Wellington Airport share debacle.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: All right, how's your Wellington? I mean, how's your weather? Heat?
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: Cloudy with a little drizzle this morning twenty one the
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: high Central.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: You've been written man and joins.
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: Me in a sorry artitok a four at you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens. So Mungathi finally gets to secondary school.
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: Yes, exactly, celebration here and Hope says it's going to
• 22:29
  Speaker 12: fill that gap in the growing town. So Munga Phi
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: has a primary school, but the secondary students now they've
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: had to travel to Mungitude Auto or Welsford or borden Auckland.
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: But today the new independent school, Mungafi Hills College, that's
• 22:44
  Speaker 12: what it's called. It opens today, So initially opening with
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: up to twenty students in years seven to nine. And
• 22:50
  Speaker 12: Jill Corkan, she's the Mungapi Education Trust Chair. She says
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: that the residency hugely supportive. One of her regrets though,
• 22:57
  Speaker 12: is that it's not a state school that's open to
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: all of the families here munga Fi. But that's a
• 23:02
  Speaker 12: decision that the Education ministry has.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Taken absolutely absolutely. Do you remember that Mangi Fi used
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: to came to national interest because they had.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: I don't even think I've ever been there, have you, lovely?
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: I need to get out of it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Go to the heads, go to their heads and have
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: some fun. Mungifi was us in the national news because
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: they had some problems with their water scheme, you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: and the residents at the time went, well, this is
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: gold plated, is far too huge. Now look at it now,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: look at Mungifi. Now it is growing, it's turning into
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: a new where it is quite right. You need the water,
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: you need the schools. It's going to be a big thing.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: How's orcand's weather today?
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: Showers this afternoon. I'm pretty pleased that we are having
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: a bit of rankers. It's been so muggy, some possibly heavy,
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: but it will be clearing this afternoon or rather this
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: evening twenty six still muggy.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Is the high in Auckland and also the gardens. The gardens, yes,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the gardens needed absolutely seventeen minutes to six on the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: way Gavin Gray from the UK. You may have heard
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: about the couple of friends who are found dead and
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: it was all a bit strange and weird, like this
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: was out of the blue. Turns out it might have
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: been a professional it. So Kevin has the details on this,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: and also Soviet Union electricity and before six Son Bridges
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: on the new.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Visas international correspondence with ins andn Eye Insurance peace of
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Kevin Gray joins us from the UK. Kevin, Hello, Hi there, Andrew.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Congratulations on beating France and Rugby. That was a good thing.
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: A thank you. It's souldly exciting.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Let's talk serious stuff. Estonia, Leatvia and Lithuania on the coast.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: They have finally and they left the Soviet Union a
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: while ago, they have finally decided to stop taking the
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Soviet Union's power.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: Yes, this sounds pretty minor, doesn't it. Minor stuff, but
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: actually I suggested as the lead story because frankly, this
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: is a major landmark change of direction, the direction in
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: which these countries are facing. As you said, they were
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: all part of the former USSR, but now Estonia, Latvia
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: and Lithuania who have continued to get their electricity through
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: Russia are now switching off this weekend still Sunday afternoon
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: here and adjoining the European Union network. They will now
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: be connected up to the energy sources through Poland. Why
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: does that matter? Will in the past, even though they
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: haven't been taking much electricity from Russia over the last
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: couple of years, it is still thought to be that
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: dependence and a hold over those countries that Russia continue
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: to have and threats some would say from the Kremlin
• 25:28
  Speaker 9: about what might happen if they fall out of line. Well,
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: now that energy line has been switched off from Russia
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: and turned on from Poland. Local residents were told to
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: charge devices, stock up on food and water prepare as
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: if it was a severe weather forecast, because they weren't
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: quite sure how smoothly andrew it was going to be
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: in effect. Though it's all gone pretty well at the moment,
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: and certainly now it is going to be perhaps a
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: change of face, and now even more that they're in NATO,
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: perhaps a move towards joining the European.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Union as well that will make Plea to be even
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: more angry now. I was interested in this story about
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a British couple who have found murdered in their home
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in France at those times called jetes. They've been retired
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: and they seem completely mild and ordinary. Thought Will was
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: a murdered suicide. What the hell happen? But now this suggestion,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: now there's a suggestion that's a professional hit.
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: Yes, not confirmed by the police. Post mortem examinations are
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: being carried out in about twenty hours time Monday, French time.
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: And well, this has been a mystery. It's certainly a
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: double murder. The retired couple had gone from the UK
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: to seek quieter life in the south of France, but
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: then all of a sudden they were discovered. It is
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: reported that the wife's body, Dawn Searle, was found naked
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: and outside, with jewelry scattered beside her. Andrew Searle is
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: reported this is not confirmed. Andrew but reported to have
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: been found inside, gagged and hanged. Now why apart from
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: bizarre the initial thoughts were a burglary gone wrong? Why
• 27:05
  Speaker 9: is this raised interest? Well, it now reveals that the husband,
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Andrew Searl used to be a major figure in fighting
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: organized crime finances. He was an investigator in looking at
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: the money made by organized crime in the UK and
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: all of a sudden, of course, that has led to
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: fears that this might have been a hit, a paid
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: for killing from the UK but taking place in France.
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: Now we don't know, but there are reports that his
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: body wore marks of being injured, perhaps even dere tortured.
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: Horrific for the son and daughter who remain in the
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: UK hearing this. I don't want to jump the gun,
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: as I said post mortem examination in a few hours time.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: That certainly the fact that somebody is so prominent in
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: looking at anti bribery, fraud all those sorts of things
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: should have been murdered in this way without seeming there
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: to be any motive at all, has generated lots of
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: on social media.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Gavin Great from the UK, I thank you for your time.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: It is now eleven to six Andrew Dickens. So that's
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: the big story of the day. That in the Cook
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Islands well, the governments relaxed visa settings to encourage more
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: foreign investments, replacing the current waiting system with two new categories,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: the growth and the balanced category. For the growth category,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: you'll need at least five million dollars and that needs
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: to be invested for a minimum of three years. And
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: you have to live here three weeks of a year.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Ten million dollars is for the balance category, and that's
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: ober a long period of time, and you will have
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: to spend one hundred and five days living here. The
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: OrCAD Business Chamber Chief Executive Simon Bridges with me right now,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: you were also at the MC at the presentation, weren't you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Andrew, good morning.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Good morning to you. So haven't we done this before?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: And I think you look at you if you look
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: at the results over time under more permissive settings, if
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: you want to say that, the result is pretty clear.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: A lot of are very wealthy came and I think
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: history shows they invested in our best companies, golf courses,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: they made bequeath to our art guerries. They had an
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: oversized contribution to New Zealand then we tidened them up.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: I think. I think it was under the last labor
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: government and we saw less of that. Right, So, you know,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I think possibly in New Zealanders don't quite understand how
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: much good investor migrant settings can be really important to
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: our economic success. I'm sure as they'll need that at
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the moment, that's.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: True, But at the same time, art galleries and golf courses.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Is really, is that the way to generate wealth and
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: have wealth creation in this country? It's not really, It's
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: not really the zeros and the fisher and pacal health cares?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Is it? My personal view right now? As big as
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: can't be true, it chooses we have to do things.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, think, if you want to want to critique
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: on this, at one level, it's actually hate good. But
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: there's so much more to do. We're in a negative
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: growth environment. We have to get to positive growth and
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: we need boldness. And one of the things I put
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to the ministers and the Prime Minister yesterdays. You know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: people can have all sorts of views of Trump, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: look I do too, but what he has done with
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: quite bold steps on corporate text in the light as
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: he has stirred the animal spirits of business and so
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: you know, I think I take your point, but I
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: do think the reality of you know that the vineyards,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the golf courses, actually the zeros, the rocket mAbs who
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: private migrant investors were instrumental in at the start, is
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: as they create a big jobs that are higher paying,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: that create in the end higher standards of living.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: This is true. There's two parts of the equation. Of course,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: there's the money. We already have money in New Zealand,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: and there's high wealth individuals New Zealanders who have high wealth,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and one of their problems is that they don't actually
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: invest in businesses, the stock market and other areas to
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: actually put in some working venture capital is not good here.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And the other half of the equation is the actual
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: things that we put investments into. So do we have
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: the investments that some guy from overseas will come here
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: and go, I'll put some money in.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I think the point you make the receise you at
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: the point we haven't got time for. I tend to
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: agree with you, right. I think though actually a lot
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: of high network New Zealanders they need a bit more
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: confident in the economies. That comes back to my boldness
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: point in terms of the investment. Yeah, you know what
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I think we do. I think if you look at
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Silicon Valley and I've been there a couple of times
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and talk to some really big venture capital firms, it's
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: a fascinating experience. The reality there is there is more
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: capital than good investible propositions. The truth in New Zealand
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: is there are so many startups that are amazing that
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: if they were in Silicon Valley would get the money,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: would get us sort of fifty million dollars from an
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: andres In Horowitz or something that they don't get here.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: So I hear what you say. I still think there's
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: a capital issue, and I still think actually the thing
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: you get with you know, a rich American or German
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: or whatever coming in here, is they do have a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: bit more of that culture of investing in these things
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: and giving them a whirl, probably because of their life
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: experience in those countries.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe you could have a chat to your successes
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: and actually suggests that maybe some corporate tax changes, particularly
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: for startups might actually help people along the way to
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: bring the money in. Simon, thank you so much once
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: again for your time, and enjoy your week.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Mate.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Heykay buddy, it is now six minutes two six.
• 32:09
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• 32:18
  Speaker 3: You've talked SIDB four to six. I've got a text
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: on nuety two ninety two saying what is Mark Brown's background?
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: What's the CV? So he's always been a public servant.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: You've got a degree at Massi University in public sector management,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: a master's in business administration for the University of the
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: South Pacific. Then he worked in the Prime Minister's office
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: at the Cocoa Islands. He's been the head of Ministry
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: of Agriculture and look at that. Like all politicians, he's
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: also a property developer. And now he's in China doing
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: a deal which has made everyone unhappy because no one
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: knows what the deal is. Mike Hostkin joins me, Now, well,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: are they unhappy.
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: Or we just is it a Winston thing? So it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: a personality thing. So in other words, he rang up
• 32:55
  Speaker 13: said I like a meeting, and the guy said, no,
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: I can't be bothered, you know what I mean?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Like Laxton said, well, you know, just a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of opency and transparency classicalse The Cook Island people are going,
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  Speaker 3: what are you going to do there? He hasn't told
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  Speaker 3: his own people.
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  Speaker 13: Opposition leader from the Cooks this morning on the program. Also,
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  Speaker 13: I only heard part of your interview, did you what?
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  Speaker 13: So I've got ten million dollars can I buy Fisher
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  Speaker 13: and Pikel Healthcare? Is that an investment? So that's over
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  Speaker 13: five years. I'll do that for five years.
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  Speaker 3: And I come, how do you determine what's a higher
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  Speaker 3: risk bureaucrats in Wellington who's actually picking winners and losers?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, so that's interesting, isn't it. So you want to
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  Speaker 13: know what they're investing in and whether or not it's
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  Speaker 13: passive as they say, and you just park the money
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  Speaker 13: here for a couple of years and eventually they need
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  Speaker 13: to change the house thing too. So you can see
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  Speaker 13: this coming, can't you. So in a couple of weeks time,
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  Speaker 13: someone's going to have to get Winston over the line
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  Speaker 13: on that one.
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  Speaker 3: They need to change their coalition pack exactly. Anyway, Nikola
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  Speaker 3: Willison the Cook Islands, very good stuff. My name is
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Dickins. Thank you to Kenzie producer, and see you
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow for more.
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