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Full Show Podcast: 05 March 2026 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: an earlier is show with one Root Love where you
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Speaker 1: Live News Talk.
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Speaker 2: Sa'd be good morning in six half to five. Great
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Speaker 2: to have your company. We'll keep you across the cricket
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Speaker 2: this morning with Smashing South Africa. Sam Ackerman on Dave Rennie.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk to Todd McLay on trade, the good and
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Speaker 2: the bad this morning, plus talk about the number of
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Speaker 2: kids that are going into motel rooms, not from homes
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Speaker 2: but actually from kier. What's up with that? All ahead.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, the fifth of March. So Higg Saith's a
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Speaker 2: big tough war guy. He is talking tough again about
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Speaker 2: this US submarine that sank an Iranian warship and the
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Speaker 2: Indian Ocean that.
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Speaker 4: Was sunk by a torpedo, quiet death. The first sinking
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Speaker 4: of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War Two.
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Speaker 4: Like in that war, back when we were still in
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Speaker 4: the war department. We are fighting to win.
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Speaker 2: All right. Trump's still picking on start.
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Speaker 5: I'm happy with the UK either that island that you
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Speaker 5: read about the lease again, you made it for whatever
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Speaker 5: it is, and he made a lease of the island.
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Speaker 5: Somebody came and took it away from him, and it's
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Speaker 5: taken three or four days for us to work out
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Speaker 5: where we can land. There would have been much more
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Speaker 5: convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours.
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Speaker 2: So we are very surprised.
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Speaker 5: This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.
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Speaker 2: Diego Gusti is where he's talking about. By the way,
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Speaker 2: this is the guy that's not Winston Churchill.
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Speaker 6: What I was not prepared to do on Saturday was
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Speaker 6: for the UK to join a war unless I.
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Speaker 7: Was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable
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Speaker 7: thought through plan.
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Speaker 8: That remains my position now.
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Speaker 2: The guy who Trump hates more than Star at the
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Speaker 2: moment is socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pitdra Sanchez, friend of
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Speaker 2: justinder A Dunes, and he's heading back at Trump because
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Speaker 2: Trump is said, basically, we're going to cut all trade
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Speaker 2: with Spain because they didn't let us use their bases.
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Speaker 8: The Spanish government's position can be summed up in four words.
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Speaker 8: To the war the world, Europe and Spain have been
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Speaker 8: here before. Twenty three years ago, another US administration led
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Speaker 8: us to another war in the Middle East, a war
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Speaker 8: that in theory was said to eliminate the weapons of
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Speaker 8: mass destruction of Saddam Hussein An, take democracy and safeguard
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Speaker 8: global safety, but in perspective it had the opposite effect.
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Speaker 2: Finally, this morning, the Beckhams have wished their son Brooklam
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Speaker 2: happy birthday on Instagram, two months after this whole riff
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Speaker 2: came through on Instagram and a post David Beckhams says,
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Speaker 2: Happy birthday, Bust.
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Speaker 3: We love you.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Ryan
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Speaker 1: Bridge and one roof Love, where you Live.
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Speaker 2: News Talks v News Talks itb eight minutes alfter five
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Speaker 2: nine two ninety two is the number to text. Interestingly
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Speaker 2: about the Diego Garcia on the other bases that the
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Speaker 2: Americans have requested to use for defensive purposes. And you know,
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Speaker 2: Starmer's okay with that. We wouldn't let them go launch
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Speaker 2: bombs from there and be on the offensive and joined them,
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Speaker 2: but happy to do it for defense. They haven't used
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Speaker 2: any of them yet anyway, So it's been days now
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Speaker 2: since they said, yep, cool, come in, you can use
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Speaker 2: it for your defensive purposes. They still haven't even got there.
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Speaker 2: Apparently they are still days to arrive. So I mean
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Speaker 2: that's an indication of how long the wall will go on. Actually,
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth has said overnight, you won't like this. Eight weeks.
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Speaker 2: He's given a new time frame. First he was saying
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, then he was saying four. Now same,
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Speaker 2: potentially up to eight weeks. This thing will drag out
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Speaker 2: for So that's something we can all market our diaries
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Speaker 2: and look forward to, isn't it. Hey, The drones that
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Speaker 2: the Iranians are using. I've talked to a lot of
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Speaker 2: people about this over the last couple of days because
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Speaker 2: they apparently cost about twenty five grand to produce these
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Speaker 2: sha head dones drones, I should say, and which is
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Speaker 2: quite cheap, isn't it, And so they've got tons of them.
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Speaker 2: You don't need lots of missiles, do you. You just
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Speaker 2: need lots of drones, and they're very cheap to make. Now,
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Speaker 2: Israel's got the iron dome defense system. Apparently every time
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Speaker 2: they do that, it's a million dollars to defend to
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Speaker 2: stop a drone coming in. So a drone costs you
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Speaker 2: twenty five thousand dollars to stop it with an iron
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Speaker 2: dome costs you a million. Spoke yesterday to sam Viai.
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Speaker 2: He's the key we guy that runs and founded iOS Aerospace.
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Speaker 2: They're out of total on and I asked him about
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Speaker 2: these drones. He said, they're going to make interceptors.
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Speaker 9: But a number of groups around the world are working
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Speaker 9: on low cost interceptors. So something that can cost you know,
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Speaker 9: two and a half three thousand dollars per system to
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Speaker 9: ultimately take out a hostile drone that costs twenty five
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Speaker 9: thousand dollars. So any system that you need to take
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Speaker 9: out another system should realistically be cheaper. Otherwise it's a
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Speaker 9: war of attrition and ultimately whoever has more budget or
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Speaker 9: has more systems can ultimately win that whin that hostility.
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Speaker 2: So basically it's going to be one thousand million drones
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Speaker 2: in the air and then one thousand or a million
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Speaker 2: little interceptors that cost three or four grand coming to
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Speaker 2: take them out. Ryan Bridge, eleven minutes after five. By
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Speaker 2: the way, our government's put a statement out overnight doesn't
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Speaker 2: tell you much. They're still trying. If you're there in
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Speaker 2: the region, and there are apparently three thousand or more,
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Speaker 2: at least three thousand registered with m FAT, help might
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Speaker 2: be on the way. They're talking to airlines. They're doing
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Speaker 2: a bunch of other stuff, but nothing concrete yet. As
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Speaker 2: you can imagine, hard to get through an airport at
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Speaker 2: the moment. Eleven after five. Next we're talking about kids
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Speaker 2: in state care with many pecat Okah w take Newstalks
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Speaker 2: EDBA on.
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Speaker 1: Your radio and online on Iheard Radio Early Edition with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and one roof Love where you Live News.
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Speaker 2: Talks EDB thirteen after five. Great to have your company
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Speaker 2: this morning. Judy says, good morning Ryan about the UK
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Speaker 2: not yielding to Trump's wishes, Correct me if I'm wrong,
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Speaker 2: But wasn't the USA the last to get involved in
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Speaker 2: World War Two? Also? Trump is no Theodore Roosevelt. Well,
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Speaker 2: those are true things. It was Pearl Harbor that dragged
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Speaker 2: them in eventually, wasn't it. John says, from sinking drug
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Speaker 2: boats to the in the Caribbean to Higgs Seth and
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Speaker 2: Iran seems to take a lot of delight, a perverse
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Speaker 2: delight out of being involved in killing people, doesn't he.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I think I think he's just up there. He's he's
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Speaker 2: won for the troops, isn't he. He's a rally man,
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Speaker 2: so he's out there trying to boost morale and be
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Speaker 2: the tough guy, and that's kind of his stick. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that he I mean yeah, I mean he
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Speaker 2: doesn't hate it, does he. You wouldn't have to, you'd
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Speaker 2: have to say that.
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Speaker 3: It's so.
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Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes after five, Ryan numbers that of ordering a
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Speaker 2: tamadiki getting bleak him. The Independent Children's Monitor sees abuse
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Speaker 2: in state here is rising. Five hundred and thirty children
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Speaker 2: are harmed in twenty four to twenty five. That's up
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Speaker 2: from five hundred and seven the year before. That's ten
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Speaker 2: percent of the kids totally in care. Medi Peck at
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Speaker 2: Okawa Tate is fun at Order Commission Agency chair with
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Speaker 2: us this morning. Medipecker, good morning.
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Speaker 10: Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: Now this picture hasn't moved in the six years of
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Speaker 2: this report. Now it was bad under labor, bad under national.
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Speaker 2: Is anyone around the world doing this better?
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Speaker 10: Well, certainly I'd like to think so, because I can't
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Speaker 10: understand why the dial hasn't moved for our children in
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Speaker 10: care in New Zealand. And unfortunately, as the report just says,
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Speaker 10: things have not improved. All the attention that seems to
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Speaker 10: come on to removing the children from their families, and
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Speaker 10: yet when they do come into care. First of all,
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Speaker 10: they get abused in care and the minimum standards of
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Speaker 10: care are not adhered to. So rather than kicking the
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Speaker 10: can down the road, I think it's kicking the child
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Speaker 10: down the road. Things are just not changing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I suppose nine. I mean, let's look, the
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Speaker 2: ten percent are being abused or neglected in state care,
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Speaker 2: which is terrible, but that means ninety percent aren't. Does
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Speaker 2: that mean that they are better off you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean, better off than being in the home.
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Speaker 10: No, it's not really, because what the report clearly says
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Speaker 10: is that for a lot of the children in care,
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Speaker 10: the educational requirements are not being met, certainly they their
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Speaker 10: health needs are not being met. And so we've got
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Speaker 10: we've got a number of agencies that know that they
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Speaker 10: are paid to do a particular job for children who
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Speaker 10: are already in a vulnerable situation, who need their care
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Speaker 10: and attention and are not being prioritized. So it does
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Speaker 10: not look good for those that should be making making
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Speaker 10: every effort to change and turn around the lives of
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Speaker 10: children who are already in a vulnerable position.
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Speaker 2: No, their lives have been terrible already because this will
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Speaker 2: they got there in the first place. Because they were,
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Speaker 2: as the report says, you know, sexually abused by a
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Speaker 2: family member, or they had a parent on meth who
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Speaker 2: just didn't care about them as terrible.
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Speaker 10: Well, it is, but sometimes I think we should be
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Speaker 10: actually looking at what are we doing to change those
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Speaker 10: those issues as well those factors, I mean, because those
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Speaker 10: factors haven't changed either. So all we're doing, we're reacting
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Speaker 10: when something happens, putting the child in a situation where
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Speaker 10: we know from the continuation of the reports that we
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Speaker 10: receive that we see that nothing will change for them
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Speaker 10: in state care anyway. So you know, if you don't
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Speaker 10: if you don't start to address those those factors in
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Speaker 10: the home that are causing children to be at risk,
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Speaker 10: that's one thing. And if you don't address and make
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Speaker 10: sure that the minimum standards of care that they should
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Speaker 10: be receiving when they go into care are happening and
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Speaker 10: being prioritized, then it's just going to be one reporter
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Speaker 10: after another, a lot of dollars going in with no
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Speaker 10: positive outcomes for the children. And this is happening year
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Speaker 10: after year.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, six years on the Trump Medipecker. Appreciate your time
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Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Medipick at Oka will take. It is seventeen minutes off
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Speaker 2: to five, and I've got some good news on the cricket.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand has one hundred and thirty seven runs eleven overs.
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Speaker 2: New Zealand needs thirty three runs and fifty four balls
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Speaker 2: to win. So it's looking good. Back with to McClay.
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Speaker 1: Next, Views and views you trust to start your day.
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Speaker 1: It's early edicip with Bryan Bridge and one Room Love
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Speaker 1: where you live.
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Speaker 2: News talks.
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Speaker 3: That'd be the talks.
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Speaker 2: He'd be just gone twenty minutes after five. By the way,
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Speaker 2: David Seymour will like this. Jardon Analysts have put their
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Speaker 2: re commendation on their New Zealand stock to sell because
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Speaker 2: basically you know the story of the national carrier making
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Speaker 2: and pre tax loss for the current financial year. Basically
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Speaker 2: they have more cost coming their way than they do
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Speaker 2: potential revenue. It is twenty after five, Bryan Bridge, so
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Speaker 2: more of the good numbers. On exports for December quarter
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Speaker 2: twenty nine billion dollars. That was up two point two
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Speaker 2: billion on last year. Dairy up ten, tourism up nine
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Speaker 2: point five, meet up twenty one point four, the war
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Speaker 2: and shipping disruption ahead wind of course, Todd McClay Trade
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Speaker 2: minister with us this morning. Minister, good morning, right and hey,
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Speaker 2: good morning. Any update on the Middle East situation from you,
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Speaker 2: by the way, on our goods getting to market.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we'll look this. The information I received yesterday, a
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Speaker 11: lot of this are sort of working at face way
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Speaker 11: through the system still is that shipping lines are putting
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Speaker 11: in place their contingencies where they are moving goods that
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Speaker 11: are distance to other nations, you know, not through that
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Speaker 11: part of the world, So that means some delays for exporters,
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Speaker 11: but the goods will still get to market. The Midise
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Speaker 11: itself remains closed. In fact, yesterday we're out on the
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Speaker 11: ground and Auford else we're talking directly and to exporters
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Speaker 11: and they are, you know, at this stage is not concerned.
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Speaker 11: A number of them have insurance in place should there
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Speaker 11: be an extended period of time that they can't get
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Speaker 11: good into those markets. But at some stage not too
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Speaker 11: different futures. Some of the ports we think we'll be
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Speaker 11: starting to open up, however in the first week and
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Speaker 11: have seene overnight and it's sill a very precarious situation.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I spoke nice and Nathan Guy yesterday. He mentioned that
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Speaker 2: MB might need to get involved with changing a few
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Speaker 2: rigs around a country of destination rules have you?
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Speaker 11: Are you across that all, So all of that stuff
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Speaker 11: can happen quite quickly when needed, no problem at all.
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Speaker 11: So I mean the advice that will give in you
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Speaker 11: any exports where they have particularly concerns for what they
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Speaker 11: are doing, just to reach out. But actually is a
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Speaker 11: very close relationship between you know MB in fact particularly
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Speaker 11: and our exporters given that export such an importer part
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Speaker 11: of our economy. So whatever we need to do or
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Speaker 11: do as quickly as we can.
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Speaker 3: Very good.
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Speaker 2: Did you see Trump's offer to help to let the
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Speaker 2: US Navy guide the ships through the Strait?
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Speaker 11: I haven't seen that, so no, that's not across my
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Speaker 11: desk here right.
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Speaker 2: The export numbers in general, the story continues to be well,
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Speaker 2: a great one for New Zealand.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's very very positive and we've been seeing an
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Speaker 11: upsourde for a period of time. It's two things. It
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Speaker 11: is extra demand, a lot more demand for the high
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Speaker 11: quality products, particularly you know, food and fiber that we produce.
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Speaker 11: There's also you know, we are more competitive markets with
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Speaker 11: the New Zealand dollar having been a little bit lower
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Speaker 11: for a period of time. But Ryan, I think a
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Speaker 11: couple of standouts you mentioned earlier. You know, Dare is up,
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Speaker 11: but meet twenty one percent increase is quite phenomenal the
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Speaker 11: areas of the world that we're seeing, you know, increase
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Speaker 11: or growth in our exports countries we have free trade agreements.
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Speaker 11: So the EU was up more than twenty two percent
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Speaker 11: in that quarter, the UK thirteen percent, Australia of course
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Speaker 11: it's very very strong as in China, and interestingly, the
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Speaker 11: US up almost eight percent even with those tariffs in place.
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Speaker 11: It seems US consumers want you know, New Zealand food
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Speaker 11: and they're willing to pay a bit.
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Speaker 3: More for it.
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Speaker 2: As a trade minister, are you wanting Trump to just
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Speaker 2: like stop with the terraffs and stop with the walls please?
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Speaker 11: Well, I think I like the wall. I think I'd
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Speaker 11: like all wars to start. But that's a much longer conversation.
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Speaker 11: So what we need is, you know, the uncertainty to
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Speaker 11: go away. New Zealand thinks tariffs are harmful. We have
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Speaker 11: very very low terrif rates here. I mean, if you
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Speaker 11: think about India, that's a very high teriff area. A
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Speaker 11: wine face one hundred and fifty percent sheep made thirty percent.
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Speaker 11: By comparison Indian goods into New Zealand, they're around about
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Speaker 11: two percent, so very very low. We still get to
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Speaker 11: trade when there are you know, high teriff rates, albeit
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Speaker 11: it is harder, but it's the certainty that allows of
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Speaker 11: a trade agreement that allows our exporters to decide to
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Speaker 11: put effort into a market. So when there are changes
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Speaker 11: in tariff rates or conditions or rules, it makes it
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Speaker 11: very very hard and uncertain. Our exporters may not want
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Speaker 11: to be in there, or it's harder to make those
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Speaker 11: long term business relationships. So yes, we'd like the tariff
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Speaker 11: rates to go away. We don't think they're warranted against
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Speaker 11: New Zealand from the US. But what we need even
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Speaker 11: more is some certainty so that you know businesses on
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Speaker 11: both sides in the US and you like to start
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Speaker 11: planning again.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we spoke yesterday about the Golf States. I know
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Speaker 2: you've got friends counterparts there. Have you spoken to any
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Speaker 2: of them? Do you know whether they what are they
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Speaker 2: telling you?
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Speaker 11: So I've been messaging as opposed to phoning out the
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Speaker 11: last day or so, you know, just to express our support,
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Speaker 11: to check in and see how they are both from
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Speaker 11: the point of view, you know, professionally, but also in
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Speaker 11: a couple of those countries have grown quite strong friendships
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Speaker 11: for some of their trade ministers as we've worked away
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Speaker 11: at the trade deals over the last year or two. Look,
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Speaker 11: they are very, very concerned, but they have very solid
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Speaker 11: plans in place. The most interesting thing is, at least
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Speaker 11: you're seeing through the media, is that their defense systems
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Speaker 11: that they have in all of those countries are unbelievably
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Speaker 11: robust and they are protecting them. But as I've said
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Speaker 11: on your your other show earlier in the week, you know,
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Speaker 11: we strongly condemned the actors and Iran and attacking their
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Speaker 11: friends and neighbors and civilians in those areas and should stop.
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Speaker 2: They went harder on in the first twenty four hours
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Speaker 2: the Gulf States, the US, Saudi's at least than they
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Speaker 2: did on Israel, which is fascinating. Twenty five after five.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your time this morning, Tom McLay, Trade Minister, News
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Speaker 2: Talks MB the early.
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Speaker 1: Edition full show podcast on iHeartRadio, How It By News TALKSB, News.
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Speaker 2: Talks VB twenty seven minutes after five. You know they
15:47
Speaker 2: say cranes in the sky is quite a good sign
15:50
Speaker 2: of growth in the city. Well, not in Auckland, not
15:52
Speaker 2: at Seascape meant to be the cities. In fact, the
15:55
Speaker 2: country's tallest tower one hundred and seven eight one hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty seven, almost hundred and ninety meters high. It
16:02
Speaker 2: is supposed to be beautiful, expansive views over the water,
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Speaker 2: fifty two stories, a statement building for a city on
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Speaker 2: the move. That's what we were told. But for two
16:11
Speaker 2: years we've had this construction stopped, half finished, beams and
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Speaker 2: nuts and bolts exposed, and yesterday the Chinese outfit developing
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Speaker 2: it folds completely. Gonskis So what happens to this half
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Speaker 2: cooked tower down by the wharf. It's kind of hard
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Speaker 2: to miss. You'll see it. Imagine the skytower, but with
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Speaker 2: scaffolding all around it.
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Speaker 3: For a year.
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Speaker 2: Whatever happens needs to happen fast. Auckland is getting its
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Speaker 2: mojo back. We've been talking about this for a while,
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Speaker 2: the politicians are talking about it, but it is happening.
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Speaker 2: I've been down there and seen it. You've got icc
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Speaker 2: you've got your CRL stations, the shops, Ponsonbye Viaduct waterfront
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Speaker 2: absolutely humming and heaving at the moment. There's a real
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Speaker 2: buzz in the year out there, and it is happening.
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Speaker 2: It is real. Someone out there will be surely eyeing
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Speaker 2: a bargain here. Surely they will answer our prayers. Get
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Speaker 2: up there, finished the job, polished that turn and help
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Speaker 2: make the city smile and shine. Now, speaking of making
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Speaker 2: you smile and shine, we just won the cricket and.
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Speaker 12: Bang, god's the fastest T twenty hundred and the World
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Speaker 12: Cup heaver for the men Fan Allen.
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Speaker 13: And a hundredge.
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Speaker 2: You bet you. He's in a hurry for sure. And
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Speaker 2: how's the black Cats get into the final? They went
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Speaker 2: by nine wickets, So sorry South Africa, but yes we
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Speaker 2: are heading to the final for the T twenty which
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Speaker 2: is fantastic news. Good morning Thursday. We're live to the
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Speaker 2: States next News Talk said B.
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Speaker 1: The news you need this morning and the in depth
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Speaker 2: Twenty four away from six on your Thursday morning. So
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Speaker 2: we won the cricket, which is fantastic news. If you're
18:11
Speaker 2: just joining us, we'll be into the final. Could last
18:14
Speaker 2: eight weeks. This is the war in Iran. Will headlve
18:16
Speaker 2: to the US shortly, plus Dave Rennie's picks for assistance.
18:19
Speaker 2: We'll look at that before six o'clock this morning. Fascinating
18:22
Speaker 2: story out of the UK Chinese spies. Suspected Chinese spies
18:26
Speaker 2: have been arrested, three of them in London and Wales.
18:29
Speaker 2: Of all players, what are you spying on? And well,
18:31
Speaker 2: I don't actually know what's going on in Wales. There's
18:33
Speaker 2: probably some base or something there that they'd be looking at.
18:36
Speaker 2: But what I can tell you about the spies their
18:38
Speaker 2: ages thirty nine, forty three and sixty eight so far
18:41
Speaker 2: not interesting. Arrested in London, Wales part of a counter
18:45
Speaker 2: terrorism policing investigation under the National Security Act. All sounds
18:50
Speaker 2: very serious, doesn't it. But here's your kicker. One of
18:55
Speaker 2: this alleged spies is the partner of a labor mp
19:00
Speaker 2: red Now Joannie Reid's husband is David Taylor, and Joannie
19:05
Speaker 2: Reid has come out and said, how I didn't I
19:07
Speaker 2: have no part of his business dealings or his business activities,
19:11
Speaker 2: so therefore would have no idea what they're talking about.
19:14
Speaker 2: And he has nothing has been proven against him yet,
19:17
Speaker 2: So that's one to watch this morning. Ryan bred Shitch
19:20
Speaker 2: goat and reporters now, Jamie Dunedin, good morning.
19:23
Speaker 14: Good morning Ryan.
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Speaker 2: So there's a push to prevent irreversible damage to the
19:28
Speaker 2: shellfish species around Otago.
19:31
Speaker 14: Yes, so Terrunga or Moierarchy, wants a two year band
19:36
Speaker 14: stopping the fishing of all shellfish, particularly cockles, to give
19:40
Speaker 14: them an opportunity to rebuild. It would cover about one
19:43
Speaker 14: point three square calimitters from the northern end of the
19:46
Speaker 14: Moierarchy boulders to headland at Ornica Kata Bay. David Higgins
19:51
Speaker 14: say's people have been extracting cockle with shovels and spades,
19:54
Speaker 14: which destroys their environment. He says it's totally inappropriate and
19:58
Speaker 14: goes against all local nolge of how to extract Kaimwana
20:01
Speaker 14: from the sea. Higgins says any chance for recovery would
20:05
Speaker 14: be better than none.
20:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to abandon everywhere, don't they. How's your weather?
20:10
Speaker 14: Possible morning, low cloud or fog, otherwise fine northeasterlies this
20:14
Speaker 14: afternoon and a high of twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Jamie, Clears and crimes to take Claire.
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Speaker 15: Good morning.
20:19
Speaker 2: Now, we've spoken about that couple that had the cash
20:21
Speaker 2: and the roof. What are they getting to keep a
20:23
Speaker 2: little bit.
20:24
Speaker 15: Oh well, a little bit, that's it. So this is
20:26
Speaker 15: the situation that's been going on since May twenty twenty two.
20:29
Speaker 15: Open just as reports. This cash, it was more than
20:32
Speaker 15: two hundred and thirty thousand dollars in cash, was found
20:35
Speaker 15: in five plastic wrappers stored in the roof of a
20:38
Speaker 15: home that this couple had bought about five months earlier.
20:41
Speaker 15: The police had been trying to have all of it
20:43
Speaker 15: forfeited to the Crown as proceeds of crime, but the
20:46
Speaker 15: couple managed to take the fight right to the High
20:48
Speaker 15: Court in order to get to keep it. Now, Justice
20:52
Speaker 15: Robert Osborne has now released his findings and ruled that
20:55
Speaker 15: this couple can keep forty thousand dollars of the two
20:58
Speaker 15: hundred and thirty thousand, and the rest of it needs
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Speaker 15: to be handed over. The couple's identities remain suppressed.
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Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather?
21:06
Speaker 15: A bit of loight cloud or fog about this morning?
21:08
Speaker 15: Then should clear to find northeasterlies and a high of
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Speaker 15: twenty one.
21:11
Speaker 2: Nice one. Good morning, maxod morning. Now what's who's getting
21:15
Speaker 2: petrol vouchers?
21:16
Speaker 3: Yeah?
21:17
Speaker 12: Story in the post this morning. Yeah, they're being given
21:19
Speaker 12: to Wellington patients to drive to fungan Nui Hospital. Nearly
21:24
Speaker 12: three hundred patients in the region have had to drive
21:26
Speaker 12: all the way too fung A Nui for MRI scans
21:29
Speaker 12: since July for their troubles one hundred and fifty dollar
21:32
Speaker 12: voucher for petrol at one company. Locals said she'd been
21:35
Speaker 12: waiting about six months for an appointment at Wellington Hospital.
21:38
Speaker 12: No nothing on the horizon, and then she was told
21:40
Speaker 12: about this other option and took them up one hundred
21:42
Speaker 12: and fifty dollars petrol voucher. Health says it is actively
21:45
Speaker 12: working to reduce wait times for imaging. Our hospital here
21:49
Speaker 12: obviously not in the best state. We have one off,
21:52
Speaker 12: if not the worst ed in terms of wait times. Obviously,
21:55
Speaker 12: these weight times for MRI scans are climbing as well.
21:59
Speaker 12: There are three m IRAE machines in the Capitol Coast
22:02
Speaker 12: and hut Valley District in total. How's your wear the
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Speaker 12: max mostly fine with stronger northerlyies nineteen.
22:07
Speaker 2: Thank you morning, Neva, Good morning. What's happening in Woaku?
22:10
Speaker 6: Yes, well, look they want green field development Woyaku, not intensification.
22:16
Speaker 6: So Franklin local board member, that's Gary Holmes and he
22:19
Speaker 6: wants the area to be left out of intensification. This
22:22
Speaker 6: is under Plan Change one twenty. He's favoring Plan Change
22:25
Speaker 6: seventy three and what is that well that allows for
22:28
Speaker 6: seven hundred homes to be built on green fields. The
22:31
Speaker 6: council's currently undertaking a legal battle against that plan. But
22:34
Speaker 6: Homes says, look, there's clear benefits, absolutely clear benefits, and
22:39
Speaker 6: he's saying that it's got local community support. It's all
22:42
Speaker 6: about infrastructure, isn't it. Whether it's there for there and
22:46
Speaker 6: he's saying that the developer will pay for key infrastructure. Previously,
22:49
Speaker 6: this is all part of Auckland Council saying, no, we're
22:51
Speaker 6: going to decide where the house he will go.
22:54
Speaker 2: It's up to us. How's that weather? Okay?
22:56
Speaker 6: Mainly fine? Passing cloud twenty two is the high here
22:58
Speaker 6: in Auckland.
22:59
Speaker 2: Went to buy a pier shoes yesterday, Neva at shoe
23:01
Speaker 2: clinic and the guy who sued me, lovely guy said
23:05
Speaker 2: he used to knew you through running. Yes, do you
23:08
Speaker 2: know who I'm talking about?
23:09
Speaker 9: I did?
23:10
Speaker 2: He spoke very highly of you.
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Speaker 6: Ye, those were the days.
23:14
Speaker 2: Are you still running now?
23:15
Speaker 3: Well?
23:15
Speaker 6: I used to run marathons I've run eight Yes, or
23:18
Speaker 6: you look like a non believer. But the key thing
23:21
Speaker 6: about my running was that i'd come last, not first.
23:25
Speaker 6: But that was journey.
23:26
Speaker 2: He told a story that you stopped off to get
23:28
Speaker 2: a mint and cheese pie on one of your runs.
23:30
Speaker 6: Yes, I did the New York Marathon.
23:32
Speaker 2: It was fish and chips.
23:33
Speaker 14: I was still running.
23:34
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I actually lost the person I went
23:37
Speaker 6: over as a guide.
23:39
Speaker 14: Disabled.
23:40
Speaker 2: Yes, Robert Roberts.
23:41
Speaker 6: He was there at that time, and I came in last.
23:44
Speaker 6: I think I got through, you know, New York Central Park.
23:47
Speaker 6: It was nearly midnight. I stopped off. I had a
23:51
Speaker 6: burger fries fish.
23:54
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. I got some shoes
23:56
Speaker 2: by the way, Well you did. We were just sort
23:58
Speaker 2: of back and forth about the sign, because have you
24:00
Speaker 2: got one foot bigger than the album?
24:02
Speaker 3: Yes?
24:02
Speaker 6: And I've got very very wide feet.
24:03
Speaker 2: Yes, I've got quite wide feet too. And my left
24:06
Speaker 2: foot is half a size bigger than my right foot.
24:09
Speaker 2: Stop it it's very pronounced. I actually walk if I
24:12
Speaker 2: can't walk in a straight line.
24:14
Speaker 14: I wondered about that every job.
24:16
Speaker 6: I just want to say anything.
24:17
Speaker 2: Getting out of the car to size thirteen, No, no,
24:21
Speaker 2: like a half away. No, No, I don't get two
24:23
Speaker 2: different sized Shoot, would you just hey, you're running? You're running? Well, yeah,
24:30
Speaker 2: I'm doing a bit of treadmill stuff.
24:33
Speaker 13: Well done.
24:33
Speaker 2: You should coach me on how to buy a burger.
24:37
Speaker 2: Thanks Neither eighteen.
24:39
Speaker 1: To six International Correspondence with ends an eye insurance, peace
24:44
Speaker 1: of mind for New Zealand business call it to Sex.
24:47
Speaker 2: We'll get to Sam Mackiman on Dave Brenny in just
24:49
Speaker 2: a few seconds, But first, Pete Higseth has been speaking overnight.
24:52
Speaker 2: This is the War secretary over in the US, and
24:55
Speaker 2: he's saying a whole bunch of stuff, including we got
24:57
Speaker 2: the guy that wanted to assassinate Trump.
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Speaker 4: Also yesterday the leader of the unit who attempted to
25:03
Speaker 4: assassinate President Trump has been hunted down and killed. Iran
25:08
Speaker 4: tried to kill President Trump and President Trump got the
25:12
Speaker 4: last laugh.
25:12
Speaker 2: Jagruti Dave, a US correspondent with US Live this morning,
25:15
Speaker 2: for the rest of the details from the priests. Nice
25:17
Speaker 2: to have you on the show. So what's he saying
25:19
Speaker 2: about the war? How long it's going to go on,
25:21
Speaker 2: who the targets are at the moment.
25:24
Speaker 13: Yeah, there was a lot of information in this very
25:27
Speaker 13: bombastic presentation given by Pete Hesath. He said that to
25:33
Speaker 13: be completed in under a week. The US Air Force
25:36
Speaker 13: is planning on having complete control of Iranian skies, that's
25:40
Speaker 13: uncontested airspace. This is in conjunction with the Israeli Air Force,
25:44
Speaker 13: and he said the running leaders looking up will see
25:46
Speaker 13: US and Israeli airpower every day until we decide it's over.
25:51
Speaker 13: So no indication of a time frame yet, but this
25:53
Speaker 13: is the next phase. We are seeing more and larger
25:58
Speaker 13: waves coming. He said, there's more bombers and fighters arriving today,
26:02
Speaker 13: and they're moving towards more GPS laser guided precision bombs.
26:07
Speaker 13: This is they say that they have an unlimited stockpile
26:10
Speaker 13: of that, so they can sustain the fight as easily
26:12
Speaker 13: for as long as they need to. This to this point,
26:14
Speaker 13: this was something in more detail that the Chair of
26:16
Speaker 13: the Joint Chiefs of Staff also mentioned that they're shifting
26:20
Speaker 13: from a large deliberate strike package to stand in precision
26:24
Speaker 13: strikes overhead Irans. So right now the standoff strikes, which
26:29
Speaker 13: are these sort of big sweeping bombings that are happening,
26:32
Speaker 13: they've got fewer supplies of these, they're more expensive. These
26:35
Speaker 13: more what they call stand in munitions, which in which
26:37
Speaker 13: GPS laser guided. They have more supply of those of
26:41
Speaker 13: their market, marking a transition in the war. And one
26:46
Speaker 13: other detail I want to mention is that Pete Heggs
26:49
Speaker 13: has said that an American submarine sunk in Iranian warship
26:53
Speaker 13: that was thought that thought it was safe in international
26:55
Speaker 13: waters by torpedo, and this was the first sinking with
26:58
Speaker 13: a torpedo since World War II. The suggestions that it
27:01
Speaker 13: is this ship that was found off the off the
27:06
Speaker 13: Sri Lankan waters that the SriLankan Navy then went to investigate.
27:12
Speaker 13: So that is to some of the details that we've
27:14
Speaker 13: had from this press conference.
27:15
Speaker 2: Jagree, you just very quickly, because I know that the
27:17
Speaker 2: Senate is going to vote on Trump's warpowers as Warpowers
27:20
Speaker 2: resolution today. Were you going to notify Congress? Is it
27:23
Speaker 2: going to go anywhere?
27:25
Speaker 13: Well, they've tried this before. This is Democratic Senator Tim Kaine.
27:29
Speaker 13: He tried to force a vote on war powers related
27:31
Speaker 13: to Iran before and was voted down. There were similar
27:33
Speaker 13: votes that took place for Venezuela and they were also
27:37
Speaker 13: voted down. And this is because Republicans have that slim
27:40
Speaker 13: majority in both chambers of Congress, and in the end
27:45
Speaker 13: it just didn't go anywhere. In this instance, it's you
27:47
Speaker 13: need fifty votes, Democrats have forty seven. One Democrat, Pennsylvania's Fetterman,
27:52
Speaker 13: has said that he is going to vote against this resolution.
27:56
Speaker 13: So even though you've got this resolution co sponsored by
27:58
Speaker 13: a Republican Ran Paul, they probably won't have the numbers
28:02
Speaker 13: to get it through. But Democrats are saying it's necessary
28:04
Speaker 13: to have a conversation about the justification for this attack
28:08
Speaker 13: on Iran. But on the other hand, you've got a
28:10
Speaker 13: vote in the House later on this later on this week,
28:13
Speaker 13: where the House Speaker says that again that's likely to
28:16
Speaker 13: not go through and that the Republicans are making the
28:19
Speaker 13: point that this is not the time to hamstring the president.
28:22
Speaker 13: This will underminers authority and the operation that's underway already.
28:25
Speaker 2: Thank you to Grudy Dave, our US correspondent. And by
28:28
Speaker 2: the way, name a country and the Iranians are probably
28:31
Speaker 2: chemic housing droning it at the moment. Turkey is intercepted
28:35
Speaker 2: one overnight as well, are living away from.
28:37
Speaker 3: Six Bryan Bridge.
28:39
Speaker 2: So who's Dave really going to pick is his assistance
28:41
Speaker 2: to we.
28:41
Speaker 16: Really you've got a strength of surrounding myself with quality
28:44
Speaker 16: of people, and people can make a difference. And so
28:47
Speaker 16: I'm king to bring some people and yeah, it's a
28:50
Speaker 16: key part of understanding, you know, who we represent and
28:54
Speaker 16: how we want to be perceived.
28:55
Speaker 2: Sam Eckerman as well our sports commentator, same good morning,
28:58
Speaker 2: more as you're on.
29:00
Speaker 7: And you'll pick well listen. I think there needs to
29:03
Speaker 7: be something that will resemble a little continuity. I think
29:06
Speaker 7: Jason Ryan as an assistant coach through a couple of
29:08
Speaker 7: all back coaches, now who somebody could stay in the
29:11
Speaker 7: mix outside of that. I really hope they're names that
29:14
Speaker 7: most people go who. I want the all assistant coaches
29:18
Speaker 7: to go back to being assistant coaches. Not as important
29:21
Speaker 7: a part of the orback structure is what the all
29:23
Speaker 7: back coaches. I want a head coach and other coaches
29:25
Speaker 7: are come in and do the specialist jobs. I think
29:27
Speaker 7: he's worked with some wonderful ones through the chiefs in
29:30
Speaker 7: Matawa two.
29:31
Speaker 3: He will look to what he knows here.
29:32
Speaker 7: I don't expect him bring in from overseas at this stage,
29:35
Speaker 7: but I'd think players people are Andrew Strawbridge who've been
29:37
Speaker 7: a wonderful assistant to him in the past and what
29:40
Speaker 7: he achieved in the chiefs. So hopefully they're going for
29:42
Speaker 7: guys who don't have big profiles, and we're not going
29:44
Speaker 7: to take every super rugby head coach like.
29:46
Speaker 3: We did under the previous regime.
29:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, some anonymous henchman is what we need.
29:52
Speaker 7: White benchman, what we need is people who don't come
29:54
Speaker 7: in with a big profile. Head coaches working all together
29:57
Speaker 7: don't always make the right max.
29:59
Speaker 3: Assistant coaches their role a.
30:00
Speaker 2: Little more nor plays. Why do you think he beat
30:03
Speaker 2: Jamie Joseph? Was it because he had a better plan
30:06
Speaker 2: or was it because of what people said about them?
30:10
Speaker 7: I think that his reputation with culture. Jamie Joseph is
30:14
Speaker 7: known a lot more hard nosed as a coach than
30:17
Speaker 7: Dave Rennie is. Neither you know, both have got strong reputations.
30:21
Speaker 7: It is not a cracket either, but Jamie Joseph is
30:23
Speaker 7: a little faired for some of his training methods more
30:26
Speaker 7: rather than David Rennie.
30:27
Speaker 3: So I think that I think.
30:29
Speaker 7: Dave Rennie's approached to people and the way that he
30:32
Speaker 7: players love to play for him as the person I
30:35
Speaker 7: think got him overlying in the end. I also think
30:38
Speaker 7: failure overseas and learning overseas has been a massive part
30:41
Speaker 7: for him.
30:41
Speaker 2: To this no loyalties comment that he made. Did Robertson
30:45
Speaker 2: or others have them to our detriment? Is that necessarily
30:49
Speaker 2: a dig at anyone?
30:51
Speaker 7: I think it's no loyalties to the current squad. Of Course,
30:53
Speaker 7: he's going to have loyalties, and when he picks players,
30:55
Speaker 7: he'll want to stick with them. He won't be giving
30:57
Speaker 7: a guy go one week and then throwing them out
30:59
Speaker 7: to dropped to pass. So he will have loyalties. But
31:02
Speaker 7: to me, I read that as he's not loyal to everybody.
31:05
Speaker 3: Currently in that frame. That said, he doesn't.
31:07
Speaker 7: Even got his hands on the all WACs personally because
31:10
Speaker 7: of his rolls over in Japan until essentially the start
31:14
Speaker 7: of at July windows, So he's going to need to
31:16
Speaker 7: go with some people who know what they're doing at
31:18
Speaker 7: the test level, who they are, who the captain is.
31:21
Speaker 3: That's all to come, all right, and.
31:22
Speaker 2: We now we just got to win some tests and
31:23
Speaker 2: then the World Cup. Easy, Andy, Andy, Yeah, really good, Jess.
31:28
Speaker 2: Sam sam Mackiman, sports commentator with US Live this morning
31:30
Speaker 2: eight to six News Talk, said be Mike with You.
31:33
Speaker 1: Next, the first Word on the News of the Day
31:36
Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof love where
31:40
Speaker 1: you live News Talks.
31:42
Speaker 3: That'd be six to six.
31:43
Speaker 2: We were talking to Max earlier in Wellington and he
31:45
Speaker 2: mentioned that you're getting petrol vouchers. If you're in Wellington
31:48
Speaker 2: you need to see a specialist. You're getting petrol vouchers
31:51
Speaker 2: or to get an MRI to go drive to Wanganui
31:54
Speaker 2: of all places to have that done. Now John is
31:56
Speaker 2: text and he lives in Wanganui and he says, I've
31:59
Speaker 2: been waiting for six weeks for an MR. Right, normally
32:02
Speaker 2: you did it, get it done quite quickly. Now I
32:05
Speaker 2: know why rain Bridge very fair does it, Mike good Morning.
32:09
Speaker 17: They need to do what they do in America, which
32:11
Speaker 17: is have them in the malls and you can have
32:13
Speaker 17: a full body scans. Quite the thing nowadays. And the
32:15
Speaker 17: problem with MRI scans is they're.
32:17
Speaker 2: This expensive to have those full body scans done.
32:20
Speaker 17: Well thinking, ye, well they are, and they aren't because
32:22
Speaker 17: the more of them there are, the more competition there are,
32:25
Speaker 17: the price goes down, of course, and the problem with
32:26
Speaker 17: New Zealanders the equipment is so short and therefore You've
32:29
Speaker 17: got the cues you.
32:30
Speaker 2: Had, So why don't we have loads of private operators
32:32
Speaker 2: coming in here?
32:33
Speaker 17: There are There are not loads of private operators, but
32:37
Speaker 17: there are people. If you want an m R scan
32:39
Speaker 17: and you're prepared to pay for it, they're readily available.
32:41
Speaker 2: Do you know what they need? What I need to
32:42
Speaker 2: scan is my feet. I was just telling neither. I
32:45
Speaker 2: went buy some new shoes yesterday. You so I'm a
32:48
Speaker 2: twelve wowss they look too impressive, but I'm a twelve
32:54
Speaker 2: and a half play Oh, I don't know about the well,
32:56
Speaker 2: I couldn't reason that.
32:57
Speaker 17: Will you like a twelve G or a twelve air four?
33:00
Speaker 17: I don't know what I'm just I'm just it's like
33:02
Speaker 17: very short, while I'm a forty two G.
33:04
Speaker 2: My left foot it is half a size completely different,
33:08
Speaker 2: It's half a size bigger. Yeah, So what do you do?
33:11
Speaker 2: Do you go a size up? Or do you go
33:12
Speaker 2: a size down?
33:13
Speaker 17: You have your own shoes made?
33:15
Speaker 2: Is the do you do? You do that?
33:17
Speaker 3: Well?
33:17
Speaker 2: Not all the time, but come on, what's next?
33:20
Speaker 7: Well?
33:20
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, what's what's what? You don't because
33:22
Speaker 2: you don't want to buy two? I was thinking, do
33:24
Speaker 2: I buy one shoe smaller and one shoe bigger. But
33:26
Speaker 2: you look like it been a problem in terms of yes,
33:30
Speaker 2: so it is a problem. Well, it's a problem because
33:32
Speaker 2: I think, especially with the work boots, I go for
33:35
Speaker 2: the smaller size. And my one is.
33:37
Speaker 17: You don't want tight shoes. I'd go looser shoes as
33:39
Speaker 17: posed to tighter shoes. But i'd go two peers. You'd
33:42
Speaker 17: have to go two peers because they're not going to
33:44
Speaker 17: sell you one of each, because that's obviously stupid. So
33:47
Speaker 17: you have to go two peers. So forty one and
33:48
Speaker 17: forty two of the your case six.
33:50
Speaker 2: So I wear different sized shoes on different and why
33:53
Speaker 2: not because you'd look weird.
33:56
Speaker 17: You look weird already, and you just explain you're not
33:59
Speaker 17: helping yourself.
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Speaker 2: People would notice. No, they were not half a size.
34:03
Speaker 2: I reckon if it was three sides, I'm sure you
34:05
Speaker 2: should text them.
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Speaker 17: Okay, Well, don't text me up at a proper show
34:09
Speaker 17: to text me you're your weird CIRCUSMS.
34:11
Speaker 2: Now, all right, looking forward today show, you'll be doing
34:14
Speaker 2: the A. B's no doubt.
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Speaker 17: Got David Kirk coming in chairing of the board.
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Speaker 2: No lest brilliant. All right, have a great day everyone,
34:20
Speaker 2: see you tomorrow.
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