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Full Show Podcast: 06 November 2025 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the insight. Ryan Bridge on
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Speaker 1: earlierdship with r the Supercenter explore are these successories and
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Speaker 1: servicing all in one news talks.
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Speaker 2: They'd be good to be back with you on a
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Speaker 2: Thursday morning. This morning, coming up on the program, why
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Speaker 2: are so many young people doing nothing? We'll look at
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Speaker 2: youth unemployment. And we're in the US for Trump's reaction
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Speaker 2: to Mam Danny new numbers on how many sick days
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Speaker 2: we're taking. Plus Mark Mitchell with us in just a
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Speaker 2: few seconds.
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Speaker 3: The agenda.
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Speaker 2: Good morning to you. It is Thursday to sixth and
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Speaker 2: November in the US. Bunch of elections have happened, didn't
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Speaker 2: go Trump's way. Here is the New York City mayor elect,
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Speaker 2: Mam Darmi.
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Speaker 4: If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump
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Speaker 4: how to defeat him, it is the city that gave
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Speaker 4: rise to him. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching,
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Speaker 4: I have four words for you. Turn the volume.
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Speaker 2: Up all right. Our Democrats have won governor races in
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Speaker 2: both New Jersey and Virginia as well, and I.
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Speaker 5: Am proud that our campaign earned votes from Democrats, Republicans, independents,
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Speaker 5: and everyone in between. That's the Virginia I know. That's
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Speaker 5: the Virginia I love, and that's the Virginia I will
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Speaker 5: have the honor of serving as your next governor.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So even Trump saying, look, this is not great for
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Speaker 2: the Republicans.
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Speaker 7: You read the.
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Speaker 8: Valses and the shutdown was a big factor negative for
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Speaker 8: the Republicans, and that was a big factor. And they
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Speaker 8: say that I wasn't on the ballot was the biggest factor.
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Speaker 8: But I don't know about that, but I was honored
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Speaker 8: that they said that.
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Speaker 2: There's also a bit of a warning for the Democrats
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Speaker 2: not to overread into this. I'll tell you about that
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Speaker 2: shortly in the program. Finally, protesters have sworn the streets
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Speaker 2: of Paris. Is that's opened its first cut price machine store.
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Speaker 7: And across the road from them Kepta part by police
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Speaker 7: as a group of I don't know, maybe one hundred,
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Speaker 7: maybe a few more protesters significantly right across the street
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Speaker 7: from Besvaz the hotel div and that's in fact where
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Speaker 7: the Ashley h three gets its name from. And that
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Speaker 7: they'll tell the the city Hall. They are vehemently opposed
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Speaker 7: to She, and they loathe she and all it stands for.
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Speaker 7: So you have a very physical reminder here of the
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Speaker 7: two sides in this in this.
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Speaker 2: Argument basically, don't bring your cheap crap to Paris please.
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Speaker 2: This is the home of fashion and that is a
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Speaker 2: crime against it. It's just gone eight minutes after five.
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Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines on early edition with Brian
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Speaker 2: Sa'd be great to have your company. Nine two nine
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Speaker 2: two is the numbers text. You know, this homeless ban thing,
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Speaker 2: the talk that's going on. We had Hickens in the
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Speaker 2: house and then we had anywhere. It's been in the
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Speaker 2: media in the last twenty four hours. And I mean,
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Speaker 2: you can't ban homeless people, well you can, but how
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Speaker 2: do you actually do it? How do you define it?
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Speaker 2: You know who's homeless, who's just you know, asleep on
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Speaker 2: the ground, you know what I mean? If they have
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Speaker 2: to really, if you're going to do this properly, you
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Speaker 2: have to look at probably like intimidating behavior, which I
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Speaker 2: would have thought would already have been illegal if you
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Speaker 2: go and intimidate people. But if groups of people are intimidating,
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Speaker 2: well it's a little more difficult. They passed the law
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Speaker 2: with the gang. So what do you do? Do you
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Speaker 2: go and pass the law that says if there are
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Speaker 2: five or more people who are standing in a circle
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Speaker 2: on the side of a road, who look intimidating or
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Speaker 2: feel intimidating, then arrest them. I mean, it's very difficult,
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Speaker 2: kind of fraught territory, but I reckon they are basically four.
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Speaker 2: So you have homeless people that there's beggars. They're different, right,
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Speaker 2: There's people who being on the side of the road,
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Speaker 2: and actually they're quite harmless most of the time, you know,
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Speaker 2: they're quite friendly. They might say please or have you
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Speaker 2: got something? They're not causing any trouble. So I don't
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Speaker 2: know what do you do about them? Is that a
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Speaker 2: different category we allow busking? You know? Is it that
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Speaker 2: different to busking? I don't think so. And then there's
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Speaker 2: rough sleepers. Look, no one with a heart wants to
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Speaker 2: see rough sleepers, you know, sleeping on the side of
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Speaker 2: the road with a sleeping bag. I personally don't blame them.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they clearly have addiction on mental health problems
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Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But if it's so bad that
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Speaker 2: you can't shop in your CBD and the consumers are
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Speaker 2: starting to avoid the area like there's a plague on
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Speaker 2: then you probably have to do something about it. My
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Speaker 2: crescendo for you this morning is the window wipers. Okay, again,
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Speaker 2: different people, different people. Just we're just talking about things
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Speaker 2: we see around us in the car. Okay, when you
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Speaker 2: are at a very busy arterial route intersection and there
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Speaker 2: is somebody you know, with a water bottle in one
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Speaker 2: hand and a scrubbing brush in the other wandering through
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Speaker 2: the lanes in rush hour traffic, they are putting themselves
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Speaker 2: as sales at risk and everybody else around them. Now
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Speaker 2: for those people, and it always blows my mind. The
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Speaker 2: car in front of me whine's the window down and
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Speaker 2: gives them money. I'm sorry that is That is not
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Speaker 2: a smart idea. That is not a way to keep
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Speaker 2: the roads safe. So that should be illegal. Ryan Bridge,
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Speaker 2: time to eleven. If anything on News Talks, It'd be
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Speaker 2: great to have your company this morning. Nineteen nine two
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Speaker 2: is the number to text. We'll get to Mark Mitchell
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Speaker 2: from Police.
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Speaker 1: Next Views and Views you Trust to start your day
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Speaker 1: in early edition with Ryan Bridge and are the Supercenter
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Speaker 2: Be' thirteen on your Thursday morning, high Ryan. Why don't
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Speaker 2: people join the dots between all the holidays and the
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Speaker 2: sick days and the lack of productivity, says Steve. Steve,
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to the employers and manufacturers about that.
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Speaker 2: And see Alan McDonald's the guy, he's a great guy.
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Speaker 2: He's come on this so many times. Ask him about it.
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Speaker 2: Because the average number of sick days that we're taking
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Speaker 2: is up. You know how we got more. We've got
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Speaker 2: a bigger allocation when we're using them. Give us an inch,
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Speaker 2: so I'll tell you by how much? And some reaction
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Speaker 2: from Alan shuw it's fourteen after five, Bryan. Remember in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty when the government passed the law to ban
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Speaker 2: smoking and vaping in the car with kids, Remember that,
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Speaker 2: And they said they'd go out there and they would
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Speaker 2: slap you with a fine or I didn't know, drag
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Speaker 2: you off and arrest you. Well, it turns out not
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Speaker 2: a single person has been even fined. The cops said
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Speaker 2: a year ago that they've got computer system and problems.
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Speaker 2: Apparently computer says no won't allow them to issue fines,
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Speaker 2: and so they didn't. They also didn't believe it was
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Speaker 2: the right way. They were taking a health first approach
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Speaker 2: at the time. The minister told them to sort it out.
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Speaker 2: But it still hasn't happened. Apparently, Mark Mitchell is the
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Speaker 2: police minister with me this morning. Minister, good morning, good
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Speaker 2: morning Ron.
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Speaker 9: And you're the only one that I get up at
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Speaker 9: quarter past five in the morning to discuss fape with.
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Speaker 2: Mate, I'll tell you that. Well, well, I'm happy. I'm
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Speaker 2: happy you're here. I'm happy you're here because because look,
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Speaker 2: I don't think you'll be listened to. It's important you
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Speaker 2: listened to. But what's going on listening to her?
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Speaker 9: Right? I'm listening to her?
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Speaker 2: Right? Don't you worry?
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Speaker 9: That have been the previous government's priority. My priority was
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Speaker 9: stopping ram raids, getting on top of aggravated robbery violent
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Speaker 9: crime which under the previous government six years as a
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Speaker 9: country would seen skyrockets.
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Speaker 2: The police are voping in cars, are smoking in cars.
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Speaker 9: I'm just addressing the point that you're saying. Are the
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Speaker 9: police listening to me? Absolutely they are. They're responding to
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Speaker 9: my expectation that I released publicly.
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Speaker 2: On this one. Are they listening on this one?
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Speaker 6: Well?
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Speaker 9: The vaping is that you're going to talk to the police.
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Speaker 9: That is an operational issue, and so they're very clear
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Speaker 9: about the fact that they prefer a health response around this,
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Speaker 9: and that is quite simply educating parents not to do it,
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Speaker 9: and I totally support them in that view. However, however,
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Speaker 9: there is legislation there they're looking at how they can
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Speaker 9: operationalize that. That does mean trying to come up with
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Speaker 9: a fines type system.
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Speaker 2: Here's the problem and do work on that. Okay, that's
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Speaker 2: all great, But here's the problem. The law was passed
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Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty. How is it that we're in
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Speaker 2: almost in twenty twenty six and they have never bothered
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Speaker 2: to come up with a system to introduce a fine
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Speaker 2: that Parliament said was a potential punishment.
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Speaker 9: Well, I think there's a couple of things. Number one,
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Speaker 9: I think that it is an operational question around how
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Speaker 9: the operational operational is it That is for police number
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Speaker 9: two to do it number two. But the important thing
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Speaker 9: is to your question is there was a change of
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Speaker 9: government with a different set of priorities. This stuff my
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Speaker 9: priorities the minister is the incoming minister. Is that we
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Speaker 9: had seen a massive increasing violent crime and communities were
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Speaker 9: no longer.
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Speaker 2: You are not wrong, and you're not wrong. But I
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Speaker 2: guess the thing is, is it sort of just up
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Speaker 2: to police what they do. I mean, Parliament can say yeah,
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Speaker 2: i'll pass this law. I want to do this, and
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Speaker 2: I want to do that, and here's the punishments, and
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Speaker 2: police are like, well, we like that one and we
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Speaker 2: don't like that one, so we'll make up our own minds.
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Speaker 9: No, I think that Parliament size to give police powers
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Speaker 9: and then police have to use obviously have used judicial
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Speaker 9: use of those powers. I can't interfere operation. There is
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Speaker 9: a separation that's extremely important that is in place. I
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Speaker 9: don't get to tell the police questioner how or when
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Speaker 9: he's going to deploy his staff. What I do is
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Speaker 9: I set our policies in terms of public safety, which
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Speaker 9: I very clearly did, and I released my letter publicly
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Speaker 9: when I became minister, and there was a big focus
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Speaker 9: on increasing visibility, on getting on top of violent crime.
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Speaker 9: That was my propos were my priorities enough and the
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Speaker 9: police and the police are responding to those priorities.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, fair enough. Hey, just before we go this
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Speaker 2: idea of sort of banning that do police need more
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Speaker 2: powers to move on homeless people or beggars or rough sleepers.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean this is this is the Labor Party
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Speaker 9: trying to create a whole lot of hysteria around the
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Speaker 9: fact that they're trying to create the impression that we
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Speaker 9: won't let people come into Auckland CVDS. That is not true.
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Speaker 9: Quite simply, what we are trying to do and working
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Speaker 9: hard on is making sure it's a really complex issue.
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Speaker 9: When I sort of when I was dealing with reducing
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Speaker 9: violent crime in ow Auckland CBD, which the police have
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Speaker 9: been very successful at doing, we had fifteen rough sleepers.
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Speaker 9: Most of them had somewhere to go and sleep, most
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Speaker 9: of them had the residents that they go and sleep.
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Speaker 9: They're making a community that they're making a decision to
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Speaker 9: congregate as a community in the CBD, and what There's
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Speaker 9: a whole lot of social issues there. There's intimidation issues,
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Speaker 9: there was risk to the public and there was risk
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Speaker 9: to themselves as well.
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Speaker 2: So did they have home, Yes, they had places to absolutely,
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Speaker 2: absolutely so.
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Speaker 9: But what we're doing, as we're recognizing and saying that
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Speaker 9: there's a homelessness problem, I am I am reinstating in
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Speaker 9: one working very closely with with Simeon Brown on this
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Speaker 9: who's the Minister for Auckland And I'm reinstating my stakeholder
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Speaker 9: group which is the heart to the city, residence and
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Speaker 9: rape pass groups, social service providers, government agencies, local government, CPNZ,
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Speaker 9: Mary Warden's we all came together. It was very effective
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Speaker 9: and dealing with.
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Speaker 2: The crime and did they want your homelessness man.
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Speaker 9: Well, there was a lot of discussion around there. Absolutely
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Speaker 9: when we were talking at when we're discussing this, that's
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Speaker 9: not part of the government agenda at the moment. It's
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Speaker 9: it is certainly We've got a private members bill in
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Speaker 9: the Biscuit team from Ryan Hamilton, a very good one
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Speaker 9: that he's brought forward, which is a move on order
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Speaker 9: which gives the police the ability to go and pick
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Speaker 9: someone up that is living on the street, that is
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Speaker 9: in danger, that it is current problems for members of
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Speaker 9: the public and move them to a safe location into
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Speaker 9: a house.
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Speaker 2: Not to the next over. Minister. I hope we have
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Speaker 2: to leave it there. I appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 2: That is Mark Mitchell, Police Minister. It's just gone five twenty.
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Speaker 2: News talks had been Ryan.
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Speaker 2: They'b five twenty two news talks there be will go
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Speaker 2: stateside after five thirty news for an update on the
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Speaker 2: elections there Key, we is here calling in sick more
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Speaker 2: than ever businesses are feeling it. We're now averaging six
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Speaker 2: point seven six days a year. That is up from
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Speaker 2: five and a half in twenty twenty two. This has
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Speaker 2: come from a Business New Zealand and Southern Cross report.
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Speaker 2: They blame labour twenty twenty one move doubling the sick
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Speaker 2: leaven titament from five to ten days. You'll remember that
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Speaker 2: Alan McDonald's with us from the Employees Manufacturers Association. Allen,
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Speaker 2: good morning, morning Roally. So is that how material is
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Speaker 2: that to a business's costs?
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Speaker 6: Oh? Well, every day you're not working and you're paying
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Speaker 6: somebody for it. Obviously that is a cost, and that's
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Speaker 6: a bit of lost productivity. But I mean the flip
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Speaker 6: side is that I think most employers realize and manage
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Speaker 6: their workforces because it's better perhaps to not have them
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Speaker 6: there rather than coming and con checking other people of stuff,
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Speaker 6: which is what the change is made for in the
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Speaker 6: first place. Under COVID, but I think still applies with
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Speaker 6: everything else that's floating around as well.
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Speaker 2: What are people saying when they you know, what's the
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Speaker 2: excuse when they call in sack these days that do
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Speaker 2: people say I'm just I need the day off, that
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Speaker 2: they say I'm sick. Do they say I'm taking a
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Speaker 2: personal day.
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Speaker 6: It's generally genuine sickness, and I think most employers do
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Speaker 6: accept that that is the case. So, you know, I
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Speaker 6: think at the old days of malingerers, if you like,
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Speaker 6: you don't see much of that. There's always some of
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Speaker 6: that though, but it's a very small proportion.
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Speaker 2: So this increase is actually just better reflecting how sick
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Speaker 2: we do get in your average year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it better reflects the understanding in the
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Speaker 6: workplace that you know, people do get sick, they are
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Speaker 6: genuine about it, and it's better to haven't managed and
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Speaker 6: have them in the workplace. But do remember there's a
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Speaker 6: change coming for part time workers as well, that that
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Speaker 6: ten days. Yeah, entitlement is going with the news leave
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Speaker 6: that typic Reld's bringing.
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Speaker 2: In really interesting stuff. Ellen, thank you for that. Alan McDonald.
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Speaker 2: The employees of Manufacturer Association time now is twenty four
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Speaker 2: minutes after five you're on News TALKSZBB. Economic nimbiism. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you about that next and before six we'll look
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Speaker 2: at the neats not an education training job, this is
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Speaker 2: young people. The number is now almost sixteen percent. News
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Speaker 2: IB five twenty six News Talks VB. There's a form
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Speaker 2: of economic nimbiism that's going on in this country. You've
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Speaker 2: probably noticed it too. If we want to get ahead,
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Speaker 2: surely we are all aware that there must be trade offs.
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Speaker 2: There's no business, no growth, no economic miracle that comes
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Speaker 2: about without a cost to someone somewhere. Whether it's intensive
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Speaker 2: agriculture that can have an effect on the environment, whether
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Speaker 2: it's water to run the data centers that power your smartphones.
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Speaker 2: Every success cost you something. Generally, the trick is to
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Speaker 2: be reasonable, take risks, mitigate them, or just be willing
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Speaker 2: to wear the costs. The problem we have, I don't
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Speaker 2: think is necessarily a lack of opportunities of wherewithal or enthusiasm,
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Speaker 2: not even in many cases investment. I was just an Oago,
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Speaker 2: just recently beautiful place, stunning Central Otago, there's a gold
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Speaker 2: mine permit that's been issued there. You might have seen
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Speaker 2: that in the news. Sam Neil was dead against the
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Speaker 2: project when I was down there, as are many others.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's opposition, there's legal challenges, fair enough, you
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Speaker 2: know they've got houses in the area. Worried about trucks
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Speaker 2: on the road then what it looks like. But it's
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Speaker 2: also an area that would be serviced by this brand
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Speaker 2: new hospital that Dunedin is getting. Half the town's buildings
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Speaker 2: by the way, and Otarger wouldn't be there to begin
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Speaker 2: with if it not for gold mining. So the permits issued.
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Speaker 2: The rest is with fast track whatever. But how are
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Speaker 2: you going to pay for that hospital? How are you
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Speaker 2: going to pay for that hospital? Wanaka said no to
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Speaker 2: a McDonald's in part due to concerns about healthy eating.
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Speaker 2: Residents objected to a solar farm in part because of
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Speaker 2: something called lunar reflection, that the moonlight might reflect off
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Speaker 2: a solar panel like it would I don't know a
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Speaker 2: lake or an ocean. I mean, come on, are we
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Speaker 2: clutching its straws here or what. It's all well and good,
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Speaker 2: but if we want stuff like new hospitals, highways and
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Speaker 2: potholes fixed, you have to pay for them somehow, And
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Speaker 2: there's a little too much economic nimbiism going on at
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Speaker 2: the moment, I think for anyone to be seriously complaining
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Speaker 2: about the state of things. Nine News Talk said, B,
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Speaker 2: this is on the sick leave, Ryan. We have full
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Speaker 2: staff who all use their ten days sickly every year.
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Speaker 2: That's forty days of sickly every year. Nearly one staff
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Speaker 2: member off every week, and generally it's a Monday. Has
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Speaker 2: got really noticeable since the ten days came in. This
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Speaker 2: is from one of our listeners this morning. Another says, Ryan,
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Speaker 2: sick leave is a young person's thing. We just don't
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Speaker 2: take it. At News Talks, B, it is twenty nine
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Speaker 2: minutes after five. We'll go stateside for the latest. Mam Damie.
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Speaker 2: He's out there in the cold. New York are doing
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Speaker 2: a press conference, so we'll hear what the new socialist
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Speaker 2: leader of New York City has to say. News Talk SEDB.
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Speaker 2: this Thursday morning, coming up before six, we'll look at
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Speaker 2: those unemployment numbers from yesterday, especially youth unemployment, and we'll
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Speaker 2: go live to the US because Ma'm Darni. This is
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Speaker 2: the mayor elect of New York City. He's giving a
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Speaker 2: press conference telling everyone he's going to do. The interesting
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Speaker 2: thing about this great campaign from him, obviously very slick
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Speaker 2: social media presence, but can he actually do anything? Can
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Speaker 2: he actually lead anything? We haven't found out yet. We
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Speaker 2: haven't found out yet, but we are going to because
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Speaker 2: he's going to have to get around the table, around
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Speaker 2: the count and they are not exactly very powerful. Even
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Speaker 2: though it's the mayor of New York City, they still
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Speaker 2: have the same problem that our mayors here have where
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Speaker 2: they actually are basically just one vote on the table.
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Speaker 2: So whether he actually gets to do anything, it is
18:39
Speaker 2: another thing. There there were glimmers of just Cinda adun
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Speaker 2: campaign here. You know, you've got a younger person, a
18:45
Speaker 2: very slick social media presence, no experience really outside politics,
18:51
Speaker 2: you know, no experience running an organization or a business.
18:54
Speaker 2: This guy was a hip hop musician previously before he
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Speaker 2: became the Mayor of New York. Here's a little taste
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Speaker 2: of his hip. Hopie, why does the whole city are.
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Speaker 6: If you sing?
19:13
Speaker 2: It's the mayor of New York City. In an earlier career,
19:16
Speaker 2: he was a housing counselor for a short while, and
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Speaker 2: he is now going to be obviously mayor of New
19:23
Speaker 2: York City. So good luck to him. He's going to
19:26
Speaker 2: have some pretty big problems already. Trump's threatening funding. You've
19:29
Speaker 2: got fellow Democrats who are already on you know, a
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Speaker 2: governor's saying coming out and saying that we don't think
19:37
Speaker 2: you should be raising the kind of taxes that you
19:39
Speaker 2: are talking about raising. So there'll be a hard road
19:42
Speaker 2: ahead for him. We'll talk to a US corry about that.
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Speaker 2: Twenty two to six, Rayam Bridge your News Talk B.
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Speaker 2: We'll go to Callum Proctor and to need in first.
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Speaker 2: Colum good morning.
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Speaker 11: Oh no, you've got Courtney.
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Speaker 2: Courtney forgive me, Courtney love morning. You'll do Courtney. Good
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Speaker 2: to have you tell us what's going on there today.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 11: An Otaga University study shows young people with a neuro
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Speaker 11: developmental condition such as autism and an intellectual disability are
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Speaker 11: nearly five times more likely to die before the age
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Speaker 11: of twenty five than those without autistic Researcher and co
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Speaker 11: author Joanne Decombe says the main causes are medical issues,
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Speaker 11: injuries in suicide. She says it highlights the need for
20:24
Speaker 11: improved medical intervention, mental health and crisis support services. All right,
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Speaker 11: how's the weather partly cloudy, a few showers before clearing
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Speaker 11: this afternoon afternoon southerly's high of twenty one.
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Speaker 2: Nice Courtney, Thank you, Claire Sherwood and christ Judge this morning. Morning, Claire,
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Speaker 2: good morning. What's the school that's going to be stuck
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Speaker 2: with some really old classrooms?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, sixty five year old classrooms. In fact, this is
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Speaker 12: Burnside High School, in fact, our largest school here in
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Speaker 12: christ Church, which may be stuck with these old classrooms
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Speaker 12: for several years to come before its post quake rebuild
20:57
Speaker 12: can be finished. We have more than one hundred schools
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Speaker 12: that have already been rebuilt or refurbished since twenty and thirteen.
21:04
Speaker 12: More than one point sixty five billion dollars is in
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Speaker 12: this post quake repair program. It was originally due to
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Speaker 12: finish in twenty twenty. It's now been extended for various
21:13
Speaker 12: reasons through to twenty twenty eight and Burnside High is
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Speaker 12: one of the twelve still waiting and several of their blocks,
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Speaker 12: including the admin block and some classrooms, were deemed quake
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Speaker 12: prone last year. Principal Scott Haynes says the students definitely
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Speaker 12: are coping, but they are working in substandard facilities. He
21:31
Speaker 12: says they're having to use spaces that are in line
21:33
Speaker 12: for demolition in the meantime.
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Speaker 2: Not a great outcomers that. How's the weather.
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Speaker 12: Mainly fine, a bit of cloud increasing late this afternoon,
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Speaker 12: northwesterlies but warm.
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Speaker 13: Twenty eight Thanks Claire Max, Good morning to you, good morning,
21:45
Speaker 13: welcome back, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Good to be back. Most students at the school, this
21:48
Speaker 2: is the Measles school. They're all bangers in class. Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Kids and teachers at Wellington Girls College yesterday told they
21:56
Speaker 13: could come back to classes today in person. A lot
21:58
Speaker 13: of children years nine to eleven and a lot of
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Speaker 13: teachers have been doing online classes this week sort of
22:04
Speaker 13: an abundance of cautioned thing health and Z advice basically
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Speaker 13: was they could come in if they if the school
22:10
Speaker 13: deemed it okay, but the school taking a cautious approach
22:13
Speaker 13: telling them to stay home. This week three cases of
22:15
Speaker 13: measles at Girls College had been found a lot of
22:18
Speaker 13: close contracts hundreds. They were trying to stamp this thing out,
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Speaker 13: I think before it really gets going. The big scare
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Speaker 13: around a prize giving ceremony a couple of weeks ago,
22:26
Speaker 13: with some kids taking part who clearly had measles, the
22:29
Speaker 13: most at risk identified as prize winners, teachers handing out awards.
22:34
Speaker 13: A fear of measles spreading around this event, but most
22:37
Speaker 13: back in school today. Still a handful staying home, but
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Speaker 13: essentially back to normal. Beyond school assemblies have been canceled
22:44
Speaker 13: this week. The school's nurse has also been given swabs
22:47
Speaker 13: to test students who are unwell. But yeah, fingers crusted.
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Speaker 13: They've tackled, tackled this well.
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Speaker 2: Certainly haws you with him.
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Speaker 13: X mostly Cloudy's strong northerlyies today eighteen.
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Speaker 2: Hi, thank you very much Windy is and Orkland. This morning.
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Speaker 2: Good morning Wendy, lovely to see you. Our unemployment numbers
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Speaker 2: are right yesterday you've been taking a look at Auckland.
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Speaker 3: That's right well. Simon Bridges says the government has been
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Speaker 3: heeding his call to grow Auckland's economy While the national
23:13
Speaker 3: unemployment rate came out yesterday and it went from five
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Speaker 3: point two to five point three percent in the past quarter,
23:19
Speaker 3: the Auckland unemployment rate has remained steady at six point
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Speaker 3: one percent and August Bridges told z B the government
23:26
Speaker 3: needed to do more to address auckland surging unemployment. Three
23:29
Speaker 3: months on, the Auckland Business Chamber chief executive says the
23:32
Speaker 3: government has stepped up to the challenge. He says the
23:34
Speaker 3: government's made announcements about tourism, Visa's events funding, ASB Tennis
23:39
Speaker 3: Center funding and several other things that have helped the
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Speaker 3: Auckland economy.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you for that, Wendy. How's our weather?
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Speaker 6: Wow?
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Speaker 3: It was a warm yesterday.
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Speaker 10: Did you good?
23:48
Speaker 2: I got home from being down south and I got
23:51
Speaker 2: off the plane and I felt like I was in
23:52
Speaker 2: Fiji's heat way.
23:54
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I know we're all talking about it. Yesterday
23:57
Speaker 3: it was warm and sunny. Another one of those today
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Speaker 3: of an afternoon shower in northeasterlies and twenty four degrees.
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Speaker 2: Wendy, I've got this fan in my room because I'm
24:06
Speaker 2: I'm renting a house at the moment. From a long story,
24:09
Speaker 2: but in the bedroom with this fan, trying to work
24:12
Speaker 2: out if it's a heater or if it's a heating
24:15
Speaker 2: or a cooling device. Oh, very hard to tell.
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Speaker 3: One of those ones that goes around and around.
24:20
Speaker 2: It doesn't go around and around. It's like a tall thing. Yes,
24:23
Speaker 2: and you can't change the temperature. But there's a temperature
24:27
Speaker 2: read on the top, and I think what it's telling
24:29
Speaker 2: you is that is the temperature in the room, all right,
24:31
Speaker 2: But you don't actually know whether this thing is going
24:34
Speaker 2: to make that go up or down.
24:35
Speaker 3: Just give me a fan, I say, absolutely too confusing.
24:38
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Speaker 2: Let's go state sides. Of course, we have a new
26:29
Speaker 2: mayor of New York City who's garnering headlines, one because
26:31
Speaker 2: he's the first Muslim mayor of New York City, but
26:33
Speaker 2: also because in the financial capital of the world, arguably
26:37
Speaker 2: we have a socialist mayor to Greutie Dave is with
26:40
Speaker 2: me from Feature Story News this morning. Good morning morning.
26:44
Speaker 2: So he's just had a press conference. What's he's saying,
26:46
Speaker 2: do we know?
26:48
Speaker 14: Well, he has essentially been talking about the reasons why
26:52
Speaker 14: he's won. He's been taking questions and he is really
26:57
Speaker 14: you know, I think playing on that victory speech that
26:59
Speaker 14: he gave where he was talking about, you know how
27:02
Speaker 14: his campaign has defeated a dynasty, a political dynasty, talking
27:06
Speaker 14: about Andrew Coomo, his major rival, who got the backing
27:10
Speaker 14: of Donald Trump. Despite that Coomo didn't get you know,
27:14
Speaker 14: enough Republicans to go on board and you know, go
27:18
Speaker 14: vote for Coomo. And so, you know, I think this
27:21
Speaker 14: is a real shift in for the Democrats in many
27:24
Speaker 14: ways because they've been kind of in the wilderness a
27:27
Speaker 14: little bit since Donald Trump's election, and they're getting a
27:31
Speaker 14: little bit of you know, wind under their sales as
27:34
Speaker 14: looking forward to the midterms. And I think this is
27:37
Speaker 14: just sort of the momentum in New York. You know,
27:39
Speaker 14: it's this is what he's really been talking about. The
27:41
Speaker 14: cost of living is what zoron Mum Danny really rode on.
27:46
Speaker 14: And it's an indication that that is really what elections
27:49
Speaker 14: ride on. It's the economy, stupid, That's what we're always
27:51
Speaker 14: told and I think this election proves that that is
27:54
Speaker 14: still the case.
27:55
Speaker 2: And yet the Democrats aren't running towards some arms open,
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Speaker 2: are they. I mean, this is the awkward thing for them.
28:02
Speaker 2: They He's quite radical in terms of the political spectrum
28:06
Speaker 2: in the UIs so trying to present that and this
28:09
Speaker 2: is why the Republicans are trying to paint him as
28:11
Speaker 2: the defecto leader of the Democrats, right because it's better
28:15
Speaker 2: for them.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, this is the Democrats have always had this issue,
28:20
Speaker 14: you know, when you look at in primaries when Bernie
28:23
Speaker 14: Sanders was running, You've always had the left of the
28:25
Speaker 14: party and the so called moderates of the party wrestling
28:29
Speaker 14: as to the identity of the Democratic Party as a whole,
28:33
Speaker 14: and the things are on. Mum Danny is part of
28:36
Speaker 14: that conversation that the Democrats are going to be having.
28:38
Speaker 14: You know, people like Chuck Schumer didn't endorse Mumdani before,
28:43
Speaker 14: openly endorse Mumdany before his victory, and now is talking
28:48
Speaker 14: about how this is his victory and there's results results
28:50
Speaker 14: as a whole of Democratic candidates winning on different ballots
28:54
Speaker 14: in different ballots is a repudiation of Donald Trump. So
28:57
Speaker 14: they're really juggling with this idea of somebody who calls
28:59
Speaker 14: an unashamingly a Democratic socialist, who is you know, the
29:04
Speaker 14: city's first Muslim mayor, who is a prop immigrant. All
29:08
Speaker 14: of this is an identity. How do they grapple that
29:10
Speaker 14: with the moderates who are saying, well, we need to
29:11
Speaker 14: be making talking points they're going to be bringing over.
29:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Andrew Gritty appreciate that reporting this morning. Thank
29:18
Speaker 2: you Degreety Dave for US feature story in News US Correspondent.
29:21
Speaker 2: It is ten to.
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Speaker 1: Six Bryan Bridge.
29:23
Speaker 2: Unemployment up to five point three percent here at home Hire.
29:26
Speaker 2: Since twenty sixteen, one hundred and sixty thousand people jobless,
29:28
Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty four year olds fifteen point two percent.
29:32
Speaker 2: That's up from thirteen, just over thirteen in the year. Prior.
29:36
Speaker 2: Zenab Ali is CEO of Youth Inspired with me this morning, Zaynab,
29:40
Speaker 2: Good to have you on the show. Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
29:43
Speaker 2: Economists are saying this is the bottom of the rutch.
29:46
Speaker 2: We will come up from here. What are you seeing?
29:52
Speaker 15: Look, that's not how it feels on the ground at
29:56
Speaker 15: the moment, Ryan, So it's one to look at it.
30:02
Speaker 15: I suppose from a more academic point of view. We
30:05
Speaker 15: know these things are cyclic. It doesn't feel like it.
30:10
Speaker 15: We still have our local business partners and in the
30:15
Speaker 15: business community is still really struggling quarter at a time.
30:20
Speaker 15: We know that for us here in our region, a
30:26
Speaker 15: local business survey last month indicated that only twenty percent
30:31
Speaker 15: of businesses are hiring. So yeah, I hope that that's true.
30:39
Speaker 15: I've heard similar things in the past and it's gotten worse.
30:42
Speaker 15: But we're really feeling it on the ground at the moment,
30:45
Speaker 15: especially with our young rang Atahi.
30:48
Speaker 2: But that's the problem, isn't it that you've got We've
30:51
Speaker 2: been told so many times now that things are going
30:53
Speaker 2: to get better. It's almost like the boy who Cried.
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Speaker 15: Wolf, you know, yeah, exactly, and it's all in hindsight.
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Speaker 15: Oh well, you know this factor this situation. But I
31:05
Speaker 15: think it's not to make the situation, you know, a
31:11
Speaker 15: bad news story or for business confidence to go down.
31:15
Speaker 15: On the ground. Real people every day are really struggling,
31:19
Speaker 15: and I think I think there's a rhetoric out there
31:22
Speaker 15: Ryan there it's like, if you want to work, there's
31:26
Speaker 15: a job for you, and I can promise you that
31:29
Speaker 15: it's not the case.
31:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, not in all cases, one hundred percent. Zam Ali,
31:33
Speaker 2: really appreciate your time. This morning. It's CEO Youth Inspire.
31:36
Speaker 2: It's eight to sex. News Talks mb.
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Speaker 2: Thirty six on News Talks MB. SO the Chinese sent
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Speaker 2: three astronauts into space on the Shenzo twenty mission, and
31:57
Speaker 2: they have flown to the Chinese Space Station and April,
32:01
Speaker 2: and they were expected to come back today or yesterday.
32:04
Speaker 2: They're not coming. Something's gone wrong. Apparently they had a
32:07
Speaker 2: piece of space to breed. There's quite a lot of
32:08
Speaker 2: it in space, and that means that they have no
32:12
Speaker 2: return date to Earth and they're going to have to
32:15
Speaker 2: send someone from down here to go pick them up apparently,
32:18
Speaker 2: so good luck with that. It is five to.
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Speaker 16: Six, Bread Bread Morning, Mike morning.
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Speaker 2: Do you believe that that someone will pick them up?
32:25
Speaker 16: Well, it's just that Kim Kardashian, I note the other
32:27
Speaker 16: day if you've seen her new TV.
32:29
Speaker 2: Show, I've read the reviews. Apparently it's terrible.
32:31
Speaker 16: Shocking anyway, but lean close. I mean, it's not like
32:34
Speaker 16: they haven't pulled some big names now anyway.
32:36
Speaker 2: But one bad apple can bring down your whole back.
32:39
Speaker 16: Couldn't agree more Ryan anyway. Anyway. Anyway, Kim Kardashian doesn't
32:45
Speaker 16: believe in the moon landing. So I'm just wondering whether
32:47
Speaker 16: people If you don't believe in the moon landings, do
32:50
Speaker 16: you believe in people being up at space stations?
32:52
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose not.
32:53
Speaker 16: Well exactly, why do you bore us with a story?
32:55
Speaker 2: Well, I know it's I think it's real, or you
32:58
Speaker 2: think you and Kim Kardashian, I'm not saying I'm Chinese. Reckon.
33:01
Speaker 2: They're going to get to the moon and land a
33:03
Speaker 2: man there by twenty thirty. They haven't got long.
33:05
Speaker 16: No, they haven't. And that's the point. But for years
33:08
Speaker 16: and what's the point. What is the point? So you
33:10
Speaker 16: land land land of men?
33:12
Speaker 2: So what it's all the rare earth minerals.
33:15
Speaker 7: No they're not.
33:17
Speaker 16: They're not mining them.
33:18
Speaker 2: The plan is to mine the moon.
33:20
Speaker 16: They can't even land on them, if you believe Kim,
33:23
Speaker 16: they've never even gone.
33:24
Speaker 2: Do you know why they're taking so long? Because they're
33:26
Speaker 2: going to land with a massive dyson.
33:29
Speaker 16: Who will hoover up the uranium and bring it all back.
33:33
Speaker 2: It's not a spaceman. It's a mining mission.
33:35
Speaker 16: That's fantastic. Anyway. David Cohen, you know the book on Jinda.
33:39
Speaker 16: Oh yes, that's out and so he's giving his first
33:42
Speaker 16: interview this morning on that. So I'm in it extensively.
33:45
Speaker 2: Well congratulations, Well it'd.
33:47
Speaker 16: Be bestseller because of that, I suspect.
33:50
Speaker 2: Anyway. Good to have you back, Thank you, good to
33:52
Speaker 2: be back, Mike. Enjoy your day, everybody, see you tomorrow.
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