Full Show Podcast: 5 July 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Pressing the newsmakers to get the real story.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's Heather Duplicy Ellen drive with one New Zealand Let's
get connected.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Newstalk said, be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good afternoon.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Coming up on the show today, we're going to get
you across the UK election. It's a drubbing for the Tories.
No surprise, Auckland Council has voted against the government's speed increases.
We're going to speak to Councilor Richard Hills about that.
There is no monitoring going on it for Cardi White Island,
which is blowing out all the smoke at the moment,
which means we don't really know what's going on. Going
to speak to the mayor of Pakatani and the boss
of the company that makes Shortland Street.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Heather Duplicity Ellen.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, because Shorty Street's been saved today, it's going to
go down to three episodes a week. I reluctantly think
that saving Shortland Street was the right thing to do.
For now, what saved it is tax payer money, no surprises.
There three million dollars from New Zealand on air and
then it's also going to be eligible for a rebate
from the Screen Production Grant, which must be about what

(00:57):
like six or seven million dollars or something like that.
So that would mean that we're pumping in around about
ten million bucks in tax payer money to save a
soap opera. Now I'm reluctant to do this because I
generally do not think that we should be propping up
failing businesses, which is what Shortland Street is. If it
can't make a buck, it's because not enough people like
the product, in which case it should be allowed to die.

(01:17):
But I think there is an exception this time with
Shortland Street, because it might actually be possible that Shorty
may be able to pay its own way again, just maybe.
And the reason I say that is because Shorty Street
is not unpopular. Actually, it's got a lot of people
watching it now figures it's kind of hard to get
a handle on absolutely the latest figures. But the last

(01:38):
that I can see it from last year, and at
the time, seventy nine thousand people in the key demographic
were watching it on TV two. Now that is not impressive,
let me tell you, seventy nine thousand is not a
big number. But then you add in the streaming numbers
on TV and Z plus and that's four hundred and
fifty five thousand a week, and suddenly it becomes quite
impressive because now we're talking about more than five hundred
thousand people watching it, like well more than five hundred

(02:00):
people watching it. By comparison, at the same time, TVNZ's
News only earned one hundred and eighty streams on TV
one hundred and eighty thousand streams on TV and ZEN plus.
And even though the News has two extra episodes a
week right because it runs all week long, Shorty was
beating it two and a half times. So the problem
isn't that Shortland Street is unpopular. The problem is that
TV and Z hasn't figured out how to actually make

(02:21):
enough money from the people who are watching it online.
On TV and Z plus, it shows it knows. Rather,
this is tvns it. It knows how to get money
from TV two's ads, but it doesn't yet know how
to properly monetize what's going on online. Now, Shortland Street
is only guaranteed for next year, and beyond that there's
no guarantee. I don't know if a year and a
half is enough time for TV and Z to figure

(02:42):
out how to earn more money on the app, but
I hope it does because to be honest with you,
it would be a pity if we lose a show
that is still watched by that many Kiwis, and that
has actually trained some of our best acting talents Timywira, Morrison,
kJ Upper Thomas and Mackenzie, Craig Parker, Martin Henderson, Robin Malcolm,
all of whom have gone on to careers over Frankly, also,

(03:02):
and this is important, it is one of the few
shows left that actually reflects us Kiwi's back to ourselves
forgiven do for cel n nine two. You can let
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The Labor Party, no surprise at all, as predicted, have
won the UK general election. Tory leader Rishie Sunak has
conceded defeat.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
The Labor Party has won this general election and I
have called to Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.
The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight. There
is much to learn and reflect on and I take
responsibility for the loss.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I am sorry now.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Nigel Farage also this is a standout of the evening.
Nigel Farage has also won his seat in Collecton for
the Reform party. He's going to be in parliament now,
and our UK correspondent Peter Anderson is with us. Hey, Peter, happo,
good morning to you. How big is the landslide then?

Speaker 6 (03:53):
It is looking as though it is going to be considerable.
We had confirmation just ten minutes ago that Labor had
reached the threshold of three hundred and twenty six seats,
which meant that they would have a majority in our parliament.
As we speak, Sirkir Starmer, the Labor leader until today,
the opposition leader, is actually addressing his supporters in central London.

(04:15):
He's talking about change beginning now. He's talking about providing
service to the working people looking forward and as the
sun rises just after five am here in the UK,
he's talking about the sunlight of hope. What we are expecting,
based on figures so far, is that Labor will end
up with about four hundred and ten seats in the
six hundred and fifty seat parliament, which will give it

(04:38):
a whopping majority of one hundred and seventy seats in parliament.
By comparison, the Conservatives are looking to have shed more
than two hundred seats and will be a rather lowly
one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty MPs at most.
This has been Labour's day and we are looking at
an historic day with Sirkir starmer curR addressing a very

(05:01):
celebratory crowd at his party headquarters.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Right, we have got some big names who've lost their seats,
Jacob Breeze, Bog, Penny Morden. Can we call it a
blood bath?

Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yet?

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Interestingly Penny Mordant has been seen as a potential leader
of the Conservative Party, as a potential future prime minister,
that she has lost her seat, as you say, other
big hitters to go include the Defense Secretary Grant Shapps,
who has been beaten by Labor in his constituency. And
what was very telling Heather in his comments when he,

(05:34):
i suppose responded to his defeat, He talked about the
soap opera of internal divisions within the Conservative Party. He
talked about indulgent squabbling within the Conservatives and very much
pointing the thing at leadership, saying things have to change.
There have been other comments also made about the Conservatives
and how they've been out of touch and how they

(05:55):
have let down the general public. And you mentioned before
Nigel Faragege has been the thorn in the side of
the Conservative Party. The former Brexit party is now Reform UK.
He is the leader and as a right of center party,
he has been taking support away from the Conservatives, splitting
that area of the electorate and that very much has

(06:17):
let Labor into power. Many people have said Labour didn't
so much as win this election, it was the Conservatives
who lost it, and Nigel Farage and his Reform UK
were there making sure that the Conservatives lost it really
quite convincingly.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
What do you make of Jeremy Corbyn beating Labor.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
It's an interesting one. Jeremy Corbyn was the former Labor
leader who was thrown out of the party over recent
months he decided to stand in his Islington seat in
North London as an independent. He has been the MP
there for forty years and he has won. He has
beaten Labor now standing as an independent. I think it's
the fact that he is seen as a very solid

(06:58):
constituency MP meant that he won convincingly in that constituency.
But I think when we come to Parliament he is
going to be a problem for the Labor Party. He
will be sniding from the sidelines. He will be giving
them a tough time and he will put pressure on
the party to move to the left. They won't do that,
but he will be a voice very much critical of

(07:21):
any Centrist policies as he sees them having.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Peter, it is very good to talk to you. Thank
you very much for wrapping that up for us, as
Peter Anderson our UK correspondent. Now Nigel Farage right, happy
day for him because as you just heard, he's finally
won his seat. And when I say finally, that's because
this is literally hits eighth time trying to get into
Parliament and things have gone his way this time pretty
big majority. Last time I had a look, he at

(07:45):
twenty one thousand votes to about thirteen thousand votes. The
guy that he knocked out soon after claiming victory, he
trained his guns on labor.

Speaker 8 (07:52):
There's no enthusiasm for Starma whatsoever. In fact, about half
of the vote is simply an anti conservative vote. This
labor government will be in trouble very very quickly, and
we will now be targeting labor votes. We're coming for labor,
being no doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
And the fact that he's managed to win this convincingly
is actually remarkable given you one decided to run about
a month ago.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
I will say this, it's four weeks and three days
since I decided to come out of retirement and throw
my hat in the ring. Given that we had no money,
no branch structure, virtually nothing across the country. We are
going to come second in hundreds of constituencies. How many
things we're going to win? I don't know which We've

(08:38):
done this in such a short space of time. Says
something very fundamental is happening.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Well Chicken in the next hour or so with somebody
in the UK, just to give us a rep on
how the Reform Party this Nigel Faraga's party is actually doing.
This evening at sixteen.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
Past four, digging deeper into the day's headlines, it's hither
dupla clan drive with one New Zealand giant leaf for business.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Us dogs be all right with me right now? We've
got Jason Pine weekend sport host. Hey piney good I Heather,
Hey are people's physic you're in Dunedin?

Speaker 2 (09:08):
You are?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
I A.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
I think they are.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
Yeah. I think people are very excited. I flew down
this morning from Wellington and I think the entire plane
was basically going to the Rugby tomorrow night, So a
lot of excitement heading into the city down here. Beautiful
day today and meant to be okay tomorrow. There's a
roof on the stadium anyway, so it won't particularly matter
if there's a bit of rain or anything like that.
But yeah, I think a lot of people are really
fizzing about the first test of not only the year,

(09:34):
but of Scott Robertson's tenure as head coach of.

Speaker 12 (09:37):
The All Black.

Speaker 11 (09:37):
So yeah, I think there's a real buzz around.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
What do you make because I haven't even had a
chance to have a chat to you about the squad
that's been announced, what do you make of it?

Speaker 6 (09:45):
I like it.

Speaker 11 (09:46):
It was pretty predictable, rarely. The only surprise was Stephen
Petafetta at fallback ahead of Voden Barrett. I think most
people pick the bulk of this team and the reserves
are no debutants in the team or in the twin three,
which is rare. Normally at the start of any year,
and particularly at the start of a new coaching tenure,
you get a few new faces, but nobody's going to

(10:06):
deboot tomorrow night. I think it's a squad that's basically
designed to go out there and make sure that they
get the job done so that the Scott Robertson era
gets off to a good start. He's gone the experience
and I like it. I think it's a good team.
There's probably not a lot that most people would have
changed in the fifteen or in the twenty three.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yeah, I think you're probably right there. Hey, are you
surprised the Tall Blacks have been knocked out of the Olympics.

Speaker 11 (10:30):
Not really. This is a tough road for them. They
had to win a six team tournament. There was only
one spot up for grabs. It's kind of one of
those last chance tournaments. They came up against Slovenia this morning.
I've got one of the best players on the planet
and Luka Doncic in their ranks. They had a world
ever gain. New Zealand weren't really ever going to get
close to Herm or them, and unfortunately, for what seems

(10:52):
like an age now, we're not going to have a
Tall Blacks team at the Olympics.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Something.

Speaker 11 (10:55):
Last time the men's team went to the Olympics was
two thousand and four. So yeah, over twenty years and
we wait for another four years now, but no, no,
great surprise. That's not a shame.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, Piney, thank you so much. Enjoy the game tomorrow night.
That's Jason Pine who's of course the host of weekend Sport,
Midday Tomorrow and Sunday her own news talk z'b Keirstarma's
just spoken after rishis soon at conceded defeat.

Speaker 13 (11:17):
Thank you so much for that reception. What an amazing reception.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
We did it.

Speaker 13 (11:24):
You campaign for it, you've fought for it, you've voted
for it, and now it has arrived. Change begins now
and it feels good. I have to be honest.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
Oh my gosh, how boring is it?

Speaker 14 (11:38):
Like?

Speaker 4 (11:38):
How boring is that it fails?

Speaker 14 (11:41):
Way?

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Did it?

Speaker 6 (11:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
This is what you've voted for UK. You're gonna have
to live with this nonsense for five years. On the
future of the country, he says, a weight has been
lifted off their shoulders.

Speaker 13 (11:51):
Across our country, people will be waking up to the
news relieved that a weight has been lifted, a burden
finally removed from the shoulders of this great nation, shining
once again on a country with the opportunity after fourteen years,

(12:13):
to get its future back, gets.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Its future back good luck for twenty two hard.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Questions, strong opinion Heather due for see Ellen Drive with
one New Zealand Let's Get Connected and news talk zid be.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Oh dear here that the UK has done it now,
haven't though they've elected a real cabbage as the country's leader.
To be fair to them, though it wasn't a flash scenario,
was it like? It wasn't like they were spoiled for choice.
It was a cabbage or I would consider more of
a cardboard cutout man as that versus Rishi, who has
got to be one of the worst politicians you've ever
seen actually trying to do the job. So you know,

(12:49):
I thought some prayers to them. And anyway, look, you
know you read about Kirstarmer. The the guy's had a
pretty good career as a lawyer. He's he seems to
have a fairly good idea, like a fairly good management style.
Maybe he can actually turn the thing around. We' give
him a chance. It's just going to be really boring
while getting there at least, But to be fair, to
be fair, all of the fun is going to be
brought by the US, so the UK can be steady

(13:10):
and stable and boring in the US is just going
to be an absolute riot after the next selection four
twenty five. Speaking of which, it's now being reported that
Joe Biden told those Democratic governors that he met with
yesterday that he actually just needs to get more sleep.
That's now the problem.

Speaker 15 (13:25):
So what is it?

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Cold jet lag sleep? Also, he's told them that he's
told them that he's told his staff to avoid scheduling
events for him after eight pm. Now, notably, I think
that debate was at nine pm, so after eight pm,
no go anymore. And apparently this came up in the
meeting because the governor of Hawaii, who's a chap called

(13:46):
Josh Green, who actually has a longtime doctor who's been
working in emergency rooms and stuff, so he knows his business,
he asked Biden about his physical condition when he was
at the meeting, and Biden said, no, no, he's had
the medical checkup since the debate, totally fine, just needs
more sleep. And here's the important thing to know about that.
Why do we know what happened in that meeting Because
somebody in the meeting leaked it. And if they keep

(14:06):
leaking about what Biden's saying, it's really not helping him.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
At all, is it?

Speaker 4 (14:11):
He's an interesting fact about to Marty Martin. Anyway, we're
going to talk to Dan Mitchenson, I should say he'll
be with us shortly and talk us through what the
latest is with the Biden situation. To Mighty Martin. Now,
I didn't know this about Tomrity Martin because of course
I'm a bandwagoner, so I'm new to the NRL and
the Warriors. But here's a fact about him you might
not have known as well to Mighty Martin, who everybody
loves at the minute because he's doing the number seven

(14:32):
extremely well, in fact, better than Shawn Johnson while carrying
an injury. To Mighty Martin actually retired from NRL about
four years ago. He was only twenty four years old,
but he had a bleed on his brain, and so
what he did was he said, that's it, I can't
do rugby league anymore. Had to put himself like his
physical condition first. So he went off to his batch
to hunt and fish, and he basically lived that lifestyle
for more than a year, and by then he'd recovered

(14:54):
sufficiently to be able to go back to the NRL.
So he went back. He went to the Brisbane Broncos
signed with the Warriors last year and the rest of
his history. Look at the guy now, Heather Shortland Street
can be profitable if everything that they do on screen,
like the clothes and the furniture and the appliances in
the day courts and everything is provided by sponsors and
available on an as seen on TV online shop, that's
not a bad idea. You know, the old subtle product placement.

(15:17):
You know, when you're watching a movie and they pick
up a can of Coca Cola and it's just amazing,
how like the can is tilted right towards the camera
and you can see the Coca Cola Britton. Or they drive,
I don't know, like a land Rover and the land
Rover badge is like prominent as the car drives in.
That's all really really subtle stuff that makes the old
dollars not a bad idea.

Speaker 9 (15:37):
Headline's next, digging deeper into the day's headlines, it's Heather
Duper c Alan drive with one New Zealand let's get
connected and use dogs at best.

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Whether I would pay to be a one time extra
on Shortland Street, a patient in a waiting room, a
courier delivering important lab tests for Doctor Rupatter anything Simon
massive fan obviously. Actually, do you know what I was.
I was a extra on Shortland Street I think twice
when I was about seventeen years old, as in my
last I think it was my last year at school,
and I think it was one of my girlfriends who
wrote me along. She got called in as an extra

(16:25):
and she made me come along as like that was
like BYO friend anyway, So I stuffed it up for
them really badly. I got on so much trouble with
them because the first time was okay, but then the
second time it was like working with actors is like
working with dogs and children, right, Like nothing goes to
plan and they always overshoot the schedule and they're always
filming later. But unfortunately this says a lot about me.

(16:50):
What a do we Unfortunately my stepfather had booked a
table for us at a Michael Cullen's speech for that
evening because he was still the Finance Minister.

Speaker 16 (16:59):
And so is not going where I okay carry on,
And so I.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Had to go to the people who were running the
show at Shortland Street and be like, guys, I cannot
be an extra and I can't be an extra because
I've got to go listen to Michael Cullen speak. So
I had to be pulled into this meeting and it
went on for like half an hour and I was
late for Michael Cullen anyway, But yeah, I stuffed up there, Controlary.

Speaker 16 (17:19):
I thought you were making it up. You were like, oh,
I really want to go yeahians speak and they're like okay, they.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Were like, you want to go to a party and
get absolutely slammed, don't you know? I wanted to go
see Michael Cullen speak. So anyway, there's my story about
one time, well twice times, being on Shortland Street famous.

Speaker 7 (17:32):
Did you know that?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Anyway, Auckland Council, this is bizarre. I feel like Auckland
Council is trying to make a point here with opposing
the government's plan to raise the speed limits. Right, So
the government so Labor made it possible for us to
drop all made it possible and kind of force the
hand of everybody and forced all the speed limits down, right,
And they drive your nuts, don't they, Because there's no
reason why you need to be going eighty k's in it,

(17:55):
or even fewer sometimes sixty k's on a road that
can handle you going at one hundred on a straight road, right,
So anyway in comes sam and Brown. He says, now
we'll go back to the way that it used to
be and you could get around the place a little
bit faster and more timely Mann and be more productive
and stuff. And Auckland councils like nay, we might need
to stay slow. So eighteen to three they have said
notice simeon Brown's plan. Saman Brown also wanted to have

(18:16):
variable speed limits around the school so that when school
is going in and coming out and whatever else they're
doing at that point you have to slow down with
for the rest of the day and the weekend. At
ten o'clock at night you could go as you know,
as fast as it normally is lowed. They also voted
against that twelve to eleven. So we're gonna have a
chat to Richard Hill's a counselor who will be with
us about that around about ten past five. Right now,
it's twenty two away from five.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
It's the world wires on news talks. They'd be drive.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
There's been Wall's Wall coverage of the UK election across
world media today. Labour's first big winner the night was
in the bell where the seat of Swindon South, Labour
candidate Hidi Alexander won the seat of Conservative incumbent Robert Buckland.
He is hiding send Then tonight we got our future back.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
You voted for change, a changed Labor party, change our
country for the better.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, the Conservative Party had been doing really badly as expected.
The Leader of the House, Penny Morden, is one of
the many Tories who are now out of a job.
Here some of her concession speech.

Speaker 17 (19:17):
You can speak all you like of security and freedom,
but you can't have either if you are afraid, afraid
about the cost of living or accessing healthcare, or whether
the responsibility you shoulder will be recognized and rewarded.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
And that is why we lost.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
And finally, NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brown has recovered as
championship ring after he lost it at the Boston Celtics
victory parade. Now the ring is one of a kind,
has his sportswear brand Juice engraved on it. So when
Jalen realized that he lost, and he promised a reward
on social media to whoever could get it back to him,
two fans found the ring. They met up with one
of Jalen's team to return it, and after they handed

(20:02):
it over, Jalen himself jumped out of the limo to
surprise them with signed jerseys, basketballs, and courtside seats for
the first game of next season.

Speaker 18 (20:09):
Is it?

Speaker 19 (20:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
International correspondents with so we have s international correspondents with
ends and eye insurance, peace of mind for New Zealand business.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Heather Auckland councilors to do as it bloody Well is told, Oh,
couldn't agree more with us?

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Right now?

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Is Dan Mitchinson, US correspondent Ello Dan, Hello, Heather, So,
US pride is at a record low, and I think
we can guess why.

Speaker 20 (20:34):
Why do you think?

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Well, do you want to blame Trump because I want
to blame Biden?

Speaker 21 (20:39):
Well, I think it's both actually, to tell you the truth,
I think, like everything else these days, it's kind of
split down party lines. Republicans, according to this new study,
are more proud of the American than Democrats and independence
About two and five say they're extremely proud. And that's
about the same, maybe a little lesson we've seen in
the last five years. But once you an know the

(21:00):
weeds here on this thing, and there are a lot
of weeds. What it boils down to is that I
think pride is at the lowest we've seen on record,
and even for Republicans, the pride levels down to the
lowest point.

Speaker 20 (21:10):
That it's been. So part of this survey is a
little vague, and.

Speaker 21 (21:13):
I think it can be interpreted in different ways depending
on the party that you know you support. It could
be the economy, it could be the inflation, it could
be how the US and the presidential candidates have come
across on the world stage.

Speaker 20 (21:23):
I mean, there's a number of different reasons.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I imagine that it's going to continue to track down
regardless of who wins the next election. But on Biden,
has he now asked them to bring that interview they're
going to do. They're doing the interview today, but it
was only supposed to play out in full on Sunday.
Has he asked them to bring that forward?

Speaker 20 (21:38):
Well, that's apparently the reason right now.

Speaker 21 (21:40):
I mean, this is going to be televised tomorrow our
time in primetime and obviously a follow up to that
the Behoor showing he had last week on the presidential
debate on CNN. He's going to be interviewed by George Stephanopoulos,
and they were going to break this into a number
of parts, with the main part airing over the week
and next week. But now they're doing it. You know,

(22:03):
about three days earlier. They are going to offer a
transcript of the unedited interview that's going to be made available.
But I think it's interesting again, and we mentioned this
before the fact that this is going to be recorded,
and this is going to be edited in a way
that ABC probably would like to see it edited. George Stephanopoulos,
you know, he's he's a former Clinton aid right now.

Speaker 20 (22:27):
I mean, there's a number of reasons why.

Speaker 21 (22:29):
It would be nice to see the president do this live, uninterrupted,
not edited that way. Nobody can say, well, the network
try to spin it this way, or the network try
to spin it that way.

Speaker 4 (22:40):
Is George Steffanopless going to go hard on him?

Speaker 21 (22:43):
You know, I hope he does. And you know what
I've got to tell you, I've been kind of disappointed.
I've been very disappointed that there hasn't been a single
interview that I've seen with Biden where the interviewer really
presses him about why he feels the need to run
at his agent, Why why feels the need to support him.
You know, everything points to a person who obviously is
in a for this job and who has now said
that he wants to get to bed by eight o'clock,

(23:04):
so he's going to cancel appointments and events after that time.
I just don't understand why a solid journalist just does
not ask these questions of the President of the United
States unless you're afraid will If I'm going to ask this,
I'm not going to have access to him in the future.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's a very good point. Actually, yeah, I mean, like,
I think a lot of a lot risks on this
for George Stephanopolis as well, so hopefully he does go
had So it turns out that there is a benefit
to all the teenagers being unable to use a manual
car like what you guys would call a stick shift,
because it means I can't nick kill car if it's
got a stick sift.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
How good.

Speaker 21 (23:36):
That's one of the main reasons. It's also very frustrating
because when you come over stay to New Zealand as
I have, and I can.

Speaker 20 (23:41):
Drive a stick shift.

Speaker 21 (23:42):
I just can't drive a stick shift when it's on
the other side, when I have to use.

Speaker 20 (23:46):
My left hand, Oh yeah, as to my right hand. Yeah,
so I can't do that.

Speaker 21 (23:50):
But only eighteen percent of American drivers can handle this
right now, and it is easier to learn to drive
with than automatic.

Speaker 20 (23:56):
Schools are not teaching us over here anymore.

Speaker 21 (23:59):
If you go though to New Zealand or Europe, the UK,
most places in the world, you'll find more stick shifts
than automatics.

Speaker 20 (24:06):
They're a lot less expensive to rent.

Speaker 21 (24:08):
There's often a shortage of automatics, so that causes a
big problem during tourism season. And it's a really little
tiny thing. But when you look at it, and especially
with the shortages that we still are seen because of
the pandemic, even if you're looking to buy right now,
it's the manual transmissions that are more affordable, especially if
you're a first time buyer. Kids aren't being taught how
to drive these cars, so they can't afford to get

(24:29):
into that new car and are having to wait later
to buy that first clunker.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Interesting headn't thought of that, hey, Dan, Thank you very much.
Enjoy your weekend. Dan Mitchison, US correspondent. Do you want
to know how bad the Tory drubbing is? This is
how bad it is. This is the reaction from the
Sky News UK's team when they saw the exit polls
for the first time. You can see, Yeah, that's a

(25:01):
lot of surprise noises. There are a quarter two politics.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
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Speaker 4 (25:08):
Barry soopou seing your political correspondence with us, Hey, Barry,
good afternoon. So Stammers the new Prime Minister of the UK,
and Luxem meets him pretty early next week.

Speaker 19 (25:15):
Well, yes, he is likely to meet him next week.
It was interesting just before Richie Sunac conceded defeat, Luxon
was playing it very careful down on Ashburton.

Speaker 22 (25:27):
That's up to the UK people to decide who they
elect as their leaders and their government. My job as
a New Zealand Prime Minister is to work with every
leader that our partner countries are delivered. I'm very confident
we have a very good relationship with whichever leader the
UK people decide. My job is to make sure I've
got good relationships with all leaders.

Speaker 19 (25:46):
So he'll no doubt bump into Joe Biden at the
NATO seventy fifth summit next week in Washington, DC, although
Biden probably won't know it, but he is the new
Zealand Prime Minister. Keir Starmer will have a formal meeting
with Biden. And really the first month if you look

(26:09):
at the schedule for Starmer is pretty full on. I
mean he'll only be sworn in I would imagine, you know,
over the next twenty four hours if that. But so
certainly there's a lot of diplomatic meetings, the ones with
Joe Biden.

Speaker 21 (26:27):
He will.

Speaker 19 (26:29):
Basically see the French prime of French President Emmanuel Macron,
although Macron was very much under threat himself. He's hosting
at Blenham Palace near Oxford European Political Community meeting that

(26:50):
Macron will be at, so too will Germany's Chancellor. He'll
be there as well. So you know, for a man
who has just become private minister, it's pretty heavy hitting
stuff for him. Straight into interesting background he's got, isn't he.
I mean, he was a Marxist when he was younger,
he was a lawyer. But he came from a very

(27:11):
working class family. His mother was a nurse. His father
worked in a factory, and the father always felt that
he was locked down on because he worked in a factory.
That's probably why he was such a lefty in his
younger days. He's an atheist, an interesting character.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
But married to a woman who was Jewish and observes
the faith by.

Speaker 19 (27:33):
The looks, observes the faith. Yes, And you know, for
the first time now in fourteen years, we're going to
see a change of government. Let's only hope that the
Labor Party is better than the one that.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
We saw here, the last expression that we had to
go through. Yeah, listen, speaking of the Labor Party, what
do you make of their listening exercise trying to figure
out what went wrong in Auckland.

Speaker 19 (27:54):
Well, you know, I think most Aucklanders could tell Labor
what went wrong here, and that was that the city
was locked down long, much longer than it should have
been during the COVID Outbruk.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
And there was also the crime afterwards. Remember I mean
we were hassling them about the crime and doing something
about the crime. We had Sandrigham dari and a stab
to death. And meanwhile, Jinny Anderson's telling us crime is
not a problem, We're just reporting more of it.

Speaker 19 (28:17):
That's exactly right. And of course, essentially I think really
he was coming this, Chris Hopkins was coming at it
from a very difficult perspective because he's a Willington MP
and he talked a lot when he was here for
the past with his MPs, talked a lot about visiting

(28:40):
the city during the COVID lockdown. He was the COVID
Minister as well. So you know, really Labour's got a
lot of work to do in the city. When you
look at the or the green wave, I was going
to say Auckland Central was the only one that the
green and blue wave totally a blue wave when you
look get some of those seats that traditionally like Roscall

(29:04):
it was very much labor then changed. So yeah, it's
been an interesting time here in this city. And no
doubt hopefully the Labor MPISA was thirty out of the
thirty four of them that visited here over the past
two and a half days. When they go back to Wellington,
hopefully they have a lot to reflect on because I
remember being here during that lockdown and just In Dern

(29:27):
hadn't even visited her own electorate enough enough.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
You started, you were just starting up there. You go, Hey,
how good is it? The first first lot of the
cancer drugs because of David Cymore's big money announcement.

Speaker 19 (29:41):
Yeah, and it's great. Key Truder is the obviously going
to be one of the early ones as well as
Devo for kidney cancer, but Truder for the five cancer conditions.
And I know, you know, I had a personal friend
that spent thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars dollar

(30:01):
buying the drug because Farmac wasn't financing it, and many
people were in that situation. So you know, it's great
to see that by October Key Truda will probably be
funded by Farmac. And you know, you'd have to say that, okay,
the list that finally National came up with or presented

(30:22):
to Farmac at being carried out cancer patients will be
I think very thankful for the six hundred odd million
that the government side.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
I would say, so, yeah, thank you, Barry, really appreciate
a Bary Sovising your political correspondent. We'll get your ba
quarter past sex Rap. The political week that was, it's
coming up seven away from five.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers, the mic asking breakfast.

Speaker 23 (30:44):
The government's new housing plan funger Amia Vince Cocarillas, whether
if the developers see are profit in it, they will
do the infrastructure.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
Is that fair?

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Or not.

Speaker 24 (30:52):
What we've done in a wally, infrastruction needs to be
in putting place and villain contraditions. There are some councils
for Dorantee of that we do so developed says Ok,
I'm going to do told in this area and we've
put the price on each property. So I letting going
towards the infrastructure in that area. I have to complete
that project so then it actually well, so the points
to be upgraded, the roads to be upgraded and all
that side of the things.

Speaker 23 (31:12):
You almost sound like you've got erect together in fung arravements.

Speaker 24 (31:15):
Well, it's been working on it a long time, like
a lot of time.

Speaker 23 (31:19):
Back Monday from six am the Mike Husking Breakfast with
Jaguar News Talk zb HEA.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
The Auckland Council is slowing down commerce and business. Simmy
and Brown should reclassify all major arterial roads in Auckland
to state highways and remove the authority for Auckland Council
to get set those speed limits. As from callum hither
I got a ticket for going fifty past the school
and the school holidays once. I mean, so this is
what Auckland Council has just voted for. They have just
voted to have like what is it forty or thirty?

(31:47):
I don't even know anymore. You're going to have to
go at that speed past the school, even in the
school holidays, even at ten o'clock on a Sunday night.
That's just stupid, isn't it.

Speaker 16 (31:56):
Auckland Council.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Anyway, Richard heilsbeo. Thus shortly he's a else so he
can explain that to us. Boden Barrett, you've got to
give it to the man for grace, say like he's
been so generous towards Raser. He says, Raiser has made
the right call overlooking him for the starting squad. That
must have been pretty tough because I mean what he
missed out on two spots, he said, Razer gave me
a heads up earlier in the week, and he's selecting

(32:18):
said he's selecting d mac and Stevie that Stephen Perafetter
and obviously Damien McKenzie based basically on their form and
Super Rugby. And I fully supported it, said Boden Barrett.
And I acknowledged it's important to do so because they
deserve their opportunities. So anyway, we're going to have a
chat to Liam Napier, who's The Herald's rugby writer. He's
been in the All Blacks camp. Well, he's been aware
of what's going on inside the All Blacks camp ahead

(32:38):
of their test against England this week. It's going to
talk us through it because of course they're going to
play tomorrow night. I don't know what you're planning to
do at seven o'clock. Hey, Spira thought for TV three
by the way, because it's the last night for TV three,
so rip news Hub tonight and then tomorrow it's the Stuff.
Stuff is starting the program right, Stuff is launching on
a Saturday. The Warriors are on at five o'clock. They

(33:00):
won't be wrapping up till seven. The All Blacks are
starting at seven oh five. Ain't nobody going to be
watching the first Stuff, Bullets and Right except for obviously
all of the critical people who want to see all
the mistakes anyway, and that will be me and I
will tell you all about it. We're going to the
UK next to find out exactly how well or otherwise.
Nigel Farage has done news talks by.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
The only drive show you can trust to ask the questions,
get the answers by the backs and give the analysis.
Heather Dole Celan drive with One New Zealand Let's get connected.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
A news talk as b.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Afternoon. The Labor Party has officially won the UK election,
with Sir Kia Starman now the Prime Minister in waiting
outgoing Prime Minister Rishisunak has promised a peaceful transfer of
power today.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner,
with goodwill on all sides. That is something that should
give us all confidence in our country's stability and future.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Meanwhile, reformerly to Nigel Farage's back, he's finally become an
MP on his eighth attempt at doing it. Henry Riley
is presenter and report for LBC's been collected with Nigel
Farage as the results came in high Henry, Hello, it's
a pretty convincing victory for Nigel Farage, isn't.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
It It is?

Speaker 10 (34:14):
I mean, there were a sort of palpable excitement just
before ten o'clock when the exit pole came in and
it looked like Nigel Farage and his party had done
pretty well. To have to say, they were absolutely cockerhoop
when they arrived at the count they were buzzing and
in many ways rightly so this is a new political party.
It's only been going for five years. Previously it was

(34:35):
called the Brexit Party, but now Reform UK has been
that name since January twenty twenty one. They have won
at least four seats. We know the Exit pole had
predicted them to win thirteen. They'll settle for four. One
source within the party told me will definitely take that.
And crucially though, among that number is Nigel Farage. And

(34:56):
it's difficult to underscore just how important that is. This
is the beating heart of his party here in Clacton.
He is a disruptor. He is the itch that the
Conservatives just cannot scratch. They cannot get rid of mister
Farrage and obviously seven previous attempts at being an MP. Well,

(35:16):
voters in Clacson waking up this morning and Nigel Farage
is now heading to the House of Commons.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
It's pretty remarkable that they've managed to get to this place,
given that it was only three days and a month
that he'd ago that he decided to run. How on
earth does he managed to.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Do it well?

Speaker 10 (35:33):
I mean, when the election was announced, Nigel Farrage, who
was only the sort of honorary President of Reformed UK.
Whilst he set up the party, he wasn't really involved,
and there was all this speculation he was going to
go and work for Donald Trump or go in campaign
to mister Trump, and he ruled himself out. He said
six weeks is not enough time for me to win
my seat. And then a few days later I think

(35:54):
the anticipation. Nigel Farage clearly had been yearning to get
into the House of Commons and this was too good
an opportunity to throw away. He knew the Conservatives were
at perhaps the lowest point we may well see them
in the next one hundred years or so, and so
Nigel Farage smelt blood and he went for it.

Speaker 25 (36:13):
And I mean he ran a fantastic campaign nationally, hence
why he's gone from zero to four seats and here
in Collecton in particular, he's managed to galvanize voters and
head to the House of Commons and look, he's got
a tull order.

Speaker 10 (36:27):
He's made a lot of promises. He's going to hold
Labour sphink to the fire on the issue of small votes.
He's got a long list of priorities that he wants
to see implemented clearly with four MPs, contrasting with Labours
four hundred odds is going to be a bit of
a tull order. But the one thing about Nigel Farage
I referenced it earlier. He is a disruptor. He knows

(36:47):
how to make noise. He did it for years, for
decades in the European Parliament. He wants to bring that
to the House of Commons, to make as much noise
as possible and to be a thorn in the side
of the Conservatives, but also crucially kirst Armor and his
new Labor governments.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Good stuff, Henry, thank you so much for your time.
Henry Riley, LBC presenter. El Auckland Council has voted to
oppose the government's plans to lift speed limits where they
used to be. The council also voted to keep the
lowest speed limits outside schools at all times of the
day rather than the variable times that the government wanted.
Auckland Council of Richard Hills, as with been our have.

Speaker 18 (37:21):
Richard, sure, how are you well?

Speaker 24 (37:23):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Okay, let's start with the school speeds. Why did you
oppose the variable speeds?

Speaker 18 (37:27):
So it's not that we're opposing the variable speeds. The
plan that we approved last year unanimously was about half
variable and half safe speed zone. So it depended on
the school, It depended on the full con transport thought
that an arterial needed variables, etc. So what we opposed
was removing all the ones we've done before and also
not having the option to put in a safe speed

(37:48):
zone if we want it. There are lots of schools
who are areas that you know, I think of about
eighty percent of our schools asked for the safe speed zones.
They won't all get it, but under the minister's directive
it would have given us only one choice.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
But is this to say that if you have already
decided that outside of school you have to slow down
to thirty or forty or whatever, it stays like that,
it does not become variable.

Speaker 18 (38:10):
Well, no, this is our feedback to the minister. So
the Minister sounds pretty clear that he thinks eighteen out
of twenty one councilors, including the mayor and Deputy mayor,
are wrong. So it sounds like he may plow ahead.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
So what you guys are doing, you're not actually vetoing him.
You'll just feeding back to him. He actually gets the
final call, does he.

Speaker 18 (38:30):
Yeah, And our view is that as the road controlling authority,
it should be our call based on evidence, whether we
put them in or out. And that's why it's about
half half. You know, it's not it doesn't. I've got
schools that want the safe stones where wal contrants would
have said no, they'll be variable, and they're grumpy at that.
But what the minister's saying is we shouldn't have that choice.
That should all be up to him, and councils are
sort of saying, well, actually it should be up to councils,

(38:52):
much like three orders for the last government.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
Did you oppose lifting the speed limits back to where
they used to be based on the safety data that
you guys have had provided for you by apply consultants.

Speaker 18 (39:03):
Partially to do with that, but also because we didn't.
There's a confusion out there that the government forced a
t to just blanket approve it. It was done area
by area, and then you know, local boards nominated roads
they wanted, and then schools put themselves forward and things
were put in place. So what we're saying is we
don't want to spend twelve million dollars reversing all of

(39:24):
those back to nothing, sorry, back to the original speed,
and then going through another process. What we're saying is,
if there are areas that desperately think this is wrong,
we could revisit it. Local boards could ask AT to
change them. But what you know, we don't think it.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
If a local board asks AT to change them, will
AT change them all byby decks about it.

Speaker 18 (39:44):
No, they will look at it and look at the data.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
And like Richard, nobody AT shouldn't get a say on anything.
They suck at their job.

Speaker 18 (39:54):
Well, it's not this is the thing everyone thinks it's AT.
We've got eighty percent of schools after for this, and
then sometimes those schools. You know, I've got a school
in my area where I've got a labor MP, a
national MP and an active MP who've advocated for a
safe speed zone that actually AT have turned around and said, no,
it's an arterial road.

Speaker 11 (40:11):
It needs to stay a variable.

Speaker 18 (40:13):
So you've got lots of communities that want one thing
or another, and all we're saying is that local councils
should choose and not be forced into a blanket approach
where we have to raise them all.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Back to Richard, what they were.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Yeah, thank you for your time, mate, really appreciated and
enjoy your weekend. That's Richard Hill's Auckland City councilor the
reason I asked him about the report by Apply Consultants
is because that is what Auckland Council will continue to
reference as showing that it's much safer when the speed
limits are lower. But what you need to do, what
you need to know about that is that that report
looks at data from twenty four months after June twenty twenty.

(40:44):
What was going on after June twenty twenty for twenty
four months, That's right, we were often in lockdown and
not driving anywhere. Everywhere everywhere was safer on the roads?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Ever? Do for sel?

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Yeah, Joe Biden's had another whoopsie as any it's given
an interview to Philadelphia's Word radio station. Have a listen.

Speaker 26 (41:02):
By the way, I am proud as they said, the
first based president, where's black woman?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Surd with black president?

Speaker 4 (41:11):
That's right, Joe Biden was the first vice president and
then also the first black woman, which is a surprise
to us.

Speaker 26 (41:16):
By the way, I am proud, as they said, the
first based president, where's black woman with black President.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Do you think he just confused himself with Karmena for
a second. Was he like, I'm Kamela Harris, I'm a
black woman who is the vice president. Now you're doing well, Joe.
All you need is a little bit more sleep. Quarter
passed hither? Why do you need to go past a
school at thirty k's at two am? Robbie, Robbie when
you're asking questions that get to the heart of the
matter like that, Why are you not on council making

(41:45):
these decisions? I don't know about you, but I'm very
happy to hear that counsel. Actually, this is just this
is just feedback. I don't actually get to say thank God,
thank God that Sammon Brown gets to make the decision.
Here eighteen past five. Now let's get you to Deneeda
ahead of the first All Blacks England's Tests England Test.
It's the fourth time that England have played a Test
against US and dunners. They haven't won yet, Let's keep
it that way. It starts at seven oh five tomorrow.

(42:07):
The Herald's rugby writer Liam liam Napiers Internedin for US.

Speaker 27 (42:10):
Hello, liamo evening.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Either you go to the Captain's run today they're looking confident.

Speaker 27 (42:16):
Yeah, there's a bit of a quiet confidence. I think
about both teams, a lot on the line, a lot
of uncertainty, a new era for rasor Robertson's side, and
then England coming out here for the first time in
a decade, chasing their first win in New Zealand for
twenty one years.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
So apparently, Liam tell me if this is true or not,
but apparently the English squad has been made to do
homework assignments on all of the All Blacks. Is that true?

Speaker 27 (42:42):
I'm not too sure about that, but I know there
has been a bit of controversy, shall we say, about
some of the All Blacks not knowing the English names.
And this is not the first time it's happened. Brody
Rattel got himself caught in a bit of a tangle
previously bundled a bit of an English player's name. So yeah,

(43:03):
the English has got their back up without there a
little bit.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
So this is what this is, what I'm going to
get at, Lim, is that they're doing homework on our players.
But sever Reese can't name either of the English wings.
Is this a problem because it means that they actually
don't they haven't looked at these guys and see what
they're up against.

Speaker 27 (43:20):
I think they have definitely looked into the English. I
think it's more a case of a guy who hasn't
been around the All Blacks for a couple of years
and look, the All Blacks will know how England's going
to play. There would have been fed tape and studied
how they're expecting them to play. Addie Severe was us
about England and he mentioned Ben Earl Marrow ToJ so

(43:40):
there is a bit of a context to it. But
then Miss Captain Jamie George said, they will know who
we are by the end of the match. So there's
a bit of a grist for the mill for them there.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
And is it the case that the English are thinking
about how they're going to respond to the hacket? What's
going on here?

Speaker 27 (43:57):
Well, that goes back to twenty nineteen and they fall
the V shaped formation for victory and Owen Farrell, Binger
and captain at the time smirked at the hooker and
England dumped the All Blacks out of that World Cup
in the semi final. So maybe they'll try and do
something similar. It might inspire them, that might backfire. Every
team can respond to the hooker however they choose, but

(44:20):
they just can't cross center line. So yeah, adds a
bit of theater to it.

Speaker 11 (44:24):
Doesn't it does?

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Tro Liam, thank you very much. Enjoy the game. Liam Napier,
the Herald's rugby writer in and to needing for us
here the re Shortland Street. I wouldn't have agreed with
you earlier when you said, actually, maybe it should be saved.
But I was sitting in a winery in Croatia a
few weeks ago, lucky thing, talking to some Germans. They
love New Zealand because their favorite programs are Broken Wood
Mysteries in Wellington paranormal who knew? Jane? Thank you. We
are going to speak to the woman who actually runs

(44:47):
the business that makes Shortland Street. This is South Pacific Pictures.
The executive, a chief executive rather sorry, Kelly Barton is
going to be us in quarter of an hour. It's
five twenty one.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
The day's newsweekers. Talk to you Heather first, Heather du
per Se Alan drive with one New Zealand. Let's get
connected and you talk, because.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
They'd be.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
Five point twenty four.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
Heather.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
I'm immensely proud that I've never ever watched one single
episode of Shortland Street, and I never intend to. And
there's quite a few texts coming through saying people not
happy we're bailing Shorty out while the country's broke. Anyway,
we'll deal with that in a tech I just want
to quickly talk about Chris Bishop's plan to flood the
housing the market with houses, which he announced yesterday. I'm
going back to it because this is quite a significant announcement, actually,

(45:29):
and I have reluctantly come to accept that something drastic
like this is necessary. And I'm reluctant because I'm a homeowner.
If I'm completely honest, frankly, I like my house going
up in value, and there's nothing wrong with that, because
my house is my biggest investment, like it is for
most people. And if I had my own way, my
house would keep going up in value at exactly the
same rate it did during COVID, which I very much enjoyed.

(45:50):
I thought it was great. I loved getting rich off
my house. But I reluctantly accept that that's not a
good thing and that shouldn't be happening. And actually, the
kinds of measures that Chris Bishop announced yesterday to make
houses more affordable is actually the right thing to do,
as much as it's going to suck to be well,
it's not going to suck to be a homeowner, is it.
But you're just not going to get the returns that
you might have got used to. I mean, his plan
is basically to fix up supply and demand, right, just

(46:11):
chuck a whole lot of houses in there so that
houses aren't so short, that there's in such a supply
issue and the demand isn't so great. And of course
that should basically, you know, stop the prices going up
at the rate that they were. Price may be stabilizing,
price may even come backwards, hopefully not. But the reason
I've come to accept that we need to do this
is basically because of productivity. If houses stop being the

(46:33):
guaranteed money maker that they are for us, we will
stop putting all of our money into houses, which is
what we do at the moment, like most of our
money goes into rentals and our own home. And maybe
if we don't do that, then we're going to start
putting money into markets and businesses and investments that are
actually productive, which will lift productivity. That's going to be
better for New Zealand. In the long run, I mean,
Cameron Bagriy. The Independent Economists produced a graph the other

(46:55):
day showing the difference between just zero point five product
percent productivity and one percent pro activity right doubling it
over the next ten years, and the difference in the
government's books was stark. Had a massive impact on debt,
had a massive impact on the operating surplus. And when
you look at it like that, you think, well, you know,
do we want to be a rich country or not?
Do we want to continue just to check our money

(47:16):
at houses? It's not a great idea. So for existing
homeowner is probably yesterday's announcement in the long term will
mean less value in your home and so it will
suck a little bit. But for what it could mean
for the country starting to put money into the right things,
it may be I think, just the kind of medicine
that we actually.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
Need together do to see Ellen.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
So apparently what's going on with the English team is
that Jamie George and the senior leadership group are going
to meet today or already have met today to decide
how to respond to the Hucker. So keep an eye
out for that, because they're obviously hoping to leave us
with some memories. I'm going to talk to the sports
huddle about it. Shortly. We've got Levina Good and Andrew Alderson.

(47:53):
Levina is also I don't know if you know this,
but die hard NURL fan like you'd be hard pressed
to find somebody who knows more about rugby league than
she does. So I want her to settle the to
mighty Martin Shawn Johnson debate for now. If it even
is a debate anymore, I don't think it is, but
I'm going in again, aren't I? And also, after six
o'clock we're going to go to Fakatani and talk to
the mayor. I don't know if you realize this, but

(48:15):
over at for Cardi White Island, they do not have
scientists are not allowed on anymore, right because the thing
is like blowing out the steam and stuff like that,
which means we've basically got no GNES monitoring of what's
going on, which basically means we have no idea what's
going on, which basically means we don't know if an
eruption is coming. And this is freaking the mayor out
because he's like, this is putting the community at risk

(48:36):
in case something's about to happen. We'll find out what's
up there after six headlines.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Next the name you trust to get the answers you need.
Heather duple c Allen drive with One New Zealand. Let's
get connected and news talk as they'd be.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
The thing that I've gone.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Sports Tuddler standing by now. The Auckland Mayor's office has
just been in touch and they said that Wayne would
like to come on and talk about the speed limits thing.
And you know that Wayne is going to give you
the What Richard gave you before was the diplomatic answer,
and what Wayne is going to give you is an unfiltered,
having a crack at Sam and Brown answer. So I'm
here for that. So we said yes, So he's going

(49:24):
to be with us maybe just about quarter past six
or something, So tune in for that absolutely at stay tuned.
Hither With your house price going up, did you actually
grow richer? Could you have climbed the property ladder with
the increased alone increased value alone? No, everybody went up
by the same amount. You were no better I know, lka,
I know it was no better off, but it's all
in your head. It's the wealth effect. I just felt
richer and I liked that feeling. Anyway, It's over now,

(49:46):
isn't it now? Shortland Street has been saved, but we
will get less of it from next year. It will
only run three days a week. Its future is only
guaranteed for one more year. New Zealand on Air has
pumped in three million dollars and it is now also
eligible for a forty percent screen production rebate. Kellie Martin
is the chief executive of South Pacific Pictures.

Speaker 18 (50:03):
Hey, Kelly, Hi, how are you?

Speaker 3 (50:05):
And well?

Speaker 6 (50:05):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (50:06):
So?

Speaker 4 (50:06):
How much could Shorty Street get from the rebate alone?

Speaker 15 (50:10):
It doesn't really work like that. There is a it's
all based on how much the budget is. However, there
is a maximum of that rebate. It's six thousand dollars,
so we will be close to the maximum.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Did you say six thousand dollars?

Speaker 7 (50:24):
I did?

Speaker 4 (50:25):
It's ten million.

Speaker 15 (50:26):
I mean six No, no, six million, six recap.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
So if you were that's all right, If you were
to gain six million plus the three million, then it's
potentially you're getting up to nine million, and that is
going to take you almost halfway through, halfway to the
production costs, which are around about twenty million.

Speaker 15 (50:44):
Is that right, and now I mean to look, it's
all changing. We're going down to three episodes a week.
We are now in a situation where we have a budget.
We've got those two pieces in place from the Rebate
and New Zealand on air, and obviously there's budgets from
TV and Z so between in all of those things
we have an amount. It's less than we used to have.
We'll only be making three episodes, you know, we'll be

(51:07):
making less episodes, and we've only got the full detail
of that this week. So now we have to start
talking to all of our people and working out how
we do it.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
And at the moment, does everybody if everybody's only working
sixty percent of what they were working before, does that
mean they have to take pay cards?

Speaker 15 (51:23):
It won't. No, I don't think that's how it'll work.
But obviously there's not going to be as much work.
I'm sorry, I'm in an airport.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
That's okay.

Speaker 15 (51:31):
Yeah, No, we still have to work out how it's
going to work, but obviously there's going to be less
work for people, there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
What are your racings like at the moment? How many
people are watching you both on TV? Two and on
TVNZ plus.

Speaker 15 (51:45):
Oh god, well, I know that short Street does over
twenty million streams for TV and Z plus a year,
so I think it should and can make up a
big part of their digital strategy moving forward. The racings
on linear are still really, really strong, and I wish
I could rattle off a whole bunch of numbers, but
I can't. But the performance is still there and we

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have an incredibly engaged audience still for the show.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
What do you think happens into the future, Cali? I mean,
I totally get the argument that we need to fund
this thing because it just provides such a wonderful training
ground for the industry and it gets us through the
down here as when you haven't got the big films
like Lord of the Rings here and stuff. But can
it carry on like this forever where we keep on
putting money in a bid to kind of keep the
talent going, or do you think at some stage it

(52:33):
just doesn't work anymore?

Speaker 15 (52:36):
I would like to think that what will happen is
that advertising revenues will catch up with the new digital
world that the broadcasters are moving into. You know, we're
not having to face this issue with shortened Street because
of its performance or how popular it is with audiences
or not. It's still hugely popular. We're having to face

(52:56):
this because the broadcasters can't make money the way that
they use true and that's the key to the problem.
You know, if advertising revenue was still strong, we wouldn't
be having a conversation about reducing shortens three And that's
kind of why I spent the last six months really
working hard to make sure that we can keep this
thing going because we need the market to catch up.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Yeah, fair enough, Hey, Cally, best of luck with it
and congratulations is Calie Martin, Chief executive at South Pacific Pictures.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
The Friday sports huddle with New Zealand and Southby's international realty,
unparalleled reach and results.

Speaker 11 (53:35):
Coming down here, we'll sort of shifted our focus pretty
quickly until a Test match that's going to be.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Pretty intense to say.

Speaker 8 (53:44):
The least, when you look at this New Zealand squad
by New Zealand Coaching TVC, the talent they have and
so it's going to be a great.

Speaker 19 (53:52):
Challenge for us and we'll looking forward to it. You know,
Saturday night is when it really comes on in the
performance and giving a calm and clear head and time
spent ready and we've got getting ready as when.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
It really is on Sports title this evening Andrew Ortis
and News Talks. They'd be sports reader and journalist and
also Levin a good sports journalist. Hello you too today, Now, Levina,
how do you feel about the English doing some sort
of a response to the Harker tomorrow night.

Speaker 10 (54:19):
I'm all right with it.

Speaker 28 (54:20):
I'm actually quite excited by it. I remember they did
it back in twenty and nineteen. They've had that whole
v thing, and we're going to represent and take on
the Hunker. That doesn't oppose me all. I'd actually like
them to do it, and I'd get great pleasure out
of the all Blacks beating them as well into beating,
which I think they will do. But you know, I'm
not opposed to it. I mean, the Hacker is something

(54:41):
that is culturally really important to so many in terms
of tech hunger here and it at all. But when
it comes to world rugby, they don't own it, you know,
they don't own exactly what's happening on that center stage.
So let's let's let's let the poems represent it and
see how they perform. But I don't think they're going
to beat the All Blacks.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
No, it shows to me orders that they're a little cocky.

Speaker 12 (55:02):
Oh you English.

Speaker 20 (55:03):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 12 (55:06):
Think they've got a very right to do the harker
or not to do, to respond peacefully to the harker.
In fact, I'd welcome more teams to do that. Ever,
I should have the chances was offered that form of
cultural reference bop beyond the anthems. So well, I think
they've got every right to be confident here. I think
even though they've drawn against his Inland last time they played,
and then they beat them in the semi finals at

(55:27):
the twenty nineteen World Cup. So yeah, there's it's certainly
going to be a much anticipated contest.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Yeah, now, Lavina, I noticed you're also quite cocky about
our chances beating them. But did you see that the
English have basically been studying our players. Meanwhile, Seviurice can't
even name any of the English wingers.

Speaker 28 (55:45):
Yeah, that was quite funny, wasn't it couldn't name any
of the wingers that he's playing against them. Yeah, I
don't know. I kind of feel like like the English
team need to do as much as what they possibly
can to take on the All Black side and research
is coming against him. I thought that was a really
comment actually from Rece. I thought that obviously he knows
who he's opposing and what they need to be doing.

(56:06):
But you know, whatever's going on in camp and whatever's
happening with Razor, he knows what he needs to do.
And I think it's a really telling time for the
All Blacks. We've got a new coach and you know,
and for me, I feel like they will. The All
Blacks will be eat the Poms throughout the next two matches,
one into Need and obviously one at Eden Park with
the true test will be September when the All Blacks

(56:27):
take on South Africa. So just pick this one off,
get it out of the way, and maybe keep your
mouth shut sometimes and you're interviewed by Jenner.

Speaker 4 (56:37):
Levina, don't say there, what are you doing? We love
it when they do these things. Orders, yeah, yeah, yeah,
orders have we I mean, there's no debate about the
squad anymore, right, I mean, even the Hoskins Stituto things
seems to have died away. Seems like it's the right
squad to have announced.

Speaker 12 (56:50):
Well, I mean, Scott Robinson's got to be back here
and his maiden tests and charges coach of the All Blacks.
And I think it's just what's uniting people. I think
it's kept singers and filt is in the right on
their own merits to that job. So I think this
is actually during the week, Patrick Typlatz, who hasn't been
under Robinson's influence before, just talking about the energy levels

(57:13):
in the camp, something he hadn't seen. He hasn't seen
robertson first hand like that. And I also think it's
a good mood to go to the need and as
a venue under the roof there in July, you know,
the winter rugby side of things, but you know the
town will be Galville galvanized. A support will be immense,
I imagine.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
Yeah, hey, Orders, what do you make alul louse soon?

Speaker 12 (57:34):
Well, she's certainly a talent, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
I would.

Speaker 12 (57:37):
I watched some of that game the other morning which
she took apart can win Jing the number eight in
the world, and she does seem has a real tenasty
about it. I mean obviously left handed, et cetera, as
well as a port of difference. But yeah, she's got
the Tiana connection with her grandparents et cetera, and has
taken this opportunity to switch allegiance I think in March

(57:59):
when she did so, and yeah, the support has been
humming since.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Yeah, Levina, potentially, I'm going to be too cocky here,
but if she's managed to beat the world number eight
and then whoever else I don't even know. She's up
next against the world number sixty one, Like she's going
to be able to nail that, isn't she?

Speaker 28 (58:14):
Well, i'd it'd be so good to have a Kiwi
player in the top hundred for the first time in
a long time. I mean, she's the first one to
play graand slam singles in the main drawer in seven years.
And she was born in Tiana, and I know, like
Andrew just mentioned, her grandparents still live there and everyone's
embracing it. But it's so cool to have a Kiwi
that was born here and someone that is representing our

(58:34):
country and Tennessee Zealand has been in kind of not
the best place over the past decade or so, and
all of a sudden, we've got something to celebrate, So
let's embrace it, let's take it on and yeah, let
those Southlanders celebrate whilst they can absolutely.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
I'm there for the next match. I'm going to watch that. Guys,
will take a break, come back to you.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
It's quarter two the Friday Sports Huddle with New Zealand
Southeby's international realty, unparalleled reach and results.

Speaker 4 (58:59):
Right back the sports hadle Levina Good Andrew Ordison. Now, Levina,
I know you're big into the NRL, so you're going
to settle This question for me is to mighty Martin
the one for the rest of the season.

Speaker 28 (59:09):
Ah, I got your head too, Honus. I like, how
calm that twenty eight year old is. Like, he's a
real calm kid, and he has an amazing kicking game.
I followed him with the Cowboys and the Panthers and
the Broncos, and then he had that brain bleed in
twenty nineteen and all of us thought his career was over.
And then five years older than him as Sean Johnson

(59:32):
more than two hundred matches for the Warriors, like thirty
two tests, and we're like.

Speaker 18 (59:36):
Who do you pick?

Speaker 27 (59:36):
Who do you pick?

Speaker 28 (59:37):
And here's the thing header for me, Sean Johnson reads
the game like no one I've seen in a long time.
And ten years ago he won the Golden Boot, which
was the best player in the whole world, and even
last year he missed out on one point in being
the NRL's best player ever. And you think to yourself,
Sean's older, he's slower, he's a father of two, he's
got the achilles injury, he's got the shoulder injury. Tomorrow, Heather, Tomorrow,

(01:00:00):
the Warriors were playing in the Big Dance, the Grand Finals.
Who are you picking as your number seven? I'm picking
Seawan Johnson as number seven and Tomoty Martin as number six.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
But how can you say that because when we've had
Tomighty Martin on the field, they have won the games.
And when we've had Sean Johnson and I granted he's injured, Yeah, I.

Speaker 28 (01:00:20):
Had a couple of weeks ago and they got flogged
by the Titans sixty six to six. Like those three
three numbers aren't a great combination. Every single player missed
every single tackle and I know that Sewn Johnson was
out there, but you can't blame him for that. Tomorrow
the Warriors are playing in the Grand Final. I picked
Sean Johnson. I have Tomighty Martin out there, and I

(01:00:41):
would have the two of them together. They both have
an impeccable kicking game. The combination of the two has
not been the best so far this year. I would
not leave Sean Johnson out of my team.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
What about you, orders would you leave Hi out of
your squad?

Speaker 11 (01:00:53):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:00:53):
She Levina makes a compelling argument. Yeah, either though, I
just I just think at the moment tomorrow, Martin stays
in that spot for me, given these you know, the
team synergy, Johnson hasn't been able to train in that,
you know, within that environments that he's there, it's part
of it. But yeah, certainly using his experience and his wisdom.
But I have been impressed for Martin's temperament of late

(01:01:16):
and just with that building consistency in the in the
back end of the season. If you bring Johnson back in, yeah, yeah,
he Johnson. Levina makes the point about in the Grand
final year, I would want Johnson. I think, so, Yeah,
that's that's tricky.

Speaker 28 (01:01:29):
It's Andrew. I tucked about it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Yeah, I reckon Andrew was so hard on that fence.
It's jammed in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:01:44):
Have you got any insider will on what's going on
with football Ferns and the coach and stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:01:47):
This is mysterious yeah, I mean it's not so much
even the team selection for me. I mean, Michael Mayin
has done the best with the resources he's got at
the moment, it's more just the fact that Clint and
Cova is not there and going along to the Olympic
Games and as the coach. If she's been cleared in
this investigation, I just find that a strange scenario that

(01:02:11):
that wouldn't unfold, that she'd be back in the mix.
So no, I don't have any inside oil on that,
but it just seems an odd juxtaposition.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Yeah, what it smacks of Levina is actually just a
breakdown in relationships. Right, She's been cleared, but the players
obviously just do not love her.

Speaker 28 (01:02:28):
Yeah, there's no close relationship there, and Angie probably can't
reveal too much, but from what I've heard that, you know,
to have a great leader, you have to have really
decent followers, and the followers aren't there at the moment
for Clin Kover. I do feel a bit for Hannah
Wilkinson that hasn't been named in this squads ahead over
to Paris. I know she's been to three Olympics and
we all celebrated her. I mean you know she's scored

(01:02:50):
the winning goal against Norway. It was amazing and we're
all like celebrating, celebrating, But she's been to three Olympics
and this is the changing of the tide. And for
those firms, you know, heading over to Paris, it's it's
it's a time for new beginnings and see what happens.
But yeah, I actually feel really really sorry for Hannah Wilkinson,

(01:03:10):
mainly Heather, because I don't feel like she's been celebrated
or she hasn't received the accolades that she's deserved in
the past, and I'm not sure if she'll receive them again.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Yeah, I think that that's a fair point. Hey guys,
thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Enjoy you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
We can have sport. There's so much to enjoy this weekend.
That's Andrew Ordison, newstalg ZEBI, Sports Tree, d End journalists
and Levin a good sports journalist, a massive Sean Johnson fan,
obviously seven away from six, on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Your smart speaker, on the iHeart app and in your
car on your drive home. Heather Duple see allan drive
with One New Zealand one giant Leap for Business News
Talk as ZBI.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
Heather I don't think you can use the words talent
and Shortland Street in the same sentence. That is actually unfair.
That's unfair.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
You know that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:50):
I mean you don't watch it. I don't watch it.
It's just not it's not our vibes. But I mean,
look at the list of talented actors who've come out
of it. I'd said it at the start of the program.
J Upper he's doing things over in the States. He
is in that dyed his hair ginger doing something. But
he's like super successful. He came out of Shorty Street.
Thomas and Mackenzie of the Harcourt family, she's doing really

(01:04:11):
well overseas a whole bunch of like heaps more movies
to her name than I have. She's been in Shortland Street.
Robin Malcolm's done brilliantly. Over in Australia, she's been in
Shorty Street. Craig Park has done brilliantly. He's been in
Shorty Street. Martin Henderson's a babe and he's done well.
He's been in short like I could keep going. Timmy
Ware and Morrison, doctor Rupata, he's been in Shortland Street.
They've done really well. So there's heaps of talent that's

(01:04:32):
come out of it, and that ultimately is the reason
why they're saving it for now until TVNS can get
it back together and actually figure out how to monetize it.
The cops are not happy today, and I feel so
sorry for the police, and I totally understand why they're
not happy. They're not happy because the Police Association has
revealed that it's reduced what it's demanding in pay in
the pay negotiations from the government at the eleventh hour.

(01:04:55):
So what's going on is there in final arbitration, this
is the Police Association on behalf of the police and
the government, and basically how it works is that each
side presents its offer of what it wants the pay
round to be right. So the police associations say this
is how much we want and the government says this
is how much we want to offer, and the arbitrator
picks between the two. There's no middle ground. It's literally

(01:05:15):
that one or that one, so you have to be
reasonable in what you're asking for. At the last minute,
the Police Association has dropped their demands to a much
lesser but well to a lesser we don't know how
much lesser. To a lesser demand obviously to increase the
chances that theirs is the one that gets picked. They
haven't said by how much. They've just basically said. They
didn't even tell the police or ask the police if

(01:05:37):
they could do it. They just sent out an email
to police officers saying they've done it and the cops arelivered.
Several have told the media the officer should never have
been revised without consulting union members. One detective said, I
feel like they were just spitting in our face. An
officer in Auckland said, where's the transparency from a service
funded by ourselves. Another officer said the knives are out
for Chris Carhill, who runs the Police Association. Cops are

(01:05:57):
threatening to walk off the job, and Canterbury officer said
more police more people would now leave the force now
that the negotiations had quote failed them. A Lower North
Island detective said they had lost faith in the process.
It is just so hard for them as they've been
let down so many times. They should find out what
their pay offers in about three weeks, so by the
end of July, so fingers cross it comes out okay

(01:06:18):
for them. You're gonna go to Fakatani next find out
what the chances of an eruption are if we even know.
And then Wayne Brown Auklamire.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
What's down, what were the major calls and how will
it affect the economy of the business? Question is on
the Business Hour with hither Duplicy Allen and my Hr
on News talksv.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Even In.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
Coming up in the next hour Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown
and why the council is opposing the government's speed limit plans.
The EU wants to add tariffs to TMU and Shane
and all that cheap stuff that you get out of China.
Peter Lewis on that and Barry Soper will wrap the
political week that was at seven past six. Listen, just
a news out of the UK. Former Conservative Party leader
Liz trus has lost his seat in what is definitely

(01:07:04):
shaping up to be a blood bath. I'll keep you
across that back here. Did you realize that there is
no scientific on island monitoring of the activity that's going
on on for Cardi White Island, which by the way,
is blowing out a fair amount of steam at the moment.
Access to the island stopped after the twenty nineteen election.
Eruption rather and then the last functioning Seismo acoustic station
which is on the island, stopped working completely in August

(01:07:26):
twenty twenty two. Victor Luca is the mayor of Forakatanian
with us Now, hey Victor, yeah, good eh, Heather, well
thank you Victor. So is there no access at all
like the obviously nothing on the island, nobody going to
the island at all, That's my understanding.

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
Yes, But I'm more concerned with the monitoring aspects and
access that gens has in order to reinstall instrumentation that
was that has is not no longer functioning since the eruption.

Speaker 4 (01:07:59):
So does Genie not have permission to go back and
like reinstall that stuff make sure it's working.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
That they're not allowed?

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
That is my understanding.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
Yes, whose rule is that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
A big part of whose rule is that?

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
Well, as you probably are aware of the islanders and
private ownership, so the owners will have something to say
about who sets foot on their piece of turf, and
I guess they're extremely sensitive. I mean, a regulatory oversight
of any kind of activity that would you know, be
under the heading of PCBU or the business conduct a

(01:08:34):
person conducting a business or undertaking so that's the business
they would have to go through work safe so that
at that level that they they're also involved. I don't
really want to get into who who stops who's getting
on there. And my problem is that we can't install
monitoring equipment that gives communities living on the coast only

(01:08:56):
fifty carmen is away a little bit more the potential
of having some sort of early warning.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Yeah, so what is the worst case scenario for you
guys if there was some sort of an eruption and
we didn't know it was coming because we were not monitoring.

Speaker 7 (01:09:14):
Well, there's all types of eruptions. I mean, FOCARTI kind
of bubbles away there, but nothing precludes it blowing as
top completely, and that would have ramifications for us here.
I mean, I was living in Argentina when one of
the volcanoes on the Indian Mountains blew its top and

(01:09:34):
nearby settlements within sort of one hundred kilometer range had
ash up to their ankles, not the ankle, the knees.
Someplaces ash even reached Buenos Aires, which is like fourteen
hundred kilometers away.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
But we're not talking about an eruption blowing up Pakatana.
We're talking about you guys being severely impacted by ash here.

Speaker 7 (01:09:54):
Well that's that's one point one scenario. There could be
you know, it's an active volcano, so potentially, you know,
really go off.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
Okay, So this is crazy situation as far as I'm
concerned that we have potentially the private owners not allowing monitoring.
Surely there's got to be some sort of a body
that can overrule this and say no, we need to
get some monitoring on. There is there nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:10:17):
Look, I was so concerned when I heard it that
I took to ride into the Prime Minister and the
Minister of Civil Defense Mark Mitchell, myself and the two
other Eastern bath Plenty mayors. So we wrote a letter.
It was about mid mid June. We got an actually no,

(01:10:39):
we wrote at the end of May and we've got
an answer and just sort of recently saying that they
are aware of the problem and are working along with
various other government agencies to try to get a resolution
of that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
Thank fingers crossed, because this is mental Victor, Thank you appreciated.
Victor Luka, the mayor of Pakatani. Boss the Education Ministry
is Gon Burger. It was foreshadowed this week by some
reports saying that three bosses were going to go. Treasury
boss already gone, now the Education Ministry gone, and then
the next one will be the Office of Crown Mary
Relation is going to be gone as well. This is

(01:11:20):
Iona Holsted, who's the Secretary for Education. Has not had
her contract renewed. Should not be a surprise. Has been
eight years in the role and what's happened what should
be her KPI kitty's learning? What's happened to the kitty's learning?
So yeah, get somebody in there who can actually make
sure the kids get taught twelve plus six, crunching.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
The numbers and getting the results. It's Heather du for
c Ellen with the Business.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
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Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
So, as I mentioned earlier in the show, the Auckland
Council have voted to oppose the government speed limit reductions.
Mayor Wayne Brown says the council is in the best
position to be the ones to actually decide the limits.
Wellington should butt out and he's with me now.

Speaker 11 (01:12:00):
Hoy Wayne, oh hi the DPA, how are you all right?

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
I'm very well, thank you, good to have you on
the show. Thanks for coming on. Listen. From what I understand,
you're just doing this to send a message, right, You
actually don't get to say this is the government say?

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:12:15):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:12:16):
And yet another one of I'm fed up with I
just told Laby yes, I started their caucus. The reason
you went out wasn't COVID, is that you kept starting
big things in Ugland that Auckland didn't particularly want, and
you went very good at it. Anyhow, Auckland is big
enough to make it same decisions. I know what Ugland
is going to be like going to be like, and
I'll get a vested interest in it here, and we

(01:12:37):
don't like it. And I'm kind of just solved. And
I spoke to the Nets and I warned them, don't
go down the same track. Don't tell us what we need.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
But aren't they But aren't they trying to undo exactly
that Labor told us what we need, which is to
drop the speed limits. And actually the Nets are going, no,
we'll take it back and you guys get to decide.

Speaker 11 (01:12:55):
No, they'll be telling us what the speed limits are
going to be, just different ones, that's all. And they're
in the same with Labor. Labor tried. Megan Woods told
us that she's going to take over the planning of
Auckland and put in the hands of carrying Aura and
I said, well, no you're not. And so she walked
out one back and then now Bishop is going to
decide where the houses finishing the greenfield start. Well it's

(01:13:18):
not you know, we don't want that. We will decide that,
you know, not you. I've got the message about intensification.
But are we all decide what Auckland likes, not you
people from Wellington.

Speaker 4 (01:13:28):
So are you on that housing announcement?

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
You do they are you?

Speaker 4 (01:13:33):
Are you opposed to having the urban rural boundary removed?
Are you opposed to having a like basically?

Speaker 11 (01:13:38):
Aside that sot off, I mean I quite liked a
lot of it. I mean the idea of having mixed
use businesses in with houses and everything and intensification where
it's due to be. It's fine with that, but will
decide where where the city ends and the farms start.
And I mean I was a Popka talking there and

(01:13:58):
National Party world like Sir Bill Birch said, don't caving changed.
I like it as that cry replace for farm land
all around of knowing okay, mate, but ring your mate
nor downd their line there and in terms of the
speed limit things, I mean, AT has brought a lot
around themselves. I walked from Ponsonby into town those days

(01:14:21):
to work and I just recently came in an electric
car which has got a whole lot of criminiss in there,
and it kept telling me there was four different speed
limits between Ponsonby and the city. Now that's ridiculous. So
they're raising a good point that we've gone mad, but
we should fix up going mad. That's my point. Carryingham

(01:14:44):
and almost going down the same path of letting Wellington
bureaucrats tell us how to live in our city.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Where you though, Wayne, what do you reckon? The vast
majority of Aucklanders would say, because I reckon. If it
was put to them, okay, you get AT can either
run the show and set the speed limits, or we
do what Simon Brown says.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
I reckon.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
Most of us will go with Sammy and Brown because
eighty are just numpties.

Speaker 11 (01:15:09):
Well no, the real thing is that the National Party
understood and Joys gave me AT. I mean what we
need to go to get that control of But I
don't like AT anymore than anybody else in the street does.
But I need to be in controllable. I'm sick of
being blamed for things that they do. If we got
that control of AT, things will be fine. So we
will do and Simmy and Brown will just be replaced

(01:15:31):
by another MP or reverse it from the labor and
rule go around at ten kilometers an hour to make
things safe. We should decide this. I need the control
here Orkhimer's need to decide Orkham. Whatever you say about anything,
that's my bottom line.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
Yeah, we'll go down the same.

Speaker 11 (01:15:48):
Track that the last guys went down. They got boofed
out and so some things are They're good. Make suggestions,
but talk to us a city. Deal as treating the
mayor of organ like the person elected to free in
charge of a suid of New Zealand, not the mayor
of Horror for now wherever that is.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Wayne, it's good to have you on the show. Thank
you so much for coming on and best of luck
dealing with your relationship with Samir Brown and now your
relationship with the mayor of wad If anyway, as Wayne
Brown Auckland mayor. Pretty big development on Ukraine, I thought
today Latimir Zelenski. They have they have these peace summits, right,
they had a peace summit where they get everybody together
and they try to figure out how to get peace

(01:16:28):
out of the situation. They had one last month and
a lot of mere Zelensky said to Russia they were
not allowed to come to the last one unless they
gave back Ukrainian land that they currently hold. There is
another one coming up. He has now changed his position.
He says Russia is allowed to come to the next
piece peace summit and there are no caveats. He does

(01:16:48):
not require them to give back land. Now, that is
quite an interesting change from him, because I just wonder
if that's a sign that he is becoming more realistic
about the fact that he cannot win this war, which
means that he cannot maybe get that land back, and
so maybe he's just going to have to deal with
the situation as it is. Barry Soper wrapped Political Week

(01:17:09):
that was six to twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
Talksp the Wayne Brown may have had some honesty juice
before he came on into that interview. It would not
be the first time that Wayne has been interviewed by
me while out on the sherbets and I just want
to say what he's doing is leading by example and
supporting the hospitality sector within the city, which is, as
you know, needing to be supported. So six twenty three,
Barry Soaper, senior political correspondent, rapping the political week. That

(01:17:43):
was Welcome back Barry, Hello again, head, So what do
you reckon today? Is Biden going to stay in the race?

Speaker 19 (01:17:49):
Well, you know, I thought he would withdraw initially because
I thought how could he possibly survive that performance? And
that's what we started the talking about. And I was
fairly convinced that, yeah, he'd be out of the race
by a week's end. Well, you know, he's proven many
of us wrong. This eighty one year old seems fairly

(01:18:11):
stoic that he's going to stay in it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
That doesn't mean he gets what you do in politics.
You always say that Rishi Sunak saying he's going to
win until the day that he's actually defeated in the landslide.
But I'll tell you what seems to me to be
Biden's biggest problem is the number of leaks against him.
You cannot talk about the stuff in private, even with Democrats,
and they leak. They obviously want to get.

Speaker 18 (01:18:30):
Rid of him.

Speaker 19 (01:18:30):
So yeah, I think the momentum is building. But the
longer they leave it, the more desperate they look. I think,
you know, they'll pluck Camilla Harris out, no doubt and
have her running as the as the possible presidential not nominee.

Speaker 4 (01:18:49):
She will be the candidate.

Speaker 19 (01:18:50):
Yeah, the candidate, but you know she's She's never been
a performer either, and never been that well respected in
politics in the United States. It's incredible the Democrats, they
don't seem to be able to put up a reasonable candidate.
Not that I'm saying that the Republicans with Donald Trump,
have a good candidate, but I remember covering it back

(01:19:11):
in twenty sixteen, the first time Trump got elected. I
think you were quite convinced he was going to get elected.
I said, no, you know, how can they elect a
misogynist and a man like him? But they did. But again,
the Democrats had the wrong candidate. They had Hillary Clinton,
and you know Hillary, now it's crocod Joe, No sleepy Joe,

(01:19:32):
Sleepy Joe what he calls him a crocket as well.
So you know, I mean any name that Trump can
think up, he'll apply to his opponent. And you've got
to ask the most allegedly the most powerful country in
the world, with two numpties running for the top job.

(01:19:52):
They say, the most powerful job in the world. It
makes you wonder what the world.

Speaker 20 (01:19:57):
Is coming too.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
Right hey back here, news hubs last bulletins underway at
the moment, and it's it's that that'll be the end
of this. The bill that's come through, the proposed bill
from Paul Goldsmith. Out of ten chances of saving the media,
it's the.

Speaker 19 (01:20:12):
Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, quite.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
Ahead five maybe four. I would say no, I would.

Speaker 19 (01:20:18):
I wouldn't give it any chance actually of surviving. You know, well, sorry,
surviving is wrong. The bill probably survived because label will
get behind it, because actors basically come out and said
it's a sop and they won't be supporting it. But
you know, whether this bill is successful once it becomes
law is the question and meta which looks after. Of course,

(01:20:43):
Facebook and Instagram and sites like that, they're not going
to buy into this. They haven't brought into it anywhere else. Google,
they seem much more willing to negotiate and our own
company that we work for, end Z and me. I've
come to a deal with Google. But it is unfortunate,

(01:21:03):
isn't it really? For when you look at Facebook and
the hits that smaller news companies need, and they say
for survival, because you know, if you don't have eyes
on your product, the advertisers are not interesting in being
on that product. So it's really tough. But it's the
old story, adapt or die, and you know, unfortunately, as

(01:21:26):
we see today news Hub, I think they've tried to
adapt but not enough and they're dying.

Speaker 4 (01:21:33):
I'm gonna throw something at you. Chris Bishop, I think
is one of the boldest ministers in this government, certainly
from the National I mean Acts is bold, pretty bold
all the time, but from the National Party, this is
one of the boldest ministers with this plan he's just
announced with housing.

Speaker 19 (01:21:47):
A That's an interesting because this.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
Is the potential to really get on the nerves of
traditional Blue voters when they see that their house prices
do not go up at the rate that they used to.

Speaker 19 (01:21:58):
That's right, and also you've got intransigence coming from councils,
particularly the biggest council in the country, the Auckland Council.
Wayne Brown, will never be kicked around by Wellington. He says,
they'll run this city the way they want to run it,
and never the twain shall meet. But if the bill
becomes law, then councilors are going to have no say

(01:22:22):
in their boundaries. And you know, building apartments, they would
say blocks, you know, but surely a roof over the
head is better than none. In that classic line that
Chris Bishop came up with this week that you know,
you may say that people will be living in tiny apartments,
but it's better than the car and the tents that

(01:22:46):
they're living in these days. And it's a fair point
in that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
Yeah, Barry, thank you very much. Barry Soaper, our senior
political correspondent, wrapping the political week. It was listen as
I said, it is the last bulletin of newshap got
a little bit of stuff that they're addressing it a
little bit as all the way through and stuff. I'm
gonna play a little bit and just take Also, Peter
Lewis is going to talk us through the European Union
wanted to introduce tariffs and all that nonsense you can
buy like TMU and stuff from China. Headline's next.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Everything from SMEs to the big corporates, The Business Hour
with Heather Duplicy Allen and my HR, the HR platform
for SME US talks.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
That'd be so.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Take them.

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
We'll just check it for one final time with Gavin
Gray on the UK election when he's with us in
ten minutes time. Hither. I'm sorry that News hubb is over,
but i will be glad when it's done, because I'm
bored of hearing about it daily and the Herald in
general wallowing and self pity. When everyone else loses their jobs,
they don't have the option to moan endlessly in public
for anyone other than journalists. That makes them an unsafe

(01:24:00):
option to potential future employers. That's from Dave and Northan. Dave,
you make an excellent point. It is there is an
element of naval gazing going on here because of course
that I'm in the media, The heralds in the media,
so you're watching your colleagues in the media and your
friends lose their jobs, and so you're obviously more partial
to give them like unending airtime, right than I don't

(01:24:22):
know a couple of thousand whatever. I don't know construction workers,
a fletcher. It just is right, It just is how
it works. I take your point, and I also am
looking forward to the end of this conversation at some
stage soon. However, here's a little bit more of it
for you. So news Hub has done a little like
story on their own demise, and the reporter went up
to Amanda Gillies and asked her, you know how she

(01:24:42):
feels about it?

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
How are you feeling.

Speaker 21 (01:24:52):
I'm just so grateful and it's been the best wildness
ride and I won't regret any of it.

Speaker 4 (01:24:58):
Which will be I imagine how most to the journalists
and so on are feeling today. And then also they've
got a bunch of politicians to say Goodbiden news Hub.

Speaker 15 (01:25:05):
But I factually think the news Hub has done a
better job at night on fIF o'clock news than TV
one to severly subscribed, taxpayer funded outlet, and I'm sorry
to see them go.

Speaker 22 (01:25:14):
And I just want to say thanks to all the
news hubbers for all the work that they've done and
for the contribution I've made to New Zealand over many
many years and I watched them all the very best.

Speaker 20 (01:25:20):
Just want to watch everyone all the best.

Speaker 11 (01:25:22):
One of the saddest days in the history of New
Zealand broadcasting.

Speaker 4 (01:25:25):
A broadcaster that in a matter of hours will be
Yesterday's news twenty two away from seven, Heather, do for
see Alan and with us now? Is Peter Lewis, our
Asia business correspondent, Evening to you.

Speaker 14 (01:25:35):
Peter, Good evening, Heather.

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Before we even get started. Do you pronounce it Shane
or Sheen or Shine?

Speaker 14 (01:25:43):
I pronounced it Shine that I've heard it pronounce Shane
as well. Okay, Shine, I think.

Speaker 4 (01:25:48):
Okay, We're going to go with Shine because that's what
you said, and you're the boss here. So why is
the EU wanting to crack down on Shine and t
MoU Well?

Speaker 14 (01:25:56):
These two firms have been extraordinarily successful in shipping products,
particularly cheap clothes, to the EU.

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
They do it.

Speaker 14 (01:26:06):
Where the controversy comes is that, unlike other firms like Amazon,
for example, which ship from the EU itself to consumers,
Shane and Timur do it from China and they sell
huge amounts of goods. They reckon that. You know, every
person in the EU has bought at least twice from

(01:26:29):
these platforms, and there is a vat limits they can skip.
They can sell up to one hundred people can buy
up to one hundred and fifty euros duety three VAT free.
So these two Chinese platforms have developed a huge operation.
They're very cheap, but they attract a lot of controversy

(01:26:49):
as well, partly because of their business practices, and they've
been accused of using false labor in places like Jinjian Province.
Their their labor standards are not thought to be that high,
so they are quite controversial, and they also spend quite
a bit of time trying to pretend that they're not Chinese.

(01:27:10):
They really sort of disown their their Chinese routes shines
listed in Singapore, and the owners and the founders focus
on that aspect of their business. But nevertheless, the EU
wants to hit these companies with a proposed import duty.
I'm not quite sure how that's going to help or

(01:27:30):
change very much other than put up costs for consumers
in the EU and deprive them of the their choice
that they want to go and buy these products.

Speaker 4 (01:27:39):
Yeah, it's putting pressure on China, isn't it. Speaking of which, China.
Do you believe that what is being said, which is
that if Jijinping picks up the phone he could end
the war in Ukraine and spoke to Russia. He could
end the war in Ukraine with just that one phone call.

Speaker 14 (01:27:53):
Well that's what the Finnish Defense minister says, one phone
call and the war will be over. I'm not quite
as sure it's a simple as that. But nevertheless, in
this partnership, this no limits friendship as it's described between
China and Russia, China is very much the upper has
the upper hand. It's providing an enormous amount of economic

(01:28:15):
support to Russia. It buys a lot of cheap oil
from Russia other products, so it uses the funds from
that to fund the war. China denies that it provides
any sort of equipment or any equipment that could be
used in the military, although some Chinese companies have been

(01:28:36):
sanctioned for doing exactly that. So President Eating Pink certainly
exerts a lot of influence, and there's no doubt that
you could exert more influence on President Putin to come
to the negotiating table and try and sort out as settlements.
China tries very hard to paint itself as being neutral
in this picture. But the frustration for the EU and

(01:28:58):
the US is that really doesn't seem to want to
do anything at all to put pressure on the Russian leader.
And what the two of them seem to want to
do is to sort of redraw the global order. So
it's centered around this friendship between China and Russia and
also drawing in countries from what they call the Global

(01:29:19):
South in other words, emerging market economies in Africa, Latin
America to try and sort of create an alternative block
to the US's western allies.

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
And what do you make of the increase intensions between
Taiwan and China? Is this getting I mean, is this
getting more serious?

Speaker 14 (01:29:38):
Well, I think China is all the time testing the
limits of what normally has been deemed as acceptable in
the past. So for example, these blockades, the constant incursions
into Taiwanese airspace by Chinese aircraft. The latest one was
they seized the Taiwanese fishing vessel which was of waiting

(01:30:01):
across one of the outlying islands, which is very close
to the Chinese coast, but nevertheless sits within Taiwan's territorial waters.
China claims in effects these days that Taiwan doesn't have
any territorial waters because it's part of China. Everything that
is seen as being Taiwan's belongs to China. So they
are constantly testing the limits of how far they can go,

(01:30:24):
keeping Taiwan on its toes, keeping its forces on alert,
and that the risk is always that one day one
of these incursions could lead to a very serious incident
that could involve the US and other Western allies.

Speaker 4 (01:30:39):
Yeah, hopefully not though. Yeah, Peter, it's a fair warning.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 11 (01:30:43):
Mate.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Enjoy week and we'll talk to you next week. That's
Peter Lewis our Hong Kong corresponding our Asia Business corresponding.
Here the team who has saved me one hundred Oh
hold on, let me get this number right. Seven does
sound like Joe Biden seventeen hundred dollars this year? Clothing
quality is the same as the warehouse. It's just sixty
percent cheaper and it's got free delivery bend. Thank you
very much. Hither, I totally agree with Dave. Let it
be over and let's move on from news hub. Now

(01:31:05):
here's the problem, Okay, I'm with you, but news Hub
is not going to be the end of the matter,
is it. And we're going to have another round somewhere
of another business falling over, and we're going to have
a big old tonguey in public about that as well.
And the reason I say that is because there are
at least a couple of other media organizations that are
really struggling at the moment. And you know that that's

(01:31:25):
the case because the government rolled out that's Save the
Media package earlier this week in order to try to
help them out right interesting, which is, of course, as
I told you, was copying what's happened in Canada, and
it's actually gone really badly for Canada. So if it's
going to go badly for US, I don't know why
they're doing it, but anyway, regardless, Canada is also trying
another thing which has been suggested here as a solution
as well, which is basically to force a levy on

(01:31:46):
the streaming giants or some sort of like a digital
service at tax or something like that. So in Canada
they announced last month that they would put a five
percent levy on the revenues of the likes of Netflix
on what they earn in Canada and today the US
based streaming service giants have now actually retaliated and they
started legal action to try to stop this. So this
is the Motion Picture Association Canada, which represents Netflix and

(01:32:10):
Paramount Global and Walt Disney and so on. They've gone
to the Federal Court of Appeal to try and quash
the ruling so that I'd have to pay five percent
of their revenue to the Canadian government. They say it's
discriminatory and it's unreasonable to force them to pay for
news production. See how this one plays out, because that
would be the hail marriage to try and save the
news organizations, right, take the money off Netflix, give it

(01:32:30):
to the news guys. And that's an idea that they'll
be considering here as well. I imagine quarter two.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
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Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
Right now, We've got our UK correspondent Gavin Gray evening
to he Gavin, Hi there, what's going to happen to
Rishi and his rumored plans to want to move to California?

Speaker 29 (01:32:54):
Yes, it looks like we are expecting an announcement fairly
soon and we think he is going to stand down
as leader. If, of course he is going to move
and go back to working in finance, that'll involve an
actual resignation as well as an MP. It would seem
odd at the moment to do that, but of course
once you've been Prime Minister, things are never the same

(01:33:16):
again if you've been voted out. So he looked genuinely
crestfall and he can't have been surprised by the loss.
It has been a spectacular night for the Party of Opposition,
a terrible night for the Conservatives, a terrible night for
Scottish independence. And Nigel Farah is the man who's sort
of many say was the architect of forcing the governments

(01:33:37):
and for a Brexit vote. Now at the eighth time
of asking, finally becomes an MP promising to shake things up.

Speaker 4 (01:33:44):
Yeah, but here's the thing about it. I mean, it's
pretty remarkable that managed to get in and get four seats,
but that is quite a lot down from the thirteen
that was projected at the exit polls. Will they be disappointed?

Speaker 29 (01:33:55):
I think there'll be a touch of both, because when
it was predicted thirteen. That would have been extraordinary, and
the sub opinion polls gave them even sixty. The problem
they have is they've come second in lots of places,
and we of course have a first past the post system,
so second counts for nothing. If you add up all
their votes across the country, that's going to be a
very interesting calculation and it will show I think that

(01:34:18):
actually possibly millions of people agree with their main sentiment,
and their main sentiment for all the electioneering Heather was
zero net migration last year and the year before I
think seven hundred and fifty thousand coming in, more coming
in than going out last year six hundred and fifty thousand.
You know, these are extraordinary figures. The country is very small,

(01:34:41):
densely populated, many people complaining about the roads always being congested,
they can never get to see a doctor, the schools
are always full, et cetera, et cetera. And that is
where I think Nigel Faraj is appeal lives.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:34:55):
I can see that the Labor Party at the moment
has four hundred and teen seats, are about nine nine
yet to be declared. But with four hundred and ten,
do we have any idea where this sort of sits
in the history of landslides.

Speaker 29 (01:35:05):
It's a pretty impressive result all round, and certainly we
now believe that the majority, which is one hundred just short.
We believe that one hundred and seventy nine won by
Tony Blair back in nineteen ninety seven. There was talk
that that was going to actually beat that landmark, but
it has gone Its share of the vote has gone

(01:35:26):
up by two percent, and that means that there'll be
a labor prime minister in Downing Street for the first
time since twenty ten, and the Conservatives never having suffered
such steep declines before, including incidentally, that name we've not
used yet, Liz Trust. She lost her seat, the prime
minister of just a few weeks, lost her seat, and

(01:35:47):
clearly stormed off stage very angry about it, before giving
any speeches or any congratulatory press conference.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
We couldn't ignore what's happening in France as well this week.
He is it getting a bit hairy, there is it?

Speaker 19 (01:36:00):
Yes?

Speaker 20 (01:36:00):
It is so.

Speaker 29 (01:36:01):
Second round runoff in France, the National rally. The far
right party did very well in the first round. We've
then seen more than two hundred left wing candidates stand down,
hoping to lend their support to other left wing candidates,
so in other words, to compound, to collate the their
left wing support to try and beat in each seat

(01:36:24):
the far right. But we've seen also this week and
growing number of attacks on candidates and activists, including some
really pretty nasty as people are putting up posters or
you know, trying to sort of the canvas. Supporters have
been set upon and images filmed on social media show
you swarming around one candidate and another. A couple of

(01:36:47):
people were taken to hospital, one with an arm injury,
and an activist was punched hit by a scooter. They
ended up with a broken jaw. And you know already
I think people are saying, gosh, we haven't got the
second round yet, and if the far right winn who knows,
perhaps these scenes will die down, perhaps they'll get worse.
But either way, many saying these are the Prime Minister

(01:37:10):
saying these are attacks of intolerable cowardice, and these are
the ones being reported incident. Lots of activists who are
suffering unpleasantness, be it verbal and or physical, aren't reporting
to the police. It's been said in order that they
just want their campaign to stand up and that to

(01:37:30):
gain the headlines not one of violence.

Speaker 4 (01:37:33):
Gavin, thank you very much. Listen beast of like with
all the work you've got ahead of yourself after the election.
That's Devin Gray Are UK correspondent Siven away from seven.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
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Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
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Speaker 4 (01:37:52):
Five away from seven. The other thing I almost forgot
to tell you. The other thing that you need to
keep an eye out for in sports this week in
is what the Wallabies are doing, because we're going to
get our first test under Joe Schmidt. Because the Wallapee Wallabes,
Wallapeees walla Pees works for me. Wallabes are going to
play Whales tomorrow night and so we're going to see whether,
you know, just how much he can improve the situation.

(01:38:14):
And let me tell you, he is making no secret
of the fact that that's why he's gone over there,
because he gave an interview about why he took the job,
and he basically said was because Ozzie Rugby sucks and
so he felt he needed to help it. He said,
I'm a rugby fan. In fact, I'm a sports fan really,
but I just feel like rugby is out of balance
a little bit if the Wallabies aren't at the top table,

(01:38:34):
even the All Blacks boys. The messages I got there
was obviously a fair bit of taking the mickey, but
they were also saying that we actually need our corner
of the world to be stronger. Now I don't have
a magic formula to make that happen, but know how
hard I work and I can try to help you.
So Joe's basically saying, you suck at rugby at the moment,
really badly, so we have to. I feel sorry for you.
So we're having to import some people from New Zealand

(01:38:55):
to help you out. Let's see how it goes.

Speaker 16 (01:38:57):
And Sophielli spixter and feel like John ready for your
love to play us out tonight. This is a brand
new song out today. Great example. I think of Sophie
Ellis Pistas striking while the iron is hot. She's, you know,
back in the charts again for a song she made
years and years and years ago because of a movie
that came out last year. So then all of a
sudden Felix John, a hot German producer, is like, oh, hey,

(01:39:18):
that's right, you exist, Sophie. You want to come to
some vocals and she's like, you bet, I would get
on you. And so the movie was what the movie was,
Saltburn and the song the song on the dance floor.
And so now all of a sudden we're seeing Sophie
ellaspicks to pop up and songs again, because you've got
to matter until you don't hit that. You know, Yes,
people wanted to work with you, work with them as
long as you can ride the wave.

Speaker 4 (01:39:36):
That's right, make the dollars girl, all right, thank you
very much, and it's appreciate it, enjoy it, and I'm
going to see you on Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
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