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Speaker 2: It'd be good morning Thursday. It is six after five.

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Speaker 2: Great to have your company. The Grocery Commissioner reckons, we

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Speaker 2: need fewer specials at supermarkets and that will make our

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Speaker 2: groceries cheaper. What's the logic here, we look at that

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Speaker 2: before six o'clock. Mitch McCann is in the US for

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Speaker 2: US this morning. The cost of insurance is going to

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Speaker 2: go up. David Seymour reckons, we'll tell you why, and

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Speaker 2: we'll have the minister on to explain a shakeup for

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Speaker 2: fish and game which is happening. Just come out this

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Speaker 2: morning as well. Just gone seven after five.

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Speaker 1: The agenda.

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Speaker 2: You've got defense ministers talking Ukraine. This is the UK

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Speaker 2: and Germany meeting in Brussels. We've heard from the UK

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Speaker 2: Defense minister.

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Speaker 3: First, we delivered to Ukraine ten thousand drones last year.

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Speaker 3: We'll increase that tenfold this year. Last year we trained

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Speaker 3: Ukrainian forces in the UK. This year we will do

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Speaker 3: so again at home and abroad, increasing our funding for

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Speaker 2: Now Trump has doubled the tariff to fifty percent on

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Speaker 2: steel and aluminium. In Mexico's promising countermeasures.

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Speaker 4: We're going to bring it from twenty five percent to

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Speaker 4: fifty percent for tariffs on steel into the United States

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Speaker 4: of America, which will even further secure the steel industry.

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Speaker 2: In the street. Mushroom Lady, which is what we're calling

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Speaker 2: her now, apparently says she did indeed vomit after eating

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Speaker 2: the deadly meal. She told the court she had only

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Speaker 2: getn a small part of the lunch, but later binge

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Speaker 5: She did tell the jury that after the guests had gone,

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Speaker 5: her mother in law at Gail Patterson. It had hardly

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Speaker 2: Don't forget this morning. The big beautiful Bill. Trump's big

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Speaker 2: beautiful Bill. Elon Musk has Musks doubled down and it stance,

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Speaker 2: calling it a disgusting abomination.

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Speaker 6: Musk was hired to come in to this Trump administration.

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Speaker 6: He was put at the head of DOGE and really

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Speaker 6: his goal was to try and slash federal spending in

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Speaker 6: the government and this bill, and we just saw the

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Speaker 6: latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office says that it

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Speaker 6: would add more than two trillion dollars to the federal deficit.

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Speaker 6: And so what we're hearing as well behind the scenes

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Speaker 6: is that that's also playing.

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Speaker 2: A role trying to get it through the scenate. Now

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Speaker 2: nine minutes after.

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Speaker 1: Five, the first word on the News of the Day

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Speaker 1: Early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Make Your

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Speaker 2: Good morning. How was the weather at your place last night?

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Speaker 2: They're getting a lot of warnings recently and we've had

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Speaker 2: a lot of thunderstorms coming. Look out, batten down the hatches.

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Speaker 2: I know that it was raining hard only because I

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Speaker 2: So I was suddenly aware that it was raining. But

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Speaker 2: Nine nine two the number to text? And this business

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Speaker 2: with Michael Forbes. So he's one of the Prime Minister's

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Speaker 2: pre secretaries, and he did come to the attention of

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Speaker 2: you cannot know, can you really everything about people that

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Speaker 2: It's just gone eleven minutes after five. Coming up next

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Speaker 2: the Minute of Hunting and Fishing. James Meghe he's making

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Speaker 2: some changes to fish and game. He'll explain them to

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Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio Early Edition with

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and One Roof. To make your property search

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Speaker 1: simple if you talk.

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Speaker 2: Said, be morning, it's five point thirteen. We'll get to

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Speaker 2: your insurance premiums and why they could go up a

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Speaker 2: couple one hundred bucks a year in just a few moments. Overnight,

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Speaker 2: we've had some May data in the US. Hiring in

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Speaker 2: seven thousand jobs, which sounds good, but it's the less

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Speaker 2: it's in fact, it's actually the slowest pace of job

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Speaker 2: bit down. This is at least for May. It is

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Speaker 2: fourteen after five Ryan. The governments announced this morning an

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Speaker 2: overhaul of fishing game in z to improve management of

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Speaker 2: fishing and hunting resources. Changes include things like making license

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Speaker 2: requiring a national policy around restricting court proceedings. Minister for

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Speaker 2: Hunting and Fishing is James Mega with me this morning. James,

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Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, Ran. Good to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: This all sounds quite complicated, is it. Why do you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of the reformers some technical reform, but

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Speaker 7: So pre election we campaign on modernizing and reforming fishing games.

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Speaker 7: So we're going to pull it out of the Conservation

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Speaker 2: Has this got anything to do you know the fed

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So that's an example of some of the consequences

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Speaker 7: that will limit some of the advocacy functions of some

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Speaker 2: So if you're a farmer in Southend right now, you're

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Speaker 7: No, it's not getting fishing game south because fishing game

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Speaker 2: The better way of looking at it is.

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Speaker 7: That we want fishing game to be seen as a

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Speaker 7: focusing on managing the game bird populations and the sport

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Speaker 2: How much cow urinees in a river. So they won't

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Speaker 2: You're saying that that wouldn't that wouldn't be their role anymore.

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Speaker 7: Well, they can still advocate for the health of waterways

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Speaker 7: We don't think that's necessarily fair. We want to make

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Speaker 2: All right, Minister, appreciate you time this morning. Having a

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Speaker 2: great day. James Mega, Minister of Hunting and Fishing are

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Speaker 2: also Minister of the South Island. It is eighteen after

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Speaker 2: five year on News Talks. There be still to come

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Speaker 2: Your insurance premiums and why they might be going up.

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Speaker 2: The be five twenty News Talks theb the Grocery Commissioner,

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Speaker 2: the supermarket Zar has come out swinging this morning against

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Speaker 2: in just a second. Right now, homeowners are in for

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Speaker 2: another punch to their wallet. David Seymour says insurance levies

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Speaker 2: This used to be the EQC Cabinet will soon begin

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Speaker 2: consultation on the changes could increase levies by two hundred

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Speaker 2: to three hundred bucks a year. Dean Leicster is an

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Speaker 2: insurance consultant with me this morning. Dean, good morning, Laurena,

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Speaker 2: good morning, Ryan, good morning, good morning. So two to

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Speaker 2: three hundred bucks a year. You reckon why? And this

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Speaker 2: is all because what's there are more natural disasters and

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Speaker 2: we don't have enough money in the kitty.

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Speaker 8: The second part, So there's not enough money in the kitty.

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Speaker 8: So the Natural Hazard Commission and the insurance cover that

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Speaker 8: the government provides for earthquakes, land damage, for flood's, volcanic eruption, tsunami,

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Speaker 8: that the government decides that they want to pay the

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Speaker 8: first two billion dollars worth of claims. At the moment,

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Speaker 8: they've got about five hundred billion in the kitty and

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Speaker 8: they need to increase that amount of funds. It doesn't

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Speaker 8: relate to the larger proportion of the program, which is

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Speaker 8: the world reinsurance market, where they obtain about nine billion

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Speaker 8: on the world insurance world reinsurance market. World re insurance

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Speaker 8: market's pretty positive. Those rates seems to be really confusing

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Speaker 2: Five twenty six News TALKSB. The Commerce Commission reckons we

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Speaker 2: need fewer items on sale at the supermarket. Yes, that

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Speaker 2: Let's just nuke the Russians. Well, we can't. We don't

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Speaker 9: Good morning, it is twenty four away from sex here

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Speaker 9: on newstalk sip B. Great to have your company this morning,

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Speaker 9: and been trying to make sense of the Commerce Commission's

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Speaker 9: rhyme or reason in my mind. Ryan, This is from

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Speaker 9: one of our listeners, Hands off the supermarket specials. Customers

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Speaker 9: I can't even explain it to you because it doesn't

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Explain that to me. We'll talk about

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Speaker 2: some more information. I said earlier, I said I've lost

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Speaker 1: Brian Bread goes to.

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Speaker 2: Our reporter around the country, Emily Ansel, has our Dunedin

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Speaker 2: update this morning. Emily, good morning, good morning. Now tell

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Speaker 2: Brilliant, Thank you very much. Now for a christ Church

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Speaker 2: bad weather overnight most places. Michael, good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Unclear when the future or what the future is for

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Speaker 2: the temporary stadium in christ Church, Yes, I mean Apollo

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael Mexis and Wellington Max. Good morning, good morning. Now.

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Speaker 2: I got lots of text yesterday saying we've been too

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Speaker 12: Well exactly. We knock them when they get it wrong,

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Speaker 12: End of Tunnel, Cliche et cetera. Civic Square now nine

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Speaker 2: Okay, so next year will be running, not this year,

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Speaker 2: next year. Next year will be read that's our year.

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Speaker 2: But like the Warriors, how's they were?

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Speaker 12: The max cloudy periods some morning rain, but some quite

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Speaker 2: Thank you Neva's and Auckland NAVA. Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Now look out because you'll be chased by a police bus.

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Speaker 2: That's right now.

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Speaker 13: Look, this is pretty exciting. So police they're busting out

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Speaker 13: this new recruitment campaign, rapping five Auckland buses in police branding.

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Speaker 13: So these are the newly decorated the double deckers because

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Speaker 2: Recruit, five hundred people.

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Speaker 13: See those double dickers. Never have you been on those? No?

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Speaker 2: But they can't seek five hundred people.

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Speaker 13: Well you know what, that's what they reckon. If you

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Speaker 13: hundred and twenty thousand dollars. So that includes the print,

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Speaker 13: the installation, three months of media advertising and Richard Chambers,

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Speaker 13: the commissioner.

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Speaker 2: He says Auckland.

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Speaker 13: Obviously is the key recruitment area. They want to be

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Speaker 13: highly visible, and they have what advertise bar and wider

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Speaker 13: they will.

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Speaker 2: Won't they? Twenty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 13: Yep for all all up, yeah, all up for that

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Speaker 13: print and installation, three months of media advertising. So these

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Speaker 13: police buses are going to be in public circulation for

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Speaker 13: about three months the next three months. Okay, pretty good.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good price considering we're talking about it. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of a novel thing. Interesting. And how's the weather?

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Speaker 14: Hey?

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Speaker 15: First up?

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Speaker 13: Did you hear those thunderstorms last night?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: I heard, I was saying step through it. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: sleep with ear pods and so all right, did hear

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Speaker 2: the rain at one point? I thought it must be raining?

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Speaker 13: Well, I was sound a seat by about six forty

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Speaker 13: five pm, and I missed it completely. I woke up

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Speaker 13: this morning, came in here and I went, well, there

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Speaker 13: was a croc, wasn't it. I didn't know thunderstorm were, Yes,

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Speaker 13: you just didn't hear it. I was like, my goodness,

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Speaker 13: and look, I can tell you there won't be any

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Speaker 13: thunderstorms tonight. Shower is easing this afternoon. Auklan's high nineteen brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Neva, right, that is it for us, Well,

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Speaker 2: it's not quiet for us. Seventeen to six on news

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Speaker 2: talks MB. It is it for us and wrapping the country.

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Speaker 2: But we'll get too much. Mccanney's stateside for US. Next

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Speaker 2: Trump and Poutin have how to call all the.

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Speaker 1: Details international correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of

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Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 2: Who's talked to be just gone fourteen minutes away from

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Speaker 2: six o'clock. We'll get to the supermarkets in just a second,

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Speaker 2: right now. Mitch McCann stateside for US, Mitch, good morning, Ryan,

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Speaker 2: good morning.

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Speaker 9: How are you?

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Speaker 8: Yeh?

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Speaker 2: I very well? Thank you. How was the call between

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Speaker 2: Trump and Potin?

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Speaker 14: Well?

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Speaker 15: Donald Trump had sent said it went well. This happened

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Speaker 15: this morning, a couple of hours ago. It lasted more

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Speaker 15: than one hour and fifteen minutes, according to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 15: And Trump actually revealed that Russia is planning to retaliate

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Speaker 15: against Ukraine after that attack in recent days in which

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Speaker 15: Ukraine's his forty one Russian aircraft were had, including strategic bombers.

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Speaker 15: That was of course quite an embarrassment for Russia because

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Speaker 15: it was well into Russian territory. Trump says he is

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Speaker 15: going to retaliate. He described it as a good conversation,

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Speaker 15: but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace,

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Speaker 15: is what Trump had to say.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we want holdo breath. Then what about Trump

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Speaker 2: and Musk? Because when Musk has come out and bagged

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Speaker 2: his bill, as Trump responded to Musk, he.

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Speaker 15: Hasn't and Donald Trump hasn't actually done a press conference

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Speaker 15: this week, which is quite unusual. But we might hear

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Speaker 15: from him later today. Musk said, this big, beautiful bill

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Speaker 15: that we've talked about, Ryan was massive, outrageous, poor filled

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Speaker 15: congressional spending and it's a disgusting abomination.

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Speaker 2: And to make that is worse for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 15: This non partisan Congressional Budget Office has come up with

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Speaker 15: a figure on how much this is going to cost

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Speaker 15: the United States over ten years. It says it will

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Speaker 15: add two point four trillion dollars to the US national debt. Now,

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Speaker 15: Donald Trump wants to sign this or have it on

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Speaker 15: his desk by the fourth of July, but it really

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Speaker 15: is coming up against a number of roadblocks.

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Speaker 2: Now, all right, Mitch, thanks for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on. As always, much pcan in

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Speaker 2: the US for US thirteen are twelve minutes away from

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Speaker 2: six brand. So the Commerce Commission cracking down on unfair behavior.

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Speaker 2: What they say is unfair behavior in the grocery sector.

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Speaker 2: The Grocery Commissioner is worried about promotional payments between the

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Speaker 2: big supermarkets, the dropoly and the suppliers. He says that

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Speaker 2: around five billion dollars a year in promotional rebates contributes

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Speaker 2: to higher average prices for goods and contributes to price fluctuation.

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Speaker 2: His warning the ComCom may have to act if the

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Speaker 2: supermarkets don't voluntarily stop the rate at which this is happening.

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Speaker 2: Ernie Newman is a grocery policy expert with me this morning. Aarnye,

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Speaker 2: good morning.

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Speaker 14: Gooday, Ryan.

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Speaker 2: Can you explain to me why offering discounts or specials

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Speaker 2: at the supermarket getting rid of those would make life

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Speaker 2: better for us consumers?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's interesting. It's a very complicated market that we're

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Speaker 14: talking about here, But what the Commissioner is showing in

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Speaker 14: this report is that there are these vast sums of

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Speaker 14: money that the supermarkets are negotiating from their largest suppliers,

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Speaker 14: not all of which is being passed on to consumers.

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Speaker 14: So they're talking now about five billion a year in

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Speaker 14: discounts and rebates and promotional allowances and whatever. And when

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Speaker 14: you come to work that I tried to do the

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Speaker 14: math last night, it comes to you know, for a

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Speaker 14: family of four, that's about four grand a year per

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Speaker 14: family that the supermarkets are getting in discounts from their suppliers,

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Speaker 14: not all by any means of which is being passed

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Speaker 14: on to consumers at the checkout.

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Speaker 2: Ye, But how much is being passed on and isn't

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Speaker 2: being passed on? Wouldn't that be central to whether you

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Speaker 2: do anything about it?

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Speaker 14: Well? Yeah, but the way in which the commissioner is

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Speaker 14: phrasing this, it's pretty obvious there is a very very

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Speaker 14: large amount that is simply going into the pockets of

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Speaker 14: the supermarkets and not being passed on. And you know,

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Speaker 14: in a proper competitive market that would not be possible

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Speaker 14: because of one supermarket didn't pass it on to the customers.

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Speaker 14: Another one would problem is, of course, we've got a

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Speaker 14: broken market here. We've only got a duopoly with two

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Speaker 14: people making the decisions for supermarkets at wholesale and retail

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Speaker 14: level for the entire country, and so our market is broken.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And if what you're saying is true, then You know,

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Speaker 2: when we started this whole exercise about the supermarkets, we

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Speaker 2: were told they were making a million dollars a day

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Speaker 2: in excess profits. So three hundred and sixty odd million

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Speaker 2: dollars a year. What you're now talking about, and what

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Speaker 2: the Commission is now talking about is billions.

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Speaker 14: Yeah. Yeah, so it didn't come out of loose money floating?

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Speaker 2: Did we underest? Are you saying that the million dollars

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Speaker 2: a day in excess profits was out by what tens hundreds.

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Speaker 14: Of millions financially? Yeah? Yeah, there's far more loose money

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Speaker 14: floating around in this sector than the Commerce Commission has

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Speaker 14: identified in previous occasions.

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Speaker 2: But the problem is they haven't. They haven't identified it,

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Speaker 2: had they They've just said, hey, look there are five

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Speaker 2: billion dollars of payments going from A to B. They

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Speaker 2: haven't said how much of it's that you've been passed

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Speaker 2: on or not? This is a Is this not a

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Speaker 2: phishing exercise? No, it's not.

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Speaker 14: It's more than that. The problem we've got here is

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Speaker 14: we've got a market that is almost it's almost mafia alike.

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Speaker 14: You know, there are there are just so many discounts

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Speaker 14: and rebates and allowances and money going sort of under

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Speaker 14: the table. But nobody from outside can can absolutely say

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Speaker 14: with certainty how much loose money there is sloshing around

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Speaker 14: in the system. What we do know is that it's

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Speaker 14: the supermarket serve at the top level and not the

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Speaker 14: consumers that they're getting the benefit of a great deal

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Speaker 14: of this.

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Speaker 2: Ernie, appreciate your time this morning. Ernie Newman, who's a

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Speaker 2: grocery policy expertis gone. Nine minutes away from six are

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Speaker 2: loads of texts on this. Ryan's specials add variety and

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Speaker 2: fun to the drag of shopping. I love this, don't

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Speaker 2: touch my don't you come for my specials? Commerce Commission

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Speaker 2: this is interesting. I'm a supplier to food stuffs, and

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Speaker 2: what the commissioner is talking about is that we might

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Speaker 2: have a product that we want to sell at say

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Speaker 2: two dollars fifty every day, but food stuffs make us

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Speaker 2: put the price up so many weeks a year so

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Speaker 2: that they can call it a special, when all we

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Speaker 2: really want to do is to have the price lower

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Speaker 2: every day. But the question is is overall, is the

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Speaker 2: price on average higher or lower than it would otherwise be?

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Speaker 2: That's the question. Eight away from sex Mic next the.

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Speaker 1: News you need this Morning and the in depth Analysis

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Speaker 1: early edition with Ryan Bridge and one roof Make Your

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Speaker 1: Property Search Simple News Talk said.

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Speaker 2: The the Sex News Talks, they'd be Ryan Adern stop

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Speaker 2: the prompt payment discount. I remember this on our power

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Speaker 2: bills because it wasn't fair on the people who didn't

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Speaker 2: pay their bills on time. This move was as ridiculous

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Speaker 2: as the supermarket discount plan that's been announced today. Mike

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Speaker 2: is here now, Hi, Mike.

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Speaker 16: Well, it hasn't been announced. It's it's it's yet another

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Speaker 16: theory from people who spend their entire life coming up

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Speaker 16: with theories that may or may not make any difference.

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Speaker 16: Largely they won't.

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Speaker 2: It's out for consultation.

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Speaker 16: As every person we're talking to old per Year today,

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Speaker 16: we're going to rustle him out of his corner office

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Speaker 16: as grocery commissioner and his company everywhere life. If you

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Speaker 16: go and buy stuff, and lots of it. If I

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Speaker 16: come into your shop and buy one hundred envelopes instead

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Speaker 16: of one envelope, you're going to give me a better deal.

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Speaker 16: Just how life works. And if I'm a loyal customer,

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Speaker 16: you're going to look after me, aren't you.

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Speaker 2: The whole thing is a fishing exercise, because a fishing expedition,

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Speaker 2: because they can't say how much of these payments pocketed,

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Speaker 2: how much were being passed on? You remember when you

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Speaker 2: mentioned it, Doune.

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Speaker 16: You remember she told us that we were being fleeced

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Speaker 16: at the petrol stations and they did another one of

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Speaker 16: those market studies. Are we being fleeced now or not?

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Speaker 16: You can't tell us. You would never clue what oils

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Speaker 16: up oils down. That's how it works.

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Speaker 2: Have you just talking someone's texting about their double decker buses. Neiv.

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Speaker 2: That was embarrassing. NEIV came so embarrassed. She claimed, you

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Speaker 2: can get five hundred people on a double decker bus

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Speaker 2: in Auckland.

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Speaker 16: Do you it's hard to believe that, nev to. I

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Speaker 16: might be wrong, but neither tonight. You know, the radio

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Speaker 16: awards are on tonight. Neiva's a finalist, and I don't,

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Speaker 16: well should she? I mean when she comes on your

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Speaker 16: program and says random stuff like that. I mean, really,

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Speaker 16: there's a credibility issue around that, isn't it? Great voice,

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Speaker 16: a fantastic voice, just not good on the detail. What

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Speaker 16: was the thing I said? I said, think about an

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Speaker 16: a three eighty, Yeah, a plane a plane, an A

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Speaker 16: three eighty holds just under five hundred people, right, so

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Speaker 16: if an A three eighty holds under five hundred, do

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Speaker 16: you reckon a bus holds five hundred?

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Speaker 2: People are saying this is so apparently it's one hundred people.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it doesn't get on a double Dickaba.

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Speaker 16: If you squeezed, if you went down the island squeezed everybody,

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Speaker 16: then you might be one hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 2: The size of people these days, it's just appalling.

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Speaker 16: It's appalling the size of people these days.

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Speaker 2: It's shocking.

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Speaker 10: Anyway.

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Speaker 16: Today insurance and so there's more more charging coming from

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Speaker 16: what used to be called the you know the Earthqua.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be called that. They called it

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Speaker 2: something different and see I think.

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Speaker 16: But whatever it is anyway, it's costing us more.

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Speaker 2: There's just more and more and more. MICA's next Have

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Speaker 2: a Great Day run See it tomorrow Friday.

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