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Speaker 1: We've got the Huddle with New Zealand Southerby's international realty,

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Speaker 1: local and global exposure like no other.

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Speaker 2: So on the Huddle we have Ryan Bridge, who's still.

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Speaker 3: Awake, good evening to be very.

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Speaker 2: Good man, and of course Mark Sainsbury as well broadcast

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Speaker 2: welcome back, Mark, get A Andrey. What you doing these days?

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Speaker 4: Well? Ah, well, bits and pieces.

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Speaker 5: I still do a lot of well used to do

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Speaker 5: a lot of event work in a bit of media advice.

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Speaker 2: So are you can I just ask the question, is

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Speaker 2: the media so obviously you're preparing to actually become mayor

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Speaker 2: of Wellington?

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Speaker 4: Is it right?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Now, look, gentlemen, you have just heard a severel

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Speaker 2: and the battle against Leicester Levy And as I said beforehand,

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Speaker 2: you know, gosh, don't you wish we had a duel

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Speaker 2: and we could actually do ten pieces and you know

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Speaker 2: see what happens next. What did you make of that?

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Speaker 3: Ryan, Well, it's scrusioning wheat and shock horror. There's a

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Speaker 3: bit of scrutiny. I mean the problem. I sort of

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Speaker 3: agree with what Arsaberah was saying towards the end of

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Speaker 3: that interview, like are we being a bit precious with

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Speaker 3: the whole use of that phrase. But it's kind of

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Speaker 3: it's the right issue, the wrong approach. I think for her,

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Speaker 3: she's at risk of looking like she's playing the man

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Speaker 3: and not the ball. And she didn't need to bring

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Speaker 3: up the past because she said it was a history

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Speaker 3: of cooking the books. She's got a smoking gun in

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Speaker 3: the newsroom reporting from today that there was this financial

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Speaker 3: trickery that they were trying to do, trying to switch

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Speaker 3: the cost for some years, attribute them to others. There

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Speaker 3: was a whistleblower. The order to General says, you can't

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Speaker 3: do that. There's your smoking gum, that's your AMMO for

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Speaker 3: your session. No need to raise the passing discretion. So

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Speaker 3: I think right issue, probably wrong approach because the headline

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Speaker 3: now looks like you know Veral ghosts here.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and that's Zach how I treated the interview.

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Speaker 2: That you went so ballistic that you've taken all all

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Speaker 2: detension off your message.

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Speaker 3: Mark.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I'm a bit I'm a bit with Ryan

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Speaker 4: on this one.

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Speaker 5: I mean, in one in one sense, you could sort

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Speaker 5: of say, oh, look, you know that's is just a

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Speaker 5: fametory calling someone the cooking the books, lest the leave

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Speaker 5: he's been around a long time and he's suffered the

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Speaker 5: slings and arrows at most places that he's gone. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: I mean, you look at those select committee processes in

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Speaker 5: the UK, you know, once we had Murdock get the

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Speaker 5: pie in the face. I reckon, they're great and it's

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Speaker 5: a great forum to have a look at things. So

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Speaker 5: I think there's a bit of both. I think, yes,

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Speaker 5: she probably could have been more had a more fruitful

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Speaker 5: attack taking it from another way, but you know, it's

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Speaker 5: not the end of the world. And boy boy, I

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Speaker 5: mean I've heard worse things throwing around in that place.

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Speaker 4: Than that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, gentlemen, it's lovely to have you on the program.

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Speaker 2: We're back in just a few months time.

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Speaker 1: The Huddle with New Zealand Southeby's International Realty Elevate the

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Speaker 1: marketing of your Home.

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Speaker 2: Mark Jamesbury and Ryan Bridge on the Huddle today. Mark,

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Speaker 2: can I ask you, are you a Nylon man or

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Speaker 2: a wool man when it comes to a KO home.

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Speaker 4: Oh, definitely, definitely, Wolf.

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Speaker 5: I think you know what if it's more expensive, well,

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Speaker 5: see this, this thing has to be a trade off.

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Speaker 5: Foreign number years ago to refurbish the beehive, they discovered

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Speaker 5: all the veneer that used has sort of come from

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Speaker 5: some endangered forest in Indonesia somewhere. You know, they're supposed

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Speaker 5: to and they have to sort of rip it all

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Speaker 5: out and do it again. But they're supposed to also

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Speaker 5: show an example. And if you're tutting government departments, try

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Speaker 5: and look support our industry, support local products. You know,

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Speaker 5: I think there should be a buying guide in supporting

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Speaker 5: New Zealand supplies wherever possible.

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Speaker 4: And I think in.

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Speaker 5: The wool industry needs us much support and get and

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Speaker 5: it's a fantastic product.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I agree. Well, look they say it's

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Speaker 2: going to be thirty four percent more expensive to put

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Speaker 2: it in wool, But then the brimwidth guy and a

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Speaker 2: carpet mill guy have come out and said they didn't

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Speaker 2: even ask us. And you know, we see so little

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Speaker 2: of this carpet Ryan that that we could have sharpened

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Speaker 2: the pencil and be more than competitive.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think the hold fire for a one eighty U

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Speaker 3: turn on this one. Mark Patterson, the Associate Agriculture Minister,

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Speaker 3: it sounds like he's going to do some tweaking to

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Speaker 3: the procurement rules and they'll reverse it. I mean, when

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Speaker 3: else do you get Farmers, the Greens, Winston Peters all

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Speaker 3: sitting down holding hand singing Kumbaya on the same issue.

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Speaker 3: And it's in the coalition agreement with New Zealand First

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Speaker 3: as well. There is a caveat on that agreement where

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Speaker 3: it says we're practical, and you could argue that maybe

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Speaker 3: with that cost in seventy five thousand times, it's not practical.

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Speaker 3: But I think they're going to go back to the

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Speaker 3: drawing board and they're going to come back and they're

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Speaker 3: going to one eighty.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, okay, we'll see right, you're right, it's part

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Speaker 2: of the New Zealand First coalition agreement. But at the

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Speaker 2: same time, you know, doing preferential deals for corporates would

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Speaker 2: not be what ACT believes in. So the other coalition

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Speaker 2: partner we'll be saying, no, that's corporate welfare.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The most interesting part of the story, I think is

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Speaker 3: the wording in the document. I mean, why not even

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Speaker 3: allow the wool industry to apply to be a for

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Speaker 3: the contract of course specifically?

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Speaker 4: No, Well, I mean they might.

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Speaker 3: Discount their products and beat the nylon price, you know,

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Speaker 3: why not let them? That doesn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a low level functionary who just

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Speaker 2: made a decision based on a gut feeling.

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Speaker 5: You record or else, Andrew, they could have said, you

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Speaker 5: guys are telling us to save money everywhere, Well stuff

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Speaker 5: you and your preference for the chief adoption.

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Speaker 4: Then you can wear it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we're talking about the lack of money. Of course,

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Speaker 2: we have the reports through that public sector Christmas parties

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Speaker 2: are going to be pretty sad that nobody's actually having one.

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Speaker 2: They can't afford to have one, and they're not even

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Speaker 2: going to have one and pay for it themselves. So

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Speaker 2: do you feel any sympathy, Mark.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look I do.

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Speaker 5: But look I can remember back in the days when

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Speaker 5: you know you're working at tv ands. The Christmas party

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Speaker 5: is greatly reduced over time, but it used to be

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Speaker 5: when you're working some of the Christmas party, who is

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Speaker 5: something you affward to all year.

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Speaker 4: That's gone.

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Speaker 5: I mean those days are gone when they started asking

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Speaker 5: people to pay for it. You organize it yourself, you

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Speaker 5: get a better do. But you know, once again, you're

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Speaker 5: in a public service. You just laid off sort of

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Speaker 5: whatever percentage of your work colleagues are down the road.

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Speaker 4: It's not a great look to be seen and then

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Speaker 4: spending money on a Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well here here's another point of view. It is

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Speaker 2: well known the public service pay packets are actually lower

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Speaker 2: than private area. So you've taken you've taken the hit

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Speaker 2: in your personal money to actually help the world, Ryan

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Speaker 2: and to help the country, and they don't even say

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Speaker 2: thank you by buying you a couple of shardies.

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Speaker 3: No, these bureaucrats don't even bother turning up for work

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Speaker 3: these days. They instead of working from home, they can

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Speaker 3: party from home and they can hear it on their

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Speaker 3: own dime. I'm not having I did feel bad actually

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Speaker 3: reading the story. It said that there was it spoke

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Speaker 3: about Crown Law. I think it was there's a Crown

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Speaker 3: Law Social Committee fund raising group. Yes, I mean how

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Speaker 3: that just sounds sad, doesn't it? Imagine someone going around

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Speaker 3: doing a sausage or happening around the.

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Speaker 4: Can.

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Speaker 2: I just say, the city council has been doing that

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Speaker 2: forever because they don't fund that sort of stuff. And

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Speaker 2: you've got all their managers. If they're going to say

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Speaker 2: thank you, they pay for their own pocket.

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Speaker 4: I let's create some envy here, you guys having a Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Well, of course we are do.

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Speaker 4: You have to pay? No any jobs going.

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Speaker 3: You can be Yeah, you can enter.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, Ryan took the job mate. You should have applied.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: You must be the only guys running and breddy Well

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Speaker 5: you know you're successful.

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Speaker 2: Successful?

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Speaker 4: Have you every have you?

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Speaker 2: Mark Sainsbury? You caught yourself a broadcaster? You've never heard

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Speaker 2: of the word contract?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yes, well, in fact we used to do that

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Speaker 4: in the We don't.

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Speaker 2: Know, sir, what stays and broadcasting stays and stays and

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Speaker 2: broadcasting you know what I mean? Thank you gentlemen, Ryan Bridge,

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Speaker 2: Mark Sainsbury. This is News Talk.

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