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Speaker 1: And finally, Costco in the US is selling a giant

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Speaker 1: called Piache. The chocolate bunny costs two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: small enough to actually eat.

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Speaker 2: How do you eat? Wrap heat and a towel and

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Speaker 2: give him one bold whack.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got in touch with Costco and Auckland. Apparently

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Speaker 1: Pete is not going to be available here because it's

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Speaker 1: just not an audience like, there's just not We're just

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Speaker 1: not fatties to that extent who just want to gobble

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Speaker 1: down that much chocolate. But their biggest chocolate bunny is

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Speaker 1: still Bag one point two kge's. Oh no, Dan Mitchison

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Speaker 1: US corresponding, you heard me say that about you people.

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Speaker 2: There was fighting words. There's fighting words.

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Speaker 1: But I can say that about rabbit.

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Speaker 2: Isn't huge out rabbit, it's huge.

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Speaker 3: Now if it was in dark chocolate, I would buy it,

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Speaker 3: but it's in milk chocolate, so I have to take

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Speaker 1: Would you tell me about the Costco chocolate. Is it

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Speaker 1: the good chocolate or is it the chocolate the palm

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Speaker 3: Well, it's I don't know what it has in there.

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Speaker 3: I never buy chocolate at Costco unless it's over the

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Speaker 3: Christmas time, and then they have a lot of imported

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Speaker 3: chocolates from around the world, which I you know, from

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Speaker 3: England and Belgium and stuff like that, which I love.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, that's that's too much chocolate for any one person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds to me like your taste there too

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Speaker 1: refined for Pete. Anyway, Now, what's going on on with

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Speaker 1: the ballroom plans?

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Speaker 3: Well, the White House had these plans to make this

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Speaker 3: fantastic ballroom, but there was an injunction. A federal judge

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Speaker 3: today just at oh, that's not going to happen. He

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Speaker 3: blocked the construction, you know, a little bit late to

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Speaker 3: down already. And this is a four hundred million dollar ballroom,

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Speaker 3: which by the way, was supposed to originally cost two

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Speaker 3: and then went up to four hundred million dollars. But

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Speaker 3: President Trump has said, don't worry. It's all private donations,

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Speaker 3: and a judge's ruled in favor of the National Trust

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Speaker 3: for Historic Preservation, saying again, you're the caretaker this, you

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Speaker 3: are not the owner of this building. But this delay

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Speaker 3: is going to give the president time to appeal the injunction.

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Speaker 2: So who knows what he's going to do with it now.

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Speaker 1: How many more troops are hitting to the Middle East

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Speaker 1: or what is going on? What is the firepower being

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Speaker 3: You know, this is really interesting what you were just

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Speaker 3: saying about what the Wall Street Journal was reporting, Heather.

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Speaker 3: And then we've got a third aircraft carrier that was

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Speaker 3: just sent to the Middle East, the USS George HW. Bush,

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Speaker 3: which is an aircraft carrier, and that left today along

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Speaker 3: several other warships. This is supposed to take about two

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Speaker 3: is when President Trump earlier today just said, you know what,

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Speaker 3: this whole thing is probably going to be over in

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Speaker 3: two to three weeks. So he is weighing additional military

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Speaker 3: operations right there. Like you said, he's going to be

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Speaker 3: Will he continue with this or will you know, the

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Speaker 3: Middle East says, hey, we're willing to pull back right now.

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Speaker 3: Just don't attack us anymore.

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Speaker 1: Listen, what is Just run me through what's happened here

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Speaker 1: with the version therapy loop.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the Supreme Court today ruled against this law.

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Speaker 3: And this was coming out of Colorado for banning conversion

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Speaker 3: said the law banning conversion therapy violates the First Amendment.

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Speaker 3: And the justice said, well, you know what, I guess,

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Speaker 3: I guess you're right here. It raises free speech concerns.

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Speaker 3: So what they're doing now is, you know, they're sending

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Speaker 3: it back to a lower court. They're saying, Okay, we're

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Speaker 3: let this other court decide if it means a legal

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Speaker 3: standard that that will pass. But I just I just

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Speaker 3: don't know if it's going to make it its way

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Speaker 3: going to just sort of stay down on a lower

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Speaker 1: Okay, Dan, thank you as always, we'll chat to you

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Speaker 1: here next week because of course, good Friday. Look after yourself.

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