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Speaker 1: This is my last day on Early Edition between twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I'll be on Drive for a few weeks from Monday,

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Speaker 1: and while I won't lie, I am looking forward to

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Speaker 1: a few sleepings before Christmas. I will miss our wee

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Speaker 1: five Am club over the summer break. It's a huge

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Speaker 1: privilege to be here with you each and every morning,

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Speaker 1: as you wake up, as you head off to work,

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Speaker 1: as you head off to school, off to school, sport,

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Speaker 1: home from a night shift, home from a night out,

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Speaker 1: whatever you've been doing. Well, messages, your emails bring so

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Speaker 1: much to this show, so I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: for all of your feedback through the year. The good,

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Speaker 1: the bad, the hilarious, the thoughtful, even the nutty ones.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of those two. The show is as much

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Speaker 1: yours as it is mine. The beauty of this Early

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Speaker 1: Hour is the breaking international stories that we get to

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Speaker 1: bring you, the sad ending to the Tom Phillips saga

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Speaker 1: happened overnight. This year, We've had elections, we've had budgets,

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Speaker 1: We've had updates on wars and far flung paces. This

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Speaker 1: show is designed to keep you up to date with

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Speaker 1: business as it is as much to do with politics.

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Speaker 1: After all, the real engine and true heart of this

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Speaker 1: country doesn't wor and beat out of Wellington, but out

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Speaker 1: of the staff rooms, the fat trees, the farm paddocks,

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Speaker 1: the workplaces and the boardrooms of our economy. And on

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Speaker 1: that front, twenty twenty six is going to be better.

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Speaker 1: We're tip to go faster than the Aussies, the Brits

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Speaker 1: and the Americans next year and the one after that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much to everybody who listens to this program,

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Speaker 1: whether you're here for the whole hour, whether you're ducking

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Speaker 1: in or ducking out, maybe waiting for Mike to start.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, and a very special thank you to producer

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Speaker 1: McKenzie who has kept this show on the road and

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Speaker 1: forgetting the good gets. You're smart beyond your years, McKenzie,

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Speaker 1: and I trust you completely. A big shout out to

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Speaker 1: Samuel who sets up our interviews the night before landed

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Speaker 1: us some great gets this year as well. Thank you team.

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Speaker 1: Have a merry Christmas, have a happy new year. I

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Speaker 1: hope you will get to have a decent break and

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Speaker 1: some time off with your families. We will see your

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Speaker 1: bright Heart and bushytailed for twenty twenty six. For more

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Speaker 1: from early edition with Ryan Bridge listen live to news

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