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It's the final day of the Democratic National Convention where Kamala Harris will formerly accept the Democratic nomination for President. We're live to Chicago for the latest.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge new
for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture Vans and a play at store us doorgs.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It is six halfter five. Welcome to your Friday, the
twenty third of August. Great to have you on the
show this morning. Tony Johnson is with us just before
six on the Raisin McDonald divorce situation. We're live to
the DNC again. It's the final day. You may be
pleased to hear Karmala Harris is going to speak there.
What is she going to say? Also, Robert F. Kennedy
is due to drop out of the race today. What
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happens to his votes if he endorses Trump? Is that
going to change the game. We'll check in with our
reporter in Chicago in the UK, Vincent mcavinie, and we've
got an RMA update for farmers. Just before the five
thirty news the agenda. It is Friday, the twenty third
of August. Ukrainian officials have ordered mandatory evacuations in the
(00:59):
Eastern Sea of for Cost and surrounding towns and mid
warnings that Russia's forces are fast approaching. There's about fifty
nine thousand people living in the area, but residents are
hesitant to leave. The military is having to go house
to house to tell them to get out. To Canada now,
where a union dispute has forced the shutdown of the
country's two largest railways. More than nine thousand workers have
(01:20):
been locked out by operators Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific.
This after negotiations failed for a new contract with the
Teamsters rail union members. Canadian Labor Minister Steve McKinnon.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Commuters are counting on them, Farmers are counting on them.
These people need to understand very very clearly that it
is their duty to get a deal.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, and at one point two billion New Zealand dollars
of freight carried by them daily, so they need to
sort it out. Team New Zealand have won their first
race in the America's Cup preliminary regatta in Barcelona. It
was an easy cruise to the finish line after the
Italians suffered from a system shutdown mid race and you
can just.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
See the place and even.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Just forced the bow of the boat into the water.
So they've had to actually do a full shut down there.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Full shutdown. The Italians recovered from the computer era, later
winning in a race against the French team Orient Express,
who were penalized for crossing the start line too early.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
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Speaker 3 (02:27):
News Talk said be eight minutes after five wed love
your feedback this morning, nine two, nine to two. I
watched the press conference yesterday with Razor when we was
talking about the divorce that he's currently going through the
separation with Leon McDonald. You don't really know what happened,
do you. They don't go into specifics about exactly what
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it was. They said, it's not it's nothing to do
with the player selection. It's nothing to do with the
clash of personalities. It's just we have different ideas about
the game.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Just over the period of time since we started coaching together.
We just feel like hasn't quite clicked. We just quite
heaven lined up where we need you on the rugby
side of it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
On the rugby side of it, Okay, I don't know.
We'd love to know. Do you think the fans need
to know the ins and outs. Does any you know,
do you care that much? Do you need to know
specifically what went wrong? Because I'm curious, but you know,
is it TMI? Nine two nine two, Give me a
text this morning. Also, they've got about seven coaches once
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you take into account the line out coach and the
kicking coach and I don't know, running onto the field coach.
What else? How many do you need? How many? How
many people does it take to change the light bulb?
You know? Is that too many coaches? Anyway? Nine two
nine two, give me a text this morning. We'd love
to hear from you. Also, you might have seen this
or heard this in the news just now. This is
(03:52):
a story that's come out this morning the New Zealand
Medical Journal. There's an opinion piece in there. It's an
editorial written by four researchers from the Association of Salaried
Medical Specialists. Why do you care about this? Well, they're
basically saying we're not giving enough money to health. This
is health that gets thirty billion dollars a year, the
bottomless pit that just keeps taking you basically might as
(04:15):
well take a bag of cash and just light it
on fire, because that's that's pretty much what happens in health,
and they're saying not enough money has gone and even
with the extra one point seven billion that they got
in the last budget, not enough, not good enough, And
you'll basically be cutting into frontline services because you've got
your less de levy going in there, cutting into your
frontline services. So I mean, I just think we're all
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living longer. You know, there's a story out today in
the UK they've approved a new Alzheimer's drug will reduce
Alzheimer's cognitive to grind by twenty seven percent. We've also
got all these obesity drugs which will they reckon almost
wipe out obesity one day. So we're all living longer.
We've all got these medicines to keep us living longer.
It's going to cost money to to do that. You know,
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that's just the reality. You want to live longer, you've
got to pay for it. And that is essentially what
is happening to our health system has been for a
long time. Eleven minutes after five news talks, You've been the.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swiss City, New Zealand's
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Speaker 3 (05:21):
Sai'd be Starbucks is getting a new boss, and he's
found himself already before he started in hot Water. I'll
tell you about that in a second. Thirteen after five. Now,
Karmala Harris will formally accept the Democratic nomination for president today.
This is at the DNC in Chicago. It comes as
Robert F. Kennedy, who's that independent third candidate, is expected
to drop out of the race today and endorse Donald Trump.
(05:44):
Simon Marx is FSN's correspondent at the DNC in Chicago. Simon,
thanks for being with us this morning. Great to have
you back on the show. Good to be back, Ryan Simon.
Let's start with the DNC. What are we expecting from
Carmela today?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Well, I think, you know, the most important political speech
of her life. I mean, that's often a cliche, but
it certainly isn't on this occasion. Kamala Harris has to
capitalize on the incredible sense of electricity and desire in
the room for this convention to end on a high.
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It has moved from the Obamas speaking a couple of
nights ago to her running mate Tim Walls captivating the
audience last night with that speech that very much portrayed
himself as a high school football coach who was now
coaching Democrats in preparing for the fourth quarter of the game.
He wanted them to go out and fight for every
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single inch and every single yard. And so now it's
Kamala Harris's turn to introduce herself in detail to those
Americans who have not followed her career, even as vice
president with a tremendous degree of regularity, but also to
inspire hire Democrats to get out and work, as Barack
(07:03):
Obama put it, like they've never worked before in order
to try and eke out a win over Donald Trump.
I think this is going to be a speech that
is very big on large inspirational promises and perhaps not
quite as thick in terms of policy prescriptions. This this
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convention really has been all about one central theme and
that's more platable to average Americans than Donald Trump and
JdE events, And so far in that regard, it's worked.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Robert If Kennedy expected to pull out of the race
today and endorse Trump, does that change the result? Do
you think?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
It has the potential to have an impact. There's no
question about that. I mean, it's often been debated ever
since Robert F. Kennedy got into this race, first as
a Democrat, of course, challenging Joe Biden, then deciding he
was getting no where in that regard and so he
became an independent. It's often been debated where the most
of his supporters, and he's getting you know, between eight
(08:08):
and ten percent in the polls, are likely Trump voters
or likely Biden voters. Now, I think most analysts think
that given some of Robert F. Kennedy's positions, he draws
more support away from Donald Trump than he does from
Joe Biden. So an endorsement of Donald Trump will certainly
help him at a time when Kamala Harris is hoping
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to leave Chicago with a huge bounce in the opinion
polls that she can then try to maintain and perhaps
even extend. It's something that Donald Trump desperately needs at
the end of a week that obviously has been all
about Kamala Harris, because that's the nature of a convention
that is a four day made for TV spectacular. Whether
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it appreciably changes the outcome of this election is just
too early to know. You know, this is still a
fifty to fifty country so it could make a big difference,
but we need to factor in what kind of impact
Kamala Harrison, Tim Willfalls have had this week here, and
we still don't know that because obviously the convention is
still underweight.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, and we'll hear from Kamla Harris today, Simon, Thank
you for that. Simon Mark's FSN correspondent at the DNC
in as Chicago for US. It has just gone seventeen
minutes after five o'clock. Just a really interesting number from yesterday.
The vote is under thirty in the United States. Get this,
This is from June. Trump was getting forty percent of
the under thirty vote. This is in June, Trump forty percent,
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Biden forty six percent, so a six point lead for Biden. There.
Flip that to now and Trump's thirty eight thirty eight
percent and Harris is fifty six percent, so an eighteen
point gap. So it just goes to show that that
the youth vote U turn is real and happening in
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the States. Eighteen after five, Ryan Bridge, Starbucks, I promised
I'll tell you about this. So first of all, the
boss of Starbucks. It's a big company, one hundred billion dollars,
so it's you know, you're going to get paid a lot. Interestingly,
the base salary, because his details have been revealed, one
point six million US dollars. Not much, but it's the
bonuses and the equity, the potential for one hundred million
(10:14):
dollars a year in his first year. Anyway, that's not
even the best part of the story. This is Brian Nickel.
His contract details have been revealed. It's the private jet
in the contract. That's that's Scott. Starbucks customers really upset
because you have to suck on those stupid plastic straws.
And this guy apparently lives in Newport Beach in California,
(10:35):
the office in Seattle, Washington. That's sixteen hundred kilometers away
in eighteen hour drive, and he has to be in
the office three days a week, so do the mass
on that private jet there and back every time. And
people are saying, that's just, you know, don't talk about
sustainability and then flying a private jet. Nineteen ninety two
The number of.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Text the first word on the News of the Day
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Speaker 3 (11:05):
You study out this morning looking at our brains. What
they've found inside them, which is not human material, will
shock you. We'll get to that shortly. Right now, the
government is progressing a second Resource Management Act Amendment Bill.
This is they say, going to drive economic growth and productivity.
The big changes here for the farming sector, highly productive land.
(11:26):
They're going to allow the construction of greenhouses or indoor
primary production facilities, and they are also going to allow
you to build new infrastructure like soul Of Farms on
highly productive land in New Zealand. Joining us to discuss
this morning, Mark Hooper, National board member and RMA spokesperson
at Fed Farmers Mark, good morning, good morning, Good to
(11:48):
have you on the show. These are good changes. I'm
assuming that you will be welcoming them.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah. Look, I think the bigger picture here is to
see that the resource management reform program is kind of
on track. So you know, we've had this series of changes.
It goes back to the Repair of the Natural Built
(12:15):
Environment Act, and then we've had the fast tracked legislation.
We've had Resource Management Amendment Bill one and was signaled
that we get Bill two. And so the bigger picture
is of course a full replacement of the Resource Management Act,
which seems to be on the cards and is signaled
in this as well. And so as we kind of
(12:38):
continue on on that program, we see kind of incremental
changes occurring, and maybe they've been focused around fixing up
what you would call kind of unworkable rules to some extent.
So we saw quite a lot of that that affected
the agriculture sector and Resource Management Bill one and this
(12:59):
change for Resource Management build too. I guess it's perhaps
perhaps less significant broadly, but the key thing here is
that it's really good to see that the national policy
statements a highly productive land has been addressed. There are
some concerns, broader concerns around it, and there's some specific concerns,
(13:21):
and what they've done is targeted here a couple of
specific concerns.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The soul where there was what you can do on
highly productive land because I imagine that if you want
to get stuff done at the moment, there's a whole
bunch of hoops you have to jump through.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Yeah, well, it was an area where on these specific
things there was just a lack of clarity as to
what the consenting pathway might be right. And so the
concern is for a glasshouse or indoor farming kind of scenario.
You're not necessarily using the soil of that highly productive land,
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and so that National Policy Statement kind of linked up
the highly productive land with being highly productive soils. So
if you put an intensive food production facility on a
piece of highly productive land, but you're not using the soil,
you can see that there's a little bit of a
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little bit of a lack of clarity. They're a little
bit of ambiguity as to whether it fits the purposes
of the National Policy Statement or not.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Right, So that's why they're having to come up with
these kind of interim fixes if you like. This is
the government progressing the second Resource Management Amendment Bill, which
is going to change a couple of things around highly
productive land. Mark. Thank you very much for your time
this morning, Mark Cooper, who is with Fed Farmers. It
is twenty four after five.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
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Speaker 3 (14:50):
Twenty six minutes after five, Shane Jones has given quite
a fiery speech. This is the general debate and the
house fired up and he was taking aim at the
Greens and particular of course he's the Resources and Associate
Energy Minister taking aim at the Greens over well what
was essentially labors oil and gas band and he's calling
(15:11):
out their opposition to using key we coal.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
We can power up New Zealand by using our domestic
coal resources. But that party would rather see New Zealand
as thrown on the unemployment scrap keepers we've witnessed this week.
They would rather see people cold. They would rather see
people in their retirement years too afraid to put the
(15:34):
jug on or the sleeping blanket, just so they can
cover themselves in an ideological blanket of piety and self righteousness.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And that wasn't it. That was not scripted. That was
just Shane Jones just going for a healthy leather in
the house. A very enjoyable speech. He's easy to listen to,
his niche Shane. Anyway, he makes a point, doesn't he
about the Buchers who are being affected by all of
the closures that are happening around the country at the moment.
I flicked off an email to Methanex Yes today because
(16:06):
they've shutted operations at their plant until October, and I
just wanted to check are you definitely going to reopen?
And they said yes, we're looking forward to restarting operations
in November, so that is good. But they do say
this about our current electricity system, and I think it
just sums it up. Our highly renewable electricity sector is
(16:27):
increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable power generation, which needs to
be supported by thermal generation to provide energy security when
it doesn't when the rain doesn't fall, the wind doesn't blow,
all the sun doesn't shine. During the last three years,
they've operated at reduced rates or shut plants over high
electricity demand periods during winter to ensure there's enough gas
for everyone to go around. Now, this is the interesting part.
(16:50):
While the government has recently signaled positive policy changes like
reversing that offshore oil and gas ban, we believe additional
policies are urgently needed for New Zealand's incumbent upstream companies
such as OMV, Todd and Graymouth to help improve confidence
(17:10):
and enable the development of future gas supplies to prevent
what they call the de industrialization of our economy. So anyway,
we're hoping to have them on the show actually next week,
just for a chat about exactly what those things are
that they want changed. Twenty nine after.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Five get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for
twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New
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Zealand's furniture Bids and a player store News talk zid be.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Good morning twenty four away from six News Talks there'd
be Friday, the twenty third of August. If you're just
joining us, welcome to the show. Microplastics in our Brains.
This is new research out of the toxicologist from the
University of New Mexico measured weighed our brains, well, not
our brains, but people who died for microplastics, and there
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was half a percent the average weight of our brains
tested positive basically for microplastics. I don't know which half
a percent that would be exactly, but yeah, apparently we
eat it because we eat microplastics. And they thought actually
they would enter our system and would get blocked at
the liver. Apparently they go into the brain. So there
(18:47):
you go. I thought we just had to worry about
plastics in the ocean, but it turns out also in
your head. Hey, you've just been sent a list of
all the coaches at the All Blacks Man. There's heaps
they've got head coach assistant coach for Ward's assistant coach,
Attack assistant coach, Defense assistant coach, backs, contact skills coach.
They've also added the line out throwing coach and the
(19:09):
kicking coach. Obviously we're now lost one and Leon McDonald.
But that's a few, isn't it. Tony Johnson on that
in just a few moments. Twenty three to six, Brian Bridge,
We've going our reporters around the country now, starting with
Cullum and Duned and Cullum, Good morning to you. This
research looking at snap children's snacking preferences.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Yeah, morning, Ryan, this is the latest study out of
a Tiger university.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Here.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
It's found a link between the types of snacks we
consume and our body mass index. It highlights how taste
sensitivities influence BMI. For example, someone with low sensitivity to
sweetness will likely consume more sweet fatty foods. The authors
of this study say that academics have been debating whether
(19:53):
there's a link for a long time, so they took
this approach of looking at taste over nutrients. They say
it's important to pay attention to our children's eating behaviors,
and those with kids should set up their sensory preferences
from a very early age. All right, and your weather
today comem occasional rain developing but clearing this afternoon, Northerlys
and thirteen today.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thank you, Claire, Sherwoods and christ Church this morning, clear,
good morning to you. The Winter Games getting underway.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Yeah, they are getting underway, Ryan, and there are mixed
emotions down here because of that. The Games will take
place over four mountains in the Queenstown area and they
do officially open today. But look that excitement has been
dulled somewhat due to this reportedly tragic start for some
of the competitors. It is believed that the three victims
of the crash at Geraldine earlier this week were in
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fact members of the Korean ski team. Other members of
the team had been traveling in convoy. They'd been at
a training beforehand when it's understood they witnessed a head
on collision which killed teammates and also seriously injured to others.
In a statement, the Winter Games CEO Marty to Me
says they haven't been given specific information to confirm those
involved were registered to compare, but nonetheless they do extend
(21:02):
their deepest sympathies.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Very sad indeed clear the weather there today a.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Warman to start some high cloud today for Friday, there
could be a shower or two a bit later. Seventeen
degrees is ou high.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Thank you Max Toles and Wellington. Max. An incredible discovery
for the owner of four paintings.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Yeah, a great little local story in Enzidme's Carpety News
this week, a woman who lives just up the coast
in pecker Picker took four dirty, spotty, nicotine stained paintings
to a restoration expert just to get them cleaned up.
She'd come to own them while cleaning out someone's home.
Turned out these old oil paintings were the works of
renowned Keei Australian artist Charles McPhee The dream for anyone.
(21:42):
Mcfee's paintings sell for several thousand dollars a pop at auction.
They were done around nineteen fifty two. McPhee known for
his oil paintings on black velvet of very lifelike indigenous
people and of Pacific beachy landscapes. The International Art Center
in Auckland was alerted to this fire. They're done, very
exciting for the local art world.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Do we know what they're worth well.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
The last one solid auction for seventeen hundred dollars, but
they can reach upwards of five thousand, six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay, not bet weather today, I'm Wellington Max.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Mostly cloudy, the odd showers, some very strong northeries thirteen
the High Central.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Thank you, and Wendy Petrie is in Auckland this morning.
Good morning, good morning. So we're looking at this. Oh,
this is the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
the street dancing thing.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Yes, that's right. Well, funding for a global street dance
competition coming to Auckland next April hasn't got the Taxpayer's
Union seale of approval. The government in Tataki Auckland Unlimited
are together funding one point five million dollars for the
inaugural World Dance Crew Championships next year hip Hop. The
event will feature dance crews from forty countries across five
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competition divisions, expected to attract thousands of people and expected
to generate at four million dollars into the economy, but
the Taxpayer's Union's Jordan Williams says the government is ignoring
its owner advice to councils to limit the nice to haves.
He says, the idea of that being way out of
the recession is madness.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Are they going to spend that? Is that ray Gun's
appearance fee? Do you think fifty k? She's famous?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I know, right, I don't know what what do you
think about this? Because I feel if we're letting councils
and governments decide, what is you know, going to generate money?
I mean, shouldn't we just leave that to a private
business if it is going to be that secess?
Speaker 12 (23:31):
Although well yeah, well that's right. I mean I think
it could. It could potentially go really really well in
New Zealand and we have got good hip hop dancers
and it could be amazing. And maybe do they need
that funding is the question?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, yeah, especially when you're telling the councils to tighten
their own belts, right yeah. Has the weather today?
Speaker 12 (23:46):
Well we're looking at a fine Friday party, cloudy if
you showers possibly this afternoon nor the leeds becoming fresh
and at seventeen degrees brilliant.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Thank you, Wendy. It is eighteen minutes away from six.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Ryanbridge. You twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store news dog Zidby.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It's kind of a stupid question to ask because we
don't get to vote in the US election. But Toobot Mills,
which is Labour's polster has or poster of choice, has
decided to ask Kiwis, who would you vote for? Karmela
or Donald? Fifty five percent went Karmela. Unsurprisingly, twenty one
percent went Donald. I think Carmela would be better for
New Zealand. And I'm not saying I'm not getting into
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politics in the US, and actually what would be better
for an American in terms of her to vote for?
But in terms of a small trading nation like ours,
you don't want protectionist policies. You don't want America first,
that's bad for us. The potential for a trade war
with China. Plus the other thing of Trump got in
what would happen with the war in Ukraine and now Russia.
(24:52):
You know he doesn't want to keep topping that war up,
does he? So what happens there? It is a quarter to.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Six international spondens with ins in eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Benson mccabinnie is a UK and Europe correspondent. He's with
US Live. What's the latest the evansent on the basi
in yacht tragedy.
Speaker 13 (25:12):
Well, there has been news today out of Italy. There
were six passengers who were still missing. Yesterday they managed
to identify in the wreck five bodies and they have
recovered them over the past twenty four hours. They have
now been identified as Morvillo, who was a partner at
law firm Clifford Chance, and his wife Nida Morvillo, who
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was a jewelry designer. Then there was the banker Michael
Bloom and his wife Judy Bloom, and then of course
the British tech entrepreneur basically our version of Bill Gate
at Mike Lynch. His body has also been identified, but
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his daughter, Hannah, an eighteen year old, she is still
missing and there have started now to be investigations ongoing.
There is we understand the New Zealand captain of the
vessel on the night is being interviewed by police, and
there is now the owner of the company that made
the yacht has come forward to say that he's starting
(26:20):
to point the finger at the crew, saying that this
yacht was safe, it shouldn't have sunk, and that the
ship crew were not in a high enough state of
alert given the stormy weather in the region. Of course,
many saying that water spouts undetectable, that this was a
freak black Swan event, and just sorry to correct the
banker's name with Jonathan Bloomer.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Very quickly, we've got time for this update on Andrew Tate,
that's the influencer that many believe is a misogynist and
leading young people down the wrong path, etc. Him and
his brother have been in court. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 13 (26:53):
They've both appeared in court Andrew tATu and Tristan Tate
earlier today. In Romania. Prosecutors are investing eating new claims
against the pair and they wanted them reminded them in custody.
They've been put into house arrest and they are investigating
serious allegations, including that of sex with a minor and
trafficking underage persons. The brothers are denying this, but as
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I say, they will now have to stay under house
arrest in their compound outside Bucharest.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Vincent, thank you for that, Vincent Mecavanny, a UK and
Europe correspondent. It's twelve to six. Bryan Bridge shock move yesterday.
Still not quite sure why it happened. The assistant coach
of the All Blacks, Leon McDonald, has quit after disagreements
with head coach Scott Razor Robertson. He sees it was
a mutual decision. Is they couldn't agree on strategy any
(27:45):
minute now. Maybe this is how awkward it was when
they were coaching together. Maybe that's why he's decided he
his to go here.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
It is just a little bit of philosophy on rugby. Hell,
it was played and you just didn't quite click.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
The speaks Tony Johnson as a rugby commentator. He's with us, Tony,
good morning, Nice to have you on the show.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Good morning, right do we do?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What do you think really went on here? What's the juice?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well? I think there's a couple of schools of thought
about this. Ryan. One is that, as stated the reasons
Leon McDonald left the job as assistant to Scott Robertson
at the Crusaders in twenty seventeen, resurfaced and proved irreconcilable,
which is, you know, baffling a little bit because they
(28:34):
have played or coached together over a twenty seven year
span Canterbury Crusaders, the all backs they coached in his
land age group team together in twenty fifteen, and so
for suddenly these differences to be irreconcilable, you know, it's
a bit unusual. The other school of thought is that,
you know, there probably are too many voices on the
(28:55):
coaching panel, six full time coaches. That's unprecedented, different voices,
all with their role to play, and too many voices
has been a bit of a rumble that's come out
of the team. You know, look, they've won three out
of their four test matches, but right from the word go,
you were hearing that the players were getting a lot
of voices, a lot of information. And also when you've
(29:17):
got that many, you know, there's always a chance that,
you know, coaches are going to be sort of tripping
over each other, They're going to have different views, and
maybe someone's going to end up feeling a bit marginalized.
And I think that's, you know, maybe one of the
things that happened here with Leon McDonald. Either way, it's
a decision I think they felt that they had to
make now rather than let it sort of fester on.
(29:42):
And I think in that regard. It's quite a bold
thing that they've done and the right thing that they've done.
If they weren't getting on you just couldn't have that
happening in front of the players.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
No, well, that obviously made up their minds that, as
you say, was reconcilable. Basically, who picks the who selects
the assistant coach? Like with Leon's job, would would Raiser
have picked him?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And well, yeah, and I think this is something that
you know, probably needs to be looked at that have
they given him carte Blines to pick as many and
whoever coaches on his staff as he likes in the past,
it's a job that's been done very successfully in the
(30:23):
Graham Henry and Steve Hanson eires by three And as
I say, it just raises that question where he has
obviously got some fresh ideas, some quite radical ideas, but
there's just science here. That's six and there are a
couple of others that pop in and out as well,
just perhaps too.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Many in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, and look, I think it's quite telling that
the best performance that they've had so far was the
second Test match against Argentina, where the really bad weather
forced them to simplify the way they were playing, take
it right back to the basics, and that proved to
be a really good formula. That maybe things were a
(31:09):
bit overcomplicated, and that the weather forced them to go
a lot of them. That's that's the point of going forward.
I think if they're going to be successful in South Africa,
which is going to be a very tough challenge for them,
that that's that's the way ahead. The interesting now to
see whether there's an attempt to replace Leon McDonald. I
(31:32):
don't think that should be the case. I think you
know that they've got enough there on the coaching staff
that you know, five full time coaches surely is plenty.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
It sounds to me like more than enough. Tony, thank
you for that. That's Tony Johnson that Rugby commentated with
us this morning. I suppose if they go to South
Africa and they win, all of this will be forgotten.
But that's probably a tall order. At this point. It
is eight minutes away from six on.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Your radio and online. On iheard Rado early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's furniture Bids and
a playing store News talk.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Said b just gone five to six News Talk said
b there's a report out this morning about the health
system saying that we're not putting enough money into it.
We're already putting thirty billion dollars a year into the
health system, and everybody wants to live longer. There was
a report out today about a new Alzheimer's drug in
the UK that's being approved, which shall help people to
live longer. I mean that's good, but it costs money
(32:28):
to keep people alive, doesn't it. Mike Hosking is here,
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
It's a never ending pit of money. I believe it's
thirty billion dollars. We have enough money. I believe the
Prime Minister's right. We have enough money to provide a
decent health service.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Why do we all want to live for so long?
And who were we talking so?
Speaker 14 (32:45):
Oh you're talking about your Spanish woman, woman who year.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
One hundred and seventeen when she died. I mean, what's
the point? We're living?
Speaker 14 (32:52):
Well is the key? I reckon, don't you wouldn't you
rather be happy and well and flexible and healthy and
as opposed to know riddled up and isened up and
all those.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Of a raisin exactly? But I supp i think the
thing is, if we do want to live longer, and
everybody seems to want to make a hundred, then it's
going to cost a lot of money to keep us
all going, isn't it.
Speaker 14 (33:11):
I mean, well not if you lively life. Well, so
what you want is gut health. Here's my top tips
for a weekend for you. Right, Your gut health is
the key to everything these days. So it starts in
the gut.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So no takeaways tonight with you buy them.
Speaker 14 (33:22):
There's no takeaways. There's no heavily or highly processed food.
It's all natural ingredients. And if you look after your
gut and you stay flexible. Look at the ancient cultures,
look at the Chinese, look at the Greeks.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Well do you what? Do you take gut pills and
do yoga on the weekend?
Speaker 14 (33:36):
Way, I eat clean and I bend a lot is
what I do.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
There's no one You've not seen it.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
You've not seen it. But I could outbend you, right,
I could. I could outflex you. And I believe to be.
I'm older than you, and so so when it comes
to you know, being flexible and all that sort of stuts, that's.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
The ke's seen me flex.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
I haven't and that is the point of my Maybe
that's something for another day, but and also a healthy mind.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Is the key anyway.
Speaker 14 (34:07):
I know how much you love the weekend, so I'm
actually out the door, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Have a great day, everybody.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
It'd be good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It is six halfter five. Welcome to your Friday, the
twenty third of August. Great to have you on the
show this morning. Tony Johnson is with us just before
six on the Raisin McDonald divorce situation. We're live to
the DNC again. It's the final day. You may be
pleased to hear Karmala Harris is going to speak there.
What is she going to say? Also, Robert F. Kennedy
is due to drop out of the race today. What
(00:37):
happens to his votes if he endorses Trump? Is that
going to change the game. We'll check in with our
reporter in Chicago in the UK, Vincent mcavinie, and we've
got an RMA update for farmers. Just before the five
thirty news the agenda. It is Friday, the twenty third
of August. Ukrainian officials have ordered mandatory evacuations in the
(00:59):
Eastern Sea of for Cost and surrounding towns and mid
warnings that Russia's forces are fast approaching. There's about fifty
nine thousand people living in the area, but residents are
hesitant to leave. The military is having to go house
to house to tell them to get out. To Canada now,
where a union dispute has forced the shutdown of the
country's two largest railways. More than nine thousand workers have
(01:20):
been locked out by operators Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific.
This after negotiations failed for a new contract with the
Teamsters rail union members. Canadian Labor Minister Steve McKinnon.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Commuters are counting on them, Farmers are counting on them.
These people need to understand very very clearly that it
is their duty to get a deal.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, and at one point two billion New Zealand dollars
of freight carried by them daily, so they need to
sort it out. Team New Zealand have won their first
race in the America's Cup preliminary regatta in Barcelona. It
was an easy cruise to the finish line after the
Italians suffered from a system shutdown mid race and you
can just.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
See the place and even.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Just forced the bow of the boat into the water.
So they've had to actually do a full shut down there.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Full shutdown. The Italians recovered from the computer era, later
winning in a race against the French team Orient Express,
who were penalized for crossing the start line too early.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
News and Views you trust to start your day. It's
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a playing store.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
News Talk said be eight minutes after five wed love
your feedback this morning, nine two, nine to two. I
watched the press conference yesterday with Razor when we was
talking about the divorce that he's currently going through the
separation with Leon McDonald. You don't really know what happened,
do you. They don't go into specifics about exactly what
(02:48):
it was. They said, it's not it's nothing to do
with the player selection. It's nothing to do with the
clash of personalities. It's just we have different ideas about
the game.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Just over the period of time since we started coaching together.
We just feel like hasn't quite clicked. We just quite
heaven lined up where we need you on the rugby
side of it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
On the rugby side of it, Okay, I don't know.
We'd love to know. Do you think the fans need
to know the ins and outs. Does any you know,
do you care that much? Do you need to know
specifically what went wrong? Because I'm curious, but you know,
is it TMI? Nine two nine two, Give me a
text this morning. Also, they've got about seven coaches once
(03:31):
you take into account the line out coach and the
kicking coach and I don't know, running onto the field coach.
What else? How many do you need? How many? How
many people does it take to change the light bulb?
You know? Is that too many coaches? Anyway? Nine two
nine two, give me a text this morning. We'd love
to hear from you. Also, you might have seen this
or heard this in the news just now. This is
(03:52):
a story that's come out this morning the New Zealand
Medical Journal. There's an opinion piece in there. It's an
editorial written by four researchers from the Association of Salaried
Medical Specialists. Why do you care about this? Well, they're
basically saying we're not giving enough money to health. This
is health that gets thirty billion dollars a year, the
bottomless pit that just keeps taking you basically might as
(04:15):
well take a bag of cash and just light it
on fire, because that's that's pretty much what happens in health,
and they're saying not enough money has gone and even
with the extra one point seven billion that they got
in the last budget, not enough, not good enough, And
you'll basically be cutting into frontline services because you've got
your less de levy going in there, cutting into your
frontline services. So I mean, I just think we're all
(04:38):
living longer. You know, there's a story out today in
the UK they've approved a new Alzheimer's drug will reduce
Alzheimer's cognitive to grind by twenty seven percent. We've also
got all these obesity drugs which will they reckon almost
wipe out obesity one day. So we're all living longer.
We've all got these medicines to keep us living longer.
It's going to cost money to to do that. You know,
(05:01):
that's just the reality. You want to live longer, you've
got to pay for it. And that is essentially what
is happening to our health system has been for a
long time. Eleven minutes after five news talks, You've been the.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
News you need this morning and the in depth analysis
Early edition with Ryan Bridge and Swiss City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a playing store news talk.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Sai'd be Starbucks is getting a new boss, and he's
found himself already before he started in hot Water. I'll
tell you about that in a second. Thirteen after five. Now,
Karmala Harris will formally accept the Democratic nomination for president today.
This is at the DNC in Chicago. It comes as
Robert F. Kennedy, who's that independent third candidate, is expected
to drop out of the race today and endorse Donald Trump.
(05:44):
Simon Marx is FSN's correspondent at the DNC in Chicago. Simon,
thanks for being with us this morning. Great to have
you back on the show. Good to be back, Ryan Simon.
Let's start with the DNC. What are we expecting from
Carmela today?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Well, I think, you know, the most important political speech
of her life. I mean, that's often a cliche, but
it certainly isn't on this occasion. Kamala Harris has to
capitalize on the incredible sense of electricity and desire in
the room for this convention to end on a high.
(06:21):
It has moved from the Obamas speaking a couple of
nights ago to her running mate Tim Walls captivating the
audience last night with that speech that very much portrayed
himself as a high school football coach who was now
coaching Democrats in preparing for the fourth quarter of the game.
He wanted them to go out and fight for every
(06:42):
single inch and every single yard. And so now it's
Kamala Harris's turn to introduce herself in detail to those
Americans who have not followed her career, even as vice
president with a tremendous degree of regularity, but also to
inspire hire Democrats to get out and work, as Barack
(07:03):
Obama put it, like they've never worked before in order
to try and eke out a win over Donald Trump.
I think this is going to be a speech that
is very big on large inspirational promises and perhaps not
quite as thick in terms of policy prescriptions. This this
(07:25):
convention really has been all about one central theme and
that's more platable to average Americans than Donald Trump and
JdE events, And so far in that regard, it's worked.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Robert If Kennedy expected to pull out of the race
today and endorse Trump, does that change the result? Do
you think?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
It has the potential to have an impact. There's no
question about that. I mean, it's often been debated ever
since Robert F. Kennedy got into this race, first as
a Democrat, of course, challenging Joe Biden, then deciding he
was getting no where in that regard and so he
became an independent. It's often been debated where the most
of his supporters, and he's getting you know, between eight
(08:08):
and ten percent in the polls, are likely Trump voters
or likely Biden voters. Now, I think most analysts think
that given some of Robert F. Kennedy's positions, he draws
more support away from Donald Trump than he does from
Joe Biden. So an endorsement of Donald Trump will certainly
help him at a time when Kamala Harris is hoping
(08:30):
to leave Chicago with a huge bounce in the opinion
polls that she can then try to maintain and perhaps
even extend. It's something that Donald Trump desperately needs at
the end of a week that obviously has been all
about Kamala Harris, because that's the nature of a convention
that is a four day made for TV spectacular. Whether
(08:51):
it appreciably changes the outcome of this election is just
too early to know. You know, this is still a
fifty to fifty country so it could make a big difference,
but we need to factor in what kind of impact
Kamala Harrison, Tim Willfalls have had this week here, and
we still don't know that because obviously the convention is
still underweight.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, and we'll hear from Kamla Harris today, Simon, Thank
you for that. Simon Mark's FSN correspondent at the DNC
in as Chicago for US. It has just gone seventeen
minutes after five o'clock. Just a really interesting number from yesterday.
The vote is under thirty in the United States. Get this,
This is from June. Trump was getting forty percent of
the under thirty vote. This is in June, Trump forty percent,
(09:32):
Biden forty six percent, so a six point lead for Biden. There.
Flip that to now and Trump's thirty eight thirty eight
percent and Harris is fifty six percent, so an eighteen
point gap. So it just goes to show that that
the youth vote U turn is real and happening in
(09:52):
the States. Eighteen after five, Ryan Bridge, Starbucks, I promised
I'll tell you about this. So first of all, the
boss of Starbucks. It's a big company, one hundred billion dollars,
so it's you know, you're going to get paid a lot. Interestingly,
the base salary, because his details have been revealed, one
point six million US dollars. Not much, but it's the
bonuses and the equity, the potential for one hundred million
(10:14):
dollars a year in his first year. Anyway, that's not
even the best part of the story. This is Brian Nickel.
His contract details have been revealed. It's the private jet
in the contract. That's that's Scott. Starbucks customers really upset
because you have to suck on those stupid plastic straws.
And this guy apparently lives in Newport Beach in California,
(10:35):
the office in Seattle, Washington. That's sixteen hundred kilometers away
in eighteen hour drive, and he has to be in
the office three days a week, so do the mass
on that private jet there and back every time. And
people are saying, that's just, you know, don't talk about
sustainability and then flying a private jet. Nineteen ninety two
The number of.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Text the first word on the News of the Day
early edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's
furniture beds and a play at store News Talk City.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
You study out this morning looking at our brains. What
they've found inside them, which is not human material, will
shock you. We'll get to that shortly. Right now, the
government is progressing a second Resource Management Act Amendment Bill.
This is they say, going to drive economic growth and productivity.
The big changes here for the farming sector, highly productive land.
(11:26):
They're going to allow the construction of greenhouses or indoor
primary production facilities, and they are also going to allow
you to build new infrastructure like soul Of Farms on
highly productive land in New Zealand. Joining us to discuss
this morning, Mark Hooper, National board member and RMA spokesperson
at Fed Farmers Mark, good morning, good morning, Good to
(11:48):
have you on the show. These are good changes. I'm
assuming that you will be welcoming them.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Yeah. Look, I think the bigger picture here is to
see that the resource management reform program is kind of
on track. So you know, we've had this series of changes.
It goes back to the Repair of the Natural Built
(12:15):
Environment Act, and then we've had the fast tracked legislation.
We've had Resource Management Amendment Bill one and was signaled
that we get Bill two. And so the bigger picture
is of course a full replacement of the Resource Management Act,
which seems to be on the cards and is signaled
in this as well. And so as we kind of
(12:38):
continue on on that program, we see kind of incremental
changes occurring, and maybe they've been focused around fixing up
what you would call kind of unworkable rules to some extent.
So we saw quite a lot of that that affected
the agriculture sector and Resource Management Bill one and this
(12:59):
change for Resource Management build too. I guess it's perhaps
perhaps less significant broadly, but the key thing here is
that it's really good to see that the national policy
statements a highly productive land has been addressed. There are
some concerns, broader concerns around it, and there's some specific concerns,
(13:21):
and what they've done is targeted here a couple of
specific concerns.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
The soul where there was what you can do on
highly productive land because I imagine that if you want
to get stuff done at the moment, there's a whole
bunch of hoops you have to jump through.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Yeah, well, it was an area where on these specific
things there was just a lack of clarity as to
what the consenting pathway might be right. And so the
concern is for a glasshouse or indoor farming kind of scenario.
You're not necessarily using the soil of that highly productive land,
(13:58):
and so that National Policy Statement kind of linked up
the highly productive land with being highly productive soils. So
if you put an intensive food production facility on a
piece of highly productive land, but you're not using the soil,
you can see that there's a little bit of a
(14:20):
little bit of a lack of clarity. They're a little
bit of ambiguity as to whether it fits the purposes
of the National Policy Statement or not.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Right, So that's why they're having to come up with
these kind of interim fixes if you like. This is
the government progressing the second Resource Management Amendment Bill, which
is going to change a couple of things around highly
productive land. Mark. Thank you very much for your time
this morning, Mark Cooper, who is with Fed Farmers. It
is twenty four after five.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
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Speaker 3 (14:50):
Twenty six minutes after five, Shane Jones has given quite
a fiery speech. This is the general debate and the
house fired up and he was taking aim at the
Greens and particular of course he's the Resources and Associate
Energy Minister taking aim at the Greens over well what
was essentially labors oil and gas band and he's calling
(15:11):
out their opposition to using key we coal.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
We can power up New Zealand by using our domestic
coal resources. But that party would rather see New Zealand
as thrown on the unemployment scrap keepers we've witnessed this week.
They would rather see people cold. They would rather see
people in their retirement years too afraid to put the
(15:34):
jug on or the sleeping blanket, just so they can
cover themselves in an ideological blanket of piety and self righteousness.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
And that wasn't it. That was not scripted. That was
just Shane Jones just going for a healthy leather in
the house. A very enjoyable speech. He's easy to listen to,
his niche Shane. Anyway, he makes a point, doesn't he
about the Buchers who are being affected by all of
the closures that are happening around the country at the moment.
I flicked off an email to Methanex Yes today because
(16:06):
they've shutted operations at their plant until October, and I
just wanted to check are you definitely going to reopen?
And they said yes, we're looking forward to restarting operations
in November, so that is good. But they do say
this about our current electricity system, and I think it
just sums it up. Our highly renewable electricity sector is
(16:27):
increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable power generation, which needs to
be supported by thermal generation to provide energy security when
it doesn't when the rain doesn't fall, the wind doesn't blow,
all the sun doesn't shine. During the last three years,
they've operated at reduced rates or shut plants over high
electricity demand periods during winter to ensure there's enough gas
for everyone to go around. Now, this is the interesting part.
(16:50):
While the government has recently signaled positive policy changes like
reversing that offshore oil and gas ban, we believe additional
policies are urgently needed for New Zealand's incumbent upstream companies
such as OMV, Todd and Graymouth to help improve confidence
(17:10):
and enable the development of future gas supplies to prevent
what they call the de industrialization of our economy. So anyway,
we're hoping to have them on the show actually next week,
just for a chat about exactly what those things are
that they want changed. Twenty nine after.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Five get ahead of the headlines. Ryan Bridge you for
twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New
(17:50):
Zealand's furniture Bids and a player store News talk zid be.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Good morning twenty four away from six News Talks there'd
be Friday, the twenty third of August. If you're just
joining us, welcome to the show. Microplastics in our Brains.
This is new research out of the toxicologist from the
University of New Mexico measured weighed our brains, well, not
our brains, but people who died for microplastics, and there
(18:24):
was half a percent the average weight of our brains
tested positive basically for microplastics. I don't know which half
a percent that would be exactly, but yeah, apparently we
eat it because we eat microplastics. And they thought actually
they would enter our system and would get blocked at
the liver. Apparently they go into the brain. So there
(18:47):
you go. I thought we just had to worry about
plastics in the ocean, but it turns out also in
your head. Hey, you've just been sent a list of
all the coaches at the All Blacks Man. There's heaps
they've got head coach assistant coach for Ward's assistant coach,
Attack assistant coach, Defense assistant coach, backs, contact skills coach.
They've also added the line out throwing coach and the
(19:09):
kicking coach. Obviously we're now lost one and Leon McDonald.
But that's a few, isn't it. Tony Johnson on that
in just a few moments. Twenty three to six, Brian Bridge,
We've going our reporters around the country now, starting with
Cullum and Duned and Cullum, Good morning to you. This
research looking at snap children's snacking preferences.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Yeah, morning, Ryan, this is the latest study out of
a Tiger university.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Here.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
It's found a link between the types of snacks we
consume and our body mass index. It highlights how taste
sensitivities influence BMI. For example, someone with low sensitivity to
sweetness will likely consume more sweet fatty foods. The authors
of this study say that academics have been debating whether
(19:53):
there's a link for a long time, so they took
this approach of looking at taste over nutrients. They say
it's important to pay attention to our children's eating behaviors,
and those with kids should set up their sensory preferences
from a very early age. All right, and your weather
today comem occasional rain developing but clearing this afternoon, Northerlys
and thirteen today.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thank you, Claire, Sherwoods and christ Church this morning, clear,
good morning to you. The Winter Games getting underway.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
Yeah, they are getting underway, Ryan, and there are mixed
emotions down here because of that. The Games will take
place over four mountains in the Queenstown area and they
do officially open today. But look that excitement has been
dulled somewhat due to this reportedly tragic start for some
of the competitors. It is believed that the three victims
of the crash at Geraldine earlier this week were in
(20:39):
fact members of the Korean ski team. Other members of
the team had been traveling in convoy. They'd been at
a training beforehand when it's understood they witnessed a head
on collision which killed teammates and also seriously injured to others.
In a statement, the Winter Games CEO Marty to Me
says they haven't been given specific information to confirm those
involved were registered to compare, but nonetheless they do extend
(21:02):
their deepest sympathies.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Very sad indeed clear the weather there today a.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Warman to start some high cloud today for Friday, there
could be a shower or two a bit later. Seventeen
degrees is ou high.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Thank you Max Toles and Wellington. Max. An incredible discovery
for the owner of four paintings.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Yeah, a great little local story in Enzidme's Carpety News
this week, a woman who lives just up the coast
in pecker Picker took four dirty, spotty, nicotine stained paintings
to a restoration expert just to get them cleaned up.
She'd come to own them while cleaning out someone's home.
Turned out these old oil paintings were the works of
renowned Keei Australian artist Charles McPhee The dream for anyone.
(21:42):
Mcfee's paintings sell for several thousand dollars a pop at auction.
They were done around nineteen fifty two. McPhee known for
his oil paintings on black velvet of very lifelike indigenous
people and of Pacific beachy landscapes. The International Art Center
in Auckland was alerted to this fire. They're done, very
exciting for the local art world.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Do we know what they're worth well.
Speaker 11 (22:06):
The last one solid auction for seventeen hundred dollars, but
they can reach upwards of five thousand, six thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay, not bet weather today, I'm Wellington Max.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Mostly cloudy, the odd showers, some very strong northeries thirteen
the High Central.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Thank you, and Wendy Petrie is in Auckland this morning.
Good morning, good morning. So we're looking at this. Oh,
this is the seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
the street dancing thing.
Speaker 12 (22:29):
Yes, that's right. Well, funding for a global street dance
competition coming to Auckland next April hasn't got the Taxpayer's
Union seale of approval. The government in Tataki Auckland Unlimited
are together funding one point five million dollars for the
inaugural World Dance Crew Championships next year hip Hop. The
event will feature dance crews from forty countries across five
(22:49):
competition divisions, expected to attract thousands of people and expected
to generate at four million dollars into the economy, but
the Taxpayer's Union's Jordan Williams says the government is ignoring
its owner advice to councils to limit the nice to haves.
He says, the idea of that being way out of
the recession is madness.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Are they going to spend that? Is that ray Gun's
appearance fee? Do you think fifty k? She's famous?
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I know, right, I don't know what what do you
think about this? Because I feel if we're letting councils
and governments decide, what is you know, going to generate money?
I mean, shouldn't we just leave that to a private
business if it is going to be that secess?
Speaker 12 (23:31):
Although well yeah, well that's right. I mean I think
it could. It could potentially go really really well in
New Zealand and we have got good hip hop dancers
and it could be amazing. And maybe do they need
that funding is the question?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, yeah, especially when you're telling the councils to tighten
their own belts, right yeah. Has the weather today?
Speaker 12 (23:46):
Well we're looking at a fine Friday party, cloudy if
you showers possibly this afternoon nor the leeds becoming fresh
and at seventeen degrees brilliant.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Thank you, Wendy. It is eighteen minutes away from six.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Ryanbridge. You twenty twenty four on early edition with Smith City,
New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store news dog Zidby.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It's kind of a stupid question to ask because we
don't get to vote in the US election. But Toobot Mills,
which is Labour's polster has or poster of choice, has
decided to ask Kiwis, who would you vote for? Karmela
or Donald? Fifty five percent went Karmela. Unsurprisingly, twenty one
percent went Donald. I think Carmela would be better for
New Zealand. And I'm not saying I'm not getting into
(24:29):
politics in the US, and actually what would be better
for an American in terms of her to vote for?
But in terms of a small trading nation like ours,
you don't want protectionist policies. You don't want America first,
that's bad for us. The potential for a trade war
with China. Plus the other thing of Trump got in
what would happen with the war in Ukraine and now Russia.
(24:52):
You know he doesn't want to keep topping that war up,
does he? So what happens there? It is a quarter to.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Six international spondens with ins in eye insurance, peace of
mind for New Zealand business.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Benson mccabinnie is a UK and Europe correspondent. He's with
US Live. What's the latest the evansent on the basi
in yacht tragedy.
Speaker 13 (25:12):
Well, there has been news today out of Italy. There
were six passengers who were still missing. Yesterday they managed
to identify in the wreck five bodies and they have
recovered them over the past twenty four hours. They have
now been identified as Morvillo, who was a partner at
law firm Clifford Chance, and his wife Nida Morvillo, who
(25:35):
was a jewelry designer. Then there was the banker Michael
Bloom and his wife Judy Bloom, and then of course
the British tech entrepreneur basically our version of Bill Gate
at Mike Lynch. His body has also been identified, but
(25:57):
his daughter, Hannah, an eighteen year old, she is still
missing and there have started now to be investigations ongoing.
There is we understand the New Zealand captain of the
vessel on the night is being interviewed by police, and
there is now the owner of the company that made
the yacht has come forward to say that he's starting
(26:20):
to point the finger at the crew, saying that this
yacht was safe, it shouldn't have sunk, and that the
ship crew were not in a high enough state of
alert given the stormy weather in the region. Of course,
many saying that water spouts undetectable, that this was a
freak black Swan event, and just sorry to correct the
banker's name with Jonathan Bloomer.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Very quickly, we've got time for this update on Andrew Tate,
that's the influencer that many believe is a misogynist and
leading young people down the wrong path, etc. Him and
his brother have been in court. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 13 (26:53):
They've both appeared in court Andrew tATu and Tristan Tate
earlier today. In Romania. Prosecutors are investing eating new claims
against the pair and they wanted them reminded them in custody.
They've been put into house arrest and they are investigating
serious allegations, including that of sex with a minor and
trafficking underage persons. The brothers are denying this, but as
(27:16):
I say, they will now have to stay under house
arrest in their compound outside Bucharest.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Vincent, thank you for that, Vincent Mecavanny, a UK and
Europe correspondent. It's twelve to six. Bryan Bridge shock move yesterday.
Still not quite sure why it happened. The assistant coach
of the All Blacks, Leon McDonald, has quit after disagreements
with head coach Scott Razor Robertson. He sees it was
a mutual decision. Is they couldn't agree on strategy any
(27:45):
minute now. Maybe this is how awkward it was when
they were coaching together. Maybe that's why he's decided he
his to go here.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
It is just a little bit of philosophy on rugby. Hell,
it was played and you just didn't quite click.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
The speaks Tony Johnson as a rugby commentator. He's with us, Tony,
good morning, Nice to have you on the show.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Good morning, right do we do?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What do you think really went on here? What's the juice?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Well? I think there's a couple of schools of thought
about this. Ryan. One is that, as stated the reasons
Leon McDonald left the job as assistant to Scott Robertson
at the Crusaders in twenty seventeen, resurfaced and proved irreconcilable,
which is, you know, baffling a little bit because they
(28:34):
have played or coached together over a twenty seven year
span Canterbury Crusaders, the all backs they coached in his
land age group team together in twenty fifteen, and so
for suddenly these differences to be irreconcilable, you know, it's
a bit unusual. The other school of thought is that,
you know, there probably are too many voices on the
(28:55):
coaching panel, six full time coaches. That's unprecedented, different voices,
all with their role to play, and too many voices
has been a bit of a rumble that's come out
of the team. You know, look, they've won three out
of their four test matches, but right from the word go,
you were hearing that the players were getting a lot
of voices, a lot of information. And also when you've
(29:17):
got that many, you know, there's always a chance that,
you know, coaches are going to be sort of tripping
over each other, They're going to have different views, and
maybe someone's going to end up feeling a bit marginalized.
And I think that's, you know, maybe one of the
things that happened here with Leon McDonald. Either way, it's
a decision I think they felt that they had to
make now rather than let it sort of fester on.
(29:42):
And I think in that regard. It's quite a bold
thing that they've done and the right thing that they've done.
If they weren't getting on you just couldn't have that
happening in front of the players.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
No, well, that obviously made up their minds that, as
you say, was reconcilable. Basically, who picks the who selects
the assistant coach? Like with Leon's job, would would Raiser
have picked him?
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And well, yeah, and I think this is something that
you know, probably needs to be looked at that have
they given him carte Blines to pick as many and
whoever coaches on his staff as he likes in the past,
it's a job that's been done very successfully in the
(30:23):
Graham Henry and Steve Hanson eires by three And as
I say, it just raises that question where he has
obviously got some fresh ideas, some quite radical ideas, but
there's just science here. That's six and there are a
couple of others that pop in and out as well,
just perhaps too.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Many in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, yeah, and look, I think it's quite telling that
the best performance that they've had so far was the
second Test match against Argentina, where the really bad weather
forced them to simplify the way they were playing, take
it right back to the basics, and that proved to
be a really good formula. That maybe things were a
(31:09):
bit overcomplicated, and that the weather forced them to go
a lot of them. That's that's the point of going forward.
I think if they're going to be successful in South Africa,
which is going to be a very tough challenge for them,
that that's that's the way ahead. The interesting now to
see whether there's an attempt to replace Leon McDonald. I
(31:32):
don't think that should be the case. I think you
know that they've got enough there on the coaching staff
that you know, five full time coaches surely is plenty.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
It sounds to me like more than enough. Tony, thank
you for that. That's Tony Johnson that Rugby commentated with
us this morning. I suppose if they go to South
Africa and they win, all of this will be forgotten.
But that's probably a tall order. At this point. It
is eight minutes away from six on.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Your radio and online. On iheard Rado early edition with
Ryan Bridge and Smith City New Zealand's furniture Bids and
a playing store News talk.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Said b just gone five to six News Talk said
b there's a report out this morning about the health
system saying that we're not putting enough money into it.
We're already putting thirty billion dollars a year into the
health system, and everybody wants to live longer. There was
a report out today about a new Alzheimer's drug in
the UK that's being approved, which shall help people to
live longer. I mean that's good, but it costs money
(32:28):
to keep people alive, doesn't it. Mike Hosking is here,
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 14 (32:32):
It's a never ending pit of money. I believe it's
thirty billion dollars. We have enough money. I believe the
Prime Minister's right. We have enough money to provide a
decent health service.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Why do we all want to live for so long?
And who were we talking so?
Speaker 14 (32:45):
Oh you're talking about your Spanish woman, woman who year.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
One hundred and seventeen when she died. I mean, what's
the point? We're living?
Speaker 14 (32:52):
Well is the key? I reckon, don't you wouldn't you
rather be happy and well and flexible and healthy and
as opposed to know riddled up and isened up and
all those.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Of a raisin exactly? But I supp i think the
thing is, if we do want to live longer, and
everybody seems to want to make a hundred, then it's
going to cost a lot of money to keep us
all going, isn't it.
Speaker 14 (33:11):
I mean, well not if you lively life. Well, so
what you want is gut health. Here's my top tips
for a weekend for you. Right, Your gut health is
the key to everything these days. So it starts in
the gut.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
So no takeaways tonight with you buy them.
Speaker 14 (33:22):
There's no takeaways. There's no heavily or highly processed food.
It's all natural ingredients. And if you look after your
gut and you stay flexible. Look at the ancient cultures,
look at the Chinese, look at the Greeks.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Well do you what? Do you take gut pills and
do yoga on the weekend?
Speaker 14 (33:36):
Way, I eat clean and I bend a lot is
what I do.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
There's no one You've not seen it.
Speaker 14 (33:44):
You've not seen it. But I could outbend you, right,
I could. I could outflex you. And I believe to be.
I'm older than you, and so so when it comes
to you know, being flexible and all that sort of stuts, that's.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
The ke's seen me flex.
Speaker 14 (33:58):
I haven't and that is the point of my Maybe
that's something for another day, but and also a healthy mind.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Is the key anyway.
Speaker 14 (34:07):
I know how much you love the weekend, so I'm
actually out the door, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Have a great day, everybody.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
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