Andrew Dickens: We’ll never forget you 2024, but frankly we’re sick of the sight of you

This is my last editorial for the year. 

What a year it’s been, we started in January with Golriz shoplifting, we watched 10,000 jobs go from the public sector and the private sector follow suit as cash stopped bouncing around the economy.

National blamed Labour for everything and Labour blamed National.

We watched Scott Robertson fail to be the second coming but when the All Blacks were good they were very good.

The Treaty Principles Bill debate came, saw and divided. The hikoi invaded parliament, but didn’t set up camp.

The entire Newshub newsroom disappeared and others seem vulnerable so that’s less eyes on the game.  

Construction crashed, power surged in price, mills closed and towns pondered what their citizens will do next.

The snow fell late, a football team landed on the ground running, we found out state care was not caring.

A war in Ukraine rolled on, a war in Gaza started, a country finally expelled it’s dictator, Iran bombed Israel and Israel bombed Iran and world war 3 seemed closer than ever.

China eyed Taiwan, China eyed the pacific, the States eyed China and we were asked to choose sides more and more. 

Then Donald Trump won America by saying we’ll keep it simple and keep America first, and tariffs are back. 

We’ll never forget you 2024, but frankly we’re sick of the sight of you. 

It’s time to go to your family, go to your favourite place, watch another sunrise, rest and recuperate because in 2025 we’ve got a big job fixing all this shit up.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, we're here. We made it last editorial for the year.
What a year. Ray started in January with gold rise shoplifting.
This year, we watched ten thousand jobs go from the
public sector, then the private sector followed suit. We kind
of forget about that. Cash stopped bouncing around the economy.
National blame labor for everything. Labour blamed national. We watched
Scott Robertson fail to be the second Coming. But when

(00:22):
the all Blacks were good, they were very good, positive
about the future. The Treaty Principals Act debate came saw
and divided the Hikoi invader Parliament. Hey but they didn't
set up camp An. Entire newsroom disappeared. Others seemed vulnerable,
So that will be less eyes on the game, whether
you like it or not. Construction crash, power surged and
price mills closed, and towns pondered what are we going

(00:44):
to do next? The snow fell late, a football team
landed on the ground running. We found out that state
care in history in this country is not caring. In fact,
it's a national shame. A war in Ukraine rolled on
a war and Gaza started. A country finally expelled its
dictator Iran bond is Israel bombed Iran. World War three
seem closer than ever. China eyed Taiwan, China eyed the Pacific,

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the States eyed China. We were asked to choose sides
more and more. Donald Trump won America. He said, let's
keep it simple and keep America first, and tariffs are
coming back. We will never forget you twenty twenty four.
But frankly, we're all sick of the sight of you.
We were saying the other day. Here we are doing
early edition and breakfast shows right up to Christ's with

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meaty issues. What happened to the old days where in
December we all just got a bit, you know, loose
and talked about shorts or jandles for summer, or what
is the best ice cream? And where's the best beat. No,
we've we've been doing big stuff right up to the end.
Twenty twenty four. You delivered, and at the same time

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you were paining the bum. And so it's time for
all of us to go to our families, go to
our favorite places, watch another summrise, rest and recuperate, because
in twenty twenty we've got a big job fixing all
this stuff up. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge.
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