First Up - The Podcast, Monday 18 July

On today's First Up pod with Nick Truebridge in for Nathan - America's thirst for oil saw US President Joe Biden bump fists with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the weekend; the quarrying industry says our biggest city faces a shortage of building aggregate. Will it be Gib mark 2? We hear from the Cook Islands after the coast was swamped by the biggest seas locals have ever seen and an expert tells us why the new variant of covid means we could be in for a rough ride.