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The Rita Panahi Show | 28 September · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: Starting right now, the Rita Panahy Show.
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Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to the Rita Panahy Show. Coming
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Speaker 2: up tonight, tens of thousands of boat arrivals handed visas
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Speaker 2: by the Albanese government.
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Speaker 3: The panel will join me to discuss that and the
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Speaker 3: day's other top headlines.
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Speaker 2: The RBA's expected rate hike to wipe out any housing
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Speaker 2: affordability gained by falling property prices.
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Speaker 3: Kate Bakos reports. We'll share her thoughts on that.
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Speaker 2: John Heinderaker will have the latest from the US, including
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Speaker 2: the Democrats' embrace of socialism. And Saturday Night Live UK
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Speaker 2: joins the hate pile on Ed Sheeran. Kinsey Schofield will
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Speaker 2: have your entertainment and royal.
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Speaker 3: News later in the hour. And Lefty's Losing It features
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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris showcasing yet another accent. Shirley Chisholm talked about it.
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Speaker 4: If you're not at the table, bring a folding chair,
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Speaker 4: otherwise you might be.
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Speaker 5: On the menu.
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Speaker 2: But first, Labor has quietly handed out permanent visas to
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Speaker 2: tens of thousands of people who arrived in Australia illegally
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Speaker 2: by boats during the Rudd-Gillard years. The Australian revealed more
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Speaker 2: than 30,000 asylum seekers have received resolution of status visas
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Speaker 2: announced by then-Immigration Minister Andrew Giles back in February 2023.
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Speaker 2: The Australian reports that Tony Burke's office and the Department
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Speaker 2: of Home Affairs originally refused to disclose the number of
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Speaker 2: resolution of status visas that had been issued, with the
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Speaker 2: department saying the data was not publicly available. But they
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Speaker 2: finally handed over the numbers two months after the Australian
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Speaker 2: lodged a data access request. Joining me now for more
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Speaker 2: on this is Herald Sun senior reporter Seb Costello and
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Speaker 2: News Corp senior writer Patrick Carline. Patrick, the opposition claims
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Speaker 2: this data is proof that the Albanese government has gone
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Speaker 2: soft on borders.
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Speaker 3: It's weakened Australia's border policies. Do you see it that way?
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Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 6: Look, we know historically, whether it's Australia or in Europe
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Speaker 6: right now, if there's any perception that there's a weakness
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Speaker 6: in the borders, there's a queue of people and there's
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Speaker 6: a queue of people, smugglers, lining up to try and
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Speaker 6: exploit that weakness. And what this says is basically you
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Speaker 6: can illegally come to Australia by boat and you can
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Speaker 6: succeed in becoming a permanent citizen of this country. And
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Speaker 6: I think that those sort of optics are really terrible
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Speaker 6: and we've seen it again and again.
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Speaker 5: When it looks weak, people try and exploit it.
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Speaker 2: And Seb, perhaps that's why the Tony Burke's office and
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Speaker 2: the Department of Home Affairs did not want this starter
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Speaker 2: to be out there because, of course, the Australian people
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Speaker 2: are entitled to know this, but they know this is
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Speaker 2: also a signal possibly to people smugglers or those who
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Speaker 2: are coming in here and want to jump the.
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Speaker 3: Queue that perhaps this is a way of doing it.
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Speaker 7: It makes you wonder, would the information have been publicly
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Speaker 7: available if it wasn't so embarrassing for the government? If
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Speaker 7: it was something that didn't make them look bad, would
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Speaker 7: they have handed it over? I imagine they probably would have.
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Speaker 7: I mean, this is an issue that matters to Australians.
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Speaker 7: I mean, when I think of of this particular issue.
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Speaker 7: You know, I think of the way, you know, Tony
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Speaker 7: Abbott basically seized on this issue as something that brought
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Speaker 7: him to office as Prime Minister within two terms of
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Speaker 7: having been announced as Health Minister.
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Speaker 5: And why was that?
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Speaker 7: Because, you know, Australians don't want to see illegal arrivals
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Speaker 7: and they don't want to see people risking their lives with,
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Speaker 7: you know, with dodgy people smuggling operations and putting themselves
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Speaker 7: at risk.
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Speaker 2: Well, we forget that more than 1,000 people lost their
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Speaker 2: lives trying to come here by boat.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that is an enormous number, enormous... tragedy.
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Speaker 2: Now, a new analysis has revealed that Labor held seats
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Speaker 2: received $ 340 million in multicultural grants. That's 88% of all
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Speaker 2: the grants to Labor seats. The analysis of Grants Connect
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Speaker 2: data was provided in News 24 by One Nation. There
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Speaker 2: was also a breakdown of the funding for each religious group.
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Speaker 2: Muslim organisations accounted for about $ 86.
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Speaker 3: 7 million. That's around 30% of all.
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Speaker 2: Religious-linked grants, followed by Jewish organisations at $ 77. 5 million, Christian
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Speaker 2: organisations at $ 71 million, and Hindu at $ 31. 1 million.
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Speaker 3: Seb, a lot of the focus here has.
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Speaker 2: Been on the fact that 88% of this expenditure has
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Speaker 2: gone to Labor seats.
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Speaker 3: But to me, the bigger issue is.
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Speaker 2: Why are we spending $ 385 million in multicultural grants in
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Speaker 2: a single year? What is the justification for that largesse?
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Speaker 5: And what does this mean?
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Speaker 7: You know, what are multicultural causes? What are you trying
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Speaker 7: to bring about as a result of funding them? I mean,
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Speaker 7: you talk about the money that was going to Muslim organisations.
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Speaker 7: You know, that is a part of the population that
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Speaker 7: represents 3% of the Australian population, and yet it's getting
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Speaker 7: the lion's share of this money. You also look at
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Speaker 7: the year-on-year. This has gone up from something like, I
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Speaker 7: think it was in the single digits, 5 or 6
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Speaker 7: million four years ago, and it's now ballooned to almost 400.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, at a time where we're told everyone has to
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Speaker 2: tighten their belts, Patrick, on that over-representation of Muslim expenditure
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Speaker 2: when it comes to the religious groups, Muslim-linked organisations received
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Speaker 2: nine and a half times their share of the population
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Speaker 2: and Christian groups received the least per capita. I guess
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Speaker 2: we're not surprised by that. Is there a justification? Is
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Speaker 2: there a way Labor can explain why their seats are
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Speaker 2: receiving 88% and just that imbalance in the way the
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Speaker 2: money's been allocated?
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Speaker 5: It stinks, doesn't it, really?
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Speaker 6: And you look at the fact, I think 3% of
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Speaker 6: Coalition seats receive these grants compared to 88%. I mean,
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Speaker 6: it's pork barrelling 101. Then you look at the Muslim
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Speaker 6: aspect of it. Muslim seats are generally ALP seats. It
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Speaker 6: looks really bad. And as you pointed out, Seb, I mean,
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Speaker 6: the money has skyrocketed. It's $ 385 million. And a lot
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Speaker 6: of these are non-competitive grants. These aren't sort of tenders
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Speaker 6: where sort of community groups look to try and sort
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Speaker 6: of win the money.
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Speaker 5: These are being awarded. Behind closed doors. It's a lot
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Speaker 5: of money now.
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Speaker 2: The scope for that money being misused, I don't want
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Speaker 2: to use the C word, corruption, but the opportunity for
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Speaker 2: that is fairly profound when you're talking about hundreds of
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Speaker 2: millions of dollars being granted in a single year, Patrick.
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Speaker 5: It stinks. It really does stink.
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Speaker 6: And it's the perception of propriety that is just as
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Speaker 6: important as the reality.
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Speaker 5: And it really does stink.
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Speaker 6: And the ability to corrupt this system and to sort
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Speaker 6: of push it this way or that according to electoral
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Speaker 6: sort of desires is so massive here.
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Speaker 5: It's bad. It's dreadful.
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Speaker 2: Now, in another example of how your taxpayer dollars are
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Speaker 2: being used.
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Speaker 3: Here's a crucial report from our ABC report. on their
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Speaker 3: kink community.
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Speaker 8: Let's talk about kink.
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Speaker 2: There is no safe way to choke anybody and it's
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Speaker 2: very common for sex workers to be asked to do
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Speaker 2: choking and asphyxiation.
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Speaker 9: It seems to be like a bit of a mainstream fetish.
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Speaker 3: We've got some furries and other kinksters here today. I
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Speaker 3: am a professional dominatrix.
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Speaker 2: Fetish burlesque performer and educator and here I am at
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Speaker 2: the kinky dungeon.
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Speaker 9: Like anything, there's a risk and things can go wrong.
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Speaker 5: What do we have to think about when we talk
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Speaker 5: about safe kink?
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Speaker 3: I think that's quite enough.
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Speaker 2: Seb, you should be grateful. I only played a small
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Speaker 2: part of that report. Is that the sort of crucial
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Speaker 2: reporting that we need the ABC for? You seem scarred.
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Speaker 5: Rita, you should have warned me before you played that.
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Speaker 7: That's what my tax dollars are going to.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's over a billion dollars every single year.
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Speaker 3: Over a billion. Well over.
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Speaker 7: So, you know, this is the network that can't get
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Speaker 7: proper interviews on their flagship current affairs program, Four Corners,
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Speaker 7: who have just been found that Multiple episodes had to
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Speaker 7: be pulled because they recorded fake interviews with people who
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Speaker 7: the ABC said they were and yet they're producing this
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Speaker 7: sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they need to interview more furries. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: furry community is very pro-ABC apparently because they have turned
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Speaker 2: up in numbers for that interview, Patrick.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Again, like they set themselves up for criticism. Spend the
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Speaker 2: money reporting on important regional issues and the areas where
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Speaker 2: you don't have that media saturation where you could do
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Speaker 2: some good. But you don't see those stories often on
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Speaker 2: the ABC, not compared to the CBD generated or city
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Speaker 2: generated content like that.
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Speaker 5: Look, I did learn something, to be fair.
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Speaker 6: There is no safe way to choke somebody.
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Speaker 3: Did you not know that beforehand?
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Speaker 5: I did not know that.
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Speaker 3: Did you think there were lots of safe ways?
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Speaker 5: I didn't need to know that.
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Speaker 6: And, I mean, it just goes to how irrelevant and
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Speaker 6: out of touch the ABC is in certain aspects.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I agree with you.
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Speaker 6: In the regions, the ABC has historically kicked a lot
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Speaker 6: of goals, should be kicking a lot of goals, and that's...
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Speaker 6: It's bread and butter stuff. We want to hear about
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Speaker 6: the things we need to know about. We want to
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Speaker 6: hear about the news. We don't want to hear about
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Speaker 6: sort of these very marginal sort of pursuits that really
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Speaker 6: are irrelevant to most viewers.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to talk some footy because I know
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Speaker 2: you're both big AFL fans and Brisbane has claimed its
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Speaker 2: third straight premiership in one of the greatest grand final
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Speaker 2: comebacks of all time. The Lions kicked four straight goals
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Speaker 2: after Wharfie time was triggered.
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Speaker 3: To claim a 96-89 win in front of more than
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Speaker 3: 100,000 fans at the MCG. Let's hear from.
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Speaker 3: Brisbane coach Chris Fagan.
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Speaker 11: This group's got an amazing heart and amazing resilience and
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Speaker 11: when they got 17 points up and they played that
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Speaker 11: Wharfie thing, our boys fired up and were able to...
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Speaker 11: playing the best five minutes you'll ever see in a
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Speaker 11: green final. So, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Seb, apparently Chris Fagan, he talked about this, he was
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Speaker 2: playing wharf-y time for the team to get the team
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Speaker 2: to react in a certain way once they heard it,
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Speaker 2: to make it work for them, not against them.
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Speaker 11: Oh.
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Speaker 7: I'm still confused. Paddy, what is Wolfie time? How do
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Speaker 7: you define it?
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Speaker 5: I didn't understand it.
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Speaker 6: I had to write about it on Saturday and I
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Speaker 6: had to look at it and sort of try and
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Speaker 6: work out what is this concept?
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Speaker 5: It's so lame.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it is.
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Speaker 2: It's not just played to say we've won the game.
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Speaker 9: It's done.
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Speaker 2: Because they played it at a point where they were
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Speaker 2: well ahead with not much time to go. I think
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Speaker 2: it's more something that's played to tell the team this
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Speaker 2: is time to ramp it up. So they may play
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Speaker 2: it when they're a little bit behind and as a
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Speaker 2: as a trigger to the team that it's time. It's
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Speaker 2: time to get going.
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Speaker 3: Okay. But is it dead now, Patrick?
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Speaker 2: Because it's now choking time, Worfie time, isn't it?
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Speaker 5: Look, I was there. It was one of the great
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Speaker 5: grand finals.
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Speaker 6: And with five minutes to go, until Worfie time came on,
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Speaker 6: it actually felt like it was over.
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Speaker 5: It felt like Freo had.
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Speaker 6: Done enough to win. And as soon as it came on,
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Speaker 6: the whole match just, switched on its head.
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Speaker 5: It was amazing.
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Speaker 12: It was.
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Speaker 6: I agree with Chris Fagan. That was one of the
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Speaker 6: most amazing five minutes of grand final football you will
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Speaker 6: ever see. And it came straight after Worfie died.
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Speaker 3: It did. I mean, that.
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Speaker 2: Trained for it. It wasn't accidental. He trained for it.
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Speaker 2: The man's a genius. And Chris Fagan was certainly enjoying
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Speaker 2: the premiership celebrations. Let's have a quick look at him
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Speaker 2: at the after party. And I love this clip. It
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Speaker 2: turns out the Brisbane Lions are Ella fellas. Here they
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Speaker 2: are singing Ella Langley's number one song, Choosing Texas.
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Speaker 5: Patrick, Frio are.
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Speaker 3: Still without a premiership.
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Speaker 13: Yes.
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Speaker 3: The question has to be asked.
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Speaker 2: All the praise is being heaped on the Brisbane Lions,
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Speaker 2: as it should be, but did Friot choke?
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Speaker 6: No, to be fair, I don't think so. I think
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Speaker 6: they played a cracking game. I think if Hawthorne had
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Speaker 6: made it, your team, I think they probably would have
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Speaker 6: struggled to beat either of those teams on Saturday.
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Speaker 5: I thought Friot had done enough.
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Speaker 6: I thought what Brisbane did in the last five minutes
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Speaker 6: is unparalleled in any.
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Speaker 5: Game of football I've ever been to, to be honest.
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Speaker 10: So.
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Speaker 6: In answer to the choke question, I'd like to be
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Speaker 6: fair and say no, not really.
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Speaker 5: Look, I think you're being kind, Paddy.
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Speaker 7: The second they complained about Mark Knight's premiership poster and
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Speaker 7: said that the Fremantle cartoon wasn't, you know, was too masculine,
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Speaker 7: I thought there's trouble brewing over there in the West.
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Speaker 5: Possibly, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, they deserve to lose for that.
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Speaker 14: I agree.
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Speaker 3: Just for that alone.
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Speaker 2: We might get to that if we've got time. But
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the politics of the day.
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Speaker 3: There were... Number of Liberal heavyweights at the.
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Speaker 2: Game, Federal Opposition Leader Angus Taylor and the State Leader
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Speaker 2: Jess Wilson, both guests of AFL Chair Craig Drummond.
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Speaker 3: Seb, what do you make of that?
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Speaker 2: Because the AFL and the ALP have got some strong links.
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Speaker 2: Perhaps they're trying to make friends on the other side.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, the AFL Communications Department is now run by
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Speaker 7: three former ALP staffers. They've certainly had a close relationship
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Speaker 7: with the Labor government here in Victoria. But the winds
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Speaker 7: of change are blowing, and I thought it was very
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Speaker 7: interesting to see Angus Taylor but also Jess Wilson front
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Speaker 7: and centre at the Chairman's function on Saturday. I think
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Speaker 7: there's been some criticism that Jess might be very hard
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Speaker 7: on the AFL if she was to win government, that
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Speaker 7: she might not be a friend of the AFL and
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Speaker 7: not ride as... big checks for the AFL, as the
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Speaker 7: Labor Party has over the past decade and a bit.
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Speaker 7: So I think this was the start of their campaign
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Speaker 7: of just acknowledging that there may be a change of
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Speaker 7: government and they need to have friends on the other side.
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Speaker 2: Well, like you said, they've got some very, well, entrenched
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Speaker 2: Labor types within the AFL hierarchy. Will they stay in
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Speaker 2: those positions if we do have a Liberal government in
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Speaker 2: Victoria and possibly a conservative coalition in government federally?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think they're going to have to have people
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Speaker 7: who can talk to the new government. And, you know,
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Speaker 7: right now, I don't see too many people in there
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Speaker 7: who can do that. I mean, Jude Donnelly was sort
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Speaker 7: of the token coalition whisperer. She was an ex-Bruce Bilson
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Speaker 7: staffer who came in and was at the AFL for
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Speaker 7: almost a decade.
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Speaker 9: They're going to need somebody like that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I can think of a few names. So one.
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Speaker 7: I'll probably have to check whether he's interested or not,
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Speaker 7: but one of the former spinners for Ted Bailey who
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Speaker 7: comes to mind as being a potential person in that.
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Speaker 2: Now, before you two go, let's just have a look
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Speaker 2: at those two posters, the Mark Knight posters, the original one.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Mark Knight's.
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Speaker 2: Posters are part of AFL tradition, aren't they? He's the
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Speaker 2: cartoonist for The Herald Sun, brilliant at what he does.
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Speaker 2: For the first time he had pushback, Patrick.
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Speaker 3: They said it was too masculine.
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Speaker 2: They wanted a more new age, woke character.
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Speaker 5: Man buns.
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Speaker 2: Man buns and I think they wanted to have an
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Speaker 2: earring and long hair.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Prio deserved to lose just because of that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, disgraceful to be rejecting a Mark Knight cartoon
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Speaker 2: and making him do it again.
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Speaker 6: Mark is one of the most enlightened, erudite, smart people
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Speaker 6: I know. He works at the Herald Sun. The idea
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Speaker 6: that he somehow got it wrong is outrageous. And I
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Speaker 6: don't understand why. They tried to provide him with a
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Speaker 6: brief of what they wanted for his cartoon.
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Speaker 5: It's his cartoon.
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Speaker 2: It's his cartoon but apparently too much white toxic masculinity
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Speaker 2: in it for Fremantle. Maybe not, you know, take your
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Speaker 2: mind off that and focus on football. You might win
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Speaker 2: a premiership one day. Patrick Carline, Sepp Costello.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 5: Thanks, Rita.
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Speaker 2: Now, the Reserve Bank is widely tipped to lift rates
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Speaker 2: by 25 basis points on Tuesday. Analysis by Aussie Home
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Speaker 2: Loans has found a lift in the cash rate would
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Speaker 2: be enough to erode any housing affordability gained by falling prices.
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Speaker 2: The company's chief executive, Sebastian Watkins, said first home buyers
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Speaker 2: can't take a policy promise to an auction. Joining me
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Speaker 2: now is Chair of Property Investment Professionals Australia, Kate Bakos. Kate,
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Speaker 2: another interest rate increase is going to be devastating for
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Speaker 2: the housing sector. It's going to be devastating for households
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Speaker 2: that are already struggling under severe cost of living pressure.
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Speaker 2: The talk of more rate hikes is also increasing.
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Speaker 3: We're talking about three rate hikes to come.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, none of this is helping at all, Rita. We've
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Speaker 13: got a situation where sentiment is already really struggling. And
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Speaker 13: if we do have a 25 basis points increase tomorrow,
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Speaker 13: that will take our cash rate to 4.6, which will
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Speaker 13: be the highest since 2011. And for a lot of
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Speaker 13: particularly younger buyers now, that's been a long period of
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Speaker 13: time where interest rates at this particular level will be
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Speaker 13: a really unwelcome shock for them.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Now, the RBA, they're bureaucrats.
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Speaker 2: Recently confirmed that they hadn't even bothered to model the
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Speaker 2: impact a cut in government spending would have on inflation.
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Speaker 3: How can they justify that?
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Speaker 2: Because they've got this blunt instrument of interest rate increases
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Speaker 2: to tackle inflation when you could argue a lot of
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Speaker 2: this inflation is due to government overspending and they're punishing
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Speaker 2: the wrong people. Households that are struggling to make ends
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Speaker 2: meet are not behind this inflation we're seeing.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, really disappointing that this wasn't modelled. And I saw
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Speaker 13: some of the defensive comments around that and people suggesting
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Speaker 13: that you can't model everything. But I would have thought
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Speaker 13: modelling government spending is a really sensible place to start.
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Speaker 13: They have the resources, they know how to model.
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Speaker 3: So that was really disappointing.
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Speaker 2: Now, more bad news in the property sector with the
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Speaker 2: auction clearance rate slumping to a 10-week low nationally, a
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Speaker 2: clearance rate of 50.3%. Every capital city apart from Brisbane
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Speaker 2: saw a reduction in the clearance rate. Kate, this is
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Speaker 2: all pretty worrying given spring is typically the busiest time
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Speaker 2: of the year for property transactions.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, tough headwinds indeed, Rita, and what we're seeing already
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Speaker 13: with the cost of living and interest rate conversations and
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Speaker 13: the tax reforms, it's all been a really nasty cocktail
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Speaker 13: for for market confidence in general. Now, of course, there
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Speaker 13: are markets within markets. Not every single market has auction
19:13
Speaker 13: clearance rates that are necessarily reliable and not every market
19:17
Speaker 13: is an auction-centric market, but we have most definitely seen
19:21
Speaker 13: the changes, the tax changes and the cost of living
19:24
Speaker 13: and talk of interest rate increases all starting to grip.
19:28
Speaker 13: And to your point, it couldn't be at a worse
19:29
Speaker 13: time because spring is typically when we see the largest
19:34
Speaker 13: number of listings. So if we've got a strong increase
19:37
Speaker 13: in supply and then we've got demand decreasing, that won't
19:42
Speaker 13: bode well for vendors or prices.
19:46
Speaker 2: And first home buyers, do you see much hope of
19:49
Speaker 2: them entering the market in greater numbers? Because we had
19:52
Speaker 2: data that first home buyer loans were down. They're not
19:57
Speaker 2: confident enough to enter this market. Can you see that
20:00
Speaker 2: changing in the short term?
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Speaker 13: Not in the short term. First home buyers are always
20:06
Speaker 13: the most nervous of all the cohorts. And They're very
20:10
Speaker 13: jittery reading the news headlines and being fearful about whether
20:14
Speaker 13: they're buying at the right time or whether they should
20:16
Speaker 13: wait for things to deteriorate further. I personally think it's
20:20
Speaker 13: probably a fantastic time for a first-time buyer to jump
20:23
Speaker 13: in there, but telling someone to be confident is not enough.
20:26
Speaker 13: And headwinds like interest rate increases is really tough on
20:30
Speaker 13: first-time buyers because they've got to save their deposit and
20:34
Speaker 13: then they've got servicing, which is That in itself is
20:39
Speaker 13: what determines how much they can borrow. And, of course,
20:41
Speaker 13: if they're up against higher interest rates, then their servicing
20:46
Speaker 13: capacity diminishes as well. So it's a lot of wait
20:49
Speaker 13: and see for nervous buyers.
20:51
Speaker 11: Mm.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and typically first-home buyers are borrowing a large percentage,
20:58
Speaker 2: up to 95%, and no-one wants to be negative.
21:01
Speaker 3: Equity, do they?
21:02
Speaker 2: They don't want to pay for a house that is
21:05
Speaker 2: going to be worth less than their mortgage, perhaps in
21:07
Speaker 2: six or 12 months' time.
21:09
Speaker 3: Kate Bakos, thank you so much for your time.
21:11
Speaker 2: Still to come, lefties losing it, plus the Democrats' embrace
21:16
Speaker 2: of socialism. John Heinderaker will have the latest from the
21:20
Speaker 2: US next. You're watching The Rita Panahy Show and it's
21:30
Speaker 2: time for Lefty's Losing It. And we're going to start
21:34
Speaker 2: the week strong with a Kamala spectacular. Oh, she's back
21:39
Speaker 2: and showcasing a new accent, which means only one thing,
21:43
Speaker 2: she's running again.
21:44
Speaker 8: Shirley Chisholm talked about it.
21:48
Speaker 3: If you're not at the table.
21:51
Speaker 4: Bring a folding chair, otherwise you might.
21:53
Speaker 5: Be on the menu.
21:56
Speaker 2: No idea what she is talking about. Pretty sure she
21:58
Speaker 2: has no idea what she is talking about.
22:00
Speaker 3: Here she is.
22:01
Speaker 2: Complaining about electoral rolls being cleaned up to remove the
22:05
Speaker 2: names of non-citizens, to clean up the names.
22:08
Speaker 3: Of dead people. Apparently that is a threat to democracy.
22:12
Speaker 3: It's cheating. They are cheating by purging voter rolls.
22:16
Speaker 6: So we say as leaders then to folks, not only
22:19
Speaker 6: must you register to vote, check your voter registration status
22:23
Speaker 6: to make sure you haven't been.
22:24
Speaker 8: Purged from the rolls.
22:29
Speaker 15: They're trying to take our tools, but we are a
22:31
Speaker 15: creative people.
22:33
Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
22:34
Speaker 2: We learned in 2020 just how creative the Democrats are.
22:39
Speaker 3: Very creative.
22:40
Speaker 2: And Kamala is obviously not above campaigning with radical socialists
22:45
Speaker 2: like Abdul El-Sayed.
22:47
Speaker 3: Here they are together.
22:49
Speaker 2: Talking about what the left call black birthing people. I
22:53
Speaker 2: think they mean women.
22:55
Speaker 15: And that's what the people of Michigan need from you.
22:58
Speaker 15: From our leaders, that's what black women and black birthing
23:02
Speaker 15: people need in order to move themselves forward, their families forward,
23:08
Speaker 15: their communities forward, the state forward and this country forward.
23:12
Speaker 3: And it gets worse.
23:13
Speaker 2: Kamala thought she'd explain AI and algorithms to us and wowie,
23:19
Speaker 2: she's about as terrible with analogies as she is with
23:22
Speaker 2: squandering $ 1. 5 billion in 15 weeks.
23:26
Speaker 3: But the algorithm suggesting.
23:28
Speaker 15: I have no more interest because I'm looking at this
23:31
Speaker 15: yellow flower.
23:33
Speaker 3: I'm only interested in yellow flowers. So here's more yellow flowers.
23:36
Speaker 3: As though my brain can't handle the fact that there
23:38
Speaker 3: may be a.
23:39
Speaker 2: Pink flower that I might be interested in looking at.
23:45
Speaker 13: Right?
23:45
Speaker 15: And so part of it is understanding how the algorithm
23:49
Speaker 15: is manipulating us and figuring out how we're going to
23:53
Speaker 15: psych it.
23:53
Speaker 3: Out a bit.
23:54
Speaker 2: Talking about terrible analogies, let's hear from the ironically named
23:59
Speaker 2: Bill Nye, the supposed science guy who doesn't even believe
24:03
Speaker 2: in basic biology of two genders.
24:05
Speaker 3: Here he is with a clumsy, not-too-subtle.
24:08
Speaker 2: Dig at President Trump while invoking Hitler, of course.
24:13
Speaker 12: Hey, this is going to end my career, which should
24:15
Speaker 12: be fine. But keep in mind, the stuff that has
24:19
Speaker 12: gone wrong historically, These people come to power and become
24:25
Speaker 12: tyrants and weird because they got voted. Once in a while,
24:30
Speaker 12: there's a voted in. Once in a while, there's a
24:32
Speaker 12: military coup or a hunt or whatever. But Hitler was
24:37
Speaker 12: voted in in a democratic process.
24:40
Speaker 5: And just keep that in mind.
24:42
Speaker 2: Yes, let's overturn democracy because Bill Nye the lunatic lefty
24:46
Speaker 2: doesn't like the democratically elected president of the United States.
24:51
Speaker 2: And now to a pro-Iranian regime activist who chooses to
24:55
Speaker 2: live in the West.
24:57
Speaker 3: Why is he here?
24:58
Speaker 2: Why would a man who identify himself as queer take
25:02
Speaker 2: a stand for a regime that would kill him?
25:05
Speaker 5: Are you here in support of Khomeini, who's killed so
25:07
Speaker 5: many innocent Iranians? So Khomeini has not killed his own people.
25:10
Speaker 8: US drones and Israeli drones.
25:12
Speaker 5: Have been killing Iranians. As an Iranian, I think I
25:16
Speaker 5: know my people, so thank you.
25:18
Speaker 3: Have you spoken recently to your family in Iran?
25:21
Speaker 16: Is that, like, a statement that they would actually— You're
25:24
Speaker 16: saying that Khomeini didn't kill any innocent Iranians before America
25:27
Speaker 16: or Israel got.
25:27
Speaker 3: Involved in Iran? Arrested thugs and terrorists that were burning
25:30
Speaker 3: down mosques.
25:31
Speaker 5: My family's religious Muslim.
25:33
Speaker 3: I mean, I think you could be a religious Muslim
25:35
Speaker 3: and not be in support.
25:36
Speaker 8: I support burning down mosques as a Muslim.
25:38
Speaker 3: Have you heard of Masa Amini? Was she burning down
25:40
Speaker 3: any mosques?
25:41
Speaker 12: No, she wasn't burning down any mosques.
25:43
Speaker 15: You know, I feel bad for her and her family.
25:45
Speaker 17: Trump did not go to Iran to save women.
25:48
Speaker 5: Trump did not go to Iran.
25:50
Speaker 7: To save queer people.
25:51
Speaker 5: Trump went to Iran for oil, for minerals.
25:54
Speaker 8: For uranium, and for their threat to the Zionist country.
25:58
Speaker 3: I'm a queer, Iranian, pro-Khamenei supporter. What a loathsome, loathsome miscreant.
26:04
Speaker 2: Millions of people in Iran would risk their lives to
26:07
Speaker 2: be in the West, to be free of that regime.
26:11
Speaker 2: And this loser abuses the freedoms of the West to protest.
26:15
Speaker 2: for that regime, for a murderous Islamist regime. Now, this
26:19
Speaker 2: next gal is just confused. She's not bad, she's just
26:24
Speaker 2: a little thick. I blame the schools.
26:27
Speaker 5: What do you guys think about Zionism?
26:28
Speaker 6: I had a piano teacher one time, she was Jewish,
26:30
Speaker 6: and she would wrap her head every day, pray to Allah,
26:33
Speaker 6: but I never even knew what.
26:34
Speaker 14: Pray to Allah.
26:35
Speaker 10: Allah was, yeah.
26:37
Speaker 5: OK, well, Jewish people don't pray to Allah. They don't
26:39
Speaker 5: believe in, like.
26:39
Speaker 14: Allah would be, like, the god of Islam.
26:41
Speaker 3: But I thought the Jews were in Islam.
26:43
Speaker 13: Nope.
26:44
Speaker 18: Like, are you joking around or do you actually think
26:46
Speaker 18: that Jews pray to Islam?
26:47
Speaker 5: Which doesn't make any sense.
26:48
Speaker 6: I mean, that's just what I'd heard from when I
26:49
Speaker 6: was growing up.
26:50
Speaker 12: Oh, OK.
26:51
Speaker 14: So there's Islam, there's Christianity and there's Judaism.
26:54
Speaker 8: They're separate religions with, like, distinct beliefs.
26:57
Speaker 2: Let's check in now on our favourite lucid lefty, Bill Maher,
27:01
Speaker 2: who is somewhat perturbed by President Trump's war with CNN
27:05
Speaker 2: and MSNOW. Even more perturbed was his guest, Aussie-made New
27:10
Speaker 2: York Times reporter Jonathan Swan.
27:12
Speaker 3: But thankfully, author James Kirchick was.
27:15
Speaker 2: There with a timely reality check about the way the
27:18
Speaker 2: Obama administration treated the press, despite the overwhelmingly positive coverage
27:25
Speaker 2: Barack Obama received throughout his presidency.
27:28
Speaker 8: I don't want to be both sides in it, but
27:30
Speaker 8: during the Obama administration, they tapped the AP Bureau's phones.
27:34
Speaker 9: That's true.
27:34
Speaker 5: And the phones of AP reporters.
27:35
Speaker 3: They tapped their phones.
27:37
Speaker 8: And they named James Rosen, a Fox News journalist, as
27:40
Speaker 8: an unindicted co-conspirator in a leak case. You'll never get
27:43
Speaker 8: me to defend Obama. And they subpoenaed James Risen.
27:46
Speaker 5: Your colleague.
27:47
Speaker 9: Obama was horrendous on this stuff.
27:48
Speaker 3: You'll never get me to defend him. Horrendous, really?
27:51
Speaker 5: I mean, on the leak stuff?
27:53
Speaker 1: I looked this up about.
27:55
Speaker 16: Terrible.
27:55
Speaker 10: But.
27:56
Speaker 1: freezing out one... They did it with Fox News. Josh Earnest,
28:00
Speaker 1: this is... He was in the Obama... He admitted it.
28:02
Speaker 1: He said, the White House has demonstrated our willingness to
28:05
Speaker 1: exclude Fox News from news-making interviews. And he did done.
28:09
Speaker 1: She was also in the Obama... She said, we're going
28:11
Speaker 1: to treat them the way we treat an opponent.
28:14
Speaker 5: This is exactly what.
28:16
Speaker 1: You know, this is what I always say about this country.
28:18
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, you know, this is the worst thing in
28:20
Speaker 1: the world except when we do it, and then it's
28:22
Speaker 1: always perfectly okay.
28:23
Speaker 2: Let's bring in the Centre for the American Experiment president
28:27
Speaker 2: and co-founder of the popular Powerline blog, John Heinderaker.
28:32
Speaker 3: John, how quickly we forget.
28:34
Speaker 2: Tell my audience about the Obama administration's treatment of hostile media.
28:39
Speaker 5: Indeed.
28:40
Speaker 3: just about any ideological opponent.
28:43
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, Bill Maher nailed it.
28:45
Speaker 16: I mean, the Obama White House banned Fox News, and
28:49
Speaker 16: it lasted for about a day, you know, just like
28:51
Speaker 16: the Trump administration's bans on CNN.
28:54
Speaker 9: And the others.
28:55
Speaker 16: But what's much worse is that the Obama administration tapped reporters' phones.
29:00
Speaker 16: They carried out a campaign against James Risen in particular.
29:04
Speaker 16: They threatened to put him in jail. They went far
29:07
Speaker 16: beyond anything the Trump White House has done to attack
29:11
Speaker 16: the press.
29:14
Speaker 2: Now, the polls tell us that Democrat James Tallarico is
29:18
Speaker 2: well in front of his Republican opponent in the great
29:21
Speaker 2: state of Texas. This is a man, Tallarico, who says
29:25
Speaker 2: God is non-binary and he says lots of other fairly
29:29
Speaker 2: fruity stuff. But let's hear now from his female pastor,
29:33
Speaker 2: Babs Miller. Let's hear the gospel she's spreading.
29:38
Speaker 5: Really believe that, like, a virgin gave birth to a baby? Yeah, OK.
29:43
Speaker 5: I just don't want to offend my own common sense.
29:46
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, don't.
29:48
Speaker 13: Yeah.
29:49
Speaker 3: Absolutely don't.
29:50
Speaker 4: Part of what we encourage here is for people to
29:53
Speaker 4: think for themselves.
29:54
Speaker 13: Yeah.
29:55
Speaker 4: And take what makes sense, Mary and the virgin birth,
29:59
Speaker 4: comes out of the pagan belief that the gods came
30:03
Speaker 4: down and impregnated people, that people were still hanging on
30:08
Speaker 4: to during that time. We have no way of knowing
30:11
Speaker 4: if Jesus really existed.
30:13
Speaker 5: Dear me.
30:14
Speaker 2: John, even most atheists believe that Jesus the man existed.
30:19
Speaker 3: What is this woman on about?
30:22
Speaker 16: Rita, that's just crazy. There's no doubt about the fact
30:25
Speaker 16: that Jesus existed and was crucified. That is related by
30:30
Speaker 16: both Tacitus and Josephus. This minister doesn't believe the basic
30:36
Speaker 16: tenets of Christianity, and she isn't even up to speed
30:39
Speaker 16: on the secular history.
30:40
Speaker 9: I mean, it's absolutely appalling, and it bears on.
30:44
Speaker 16: Really how nutty this guy James Tallarico really is.
30:50
Speaker 3: Yet he seems to be well ahead in the polls.
30:54
Speaker 2: And I know the polls have been wrong in the past,
30:57
Speaker 2: but then we do know in the midterms, whoever's in
31:01
Speaker 2: charge of the White House typically.
31:02
Speaker 3: Takes a hit.
31:04
Speaker 2: Do you think this Tallarico, with his track record of
31:08
Speaker 2: saying some crazy stuff, taking some crazy positions, can you
31:13
Speaker 2: see him winning in Texas?
31:17
Speaker 9: I don't think so, Rita.
31:18
Speaker 16: I mean, I know the polls don't look good all
31:19
Speaker 16: across the country, but not only is Tallarico far left,
31:23
Speaker 16: and not only does he have some bizarre religious views,
31:26
Speaker 16: he is anti-meat. I don't think you can be anti-meat
31:32
Speaker 16: and win in Texas.
31:35
Speaker 2: You know what, I can see him having barbecues across
31:38
Speaker 2: the state to try to convince people that he's changed
31:42
Speaker 2: his ways because he did come out after saying there were,
31:45
Speaker 2: I don't know, endless number of genders. He came out
31:48
Speaker 2: and said, oh, no, there's just men and women and
31:50
Speaker 2: some people with medical issues.
31:53
Speaker 3: So he took a very.
31:55
Speaker 2: hard-line stance suddenly on the issue of gender.
31:59
Speaker 3: But, yeah, we'll see how he goes.
32:01
Speaker 2: I played footage just a little earlier of Democrat Socialist
32:05
Speaker 2: Michigan's Senate nominee, Abdul Al-Sayed, campaigning with Kamala Harris. He
32:11
Speaker 2: has already spoken about the assistance he has received from
32:14
Speaker 2: Barack Obama, the advice he's received. How integrated, John, are
32:20
Speaker 2: the socialists within the Democrat Party?
32:23
Speaker 3: Are they still a fringe element?
32:27
Speaker 16: Well, no, on the contrary, Rita, socialism is mainstream in
32:30
Speaker 16: the Democratic Party. According to the most recent Gallup poll,
32:34
Speaker 16: 65 percent of Democrats have a positive view of socialism.
32:40
Speaker 16: And what we see is that all of the leaders
32:42
Speaker 16: of the Democratic Party will get behind anyone who wins
32:45
Speaker 16: a primary, no matter how far left he may be.
32:49
Speaker 16: El Sayed is one example, but you also have Zoran
32:51
Speaker 16: Mamdani and all the others.
32:54
Speaker 9: And none of.
32:55
Speaker 16: These far leftists who have won primaries have been disavowed
32:58
Speaker 16: by anybody in the Democratic Party's leadership. So I would say, really, Rita,
33:03
Speaker 16: socialism is the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
33:09
Speaker 2: And that's what's so terrifying, isn't it? Because they really
33:13
Speaker 2: have normalised these, what were until recently, radical beliefs and
33:19
Speaker 2: this normalisation of an ideology that has caused so much
33:24
Speaker 2: damage throughout the world. And you can look at recent
33:28
Speaker 2: damage in South America and, of course, far worse than
33:32
Speaker 2: that in the decades preceding across Europe and elsewhere. How
33:38
Speaker 2: do the Democrats come back to the center? Or do
33:40
Speaker 2: they have no interest in coming back to the center?
33:45
Speaker 16: I don't think they want to come back anywhere near
33:47
Speaker 16: the center, Rita. I think the only difference among the
33:49
Speaker 16: Democrats is the ones who are out and proud socialists
33:53
Speaker 16: today and the ones who want socialism, but more gradually.
33:57
Speaker 16: You know, they think we Americans aren't ready for it yet.
34:00
Speaker 16: I think that's the only division of the Democratic Party.
34:04
Speaker 2: Now let's have a look at the controversy surrounding the
34:08
Speaker 2: Ireland-Israel soccer game. The Irish players wore black armbands in
34:14
Speaker 2: what they said was recognition of all lives lost in
34:17
Speaker 2: the Gaza conflict. And, John, they did not shake hands
34:21
Speaker 2: with their Israeli counterparts and bowed their heads during the
34:26
Speaker 2: Israeli national anthem. And let's have a look at the
34:30
Speaker 2: captain of the Irish team, Dara O'Shea.
34:34
Speaker 3: He refused to even shake.
34:35
Speaker 2: Hands with his Israeli opponent during the coin toss. John,
34:48
Speaker 2: what do you make of this on-field activism from a
34:52
Speaker 2: sporting team?
34:54
Speaker 9: Well, Rita, it is terrible sportsmanship.
34:57
Speaker 16: I mean, for some reason, Ireland is one of the
34:59
Speaker 16: most anti-Semitic countries in the world.
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Speaker 9: We've seen it over and over again.
35:04
Speaker 16: You hate to see politics injected into sports like this,
35:08
Speaker 16: especially in such a hateful way.
35:10
Speaker 9: And it's so ignorant, you know, spouting this nonsense about genocide.
35:15
Speaker 9: It's really unfortunate.
35:18
Speaker 3: You're so right, though, about Ireland.
35:20
Speaker 2: They seem to be completely rabid when it comes to
35:24
Speaker 2: this issue. I want to play you a clip from
35:27
Speaker 2: an Israeli player, Dor Peretz, who had this message for
35:31
Speaker 2: the Irish players.
35:33
Speaker 3: Do you have any message to.
35:34
Speaker 5: The Irish footballers?
35:40
Speaker 18: Unfortunately, I think that the image is very big and
35:44
Speaker 18: we live this image every day in Israel. And I
35:47
Speaker 18: don't think that U.S. foreigners can understand our reality. And
35:53
Speaker 18: I can only send a message to the players that
35:56
Speaker 18: if they want to connect, really connect and understand the
35:58
Speaker 18: image like it.
36:00
Speaker 5: Is, they should read more.
36:02
Speaker 18: They should visit Israel and to see also the country.
36:07
Speaker 18: And then they can judge and say.
36:09
Speaker 5: What they think.
36:11
Speaker 2: Look, I don't know how well that message is going
36:13
Speaker 2: to be received by the Irish players. Why do you
36:18
Speaker 2: think Ireland in particular has taken this position when it
36:23
Speaker 2: comes to the Israel-Gaza conflict?
36:27
Speaker 9: I'm really not sure, Rita.
36:28
Speaker 16: There are certain countries where the anti-Semitism is really virulent.
36:32
Speaker 16: You know, Spain is another one, Ireland. I'm not sure
36:35
Speaker 16: why it's worse in some countries than others. But in Ireland,
36:39
Speaker 16: I mean, they've really gotten carried away with it in sports,
36:42
Speaker 16: in politics, really across the board.
36:46
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely.
36:47
Speaker 2: I think it was an Irish radio station that last
36:49
Speaker 2: week banned Ed Sheeran's music because he wasn't outspoken enough.
36:55
Speaker 3: About the Free Palestine position. I mean, really, they have
36:59
Speaker 3: completely gone off the reservation.
37:01
Speaker 2: Now, staying on the sporting arena, President Donald Trump was
37:04
Speaker 2: present for a Tennessee-Texas game and he got a great
37:09
Speaker 2: reception from the crowd.
37:19
Speaker 3: Yes, college football, they are staunch.
37:21
Speaker 2: John, that reception was very different to what we hear
37:25
Speaker 2: from the media and social media where you think Trump
37:29
Speaker 2: is hated across the nation.
37:32
Speaker 16: Yeah, that was a huge crowd in Tennessee. And of course,
37:36
Speaker 16: Tennessee is a red state where most people are pro-Trump.
37:41
Speaker 16: And of course, football fans, college football fans tend to
37:44
Speaker 16: be more pro-Trump, more conservative in general. But the other
37:47
Speaker 16: thing going on there is that these people are also patriotic.
37:50
Speaker 16: And I think apart from being pro-Trump, they're also excited
37:54
Speaker 16: to have the president of the United States attending the
37:56
Speaker 16: football game in their stadium.
38:00
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
38:01
Speaker 2: And President Trump spoke to Clay Travis about the conflict
38:06
Speaker 2: in baseball that could lead to a strike.
38:10
Speaker 14: You're a monster baseball fan too. There's dangers of potentially
38:13
Speaker 14: a lockout. I know you've played and loved baseball for
38:16
Speaker 14: a long time. Do you think there's a role for
38:18
Speaker 14: the president to try to broker peace between owners, players?
38:21
Speaker 14: Is there something you can do? Because baseball's on a
38:23
Speaker 14: roll to help make sure that we don't have another
38:26
Speaker 14: missed world series, prolonged work stoppage.
38:29
Speaker 17: Well, I would do it if it was appropriate. I
38:31
Speaker 17: would certainly do it if I could. I mean, I
38:33
Speaker 17: settled eight wars and I had nothing to do with
38:36
Speaker 17: most of them. I mean, India, Pakistan, lots of Very
38:40
Speaker 17: good wars. I'm working on Russia-Ukraine. That's turned out to
38:43
Speaker 17: be the toughest of all. There's a lot of hatred
38:45
Speaker 17: there between President Putin and President Zelensky. Yeah, baseball looks
38:50
Speaker 17: like it could have a strike. And if it does,
38:52
Speaker 17: that would be too bad.
38:55
Speaker 2: John, he somehow turned that into a geopolitical answer. On that,
39:00
Speaker 2: we saw Xi Jinping at the White House. He skipped
39:04
Speaker 2: the UN, but he did go to the White House
39:06
Speaker 2: to meet with President Trump.
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Speaker 3: Anything meaningful emerge out of those discussions?
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Speaker 16: Rita, I think it's impossible to say yet whether any
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Speaker 16: important progress was made in those meetings. To take just
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Speaker 16: one example, Trump was leaning on Xi to stop arming
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Speaker 16: and supplying Iran. Now, whether that will have effect, we
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Speaker 16: don't know yet. I would just echo what Marco Rubio's
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Speaker 16: He said the U.S. and China are the two most
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Speaker 16: powerful countries in the world. We have the two biggest economies,
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Speaker 16: and it would be irresponsible for our leaders not to talk,
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Speaker 16: not to communicate, not to negotiate. So let's hope that
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Speaker 16: they do keep talking, and let's hope that they can
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Speaker 16: find some common ground and it can resolve some issues peacefully.
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Speaker 3: John Heineraker, thank you for your time.
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Speaker 9: Thank you, Rita.
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Speaker 2: Still to come, Saturday Night Live UK digs the.
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Speaker 3: Boots into Ed Sheeran.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey Schofield with Heather Entertainment News next.
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Speaker 3: MUSIC Welcome back.
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Speaker 2: Now, not surprisingly, the UK version of Saturday Night Live
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Speaker 2: has gone all in on hating Ed Sheeran.
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Speaker 3: Apparently his apology, his.
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Speaker 2: Political statement on stage wasn't enough to appease the perpetually
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Speaker 2: outraged left.
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Speaker 3: They are madder than ever. Here is comedian Amelia Dimmelden-Burke.
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Speaker 9: I'm incredibly privileged to have done so many interviews with
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Speaker 9: people like Idris Elba, Cher, and even a world-famous red-headed
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Speaker 9: puppet with a hand up his arse telling him what
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Speaker 9: to say.
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Speaker 10: No, the other one.
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Speaker 2: Joining me now is host of the Kinsey Schofield Unfiltered podcast. Kinsey,
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Speaker 2: poor Ed Sheeran is copying it from everyone, musicians, comics,
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Speaker 2: even family members.
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Speaker 8: I know.
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Speaker 10: I mean, at this point, what exactly is Ed Sheeran
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Speaker 10: supposed to do? He's explained himself, he's apologised, he's made
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Speaker 10: a statement on stage, and apparently he still hasn't completed
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Speaker 10: the required number of public lashings. There is a point
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Speaker 10: where accountability becomes a purity test and nobody survives a
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Speaker 10: purity test.
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Speaker 2: Well, it has been a humiliation ritual from the start.
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Speaker 2: He should have never participated in it. That's He's been
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Speaker 2: badly advised from the start and I think it's sad
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Speaker 2: because I think what's hurting him is people who were
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Speaker 2: close to him criticising him, including family members. Here is
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Speaker 2: his cousin, Jethro Sheeran, who appeared on Piers Morgan's program
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Speaker 2: and he called Ed a coward.
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Speaker 19: I commented I think it was a coward move for
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Speaker 19: him to do it, blame the promoters. And then the
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Speaker 19: promoter turned around and said, well, and then Macklemore himself said,
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Speaker 19: Ed kicked me off the tour. And now Ed said
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Speaker 19: that he begged him to come on the tour. And
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Speaker 19: he just turned his back. And I think he just
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Speaker 19: wants anything to gain here for himself.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, that is just such a low blow to have
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Speaker 2: a family member go to the media to put the
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Speaker 2: boots in when you're down. It's got a touch of
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Speaker 2: Harry and Meghan about it, I've got to say.
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Speaker 10: I mean, first of all, never trust a man named Jethro, okay?
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Speaker 10: Jethro was the first red flag. The combination of necklaces
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Speaker 10: was the second, okay? And then the font on his
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Speaker 10: T-shirt is another dead giveaway. Most families have a group chat. Apparently,
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Speaker 10: this family has Piers Morgan, and that tells us everything
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Speaker 10: we need to know. Jethro, call your cousin. We don't
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Speaker 10: need a broadcast for everybody.
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Speaker 1: All right, buddy?
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Put it on the family chat. Maybe even that's a
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Speaker 2: bit too much. The singer's longtime friend, Jordan Stevens, has
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Speaker 2: also criticised him publicly and the way he's handled this controversy. Kinsey,
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Speaker 2: he said Sheeran's statement was appalling and that every time
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Speaker 2: he speaks, it gets worse.
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Speaker 3: What did you make of that?
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Speaker 5: Well, I mean.
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Speaker 10: Perhaps that tells Ed something. Stop talking. You're a singer.
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Speaker 4: Sing.
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Speaker 10: There is this strange modern expectation that every celebrity must
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Speaker 10: also become the secretary of state. Sometimes I would simply
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Speaker 10: like the man who wrote Shape of You to play
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Speaker 10: his guitar. We talk about this all the time. Sometimes
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Speaker 10: people just need to stay in their lanes.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: I think that's one of the big differences between conservatives
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Speaker 2: and the left. We prefer our singers and actors to
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Speaker 2: stick to what they're good at instead of political activism,
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Speaker 2: whilst on the left, like you said, it is a
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Speaker 2: purity test. You're almost obliged to publicly state a position
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Speaker 2: to be acceptable, to be credible as an artist.
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Speaker 3: Now, I've been dying to speak to you about this
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Speaker 3: all week.
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Speaker 2: Well, all weekend since the Taylor Swift track came out.
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Speaker 2: And I know you are a Taylor Swift fan and
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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear you defend her latest offering because, frankly,
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Speaker 2: it is shocking. It is so bad, Kinsey, you cannot
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Speaker 2: defend this, that the writing, the composition, everything about it, putrid.
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Speaker 3: Her new song is called Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: It's a tribute to her new husband, Travis Kelsey. Let
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Speaker 2: me just take you through some of the lyrics, and
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Speaker 2: I've picked some of the better ones here. It says,
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Speaker 2: He already took me to Cleveland and showed me the heights.
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Speaker 2: So hate all you like. This is the love of
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Speaker 2: my life. Who's hating here? Who's told her she can't
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Speaker 2: be with Travis? Another lyric she sings, it says, the
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Speaker 2: taste of me is acquired, but it's his favourite dish.
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Speaker 3: Ew, gross.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, the lyrics get worse. I'm going to play you
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Speaker 2: a little bit.
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Speaker 18: You only need to find one person in this entire
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Speaker 18: world who doesn't find you completely insufferable.
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Speaker 17: And I have.
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Speaker 14: An important announcement to make.
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Speaker 3: I found love. Kinsey. defend that hot mess. It's impossible.
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Speaker 10: I mean, I love patient zero. I will defend her.
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Speaker 10: I mean, I'm not defending every lyric. There are moments
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Speaker 10: on this record where I think, Taylor, put the pen
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Speaker 10: down and go enjoy your husband. We've discussed this before.
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Speaker 10: Some artists do their most compelling work when they're miserable.
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Speaker 10: Taylor has built an entire empire, you know, turning heartbreak
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Speaker 10: into incredible storytelling. Now she appears genuinely happy and happiness
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Speaker 10: isn't always an interesting thing. you know, story that sometimes
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Speaker 10: devastation is much more compelling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I need to have.
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Speaker 2: Some sort of intervention for you because this album, come on,
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Speaker 2: every bit of it that I've heard is appalling.
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Speaker 3: But perhaps you're right. Perhaps it is the happiness.
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Speaker 2: If she's actually content, if she's not going through a
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Speaker 2: terrible breakup, perhaps the artistry suffers. It's something that Family
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Speaker 2: Guy touched on years ago.
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty and I'm rich and I'm in love, me Taylor.
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Speaker 3: I've met the guy that I've been dreaming of, me Taylor.
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Speaker 5: Wow, they hate it. This stinks!
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Speaker 3: We like you when you're miserable.
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Speaker 2: Kinsey, has Travis Kelsey broken her ability to write a
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Speaker 2: good song?
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Speaker 8: I mean.
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Speaker 10: No, Travis may have broken her ability to write miserable music.
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Speaker 10: I do think there's a difference. I mean, I refuse
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Speaker 10: to wish heartbreak on this woman simply because it might
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Speaker 10: improve the next album. Although artistically speaking, history suggests we'd
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Speaker 10: get one hell of an album. But tonight, you know,
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Speaker 10: she became the most awarded artist in VMA history. You
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Speaker 10: don't accidentally sustain that level of cultural relevance for two decades,
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Speaker 10: you know?
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you can.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't think she produced miserable
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Speaker 2: music when she was going through those breakups. Shake It
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Speaker 2: Off is a really happy, upbeat song, but obviously it
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Speaker 2: was born out of heartbreak.
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Speaker 3: This, I think, this is music.
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Speaker 2: To get depressed too. I'm going to talk about this again,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure, later. Now, new details about Tom Brady's divorce
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Speaker 2: have emerged as his divorce with supermodel Giselle. The pair's
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Speaker 2: 13-year marriage ended back in 2022 in a new book
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Speaker 2: about the retired NFL star. An insider said Giselle, who
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Speaker 2: is really into astrology, basically looked into the stars and
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Speaker 2: told Tom, we're not compatible.
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Speaker 3: Kinsey, that can't be right. I can't believe that.
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Speaker 10: Imagine being Tom Brady, seven Super Bowl rings, one of
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Speaker 10: the greatest athletes who ever lived, and apparently he was
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Speaker 10: defeated by Mercury in retrograde. I mean, I do suspect
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Speaker 10: we're not compatible was the final sentence, not the entire story.
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Speaker 10: Reports around their divorce have long described tension over how
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Speaker 10: much Tom wanted to play football. It was always, you know,
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Speaker 10: Giselle wants him home. She wants him to retire. She
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Speaker 10: wants him to spend more time with her and the kids.
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Speaker 10: Astrology may have supplied the vocabulary, but I doubt Jupiter
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Speaker 10: ended that marriage, although it's fun. It's fun to banter about.
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Speaker 2: Now, before you go, Sydney Sweeney's Euphoria co-star Sharon Stone
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Speaker 2: has weighed into the controversy surrounding that ad. She said
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Speaker 2: Sydney Sweeney should take responsibility for her actions. She also said,
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Speaker 2: we can't denigrate women's sports to get men's attention so
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Speaker 2: they can gamble on Kinsey, this is all very rich
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Speaker 2: coming from a woman who flashed her hoo-ha to the
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Speaker 2: entire world in Basic Instinct.
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Speaker 10: So true. Stone helped turn sexuality into cinematic history. So
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Speaker 10: I'm not entirely convinced that Sydney Sweeney invented the concept
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Speaker 10: of a beautiful blonde using sex appeal to get people's attention.
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Speaker 10: And Sydney's response is also interesting. She pointed out that
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Speaker 10: you know, celebrated female athletes like Serena Williams and Ronda
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Speaker 10: Rousey have done provocative shoots themselves. So there is a
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Speaker 10: legitimate conversation about where empowerment ends and exploitation begins. But
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Speaker 10: Sharon Stone lecturing another actress about showing too much skin,
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Speaker 10: even Joan Rivers couldn't have written that set up.
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Speaker 2: Well said, Kinsey Schofield. Thank you for your time. And
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Speaker 2: that's it for me.
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