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The Rita Panahi Show | 1 September · The Rita Panahi Show

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  Speaker 1: Starting right now, The Rita Panaghi Show.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to The Rita Panaghi Show. Coming
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  Speaker 2: up tonight, the Prime Minister under pressure to revisit staff
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  Speaker 2: allocations for One Nation. My panel will cover that and
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  Speaker 2: the day's other top headlines. Europe's energy crisis deepens with
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  Speaker 2: looming gas shortages. Ralph Schollhammer will give us his take
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  Speaker 2: on that. Kosher Gator will have the latest from the US,
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  Speaker 2: including today's shocking Times Square stabbings. And country singer Jelly
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  Speaker 2: Roll in damage control after alienating most of his fan base.
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  Speaker 2: The always droll Michael Loftus will join me later in
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  Speaker 2: the hour. And Lefty's Losing It features a political endorsement
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  Speaker 2: that looks more like a hostage video. But first, house
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  Speaker 2: prices in Australia's capital cities are plummeting. Millions of Australians
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  Speaker 2: have seen their net worth go backwards, with their biggest
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  Speaker 2: asset decreasing at a rate we have not seen in
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  Speaker 2: 40 years. And with another interest rate increase expected this year,
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  Speaker 2: there are real fears that prices could plummet further. The
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  Speaker 2: situation is so grim that some economists are warning of
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  Speaker 2: a recession. Now, naturally, Melbourne is the nation's worst performing
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  Speaker 2: capital of the past decade. In Melbourne, houses are now
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  Speaker 2: worth less than they were five years ago. And since October,
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  Speaker 2: the median house value has plunged another 6.3%. This is
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  Speaker 2: according to realestate.com's latest home price report. In Sydney, home
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  Speaker 2: values have fallen for a sixth consecutive month. Prices have
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  Speaker 2: dipped 4.9% since November. The Albanese government's budget tax hikes
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  Speaker 2: and the axing of negative gearing could not have come
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  Speaker 2: at a worse time. The market was already soft, grappling
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  Speaker 2: with multiple interest rate increases. Then along came Jim Chalmers
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  Speaker 2: and Anthony Albanese. Joining me now is News Corp senior
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  Speaker 2: writer Patrick Carlion and IPA chief economist Adam Crichton. Adam,
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  Speaker 2: this is a mess and we could see people's home
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  Speaker 2: values devalued further. if we have another rate hike this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly that's true.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you've just bought, you'd be very worried
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  Speaker 4: if you had this enormous mortgage and the prices are falling.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the nominal falls don't even go to the
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  Speaker 4: full picture. I mean, you said Melbourne's worth less than
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  Speaker 4: five years ago. That's the nominal price. There's been 25% inflation.
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  Speaker 3: Over that period.
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  Speaker 4: So actually they're down 25% in real terms, right?
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  Speaker 3: And so are many, many houses. So it's actually worse, right?
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  Speaker 3: It is frightening.
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  Speaker 4: Those tax changes could not have come at a worse time.
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  Speaker 4: As you say, you know, we had a series of
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  Speaker 4: rate rises. There's probably going to be another one. And
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  Speaker 4: also the population growth is probably going to fall quite
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  Speaker 4: a bit if the impact of One Nation is felt federally,
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to be. So you've got this triple whammy, taxes,
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  Speaker 4: rates and fewer people. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: pretty scary over the next three years. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: buying a place right now.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be leveraging up.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be taking the 5% deposit scheme if I
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  Speaker 4: was anyone.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: And first-home buyers are choosing not to enter this depressed
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  Speaker 2: market because there's not confidence in the housing market, Patrick.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a real split that's emerged, but the overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: majority of Australians, according to yesterday's news poll, don't want
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  Speaker 2: to see house prices drop. I think two in three
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  Speaker 2: said they want to see house prices increase over the
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  Speaker 2: next two years or remain stable. And yet the Albanese
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  Speaker 2: government is almost... trumpeting its achievement in crashing the housing sector.
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  Speaker 6: Well, property prices have a direct sort of bearing on
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  Speaker 6: confidence and spending. So there's this flow-on effect. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you look at Melbourne, I mean, five years, as you
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  Speaker 6: point out, Adam, and it's a very good point, people
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  Speaker 6: have lost... Homeowners have lost money in Melbourne, in effect,
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  Speaker 6: over five years. You throw these tax changes in, There
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  Speaker 6: is no confidence in the market. And first, homebuyers, they
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  Speaker 6: were the ones who were meant to benefit from this.
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  Speaker 6: They're standing back because they're scared they're going to buy
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  Speaker 6: something that's going to be worth, you know, 100, 200
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  Speaker 6: grand less than it was when they buy it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because they're typically mortgaged up to the eyeballs. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have much in the way of a deposit, so...
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  Speaker 2: The housing market going backwards impacts them even more than
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  Speaker 2: the average mortgage holder.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and certainly their confidence will too.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you'd be so depressed, wouldn't you, if you
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  Speaker 4: just borrowed 95% of the value of your home using
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  Speaker 4: the government scheme and now it's worth $ 100, 000 less and
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  Speaker 4: you're stuck with this for the next 30 years.
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  Speaker 3: But look, just for viewers at home who are panicking, look,
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  Speaker 3: you can't extrapolate these.
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  Speaker 4: Falls in one month to the rest of the year,
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  Speaker 4: because if the stock market fell 1% yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: You can in Melbourne. Well, maybe you can in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: So just, you know, it might not be diabolical, but, look,
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  Speaker 3: it's not looking good.
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  Speaker 2: It's certainly not looking good, and construction firms in New
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  Speaker 2: South Wales are collapsing at record rates, with 1,500 companies
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  Speaker 2: falling into insolvency in the last financial year. It comes
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  Speaker 2: amid revelations the state will fail to meet its National
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  Speaker 2: Housing Accord deadline today. by three years. Patrick, since the
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  Speaker 2: housing accords were established in 2024 with a goal of
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  Speaker 2: 1.2 million homes built across the country by 2029, 7,779
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  Speaker 2: developers nationwide have called it quits.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's an alarming figure. And you would think
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  Speaker 2: these budget changes that we saw in May would.. would
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  Speaker 2: be a boom for the construction sector because all the
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  Speaker 2: tax breaks go to new builds. But, no, they're suffering
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 6: But the budget is all about unintended consequences, isn't it?
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  Speaker 6: And this is another sort of unintended consequence. Developers... How
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  Speaker 6: many developers are there in Australia? I mean, 7,000 sounds
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  Speaker 6: like an awful lot. There isn't... And people, developers can't
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  Speaker 6: sort of make it work, obviously. And these goals, these targets,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, they're pie in the sky at this stage,
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  Speaker 6: aren't they? These homes are not going to be built.
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  Speaker 6: There's going to be this great demand. And at the
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  Speaker 6: same time, you've got this paradox with the softening property prices.
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  Speaker 6: It is a real perfect storm.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we've got Cabinet Minister Annika Wells... Well, she's been
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  Speaker 2: ridiculed online for using ooshies to spruik Labor's contentious housing
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  Speaker 2: tax changes. Have a look.
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  Speaker 8: What did these guys.
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  Speaker 9: and the Australian housing market have in common? Both the
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  Speaker 9: ushi market and the Australian housing market are dictated by
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  Speaker 9: supply and demand. The problem right now is that supply
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  Speaker 9: of ushis and supply of housing is.
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  Speaker 8: Not keeping pace with demand. How do we fix it?
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  Speaker 9: To fix the ushi crisis, Woolies has the ability to
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  Speaker 9: deliver ushi equilibrium, whereby ushi supply meets the relentless demand
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  Speaker 9: of other youths.
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  Speaker 8: That's pretty easy. Woolworths, the ball is in your court.
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  Speaker 9: For the last 15 years, housing demand outpaced housing supply.
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  Speaker 8: Or in other words, there's been a shortage of whooshies.
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  Speaker 2: Adam, it only gets worse. She's so boldly ignorant, so
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  Speaker 2: economically illiterate. She thinks that removing investors from the market
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  Speaker 2: will somehow incentivise greater supply. Really, it's hard to figure out...
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  Speaker 2: where she's going with that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I really think she should have been skiing
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  Speaker 3: that week. It would have been far more impossible. You
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  Speaker 3: know what?
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  Speaker 2: Let's put our tax dollars together and send her on
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  Speaker 2: another junket because I think I prefer her on junkets
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  Speaker 2: than doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Just broadly the embarrassment of a senior cabinet minister talking
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  Speaker 4: like that to voters.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I spent three and a half years in
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  Speaker 3: the US.
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  Speaker 4: I can't imagine any secretary in the US government ever
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  Speaker 4: doing anything so stupid. And as you say, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: even make sense. But it's just, I mean, to me
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  Speaker 4: it's just degrading. I noticed Advance did a fun spoof
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  Speaker 4: where they changed the words and they made it about immigration.
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  Speaker 2: We'll play it in a sec, yes.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: Play a little bit of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, it's just I don't think it helps Labor,
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  Speaker 4: but it obviously shows the contempt that they hold the
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  Speaker 4: average person's intelligence with.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick, why do these very unimpressive politicians speak to us
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  Speaker 2: Like we're in kindergarten. I don't know where that comes from,
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  Speaker 2: whether they think it's soothing and impressive in some way,
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  Speaker 2: but I've got to say it's very irritating.
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  Speaker 6: It's condescending, isn't it? And, I mean, we talk about
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  Speaker 6: it virtually every week. There's a latest post from a
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  Speaker 6: government minister. They look like they're trying to be 20
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  Speaker 6: years younger than they are.
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  Speaker 3: It's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't actually illuminate anything. And this is probably the
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  Speaker 6: single worst example. And the one good thing about this is,
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  Speaker 6: universally the media has condemned this for what it is.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, no-one's defending it.
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  Speaker 2: No, and you mentioned Advance. They did do a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a spoof of it. Let's have a look.
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  Speaker 9: What did these guys and the Australian housing market have
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  Speaker 9: in common?
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  Speaker 8: Supply and demand.
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  Speaker 9: The problem right now is that supply of bushies and
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  Speaker 9: supply of housing is not keeping pace with demand.
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  Speaker 8: How do we fix it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's easy to mock, really. It's easy to spoof that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, extremely. I mean, I'm sure there should be more. But, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: but it's good. I think she probably regrets it.
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  Speaker 2: I think she regrets it, but only because of the mockery.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think she thinks she did anything wrong. Now,
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  Speaker 2: One Nation is continuously criticised by its political opponents for
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  Speaker 2: lack of policy detail. But, Adam, you have looked into
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  Speaker 2: this issue and specifically the allocation of personal staff to
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  Speaker 2: parties and party leaders and And this allocation, many will
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  Speaker 2: be surprised to know, is at Anthony Albanese's discretion and
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  Speaker 2: it is outrageously biased against One Nation, Adam.
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  Speaker 3: No, the figures are just extraordinary. These personal positions, there's
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  Speaker 3: many hundreds of them. They're very highly paid.
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  Speaker 4: Typically ministers get them, but they do generally give them
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  Speaker 4: to the opposition and.
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  Speaker 3: Also minor parties too.
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  Speaker 4: The government with 492 just itself, and mind you, it
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  Speaker 4: has 220,000 bureaucrats as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, not to get the hundreds of.
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  Speaker 3: Thousands of bureaucrats. These are just the personal advisers, comms, policy,
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  Speaker 3: spin doctors.
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  Speaker 4: And One Nation has four in total and the Greens
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  Speaker 4: have 17.
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  Speaker 3: And, OK, they have a.
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  Speaker 4: Few more members in the Senate, that's true, but when
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  Speaker 4: you do the ratios, it's very clear that One Nation
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  Speaker 4: has been punished by the Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 2: One Nation has four.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, four.
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  Speaker 3: Four, I know.
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  Speaker 2: This is a party that is leading the polls. They're
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  Speaker 2: ahead of Labor. But if you just even work it
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  Speaker 2: out on the current members they have in Parliament, the
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  Speaker 2: ratio is... Really quite unfair, Patrick.
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  Speaker 6: And the system can't be where the Prime Minister has
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  Speaker 6: that discretion to actually choose. It looks bad. It makes
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  Speaker 6: him look bad. It should actually be outsourced to something independent.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it should be reviewed.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, One Nation has exploded in the last, you know, six,
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  Speaker 6: 12 months. They deserve more staff, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. They're the alternative government. They're the leading opposition party.
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  Speaker 2: And Pauline Hanson responded to your tweet, Adam. She provided
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  Speaker 2: this graph, which again shows how One Nation is being screwed.
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  Speaker 2: And she also said the Prime Minister should not get
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  Speaker 2: to determine the number of staff available to his political opponents.
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  Speaker 2: especially while his government enjoys 507 advisers on top of
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  Speaker 2: 200,000 public servants. Oh, goodness me. It does seem like
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  Speaker 2: a misuse of power, this, Adam.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, look, extraordinary.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think traditionally prime ministers have exercised some
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  Speaker 4: sort of restraint here, but they do have, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there has been a rule in the past, I think
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  Speaker 4: going back to Paul Keating, that the government got 80%,
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  Speaker 4: or actually 79%, I think, and everyone else got 21%.
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  Speaker 7: Mm.
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  Speaker 4: But the way that 21% has been allocated here is
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  Speaker 4: obviously discriminating against One Nation. My argument is actually the
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  Speaker 4: opposition parties in general need these staff more than the
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  Speaker 4: government does because the government has full, huge departments, huge hypotheses.
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  Speaker 3: To answer their questions, right? So they really don't need
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  Speaker 3: as many.
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  Speaker 4: But they have them, of course, because it's all about
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  Speaker 4: power and staff and travel and, you know, rewarding mates.
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  Speaker 3: Let's be frank, that's what all these jobs are about.
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  Speaker 2: Mates and often family members.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible how many family members are installed into these positions. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Rowland earlier today defended the Prime Minister's comments about
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  Speaker 2: One Nation and its supporters and Pauline Hanson was none
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  Speaker 2: too pleased for that. She has called for the Attorney-General
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  Speaker 2: to retract her comments and apologise for slandering her party
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  Speaker 2: and its supporters.
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  Speaker 1: She said.
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  Speaker 2: Millions of Australians support One Nation. They are not extremists.
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  Speaker 2: They are not dangerous. And ministers should not use language
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  Speaker 2: that encourages others to treat them as if they are.
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  Speaker 2: No minister, especially the Attorney-General and First Law Officer of
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  Speaker 2: the country, should suggest there is any justification for threats
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  Speaker 2: against Australians because of the political party they support. Labor
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  Speaker 2: should be asking why Australians are abandoning them for One Nation,
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  Speaker 2: not demonising those Australians for how they vote and putting
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  Speaker 2: them in danger. This was a big topic of discussion yesterday, Patrick.
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  Speaker 2: One Nation came out hard against the Prime Minister and
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  Speaker 2: the Treasurer for their commentary. And I've got to say,
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister sounded desperate Yes... suggesting that people are
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  Speaker 2: supporting One Nation because they're falling for misinformation and disinformation.
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  Speaker 6: Do you really want to alienate voters by telling them
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  Speaker 6: that they're getting it wrong? Look, the Prime Minister did
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  Speaker 6: that on Sunday. I think it was a very bad tactic.
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  Speaker 6: And to have it doubled down today by the Attorney-General
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  Speaker 6: is just making it worse. Are you telling voters that
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  Speaker 6: they're silly? These are the voters that they need.
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  Speaker 2: To get back. It's precisely what they did during the
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  Speaker 2: voice campaign, suggesting that people were falling for disinformation or
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  Speaker 2: they were just mean. They were just nasty and bitter.
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  Speaker 4: Just very briefly, I think, you know, the word misinformation, disinformation,
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  Speaker 4: ever since COVID, ever since so much of the so-called
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  Speaker 4: disinformation was shown to actually be correct, I don't think
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  Speaker 4: these words work anymore. I think people laugh at when
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  Speaker 4: things are called that and they think, oh, well, if
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  Speaker 4: you're calling it that, it's probably true.
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  Speaker 2: Particularly from a Prime Minister with a proven track record
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  Speaker 2: of lying from everything from the melon gate to falling
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  Speaker 2: off a stage to not axing negative gear in capital
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  Speaker 2: gains tax. And of course, remember those energy bills that
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to go down? They never have. Gentlemen, thank
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  Speaker 2: you so much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now is broadcaster, columnist, academic and international relations expert,
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Schollhammer. Ralph, Well, starting in the UK, they are
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  Speaker 2: planning to follow Australia's footsteps and ban under-16s from social media. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: 15-year-olds too young for Instagram and Twitter. But watch this
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  Speaker 2: clip of the UK's Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Philipson,
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  Speaker 2: talk about trans five-year-olds. She failed to give a straight
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  Speaker 2: answer when asked whether a child as young as five
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  Speaker 2: can transition.
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  Speaker 11: Can a five-year-old go to school and decide that he
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  Speaker 11: wants to be called by a girl's name and that
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  Speaker 11: he is a she?
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  Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with that?
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  Speaker 12: We've been clear that in primary schools we need to
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  Speaker 12: tread with a lot of care.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't actually.
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  Speaker 1: Answer the question, Secretary. Are you comfortable with that?
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  Speaker 12: Well, this was usually where it involves a parent's decision
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  Speaker 12: to support their child in that way.
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  Speaker 2: So, Ralph, she can't say whether a five-year-old is too
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  Speaker 2: young to identify as a different gender, but her government
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  Speaker 2: wants to ban 15-year-olds from social media explain that to.
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  Speaker 13: Me well i mean first of all it shows you
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  Speaker 13: the power of ideology right i mean everybody knows that
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  Speaker 13: a five-year-old the very idea that a five-year-old should have
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  Speaker 13: any say in entrancing themselves so that the parents should
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  Speaker 13: put it upon them is ridiculous but this is how
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  Speaker 13: powerful this ideology has become now the social media ban
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  Speaker 13: It's a double-edged sword. I mean, there's a reason why
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  Speaker 13: the Meta company was sentenced, I think, to a significant
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  Speaker 13: fine just recently, because they did try to make their,
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  Speaker 13: whether it's Instagram and some of their other apps, addictive.
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  Speaker 13: But on the other hand, I completely agree with what
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  Speaker 13: you're saying. It is a little bit odd to say, oh, sure,
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  Speaker 13: we give you puberty blockers at the age of 12,
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  Speaker 13: but having an Instagram account, that's impossible. So my sense
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  Speaker 13: is a little bit, both in the UK, but also
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  Speaker 13: in France and other continental European countries, you see a
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  Speaker 13: political shift, particularly of the under 16-year-olds, and social media
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  Speaker 13: has become one of the main sources of information. We
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  Speaker 13: know for a fact there was recently a referendum in Iceland,
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  Speaker 13: for example, whether or not they want to rejoin negotiations
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  Speaker 13: about the potential EU membership. And it went the other way.
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  Speaker 13: So they said no in this referendum. And we know
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  Speaker 13: that the no campaign... was doing very well on social media.
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  Speaker 13: It turned out over the last couple of years that
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  Speaker 13: particularly the political right is very, very good when it
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  Speaker 13: comes to social media. And now all of a sudden
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  Speaker 13: everybody wants to ban social media, at least for the
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  Speaker 13: under 16-year-olds. That strikes me as a little bit odd.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And I think you can see through their motivations
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: very clearly. And it's got nothing to do with online
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: bullying and other reasons they give. And just last week
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: that same minister was on The Guardian's podcast claiming racism
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: has become normalised in Britain and that they should be
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: proud of their migration policy. Have a listen.
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: We are a phenomenally successful country in terms of the
• 18:01
  Speaker 12: diversity and integration that we have and we should celebrate
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: that and be proud of who we are.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Ralph, she also warned that young men were being sucked
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: into violent misogyny by the cesspit of social media and
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Listening to UK Labor, it's almost identical. The talking points,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the policy positions are almost identical to Australian Labor. The
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: modern left in the West is pro-censorship, they're pro-mass migration
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: and pro-climate craziness, to name just three things.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: You know, what she says is.
• 18:35
  Speaker 13: Very interesting because if you listen precisely to the clip
• 18:38
  Speaker 13: you just played, she says we can be proud of
• 18:41
  Speaker 13: ourselves regarding to immigration, diversity and all those things. So
• 18:44
  Speaker 13: she's basically saying the people of Britain only have one
• 18:48
  Speaker 13: reason to be proud of themselves. Which is because they
• 18:51
  Speaker 13: have open borders, right? Which is because they're multicultural. But
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: it's very odd because it shows you once again, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 13: this has always been my main point of criticism towards
• 18:58
  Speaker 13: the left, the left simply does not grant the native
• 19:01
  Speaker 13: people of Europe or the Australians, you name it, pride
• 19:06
  Speaker 13: in their own country, pride in their own heritage, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 13: pride in their own civilization. It is only reserved for
• 19:11
  Speaker 13: everybody else, everybody who's non-European, non-Western, non-American, They shall be proud.
• 19:16
  Speaker 13: They must be proud of their heritage. They shall celebrate it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: This is celebrate diversity. But never dare you to wave
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: an Australian flag or a German flag or an American flag.
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: And this has always been my biggest issue with the
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: left because it's an anti-Western, it's an anti-patriotic movement. And
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: that worries me because do you really want to have
• 19:33
  Speaker 13: somebody in charge who doesn't like the country they're supposed
• 19:36
  Speaker 13: to be in charge of?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: No, no, we don't. But we do have them in
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: a number of countries, including ours. Now, I mentioned climate craziness,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and this is a good example. A winter panic has
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: been triggered among energy traders as gas stores remain at
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: their lowest level in 13 years. The EU's gas stocks
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: were 63% full in the last week of August which
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: is well below the 80% average for late August over
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: recent years. Ralph, the UK could be the most exposed
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to market volatility, being one of the biggest gas consumers
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: in Europe.
• 20:13
  Speaker 13: I mean, this is interesting from two perspectives, because it
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: once again shows the difference between rhetoric and the actual policies.
• 20:25
  Speaker 13: If you take the current situation, a significant amount of
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: gas currently comes via LNG from Russia. So this means
• 20:31
  Speaker 13: that once again, Vladimir Putin more or less has the
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: on-off switch of both heating and electricity production in continental Europe,
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: but even in the UK, never forget the very same
• 20:41
  Speaker 13: gas fields The Norwegians are exploiting, could be also exploited
• 20:45
  Speaker 13: by the British, but for the very reasons that you mentioned,
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: for climate craziness and environmental considerations, they are not doing it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 13: And then they are wondering, once again, why people are
• 20:54
  Speaker 13: shifting their political allegiance. If you believe that it is
• 20:57
  Speaker 13: more important to protect the North Sea, which is in
• 20:59
  Speaker 13: principle fine, but the North Sea, as we can see
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: in Norway, actually can deal with this kind of exploration,
• 21:04
  Speaker 13: exploitation very well, and you just do it for ideological reasons,
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: it's no wonder that the people turn their back on you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 13: And we were lucky in the past with very mild winters.
• 21:13
  Speaker 13: We are just one really cold winter away from yet
• 21:16
  Speaker 13: another very severe energy crisis, which always hits those who
• 21:20
  Speaker 13: are on the lowest rung of the socioeconomic ladder, the poor,
• 21:23
  Speaker 13: the working class, it hits them the most. This is
• 21:25
  Speaker 13: not going to be a problem for Andy Burnham, but
• 21:27
  Speaker 13: it is a problem for, you know, the family living
• 21:29
  Speaker 13: in a downstairs apartment, in London or elsewhere.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: You're right, Ralph, it is a huge problem in the UK.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: They've got something they call energy poverty, people who are
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: plunged into poverty due to their energy bills and who
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: don't use the heating in winter and don't use cooling
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: in summer because they are too afraid of their bills. Now,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Giorgia Maloney, we haven't spoken about her for a long time.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: She is poised to lead Italy's longest-lasting government since World
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: War II, overtaking the record of 1,412 consecutive days set
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: by Silvio Berlusconi back in 2005. She's planning to hold
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: a rally on Friday to celebrate the milestone. Ralph, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: remember before she was elected and shortly afterwards, the headlines
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: around the world labelling her dangerous, far right, even a fascist.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: She's proved them wrong.
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: Well, I mean, Italy had 70 governments since 1945. And
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: as you just correctly mentioned, hers is the most stable
• 22:34
  Speaker 13: their country ever had. So we have to ask the
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: very uncomfortable question. Either she was never a fascist or
• 22:40
  Speaker 13: a post-fascist or whatever they called her, as the media
• 22:42
  Speaker 13: told us, or I'm shocked to say maybe these so-called
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: post-fascists are really good at governing because having a stable
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: government in Italy is a major, major feat. And her
• 22:53
  Speaker 13: party is still doing very well in the polls. Now,
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: there is now a smaller new right-wing competition. They claim
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: it's called the National Force or Forza Nazionale because they
• 23:03
  Speaker 13: claim that they have not been governing right-wing enough. They
• 23:06
  Speaker 13: poll around 7%. But her party, the Brothers of Italy,
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: is still at 27% the strongest party. And it looks
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: like that they will also win the next election. She
• 23:16
  Speaker 13: is the very proof that the claim the right cannot
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: govern is simply wrong. As always, there are some more successful,
• 23:22
  Speaker 13: some less successful right-wing governments. But being successful as a woman,
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: by the way, in Italy, in the way that she was,
• 23:29
  Speaker 13: is quite remarkable.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: There are some issues with their policies.
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: But overall, just as another remark, All the major rating agencies,
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: Italy over the last couple of years has been graded
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: up in six cases by six of the major rating agencies.
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: So even her economic program is actually doing fairly well.
• 23:45
  Speaker 13: She is a success story, not as much as some
• 23:47
  Speaker 13: of the writers I would have hoped for, but in
• 23:49
  Speaker 13: many areas overall she is.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Ralph Schollhammer, thank you so much for your time.
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: Thank you for having me.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Still to come, lefties losing it past the latest from
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: the US, including today's shocking Times Square stabbings. Kosher Gator
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: is up next. You're watching The Rita Panahy Show and
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: it's time for Lefties Losing It. Now I've been banging
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: on for years on this program about the epidemic of
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: stupid women emoting wildly on the internet. And here is
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: another example that has gone viral in the last 24 hours.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Now don't worry, she was not hurt. This was filmed
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: last year, but it should serve as a warning to
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: attention seekers everywhere.
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Maybe one more time.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear. Now, I'm going to have some jelly roll
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: content for you later in the program, but let's have
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: a look at the other unfunny grifter ABC had filling
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: in for Jimmy Kimmel. That would be Rosie O'Donnell, who
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: claims there are concentration camps in America and in these
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: concentration camps, children are getting raped and they're all getting pregnant.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: Why did the German people allow that?
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Why did they?
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Nobody thought it was that bad and they started making
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: gas chambers. We're making concentration camps. We're rounding up people
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: without a warrant. We're raping children in detention, in ICE detention,
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: that they're all getting pregnant and they're separated, males and females.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Who has access to those girls? What happens to their babies?
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: What do they do with them?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: There are big questions.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Yep, ABC saw that and said, yep, that's a fantastic
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: fill-in option for Jimmy Kimmel. Now to Democrat Socialist Abdul
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed's train wreck media event. Watch as this endorsement goes
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: oh so wrong. Endorsement? This looks like a hostage video.
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: Mike Rogers has a history of voting for deals that
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: protect corporations and harm workers. Whereas Abdul El-Sayed is running
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: to be our next Michigan State Senator.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, bless. The poor lady looks terrified. And it's been
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: a bad 24 hours for Abdul with the vice president
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: taking aim at the Democrat socialist.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: J.D.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Vance is sick of this communist weird fixation with his wife, Usha.
• 27:07
  Speaker 15: Abdul El-Sayed, every time they put a microphone in front
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: of his face, he wants to talk about my wife
• 27:11
  Speaker 15: or my grandfather. But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul,
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth
• 27:17
  Speaker 15: because she's way out.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Of your league.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Joining me now is News 24 contributor Kosha Gaider. Kosha,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed might want to reconsider uttering Usha's name ever again.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think the Vice President is playing there.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: No, he's not.
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: And I think as the race progresses and El-Sayed makes
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: it more onto the national stage and Things get dirtier.
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: The electorate that you're speaking to gets broader. He will
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: modulate because he's not an idiot. He knows what he's
• 27:48
  Speaker 11: doing and he will definitely modulate if he finds out
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: that this is not playing well because she is quite
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: popular and going after her probably isn't a good idea.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: He does it because he tries to use that as
• 27:57
  Speaker 11: a wedge about J.D. Vance's immigration policy, given that Usha
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: is a second generation daughter of immigrants.
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: But I don't think that's going to really travel.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know why Democrats think that's some sort of
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: a gotcha. Usha's parents came to America legally. She is
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: American born. Just because you've got brown skin doesn't mean
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you're in favour of illegal immigration. It's just such a bizarre, simplistic,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: backward notion. And really not differentiating between illegal immigrants and
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: legal migrants is pretty insulting to those legal migrants.
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: It is, and it's not a gotcha, but they do
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: seem to think that it is because we live in
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: this world of little soundbites, so they'll probably splice and
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: dice what he has said and do that. Even if
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: you want to take aim at legal migration, which is
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: a growing topic, it's still very hard to wrap her
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: into that. She was born here 40 years ago and
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: it's a different story. But so I think he's going
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: to learn from this because J.D. Vance obviously is not
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: taking to that very well.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I would have thought rather than being a gotcha, J.D.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Vance's family life is a massive plus for Republicans because
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: it just shows this entire notion that they're white supremacist
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: is just so bogus. I mean, this is the man
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: most likely to be the next presidential candidate. Now, this
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: is interesting. CBS is facing a backlash from its leftist
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: audience for a report on Abdul Sayyed's past references to
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the 9-11 terror attacks. These past deleted social media posts,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: which CBS has verified... show that he called for the
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: death toll that they displayed. after 9-11. Kosha, that's on
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: brand for social democrats. I don't know why the lefties
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: are so upset that CBS is reporting that. This is
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: the sort of rhetoric we've heard from them.
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: Yes, and 9-11 sort of has become this symbol for them.
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: We've talked about this before, you know, liken COVID to it,
• 29:56
  Speaker 11: liken the J6 protests to it, and other things to it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: So they just use that as a sort of a
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: symbol or an emblem that they can ascribe to whatever
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: their issue is. The other thread in this is CBS
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: taken over by the Ellisons, Barry Weiss in there as
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: a CEO who has her work cut out for her,
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: and there are criticisms that can be levied against Barry. However,
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: that is another thing that the left is quite angry
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: about because they see even a little tiny baby toe-step
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: in the direction of the center, which she's not exactly
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: even a centrist. She's quite left-wing, actually, other than on
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: a few issues. But even that is too much for them.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: And so this is sort of your Frankenstein monster coming
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: back to haunt you. They've nurtured that audience. They've fomented
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: and loved for their audience to go more and more
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: to the left. And then anytime they want to do
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: something like even air deleted tweets of about 9-11, which
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: is a very unifying issue to criticize him on that,
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: that slice of their audiences can't take it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: They can't take it. And, of course, it's very topical
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: because we're coming up to the 25-year anniversary and some
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: of these social democrats, their positions on 9-11, even recent
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: positions stated a few years ago, are just shocking. And
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed has also had to distance himself from Hassan Paika, who,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: of course, said America deserved 9-11. Now to New York, Ray.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Knife-wielding woman was shot dead by NYPD officers in the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: heart of Times Square earlier today. A warning, the following
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: vision is distressing. Now this woman stabbed two people and
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: confronted cops while waving two knives and threatening to kill them.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Mayor Zoran Mamdani had this update.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: NYPD officers in the area responded immediately, deploying a taser
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: and discharging their firearms. Both of the victims, as well
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: as the alleged perpetrator, were taken to Bellevue Hospital. I'm
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: deeply saddened to report that one of the victims has
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: passed away, as has the alleged perpetrator. The second victim
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: is currently in the hospital in stable condition. I asked
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: New Yorkers to join me in holding the victim in
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: our thoughts and wishing them a full recovery. I want
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: to thank the NYPD officers who stepped in and prevented
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: a horrific attack from becoming even worse. This is what
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: the men and women of this department do every single
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: day to keep our city safe.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Kosha, I've got to say, I can't fault Mamdani there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: That is a long way from his defund the police
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: position that we were hearing not too long ago. I mean,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: he was saying that not long before he ran for
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: mayor and that... was the sort of response you expect
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: to see from a normal leader.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 32:39
  Speaker 11: He was saying that we need more social workers, not
• 32:41
  Speaker 11: the police.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: And what would a social worker have done in this scenario?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, hug someone waving two knives who has
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: just already killed somebody else.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: So it was always absurd.
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: But he understands the difference between campaigning and governing. And
• 32:54
  Speaker 11: on a day like this, a Perfect statement was written
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: for him.
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: He read it out the.
• 32:59
  Speaker 11: Way dutifully a mayor who's in an executive role now
• 33:02
  Speaker 11: should versus campaign Mamdani knew exactly what to say to
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: gin up support from the swath of the electorate that
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: he was appealing to in New York City. And he
• 33:11
  Speaker 11: handily defeated other people, even more moderate voters. leftists from
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: his party. And then once you win that, of course,
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: in New York City, you win the general always if
• 33:20
  Speaker 11: you're a Democrat. So he understands saying what you need
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: to say when you're campaigning versus governing. I think we'll
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: see the same from Al-Said and all sorts of other people.
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: They always do that.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Now, the former husband of child killer Lindsay Clancy has
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: been defamed as a killer himself by a plethora of
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: online types. Well, Patrick Clancy's attorney, Howard Cooper, has released
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: a statement to CNN putting social media users on notice.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: A lot of these people think free speech and defamation
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: are the same thing. They are not. You cannot defame someone.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: You cannot slander someone by calling them a murderer. And, Kosha,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: we're talking about some high-profile individuals who have done this,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: including actress Lisa Rinna.
• 34:06
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: He did it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: Patrick did it. Patrick's the one who did it.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Not Lindsay.
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: Patrick did it, but that isn't what a woman would do.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: They don't strangle.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: I was actually in therapy today and my therapist and
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: I were talking about it. And she said, I said, well,
• 34:24
  Speaker 10: what do they do? She said, well, they poison or
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: I said, Oh, or drown them. Like we literally had
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: that conversation today. Um, And she looks at me and
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: she goes, he did it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: It just seems incredible to me. I mean, you could
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: think of that, but that you would post it online
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: for the world to see. And someone who's got incredible
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: reach has got a massive following online. Um, and really
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: what's happened to this poor man is pretty evil in itself. Um,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: he's had his three children murdered. He's had, he found them.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: He's the one who, who found them. And I, And
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: everyone's micro-analysing every reaction he had on the stand and
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: whether he seemed too calm, whether he didn't cry enough.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: It is just so cruel above all else.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: It really is.
• 35:19
  Speaker 11: He is, I mean, the biggest victim, of course, are
• 35:22
  Speaker 11: the three kids. And then after that is him.
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: He found them. He didn't know what was going on.
• 35:27
  Speaker 11: First, he thought his, at the time, wife died. tried
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: to kill herself, which he did, and then was paraplegic,
• 35:32
  Speaker 11: then he's running into the basement. That 911 call was
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: so harrowing that they didn't even release it to the public,
• 35:36
  Speaker 11: but it was heard in the courtroom.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: This is what people don't understand. What people have heard
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: is when he found his wife injured and called 911,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and that's what they've listened to.
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: But then he went inside to check on the kids,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and the audio of that is said to be so disturbing,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: his screams, when he found his three children injured. that
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: it wasn't played publicly. People in court heard it and
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: they said it was, one of the reporters said it
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: was the most shocking thing she's ever heard. And yet
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: people are painting him as this cold calculating. He pushed
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: her to do it. He put the idea in her head.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: It is, again, just so cruel.
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: And we have come, this is sort of a symptom
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: of society where we've come to that you've got a
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: bunch of narcissists, really, that maybe always existed in humankind
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: and just social media and everyone has a camera in
• 36:30
  Speaker 11: their pocket and you can immediately broadcast your every thought
• 36:33
  Speaker 11: on every topic to the world. Then you add to
• 36:35
  Speaker 11: that she comes from reality TV, you know, She was in,
• 36:38
  Speaker 11: of course, Melrose Place and other things, but she's been
• 36:40
  Speaker 11: on Real Housewives. So they're used to just broadcasting every
• 36:44
  Speaker 11: thought that pops.
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: In their head. There was so much in there.
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: And then she's referring to how she was with the therapist.
• 36:48
  Speaker 11: So she and the therapist were like, oh, he did it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 11: So what does that tell you about the therapy profession
• 36:53
  Speaker 11: as well, which is another actor in this whole story, right?
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: The way the medical professions roll in this. And that's
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: just what we are now, where as a society you
• 37:02
  Speaker 11: put stuff out there and there is reach and there
• 37:04
  Speaker 11: is following. There's those people in pink shirts showing up who,
• 37:07
  Speaker 11: even if they're not saying Patrick is guilty, they're saying
• 37:09
  Speaker 11: she's innocent because it's the fault of the medical establishment
• 37:12
  Speaker 11: and people are just always signalling and virtue signalling and
• 37:16
  Speaker 11: legal opinion signalling every step of the way.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: Well, we've seen reporters do crosses from the courtroom wearing pink.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Her supporters wear pink. And it's been reported that a
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: couple of the jury showed up to deliberations because they've
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: been allowed to go home.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: They weren't sequestered.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: And they turned up wearing pink. And you only need
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: one lunatic activist to get on a jury and it
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: undermines the entire process.
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: The whole process.
• 37:47
  Speaker 11: So now there's discussion because they're on day three, still deliberating.
• 37:50
  Speaker 11: It's so far a hung jury.
• 37:52
  Speaker 8: Whether those.
• 37:53
  Speaker 11: three who wore pink should be removed off the jury
• 37:55
  Speaker 11: because there are backup jurors who have to listen to
• 37:57
  Speaker 11: the whole case. I think that news is still forthcoming because, again,
• 38:01
  Speaker 11: why would you do that as a juror?
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: Signal that. And they did it on purpose is what
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: people are.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Going to think.
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: Of course.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: There is no confusion there, please. Now, this is huge.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Before you go, we've got to talk about this. President
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has brokered a new oil agreement with Venezuela
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: that will give the US a stake in 17 oil
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: fields worldwide. holding an estimated 65 billion barrels of crude oil.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: This is according to the Venezuelan government. This is a
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: massive win for the US. It's a medium long-term win.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be immediate results naturally. But this is, again,
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: a success that probably isn't going to get an enormous
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: amount of coverage.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: No.
• 38:47
  Speaker 11: And because people don't want to give him a win,
• 38:49
  Speaker 11: it sort of points to President Trump's ethos as a dealmaker,
• 38:52
  Speaker 11: the businessman, when he went into that operation, which was spectacular,
• 38:57
  Speaker 11: of course, not a single casualty, and extracted Maduro in
• 38:59
  Speaker 11: the dark of night alive. And then his second-in-command, Delce Rodriguez,
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: seems to be willing to play ball and sort of
• 39:06
  Speaker 11: rationally do business. So that cost of that operation, given
• 39:10
  Speaker 11: that there were no casualties, and then on the back
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: of it, The fact that he can deal with Venezuela,
• 39:14
  Speaker 11: that's the largest stockpile holder of oil reserves in the world,
• 39:18
  Speaker 11: is good. As you say, the benefits will be long term.
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: They can't be undone by a future administration on either side.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: It's a paper deal.
• 39:27
  Speaker 11: There's a lot more to work through not to pour
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: cold water on it. But it does sort of show
• 39:31
  Speaker 11: how Trump thinks. And he's looking at the big picture.
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: Here's Venezuela. They have 20 percent of oil reserves. I
• 39:36
  Speaker 11: have a way to go in there and get a U.S.
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: Stake in place. And that's what he's doing.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Koshia Gaida, thank you so much for your time. Still
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: to come, country singer Jelly Roll in damage control after
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: alienating most of his fan base. Michael Loftus has all
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: the entertainment news. Welcome back. Now country singer Jelly Roll
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: is in damage control after a backlash to his unfunny
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: and painfully woke monologues while filling in for Jimmy Kimmel.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: And of course, like a good lefty, he's now crying
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: the victim and just crying. Remember when these late night
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: shows were actually fun? They were funny. They were entertaining.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Now they are like a sad little group therapy session.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: It is never too late to do the right thing.
• 40:48
  Speaker 14: Hurting hearts are more important than poll numbers and there
• 40:51
  Speaker 14: are no boundaries or borders for broken families.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: So he's now for open borders or does he just
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: read out whatever trash the Kimmel writers put in front
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: of him?
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Tom, a convicted felon who was given the opportunity to
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: change his life. And the fact is that wasn't a joke, y'all.
• 41:10
  Speaker 15: This country gave me room and a chance to become
• 41:13
  Speaker 15: something more than the biggest and worst mistake I ever made.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I got to build a life. I got to make music.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: I got to take care of my family. I got
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: to stand on that stage that night and win a Grammy.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. What happened to giving all
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: credit to Jesus? I remember when Jelly Roll used to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: mention God and Jesus in just about every line. But
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: now it's almost like... He's just a self-obsessed, disingenuous grifter.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Joining me now is comedian and host of the Loftus
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Party podcast, Michael Loftus. Michael, has Jelly Roll Bud Lighted himself?
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I think he has.
• 41:51
  Speaker 16: He's really taken it a step too far. This guy
• 41:55
  Speaker 16: is like a chameleon. He'll just say whatever he needs
• 41:58
  Speaker 16: to say to fit in whatever.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: He's like the Swiss army knife of liars. It's uncomfortable
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: to watch. First, he takes a shot at Trump for
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: no reason.
• 42:09
  Speaker 16: Then he tells people, hey, if you don't like my music,
• 42:12
  Speaker 16: don't listen to it.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: And then he's crying like he hasn't done this all
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: to himself.
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: It's like, dude, look in the mirror. Look at your face.
• 42:20
  Speaker 16: You've done it all to yourself. And at one point
• 42:25
  Speaker 16: in his.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Monologue, he was bragging. He's like, I lost 300 pounds.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: You took a pill. It's not like he worked out.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I can't break. I can't show up tomorrow and go, hey,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I just did a marathon. Really? Did you run? No,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I drove in my car. But still, it was 26 miles.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I cleaned my house. I hired a maid. I didn't
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: really do anything myself.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: He even bragged about everything he did for his family.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: And I was like, well, it's a little bit sensitive,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: that topic too, because didn't he do the wrong thing
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: by his wife who stood by him throughout some of
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: those trials and tribulations? But the less said about that,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: the better. Let's talk about North West. She's only 13
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: years old, last time I checked. She recently sat down
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: for an interview with Dazed and this was the cover shot.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: She told the magazine she wanted to pursue music as
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: her career. She made her first solo music festival performance
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: back in June. Michael, this cover and the images have
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: been shared by her mum, Kim Kardashian. Do we know
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: what her father, Kanye West, thinks about this entire media campaign? Yeah.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Kanye's none too pleased.
• 43:44
  Speaker 16: He's going public with saying like, I don't approve of this.
• 43:50
  Speaker 16: I don't have any parental rights. Like the girl is 13.
• 43:54
  Speaker 16: She's 13 years old. She's doing a photo shoot. It's like,
• 43:58
  Speaker 16: is it a tribute to Hunger Gang villains? It just-
• 44:03
  Speaker 16: Once you have the blacked out teeth and the metal
• 44:07
  Speaker 16: around your neck, I'm out. Who does that who's like, oh,
• 44:11
  Speaker 16: I've got a fashion shoot, but I want to make
• 44:13
  Speaker 16: sure I got my four piercings in here. I need
• 44:16
  Speaker 16: my four there, the blacked out teeth, and then put
• 44:19
  Speaker 16: junk all around. It's crazy, man. That poor girl and
• 44:23
  Speaker 16: poor Kanye. He doesn't want her to be doing this.
• 44:26
  Speaker 16: And yeah, everybody's a victim except for Kim.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I've got to say, I thought better of Kim. I
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: didn't think she would do this with the children. I mean,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: everything you've just mentioned, you didn't even mention the blue hair.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, things are so crazy that the blue hair
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: just escapes your attention because the kid has about 1,600
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: piercings in her face. She's 13 years old. Yes. What
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: do you think Kim Kardashian is thinking? I mean, her
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: own mother has copped A lot of criticism for pimping
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: out her daughters. Others have recused her of that. They
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: could argue, well, none of us have any discernible talent,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: but a few of us are already billionaires, so perhaps
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: this strategy works.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I guess so.
• 45:17
  Speaker 16: And so someone needs to step up and teach Kim
• 45:19
  Speaker 16: Kardashian the power of no. Like when your 13 year
• 45:24
  Speaker 16: old daughter says, I want to drill holes in my
• 45:28
  Speaker 16: eyebrows and in my cheeks. And then you're allowed to say, no,
• 45:31
  Speaker 16: you can tell you you're allowed to tell your 13
• 45:34
  Speaker 16: year old daughter.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: No, you're not allowed to do that. And that is true.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: But like, it's so whacked out the blue hair. I
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: didn't even real. I didn't even see the blue hair
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: till now.
• 45:44
  Speaker 16: I was, I was focused on the, The black teeth,
• 45:48
  Speaker 16: that's from like Dante's Inferno.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: It is, yeah. Not the sort of image you want
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: of a 13-year-old. What are they thinking? Now, the Met
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Gala exhibition honouring John Galliano has been cancelled. It follows
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: backlash over the designer's anti-Semitic and racist remarks. In a
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: statement he said, I remain fully accountable for the pain
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: caused by my words in the past, particularly the hurt
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: I caused myself to the Jewish and Asian communities, and
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: I remain deeply sorry, Michael. Anna Wintour, the famous rogue editor,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: has called his decision very courageous and offered him her
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: full support. What do you make of this saga?
• 46:32
  Speaker 16: It's just way too soon, Guy.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: That was some really horrible things that he said.
• 46:39
  Speaker 16: And he's blaming it on booze and addiction.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: That's great.
• 46:43
  Speaker 16: But is there going to be a wine bar at
• 46:44
  Speaker 16: the Met Gala? That's just like Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Hyde.
• 46:49
  Speaker 16: It's like, keep them away from the booze. It's too soon.
• 46:54
  Speaker 16: Take your time. If you're really sincere about it, you'll
• 46:57
  Speaker 16: still be around. And again, the look, the pencil-thin mustache,
• 47:01
  Speaker 16: it's like, We're watching the Hunger Game villain show. Is
• 47:06
  Speaker 16: anybody normal anymore? What is going on there?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this is the freaky elite, isn't it? And
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: they all stick together. He's not going to lose any
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: of his famous friends. And don't worry, he's not cancelled.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: He'll be back because, yeah, this lot don't cancel each other.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: They cancel everybody else but not each other. Now, former
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Hollywood star Donna Mills claims she's earning six figures since
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: joining OnlyFans last month. I think this is six figures
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: a month. The 85-year-old doesn't post any nude content but
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: does post herself in seductive outfits. Michael, 85 years old
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: and out earning most other OnlyFans gals, I've got to
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: say I'm quietly impressed.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: It's got to drive financial planners crazy.
• 48:03
  Speaker 16: Because right now they're telling everybody, be responsible, save. You're
• 48:07
  Speaker 16: going to need money to get you through. But evidently,
• 48:09
  Speaker 16: if you're Donna Mills, all you have to do is
• 48:11
  Speaker 16: whip off your socks and take some pictures and you're set.
• 48:15
  Speaker 16: Who knew there was such a market for old lady toes?
• 48:19
  Speaker 16: I didn't see that coming.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: It's like I didn't know about Bitcoin. I didn't know
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: about old lady feet.
• 48:25
  Speaker 16: If you like that, can't you just go to the YMCA?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Like why are you going online and buying a subscription?
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Just go to the local pool.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Do not give these people any hints. Are we saying
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: these are feet? Shots, feet content, or is that just
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: you taking some, you just imagining what's on that side?
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Because I don't want to look.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I read the article.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I don't want to look.
• 48:52
  Speaker 16: I read the article, and she's talking about she's going
• 48:55
  Speaker 16: to do specialty videos where she's stomping grapes. She tried
• 48:59
  Speaker 16: to take the video, but she couldn't hold the phone
• 49:02
  Speaker 16: and the walker at the same time.
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: No.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: God bless.
• 49:07
  Speaker 14: Her.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: God bless her. I don't want to see feet from
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: any aged content creator. I really don't. I mean, not
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: that I'm on OnlyFans. I will never understand the mentality.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: behind that, not behind the creators because they're in it
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: for the money. That's easy to understand. But the people subscribing,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: my gosh, that is something that took me by surprise
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: because there's unlimited free porn on the internet and yet
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: these people pay a monthly, weekly subscription fee for this
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: sort of content.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Weird.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I've never looked.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I want to believe you, Michael, and I think I do.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: Victoria Beckham's fashion and beauty businesses are making an operating profit.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: For the first time since they were created back in 2008,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: the company made an operating profit of £ 7. 3 million today.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: in 2025 after years of losses. Michael, I'm surprised by this.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I thought her brands were wildly successful, but apparently not.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Apparently they've been propped up by that Beckham money.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: David Beckham.
• 50:23
  Speaker 16: How bummed out is David Beckham tonight? He's got to
• 50:27
  Speaker 16: deal with his wife. Like, seriously, you got to start
• 50:29
  Speaker 16: making money at this thing. It's just been a it's
• 50:32
  Speaker 16: been a financial nightmare for me. And she's like, OK,
• 50:35
  Speaker 16: if I haven't made money in 18 years, I'll stop.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: And now she finally lucks into some money.
• 50:42
  Speaker 16: And now he's got to do another 18 years of
• 50:45
  Speaker 16: just her operating at a loss and pretending like she's not.
• 50:49
  Speaker 16: Let's keep our thoughts and prayers with David Beckham tonight
• 50:52
  Speaker 16: in his wallet.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Now I can kind of understand why she's stuck by
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: him after all those cheating scandals. She had her own plans.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Michael Loftus, always a pleasure. Thank you so much for
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: your time. And that's it from me. Up next, it's
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Late Edition. Late Edition.