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The Rita Panahi Show | 26 March · The Rita Panahi Show

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Speaker 1: On scor MS Australia.
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Speaker 2: This is the Winner Panalty Show.
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Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to the readA Panney Show coming
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Speaker 3: up tonight. ABC employees have taken to the streets to
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Speaker 3: protest unfair work conditions, but should they be defunded instead?
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Speaker 3: My panel will join me to cover the day's top headlines.
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Speaker 3: The popularity of One Nation continues to surge, with a
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Speaker 3: party becoming the most popular among millennials. New One Nation's
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Speaker 3: MP Carlos kwa Rember joins me shortly. John Heinderreker will
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Speaker 3: have the latest from the US, including an important courtroom
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Speaker 3: win for the Trump administration, and later in the hour
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Speaker 3: with Cross Tokins's Schofield for the latest in royal and
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Speaker 3: entertainment news, including Stephen Colbert's next big move and a
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Speaker 3: bumper edition of Lefties Losing It Tonight, headed by Bruce Springsteen.
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Speaker 4: Democracy overthorit, Carrianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics
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Speaker 4: over unbridled corruption, Unity over division and peace over.
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Speaker 3: But let's start with new polling from Yugov that it
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Speaker 3: spells trouble for the Coalition and Labor. The data from
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Speaker 3: the latest Sky News Pulse poll shows the wide appeal
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Speaker 3: of Pauline Hanson's party Among both gen X and millennial voters,
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Speaker 3: One Nation are now the leading party. For millennials, One
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Speaker 3: Nation leads on thirty percent, ahead of Labor on twenty
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Speaker 3: eight and the Coalition trailing far behind there on fourteen percent.
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Speaker 3: Similar results for Generation X, One Nation is again leading
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Speaker 3: thirty two percent, ahead of Labor on twenty seven and
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Speaker 3: the Coalition on twenty. Overall, One Nation is now sitting
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Speaker 3: on twenty seven percent, only two points behind Labor, while
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Speaker 3: the Coalition is on nineteen. Joining me now is former
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Speaker 3: Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger and Sky News contributor
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Speaker 3: pro McSween. Michael, I'll start with you. The orange wave
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Speaker 3: of One Nation continues to roll along. What do you
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Speaker 3: make of those numbers?
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Speaker 5: Well, Rita, if you're a long time rural party member
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Speaker 5: and supporter, as I am, they're extremely worrying and if
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Speaker 5: you ignore them, you ignore them out of profound ignorance.
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Speaker 5: They can't be denied. Basically, in this country people have
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Speaker 5: lost trust in institutions, They've lost trust in big government,
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Speaker 5: big unions, big business. They see all the problems in
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Speaker 5: this country of crime, cost of living, crisis, et cetera,
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Speaker 5: et cetera, decline in social solidarity in this in this country,
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Speaker 5: they send the rise of the anti Semitism, we have
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Speaker 5: no proper defenses, et cetera, et cetera, And people basically
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Speaker 5: say we've had enough of this, and they've had enough
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Speaker 5: of us unfortunately, and of Labor. And you know, Hanson
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Speaker 5: is the Grievance Party. She is collecting all of those votes.
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Speaker 5: The challenge for her, of course, is to have an
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Speaker 5: economic spokes and economic policy and that's.
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Speaker 3: Cory Bernardi now, and he very good at articulating one
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Speaker 3: nation positions. Do you think that's accurate? The one nation
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Speaker 3: are the Grievance Party And if so, what can the
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Speaker 3: Coalition and Labor do to win back voters.
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Speaker 6: Well, people are really resorting to one nation because they've
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Speaker 6: looked at this bleak future, this current situation that we're in.
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Speaker 3: Where life is hard.
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Speaker 6: We don't recognize the Australia now that we're living in
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Speaker 6: doesn't seem to be any reward for hard work anymore.
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Speaker 6: You're penalized your tax more, you have ir rules that
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Speaker 6: just make it impossible to run a business. So who
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Speaker 6: do you look around and blame? You blame the parties
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Speaker 6: that are Labor and the Coalition, because this is where
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Speaker 6: we're at, so you could call it a grievance vote,
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Speaker 6: and yeah, we're aggrieved, but we're also bloody annoyed that
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Speaker 6: these two parties are just deciding that they're going to
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Speaker 6: dismiss One Nation as a grievance party for people who
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Speaker 6: just have had enough, when really what we're looking for
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Speaker 6: is people, you know, some leadership, some true policies that
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Speaker 6: are going to return this country to people who are
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Speaker 6: rewarded feeling that they're going to get a future where
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Speaker 6: they can buy a house when they're not competing you know,
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Speaker 6: for a hospital bed or on the road.
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Speaker 3: So you know, they.
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Speaker 6: Deserve to be in this position, these two major parties,
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Speaker 6: and you know, good on One Nation fulfilling that hole.
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Speaker 3: Now, this latest polling shows One Nation is the most
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Speaker 3: popular party in the country for males, for those in
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Speaker 3: regional areas, and for working class voters. And Michael, very
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Speaker 3: interestingly I mentioned it off the top there the leading
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Speaker 3: party for gen X and millennials. Now that shocked me.
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Speaker 3: You would have thought millennials would be leaning Green or
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Speaker 3: at least Labor, But right now One Nation is the
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Speaker 3: most popular popular party amongst that core.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, the Greens have characterized themselves in the last
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Speaker 5: couple of years as being an anti Semitic extremist party
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Speaker 5: that people even gene x On miennials don't want to
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Speaker 5: associate with. They they're stuck on twelve percent. But when
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Speaker 5: you get to gene x when millennials, the thirty to
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Speaker 5: sixty year olds, what do they want? They want properly,
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Speaker 5: they want a house, They want safety, security, they want
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Speaker 5: an orderly society. They don't want hateful demonstrations. They don't
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Speaker 5: want massacres. They want a proper fuel supply, they want
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Speaker 5: proper defense. They just want a reasonable standard of living
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Speaker 5: and a good education and health systems. And what they
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Speaker 5: see is this is not being delivered, particularly by the
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Speaker 5: Labor government. Federally, they're achieving none of those things. So
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Speaker 5: these people have had enough. Unfortunately, we're in government for
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Speaker 5: nine years and didn't convince enough people that we were
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Speaker 5: doing well enough to keep winning their votes, and hence
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Speaker 5: we're in this terrible position today where our primary vote
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Speaker 5: is sub twenty percent.
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Speaker 3: It's going to be very interesting what happens in the
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Speaker 3: Victorian state election that's coming up later in the year,
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Speaker 3: but let's talk about the fuel crisis, and major business
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Speaker 3: leaders have called on the Labor government to take control
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Speaker 3: of the issue or else we will see a repeat
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Speaker 3: of the COVID style restrictions we had just a few
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Speaker 3: years ago. Business Council of Australia CEO Brand Black has
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Speaker 3: called for a national response, despite the Prime Minister suggesting
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Speaker 3: each state should manage its own response. Brad Black told
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Speaker 3: the Australian Financial Review a key lesson from COVID is
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Speaker 3: the need for a coordinated national approach. While this isn't
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Speaker 3: a pandemic, it will have real economic impacts and we
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Speaker 3: need to work together on practical solutions that support supply
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Speaker 3: and minimize disruption. Prove that seems to make sense. Seems
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Speaker 3: like we really do need a national response here. Why
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Speaker 3: is Albin easy? And also Chris Bowen sort of happy
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Speaker 3: to lead this to the States.
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Speaker 6: Because they've run out of answers. You know, they're in denial.
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Speaker 6: Bozo Bowen can't even accept or admit that there is
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Speaker 6: a fuel crisis.
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Speaker 3: And you know, while they're in denial, and while they're.
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Speaker 6: Embracing net zero and this ridiculous situation where we cannot
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Speaker 6: even talk about nuclear We cannot drill anymore. You know
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Speaker 6: you're not How could you even trust that we could
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Speaker 6: get a national solution. I understand why people are saying this,
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Speaker 6: because it would be much better if we could have
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Speaker 6: a coordinated approach. But when you don't trust the people
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Speaker 6: in charge nationally, you have to well look at Chris Mins.
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Speaker 6: They're actually now invoking an emergency situation because he clearly
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Speaker 6: doesn't trust this government, the FEDS.
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Speaker 3: So I don't trust them either.
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Speaker 6: They have no idea and if they're not going to
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Speaker 6: acknowledge that there's a problem and keep lying to us
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Speaker 6: when we can go to those petrol stations and see
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Speaker 6: there is no diesel, that they're running out of the
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Speaker 6: other fuel and meanwhile nothing to see. They trotted out
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Speaker 6: all these medicines this morning to say there's plenty of fuel.
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Speaker 6: They lie to us, and we're onto them.
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Speaker 3: Well, Michael needs seem to be a very delayed response.
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Speaker 3: We had the Prime Minister for days claiming every ship
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Speaker 3: that was supposed to arrive has arrived. There is no shortage.
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Speaker 3: Any sort of issues we're seeing is because there's been
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Speaker 3: a massive surge in demand that's causing issues, and I
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Speaker 3: think it's theah. Finally they're acknowledging. No, this is actually
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Speaker 3: a crisis. We've got petrol stations in this country, some
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Speaker 3: petrol stations with no fuel.
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Speaker 7: It is a.
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Speaker 5: Crisis when our farmers are very worried about having enough
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Speaker 5: diesel for their crops. I mean that if you don't
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Speaker 5: have food supply in this country, everyone knows what happens. Look,
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Speaker 5: the truth is we were completely unprepared for this despite
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Speaker 5: for fact, there were months of warnings that America was
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Speaker 5: going to invade and attack Iran. But Australia's been a
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Speaker 5: lazy nation in this regard. We were completely unprepared for
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Speaker 5: the pandemic, true five years ago. Thank goodness, we're well
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Speaker 5: prepared in case there's a war. I mean, if someone
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Speaker 5: to Textaustralia, we're incredibly well defended. No one will be saying,
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Speaker 5: my goodness. You know, we're very well prepared for attack
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Speaker 5: by a foreign adversary. We've got one ship that can
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Speaker 5: can be put to sea. We've got a few soldiers
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Speaker 5: and a couple of planes.
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Speaker 3: So we have a phone and it will be a
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Speaker 3: phone call to the.
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Speaker 5: White the White House, please get to help us, your help. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: and you know what they're going to say. You know
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Speaker 5: what they're going to say. They're going to say, hmmm,
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Speaker 5: remember the most recent war.
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Speaker 3: Where were you guys, Yeah, I remember when we asked
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Speaker 3: you to increase your defense spending. You treated us like
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Speaker 3: we're a nuisance. Yeah, that might remind us of that. True.
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Speaker 3: I am pretty shocked, as Michael said, about just the
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Speaker 3: lack of preparedness here. How can we have so few ideas?
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Speaker 3: There's now talk of proposals being put forward about rationing
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Speaker 3: fuel forty dollars limits and per day. Surely an advanced
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Speaker 3: nation would have better plans in place for such a crisis,
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Speaker 3: and this crisis is fairly minor in the scheme of things.
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Speaker 3: Things could get a lot worse.
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Speaker 6: Well, we are supposedly an advanced nation, but we're run
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Speaker 6: by idiots, you know, clearly inept people who haven't got
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Speaker 6: a clue. When is the last time we've actually had
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Speaker 6: a prime minister, a government with vision who can actually say,
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Speaker 6: this is what this country needs to do. We need
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Speaker 6: to step in and start manufacturing again, making things. We
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Speaker 6: saw it with COVID, how we're lost at sea. We
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Speaker 6: were reliant on everybody else to help us. COVID was
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Speaker 6: the example, and yet here we are, we're not even
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Speaker 6: having the ninety days of fuels, that fuel we're supposed.
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Speaker 3: To have stored here.
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Speaker 6: We are just mindless fools who think she'll be right, mate,
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Speaker 6: someone will bail us out. This country is headed for
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Speaker 6: a cliff, sadly because we've had shocking leadership from all
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Speaker 6: parties up till now, no visionaries, and sadly this is now.
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Speaker 6: You know the chickens are coming home to roost.
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Speaker 3: Sadly. Absolutely, you can point the finger at the Albanesi government,
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Speaker 3: and of course they're chiefly to blame, but this is
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Speaker 3: successive governments. This is coalition governments that closed down refineries,
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Speaker 3: made it impossible for fossil fuel companies to invest further
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Speaker 3: into this country, and made us reliant on foreign sources.
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Speaker 3: And when you're reliant on foreign countries, this sort of
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Speaker 3: thing can happen.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 3: In case you missed it, thousands of ABC staff went
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Speaker 3: on strike yesterday to demand more pay. This is a
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Speaker 3: music Have a look at this ABC presenter who hijacked
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Speaker 3: his own news bulletin for this.
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Speaker 8: Your World for tonight. But the show will look a
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Speaker 8: bit different tomorrow. In fact, we'll be off air because
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Speaker 8: my colleagues and I will be on strike. We're asking
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Speaker 8: ABC management to deliver secure, safe and sustainable jobs so
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Speaker 8: we can deliver the news and content you deserve. But
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Speaker 8: their fallen shot of offering fair pay and.
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Speaker 3: Conditions, Oh my goodness, that's quite a lengthy little What
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Speaker 3: do you make of this, Mike L Do ABC staff
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Speaker 3: deserve more paid?
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 5: First of all, I agree with Sarah Henderson, it's absolutely
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Speaker 5: outrageous for the ABC staff to use the ABC airwaves
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Speaker 5: to prosecute their case. I mean, in no other organization
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Speaker 5: would that be permitted. But I agree this way, do
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Speaker 5: deserve more? But what statistics will we got? What are
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Speaker 5: they currently being paid? What we know is by looking
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Speaker 5: at the ABC and your report, the ABC wages bill
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Speaker 5: is six hundred and nineteen million dollars a year. That's
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Speaker 5: what they spend on what salaries. And if you divide
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Speaker 5: that by the number of ABC staff members, which is
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Speaker 5: four thy six hundred and twenty four, you get an
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Speaker 5: average ABS salary of one hundred and thirty three thousand dollars.
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Speaker 5: Is that too much? Well? Average weekly earnings in Australia
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Speaker 5: full time about ninety thousand, So the ABC staff on
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Speaker 5: average or one hundred and thirty three thousand, and some
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Speaker 5: of those jobs are very skewlled I acknowledge that, but boy,
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Speaker 5: when you look at those ball statistics, they're paid forty
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Speaker 5: percent more than average Australian. So they're all the statistics
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Speaker 5: we've got. Are they worth forty percent more than everage Australian?
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Speaker 5: I doubt that prove.
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Speaker 3: Apparently a ten percent increase over three years past an
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Speaker 3: extra one thousand dollars isn't enough for the ABC. Anyone
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Speaker 3: who works in the media is fairly aware that the
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Speaker 3: ABC are pretty fat compared to commercial operations. How do
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Speaker 3: you see this dispute resolving? Are the staff going to
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Speaker 3: give in because they're going to look elsewhere and see,
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Speaker 3: well it's a lot tougher in the private sector.
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Speaker 6: Well, I reckon they should all be sacked. Currently, fewers
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Speaker 6: went to spars and did best. Spiers did very well
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Speaker 6: filling the void. So sack the ABCD, defund it and
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Speaker 6: everybody can go over to the SPS if they want
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Speaker 6: to have again left leaning sort of news.
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Speaker 3: Proumgswede, Michael Kroger, thank you for your time.
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Speaker 5: Thanks Redder.
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Speaker 3: Now we've been speaking about the Orange wave about the
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Speaker 3: success of One Nation and one of the men behind
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Speaker 3: that success is One Nation South Australia State President and
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Speaker 3: now a member of the South Australian Upper House, Carlos
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Speaker 3: koa Rember. Thank you for joining the program. Carlos. What
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Speaker 3: can we expect to see from you and other newly
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Speaker 3: elected members in South Australia.
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Speaker 10: Thanks Rida, hard work, connection with the community, and it
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Speaker 10: won't be business as usual. I think the people of
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Speaker 10: South Australia have spoken they want a different form of
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Speaker 10: leadership and connection with politicians, and that's what we're going
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Speaker 10: to bring.
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Speaker 3: Now. We've had Opposition leader and Taylor Nationals leader Matt
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Speaker 3: Canavan and a bunch of other senior Liberals say that
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Speaker 3: a vote for One Nation is essentially a vote for labor.
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Speaker 3: What's your response to those comments?
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Speaker 10: That's a bit rich coming from the UNI Party. I mean,
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Speaker 10: these two parties have worked handing glove for so long
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Speaker 10: now and they're carrying on like a bunch of spoil
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Speaker 10: brats that now have to share the toys. They can
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Speaker 10: say what they like and the more they come after us,
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Speaker 10: the more the Australian public will get behind us.
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Speaker 3: Carlos, where is the support for One Nation coming from
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Speaker 3: We know there are plenty of disaffected Liberal National voters
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Speaker 3: who are turning to One Nation. How much of your
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Speaker 3: support is coming from Labor and are you going to
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Speaker 3: be targeting labor voters in coming elections.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, Look, the support's coming from just about everywhere. We're
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Speaker 10: targeting every single voter because every voter is important and
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Speaker 10: everybody deserves representation. We're seeing a lot of pushing that
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Speaker 10: under fifty thousand bracket. We're seeing tradees, you know, people
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Speaker 10: like me, just business owners that really have seen that
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Speaker 10: the government is failing on all metrics and we can
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Speaker 10: no longer rely on the people that created the problem
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Speaker 10: to fix the problem. And so we're all standing up now.
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Speaker 10: We've had a gut full. We don't like the cutout
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Speaker 10: politicians that we see now and they're all squabbling, and
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Speaker 10: now it's time for a new change. It's time to
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Speaker 10: actually take back our country.
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Speaker 7: Now.
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Speaker 3: We've had another poll come out over night, Sky newses
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Speaker 3: Poles poll and it shows One Nation support rising again
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Speaker 3: twenty seven percent, only trailing Labor now by two points,
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Speaker 3: well ahead of the coalition car lost. Do you see
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Speaker 3: One Nation now as the true opposition to Labor. The
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Speaker 3: polls seem to suggest that, Yeah.
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Speaker 10: I think so, and you only had to look at
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Speaker 10: every how to vote card. In South Australia, the Labor
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Speaker 10: Party had a dead last, not the Liberal Party, so
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Speaker 10: they had us dead last. And that tells you who
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Speaker 10: really is the opposition, or at least who the Labor
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Speaker 10: Party sees the opposition, not the quasi you know, cutout opposition,
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Speaker 10: the squabbling, the actual people that are going to actually
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Speaker 10: speak up and make change.
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Speaker 3: Now, Carlos, we've got South Australians coming forward and explaining
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Speaker 3: why they voted for One Nation for the first time.
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Speaker 3: One voter I told the ABC the Liberals haven't been
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Speaker 3: that conservative lately, and I think One Nation are probably
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Speaker 3: the only true conservative party. Do you see that as
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Speaker 3: One Nation's biggest asset? The fact that you have been
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Speaker 3: pretty consistent. Pauline Hanson has been a politician for three
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Speaker 3: decades now and she really hasn't changed that much in
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Speaker 3: her worldview. Whilst we've had Labor changing, they've been shifting
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Speaker 3: increasingly to the left. We've got the Liberals in crisis mode,
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Speaker 3: flip flopping, not showing quite sure who they are or
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Speaker 3: what they stay for. But with One Nation, voters know
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Speaker 3: what they're getting.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's correct. Pauline's been steadfast in her views. The
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Speaker 10: party hasn't changed. I think what's changing now is the public.
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Speaker 10: The public are now waking up. They want to be
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Speaker 10: part of something. They want to take ownership of of
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Speaker 10: their communities, their state, their country, and they can see
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Speaker 10: that that One Nation is the only party that's actually
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Speaker 10: going to put the Aussie back into Australia.
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Speaker 3: Now we've seen even this week segments of the media
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Speaker 3: be upset about One Nation's rehetric. Barnaby Jawce use some
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Speaker 3: colorful language, a colorful analogy to talk about the quality
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Speaker 3: of immigrants coming into this country. Corey Bernardi was very
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Speaker 3: quick to shut down any talk of One Nation using
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Speaker 3: racist reetric. What's your response to that, because it's something
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Speaker 3: you're going to be copying a lot more now that
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Speaker 3: you're an MP. There's got to be a lot of
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Speaker 3: scrutiny on not just One Nation policies, but the language use,
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Speaker 3: claims of dog whistling. How will you handle a media
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Speaker 3: that is going to be overwhelmingly hostile to you.
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Speaker 10: Oh, look, I'm looking forward to it, you know. I mean,
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Speaker 10: if they're going to do what they do. I can't
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Speaker 10: control the media. What we can control is how we
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Speaker 10: connect with the Australian people and the South Australian people.
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Speaker 10: And from what they're telling me, they're tired of the
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Speaker 10: same old, same old, the legacy media, you know, trying
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Speaker 10: to invoke things the ABC. They've had a gutfull and
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Speaker 10: they just want honesty and that's one thing they will
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Speaker 10: definitely get out of us. You might always like what
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Speaker 10: I've got to say, but you know I'm going to
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Speaker 10: say and I'm going to back everything I say to
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Speaker 10: the hilt.
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Speaker 3: Carlos koir Renberd, thank you so much for your time tonight.
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Speaker 3: Yes. Spend up, big folks, to be lectured to by
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Speaker 3: some dim witted rock star who should be in retirement now.
20:57
Speaker 3: Or you can listen to him destroy some of his catalog.
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Speaker 4: You'll be climbing you a all right, see, you gotta
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Speaker 4: stay hungry. Well, I'm just about starve and the night
21:13
Speaker 4: I'm dying for some action.
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Speaker 3: Oh god, it's bad. I told you it was all for.
21:20
Speaker 3: That performance was at a Kamala Harris campaign rally. Remember that.
21:24
Speaker 3: I think that was the precise moment she lost the election.
21:28
Speaker 3: Now Here is a minute of footage that will shake
21:31
Speaker 3: whatever trust you have left in elected officials. Some elected officials.
21:35
Speaker 3: Let's go to one of the bluest states in America, Maryland,
21:39
Speaker 3: where they are doing a tim walls. They are putting
21:42
Speaker 3: tampons in men's bathrooms across the state. Listen to this discussion.
21:47
Speaker 3: It involves Democrat Cancur who backs a bill calling for
21:52
Speaker 3: appropriately sized tampons in men's bathrooms. You will lose brain
21:58
Speaker 3: cells watching this.
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Speaker 7: Unstr hygiene products means appropriately sized tampons. What are appropriately
22:05
Speaker 7: sized tampons? I've never heard of such a thing. What
22:09
Speaker 7: do you consider appropriate?
22:11
Speaker 4: Just a regular sized tampon in the bathroom?
22:14
Speaker 7: Okay, maybe it should say that, and not appropriately sized tampon.
22:19
Speaker 7: Now is this going in all bathrooms men's and women's?
22:23
Speaker 2: Yes?
22:24
Speaker 7: How about the Ravens Stadium.
22:28
Speaker 4: If it is a state owned building, then yes it
22:35
Speaker 4: would go in it's a public building.
22:39
Speaker 3: Now, let's check in with this young lass who's very
22:42
Speaker 3: upset with some blood work results. No, she doesn't have
22:46
Speaker 3: an illness, she's not deficient in iron. Let's see what
22:49
Speaker 3: has herself upset.
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Speaker 11: But something to know is that my parents are first cousins. Okay,
22:54
Speaker 11: my dad is one of eighteen brothers and sisters from
22:57
Speaker 11: the same parents. And like I said, my parents are cousins,
23:02
Speaker 11: and so you can imagine this family treat massive huge.
23:05
Speaker 11: Decided to do my blood work and she shows me
23:07
Speaker 11: my family tree. She's like, I just want to go
23:09
Speaker 11: through this and make sure it's right because it's kind
23:12
Speaker 11: of crazy.
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Speaker 3: And then tell me why.
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Speaker 11: At the very bottom of the page, it says Ashkenazi
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Speaker 11: Jewish with the check mark, and it says, yes, I'm
23:22
Speaker 11: looking at it. I'm like, I don't like that. She's like,
23:25
Speaker 11: I know, I know, but it's just region. And here's
23:29
Speaker 11: the thing. She didn't even have to justify it because
23:31
Speaker 11: as a genetic counselor, it does make sense. But I
23:34
Speaker 11: don't like it. You know, we I do not like it.
23:38
Speaker 3: But it's just the thing that it sucks. Okay, So
23:42
Speaker 3: the fact that your parents are first cousins, first cousins,
23:47
Speaker 3: that's not a concern, no resentment there about all the
23:50
Speaker 3: health issues it could bring your way. But she's very
23:53
Speaker 3: upset about those Jewish links. Silly, silly girl. Now you
23:57
Speaker 3: know we need a little fun and frivolity. Now, let's
24:00
Speaker 3: have a look at this footage. This is courtesy of
24:02
Speaker 3: Jesse Waters from Fox News. He sent his intrepid reporter
24:06
Speaker 3: down to Florida during spring break to find out what
24:09
Speaker 3: college students understand about current affairs. The results are far
24:14
Speaker 3: worse than you could possibly imagine.
24:17
Speaker 1: What have you heard that Donald Trump has been doing recently.
24:20
Speaker 2: Both of America.
24:21
Speaker 3: That's the last thing I kept up with.
24:22
Speaker 12: For going to war with Iraq.
24:24
Speaker 2: That's been crazy.
24:25
Speaker 3: What are you doing Columbia.
24:26
Speaker 12: You got oh, but that's gone. He's like trying to
24:30
Speaker 12: sue those people from making jokes about him.
24:32
Speaker 3: Shit hundred time. You must be happy.
24:35
Speaker 13: I'm very happy.
24:36
Speaker 9: Yeahatola's dead and what who?
24:39
Speaker 3: What?
24:39
Speaker 2: What is that?
24:40
Speaker 3: Who is iotola? I've never heard that word in my.
24:43
Speaker 12: Life, Lewis, what's Ayatola?
24:45
Speaker 3: I haven't heard.
24:47
Speaker 2: I found out about Chuck North yesterday. That was word
24:49
Speaker 2: devastating to me.
24:49
Speaker 3: He was a supreme leader of Iran.
24:52
Speaker 2: He's dead.
24:53
Speaker 8: We killed him?
24:54
Speaker 13: You dead?
24:55
Speaker 7: You killed him?
24:57
Speaker 3: You know. I don't want to jump to any conclusions,
24:59
Speaker 3: but I I suspect there may be an issue or
25:01
Speaker 3: two with the American education system. But you any money,
25:06
Speaker 3: those kids know precisely what a non binary pan sexual is,
25:10
Speaker 3: but just don't bother asking them about history or geography,
25:14
Speaker 3: current affairs, none of that. Now to a debate involving
25:18
Speaker 3: fitness guru Gillian Michaels and a room full of delusional
25:22
Speaker 3: body positivity activists. They had robust debate, but as always
25:27
Speaker 3: with these types, they are triggered by correct terms, correct
25:32
Speaker 3: terms that accurately describe things.
25:34
Speaker 14: I'm going to do my best to not use the
25:36
Speaker 14: word because I find it pretty offensive.
25:40
Speaker 15: So I'm going to use fat bodied as we talk.
25:44
Speaker 12: Okay, do you understand why people find it harmful and triggering.
25:49
Speaker 4: It?
25:49
Speaker 14: Overweighted and obese is literally just having too much body fat.
25:56
Speaker 3: Poor Jillian, she she was very patient there. And you
26:00
Speaker 3: should have just told these ladies medical facts. Don't care
26:03
Speaker 3: about your feelings.
26:04
Speaker 13: By looking at yourself in the mirror and telling yourself
26:07
Speaker 13: I'm beautiful.
26:08
Speaker 3: Work it does. It's an skit. It's not how it's
26:14
Speaker 3: positive affirmations like we're like no, no, no, this is
26:17
Speaker 3: like real, like.
26:17
Speaker 14: How how he's dealing with a bullet wound with the Okay, Now,
26:24
Speaker 14: late night TV programs continue to see their audience numbers dwindle.
26:28
Speaker 3: The most popular late night TV host is this guy,
26:32
Speaker 3: and for good reason. One is actually funny and he
26:35
Speaker 3: doesn't devote his entire program to derange hatred of the president.
26:39
Speaker 3: That's more than could be said about this lot. Here
26:42
Speaker 3: you have them claiming in unison the war against the
26:45
Speaker 3: Iranian regime is illegal and pushing the daft conspiracy theory
26:50
Speaker 3: that it's all about an Epstein distraction idiocy.
26:55
Speaker 15: After launching yet another illegal war in the Middle East
26:57
Speaker 15: that could destabilize the region and put Americans and harms way.
27:00
Speaker 15: Trump has been spending his time doing what all presidents
27:04
Speaker 15: do during wars, taking calls from reporters.
27:07
Speaker 16: Just after midnight, the Pentagon launch what they are calling
27:09
Speaker 16: Operation Epic Fury, which is different from its original title,
27:14
Speaker 16: which was Operation Epsteino Distracto.
27:17
Speaker 9: This military mission has been dubbed Operation Epic Fury fun
27:22
Speaker 9: fact no fun fact. Epic Fury is an anagram for
27:28
Speaker 9: forget Epstein.
27:29
Speaker 3: So far, you've hit nuclear facilities, missile defenses.
27:32
Speaker 2: What do you want to destroy the most? The Epstein
27:35
Speaker 2: phos kay I understand And.
27:37
Speaker 3: As the war against the Iranian regime has progressed, these
27:40
Speaker 3: same late night TV hosts, the LH comics have all
27:44
Speaker 3: made it clear that they're not for America.
27:48
Speaker 16: The Defense Department just put in a request to fund
27:51
Speaker 16: the war for are you ready two hundred billion dollars?
27:54
Speaker 16: That's billion with.
27:56
Speaker 9: A B and insane with a D and a j
27:59
Speaker 9: anda he had two hundred billion dollars. President Trump heard
28:03
Speaker 9: and was like, Aron must.
28:04
Speaker 12: Be getny one hell of a ballroom.
28:05
Speaker 15: President Job also called the war and iron quote a
28:08
Speaker 15: little excursion, okay, just because you give it a cute
28:11
Speaker 15: name doesn't make it less bad. That's like saying OJ
28:15
Speaker 15: had a case of the Mondays.
28:17
Speaker 17: Networks have to learn you better not lie and give
28:20
Speaker 17: misinformation about how this war is going.
28:24
Speaker 2: That's Donald Trump's job.
28:26
Speaker 9: And here's another fake headline. Secretary hegxeth visibly agitated calma
28:30
Speaker 9: alcohol on breath. Here's here's a real one. Here's a
28:34
Speaker 9: real one for a patriotic press Secretary Hexath named diamond
28:37
Speaker 9: member of TGI Friday's Tequila Honors program.
28:40
Speaker 1: See you're a protester, they shoot you right through the head.
28:43
Speaker 4: This is an evil group of people.
28:45
Speaker 16: Oh now he's again shooting protesters. That's good, he's evolving.
28:49
Speaker 3: Yep, that's the lying lolafe Jimmy Kimmel acquitting the Iranian
28:54
Speaker 3: regime killing tens of thousands of innocent, peaceful protesters, slaughtering
28:59
Speaker 3: them in the straits, slaughtering them even in their hospital beds,
29:03
Speaker 3: publicly hanging them. Is comparing that to a couple of
29:07
Speaker 3: agitators being shot in Minnesota after attacking ice agents. Well done,
29:12
Speaker 3: jim your absolute muppet Joining me now is a Center
29:17
Speaker 3: for the American Experiment. President and co founder of the
29:20
Speaker 3: popular power Line blog, John heindeaker. John, It's one thing
29:25
Speaker 3: to hate Donald Trump, as these late night TV hosts
29:28
Speaker 3: obviously do, but it seems like they're barracking for the
29:32
Speaker 3: US to fail, and they are completely whitewashing the evil,
29:38
Speaker 3: the threat the Iranian regime poses the world.
29:43
Speaker 17: These people are loyal Democrats. They should be reporting in
29:47
Speaker 17: kind political contributions to the Democratic Party. And like their
29:51
Speaker 17: fellow Democrats, yes, they are on the side of.
29:55
Speaker 2: The Iranian regime.
29:57
Speaker 17: They want our effort in Iran to fail, There's no
30:01
Speaker 17: doubt about it. That is what they are hoping for.
30:03
Speaker 17: That is what they are cheering for. We see at
30:06
Speaker 17: night after night on late night television.
30:10
Speaker 3: On the war. The Trump administration presented its fifteen point
30:15
Speaker 3: planted and the conflict Iran seems to have rejected that deal,
30:20
Speaker 3: and President Trump is now threatening to unleash hell on
30:23
Speaker 3: the regime. John, what can we expect to see next?
30:28
Speaker 2: Well, it's really hard to say, Riata.
30:29
Speaker 17: I mean, we can't really tell whether negotiations are going on,
30:33
Speaker 17: if so, with whom I don't know who can speak
30:35
Speaker 17: for the Iranian regime at this point to her contradictory things,
30:40
Speaker 17: I think that what's going to happen is that the
30:43
Speaker 17: United States and Israel are going to continue degrading Iran's military,
30:49
Speaker 17: and at some point, if they can make some kind
30:51
Speaker 17: of agreement with somebody who actually speaks for their Iranian regime,
30:55
Speaker 17: they might be willing to do it. But if not,
30:58
Speaker 17: I think they'll just it'll be by come away until
31:01
Speaker 17: they think that Iran's military has been sufficiently destroyed, and
31:05
Speaker 17: then they'll end the campaign.
31:08
Speaker 3: Do we even know who the leader is Eaty Iran?
31:12
Speaker 3: Do we know if the new Supreme Leader, the new
31:14
Speaker 3: ietola is alive.
31:18
Speaker 17: We don't know if he's alive. There's conflicting information. He
31:21
Speaker 17: might be alive and in a coma. We really don't know.
31:24
Speaker 17: Somebody new takes over the IRGC, which I think is
31:27
Speaker 17: the real power in Iran, about once every twenty four hours,
31:30
Speaker 17: and then you know he gets hit with a missile
31:33
Speaker 17: and they've got.
31:33
Speaker 2: A new one.
31:34
Speaker 17: I don't think we really know whether there is somebody
31:37
Speaker 17: who is in a position to speak for the Iranian
31:40
Speaker 17: regime or not.
31:43
Speaker 3: If they were smart, they would stop announcing who the
31:45
Speaker 3: new leadership is across the military, because as soon as
31:49
Speaker 3: they announce them, they're terminated. Now, John there are reports
31:53
Speaker 3: that Iran is building up what is left of its
31:56
Speaker 3: defenses and the focus of the regime is to protect
32:00
Speaker 3: Kag Island against a potential US ground attacks. In and reporting,
32:05
Speaker 3: Iran has been laying traps and moving additional military personnel
32:09
Speaker 3: and air defenses to the island. John, how likely is
32:14
Speaker 3: a US ground attack?
32:18
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody knows Rita clearly.
32:20
Speaker 17: We are moving troops from moving marines, the any second
32:23
Speaker 17: Airborne Division getting into position. If President Trump decides to
32:28
Speaker 17: take Carg Island, we will take Carag Island. I don't
32:31
Speaker 17: think Trump has young made up as mind, and I
32:33
Speaker 17: don't think anybody really knows how that is going to
32:36
Speaker 17: play out.
32:38
Speaker 3: Now, we've got some polling out that is not good
32:41
Speaker 3: news for the president showing his approval rating is the
32:45
Speaker 3: lowest it's been and this war would have a lot
32:49
Speaker 3: to do with that. Of course, the high gas prices
32:52
Speaker 3: and the cost of living pressures. How do you think
32:56
Speaker 3: domestic considerations come into finalize this war. We do have
33:01
Speaker 3: the midterms coming up in November.
33:04
Speaker 17: Well, I think political considerations will be a factor, no
33:07
Speaker 17: doubt about it. We need to have some months of
33:10
Speaker 17: peace in the Middle East before the voting starts in
33:14
Speaker 17: the fall. We need to have gas prices coming back
33:16
Speaker 17: down in the stock market coming back up before voting
33:20
Speaker 17: starts in the fall. I don't doubt that those are
33:22
Speaker 17: considerations that way on President Trump.
33:25
Speaker 2: And frankly they should. They're very important.
33:28
Speaker 17: So I think everything that happens in Iran is indeed
33:31
Speaker 17: happening in a political context.
33:36
Speaker 3: Now, we brought the audience details of teenager Sharon and
33:41
Speaker 3: Gorman's alleged murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant,
33:44
Speaker 3: a terrible census crime in Chicago. The alleged murderer should
33:49
Speaker 3: have never been in the country. But have a look
33:53
Speaker 3: at this local student newspaper from Loola University, Chicago that
33:59
Speaker 3: John issue ud an editor's note apologizing for an Instagram
34:04
Speaker 3: post where they use the term immigrant in their headline.
34:08
Speaker 3: The editor's note says, on March twenty three, a post
34:11
Speaker 3: on the Phoenix Instagram's page carried the following headline immigrant
34:16
Speaker 3: man charged in murder of Sheridan Gorman. DHS involved. That
34:20
Speaker 3: headline didn't reflect the most important elements in the story,
34:24
Speaker 3: and he was taken down minutes later. Minutes later to
34:28
Speaker 3: prevent any further harm to affected community members, This is
34:34
Speaker 3: how crazy the American left has become. John. The affected
34:38
Speaker 3: community members they should be worried about are the family
34:41
Speaker 3: members of the victim, not illegal immigrants who perhaps don't
34:47
Speaker 3: like an accurate headline.
34:50
Speaker 17: Rita, this guy's a murderer, and the newspaper is apologizing
34:55
Speaker 17: for quote the harm that language can cause close quote.
34:59
Speaker 17: They have zero concern for the harm that shooting a
35:02
Speaker 17: completely innocent eighteen year old girl world cause, I mean,
35:06
Speaker 17: this is completely nuts. They apologize for saying illegal immigrant,
35:10
Speaker 17: even for seeing immigrants. But you know, the correct legal
35:14
Speaker 17: term under American law is illegal alien.
35:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's exactly right. And there's just been so
35:22
Speaker 3: many cases, particularly in academia, even in high schools, where
35:28
Speaker 3: kids have been marked down for using that term, of
35:32
Speaker 3: being told to resubmit their work for using the correct
35:36
Speaker 3: legal term. Now, on the issue of illegal immigration, explain
35:41
Speaker 3: to my audience the significance of the Eighth Circuit Court
35:45
Speaker 3: of Appeals ruling two to one for the Trump administration
35:48
Speaker 3: and finding that federal law doesn't only allow, but requires
35:53
Speaker 3: ice to detain the vast majority of people that is
35:56
Speaker 3: seeking to deport. What will this ruling mean in a
36:00
Speaker 3: practical sense, Yeah, this is.
36:03
Speaker 2: From my home state of Minnesota. Rita.
36:05
Speaker 17: Ice has been detaining illegal immigrants and lawyers have filed
36:08
Speaker 17: more than eleven hundred habeas corpus petitions in two months.
36:13
Speaker 17: Usually there's like thirty in a year, and Democratic Party
36:17
Speaker 17: judges have been granting those petitions and ordering illegal aliens
36:21
Speaker 17: to be released. What's happened is that the Eighth Circuit
36:25
Speaker 17: has now joined the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in
36:28
Speaker 17: holding that these Democratic judges were acting on a wrong
36:32
Speaker 17: interpretation of immigration law and in fact those detainees should
36:38
Speaker 17: have been held until they could be deported. But you know, Rita,
36:42
Speaker 17: the real scandal is that these activist judges, based on
36:46
Speaker 17: what's now been held to be a wrong interpretation of
36:49
Speaker 17: the law, have been threatening to hold assistant US attorneys
36:54
Speaker 17: in contempt. One of them actually threatened to put the
36:57
Speaker 17: United States Attorney for the Dish Minnesota in jail, and
37:02
Speaker 17: at one point they held a hearing on whether one
37:05
Speaker 17: of these illegal immigrants had in fact lost a shoelace.
37:09
Speaker 17: I mean, that is how crazy it has been. Those
37:13
Speaker 17: rulings have now been overturned. But meanwhile, there's eleven hundred
37:17
Speaker 17: illegal immigrants who have been set free.
37:20
Speaker 3: I'm glad that valuable court time is being devoted to
37:24
Speaker 3: determining what happened to a shoelace. I mean, that is
37:28
Speaker 3: just madness. This is a little bit foreign to audiences
37:34
Speaker 3: that aren't in the US. We've got activists like judges
37:39
Speaker 3: in western countries everywhere, but not quite like the US.
37:43
Speaker 3: Just explain to the audience what happens when you have
37:48
Speaker 3: politicians appointing judges that are just deeply ideological, and it's
37:53
Speaker 3: reflected in their work rita.
37:56
Speaker 17: What's been happening is that in the Obama administration, even
37:59
Speaker 17: more so in the four years of the Biden administration,
38:02
Speaker 17: those presidents were not appointing distinguished lawyers, legal scholars.
38:08
Speaker 2: Neutral arbiters to the bench.
38:11
Speaker 17: They were deliberately appointing left wing activists to the federal courts.
38:17
Speaker 17: And those left wing activists have now issued I don't
38:20
Speaker 17: know how many dozens and dozens and dozens of rulings
38:24
Speaker 17: adverts to the Trump administration, the vast majority of which
38:27
Speaker 17: have been overturned out appeal. But this is a process
38:30
Speaker 17: that takes months and even years to play out, and
38:33
Speaker 17: they are doing a tremendous amount.
38:35
Speaker 2: Of damage.
38:37
Speaker 3: Now. John Cenn's few remaining viewers would have noticed a
38:41
Speaker 3: change in the way some programs are being presented. It's
38:46
Speaker 3: clear that they want to present some sort of a
38:49
Speaker 3: podcast vibe here. Maybe they think if they make their
38:53
Speaker 3: sets look like Joe Rogan or Patrick but David, that
38:57
Speaker 3: they'll get those sorts of audiences. I mean a little
38:59
Speaker 3: bit of wish for thinking there. Tell me about that.
39:04
Speaker 3: The crisis that seems to exist in networks like CNN
39:09
Speaker 3: that are seeing the audiences dwindle.
39:12
Speaker 17: Reader, CNN can only dream of having the kind of
39:14
Speaker 17: audience you do on YouTube. For your left is losing
39:17
Speaker 17: its segments. You know, they're trying to imitate the podcasters
39:21
Speaker 17: and others who are actually popular and have large audiences,
39:25
Speaker 17: and it's not going to work. CNN is utterly inept.
39:29
Speaker 17: They are unreliable, they are obviously biased. They are a
39:33
Speaker 17: partisan alleged news outlet. Their audience continues to shrink and
39:39
Speaker 17: make it look like a living room or a podcast studio.
39:42
Speaker 17: Is not going to turn the tide.
39:46
Speaker 3: No, it is the content, not how the sets look.
39:49
Speaker 3: So that is their problem. It's the content, their hosts,
39:53
Speaker 3: their whole ah goodness me, the whole ideological drive they
39:57
Speaker 3: have John Heinderraika, thank you so much for time tonight.
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Speaker 2: Great to be with you.
40:02
Speaker 3: Reader still to come. All the world and entertainment news
40:07
Speaker 3: that matters, including Stephen Cole Bear's new role. Kinsey Schofield
40:12
Speaker 3: is up next Welcome Back. A new book set to
40:24
Speaker 3: be released later in the year called The Queen and
40:27
Speaker 3: Her Presidents, The Hidden Hand That Shaped History reveals that
40:31
Speaker 3: President Trump tried his best to learn from the Queen
40:34
Speaker 3: which presidents were her favorite. The only problem was, well,
40:38
Speaker 3: she likes everybody and didn't want to disparage any of
40:41
Speaker 3: the presidents. And this prompted some self reflection from President Trump.
40:46
Speaker 3: She was great.
40:47
Speaker 4: This is a woman that I guess how many or
40:50
Speaker 4: seventy five years she reigned, more planned.
40:53
Speaker 2: She never made a mistake. Now, she had some difficulties
40:56
Speaker 2: with family members, but that's it.
40:58
Speaker 4: She never made a mistake.
41:00
Speaker 3: Joining me now is the host of the Kinsey Schofield
41:03
Speaker 3: Unfiltered podcast. Kinsey Schofield. This is really a revealing moment
41:09
Speaker 3: from the President. It's so clear that he had enormous
41:13
Speaker 3: admiration for Queen Elizabeth.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it sounds like she teaches President Trump a little
41:18
Speaker 12: bit about himself. There's one quote in the book where
41:21
Speaker 12: he says, I hate to see this because it's very
41:23
Speaker 12: disparaging to myself. She was sort of the opposite of me.
41:27
Speaker 12: But Rita, isn't that what's so fun about President Trump?
41:31
Speaker 12: I mean, I love that I know what he feels
41:34
Speaker 12: about be I know who his enemies are, and I feel,
41:38
Speaker 12: you know, much more confident in his leadership because of that. Yes,
41:42
Speaker 12: we love the queen because she was soft and sweet,
41:44
Speaker 12: but we like trumptious the way he is.
41:47
Speaker 3: Well, he's a politician, and the Queen had to be apolitical.
41:51
Speaker 3: That was one of the most important parts of her
41:54
Speaker 3: role is that you shouldn't be able to know where
41:57
Speaker 3: she stood on issues, which party she've voted for, And
42:01
Speaker 3: she did that so beautifully. And you can't expect a
42:05
Speaker 3: politician to be so mysterious about their worldview. Now let's
42:10
Speaker 3: turn to oh yeah or flip flopping Harry and Meghan.
42:15
Speaker 3: I mean, we can't have a chat without mentioning those two.
42:19
Speaker 3: Their representative has hit back after more than thirty five
42:22
Speaker 3: thousand people signed a petition demanding no tax payer money
42:26
Speaker 3: be spent on their upcoming visit to Australia. A spokesman
42:30
Speaker 3: for the couple responded, saying, it's a moot point. The
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Speaker 3: trip is being funded privately, so I'm not sure what
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Speaker 3: this petition hopes to achieve. Can see well, if it's
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Speaker 3: a moot point, I don't know why we even bother responding.
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Speaker 12: I mean, never complain, never explain hitting back at this
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Speaker 12: and so arrogantly and attacking Tom Bauer for his new book.
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Speaker 12: I don't think that they realize that they platform these headlines,
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Speaker 12: that they give these stories more oxygen. And the tone
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Speaker 12: of their response about this particular petition, it reeks of animosity,
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Speaker 12: and you understand why the pair are polling so poorly globally.
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Speaker 12: I mean, it just sounded so bitter. Stay home with
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Speaker 12: your kids. It doesn't sound like Australia wants you.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 3: Last time they were here, they were treated with absolute
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Speaker 3: adoration from everybody except me. They were just at the
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Speaker 3: height of their popularity, and I think they're going to
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Speaker 3: get a very different reception this time around. Now, let's
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Speaker 3: stay with this couple and a new reporter's reveal their
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Speaker 3: neighbors in Montecito have had enough of Harry and Meghan.
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Speaker 3: What's behind this bad press? Page six has reported this
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Speaker 3: and other outlets. Why are the neighbors upset with the
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Speaker 3: royal couple?
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Speaker 12: Well tell you, I think that this is kind of
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Speaker 12: an avalanche coming off of that Variety piece that was
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Speaker 12: so unforgiving last week. That really goes into their relationship
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Speaker 12: crumbling with Netflix and some of the neighbors saying that
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Speaker 12: they don't hate them, they just avoid them. No one
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Speaker 12: wants to be seen with them. It's a growing awareness
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Speaker 12: that they're takers with zero self awareness and everyone's exhausted
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Speaker 12: by them. I think takers is the key word. They've
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Speaker 12: been accused of asking to borrow people's vacation homes, asking
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Speaker 12: to borrow their jets. Their relationship seem very one sided,
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Speaker 12: and they're focused on what they can get out of
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Speaker 12: other people and how they can take the financial burden
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Speaker 12: off of themselves. Hence Australia wanting to confirm that they
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Speaker 12: aren't freeloading off of them.
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Speaker 3: Takers is an excellent word, so is that entitlement uses
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Speaker 3: and you can a lot of words you could use
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Speaker 3: to describe those two. Now, let's talk about Stephen Colbert,
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Speaker 3: the appgoing late night TV host. He's been slammed online
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Speaker 3: after it was revealed he would be one of the
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Speaker 3: key writers in an upcoming Law of the Rings movie.
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Speaker 3: He was some of the announcement, you know what.
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Speaker 1: The books mean to me and what your films mean
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Speaker 1: to me. But the thing I found myself reading over
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Speaker 1: and over again were the six chapters early on in
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Speaker 1: the Fellowship that y'all never developed into the first movie
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Speaker 1: back in the day. It's basically the chapter is three
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Speaker 1: his Company through fog on the Barrow Downs, and I thought,
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Speaker 1: oh wait, maybe.
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Speaker 3: That could be its own story that could fit into.
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Speaker 1: The larger story.
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Speaker 9: Could we make something that was completely.
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Speaker 1: Faithful to the books while also being completely faithful to
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Speaker 1: the movies.
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Speaker 3: Can say this is just baffling. Out of all the
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Speaker 3: talented writers, why would they chase Stephen Colbert. I mean,
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Speaker 3: he's certainly not funny. His writing ability, his creativity, I mean,
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Speaker 3: all of these things have to be questioned right now.
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Speaker 12: Allegedly Colbert has been a Lord of the Rings super
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Speaker 12: fan who knew and his NEPO Baby's son Peter, who's
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Speaker 12: twenty eight, will also be involved in the new installment
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Speaker 12: of the Lord of the Rings film franchise. I mean,
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Speaker 12: at least he's going to keep working We're just glad
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Speaker 12: he's not asking for government assistance.
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, some said he was unemployable. He's proven them wrong. Now,
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Speaker 3: pop star Miley Cyrus has mocked call her daddy. Podcast
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Speaker 3: host Alex Cooper labeled her creepy. I mean, this is
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Speaker 3: what I call left on left violence, Kinsey. It's rather amusing.
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Speaker 3: This is Miley speaking at the twentieth anniversary of Hannah
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Speaker 3: Montana and Alex.
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Speaker 2: Being a superfano kind of proof.
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Speaker 13: She's also my neighbor, which is also herewhere she got
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Speaker 13: money and then she moved.
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Speaker 2: That sort of me.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, there was still as old so there's like just
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Speaker 13: walk Yeah, it was where and she's like, oh my god,
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Speaker 13: you live here.
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Speaker 3: She interviewed me at my house like five years you, Kinsey.
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Speaker 3: It's not the first time Miley Cyrus has attacked Alex Cooper.
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Speaker 13: Tigi practicing snowboard champion.
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Speaker 2: I could fix the flat on your car, rock Star.
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Speaker 13: I know this because this is Alex Cooper, who hosted
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Speaker 13: the Hannah twentieth special. This is her favorite Hannah Montana song,
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Speaker 13: and I asked her does she actually know the lyrics
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Speaker 13: to it? And she never knew that it says Taichi
47:24
Speaker 13: practicing snowboard champion.
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Speaker 2: It's like, but that's the chorus.
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Speaker 13: She's like, I never even really thought about it, saying
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Speaker 13: that she does have it tattooed on her arms. I
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Speaker 13: don't know how she forgot.
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Speaker 3: What's going on here? Is this all an elaborate joke
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Speaker 3: between these two or is the angst real?
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Speaker 12: Well, first of all, she wouldn't be your next door
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Speaker 12: neighbor if you moved to Canada, like you promised us
47:47
Speaker 12: you were going to Miley Cyrus when Trump was elected.
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Speaker 3: So we don't want to hear it. We don't want
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Speaker 3: to hear it.
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Speaker 12: I don't know that that whole Hannah Montana twentieth anniversary.
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Speaker 12: I'm a I'm forty one year old woman loved Hannah Montana.
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Speaker 2: I hated it.
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Speaker 12: It was the most depressing thing ever. Maybe she's trying
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Speaker 12: to throw Alex under the bus because fans are disappointed.
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Speaker 12: There's like none of the other cast members on there.
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Speaker 12: She just except for her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. Thank
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Speaker 12: god he was there, but it was just Hannah Montana
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Speaker 12: walking around an empty set and it was kind of disappointing.
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Speaker 12: Maybe she's just trying to throw the blame somewhere else.
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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe she's trying to generate some publicity for the
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Speaker 3: whole thing. If it was a bit underwhelming, maybe it
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Speaker 3: isn't elaborate joke, or if it is real, Kinsey, I
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Speaker 3: think something's gone down between these two because you don't
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Speaker 3: have those repeated digs, very obvious digs, and set your
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Speaker 3: fan base onto somebody if if something terrible hasn't happened,
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Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe someone's boyfriend was stolen. We're just
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Speaker 3: you know, just scuttle but here we're just guessing, Kinsey Schofield.
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Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure. Thank you so much for your
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Speaker 3: time tonight, and that's all the time we have. Don't
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Speaker 3: go anywhere. Newsnight is up now mixed